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I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett
The bestselling autobiography of American baseball and civil rights legend Jackie Robinson
Before Barry Bonds, before Reggie Jackson, before Hank Aaron, baseball's stars had one undeniable trait in common: they were all white. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke that barrier, striking a crucial blow for racial equality and changing the world of sports forever. I Never Had It Made is Robinson's own candid, hard-hitting account of what it took to become the first black man in history to play in the major leagues.
I Never Had It Made recalls Robinson's early years and influences: his time at UCLA, where he became the school's first four-letter athlete; his army stint during World War II, when he challenged Jim Crow laws and narrowly escaped court martial; his years of frustration, on and off the field, with the Negro Leagues; and finally that fateful day when Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers proposed what became known as the "Noble Experiment"—Robinson would step up to bat to integrate and revolutionize baseball.
More than a baseball story, I Never Had It Made also reveals the highs and lows of Robinson's life after baseball. He recounts his political aspirations and civil rights activism; his friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, William Buckley, Jr., and Nelson Rockefeller; and his troubled relationship with his son, Jackie, Jr.
I Never Had It Made endures as an inspiring story of a man whose heroism extended well beyond the playing field.
Publisher: HarperCollinsReleased: Mar 19, 2013ISBN: 9780062287298Format: book
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I Never Had It Made - Jackie Robinson
To my wife, Rachel,
to my children Sharon and David,
and to the memory of Jackie, Jr.
Introduction - by Cornel West
Introduction - by Hank Aaron
Preface: Today by Jackie Robinson
The Noble Experiment
I - A Dream Deferred
II - The Noble Experiment
III - Breaking the Color Barrier
IV - The Major Leagues
V - Just Another Guy
VI - My Own Man
VII - The Price of Popularity
VIII - The Growing Family
IX - The Ninth Inning
After the Ball Game
X - New Horizons
XI - Campaigning for Nixon
XII - The Hall of Fame Award
XIII - Conflict at the Apollo
XIV - Crises at Home
XV - On Being Black Among the Republicans
XVI - Differences with Malcolm X
XVII - The Freedom Bank
XVIII - Hope and Disillusionment in White Politics
XIX - The Influence of Martin Luther King, Jr.
XX - Jackie's Prison
XXI - Politics Today
XXII - . . . And He Was Free
XXIII - Aftermath
XXIV - Epilogue
Three fundamental events between March and June of 1947 in America changed the course of world history in the twentieth century. On March 12, 1947, President Harry Truman proclaimed in a historic speech before a special joint session of Congress the intention of the U.S. government to support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. This, the famous Truman Doctrine, was declared in response to both the beginning of the collapse of the most powerful empire the world has ever seen (the British Empire) and the emergence of one of the most repressive, the Soviet Empire. In short, Truman announced the aim of the American Empire to police the world in the light of its democratic ideals and imperial interests.
On April 15, 1947, before 26,623 Americans (more than half of them black) at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play professional, major league baseball. In this historic opening game against the Boston Braves, a dignified and heroic descendant of American slaves and sharecroppers who wore number 42 on his Dodger uniform played first base in one of the sacred spaces of American culture. More even than either Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, or Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights movement, Jackie Robinson graphically symbolized and personified the challenge to the vicious legacy and ideology of white supremacy in American history.
Soon afterward, on June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall delivered an address at Harvard University's graduation ceremonies, in which he put forward an American plan for European economic recovery with huge U.S. assistance in order to combat Soviet domination. The basic requirements of the Marshall Plan were U.S. influence over the internal budgets of the European recipient states and the disproportionate purchase of American exports for European recovery.
These three events represent the most fundamental processes of this century—the end of the Age of Europe (and the preeminence of its last great empire), the acceleration of the challenge to white supremacy (a pillar of European imperialism and American history), and the move of the American Empire to the center of the world-historical stage (in opposition to the Soviet Empire). In this way, a historic presidential speech, an unforgettable baseball game, and an influential commencement address take us to the very heart of the agony and anguish, the achievements and accomplishments, of our time.
With the surprising collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1989, the Truman Doctrine has run its course. And with the economic recovery of Europe—alongside the phenomenal growth of the U.S. economy—between 1947 and 1973, the Marshall Plan did what it set out to do. Despite the significant gains of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, the challenge to white supremacy in America remains incomplete, unfinished. That is why, today, the life and work, the achievements and suffering, of Jackie Robinson continue to speak to us with such power and poignancy.
In 1947, Jackie Robinson not only symbolized all of black America on trial in the eyes of white America and the expansion of the ideals of democracy, he also represented the best of a traditional black quest for dignity, excellence, and integrity. This quest was primarily a moral effort to preserve black sanity and spirituality in the face of white-supremacist barbarity and bestiality; it was a human attempt to hold on to dreams deferred and hopes dashed, owing mainly to slavery and Jim Crow in America. The deep and devastating effects of psychic scars, physical abuse, and material deprivation could not suffocate the black tradition of moral struggle and political resistance. When Jackie Robinson states that he never had it made, he means, in part, that he had to fight in a variety of ways and on a number of fronts to preserve both his sense of dignity and his integrity; and in part that he was able to fight primarily because of the love and support of those fighters who came before him and those who now stood by his side.
The most striking features of this marvelous book are its honesty, its courage, and its wisdom. Here is a great American hero who refuses to be a mythical hero. Instead, he tells the painful truth about himself as a human being—someone who, like all of us, needs love, struggles with insecurity, makes mistakes, revels in achievements, and weeps in sorrow. Here is a transracial figure beloved by blacks and whites who rails against the absurdities of white racism and the seductive security of black xenophobia. Here is a celebrity who takes us on a journey through the valleys and over the mountaintops of intimate relations with his family, friends, and mentors. Here is one of the greatest athletes of our century disclosing his developing sense of political engagement and community empowerment as a liberal Republican in a right-wing Republican party. Here is a black man and father—with a strong sense of his masculinity—who talks about his maturity in terms of lessons painfully learned from his loving mother, his brilliant and self-confident wife, his adventurous children, and his supportive father figures. I revelled in his exchanges—critical and respectful—with Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, William Buckley, Black Panther leaders, and Lewis Micheaux.
Jackie Robinson's life and book constitute an antiphonal song of a great composite democratic individual. This grand phrase of Walt Whitman captures the jazz-like character of Jackie Robinson—his noble experiment in which restraint and performance, improvisation, and discipline under severe pressure are exercised with excellence; his openness to others; his generosity to others, and his relentless self-criticism without recourse to self-pity and self-indulgence. And yet, his disillusionment with America is real. Robinson cannot stand and sing the national anthem or salute the flag. His deep patriotism and his hatred of white supremacy will not allow him to engage in such empty gestures of country-worship. He knows that money is America's God and that he is a black man in a white world.
Jackie Robinson's historic challenge to white supremacy in America was not an attempt to prove himself and his humanity to white America. Rather, it was to be himself, to allow his God-given humanity to be seen, acknowledged, and recognized by those who questioned it. He gained respect because he so deeply respected himself, because he respected black people and others. He willingly took on the awesome burden of symbolizing black humanity in the one arena of fairness in a country predicated, in part, on unfairness to black people. And he bore this burden with great dignity—not because he wanted to be somebody but, rather, because he was already a great somebody to be in a land where all black folk were nobody to most white people. This is why his grand example is, in the moving and wise words of George Will (with whom I rarely agree!), One of the great achievements not only in the annals of sports, but of the human drama anywhere, anytime. This book reveals why and how Jackie Robinson's life was an exemplary testimony of the black and human Love Supreme —the same moral and spiritual ideal toward which Martin Luther King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and John Coltrane asked us to aspire.
The first time I saw Jackie Robinson, he was playing baseball in Mobile, Alabama. He was touring at that time with the Brooklyn Dodgers. They had a farm team in Mobile, and they used to pass through. I just happened to be in the crowd; I was fourteen, maybe fifteen. I had had a vision, a vision that if things worked out, I probably would get to the big leagues before Jackie retired. As it turned out, I did get there. I played against him for three or four years before he retired.
I've always looked at Jackie as some kind of icon. He was a pillar of strength, and he gave me a lot of inner strength. I knew some of the things he had gone through; so, when I looked at him, I thought—not only is this man a great athlete, but he's a great man off the field for people like myself. When I think of my background, where I came from and what I had to go through, I think of those who gave me strength—my mother and father and a few outsiders. The outsiders were Jackie Robinson and people like Dr. King; those are the people who gave me the strength I needed to go forward.
Jackie Robinson gave all of us—not only black athletes, but every black person in this country—a sense of our own strength. However, because I was an athlete, I looked at Jackie a little differently. I followed every trail he had made. I wanted to emulate him in some way, which is one of the reasons why I speak so directly now about the injustice in baseball today: because Jackie Robinson gave me the strength to continue to do what he had done.
When Jackie got to the big leagues, he was told that he couldn't do certain things, that he couldn't be aggressive, that he couldn't respond to what was going on around him, that he had to keep his mouth shut. But, once he proved to everybody that he was a great baseball player and was allowed to talk—having earned the right to do whatever he wanted to do—many people saw a very different Jackie Robinson. Some now saw him as aggressive, demanding his own rights. They saw him as a kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But he wasn't; he was one person. He was quiet during those first years because he was told it had to be that way. If he had come into the majors and been aggressive when people were sliding into him and saying things most men would have responded to, had he been aggressive in that way, he would have delayed breaking the color barrier another ten or fifteen years. I think my style in the early days was similar to Jackie's. When I first got to the major leagues, I had nothing to say. The reason I didn't have anything to say is simply that I hadn't done anything. In order for people to listen to you, you have to have done something. I've been asked, Now you've gotten to be a big mouth, talking about the injustice in baseball, but why didn't you speak out when you first got to the big leagues? If I'd said the same thing when I first got to the majors, who would have reported it in the papers? Now that I've hit 755 home runs, people probably notice what I say a little bit more. That's what Jackie had to do; but he had to do it alone. He had to be patient while he proved himself. You have to marvel at a person like that, because he handled an awful lot inside himself all those years. I think this was a factor in his passing away at so young an age.
When I reached the big leagues, I didn't meet a single player who was sympathetic to what we were going through as black players. It's true that some of the players were aware of our situation, but I played with a lot of players who didn't give a damn. Things were going well for them, and they didn't want to shake the apple tree. But it wasn't just the players; the owners were not at all sympathetic to the black players. They were making a lot of money off the black players—we were drawing cards—and they took advantage of us. For example, they barnstormed us all through the South; the ballparks would fill with black people who didn't get a chance to see us on television. The owners did very well on those tours.
On the playing field, Jackie Robinson was a tremendous athlete. He was a big man, but gifted in his running. You would think a person his size couldn't move, but he ran very well. And he was a very good second baseman. He had a great deal of enthusiasm, which was communicated to the other players on his team. He didn't like to lose! He wanted to win at any cost, and he instilled this in his teammates. He knew what it took to get those guys geared up to play a championship season—152 games. He could bring out the enthusiasm in a crowd just by taking infield practice. He knew exactly what it would take to excite the fans—his presence alone on the field would do it.
Who knows what Robinson's stats would have been if he hadn't been the first black player in the major leagues. This man was under tremendous pressure, pressure most people didn't know about or couldn't understand, if they did. People say, don't ever criticize another person until you walk a mile in their shoes. I haven't walked that mile, but I've walked half a mile in those shoes, and in just that half mile I understood exactly what kind of pressure Jackie Robinson had to deal with. He probably would have hit a lot more home runs, stolen more bases, been an even better ballplayer if it hadn't been his fate to have to endure that pressure, not only on the field, but off the field as well. In fact, he was often under more pressure off the field than he was on. If he had gone into a bar, the morning papers would have reported that he had gotten drunk—although Jackie didn't drink at all. If he happened to speak to a woman, sportswriters claimed he was dating her.
I'll never forget the first time I was in Jackie's presence off the field. It was in a room in Nashville, Tennessee, with Jackie, Don Newcombe, Roy Campanella, and a few other Dodgers; they were playing cards. I was only about nineteen at the time, and I was standing by the wall looking at these guys seated at the table. I was in awe of all of them. After a while I went to get something to eat. I returned three hours later. They were still in the room, playing cards. Don't you ever go out? I asked. They said, no, because Jackie would immediately be the center of attention, and people were always trying to make something out of nothing. It wasn't until much later that I understood that fully.
What Jackie Robinson represents today is a complicated issue. I'm sure many of the black players know what he did, but it's possible that some of the younger players don't know that he was the man responsible for their being in the major leagues. I don't know this to be true, but it would really disturb me if I went into a locker room and found a black player who didn't know what players like Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, and Don Newcombe did forty or fifty years ago. Things were very tough back in those days—and it was Jackie Robinson who paved the way. Many of these young black athletes are making all kinds of money, much more money than they're ever going to spend. But I wonder how many of them would take it upon themselves to contribute to The Jackie Robinson Foundation, which provides fellowships to send black kids to school. It goes a little further than just baseball. This man paved the way for a lot of athletes to be where they are today. I'm not aware of such contributions being made, but this would be a way for today's athletes to show their appreciation for a man who stood tall when he had to stand up.
As I've said many times (and I'll say it again) Jackie Robinson was a pillar of strength to me. It meant an awful lot to know that there was somebody before me who paved the way, who gave me an opportunity to play the big leagues. When I was going through the things I had to go through—doubting myself—I knew this was only the tip of the iceberg of what Jackie Robinson had gone through. I said to myself I would be doing him an injustice if I quit. And this gave me the strength to continue.
When I think about Jackie Robinson, there is something that bothers me a great deal, which shows what baseball is all about. At the end of his career, Jackie was traded to the Giants. At the last moment, after all the things he'd done for the Dodgers, after everything he had suffered, they found it necessary to trade a man of his stature, a man who was the Dodgers. I thought at the time: Stan Musial was never traded; Ted Williams was never traded. We're talking about someone who was very special, who should have always had a place with the Dodgers. It should have been understood that this man started with the Dodgers and that he would end up with the Dodgers. Certain people you never trade, and Jackie Robinson should never have been traded.
Even before he retired, Jackie Robinson was involved in politics. He was always concerned about what was going to happen to blacks in this country. His involvement with the NAACP and other civil rights organizations merely demonstrated that his skills and concerns went further than the baseball diamond. I will never forget Jackie's last speech, especially the end of it. He said baseball will always have its head buried in the sand until it can find the strength and the vision to have a black man coaching at third base. This was in Cincinnati and he was half blind by then; it was the last time I heard him speak.
It's as clear now as it was then that Jackie Robinson was the right man for the right job—intelligent, educated—I think that's what we needed. There were so many temptations put before him. He was a man on trial—not only on the field. But off the field as well, and he had the skills to survive and transcend this ordeal.
I'm often asked if I miss the game. But I don't miss anything at all about baseball. I had a very good career. I did just about everything I wanted to do in baseball, and I am satisfied with my accomplishments. Now my life has changed, it's a new life for me. I played baseball for twenty-three years, and I owe it in part to Jackie Robinson, who gave me the strength I needed and the opportunity to play—the chance to do everything I could do.
Preface: Today
I guess if I could choose one of the most important moments in my life, I would go back to 1947, in the Yankee Stadium in New York City. It was the opening day of the world series and I was for the first time playing in the series as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers team. It was a history-making day. It would be the first time that a black man would be allowed to participate in a world series. I had become the first black player in the major leagues.
I was proud of that and yet I was uneasy. I was proud to be in the hurricane eye of a significant breakthrough and to be used to prove that a sport can't be called national if blacks are barred from it. Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, had rudely awakened America. He was a man with high ideals, and he was also a shrewd businessman. Mr. Rickey had shocked some of his fellow baseball tycoons and angered others by deciding to smash the unwritten law that kept blacks out of the big leagues. He had chosen me as the person to lead the way.
It hadn't been easy. Some of my own teammates refused to accept me because I was black. I had been forced to live with snubs and rebuffs and rejections. Within the club, Mr. Rickey had put down rebellion by letting my teammates know that anyone who didn't want to accept me could leave. But the problems within the Dodgers club had been minor compared to the opposition outside. It hadn't been that easy to fight the resentment expressed by players on other teams, by the team owners, or by bigoted fans screaming nigger. The hate mail piled up. There were threats against me and my family and even out-and-out attempts at physical harm to me.
Some things counterbalanced this ugliness. Black people supported me with total loyalty. They supported me morally; they came to sit in a hostile audience in unprecedented numbers to make the turnstiles hum as they never had before at ball parks all over the nation. Money is America's God, and business people can dig black power if it coincides with green power, so these fans were important to the success of Mr. Rickey's Noble Experiment.
Some of the Dodgers who swore they would never play with a black man had a change of mind, when they realized I was a good ballplayer who could be helpful in their earning a few thousand more dollars in world series money. After the initial resistance to me had been crushed, my teammates started to give me tips on how to improve my game. They hadn't changed because they liked me any better; they had changed because I could help fill their wallets.
My fellow Dodgers were not decent out of self-interest alone. There were heartwarming experiences with some teammates; there was Southern-born Pee Wee Reese, who turned into a staunch friend. And there were others.
Mr. Rickey stands out as the man who inspired me the most. He will always have my admiration and respect. Critics had said, Don't you know that your precious Mr. Rickey didn't bring you up out of the black leagues because he loved you? Are you stupid enough not to understand that the Brooklyn club profited hugely because of what your Mr. Rickey did?
Yes, I know that. But I also know what a big gamble he took. A bond developed between us that lasted long after I had left the game. In a way I feel I was the son he had lost and he was the father I had lost.
There was more than just making money at stake in Mr. Rickey's decision. I learned that his family was afraid that his health was being undermined by the resulting pressures and that they pleaded with him to abandon the plan. His peers and fellow baseball moguls exerted all kinds of influence to get him to change his mind. Some of the press condemned him as a fool and a demagogue. But he didn't give in.
In a very real sense, black people helped make the experiment succeed. Many who came to the ball park had not been baseball fans before I began to play in the big leagues. Suppressed and repressed for so many years, they needed a victorious black man as a symbol. It would help them believe in themselves. But black support of the first black man in the majors was a complicated matter. The breakthrough created as much danger as it did hope. It was one thing for me out there on the playing field to be able to keep my cool in the face of insults. But it was another for all those black people sitting in the stands to keep from overreacting when they sensed a racial slur or an unjust decision. They could have blown the whole bit to hell by acting belligerently and touching off a race riot. That would have been all the bigots needed to set back the cause of progress of black men in sports another hundred years. I knew this. Mr. Rickey knew this. But this never happened. I learned from Rachel, who had spent hours in the stands, that clergymen and laymen had held meetings in the black community to spread the word. We all knew about the help of the black press. Mr. Rickey and I owed them a great deal.
Children from all races came to the stands. The very young seemed to have no hangup at all about my being black. They just wanted me to be good, to deliver, to win. The inspiration of their innocence is amazing. I don't think I'll ever forget the small, shrill voice of a tiny white kid who, in the midst of a racially tense atmosphere during an early game in a Dixie town, cried out, Attaboy, Jackie. It broke the tension and it made me feel I had to succeed.
The black and the young were my cheering squads. But also there were people—neither black nor young—people of all races and faiths and in all parts of this country, people who couldn't care less about my race.
Rachel was even more important to my success. I know that every successful man is supposed to say that without his wife he could never have accomplished success. It is gospel in my case. Rachel shared those difficult years that led to this moment and helped me through all the days thereafter. She has been strong, loving, gentle, and brave, never afraid to either criticize or comfort me.
There I was, the black grandson of a slave, the son of a black sharecropper, part of a historic occasion, a symbolic hero to my people. The air was sparkling. The sunlight was warm. The band struck up the national anthem. The flag billowed in the wind. It should have been a glorious moment for me as the stirring words of the national anthem poured from the stands. Perhaps it was, but then again perhaps the anthem could be called the theme song for a drama called The Noble Experiment. Today as I look back on that opening game of my first world series, I must tell you that it was Mr. Rickey's drama and that I was only a principal actor. As I write this twenty years later, I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
My grandfather was born into slavery, and although my mother and my father, Mallie and Jerry Robinson, lived during an era when physical slavery had been abolished, they also lived in a newer, more sophisticated kind of slavery than the kind Mr. Lincoln struck down. My parents were married in 1909, and my father worked on a plantation for twelve dollars a month. My mother encouraged him to confront his boss and ask for a better deal. Since he didn't want to lose him, the boss agreed to let my father become a half-cropper. That means that, instead of working for a flat sum, he would get half the profits from whatever he produced from the earth. My father began to make more money and to provide a better living for his family—my
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"I Never Had It Made" is one of those "as told to" books in which another writer does the grunt work of actually getting the author's words onto a piece of paper in publishable form (in this case that man was Alfred Duckett). Despite this, one comes away from this combination autobiography/political screed with a sense that these are largely Jackie Robinson's words, that the book is very personal to Robinson and that this is precisely the way the man expressed himself in his day (this book was published in 1972).Baseball fans (by far, the primary audience for this book today)will be disappointed to find that only about one-third of the book is devoted to Robinson's baseball career And even that portion of the book, as it probably should, spends much more time on the racial aspect of Robinson breaking the baseball color barrier than it spends on his career itself. Jackie Robinson was a very proud black man, a man comfortable with his race and determined to get a fair shake from the white-dominated world in which he lived. He was also, at the end, a very bitter man because as it became more and more obvious that the civil rights games he longed for were not likely to be accomplished in his own lifetime. All of that comes across very strongly in the remaining two-thirds of the book, and considering the progress made after Robinson's death it, at times, makes for sad and tedious reading."I Never Had It Made" is a reflection of its times and the personal struggles that Robinson (and his fellow blacks) went through during those years. It is worth a read - but it is not about baseball. It is about the civil rights struggle in this country during the first six or seven decades of the twentieth century.
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Interesting to hear Jackie's voice, but sadly disappointing in overall tone. The book is mostly about Robinson's racial struggles, rather than the major events and achievements of his life. The book is overwhelmingly bitter with few rests for positive moments along the way. His baseball career and achievements fly by with greater emphasis on later years and racial struggles. We're talking two pages about the '55 World Series. TWO PAGES! It's worth stepping into Jackie's shoes, but be prepared once you're in them.
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Wonderful read whether you're an avid baseball fan or (like me) completely uneducated on the baseball world. Jackie Robinson's voice comes through loud and clear in a tone of humility, pride, and dedication. Robinson was a hero in so many ways and affected the history of the US in more ways than I ever imagined.


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Why you can't separate equity from equality
I was at work today when my Facebook news feed sprang to life. Someone I knew from school had written in to the Straits Times about elitism, in the most ill-considered and naive way possible. For those who have yet to read it, please take some time to digest it here.
The letter makes three broad claims:
1. Equality is making everyone stoop down to the lowest common denominator of society. Equity entails everyone doing what their abilities allow them to do.
2. We will have to give up equity for the sake of ensuring equality. In other words, bad things happen when everyone is the same.
3. The best and the brightest should be lavished with resources, so they can use their big brains to create jobs for the unwashed masses.
Russell is partly right on his first claim that Singapore is a nation built on equity, rather than equality. Lee Kuan Yew once argued that "The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be."
But the problem is that Russell is attacking a straw man – no one is saying that people should be paid the same wage, or work in the same job. We recognise that there is variance and texture to human existence. The point is not to make society perfectly equal, but rather to make society less unequal. It is only when the gains of economic growth are spread more evenly, that equity can truly be achieved. Russell himself acknowledges that "equity (is about) everyone being given equal opportunities to succeed". Where is the equal opportunity when a child who attended Montesorri is compared against a child who didn't attend preschool? Where is the equal opportunity when privileged students get to attend expensive music courses, drama lessons, and branded tuition classes? Where is the equal opportunity when students are accepted by top foreign colleges, but can't go overseas because it's just too expensive?
Evidently, inequality begets inequity. Russell assumes that by making society more equal, "We are taking people with the capability to be … lawyers and doctors, and making them do the same menial tasks as everyone else." As someone currently working in human resources, this is really simplistic. This argument assumes that those studying law or medicine right now are just more talented and brilliant than others, and that those who didn't make the cut are just incapable. That's possible, but highly unlikely.
More plausibly, there are thousands of young adults out there who could have become top doctors or ace lawyers, but were dealt a harsh hand by circumstance. A bright kid born into poverty could have scored well in the PSLE, but had to drop out of school to support his family. Someone who failed to meet the unforgiving A Level cut-off for medicine might have done better if her family could afford intensive Math or Chemistry tuition. These are people who, if given a second shot – born into a life of privilege or blessed with parents who kept them on the straight and narrow – would have gone to college. The great irony of Russell's argument is that he is the one who takes people with the potential to be lawyers and doctors and forces them into "menial tasks".
On that note, a danger of unchecked elitism is that it breeds a toxic culture of entitlement. People start believing that they succeeded because they were virtuous, or hardworking, or innately awesome – whitewashing the environmental and social factors that contributed to their success. More insidiously, those at the top begin to think that everyone else failed because they were unworthy. The lawyers, doctors, politicians, business executives, and investment bankers represent the best of humanity. Everyone else who doesn't breathe the rarefied air of the nation's elite is relegated to performing "menial tasks". In a way, many of us have internalised this attitude. It becomes harder to broaden our definition of success, when we instinctively associate certain professions with failure. It becomes harder to push for policies like a minimum wage, when we think that fast food cashiers or deliverymen are getting the salaries they deserve.
This brings me on to the final claim made in the letter: that the most able students should also be receiving the most resources because they can best benefit the country. On paper, meritocracy should indeed be about developing the meritorious to the fullest of their potential. But how do we go about defining "merit"? One shouldn't take it for granted that those with the best academic grades will then go on to be the most competent leaders. Outstanding politicians are more than just intelligent – they tend to be people who can inspire, who can persevere, who can reject populist decisions, who care for others first, who are incorruptible, who can temper economic realities with human sentiment. Rather than artificially constricting our talent population by assuming that MPs and administrative officers can only come from elite schools, we should consider that increasing funding to other schools might help groom future leaders as well.
But even if this weren't true, one must consider that plans and policies do not happen in a vacuum. Talented leaders can only go so far with an under-educated populace. In light of tightened immigration quotas and a shrinking tax base, labour productivity has become incredibly important for Singapore's continued success. And education plays a key role in facilitating labour productivity – from skills-based technical education to broad-based academic enrichment, all schools are essential in equipping our workforce with the right skills and attitude to thrive in the modern economy.
I fear that Russell's letter will lead to members of the public once again claiming that RI breeds uncaring, self-interested elitists. As a former RI student, I have made numerous friends who have impressed me with their intellect, drive, and passion. These are people whose hearts are genuinely in the right place, and want to work in the civil service even though they could earn much more in the private sector. It would be a pity to see all Rafflesians tarred with the same brush just because of one careless letter.
This post was first published over at the Banalysis blog on 12 August 2015. It is reproduced with permission.
The Factory For Leaders
But we want our schools to be closed, elite schools
Smart will make you rich and successful but Caring won't

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'A lot of trust must be built first' - Southgate says Foden and Greenwood must atone before England recall
Unforgettable: Rooney retires as the greatest English player of his...
When 16-year-old Wayne Rooney curled in a 30-yard, last-minute winner against Arsenal in 2002, few knew much about the Everton striker.Having announced the end of his playing ca...
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England manager Gareth Southgate has said that axed duoPhil Foden and Mason Greenwood must rebuild trust before they are reconsidered for another international call-up.
The pair were sent home early from England dutyafter breaking coronavirus protocolsinIceland, amid allegations they invited girls back to their hotel room.
Foden and Greenwood's first senior call-up ended with the pair facing a possible fine fromIcelandic authorities for violating the country's regulations.
Speaking after England drew Denmark 0-0 in the Nations League on Tuesday, Southgate admitted that the Man City and Man Utd starshad work to do before they'd be considered for a second England call.
"The consequence has been there and they now need support. Everyone is wading in on them. They need help to rebuild," Southgate told Sky Sports.
"They need to understand the expectations of being an England player. We must help them on that process. We need to build trust and you have got to help young people back on their feet."
Southgate said that the pair's actions would have seen them axed from the England squadeven if there were no coronavirusregulations in place.
"I've spoken to both of them as I said yesterday they know what happened is unacceptable on both a Covid basis and, as I've learned more details, on any basis. Either way they would have gone home."
When asked if he'd consider the duo for a recall in October, Southgate responded:"I'll make a decision on that. A lot of trust must be built first. My mindset is not to hurt these boys any more.
"They're going through that with their families and friends and I don't need to add into that."
While Foden and Greenwood each made their England debutin Saturday's 1-0 win over Iceland, another Premier League star, Jack Grealish,wonhis first England capagainst Denmark on Tuesday.
Grealish has backed his England team-mates to learn from their mistakes and come back stronger in the future.
"I've tried not to look into it too much," Grealish told Sky Sports of the incident. "They're young kids who will learn. It's my first England camp myself and I've just focused on myself and tried to impress the manager.
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Q: Skiping parameters to retain defaults in JavaScript The scenario is as follows:
function:
const fun = (a="keep this", b="change this")=>{return a + b};

How can I keep the first default parameter and override the second one? I have several functions that use many default parameters that are called in different ways, so just moving the b param to the first argument will not work. For the sake of simplicity, a would hypothetically be overridden nearly as often as b.
I found answers regarding optional parameters but none showed me how to specify parameter while retaining defaults before said parameter.
I tried calling it in a way similar to python with no success:
fun(b="changed");

A: This can be done by providing what the function sees in any situation where no parameters are defined:
((a="keep this", b="change this")=>{return a + b})(undefined, "changed");

Simply specifying the paramater position as undefined will cause the default value to be used. It's not as simply and direct as Python, however it will work in any situation where you know the number of arguments to skip.
Here is an example that can be used on more than one parameter and could be useful in a situation where many parameters need to be skipped:
((a="keep", b="this", c="change this")=>{
   return a+b+c
   })(...(new Array(2).fill(undefined)), "changed");

A: It is sufficient to create a new sparse array without filling.

const fn = (a = "keep", b = "this", c = "change this") => a + b + c;

console.log(fn(...new Array(2), "changed"));

A: When you pass no argument to the a function, you are indeed passing undefined, so you can just do that for the first argument.

const f = (a="a", b="b") => console.log(">", a, b);
f(undefined, "new b") // > a new b

another way is to just use dict
const f = ({a="a", b="b"}) => ...
f({b: "b content"})

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Government refusing to close Covid loophole that's left thousands without cash
The government is refusing to close a loophole in its coronavirus bailout that has left thousands of workers without cash.
Any full- or part-time worker can have 80% of their wage paid by the state, up to £2,500 a month, under a groundbreaking "furlough" scheme.
But the scheme does not apply to people who started a new job after the cut-off date of February 28.
Instead, the only way for them to be "furloughed" is to be rehired to their previous job and then be put on the scheme. Whether this happens is up to the old employer.
This stops well short of demands by thousands of workers who said the date of February 28 must be extended.
The Mirror understands the government is resisting calls to extend the scheme beyond February 28 because of practical difficulties.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a groundbreaking furlough scheme - but it doesn't help everyone (Image: 10 Downing Street/AFP via Getty)
To prevent fraud, officials decided to capture people's earnings in February - the most recent full month - to work out how much they are owed through the scheme.
Senior officials are understood to be aware of the loophole, but believe there had to be a cut-off date for the Treasury to snapshot people's earnings.
Officials appear to accept that any cut-off date would have imperfections, but not every business or individual job in the country can be saved.
A Treasury spokesman said: "Obviously it's important to have proof that individuals are connected to the firms that are furloughing them."
Tony MacDonald, 31, from Dundee, said the decision was "so disappointing".
Tony MacDonald, 31, from Dundee, said the decision was "so disappointing" (Image: Angela Bell Photography)
Tony missed the scheme by three days after leaving his job of three years to start a new role as a fire safety engineer.
He and wife Logan, 30, have been left high and dry unable to support children Alfie, 12, and Aoife, 4, on her midwife's salary alone.
Tony told the Mirror: "The new guidelines said your old employer can take you back but mine isn't budging on that.
"They're struggling enough as it is at the moment.
"To take someone on who wasn't wanting to be with the company anyway - it doesn't make financial sense to them."
There is an exception for the furlough scheme for people who were made redundant after March 1. They can be rehired to their old firm and put on the furlough scheme.
The money is still expected to arrive with firms by the end of April, but Treasury officials hope they will act sooner than that by using the cash from a VAT holiday.
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Q: NPP + Python: Move Text between search strings to Another Position (Footer) I am working on sone html-documents looking like this:

    Something in here

        <MYTAG>This should be moved to the Footer</MYTAG>
        <MYTAG>This should be moved to the Footer, too</MYTAG>

I am already using Notepad++ and Python to customize the rest of the document mainly using Regular Expressions.
Now I want to move the parts that are tagged with <MYTAG></MYTAG> to the footer, having the documents like this in the end:

    Something in here

        <MYTAG>This should be moved to the Footer</MYTAG>
        <MYTAG>This should be moved to the Footer, too</MYTAG>

First I tried to do the job with Regular Expressions alone:
Search for:
(<html.*?)(<MYTAG>.*?</MYTAG>)(.*?)(.*?)(.*?)
and replace it with: $1$3$4$2$5
This works, but I have to run it over and over again for multiple <MYTAG>-parts (and it's a pain... with larger documents).
I know there is a better solution with python but I cannot get the coding write. The documentation and Syntax confuses me. I thought about using editor.setSelection followed by editor.cut and finally editor.paste somewhere to the footer but I don't know how to set the right targets.
Any help on this is very much appreciated :)

A: Try this
(<html.*?)((?:\s*<MYTAG>[^<]+<\/MYTAG>\n*)+)(.*?( *))(.*?)(<\/footer>.*?<\/html>)

Substitution:
\1\3\2\4\6

Regex Demo
Input

    Something in here

        <MYTAG>This should be moved to the Footer</MYTAG>
        <MYTAG>This should be moved to the Footer, too</MYTAG>

Output

    Something in here

        <MYTAG>This should be moved to the Footer</MYTAG>
        <MYTAG>This should be moved to the Footer, too</MYTAG>

A: You can use following script:
import re

with open("temp.html") as html_file:
    html = html_file.read()

tags = re.findall(r"<MYTAG>.*</MYTAG>\n*", html)

html = re.sub(r"<MYTAG>.*</MYTAG>\n*", "", html)

footer = re.split(r"", html)

tags.insert(0, "\n")
tags.insert(0, footer[0])
tags.append(footer[1])

with open("temp.html", "w") as html_file:
    html_file.write("".join(tags))

It working following way:

*

*Read file

*Finds all tags

*Replaces tags in the body

*Split file's content on 2 parts.

*Adds the tags and  in the text

*Writes result to the file.


Thanks in part to the Supergirl TV show over on the CW, the Girl of Steel is currently a hot property. However, it appears as though Supergirl is destined for more than just the small screen. Although there was once the Supergirl movie from the '80s, the cousin of Superman hasn't been seen in theaters since then. According to a new report from Deadline , Warner Brothers intends to change that.
DC Comics and Warner Bros. have come together to start developing a Supergirl movie. Details are relatively scarce at this point in the game, and anything can happen, including the movie getting canned. Still, as of now, screenwriter Oren Uziel is penning the script.
Deadline's report also explains that a Supergirl movie in development emphasizes the change within DC Films, as Walter Hamada is now the head, having replaced Geoff Johns and Jon Berg.
And so, for the time being all we can do is keep our ears to the ground and pay attention to any and all news that develops.


In order to prevent thinly potted bowls such as this piece from warping and in order to save space in the kiln, the Ding kilns turned to firing bowls and dishes upside down. Standing on their rims, the pieces could be stacked in a stepped saggar, a ceramic firing container, which also saved the glazes from falling wood ash. The rims, which had to be wiped free of glaze before firing, to avoid adherence to the sagger, were then mounted in copper to hide the rough edge.
The rounded bowl has wide open sides with six indents on the outside, corresponding to shallow lobes in the slightly flared rim, and stands on a straight narrow foot. The inside is incised with a lotus scroll with two large blooms, two leaves and two stems of arrow-head, surrounded by foliate scrollwork, with a further, smaller bloom, about to turn into a pod, in the centre. The tool for the engraving was held at an angle to make the design stand out in shallow relief, and details have been added by combing. The outside is plain. The off-white body bears a transparent ivory-tinged glaze with somewhat darker 'tears' on the outside, the footring is partly unglazed, the rim, presumably free of glaze, is bound in a thick copper rim mount.


Download file to see previous pages Solar radiation enter the blanket due to shortwave nature but unable to escape trough the blanket due to long water nature after reflecting through the surface of earth.
However, as the concentration of the green house gases in the atmosphere increased due to the immense usage of fossil fuel resources, the part of the solar radiation that makes a safe escape to the space is unable to escape to the space. Thus, the temperature of the planet is increasing continuously. The phenomenon is often termed as global warming. It is estimated that estimated that between 1906 and 2005, the average temperature of the earth's surface rose by about 0.74°C (Hoyt & Schatten, 1993).
Global warming was a term that was first used in 1975 by an American scientist "Wallace Smith Broecker" who discovered the climate of the earth is warming consistently due to various human caused problems. He published a paper in a magazine that he named "Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?" where he first coined the term. In 1979, the term is used to depict the physical phenomenon that is heating up the planet. The article was published by National academy of Science and titles it as, "The Charney Report" (Yukozimo, 2014).
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To me, Valentine's Day has little to do with candy hearts, roses, and romantic dinners. It especially has no relation to the hook-up culture of today. Valentine's Day is about true love, the kind of love my parents demonstrated for 70 years.
Seventy-three years ago, my father proposed to my mother on February 14th. Their wedding a little over a year later had to be small, because Dad's mother had passed away a few weeks before.
Their first boy was born with a cleft palate. Surgeries left him partially deaf for a time. Their second boy was premature and stayed in an incubator five weeks.
Just after Daddy's accident, the second child, who had poor eyesight from the incubator, dropped a glass milk bottle and almost severed his right hand from his arm.
Their third child was permanently brain-injured at age 1 by a doctor who used radium to remove a birthmark on his head.
All this happened before their seventh anniversary, but they faced each trial together with faith in their Lord Jesus.
Later, Mom and Dad had three girls and then another boy and girl – eight children in all. It was a little rough financially at times, but Mom was a budget wizard. She and Dad always gave to God first. They also were very generous with extended family and with the poor. Often they would ask us to give up something so they could help those in need. They taught us to think of others first.
When I was sixteen and the youngest was just six, we had a house fire. It set the family back financially for several years. As usual, my parents handled their troubles with faith, prayer, and unity.
Dad and Mom celebrated 25 years, 40 years, and then 50 years together. In 2010 and 2012, they lost their eldest son and youngest daughter. Dad had been ill with cancer and dementia for several years, but he understood their loss.
M om was Daddy's primary caregiver. Though Dad got confused about most things, he was always clear about his faith. He still had a sense of humor. And he never forgot that he loved Mom. He could still sing, though not always on key. So Mom and Dad continued their long bedtime tradition. Each night, they sang love songs to each other and love songs to their Savior before they kissed good night.
Daddy passed away two years ago, 37 days before their 70th anniversary. After that, Mom often slept holding his photo, longing for the day when she could go home to heaven to be with God and see her husband again.
Our mom left us early this month, expressing her deep love for her Savior and for each of us. When she was about to be taken to a hospice facility, she asked hopefully, "Am I going to see my husband?" My sister responded, "Yes, Mom, you are." Those were Mom's last words to any of us. Now she and Dad are together again, praising their Lord in death as they did in life.
"To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us part." Marriage is about commitment – to God and to one's spouse. That's how my parents lived. And that's what Valentine's Day is all about.


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Rudimental claim third Number 1 on Official Singles Chart
Rudimental's latest single These Days takes the top spot on this week's Official Singles Chart.
After a mammoth seven consecutive weeks at Number 2 – a record jointly held with Maroon 5's Moves Like Jagger – the group's latest track These Days ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen climbs a place to become their third Number 1.
Rudimental told OfficialCharts.com: "It feels amazing! The fact the fans are still sticking by us and keeping our song in the charts for as long as they have is amazing. A massive thank you to all the fans who are supporting us out there."
The Hackney-based quartet previously topped the Official Chart in 2012 with Feel The Love ft. John Newman and in 2013 with Waiting All Night ft. Ella Eyre.
Rudimental's third Number 1 single means guest feature Jess Glynne sets a new Official Chart record this week, claiming the most chart-topping singles for a female solo artist ever.
Following the release of his chart-topping new album Staying At Tamara's, George Ezra's Paradise climbs from 5 to Number 2 – his highest charting single to date after his debut single Budapest topped out at 3 in 2014. Another album track, Shotgun, is new at Number 35.
Elsewhere in the Top 5, US rapper and comedian Lil Dicky cracks the Top 10 with Freaky Friday ft. Chris Brown, racing 11 places to Number 5.
Sigala & Paloma Faith's Lullaby lifts three spots to 9, earning the producer his sixth Top 10 and Paloma her fifth, while Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes scores the two highest new entries of the week following his double release – In My Blood opens at Number 13 and Lost In Japan is at 27.
Further down, Yxng Bane's Vroom lifts five places to Number 40, earning the rapper his third UK Top 40 single.
Gaming charts: Sea of Thieves steals the top spot
This week's charts have now landed, and it'll be no surprise for many given the previous months of hype and testing periods that Microsoft and Rare's Sea of Thieves has sailed into the top spot on its debut week, meaning that it has triumphed over another three debuts in the top four.
Just below Rare's pirate adventure is EA's co-operative game A Way Out, closely followed by Bandai Namco's stellar RPG Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, and the return of Assassin's Creed Rogue in the form of a remaster, meaning that all these new games have been particularly popular with gamers.
Below that Burnout Paradise Remastered has slipped to 5, while the usual suspects like FIFA 18 and Grand Theft Auto V share the rest of the success in the top 10 with Nintendo's mascot Mario and EA's UFC 3. For the full top 10, however, you can check below.
3. Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom / Bandai Namco
4. Assassin's Creed Rogue Remastered / Ubisoft
5. Burnout Paradise Remastered / EA
8. UFC 3 / EA Sports
Football Manager heads to Nintendo Switch
Football Manager Touch 2018 has been rated in Korea, as grabbed at ResetEra. The game showed up at the classification system today, with a release date TBA in 2018.
It's worth noting though that, while this isn't the full package Sports Interactive and Sega release on PC every year, neither is it the cut-down version the company launches on mobile phones, but something much closer to the former, aimed at portable devices with a touchscreen. In fact, Football Manager Touch 2018 released at the end of 2017 on PC (Windows/Mac/Linux) and tablets (iOS/Android), for £22 (€30) (it's currently discounted on Steam and costs half of that), including several additional online modes compared to the mobile game. Watch the trailer below for more info.
Sega hasn't made the Nintendo Switch version official as of yet, but it'd also be the first FM on console this generation.
Drake holds off Rudimental to claim a ninth week at Number 1
Friday, March 23rd, 2018
God's Plan by Drake has secured a ninth week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
The Canadian's latest single joins 20 other songs in the Official Chart's 66-year history to have logged nine or more weeks at the top. God's Plan is the star's second hit to achieve this after his 2016 summer smash One Dance spent 15 weeks at the summit. View the longest reigning Official Singles Chart Number 1 hits here.
Rudimental's These Days ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen put up another good fight this week, finishing just 3,200 combined sales behind Drake at Number 2. In turn, the song has now matched an Official Chart record for the most weeks spent at Number 2; These Days shares this feat with All-4-One's 1994 hit I Swear, and the 2011 single Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera.
Elsewhere in this week's Top 5, George Ezra score his highest chart entry since July 2014, as Paradise climbs seven places to Number 5. Lullaby is now Paloma's highest charting track since Changing with Sigma debuted at Number 1 in September 2014.
Bebe Rexha's country crossover hit Meant To Be ft. Florida Georgia Line continues to climb, up eight places to Number 12 this week. One slot behind are Sigala & Paloma Faith with Lullaby, up six to 13. Lullaby is now Paloma's highest charting track since Changing with Sigma debuted at Number 1 in September 2014.
US rapper and comedian Lil Dicky and Chris Brown score this week's highest new entry with Freaky Friday at Number 16, plus XXXTentacion makes two appearances in the Top 40 this week, at Number 20 with Sad! (up eight places) and Number 31 with Moonlight (new).
Finally, girl group M.O vault four places with Bad Vibe ft. Lotto Boyz and Mr. Eazi (23), while Love Lies by Khalid and Normani, taken from the upcoming Love, Simon film, climbs six rungs to Number 24.
View this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full here
Charts: Burnout Paradise Remastered gets heavenly start
Burnout Paradise Remastered is a game we enjoyed a lot, as you can tell from our review, and it seems to have garnered a lot of popularity as well, since it has debuted at number one in this week's UK charts, beating out the debut of Kirby Star Allies to get there, which sits just behind at number two.
The rest of the top 10 is peppered with household names like FIFA 18, Grand Theft Auto V, and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, so in terms of surprises we're pretty much let off this week, aside from perhaps UFC 3 which sits at number 8. For the whole top 10 though, take a look down below.
It should be noted that Kirby Star Allies has still had a very successful start, as GamesIndustry.biz reports that the game is the fastest-selling boxed Kirby release ever – out of the 19 retail releases since 1996 – and is in fact sold out in most UK retailers.
Is Burnout deserving of the top spot?
2. Kirby Star Allies / Nintendo
10. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild / Nintendo
Drake edges out Rudimental to claim eighth week at Number 1
Drake has edged out Rudimental to claim an eighth week at Number 1 in the closest Official Chart race of 2018 so far.
Just 937 combined sales separate God's Plan and These Days this week, with Drake claiming the most streamed track and Rudimental the most downloaded.
God's Plan is Drake's third Number 1 on the Official UK Chart, following What's My Name with Rihanna (2010) and One Dance (2016).
Menawhile, These Days, which features Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen, has now spent six weeks in the runner up slot.
Elsewhere in this week's Top 5 US band Portugal. The Man reach a new peak with Feel It Still, climbing a place to Number 3 some 33 weeks after it first entered the Top 100, and Marshmello & Anne-Marie's FRIENDS also lifts a spot to a new high at Number 4.
Zedd claims his fourth Top 10 on the Official Chart with The Middle ft. Maren Morris & Grey, up eight places to 10, and George Ezra's Paradise zooms seven places to a new peak at 12.
Two more songs climb into the Top 20 this week: Sigala & Paloma Faith's Lullaby moves two slots to 19 and Bebe Rexha's Meant To Be ft. Florida Georgia Line shifts 13 places to Number 20.
Two songs from the chart-topping Greatest Showman album – A Million Dreams and Never Enough – are at 22 and 24 respectively, and Years & Years net their sixth Top 40 hit with new single Sanctify at 25.
Further down, M.O's Bad Vibe ft. Lotto Boyz & Mr Eazi vaults 23 spots to make its Top 40 debut at Number 27, the trio's second Top 40 entry, and Ed Sheeran's Supermarket Flowers rebounds 12 places to 32.
Grand Theft Auto V tops the gaming charts for a 15th time
The charts were a bit late in arriving this week, in fact, the full lists with individual formats has yet to arrive, but regardless it was another big week for Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V as it scored its 15th (!) number one since launching just under five years ago. In second place was new release from Big Ben Interactive, TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge. A surprisingly strong debut was also seen from PSVR title Bravo Team as it managed third in spite of a rather negative critical reception (read our review). The boxed retail release of Life is Strange: Before the Storm came in a modest 18th, while Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition (with cheese?) landed in 31st.
2. TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge / Big Ben (new)
3. Bravo Team / Sony (new)
God's Plan by Drake holds at the top of the Official Singles Chart
Drake's God's Plan is the UK's Official Number 1 single for the seventh week in a row.
The Canadian rapper holds onto pole position keeping Rudimental's These Days featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen as runner-up for a fifth week. The last track to spend five weeks at Number 2 was Ed Sheeran's Galway Girl, which got stuck behind his own chart topper Shape Of You in early 2017.
Dua Lipa's IDGAF holds firm at Number 3, while Portugal. The Man's Feel It Still rises two to Number 4. Marshmello & Anne-Marie keep it locked at Number 5 with FRIENDS.
Following her performance at the Oscars, Keala Settle's This Is Me flutters back up the Top 10 one place to Number 7, while Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton's Say Something reaches a new peak of Number 9. There's also a new peak for Mabel & Not3s following their Live Lounge rendition of the track on BBC Radio 1; Fine Line leaps three to Number 11.
Two songs enter the Top 20 for the very first time this week. Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey are this week's high climbers of 13 places with The Middle, up to Number 18, while George Ezra's Paradise scales 11 positions to Number 19. Sigala & Paloma Faith also climb 11 rungs to Number 21 with Lullaby.
US rapper XXXTentacion scores his highest charting single with Sad at Number 26, four slots ahead of the next highest new entry from Dave – Hangman becomes his third UK Top 40 single at Number 30.
Bebe Rexha scoops her first chart hit as a lead artist with Meant To Be ft. Florida Georgia Line at Number 33, MoStack manages the same feat with What I Wanna, new at 38. Finally, taken from the soundtrack to upcoming movie Love, Simon, Khalid and Fifth Harmony's Normani chart at Number 39 with Love Lies.
FIFA 18 stays on top of the gaming charts in static week for sales
Sometimes the weekly retail sales news pieces we share with you are full of interesting observations, stunning debuts, and even the odd tale of games crashing and burning at retail. Sad to say, but this is not a week like that.
Simply put, the charts are largely how they were seven days ago, with the top three remaining as they were with FIFA 18 still sitting pretty in top spot, and with only subtle movement behind it (Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bumped up to fourth, Metal Gear Survive tumbled out of the top ten into seventeenth, for example). So yeah, there's not much to report, so we'll leave you with this week's top ten, courtesy of GfK Chart-Track, and then move onto something else…
7. UFC 3 / EA
10. Shadow of the Colossus / Sony
Drake's God's Plan scores sixth week at Number 1
Friday, March 2nd, 2018
Drake celebrates another week of chart glory this week as his latest single, God's Plan, extends its reign at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
The track scores a sixth week in pole position, holding off Rudimental's These Days ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen, which spends a fourth week in the runner-up slot.
This week's highest new entry goes to US rapper Post Malone, who lands at Number 4 with his new single Psycho. It's the artist's second UK Top 10 single, following last year's chart-topping Rockstar.
Completing this week's Top 5 is Marshmello and Anne-Marie's collaboration Friends, up four places to 5.
Justin Timberlake's Say Something ft. Chris Stapleton zooms 12 places to Number 10 following his performance at last week's BRIT Awards. The climb earns Justin his 20th Top 10 single and first from his Man Of The Woods album.
Further down, rising star Blocboy JB lifts three spots to 18 with Drake collaboration Look Alive, and British rapper B Young also cracks the Top 20 with Jumanji eight weeks on from its release, up six spots to 19.
Australian rockers 5 Seconds Of Summer earn their seventh UK Top 40 single with Want You Back, new at 22, Ed Sheeran's Supermarket Flowers re-enters the Top 40 at 29 after last week's BRITs performance, and Sigala debuts at 32 with Lullaby ft. Paloma Faith, earning the British producer his seventh Top 40 and Paloma her ninth.
Finally, Croydon rapper Hardy Caprio scores his first UK Top 40 hit with Rapper at 34, and Stormzy's Blinded By Your Grace ft. MNEK returns to the Top 40 after the rapper's big wins at the BRITs, up 13 places to 35.


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Lionel Messi avoids prison sentence for tax fraud
Barcelona legend Lionel Messi faces court appeal against 21-month .|Beanyman Sports|Youtube
International soccer superstar Lionel Messi will have his prison sentence swapped for a fine worth less than his weekly wage.
by James Kotroczo (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
June 25, 2017 at 2:15 AM June 25, 2017 at 2:15 AM
Yesterday, the Barcelona state prosecutor claimed that he was agreeable to the idea of having Lionel Messi pay a fine for Tax Fraud rather than have him serve a 21-month long Prison Sentence, the Independent reported. The one catch is that it had to be the maximum amount allowed under law.
Because of this, his fine will come out to €255,000, or roughly $300,000. The decision takes into account an estimated $2.2 million fine he already paid last year when he and his father were initially caught for tax fraud.
Lionel Messi's 21-month prison sentence set to be swapped for fine worth less than one week's wage | The Independent https://t.co/dSsgEfB09F
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Last July, Lionel Messi and his father Jorge Horacio Messi were found guilty of three different counts of tax fraud from 2007-2009 which accounted for about $4.5 million.
As a result, the two of them voluntarily paid for a $5.6 million "corrective payment" to make up for the unpaid taxes, plus interest, that were due to Spain in August 2013.
Because the two of them are accused of using tax havens in Uruguay and Belize as well as shell companies in the UK and Switzerland, they will also be paying millions of euros in additional fines. However, the exact amount they will have to pay for these additional fines has yet to be specified.
When Messi and his father Jorge were initially given their 21-month long prison sentence, it was already widely known that the two of them were most likely not going to serve any actual prison time thanks to Spain's system of law. Under Spanish law, any tax related prison sentence under two years can be served under probation instead.
The Barcelona state prosecutor has also made it known that he's not against the idea of suspending the prison sentence altogether as long as neither of them are charged with anything else for the next three years. However, even if Messi were to pay the maximum fine for tax fraud allowed under Spanish law, it wouldn't exactly be all too detrimental to his wallet.
Messi currently earns a weekly wage of roughly $450,000 after taxes, which doesn't even take into account the millions of dollars he makes off of endorsements yearly.
In fact, Messi is considered the third wealthiest athlete in the world behind only LeBron James and his rival Cristiano Ronaldo.
So long as Messi and his father maintain clean criminal records for the foreseeable future, neither of them seem to have much to worry about. It's widely known in Spain that judges often accept the state prosecutor's recommendations which can only bode well for the two of them.
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