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The best cars I've driven in 2018
By Botchi Santos Philippine Daily Inquirer December 26,2018
2018 was truly a banner year for me at a personal level: I got to drive some of the best driver's cars imaginable in a single year.
Ironic, despite the fact that 2018 will be remembered as a poor year for sales in the Philippine automotive industry.
With industry sales dropping between 18 percent to 22 percent for the vast majority of car brands, and some even stating an unofficial 40 percent decrease in sales, it is a year we all want to look past and forget.
But for me, from a keen driving enthusiast's point of view, 2018 will be hard to top!
Let's take a look at these cars, and why I consider them the best of 2018.
1. FK8 Honda Civic Type-R
The Honda Civic Type-R has remained a dream for many JDM enthusiasts.
Turbocharged, bigger, heavier and more complex for the 21st century, the latest Civic still delivers all the thrills you can expect from Honda—race-bred engineering, an organic steering feel, and a very linear power delivery despite being turbocharged.
The latest Type-R is also blessed with amazing grand touring abilities. It shines on track, but feels great on long drives, preferably on winding mountain roads.
It is the absolute best real-world enthusiast's car, and the most affordable in this lot.
2. Mk2 Porsche 991 GT3
To drive the new Mk2 GT3 is one thing, to drive it on Se-pang's full Grand Prix Circuit just ups the ante even more.
Thanks to the Porsche Media Academy's elite level driving program, Porsche Asia-Pacific helps train motoring journalists for advanced driving techniques on track.
And what better car to use than something with real motorsports pedigree, that is the GT3—sublime, demands respect, with all of the theatrics of a real race-bred sports car, but zero drama.
The GT3 is the sharpest, keenest, most gob-smackingly amazing car I've driven in 2018. Only a GT3 RS or the crazy GT2 RS can top it!
A90 Toyota Supra
3. A90 Toyota Supra prototype
The Toyota Supra occupies a special place in my heart.
Being a long-time owner of the MKIV A80 model who has spent a decade tinkering, fixing, upgrading, improving, modifying and tuning it, the Supra's legacy, history and full potential is something I know and value to heart.
So, when a new one was announced, I had to get behind the wheel to find out how great it is. And boy, the new one surely did not disappoint—worth the very long wait, and retaining its essential Japanese feel despite sharing key components with BMW.
I'm excited to drive the all-new production version model hopefully next year. It's unconfirmed, but looks like we'll get the new A90 Supra in the second half of 2019.
4. Ferrari F488 GTB
A prancing pony will always be special, and the F488 is truly that. It's always special to bring home a Ferrari, even for just a few days. And with instructions to enjoy it to the max, I most definitely did.
It felt surreal driving it through provincial roads, and the degree of civility, matched with the solid build-quality banishes any fears of a high-strung diva.
The F488's turbocharged powerplant still delivers the goods, and with more torque, makes it more relaxed when you're not in the mood, but even more manic when you open the taps completely.
5. Ferrai GTC4 Lusso T
Indeed, 2018 was a great year because I got to drive not one, but two Ferraris to my heart's content.
The Lusso is Ferrari's real Gran Turismo, thanks to its four-seater layout.
While others may jokingly refer to it as an oversized hatchback, the GTC4 Lusso T (the T stands for the V8 twin turbo engine in lieu of the bigger, more powerful and more expensive naturally aspirated V12 flagship) has real-world useability and practicality.
The lift assist raises the car considerably higher than regular econoboxes, so you have no problems taking it out of town.
And it feels special inside, luxurious and truly enchanting.
6. Lexus LC500
The LC500 is the second most affordable car in this lot, but it doesn't make it any less special.
With its space-age looks, well-balanced chassis, powerful and progressive engine with equally powerful brakes, the LC500 represents the very best of Japanese engineering as applied to a Gran Turismo.
Sleek, agile, fast, and with the reliability the Japanese marque is famous for, the LC500 feels every bit as special as any Porsche or Ferrari model out there. And it won't cost an arm and a leg to service.
7. Audi RS5
Audi's latest mid-size coupè, now with a V6 turbocharged mill, is everything its predecessor would have wanted it to be—stylish, luxurious, high-tech, well-damped, comfortable, and crucially, without the nose-heavy sensation the older V8 model was cursed with, replaced by a pointy, agile and responsive front-end.
Balance is better, and its turbocharged engine gives it a more relaxed cruising gait while delivering even greater top-end grunt, and in real-world driving conditions, probably almost 100 percent improvement in fuel efficiency. That's the cherry on the icing.
8. Subaru WRX with EyeSight
A rally rep like the Subaru STI is great for our roads, while the Levorg is just slightly more practical with its copious rear cargo space.
But if you want to straddle that fine line between comfort and practicality, armed with the latest in active safety systems, the WRX is hard to beat.
Decently sized, comfortable, and easy enough to use everyday, the WRX is loads of fun on winding roads and on the track, but not too hardcore so that you can still use it everyday.
I love it. It's a car perfectly compromised to be a jack-of-all-trades when cars are life but adulting is a necessity.
There are loads more cars I drove in 2018 that were interesting, but not exactly something we'd classify as a driver's car.
These cars made my year special, and these will be hard to top anytime soon. How was your 2018 like?


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A Grand and Disastrous Deceit: The Chilcot Report
Philippe Sands, 28 July 2016
Since it would make it harder to obtain the support of cabinet and Parliament, and the public, Goldsmith's advice – the 7 March document permeated with an understanding of the uncertainty and risk of going to war – was deliberately withheld from cabinet. The redacted and recast document of 17 March that went to Parliament, cabinet and the people, was an instrument of persuasion that aimed to create the impression that Goldsmith had advised that the war was unequivocally lawful. The document did mislead. It was the product of calculated manipulation enabled by silences and lies, a grand and disastrous deceit.
The Report of the Iraq Inquiry
by John Chilcot.
The inquiry has chosen to hold back on what caused the multitude of errors: was it negligence, or recklessness, or something else? In so doing it has created a space for Blair and the others who stood with him to protest that they acted in good faith, without deceit or lies.
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Standard & Poor's has slashed its long-term AAA+ credit rating on Europe's rescue fund following downgrades on nine euro-zone countries on Friday. S&P released a statement saying the latest downgrade was all but inevitable following identical cuts to the sterling credit ratings of France and Austria, two major guarantors of the bailout fund, known as the European Financial Stability Facility. Though the EFSF said the downgrade won't reduce its $558 billion lending capacity, the European Stability Mechanism will replace it as a rescue fund. Meanwhile, Greece has been warned about a potential default if it doesn't secure an agreement over bond holdings with private creditors, after talks broke down with the creditors on Friday.


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When Josip Broz Tito died, in ex-Yugoslavia, and especially in Bosnia, became spontaneous fashion to celebrate his 88 years by planting the same number of pine trees, carnations and of course the roses - red, as Izet Sarajlić said, as a October. What happened in the meantime with those trees and flowers, I don't know, but we know that in Sarajevo during the war there were growing up some other roses, helped by the gardeners from the nearby hills, who send them to us with big speed and in big amounts, but without color, that was putted after, after dying and blessing its citizens. And what connection has art now, which cannot, as we know, even if it wants, to be so terrify as a reality? Well, it can, when there is a clear idea, concept, as it's sad by Andrej Ðerković, the author of the exhibition, who put together two different periods of its life and - let me to paraphrase one event from the English history - the war of roses. Famous iconography from the commemorating of Tito's birthdays, 88 roses, artist reformulated in a way that he multiplied photographs of the same number od sarajevan roses from the ground and he put them on 88 metal sticks which are in two wood palettes and in between on the floor it is written with the same shape and the size like on the tomb in the House of Flowers: JOSIP BROZ TITO 1892-1980.
Of course, all that will stay on the level of ironical and even worse, cynical joke, if this from one side doesn't have a credits in contemporary historical context, and from the other, in artistic realization and the answer - how something was done? With credits.
Emir Dragulj (DANI, Sarajevo, June 2000)


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Instagram For PC (Windows 7, 8, 10, XP) Free Download
December 22, 2020 by Newsreaderweb Staff
The objective of this website is that you can download Instagram for PC for free and you can use this famous social network with all its fantastic features from your computer.
Now the Instagram application can be used on any computer running Windows. This is great news for everyone who uses Instagram since it allows you to upload photos and videos from a PC. Direct messages and notifications have also been implemented. Although Instagram is designed to be used from a mobile phone, now you can also connect from your computer.
Facebook announced its plan to develop Instagram as a Windows app a year ago. In July of this year, Continuum support for Windows 10 Mobile arrived. Now the implementation work is done.
You can download Instagram for free from here. The file size is 275 MB, it is virus-free and the version is English.
With Instagram, we can also add filters to the images that make the photo more original and unique in a few seconds, which will surely make us earn more than one extra like when we share it.
The Instagram image editing tool has made it unnecessary to use external ones since the one that comes standard is very easy to use and makes our photos have more quality.
Instagram For PC Free Download
Instagram for PC works with Windows 7/8 / 8.1 / 10 and allows you to upload photos and videos from the comfort of your computer.
In addition, Instagram for PC also allows its users to edit, apply filters to their images and videos, and even share their photos and videos on their other social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr.
Downloading Instagram for pc and installing it today is easy since different options for Windows 10 and other versions came out relatively recently.
The emulator to use Instagram on my computer has come in handy for me personally since I am a Windows user. Next, I will explain the different methods to download Instagram on your computer.
How to Instagram App Download and Install
Before installing Instagram for PC you have to download the emulator, you can do it for free here.
Once downloaded, double click to install it on your computer.
You will need to have an active Google Play account. If you don't have it, you can create it here.
Once inside Google Play write Instagram in the search engine, surely the first result that appears is the official Instagram application.
Click install. The application will download and install automatically.
Now you can open Instagram from your pc and enter your usual data as if you were doing it from your mobile.
Use Instagram Free in Windows 10, 8.1, 8 and 7
The option that I like the most and that I use is the BlueStacks emulator that manages to run Android applications on a Windows computer. It basically turns your computer into a Smartphone so that you can use any Android application without any problem, so you can download Instagram for pc and use it from your computer. The program emulates the Instagram application on your PC, being able to use the social network in the same way that you usually do on your mobile.
How to Upload Photos and Videos to Instagram
Once inside BlueStacks click on settings.
Then click import files from Windows. You will see that a window opens in which you can search for the files you want to upload from your PC.
The imported images can be seen in the Gallery tab of your Instagram application.
Features of Instagram for Windows 10
Instagram for computers can be installed on Windows 10, 8.1, 8, and 7.
It's very easy to use and doesn't take up much disk space.
With Instagram for PC, you can quickly share your photos on social networks.
You can upload unlimited photos and videos from your computer.
Add filters to your images before publishing.
With Instagram for PC, you can follow and unfollow whoever you want.
Like or comment on the photo of your friends and even tag whoever you want in a photo.
Why download Instagram?
To share photos: Share your favorite photos from Instagram to PC in a very simple way. Take a photo and edit it using Instagram filters. Apply the effect and don't forget to save it. Upload the photo to your Instagram from your computer and start receiving likes and comments from your friends.
Filters: The Instagram mobile application has unique filters to edit your photos because with the BlueStacks emulator you can use all the filters available in the mobile version with which you can give a touch of originality and quality to your photos.
Social Networks: Instagram for PC is prepared so that you can share your photos on other social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr among others.
Total control: Increase your followers, follow new friends, unfollow, … manage everything from this new version. You can now download Instagram for pc.
Followers: You can have a large number of fans and you can also invite them to an event. In addition, you will be able to see the latest updates from the people you follow.
How to Download Instagram for Pc without Emulator?
Another alternative to use Instagram on your PC without an emulator is to install Websta for Instagram. Websta is an extension that allows Instagram users to see the Instagram Stories of their contacts, like and comment on photos and videos from your computer's browser.
It should be noted, leaving aside the fact that you can manage your Instagram from your computer, that you can use the Instagram extension for PC in a very easy way since you will only have to click on the icon that will appear next to your other extensions. Once you click, a tab with a design very similar to the one you might see on your iPhone or Android will appear.
It is in this tab that you can see photos, comment, and give likes. If this were not enough, you can visit the profile of other users, follow others, or stop following them all from the same place.
Websta for Instagram is an extension with which you can use Instagram on your pc in a very easy way, it is also a very fluid extension that takes up little space on your computer. Install this wonderful extension on your pc from this link.
Features of the Websta PC Extension
Upload images from your pc to Instagram.
Window small in size.
See the Instagram Stories of your friends from your computer.
Multiple configuration options.
Log in automatically when you start Chrome.
Browse the photos of your friends from your computer.
The extension works using SSL encryption so your data will always be protected.
What is Instagram Web?
Instagram Web is the online version of the famous Instagram mobile application. With the Instagram web, you will not have to download anything to your computer, and you will be able to connect to your account from any PC quickly and easily. The design of the Instagram Web is very similar to that of the mobile application. In addition, from the web version of Instagram, you can view and comment on any image from the Instagram web page. The bad thing is that you will not be able to upload any video or image from your pc to the web version of Instagram.
How can you access the Instagram website?
From any browser visit instagram.com
Log in using your access data (username and password).
You can also use your Facebook account to enter.
There are many other third-party applications to use Instagram from your PC. But the three tools that I have taught you are for me the best and safest. That said, if I had to stick with any of the three to download Instagram for pc, I would definitely choose BlueStacks since it is the most complete of the three and allows you to use Instagram without limitations on your computer. If you don't have it yet, click on the direct download button.
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Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital is one of the largest inpatient rehabilitation facilities in the United States and has been consistently ranked in U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals Issue each year since 1995 – the only rehabilitation hospital in New England to do so. Spaulding was ranked at #4 in the nation in the 2017/2018 rankings.
In April 2013, Spaulding opened a new 132-bed facility in Charlestown the first new free standing hospital in Boston in over 30 years. Certified LEED Gold for its commitment to renewable energy and sustainability it also is a national model for inclusive design.
The skill of our clinicians is matched only by their dedication to their patients. Whatever your goals—whether it's recovery from a serious injury or illness, or working toward greater independence—our caregivers support you and your loved ones throughout your rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation is not just about strengthening the body. It's also about strengthening the spirit.


Hondash DLC (Data Link Connector) Interface is a device that establishes communication between car's ECU and other device and transmits data via Bluetooth.
The interface si powered through the DLC connector. More options for powering the interface are described here.
The 3 pin DLC connector is usually inserted in a green or blue rubber sleeve (3 pin + 2 pin connectors in a single protective sleeve).
How to check if Hondash will work with my ECU?


Baile de California, accompanied by a live music, danced the evening away at the 1st Thursday event, Presidio Pastimes by Candlelight. Always a favorite event with our dancers as well as guests attending, below are some photos of the event.
Teaching one of our favorite Californio folk dances, La Varsouviana, also known as the Little Foot Dance.
All ages are welcome from 6 years to 96!
Live musical accompaniment on historic, reproduction instruments adds to the evening's authenticity & enjoyment!
Join us NOW for the Festivities coming soon … Santa Barbara's Founding Day, the SB Fair & Expo and National Dance Day!


He who wills that all people shall have Life, and shall be converted to the knowledge of the truth.
(4) Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.--Here St. Paul gives some explanation of his exhortation, that "the congregation should pray for all men." Our prayers after all--for those far off, as well as for those near--will be in strict harmony with the will of God. "Imitate God," writes St. Chrysostom;" if He wills that all men should be saved, it is surely natural that prayer should be offered for all; if He willed that all should be saved, do thou will it now; and if in earnest thou wiliest it, then pray."
One or two points must ever be held in mind when this great statement of St. Paul's is used as a proof of "Universal Redemption." We must remember the position it occupies in the argument, it being only introduced as a reason for the exhortation to pray for all. Then the words must be looked at very carefully. God's-will is not to save (s?sai) all--if that had been His sovereign will He would have saved all; but His will is that all should be saved--all should come to the knowledge of the truth; not to the knowledge of the mere theoretical, but of the practical and saving truth as revealed in the gospel. "In other words, through the sacrifice and the death of Christ all are rendered capable of salvation (salvabiles); that some are indisputably not saved, is not due to any outward circumscription or inefficacy of the divine will, but to man's rejection of the special means of salvation which God has been pleased to appoint, and to which it is His divine will that man's salvation should be limited. Redemption is universal, yet conditional--all may be saved, yet all will not be saved, because all will not conform to God's appointed condition."--Bishop Ellicott.


One of the ways I facilitate my older children's interests and collections is to have display jars in their rooms for different things. Below are my 10-year-old's jars. She enjoys collecting shells, rocks and metal things (like nuts, bolts and bottle caps). I remember collecting old keys at one stage when I was a tween…I wonder where they ended up?
We have also done other cute little jar projects that add a fun personalised look for her room. Jars like this can be used as money box, to display mini collectable figurines like Pokemon and other small things.
The line of jars looks gorgeous in her room!
The kids and I made this snow scene jar for Christmas last year, and we enjoyed it so much, we kept it displayed. These jars have that snow-globe magic feel that can transport you to another world. See how we put it together here.
The kids and I made the below 3D adventure scene last year and it turned out brilliantly! The steps on how we put it together are here: 3D Photo Scene in a Jar.
The dinosaur jar was a party favour/craft at my daughter's birthday party. Great little project and something fun to display and keep. Instructions here: Pony in a Jar.
I found the jars at a discount store.


1. Communication must be clear so that the receiver can fully comprehend that the sender is trying to communicate. The sender's message must be tailored for the receiver. It must also be necessary to assume that the receiver has a certain level of intelligence and the receiver is able to follow the mechanics of communication.
2. Top to bottom communication within an organization is based on the idea of trust. It is assumed that the receiver will follow the commands passed from the top. Top to bottom only works effectively if the receiver is fully trusted by the sender, and that the receiver will execute all the actions to the best of his/her ability.
3. Informal communication is usually more effective than formal communication. While formal communication seems more professional in an industrial setting, it has a lower compliance factor compared to an informal communication. This is because informal communication may involve a superior personally speaking to a subordinate face-to-face, hence, compliance is much higher because the receiver can fully understand the sender. For example, a student is likely to pay more attention in a small, informal classroom compared to a large formal lecture hall.
4. The receiver is expected to stay attentive when the message is being communicated. Good attention is a very important factor in communication. It leads to better understanding of the message, hence a better outcome.
5. Communication must be consistent with the overall plans of an organization. In other words, communication must flow parallel to the policies, plans, programmes, etc. of the organization. Inconsistent communication may lead to costly misunderstandings.
6. Information must always be adequate and comprehensible. Incomplete information leads to loss of time and money, and may develop misunderstandings. And this may harm the organization as a whole.
7. Communication must be carried out on the proper time. Late communication may create late reactions from the receiver, causing the entire process to be set behind in time. And this may cause uncoordination among organizational departments.
8. It is always a good idea to receive feedback from the receiver in order to ensure clear communication. This way, the sender can be certain that the information he/she is trying to send has received the listener and that the next actions of the listener can be smoothly carried out without any unnecessary disagreements.
9. An effective communication network must be established within an organization. This is to ensure that information reaches the target in the original form. There may be many information networks within an organization, and they may transmit different information; however, it is necessary to make the network effective and right on target.


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Home How the Trump White House's Qatar Policy Was Bought By the Former Marine General Who Led the Brookings Institution – RedState
How the Trump White House's Qatar Policy Was Bought By the Former Marine General Who Led the Brookings Institution – RedState
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On June 5, 2017, the Persian Gulf was in a crisis. A coalition of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, and Bahrain announced they were cutting diplomatic ties with Qatar and imposing an air, land, and sea blockade. The reason was Qatar's coziness with Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood and its fomenting insurrection in its neighbors.
President Trump, in a series of tweets on June 6, indicated that he not only supported the blockade but claimed some measure of credit for it.
"During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar – look!" Mr Trump tweeted on Tuesday.
He later tweeted: "So good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off. They said they would take a hard line on funding… extremism, and all reference was pointing to Qatar. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!"
The crisis continued to metastasize, and by June 24, Saudi Arabia and its allies had issued an ultimatum to Qatar that sounded a lot like something the Austro-Hungarian Empire might have sent to Serbia in July 1914.
There were some oddities, in retrospect, that didn't seem terribly odd at the time. President Trump was famously undisciplined on Twitter. On June 9, as President Trump was castigating Qatar as the center of terrorism in the Persian Gulf, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for calm.
On Friday afternoon, Mr. Tillerson called for a "calm and thoughtful dialogue" to resolve the deepening dispute among Sunni Muslim states in the Persian Gulf. Barely an hour later, Mr. Trump's comments were anything but that. He accused Qatar of being a "funder of terror at a very high level" and demanded that the tiny, energy-rich nation cut off that money flow to rejoin the circle of responsible nations.
"We had a decision to make," Mr. Trump declared at a Rose Garden news conference with the president of Romania, Klaus Iohannis. "Do we take the easy road or do we take a hard but necessary action?" he said. "We have to stop the funding of terrorism."
A senior administration official insisted that Mr. Trump was "on the same page" as his secretary of state, even distributing a page to reporters on Air Force One that showed their statements on Qatar side by side. He also disputed that Mr. Trump's comments about Article 5 represented a reversal, arguing, as the White House has before, that the president had already effectively endorsed it.
Thanks to an FBI investigation, we know much more about why this particular event occurred. Retired USMC General John Allen, president of the Brookings Institution, was paid by Qatar to lobby National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster to "soften" the US position on Qatar. He approached McMaster using their personal friendship and argued that it served America's best interests by toning down the rhetoric. He also implied that he had discussed the request with other NSC members, and they concurred.
To the point of this note, please … as you all may have heard yesterday in the holding room, and as you may know, I've been close to the Qataris for a long time and to that extent, I have their trust at several levels and among a number of the key leaders. They've asked me to shoot out to Doha over the weekend to discuss their situation. I'll leave tonight and will report fully to you on the outbound leg probably late SUN or MON. I'll be back MON latest. Having the background info you mentioned, H.R., would be very helpful. From the POTUS phone call with the Qatari Emir on WED, I think the POTUS desire/offer to solve this through WH mediation is masterful. I told the Qs they need to seize on this opportunity very quickly as POTUS has thrown the Qataris a lifeline in this crisis . . . .
H.R., the Qataris are asking for some help, though, in the short term. In their terms, the closure of the airspace in the region, and specifically the closure of the land border, places the emirate effectively "under siege" … their term. … What they're asking is a follow-on signal to the region from the WH or DOS of a simple statement from the US: "… calling on all sides to seek a peaceful resolution to this crisis [and to act with restraint]." The bracketed phrase … to act with restraint … is something they're specifically asking the US to say."
Depending on the effectiveness of the Kuwaiti initiative, and should they set the conditions for a us led mediation, I'd assume we'd quietly ask the saudi/Emirati side to open the border/lift the airspace restrictions as an act of good will and good faith to POTUS (not to the Qataris, but to POTUS), permitting "the lifting of the siege" and enabling the Emir of Q to travel for the final mediation.
McMaster relayed the request to Tillerson, who made the requested statement that afternoon.
The search warrant for Allen's electronic files was accidentally made public, and for your edification…and perhaps amusement…it can be read below.
Allen Search Warrant on Scribd
If you are interested in all the investigation details, the Washington Post has an excellent summary.
As I see it, these are the main points.
First, Qatar has a pernicious influence on Washington politics. This bit of criminality is very much in line with the Washington Post being a pipeline for Qatari propaganda. The late, dismembered Jamal Khashoggi used the WaPo's editorial pages to launder Qatari press releases (Washington Post Hints What Others Have Known: Jamal Khashoggi Was a Paid Qatari Intelligence Asset). It, like China, is an object case that if a nation is willing to spend enough money, then America's political, economic, and academic elites are all for sale.
Second, it is a clarion call for an overhaul of the Foreign Agents Registration Act to make the law clearly constitutional, easy to understand, hard to evade, and very, very painful to violate. The fact that Allen could obtain the access he did without ever disclosing that he was getting paid by a foreign government is unconscionable.
Third, if you were one of those who doubted the existence of the "deep state," you couldn't have a better illustration. A paid agent of a foreign and sometimes hostile government could rescind the national policy articulated by the President of the United States by trading off a friendship.
While good-government types frequently suffer from fecal incontinence over "lobbyists," they are nearly, without exception, in awe of "think tanks." What the Allen episode shows us is that think tanks are much, much more dangerous than lobbyists. When a lobbyist calls, the mark knows they are dealing with a lobbyist, and usually, mere money and contracts are at stake. On the other hand, when the head of a high-powered think tank like Brookings calls, you assume they are acting in good faith. On a related note, given how hard Brookings pushed the Russia Hoax conspiracy theory, one now has to wonder if they did it out of stupidity, blind partisanship, or because they were getting cash to do so.
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Philip Hammond shamefully claims UK productivity rates low because more disabled people are in work
December 6, 2017 December 7, 2017 · 21 Comments ·
Philip Hammond has been roundly criticised following comments he made to the Treasury Select Committee, suggesting that falling productivity rates in the UK workforce was due to more disabled people being in work.
Giving evidence to the Commons Treasury Select Committee concerning the Budget, the Chancellor said: "It is almost certainly the case that by increasing participation in the workforce, including far higher levels of participation by marginal groups and very high levels of engagement in the workforce, for example of disabled people – something we should be extremely proud of – may have had an impact on overall productivity measurements."
He added :"It may have collateral impact on measured productivity performance."
These comments betray a political mindset that is underpinned by the idea that disabled people are somehow a 'burden' on the economy, either in work or out of it. Conservative ministers such as David Freud and Philip Davies among others have suggested that disabled people should work for less than the minimum wage, implying that their labour is somehow worth less than that of others.
Labour MP John Mann, a Committee member, said the Chancellor's comments were "appalling" and later tweeted: "Chancellor just linked low productivity growth to the labour market and specified the increased employment of disabled people.
"My experience of employing disabled people is that they are brilliant employees. The chancellor's comments are ignorant."
Marsha de Cordova, Labour's shadow minister for disabilities, said: "Shocking that Philip Hammond is trying to blame disabled people for low productivity!
"Disabled people contribute enormously and disability employment gap has barely changed since productivity started to stall. Disgusting scapegoating!"
Labour's Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Debbie Abrahams MP, said Hammond's comments were "disgraceful" and called on the Chancellor to apologise:
"It is disgraceful that Philip Hammond is scapegoating disabled people for a productivity crisis created by the Conservatives' failed economic policies", she said.
"This is coming from a Government that has forced disabled people to pay the price of their failed austerity agenda, including by cutting measures that help disabled people into the workforce and scrapping their own manifesto commitment on halving the disability employment gap.
"We should be increasing disabled people's access to employment, not denigrating their contributions.
"The Chancellor should apologise immediately."
Anna Bird, director of policy and research at disability charity Scope, said: "These comments are totally unacceptable and derogatory.
"They fundamentally undermine the Government's policy to get more disabled people into work, and the ambition set out by the Prime Minister just a week ago.
"The Chancellor must urgently withdraw them and offer a full apology."
In their recent response to The Future of Work, Health and Disability consultation, which ran last year, the Government say that they will increase the numbers of disabled people in employment by a million by 2027. The Conservatives claim that they want to ensure disabled people 'fulfil their potential.' They claim that work is a 'health outcome' and employment is linked with better health in order to justify the raft of policies that has left many disabled people without adequate lifeline support for the past few years.
Hammond's comments make a mockery of the whole rationale behind the government's approach to disabled people's welfare and justification of the severe cuts in their lifeline support. Many disabled people have been forced by the state to work because they suddenly found themselves no longer eligible for financial support. This is because of the re-written state assessment processes, which are specifically designed to cut costs. This has caused distress and harm to many disabled and ill people, at a time when they are very vulnerable.
For example, last year I wrote a harrowing article about a man with a serious lung condition, hernia and he also developed depression and anxiety, who was passed as 'fit for work' by 'independent' and state-contracted 'healthcare professionals'. His doctor was told by a manager at Birkenhead job centre to stop issuing 'fit notes' (another Orwellian language shift by the government, to describe sick notes). The letter said:
'We have decided your patient is capable of work from and including January 10, 2016.
This means you do not have to give your patient more medical certificates for employment and support allowance purposes unless they appeal against this decision.'
The doctor obliged and the patient died. He clearly wasn't 'fit for work.'
James Harrison was very worried that his ill-health interfered with his obligation to comply with the inflexible and harsh conditions attached to his eligibility for basic welfare support and that this would lead to sanctions – the withdrawal of his lifeline support and only income, which was calculated to meet his most basic survival needs only. What an absolutely appalling situation for the state to put someone in when they are so ill.
It's difficult to understand why a so-called civilised, developed and very wealthy nation would place some citizens' lives at risk in this way. James isn't an isolated case. There are many more people that have been distressed and harmed by the consequences of the Conservative's disciplinarian approach to 'welfare' policies.
The Government has already faced a damning United Nations inquiry into their systematic failure to observe and uphold the basic human rights of disabled people.
The correlation claimed by the Government regarding health and work most likely arises because of a faulty inferential leap of convenience on their part. Again, this claim has been used to justify cuts to support for disabled people. The correlation arises because people aren't in employment when they are simply too ill to work.
This said, being out of work has become very bad for people's health, because welfare has been reduced to the point where it cannot adequately cover the costs of people's most fundamental and basic survival needs any more. It was originally designed to cover only essentials. It stands to reason that if it has been reduced, people won't be able to afford necessities any more. Many people in work are also facing severe difficulties in meeting their basic physical needs, because of the drop in real wages over recent years and increasing employment insecurity, coupled with rising living costs. Living standards have plummeted which will invariably impact on peoples' health, in work or out. Work is failing to provide sufficient income, and that is getting worse. There is a well-established correlation between mental and physical wellbeing, and financial hardship.
The Conservatives also claim that people taking long term sick leave has a detrimental impact on the economy and productivity, costing UK employers and the Treasury millions.
It seems the Government is struggling to produce a coherent and consistent rationale for their increasingly draconian policies aimed at pushing disabled people into work and more generally, in getting their 'facts' straight.
It's about time conservative ministers stopped their expedient scapegoating of ill and disabled people.
I don't make any money from my work. I am disabled because of illness and have a very limited income. But you can help by making a donation to help me continue to research and write informative, insightful and independent articles, and to provide support to others. The smallest amount is much appreciated – thank you.
Dangerous new changes planned to force sick people into work – or into poverty – Debbie Abrahams
With many thanks to Open Democracy.
The government promised to help disabled people back into work. They're failing – and now it looks like they're targeting those who need higher levels of support.
The punitive changes to social security for sick and disabled people were recently highlighted in the film I, Daniel Blake
The Government published its long-awaited 'Improving Lives: Work, Health and Disability' Green Paper at the end of October 2016 after originally promising a White Paper in 2015. The White Paper was supposed to define how disabled people would be supported into work and meet the Government's manifesto pledge of halving the disability employment gap of 34% by 2020 (currently it stands at 32%).
The employment gap was used to justify further draconian cuts in social security support for disabled people in the Welfare Reform and Work (WRW) Bill published last summer. In particular, the Bill announced cuts of approximately £1,500 a year in Employment and Support Allowance to half a million people in the Work-Related Activity Group (ESA WRAG) – those people who had been found not fit for work, but who may be in the future – to be introduced in April 2017.
The 2016 Welfare Reform and Work Act followed the 2012 Welfare Reform Act which Scope estimated by 2018 will have cut nearly £28bn of social security support to 3.7m disabled people. Of course this doesn't include £4.6bn cuts in social services support since 2010 or the NHS crisis, both of which affect disabled people.
The Green Paper, the consultation for which closed on 17th February just 6 weeks before the ESA WRAG cuts come into place, makes the bold claim that '…employment can… promote recovery.'
The issue I have with this statement, and the tone of the Green Paper as a whole, is that this implies that disabled people and people with chronic conditions would recover if only they tried a bit harder, or their doctors weren't such soft touches. It doesn't mention 'shirkers' directly but comments on how some people with the same condition languish in the ESA Support Group whilst others "flourish at work", making it clear that's what they're thinking, ignoring their own rhetoric about "not treating everyone in a one-size-fits-all way".
As a former Public Health consultant who researched into the health effects of work and worklessness, I agree that some work is good for health, but I don't agree with the Government's flawed thinking underpinning this: that it's OK for people to return to work when they are still not fit, because it may help. This is not just unsound, it's dangerous.
The scapegoating of disabled people, which includes people with physical or mental impairments and long-term health conditions as defined under the 2010 Equality Act, has been a hallmark of this Government and the previous Coalition. But even the conclusion of the United Nations inquiry that the UK Government has been responsible for 'grave…systematic violations' of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities since 2010, has been met with Government stonewalling.
It is already well established that disabled people are twice as likely to live in poverty as non-disabled people as a result of the extra costs associated with their disability. Currently 4.2 million disabled people live in poverty and I have been informed from unpublished analysis by an Economic and Social Research Council research project that this is getting worse.
The Government has refused to stop the cuts to ESA WRAG and Universal Credit's Limited Capacity to Work which come in this April, which will undoubtedly increase the numbers of disabled people living in poverty, threatening their health and well-being. Various discretionary funds may be available, for example the Flexible Support Fund, but there is no guarantee of support and they are quite specific in what they can be used for.
The timing of these cuts when there has been a negligible reduction in the disability employment gap is quite shocking. The Green Paper rings alarm bells that people in the ESA Support Group are the next to be targeted. Linked to this, the new Work Capability Assessment criteria which the Government announced last September (after I committed to scrap the Work Capability Assessment) will be published later this year. These will give a clear indication what the Government's real agenda is.
The Green Paper also talks about employers and the need for them to invest more in workplace health and occupational health support. This is, of course, very important; 90% of disability and long-term health conditions are acquired, so it is absolutely right to examine what can be done to reduce the risk of employees falling ill and how employers can make reasoned adjustments to support an employee to stay in work if they become disabled. But Access to Work helped only 36,000 disabled people stay in or access work in 2015 out of the 1.4m disabled people who are fit and able to work.
To date, the Disability Confident Campaign launched in 2015 has been a dismal failure making a negligible impact on the disability employment gap. Changes in employer attitudes and behaviour needs practical support, including Access to Work. But what is the Government doing to support employers, especially small businesses given that nearly half the workforce is employed by them? How can a small business access affordable, timely occupational health support? With the NHS in crisis and waiting times for non-urgent treatments escalating, how will timely interventions to help people back to work be delivered?
As always with this Government and the previous Coalition, they are happy to point fingers at everyone else without taking any responsibility themselves. They talk about the impact of work on health and the need for 'culture change' and to 'reinforce health as a work outcome' but what about the impacts of the social security system on the health of claimants? Their policies have a direct impact on people's health in the punitive, humiliating way they are too often implemented, but also through the real, enduring poverty and hardship people are forced to live under.
Labour will hold this Conservative Government to account on all these areas, developing meaningful, alternative, approaches with disabled people, employees, and employers as part of our Disability Equality Roadshow. If this Government is committed to a fairer society, they should stop trying to rebuild the economy off the backs of poor, sick and disabled people.
Labour believe, like the NHS, our social security system should be there for all of us in our time of need, based on principles of inclusion, support and security for all, assuring us of our dignity.
Labour's Disability Equality Roadshow is a nationwide public consultation about policy with disabled people Make sure you go and have your say – Labour's Disability Equality Roadshow comes to Newcastle
The next Disability Equality Roadshow event will be held in London on 27th Feb. Sign up here, to see when the consultation will be held in your area: Eventbrite -Labour's Disability Equality Roadshow-Brixton. Attending the consultations is free.


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International Joint Seminar "Assessing Northeast Asia Nuclear Domino: North Korean Nuclear Threat and Japanese Responses" (Jul. 2, 2021)
This workshop was originally proposed by Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) to assess possible responses of Republic of Korea and Japan to nuclear threats from Democratic People's of Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was postponed to this year.
Now the workshop is jointly organized by APLN, Sejong Institute of ROK, and Pugwash Japan. It is intended to exchange frank opinions on this issue among experts, NGOs and parliamentarians from both countries.
This is the second series of three workshops and the first one was held in Seoul on May 14, 2021. And the third one is now planned to be held in Seoul in November 2021.
Pugwash Japan is hosting this second workshop (on-line).
【Date & Time】 July 2, 2021 6:30 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. (JST)
【Place】 On-line (Zoom Webinar)
【Language】 English or Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation)
*Workshop is open to the public and no admission fee is required.
Please see the here about this program agenda and detailed information.
Co-hosted by: Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (APLN), The Sejong Institute, Pugwash Japan
In cooperation with: International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University (PRIME), Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA)
Supported by: Open Society Foundation
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2021 Posters of "The World's Nuclear Warheads Count" and "The World's Fissile Material Inventory" released
2021 Posters of "The World's Nuclear Warheads Count" and "The World's Fissile Material Inventory" were released. Please click on the thumbnail images below and download the pdf posters.
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【Publication】RECNA Newsletter Vol.9 No.2 (March 31, 2021)
RECNA Newsletter Vol.9 No.2 (March 31, 2021)
_ RECNA Policy Paper: Entry into Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Aiming for a New Nuclear Disarmament
— Fumihiko Yoshida
Special Symposium to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Nagasaki Atomic Bombing "Peace and Disarmament Education in an Emerging Era of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons"
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Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Initiative: The 75th Anniversary Nagasaki: Nuclear-Pandemic Nexus Scenario Project
— Tatsujiro Suzuki
RECNA Research Group meeting: How to pass on the experiences of the atomic bomb survivors
— Taeko Kiriya, Noriko Hashiba
The Ninth Nagasaki Youth Delegation begin their activities
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Video Teaching Material: "The Origin of Violence and War: Considering Human Evolution from the Perspective of Gorillas" released!
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This video is an edited version of a special lecture "The Origin of Violence and War: Considering Human Evolution from the Perspective of Gorillas" by Juichi Yamagiwa, former President of Kyoto University, at the Special Symposium "Peace and Disarmament Education in an Emerging Era of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons" (November 25, 2020) commemorating the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing, hosted by the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA).
Dr. Juichi YAMAGIWA, Former President of Kyoto University
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Born in Tokyo in 1952. He obtained his Doctor of Science degree from Kyoto University's Graduate School of Science. Currently, Dr. Yamagiwa serves as the president of the Japan Monkey Center museum. He has served in a number of senior positions, including the 26th president of Kyoto University, the president of the Japan Association of National Universities, the president of the Science Council of Japan, the president of Japan Primatological Society, and the president of International Promatological Society. His major research interests are primatology and human evolution, fields that have led him to spend considerable time in Africa conducting research on gorillas. His published works include "The origin of violence"("Bouryoku wa doko kara kita noka?," NHK publishing, 2007), "Evolution Theory of Family ("Kazoku shinka ron," University of Tokyo Press, 2012), "The Simianization of Human Society" ("Saruka suru ningen shakai," Shueisha, 2014), "A Warning from the Gorillas: some problems in human society" ("Gorira kara no keikoku: ningen shakai, kokoga okashii," Mainichi Shimbun Publishing, 2018), "Children who wish to throw away their mobile phones" ("Smaho wo sutetai kodomo tachi," Poplar Publishing, 2020), and "I 've learned all important things in life from gorillas" ("Jinsei de daiji na koto wa minna gorira kara osowatta," Ienohikari kyokai, 2020).
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Special Working Paper "Hotline Between Two Koreas: Status, Limitations and Future Tasks" revised
Hotline Between Two Koreas: Status, Limitations and Future Tasks
Revised March 6, 2021
Seung-chan Boo
Chung-in Moon
Seung-Chan Boo is a spokesperson for the ROK Ministry of National Defense. He co-authored this article as a research fellow of the Institute for North Korean Studies, Yonsei University, before he joined the ministry.
Chung-in Moon is the Chair of the Sejong Institute, vice-chair of the APLN and a distinguished university professor of Yonsei University. He served as special advisor to the ROK President for Unification, Foreign and Security Affairs (May 2017- Feb. 2021).
The Korean conflict has been one of the most protracted in the world, lasting more than 70 years. Despite the heightened tension, there was no channel of communication between the North and the South. It was only on September 22, 1971, that the first hotline between the two Koreas was installed at the Panmunjom—26 years after the telephone line between Seoul and Haeju was cut off by the former Soviet army immediately after liberation on August 26, 1945.
Since 1971, a total of 50 lines were open, including a hotline between leaders of the two Koreas as well as military and intelligence communication lines. But North Korea suddenly cut off all communications with the South with the exception of that between the United Nations Command (UNC) and North Korea military. Nevertheless, they proved to be useful tools for confidence-building measures to improve inter-Korean communication, to facilitate exchanges and cooperation, including inter-Korean official talks, and to assist the promotion of humanitarian aid. More importantly, they have served as an effective mechanism for the prevention of accidental military clashes through a timely exchange of information. This paper presents a brief historical overview of hotlines between the two Koreas, examines their present status, and elucidates limitations and future tasks.
The Korean conflict, confidence-building measures, inter-Korea hotlines, Cata-links.
NOTE: RECNA publishes this paper as a special Working Paper with a permission from the Nautilus Institute.
Full text (PDF) is here.
Working Paper "The DPRK's Covid-19 Outbreak and its Response" presented to "The 75th Anniversary Nagasaki Nuclear-Pandemic Nexus Scenario Project" published
It is published simultaneously by RECNA-Nagasaki University, Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (APLN), and Nautilus Institute and is published under a 4.0 International Creative Commons License the terms of which are found here.
The DPRK's Covid-19 Outbreak and its Response
SHIN, Young-jeon
A Working Paper presented to
The 75th Anniversary Nagasaki Nuclear-Pandemic Nexus Scenario Project
Shin, Young-jeon, is a professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine at Hanyang University School of Medicine, Seoul Korea. He is the Chief Editor of Health and Social Welfare Review and a Board Member of the Academy of Critical Health Policy and the Korean Association of Preventive Medicine.
On January 25, 2020, the DPRK shut down its border, switched to a state-run emergency quarantine system, organized a pan-ministerial organization, the Central People's Committee for Health (CPCH), and established emergency command centers for epidemic response (ECCER) in provincial, county, and Ri-levels. Until now, it has continued to take the strongest Covid-19 quarantine measures in the world, including restricting cross border and regional movement.
The DPRK responded swiftly and strongly to past major outbreaks such as SARS (2002-2003), measles (2006-2007), swine flu (2009-2010), Ebola (2013-14), and MERS (2015), as well as the periodic outbreak of typhoid fever, cholera, etc. In response to the coronavirus outbreak, the DPRK drew on its experience to implement aggressive measures such as border blocking, strengthening disinfection, and quarantine, as in response to past large-scale epidemic threats.
Covid-19 response, DPRK, South Korea, China, Inter-Korean relations, quarantine, case-surveillance, food security
【RECNA'S EYE】RECNA's Statement on the Entry into Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
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Grassy Narrows First Nation fears further mercury poisoning as Ford government ends assessments for clear-cut logging
By Moira WelshStaff Reporter
David BruserInvestigative Reporter
Fri., July 10, 2020timer3 min. read
Indigenous communities in Ontario's north fear another round of mercury poisoning after the provincial government eliminated environmental assessments for commercial clear-cutting on Crown forest land.
The change was made on Canada Day, a few hours after Premier Doug Ford's office posted a news release that listed more than a dozen regulatory and legislative changes within 11 ministries.
The government says it is "ending duplication" by removing logging activities from the Environmental Assessment Act, which falls under the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. Now, logging plans and practices will only be answerable to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, and its Crown Forest Sustainability Act.
The region affected includes a huge swath of central and Northern Ontario forests, between Manitoba and Quebec, according to the province.
"If you were to do a keyword search in the (crown forest act) the words 'human' and 'health' will not show up," said Joseph Castrilli, a lawyer with the Canadian Environmental Law Association.
"Basically, the (act) deals with trees, deals with how to make them commercially available, deals with wildlife, but it is not a statute about how to protect human health," Castrilli said.
The Environmental Assessment Act, passed by the Bill Davis Progressive Conservative government in the 1970s, looks at the environment from a broad perspective, including the impact on human health, society and culture, he said. The environment ministry said the elimination is part of the government's "environmental assessment modernization efforts."
Studies have shown that clear-cut logging, which is the practice in the crown Boreal forest lands that surround the Grassy Narrows traditional territory, releases mercury that had previously settled in the soil after blowing north, often from industries in the United States.
"If you clear-cut an area with watershed, you are going to end up with mercury in the water system," Castrilli said. "The only issue is how quickly and how much."
With logging now excluded from the Environmental Assessment Act, Grassy Narrows First Nation leaders like Joseph Fobister fear the community will take yet another hit from mercury poisoning.
"We are not happy about this," said Fobister, a member of the land protection team that blocks logging on Grassy Narrows territory in the Whiskey Jack Forest.
"We've suffered from the environmental contamination of mercury already," Fobister said. "We don't need any more. Ninety per cent of our people are suffering from mercury poisoning. This is just not a good decision."
Decades of mercury poisoning among Grassy Narrows residents illustrate the connection between industry, the environment and human health.
Between 1962 and 1970, a paper plant in Dryden, Ont., dumped 10 tonnes of mercury, a potent neurotoxin, in the Wabigoon River, upstream from Grassy Narrows. The mercury contaminated the fish and poisoned the people who ate the fish. They developed tremors, loss of muscle co-ordination, slurred speech and tunnel vision.
In recent years, Toronto Star investigations and scientists have shown that fish near Grassy Narrows remain the most contaminated in the province; that there is mercury-contaminated soil and river sediment at or near the site of the old mill; and the provincial government knew in the 1990s that mercury was visible in soil under that site and never told anyone in Grassy Narrows or nearby Wabaseemoong (Whitedog) Independent Nations.
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Forestry companies' logging plans are approved by the Ministry of Natural Resources and renewed every 10 years as part of a management plan. The current plan for the Whiskey Jack Forest, home to Grassy Narrows, ends in 2022.
The Environmental Assessment Act previously allowed for hearings into those logging plans if there were concerns about health issues or infringement of Indigenous rights, Castrilli said.
"Every population that lives, works or plays in the forest is at risk," he said.
"And frankly, so is anybody who fishes in those same water systems, whether they are Aboriginal or not."


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Vigil honoring slain Gilbert-area family set for Saturday
Garrett Mitchell, The Republic | azcentral.com
The Gilbert-area mother and children who died in an apparent murder-suicide this week will be memorialized in a candlelight vigil Saturday morning, an East Valley community theater group announced.
The Queen Creek Performing Arts Center posted on Facebook late Tuesday that the family will be honored during a vigil at 9 a.m. at 22149 E. Ocotillo Road.
According to the post, Lisa Gerhart, 45, and her two adolescent children were members of the theater community.
"The Queen Creek theater community is a family and we are here to support each other through all of life's difficulties," the post stated.
The announcement came hours after Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio spoke about their deaths Tuesday afternoon.
Sheriff's deputies were called to the area of Chandler Heights and Power roads late Monday after someone reported seeing a running vehicle parked outside the house for hours. A hose was found running from the exhaust into the two-story residence through a cracked window, Arpaio said.
The bodies of Gerhart, her 17-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter were found fatally shot inside the carbon monoxide-ridden abode. Investigators were confident Gerhart shot her children and then turned the handgun on herself, Arpaio said.
The theater group called it a "devastating situation" that calls for people to keep in mind that "nobody has a perfect life, we all struggle; we are all human."
A neighbor said Gerhart's husband had recently moved out, leaving her overcome with grief.


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Corridor Plan
Architect(s)
W. M. Mosely
Surrey County Lunatic Asylum
Wandsworth Asylum
Springfield Asylum
Springfield Mental Hospital
Springfield University Hospital
The Asylum Act, 1808, encouraged the building of public asylums, but the Counties were slow to respond. By 1827 only nine had been built, with the mentally ill continuing to live in the streets, in workhouses or in private madhouses. In 1838 the Surrey magistrates finally decided to establish a county asylum for the mentally ill poor. To this end, they purchased Springfield Park for £8,985 from Mr Henry Perkins (1779-1855), a wealthy brewer and partner in the firm of Barclay Perkins, who had decided to move to Dover. The estate, with 97 acres of land, was considered an ideal location for the Asylum because of its nearness to population centres, its southerly aspect and clean air, and a suitable water supply. Springfield Park contained an 18th century mansion house, stables and a coach house, as well as farm buildings. The entrance drive was from Aboyne Road. A well was bored in 1839.
By 1840 construction had been completed. It was the 15th asylum to be built. The buildings had cost £67,467 and their furnishings and initial expenses some £7,515. The Asylum had 350 beds and was built to the 'corridor' plan, a state-of-the-art design (ward wings radiated off a long spinal corridor at right-angles). Patients would be diagnosed, classified and sent to designated wards.
The Asylum was built in the Tudor style, with twisted chimneys similiar to those at Hampton Court Palace (these were later removed, being considered dangerous, and not replaced). The facade was patterned with variegated brickwork and subtle angles, but the interiors were plain and dull, apart from the main hall and staircase. The buildings were heated by a central heating system, with steam circulating through the galleries and hot air injected through the floors. Grand sweeping lawns, with a stone-carved fountain, flanked the reception area. On entering the main building, the Committee Room was on the right and the residence of the Medical Superintendent on the left. The Steward was housed on the 2nd floor of the central part (but when he retired in 1872 his rooms were used as accommodation for nurses and domestics). Behind the main hall were two offices, used as doctors' surgeries, where the medical staff wrote up their clinical notes in massive bound volumes. The kitchens, gas works, boiler house and well (and, after 1881, a builder's yard) were at the rear of the main building.
Staff were hired and the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum opened on 14th June 1841, with 299 patients being admitted that day from other asylums in London and Surrey, mainly from Peckham House (172 patients), Hoxton (54 patients) and Bethnal Green (51 patients). The Asylum had four principal officers - a visiting physician, a Resident Medical Superintendent on a salary of £250 a year, a Matron (£80 a year) and a Steward (£150 a year). An attendant (as nurses were called then) earned £26 a year. The cost of keeping an in-patient per week was 9s (45p).
By the end of the first year the Asylum had 385 inmates - 170 males and 215 females - although several elements for the proper functioning of the Asylum were still missing, including some furniture and bedding. The front drive had not yet been made, nor the porter's lodge built. In 1842 some £1,981 was spent on levelling the ground, with the excavated earth being removed. New roads were laid and gravelled. The airing courts (ward gardens where patients exercised) were turfed, and a bowling green laid down for the patients' recreation. An oak fence was erected to mark the estate boundary. A wall was built around the kitchen garden, at the cost of £1,574, to enclose 8 acres at the northeast of the site. The farm buildings of Springfield Farm, which lay to the west of the Asylum buildings, were re-used to serve the farmland, worked by male patients for occupational therapy. The iron pipes of the central heating system soon proved to be too thin, with the resulting explosions throughout the wards injuring patients. The system was removed and fireplaces installed instead.
After five or six years the Asylum had become overcrowded and, in 1849, had to be extended, as a cost of £35,000. Two new wings were added to the building, providing accommodation for 400 more patients. The water supply ran out in 1850 and, while a new well was drilled, the Lambeth Waterworks Co. supplied the Asylum with "not fewer than 30,000 gallons daily", at a rate of 3d (just over 1p) per 1,000 gallons. (The new well became operational in 1860. By 1855 the Asylum could accommodate 430 males and 534 females. The Resident Superintendent of the Female Department from 1849-1858, Dr Hugh Welch Diamond (1807-1886), described as the 'father of psychiatric photography', took photographs of exceptional quality of many of the patients in his care.
In 1860 and 1864 additional land was acquired to the east of the site. The Asylum then had 83 acres of farmland and 14 acres of kitchen gardens in which male patients were employed to provide food for the institution (as with other asylums at this time, it was almost self-sufficient). In 1872 a separate cottage hospital (today known as White Lodge) was erected to treat Asylum patients with infectious diseases. Designed by the Medical Superintendent, it was built by the patients at a cost of £955. As the patient numbers increased, two further wings were added at the south of the site. A ballroom was built in 1879. In 1881 a purpose-built chapel was built to replace the one located inside the main building, in accordance with the wishes of the Lunacy Commissioners. A water tower was built in 1885, as the cost of £1,300, in an attempt to solve the water supply problems being experienced from the two wells (the tower was demolished in 1976). The pump from the original well - a Maudsley table engine - was used until after WW2 and is now in the Science Museum. (The newer pump for the second well was broken up for scrap).
By 1889 London County Council and Middlesex County Council were formed following the Local Government Act, 1888. The Surrey County Lunatic Asylum was allocated to the Middlesex County Council, who renamed it the Wandsworth Asylum. In 1893 a new entrance was made at Glenburnie Road, thus making the back of the Asylum the front. A lodge was built by the new entrance, as well as spacious accommodation for the Medical Superintendent and his family - the new buildings being lit from the first by electricity. An extra lodge was built in 1897.
The Lunacy Act, 1890, sought to separate mentally handicapped children from mentally ill adults and, in October 1897, an Annexe for Idiot Children with 260 beds opened in a separate building, advocated by the Medical Superintendant, Dr Hugh Gardiner-Hill (1856-1925). Visiting rooms and toilets were located at the front of the building, while the ward accommodation was at the rear (where visitors were not allowed to enter).
1900s[edit]
During WW1 the Asylum became the Springfield War Hospital. A Neurological Unit was established in the Annexe for Idiot Children, renamed Springfield House Hospital (separated from the main Asylum by a high fence) for patients with shell shock or loss of mental balance. Together with the 4th London General Hospital, it was the principal reception centre for the mentally disabled from the front in France. At the beginning of 1916 Springfield House Hospital accepted severe or protracted cases referred from the Neurological Units of the 23 Territorial Force General Hospitals in the United Kingdom. After the war the Annexe was never used again for mentally handicapped patients (following the Mental Treatment Act, 1930, it became a building for 'voluntary' patients. It was renamed the Admissions Hospital).
The Wandsworth Asylum was renamed Springfield Mental Hospital after the war. In 1927 an association was formed with the Westminster Hospital and Medical School. Clinicians at Springfield taught medical students in their Out-Patient clinics, while the Westminster Hospital consultants provided a service to Springfield patients (this arrangement lasted until after WW2). In 1930 a Nurses' Home was officially opened by Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood. It provided accommodation for 140 nurses, who had previously lived in side rooms and in the towers of the main building. In 1931 an infirmary block (now the Dispensary) opened to treat mentally ill patients who were also physically ill. Operating theatres were installed in the block. In 1932 the Asylum had 1,848 patients. In 1933, an Annexe opened in Kingston Road to accommodate elderly female patients. In 1939, when it had dropped the word 'Mental' in its title, the Hospital had 1,931 patients.
During WW2, with no bomb shelters available, the patients were crowded into the basements in an attempt the shelter them from high explosive bombs. Dysentery broke out, with hundreds of patients affected. As well as the common Flexner and Sonne forms of the disease, a new strain was discovered. Springfield Asylum, the Annual Report states, had the distinction of developing a new infective agent, unlike any other bacteria of the intestinal group. the bacillus dysenteriae Springfield. This outbreak produced a legacy of carriers of the disease who required segregation from the Asylum population. Although the buildings received no direct hits during the war, they suffered blast damage from flying bombs nearby. At the end of the war in 1945, the Hospital had 2,040 patients.
The Hospital joined the NHS in 1948 with 1,856 beds. under the control of the Springfield Tooting Hospital Management Committee, part of the South West Metropolitan Regional Health Board. It was by now providing the usual treatments for mental illness - Cardiazol convulsion therapy, electroplexy (ECT) and deep insulin treatment, as well as neurosurgery. Out-Patient clinics were held at Westminster Hospital, St Charles Hospital and West Middlesex Hospital.
As with other mental hospitals, the ratio of elderly patients had been steadily increasing. In 1949 the Hospital was overcrowded and seriously short of nursing staff. The Hospital had a bed complement of 2,177 beds, but there were only 2,128 patients (740 males and 1,388 females), of whom 33% were over the age of 65 years. These patients were disturbed, senile or moribund, but did not need psychiatric care; there was nowhere else for them to go.
In 1950, when the Hospital had 2,153 patients, modernisation and repair of the wards began, with underpinning of some of the buildings. Refrigerators were installed in the kitchens. The letter and number system of ward names was abandoned, and the wards were renamed - male wards after trees (for example, Willow, Elm, Yew - Fir and Teak Wards were for the most seriously disturbed) and female wards after flowers (Dahlia, Aster, Zinnia, Fuchsia, Bluebell, Crocus, Marigold, Tulip, etc). The cottage hospital was refurbished and modernised - with a TV and a radio - and became White Lodge - a Neurosis Unit for 20 female patients (male neurotic patients had a ward in the Admissions Hospital). The Medical Superintendent's house became a hostel for male nurses.
The farm had 50 cows producing 800 gallons of milk a week; poultry produced eggs, and provided meat, as did pigs. Fruit was provided by the orchard, and vegetables and salads were grown in the kitchen garden. But both farm and orchard were under threat and, in 1951, 2 acres were taken from the orchard end for a school playing ground.
In the early 1950s the average stay of a patient was 1,050 days. In 1953 an Annexe was opened in New Malden for 290 long-stay elderly female patients who required custodial care only. For the Coronation in 1953, TVs were set up in the wards so that the patients could watch the ceremony. A 12" TV set was provided for the Sisters' Sitting Room. The Hospital had 2,128 patients (764 males and 1,364 females), who stayed an average of 779 days. Outbreaks of dysentery occurred at the main hospital and the Annexe (this was almost an annual occurrence).
By 1954 the Hospital was suffering from a perpetual shortage of nursing staff; there were 110 full-time and 40 part-time female nurses and 120 full-time and 7 part-time male nurses looking after 2,089 patients, 250 of whom were voluntary. About 21% of patients were over the age of 65 years. The cost of an in-patient was 17s 6d (88p) a week. An arrangement was made with St James Hospital in Balham for Springfield patients to be sent there for general surgery, if necessary. Neurosurgery was carried out at the Whittington Hospital, as the post for a neurosurgeon at the Hospital was vacant. A centralised radio system was installed in the wards. The sum of £7,000 had been granted by the King Edward's Hospital Fund for a new Occupational Therapy Centre for 200 patients. It was to be built equidistant from the main block, the Cottage Hospital and the Admissions Hospital.
In 1954 the Catholic chapel was altered to double its capacity. While the Hospital had some 250 Catholic patients, the chapel could only hold 32 (but usually some 45 had to be squeezed in). The extinction of the farm approached and, in 1954, 26 acres of farmland was taken over by the LCC for building purposes (the site now contains a housing estate and a school). The piggeries and poultry remained, however, cared for by male patients, 40 of whom also worked in the gardens and orchards. In 1955 the new Occupational Therapy Centre was opened by Dr Noel Harris, the past-President of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association. The Hospital had 2,093 patients, 16.9% of whom were over the age of 65 years. By now the Hospital was entering the age of tranquilisers. The advent of chlorpromazine (Largactil) led to a reduction in the number of deep insulin treatments. Two Out-Patient clinics were established at the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Ealing.
1955 all dairy farming ceased and the use of the farm gate was discontinued as an exit and entry point. (Burntwood School now stands on part of the farmland, where Springfield Farm's Grade II listed ice house remains in its grounds; the other part became Springfield Park Golf Course, now renamed the Central London Golf Centre.) The resident male nurses vacated the Medical Superintendent's House and moved to the Nurses' Home. The Admission Hospital was redecorated internally. The Hospital had 34 dysentery carriers housed in one ward, and 14 enteric carriers.
By 1956 there were 2,069 patients, 21% of whom were aged 65 or over. The Hospital's death rate was high - 10.94% - but this reflected the fact that many patients were elderly and died of respiratory conditions afflicting old age. By the end of the 1950s the Hospital had been almost surrounded by urban development.
During the 1960s the number of in-patients began to fall, mainly due to the introduction of drug treatments which enabled patients to be treated as out-patients. Burntwood Villa was built in 1960 and Springfield Cottages in 1968, in the northwest corner of the site, presumably as staff residences. In 1974, following a major reorganisation of the NHS, the Hospital became part of the Wandsworth and East Merton (Teaching) District Health Authority, under the South West Thames Regional Health Authority. In 1978 it had 1,124 beds.
In 1980 it had 1,000 beds. After another reorganisation in 1982, it became part of the Wandsworth District Health Authority. By 1984 it had 828 beds. The Joan Bicknell Centre was built, named after the first Professor of the Psychiatry of Mental Handicap and a pioneer of psychodynamic thinking in working with people with learning diabilities.
By the beginning of the 1990s, due to the new attitude to mental health issues, many of the large mental health institutions had closed or were being gradually emptied. Government policy of deinstitutionalising mental patients and returning them to 'care in the community' had begun to have effect following the report "Making a Reality of Community Care", published in 1986. The National Health Service and Community Care Act, 1990, enabled patients to receive long-term care in their own homes (with adequate support) or in a residential home setting.
The Annexe in New Malden - the Morris Markowe Unit - closed in 1991. Ronald Gibson House, a nursing home for 56 residents, opened on the Hospital campus in the same year (it was extended in 2006). Throughout the 1990s fewer patients were admitted to the Hospital and wards were closed. However, out-patient clinics and support services increased. In 1994 the Hospital became part of the Pathfinder Mental Health Services NHS Trust, which changed its name in 1999 to the South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. In September 2005 the £7m Phoenix Unit opened, a low secure 2-storey mental health rehabilitation facility with accommodation for 18 patients.
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