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Tinubu, Atiku should be investigated, jailed – Lagos SDP candidate Uthman
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Chief Kunle Uthman
By Chukwudi Nweje, Lagos
Lagos Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate for Governor Chief Kunle Uthman has said that the Presidential Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar respectively deserve to be arrested and prosecuted over the corruption allegations against them.
In a statement issued in Lagos Sunday, Uthman noted that the brickbat thrown by the APC and PDP Presidential Campaign spokesmen at each other is a clear testimony of the depth that Nigeria has been sunk by a "political class that has failed" but still desire to perpetuate itself in power.
He said, "In other climes, advanced and civilised countries, this will lead to immediate arrest, trial and incarceration of these candidates. How did we arrive at this state of anomie and political brigandage?
"These two Presidential Candidates have been lavishly classified as frontrunners by the media, assumedly due to their 'big and deep pockets', coveted State resources, pilfered at one time or the other when they were in power at the State and Federal governments. What are the sources of the stupendous these "moneybags?"
He noted that the fact that both Tinubu and Atiku are still walking free raises questions on whether former Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron was not correct when he made his classification on corruption in Nigeria.
He further said: "The cacophony of noise, abuse, malignment, castigation, exposure of corruption, manipulation, brick batting emanating from the spokesmen of the PDP and APC is sickening, sad, abominable, repulsive and makes one to wonder if the former Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron was not correct when he made his classification."
He also said that the corruption accusations traded by APC and the PDP at a time serious-minded political parties are discussing issues of how to salvage the ship of the country from sinking is an indication that neither is interested in the future of the country.
He added, "A few days to the Presidential Elections in Nigeria, the APC and the PDP are not discussing party manifestos and promises to rescue our people from deep poverty, lack of infrastructural facilities, health-care, education, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), general welfare, recalibration of the Naira viz-a-viz other international currencies, forex, restoration of dignity to the human persons, galloping and spiral inflation, security of lives and properties, kidnappings and other ills bedevilling our society-at-large and their blueprint for a rescue mission, if possible, by their presidential and their political parties.
"Regrettably, these two political parties are showcasing and dramatising, through loquacious, noisy spokesmen mudslinging and abusive words and publications on the depth of pilferage, theft, abominable corruption and verifiable damning allegations of their principals and presidential candidates, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
"The above referenced video, widely circulated most especially in the social and electronic media is a clear and glaring testimony of the depth that we have sunk as a Nation State – abysmal degradation as a people, by a political class that has failed us and still desire continuity to further impoverish our lives and reduce us to sub humans.
"As it were, our streets (everywhere) are being decorated with posters and billboards, assaulting our sights and senses of vision, as if we, the electorate have no choice but to re-vote them in power. This smack of desperation to hold on to power irrespective of the wishes of the people."
Uthman urged Nigerians to reject the sense of entitlement and turn-by-turn peddled by the APC and PDP and rather vote for a young candidate.
The statement read in part, "Effective and efficient modern democratic government cannot be likened to the outdated feudal system, but a conscious choice by registered voters of leaders within a determined period of time, whose verifiable performances and records at National and State levels will determine whether or not they should be re-elected. What is their scorecard of performance?
"At Town Hall meetings, debates, publications, conduct at meetings, attitudes, Chatham House, NBA Conference, LCCI meetings, Peace Accord ceremony and others, we have had the privilege to periscope the Presidential Candidates of many of the political parties seeking our votes at the National and States elections. We can now assess their state of health, ability to answer pertinent questions, civility one to the other, knowledge of macroeconomics, international relations and articulation and understanding of their own Party Manifestos.
"We have seen in some of these candidates like Prince Adewole Adebayo, Comrade Sowore, Kachikwu, Peter Obi and others the advantage of age, capacity, and ability to reason fast and respond to difficult questions and campaigns, without maligning other candidates, but treating one another with decorum, gentility and respect.
"The choice of the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is in the franchise system, the electorate, umpire, and courage to choose a cerebral, agile, healthy, focused, incorruptible leader, who has a decipherable history, verifiable past and a track record of capacity to effectively midwife good governance…
"Our destiny and the future of this country is in our own hands, necessarily, now more than ever before in the history of our Nation, we must endeavour to vote right and pray for divine intervention, that Almighty God will navigate our Nation State from imminent catastrophe, danger of collapse…"
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Fadnavis, other BJP MLAs enter Maha Assembly with 'I am Savarkar' caps, protest Rahul Gandhi's remark
Nagpur, First Published 16, Dec 2019, 6:16 PM IST
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, wore orange caps with "I am Savarkar" printed over them. The matter pertains to Rahul Gandhi's remark at a rally where he had said that he would not apologise for his 'rape in India' remark as his name was not 'Rahul Savarkar'.
Nagpur: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators, including former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, wore orange caps with "I am Savarkar" printed over them as they arrived for the winter session of the Maharashtra Assembly in Nagpur on Monday as a mark of protest against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remark against VD Savarkar.
The matter pertains to Gandhi's remark at a rally where he had said that he would not apologise for his 'rape in India' remark as his name was not 'Rahul Savarkar'. "I was asked by the BJP in Parliament yesterday to apologise for the comment. I was asked to apologise for something which is right. My name is not Rahul Savarkar. My name is Rahul Gandhi. I will never apologize for truth," Gandhi had said.
The remark had sparked controversy and invited sharp criticism from political quarters.
Such a polemic has really hurt the relatives of Savarkar. His grandson Ranjit Savarkar has urged Uddhav Thackeray to beat Rahul Gandhi publicly.
"It is good that Rahul Gandhi is not Rahul Savarkar or else we will have to hide our faces. Now, I want that Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray should beat him openly as he said many times that if anyone insults Veer Savarkar, he will beat him publicly. I expect the Shiv Sena would not change its stand on Veer Savarkar (that he should get Bharat Ratna)."
The BJP only hopes Shiva Sena divorces Congress in Maharashtra. Sreenath Sheshadri, a BJP spokesperson said, "The Shiva Sena should move out of the alliance in Maharashtra. Congress has no moral rights to continue with the Shiva Sena when a great personality like Veer Savarkar who slogged for our freedom for years together is being put down by Rahul Gandhi."
(With inputs from ANI)
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This past weekend I found myself in the company of an old foe. To some extent I'm still trying to put together all the pieces of what happened. All I knew at the time was that I was alone somewhere in a thick bog of shame and that I wanted, dare I say needed, to make myself pay for ending up there again.
Ping! The ball exploded off the aluminum bat toward the bag at third and I knew my only chance to make a play was to spring out of my stance into a full dive. My body extended just in time to reach out and snatch the speeding ground ball before it was past me. As soon as I felt the ball in my web I glanced towards first base to see how much time I had to make a throw. The runner was almost to first base so without hesitating I reached into my glove and threw the ball from my knees with all my strength. Caked in dirt and barely able to see through all the shimmering dust I awaited the umpire's verdict…"You're OUT!"
I remember the play so well almost 20 years later because it set in motion a sequence of events that would change my life. After the game my dad and I were approached by a man in his early twenties. He was a local basketball coach who mentored young kids at the community center nearby. He complimented me on my game and was amazed at my ability to make such a difficult play. My athletic ability caught his eye and he eventually asked me if I had ever considered playing basketball. He asked if I would come down to the gym with him and shoot some hoops. "You have so much potential and natural ability…trust me when I say you have what it takes to become great."
The next day my Dad brought me to the gym to meet him. I was greeted at the door and introduced to a handful of other kids who were playing pickup. This wasn't a normal introduction though, it was more like an announcement of my arrival. He yelled out to everyone, "this is the kid I was telling y'all about…get ready cause he's coming for all of ya." Every time I walked in the gym this would happen in some way or another.
I was this man's "boy" (this title alone provides an interesting commentary on what this man became in my life). To be in his camp was an honor that every person in the gym wanted. It meant you were special. It meant you were chosen. He was the king of the gym and I was his chosen understudy.
I wasn't long before this honor and delight was repIaced with a pressure beyond anything I could ever explain. My place of honor came at a price. I quickly understood that my success would bring him pride and serve as proof that I was worthy of his continued honor and attention. My failures would inevitably bring into question whether I deserved to sit next to the Kings throne. With every year, every game, every shot I was playing to prove I was the kid he believed I would become. Every time I laced up my sneakers I wasn't just playing to win, I was defending an identity…I was either the best or a disappointment.
There were moments when my performances seemed to live up to the hype. There were games when I didn't feel ashamed of myself for letting down expectations. In my mind though, my good games were supposed to be the norm. With every average game I lost more control over peoples thoughts about me. With every missed shot I felt less and less able to convince all my critics that I was the person I was supposed to be.
In my Bones
A couple of months ago I started getting asked to play drums at a local church for money. I had developed a little bit of a reputation as a good drummer and received lots of compliments from musicians and church members about my abilities. When the church offered to start paying me I felt the need to take the gig a little more serious. I thought to myself "I want to live up to their expectations as a professional who deserves to be paid so they will continue to schedule me." This weekend I found myself behind the drums performing a rather complicated set of music. Before the set began the head pastor remarked, "Oh man, we've got the all-star band tonight!" I still love the feeling of being noticed and really wanted my performance to confirm his expectations.
Everything was going great until I noticed that I had cut out too soon during the first song. As the song ended I mouthed "sorry" to the worship leader and mentally shook off my embarrassment as just a silly mistake that wouldn't happen again. As the second song started I began a difficult drumbeat with ease; everything was back in control again. Then unexpectantly, during an easy snare roll, I stumbled again. As soon as it happened I could feel myself start to panic…I started losing confidence and subsequently forgot my parts and our place in the song. After a brutal and sloppy finish (to my standards) I noticed the face of the bass player on my left…he looked embarrassed to be sitting next to me.
All I could think was, "oh no, they are going to realize that I'm not as good as they thought." "You are letting everyone down." I felt sure that if I didn't nail the next few songs that they would never invite me back. My only hope was that they wouldn't remember my failure if I played exceptional the next time around. With the stakes at a fever pitch, I put on my best face and walked back onto the stage just praying that I wouldn't do anything to further embarrass myself. Just hoping I could make up for lost ground and prove that I was worth another vote of confidence.
Past in Present
In these moments I feel an almost irresistible compulsion to punish myself. I've punched walls, kicked furniture, verbally assaulted myself, and even hit my own face as I channel the events of an age old drama stored in my very bones. It is this penance, and the subsequent promise to do better, that allows me to move on from my errors. I've done this dance so many times in my life I go ahead and make myself pay for mistakes even when there is nobody telling me to.
Long gone are the days when there was an actual taskmaster who demanded that I undergo re-conditioning for every error committed. It has been years since the last time I was actually yelled at for missing a basket. I know these stories and have worked extensively to lessen their influence. But, after a while these voices of accusation become your own. Your body remembers the way you felt when you failed and it remembers the ways you alleviated that suffering.
We all have these feelings. We all know this limbic pain. And we all have rituals to help escape the shame we felt when we were young. These memories, these experiences, are stored in our bones. Our strongest cognitive allegiances are so often powerless to fend them off because we often mistake what these moments are actually communicating. In reality these moments are actually narrating a brokenness that was active long before our birth. When we look closely at the essence of these memories we end up seeing and learning more about the faces of our tutors than any contemptuous trait in us.
Without such reflection it is so easy to judge these tender parts of ourselves, "If only I had been better…smarter…different…etc…" But, in doing so, we continue to fuel a lie as broken as the men and women we got it from. A lie that has the power to cripple even the strongest amongst us. That somehow we are only as good as our diving throws.
For the past several weeks I've been discussing the effects of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), concussions, and brain trauma on athletes. I wanted to finish up by talking about the complexity of what is happening in the minds of many athletes suffering from CTE. In order to do so we must start by looking at the functions of the effected parts of the brain and then place that into the existing psyche of an athlete. There are three functions of the effected brain that are particularly interesting in this discussion: 1) Emotion and emotion regulation, 2) Empathic response, and 3) flexibility. I highlight these three because of their importance for the mental stability and health of a person, especially a person who has undergone extreme stress, trauma, and abuse and is trying to transition into a new phase of life. This last part feels particularly important to note because I believe this may be where we see the impact of brain injury come to life.
Regulation, Empathy, Flexibility
O ur brain is divided into different regions that have different functions for our overall health and well-being. One of the regions of our brain is called our reptilian brain and it is responsible for our most basic needs and desires. This "reptilian brain" tells us to eat, sleep, have sex, and warns us protects ourselves when in danger (fight or flight). It is the first part of our brain to develop and we have it in common with all animals. In comparison, the neo-cortex and limbic system develop later and give us the ability to be controlled, to be mindful (empathetic) and to change our minds (beliefs) among other things. A subsection of these two latter areas is called the frontal lobe which is located behind our forehead and is connected to other important parts of our brain that narrate emotions and help us understand our identity. CTE primarily effects the frontal lobe and these surrounding areas of our limbic system and neo-cortex. The impact of CTE, then, effects some very important facets of our mental health.
I believe the effects of CTE are most visible when a person is going through a season of disruption or transition. In athletics some of the most notable disruptions and transitions happen when an athlete can no longer perform due to injury or lack of ability. Through understanding how our mind functions to cope with disruption we get a fuller picture of what an athlete is up against.
In seasons of disruption or transition our sense of who we are comes into question. Who we have believed we are is countered with evidence to the contrary. In order to make sense of the ego-dystonic information we are faced with a choice to either integrate this new sense of who we are into our pre-existing identity or we have to protect and barricade our pre-existing identity from a perceived "threat" in order to ensure its' survival.
[Theological Side Note: The work of integration is often about facing our own idolatry (our belief that we are/can be God). In facing idolatry, we must come to terms with the frailty and fragility of our humanity in the face of our inability to produce a desired outcome. In the language of the Apostle Paul, the process of Integration begs us to mentally "die" to self in order that we might be "raised" into a new identity. The process of mentally dying is something akin to the experience of a depression in that it destroys our hope and ability to imagine goodness and life. We feel lost, frustrated, and unsure of the point of our lives in the face of a major identity-disruptive event. However, our desire to avoid this painful process during disruption most often leads us towards an attempt to salvage ourselves and escape our identity's "death". We try whatever we can to hold onto what we believe about ourselves and our identity. The mental pain involved for an individual will vary depending on how important that aspect of their identity is to their self-worth and perceived value.]
For most athletes their sense of self-worth is directly tied to their ability to perform in athletics. Sports has afforded them a type of attention and adoration that many are starving for in their lives (see: "Now I have your eyes…). Like I've said before, the madness of sports is that it fosters this belief and provides feedback that you are only loved when you play well. This drives most athletes to great lengths in order to survive disruption and transition. It also drives many athletes to seek out people and places that provide ego-syntonic feedback to affirm their sense of self. There are few things more painful than the realization that you are not who you thought you were, so the logical thing to do is avoid this pain at all costs. Unfortunately, every single athlete that has ever lived has had to come to terms with this bind. The unavoidable reality of this bind often leads to an identity collapse for those who have made it to high levels of competitive athletics and who find themselves unable to perform any longer. The subsequent firestorm of emotional turmoil is as varied as each athlete's story, but the most common struggles manifest in feelings of anger (first step toward grief a loss), depression, addiction, insecurity, and even suicide.
The good news is that the brain is naturally built to help an individual along in this process of integration in three primary ways: 1) A healthy brain helps us deal with and regulate our impulses and emotions, 2) A healthy brain allows us to connect with and understand others through empathizing, and 3) A healthy brain is malleable and allows for us to integrate new experiences into our internal world and identity. Some of the primary functions of a psychotherapist is to help an individual begin to progress in these three areas of functioning. The enemies of these markers of mental health are each person's experiences of trauma, abuse, and neglect. Trauma, abuse, and neglect essentially create internal pockets of bondage and fear that begin to guide our behaviors and relationships. These pockets, informed by our past experiences and relationships, come together to form our internal world which in turn directs our behavior, beliefs, and style of relating to others. In other words, our internal world, if left unknown and unexplored, will influence and guide our actions and beliefs in the external world. Our ability to understand the narratives that have shaped our internal world in the present gives us the ability to act, believe, and respond in new ways. [Spiritually this work is the process of putting on the Spirit of freedom and putting off the spirit of the flesh/bondage]. Needless to say, the ability for us to do this work is paramount to our mental health and we need our brain to help us in this process. Like I said earlier, the good news is that our brain is built to integrate and change….the bad news for sufferers of CTE is that the hardware essential to the process…just so happen to be primarily in our frontal lobe.
What brain researchers are beginning to find in patients with CTE is that Tau proteins are acting as a tar of sorts that inhibits our frontal lobe. In other words CTE effects a persons' ability to deal with their emotions, understand and connect with others, and integrate new experiences into their internal world and identity. Anger is multiplied because we can't mediate it normally, our ability to connect empathetically with others is impaired, and our ability to integrate our identity during seasons of Self-disruption is impeded. The mental effect is like asking a runner to run a marathon with a sprained ankle. It can be done but it will be very, very difficult.
The normal process of integration for an athlete is hard enough as it is and requires a lot of love and support from a caring community (therapists, family, friends, etc…). The problem with the disease of CTE is that it damages the parts of our mind that we need in order to begin doing this hard work of integration in community. The combination of all these things are leaving athletes stranded in a mental health "perfect storm" in which they are often unable to survive. I don't believe that it is actually the disease of CTE alone that causes player decline and suicide. Most players would attest to the fact that there are a whole plethora of other issues that seem more causative when it comes to player decline and death. I wonder, though, if the most debilitating factor of CTE is that it makes the sufferers ability to regulate emotions, understand and empathize with others, and integrate new experiences into their internal world and identity extremely challenging. The part of our minds meant to respond can't because of traumatic brain injury. And since the enemy is inside of a players head, the presence of self-condemnation and shame will be very powerful. An athlete's difficulty in conquering these obstacle will only serve as a reminder that they are not who they thought they were…a fact that may lead many into a type of death that won't allow for a resurrection.
[If you or someone you love is struggling with any of the above symptoms please call Knox Burnett @ 425-202-5716]
A couple of weeks ago PBS: Frontline released a documentary entitled League of Denial: The NFL Concussion Crisis that chronicled the controversy surrounding concussion research and its potential impact on the game of football. The documentary exposed the NFL's decade long negligence around concussions and put into question the safety of a billion dollar industry. The NFL has spent millions on trying to reduce the impact of this on the general public and spent hundreds of millions on lawsuits from former players wanting compensation for damages suffered. Amidst the off the field firestorm however, the actual game of football continued without a hitch. Outside of a couple of tweets from current players questioning the integrity of the NFL brass there seemed to be little interest in the findings from former or current players. What we have seen and heard is that even if the head trauma suffered results in long term damage for players they are willing to take the risk.
This shouldn't surprise you if you have ever been an athlete because one of the early lessons learned in sports is to tune out anything that could hinder your ability to perform. I wrote about this on an entry called "Superman", The further up the competitive stream you go the more you will find individuals who are willing to do almost whatever it takes to tune out their fears. If they paid attention to the risks they would never be able to reach the heights needed. Some players are more aware of this than others, but all players must tell themselves that their worst fears (whatever it may be) won't happen. This is how an athlete survives the abuse of a sport…at any level.
Do athletes cognitively understand there might be consequences to playing? Yes. Will that stop them from playing? No. If it could have it would have stopped them a long time ago when their bodies were asked, for the first time, to perform in ways that brought them close to the fragileness of their humanity. Similar to a soldier in war, anything that keeps an athlete from completing their mission must be sacrificed…or conditioned out. So whether we are talking about head injuries, career-ending knee injuries, neck injuries, or even death, rest assured that an athlete will rarely if ever heed these warnings of danger. To do so they will have to engage in a much more difficult and grievous war against the voices of influence that have told them to numb and ignore their pain. They will have to eventually question why nobody intervened on their behalf the first time they had a concussion and were told to get back on the field. They will have to question why those who were entrusted to protect them from harm did not speak up against abuse at the hands of a trainer or coach. People learn to question because they have been allowed to. People have freedom to say no as adults because they had the freedom to say no as a child. To expect a player to quit playing for safety reasons is ridiculous in this context. My question is however, what responsibility do those in power (parents, teachers, coaches, organizations) have to these players who have been mentally conditioned to ignore what will later impact them?
I came across a commentary of a grandfather who had watched the troubling documentary on football and concussions and his response was telling in this regard. "I love my grandchildren and all four of them play football. I am really upset and worried that if I don't say something to their parents, they'll suffer." This response is quite interesting is it not? It is almost like there is something in the heart of this man that is causing him to question his desire to speak up and protect his grandchildren. I have to wonder why. Why would he struggle to name this? What forces are against him? It seems that whatever they are, they must also be competing at the heart of a league that has tried to ignore this issue for decades. Sadly, this silence marks the lives of many athletes very early on. The people who have power and responsibility to protect life keep silent at the hands of unknown forces for some known or unknown reason.
Simultaneously, what is confusing about advocating for player health is that I would imagine very few athletes appreciate these voices of protection now that they are grown. The negative responses by players to new rules and regulations around safety seems to indicate this quite well. Whenever there is a safety concern addressed by the league and reflected in the rules you end up hearing more frustration from players than appreciation. Why would someone react negatively to something or someone trying to protect their health? What could be worse than the devastating effects of a degenerative brain disease? There is obviously something also in the heart of many athletes that is at war and causing them to silence those advocating for their physical health.
A professor of mine once said "mental pain is always worse than physical pain." There is something in this that opens a window into the lives of athletes and the rest of humanity. I would argue that there is something much more painful about losing a sense of who we are than there is about suffering physical harm. These defining characteristics hold so much power because they often name our worth. People will do whatever it takes to hold onto what gives them worth. If being an athlete is the defining characteristic of your life, any event or reality that calls this identity into question will be countered with every bit of energy available. Athletes don't risk their lives and health for a game…they risk it because they believe being an athlete is what makes them worthy to be loved.
There is a huge bind here. If one chooses to pursue competitive athletics they will be asked with each increasing level of competition to numb and disavow parts of themselves meant to thrive and speak. They will have to be willing to sacrifice their mental and physical health for the god of athletic success. It seems that this is the cost required to make it in sports, and the lessons learned in these trenches will keep you alive on the battlefield. In a strange turn of events, it is the abuse and trauma that makes an athlete able to withstand the conditions on an unforgiving business. And it is their longing for worth and purpose that keeps them from saying that they would have it any other way.


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I used to hate writing. I thought it was just about term papers and book reports. It took blogging for me to discover that I could write for myself, not just for teachers, and that writing – my technical notes, my decisions, my "here's how I'm trying to figure out life" confusions – could save me a lot of time. So now I want to help other people get over that hump, get out of that rut, get going. Get writing.
Holly Tse will be interviewing me at 9 PM EDT today (Aug 16) on how blogging can help you with your process of self-discovery. I don't have sound-bites or snazzy "here, buy this e-book" self-promotions, I just want to help people figure out how to use blogging to learn more about life. It's not just about personal branding, search engine optimization, or being cool. It's useful for getting the hang of things, taking notes, and sharing them with others.
You might also be interested in other things I've written about blogging, including this seven-part series packed with thoughts and tips on the value of blogging. Hope that helps!
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The Court sentencing Scooter Libby had to read 337 pages of letters, many from lawyers. The WSJ Law Blog outlined the highlights – the so-called "Libby Letters, Lawyers Edition".
News / June 6, 2007 April 9, 2013
Before joining the Bush Adminstration, Libby did stints at Dickstein Shapiro, the now-defunct Mudge Rose and Dechert; dozens of lawyers from those firms wrote letters on his behalf. A composite sketch would read: "It is incomprehensible to me that Scooter has been convicted of these crimes. He is honest, forthright, hardworking, ethical and a dedicated public servant. Behavior of that kind is totally inconsistent with the character of the man I know and worked closely with for many years." Here are some of the letters' quirkier highlights:
Law School Sweethearts Pen Twin Letters: Indianapolis lawyers Catherine Bridge, a partner at Barnes & Thornburgh, and John Bridge, a partner at Plews Shadley, are married. They got hitched while at Columbia Law School, where they were classmates of Scooter. They submitted virtually identical 3-page letters to the court. So Catherine writes: "Scooter was one of the close group of friends whom John and I invited to our small wedding our third year of law school," while John writes, "Scooter was one of the close group of friends whom Cathy and I invited to our small wedding our third year of law school."
"A Man of Simple Tastes": Interesting paragraph, from Emilio Cividanes, a partner at Venable: "Scooter is a man of simple tastes (he prefers jeans to suits, and contemplation to celebration) and basic values, focused on family, civic duty and fairness. He is one of those who believe that "it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." This has led Scooter to serve in policy positions in successive Republican Administrations, even though he is not otherwise active in the Republican Party or partisan politics."
He Turned Down Dinner with Victoria and Joe?: From high-profile defense attorney Joe DiGenova, who's married to his high-profile law partner Victoria Toensing: "On a particularly rough trial day, Victoria approached Scooter during a break and invited him and Harriet to come over for dinner as a social break from the pressure. One could tell by looking at Scooter's expression that he would have loved to do so. Yet, he immediately replied, 'No Harriet and I need to be with the kids. It's important we spend time with them now.' We were so touched that in the midst of his ordeal, his priority was his family."
Lawyers in Love: Libby and his wife, Harriet, met when they were lawyers at Dickstein Shapiro. "My impression is that Scooter plays by the rules," wrote Kenneth Simon at Dickstein. "When he and Harriet became serious, she chose to leave the firm rather than maintain the awkward situation of an associate dating a partner." D.D. Holcomb, the wife of Dickstein partner Bruce Holcomb, said that when they were together in a group, Scooter would look at Harriet and say "isn't she beautiful." "We would all want to throw up, but this devotion to his wife has been a constant," she wrote.
Scooter Libby, Mentor: Numerous letters touch on Libby's role as a mentor to young lawyers. Wrote Ralph Oman at Dechert, on Libby's influence on young lawyers: "He is still their hero, and he changed their lives. He made them see the practice of law as ennobling, challenging, and fun. And I know that he continues to inspire them, and me, as a man of grace, courage, and great integrity in this vale of tears we call Washington."
Two Lawyers Weigh in Against: As far as we could tell, only two lawyers sent letters asking the judge to throw the book at Libby. "I urge you to impose a sentence in this case appropriate to the crimes committed by this defendant, taking into consideration his . . . superior knowledge as a lawyer and former partner in a major law firm as to exactly what he was doing, and his continuing unrepentant conduct," wrote a lawyer named John E. Rogers. "Whether he is kind to his dog, a nice guy, a good neighbor, or anything else is, of course, irrelevant to what he did and continues to do."


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NFL teams don't change their rosters much after the opening game of the season, so the Ravens aren't expected to have a revolving door of personnel during their bye week.
This is the NFL, not Major League Baseball.
But three straight losses need to be put in perspective. The defeats came against marquee quarterbacks such as the New Orleans Saints' Drew Brees, the Carolina Panthers' Cam Newton and the Pittsburgh Steelers' Ben Roethlisberger.
The Ravens could have won two of those games if quarterback Joe Flacco had been more accurate in finishing off potential touchdown drives instead of settling for field goals against the Steelers and if one of the football gods had not blown Justin Tucker's extra-point attempt wide right versus New Orleans.
The bye week is more about self-scouting, and the Ravens could use a few tweaks before the Cincinnati Bengals come to town Nov. 18.
If you were tasked with selecting the one member of the Ravens' 2018 draft class who has been the most productive, it would be difficult to argue against picking tight end Mark Andrews.
It starts with defense and third-down efficiency. The Ravens have allowed first downs on 35.2 percent (44 of 125) of opponents' third-down conversion attempts this season, the fifth-best mark in the league, but have allowed 52.3 percent (22 of 42) to be converted in the past three games against New Orleans, Carolina and Pittsburgh.
Here's part of the problem: Against teams with top receivers, the Ravens still play press coverage, but they aren't physical. They'll push around receivers from the Buffalo Bills or Tennessee Titans, but don't challenge receivers from Cincinnati or Pittsburgh because they don't want to give up a big play.
"When you're playing the type of coverages that we play, and people are throwing the ball short and intermediate routes, I equate it to, I'll take the paper cut instead of somebody stabbing me in the heart, so I'm not trying to give up any big plays," Ravens secondary coach Chris Hewitt said. "We'll take those little short-to-intermediate routes. Now, going with that, obviously we have to get off the field on third down. That's something that we haven't done a very good job of over the last two weeks or so.
That's all great in theory, but the Ravens can't beat the big boys with this approach. Pittsburgh ran a lot of slant-ins and hitches on the Ravens. Why not have the cornerbacks jam the receivers at the line of scrimmage to interrupt the timing, or at least have the cornerback line up on the receiver's inside shoulder to take away those routes on third-and-short situations?
The Ravens have also had problems against the run during the past three weeks. It appeared teams were stopped from running inside, only to bounce off tackle or out on the perimeter for nice gains.
That's because the Ravens outside linebackers have failed to hold the edge. It's about discipline. The biggest culprit has been seven-time Pro Bowl selection Terrell Suggs, who likes to crash down the line of scrimmage. Few teams have punished him through the years more than the Bengals.
That's correctable, too. Some problems might not be fixed for another year, such as finding an inside linebacker who can cover a running back or tight end.
But the biggest problem is that the Ravens have run into really good quarterbacks who can make plays inside or outside of the pocket. They have had no answer for them.
On offense, it will be interesting to see if the Ravens continue to start rookie Orlando Brown Jr. at right tackle. That was always the future plan, but maybe the time is now. With Brown at tackle, the Ravens could move James Hurst to left guard in place of Alex Lewis, who has struggled all season.
There was talk at the beginning of the year of moving Lewis to center, but at 6-feet-6, he will have a tough time against stout, bulky nose guards. The moves could give a boost to the Ravens' running game, which is one of the worst in the NFL.
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It will be interesting to see how the Ravens use newly acquired running back Ty Montgomery from the Green Bay Packers, and if he can became an every-down back. Montgomery might be a new way for coordinator Marty Mornhinweg to spice up his offense a little.
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With seven games left, the Ravens still have a slim chance of making the playoffs. The percentage is small because they have to play top quarterbacks such as the Kansas City Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes, the Atlanta Falcons' Matt Ryan and the Los Angeles Chargers' Philip Rivers on the road.
But nothing is impossible in the watered-down, mediocre NFL. A few tweaks, a couple of breaks and a lot of luck might still turn this into an interesting season.
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Racing Louis Vuitton Cup Begins Today
Louis Vuitton Cup Begins Today
Nine challengers begin the long journey to the America's Cup
By Tony Bessinger
Grand Prix Sailor-AMERICA'S CUP EDITION
Issue 2, Sept. 30, 2002
Grand Prix Sailor is a 13-year-old racing news publication of Sailing World Magazine (http://www.sailingworld.com). This AMERICA'S CUP EDITION is a weekly summary of Cup action, brought to you this week by Dufour, Harken, Offshore Sailing School.
ALL TALK SO FAR
If you think that you're pumped up for the Louis Vuitton Cup to begin, just imagine what it's like for the people who have been spending the last thousand days or so preparing to race. As the final few hours of the AC off-season draw to a close, and the best that designers, engineers, and billionaires can offer get tossed upon the altar of chaos theory, I'd imagine that there are some pretty profound thoughts going through people's heads down in tomorrow land. Right now, I bet there isn't a single America's Cup sailor in Auckland who doesn't feel, somewhere deep inside, that they're on the winning team. We imagine that even the boys of Mascalzone Latino, the self-acknowledged underdogs, harbor images of themselves drinking champagne out of the Auld Mug.
A little over a month from now, one syndicate will be gone, and we'll have a better feel for who managed to put together the best program. With that, we've pulled some last-minute quotes and news stories from all the challengers and the Kiwi defenders together for our second Grand Prix Sailor America's Cup Edition. Our advice is to save these quotes in a folder somewhere on your hard drive and look at them at the end of round robins 1 & 2, the end of the quarterfinals, right through the whole shebang, and see how the prognosticators made out. We have a feeling that this series, like the last two decades' worth of America's Cup events, will be full of surprises, i.e., you ain't seen nothing yet. Hang on to your hats, folks, the next few months are going to be fun. -Tony Bessinger
"We are not here to win the America's Cup," said Mascalzone Latino syndicate head and skipper Vincenzo Onorato. "We are a strong group of friends, trying to learn and understand how this game works." From a statement made during the christening of the Mascalzone Latino base camp on syndicate row.
"We've got a good chance of being in the top four, but who knows? We don't think it's going to be as clear-cut as that. We've had some races with Oracle and One World, and they've been very close. There's others, too: we haven' t seen Prada with their new boats, we haven't raced Stars and Stripes, we haven't raced the Swedes and they look quite strong. I think it's way too early to pick a heavy favorite." Brad Butterworth, Team Alinghi, from an interview with Matthew Sheahan on the Louis Vuitton website, http://www.louisvuitton.cup
"I think the Victory boat looks pretty fast. Mani Frers has done a nice job designing a good boat, probably with what he learned in the Prada syndicate last time. And they look like they have their act together. They're sailing well and they're pretty quick. I wouldn't be surprised to see them in the final four." Dennis Conner in an interview with Newstalk ZB, a New Zealand radio network.
"I'm cautiously optimistic, as we do have a tough road ahead of us, but I feel good about all we have done thus far." Peter Holmberg, in an interview on the Oracle website, http://www.oraclebmwracing.com
"Truthfully, we won't know how we will match up against the other eight competitors until we get out there and start racing on October 1." Dennis Conner, in his 9th America's Cup campaign. From an interview on http://www.stars-sttripes.com
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"Larry Ellison's campaign to wrest the America's Cup from Team New Zealand has led the billionaire software tycoon to resign from the board of Apple Computer. The chief executive and chairman of Oracle will spend much of his time over the coming months in the midst of America's Cup action, a world away from the boardroom of California-based Apple." From a New Zealand Herald story by Peter Griffin. http://www.nzherald.com
Lawyer Sean Reeves has vowed to fight a bid by the wealthy America's Cup syndicate OneWorld Challenge to make him pay the $1.7 million damages awarded against him by an American court. "What this litigation is all about is gagging me," said Reeves in an interview with Helen Tunnah and Ainsley Thomson in the New Zealand Herald. "I am incredibly dangerous to these guys. I was on the ground all the time. I'm going to ensure the truth comes out."
"This has never been about collecting money for us. It's been about vindication and stopping him." OneWorld executive director Bob Ratliffe, in the same interview.
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"This new challenge starts again from zero. It is a different challenge with a new team and new boats. We will try to be as detached as possible from the last Cup, and we intend to tackle this challenge with renewed energy and enthusiasm", said Patrizio Bertelli. Francesco de Angelis confirmed by saying: "I cannot think of any element of the boat that we launched today that is not totally new, a result of the intense research and development as well as intensive training program followed during the past two years. Every time you participate in a sporting event you must rewrite the page from zero with the intent to better yourself from your previous effort." From a Prada press release.
"I think to a large extent, the sailing crew selects the sailing crew, and that's what's happened with James over the past few months," said Peter Gilmour during a press conference at the OneWorld base on Sept.27. "He's certainly a much better sailor than I was at his age, and I think everyone is confident with him helming the boat.
"Look, I'm certainly going to steer my share of the races as this goes on," continues Gilmour. "But experience tells me it's just going to get harder and harder to get James in as the series develops. This is a way of putting his feet to the fire a bit and letting him find his way. We very much look at this as a marathon, not a sprint, and it's important that we have everybody ready to sail all of the time. This is the best way to achieve that with James." From an article by Peter Rusch on http://www.louisvuitton.com
"I'm not a super sailor or boatbuilder, but I have put together a group with skills and experience, built up a team, drawn up a battle plan and set a critical path analysis. I've developed a product which we are now about to prove when we go racing. I've planned for continuity with future challenges and what I am hoping is that we do well this time, and then be in a position to do better next time round. By then, we'll have some record and my hope is that people will judge that and support us." Team GBR head Peter Harrison, in an interview with Tim Jeffery of the Daily Telegraph, London.
"Word out of Auckland today is that Team Dennis Conner, which was docked a point for using an illegal rudder during the last Cup, is about to submit to the Arbitration Panel an admission that they have breached the Protocol by hiring one of the declared designers and crewmembers of the defunct Illbruck AC team.' From Tom Leweck's Scuttlebutt
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"We don't want people to see the boat, it's as simple as that. There's no sinister implications in what we're doing. It's just we want to keep whatever it is we've got to ourselves." TNZ spokesman Murray Taylor, in a Reuters story about the skirt that shrouds NZL-81.
"On January 7th there is the mutual unveiling date. The day before is the mutual declaration date. The defender, which is Team New Zealand, declares a maximum of two yachts and we'll declare two yachts – one of which will be a candidate for the defense. And each of the two finalists in the Louis Vuitton series then, at the same time, declare their yachts. Up 'til then, of course, they've got a couple of boats and they might be switching between them. But on January 6th they say, 'this is the boat that I'm going to take through to the America's Cup if I win the final trials.' So on that day, the 7th we get to look at their boats and they get to look at ours and the public get to look at all of them. Then we keep the boats unveiled. They sit out on the hardstand each evening with no skirts on all the time that they are racing. Then after the Louis Vuitton series we can put them back in the shed and fiddle with them a bit within the limits that you are allowed and within reasonable limits. I mean, you can't do 10 weeks of work in one week. Then we have another declaration in February. We declare the boats we are going to defend the Cup in and, of course, the challenger who has won the Louis Vuitton re-declares his yacht. Then we're off and again the boats are exposed and there for everybody to see." Tom Schnackenburg of Team New Zealand in an interview posted on http://www.2003ac.com/
"Trust me, I pinch myself every once in a while because I consider myself having the best job in the world – it's great." Ken Read, in an interview with nzoom.com's Fiona McIlroy.
The website www.2003ac.com/ also has a sneak preview posting in its forums outlining the features of the new Visual Spectator, which is available at http://virtualspectator.com
1)Interactive 3D current weather map
2)Satellite weather photo and on course color weather cam
3)Interactive race tactics demonstrator. Helps explain a lee bow, slam dunk or inside overlap to your non-sailing friends.
4)Racing viewer includes:
Yacht Cam (3D close-up profile view of one yacht)
Helm Cam (3D gives you the helmsman's view looking forward)
Free Cam (3D view from behind both yachts)
Upwind Cam (3D view looking upwind at both yachts)
Downwind Cam (3D view looking downwind at both yachts)
Course View (2D flat overhead view)
Aerial Cam (3D perspective overhead view)
Auto Cam (auto switches between the above views)
5)Display options include
Course wind
Lay line
Course marks
Yacht trails (wakes)
Distance Upwind
Race clock
Differential clock
The first round of racing for the Louis Vuitton Cup begins today, October 1 in New Zealand, with Alinghi racing Le Defi. You'll find a full version of the schedule at http://www.louisvuittoncup.com
The Outdoor Life Network will begin its Cup coverage tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern. See http://www.olntv.com for a complete schedule.
Match 1 – Alinghi (SUI 64) – Le Defi (FRA 69)
Match 2 – Wight Lightning (GBR 70) – Stars & Stripes (USA 66)
Match 3 – Luna Rossa (ITA 74) – Oracle BMW Racing (USA 76)
Match 4 – Mascalzone Latino (ITA 72) – OneWorld (USA 67)
Off – Orn (SWE 63)
Match 1 – Stars & Stripes (USA 66) – Luna Rossa (ITA 74)
Match 2 – OneWorld (USA 67) – Alinghi (SUI 64)
Match 3 – Oracle BMW Racing (USA 76) – Mascalzone Latino (ITA 72)
Match 4 – Orn (SWE 63) – Le Defi (FRA 69)
Off – Wight Lightning (GBR 70)
Grand Prix Sailor and Grand Prix Sailor-America's Cup Edition are weekly newsletters compiled by the editors of Sailing World magazine. If you'd like to subscribe, see www.sailingworld.com
Contributing Editors: Tony Bessinger ([email protected]), Dave Reed ([email protected]), Stuart Streuli ([email protected]), John Burnham ([email protected])
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http://www.resers.com/
Another site from Weston Ruter at Shepherd Interactive. Uses new html5 elements for the header, footer, articles and asides.
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Thanks for the post. HTML5 Forms are also utilized (see Contact Form's use of input@type, @required, @pattern, etc.): http://www.resers.com/contact-us/form/
Spelling tweak in the note for "Shepherd".
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Sorry what is HTML5 about this site? It fails on an extremely huge level.
An that contains a flash element (what, no ?) which isn't semantic usage at all, and a NS declaration of http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml.
LOL.. Serious HTML5 FAIL.
That middle sentence has scraped out the HTML tags, and should have read..
An ASIDE tag that contains a flash element (what, no CANVAS tag?) which isn't semantic usage at all, and a NS declaration of http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml.
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The HTML5 spec states:
This specification is intended to replace XHTML 1.0 as the normative definition of the XML serialization of the HTML vocabulary
The second concrete syntax uses XML, and is known as "XHTML5".
Thus HTML5 has two serializations, one in HTML and another in XHTML: the XHTML serialization is called XHTML5 and its XML namespace is specified to be http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml, the same as XHTML 1. The Reser's site has been developed to be in conformance to the HTML5 specification's XHTML serialization which is just as valid as its HTML serialization.
How is the aside usage non-semantic? It contains the WordPress sidebar widgets; the Flash also has fallback content for accessibility and SEO. The use of Flash is not contra HTML5 since it specifies the object element for this very purpose. Regardless of my feelings toward Flash, it is a core technology used in the Web; as much as I wish otherwise, Canvas does not yet have the browser support (IE8) or tools (Adobe Flash) to make it an alternative.
Furthermore, XHTML5 has a number of advantages over HTML, including the ability to utilize XMLHttpRequest.responseXML, embed SVG and MathML inline, and it solves a Firefox 2 parsing bug.
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Stansted Express told off for misleading advert
Welcome to London, home to Big Ben, the Nelson's Column. And a rather down-at-heel retail park in Tottenham Hale offering a range of fast-food shops and a complex gyratory system.
London Eye: a good six miles from Tottenham Hale
By Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Editor
6:30AM BST 08 Sep 2010
Stansted Express has been banned from using a poster that wrongly implied that the train would take passengers to central London in 35 minutes.
In fact, in this time it can only reach Tottenham Hale, in the borough of Haringey, a good six miles from Trafalgar Square. Tottenham Hale's main attractions, apart from the train station, is its retail park and a shuttle bus, which can take you to the local Ikea. It is also is home to one of north London's most notorious gyratory system.
Various posters at Stansted Airport used the text "Train to London 35 minutes" with images of landmarks including Big Ben, the London Eye and Nelson's Column, in part to help the many passengers not fluent in English.
One person complained that the advert was misleading, saying the poster implied that the train could reach central London in 35 minutes. The Advertising Standards Authority agree and has banned National Express, which runs the Stansted service, from using the poster again.
The company argued that international passengers arriving at the airport made up 58 per cent of the train's business, with many not speaking or understanding fluent English.
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The company therefore used simple and concise messages to communicate that an express train service was available from the airport to London.
They had used an internationally recognisable train symbol to communicate the mode of transport to London, together with a 35-minute symbol which indicated the journey time from the airport to Tottenham Hale. From there, passengers could connect with the Victoria line on the London Underground and travel on to central London destinations.
They did not believe the ads made any reference to the train getting to central London in 35 minutes, adding that all trains from the airport continued on to Liverpool Street station, which was in the heart of the city.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) noted that the journey to central London took 45 minutes and that the images on the posters "strongly implied" that the train would take passengers to the city centre directly from the airport.
It added: "We understood that many travellers would not necessarily speak English and that the use of tourist landmarks was intended to communicate a simple message. However, we considered that the simplicity of the message could potentially confuse visitors about where in the city they would get to in 35 minutes."
It ruled that the ad was likely to mislead passengers and should not appear again in its current form.
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I am a PhD student within the Advanced Processor Technologies research group at the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK. I work within the JAMAICA project, which is investigating the design of multi-core processors and their accompanying software environments. I have been with the group since October 2005, under the supervision of Prof. Ian Watson.
To fulfil their performance potential, multi-core processors require workloads with high levels of thread-level parallelism (TLP). Explicit multi-threaded programming is widely considered to be difficult for general purpose applications; therefore my research focuses on the automatic extraction of TLP from otherwise sequential software via thread-level speculative execution (TLS). For a introduction to TLS, see  or the PACT99 paper by Oplinger et-al. My current research focuses on the application of TLS to object-oriented programs, specifically, how the predictability of object behaviour can be exploited to generate parallelism. I am also interested how virtual machine environments can act as a platform for TLS implementation. In the course of my research, I have implemented a complete software TLS system based on the Jikes Research Virtual Machine.
I have a wide range of interests within programming language implementation, including concurrency, runtime compilation, garbage-collection, VM environments, meta-circular implementation, reflective architectures and meta-level architectures.
Based on the work for my PhD, I also have specific interests in speculative thread-level parallelism, data-flow execution models and the exploitation of multi-core / many-core architectures.
to appear in Proc. Workshop on Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS), ECOOP 2009.
in Proc. Workshop on Parallel Execution of Sequential Programs on Multicore Architectures (PESPMA), ISCA 2008.
In 2008 I completed an internship for Sun Microsystems Laboratories working on the Maxine VM (a meta-circular research VM for Java). I continue to collaborate on the project and contribute to the open source release.


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As a mother of a child on the spectrum, I have a special relationship with April, otherwise known as Autism Awareness Month. I remember the day I learned I was having a boy like it was yesterday. Pure joy and happiness, knowing my family was just as I had dreamt it would be, a little girl born just 12 months before and now, Sam would soon arrive.
BY Barbie Vartanian | April 2021 | Category: Autism Awareness
Then, one evening, I found myself in front of the television, captivated by an interview with Larry King and Jenny McCarthy. She was telling the story of her son Evan who was recently diagnosed with autism. With her developmental pediatrician by her side, they talked candidly about what autism was and its potential causes. At that moment, my excitement of having this little boy turned to concern and a touch of fear.
My pregnancy was typical; perhaps with Sam, there was a little less movement than his sister, but I just figured that was a "girl" thing, always on the move. The night Sam was born, I received an epidural and Sam's heartrate immediately plummeted; the doctor watched it closely and said if it didn't go back up, he would do an emergency C-section. It did eventually stabilize, but I thought "was it too long," and no one will never know. Once Sam was born, his APGAR score was good, but after they took him to be circumcised, he stopped eating... he dropped a concerning amount of weight, and I was told to take him immediately to the pediatrician when we left the hospital. We were eventually able to get the weight back on after a couple of weeks, but it has been a rollercoaster ride since.
As the months passed, Sam reached most of his developmental milestones. He recognized his parents, was able to hold his head up, crawl, and make sounds that all new parents look forward to with their children. At two months of age, it was time for Sam's first vaccinations. Sam immediately spiked a fever for several days, not uncommon when children receive their vaccines. His second dose, four months later, once again caused a reaction that left me with significant concern. I decided at that time to forego any further vaccinations. I felt that his immune system was compromised in some manner and the risk wasn't worth it. He has not received any other inoculations to this day. I did not, and still do not believe that the vaccine caused Sam's autism, but I wasn't comfortable moving forward with the vaccines.
At nine to ten months, Sam could stand while holding on, grab his favorite toy, and play peek-a-boo. It was close to him turning a year old that the delays in communication, cognitive-reasoning, and repetitive sensory-seeking headshaking (not words I had ever used, but would soon become part of my everyday vocabulary), had become more evident that something wasn't necessarily right. I consulted with a family friend who had a child on the spectrum. She confirmed the behavior could be indicative of autism, and recommended that I contact the Regional Center, (part of the Division of Developmental Services in California) for an assessment. Two weeks later, services began; speech, occupational therapy (OT) and applied behavioral analysis (ABA). I was told that early intervention made all the difference, so I was thankful for the services, but my fear was growing stronger.
Without a "formal" diagnosis, I sought out one of the leading developmental pediatricians and, after a nine month wait, my husband and I were told Sam had autism. Soon after, a counselor was sent in who proceeded to tell us that we would more than likely be divorced in the next year (12 years later, the strain of it all became too much for the relationship). We were sent home with a few pamphlets, a follow-up appointment in six months, and unsurmountable FEAR! The 86,400 seconds in everyday would never be the same.
After the diagnosis, I still had no idea what this meant for Sam or us as a family. All I kept thinking was I had to do EVERYTHING to make him better because at the time, I thought that's what I was supposed to do (little did I know). Days were filled with therapy and nights were filled with research and tears.
I had to come to terms with the fact that Sam wouldn't be the star outfielder on his Little League team, or be asked to hang out on a Saturday with his friends. I had to realize that Sam wouldn't be able to ask a girl to prom, marry, or have children of his own. There's a wonderful essay by Emily Perl Kingsley that parents of children with special needs look to, and that is, even though you may have thought you planned, organized and booked this incredible trip to Italy, the day finally arrives, you pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes over the loudspeaker and says, "Welcome to Holland." You think, "wait a minute, I'm not supposed to be in Holland, I planned and dreamt about going to Italy! Don't get me wrong, Holland is wonderful, just different."
Sam's early years were full of milestones and challenges. At 18 months, a child should be able to say the word "no"; Sam has been saying "no" ever since. An 18-month-old child may have tantrums; Sam has had many! An 18-month-old child learns to scribble on their own; Sam still likes to scribble on his own, even at 12 years of age. As school approached, the public school district's IEP placed Sam in a more restrictive placement that was against our best judgement. We eventually went through arbitration and decided to place him in a private pre-k with a lower student-teacher ratio, and a one-on-one ABA support funded through my insurance. As Sam entered a new private school in first grade as a six-year-old, the shift to a more rigid academic environment proved too difficult for him to handle. His frustration with expressing his feelings led to escalation of his challenging behaviors and he was spending more time in a sensory room than his classroom. It was then that the difficult decision was made for him to be home-schooled – and the effect on him was regression, along with social isolation that comes from not being with your peers.
After two years of the challenges of balancing home-schooling, working full time, raising my daughter, and managing a home-life, a change was in the works. With family living in New Jersey, the academic supports and resources available for Sam were reportedly some of the strongest in the country. The difficult decision to move across the country was made to improve the outlook for Sam. He entered the public school system in Grade 3 and has thrived both academically as well as socially with his involvement in Special Olympics New Jersey. And then, the 1440 minutes a day, came to a screeching halt.
Over the recent pandemic-filled year, many have referred to the Bill Murray classic, Groundhog Day. If you have never seen it, it is about a man who keeps reliving the same day, over and over again. I think most parents of a child with autism would say, Groundhog Day sounds incredible. Predictability, consistency, repetition; everything a child and adult with ASD craves! This, unfortunately, was not how our quarantine days were spent. Sam went from being a happy, affectionate, delightful little boy to one who has been struggling with overwhelming anxiety, potentially dangerous aggression and self-injurious behavior that includes slamming his head against doors and putting holes in the walls and disjointing doorframes.
Our days that were once filled with school, swimming, and horse therapy now consisted of unsuccessful attempts at virtual learning, stereotypical behavior, and concerning levels of inactivity. Sam was thriving and now he is struggling and, as a parent, when our child hurts, we hurt, and when they are good, we are great!
"If you know one person with autism, you know one person with autism"– a phrase you are told often as you seek answers and plan the future. The future, a word that should evoke excitement and hopefulness, unfortunately means something entirely different for me. I remember when Sam was younger, I would listen to other parents tell me that their child began to "improve" by seven, eight, nine at the very latest, and I would think, okay by nine, Sam will be speaking and doing things his neurotypical peers are. I can wait till he's nine, no problem! As the birthdays came and went, so did the prospects of a future filled with "relative normalcy" for Sam. Now, instead of worrying about the words Sam has yet to find, I am now more concerned about whether I, or his extended family will be able to care for him as he grows and ages.
Every day, I wonder if he is happy, and whether or not his happiness and best interest will consume someone else after I'm gone. Where does the burden, or as I look at it, the honor of caring for Sam lie? Is it with his sister Marilee, only 12 months his senior? Growing up the sibling of an individual with a disability is difficult, your life unfortunately tends to play second fiddle to the incredible demands and challenges. Whether it's having to leave a hockey game before it even starts because the sounds and lights became too overwhelming, or hiding in your room until an aggressive tantrum passes. It's tough, REALLY tough, on the siblings. They are faced with the overwhelming thought of life after mom and dad are gone. Can they or will they have the capacity to care for their sibling? Marilee quickly understood that her life was different than her friends, she knew we always had to consider how Sam would do in a particular situation, even if it meant she may have to miss out because of it. Marilee also realizes that Sam is going to need her more and more as they get older, and as challenging and potentially scary as that might be to a 13-year-old, I know she will be there for him.
My son is the greatest gift I could have asked for. He has taught me more about myself and the resilience I didn't know I possessed. No other person or situation has better prepared me for this life. Sam's joy is authentic, and his love is unconditional. I am truly blessed to be his mother, his champion, his advocate and his voice! And even though I didn't land in Italy, I did end up in the most incredible place, 24 hours of every day!
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Barbie Vartanian is the Executive Director of Project Accessible Oral Health, a global initiative focused on improving the health equity for individuals with disabilities.
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If you write about games professionally for a while, and get suckered into writing game reviews freelance, a couple things happen. First, you play way too many games. Second, you play all those games very quickly. The latter has led me to take on some habits that I find troublesome.
I usually try to avoid wallowing in video game marketing materials largely for the same reasons Kirk lays out in his discussion of the controversy over The Witcher 3's graphics—thankfully, looking at trailers and screenshots more than once is not really part of my job so I can get away with it. So when I started up The Witcher 3 on PC with ultra settings I was smitten. For the first 20 hours or so I rarely used fast travel and when I would trek across the countryside I did so at my horse Roach's slowest possible pace. When taking a boat to Fyke Isle I'd keep my thumb off the A button. The landscape in White Orchard and Velen I found wonderfully alien—just alien enough—and I loved soaking it all in. Best wilderness ever.
Now I'm 55 hours or so in. When I'm on foot I sprint. When I'm on horseback I've abandoned the trot for a run, though I still don't usually go all out. I can't help myself, because this is always what happens to me on long games. The longer it goes, the less patient I behave. It was heartbreaking for me this weekend when I quested through the Skellige Isles, which are truly spectacular. I did a little bit of slow hiking in some spots, but most often I would move from place to place as quickly as I could.
This is, I think, partially an insidious bit of game critic conditioning. I'm not playing The Witcher 3 for review, but even so after a few days I start to feel a nonexistent deadline looming. When I play games for "fun" I rarely do so for more than a few days—either I finish in a short time frame or I forget the game exists and move on to something else. And when I've had to write a review I've almost never had more than a week from when I received the game to when I had to publish something. I've been playing The Witcher 3 retail code from GOG since last Monday, and so around Friday I started to quicken my pace.
But as I said, I think my impatience is only partially about my career. I liken the way I play games to the way we watch TV shows on Netflix or Amazon Prime—we might start slow, but once it gets its hooks in us we plow forward until it's over. I have a compulsive personality in other ways that play into that mindset, as well. I'm a compulsive eater, for example, and since I work from home that means I don't keep food in my apartment because I would just munch all day on whatever I have around.
Once I became absorbed in The Witcher 3's main plot, I started sprinting more and more and now, even with a ways to go, I've irrevocably shifted into fast-and-furious mode. Unfortunately for me, that meant I spent nearly all of my weekend alone in my apartment playing this game, and I'm still not done yet. Hopefully I'm close, or else I'm going to lose tonight and the next couple days to it as well. This is a key reason why I've often harped on game length. It interferes with my life! It's not CD Projekt's fault I am what I am, though.
A more relevant, and maybe more universal, drawback is that the faster I play, the less I'm absorbing from the experience in the long haul. When I binge watch a show, once it's done my mind mostly will just recall the broad strokes, whereas watching week to week helps me keep track of particulars, and with games it's been similar for me. In the past when I've accelerated my pace of play the parts I tend to remember most clearly are all closer to the beginning.
I may have to accept all this as a fact of life, or else perhaps I can condition myself out of this way of operating, since I don't write reviews anymore. But in the meantime I have an ulterior motive for writing this little essay: I want to apologize to my friends and my mother for not speaking to them over the last week. Sorry, everyone!


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"It was unthinkable that a South African plane in November 1991 would take a South African cricket team, some of its sponsors and supporters, over India and touching the base in Calcutta. It was unheard of.
On the other end of the line, Dr Aron 'Ali' Bacher talks about Johannesburg, gushing from that ODI in Kolkata on November 12, 1991. It was a close match where Allan Donald announced himself with 5/29 ahead of Sachin Tendulkar (62) and Pravin Amre (55) guided India to a three-wicket victory in a low-scoring thriller.
It's not the game itself that makes this date so special. It was the culmination of smart cricket policy with a touch of diplomacy, making this India-South Africa series one of the brightest shots in team sport history. It was ironic too. India was the first country to withdraw recognition from South Africa when the ruling National Party launched apartheid in 1948. But in 1991, the Indian Cricket Council proposed its return to cricket and ensured South Africa's return to international sports the same year.
A pioneering cricket administrator, Bacher had just led South Africa to a 4-0 home victory over Australia in 1970 when international tours were halted. He joined the South African Cricket Union (SACU) which administered white players and first class cricket. The South African Cricket Board (SACB) represented colored cricket and black cricket. As an administrator of SACU, Bacher organized several rebel tours in South Africa by teams from England, the West Indies, Australia and Sri Lanka. But never India or Pakistan. So when South Africa was readmitted after the union of their boards of directors in June 1991, Bacher began testing the waters of the subcontinent for probable tours.
"We went to Sri Lanka first, then to Pakistan, then we went back to Mumbai. When we landed in Mumbai the headline was "Pakistan Pulls Out of India Tour". Pakistan were scheduled to tour India next week in October for a five-game ODI series.
Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was instrumental in proposing South Africa's reinstatement to the International Cricket Council (ICC) as BCCI secretary, sensed an opportunity. "He said to us, 'Look, guys. I want you to approach India in a week. South Africa's first match will take place in Calcutta. ' Dalmiya even took us to meet the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Jyoti Basu, who wanted us to replace Pakistan.
But Bacher wanted to check with other stakeholders. There was some hesitation, especially on the part of Percy Sonn, who later became the first African to become ICC president. "So I called Steve Tshwete, one of the main members of the ANC (African National Congress), and told him about the invitation from India," Bacher explains. "He spoke to Percy for about 20 minutes. After hanging up the phone, Percy said "We're going to India." To this day, I don't know what Steve said to Percy.
Interestingly, when the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA) met on Sunday, black members were in favor of continuing the tour, but not white representation. The majority prevailed. However, at that point Madhavrao Scindia, the president of BCCI and the man in charge of securing the diplomatic green light to support South Africa's readmission to international cricket, faced a different problem.
"On Monday morning, Scindia called me," Bacher says. "He said there is great happiness in India but we might have a problem if you send an all-white team. So I called our manager of the coaches. I said 'I want you to choose. four young cricketers who could one day play for South Africa — two white, two black. They won't play, but they will be part of the practices and the nets on the pitch. One of them was Hansie Cronje .
Between Monday and Thursday, Clive Rice, 43, was named head of a predominantly white South African team, National Panasonic stepped in as a sponsor with a check for Rand 250,000 and the logistics were sorted out before the deadline. departure from South Africa. "It's so hard to describe the excitement from the outside," Bacher says of when South Africa landed in Calcutta. "We drove from the airport to the hotel and expected there would be around 100,000 people to greet South Africa. The bus was stopping at some places, I said a few words to the crowd, then Clive said a few words.
South Africa trained in front of curious eyes on Friday and Saturday before Mohammad Azharuddin and Rice stepped out for the draw on Sunday morning. Standing in the middle of the ground, Rice said, "I know how Neil Armstrong felt when he stood on the moon.
Bacher remembers the exact moment he saw Andrew Hudson and Jimmy Cook come out at bat. "One look at Andrew and I was like 'The first bullet on his wickets and he's out'. You could see the stage fright. I was right! Kapil took him out in the first round. This match also sparked a revolution in the broadcasting of cricket in the subcontinent. Upon arriving in Calcutta, Bacher learned that Doordarshan never used to pay BCCI broadcast fees to broadcast cricket in India. "I said to Dalmiya, 'This is history on the move. I will give you a quarter of a million rand to organize this broadcast in South Africa ". His eyes popped. He couldn't believe it. At that point, he realized how Indian cricket had been under-sold for decades. "
Thirty years after that match, India reaffirmed its commitment to South Africa by continuing a tour despite warnings of a more contagious variant of Covid-19. The tour could not have come at a more trying time, days after a Social Justice and Nationbuilding Commission (SJN) determined that Cricket South Africa (CSA) had engaged in discrimination racial, the most prominent of which are former captain and current manager Graeme Smith, current head coach Mark Boucher and former captain AB de Villiers.
Administratively, no one has dealt with racism in cricket as much as Bacher. "The players, referees and administrators were divided (along racial lines). The whites had the best of everything while the blacks had the worst. When he organized these rebel tours in the 1980s, Bacher said he didn't know how his compatriots felt. "I thought apartheid would be here for the rest of my life and therefore cricket would be isolated. Obviously, I was wrong.
For the first time in 1989, when Mike Gatting was leading a rebel tour, peaceful protests were allowed. "In the early 1980s, if there were demonstrations outside the ground, the police locked them in jail. So these games that were supposed to be peaceful, I now know why, "Bacher explains.
1989 was a revelation. "It really touched me. If I had known the great antagonism of the majority of South Africans about these tours, I think I would have thought twice. All I would say is that I am very confident about the recent developments in South Africa. I just hope we don't end up with the polarization of South African cricket, white versus black and black versus white.
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Portuguese man o'war found on Weston-super-Mare beach
A Portuguese man o' war was found on Weston's seafront. Picture: Julian Goldsworthy
Julian Goldsworthy
A venomous Portuguese man o'war was washed up on Weston-super-Mare's beach last week.
Julian Goldsworth was walking along the beach with his granddaughter Amelia when they came across the stranded sea creature.
Mr Goldsworth said: "We were walking towards the Tropicana when we spotted it. It was about two and a half inches long and was blue.
"I dug a trench using my hands, let it fill with water and lifted it from its ballooned head."
Dr Peter Richards, head of ocean recovery at the Marine Conservation Society (MSC), said: "They are not supposed to be in our seas but when there are strong winds and bad weather they can be blown in.
"We have had them in very small numbers in the past but this year has been unlike anything we have ever seen before – with more than 200 cases reported."
If you come across a Portuguese man o'war, call MSC on 01989 566017 or visit the MSC's website.