From nine points just a month ago, Bordeaux's lead at the top of Ligue 1 is down to three after Rennes stunned the champions at Stade de la Route de Lorient. Sylvain Marveaux started the fun just four minutes in and Jimmy Briand, in his first game in nine months following a serious knee injury, stroked home penalty after quarter of an hour. Ismael Bangoura made it three just after the break before Bordeaux threatened a fightback. Yoan Gouffran and Wendel struck within three minutes of one another, but Asamoah Gyan, back fresh from the Africa Cup of Nations, came off the bench to kill the game off with Rennes's fourth. With games stacking up, Laurent Blanc has said he'll field a B-team in their league cup semi-final as the FFF refuse to shuffle fixtures around as Bordeaux continue to fight on four fronts.
Result of the week was Grenoble thrashing Auxerre. Where the bloody hell did that come from? This 5-0 walloping was just their second win of the season and comes over a side that, previously to this at least, was in the frame for the championship. Four first-half goals simply blew AJA off the field. Danijel Ljuboja lobbed the keeper for the first and Nassim Akrour hit two either side of Daisuke Matsui's first. Matsui blasted his second and GF38's fifth just after the break. They're still massively adrift at the bottom though, especially as Nice and St Etienne both picked up points this week. Nice drew with Lille, a great result for them, Chaouki Ben Saada putting them in front early on, but holding on for a point after Tulio de Melo's equaliser with fifteen minutes to go. St Etienne were massively impressive in beating Monaco 3-0. They've let a lot of players go in the recently closed transfer window as they look to streamline and remove some disruptive elements. They've held onto Blaise Matuidi though and he opened the scoring quarter of an hour in. Quarter of an hour from the end, Gonzalo Bergessio made it two and Emmanuel Riviere wrapped it up, denting any hopes Monaco have of making the title.
Back up at the top, Montpellier continued to impress, seeing off lowly Boulogne with comparative ease. Souleymane Camara put them ahead halfway through the first half and Victor Montano sealed it in the last minute. Marseille still have a game in hand and move ominously up the rankings with a 5-1 thrashing of troubled Valenciennes. Lucho Gonzalez opened the scoring just after the half hour with a superb finish following Hatem Ben Arfa's backheel set him up. Brandao bundled in the second and Benoit Cheyrou lashed one in from range. Carlos Sanchez pulled one back, but Mathieu Valbuena got OM back in the groove with a measured effort from the edge of the box. Mamadou Niang finished it in the last minute, tapping in from a yard out from Ben Arfa's cross.
PSG hit a new low with a comprehensive defeat at home to Lorient. The supporters are revolting after this 3-0 defeat. After a bright start, the Parisians just crumbled. Marama Vahirua hit a penalty quarter of the way through the game and he was instrumental in setting up Kevin Gameiro for the second two minutes later. Morgan Amalfitano lobbed the third over Edel seven minutes from the break as boos rang round the ground. And they continued during and after the second half. Lorient didn't need a fourth as PSG blew every chance that came their way and the current situation can't last much longer. Toulouse had the better of their home game with Lyon, but couldn't find the breakthrough as it finished 0-0, Sochaux drew 1-1 with Nancy and Le Mans went down again, 2-1 at Lens, leaving them deep in trouble.


Just as "Inventing Modern: Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins" hits the newsstands, Lienhard was named September Author of the Month with a reception, discussion and book signing at 2:00 p.m. on Sat., Sept. 6 at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Town and Country Village.
"Lienhard is a story-teller who informs and enchants. His book carries us on a riveting journey with twentieth-century technologies that created the worldview called modernity. In learning about these roots of modern, we learn about ourselves," said Stanley Joel Reiser, Griff T. Ross Professor of Humanities and Technology in Health Care at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
In his latest book, he uses the word "modern" to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road--Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles--lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart.
"This is vintage Lienhard: intellectually cosmopolitan and curious, wide-ranging and almost breathless, with an ability to knit together events and people into a mosaic that, like all good history, is greater than the sum of its parts, and all in a voice that is so rhythmical that the reader is drawn along almost involuntarily," said Richard J. Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.
Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence--a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes.
Samuel C. Florman, author of The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, calls it "a delightful personal memoir, a provocative cultural history, and an instructive guide to science and technology--a splendid book that entertains, challenges and informs in equal measure."
Lienhard has worked as an engineer and educator since 1951, and is well known in thermal engineering. He has also written about, and taught, history since the 1970s. He is the author and host of The Engines of Our Ingenuity, a weekday radio essay on the history of creativity and invention (heard on many public radio stations), and he is author of the book by the same name.


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Valerio Ruiz wrote, co-produced and directed the documentary film Behind the White Glasses (2015), dedicated to the life and career of Honorary Oscar Winner Lina Wertmüller. The film premiered at 72nd Venice Film Festival in the competitive Venice Classics section. It received a nomination to the Silver Ribbon Award and was distributed in several European Countries and in the USA. Valerio previously was Wertmüller's first assistant director and screenwriter collaborator on several projects, among them the documentary film Rome, Naples and Venice in a Rossini Crescendo (2014) produced by Rai.
Valerio is also a stage director. He co-directed with Wertmüller two stage productions: Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth (2016, Teatro Municipale Giuseppe Verdi, Salerno) with Daniel Oren conducting the orchestra, and the play What are men for (2019, Teatro Quirino, Rome).
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This prestigious program is what launched her career as an Assistant Director. She now resides in Astoria, NY – continuing to find the adventure and allure of storytelling, of making characters come to life, of perfecting the details, and ultimately of evoking emotion, after all, we all smile in the same language.

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It's clear Walmart is planning for the future.
Walmart (WMT - Get Report) may soon be no match for Amazon (AMZN - Get Report) , within the retail space, anyway.
"Today, together, we're building a new Walmart," Doug McMillon, Walmart president and CEO, said at the company's annual shareholders meeting in June.
At the meeting, McMillon revealed some more of the futuristic inventions Walmart is beginning to test at its stores, and it's almost daunting how progressive some of them are.
First, Walmart is testing an automated pickup tower at several stores in Arkansas, Detroit, Houston, Atlanta and North Carolina. The tower allows customers, who choose to order something online and have it sent to a store, to pickup their purchase seamlessly, company spokeswoman Anne Hatfield told TheStreet.
Hatfield said the 16-foot tower can hold up to 300 small to mid-size packages and all customers have to do is walk up to it (its doors automatically open when it senses a person approach), use the screen to scan their mobile receipt's bar code and the tower disburses the package.
Marc Lore, chief executive of Walmart eCommerce U.S., at the company's shareholders meeting.
"It's pretty darn cool," Hatfield said. The tower is loaded by employees and is used for packages that generally are around the size of a microwave. For larger items, customers still have to go to the pickup counter to get their package.
McMillon also revealed that he envisions a Walmart that will eliminate the checkout process altogether. That shift would likely see checkout counters replaced by Scan and Go technology.
"We have started to invent the future of shopping again," McMillon said.
Plus, Marc Lore, chief executive of Walmart eCommerce U.S., reiterated that Walmart is testing same-day shipping at the meeting. He had previously revealed this to TheStreet in an exclusive interview.
"I'm looking forward to shaping the future of retail," Lore said.
In what seemed to be an obvious jab at Amazon, Lore said Walmart is "empowering our customers to shop smarter" by offering various ways they can get discounts when they shop online and that its own shipping service carries "no membership fee."
To get next-day shipping at Amazon, users have to pay for the Prime membership which costs $99 annually.
Under Lore's leadership, which came with Walmart's August acquisition of his e-commerce company Jet.com, Walmart saw its online sales spike 63% in the first quarter.
Walmart has also announced that it started testing a new delivery method that uses employees to deliver online purchases to customers' homes. The move expands on the retailer's Pickup Discount, announced in April, which offers customers the option to get a discount on certain items they buy online if they pick it up at a local store. Customers can still take advantage of Walmart's free two-day shipping, of course.
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Barbarian Days
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"Things changed after that between me and Mark… I followed him around at work, sitting in while he examined patients. He had been a bit of a prodigy when we were in college. After his father developed a tumor, Mark, who was pre-med, started studying cancer with an intensity that convinced many of his friends that his goal was to find a cure in time to save his father. As it turned out, his father didn't have cancer. But Mark kept on with his cancer studies. His interest was not in fact in oncology — in finding a cure — but in cancer education and prevention. By the time he entered medical school, he had created, with another student, a series of college courses on cancer and coauthored The Biology of Cancer Sourcebook, the text for a course that was eventually offered to tens of thousands of students. He cowrote a second book, Understanding Cancer, that became a bestselling university text, and he continued to lecture throughout the United States on cancer research, education, and prevention. 'The funny thing is, I'm not really interested in cancer,' Mark told me. 'I'm interested in people's response to it. A lot of cancer patients and survivors report that they never really lived till they got cancer, that it forced them to face things, to experience life more intensely. What you see in family practice is that families just can't afford to be superficial with each other anymore once someone has cancer. Corny as it sounds, what I'm really interested in is the human spirit — in how people react to stress and adversity. I'm fascinated by the way people fight back, by how they keep fighting their way to the surface.' Mark clawed at the air with his arms. What he was miming was the struggle to reach the surface through the turbulence of a large wave."
From the eighth chapter ("Against Dereliction") of William Finnegan's Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.
The chapter opens with Conrad, writing in The Mirror of the Sea: "The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by too much adulation."
Keep going:
Laird Hamilton reflects on the lessons of the waves
An elegy for Sherwin Nuland, author of my favorite book on medicine
One of boxing's great coaches tells how to lose your fear in the ring
Mitt Romney: What Matters Most to Me in Life
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Interviewer: What matters most to you — and why?
Mitt Romney: It's not one thing. So I'm gonna give you a longer answer.
One: I believe in God…
In believing in God, I believe therefore we are all his children. I believe that God loves all of us, and I believe that He loves us as you would love your children; some are doing naughty things, some are doing nice things, but you love them all. And I believe that I will be measured and you will be measured based upon what you have done for your fellow children of God…
The person I care for most in life is my wife.
We met in high school. I love her passionately. She is the most important person in my life. If I could do anything, on any day, it would be to be with her. That's what I enjoy most in life.
Close thereafter is to be with my kids.
My boys and their wives and now 23 grandkids. The greatest joy I have in life is being with them, sitting around in the backyard or at the beach — that's my greatest source of happiness and the most important thing to me.
Coming beyond that is a circle which includes my church and my sense of service to them… I happen to believe that the currency in life is the people that you love and care for you. The friends you have.
Most of what you've learned here, you'll forget. The people you've met here, you'll remember for the rest of your life – and will form a big part of your wealth. That's your balance sheet when life is over. Who loves you and who you love and who are your friends.
So what's the most important thing to me? My God, my wife, my kids, and my fellow human beings.
From the end of Mitt Romney's "View from the Top" interview on leadership and values, which he gave to Stanford's Graduate School of Business last year.
Keep it simple. Notice what things this star in business and politics didn't talk about in his answer.
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Read some others talk about their core beliefs:
Andrew Sullivan: What I believe
John Updike: What I believe
Wallace Stegner: What I believe
David Frum: What Does Secularism Offer in the Face of Mortality?
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Robert Wright: Given the fact that you're not looking forward to an afterlife, well… maybe the best approach is to just not think about death. But if you do think about it, is there a way you console yourself in the face of it?
David Frum: When you're younger, it seems a much more terrifying prospect than it does when you're older. I think we do see it coming and we accept it.
My consolation in my final hours, I hope, will be that I won't have left anything unsaid. I won't have left any of the people that I love in any doubt that I love them. That, to the extent of my ability, I've made provision for them. That they'll be secure after I'm gone…
There's something kind of megalomaniacal about wanting more, wanting our actions to have eternal consequence. I mean, I suppose that's literally true — if you have a baby, and the baby has a baby, and so on, then yes, your action has an eternal consequence. But we ourselves are going to be forgotten so soon, and those of us who aren't forgotten are going to be so misunderstood that they might be happier being forgotten.
There are a lot of things that are remembered for ill or even for derision. Whoever invented the Phlogiston theory, he's remembered — and his work is held up to mockery in science classes from now and for a long time to come.
We look at history and remember the people who left behind misery. Genghis Khan remains a celebrity to this day. But how many people know the name of the man who proved how cholera was caused? How many remember the dozens of obscure civil engineers who put in safe and reliable water piping so we wouldn't have it anymore?
Most of that desire for remembrance, it usually ends up pretty badly.
An exchange from Frum and Wright's interview last month in Wright's MeaningofLife.tv series. You can pick up Frum's newest Why Romney Lost or Wright's expansive book The Evolution of God.
So, I think the answer is a resounding not much. Though not exactly wrong, the approach is in many ways an exercise in managing expectations.
Though I disagree with a good bit of Frum's outlook, I thoroughly enjoyed this interview, as I do almost all of Robert Wright's conversations, especially those on his new series MeaningofLife.tv. It's a program devoted to the big questions, with guests who, like Frum, are leaders in their fields though not professionally or at least chiefly concerned with issues of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny.
This combination makes for an informal, direct exchange, where intelligent people can make dinner table points instead of polishing well-worn soundbites. As you'll see in the Frum interview, this is a man who's thought a lot about these things, though I'm not sure he's ever been asked a question like "Are you religious?" on camera.
His answer, by the way, is an interesting one. "I'm religious, but I'm not spiritual," Frum replies, echoing a common though unacknowledged thread in modern reform Judaism. It's the reversal of that well-worn yawn "I'm spiritual, but I'm…" Well, I can't even bring myself to type it.
If you want to hear more of Frum, I recommend watching his appearance on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, which features a very worthwhile back and forth about why middle class America is falling to pieces.
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Clive James thinks about mortality and the next generation
Existence for Existence's Sake?: Dostoevsky, Sam Harris, and others on the surprising reason we want to stay alive
Physicist Alan Lightman writes about the cost of immortality
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Interviewer: You've briefly discussed the ethics of having children and the evidence that parents are less happy and less productive than their child-free counterparts. Why did you decide to have children?
Sam Harris: I guess there are two possible answers. One is it's just a failure to be emotionally moved by the data. There are certain things you may understand to be true, but you just can't make their being true emotionally relevant enough to have it guide your behavior. That's one explanation.
I don't think it's the most likely reason in my case. I think it's more a matter of my feeling — based on who I am and who I'm married to and what she wanted and what I wanted — that we were very likely to be exceptions to the rule. There's no doubt a certain amount of self-deception if not delusion on offer there, when you begin looking at scientific data and imagining it doesn't apply to you.
But in our case, I think we stood a very good chance of being happy parents, having happy kids, and being glad that we were parents — and finding the alternative, alas retrospectively, unthinkable.
And that's sort of where we are. I'm a very happy father. I love my daughters. The idea that I might not have had them does seem unthinkable now.
But I'm also aware that having them has created forms of suffering that we wouldn't otherwise know. And we've certainly given hostages to fortune, as Francis Bacon said.
You worry about the future, you worry about all sorts of things that you'd be quite insouciant about if you were just on your own, living out your adulthood.
It's not without its downsides, but even the downsides have a silver lining. Being concerned about the future because you have kids is good ethically. And it does lead to a kind of productivity that might not otherwise be available…
To worry about the fate of civilization in the abstract is harder than worrying about what sorts of experiences your children are going to have in the future — and a future that hopefully extends beyond your own.
Sam Harris, speaking with Tim Ferriss in his most recent Four Hour Workweek interview (these comments can be heard at around the nineteen minute mark).
Currently on my nightstand is Sam's newest book, Islam and the Future of Tolerance, a short dialogue with Maajid Nawaz. Nawaz is one of the truly compelling contemporary public figures. A former Islamic extremist, he spent five years in an Egyptian prison for trying to topple the Mubarak government and establish a caliphate. Now he cuts a suave figure in London as the head of the anti-extremist think tank Quilliam. I encourage you to follow the work they do, especially his. You can watch Harris and Nawaz's illuminating discussion at their recent book launch at the Kennedy School below:
Calvin Trillin gives some heartfelt advice about prioritizing child-raising
Maajid talks about why we need to comprehend how Islamic the Islamic State is
Harris riffs on cops — and why we may need to cut them some slack
Charles Darwin Decides to Marry
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In late July of 1838, a twenty-nine-year-old Charles Darwin, mulling over his charmed courtship of cousin Emma Wedgwood, split two pages of his journal for a cost-benefit analysis in which he jotted the following:
"This is the Question [whether to marry or not].
Marry:
Children (if it Please God). Constant companion (& friend in old age) — who will feel interested in one. Object to be beloved & played with — better than a dog anyhow. Home, & someone to take care of house. Charms of music & female chit-chat — these things good for one's health. But terrible loss of time.
My God, it is intolerable to think of spending one's whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, & nothing after all. — No, no won't do. — Imagine living all one's day solitarily in smoky dirty London House. Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps — Compare this vision with the dingy reality of Grt. Marlbro' St.
Marry—Marry—Marry Q.E.D.,
Not Marry
Freedom to go where one liked. Choice of Society & little of it. Conversation of clever men at clubs. Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle.— To have the expense & anxiety of children — perhaps quarelling. Loss of time. — cannot read in
the Evenings — fatness & idleness — Anxiety & responsibility — less money for books &c — if many children forced to gain one's bread. (But then it is very bad for one's health to work too much.)
Perhaps my wife won't like London; then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool —
It being proved necessary to Marry.
Marry when? Soon or Late?
The Governor says soon for otherwise bad if one has children — one's character is more flexible — one's feelings more lively & if one does not marry soon, one misses so much good pure happiness.
But then if I married tomorrow: there would be an infinity of trouble & expense in getting & furnishing a house… Then how should I manage all my business if I were obliged to go every day walking with my wife.— Eheu!! I never should know French, or see the Continent, or go to America, or go up in a Balloon, or take solitary trip in Wales — poor slave. — you will be worse than a negro. And then horrid poverty, (without one's wife was better than an angel & had money). Never mind my boy — Cheer up — One cannot live this solitary life, with groggy old age, friendless & cold, & childless staring one in one's face, already beginning to wrinkle. Never mind, trust to chance. Keep a sharp look out — there is many a happy slave."
Selections from the diaries of Charles Darwin, which you can find neatly summarized in Adam Gopnik's short book Angels and Ages: Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern Age. And so the either-or above seemed to settle it. The Darwins were married on January 29th, 1829.
Gopnik, a fluent, often funny writer and hyper-articulate storyteller, has produced several assessments of Darwin the man, the spouse, and the father. In his essay "Is There a Secret to a Happy Marriage?," he hinges his theory of marriage on the relationship between Emma and Charles, opening:
Anyone who tells you their rules for a happy marriage doesn't have one. There's a truth universally acknowledged, or one that ought to be anyway.
Just as the people who write books about good sex are never people you would want to sleep with, and the academics who write articles about the disappearance of civility always sound ferociously angry, the people who write about the way to sustain a good marriage are usually on their third.
Gopnik goes on, quickly making his way to dissecting Darwin's marriage:
What made it work? My theory is that happy marriages, from the Darwins on down, are made up of a steady, unchanging formula of lust, laughter and loyalty.
The Darwins had lust, certainly — 10 children in 17 years suggests as much anyway — and they had laughter. Emma loved to tease Charles about his passion, already evident in youth, for obsessive theorizing.
"After our marriage," she wrote to him early on, "you will be forming theories about me, and if I am cross or out of temper you will only consider: 'What does that prove?' which will be a very philosophical way of considering it."
And loyalty? Well, despite Emma's Christian faith, she stood by him through all the evolutionary wars, and did for him the one thing only a loyal spouse can do — pretend he wasn't in when German journalists came calling.
So, marriages are made of lust, laughter and loyalty — but the three have to be kept in constant passage, transitively, back and forth, so that as one subsides for a time, the others rise.
The bachelor Alexander Hamilton describes his ideal date
J.R.R. Tolkien's advice for finding the right girl
John F. Kennedy's tumultuous courtship with Jackie
Steve Martin on the Death of His Father
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"My father… died in 1997 at age eighty-three, and afterward his friends told me how much they loved him. They told me how enjoyable he was, how outgoing he was, how funny and caring he was. I was surprised by these descriptions, because the number of funny or caring words that had passed between my father and me was few… When I was seven or eight years old, he suggested we play catch in the front yard. This offer to spend time together was so rare that I was confused about what I was supposed to do. We tossed the ball back and forth with cheerless formality…
My father… was not impressed [with my comedy act]. After my first appearance on Saturday Night Live, he wrote a bad review of me in his newsletter for the Newport Beach Association of Realtors, of which he was president: 'His performance did nothing to further his career.'… I believe my father didn't like what I was doing in my work, and was embarrassed by it. Perhaps he thought his friends were embarrassed by it, too, and the review was to indicate that he was not sanctioning this new comedy. Later, he gave an interview in a newspaper in which he said, 'I think Saturday Night Live is the most horrible thing on television.'… But as my career progressed, I noticed that my father remained uncomplimentary toward my comedy, and what I did about it still makes sense to me: I never discussed my work with him…
[Years later, just before my father's death] I was alone with him in his bedroom; his mind was alert but his body was failing. He said, almost buoyantly, 'I'm ready now.' I sat on the edge of the bed, and a silence fell over us. Then he said, 'I wish I could cry, I wish I could cry.'
At first, I took this as a comment on his condition, but am forever thankful that I pushed on. 'What do you want to cry about?' I said.
'For all the love I received but couldn't return.'
I felt a chill of familiarity.
There was another lengthy silence as we looked into each other's eyes. At last, he said, 'You did everything I wanted to do.'
'I did it for you,' I said. Then we wept for the lost years. I was glad I didn't say the more complicated truth: 'I did it because of you.'"
A selection from Martin's 2008 memoir Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life.
Related paths:
Peter Hitchens reflects on how the wish to please one's parents can distort our relationship to the past
Calvin Trillin on the singular priority of good parents
Louis Simpson's poem — A light is on in my father's study…
Why Radicals Always Target the Family
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"As our families fragment, so do the deepest structures of our consciousness. When a certain kind of family breaks down, so do the values which once linked parents and children, and gave continuity and character to our inherited world.
Which is precisely why ideological radicals have focused on the family. Change it, and you change humanity. But let's turn the argument around: if changing the family would change the world, protecting the family might be the best way of protecting our world.
Which is, I believe, what our religious tradition has been doing until now — because the Bible is above all a book about the family. It begins with one: Adam and Eve, and the command to bring the next generation into being. And from then on the book of Genesis never relaxed its grip on the subject. It endlessly turns to some new variation in the relationship between husbands and wives, parents and children. Abraham and Sarah; Isaac and Rebecca; Jacob, Rachel and Leah: these aren't miracle workers or agents of salvation. The heroes and heroines of Genesis are simply people living out their lives in the presence of God and the context of their families.
And we can perhaps now see that this forms the foundation of the Bible's larger moral and social themes. The family is the matrix of individuality. It's that enclosed space in which we work out, in relation to stable sources of affection, a highly differentiated sense of who we are. It's hard to imagine a culture which didn't possess a close family structure arriving at the breathtaking idea that the human individual is cast in the image of God.
De Tocqueville once wrote that 'as long as family feeling is kept alive, the opponent of oppression is never alone.' By which he meant that the family is the great protection of the individual against the state. It's no coincidence that totalitarian regimes have often attacked the family. Against this, it was the Bible that gave rise to the great prophets who dared to criticize kings. The family is the birthplace of liberty.
Not only that, it's where we care for dependents — the very young and the very old, those to whom we gave birth and who gave birth to us. And it's a short step from this to the biblical vision of society as an extended family, in which the poor and powerless make a claim on us, by virtue not of abstract principle but of feelings of kinship. It's this that lies behind the prophetic identification with the widow, the orphan, and the stranger. They're not merely people with theoretical rights. They're part of the family."
Pulled from part three of Jonathan Sacks's 1990 Reith Lecture for the BBC.
You can find this and the rest of Sack's excellent, six-part lecture in his book The Persistence of Faith: Morality and Society in a Secular Age. As with anything from Sacks, however, try to enjoy it in audio form. His voice makes Morgan Freeman sound like Gilbert Gottfriend.
Peter Hitchens: why we all wish to be children again
MLK riffs on the moral of the good Samaritan story
Theodore Roosevelt on the need to set a strong example as a man
Calvin Trillin on Parenting: Your Children Are Either the Center of Your Life or They're Not — the Rest Is Commentary
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"There was no doubt about [my wife's] priorities. While our girls were growing up, she hated being separated from them; after a two-week trip to Asia, when they were about ten and thirteen, she decided that one week was her limit. Concerning children's constitutional right to sit down to dinner with their parents every night, Alice tended toward strict constructionism. When it came to trying to decide which theories of child-rearing were highly beneficial and which were absolutely ruinous to the future of your child — a subject of considerable discussion among some parents we knew — we agreed on a simple notion: your children are either the center of your life or they're not, and the rest is commentary.
After both girls were out of college, there was a period when Abigail was living in San Francisco while Sarah was in Los Angeles. Alice said that if they remained where they were we would simply have to live in California for part of the year. 'If we want to be convenient to both of them,' I'd say, 'we could find a nice little place in between — Bakersfield, or maybe Fresno.' Alice would shoot me the look I associated with a catch phrase from a radio sitcom I used to listen to as a boy ''Tain't funny, McGee.' By then, though, her desire to be near them was no longer based partly on her need to influence what kind of people they would become. In her New Yorker article about the recurrence scare in 1990, at a time when Sarah was a sophomore at Yale and Abigail was in Teach for America in Los Angeles, Alice wrote:
In the days after that bone scan, I couldn't find a hopeful way out… I did manage to imagine uplifting conversations I might have with my daughters about how it was O.K. for me to die this time, as it absolutely had not been when they were four and seven, and I had foreseen their adoring but occasionally absent-minded father getting them the wrong kind of sneakers or losing track of their dental appointments after I was gone. Now I was sure that I had told them everything of importance I knew; they had understood it all and figured out a lot on their own, and were as close to perfect as they could possibly be. Then it occurred to me that neither of them was married yet, and I would hate to miss the weddings and the grandchildren. I speculated about which of my friends I would assign to help them pick out their wedding dresses. Then I cried and decided that I really wanted to stay around.
My problem in 1976 would have been much more serious than sneakers and dental appointments, I realized, when I finally allowed myself to dwell on what would have happened if Alice hadn't survived. The real problem would have been that I couldn't imagine trusting anyone else to be involved in raising our girls. I not only thought they needed to know everything of importance that Alice knew; I also thought, I suppose, that she was the only person who knew it. When I'm asked how both of our daughters came to be involved in the sort of work they do — Abigail is a legal-services attorney for children, Sarah is a clinical social worker — I, naturally, deny having anything to do with it. 'I want to assure you that I tried to instill in them the value of selfishness and even rapaciousness,' I say. 'When Abigail came down to breakfast during her years in high school, I would tell her the temperature and the starting salary for an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.' But they had Alice there as a model. Because she survived, they were exposed every day to someone who (as a friend wrote after Alice died) managed to 'navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.' Sneakers and dental appointments are the kind of things you can figure out, or find someone to figure out. Exemplars are hard to come by."
Excerpted from chapter seven of Calvin Trillin's 2006 book About Alice.
In a recent interview with Olivia Gentile, Trillin offered a few simple words that illuminate the above point, only this time from the perspective of grandfatherhood:
Do you feel [your daughters are] raising their kids with pretty much your values and techniques?
Yeah. Alice used to say that we were easy about the small things and strict about the large things. By large things, she basically meant values…
I've always believed that parenting essentially boils down to one thing: Your kids are either the center of your life or they're not, and the rest is commentary.
So, the question of which childrearing book you read or something like that is really not relevant. It doesn't make any difference because, in the first place, you're not going to act against your own nature anyway, and the kids see you in so many different situations that you can't put in some kind of artificial system.
Trillin dedicated About Alice to those grandchildren. Picture above: Trillin and Alice.
As she sends her son off to college…
Inside the marriage of Martin Amis and Isabel Fonseca
"To My Mother" by Wendell Berry
The Last Gentleman on the Titanic
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"'If anything should happen to me, tell my wife in New York that I've done my best in doing my duty.'
This was the last message of Benjamin Guggenheim, of the famous banking family, dictated to a steward only a short while before the banker sank to his death with the Titanic. It was was not until several days later that the message was received by Mrs. Guggenheim.
It was delivered by James Etches, assistant steward in the first cabin of the Titanic, to whom Mr. Guggenheim communicated it. Etches appeared at the St. Regis Hotel and inquired for Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim. He said that he had a message from Benjamin Guggenheim, and that it had to be delivered in person.
Mrs. Guggenheim was in the care of Daniel Guggenheim, whose apartments are at the St. Regis. The steward was admitted, but was not permitted to see Mrs. Guggenheim, who is prostrated with grief. He insisted that he must see her personally, but finally consented to transmit the message through her brother-in-law.
'We were together almost to the end,' said the steward. 'I was saved. He went down with the ship. But that isn't what I want to tell Mrs. Guggenheim.'
Then the steward produced a piece of paper. He had written the message on it, he said, to be certain that it would be correct. The message was as given.
'That's all he said' added the steward, 'there wasn't time for more.'
Little by little Mr. Guggenheim got the account of his brother's death from the steward. It was the first definite news that he had received of his brother.
'Mr. Guggenheim was one of my charges,' said the steward anew. 'He had his secretary with him. His name was Giglio, I believe, an Armenian, about twenty-four years old. Both died like soldiers.
'When the crash came I awakened them and told them to get dressed. A few minutes later I went into their rooms and helped them to get ready. I put a life preserver on Mr. Guggenheim. He said it hurt him in the back. There was plenty of time and I took it off, adjusted it, and then put it on him again. It was all right this time.
'They wanted to get out on deck with only a few clothes on, but I pulled a heavy sweater over Mr. Guggenheim's life belt, and then they both went out. They stayed together and I could see what they were doing. They were going from one lifeboat to another helping the women and children. Mr. Guggenheim would shout out, 'Women first,' and he was of great assistance to the officers.
'Things weren't so bad at first, but when I saw Mr. Guggenheim about three quarters of an hour after the crash there was great excitement. What surprised me was that both Mr. Guggenheim and his secretary were dressed in their evening clothes. They had deliberately taken off their sweaters,' and as nearly as I can remember they wore no life belts at all.
'What's that for?' I asked.
'We've dressed up in our best,' replied Mr. Guggenheim, 'and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.' It was then he told me about the message to his wife and that is what I have come here for.
'Well, shortly after the last few boats were lowered and I was ordered by the deck officer to man an oar, I waved good-bye to Mr. Guggenheim, and that was the last I saw of him and his Armenian secretary.'"
The full text of an article published on Sunday, April 21st, 1912 in the Chicago Record-Herald, later reprinted in Jay Henry Mowbray's The Sinking of the Titanic.
Posted by jrbenjamin in Poetry
family, forgiveness, Paul Newman, Poem, Poet, poetry, Road to Perdition, Sam Mendes, To My Mother, Tom Hanks, Wendell Berry, Writing
I was your rebellious son,
do you remember? Sometimes
I wonder if you do remember,
so complete has your forgiveness been.
So complete has your forgiveness been
I wonder sometimes if it did not
precede my wrong, and I erred,
safe found, within your love,
prepared ahead of me, the way home,
or my bed at night, so that almost
I should forgive you, who perhaps
foresaw the worst that I might do,
and forgave before I could act,
causing me to smile now, looking back,
to see how paltry was my worst,
compared to your forgiveness of it
already given. And this, then,
is the vision of that Heaven of which
we have heard, where those who love
each other have forgiven each other,
where, for that, the leaves are green,
the light a music in the air,
and all is unentangled,
and all is undismayed.
"To My Mother" by Wendell Berry.
One of my favorite movies is Sam Mendes's Road to Perdition. There's an unforgettable early scene in that unfairly forgotten film, where Michael Sullivan (played by Tom Hanks) has just been lamenting to his adopted father John Rooney (played by Paul Newman) the recent rebelliousness of his eldest son. After listening, an amused Newman stares out the window and responds. "Natural law: sons were put on this earth to trouble their fathers." It's a brilliant line, one which — for better or for worse — the fathers and mothers of my friends, from early on to late college-y age, would hear now with a slight smile of recognition, as I would hope they'd read this poem.
I took the picture at my friend Peter's farm near Keswick, Virginia.
More from Berry:
"How to Be a Poet (to Remind Myself)"
Redeem the Time Being from Insignificance
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The Christmas Feast is already a fading memory,
And already the mind begins to be vaguely aware
Of an unpleasant whiff of apprehension at the thought
Of Lent and Good Friday which cannot, after all, now
Be very far off. But, for the time being, here we all are,
Back in the moderate Aristotelian city
Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid's geometry
And Newton's mechanics would account for our experience,
And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.
It seems to have shrunk during the holidays. The streets
Are much narrower than we remembered; we had forgotten
The office was as depressing as this…
The Time Being is, in a sense, the most trying time of all.
For the innocent children who whispered so excitedly
Outside the locked door where they knew the presents to be
Grew up when it opened. Now, recollecting that moment
We can repress the joy, but the guilt remains conscious;
Remembering the stable where for once in our lives
Everything became a You and nothing was an It.
And craving the sensation but ignoring the cause,
We look round for something, no matter what, to inhibit
Our self-reflection, and the obvious thing for that purpose
Would be some great suffering. So, once we have met the Son,
We are tempted ever after to pray to the Father;
"Lead us into temptation and evil for our sake."
They will come, all right, don't worry; probably in a form
That we do not expect, and certainly with a force
More dreadful than we can imagine. In the meantime
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair,
Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem
From insignificance. The happy morning is over,
The night of agony still to come; the time is noon:
When the Spirit must practice his scales of rejoicing
Without even a hostile audience, and the Soul endure
A silence that is neither for nor against her faith
That God's Will will be done, That, in spite of her prayers,
God will cheat no one, not even the world of its triumph.
He is the Way.
Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness;
You will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures.
He is the Truth.
Seek Him in the Kingdom of Anxiety;
You will come to a great city that has expected your return for years.
He is the Life.
Love Him in the World of the Flesh;
And at your marriage all its occasions shall dance for joy.
From W.H. Auden's For the Time Being.
My aunt, the artist Mary McCleary, inscribed the above chorus on the letter she gave me the day I graduated from college. That card is now the centerpiece of the bulletin board above my desk. (Given how little time there is now for poetry, I can't be too surprised that guests are yet to identify much less ask about the card. But then again, I wasn't aware of the reference 'til I received the card from MM.)
The entirety of "For the Time Being" stretches over 1,400 lines. (For perspective: a few of Shakespeare's plays are less than 2,000 lines.) I can't find the full text online, but if anyone knows where I can, please send a link to my email or drop it in the comments area.*
From a technical standpoint, the above section is a sterling example of what postmodernism can do so long as it has a substantive core and also wears itself lightly. That may sound simple in principle; in practice, it's not. Like much of Auden's work, the subversion of classical form here does not signal a disregard for traditional ideas. The free verse is flecked with obvious nods to scripture ("lead us into temptation") — nods which, like a photographer's macrographic study, expose otherwise unseen parts of a whole we had gotten used to identifying by rote. Moreover, with the chorus — especially that fantastic phrase "Kingdom of Anxiety" — there is a redressing of old ideas which cloaks them in modern clothes. After all, who had anxiety in the first century?
As the verses clearly indicate, "For the Time Being" is a poem about the holidays. These words, and in particular the line I misremembered as "the time being redeemed of insignificance," were rattling around my head throughout quieter moments at my family's Thanksgiving. And although they work especially well as a panacea for post-holiday melancholy, they may get more mental mileage if you are reminded of them before the official Christmas week kicks off.
The pictures are of Auden, a man who once said that his face looked like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
*Again the brilliant Ted Rey has come through and found an archived full text of "For the Time Being". As always, thank you, Ted.


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And so far we've looked at critical tasks.
We've looked at standards, benchmarks, competency models and frameworks.
these might be really familiar tools.
can work towards a more perfect paper, a great paper, etc.
So the rubrics are self assessment tools and they're also tools used by others.
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So let's consider an example of a writing rubric.
where one might fall along those levels of competencies.
pertain to the kind of writing necessary for that stage or for a particular job.
It might be really handy to know what those rubrics say.
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Michael Palin's Erebus is not only a good read, but also a well-researched account of a remarkable vessel, which helped pioneer the exploration of polar regions in the mid-19th century. Today, H.M.S. Erebus is most famous for its tragic loss in the late 1840s, along with its sister ship HMS Terror, their 129-strong crews and leader Sir John Franklin, whilst searching for the North West Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
However, as Palin vividly recounts, over a four-year period from 1839 to 1843, Erebus and Terror had successfully taken James Clark Ross and his expedition repeatedly into Antarctic waters from an over-wintering base in Tasmania and brought them safely back to Britain. In our typically British way, Franklin's 'glorious' failure is hugely celebrated, whilst Ross's great scientific achievement is largely ignored. Hopefully, Palin's Erebus will help restore the balance.
For geologists it is the Antarctic part of the Erebus story that is perhaps of most interest. The 1838 British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting had recognized the need to measure terrestrial magnetism. Scientists such as the astronomer John Herschel [1792-1871] and the soldier-turned-geophysicist Edward Sabine [1788-1883] successfully prevailed upon Lord Melbourne [1779-1848], the prime minister, to support a magnetic survey of Antarctica. For the task, the Admiralty refitted two 'retired' warships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. Known as bomb-ships, their small size, shallow draught and reinforced hulls to withstand the recoil from their armament of siege mortars and cannon, proved well-suited for tackling icy polar seas.
Under the captaincy of James Clark Ross [1800-1862], the aim of the voyage was to help establish a system of magnetic observatories across the southern hemisphere. Scientifically, Ross was supported by his surgeon, Robert McCormick [1800-1890], and the assistant surgeon Joseph Dalton Hooker [1817-1911]. Whilst Hooker was knighted and showered with honours for many subsequent achievements in botany and palaeobotany, McCormick has largely slipped from view. He is mainly remembered for abandoning HMS Beagle at Rio de Janiero in 1832, complaining that Captain Fitzroy favoured Darwin and provided him with greater opportunities for collecting.
Palin quotes Hooker recounting to his father how McCormick '…takes no interest but in bird shooting and collecting rocks. I am nolens volens the Naturalist for which I enjoy no other advantage other than the Captain's cabin, and think myself amply repaid'. Like Darwin, McCormick was an excellent shot. On his return to England, the unfortunate McCormick tried repeatedly for advancement in the Navy and eventually, in 1859 became Deputy Inspector of Hospitals. He even had to privately publish his account of his polar and global seafaring, but this has been republished in recent years (Voyages of Discovery in Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World, by R. McCormick 1884 reprint 2014, Cambridge University Press, 2 vols. ISBN 9781108071710).
Fortunately, Palin resists the temptation to recount the tale as one of his famous 'Ripping Yarns', but at times it is difficult not to view the ultimately tragic tale of Franklin, Erebus and Terror as another 'Ripping Yarn'.
Reviewed by Douglas Palmer
EREBUS: THE STORY OF A SHIP, by Michael Palin, 2018. Published by: Random House Books, 352 pp. (hbk.) ISBN 978184120. List Price: £20.00 W: www.penguin.co.uk


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Marijuana legalized in Argentina: war on drugs "absolute failure"
Wednesdays 23 of April
legalize the drug consumption in Argentina the International – (10:00 hrs.)
A court of Buenos Aires annuls thousands of cases in proceedings of defendant to have marijuana
They consider that consuming they are the factor of a chain that finishes in the narcotics trafficker The Financier in line Buenos Aires, 23 of April.
A federal court of Buenos Aires legalizeed the individual drug consumption in the Argentine capital, with which they would be annulled thousand of cases in proceedings of people accused to have small amounts of marijuana, according to the failure that publishes the press of Buenos Aires today.
The failure indicates that Room 1 of Federal Camera of Appeals declared the article unconstitutionality of the law that punishes the drug users, promulgated in 1989.
The questioned norm punishes the consumers to consider that they are the base of a chain that finishes in the narcotics trafficker. But the court considered that such single presumption generated "an avalanche of files destined to consumers without managing to ascend in the links of the chain of the drug traffic".
The failure was applied to the case of two young people stopped by the Police by cigarette possession of marijuana and tablets of �xtasis when they went to a celebration of electronic music in Buenos Aires, in May of 2007.
Although the question must be dissolved in the Supreme Court of Justice, the failure of the court of Buenos Aires is in line with the policy of the Government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in reforming the laws to legalize the drug consumption.
During the 51 Extraordinary Session of the Economic and Social Council of the UN, celebrated the month last in Vienna, Argentine minister of Justice and Seguridad, An�bal Fernandez, noted the "absolute failure" of the policy to punish the drug users.
Of this form, and for the first time in 30 years, Argentina the consumer left his adhesion to the American position to persecute so much to the drug dealer like a. (With EFE/MVC information)
http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/
At last, the prohibition era is starting to disintegrate.
How long will it be before other countries realize the emperor has no clothes, and abandon this absurd edict from the evil empire?
The americans have more people in prison (2006) than China (2008).
That culture, where breasts cannot be shown on television, has exported its neanderthal ideas of justice and how to deal with medical and social ills to countries that to their eternal shame, simply obeyed like sheep. The fact of the matter is, Marijuana should never have been made illegal, just as alcohol should never have been made illegal, and the same goes for all other 'drugs'. The countries with sensible approaches to 'drug' taking were the most peaceful, most civilized countries, with very small prison populations and low crime rates. This evidence was ignored throughout the twentieth century and the result, in america's case, is an exploding prison population, one of the most violent countries on earth, and a culture of criminality that stretches from the drug dealer in the street right up to the CIA
Once again, this demonstrates how important an independent judiciary is to the workings of a free country. Intelligent judges with a free hand can interpret the law correctly. In a country where the judiciary is broken or corrupt or puritanical or insane, like the the USA, the country can be destroyed.
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4 Responses to "Marijuana legalized in Argentina: war on drugs "absolute failure""
chriszanf Says:
An interesting page of the many products whose central ingredients were later subject to prohibition:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm
irdial Says:
Lew Rockwell says it well:
Americans, perhaps like all people, have a remarkable capacity for tuning out unpleasantries that do not directly affect them. I'm thinking here of wars on foreign lands, but also the astonishing fact that the United States has become the world's most jail-loving country, with well over 1 in 100 adults living as slaves in a prison. Building and managing prisons, and locking people up, have become major facets of government power in our time, and it is long past time for those who love liberty to start to care.
Before we get to the reasons why, look at the facts as reported by the New York Times. The U.S. leads the world in prisoner production. There are 2.3 million people behind bars. China, with four times as many people, has 1.6 million in prison. In terms of population, the US has 751 people in prison for every 100,000, while the closest competitor in this regard is Russia with 627. I'm struck by this figure: 531 in Cuba. The median global rate is 125.
What's amazing is that most of this imprisoning trend is recent, dating really from the 1980s, and most of the change is due to drug laws. From 1925 to 1975, the rate of imprisonment was stable at 110, lower than the international average, which is what you might expect in a country that purports to value freedom. But then it suddenly shot up in the 1980s. There were 30,000 people in jail for drugs in 1980, while today there are half a million.
Other factors include the criminalization of nearly everything these days, even passing bad checks or the pettiest of thefts. And judges are under all sorts of minimum sentencing requirements. Now, before we move to causes and answers, please consider what jail means. The people inside are slaves of the state. They are captured and held and regarded by their captors as nothing other than biological beings that take up space. The delivery of all services to them is contingent on the whims of their masters, who have no stake in the outcome at all.
Now, you might say that this is necessary for some people, but be aware that it is the ultimate assault on human dignity. They are "paying the price" for their actions, but no one is in a position to benefit from the price paid. They aren't working off debts or compensating victims or struggling to overcome anything. They are just "doing time," costing taxpayers almost $25,000 a year per person. That's all these people are to society: a cost, and they are treated as such.
And the communities in which they exist in these prisons consist of other un-valued people, and they become socialized into this mentality that is utterly contrary to every notion of civilization. Then there are the relentless threat and reality of violence, the unspeakable noise, the pervasiveness of every moral perversity. In short, prisons are Hell. It can be no wonder that they rehabilitate no one. As George Barnard Shaw said, "imprisonment is as irrevocable as death."
What's more, everything we know about government applies to this ultimate government program. It is expensive (states alone spend $44 billion on prisons every year), inefficient, brutal, and irrational. The modern prison system is also a relatively new phenomenon in history, one that is used to enforce political priorities (the drug war) rather than punish real crimes. It is also manipulated by political passions rather than a genuine concern for justice. The results of the drug war are not to reduce consumption but rather the opposite. Illegal drugs are now a $100 billion dollar industry in the US, while the drug war itself costs taxpayers $19 billion, even as the costs of running the justice system are skyrocketing (up 418% percent in 25 years).
People say that crime is down, so this must be working. Well, that depends on what you mean by crime. Drug use and distribution are associated with violence solely because they are illegal. They are crimes because the state says they are crimes, but they do not fit within the usual definition we find in the history of political philosophy, which centers on the violation of person or property. What's more, the "crime" of drug use and distribution hasn't really been kept down; it has only gone further underground. It's a major irony and commentary on the workability of prisons that drug markets are very active there.
Now to causes. Some social scientists give the predictable explanation that all this is due to the lack of a "social safety net" in the U.S. In the first place, the U.S. has had such a net for a hundred years, and yet these people seem not to have noticed, even though no such net is big enough for some people. Moreover, it is more likely the very presence of such a net
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California to Examine Voting Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities
By Doug Chapin May 26, 2015
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The right to vote for Californians with intellectual disabilities is about to get more protection as a federal investigation and new state legislation combine to examine how the state handles the franchise for people who require conservatorships. The LA Times has more in the story of Stephen Lopate:
Stephen Lopate was just a boy when he first mentioned he wanted to vote someday in a presidential election …
Years later, when he turned 18, Lopate's mother sought a court guardianship of her severely autistic son so that she could oversee his medical affairs and other legal matters.
But she and Lopate were horrified and confused when they discovered that the move would result in her son being stripped of his right to vote.
"I have always made sure … that he knows his opinion matters," said Lopate's mother, Teresa Thompson. "It was just awful."
Thompson complained to a local disability rights group in Los Angeles, setting off a chain of events that led this week to federal authorities announcing they are investigating allegations that California has systematically and illegally denied intellectually disabled residents such as Lopate the right to vote.
The issue was how the courts were interpreting the interaction between a request for conservatorship and the concept of capacity to vote:
Before Lopate's 18th birthday, his mother began the process of applying for a limited conservatorship over her son. Lopate is endlessly curious and observant, but has trouble talking and can sometimes become overwhelmed, his mother said.
Thompson attended a self-help clinic and was asked whether Lopate was able to fill out a voter registration form on his own. She answered no, because he needs help with anything that involves communicating.
That, she found out, meant she was essentially signing away her son's right to vote. A court-appointed attorney assigned to assist Lopate told a judge that Lopate should not be given the ability to vote.
"His attorney told me that it would be inconsistent with the concept of conservatorship for Stephen to have the right to vote," Thompson said. "I was very upset."
She complained to a disability rights advocacy group, which set off a chain of events culminating in a federal investigation:
A lawyer with [the advocacy] group conducted a review of 61 conservatorship cases involving adults with developmental disabilities in L.A. County and found that nearly 90% of the people had been disqualified from voting, according to the group's complaint.
A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Superior Court said court officials have not yet received a copy of the complaint and would respond to the Department of Justice once they do.
Investigators from the U.S. Department of Justice in Sacramento have requested records from the state, including those that would show the number of people disqualified from voting in each county and an explanation of policies for disqualifying people under limited conservatorship from voting.
Lopate's experience has also spurred the Legislature into action, according to the Associated Press:
SB589 would make it clear that those who are under a court guardianship because of disabilities are presumed to be mentally competent to vote unless a judge specifically finds that they are incapable of voting even with reasonable accommodations.
The measure by Sen. Marty Block, a Democrat from San Diego, was approved days after the U.S. Department of Justice announced it is investigating whether California is denying voting rights to those under conservatorships …
The measure passed the Senate, 27-10, on Friday, and now goes to the Assembly.
While it would appear that most of this activity is happening outside the realm (and control) of election officials, it does highlight the importance of acknowledging the needs of people with intellectual disabilities. As our understanding of intellectual disabilities improves – and the awareness of the numbers of people affected by them increases – it's increasingly clear that the concept of capacity is far more nuanced than previously enforced.
Just as election offices work to make voting accessible to voters with language needs or physical disabilities, a better understanding of intellectual disabilities will allow offices to design forms, procedures and other tools to ensure that voters with the capacity to cast a ballot are not prevented from doing so because of other legal protections offered to them.
This is a fascinating issue; it'll be interesting to see how California's approach affects voting both within the Golden State and nationwide. Stay tuned.
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Two cars had been involved in a collision, said D.C. police Cmdr. John Branch, and a third person later arrived at the scene. One of the people involved in the collision allegedly shot that man, who later died at a hospital.
"While the officers were still on scene investigating this incident, it was brought to their attention that there was a subject that was armed with a gun," Branch said. The armed person, he said, was confronted and taken into custody.
Police offered no further details, citing an ongoing investigation.
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VAT completed the 2016 fiscal year with a strong fourth quarter. Order intake was CHF 168.1 million, up 64.8% from the previous year and the order backlog at year-end amounted to CHF 122.1 million, a plus of 69.8%. Net sales reached CHF 142.7 million, representing an increase of 46.4% year on year. VAT took advantage of high investments in manufacturing facilities mainly in Asia and the United States.
VAT reported record results in 2016, driven by strong customer demand and a further expansion of its leading market position. VAT entered a new chapter in its history with the successful initial public offering (IPO) on April 14, 2016 on the SIX Swiss Exchange. The transition from a privately held enterprise, with more than 50 years' experience in vacuum valve technology, to a publicly listed company marked a major step forward and further enhanced VAT's position as a global market leader in the vacuum valves segment.
Growth of VAT's primary markets accelerated throughout 2016, driven by the rapid proliferation of microelectronics and displays in the industry, our daily life, and new technologies. As the global market leader in high-end vacuum valves, VAT was able to benefit from this positive development and to outgrow the market.
Continued miniaturization of high performing micro-electronic devices led to higher manufacturing complexity and additional production steps. One example is 3D NAND flash memory device technology, which consists of more than 60 nano-layers to significantly increase storage capacity while reducing power consumption at the same time. 3D NAND devices require highly performing and ultra-clean manufacturing processes, free of particles and other contaminants. To achieve such clean manufacturing conditions, advanced sub-components such as high-vacuum valves are mission critical. Customer investments in these highly demanding components have driven VAT's valve sales for the semiconductor industry in 2016. The displays business mainly profited from capacity ramp-ups in Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) production. OLED delivers brighter colors combined with reduced energy consumption, making it highly attractive for the new generation of smartphones. Remarkable capacity was built up mainly in Korea and China to meet the upcoming demand in 2017 and beyond. Compared to LCD technology, OLED needs additional vacuum deposition steps for the organic layers that result in a higher number of valves installed per manufacturing line.
In 2016, VAT's order intake was CHF 561.9 million, up 31.3% from the previous year, while the order backlog increased to CHF 122.1 million at year-end. Net sales of CHF 507.9 million represented an increase of 23.6% compared to a year earlier. Net sales increased in the Valves and Global Service segments and were flat in the Industry segment. The Group net sales growth includes a positive impact from foreign exchange movements in 2016 of about 5%.
As a result of the strong growth in net sales, VAT increased its gross profit by CHF 57.0 million, or 21.8%, to CHF 318.0 million. The decline in the gross margin from 63.5% to 62.6% is mainly the result of the change in the product mix as the Display & Solar business more than doubled its sales in 2016, but has slightly lower gross margins than the Semiconductor business for example.
Adjusted EBITDA for the year improved by 24.7% to CHF 158.1 million. The adjusted EBITDA margin increased to 31.1% compared to 30.8% in the previous year despite investments in future growth and additional costs associated with the strong increase in demand in 2016.
The conversion of the shareholder loan of CHF 414.1 million into equity as part of the IPO in April, the refinancing of the outstanding senior secured credit facility of USD 276 million with a new syndicated five-year revolving credit facility of USD 300 million and further deleveraging of the balance sheet lowered finance costs from CHF 71.4 million to CHF 37.7 million and will have a positive impact on VAT's future cash flows from financing activities.
The effective tax rate in 2016 of 23.5% was higher than the target range of 18% to 20%, due to the non-tax deductibility of certain IPO-related costs.
For the full year 2016, VAT realized a net income attributable to shareholders of CHF 67.2 million. The improvement was the result of higher operating profits coupled with lower net finance costs and a lower tax rate.
On December 31, 2016, VAT's net debt amounted to CHF 133.9 million, representing a leverage ratio expressed as Net Debt to EBITDA of 0.9 times. The equity ratio at year-end amounted to 57.8%.
CHF 128.1 million from CHF 105.6 million in 2015. The improvement was driven by the better operating performance coupled with tight working capital management. Net trade working capital decreased from 22.9% at the end of 2015 to 20.2% of sales at the end of 2016. In the medium term, VAT expects trade working capital to be around 20% of sales. The free cash flow margin was 25.2% and the free cash flow conversion rate was 85.6% of EBITDA.
At the end of 2016, VAT had 1,439 employees worldwide, an increase of 250, or 21.0%, compared with the end of 2015, reflecting the strong growth of our business.
Valves, the largest segment of VAT Group, had a record order intake in Q4 of CHF 139.7 million, a plus of 75.3% over the previous year and realized net sales of CHF 116.4 million - a plus of 54.6% - in the fourth quarter of 2016. Ongoing high demand from key customers and the absence of the normal slowdown towards year-end contributed to these strong results.
For the full year, net sales in the Valves segment grew to CHF 394.6 million, an increase of 27.5% compared to the previous year. Growth was strongest in the Semiconductor and Display & Solar business units. Sales increased in Modules and were stable in General Vacuum. Segment EBITDA rose 32.0% to CHF 129.3 million, leading to a segment EBITDA margin of 30.3%. The decline in the full year margin from 31.6% in 2015 was mainly the result of changes in the product mix as the display business carries slightly lower average margins, and by costs associated with growing the business, such as investments to increase production and higher research and development expenses.
Global Service increased its order intake in the fourth quarter by 34.0% to CHF 20.9 million and recorded net sales of CHF 20.4 million a plus of 35.1% compared to the previous year.
Net sales for the year increased by 17.3% to reach CHF 81.9 million. Growth was strongest for retrofits while spare parts and service sales also increased. Segment EBITDA rose by 12.9% to CHF 40.5 million, leading to a segment EBITDA margin of 49.4%. The margin was supported by ongoing performance improvement programs such as the optimization of valve repair turnaround time to increase throughput, while costs associated with growing the business had a slightly dampening effect.
Order intake in the Industry segment increased by 11.9% to CHF 7.5 million in Q4 with new orders coming mainly from Europe and the US. Net sales reached CHF 5.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2016, a decline of 15.7%. This was the result of higher internal sales to support the Valves segment.
Net sales in the Industry segment were CHF 31.4 million in 2016, a decrease of 0.5% compared with the year before. However, internal sales (not included in the net sales number) to the Valves segment grew, reflecting the positive market for semiconductor manufacturing equipment in 2016. Sales to the automotive sector remained stable, while sales to other markets were steady to slightly lower. Segment EBITDA rose by 5.8% to CHF 10.3 million, leading to a segment EBITDA margin of 22.1% compared to 21.4% in 2015. The positive margin development was supported by productivity improvements in VAT's facilities in Switzerland and Romania, as well as other operational excellence measures implemented as part of the VATmotion initiative.
Megatrends such as Big Data, the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, cloud computing and e-mobility are resulting in ever greater demand for advanced manufacturing technologies, including mission-critical vacuum components. Leading digital device and display manufacturers are continuing to invest in fabrication expansion and technology upgrades. As the world market leader for advanced high-vacuum valves, VAT expects to continue to benefit from these developments.
For 2017, VAT expects market demand to remain strong. Ongoing investments in semiconductor manufacturing equipment and the strong investment cycle for high-vacuum equipment for OLED display manufacturing are expected to be the main drivers of continued growth. The Modules, General Vacuum, Global Service and Industry businesses are also expected to contribute to a positive 2017 development.
VAT expects to grow full-year net sales by at least 20% at constant FX rates. The company also expects to maintain its adjusted EBITDA margin compared with the level in 2016. The mid-term EBITDA margin target of 33% remains in place. However, investments to support VAT's ongoing growth, as well as increased costs needed to quickly adapt capacity are expected to slow down the rate of margin expansion towards this target.
VAT expects capital expenditures in 2017 and 2018 to be around 5% of sales, above the target level of 4% of sales over the cycle, again as the result of investments to meet the demands of the growing market.
Dr. Horst Heidsieck, Chairman of VAT Group since 2014, has decided not to stand for re-election at the upcoming VAT Group annual general meeting (AGM) on May 17, 2017. The Board of Directors has acknowledged his decision with regret and thanks Dr. Heidsieck for his outstanding contribution during his tenure as Chairman.
Alfred Gantner, Vice-Chairman of VAT Group and Co-Founder of Partners Group, comments: "Over the last three years, VAT has gone through a successful private equity-led transformation from a family-owned company to a scalable publicly listed one. During this period, Dr. Heidsieck successfully led this mission by reorganizing the leadership team and initiating and guiding important strategic and operational initiatives that were designed to further increase VAT's efficiency and long-term competitiveness, as well as capture additional growth opportunities. While both private equity sponsors, Capvis and Partners Group, will continue to work with Dr. Heidsieck on new opportunities, we would like to thank him for his highly valuable contribution to the success of VAT as a privately and publicly owned company."
Following VAT's statutory selection process, Dr. Martin Komischke, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Hoerbiger Holding AG, Switzerland, has been nominated as the new VAT Group Chairman.
Dr. Heidsieck states: "VAT is an outstanding company! What started as small enterprise in a corner of Switzerland about 50 years ago has developed into the leading supplier of mission-critical parts to the most demanding industries in the world namely the semiconductor and flat panel display manufacturers. This overwhelming success was made possible due to the timely development of superior technologies created and produced by passionate people. Against this background it has been a true honor for me to make a contribution as Chairman of the Board of Directors during these key transformative years.
Prior to his appointment as Chairman of the Board of Hoerbiger Holding AG, a global leader in the fields of compression technology, drive technology and hydraulic systems, Dr. Komischke served as CEO and Chairman of Hoerbiger's Executive Board. He is also a member of the supervisory board of Aixtron SE, Germany, and a member of the Board of Directors of Stäubli AG, Switzerland. Dr. Komischke holds a doctorate of engineering from the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of RWTH Aachen University.
In addition, Dr. Hermann Gerlinger, currently Advisor to the Board of Carl Zeiss AG, Germany has been nominated as a new VAT Group Board Member.
Prior to Dr. Gerlinger's appointment as Advisor of Carl Zeiss AG, he was a member of the Executive Board of Carl Zeiss AG and head of the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SMT) business group. He is also a member of the Siltronic AG Supervisory Board and of the German National Metrology Institute. Dr. Gerlinger holds a doctorate in physics and astronomy from the University of Würzburg.
The other members of the Board, Alfred Gantner, Urs Leinhäuser, Ulrich Eckhardt and Karl Schlegel will all be standing for re-election at the company's AGM in May, when shareholders will vote on each person nominated for election to the Board. Following the election, the number of Board members will increase from 5 to 6.
With the proposed new Board composition, VAT Group is confident it has the necessary experience and skill set within its Board to lead its future growth and build on its outstanding track record.
The analyst presentation of the results and the 2016 annual report are available on the website of VAT at www.vatvalve.com.
Today, VAT will host a media and investor event in Zurich at 10am CET. The event can also be followed over a webcast or via a conference call line. Participants of the conference call will also be able to join the moderated Q&A session.
VAT is the leading global developer, manufacturer and supplier of high-end vacuum valves. VAT vacuum valves are mission-critical components for advanced manufacturing processes of innovative products used in daily life such as portable devices, flat screen monitors or solar panels. VAT is organized into three different reporting segments: Valves, Global Service and Industry offering high-end vacuum valves, multi-valve modules, edge-welded bellows and related value-added services for an array of vacuum applications. VAT Group is a global player with over 1,400 employees and main manufacturing sites in Haag (Switzerland), Penang (Malaysia) and Arad (Romania). Net sales in the financial year 2016 amounted to CHF 508 million.
Forward-looking statements contained herein are qualified in their entirety as there are certain factors that could cause results to differ materially from those anticipated. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact (including statements containing the words "believes", "plans", "anticipates,", "expects", "estimates" and similar expressions) should be considered to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent known and unknown risks, uncertainties and contingencies because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future and may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Many of these risks and uncertainties relate to factors that are beyond the company's ability to control or estimate precisely, such as future market conditions, currency fluctuations, the behaviour of other market participants, the performance, security and reliability of the company's information technology systems, political, economic and regulatory changes in the countries in which the company operates or in economic or technological trends or conditions. As a result, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.


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