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Rush - The Meme
Following on from my last rant about music, I thought I would be a little more positive in this post. I don't expect this to be a post that people will enjoy too much because it is a little self-indulgent. In these deep dark January days I need a little self-indulgence.
Regular readers will know that I often mention my favourite band, the progressive rock power trio from Canada called Rush. Well, I have discovered a meme that allows me to explain why they hold this lofty position in my musical world and, hopefully, to introduce the band to anybody who has not heard of them.
This year is their 40th anniversary and they have somehow survived with a cult following for all this time despite receiving very little, if any airplay. Mrs PM, for one, was stunned two years ago that this band sold out the Manchester Arena, the largest music venue in the city. She would never have heard of them if it hadn't been for me.
Anyway, without further ado, here is the meme and hopefully it will give a little insight into why I love the band and a little history of how they rose to the throne in my musical world.
1. How long have you been a fan?
I have been a fan since 1982, when a friend at university lent me a tape of their latest album at that time called Signals.
I had heard of the band before, when I was at school, because a lad in my school urged people to listen to, what he then described as, the greatest band on the planet. Being a hormone-fuelled arse at the time, I chose to ignore him.
At university I mellowed and grew up a little. I remember putting the tape on and listening to the first song, Subdivisions, a song about dreamers living in suburbia and being regarded as pariahs for not living the mundane "cool" life that suburbia demands:
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
I was totally blown away. This was a band that wrote intelligent songs about interesting things. On the strength of that one album I paid a fortune, as a poor student, to travel about 80 miles from Liverpool to Birmingham to see them live. That concert, way back in the early 1980's, was when I handed my soul to Rush.
I've been a fan ever since.
2. Do you remember the first song of theirs you heard?
Strangely the first song I heard was a radio friendly song that somehow crept into the back end of the UK charts in 1978 called Closer To The Heart. It didn't really appeal to me as I was just drifting into heavy metal at the time and, compared to bands like Black Sabbath, it was just a short vaguely pleasant rock song.
3. What's your favourite album(s)?
I have all of their studio albums apart from the first three – that's 17 albums if you count the extended play album called Feedback. I love them all but the following stand out:
Signals (1982) - the first album I really loved by the band – it was their 9th album!
Power Windows (1985) – this album was my best friend on long distance commutes every other weekend to London during my long distance relationship with my ex-wife.
Counterparts (1993) – I just love this album; it has some great songs.
Clockwork Angels (2012) – Their most recent studio album is a return to their progressive rock roots and pays tribute to their earlier work while maintaining a modern forward looking feel.
4. What's your favourite song(s)?
This is a really difficult question as there are simply so many to choose from. Here are three off the top of my head (ask me tomorrow and I will pick three more).
Red Barchetta (from Moving Pictures (1981):
Stick It Out (from Counterparts (1993):
Headlong Flight (from Clockwork Angels 2012):
5. Have you ever seen them live? (How often?)
I have seen Rush five times live. The first time I have mentioned above and was back in 1982 at the NEC in Birmingham. I travelled down to Birmingham again in 1989 to see them on the Presto tour. All of the other times were at the Manchester Arena, in 2002 for the Vapor Trails tour, for their 30th anniversary tour in 2005 and finally in 2013 for the Clockwork Angels tour.
6. Have you ever met them?
No I haven't, sadly, but I would love to meet them and discuss their music and the inspiration behind it.
7. Do you have a favourite era of their career?
Die hard Rush fans may disagree with this but from 1982 to 1993, keyboards and synthesisers played a major part in their music. While I love all of their music, I have a particular soft spot for the albums of that period.
8. Do you have their autograph or a photo with them?
As I said, I have never met the band so the answer is no.
9. Is there a song or album of theirs you dislike?
There are a couple of songs that I am not too keen on; I am not such a die-hard fan that I love every single piece of music they have composed. A couple of albums disappointed me, although not all of the songs on them are bad. My least favourite albums are Roll The Bones (1991) and Test For Echo (1996).
Having said that, I still listen to them occasionally.
10. What do they or their music mean to you?
Rush have provided a soundtrack to my life since 1982 – and before if you count my old school friend who I should really have listened too in the 1970's. For every major event in my life since that time, I can mention one or more Rush songs that remind me of those times, both good and bad. If they ever make a movie out of my life, Rush will feature heavily in the soundtrack.
11. Would you pay £200 for a front row ticket?
No. Having said that, I have a limit on ticket prices, which I rarely exceed, but did so for the last concert I saw them play in 2013. I paid £84, mainly because I thought that I may not get the chance to see them again, but also because Clockwork Angels was such a great album.
I have to say that a Rush concert is worth every penny normally because the band has no support and, since they have so much material, they play for around three hours.
12. Do you get annoyed when other people don't like them?
Not really. I may rant about music but I don't try to enforce it on people. I am just keen for people to explore outside the box that we find ourselves in thanks to the greedy music industry. One thing does surprise me about Rush; a lot of people are closet fans. A friend of mine heard that I was going to see Rush in 2005 and actually phoned me up asking me to get him a ticket. I didn't even know he was a fan. That's the good thing about Rush – there are lots of secret Rush fans out there, despite the fact that they are unfashionable.
13. Which artist do you want them to collaborate with?
I don't want them to collaborate with anybody because there music would be diluted. Having said that, many other artists have performed their songs, like Dream Theater. When the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I discovered that the Foo Fighters are huge fans of the band and actually performed live with them, impersonating the band at first before Rush joined them on stage. If you are a Rush/Foo Fighters fan you will find this video entertaining, with Dave Grohl impersonating a younger Alex Lifeson:
Also from that same induction, Alex Lifeson's speech is quite memorable and quite embarrassing for his fellow band members who had no idea about what he was going to say (he is the last member of the band to speak). You can see their amused discomfort (start at 4:36 if you don't want to see the first speeches):
The audience seemed to like it anyway.
14. Are they underappreciated/unknown?
They are not unknown but I think they are underappreciated for the same reasons that I ranted about in my last post, that is, they are rarely played on the radio.
15. Is there a song of them that everybody likes but you dislike?
They have a song that is a token rock song. You may have heard it:
Actually, I still like it.
I liked this self-indulgent meme and I think I may repeat it for some other bands I like that are unknown or underrated.
Sorry about the self-indulgence.
I needed it.
Labels: Alex Lifeson, Classic Rock, Geddy Lee, Life, music meme, Neil Peart, progressive rock, Rush
A Rant About Music
It's still January, it's still bloody freezing outside, it is still dark when I go to work and dark when I come home. January and February are the worst months of the year and I spend almost every day feeling pissed off and grumpy.
Yes - it's another rant, I'm afraid.
Little things make my situation worse, tiny little things that ordinarily wouldn't bother me, things that I would just push to one side and ignore. In January these little things become a major force and infuriate me.
One such thing infuriated me this morning.
I was on my way to work and I decided to change the CD in my car. I had been listening to the new album by AC/DC and I fancied a change. Sadly, when I ejected the CD, I dropped it on the floor and I had stupidly not prepared a new CD to replace it. The car stereo defaulted to the radio, which normally wouldn't be too bad because my radio station of choice is a local rock station.
And then I found myself listening to a diabolical R'n'B hip hop crossover dirge that almost certainly featured the now obligatory pointless egotistical rap by an artist with a stupid name like $ycho, Snoop Hen or Eminemineminemiem.
I howled in frustration; I couldn't stop the car and I needed to concentrate because it was dark and cold and the road was full of arses, trying to cut me up. My temper rose to almost boiling point.
Mrs PM had used the car and changed the radio station so I was listening to an inane, moronic DJ with the intelligence of a slug, playing the songs that corporate arses had ordered him to play. In my rage, I couldn't figure out how to get back to my beloved rock station so I searched the airwaves and found my ears and brain polluted by utter drivel from loads of genres – songs that are played over and over and over and over again. There were new songs, old boring repetitive songs, one hit wonders, and all manner of novelty crap.
They were shit then and they are shit now.
I find it incredible that we as free-thinking humans allow ourselves to be spoon fed by the so-called gods of music who tell us what to listen to, what to like and the styles of music we have to endure. Like mindless zombies we listen to it.
"But the music is great," I hear you cry. "You are just an ageing dinosaur. These songs are good."
Some of the songs that receive too much airplay have been good, dear reader – the odd one. However, we are force fed utter dross most of the time because the hidden powers behind what you hear on the radio have a playlist which is absolutely full of the latest "in-bands" who have somehow managed to gain a foothold because they are pretty boys or lovely young ladies.
I am talking about manufactured boy bands, yet another bloody rap artist, a warbling woman who happens to have a great body and can dance along to her terrible song but has little talent.
Even when I stumble across a radio station playing "oldies", it's still the same old songs that we have heard all the time and were bored to death by, way back in the 60's, 70's or 80's.
And this subjugation has permeated into everything from adverts to weddings and parties.
Every single party or wedding I ever go to that has a dance floor, either plays modern radio-friendly garbage or old songs that are totally crap but I know all the words to because I have heard them about three million times in my life.
"OH MY GOD! NOT "I'VE HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE" AGAIN!! SOMEBODY KILL ME NOW!"
Sometimes when I have had to endure dancing to a stupid song like "Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night!" for the 2000th time, I sit there with frustration building up inside, fuelled by alcohol, and say to myself:
"Right – let's get some bloody rock music!" I say and march over to the DJ defiantly. The DJ has usually said something earlier, like "If you have any requests, please come up."
The conversation goes one of three ways:
PM: Please – I beg you – can you play something decent? Have you got any rock music?
DJ: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Sit down, you devil-worshipping dinosaur.
PM: No, seriously – you must have something.
DJ: No – nobody likes it.
PM: I like it.
PM: Don't care – now piss off!
DJ: No rock music but I've got some oldies. How about "Saturday Night" by Whigfield?
PM: AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!
DJ: Sure – I'll see what I can do.
The last conversation sounds promising, doesn't it? Well it's not! What the DJ means is:
"I'll play one of three token rock songs: "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey, "Livin' On a Prayer" by Bon Jovi or "Sex On Fire" by The Kings of Leon.
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!
I hate "Livin' On A Prayer" because it has become the only acceptable rock song in a DJ's collection and I have heard it about 100 million times. I quite liked it the first time but now it sends me into spasms of indignation.
I blame people like Simon Cowell and Louie Walsh – and probably many other old rich so-called music moguls – who manufacture pretty boys and girls and flood the radio stations with boring inane crap.
I want to start a revolution – as others are. Let's boycott the radio and start hunting around the internet for fantastic music that will not get airplay.
I am not just focussing on rock music here – there is music out there that is new fresh and brilliant but never gets played because the image doesn't fit with the gods of music who decide what we should all be listening to.
I'd like to highlight a song that describes the plight of modern music controlled by the music moguls which predicts the demise of future music.
Several lines stand out:
The music of rebellion makes you wanna rage
But it's made my millionaires who are nearly twice your age
One of the wonders of the world is going down
It's going down I know
It's one of the blunders of the world
That no one care enough
Personally, I think there is hope.
Dear reader, you and I have the power to seek out new tunes, new music – to boldly go where no music mogul has gone before (sorry for the Star Trek cliché but I believe it fits).
I have started already in the music galaxy that is called Progressive Rock and have already discovered two bands – one of them from Poland, a country that Simon Cowell and his ilk will totally ignore.
Whatever music style you love, the internet is your friend.
If I were a DJ I would rebel and spend my entire day scouring the internet for something new, refreshing and amazing – and I would play the songs but not over and over again so that people simply got sick of it. I would prefer people to go out and buy this music from independent record companies or buy the music directly from the band/artist in question.
I would make my radio show the greatest programme on the entire planet. I would welcome all and any music sent to me by like-minded people.
Are you sick of the same old bollox on the radio?
Are you fed up of the same old inane DJ's who play oldies over and over again and sacrifice new exciting music in order to play "I Just Called To Say I Loved You" for the billionth time?
Are you absolutely pissed off with Simon Cowell and his bloody X Factor?
Or am I really a musical dinosaur?
Come on dear reader - let's do this! Let's rebel.
I'll start the ball rolling – here is a great song by band you will never have heard of:
And it's an utter crime that I intend to put right in my own small way.
Rant over - for now!!
Labels: dance music, hard rock, music, Music fascism, music industry, musical differences, pop music, Porcupine Tree, Rock music, Simon Cowell, Ten, X Factor
A Celebrity Rant
Do you mind if I have a good rant?
Well, I don't care – I'm going to have one anyway.
At the end of every year, I watch a TV programme called Most Shocking Celebrity Moments simply to learn a little about the so-called celebrities that made the news in the past year for the wrong reasons, mainly so that I know who the bloody hell people are talking about. To be honest, it's a knee-jerk response to people saying things like:
"What do you mean, you've never heard of Kim Kardashian? Have you been living under a rock?"
Thanks to this programme, I now know who Kim Kardashian is but the cost of knowing that has made me dust off my soapbox. The programme was a countdown of the most outrageous behaviour of these people in 2014 and I for one was almost apoplectic; as you would expect, the higher the number in this chart of disgrace, the more outrageous the deed.
For two hours, I screamed at the cats, asking questions like:
"Who is this person?"
"What on Earth was she bloody well thinking?"
"Why do people humiliate themselves so much just to get noticed?"
The cats were equally incredulous.
Here are the lowlights for me.
Robin Thicke (by name and nature) who, not content with writing a song that was a misogynistic pile of crap and allowing Miley Cyrus to thrust her arse into his groin on an awards show, managed to get caught being a very naughty boy, so much so that his wife left him – understandably so. What does he do? He releases an album dedicated to her, in a futile attempt to win her back. It bombed – and I'm glad.
I discovered who Kim Kardashian was because she had a photo shoot in a magazine showing her huge naked arse under the heading "Break the Internet". As far as I can tell all she is famous for is having a rich father and starring in a terrible reality TV show. Apparently she has an army of fans and it makes me wonder – what in the name of all that is weird do these people see in her? The famous "arse" photo has been seen all over the internet (and I am not going to reproduce it here because the last thing I want to do is give her any more publicity, however, microscopic it would be) and it goes to show that this woman (and sadly many other so-called celebrities) will plumb new chasms in order to add a little more infamy and win more idiotic fans. And the worst thing I discovered about her, is that she is married to Kanye West – arguably the most arrogant and egocentric musical celebrity ever to stagger onto my television screen. He has claimed to be God, the new Shakespeare and the best rock star in the world.
Yeah, Kanye, yeah!
Moving on swiftly (because I could spend an entire post ranting about Kanye West), have you heard of media troll Katie Hopkins? She first hit the headlines on the UK version of The Apprentice and even then her arrogance stood out a thousand miles. It was clear back then, when the post-mortem on her exit from The Apprentice was shown:
That was back in 2006, and since then, particularly recently, she has said outrageous things on Twitter and on TV. Here's an example where she annoyed the host of a TV show because she judges who her kids can play with based on their names. This is unbelievable:
She's insulted fat people, other celebrities and even wrote a nasty tweet about a Scottish nurse, who after catching Ebola while treating people in Africa, was transported for treatment from Glasgow to London. She wrote: "Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket."
I, personally, would sign a petition to get this woman removed from all forms of media. Is she so desperate for fame that she is happy to offend as many people as possible? Perhaps not because she has just joined "Celebrity Big Brother" and will spend a few weeks in a house with a whole bunch of other celebrities desperate to revive their ailing careers.
Finally, of course, we have Justin Bieber, a kid with the arrogance of Kanye West who considers himself to be above the law and is so consumed by himself that he is oblivious to all of his crimes and misdemeanours.
I simply cannot connect with these people in any way whatsoever. It is almost as if they are a totally different species. They are so consumed by themselves that they simply do not seem to be able to understand the effect of their actions or behaviour. I don't understand either.
For example, why on earth would a person take a naked photo of themselves and store them on a medium (in this case "the cloud") that can be hacked and published on the internet? I would never take a photograph of myself naked – not even if I were drunk.
Even when something bad happens in a celebrity's relationship, it seems to be like a media explosion or, in the case of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, a breakup can be veiled in the most idiotic phraseology to disguise what it really means in an attempt to sugar coat the event and portray the breakup as something sweet.
I mean, what the flump does the phrase "conscious uncoupling" even mean? If I were to go to Mrs PM and say "I want to consciously uncouple", I think she would rip out my spine and parade it on a huge spike in the centre of Manchester with the banner:
The Plastic Mancunian and his spine have been consciously uncoupled
And, do you know what? I wouldn't blame her.
My final part of the rant (and it is the final part – I promise) is this obsession with nips, tucks and plastic surgery.
Why do celebrities feel the need to alter their appearance? Why can't they just grow old gracefully? Actresses in particular should be aware that they can't play a young sex siren at the age of 50. Instead, we find that they convert themselves to fish by pumping their lips up like balloons. Surely they are aware that as they get older they can play more mature parts? Think about it – movies need older actors and actresses to play older people.
And if you are a pop or rock star, why do you have to be weird (and yes I do mean you Lady Gaga) or kill yourself to still look like a 20 year old at the age of 50? I like the music, not the looks of the bands who play it.
Phew! I'm all ranted out now!
What do you mean "Thank God!"?
I will, of course, punish myself in December 2015 by finding out which celebrities have made complete and utter arses of themselves in the coming twelve months.
It confirms to me at least that I am a happy normal every day person.
Oh – and dear reader – if I somehow become really famous in 2015 and make an arse of myself in public you have my permission to come to Manchester and give me a good slap – although I will be so ashamed I will probably use my new found wealth to exile myself on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
Labels: celebrity, celebrity behaviour, celebrity madness, Cult of celebrity, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kanye West, Katie Hopkins, Kim Kardashian, rant, ranting, Robin Thicke
A Journey Through Time And Space
I was watching a repeat of Dr Who the other day and I suddenly had a thought:
What I would do if the famous Timelord materialized in my house, popped out of his TARDIS and said:
"Dave, I will take on ten trips anywhere you want and anywhen. Where do you want to go?"
For those readers who do not know, travellers in the TARDIS have the ability to communicate with those whom they visit because it has a translation circuit that allows them to understand aliens etc.
I would need that.
Here's where I would ask the Doctor to take me:
The Mesazoic Era
The first place I would visit is Earth in the period between 230 and 65 million years ago, known as the Mesazoic Era. As a kid I was fascinated by dinosaurs and I would want to see those legendary and enormous "terrible lizards" that roamed the planet. Top of the list would be Tyrannosaurus Rex, followed by the other popular creatures – any massive creature in fact. I would also push my luck and ask the Doctor to show me what really wiped them all out.
Jerusalem, between 30 AD and 33 AD
I was baptised a Roman Catholic and was indoctrinated, effectively from birth, via a Catholic school and church until, at around the age of fifteen when I started to rebel. As I've grown older, I've always been intrigued about the man called Jesus whose teachings I had to learn during that time. My first port of call therefore would be to Jerusalem and the surrounding area in an attempt to find the man himself and work out for myself whether he was just a prophet or whether he was indeed the Son of God.
Rome, 117 AD
I visited Rome in 2012 to celebrate my fiftieth birthday. I have always been fascinated by ancient Roman life and the entire mythos surrounding the Roman Empire, which reached its greatest extent in 117 AD. I learned Latin at school and I often wondered why it was compulsory. I guess it helped me to understand other languages but since it's been dead for countless years (apart from in the minds of scientists) and it might be nice to hear the language spoken – assuming the Romans actually conversed in Latin that is. I would love just to spend a day wondering around the city, embracing the culture – and trying to avoid being arrested and throw to the lions.
I'd also be a little cheeky and ask him to pop back to 79AD Pompeii, just before Mount Vesuvius erupted. Having walked through the streets of the city a few years ago, I would love to see how the two compare.
England, 1543
Of all the kings and queens of England, the one that fascinates me most is the tyrannical Henry VIII, arguably the most infamous king in our history. He died in 1548 as an enormous bloated caricature of the man depicted in paintings. In 1543, he had just married his last wife, Catherine Parr, and she persuaded him to resolve his issues with his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, both of whom are almost as infamous as their own father.
I figure that at this stage in his life, he would be most willing to chat to me about his life and what drove him to do the things he did. And it would also give me the opportunity to chat to the two future queens too.
A bunker in Berlin, April 1945
I'm a bit perturbed because although I hate the vitriolic preaching of extremists of any kind, I have a deep and disturbing fascination with them. I do not like them at all – in fact I would go as far as to say I hate them – but I am deeply fascinated by the way their mind works and, in the case of somebody like Adolf Hitler, how he managed to use his charisma to build an army of extremist fanatics, invade most of Europe and start a world war.
I would like to witness his last weeks before the end to see if I could get an insight into his despicable human being. More importantly, I'd like to find out whether he really did die or whether he was, as some conspiracy theorists suggest, managed to escape to Brazil or even to the moon (yes there really are some people who believe that).
A grassy knoll and a warehouse in Dallas, November 1963
I don't really care about American politics but the apparent mystery surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy has intrigued me, particularly since reading a fictional account of the assassination written by Stephen King, called 11/22/63 (why do American's show the date the wrong way round?). I would therefore like to just double check who was responsible for the death of JFK. Was it Lee Harvey Oswald or was it an unknown assailant on a grassy knoll? Or maybe even a spaceman or time traveller?
Roswell, July 1948
Travelling in the TARDIS with the Doctor would be proof enough that aliens do exist. However, the one episode in history that has spawned numerous conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials was the crash of an object in Roswell, New Mexico. I would just like to see for myself what actually crashed there and what the RAAF actually did with the wreckage and its occupants. Mind you, in truth I would be travelling around in a spaceship with an alien, so that's a bit of a paradox in itself.
Space (generally ...)
I would ask the Doctor to take me on a voyage around the universe, starting with a slow orbit of Earth itself, a quick tour of all the astronomical bodies in our own solar system before embarking on a journey to any other planets, galactic highlights he saw fit to show me. I would draw the line at stopping on any planet, spaceship or other location likely to plunge me into a life or death situation that only the Doctor could resolve.
One of the main things that irks me about my life is the fact that it is far too short. We only have a limited amount of time alive and, being a massive technophile, I want to see how humanity progresses and the sophisticated gadgetry and technology that we as a species invent and the future. In my own lifetime, the pace of technology has raced ahead incredibly quickly and I imagine that over the next 500 years or so, it will explode – though having used that word, I hope that we don't invent anything else that can destroy ourselves.
A Library in the Future, say in the year 5000
This would be my final visit and I would implore the Doctor to leave me here for about two years so that I could read up on history and see what happened between now and then. I would be particularly interested to see how future generations thought of those of us (i.e. you and me) and how they interpreted historical events that happened around our time.
I'd also see if I could find any traces of myself and this blog (though thinking about it, that might be a bad idea).
I would then steal a suitable history book and use it in 2015 for my own nefarious and selfish purposes.
I'm sure that the Doctor would stop me from doing that though.
And finally …
To be perfectly honest, I would really like Dr Who to teach me how to use the TARDIS myself and allow me to fly around and appear wherever I wanted to. I think it would be a perilous journey if he were to be the person to decide where we travel to, simply because he seems to be a magnet for destruction, alien invasions and galactic events that threaten our very survival.
He's a bit of a Jonah to be fair.
The one final thing I would try to do, which would of course be very dangerous, would be to pop back to my own timeline and visit my younger self with a winning lottery ticket. Actually, that would cause a paradox and cause time to collapse in on itself and destroy the entire universe, something the Doctor is keen to avoid. With that in mind I would simply pop forward to next weekend and note down the winning lottery numbers.
I don't think that would break the universe, do you?
Anyway, enough of that and over to you dear reader.
Where would you go, given the opportunity to travel anywhere in space or time?
Labels: Dinosaurs, Dr Who, Henry VIII, Hitler, JFK, Rome, Roswell, Space, space travel, TARDIS, The Future, time travel


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For the School Outreach team, inclusion involves the education of all children - not just children with special needs - by addressing the barriers to learning, building resources to support learning and participation, and
responding to the diverse needs of every child. The School Outreach team works with schools (both private and government) to aid in developing inclusive cultures and translating inclusive policies to practice. When not promoting inclusion, they are anti-bully squads and influencers!
The Social Work team at Ummeed works closely with families to assist them in understanding and navigating the larger intervention system to ensure that they receive appropriate care and services.
Through workshops such as 'Know Your Rights', they introduce families of children with developmental disabilities to their rights, as well as those of their children. In addition to empowering families and children with disabilities, they are coordinators, navigators, and connectors!
The Speech and Language Therapy team at Ummeed supports children with communication problems such as articulation delays, language delays, autism, Down syndrome, learning disabilities and stuttering.
The team analyzes and corrects the mechanics of speech by working on breathing techniques, tongue placement, use of language (structuring sentences properly, formulating complete thoughts and expressing emotions), etc. When not empowering children through communication skills, they are speakers and confidence boosters!
The Testing team conducts detailed psycho-educational assessments for children between 6 to 18 years of age by gathering developmental, school performance, and family histories to supplement norm-referenced tests.
This not only helps determine whether a child has a specific learning disability, but also helps measure and understand the cognitive and achievement skills, strengths and challenges that either enhance or inhibit a child's ability to perform to the best of his or her academic potential in school. When not addressing barriers to children's potential, they are time-keepers and rapport builders!
The shared services teams at Ummeed include Administration, Communications, Finance, Fundraising, Human Resources and Information Technology.
In addition to ensuring smooth operations at Ummeed, they are geeks, dreamers, talent-seekers, and el dorados!
Ummeed Management Team
The Ummeed Management Team (UMT) is a mix of passionate, experienced individuals from diverse backgrounds (ranging from medical professionals to management experts).
This team aspires and works towards maximizing Ummeed's social impact through cross-team participation and collaboration. The team are also captains, artists, musicians, and fashionistas!
Dr. Vibha Krishnamurthy
Founder & Executive Director
Vibha founded Ummeed Child Development Center in 2001 and serves as its Executive Director. Vibha has grown Ummeed from a clinic providing integrated services to a center of excellence for clinical care, as well as a resource center in the field of developmental disabilities for professionals, families, and community organizations. Vibha's vision is to put Ummeed at the forefront of a movement to make the inclusion of children with developmental disabilities a visible agenda for India.
Vibha has served as a resource person for the Government of India in several roles – as chairperson of the Expert Committee on Autism, Rehabilitation Council of India, as well as for the WHO (South East Asia Regional Office); as a Member of the Task Force for the Right to Education (RTE) Act constituted by Ministry of Human Resource & Development, and Department of Higher Education for educational development of persons with disabilities; and as a consultant on the Advisory Group for the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) launched by the Government of India in February 2014. She is an Expert Consultant in Early Childhood Development & Disabilities for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the President-Elect for the International Developmental Pediatrics Association (IDPA).
Vibha trained in developmental pediatrics at Children's Hospital in Boston and has practiced as a Developmental Pediatrician in India for the past 18 years. Besides her work at Ummeed, she is a consultant at Jaslok Hospital and Research Center, Mumbai.
In 2007, Vibha was honored with the Ashoka Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs.
Anita Limaye
Anita, as Chief Executive Officer, works in close partnership with Vibha, to scale Ummeed's impact and to bring the cause of Developmental Disabilities, Early Childhood Development, and inclusion to the mainstream agenda. As a volunteer prior to joining Ummeed, she helped develop standardized operating procedures and mechanisms for measuring impact of Ummeed's training programs.
Anita completed her MD in General Medicine from Seth GS Medical College/KEM Hospital. She worked for 10 years at Quintiles Transnational (India office) in the field of clinical research, where she held various leadership positions in Learning & Development and in Operations. Anita has been with Ummeed since 2015.
Dr. Koyeli Sengupta
Director, Autism Intervention Services & Head, Research
Koyeli is the Director of Autism Intervention Services at Ummeed. She aims to build a menu of clinical services at Ummeed that will cater to the wide range of autism-related difficulties across childhood and adolescence and to build capacity in the community to provide evidence-based, child-directed, family-centered and comprehensive autism care to children and families.
Koyeli has been instrumental in growing Ummeed's autism services into a range of clinical services and training programs for parents and professionals, including UPPA - a unique parent mediated program culturally adapted from the evidence-based Project ImPACT, running since the last 6 years. In 2016, she led the development and implementation of AITP (Autism Intervention Training Program) – a one of its kind training program in India for professionals working with children with autism.
Koyeli is a senior member of Ummeed's Developmental Pediatrics team. She also provides leadership to Ummeed's Research vertical and mentors the Speech and Remedial services teams.
Koyeli is a Developmental Pediatrician with a post-graduate degree in Pediatrics and Master's in Clinical Psychology (Eastern Illinois University, USA). She is a member of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) and a Resource member of Forum for Autism (FFA).
Koyeli has been with Ummeed since 2009.
Pervez Daver
Head, Information and Technology
Pervez leads Ummeed's information & technology services team. He is confident that using IT will deliver solutions that can record, improve and scale the outcomes of Ummeed's services.
Pervez was Ummeed's Chief Operating Officer from 2008 to 2011 and has since contributed significantly to the design and development of Ummeed's Early Childhood Development and Disability (eCDD) programs.
An IIT and IIM-A alumnus, his 28-year career has alternated between working for the IT and Social sectors.
Pervez has been with Ummeed since 2008.
Dr. Roopa Srinivasan
Director, Developmental Pediatrics & Head, Clinical Services
Roopa heads Ummeed's Clinical Services vertical. She aims to develop sustainable models of care delivery that are evidence-based and outcome-oriented for children with developmental disabilities. Roopa also leads the Developmental Pediatrics, Occupational Therapy and Social Work teams.
Roopa is the coordinator of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics accredited Fellowship program in Developmental Pediatrics at Ummeed. She was the India Project Director of an NIH-funded 5-year 4-country collaborative research project for the development and testing of the International Guide to Monitor Child Development in low and middle-income countries. She is also a consultant at Jaslok Hospital and Research Center, Mumbai.
Roopa is a Developmental Pediatrician by training. After completing her postgraduation in Pediatrics, she did her Fellowship in Developmental Pediatrics at Christian Medical College, Vellore.
Roopa has been with Ummeed since 2005.
Shamin Mehrotra
Director, School Outreach & Senior Counselor
Shamin has played a key role in conceptualizing, building and supervising the School Outreach team at Ummeed. Her vision is to assist schools in developing inclusive environments, in order to create "safe spaces" that support children reach their maximum learning potential in both academic and social arenas.
Shamin is a senior counselor and feels passionately about working with children with disabilities (and their families), and providing them with ongoing mental health and counseling support to enable their overall journey in a positive direction. As an early and integral member of Ummeed's Mental Health Team, she played a significant role in developing, designing and delivering the Mental Health Training Program.
Shamin has a Master's degree (MA) in Applied Psychology from the University of Mumbai and a Master's degree (MSED) in Psychological Services from the University of Pennsylvania.
Shamin has been with Ummeed since 2003.
Ummeed believes in leveraging the resources of other organizations to reach out to children and families. Many wonderful organizations have contributed to Ummeed's learning and have benefited from Ummeed's training programs. Ummeed has also collaborated with organizations on both research projects and advocacy initiatives in the field of early child development and disability.
Aangan Trust
Action for Autism
Akanksha Foundation
Ambuja Cement Foundation
Anandwan
Ankara University
Apni Shala
Arpan
Asha Daan
Autism Care Nepal Society
Boston Children's Hospital
Broadleaf Darjeeling
Central Society for Education of the Deaf
Doorstep School
EAR Education and Audiology Research
Forbes Marshall
Fragile X Society of India
Indian Academy of Pediatrics
Jai Vakeel
Latika Roy Foundation
Muktangan
Mumbai Mobile Creches
Narrative Practices, Adelaide
Re-authoring Teaching, Vermont
Sahyog Chehak Trust
Santosh Institute for Mentally Challenged Children
Setco Foundation
Snehalaya
Sunshine School
Tara Mobile Creches
Teach For India
TFIX
The Orchid School (Pune)
Yale University, Dept. of Pediatrics
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Ashish Karamchandani
Chairman of the Board and Founder
Ashish is the Chairman of Ummeed Child Development Center. Ummeed was incorporated in August 2001 and started its operations from 5th November 2001. Ashish has been an active member on the Board since its inception.
Ashish is currently President at The/Nudge Institute. He has 20 years of experience across strategy consulting and global development. Ashish focuses on using market-based solutions to drive sustainable social change. This includes multi-year programs like low-income housing where he helped develop a market which now has 26 housing finance companies who have given over USD 5 billion of mortgages to finance over 350,000 houses. He is currently leading a program at The/Nudge Institute on "Transforming Agriculture for Small Farmers". Ashish has a Ph.D. from Stanford University, an M.S. from University of California, Berkeley, and a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Arun Jethmalani
Arun has been on the Ummeed Board from August 2001. With his rich experience, Arun has been providing invaluable support to Ummeed's operations right from its inception.
Arun Jethmalani is the founder and CEO of ValueNotes, which provides market and business intelligence to a variety of clients, across the world. His nearly 40-year working career spans management consulting, market research, equity research, competitive intelligence, IT services, and web publishing.
Arun has been extensively publishedin leading business journals. His weekly investment column –'Value for Money' –published in the Sunday Economic Times, ran for ten years. He is a regular speaker at competitive intelligence, outsourcing, technology, Internet, and finance events. He graduated with a B. Tech. from IIT Bombay and an M.S. from Duke University, NC, USA.
Merry Barua
Merry has been on the Ummeed Board from April 2004. As an individual who has pioneered some of the most effective care for children with Autism, Merry has been a very valuable resource person to Ummeed to effectively help service children with developmental disabilities.
Merry Barua is the Founder and Director of Action for Autism, which includes a model school for Autistic children, an institution for training professionals, and an innovative mother-child program. She is also the Founder and Editor of the Autism Network.
Merry has served multiple terms on the boards of The National Trust and the World Autism Organization, currently serves on the boards of a number of organizations and is a member of several committees of the Rehabilitation Council of India, and the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities. She has a Bachelors and Masters from the University of Calcutta, has trained in the TEACCH Approach and at The Option Institute, USA and is an Ashoka Fellow.
Ujwal Thakar
Ujwal Thakar joined the Ummeed Board in August 2005. Ujwal is an active member on the Board and plays a significant advisory role to the organization.
Ujwal Thakar has rich and varied experience spanning the banking financial industry and the development sector in India. He is considered a doyen of retail banking in India and also one of the leaders of the movement of professionals into the social space in India.
Ujwal was the CEO of Pratham, India's largest NGO in the elementary education space for six years and later the CEO of GiveIndia which is one of India's web-based philanthropy platforms. Ujwal currently chairs the board of Educate Girls and is on the board of Arogya World and Shoshit Sewa Kendra, and a partner at Social Incubator NCore, and on the advisory boards of many non-profits.
Rajnish Dhall
Rajnish Dhall was appointed to the Board in June 2010 as Alternate Director. He was later appointed as a Director on the Board at its AGM in September 2015. Rajnish is a shareholder of Ummeed, an active member on the Board, and plays a significant role in supporting its activities.
Rajnish is the Founder and ex-CEO of Micro Housing Finance Corporation Mumbai, India. In 2008, he set up Micro Housing Finance Corporation, an organization dedicated to providing housing loans to urban low-income families-especially those from the informal sector - who are excluded by the mainstream financial system. The company, a pioneer in this space, was acquired by the Birla family in Sep 2018.
Rajnish completed his P.G.D.M from IIM (Ahmedabad), after which he worked with American Express Bank in a variety of roles and locations (Mumbai, Singapore, London) for 15 years. He left the Bank as a Senior Director in 2006 and returned to Mumbai to work in the social sector and initially joined the Aangan Trust looking after its financial, administrative, fundraising, legal and accountancy matters, and remained on the Advisory Board until recently.

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Q: Why is the global variable resetting or different for each button? I am making a tic tac toe game and I want to be able to have the button alternate x and o when clicked. Now they just are all x on the first click and all o on the second click. I tried with and without keyword this as well.
Here is the button class
public class Toebuttons extends JButton implements ActionListener
{
boolean x = true; // if true x's turn if false o's turn
int count = 0;
public Toebuttons()
{
   super("blank");
   this.addActionListener(this);
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
   if(this.x == true)
   {
       count++;
       System.out.println(count);
       setText("X");
       this.x = false;
   }
   else if(this.x == false)
   {
       count++;
       System.out.println(count);
       setText("O");
       this.x = true;
   }
  }
}

Here is the board class
public class ticTacBoard extends JFrame
{
Toebuttons toe[] = new Toebuttons[9];
public ticTacBoard()
{
    super("Tic tac board");
    setSize(500,500);
    setLayout(new GridLayout(3,3));
    setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    toFront();
    for(int i = 0; i<toe.length; i++)
    {
        toe[i] = new Toebuttons();
        add(toe[i]);
    }
    setVisible(true);
 }
}

A: Your problem is one of ineffective object-design: Each button has its own boolean x state which is independent from all the others, and this you should not do. In fact, you should have a Game object, one that holds the buttons and that is separate from the buttons, and that holds this state and controls the button's response to press based on this state.
Side note: I wouldn't extend JButton but rather would use JButtons.
For example, you could give all the JButtons the same ActionListener:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;

public class TicTacFoo extends JPanel {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private static final int ROWS = 3;
    private static final Font BTN_FONT = new Font(Font.SANS_SERIF, Font.BOLD, 80);
    private JButton[][] buttons = new JButton[ROWS][ROWS];
    private boolean xTurn = true;
    private int count = 0;

    public TicTacFoo() {

        JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(ROWS, ROWS));
        setLayout(new GridLayout(ROWS, ROWS));

        // single ActionListener for all buttons
        ButtonListener buttonListener = new ButtonListener();

        // create buttons in nested for loop
        for (int row = 0; row < buttons.length; row++) {
            for (int col = 0; col < buttons[row].length; col++) {
                buttons[row][col] = new JButton("   ");
                buttons[row][col].setFont(BTN_FONT);
                buttons[row][col].addActionListener(buttonListener);
                buttonPanel.add(buttons[row][col]);
            }
        }

        setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        add(buttonPanel);
        add(new JButton(new ResetAction()), BorderLayout.PAGE_END);
    }

    private class ButtonListener implements ActionListener {
        @Override
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {

            // get the button that was pressed
            JButton buttonPressed = (JButton) e.getSource();
            String text = buttonPressed.getText().trim();
            if (!text.isEmpty()) {
                // button already has been pressed
                // so exit from the listener
                return;
            }

            if (xTurn) {
                buttonPressed.setText("X");
            } else {
                buttonPressed.setText("O");
            }

            int rowPressed = -1;
            int colPressed = -1;
            // which button pressed?
            for (int row = 0; row < buttons.length; row++) {
                for (int col = 0; col < buttons[row].length; col++) {
                    if (buttons[row][col] == buttonPressed) {
                        rowPressed = row;
                        colPressed = col;
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }

            // TODO: here code where you would test for win
            // ......

            // swap turn
            xTurn = !xTurn;
            // increment count:
            count++;
            System.out.printf("count: %d, [row, col]: [%d, %d]%n", count, rowPressed, colPressed);
        }
    }

    // resets program back to initial state
    @SuppressWarnings("serial")
    class ResetAction extends AbstractAction {
        public ResetAction() {
            super("Reset");
        }

        @Override
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            // loop through all buttons, resetting state back to initial
            for (JButton[] buttonRow : buttons) {
                for (JButton button : buttonRow) {
                    button.setText("   ");
                }
            }
            xTurn = true;
            count = 0;
        }
    }

    private static void createAndShowGui() {
        TicTacFoo mainPanel = new TicTacFoo();

        JFrame frame = new JFrame("TicTacFoo");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.getContentPane().add(mainPanel);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() -> createAndShowGui());
    }
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down walled avenues in sheets of rain.
will extirpate from our happy flesh.
serpentine belts waiting like owls to screech.
I'll hear you hydroplaning in my sleep.
Cal Freeman's writing has appeared in many journals including Commonweal, The Cortland Review, The Journal, Passages North, and Hippocampus. Freeman was the recipient of the Howard P. Walsh Award for Literature, The Ariel Poetry Prize, and The Devine Poetry Fellowship (judged by Terrance Hayes) and has also been nominated for Pushcart Prizes in poetry and creative nonfiction, as well as Best of the Net and Best American Poetry. Freeman's collection, Brother of Leaving, was published by Marick Press, and his chapbook, Heard Among the Windbreak, was published by Eyewear Publishing (London).


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Matt Recker and the Gospel Coalition, Part 7: The Clarity of the Gospel
Kevin T. Bauder | December 5th, 2014 | 0 Comments
Earlier this year, Pastor Matt Recker expressed concern that New Calvinists such as Tim Keller are allowing cultural renewal and social action to dethrone the Great Commission. The real thrust of this concern—and of Pastor Recker's disagreement with Pastor Keller—has to do with the nature and content of the gospel. The question is important enough to merit taking a closer look at the discussion.
Perhaps I should make it clear that I am grateful for both Matt Recker and for Tim Keller, though I am about to disagree with the latter. Both have attempted to defend the truth—especially the truth of the gospel. Nevertheless, I concur with Recker's assessment that Keller's discussion of the gospel tends to obfuscate its meaning and leads toward a pattern of ministry that partially displaces the gospel with a program of social improvement.
The problem is apparent in Keller's 2003 discussion, "What Is the Gospel?" He begins by trying to define the gospel from three perspectives, which he calls normative, situational, and existential. The normative perspective emphasizes the historical aspect of the gospel, namely, the public, historical events of Christ's life, death, and resurrection. By these events, Jesus accomplishes everything that is necessary for our salvation. The situational perspective focuses on the kingdom of God, which Keller sees as a counterculture that contradicts the world's values. The presence of the kingdom changes the way that the believing community lives within society to counter such evils as (among others) poverty, disease, and racism. The existential perspective deals with the forgiveness and transformation of individual sinners who believe.
Keller's first and third perspectives should never be contrasted. The gospel has to address two problems: both the provision and the application of salvation. What Keller calls the normative perspective is largely a statement of how salvation was provided, while his existential perspective deals with its application and results. These are two sides of the same coin.
The real contrast is between both of these and Keller's situational perspective, which he grounds in a sort of loose, biblical theology of the kingdom. Keller sets up a division between Paul, who understood the gospel mainly in terms of justification through faith, and the gospel writers, who (per Keller) made the gospel virtually synonymous with the kingdom of God. This gospel of the kingdom is what leads Keller to believe that matters such as poverty, disease, race, and class are all gospel issues. He is quite clear at this point: "The gospel is not just (as is often thought) the message of how you can get individual forgiveness and eternal life through Jesus."
Keller's approach to defining the gospel is, however, flawed in several ways. First, it sets up a disparity between the gospel of personal salvation as taught by Paul and the gospel of the kingdom as envisioned by the evangelists (and by Jesus). But Paul himself disallowed any such contrast, clearly insisting that he received his gospel directly by revelation from Jesus Christ (Gal. 1:12). Surely Jesus would not have revealed a different gospel to Paul than the gospel that He Himself had taught. Whatever else we say about the gospel, we must see fundamental continuity between the gospel of Jesus and the gospel of Paul.
A second flaw with Keller's approach is that it is based upon a highly subjective reading of the gospel narratives. From references in the evangelists, Keller pieces together a kind of theology of the gospel based upon hints and verbal allusions that are anything but clear in themselves. It is as if Keller has done his reading with a list of code-words in hand, and wherever he finds one of these code-words mentioned in proximity to the word kingdom, he registers the passage in his theology of the gospel. At the same time he appears not to observe those references that presume the presence of a glorified Christ ruling from Jerusalem on David's throne over an earthly, Jewish, millennial kingdom. The result is that Keller's collation of kingdom with gospel immanentizes circumstances that are only normative for the not-yet of the eschaton.
Another flaw in Keller's approach is that, while privileging a subjective reading of the gospel narratives, he virtually ignores the single most important biblical passage for defining the gospel. That passage is 1 Corinthians 15, and it is a key for several reasons. First, it actually intends to offer a definition of the gospel. That is the point of the passage. Second, its definition is unambiguous. Granted, it is germinal and needs to be fleshed out with other biblical references, but it certainly provides the framework for a clear and complete definition of the gospel. Third, as didactic literature the passage aims to teach directly rather than leaving the reader to draw inferences from circumstantial narratives.
What is Paul's understanding of the gospel? It is that Christ died for our sins and arose from the dead. For what sins did Christ die? Unquestionably for personal sinful acts of the sort that he rebukes throughout 1 Corinthians and his other epistles. How is this gospel applied? By receiving and holding fast to it—i.e., through personal faith. This gospel is most certainly "the message of how you can get individual forgiveness and eternal life through Jesus."
Certainly sin affects all of creation. Because of sin, humans are not at peace with themselves. They are not at peace with each other. They are not at peace with the created order, which has been cursed for their sake. Sin does produce psychological, social, and environmental effects.
These effects, however, are not the fundamental problem The fundamental problem is that sin has pitted humans against their Creator. They have broken His law and become traitors to His universal rule, attacking not only His ordinances but His person. The offense is infinite, the guilt is infinite, and the penalty, if it is to be just, must also be infinite. The gospel is the message that God has graciously met the terms of this penalty and provided atonement through the mediatorial cross-work of Christ. His blood provides redemption, propitiation, and reconciliation. Those who believe on Him are credited with His righteousness and, on that basis, declared to be righteous.
In the long run, the gospel has effects that reach the psychological, social, and environmental disasters that sin has created. To address those areas as if they were the gospel itself, however, is to miss the point. The gospel is exactly about the forgiveness of personal guilt, without which no gospel of the kingdom could ever exist.
To this gospel, Keller, in the name of the kingdom, adds a program of social activity. His approach leapfrogs the question of whether Christians might use social activity as a tool to gain a hearing for the gospel—a question upon which Christians have differed. Keller goes further. He thinks that social activity is actually part of the gospel. By confusing social improvement with gospel proclamation, Keller ends up diluting—and thus obscuring—the very gospel that he hopes to defend. This error is more than incidental.
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Johann Olearuis (1635–1711), tr. by August Crull (1846–1923)
Come, Thou precious Ransom, come,
Only Hope for sinful mortals!
Come, O Savior of the world!
Open are to Thee all portals.
Come, Thy beauty let us see;
Anxiously we wait for Thee.
Enter now my waiting heart,
Glorious King and Lord most holy.
Dwell in me and ne'er depart,
Though I am but poor and lowly.
Ah, what riches will be mine
When Thou art my Guest Divine!
My hosannas and my palms
Graciously receive, I pray Thee;
Evermore, as best I can,
Savior, I will homage pay Thee,
And in faith I will embrace,
Lord, Thy merit through Thy grace.
Hail, hosanna, David's Son!
Help, Lord, hear our supplication!
Let Thy kingdom, scepter, crown,
Bring us blessing and salvation,
That forever we may sing:
Hail, hosanna! to our King.
Gospel, Keller


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Wayne Lax doesn't remember his wedding day. He doesn't remember his suicide attempts. He doesn't even remember much about his son.
That's because over a 25-year period he was in hospital 108 times, medicated with up to 17 pills a day, and subject to 80 electroconvulsive shocks.
"I had more pills pumped into me than Elvis Presley."
He says 70 per cent of his long-term memory was erased by the shocks, and his lower back was ruined when he wasn't given enough muscle relaxant before one round.
At no time did he stop being an alcoholic.
He was also a cab driver.
"I was impaired on drugs, and they used to send me out to work."
One day in 1992, everything changed. He was in a car accident, and lost his license. Without his livelihood, and realizing the danger he was posing to himself and to others, he was forced to re-evaluate his life. Lax chose to give up the prescription drugs and electric shocks that had controlled him for 25 years.
"When I left the pills alone, the urge to drink left," he says.
What remained was a fierce will to help others who were going through the medical system he had survived. Since then, he has been speaking out about the psychiatric system, and especially about the dangers of electroconvulsive therapy.
"I just want to help other people, because I lived in hell for 25 years, and it put 30 people around me through hell."
In order to help others, the man doctors said would never be able to live on his own is on the board for Changes Recovery Homes Kenora, is a regional representative for the Northwest Ontario Patient Council, and is a member of Sunset Country Psychiatric Survivors, The Association for Community Living, People Advocating for Change and Empowerment, and more other associations than even he can remember offhand. His legal battles for justice for his family and for himself still continue. He has been interviewed by newspapers and magazines across North America and Great Britain, and is one of the subjects of a recent book, The Last Taboo, by award winning journalist Scott Simmie.
His most recent accomplish-ment is the "Courage to Come Back" award he received, signed by rower Silken Laumann, honourary chairman. The award is presented by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.
"I was quite honoured. My sister nominated me ' Joyce Roller in Thunder Bay."
As part of the nomination process, she sent Lax's story to the center. The award is "in recognition of his courage to come back."
Lax not only came back, but came back with a story to tell.
He says he isn't against all doctors or all psychiatrists, but some of them become dangerous because they have too much power. .
Lax said one doctor "was like God to me, he was like a father."
This doctor, although not a psychiatric professional, was able to prescribe mind altering drugs to Lax, in spite of one psychiatrist's insistence this was counterproductive.
While Lax acknowledges medication helps many people he thinks it makes no sense to prescribe to alcoholics.
"They're giving you another addiction."
He is against electroconvulsive therapy under all circumstances.
"It's a barbaric treatment, and I'd like to see electroconvulsive therapy banned," he says. "If shock is the answer, why are people in the system for 40 years?"
The answer for Lax was a combination of addiction counseling, self help groups and a great support system, starting with his family.
"They probably felt like giving up on me, but they didn't."
"It's easy for people to say 'People have to help themselves'," he says. "When I could focus, then I could do something with my life, but you can't under 17 pills a day."
This is why he says he has to try to help other people caught in the system. He has support from people across Canada, the U.S. and England, and in turn he gives support to people who can't help themselves.
"Sometimes I lie there at night with pain in my back, and I think 'How can they do this to a human being?' But I get up in the morning, and I think about how I'm going to help someone. You can't dwell in the past."


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In Singapore, a company can make dividend payments only if it is making a profit. Dividend payments are recommended by directors of a company and will be voted on and approved by shareholders at the company's Annual General Meeting (AGM). Once these dividend payments receive the required number of votes and are approved, they are called final dividends. Once this final dividend is declared, the company owes the shareholders this payout in the form of debt. This debt is to be paid immediately unless otherwise states. Some companies may state that dividends be paid at a later date. The dividend payment cannot be withdrawn or altered.
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So it was that Malcolm Turnbull became the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, while Abbott took over his role as backbencher and miserable ghost in Parliament.
Julie Bishop's tenure as Deputy Leader continued under the new leader.
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Away from the harbour you can lose yourself in a maze of narrow, winding streets, and within walking distance from the town centre you will find some of the Riviera's most spectacular scenery. Sandy beaches and secluded coves give way to the towering cliffs of Berry Head, offering breathtaking views of Torbay and the English Channel. The stunning South West Coast Path continues from here and winds its way round to the village of Kingswear.
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