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7 Signs of Dysfunction
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I recently read an article called Workplace conflict is a management problem via either my University of Texas at Austin Business School or the LinkedIn email newsletters. That article linked to a couple of others called 7 signs of a dysfunctional company and 7 signs of a dysfunctional boss. Check out also 7 Signs You May Be a Bad Manager. If only there were just 7 dysfunctions!
We are all dysfunctional in some way (not sure if I've ever met a "normal" person) but when parents, companies, and bosses are exceptionally dysfunctional (i.e., abusive, extremely disorganized, inconsistent, non-responsive, abandon their kids/employees, have an untreated medical/psychological condition, have zero empathy, etc.), it has a negative ripple effect on everything around them.
Anyone who has managed people has probably had times in their careers where they were exceedingly dysfunctional for professional, personal, or medical reasons. The best people I've worked with have done a lot of self examination/exploration, took time to learn from their mistakes, and can extrapolate how their behaviors effect those around them as well as the achievement of the goals of the organization. This is why there are very few great leaders and managers and tons of books and articles on the topic written mostly by people who aren't currently managing or leading an organization (or never have managed but are good academic observers and researchers) because they finally have the time to write about their experiences!
Author: Aruni | Filed under: entrepreneurship, parenting | Tags: bad manager, company management, dysfunctional boss, dysfunctional company, leadership, ripple effect, self exploration | 6 Comments »


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Bailey and Addison had appointments at NIH on Wednesday 11/5. They had several evaluations and we updated them on the last 2 years since we've been there. Both girls had muscle ultrasounds done, Bailey had a skin biopsy done, and then both girls had Echocardiograms. This all took about 7 exhausting hours. Both girls were really good and they each got to pick a toy from their treasure chest before we left, which made them happy!
So the outcome of the day?
Bailey's muscle ultrasound was different from the last one that she had done 2 years ago and they saw things that they had never seen before. They also were still concerned with her fatigue. They think it is possible that it is more extreme than that of a person with a muscle disorder/mutation. They want to follow up with some repeat testing which she will have to do as an inpatient at NIH since she can't fast prior to testing. They are going to repeat a muscle MRI, a specific lower muscle MRI, and an EMG with stimulation under sedation. They said it is possible that a contributing factor to her fatigue is moderate obstructive sleep apnea. She had a sleep study done at the end of September and we found out they saw some thing's on the test. She has an appointment Monday with ENT to look for upper airway obstruction and then depending on what they see they will probably repeat the sleep study while introducing a BiPap machine. We had a horrible experience with the sleep study so hopefully this one goes better. We do not have the results of her echocardiogram yet but I suspect it is fine since she just had one done at the beginning of October and she has started a possible preventative heart medication since then. Bailey had a skin biopsy done at the end of the appointment which they will use to validate her TTN mutation and to compare to some other testing that we are waiting on from Germany.
Addison's blood was sent away for testing to see if she has the same TTN gene mutation that Bailey has. We will have the results for that in 4-6 weeks. If she does have the mutation she will need to have the same 3 tests that Bailey is going to have done. We are of course crossing our fingers that there is no mutation found. She had a muscle ultrasound done and they saw mild muscle abnormalities on her lower extremities. It could be normal for her age but they are not completely sure so they are going to monitor it for now and do another ultrasound in a year or so. We don't have her results from her Echocardiogram (this was the first one she's ever had) but the tech said he saw no signs of a cardio myopathy which is promising!
Steven and I are scheduled to go to NIH on December 16th to have multiple Cardiac tests done. They informed me that it may not be completely necessary for me to have the testing done since Steven is the carrier and I am the variant. They are researching on if it would be beneficial for me to have the testing done. If not Steven will still go and have his heart looked at. Again, we are crossing our fingers that nothing comes of these tests!
I feel like every time that I feel like things may start to slow down or smooth out we get bombarded with new information, new tests, new things to wait for, new everything. Even though I knew something would come of this appointment (or else we wouldn't need to be seen at NIH) it is frustrating and overwhelming never knowing what to expect. We always have so much going on, it's hard not to wonder why this is our life and when will things ever slow down for us or mainly for our children but this is our normal and we go through the motions because that is what we HAVE to do as parents. I've learned to not go into appointments expecting things to go well and then I'm not disappointed when we get bad news and I'm ecstatic when things do go well! I try to stay positive and take things one day/one test/one doctor at a time but I do have my down moments, everyone does.
Until next time…
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Juat keep on moving forward..
Bailey and Addison had appointments at NIH on Wednesday 11/5. They had several evaluations and we updated them on the last 2 years since we've been there. Both girls had muscle ultrasounds done, Bailey had a skin biopsy done, and then both girls had Echocardiograms. This all took about 7 exhausting hours. Both girls were really good and they each got to pick a toy from their treasure chest before we left, which made them happy!
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For today's dare, get two sheets of paper. On the first one, spend a few minutes writing out positive things about your spouse. Then do the same with negative things on the second sheet. Place both sheets in a secret place for another day. There is a different purpose and plan for each. At some point during the remainder of the day, pick a positive attribute frm the first list and thank your spouse for having this characteristic.


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Jamaat calls hartal in Ctg for tomorrow
[Bangla Daily Star] The
The Islamic Society
, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer
. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
called a dawn-to-dusk
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
in Chittagong division for tomorrow after party leaders were denied permission for holding a rally in the port city yesterday.
The protest programme was declared at a press briefing at the office of city unit
Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
, student wing of Jamaat, at West Bakalia. Jamaat city unit Ameer Shamsul Islam, MP, made the announcement, according to a
Earlier, the party announced that it would hold a rally in front of Anderkilla Shahi Jaam-e-Mosque yesterday afternoon, protesting killings of four Jamaat activists in Chittagong during its February 5 hartal. But the Chittagong Metropolitan Police had not given them permission, Jamaat city unit Publicity Secretary Mohammad Ullah told The Daily Star.
Four people, including two pedestrians, were killed in
during the hartal enforced by Jamaat, said police sources, but Jamaat claims all of them belonged to the party.
Earlier in the day around 5:45am, a group of 15 to 20 Jamaat-Shibir men stopped a Chittagong-bound pick-up van and a covered van on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway near Banshbaria of Sitakunda upazila and set them ablaze.
On information, a unit of fire fighters from Sitakunda rushed to the spot around 7:00am and doused the fire, said Prahlad Singh, a telephone operator at Agrabad Fire Service and Civil Defence Station in the city.
No casualty was reported, he said.
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a Jamaat leader and 13 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir in the port city and two upazilas of Chittagong on different charges.
Mostafa Noor, Jamaat assistant secretary general of Sitakunda upazila unit and also vice-chairman of the upazila, and a Shibir activist, Shahidul Islam, were arrested at their residences yesterday on charges of arson and creating obstacle in transport movement in the area during February 5 hartal, said Syed Iqbal Ali, assistant superintendent of police (Sitakunda circle).
Police arrested five Shibir activists -- Hamed Hasan, Monirul Islam, Galib Hasan, Alamgir Hossain and Mishkat Uddin -- in Bahaddarhat area under Chandgaon Police Station on Wednesday in connection with assaults on police during the hartal, said Rajesh Barua, sub-inspector of Panchlaish Police Station.
In another development at Lohagara upazila, police arrested seven activists of Shibir early yesterday and on Wednesday for attacking
, said Shahjahan, OC of Lohagara Police Station.
The arrestees were identified as Shafiqul Islam, Mostak Ahmed, Delwar Hossain, Ali Ahmed Sawdagar, Khaled Saifullah, Abdul Gafur and Parvez.
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Great insights here. Rings true. Thanks!


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Paul's problem: Self-inflicted wounds
Rand Paul's 2016 prospects would look a lot brighter if he'd bring an end to one of his biggest problems: self-inflicted wounds.
Paul wants to be the guy who broadens the Republican Party's appeal to young voters and minorities, and some GOP operatives say he just might be able to pull it off. He has won attention for his fight against mandatory minimum jail sentences, he has visited Howard University to pitch his ideas to African-American college students, and he won the Maine straw poll this weekend after giving a speech about the need for a broader Republican coalition.
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( Also on POLITICO: Rand Paul wins Maine straw poll)
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"Sen. Rand Paul's message to the Republican Party is to adapt, evolve or die. It is unfortunate that some political analysts will use Sen. Paul's efforts to grow our party as an excuse to lob outdated criticisms," said spokesman Sergio Gor. "Sen. Paul should be judged by his engagement of all groups and his message of growth, not old recycled accusations that distract from Sen. Paul's message of inclusion."
And Republican operatives say he hasn't done anything that would sink his chances. But the embarrassments add up to a bad habit for Paul — one even some of his admirers say he'll have to turn around if he wants to become a mainstream candidate.
( Also on POLITICO: Rand Paul makes a muddle)
"If you're going to be vetted by the national media, you don't want to be vetted by your mistakes," said Ed Rollins, the former adviser to President Ronald Reagan who served as Mike Huckabee's national campaign chairman in 2008. "You can make 100 good speeches, and it's the one bad statement that will get all the attention."
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Some of the warnings are also coming from Paul's potential opponents — which isn't surprising, since they'll be looking for any vulnerabilities they can find. And Paul was already taking a lot of heat from national security hawks who don't like his criticisms of government surveillance.
( WATCH: POLITICO's Driving the Day)
"There's a number of subjects that really do raise questions about his judgment," said Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), a likely 2016 rival. King also said people would start to question the judgment of people around him: "It makes you wonder about the judgment of some of the people he would rely on as president."


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Last week, a day after highlights of two major studies on global warming were made public, one of Pennsylvania's environmental champions, Rep. Greg Vitali, D-166, released some startling news.
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer reportedly said he does not acknowledge the validity of climate change when questioned by Vitali and three other legislators during a House Appropriations Committee hearing about his agency's 2013-2014 proposed budget.
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Great Britain's rowers claimed the bronze medal in a thrilling men's eight race at Eton Dorney.
World champions Germany took the gold and Canada overtook the British crew in the final quarter of the race to take silver.
The Great Britain men's quadruple scull team qualified for the final after finishing third in the semi-final, behind world bronze medallists Croatia and Australia.
Matt Wells, Tom Solesbury, Charles Cousins and Stephen Rowbotham produced the fastest last 500 metres of any crew in the field to move up from fourth and into the qualification places. The British crew closed in on Australia in the final stretch but were just beaten to the line by three tenths of a second.
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In this blog, Julie Fenner explores what the new definition of 'health literacy' developed by the World Health Organisation means in practice.
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In this blog, Julie Fenner explores what the new definition of 'health literacy' developed by the World Health Organisation means in practice.
In this blog, Julie Fenner explores what the new definition of 'health literacy' developed by the World Health Organisation means in practice.
In this talk, and accompanying slide set, Richard Osborne sets out some definitions of health literacy and its impact on people's access and utilization of health care, their interactions with health services and providers, their ability to self-manage and care for their own health and their ability to participate in health discussions and decision-making.
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This is the National Health Literacy Action Plan for Scotland. Although developed for Scotland it will be useful to others as it provides a really helpful insight into the impacts of low health literacy. It locates the task of dealing with the 'problem' of health literacy, not just with those who have difficulty understanding and using services, but with the people delivering them to routinely ensure that people understand and have been understood.
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Hmmmm, another thread has pulled me into this one...arghh...ok I probably shouldnt but here I go, to broaden the discussion on what is acceptable risk.First, a definition: risk = (the probability of occurrence) times (the gravity of the consequence).
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Maybe it's just me (to each their own) but when my kids were born I got more enjoyment watching their soccer games, dance recitals, etc. than I ever got out of climbing. Taking them hiking, climbing and biking seemed more enjoyable than hanging out with a bunch of climbing friends flexing and spraying. Now that they are older and gone I am free to do resume whatever I chose.
Maybe it's just me (to each their own) but when my kids were born I got more enjoyment watching their soccer games, dance recitals, your right Steve... it's you Just happy you lived to see today
My family has taken un-roped climbing off the table for me. I get my thrills in other ways these days.
Quote from: kenreville on March 23, 2013, 06:19:14 PMMy family has taken un-roped climbing off the table for me. I get my thrills in other ways these days.Yeah, Ken! Swarmy rip tides, fog, killer sharks, and gnarly bass hooked on your fly rod, gin and tonics, and smoke for you mate! Not to mention the four women in your life.My greatest adventure ever was with you Ken. Attempting the first winter ascent of of Annapurna 1 via the the yet un-climbed West Rib to Roc Nor, with hard left hand turn to traverse the long mile of the East Ridge (from 24,000') to the summit at just over 26,000'. We made the best decision of our lives retreating from our high point of 23,000'. I thought it bad judgement that you and Pemba chose to wait-and-see, at our camp I, on the glacier below the awesome South Face (prone to major avalanche wipe out). The retreat in white out conditions back to base camp was epic- thankful of placing rock cairn navigation markers and dialing in an exit strategy in case of such an event. The competing Japanese, climbing the direct Bonington route, were able to get the summit at a big price. The two summiteers are still up there 26 years later.[By the way: sorry about knocking your pack off the ledge at 20,000'! Glad it didn't go all the way and we were able to retrieve it. My bad, dude, but clip the sucker off no matter what!] Given the historical record of Himalayan Alpinism I knew it was statistically the highest risk game I could play as a climber. We were unmarried and without children then, Ken. I made sure that all my loved ones knew upfront the risks. It is never with 100% blessing from your loved ones. The decision to willfully place my self in the possible path of the grim reaper is a selfish act. Once dead, the living must deal with the psychological and administrative debris. No amount of years of experience, the using of good judgement, and well honed skills can protect you when circumstances (either anticipated or not), nature (either weather, rock/ice fall), your response/exposure to high altitude (the killa edemas), and monumental/"momentary lapse of reasoning" [Pink Floyd] suddenly throws your life into peril.It is exactly these elements of risk that makes climbing so alluring and compelling. Climbing is viscerally engaging both mentally and physically. The beauty of climbing is you can choose how you want to play the game- you can choose your exposure to risk. It does not mean you might end up dead! Gravity is gravity no matter the grade or level of objective hazards. A sharp mind does not mean you can not make that one last mistake. No. amount of reading and knowing the historical record can save you. You will never be immune to death!....But I will tell you, all the elements and risk of climbing, has shaped my life in incredibly rewarding and enriching ways. The physical, psychological, and philosophical benefits are well worth all the risk I have exposed myself to. It informs and defines my life beyond climbing. Climbing as a metaphor has always fascinated me. Most defiantly I have way dialed back my exposure to risk since having a son and becoming older and wiser. Short of dying, I have pushed out and tested the realms of risk, as a climber, sufficiantly enough to know its extremities. I have gone, I have seen, I have felt its grip. It has given me great adventures and lifelong bonds of friendship. I no long feel a need to pursue high risk. I can take my experience of risk and apply it in non life threatening ways--such as the pursuit of financial security!
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Like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, Barto is an experienced sleuth who looked long and hard before identifying the culprit. She re-created the scene of the garlic mustard's crime in a plot of woods near the president's house on campus. She dug deep in the forest floor to establish facts, collecting samples and bringing them back to her lab where she simulated the crime hundreds of times over. She's building her case around evidence that garlic mustard kills the fungus that feeds 80 percent of plants in the forest.
"Just eradicating the garlic mustard, as hard as that is, won't be enough" says Barto. "Part of the mystery is how we undo the damage the garlic mustard has wrought."
She's been on the case since she got her master's in biology in 2002, and will have attained Ph.D. status in environmental sciences by the time she finishes. Her detective work has not gone unnoticed. This year she was one of 20 students nationally to receive a Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowship for Graduate Environmental Study from the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The man falsely accused by the FBI of sending letters laced with deadly anthrax spores has received a big settlement from the government, but never an apology for destroying his life.
What's more, Dr. Steven J. Hatfill told TODAY's Matt Lauer during his first interview since the September 2001 attacks, neither the Justice Department nor the FBI have been held accountable for breaking the law and lying in their pursuit of him.
"I love my country," Hatfill, 56, told Lauer. But, he added, "I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit … You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit. And the Privacy Act laws were put in place specifically to stop what happened to me. Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything."
No apologies
"Did they ever apologize?" Lauer asked.
"No, they don't do that. My father asked them, very early on in the investigation. He said, 'When all this is over, and you find that my son had nothing to do with this, are you going to apologize?' And Bob Roth says, 'No, we don't do that,' " Hatfill said, referring to the FBI's lead investigator in the case, Bob Roth.
"We'll send Martha Stewart to jail for making false statements. What about these senior people? Nothing's happening. Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control."
Hatfill said that at his worst, while unable to get a job and living with his girlfriend, he turned to drink, the glass of wine he took to help him relax turning into two glasses and more.
"I've been in a lot of stressful situations over the years. And it ends. This didn't end. It kept going, going, going, getting worse, worse, worse," he said of the investigation.
The anthrax attacks began in September 2001, a week after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Letters filled with deadly anthrax spores began arriving at media outlets and at the offices of federal lawmakers. Five people would die in the attacks, and at least 17 others would be infected. Among those to whom letters were addressed was NBC's Tom Brokaw.
In 2008, the government would finally settle with Hatfill for $5.8 million, although a Justice Department spokesperson said the department "does not admit to any violation of the Privacy Act and continues to deny all liability in connection with Dr. Hatfill's claims."
Another researcher, Bruce Edwards Ivins, was identified as the prime suspect. Ivins committed suicide after his name was made public.
Wake of 9/11
In 2001, the immediate assumption was that the anthrax attacks were orchestrated by Al Qaeda. Amid intensive media attention, investigators attempted to determine the source of the letters.
As someone who was working on biological warfare-related projects for a defense contractor, Hatfill, a respected researcher, said he expected to be among those questioned. So he wasn't surprised when agents came by to ask him a few questions.
Eventually, they asked if they could take a look at this apartment in Frederick, Md.
"I'm cooperating. I didn't get a lawyer or anything," Hatfill told Lauer. He said agents asked to swab surfaces in the apartment and promised, "It'll be very discreet, quiet."
"Sure," he replied. "Knock yourself out."
But when Hatfill walked out of his apartment with the agents, "there were already news cameras filming me walking to the car." Overhead, helicopters hovered taking aerial footage. "I was really angry," he said.
Hatfill cooperated fully in the early stages because he had nothing to hide. He even took a polygraph test, even though he knew that polygraphs are not reliable and sometimes return false positive results.
'Person of interest'
In July 2002, Hatfill was named a "person of interest" by Attorney General John Ashcroft.
As Hatfill found himself vilified in the media, his anger grew. He told Lauer he blamed the media for the false reports about him, not understanding that the media was reporting false information that came from anonymous government sources.
"I didn't know this at the time. I just thought it was the press sensationalizing things. It wasn't till much, much later we learned that it was actually intentionally done by the Justice Department," Hatfill said.
Hatfill said he survived only because he had faithful friends who refused to abandon him, even when ordered to by the FBI.
"I was fortunate that I had a band of brothers and they never left my side. I still work with them to this day. Patriots, soldiers, highly decorated men. And that gives you the strength, just to be in their company, to carry on."
He is angry that the government feels that it can tell people to abandon their friends.
"I don't know of any law that permits the FBI to go by your closest friends and say, 'You're not to associate with Dr. Hatfill.' What they're trying to do is socially isolate you as part of the stress."


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On the ball: Behind the curtain — no VUHS photo?
With varying degrees of dismay, a couple of Vergennes Union High School boys' basketball backers recently wondered why the Independent did not honor the Commodores with a Monday front-page photo after they completed their 24-0 season.
A parent in an email to me was particularly puzzled because the March 11 edition in question featured a picture of a skier on the front page. The other, a true Commodore fan not related to a team member to my knowledge, shared with an Independent employee her belief that we would place a Middlebury team on the cover.
Well, we certainly intended no slight to the Commodores, or to the Mount Abraham girls, whose picture also did not grace our Monday, March 18, cover after they won their D-II title two days before. Nor, in the past have we had anything but admiration for the MUHS girls' and boys' lacrosse, Mount Abe boys' basketball, VUHS girls' soccer or other teams who have won championship games contested on Saturdays. But they haven't been pictured on Monday covers, either. And we're certainly not going to wait five days to print Saturday news on a Thursday.
The truth of the matter is weekend sports coverage at the Independent has a later deadline than the rest of the paper. The news section, including the front page, the editorial pages, the obituaries, classifieds and everything else except the two or three pages of sports, is finished and laid out by Friday afternoon. The pages are then sent digitally to our printer.
Then, Trent Campbell, our photographer, and I go out and cover events on Friday evenings or Saturdays. He and I usually arrive back at the Independent on Sunday mornings to process photos and write stories.
Later on Sunday someone else in a rotating crew — right now news editor John McCright, publisher Angelo Lynn and fellow reporter Xian Chiang-Waren are taking turns — come in, edit the stories, choose which photos to run, lay out the pages, write the headlines, and whisk the finished product off to the press. That's usually at least two days after the front page has gone out the door, if you can use that metaphor for launching stuff into cyberspace.
Oh, that picture of the skier? Trent took it earlier in the week. Middlebury College was hosting the NCAA championship ski meet from Wednesday through Saturday, and our editors chose that shot for the front page because it was a cool graphic, not because it was a sports photo.
Hey, we meant no disrespect to you or your sons.


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THE sister of a Wirral man who lost his life in the Hillsborough disaster said it felt like a light had been switched on when her brother entered a room.
Peter Burkett was one of 96 Liverpool fans who died in Britain's worst sporting disaster on April 15, 1989.
He was 24-years-old.
Speaking at the inquest today, Peter's sister Lesley Roberts said her brother was unique and "touched the hearts of all the people who knew and loved him".
The court heard that as children Peter and his brother Terry, who was 10 months younger then him, we're inseparable and would do everything together.
As they grew older, they would have countless discussions about football, with Peter supporting Liverpool and Terry following Everton.
When their parents divorced Peter moved to Anglesey with his mum and sister but returned to Rock Ferry a few years to live with his dad, who Mrs Roberts said was his best friend, as well as his father.
He attended Rock Ferry High School and was a bright student who was very popular.
He loved football and before his passion for Liverpool fully set in, was also a supporter of Tranmere Rovers.
Peter lived with his dad and brother Terry in Rock Ferry until he remarried, with Peter then buying his own home in Singleton Avenue.
He met Michelle in 1984 and the pair married in 1986 at St Joseph's Catholic Church in Tranmere. They never had children and Mrs Roberts said the marriage did not work.
After they separated, Peter and Michelle remained friends. Mrs Roberts said: "In November, 1988, five months before the Hillsborough disaster both my big brothers Peter and Terry walked me down the aisle on my wedding day.
"Without a doubt Peter was the star of the day."
The court heard that four days after her wedding, Mrs Roberts moved to Germany with her new husband.
She only saw her brother once mire before he died. "It was hard not to love Peter," said Mrs Roberts.
"He loved all of his family and we all loved him.
"Peter rose above all challenges that life threw at him. He chose to be the best person he could be and see the best in all those around him."
Mrs Roberts also read comments from younger brother Michael, who was eight when Peter died.
He said: "I think of my brother every day and I only wish I had more memories of him."
Mrs Roberts told the court: "If you search the world a million times you will never find anyone quite like Peter - to us he was unique."
She described her brother as "gentle and kind, intelligent and thoughtful" and said he was so "full of life", funny and charming.
Mrs Roberts added: "When he walked into a room it would feel like somebody had switched a light on and everything was instantly brighter.
"When he smiled it warmed your body through to your soul.
"He made you feel special, in reality he was the special one.
"Over the last 25 years as a family we have chosen to remember Peter privately but he is always in our thoughts.
"We are so proud of who Peter was and so lucky to have known him.
"He is sadly missed but will live on in our hearts forever."
The new inquest into Britain's worst sporting disaster began last month and resumed this week following a break for the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.
They are taking place at Birchwood Park in Warrington and are being heard by Court of Appeal judge Lord Justice Goldring, who has been made an assistant coroner for the purpose.
The original accidental deaths verdicts in 1991 were quashed in the High Court in 2012 after a long campaign by the Hillsborough families.
Twelve of those who lost their lives in the disaster were from Wirral and Ellesmere Port.
They were: Peter Burkett, 24, Rock Ferry.
Ray Chapman, 50, Prenton.
James Delaney, 19, Ellesmere Port.
Christopher Edwards, 29, Ellesmere Port.
Thomas "Steve" Fox, 21, Birkenhead.
James Hennessy, 29, Ellesmere Port.
Arthur Horrocks, 41, Bebington.
Anthony Kelly, 29, Rock Ferry.
Graham Roberts, 24, Wallasey.
Dave Thomas, 23, Higher Tranmere.
Chris Traynor, 26, Birkenhead.
Kevin Traynor, 16, Birkenhead.


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Introduction: In this article, Scott Phillips writes about his genealogy surprise: he was researching a branch of his family tree and discovered a Confederate captain from the Civil War! Scott is a genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past® genealogy services.
One of the most enjoyable aspects of working on our genealogy is the surprises we discover. If you are like me, you have had your fair share of finding something in your family history research that you either weren't looking for at the time, or were shocked at what you actually did find. Recently that happened to me while I was working on our daughter-in-law's family branch. Here is that story. And after telling you about my latest genealogy adventure, I'd love to hear about your biggest genealogy surprises!
I had been at work on our daughter-in-law's family tree for some time when I got a bit stumped on one of the female members back in the early 1800s. The family was from southern Ohio and their daughter Mary A. Dillon seemed to have disappeared on me. That is to say, she disappeared until a colleague happened to mention that he thought she might have married a fellow by the name of Scovell. A quick check with the Lawrence County, Ohio, Genealogy Society and I confirmed the marriage of our Mary A. Dillon to one William Tiley Scovell. Once I had a place and a name I was off to the newspaper archives and other databases of GenealogyBank.com to see what else I could find.
Well, the last thing I was expecting to find in my family tree was a Civil War Confederate captain who was so in demand that Southern generals were competing to have his services! Plus, none other than General Robert E. Lee, the top man himself, was deciding where Scovell could best serve the Confederacy.
I've long known that we have a Civil War veteran or two in our family tree, but never anyone above the rank of private and certainly no one who was in demand quite like Captain Scovell. A riverboat captain before the war, Scovell evidently was extremely adept at getting ships, men, and cargo up and down—as well as across—rivers.
In my first search I found an 1895 newspaper article explaining that Captain Scovell had just passed away—at that time he was the second-to-last surviving member of the Grivot Rifles of the Fifteenth Louisiana Infantry.
From this old newspaper article I gained excellent information, leads, and insight into the Civil War career of William T. Scovell and began looking further.
Next I discovered, in GenealogyBank.com's Historical Documents collection, the Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865, which showed William T. Scovell "taking rank" on June 5, 1862, in Louisiana.
Next I found an additional 1895 newspaper article about Scovell.
This historical newspaper article was wonderful since it explained that Captain Scovell's services were argued over by Generals Stonewall Jackson and Early, with the decision over Scovell's assignment coming from General Robert E. Lee himself. It also offered the information that Captain Scovell was one of the CSA officers in charge of the infamous burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on July 30, 1864.
Then I discovered a real bit of genealogy treasure. In a 1922 newspaper I read a "Succession Notice" for "Mrs. Mary A. Dillon, widow of William T. Scovell."
This historical succession notice was for the probate of the estate of Mary. I have since sent to Louisiana for instructions and information on how I can access this will and estate file since the old news article wonderfully contains the court name, parish, division, date, file number, deceased, attorney, and executor. What an abundance of information in one short article!
From almost nothing I am now deeply involved in learning about our family's Civil War luminary and it brings me back to the question I asked in the beginning of this article.
Tell me…what is the biggest surprise that you have found doing your genealogy and family history?


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Syndicate Banned in Australia - UPDATED
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Syndicate Banned in Australia - UPDATED
The Syndicate reboot gets the thumbs-down from the Australian Classification Board.
Australia might be slowly working its way toward a functional videogame rating system [or then again, it may not] but until it finally gets there, the old rules still apply. That's bad news for Aussie gamers looking forward to the upcoming Syndicate do-over from Starbreeze, because the Australian Classification Board has determined that, under those old rules, the game is too intensely violent for kids and thus should be played by no-one.
What's the hangup? This description of a sequence involving a "G290 minigun" taken from the Classification Board report on the game sums it up rather nicely. "Combatants take locational damage and can be explicitly dismembered, decapitated or bisected by the force of the gunfire," it says. "The depictions are accompanied by copious bloodspray and injuries are shown realistically and with detail. Flesh and bone are often exposed while arterial sprays of blood continue to spirt from wounds at regular intervals."
Totally awesome! Also, I think most of us would agree, totally not for kids. But Australia's game rating system isn't built to accommodate adults, so if it's not for kids, it's not for anyone.
"In the opinion of the Board, the game contains intense sequences of violence which include detailed depictions of decaptitation and dismemberment that are high in playing impact," the report says. "The game also contains the ability to inflict repeated and realistic post mortem damage which exceeds strong in playing impact. It is therefore unsuitable for a minor to see or play and should be Refused Classification pursuant to item 1(d) of the computer games table of the Code."
Kotaku Australia says EA is "preparing a response" to the effective ban, although it seems unlikely that the game could be toned down enough to get it under the wire, at least in time to make its planned launch in February 2012. And even if it could, who would want to play a neutered, sanitized Syndicate when the rest of the world is wading hip-deep through the blood [and bone, and bits of brain] of its corporate rivals? That's just no fun at all.
UPDATE: EA's "response" to the situation is to more or less tell the Australian government to get bent. "The game will not be available in Australia despite its enthusiastic response from fans. We were encouraged by the government's recent agreement to adopt an 18+ age rating for games. However, delays continue to force an arcane censorship on games - cuts that would never be imposed on books or movies," Tiffany Steckler of EA Corporate Communications told Joystiq. "We urge policy makers to take swift action to implement an updated policy that reflects today's market and gives its millions of adult consumers the right to make their own content choices."
Sounds great. When can I preorder?
And I really hope that "preparing a response" means EA are planning to have the members of the classification board gunned down by covert operatives. I mean we all know that EA is an Evil Mega-Corporation, so they might as well act like it.
Dismemberment? Locational damage? Tons of gore? An intriguing story that's probably much more relevant than I'm comfortable with? A MINIGUN, you say?
...oh what the hell, take my money. Thanks, Australia! Keep banning stuff, it generates interest in games that might be cool!
Hypothetically speaking, would that really be a bad thing?
I still don't understand this. "Herp derp bad for kids so nobody gets it"
You know what this just put the game 2 notches up on my priority list ,love a game where the gun play has some weight none of this pea shooter fall down nonsense (even if it is technically more realistic)
Good thing my mate doesn't lived in Australia otherwise he would of been pissed off about this news (he played the old RTS and loved it so this is a instant buy for him).
I bet this whole Machine-gun/dismemberment thing is just a smokescreen for the real issue: The Australian government is taking a stand against reboots bastardizing their source material!
They fight for good under the veil of evil! It's true!
Yes, because we wouldn't want all those poor little kiddies' minds to get warped and turn them into a generation psychotic delinquents. Can you imagine an entire continent inhabited by criminals?
Because everyone knows the only adults in Australia who play videogames are snarky British ex-pat manchildren.
I'm so glad I live in a country that has a Bill of Rights which would not allow this kind of foolery. The 7-2 decision of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association affirms that. Still, Australians, you have my sympathy.
Oh maaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
I was waiting for Yahtzee to tear the game apart!
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. This is REALLY starting to annoy me. Now it's getting to games I might actually be interested in.
You sir made me laugh my ass off from that bravo
A game banned in australia is a sad day because gamers dont get to have there games because of stupid people D:
I was ambivalent toward Syndicate, being a big fan of original, but I was still going to give it a go. Not according to my government I'm not! I'm getting sick of this shit.
I do applaud EA for not watering it down for the Australian censors; L4D2 was so neutered that it really detracted from the game.
I wish they'd have literally told them to go fuck themselves. Its not like that'd make the retarded situation any worse.
If its any consolation guys, the game doesn't look any good.
jesus hank christ... EA actaully did something i can applaud!
Same here, then I thought "Now that wasn't very nice."
I then proceeded to laugh more. I guess EA can do something half right, I'm going to assume putting it down to kiddy age would completely ruin it.
The Australian restrictions on what would be deemed "free speech" in the US and most other democracies are insane.
Cases like these, which have only increased in recent years, simply demonstrate the necessity of mentioning free speech in a democracy's constitution. One would think that the constitution of a true democracy would contain some mention -- ANY mention -- about free speech, but most are surprised to find out that it is not the case. The lack of such a clause is dangerous. If they can go this far, how much farther can they go before the restrictions would be deemed unacceptable?
Also, could someone who lives in Australia please comment on how the general public there views what's going on with videogames? I don't want any biased answers. I just want the truth about public opinion. Anyone know?
Oh and if there is someone out there who can offer such insight, could you please also tell us whether Australia has done this with other mediums (e.g. film, television, literature, etc.)? From what I've gathered through my limited research, it appears that videogames have been the only target.
The majority don't care, I can tell you for a fact. It's only gamers that are up in arms over it, hence the reason the government is stalling for as long as possible. Hell, due to the strength of our dollar, game developing/publishing companies are folding quicker than a cheap suit and they seem to give even less of a fuck.
And you are correct, video games are the only thing this applies to because it is an "interactive" medium. I've gone onto the OLFC website to see what the classifications board is letting in and the titles to some of the porn movies that they've given the green light to sound infinitely more nasty than anything Syndicate will dish up. But the pollies do love their porn.
That's such a shame. I guess the public at large doesn't realize that the censorship of one medium is important to everyone because the more encroachment is allowed, the more likely it is to be extended to other mediums and even to speech from the people themselves. People should really be more sensitive to such issues, rather than taking the "as long as it doesn't affect me" approach to any one policy/law.
I guess video of, say, triple penetration is more suitable to children than violent videogames, simply because the video isn't "interactive." Although, let's be honest: porn is very often, er..."interactive."
P.S. Programmed_For_Damage: LOVE your avatar! Hysterical!
Welp, I guess I'll just have to order it from the internet.
Syndicate as a FPS was a bad idea to begin with I believe but I still wanted to give it a shot. Suppose I'll have to get it by some other means (american steam store for solid copy from overseas)
the "general public" dont care except for the gamers among them
and yeah, as far as I can tell its only the games, I was actually surprised to find a copy of "the human centepede" in a DVD store
and to be honest it doesnt happen all that often (this is the only notable example other than left 4 dead) but I still think its an issue that needs adressing
Urgh, I know I'm not gonna pirate this (I respect games too much) but I don't exactly want to import it either. Goddamn lazy government.
With cool hats!
You mustn't forget the hat!
It's ok, i'll just watch a Let's Play of it...won't be missing out on any "intense sequences of violence" here! Thanks Australian Government!
small bet that they put a dismembering minigun specifically to offend them to get free press
I'd disagree. It's all very well to have such things in your constitution, but it doesn't mean anything unless people want to enforce it. And in that case, they'd do it anyway.
The US Bill of Rights, for example, promises all sorts of things that are quietly overlooked when necessary.
Nobody much seems to care. Oh, if you ask, people would likely say that it's silly, but it's not a pressing concern in the scheme of things.
I am happy EA told them essentially "get bent". Parents are to blame for children who go bad due to video games, not video games them selves. Old white boys gonna hate I guess.
Now I don't have to worry about my son going out and using his minigun to dismember, decapitate, or bisect my fellow countrymen!
What? No. I've got two porn stores on the same street near where I live and I'm in NSW.
hurr do how do i properly quote someone that has already quoted someone without having the fuckhuge quote to a quote bullshit I hate this
I fixed your post, man.
Hey, if it's banned it's justifiable right ;)?
Surely they mean "archaic"?
Oh wait, this is EA, they're not famous for their brains, and in fact are famous for their LACK of brains.
Silly me.
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