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You might think a play about mother-daughter abandonment issues is the last place anyone would want to be on Mother's Day weekend, but not so. Out writer/director Trey Anthony's How Black Mothers Say I Love You opened to a packed room in Toronto on Saturday night and closed with a standing ovation. It was much deserved.
How Black Mothers Say I Love You was inspired by Trey's own family history, although several running themes are not unique to her experience. The play highlights the plight of domestic workers who starting in the mid-'50s left countries like Jamaica and Barbados to work in Canada and the United States. Many of these women left children behind. But changes in government policies meant many were able to eventually reunite in North America. By then, however, years had passed and not only were these kids being uprooted from their homes and introduced to a new country, but they had to reacquaint themselves with their mothers and unpack all the emotions that went with that.
This story is personal for Trey, who in her director's note wrote, "I come from a legacy of black mothers who have left their children." That legacy includes two grandmothers who left their children behind in search of a better life and her own mother, Claudette, leaving her and her siblings behind in England to go to Canada. None of these women ever got over these events. In fact, Trey's maternal grandmother was the inspiration for the play. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she shared that one of her biggest regrets was leaving behind her children.
While this history alone was surely more than enough material to work with, Trey felt compelled to come at the story from a queer angle as well.
"For me, it was really important to have every single one of my identities as a black queer female presented in a story that I could relate to," Trey said.
This was embodied in her protagonist, Claudette (Robinne Fanfair). Yes, she named her lesbian main character after her mother. Trey said she did so to honor her mom and to show the ways in which they are similar and connected.
In How Black Mothers Say I Love You, Claudette returns home after three years away and the failure of a long-term relationship. Her mother, Daphne (Ordena Thompson), has been diagnosed with cancer and her sister, Valerie (Allison Edwards-Crewe), is trying to save her marriage. Despite this, Claudette can't seem to let go of her abandonment issues. You see, Daphne had left her and Valerie in Jamaica for six years when Claudette was just seven to move to Canada.
It was while in Canada that Daphne got married and had another daughter, Cloe (Jewelle Blackman). A sickly child, Cloe died young (although you'll see her appear as a ghost with some amazing violin solos). The special attention paid to Cloe by their mother is yet another reason why Claudette's relationship with Daphne is strained. Another big one? Daphne's lack of acceptance for her daughter's sexuality.
Daphne's a religious woman, the kind that goes to church every day and puts her health in God's hands. While she at times seems to have come to terms with Claudette's sexuality, when pushed it's clear she thinks her daughter's "lifestyle" is a personal attack and that she'd much rather see her paired off with a man.
For her part, Valerie seems fine with her big sister being queer, although she does drop a line about it not being an issue as long as she doesn't rub it in anyone's face. We've all heard that one before.
Not that there's anything, or anyone, to rub our faces in. Nor Jenna nor any of Claudette's exes appear in the play. Trey explained that while Jenna was there in the first draft, she soon realized she wanted to concentrate on the dynamic between a mother and her daughters. "It really was about just keeping it within these four women and their lives."
That said, Jenna is still a constant presence. In one scene, Claudette has a panic attack in front of her sister because she's starting to forget little details about Jenna. It's clear she loved her, so why did she end things? As the play goes on, it becomes obvious that Claudette leaves people before they can leave her.
Valerie calls her out on it during one of the play's most emotional scenes. The two really do have a unique relationship. Having had that same kind of connection with her own siblings, Trey insisted on that being a crucial part of the play.
"We definitely do not see that level of intimacy and gentleness with black women," Trey said. "I was really tired of seeing us being portrayed on stage as argumentative, strong, pulling out each other's weaves, that kind of stuff."
Emotionally heavy at times, it has to be noted that How Black Mothers Say I Love You is also hilarious. It's clear from the beginning that these women love and like each other and that they will find common ground because of this.
Remarkably, this is Trey's first attempt at directing. If audience reaction is anything to go by, she's done a great job. It's no surprise then that they play's run in Toronto is almost completely sold out. Trey is already looking into runs in Ottawa, Montreal, New York City, Atlanta and England. Should that pan out, the play will be adapted to fit an American or English context. On top of that, there's been some talk about turning the play into a multi-episode series or a TV show.
And if you're wondering, yes, Trey does plan to explore black queer themes again. "I really do feel a calling to do that kind of work continuously," she said.
"I really do feel a calling to do that kind of work continuously," she said.
How Black Mothers Say I Love You is playing at Factory Theater in Toronto through May 15.


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Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, 570 US ___ (June 25, 2013) involved discussions between plaintiff applicant and defendant Water Management District which had jurisdiction over permits to dredge or fill Florida wetlands. The District had specific authority under state law to offset environmental damages, including "creating, enlarging, or preserving wetlands elsewhere." In 1972 plaintiff's father had purchased a 14.9 acre parcel that included wetlands. Plaintiff succeeded to that parcel and proposed to develop 3.7 acres in 1994, agreeing to dedicate approximately 11 acres to the District for wetland preservation. Defendant found this action to be inadequate and proposed alternatives including development of just one acre (which would require a dedication of 13.9 acres to the District) or development of 3.7 acres so long as plaintiff would help restore wetlands on District-owned property within the same basin several miles away or pay an equivalent amount to do so.
Plaintiff refused to undertake or propose other alternatives; thus the permit was denied. Plaintiff sued for a taking. The trial court found actions above and beyond the 11-acre dedication proposal violated both the nexus and rough proportionality requirements of Nollan v. California Coastal Comm. 483 U.S. 825 (1987), and Dolan v. City of Tigard, 512 U.S. 374 (1994), respectively. The Florida Court of Appeals affirmed but the Florida Supreme Court reversed, finding no taking as there was no condition on which to predicate a Nollan/Dolan violation and because the claim involved a demand for money which it found not subject to a takings claim under those cases. The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari.
The court found the doctrine of "unconstitutional conditions" applied, so that the Government may not deny plaintiff a benefit through coercion or otherwise because she exercises a constitutional right. That doctrine has a special application in Nollan and Dolan that reflects, according to the majority, two "realities" of the land use permitting process: 1) that applicants are especially vulnerable to coercion prohibited under the doctrine of unconstitutional conditions and 2) that some proposed uses of land impose costs on the public that property dedications can offset. Acknowledging that governments may regulate developers to internalize the negative externalities of their proposals, the court said it had developed the nexus and rough proportionality rules to provide a balance between those parties in the development process. That balance does not depend on whether the application is approved or denied, i.e., whether a condition is actually imposed or the applicant is told that the application would not be approved until certain concessions were made. In either case a public agency may not withhold the benefit (whether or not an applicant is entitled to it) for refusal to give up a constitutional right.
The Fifth Amendment may not apply where a permit is denied outright with no qualification of conditions which would result in approval. However, where there is an excessive demand by way of an unconstitutional condition that results in denial, the question of money damages may not result from the federal constitutional question, but rather result in a cause of action under either state or federal law. In this case, plaintiff brought an action under a Florida statute which the Supreme Court declined to apply, instead remanding the matter to the Florida Supreme Court for disposition. That statute, Fla. Stat. Ann. § 373.617, allows a property owner to sue for damages if a state agency action is found to be "an unreasonable exercise of the State's police power constituting a taking without just compensation." Whether and how the statute applies must be addressed on remand.
Defendant argued that plaintiff had a range of choices that included building on a lesser amount of land or expenditures to improve wetland facilities on other lands so no taking was involved. However, the court concluded that the substance of the alternatives was that either more land would be required to be dedicated to the public or plaintiff would be required to expend more offsite mitigation costs – but the court found both alternatives to be subject to Dolan's proportionality standard. The fact that money is involved in one of the alternatives did not take the case outside Nollan and Dolan. The court noted the prevalence of "in lieu of" fees in planning practice and suggesting that it would be easy to avoid Nollan and Dolan by simply imposing these fees instead of a dedication. The court concluded that such money requirements substituted for land dedication to be "functionally equivalent" to other types of land use exaction. Moreover, the court found the exaction "operated upon" a specific parcel (by requiring an alternative to make a money payment), thus burdening the ownership of a property in a manner compatible to taking a lien (i.e., a right to income) from property by government. A lien acquisition by the government would result in a taking according to the court's view of its precedents. If there is such a direct link, Nollan and Dolan operate to prevent diminishment of property value if the exaction were unjustified.
The court distinguished this unconstitutional conditions case from the most frequently raised takings claim, i.e., a regulatory takings claim under Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, 438 U.S. 104 (1978), as that issue was not raised, adding:
* * * The fulcrum this case turns on is the direct link between the government's demand and a specific parcel of real property. Because of that direct link, this case implicates the central concern of Nollan and Dolan: the risk that the government may use its substantial power and discretion in land-use permitting to pursue governmental ends that lack an essential nexus and rough proportionality to the effects of the proposed new use of the specific property at issue, thereby diminishing without justification the value of the property. * * *
The court denied such an approach served to second-guess the wisdom of governmental actions – the case involved a demand for a transfer of money or property interest to the government which the court found could operate as a per se taking in the same way as if it were a governmental acquisition of a lien.
The court also denied that its new test would fail to distinguish in a meaningful way land use exactions from property taxes or user fees, (which would not be a taking), concluding that it need not decide the line in this case, noting that if a tax were "so arbitrary" that it becomes the confiscation of property, it could be recognized as a taking. In any event, the court said that state courts have dealt with challenges to monetary exactions using Nollan and Dolan, and that the political process would keep a check on excessive land use processing fees. The case was thus remanded for further review by the Florida Supreme Court without regard to whether money, rather than property, may be exacted under Nollan and Dolan. Nonetheless, the demand for money or property in a land use context will now be subject to these two cases.
Justice Kagan wrote a dissent for herself and three other justices. She agreed that a no taking occurred by the proposed conditions, but disagreed with the majority's view that demanding payment of money implicates the takings clause in those land use contexts. Justice Kagan asserted that there was no taking in this case as the conditions at issue were never imposed – the landowner may seek to have an improper condition removed or more seek monetary remedies under applicable state law, however.
More importantly, Justice Kagan noted that there was no monetary demand or demand for property acceded to and concluded that there was no taking. She agreed that the standards for regulatory takings are not applicable here either, though the heightened scrutiny of Nollan and Dolan apply. But she found that the Court's 5-4 decision in Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel, 524 US 498 (1998) applied limiting taking claims for money to a "specific, separately identified fund," so that obligations imposed to perform an act are not takings claims, and warning that:
* * * By applying Nollan and Dolan to permit conditions requiring monetary payments with no express limitation except as to taxes – the majority extends the Takings Clause, with its notoriously "difficult" and "perplexing" standards, into the very heart of local land-use regulation and service delivery. * * * Cities and towns across the nation impose many kinds of permitting fees every day. Some enable a government to mitigate a new development's impact on the community, like increased traffic or pollution – or destruction of wetlands. * * *
Justice Kagan decried the extension of Nollan and Dolan beyond real property and wonders whether the court can describe a coherent taking theory distinguishing land use exactions from other monetary requirements such as taxes, whether the new rules apply across the board or only to ad hoc fees that are quasi-judicial in nature, stating that the majority was seeking a prophylactic rule, but concluding that the result is a "prophylaxis in search of a problem" as there was no evidence to show that local governments routinely short-circuit Nollan and Dolan to exact real property interests having no relationship with development costs. She suggested that other state or federal constitutional or statutory provisions are adequate to deal with these issues and that the new rule actually deprives state and local governments of the "necessary predictability" to operate the land use process.
Finally, Justice Kagan would affirm the Florida Supreme Court for two other reasons: defendant never demanded plaintiff to give up anything in exchange for a permit and there was no taking. As to the first issue, she expressed concern that negotiating requirements for approval between developers and public agencies could be transmuted into takings claims. This would also militate towards simple denials in lieu of further discussion, especially in view of the fact that the District said it would consider other mitigation alternatives in this case. Moreover, this case is, according to Justice Kagan, not about a taking but rather the application of a Florida statute that allows for damage claims if there were an unreasonable exercise of the police power so as to constitute a taking (which, Justice Kagan asserted, did not happen). Justice Kagan asked:
* * * In what legal universe could a law authorizing damages only for a "taking" also provide damages when (as all agree) no taking has occurred? I doubt that inside-out, upside-down universe is the State of Florida. Certainly, none of the Florida courts in this case suggested that the majority's hypothesized remedy actually exists; rather, the trial and appellate courts imposed a damages remedy on the mistaken theory that there had been a taking (although of exactly what neither was clear). * * *
To summarize, the dissent found three independent reasons that the Takings Clause does not apply: (1) That Clause does not apply to a condition imposed to pay money; (2) There was no demand made of plaintiff; and (3) the Florida statute only operates in the event of a consummated taking.
Koontz is a significant case. Justice Alito's majority opinion is strikingly similar in style and substance to that of Justice Scalia – full of property rights rhetoric, breathtakingly facile in ignoring (or reinterpreting) previous precedents dealing with the application of a takings clause to money and, while finding no taking, providing for the possibility of damages, as if there were a taking. Perhaps the case involved a prophylaxis in search of a problem – The decision certainly appears to be a search for a desired result.
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I have had a very productive day today.
Lots of reading done, though I have one more chapter to finish before I'll let myself go to bed.
I had all my laundry done, folded, and put away or on my bed before 8:00. I don't know that that has ever happened before.
I deleted my second Twitter account in a decision to simplify my life and the fact that I barely ever talk to anyone on there anymore.
And I've just been in a really good mood, better than I've been in in a while, which is always a good thing.
I'm happy that I've gotten a lot of work done today, too, because with church all morning and then my first day of work tomorrow night, I'm not going to have a ton of free time. And I've given myself breaks so I don't go into overload. All about balance for me. Keeps me calm.
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It's no secret that a pair of high heels can dress up almost any outfit on the planet. Add that to the fact that they're great at elongating the legs, and you basically get the reason why women can't live without a pair of stilettos. But let's be honest, there are days when we need to brave a lot of walking or give our feet a break. And while kitten heels are a great alternative to your stylish stilettos, they're not exactly as comfortable as flats. That's why for today, I've decided that a few tips on how to look polished in flats might come as a handy read.S
1.Slim and Structured Flats are Best
Avoid bulky round-toe footwear that screams casual. Instead, wear shoes that are slim, structured, and those with slender toe boxes. Pointy-toed flats are best, but you may also wear square-toed flats that taper to a slim-square on the front. More importantly, flats with lower vamps are much more leg-lengthening than those with higher vamps.
Of course, this doesn't mean you should avoid pointy oxfords, loafers, and mules because they're just as elegant to wear. Read the second tip below to figure out how to look fabulous in your flat loafers or oxfords.
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2. Proper proportion is Key
When wearing flats, it's important to keep a balanced proportion. Wear pants that are slightly cropped to show your sexy lady ankles and give an illusion of length. This is even more necessary if you are wearing loafers, mules, or oxfords. Dresses and skirts should be knee length. A high-low hemline is also flattering. However, in case you want to wear a tea-length item, pick one with a high waistline to make your legs appear longer.
3. Stick to Structured Pieces
To look elegant in flats, stick to structured pieces that offer a more polished look. This covers both clothing and your purse. A collared shirtdress or a skirt with clean well-constructed lines will do the trick. Sure, you can have the flounces, but select items that are neither too
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One of the quickest ways to look elegant in flats is by sporting the pair with a structured or statement topper – be it a coat, blazer, or cape. It dresses up the ensemble and complements those pointed shoes in more ways than one.
4. Cap off with a structured or Statement Topper
5. Keeping Things Monochromatic.
While not a hard rule, one way to look super polished in flats is to keep your outfit monochromatic. Feel free to wear bright colours if you want to, but also try keeping all the pieces within the same color family. Trust us when we say it will make you look like a million bucks
6. Don't be Afraid to Wear Statement Flats
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7. Fit is Key to Looking Polished
We're going to end this post with one more rule that not only applies to wearing flats, but to all things in general – and that is FIT. No matter how expensive your clothes and shoes are, if they don't fit you well, you will end up looking sloppy.
Good fit includes wearing the right foundation garments like a push-up bra, seamless underwear, or a body-shaper. It also includes taking the necessary trip to the tailor so you can have a dress or suit altered to fit your frame. Such an effort may seem a hassle, but it's well worth the money and time.


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Two incidents this week, plus the wave of interesting entries we've received for the SA Arts Journalism Awards – whose judging panel I chair – made me think about how newspapers use their arts journalists.
First, there was Theatregate in last weekend's Saturday Star. 48 Hours writer Tat Wolfen published a full-page story about the alleged decline of South African theatre. Illustrated with a gloomy photograph of the long-closed Alhambra, it was filled with un-researched generalisations as broad as a four-lane freeway: most viciously, an attack on a younger generation condemned in its entirety as ignorant and consumerist… If the phrases "these people" and "this bloody government" were not explicitly uttered, their apoplectic sentiments nevertheless suffused the page. A hyperbolic street placard – "SA theatre in crisis" – compounded the ill-founded alarmism.
The piece was an elegy for some mythical good old theatrical days from a writer apparently unaware of what is really happening in theatre today, and where it is happening. Community, mixed-media, improvised and more kinds of theatrical performance, alongside original new plays, regularly attract engaged, diverse young (and older) audiences to non-conventional venues – such as Maboneng – across the city, as well as to places such as Wits Theatre, the Market and the Soweto Theatre. If certain performances are not filling seats as they used to, the reasons are rather that:
- New audiences have little patience with endless resurrections of moribund musical comedies – and who can blame them?
- As for audiences still hankering after the all-singing, all-dancing, walking theatrical dead, glitzy, out-of-town casino venues have sucked their disposable income out of the city, something that has also impacted harshly on the mainstream end of the live music scene.
Change happens; get used to it. It is not the same as decline.
In part two of his article, yesterday, Wolfen expressed wounded indignation at the criticism his piece received. But surely it was written as a provocation? There could be no other reason for such ill-informed rhetoric. And even so, doesn't any arts writer – and more so the newspaper that employs him – have a responsibility to research and get the facts right, even if the ensuing comment flies randomly free? The impact of such a story, run so prominently, could be to deter potential theatre-goers and investors, intensifying the very trend it purports to decry.
That isn't an argument for censoring Wolfen though. Rather, it is a complaint about how much of the mainstream media have all but washed their hands of responsible arts reporting. Sometimes, the arts reporting space is filled by a critic when what the story needs is a trained journalist with the skills to investigate and report – while the media house remains wholly ignorant of the distinction. Otherwise, a hapless general reporter is handed arts assignments with no training and no assessment of his or her specialist knowledge.
That's what the eThekwini Jazz Appreciation Society seems to believe happened in the Sowetan's coverage of last weekend's Joy of Jazz festival. Their treasurer has sent a long 'open letter' to the paper, bemoaning writer Patience Bambalele's characterization of the event as having a "lacklustre" line-up and a "lukewarm" atmosphere.
I'm inclined to agree with Bambalele about the atmosphere, though as I said last week, I think that's more a reflection of the Convention Centre space than of the line-up. I disagree with her about that; while there were many over-familiar names, there was more than usual that was fresh and genuinely exciting. Such diversity of views about an event are an important part of the arts debate.
What is really disturbing about the 'open letter', however, is the route by which it found its way to me. It was distributed by Khanya: the PR agency for Joy of Jazz.
One of the more important roles of the media is to open up debates. Journalists like Wolfen and Bambalele both have the right to express their judgments. Readers have the right to respond. Newspapers, indeed, have a duty to offer the right of response where there is convincing evidence that a subject of some reporting has been misrepresented.
But it is a little disturbing when a news subject apparently orchestrates an attack on a journalist's work, rather than simply replying in its own right.
Joe Bloggs sells fried chicken. A food journalist describes it as "lukewarm and soggy". The aggrieved Mr Bloggs responds indignantly – but then he would, wouldn't he? We'd take seriously feedback disagreeing with the journalist and praising the chicken if it arrived spontaneously from members of the public. But if it was written by sock-puppets and forwarded by Bloggs, via his PR agency? Well, he would, wouldn't he?
The open letter casting aspersions on Bambalele's work has two recommendations. The first is to employ more specialist journalists. Few would disagree with that – except the media house bean-counters who control payments to specialist writers. The second is to write more previews "in the leadup to the festival."
That is a proposal that serves promoters and organisers far better than it serves the public. Advertisers and promoters love previews. It's hard to write a preview that does not function as unpaid advertising – until the event has happened, no-one knows what will go wrong. Editors like them too, in the mistaken assumption that reviews of past shows are 'old news' and thus uninteresting to readers. Those readers (for whom reviews genuinely help to scratch the FOMO itch) are rarely consulted.
I'd certainly like to see more informed arts journalism from specialist writers in the papers I read. I enjoy reading considered reviews and detest the puffery of many previews. I'd love to see more real journalism about the arts, rather than opinionated thumb-suck. But more than any of those, I want to see the media guarding its freedom of expression – even when it annoys me.


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Day 7: Someone that has made your life worth living for.
I have been thinking about how to respond to this prompt for a while. I had a whole big spheal that I planned to write, about the obvious answers: my son, my husband, my family, my friends. But it seems so generic and cliche, as true as it may be. I started to think about the whole 30 days of truth exercise and what I really wanted to get out of it (besides 30 posts). To me, this about looking into myself and my life.
So my answer is this: ME.
That's right. I have made my life worth living. Sure, people have enhanced the happiness, gave me joy, and made me feel complete. My life is happy and full because of the people who are in it. But the bottom line is, I have made my life what it is.
I am a firm believer that only you can reallly affect your life. Bad things happen to everyone. And everyone has pain and sorrow and anger. But it really is your choice on how you let things impact your life. Experiences shape who you are, but you make your experiences. Happiness is infectious. Smiles make days a bit brighter and easier to get through.
I have been unhappy. I have sat for hours on end, unmotivated and feeling directionless. I didn't like feeling that way. Only you can change your life. You have to make that decision to find somethign that makes you happy or that gives you fulfillment. And I made that decision, many times. If you are unhappy with life, change it. But don't change it for anyone else. Change it for yourself. Make your own life worth living.


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A Guide to Positive Parenting
Positive parenting is the perfect replacement of the retributive approach that a lot of parents are used to. It concerns altering the perspective from punishing bad behavior to a creative approach to build positive behaviors in your children. Instead of developing power struggles by enforcing a set of regulations, positive parenting involves approaching your child with love, kindness, and empathy. Behavior, mental health and relationship have been found to massively influenced by positive parenting. There will be discussion of positive parenting in this blog and therefore you should view here if you are a parent.
The psychological and social welfare of you and your child will depend on the sort of relationship between the two of you. Despite that, parents are regularly not at all prepared for parenting specifically when their partners or families do not support them. An affirmative parenting program will solve severe behavioral, developmental and emotional complications in children. Therefore, the program is able to impact the parents and childrens lives in the most significant way. Parents need to be educated and be assisted in parenting. The best parenting program is used across multiple domains. The best illustration, in this case, is a school scenario, where the teacher implements the program to manage the students effectively.
Keeping a safe and engaging setting for children of all ages is amid good parenting solutions. As such, you will be able to keep your children safe for accidents while promoting their healthy development. Besides safe surroundings, child development also requires a positive learning environment. Because parents are the early educators of their children they serve as an illustration for their children with how they behave. For that reason, it is crucial that parents give positive feedback on their relations and on addressing the need of their children. Also, parents need to adopt a pragmatic expectation of their children for proper development. In that case, parents will become more concerned about their kids.
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In conclusion, positive parenting provides many advantages. Firstly, there will be more confident in your kids and your parenting skills. Moreover, the parent will build on the relationship between him or her and the child. The result of positive parenting is a reduction in aggressiveness and behavioral issues from your child. Again, the kid will gain the skills of being independent and self-control. The gross effect of positive parenting is positive results for both the parent and the child.


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The panel of food industry heavyweights assembled to address "The War on Big Food," yet they shied away from the whole "war" notion.
Yes, consumers are increasingly veering away from processed food. Yes, food companies face rising skepticism on everything from genetically modified organisms to animal welfare, all of it amplified by the Internet.
But food technology is scientifically sound, the panel said. The industry just isn't getting its message across. "It's a failure of storytelling," Greg Page of Cargill Inc. said Friday at a half-day-long "food security summit" put on by the Economic Club of Minnesota.
"I think we need to think of this not as a war, but as a contest to be the trusted party."
Of course, that's a conundrum. As Page acknowledged, a Cargill director and former Cargill CEO like himself isn't going to be seen as a trusted messenger. Cargill, after all, is the epitome of "Big Food."
The Minnetonka-based agribusiness giant, celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, was a cosponsor Friday of the Economic Club's food security gathering at the Minneapolis Convention Center. A packed ballroom listened to top executives from Minnesota's nationally prominent food and agriculture industry.
General Mills, Hormel Foods, Buffalo Wild Wings, Land O'Lakes and fertilizer maker Mosaic were all represented, as was Ecolab, a big player in food industry sanitation.
Consumers these days are increasingly asking questions about the origins of their food. Simpler is increasingly seen as better.
"Consumer food values are changing — they are always changing — but with this millennium generation, they are changing faster," said Jeff Harmening, General Mills' chief operating officer. "There is no doubt that consumers are demanding real food, and when we give it to them, they respond."
General Mills is building up its natural and organic food business, including through acquisitions. The company is the nation's third largest producer of organic foods, Harmening said, with such brands as Annie's, Cascadian Farm and Muir Glen.
Indeed, most of the top U.S. organic food brands are owned by large, publicly traded food companies. Hormel, the maker of processed meat poster child Spam, recently took a huge step into the organic meat market with its $775 million purchase of industry leader Applegate Farms.
"The whole organic and natural phenomenon is not a fad," said Jeffrey Ettinger, Hormel's CEO. "We will have to have a whole different supply chain … I see a strong bifurcation."
The food industry has been under fire on a number of fronts. Animal welfare activists have pilloried large-scale livestock and poultry production — i.e. "factory farming." Health advocates have taken shots at sugar, salt, corn syrup and a host of other common food ingredients. Then there's the turmoil over genetically-modified organisms or GMOs.
Most of the corn, sugar beets and soybeans raised in this country are grown from GMO seed. Food regulators long ago approved GMOs as safe, and the executives at Friday's food summit see them as vital for increasing the world's agricultural productivity.
But consumer mistrust about bioengineering persists, and debate rages over whether food companies should be forced to label products containing GMO ingredients as such.
"If you talk to consumers right now, it's 'I want technology in everything but my food,' " said Chris Policinski, CEO of Land O'Lakes. "That's a problem."
Headlines don't always reflect the mass audience's food views. That's what Buffalo Wild Wings has taken away from its consumer research, said the company's CEO, Sally Smith. Buffalo Wild Wings is one of the nation's fastest-growing restaurant chains, doing over $1 billion in annual sales with its wings, beer and sports motif.
"We have a pretty good handle on the broad range of what consumers want," she said. "What is showing up in the headlines and on the Internet is not necessarily what the American mainstream is buying, can afford to buy or really even cares about."


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The 10 Best Storage Clipboards
This wiki has been updated 21 times since it was first published in October of 2015. Ideal for keeping all your pens, pencils, documents, and even your mobile devices organized and handy, these storage clipboards make working from anywhere extremely convenient. They come in a variety of colors and designs that are suitable for everyone, from students who have to traipse back and forth across campus to contractors keeping up with paperwork on a job site. When users buy our independently chosen editorial recommendations, we may earn commissions to help fund the Wiki. Skip to the best storage clipboard on Amazon.
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Although we like the design of the Officemate Triple File, we've ultimately decided to remove it, as its clasp is not known to be particularly durable. Those who'd like a similar item, one with plenty of storage compartments, might check out the Officemate Portable or Saunders DeskMate II. For something a little less bulky, we still like the Geila Padfolio or Mymazn Conference. These are hybrid clipboard-padfolio choices with a sleek, professional look. You shouldn't expect to carry huge stacks of paper in them, but for a handful of documents, they're fine. Finally, we've opted to add one transparent option, the Dexas Clearview. After you slip a sheet under the clear lid and close it, you can annotate the document with a dry erase marker — without having to write on it at all. Note that it doesn't actually come with any markers; you'll need to provide your own.
The Surprisingly Useful Clipboard
Clipboards are useful tools for schools, military planners, and everyone in between.
Before we talk about the actual physical object known as the clipboard, let's first talk about its veritable successor, the computer clipboard. When given a moment of thought, the fact that we call the virtual "space" in which our computers hold a file prior to its being pasted into a new location, a clipboard doesn't seem to make much sense. There's no board involved, and nothing is being clipped to anything else in any real sense.
As it turns out, the term is a holdover from the analog world. Clipboards were often used by graphic designers creating a layout for an advertisement, a magazine spread, or to create a piece of artwork. An image or selection of text that had been physically cut out of one sheet of paper and was awaiting actual pasting with glue onto another would often be stored on a clipboard for safe, easy access. We rarely use scissors and glue to create graphic spreads these days, but we still use the terms clipboard and cut and paste all the time.
The first clipboards that were patented and subsequently mass produced came out in the early 1870s. The precise identity of the clipboard's creator is lost to the ages, but by the end of the 19th Century the clever, simple devices were in widespread use across myriad fields.
Clipboards make it easier to perform many functions when a desk, table, or other flat, stable writing surface is not available. A clipboard can make it easier to jot down notes or record observations when you are in the field or it can help you keep track of inventory coming in or shipping out as you survey a loading bay. Clipboards are useful tools for schools, military planners, and everyone in between. In fact, the versatility of the basic clipboard and the convenience of the storage clipboard variety merits a closer look in terms of who can benefit from its use.
People Who Benefit From Storage Clipboards
When you think of a storage clipboard, there's a good chance your first thought is of the coach of a sports team. Indeed it seems that almost every coach watching his football team from the sidelines, his runners on the track, or his protege on the tennis court is carrying a storage clipboard. When statistics come quickly as they do with sports and when later data analysis can lead to altered practice techniques and improved performance, it's important for coaches to be able to quickly jot down and store notes. Thus the stereotype of the coach with the clipboard makes sense.
Then of course the student can benefit greatly from using a storage clipboard.
Law enforcement officials are also often known to carry storage clipboards. These clipboards are a wise choice for policemen and women because they allow for the easy recording of statements and logging of observations, and also provide a place to store evidence that might play a role in the forensic part of an investigation.
Researchers, such as a scientist studying an animal population or checking in on various types of plants, on water health, or who is conducting any other sort of field work, can also benefit from storage clipboards for just the same reason: ease of note taking and a spot to store any small specimens collected.
Then of course the student can benefit greatly from using a storage clipboard. The interior of the unit makes it easy to organize and safely store papers, while the flat surface atop the clipboard is perfect for taking notes, reading handouts, or for working on a draft of that term paper.
Storage clipboards can also prove helpful with events such as bake sales or garage sales, where a person wants a way to track sales easily on paper and also needs a convenient place to store some cash and coinage to make change after each sale.
And finally, these tools can also be immensely helpful to an artist who wants to sketch or paint on location, in the vain of the original Plein Air Impressionists, by storing paper and a limited assortment of pens, pencils, brushes, and other artist's tools, and by offering a firm place on which to work anywhere and any time.
Choosing Right Storage Clipboard For You
If you are considering purchasing a storage clipboard, you should not be concerned about budget. There are storage clipboards available that cost around twelve dollars. And the most expensive, "fancy" storage clipboards rarely cost more than thirty dollars, if even that.
As for a clipboard that opens like a book or one that opens across its vertical axis, that's entirely a matter of preference.
Rather you must think in terms of function, not value. The coach looking for a place to write and store notes will be well served by the traditional metal storage clipboard, as it is ready to stand up to the dents and scratches that come with a lifetime of use in an active field.
The hunter or field researcher should likewise consider a durable metal storage clipboard, and especially one that features a camouflage finish with non reflective hardware so as to minimize the attention attracted from wild animals.
For the student, there are many storage keyboards that can not only hold many sheets of eight inch by eleven inch paper, but that also have space set aside to store pens, pencils, and other small sundries. These are a great options for reducing the overall amount of stuff you need to tote to and from your classes. Why carry a separate bag when the accoutrement of your studies all fit in your clipboard?
As for a clipboard that opens like a book or one that opens across its vertical axis, that's entirely a matter of preference. So too are the colors of your storage clipboard, which can range from muted metallic or black all the way to playful purple or bright blue.
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Dazzling Christmas Fayre rounds off a busy year of charitable work at Nelson Hotels
2011 was an extremely busy year of charity work for Nelson Hotels, rounded off in style with The Grosvenor Pulford Hotel & Spa's dazzling charity Christmas Fayre on the 15th November. The event raised an amazing £1,300 for hotel's headline charity, Nicola's Fund, a cause which aims to improve the quality of life for children with cancer.
The family-owned hotel group offers much needed support to numerous charities, both close to home and further afield, assisting their fundraising efforts in a variety of ways. The most 'extreme' form of fundraising to date came earlier this year when Amy Nelson, spa director of The Grosvenor Pulford Hotel & Spa, bravely took on a daring skydive. Amy's daredevil dive raised £1,500 for Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, a cause very close to the Nelson family heart since Amy herself overcame treatment and an operation to remove cervical cancer.
Another cancer charity to benefit from the hotel group's philanthropic nature was The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, which received support from Nelson Hotels via the Medicash Celebrity Golf Classic fundraiser. In addition to co-sponsoring the popular golfing event, a fantastic luxury spa break for two at The Grosvenor Pulford was donated, raising over £1,800 in the prize draw.
Other worthy causes to benefit from the support of the Nelson Hotels team in 2011 include the NeuroMuscular Centre (NMC), Wales Air Ambulance, Children in Need,Charity VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) and even a local child suffering from the rare Smith Magenis Syndrome.
Lucy Nelson, sales and marketing director of Nelson Hotels, comments: "There are so many worthwhile charities here in the UK and we like to help in a variety of ways. For us, it may be offering an attractive prize for a raffle or auction, or providing a venue for a fundraising event. We recently supported a wonderful Children's Charity, The Wooden Spoon, in this way when Freddie Flintoff gave his time to host a fabulous Celebrity Sportsman's Dinner. We provided the venue and subsidised the food. We feel honoured to be able to help these charities fulfil their aims.
"The great thing about charitable work is that every little bit of help makes a difference. Every penny raised counts towards delivering much needed support to people in need."
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A new polyhedron is created by gluing the tetrahedron and the square pyramid together at a triangular face so that the vertices of the triangles coincide. How many faces does this polyhedron have?
The two glued triangular faces immediately disappear, so the answer would seem to be 5+4-2 = 7 of the original faces showing. However, if the dihedral angles along matching edges add up to 180 degrees (in other words, are supplementary), the contiguous faces from each of the two original shapes will fuse to form one face: two equilateral triangles would produce one rhombus (a diamond shape), or a triangle and a square to make a pentagon(irregular). There are two edges where a triangle on the original tetrahedron abuts a triangle on the original pentahedron (square pyramid). There's one edge where a triangle from the tetrahedron abuts the square on the original pentahedron. As the dihedral angles around the square on the pentahedron differ from those between triangles, not all three of these pairs of faces can merge. But either the triangle-triangle face pairs can merge into diamonds or the triangle-square face pair can merge into a pentagon (or neither, depending on the dihedral angles).
The way I like to calculate dihedral angles is by erecting a sphere about one vertex and using spherical trigonometry on the triangle that is the intersection of the faces with the surface of the sphere (assuming 3 faces come together at a vertex--otherwise partition into triangles becomes necessary). The planar angles of the faces become sides of the spherical triangle, and the angles on the spherical triangle represent the dihedral angles.
Erecting a sphere about one of the vertices at the base of the square pyramid, the sides of the spherical triangle are 60, 60 and 90 degrees, from the two triangles and the square that meet there. Call the measure of its angles s, s and t (the triangle-square dihedral is s; the triangle-triangle dihedral angle is t).
By the law of cosines, for the triangle-triangle dihedral:cos(90)=(cos(60))^2 + (sin(60))^2 * cos(t)orcos(t) = (0 - 1/4) / (3/4) = -1/3
and for the triangle-square dihedral:cos(60)=cos(60)*cos(90) + sin(60)*sin(90)*cos(s)orcos(s) = (1/2 - 0) / (sqrt(3)/2) = 1/sqrt(3)
While for the tetrahedron, the dihedral angles are all the same, as each of the sides of any erected spherical triangle is 60 degrees. Letting d represent its dihedral angles, the law of cosines gives:cos(60) = (cos(60))^2 + (sin(60))^2 * cos(d)orcos(d) = (1/2 - 1/4) / (3/4) = 1/3
We see that t and d are in fact supplementary as their cosines are the negative of each other. (They come out to be approx. 109.4712206344907 deg and 70.5287793655093 deg.) That is not the case with t and s, as in fact both those dihedrals are acute (with positive cosines), with the base dihedral on the square pyramid being 54.7356... deg).
So two faces of the tetrahedron merge respectively with two triangular faces of the square pyramid to form two rhombuses (diamonds). The resulting figure has a square base with equilateral triangles attached to one pair of opposing edges, with one tilted in and one tilted out. The two rhombuses meet at the top in a crest line parallel to two sides of the base. That crest line is one of the edges of the original tetrahedron. The fact that it is horizontal shows that the tetrahedron is exactly balanced on its edge which is lying on the ground coincident with the base of the square pyramid. That fact is further verified by seeing that half the dihedral of the tetrahedron is the complement of the triangle-square (base) dihedral of the original pentahedron, so the midplane of the original tetrahedron is vertical.
In fact you could add another identical square pyramid to the opposite side of the tetrahedron, and just extend the figure and still retain just 5 faces, with the base now being a rectangle of two squares put together, the two ends being two triangles from the end square pyramids, and the remaining faces being trapezoids, each formed from two triangles of the end square pyramids and an upside-down triangle of the tetrahedron wedged in between. You could go on alternating tetrahedra and square pyramids.
You could even put two or more such rows side by side, and then overlay with an upside down version to tesselate a space between two planes. Then adding more layers of these, you could tesellate space. In fact this could be done also with regular tetrahedra and octahedra, but then, a regular octahedron is just two square-to-square joined square pyramids.
I'm sure I've seen such one-layer configurations used (edges only, as struts) as something like an awning or marquee, with the triangular formations providing what Buckminster Fuller called tensegrity, and used (curved around by adjusting edge lengths) in geodesic domes.
Another way of calculating the dihedral angles:For the square pyramid, draw a diagonal of the square base and then from each end, connect a line to the midpoint of one of the edges at which two triangles meet that extends to one of the other two points on the square. These other lines are altitudes of their triangles, and thus perpendicular to the edge, and so their angle represents the dihedral angle also. If the edges of the square pyramid have length 1, these edges of the newly formed triangle have length sqrt(3)/2, while the third side of the triangle (the diagonal of the square base) has length sqrt(2). Using the law of cosines for plane triangles, a^2 = b^2 + c^2 - 2*b*c*cos(d)2 = 3/4 + 3/4 - 2 * (3/4) * cos dorcos d = - (1/2) / (2 * 3/4) = -1/3
For the tetrahedron, we again use two triangle altitudes that meet at an edge, but the third side is an edge of the tetrahedron, of length 1, so we get:1 = 3/4 + 3/4 - 2 * (3/4) * cos dor cos d = (1/2) / (2 * 3/4) = 1/3
which agree with the results from spherical trigonometry.
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Why the Bush doctrine crashed and burned in Iraq
- Title
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LAWRENCE — Like many of his contemporaries across the country, Bill Self spent his Wednesday morning digesting the sweeping college basketball reforms adopted by the NCAA.
While the longtime Kansas coach doesn't agree with every policy and legislative change implemented by the governing body — and doesn't see how any coach could — Self at least made this much clear in his comments shortly after the reforms were announced:
In the midst of college basketball's ongoing corruption scandal, the time to debate the merit of these changes is over.
"Certainly there are some things in here that I think a lot of people will be happy and OK with, and there will be some things that I think there will be some guys that obviously would not see it quite as favorably," Self said during a teleconference with reporters. "But the one thing I think we all have to do is we all have to be able to adjust to change and allow change to play out."
Among Wednesday's changes is a tweak allowing college players who request evaluation by the NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee, participate in the NBA combine and aren't selected in the NBA Draft to return to the college level if they inform their school's athletic director by 5 p.m. the Monday after the draft. That policy will go into effect if and when the NBA and the NBA Players Association finalize a rule making undrafted athletes ineligible for a year if they choose to return to college.
Self said this reform sounds very good "in theory" but depends on if and when the NBA's one-and-done policy is abolished.
"I think it's going to be very interesting to see how that occurs (and) how the NBA and the Players Association feels that'd be the right way to handle that," Self said.
Other major changes include the allowance of agent representation for the "elite senior prospect(s)" as identified by USA Basketball and for any college player requesting evaluation by the NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee; an increase in the number of official visits schools can hold, from 24 to now 28 over a rolling, two-year period; and structural changes that will allow the NCAA power to punish programs for violations uncovered by outside established agencies.
The changes stem from recommendations made in April by the Rice Commission, led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
"Did something need to be done? I think in the eyes of many, something certainly needed to be done," Self said. "I am actually one that felt like there could be changes that could be positive. But I also think that's the way it is with everything when you're dealing with the NCAA. Very rarely do you find anything that is 100 percent the way you would personally see it, and you could always tweak it. But I did think some changes could be made that would be very positive for our game."
Self said Wednesday's changes "will mean different things to different people" but added the intent all along was to find the best nonpartisan solutions for student-athletes, agents, enforcement agencies, apparel companies, coaches — "all the different arms" of college basketball.
"I think they are significant changes and there are some, if you look at it from a nonpartisan way, I do think there are some legitimate concerns about them," Self said. "But we don't know enough about it to know exactly how it all played out."
Self said he can see an argument for the benefit of allowing college players to hire agents and lean on them as a resource in the NBA Draft process — "I think more information is good," he added. He doesn't, however, "have a feel" for how high school player access to agents will play out.
"I think what potentially could happen, though, is you have colleges now recruiting agents and their firms and not as focused maybe in their families," Self said, "because when somebody makes a decision to sign with a certain agent, you're going to have to definitely do a good job recruiting that particular party in case that youngster would decide to go to college when that decision's made.
"I think in theory it's good. I do think in theory there's some positive things about it. But allowing agents to have total access and influence and accessibility and those sorts of things will become more difficult for colleges in recruiting if in fact those kids decide to pursue a collegiate education, in my opinion."
Self was disappointed the NCAA didn't adopt a policy that would allow up to two non-assistant coaches on the court to participate in coaching activities, a tweak that would increase the visibility and future opportunities provided to young staffers — "I think that's a disappointment obviously from I would say all coaches' perspective," he said.
Still, despite taking a wait-and-see approach with most of the reforms, Self indicated he's hopeful for the future.
"What may appear to be very negative may turn out to be positive," Self said, "and certainly there's been many things throughout the NCAA where, when changes were made, everybody thought the sky was falling and it turned out to be OK."


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Assisted Suicide: HMOs stand to gain big
(Editor's Note: Barbara Coombs-Lee now leads assisted suicide lobbying efforts in Hawaii.)
From Life Advocate, November, 1997
In December of 1994, one month after Oregon voters passed Measure 16, "physician assisted death," into law, Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) responded.
Ethix Corp., an HMO, announced that they "welcomed broad coverage for assisted suicide in a medical economic system already burdened."
Ethix Corp's embrace of such a new "treatment" should have come as no surprise. Vice President Barbara Coombs-Lee, after all, was chief petitioner for the Measure which created Oregon's law legalizing physician assisted death. But media reports concerning Coombs-Lee failed to make much of her professional occupation within a health insurance group. She was portrayed as a passionate ideologue who cared only for things like "patient autonomy," an end to "intolerable pain," and offering "death with dignity" to those who wished to die on their own time-line. Coombs-Lee's role as a financially motivated health industry hatchet woman was carefully buried throughout the 1994 campaign.
A representative for the Oregon Health Plan (OHP), a state funded health plan incorporating many of Hillary Clinton's proposals for national health care, announced in 1994 that the OHP would establish a protocol to pay for assisted suicide. The "service" would be carried under the unlikely category of "comfort care."
During the same press conference, tax-payer funded OHP announced cutbacks in reimbursement for other, standard, treatment options. Moreover, OHP has maintained exceptions to life-saving treatment, even when those treatments have been proven to be effective.
At the same time the state of Oregon was informing residents that tax dollars would be used to fund doctors who kill their patients, other HMOs joined in.
Blue Cross of Oregon and PACC (now QualMed Oregon Health Plan as the result of a recent merger) announced that they too were prepared to make the ultimate industry sacrifice. They would pay for "treatment" to end the life of a patient.
Under the guise of patient choice for a "service" which is legal under Oregon law, PacifiCare of Oregon too plans a benefit change aimed at paying doctors to administer death as a medical treatment.
Kaiser, which pays for doctors to kill the unborn in abortion procedures, artfully refused to make a statement.
Only one HMO, Good Health Plan of Oregon, announced that they would not offer coverage for physician abetted killing. The problem they have though, as with abortion (another procedure Good Health Plan refuses to reimburse for) is that doctors often disguise their work under other categories of care. For example, rather than bill the insurance group for an abortion, physicians have billed the selfsame procedure as a "therapeutic D&C." This is an operation not uncommon after a woman has experienced a miscarriage, and it is covered under the health plan.
The fear is that lethal treatments will be administered and then billed in the same deceptive way. Good Health Plan of Oregon might receive but never be able to identify a claim for reimbursement on assisted suicide.
In the midst of public statements embracing "assisted death" by several major HMOs, a representative for the American Association of Health Plans, a lobbying group representing over 1,000 managed care/HMO organizations, responded with assurances that none of the groups were motivated by the obvious financial gains to be had in offering lethal treatments.
However, while attempting to minimize the shock of establishing payment for doctors to kill their patients by labeling such as "treatment," HMOs are already making provisions in their allowable or reimbursed care guidelines. PACC (QualMED), for instance, has a scandalously inadequate $1,000 cap on in-home hospice care, including care given to alleviate pain.
Dr. Gregory Hamilton, a psychiatrist and opponent of physician assisted death, spoke on behalf of Physicians for Compassionate Care on a Town Hall show. He responded to PACC's cap on hospice care and payment for suicide plan saying, "What is the HMO going to do next," after your $1,000 benefit has been used up, "remind you that your benefit for assisted suicide hasn't been used yet?"
"Benefit conversion," it is proposed, is another way in which HMOs can make a financial killing off of assisted suicide. Under such a protocol the patient may opt for assisted suicide and the plan "pays death benefits if you do it by a certain point in time," according to Gerry Breshears, a theologian who has studied the issue.
When a patient has been diagnosed with a physically and/or financially catastrophic illness, instead of wasting money on what insurers define as "useless treatment," the patient can have a small portion, perhaps $10,000, of his medical benefits converted into death benefits. The bereaved can be comforted with a cash payoff.
If you think such a scheme sounds fantastic, something out of the overworked and religious mind of a man like Breshears, note that prestigious publications like the Journal of Health & Social Policy have given a great deal of space to such ideas. Volume 5(2) in 1993 offered just such a proposal. In fact, not only might HMOs be able to get in on the savings, so might society.
K.K. Fung, Professor of Economics at Memphis State University imagines that Government too can cash in. Entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid can supplement the patient's estate by according survivors a death benefit as well.
The first and major problem with such a plan is that laws like Oregon's Measure 16--"Death with Dignity Act"--require patients to be terminal, within six months of death. But over time, once community sanctioned killing of the ill has been accepted, the "right" to end one's life may allow for a patient to opt for or be pressured into what is euphemistically called a "dignified passage" earlier. After all, why should one be "forced to live" and allocate their medical benefits toward other treatment options. Once suicide is legal, how can it be limited?
As Prof. K.K. Fung prophetically concluded in 1993 in the Journal of Health & Social Policy, "Additional pressure [to opt for physician assisted death] is likely to come from the insurer. It is their bottom lines that are going to be improved when dignified passage is chosen."
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Honking at pedestrian apparently engrossed in game while crossing a carpark entrance sparks fight
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Excerpt from article: 'In mitigation, Tan's lawyer, Mr Chia Boon Teck, said his client has since received psychiatric treatment. "The accused (Tan) is young and self-driven, and has plans to work in the finance industry in the future. An imprisonment term would destroy him."'
Local photographer and British model in Sentosa beach nude shoot warned for indecency
"[Under the law], any person who appears nude or clad in such a manner as to offend against public decency in a public place, is guilty of an offence which carries a fine not exceeding $2,000 and/or a jail term not exceeding three months. The photographer may also be accused of violating section 11 of the Undesirable Publications Act, under which anyone who makes or produces any obscene publication, including photographs, 'knowing or having reasonable cause to believe the publication to be obscene,' can be fined up to $10,000 and/or jailed up to two years." — Mr. Chia Boon Teck


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Rugged front-runner Saint Emilion once again showed his penchant for the Ellerslie track when he led all the way to win the Group III OMF Stakes (2000m) on Tuesday.
Under a vigorous ride from Jonathan Riddell, Saint Emilion kicked back after being clearly headed in the home straight to defeat his fast-finishing stablemate Lizzie L'Amour, who snatched third from Hello It's Me.
The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained seven-year-old made it win number fifteen from 41 career starts, with six of those victories coming at the venue. Amongst that Ellerslie winning tally is last season's Gr.1 New Zealand Stakes (2000m) while it was also his second win in today's event after taking in out in 2016.
The win also represented a major form reversal for the Mastercraftsman gelding who had finished last of thirteen runners in the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) at his most recent start.
"It was a bit of a head-scratcher at Hastings last time as we just couldn't put a finger on why he went so badly," Forsman said.
"He certainly perked up today and it could be that he was back on a track that he just loves.
"It was a very brave effort as he looked beaten at the 100m but he kicked back strongly and was going away again at the post.
"With his place in the handicap there really isn't a lot around for him, so he might have a quick freshen-up and then we will bring him back for the Zabeel Classic here on Boxing Day."
Forsman was also pleased with the performance of runner-up Lizzie L'Amour who ran on resolutely from the rear of the field.
"The track was probably a touch firm for her so I thought it was a good run," he said.
"She does find it hard at this level on the really firm tracks as she gets back and it can be difficult to make up much ground.
"For a moment I did wonder if she was going to just battle in the run home but she really stuck to her guns which was very pleasing."
The win was the second on the day for the powerful Baker-Forsman stable after Rhinestone Cowboy downed a handy field of rating 65 gallopers over 1600m in the previous event. – NZ Racing Desk