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With tax season in the air, tax evaders have been on ThinkAdvisor's mind. First we thought about the worst tax scams of 2013, and that got us thinking more broadly about politicians and other public servants.
Kwame Kilpatrick, the former of mayor of Detroit, ran into a boatload of trouble and faced charges including not paying his taxes. Other public servants, of course, have run into similar problems.
From a vice president (Spiro Agnew) to a sitting federal judge (Harry Claiborne) to a powerful U.S. representative (Charles Rangel), some apparently couldn't avoid the temptation to line their pockets by cheating the IRS.
Still, the public can be forgiving, and some on our list managed to win re-election.
(Check out Top 9 Biggest Tax Scams of 2013 on ThinkAdvisor.)
Here are our 8 Public Servants Nailed for Tax Evasion.
1. Spiro Agnew, U.S. Vice President, 1969-73
Spiro Agnew was a lightning rod for controversy during his tenure in the Nixon administration. His hectoring of the left and the press with memorable phrases like "nattering nabobs of negativity" helped frame the upheaval over U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Supporters on the right, like speechwriter Patrick Buchanan, viewed Agnew as courageous, while those on the other end of the spectrum had a less favorable opinion.
In the end, scandal forced him to resign in a precursor to Watergate, which had not exploded onto the national scene. Agnew contended he was forced to resign by Nixon aides amidst an investigation into his activities while governor of Maryland in the mid-1960s. He discounted the 40 pages it took to lay out the bribery and tax charges against him. His downfall was capped by a plea of nolo contendere to one count of tax evasion for failing to report $29,000 of income in 1967. If he had managed to hang on to his job, he would have been in line to take over the presidency less than a year later when Richard Nixon resigned.
2. Harry Claiborne, Federal Judge, 1979-86
You might think that a judge would know better than to fail to pay his income taxes. Claiborne, appointed to the bench by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, was convicted of not paying $107,000 he owed the IRS on his 1979 and 1980 tax returns.
For his crimes, he became just the seventh federal official to lose his job through impeachment. He was also the first federal judge sent to prison, receiving a sentence of two years; he served 17 months. He maintained he had done nothing wrong and that someday the truth would come out. Maybe his work as a trial lawyer and hobnobbing with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin swelled his head. Whatever the case, Claiborne's career was in tatters and he committed suicide in 2004 while suffering from a number of ailments.
3. Randall 'Duke' Cunningham, U.S. Representative, 1991-2005
The California Republican's exploits as a Navy fighter pilot during the Vietnam War helped win him eight terms in the House, where he took an interest in military affairs and espoused socially conservative positions. Sometimes his outbursts, like the time he said those fighting him "were the same ones who would put homos in the military," drew attention. But what really put him in the national spotlight were charges of accepting bribes from defense firms to ensure they received government contracts. The bribes were considered the largest known to be accepted by a member of Congress and included a house, a Rolls-Royce and other perks.
Eventually, Cunningham was sentenced to more than eight years in prison in 2006 (he was released early last summer because of good behavior). He also was ordered to pay $1.8 million in back taxes and forfeit $1.85 million in bribes. The proceeds of the sale of a home were also turned over the government. Upon his release, Cunningham said he planned to write books and live near his mother in Arkansas or in Florida.
4. Thomas J. Lane, U.S. Representative, 1941-63
The details of the Massachusetts Democrat's tax evasion case are mostly lost to history, but he did serve four months in prison for chiseling the government out of about $38,000 in taxes. Voters didn't seem to mind. Lane was re-elected to three terms after he served his stint in the big house.
5. Larry Langford, Mayor of Birmingham, Ala., 2007-09
Langford's stint as mayor was cut short when the SEC looked into corruption charges related to the building of a theme park while he was president of the Jefferson County Commission. That probe resulted in a 101-count indictment alleging bribery, wire fraud and tax evasion, among other charges. In 2009, he was convicted of 60 counts of the indictment, sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined nearly a quarter of a million dollars. The trial lasted a little over a week and jurors needed just two hours to return their verdict. He'll have until 2023 to think about his misdeeds while he serves his term.
6. Charles Rangel, U.S. Representative, 1971-present
Power corrupts, Machiavelli wrote, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Rangel represented a district in Harlem for decades, building a power base and rising to chairman of the House's most powerful committee: Ways and Means. Then, in 2008, came allegations that Rangel had used his position to add millions of dollars from lobbyists and others to the coffers of the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York. It was also said Rangel did not mention hundreds of thousands of dollars of income and assets on disclosure forms, nor did he pay required income taxes on a vacation home in the Dominican Republic.
Rangel was defiant even as he became the first representative in nearly three decades to be publicly censured on the floor of the House. He also lost his committee chairmanship, although that would have happened anyway when Republicans took control of the House. Still, Rangel never faced any charges in court and he was re-elected and continues to serve.
7. Walter R. Tucker III, U.S. Representative, 1992-95
The son of a former mayor of Compton, Calif., Tucker rolled to victory when he ran for Congress in 1992 gaining 86% of the vote. His mandate didn't last long. Within 14 months he was under investigation for extortion and income tax evasion while he himself had served as mayor of Compton. Denying that he had ever sold out his constituents, Tucker resigned from Congress in December 1995 at the tender age of 38, and claimed the bribes he took were a case of entrapment. He was sentenced to 27 months in prison.
8. Catalina Vasquez Villalpando, U.S. Treasurer, 1989-1993
When your signature appears on all the paper currency printed by the U.S. Mint, citizens might naturally assume you have their best interests at heart. Villalpando was apparently more interested in her own money than worrying about her official duties. In 1994, about a year after her term ended when President George H.W. Bush left office, she was convicted of tax evasion, obstructing an independent counsel's probe and other crimes.
She admitted failing to report about $167,000 in taxable income for 1989 and not paying $47,000 in taxes that would have been due the first year she served as treasurer. She pleaded guilty to three counts and received a sentence of four months in prison, three years of probation and only a $150 tax evasion fee. Prosecutors had sought a harsher penalty, which could have included a fine of $750,000 and 15 years in prison. Still, Villalpando was the first treasurer to serve time in prison.
Related stories on ThinkAdvisor:
- IRS' Top 12 Tax Scams: 2014's Dirty Dozen
- Top 9 Biggest Tax Scams of 2013
- How Lowering Taxes Drove Paper Millionaires to the Poorhouse
- 5 Commonly Overlooked Tax Planning Strategies


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(WOMENSENEWS)--The danger and intimidation surrounding female journalists can be told through many individual stories.
One of them belongs to Khadija Ismailova from Azerbaijan.
Opponents of hers placed a camera in her bedroom to record her and her boyfriend having intercourse, said Frank Smyth, senior advisor for journalist security at the Committee to Protect Journalists, in an email. They used the recording "as a cruel and vulgar way to try and intimidate her."
Smyth said that all journalists face the same dangers today, "including intimidation or violence, in direct reprisal for their work."
Female journalists, he said, are frequently victims to "sexual character assassination," verbal and physical defamation based on rumors or situations taken out of context. "More women journalists have been sexually attacked than men."
While the stories of attacks on female journalists are proliferating, the documenting of these safety breaches is missing.
To overcome that lack, the International Women's Media Foundation, in conjunction with the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, initiated a month-long universal survey of female journalists on Aug. 20.
A few days after the survey ended, Elisa Lees Munoz, executive director of the nonprofit organization, was still estimating how many surveys had been turned in. She said the sample size would certainly exceed 500 and could even reach 1,000 respondents.
UNESCO is helping to fund and develop safety training based on the survey responses.
Though the IWMF already provides safety information and training to journalists, the goal of the survey is to assess the changing landscape of security concerns for journalists today. The results of the survey will be used to "better formulate programs that address safety concerns," Munoz said.
Munoz said recent events in the Middle East underscore how female journalists are targeted. "That is not to say that men are not physically attacked, but there are specific ways in which woman are harassed," said Munoz.
Two days after the survey was launched, on Aug. 22, a 22-year-old photojournalist was gang raped while on assignment in Mumbai.
Gerhard Doujak, head of human rights at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, said in an email that crimes against journalists can be compounded for women. "In many countries, reporting and investigating these crimes can prove more difficult due to social, religious or traditional stigmas," Doujak said.
On Aug. 29, in an Op-ed for The Boston Globe, Mumbai-based journalist Priyanka Borpujari described security concerns for female journalists in India and wrote that gender can mask everything else. "Many women realized that the phrase 'I am a journalist' did not feel powerful anymore," she wrote. "The sexist culture of the profession and the nation inhibit their jobs."
Reshmi Kaur Oberoi is an editorial intern with Women's eNews and is a New York-based freelance journalist for various South Asian-American publications. Follow her on Twitter @ReshmiKO.
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Obama urged to turn successful state job program national
WASHINGTON — As job losses continue to slow the nation's economic recovery, labor experts and economists are urging Congress and the Obama administration to boost funding for a little-known program that 17 states are using to avert layoffs and keep workers in their jobs.
Mass layoffs of 50 or more employees claimed 278,000 jobs in the third quarter alone, according to new government data. All the laid-off workers were idled for at least a month and only one-third of their employers expected any of them to be recalled.
In the face of continuing business slowdowns, however, thousands of employers are forgoing layoffs and taking advantage of state "work-sharing" programs in which they cut the hours of full-time workers, who then recoup a portion of their lost wages — usually 50 to 60 percent — from unemployment insurance benefits.
The rules vary by state, but work sharing typically helps reimburse employees for wage reductions ranging from 10 to 60 percent.
For example, an employer that needs to cut 20 percent of its full-time work force could do so through layoffs. If those laid-off workers earned an average of $500 a week, they probably could expect roughly $250 a week in unemployment benefits.
However, if instead of layoffs those workers' hours were cut by 20 percent through the work-sharing program, they'd each earn $400 a week. They'd also be eligible for the program's jobless benefits, which would make up about half of that $100 wage cut, or $50. With this approach, the worker's earnings would be roughly $450 a week, a 10 percent cut instead of a 50 percent cut.
Employees like the program, which is sometimes called "short-time compensation," because the wage reductions are absorbed equally among workers, avoiding the stress and income loss of layoffs. Employers like it because they can reduce payroll and retain experienced workers and don't have to pay to recruit, hire and train new workers when the economy improves.
State governments like work sharing because participants receive less in cash benefits than laid-off workers do, easing the drain on state unemployment funds, which have been hard hit during the recession.
Streich Brothers Inc., a machine and fabrication shop in Tacoma, Wash., has used the program for nearly four years. Thirty-six of its 40 employees are enrolled.
After eliminating six positions this year, company President Christine Fisher said the work-sharing program helped her avoid at least four temporary layoffs by adjusting the hours of her machinists and welders.
"The flexibility is what's good for us," Fisher said. "It allows me to fluctuate and have a certain amount of workers here all the time, every day. One week they may be down four hours, and the next week I may only need them to work three days."
Steve Barry, a union welder at the company for nearly 20 years, said he sometimes lost 16 to 24 hours a week in the program, but unemployment benefits make up more than half of his lost earnings. Barry said he liked work sharing because all employees shared the benefits, and he was more financially able to handle the lost hours than younger workers were.
"If I want to take a little time off and give a guy below me with less seniority a chance to work, and he needs it worse than I do, then it works out great for all of us," Barry said.
Work-sharing programs are available in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, New York state, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont and Washington state. Their popularity has skyrocketed since the economy tanked in December 2007.
In California, which established the nation's first work-sharing program in 1978, nearly 183,000 workers were enrolled through the first nine months of the year, compared with a little more than 80,000 for all of last year.
The nation's second-largest work-sharing program, in Washington state, has a record enrollment of more than 2,500 businesses and more than 50,000 workers who filed claims this year. The program already has paid out more than $31 million in unemployment benefits this year, compared with $4 million in 2008.
In New York, more than 1,800 companies have enrolled this year, compared with 483 last year. The increase has helped save an estimated 10,500 jobs through the first eight months of the year, more than two-and-a-half times as many as last year.
That surge in participation has convinced many that it's time to take work sharing national.
"It should be an option in every state," said Neil Ridley, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy, a liberal research center in Washington, D. C. "It doesn't work in every situation, but it should be an option that's on the table for employers and workers."
At the New Buffalo Shirt Factory in Clarence, N.Y., all the company's 120 hourly workers are in the program. Employee retention is the biggest benefit, said Pam Thayer, the company's human resources director.
"My employees know that if they only work four days a week for a month or two, they know they'll get that one day of unemployment, so they don't have go out and look for another job, worried that, 'I don't have a steady income. I need something I can depend on.' This provides them with that," Thayer said.
The lack of work-sharing programs in other states could reflect confusion about how to comply with the federal laws that govern the programs, said Richard Hobbie, the head of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies.
After originating in California, work sharing operated as a temporary national program in the early 1980s before federal laws adopted in the early 1990s allowed states to establish their own programs.
Work-sharing programs require union consent when employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements. Some states, such as Washington, require that health benefits be provided to all employees who participate.
Fisher of Streich Brothers in Tacoma said the added cost was a drawback, particularly when employees weren't working 40-hour schedules.
The Center for Law and Social Policy wants the Obama administration to shore up any legal questions surrounding the federal law and provide technical assistance and financing to expand work-sharing programs.
In congressional testimony last month before Congress' Joint Economic Committee, Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody's Economy.com, urged Congress and the Obama administration to provide $2 billion in seed money to establish work-sharing programs nationwide next year.
An economic adviser to Arizona Sen. John McCain's 2008 Republican presidential campaign, Zandi estimated that every dollar spent to fund work-sharing programs would result in a $1.69 increase in the gross domestic product the following year.
"Like the temporary extension of unemployment insurance benefits, work share has a high bang for the buck, as it provides financial help to distressed workers, who are likely to quickly spend any aid they receive," Zandi said in written testimony.
To help ease the strain on state unemployment-insurance funds, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., introduced legislation in August that for two years would finance all work-sharing benefits paid to employees for up to 26 weeks. The Senate Committee on Finance is considering Reed's "Keep Americans Working Act" (S. 1646).
Senate Democrats are crafting a job-creation bill, but it's unclear whether it would beef up funding for work-sharing programs.
The White House didn't respond to a request for comment about the programs, but in his inaugural address, President Barack Obama said: "It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job, which sees us through our darkest hours."
Like regular unemployment insurance, work-sharing benefits are drawn from the state unemployment insurance trust funds and from the employers' unemployment reserve accounts. The benefits paid to workers count against their unemployment insurance accounts as well.
Douglas Holmes, the president of the National Foundation for Unemployment Compensation and Workers' Compensation, said that his organization hadn't taken a position on work sharing. However, he said that some states' restrictions — such as maintaining employee health benefits — could limit employers' flexibility to cut costs under the program. He also said the programs were complicated to administer.
Thayer of the New Buffalo Shirt Factory said the added paperwork for all her employees took 30 to 45 minutes a week.
"But I don't find it a real burden," she said. "Investing 45 minutes to retain my employees and help them out financially is worth it."
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A-to-Z Rule Set for Processing Politically Bankrupt States
- UN Security Council indicts
- G-20, acting as functioning executive, unleashes the Leviathan and finances reconstruction
- Leviathan intervenes
- SysAdmin stabilizes and begins nation-building
- International Reconstruction Fund oversees rebuild
- International Criminal Court adjudicates identified war criminals
Asymmetrical Warfare
A conflict between two foes of vastly different capabilities. After the Red Army dissolved in the 1990s, the U.S. military knew it was basically unbeatable, especially in a straight-up fight. But that meant that much smaller opponents would seek to negate its strengths by exploiting its weaknesses, by being clever and "dirty" in combat. On 9/11, America got a real dose of what asymmetrical warfare is going to be like in the twenty-first century.
Big Bang
Refers to the strategy (alas, seldom articulated) of the Bush administration to trigger widespread political, social, economic, and ultimately security change in the Middle East through the initial spark caused by the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq and the hoped-for emergence of a truly market-based, democratic Arab state. Thus, the Big Bang aimed primarily for a demonstration effect, but likewise was also a direct, in-your-face attempt by the Bush administration to shake things up in the stagnant Middle East, where decades of diplomacy and military crisis response by outside forces (primarily the United States) had accomplished basically nothing. The implied threat of the Big Bang was "We're not leaving the region until the region truly joins the global economy in a broadband fashion, leading to political pluralism domestically." The Big Bang was a bold strategic move by Bush, one that I supported. All terrorism is local, so either deal with that or resort to firewalling America off from the outside world.
Caboose Braking
The situation that arises when a country's elites or more competitive segments (the engine) wire themselves up to globalization more quickly than the weaker portions of society (the caboose) can accommodate. The "caboose" is typically the inland, rural, more agricultural base of the population, which likewise constitutes the bulk of poverty in any country--including the US. Caboose braking can range from voting more populist candidates into office in democracies (e.g., India's Congress Party) to political unrest and violent protest in authoritarian states (e.g., tens of thousands of peasant riots in China).
The enormous changes being brought on by the information revolution, including the emerging financial, technological, and logistical architecture of the global economy (i.e., the movement of money, services accompanied by content, and people and materials). During the boom times of the 1990s, many thought that advances in communications such as the Internet and mobile phones would trump all, erasing the business cycle, erasing national borders, erasing the very utility of the state in managing a global security order that seemed more virtual than real, but 9/11 proved differently. That connectivity, while a profoundly transforming force, could not by itself maintain global security, primarily because a substantial rise in connectivity between any nation and the outside world typically leads to a host of tumultuous reactions, including heightened nationalism and religiosity.
Core/Functioning Core
Those parts of the world that are actively integrating their national economies into a global economy and that adhere to globalization's emerging security rule set. The Functioning Core at present consists of North America, Europe both "old" and "new," Russia, Japan and South Korea, China (although the interior far less so), India (in a pockmarked sense), Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, and the ABCs of South America (Argentina, Brazil, and Chile). That is roughly 4 billion out of a global population of more than 6 billion. The Functioning Core can be subdivided into the:
- Old Core, anchored by America, Europe, and Japan; and the
- New Core, whose leading pillars are China, India, Brazil, and Russia.
There is no substantial threat of intra-Core war among these great powers. However, there remain competing rule sets regarding what constitutes proper Core interventions inside the Gap, as recently indicated by Russia's contested intervention in Georgia's ongoing civil strife.
Department of Everything Else
A back-to-the-future proposal (first offered in Blueprint for Action) to return to the past structure when the Army was the Department of War and the Navy was the "Department of Peace" (especially business continuity). This department would fill the gap between the current Departments of Defense and State, engaging in unconventional pursuits such as nation-building, disaster relief, and counterinsurgency. In many ways, it could be a virtual department, bringing together various resources from the government, nongovernmental organization, and business sectors, along with foreign governments and the linchpin SysAdmin force. Compare the virtual department with the way movie companies work, coming together to make a film, then dissolving. Such a virtual department would work an Iraq one way and a Sudan very differently. In contrast with the Department of Homeland Security, our first and greatest strategic error in the long war on terror, the Department of Everything Else would realize that our American networks are only as secure as every network they are connected to. Such a department would feature many more civilian and older, wiser roles when compared with the current Defense Department.
In this century, it is disconnectedness that defines danger. Disconnectedness allows bad actors to flourish by keeping entire societies detached from the global community and under their dictatorial control, or in the case of failed states, it allows dangerous transnational actors to exploit the resulting chaos to their own dangerous ends. Eradicating disconnectedness is the defining security task of our age, as well as a supreme moral cause in the cases of those who suffer it against their will. Just as important, however, by expanding the connectivity of globalization, we increase peace and prosperity planet-wide.
Frontier Integration
Globalization has entered into an extended period of frontier integration—as in economic and network integration of previously off-grid or poorly connected societies. The historical example par excellence is the settling and taming of the American West after the Civil War. The chief activities are infrastructure building, the extension of social networks and rule of law, state building, the generation of permanent and pervasive security, the squelching of insurgencies and criminal mafias, and the formal marketization of existing and new economic activities—to include both "exploiting" the labor of and selling to the so-called bottom-of-the-pyramid population. America's frontier integration was continental-sized, involving millions. Today's project targets the globe's entire Gap, involving billions in so-called emerging or frontier economies. It also involves the impoverished rural regions of New Core pillars such as China and India. In general, neither Americans nor Europeans will lead this frontier integration effort. We price out too high. Instead, the frontierintegrators of the age will be mostly Asians, who know better how to jump-start development in these harsher environments. America's role can be to mentor and enable the integrators, helping especially on security, or we can sit the whole thing out and hope for the best in terms of resulting political outcomes.
Gap/Non-Integrated Gap
Regions of the world that are largely disconnected from the global economy and the rule sets that define its stability. Today, the Non-Integrated Gap is made up of the Caribbean Rim, Andean South America, virtually all of Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, and most of the Southeast Asian littoral. These regions constitute globalization's "ozone hole," where connectivity remains thin or absent in far too many cases. Of course, each region contains some countries that are very Core-like in their attributes (just as there are Gap-like pockets throughout the Core defined primarily by poverty), but these are like mansions in an otherwise seedy neighborhood, and as such are trapped by these larger Gap-defining circumstances.
The worldwide integration and increasing flows of trade, capital, ideas, and people. Until 9/11, the U.S. government tended to identify globalization primarily as an economic rule set, but thanks to the long war against violent extremism, we now understand that it likewise demands the clear enunciation and enforcement of a security rule set as well.
Globalization I, II, III & IV
The history of globalization can divided into three parts, each governed by its own rule set:
- Globalization I (1870 to 1914), was ended by the start of World War I;
- Globalization II (1945 to 1980), was initiated by the United States at the end of World War II, and continued until the effective end of the Cold War;
- Globalization III (1980 -2001) was an era of relative peace and enormous economic growth around the world that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, but whose rule sets have now been challenged by rogue states and international terrorists, as exemplified by 9/11; and
- Globalization IV (2001-present), is defined by the enormous structural changes wrought by the simultaneous rise of numerous great powers and the emergence of a global middle class
Grand Strategy
As far as a world power like America is concerned, a grand strategy involves first imagining some future world order within which our nation's standing, prosperity, and security are significantly enhanced, and then plotting and maintaining a course to that desired end while employing—to the fullest extent possible—all elements of our nation's power toward generating those conditions. Naturally, such grand goals typically take decades to achieve, thus the importance of having a continuous supply of grand thinkers able to maintain strategic focus.
Greater Inclusive
What we need to create as we expand our definition of national security crises in the age of globalization. After more than half a century of almost complete isolation from the rest of the world as it sought to guard against the terror of nuclear war, the Pentagon needs to reconnect to the world--to war within the context of everything else. We need to break up the old hierarchies between the "big one" and all the lesser includeds. We need something that covers the whole enchilada--that makes us one with everything. We need a greater inclusive.
Lesser Included
Pentagon long-range planning during the Cold War had been very simple: always keep our forces ahead of the Soviets by matching the size of their forces and pursuing the latest technological advances. World War III constituted the "Big One" against which all long-range planning proceeded. Everything else the U.S. military did in terms of operations around the world was bundled together in the concept of the "lesser includeds." Even though the U.S. military spent over ninety percent of the Cold War engaged in such lesser includeds, its force-sizing principle remained the Big One with the Soviets. The forces of globalization and 9/11 made clear that there wasn't going to be a Big One--the lesser includeds were the whole ball game.
The U.S. military's warfighting capacity and the high-performance combat troops, weapon systems, aircraft, armor, and ships associated with all-out war against traditionally defined opponents (i.e., other great-power militaries). This is the force America created to defend the West against the Soviet threat, now transformed from its industrial-era roots to its information-age capacity for high-speed, high-lethality, and high-precision major combat operations. The Leviathan force is without peer in the world today, and—as such—frequently finds itself fighting shorter and easier wars. This "overmatch" means, however, that current and future enemies in the long war on violent extremism will largely seek to avoid triggering the Leviathan's employment, preferring to wage asymmetrical war against the United States, focusing on its economic interests and citizenry. The Leviathan rules the "first half" of war, but it is often ill suited, by design and temperament, to the "second half" of peace, to include postconflict stabilization-and-reconstruction operations and counterinsurgency campaigns. It is thus counterposed to the System Administrators force.
Military-Market Nexus
The seam between war and peace, or the link between war and the "everything else" that is globalization. The nexus describes the underlying reality that the warrior culture of the military both supports and is supported by, the merchant culture of the business world. I express this interrelationship in the form of a "ten commandments for globalization":
- Look for resources and ye shall find, but...
- No stability, no markets;
- No growth, no stability;
- No resources, no growth;
- No infrastructure, no resources;
- No money, no infrastructure;
- No rules, no money;
- No security, no rules;
- No Leviathan, no security; and
- No (American) will, no Leviathan.
Understanding the military-market link is not just good business, it is good national security strategy.
Military Operations Other Than War
How the Pentagon defines crisis response activity, nation-building, peacekeeping, counterinsurgency and so forth--everything outside of major warfare. Abbreviated MOOTW (pronounced "moo-twah"), it held a very low priority before 9/11.
Rule Set
A collection of rules (both formal and informal) that delineates how some activity normally unfolds. The Pentagon's New Map explores the new rule sets concerning conflict and violence in international affairs—or under what conditions governments decide it makes sense to switch from the rule set that defines peace to the rule set that defines war. The events of 9/11 shocked the Pentagon and the rest of the world into the realization that we needed a new rule set concerning war and peace, one that replaces the old rule set that governed America's Cold War with the Soviet Union. The book explained how the new rule set will actually work in the years ahead, not just from America's perspective but from an international one.
Rule-Set Reset
When a crisis triggers your realization that your world is woefully lacking certain types of rules, you start making up those new rules with a vengeance (e.g., the Patriot Act and the doctrine of preemption following 9/11). Such a rule-set reset can be a very good thing. But it can also be a very dangerous time, because in your rush to fill in all the rule-set gaps, your cure may end up being worse than your disease. The world is currently engaged in such a reset concerning international financial flows, in response to America's subprime crisis.
Seam States
The countries that ring the Gap--such as Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Some are already members of the Core, and most others are serious candidates for joining the Core. These states are important with regard to international security, because they provide terrorists geographic access to the Core. The U.S. security strategy regarding these states is simple: get them to increase their security practices as much as possible and to close whatever loopholes exist.
SysAdmin/System Administrators
The "second half" blended force that wages the peace after the Leviathan force has successfully waged war. Therefore, it is a force optimized for such categories of operations as "stability and support operations" (SASO), postconflict stabilization and reconstruction operations, "humanitarian assistance/disaster relief" (HA/DR), and any and all operations associated with low-intensity conflict (LIC), counterinsurgency operations (COIN), and small-scale crisis response. Beyond such military-intensive activities, the SysAdmin force likewise provides civil security with its police component, as well as civilian personnel with expertise in rebuilding networks, infrastructure, and social and political institutions. While the core security and logistical capabilities are derived from uniformed military components, the SysAdmin force is fundamentally envisioned as a standing capacity for interagency (i.e., among various U.S. federal agencies) and international collaboration in nation-building, meaning that both the SysAdmin force and function end up being more civilian than uniform in composition, more government-wide than just Defense Department, more rest-of-the-world than just the United States, and more private-sector-invested than public-sector-funded.
System Perturbation
A system-level definition of crisis and instability in the age of globalization; a new ordering principle that has already begun to transform the military and U.S. security policy; also a particular event that forces a country or region to rethink everything. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 served as the first great "existence proof" for this concept, but there have been and will be others over time. Some are purposeful, like the Bush administration's Big Bang strategy of fomenting political change in the Middle East, but others will be accidents, like the Asian tsunamis of December 2004, or America's recent financial crises.
Zero-sum versus Nonzero-sum
Zero-sum refers to situations/transactions/environments where the resource in question is actually or just perceived to be fixed in size and therefore cannot be enlarged. As a result, competition is more intense: If I get 80% of the resource, you can only have 20%, or everything that I "win," you must "lose." Humans tended to view economics exclusively in this manner until the Industrial--and "industrious"--Revolution began at the start of the 19th Century. A good example is the concept of mercantilism--as in, the only "good" trade is that which generates a surplus of a precious commodity (throughout history, the focus here was on accumulating gold, a perceived fixed-sum resource because the world's supply grew irregularly). Until the Industrial Revolution alerted humanity to the possibilities of escaping the limits of organic growth by creating new resources (i.e., the 19th century is considered the century of chemistry, resulting in all sorts of new chemicals and compounds, as well as substances and production processes made possible by them), Malthusian logic held (the notion posited by scientist and philosopher Thomas Malthus that wealth and demographic growth were inversely related--meaning, the more people a society accumulated, the poorer it became in aggregate, because there was only so much wealth to go around). But with the Industrial Revolution, the causal relationship between population and economic wealth was broken: portions of humanity (primarily the West) got very rich and populous (exporting immigrants globally). Now, as globalization spreads to those parts of the world previously denied deep economic connectivity, new Malthusian fears arise, creating suspicions of future zero-sum contests over resources. But, as in the past, such fears will prove groundless: when certain resources become "exhausted" in the sense that the cost of accessing them becomes too high (like oil), humanity will move on to new technologies that exploit resources in different and more efficient (and less pollutive) ways. As a final note, when it comes to matters of threat, consider defense to be more zero-sum in perception (i.e., the more defense I have, the less you perceive yourself to have), while the interdependency of globalization shifts the matter from individual (or even collective) defense to that of shared security, which is truly nonzero-sum (i.e., the more security I build into my system, or into yours, the safer we both are).


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In the old space that once housed Hatfield's, then Eva Restaurant, is now an outpost of a successful Belmont Shores import. The new location of the Lebanese chainlet called Open Sesame is admirably strategic; it's well north of other Mediterranean haunts on Pico but south of those in The Valley. It adds to the diversity of dining options on Beverly Boulevard, and from my experience a couple weeks ago, a viable choice for flavorful food which also doubles as healthful. Those seeking vegetarian, vegan or Halal compliant will be happy that this popped up in the neighborhood.
Momed: A Modern Take On Mediterranean
Momed, a new Eastern Mediterranean place on the south-of-Wilshire stretch of Beverly Drive, has all the makings to be a neighborhood hotspot. A contemporary interior is where you'll enjoy an equally modern rendition of Mediterranean cuisine with beautiful wines to match. Specific cuisines that bring inspiration and are highlighted include those from Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt and Morocco.
The place, with its white and just-short-of-sterile decor, is equal parts eatery, wine bar, coffee and tea house. The aim was to create a neutral visual platform on which the vibrant spices and flavors of the cuisine would shine.
Enjoy tasty treats like their Pide topped with Ohanyan spicy sausage and sweet red onions. Or go for a more unusual, adventurous topping like Chicken 'lahmajoun' – minced chicken, pistachios and oven-roasted peaches. It may be wood-fired (the oven is the only thing from the previous tenants they kept) but don't call it pizza. It's Turkish flatbread, and it's delicious with the right topping (the spicy sausage was my favorite).
Want to dial it down a little? Momed offers a great selection of salads and dips with which to eat with your pita. I thought their tzatziki yogurt dip was especially flavorful and done well. The vast varieties of hummus, baba ganoush and other mezze (appetizers) were also palatable in large thanks to the warm, moist pitas served. The long display of spices like cardamom, sumac and cumin is evidence of Momed's commitment to making everything from scratch with freshness being a priority.
And don't forget selections that come already prepared with their fantastic pitas, like one filled with warm duck "shawarma" and fig confit – my personal hand-rolled pita favorite. If you're looking for a warm side, no look further than the Baleela (chickpeas with toasted pine nuts, preserved lemon and perfectly flash-fried with brown butter) – absolutely divine!
Intelligentsia coffee, traditional Turkish coffee, a rare selection of fine teas including Du Hammam, Moroccan mint, Eve's rose petal and white pomegranate, as well as six different hot chocolate options from The Chocolate Box are offered. In the back, behind the wood-fired oven, is where you can get your coffee or Turkish Spa tea fix.
Momed is a great place to approach quality Eastern Mediterranean – whether it may have been intimidating before or always been a favorite. And while you're there, try to pair your meal with one of their wines. You won't find a French, Italian or Californian bottle of vino but rather a Greek, Israeli, Moroccan or even Lebanese. When I had the opportunity to visit I had the pleasure of tasting a beautiful Israeli '09 Muscat Rose as well as an Israeli '07 Golan Heights Chardonnay…delicious. No matter what, you're in for a unique treat each time you dine at Momed.
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Multiple Sclerosis May Cause Changes in Thalamus: Study
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"The thalamus is a central area that relates to the rest of the brain and acts as the 'post office,'" study co-author Khader Hasan, an associate professor at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said in a university news release. "It also is an area that has the least amount of damage from lesions in the brain, but we see volume loss, so it appears other brain damage related to the disease is also occurring."
Hasan and colleagues published their observations in a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
The study authors noted that aging alone can bring about changes in the size of the thalamus region, resulting in some shrinkage after age 70. However, the research team wanted to see if multiple sclerosis (MS) -- which is often associated with the onset of dementia -- accelerates such structural shifts.
The radiology researchers used cutting-edge MRI scanning equipment to analyze brain structure in 109 MS patients, compared to 255 healthy men and women.
The result: MS patients had greater volume loss in the thalamus region than healthy patients, after accounting for age. And the greater the loss in thalamus volume, the more disabled the patient was, the investigators noted.
"This is looking at multiple sclerosis in a different way," Hasan said in the news release. "The thalami are losing cellular content and we can use this as a marker of what's going on. If we can find a way to detect the disease earlier in a more vulnerable population, we could begin treatment sooner."
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J ERUSALEM The prospect of an agreement over Iran's nuclear program that would ease economic sanctions on that country set off concerns in Israel's government circles Friday that the United States and its allies are about to surrender a critical edge in the standoff with a nation conservatives here insist poses a threat to Israel's existence.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Friday that Israel would not be bound by any accord and would do what it needs to do to defend itself, a hardly veiled threat that it might launch its own military strike against Iran's nuclear program. Analysts here said his pique probably reflected the concerns of other nearby countries, including Saudi Arabia and Arab countries in the Persian Gulf, which see Iran as a major regional rival.
"Israel and American allies in the region are extremely concerned that the American role that has underwritten their security has a big question mark," said Jonathan Rynhold, a senior researcher at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv. "Their concern is that the agreement is a slippery slope, and that though the Americans have stressed that the relief is not removing the institutional foundations of the sanctions, the feeling is that this is the thin edge of the wedge. A lot will depend on the details."
Those details were not known when Netanyahu spoke after what was reportedly a heated meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who left Israel Friday morning for Geneva for what might have been the final hours of talks. But Netanyahu made it clear he did not like what he thought might be coming.
"I understand the Iranians are walking around very satisfied in Geneva, as well they should be, because they got everything and paid nothing," Netanyahu said. "They wanted relief of sanctions after years of a grueling sanctions regime. They got that. They're paying nothing because they're not reducing in any way their nuclear enrichment capability.
"So Iran got the deal of the century, and the international community got a bad deal."
Netanyahu spoke alone to reporters at Ben Gurion airport after Kerry canceled a statement in an apparent attempt to avoid a public confrontation.
"This is a very bad deal," Netanyahu said. "Israel utterly rejects it, and what I'm saying is shared by many, many in the region, whether or not they express it publicly. Israel is not obliged by this agreement, and Israel will do everything it needs to do to defend itself and to defend the security of its people."
Netanyahu said he had reminded Kerry of his statement that no deal with Iran is better than a bad deal, and he urged him "not to rush to sign, to wait, to reconsider, to get a good deal."
How broadly Netanyahu's concerns were shared among Israelis was unclear. Public opinion here is less preoccupied with the threat from Iran than Netanyahu's statements would suggest, and some Israeli analysts suggested that Netanyahu was overreacting to a deal that had not yet been set.
Amos Yadlin, head of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University and a former head of Israeli military intelligence, urged a more measured response.
"I see this as a very limited deal whose aim is to facilitate the negotiations," Yadlin told Israel Radio. "The details have to be examined in order to determine whether the deal is good or bad."
"Israel has to be watchful and make sure there's no bad deal, but you can't call an interim process a bad deal. . . . We have to influence the negotiations, and the question is how we have more influence: By taking extreme positions, or by an open, heart-to-heart conversation, building trust between us and the Americans to define the parameters on which there can be no compromise."
Netanyahu also took a combative line on talks with the Palestinians after 48 hours of shuttle diplomacy by Kerry, during which he warned that failure to reach agreement in negotiations resumed three months ago could spark a third Palestinian uprising.
New Israeli announcements on settlement building have cast a pall over the talks, with Palestinian negotiators threatening to resign and Netanyahu accusing the Palestinians of manufacturing an artificial crisis. Visiting the West Bank, Kerry urged Israel to curb building in settlements there to create a better climate for negotiations.
Netanyahu asserted that the diplomatic pressure should be put on the Palestinians, "who refuse to budge."
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The fans witnessed their hometown stars excel on the sand, with a bronze medal by Xue Chen and Xia Xinyi, while having the opportunity to see more home teams on the sand than usual, as the host country.
To get to know the home stars, beach volleyball pair Li Jian and Chen Cheng sat down at Shanghai to answer fan questions, collected from FIVB fans on Facebook and Chinese social media sites Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo.
Q1: You've been playing beach volleyball as a team for a few years now. Can you tell me how your partnership has grown over the years?
Cheng: It has been like 10 years since 2012 when we took part in the global competition. We had fights before, but gradually we cooperate with each other much better, and we understand each other only by eye contacting.
Li: It is kind of fate to be a partner, everyone has it's ambitious time and also everyone is going to be old. No matter what, I will cherish this best time.
Q2: Over the years, what has been your favorite moment, what stands out the most? What do you look forward to the most?
Cheng: Since the end of 2008, We have learned to make a concerted effort. And it's unforgettable experience. We are very united either on training or matches. On the court, we understand each other much better. So I feel it's that was the most unforgettable year. Moreover, we won the champion of the national games.
Q3: Can you tell us what you did to prepare for the Shanghai tournament?
Cheng: This time we are matched up against groups which are very strong, like Holland and the U.S. They are all the top volleyball players. We learn to improve ourselves by playing against them. The main objective of us on this match is to exercise and to improve ourselves.
Q4: We had a chance to meet and interview Xue Chen and Xia Xinye at the Fuzhou Open earlier this week. Are you friends with them?
Cheng: We're close and we like to have fun together. Since all of us are very easy-going, we would like to make some jokes with each other. And now, Xue Chen is the best Chinese female player. Xia Xin Yi has nickname of "Toto", she is interesting, often tells us jokes.
Q5: As Xue Chen and Xia Xinye are new partners and you have lots of experience being partners, would you like to share any advice?
Cheng: Xia Xin Yi is quite young now, after partner with Xue Chen, Xia will grow fastly by learning all the experience from her. I can say, if they could work together for another 3-4 years, Rio Olympics is not dream at all.
Li: Sincerely wish them could do great in the future, Xia Xin Yi is very young and she has lots of opportunity. We could never foresee what abundant performance she could achieve. Even now, we already know she has huge potential.
Q6: FIVB has grown many Weibo followers over the last few months. Are you surprised at the rapid growth of the sport in China?
Cheng: Not a lot of people love playing beach volleyball unlike many westerners who play beach volleyball just because of they love it, which is something we should learn from.
Q7: Do you have any special words for our younger fans who are starting to enjoy volleyball?--
Li: Beach volleyball is some kind of activity, which doesn't require high skills.
When you have leisure time, you could ask some of your friends or relatives to go to beach together. Enjoy the fun time by playing beach volleyball together. Maybe you will start loving it. Sport like Beach volleyball will be developed after it prevails among people.
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Zaha Hadid, like Jean Nouvel, is an architect with whom we started working in the 1980s, but with whom we had not yet developed items for mass production. Having graduated from the Architectural Association in London, she launched on her professional career in 1979. She has taught in many European and American universities and is currently a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and a Visiting Professor in Yale. Zaha Hadid is also known as a painter and designer. Her works have been on show in various exhibitions in the US, Japan, England and Germany.
Zaha Hadid (Bagdad 1950) studied at the Architectural Association in London, where she qualified in 1977. She joined the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, with Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, returned to lecture at the Architectural Association and then in other universities in Europe and the United States. She was teacher at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and is Visiting Professor at Yale University. She began her professional career in 1979. In 1993 she was responsible for the Vitra Fire Station at Weil am Rhein, Germany, and a residential building for the iba in Berlin. Her major completed projects include the lf one pavilion at Weil am Rhein (1993-99); the Mind Zone at Millennium Dome in London (1997-99); a tram station and car park in Strasbourg (2001) and a ski jump in Innsbruck (2002). Her more recent projects include: the Contemporary Arts Centers in Rome and Cincinnati; a Science Centre in Wolfsburg, Germany; a ferry terminal at Salerno, Italy; a public square and multiplex cinema in Barcelona; the bmw Works in Leipzig; the extension to the Ordrupgaard Museum in Copenaghen and a bridge in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Zaha Hadid is also well known as a painter and designer: her work has been shown in various exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Britain and Germany. Zaha Hadid died in 2016.


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Iowa State University's men's basketball coach has told the athletic director he used "bad judgment" at a party he attended near the University of Missouri campus in late January.
Athletic Director Bruce Van De Velde said coach Larry Eustachy came to him after learning a student had given photos of the coach at the party to The Des Moines Register.
According to The Register's copyright story, 12 photos show Eustachy during the early hours of Jan. 23 with beer. In several photos he's embracing and kissing women on the cheek or being kissed on the cheek.
Eustachy went to the party at a student apartment hours after the Cyclones lost to the Tigers.
Neither Iowa State officials nor Eustachy, through his lawyer Jerry Crawford, dispute the photos' authenticity.
In a statement issued by Eustachy, he said, "In the past, I have made some poor decisions that I regret."
Van De Velde wouldn't say if disciplinary action has been taken or was pending against Eustachy. But he said Eustachy understands that he made a poor decision and has expressed remorse.
Eustachy has been Cyclones' coach for five seasons. They won back-to-back Big 12 Conference championships in 2000 and 2001. Coach Larry Eustachy's Statement "I want the people of Iowa, and the fans of our program throughout the nation, to know how sorry I am to have disappointed them with some poor decisions I have made. But words are cheap at a time like this, and I hope to be measured by my future conduct."
"I am certainly aware of the role drinking has played in my behavior. I am addressing this matter."
"With support of my family and friends, I will do everything in my power to make sure my actions reflect highly upon this university and this state." ISU Athletic Director Bruce Van De Velde's Statement "We expect all of our coaches to be good representatives of Iowa State University and to be good role models for our student-athletes. Obviously, we are disappointed with coach Eustachy's behavior that was reported in The Des Moines Register. This situation will be dealt with in an appropriate manner. Coach Eustachy knows that he made some very poor decisions and used bad judgment. He sincerely regrets his actions and the harm they have caused his university. We have made sure he understands his accountability and obligations as Iowa State's men's basketball coach, now and in the future."


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10 Things we learned from the opening internationals
Graham Jenkins
November 12, 2012
New Zealand's Dan Carter exuded class in his side's romp against Scotland at Murrayfield © Getty Images
The opening autumn internationals delivered a mix of sublime and not-so-stunning rugby, bone-crunching tackles galore, a hint of genius and an unwelcome dose of controversy - but what did we learn?
Short term pain for long term gain
Argentina's debut alongside the southern hemisphere giants of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa in this year's Rugby Championship may not have provided a victory - with a draw against the Springboks their best return - but the benefits of a long overdue place in an annual Tier 1 competition extend beyond their results against their talent-heavy rivals. Battle-hardened from tackling the world's best on a regular basis, they have also clearly learnt a lot along the way with Wales the first of what will surely be many more European nations to be put to the sword as the Pumas continue to emerge as a major force on the Test match stage.
Visser on course for Lions
Scotland winger Tim Visser extended his prolific try-scoring record with two tries against the All Blacks at Murrayfield. The Dutch-born speedster now has four tries in three Test appearances since qualifying for the Scots on residency grounds in the summer. He also has nine tries in six PRO12 appearances this season and while he may have not troubled the scoreboard in the Heineken Cup - like his side as a whole - there is little doubt he will have caught the eye of British & Irish Lions boss Warren Gatland who was in Edinburgh to witness his latest try-scoring feats.
DC will spearhead All Blacks' World Cup defence
Dan Carter's talents are a joy to behold and when he does make an error - as he did in gifting Scotland the opening try in their clash at Murrayfield on Sunday - we can sit back and enjoy his efforts to redeem himself. He did just that and some against the Scots with an awe-inspiring playmaking masterclass that reminded us he is still the best in the business and will surely spearhead the All Blacks' defence of the World Cup crown having been cruelly struck down by injury last year.
World Cup draw criteria is flawed
This may not be news to those familiar with the international calendar but the issue has been brought into sharp focus by the final push for an IRB rankings boost and a preferable seeding for next month's pool draw for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. England and Wales, who are both chasing a place in the top four of the IRB rankings and with it a preferable pool draw for the sport's next showpiece event, play the highest-ranked sides more often and therefore have more opportunity to boost the ranking. And in addition to a schedule that rewards them with more clashes against the southern hemisphere giants than their rivals, the financial muscle of the Rugby Football Union and the Welsh Rugby Union allows them to tempt those same sides to play further Tests outside of the international window. They do, of course, still have to win those games if they are to benefit but at least they have the chance to influence their respective futures.
Expectation is high in England - not so much in Wales
The 82,000-capacity Twickenham sold out for a visit of a Tier 2 nation for the first time on Saturday with Fiji getting HQ's turnstiles spinning in an unprecedented manner. In truth, it is perhaps the growing expectancy around England that had fans flocking with no known ticketing promotions used to entice them. In contrast, barely 50,000 fans were present at the 72,500-capacity to see the reigning Six Nations Grand Slam champions lose to Argentina. Perhaps those who didn't show knew something we didn't with the Cardiff rarely rising above dour. With the Pumas seemingly destined to become a major force in the game, hopefully they will prove a bigger draw in the years to come.
Scotland are destined for more World Cup woe
Scotland's oh-so-generous defence put an end to any hope of a first ever victory over the All Blacks on Sunday and dented their chances of a rankings boost ahead of the World Cup draw. They are currently ranked 9th in the world and unless they can stun South Africa this weekend then they must accept a third tier seeding for the pool draw for the 2015 tournament. That means they will face one of the top four in the world - currently New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and France - AND one of those sides ranked 5th-8th - currently England, Wales, Ireland and Argentina - in three years' time. The last time they suffered such a fate was at the 2011 World Cup, again because of their ranking, and they failed to make it out of the pool stages and into the quarter-finals for the first time in their history.
One step forward, two steps back
Fresh, or perhaps not-so-fresh, from halting the All Blacks' winning run with a hard-fought draw in Brisbane last month, Australia slumped to a miserable defeat at the hands of France in Paris. Robbie Deans became the longest-serving Wallabies boss with this game but sadly it only served to underline his status as their most unsuccessful coach with The Australian reporting that his winning percentage has dropped to 57.4%. Injuries have given Deans a little breathing room but with the return of some key names the expectation and pressure will rise. The forthcoming clashes with England, Italy and Wales will surely go some way to deciding whether Deans remains in charge for the visit of the Lions next year.
Woeful Wales a shadow of Slam heroes
Wales may lay claim to be the fittest they have ever been thanks to their latest stint in the cryotherapy chambers in Spala but that is no good if you are not fresh enough to leverage that superior physical conditioning. They were lethargic at best against Argentina and never got out of second gear thanks to the pressure exerted by the Pumas up front and their more effective game plan. Argentina have not exactly had an easy few months themselves with a gruelling Rugby Championship campaign recently done and dusted and their success offers more evidence to suggest that you can train all you like but there is nothing like being match fit.
Thomson's tour is over
We're not quite sure what came over All Blacks flanker Adam Thomson at Murrayfield where he was shown a yellow card for 'misuse of the feet'. That doesn't really do his ugly act justice with the blindside choosing to tread on the head of Scotland flanker Alasdair Strokosch who was pinned at the bottom of a ruck. It was stupid and totally unnecessary with a cheeky punch also thrown in for good measure. It may not rank as one of the worst 'stamps' seen in international rugby but there is no excuse for putting boot to head and if he hasn't already then he needs to pack his bags as a near-certain suspension awaits.
Gatland is set to go even greyer
Lions boss Warren Gatland was in Dublin for Ireland's defeat at the hands of South Africa and in Edinburgh for the All Blacks victory over Scotland and while there were some positives to be gleaned from both games he will not exactly be rubbing his hands in anticipation of he eagerly-awaited series with Australia next summer. England's demolition of Fiji and the Wallabies' own defeat at the hands of France will offer a little more hope but that will be tempered by injuries to the likes of Wales duo Jamie Roberts and Alun Wyn Jones - it is going to be a long season for the Lions boss and don't be surprised if you find his grey hair has turned white come next summer.
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The Culture of Offence Takes Aim
Helen Flanagan is an actress who used to appear in Coronation Street, and was lately a contestant in ITV's ever popular "Celebrity Jungle Torture", or whatever it's called. She's one of that new brand of celebrities who tweets herself (rather than having a PR tweet for her, which is often the case), and treats us to the mundane minutiae of her day.
On Monday evening, she ran into a bit of a problem. Being hungover, she posted an image of herself taken in October, showing her in lingerie, pointing what appears to be a very obvious toy gun towards her head, with the caption "headf**k".
Cue outrage.
As everyone who casts even a vague glance at the news would know by now, there was the small matter of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre last Friday. Twitter decided, in its hundreds, that Ms Flanagan was "insensitive" and "offensive". Several newspapers – chief amongst them the Sun and Mail – decided to follow suit (complete, of course, with the offending image, because Ms Flanagan in lingerie is, one assumes, guaranteed to sell newspapers even without the addition of a very obvious toy gun). Ms Flanagan, who states she is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder, ends up having to appear on Daybreak, ITV's bland early morning snoozathon, to apologise profusely for her "crime".
Each newspaper's story included within it quotes from parents of children killed in the massacre. These parents were unnamed and unidentified. Now, there's only two interpretations one could read of this: the first, is the charitable one, which is the Sun and the Mail made up these quotes. I've got no idea whether they did or not, by the way, and am not accusing them of doing so. But, as I say, that's the charitable interpretation.
The uncharitable interpretation is this: a minor British celebrity posts a picture of herself on Twitter that only those stretching, reaching, aching for a connection, could actually connect to Sandy Hook and get "offended". Ms Flanagan holds no assault rifle. Ms Flanagan is pointing the "gun" at nobody bar herself. Ms Flanagan offers no threat. Ms Flanagan, as the accompanying tweets show, is talking about having a splitting headache. Meanwhile, at the UK Cinemas, hundreds of thousands of people go and watch "Skyfall" and "Seven Psychopaths" and Tom Cruise in "Jack Reacher", revelling in fictional guns being used violently. On BBC1 on Monday night, the late film was "Matador", featuring a washed up hitman. On the weekend, hundreds of thousands of people tuned in to watch "The Killing" and "Homeland", which both feature death, violence and the threat of violence. In this context, Ms Flanagan's tweet is a mere drop in the ocean, it's offensiveness diluted to almost homeopathic concentrations, and it takes a reach of almost gargantuan proportions to connect it to Sandy Hook. Convinced they have been "offended" by her "insensitive" behaviour, and determined to share the genuine pain of actual victims through their posturing, hundreds of people take to Twitter to berate a woman with self-confessed mental health issues. The British tabloid press, not to be outdone, decides the best thing to do in this situation is to run with the story and contact the families of victims just days after their children had died, to ask them their opinion about "news" they would never have heard of were it not for the Sun and the Mail contacting them.
Now, putting the story like that, one needs to ask, what's really insensitive and offensive here? Because for the life of me, I can't see that it's Ms Flanagan.


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