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Earlier this year we asked, "Who gets to decide if this teenage cancer patient is mature enough to die?" when we wrote about Cassandra C., a 17-year-old cancer patient in Connecticut who's being forced to undergo chemotherapy treatment after a state Supreme Court decision.
The reaction to Cassandra's story differed from that of Brittany Maynard who, perhaps because she was married and nearly 30, seemed to inspire a more sympathetic public response. In the fall of 2014, the terminally ill 29-year-old made international news when she and her family relocated from their home state of California to Oregon so that Maynard could legally end her life when she chose to. (She died on the date of her own choosing, November 1, 2014.)
Since then, at least four states, including New York and California, have proposed legislation to allow physician-assisted suicide. This month, Canada officially legalized it.
Cassandra C.'s case is a bit different than Maynard's, since the 17-year-old wants to decline life-extending treatment rather than seek physician-assisted suicide. But the teen's story, plus the media's focus on Brittany Maynard and the news about Canada's legislation made us wonder...
Should the growing Death With Dignity movement take terminally ill young people into consideration?
Currently there are only two places in the world where death with dignity laws apply to minors: Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2014, Belgium expanded their law to include terminally ill minors with no age limit. Supporters of the updated law in Belgium argued that it would probably affect very few people, most of whom would be in their teens.
The modified law states that a minor would have to be terminally ill, face "unbearable physical suffering" and make repeated requests to die before their requests are considered, and parents, doctors and psychiatrists all have to agree before a final decision is made. In the Netherlands, the law is not available to children under 12, and teens using it must have parental consent if they're under 16. Laws that apply only to adults also exist in Luxembourg, Switzerland and, in the U.S., there are laws on the books in Oregon, Washington, Vermont, New Mexico and Montana.
In the U.S., where opponents of death with dignity laws have been very vocal, there has been little discussion around whether the laws should even apply to minors. But in a nation where juveniles who have committed serious crimes can be tried as adults in almost every state, and teenagers seeking to terminate a pregnancy require parental consent in most states, it's a discussion worth having.
Is it fair that teenagers are treated as adults under the law for committing crimes, but not when it comes to decisions about their own lives and bodies?
Diane Coleman, President and CEO of Not Dead Yet, a disability rights group based in Rochester, New York, told MTV News that long-term illness isn't the only concern.
"One of the big concerns about assisted-suicide laws relating to young people involves newly injured people," Coleman said. "After a serious injury, there is often a length of time in which the person's survival and future condition are difficult to predict. ... Many disabled people I know wanted to die at first, but now they love their lives."
On some level, this statement echoes traditional arguments for and against physician-assisted suicide for adult patients. Less than one month before she died, Brittany Maynard told People magazine:
"There is not a cell in my body that is suicidal or that wants to die. I want to live. I wish there was a cure for my disease but there's not. ... My glioblastoma is going to kill me, and that's out of my control. I've discussed with many experts how I would die from it, and it's a terrible, terrible way to die. Being able to choose to go with dignity is less terrifying ... Right now it's a choice that's only available to some Americans, which is really unethical."
Peg Sandeen, the Executive Director of the Death with Dignity National Center in Portland, Oregon, reiterated this point.
"Oregon's groundbreaking Death with Dignity law requires participants to be over the age of 18 and living with a terminal disease to ensure with certainty that they are competent and not being coerced," she told us over email. "Cases involving terminally ill teenagers are never easy issues to grapple with. Legally, the age of consent for a host of life situations has always been 18, even though we know nothing magical happens to individuals on their 18th birthday to make them suddenly more capable of making decisions. Fortunately, these are rare cases."
On the other side of the argument, organizations like the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund generally argue that though physician-assisted suicide seems to make sense in cases like Brittany's, legalizing it for everyone could create risks that outweigh the benefits.
They note that terminal diagnoses aren't always correct, and list concerns over what could happen once health insurance companies conclude that lethal medication is cheaper than life-sustaining medication. They also claim that prejudice against the disabled could lead to a disproportionate number of disabled patients seeking and receiving assisted suicide, and that legalizing assisted suicide could reduce pressure on society to provide advanced, affordable care for the disabled, terminally ill and elderly.
Teenage brains have a harder time considering how decisions they make now will affect them in the long run.
As far as teenagers are concerned, the arguments have the potential to become even more complicated. According to Dr. Terry Jensen, neuroscientist and author of the book The Teenage Brain, there's a layer of a fat called myelin that develops over time to insulate the brain, starting at the back and moving toward the front. Our brains aren't fully insulated, Dr. Jensen said, until we're in our 20s, and a lack of full insulation in the frontal lobe causes decision-making signals to move more slowly than they do in fully developed brains.
Basically, the science suggests that teenage brains have a harder time considering how decisions they make now will affect them in the long run.
You could argue that a terminally ill teenager's brain won't have the chance to fully develop before they die anyway. But you could also argue that for patients with even a small chance of survival, they may not be fully equipped to decide whether it's worth the effort to fight, or to disagree with their parents if they decide it isn't worth the fight. Ultimately, that contradiction is at the heart of this debate -- for those who are suffering and elect to die, there are no second chances.
Discussions about this difficult and complex issue are rapidly expanding in the U.S. It's important for young people to stay informed and proactively join the conversation. Otherwise, decisions that could affect our lives and bodies may be made without our consent.
What do you think? Should physician-assisted suicide be legal for terminally ill patients in the US? What about for minors? Let us know in the comments.


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Now that we've cleansed ourselves of all the why questions about
Mayor Richard M. Daley's retirement, we can get on to the serious stuff.
No, not the question who will follow Daley, but what will be follow.
The "who" question will certainly have something to do with the "what"
question; just as surely as it mattered that Daley occupied City Hall's
fifth floor office instead of say, Cook County Clerk David Orr.
But it's been so long that a municipal election in Chicago has meant
anything that it's necessary to state the obvious: Issues matter.
Chicagoans should start with what they want to see happen to the city,
then they should decide which candidate would do it. All the punditry
about who has the strongest ward organization or who can raise the most
campaign money amounts to some much sports reporting. Talking about
issues is boring, but someone's got to do it.
So, in all modesty, here's my post-Daley agenda for the next mayor:
- Fight corruption. No explanation needed.
- Sunset city government. No kidding. The existence of every last
function, every last department, every last employee has to be
justified. As if Chicago was starting all over. Ald. Scott Waguespack
(32nd) has a good idea: a forensic audit of where the money goes. But it
doesn't go far enough. If we can't find a reason for this or that
creature lurking in a dark corner of City Hall, then shut it down. By a
date certain.
- Privatize most of the rest. All the talk about streamlining city
government is useless because it will never happen under the current
patronage form of government. (Yes, I know that political patronage is
technically illegal, but....) The parking meter fiasco doesn't argue
against privatizing, in only argues for doing it right. Start by
contracting out garbage collection to one-man trucks, like it's done in
the suburbs.
- Beef up the cops. What you save from privatization, pour into the
police department, which is hundreds of officers short of what it should
- Neutralize public employee unions. Once upon a time, it was illegal
for public employees to strike. Go to Springfield for state legislation
that would loosen the grip that the unions have on public policy by
scaring the wits out of people with images of mountains of garbage
piling up in allies or by threats of interrupted bus service, school or
snow plowing.
- Truly reform the schools. Take a clue from Sen. James Meeks
(D-Chicago) and give every child and his family a real choice in
education. Vouchers for anyone who wants them. Make it easier for
competent schools to enter the competitive market.
- Tax reform. Start with a complete compilation of every single tax
that Chicago imposes and then examine its impact on individuals,
families and businesses. For example, get rid of the loathsome head tax
that drives business out of Chicago. Take a comprehensive look at how
badly Chicago gouges its visitors, a factor that weighs against
Chicago's strength as a convention center.
- End the TIF boondoggle. No tax reform would be complete without
returning TIF districts to their true purpose. It's robbing schools and
other local governments of hundreds of millions of dollars and proving
to be an enticement for useless projects, such as the "postponed"
transit center under Block 37.
- Get transportation priorities right. First step: Halt the wasteful
and useless attempt to expand O'Hare International Airport. Other
cost-effective and safer alternatives are available for improving
O'Hare, without gouging airline passengers, taxpayers and the airlines
for Daley's overwrought expansion. Keep it up and United and American
will find better locations for their hubs. Fight to spend transportation
money on mass transit that otherwise is planned for that high-speed
rail fantasia. Get on board the more cost-effective south suburban
airport, which was the consensus solution until Daley stepped in to
block it. Rebuild the lakefront Meigs Field.
- Restore regionalism. Daley dealt it a deathblow with his blind
insistence on O'Hare expansion at the expense of its neighbors. It will
take years to restore the trust that had been growing in the interlude
between the all-consuming provincialism of the two Mayor Daleys.
- Commit to democracy and a balance of power. Yes, it might be
messier, as we discovered during the debate over building WalMarts in
Chicago. A democracy is our chosen form of government. That presumes
that the City Council will want to act like a democracy.
That's enough for now.
This column also appeared in The Chicago Daily Observer
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They are stationed every hundred feet along a closed Highway 2, watching to make sure the wildfire doesn't hop across the creek and make it to the other side of the road.
The Chiwaukum Creek Fire has consumed more than 6,600 acres, and nearly 900 homes have been told to evacuate.
"It's nothing to mess around with," said Stacey Hunter-Ramos, who can't get to her home. "Mother Nature is pretty scary."
The winds and dry conditions continue to fuel the fire, but those fighting it could claim victory on Thursday. They managed to keep it from hopping to the other side of Highway 2.
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The heavy smoke made for "unhealthy" air quality in Leavenworth and Wenatchee, the state said.
The fire forced the closure of U.S. 2 between Leavenworth and Coles Corner Wednesday afternoon — and mandatory evacuation orders were issued for the Tumwater Campground and about 860 homes, authorities said. The plume of smoke rose more than 22,000 feet in the area and could be seen from Tacoma and Seattle.
State fire mobilization was ordered late Wednesday afternoon to try to contain the blaze that the Washington State Patrol said was threatening homes, power infrastructure and tourism.
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The Red Cross set up a shelter in Leavenworth at the First Baptist Church, 429 Evans St. And the Red Cross shelter in Wenatchee is on standby; it is located at the Seventh Day Adventist Church at Fifth and Western.
So far no homes are believed destroyed.


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I've received several requests to share my business plan. At first I wasn't going to share it as I thought it might cause controversy. However, being an atheist and also being a former flat fee listing provider I become extremely comfortable in this roll of controversy.
Goal: 365 scans for 2016 - All of them FREE
In 2001 I was one of the first three Realtors to adopt the flat fee service in Chicago. I rode the wave during the bull market and make a KILLING until 2007-2008 when competition was ridiculous and the market dropped.
I believe there is a new VR wave to be ridden but I think it's going be be much shorter. The good news is I have MUCH more potential with Matterport than I did with the highly successful flat fee model during the early-mid 2000s.
I can share this simply because I'm in a unique position that will be extremely hard to compete against and duplicate.
Illinois is an attorney state. I've personally done thousands of real estate transactions and my wife has done even more transactions as a title rep/real estate paralegal.
A few years ago I joined the Dark Side (the legal side of real estate) through a local attorney as a 1099 Independent Contractor and started The Paralegals, Inc. It's a simple concept...the attorney gives me the file/contract and I do EVERYTHING (EVERYTHING!) except attend closings (I can do them in my sleep but clients want the attorney to show up at closing) and when the property closes I get anywhere between $200-$300 per transaction.
However....and this is the best part...if I find/procure the file/sales contract, I get paid between an average of $1,000 per file.
I thought it would be easy to have Realtors use 'my attorneys'. Well, I was hugely mistaken. Most Realtors already have relationships w attorneys so it was like pulling teeth to get let me do their files under one of the attorneys I work with.
I needed something so 'valuable' to offer Realtors that it would make them consider using The Paralegals, Inc.
...Enter Matterport...
The plan is simple. I'm offering a free scan in exchange for a 'recommendation' from the listing agent to use The Paralegals Inc (TPI)and one of the attorneys I'm associated with when they get a contract on their listing.
Without all the boring details, I did my first scan and sent the link to all the Realtors who had a listing in that town that and told them I would do ANY of their listings absolutely FREE if they'd CONSIDER TPI.
Well, I immediately received a bite and did a scan in the next town over. I repeated the email/link concept and wound up doing six more scans over the next two weeks.
As of last week, I've already received a contract from this concept ($992 will be my paralegal fee when it closes).
This week alone I've receive 12 calls from Realtors I've never heard of before and already have more scheduled for this weekend and next week.
It's a phenomenal win/win/win/win. The Realtor gets a free scan (win), the home owner gets a free scan (win), I get paid a LOT of money (win) and the attorney I work with gets a 'free' contract (win).
The feedback has been spectacular.
Interestingly, I tell people it's a free scan but IF (if) they want, I'd take a $20 donation to cover my hosting cost and explain that this is my physical, out of pocket, cost to do this for them. So far I've received $20 from nearly everyone and they are HAPPY to do it.
Yesterday an agent asked me to do a presentation for their entire company for free scans and to talk about both the Matterport and my legal services.
Of course, agents can't force their clients or steer them to TPI. I get it, and that's ok. I just let them know that if THIS seller already has an attorney then simply refer the next one to me..or the next.
The bottom line is, its working and every time I send an email link to the local Realtors, it has turned into another scan.
There are 30,000 Realtors in the my MLS and by January 1, 2016 every single Realtor will know about Matterport and The Paralegals Inc.
The flat fee model had an extremely low barrier to entry. Anyone who wanted to do that type of model could do so almost instantly, and they did. Fortunatley, this business model is NOT easy to duplicate, not at all...not unless you are a real estate paralegal with your own company who has a 20 years of marketing experience.
As mentioned, I think I have about two years to ride this new wave. By then I will have created a deep, deep Realtor referral base and will no longer need the Matterport to be a lead generator. 2016 should be an exciting year, indeed!
1. Will I ever charge for a scan?
Yes. I'm working with a builder as of this week who has had a relationship w an attorney for 25 years. He will not use any of my attorneys. He is paying me cash.
2. Will you become too busy?
No. When I can no longer do scans AND my legal work, I will hire someone to do my scans for me. By this time the legal work pipeline will already be producing money (first closing scheduled for Jan 15) and I'll easily be able to afford to have this done for me (as you know, it's not hard to master).
3. Will I offer anything else free besides scans?
Yes. If someone wants pictures I'll do pictures but probably ask them to refer me a fellow co-worker who wants a free scan. If they want other services (floor plans, movies, etc.) I'll negotiate. For example, I might offer floor plans and movies at cost and still go for the referral.
4. Am I hurting the VR Industry?
No. In fact, quite the opposite. Hundreds, if not thousands of people will experience the power of Matterport and VR that otherwise wouldn't have. Think Henry Ford.
5. Will this affect my competition?
I have no idea but I sure hope it does.
If you're struggling with getting people to pay for this service the market that you're targeting doesn't find value in what you're doing. I simply found a way to show real value and lucky that I had the discipline, dedication and the years to learn an entirely different aspect of a real estate transaction (the legal side is much, much, MUCH more involved than the selling part).
My best advice...if you're not getting business you have to show more value. People pay stupid money for stupid things because they perceive value (pet rocks???). It's difficult, at best, to simply approach someone, show them a virtual walk-through and get them to hand over their cash, especially Realtors. Sure, you'll get a few here and there but the time, effort and cash flow will, most likely, not be worth it.
The good news is, if you're not a paralegal with your own company that specializes in real estate and marketing, there is still hope. If you're NOT in the Chicago area I might even share my ideas w you. :-)
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|I applaud this bold idea and your willingness to share it... despite your devotion to the religion of atheism ha ha. Thanks and good luck.
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|That sounds like a great plan. I'm in Texas and I was thinking of something similar with mortgage brokers and title companies. I spoke to a couple and it is illegal for them to pay a referral fee. Any suggestions?
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|Great work Steve
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|You're absolutely right about the perceived value and on other threads the people who think Realtors are dumb are not communicating the value correctly (among other things).
Well done for your endeavor and openness. I'll introduce you to my eXp Realty colleagues in Chicago.
Regarding the existing relationships you can try something like:
" i respect you have an existing relationship with your attorney, I'm not asking for all your business, can I ask you send one file my way and try us out?"
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I'm familiar w EXP Realty. In fact, I interviewed the owner. :-)
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Letzte Tage - Letzte Nachte
01. Der grosse Krieger (3:15)
02. Oh wie nah ist der Weg hinab (4:36)
03. Oh wie weit ist der Weg hinauf (4:30)
04. In deine H?nde (3:00)
05. Kyrie (4:38)
06. Haram dei Raram dei Haram dei Ra (1:30)
07. Dort ist der Weg (4:30)
08. Letzte Tage - Letzte N?chte (4:20)
Total Time: 30:19
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09. Wanderschaft - Wanderings (5:56)
10. Gib Hin (session version) (2:30)
11. Haram Dei Ra (alternative version) (6:32)
- Florian Fricke / piano
- Daniel Fichelscher / guitar, percussion
- Djong Yun / vocals
- Renate Knaup / vocals
- Al Gromer / sitar
- Ted De Jong / tamboura
This album is probably the closest that Popol Vuh came to straightforward rock music. The sound is dominated by Daniel Fichelschers electric guitar and drums, and there are none of the ambient, meditative pieces that they did so well on other albums. Fichelscher also gets writng credits on no less than 3 of the 8 tracks. The mood for the album is set by Die Grosse Krieger, a multi layered guitar instrumental that matches King Crimson's Red in intensity (although not virtuosity). Most of the tracks which follow are built around the same electric guitar sound with booming percussion - Fricke's piano is rarely audible, and there are no acoustic interludes. Despite all this, it is still recognisably a Popol Vuh album. The guitar may be a Telecaster, but it explores Eastern modes and scales, and the drums may be heavy but we're still a world away from John Bonham or Keith Moon. The vocals, particularly on the second half of the album, are inspired - Fricke's choirboy tones blend beautifully with the two female sopranos on 'Haram Dei...' and the title track.
The fact that this album will fit comfortably onto one side of a C60 may seem like poor value for money, but quality is as important as quantity and Popol Vuh cram more into 30 minutes than many lesser bands do into a double album. Not the best place for newcomers to start, but an exsellent addition to any collection.


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This week media outlets all over the country have been trumpeting the importance of transparent government and the necessity of accessible government records. Along with these admonishments, we've cited notorious examples of governmental secrecy that worked against the public good; and we've given examples where determined journalists wrenched information from the claws of the corrupt.
This week media outlets all over the country have been trumpeting the importance of transparent government and the necessity of accessible government records. Along with these admonishments, we've cited notorious examples of governmental secrecy that worked against the public good; and we've given examples where determined journalists wrenched information from the claws of the corrupt.
While the press in the United States enjoys a good standard of access and freedom, we're cognizant that our nation is not the exemplar of openness we might like to believe. In fact, the most recent World Press Freedom Index (https://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php ) compiled by the organization Reporters Without Borders places the United States in 46th place relative to other nations.
A given nation's WPFI ranking is based on a score calculated from six indicators: Pluralism – a measure of the degree to which a variety of opinions are represented;
Media independence – a measure of the degree to which the media are able to function independently of the state; Environment and self-censorship - measures the environment in which journalists work; Legislative framework - measures the quality of the legislative framework and measures its effectiveness; Transparency - Measures the transparency of the institutions and procedures that affect the production of news and information; Infrastructure - Measures the quality of the infrastructure that supports the production of news and information.
Here in the land of James Madison, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, we'd like to think our score would top the list in all areas, but the data suggest otherwise. But according to the WPFI, we lag behind places like Latvia, Cypress and Guyana. Fortunately, we are well ahead of countries like North Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
The nations that perennially top the list, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands, share several attributes. As the WPFI report states, "Their success rests on solid constitutional and legal foundations, which in turn are based on a real culture of individual freedoms, a culture that is more integrated than in southern Europe."
Even in those places with exemplary press freedom, all is not wine and roses. With particular regard to Finland (atop the index since 2008) the WPFI concludes, "Finland, paradoxically evinces two obstacles to the development of a benign environment for freedom of information: defamation is punishable by imprisonment in certain circumstances, and just three companies own virtually almost all the national media."
With regard to the concentration of ownership, this is an issue U.S. journalists also confront. Just as hyper-concentration of ownership in other sectors has been bad for the American economy and the American people, so too is it perilous for the unfettered dissemination of information.
While it might be comforting to think that those things that are objectively most important are the ones that will be given the most press coverage, that belief is to a certain extent naïve. All media presentations are driven in part by a subjective decision process and a media outlet's organizational priorities.
Reporters, editors and publishers must meet several goals each time the presses roll. Stories must be in the public interest. They must be well-researched. They must be engagingly told. Lastly — and of increasing importance these days — stories must promote continued consumption of the media product.
While the degree of press freedom we enjoy in the United States is laudable, reports such as the WPFI remind us that work remains to be done. Sunshine Week must continue to be observed; and all involved must be vigilant.
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First of all, let's look at the present situation of the elderly and young people. I wonder how many young people live with their grandparents? Do they often talk with them? I suppose many of them rarely talk with them. It is true that even if elderly and young people don't live together, some of them often talk with each other, and have a good relationship. However, we can't ignore the situation that the families who live apart from elderly people are increasing. This causes a lack of communication between old people and young people. Communication is the means to know and understand other people. A lack of communication causes misunderstandings between us and the destruction of our good relationships. This is a very sad situation.
Please consider why elderly people and young people don't often talk with each other. The reason originates in the indifference of elderly and young people. As for the elderly people, they don't make an effort to blend in with young culture, and they try to force their view of life and knowledge on young people. therefore, young people regard them as obstinate, and think that our young culture is the best. But there are a lot of things to learn from each other. However, at present, we don't have many opportunities to do that. As a result, both sides don7t want to learn, and are too lazy to teach.
I had been living with my grandparents for seenteen years until I started to olive alone. As a child, I was attached to my grandmother, and always slept beside her. Every night, my grandnmother told me lots of old stories. For example, she told me her war experience. On holidays, we went to a park near our house, and she taught me how to make a flower necklace or a reed pipe. Moreover, during dinner time, I told her what I did, such as talking with my friends at school, and I laughed a lot with her. I learned many things from her, and also I came to think about communication. True communication is deep understanding. I thought we can laugh from our heart in a casual conversation. Because we had a relationship of mutual trust, I could speak of my worries and the things which I couldn't speak about to even parents and friends.
As my experiences show, in order to prevent indifference, and get along with both elderly and young people, I want to make the following three suggestions. First of all, young people should share our energy with elderly people, and encourage them to be active. For instance, make oppotunities to talk about your school life with them. This is because it will help them to feel young again. Secondly, listen to their old experiences, and deepen your understanding of htem. Thirdly, invite elderly people to participate in volunteer activities. In doing so, they can communicate with many people including young people. The day will surely come shen I get old. When I get old, I would rather be active-playing with my grandchildren, having other people, young and old, to talk to. I want to keep smiling. Communication with a smile helps the relationship between the eldrly and young people go smoothly.
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Boxing promoter Don King is being allowed to sue retired world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis in this country over remarks made on websites in the US.
Mr Justice Eady backed a decision by a senior High Court official to allow King to launch a libel claim against Lewis, his promotion company Lion Promotions LLC and his New York attorney Judd Burstein.
King alleges they branded him a bigoted anti-semite in comments made by Burstein and published on the boxingtalk.com and fightnews.com websites.
The ruling highlights the dangers of making statements that will be published on the internet, as the case involves one US citizen suing over statements made in America by another US citizen.
Dismissing the defendants' argument that this rendered the English court an inappropriate venue for the legal bout, the judge said: "It seems to me that this misses the point about the nature of internet publications and the fact that English law regards the particular publications which form the subject matter of these actions as having occurred in England."
The proceedings follow a near$400m (£215m) damages claim pending in the US launched by Lewis and Lion Promotions against King and former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in respect of interference with an agreement for a rematch between the boxers.
The libel claims stem from statements made by Burstein about that case, which King claims were sanctioned by either Lewis or Lion Promotions and which appeared on the two boxing websites in July 2003.
Mr Justice Eady said King complained that certain words used in the statements bore the meaning that he was a "persistent, bigoted and unashamed, or unrepentant, antisemite".
Backing the decision to allow King to launch the claim in the English courts, Mr Justice Eady said the promoter had a "substantial reputation in England" and particular reliance had been placed on his recent participation in BBC television advertisements for its coverage of the FA Cup.
He said: "Indeed, there was evidence to the effect that Mr King may be the best known person in the world of boxing."
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Last month Lewis's business manager Adrian Ogun accepted an apology and damages from the BBC over comments made in a Radio Five Live interview with King.
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Move over, ancient art
Street artists have turned the Greek capital into an outdoor gallery, and Athens now has a new museum of modern art, too.
People pay most attention to Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" on Pireos Street during rush hour. Painted onto the wall of a former street-car depot that recently housed an exhibition honoring the Renaissance artist, it stretches along the road for 100 meters. Right nearby, Mona Lisa's eyes gaze down onto the traffic rushing past below. Both pieces were created by INO, an Athenian artist who is well known only throughout Greece even though his murals have adorned the Cyprus Parliament Building in Nicosia, for example, and facades in Reykjavik and Miami. As there's no photo of him anywhere online, nobody knows what he actually looks like. This way, he can move unnoticed through the streets of Gazi, an Athenian neighborhood known for its bustling nightlife. Only the well informed might recognize him by the spots of paint on his sweatpants. But according to the thirty-something with the close-cut hair and gentle look, it doesn't matter how he looks, even though his days as an illegal sprayer have been over for 10 to 15 years. Focusing on the artist, in his opinion, devalues the art.
The "Last Supper" is INO's latest and most ambitious work to date. It took him exactly 117 hours to apply the paint with a roller and a telescopic extension pole. Pointing to the calluses on his hands, he explains that he works out in order to keep fit for his art and even took a climbing course so he would be able to abseil down the sides of buildings. Why all the effort? Why not just paint on canvas? He says it's because he wants to reach larger audiences – and that there's always a deeper meaning to his work. His version of the "Last Supper," he tells us, lacks the central figure of Jesus, and people are free to interpret that as they like.
"The financial crisis caused creativity to explode in the streets of Athens," says graphic artist and former sprayer Nikos Tongas of the tour company Alternative Athens; he will be taking us on a street-art tour of the city. "In difficult times, people feel a greater need to express themselves," says the 37-year-old. "There's more urgency to art. Fewer police on the street also means there's more creative space to work in." Psyri neighborhood, another nightlife haunt, looks like a giant open-air gallery. We follow Tongas in his red tartan shirt along uneven sidewalks and through streets and alleys crowded with cafés. There's street art to be found in every nook and cranny of the traffic-calmed area: over the entrance to a parking garage, on the wall of a half crumbling neoclassical residential building, on the back of a building on Platia Iroon square, from which three surreal, contorted faces look down onto the hustle and bustle below. Created by Alexandros Vasmoulakis, a pioneer of the city's street-art scene, whose work now hangs in museums around the world, the trio palpably liven up the atmosphere of the otherwise gray square.
"Well-executed street art can add something to an area – that's something even the government has now realized," says Tongas. He points to a sign beneath a mural stating that it was officially commissioned by the city administration. A few streets further on, we come to the Heart of Athens design hotel, which not so long ago commissioned artists to paint and brighten up a dreary alley. Nika Louka is now the neighborhood hot spot for taking selfies. "Since Athens' graffiti is increasingly being replaced by murals created by trained artists, more and more people are accepting it," explains Tongas. "Both Alexandros Vasmoulakis and INO studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts."
All this creative freedom results in many different styles. "Graffiti hasn't come from a can here in a very long time," says Tongs. In the Metaxourgio neighborhood, he pushes aside some derelict furniture in front of a wall to reveal a picture by Stelios Faitakis. At first glance, it looks like a painting from a Byzantine church, but then we soon recognize contemporary street scenes.
The "calligraffiti" created by the Athens-based graphic design duo Blaqk is also quite unique and inspired by Arabic script. The artists use a paint brush to apply it. "Ten years ago, Europe's street-art capital was Berlin, but today it's Athens," says Tongas as we finish up our little art walk. "The graffiti walks are our most popular tours, right after the Acropolis and food tours," he adds.
So what does the mayor of Athens say about his city getting more and more colorful by the day, I wonder?
Athens should be just as proud of its dynamic present
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Kostas Bakoyannis receives us at the town hall. Dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, he walks toward us with the springing step of a Barack Obama. The 41-year-old is a member of the Nea Dimokratia party and has only been mayor since the end of August 2019. No sooner are we seated at the conference table in his office than he gets to the point. "You have to differentiate between tags and street art," he explains. "Tags, usually just scribbles on house walls, are something we take action against. Street art we support." The art scene in Athens has made huge strides since the financial crisis, he says, and young people in particular feel a strong need to express themselves. "This is something we encourage because in my view, Athens should be just as proud of its dynamic present as it is of its glorious past." But isn't the city infringing on people's freedom of expression by deciding which art is allowed to be created where? "Of course, there's always a risk that a space will lose the oxygen it needs to breathe when art is regulated by the state," the mayor says. "But that's why we're explicitly asking the artists to make their views known. Athens is the birthplace of democracy, after all. Having art in public spaces gives people a chance to reclaim and fall in love with their city all over again. And there are so many wonderful artists here. My job as mayor is to ensure that they are given the attention they deserve."
Bakoyannis doesn't just appreciate the creativity of the Athens' street-art scene, he also stresses the importance to his city of established cultural institutions. Just last October, only a few months ago, Athens' art scene gained a new attraction in the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation's new museum. One of the world's most valuable private collections, which once belonged to a shipping magnate and his wife, is now housed in a four-story neoclassical townhouse in the Pangrati neighborhood. It includes works by all the masters of classic modernism, paintings by Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh finding themselves in the excellent company of sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti and Edgar Degas.
At the ticket counter, a portrait of Elise Goulandris painted by Marc Chagall demonstrates just how influential the museum's patrons were. On the second floor, there's a self-portrait of Cézanne that once sat on Basil Goulandris' writing desk. Goulandris died in 1994, his wife in 2000, leaving the foundation a collection of masterpieces worth an estimated 2.7 billion euros. Among the most famous are van Gogh's painting Olive Picking and Claude Monet's Rouen Cathedral. The wealthy couple invested in contemporary Greek art, too, and the fourth floor is dedicated to painters, such as Tassos Mantzavinos and Maria Filopoulou.
We leave behind Athens' latest treasure trove and head toward the place where the art of tomorrow is taking shape: the Athens School of Fine Arts. The state-run art academy resides in a former cotton mill on the edge of the city that was one of the most important exhibition venues during Dokumenta 2017, which was hosted both in Kassel and in Athens. We want to speak to the school's director, Nikolaos Tranos, who is known to be a big street-art fan. The 62-year-old with the gray-flecked bun receives us in an office filled with abstract sculptures. When we bring up the Goulandris museum, he doesn't hesitate to speak his mind: "I think it's good that masterpieces by the likes of Picasso and van Gogh can now be seen in Athens – but the selection of contemporary Greek art there only represents the taste of the collectors and has nothing to do with reality," says Tranos.
The academy's director describes himself as an archeologist of the present. In an attempt to form a picture of the current aesthetic in Athens, he embarked on a five-year art project that consisted of copying down with a ballpoint pen more than 200 graffiti images from the streets of the city. He thinks very little of the statues of warriors and busts of great thinkers that are still dotted around so many cities today. "They don't reveal anything about what people have to say," he says. "But street art is truth, that's why we have to preserve it." Tranos' conviction that young, up-and-coming artists are good for the city is naturally something he has shared with the new mayor. "Kostas Bakoyannis had only been in office for ten days when we met," says Tranos. "And I said to him: You don't have to fight the street art, it draws tourists to the city. That's also why we talked about a possible collaboration with the School of Fine Arts for more murals in public spaces."
Tranos considers tags to be just as relevant as street art. "I'm mostly interested in sprays that are thrown up quickly, that don't follow a particular concept but spring directly from the soul." He is adamantly averse to making street art too academic or even using it for teaching if it's to stay fresh. And he has naturally forbidden his students to paint the art school building, although walls, corridors, lockers and even the cafeteria are covered with graffiti. Tranos' slow smile when we point this out makes us think that this was exactly his intention all along.
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Discover Greece offers guided tours and tells you where to find the best art, restaurants and bars.
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Their approach, which uses bacterial artificial chromosomes to swap in defective copies of genes, will make possible the rapid development of stem cell lines that can both serve as models for human genetic diseases and as testbeds on which to screen potential treatments. [University of California, San Diego] Study Shows that Delivering Stem Cells Improves Repair of Major Bone Injuries in Rats By delivering stem cells on a polymer scaffold to treat large areas of missing bone, bone formation and mechanical properties were improved compared to treatment with the scaffold alone. [Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta] Growing Blood Vessels: Bioengineered Materials Promote the Growth of Functional Vasculature Using synthetic polymers called hydrogels, researchers have been able to induce significant vasculature growth in areas of damaged tissue. [Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta] Researcher Links Diabetic Complication, Nerve Damage in Bone Marrow A research team led by a Michigan State University professor has discovered a link between diabetes and bone marrow nerve damage that may help treat one of the disease's most common and potentially blindness-causing complications. [Michigan State University, East Lansing] China Surpasses Canada in Stem Cell Advances Scientists in China, many of them trained at North American and European universities, published 1,116 articles on stem cells in international peer-reviewed journals in 2008, up from just 37 papers in 2000, says a team at the University of Toronto documenting China's aggressive bid to become a major player in regenerative medicine. MethoCult® The most published medium for hematopoietic CFC assays by STEMCELL Technologies TEST YOUR COLONY IDENTIFICATION SKILLS CURRENT PUBLICATIONS Wnt11 Enhances Mesenchymal Stem Cells Mediated Angiogenesis via Paracrine Signaling The mechanism of cardioprotection of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) transfected with Wnt11 remains unknown. Here, researchers hypothesize that Wnt11 may enhance MSC mediated angiogenesis via the paracrine effects. [Circulation] Preadipocyte Factor-1 Is Associated with Marrow Adiposity and Bone Mineral Density in Women with Anorexia Nervosa Despite having low visceral and subcutaneous fat depots, women with anorexia nervosa (AN) have elevated marrow fat mass, which is inversely associated with bone mineral density. Adipocytes and osteoblasts differentiate from a common progenitor cell, the human mesenchymal stem cell. Therefore, understanding factors that regulate this differentiation process may provide insight into bone loss in AN. [J Clin Endocrinol Metab] Hepatocyte Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Human Adipose Tissue In Vitro Promotes Hepatic Integration In Vivo The hepatic integration of human adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells in vivo with or without prior differentiation to hepatocyte-like cells in vitro was investigated. [Gut] TNF-(Alpha) Modulates the Migratory Response of Mesenchymal Stem Cells to TRAIL Researchers found that in vitro exposure to tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-(alpha) enhanced the migration of mesenchymal stem cells in response to TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) and significantly increased the release of osteoprotegerin (OCG) by endothelial cells. On the contrary, OPG dose-dependently neutralized the in vitro pro-migratory activity of TRAIL. 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Buck Institute Commits to $41 Million Stem Cell Research Building in Novato The Buck Institute for Age Research will build a $41 million building in which to conduct stem cell research at its Novato headquarters, even if it fails to get a cent of the $15 million in federal stimulus funds for which it has applied. Buck Institute Awarded $1.5 Million for Stem Cell Training Program The Buck Institute for Age Research has been awarded $1,571,229 from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for a research training program in stems cells and aging. Beike Biotechnology, Jiangsu University and Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Receive $1.8 Million for Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell R&D and Clinical Trials The Jiangsu Government's Science and Technology Department has announced a $1.8 million grant – the Jiangsu Technological Achievements Transformational Grant – to support the research and development of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell technologies. 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How might this role work in your firm?
Our Business Development Leadership Manifesto makes the case for professional services firms to embrace the best elements of B2B sales best practice. The single most significant recommendation is to establish the role of Business Development Team Leader.
We thought that it might be useful for you to see what this role looks like as a job description.
What would be the impact of this role in your firm?
Job Description: Business Development Team Leader
Leading and managing the team who achieve our BD and CS results Scope & Responsibilities
- Our success as a firm depends on our ability to win and retain the best clients.
- As our Business Development Team Leader, you will be accountable for achieving results in the pivotal areas of Business Development (BD) and Client Service (CS).
- You will coach and support your colleagues who make up your part-time BD/CS team.
- You will equip and inspire your colleagues to co-create the greatest value with our clients.
- You will ensure that your team records all significant information within our CRM system, enabling real-time reporting of performance against expecations.
- One of your principal responsibilities is to establish and maintain a framework of negotiated expectations with clients throughout the firm with the goal of "No Surprises".
- Planning and negotiating agreement about individual BD and CS targets within a credible overall business development plan for our firm.
- Coaching everybody who owns these targets to develop and implement action plans that make the best use of their time and inspires the confidence that must underpin effectiveness.
- Mentoring team members to improve proposals and client account plans.
- Holding people accountable to achieve these agreed BD and CS results and to learn from experience.
- Maintaining and continually improving our CRM system and processes so that we have the necessary records, reporting and forecasts.
- Reporting performance to our Senior Leadership Team and Heads of Business Lines
- As Business Development Team Leader, you have few direct reports.
- Your success must be achieved by playing an enabling role with your colleagues, who all have a wide range of other priorities.
- Almost everybody who plays a BD and CS role is primarily a fee-earner.
- You will have a continuing challenge to ensure that sufficient time is invested in BD and CS activity.
- Some of the people in your team may occupy the most senior positions in the firm and their expectations about BD and CS roles and activity may need to be challenged.
Working Relationships
- Senior Leadership Team – responsible for delivering agreed BD and CS results
- Marketing – ensuring the best available integration of marketing with BD and CS initiatives
- Business Line Heads – delivering the mix of services agreed with every area of the firm
- IT & Systems – Making the best use of technology to minimise cost and maximise benefits
- HR – Equipping line managers with information that supports performance appraisal
- Finance – accountable for negotiating, agreeing and delivering BD and CS budgets
Experience & Character
- You will have the necessary professional and commercial experience to shape good judgment.
- You will be an excellent coach, balancing encouragement and challenge as required.
- You will be sufficiently secure in yourself to allow team members to enjoy the credit for their success.
KPIs & Performance Reporting
- New Business Wins/Period – Value of new business won during the period (not to be confused with revenue or the value of invoices raised during the period)
- Client Retention & Growth – Achievement of planned retention and growth within existing client relationships
- Forecast Accuracy – Accuracy of new business and client retention forecasts
- Net Promoter Score – We use NPS as a reliable indicator of our success in managing client expectations.
- Dashboards and Board Reports – You will ensure that our CRM system provides reliable information, and you will brief the senior team to underpin effective BD and CS strategy.
- You will not be accountable for achieved profitability which remains the responsibility of Heads of Lines of Business.


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Maguire – There Is Absolutely No Physical Gold For Sale
April 12, 2013
On the heels of a cascade of selling in gold and silver, today whistleblower Andrew Maguire spoke with King World News about the extraordinary intervention which took place in both of these markets. Maguire also told KWN about the staggering amount of physical gold tonnage that Eastern central banks were attempting to buy today alone, in a market that, remarkably, is not seeing any supply. Below is what Maguire had to say in part II of his remarkable and exclusive interview.
Maguire: "It's pure short selling in the paper market, and the focus of all of this all is to reach and target as many long-stops as possible which they have done this afternoon. Then they can obviously cover these paper short sales.
Historically, in order to succeed when the official sellers have come in, they have relied on being able to back up the paper market interventions with real physical supply, albeit, hypothecated or re-hypothecated, borrowed or leased bullion….
The Rest…HERE


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NOTE: These are special 100g skeins (our usual Pearlescent Fingering is 115 g), thus the price adjustment.
YARN - Superwash Merino Wool Silk Pearlescent Fingering - (50:50) Smooth with a gorgeous gleam - A fingering weight version of our popular Pearlescent Worsted Weight!
Sure to be a favorite and loaded with yardage!
MERINO WOOL is ultra soft, creamy to the touch, cloud-like and breathes so you stay comfortable and cozy. We had these spun with a very fine merino wool so it's incredibly soft and wonderful for next-to-skin accessories and garments.
MULBERRY SILK is a dream... it glows and gleams and takes the dye so well, that the colors just pop like crazy. It also contributes to the lovely softness.
~When you combine these two fibers into a single ply yarn like this, you get subtle differences in tone as the wool and silk take the dye slightly differently. The colors truly appear to be iridescent and other-worldly.
•1-ply : For ultra shimmer and glow!
•Fingering Weight: Luxurious, creamy, silky and luscious. Perfect for next-to-skin accessories like cowls, shawls, scarves, hats, fingerless mitts and so much more.
•Superwash Merino Wool - Mulberry Silk blend (50% of each) - hand-wash only for best results. Super soft like buttah, with a shine that just won't quit.
•Yardage: 437 m/ 478 yd
•Weight: Approximately 100 g / 3.5 oz
•Recommended Knitting Needle Size: US 0-7
•Crochet Hook Size: B-G
Note: Each skein is a hand-created, unique work of art and no two skeins will be identical, even within the same dye lot. If working with more than one skein in a project, it is best to alternate skeins every other row. Despite every effort to accurately depict our product colors, actual shades may vary due to differences in monitor settings.
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Again, it was quite crowded out tonight. What is it with February 14th and everybody eating out? I'm wondering if it's some sort of holiday
As we did last year, Bunny and I had a wonderful dinner at Roots Italian Kitchen, only this time, we were able to skip the whole non-Euclidean parking garage for the Biltmore that for some reason lurks here in downtown Boca Raton. Once you know where to look, it's easily skipped.
We walked inside and Yuriy (the owner of the restaurant with an incredible memory) greeted us warmly and thanked us for coming back and dining with his establishment on St. Valentine's Day.
We were shown to our table, which was decorated with rose petals. Every table was decorated with rose petals. It was an interesting touch I had never seen before.
The appetizer was okay.
Okay, who am I kidding? It was an incredible lobster-and-crabcake appetizer that was easily the best part of the entire meal. That's not to say the rest of the meal was bad—it wasn't. The Chicken Bella Risotto (grilled portobellos with chicken in a creamy risotto) was wonderful (we both had it) and dessert was worth the wait (Tiramisu for Bunny, and a brownie á la mode sans mode for me; sadly, the only misstep of the meal was the restaurant running out of vanilla ice cream, but still, that brownie was good).
But that lobster-and-crabcake appetizer … wow!
It was a good thing we parked a few blocks away (to avoid that non-Euclidean garage lurking in downtown Boca Raton)—we could use the walk after a meal like that.


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Summer is just around the corner, which means longer days, summer vacations and hopefully if you are a leader, more reading. I'm a big reader and think that if you are a leader, you should be too.
I often get asked about leadership books that pastors should read. If you haven't read these books, I highly recommend them. Let's just say, these are 10 books every Christian leader should read:
The Next Generation Leader: 5 Essentials for Those Who Will Shape the Future by Andy Stanley
To this day, this is still one of my favorite leadership books and one of the shortest.
Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda by Henry Blackaby
The chapter on decision making in this book is the best I've ever read when it comes to figuring out God's will and how to make wise choices. This was one of the first leadership books I've ever read and has been marked up and written in, more than any other leadership book I have.
Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels
Hybels is one of those leaders that you should read everything he writes on the subject of leadership. It is always insightful and helpful. This book is 30 years of leadership experience put into one book.
The Catalyst Leader: 8 Essentials for Becoming a Change Maker by Brad Lomenick
Lomenick leads the catalyst conferences and this book is a great one for younger leaders as they figure out what is next for them, understanding when to step up and lead and when to follow. Tons of great insights for leaders of all ages and experience, but incredibly helpful for young leaders.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don't by Jim Collins
Like Andy Stanley's book, this is still one of my favorite leadership books. His chapter on level 5 leadership has been life changing for me as I think about how to lead with humility and will to move my church forward and lead in a way that puts the health of Revolution first.
What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
I just read this book and it is one of the best books on productivity. If you believe Christians should be productive, you will find the first 65 pages boring, but once you get to chapter 11 this book rises above every other book on productivity that I have ever read.
Hacking Leadership: The 11 Gaps Every Business Needs to Close and the Secrets to Closing Them Quickly by Mike Myatt
I read this book this year and was blown away by all the insight in this book. If you are a leader, this is a book you need to read and then follow Mike's blog. His writings are incredibly insightful.
People-Pleasing Pastors: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership by Charles Stone
Approval is something that everyone struggles with to one degree or another. Pastors are no strangers to it and can often fall into the trap of making decisions based off of what others think of them. This book helps a leader (and someone who isn't a leader) see how they gravitate towards approval in living their life and how to find freedom from it.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Dan & Chip Heath
If you preach or are a communicator, this is a book you need to read through. I go back to this book on a regular basis to think through how to make my sermons more clear. Incredibly helpful.
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
So many people in our culture struggle with burnout and not managing their time well. This book points out that it is more important to manage your energy than your time. That point was incredibly helpful. It's summer time and you are probably tired, and if that is you, this is a book worth picking up so you can head into the fall with more energy and perform at a higher level.
And a bonus one…
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business by Patrick Lencioni
You should read everything that Lencioni publishes. This book essentially is everything he has ever written all in one book. So, read it. So, so good.
What's your favorite leadership book that every Christian leader should read?