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This paper studies how the sensitivity of consumption to income has changed over time as the degree of financial integration has risen. In standard theory, greater financial integration facilitates international borrowing and lending, helping to reduce the sensitivity of consumption growth to fluctuations in income. ... See More + The paper examines the empirical validity of this prediction using an array of indicators of financial integration for a large sample of advanced and developing countries over the period 1960-2011. Two main results are reported. First, the sensitivity of consumption to income has declined over time as the degree of financial integration has risen. The decline has been more pronounced in advanced economies than in developing ones. Second, the regression analysis indicates that a higher degree of financial integration is associated with a lower sensitivity of consumption to income. This finding is robust to the use of a wide range of empirical specifications, country-specific characteristics, and other controls, such as interest rates and outcome-based measures of financial integration. The paper also discusses other potential sources of the temporal changes in the sensitivity of consumption to income. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7659 APR 29, 2016
Islamaj,Ergys; Kose,Ayhan Disclosed
Using a cross-country data set on e-government systems, this paper analyzes whether e-filing of taxes and e-procurement adoption improves the capacity of governments to raise and spend resources through the lowering of tax compliance costs, improvement of public procurement competitiveness, and reduction of corruption. ... See More + The paper finds that information and communications technology can help improve government capacity, but the impact of e-government varies by type of government activity and is stronger in more developed countries. Implementation of e-filing systems reduces tax compliance costs as measured by the number of tax payments, time required to prepare and pay taxes, likelihood and frequency of firms being visited by a tax official, perception of tax administration as an obstacle, and incidence of bribery. The effects of e-procurement are weaker, with the number of firms securing or attempting to secure a government contract increasing with e-procurement implementation only in countries with higher levels of development and better quality institutions. The paper finds no systematic relationship between e-procurement and bureaucratic corruption. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7657 APR 28, 2016
Kochanova,Anna; Hasnain,Zahid; Larson,Bradley Robert Disclosed
What is the impact of fiscal policy shocks on key macroeconomic variables in Canada? This question triggered renewed interest in the aftermath of the 2008-09 Great Recession. ... See More + Indeed, as in many advanced economies, fiscal policy in Canada following the recession started with an expansionary phase to boost domestic demand. It progressed to an adjustment phase to reduce public debt and ensure long-term fiscal sustainability and sustained growth. This paper analyzes the effects of fiscal policy shocks on the Canadian economy, building on the sign-restrictions-VAR approach. Unlike previous studies, this paper explicitly accounts for spillovers from the U.S., Canada's main trading partner, and for oil price fluctuations. The findings show that the size and sign of the spending and tax revenue multipliers depend on whether the analysis controls for the exogenous factors. The tax-cut multiplier varies between 0.2 and 0.5, while the spending multiplier ranges between 0.2 and 1.1; the spending multiplier tends to be larger than the tax-cut multiplier over the past two decades. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7654 APR 27, 2016
Tsoungui Belinga,Vincent De Paul Disclosed
There is a growing appreciation in economics that people have emotional vulnerabilities, commitments to social norms, and systematic irrationalities, which impact their decision making and choice in the marketplace. ... See More + The flip side of this is that human beings are susceptible to being manipulated by unscrupulous agents who are single-minded about marketing their services and wares. This paper reviews George Akerlof and Robert Shiller's book, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, alongside other writings in the field, and discusses how this research agenda can be taken forward. The paper shows how this new research can shed light on the ubiquity of corruption in so many societies, and proposes ideas for controlling corruption. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7653 APR 27, 2016
Basu,Kaushik Disclosed
The objective of the Helwan South Power Project for Egypt, Arab Republic of is to increase electricity generation capacity and thus help improve reliability and security of electricity supply in the country. ... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: the crop compensation register identified to the committee is then publicly displayed at the bulletin board within the relevant agricultural association office as well as within the drainage directorate office and the village local council office. The displayed information is maintained on display for a period of 30 days and identifies affected farmers, area of land affected and crop compensation amount due to each farmer; after depositing the compensation amount by the expropriating entity with ESA - the concerned local office- lists of all real properties and facilities being identified shall be prepared, their areas, location, description, names of their owners, and holders of property rights therein, their addresses, and the compensation determined by the compensation estimation committee; and owners of the properties and holders of rights therein shall be officially notified with an evacuation request within a period not to exceed 5 months from the date of their notification. See Less -
Resettlement Plan SFG2112 APR 27, 2016
Baringanire,Paul Disclosed
The youth unemployment rate is exceptionally high in developing countries. Because the quality of education is arguably one of the most important determinants of youth's labor force participation, governments worldwide have responded by creating job training and placement services programs. ... See More + Despite the rapid expansion of skill-enhancement employment programs across the world and the long history of training program evaluations, debates about the causal impact of training-based labor market policies on employment outcomes still persist. Using a quasi-experimental approach, this report presents the short-run effects of skills training and employment placement services in Nepal. Launched in 2009, the intervention provided skills training and employment placement services for more than 40,000 Nepalese youth over a three-year period, including a specialized adolescent girls' initiative that reached 4,410 women ages 16 to 24. The report finds that after three years of the program, the Employment Fund intervention positively improved employment outcomes. Participation in the Employment Fund training program generated an increase in non-farm employment of 15 to 16 percentage points for an overall gain of about 50 percent. The program also generated an average monthly earnings gain of about 72 percent. The report finds significantly larger employment impacts for women than for men, but younger women ages 16 to 24 experienced the same improvements as older females. These employment estimates are comparable, although somewhat higher, than other recent experimental interventions in developing countries. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7656 APR 27, 2016
Chakravarty,Shubha; Lundberg,Mattias K. A.; Danchev,Plamen Nikolov; Zenker,Juliane Disclosed
This paper studies the effects of differences in local administrative burdens in Italy in the years 2005–2007 preceding a major reform that sped up firm registration procedures. ... See More + Combining regulatory data from a survey on Italian provinces before the reform (costs and time to start a business) with industry-level entry rates of limited liability firms, it explores the effects of regulatory barriers on the average of the annual entry rates across industries with different natural propensities to enter the market. The estimates of the cross-sectional analysis show that lengthier and, to some extent, more costly procedures reduced entry in sectors with naturally high entry. A one-day delay in registration procedures reduces the entry rate in highly dynamic sectors by more than 1 percent. These results hold when I include measures of local financial development and of efficiency of bankruptcy procedures are included. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7650 APR 26, 2016
Bripi,Francesco Disclosed
How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. ... See More + If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the implied early tariff reductions were substantial, but this number has never been verified. This paper examines the evidence on tariff levels in the late 1940s and early 1950s and finds that the average tariff level going into the first Geneva Round of 1947 was about 22 percent. It also find that tariffs fell by relatively more in the late 1940s and early 1950s for a core group of GATT participants (the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia) than they did for many other important countries, including the set of other (non-core) GATT participants. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7649 APR 26, 2016
Bown,Chad P.; Irwin,Douglas A. Disclosed
Board Summary 105081 APR 26, 2016
Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet ISDSA18059 APR 25, 2016
The development objective of the Himachal Pradesh State Roads Project for India is to reduce transport costs and to improve traffic flows on priority segments of the core road network of Himachal Pradesh. ... See More + The restructuring consists of extending the closing date of the additional loan IBRD 81990 by one year, while closing the main loan International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) 48600 as currently planned, on June 30, 2016. This will take the current closing date from June 30, 2016 to June 30, 2017. This will be the first extension for the Additional Loan. See Less -
Project Paper RES22845 APR 25, 2016
Procurement Plan 105016 APR 22, 2016
Procurement Plan 104941 APR 22, 2016
Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet 105128 APR 21, 2016
Procurement Plan 105011 APR 21, 2016
Procurement Plan 104932 APR 21, 2016
Procurement Plan 104931 APR 21, 2016
This report contains the World Bank Group Boards' calendar for the period of April 2016 to June 2016, specifying the Boards' engagements, such as meetings and briefings. ... See More + See Less -
Board Report 104996 APR 21, 2016
A business plan competition is conducted to test whether survey instruments or panel judges are able to identify the fastest growing firms. Participants submitted six- to eight-page business plans and defended them before a three- or four-judge panel. ... See More + Applicants are surveyed shortly after they applied and one and two years after the competition. Follow-up surveys are used to construct measures of enterprise growth and baseline surveys and panel scores to construct measures of enterprise growth potential. A survey measure of ability correlates strongly with future growth, but the panel scores add to predictive power even after controlling for ability and other survey variables. The survey questions have more power to explain the variance in growth. Participants presenting before the panel were given a chance to win customized management training. Fourteen months after the training, there is no positive effect of the training on growth of the business. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7647 APR 20, 2016
Fafchamps,Marcel; Woodruff,Christopher M. Disclosed
This paper provides an update to Management and the Board on the first year of implementation of the World Bank's new Framework for the Management of Risk in Operations and describes the institutional arrangements and systems introduced to monitor and manage the Framework. ... See More + The Framework was developed in response to the 2012 findings of the Internal Audit Department (IAD), the recommendations of the Risk and Accountability Working Group, and an IAD advisory review of the Bank's earlier approach under the Operational Risk Assessment Framework (ORAF). This update builds on previous briefings on operations risk to the Executive Directors. The new Risk Framework is part of the Bank's broader change initiative to enhance business alignment and process simplification. Under this Framework, risk is defined as it relates to development results. It refers to (a) the risk to achieving intended development outcomes, and (b) the risk of unintended impacts of an operation or country engagement. The Framework, which was designed after a broad consultative process, includes a new risk rating tool and an organizational structure with clearer accountabilities and incentives for proactive risk management. Under the new Risk Framework, the ORAF was replaced with a simpler, more user-friendly tool: the Systematic Operations Risk-Rating Tool (SORT). SORT is envisioned to mainstream and elevate risk management through standardized tools that allow for continuous collection, aggregation, analysis, and reporting of data across the Bank's portfolio. The SORT provides the information needed to help clients adequately manage and, where possible, mitigate operational risks within a broader risk management framework. It is intended to identify those risks on which the Bank needs to focus management attention and resources, within any given operation or at the level of the country, region, global practice or cross-cutting solution area. See Less -
Board Report 105090 APR 20, 2016
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|How does the sensitivity of consumption to income vary over time? international evidence (English) See More +
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|Does e-government improve government capacity ? evidence from tax administration and public procurement (English) See More +
|Policy Research Working Paper
|Effects of fiscal policy shocks in an open economy : evidence from Canada (English) See More +
|Policy Research Working Paper
|Markets and manipulation : time for a paradigm shift ? (English) See More +
|Policy Research Working Paper
|Egypt, Arab Republic of - Helwan South Power Project : resettlement plan : Resettlement policy framework for Dahshour - Atfeeh and Abu Homous – Nubaria gas pipelines (English) See More +
|Resettlement Plan
|The role of training programs for youth employment in Nepal : impact evaluation report on the employment fund (English) See More +
|Policy Research Working Paper
|The role of regulation on entry : evidence from the Italian provinces (English) See More +
|Policy Research Working Paper
|The GATT's starting point : tariff levels circa 1947 (English) See More +
|Policy Research Working Paper
|Maldives - Country partnership framework for FY 2016-2019 : chair summary (English) See More +
|Board Summary
|Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet (Appraisal Stage) - Lushan Earthquake Reconstruction and Risk Reduction Project - P153548 (English) See More +
|Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet
|India - Himachal Pradesh State Roads Project : restructuring (English) See More +
|Project Paper
|Turkey - Land Registry and Cadastre Modernization Project : additional financing : procurement plan (English) See More +
|Procurement Plan
|Serbia - Road Rehabilitation and Safety Project : procurement plan (English) See More +
|Procurement Plan
|Togo - Private Sector Development Support Project (English) See More +
|Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet
|Kyrgyz Republic - Strengthening the Chamber of Accounts of the Kyrgyz Republic Project : procurement plan (English) See More +
|Procurement Plan
|Armenia - Disease Prevention and Control Project : procurement plan (English) See More +
|Procurement Plan
|Armenia - Disease Prevention and Control Project : procurement plan (English) See More +
|Procurement Plan
|World Bank Group Boards' calendar (English) See More +
|Board Report
|Identifying gazelles : expert panels vs. surveys as a means to identify firms with rapid growth potential (English) See More +
|Policy Research Working Paper
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|By Tony Shan
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|December 12, 2012 12:12 AM EST
Once again, we have seen exciting and phenomenal movements in the technology frontier this year, particularly in the fields of SMAC. Looking forward, 2013 is expected to be more accelerated and innovative. I predict that the challenging theme for next year lies in the following areas: Mobile, Analytics, Gamification, Interfacing, Cloud and Social (MAGICS).
For more information, please contact Tony Shan ([email protected]).
- Mobile: Mobile devices will consolidate and converge towards an all-in-one handheld, which also serves as a sensor and remote control to other embedded smart devices and services.
- Analytics: Big Data analysis will advance to drive truly real-time BI on data in any structure from any source, resulting in more semantic and predictive insights to help decision makers and individuals.
- Gamification: Gamifying applications will gain momentum to go mainstream, marching to another level of involvement and inspiration in user experience.
- Interfacing: Better and disruptive ways to interact in H2C, C2C, and H2H via computer tend to emerge, e.g. natural language adaptation, gesture recognition, body sensor.
- Cloud: Commoditization and interoperability will make the cloudy marketplace less crowded, with capability as a service being on-demand and just-in-time.
- Social: Micro networks will thrive towards social dashboards and advanced crowdsourcing via PaaS to add business values and improve operational performance.
CIO, CTO & Developer Resources
For more information, please contact Tony Shan ([email protected]).
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We've watched every speech at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and posted highlights of many of them here on the blog. But we don't want to ignore the equally important stories that have been playing out behind the scenes of the American Conservative Union's annual gathering.
Here are five stories you shouldn't miss from this year's CPAC:
5) So Much For Diversity
Despite everything we hear about how the GOP is really making an effort this time to attract non-white voters, very few CPAC members bothered to show up for the summit's panel on minority-outreach.
Ironically, the panelists repeatedly said that the first step to solving the GOP's demographic problem would be for Republican candidates to show up in communities of color. But it seems conservative activists don't even seem all that interested in attending a panel at the National Harbor hotel.
4) Shaming Poor People
Rep. Paul Ryan showed off the latest version of "compassionate conservatism" when he attacked liberals for providing people "a full stomach and an empty soul." He also suggested that parents who take advantage of programs offering free meals to hungry schoolchildren don't really care about their kids.
"Once I heard someone say what was important to him as a boy was that he didn't want school lunch, he wanted a brown bag because the brown bag that he brought with his lunch in it meant that his mom cared about him," Ryan recalled.
It turns out Ryan's entire story was lifted from a book whose author actually backs the very programs Ryan was criticizing and who also opposed the congressman's budget proposals.
3) Corporate Takeover
It is no surprise that the American Conservative Union advances a pro-corporate agenda, or that the group is being rewarded handsomely for it. Slate's Eli Clifton reports that the ACU takes huge donations "from some of America's biggest and least popular industries: guns, big oil, and cigarettes."
Perhaps more importantly, the ACU promotes the tobacco industry when new regulatory measures are proposed. The ACU publicly defended the interests of the tobacco industry when the FDA proposed imposing restrictions on menthol cigarettes. Responding to a July 2013 invitation for public input from the FDA, the ACU wrote to express its "strong opposition to the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration of a tobacco product standard for menthol in cigarettes." The ACU also used its influence to promote legislation benefiting the oil and gas industries. In addition to contributions from the Anschutz Foundation, funded by oil tycoon Philip Anschutz and the Koch brothers, Chevron contributed $20,000 to the ACU Foundation in 2010. The oil and drilling industry found no shortage of support from the ACU. In December 2011 the ACU wrote to Rep. Jim Jordan, then-chairman of the Republican Study Committee, urging Jordan and all members of the House to support the "Jobs Through Growth Act," which would "reverse the absurd finding of EPA that carbon dioxide is a 'pollutant.' " "The bill would also expedite the construction and operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline," said the ACU letter. The bill gained 59 co-sponsors but died in committee.
Along with the many inevitable jokes about how climate change can't exist because it is cold in the winter, CPAC also hosted industry-backed panels that labeled climate change science "modern witchcraft" and "human racism."
2) Respectable Conservatism?
Is CPAC becoming more mainstream and less crazy?
While many of the Right Wing's most fringe and conspiratorial activists appeared at the CPAC alternative "The Uninvited" — which viewed CPAC as too liberal and infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood — CPAC was nonetheless kicked off by Ted Cruz and featured key speeches from characters such as Donald Trump, Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin.
Discredited right-wing conspiracy theories about Benghazi and the IRS have become fully embraced by even "mainstream" GOP figures and were mentioned frequently throughout the convention. While there may be some extreme right-wing activists who are upset with CPAC, that in no way makes the event more "moderate."
In fact, in what has become almost an annual tradition, while the event shut out groups representing gay and atheist conservatives, it welcomed the sponsorship of an anti-immigrant group led by a white supremacist.
1) Anti-Gay Activism Is Alive And Well
Despite reports that CPAC is becoming more welcoming to gay people and gay rights supporters, anti-gay politicians and rhetoric were still a major factor at the summit. CPAC barred the gay conservative group GOProud from sponsoring or having a booth at the event. The much-touted "compromise" merely allows GOProud members to attend as individuals, which the GOProud founder dubbed an "unconditional surrender."
Staunchly anti-gay organizations such as CitizenLink (the political arm of Focus on the Family) and the Liberty Alliance, however, were top sponsors. Another sponsor, Tradition, Family, and Property, an ultraconservative Catholic youth group, distributed anti-gay fliers that depicted GOProud as a rainbow-colored beaver undermining the conservative movement.
Main stage speakers didn't hold back either.
Oliver North urged the GOP to fight marriage equality with the same tenacity as the fight against slavery. He also suggested that by repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, the Obama administration is treating military service members like "laboratory rats in some radical social experiment."
While conservative talk show host Michael Medved admitted that he supports the right of gay couples to adopt children, he said that conservatives must continue to oppose marriage equality and even denied that same-sex marriage has ever been banned. "There's never been a state in this country that has ever banned gay marriage, that's a liberal lie," he said.
And Dr. Ben Carson, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, won raucous applause for his denunciation of gay "extra rights," specifically the right to marry.
CPAC today invited conservative commentator Ann Coulter to debate "liberal" journalist Mickey Kaus, who ended up holding the same right-wing views on immigration reform as Coulter, and who even praised ultraconservative GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions. The two tried to outdo each other in bashing supporters of immigration reform, but it was hard to top Coulter.
Coulter attacked MSNBC for "celebrating the browning of America." "But if you don't celebrate it you're a racist," she added. "It's going to be people who are not from America who are going to be in theory funding older, white people who are getting to their Social Security and Medicare age. I don't think that can last, at some point they're going to say, 'Screw it.'"
"I used to think everything was about sex, now I realize everything is about immigration," she added later. Coulter praised Mitt Romney for taking the "most aggressive" stance on immigration and called on the GOP to nominate another staunchly anti-immigrant candidate.
Coulter ended with this call to arms: "Amnesty is forever and you got to vote for the Republicans one more time and just make it clear; but if you pass amnesty, that's it, it's over and then we organize the death squads for the people who wrecked America."
UPDATE: During a press conference with Eagle Forum head Phyllis Schlafly, Coulter compared the increasing Latino population to rape:
"My favorite network for humor is MSNBC. They're always sneering, demographics are changing. No this isn't a natural process," Coulter said. "It's like you're being raped and the guy is telling you 'my penis is in you.' No, you're raping me. Demographics are changing by force. There is nothing natural about it."
"I also don't think you can remind people enough Democrats have not been winning people through their dazzling arguments," Coulter said. "They have changed the voters and in the 2012 election, if the country had not changed, by force, on purpose, by people trying to harm this country, i.e. Ted Kennedy, Romney would have won a larger landslide against Obama than Reagan won against Carter in 1980, because he won 4 points more of the white vote. Back in 1980, the country was nearly 90 percent white now."
Ah, Friday night at CPAC. If you weren't joining the "drunken yuck monkeys" whose loutish behavior so incensed Matt Barber, and you weren't attending the white nationalist party whose invitation was shared by the Southern Poverty Law Center, you could catch an advance screening of Persecuted, a movie scheduled for release later this year. Some of us who attended the screening felt pretty persecuted ourselves by being forced to watch the trailer over and over and over again in the half hour before show time. Maybe that was a plan to put us on emotional edge for this "thriller" about religious liberty in America being destroyed by the sinister forces of freedom, equality, and religious pluralism.
Since I'm writing about a movie few people have seen, I will say for the record, SPOILER ALERT.
But first a little context: Bemoaning the dominance of liberals in Hollywood is a familiar theme at right-wing conferences like CPAC and the Values Voter Summit. But conservatives in Hollywood are organizing. And they're working hard to convince studios to produce more films with "pro-family" and religious themes. (Son of God and Noah are examples.) A Friday morning panel on the topic featured actor and former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson; Persecuted producer Daniel Lusko; Gerald Molen, a producer of Dinesh D'Souza's 2016: Obama's America and his upcoming film America; and D'Souza himself. If anyone had qualms about having Dinesh D'Souza being held up as a "values" icon, they kept it to themselves.
But back to Persecuted, which features Thompson, Dean Stockwell, Bruce Davison, and James Remar. The cast includes a couple of well-known Christian performers, comedian Brad Stine and singer Natalie Grant. As in real life, Fox News's Gretchen Carlson plays a journalist.
As a movie, the film is Preposterous. But as an insight into the paranoia and worldview of Religious Right activists, Persecuted is as fascinating as it is disturbing.
The plot revolves around an evil senator who is obsessed with a piece of legislation, "The Faith and Fairness Act." It's never clear exactly what the Act does, but it seems to force all religions to operate under a single umbrella organization, and to allow members of any faith the ability to preach in others' houses of worship. It thus combines the Religious Right's fear that liberals are itching to silence Christian broadcasters by reviving the long-defunct Fairness Doctrine, and their resentment that people view them as intolerant for believing their faith is the only avenue to truth and God.
Standing tall against this plot is evangelist John Luther (John Calvin/John Wesley and Martin Luther?). Luther is sort of a Billy Graham figure who has overcome a past of drug abuse to become a national figure. His ministry, we are told, reaches more people than the evening news. Early in the movie, the evil Senator Harrison tries to bully Luther into backing his legislation at a religious rally; when Luther refuses to compromise his faith for the senator's political gain, Harrison puts in motion an elaborate plot to destroy him. The also-evil president of the United States is in on the scheme: he looks a little bit like Ted Kennedy and sounds more than a little bit like Bill Clinton.
The plan involves murdering a teenage girl and framing Luther as her rapist and murderer. While Luther is on the run, Harrison corrupts the rest of the ministry's leadership with promises of "earmarks" and personalized tax breaks, and they throw the ministry's support behind the senator's new law.
Somehow, Luther, the most hunted man in America, is able to sneak into the launch event for Sumac, the new organization that brings together Jews, Christians, and Muslims and brings to fruition Sen. Harrison's "dream of a tradition of faith as diverse as our skins." If the point about the dangers of diversity and religious pluralism isn't obvious enough, the senator says America is "no longer a Christian nation…it never has been," echoing a statement by President Obama that caused spluttering outrage among right-wing Christian leaders. By the way, in the movie, the whole governmentally-forced-religious-merger thing is justified as a response to the threat of terrorism.
Still with me? Luther has an amazing knack for evading government agents disguised only by sunglasses and a hoodie, and shows a remarkable ability to outrun professional killers even with a bullet in his back. Eventually, with help from his dad (confusingly, and without explanation, a Catholic priest), another young priest, some honorable FBI agents, and Gretchen Carlson, Luther is able to clear his name, but at great price: his father is killed by Secret Service assassins.
The movie doesn't quite wrap things up in a happy-ending bow. There's a climactic scene in which the good FBI agents come to the rescue, and Luther, despite having nearly bled to death, manages to kill the murderous Secret Service agent. Next thing we know, he is making his post-recovery return to his ministry's headquarters, where all the sell-out executives are still in place, telling him how much money has been pouring in along with cards from well-wishers. Luther glares at them, grabs his Bible, and heads to the White House, where the sinister president introduces Luther at a press conference and, as he is headed to the podium, whispers in his ear to say nice things.
The movie ends with Luther clutching the podium and staring into the camera. Will he speak Truth to power? Will he denounce the president and his money-grubbing ministry colleagues? How soon will filming start on the sequel?
Let's review the symbolism in Persecuted. The enemies of religious liberty are those who use the language of fairness and equality and those who say America is not a Christian nation. Religious pluralism is portrayed not as a matter of respecting freedom for every faith tradition, but as a deceptive, coercive tool of government to erase religious difference and put all faiths under the politically correct thumb of government. Other religious leaders are either co-conspirators or complicit sheep. The only non-Christians I remember in the film were those sitting silently on the dais as Sen. Harrison launched his religious takeover project. Oh, and about that growing cohort of religions "nones" in America? Luther's dad tells him at one point that those who believe in nothing must destroy him in order to achieve their goals. And with the exception of some FBI agents, government officials are as soulless and devoid of scruples as the characters on House of Cards.
Luther and his father symbolize the alliance between right-wing evangelicals and conservative Catholics. We aren't told how it is that Luther's father came to be a Catholic priest, but perhaps he was an Episcopalian who left for the Catholic Church when his own denomination became insufficiently conservative on sexuality issues. After Luther finds his father murdered, he spends the rest of the cat-and-mouse drama with his dad's bloody rosary beads wrapped around his hands: a symbol of the shared willingness for martyrdom pledged by conservative evangelical and Catholic signers of the Manhattan Declaration?
It's hard to say what kind of impact Persecuted might find, but any contribution it makes to our civic discourse is likely to be negative. Its backers clearly hope that a marketing campaign targeting conservative Christians will find an audience and help push a trend toward bigger-budget movies with that audience in mind.
Whether or not Persecuted is a box-office success, it is one more story-telling weapon in the arsenal of the right-wing media machine that is dedicated to promoting the ideology that America was meant by God to be a Christian nation, and that the federal government and the forces of pluralism and "political correctness" are agents of tyranny bent on forcing Christians to bend to their will. Sort of like Ben Carson's speech at CPAC.
Last year, Ben Carson grouped gay people with the likes of the pro-pedophilia group NAMBLA and "bestiality supporters" as nefarious forces trying "to change the definition [of marriage]." Carson later apologized for the remarks, but today at CPAC the potential presidential candidate sang a different tune, saying that he will "continue to defy the PC police who have tried in many cases to shut me up."
"I still believe that marriage is between a man and a woman," Carson said to applause, and denied that he ever compared homosexuality to bestiality. "Of course they're not the same thing. Anybody who believes that is a dummy, but anybody who believes somebody who says that somebody said that is a dummy, that's the problem."
"Of course gay people should have the same rights as everyone else," Carson continued. "But they don't get extra rights, they don't get to redefine marriage."
Michele Bachmann denounced immigration reform in her speech at CPAC today, warning that "Wall Street and big business" are "clamoring for amnesty" in order to turn the US into "a country of dependency and the welfare state."
Channeling John McCain, the Minnesota congresswoman told CPAC attendees that government officials shouldn't tackle immigration reform until they "build the danged fence!"
South Dakota state representative Jenna Haggar gave a spectacularly awkward speech to CPAC yesterday, in which she said that President Obama and his "big government progressive policies" are using "handouts and welfare" to make "generations of Americans dependent on the government."
Haggar, who serves alongside her father in the State House, said that unlike Americans today, the people who settled South Dakota and the Midwest never needed government aid (she may want to read about the Homestead Acts).
Obama is changing American values, Haggar added, lamenting that "we live under the imperial president His Highness Barack Hussein Obama, mmm mmm mmm."
Right-wing talk show host Michael Medved told a CPAC panel sponsored by Focus on the Family today that same-sex marriage has never been banned. While debating the issue of marriage equality with Alexander McCobin of Students for Liberty, Medved claimed, "There's never been a state in this country that has ever banned gay marriage, that's a liberal lie."
Medved seemed to be citing the Religious Right talking point that marriage bans aren't discriminatory since a gay person could marry someone of the opposite sex, which is the same arguments once made by opponents of the legalization of interracial marriage.
Billionaire Foster Friess, the conservative mega-donor who propped up Rick Santorum's presidential campaign and suggested that women put aspirin between their knees as a form of contraception, introduced Rick Santorum at CPAC today, where he said that the former Pennsylvania senator was the most persecuted man there: "If any of us in this room has received more persecution than Rick Santorum, I don't know who you are. This guy just knows what he believes, knows his heart and is willing to take the grief that people throw at him."
RWW's Paranoia-Rama takes a look at five of the week's most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right.
This week, here at Right Wing Watch we have been monitoring the Conservative Political Action Conference, the American Conservative Union's annual summit that has been packed with typical right-wing blustering over taxes, Benghazi, Ronald Reagan, not to mention plenty of good old fashioned anti-government conspiracy theories:
5) Wayne LaPierre's American Nightmare
NRA head Wayne LaPierre told CPAC attendees yesterday that "political and media elites" have conspired against gun owners and conservatives in general, working to "punish anyone who disagrees."
"The media's intentional corruption of the truth is an abomination and NRA members will never, and I mean never, submit or surrender to the national media," he said.
Even though crime rates have been falling steadily since the 1990s, LaPierre described his dark vision of an America in which happy and peaceful neighborhoods have been transformed into places of violence and death filled with "knockout-gamers."
4) IRS Just As Bad As Deposed Leader Of Ukraine
Plenty of CPAC speakers have mentioned the crisis in Ukraine as a supposed failure of President Obama, but Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch went as far as comparing the Obama administration to the government of overthrown Ukrainian president and Putin ally Viktor Yanukovych.
Andy Kroll of Mother Jones reports that Fitton told attendees of CPAC's "IRS Targeting Scandal: Protecting the Voice of the People" panel that Obama's IRS, which has been falsely accused of targeting conservative groups, is operating much like how the Yanukovych government violently suppressed anti-government protesters: "People are dying in the streets in Ukraine. People being oppressed by the political regime. That's what the IRS was doing."
3) Trump's Immigration Solutions
Donald Trump seems to think Jimmy Carter is dead, and that the US may die too if Congress passes immigration reform. The real estate mogul told CPAC yesterday that immigration reform would mean that America would no longer exist, as immigrants flood into the country, destroy the GOP and "take your job."
2) Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration of CPAC
Anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney hosted an alternative CPAC event yesterday, prompted in part by worries that the right-wing gathering has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood through Republican activists such as Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan. Gaffney joined other conservatives in denouncing Norquist and Khan as Muslim Brotherhood agents who are advancing "civilization jihad" and undermining America.
Diana West yesterday took to WorldNetDaily to warn CPAC that Norquist and Khan are "a pair of influential men with track records of working with America's enemies – Islamic organizations the U.S. government has linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and larger world of jihad." She claimed that they are allied with those who hope "to destroy the United States and transform what is left into an Islamic-ruled land," and pushed the Muslim Brotherhood "straight into the inner sanctum of the Bush White House."
1) President Obama Is George Wallace
When the Justice Department challenged Louisiana's voucher scheme over evidence that the program would resegregate the state's schools, conservatives were unsurprisingly outraged. At CPAC today, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Religious Right leader Ralph Reed likened President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace.
Dinesh D'Souza came to CPAC today to promote his new movie, "America," and explain how President Obama is implementing an anti-American, anti-capitalist agenda.
D'Souza told the conservative conference that Obama believes "the free market system is based on theft" and seemed to be under the impression that Obama came up with the entire system of taxation: "Think about this, it's almost like here you are at home, you're watching TV, and a bunch of government guys show up at your door and they start taking your furniture and taking your car and you're like, 'What are you doing?' They're like, 'You know your paycheck that you got last month? You didn't earn that, you stole it, it doesn't really belong to you.' This is what, in a sense, we are up against."
Speaking at CPAC, today, Ralph Reed defended Louisiana's constitutionally dubious voucher program -- which the Department of Justice warned was resegregating schools -- by comparing President Obama to notorious segregationist George Wallace.
The Faith and Freedom Coalition head told CPAC today that Obama was harming black children and lifted from the spiritual "Go Down, Moses," to tell Obama: "Let those children go!"
Reed also chastised "left-wing bullies" for defeating Arizona's right-to-discriminate bill and completely misrepresented the Little Sisters of the Poor case.
Reed, who has been embroiled in an ethics scandal over conning Native American casinos, also demanded that Attorney General Eric Holder face impeachment for his pro-marriage equality stance.
In an appearance at CPAC today, Oliver North denounced President Obama for treating military service members like "laboratory rats in some radical social experiment" and "apologizing" for America. North insisted that the US "has nothing ever to apologize for, not once" in its entire history.
Later, North said that the GOP must remain firm in working to ban marriage equality and abortion rights just as abolitionists fought to end slavery, warning that "if we as conservatives cease to be a place where people of faith and those who believe in strong moral values can come, we will cease to be a political force in America."
Mike Huckabee was only given ten minutes to speak at CPAC today, so he wanted to get right into talking about "the things that I know," foremost of which is that God created the United States and if the nation does not repent, it'll deserve to be destroyed just like Sodom and Gomorrah.
"If this nation forgets our God," Huckabee warned, "then God will have every right to forget us."
"There is no other way to explain our history," he continued, "other than by His hand of providence," adding that deep down in our hearts, most Americans know this to be true:
Speaking with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins on Washington Watch yesterday, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) explained that the recently unveiled Pentagon budget "has the effect of killing our young Americans in combat."
He said President Obama is to blame for spending cuts because he probably doesn't want to have a military anyway: "A real liberal in his heart doesn't think you need a military anyway, I know people that would never admit that, but people I have served with here in the United States Senate, that's the crisis we're up against."
A leading climate change denialist, Inhofe also took issue with spending on environmental projects.
"We really need global warming right now; we're setting all kinds of records out in Oklahoma," Inhofe joked, before arguing that federal funds "wasted on the global warming stuff" should have gone towards the military instead.
Perkins responded by arguing that President Obama and other Democrats "despise the military" because they support policies that have allowed gays and lesbians to serve openly.
"If you think back, the president set his sights on the military from the very beginning, pushing the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, which was the beginning of the end of the military," Perkins said.
He then repeated the false claim that end of Don't Ask Don't Tell is responsible for an increase in sexual assaults.
National Journal's Alex Seitz-Wald reported yesterday on the high visibility at CPAC of those who want Ben Carson to run for president. The Draft Ben Carson for President Committee has a booth in the exhibit area and the shuttle bus I rode between the suburban Maryland conference center and downtown D.C. was plastered with a large banner urging Carson to run.
Carson, an African American pediatric neurosurgeon, has had a fervent right-wing following since he used his appearance with President Obama at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast to denounce political correctness and suggest that the Bible supports a flat tax. (He made the same case as CPAC last year.) Carson appeals to anti-government conservatives by calling to phase out government poverty assistance and let churches and other charities deal with the fallout. And he appeals to Religious Right activists by claiming there is a "war on God" in America and by denouncing homosexuality and opposing same-sex marriage. He has claimed that the IRS has targeted his family and associates and says the Obama administration is like the Gestapo and wants to shut down Fox News.
The National Journal quotes committee director Vernon Robinson saying that if Carson can draw just 17 percent of the black vote, "the Roosevelt Democratic coalition is destroyed" and it will be impossible for Democrats to win the White House.
Robinson makes the same case in a direct mail piece I received this week. The mailer itself unfolds into a Ben Carson poster, and includes letters from Robinson and from the group's "national chairman" John Philip Sousa IV. "I am convinced that no 2016 Republican ticket can win without Ben Carson on it," writes Robinson. "Only Ben Carson can get enough black votes to keep the Democrats from winning the White House."
Sousa's letter says Carson is the only candidate who can defeat Hillary Clinton, heal America and unite Americans. "Don't just sit back and let the Republican establishment pick the next GOP nominee!" Sousa urges, taking direct aim at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:
Besides, do you really want a candidate for President who is just another big spending Republican like Christie? And, can you really trust Christie who was pro-abortion before he was pro-life to nominate pro-life judges to the U.S. Supreme Court?
The simple truth is that moderates like McCain and Christie are sure to lose, while conservatives like Ronald Reagan and Ben Carson are sure to win.
Seitz-Wald reports that the committee to draft Carson raised $2.83 million in its first six months of operation.
GOProud, a group for gay conservatives, was bounced from the American Conservative Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference in 2012 when a coalition of social conservatives pulled out in protest of the group's participation. This year the group has been "welcomed" back – not in the sense of having a table or other visible presence, but in the sense of GOProud leaders being allowed to attend, according to some news reports, as guests of the ACU. GOProud co-founder Chris Barron criticized the group's current leaders for touting the conditional return as a victory, saying they were letting themselves be used as "stooges" for anti-gay conservatives.
But even this mild and invisible welcome is too much for Tradition, Family, and Property, the far-right Catholic organization whose members sport bright scarlet capes. Walk by TFP's table and someone will eagerly hand you a flyer explaining "Why GOProud Does Not Belong at CPAC." GOProud is memorably portrayed as a rainbow-colored beaver, gnawing away at the social conservative leg of the conservative movement (the other two legs being fiscal and defense-oriented conservatives).
Why is GOProud a welcomed and official guest at CPAC, when it advocates the legalization of same-sex "marriage," thus undermining the votes and dreams of millions of God-fearing Americans?
How can GOProud consider itself conservative when it directly opposes the work of social conservative activists and contributes to America's moral ruin, through the weakening of the family – the first and fundamental building block of society?
TFP's flyer says it protests against GOProud's efforts to "cast itself as a bone fide member of the conservative movement." TFP believes:
To be true to itself, the conservative movement must battle on all three conservative fronts (defense, fiscal, and social).
That individuals and organizations who subscribe to only one or two of the conservative movement's three legs are still welcome to join the coalition, but should refrain from publicly opposing the rest of the movement's efforts on the leg or legs they disagree on.
TFP says welcoming GOProud into the conservative movement would be like a communist or socialist organization seeking admittance to the conservative movement by claiming to be against abortion. As part of the evidence that TFP marshals to prove that GOProud is not conservative, it notes that the group's website says it encourages "committed stable, relationships between two people, regardless of sexual orientation, that promote healthy families and create value within our society." Mercy!
TFP does have some kind words for the ACU, applauding the decision to deny American Atheists a booth at CPAC. But that didn't prevent American Atheists from distributing a CPAC flyer that says "Christianity's influence on conservatism is pushing away almost 20 million voters – more than enough to swing an election."


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X. World Congress on High Altitude Medicine and Physiology & Mountain Emergency Medicine, held in Bozen/Bolzano
Anyone who spends time at altitude in excess of 2500 metres can have difficulties, sometimes against all expectation, in adapting to these heights. They may subsequently complain either of minor ailments such as headache, dizziness, disturbed sleep, or may experience more serious consequences of altitude sickness, which can be fatal. The first interim findings were presented on 28 May 2014 by the organisers of the congress run by the EURAC Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine in South Tyrol, together with their research colleagues.
Hundreds of millions of people all over the world travel to, work in or live in mountainous regions. The stress caused by high altitudes causes many health problems as their body seems to be incapable of adapting to such conditions. Studies presented at the congress by mountain medicine experts indicate that around 15% of the population living in the South American Andes suffer from chronic altitude sickness with severe effects on their everyday lives.
The Sherpas in Nepal as well as the population of Tibet, on the other hand, are largely resistant to altitude sickness. Genetically they were able to adapt gradually to such conditions over hundreds of generations, and this seems to determine whether people are sensitive to high altitudes or not. "The Tibetans have populated 'The Roof of the World' for many centuries.
They have adapted superbly to such altitudes in terms of their genetic development. The inhabitants of the Andes, on the other hand, have not been able to adapt fully to their present habitat since they have not been settled there long enough." This is the conclusion drawn by Hermann Brugger and Giacomo Strapazzon from the Bozen/Bolzano EURAC Institute for Alpine Emergency Medicine, summarising the research findings presented at the congress.
What has not been fully understood by scientists is which factors are primarily responsible for acute altitude sickness. This serious illness, which can lead to a brain or lung oedema, is the most frequent cause of death amongst mountaineers. On the occasion of the World Congress, the scientists presented new studies, demonstrating for the first time how, with the aid of ultrasound, the risk of altitude sickness can be diagnosed early. The studies showed a direct link between an enlarged optic nerve, measured with ultrasonography techniques, and altitude sickness. The results presented at the congress are based on the so-called "Ortler Study" carried out in 2011 by EURAC medical experts Brugger and Strapazzon in collaboration with the glacier scientists located on the Ortler Mountain.
Compared to other specializations, high altitude and mountain medicine is a fairly recent discipline. At the same time, this particular discipline has to cope with several complicating factors relating to diagnosis and therapy: weather conditions, difficult terrain, psychological problems brought about by the extreme conditions that prevail at high altitudes. hosts the congress.
Nepal, symbolic for high altitude and at the same time for the problems associated with high altitude, is one of the main themes of this congress. The steady increase in mountaineering tourism from the rich western world collides with the poverty of the local population. "The Mount Everest avalanche disaster on 18 April this year showed how important it is that the Nepalese Sherpas and mountain guides are also fully trained in rescue procedures. Many of them have not even mastered the most important techniques of first aid. We are a group of 20 Nepalese doctors and Sherpas and as we were fortunate enough to complete a medical and rescue-related training course in South Tyrol, we are now in a position to pass on this knowledge to others. We intend to set up a locally organised mountain rescue system in Nepal," explains Pranawa Koirala, Nepalese mountain rescuer and doctor, who, two years ago, trained in mountain rescue in South Tyrol.
The X. World Congress on High Altitude Medicine and Physiology & Mountain Emergency Medicine will discuss latest global research findings and new developments in mountain rescue techniques; topics related to mountain emergency medicine will feature on the programme for the first time in the history of the congress.
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This was the first cruise my wife and I went on. Before I review this cruise, let me just say that in our experience on board, there are some people (usually from overseas) who are impossible to please and some of them have written unfair ... Read more
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We recently undertook a 9 night P & O cruise departing from Brisbane visiting the Island of Lifou, Port Vila, Mystery Island and Isle of Pines. Here is my honest assessment of the experience and tips for future travellers. Firstly ... Read more
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This was my Bucket List after 35 years of marriage and raising 6 children, it was my time for being spoilt and have someone look after me. Therefore you can imagine our excitement of finally taking the trip of our dreams with all the high ... Read more
Sailed June 2014
Had a great cruise. We have a 2 and 6 year old. When the 2 year old got tyred and started crying waiting in queues to depart, a staff member came and helped us get out slightly quicker which was very good. We have cruised once before ... Read more
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We were not sure what to expect after reading a few reviews of "Pacific Dawn", however, we were pleasantly surprised overall. Embarkation and dis-embarkation were a breeze. Our balcony cabin no. 10264 was compact but functional with a ... Read more
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My first cruise and certainly wont be the last. Boarding the ship was good got our boarding number and sat down and about 5 minutes later we were give a priority boarding ticket and got on the ship in pretty good time. Got to our cabin ... Read more
This was my first "real" Cruise. My only other experience of onboard life was a rhine river cruise with Avalon Cruises in Germany . My Partner is a previous "Fairstar" Cruiser ... and so our review begins... Occupying a Mini-Suite on deck ... Read more
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We arrived at the port to find what must have been every one of the 2000 passengers waiting to board the ship so embarkation was the longest we have ever waited considering we have done 8 cruises previously. Many aspects of the cruise did ... Read more
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After our first P&O debacle where our room was double booked and the service lacked ...well, service! We were quite hesitant to rebook, but we were assured by P&O that our experience was a once off, and then we haggled between the ... Read more
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We did a B2B the first cruise was 10 days to PNG and the 2nd was 7 days along the QLD coast but due to bad weather we went south overnight Sydney and the Newcastle and Tangalooma. Embarkation was quite drawn out mainly because of staggard ... Read more
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(Honeymooners) My husband and I were supposed to do the great barrier reef discovery cruise but due to cyclone Ita it had to be changed. We disembarked from Brisbane and went to Sydney, Newcastle and Morton Island. For 7 nights I found ... Read more
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we had a $500 budget (plus $75 room credit you have allocated to you) we ended up spending $998. what to allow money for: photos - we purchased 6 all up costs around $200 including SD card and $8 souvenir frame (I love photography and ... Read more
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Cruise card When you go through check in you get given a cruise card. You can set this up with either your credit card, debit card or cash. If you choose credit you get charged 1.5% for whatever you spend on board. I chose debit, which ... Read more
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Have not done a P&O before and won't again. Cabin (verandah) on deck 10 was fine and our cabin attendant was great, really all of the staff were really nice. I know in December we would have but running down the hallways, up and down ... Read more
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Just got back from the Pacific Dawn's first cruise to Papua New Guinea. PNG is a great addition to the cruising agenda, and considering it was a maiden trip, everything ran pretty well, after a false start in Townsville. After getting on ... Read more
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Firstly we has some rough weather, actually very rough, apparently very unusual for this time of the year. We were 3 hours late out of Brisbane, 3 hours late into Noumea, we missed Lifou and port Villa, but made it to Champagne Bay, all ... Read more
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We've been on seven cruises with four different lines and this was disappointing in comparison. Pacific Dawn - 7 nights, Queensland tropical coast. WHAT WE LIKED Staff were obliging, had great English, and were diligent. From the ... Read more
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Lisa Osbourne seeks comfort from friend during lunch outing in wake of miscarriage as husband Jack throws himself into work with DWTS rehearsals
It's been a difficult time for Lisa and Jack Osbourne as they continue to heal from the late-term pregnancy loss they announced on Thursday.
But both are trying as hard as they can to move on by just staying busy, busy, busy!
On Monday Jack was spotted heading into yet another round of rehearsals for Dancing With the Stars - he already clocked in several hours on Friday. And on Tuesday his wife smiled as she again stepped out for lunch with a friend.
Moving on from pain: Jack Osbourne had to train for Dancing With the Stars on Monday while wife Lisa smiled as she met a friend for lunch on Tuesday in Los Angeles
Lisa was dressed cheerfully in a hot pink tank top covered by a sheer white top. Blue skinny jeans and a matching blue scarf worked nicely with pink flip flop sandals and a large Chanel-style grey purse. Round sunglasses made a nice statement.
Jack looked much more casual in grey slacks, matching grey trainers, a light blue T-shirt and a beige baseball cap.
He was spotted carrying a homemade salad with fruit in it.
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the one who told me to do it,' the former star of the hit MTV series
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his health as he suffers from Multiple Sclerosis.
Jack also talked about his sister Kelly who came in third place when she competed on the ninth season of Dancing With the Stars.
'There's a bar that's been set,' he says.
'I at least have to get to third because if not I'll just have to hang my head in shame at the next family gathering.'
He then joked that if he won the mirror ball trophy he would hand it over to Kelly.
Tea and sympathy: Mrs. Osbourne looks stylish in round sunglasses as she finds comfort in a friend's company over lunch
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