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Come up and join us. And joining him for a conversation on stage is Matthew Bishop, the U.S. business editor and New York bureau chief of The Economist. He's written several books, including Philanthrocapitialism, on the global revolution underway in philanthropy. Sir Richard and Matthew, thank you for joining us.
MR. BISHOP: Well, good morning. It's our job to inspire you and set the stage for the rest of the discussions over the next day and a half. And this is an impressively multinational gathering, and I'm delighted the State Department has handed it over to the British to – (laughter) – kick you off on this.
Richard, you – I guess I first became aware of you in Britain when you invested in the Sex Pistols, which was an impact investment of a kind – (laughter) – although I'm not sure it's the sort that we're talking about. But then you started to become, in my mind, a sort epitome of what I now call a "philanthrocapitalist" could be when you launch this brand of condoms in response to the emerging HIV/AIDS crises called Mates and it sort of transformed the whole discussion about how we responded to that particular challenge in Britain.
And then subsequently, you've gone on and done more and more and I think applied your entrepreneurial brain and talents to solving social problems in different ways. And we're going to talk a lot about that. But you've written this new book called Screw Business as Usual. I'd never think of you as ever having done business as usual, but nonetheless what's inspired you to write that book and what's the message of it?
SIR BRANSON: Well, I think I've learned as an entrepreneur that – how to sort of tackle problems in an entrepreneurial way, and I think entrepreneurs should also look at some of – as Hillary Clinton was saying earlier – some of the sort of social problems in the world, not just think of themselves as money-making machines looking after the shareholders' quarter results and so on but actually become a force for good. And I think if every company in the world could rethink their remit somewhat and really get out there – and small companies tackle small local issues, bigger companies tackle national issues, and international companies tackle the global issues – are using their entrepreneurial skills, using the workforce who would dearly love to do more than just say selling Coca-Cola or selling airline tickets or whatever, then I think we could get on top of most of the world's problems, and I think it's very – it'd be very, very good for the companies themselves and for the employees who work for the companies.
MR. BISHOP: I'm interested. Do you think this is being driven a lot by employees of companies that just want to actually work for companies they believe in?
SIR BRANSON: I believe that the employees of a company, if they are really proud of the company and they go out to the pub in the evenings and they can say they work for say Puma, who are really trying to make a big difference in the world rather than another company that doesn't care at all, they will find it that much more enjoyable, that much more satisfying, and I suspect will work that little bit harder, which will actually pay for the cost of whatever the company's doing to get on top of some of these problems.
MR. BISHOP: So what are your favorite examples where your businesses have really done something fundamentally different that's really had an impact in the social sense?
SIR BRANSON: Well, first of all, I think all business is generally helping society in some way, most businesses anyway, the vast majority. So there's no real point in going into business unless you're going to make a real difference in other people's lives. But I then think on top of that you can look at some of the bigger problems of the world and think are – is the social sector, say, dealing with those problems in the best way and can we as business leaders come up with a sort of entrepreneurial different approach to tackling the problem.
So one of the first organizations that we set up a few years ago very much as if we were setting up a business was a wonderful group of people called The Elders, where Nelson Mandela agreed to be the founding Elder, Graca Machel, his wife, the other founding Elder. And they asked 10 other global leaders, President Carter, Kofi Annan, Mary Robinson, Ela Bhatt, Archbishop Tutu, and so on to join with them to go out and try to tackle conflicts in the world. And so when the problems were breaking out in Kenya, Kofi Annan and Archbishop Tutu and Graca Machel went there, and a coalition government got formed, and I think war was averted. And they've been to North Korea, they've been, obviously, to Sudan, to Israel.
And I think on occasions I think having people of that stature ringing you up as a young leader in a country having problems with your – I mean, often it's just like a business conflict. I mean, for instance, Sudan, I think, is very much like a two businesspeople having head to head in North and South Sudan arguing over who gets what percentage of the oil fields. And yet, if there's not – if there's no one for them to turn to, you could end up with the most horrible war again between the two countries.
MR. BISHOP: That's interesting, because I mean in some ways setting up a group like The Elders feels like classic old-style philanthropy in a way. I mean, it's not saying this seems inherently part of the call of business to get involved in sort of funding statesman to go around and sort of situations. Do you feel it is part of something that business ought to be involved in?
SIR BRANSON: Well, I think the – I mean, I – just prior to the invasion of Iraq by America and Britain, I was one of many people who thought this war is a terrible mistake, there must be a business way out of it, there must be some way stopping it. And so as a businessman you sit back and you think how would we find a business solution to this. And the business solution in my mind was to do what you did with Idi Amin where he was persuaded to go and live in Saudi Arabia and that country is now a good democratic example.
So we contacted Nelson Mandela, we contacted Kofi Annan. They both agreed to go and see him. We arranged for him to be – to go and live in Libya. But actually the day they were due to go, war broke out and the bombing started, and so the meeting never took place.
But I think – so I think that there are problems in this world that if you think in an entrepreneurial way how can you address it, I think business leaders have a different – they have financial capacity, they can pick up the phone and get through to people and get things just, and they just – I think if they just spent maybe 10 percent of their time trying to tackle these kinds of problems that some of these problems could get addressed.
MR. BISHOP: Because I mean at the moment the reputation of business leaders may be at an all-time low in some ways following the economic crisis and so forth. And I know you've thought about whether there's scope for business leaders to take a more overt role similar to The Elders.
SIR BRANSON: Yes. I mean, I think that we're in the early stages of doing a similar thing that we did with The Elders but with a group of business leaders, where they can, first of all, look at their own house and see whether the rules of engagement of a business that have been drawn up over the years, i.e. the imperative on profits and quarterly profit – quarterly results and so on are the best or whether they should look at a new approach to business and set – help set new rules.
But also I think a group like The Elders could be very much supported on having a group of business leaders come in and look at some of the conflict issues. Often the conflicts are over oil, land, issues like that, which business leaders might be more capable of analyzing than perhaps Elders but – or at least helping each other.
MR. BISHOP: Now, one of the themes that comes up time and again when we think about impact investing is how do we measure impact and when it is appropriate to try and measure what you're doing and whether it's succeeding or not. And I guess a project like The Elders almost impossible to come up with metrics that would tell you whether that was really making a difference, how much a difference it was making. It's got to be a gut instinct that you feel it's the right thing.
But as you look at moving down into the basics of a business, your 300-odd businesses in the Virgin empire, I mean how do you think about measuring social impact, environmental impact? And do you sense when it works and when it doesn't work?
SIR BRANSON: Yes. I mean, obviously as a pure business it's relatively easy to work out whether you're achieving all the things you set out to achieve. I mean, if you've set up a new airline in America, do people like it, the feedback you get from your customers, and can you afford to pay the bills and so on. The – but I don't think that's that dissimilar to setting up a – I mean, we set up an organization called the Carbon War Room with the aim of trying to get 20 gigatons of carbon out of the earth's atmosphere on an annual basis.
MR. BISHOP: That sounds like a lot. How big is 20 – if you were to put it under simple terms?
SIR BRANSON: Well, it's the equivalent of balancing our books as far as the climate's concerned. So to set that target, then you draw up a list of the 25 different sectors that are putting out say a gigaton each, so the aviation sector, the shipping sector, cities, five gigatons. And you then come up with creative ways of actually working with each of those sectors to try to reduce carbon in a way that doesn't damage those industries and that actually, hopefully, is a sustainable, long-term way of getting carbon under control. And we have Jose Maria Figueres who runs the Carbon War Room and the team there doing a fantastic job, and slowly but surely – I mean, in shipping they've taken the 80,000 ships on the sea, and they've said right – an A ship is a very efficient ship, a J ship is a much less efficient ship, and they've put up internet sites like going to Marks & Spencer's and they've – the big retailers – and let them know which ships they should be using for shipping their produce, and they're just working with the industry trying to work out ways in which they can be a lot more efficient, and they will get an enormous amount of carbon out of that industry.
And with cities, they've gone to financiers, and they've said to financiers, "Look, why aren't you lending to cities?" They've gone to the mayors of the cities, and they've put them – they've managed to work out ways of putting the two together and getting a lot of jobs created, and they're experimenting with a $700 million investment in Miami which will create nearly 30,000 jobs and – to retrofit houses and offices, and –
MR. BISHOP: So you really think, I mean, setting very clear, specific numerical targets and measuring progress is actually profitable?
SIR BRANSON: Yeah, you may not succeed, but at least you've got to set – just like business, you – I mean, we set up these organizations, we find a great chief executive, we find a good chairman, we make sure they're properly funded, and we then leave them to get on and do the job. But we set them targets, and hopefully, for all our sakes, some of – this plus other works that everybody else is doing will get on top of the problem.
MR. BISHOP: This is one of those moments where, when you invite a journalist to ask questions, sometimes the questions aren't always what the host wants to hear, but, I mean, I'm very struck on the –
SIR BRANSON: (Inaudible.)
MR. BISHOP: Yeah. (Laughter.) So I'm going to invite you to be rude to our host here maybe. It strikes me here you're trying to transform the aviation industry. You created a prize of the Clinton Global Initiative a few years ago to come up with a solution to improve aviation fuel. At the moment, there's a huge fight going on between the European Union, which is trying to price the externalities caused by aviation fuel and the State Department, which is trying to stop it. Which side are you on that one? (Laughter.)
SIR BRANSON: Well, look, we – I mean, the traveling public, and obviously, airline owners do not want to be taxed out of business so that they can't travel. And taxes have already now got to a level, particularly out of Great Britain, that they're almost more than the actual ticket price itself. What we as an airline – as – well, and three airlines pledged a few years ago was that all the profits that the Virgin Group take out of the airline industry we would invest in trying to come up with clean fuels. And excitingly, I think – first, those fuels have now been developed.
So you've got a small company run by a Brit in New Zealand called LanzaTech that have come up with this wonderful way of just taking the rubbish that goes up the chimneys into this – into the atmosphere from aluminum plants and steel plants and turning that into aviation fuel. And so the carbon that was going up and polluting is recycled, and they're now building big plants in Shanghai and in India, and Virgin Atlantic hope to be flying on that fuel within the next 18 months to two years.
And then there's wonderful companies in America here who have had big breakthroughs with algae. There's companies that have big breakthroughs with isobutanol. And I met the Secretary Mabus – I'm sorry, not Secretary Mabus, but the head of the Navy when I was last in Washington. And, I mean, he has pledged that at least 50 percent of every ship and every plane in the Navy by 2020 will be running on clean fuels, which is a massive boost to the clean energy industry.
MR. BISHOP: But let me – I mean, the reason I raise this question is that, I mean, we talk a lot about partnerships and the extent to which the private sector can actually solve problems, but it does need the government sometimes to set the right framework. And I guess one of the biggest issues, it seems to me, as we think about climate, is how do we price carbon into the system properly, and I just wonder where you see government -
SIR BRANSON: I think a global carbon tax is screaming – blindingly obvious and should have been introduced 15 years ago, and that would have been completely fair. Every single airline in the world would have been treated in the same way, every single shipping company, every single – and it would have – and then if you had obviously no tax on clean fuels, which are – because they're clean, that would have encouraged that industry to have been up and flourishing in a much greater way than it is today. And I think the debate between the EUC [European Union Commission] and America and China at the moment is that somebody unilaterally got fed up waiting and has just gone ahead and done something. And – but ideally – and as an airline owner, I'm sure I'll get told off when I get home – that the – but there should be a fair global tax with everybody taking a little bit of pain. It's not massive. And if that happened, we would get on top of the problem.
MR. BISHOP: Now, I want to talk more broadly about what role government should be playing in promoting an entrepreneurial culture, because I guess a lot of entrepreneurs that I talk to in the course of my job, I say, "What do you want the government to do?" And the first thing they say is, "Just get the hell out of the way." I mean, as you look at the developing world and the challenges that entrepreneurs face, what are you looking for from a government like the U.S., or, indeed, the local governments in terms of promoting their entrepreneurial development model?
SIR BRANSON: Well, I mean, there's – I'm slightly biased, and I think that the future jobs are going to come from entrepreneurs and the social sector is paid for because of – directly as a result of the successful entrepreneur. So everything that can be done to get new entrepreneurs on their feet, the better. And we've gone to the length of setting up entrepreneurial schools in South Africa and the townships there and in Jamaica, and we're looking at setting one up in Cairo and – just to help young people get on their feet. We've also –
MR. BISHOP: And you find a lot of – I mean, what sort of applications are you getting for it all?
SIR BRANSON: I mean, just – I mean, thousands of applications and, sadly, obviously only so many people can be taken on. But young people, they need mentors, they need – they can benefit enormously from mentors and finding out from other entrepreneurs where they've gone wrong. And by them going to these schools, it can really give them a big leg up. In the UK, we've been trying to encourage the government instead of just doing student grants for – to go to university, to allow students, if they want to set up a business, to take their student grant and start a business instead. And actually, in the last budget, the government agreed to that, and so that's quite an exciting breakthrough as well.
MR. BISHOP: But in terms of – I guess the traditional development model has been very much aid-based, and now we're talking about partnerships with the private sector. What do you think the government should be doing, what should the business sector be doing in terms of the division of labor between those two sides of the coin?
SIR BRANSON: I think that governments – I mean, governments should just as much as they can just get – hand over the running of things to private enterprise, and I'm sure there are some people in this room who disagree with that. But the – but generally speaking, private companies can run things better than governments. And, I mean, if you take space as an example, the – and by the way, as far as Hillary going to space is concerned, the – I had a call just before I came here from the chairman of the Republican Party who has offered her a ticket to space. (Laughter.) And I think it's only – it may be one way, but – (laughter) – so it's all paid for, all sorted. (Laughter.)
But NASA – it was a wonderful organization, but it cost $1.5 billion to put aid every time they sent a spaceship up into space, and the private – the government realized that and handed it over to the private sector. And we will be able to put spaceships into space for just the fraction of that cost and a fraction of the environmental cost as well, and satellites into space for a fraction of the cost, and I think, over the next 50 years, do as extraordinary things as NASA have done in the last 50 years. So in England, the NHS [National Health System], it's a fantastic model. The – and no government would ever change the fundamentals of it. That is that every single person should have free medical service, and it's extremely good. But it could be even better, and the government are taking basically taking little bits of it and saying to the private industry, "Can you save the country money? Can you run it more efficiently?" And then they're parceling out little bits, but with the premise that the patient – it must improve patient care, and it must be more cost-effective. And so I think in most aspects around the world, that can be done.
MR. BISHOP: I mean, in terms of where you see business driving economic development, what's been your experience in Africa? Have you managed to find businesses that actually do work in terms of small and medium enterprise creation, job creation?
SIR BRANSON: Yes. I mean, name dropping for a moment, I had a – I was in a bath in England, and I had a call, and I was told that Nelson Mandela was on the phone. So I moved down and --
MR. BISHOP: He always calls when you're in the bath. (Laughter.)
SIR BRANSON: -- and took the phone, and he was president then, and he said and I've just – one of our biggest companies – the biggest health club chain has gone bust, and these 5,000 people are about to lose their jobs, and would I get on the next plane to South Africa, and said – and he – obviously if he calls, you do. And went down there and we rescued the chain. And now – I mean, we just opened a big health club in Soweto, the – and, I mean, obviously, South Africa's been a tremendous success story largely due to Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Tutu.
And businesses are – Africa is a thriving continent right now. I mean, not every country, because not every country is run in a non-corrupt way, but most countries are absolutely thriving now. And you – Britain and America would be envious of the sort of 5 or 6 percent growth that's going on down there. But there's still places that need help. I mean, obviously, the amount of people with HIV and malaria, TB [Tuberculosis], and so on is still enormous. And I think we need to come up with imaginative ways of helping people there.
MR. BISHOP: I mean, it does strike me as extraordinary, and I know the economics to some extent – we're often blamed for having help perpetuate the image of Africa as a sort of basket case because we had to cover the hopeless continent, I guess, about 10 years ago. But the – actually, there is this tremendous entrepreneurship happening, tremendous growth happening in much of the continent.
And I talk to investors here still, and there's this tremendous risk aversion still. I mean, I – people are still reluctant to say let's go and put our money to work on the ground. And I wonder whether you think people are dramatically under – overestimating the extent of the risk in Africa – investing in Africa, and whether – what you would do to encourage investors to put more money to work there?
SIR BRANSON: Well, Chinese and Indians are pouring into Africa, and I think Britain, Europe and America are going to lose out in a big way. And I think the same applies to South America, to an extent. So there are – our own personal experience – I mean, we employ something like 3,000 people in Africa, and our experience has been extremely good. And that's if you deal in countries where there is the rule of law and where corruption is not rife. And fortunately, there are enough examples of that to make it worthwhile for businesses to invest in Africa.
MR. BISHOP: I mean, do you think it is that much harder to spot a good business opportunity in Africa compared to in America or Britain?
SIR BRANSON: No, I don't think so. I mean, I think if you – there are – you talked about – I don't know – bad – I mean, we've been looking so slightly – we've been looking at setting up a center for disease control in Africa to see whether – again, whether that could be run more – diseases could be run more efficiently than they've been run in the past. I mean, bizarrely, you have a center for disease control in America; you have one in Europe, but you don't have one in Africa. And Africa's the place that most diseases exist.
Hillary Clinton talked about bed nets earlier, and bed nets definitely help enormously. But if you have a center for disease control, that can then examine is bed nets the best way or is painting the sides of buildings with DDT or a similar substance a safe and better way? And then what can – what's the most economical approach?
And so I think – I don't think Africa's any different from anywhere else in the world. I think you just got to look at each – look at where the problems exist and then see, as an entrepreneur, whether you can come in and address those problems in a better way than they've been addressed by other people.
MR. BISHOP: I think as I look at this whole – the burgeoning movement of impact investing, there's – it seems like people – a lot of people are interested. They feel that there is a genuine – an opportunity to do well and do good, as Secretary of State Clinton said, at the same time.
But I'm sort of very struck, and the reason – is the reason I brought up this risk question, that it seems to me that people are wanting to have the doing well by doing good without really taking on a lot of risk, and I wonder if that's going to mean that it has a lot less impact and a lot slower taking off than it ought to be. And I wonder what you would do to sort of – is there anything we can do to kind of get investors to take it – to take a bit more courage and to jump in and really invest in some of the more unusual opportunities? I think you're someone who's always seen the unusual opportunities. And have you found a way of getting investors on board and --
SIR BRANSON: Well, I think – I mean, I think if something is particularly risky – I mean, like – okay, clean energy – quite a lot of people have fallen flat on their face with clean energy. Then on situations like that, government need to, say, take taxes away from the dirty industry and help kickstart the clean energy industry by not taxing that or giving them some sort of tax breaks. And – so it's up to governments to sort of set the ground rules in order to get people to go into the slightly more risky industries.
One thing that we've been trying to encourage the big foundations to do is actually to use their money – rather than just giving it away as charitable money, to use their money as the initial risk capital for big projects. So if you're talking about trying to sort of green a city, maybe let the Rockefeller Foundation put up this sort of – the 10 percent riskiest proportion of the money. Now they may not get that money back, but if they had just given it away, they wouldn't have got it back anyway. But they may well get it back, where they'll be able to then roll it on and do the same again. But if you can get that 10 percent risk element covered, you could then find banks and other people to come up with the 90 percent.
MR. BISHOP: See, I was talking to the Immedia [ph] Network recently and they were saying that they've calculated that it's 1/50th of one percent of all foundation endowment money goes towards anything other than a grant. And there's this sort of extraordinary lack of creativity from the foundation sector in terms of trying to do that kind of more –
SIR BRANSON: Yeah.
MR. BISHOP: -- sort of intelligent risk-taking. And I – it does seem like there's a huge opportunity to change that.
SIR BRANSON: Yeah. Well, I think – I mean, I've talked to one or two big foundations. We may be – we might go and do a road show to foundations to try to encourage them to go down that path because I think the leverage – so a hundred million could be leveraged up to – for every – what, for every 10 million, it could be leveraged up to a hundred million and many times what it's worth. And they might get that original investment back, and so it could just roll – it can roll on.
MR. BISHOP: In terms of the big businesses that you see out there, I mean, you've obviously – you've got a private company structure, which kind of gives you, I guess, more freedom in a way to do things without having to consult shareholders all the time. Are you – do you think there's a – there are real limits for public companies in terms of how far they can go down this kind of agenda? Or is that one of those things that people just use as an excuse to avoid thinking too hard about it?
SIR BRANSON: I don't – I actually don't think there is anything in the public company rules that stops them from being far more – far braver than they currently are. Having said that, we think it makes sense to sort of look at those rules and see whether one – we can improve the rules to make it much clearer that – what a chairman of a public company should have obligations to do, rather than not to do.
But I think in this day and age, the city should realize that it is in the interests of these big public companies to have a – that's a 200,000 workforce feeling wonderful about what their company's doing. I mean, Coca-Cola, who is a – we're a very small rival of theirs, but I will praise the fact that they've got a chief executive who seems to be getting out there and what – trying to make a real difference in the world. And they have an enormous part in so many countries in the world to make a difference, and fantastic to see a company like that. PUMA in – with Jochen Zeitz, I mean, he just decided – it's a big public company, but let's go and make a real difference in the world. And he's done some fantastic, fantastic things. So with the right leaders, it can – they can – it can work.
MR. BISHOP: And you hear this is more than just a fig leaf for those companies. I mean, this is something that's fundamentally changed –
SIR BRANSON: Yeah, I think it – I mean, I think if it's a fig leaf, your employees will see through it and you're not going to get the respect of the people who work for you. If you don't get the respect of the people who work for you, the public will see through it. So I think you've got to make a real, genuine difference, and then I think your brand – your brand is all you've got. I mean, they – so if you're making a real difference in the world, then your brand will be enhanced, and then you may well sell more products as a result, and – so be proud of the difference you're making, and if it enhances the brand, that's great.
MR. BISHOP: One of the areas that you work with is cities, and there's a lot of discussion at the moment as to whether – as we become more and more frustrated with national governments and some of their dysfunctionality, whether actually the most effective unit of government to really drive change is going to be the city. And – we'll just talk a bit about some of the projects where you're partnering with cities to make some change.
SIR BRANSON: Yeah. I mean, I've sort of touched on – but this – I mean, what we did was we asked the financial world why they weren't lending to cities and the mayors, and they said it was security on the loan. And so we then went to the mayors of the cities and said, "Look, why can't you give – why can't you just add the loan onto the taxes on the properties so that it's not actually the owners of the house that are obliged to pay; it's the house itself?"
And based on that simple sort of change, we got the first sort of 650 million loaned away in Florida. And I think Fannie Mae are kicking up a little bit of a fuss because they're saying there's a tiny little bit of further security there, and I think that issue's being – hopefully being resolved. But subject to that, that could just be rolled out around the world, and since six gigatons of carbon come from cities, it could make a hell of enormous difference.
And it also would make an enormous difference to the importation of fuels from the Middle East into America and into Europe and other places and all that money pouring out and the home will pay back that loan within about five years. And then they've got insulation and clean energy going forward. So it is a win-win all the way around.
MR. BISHOP: Now, you're often controversial, and one area in which you're particularly controversial at the moment is your view of the war on drugs. And in particular, I guess – I was in Mexico last week at the World Economic Forum and there was a very interesting panel where a number of Mexican business leaders were saying this war on drugs ought to – it's just completely counterproductive and is hurting economic development in Mexico and hurting the development of that country. Now is – that's your view, I think, as well, isn't it? And how do you see that campaign going? I know there are a lot of other business leaders that are trying to change policy in this area.
SIR BRANSON: Well, I'm a cog in the wheel on the Global Drug Commission, which President Cardoso, who turned Brazil around into the wonderful country that it is today, set up. And on that commission you've got 12 other South American ex-presidents, you've got Kofi Annan who just actually stepped down to do the Syrian thing – Paul Volcker, George Shultz, and basically we've spent the last two years looking at the war on drugs and it was patently obvious to us that the last 50 years every single year has gotten worse; that in America one and a half million people, I think, incarcerated; enormous quantities of black people in prison as a result of just taking drugs. And we examined other countries and we found that the countries that treated drugs as a health problem, not a criminal problem, seemed to be getting on top of the problem.
So if you take Portugal as an example, the last – 10 years ago they had a massive drug problem. They said we will not send anybody to prison ever again for taking drugs, so effectively de-criminalizing all drugs. And if anybody has a drug problem, they can come to a committee, which will have a psychiatrist; it'll have health workers and so on. Those committees – the whole drug issue will be moved from the home office to the health department, so – and which it was – and over the last 10 years they managed to reduce the annual rate of people getting HIV from dirty needles by at least 50 percent, because people don't have to go in the street to get their dirty needles, they don't have to go on the street to get their fix. There's places they can go where the government will provide them with methadone or whatever substitute is there needed. And then when they go to those places, when they're ready to – when they need – ready to go to a clinic to get off, the government will pay for that, which costs a third of what it costs to send somebody to prison, and they have a much greater chance of actually then becoming clean again.
And the amount of young people taking drugs has dropped and there's been no explosion in drug-taking in Portugal or anything like that. So I mean it's been, I think, a success in almost every single department. And the country has saved millions and millions on the cost of sending people – incarcerating people in prison. All those people who go to prison, their lives are ruined. I mean, the amount of Americans now in prison is just many, many times more than anywhere else in the world as a percentage of the population, far worse than China. I mean it's terrifying to think what happens here in America as far as the locking up of young – particularly young black people.
And so what the commission basically says is please experiment with new approaches. Whatever happens, stop the war on drugs, decriminalize – sorry – stop the war on people who are taking drugs, decriminalize drug use, help people who have drug problems, by all means go after the drug – the drug barons. But actually, if you do what Portugal have done, you will have pulled the carpet from under the drug barons anyway.
MR. BISHOP: And do you – I mean, do you think this is a sort of impact economy issue? I mean, if we don't solve this problem, can many of these development problems will not be solved?
SIR BRANSON: Three hundred billion a year goes into the underworld just for drugs being illegal and the way we treat drugs. If you then add, say, prostitution which, if you analyze prostitution, is actually a very similar situation to drug taking. I mean, women are left at the mercy of their pimps, they're not registered because it's illegal, they're not checked for medical purposes because it's illegal, and in countries where they've actually legalized it and the prostitutes are registered, they don't have the big sort of health problems they have in other countries. Women don't get badly treated as they do in other countries.
Anyway, if you just take those two things alone, you're talking about something like 400 billion extra that could be spent on education. It could be spent on health. It could be spent on health messaging, telling people how dangerous the taking of drugs is – I mean, warding people off about going to prostitutes. And it's so – it's just so similar to Prohibition in America. When Prohibition existed you had Al Capone, you had the underworld, America was a mess. And then once you got rid of Prohibition and taxed alcohol and taxed cigarettes and warned people of the dangers of it – cigarette consumption started to drop and, okay, alcohol consumption I'm not sure has – (laughter) – but we're all guilty of that, anyway. At least we're not locked up.
MR. BISHOP: Well, I suspect this conversation has ranged somewhat further than what may people thought they were going to hear about when they heard about impact economies this morning, but I think it does – it highlights the complexity of the – of the – of many of the issues and how many things that maybe seem on the fringe actually come back.
SIR BRANSON: The drug wars are – I mean, they've moved into Africa recently in a massive way. And they're putting governments in danger. And as a businessman, if you've got a failed business that – it has failed, not just one year, but for 40 or 50 years, you do something about it. You change you approach. And that's what the Global Drug Commission is saying is: Do not carry on with the current approach.
And I know a lot of politicians think that this is an incredibly unpopular subject. We all know what's right; we all know that we ought to do something to change this, but we'll never get reelected if we go along that line. But we've done a lot of surveys, and the war on drugs has failed. Google+, there, they recently – 90 percent said it had. Should you decriminalize drugs rather than sending people to prison? 90 percent of people said yes, you should. So there's a halfway – there's a – okay, legalization of marijuana, maybe 50 percent. So – but it they could just experiment with different approaches, that would be great.
MR. BISHOP: Now our time is almost up, but I guess – I get a sense – I mean, I've always had a sense about you that you're a tremendous optimist. And this is a time when I think around the world, there's a lot of pessimism at the moment. And we've talked about some really difficult, challenging issues ranging from drug – the war on drugs to climate change where – again, I mean, the Rio+20 has the potential of being, rather, a depressing review as we look at where that whole issue has got to.
So I really want to get a sense from you, I think firstly, as to what are you most optimistic about solving of all these big problems over the next 10 years or so? Which do you think we can really – that this new approach could really solve things?
SIR BRANSON: I am an optimist. And actually, if you do look at the world today, over the world 20 years ago, and over the world 20 years before that, and so on – generally speaking, in most areas, we have progressed. The fact that Africa is experiencing 5 percent growth; the fact that India is experiencing nine percent growth; the fact that China's experiencing nine and a half percent growth, which will be pulling, hopefully, hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty.
Obviously, that – and hopefully in time, will let – that will result in population – a population drop, rather than a population explosion as people do get out of poverty. So I think there are big challenges still there. I mean, obviously, there are still conflicts to be tackled, which obviously Hillary Clinton and the team in this building are working hard to try to address. There's health issues, there's global warming issues, and so on. But I think if we can unite the business world with the social world with the political world, and really go after these problems, I think we can get on top of most of them.
MR. BISHOP: And if there's one thing you have to say to governments to say – if you just changed the way you operated in this way, you would find it much easier to form partnerships that really worked well with business, what would that one thing be?
SIR BRANSON: One thing.
MR. BISHOP: Or two things. (Laughter.)
SIR BRANSON: The – I mean, I think the – if you, say, take – I mean, there are a number of things. But I mean, if you, say, take the price of fuel. I mean, they – we – I think it's getting to a level now where there's a danger of it pushing the world into a double dip recession. And OPEC, they sit around every month and they sort out how they can push those prices up. Well, there isn't the equivalent organization in the Western world sitting around thinking, right, how can we make sure that we become self-sufficient in fuel and in energy? How can we make sure it's clean energy whilst we're about it?
Every single department in our government should be focused on that because the world is run – everything runs on energy and fuel. And so we need a counterbalance to OPEC, but we need it for many different reasons: to be self-sufficient in energy, to be – bring the cost of energy down, to make sure it's clean energy. And so anyway, if I have to – I can carry on, but one thing. I'll go for that one.
MR. BISHOP: And if you had to challenge the business community, what will be the business – the challenge to the business community?
SIR BRANSON: I mean, just simply to say to them it's – making money is okay. But actually, putting a little bit of your time into making a real difference in the world, I think when you retire from being a business leader, you will remember what you've done by making a difference in the world rather than last year's bottom-end results. And I think if every business leader worked like that and get out Screw Business as Usual, then the world will be a better place.
MR. BISHOP: And we haven't talked much about how you work with non-profits and things, but is that one thing that you would also see from a non-profit sector that could be changed that would make a much more effective partners for business in solving these problems?
SIR BRANSON: I just think if non-profits and for-profits work closely together – and quite often you've got different skills and I think if more businesses get involved, I don't think the not-for-profit sector should be embarrassed about involving businesses and their local community to come and help them perhaps more than they do at the moment. And so I think the two should overlap more.
MR. BISHOP: Very well. I think we've covered a vast amount of territory, and I hope there's lots of food for thought there. And we will have a day and a half now of discussing what's screwing business as usual might mean.
SIR BRANSON: Thank you.
MR. BISHOP: And also some other areas. So thank you very much. (Applause.)
SIR BRANSON: Thanks a lot.


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Homeschooling Selects Specialization Over Well-roundedness
Regardless of the fact that studies suggest homeschool students who go on to college will outperform their peers and that homeschooling has gained enough mainstream attention that some colleges actively recruit homeschool students, those of us who homeschool still receive criticisms that we are somehow limiting our kids' opportunities.
In the past, those opposed to homeschooling spouted that homeschoolers lacked socialization, but research reveals the opposite–that they are significantly more likely to participate in community service initiatives, join civic, religious or business organizations and be politically involved.
Now, the naysayers' most frequent misconception is that homeschooling parents cannot possibly know every area of study enough to offer a stellar, well-rounded education for their children.
They are 100% right.
Fortunately, many homeschooling families are not as concerned with offering their children a well-rounded education as they are with walking alongside them as they find their place in the world–and by that, I mean helping them recognize their strengths and weaknesses, and honing that knowledge into a future career path.
Isn't that why we educate our children?
Be honest–it isn't purely for the love of knowledge, right? I imagine if we are all brutally honest we will admit that we want the best education for our children so they will eventually leave our home, engaged in a stimulating career that both challenges them and pays their bills.
If that is the case, and eventually we want our kids to make enough money to support themselves, then "specializing" is more important than well-roundedness.
Think about it. Why is there such a heavy push for well-roundedness in the early education through high school years when the first thing high school graduates must do (before even applying for college) is choose a major (area of specialty)?
It hardly makes sense to force students into cookie cutter paths for 12 years, and then when they graduate, tell them to stop thinking like everyone else; now they must define what they want from their lives/careers.
As a homeschooling parent, my own lack of well-roundedness will not negatively affect my kids' futures. How can it when I have the freedom to fine-tune their education for their individual needs, strengths, and areas of interests?
Also, if they need to develop a skill-set their father and I do not have, there are a number of resources available. They can find and work with mentors, which could be family, friends, or even someone they do not yet know, but can approach because of that person's knowledge and experience in their field of interest. There are also more straightforward options available, like dual-credit courses at the local college and university.
A parent's lack of educational omniscience will, in reality, never get in the way of their children's future; only a lack of motivation can do that. For this reason, the argument regarding well-roundedness is hardly an argument at all, and why I feel strongly that most parents or guardians can successfully homeschool.
Well-roundedness is unfounded because the logical result is a person who knows a little bit of everything, which means they don't know a lot about anything. Personally, I do not want a well-rounded brain surgeon, and I could care less if my mechanic knows the major themes of Shakespeare's MacBeth. And what do you bet, if asked, the parents of brain surgeons and mechanics saw the early interest or propensity that lead up to their child's current career? Both are valid careers, but neither require a well-rounded education; what they require is focus, commitment, and dedication to their specialty.
For those who feel that homeschooling compromises a child's opportunities, think again. Parents and guardians are in a prime position for leading their students towards a profitable career because they KNOW the children in their care the best, have their best interest at heart, and this is true whether they are doctors and lawyers or truck-drivers.
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Cait Dec 03 at 11:19 am Reply
I have to say that as a teacher I disagree, exposure to many different career paths and potential areas of study is absolutely necessary for children. Yes they can (and should!) find their own paths, and no schools one size fits all method is not perfect BUT without exposure to different curriculum and different methods of thinking, I think they are less likely to reach their potential.
For example, take my godmother. She is a nephrologist, an award winning one that actually helped to invent the procedure that allows diabetics to undergo kidney transplants safely (though I understand NONE of the science) but when I ask her what contributed more to her education then anything else, she talks about being a biology major at a small liberal arts college that allowed her to think about her own dreams in different ways. She credits being forced to take classes in MANY fields for her ability to think of medical problems in medical terms, but instead is able to use ALL of her education to think about problems from multiple different perspectives.
Now that probably sounds weird, after all what do Shakespeare and Hitler have to do with kidneys? But what people miss, what even students and teachers miss, is that we are not teaching Shakespeare, we are teaching how to think like a an author, think like a historian, think like a biologist and so on and so forth. Those professions require different dissection of terms, of reading, of raw materials in order to be successful and THAT should be the goal of any education, home school or not.
Holly Dec 03 at 12:59 pm Reply
Yes! Exactly, Cait.
Even when selecting a "major", you still have general education courses you must complete for your BA or BS. Science majors still need to know how to write and communicate effectively – for grant funding, publications, etc. Not to mention, everyone needs to be aware of our shared history in this world.
Kate Dec 03 at 4:08 pm Reply
As someone who works with college freshmen, both those who come from traditional K-12 systems and those from homeschooling backgrounds, I'd say that both groups have gaps in their knowledge and interests. Just because a "well-rounded" curriculum is offered, doesn't mean the student is actually learning any of it.
And while I hesitate to make any generalizations, because I can always think of individuals who are exceptions, two of the bigger differences I see in the two student populations are curiosity and problem solving. Homeschoolers seem to be better at coming up with questions and then working with instructors and support networks to find answers to those questions. Students from the public schools tend to have to be reminded how to be curious… from what I can tell, it's not something that's rewarded in many schools.
So really? I don't care how the student got to college or what their level of preparation might be. If the student is curious and willing to work, they will be successful, not only in the rather unique environment of an educational institution, but later in life as well. As parents, we can encourage that no matter what format of K-12 education we choose.
Debbie Dec 19 at 5:46 pm Reply
This is, by far, one of the most sensible articles ever written about homeschooling! I've never understood the whole "well-rounded" thing!
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New International Version
The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.
New Living Translation
Elders who do their work well should be respected and paid well, especially those who work hard at both preaching and teaching.
English Standard Version
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
Berean Study Bible
Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.
Berean Literal Bible
Let the elders ruling well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those laboring in the word and the teaching.
New American Standard Bible
The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.
King James Bible
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The elders who are good leaders should be considered worthy of an ample honorarium, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.
International Standard Version
Elders who handle their duties well should be considered worthy of double compensation, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.
NET Bible
Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Those Elders who lead well deserve double honor, especially those who toil in the word and in teaching.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
Give double honor to spiritual leaders who handle their duties well. This is especially true if they work hard at teaching the word [of God].
New American Standard 1977
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.
Jubilee Bible 2000
Let the elders that govern well be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in the word and doctrine.
King James 2000 Bible
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.
American King James Version
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.
American Standard Version
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the priests that rule well, be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine:
Darby Bible Translation
Let the elders who take the lead [among the saints] well be esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in word and teaching;
English Revised Version
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in the word and in teaching.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let the elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.
Weymouth New Testament
Let the Elders who perform their duties wisely and well be held worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in preaching and teaching.
World English Bible
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
Young's Literal Translation
The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,
Parallel CommentariesMatthew Henry's Concise Commentary
5:17-25 Care must be taken that ministers are maintained. And those who are laborious in this work are worthy of double honour and esteem. It is their just due, as much as the reward of the labourer. The apostle charges Timothy solemnly to guard against partiality. We have great need to watch at all times, that we do not partake of other men's sins. Keep thyself pure, not only from doing the like thyself, but from countenancing it, or any way helping to it in others. The apostle also charges Timothy to take care of his health. As we are not to make our bodies masters, so neither slaves; but to use them so that they may be most helpful to us in the service of God. There are secret, and there are open sins: some men's sins are open before-hand, and going before unto judgment; some they follow after. God will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make known the counsels of all hearts. Looking forward to the judgment-day, let us all attend to our proper offices, whether in higher or lower stations, studying that the name and doctrine of God may never be blasphemed on our account.
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 17. - Those for they, A.V.; in teaching for doctrine, A.V. The elders (πρεσβυτεροι) here in its technical sense of "presbyters," which in the first age were the ruling body in every Chinch (see Acts 14:23; Acts 20:2, 4, 6, 22), after the analogy of the elders of the Jews. Rule well (at καλῶς προεστῶτες). The presbyters or elders were the chiefs, rulers, or presidents, of the Church (see Romans 12:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:12; and above, 1 Timothy 3:4, 5). It seems that they did not necessarily teach and preach, but those who did so, laboring in the Word and teaching, were especially worthy of honor. Double honor (see note on ver. 3) means simply increased honor, not exactly twice as much as some one else, or with arithmetical exactness. So the word διπλοῦς is used in Matthew 23:15; Revelation 18:6; and by the LXX. in Isaiah 40:2; Jeremiah 16:18; and elsewhere also in classical Greek. And so we say, "twice as good," "twice as much," with the same indefinite meaning. The Word and teaching. The "Word" means generally "the Word of God," as we have "preach the Word," "hear the Word," "the ministry of the Word," "doers of the Word," etc. And although there is no article before λόγῳ here yet, considering the presence of the preposition ἐν, and St. Paul's less careful use of the article in his later Epistles, this absence is not sufficient to counterbalance the weight of those considerations which lead to the conclusion that "laboring in the Word" refers to the Word of God. The alternative rendering of "oral discourse" or "in speaking" seems rather weak. Teaching would mean catechetical instruction and similar explanatory teaching. Labor (οἱ κοπιῶντες); a word very frequently used by St. Paul of spiritual labors (Romans 16:6, 12; 1 Corinthians 15:10; Galatians 4:11; Colossians 1:29, etc.).
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Let the elders that rule well,.... By whom are meant not elders in age; though such ought to be honoured and respected, and to have a proper maintenance either from their children or the church, when reduced, and incapable of helping themselves; but then this is what should be done to all such persons, whereas the elders here are particularly described as good rulers and labourers in the word and doctrine; besides, elders in age are taken notice of before; nor are civil magistrates intended, such as were called the elders of Israel; for though such as discharge their office well are worthy of honour, yet it does not belong to any of them to labour in preaching the doctrine of the Gospel: nor are deacons designed, for they are never called elders in Scripture; nor is their work ruling, but serving of tables; nor does the ministry of the word belong to them as such; nor is any maintenance allowed them from the church on account of their office: nor are lay elders meant, who rule, but teach not; since there are no such officers appointed in the churches of Christ; whose only officers are bishops or elders and deacons: wherefore the qualifications such are only given in a preceding chapter. There are no other that rule in churches, but such who also speak to them the word of God; wherefore by him that rules, and the labourer in word and doctrine, are not meant two distinct orders, but different persons of the same order; some of these ruling well, but do not take so much pains in the ministry of the word; while others of them both rule well and labour in the word, and who are to be reckoned deserving of the honour hereafter mentioned. These are called "elders", because they are commonly chosen out of the senior members of the churches, though not always, Timothy is an exception to this; and because of their senile gravity and prudence, which were necessary in them: and they may be said to "rule", because they are set in the highest place in the church, and over others in the Lord, who are to submit themselves to them, and obey them. Christ's church is a kingdom, he is King of it, and his ministering servants are rulers under him; and who rule "well" when they rule not with force and cruelty, or lord it over God's heritage; but when they govern according to the laws which Christ the King and lawgiver has prescribed; when they explain and enforce those laws, and show them to the people, and see that they are put in execution and when they discharge this part of their work with diligence and prudence. Now let such be
counted worthy of double honour; which some understand of honour in this world, and in the world to come, and which they have; they are honoured now by Christ, though reproached by the world, by being called unto, qualified for, and succeeded in the work of the ministry; and when they have faithfully discharged it, they will be honoured by him hereafter, and be introduced into his joy with commendation, and shine as the stars for ever and ever. But rather this is to be understood both of that outward respect that is to be shown them by words and actions; and of a sufficient maintenance that is to be provided for them; in which sense the word "honour" is used in this chapter before; See Gill on 1 Timothy 5:3, and some think that the comparison is between the widows before mentioned, and these elders; that if poor widows in the church are to be honoured and maintained, then much more the officers of it; these are worthy of more honour, even of double honour, or, a larger and a more honourable main tenant: and indeed this seems to be the meaning of the word "double" when used both in an ill and in a good sense; see Revelation 18:6 and is an allusion to the firstborn among the Jews, who was to have a double portion of his father's goods, Deuteronomy 21:17 and so may here signify, that the ministers of the Gospel ought not to have a short and scanty, but a large and honourable maintenance.
Especially they who labour in the word and doctrine; which lies in a constant reading of the Scriptures, the word of God, and diligently searching into them, and comparing them together, in order to find out the mind and will of God in them; in a daily meditation upon them, and study of them; and in frequent and fervent wrestling with God, or prayer to him, to give an understanding of them; and in endeavouring to find out the sense of difficult passages, which are hard to be understood; and in providing for the different cases and circumstances of hearers, that everyone may have a portion; and in the choice of apt and proper words to express truth in, to the capacities of all: this is labouring in the word in private; besides which there is labouring in doctrine, in public; in preaching the Gospel constantly, boldly, and faithfully; in holding it fast against all opposition, and in defending it by argument, both by word and writing. The phrase seems to be Jewish, a like one is often to be met with in Jewish writings: Rabbenu was sitting ,
""and labouring in the law" before the congregation of the Babylonians at Tzippore (b);''
and again (c),
"R. Jonah gave tithes to R. Acha bar Alia, not because he was a priest, but because he , "laboured in the law";''
and they say (d),
"there is no greater reward for a man in the world, as for him , "who labours in the law";''
hence we read (e) of , "the labour of the law", which they say the mouth is made for, and of labourers in the law (f); and such persons they judged worthy of the greatest respect, and to be preferred to others. For, they say (g),
"if a congregation is obliged to give a salary to a doctor (or ruler of the synagogue), and to a minister of the congregation, and it is not in their power to give to both; if the ruler is a famous man, and great in the law, and expert in doctrine, he is to be preferred, but if not the minister of the congregation is to be preferred.''
(b) Bereshit Rabba, sect. 33. fol. 28. 3.((c) T. Hieros. Masser, Sheni, fol. 56. 2.((d) Zohar in Gen. fol. 60. 4. & pasira. (e) T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 99. 2.((f) Derech Eretz, fol. 17. 4. (g) Jore Des, Tit. 251. sect. 13.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
17. The transition from the widow presbyteresses (1Ti 5:9) to the presbyters here, is natural.
rule well—literally, "preside well," with wisdom, ability, and loving faithfulness, over the flock assigned to them.
be counted worthy of double honour—that is, the honor which is expressed by gifts (1Ti 5:3, 18) and otherwise. If a presbyter as such, in virtue of his office, is already worthy of honor, he who rules well is doubly so [Wiesinger] (1Co 9:14; Ga 6:6; 1Th 5:12). Not literally that a presbyter who rules well should get double the salary of one who does not rule well [Alford], or of a presbyteress widow, or of the deacons [Chrysostom]. "Double" is used for large in general (Re 18:6).
specially they who labour in the word and doctrine—Greek, "teaching"; preaching of the word, and instruction, catechetical or otherwise. This implies that of the ruling presbyters there were two kinds, those who labored in the word and teaching, and those who did not. Lay presbyters, so called merely because of their age, have no place here; for both classes mentioned here alike are ruling presbyters. A college of presbyters is implied as existing in each large congregation. As in 1Ti 3:1-16 their qualifications are spoken of, so here the acknowledgments due to them for their services.
1 Timothy 5:17 Additional Commentaries
Honoring Elders
17The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. 18For the Scripture says, "YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING," and "The laborer is worthy of his wages."…
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Acts 11:30
This they did, sending their gift to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.
Romans 12:8
if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
1 Thessalonians 5:12
Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you.
1 Timothy 4:14
Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you.
1 Timothy 5:19
Do not entertain an accusation against an elder unless it is brought by two or three witnesses.
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50/50 (2011) (***1/2)
A 27-year-old man is out jogging early in the morning. He stops for a traffic light. There are no cars in sight. Another runner races past him and crosses the intersection against the hand. The young man waits. He doesn't drive or smoke or drink. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would get a rare form of spine cancer.
Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, INCEPTION) is this young man. Jonathan Levine's film opens in this seemingly innocuous way, but it says a lot about Adam who doesn't speak about how he feels about having a 50/50 chance of survival. He doesn't really like to be consoled or coddled or even touched… at least by strangers. When asked how he is feeling he usually replies that he is okay.
For a film about a person who internalizes, this dramedy has a great deal of emotion running through it. It's not just about Adam's reaction or lack there of, but the reaction of those around him. His best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen, KNOCKED UP) is freaked out by it at first, but tries to help by using the cancer to get girls and score medical marijuana. His goal is to make everything seem as normal as it can be. Adam's girlfriend Rachael (Bryce Dallas Howard, THE HELP) seems torn. She is selfish with her support. Adam tells her right from the start that he understands if she wants to bail, but she stays… she can't be "that girl." Adam's mom Diane (Anjelica Huston, THE ROYAL TENEBAUMS) wants to mother (or smother) her son. His reaction is to ignore her phone calls.
Adam is sent to meet with a counselor. Katherine (Anna Kendrick, UP IN THE AIR) has only had two patients before him, which doesn't really elicit confidence in him. She is green, but has a good heart. Her approach is warm, but scholarly. Adam and she are feeling each other out. And it doesn't always work. But unlike others in his life she does appear to genuinely care.
Gordon-Levitt gives one of his best performances in a role that demands a great deal of subtlety. He never says what he is feeling, but you still understand it in context. He goes through stages of coping with the reality of having something that could kill him. But he doesn't want to be analyzed like a test subject or babied like a child or used to make others feel better about themselves. Coupled with Kendrick, they make for an interesting dynamic. Their relationship is professional with the sweet hint of something more.
As for the others, Rogen plays his go-to man-boy character. But there are things that he is keeping inside as well. Howard is given a thankless role. Her character is fairly transparent, but she gives her nuance. When she says to Adam that she doesn't want to go into the hospital with him because she doesn't want to mix the negative with the positive energy, we know where this is headed.
Adam has a chance to find laughs in his disease with his chemo buddies Mitch (Matt Frewer, THE STAND) and Alan (Philip Baker Hall, MAGNOLIA). They are just one part of the human comedy that Will Reiser brings to the script. Much humor comes from the awkwardness between the doctor-in-training Katherine and the newly sick Adam. Also a cellphone picture brings the right kind of humorous justice to a terrible moment.
There have been a lot of films about people getting sick, but few have the warmth, humor and insight that this one has. Disease affects more than the sufferer and that is sometimes the toughest part for the sufferer to handle. 50/50 is like if Judd Apatow combined TERMS OF ENDEARMENT with ORDINARY PEOPLE.


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English Major Course Requirements
All English majors fulfill the following requirements over the four years. Most requirements are not for a specific course but for a type or level of course. This allows maximum flexibility as each student, in regular consultation with an English faculty advisor, works out an appropriate sequence of courses.
- One course in world literature or literature focusing on race or gender; any of the following, most appropriately to be taken in the first year:
Irish Literature
Literary Studies in Gender
Asian Literature
Middle Eastern Literature
African American Literature
Russian Literature
- History of English Literature: a British literature survey course, prerequisite for Literary Analysis, to be taken in the first or second year; the prerequisite is any college-level literature course.
- Literary Analysis: a theory and methods class, preparing students for upper-level work, best taken in the second year; a prerequisite for seminars. The prerequisite is History of English Literature.
- Three upper-level English courses (courses numbered 335 or above), to be taken in the second, third, and fourth years. The prerequisite is any college-level literature course.
- Two additional English courses, one of which may be in creative writing; these can be taken at any point in the major.
- Two seminars, to be taken in the junior and senior years. Intensive work on a single author, period, or topic, culminating in a long paper that combines research with original critical analysis and incorporates secondary criticism. The prerequisite is Literary Analysis.


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Her second Bruin team finished with 25 wins, the fourth-most in school history, and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. After a mid-January setback in conference play, the Bruins lost only to NCAA runner-up Stanford (twice) and No. 4-ranked Nebraska, two No. 1 NCAA Tournament seeds, while winning 15 of its last 18 contests. The squad matched the school mark for conference wins in a season with 15, while taking second in the Pac-10. It also set a school record by limiting opponents to 57.5 points per game.
Her 2009 Bruin team completed her inaugural campaign with a 19-12 record and tied for fourth place in the Pac-10 Conference. The 19 wins matched the number for the 10th-best total in school history. The total of 13 home wins tied for the second-most in school annals. In addition, for the first time since the 1986-87 season, the Bruins won as many as nine pre-season, non-conference games.
Caldwell and staff then proceeded to haul in the 14th-ranked recruiting class in the nation, headlined by McDonald's All-American Markel Walker from Philadelphia, PA. The staff added another McDonald's All-American for 2009-10 in transfer Jasmine Dixon.
Caldwell was named head coach of the Bruins on April 17, 2008. She came to UCLA after serving as an assistant on the staff of legendary women's coach Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee for the 2003-08 seasons. She helped the Lady Vols post a 195-24 record during that span, which included five trips to the Final Four and NCAA championships in '07 and '08. Caldwell has been lauded as an excellent floor coach and a consistent star among college recruiters.
In her 14 seasons as a collegiate player and assistant coach, Caldwell's teams compiled an amazing 404-76 record and appeared in the NCAA Tournament each season, while winning three national championships.
In 2008, the Lady Vols captured a second-straight NCAA championship and finished with a record of 36-2. National Player of the Year Candace Parker, the No. 1 selection in the WNBA draft and the '08 WNBA MVP, led a group of five Lady Vols to be drafted into the WNBA on the day following the championship.
Caldwell joined the Tennessee staff for the 2002-03 season and became the recruiting director in the spring of 2003. In the fall of '03, the Tennessee staff signed perhaps the most prolific freshman class in the history of women's collegiate basketball. That class consisted of six 2004 high school All-Americans, including three Players of the Year. In '07, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) named Tennessee as the best recruiting school in the nation. In '08, three of the top 15 current high school seniors in the country (hoopgurlz.com) committed to play for Tennessee in '08-09, and five played in the McDonald's All-American Game.
Prior to her return as a coach at her alma mater, Caldwell served as an assistant at the University of Virginia for three seasons (2000-2002). She was responsible for recruiting, scouting, film exchange, player development, camps and monitoring academic progress of student-athletes. UVA compiled a record of 60-36 in her three seasons in Charlottesville and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in each campaign. She helped to develop standout Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) players Telisha Quarles, at guard, and forward Brandi Teamer, the '02 ACC Rookie of the Year.
A guard during her own playing days (1991-94) when the Lady Vols put together a 118-13 record, Caldwell was known for her tough defense and three-point shooting. She still ranks among the all-time top 10 at Tennessee in three-point field goals made (128) and three-point shots attempted (364). She scored 20 points in her first collegiate game against Stanford and went on to be named to the Southeastern Conference's (SEC) All-Freshman team. In the '91 NCAA title game victory over Virginia, Caldwell's defense was considered a key in UT's overtime win. She received the Gloria Ray Leadership Award in both her junior and senior seasons at Tennessee.
After graduating with a degree in public relations in 1994, Caldwell moved behind the microphone as a color analyst on Tennessee games for Fox Sports Net South. She went on to become the color analyst for the SEC's Game of the Week from 1995-97. Her television exposure opened the door for her to become the hostess of the sports segments for the Knoxville, TX-based cable network show, Shop at Home ('97-98). She then decided to return to her first love, coaching, in 1998, when she became a graduate assistant for administration on the Lady Vols women's basketball staff. During the '98-99 season, Tennessee went 31-3 and captured the SEC regular season and SEC Tournament titles. Caldwell was responsible for assisting the coaching staff in all aspects of basketball operations.
Caldwell has continued to do television work in Los Angeles, joining CBS2/KCAL's Jim Hill as an analyst on Sports Central for the NCAA men's basketball tournament and also on Laker pregame and halftime shows.
Caldwell is a passionate crusader for breast cancer awareness. She and Tennessee assistant coach Holly Warlick have founded the non-profit organization, Champions for a Cause. Since 2007, they have raised over $100,000 through Cruisin' for a Cause, a long-haul motorcycle adventure to raise dollars and awareness for a cure for breast cancer. Caldwell and Warlick chronicled their cross-country rides on their website, www.cruisinforacause.com. In 2010, Caldwell joined the Board of Directors for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund and is currently serving on the Executive Committee as Treasurer.
Caldwell was raised in Oak Ridge, TN by her mother, Jean Caldwell. Caldwell has a younger sister, Simone, brother-in-law, Kirk and niece, Khayla.
What They're Saying:
"We are thrilled to welcome Nikki to the Bruin family. She is bright, articulate and an outstanding coach and recruiter who is a rising star in her profession. Nikki has been a winner as a student-athlete and an assistant coach and is the perfect person to make our program nationally competitive on a regular basis." - UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero
"Nikki embodies everything we were looking for in a head coach. She has worked with some of the best coaches in the history of women's basketball, and we look forward to her establishing her own reputation as a great head coach." -UCLA Senior Associate Athletic Director/Senior Women's Administrator Petrina Long
"Nikki Caldwell is a champion as a player and as a coach. She is a true professional, a go-getter who really knows how to coach. Even Pat Summitt has said she is so much like her and is capable of taking kids to great places in life and on the court. I am very excited about the future of UCLA women's basketball." - UCLA Hall of Fame basketball player and Phoenix Mercury GM Ann Meyers
"Tennessee's loss is going to be UCLA's gain. Nikki Caldwell is truly one of the rising stars in women's college basketball. She is the total package as a teacher, a coach and a recruiter. She is a woman of great character and has a powerful gift of mentoring young women. Nikki has been instrumental in the success of our program as both a player and most recently as an assistant coach for the last six years." - Tennessee Head Coach Pat Summitt
"There couldn't have been a better candidate for the job. Nikki Caldwell represents passion, commitment and intelligence within the game of women's basketball. She is destined to do nothing but good things, and UCLA will truly benefit from her services. I personally have connected with Coach Caldwell as a player underneath her for 4 years, not just within basketball but personally. She has my support and forever will as she helps to reestablish a storied program." - Tennessee All-American and Los Angeles Sparks No. 1 Draft Pick Candace Parker
Nikki Caldwell Year-By-Year Record
|Overall Record
|30-5 (NCAA Champions)
|Tennessee (Player)
|Tennessee (Graduate Assistant)
|Virginia (Assistant)
|33-5 (NCAA Finalist)
|Tennessee (Assistant)
|31-4 (NCAA Finalist)
|30-5 (NCAA Semifinalist)
|34-3 (NCAA Champions)
|236-2 (NCAA Champions)
|UCLA (Head Coach)
|Totals (15 years)
|448-97 (.822)
| Record as Head Coach: 44-21
Record as Asst. Coach: 286-63
Record as Player: 118-13


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Most of us who regularly read history books, I'd wager, have wished mightily at some point that we could actually witness the scenes we're reading about.
I was able recently to listen to history being made — before I was born.
Which isn't quite as compelling, I suppose, as seeing an epochal event happen.
But this experience, though purely auditory, was awfully interesting just the same.
The subject, I'll concede, is unpleasant. But then much of what gets into the history books is like that.
I would argue that the Manson murders of 1969 constitute the second most notorious criminal case in America in the 20th century.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy six years earlier is unchallenged at the top of that dubious list. The slayings of the president's brother, Robert, and of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., both within a two-month span in the spring of 1968, were landmark events, as well; but they also, sadly, have come to be seen, in effect, as the latter acts of the terrible trilogy that started on that late November day in Dallas.
And of course political assassinations are part of the nation's heritage.
(The O.J. Simpson case gets mentioned, too, but I question its staying power; even now, almost 19 years later, it seems to me to have faded considerably.)
The murders committed at the behest of Charles Manson, by contrast, arrived like some exotic and virulent strain of bacteria, all the more frightening because they seemed without precedent and, due to the motive, which was to ignite an Armageddon-like race war, almost beyond comprehension.
And they remain so, more than a generation later.
That Manson, a con man with a lengthy but otherwise unremarkable criminal record, could persuade several people in their early 20s, three of them women, to stab, shoot and bludgeon strangers in their own homes, and then write words on the walls (and in one case, a refrigerator) in the victims' blood, remains, fortunately, a singular chapter.
Dozens of books have been written about the case but the best-seller by a wide margin is "Helter Skelter," the 1974 chronicle co-authored by Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles deputy district attorney who successfully prosecuted Manson and his followers.
I own a paperback copy and have read it several times.
Despite my interest in the case, I don't feel shortchanged because I didn't get to watch the events that Bugliosi and his collaborator, Curt Gentry, wrote about.
By which I mean the actual murders. It would be pretty morbid, it seems to me, to wish you could have watched as helpless people were slaughtered, however clinical your interest might be. The Holocaust fascinates me, too, but I have no desire to watch sooty black smoke belching from the crematoria.
The reason I pine for a time machine is that I'd like to experience what the mood was like immediately after the murders, and during the police investigation and the trials that continued well into 1971.
I'd like to follow the case when it was news rather than history, a matter of daily front-page headlines rather than what it has become — a rare back-section filler documenting the latest rejection of a Manson killer's plea for parole.
And so I was gratified to run across a website which, to the extent such is possible, fulfilled my wish.
The website is www.cielodrive.com (Cielo Drive, in Bel Air, was the location of the first murder spree, when a trio of Manson's acolytes killed actress Sharon Tate and four others just after midnight on Aug. 9, 1969.)
The website's owners have digitized several interviews that detectives, and in a few cases Bugliosi himself, conducted with potential trial witnesses during the investigation.
Most of these interviews are excerpted, or at least referenced, in "Helter Skelter."
Yet the difference between listening to the actual interviews, and reading a filtered and edited version of them, was considerably more profound than I expected.
It's not that there were any great revelations — Bugliosi, as you'd expect from a skilled litigator, didn't skimp on the detail when writing his 676-page book.
But what might seem to be trivialities — the muffled squeak as someone shifted in his chair, the distant hoot of a car's horn on the Los Angeles street outside Bugliosi's office — infused this story, so familiar to me, with an immediacy and a reality that no book, no matter how thorough, can equal.
I understood, in a way I hadn't before, that the prosecutor really sat there, scrawling notes on his yellow legal pads, trying to understand this apparent monster, Manson, long before the grass had grown over the graves of his victims.
The inevitable flaw in almost every history book, of course, is that, unlike a novel, you already know how it's going to turn out.
If the topic is, say, World War II, well, you understand that whatever happens on a particular battlefield, however ascendant the Axis is at a given moment, in the end the Allies win.
But when these interviews in the Manson case were taped, the outcome was uncertain. The trial was months away and neither Bugliosi nor the police knew, beyond any doubt, who had committed the murders and what role, if any, Manson had played in the carnage.
Contemporary news reports make it clear that even when the trial started, the case against Manson and his co-defendants was far from formidable.
To belabor the wartime analogy, these tapes are akin to sitting in on a meeting between Eisenhower and Montgomery during the early spring of 1944, when Omaha Beach was merely a name printed on a map of the Normandy coast.
Jayson Jacoby is editor


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SOOOOOO.. You had kids but you also want a life? SOLUTION:
The Optimization of Parenthood is a robot arm which reacts whenever a baby placed in the bassinet cries or awakes from sleep. The arm will speed up if the baby cries and it can also offer a bottle of milk or a favorite toy.
Broke parents are often pigeonholed into being full time parents, the cost of childcare sucks every penny away so even if they want to continue their creative work, they can't economically swing it. Its often not so much a choice as it is, what we call The Default to Suck. As a result, the parent, and in reality, almost always the mother, loses the very creative practice they spent an entire life building. The result? We end up on medication, angry, depressed and/or bitches who need a shower.
If however, we could eliminate much of the routine, tedious, monotony of parenting while still continuing a creative practice we will have optimized the process of parenting without loses what makes us interesting. Automatic repetitive parenting task can be transferred to devices, without affecting 'the development of the baby' while still letting the parent live up to their fullest breeder and artistic potential.
Already have your robot arm laying around and just need the code to get your life back? Here you go.
This project was developed with support from the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and created at the Digital Fabrication Laboratory, (dFab), CMU School of Architecture with Technical Assistants from Madeline Gannon
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How long do you think this trend will last in diets, before something new comes along? i know technology is getting better and better but i predict that within 2 years something new will come round the corner.
Im not sure what, but it will be on the lines of taking a pill, then you can eat almost whatever you want. What do you think will happen in the next few months/years?