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Neil Humphreys: Why hasn't Mourinho solved Man United's backline woes?
Mourinho has not sorted out United's uncertain backline
Sir Alex Ferguson's defence played against Tottenham Hotspur yesterday morning (Singapore time).
He retired in 2013 and yet here we are.
Three Manchester United managers later, it's the same back four. The defenders of yesteryear are still present, but not correct.
Jose Mourinho has spent over £300 million (S$557m) since taking over, but his backline relies on too many familiar faces, tired faces and gurning faces in the case of Phil Jones.
Spurs needed 11 seconds to smash the gleaming facade, revealing not slick title challengers but the clowning class of Cirque du Soleil.
One Tottenham Hotspur attack highlighted every failing in Mourinho's defence.
Harry Kane out-jumped Jones in the air. Chris Smalling failed to clear. And Ashley Young went AWOL (absent without official leave), which granted Christian Eriksen enough time to shoot down the optimism around United.
Eriksen's goal in a 2-0 win ended United's run of six games without conceding, but those clean sheets came against Yeovil Town, Burnley, Stoke City, Derby County, Everton and Southampton - a bunch of honest toilers, cup minnows and relegation candidates.
United's last trip to north London provided a more accurate barometer. They prevailed 3-1 against Arsenal, but a seething Arsene Wenger could barely contain his frustration.
Arsenal cultivated 16 shots, but faced a jaw-dropping David de Gea, who treated every shot as a chance to perform his "cat dropped from a ledge" routine.
But Wenger knew. He was aware of United's defensive frailties. When they face opponents of note, they tend to adopt a cautious approach, in fear that they will fold.
Even in defeat, Arsenal managed 16 shots at United's goal. Manchester City scored twice and won. Chelsea only scored once and still triumphed.
Even Watford, Burnley, Bristol City and Leicester City have all netted twice against the Red Devils, offering a more accurate indication of United's defensive regression.
Do not be fooled by the stats - joint-best defensive record and the highest number of clean sheets in the EPL - for they are the result of Mourinho's safety-first philosophy rather than actual defensive soundness.
Now the transfer window has closed, United's initial giddiness at signing Alexis Sanchez should give away to a more dispassionate analysis.
The Stretford End may mock the Merseysiders for forking out £75 million for Virgil van Dijk, but a similarly bold investment was needed at Old Trafford.
While Manchester City spent £57 million on Aymeric Laporte - despite having a superior back four to begin with - United bought no one apart from Sanchez.
Even a perfunctory examination of their defensive performance against Spurs raises a number of concerns.
Luke Shaw featured in five of United's last six games and was a redoubtable presence at left back. Mourinho went out of his way to publicly praise Shaw's resurgence.
So, naturally, he dropped him for the first game of real significance against Spurs.
Even for the master of mixed messages, Mourinho's bizarre decision was hard to fathom.
At 32, Young played a ball of wool to Eriksen's restless kitten. He got pushed around for a bit and then brushed aside.
He was almost never used as a fullback by Fergie, and he doesn't look like one now.
And Jones' own goal may look like a rare combination of bad luck and poor timing, but his clumsiness revealed an international defender who doesn't trust his left foot.
Elite clubs rarely win trophies with centre backs who cannot clear routine crosses with their weaker foot.
Smalling, meanwhile, doesn't particularly indulge either foot.
Mourinho and England coach Gareth Southgate arguably have little in common, beyond a firm belief that Smalling isn't comfortable in possession.
In November, Mourinho claimed United couldn't play from the back when Smalling was in the side.
Southgate said much the same when he dropped the defender from the England squad, suggesting that Smalling was unconvincing with the ball at his feet.
He was certainly a liability against Spurs. In fact, he was so jittery and uncertain that Tottenham actively targeted him.
And yet, Smalling endures. Just like Jones.
Eric Bailly will eventually return from injury to settle one position, but the United faithful must be wondering why Mourinho now has a glittering array of attacking superstars and yet continues to rely on a back four that was assembled three managers ago.
With Paul Pogba seemingly incapable of carrying out his defensive duties, Mourinho's decision not to strengthen at the back looks all the more mystifying.
A home fixture against Huddersfield tomorrow shouldn't pose too many problems, but United are off to Sevilla in a few weeks. The European-savvy Spaniards will relish the chance to step back in time and tear into Ferguson's back four.
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I have a partner with whom I regularly play on the first Tuesday of the month. Having learned at the last minute that he was out of state, I showed up solo and learned as well that there was a special game that evening. I was matched up with a fellow flight B player, and with minimal discussion, we sat down, table 7 of 12, sitting East (me)/West (him).
Most of us know that the normal way to run a 12-table game is to play boards 1-24 with a relay and bye-stand, so that there is a full comparison. And of course our director knew that too. But as this was an ACBL-wide game where extreme scores were rewarded, he chose to put out all 36 boards and play three-board rounds. This also had the advantage of cutting a few minutes off the ending time.
The ACBL got Oren Kriegel to write up analyses of all the boards, which are available for reference at http://web2.acbl.org/documentLibrary/play/analysis/JFA.pdf (conveniently saving me the trouble of typing in all 1224 cards). These write-ups tell what would happen with four competent and sane players. It is obvious that Oren has never been to my club. I've written up what actually happened at my table with some comments about results elsewhere. There is an asterisk next to each board where we had the expected result and a plus sign for each of the other tables in the room with the expected result.
One thing you might notice as you're reading are all the singletons. Statistically, 44 of them would be expected over 36 boards; there were actually 54 in this set (about a 6% chance), of which 8 were kings (about .8%), including on the first three boards, making the Rabbi happy.
*+++++Board 1: normal +980, average, though opening leader gave me a fighting chance by leading the ♦9.
++++Board 2: opponents went for 3NT on the misfit. It made, but not as much as ♥. 71%.
Board 3: Our opponents stopped in 4♦. After a spade to the jack, I foolishly continued the suit, costing us two matchpoints. 42%. Interesting results were 3NT-2 and 3♥ making 4.
Board 4-6 NP
Board 7: Kriegel writes that East's 1♠ "should" end the auction, but at our table and a couple others, South rebid 1NT, in all cases making exactly, 57% for us. At one table, North got to declare a notrump and somehow took nine tricks. Not quite a top, as one East went -300 in 2♥.
++Board 8: 1♦ (P) 2♣ (2♥!!) / P P 3♥ X / 4♦ (denying a heart stopper for some reason). Kriegel notes the challenge of making 3NT, but in practice, all four pairs who were there made it. Partner went off two for a bottom.
+Board 9: A normal auction, but our South found a path to nine tricks, a top for us. A couple of Wests made the "sick" heart overcall, leading to -200 or worse.
Board 10-15: NP
+Board 16: We set 1NT for 64% when declarer unnecessarily pitched the fourth spade from dummy. Every table had a different result on this one: 2♣ E -2, 1♥ N 1, 1NT N -1, 1NT N 1, 1NT N 2, 2♦ N -1, 2♥ N -2, and 2NT N -2.
Board 17: For some unknown reason, West overcalled 1NT. We played in 2NT after a transfer and invite and went down too many for a bottom.
++Board 18: At some point in the defense, they didn't want to cash a third club and set up declarer's nine, so switched to hearts giving us ten tricks, a result matched by a couple of other tables for 86%.
++Board 19: Declarer chose not to establish hearts, but I was either squeezed or pseudo-squeezed (I don't recall the exact order of play) into pitching a heart, so he took 11 tricks for an average. It looks as though N-S do best to play in the spade Moysian, not mentioned by Kriegel, nor do I see a sensible way to get there.
Board 20: Our opponents found clubs, but stayed at the five level, giving us 36%; one pair did reach 6♣. The only pair which played 3NT, the contract predicted by Kriegel, made only ten tricks.
*++Board 21: We had the normal result for only 29%, as half the tables were in 3NT (with four different results) and one failed to reach game.
+Board 22: Our opponents were fortunate to stop in 2♥, but lost control and ended up down three, giving us a top. A couple of E-W pairs went for 1100 in spades.
++++Board 23: A normal auction at our table combined with generous opponents gave us +660 and a top.
++Board 24: Four E-W pairs were allowed to play spade partials. At our table, the auction went as Kriegel predicts, but after a spade lead, West switched to a diamond to try to establish a fourth defensive trick, rather than cash his heart winners, one of which went away on the diamonds, giving us a bottom. Kriegel also writes, "However, if South somehow becomes declarer (don't ask us how)…" How about if North doubles to show a single-suited hand (e.g., Brozel) and South bids 2♣ (pass or correct)?
Board 25: Here South walked the dog, "sacrificing" in 4♠ after E-W had a constructive auction to 4♥. With nothing left, we doubled and did not find the double-dummy defense for 7%.
*+++++Board 26:Not much to say here. 36% for the normal result, as some pairs got gifts.
*+Board 27. We were one of two pairs to have the recommended auction (relieved to be on the same page with a new partner). Alas, we got no gifts and only 21%. We would have done much better if eight tricks were the limit of the hand, as several pairs reached 3♥.
So, we played sensibly over three boards and had 22% to show for it.
For boards 28-30, we sat at the table of the club's best players, a three-time NABC champion and a player with an NABC second, who unfortunately forgot to read the part of the zero tolerance brochure about criticizing partner.
+Board 28: North, looking at the best Chinese Poker hand of the evening, upgraded to 1NT. West judged well to step out with a 4♠ call over the Texas transfer and North judged equally well (notwithstanding her partner's subsequent remark) to bid 5♥. We set it easily with two clubs and a spade shift, but West, playing for an impossible layout, declined to cash the second spade, switching instead to a diamond. This produced an interesting position. After cashing the trump ace, declarer played a top diamond, pitching a spade, and continued with a third round. If East discards, declarer can discard the last diamond and claim via the marked finesse. In practice, of course I ruffed; now declarer can draw the last trump, return to hand with a trump, and finally pitch the last spade. Drawing trump first would not have worked, as there is no way back to hand to take the pitch, and there is no way to draw trump ending in hand without the unnecessary risk of a first-round trump hook. Going plus was enough for a 64% board.
+++Board 29: We had Oren's recommended auction. South led a club, which I won with the ace to play a diamond up. South ducked and I crossruffed the minors, drew two rounds of trump, then played a spade up. This time South decided "not through the Iron Duke," compressing the defensive tricks in that suit and leaving me with eleven tricks and a tie for top. North pointed out that once I've shown up with a stiff diamond, I'm very unlikely to also have a stiff spade. And that of course I had a stiff diamond to play it at trick two (I disagree). I replied that I'd be sure to lead away from my queen toward Kxxx the next time she was on my left. Incidentally, the diamond duck doesn't necessarily cost, as if South were to have risen, I could later pitch a spade loser on the king. I *think* that a low spade on opening lead is the only legitimate way to hold declarer to nine tricks, though several tables had that result one way or another.
+Board 30: Oops—I forgot to upgrade, as did most of the Easts, and so played only 2NT. After winning the ♠A at trick one, I attacked hearts. The question of finessing on the third round is difficult. If I had had a clear path to eight tricks by going up, I would have done so, but in the end went with the odds. North naturally pitched two clubs and so I probably should have gone right in the suit, but I finessed again. After the opponents cashed their spades, North exited with a diamond, giving me the king and my contract.
South said that North should have exited with a club, not having counted out that North had none left. Well in that case, North should have allowed South to win the last spade. I commented that cashing the ♣A (as recommended) would have made it less likely that the opponents could have a safe exit after running the spades, in addition to the obvious advantage of a stiff queen. It also puts North under more pressure on the long hearts.
Several declarers made ten or eleven tricks. There are several reasons to guess the clubs right—if North pitches, if you mess up your entries and can't finesse, or if you decide to play safe for seven tricks. I got 43%, the same score as I would have gotten for down one with better defense.
*++++Board 31: A couple of pairs overreached to slam, as expected, and one declarer took only ten tricks, so 71% for the normal result.
*+Board 32: Our opponents bid the sensible 3NT and I guessed well to lead a diamond. 86% for down two.
+++++++Board 33: Our uncontested auction was 1♥ 1NT 3♥ 3NT. I agree with partner's later comment, echoed by Kriegel, that 2♠ would have been better; my thought had been that we were more likely to have an eight-card fit in hearts than in spades, but it is at least as important to determine if NT is playable. However, I don't understand 3NT with a maximum fit for partner and two unstopped suits. Fortunately, North led fourth from his longest and strongest and we got a top.
An undeserved 86% for the round.
Boards 34-36: NP
We had matched Kriegel's results on 25% of the boards; the rest of the room had 31%. Fortunately, we usually did better and ended up with fourth place our way.
Oren, if you're reading this and you'd like to see how the other half lives, drop me a line the next time you're in Boston and maybe we can play at the club. I'd be happy to put up your entry fee.
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This morning I am flying to LA.
I hate flying. Terrified of it. Under normal circumstances, I would be doped up, having pilfered a few Xanax tablets for occasions as these.
Not this time.
I'm not a screamer or anything. I am, however a heart-fluttering-lip-trembler. Ascent and descents are white knuckled terror rides.
But, By the Gods, aren't I lucky! I got an email yesterday alerting me that I am on a Wi-Fi flight.
So, what better way to express my anguish than by live-blogging about it?
I woke up at 3:45am, with a strange hangover. The Kerpatty boys made an impromptu visit last night bearing 40 Ouncers…what on Earth? I don't drink beer very often let alone the "King of Them". That's the risk I run when the whole sketch group I direct lives a block away. They keep me young, I suppose.
After a fitful sleep, I lurch out of bed and bumble around the apartment. No packing was done last night...so I toss whatever I can find in my suitcase. Clothes in the bag, boots, what the hell are we doing out there?…do I need a skirt or – whatever, I'm taking it.
I wash the dishes, take out the garbage and head out. Everything here? I haven't even locked my door and the Magical Thinking begins. Transformers tee-shirt Rebar gave me for my birthday last year (To which I squealed like a child, put on immediately and have not flown without since)? Check. Book borrowed from Notnits, which he will never get back unless he wrests it from my cold dead hands? Check. Human Finger bone. Check.
I treated myself to a cab, down to Midway airport ("The K-Mart of Airports" as Jan calls it. And it's true isn't it?). The driver is a smiling fellow with a Spiderman knit cap. Walking up to the Walgreen's to retrieve some cash I saw him slow down. He called in a dialect, "I'll wait for you." Two or three cabs had slowed down and beeped in my direction, but I denied them. His friendly demeanor won him the fare.
At 5: 15 the streets were nearly deserted. Billy Ocean's "Loverboy" popped on my iPod as we drove past the Chicago Skyline. The view out my window spread out like the opening for a 1980's crime procedural.
The airport wasn't all that hectic. I don't expect it to be anything other than what it is – A barnyard of nervous, enclosed travelers, all astonished at every inconvenience. I spot a group of Navy boys – can't be older than 19 – all looking like they walked right out of 1942.
The nerves start to ramp as I get to the gate, and I am filled with the irresistible urge to consume. I wander the unsatisfying saran-wrapped options, picking up a shining baked good, thinking better of it, putting it down, snatching up another. Finally, I head to the McDonald's and get a Bacon Egg and Cheese biscuit, knowing full well that I will regret it later. (Editor's note: Indeed…I do.)
I am reminded of a performance piece I never followed up on – An actor smashing a giant plastic McDonald's "M" while Ennio Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold" plays.
I chuckle as I eat my breakfast. Take THAT, McDonald's.
(When the first oily bite goes down, I can feel my heart Lub, wait a second and then Dub.)
The waiting area is packed. Taking the only free seat, I begin to type.
The woman next to me makes no effort to conceal her spying over my shoulder.
We start to Board. My heart grips.
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In a case which has shocked one of our most senior family law judges, a father who was found responsible for systematically injuring and abusing his daughter and a mother who ignored these acts and failed to protect her baby now face criminal prosecution for their actions.
The father, who is twenty, has recently been jailed for 12 years for his actions, spending the first year in youth custody, and will remain on license checks for 17 years. Their daughter has been placed in care and is developing well, but slowly due to the many life threatening injuries she suffered. To date, there appears to be no further news regarding the mother.
In his statement to the court, the father referred to himself as a monster.
The injuries inflicted on his daughter, who was born in January this year, were as follows (warning: contains graphic descriptions of injuries sustained):
(a) squeezing her very tightly around her torso;
(b) pressing his thumb into her eye causing bleeding;
(c) picking her up by her legs and flicking her up in the air and catching her, and on one occasion dropping her on the floor;
(d) placing his hands around her neck and throttling her so that she would if not actually lose consciousness then nearly lose consciousness;
(e) when sitting on his lap, forcefully pulling her legs up, and pushing her head down so that she was bent double;
(f) holding her upside down by her ankles and shaking her;
(g) twisting her head so she was looking right over her shoulder;
(h) thumping her on the top of her head;
(i) pushing her toes backwards towards her legs;
(j) squeezing her hands very tightly;
(k) pushing hard down on her vagina to make her cry;
(l) inserting his finger into her anus in order to hurt her;
(m) pinching her cheek, causing a bruise;
(n) bashing her head against a cupboard, causing a bruise and a cut;
(o) scratching her hands;
(p) bruising her jaw;
(q) forcing her bottle into her mouth, causing it to bleed;
(r) pushing down on her tongue, thereby causing bruising; and
(s) submerging her in the bath, giving her the sensation of being drowned.
By all accounts, the judgment paints a picture of two young adults: a man who did not wish to be a father, and a woman who wanted to have a baby but did not wish to care for it. The resentments that flowed from this regrettable scenario appear to have culminated in the father physically abusing his daughter and the mother ignoring her injuries and delegating the lion's share of the duties to the father, who washed, changed and fed their baby daughter, even at night, leading the father to feel fraught and angered by his lot. And although Mr Justice Mostyn took to calling this case "macabre and chilling" and the father "diabolical", there is, sadly, nothing unexplainable, or mystical, about this turn of events.
One of the great difficulties the family court as a whole faces is working without a clear knowledge of and access to cutting edge psychiatric knowledge. Whilst Mr Justice Mostyn laments that if " Freud or Jung were alive today and able to advise me, [I doubt] they would be able to give me an explanation for conduct…so completely at variance with any understanding of human nature…which has no basis rational or irrational… [and] which violates the most basic and elemental taboos which govern our society," it is clear that what happened to this baby can be explained and indeed warrants further consideration.
Both parents though not from deeply troubled backgrounds exhibited violent and conflicted behaviours. There was a history of self harming amongst one of the parent's family members. Both experienced multiple parents and homes but may not have experienced the smooth transitions which are an ideal feature of such phases. The mother, it is alleged, was controlling and dictatorial and would seek to anger the father often – perhaps a symptom of the difficulties present within her own childhood. There is no indication either that these parents were given the opportunity to further their education or improve their way of life such as it must have been in cramped accommodation with minimal interaction with the outside world.
Of course none of this excuses harming a child or is always a cause of crime, but if the family courts don't start to look at, and try to understand the reasons why people abuse and physically injure children, we cannot hope to protect children from harm in the future. Though we have yet to see whether the mother is tried for neglect, doubtless neither parent will receive the clinical help they need in prison and they will simply be let out into the world to continue living their lives as before, in a cycle of conflict, and violence. If we agree that most people who cause pain and suffering would rather not do so, then we must also accept that they too must be victims of their own circumstance. Difficult though it is to accept, the reality for most of us is that given the choice, we would choose to be good. So what happens to those who choose not to be and is it really a choice they make?
Most of the time men and women who injure children with intent get thrown into jail and left to languish in their own un-natural state, only to be released into the world free to continue the cycle of pain and injury. These parents may not have experienced physical abuse as children themselves, but they were young, without the coping mechanisms they needed to communicate well with each other and their baby and appeared to be, despite a large and varied family, on their own.
Sometimes, victims of child abuse sit on both sides of the table – but we can only protect the most vulnerable if we commit to uncovering the cause.
Thank you to the lovely Jerry Lonsdale for alerting us to this story.


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In the Name + of JESUS. Amen.
Remember, O man, thou art dust and unto dust shall thou return. It both a threat and a promise. That is to say, it is both Law and Gospel. It strikes terror in the heart and mind, yet enclosed in it is a tacit promise and grace.
Thou art dust was first spoken by our Lord that dreadful day of mankind's rebellion. In the Garden man sought to usurp God. In lust and disdain, the creation rejected its Creator. Man ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and in doing so consumed the very poison of his demise. For in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust and to dust you shall return (Gen 3:19).
Terrifying words! Especially when we consider the curse pronounced upon the serpent, that wily devil, On your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life (Gen 3:14).
You are dust and shall return to dust. Satan devours dust. Hence St Peter's admonition, Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour (1 Pt 5:8). Lent reminds us that we have an enemy who is intent on devouring us.
And as we are watching, as we are looking out before us, we have at our backs that cold breath of death. The grave looms large, seeking to swallow us up; to return us to the dust. And sooner or later - if Christ does not return first - you will go back to the dust from whence our Lord took us. Death. We attempt to hide from it, out run it, ignore it, play games with it. But in the end there is no playing games, no hiding. It tracks you down and squeezes the last bit of life from you. And your breathless clay returns to the dust.
And so this day. Ash Wednesday. A reminder. Remember, O man, that thou are dust and to dust shall thou return. The black ash marks you; the walking dead. You see it on the face of your neighbor, your friend, your child. And it preaches to you. It proclaims the reality we try to hide, but cannot escape: "I am dying."
If this were all this day is about, how sad and pitiable indeed! But this is not all. Oh, no! His Word to us is both Law and Gospel. He kills in order to make alive. He wounds that He may heal. And those ashes on your forehead are in the shape of a Cross. The Cross of Him, who in love for you, trampled the head of the serpent. The Holy One, the Immortal Son of the Father, took upon Himself your dust, your death. In dying He allowed Himself to be devoured by death, that weapon of Satan. And in rising to life again He destroyed the power of death and he who wielded its power. He has conquered hell and the grave. And turns Satan's own weapon against him.
It is written, The Lord is high above all nations, and His glory above the heavens! Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high, who looks far down on the heavens and the earth? He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes, with the princes of His people (Ps 113:4-8).
And so He has done for you. He stooped down into the dust and filth of your sin, taking upon Himself all that brings you down to the grave. He owned it all. The idolatry, cursing, disregarding of God's Word, dishonoring of your parents and other authorities, every hateful word and deed, all your sexual sins, your laziness and stealing, your lying words, your never being content with God's gifts and seeking happiness in what He has not given - all of that. He took it. Made it His own. And bore it to death on the Tree. It has no hold on you. Not now. Not anymore. You have been set free from the curse of death. By His death. By His Blood.
You are dust and shall return to dust. But now, through the waters of Holy Baptism, in the washing of His Spirit, you belong to Christ and shall return to Christ. This is His promise: He who formed you from the dust shall, at the last, raise your dusty bodies and put on them immortality. You shall be imperishable, even as He is imperishable.
And even now He gives to you the fruit of His Tree, the antidote to the devil's poison, the true grain offering and drink offering, His own Body and Blood back out of the grave to life, distributed to you here for the forgiveness of your sins, for the strengthening of your faith, for endurance under temptation and sorrow. His Cross marks you. His life is put into you. Death has no claim on you. You belong to Christ.
And this all begins as Lent begins: with a return to Him, to His compassion and love; for He has, in fact, sought you out and come to you. You heard it from Joel: Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love; the Lord had pity on His people. You also heard it from St Peter: He has granted to us His precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
And so it is that, by and from and in Him, you practice your righteousness; not to be seen by men, but before your Father who is in heaven. You practice your righteousness - your fasting, prayer, and almsgiving; making every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
These are neither a laying up of treasure either here on earth nor in heaven. You do not trust in them. They are works of charity and love done for your neighbor. Your love is not for your conscience's sake, nor for your heart. Your love, your charity, your alms are for your neighbor. Christ is for your conscience and heart. And He loves you. And in Him your heart has but one treasure, even He who is the ground and reward of faith, who has given His righteousness to you. You are dust and shall return to dust. But you also are Christ's and shall return to Christ.
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Saturday, October 06, 2007
peeping leaves
"So, what do leaf peepers do when they come up here?" Colin asked me this morning.
"They drive really slowly and take pictures. And they usually have white hair," I replied.
"So, do they go to Stowe and look at leaves and then to Warren and look at leaves and then Saint Albans and look at the leaves?"
"Yup, they definitely go to Stowe and the Valley. But they probably don't go to Saint Albans," I said.
"But they also come to Church Street and have lunch and buy knick-knacks," he observed as we headed towards the farmers' market. "Are they leaf peepers or tourists?"
I thought about it for a minute. "Leaf peepers are tourists. They are a specific kind of tourists, because they come here especially to look at the leaves, but they also like to do touristy things like drink apple cider and buy maple syrup." Then I thought, I feel badly for them this year. It's been so dry, the leaves are just turning brown and yellow. It's not the best year for leaf peeping. Kind of drab actually.
But then we turned the corner to City Hall Park and saw the most beautiful tree in mid-change--half green, half brilliant crimson-orange--as though its branches had just got up in flames. I just had to take a picture. And then paint one. Does that make me a leaf peeper?
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Two weeks ago the leaves were changing a lot near Isaac's camp in Averill. It was lovely.
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Nearly 20% of Americans surveyed say they have zero savings in case of emergency, a recent survey by bankrate.com reports.
Why it matters: With the jobs outnumbering the jobless, a lowering unemployment rate and wages trickling upward, Americans theoretically should have more money to put away for a rainy day fund. If an economic downturn were to occur, the data shows only a small fraction of Americans would be able to comfortably maintain their lifestyle.


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Biking through the green Poznań
The summer holiday season is the perfect moment to spend time actively. An excellent way to make use of the summer days is organizing a bike trip. Poznań is one of Poland's greenest metropolitan areas, and is therefore a dream destination for a bicycle ride. A well-developed bike path network and at least a few possibilities to rent a two-wheeler are among Poznań's additional amenities.
The most popular way of renting a bike is the PRM system, which has seven rental stations throughout the city center. Although a prior online registration is mandatory, it is worth remembering that the first 20 minutes of bike usage is free of charge. Some hostels also offer a bicycle renting service.
When you already have your own or rented bike, all that is left is to make the choice of the route. The bike paths which enable close contact with nature are among the most popular routes. One of the most attractive city biking paths leads around the Malta Lake. Also by Malta Lake there is the Poznań Bicycle Hub (Poznański Węzeł Rowerowy), where as many as nine bicycle paths start or cross.
While cycling through Poznań it is worth visitin Wartostrada, which is walking and biking route along Warta River. On its way you can see the Ctahedral Island or Porta Posnania.
The Poznań Citadel is an equally popular biking destination. The city's most impressive park is also the remains of Europe's biggest 19th century fortresses. It is an ideal place for a not too strenuous cycle amongst the green, the sculptures and the mysterious remains of old strongholds.
Cyclists interested in longer routes will find the one along the Warta river to their liking. The path leads through Dębina - an over 260-acre forest in the southern part of the city. A cycle along the picturesque banks of the Warta river will take you as far as Puszczykowo, where you can visit the Arkady Fiedler Museum or try the ice-cream next to the railway station in Puszczykówko - a delicacy favored among all Poznań natives. This route is about 20 kilometers long, starting from the center of Poznań.
In search for the most interesting biking routes, one cannot forget about Puszcza Zielonka (Zielonka Forest), located north of Poznań. The spacious forest wilderness can be covered on a bicycle in the length and breadth, and also around. It is best to follow the route of the wooden churches around Zielonka Forest.
The most persistent cyclists can cover the Cycling Ring Around Poznań (Pierścień Rowerowy Dookoła Poznania) which is 173 kilometers long and forms a loop around the city. It is a great excuse to visit the nearby town of Kórnik with its famous castle, or the neighboring town of Murowana Goślina.
Very helpful may be the free map of bicycle routs in Poznań. One can get it in the Tourist Information offices at the Main Train Station and The Old Market Square or PDF version below.
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it will register more Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nasarawa State.
Mr Micheal Attah, Nasarawa State Coordinator of NAFDAC who disclosed this said that the increased interest displayed by the MSMEs was due to measures recently introduced by NAFDAC to enhance the ease of doing business and encourage enterprises whose products were regulated by the agency.
He said that NAFDAC adopted the measures because of the vital role MSMEs played in stimulating the Nigerian economy and providing jobs for unemployed youths across the country.
According to Attah, in the past, the number of MSMEs that visited NAFDAC office to register was between 10 and 15, but from January 2018, the agency in the state had recorded about 32 owners of MSMEs who indicated to register.
"MSMEs play vital roles in the economic development of Nigeria and are known to be the main engine of economic growth. The importance of MSMEs to our economy cannot be over-emphasised. That is why NAFDAC has created an enabling environment for the MSMEs to register easily and thrive. Before, our standard is four rooms to manufacture anything but now we have reduced it to three rooms to start something but there are some minimum standards they have to meet,'' he said.
Attah recalled other new measures introduced by NAFDAC aimed at encouraging MSMEs to include 50 per cent reduction in cost of registration of products for companies with five or fewer employees and reduction in registration timeline to 60 days, among others.
"All these we are doing will encourage enterprises to come up with products so that they can be engaged and absorb other graduates that might be looking for work. The effort will also reduce the crime rate in the country. I can confirm to you that we had about 32 products given approval within a month in Nasarawa State. The recent increase in number is due to the strategy put in place by NAFDAC,'' he said.
Attah urged other enterprises, who were still skeptical about the registration process to visit NAFDAC offices in Lafia and Karu Local Government Areas of the state to get educated to take advantage of the new measures introduced by the agency and register their products.
"Another good news is that before now we process these documents and get the products analysed in the laboratory. Then it goes to our zone where there will be screening again before they now take it to Lagos. Lagos has a unit that will screen the documents before the registration committee will finally screen and give number but now the process has been decentralised. We in the zone can now register it and the number will come out within 60 days," he said.
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The second most important mineral that I think you should be taking every single day, everyone regardless of any state of health, is magnesium.
Magnesium is such an essential nutrient, especially when it comes to stress. Magnesium is a mineral that is released by your body to help calm you down in stressful situations, and what you can find is, if two people enter exactly the same stressful situation but one is lower in magnesium than the other, they'll have a heightened stress response.
Remember, that no one event is inherently stressful. It's how we respond as humans to that event, to see whether our body deems it as stressful or not, and if you're low in magnesium those events are more likely to be stressful to the body. So, magnesium is another essential nutrient especially for energy production and your heart.
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CANNES, France The predictably cranky and impatient press audience offered little love to Philippe Garrel's "Frontier of Dawn" at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, just a weak round of applause amid a chorus of jeers. One of the most significant and, in the United States, unknown of the post-New Wave French directors, Mr. Garrel employs poetic melancholia and unhurried rhythms that were, particularly at 8:30 in the morning, either too much or not nearly enough for a crowd that had stayed up late the previous night to take in and debate "Che," Steven Soderbergh's ambitious epic about the revolutions won and lost by Che Guevara. (The arguments continued hotly on Friday.)
Mr. Garrel himself has made several films about revolutionary battles, including "Regular Lovers," his unbearably sad look back at France in May 1968 and afterward. Like that 2005 film, this new one, shown in competition, was shot in glorious high-contrast black-and-white and stars his son, Louis Garrel.
The younger Mr. Garrel plays a photographer, François, who falls for an unstable actress, Carole (Laura Smet), which leads to unquiet happiness and noisier anguish. On the face of it, "Frontier of Dawn" comes across like a familiar if peculiarly French love story, though one tinged with madness. But few other filmmakers can through purely visual terms, through shades of gray, meticulous framing and harmoniously balanced bodies convey the mysterious transformation by which ordinary men and women become the adored.
The irritation with which the press greeted "Frontier of Dawn" should have been expected: even in France, 106 minutes of extreme behavior, next to no exposition and some grand poetic flourishes (a ghost growls in a mirror) can be difficult to digest early in the morning. Although she probably would have won audiences over anyway, the American director Kelly Reichardt ("Old Joy") was more favorably placed on Thursday evening with "Wendy and Lucy," which showed in the more hospitable context of Un Certain Regard, a category for younger filmmakers. In the space of a few years, Ms. Reichardt who offered a few shy words of hello before the screening, flanked by a cluster of male colleagues and her lovely star, Michelle Williams has become one of the most interesting young American filmmakers.
Her latest follows Wendy (Ms. Williams), a girlish woman with watchful eyes and a hesitant smile, who, with her mutt, Lucy, is on her way to a new life in Alaska with too little money when she runs into trouble in Oregon. With uninflected realism, an attentive camera and no weeping strings, Ms. Reichardt makes palpably, tragically real what it means to be struggling at the very edge of the economic abyss.
Like "Old Joy," which tracks two friends on a short trip to the country, "Wendy and Lucy" is political to the bone but without any of the usual grandstanding. As of Thursday night's screening, though distributors were circling the room, this pitch-perfect triumph had yet to attract an American buyer. It will. —MANOHLA DARGIS
A Teacher's Tale
By now the stalls in the Cannes Market a hive of global movie commerce in the bowels of the Palais des Festivals have been dismantled, and most of the buyers and sellers have gone home, having by all reports conducted less business than in previous years. As the festival straggles toward its climax on Sunday evening, when a jury headed by Sean Penn will hand out prizes, a subdued, slightly downcast feeling is settling over the city.
The widely shared opinion among critics seems to be that this wasn't such a great year. But such snap judgments can be deceptive. A film festival is by nature ephemeral, but good movies have a way of sticking around. And after enduring a few bad ones in the past few days why the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino keeps being invited back to Cannes is nearly as incomprehensible as "Il Divo," his latest offering I was happy to discover Laurent Cantet's competition entry, "Entre les Murs."
The film, Mr. Cantet's fourth feature, concerns a young teacher dealing with a tough class in an urban high school. It's hardly a new idea for a movie from "To Sir With Love" to "Dangerous Minds" and beyond, Hollywood has always had a soft spot for melodramas of pedagogical heroism but Mr. Cantet attacks it with freshness and precision, and without a trace of sentimentality.
The teacher, François (played by François Begaudeau, himself a teacher and the author of the book on which the film is based), is devoted and hard-working but hardly a hero. He is capable of losing his cool and lashing out at his students. More frequently he resorts to sarcasm, partly to parry their provocations and partly, one suspects, to protect himself from his emotional investment in them. Not that he would admit to any such feelings. François is a professional, doing a difficult job with the seriousness and alacrity it demands.
True to its title, which means "between the walls," "Entre les Murs" never leaves the school building. We learn nothing of François's private life and only bits and pieces about the backgrounds of his pupils, whose faces reflect the multicultural makeup of French society today. His interactions with them generate moments of hilarity (including a raucous discussion of the imperfect subjunctive, a point of French grammar that has caused untold misery in French classes around the world) and also painful collisions and misunderstandings.
Mr. Cantet has long been interested in exploring the varieties of work in modern Europe. "Human Resources" (1999) was about changing relationships between management and labor in the industrial sector, and "Time Out" (2001) examined the alienation of the corporate managerial class.
To describe those films in such terms and to suggest that "Entre les Murs" extends their themes by focusing on a man who labors in the service of the state makes them sound drier and more schematic than they are. But Mr. Cantet is motivated above all by a passionate curiosity about the way people live, and he directs with such sensitivity and skill that his curiosity becomes contagious. It is not enough to call him a realist, though he is surely at the forefront of the current wave of realism in European cinema. It's simpler to say that his movies tell the truth. —A. O. SCOTT


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Do you believe in ghosts, my dear reader? And what is the definition of a ghost for you? Maybe for someone from another planet we all are nothing more than the ghosts ourselves obsessed by our small everyday wishes and ambitions. Human kind always was striving for miracles and was eager to get eternal life. To look beyond the realms of life and death. As children we are fascinated by ghost fairy tales. As adults we very often enjoy gothic fiction and horror cinema. We want to enter the unknown and we fear it at the same time. We want the eternal life and we fear it too. Be careful what you wish for, my dear reader. One day you might get it. Some of us are not careful. And they get the eternal life. As ghosts. And what about the eternal love? The two strongest desires of human kind are – to live forever and to love forever. Who knows, maybe on the other side of the human existence lies the fulfillment of the two strongest wishes – to live and to love forever. My mother, Emma, always said: there was no need for fantasy, life was strange and beautiful enough as it was. And in proof of her words she told me the story from her life that occurred to her during her university days. She had never believed in the supernatural until that fateful night when she arrived at that deserted hotel… There she discovered the bewitching, haunted world – a timeless realm of undying life and undying love hidden within the walls of the hotel. The following story is taken down by me according to her memories.
It was in summer, in the late sixties of the twentieth century. I was coming back home after a month of vacation spent in Sochi. The train from Krasnodar to Kiev arrived late at night and my plane from Kiev to Sverdlovsk was supposed to take off only the next morning.
I was housed in a small inn. It was a very small guest house with the only room inside that was located near the airport. The very small house resided on the edge of the field very far from any other buildings. Behind the house spread a deserted, neglected field of enchanting beauty covered with cornflowers, daisy wheels, dandelions… A once well-groomed, now derelict small house full of mysteries. I arrived to the house before midnight. The building seemed desolate, its interior full of shadows. Was anyone moving through its darkness? A warm summer night began a secret life of its own - as I heard a barely audible whisper of the wind. . In a window of my room cold, teasing light of the full moon was rising. As if inviting me to an unknown journey. The sweet smell of flowers. The crickets were beginning to chatter. My eyelids picked straws suddenly. It was time to close my eyes. Being already in bed and preparing to sleep I looked very calmly towards the door and then froze peering into the darkness.
There stood He. The ghost. Or was He just the creation of my own imagination– so beautiful and mysterious, so perfect and unusual? He seemed an alien adrift from some different planet. The ghost was deep-brown –coloured, closer to the colour of cognac, than the colour of chocolate. His body and his face created the impression of perfect proportions. And at the same time he looked completely transparent and weightless. His body was gleaming as though it had been varnished. I was not able to run away. I was not even able to turn my head. I was not able to speak or to shout. My muscles were completely paralyzed. In his presence I felt absolutely numb. All my thoughts disappeared. My mind was completely empty. The moonlight from the window was falling down onto Him. He was coming rapidly nearer and nearer to me. When he reached my bed a white thick fog - like cotton, started to rise from the floor. The white clouds of fog were rising higher and higher. His legs, body and head vanished little by little in the clouds of fog.
At the very moment when He vanished completely the feeling suddenly surged back into my arms and legs. I could think again. Thinking about what it was I realized that He was looking for his girlfriend in the small house. And each time when he made sure that it wasn't his girlfriend, he passed into nothingness. It was very late that night that I fell asleep…
The next morning I got on my plane successfully and came back home.
Twenty years passed. The story in the hotel sunk back into the past, so far back that it seemed hardly to belong to me at all. But I faced the beautiful and blood-chilling enigma of the hotel again. And pieced together puzzles from the past and present.
One evening I was roaming the streets of my home town. That evening I bought a bouquet of flowers to decorate my home. I wanted to roll them in a piece of paper. So I asked a seller at a news-stand to give me any newspaper. Turning over the newspaper I saw an article that attracted my attention at once. The article talked about the plane crash near that airport some time before the night when I saw the ghost. All the passengers died. The article was accompanied by photos of the passengers. One of those portraits bore striking resemblance to the harmonious and perfect facial features of the ghost. Gazing into the photos of other passengers, I realized that He was travelling together with his girlfriend when that terrible plane crash happened. The very same girl who He so desperately and hopelessly wanted to see in each girl that came to spend the night in that remote desolate and lonely house…. He wanted it with all the power of his undying love.


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A number of U.K.-based law firms have dropped formal, annual attorney performance reviews in favor of ongoing assessments in recent months, a trend that could soon catch on at U.S.-based BigLaw firms.
Allen & Overy, RPC, Hogan Lovells and Linklaters LLP have ditched, or are in the process of ditching, annual performance reviews or assessments and are moving instead to more frequent, less formal methods of determining and communicating performance, according to U.K. media reports, and others in Britain are considering doing the same.
According to Jacquelyn Knight, a partner in Major Lindsey & Africa's New York office, formal reviews are still officially scheduled at most U.S. law firms once a year, but she agrees with Zimmermann that firms have begun to provide feedback more regularly, both in the U.S. and the U.K.
"Although the traditional annual review still stands, the review process has evolved," Knight said. "Firms are getting better at tracking numbers with new technology and the addition of business professionals at law firms."
However, she said, less is not more when it comes to meaningful feedback, and technology can't replace the important "soft stuff" — good conversations about what the attorney under review does and what they may be missing.
"For partners, more regular feedback — or even biannual or quarterly reviews — is growing in popularity," she said. "Increased communication with partners provides more information regarding his or her individual accomplishments and what they can do to improve."
And for more junior lawyers, the person who delivers their feedback is another factor shifting in review systems, according to Knight. In an effort to address associate retention and the cost of attrition, some junior associates may receive feedback directly from the senior associates and counsel that interact with them daily, she said.
"Attorneys at all levels want to know where they stand, their likelihood for promotion, and potential leadership positions within their firms," she said. "Communicating to attorneys their accomplishments and weaknesses more often leads to improved performance for clients and teamwork, so increasing the regularity of communication can be a win-win for firms."


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A woman who co-founded the Saudi Liberal Network Internet discussion group with blogging activist Raef Badawi has been freed after about three months in prison, her daughter told a news agency on Sunday.
Suad al-Shammari had spent around 90 days at a women's prison in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, her daughter Sarah al-Rimaly told AFP.
"She's released now, thanks be to God," Rimaly said.
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In our previous Gold Market Review we have decided that the bullish move on Weekly chart is the 4th correction wave. However, the time has shown that it is the new A wave of the new bullish up trend as its recent high on Awesome Oscillator (AOx1) has already beaten the previous high of B correction in July 2012.
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FRP (Factory Reset coverage) is the brand new safety Google added to android lollipop. When you reset the instrument from restoration menu, FRP transfer is tripped which is able to ask the person to enter the Google account that was once up to now used on the instrument. Even although this was once made for safety causes, we every now and then put out of your mind the account main points that was once on the instrument sooner than reset so caught on enter Google account main points.
Normally you'll bypass this FRP safety on this instrument manually with out the use of a PC the use of emergency mode and a few apk. This manner is ok particularly should you don't have a PC round.
MTK VCOM Drivers
Latest SP Flash Tool
ITEL A15 DA & Scatter File
Installed MTK VCom drivers on your PC
Extract and Launch SP Flash Tool
Extract Itel A15 Scatter & DA File
On the Download-Agent bar, click on make a selection
then navigate to the Itel A15 folder and make a choice MTK_AllInOne_DA.bin file.
On Scatter bar, click on make a selection
make a choice MT6580_Android_scatter.txt file in Itel A15 folder.
Now Click Format tab
Make positive you choose handbook layout flash
Now you're going to want to edit the choice of Begin Address (HEX) and Format Length (HEX)
Go into Itel A15 folder and open MT6580_Android_scatter.txt with notepad or any textual content editor
Locate FRP partition on the notepad by way of urgent CTRL + F then sort FRP and click on to find subsequent
Copy hex choice of physical_start_addr: 0x1b000000 and paste it Begin Address
Copy hex choice of partition_size: 0x100000 and paste it into Format Length (HEX)
Click the blue get started icon and attach instrument to PC
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Thin client technology advances with multimedia support
Thin client computing, known as the ability to use use a thin client device to run the RDP or ICA protocols in order to connect to a remote computer, is forging its way back into the enterprise.
A key advancement in the thin client technology is the new ability for the thin client device to process multimedia content locally on the thin client device, said Ken Hertzler, Director of NEC Corp.'s Virtual PC Center. "With the multimedia support, more general purpose PC users can now use a virtual PC with almost the same function and speed as a traditional PC."
The thin client also offers a 'green' solution — "nearly 60% less energy than traditional PCs" and "better enterprise PC data protection," Hertzler said.
NEC yesterday announced the release of NEC US110 at VMworld 2007. The US110, a Windows CE thin client solution slated to ship in Q4 of 2007, builds on NEC's Virtual PC Center solution and supports new multimedia formats such as Microsoft WMV/WMA and Adobe Flash, as well as RSA SecureID VPN connections.
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NEC uses the thin client to take advantage of virtualization with its Sigma System Center (SSC) management software. SSC makes virtualizing PC sessions, installing updates and performing backups easier, according to Hertzler.
The US110 is available for $449, but the price drops to $349 when purchased with NEC Virtual PC Servers. Virtual PC Server Plus, another newly released product that offers more memory per user, retails for $22,900.


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January 26, 2008
In honor of our brothers and sisters who did not survive their experience with psychiatry
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
from the perspective of users and survivors of psychiatry:
Key principles:
1) Human rights approach
2) Non-discrimination
3) Autonomy and the freedom to make one's own choices
Social model of disability transcends medical/welfare model
The CRPD supersedes the paternalistic approach that is expressed in the outdated United Nations MI Principles (officially titled "Principles for the protection of persons with mental illness and the improvement of mental health care" adopted in 1991) and the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities.
Highlights of the text of the CRPD with regard to mental health issues:
(e) disability is an evolving concept
(h) discrimination against any person on the basis of disability is a violation of the inherent dignity and worth of the human person
(j) includes person who need more intensive support
(n) recognizes the importance of individual autonomy, including the freedom to make one's own choices
(o) persons with disabilities should have the opportunity to be actively involved in decision-making processes about policies and programs
Article 1: Purpose – includes persons with long-term mental impairments.
We did not get the language we prefer – psychosocial disability
Article 2: Definitions
"discrimination on the basis of disability"
"reasonable accommodation"
Article 3: General principles
(a) autonomy and freedom to make one's own choices
(b) non-discrimination
(d) respect for difference and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human diversity and humanity
Article 4: General obligations
1 (b) Abolish existing laws that constitute discrimination
3. Development of legislation and policies to implement the Convention shall actively involve persons with disabilities through their representative organizations.
Article 12: Equal recognition before the law
2. Legal capacity on an equal basis with others
3. Provide access to persons with disabilities to the support they may require in exercising their legal capacity.
Capacity vs. incapacity: focus on what a person is capable of doing vs. what we are incapable of doing
Supported decision making vs substituted decision making
Even if 100% support:
1) Find out what person wants vs "best interest"
2) Back off as support need is reduced vs go to court to establish competency
3) Safeguards for less than 100% vs safeguards for only 100%
Support models encompass substitution (100% support) but substitution models do not encompass a full range of support
Models of support include:
Peer support
Community support – e.g. indigenous cultures
Advanced planning
Personal ombudsman program in Sweden
Personal assistants
Etc. (to evolve!)
Article 14: Right to liberty on an equal basis with others
The existence of a disability shall in no case justify a deprivation of liberty.
Article 15: Freedom from torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
Protection on an equal basis with others
Example: forcing mind-altering drugs on political prisoners is torture
Article 17: Respect for physical and mental integrity on an equal basis with others
No exceptions!
Article 19: Living independently and being included in the community
(a): Ensure that pwd's have the opportunity to choose their place of residence and where and with whom they live and are not obliged to live in a particular living arrangement
(c) access to support including personal assistance necessary to support living and inclusion in the community
Article 22: Respect for privacy
2. Protect privacy of health records on an equal basis with others
e.g. – custody litigation
Article 23: Respect for home and the family
1 (c) Persons with disabilities, including children, retain their fertility on an equal basis with others
4. In no case shall a child be separated from parents on the basis of a disability of either the child or one or both of the parents.
Article 25: Health
(d) Right to health care on the basis of free and informed consent
(e) Prohibits discrimination in provision of health insurance and life insurance
Article 27: Work and employment
(i) Ensure reasonable accommodation in the workplace
Article 29: Participation in political and public life
(a) Right to vote and to be elected
Article 32: International cooperation
1. States partner with civil society, in particular with organizations of person with disabilities (pwd's)
Article 33: National implementation and monitoring
2. Pwd's and their representative organizations shall be involved and participate fully in the monitoring process.
The International Disability Caucus (IDC) – we built alliances.
Our struggle is now a shared struggle.
The IDC is made up of over 70 international organizations including the World Blind Union, the World Federation for the Deaf, the World Federation for the Deafblind, Inclusion International, the Landmine Survivors Network, etc. – along with World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry and MindFreedom International.
There is nothing in the Convention that can be used to restrict our rights.
We have succeeded in establishing the legal basis
- to abolish mental health commitment and forced treatment, guardianship, and the insanity defense
- to create of a wide range of healing support, and
- to liberate our people from institutions.
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