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Risto Ryti (), né le  à Huittinen et mort le  à Helsinki, est un homme d'État finlandais.

Enfance et adolescence

Risto Ryti est l'un des sept fils de Kaarle Evert Ryti, un agriculteur, et Ida Vivika Junttila.
Bien qu'il vienne d'un milieu agricole paysan, pendant son enfance Ryti a à peine participé aux travaux fermiers car il aime surtout les livres.
Il est brièvement élève du , puis il étudie à la maison, avant de s'inscrire à l'Université d'Helsinki en 1906 pour étudier le droit.
Risto Ryti est le seul des sept fils à réussir l'examen d'entrée à l'université, ses trois sœurs sont aussi entrées a l'université.

Carrière d'avocat
Risto Ryti obtient son diplôme de droit à l'automne 1909 alors que la Finlande entre dans la deuxième période de russification.
Fuyant l'atmosphère politique oppressive de la capitale, Risto Ryti revient à ses racines du Satakunta, où il s'établit comme avocat à Rauma.

Il fait la connaissance d'Alfred Kordelin, l'un des hommes les plus riches de Finlande. Risto Ryti devient l'avocat d'Alfred Kordelin et les deux hommes deviennent finalement des amis proches.

À cette période, Risto Ryti reprend des études, et obtient il devient varatuomari en 1912.
Risto Ryti est autorisé à siéger au tribunal de district sous la présidence du juge Kyander de la Cour d'Eura.

Au printemps 1914, il s'installe avec son collègue consultant Eric Serlachius à Oxford pour y étudier le droit maritime, mais le déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale le force à retourner en Finlande.
Au cours de ce voyage, il rencontre sa future épouse , la sœur d'Eric Serlachius.
Après leur retour en Finlande, Eric et Risto fondent le cabinet d'avocats Serlachius & Ryti à Helsinki et ils y embauchent Gerda.
Ryti a été avocat pour le grand donateur Alfred Kordelin. Ryti était le directeur de Kauppa Oy derrière l'océan finlandais de 1919 à 1921.
En 1916, il épouse Gerda Paula Serlachius.

Dans la période qui suit le déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale, avant que la Finlande n'accède à son indépendance, les relations commerciales de Risto Ryti avec Alfred Kordelin deviennent plus étroites, et il Alfred Kordelin demande à Risto Ryti de devenir directeur général de ses nombreuses entreprises.
Cependant, en , Risto Ryti et sa femme ont été témoins du meurtre d'Alfred Kordelin par un bolchevik russe.

Des marins russes menés par un tailleur finlandais ont pris en otage Alfred Kordelin, avec l'intention de le voler. Risto Ryti, l'avocat de Kordelin, refusé d'autoriser légalement le vol bien qu'il soit sous la menace d'une arme.
Cependant, des soldats de la garde blanche armée sont présents et la situation se  transforme en une fusillade.
Vingt personnes dont Alfred Kordelin sont tuées.
Risto Ryti est sauvé par un dysfonctionnement de l'arme à feu d'un assaillant.

Carrière politique

Risto Ryti est député du Parti progressiste national en 1919-1924 et 1927-1929, ministre des Finances en 1921-1924, président du conseil d'administration de la Banque de Finlande en 1924-1939 et 1944-1945 et candidat à la présidence du Parti progressiste national en 1925, premier ministre en 1939–1940 et président de la République en 1940–1944.

Dès son plus jeune âge, Risto Ryti est considéré comme intelligent et talentueux.
Surtout après la guerre civile finlandaise, il est très fortement libéral et s'opposait à la fois au bolchevisme soviétique et à la montée du national-socialisme en Allemagne.

Politiquement, Risto Ryti est d'abord proche du Parti jeune finnois, puis du Parti progressiste national (Finlande), et il est aussi un anglophile.
En 1934, le roi de Grande-Bretagne lui a décerné le nomle Chevalier Commandeur de l'Ordre royal de Victoria pour ses grands mérites pour l'amelioration des relations finlando-britanniques.
Risto Ryti est franc-maçon.

Risto Ryti est témoin de la tuerie de Mommila en 1917, quand Alfred Kordelin est assassiné par des marins russes.
Risto Ryti et sa femme ont aussi failli été tués, mais ils ont réussi à s'échapper.
On pense que cette effusion de sang de Mommila - ainsi que la  grande grève de 1905 - ont eu un effet sur les réserves qu'avait Risto Rytti concernant la gauche et les mouvements populaires radicaux.

Contrairement à la ligne de Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, entre autres, il s'est opposé, au Parlement, à l'abolition de la peine de mort après la guerre civile finlandaise et au pardon des prisonniers rebelles.
La position de Risto Ryti est certainement renforcée par le fait que quatre de ses frères ont participé à la guerre civile du côté blanc et l'un d'eux, Niilo, est tombé à Ikaalinen.
En , Gerda Ryti a été témoin de l'assassinat du ministre de l'Intérieur Heikki Ritavuori à Helsinki.

Premier ministre de 1939 à 1940, puis cinquième président de la République finlandaise de 1940 à 1944, il mène la guerre de Continuation contre l'URSS et fait appel aux troupes du Troisième Reich.

De ce fait, il doit démissionner de son poste de Président. Par la suite, après la fin de la guerre et la victoire soviétique, il sera, au plus fort de l'influence soviétique sur la Finlande, décrété persona non grata.
Il ne sera pardonné par le président Juho Kusti Paasikivi qu'en 1949, après une hospitalisation.

Reconnaissance

Risto Ryti est inhumé au cimetière d'Hietaniemi (U25-13-5) à Helsinki.

Prix et décorations
  : Grand-Croix de l'Ordre de la Rose blanche
  : Grand-Croix de l'Ordre du Lion de Finlande
  : Grand-Croix de l'Ordre de la croix de la Liberté
  : Ordre de l'Aigle allemand en Or avec Étoile
  : Chevalier Commandeur de l'Ordre royal de Victoria

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Ministres des Finances
 Procès pour responsabilité de guerre

Liens externes

Président de la Finlande
Premier ministre de Finlande
Ministre finlandais des Finances
Chef d'État ou de gouvernement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Chevalier commandeur de l'ordre royal de Victoria
Grand-croix de l'ordre de l'Aigle allemand
Personnalité de la franc-maçonnerie finlandaise
Gouverneur de la Banque de Finlande
Étudiant de l'université d'Oxford
Étudiant de l'université d'Helsinki
Naissance en février 1889
Naissance à Huittinen
Décès en octobre 1956
Décès à 67 ans
Décès à Helsinki
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière de Hietaniemi
Personnalité finlandaise de la Seconde Guerre mondiale


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Antonin Scalia's Rightful Revolution by Stephen L. Carter
Posted bynootkabear April 23, 2016 April 23, 2016 Posted inCourts, Judicial Ruligs, legalTags:Corrupt Judges, Injustice, Judges, Judicial Rulings, Law, legal, Sixth Amendment, United States
Antonin Scalia's Rightful Revolution
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-21/antonin-scalia-s-rightful-revolution
April 21, 2016 2:11 PM EST
Stephen L. Carter
Annie Dookhan's recent release from a Massachusetts prison has been an occasion for considerable comment, but little has been focused on how her case suggests why liberals might come to miss Justice Antonin Scalia. Not because Dookhan was innocent — she wasn't — but because she was guilty.
Dookhan, a former lab technician for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, pleaded guilty in 2013 to charges stemming from an investigation that found she had tampered with crime-scene evidence. She confessed to, among other things, adding cocaine to samples so that they would test positive and forging reports to make it seem that she had performed tests that she had not. Estimates of the number of cases that might be affected run as high as 40,000. (More accurate numbers should be available next month.) Struggling to clean up the mess caused by what it called Dookhan's "egregious misconduct," the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled last year that if defendants who have pleaded guilty seek to reopen their cases because of her actions, prosecutors cannot try them on more serious charges or, if a second conviction results, ask for stiffer sentences.
Okay, so Dookhan did a terrible thing, and because of it, a lot of people probably went to prison who shouldn't have. What does any of this have to do with Justice Scalia?
As it turns out, a great deal. Over his final decade on the U.S. Supreme Court, Scalia led a movement to restore significance and force to the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. The revolution began in 2004 with Crawford v. Washington, and the battle is raging still. And for those who buy into the neat media image in which the justices vote in unshakable left-right blocs, it's worth noting that Scalia's chief ally in the fight has been Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and his principal antagonists have lately been Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor.
What's the fight about? The Confrontation Clause guarantees a criminal defendant the right "to be confronted with the witnesses against him." If you're charged with robbing a bank, the clause is the reason that you have the opportunity to cross-examine whoever is testifying against you. You have the chance to show the jury that the witness who claims to have seen you holding the gun was mistaken, or remembering wrong.
Much of the recent controversy over the Confrontation Clause is rather technical, but the dispute has largely involved the question of who counts as a witness. Everybody had always understood that the woman who swears you drove the getaway car has to tell her story in open court. So does the man who claims he sold you the gun. The prosecutor can't simply put the lead detective on the stand and let him tell the jury what other people said you did.
But what about a laboratory technician who determined that the substance found in your trunk was cocaine? For a long time, it was generally assumed that a forensic chemist's performance of a routine test did not implicate the Sixth Amendment. In 2008, the Scalia-Ginsburg faction astonished pretty much everybody by cobbling together a majority of the court for the proposition that, yes, the technician who did the test and signed the report has to show up and testify. Another analyst from the same laboratory who can explain how the test works isn't good enough. In other words, there is no "forensic evidence" exception to the rule. Chemists are treated just like every other witness.
Prosecutors were aghast. Defense attorneys were elated.
Imagine: Every time a crime lab does a test and a technician certifies the result, the technician has to appear in court if the defendant so demands. Dissenters warned that chaos would result. To have the technicians sitting around for half a day waiting to testify would involve undue expense. Scalia replied that the assumptions underlying that worry are "wildly unrealistic." Only rarely would defense lawyers actually call the forensic technicians to testify. But on those rare occasions, the technicians are no different from any other witness.
Why does this matter? Let's get back to Dookhan. She began work some years before the Supreme Court decided that lab technicians who perform forensic tests must testify if called, but her arrest and conviction help show why the Scalia faction is right.
Had Dookhan been required to take the stand, defense attorneys might have asked how she was able to clear 500 samples a month when the average chemist analyzes between 50 and 150. They might have asked about discrepancies in her log book that would likely only have come to light had she been a witness.
The knowledge that one will have to testify about one's actions creates a certain discipline. Either the problems in her work would have come to light much sooner, or, knowing that she would face possible cross-examination about every test she performed, Dookhan would have cleaned up her act. Either way, a lot fewer results would have been falsified.
The great majority of forensic chemists, like the great majority of people in every line of work, do their jobs with professionalism and integrity. Unfortunately, Dookhan is far from the only bad apple. And when technicians fudge their results, people can lose their liberty.
Most court-watchers, whether they admired Scalia or despised him, will remember his positions on same-sex marriage or abortion or some other hotly contested issue. But I will remember him best for the revolution he sparked in Sixth Amendment jurisprudence. I earnestly hope that it survives him.
I didn't believe this when I began teaching the Crawford line of cases some years ago. But real-world events have changed my mind.
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
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Stephen L Carter at scarter01@bloomberg.net
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Seems like I saw somewhere, maybe on Garfield's site, something about a good set of discovery to use on the banks, but I can't find it. Does that sound familiar, and if so, can you direct me to it?
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China is creating a huge carbon market—but not a particularly aggressive one
The biggest test of cap-and-trade to date may be too timid to make much of a difference for the world's largest carbon polluter.
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China, the world's largest communist country and its biggest climate polluter, has turned to a decidedly free-market approach to combating carbon emissions. Late last year, the government announced long-awaited plans for a national cap-and-trade program, following several years of regional pilot projects.
Clean-energy advocates trumpeted the creation of the planet's largest carbon market, which will be nearly twice the size of the European Union's.
But early signs indicate that China is taking an extremely cautious approach, driven by fears of undermining economic growth. That is likely to put off real emissions reductions until well into the next decade.
The ultimate success or failure of China's program will be crucial because the nation emits more than a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide, and levels are rising at their fastest rate in years, according to one recent analysis. Hitting worldwide climate goals will be nearly impossible unless China begins making sharp cuts soon. Moreover, the nation's effort could influence how other countries pursue similar market-based approaches to cutting carbon pollution.
"Internationally, much is riding on this program," Stanford economist Lawrence Goulder and a co-author wrote in a paper earlier this year. "Failure could impede the adoption of emissions trading programs in many parts of the world."
A slow start
Many economists tout cap-and-trade programs as the most efficient way for nations to cut emissions.
Under such a program, a government agency gives away or sells a limited number of allowances for emitting greenhouse gases (this is the cap). Companies that produce less than allowed under their permits can sell excess allowances while those that want to exceed their limit must buy more from another party (that's the trade).
The scheme essentially puts a price on carbon emissions, creating financial incentives for companies to cut pollution. While the theory sounds good, only a handful of such programs have been put in place, including in California and Europe, with mostly modest results to date.
"Failure could impede the adoption of emissions trading programs in many parts of the world."
Under the plan announced in December, China will spend a year building a national reporting system and another conducting "simulated" trading and analysis, pushing actual implementation to at least 2020.
The big surprise in the announcement was that the government backtracked on earlier plans for the program to encompass an array of industries. Instead, it will initially cover only the power sector, expanding to others like petrochemicals, building materials, and aviation "when conditions allow," according to one translation of the announcement. The speculation is that these other industries and the agency representing state-owned enterprises pushed hard against being included in the initial rollout, and that the nation's recent economic slowdown bolstered their cause.
To be sure, China's power sector is still a huge carbon market, accounting for about three gigatons of carbon dioxide each year, or roughly 8 percent of global emissions, according to a recent "comment" in Nature Climate Change. If the program eventually incorporates the other planned industries, it will add up to five gigatons annually. By comparison, the European Union's trading scheme covers 1.8 gigatons.
Limited ambition
Nearly all cap-and-trade programs to date have eventually allocated permits through auctions and set an absolute cap on total emissions.
But at least as a first step, it's widely expected that China will restrict the amount of carbon dioxide that a plant produces by unit of electricity—say, per megawatt-hour of electricity produced. It's believed that the exact standards will also vary according to factors like plant size and fuel source.
In other words, power companies could still increase total emissions as new plants come online, so long as their plants are becoming cleaner on average within their categories.
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This approach reflects the fact that the government's goal for now is to reduce the rate of increase in emissions rather than to achieve absolute reductions, says Huw Slater, a senior consultant with ICF, an advisory firm that that has worked with the Chinese government and power companies.
It also allows for economic growth and limits the financial toll on an industry, like China's electricity sector, that can't pass higher carbon costs on to end consumers.
But while this approach will encourage plant operators to improve the efficiency of plants, it "weakens or eliminates the incentives … to shift from coal to gas or renewables," according to the Nature Climate Change paper.
To play a "significant role" in cutting emissions will probably require shifting to an auction-based system, broadening the program to other sectors, and taking other steps to ensure that the carbon price is sufficiently high, the authors argue.
It is expected that China will eventually shift to auctions and to at least an informal absolute emissions cap. But making that approach effective may require broader market reforms.
That's likely to include a shift away from government-administered prices and generation plans and toward energy spot markets, where prices change in close to real time as generators and grid operators reach agreements to meet immediate demand.
It could take at least another decade for that level of liberalization to take hold broadly, says Michael Davidson, a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, who studies China's electricity markets.
"If you want the carbon market to work in electricity, the fundamental precondition is a spot market," he says. "Since those are very far out, it's not going to have a huge impact."
Meanwhile, given past issues with environmental transparency and the considerable clout of some state-owned businesses, China will face a different set of challenges in establishing a national system to detect and punish companies exceeding their allowances.
But despite these obstacles, it's clear to most observers that Chinese president Xi Jinping is serious about reducing emissions and establishing the nation as a world leader on climate and energy issues, driven by concerns about air pollution, domestic energy, national security, and economic development.
China may be proceeding cautiously in establishing the cap-and-trade program, but the government could accelerate efforts rapidly if the early results are promising, or readily switch tactics if they aren't.
Moreover, even though outside observers have pinned high hopes on the program, China's leaders see it as just one in a "basket of policy measures" to fulfill their Paris commitment of reaching peak emissions by 2030, says Jeff Swartz, director of climate policy and carbon markets at advisory firm South Pole.
Indeed, given the aggressive rollout of renewables, reductions in coal use, and other steps, China may already be on track to beat that deadline.
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Allegorithmic released the next version of the beloved material editing software, which includes better bakers, improvements to the graph, the HBAO filter and the Autolevel node.
Here are the official details from Allegorithmic's blog. As mentioned in the previous Substance Painter announcement, this version of Substance Designer is not numbered.
The UI has been redesigned to cover less screen space while displaying the same amount of information in a streamlined layout. This will allow us to add new interesting components to the baking UI in the near future, stay tuned.
Speed has been addressed, with the high poly meshes being loaded only once and kept in memory until the baker is closed. We can now interact with the Substance Designer UI, check the bake result in the 2D/3D view and keep the window opened.
Baking times should now be much, much shorter.
Finally, a new Skew Correction option has been added to all raytraced bakers. This will allow you to supply a black and white mask to drive the baking and avoid any distortion on hard surface bakes.
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Finally, graph inputs can now be copy and pasted, either individually or in bulk, from one graph to another, retaining all of its properties.
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Bellatorum Resources Pro Classic Brings Pro Tennis Back to Tyler, Texas
$80K USTA Pro Circuit Event to be Hosted at Tyler Athletic and Swim Cub Oct. 26 - Nov. 1
Tyler, TX (September 21, 2020) – Professional tennis will return to Tyler, Texas this fall as the Bellatorum Resources Pro Classic, an $80K USTA Pro Circuit event, has officially announced that it will host the tournament at Tyler Athletic and Swim Club October 26th through November 1st, 2020.
The tournament, in its fourth year at Tyler Athletic and Swim Club, will be one of only a handful of events to be hosted in the U.S. for the remainder of 2020. Part of the USTA's Australian Open Wild Card series, the player who puts together the best results in Tyler, Macon and Charleston will be awarded a main draw wild card to the 2021 Australian Open. Singles and Doubles draws will be contested.
"We're thrilled to have the opportunity to host this fantastic tournament, both for the city of Tyler and to provide players an opportunity to compete in this challenging year," said Rob Lowe, Tournament Director. "I want to thank Bellatorum Resources for their significant support of tennis and our local community."
Bellatorum Resources, the new title sponsor, is a veteran-owned and operated investment firm specializing in mineral rights & royalty acquisitions. Headquartered in Spring, Texas, Bellatorum provides superior customer service and transparency for their clients.
"We're grateful to be in a position to sponsor this great pro tournament in Tyler," said Chris Bentley, President and CEO of Bellatorum Resources. "This event has had a great impact locally, and we're really proud to be a part of it now."
The USTA has introduced a number of new safety procedures to keep players and officials safe, and the tournament will not be open to the outside public for spectator access. Members of Tyler Athletic and Swim Club and sponsor guests will have access to the tournament, on a limited capacity basis, to watch matches courtside. The tournament will be streamed online for the public at no cost.
Past competitors have used the tournament as a spring-board to compete on the biggest stages of professional tennis, with names such as Sofia Kenin, Amanda Anisimova, CoCo Vandewhege, Caty McNally and Belinda Bencic having played in Tyler. Mandy Minella was the 2019 singles champion.
Information regarding player announcements, Wild Cards, TV coverage and more will be released soon. For more information on the tournament, please visit: www.brproclassic.com For more information about Bellatorum Resources, visit: www.bellatorum.com
For more information about Tyler Athletic and Swim Club, visit: www.tylerathleticandswim.com
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We wrote at the beginning of April that we believed the correction in equities was almost over and that the Russell 2000 Index in particular was getting ready to push to a new high. It achieved that new high a bit more quickly than we expected, but the rally should still have farther to go. It is testing the first resistance zone now.
Here we show some updated targets for the ETF that best tracks the index — the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE Arca: IWM). Since the rally is already underway, it makes sense first to monitor nearby resistance areas where a trader might lock in profits or otherwise manage the trade. Based on Gann methods, nearby overhead targets for IWM emerging from wave (iv) on a weekly chart show up at 163.90, 167.10 and 170.40.
We do not yet know what form upward wave (v) of [v] is taking. It could turn into a non-overlapping impulsive wave, but it may be more realistic to expect the lower volatility of summer trading to constrain future rallies and produce an overlapping ending-diagonal pattern.
It is even possible that wave (v) may be complete, as it has met the minimum formal requirement. In coming weeks and months, we will watch for momentum divergences and other indications of completed structures on smaller time frames in IWM and also the S&P 500 Index, which we follow closely for subscribers.
Stepping back to a monthly time frame, the next chart shows two channels that have been influential for IWM. The larger, older one (the modified Schiff channel) is anchored at the lows and the high of the prior decade. Throughout the present decade, IWM has recognized the rising 1/8th harmonics of that channel fairly well, so traders should pay attention to the next harmonic levels near 159.40, 166.00 and 173.00.
The steeper Schiff channel has guided price up from the 2009 low, which we are treating as a very large wave '4', and upward toward the completion of very large wave '5'. It's worth noting that the areas where the harmonic lines of the two channels intersect have sometimes produced consolidation or reversals.


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ICMC Europe Report: "MAYDAY! Strengthening responses of assistance and protection to boat people and other migrants arriving in Southern Europe"
ICMC has released a 150+ page report entitled "MAYDAY! Strengthening responses of assistance and protection to boat people and other migrants arriving in Southern Europe." I have just started reading the report and may post some additional excerpts in the coming days. Here is an excerpt from the Foreword and Introduction:
"In the first months of 2011 alone, more than 2,000 migrants have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea. More than 2,500 unaccompanied children arrived just on Italian shores. Tragic, chronic figures like these are urgent and continuous reminders of the need for another approach to human mobility that goes far beyond simple enforcement and fundamentally recognises the rights to life and protection for all.
It is not so much the arrivals of migrants and refugees that should be put to question, but rather the response mechanisms which very often fail as much in the fields of prevention and rescue as in the processes deciding where and how people are permitted to move, disembark, stay or return. Protection today is provided only for a limited number of boat people who need it, and governed by systems of access and identification that are far too limited. Correct identification, differentiation and referral systems are needed for all migrants in distress and from the very moment of their arrival, not only because they are human beings, but also because such approaches reflect the quality of our societies…."
"Scope of this report – Gathering the results of nearly a half thousand surveys of first responders and other actors as well as the migrants themselves, this report examines what happens—or does not happen— to identify migrants in need of protection and assistance upon their arrival in Europe. In particular, it sheds light on the mechanisms developed, and gaps both in practice and in policy in responses to boat people and other migrants arriving in mixed migratory movements in four countries at Europe's Southern door: Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain.
Although rescue at sea at one end and voluntary or enforcement-related return at the other are highly relevant topics and areas of research per se, DRIVE has focused on the situation of migrants at point of arrival. As such, the project and this report look at first responses in the phase immediately upon and surrounding arrival, and then to identification, differentiation and referral mechanisms for legal protection and/or further assistance in subsequent phases following arrival.
The principal focus of the project was on boat arrivals, but the shift in routes in Greece during the project period and the sharp increase in land border crossings there compelled reflection upon responses to migrants crossing land borders as well as those arriving by sea. While the project maintained its focus on arrivals by sea, one of its findings is that most of the laws, policies, procedures and responses applicable to boat people pertain equally to those arriving across land borders—in particular, steps on identification, differentiation and referral for protection and assistance.
The DRIVE project set out to promote protection of the rights of all migrants in these situations, especially the most vulnerable, regardless of their immigration status. Nevertheless, the project has highlighted four groups whose members have come to be defined to a varying extent as having specific rights or special needs under international and European legal instruments: asylum seekers, victims of human trafficking, children, and victims of torture. It merits emphasising however, that other migrants also have special needs because of particular vulnerabilities,- notably people with serious health problems, disabled people, elderly people, pregnant women, single parents with minor children and persons who have been subjected to or witnessed torture, rape or other serious forms of psychological, physical or sexual violence.
Structure of this report – The report is composed of four main parts, plus annexes:
Part 1: Building policy responses to boat people and others arriving in mixed migration flows – Within this first part, Chapter 1 provides a brief history of the policy evolution and the organizations involved in the area of mixed migration. Chapter 2 gives an overview of legal obligations relating to the rights of the migrants composing these arrivals. The third chapter provides an analysis of the EU policy and legal framework with regards to mixed migration arrivals at its borders.
Part 2: A focus on post-arrival identification, differentiation and referral for assistance and protection – The first chapter explains what is meant and implied by "identification, differentiation and referral"in mixed migration contexts, the concept at the core of the DRIVE study. The second chapter seeks to focus on the legal obligations of member states to conduct identification of people in need of protection at the border, with in-depth legal analysis of the rights and state obligations that international and EU law articulate for asylum seekers, children, and victims of human trafficking and torture.
Part 3: What happens to people arriving irregularly by boat in Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain? – The first chapter gives a snapshot of the trends and figures of arrivals in the Mediterranean region. In Chapter 2, the summaries of the four country reports (each presented in its entirety in an annex) then provide a look at the procedures and practices on the ground for first reception, identification and referral. The third chapter presents the results of the extensive migrants surveys that the DRIVE project conducted in the four countries in an effort to give voice to the beneficiaries themselves. Chapter 4 concludes with a comparative analysis identifying the main gaps and challenges in those countries.
Part 4: Conclusions and recommendations – The focus on the four countries enabled consideration of practices and procedures which could either improve the quality of the process or prevent people from accessing protection and assistance. Recommendations therefore seek to address how identification, differentiation and referral can be improved in the Mediterranean, including how the international and European legal and policy framework can address this question in a more comprehensive manner.
Annexes: Detailed mapping of the situation in Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain are attached in the annexes, as well as a presentation of some relevant tools and guidelines…."
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Gould School of Law
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Life Sentence For Man Charged With Daughter's Death in Austin
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Milwaukee, WI (KROC-AM News) - The Wisconsin man accused of killing his two-year-old daughter in an Austin motel today was given a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering the child's mother.
37-year-old Dariaz Higgins today appeared before a judge in Milwaukee using a remote video connection from jail to learn his fate for the shooting death of 24-year-old Sierra Robinson in Milwaukee in 2019 that resulted in his conviction on a first-degree murder charge. He also pleaded guilty to an attempted murder charge for shooting and wounding a 4-year-old girl who had accompanied Robinson while she traveled to Milwaukee from Las Vegas in hopes of obtaining custody of Noelani Robinson from Higgins.
Noelani Robinson, Blooming Prairie, Milwaukee
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Prosecutors say Higgins had killed his daughter in southern Minnesota several days before the shootings in Milwaukee. He currently faces a second-degree murder charge in Mower County that alleges he caused the death of his daughter through blunt force injuries to her head. The body of little Noelani was found by a passerby along Highway 218 near Blooming Prairie in March 2019.
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Using pooled data from the 2000–2006 National Health Interview Survey, the authors document how the relationship between education and a broad range of health measures varies by race/ethnicity and nativity. They found that education is a more powerful determinant of health behaviors and outcomes for some groups than it is for others. In addition, the education differentials for foreign-born groups are typically more modest than those for corresponding native-born populations. The study also shows how the education-health relationship varies across Hispanic and Asian subgroups. The authors argue that any intervention for eliminating health disparities must take these patterns into account.


The Supreme Court will today begin hearing an appeal whose outcome could throw the Government's plans for an abortion referendum into doubt. Depending on the court's ruling, the vote could be delayed by months, forcing a fundamental rethink of the proposed wording and approach.
Seven justices will sit this morning to hear the State's appeal of a High Court decision last summer that ruled for the first time that the unborn has rights in law beyond the constitutionally protected right to life. Lawyers for the State will seek to have the High Court decision overturned. If the State fails in its case, there will be significant implications for the protection of the unborn, not least in relation to the proposed referendum.
Government Ministers have been told they are almost certain to win the appeal; the judgment in the High Court, by Mr Justice Richard Humphreys, made new law on the subject, recognising rights for the unborn that no court previously had identified. But they acknowledge there is no certainty until a judgment is delivered, and they are increasingly nervous that anything other than a complete victory for the State side could thrown the plans for a referendum into confusion.
The case concerns a Nigerian man who came here in 2007, his Irish partner and their child, who was born in August 2015. The man was refused asylum. The couple took proceedings in July 2015 aimed at preventing his deportation and seeking residency on the basis of potential parentage of an Irish-born child. The child was not a party to the proceedings when they were initiated but was later joined to the case by Mr Justice Humphreys.
In his judgment granting the man leave to challenge his deportation, the judge found that an unborn child, including of a parent facing deportation, enjoys "significant" rights and legal position at common law, by statute, and under the Constitution, "going well beyond the right to life alone". Many of those rights are "actually effective" rather than merely prospective, he said.
Mr Justice Humphreys also interpreted article 42A of the Constitution, inserted as a result of the 2012 children's referendum, as affording protection to all children "both before and after birth". Until then the rights of the unborn had been interpreted to mean the right to life inserted by the Eighth Amendment and now enshrined in the Constitution as article 40.3.3.
The potentially far-reaching consequences of the judgment caused the State to immediately appeal the decision of Mr Justice Humphreys. Given the implication for the forthcoming referendum, the Supreme Court granted an accelerated hearing. The case is listed for two days, and a judgment is expected after a few weeks.
Although very few legal sources expect anything other than a successful appeal, the potential for complicating factors is nonetheless significant. Ministers say the case will see the seven judges asked to adjudicate on the extent of the rights of the unborn for the first time in the history of the State. As such, the Government cannot finalise the wording of the referendum until the judgment is published.
Because the High Court judgment grounded the rights of the unborn not just in article 40.3.3 but also in the children's rights amendment, anything other than a comprehensive overturning of the High Court decision would complicate the referendum's intention of allowing for abortion by deleting the existing constitutional ban in article 40.3.3. If the judgment, or that part of it, is not overturned, the Government may have to insert an article explicitly recognising a right to abortion.
The State is expected to argue the High Court erred in deciding the unborn has constitutionally protected personal rights beyond article 40.3.3. Any legal entitlements of the unborn are dependent, the State is expected to argue, on being born alive.
The Government says it intends to finalise the referendum wording by March 6th. That will be possible only if the Supreme Court produces a very rapid judgment and comprehensively overturns the High Court decision.
If either does not happen, the Government's timetable for the referendum will start to slip.


I still remember reading articles back about the time that this release came out calling it a landmark in the jungle genre and pretty much a redefining album. That was over half a decade ago and given that look back, it holds up pretty darn well, but I still can't find myself giving it a "landmark" rating, even thinking back to the first time that I heard it. One thing it certainly did do was help put the Metalheadz collective on the map even more and made it easier for artists like Photek, Source Direct, and others to break out and establish themselves even more.
One thing that you have to understand from the beginning about Goldie is that he tends to favor the soulful sounds of drum and bass. While he is capable of banging out a hard-edged, darker track (especially under pseudonyms), most of the time he opts for a bit of a lighter edge on his own studio projects. Another thing is that he's never let overindulgence stand in his way. While it wasn't as much of a problem on this, his debut release, it definitely made itself abundantly obvious on the overblown 60-minute long "Mother" on his Saturnzreturn release. That album was less restrained in general, though, and although it had moments where the experimentation worked in his favor, neither one of the 2CD was very easy to sit through completely.
One might think that with an opening track of well over 20 minutes on a debut album, overindulgence might just be a problem, but fortunately the album-titled track of "Timeless" is exactly what the critics were talking about when they all started talking about epic drum and bass. It has soul without being cheesy and goes through three different movements without seeming overlong, all the while morphing into a bigger and badder track until closing out at the end. It's like a great jazz track that captures the sound of the city after midnight, when it's not quite sure whether it wants to settle down for the night or stay up and rock it until the sun comes up and it goes through both options.
"Saint Angel" is one of those tracks that I mentioned earlier in which Goldie actually rips out the stops and pounds things down (although you can still hear somewhat cheesy diva "huh's" under the beats at the beginning before things really get down and grinding. "State Of Mind" drops the drum and bass tip for the most part in favor of an acid jazz feel and it kind of feels out of place before steady progression of the very nicely done "Sea Of Tears." The track combines some nice guitar work with a ton of shimmering and sweeping sounds and even though it's the second longest track on the disc, it doesn't feel too overly long or forced (despite some very blatant vocal samples about halfway through).
the 1-2 hits of "Angel" and "Sensual" again try to turn on the sensuality (natch), but work in varying degrees. The alternately dark and light "Kemistry" tears things up quite a bit again before the album closes out with another piano and synth driven track (with mild drum and bass undercurrents) of "You And Me." It's a bit of an underwhelming way to close out the disc, but again it shows Goldie opting for more soulful sounds (which don't always work). Still, the album is a solid release (much moreso than his follow-up) and "Timeless" may very well be the track that he's remembered for unless he manages to pull something else off. It's a bit on the light side overall, but a good listen nonetheless.


5280's annual Denver's 25 Best Restaurants list is a must-read for the city's foodies.
If you're a newbie Denverite like me, you may have wondered while perusing this year's list is — where the heck in Denver are all these restaurants? Since the online version of the article didn't have a map, I created one for your Denver dining planning convenience.
You can see from the mapped establishments, five of the spots on the list are not in Denver at all — they are in Boulder — so plan accordingly when trying to visit all 25 of this year's top winners!
Out of this list of distinguished winners, I've been to Mercantile Dining & Provisions, Acorn, Barolo Grill, at OAK at Fourteenth. Can't wait to try out some of these other places.
Do you have a favorite on the list or a restaurant that you feel was overlooked? Leave your top selection in the comments.


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1957 saw a facelift, more horsepower and tailfins for the "Sweet, Smooth and Sassy" Chevrolet. Basically a 1956 model with extensive sheet metal reworking giving a lower, longer look. Once again the models were divided up into 3 classes; 150, 210 and the top of the line Bel Air. All sported the new oval shaped grill with bomb like extensions at either end. Normally flat faced these could be fitted with rubber tip extensions.
A new transmission called "Turboglide" (paired with the V8 option) appeared later in the model year meaning that some earlier models still featured the "Powerglide" transmission.
The Blue Flame 140 six cylinder was still available together with 7 other engine/power options. The 265 ci was still available but only for stick shift and overdrive options. The rest were the new 283 ci. The top option sported 283 horse power and Chevrolet proudly announced this "one horse power per cubic inch" association.
The 150 was the plainest of the range. It had side spears that where reminiscent of the 1956 210 series. Interior was fairly basic with rubber flooring.
The new 210s now had a full length sweeping side spear that branched off towards the rear to form a second molding that followed the contour of the rear fender. The 210 was much closer to the Bel Air because of this feature but apart from some extra interior options there was little extra difference above the 150 base model.
The Bel Airs sport a silver anodized aluminium panel between the side moldings. Chevrolet Bel Air crests are also present on the rear fenders. Additional trim also included bright rocker panel moldings and three gold chevrons were found on the front fender. Interiors of Bel Airs also had carpets and several more, distinctive vinyl and patterned cloth combinations.


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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
Thucydides,16
Greek history oscillates between myth and reality. Independent and adventurous, the Greeks or Hellenes, from the dawn of their history – around the 8th century BC, succeed in colonizing the biggest part of the Mediterranean, from the Black Sea, Turkey, to North Africa, Italy, France and Spain.
Between 7th and 5th century BC, with the establishment of city-states (poleis), like Athens, Sparta, Thebe, Ephesus, Byzantion, Neapolis and Marseilles, geopolitical entities with their own organization, government and institutions, which were sharing, nevertheless, the same language – Greek, religion and culture, the Greeks managed to create a unique cultural framework, that combined diversity – state's sovereignty and unity – a common cultural identity.
The 6th and 5th centuries BC represent both the peak of a period in Greek history, and a sudden decline. During this period, the first large-scale democracy emerges in Athens. The Athenian democratic rule was a way to give the Greek people representation and political power. Simultaneously, this period, the art of drama saw the light of the day. It seems ironic, but the coexistence of democracy and drama is imprinted in the history of the city where these two were born. For some historians, the history of Golden Age Athens constitutes a play with Pericles and Socrates as its tragic heroes. As for them, both Pericles and Athens hubris are as dramatic and complete as that of any mythical figures. Pericles, the great leader and statesman of Golden Age Athens, would be claimed by a plague that decimated the city as a result of the Peloponnesian War with Sparta of 431-404 BC. Convinced though it was of its inevitable victory, Athens lost the war, along with its empire and its cultural preeminence. The Peloponnesian War entangled every major power on the Greek peninsula, along with their overseas colonies.
The catastrophe caused by the war enabled Macedon in the north, under its king Philip II and his son Alexander the Great, to take control. Tutored by Aristotle, young Alexander accomplished his father's project to lead the Greeks in the conquest of Persia. It's sure that the son surpassed the ambitions of his father, by invading India in 326 BC. Alexander's remarkable achievement gave birth to a new era of the Greek history – the Hellenistic Age.
The Hellenistic Age is characterized by the transformation of Greek society from the localized and introvert city-states to an open and cosmopolitan culture that infiltrated the entire eastern Mediterranean, and Southwest Asia. Despite the fact that the Hellenistic world was a melting-pot of people and cultures, Greek thinking and way of life dominated the public affairs of the time, and the Greek language was the official language.
In the 2nd century BC, the land-mass of Hellas became part of the Roman Empire. The leagues and poleis continued to run themselves, but were now under close Roman supervision. Roman expansion to the east was made easier by the conquests of Alexander the Great, who introduced Greek political ontology, administration and urban living, as far as Afghanistan.
By the 4th century CE it was clear that the Roman Empire was becoming too large to be centrally governed. For this reason, in 330 CE the Roman emperor Constantine split the empire into two halves, the eastern half centered on Greek Byzantium, renamed Constantinople (now Istanbul). In the fifth century, when the Germanic invasions provoked the fall of Rome, and the Western Roman Empire collapsed, Constantinople became the new centre of the Roman Empire, known as the Byzantine Empire.
Deriving from "Byzas", a man who founded an ancient Greek colony, Byzantium or Eastern Roman Empire is considered the continuation of the Roman Empire. Situated on the crossroads between Europe, Africa and Asia, Constantinople – the empire's capital was the ideal geostrategic and trade point. Byzantium was ruled by Roman law and Roman political institutions. Its official religion was Christianity and its official language was Latin. Nevertheless, Greek was also widely spoken, and the Byzantine world was shot through with Greek education, literature and culture.
The Byzantine Empire existed from 330 to 1453 CE when its glorious capital fell to the Ottoman Turks. Greece and other territories of the old Byzantine Empire remained under Ottoman control for nearly 400 years.
The 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, was a period of struggles for the Greeks, who finally achieved the creation of their current independent country. On 25 March 1821 the Greek war of independence started and the country reached its present configuration in 1947.
From the beginning of its existence as a modern state in 1830, Greece was a kingdom. It was in 1967 that a military junta overthrew the government and ended the monarchy in Greece. The military regime fell down in 1974 and in 1975 Greece started a new political life, becoming a democratic republic. The country is a member of the EU since 1981 and it joined the Eurozone in 2001.


Harriet is spending the summer getting used to her family's new apartment in Chicago. It's hot and boring, with her parents working hard at new jobs, and the girls from last year's summer camp ignoring her postcards.
The only person she interacts with is the older woman downstairs. Pearl owns the building and tells tales of her family. Pearl was also a librarian, and she recommends books to Harriet that interest her more than her assigned reading. Harriet is "tired of books with boring girl characters who don't get to do anything," a modern reaction to some of the titles that are classics because of age.
In addition to being lonely, Harriet has a chronic illness that makes her feel even more set apart. Harriet's also imaginative, coming up with exaggerated explanations for other people's behavior, which dismays her parents. To redirect her, they and Pearl encourage her to find books that inspire and challenge her and to start writing her own stories.
The pastel colors and rounded character designs are softly welcoming (and more comfortable than the Chicago summer heat), while the panels without backgrounds put focus on the characters' reactions. Searle's unique style of underlining her character's eyes with a thin row of eyelashes draws attention to them, often giving them an air of alertness.
Searle's storytelling is deliberately paced, which makes the reader feel Harriet's aimlessness. Sincerely, Harriet isn't a book to instantly fall in love with. It's one that quietly paints a picture of an uncertain young woman whom many readers will sympathize with. She's struggling with her own body, with knowing her own mind and heart, and not yet having anything to drive her forward in life.
The book rewards re-reading, particularly once one knows about Harriet's challenges and can better understand some of the earlier events of the story. An author's note provides more information on invisible disabilities.


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'An Event Unfolding': Al-Nakba, Resistance, and the Land
May 14, 2019 Articles, Commentary
Gaza's Great March of Return. (Photo: Abdullah Aljamal, Palestine Chronicle)
By Benay Blend
May 15 marks the 71st anniversary of the Nakba, a commemoration of the catastrophe in which Zionist forces banished 750,000-900,000 Palestinians, destroyed 531 villages, and appropriated the holdings of those who fled.
After the Six-Day War or Naksa (setback) of 1967, Israel seized the remaining territories.
In his "Forward" to Ramzy Baroud's The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (2018), Ilan Pappe says that Al-Nakba al Mustamera, the on-going Nakba, is a common term for the period after 1948. Moreover, he continues, this signifies that discrete chapters in the history of Palestine, such as the disaster of 1948, are not just events in the past, but rather are a part of a contemporary historical chapter.
Indeed, recent Israel's bombing of Gaza has resulted in 25 dead and nearly 200 injured. Relying on the late Patrick Wolfe, who "adapted and applied" the settler-colonial paradigm to Palestine, Pappe explains that the project is on-going, as is Palestinian resistance to it
Resistance takes many forms: primitive rockets sent from Gaza to Israel in retaliation for whatever recent crimes committed by the Israeli state; non-violent civil disobedience, such as the year-long Great March of Return, weekly protests that sought to place the plight of refugees at the center of the liberation struggle; and finally, like Indigenous people elsewhere, Palestinians employ cultural resistance as a means to leverage their right to exist.
A national poet of a nation that exists only in his imagination, Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) writes that "all beautiful poetry is an act of resistance," reflecting histories of Palestinians that highlight resistance to Occupation. Through personal stories, poetry and narrative, Palestinian voices convey an attachment to the land that serves as cultural resistance to dispossession and fragmentation.
In a July 2018 interview in Electronic Intifada, Muhammad Awadallah, 80, speaks of his displacement from his original village, located a few kilometers from the occupied West Bank village where he now lives. "I can't forget the land. It's always on my mind. It's like a mother longing for her son," he explains, recalling in detail the vegetables that his family grew on their farm.
Awadallah, 80, was speaking in the occupied West Bank village of new al-Walaja, located just a few kilometers from the original village from where he and all its other residents were displaced in 1948 by Zionist forces.
"We had lands and our hearts were open," he recalled, speaking not only of himself but for all those in whose collective memory live stories of the past.
As Pappe notes, it is through these kinds of "almost forensic personal stories" that one can understand the impact of the Nakba not only on individuals, such as Awadallah but also on the "collective psyche" of Diasporic Palestinians as well as those still in their homeland. Their plight is at the core of Palestinian issues, and their stories are passed down through generations.
According to Maysa Abou-Yousef, environmental writing reflects a political agenda for Palestinian writers, perhaps because as more olive trees are uprooted, only words are left for preserving what was lost ("Symbolic and Intersubjective Representations in Arab American writing," in Literature and Nature: An International Sourcebook, edited by Patrick Murphy.
For example, in Arab in Newsland (2017), Palestinian American poet Lena Khalef Tuffaha's poem "Future Perfect" conveys memory as a tool which collapses time and unifies a scattered people.
Despite her immersion in protests against the Iraqi war, Tuffaha remembers that,
At home there was a simple answer
to "where are we from?"
The answer was always "Fa-las-teen"—
a place I hadn't been to, an event unfolding
Writing in what Ilan Pappe calls a "homogeneous time zone," Tuffaha creates a timeline encased within a Pandora's box, to be opened "In Case of Emergency."
In a poem of the same name, she goes backward through each era to present a personal as well as collective sense of trauma—all tied together by circumstances of specific time and space. Despite the Israelis' efforts to remove those indigenous to the land from their areas of long habitation, there exists in Tuffaha's writing a sense that recollection of painful memories can be transformed into cultural resistance.
Various years mark her father's death, the Nakba, the Naksa, and other events all tied to the loss of land. Whatever Israel does, Tuffaha meets it with resistance embodied within land and place.
In her collection Water and Salt (2017), she speaks to her child in a poem entitled "Time Travel":
We travel back so that you
will know who we were and who
You might have been if you
had lived here too
Finally, in the poem "Circling the Dome of the Sky," Tuffaha sums up her mother's definition of "home." Reflecting a 70-year history of resistance, sumoud (resilience), and love that ties their struggle to the land, Palestinian voices surface in this poem in relation to the homeland:
What she called home was a jar of olives
shaken from the tree by hand
What she called home was a fig tree
In his introduction to the first Palestine Festival of Literature in 2008, Mahmoud Darwish said:
"Welcome to this sorrowing land, whose literary image is so much more beautiful than its present-day reality."
For millions of Palestinians living in the Diaspora, there is no right of return. For those in Gaza and the Occupied Territories, there is no freedom to move about the land.
Nevertheless, as Ilan Pappe concludes:
"The Palestinians are victims, but they are not passive victims".
The persistence of these narratives attests to the resilience of people who have held firmly to their right to existence.
– Benay Blend received her doctorate in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. Her scholarly works include Douglas Vakoch and Sam Mickey, Eds. (2017), "'Neither Homeland Nor Exile are Words': 'Situated Knowledge' in the Works of Palestinian and Native American Writers". She contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.
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Validating Emotions
Last Friday evening, I was walking down the street (with my covid mask on, of course), when I overheard a mom and dad telling their son to, "stop being such a baby, it's not a big deal" after he had dropped his ice cream on the ground and had started to cry. It reminded me of the importance of validating our children's emotions, even when those emotions seem unnecessary or polar opposite of how we'd react in the same situation.
What is Emotional Validation?
Marsha Linehan (a.k.a. the creator of DBT), defined validation as the ability to convey to another person, that their feelings and emotions are understood. Within your family unit, this means that you are trying to non-judgementally accept your child's emotions or emotional experience.
It's important to remember that validation is about accepting the emotional experience of your son or daughter and not necessarily about accepting their behaviours or thoughts. An example of this would be: "I can see how angry you are with your sister, but instead of pushing her, tell her what you want with your words."
Parental Pointer: When your child is experiencing "big feelings" and their emotions are heightened, it's often best to hold off on problem solving and brainstorming solutions. Simply start with validating how they're feeling in the moment. Problem solving can come later down the road, when they've calmed down and are more likely to be receptive to what you have to say.
Why is Emotional Validation Important?
Research tells us that when you validate your child's feelings, you are fostering healthy emotional regulation and expression. You're helping your child to notice, understand, and label their feelings. The ability to recognize the whole range of their emotional experience, from happiness, sadness, anger, and joy, in turn promotes self-confidence, empathy, and stronger communication skills.
In addition, validation signals to your child that you accept them whether they're a blubbering mess or a bucket of sunshine. Feeling accepted and understood creates bondedness in your relationship with them. It also creates a safe space for parent-child communication. When children feel validated and accepted, they will be more willing to listen to you and to alter their own behaviours.
Examples of Validation:
Feelings and emotions. "I can see you're really sad right now."
Legitimacy in wanting something. "I know you really wanted _________ but right now________."
Acknowledging how hard it can be to feel different than other people, despite wanting to be the same or similar. "I know how hard it can be to feel different than other people."
Normalizing-acknowledgement that their reaction was reasonable. "I'd be hurt if my friend said that to me too."
What is Emotional Invalidation?
Emotional invalidation happens when you convey to someone that their emotional experience is not acceptable or warranted and that they should push away or even hide their feelings. Essentially, their emotional responses are being penalized or punished.
Punishing or discouraging emotional responses is often used as a tactic by parents to calm their child or to protect them from uncomfortable feelings. However, discouraging these responses usually has the opposite effect, resulting in a pressure cooker of feelings where the emotion intensifies, and the response is heightened. In addition, children who are invalidated do not learn how to express or regulate their feelings, making them more vulnerable to emotion dysregulation as adults. Children will learn to suppress and hide their feelings, even feel guilty and 'wrong' which can lead to insecurity and self-doubt.
Parental Pointer: Try not to minimize your child's problems. Many of the teens that I work with say they feel that their parents dismiss their issues and worries. They'll say something like: "my parents don't think my struggles are a big deal."
Examples of Invalidation:
"Let it go."
"Stop being so sensitive."
"It could have been worse."
"It doesn't bother anyone else, why do you feel upset?"
Remember that practice makes perfect. Once you start validating, it will be amazing how your child starts to respond differently to you.
I also challenge you to start validating yourself, an important steppingstone to foster self-compassion. First start by noticing your feelings and then practice accepting your feelings. Self validating statements tend to look like this: "this is hard, what do I need to cope and make myself feel better?" or "everyone makes mistakes, it's part of the process of learning and growing."
Remember that no feelings are bad or wrong. It's just that some feelings are more uncomfortable than others. Not everyone feels the same way that you would feel, when placed in the same situation. And that's ok!! (exclamation ok).
This article was written by Sarah Hurley during their time at Shift Collab.


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Q: Stop xsd.exe from generating multidimensional arrays I have XSD Schema with the following structure:
ElementA has only one ElementB and that has zero to infinite of ElementC
ElementA -> ElementB -> ElementC[]

When I generate classes with this schema and xsd.exe it generates multidimensional arrays: Everywhere ElementA is used it puts ElementC[][][]. For each depth one dimension. Is there way to stop xsd.exe doing this?
For example the XSD defines an element called carList that contains only the car-tags (zero to infinite "car"). The xsd.exe should then create a class called carList that contains only an one-dimensional array or an list of car. Instead wherever a carList would be used it puts an car[][]. Don't like that.
One more question, is there a way to generate a XML that fits an given XSD besides generating classes that will be filled and serialized?

A: I use xsd.exe as well and I don't know a better way, at least for .NET platform.
After generating XSD schema file from XML, you need to modify the dimension ranges in XSD file then generate the Class. Because, dimensions in XML are unclear. You may have a single node at the moment but maybe you can add more in the future. Rules are not certain. Because of that reason, you need to edit XSD manually before generating the code files.

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