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The Calculus of Animal Valuation: Crafting a Viable Remedy
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For most of recorded history, the majority of legal systems have regarded domesticated animals as a species of property. Part I of this article reviews the traditional method of valuing animals in tort cases and notes that some modern courts have expanded beyond the classic fair market value standard and have allowed pet owners to recover for the value of the pet to them or even for loss of affection and companionship. Most courts, however, still value animals according to their fair market value, and Part I asserts that this method of valuation produces severe undercompensation of pet owners in many instances. Part II of this article explores generally the development of tort recoveries for "ethereal" injuries—injuries to the psychic and the emotions. Specifically, it discusses the evolution of derivative claims for loss of consortium and society, the abolition of certain claims for emotional distress such as alienation of affections and similar actions, and the increased recognition of claims for intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. Part II asserts that the same reasoning that led to an expansion of claims for ethereal injuries dictates that the courts afford some compensation for the emotional loss experienced because of the tortious injury to a companion animal. It also notes that pet destruction cases can be analogized to nuisance claims, for which many states allow recovery of damages for mental anguish. Part III explores the social science literature that documents the emotional importance of companion animals to their human owners. It asserts that a proper system of tort compensation should afford something more than a minimal recovery for the wrongful death of a companion animal. Part IV proposes a new rule of compensation for the tortious destruction of companion animals that will afford a significant recovery to pet owners. Initially, section IV.A addresses the general policy implications of compensating intangible losses in pet death cases and asserts that the fundamental policies of the tort compensation system are well served by recognizing such claims. It explores the tort theories of compensation, deterrence, and reflection of societal values as well as the related remedial policies of corrective justice and economic efficiency. Section IV.B then analyzes the inadequacies of the current legal rules for valuing companion animals, including the fair market value standard and the "value to the owner" concept. Section IV.C elaborates on my proposal to compensate animal guardians in pet destruction cases for both the pecuniary and nonpecuniary components of their loss. In Section IV.D, I respond to possible policy objections to my proposal and demonstrate that these objections can be overcome in a properly tailored compensation scheme.
Margit Livingston, The Calculus of Animal Valuation: Crafting a Viable Remedy, 82 Neb. L. Rev. (2003)
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Cochrane Tourism is kicking off the summer event season in a big way.
They've partnered up with immersive adventure specialist Uncorked Experiences to bring the firm's Mystery Towns Tour to Cochrane. Organizers say the clue-based adventure game around central Cochrane will show residents a side of their town they've never seen before.
"A renowned movie scout is looking for films hidden around town," reads online promotional material for the game.
"Can you follow the trail and solve the clues before a rival scout gets them?"
Clues are presented and game progress is tracked through an app, so at least one person in the group will need a fully-charged phone. The game's 25 clues are scattered along a two kilometre-long route, which around 60-90 minutes to complete.
"It involves deciphering clues that take you through Historic Mainstreet and the core of Cochrane by foot, exploring the town through the eyes of a movie buff," said Cochrane Tourism communications specialist Kelly Sinclair.
"Mystery Towns is a unique way to experience Cochrane, explore little-known areas, and have a great time with friends."
The Mystery Towns Tour will operate every day throughout the summer, starting anytime between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday and between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sundays. An online leaderboard will keep track of the best mystery-solvers throughout the season.
Organizers say the game's content is exciting for adults and kids alike. The game includes optional stops for shopping, dining and sightseeing as well.
A $49 fee gives a full team (recommended size: 2-4 people) access to the adventure game. On April 27, however, Cochranites can cut that number in half during the tour's launch party in Cochrane.
More information, and a link to purchase access to the tour, can be found at both Cochrane-Tourism.ca and MysteryTownTours.com. For a 50 per cent discount on the $49 fee, select April 27 as the date and enter the promo code 0419LAUNCH.
Swag bags for the first 150 people, as well as other specials and prizes, are set to make an appearance during the Saturday launch party. The start time is completely flexible, as long as teams start their tour from Centennial Plaza downtown sometime between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m..
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Grace Lee Whitney (1 April 1930 – 1 May 2015; age 85) was an American actress and entertainer best known for her portrayal of Yeoman Janice Rand in Star Trek: The Original Series. Her character was originally intended to be a major part of the series, however, she was written out after eight episodes. Whitney returned to the role for several cameo appearances in subsequent Star Trek movies, and featured in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Flashback". She retained an active interest in Star Trek fandom, appearing in several fan films.
Born Mary Ann Chase, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she was adopted by the Whitney family who named her Grace Elaine Whitney. She became a prolific actress in the 1950s and 1960s, debuting on the Broadway stage in "Top Banana" before going on to appear in the 1954 motion picture of the same name. She worked with Jeffrey Hunter in the film The Man from Galveston (1963). Whitney guested on several well-known television series including The Twilight Zone (pre-ST), Bewitched, Batman, Cimmaron Strip, The Virginian, Mannix, and Gene Roddenberry's own Police Story, co-starring DeForest Kelley. She also appeared alongside her TOS co-star George Takei in a 1998 episode of Diagnosis: Murder.
Grace had two sons, Scott and Jon Dweck, who also appeared in Star Trek productions.
Intended to appear in far more episodes than she ultimately did, Whitney's Yeoman Rand was written out of several episodes, and ultimately dropped from the series after eight episodes. The exact reason for Whitney's dismissal is uncertain; her struggle with alcohol and use of diet pills are sometimes cited as causes, while creator Gene Roddenberry's biography suggests that her departure was simply a budget cutback. In her autobiography, The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy, Whitney describes an incident in which she was sexually assaulted by an executive of the Star Trek production team, who is not identified by name, and she drew a link between this incident and her sacking a few days later, but afterwards states her role was going to be eliminated in any case. Her last appearance was in the background of the episode, "The Conscience of the King", with her character replaced by Dr. Helen Noel in "Dagger of the Mind". According to Inside Star Trek, Whitney slid deeper into alcohol addiction after being fired from the show. Speaking of her termination from the series, Whitney stated, "they wanted William Shatner to have romances in each episode with a different person, because for him to be stuck with one woman was not good for him and it wasn't good for the audience. That's what they told me, so I was written out. There were two blonde girls and one black girl. Nichelle was a more important character and couldn't be written out. Everything's political in America. One of the blondes had to go. The other one was engaged to the boss, so guess who went? I just about killed myself. I drank, that's what we do, we drink to get rid of pain. I was really mad. My God, was I bitter." Roddenberry later apologized for the dismissal and said it was the "dumbest mistake" he ever made.
Whitney began her recovery in the 1980s and has gone on to appear in many more Star Trek productions, most recently the 2007 fan film Star Trek: Of Gods and Men and the Star Trek: New Voyages episode "World Enough and Time" (2007), in which she appeared alongside George Takei, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, James Cawley, Jeffery Quinn, and John Carrigan. The episode was directed by Marc Scott Zicree, written by Zicree and Michael Reaves, and stunt coordinated by Leslie Hoffman.
Whitney filmed her scenes for "The Enemy Within" on Thursday 16 June 1966, Friday 17 June 1966 and Tuesday 21 June 1966, her scenes for "The Man Trap" between Thursday 23 June 1966 and Monday 27 June 1966, her scenes for "The Naked Time" on Thursday 7 July 1966 and Friday 8 July 1966, and her scenes for "Charlie X" between Tuesday 12 July 1966 and Friday 15 July 1966, all at Desilu Stage 9.


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Should we force the terminally ill to travel abroad and pay £10,000 for a painless death?
Jackie and Dave Osmond took Jackie's mother, Lynn, who had Parkinson's, to Dignitas in Switzerland for an assisted death at her request Credit: Thomas Duffield
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On a Sunday in October last year, Dave and Jackie Osmond arrived at the care home near Coventry, where Jackie's mother Lynn was living, to take her on her final journey.
Suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease and living in constant pain following a series of surgical procedures, Lynn, who was 76, had long since made up her mind that she wished to die on her own terms, peacefully and as she put it, with dignity .
'It was what she wanted,' Jackie said. 'And because it was what she wanted, we wanted to help her.'
Under the Suicide Act, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, any action that helps another person to end his or her life is illegal, including arranging travel to assisted-dying clinics in a more liberal jurisdiction. Those convicted could face up to 14 years in prison.
In the months that Lynn had been in the care home, it had required a measure of subterfuge to make the necessary arrangements to take her to Switzerland, and the Dignitas organisation where she planned to end her life.
Preparing for the journey, Jackie had told the home they were taking her mother to Wales 'for a short break'. So it was that waiting to check in at the airport, they were shocked to see a nurse from the care home approaching them.
'She said, "fancy seeing you here! Where are you going?" My mum looked at me, and I said "it's a surprise".
'The nurse said, "I bet I know...." I was thinking, oh my God.... And she whispered in my ear, "Turkey..." - because she knew we have a holiday home there. I didn't want to lie again, so I just said "You'll see..."
We were sitting in Jackie and Dave's home in a village a few miles from Coventry. Sandwiches and coffee on the kitchen counter, a view through the window onto open fields.
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Dave, a practical, no-nonsense man, had retired as a senior executive in the motor industry, and was now doing consultancy work. 'We're very happy to talk about this,' he said. 'It's important to let people know what the situation is for people in Lynn's position'. And theirs.
Lynn Chisholm was in her mid 50s when she was first diagnosed with Parkinson's. For years, according to Jackie, she was able to manage the condition. But five years ago she began to deteriorate markedly. A back operation left her in constant pain. She stopped eating and her weight fell to six stone. She became a virtual recluse, her husband Bill acting as full-time carer.
Bill's health was also failing, and in November 2016 he suffered a fall and died of internal bleeding. He was 77. He and Lynn had been married for 56 years and barely spent a day apart.
Both had often discussed the question of 'not wanting to live beyond a point that was viable and with dignity', as Dave put it. 'It was almost a standing conversation between them about, when the time came, going to Switzerland "for a little holiday".' After Bill's death, Lynn came to live with Jackie and Dave, but when her condition worsened she was admitted to hospital for palliative care. At her request, her records were marked DNR - Do Not Resuscitate - and she specified to the doctors that in the event of pneumonia she did not wish to be treated with antibiotics. When she did contract pneumonia, antibiotics were nevertheless prescribed. She recovered and was discharged to a care home. 'All along she'd said, I don't want to go in a home,' Jackie told me. 'Just give me a little pill, help me along. She was pleading for that...'
Unable to do so herself, she asked Dave to download the paperwork on Dignitas.
'She could only read a couple of pages a day because her hands were shaking so much,' Jackie said.. 'She wanted to plan it all herself. She knew we were willing to help her, but she didn't want us to get in trouble. She needed to be aware of what was happening.'
Throughout the process of applying to Dignitas, Lynn had kept the decision secret not only from the care home - 'she felt terrible about that', Jackie said - but even from her own sisters. 'She was worried that they would try to stop her, and that was absolutely not what she wanted.'
On the day before leaving for Switzerland, unable to write, she dictated letters for her two sisters and sisters-in-law, to say goodbye. Then Jackie packed a bag for her, and they left.
Alex Pandolfo is planning his own death before his Alzheimer's affects his ability to demonstrate 'mental capacity' Credit: Thomas Duffield
The shocking revelations of the inquiry into the premature deaths of at least 456 people at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital has re-animated the discussion over the vexed question of assisted dying, and the need both to protect patients, and respect the choices of the terminally ill and the elderly approaching the ends of their lives. Opponents argue that assisted dying would open the door to more people having their 'lives shortened' illegally. Proponents argue that a properly regulated law would bring transparency to end-of-life treatment, preventing the possibility of another Gosport.
It's believed that the first Briton to die at Dignitas and elect to publicise his case, in 2003, was Reginald Crew, 74, who was suffering from motor neurone disease. Since then it is estimated that two people a month travel from Britain to Switzerland to end their lives, in the absence of being able to do so legally here. (It is thought that a further 300 or so people a year arrange their own death at home.)
For a terminally ill or suffering person to pursue the process that the campaign group Dignity in Dying describes as 'outsourcing death to Switzerland' takes time, knowledge and funds. It is a process that favours the educated and the well-off. The average cost of travelling to Switzerland for an assisted death has been estimated at £10,000.
Applicants must provide medical records to show they meet the required criteria of mental capacity and illness - in the case of Dignitas, that they are suffering from a terminal disease (or a condition that causes unendurable disability or unbearable pain); or in the case of another Swiss assisted-death organisation, Lifecircle, that they are suffering from an incurable disease.
But doctors are often reluctant to provide records, afraid of falling foul of the General Medical Council dictat that they 'must not actively encourage or assist' a patient seeking assisted dying, while any psychiatrist providing a report on mental competence risks being struck off the medical register.
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The psychiatric report for Lynn Chisholm was provided by Dr Colin Brewer, one of the few psychiatrists in Britian prepared to evaluate people applying to Dignitas or Lifecircle. Brewer was formerly the director of the Stapleford drug clinic, which offered low-cost drug withdrawal programmes for patients who could not afford private in-patient treatment. But in 2006 he was erased from the medical register following the death of a patient undergoing a 'DIY home detox', after the patient's parents had misread instructions.
Brewer, who is 77, has long been a proponent of legalising assisted dying. In the early 1970s he was on the committee of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (now Dignity In Dying), and wrote a booklet for members of the Society giving guidance on how people could self-euthanise. He is now associate co-ordinator of the campaigning group My Death My Decision (MDMD).
'Most people I see have clearly thought about this issue long before they became ill,' he says. 'They've been members of societies like Dignity in Dying or MDMD, or they've indicated in some way that this is what they'd want.
'My job is simply to say, you have, or have not capacity - or you do not have, or have, a psychiatric condition which if treated might make you change your mind. Occasionally, I see people who've left it too late, they don't have capacity - and in that case I tell them so.'
Advances in medicine and the capacity to prolong life far beyond what would once have been regarded as its 'natural' span, when any hope of recovery or even a reasonable life is long gone, have contributed to the complex ethical problem of a patient's right to chose to die.
'We live a lot longer, but a lot of people are living very unhealthy and unhappy lives,' Brewer says. 'I think that a planned death, for any reason, is something that people should be looking at, because often the alternative is really not good.'
It is choice, he says, he would happily seize himself. 'Absolutely.'
In an earlier age when most people died at home, it was not unusual for the decision to 'ease the passing' of a dying person to be taken privately between a family and their GP. In 1936 - a year after the founding of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society - in a debate in the House of Lords over the legalisation of euthanasia, Lord Dawson, who was George V's physician, argued against the Bill, describing euthanasia as 'a mission of mercy' best left to the conscience of individual physicians rather than official regulators. (It would be another 50 years before it was revealed that as George V lay dying, Dawson had adminsistered fatal doses of morphine and cocaine to assure the Monarch a painless death - and in time for the announcement to be carried 'in the morning papers rather than the less appropriate evening journals.')
Opinion polls have long shown widespread public support for the idea of assisted dying. A British Social Attitudes Survey in 2017 reported that 78 per cent of respondents believe that someone suffering from an incurable, terminal disease should be able to get medical help to die.
Yet Parliament has consistently rejected any change in the law. In 2015, in a heated debate, MPs voted against a bill that would allow some terminally ill adults to end their lives with medical supervision by 330 to 118 votes. In May, Guernsey's parliament voted by a margin of 24 votes to 14 against setting up a working group to develop similar legislation for the island.
Nick Boles MP is chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Choice at the End of Life, which is campaigning for a change in the law. Boles' perspective is particularly interesting. He says he was opposed to any change until his own brush with cancer in 2016 led him to wonder what he would want for himself had his illness become terminal. 'The answer was simple. I would want control.'
Having been 'five per cent' opposed, Boles says he became 'five per cent' in favour. 'It hasn't been a Damascene conversion.' he told me. 'And I think my move is likely to be true of a lot of MPs and members of the House of Lords who are wrestling with their consciences when their constituents talk about this.'
Boles believes the best option for a safe law is the Bill initially proposed by Lord Falconer in the House of Lords in 2014, and which formed the basis for the Bill that failed in the Commons a year later. Under this proposal, people suffering from a terminal disease with fewer than six months to live, and with full mental capacity, could have been prescribed a lethal dose of drugs, which they would have to be able to take themselves, following appraisal by two physicians, and with the final approval of a High Court judge.
This formulation, Boles believes would allay the oft-expressed fears about people being coerced into taking their own life by unscrupulous family members, or feeling under pressure because they were a 'burden' to loved ones.
The Falconer Bill was modelled on the Death with Dignity Act, in the US state of Oregon, where 'medical aid in dying' has been authorized since 1997 (six other states in America, including California, Washington and most recently Hawaii, have since followed suit.) Barbara Coombs Lee, president of Compassion & Choices, a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding and protecting the rights of the terminally ill, who helped to draft the act, says that the evidence of the past 21 years suggests the law has been 'rock solid' in its protections.'This is really about people being able to take control of the process of dying while there is still an element of quality about their life, and in the face of what they fear will be truly unbearable,' she told me.
My last act will be a condemnation of the government for forcing me to take my own life before I need to, and in a foreign country
What was not anticipated in passing the law, she says, was that having gone through the onerous process of qualifying to receive medication, upwards of 35 percent of people then choose not to take it.
'That was quite a surprise,' she says. 'They die in their beds at home, with the comfort of knowing their suffering never did become unbearable, and that they never did have to avail themselves of the option they had access to.
'And the second surprise is the enormous improvement in the mental and emotional state of people once they do receive the means of control over their suffering. The burden of anxiety having been lifted improves the quality of their remaining life.'
The Oregon law, like the proposals put before English parliament, stipulates that the person should be mentally competent capacity and have 'six months or less' to live. This does not answer the dilemma of people suffering from dementia, where mental capacity may be rapidly failing and the criterion of 'competence' is therefore precarious. Dementia (including Alzheimer's disease) has overtaken coronary heart disease to become the leading cause of death in the UK, accounting for 11.6% of all deaths in 2015. It is estimated that by 2040 more than 1.2 million people will be living with dementia in England and Wales.
While Dignity in Dying campaigns on the basis of 'six months to live', My Death, My Decision argues that in the case of people with dementia - and other chronic or progressive conditions that, in Colin Brewer's words 'make a mockery of the term "quality of life"' - the six months criteria is unfairly proscriptive.
'These days everybody knows what dementia is like,' he says. 'When I see someone with early dementia I start from the philosophical position that it's entirely normal to feel that when it becomes severe you would rather be dead - at some stage. Because clearly that is the case. Most people I see in that condition have clearly thought about it long before they became ill, and indicated that they wish to have the option of assisted dying.'
In cases of dementia, Dignitas stipulate that a report on mental competence should be no more than 30 days old, because the condition of a patient can change so rapidly. (The Swiss doctor who prescribes the lethal medicine also has to make a final assessment at that time to confirm that the patient still retains capacity and thus qualifies under Swiss law.)
This means that a patient with dementia is faced with the appalling prospect of having to make the final decision to die while mentally competent, when they may still have the possibility of weeks, months, or even years of reasonable life ahead of them.
'If someone can't answer the simple questions - do you understand what you're doing? Are you sure? - then Dignitas won't help them,' Colin Brewer says.
When to go: the agonising dilemma
I first met Alex Pandolfo in London, at a meeting of MDMD . About a hundred people had gathered in the hall - some of whom had already made the decision to take their own lives, others who were, perhaps, weighing it up...The mood was of enthusiastic support for the idea of assisted dying, and anger at the law that prevents it. A woman suffering from Parkinson's talked of the terror of losing the capacity to do the things she most loved. She had no intention of applying to Dignitas, she said, but wanted the option to be able to die if she so chose. A man addressed the question of religious objections - 'God gave me life. I believe I have the right to give it back' - to a smattering of applause.
Alex was just 64, but had been suffering from Alzheimer's for the past four years. He had made the decision to go to Switzerland, he told me, while he was still of sufficiently sound mind to do so. A few weeks later I visited him at his home in Lancaster. The small mews house where he lived alone was sparsely decorated, but he said that he had recently been hanging things on the wall. A framed family tree. A signed Manchester City shirt. A poster for his favourite musical Hair. His life.
Alex Pandolfo shows a treasured picture of his father, whose own death came after years of suffering Credit: Thomas Duffield
Born into a working class family in Manchester, Alex had been expelled from school at 14, and after travelling had worked on the buses. Trade union activism had led him to a place at Ruskin College, Oxford, a PhD, and a career in teaching and academia.
In 2003 his father died after years suffering from Multiple System Atrophy. Alex had cared for him in the last three years of his life, when he was also suffering from vascular dementia. The dementia, Alex said, had made his father 'the antithesis of everything he ever was'. A kind, decent man, he had become abusive and frequently violent..
'I got beaten up by him several times. He simply didn't know who I was. In the later stages, showering or cleaning him, the tears would just flood out of him - this at a time when the professionals are saying, "don't worry, they're in a world of their own". Well, I beg to differ...
'The memory that haunts me most is the two weeks before he finally died. He'd lost all his speech, he'd lost movement, and all I can see is those eyes staring at me, pleading "do something..."
'He had a morphine drip, and if I could have kept my finger on that and filled him up and he'd have died, I would have done it and I would have been proud that I'd done the right thing.'
It was watching the slow, painful death of his father, he said, that convinced him that if ever he was in the same situation, he would rather chose the time of his own passing. For by then Alex's own health was beginning to fail.
All along Mum said, I don't want to go in a home. Just give me a little pill, help me along. She was pleading for that
In 2002, driving a coach-load of pilgrims to Lourdes, he collapsed and was diagnosed with full body gout - 'me, a vegan who hardly drank.' Then, turning 60, he began to experience the first signs of dementia himself. He was given an assessment at a Memory Clinic, and a brain scan.
'They ask you a number of questions - what day is it...' He paused. 'I don't know what day it is today to be honest with you. Then they ask you to count down from 100 in sevens. I got to 93 - is it 93? - and I couldn't go further than that. And I used to teach statistics. Then it was "starting at A give the name of an animal". And I couldn't give any.'
Could he do it now?
'I've just thought of ape, because I fancied you might ask that.' He laughed. 'I've got budgerigar now. C...' He paused. 'I haven't got a clue. After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's Alex became a member of Dignitas, but he was now registered with Lifecircle. At Dignitas a patient takes their own life by drinking a fatal cocktail of 15 grams of powdered pentobarbital dissolved in a glass of water (although it can be administered by stomach tube or IV if the person already has these in place). Lifecircle offers an IV drip, with a small tap for the patient to turn on when they are ready.
'I can gag cleaning my teeth,' Alex said. 'And when you're drinking a 10,000 Swiss francs cocktail you don't want to throw it up or not be able to drink it.'
Alex talked about this with a disarming matter-of-factness. I was struck by his lack of any vestige of self-pity, his determination, and his cheerfulness. He frequently made jokes, and I found myself laughing more than I felt I properly should.
He talked of how his life had been closing in on him. He was unable to drive, cycle, or walk any distance - 'and I loved walking.' He pointed to a row of empty shelves that had once been lined with books - 'I was an avid reader' - all gone to the charity shop.
'I live by the phone. Lose that phone, and I've lost my life.' Worst of all, he said, he was losing the capacity to feel. 'The Manchester Arena bombing; chemical attacks in Syria - things that would have gutted me once, but they don't now. That passion and anger is going.' He shook his head. 'It's like how my dad changed. And that's really distressing to me.'
We talked about how in order to meet the requirement of being of sound mind when taking his life, he must make the final decision when he possibly has weeks, months or even years of 'sustainable' life in front of him.
'That's what I'm angry about. I'm not angry about the Altzheimer's, because that's nature - and I will never, ever criticise nature. But I believe I should be able to write an advanced directive, and that I should be able to say that when I can no longer take myself to the toilet, clean myself and live independently that is the time I wish to go.'
'He thought about this. 'I'm not suicidal. I want to live as long as I can; but we have to make a distinction between a life and just being a shell that doesn't know what's going on. That isn't life to me. I might have a pulse and a heartbeat, but I wouldn't be able to enjoy this conversation, make you a drink, have a laugh, go to football, have any kind of meaningful engagement with the people I love, or a hug. Can you imagine living without a hug?'
But surely he had hugged his father before he died? 'No. He'd push me away. He didn't know who I was. Everyone was the enemy.'
Perhaps, I suggested, that in his illness he may not be a burden to others, but that the opportunity to care for him might be a gift?
'I had the privilege of caring for my dad for three years; but for two of them I just stood by helplessly, feeling bad I couldn't do something to alleviate his pain and suffering.'
'We talk about living and dying, but it has nothing to do with either really; the real issue is choice. If my family and friends live with my choice, I appreciate that. If they don't, I'm sorry for them - but that's my choice.
His mother and two sisters all support his decision, he said. His mother is in parlous ill-health. 'She's a very devout Catholic, but she's really supportive of the right to die. Her argument is that her God is a loving God who doesn't want to see anyone suffer.
'People do get upset. I've got a mate, Chris, who I've known for donkey's years. We were on the buses together. I'd talked to him about it in the past, but he thought I was just winding him up. When he realised I was serious, he phoned me up and said, "when you go to Switzerland, can I have your [Pink] Floyd albums...?" That's so Manc, I just burst out laughing.'
At his present rate of deterioration, Alex said, he believed that he would be making the final decision to go to Swizerland at the end of this year, or the beginning of next. 'But if I'm still functioning as I am present, then I'll put it back.'
His indignation about the law had led him to set up his own Facebook page, The Right To Die with Dignity UK, to add his voice to the campaign. 'All my life I've campaigned - in the trade union movement, against apartheid, the Vietnam War. My biggest regret is that I didn't pick up on this earlier. If I had, Dad might have had a humane exit instead of suffering like he did. So my last act when I die will be a political act; it will be a condemnation of the British government for forcing me to take my life before I need to, and forcing me to take it in a foreign country.'
There was 'not an ounce of regret', he said, in his decision to take his own life. 'Do you know what my biggest fear is? It's not death, it's living in that torment.' He paused. 'My biggest concern, and it's becoming more and more part of my nightmares now, is that I get the day wrong and leave it too late.'
Lynn's final day
In Switzerland, Lynn, Dave and Jackie and their three daughters booked into a hotel, where they were joined by Jackie's brother Dean and his wife Janet. There was time to kill. On the first day, a doctor from Dignitas visited Lynn at the hotel, to confirm her identity, evaluate her physical condition, and ask a series of questions: do you know what you are doing? Are you doing it for the right reasons? Are you sure you wish to go ahead? He would return two days later and ask the same questions.
There was a On Lynn's last day alive the family took a boat ride on Lake Zurich. The sun had come out, and a stranger took a photo of them all standing at the ship's railing. They had it printed that same day. Jackie went to fetch it now. It showed the family, flanking Lynn in her wheelchair, gazing across the lake to a horizon of silvered clouds. 'We call it "The Journey",' Jackie said.
It was Bill's habit to always carry £100 in his wallet, and Jackie had brought the wallet with them, 'because we thought Dad would want to be part of this.' At Lynn's last supper the £100 bought champagne. In the wallet were pictures of Bill and Lynn as young marrieds. 'And it sounds ridiculous, but we were laughing and laughing looking at these pictures.'
'If you think about it,' said Dave, 'it was probably the happiest I'd seen your mum in a year or more.'
'It was like she was already feeling free and released,' Jackie said.
The Dignitas premises are in a suburb of Zurich, set beside an industrial estate - quiet, anonymous. You are given the address only on the morning of the appointed day. On arrival, you are shown to the chalet, as they call it - a table, comfy chairs, a bed, a view through the window to a small garden and a high fence. The two female helpers - you are not told their names - were 'marvellous', Jackie said. 'It just seemed so natural and unforced, and how they talked to Mum. They give you a drink to ensure you can swallow, and a tablet to settle the stomach. The worry is that if you throw up you'll only get a partial effect, and it won't do what it should do. . So Mum took the tablet, and then they left the room.'
This photo was taken beside Lake Zurich on Lynn's last day alive Credit: Thomas Duffield
For an hour the family talked and played Lynn's favourite music - Perry Como, Dean Martin, and Russell Watson singing 'Someone to Watch Over Me'. The picture they had taken at Lake Zurich - 'The Journey' - was at Lynn's side, along with a photograph of her husband.
'I talked to the helpers,' Jackie said, 'and they said, there's no hurry but if your mum needs more time she must take another tablet to settle her stomach. But Mum said, no, its time now.'
One by one, the family had a little time with her on their own, then gathered round her, 'holding hands, stroking her,' Jackie said, 'so we were all joined as a family. She drank it straight down. I said, how are you feeling, Mum? And she said "really sleepy", and that was it.'
'She was quite matter of fact about it,' Dave said. 'Not for one second did she show any doubt. She did say at one point, of course I'm upset; I'm not going to see my grandkids or my great grandkids, but I need to do this now. She was completely ready.'
And you felt you'd done the right thing? I asked.
'Very much so,' Jackie said.
Immediately following Lynn's death, the Osmonds were told to leave, while Dignitas reported the death to the authorities. That night, the family flew back to England, and the following day Dave and Jackie visited the care home to tell them what had happened. 'The manager totally understood,' Jackie said. 'She cried.'
Lyn was cremated in Switzerland and a British undertaker arranged the repatriation of her remains.
The home had a duty of care to report the matter to the police. And a week later Jackie answered the door to four. They had found Dignitas literature in Lynn's bedside drawer, and recovered CCTV footage of her leaving the home with the family. Dave, Jackie, her brother and her friend who had countersigned one of the forms for Dignitas were all questioned under caution.
'We were in a place of "let them do whatever they have to do",' Dave told me. 'If they were going to send us to prison then we'll make sure we get full publicity out of it, and if that helps drive the change in the law then so be it.' In April last year, five months after Lynn's death, two women police officers visited Dave and Jackie at home to inform them the DPP would not, after all, be prosecuting.
'I undertand it's a complex area,' Dave said. 'I understand the religious factors, the medical issues, the worries about protection for people. But I do think there are a lot of myths out there. Polls overwhelmingly say that the majority of people are in favour of having choice in the matter.' The family's experience had led to him joining the campaign himself, taking up a consulting role as Company Secretary and Director for MDMD.
A few weeks after Lynn's death, family and friends gathered to remember her.
'So many people came over and said they understood what we'd done, and that this is what they would want for themselves,' Dave said. 'And I hope, if the time comes, and the law hasn't changed by then, that somebody in my family will be brave enough to do the same for me.'
Since my meeting with Alex we had kept in touch. I last phoned him a few weeks ago. He described his condition as 'a gentle slide downwards.' Nothing had happened to change his original prognosis that he would be planning to go to Switzerland at the end of this year, or the beginning of next. 'I don't get optimistic about it,' he told me. 'I don't get pessimistic about it. I would like to think we'll be having this conversation at this time next year.' For now, he said, 'I just take each day as it comes.'
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In Last week's Sunday Review the New York Times published an opinion piece by design polymath Michael Graves, making public a discussion that has been ongoing in design circles for some years now: The Death of drawing and what it means to the design profession. With the pervasiveness of digital technology is drawing by hand becoming a marginalized skill and a dying art? Graves speaks mostly from an architectural perspective and references his own growth as a practitioner as well as noting the need for digital and computation but lamenting a perceived lack of emotion in those designs.
At Yeh IDeology, this question is a daily conversation that we have with our clients. The visual nature of design makes hand drawing still an attractive piece of a portfolio and one that very quickly and easily shows process and how a designer, young or old, thinks. Yet without the ability to translate those drawings into 3D some of that value is lost and extends the design process unnecessarily. The ideal designer combines a solid foundation of hand drawing skills with the ability to translate and iterate quickly in 3D.
Where do you stand on this debate? Is Hand Sketching that important to your practice? Are tablets the right kind of in between system? And what does the future hold as technologies get faster and cheaper in this domain?
Read Graves' opinion piece here and tell us how you feel.
PepsiCo made a really great move this past week by introducing Mauro Porcini as their first Chief Design Officer.This is a major win for PepsiCo and particularly their brand culture, which has undergone a variety of shifts during its lifetime without a key design chief to steer the ship. For a great visionary leader in design such as Mauro Porcini to handle the design language and image of the corporation's top brands, PepsiCo may finally be able to settle upon an image or stronger sense of brand equity. Longtime rival Coca-Cola has known this for a while, whether purposefully or by a lucky draw, which is why the color red and scripted font are unmistakable throughout the world. And in a world where the brand is sometimes worth more than the product itself, bringing someone in who finally has the ability to say "This is who we are, this is what we are about, and we need to scream it from the mountaintops" is exactly the thing they need, not another, newer logo to take place of the old one. It's just another example of companies that are beginning to trust design, understand its value, and seek it out, and let designers take the reigns and utilize their creativity to establish brands. As more companies begin to understand that design isn't just about styling pretty things, that in reality it's a vehicle and an invitation for the entire consumer experience, the world will begin to see more and more impactful and engaging brand experiences and start to develop more personable relationships with the product.
Recently, Facebook has been in the news for its highly anticipated, if poorly executed IPO, and to a lesser extent, the stealth marriage of its young CEO Mark Zuckerberg to his college sweetheart. Flying under the radar is COO Sheryl Sandberg's commencement speech to Harvard Business School's class of 2012.I finally took some time out today to listen to Sheryl Sandberg's address and I was so impressed that she gave such a great speech illustrating the science of Career Strategies in this new world economy.
Among other topics, she ruminated on the breakdown of traditional methods in career pursuit, insightful views on being a truly successfully leader/manager, and the continuing gender inequality in the workplace.
Below are some slightly paraphrased quotes that I thought really hit hard, and what I thought about them. If you have some free time, I definitely suggest taking a look at the video or transcript.
On Career Strategies Sheryl gave some great advice on how to how careers work in today's society. Much of this is what I lecture about in my Careers Strategies Course and Workshops.
As traditional structures are breaking down, leadership has to evolve as well. From hierarchy to shared responsibility. From command and control to listening and guiding.
Your strength will not come from some place on some org chart, Your strength will come from building trust and earning respect. You're going to need talent and skill and imagination and vision. More than anything else you're going to need to communicate more authentically, to speak so you inspire people around you, and to listen so you continue to learn each and everyday on the job.
Hierarchical, rigid business structures are making way to flatter and more collaborative models, with clear, authentic communication and an open mind as must-have tools to succeed. We look for these attributes in all of the candidates we work with at all levels. Our more progressive clients know this as well and seek these attributes for their businesses.
The work place is an especially difficult place for anyone to tell the truth. Because no matter how flat we want our organizations to be, all organizations have some form of hierarchy. And what that means is that one person's performance is assessed by someone else's perception. This is not a set up for honesty. Think about how people speak in a typical workforce.
Truth is better used by using simple language... People rarely speak this clearly in the workforce or in life and as you get more senior, not only will people speak less clearly to you but they will overreact to the small things you say. Next time you hear something that's really stupid, don't adhere to it, fight it or ignore it, even if it's coming from me or Mark [Mark Zuckerberg that is].
Individuals and businesses need to understand the structural barriers that inhibit proper communication, realize how it affects their interactions and adjust accordingly. When they realize this and put it into practice, not only do they garner respect, but they also lay the foundation for a successful future.
A good leader recognizes that most people won't feel comfortable challenging authority, so it falls upon authority to encourage them to question. It's easy to say that you're going to encourage feedback but it's hard to do, because unfortunately it doesn't always come in a format we want to hear.
When you're the leader, it is really hard to get good and honest feedback, no many how many times you ask for it. One trick I've discovered is that I try to speak really openly about the things I'm bad at, because that gives people permission to agree with me, which is a lot easier than pointing it out in the first place. To take one of many possible examples, when things are unresolved I can get a tad anxious... Ask yourself, how will you lead? Will you use simple and clear language? Will you seek out honesty? When you get honesty back, will you react with anger or with gratitude? As we strive to be more authentic in our communication, we should also strive to be more authentic in a broader sense. I talk a lot about bringing your whole self to work— something I believe in deeply.
Creating a clear map of how you want to lead and what you want from those you lead helps set a standard by which you can be held. Moreover, learning how to foster and accept constructive criticism will make you a better leader (and person :) ). It's not often an easy thing to uphold but it's incredibly rewarding when you accomplish this. I practice this as well with my team running my business.
Motivation comes from working on things we care about but it also comes from working with people we care about, and in order to care about someone, you have to know them. You have to know what they love and hate, what they feel, not just what they think. If you want to win hearts and minds, you have to lead with your heart as well as your mind. I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time. That kind of division probably never worked, but in today's world, with a real voice, an authentic voice, it makes even less sense.
I talk about my hopes and fears and ask people about theirs. I try to be myself. Honest about my strengths and weaknesses and I encourage others to do the same. It is all professional and it is all personal, all at the very same time.
One major distinguishing characteristic of successful modern business from those in the past is the bridging of professional and personal lives. Learn what fundamentally drives the people your company and speak to those motivations then the company will drive itself.
We need to start talking about how women underestimate their abilities compared to men. Success and likeability are negatively correlated. That means that as a woman is more successful in your workplaces, she will be less liked. This means that women need a different form of management and mentorship, a different form of sponsorship and encouragement, and some protection, in some ways more than men. When they hear a woman is really great at her job but not liked, take a deep breath and ask why. We need to start talking openly about the flexibility all of us need to have both a job and a life.
I've spent 20 years in the creative industry and observed that women in the field are not immune from the challenges their peers face in other industries. Keeping a level head in the face of adversity and openness in addressing the issue are small, but necessary steps in the direction.
The professional world is in the midst of a revolution. The most successful job seekers adapt to the new environment. They focus primarily on skills and value they can add rather than superficial titles. They take risks joining companies that are challenging norms, pushing innovation and are less concerned with location and prestige. We all need to continue this revolution.
At Yeh IDeology our day-to-day consists of matching design talent with companies that need that designers. However, that's a fairly narrow way to think about design recruitment, and we like to keep the broader picture in mind. Every corporation that hires a new designer grows it's design department. Each department that grows will reach more individuals with its thinking. And as more people appreciate and value quality design, it gains traction as a positive force not only improving the day-to-day, but also addressing social challenges. Humanitarian aid, much like design thinking, has undergone a substantial shift in recent years. Summed up by Project H's creed "Design WITH, not FOR" there is now a heavy focus on collaborative long-term solutions. By integrating a system into an existing community, the effort becomes self-sustained and assists individuals not only in the immediate, but also in the long term to gain a greater autonomy and sense of control, addressing (at least in part) the harsh psychological effects of poverty.
Design Impact is looking for a new set of fellows to carry on with the great work they have already accomplished. On January 1st they opened their call for the 2012 set of fellows, passionate, talented designers who want to work in the field and do hands-on work in India. Check out their website to see if you'd like to apply!


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Personal Interest March 7, 2019 By kizziajohnson
Kizzia Johnson Paralegal dies unexpectedly
LD Carpenter was husband to his beloved wife of 50 years, Christine Carpenter, with whom he was blessed with 2 children Shelly Anne Carpenter Taylor and Randall Allen Carpenter. He leaves behind his loving wife, both children and their spouses, seven grandchildren, two great grandchildren and his sister Linda Carpenter Morgan and a number of cousins, nieces, aunts and uncles. His Family was his most prized gift.
LD was active in his church and in mission work, leading numerous trips to Matamoros, Mexico providing vacation bible school and other help to the children in the orphanage there. He also played the euphonium and valve trombone in the First Baptist Church Adult Orchestra.
From 1980-1982 LD was elected to serve as member and Chairman on the Planning Commission in District 3 in Garland, Texas where he lived. He was instrumental in the beginning stages for State Highway 190 and Firewheel Shopping Center. In 1982, he was elected as Chairman of the Garland City Council. His hobby was operating his Ham Radio on K5LD, and assisted with radio communications in a variety of natural disasters over the years, working closely with WFAA and their weather team.
Professionally, LD's background was extremely diverse. He served in the Dallas Sherriff's Office in the 1960's, maintained his insurance license for many years, acquired his pilot's license, and for the last 30 years was active as a paralegal, working on trademarks, personal injury and product liability cases. He often told his family, he loved his work with the law office of Kizzia Johnson PLLC – and we loved him as well.
When working on his computer, LD was happy and was the most technically inclined of all our staff – both young and old. But building with his tools in the garage also brought him much enjoyment. When relaxing, he read (especially books on history), collected hats and listened to Elvis Presley or Southern Gospel Music – possibly not all at the same time.
His Family and his KJ Family are both saddened and both are missing a beloved 'family' member. With love and compassion for his biological family, "Thanks for sharing him with us. We will miss him enormously!"
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Federacíon de Comunidades Nativas del Ucayali y Afluentes (FECONAU) (2)
Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) (1)
Human Rights Due Diligence (4)
"We trust that the Constitutional Court will resolve this case in our favour" say leaders of the community of Santa Clara de Uchunya
On the 25 September 2019, two leaders of the Shipibo-Konibo indigenous people explained to the magistrates of Peru's Constitutional Court why the community of Santa Clara de Uchunya were suing the Regional Government of Ucayali and its agricultural agency.
NGOS urge consumer goods companies to live up to their commitment to end deforestation and related human rights abuses in supply chains
Ten years ago, the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) made a commitment to end deforestation in member companies' supply chains by 2020. As this date approaches, it is apparent that CGF companies will fail to achieve their goal of Zero Net Deforestation.
Ahead of Supreme Court ruling in human rights case against mining company, UK NGOs and unions call for new law to curb multinationals' global abuses
On the day that the UK Supreme Court rules on whether 1,800 Zambian villagers can continue their claim against mining giant Vedanta, Forest Peoples Programme joins more than 20 organisations to launch call for legal reform to make UK multinationals accountable for human rights abuses and environmental damage linke
Protection but no prevention? Inputs to the Ministry of Justice's Protocol on Human Rights Defenders in Peru
FPP and IDL call upon the Peruvian Government to Address Drivers of Criminalisation and Violence Against Indigenous Land Rights Defenders


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Pile wine corks on each other in a Christmas tree shape and decorate for the cutest Christmas tree DIY.
You can buy wine corks at any craft store or use your own from bottles of wine.
Either way, collect them and create.
I found some small tree accessories. Colors didn't matter because I knew I wanted to paint it white.
I added a wood star to the top as well.
I spray painted it all white and added letters to spell JOY. They came from a sheet of scrapbook paper.
You can go bigger but mine took 17 corks.
I love the clean white look and simplicity of the letters. I also painted a wooden house that I found at a thrift store. These are often found there and I want to find more for a unique Christmas village.
Christmas crafting season has begun, crafty friends!
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Team: NYG
Round: 1 (pick: 2)
College: Penn St.
Barkley Removed From PUP; RB Set To Start Practice
Report: Barkley Could Return Week 1, But No Later Than Week 3
Schoen: Giants Open To Bringing Saquon Barkley Back
Saquon Barkley Hopes To Remain A Giant
Giants, Saquon Barkley Table Contract Talks Until After Season
Daboll Likes What He's Seen Of Saquon Barkley
Saquon Barkley Out To Silence The Critics
Mara: Giants Aren't Shopping Saquon Barkley
Will Saquon Barkley Be A Giant In 2022?
More Speculation On Saquon Barkley's Future
Saquon Barkley (Ankle) Limited With Ankle Injury
Saquon Barkley Has Outside Shot To Play Week 8; Week 9 More Likely
2022 16 6 295/1312 4.4 10 57/338 5.9 0 282
2021 13 34 162/593 3.7 2 41/263 6.4 2 151
2020 2 119 19/34 1.8 0 6/60 10.0 0 15
2019 13 10 217/1003 4.6 6 52/438 8.4 2 244
2022 Stats | NYG Week
TM Snap % - 84% 92% 94% 69% 88% 81% 80% - 80% 76% 73% 88% 31% 86% 91% 79% - 80%
rshYds 164 72 81 146 70 83 110 53 - 152 22 39 63 28 87 84 58 - 1312
rushes 18 21 14 31 13 22 24 20 - 35 15 11 18 9 18 14 12 - 295
rshTDs 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 - 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 - 10
recYds 30 16 45 16 36 12 25 9 - 8 13 13 18 20 33 49 -5 - 338
Tar/Rec 7/6 4/3 4/4 2/2 6/3 3/3 4/4 5/3 - 1/1 5/2 6/4 5/5 2/2 8/5 10/8 4/2 - 76/57
TM Tar% - 13% 14% 14% 23% 12% 16% 17% - 7% 13% 21% 18% 6% 27% 24% 17% - 17%
recTDs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0
FScore 25 8 18 16 16 15 13 12 0 22 3 11 14 4 18 19 5 0 225
FS/PPR 31 11 22 18 19 18 17 15 0 23 5 15 19 6 23 27 7 0 282
Opp @ ten car dal chi @ gb bal @ jac @ sea bye hou det @ dal was phi @ was @ min ind @ phi
TM Snap % 48% 84% 86% 89% 9% - - - - - 62% 87% 75% 55% 59% 34% 54% 60% 61%
rshYds 26 57 51 52 9 - - - - - 25 40 55 64 50 32 102 30 593
rushes 10 13 16 13 2 - - - - - 6 13 11 16 15 15 21 11 162
rshTDs 0 0 1 1 0 - - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
recYds 1 12 43 74 0 - - - - - 31 13 19 31 24 -4 0 19 263
Tar/Rec 3/1 3/2 7/6 6/5 1/0 - - - - - 6/6 5/4 9/6 3/3 8/4 1/1 1/0 4/3 57/41
TM Tar% 9% 9% 20% 17% 3% - - - - - 18% 17% 24% 10% 24% 3% 14% 14% 14%
recTDs 0 0 0 1 0 - - - - - 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
FScore 2 6 15 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 7 15 7 2 10 4 109
FS/PPR 3 8 21 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 9 13 18 11 3 10 7 150
Opp den @ was atl @ no @ dal lar car @ kc lvr bye @ tb phi @ mia @ lac dal @ phi @ chi was
TM Snap % 87% 12% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 50%
rshYds 6 28 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 34
rushes 15 4 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 19
rshTDs 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0
recYds 60 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 60
Tar/Rec 9/6 0/0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9/6
TM Tar% 24% 0% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 13%
recTDs 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0
FScore 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
FS/PPR 12 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15
Opp pit @ chi sf @ lar @ dal was @ phi tb @ was phi bye @ cin @ sea ari cle @ bal dal
rshYds 120 107 10 - - - 72 64 28 1 - 59 83 66 112 189 92 1003
rushes 11 18 8 - - - 18 19 14 13 - 17 19 17 24 22 17 217
rshTDs 0 1 0 - - - 1 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 2 1 1 6
recYds 19 28 27 - - - 8 79 67 30 - 1 32 1 31 90 25 438
Tar/Rec 6/4 7/3 5/4 - - - 5/3 10/8 8/6 5/5 - 3/2 7/3 4/3 5/4 4/4 4/3 73/52
recTDs 0 0 0 - - - 0 1 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
FScore 13 19 3 0 0 0 14 20 9 3 0 6 11 6 26 39 17 192
FS/PPR 17 22 7 0 0 0 17 28 15 8 0 8 14 9 30 43 20 244
Saquon Barkley 2022 Outlook
Barkley enters the final year of his contract as a bit of a disappointment. So much so that some have written him off as a potential difference maker. That's understandable. As NFL.com notes, the former No. 2 overall pick didn't have juice on the second level, netting just three rushes of 20-plus yards and a measly nine of 10-plus yards. While the O-line didn't help, Barkley couldn't make defenders miss and wasn't blowing through tackles. Given all that, it's not a surprise that Barkley recently told reporters his goals are to prove those people wrong. "I'm tired of whatever's written about me," Barkley said. "I want to go out there and prove I can still do special things with the ball in my hand. ..." Barkley's rookie season was a huge success individually, but the Giants were 5-11, and Barkley had the first of three injury-interrupted seasons in 2019. He tore his ACL in the second week of the 2020 season and returned to run for 593 yards and two touchdowns on 162 carries in 13 games last year. If Barkley proves his case, it will make for an interesting decision for the Giants after the season about where they think things will go in Year 6 and beyond. Perhaps being another year removed from his ACL tear will help, but fantasy managers shouldn't get their hopes up. You're drafting him for potential volume, not upside.
Barkley missed almost all of the 2020 season after tearing his ACL in Week 2, and getting back into form for 2021 remains his top priority. "We have to make sure that we let him get it at his pace and when we put him on the field he can play 100 percent aggressive and confident and he's going to play safe and he can play effective," coach Joe Judge said after holding the star RB out of the team's June minicamp. Judge added the Giants won't rush anything. ... As Bleacher Report's Gary Davenport noted, when healthy, Barkley is one of the NFL's most electrifying players. The second overall pick in 2018 exploded on the scene, compiling over 2,000 total yards. Barkley averaged five yards per carry and also caught 91 passes that rookie season. His yards per carry dipped in 2019, and the former Penn State star missed three games but still piled up over 1,400 yards. As for his immediate fantasy value, there aren't many true feature backs in the NFL. A healthy Barkley is one of them -- and one with ample receiving upside. A mid first-round price tag is worth the risk -- even if it takes a little time to ramp up his workload.
According to NFL.com's Jeremy Bergman, "Barkley is a supernova in New York's pitch-black hole of an offense. ..." True enough. Also true: His second season was clearly a disappointment, due in large part to a high-ankle sprain that cost him three games. But as NFL.com's Michael Fabiano pointed out, it wasn't entirely bad in the stat sheets. He had four top-5 finishes in 13 games, and his six top-10 fantasy weeks, tied for seventh-most among running backs. Expecting a rebound seems reasonable enough. We know Barkley has the kind of play-making ability to set him apart from the field, and he is just hitting his prime as he enters his third NFL season. (Look what Christian McCaffrey just did in his third year for the Panthers, more than 1,300 yards rushing and 1,000 receiving.) Although his numbers were down in Year 2, Barkley went for over 1,300 rushing in his rookie season, and broke the 700-yard mark receiving. Throw in a new coaching staff (with incoming OC Jason Garrett calling the plays, a run-heavier approach seems likely), a talented young QB in Daniel Jones and an improving receiving corps to take some pressure off him, and it's not hard to argue all the pieces are in place for Barkley's resurgence this fall.


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Severin: Comparisons between my case and Strasser's case are speculative and far-fetched
by Nine O' Clock January 15, 2013 0135
MEP Adrian Severin stated for Mediafax that the comparisons between his case and the case of former Austrian MEP Ernst Strasser, who was also involved in the 'Sunday Times' row and was sentenced to four years in jail on Monday, are "speculative and far-fetched." "Comparisons cannot be made, or if made they should be made completely differently. They should be made in all directions, not in a single one. The Spanish judiciary moved fastest, clearing the Spanish colleague that was also involved by 'Sunday Times' and who is now with me in Strasbourg. And I'm convinced that the Austrian judiciary did not rule on the basis of the 'Sunday Times' allegations but on the basis of its own investigation. At any rate, the sentence against Mr. Strasser is not final, and I have no way of expressing an opinion, even after that, because I don't know the details," Severin stated. He underlined once again that he did not commit any illegality, adding that the delay in the DNA prosecutors' conclusions does not favour him. Severin pointed out that Slovenia's Zoran Thaler, the fourth MEP involved in the 2011 row and who resigned complaining of psychological pressures, is in a similar stage of the ongoing investigations. Asked about the second case that DNA prosecutors opened against him in 2012, a case concerning the fact that he unlawfully facilitated persons close to him obtaining EUR 436,663 from the European Parliament's budget, Severin stated that he no longer knows anything about the case after he was heard last July. 'Sunday Times' reporters offered to several MEPs – a Romanian, a Slovenian and an Austrian MP – EUR 100,000 in exchange for adopting several amendments. The three MEPs accepted, AFP informed at the time. Former Romanian Deputy Prime Minister Adrian Severin sent the alleged lobbyists an e-mail reading: "The amendment you wanted has been filed in time." Shortly thereafter he sent an invoice of EUR 12,000 for "counseling services."
Liberals or Not?
Romanian citizen accused of selling military hardware to Iran will be extradited to the USA
Basescu: Delay in appointing PM only serves to prolong political crisis
Nine O' Clock November 6, 2015
PSD electing its chairperson on Sunday, Liviu Dragnea – only candidate
Nine O' Clock October 11, 2015 October 11, 2015
Ruling power slams Opposition's proposals for 2012 budget bill


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#include <sstream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <map>
#include <stack>
#include <queue>
#include <set>
#include <cmath>
#include <algorithm>
#include <cfloat>
#include <climits>
//#include <unordered_set>
//#include <unordered_map>

using namespace std;

// Definition for singly-linked list.
struct ListNode {
     int val;
     ListNode *next;
     ListNode(int x) : val(x), next(NULL) {}
};

/*
    Time Complexity  : O(n)
    Space Complexity : O(1)
    Trick:
    Special Cases :
        care about when step==0!
    Summary:
*/
class Solution {
public:
    ListNode* rotateRight(ListNode* head, int k) {
        if(head==NULL || head->next==NULL){
            return head;
        }
        //get the length of the list
        ListNode* tmpHead = head;
        int length = 0;
        while(tmpHead != NULL){
            tmpHead = tmpHead->next;
            length++;
        }
        //update k, then consider when k==0
        k = k%length;
        if(k <= 0){
            return head;
        }
        //find the new head pos
        ListNode* newHead = head;
        ListNode* first   = head;
        ListNode* second  = head;
        while(k>0){
            second = second->next;
            k--;
        }
        while(second->next != NULL){
            first  = first->next;
            second = second->next;
        }
        //rotate the list
        newHead = first->next;
        first->next = NULL;
        second->next = head;
        return newHead;
    }
};

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