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DNA testing scams are costing Medicare billions
Increasing numbers of US citizens are uploading their DNA data to public ancestry websites. Millions of Americans have already published their genetic information, and hundreds more do so every week. But, as DNA testing continues to grow in popularity, a key concern is unscrupulous healthcare marketers that are preying on unsuspecting elderly citizens for DNA samples, say federal authorities.
The concern is that some of these DNA samples are passed to clinical laboratories, which are alleged to pay kickbacks for the referrals to fleece the federal Medicare program for costly genetic tests that patients largely don't need – or even know are being billed in their names. According to the Miami Herald, this is the fastest-growing area of Medicare fraud. And it's costing the US government billions in taxpayer dollars.
Genetic healthcare testing, which involves the examination of a person's DNA to predict risks for diseases such as cancer and dementia, is rife with corruption by racketeers. The Justice Department recently announced 35 suspects accused of fraudulently billing $2.1 billion to Medicare. Among those arrested were nine doctors accused of writing prescriptions in exchange for kickbacks.
Fraudulent genetic testing
Federal law enforcement and regulatory agencies first started seeing an increase in fraudulent genetic testing claims to Medicare 5 years ago. And in 2018, complaints soared to 50 a week compared to one a week, said Shimon Richmond, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations in the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services. Genetic testing scams are a pervasive problem all over the map, he said, which has prompted the federal agency to start issuing fraud alerts over the summer.
"This is an ever-growing problem because of the intersection of technology and medicine", Richmond told the Miami Herald. "It's a big challenge. … We're trying to ensure that legitimate tests are covered while preventing as much of this fraud as possible."
One federal indictment involved a Gainesville doctor ordering genetic tests for hundreds of patients, mostly from New Jersey. These patients received $75 gift cards from marketing companies to persuade them to turn over their DNA cheek swabs to labs that billed Medicare. Last year, the federal program paid a network of labs about $4.6 million for genetic tests that the Gainesville doctor allegedly ordered without seeing the patients. Five people operating telemedicine companies and labs were also charged in the fraud conspiracy.
This week, the owner of a Tampa medical marketing company was sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison for providing DNA swabs from Medicare patients in Miami to a lab for genetic testing. The patients were given food and other inducements to provide the swabs in the $2.2 million Medicare fraud scheme. The Tampa business owner paid kickbacks to the Miami clinic owners and received similar payments from the lab for his referrals, according to the Justice Department. The Miami patients never saw the test results.
Federal prosecutors have filed similar genetic testing cases in Georgia, South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana as part of the latest Medicare fraud take-down.
DNA testing Florida
Florida, especially the Miami and Tampa areas, have long been recognized as incubators for all types of Medicare fraud.
The Florida Department of Elder Affairs (DOEA) has received a federal grant of nearly $500,000 to work with about 500 Senior Medicare Patrol volunteers across the state to educate and warn senior citizens about genetic testing scams.
Anne Chansler, the DOEA's Director of Elder Protection, said senior citizens should be on guard against any healthcare vendors who try to solicit DNA cheek swabs under any circumstances, whether it be in a supermarket parking lot, at a health fair, or over the internet.
"The reach is endless", she said, referring to the locations visited by unscrupulous vendors targeting seniors. "If it's not your doctor, don't do it. … Never give out your Medicare information."
If anyone is concerned about a family history of diseases, such as cancer or dementia, a Medicare beneficiary should consult with a doctor, undergo an evaluation, have the cheek swab done and review the lab results with the physician, she said. Anyone who has had a cheek swab done without a physician should report it to state or federal authorities.
Chansler said that senior citizens not only run the risk of being exploited for Medicare fraud but that their identities and Social Security numbers could be used for financial scams. A hotline for Medicare fraud has been set up at 1-800-HHS-TIPS.
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A Ricardian Contract can be defined as a single document that is a) a contract offered by an issuer to holders, b) for a valuable right held by holders, and managed by the issuer, c) easily readable by people (like a contract on paper), d) readable by programs (parsable like a database), e) digitally signed, f) carries the keys and server information, and g) allied with a unique and secure identifier.
The Ricardian contract is a means of tracking the liability of one party to another when selling goods to each other in OpenBazaar. Fundamentally, a contract represents a single unit of a good or service. Ricardian contracts should be used in OpenBazaar as they are means of effectively tracking legitimately signed agreements between two parties, which cannot be forged after the contract has been signed.
Ricardian contracts make use of a chain of digitally signed and checksum hashed contracts to create an unalterable record of agreement for an exchange on a peer-to-peer network.
Alice wants to sell a 16 pound watermelon. She creates the contract below, signs it with her nym key (her private PGP key) and distributes/seeds it on the OpenBazaar network.
The SHA1 hash of this contract is 4cb658abd0ed7cd1a0531a5f1e839638a8d22d93 and can be used as the filename and/or tracking number of the contract.
5. The buyer sends the contractually required amount of bitcoin to the multisig address.
To reduce the overall size of the contract at each stage of the process, the next individual in the contract's iteration can sign the hash of the previous version of the contract.
In conclusion, using Ricardian Contracts for buying and sellings goods on OpenBazaar is an effective means of managing risk and minimising disputes on a pseudonymous peer-to-peer market, thought its use of iterative key signing and checksum hashes at each stage of the contract's execution.
How is this done? Depending on how this information is sent, it has significant security implications for OpenBazaar. Could someone elaborate or point me to docs that do (in detail)?
2nd Question: shouldn't the buyer's home address be encrypted so that the arbiter doesn't know what it is?
question: has it been discussed to implement contracts in alternate formats, like a JSON?
I also introduce here proposed data structures to let people set prices in the currency of their preference and have OpenBazaar automatically convert prices to Bitcoin based on the current exchange rate.
I guess the one issue remaining would be making sure the exchange rate used is valid, and maybe that can be part of the contract processing, if the buyer didn't use a conversion rate the buyer is willing to accept everything just gets rolled back, and that could be something the notary and arbiter could help with in the event of conflict.
the notary would sign off on the correctness of the exchange rate used.
also, the price information of bitcoin in time should be public, and it could programatically be checked by openbazaar around the time the transaction was made. Loving this facet of OpenBazaar, what an awesome project this is.
'price': 8.00, //protect yourself against volatility, more user friendly when browsing for prices.
A JSON format would be awesome!
Also would this be possible to conduct a sports wagering contract where 2 people enter money into a contract and the arbiter is a program that checks sports scores and releases funds to one of the addresses of the wagerers?
This is the first article I wrote for OpenBazaar making the case for Ricardian contracts. Since this time, JSON is being used as the standard formatting.
I proposed a way to make Ricardian Contract with Open Asset.
The spec is currently under PR on my fork.
Don't know if it can help, but might give you idea.
Having a list of acceptable arbiters listed in the initial contract offer.
Having the buyer specify the subset of arbiters that are also acceptable to them.
The seller then proceeds as normal, but the arbiter must be selected from that mutually acceptable subset.


Sad news. Top Chef alum, Fatima Ali, passed away Friday after a yearlong battle with cancer.
Ali, 29, appeared on the 15th season of the Bravo reality series and won the "Fan Favorite" title when the season wrapped early last year. She was known for her "fun personality and excellent cooking" of food from her native Pakistan, Bravo said in a statement.
Doctors declared her cancer-free about a month later, but in October 2018, Ali revealed that her cancer was "back with a vengeance" and she had a year to live.
Ali left her hometown at the age of 18 to pursue her dream of becoming a chef. She enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America and started working in New York restaurants, eventually becoming executive sous chef at Macy's Stella 34 and La Fonda Del Sol, Bravo said.
Our deepest condolences go out to Fatima Ali's family and friends during their time of mourning.


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Horst Friedrich Niemeyer (ur. 30 czerwca 1931 w Düsseldorfie, zm. 31 października 2007 w Perth) Niemiecki matematyk, autor modyfikacji metody Hare'a zwanej metodą Hare'a-Niemeyera, używanej podczas podziału mandatów w wyborach do Bundestagu w latach 1987-2005. Od 1967 do 1973 był profesorem matematyki na uniwersytecie w Marburgu i aż do emerytury (1996) na RWTH Aachen.

Publikacje
 Lineare Algebra, z Edgarem Wermuthem, Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1987
 Über die elastischen Eigenschwingungen endlicher Körper. Aachen, 1963
 Greensche Tensoren und asymptotisches Verhalten von Eigenschwingungen und Eigenfrequenzen elektromagnetischer Schwingungen in Hohlräumen. (München), [1959]

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Classical Cello Meets Jazz-Funk, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Begins And More Arts News From Across North Texas
by Hady Mawajdeh 29 May 2017 1:20 PM
A digital digest -stories, videos and photos we think you've got to check out to be up to date in North Texas arts.
Happy Memorial Day! Thanks for checking out Art&Seek's weekly look back at the biggest and most important stories in the North Texas arts scene. If you or your friends want to know more about what's happening in the North Texas arts world, check out our weekly newsletter. Click here to sign up.
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The North Texas band Skinny Cooks may play jazz-funk fusion, but oddly enough, at its center is a classically-trained cellist. Brianne Sargent also plays bass and keyboards, she sings and co-writes the group's music. Art&Seek' Jerome Weeks profiled the Sargent for our Artist Spotlight series.
Thirty pianists from around the world have arrived in Fort Worth, vying to win the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Art&Seek's Anne Bothwell talks with KERA reporter Bill Zeeble about the competition. Check out all your opportunities to see the competition.
John Coltrane is arguably the most revered saxophone player who ever lived. A new documentary called "Chasing Trane" looks at the jazz innovator's short but inspired life. "The Big Screen" team talked with Brad Leali, who teaches jazz saxophone at the University of North Texas about the films relateability.
What You've Got To Know
The City of Dallas Accepts $22 Million For AT&T PAC Debt, Small Arts Orgs (Art&Seek)
Things To Do For Memorial Day in Dallas (D Magazine)
Don't Worry, Your MP3s Are Safe: A Frank Discussion On The Future Of A Format (NPR)
Create an outdoor living space that's worth sitting in the Texas heat for (Dallas Morning News)
Better Call Tina Parker (Texas Monthly)
Happy (Belated) National Tap Dance Day!!! (Art&Seek)
A New Cultural Plan (Theatre Jones)
Talent Development: Why Most Organizations Don't Invest (Much) in It, and How the Investment Has Paid Off for California Symphony (Medium)
City of Dreams: Music and Politics Meet in the Border Community of McAllen, Texas (Pitchfork)
Growing from Within: Bruce Wood's Legacy Alive in Journeys (Arts+Culture)
Inside Kevin Moriarty's daring take on 'Inherit the Wind' for DTC (Dallas Morning News)
Growing up with violence, Dallas artist wants to inspire kids to persevere (Dallas Morning News)
What We're Listening To
KERA's "Think with Krys Boyd" is always worth a listen, because of Boyd's insightful questions and all-star lineup of guests booked each week, but the past seven days really had some gems. Here are the episodes we think you ought to be streaming:
"Inherit The Wind" – A conversation with the Dallas Theater Center's director Kevin Moriarty about the play "Inherit the Wind."
"Van Cliburn's Cold War Victory" – a look back at the historical importance of Van Cliburn's victory over the Russians at the 1958 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition with author Stuart Isacoff.
"A Conversation With Chuck Klosterman" – Boyd sits down with Klosterman to discuss his best writing from the past decade, which he's collected in "Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century."
First Listen: Dan Auerbach, 'Waiting On A Song' (NPR)
By Any Name, Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda Was A Force (NPR)
What We're Looking At
The new PBS series "American Epic" continues to have our eye. Seeing modern bands record music using 1920s equipment like the recording lathe, is not only having an effect on eyes, but our ears. Learn how this technology changed music here and see it for yourself in the video below:
If you haven't heard about Kyle Steed's new piece, here it is:
New work on full display // When thinking about this piece my struggle to find balance in life and work is most apparent // Living in such a success driven culture I am constantly looking for ways to relax and just breathe // These internal forces pushing and pulling and grappling for control // Yet the answer returns me each new morning… let go and enjoy this moment … #billboard #dallas #art
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Get all the information you need to have about the Meadows Museum's exhibition "Between Heaven and Hell: The Drawings of Jusepe de Ribera" from Art This Week's interview with curator, Edward Payne.
Dallas' audiovisual collective These Machines Are Winning dropped an ambitious graphic novel called, "Slaves for Gods," this weekend. Central Track wrote an insightful profile of the group and we cannot stop looking at the visuals in this comic.
The "slaves for gods" covers that were released on Saturday May 27th.
Recently, Art&Seek's Anne Bothwell sat down with the co-founder of Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet to discuss re-staging avant-garde dances from the early 20th century. See the work first hand, below.
Congratulations to Steven Haal of Dallas, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest for his photo, "Star Trails Over Guadalupe Mountains National Park." To learn how to enter the contest and to see past winners visit artandseek.org.
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Q: Redirecting bash script to /dev/null not executing? so I'm very new to bash and I was making an installer for build-essential and OpenSSL. The problem is that It always stops after the first exec line. Here's my code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Installing build-essential"
exec sudo apt-get install build-essential > /dev/null 2>&1
echo "Finished installing build-essential"
echo ""

echo "Installing OpenSSL"
exec sudo apt-get install openssl > /dev/null 2>&1
echo "Finished installing OpenSSL"
echo ""

echo "Updates complete!"

And here's the output:
Installing build-essential
[sudo] password for matthew:

Please keep in mind that I just started a few hours ago. Sorry for the dump question.

A: exec never returns to the calling script. It replaces the current process with the command following exec. Just remove the exec altogether, and let apt-get run like any other command.
Note: there are uses of exec that do return to the calling script, such as those that only do I/O redirection.

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Now Reading Omaha Beach Romps in Malibu Stakes, Smith Gets Milestone Win
Omaha Beach Romps in Malibu Stakes, Smith Gets Milestone Win
December 28th, 2019 by Byron King
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Omaha Beach tallied his third Grade 1 win of 2019 on Dec. 28 with a dominant win in the Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita Park. (Eclipse Sportswire)
On an afternoon when Mike Smith surpassed Jerry Bailey for most Grade 1 wins by a jockey, Omaha Beach was so striking in defeating Roadster in the $300,000, Grade 1 Runhappy Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita Park on Dec. 28 that he somewhat stole the show from the Hall of Fame rider.
Not that Smith — who won his 217th Grade 1 in the Malibu — minds. He knows that great horses have brought him that achievement.
Omaha Beach was great in victory Saturday in the Malibu, even if the race was void of depth with five entrants. He stalked the pace in fourth, and always appeared to have his rivals at his mercy, awaiting notice from Smith to run.
The 3-year-old son of War Front received that cue on the turn of the seven-furlong race, and the colt swopped four wide to overpower his foes. After waiting 4 ½ lengths behind pacesetter Much Better through a quarter mile, he was suddenly just a half-length behind with a half-mile split in :45.02. Then the rout was on. He surged to the lead in the stretch, opening up a 1 ½-length advantage with a furlong to go before coasting 2 ¾ lengths in front.
Although Santa Anita Derby winner Roadster rallied smartly from last, even he could not threaten Omaha Beach, who was moving so easily that Smith was able to take a few peeks of the telecast of the race on the infield jumbotron down the stretch.
"I basically stayed as still as I could. I didn't want to mess it up to be honest," Smith said. "He did it all on his own and he did it pretty handy today.
"It's just amazing, and this horse speaks for everything. He's just beautiful, so fun to be around, so fun to ride, and so fun to train. It just shows how great this horse really is. I'm so happy and so blessed to be a part of it. To surpass Jerry on Omaha Beach even makes it that much more special."
Manny Wah ran third, 2 ¾ lengths behind runner-up Roadster, and was followed by Complexity and Much Better in the short field.
Omaha Beach raced seven furlongs in 1:22.33, a bit slower than Hard Not to Love's 1:22.17 clocking in winning the LaBrea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies over the same distance. Heavily favored, Omaha Beach paid $2.80 to win.
A happy Mike Smith on Omaha Beach. (Eclipse Sportswire)
It was Hard Not to Love that gave Hall of Famer Smith his 216th Grade 1, matching what had been the record held by retired Hall of Famer Jerry Bailey.
The $180,000 payday in taking the Malibu increased Omaha Beach's career earnings to $1,651,800 for Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farms. His record stands at 5-4-1 from 10 starts under the care of Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella, who was asked to compare Omaha Beach to the top horses he has conditioned.
"I can't think of one better, although he hasn't been around long enough of those that stayed forever, Beholder and them, but probably the few times he ever got beat were my fault," he said.
The Malibu was the second Grade 1 victory of the fall and early winter for Omaha Beach, who defeated Shancelot in the Santa Anita Sprint Championship Stakes Oct. 5. Between the two races, he finished second following a sluggish start in the Big Ass Fans Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile behind Spun to Run.
Winner of the Arkansas Derby earlier in the spring, he is scheduled to make his final start next month in the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes Sponsored by Runhappy at Gulfstream Park Jan. 25. After that race, he will begin stud duty at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky.
"I should have spoken to Mr. Porter when he was a 2-year-old and suggest castrating him, and I still haven't," joked Mandella. "He's a great horse."
In other graded stakes on Santa Anita's opening-day card: Lady Prancelot rallied late along the inside to post a game half-length win in the Grade 1 American Oaks; Hard Not to Love upset Bellafina in the Grade 1 LaBrea Stakes; Gift Box returned after a six-month absence to score a repeat win in the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes; Mo Forza won his fourth straight race in the Grade 2 Mathis Brothers Mile Stakes; and Mirth outfinished Tiny Tina to win the Grade 3 Robert J. Frankel Stakes.
2019 Malibu S.
Distance: 7 Furlongs
Age: 3 yo
5 Omaha Beach
Trainer / Richard E. Mandella
Owner / Fox Hill Farms, Inc.
Breeder / Charming Syndicate
4 Roadster
Trainer / Bob Baffert
Owner / Speedway Stable LLC
Breeder / Stone Farm
3 Manny Wah
Owner / Susan Moulton
Breeder / Martha Jane Mulholland & Modo Tesio Equine, LLC
2 Complexity
Owner / Klaravich Stables, Inc.
Breeder / Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, LLC.
1 Much Better
Jockey / Joseph Talamo
Owner / Three Chimneys Farm
Breeder / Three Chimneys Farm, LLC
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These Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
This will be short, ranty and to the point: these warnings are getting ridiculous: I know, tell you something you don't know! The whole ugly issue reared its head again on the weekend courtesy of the story in this tweet:I'm not sure if this makes it better or worse... "Cookie walls don't comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPA": https://t.co/p0koRdGrDB— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 8, 2019 The reason I don't know if it makes it better or worse is that on the one hand, it's ridiculous that in a part of the world that's more privacy-focused than most it essentially boils down to "take this cookie or no access for you" whilst on...
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Strawberrynet's privacy insanity
A little while back, I wrote about Website enumeration insanity and how our personal data was being mishandled. In a nutshell, an enumeration risk boils down to a feature on a website allowing anyone to "ask" if a user exists on the website with the site then returning a positive or negative response. For example, to this day you can go to Adult Friend Finder's password reset page, plug in anyone's email address and they'll happily tell you if they'd signed up for a bit of swinger sex action. (Or at least whether their address is on the site, someone else could have entered it into the registration form. Honestly...) Now all that's bad, but as I pointed...
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Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
Last week we got news of the Rosebutt data breach. This is a very particular class of site and like many others we've recently seen compromised, it's highly likely that members would have preferred to keep their identities secret. It doesn't matter if you don't agree with the lifestyle choice of those on the site and certainly I myself am not one to look around the house at everyday items and think "I wonder if that could...". That's entirely beside the point though which is that a bunch of consenting adults now have their identities in the hands of an untold number of people who are willingly sharing the data around web. But it didn't have to be...
Have I been pwned, opting out, VTech and general privacy things
It's now going on two and a half years since I launched Have I been pwned (HIBP) and I'm continually amazed by how much has happened in that time. It started out with a "mere" 152M breached records and has now more than doubled in volume, I've added an API, notifications, domain searches, pastes and a heap of other things both visible to the public and behind the scenes. It's also gone from a hobby project which I thought only a few curious technology people would visit to a site that's seen over a million visitors in a single day in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach...
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Disassembling the privacy implications of LinkedIn Intro
Update: 17 Feb 2014: Sanity has prevailed and the service has now been pulled. LinkedIn Intro has already become known by many names: A dream for attackers, A nightmare for email security and privacy and A spectacularly bad idea to mention but a few. Harsh words. The general consensus of people I've spoken to is that it's fundamentally stupid and about the worst thing you could consider doing with your privacy. It looks like this: You probably didn't know this, but apparently you want a third party to access your email, pull some data out of it, manipulate the contents then send it on for you. That's every email you send. Oh...
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Find my car, find your car, find everybody's car; the Westfield's iPhone app privacy smorgasbord
When news came through recently about the Bondi Westfield shopping centre's new "Find my car" feature, the security and privacy implications almost jumped off the page: "Wait – so you mean all I do is enter a number plate – any number plate – and I get back all this info about other cars parked in the centre? Whoa." If that statement sounds a bit liberal, read on and you'll see just how much information Westfield is intentionally disclosing to the public. Intended use Let's begin with how the app looks to the end user. This all starts out life as the Westfield malls app in the iTunes app store...
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EUROPEAN YOUTH 2017: Europe...
Hanover/Berlin, 4 May 2017
EUROPEAN YOUTH 2017: Europe is about economics, not culture/ Cautious support for European project
For three out of four young Europeans, the core of the European Union (EU) is not its shared values, but rather economic cooperation. More than one in three want the EU to return political power to national governments. One in every five thinks that their country should leave the EU. And only half of young Europeans regard democracy as the best form of government.
These are among the findings of the European Youth Study, commissioned by Germany's TUI Foundation, conducted by YouGov and launched in Berlin today, Thursday 4 May. The survey, which polled 6,000 young people aged between 16 and 26 in seven EU countries – France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK – provides new insights into how the younger generation feels about Europe.
Economics, not culture
More than three quarters (76%) of respondents regard the EU as an economic alliance, and only 30% see it as an alliance of countries with common cultural values.
Only 18% of young Europeans attribute a common cultural basis to the EU, while only 7% mention the value 'religion and Christian culture'.
Too much administration, too little participation
Young people find that the political possibilities for action at the European level are too vague. The EU is seen as being an administrative apparatus rather than as a community in which things can be shaped and changed.
More than a third (37%) of respondents criticise concrete policy objectives and plans of the EU; while over a quarter (27%) are disturbed by the basic organisation and operating method of the European institutions.
Views on democracy
Overall, only just over half (52%) of young Europeans regard democracy as the best form of government. Democracy convinces young people least of all in France (42%), Italy (45%) and Poland (42%). In all three countries, populist movements that are critical of democracy have grown up in recent years.
In Germany, approval of democracy as the best form of government is higher (62%), but top of the list is the 'cradle of democracy' Greece with 66%.
National sovereignty
Many young people are concerned about the influence that their governments hand over to the EU. More than a third (38%) want the EU to return power to national governments. This trend is particularly pronounced in Greece (60%) and the UK (44%).
In contrast, young Germans have more trust in the EU than respondents in the other countries: only 22% want the EU to return more power to national governments.
A cautiously positive outlook on the future
Young people have very different assessments of the current economic situation in the countries. While a total of 29% of young people assess their current financial situation as relatively good, 32% judge it as rather poor.
Young people in Spain, France and Greece are particularly negative, while the assessment from Germany, Poland and the UK is above average.
But young people's expectations of a better future are quite modest: overall, only just over a quarter (26%) believe that their generation will achieve living standards above those of their parents. Over a half (52%) is not optimistic about this or expects a deterioration.
One in every five young Europeans advocates EU exit
In no country is there a majority among young Europeans in favour of leaving the EU. But one in every five (21%) advocates the withdrawal of their country.
Particularly critical are young people in Greece (31% for EU exit), with French and Polish young people more in the middle (20% for EU exit). The EU is rated most positively In Germany and Spain: only 12% of young people in these countries would vote against in a referendum on staying in the EU.
EU sceptics and EU supporters
The young people who are EU sceptics are (economically) more under pressure than EU supporters and are generally more pessimistic about the future. EU supporters look rather optimistic about the future (74%); with advocates of exit, the figure is only 66%.
The EU sceptics estimate their own economic situation worse than EU supporters, but the strongest EU sceptics are no worse off than the EU supporters, as their data on disposable income show.
Globalisation, digitisation and open borders in the EU are perceived as a threat in different ways by EU supporters and sceptics: 53% of EU supporters perceive globalisation as an opportunity, while for the sceptics it is 28%; and with open borders, it is 63% to 34%.
Reactions to the survey findings
At the launch of the study in Berlin on Thursday, Thomas Ellerbeck, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the TUI Foundation commented as follows:
"The value-based European cohesive forces have for a long time been taken for granted. The European Youth Study shows that this apparently self- evident condition no longer applies."
"A Europe whose value is seen, above all, in the advantages of the common market threatens to become interchangeable and arbitrary. It is therefore important to discuss the shared values of Europe. Here all social actors are required, not just politicians."
With the work of the TUI Foundation, Thomas Ellerbeck wants to help young people to think more about Europe once again:
"As a foundation, in the future we want to be a catalyst for the important debate in society about what Europe can represent for the young generation. And we want to promote this dialogue about Europe really practically with our projects."
Markus Spittler of the WZB Berlin Science Research Center has looked at the results of the TUI Foundation's youth study in the context of scientific research. He sees parallels with the population as a whole:
"The TUI study clearly points to the dilemma of the EU. On the one hand, young Europeans argue with a large majority for the fate of their country in the EU. At the same time, they are largely in favour of a transfer of competences back to the national level, but they themselves demand more direct co-linguistic possibilities at the European level."
"In principle, young adults support the European idea, but they are increasingly suspicious when it comes to concrete measures and short-term projects. They can be called critical Europeans. They are critical because they question specific policies and institutional arrangements."
"Your satisfaction with the EU is limited, it is not based on a common set of values. Accordingly, their fragility remains the same for the European project."
In order to better understand the life environment, identity(s) and attitudes towards Europe of young Europeans in 2017, the TUI Foundation commissioned YouGov with a survey of young people in France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK.
A total of 6,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 26 years were interviewed by online surveys from 16 February to 3 March 2017.
In each country the participants were represented according to the age and gender characteristics according to the actual distribution per country. For the analysis, the results were additionally weighted according to age and sex to compensate for slight deviations. Results that are reported across all countries have also been weighted so that each country has the same weight.
All results of the study as well as a summary of the most important results can be found here.
About TUI Foundation
The TUI Foundation supports and implements projects around the topic of 'Young Europe'. Its aim is to foster European exchange and dialogue by establishing partnerships that address issues of regional, national and international relevance. Based in Hanover, Germany, it is an independent and unaffiliated foundation that serves the public good. The TUI Foundation was established by Preussag, now TUI Group, the world's leading tourism company.
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The midterm elections were on Tuesday, November 6 and for many, the election can redefine the political climate of the nation for the coming years.
At the end of a stressful period of ballots being sent in and counted, Republicans won a majority in the Senate with a total of fifty-one to forty-seven while Democrats won a majority in the House of Representatives with a total of 229 to 198.
The election not only signaled a change in the government and its political makeup it yielded many firsts across the nation.
Colorado elected its first openly gay man, Jared Polis. Sharice Davids of Kansas and Debra Haaland of New Mexico are the first Native American congresswomen to be elected.
Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Rlaib of Michigan are the first Muslim congresswoman. Sylvia Garcia and Veronica Escobar are Texas' first Latina congresswomen while Angie Craig of Minnesota is the first lesbian mother in Congress.
Ayanna Pressley is Massachusetts' first black member of the house and Marsha Blackburn is Tennessee's first female senator. Kyrsten Sinema is Arizona's first female senator and Jahana Hayes is the first black women from Connecticut to be sent to Congress.
Kristi Noem became South Dakota's first female governor and Janet Mills became Maine's first female government.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York became the youngest woman elected to Congress, at twenty-nine years old.
Students here at Seton Hall University had mixed reactions towards the midterm election's results.
Noelle Sorich, a senior with a double major in diplomacy and modern languages with a minor in Economics commented on the election.
Sorich continued to comment on how she believes the election results will affect her as a student in New Jersey.
"The choices that State Senators and the Governor makes will affect us every day as students in NJ, whether it's new gas taxes, or the legalization of recreational marijuana," Sorich said.
Sorich was unsurprised in the results and said they were exactly as she predicted them to be with the Democrats winning a majority in the House and the Republicans with a majority in the Senate.
Hanna Wargula, a junior with a major in Diplomacy and International Relations from New York commented on the election's results and firsts.
Angelina D'Angelo, a sophomore with a major in Communication and Classical Studies shared her opinion.
She believes that the election affects her not only as student but as a New Jersey citizen. "It's really important to have diversity in congress to reflect the interests of all minorities. It does restore my faith in this country a bit," D'Angelo said.
Alyssa Futa, a sophomore with a major in Diplomacy and International Relations and Modern Languages shared her opinion on the election and its results.
Futa said she was happy with the outcomes, particularly in her home state of Hawaii.
Futa continued to say that she was neutral on the matter of the Convention and is neither disappointed nor relieved.
Taina Vasquez, a junior with a major in criminal justice also shared her opinion on the midterms.
"I am happy that there were a lot of firsts such as the first Muslims, Native American, or the youngest woman elected to Congress. I think that as a nation we still have a lot more to accomplish and we need more people elected in office who represent the diversity that exists in America," Vasquez said.
"The elections in New Jersey affect me because this is my home state. I am pleased that Mikie Sherrill won as my representative in Congress because she is a veteran and someone who's values and causes I can agree with because I come from a military family," Vasquez concluded.
Peter Eggerding, a freshman with a major in diplomacy and minors in russian and economics with an Eastern European Studies Certificate commented on the midterms—his first election.
Eggerding also commented on the firsts in the election.
"The firsts are amazing to hear about. The more diversity and vibrant opinions we can include in national discussions makes America as amazing as it is," Eggerding said. "I am tired of hearing speeches from the same representatives that have led our country to monotony and allowed ideas to exist in the 21st century that belong in the 19th. I also love the high amount of young people who were first time voters this midterm cycle.


I realize the headline of this article may cause some unease for readers who are active in their faith. But I sincerely believe in many spiritual environments, it holds true. Especially where ultra-fundamentalism is practiced, and a breakaway from tradition is unthinkable. The construct of "this is how we do it and this is how we've always done it" hinders the ability to recognize apparent problems, prohibits new ideas and perspective, and prevents flexibility to act in instances where action is required.
In truth, it's not just 'religion' that hinders people seeking help for psychological issues. It's a very human behaviour to want to appear outwardly composed; we all like to think we've got ourselves 'together'. Our minds will do amazing things to compensate and restore what we perceive as 'order'. We adopt some pretty irrational thought patterns to explain why we feel anguish, confusion, depression, frustration, etc. In the end, few people ask for help.
In dealing with our own issues, we can easily accept when our physical health is compromised because "pain" is a strong indicator. We don't like pain. In contrast, there is a stigma against acknowledging or accepting pain that occurs in the mind or heart (emotional/psychological). The truth is – if you've ever seen someone suffering with their feelings or their thoughts, it's a very palpable, substantial thing that can impact every aspect of day-to-day living. It deserves some exploration about how and why it happens.
So why isolate this issue to religion and how it hinders help?
On whole, Christianity is often adverse to anything perceived as psychology. It is often called "modernism" and "secular humanism" by critics. In some cases, psychology is labeled as the greatest modern danger to the church. As a message believer, I was very aware of the fact people were against psychology of any kind. I recall sitting in church services where the minister mocked the idea of people needing "help" – and that the solution was to be burnt at the alter of God's holy fire and refined by the fire of God's spirit. As we were told, this wasn't a wishy-washy "hold-my-hand-and-cry" message; the "seed of God" was found on the threshing floor. There was no time to waste for soft hands and sympathy, and if the bare knuckled, rolled up sleeves of old-time religion was good enough for my great grand dad, and it's good enough for me. I understand that thinking; it's the essence of fundamentalism.
Perhaps the biggest criticism I heard in regards to counselling was the fact it seemingly teaches a form of self-help theology. The fear is a person will develop a "self-esteem" that bypasses a need for God, and suggest that you should just go inward to fix yourself. I don't believe for a minute this kind of thinking circumvents the foundational tenant of Christianity. If the concept of Christianity is finding salvation and redemption unto eternal life by the sacrifice of a Saviour, then no measure of "self-help" replaces that kind of theology. You can't overcome a penalty of physical/spiritual death by living a good life with a healthy state of mind.
That said, what I do believe is that some of the most religious and God-fearing people needlessly live their life trapped in a mode of perpetual anxiety, depression, negative thought, emotional isolation, bitterness, fear and many other dysfunctional behaviours that impact daily relationships. All because they have no options to find help beyond the teaching of their church. These can be detrimental to a quality of life; with yourself and with others. We're not talking about saving yourself; we're talking about waking up in the morning without feeling anxiety, fear and dread for everyday situations in your home. Or perhaps just as worse – knowing that you are behaving in a way that is negatively impacting your primary relationships (with a spouse, with your children or other important people) and you can't seem to stop yourself from doing it.
The mandate or goal of religious practice is often to lead a person to subscribe to their version of a "divine solution", which spiritually supplies it's followers with the supernatural answers to all issues and matters of life. The "read your Bible, apply wisdom with faith and be well", "every promise in the book is mine", "pray earnestly, claim and confess" is one I understand. I did this endlessly for pretty much every personal situation I encountered in my spiritual journey. However, with respect to the faithful, this methodology falls short in many real life issues, which I hope I can elaborate on.
In message churches, aside from the alter calls that offer immediate supernatural intervention, it's a frequent solution to prescribe a call for deeper obedience and belief. "Read your bible and pray more, listen to tapes more, come to church more, root out the sin in your life, stay at the alter, submit to God more, give it up/let it go, rededicate your life, get a true filling/refilling, etc". Thus, while a person may come expressing specific and deeply personal problems relating to real life frustrations and/or damaging (even abusive) experiences – the solution is reduced to "just move on", "obey harder", "believe more". Wanting to do their best, followers will try to do just that – strive to perform their religion better, deeper and harder. For many people – it becomes a life of spiritual penance; a price of submitting to circumstances, which they pay in order to feel worthy of a relationship with God.
As I attempted to learn more about effective counselling, I had to confront my own apprehensions and fears about this. I did not want to bypass the foundation of the gospel – and disarm people of faith in God. And yet – for the many times I stood in prayer lines hearing people confess their traumas and frustrations of not being able to overcome fears and sins – I couldn't help but think that some people needed more help than what an alter call, a public confession and a searing prayer from an evangelist could provide.
I watched some people go to the alter week after week after week – often for the same issues. I watched the same people struggle with relationships and marriages. I watched young people slowly collapse inwards until, eventually, they would one day stop coming to church at all. I watched people sit silently in their pew for years – with virtually no expressiveness and very little to give to any spiritual context. It was easy to remind them that God loved worship and that their 'amens' operated the gift of the preacher. But with little response to "pulpit pressure", I just wondered what was going on inside them – why was there little evidence of joy or abundant life – especially after so many years of hearing the word?
Telling them something was wrong with their spiritual experience didn't seem to be a constructive admonition; it was only applying guilt and pressure. One could prescribe a spiritual diagnosis for the observed 'lacking' – or one could actually begin to care about the person, and want to go further into the question of "why are you locked? Is there an actual problem below the surface?". Maybe something happened to them in a really negative way – and it gnaws on how they function as a human being?
Pleasing People or Helping People?
Discovering Caring for the Heart wasn't intended to be a fix-all. I can't even say I agree with everything the actual material supports as a method for helping and healing. Nor do I believe it's a magic solution and an antidote for what may lack in traditionalism. But I do think it (or any similar approach) fills some massive holes in a lack of caring and support for people.
Although it's unconventional and will offend the person determined to stick to tradition, frankly, I stopped caring about "convention" and catering to what the church tradition demanded. If someone was sitting in front of me suffering within – this was about helping them, not appearances, propriety and appeasing the criticism of men.
Much like Jesus healing on the Sabbath in Luke 14, wherein the Pharisees were watching carefully with a critical eye – what was most needful? Jesus asked them if they had an child (or ox) fall helplessly in a well on the Sabbath, would they not jump to help – though it betrayed "the law"? I was done with men-pleasing when I knew something more could be done.
If I may offer an example: consider a person who is in the process of a heart attack. Sweat is pouring from their brow, their chest is compressing in pain and their breathing is impaired. You recognize the symptoms to know something is desperately wrong. If you are a person of faith, is it sensible to pray? By all means – pray! But – do you not also pick up your phone, and call for immediate medical assistance? Is that a betrayal of faith? One part is action of belief – the other is knowing that the situation requires some more extensive help.
That is a dramatic example. But the same applies to more mundane ailments. You have a headache, a broken bone, a aching tooth. Sure – by all means, pray! But how many of us know that a trip to the drugstore or a medical clinic can offer some relief too? Or perhaps you know some other way of addressing the issue that requires application of practical wisdom. Regardless of what you may do – there's common sense that we often apply that has little to do with staunch spiritual remedies. It's not dismissive of faith.
Now take another example. Consider what you do as a pastor if you learn someone had been sexually abused by someone in their church or family. Imagine the perpetrator is a figure who is supposed to represent unconditional love and 'safety' to a child; like a parent. As a pastor, how do I deal with that? Some pastors will not want to cause alarm or conflict within their church, nor to make it a 'legal' matter which involves authorities. So nothing will be made of it beyond the pastor's office. In that office, what if the only thing offered are exhortations of God's power to heal the broken hearted, some quotes from the prophet, with heartfelt prayers and assurance that things will get eventually get better?
Those are kind comforts – but sincere as they may be, common sense suggests that further help is absolutely necessary. Somehow, when it comes to issues deemed to be "spiritual" (matters of the mind/heart) – there's is often no urgency to provide further help. To do less would be alarmingly negligent. Again – I do not belittle faith, no more than praying for the heart attack. But issues like this are not deemed important on the level of physical ailment. That, to me, is acute lack of awareness and education on mental health and wellness.
Again, this is a more dramatic example. However, the same can apply to issues like depression, marriage/family relationships, temperament, childhood trauma/disappointment, fear/anxieties, moral issues, bitterness, perpetual negative thoughts and other similar things. How will a pastor, parent or spouse care for these? Does it dismiss faith to explore the more human side of how our mind was shaped by experiences, past and present?
In the next part of my Caring for the Heart series, I'll talk about my experience of bringing this method of counselling into the Message.
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Last year in October, Jane met herpetologist Hanna Strauss at an event in Mojave National Preserve, and the two of them resolved to get together again on a new moon weekend. We did that this past weekend, the new moon weekend of April 2009.
"Telescope Pad" and our tent set up Friday evening at Black Canyon Group Camp.
Jane and I departed Monrovia on Friday, April 24, just before noon, and were the first to arrive at Black Canyon Group Camp at about 4:00 p.m. The astronomy forecast for Friday was pretty bad; there was a persistent thin layer of clouds that made the sky a little more like Los Angeles sky than desert. We were able to coax out some fair views of Saturn and some of the bright double stars.
Jane went out "herping" with Hanna and came back to report finding several varieties of snakes on Black Canyon Rd.
The worst part of the evening was the wind. We knew it was coming; it was all over the forecasts. I was first to climb into my tent with the wind not being too bad, but around midnight, it really turned into a gale. Jane and I were warm and comfortable in our sleeping bag, and the tent was firmly staked down, but there was little sleep to be had that night!
We could hear the gusts approaching, echoing off the smooth canyon walls, sounding a little like an approaching jet. It went on 'til almost sunrise. The tent managed to hold up, but our old tent already had a front door zipper that would not close well, and our front door was soon hanging by a couple of zipper pulls. Fortunately the door was facing away from the wind.
The stakes held all night. I kept half-expecting the tent to rip apart, but it held. The wind would blow it almost horizontal onto our heads. A few equipment boxes lost their lids. Amazingly everything was recovered, and nothing seriously damaged — though we heard the next morning that our telescopes were blowing around like weather vanes.
Aligning finders using yucca plants on the distant mountain ridge.
Big groups are difficult to keep to an early schedule, and the lizards won't wait. We got everyone together for a walk across the road to Hole-in-the-Wall. We found several small lizards, and had fun crawling over the interesting formations. Several of the group took off to explore Mitchell Caverns, and Jane and I joined another group to drive through the park.
We stopped along the way at a dense joshua tree forest, at the Kelso Depot, and walked the Kelso Dunes trail. After visiting Baker for ice cream and gas, we drove back on paved roads (94 miles) to the group campsite.
This evening was looking a lot better for astronomy. The sky was crystal clear. The seeing forecast was poor, but the actual seeing was good enough to see dust lanes in galaxies.
Everyone enjoyed seeing Saturn, of course. I really enjoyed seeing a strong zodiacal light in the dark transparent sky. The site is very dark, with a fairly strong light dome to the north from Primm. It's galaxy season, and I enjoyed showing the big Ursa Major galaxies M81 and M82, the bright Leo pair M65 and M66, beautiful edge-on NGC4565, face-on spiral M51 the Whirlpool, M104 the Sombrero, and the Virgo galaxies near M64 and M66.
Tortoise three has been chowing down, or likes green lipstick.
On Saturday evening, I didn't go out herping. The group that did came back saying they'd been skunked.
"What, you found skunks?" I asked. No, they hadn't found anything!
So we'd spent the whole weekend without seeing any of the desert tortoises Mojave National Preserve is famous for. It hardly mattered, as we'd had an adventurous and interesting weekend with great company.
On Sunday morning we were among the last to be packed and ready to go along with Gary and his daughter Catherine. Jane was driving, and we were heading out of the park down Black Canyon Rd. We both saw a tortoise naively sitting in the oncoming lane about four miles from Hole-in-the-Wall. Jane quickly stopped, as did Gary behind us.
We debated what to do with a tortoise not wanting to move, sitting right in the middle of a traffic lane. We vowed to see him safely off the road, and fortunately there was no traffic. Eventually Jane was able to help him off the road, and we left him in safety.
Two more times we stopped for tortoises on Black Canyon. These two were up and walking around, and out of harm's way at least for the moment. Everyone got pictures, and Jane took some great video.
Once more we stopped for a tortoise shell on Essex Rd. before leaving the park. This one turned out to be a decoy, with a flier attached advising motorists to keep an eye out for tortoises on the road, and drive carefully and slowly through the park.
Jane and I both shot a lot of pictures over the weekend. It's not art-house photography by any means, but there are a lot of fun pictures. I enjoyed making a couple of panoramas: one of the group camp before anyone else arrived, and one of the Kelso Dunes from the dunes trail. With the laptop in the car, I was able to make panoramas and start the photo album. I uploaded a first draft from a Starbucks in Barstow.
On Sunday Jane shot some short videos of our three tortoises. The first tortoise wasn't terribly interesting, just sitting in the middle of a traffic lane. The other two, included in the album, are quite animated and fun to watch.
One short epilogue about our Friday night gale. Our valiant tent kept us protected; it bent but never broke. It did have a funny shape on Saturday morning. When I took it down on Sunday, a couple of the metal sleeves that hold the support rods of the tent had deformed. It's time for a new tent.
Saturday night was too cold for the reptiles to be out on the road, but those of us who went roadcruising Friday night were successful. We saw a young Mojave Green Rattlesnake, three Glossy snakes (a baby, and two larger ones) two long-nosed snakes, and a sad sight – an injured California Mountain King Snake. Plus a western banded gecko, many desert jackrabbits (Black-tailed hare) and cottontails (Audubon cottontail), and night hawks catching the bugs our headlights illuminated. Lots of mice too crossing the road at night.
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This amazing wife, mom and writer happens to be my daughter. I just had to brag. It's what a mama does. She originally posted this on her blog but gave me permission to share here as well.
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De roman De Speler (Russisch: Игрок, Igrok) werd door Fjodor Dostojevski in 1868 in niet meer dan vier weken tijd geschreven. Op de hielen gezeten door zijn Russische uitgever Stellovski moest hij in die korte periode een roman produceren om zijn auteursrechten voor de volgende negen jaren veilig te stellen. In feite schreef hij de roman niet, maar dicteerde hem aan zijn nieuwe secretaresse Anna Snitkina, een jonge aanbidster die tot aan zijn dood aan zijn zijde zou blijven. Zie ook: Leonid Tsypkin 'Zomer in Baden-Baden'. Samen met Anna, inmiddels zijn vrouw, verblijft Dostojevski in verschillende steden, vooral kuuroorden met casino, met name om zijn vele schuldeisers te ontvluchten. Als hartstochtelijk gokker blijft hij hopen op 'dat ene moment', de gouden inzet, en besteedt daar keer op keer, tot wanhoop van Anna, zijn laatste geld aan.

Verhaal
In De Speler is de hoofdpersoon Alexj Iwanowitsj privéleraar van de kinderen van een voorname Russische generaal. Deze verblijft met zijn gevolg in een Duitse stad die voor het gemak Roulettenburg genoemd wordt. De privéleraar, de ik-figuur, is zeer verliefd op de stiefdochter van de generaal Pauline Alexandrowna en stelt alles in het werk om in haar nabijheid te zijn en zijn liefde te betuigen. Maar zij lijkt vooral met hem en zijn gevoelens te spelen.

De generaal is aan lager wal geraakt en moet steeds meer geld lenen om aan de roulettetafel te kunnen blijven verschijnen. Met vertrouwen wacht hij op het bericht van de dood van zijn vijfenzeventigjarige moeder in Moskou die hem in één klap een grote erfenis zal nalaten, zodat hij vrij van schulden zal kunnen trouwen met de opportunistische Mademoiselle Blanche. Plotseling verschijnt echter Antonida Wasiljewna Tarasjewitsjewa in levenden lijve en zij begint verwoed haar vermogen aan de roulettetafel in te zetten en vooral te verliezen, ondanks haar haat-liefdeverhouding met het roulettegetal 'nul'. De generaal en alle betrokkenen zien radeloos toe hoe hun toekomst en zekerheid langzaam als sneeuw voor de zon verdwijnt.

Als leraar, gokker en aanbidder van Pauline neemt de hoofdpersoon deel aan dit alles, maar hij is toch vooral de observator die beschrijft wat hij, soms tot z'n eigen verbazing, te zien krijgt. Na enige verwikkelingen wordt zijn liefde definitief afgewezen en is het hoofddoel in zijn aanwezigheid én in zijn leven verdwenen. Hij geeft zich over aan de roulettetafel en wint een vermogen. Direct springen de aasgieren op hem af en hij vertrekt met Mevrouw Blanche op zijn kosten naar Parijs. Als na een maand het geld op is en de droom voorbij zien we de hoofdpersoon terug als kleine gokker, verhard door het leven en mislukt in de liefde, met af en toe een baantje, om het geld vervolgens weer in te zetten en opnieuw te verliezen.

Thema Gokverslaving
Dostojevski beschrijft in De Speler treffend de gokverslaving. Samen met de in de negentiende eeuw belangrijke waarden als aanzien, trots, rijkdom en schaamte is dit thema tot een boeiende vertelling ontwikkeld. Uiteindelijk voelt de lezer overal de moraal doorschemeren: doe het niet, want vroeg of laat gaat iedereen eraan te gronde. Het lijkt of Dostojevski zichzelf heeft geportretteerd in de hoofdpersoon, als observator beschrijvend maar toch ook als deelnemer, want ook hij was gokverslaafd. Opvallend is de beschreven sfeer, waarin gokken het 'speeltje' van de rijken is, iets wat status verleent. Ongeacht of zij nu al dan niet grote bedragen verliezen.  Er wordt nauwkeurig beschreven hoe de rijken, zij die het zich kunnen veroorloven, met enige nonchalance behoren in te zetten, alsof zij niet hoeven te winnen. Dit in tegenstelling tot het 'plebs', dat zijn laatste geld inzet en met bloeddoorlopen ogen het witte balletje volgt, wanhopig wachtend op geluk.

Externe link
 Film-Version of the novel in the competition of the 10th International Shanghai Filmfestival

Werk van Fjodor Dostojevski
Russische literatuur
19e-eeuwse roman