How Does Texas End Up With Men Like Ken Paxton?
On a muggy summer night outside the fortress-like Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church in North Texas, Valerie Herrington, a member of the McKinney Tea Party, wants the world to know she's made up her mind about Attorney General Ken Paxton's legal difficulties, which seem, at the moment, to be multiplying. "There's nothing to it," she says disgustedly. "It's a witch hunt." How does she figure? "I know Ken Paxton. He's a good man. And I also know that there's witch hunts going on in Austin. So I know it's a witch hunt." With that, she ambles off into the darkness.
Earlier that day, July 28, a grand jury at the nearby Collin County Courthouse had added two first-degree felony charges to a third-degree felony charge issued against Paxton earlier in July. The three sealed indictments alleged that Paxton committed securities fraud and failed to register as an investment advisor. On Aug. 3, the indictments became public, and Paxton was booked at the courthouse, slipping in and out of a back entrance via black SUV. He had marked a new milestone in his audacious career as a public servant, becoming the third of the last five Texas attorneys general to be indicted on criminal charges. He now faces the possibility of conviction and disbarment. Given the dearth of support he's received from his fellow statewide officials, he may be pressured to resign before his first term is up in 2018. Over the last few months, the headlines have been growing more ominous for Paxton, and talk in Austin has turned to whom Governor Greg Abbott might appoint to replace him. Regardless of what happens, he's still poised to become the first of the Texas tea party heroes to fall from grace.
McKinney's proudest son is in serious peril, and the questions raised by his case implicate local officials and prominent citizens of Collin County. But inside Cottonwood Creek, the attention of the McKinney Tea Party is on distant horizons. Standing in front of Sunday school ephemera and a tropical beach backdrop made from brightly colored paper, a doctor gives a presentation on the evils of marijuana. Later, a square-jawed candidate for sheriff rises to speak about his 2014 trip to the Rio Grande Valley, showing the crowd videos of helicopter, boat and car chases while members of the audience ask incredulously why authorities aren't using more lethal force.
Tea party activists like these helped turn Paxton from a middle-of-the-pack state representative into an up-and-comer with a magic touch whose rise to statewide office seemed almost foreordained. They are citizens who claim to loathe dishonesty, corruption and business-as-usual politics above all else, and their loyalty to Paxton insulated him as his moneymaking schemes grew more and more audacious and his public persona became less and less sincere. Paxton learned early how to earn and keep their respect, allying with their favored groups and adopting their dogma as his own. The respect of the tea party faithful has sustained him and, despite the indictments, the love many feel for him is undimmed.
It must be a strange time to be Ken Paxton. He has been facing the prospect of felony charges for nearly a year and a half, even as he floated effortlessly to victory in the 2014 Republican primary and general election. It is a strange time, too, to be a citizen of Texas, and thus implicated in the question of how such a manifestly compromised figure could become the state's top law enforcement officer. Paxton's rapid ascent from state representative to state senator and then to the attorney general's office in the span of just three years has been an object lesson in the dysfunctions of contemporary Texas politics. Voters had every opportunity to see him for what he is, and still he succeeded.
Ken Paxton may eventually fall and fade. But the scaffolding that lifted him to the upper echelons of state government remains in place. As the effort to prosecute him builds, media and public attention will focus on the particulars of his case. But the most pressing question posed by Paxton's example won't be resolved in court. It's this: How do we end up with men like Ken?
There are two parts to the case against Paxton, which will be tried by special prosecutors Kent Schaffer and Brian Wice in Fort Worth. The third-degree felony charge relates to behavior Paxton has already admitted: Beginning in 2004, and as recently as 2012, Paxton funneled his legal clients to an investor friend named Frederick Mowery, who kicked back a commission to Paxton. He didn't tell his clients he was benefiting from the deal, as any reasonable sense of ethics would dictate, and he didn't register with the Texas State Securities Board, as the law mandates.
The two first-degree felony charges relate to similar behavior, on a larger scale, alleged to have taken place in 2011. In those charges, Paxton is accused of helping induce investors to buy into a tech company named Servergy Inc., which is currently the target of a federal investigation. In that case as well, Paxton allegedly got a cut for referrals. The charges allege that he failed to disclose his role in the deal to two investors, one of whom is state Representative Byron Cook. The indictments hint at a broader narrative about Paxton: Soon after he won public office in 2002, he began to involve himself with business ventures that skirted the line between propriety and impropriety, and sometimes crossed it. As time went on and he failed to suffer political or legal consequences, he grew more brazen.
When Paxton was elected to the Texas House in 2002, his yearly personal financial disclosure form was essentially a blank slate, listing little more than a membership with the Collin County Bar Association.
By 2011, he was reporting a stake in 28 companies and a variety of other investments. Paxton's prominence in Collin County provided him opportunities and connections, and as the years went on, he took advantage. A full accounting of Paxton's business history would require an article much longer than this one, but a number of instances that raise serious questions about Paxton's judgment have already been public for some time.
Take the 2004 case in which Paxton and a coalition of investors — one of whom was Paxton's friend Greg Willis, who became Collin County's district attorney in 2010 — purchased two plots of undeveloped land on Eldorado Parkway, in eastern McKinney, for some $700,000. The land was quickly rezoned by a city board, whose vice chairman Don Day, was a friend of Paxton's. The rezoning opened up the area for development, and a small portion of the land was sold to Cornerstone Development Corporation, a Dallas real estate company, for $1 million. That site later became the offices of the Collin Central Appraisal District.
The Texas Constitution bars legislators from benefitting "directly or indirectly" from contracts authorized by the Legislature. But Paxton told the news agency that the WatchGuard contract, in the context of the state budget he voted for, was as insubstantial as a "flea on an elephant." Paxton also asserted he "didn't even know [WatchGuard] had contracts with the state of Texas," but even after confirmation that it did, he maintained an investment in the company. As of his latest available personal financial disclosure form in 2014, he continues to own an interest.
The problem with the WatchGuard cameras is that they didn't match up to the competition, according to Aaron Smith, a Navy veteran and engineer who oversaw the McKinney police fleet. An officer with the department for 12 years, he said he got a directive from the police chief: The city would rip out its patrol fleet's well-performing Panasonic cameras and replace them with WatchGuard models. Smith says the WatchGuard cameras failed frequently and featured much weaker safeguards against unauthorized editing of footage. The whole thing weighed on Smith's conscience so much that he left the force in December 2013.
His inauguration was attended by a who's who of Republican VIPs. Perry, Abbott, Cruz, Dewhurst, Patrick and Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett came to speak to an audience packed with notables.
Ken Paxton is not the first state representative to discover that the prominence of public office can deliver benefits in the private sector. But he continued to engage in business activities that exposed him to accusations of conflicts of interest even as he plotted running for higher office.
Consider the McKinney Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), a city agency that deploys a portion of the city's sales tax revenue as subsidies to companies that are considering locating inside city limits. Two companies that received MEDC subsidies have been the targets of investigations by the federal government, and both have ties to Paxton. One, RMCN Credit Services, agreed to a $2.35 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission after being charged with using improper tactics in attempting to improve clients' credit scores. The company's founder, Doug Parker, has been a legal client of Paxton's and donated to his campaigns.
The indictments issued by the Collin County grand jury allege that Paxton was compensated by Servergy for helping to sell company stock to his unwitting friends and connections in North Texas. One of the men Paxton is charged with luring to Servergy is Cook, his old business partner. Cook claims that Paxton lied to him about his involvement with Servergy, neglecting to tell him that he was being paid to bring in investors. Another Servergy investor, Joel Hochberg, says the same thing happened to him.
The arguments offered by Paxton's defenders speak volumes about the state's political culture. His spokesman during these recent travails has been the wily Anthony Holm, who once physically pulled a San Antonio Express-News reporter away from his candidate at a public campaign event rather than have Paxton submit to the indignity of being asked a question. While Paxton has admitted the impropriety of referring his legal clients to Mowery, for instance, Holm argues that the violation is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
That claim and other Holm defenses presuppose that avoiding technical criminality is all that should be required of elected officials. It negates the idea that elected officials — particularly the attorney general — should voluntarily hold themselves, or be held, to higher ethical and moral standards than are codified in law. If it's the latter standard to which we should hold officeholders, Paxton has already failed spectacularly.
So how has Ken Paxton been able to succeed regardless? While his business entanglements were growing in number and complexity, he was undergoing a parallel personal transformation. An unremarkable politician in many respects — he lacks the charisma and political aptitude of many of his contemporaries — he nonetheless positioned himself fortuitously at the forefront of the rising tea party tide in Texas politics, for which the attorney general's office was a sort of reward.
The funny thing, Laura Kayata says as she sits on a bench in the hallway of the Collin County Courthouse, is that Paxton used to be a pretty good representative. The grand jury is meeting downstairs, and Kayata is here because it feels like the end of a chapter for McKinney.
Kayata is the founder of McKinney Watchdog, a nonpartisan political action committee and news organization that tries to keep an eye on the city government. McKinney Watchdog is primarily interested in local officials, but over time developed an interest in Paxton, too. Kayata first dealt with Paxton in 2005, when she worked for the town's chamber of commerce. Former McKinney police officer Aaron Smith came to work with the group after leaving the force over the WatchGuard camera controversy.
As attorney general, Paxton has gained national notoriety for grandstanding on immigration, gay marriage and abortion. He presents himself as a fierce and unrepentant champion of the Christian right, and has seemed intent on following Greg Abbott's culture-warrior path to even higher office. But he began his political career as something of a moderate. In his first campaigns, he urged increased state spending on public education to alleviate local property tax burdens, and he advocated expansion of the area's light-rail network farther into the North Dallas suburbs.
But over the next few years, the political culture of the North Dallas suburbs that Paxton represented — and the state at large — changed significantly. Hatred of rising property taxes and government spending came to the fore, and Paxton moved to the right on budget issues, sometimes as a lone conservative voice opposing proposals favored by Governor Rick Perry. Wedge issues such as gay marriage and immigration gained greater political currency. By 2006, Paxton was earning tut-tutting editorials from newspapers around the state for his efforts to repeal the Texas DREAM Act and require benefit recipients to prove citizenship.
That year, Michael Quinn Sullivan founded the right-wing advocacy group Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, which began playing an active role in internal GOP debates. Sullivan soon took a shine to Paxton. In 2007, he won the group's Texas Taxpayer Hero Award. His positions evolved. When Dallas state Senator John Carona offered a bill to help towns represented by Paxton join the Dallas rail system in 2009, the representative whom the Morning News once lauded for his commitment to transportation issues declared Carona's bill dead. "Rail doesn't carry that many people," he told the paper.
His general election campaign consisted mainly of avoiding public attention. None of the institutions or constituencies that normally hold people accountable in a healthy political system were factors.
It was a turbulent time in the Legislature. Democrats did very well in the 2008 election, but that success would prove short-lived. Despite early press coverage indicating that Paxton might join the 2009 rebellion against then-House Speaker Tom Craddick, he ultimately picked the losing side, voting against the rebel leader, Joe Straus. But it was the right move for Paxton. He'd thrown in early with the anti-Straus coalition, a faction held together in part by Sullivan. In 2010, the year the tea party revolution took effect, Paxton launched a fairly hapless bid against Straus for the speaker's gavel. Failure again positioned him for later success. For the last six years, the battle between the right and Straus has shaped nearly all aspects of Texas political life, and was responsible in part for the 2014 tea party wave that elevated Paxton to the attorney general's office.
The tea party had transformed Texas. A comparatively small network of activists — many from the suburbs around the Metroplex — gained an outsize role in the state's politics. Statewide general elections are uncompetitive in Texas. So the meaningful decisions are often made in the Republican primaries, where a vanishingly small number of people can make the difference. New to power-brokering, distrustful of outsiders, and valuing tribal affiliations above all, many of these tea party activists were perhaps unwilling to ask tough questions of those who sought their support and espoused their positions. Paxton, with the backing of Sullivan and his allies, won an open state Senate seat in 2012, the same year Ted Cruz shocked Texas with his defeat of Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the race for U.S. Senate.
Two years later, Paxton ran for attorney general. The tacit support of Ted Cruz was about all he needed to win. An opposition researcher connected to his right-wing opponent, Barry Smitherman, began shopping a story about Paxton's violation of state securities law, but when the story was published in the Texas Tribune, it landed with a thud. Texas media — either not read or not trusted by the conservatives whose votes swing primary elections — was essentially irrelevant in the 2014 cycle, and there was no better example than Paxton's campaign. He wiped the floor with state Representative Dan Branch in his primary runoff, despite the possibility of felony charges.
His general election campaign consisted mainly of avoiding public attention. It was a remarkable way to run for the state's top legal office, but why should he have done anything else? None of the institutions or constituencies that normally hold people accountable in a healthy political system — the media, the opposition party, an interested public — were factors.
His inauguration was attended by a who's who of Republican VIPs. Perry, Abbott, Cruz, Dewhurst, Patrick and Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett came to speak to an audience packed with notables. Sullivan stood against a wall on the House floor, beaming. In his benediction, Patrick told the audience that he knew Paxton would be "first and foremost a servant to his lord and savior, Jesus Christ." Paxton stood at the dais with a goofy smile, drinking in the applause and praise. His wife sang the national anthem.
Weston Hicks, a blogger with AgendaWise, which serves as part of Sullivan's messaging machine, wrote just after Election Day that Paxton's "honest outsider leadership" and triumph over the haters and doubters should be remembered by all. The subtext seemed to be this: Stand fast as our kind of conservative, and you can get away with nearly anything. So important was Paxton's victory, the site opined, that Paxton offered "hope for all Western governments." He had joined the pantheon of the great defenders of Western Civilization, and his name would be written in the stars: Charlemagne, Churchill, Paxton.
Whether or not Paxton is ultimately convicted, he has already shown judgment so poor as to render him unfit for public office. Indeed, a political system with a healthy immune system might have rejected him as far back as 2008, when his casual attitude toward conflicts of interest in the WatchGuard case raised what should have been red flags.
We may be rid of Paxton soon, but what will prevent the next Paxton from winning high office? Genuinely competitive general elections, or at least genuinely competitive Republican primary elections, might help. An overhaul of the way Texas legislators do business might also be prophylactic. In some states, lawmakers are paid a decent wage and are strictly regulated in the kinds of non-legislative business they can take part in. None of the above seems likely in Texas' short- to medium-term future. A weak ethics bill called for by Abbott died a humiliating death in the closing days of the 84th Legislature.
Neither Democrats nor moderate Republicans have a clear path to power in the coming years. That leaves the state in the hands of the tea party, more or less. Could Paxton be a lesson for the activists who helped crown him? Is the tea party in Texas a matter of mere tribalism, or is it endowed with a real commitment to its members' avowed principles of anti-establishment, hose-the-decks politics that can be harnessed for the public good?
Kayata isn't especially hopeful that the Paxton case will change things for the better. "I'm from Washington, D.C. We had Marion Barry as our mayor," she says with a laugh. "Like, how did that happen? The guy did hard time in a federal penitentiary, got out and got elected." Closer to home, former Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox, a populist Democrat, was indicted during his first year in office, beat the charges, then served two full terms. Criminality, proven or merely suggested, isn't always anathema to voters. Paxton's supporters feel deeply persecuted by the existing political order, and many of them see his travails as part of that persecution.
Paxton's rapid ascent has been an object lesson in the dysfunctions of contemporary Texas politics. Voters had every opportunity to see him for what he is, and still he succeeded. How?
If Paxton resigns, Abbott's appointee may well hail from a different tribe of conservatives than the one the tea party favors. So the groups that helped elevate Paxton to the attorney general's office — particularly those associated with Sullivan — are working hard to keep him there. The charges against Paxton, they say, are just like those against Perry: politically motivated and easily dismissed.
Some Sullivan allies have even suggested that Byron Cook, who happens to be an enemy of the tea party and an ally of House leadership, is, in effect, perjuring himself in order to destroy Paxton. That fits with the Texas tea party's official cosmology, in which all things are part of the battle between the forces of good and the forces of House Speaker Joe Straus.
Julie McCarty, leader of the Northeast Tarrant Tea Party, wrote on Facebook that Paxton can now "add his name to the list of innocents attacked through the courts by slimy scumballs who manipulate the system at any cost to keep good men down." If Paxton intends to fight to stay in office, he'll have to depend on loyal true believers to pressure influential GOPers such as Abbott, who might otherwise be tempted to abandon him.
There is at least a glimmer of hope, though, that even Paxton's staunchest defenders may be coming around to the idea that the man they've been standing by might be less than perfect after all. Back at Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church, McKinney Tea Party member Fred Gonzales said his wife had been a grassroots Paxton supporter from the beginning of his career, and though he, too, thinks the case is baseless, he wishes Paxton had been smarter about things.
"I would have hoped that Ken, knowing the political atmosphere that we have in Texas today, would have been aware of the need, if he made an error in judgment, to have had that situation resolved prior to his election," Gonzales said.
And on Facebook, after the indictments became public, Mike Openshaw, a prominent figure with the North Texas Tea Party, called Paxton a "friend," but urged him to "step aside" from his day-to-day responsibilities and put the Office of the Attorney General in the hands of his deputies while the case is ongoing.
The deputies already handle the hardest work. Paxton provides direction and delivers red meat to the Republican base. But in this, too, he is handicapped by his legal difficulties. The day after the McKinney Tea Party met at Cottonwood Creek and word of the grand jury's existence was leaked to a local news station, Paxton was appearing before a meeting of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee in Austin. The hearing was convened on short notice to discuss fallout from the secretly taped videos of Planned Parenthood staff discussing fetal tissue donation that were released in mid-July.
In response to the videos, Paxton had launched what he described as a civil and criminal investigation into Planned Parenthood's activities in Texas. He was at the meeting to provide a patina of seriousness to the hearing, convened largely so that senators could express their hatred of abortion. But he seemed distracted and unprepared. He cracked jokes and restated his principles: "The true abomination in all of this is the institution of abortion," he mumbled. But he was unable to answer basic questions about his investigation. When Senator Donna Campbell, a physician, asked about the techniques Planned Parenthood employs to perform abortions, Paxton asked for her help going forward. "We need doctors helping us think through some of these issues," he said.
Later that day, the Republican Party of Texas issued a press release about Planned Parenthood. The mere allegation that the group had engaged in unethical behavior should be enough to banish the organization from political life until Paxton's investigation is complete, it claimed. "They should immediately cease from all political activities in Texas," said party chairman Tom Mechler. Never mind presumption of innocence; political actors should be held to a higher standard.
Paxton will have his day in court. But his credibility as the state's top law enforcer is already damaged beyond rehabilitation.


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The first museum in Lecco was the museum of natural sciences hosted in 1927 at Palazzo Belgiojoso, which today represents one of the museums of Si.M.U.L., the Urban Museum System of Lecco, which includes the Historical Museum, inserted in 1933, and the Archaeological Museum added in 2001.
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Solon therefore seems to have laid down these enactments of a popular nature in his laws; while before his legislation his democratic reform was his cancellation of debts, and afterwards his raising the standard of the measures and weights and of the coinage. For it was in his time that the measures were made larger than those of Pheidon,King of Argos, probably early 7th century B.C., see Aristot. Pol. 1310b 26. His standard of coinage and weights and measures came to prevail through most of Greece. and that the mina, which previously had a weight of seventy drachmae,i.e. seventy of the new drachmae; the drachma coin was also enlarged, so that seventy of the new equalled one hundred of the old; and see note on 4.1. was increased to the full hundred. The ancient coin-type was the two-drachma piece. Solon also instituted weights corresponding to the currency, the talent weighing sixty-three minae, and a fraction proportionate to the additional three minae was ad
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Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday that it has received commands from the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to legal action involving alleged asbestos contamination in its signature Baby Powder product line.
The company said it intends to "cooperate fully with these inquiries and will continue to defend the Company in the talc-related litigation."
The disclosure in Johnson & Johnson's annual report on Wednesday is the first time that the company disclosed it had received orders from federal agencies regarding its talc powder products.
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A Reuters report on Dec. 14 discovered that Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that small amounts of asbestos, a known carcinogen, had been occasionally found in its talc and powder products, according to tests from the 1970s to the early 2000s – information it did not disclose to regulators or the public.
The Reuters article provoked a selloff in Johnson & Johnson shares, erasing about $40 billion from the company's market value in one day, and a public relations crisis as the healthcare conglomerate faced widespread questions about the possible health effects of one of its most iconic products.
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Last month, U.S. Democratic Senator Patty Murray sent a letter to J&J Chief Executive Alex Gorsky seeking documents and information related to testing of its talc products for the presence of carcinogens and "how it presented that information to regulators and consumers."
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16 reasons why Charles Barkley is the perfect TV guy for the NCAA Tournament
By Phil Rosenthal
Duke-Central Florida couldn't have been more exciting.
Tennessee held off a hard-fought Iowa 25-point comeback. LSU edged Maryland.
The most valuable player so far? Charles Barkley.
This year's NCAA men's basketball tournament has lacked much of the drama of recent years. March Madness is usually about expecting the unexpected, yet 14 of the top seeds have advanced to the Sweet 16. As might be expected.
Overnight TV ratings, however, indicated this has been the second-highest-rated first two rounds in 28 years, up 8 percent on CBS and Turner from last year.
Barkley is at least partly responsible for that. The superstar studio analyst has been a factor in making it enjoyable to plant one's self in front of the TV for 11 hours or so per day for four straight days.
Here are a sweet 16 reasons why Barkley is the best studio analyst working today and the perfect companion with whom to watch the NCAAs heading into this week's regional semifinals:
1. Barkley works well with his colleagues.
Whether the host is Ernie Johnson or Greg Gumbel and he's playing off Kenny Smith, Clark Kellogg or Wally Szczerbiak, he meshes with and plays off them beautifully. Together they're the glue that holds the games together.
2. Barkley is the type of studio guy all the networks want.
It doesn't matter the sport. Barkley has taken Terry Bradshaw's TV playbook and run with it. See guys like David Ortiz in baseball. That's the Barkley effect. No one does it as well, however, and in a way that wouldn't grate after a day or two of NCAA Tournament conditions.
3. Barkley wears well.
Barkley's on-air persona keeps viewers engaged over the long haul. That's no small achievement. Smith and Kellogg do, too, but they're not the outsize character Barkley is. Imagine a weekend with Dick Vitale. The guy is high energy, but how long before you'd look for a seat near someone else?
4. Barkley usually makes you feel good about your bracket picks.
One imagines Barkley comes up with his picks during a commercial break, which, save for the fact he and the picks are on TV, is exactly the amount of time such endeavors should take because nobody knows anything.
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In doing so, he encourages viewers to fill out brackets for the same reason Bill Veeck wanted Harry Caray to lead White Sox fans in singing the national anthem. Because they know they can't do much worse. Barkley just shrugs off his setbacks, which tend to come early and often.
5. Except this year.
Lo and behold, while the thing still might derail, Barkley's 2019 bracket is far from the FEMA project everyone has come to expect.
His Final Four with Virginia beating Michigan State after they defeat North Carolina and Florida State, respectively, remains intact. Still alive are seven schools in his Elite Eight and 12 of his Sweet Sixteen teams.
6. Barkley knows the audience tunes in for a lot of reasons.
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He'll deliver a quick breakdown of what went wrong or right for a team. But he won't dwell on any of it. He knows there are more games on the way and tournament viewership includes people who are interested but not necessarily gung-ho.
7. Bottom line, Barkley knows his stuff.
True, he knows more about the NBA than college basketball. He knows enough. He knows the game. For all the goofing around, he still has a wealth of expertise to share. Watching him back up against Kellogg to show how a smaller man effectively attacks someone taller offensively was instructive.
8. Instructive and amusing, that is.
Barkley: "The first thing I always want to do when I play against someone who's taller than I am, which is everybody I ever played against, I want my body on their body. ... The No. 1 thing I want to do, I want to make sure that I make contact. I want to put my big behind on his legs."
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Kellogg: "It's big."
Barkley: "Yes, it is."
9. Barkley is unafraid to show school spirit.
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Auburn coach Bruce Pearl seems to have pulled on Barkley's school ties because Sir Charles has been a vocal booster of his alma mater through the first two rounds. His desk for the Tigers' second-round game was festooned in banners and balloons, a plush Tiger toy and more.
Do you have any idea how hard something like this is to pull off without seeming insufferable?
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10. Barkley is old school.
So Michigan State coach Tom Izzo berated freshman Aaron Henry during the Spartans' first-round tournament game. So what?
"One of the reasons Tom Izzo is one of my favorite coaches (is) he coaches his team," Barkley said. "I was so disappointed to hear all these jackasses on other networks complaining about a coach actually coaching his team. Coach Izzo, you keep doing your thing. It's all right for a coach to yell at a player."
11. Barkley is (or pretends to be) naive sometimes.
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Barkley did not take kindly to CBS host Greg Gumbel intimating pro wrestling might not be on the up and up.
"Greg, if you say something crazy like that again — 'wrestling isn't real' — I will come across that desk on you," Barkley said. "No, it's real. I'm going to my grave believing that."
Of course this, too, could be an act. But it was entertaining.
12. You never know what he'll say.
Along those lines, when playing a geography game with other analysts, Barkley correctly pegged Wofford to South Carolina. But unable to identify the town where the school is located — Spartanburg — he said: "It's all the same. It's South Carolina. It's all the same. It's country."
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Just like a lot of us would have.
13. Barkley is a lousy actor but fun to watch.
Barkley never lets you forget he's performing in those credit card ads with Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee and sometimes the determinedly wooden Jim Nantz.
But Barkley does seem to be having fun and, whether he is or not, that's contagious whether offering up his Final Four-gasbord (replete with Spike Brie, Ham Jackson and Charles Broccoli), wearing his Chuxedo or introducing his pet "bracket buddy," a bird named Larry.
14. Barkley is all-in on Zion Williamson.
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OK, so that's not so unique, but there is zero hedging here. The Hall of Famer said he thinks the Duke freshman and prospective No. 1 NBA draft pick would be a force in the league already.
"I've been in (and around) the NBA for close to over 30 years," Barkley said. "I've only seen two guys who shouldn't have (gone) to college — LeBron (James) and this kid.
"You look at Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, guys like that, the greatest ever, they didn't come to the NBA (great) right away … physically able to dominate. They both struggled early in their career."
15. Barkley admits when he doesn't know something.
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Discussing strategy, Barkley alluded to the cliche about the difference between playing checkers and chess. His colleagues goaded him into explaining what he meant.
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"Well, one of them is very easy," Barkley said. "Checkers is very easy. Chess is really difficult, I heard."
16. Then again …
Something about him makes one wonder how a game of chess with him would turn out if there was money on the line.
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Someone you know
I've been fortunate enough to encounter and know a lot of interesting people in this life and sometimes I get to watch others play them on a movie or television screen. It was entertaining to watch Robin Williams portray Adrian Cronauer in Good Morning Vietnam, even though Williams was nothing like Cronauer in either looks or mannerisms. I've known Adrian for more than 35 years and he is a unique character, not someone easily captured by an actor.
I've been fortunate enough to encounter and know a lot of interesting people in this life and sometimes I get to watch others play them on a movie or television screen.
It was entertaining to watch Robin Williams portray Adrian Cronauer in Good Morning Vietnam, even though Williams was nothing like Cronauer in either looks or mannerisms. I've known Adrian for more than 35 years and he is a unique character, not someone easily captured by an actor.
The same for the late Michael Kelly, the former writer and editor portrayed by Hank Azaria in Shattered Glass, the story of Steven Glass' hoodwinking of the New Republic. Azaria didn't look like Mike nor did his performance approach anything close to his mannerisms.
Don Groshong is a friend and attorney in Alton, Illinois. His parents were longtime friends of Amy's and we shared a passion for fast sports cars. Yet watching actor Cliff DeYoung try to portray Don on screen in Precious Victims, a 1993 made-for-TV movie about a famous murder case in the Alton area, was both painful and laughable.
Perhaps I expect too much when watching an actor try and portray a friend.
Or maybe the actors just needed to co a better job.
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- STAINLESS SLAVE -
It was impossible to tell what the occupant of the gleaming stainless steel suit thought of her plight ... but as she would never be asked her opinion and could not have heard the question or given an answer in any case, the subject was irrelevant.
Encased from head to toe in her metal carapace she was completely anonymous, only the hugely-elongated spherical cones projecting from her chest indicated that beneath the steel there was a living, breathing, human female. The smooth, polished ovoid of her head was marred only by a pair of thin wires leading to connections positioned over her eyes and a two-inch, perfectly-machined plug directly over her ring-gagged mouth. The lower curve of the helmet mated seamlessly to a tall, rigid collar supporting and immobilising her head.
Below the collar, her torso and arms formed a single entity; her hands and forearms locked horizontally behind her back by the same unrelenting steel that trapped and shaped her breasts into an exaggerated parody of femininity. The carapace then swept down to vanish beneath a V-shaped panel covering her lower belly, sex and rear passage, re-emerging to sheath her buttocks and legs.
At her ankles, reinforced plates arched her feet into an extreme en-pointe position, crushing them into the reinforced ballet-toed shoes that were the sole means of supporting her body's entire weight; forcing her to balance on the very tips of her toes with no means of alleviating the relentless torment.
Led by a chain fastened to a ring over her navel: blind, mute, deaf and utterly incapable of any form of resistance, she could only totter forward in helpless obedience to the commanding tension of her leash, not knowing where she was being taken, or even whose hand controlled her tether. Not that it mattered, for when the plug over her mouth, or the panel concealing her lower openings was removed, she would have no option but to provide whatever sexual services were required of her.
Should she fail to be fully pleasing or show any sign of hesitation or reluctance to obey, retribution would come in the form of cruel tugs on the rings transfixing her nipples at the tips of her painfully-stretched, steel-sheathed breasts.
Like her bondage, her servitude was inescapable. She could only submit to who ever cared to use her body for their pleasure and amusement, man or woman, considerate or demanding, gentle or merciless ... she had no choice but to serve them all perfectly. She had no choice but to display the full extent of her absolute subjugation by the awesome depth and power of her surrenders to the explosive climaxes wrung from her plundered belly.
At one time, in a different life far behind, she had been rich and powerful, even feared by her competitors for her ruthless, hard-headed business acumen and ability to find a profit in even the most unpromising circumstances. Her asset-stripping of companies unfortunate enough be forced into making deals with her resulted in major job-losses and bankruptcy while she had made huge amounts of money. Of course she'd also acquired more than a few bitter enemies; most of who swore to have their revenge, but who she scornfully ignored them all, supremely confident that they would never do anything more than make threats.
In the main, her assessment was correct, but in her certainty that she was beyond retaliation, she failed to realise that there were a small number who were determined to bring her down. They were prepared to act, even at the risk of discovery, prosecution, possible imprisonment and the consequent loss of their respected places in society. It was this group that had schemed and plotted in secret against her, making and refining their plans over and over again until they were certain of success.
Suspecting nothing and oblivious to her fast-approaching doom, she had no reason to take special precautions and it proved ridiculously easy to introduce a slow-acting drug into her champagne at a party to celebrate her latest corporate acquisition. That night, she went to bed as a free, high-powered businesswoman ... and woke as an anonymous, nipple-pierced, steel-encased sex-slave ...
Deprived of speech, hearing and sight by the oppressive steel helmet, her arms rigidly restrained behind her and in constant, severe discomfort from the steel ballet-toed shoes, she fought her confinements frantically while gabbling frantic protests and pleas to be released. She strained every muscle in desperate bids to free herself and jerked madly at the chain tethering her to an anchorage she could not see, but which kept her within a small, strictly-limited area.
After unknown hours of fruitless struggle, ever-increasing despair and terrified anticipation, she learned what her fate was to be. If words were spoken, she never heard them, but they were not necessary, for as her ring-gagged mouth, sex and anus were repeatedly violated by hardened male shafts. Her belly convulsed in shattering, enforced orgasms that she did not want, but was helpless to resist and it was only too horribly clear to her that she was the prisoner of an unknown number of powerful, ruthless men. Men who had, and would, take whatever they wanted from her ... and would continue to do so for as long as they wished to keep her chained.
Now, her wealth and status counted for nothing and could not help her against them. She had no way to use them and when pain jolted through her aching breasts as her nipple-rings were tugged, she shuddered in horrified anguish, realising the dreadful potential for controlling and forcing her to obey that the piercings gave to her captors. She didn't know who they were, why she had been chosen, where she was, or how long she would have to endure her captivity. Yet more rigid shafts drove into her mouth and sex to pump hot jets of their salty spend into her throat and belly and she knew that while she remained encased in her steel suit and at their mercy, she had become nothing more nor less than their helplessly-subservient sex-slave.
To her horror she realized that she had become a sex-slave who would never be able to escape, or be permitted to deny them anything demanded of her.
For the group of businessmen who had arranged her kidnap, the subjugation of their most-successful competitor was sweet revenge for the humiliating financial losses she had caused. The fact that her mouth and belly were available to them at any time for their sexual gratification was simply an additional bonus. All of them had known her in her former life and that, too, added a highly-pleasurable twist to her servitude, reinforcing their determination to impose the most extreme and irrevocable slavery upon her. If she were ever to regain her freedom and go to the authorities, the inevitable result would be catastrophic. Their comfort and security depended on her continued captivity and so they had no intention of taking even the smallest risk of their actions becoming known.
It was for this reason that they had commissioned the custom-designed helmet, thereby guaranteeing that her beautiful face would never be seen and recognised from the many pictures that had been featured on the front pages of numerous magazines that had covered her spectacular career. Not even her closest colleagues ... and there were very few of those, and none who would ever meet her again ... would suspect that beneath the gleaming steel costume of a woman so obviously a slave was their silenced, helpless, former employer, now desperately praying for someone to release and save her from her endless torment.
It was her only, frail hope ... but she could not know that it would never be fulfilled. She had been condemned to remain immured in her shining metal prison for the remainder of her life.
A stainless steel sex-slave ... forever ...


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Nokia announced that its Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 solution has been implemented by OmniClouds, leading cloud service provider and migrator, to improve and optimize cloud connectivity for enterprise customers throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. The deal will be a boost for enterprises in the region, as they are currently held back by a shortage of native cloud service providers and a challenging reach to public cloud data centers.
Nokia's Nuage Networks will build and operate its SD-WAN 2.0 network, enabling OmniClouds to connect enterprise customers over a large coverage area – touching all key public cloud data centers with dedicated infrastructure in a flexible and cost-efficient way. With this deal, OmniClouds is focused on easing its customers' migration to hybrid or full public cloud, with support ranging from consulting to connectivity services.
Paired with Nuage Networks' SD-WAN 2.0 solution, OmniClouds customers will have a secure and scalable way to connect with data centers, private clouds, software-as-a-solution (SaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-solution (IaaS) providers. This is a huge shift for the region, as in many areas enterprise customers are currently unable to connect to their cloud environments, data centers and remote locations in this way.
OmniClouds will not only provide full cloud connectivity, but will also use Nuage Networks' SD-WAN 2.0 as an overlay to existing connectivity technologies, such as IP-MPLS, microwave, satellite or public internet, to automate operations and enhance connectivity over large geographic regions. This will give its enterprise customers a central management view of the entire network, enabling them to easily control security, user permissions and parameters, such as latency and quality of service.
OmniClouds will use Nuage Networks' SD-WAN 2.0 gateways at each of the region's main cloud service providers, which connect with SD-WAN CPE gateways at the enterprises' data centers, headquarters and branch operations. This dramatically reduces customer operating costs, smooths their adoption of cloud services and enables widespread connectivity across distant locations.
Amr A Eid, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member, OmniClouds, said "We are the trusted partner of enterprise customers in the Middle East and Africa region when they need help in migrating to the cloud. The Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 solution plays a critical part in smoothing their move to the cloud by simplifying the operational side and providing the security and assurance they need for such a critical part of their business."
Roque Lozano, Vice President of IP & Optics for Middle East and Africa, Nokia, said, "OmniClouds is using Nokia Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 solution as a powerful platform for offering cloud services to MEA regional businesses. It not only manages cloud connectivity, but also automates and simplifies many operations, eliminating any boundaries imposed by the underlying connectivity technology. It will play a key part in OmniClouds' mission to further the adoption of cloud and to support the digital transformation of MEA businesses and organizations."
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I'm running a custom build of the BLUEROV2 with a 80V 60A power supply set to 19V ,getting up to 40A out of it, 50m cable, leaves about 15-12V during normal operation, which is enough for my use. This worked well on previous ROV's with the r2 ESCs.
I ordered a new BLUEROV2, which came with the r3 ESCs preinstalled. Now with the new r3 ESCs The power supply shuts off because of OVP: I see the voltage spike up to 26V (where the OVP shuts it off, because I read the limit for the ESCs is 26V). So, I read up on the new ESCs: I believe they use regenerative breaking!
-Could this cause my problems? I couldn't find any info on this for the older r2 ESCs.
-Is there a way to disable this feature in the new ESCs?
-is it safe to increase the limit on my OVP settings?
I think I connected everything identically to my previous setup. Triple checking the wiring now.
I believe you are correct, it appears the regenerative braking the is on by default in the new Basic ESC is causing large voltage spike than can trip the over current protection on you power supply. This is not normally an issue with a battery, but we've recently noticed sensitive power supplies can behave like this with a thruster running in air, and thus being braked exclusively by the ESC instead of water. The older R1 and R2 ESCs did not have this behavior.
We are looking into solving this by disabling all regenerative braking on the BLHeli_S firmware going forward, which is on by default. This feature cannot normally be disabled using a regular GUI programmer like BLHeliSuite, it will require some lower level firmware editing. In the meantime, yes, it is safe to increase the OVP limit on you power supply to keep it from tripping. The ESCs are designed to handle these large voltage spikes.
I did find here (http://intofpv.com/t-how-do-you-turn-off-active-braking-in-blheli) that the BLHeliSuite does have an option to do so, but I'm not sure if this setting is persistant, and if it works on your specific firmware. I might try it in the future, but I'm short on time for this project, so for now I'll just up the OVP limit.
BlHeli does have the option to turn of regenerative braking, but our ESCs run BLHeli_S, which does not have this option. With BLHeli_S, you can only turn off "Active Braking", a different feature, and the "Damped Light" regenerative braking mode is always on with no way to turn it off. This feature was always planed to disabled, as it serves no purpose underwater.
OK, thanks for the info! Works great now by the way !
I am experiencing the same issue of increased voltage at the input of ESC's, which comes from "Regenerative Breaking" feature of BL_HELI_S firmware.
In my application, I am more concerned about other devices that are on the same power bus as the ESCs, like regulators, lights and more sensitive avionics. Although ESCs can handle high voltages, other devices may not tolerate this and burn due to their lower high voltage limits.
So, I really need the feature to turn off "Regenerative Breaking".
I separated power to the motors and avionics to avoid these dangers.
I use the phantom tether as normal ethernet cable with POE to power the pixhawk (through the rail, also for camera servo) and raspberry PI. This involved removing the phantom boards on either end, and replacing them with a POE switch and POE->5V+Ethernet adapter in the ROV. I disconnected the wires that would normally power the pixhawk through the power module, but left the lines for V/A measurements intact. Works like a charm! Only the lumens are on the same power rail as the motors, but they seem to have no problem other than dimming when you max out the power supply.
Another advantage to this setup: you can keep your electronics powered with the motors safely powered off (no accidental arming).
This voltage spike is only significant when testing a thruster in air and almost all braking in being done by the ESC. We've tested for voltage spikes with an oscilloscope with a thruster running underwater, and there the water stops a thruster almost immediately so there is no braking to be done by the ESC. Underwater in actual conditions, the voltage spike from the ESCs is significantly reduced, and is unlikely to affect other instruments. That being said, we are working on disabling it anyway, but there are some hurdles to overcome. It looks like we need to compile our own fork of BLHeli_S to do this.
Is there any progress with disabling "Damped Light - Regenerative Breaking"?
With the help of the BlHeli developer, we were able to generate a version of the BlHeli_S firmware with the damped light setting disabled. However, this did not solve the behavior, and resulted in more violent braking force upon direction reversal than before. This was likely due to the interaction between BlHeli's lack of a dead zone and running it bidirectionally without braking. BlHeli was not intended to be run in this way, and unfortunately it would take a more fundamental re-working of the firmware to make this work well- an entirely new firmware would likely need to be developed.
The active braking only has noticeable side effects when the thruster is run in air, and with specific types of power supplies. Underwater and especially with a battery, there is no issue, therefore we do not see a need to develop an entirely new firmware at this time.
If any possible extremely short and small voltage spikes are a concern for your particularly sensitive equipment, I recommend using either a different ESC or or adding a power filter.
I'm trying to let my BlueROV run on a power supply as well and I'm facing the same issues. Does anyone have a suggestion for another ESC which will work without regenerative braking?


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Counselling Children and Young People, March 2011
Alan Burnell introduces a neurosequential approach to working with adopted children experiencing Developmental Trauma Disorder
For most counsellors and therapists working with children and families, adopted children are a small but significant minority. These children can often pose a challenge and be something of an enigma. Their sometimes extreme and challenging behaviours don't appear to fit with the wellmeaning and nurturing home in which they now live. To understand and make sense of adopted children, we have to go beyond their present context and see them in the context of their past.
A Hadley Centre study1 of non-baby adoption placements showed that a third broke down, and a third seriously struggled. Over 60 per cent of adopted children in the study were found to have more than four 'risk factors' in their background: neglect, physical and sexual abuse, multiple placements and carers, and birth parents with a history of substance misuse and/or mental health problems. The study also found that adopted children continued to have behavioural and relationship problems in their new adoptive families. A Government review of adoption services at the start of the new millennium2 recognised that children adopted today had complex needs, and that placing children for adoption was not a solution in itself – post-adoption support and therapeutic intervention needed to be part of the contemporary adoption package. Though many local authorities and voluntary adoption agencies now have post-adoption support services, they are still rather tokenistic because of resource limitations. Adoption UK3, the national association of adoptive parents, is constantly campaigning for more post-adoption services, and for the recognition of the need for a genuinely comprehensive multidisciplinary approach.
From attachment difficulties to developmental trauma
Family Futures has been at the forefront of innovation and service provision for adoptive families for over a decade. Initially, we drew heavily on Attachment Theory to make sense of adoptive children and their behaviour. However, as our service progressed, we realised that whilst adopted children often do have attachment difficulties, these difficulties were not the cause but a symptom of a more complex set of developmental difficulties. These difficulties had their roots in trauma: possibly even beginning pre birth.
There is a now a well-established link between maternal use of alcohol and other toxic insults to foetal development. More recently, the myth of the protective qualities of the womb has been challenged by research4 that shows that high levels of cortisol caused by stress in the birth mother pre delivery permeate the embryo and its environment, causing developmental harm. Post birth, the effect of neglect, poor parenting and abuse become compounded and predispose children to impaired development. Trauma in infancy is now recognised to impact all aspects of a child's development – not just their psychological attachments but their neurophysiological and cognitive development as well. The main casualties of infant trauma are the development of the brain and the central nervous system. For this reason, and alongside other forward-thinking therapists and counsellors, we at Family Futures now look to neuroscience to make sense of adopted children today.
There is currently a strong lobby in America and in the UK for a new diagnostic category to better describe the impact of trauma in infancy on child development: that of Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD). The evidence base for this new diagnosis comes from a working party of eminent clinicians who have amassed a great deal of persuasive research data from work with thousands of children worldwide, and neuroscientific theory5. Developmental trauma is distinctly different from PTSD. The primary distinction is that in PTSD, the child has usually experienced one or two specific traumatic events, whereas DTD describes a state in children who have experienced all-pervasive trauma, including the trauma of deprivation and neglect.
'The diagnosis of PTSD is not developmentally sensitive and does not adequately describe the effect of exposure to childhood trauma on the developing child… because infants and children who experience multiple forms of abuse often experience developmental delays across a broad spectrum, including: cognitive skills, language skills, motor skills and socialisation skills.'5
DTD has been defined as a child having multiple or chronic exposure to 'one or more forms of developmentally adverse interpersonal trauma – eg abandonment, betrayal, physical assaults, sexual assaults, threats to bodily integrity, coercive practices, emotional abuse, witnessing violence and death'6. The subjective experience of these events includes rage, betrayal, fear, resignation, defeat and shame.
In our view, this definition of DTD clearly describes the history and experience of children in the Hadley Centre research project, and children being placed for adoption today. It greatly informs Family Futures' work with children who are fostered and adopted, whose histories very much mirror the definition.
Developing a neurosequential approach
Quite early on, we realised that we couldn't just talk to children about their past, which is a frontal lobe activity. Nor could we simply help a child form more secure attachments without dealing in some way with the residue of trauma that had been somatically ingrained into the child's system. Van der Kolk, one of the leading clinicians in this area, famously described the problem as 'the body keeps the score'7. Another pioneer in this field, Bruce Perry, defined the need for a neurosequential approach to helping children8 – that is, starting with the primitive brain and its instinctual responses to stress, which are hard-wired into all mammalian brains, and working forward from there. This is the model we have developed.
Stage 1a Developmental re-parenting – learning to regulate stress response
In terms of therapeutic intervention, we first focus on helping parents to help their children to feel safe, and to begin to learn how to regulate their feeling states. This requires parents to understand the physiology of stress, and how the brain and central nervous system respond to stress.
Stress responses are easily triggered in children with developmental trauma disorder. The release of cortisol produces the typical symptomology of hyperarousal, hypervigilance, and fight, flight or freeze responses. Such hyper-reactivity could be seen as adaptive, and as a survival response in what might have been a threatening environment during infancy.
But what children with developmental trauma disorder have had little experience of is positive hormonal surges of oxytocin, serotonin and dopamine. The latter are stimulated by touch, attuned interaction with parent figures, and positive reciprocal attachment relationships.
So our neurosequential approach starts back to front, beginning with the primitive reptilian brain, allowing the child to experience, via the parent, what happy babies experience: periods of quiet alert. During such periods, babies take in their environment and learn from their parents, wiring up their neurological systems in a developmentally adaptive way.
Because of the developmental insults the child has experienced, parents themselves have to go back developmentally in order to then go forward. This requires the parent to parent the child as if they were much younger than their chronological age, even taking them as far back as the baby stages. This requires parents to massage and play games with their child, which involve touch and close eye-to-eye contact. It is not unusual for parents to play such games as peek-a-boo, counting fingers and toes, the sorts of interactions parents would normally have with an infant. Despite the chronological age of the child, developmentally traumatised children will often engage in these interactions with relish, because at some level they themselves appear to be aware of what it was they missed out on when they were very young. Bath-times and bedtimes are very important in establishing a predictable routine, which is nurturing and developmentally attuned. Meal times and food may have to follow a similar developmental catch-up, with the child going back to being fed for a while, to have that experience of being weaned from bottle, to mushy food, to solids.
Of course what parents discover very quickly is that their child does babyhood and infancy in a traumatised way. So yes, they are eager to regress and do regress, but remain hyperaroused, hypervigilant, controlling or dissociative. By small steps and successive approximation (shaping), parents are supported in their attempts to try and 'normalise' an appropriate infant response. In the case of feeding, often children will have the tendency to want to control the feeding process, as a result of having been left to feed themselves with bottles or food. Parents need to help the child have a good baby experience, of being fed by the parent with good eye contact, with the parent controlling the feeding process.
As part of our multidisciplinary team, a paediatric occupational therapist will have carried out an assessment of the child's sensorimotor development and will have prescribed a series of exercises that will help the child with sensorimotor coordination and development, and with moderating sensory stimulation. An example would be a child who for the first year or two of infancy spent most of the day strapped in a buggy and who never learnt to crawl before they walked, who never learnt right-left synchronisation and as a consequence has poor muscle tone and balance. The parents might, in a playful way, carry out a series of exercises with the child, which are designed to address these specific physiological developmental gaps. Our role as workers is to set the developmental context for parents and encourage and support them not to grow their children up, but to take them back, and to give them the babyhood and the infancy they never had but desperately needed.
Patterns of response to trauma 'triggers'
Dysregulation (high or low, ie agitation or shut down) – changes persist and do not return to baseline; not reduced by an increase in conscious awareness of being dysregulated. Dysregulation occurs at the following levels:
Affective (eg mood swings, irritability, rages and outbursts, depression etc)
Somatic (eg physiological, sensorimotor, medical balance, dyspraxia, hand-eye coordination etc)
Behavioural (eg re-enactments of trauma experience, hypervigilance, hyperactivity, self-harming etc)
Cognitive (eg belief that trauma is happening again, confusion, dissociation, de-personalisation)
Relational (eg clinginess, oppositional behaviour, distrust, over-compliance)
Self-attribution (eg self-hate, blaming oneself for what happened).
Stage 1b Processing the trauma
When parents and children are able to achieve moments of calm and reflection, it is possible to help the child to begin to make sense of their early experience and the effect it has had on their feeling states, behaviours and relationships. At Family Futures, we enable the child to begin to address the trauma through a form of life story work. As a precursor, one of the therapy team will have done an exhaustive and forensic search of the adoptive child's file when they were living in their birth family and in foster care. The aim of this exercise is not just to get a 'coherent narrative' of the child's life with dates, times, people and places, but also to create as vivid a picture as possible of the child's lifestyle and day-to-day experience at each developmental stage. The actual story work is usually done using a large sheet of paper, paints, crayons, and other creative media to depict, using the metaphor of a road or a river, the child's life course. The child is helped to understand their history by the therapist and parent painting, drawing and sticking pictures of significant events and relationships onto their time-line. This will be annotated by the child with their expression of feelings that they had then or that they have now, which they can represent using paint, pastels, colours and words.
Through this process, the child's feelings and experiences are acknowledged, validated and empathised with. The child is also encouraged and empowered to express their feelings and to retrieve often unpleasant memories in the safe and accepting environment created by the parents and therapists working together. As and when the child inevitably becomes resistant, dissociative or dysregulated, the role of the therapist is to set a pace that the child can cope with, and model for the parents how best to help their child process their pain. This process of mapping the child's life story often starts in the here and now, acknowledging the safe, nurturing environment in which they now find themselves and working backwards chronologically into less safe and more scary times.
This process can take months and often needs to be revisited at different times throughout childhood as the child's ability to make sense and process their past develops. This life story work encapsulates the key principles of working with traumatised children which are:
remaining in a safe and sensory-supportive environment
to have their feelings acknowledged ('You had those feelings') and validated ('What was happening to you was horrible; it's not surprising you had those feelings') in an empathic way ('It was wrong what happened to you: I wish I'd been there to protect you and hold you')
helping the child to have mastery over their feeling states and their body, so that they don't dysregulate.
Persistently altered attributions and expectancies
Negative beliefs about self, self-attributions
Distrust of protective caregiver
Loss of the expectation that others will protect them
Uncertainty about the reliability or predictability of others, expressed as distrust, suspicion, problems with intimacy
Loss of trust in social agencies to protect
Lack of belief in recourse to social justice/ retribution
Sense of the inevitability of future social isolation and victimisation
Lack of a continuous sense of self, loss of 'mind-mindedness'
Stage 2 Secure attachment formation and affect enrichment
Secure attachment behaviour and affect enrichment is only possible when a child is not living in a state of constant traumatisation all the time. Somebody once said that a traumatised child has two feet in the past, and their head looking backwards. A securely attached child has one foot in the present and one foot in the past, but they are looking through the present to the future. We support parent and child to engage in attachment-forming therapies. A good example is Theraplay, developed in the 1960s in America, a form of focused play therapy designed to enhance attachments between parents and children. Theraplay theorists have identified four essential elements for secure attachment:
an appropriate level of structure
appropriate levels of developmental challenge.
In Theraplay, the first step is an assessment of these four elements in the child-parent relationship. The outcome of this assessment will determine the sort of activities that the therapist will support the parent and child to engage in. Each activity will target one of the four elements, working to redress any imbalance or deficit. These activities can be part of a therapy session but also can be practised by parents at home or by classroom assistants in the classroom. Theraplay has a universal application for all children since attachments are key to all children's mental health.
These interactions are playful, fun and developmentally enhancing, and help the child's mid-brain development. They are affect-enriching in that they expand the repertoire of accessible feelings, together with the child's ability to name a wider range of feeling. This mid-brain-focused therapy is developmentally a stage on from the hard-wired survival responses of the primitive brain, which require regulation and management: this work represents a move towards the development of experience-dependent neurological and synaptic connections. It is a positive experience of infancy, free from the fear of trauma.
Stage 3 Positive identity formation
For children who experienced early trauma that left them with negative self-attribution, shame and fear, a secure attachment forms a basis for the development of a positive sense of self and optimism about other people's intentions and the future. At this stage in the therapeutic process, the child is free of pathological fear and has internalised the secure attachment with the parent figure as a positive sense of self and self-worth. From this position, with the parent and therapist, the child can begin to develop their cortical capacity for reflective, integrative, left-brain right-brain thinking, to think about themselves, their current relationships and their past, without the distorting lens of trauma.
Regrettably, this is often where therapy with adopted children starts, with life story books, chronologies and contacts that have been viewed traditionally as providing continuity with the past. For the contemporary adopted child, for whom chaos, neglect and abuse were their first experiences of life, it is arguable that such continuity can be seen more as contamination and re-traumatisation if the three steps, outlined above, have not been worked through. Conversely, the good news is that however bad or traumatising a child's early experience and history have been, if they have processed these feelings and experiences and have been helped to form secure attachments, then they can reflect upon their past and their present, and think about their future, with a greater sense of hope and optimism than would previously have been possible.
It is important to remember that the ultimate aim of therapeutic work with adopted children who have experienced early trauma is not knowledge but understanding and forgiveness. Not forgiveness in a religious sense, but as the ultimate act of resolution. Such resolution is something that develops from within, to its own natural timetable, and cannot be imposed from the outside in a formulaic way, or through guilt. Just as the child has been helped to understand themselves in the context of their history, they need to be helped to understand their birth parents' and their birth family's behaviour in the context of their history.
Following the neurosequential approach, of enabling the child to move from primitive-brain feeling states to mid-brain interpersonal affective relationships to cortical self-reflection, the result of any therapeutic intervention should be to move children from fear to feelings and to forgiveness.
Alan Burnell is the registered manager of Family Futures, a registered adoption and adoption support agency. Being adopted as a baby has had a profound impact on his personal and professional life. Following his degree in social work training, he was privileged to work with some inspired practitioners, who led him to believe that it is always possible to improve services for each generation of children. His commitment to adoptive families stems from his own adoptive parents, who embodied the spirit of adoption at its best, and from the adopted families with whom he has worked over the years.
1 Selwyn J, Quinton D. Costs and outcomes of noninfant adoptions. London: BAAF; 2006.
2 See http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/ Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4006205
3 www.adoptionuk.org
4 Teicher MH. Scars that won't heal: the neurobiology of child abuse. Scientific American. 2002; 286(3):68.
5 Van der Kolk B. Developmental trauma disorder – towards a rational diagnosis for children with complex trauma histories. Psychiatric Annals. 2005; 35:5.
6 Van der Kolk B. Proposal to include a Developmental Trauma Disorder diagnosis for children and adolescents into the DSM-V. 2009.
7 Van der Kolk B. The body keeps the score. In: Van der Kolk B, MacFarlane A, Weisaeth L. (eds) Traumatic stress: the effects of overwhelming experience on mind, body and society. New York: Guilford Press; 1996.
8 Perry B. Applying principles of neurodevelopment to clinical work with maltreated and traumatized children; the neurosequential model of therapeutics. In: Webb NB. (ed) Working with traumatized youth in child welfare. New York: Guilford Press; 2006.
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It's hard to believe that people must be roused to do something so vital to their best interests, but the typically low voter turnout for school district elections seems to confirm the notion. So, for those who need to be encouraged to go to the polls next week to pick school board candidates and settle school budgets, this is your pep talk.
A quick glance at any property tax bill will show that school taxes make up the overwhelming portion, dwarfing the town and county tax bite. That means they affect renters, too. At the same time, those taxes fund our school systems, which are essential to a community and its well-being, whether or not you have kids in the classroom.
Arguably, votes cast at the school district level count the most—a few votes often decide the fate of a candidate or a budget. For that reason alone, a trip to the polls next week for the school district vote is worthwhile. It takes minutes and has an impact for years.


Mouthwash (Oral Hygiene) Market in Saudi Arabia - Outlook to 2020: Market Size, Growth and Forecast Analytics is a broad level market review of Mouthwash market of Saudi Arabia. The research handbook provides the up-to-date market size data for period 2011-2015 and illustrative forecast to 2020 covering key market aspects like Sales Value and Volume for Mouthwash and its variants Medicinal Mouthwash and Standard Mouthwash. The research handbook also provides analytics on Sales by Brands and by Distribution Channel.
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The prevention screening guidelines listed here are generally for children and adults with no current symptoms or prior history of a medical condition. People with medical conditions or with a strong family history of certain diseases should talk to their doctors.
OTHER USES -- "Preventive care is a set of measures taken in advance of symptoms to prevent illness or injury. This type of care is best exemplified by routine physical examinations and immunizations. The emphasis is on preventing illnesses before they occur."
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Your honesty and vulnerability are humbling. Your perspective and faith are heartwarming. Your commitment to motherhood and dedication to your husband is refreshing. As you offer your readers encouragement in the journey, may I offer you some as one a little further down the road. Out of six children, only one-and-a-half remain at home. The "half" is a 16-year-old college student who is gone more than home. As I have reluctantly relinquished each of my older children, I have gaine a greater perspective on God's love and faithfulness in the lives of "my" children, realizing as you do, that I am just a temporary steward of His most precious treasure. Watching my oldest children grow, marry, and become amazing men and women, along with their spouses, I am in awe at what God has done, knowing all of my blunders in their childhoods. Even greater is the love they all still have for each other, choosing to be together, even if only through video game chat, as they're spread from coast to coast. Those still in town get together often, sharing friendships in their different circles. And the two still at home have an excellent relationship. This has not come easily or without pain and trial, as you well know, but even the trials have added to the blessing of friendship in time, confirming God's promise in Romans 8:28.


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Synthesis and properties of poly(1,1-diethynyl-1-silacyclopent-3-enes and -1-silacyclobutane)
Eun Joo Kim, Jung Woo Park, Yong Rok Kim, Young Tae Park
Polycarbosilanes containing diacetylene and organosilacyclic groups, such as poly(1,1-diethynyl-1-silacyclopent-3-ene), poly(1,1-diethynyl-3-triethylsilyl-1-silacyclopent-3-ene), and poly(1,1-diethynyl-1-silacyclobutane), were synthesized by the Glaser oxidative coupling polymerization reactions of 1,1-diethynyl-1-silacyclopent-3-ene, 1,1-diethynyl-3-triethylsilyl-1-silacyclopent-3-ene, and 1,1-diethynyl-1-silacyclobutane, respectively. These materials are almost insoluble in usual organic solvents such as CHCl3 and THF. The polymers were characterized by using several spectroscopic methods in solid state. FTIR spectra of all the polymeric materials show that the characteristic C≡C stretching frequencies appear at 2146-2170 cm-1, in particular. The polymers in the solid state show that the strong maximum excitation peaks appear at 255-257 nm and the strong maximum fluorescence emission bands at 401-402 nm. About 71-87% of the initial polymer weights remain at 400°C in nitrogen according to thermogravimetric analysis.
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Kim, E. J., Park, J. W., Kim, Y. R., & Park, Y. T. (2003). Synthesis and properties of poly(1,1-diethynyl-1-silacyclopent-3-enes and -1-silacyclobutane). Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, 24(4), 484-488. https://doi.org/10.5012/bkcs.2003.24.4.484
Kim, Eun Joo ; Park, Jung Woo ; Kim, Yong Rok et al. / Synthesis and properties of poly(1,1-diethynyl-1-silacyclopent-3-enes and -1-silacyclobutane). In: Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society. 2003 ; Vol. 24, No. 4. pp. 484-488.
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The Crockett County Museum became a reality in 1939. It was located in the school until 1958 when it was moved to the Courthouse Annex.
The building itself has an interesting history. Originally, it was the Methodist Church of Ozona. It was built in 1926, but burned in 1942 leaving only the rock structure. The building was turned into a hospital, which was there until 1956. It was then that it became the Courthouse Annex which is where the Crockett County Museum landed two years later in 1958. Finally, in 1998 the museum began restoration to solely occupy the three-story building.
The museum is host to many events throughout the year. Among our more noteworthy events are our yearly Veterans Exhibit and the Wool and Mohair Style Show each fall.
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