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Quiz: Is Your Boyfriend Good for You?: HowStuffWorks
Is Your Boyfriend Good for You?
Is he kind, not only to you, but to everyone in his life?
No, he thinks of that as a sign of weakness.
He tries to be.
Just about always.
Yes, all the time.
When he is wrong, will he admit that he made a mistake?
No, he never will.
After a while, maybe.
He usually does.
Yes, he's very good at that.
Does he know all the little things about you that others don't?
Not that I can tell.
Maybe some of them.
Most of them, yes.
Yes, he knows me completely.
Does he often talk about building a future with you?
No, that has never happened.
He has, but then he drops the subject.
He does quite often.
Do you feel that he looks at you as an equal?
No, he is a true alpha.
I think he does sometimes.
For sure.
Will he willingly run errands for you and does he do them well?
No, he would never do that.
If he is in the mood.
Yes, but he often screws them up.
Yes, and he does them perfectly.
Does he ever question you about where you've been or go through your phone?
Yes, but that's normal.
Sometimes, but not often.
He used to.
Is he inspiring to you to be the best person that you can possibly be?
No, I don't think of him that way.
No, but I do look up to him in some ways.
Sometimes he does.
Will he ever stay out all night and you don't know where he is?
Yes, that's a regular thing.
He did once.
No, but he does stay out really late sometimes.
Friends are important. Do you get along with all of his friends?
I've never met them.
No, I can't stand them.
Most of them.
Yes, I love them.
Does he encourage you to achieve all of your career goals?
No, he thinks mine are silly.
No, but he doesn't put me down either.
He does a lot.
How often does he compliment your looks?
Pretty much never.
He will if I ask him too.
He does it a lot.
When you're just kicking around the house with him in your sweats, do you feel comfortable?
We never do that together.
I'm working on it.
Most of the time.
Yes, always.
Is he always willing to be your plus-one in any social situation?
No, he hates doing things like that.
If it is something he wants to do.
He might grumble a bit, but yes.
Yes, he is great at that.
If you text him with a question, how long does it usually take for him to reply?
He might not reply all day.
Does he still talk to his exes a lot?
Yes, and it drives me crazy.
Yes, but I don't mind because he is friends with them.
Does he respect a feminist point of view?
No, he hates equality.
I haven't really talked to him about that.
He seems to.
He does for sure.
Does he have a wild side?
Yes, and it's huge.
Yes, but it doesn't come out that often.
Yes, but I do too.
How do he and his mother get along?
He doesn't spend any time with his mother.
They get along pretty well.
They get along great.
Does he get along well with your family?
They don't get along well at all.
He hasn't met my family.
They do pretty well.
They love each other.
Does he do little romantic things for you from time to time?
Not that I notice.
Yes, very little.
He does sometimes.
How often have you caught him lying to you?
Too many times to count.
Quite a few times.
Not often.
Do you two have the same values?
No, they're quite different.
For the most part.
Yes, in just about all ways.
Could you two cut it in a long-distance relationship?
No way, I wouldn't trust him.
I think we could.
I would miss him, but yes.
Does he mind if you go out with your friends sometimes?
Yes, he hates that.
He says he doesn't, but I can tell he does.
Not if I don't do it that often.
No, he thinks it's healthy for us to do our own thing sometimes.
Does he listen to you talk about your day?
Ha, not even.
Well, he pretends to.
He tries.
Yes, he does for sure.
Does he have any bad habits he tries to get you to join him in?
No, he keeps those to himself.
No, he is self-aware.
Do you feel silly when you cry in front of him?
I sure do.
Not any more than when I cry in front of anyone else.
No, I am fine with it.
Does he have passion for life?
No, he is pretty bummed about a lot of things.
He does most of the time.
Yes, and it's inspiring.
Does he do something for work or in school that he cares about?
No, he hates what he does.
No, but he is looking for something else.
Yes, but he doesn't love it.
Yes, he loves what he does.
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Relationships are confusing. Guys can be too. When you meet a guy and things start to click, the next step is thinking about a relationship, That might consist of going out on a bunch of dates, then down the road maybe living together, then who knows, maybe even getting engaged and walking down the aisle.
But love is complicated: sometimes things that feel really good can turn into something that isn't so great. You might get caught up in passion, in romance, maybe even in not being alone, and pick a guy who really isn't good for you. Because after all, that is what relationships are all about.
You want someone you can trust, who you can rely on, who is there for you when no one else is, who supports you when you are going through a hard time. Someone who accepts you for exactly who you are and never tries to change you, but who is willing to tell you when he sees you doing something that is harmful to yourself or to your relationship.
What all this really comes down to is whether your boyfriend good for you. You might want to take this quiz and find out for sure.


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Marc Lavoie
Expertise: Economic Inequality, Labour markets, Macroeconomics
Marc Lavoie has a Senior Research Chair in economics at the University of Sorbonne Paris Cité and at the University of Paris 13. He is emeritus professor at the University of Ottawa, where he has taught for over 35 years. He is also an IMK Research Fellow at the Hans Böckler Foundation in Germany. He has written over 200 journal articles or book chapters and several books dealing with post-Keynesian and heterodox economics, some of which have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Korean or Chinese.
His recent works involve a research project on behalf of the International Labour Office, which has led to the publication of the book: Wage-led Growth: An Equitable Strategy for Economic Recovery (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013). He has also completed a book that synthesises a research traditon: Post-Keynesian Economics: New Foundations (Edward Elgar, 2014).
Posts & Activities by Marc Lavoie
Affordable housing increasingly illusory in Vancouver, Toronto
Experts have roundly criticized BC Premier Christy Clark's recent home ownership grant policy. A key part of the negative reaction has been based on fears that interest free grants will increase housing prices and drive a further wedge between incomes and housing costs, a divide already plaguing the Vancouver and lower mainland markets.
Cost of home today is double the amount in weeks of labour time compared to 1970s: new study
Inequality is a major theme of current research in economics throughout the world. The now-famous Capital by Thomas Piketty released in English in 2014 is a case in point. It is also a major focal point in Canada, as illustrated by the book Income Inequality: The Canadian Story published recently by the Institute for Research on Public Policy and in the ongoing work of the Broadbent Institute and other groups.
Wage suppression and the Federal Balanced Budget Act
In the October 2013 Speech for the Throne, the Canadian government announced it would introduce balanced-budget legislation. At the time this vague proposal attracted little interest from anyone, although a year later the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) did produce a substantial document analyzing the benefits and costs of such a proposal.
The case for wage-led growth
The standard view in economics and in policy circles is that wage increases come at a cost that impacts individual firms negatively. According to this view, wage increases also lead to losses in a firm's competitiveness in foreign markets. Thus, until the advent of the global financial crisis, mainstream authors paid little attention to the fact that wage growth had lagged behind the sum of productivity growth and inflation, in most countries and for several decades, and that as a result wage shares had fallen. There was also little concern with the rise in wage dispersion— the gap between the income share of the top 1% and the rest that became a part of the lexicon during the Occupy Wall street movement.

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Jul 30, 2018 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Today @MuslimAdvocates & Lotfi Legal filed the first legal challenge to the Trump Administration's implementation of the #MuslimBan on behalf of 36 USCs, LPRs, and Iranian, Libyan, Somali, Syrian, and Yemeni individuals whose visas have been denied or stalled under the ban /1
https://twitter.com/dlind/status/1023691942725668865
The lawsuit is a class action on behalf of both US-based relatives and impacted people from the 5 countries. Now that SCOTUS has allowed the ban to remain in effect indefinitely, the least the Trump admin can do is live up to its own law /2
The Proclamation says that every applicant will be considered for a case-by-case waiver if they meet three criteria. But the agencies haven't put in place a process by which people can submit an application or documents or anything that would allow them to show that they do. /3
Instead, it's issued blanket denials; given completely conflicting and contradictory information; and left people stranded in desperate circumstances all around the world without any recourse or any transparency or process. /4
One man is stranded in Djibouti with his wife, who gave birth in a cab because they couldn't find a way to get to the hospital in time. Another is still waiting for her husband to be allowed to come home so that he can meet his infant son. /5
Still others have been separated from parents, siblings, children; denied once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to come for business or professional opportunities. Through this process the administration has banned a world-class violinist; a renowned scientist; a health researcher. /6
When defending against legal challenges to the ban, the government said they had a full and fair waiver process. And SCOTUS accepted that statement. The reality proves otherwise. So we're taking the Trump administration to court. /7
We're telling the government; give people the process you promised. It's the least you can do. We'll keep fighting on behalf of our 36 clients and everyone else whose life has cruelly and unjustly been upended by this ban. /8
Read the complaint here: muslimadvocates.org/wp-content/upl… /9
And keep standing with us and with the USCs, LPRs, and Iranian, Libyan, Somali, Syrian, and Yemeni communities on whose behalf we bring this fight. /end
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Tonight, I'm returning home to my own babies, carrying with me the faces and voices and stories of the moms and dads I spoke to over the past few days who do not know where their children are or when they will next see them. /1
The mom whose deaf and mute son was taken away from her. The moms fleeing horrific domestic abuse. The moms whose family members were killed by gangs and whose lives and children's lives were threatened. The dad tied to a tree and beaten. The dad threatened with mutilation. /2
The stories are endless. And they are gut-wrenching. And our taxpayer money is being used to treat them like criminals and to cage them and to take their children away from them. /3
Just wrapping up from a long day at a border immigration detention center today, where along with a rock star team of women attorneys we interviewed more than 100 people. /1
Just between the three of us, @ofelial1 @SEDLAW15 and I talked to more than 30. Two most notable observations: /2
First, each and every one of the people we spoke with who has crossed the border had been separated from their child. Every single last one. That's pretty dramatic in its own right. /3


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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on William O. Douglas
The following is a transcript of a speech by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at the Sierra Club's National Convention and Expo on September 10, 2005 in San Francisco. Kennedy received the Sierra Club's William O. Douglas Award on behalf of the Waterkeeper Alliance.
I want to tell you how proud I am to accept the William O. Douglas Award. Two of my most poignant memories as a child involved Justice Douglas.
One of them was when I was 11 years old. I did a 20-mile hike with my little brother David and with Justice Douglas and my father, which was a bird-watching hike on the C & O Canal, which he played a critical role in protecting. We started at four o'clock in the morning and walked all day. Then I did a ten-day pack trip with him. He took my whole family up to Olympic Range and the San Juan Peninsula and went camping for almost two weeks when I was eight years old.
Justice Douglas had a very strong relationship with my family. My grandfather brought Justice Douglas into public life and gave him his first job at the SEC as his deputy and then got Franklin Roosevelt to appoint him to run the SEC and played a critical role in getting him appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court. He said that his relationship to my grandfather was a father-son relationship. When my father was 18 years old, Justice Douglas took him for a walking tour of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, and all the Asian Soviet Republics. They were the first Westerners to enter Soviet Asia after the 1917 revolution. They had an extraordinary trip, and Justice Douglas wrote a book about it.
He was our greatest environmental jurist. He had a very, very close relationship with my family. As an attorney, I think the case that was the most important was Sierra Club vs. Morton, where he actually said that he believed the trees should have standing to sue [applause]. There is nobody in American history that I more admire than him. What he understood, which is what I think more and more people are understanding, is that protecting the environment is not about protecting the fishes and the birds for their own sake. It's about recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities, and we must meet our obligation as a generation, as a civilization, as a nation, to create communities for our children that provide them with opportunities for dignity and enrichment and good health.
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Selected Works by William O. Douglas
An Almanac of Liberty, Doubleday and Co., NY, 1954.
The Douglas Letters, Ed. Melvin I. Urofsky, Little, Adler & Adler, Bethesda, MD, 1987.
A Wilderness Bill of Rights, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1965.
Go East, Young Man, Random House, NY, 1974.
My Wilderness: The Pacific West, Doubleday and Co., NY, 1960.
My Wilderness: East to Katahdin, Doubleday and Co., NY, 1961.
Nature's Justice – Writings of William O. Douglas. Ed. James O. Fallon. Corvallis: OSU Press, 2000.
Of Men and Mountains, Harper, NY, 1950.
The Right of the People, Doubleday & Company, NY 1958.
Russian Journey, Doubleday & Company, NY, 1956.
Strange Lands and Friendly People, Harper & Brothers, NY, 1951.
West of the Indus, Doubleday & Company, NY, 1958.
Biographies & Selected Books
Feldman, Noah. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices. Twelve, New York, 2010.
Hulst, Thomas R. The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas, iUniverse, New York, 2004.
Murphy, Bruce A. Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas. Random House, New York, 2003.
Simon, James F. Independent Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas. Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1980.
Sowards, Adam M. The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation. Corvallis, OSU Press, 2009.
Wasby, Stephen L. He Shall Not Pass This Way Again: The Legacy of Justice William O. Douglas. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1990.
Selected Articles & Published Materials
Urofsky on Murphy, "Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas"
Mull, Robert W. "The Curious Story of a Famous but not a Favorite Son" Columbia Magazine of Northwest History Summer 1987.
Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727. Supreme Court. 19 Apr. 1972. Click here to read.
Supreme Court Historical Society Publications. 1990 Yearbook. "Remembrances of William O. Douglas on the 50th Anniversary of his Appointment to the Supreme Court." 1990
Zion, Sydney. "Bill Douglas." The Nation 2 Feb. 1980.
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Douglas on global perspectives
Douglas discussing the importance of global perspectives, from 1957 interview.
"The trips were unconventional. For the most part I kept out of the lanes of tourist travel. While I saw some of the sights and visited the capitals, I spent most of my time in the mountains and villages, traveling on foot, by horseback, or by jeep and stopping to talk with most of the goatherds and peasants I met along the way. I usually carried complete camping equipment with me, put my bedroll down in or near a village at night, and sat up late discussing problems with the villagers or a local khan or kalantar. In a word, I spent most of my time with the common people of these countries, rather than with officialdom."
—Strange Lands and Friendly People (1951)
"Our journey across Afghanistan might well be called "Adventures in Friendship." Never has adversity worked so strongly against a traveler; never has one been so warmly and generously received along the highways and byways. Trouble seemed to follow us all the way across the Hindu Kush and for hundreds of miles along the Russian border; and at the same time good Samaritans without number always were at hand to ease the way. History books tell us that Afghans are brigands. But our journey taught us that they are the friendliest people we ever knew."
—West of the Indus (1958)
Russia, 1955
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Douglas on freedom
Douglas discussing freedom, from 1957 interview.
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."
—The Right of the People (1958)
"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
—September 10, 1976 letter to the Washington State Bar Association
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."
—"The One Un-American Act," Nieman Reports (1953)
"The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer."
—Points of Rebellion (1969)
Aspen, Colorado, 1960
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Douglas on mountains and wilderness
Douglas discussing mountains, from 1957 interview.
"For myself it is a testing ground of my strength and endurance, a pitting of finite man against one of the great rigors of the universe. A man – or girl – can get to know himself – or herself- on the mountain. He gets to know his inner strength-the power of the soul to add to the power of the legs and lungs. In the solitude of the mountains – especially on the highest peaks- he is close to the heavens, close to the outer limits of the earthly zone. It is for me easy, therefore, to have communion with God and to come to understand terms of my own being."
—November 6, 1954 letter to a Seattle schoolgirl, The Douglas Letters (1987)
"As I walked the ridge that evening, I could hear the Chinook on distant ridges before it reached me. Then it touched the sage at my feet and made it sing. It brushed my cheek, warm and soft. It ran its fingers through my hair and rippled away in the darkness. It was a friendly wind, friendly to man throughout time. It was beneficent…"
—Go East, Young Man (1974)
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas hiking Olympic Beach in Washington state.
"Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life."
"If our wilderness areas are preserved, every person will have a better chance to maintain his freedom by allowing his idiosyncrasies to flower under the influence of the wonders of the wilderness."
"Most glacial peaks exude an atmosphere of mystery. There is wonderment at the forces that created it. The sheer beauty of basalt cliffs, glacial ice, snow-covered summits, and the blue sky is tranquilizing. The clash and turmoil of civilization are far behind. Now one faces the elemental forces-those that produced the great mountain, those that are in the process of leveling it."
"…to be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part of and nurture it and love it, if he is to live."
"If the sun sets clear, there is a moment before the mountain is swallowed up by the darkness when it is brightly luminous, incandescent, a startling ball of cold light. When the full moon rises, the distant snow fields dimly reflect a golden glow. Then the mountain seems so far, so remote, as to belong to another world."
—My Wilderness: The Pacific West (1960)
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas looking out across the frontier.
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Fast facts on the writing life of William O. Douglas
Published over 40 books in his lifetime
Wrote hundreds of articles for a wide array of publications
Writing has been translated into over 10 languages
Prolific writing and publication career also included thousands of letters of correspondence, transcribed speeches, and countless other documents
1929: First published article, "A Functional Approach to the Law of Business Associations," appears in March issue of Illinois Law Review.
1942: Writes article "Press Must be America's Wartime University" for July issue of Life magazine.
1948: Writes article "Way to Win Without War" for July issue of Reader's Digest magazine.
1949: Horseback-riding accident results in 23 broken ribs and nearly ends Douglas' life. Writes first book, the memoir Of Men & Mountains, during his recovery. Published in 1950 by Harper, it remains his most critically acclaimed.
1952: Writes article "The Black Silence of Fear" for January edition of The New York Times Magazine, warning of the perils of anti-Communist sentiment in America.
1955: Writes article "Man's Inhumanity to Land" for May edition of American Forests. "Planless burning is one of the great destroyers of our wealth. When the woods burn… all living creature's suffer."
1958: Writes article "West from the Kyber Pass" and others for National Geographic, based on his road trip from Karachi to Istanbul with his wife Mercedes Hester Davidson, who served as car mechanic on the journey through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey.
1959: Publishes book West of the Indus (Doubleday) based on this road trip. It is one of several travelogues written by Douglas detailing his journeys through Central and Southeast Asia. Others include Beyond the High Himalayas (Doubleday, 1952) and North From Malaya (Doubleday, 1952), which covered a trip across then-Malaya, the Philippines, Vietnam, Burma, and Korea.
1962: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring published. Douglas writes the liner notes for the Book of the Month edition.
1964: In July Ladies Home Journal, publishes the article "Our Vanishing Wilderness."
1965: Writes article "Animal Man Needs to Hike" in March issue of The New York Times Magazine. "The subconscious carries a heavy burden of our worries, concerns, and problems. On a long hike it functions free of additional tensions and pressures. And somehow or other it seems to unravel many a tangled skein of problems during a six-to-eight-hour hike. The process is a mystery, though I have experienced it again and again," quote found in Keith Smiley's "The Importance of Walking" booklet.
1967: Writes article "The Attack on the Right to Privacy," in December issue of Playboy.
1970: Points of Rebellion is published by Random House, expressing the Constitutional rights of Vietnam War protesters. Passages such as "We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to its tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution" lead to a third call for Douglas to be impeached.
1971: Writes article "Environmental problems of the oceans: the need for international controls" in spring issue of Environmental Law.
1971: Writes article "Pollution: an international problem needing an international solution " in summer issue of Texas International Law Journal.
1974: Random House publishes what will be his final book: Go East, Young Man: The Early Years.
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Fast facts on the personal life of William O. Douglas
Born October 16, 1898 in Maine Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
Mother, Julia Bickford, born 1872 in Maine Township, Minnesota, died 1941 in Chicago, Illinois
Father, William Douglas, born 1856 in Canada, died 1904 in Portland, Oregon
Married Mildred Riddle in 1923, divorced 1953
Married Mercedes Hester Davidson in 1954, divorced 1966
Married Joan Martin in 1963, divorced 1966
Married Cathleen Heffernan in 1966 (married until death of William O. Douglas)
Died January 19, 1980 at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland
Interred in Section 5 of Arlington National Cemetery
1898: William Orville Douglas is born to the Reverend William and Julia Douglas in Maine, Minnesota.
1901: Three-year-old "Orville" is gravely ill from infantile paralysis, possibly polio. The Douglas family moves to Estrella, California.
1903: Family moves to Cleveland, Washington.
1904: Reverend Douglas, an itinerant minister described as a rigid Presbyterian, dies in a Portland, Oregon hospital. The widow Douglas moves her family to Yakima. William begins hiking to help him recover from a lingering weakness caused by a childhood illness. To compensate for his physical shortcomings, Douglas pushes himself to achieve academic excellence.
1906-1915: The Douglas household is a Spartan one. All three children work year-round to help support the family. Young Orville, as he was known, delivers newspapers, sets pins in a bowling alley, and works in an ice cream plant. None of these jobs has a more profound impact on him than working in the fields and orchards of Eastern Washington. As a result, he grows to know and respect the many different migrant groups and develops a profound compassion for society's underprivileged.
Young William O. Douglas in the woods. 1914
1916: Graduates from Yakima High School as class valedictorian and is awarded a tuition scholarship by Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
1920: Graduates Phi Beta Kappa from Whitman. Begins teaching English and Latin at Yakima High School.
1922: Enters Columbia Law School in New York City. After one year, he makes the staff of the prestigious Columbia Law Review. Among his classmates at Columbia are Thomas E. Dewey and Paul Robeson.
1923: Marries Mildred Riddle, a co-worker at Yakima High School and a native of La Grande, Oregon.
1925: Graduates second in his class from Columbia. Begins professional career at Wall Street law firm of Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine, and Wood. Teaches at Columbia on the side.
1926: Briefly returns to Yakima to practice law, then accepts a position teaching full-time at Columbia Law School.
1928: Accepts a teaching position at Yale University.
1929: With the onset of the Great Depression, Douglas becomes especially interested in the bankruptcy phenomenon in the United States and is soon recognized as a leading authority on the causes of bankruptcy.
1949: Horseback-riding accident results in twenty-three broken ribs and nearly ends Douglas' life. Writes memoir Of Men & Mountains during his recovery, his most critically acclaimed book. He will write over 40 books in his lifetime.
1953: Divorces Mildred.
1954: Marries Mercedes Hester Davidson. Challenges Washington Post Editorial board to hike the C&O Canal route to save it from proposed highway project.
1955: Tours Russia. At the behest of family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, is accompanied by Robert F. Kennedy to internationalize the younger Kennedy's personal experience.
1956: Douglas and his wife Mercedes Davidson accompany acclaimed biologists Olaus Murie and his wife Mardy to Alaska on the Sheenjek River Expedition.
1958: Leads a hike along a secluded and pristine section of beach in Olympic National Park to protest a future roadway into the area; the hike is successful and plans are abandoned. As a staunch protector of the natural environment, he helps define environmental activism in the United States and the international community before the term "environmentalism" appears in mainstream culture.
Justice Douglas dipping his toes in the water during the Olympic Beach hike in Washington state. 1958
1963: Divorces Mercedes. Marries Joan Martin.
1966: Divorces Joan. Marries Cathleen Heffernan. Douglas maintains his connection to the Pacific Northwest throughout his years in the nation's capital. His first and fourth wives, Mildred Riddle and Cathleen Heffernan, hail from Oregon, and for many years he enjoys summers in and around a cabin in Oregon's Wallowa Mountains, and later at his Goose Prairie residence in Washington's Cascade Mountains.
1974: Suffers a stroke on December 31.
1975: Retires from the Supreme Court on November 12 and is succeeded by John Paul Stevens.
1980: Dies at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on January 19.
Douglas in 1939
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Fast facts on the political and professional life of William O. Douglas
B.A. in English and Economics from Whitman College, law degree from Columbia
Professor at Yale from 1928 to 1934
Spent six years at SEC (1934-1939), rising the ranks to Chairman
Sworn into office on Supreme Court on April 17, 1939, replacing Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Served as Supreme Court Justice for 36 years, 211 days, the longest tenure in American history
Wrote over 1,200 opinions while a Supreme Court Justice, a record
Also holds SCOTUS record for most dissenting opinions
Four impeachment attempts are the most ever for a sitting justice
1934: Accepts a position with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
1936: Is appointed commissioner of the SEC.
1937: Is appointed chairman of the SEC, replacing James Landis. Calling himself the "investors' advocate" with an uncompromising attitude, "He took on the Holy of the Wall Street Holies, The New York Stock Exchange, and forced it to transform itself…" wrote Fred Rodell for American Mercury. His success in regulating the stock market did not make friends among the wealthy businessmen who had been used to having their own way on the Street. "Douglas found the New York Stock Exchange a private club and he left it a public institution." — Robert Kenny, California Attorney General, 1944.
Douglas in 1937, while serving as Chairman of the SEC.
1939: President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints Douglas to United States Supreme Court to fill the position vacated by Justice Louis D. Brandeis. At 40 years of age, he becomes one of the youngest men ever appointed to the Supreme Court.
1940: FDR considers him for vice president.
1944: FDR again considers Douglas for vice-presidential nomination, purportedly FDR's first choice.
1948: Declines invitation of President Harry S. Truman to run for vice president.
1951: Dennis v. United States. Douglas establishes a reputation as an outspoken advocate of individual rights. His voting record in support of constitutionally guaranteed rights to personal freedom, privacy and equal treatment before the law is unprecedented. "He stood for the individual as no other justice ever has." — Lucas Powe, Jr., former law clerk to William O. Douglas.
1955: Tours Russia. At the behest of family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy is accompanied by Robert F. Kennedy to internationalize the younger Kennedy's personal experience.
1958: Leads a hike along a secluded and pristine section of beach in Olympic National Park to protest a future roadway into the area; the hike is successful and plans are abandoned. As a staunch protector of the natural environment he helps define environmental activism in the United States and the International community before the term "environmentalism" appears in mainstream culture.
The Olympic Beach hike in 1958. Douglas in background wearing white hat.
1965: Griswold v. Connecticut. The Supreme Court held that the statute was unconstitutional because it was a violation of a person's right to privacy. In his opinion, Douglas stated that the specific guarantees of the Bill of Rights have penumbras "formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and sub-stance," and that the right to privacy exists within this area. Douglas at the urging of Justice William Brennan wrote the courts majority opinion.
1967: For the first time in Supreme Court history Douglas uses the word "ecology" to argue that no dam should be built on the Snake River in Udall v. Federal Power Commission showing that scientific perspectives ought to be considered, thus elevating this to the paramount question.
1970: The fourth attempt to impeach Justice William O. Douglas is organized by Representative Gerald Ford. Often a focal point of controversy, Justice Douglas openly criticizes American domestic and foreign policy throughout his tenure on the court.
1972: Sierra Club v. Morton. Douglas writes his iconic dissenting opinion defining why wild things deserve standing in the eyes of the law.
Goose Prairie, Washington. 1972.
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Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952) in the news
Yesterday, an old Supreme Court ruling that William O. Douglas was part of came back into the spotlight when Donald Trump declared a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border of the United States.
A president declaring a national emergency is far from unprecedented. It has "happened 60 times since the power was codified in 1976… most have been uncontroversial," according an article written yesterday by Scott Horsley of NPR.
But, as detailed by Horsley, the circumstances around this declaration are different. Many politicians (and citizens) are unhappy, to say the least. Maybe they're justified. The matter of the border wall emergency is likely to be decided in the courts.
Which brings us to Douglas: as outlined in The Daily Beast and The Washington Post, the 1952 Supreme Court case Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer will likely play a key role in the arguments when that happens.
For a full synopsis of the case, go here. Essentially, steel workers were planning a strike during the Korean War. President Truman attempted to seize the steel mills and force them to continue production, citing steel as indispensable to the war effort, and claiming a work stoppage would "immediately jeopardize and imperil our national defense."
With Douglas in the majority 6-3 opinion, the Supreme Court ruled against Truman. Justice Hugo Black, writing for the majority, stated, "[t]he President's power, if any, to issue the order must stem either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself."
Erwin Chemerinsky, the Dean of Berkeley Law School, writes that the courts "should quickly and emphatically hold that President Trump's attempt to fund the border wall by declaring a national emergency is illegal and unconstitutional." In Youngstown, he says, "The Court stressed that Truman's actions violated the separation of powers and usurped the powers of Congress. Likewise, President Trump's attempt to spend money for building a wall without congressional appropriation of funds for this purpose directly violates the Constitution."
Additionally, Youngstown addressed the issue of property being taken, also relevant for Trump's wall. Three Texas landowners have already filed a lawsuit after being told the wall would be built on their land. Justice Black wrote in Youngstown, "There is no statute that expressly authorizes the President to take possession of property as he did here. Nor is there any act of Congress… from which such a power can be fairly implied."
Truman wasn't happy about losing. In a 1972 interview with Eric Sevareid, Douglas recounted how afterwards the justices "all went and poured a lot of Bourbon down Harry Truman," to try and cheer him up.
Times were a little different back then. It seems unlikely anyone will throw Trump a party if his border wall gets shot down in court.
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Injuries everywhere; Russia, Italy to meet in ATP Cup final
By JOHN PYE - Feb. 06, 2021 04:12 AM EST
Spain's Garbine Muguruza makes a forehand return to Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic during a tuneup event ahead of the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021.(AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Grand Slam tournament winners Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams withdrew from their tuneup tournaments, their focus already on the Australian Open, well before Alexander Zverev tweaked his back in the second set of his must-win ATP Cup match against Daniil Medvedev.
He left the court for treatment Saturday and returned, taking the match to three sets before Medvedev finally converted to secure Russia's win over Germany and a spot in the final.
No. 4-ranked Medvedev lifted when Zverev started to struggle but he got tight in the end, twice double-faulting on match point before serving out for 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. Andrey Rublev had earlier beaten Jan-Lennard Struff 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.
"Crazy match," Medvedev said. "Happy to win even if many things I didn't like.
"Most important thing is to win for the country and be in the final."
Russia will meet Italy in the final after Fabio Fognini beat Pablo Carreno 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 and Matteo Berrettini swept Roberto Bautista 6-3, 7-5 to account for 2020 runner-up Spain. Rafael Nadal didn't play for Spain during the week because of lower back soreness but did practice and is expected to be OK for the Australian Open, where he's aiming for a men's record 21st Grand Slam title.
Zverev had helped Germany to a 2-1 quarterfinal win over defending champion Serbia, rebounding from a narrow loss to top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the singles with a victory in the deciding doubles.
But in the semis, his movement and serve slowed after getting a medical timeout for treatment in the second set.
Medvedev rallied and set up victory with a service break in penultimate game, and Zverev shattered a racket in frustration.
"It helped me he started moving slower, serving slower in the second set," Medvedev said. "I felt like in the beginning of the third, I could stay in front and get the match done easy. But in the heat of the match, he started feeling better. I had to stay in it as much as I could."
OTHER ATP FINAL Felix Auger-Aliassime and Daniel Evans will both be aiming to win their first titles on the elite men's tour when they meet in the Murray River Open final.
Third-seeded Auger-Aliassime had a 6-1, 6-2 win over Corentin Moutet and eight-seeded had a 6-2, 6-2 win over Jeremy Chardy.
MUGURUZA INTO FINAL
A day after beating 2020 champion Sofia Kenin in a rematch of last year's Australian Open final, Garbine Muguruza beat eighth-seeded Marketa Vondrousova 6-1, 6-0 to set up a final against top-ranked Ash Barty at the Yarra River Classic.
"Very happy for sure — it's another final," Muguruza said. "I played well today. My serve was working in the right moments."
She knows she'll have to step it up against Australian star Barty, who will have the crowd — however small it may be during the COVID-19 pandemic — on her side.
"Very exciting. Always good to play the top players," Muguruza said. "We've had some tough matches. I'm expecting another battle."
Barty had the day off after Serena Williams withdrew Friday night from their match, citing a sore shoulder.
Williams attended a news conference instead on Saturday, and said she was feeling good for her shot at a record 24th Grand Slam title.
"I've gotten a lot of treatment already on my shoulder but I'm super confident it's going to be great," Williams said. "It's definitely something that I'm going to have to deal with, and knowing that going into the tournament definitely helped."
OSAKA OUT
No. 3-ranked Osaka pulled out of her Gippsland Trophy semifinal against Elise Mertens because of shoulder soreness.
Osaka won the U.S. Open in 2018 and last year and claimed the Australian title in between, in 2019. She said she's had a "slight shoulder thing since like 2018" and needed to rest ahead of the Grand Slam. Mertens got a walkover into a final against Kaia Kanepi, who had a 6-3, 7-6 (6) semifinal win over Ekaterina Alexandrova.
"It kind of flared up again because I played, like, a lot of matches back-to-back," Osaka said. "For me, my main focus is hoping I can rest enough before the Open."
Organizers put on six tournaments this week to give all players who flew into Australia and had to quarantine for 14 days some high-level matches to prepare.
A 24-hour suspension during the week — when 507 people, including 160 players, had to go back into isolation and get tested because a hotel quarantine worker was infected with the coronavirus — meant the semifinals and finals were crammed into the last weekend.
"I would say it is a factor because, for me, I don't normally play the tournament right before a Slam," Osaka said. "But I felt like it was really necessary to get matches in. I think everyone felt that way.
"I'm kind of sad that I wasn't able to play today. But I thinkin the end it's the right decision."
GRAMPIANS TROPHY
After the four semifinalists were determined, the WTA announced "Sunday's two semifinal showdowns will be the last matches of the Grampians Trophy. Due to the delayed schedule, the final will not be played."
There were no immediate details regarding points or prize money.
Fifth-seeded Maria Sakkari beat three-time major winner Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-2 to reach the Grampians Trophy semifinals against No. 6 Anett Kontaveit, who got a walkover in the quarterfinals when two-time Australian Open winner Azarenka withdrew because of a lower back problem.
Seventh-seeded Jennifer Brady beat Barbora Krejcikova and will next play 20-year-old Anna Li, who qualified for her first semifinal on the WTA Tour with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Sorana Cirstea.
The tournament created for players who had to go into hard lockdown during the quarantine because they shared a charter flight to Australia with somebody who later tested positive for COVID-19.
The Grampians Trophy started Wednesday but lost time when all matches at Melbourne Park were suspended for 24 hours.


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Mitch Cooper is een personage uit de Amerikaanse soapserie Dallas. De rol werd vertolkt door Leigh McCloskey. Het personage werd geïntroduceerd in de tweede aflevering van het vierde seizoen en bleef tot in de voorlaatste aflevering van het vijfde seizoen. McCloskey maakte deel uit van de vaste cast en zijn naam verscheen meteen na de openingstune. Aan het einde van het achtste seizoen maakte hij een terugkeer voor vier afleveringen en nog eenmalig in de tweede aflevering van het twaalfde seizoen.

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Mitch is een student geneeskunde. Om zijn studie te bekostigen klust hij bij als onder andere parkeerwachter, waar hij Lucy Ewing leert kennen. Lucy wordt meteen verliefd op hem en al snel krijgt hij ook gevoelens voor haar. Het enige breekpunt in hun prille relatie is het geld van de Ewings, Mitch is arm opgegroeid en wil werken voor zijn geld, niet alles in de schoot geworpen krijgen. Zijn moeder Arliss en zus Afton komen uit Biloxi om kennis te maken met Lucy en de rest van de Ewings. Arliss maakt haar zoon duidelijk dat het geen schande is om arm te zijn, maar dat het ook niets is om trots op te zijn. Mitch en Lucy trouwen. J.R. biedt Mitch een job aan bij Ewing Oil en het appartement in de stad om in te wonen. Mitch wil geen van beide aanvaarden, maar Lucy overhaalt hem om wel in het appartement te gaan wonen. Terwijl Mitch op school is huurt Lucy een schoonmaakster in om het appartement te poetsen en laat uitschijnen dat ze het zelf doet. Als Mitch op een keer vroeger thuis is ontdekt hij dit en leest Lucy de les. Lucy besluit om zelf geld te verdienen. Via haar tante Pamela komt ze in contact met Alex Ward, die een nieuw tijdschrift wil beginnen. Lucy wordt verkozen tot Young Miss Dallas en doet de ene fotoshoot na de andere. Wat Lucy op een dag verdient, daar moet Mitch weken voor overwerken en bijklussen en hij vindt dat Lucy het belang van het geld niet kent. Lucy excuseert zich er echter niet voor dat ze veel geld verdient en vindt dat Mitch zijn principes eindelijk eens opzij moet zetten. Mitch stort zijn hart uit bij een medestudente en op een avond wordt het laat en blijft zij slapen in het bed van Mitch en Lucy terwijl Mitch op de zetel slaapt. Als Lucy thuiskomt 's morgens en het meisje uit de slaapkamer ziet komen misinterpreteert ze het. Lucy en Mitch besluiten het even rustig aan te doen en Lucy gaat terug op Southfork wonen.

Lucy en Mitch zien zich nu regelmatig maar er komt weinig schot in de zaak. Nadat hij afgestudeerd is en zijn diploma viert in de bar waar Afton zingt red hij het leven van een welgestelde vrouw. Hij wordt uitgenodigd bij haar thuis en haar man, dokter Waring, biedt hem een job aan als plastisch chirurg. Hoewel het niet meteen de richting was die hij uitwilde aanvaard Mitch het voorstel om zo in Dallas te kunnen blijven en zijn huwelijk een nieuwe kans te geven. Een van zijn patiënten is Evelyn Michaelson, die een facelift wil nadat haar man haar verlaten heeft. Bij een etentje met Lucy wordt hij weggeroepen voor haar en Lucy is jaloers. Intussen is Lucy gespot door fotograaf Roger, die meteen verliefd op haar is, en die vele fotoshoots doet voor Lucy. Ze vindt de foto's zo mooi dat ze die aan Mitch wil laten kijken en als ze naar het appartement gaat treft ze hem aan in tennisoutfit. Hij zegt dat hij weinig tijd heeft en even later daagt Evelyn al op, waarop Lucy het afdruipt. Als Mitch een keer naar de fotoshoot komt kust ze met Roger om Mitch jaloers te maken. Later gaat hij naar Southfork om met Lucy te praten, zij gooit hem verwijten naar het hoofd dat hij voor Evelyn wil kiezen en er vallen harde woorden. Evelyn nodigt Lucy uit om te praten en zegt ronduit dat ze Mitch wil, Lucy zegt dat ze veel ouder is en dat ze Mitch ook wil. Als Evelyn zegt dat Mitch al met haar naar bed geweest is loopt Lucy weg. Toch blijft Lucy hopen op een verzoening en gaat met goede moed praten met Mitch en zegt thuis dat ze weleens enkele dagen weg kan zijn, Mitch wil echter scheiden. Lucy wordt diezelfde avond ontvoerd door Roger en door het feit dat ze zei dat ze enkele dagen weg zou zijn slaat niemand alarm tot Mitch naar Southfork gaat omdat hij niets meer gehoord heeft. Lucy wordt gevonden en Mitch komt nog afscheid nemen en zegt dat hij Dallas verlaat en naar Atlanta verhuist. Het is onduidelijk of Evelyn nog een rol in zijn leven speelt.

Drie jaar later keert Mitch terug en verzoent hij zich met Lucy. Ze hertrouwen en Lucy verhuist mee naar Atlanta. Ook de tweede poging mislukt en in 1988 gaan ze voor een tweede keer uit elkaar.

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Am EHF Challenge Cup 2015/16 nahmen 42 Handball-Vereinsmannschaften teil, die sich in der vorangegangenen Saison in ihren Heimatländern für den Wettbewerb qualifiziert hatten. Es war die 16. Austragung des Challenge Cups. Titelverteidiger war das rumänische Team HC Odorheiu Secuiesc. Die Pokalspiele begannen am 10. Oktober 2015, das zweite Finalspiel fand am 21. Mai 2016 statt. Im Finale mit zwei portugiesischen Teams konnte sich Académico Basket Clube gegen Benfica Lissabon durchsetzen.

Modus
Der Wettbewerb startete mit Runde 2 mit 10 Spielen. In der nächsten Runde mit 16 Spielen stiegen weitere, höher eingestufte Mannschaften ein. Alle Runden wurden im K.o.-System gespielt. Der Sieger des Finales war Gewinner des EHF Challenge Cups in der Saison 2015/16.

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Finale
Das Hinspiel fand am 14. Mai 2016 in Lissabon statt und das Rückspiel am 21. Mai 2016 in Braga. Bei der vierten Teilnahme an einem europäischen Finale, darunter im Jahr zuvor in diesem Wettbewerb und in der Premierensaison der EHF Champions League, konnte Académico Basket Clube seinen ersten Titel gewinnen.

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Siehe auch
 EHF Champions League 2015/16
 EHF-Pokal 2015/16

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EHF European Cup
Handballsaison 2015/16


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Oscar Health just posted its financials for the first quarter of 2019.
The company said Wednesday that it had taken in $354 million in gross premium revenue.
According to filings reviewed by Business Insider, Oscar has filed as an insurer in three new states: Illinois, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, plans to operate plans in Philadelphia and Delaware counties.
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Oscar Health is headed for another metro area.
The startup health insurer, which currently sells insurance on the individual exchanges set up by the Affordable Care Act and to small businesses, has filed to be an insurer in another new states for 2020.
Documents reveal the company plans to operate in Philadelphia and nearby Delaware county in Pennsylvania next year. Business Insider previously reported that the company planned to enter Illinois and Georgia, too.
A spokeswoman for Oscar said in a statement that the company is laying the groundwork to operate in new markets, but that the company won't necessarily sell health plans in all three states in 2020.
This year, Oscar offers health-insurance plans in nine states: Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Tennessee.
Read more: $3.2 billion startup Oscar Health is plotting its expansion into new states as it moves into a competitive insurance plan market
"Oscar is committed to expanding our footprint so we can offer our tech-driven, consumer-facing health insurance to more people across the country," the spokeswoman said. "There are regulatory requirements with which we need to comply and licenses we need to obtain in order to operate in new markets. These new entities are merely preparatory and, pending approval, we will announce our 2020 footprint and the products we will offer in each market later this year."
Oscar has said that it's planning to offer a new type of health insurance as well. In 2020, Oscar will start offering private health-insurance plans to seniors, which are known as Medicare Advantage plans. The company hasn't yet said where it will sell those plans.
Read more: We got a look at $3.2 billion startup Oscar Health's latest enrollment numbers, and they show why the company is pursuing a new strategy for growth
Oscar in August 2018 raised $375 million from Google's parent company Alphabet, and said it would use the funds to bring its tech-backed health insurance plans to more people, including in Medicare Advantage. In total, the company has now raised more than $1 billion.
On Wednesday, Oscar provided reporters with a summary of its financial results for the first quarter of 2019. The company said it took in $354 million in gross premium revenue, and that it generated a gross underwriting profit of $82 million. The company said it spent about 70% of its members premium dollars on medical care.
The gross profit figure doesn't include spending on investment the company is making in hiring new people or building out its technology, nor its marketing costs to get the word out about the plans. The gross revenue figure adds back in funds that Oscar sends to insurance giant Axa as part of a reinsurance deal.
A portion of the premiums that Oscar collects are sent to Axa, and in return Axa agrees to share a portion of Oscar's profits or losses.
Business Insider reviewed Oscar's financial filings to gain a more complete view of the company's results.
Oscar took in about $198 million in premiums in the first quarter of 2019, according the company's filings. The figure excludes funds sent to Axa. The filings also leave out some members in New Jersey. The company posted a net profit of $24 million, according to the filings.
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There's a family from the USA, a little Spanish woman with her eleven-year old and a Canadian with her adult daughter, the two high school students on Easter break from New Zealand, the French couple travelling the world, lots of backpackers, of course; and me. These are the volunteers at Elephant Nature Park this week. We do have a well-structured day, but the truth is: there isn't too much work. Maybe it's because of the season, or maybe it's because our coordinators are afraid we won't be able to deal with the heat.
The travel guide referred to the three Thai seasons as "cool", hot and dry" and "hot and humid". At MUT, the students jokingly told me they were called "hot, hotter, hottest", and for our volunteer coordinators there is only two: "hot" and "fucking hot". But Darrick, who is currently rubbing his neck with ice cubes, knows some more: Right now is obviously smoky season. Fields are being burned all around us, although it is now illegal in Thailand (but in the neighboring countries it's not), that's why we can't really see the mountains. "I assume, that's why you're wearing the mask" says Darrick, "and we probably all should. But even when I was still a firefighter, I'd usually take my mask off when it was needed the most…" Right now, he just wishes for the Canadian climate. Soon it will be rainy season, in June, July. That is followed by the second visitor-low in August (the first low being April, with the bad air and up to 42 degrees), and in September comes Darrick's favorite: the thunderstorms. In November to January, the "winter", it can get nice and cool, and sensitive Thai will need sweaters.
Right now, everybody feels too hot. I get up early in order to do some yoga at nice 26 degrees before breakfast… Up on the terrace, surrounded by the dogs, and a nice view of the elephants.
At seven, we have breakfast buffet, and at eight we start our work: one day we're on "poo duty", cleaning the night pens, the next in the "elephant kitchen", unloading food trucks, and then we'll swap with the other half of the group again. The banana truck comes every day, the watermelon truck brings four tons every other day. Elephants eat around 10% of their body weight every day, and with 84 elephants eating about 200-300 kilos each of grass, corn, watermelons and bananas, that's a lot of fruit.
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We all live in shared rooms on the compound, and day visitors normally also spend a night. They join us for lunch and dinner and get a tour through the park. They watch the elephants, give them some bananas, and if the animals want to, they even get to touch them.
Lunch is already at eleven, but we even have enough time to shower the dust and smell of elephant dung off before that. In all the free time that we have, we can sit on the terrace or by the river, watch elepehants and buffaloes, pet the cats in the "Cat Kingdom" or help the Dog Volunteers walk the dogs. Many of them are paralyzed, and we strap wheelies on before we let them run around on the lawn. It's obvious that they still enjoy life despite everything they've been through! Most of them are also up for adoption and looking for a "forever home". Unfortunately Desmond, who does Yoga with me in the morning, is not one of them, otherwise I would have taken the cute guy with me!
Every early afternoon is wonderful, as I just watch the elephants play in the river or dust themselves, a cat in my chair and a dog by my feet… But I also notice that the other volunteers are mostly where I was six years ago when I went to Nepal the first time: they haven't been this close to elephants before, and they just don't know much about them yet.
Normally, the park offers a program for veterinarians, too, but the communication was difficult, and only when I had no other time available did I find out that the program pauses every summer from April to August. Well, I could still ask. And ask, and beg and drop names ("But Dr. Golf from Bangkok and Dr. Nathan from India send their regards"), and show the emails to volunteer manager Mix. Finally, Dr. Dom and Dr. Bic agree to take me with them for one day.
As far as I know, there are seven elephants vets here, working in teams on different specialties. The cats and dogs have their own hospital, and then there is an open clinic for the villagers, financed entirely by donations, where they can have their pets treated for free.
Dom and Bic are mainly responsible for dealing with wounds in the elephants, and they are the only ones besides me who wear masks all day. I climb onto the side car of their motorbike and we go looking for our first patient. Yai Bua is 104 years old, that's extremely old for an elephant, and that age comes with some health issues of course. She has arthrosis, no more teeth and an abscess on her leg that she's had for many years and seems not to be painful. We feed her soft boiled rice treats with lot of added minerals and I get to give her the daily injection of pain medication. While we wait for her to finish eating, Dom explains the drugs that they use in their elephants on a regular basis and in which dosages.
Yai Bua, 104
Our next patient has an inflamed tooth root and gets a different anti-inflammatory pain killer. I count the 40 pills and hide them inside a watermelon. "No treatment without food" says Dom, and of course, we have brought a big box of peeled watermelons. While watch her eat, Bic climbs into one of the nearby vegetable gardens. A lot of the food that is served at ENP also grows here, protected by buffalo- and elephant-proof fences. He fills my hands with mulberries.
Thai Khun gets the rice treats, and refuses the banana leaves that they are wrapped in, and also the bananas need to be peeled for her. She's picky, but we accept that, because otherwise she is really patient, handing us her injures food. She stepped in a landmine six years ago and the wound on her foot still hasn't healed. Bic flushes, disinfects it, and, with the help of the mahout, puts on a bandage.
After lunch break, we meet at the horse pens. Apparently, it is the vets' duty to feed and brush them in the afternoons.
For the elephants, Dom had given me some safety instructions in the morning, but they seem to presume that I know how to behave around horses. After I've cleaned the hooves and fur of around six of the retired military and race horses and asked some questions about their eye infections, Bic asks me: "Do you have a horse?"
After another break we meet again at Thai Khun's pen. This time, Dom is feeding her, so I think I won't have to do anything, but instead, Bic hands me the Sodium Permanganate and the syringe and says: "You flush like I did in the morning."
Gloves would have been a good idea with this stuff that dyes everything purple, but hey, as long as Thai Khun is ok with me treating her…!
The Elephant Nature Park opened in 2003, and every elephant arrival is a giant project and adventure. There is even a documentary about one of them, Noi Na: "Love & Bananas". Founder of ENP, Lek Chailert, comes from a family in the elephant business, but didn't want to follow in her parents' footsteps of panjan and exploiting the animals (more on that in my last post). When she decided to go public with pictures of what happens behind the scenes, her family disowned her, life on TV. "Lek" means "little", but from what I've heard about her and seen in documentaries, she may be small in size, but her personality is big. And so is her heart. She doesn't only save elephants, but, as you've read, all kinds of animals find shelter here. Today, she is internationally famous, and has accepted that her new family are the elephants and her husband Darrick.
During the flood in Bangkok 2011, ENP workers went on a mission to save the dogs that had escaped to rooftops and were abandoned by their owners. They gave them drinking water, food, and medical care, and all those who would dare to come with them on their little boat have found a new home at ENP. Since then, many more dogs have been saved, or were left near the gates of the park, or even just came her by themselves. The manager of the dog volunteer program says there is probably a "Trip Advisor for dogs", as so many have just shown up here.
In the evenings, we are of course also entertained, be it a movie night, a short course on Thai culture and language, or a traditional dance performed by local middle school students. On our first day we were even brought into the village to attend a New Year's ceremony.
And at night we get to listen to the sounds of the insects, and see the stars. Sometimes a dog barks or an elephant rumbles.
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From Caution to Courage: The Role of Character Strengths in Coaching
Lara Mossman	Lara Mossman is currently working towards her PhD in wellbeing and positive psychology in football at La Trobe University in Melbourne. As well as being a regular contributor to PDP, Lara teaches positive psychology at The University of Melbourne.
In this article, resident positive psychology expert Lara Mossman looks at good character through a strengths lens, focussing specifically on two strengths, courage and caution, and looking at how these can be overused or underused in coaching.
We often hear calls for good character in our young football players, but what about our coaches? After all, coaches influence their players in a multitude of ways (Lorimer & Jowett, 2014). Viewed positively, they can be great role models for their players and leave a lasting legacy. Coaches should never underestimate the power they have in shaping their players' youth sport experience. They can demonstrate that self-control can tame anger, that forgiveness can lead to team cohesion, and that leadership is about eliciting the best in others rather than controlling others. Good character is made up of a collection of personality traits. In positive psychology, these are defined as 'character strengths', and include such things as creativity, open-mindedness, teamwork, optimism and leadership. Individuals are high in some of these strengths and lower in others (Peterson, 2006).
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There is no magic formula for the character of a person (Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2004), let alone a coach, as by definition, character strengths are about individual differences that can help us to reach our fullest potential (Peterson, 2006). Coaches each have their own unique combinations of strengths, and by drawing on these they can role model good character in sport. But how can they discover what their own personal strengths are?
In positive psychology, there are three main measures, or surveys, that look at strengths. These are the Values in Action (VIA) Survey of Character Strengths, Gallup StrengthsFinder 2.0 and CAPP Strengths Profiler. These surveys can be taken online, and they generate a report listing an individual's top strengths. Whilst there are differences in these surveys, there is general agreement that strengths are personality traits that have some genetic or naturally occurring components to them. Strengths are central to the idea of the pursuit of human excellence.
A strength in one area of a coach's life would be present in other areas of that coach's life, too. So, someone whose top strength was social intelligence would use it when coaching his players, when negotiating with his Technical Director and when spending time with his family. Although our top strengths are not likely to change much over time, we can develop specific strengths if we invest in them (Biswas-Diener, Kashdan, & Lyubchik, 2016). The VIA is the only survey that can be taken for free, and the only one that specifically looks at character, rather than talents or skills (see "figure 1" below). It's also the most widely researched measure in the academic literature.
While the VIA is the only strengths measure that specifically looks at character, it's worth taking a quick look at strengths in general in sport. Given that our strengths appear across many domains of our lives, the surveys listed above should all tease out the strengths we draw on in our sports pursuits. However, specific research on strengths in sports is still in its infancy, so more evidence is required to support this.
Currently, there is an interest in the role that strengths can play in the mental skills training of athletes. The CAPP Strengths Profiler has been used in an attempt to develop mental toughness in male professional cricketers. Amongst athletes, this measure is seen to tap into performance more, because it is the only one that looks at weaknesses (Gordon & Gucciardi, 2011). Work has also been undertaken by applied sports psychology practitioners in the UK looking at super-strengths in elite sport (Ludlam, Butt, Bawden, Lindsay, & Maynard, 2016).
Over time, it is likely that well-researched strengths measures specific to sports contexts will be available based on research such as this. For now, however, we will take a look at strengths of character that are identified in the VIA survey, to see how character strengths might apply to coaching.
We'll start with honesty as an example. A coach particularly high in honesty might value giving constructive feedback to her players, although she might also need to draw on kindness to temper her feedback so as not to be hurtful. A coach high in gratitude may embed rituals into his training, such as encouraging players to shake hands at the end of training sessions. Creativity is another strength. A creative coach might encourage players to try out new skills and tricks in training and match settings. A coach high in self-regulation might be fantastic at role modelling self-control to her players when faced with a string of seemingly unfair decisions by the referee.
Each coach will combine these strengths with other strengths, such as teamwork, humour, perseverance, fairness or leadership to create his or her own unique combination of strengths. A person's top 5-7 strengths are often termed 'signature strengths'. Coaches can use their signature strengths in their coaching and seek out novel ways to apply them.
It is possible, however, to overplay or underplay our strengths. Those familiar with Aristotle's work on virtues may have come across the 'Golden Mean'. This is where courage sits perfectly between the deficiency of cowardice and the excess of being overly rash. It speaks to the idea that strengths should be used in just the right amount, not too much, not too little. Coaches can ask how they might be underplaying or overplaying their top strengths. To explore this idea further, we will look at two specific strengths, courage and caution (prudence), to see how they might be underused and overused in coaching. We will do this by looking at relative age effect (RAE).
Relative age is defined as the age differences between athletes participating in the same annual age band (e.g., in Australia the selection year runs from January to December, whereas in the UK it runs from September to August). Relative age effect is where relatively older athletes (in relation to the selection cut-off date) have greater participation and performance advantages compared to relatively younger athletes.
These advantages, which are well documented, are thought to be due to coaches favouring relatively older players who tend to be bigger, faster and stronger than their younger counterparts (Hancock & Cote, 2014). Coaches know that these attributes will win them games in youth sports. This preference for older players is especially prevalent amongst boys' teams, where squads can be dominated by players from the first two quarters of the selection year (Gonzalez-Villora, Pastor-Vicedo, & Cordente, 2015).
Is it possible that this preference for older players is driven by the overuse of the strength of caution in coaching? Does caution drive the decision to not take a risk on players who are less physically developed? Could an antidote to this possibly be dialling-up the strength of courage? After all, it takes courage to invest in the relatively younger players; to invest those who might not win the games in the short term. To persevere through loses, in spite of pressure from parents and clubs to win. Coaches can reflect on their own team selection and ask if they might need to dial-down courage and dial-up caution. They can also reflect on their other strengths to see if they might be overusing or underusing them.
As well as combining strengths, and choosing when to dial up or dial down a certain strength, we sometimes also need to weigh strengths up against each other, selecting the most appropriate one for a situation. This can be highlighted by thinking about caution and courage again, but this time with growth mindset. Growth mindset in sport is the belief that abilities can be developed. It's a perspective that sees mistakes as learning opportunities. A growth mindset coach would allow his players to make mistakes, as mistakes would be framed as learning opportunities. Success for a growth mindset coach would be in learning and improving, not just in winning.
Growth mindset stands in contrast to fixed mindset, which subscribes to the view of talent that says, "you've either got it or you haven't!" (Dweck, 2006). This perspective views mistakes as evidence of a lack of talent. In a match scenario, a fixed-mindset coach is likely to substitute a player immediately after he makes a mistake, which sends the message to the team that it's not OK to make mistakes. Success for a fixed mindset coach is in winning alone. The fixed mindset coach may even pay less attention to the player and/or withdraw attention from him for his mistake. It is a controlling coaching style which has been linked to lower quality player motivation, lower wellbeing, and burnout (Amorose & Anderson-Butcher, 2015).
Armed with knowledge of fixed and growth mindsets, a coach may decide to strive to be a growth mindset coach. It's one thing to desire a growth mindset though, and another to carry it out under pressure, when faced with setbacks. Sustaining a growth mindset during setbacks takes courage. It might mean the team copping a goal or two in order for the players to improve their defensive skills; short-term losses, but with vision towards long-term gains in player development. It could require standing up to club, parent or player expectations around winning.
In the face of setbacks, a growth mindset coach would need to pitch caution (giving into expectations) against courage (maintaining a growth mindset) and use her coaching wisdom to decide which one to draw on. Coaching with courage would mean she measures her worth, not by her wins or how well she develops her strongest players, but rather, by how she develops all of her players, regardless of results. It would mean re-defining success to be about breadth of development first and foremost.
Potential shifts in the coaching environment could take place then if coaches consciously choose to focus on their strengths. Coaches can think about how to use their top strengths; whether they are overusing or underusing any of their top strengths in their coaching; and when to choose certain strengths over others. This article has focused on courage and caution, but this thinking can be applied to all of the strengths. For example, what if the underuse of humour and playfulness are creating an environment for players that simply aren't fun, potentially turning players off the sport in the long term? What if overuse of perseverance is leading to burnout?
Remember, too, though, that there will be strengths that hit the sweet spot. Perhaps the perfect amounts of teamwork and fairness are creating a team culture that is respectful and inclusive. Coaches can start by identifying their character strengths using the VIA survey. The survey will generate a report that list the 24 strengths in order. Coaches can then reflect on how they use these strengths in their coaching (the strengths-based coaching questions in "figure 2" below can be used to reflect on the application of strengths in coaching).
In reality, most coaches will be using their strengths in their coaching already. After all, they are their strengths. However, using the VIA measure to name them, and thinking about how to apply them, ultimately affords coaches more opportunities to role model good character to their players. Consciously questioning which strengths are influencing coaching behaviours, and which ones to draw on, will grow a coach's strengths knowledge and use. Hopefully, a strengths-based approach to coaching might just shake the player development environment up for the players, too.
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