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CHICAGO -- There are TED talks, Davos and Renaissance Weekends, all for innovators and world leaders to share creative ideas and make lucrative connections. And now there's a big-shoulders version of the grand-meeting-of-elite-minds concept: Chicago Ideas Week.
The weeklong program of panel discussions, speakers and demonstrations, which opened Monday, was the brainchild of Groupon co-founder Brad Keywell, who regards Chicago Ideas Week as a startup, albeit one that will never be publicly traded on Wall Street.
The Chicago-based entrepreneur was briefly a billionaire after Groupon Inc.'s IPO last year. But with tech stocks falling after Facebook's recent disappointing initial public offering, Keywell is now back to millionaire status, and promoting and savoring a project that won't be judged by the market.
Keywell hatched Chicago Ideas Week as a nonprofit last year with his business partner Eric Lefkofsky as co-founder and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel as a co-chair. Keywell meant to fill a void in his adopted hometown.
"We're in the heart of the world of startups and innovation, but something has been missing," Keywell told The Associated Press in a phone interview. That something was "a platform for world-class ideas," similar to the annual TED conference in California or the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, but more accessible to the general public. Instead of invitation-only events and tickets costing thousands of dollars, everyone is welcome for a small fee for each event.
It's "Davos for the everyman," as Ideas Week executive director Jessica Malkin has called it.
"We created something in Chicago where you can participate for $15," Keywell said. "It's not exclusive. It's inclusive."
On Tuesday evening, few seats remained empty at Chicago's Oriental Theatre for what was billed as a "megatalk" with AOL co-founder Steve Case and others about "disruptive innovation." They discussed a "sharing economy," immigrant entrepreneurs, Internet security versus convenience and the transformative promise of mobile telephone technology.
"As a nation, I think, we need to make sure we remain in ... an attacker mentality, really challenging the status quo," Case said. "We need to make sure we understand what got us here, which was entrepreneurship, and we (must) double down as a nation to make sure we preserve our lead in what clearly is a much more competitive world."
Other panel topics during the week include design as a competitive advantage, rebooting the brain and change as the constant.
Attendance is up so far in the event's second year, with other big-name speakers including retired Gen. Colin Powell, author Deepak Chopra, journalist Tom Brokaw, designer Diane von Furstenberg, model Elle Macpherson and actor Edward Norton. So far, 19,000 tickets have been sold, with 1,500 to 2,000 tickets selling a day, organizers said Tuesday.
"On Day One, I set it up as a nonprofit. I made a pledge to never make a penny off it," Keywell said. "No one can question the motives. The motives are to have something that provides intellectual stimulation and provocation."
This year, there are 30 talks, 100 "labs" or demonstrations, 235 speakers and the capacity for 28,000 attendees. Receptions after events are meant for people to network with speakers and with one another, Keywell said. The event has branched out into Twitter by asking for suggestions on how Chicago could get illegal guns off the streets. Tweeted answers are collected under the tag (hash) WhatIfChicago.
"The people attracted to Chicago Ideas Week are a wide expanse of ages," Keywell said. "We attract people who are doing or have a strong interest in doing. They're people who want to start something, join something or create something."
Keywell said the project could become like the 92nd Street Y in New York, a nonprofit that hosts cultural events in person and through digital media.
Posing a question on Twitter might indicate a new direction for Chicago Ideas Week. "We are actively in the process of determining what Chicago Ideas 365 looks like." That's what interests Keywell most now, he said: "What's it going to look like in the future?"


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Foul Balls; And 2010 Forecasts: NL East
wrap up the National League forecast, the Denard Span incident this afternoon
in Tampa (he hits his own mother with a foul ball – and she is wearing one of
his uniforms at the time) called to mind three equally unlikely events with
players and fans and balls flying into the stands:
1. August
17th, 1957. Richie Ashburn, who got to the Baseball Hall of Fame largely by
virtue of his ability to keep fouling off pitches he didn't like, until he got one he did like, fouled one off into the stands
at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia. It struck – of all people – Alice
Roth, the wife of the sports editor of the newspaper The Philadelphia Bulletin. They
had to carry Mrs. Roth (and her broken nose) off on a stretcher. While
they were so doing, Ashburn, who was still at bat and still fouling pitches off, hit Mrs. Roth with another foul
2. Of
course, on June 17th, 2000, Chuck Knoblauch of the New York Yankees picked up a
ground ball and threw it wildly towards first base. It instead hit a fan
sitting behind the dugout, breaking her eyeglasses. The fan, of course, was my
And perhaps the unlikeliest of the events: After Span got hit, the Associated
Press was reminded of the Bob Feller incident (reminded by Bob Feller, of
course). On May 14, 1939, when the Hall of Fame flamethrower was still just 20
years old, he threw a pitch at Comiskey Park which some member of the White Sox
fouled into the seats – striking Feller's mother. May 14, 1939 was, of course,
Mother's Day.
Now to
finish up the NL:
ATLANTA is
the obvious sleeper, if that's not too much of an oxymoron. If Troy Glaus and
Jason Heyward produce as Atlanta expects them, Bobby Cox will have a
competitive final year. If they exceed expectations (and Heyward gives off the
vibe of a Pujolsian, From-Day-One-Superstar) the Braves might actually air out
the division. The rotation gets a little sketchy behind Hanson and Jurrjens,
and there is little or no room for injury (if Glaus gets profoundly hurt or
Heyward is Jordan Schafer, Eric Hinske and Omar Infante will be playing nearly every
day). And of course it would not be the Braves without another new closer.
Here, updated from its first appearance in this space last summer, is the Bobby
Cox bullpen honor roll:
1. Joe
Boever, 1990
2. Mark
Grant and Kent Mercker, 1990
3. Mercker
and Juan Berenguer, 1991
Alejandro Pena, 1991-92
5. Jeff
Reardon, 1992
6. Mike
Stanton, 1993
7. Greg
McMichael, 1994-95
8. Brad
Clontz, 1995
9. Mark
Wohlers, 1995-98
10. Kerry
Ligtenberg, 1998
11. John
Rocker, 1999
Ligtenberg and Mike Remlinger, 2000
Rocker, 2000-01
14. Steve
Karsay, 2001
15. John
Smoltz, 2001-04
16. Danny
Kolb, 2005
17. Chris
Reitsma, 2005
18. Kyle
Farnsworth, 2005
Reitsma, 2006
20. Ken
Ray, 2006
21. Bob
Wickman, 2006-07
22. Rafael
Soriano, 2008
23. Manny
Acosta, 2008
24. John
Smoltz, 2008
Soriano, 2008
26. Mike
Gonzalez, 2008-09
Soriano, 2009
28. Billy
Wagner, 2010.
If FLORIDA
could make just two starters out of Anibal Sanchez, Nate Robertson, Andrew Miller, Sean West,
Ryan Tucker, Rick Vandenhurk, and Chris Volstad, the Marlins might be the
favorites. By mid-season this could be the most potent offense in the league,
because all Florida needs to produce seven house-wreckers in a row is for one
of the following three kids to live up to his promise: Logan Morrison, Gaby
Sanchez, Mike Stanton (if the Heyward-esque Stanton explodes to big league
quality, you put him in the outfield, you put the fabulous Chris Coghlan back at second or third,
and move either Jorge Cantu or Dan Uggla to first). Florida's biggest question
mark is the bullpen, where Leo Nunez may or may not succeed.
All that
can be said about NEW YORK is: Sigh. I love the people who run this club, from
the ticket takers to the owners. But this year the wheels could fall off even
worse – and farther – than last. I think Jason Bay is a legitimate power
source, and I thought Jeff Francoeur a steal, but that begs the question of
what the Mets now expect from the guy who is still their top offensive
prospect, Fernando Martinez. If Bay, Beltran, and Francoeur are to be the
outfield for awhile, why is Martinez still there? Plus, the silence about Beltran is ominous. The
ominousness of Daniel Murphy's bat is silent. And there is nothing – nothing –
dependable in any of the three categories of pitchers, except for Johan
Santana, Pedro Feliciano, and Frankie Rodriguez, and the latter is just another
closer now. It is absolutely plausible that by June 1 the only questions will
be whether or not to give Ike Davis a taste of the majors, whether or not to
start screwing up Jenrry Mejia the way the Yankees messed with Joba
Chamberlain, and if some Japanese team will take Luis Castillo off their hands.
I'm not
the only person who believed Buster Olney's story about PHILADELPHIA and Ryan
Howard – if not the plausibility of a swap for Pujols, then at least internal
musings about his decline against lefthanded pitchers and his decreasing
success against breaking pitches. When you are chewed up and spat out by Damaso
Marte, you are not exactly still in the same league as Pujols, or Adrian Gonzalez
for that matter. I'm a little suspicious of the assumed improvement in putting
Placido Polanco in at third (he's 34, he fell off appreciably last year, he is
moving to a tougher position). Raul Ibanez seems to represent that Sword of
Damacles hanging over any team trying for three in a row (if you haven't had a
significant position player injury in the first two seasons, you're going to in the third). I am not sold on the
rotation (Blanton, Contreras, Moyer, Kendrick – two of these guys must do well),
and the bullpen looks to be sketchier than a year ago.
There are
ways WASHINGTON can suddenly stop being a last-place team (the Ian Desmond
decision was superb – it needs to be followed by similar decisions involving Drew
Storen and Stephen Strasburg, and maybe new limbs grown by Jordan Zimmermann
and Chien-Ming Wang – quickly). Also, I think he's a quality individual, but
the retention of Jim Riggleman as manager – after ten seasons that have produced
only one finish better than third (a weak second for the Cubs in 1998) – makes
little sense here. Unless Mike Rizzo is thinking of Pat Listach or Rick
Eckstein as a future big league manager, respectability for this club is going
to be the time it takes them to swap out Riggleman plus the time it will take to break in his
replacement. Why not skip the first step?
I'll take the long odds that the Braves' breaks fall the right way and Cox goes
out with a winner in a tight race over the Phillies. The Marlins will hit a ton
but waste the brilliance of Josh Johnson and Ricky Nolasco by using 11
different fifth starters and half a dozen closers. The Mets will have their
nightmare collapse and be wondering if they can unload not only Castillo, but
maybe Beltran and Reyes, too. They will finish a few games ahead of the
Nationals – but only a few.
LEAGUE PREDICTIONS: As mentioned, I like the Braves, Reds and the Rockies for the division titles. The Wild Card would seem to be a battle between the Phillies and the Giants – I really like San Francisco's rotation, and I really do not like Philadelphia's chances of getting through another season without physical calamity. So let's assume the Rockies finish with the best record – they should handle the Giants, and the Braves' experience should make them favorites over the Reds. An Atlanta-Colorado NLCS? I think the Rockies win that one, as much as I'd be rooting for the man I always greet as the guy the Braves once traded to the Yankees for Bob Tillman, who had been traded to the Yankees for Elston Howard, meaning Coxy was as good as Elston Howard….
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You said: "All that can be said about NEW YORK is: Sigh." I hope they do well this year anyway… for your sake. 🙂 Good luck!!
Ummm…….. he's talking about the Mets, who are NL, not the Yankees, an AL team 😉
Oh…. duh… thanks, Nightowl! In my defense (not sure I have one) I've been stumbling over and into things all day long (stubbed two toes on the same foot at different times) so I guess it's just a clumsy day for me. Oops! 😀
Here's a twofer foul ball story for you – of the Little League variety. I'll try to make this as succinct as possible.
Summer of '79, I'm pitching to a kid from my neighborhood (we'll call him Ricky) and he manages to foul a high, inside pitch off of his own face. He ends up crying and goes to sit on his (enormous, loud-mouthed) mother's lap down the first base line. His mother proceeds to yell at me for the next few innings.
During Ricky's next at bat his mother is really letting me have it, screaming that I'm a dirty pitcher and that I shouldn't be allowed on the field. Ricky ends up swinging late at one of my offerings, lining the ball off of the leg of his mother's lawn chair – causing it to bend in half and send her sprawling/rolling toward the team bench. After I struck out Ricky, she grabbed him and the broken lawn chair and left before the next inning.
There was joy in Mudville that night.
@Entireofitself Anything to help out a fellow F.o.O. 😉
@Clarybird Bwhahahahaha ROFLMAO 😀 Talk about instant karma…….did either of them ever show up for a game again??
qILAc5 I'm not easily impressed. . . but that's impressing me! 🙂
@nightowl4music – IIRC, I think Keith is a Mets fan, as well, so Entireofitself wasn't completely off the mark. 🙂
@clarybird – Oh, for a time machine and a camcorder, to capture the footage of THAT event!!
@Our esteemed blogger – And I thought the Knoblauch thing was an isolated incident. It's apparently not too safe for women to be in the good seats at baseball games, LOL. I must say, the Ashburn tale neatly illustrates the phrase, "adding insult to injury!"
As a PS, I was saddened that the 7th anniversary of Countdown wasn't commemorated by anything more than those very fleeting clips at the start of the show. I was all psyched to see more classic footage as the #1 story, only to have my eyeballs assailed with images of Sarah Palin. Reading comments tonight on the "intertubes", I'm not the only one who was disappointed, so I hope you'll give us some retro goodness on your 8th anniversary…and LOTS more on the 10th anniversary! 🙂
Stephen Hawking can no doubt rattle an equation off the top of his head, calculating the physical odds of a ballplayer's own mother getting hit with a flying ball. The odds of that happening must be . . . staggering.
Maybe these guys are really aiming for the ex-wife in the hope that the flying ball puts her out for a few minutes. But does that ever happen? Noooooo. Stoopid ball ends up smacking someone's innocent mama instead!
OK friends, I'll add an epilogue to the Clarybird chronicles of 1979.
To give you an idea of what Ricky's mom looked like, just think of the Milwaukee Brewers "Barrel Man" mascot from the 70's.
Yes, Ricky and his mom kept coming back throughout the years, but I don't remember ever receiving any more verbal abuse. I was a reasonably mild-mannered, respectful kid back in my childhood and never gave this woman a reason to dislike me. Whereas I once avoided this woman's gaze in hope of avoiding her ire, from that point on, I couldn't help but smirk whenever I saw her – knowing it was killing her inside because she knew why I was smiling.
To his credit, Ricky was a pretty nice kid, in spite of his mother (and hen-pecked father), and we were always reasonably friendly to each other.
Much belated condolences for the loss of your parents. Keep up the good work – it is because of you and (The Shadow) Rachel Maddow, that I have followed these past few elections just like the pennant races. As Stan Lee would say "Excelsior!"
Keith, in your predictions do you have one NLDS match-up between the Rockies and the Giants? Because that can't happen. The Rockies would have to play the East or Central winner with the fewest wins.
Looks like your Phillies prediction is already coming into fruition—Blanton's hurt, and I find it hard for them to keep relying on Ibanez and Utley, both of whom aren't getting younger. The Braves' rotation may be thin, but they have a younger core, and if this isn't their year, 2011 will be. It should be a close race regardless, with the Marlins playing spoiler (their rotation is thinner than Atlanta's).
Couldn't agree more on Jim Riggleman, Mr. Olbermann. As much as I've heard that Manny Acta was awful in his first go-round as a skipper, I think he was the perfect manager for a team that's building the way Washington is, through the draft, and by acquiring other teams' young talent in return for veterans with expiring contracts.
The Nationals should have let Acta grow with the team or replaced him with the sort of up and coming manager who would be part of their long-term plan instead of Riggleman, who figures to guide them through a few more losing seasons and then step aside.
You might be right about Listach too, Lou Piniella referred to him as, "one of the game's rising managerial stars," when Washington hired him as 3rd base coach a few years back. Thanks for taking a serious look at the Nationals instead of a chance to get some easy jokes in on the Nats. With Strasburg, Zimmermann, Zimmerman, and hard-nosed pitchers like John Lannan, the rest of the East will come to regret giving Washington all the high draft picks they've been forced to take.
Ed – Federalbaseball.com
When I heard of the Denard Span incident from a friend of mine yesterday, the first thing I thought of was … well, Chuck Knoblauch & Keith's mom.
But my second thought was the astonishing coincidence that it happened on the very same day that this Peanuts comic ran in daily newspapers. Uncanny.
Onward … since April is not only the beginning of the baseball season, but National Poetry Month as well, and given that baseball & poetry traditionally go together,* I'm off to compose the saga of Clarybird, Ricky's mom, and the broken lawn chair — a story that surely has "epic poem" written all over it. 🙂
Two short postscripts, one re: Keith's entry on the fantasy baseball draft. Casey Blake is worth way more than a dollar. Nothing flashy, just solid, steady, a reliable 20 HRs/80-90 RBIs year in, year out, and — not that these qualities can be revealed in statistics, I guess — a good clubhouse guy w/ a dry sense of humor. Just a good egg … a bargain at 10x the price.
I also regretted the lack of ballyhoo for Countdown's 7th anniversary, but on the other hand, nothing will ever top the appearance of Sesame Street's Count von Count on Countdown's 1st anniversary show. Nothing. (Geez Louise, was it that long ago? I remember it as if it were the other day …)
*Several baseball poems are listed on the American Academy of Poets' National Poetry Month Web site. (Currently, the link they give to Marianne Moore's "Baseball & Writing" is incorrect, but you can find it here. It's worth a look.) They don't provide the text for Donald Hall's "Baseball," but the literary magazine AGNI has an excerpt — "The Ninth Inning." ("In New Hampshire, late August …/asters begin a late pennant drive/ in front of the barn; pink hollyhocks/ wilt and sag like teams out of the race.")
Ashburn was taking batting practice one day and an opposing player told him he'd had a fight with his wife and she was sitting in a particular location. Ashburn hit the first pitch on a line two seats from where she was sitting. The guy yelled out, "Two seats over and you've got her!"
Ted Williams once threw his bat–not so much into the stands; he just threw it–and it hit the housekeeper of the then-Red Sox GM, Joe Cronin.
Mike Stanton's unwise trade away from the Braves in mid-1995 is rarely remarked upon, but it's always stuck in my craw.
His perennial presence in the middle of key October innings for the Yankees was always a mixed thing for me. I liked him personally and was happy for his success but I couldn't help but wonder how well he would have been doing as a set up man or closer back in Atlanta.
Hoping for a happier set of circumstances in six months time.
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Runners return from Boston with fears, determination
Some say they'll run Flying Pig, but others unsure
When Erin Lawry stepped off the plane from Boston, where she ran in the Boston Marathon, she had one goal.
"I want to hug my kids. You know an 8-year-old passed away yesterday and he was probably cheering on his mom or dad and I can't imagine. I'm so glad (my kids) weren't there," Lawry said.
Wearing her marathon medal, Lawry said she's still trying to come to grips with what happened 30 minutes after she crossed the finish line.
"The fan support in that city is amazing, just the atmosphere is unbelievable, it's an experience, and for it to end that way, it's such a tragedy," she said.
Lawry was greeted with a hug and flowers from her husband at the airport. She said she won't let this stop her from running on May 5 in the Flying Pig Marathon.
Jane Mays was also shaken by the marathon blasts.
Holding a copy of the Boston Globe showing images from the attack, she said she was only half a mile out from the finish line when the bombs exploded.
"As I began walking, there were runners in the street, crying, people upset, wandering around, like zombies, dazed and confused," she said. "Lots of emergency vehicles, lots of police presence at that time. It was upsetting."
Mays said she feels anger toward the person responsible, but she won't let this stop her from running the Flying Pig.
"I'm stubborn enough to not let that happen," she said.
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"I'm afraid because it was like, I don't know, it's a marathon. It has nothing to do with anything else and right now, I don't know if I'm going to run the Pig or not," she said.
Mays and Lawry said that even though they intend to run in the Flying Pig, neither is sure if they want to bring their families down to the race.
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Brooke Vernon also ran the marathon. Her husband, Matt, was cheering her on at the finish line. They had just left the area and were in their hotel room about a half mile away when they heard the blasts.
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"I was crying because I couldn't find my friend who had two little kids and he couldn't find me," Scharff said.
Fortunately, Scharff found her friend and his kids and they walked six miles to where they had parked because public transportation was shut down.
Scharff said her medal should be a source of pride but she said some of her friends weren't able to finish the race.
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Masked AMHP: Do I really have to?
BR: I'm sure we'd all appreciate it.
MA: Can't I write about a history of mental health legislation instead?
BR: Save it for a future post. I want to know about Nearest Relatives!
MA: Oh, very well then. What do you want to know exactly?
BR: I want you to describe the process of identifying the Nearest Relative within the Meaning of the Mental Health Act. But so that I can understand it.
MA: You want the moon on a stick, don't you? Don't you know that Richard Jones devotes 12 pages of very small print in the 13th Edition of the Mental Health Act Manual to the identification of the Nearest Relative? (Available new from Amazon for only £68.82!)
BR: Does he? How interesting. But I'm sure you can do it in fewer pages. And stop advertising.
MA: OK then, I'll have a go. But you may get a headache.
BR: I've got some Solpadol (available from all good chemists!)
MA: You'll need them. And you stop advertising as well. Let's see, where to start? Well, you need to understand right from the beginning that the Next of Kin is not necessarily the same as the Nearest Relative. You can choose your Next of Kin, but your Nearest Relative (I'm going to use the term NR from now on, as I'm fed up of typing Nearest Relative over and over again), is set in stone. Sort of. Sec.26 of the MHA defines the Nearest Relative, although to be honest, Chapter 33 of the Reference Guide to The Mental Health Act 1983 explains it more clearly. By the way, did you see how I've mastered hyperlinks in my blog?
BR: Stop showing off and get on with it.
MA: (Takes deep breath) Here goes then. The NR is the first person you encounter in the following list:
- husband, wife or civil partner;
- son or daughter;
- father or mother;
- brother or sister;
- grandparent;
- grandchild;
- uncle or aunt;
- nephew or niece.
MA: I've only just begun. There's rather more. Any relative has to be at least 18 years of age to count as the NR – unless they are a parent (unlikely, I'd have thought) or a husband, wife, civil partner, or living with the patient for at least 6 months as the husband, wife or civil partner. Oh, and adoptive children count as natural children. Then, of course, to quote from the Act: "Any relationship of the half-blood shall be treated as a relationship of the whole blood, and an illegitimate person shall be treated as the legitimate child of (a) his mother, and (b) if his father has parental responsibility for him within the meaning of Section 3 of the Children Act 1989, his father." And of course, you have to remember that despite that, a relation of the whole blood will take precedence over the same relation of the half-blood.
BR: That sounds a bit Harry Potterish.
MA: Don't be sarcastic. But since you've mentioned it, applying these rules, who is Harry Potter's NR?
BR: Well, let's see, both his parents are dead. He lives with the Dursleys, who we are told are his only living relatives. So it must be his uncle, Vernon?
MA: Nope. Vernon is not a blood relative. His aunt, Petunia, is the sister of Lily Potter, Harry's deceased mother. She's definitely over 18, so Petunia Dursley is Harry Potter's NR within the meaning of the MHA.
BR: Well, I'm glad we've got that straight. Do you think Harry's likely to need sectioning?
MA: Well, he thinks he has special powers, he sees all sorts of strange things that other people can't see, he hears voices other people can't hear – what do you think?
BR: I think you're beginning to spoil the magic of the Harry Potter series for me...
MA: Right, back to the NR. If there is more than one person who comes in the same place in the list, then the eldest takes precedence, regardless of gender.
BR: OK, so I don't have a partner, and I don't have any children, but I have a mother and father. That would mean that the elder of the two would be my NR.
MA: That's right! And if you didn't have any surviving parents, but you had several brothers and sisters, the eldest would be your NR if there was no-one higher up in the list. And so on. But there are exceptions.
BR: Of course. There are always exceptions.
MA: A relative who lives with, or cares for, the patient, takes precedence over any other relatives. So if a patient lived with their youngest daughter, then the daughter would count over any other children, as long as she was over 18. If you are married or in a civil partnership, but separated or abandoned by your partner, then that person cannot count as your nearest relative. Oh, and if a relative permanently lives abroad, then they don't count.
BR: What if you can't find anyone on the list?
MA: Well, if you have lived with someone for at least 5 years, but not as a husband, wife, or same sex partner, then they would count. So if you were a lodger, your landlady might count as NR if you had no other living relatives. And finally, the NR can delegate someone else to act as the patient's NR.
BR: Is that basically it, then?
MA: Well, I won't go in to people detained under Part III of the MHA, that is, via the criminal justice system, as they don't legally have NR's.
BR: Why not?
MA: No idea. Anyway, let's give you a little test. Here's a real case where I had to reach a decision about who was the NR. Fanny was 67 years old. She lived alone. She had been married, but had divorced many years previously. She did not have any children. She had 5 or 6 brothers and sisters who lived in the area. The oldest of these lives in Spain. One brother lived nearby and used to visit her several times a week and help her with shopping and so on. Her father had had a son before he married her mother. This half brother was older than any of her other siblings, but he lived many miles away and had only ever seen his sister a few times. Who is Fanny's NR?
BR: Well, the oldest of her siblings, regardless of contact? That would be the half brother.
MA: That's what I thought too. So I contacted him, but he was ill and didn't want to undertake the role of NR. So he appointed his daughter to act as NR, and I consulted her, and put her name on the section papers. But I was wrong.
BR: (Incredulously) The Masked AMHP was wrong?
MA: Yes. I'd forgotten two things. The first was that relatives of the full blood take precedence over relatives of the half-blood. The second was that a relative who was a carer of the patient took precedence over other relatives. So the brother who lived nearby and helped her with shopping was her actual NR. And I used him the next time I had to section her.
BR: That's a pretty serious mistake. Didn't you get in trouble?
MA: Well, "to the best of my knowledge and belief" I had identified the half brother. You only have to show that you have taken reasonable steps to establish the NR. I rectified it next time. Even the Masked AMHP can make mistakes, OK?
BR: So that's all there is to know about establishing the NR for the purposes of the MHA?
MA: Would you like to know about children subject to Care Orders? The NR rules don't apply to them. Oh, and the NR of a patient can change over time – if they get married, for instance, or if a child reaches the age of 18. Oh, and –
BR: That's quite enough for one post, thank you. Nice to talk to you.
MA: Nice to talk to you, too. I hope you'll drop in again sometime, when I might tell you all about the history of mental health legislation.
BR: I can't wait.


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"When I started out I just wanted to play guitar," says Valentine. However, despite the success he's already achieved, Valentine doesn't look to just set cruise control on his career. "I just feel so privileged to be able to play guitar for a living, so I want to make sure that I continue to get better." He just wants to play—not just simple pop licks and chord progressions that helped craft mega-singles like "Harder to Breathe," "Sunday Morning," and "Misery," but the jazz compositions and instrumental works of Valentine's personal heroes like Kurt Rosenwinkel, Bill Frissell, and Nels Cline. On top of having a diverse ear for music and tones, Valentine is a big advocate of practicing and lessons, jamming with teachers and recording the lessons so he can revisit them while in hotel rooms on the road. "A lot of players might have an innate talent that doesn't require them to think of these things… [laughs] I am not one of these people—I need to work at it."
While Valentine has been focusing on honing his skills and branching out musically, his lust for gear is still rampant as ever. An avid follower in the religion of Telecasters, Valentine has recently drifted to the realm of handbuilder Dennis Fano and his JM6 Jazzmaster-style models. As icing on the cake, his touring pedalboard is one of the more expansive boutique rigs we've encountered, packed with nearly 20 stompboxes.
Premier Guitarrecently caught up with Valentine and talked about working in Switzerland withBack in BlackandPyromaniaproducer Mutt Lange, using Divided by 13 and Matchless amps, and what aspiring career-minded guitarists should do.
Valentine's Gear
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We were definitely intimidated and unaware of what to expect because he was the guy that worked onBack in Black,Pyromania, but he's such a warm, accommodating person to be around. It made us comfortable right from the start. As a producer, he's extremely patient for the right idea to come about—definitely more time than anyone else probably would permit just to make sure songs were totally right and on-target. I think you can really tell that with this record because there are no throwaway lines or instrumentation, which makes it a very tight album.
And how did the freedom affect your guitar parts and playing on the album?
He's a very musical producer and artist, so he came to the table with a lot of his own ideas. There would be points where he would just hear something that was needed in a track and he'd pick up a guitar and say 'play something like this' [mimics guitar parts] or he'd sing me things and then I'd pick up a guitar and let him lead me in a new direction of a song or solo. Also, he would focus on our idea for a riff, a chorus, or a song, and then we would just rehearse the part or song over and over again—doing a lot of different takes in all sorts of directions. He would kind of direct us when things were off or a bit lost, and then when we were in a groove he'd really push us to finalize the idea and come full-circle with the organic evolution of the song or riff.
We would work on things hundreds of times, which I really like because you often end up in a completely different spot than when you started. The result would've never been reached without that kind of a process. If you're hurried, you can dig into your bag of tricks and pull out something that will work to get the idea out, but when you spend so much time exploring, developing, and organically going new places you tend to push yourself outside your comfort zone and repetitious ways to create something new and fresh.
What's the best example of that organic exploration on the album?
The best example of that is probably "Stutter." The opening riff carrying the song was the last thing we figured out for it. The riff starts the song and it's the whole intro, which seems like where the song's foundation, but the track was already there with Adam's [Levine, Maroon 5's lead singer] vocals and some power chords and Mutt tells me [attempted English accent] 'just try something different, ya know.' And I'm thinking, 'what the hell does he want me to do?'[laughs], but we kept on going and I just did a goofy riff and he says 'yeah, yeah, something more like that.' A lot of the songs don't have such a strong intro or takeoff point, so for "Stutter" to jump off like it does—it was a pretty amazing way to get there.
That sort of thing happened a lot on the record where I would tend to fall into my old ways and play different versions of already recorded riffs, but Mutt's persistence often lead me down a new and unfamiliar path that forced me to come up with new ideas and riffs that otherwise wouldn't have happened—it was a long process, but it was well worth it in the end. And in songs like "Just a Feeling" and "Never Gonna Leave This Bed" my guitar parts were composed and mainly derived from long sessions of working out my parts until we finished with a track that was completely different and original from where it started, which created this cool, lush, soundscape.
Talk to me about the stadium-rock title track "Hands All Over."
[laughs] Oh yeah, it's full-on cock-rock, which is funny for us because you'd assume Mutt would've shepherded us in that direction, but that wasn't really the case. Adam came up with the concept for the song and he was kind of writing it like 'Here Mutt, I'm going to show you what I think a Mutt Lange rock song would sound like' [laughs]. It was kind of something you'd expect from a Maroon 5-Mutt Lange collaboration—real provocative and full of bravado. When we were finished recording the album we looked back at this track and we were like, 'holy shit, does this song even fit in with the others' just because its audaciously '80s… [laughs] but ultimately we just decided not to take ourselves too seriously and include it on the album.
How did that song come about?
With its guitar riff, you'd think that it was first, but it started with this weird looping keyboard part Adam had come up with. He took this drum machine and put a rhythmic beat through a mini Korg processor-thing, and Mutt heard it and said "You guys should take that and turn it into a song."
When I was coming up with that main riff I was trying different things over and over and I kept going back to that starting keyboard track as a take-off point. The notes I use are different than the keyboard part, but the pattern and rhythm of my riff flows with the keyboard giving both tracks a lot more room in the song. When we've played that track live it's gone in a different direction—more like a Red Hot Chili Peppers song because we speed it up and it goes near this funk-metal range that's really fun to play live by just digging into the main riff on the sixth string.


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Re: Republic Commando: Alpha Squad
*Thanks for the offer Mandal, but Rev and I set up another option before I saw your post. I'd rather go Republic if I could, WV. I plan to use my character's father from AoS; same armor, basically same character. If I could be one of the training sergents who got moved up to being a in-the-field instructor/advisor, or was hired later for that purpose, that would suit me fine; maybe leading/advising your second squad if you're still going to make one. Give me an in where you want me, Vod. I don't really care, just as long as I'm in some action *


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Job-Hunting Students Unaware of a Top Hiring SectorDec 21, 2016 02:31AM ● By Family Features
A national survey reports that students getting ready to enter the workforce are often overlooking one of the top hiring sectors – agriculture.
The research, sponsored by the America's Farmers Grow Ag Leaders program, found that agriculture is not being considered by many high school and college students, despite it being one of the country's major industries. In fact, only 3 percent of students recognize the agriculture industry as a top hiring sector.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, employers have nearly 60,000 job openings in agriculture annually, but only approximately 35,000 students with the proper training and education to fill these jobs each year.
Part of the awareness gap may be attributed to a lack of understanding of the varied job prospects and technology focus in the agriculture industry. Fewer than one in five students (19 percent) students surveyed felt they understood the career opportunities in agriculture, and only one in three students (35 percent) described agriculture as a technology-driven industry.
However, today's agriculture industry offers a wide array of career paths for individuals with interest in technology, science, education, agronomy and business – among other fields. From agriculture economists and agronomists, to crop consultants, food scientists and engineers, experts in multiple fields – especially in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) areas are needed to drive innovations growers need to feed the world's growing population.
To help close this gap, the America's Farmers Grow Ag Leaders program, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, awards scholarships to help develop the next generation of agriculture leaders. Students looking to pursue higher education in an agriculture-related field of study from a two- or four-year program or trade school are eligible to apply for a $1,500 scholarship until Feb. 1, 2017.
"The field of agriculture provides many exciting and important career opportunities for today's students, and we feel it's important to support youth who are pursuing their studies in this growing and dynamic industry," said Al Mitchell, Monsanto Fund president.
To find more information or to apply for the program, visit www.GrowAgLeaders.com, or learn more about the program at Facebook.com/AmericasFarmers.


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4 January 2020
Frankly, after 10 years on & off the site I had all but lost hope. I had
met some lovely people, but nothing that would stand the test of time.
My knight had been a widower for 18 months when he joined recently. On
your scoring system we seemed a bit bleak, but once we started chatting we
could not stop.
We spent quite a lot of time together since meeting, and are planning to
marry in March.
I guess the secret is to never give up.