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The Hand: Fundamentals of Therapy: Module 3

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Format(s):   Home-study
Discipline(s):   Physical Therapy / Occupational Therapy / Athletic Training
Contact Hours:   7
Registration Fee:   $104.949996948242

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
1. List 11 things to assess visually during a hand evaluation
2. Describe the 3 phases of wound healing
3. Describe 3 treatment goals during the inflammatory phase of wound healing
4. Describe 4 uses of Coban wrap in hand therapy.
5. List 7 possible complications after a digit amputation
6. Describe treatment protocols for amputation of the digits
7. Identify the difference between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
8. Describe treatment protocols for patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis
9. Identify the difference between swan-neck deformity and boutonniere deformity in the rheumatoid arthritic hand
10. List the 5 stages of treatment for a complex hand injury
11. List 5 advantages of microvascular free tissue transfer for hand soft tissue defects
12. List 4 advantages of fascial flaps over fasciocutaneous flaps
13. List 4 muscles which are commonly used as muscle flaps in the upper extremity
14. State 4 different causes of burns
15. Identify the 3 degrees of burn injuries
16. Describe 4 aims of treatment with a burn injury patient
17. Differentiate between Type 1 and Type 2 chronic regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
18. List 5 symptoms of chronic regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
19. List 6 surgical procedures that have a high incidence of developing chronic regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
20. Describe the 2 components of the “stress loading” program for patients with chronic regional pain syndrome (CRPS)

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At Home Seminars courses are available as a downloadable file or we’ll ship your order by UPS, Priority Mail or US Express Mail.
Testing: You can take your test online, fax your answer sheets, or mail your test. All tests are processed within 24 business hours regardless of how they are received. Testing online is free and you will find out immediately if you have passed or failed and can print a temporary certificate until your original arrives in the mail.

This course is offered in cooperation with Elsevier Science and utilizes the textbook, "The Hand: Fundamentals of Therapy"by Judith Boscheinen-Morrin, Dip. OT, MAAOT, MAHTA and W. Bruce Conolly, AM, FRACS, FRCS, FACS. This course discusses many common diagnoses associated with the hand, surgical interventions, therapy assessment and treatment, splinting techniques and post-operative treatments.
Module 1 covers hand assessment, treatment principles and tools, flexor tendon disorders, extensor tendon disorders, peripheral nerve injuries, tendon transfers and peripheral nerve entrapment disorders.
Module 2 covers hand assessment, treatment principles and tools, conditions of the wrist and finger tendons, Dupuytren's contracture, fractures of the hand, joint injuries of the fingers and thumb and wrist disorders
Module 3 covers hand assessment, treatment principles and tools, digital and partial hand amputations, arthritic hand disorders, complex hand injuries, microvascular free tissue transfers, burn injuries and chronic regional pain syndrome.
Entire textbook is 243 pgs.
This package contains the required reading and test materials for Module 3 only.
Course Length: 7.0 contact hours

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Dates:   01-01-2050 - 01-01-2050, 12:00AM 12:00AM


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Paperchase’s chief financial officer David Bateman is stepping down after 17 years at the retailer, Retail Week can reveal.

Bateman joined the business in 2000 when it had an annual turnover of £15m and has been instrumental, alongside boss Timothy Melgund, in growing it to a £150m business with 200 sites internationally.

Melgund and Bateman led Paperchase through several ownership changes from private equity to a trade sale to the now defunct Borders Group, and in 2010 completed a management buyout, backed by Primary Capital, which remains the majority equity partner.

Paperchase has not made any statement regarding a successor to Bateman, who is taking a break before considering other opportunities. He will maintain an interest in the business through retaining his equity stake.

Melgund said: “David has been absolutely instrumental to the growth and success of Paperchase.

“He’s been a tremendous business partner and his fantastic retailing insight and business acumen have taken us from being a small UK retailer to one with international pedigree and significant growth potential.”

Paperchase is preparing to launch standalone stores in Chicago and, earlier this year, former Pets at Home boss Nick Wood joined the retailer as chairman.


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Friday, October 5, 2018

Disney Deep Dive: Just because I cannot see it, doesn’t mean I can’t believe it.

Disney had brought its prodigal son back to produce whatever he wanted. When he decided to produce a stop motion film, Disney was overjoyed that maybe this could be a way for it to bridge the gap between Aladdin and The Lion King. Disney Pictures chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg had even publicly stated that he hoped the film could help lift the studio’s stodgy reputation.

At practically the last minute, however, the company got cold feet. This film was too macabre. Too stark. Too scary. Like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Dick Tracy before it, the film was sent to theaters with the more adult Touchstone Pictures brand on it. An odd choice, considering that the company had already regretted doing that to WFRR. By 1993, Roger Rabbit had already been welcomed into Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom with his very own attraction. Jack Skellington would be similarly exiled.

Without the Disney name, the studio put minimal effort behind promoting the film. Instead of a traditional Thanksgiving Weekend release, the film would premiere days before Halloween with a muddled promotional push. Early trailers referred to the film as being from Walt Disney Pictures, but viewers looking for the latest Disney film were greeted with the Touchstone logo. The shift in marketing allowed some toy licensees to drop out while others hastily covered the Disney logo with Touchstone Pictures stickers on the packaging.

The film would be a modest success, but wouldn’t be a Lion King sized success. The merchandise would fail to find very many buyers and the film would soon make its way to the Disney vault, destined to become just a trivia question. Disney might have had little faith in the picture, but its fans wouldn’t let it just disappear. The film gained a massive fan community in the years after its release. By 1998, dolls based on the character Sally that had languished on clearance shelves in early 1994 were fetching $800 on eBay. Disney obviously took notice. Small amounts of Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise were produced for Disney Theme Parks and were eagerly snapped up. Licensees lined up to produce even more merchandise for sale. Most films sell the bulk of their merchandise during their initial release. Jack and the gang were selling 20 times more merchandise than they did in 1993 seven years after the film came out.

Disney would make up for lost time. In 2001, Jack Skellington would take over DISNEYLAND’s Haunted Mansion for both the Halloween and Christmas seasons. Despite the huge drop in tourism that year, Jack’s takeover would be a huge success. Florida’s Magic Kingdom ordered its own version and The Magic Kingdom at the Tokyo Disney Resort wanted one too, but initially had to wait. When Florida canceled the overlay, Tokyo eagerly jumped at the chance to add a little madness to its Haunted Mansion. Both seasonal overlays have become cherished additions.

Who could have guessed that the little project that Disney originally rejected would become such a huge phenomenon. Jack and his crew might not have succeeded in stealing Christmas, but they did succeed in stealing the hearts of their millions of fans.


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Canada government, Bombardier still far apart in aid talks: sources

MONTREAL/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal government and Bombardier Inc BBDb.TO are still not close to reaching a deal on aid for the struggling manufacturer, making an agreement before its annual meeting this month unlikely, according to well-placed sources.

A Bombardier flag flutters amidst storm clouds at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Center February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su

The firm, based in the province of Quebec, wants Ottawa to invest $1 billion in its new CSeries passenger jet, which is years behind schedule, billions of dollars over budget and has won relatively few orders so far compared to its rivals.

A source with knowledge of the talks said one sticking point is that Ottawa wants Bombardier to commit to certain performance guarantees, and even suggested the government could walk away from aid talks.

“We want to help, but it’s got to make sense,” said the person, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Bombardier and Ottawa are at odds over the level of the Canadian government’s involvement in the day-to-day running of the company, a second person familiar with the talks said.

Government proposals for operational oversight in return for funding represent “a level of micro-management that is beyond what any normal investor or board member would expect,” the person added.

Speaking to reporters in Toronto, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said the government is having “constructive” discussions with the company.

He spoke after Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, earlier reported that Bombardier rejected an initial investment proposal from Ottawa.

A third source familiar with the talks said it was incorrect to say that Bombardier had rejected the counter-offer, since the two sides were still involved in “complex and multi-dimensional” negotiations.

A Bombardier spokeswoman declined to comment. Bombardier holds its annual meeting on April 29.

Bombardier struck a $1 billion deal with the province of Quebec last October to support the CSeries and is seeking a similar sum from Ottawa. But federal officials have said they do not want to imitate the structure of that deal, which some felt did not impose enough conditions on the company.

Ottawa is more interested in an agreement like the one Quebec’s public pension fund manager struck last November when it agreed to buy a 30 percent stake in Bombardier’s rail business, the officials said.

That deal imposed benchmarks on Bombardier and also laid out what returns the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec can get for its money.

Quebec, however, wants the federal deal to be comparable to its own to avoid looking like it had negotiated the weaker of the two agreements with Bombardier, said a political source familiar with the matter.

A spokeswoman for Quebec’s Transportation Minister said the province would not negotiate in public, but “everyone wants to have the most favorable deal.”

Legislators in the ruling Liberal Party are also concerned about possible job losses at the company.

Bombardier shares hit a six-month high on Friday following reports it was poised to secure the largest order so far for the CSeries from U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines Inc DAL.N. The order is expected to be for 75 CSeries jets with options for 50 more. Industry sources said Delta's board was due to vote on the proposal later this month.

The U.S. airline is also likely to order 30 A321s from Airbus AIR.PA, a source close to the negotiations said, echoing a figure first reported by Bloomberg.

Bombardier shares initially rose as much as 17 percent to C$1.79 before closing up 5.9 percent at C$1.62.

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Asia PacificBOJ fine-tunes massive stimulus in long drive to boost prices

Leika KiharaLeika KiharaTetsushi KajimotoTetsushi Kajimoto
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A man wearing a protective mask walks past the headquarters of Bank of Japan amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan, May 22, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

The Bank of Japan slightly loosened its grip on long-term interest rates on Friday and laid the groundwork to taper its huge asset purchases, as part of steps to make its stimulus sustainable enough to weather a prolonged battle to fire up inflation.

In a review of its policy tools announced after a two-day meeting, the BOJ said it would allow long-term interest rates to move up and down by 0.25% around its 0% target, instead of by the current implicit band of 0.2%.

To give itself more room to wind down its massive stimulus, the central bank also removed an explicit guidance to buy exchange-traded funds (ETF) at an annual pace of roughly 6 trillion yen ($55.21 billion).

Instead of buying at a set pace, the BOJ said it would step in only when markets destabilise under a 12-trillion-yen ceiling set last year when the initial COVID-19 hit jolted stock prices.

Governor Haruhiko Kuroda brushed aside the view the moves were a prelude to a full-blown exit from years of ultra-easy policy, stressing that the tweaks instead would make his stimulus sustainable and more effective.

"We won't tolerate yield fluctuations that would have an impact on our monetary easing," Kuroda told a briefing. "We absolutely need to make sure the effect of our monetary easing isn't hurt. We clarified that stance with our new guidance."

The BOJ also created a scheme similar to that of the European Central Bank under which it pays up to 0.2% interest to financial institutions that tap its loan programmes. read more

As widely expected, it maintained its target of -0.1% for short-term rates and 0% for the 10-year bond yield under its yield curve control (YCC) policy.

The moves were mostly within market expectations, as BOJ officials have been dropping hints that they will allow yields to fluctuate more to breathe life back into a market made dormant by the bank's dominance.

Among the few surprises was the BOJ's decision to contain its purchases of ETFs to those linked to the broader Tokyo stock index Topix, which sent the Nikkei average (.N225) down and the Topix (.TOPX) surging to a 30-year high.

"The Bank of Japan's policy review today contained various nudges to policy levers but ultimately marked neither a tightening nor an easing of policy," Capital Economics wrote in a research note, describing the moves as a "rearrangement of furniture" ahead of a long period of status quo.

While the initial focus of the review was to let market forces drive asset prices more, Kuroda stressed the near-term priority was to keep borrowing costs stably low to support an economy hit by the pandemic.

Indeed, the BOJ said it will not apply the rule rigidly when yields move below the band temporarily, but step in forcefully with unlimited bond purchases to prevent sharp rise in yields.

The conflicting goals made the BOJ's tweaks so modest it will barely revitalise markets, some analysts say.

"It's a very minor change. The difference between 0.25% and 0.2% is quite small," said Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at Sony Financial Holdings in Tokyo. "There's a long way to go before we even get close to 2% inflation," he added.

In an effort to dispel market views it has run out of ammunition to ramp up stimulus, the central bank also took steps to ease the strain on financial institutions from negative rates.

Specifically, the BOJ decided to pay interest to financial institutions that borrow from its various lending schemes in hope the incentives would prod them to boost lending.

"Some people say the BOJ cannot deepen negative rates because of the side-effects," Kuroda said. "That's not true. I don't think it's impossible to deepen negative rates."

Many analysts, however, remained unconvinced the measures announced on Friday would help the BOJ achieve its price goal.

"In practical terms, there is not much for the Japanese economy in these policy tweaks," said Joseph Capurso, currency analyst at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

"One thing that the central bank did do is they made some tweaks to their various bank lending facilities. But these are just tweaks and I don't think that they're going to change the trajectory of the Japanese economy."

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 RGD’s Inaugural Caribbean Civil Registration and Identity Management Conference July 2016
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The RGD, has established itself as model for the Caribbean from whom leadership is expected. This inaugural Caribbean Civil Registration Conference (CCRC) represents the first large scale gathering of civil registrars and it is intended that from this initiative greater integration and representation of Caribbean sub-regions within CLARCIEV will be achieved. This is important so that the issues that affect civil registration and national identification within these Caribbean sub-regions can be ventilated and brought to the fore.

The Registrar General’s Department of Jamaica will be hosting the inaugural Caribbean Civil Registration Conference in Montego Bay from July 6-8, 2016. The conference  theme is: “Civil Registration and Identity Protection: A Development Imperative”

The inaugural Caribbean Civil Registration Conference aims to accomplish the following:

  1. Encourage the sharing of best practices for civil registration and national identification across the Caribbean sub-region; both in terms of high level strategic policies as well as operational practices.
  2. Examine the need for comprehensive national identity policies to support decision-making tools as well as, for the protection of all individuals.
  3. Encourage the standardization of data collection protocols that will better enable cross comparison of country data.
  4. Critically examine the link between civil registration and identity protection.
  5. Explore the establishment of a Caribbean network of civil registrars akin to CLARCIEV in Latin America,.
  6. Raise the national profile of the Registrar General’s Department as key stakeholder for national development.

This high level conference will bring together the heads of all Caribbean Registrars, the chair of CLARCIEV, Government stakeholders from the Ministries of Health, Education, National Security, Justice, the Office of the Prime Minister, the National Vital Statistics Commission, Embassies and Consulates located in Jamaica. There will also be participation from private stakeholders from the financial sector.

The conference will run over two and half days. It will feature a combination of lecture presentations, work shop activities, panel discussions and open mic discussion sessions. Expert participants will be invited to share best practices and new developments within the field.


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These characteristics, together with the traditional warm hospitality from Romagna, attract large numbers of tourists who decide to spend their holidays at a hotel in Misano Adriatico. They will have the opportunity to go for pleasant morning walks on the beach, take part in exciting cycling excursions or relax and sunbathe.

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William Graham

His Grandfather Billy, their Family Legacy and an Honored Role in a Special Film

Reaching nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories, Billy Graham preached the Gospel to more people in live audiences than anyone else in history. Not to mention the hundreds of millions more he reached through other mediums like television, video, film and webcasts. It was the 1949 Los Angeles Crusade that launched Billy Graham into the public eye. Scheduled for three weeks, the meetings were extended to more than eight weeks, with overflow crowds filling the tent downtown each night. It was here that Billy Graham would meet and lead Louis Zamperini to Christ.

Zamperini was an Olympic runner who survived at sea, in the Pacific, after spending forty-seven days on a life raft when his bomber was shot down during World War II. Listed as dead, he not only defied that by remaining alive once being captured by the Japanese and brutality beat in a POW camp while enduring a harsh imprisonment, but that was only the beginning of his miraculous story. First told onscreen in the Angelina Jolie directed Unbroken, this fall Unbroken: Path to Redemption hits theatres as a spiritual sequel of sorts. The film reveals Zamperini’s torturous nightmares, battle with alcoholism, troubles in his marriage and increasing bitterness until he finally turns to the Lord, through a message Billy Graham delivered. It would instantly change his life and begin a decades-long friendship with the man often referred to as “America’s Pastor.”

In a full-circle casting move, filmmakers asked Billy Graham’s grandson, William Graham, to portray his grandfather on-screen and deliver the exact messages Billy Graham preached the nights Louis Zamperini attended the crusade. Hesitant at first, but grateful for the opportunity to share this story through film, William Graham agreed. A preacher and speaker himself, and of course namesake, there is something special about seeing the younger Graham in this role. Risen talked with William Graham about his iconic grandfather, stepping into his speaking shoes on-screen and how the family legacy continues to impact the world.

Interviewed exclusively for Risen Magazine

Risen Magazine: I was fortunate to be on-set while you filmed your scenes in Pomona, California, last fall. Since that time, Billy Graham passed away in February at ninety-nine years old. Share a little bit of your thoughts on his legacy and how you felt as you saw the overwhelming love from the world pour in on his impact?

William Graham: With my grandfather, it’s kind of hard to explain, his death was unexpected, but yet it was expected. He hadn’t really been sick, there were a lot of other times that he was a lot sicker and we had called in family and we were all kind of on death watch you might say, but he didn’t pass away. Then he just died one morning and passed away; closed his eyes for the final time and woke up in heaven. And so that kind of took us by surprise because we hadn’t expected it. Matter of fact, my dad [Franklin Graham] was just up there the Sunday before he died. He died on Wednesday, February 21st. I remember, I was out of town that day. I was preaching in Dallas, Texas. I had preached at Dallas Theological Seminary and I had preached at Dallas Baptist University, another school that day and I remember talking to some students, and some faculty at DBU, we were kind of behind closed doors. It wasn’t open to the general public, it was just select students and some select staff and I was telling the staff, “You know there’s something our family believes, we just feel like my granddaddy’s going to pass this year.” We have no idea why, there’s nothing wrong with him, he’s just old. But within twelve hours he’d be passing away. I found out early in the morning and within about four minutes I had people calling me because they had heard it on the news. So, it spread very, very quickly. My phone was lighting up so hard I couldn’t answer all the emails or text messages. God loves to go through peoples’ prayers and it impacted our family and we’re so grateful for that.

Billy Graham is played by his grandson, Will Graham in Unbroken: Path to Redemption.

RM: That’s amazing. Obviously, Billy Graham impacted millions of people, and we see the fruit of that, but for you, he was your grandfather first. When did you know he was “Billy Graham” or did his name always carry such weight?

WG: That’s a good question. I would say there were two different points in my life where my grandad’s name changed to me. One was when I was in kindergarten. I was a kindergarten student and I remember my teacher, she was a lovely lady, she came up and put her hands on my shoulders and she was talking to another teacher and said, “This is Will Graham, this is Billy Graham’s grandson.” And I’m thinking, how does she know who my granddaddy is? I think that was the first time that I realized my granddaddy was more of a public figure than I realized.

Later in life, I went to public elementary school, public high school, and the kids could care less who Billy Graham was. They just wanted to know if you can play soccer or play basketball; that was the more important stuff. But when I got to college, I went to Liberty University and I remember when I went to Liberty, [Jerry] Falwell Sr. would make it a big deal that Billy Graham’s grandson was at his school. Which I didn’t mind, in full disclosure, Dr. Falwell gave me a free ride to Liberty, so he could use me any way he sees fit. He gave me a free college education and I’m forever grateful for what Liberty has done for me. But I remember during that time he would say, “We have Billy Graham’s grandson here,” and stuff like that, while I’m sitting in the audience. And what happened was I had people start finding what room I was in and knocking on my door and looking in my room just to see what Billy Graham’s grandson’s room looks like. That was kind of goofy. But in all honestly, it never bothered me. I guess it’s part of the life I’ve grown up with and I’m used to it, it’s my normal. I know that’s not normal for other people, I understand that but for me it was normal.

He made every grandkid feel special like they were the favorite. There’s nineteen grandchildren, all of us would say we’re Billy Graham’s favorite. That’s how he made us feel.

I’m a guy that dressed in blue jeans and t-shirts and went through seminary class and nobody knew that I was Billy Graham’s grandson. They knew I was on campus but they never knew it was me. Because I guess they thought Billy Graham’s grandson would be in a three-piece suit or something, but when they found out it was me, I think it was kind of anti-climactic for them. My granddaddy was a very humble man. He lived in a humble home. He dressed very humbly. A lot of pictures you see of my grandfather, he’s wearing an old denim jacket and he’s got denim pants on. Those are bell bottoms he never threw away because he was so frugal with his money [laughter]. He still wore bell bottoms when he was seventy-five or eighty years old. He wouldn’t throw anything away because he came out of the depression era.

RM: What was your relationship like with Billy Graham growing up?

WG: I’m so grateful for the times I got to spend with my granddaddy. I had a great relationship with my grandfather. I’m his namesake. I’m William Franklin Graham the fourth. My father’s William Franklin Graham the third. And, if you grew up with him, you called him Billy Frank. He’s always been my granddaddy, and as grandchildren, our name of affection for our grandfather is “Daddy Bill.” I lived very close to my grandfather. I grew up in Boone, North Carolina. My grandfather lived in Asheville. It’s about sixty miles and my other grandparents, my mom’s parents, lived in Montreat for the summers, where he lived. So, they were less than a mile apart; I was always going back and forth and I had both sets of my grandparents right there. I got to see my grandparents probably a little bit more than the other grandkids. Not because I’m the favorite, please don’t misunderstand me, I’m not the favorite, they don’t have favorites. But I got to see them more often because I lived geographically closer.

Also, when my dad traveled, I would go with him sometimes overseas to my grandfather’s crusades. I would go to Puerto Rico, I would go to London, I would go to California – I know that’s not another country but sometimes we think it is [laughter] – I went to all these other crusades where a lot of my other cousins didn’t have that opportunity because my dad was a board member, and my dad was a pilot, and he could take his little airplane and fly to different places. I got to see my granddaddy in other parts of the world. And he didn’t spend much time at home. For the most of his life, he would spend it in some other city or town. He was never home very much, it was rare, but I always had a great relationship with him. He made every grandkid feel special like they were the favorite. There’s nineteen grandchildren, all of us would say we’re Billy Graham’s favorite. That’s how he made us feel.

Four Generations of Graham Namesakes: Top (l to r) William Franklin Graham III with his son William Franklin Graham IV. Bottom (l to r) William Franklin Graham II with his great-grandson WIlliam Franklin Graham V.

RM: I love that. When did your faith become your own?

WG: I gave my life to Christ when I was almost six years old. My dad led me to Christ, I was at church. It was the first time I had to be in grown-up church. Communion came by and I thought it was adult snack time [laughter]. Dad said that I couldn’t take it because I didn’t have Christ in my life. I thought my dad didn’t want me to take it because I was going to spill the grape juice on the carpet. So, I didn’t think anything of it. Later that day when we were home, Dad took me up to my room, and said, “This is why you can’t have it [communion]. Because you don’t know Christ.” So, my dad would lead me to Christ that night. Communion didn’t save me, but it was the avenue that God used to bring me to Him.

RM: Now, you’re married and you and your wife have three children, two daughters and your son continues the tradition and carries on the namesake as William Franklin Graham V. Share a little bit about the generational blessing and also advice for parents when it comes to raising kids to have a personal relationship with the Lord?

WG: Thanks for asking about my family. On the 13th of June, I celebrate my 20th wedding anniversary.

It’s a really hard way to preach in a movie like that. But with my grandad’s sermon, since I knew the whole sermon, I could put it in context and know where he was going with each thought and so it was easier for me to put it together like that.

RM: Congratulations.

WG: I appreciate it. I’ll be holding a crusade, a Celebration of Hope in Falkirk, Scotland, and my wife’s going to be able to go with me. We’ll celebrate our twentieth anniversary in Scotland. But listen, marriage is one of the toughest things you’ll ever do in life. I think there have been times that she and I both felt like quitting, and there’s times when we didn’t like each other, her toward me and me toward her, but we were committed to Christ and we were committed to each other. We knew that love is not a feeling, it’s a commitment. And so, we were committed to one another and to working it out. Someone asked my grandparents, “What makes a great marriage?” And my grandmother was quick to say, “Two great forgivers.” My wife and I, we’ve had to learn to forgive each other. And now we get to celebrate twenty years. There is no perfect marriage. Even Billy Graham and Ruth Graham had their fights. The good news is that they did it in private, they didn’t do it in front of their children or anything like that. But they had their arguments and disagreements on things. But they loved each other, so my wife and I, we greatly love each other. I’m so grateful for her and I couldn’t do what I do now without her.

We’ve been blessed with three children, two daughters and a son. All three of them have asked Christ to come into their hearts. And my son actually did it on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11. I remember that because I was in London during that time and I just remember all the ceremonies going on and my wife calling to say, “Quinn just asked Christ to come into his life.” I’m so grateful for all three of my kids, they love the Lord. It goes by fast, my oldest just finished up her junior and will be starting her senior year this fall. She’s already committed to go to Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee and play soccer.

It just goes by so quickly. I mean, I met my wife at college and I’m thinking, “Man, my daughter is probably going to meet her future husband there.” And so, I’m praying like crazy right now. I think that’s a father’s worst nightmare, future sons-in-law [laughter]. I’ve been praying that God will bring the right person and they too will love the Lord and be good forgivers toward one another.

Billy Graham’s nineteen grandchildren on the day of his funeral in 2018.

RM: Absolutely. In Unbroken: Path to Redemption you play your grandfather, Billy Graham, on screen at the 1949 revival where Louis Zamperini made the decision to follow Christ. What did it mean to you to get to portray him on screen?

WG: Well, I tell you, it was a great privilege. This story is so important. And it’s not a Billy Graham story, it’s a Louis Zamperini powerful, powerful story. When they first approached me a number of months before the movie even filmed and said, “Would [you] be interested in it?” I said, “Listen guys, this story’s too important for me to mess it up, so don’t base it on me, get someone better.” They said, “No, we want you to do it. I mean you’re a preacher, we need a preacher.” I said, “Well, that’s true. I don’t have to act, I can just do what I normally do.” And to be honest, it was the most nerve racking thing I’ve ever done. I don’t want to do it again [laughter]. Please don’t misunderstand me, I had a wonderful time. Because it was my first time, I didn’t know what to expect as everything was new to me. I didn’t feel comfortable. Harold [Cronk], the director, was so gracious coming up and talking to me and encouraging me. He would get the extras in the tent to encourage me. It was one of the greatest blessings, and a lot of people won’t know this, but when I was going to do my scenes from the pulpit, I’d be walking up into the tent, onto the stage, and there were two gentlemen in particular, that were saying, “We’re praying for you Will. Preach Jesus.” I had more fun with the choir than any other thing because they made me feel at home.

But it was just nerve racking because I had all these expectations in my mind and it was nothing like what I expected. It wasn’t bad, it was just not what I expected. I had to do large portions of lines, like multiple paragraphs without a break and trying to memorize all my lines and get it just right and get the gist of what my grandfather was trying to say, was very tough. I’m preaching my grandad’s sermon and it’s not the way I would say things, he uses different words and different phrases. But what’s so neat was, we did some research and we found out what we believed to be the same sermon that we thought was preached when Louis Zamperini came to know Christ. I got to preach my granddaddy’s sermon from 1949. The exact sermon. And I was thrilled to get to preach my granddaddy’s sermon. The last time it was probably preached was there in 1949 and now I’m preaching it again in a tent outside of Los Angeles. You can’t get much better than this. It was a wonderful privilege, I’m so thankful for it but I’m so glad it was over.

RM: I found that aspect about it fascinating; that you could know the exact sermons that were preached throughout the crusade. Did Billy Graham always keep and date all of his sermons or was there something extra special about that 1949 revival?

WG: I’m not sure if I can really answer to your satisfaction. I don’t know. From that time in 1949, he was a college president and so he probably had help. All of his sermons were recorded. We actually have the original recordings of my granddaddy’s sermons; so someone listened to them and then transcribed them. I had both the audio and the transcription to go over. And that’s how I tried to put everything in context. It gave me a better context than just looking at my movie lines because they picked out just certain portions.

I tell people imagine a sermon, just for a round number sake let’s say it’s 100 sentences, they made me preach sentence one, sentence two, sentence 38, 46, 47, 48, 78, 98, 99, and 100. It’s a really hard way to preach in a movie like that. But with my grandad’s sermon, since I knew the whole sermon, I could put it in context and know where he was going with each thought and so it was easier for me to put it together like that. All that to say, that most of his sermons are transcribed, at least by the time he was a college president most of his messages were probably transcribed by his secretary.

That’s one of the most recognized things I hear in everybody’s stories: “I felt like he was preaching just to me. I was going through something and he was preaching just to me.”

RM: It seemed as though God was speaking through Billy right to Louis, which so many times Christ does, He meets us right where we need Him. As a pastor, and speaker yourself with your Celebration events, how have you seen this prove to be true over and over?

WG: Definitely. I get to hear more of the testimony from my granddaddy’s impact since more time has passed since people have come to know Christ. Let’s just say from the 1960s up until now, when people see me, they come and tell me their, we’ll call it Billy Graham story. And one of the things that keeps coming up all the time, is just that, “I felt like he was preaching just to me.” That’s one of the most recognized things I hear in everybody’s stories: “I felt like he was preaching just to me. I was going through something and he was preaching just to me.”

And I found that true to be true in my life. I remember one time, I was pastoring a church in Raleigh, North Carolina, and I can’t remember what I was preaching, I’m just going to make up something. Say I’m preaching on tithing. No preacher wants to preach on tithing. You feel awkward, but if I’m a preacher, then I’ve got to preach all of God’s Word – the martial problems, the salvation parts, the sin part, even the tithing part – I have to preach all of it. So, I’m preaching on tithing, and a couple came up to accept Christ and they said, “We just appreciate what you said about the family it really spoke to our hearts.” And I’m thinking to myself, “I didn’t preach on the family. I preached on tithing.”

But that was the Holy Spirit pricking their heart about something I said and it convicted them so bad that they gave their life to Jesus Christ that morning. They gave their life to Christ on the message on tithing, but they said it was on the family. That’s the Holy Spirit speaking directly to their hearts. You have to be a faithful preacher and God takes those faithful actions and turns them into knives that pierce the heart and people hear the Spirit of God speak to ‘em. And that’s what I want to be, just be a faithful preacher, preaching God’s Word. They may not hear my sermon but they are going to hear the words of God hit them. And I’m happy with that because it’s not about Will Graham, it’s about Jesus Christ redeeming the lost of this world. He died for it and he’s redeeming it. I’m just so grateful I get a front row seat to a lot of it.

William Graham with his grandfather Billy Graham.

RM: I love that Louis used his personal story to impact others because it is such a remarkable story. What would you say to people that may be reading or hearing this and thinking, “My story doesn’t involve Olympics, a POW camp, sharks or being lost at sea… how can my normal life be used to impact others?”

WG: I tell people that life is full of Louises. People are going to read this article and realize they’re one of these Louises in life. And what I mean by that is, their life has not gone the way they planned, it’s fallen apart around them, and their life is a mess. Sure, maybe they didn’t go to a POW camp, maybe their legs didn’t crack under them while they were trying to run for the Olympics, I understand that, but we all have problems in our own life. We carry burdens, a lot of marriages aren’t going well, raising kids is hard, all these things weigh down on us. Louis was a failure when it came to work, finding a job, and making money. He was not good at it. But God reached down and said “You know what, I have a plan and purpose for Louis Zamperini.” God was chasing him. And Louis, like Jonah, kept running away and didn’t want to talk. Finally, he got to the point of being sick and tired, of being sick and tired, and there’s so many people in this world right now that are sick and tired of being sick and tired. They’re tired of the way things are going in their life, they feel like they can’t keep going, everything they try to fix just crumbles even more.

Louis decided to go forward [to accept Christ]. He didn’t want to go forward. He was trying to get out the back, he said the next thing he realized he was at the front. He said, “I don’t know how I got up there.” It’s like God just pulled him and Louis went. There was a big tent where my granddaddy did the preaching, but there was another smaller tent where they talked and counseled people after the service. Louis was in there and he gave his life to Christ and he had tears coming down his eyes. The whole burden that he carried, all the guilt that he carried, all the frustrations in life, they just went away. His drinking went, it disappeared. His nightmares, disappeared. For Louis it happened in an instant, boom, he was changed.

And I’m here to tell you that is what God can do for you. Anybody when they give their life to Jesus Christ, and they don’t have to be a POW, they don’t have to be an Olympian, when you surrender your problems just like Hannah did in the Bible, she surrendered all her brokenness – her broken dreams, her broken family, her broken relationships – all that she gave over to the Lord and her life was changed. Her circumstances didn’t change, but now she had given all that over to the Lord so she’s not carrying those burdens anymore. Louis was no longer carrying these burdens. His marriage was restored. He would have a second child, a son. And then he would spend the next sixty years of his life serving the Lord Jesus Christ faithfully. It’s an incredible story and I’m just so grateful that I had a small part in it as an actor. It was a tremendous opportunity for me, I’m so grateful for it.

The 1949 Crusade in Los Angeles caught the attention of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. The resulting national and international news coverage launched Billy Graham into prominence.

RM: Share about the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and how it continues to further the efforts of your family. I mentioned your Celebration events, your father has Decision America nights, and of course the Billy Graham Library with resources to help reach the world. What is your hope for the future and lives changed?

WG: The greatest privilege in life is seeing lives change for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When people that are spiritually dead give their life over to Christ, that’s one of the most exciting things in life. Everything we do with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is to reach people’s hearts for the Gospel. My dad is preaching up and down California right now and I think his next stop is Berkeley. He’s going to be preaching the Gospel at Berkeley and I wish I could be there for that. Dad doesn’t mind arguments or fights. He respects people that fight back with him. But I hope, people said, “Why would you go there?” Because they need the Gospel and Dad wants to go where no one else wants to go. And that’s how I feel, I want to go where no one else wants to go. I just got back from western Australia preaching in a gold mining city where I’m not sure the last time an evangelist had been there. I got to go, we preached the Gospel, and we saw over five hundred people make decisions for Christ. It’s incredible. I mean just a wonderful outpouring of Holy Spirit there. I’m so thankful for it.

So, we still do evangelistic crusades. My dad calls them festivals, I call them celebrations. We have our Rapid Response Chaplains that respond to manmade and natural disasters. They’ve been out in Hawaii where the lava’s been destroying homes. They’re praying with people that’ve been losing everything and can’t figure out why all this is happening to them. We encourage and pray with them. Or if there’s a tornado, we show up there. We’ve had some flooding here in western North Carolina recently, I think we may have some chaplains running around now praying with people that have lost their homes in floods.

And, we have the Billy Graham Library. The whole reason the Billy Graham Library is there is not just to tell people about Billy Graham, it’s to tell them what Billy Graham was preaching about, and that is Jesus. My granddaddy loved Jesus Christ more than anything else in this world and so everything that we try to do is trying to bring glory and honor to the name of Jesus and help people to know more about Him.

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Julia completed her training at a firm of Chartered Accountants in Windsor, spending time working in all areas of the firm. She qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant in 1991 and was soon promoted to Tax Manager. She studied for her Chartered Tax Adviser examinations, passing these within 6 months and gaining the qualification in 1992.

In 1994 Julia moved to an accountancy practice in Henley-on-Thames taking the position of Partner's Assistant and within 18 months was promoted to Partner. In 1996 she became a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). Julia stayed with the firm as a Partner until 2002 when she founded River Thames Accountancy Ltd.

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Robert D. Lesslie, M.D.

Dr. Robert Lesslie practiced in Rock Hill since 1981. He received his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina and continued his training in Greenville, SC and in Charlotte, NC where he was chief resident at Charlotte Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Lesslie was board-certified in emergency medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He also specialized in occupational medicine and received his Master’s in Public Health in 1999 from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was a certified Medical Review Officer for drug and alcohol testing and a Certified Medical Examiner for the Department of Transportation. For more than a decade, he had been writing newspaper and magazine columns and human-interest stories.

Dr. Lesslie lived in Rock Hill with his wife, Barbara and their golden retriever, Moses, several miniature horses, goats, donkeys, chickens and a lot of bees. They were parents to four grown children and eight growing grandchildren. He enjoyed golfing, traveling and bagpiping. He was a regular columnist for YC magazine, an active member of his church, as well as an accomplished author. His series of books offer hope and wisdom for his readers’ overall health and well being based on his years of experience in the field of medicine.

Jason T. Given, M.D.

Medical Doctor, Acting Medical Director

Dr. Jason Given was born and raised in British Columbia, Canada and graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Chemical Engineering in 1999. He was a professional hockey player for the Columbus Cottonmouths and worked in the mining industry before beginning medical school in 2003 at Saba University in Netherlands-Antilles. Dr. Given went on to train at the Greenville Hospital System Family Medicine Residency Program in South Carolina, where he was also chief resident.

Dr. Given joined Riverview Medical Center in 2011. He is board-certified in Family Medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine and is a Certified Medical Examiner for the Department of Transportation.

Darlene Dunlap

Nurse Practitioner/Hospice Case Manager

Darlene received her BSN from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, her MSN from Duke University, and her Post-Master’s Nurse Practitioner Certificate from Duke University in 1997. She is a Board-certified ANP and experienced in Medical Oncology. Darlene loves Clemson football, lives in the country (with mud on the tires), has cats, loves dogs, and volunteers at the York County Animal Shelter. She has an adult son and loves to read murder mysteries, loves music and dancing, loves to laugh, and also makes jewelry.

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Jeff is a native of Rock Hill and after graduating from NC State University moved back home to begin his career in healthcare management. His healthcare career started at Riverview Medical Center as the Director of Development. After years of helping to grow Riverview’s Senior Care and Hospice services in the community, the Lord opened the door for Jeff to step into this role.

Jeff says, “Hospice and Palliative care are such important services in a very precious time for a family. I’m honored to have the opportunity to help a family in any way I can during these times. This is a ministry that seeks to treat the whole person, and we strive to do just that.” Jeff lives in Rock Hill with his wife where he enjoys the outdoors and playing music.

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Over the past five years, Dominic Simon has worked as a Medical Social Worker in various capacities. Born in Philadelphia, PA and raised in Sumter, SC by his Great-Grandparents, Dominic enjoys traveling and spending time with his family. His other passions include counseling and charitable outreach. His goal is to continue to aid his community for the comfort and prosperity of all people.

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Lindsay’s nursing career began in 1999 after graduating from The University of South Carolina. After working 13 years in a hospital setting, she truly believed that God led her to become a hospice nurse.

Lindsay’s family used hospice services with her nana & it was very meaningful to spend her last days at home with her family. It was then that she realized how special & important hospice care is to families and patients.

Lindsay feels privileged to have been with Riverview Hospice & Palliative Care since its inception in 2016. She deems it an honor to be able to travel this path with and provide support to my patients & their families.

“We cannot change the outcome, but we can affect the journey.” – Ann Richardson

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Abby has been a nurse for 22 years. She has worked in hospice, critical care, long-term care, pediatrics, home health and management. Abby has three children ages 18,17, and 15. She enjoys camping, boating and traveling.

As a hospice nurse Abby enjoys the relationships she builds with the patient and family. Abby says, “It’s very rewarding to know that what you do does truly help others in their difficult times. I am also very fortunate to work with such a great group of caring and compassionate individuals”.

Tony Caruso

As a former local pastor and missionary, Tony found his calling in Hospice. He has traveled all over throughout his pastoral career, however his home here in Hospice has kept him grounded and blessed each and every day.

Tony enjoys sailing, fishing and spending time with his grandkids. “I have found my home at Riverview Hospice and love and respect the Christian atmosphere Dr. Lesslie puts into our team.”

Jessica Tapp

Hospice Nurse

Jessica has been a hospice nurse for over 3 years and nursing has been a passion of hers since she was a child. Jessica is married with 5 children and likes being with her family, riding motorcycles, playing drums and traveling in her free time.

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Misha is the vital part of the Riverview Hospice Team. She has 23 years of experience. Misha truly embody the meaning of Hospice. She enjoys time with her family and is very involved with her local church.

Books By Doctor Lesslie

The release of “Angels in the ER” in 2008 marked his first published book and it has sold over 200,000 copies. Since then, he has written “Angels on Call”, “Angels and Heroes”, “Angels on the Night Shift”, “Notes from a Doctor’s Pocket”, “Miracles in the ER”, “50 Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol” and 50 Ways to Lower Your Blood Pressure”.

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Kickstarter, the well-known crowdfunding website, has evolved from an art community into a techie shopping center. The website runs on a reward system: a backer of a project is given a prize for pledging support. Some projects offer tangible prizes, such as t-shirts, while others promise little more than the joy of being involved. But for gadget start-ups with prototypes, the promised reward is often the product itself. When users pledge a set amount of cash for a product to be delivered in the future, it looks a lot like a sale, even if Kickstarter stresses that it is not.

Project creators have blurred the lines even further. On their own sites and social networks, creators often provide links to “pre-order” their products on Kickstarter. And the strategy is working. Support of prototypes has set epic records this year. Pebble, an iPhone-syncing watch, raised over US $10 million. The creator eventually had to stop offering the watch itself as a reward. In the previous year, Kickstarter projects raised only $100 million all together.

Some Kickstarter creators don’t even need the funding. The company iCache, creators of the Geode, used Kickstarter predominantly for market research and price setting. Other companies have used the site to attract distributors. Both the Brydge and the Amplifiear are among projects that offered “retail” and “distributor” reward packages.

As gadgets populate the site, browsers tend to think more like shoppers. Creators think about selling to retailers. And distributors search the site for the next thing to buy in mass.

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MECHANIZED is the second experimental album by Star Robot System composed and performed by Robomaks. It was recorded in 2017.

MECHANIZED: un voyage à l’intérieur d’un générateur d’énergie électrique

I’ve always found an electric powerhouse, but also the old power plants that have been abandoned for years. They always give me the impression of silently waiting to come back to work one day ..! In particular, their noise of electricity, I always felt…
One evening in front of a large power plant hidden in the middle of a forest, I was thinking of making an album that speaks of a journey inside it.Mechanized is a minimal,cool and hypnotic work.
I devoted my work to the great Conrad Schnitzler, who passed in 2011, and I consider the KING of electronic sounds.

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Endless Love

The novel Endless Love is about a teenage boy who remembers, with full ferocity and grief and yearning, the great love of his life, after it has been ended by fate and the adult world. The movie “Endless Love” is about a teenage boy and girl who are in love, until fate and adults end their relationship. There is all the difference in the world between these two story sequences, and although there are a great many things wrong with the movie, this blunder on the narrative level is the worst.

Didn't the makers of this movie understand the poignancy at the very heart of the novel? The book begins with its hero, David, committing an act that will end all of his happiness for years. Forbidden to see his girl, Jade, for thirty days, he sets a fire of newspapers on the porch of her house hoping to win a reprieve by being the hero who "discovers" the fire. The house burns down, and David is sent into a long exile in a mental institution. The novel's point of view is of a boy who has lost everything he values and remembers it with undying passion. But the movie rearranges the events of the book into chronological order. That means that the love affair between Jade and David, instead of being remembered as a painful loss, is seen in the "now" as, well, as a teenage romance. Its additional level of meaning is lost.

A story that began as a poem to the fierce pride of adolescent passion gets transmuted into a sociological case study. This movie contains some of the same characters and events as Scott Spencer's wonderful novel (indeed, at times it is unnecessarily faithful to situations and dialogue from the book), but it does not contain the book's reason for being. It is about events and it should be about passion.

There are many other problems in the film. One crucial mistake is in casting: Martin Hewitt, as David, the seventeen-year-old boy, is a capable actor but is too handsome, too heavily bearded, too old in appearance to suggest an adolescent bundle of vulnerability and sensitivity. Another mistake is in narrative: The sequence of events involving David's release from the institution, his trip to New York, and exactly what happens there, is so badly jumbled that some audience members will not know how and why he went to New York, and hardly anyone will be able to follow the circumstances that reunite him with Jade.

A third mistake is in this movie's ending, or rather, its lack of one: The final three minutes in this movie are enraging to anyone who has made an emotional investment in it, because they are a cop-out, a refusal to deal with the material and bring it to a conclusion. The fourth mistake is the one that made me most angry, because it deals with the central act of the narrative, with the disaster around which the story revolves. In the book, David sets fire to the newspapers as an act of passion, confusion, and grief, sure it's dumb, but he's confused and in turmoil. The movie, with offensive heavy-handedness, has another youth suggest the fire to David as a strategy. Apparently the filmmakers thought the fire had to be "explained." The result is to take a reckless act and turn it into a stupid one, diminishing both David's intelligence and the power of his passion.

The movie's central relationship, between Jade (Brooke Shields) and David, comes out as a disappointment, because their scenes are not allowed to develop human resonances. We never really feel and understand the bond between these two people. That's partly because of Hewitt's inability to project uncertainty and adolescent awkwardness; he comes on so strong and self-confident that David seems like a young man making a bold bid for a good-looking girl, rather than as one-half of a pair of star-crossed adolescent lovers.

Is there anything good in the movie? Yes. Brooke Shields is good. She is a great natural beauty, and she demonstrates, in a scene of tenderness and concern for Hewitt and in a scene of rage with her father, that she has a strong, unaffected screen acting manner. But the movie as a whole does not understand the particular strengths of the novel that inspired it, does not convince us it understands adolescent love, does not seem to know its characters very well, and is a narrative and logical mess.

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The sequel to Gauntlet of the King

Escape from the King takes on a similar dungeon crawling theme to Gauntlet of the King but with masses of new content.

The project is currently in abandoned public Beta release but includes the following:

  • 17 diverse levels
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Newspaper Says Detention Centers Are "Concentration Camps For Refugee Children"

On June 13, Esquire magazine published an expert-backed piece that compared detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border to concentration camps, an opinion New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agreed with on Twitter. Now a major newspaper in Utah has said migrant detention centers are "concentration camps for refugee children," stating its case in a straightforward and compelling argument.

It's possible some people are outraged by the comparison of concentration camps to U.S. detention centers because they aren't familiar with the term's technical definition. Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, defined a concentration camp as "mass detention of civilians without trial" in her interview with Esquire.

Waitman Wade Beorn, a Holocaust and genocide studies historian and a lecturer at the University of Virginia, told Esquire that concentration camps are designed to "to separate one group of people from another group" because these persons are deemed "dangerous or undesirable in some way."

Given the Trump administration's charged rhetoric regarding immigrants and asylum-seekers and the reports of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "illegally" detaining minors, according to HuffPost, the comparison seemingly tracks.

Then there are reports of inhumane conditions at the detention camps, as The New York Times reported, including accounts of children caring for babies, overcrowding, and a lack of basic hygiene necessities, all of which arguably fit the concentration camps narrative.

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Mark Morgan and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did not immediately respond to Romper’s requests for comment regarding the concentration camp comparisons.

A little over a week after Esquire published its report, Utah's largest newspaper, The Salt Lake Tribune, released a compelling argument via its Editorial Board explaining why the Trump administration's detention centers are "concentration camps." The board argued that, while these centers might not line up with what the public thinks concentration camps are supposed to look like (think the Holocaust), these centers are operating as such.

"They are not work camps. They are not death camps. At least, not on purpose," the op-ed stated in its article, "Yes, We Do Have Concentration Camps."

It continued, "Our government is not building massive gas chambers and industrial crematoria. It is not conducting sick medical experiments on members of an unfavored class... But that does not mean that the places into which we are herding tens of thousands of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers are not properly called concentration camps. Because that is precisely what they are."

The board also pointed out that, as numerous historians have noted before, that the Holocaust and similar crimes "did not arrive overnight."

"It worked its way up, from nasty political speeches (check) to politicians seeking and gaining power with promises to protect the purity of the nation from foreign invasion (check) to denying basic human rights and decency to people of an unfavored class (check)," the newspaper's editorial board stated. "The same warning is being raised by past residents of the internment camps — concentration camps — in which we confined Americans of Japanese origin or descent during the dark days of World War II."

Actor and activist George Takei echoed this opinion in a tweet shared on June 18. "I know what concentration camps are," he penned. "I was inside two of them, in America. And yes, we are operating such camps again."

The board then highlighted the reported conditions in the centers, stating: "The people being held there are cold, hungry, dirty and often sick. Children are separated from parents. Children are caring for children. Medical care is not to be found. A few — not millions, but a few — have died."

A total of 24 immigrants have reportedly died while in ICE custody during the Trump administration, according to NBC News.

The Salt Lake Tribune's Editorial Board ended its op-ed with a passionate plea to the public. "Good, caring, moral Utahns, and their elected representatives, should be shouting bloody murder over this extended and deliberate abuse of human rights," it argued. "If nothing else, our separation-of-powers expert, Sen. Mike Lee, should be demanding congressional oversight and authorization of what is and isn’t happening."

The board concluded, "Our nation is operating concentration camps for refugee children. We need to stop denying that and decide if we are comfortable with that fact. And how we will explain it to our children."

Whether you support the concentration camps comparison or not, many can likely agree that what's happening at the U.S.-Mexico border is inhumane and unacceptable, especially where it concerns children.


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Has anyone done this shore excursion?  I have 3 grands ages 13, 11 and 8 that will be doing it with us and want to make sure they would like it.  I usually book my own shore excursions not thru the ship but with the very limited time in San Juan feel I need to book thru them.

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We did this tour last year over Christmas. It was good for our kids who were 7 at the time as the guides were great at interacting with them and the treasure hunt takes you to find kites so you get to fly them at the end. There is stops to make a popcorn mix and get frozen yogurt as you tour through the town. Our other two kids ages 12 and 14 were not as impressed as the younger two kids as it was a bit disjointed but overall it was a easy way to spend the day with multiple indoor stops to break up the heat and walking when touring around.

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Bolivia legalizes labor of kids as young as 10

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A law, legally allowing children to work from as early as the age of ten, has been signed in Bolivia this week, making the Latin American country the first nation to legalize child labor. International organizations say it contravenes UN conventions.

The legislation was approved by the Congress earlier this month, with Bolivia's Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera signing it into law on Thursday. The signature - which didn't come from President Evo Morales due to his absence from the country - officially lowers the age that children can legally work from 14 to 10.

Under the new legislation, children above the age of 10 will be allowed to become self-employed workers as long as they attend school and have permission from their parents. Those over 12 years old will be permitted to take on contract work, also on terms of parental consent and compulsory school attendance.

"The president gave us his support. He also worked as a boy, herding llamas," Rodrigo Medrano, head of the Union of Boy, Girl and Adolescent Workers, told AP. The president has also been quoted in the past saying that "eliminating work for boys and girls would be like eliminating people's social conscience."

Bolivia's President Evo Morales (Reuters / Bolivian Presidency)

Others say the new Bolivian law goes against international regulations - including those in Latin America - and contravenes a UN convention designating 14 as the minimum work age.

"The new law runs against the regional current,” commented Carmen Moreno, an International Labor Organization (ILO) official, saying that "Mexico has set 15 as the minimum age and Chile age 16".

Jo Becker, the children's rights advocacy director at New York-based Human Rights Watch, says “Bolivia's move is out of step with the rest of the world," adding that "child labor may be seen as a short-term solution to economic hardship, but is actually a cause of poverty."

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Bolivian officials say there is no alternative to the move in a society where half the population is poor and a large percentage of the adolescent population has to work anyway. It is hoped that adding another wage to a family’s income could alleviate many families' financial burdens.

"Child labor already exists in Bolivia and it's difficult to fight it. Rather than persecute it, we want to protect the rights and guarantee the labor security of children," one of the bill's sponsors senator Adolfo Mendoza told AP.

Jo Becker argues that people who start work as children end up with less education and lower earnings as adults. It then becomes a catch-22, as such families will most likely have to send their own children to work early.

A boy dries a bowl at a food stall where he works, in La Paz (Reuters / David Mercado)

More than 500,000 children already work to supplement the family income in Bolivia, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef). A 2008 study done by the ILO and Bolivian government found that 850,000 children between the age of five and 17 were working in the country.

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June 15 will be ‘LITTLE D-DAY’ for tourism in Europe after Covid-19 lockdowns – Italian FM
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has said Rome is working with its European partners on a plan to reopen tourism and likened June 15 – the day the EU’s borders are expected to fully reopen – to a “little D-Day” for the bloc.

“We are working for us to all start over together in Europe on June 15,” Di Maio told RAI television on Tuesday, adding that June 15 will be “a little European D-Day for tourism.”

To kickstart tourism in Italy, one of the nations in Europe hardest hit by the Covid-19 outbreak, Di Maio said it will be important for all regions to be able to give “homogeneous indications to tourists” and to have the same measures in place so there is no confusion among summer visitors who may be moving between regions.

“We must save what we can save from the summer to help our entrepreneurs,” he added.

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Italy had said earlier that its own borders will open for EU tourists on June 3 and a 14-day quarantine for foreign arrivals will be lifted. That announcement prompted criticism from Paris, with French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner saying Rome should have coordinated on dates with the rest of Europe.

While Italy is eager to reopen its critical tourism industry as soon as possible, some other governments in Europe are opting for a more cautious approach as national lockdowns begin to ease.

Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez said Tuesday that since different EU countries have set different dates to reopen, it’s crucial that "common rules"are in place to open internal borders.

Spain, which was another of the countries most-affected by the virus, announced it will open up for tourists from July and also promised to lift a two-week quarantine requirement for overseas visitors from that time.

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As scandal-hit charity linked to Justin Trudeau shuts up shop in Canada, the silence of the woke brigade is deafening

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As scandal-hit charity linked to Justin Trudeau shuts up shop in Canada, the silence of the woke brigade is deafening
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau should be facing more ethics questions after the WE charity, which paid his family so well, ceased trading amid a financial scandal. But his status as a liberal icon will ensure no lasting damage.

The world of woke is in turmoil following the closure of Canadian operations and the shuttering of its London office by the painfully right-on WE charity.

Its former high-profile pals are scurrying to distance themselves from the accusations of financial mismanagement that threaten the career of Canadian PM and woke icon Justin Trudeau, whose squeaky-clean liberal credentials have been dragged through the mud by his association with the Kielburger brothers and the charity they started as kids in the kitchen of their family home.

So, when they won a Canadian government student empowerment contract in June, worth around US$680 million, the roughly US$32 million in fees they earned themselves showed just how far the two have come in 20 years. But that’s history now, as the contract has been ditched thanks to the questions that have arisen since it was awarded.

Also on rt.com Trudeau’s embarrassing 21 seconds of silence when asked about Trump’s response to riots highlights Canada’s hypocrisy

Nevertheless, with that sort of money sloshing around, you can start to understand how obsessive self-promoters like Trudeau climbed aboard the bandwagon of righteousness so they could secure invites to glittering events that attracted the great and the good from all over the world. The problem with the righteous, though, is that they believe their own publicity.

While the two brothers at the centre of the scandal, Craig and Marc Kielburger, have dropped out of the spotlight by simply shutting up shop and laying low, for PM Trudeau, there is no such easy way out. He is left to squirm in public, although the proroguing of the Canadian Parliament has spared his blushes slightly.

But what about the rest of the woke brigade? Those who revelled in the adulation as guests and speakers at the WE events, raking in huge appearance fees and feeling oh so good about themselves and the support they offered to what appeared to be an organisation solely dedicated to making the world a better place?

After all, it was digging boreholes in India, securing water rights in Ecuador, battling child labour and all because – according to the official line – little Craig, age 12, “was flipping through the newspaper looking for the comics when he was stopped short by a story: Iqbal Masih, a 12-year-old former child slave in Pakistan, had been murdered because he spoke up for human rights.”

Also on rt.com Trudeau’s suspension of Parliament is in fact his desperate attempt to stem corruption probe and save political career

Since then, Craig has been showered with 15 honorary doctorates, received the Order of Canada, the Nelson Mandela Freedom Medal and the World Children’s Prize, and was recently voted by Canadians as one of the country’s top most trusted influencers in a Readers Digest poll. He’s published 12 books, all of a certain ilk, mind you, and rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous.

Many people who reach such dizzy heights decide that the rules that everyone is expected to abide by don’t really apply to them.

And what makes it even more perilous is that the new friends who have been found and maintained through generous financial considerations for speaking fees and travel expenses will never tell you that you’re in the wrong, because it’s in their own interests that you keep things afloat.

Trudeau and his wife, Sophie had expenses reimbursed for their appearances at WE events while his mother, Margaret and brother Alexandre have been at the trough for several years, earning upwards of US$380,000 between them for speaking engagements.

Also on rt.com 'More interested in pipelines than indigenous people': Trudeau faces activists' wrath over yet ANOTHER contentious energy project

And while this all smacks of cronyism, looks awful for a national leader, and most likely consigns WE to the dustbin of do-gooder charity history, Trudeau, embroiled in his third ethics scandal in just five years, still manages to stay clear in the polls. But the gap between Trudeau’s Liberal Party and that of his Conservative opponent, Erin O’Toole, is closing sufficiently to encourage the opposition.

Maybe after the blackface embarrassment, the holiday on the Aga Khan’s private island, elbowing a female colleague in the breast, being rude to an indigenous woman, and this new, ethically questionable relationship with a charity cum-lobby outfit, Trudeau is losing some of his appeal as the liberals’ poster boy.

The fact that he has survived numerous missteps exposes the gross hypocrisy of the woke, liberal luvvies of this world. It’s clear that financial scandals, overt racism, bullying and cronyism are all totally acceptable and the right-on brigade will tolerate pretty much any disgrace.

As long as it’s by one of their own.

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Form 5 brought a story to the stage on Wednesday during their drama workshop.

Through drama, they relived the much-loved story of The BFG, creating tableaux, becoming horrendous giants and imagining the dialogue between different characters, including the BFG, Sophie and the Queen. Who knew that our Form 5s could be so terrifying! To see pictures from our dress up Book Day, click here.