Conscious Uncouplings
“Now we see everything that’s going wrong With the world and those who lead it We just feel like we don’t have the means To rise above and beat it.” —
Waing on the World to Change, John Mayer
“Boswell: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.
Johnson: That, Sir, I nd, is what a very great many of your
countrymen cannot help.” —
James Boswell & Samuel Johnson
“The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.” —
Andy Rooney
“And when you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.” —
Waing on the World to Change, John Mayer
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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO
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A walk around the fringes of nance
By Grant Williams
9 June 2014
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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO
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Things That Make You Go
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It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate. We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate.We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways we are closer than we have ever been.
We are parents rst and foremost, to two
incredibly wonderful children, and we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected
at this difcult time.
We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.Love, Gwynneth & Chris
With that simple statement, issued on March 25th, one of the world’s best-known celebrity couples, the Oscar-winning actress Gwynneth Paltrow and Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, went their separate ways.No muss, no fuss. On the contrary, it was clean, simple, and effective (unless you factor in the amount of ridicule the two were subjected to in the popular press for their choice of words).Now, contrast that ending of a life lived together under the spotlight to the EU’s unholy alliance, clinging to a union which has long since deteriorated into frostiness and antipathy.If that union were a marriage, its members would claim to be staying together for the sake of the kids — only this time, their stubborn refusal to acknowledge that they probably never should have gotten together in the rst place is hurting those kids in ways that are clear to just about everybody except the “parents.”The latest Eurostat youth unemployment gures for the Eurozone show a drop in total youth unemployment for both the EU-28 AND the EA-18 — that’s the good news.The bad news is this:The EU-28 still has 22.8%, or 5,340,000, of its under 25s unemployed. In the EA-18 that percentage rises to 23.7%, or 3,426,000.What’s more, the nations where that number has risen over the last twelve months are perhaps not those you’d expect.
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