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Bana Alabed, the Aleppo girl with nearly half a million Twitter followers, evacuates the war-torn city
Bana was photographed leaving Aleppo on Dec. 19
By Abigail Elise
Bana al-Abed, a 7-year-old girl living in Aleppo, has more than 330,000 Twitter followers and has been called “our era’s Anne Frank.” The young child has been updating the world on the violence that’s descended upon the Syrian City since 2012 – an ongoing, turbulent struggle between Syrian rebels and the Syrian government. On Monday, Bana’s online followers breathed sighs of relief when the little girl was photographed alongside a crowd of people being evacuated from the ancient, war-torn metropolis. .@AlabedBana and many children arrived to #Aleppo countryside. @sams_usa @UOSSM and partners arr coordinating the response plan there. pic.twitter.com/k3iAohYbFY— Ahmad Tarakji, MD (@tarakjiahmad) December 19, 2016 “@AlabedBana and many children arrived to #Aleppo countryside. @sams_usa @UOSSM and partners arr (sic) coordinating the response plan there,” Ahmad Tarakji, president of the Syrian American Medical Society posted on Monday. Bana’s social media account was set up by her mother, Fatemah, an English teacher. Fatemah continues to run the Twitter handle, posting on behalf of the child and documenting the harsh realities of everyday life in Aleppo. The heartbreaking updates continue to pull in concerned followers, igniting anger and disbelief at the many atrocities taking place in the city. Bana’s account has drawn many comparisons to Anne Frank, the German-born Jewish teenager whose first-person retelling of the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands gained international recognition beyond her death. "The Diary of Anne Frank" has sold more than 30 million copies in 67 different languages. However, unlike Frank’s memoir, Bana is able to share her message with the world in real-time posts that are 140 characters or less. "Bana — a petite child with long dark hair, big brown eyes and a lilting voice — quickly became the newest symbol for the horrors unfolding in Syria," The Washington Post's Caitlin Gibson wrote in a profile earlier this month. We are sure the army is capturing us now. We will see each other another day dear world. Bye.- Fatemah #Aleppo— Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) December 4, 2016 “We are sure the army is capturing us now. We will see each other another day dear world. Bye,” one grim post read on Dec. 4. Two weeks later, the 7-year-old’s story reached a somewhat happier ending as she fled the city alongside thousands of other residents. Everyone teach peace from birth & everyone die in peace. - Fatemah #Aleppo— Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) December 17, 2016
Bana al-Abed, a 7-year-old girl living in Aleppo, has more than 330,000 Twitter followers and has been called “our era’s Anne Frank.” The young child has been updating the world on the violence that’s descended upon the Syrian City since 2012 – an ongoing, turbulent struggle between Syrian rebels and the Syrian government.
On Monday, Bana’s online followers breathed sighs of relief when the little girl was photographed alongside a crowd of people being evacuated from the ancient, war-torn metropolis.
Aleppo returned to government control, says Syrian military
Syrian rebels say Aleppo evacuations to resume
Around 3,000 left to be evacuated out of eastern Aleppo
.@AlabedBana and many children arrived to #Aleppo countryside. @sams_usa @UOSSM and partners arr coordinating the response plan there. pic.twitter.com/k3iAohYbFY
— Ahmad Tarakji, MD (@tarakjiahmad) December 19, 2016
“@AlabedBana and many children arrived to #Aleppo countryside. @sams_usa @UOSSM and partners arr (sic) coordinating the response plan there,” Ahmad Tarakji, president of the Syrian American Medical Society posted on Monday.
Bana’s social media account was set up by her mother, Fatemah, an English teacher. Fatemah continues to run the Twitter handle, posting on behalf of the child and documenting the harsh realities of everyday life in Aleppo. The heartbreaking updates continue to pull in concerned followers, igniting anger and disbelief at the many atrocities taking place in the city.
Bana’s account has drawn many comparisons to Anne Frank, the German-born Jewish teenager whose first-person retelling of the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands gained international recognition beyond her death. "The Diary of Anne Frank" has sold more than 30 million copies in 67 different languages. However, unlike Frank’s memoir, Bana is able to share her message with the world in real-time posts that are 140 characters or less.
"Bana — a petite child with long dark hair, big brown eyes and a lilting voice — quickly became the newest symbol for the horrors unfolding in Syria," The Washington Post's Caitlin Gibson wrote in a profile earlier this month.
We are sure the army is capturing us now. We will see each other another day dear world. Bye.- Fatemah #Aleppo
— Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) December 4, 2016
“We are sure the army is capturing us now. We will see each other another day dear world. Bye,” one grim post read on Dec. 4.
Two weeks later, the 7-year-old’s story reached a somewhat happier ending as she fled the city alongside thousands of other residents.
Everyone teach peace from birth & everyone die in peace. - Fatemah #Aleppo
— Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) December 17, 2016
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How Scrap Cars Are a Threat to The Environment
WeCashCars » Blog » Wrecking » How Scrap Cars Are a Threat to The Environment
Date: September 6, 2018 By Team WeCashCars
How can scrap cars hurt the environment?
Before dumping your vehicle here are some things you need to Know – How Scrap cars are a Threat to the Environment. It is very easy for us to dump our junk cars out in the open assuming. There is no good that we can make out of them.
Just in case you thought an immobile scrap vehicle is harmless.
Let us enlighten you about the distress it can cause to the environment. If you weren’t already aware of how hazardous damaged and scrap cars can be when they’re left abandoned.
The detrimental fluids:
When we dump a junk car somewhere, we hardly realize the adverse effects of it on the environment. Though a car which is not even operational doesn’t look enough like a threat, it can do blunders to its surroundings.These junk vehicles often tend to release some fluids which include coolants, residual gas tank fluids, brake fuel and engine oil.These dangerous fluids can easily find their way into the soil and sometimes to the water channels as well. To avoid contaminating water and soil around you.
make sure you find an alternative for getting rid of your car rather than dumping it out in the open.
Emission of chlorofluorocarbons:
What we do not know about very old and damaged vehicles is that they emit chlorofluorocarbons that are extremely bad for the environment. These terrible chemicals can do the worst to our environment by ruining the ozone layer.Depletion of the ozone layer is one of the major concerns that has hit our environment and to avoid making your contribution to the worsening of the surroundings, make sure you do not abandon your junk vehicles.
Greenhouse gases:
Scrap vehicles also are known to emit greenhouse gases which are very alarming for the earth’s atmosphere. Greenhouse gases trap heat, therefore, increasing the temperature of the environment.The high level of greenhouse gases in the environment can lead to global warming. Besides that, these junk cars also release carbon monoxide that can cause major harm to our environment.
Wildlife:
scrap cars released The fuels which have already been mentioned aren’t just behind contamination of soil and water but can also cause danger to the wildlife.
The soil that obtains contaminated By these fluids home to a lot of tiny creatures, other animals can either die or eat.
Protection of wildlife is as necessary as protecting the environment and hence we must make sure junk cars Didn’t dump carelessly.
Scrap cars are non-biodegradable:
The natural organisms Can Break Down Organic or biodegradable waste thus causing no harm to the environment. Unfortunately, scrap cars cannot count in organic waste.These junk cars cannot break down any means. The plastic and rubber in the car cannot be decomposed or dissolved and can release pollutants into the environment. Such non-biodegradable waste shouldn’t leave unattended.As we have discussed how scrap cars can hurt the environment. It will be more convincing for us. To look for alternatives by which we can get rid of our junk cars.
These cars sell to junkyards or car wreckers that recycle the vehicles with the help of latest technology.
This is the only way to prevent any harm to the environment caused by junk vehicles. It will also help people put resources into their uses. Instead of dumping your cars out in the open.
Call a junkyard today and bid a goodbye to your old car!
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Karri Valley Resort had me at hello. I fell in love with Pemberton’s magnificent scenery a few years ago while camping in the Warren National Park.
This time though we left the tent at home to go slightly more upmarket and stay at the newly upgraded RAC Karri Valley Resort. After four glorious days, I think we may well have had our best WA short break yet.
The RAC Karri Valley Resort is located 20 km from Pemberton township via a very scenic drive through spectacular forest and farmland.
We arrived in the pouring rain but that didn’t dampen our spirits in the least. The southern forests are magnificent any time of the year and the wintry feeling adds to the charm.
After a friendly welcome at the reception, we meandered along the narrow road to take up residence in our lakeside room.
We passed grassed fields with kangaroos and emus who were lazily grazing on the grass and couldn’t care less about the latest intrusion into their territory.
Lakeside Restaurant
Activities at Karri Valley Resort
Here’s the full suite of activities on offer:
The RAC Karri Valley Resort is nestled on the banks of Lake Beedelup among the Karri Forest. The resort consists of self-contained log cottages, the Lakeside Rooms on the banks of the lake as well as a restaurant and activity centre.
While we were there, the resort was almost full due to the school holidays. However, the secluded setting and space meant that it still felt very tranquil and peaceful.
Karri Valley has several different accommodation options to choose from including self-contained chalets as well as the lakeside room.
All have recently been upgraded and are tastefully decorated without losing the rustic charm of the setting.
The two and three bedroom log cabins are ideal for families or groups. These are all tucked into the forest and in relative seclusion.
Some chalets have lake views which comes at a slightly higher cost. All have a fully equipped kitchen as well as linen, towels and other essentials.
The other option is the Lakeside Room which are hotel-style studios. The best thing about the Lakeside rooms is the unobstructed views of the lake and forest. If you’re on the lower level you can literally cast your fishing line from the balcony.
We spent most of the time on the balcony admiring the views of the lake and forest which were glorious any time of the day. Junior’s favourite activity was feeding the Twenty-Eight birds who flew on and off the balcony kamikaze style at all hours of the day.
The Lakeside rooms are equipped with a very comfy queen-size bed, flat screen tv and DVD player (the activities centre has loads of DVDs to choose from). There’s also a small kitchenette with a bar fridge and a set of plates, cups and glasses for two people. There’s no cooking facilities or microwave but it’s sufficient to make small snacks and sandwiches.
The rooms are not luxurious. There’s no complimentary fluffy slippers, bathrobe or coffee machine. However, that’s only a minor critique and we certainly didn’t lack anything.
The Karri Valley Restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The dining room was cosy and warm thanks to the log-fire and is a beautiful spot to soak up the enchanting views of the lake and forest.
We indulged in the breakfast buffet and went back in the evening for a scrumptious dinner with very friendly and efficient service.
One of the things we loved best about Karri Valley Resort was the wide range of activities that were available. This is what sets Karri Valley Resort apart from other holidaying options and what makes it so perfect for a family getaway.
There’s a dedicated activities centre available that’s almost Club Med style. Anyone travelling with active kids will appreciate the choice of things to do with kids.
There’s a $20 fee for a family pass that’s valid for 24-hours. The pass gives you access to all activities ranging from archery to canoes and other non-powered watercraft including new Starboard standup paddleboards and rowing boats.
Activities include mini-golf, tennis courts, bikes and a crate stocked with soccer balls, cricket bats, footies, ball and racquet sports and fishing rods.
There’s also an indoor games room as well as organised kids activities including crafts and games.
With the Activity Pass you can access the full suite of activities and go for gold. We played archery, went off on a kayaking expedition to Beedelup waterfall, cruised around on the paddle boards, played tennis, mini-golf and visited the farm animals – that was all in just one day!
The activity centre also has loads of games and DVDs to choose from for a perfect night in. There’s no wifi throughout the resort which I’m starting to appreciate more and more.
18-hole Mini golf course
2 tennis courts and basketball court
Animal farm with daily feeding times and farm chores
Indoor games room with craft activities, games, TV and table tennis
Cricket bats, soccer balls, badminton
DVDs and board games
Organised kids activities including craft activities and games
For bookings and rates check the RAC Parks and Resort website. RAC members receive discounted rates.
For more photos, reviews and bookings see booking.com here.
Thanks RAC Karri Valley Resort, we loved our stay and will be back sometime soon.
Disclaimer: I was a full paying guest at the resort. All views and opinions are my own. This post contains affiliate links, read my full disclosure policy here.
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MAFS virgin scandalised by wife’s reveal
MAFS.
by James Weir
12th Feb 2019 4:58 AM | Updated: 4:58 AM
Married At First Sight's former adult virgin has narrowly dodged another visit to the ER after his wife dropped a revelation about her past that scandalised him to his pure core.
Lauren has been so good about Matthew being an adult virgin. Apologies, former adult virgin. But she's getting frustrated with his innocence. So she decides to let him in on her past. She's hoping it will enhance their intimacy and give her relationship the kick it desperately needs. His reaction ruins everything.
Every night on this show, a new revelation surfaces. The most shocking moment is not the adult virgin being hospitalised or the C-word being hurled around. It's not even Lizzie's pizza-toast.
The most shocking moment of the entire series is these thongs on a coathanger. The attempt at tidying-up and displaying something quintessentially bogan is kind of a metaphor for this entire show.
Jessika's still upset she was called fake the other night and it's just getting ridiculous. Lady, get real - you've had so much work done you're barely recognisable anymore!
Some people just go too far.
After being labelled a nasty cantaloupe at last night's commitment ceremony, Ines has had to overhaul her look and go incognito. She couldn't even walk down the street this morning without people yelling out from passing cars, "Hey ya big cantaloupe!"
JAMES WEIR RECAPS: Ines gets called a cantaloupe
She's darkened her hair and bought a leather motorcycle jacket. To really throw people off, she's even smiling. It's like a completely different person.
Who dis?
Ines and Bronson roll up to John Aiken's office for their mandatory therapy session and, in the space of 12 hours, Ines has really changed her attitude. She's just super positive and ready for change.
"My life sucks right now," she tells us.
Everyone's interpretation about what transpired last night on the couch is different. Avoiding a battle, Bronson takes responsibility for his part.
"I felt disgusting," he admits. "I could've used a lot better words to describe how I was feeling or how I thought she'd been treating me. I could've used a lot better vocabulary. And I'm sorry I used that language."
And now Bronson expects Ines to own up to her behaviour. She stares at the ground. Anything to say, Ines?
"I felt highly attacked," she sniffs.
Yes, but, is there anything you want to apologise for?
"No," she shrugs after a long pause.
So there wasn't anything you did? Anything you regret?
She stares blankly.
"I don't regret anything," she eventually whispers.
Bronson has to use all his willpower to not call her a cantaloupe again.
‘Put the cantaloupe down. Put the cantaloupe down.’
Ines says what she needs to in order to get John Aiken off her back. She eventually just mumbles some crap about being committed to Bronson and the experiment and then she makes a break for it.
But it's all a lie. She's not committed to Bronson. There are bigger plans in the works.
"I have been thinking about another husband and if he is DTF," she tells us while making a cup of tea.
She lays down on the couch and embarks on some old fashioned online thirsting. Successfully locating Sam's Instagram, she scrolls through digital reams of shirtless selfies.
"He is so hot. It's crazy. Like, he is stunning," she smiles to us while looking at Sam's slicked-up body.
And then she does it. She slides right into his DMs.
"Hello," she types, adding that emoji of the chicken hatching out of the egg. It's a bizarrely cute and innocent emoji for Ines to use. But it only enhances her unhinged ways.
In an apartment down the hall, Sam's phone vibrates. He looks at the message. And then he looks up at Lizzie.
Cute top.
"She wants to meet up in the sauna," Sam tells us before reading out one of the messages. "'Come over bubba'. I'm her bubba, apparently."
Ew. We'd rather touch Lizzie's carpet shirt.
Upstairs, Lauren and Matthew are getting just as adventurous.
"What's your favourite colour?" Matt sheepishly asks.
He ventures further. "What's your favourite meal?"
‘Sex. Sex is my favourite colour.’
Lauren is getting frustrated. She has been so patient with Matthew. His innocence was endearing for a week. But now she really just wants some action.
When Matthew asks his next innocent question, Lauren decides to drop a bombshell that will shake him to his pure core.
"What's something about you no one else would know?" he giggles, thinking his wife will reveal what her favourite Disney movie is.
Lauren doesn't even think about her answer.
"I used to be a lesbian," she says.
Wonder what Rhonda will think.
"You don't know the half of me yet," she tells her husband.
Matthew's stunned. He misses the simple days - where sex was for old people and talking about your favourite colour was more than enough. The days where voraciously reading next to each other felt so good.
"I don't know what to ask now. I really don't," he stutters to us. "I find asking questions really awkward. So for me the obvious solution was say nothing."
Lauren's confession hangs in the air and Matthew doesn't acknowledge it. Mainly because he doesn't know how. It infuriates her. She was so supportive when he admitted he was a virgin and she has been so understanding with his intimacy issues. And now he's not giving her anything.
"It shocked Matt. He went silent and won't talk. He just shuts down," she tells us. "I'm not impressed to be honest. That stuff should just flow. It should just come naturally. He should have a thousand things to ask me."
Get it gurl.
Lizzie has been feeling guilty about calling out Ines at last night's commitment ceremony. It's been rolling around in her head and she wants to make good - even though Ines has not given Lizzie a second thought and would actually be more touched if Lizzie made an effort to stay far away from her.
We see Lizzie wondering the hallway with yet another family block of chocolate.
Pizza toast will probably also happen.
Elizabeth bursts into Ines's apartment and plonks down on the couch, handing over the really big block of Dairy Milk as a peace offering.
Ines is just delighted to have Lizzie in her personal space.
"I can't take Elizabeth seriously because she looks like The Joker and Big Bird had a baby," she spits to us.
Lizzie is so scattered and intense that it hinders her ability to read social situations.
"I'm so sorry," she says, staring into Ines' eyes.
"It's OK," Ines snaps.
"No. It's not. I'm sorry."
"Please leave."
"Nope. I'm the one who should be sorry."
In a bid to get Lizzie out of her apartment, Ines tells her there's a Napoleon Perdis down the road that's having a closing down sale. Lizzie's out of there in a flash.
"I'll eat the chocolate, while I think about her husband," Ines grins to us, clutching the chocolate to her chest.
It's a purely psychotic moment. And I can't wait to recreate it and do an impersonation every time I eat a family block of Cadbury.
For more observations about thong coathangers and Cadbury family blocks, follow me on Twitter and Facebook: @hellojamesweir
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Steuben's and Vesta partners break ground on Ace, their ping pong project
Laura Shunk
Laura Shunk | February 23, 2012 | 1:16pm
In the almost-six months since Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben's restaurateur Josh Wolkon and his cohorts -- including wife Jen, Matt Selby, Brandon and Emily Biederman and Jeff Bustos -- took over the old Storz Garage space next to Steuben's, they've been busily drawing up plans to convert the address into a ping pong hall, bar and restaurant (plus extra space for Steuben's).
And the team hit a major milestone this week: They've officially broken ground.
"It's moving," says Wolkon, who notes that construction teams are spending the next two weeks making major structural updates that will ultimately determine the timeline of the build-out. "If everything goes well, the rest of the timeline will go smoothly. If not, well..."
Once the new foundation is laid and steel beams installed, they'll build a bar, restaurant space and a ping pong hall -- as well as a private ping pong room in a back corner. Design firm Xan Creative -- which has worked with Snooze, Marco's Coal-Fired Pizzeria and the new D Bar in San Diego -- is in charge of filling out the details of the space, though the team isn't ready to divulge exactly what the spot will look like. Wolkon does note that Melissa Friday, who owns Xan, did all of the steel work at Vesta. "It came full circle," he says.
With ground-breaking came another decision: a name for the new spot. It will be Ace.
Choosing that name took some time -- "I don't think anyone has as many problems as I do with naming a place," Wolkon jokes -- but ultimately, this one rose to the top. "There's a subtle reference to ping pong," he says. "And there are lots of obvious references of what the name means. But above all, we just like it. It's cool, short and easy to say."
Wolkon had already told us that Ace's culinary focus will encompass Asian fare -- the team has been traveling the country researching bao, dumplings and Korean fried chicken -- and that Ryan and Randy Layman will build a bar program to compliment the food.
But right now, he's still keeping one thing secret: an opening date. Given the uncertain construction schedule, Wolkon is hesitant to offer a hard target, but he says he's shooting to open Ace in the late summer or early fall.
Laura Shunk was Westword's restaurant critic from 2010 to 2012; she's also been food editor at the Village Voice and a dining columnist in Beijing. Her toughest assignment had her drinking ten martinis and eating ten Caesar salads over the course of 48 hours. She still drinks martinis, but remains lukewarm on Caesar salads.
Twitter: @laurashunk
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Drug abuse on the rise in Southside, officials say
by: Kristen Eskow
Posted: Sep 22, 2017 / 04:25 AM EDT / Updated: Sep 22, 2017 / 03:35 PM EDT
Police in Southside say they’ve seen a significant increase in the number of drug offenses in their area and are looking at ways to combat the problem.
The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Virginia has held panel discussions on drugs throughout Virginia, but Thursday night, officials held this kind of meeting for the first time in Martinsville.
While law enforcement plays a role in the solution, according to police, it’s also about educating the public on treatment and prevention.
“I wish I could have stayed in school back then and actually became that pro-football player that I always thought I was going to be,” said Melvin Johnson, who serves as a re-entry coordinator for Solutions That Empower People, or STEP.
Johnson is all too familiar with the consequences of addiction.
“I was an addict going in and out of prison,” he explained.
Johnson said he struggled with cocaine use for 20 years.
“It slowed me down some, so it took me a lot longer to get to the places that I wanted to go and be in my life, but I’m just happy that I’m still here,” he said.
But not all recovering addicts are still here. And officials are trying to prevent the worst.
Narcotics officers in Martinsville have been handling more and more cases just in the past year, according to police.
“This problem is outgrowing everybody,” said Karl Colder, special agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA. “It’s in small communities, it’s in large communities, it’s in places that we’ve never had to go in before.”
Colder oversees Virginia and several other states for the DEA. A lack of awareness about the drug problem is what’s causing it to spread, he explained.
“Drug dealers treat areas like Martinsville as virgin soil,” Colder said. “Small communities where they can entrench themselves and import and distribute.”
Officials said they hope bringing that awareness to Martinsville and Henry County can help turn things around.
“If there’s a plan in place, then we can tell someone who’s addicted to heroin, for example, and wants to get off of heroin who to call,” said Rick Mountcastle, acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia.
As for Melvin Johnson, he said he has been clean for more than a decade and is finishing up a degree in social work. He’s paying it forward through his work with STEP, helping prisoners re-enter society. He said that includes some who have battled addiction.
“Change is right here in front of us, but we just have to choose it,” Johnson said.
Mountcastle said he has also met with local leaders in law enforcement, schools and religious groups to discuss the issue. They are working on ways to implement more local programs focusing on treatment and prevention, he added.
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Propane 000074-98-6 200-827-9 14
H220, H280 P102, P210, P243, P377, P381, P410+P403 No
Butane 000106-97-8 203-448-7 13
Toluene 000108-88-3 203-625-9 28
H225, H361, H304, H373, H315, H336 ------- No
Acetone 000067-64-1 200-662-2 26
H225, H319, H336, EUH066 P210, P233, P240, P241, P242, P243, P261, P264, P271, P280, P304+P340, P305+P351+P328, P312, P337+P313, P403+P233, P405, P501 No
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DANGER! Extremely Flammable-Vapors may cause flash fires! Contents under pressure. Vapor harmful. Irritates eyes, skin and respiratory tract. Do not spray near sparks, heat or open flames. Vapors will accumulate readily and may ignite explosively. Keep area ventilated during use and until all vapors are gone. DO NOT SMOKE. Extinguish all flames, pilot lights and heaters. - Turn off stoves, electric tools and appliances, and any other sources of ignition. CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE. Avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight or heat from radiators, stoves, hot water and other heat sources that may cause bursting. Do not puncture, incinerate, burn or store above 120 degrees F. Do not discard empty can in home garbage compactor. CONTAINS: KEYTONES AND TOLUENE. VAPOR HARMFUL. Use with adequate ventilation. Avoid continuous breathing of vapor and spray mist. To avoid breathing vapors and spray mist, open windows or doors or use other means to ensure fresh air entry during application and drying. If you experience eye watering, headaches or dizziness, increase fresh air or wear respiratory protection (NIOSH approved) or leave the area. Avoid contact with eyes and skin. Wash hands after using. DO NOT TAKE INTERNALLY. KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN.
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From MSDS ROUTES OF EXPOSURE: INHALATION of vapor or spray mist. EYE or SKIN contact with the product, vapor or spray mist. EFFECTS OF OVEREXPOSURE EYES: Irritation. SKIN: Prolonged or repeated exposure may cause irritation. INHALATION: Irritation of the upper respiratory system. May cause nervous system depression. Extreme overexposure may result in unconsciousness and possibly death. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF OVEREXPOSURE Headache, dizziness, nausea, and loss of coordination are indications of excessive exposure to vapors or spray mists. Redness and itching or burning sensation may indicate eye or excessive skin exposure. MEDICAL CONDITIONS AGGRAVATED BY EXPOSURE None generally recognized.
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The Circus of Horrors - 25 Years of Shock 'n' Roll
Palace Theatre, Mansfield
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Whether you’re a rock fan or theatre goer The Circus of Horrors has something for everyone.
The new Circus of Horrors show will be an immersive celebration of it's astounding 25 years. It will include an amazing amalgamation of acts driven by a rock ‘n’ roll sound scape. This is a show that will have you sat on the edge of your seat when you’re not falling off it with laughter.
The almighty cast that stormed into the finals of Britain's Got Talent is now a West End & worldwide hit and will take you on a rock ‘n' rollercoaster ride of unbelievable, bizarre & beautiful acts.
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Charges dropped for 3 supervisors in Ohio police shooting
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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — A prosecutor has dropped misdemeanor charges against three of the five police supervisors accused of dereliction of duty for failing to control a high-speed chase that ended with two unarmed black people being killed in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire.
Cleveland.com reports East Cleveland Law Director Willa Hemmons announced the dismissals Wednesday but did not provide an explanation. She says she's preparing to try the other two supervisors' cases.
Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams were killed in East Cleveland in November 2012 after a miles-long (kilometers-long) chase. Cleveland subsequently paid their families a total of $3 million to settle a lawsuit.
The supervisors were originally indicted in Cleveland. The case was moved to East Cleveland after the acquittal of a Cleveland police officer who fired 49 shots that night.
Information from: cleveland.com, http://www.cleveland.com
Created: January 18, 2019 01:44 PM
(Copyright 2019 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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from the August 2004 issue
The Devil in the Decanter
Fiction by Adolfo Albertazzi
Translated from Italian by Traci Andrighetti
In the noble city of Burgfarrubach, a small, malicious spirit had been playing a curious prank for quite some time. Whenever a priest was called in to expel him from the house he was turning topsy-turvy, he would dupe the exorcist by fleeing the premises before his exorcism was complete. And no sooner was he in a new location when another priest would arrive with benedictions, maledictions, and conjurations, then—poof!—he played the same trick.
So it was that no one had ever been able to send him back to Hell once and for all.
Destiny is so powerful, though, that it prevails even in bizarre cases of deviltry; and if it failed to punish him as he deserved, at least it put a stop to the antics of the erratic little imp of Burgfarrubach.
Where? How?
In this same city there lived an attorney who was very clever at cheating justice and his fellow man. One day he was in his office pondering a complicated issue and failing to find the usual self-serving solution. He was cursing and agonizing when, lo and behold, through the open door there appeared a bright little flame. It was a sulphurous little flame, whirling in midair, and headed toward him like a shot. In an instant, thanks to his instinct for self-defense, he grabbed the first thing that came to hand on his desk, which was the decanter of water he poured for his clients to prolong their chatter. As chance would have it, the lifting of the carafe coincided at a certain point with the oblique arrival of the little ball of fire; and the latter slipped inside the former. It sizzled, it jolted: in vain. It stayed put, because the attorney, who was quicker than the devil, affixed the stopper on the decanter, gave it another turn, and sealed it very tightly. Then, fearlessly, he stood and watched. And he laughed.
A fine coup! A marvelous capture! A portentous conquest! Not, indeed, that the crafty pettifogger regarded the little flame simply as a prodigy that, though palpitating and subsiding alternately as if it had the shivers, did not expire in the water but, on the contrary, became brighter. Rather, he rejoiced because, realizing that it was a spirit, he thought he had at his mercy a force that would gain him inestimable power. And he laughed. He contemplated the decanter and the light that sparkled from the water through the glass, and he felt his mind clear as never before; he quickly discerned a sure and easy way to resolve the tangled affair that had been causing him so much worry.
From that day forward he never lost another case. He vanquished all the judges and subdued all the attorneys of Burgfarrubach. And naturally, he never removed the instrument of his good fortune from the decanter; he kept busy converting the cavils, deceptions, and cabals of the law into fine golden coins.
Nor should one think that the little devil, although longing for the day of his liberation, was ill at ease inside the cool of the carafe, since it provided him endless opportunities to see and hear some beauties.
But you can never trust attorneys. The attorney from Burgfarrubach grew old. And one day he ran into the prior of some friars whose monastery was on a mountain far from the city. Having been greeted by the monk with the smile of one whose conscience is at peace, he responded with a grimace and a "Go to Hell!"
No sooner had he arrived home, however, than the insolent attorney began thinking about the encounter; he was upset and felt his blood run cold. To console himself he took a little sack full of coins from a box. Alas! Looking at them he reflected that man could do many wonderful things with gold, except for one: defeat death. Insofar as he was afraid of death, the attorney had no doubt that he, not the friar, would go kicking into the clutches of the Sovereign Devil of all Devils. And with a great fever upon him, he went to bed.
He suffered, worse than if he had been in Hell, until he resolved to summon that monk to his deathbed for confession.
It would be pointless to go into the length and scrupulousness of this confession; suffice it to say that at the last moment the sinner said, "Reverend Father, in salvation of my soul I leave the fruit of all my earnings, licit and illicit, to your monastery. On one condition . . ."
"What condition is that?" the friar asked.
"That you take charge of the decanter, there, on the desk. Inside it is . . ."
"What?" the friar demanded.
"The most evil spirit ever to infest Burgfarrubach."
The good prior remembered the little demon who several years before had kept more than a few exorcists busy; and he supposed it was the same one spraying fire and fuming inside the carafe, but this did not concern him unduly. In his studies and meditations on the life of Saint Hilarius the thaumaturge, he had learned a conjuration that not even the Archdevil—not even Lucifer—could have withstood. A prudent man, nevertheless, he resolved to consult his monks, whom he knew to be wise, having confessed them all himself. Where should they keep the legacy? And the decanter? Did this bequest not pose a danger to the monastery's good name?
No. All were of the opinion that the legacy should be accepted; for they had great need of it. As for the carafe, they deferred to the prior's abiding judgment and divine mercy.
Thus, upon the death of the attorney, the little sacks of coins were transferred to the location of those honest servants of God; and the decanter, to the prior's little cell. Smiling a bit at the fear the more ingenuous brethren had experienced merely upon seeing the decanter, he thought: "We haven't managed to send this evil spirit back to Hell because it has never been possible to detain him until the end of the conjurations. But now he's here inside, good and tight; and to his annoyance he'll have to hear what Saint Hilarius the thaumaturge has taught me from beginning to end. Then, when I so please, I'll release him to Lucifer's house either by removing the stopper or throwing the decanter to the ground." And almost as a test he began to recite the exorcism that he believed irresistible.
But when he came to, "Out, damn spirit, from this body! in peace—," he was forced to interrupt himself. The carafe, resting on the bench, seemed to light up with joy; and there arose from it a laughter so jocund, so keen, that the good prior's arms fell to his sides. He was terrified. The thought had not occurred to him, poor little man, that Saint Hilarius's exorcism was directed at the diabolical invasions of the Christian body—"Leave in peace this Christian soul"—not those of a decanter of clear water. And the poor little man suspected—no, understood—that he could not trust the remedy he had believed infallible.
Should he, then, keep the decanter in his cell?
Mercy! What a peril! What a horror! He never had a peaceful night again: flames before his eyes; a strange cackling in his ears; and, what was worse, temptation after temptation.
He urgently needed to free himself of the onerous bequest. But how? Should he break the decanter inside the monastery? What if the spirit returned to his old habits and hid here or there, infesting this or that cell, with no completed, effective conjuration sufficient to drive him out? Should he break the decanter outside? The sacred stories referred to terrible examples of revenge the dark spirits would exact if they fled to defenseless spaces: ignitions of the air paralyzed holy men or struck them dead; sudden whirlwinds abducted innocent creatures who were never seen again; and frenzies due to instantaneous horror caused respectable priests to fall ill for the rest of their lives.
Vexed by such doubts, the prior sighed, wept, and struggled day and night against the temptations. He prayed, and he invoked divine assistance.
Finally, to his comfort, he reread in the Holy Scriptures that it was sometimes useful to resort to cunning even with great devils. Now, in order to send the little imp—small, yes, but insolent and frightening—back to Hell, he would have to make him heed an entire conjuration. If the most effective conjuration was that of Saint Hilarius, and if Saint Hilarius's conjurations had a certain effectiveness in personal invasions, the cunning and the victory lay in finding a person the spirit would enter, and would take delight in entering and inhabiting, upon his escape from the decanter. But if he wanted to avoid any scandal around the attorney's bequest, he could not go tracking down a dark and indecent conscience that would fully satisfy the spirit outside the monastery.
In a friar, then? Imprison him in a sinful friar? Oh, of course! The devil would be happy to pounce upon a friar, to wallow there inside! And without a doubt he would insist on staying in such an unusual, coveted dwelling (a friar!) even during the exorcism. Then . . . battle won! To Hell, once and for all! No more tribulations about the bequest!
Could this be a wicked thought? A suggestion from the Great Demon himself? Because, mind you, one of those young friars, so wise and pious, would have to fall into sin, and the prior would have to become aware of it at precisely the right moment and confess him. Then, while confessing the young friar, he could not absolve him before completing the exorcism and either opening or breaking the decanter. It would take an irresistible temptation for one of his dear monks!
Well then, did not the lives of the Fathers attest, perhaps, that even temptations could be useful? Useful for testing virtue? Was it not permissible, perchance rightful, to test the virtues of the monastery from time to time? And owing to human frailty, was it not possible, quite likely even, that a wise and pious young friar might err? Yes, it would require great prudence for the monastery's good name to remain intact. Thus, the prior spoke to the brethren with great prudence. He said the road to Heaven would be an easy one if the enticements of the world did not obstruct it; and there would be no victory without combat. The brethren should therefore go into the world for a time. In layman's dress and with the attorney's coins, they—unknown but strong—would brave secular life. If one fell in the struggle, the victorious would help lift him up again.
Good God! What stumbles! What somersaults! When the young friars had returned from the cities and he had confessed them all, the prior did not know which to choose as a replacement for the execrated decanter. All had fallen, and how! Oh, the human misery! Oh, the power of the Demon! All had stumbled, all of them! And each would respond to his reprimands, "The victorious brethren will help lift me up again."
The prior was dismayed, but he hoped the sacrifice of one friar would hasten the cure of his ailing brethren and, at the same time, the anxiously desired liberation. In a panic at the awaited event and in a frenzy to free himself from the prolonged distress, he ran to get the decanter. After lining up the brethren before him, the prior (the devil take him!) dropped it . . .
Then came a crash as of the simultaneous shattering of one hundred decanters, a burst of flame, an atrocious scream amid the smoke, the stench of sulphur, and a wail that changed into mad laughter . . . Horrible! As the smoke began to dissipate, they saw—aghast, all the friars saw—their prior convulsing on the ground, his eyes out of their sockets, foaming at the mouth . . . possessed. Good God! The prior possessed!
Terrified by this sound punishment, and remorseful in their hearts and souls, some assisted the wretched man while others threw themselves to their knees to implore mercy from Heaven. They wept. Still, the horrendous torment did not cease! The older friars set a good example by confessing their guilt loudly, performing acts of contrition, and rebuking one another in turn, to be worthy of the absolution they imparted to one another in turn. Once absolved, they would attempt the test of the exorcisms.
They attempted. There was one who, having placed his hands on the head of the possessed, invoked the assistance of the saints, angels, archangels, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, and confessors; and another who hung a papal bull from his neck with the names of the Omnipotent—Elohim, Sother, Emmanuel, Sabaoth, Agia, Tetragrammaton, Otheos, Athanatos, Jehovah, Saday, Adonay, Homusion—and with great signs of the cross threatened the demon and cried, "Leave, foul one! Leave, viper and basilisk! Scorpion and iniquitous spirit, get out! Out!"
But no. The spirit of infamy would not depart. At times, the possessed would laugh sarcastically, speak in a strange language, tremble while spitting and gnashing his teeth, or curse like a Saracen.
And there was one who covered his head with a stole and sang the psalm Vicit Leo de Tribu Juda; and another who anointed him with the wax from the Paschal candle and recited antiphons and oremuses.
In vain! All in vain!
There was yet another who read a Gospel passage about Jesus driving away the demons; and another who sprinkled the possessed—watered him, really, and thoroughly—with holy water.
In vain. The union had created strength. The poor young friars pondered how to work together, but the invading spirit seemed more powerful than the famed Simon the Sorcerer.
They tried all sorts of things. That night they flagellated themselves on their bare backs, and the next day they fasted—always in prayer. The following day they went to the city and throughout the countryside bestowing the attorney's money in charitable acts . . .
In vain. Discipline, abstinence, fasting, orations, and alms were of no avail; nothing worked! What a devil! What an extraordinary demonic power!
The prior had failed to anticipate all that might happen. The little spirit, endowed with an immense energy, a resistance that even the greatest demon would have envied, remained obstinate and tenacious in the place he had coveted most: the body of him, the greatest offender, who had sent the others into sin. Nor did the brethren know any longer to which saint they should devote themselves. Some, however, sustained by hope and faith, awaited a miracle from one day to the next: the intervention of a messenger from God.
One morning, after perhaps a month of such anguish, the lay brother who was spading the vegetable garden sighted a venerable-looking man astride a venerable-looking mule coming From Above. Having arrived as he had, and having tied the mule by the ankle as he had, the solemn pilgrim advanced toward the porter's lodge.
"I am," he said, "Doctor Papenwasser, professor at the University of Koenisberg, and I have come here to lecture you brethren on the 'purgative of the faculty of abstraction.'" Purgative! The gardener and the porter began to shout, "The messenger from God! The messenger from God has arrived!"
They had noticed. All the monks came forward to greet him with reverence and benedictions. They—the more educated ones—did not even lose faith upon learning who he was; in fact, they were more convinced than ever that he had been sent from Heaven. He was a doctor, a University Doctor, and a professor at the University of Koenisberg! Were they not right, then, to consider him capable of all knowledge?
Indeed, as they had humbly and timidly informed him of their disgrace, he pontificated, "I understand. I am learned on the matter." And with his mind's eye, he quickly ran through the profound inventory of his brain. He looked at the demonography section, and having found therein the subject for an erudite lesson, added, "I am with you. Provided that we proceed methodically."
The monks believed that to proceed methodically he would first have to be led to where they had restrained, in a little bed, the miserable possessed prior.
Well! That cruel spectacle, which would have softened a stone, did not move the erudite professor in the least. It was as if he did not hear the shrieks, did not see the convulsed contortions, the atrabilious outbursts, and the obscene sneers.
Meanwhile, the professor, severe and tacit, prepared the subject of his lesson: "Demons and spirits in Egypt, Assyria, Chaldea, Persia; in Phrygia, in Colchis; in Thrace—with the Greeks and Romans . . ." (Oh, what a wonderful lesson!) "Operative magic and divinatory magic and divinatory magic—rites of expiation—magical formulae, herbs, and stones . . ." (Oh, what a profound lesson!) "Necromancy, lampadomancy, dactylomancy, lecanomancy . . . " (Oh, what a colossal lesson!) "Ragolomancy, pallomancy, petchimancy, parthenomancy, pegomancy . . ."
Then, having made all of the friars sit around him, the professor began, "Herodotus of Halicarnassus, erroneously called the father of history by the Latin peoples, states that the ancient Egyptians . . ."
The friars were astonished. They did not understand what end such a discourse could have. They had felt that the liberation of the unhappy man was of the utmost importance. They were unaware, the poor friars, that the intention of the erudite is to appear erudite; nor could they have imagined the effectiveness of erudition when it transcends the contingencies of reality.
The professor from Koenisberg had spoken for barely half an hour, and already the monks, sitting on their stools, had bowed their heads on their chests and, with eyes closed, were resting in delicious oblivion of their physical bodies and woes.
Even the possessed prior was yawning. At first they were wide, open-mouthed and plaintive yawns, while his dazed eyes searched for their lost consciousness. Then, little by little, a languor, a beneficial doze set in.
All of a sudden, two-thirds of the way into the lesson, the prior let out a resounding sigh, and afterward, loudly, a cry of joy.
Awakened, the young friars jumped to their feet; they looked; they saw. A miracle! A miracle from the messenger from God! "Laus Deo! Hosannah!" They ran to free the redeemed. And "Laus Deo! Laus Deo!" All kneeled and raised their arms and voices in rendering of thanks to the Lord. Saved! The prior was saved! Te Deum!
But after the Te Deum! was sung, an event occurred that was perhaps more strange than the very liberation which had relieved the oppressed souls. The erudite professor, faithful to his method—according to which he never abandoned a subject without, as he was accustomed to saying, having dissected or exhausted it—resumed his speech from the point at which it had been interrupted. As if nothing had happened! As if he did not care one whit about the bliss that was reviving the entire monastery and the monks' unanimous exultation, which was not unlike a shared resurrection!
Then, indignant, they no longer saw the scholar from Koenisberg as a savior angel, but as the unintentional, unwitting, and unworthy instrument of Providence. So great was the enthusiasm he put into resuming his irritating speech that they questioned whether the malicious spirit had relocated from the prior into him. Thus, to avoid suffering further diabolical experiences, they grabbed their stools and moved toward him shouting, "Away! Out of here! Out of the possessed man! To Hell!"
Oh, how naïve the friars were, despite their recent tumbles while walking through the world!
The devil who had resisted so many years inside a decanter, in such a contrary element, and who had withstood so many conjurations and religious assaults and ritual invectives, had not been able, no, to endure the entire lesson of an erudite German. One wonders whether he might have felt at home inside the professor's body! But no, he preferred . . .
"Away, scorpion! Away, basilisk!"
He preferred, he had preferred . . .
"Away, dragon! To Hell!" the friars shouted.
And for the first time since he had been a professor in Koenisberg, Doctor Papenwasser was forced to break with his method.
He trotted off in the direction of his mule.
But the mule was no longer there. And the rope he had used to tie its ankle was still smoking.
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“Will nothing of my earthly fame endure?”
Adolfo Albertazzi
Adolfo Albertazzi was born in Bologna in 1865. Before his death in 1924, he had produced thirty-three volumes of fiction, literary criticism, and history. In addition to critical studies on Tasso and Foscolo, he published an extensive history of the Italian novel entitled Il romanzo [The Novel (1903)]. Influenced by the Neoclassicism of his mentor and friend Carducci as well as the psychological Realism of Maupassant, Albertazzi wrote several novels, of which the most famous is L'Ave [The Ave (1896, 1917)]. He is best known, however, for his often humorous collections of short stories.
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Traci Andrighetti holds both a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, where she is a lecturer in Italian. In 2001, she was awarded a fellowship from the American Literary Translators Association for Delictum, her translation from the Italian of Dacia Maraini's one-act play Delitto. That same year her translations of the poetry of Christina Rossetti appeared in the Penguin Classic Christina Rossetti: The Complete Poems. In the fall of 2003, she published an excerpt of Ada Gobetti's Diary of a Partisan in Thresholds: An Anthology of World Literature from the Heart of Texas, which was selected as a finalist for the 2003 Translation Award of the Texas Institute of Letters. She is translating a book of Dacia Maraini's theater for publication by Guernica Editions in 2005.
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The Wincott Foundation was set up in 1969 in honour of Harold Wincott, the most distinguished economic journalist of his day in the UK. The current chairman is Sir Richard Lambert, chairman of the trustees of The British Museum and former editor of the Financial Times. Sir Richard is supported by a group of trustees who have backgrounds in business, journalism and academia.
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50th Anniversary of The Wincott Foundation
Commemorative Debate - "Should liberal capitalism survive?
Opening statement by Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece
TOWARDS A POST-CAPITALIST LIBERAL, TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED SOCIAL ECONOMY
It is only fitting that any re-assessment of capitalism ought to begin with its great students. And since Martin Wolf chose to oblige this erratic Marxist by kicking off with a quotation from The Communist Manifesto, I feel compelled to return the favour with a quotation from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - one which, to boot, should have gladdened Harold Wincott's heart.
Referring to the merchant, Smith wrote: "By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. The rich divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants." (Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776)
So, it was Adam Smith, not Milton Friedman, who first advocated the paradoxical hypothesis that the common good is best served when no one is trying to serve it and everyone, instead, seeks to maximise their private gains. As long as firms were small and family owned, Smith had good cause to believe that shared prosperity might result from unfettered private greed.1
Karl Marx, who studied Smith meticulously, also celebrated capitalism for its capacity to unleash immense productive powers while, also, tearing down superstitions and poisonous nationalisms. But he also noted the seeds of crisis and discontent within capitalism. Taking Smith's own analysis further, so that it accounts not only for the price of things but also for the price of labour, Marx concluded that: "Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other." A society split between non-working shareholders and non-owner wage-workers, with physical and fictitious capital accumulation its main driver, is a society that bifurcates, its middle class - the dinosaur in the room - set for extinction.
When I received the invitation to today's debate, the Wincott Foundation's chosen question "Should liberal capitalism be saved?" brought to mind something a Marxist friend once said: "A sure sign that capitalism is in deep trouble is when the powers-that-be begin to utter its name again, ending their insistence to speak only of the market system, the price mechanism, the mixed market economy etc." If he was right, and I believe he was, capitalism today seems to be in the deepest of trouble!
The strongest evidence comes in the form of the musings of the ultra-rich. They seem increasingly stressed, guilt-ridden even, as they watch the majority around the globe descend into a crushing precariousness - the price of ending abject poverty in the developing countries. As Marx foretold, a supremely powerful minority is proving 'unfit to rule' over polarised societies, unable to guarantee non-asset owners a reliable existence. Barricaded in gated communities, the smarter amongst the uber-rich recognise in democracy, and in a redistributive state, the best possible insurance policy. They call for higher taxes on themselves. They even advocate a new Stakeholder Capitalism. Alas, at the same time, they fear that, as a class, it is in their nature to skimp on the insurance premium.
When asked by journalists who or what is the greatest threat to capitalism today, I defy their expectations by answering: Capital! Take the chasm between the vision of Smith and the corporate practices supported by economists like Friedman. It is best explained, in my view, by Marx's analysis of capital accumulation - in particular the remarkable energy unleashed by the decoupling of the market value of labour power from the market value labour instils into commodities; the ever-expanding gulf between those who produce without owning and those who own without working in the firm they own.
This disconnect has always been around. But, while in Adam Smith's time firms were small and power dispersed, it seemed not to matter much. Competition between privateers produced greater quantities of better commodities at lower prices - exactly what society needed was provided, as Smith had said, by those who did not "trade for the public good". However then came electromagnetism and the 2nd Industrial Revolution. Since the late 1890s, the rise of networked mega-corporations, of the Edisons and the Fords, created big business cartels investing heavily into how to usurp states and replace markets.
In their wake, megabanks were fashioned to finance the megafirms and, in the process, filled the world with fictitious money resting upon mountain ranges of impossible debt. Together, captains of industry and masters of finance accumulated war chests of billions with which to pad campaigns, capture regulators, ration quantities, destroy competitors and, in this manner, control prices. The first time the inevitable crisis hit that audacious superstructure was, of course, in 1929.
John Kenneth Galbraith was once asked how he went about, as FDR's 'Price Czar', fixing countless prices during the War Economy. He answered: "It was pretty easy, considering that they were already fixed!" Through interminable mergers and acquisitions, corporations had replaced markets by a global Technostructure (Galbraith's term) oozing with the power to shape the future for themselves and in their image.
For too long we lived under the illusion of world capitalism as a small-town, front-porch community rather than the weaponised Soviet-like (or maybe Google-like) planning system that it is. The larger the Technostructure grew the larger the financial sector necessary to conjure up the fictitious capital needed to fund its largesse. Bretton Woods was a remarkable attempt to reclaim political power on behalf of our societies and to stabilise the Technostructure.
When Bretton Woods died, officially on 15th August 1971, and financialisation became a necessity for financing the increasing deficits of the American Hegemon keeping global capitalism quasi-balanced (the Global Minotaur, as I called it), capitalism's global imbalances were turbocharged. Before we knew it, General Motors turned into a huge hedge fund that also produced some cars on the side while, across the West, the tug-of-war between profits and wages was supplemented by the workers' struggle for credit.
By the middle of the noughties, out of the one hundred wealthiest entities on Earth sixty-five were financialised corporations, not states. How could anyone expect them to operate in synch with society's values and priorities - whatever those might be. Even the prospect of environmental catastrophe cannot convert such a highly concentrated, obscenely powerful power grid into the agent of our collective will.
Then came 2008. It proved that, even when the overheated Technostructure-on-financial-steroids melts down, its stranglehold over society grows proportionately to the black holes in their accounting books. In a fascinating inversion of Darwinism, the larger their failure and the steeper their financial losses the greater their capacity to appropriate society's surplus via gargantuan bail-outs that their political agents push through neutered parliaments.
Capitalism, thy name has become Bankruptocracy: Rule by the most bankrupt of bankers. Democracy, in this context, resonated like a cross between a fond memory and a cruel joke.
So, setting aside the normative question "Should liberal capitalism be saved?", let's ask the more practical question: "Can it be saved?" Those who passionately believe that it should be saved tend to argue that it can be saved - confusing a normative and a practical question. They, correctly, identify three causes of liberal capitalism's malaise:
Excessive financialisation
Inordinate concentration (i.e. monopoly/monopsony power, usually due to network externalities)
Massive malfeasance (i.e. fraud, corruption, capture and tax evasion)
Their understandable conclusion is that we need institutional interventions that put the financial genie back into its proverbial bottle, break up monopolies and limit corrupt practices (tax evasion in particular). Additionally, the more democratically inclined propose a fourth task: reversing the process of shifting important decisions from parliaments to unelected pseudo-technocrats.
These are fine aspirations with a good pedigree, in the form of the original Bretton Woods system. I too advocate a New Bretton Woods that restricts financial flows, legislates global curbs on tax havens and, last but not least, denominates cross-border trade and finance in a digital IMF-issued transnational accounting unit (implementing, at last, Keynes' International Clearing Union) which can then be deployed to finance the International Green New Deal we so desperately need.
However, there are two obstacles in the path of this internationalist program for humanising, and stabilising, liberal capitalism. First, there is no latter-day FDR or any sign of the global political agency to implement it. Second, even if it were to be implemented, its therapeutic effects would, again, not last long - resembling antibiotics that lose their potency with use or, for that matter, Quantitative Easing.
As the fate of the original Bretton Woods system showed, private capital accumulation and financial asset creation - the two sides of really-existing capitalism's coin - capture regulators and yield inexorable forces that tear through all institutional obstacles put in their way. It is, in short, in the nature of the beast to be untameable and, ultimately, illiberal.
The hypothesis I want to put to you today is that we are at a historic crossroads. Our dilemma is no longer between a road leading to authoritarian state-run socialisation and another road leading to a reformed liberal capitalism. That used to be our dilemma. No longer. Today, we face a harder and, at once, a more exciting choice made possible by advances in AI, 3D printing, etc.
One road, the one we are treading, continues along the path of what Larry Summers refers to as secular stagnation, coupled with unbearable inequality, in a system where rent trumps both profit and wages every time and liberal democracy is consistently bunk.
The alternative road is one that we can, and I think we must, create from scratch once we have reined in the Technostructure through a transformation of our institutions (e.g. an International Green New Deal that is pursued via a New Bretton Woods).
Let's fleetingly imagine what this alternative road might be like. To build it, we must, first, revisit property rights over the means of production (who owns the robots, AI and the right to claim their products and income?). Then we must redefine money (pulling the rug from under the financiers' feet). Finally, we must dare to imagine an advanced, liberal, decentralised society in which capital is not only increasingly socially produced but also increasingly socially owned - the gist here being the crucial distinction between social and state ownership.
What would a post-capitalist liberal, technologically advanced social economy look like? Let's do some more imagining, shall we? Imagine for a moment:
Corporations whose shares resemble electoral votes (in that they can neither be bought nor sold), with each new hire receiving a single share granting a single vote to be cast in the all-member ballots deciding every matter of the corporation - from management and planning issues to the distribution of its net revenues.
Corporations, thus, in which the profit-wage distinction makes no sense.
States that collect no personal income tax, or VAT, just land and corporate taxes.
A trust fund for every baby, to be used to finance future ventures that set up new companies owned equally by its founders and newcomers.
Perfect freedom to move across firms and jurisdictions, together with one's accumulated personal capital.
A universal basic dividend that allows one to live in dignity, but not in wealth, outside the paid labour process.
Central Banks providing each with a twin bank account, one account for one's personal capital fund, the other a current account.
This is enough imagining for now. I just wanted us to share a glimpse of a truly liberal post-capitalist technologically advanced society to inspire us to admit that which Marx wrote in Das Capital, Vol. 1, in 1867 - a truth we have known since the inception in 1599 of the first joint stock company, the East India Company. That when the means of production belong to faceless shareholders, and are worked on by harassed employees,"the increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world." I can fully understand that it is hard to imagine an advanced, liberal society featuring all sorts of markets but free of stock exchanges and an almighty financial sector. But, then again, we used to take slavery and the divine right of Kings as permanent givens!
To conclude, Marx did, indeed, provide the most epic, pertinent celebration of capitalism - as Martin helpfully reminded us. But he also celebrated, or at least highlighted, another facet of capitalism: the seeds of crisis and unsustainability within capitalism.
Capitalism manufactures previously inconceivable wealth on the same production line that generates unimagined deprivation.
Capitalism trades on the virtues of competition to procure a Technostructure that necessarily destroys competition.
Capitalism is at once the greatest propagator and the worst enemy of authentic liberty, which can only prosper in the presence of shared prosperity.
Economists, taking their cue from Adam Smith, believe that at the root of all conflict there is scarcity. But, under the Technostructure which long-ago usurped Adam Smith's world, the direction of causality is reversed. It is not dearth that necessitates exploitation today. It is exploitation, of humans and nature, that causes dearth.
This reversed causality is why the prevailing price of labour leaves millions under-employed, the destruction of the planet is 'free' and the price people pay for money is the loss of their soul. This is why environmental catastrophe, depravity and dispossession grow in the humid shadows cast by an enormous superflux, like a dismal moss that the superflux feeds on.
So, what should we do? Yes, we must use really-existing capitalism's own institutions to limit financialisation, concentration and malfeasance. However, we shall not be able to do this if we fail to overcome the greatest modern absurdity pointed out by my great friend Slavoj Zizek: a greater readiness to fathom the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
APPENDIX: The unsung defeat of personal liberty in (il)liberal capitalism's hands
Liberals demand a strong fence protecting our private sphere from a busy-body external world eager to interfere with our hopes and dreams. They say that our desires are no one's business but our own. They believe we should all live within a safe haven where we can be sovereign and free to develop as individuals before relating with others, before leasing ourselves to an employer on mutually agreed terms and always on the understanding that the property rights over a person are non-tradeable. In short, inalienable self-ownership.
The first breach of the liberals' essential fence appeared when industrial products became passé. Richard Branson had captured that moment with a statement that made William Morris spin in his grave: Who produces stuff and how does not matter one bit. Only brands matter now, proclaimed Sir Richard. Before long, branding took a radical new turn, imparting personality to objects, boosting consumer loyalty and, of course, the Technostructure's profits.
Before they knew it, people felt compelled to re-imagine themselves as brands. The Internet allowed colleagues, employers, clients, detractors and 'friends' constantly to survey one's life, putting pressure on each to evolve into a profile of activities, images and dispositions that amount to an attractive, sellable brand. Our sovereign personal space is now almost gone. The right to a time during the day when we are not for sale has vanished. Our liberty's wetlands have been drained, its habitat destroyed.
Young women and men lacking a trust fund thus end up in one of two dead-ends. Condemned to working under zero-hour contracts and for wages so low that they must work all hours to make ends meet, rendering ridiculous any talk of personal time, space, or freedom. Or they must invest in their own brand every waking hour of every day, as if in a Panopticon where they cannot hide from the attention of those who might give them a break.
In job interviews enlightened employers tell them: "Be true to yourself, follow your passions." Angst-ridden, they redouble their efforts to discover passions that future employers may appreciate, and to manufacture a true self that the job market will want to pay for. They struggle breathlessly to work out what average opinion among opinion-makers believes that average-opinion thinks is the most attractive of their potential true selves. Never slow to miss an opportunity, the Technostructure creates entire industries to guide them on their quest made up of counsellors, coaches and varied ecosystems of substances and self-help.
The Technostructure that emerged in the 1920s is developing new capabilities daily. It can now manufacture not just prices, money and consent but also desires and our self-image. Emasculated prices guarantee its profit. Hyper-complicated debt allows it fully to usurp the state's monopoly over money. And turning over the private realm into a digital Panopticon destroys resistance to its authority. Liberalism, not just democracy, has thus become incompatible with contemporary capitalism.
1. The difference between the two economists is that, while in Smith's estimation for the market to procure its miracle firms had to be small and family owned, for Friedman it did not matter whether the market featured giant conglomerates or merely Smith's fabled baker, butcher and brewer.
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Some ramps to reopen in Zoo Interchange
Hillary Mintz
Anyone who drives through the Zoo Interchange might have some construction fatigue, but some relief is coming soon.Some drivers call it the never-ending construction project.VIDEO: Ramps to reopen in Zoo Interchange projectA new system ramp from U.S. 45 southbound to Interstate 94 westbound will open soon, but drivers will have to make the decision to take it by Bluemound Road.“When you're going southbound, the decision point for this ramp will be 1,000 feet further north, so when you do that switch, weather dependent next Friday night, the traveling public should look for that new signage that gets you on the southbound to westbound ramp,” said Mark Klipstein of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.It won't eliminate congestion, but drivers can get off at Highway 100, and it gives crews more room to work through the winter.Then, in about a month, travelers coming from West Allis, and taking U.S. 45 northbound, will be able to go I-94 westbound to Madison and use a ramp that's been closed since March.“That'll actually be another major accomplishment for the Zoo Interchange project is to get that system ramp back open again,” Klipstein said.What might really excite some drivers is that the zipper merge on I-94 westbound near 68th Street is going away in December. The Interstate 894/45 southbound ramp from I-94 westbound will remain closed for another couple of years.The Zoo Interchange project is expected to be finished in 2018.
MILWAUKEE COUNTY, Wis. —
Anyone who drives through the Zoo Interchange might have some construction fatigue, but some relief is coming soon.
Some drivers call it the never-ending construction project.
VIDEO: Ramps to reopen in Zoo Interchange project
A new system ramp from U.S. 45 southbound to Interstate 94 westbound will open soon, but drivers will have to make the decision to take it by Bluemound Road.
“When you're going southbound, the decision point for this ramp will be 1,000 feet further north, so when you do that switch, weather dependent next Friday night, the traveling public should look for that new signage that gets you on the southbound to westbound ramp,” said Mark Klipstein of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
It won't eliminate congestion, but drivers can get off at Highway 100, and it gives crews more room to work through the winter.
Then, in about a month, travelers coming from West Allis, and taking U.S. 45 northbound, will be able to go I-94 westbound to Madison and use a ramp that's been closed since March.
“That'll actually be another major accomplishment for the Zoo Interchange project is to get that system ramp back open again,” Klipstein said.
What might really excite some drivers is that the zipper merge on I-94 westbound near 68th Street is going away in December.
The Interstate 894/45 southbound ramp from I-94 westbound will remain closed for another couple of years.
The Zoo Interchange project is expected to be finished in 2018.
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You Are Here: Professor Thomes bei der Veranstaltungsreihe "Uni im Rathaus"
You Are Here:Professor Thomes Speaks at "Uni im Rathaus" Event
Professor Thomes bei der Veranstaltungsreihe "Uni im Rathaus"
Professor Paul Thomes Speaks on the Subject of "Cashless Payment - Will we Soon be Getting Rid of Cash?"
At the latest "Uni im Rathaus" event on July 2, Professor Paul Thomes from the Chair of Economic and Social History and History of Technology at RWTH University spoke on the subject of "Cashless Payment" in the Coronation Hall of Aachen's Town Hall.
Together with Professor Roger Bons from the FOM University Centre Aachen and Ralf Wagemann from the Sparkasse Aachen bank, he discussed crypto currencies, blockchain technologies,and payment apps. As Professor Thomes is aware, there are many reasons for rejecting the maxim "Only cash is the truth". As he put it: "The provision of one euro costs about four euros - economically speaking." Yet about 97 percent of all payments of less than five euros are settled in cash in Germany.
Find out more about this topic in the interview with Professor Thomes in the video series "Erklär's mir, RWTH!" (Please Explain it to me, RWTH!").
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World J Gastroenterol. Feb 28, 2016; 22(8): 2403-2414
Published online Feb 28, 2016. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i8.2403
Antonia Digklia, Anna Dorothea Wagner
Antonia Digklia, Anna Dorothea Wagner, Departement d’Oncologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Conflict-of-interest statement: Digklia A has no conflict of interest to declare; Wagner AD has a consulting or advisory role for Roche, Merck, Celgene, Lilly, Bayer and been paid to participate in a speaker's bureau by Taiho. She is principal investigator of a study funded by Roche, and had travel costs paid by Merck, Bayer, Roche and Taiho.
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Correspondence to: Anna Dorothea Wagner, MD, Departement d’Oncologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland. dorothea.wagner@.chuv.ch
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Gastric cancer currently ranks fourth in cancer-related mortality worldwide. In the western world, it is most often diagnosed at an advanced stage, after becoming metastatic at distant sites. Patients with advanced disease (locally advanced or metastatic) have a somber prognosis, with a median overall survival of 10-12 mo, and palliative chemotherapy is the mainstay of treatment. In recent years, novel approaches using inhibition of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) have demonstrated significant improvements in progression-free and overall survival, compared with chemotherapy alone, in first-line treatment of patients with overexpression of HER2. In addition, both second-line chemotherapy and treatment with the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-inhibitor ramucirumab demonstrated significant benefits in terms of overall survival, compared with best supportive care, in randomized studies. Moreover, ramucirumab in combination with chemotherapy demonstrated further significant benefits in terms of progression-free and overall survival, compared with chemotherapy alone, in second-line treatment for patients with metastatic gastric cancer. A recently published molecular classification of gastric cancer is expected to improve patient stratification and selection for clinical trials and provide a roadmap for future drug development. Nevertheless, despite these developments the prognosis of patients with advanced gastric cancer remains poor. In this review we discuss current standards of care and outline major topics of drug development in gastric cancer.
Key Words: Gastric cancer, Phase III, Clinical trials, Chemotherapy, Targeted therapy, Perspectives
Core tip: With the integration of both ramucirumab and transtuzumab, treatment options for advanced gastric cancer have increased significantly in recent years. Therefore, a reconsideration of treatment options and results for gastric cancer is necessary. This paper discusses results of phase III trials for both standard chemotherapy and targeted treatments in metastatic gastric cancer. Furthermore, results of selected early-phase clinical trials, for example on immune checkpoint inhibitors, are discussed.
Citation: Digklia A, Wagner AD. Advanced gastric cancer: Current treatment landscape and future perspectives. World J Gastroenterol 2016; 22(8): 2403-2414
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v22.i8.2403
Gastric cancer (GC) currently ranks fourth in cancer incidence worldwide and is the most common type of cancer among Japanese men[1,2]. In the last few decades, epidemiological changes in the anatomical distribution have converged with a decline in the incidence of distal (non-cardia) GC, notably in developed countries, and an increase in the incidence of adenocarcinoma of the proximal stomach. The origins of these changes are probably multifactorial and linked to many risk factors, including Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection incidence, dietary factors, and obesity[3].
GC has a routine appearance of adenocarcinoma in 90% of cases and is divided into intestinal and diffuse types according to the Lauren classification[4]. The intestinal type is associated with H. pylori infection and dysplastic changes, whereas the diffuse type is characterized by sheets of cells without gland formation and occasionally signet ring cells[5]. Diffuse-type GC can also be associated with H. pylori infection, but not with intestinal metaplasia, as a precursor and is known to have a poorer prognosis.
Several attempts have been made to develop a molecular classification of GC based on genomic alterations. In 2012, Deng et al[6] identified 5 subgroups of GC defined by signature genomic alterations: FGFR-2 (9% of tumors), KRAS (9%), EGFR (8%), ERBB-2 (7%) and MET (4%). Interestingly, about 37% of GC had genomic alterations in the receptor of the tyrosine kinase RAS.
Recently, the Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network identified four molecular subtypes of GC by analyzing data from 295 primary tumors in six molecular platforms: (1) EBV-infected tumors (9%); (2) microsatellite unstable tumors (22%); (3) genomically stable tumors (20%); and (4) chromosomally unstable tumors (50%). The researchers confirmed that every subtype has distinct genomic features. For example, EBV-infected tumors frequently contain mutations in the PIK3CA gene (80% vs 3%-42% in the other subtypes), amplifications of the JAK2 gene, and elevated expression of PD-L1. In this context, PIK3CA inhibitors and PD-L1 antagonists merit further investigation[7].
Tumors classified as chromosomally unstable are predominantly localized at the cardia or the gastrointestinal junction. This subtype is enriched for TP53 mutations and RTK-RAS activation. The microsatellite unstable subtype accounts for 22% of GC cases and is significantly associated with MLH1 silencing and genomic hypermutation. Moreover, the vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) gene is amplified in this subtype, suggesting that it may respond to anti-angiogenic therapy. Finally, the fourth subtype, the “genomically stable”, is histologically associated with diffuse-type cancer, as well as CDH1 and RHOA mutations.
Despite these major advances in our understanding of the biology of GC, the median survival rate of patients with advanced GC is still less than 12 mo, and the development of personalized treatment strategies is the principal challenge. The primary aim of this review is to summarize data from recent phase III clinical trials on both chemotherapy and targeted therapies in advanced GC and to discuss their impact on current clinical practice. Furthermore, we discuss recent phase II trials of special interest.
FIRST-LINE TREATMENT
Before any systemic treatment for GC is initiated, the status of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is determined. Treatment options for the approximately 20% of patients with HER2-positive GC are discussed in the paragraph on targeted therapies. The following section discusses the treatment options for patients with HER2-negative GC.
Chemotherapy is the standard first-line treatment for patients with advanced GC and a good performance status. Available data from randomized clinical trials clearly demonstrate a statistically significant advantage of palliative chemotherapy, compared with best supportive care (BSC), in terms of palliation of symptoms and improvement of survival for patients with advanced GC[8].
In contrast, the benefit of combination - compared with single-agent - chemotherapy is much smaller: A meta-analysis published in 2010 indicated a modest survival benefit (approximately 1.5 mo) for combination chemotherapy over single-agent chemotherapy. Of note, the combination chemotherapy regimens included in this analysis were mostly “older” regimens (combination of 5-FU/anthracyclines) and therefore might not have had optimal efficacy[9]. For example, in the Japanese phase III “SPIRITS” trial, 305 patients were randomly assigned to S-1 (40-60 mg/m2 twice-daily on days 1-21 and cisplatin 60 mg/m2 on day 8 every 5 wk) or S-1 alone (40-60 mg/m2 twice-daily on days 1-28 every 6 wk). Both progression-free survival (PFS) (6 vs 4 mo) and overall survival (OS) (13 mo vs 11 mo, HR = 0.77; 95%CI: 0.61-0.98) were significantly improved by the combination regimen[10]. However, the Japanese phase III JCOG 9912 trial, which compared a continuous infusion of 5-FU (800 mg/m2 per day on days 1-5 every 4 wk) with the combination of intravenous irinotecan (70 mg/m2 per day on days 1 and 15) and cisplatin (80 mg/m2 on day 1) every 4 wk and with oral S-1 alone (40 mg/m2 twice-daily on days 1-28 every 6 wk), did not confirm the superiority of this combination. While S-1 alone was non-inferior to 5-FU, patients receiving the combination of irinotecan plus cisplatin did not have a survival improvement as compared to the treatment with S-1 alone[11].
More than 50 years since its development, infusional 5-FU remains the backbone of most combination chemotherapy regimens in advanced GC. However, in recent years, two oral fluoropyrimidines - capecitabine and S-1 - were shown to be at least equal in efficacy to 5-FU. Capecitabine was shown to be non-inferior in two phase III trials.
Kang et al[12] conducted a randomized phase III trial comparing cisplatin (80 mg/m2 on day 1) plus capecitabine (1000 mg/m2 twice-daily on days 1-14) in a 21-d cycle to cisplatin plus 5-FU (800 mg/m2 per day as a continuous infusion on days 1-5). The trial met its primary endpoint and demonstrated the non-inferiority of cisplatin plus capecitabine, compared with cisplatin plus 5-FU. Although patients receiving capecitabine had a better response rate (RR) than those receiving 5-FU (41% vs 29%), PFS, RRs, and toxicity profiles were similar.
The oral fluoropyrimidine S-1 is a widely accepted treatment option, as a single agent or in combination chemotherapy, for advanced GC in Japan. S-1 is a combination of tegafur with two enzyme inhibitors: 5-chloro-2,4-dihydroxypyridine (CDHP), a reversible inhibitor of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, and potassium oxonate (Oxo). CDHP enhances the anticancer activity of tegafur by increasing its half-life, and Oxo reduces the gastrointestinal toxicity of tegafur. Because CYP2A6, which converts tegafur to 5-FU, is highly active in Caucasians, separate studies in Caucasian populations were necessary before registration of S-1 in Europe and the United States.
The pivotal trial, which evaluated S-1 in a Western population, is the randomized phase III “FLAGS” trial. This trial compared a regimen of cisplatin (75 mg/m2 on day 1) plus S-1 (25 mg/m2 twice-daily on days 1-21) with cisplatin (100 mg/m2 on day 1) plus 5-FU (1000 mg/m2 per day for 5 d) over a 28-d cycle. Although the comparison of the two fluoropyrimidines in this trial is limited by the different doses of cisplatin, the cisplatin/S-1 combination was as effective as the cisplatin/5-FU combination (OS 8.6 mo vs 7.9 mo for S-1 vs 5-FU). Importantly, patients receiving 5-FU experienced significantly more side effects than did patients treated with S-1: rates of grade 3/4 neutropenia were 32.3% vs 63.6%, rates of complicated neutropenia were 5.0% vs 14.4%, and rates of stomatitis were 1.3% vs 13.6%[13].
Platinum derivatives - alternatives to cisplatin
Several recent studies explored whether oxaliplatin can replace cisplatin for GC. Cisplatin-free regimens represent a more convenient therapeutic approach, which avoids the necessary hyperhydration and decreases the risk of renal and ototoxicity associated with cisplatin, but at the price of increased neurotoxicity. Two phase III trials demonstrated a non-inferiority of oxaliplatin, compared with cisplatin, in the treatment of advanced GC, and a third trial observed comparable results.
In a randomized phase III study conducted in Japan, the standard SP regimen (S-1 40 mg/m2 twice-daily on days 1-21 and cisplatin 60 mg/m2 on day 8 for 5 wk) was compared to SOX (S-1 40 mg/m2 twice-daily on days 1-14 and oxaliplatin 100 mg/m2 on day 1 for 3 wk). A total of 685 patients participated in the study, which reached its primary endpoint by showing a non-inferiority of SOX in PFS. As expected, serious adverse events occurred more often in the patients treated with SP (29.3% vs 37.9%). Furthermore, the rate of treatment-related deaths was twice as high in the patients treated with SP (2.4% vs 1.2%)[14].
Al-Batran et al[15] compared biweekly infusional fluorouracil and leucovorin, either in combination with oxaliplatin (FLO) or cisplatin (FLP). This trial confirmed the better tolerability of oxaliplatin. While median OS (10.7 mo vs 8.8 mo) showed no significant differences between the two groups, a trend towards better PFS was observed in the patients treated with FLO. However, as expected, the rates of peripheral neuropathy were significantly higher in the patients treated with FLO (63% vs 22%). Interestingly, a subgroup analysis of patients older than 65 years indicated that FLO exhibited a significantly superior RR and OS (13.9 mo vs 7.2 mo), forming the basis for the widespread use of this combination in elderly patients.
In the landmark REAL-2 trial, patients were randomized into four groups [epirubicin, oxaliplatin and capecitabine (EOX); epirubicin, oxaliplatin and 5-FU (EOF); epirubicin, cisplatin and 5-FU (ECF); and epirubicin, cisplatin and capecitabine (ECX)] in a two-by-two factorial design. The results of this trial confirmed that oxaliplatin was non-inferior to cisplatin in combination with epirubicin and either 5-FU or capecitabine. Furthermore, apart from the expected differences in toxicities between the two agents, fewer thromboembolic events (7.6% vs 15%) were observed in the patients treated with oxaliplatin, compared with cisplatin[16].
Irinotecan is another alternative to platinum derivatives that has been evaluated in several randomized trials. In 2008, Dank et al[17] published the results of a phase III trial comparing irinotecan/5-FU to cisplatin/5-FU. Although irinotecan/5-FU did not show an improvement in time-to-progression, the combination was better tolerated, as a lower rate of patients discontinued treatment due to toxicity (10% vs 22%). This observation has been confirmed in other randomized phase II trials[18].
For these reasons both oxaliplatin and irinotecan are adequate substitutes for cisplatin in combination with fluoropyrimidines.
What is the role of taxanes in GC?
In the V-325 study, published by Van Cutsem et al[19], 445 patients were treated with cisplatin/5-FU with or without docetaxel as a first-line therapy. Although the RR (37% vs 25%), time-to-progression (5.6 mo vs 3.7 mo) and 2-year OS rate (18% vs 9%) were improved by the addition of docetaxel, the absolute benefit in terms of survival was less than 4 wk, and was counterbalanced by a significant increase in grade 3-4 adverse events.
In view of the significant toxicities associated with this regimen, especially in the elderly population, several “modified DCF” regimens have been developed. One example is FLOT (docetaxel 50 mg/m2, infusional 5-FU 2600 mg/m2, leucovorin 200 mg/m2, oxaliplatin 85 mg/m2) every 2 wk. A randomized phase II study (n = 143) by Al-Batran et al[15] specifically addressed the question whether the addition of docetaxel to the combination of FLO is feasible in fit patients older than 65 years. Significantly more grade 1-4 adverse events such as neutropenia, alopecia and diarrhea were observed in the FLOT group, but there were no differences between the two groups in terms of serious adverse events, discontinuation for toxicity or toxicity-related deaths[20]. Thus, the FLOT regimen was feasible in the selected fit elderly patients. However, quality-of-life was decreased in the patients treated with FLOT, compared with the patients treated with FLO. Although the FLOT group demonstrated an improved RR (49% vs 28%) and a trend towards a better PFS (9.0 mo vs 7.1 mo, P = 0.79), there was no significant benefit in median OS (17.3 mo vs 14.5 mo, P = 0.39). For this reason, the authors concluded that “this study confirms the role of the doublet combination FLO as a tolerable and active treatment option for older adult patients with metastatic gastric cancer”. Interestingly, subgroup analyses indicated that patients with locally advanced (non-metastatic) tumors and patients younger than 70 years benefited more from FLOT than FLO. However, this result needs prospective confirmation in further trials.
The phase III “START” trial, which compared S1/docetaxel (S-1 at 80-120 mg/d on days 1-14 of a 21-d cycle with docetaxel 40 mg/m2 every 21 d) vs S-1 alone (days 1-28 of a 42-d cycle) in 635 Japanese and Korean patients, showed a significant benefit in terms of PFS (5.3 mo vs 4.2 mo) and OS (12.5 vs 10.8 mo) in favor of the combination. While the RR in the combination group was 38.8% (26.8% in the single-agent group), 58% of the patients presented at least one grade 3 toxicity in the combination group[21].
Another recent randomized phase II trial addressed whether 5-FU can be replaced by capecitabine in a three-drug regimen including docetaxel and oxaliplatin[22]. The patients treated with the combination of docetaxel, oxaliplatin and 5-FU (TEF) had a significantly better OS (14.6 mo vs 11.3 mo), PRS (7.6 mo vs 5.5 mo) and RR (46.6% vs 25.6%) compared with the docetaxel, oxaliplatin and capecitabine group (TEX). Furthermore, the TEF regimen was associated with a better toxicity profile.
Is triplet superior to doublet chemotherapy in advanced GC?
When discussing triplet vs doublet chemotherapy regimens, we need to address the regimens, the outcomes and the patients.
Regarding the regimens: a superiority in terms of survival for 5-FU, an anthracycline and cisplatin (ECF) over the same regimens without the anthracycline or cisplatin was demonstrated in our meta-analyses published in 2006 and 2010[8,9]. However, those trials were conducted more than 10 years ago, when second-line therapy was not generally available. At present, second-line treatment is routinely administered: up to 50% of patients in European studies[23,24] and 80% of patients in Asian trials are treated with second-line chemotherapy. The recently published phase III trial by Guimbaud et al[23], which compared the three-drug regimen of ECX in first line to FOLFIRI vs the reverse sequence, did not observe a survival benefit for patients treated with ECX, compared with FOLFIRI. Furthermore, there were no differences in quality-of-life between study arms, and FOLFIRI was better tolerated. Other triplet chemotherapy regimens, such as DCF and FLOT, which were discussed previously, have not demonstrated convincing benefits in terms of survival, but instead increased toxicity rates. Therefore, these regimens are not generally accepted as standards of care. Results for other outcomes, such as quality-of-life, were contradictory for different regimens: whereas treatment with DCF resulted in a significant delay in the deterioration of quality-of-life, compared with CF, a higher rate of patients treated with FLOT (47.5%), as compared to FLO (20.5%) experienced a > 10 point deterioration of quality-of-life global health scores after 8 wk of treatment[24,25].
The question whether subgroups, such as patients with locally advanced or limited metastatic disease, may have a benefit from these combinations, is currently under investigation.
Second-line and beyond: As much as for first-line treatment, the aim of second and later lines of treatment in advanced GC is to increase survival and control the clinical symptoms of the disease, with as little toxicity as possible and no negative impact on quality-of-life. Several phase III clinical trials and a recent meta-analysis demonstrated a modest but significant survival benefit of chemotherapy in this setting for patients with good performance status[26,27]. Single-agent therapy with irinotecan or taxanes have been shown to be effective. Therefore, the choice of the regimen should be guided by the previous lines of therapy and eventual residual toxicities (e.g., neurotoxicity).
In a German (AIO) phase III study containing patients with advanced GC and a performance status of 0-2 who had failed first-line treatment, irinotecan (250 mg/m2 on day 1 of a 21-d cycle, to be increased to 350 mg/m2 based on tolerance) showed a significant benefit in terms of OS (4 mo vs 2.4 mo, P = 0.012) and RR (44% vs 5%), compared with BSC. Although the study was closed due to poor accrual after inclusion of 40 patients, a significant improvement in tumor-related symptoms was noted in 50% of the patients treated with irinotecan, compared with 7% of the patients treated with BSC[28].
The survival benefit of second-line or third-line chemotherapy was confirmed in a Korean phase III trial in patients with advanced GC and a good performance status after failure of fluoropyrimidines and platinum. In this trial (n = 202), patients were randomized in a 2:1 ratio to receive either chemotherapy (docetaxel or irinotecan) or BSC. Median OS was improved significantly in patients treated with chemotherapy (5.3 mo vs 3.8 mo with BSC). The efficacies of irinotecan and docetaxel were comparable[26].
Finally, the recently published phase III trial “COUGAR-02” confirmed that docetaxel significantly increased OS in patients with a performance status of 0-2 after progression to previous platinum/fluopyrimidine chemotherapy. In this trial, 168 patients were treated with active symptom control with or without docetaxel (75 mg/m2 in a 21-d cycle)[29]. Although only 23% of the patients received 6 cycles of docetaxel, and only 7% presented an objective response to docetaxel, a modest but significant benefit in OS (5.2 mo vs 3.6 mo, P = 0.01) was observed. Moreover, despite the fact that 21% of patients treated with docetaxel presented grade 4 toxicities, significantly less pain and a trend for less dysphagia and nausea were reported. Global quality-of-life scores were similar between the two groups.
With the publication of this well-conducted, large, randomized trial, the benefit of docetaxel as a second-line treatment, in terms of improvement in tumor-related symptoms and survival, has clearly been established. For this reason, all patients in good performance status should be offered second-line chemotherapy.
The activities of weekly paclitaxel (80 mg/m2 on days 1, 8, and 15 every 4 wk) and irinotecan (150 mg/m2 on days 1 and 15 in 28-d cycles) as second-line treatments were determined in a recent Japanese randomized phase III study in 223 patients with advanced GC that had progressed after fluoropyrimidine plus platinum chemotherapy[30]. Irinotecan was not superior to taxane monotherapy in terms of median PFS (2.3 mo vs 3.6 mo with paclitaxel, P < 0.33) and OS (8.4 mo vs 9.5 mo, P = 0.38), and treatment-related toxicity was comparable in both arms. Interestingly, third-line chemotherapy was administered in 97 patients (89.8%) after paclitaxel treatment and in 80 patients (72.1%) after irinotecan treatment (P = 0.001). Thus, we agree with the author’s conclusion that both regimens are valid choices for second-line treatment.
Is combination better than single-agent chemotherapy in second-line treatment?
Recently, a Japanese phase III trial conducted by the Tokyo Cooperative Oncology Group evaluated single-agent (irinotecan) vs combination (irinotecan/cisplatin) chemotherapy as a second-line treatment in patients refractory to S-1-based chemotherapy[31]. Interestingly, the combination of cisplatin/irinotecan demonstrated a PFS benefit without an OS improvement. Thus, according to this trial, there is no evidence for a benefit of combination vs single-agent chemotherapy in second-line treatment.
Approximately 20% of GC are characterized by overexpression or/and amplification of the HER2 gene. HER2 overexpression is more common in intestinal GC than diffuse GC, and more common in GEJ GC than distal GC. Currently, the prognostic value of HER2 in GC is controversial[32]. Combining chemotherapy with trastuzumab results in a significant improvement in survival in HER2-positive GC.
In the international phase III “ToGA” trial, 594 previously untreated patients with advanced HER2-positive (either IHC 3+ or IHC 2+ and FISH+) GC were randomized to chemotherapy (cisplatin 80 mg/m2 on day 1 and either capecitabine 1000 mg/m2 twice-daily on days 1-14 every 3 wk or 5-FU 800 mg/m2 per day continuously for 3 wk) with or without trastuzumab (8 mg/kg loading dose, followed by 6 mg/kg every 3 wk). Compared with chemotherapy alone, the combination of chemotherapy plus trastuzumab resulted in a statistically significant and clinically relevant improvement in RR and OS. The combination did not raise any new safety concerns; notably, the incidence of cardiotoxicity was equal in the 2 arms[33]. Recently, an HRQol analysis showed that the time to deterioration of HRQoL was prolonged in the combination arm[33,34].
Up to now, this is the only prospective randomized phase III trial exploring trastuzumab in combination with chemotherapy in GC, although phase II data with XELOX and in combination with S-1 and cisplatin have shown interesting clinical activities[35,36]. Therefore, the benefit of trastuzumab in combination with other chemotherapeutic regimens needs further investigation. A non-interventional register studying the addition of trastuzumab to different first-line chemotherapies found comparable results in terms of median PFS (6.8 mo) for other chemotherapy-trastuzumab combinations, although the final results are pending. Importantly, pharmacokinetic data suggested that the above-mentioned dose of trastuzumab might not be optimal in combination with capecitabine and cisplatin. Therefore, a currently ongoing phase III trial named HELOISE (NCT 01450696) is exploring two different doses of trastuzumab (8 mg/kg loading dose, followed by 6 mg/kg or 10 mg/kg every 3 wk) in combination with cisplatin (80 mg/m2 on day 1) and capecitabine (800 mg/m2 twice-daily on days 1-14). Furthermore, the clinical value of the continuation of trastuzumab beyond first progression - a strategy with proven value in HER2-positive breast cancer - needs to be defined[37].
Second-line treatment for HER2-positive GC
Lapatinib is a small molecule TKI that binds reversibly to EGFR-1 and EGFR-2 (HER2) and blocks the activation of downstream second messengers. Lapatinib is approved for second-line treatment of HER2-positive advanced breast cancer[38].
The phase III clinical trial, “TyTAN”, evaluated the efficacy of lapatinib in combination with paclitaxel in the second-line setting in Asian patients with HER2-positive advanced GC. A total of 261 HER2-positive (by FISH) patients were randomized to lapatinib plus chemotherapy vs chemotherapy alone[39]. According to the results of this trial, the overall RR was significantly higher in patients treated with lapatinib, but median PFS and OS rates were unchanged. However, in subgroup analyses, patients with an IHC score of 3+ and patients younger than 60 years benefited from the addition of lapatinib to paclitaxel.
The limited efficacy of lapatinib was confirmed in the first-line setting for GC in the phase III “LOGIC” trial, which investigated the activity of lapatinib in combination with capecitabine/oxaliplatin and demonstrated a non-significant prolongation of OS[40].
Future perspectives for HER2-positive GC
Currently, pertuzumab, a monoclonal antibody that binds to the dimerization domain of the HER2/HER3 receptors, is being investigated in GC. In HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, a recently published phase III trial comparing docetaxel in combination with trastuzumab and either pertuzumab or placebo demonstrated an OS benefit of 16 mo (!) for patients treated with pertuzumab, without significant differences in toxicity, especially cardiac toxicity[41]. Preclinical data indicate that targeting the dimerization domain of HER2/HER3 has antitumoral activity in GC as well, although the serum clearance of the antibody seems to be higher in this setting[42]. On the basis of a randomized phase IIa trial (n = 30) exploring two different dose schedules of pertuzumab (840 mg for cycle 1 and 420 mg for cycles 2-6 vs 840 mg in cycles 1-6) in combination with chemotherapy, the dose of 840 mg pertuzumab was selected for the ongoing international randomized phase III “JACOB” trial (NCT 01774786). This trial is exploring the role of pertuzumab, in combination with trastuzumab and chemotherapy, in advanced GC. Of note, RRs for patients treated with pertuzumab, in combination with trastuzumab and chemotherapy, were 86% and 55% for the two doses in the above-mentioned phase IIa trial[43].
In analogy to the “EMILIA” trial (a randomized phase III trial comparing T-DM1 (trastuzumab emtansine, an antibody-drug conjugate linking trastuzumab to the microtubule inhibitor DM1, a maytansine derivative) to the combination of and capecitabine) in pretreated, HER2-positive breast cancer, the ongoing phase III GATSBY trial (NCT01641939) is evaluating T-DM1 vs a taxane (docetaxel or paclitaxel) in previously treated metastatic HER2-positive GC.
Targeting EGFR1 in advanced GC
Despite the high (approximately 50%) rate of EGFR expression in GC, targeting EGFR has not proven to be a successful strategy, at least in unselected GC patients. The so-called “EXPAND” trial, which evaluated the addition of cetuximab to first-line chemotherapy with capecitabine or 5-FU in patients with advanced GC, failed to improve PFS or OS, independent of the expression of EGFR[44].
The ineffectiveness of targeting EGFR in a non-selected population of patients with GC was confirmed in the phase III REAL 3 trial. In this trial, panitumumab or placebo was added to first-line chemotherapy with EOX[45]. The study was terminated prematurely due to a significantly worse median OS (8.8 mo vs 11.3 mo) in the patients treated with EOX and panitumumab. Predictive biomarkers for the efficacy of panitumumab (mutations in KRAS, BRAF, PIK3CA or loss of PTEN expression) could not be identified.
Nevertheless, in patients with advanced NSCLC, high EGFR expression (IHC score > 200) was found to be a predictor of survival for patients treated with the combination of first-line chemotherapy plus cetuximab[46]. Currently, data for patients with GC and high tumor EGFR expression is pending. However, a small randomized phase II trial demonstrated that in a subgroup of patients with IHC 2+/3+ EGFR metastatic GC, adding the EGFR monoclonal antibody nimotuzumab to irinotecan might improve the antitumoral activity[47]. Based on these results, a randomized phase III trial (ENRICH trial, NCT 01813253) investigating this combination as a second-line regimen in EGFR-overexpressing GC is ongoing in Japan and South Korea.
Role of angiogenesis
Angiogenesis has become an important target in the treatment of several solid tumors. In GC, increased VEGF-A expression has been correlated with a poor prognosis. Therefore, several studies tried to explore the role of anti-angiogenic therapies in this context[48,49].
Results from the international phase III “AVAGAST” study, which assessed the benefit of adding bevacizumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting VEGF, to a cisplatin/capecitabine combination chemotherapy regimen[50], showed only a modest improvement in PFS (6.7 mo vs 5.3 mo), without an OS benefit (12.1 mo vs 10.1 mo). Nevertheless, in an unplanned subgroup analysis, OS was significantly improved in non-Asian patients, in patients with the diffuse subtype, and in patients with distal GC. Furthermore, recent data demonstrated a clear benefit of targeting angiogenesis in the second-line setting. In contrast to bevacizumab, ramucirumab is an Ig1 monoclonal antibody and antagonist of the VEGF receptor 2, blocking the binding of VEGF A, C and D. The phase III “REGARD” trial evaluated ramucirumab monotherapy (8 mg/kg every 15 d) vs placebo in 355 patients[51] after failure of first-line chemotherapy. Ramucirumab increased median OS by 37% (5.2 mo vs 3.8 mo, HR = 0.776, 95%CI: 0.603-0.998) as well as PFS (2.1 mo vs 1.3 mo, HR = 0.483, 95%CI: 0.376-0.620). Importantly, ramucirumab was well-tolerated, with hypertension (8% with grade ≥ 3) being the most important side effect. Rates of grade > 3 arterial and venous thromboembolism were 1% vs 0% and 1% vs 4%, respectively, in the patient groups[43].
The activity of ramucirumab, in combination with chemotherapy, in second-line treatment of GC was confirmed by the phase III “RAINBOW” trial. In this study, 665 patients were randomized to receive paclitaxel (80 mg/m2 on days 1, 8 and 15), with or without ramucirumab (8 mg/kg every 15 d). Patients treated with ramucirumab had significant improvements in median OS (9.6 mo vs 7.4 mo, HR = 0.807, 95%CI: 0.678-0.962), PFS (4.4 mo vs 2.9 mo, HR = 0.635, 95%CI: 0.539-0.752, P < 0.0001) and RR (28% vs 54%, P = 0.0001)[52].
These proof-of concept trials for the inhibition of angiogenesis in metastatic GC were confirmed by another phase III trial evaluating apatinib, the oral VEGR-2 tyrosine kinase inhibitor, after failure of second-line chemotherapy[53]. In this study, 293 heavily pretreated Chinese patients were randomized to apatinib (850 mg/d) vs placebo. Although median PFS (as assessed by the investigators) was 2.6 mo in the experimental group and 1.8 mo in the placebo group (HR = 0.44), median OS was 6.5 and 4.7 mo, respectively (HR = 0.71). However, objective RRs were 3% vs 0%. Furthermore, 9% of the patients treated with apatinib developed a hand-foot syndrome of grade 3/4.
These data confirm the importance of angiogenesis as a pathway and support further development of anti-angiogenic treatments for GC.
For the moment, several novel targets are under investigation (Table 1). For example, the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway plays a crucial role in multiple cellular functions including proliferation, angiogenesis and cell growth. The results of a phase III trial, GRANITE-1, were recently released. The study compared everolimus, a mTOR inhibitor, to placebo in pretreated advanced GC and did not show an improvement in OS (5.4 mo vs 4.3 mo)[54].
Table 1 Novel targets are investigation.
Name of trial Regimen No. of patients Primary endpoint NCT number Country
GO2 - Alternative chemotherapy for frail or elderly patients with advanced gastric or oesophageal cancer Best supportive care: Participants will be treated according to local policy. OxCap 100%: oxaliplatin 130 mg/m2 on day 1, capecitabine 625 mg/m2 twice-daily for 21 d.OxCap 80%: oxaliplatin 104 mg/m2 on day 1, capecitabine 500 mg/m2 twice-daily for 21 d. OxCap 60%: oxaliplatin 78 mg/m2 on day 1, capecitabine 375 mg/m2 twice-daily for 21 d. http://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN44687907?q=gastric cancer phase III&filters=&sort=&offset=4&totalResults=29&page=1&pageSize=10&searchType=basic-search 530 Chemotherapy intensity comparison:Progression-free survival Chemotherapy vs best supportive care comparison: Overall survival United Kingdom
Efficacy and Safety Study of Olaparib in Combination With Paclitaxel to Treat Advanced Gastric Cancer Olaparib 100 mg tablets orally twice-daily throughout each cycle (28 d); once paclitaxel dosing is stopped, the olaparib dose will be 300 mg twice-daily.Paclitaxel 80 mg/m2iv infusion over 1 h on days 1, 8 and 15 of a 28-d cycle. https://http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/show/nct01924533 500 Overall survival NCT01924533 China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan
HELOISE - A Study of Herceptin (Trastuzumab) in Combination With Cisplatin/Capecitabine Chemotherapy in Patients With HER2-Positive Metastatic Gastric or Gastro-Esophageal Junction Cancer Capecitabine 1600 mg/m2 orally daily on days 1-14 of each 3-wk cycle (6 cycles)Cisplatin 80 mg/m2iv on day 1 of each 3-wk cycle (6 cycles). Trastuzumab (Herceptin) 8 mg/kg iv loading dose, followed by 6 mg/kg iv every 3 wk. https://http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/show/nct01450696 400 Overall survival NCT01450696 25 countries worldwide
A Study of Trastuzumab Emtansine Versus Taxane in Patients With Advanced Gastric Cancer Standard taxane (docetaxel or paclitaxel) according to investigator choice. Trastuzumab emtansine 3.6 mg/kg or 2.4 mg/kg once- wk every 3 wk. https://http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/show/nct01641939 412 Overall survival NCT01641939 30 countries worldwide
Phase 3 Study of Nimotuzumab and Irinotecan as Second Line With Advanced or Recurrent Gastric and Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer (EGFR + IHC) Irinotecan 150 mg/m2iv once every 2 wk until progression or unacceptable toxicity develops, with or without nimotuzumab 400 mg iv once-wk until progression or unacceptable toxicity develops. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01813253 400 Overall Survival NCT01813253 Japan, South Korea
RAINFALL - A Study of Ramucirumab (LY3009806) in Combination With Capecitabine and Cisplatin in Participants With Stomach Cancer Cisplatin 80 mg/m2iv on day 1 of each 21-d cycle (for up to 6 cycles) and 1000 mg/m2 capecitabine orally twice-daily on days 1-14 with or without ramucirumab 8 mg/kg iv on days 1 and 8 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02314117?term=Ramucirumab+gastric&rank=5 616 Progression-free survival NCT02314117 20 countries worldwide
AIO-STO-0111 - A Randomized, Double Blind Study Evaluating Paclitaxel With and Without RAD001 in Patients With Gastric Carcinoma After Prior Chemotherapy Paclitaxel 80 mg/m2 on days 1, 8 and 15 of every 28-d cycle with or without everolimous 10 mg (2 × 5 mg tablets) per day on days 1-28 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01248403 480 Overall survival NCT01248403 Germany
BRIGHTER - A Study of BBI608 Plus Weekly Paclitaxel to Treat Gastric and Gastro-Esophageal Junction Cancer Paclitaxel 80 mg/m2iv infusion on days 1, 8 and 15 of every 4-wk cycle with or without BBI608 480 mg orally twice-daily https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02178956?term=BBI608+GASTRIC&rank=1 680 Overall survival NCT02178956 United States
Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), as well as its receptor mesenchymal epithelial transition factor (MET), play key roles in GC[55,56]. Rilotumumab, a fully human IgG2 monoclonal antibody against HGF, demonstrated promising preliminary results in combination with EOX in a randomized phase II study[57]. Furthermore, recent data showed that MET-positive patients respond better to the combination of rilotumumab and ECX than do MET-negative patients[58]. Due to the increased toxicity and treatment-related deaths in the combination group in RILOMET-1, all clinical trials investigating the role of rilotumumab in GC - including the phase III RILOMET-1 (with ECX) and RILOMET-2 (with cisplatin and capecitabine) trials - have been terminated. Results of the RILOMET-1 trial have been presented at the ASCO 2015 Annual Meeting; both OS and PFS were statistically worse in the rilotumumab arm, independent of MET expression[59]. In addition, preliminary results of a phase II trial evaluating onartuzumab, another monoclonal antibody designed specifically to target the MET receptor, failed to show a PFS benefit when added to mFOLFOX in a first-line setting in patients with HER2-negative metastatic GC[60].
Cancer immunotherapy has seen major advances in the last 10 years. Checkpoint inhibitors have become the cornerstone in the treatment of melanoma and - compared with docetaxel - demonstrated a significant improvement in OS in a randomized phase III trial in NSCLC[61]. Early results of “KEYNOTE-012” a phase Ib trial evaluating pembrolizumab, a humanized anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody, were initially presented at the 2015 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, and update data was reported at the ASCO 2015 Annual Meeting. In this trial, 39 chemotherapy-refractory patients with advanced GC, good PS and either distinctive stromal or ≥ 1% of tumor nest cell PD-L1-staining were treated with pembrolizumab (10 mg/kg every 2 wk) until complete response, disease progression, or unacceptable toxicity[62]. With a 22.2% objective RR, as assessed by central review after a median follow-up of 8.8 mo, pembrolizumab demonstrated promising anticancer activity in this heavily pretreated population. Thirteen patients (33%) remain on therapy. A total of 53.1% of patients with measurable disease displayed some degree of tumor shrinkage from baseline. At 6 mo, 69% of patients remained alive, and the median OS was 11.4 mo[63].The incidence of side effects was low, and only 3 patients presented toxicities grade ≥ 3. Further trials with different checkpoint inhibitors in GC are in preparation.
This trial is one example whereby identifying molecular subtypes of GC may help to better understand this heterogeneous cancer, leading to the development of novel therapeutic strategies. The discovery of key driver genes in these subgroups (such as TP53 in microsatellite stable tumors and ARID1A in EBV-positive tumors) reveals further potential molecular biomarkers, and the development of other targeted therapeutic strategies is ongoing. For example, JAK2 amplification was seen in 6% of EBV-positive tumors, leading to the activation of the JAK/STAT and PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathways, opening new perspectives for the design of clinical trials with JAK2 inhibitors.
The treatment of advanced GC remains a major challenge, and many questions remain unresolved. Although significant progress has been made in recent years by routinely treating patients with second- and further lines of chemotherapy, as well as integrating HER2-targeting drugs and ramucirumab in the routine care of patients with advanced GC, many phase III trials (e.g., those with EGFR inhibitors or everolimus) have had negative results, and others (e.g., RILOMET) had to be closed prematurely due to unexpected toxicity. Among the unresolved issues is whether some subgroups of patients benefit more than others from certain chemotherapy regimens (e.g., doublet vs triplet regimens).
Furthermore, the optimal duration of combination chemotherapy remains unclear: should we continue until progression, or just continue with maintenance therapy? Moreover, valid biomarkers other than HER2 are required to select patients for clinical trials in molecularly-defined subtypes of GC. The results of the KEYNOTE 12 trial have provided a first signal of the efficacy of immunotherapy in advanced GC. However, further trials, and especially longer follow-up, are necessary to validate the efficacy of immunotherapy.
P- Reviewer: Hironaka S, Kouraklis G S- Editor: Ma YJ L- Editor: Filipodia E- Editor: Zhang DN
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National security officials objected to stopping Ukraine aid
By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press |
Posted: Mon 4:49 PM, Nov 11, 2019 |
Updated: Mon 8:59 PM, Nov 11, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — The view among the national security officials was unanimous: Military aid to Ukraine should not be stopped. But President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff thought otherwise.
Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, returns to the Capitol to review her testimony and documents from an appearance last week in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
As the aid was being blocked this summer, Ukraine officials began quietly asking the State Department about the hold-up. The concern was clear for the young democracy battling an aggressive Russia.
"If this were public in Ukraine it would be seen as a reversal of our policy," said Catherine Croft, the special adviser for Ukraine at State, who fielded the inquiries from the Ukrainians.
"This would be a really big deal," she testified. "It would be a really big deal in Ukraine, and an expression of declining U.S. support for Ukraine."
Croft's remarks were among the transcripts released Monday from the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
And they begin to chisel away at a key Republican defense of Trump. Allies of the president say Trump did nothing wrong because the Ukrainians never knew the aid was being delayed.
Eventually, the White House released its hold and the funds were sent to the ally.
The impeachment inquiry is looking at whether Trump violated his oath of office by holding back the congressionally approved funds while he asked the new Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a favor— to investigate political rival Joe Biden's family and the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Transcripts of testimony from closed-door interviews with Croft and another Ukraine specialist at State, Christoper Anderson, as well as the Defense Department's Laura Cooper, come as House Democrats are pushing ahead to this week's live public hearings.
Cooper told investigators that, in a series of July meetings at the White House, she came to understand that Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, was holding up the military aid for the U.S. ally.
"There was just this issue of the White House chief of staff has conveyed that the president has concerns about Ukraine," she said.
When she and others tried to get an explanation, they found none.
"We did not get clarification," she said.
"My sense is that all of the senior leaders of the U.S. national security departments and agencies were all unified in their — in their view that this assistance was essential," said Cooper, an assistant defense secretary. "And they were trying to find ways to engage the President on this."
Croft and Anderson testified about the oversized reach of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani into foreign policy on Ukraine in unsettling ways as he portrayed Zelenskiy's new government as an "enemy" of Trump.
Croft told investigators of her "trepidation" of taking on the role in spring of adviser to the special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, because she worried that Giuliani was influencing Trump to change U.S. policy toward the ally.
She said she theorized that by "painting sort of Ukraine as being against Trump" it could help the president "distract from a narrative" that Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to help him.
Anderson, who held the special adviser role before Croft, said, "I had the fear that if Giuliani's narrative took hold, that the Ukrainian Government was an enemy of the President, then it would be very hard to have high-level engagement."
He said Volker had warned him, "Giuliani is not moving on to other issues, and so this might still be a problem for us moving forward."
Cooper said she and other aides were asking questions about what legal authority the White House had to halt congressionally approved aid for Ukraine.
She said it was "unusual" to have the congressional funds suddenly halted that way. The Pentagon was "concerned."
Cooper told investigators that it was when Volker visited in August that he explained there was a "statement" that the Ukraine government could make to get the security money flowing.
It was the first she had heard of what is now the quid pro quo central to the impeachment inquiry — the administration's push for the Ukraine government to investigate Trump's political rivals as the funding was being withheld.
"Somehow an effort that he was engaged in to see if there was a statement that the government of Ukraine would make," she said, "that would somehow disavow any interference in U.S. elections and would commit to the prosecution of any individuals involved in election interference."
Cooper described the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, saying it involved a range of items such as night vision goggles, vehicles, sniper rifles and medical equipment.
"Security assistance is vital to helping the Ukrainians be able to defend themselves," Cooper said.
Because Ukraine and Georgia are two "front-line states" facing Russian aggression, the U.S. needed to "shore up these countries' abilities to defend themselves."
"It's in our interest to deter Russian aggression elsewhere around the world," she said.
Associated Press writers Alan Fram, Zeke Miller, Eric Tucker, Mike Balsamo, Matthew Daly and Laurie Kellman in Washington contributed to this report.
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'That 80's Toy Shop' in Tonawanda provides a dose of déjà vu
They buy, sell and trade vintage toys
By: Mike Randall
If you think your kids have a lot of toys, you haven't seen Dennis Aliviti's place. Last year Dennis opened 'That 80's Toy Shop' on Delaware Street in Tonawanda. The store is packed with familiar toy names like Star Wars, Transformers, Beanie Babies and Barbie. Dennis says he sold on line for a while, but took the plunge and opened this store when the vintage toy market started going wild. Dennis says his favorite toys when he was a child in the eighties was anything Star Wars. He adds "I think the eighties is the decade that defined pop culture and I think Star Wars did the same thing. They go hand in hand." Over the last year he's been pleased to see adults and kids enjoy the store. With all the big box toy stores closing, he decided to start selling new toys too. Dennis says "We have the newest hottest toys as well as vintage toys" adding "we want to cater to everybody from three years old to a hundred and three and just make it a fun experience." That 80's Toy Shop is at 645 Delaware St, Tonawanda , New York 14150 You can find them on Facebook and at their website.
TONAWANDA,NY (WKBW-TV) — If you think your kids have a lot of toys, you haven't seen Dennis Aliviti's place. Last year Dennis opened 'That 80's Toy Shop' on Delaware Street in Tonawanda. The store is packed with familiar toy names like Star Wars, Transformers, Beanie Babies and Barbie.
Dennis says he sold on line for a while, but took the plunge and opened this store when the vintage toy market started going wild.
Dennis says his favorite toys when he was a child in the eighties was anything Star Wars. He adds "I think the eighties is the decade that defined pop culture and I think Star Wars did the same thing. They go hand in hand."
Over the last year he's been pleased to see adults and kids enjoy the store. With all the big box toy stores closing, he decided to start selling new toys too. Dennis says "We have the newest hottest toys as well as vintage toys" adding "we want to cater to everybody from three years old to a hundred and three and just make it a fun experience."
That 80's Toy Shop is at 645 Delaware St, Tonawanda , New York 14150 You can find them on Facebook and at their website.
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Union goes after local chapter's family members for 'dues'
Court case erupts when statewide firefighters group demands $52,000
By WND Staff
A statewide union for firefighters in Connecticut is going after the family members of the leaders of a local chapter for allegedly past-due "dues."
They amount to some $52,000.
The dispute now has been escalated to court, where the Uniformed Professional Fire Fighters Association of Connecticut is fighting a claim from the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 825 that it illegally refused to stop billing the dues when Local 825 members disaffiliated.
And Local 825 members not only want a court to relieve them of the $52,000, they want returned another $96,000 that previously was paid to the state group because the UPFFA allegedly misused that money.
The details come from the Fairness Center, which works in cases involving union dues and representation.
The organization explained: "More than two years ago, New Haven, Connecticut's, International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 825, ended its membership in a state-wide union, the Uniformed Professional Fire Fighters Association of Connecticut (UPFFA). But since then, Local 825 has continued to receive bills for UPFFA membership dues – bills that now total over $52,000 and for which the UPFFA is demanding payment."
The report said, "Now, after two years of nonpayment, a collections agency is calling Local 825's leadership and their family members in an effort to collect [the] alleged 'back dues.'"
"State union bureaucrats who don't fight fires are trying to pick our pockets," said Frank Ricci, president of Local 825. "We left the state union more than two years ago, and they aren't entitled to a cent from us since then – especially after they betrayed our trust by misusing our money. Because the state union won't honor our choice to leave, we’re asking the court to step in. We are risking our lives to fight for the community. We shouldn't also have to fight state union bureaucrats."
It was Local 825 that went to court when the demands for the dues elevated.
It is asking the Superior Court of Connecticut, New Haven District, to affirm its right to disaffiliate, to order UPFFA to recognize the disassociation, and to stop UPFFA from trying to collect funds.
"Additionally, Local 825 – which recently learned that UPFFA was misappropriating its dues before Local 825 disassociated – will request that UPFFA return a portion of dues from prior years," the Fairness Center said.
That amount, court records show, comes to about $96,000.
The union local was a "legislative member" of the state group, a category that provides for limited rights but does provide for legislative lobbying services to the local.
After a time, the local "started questioning the value of its affiliation with the statewide union. For one, Local 825 and its firefighters were paying 'dues' to be a UPFFA legislative member, and Local 825 believed those legislative membership dues were high for the local union and its firefighters given what they believed to be the low return on their investment. Ricci also discovered that those dues went to support a key UPFFA political position with which Local 825 disagreed," the center said.
So it notified the state union, but that group, despite acknowledging the decision, continued to send bills for dues.
About the same time, the local found the UPFFA had been "using Local 825's dues to engage in labor activity completely unrelated to UPFFA's legislative services."
Most recently, the state group filed a motion asking the court to strike the complaint, alleging that it doesn't include the international union as a case participant.
Local 825 contends participation by the IAFF is completely unnecessary.
It explains the international union "allows its affiliates to have its own unique relationship with state affiliate unions and, more specifically, does not require affiliate local unions, including Local 825, to affiliate with UPFFA."
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European Commission 'in denial' over Patriot Act loophole
Exclusive: One prominent member of the European Parliament describes how the Commission is effectively in denial over the reach of U.S. law on European citizens.
By Zack Whittaker for London Calling | January 25, 2012 -- 06:03 GMT (22:03 PST) | Topic: Government : UK
Think back to the turbulence, the protest and the anger to SOPA and PIPA. The U.S. public was up in arms, and the worldwide online community was too.
European citizens, in comparison, are complacent and unfazed -- considering the fact that the U.S. government can access European-based cloud-stored data.
It is understood that updated European data protection laws may not fully patch the holes left by intrusive U.S. and other third-country law. The European Commission appears to have no intention of doing anything proactively about the problem.
As Viviane Reding, European Justice Commissioner, unveiled the new Data Protection Regulation that will affect over 700 million Europeans, and have an impact on a global scale, remaining answers over third-country law remain unclear.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have in recent months enquired about the reach of third-country law, particularly that of the United States with FISA and the Patriot Act, on European citizens.
It was long believed that U.S. foreign and counter-terrorism policy could affect Europeans and others outside U.S. jurisdiction. But theory became fact when Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK, admitted to ZDNet last year that "no company" could guarantee European data would not be handed back to U.S. law enforcement.
After a series of letters and questions to the Commission sent by MEPs --- asking for clarification on the laws --- received a long-awaited response on Tuesday.
Sophie in 't Veld, Dutch MEP and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee, told me last night by phone that MEPs had asked yesterday whether Commissioner Reding intended to reply to the three letters that ask for clarification on the reach of U.S. law.
"The answer is no," in 't Veld said. "They have a statutory obligation to reply, but my questions were 'too difficult' and they could not appear to reach an agreement in the Commission."
"It's beyond disappointing. It's close to absurd." She highlighted that the Regulation has been "watered down considerably, notably on the point of data jurisdiction".
"But apart from the new proposed legislation, we have existing legislation in force. It is being ignored by our own governments and the European Commission, and it is being violated as I speak, and the Commission does not intend to move on the issue," in 't Veld said.
"What is the point in proposing new legislation if our own executive body [the Commission] is not going to enforce it? Imagine if this were the Chinese. Would we still be so complacent?" she added.
The European Commission is between a rock and a hard place. It could admit to the failings of the previous 1995 Data Protection Directive and face possible litigation and court action from ordinary citizens and businesses. Or, it could slam the U.S. government for having far-reaching laws and bypassing European legislation, make changes, and face the wrath of businesses worldwide.
But it appears it will do neither. Instead it will probably push ahead with silent reforms in the Regulation instead, in a bid to please all parties. All parties excluding its own Parliament, that is.
If the Commission does not understand the issue of jurisdiction itself, it cannot rule on it. If they cannot rule on it, it cannot enforce the law. If the industry --- notably Microsoft in this case, as it was the first to publicly admit the legal inequalities between the U.S. and Europe --- is aware and has the technical knowledge to understand it, along with this then 22-year-old columnist, surely an executive body of 27 member states should too.
Granted, undergoing a secondary search every time you enter the United States because you were critical over a government's counter-terrorism laws and policies may feel as intrusive on a personal level, particularly if your BlackBerry and your laptop were plugged in and its contents downloaded, and your hand luggage thoroughly searched.
But the fact that European companies are outsourcing vast swathes of data to the borderless cloud, through subsidiary European companies --- like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and even Facebook --- gives the U.S. government unprecedented access to the personal, private, and secret data that we, and other companies, unwittingly upload.
It's not as though the Norwegians haven't complained about it. Or the Dutch, for that matter. Or BAE Systems, come to think of it.
The proposed Regulation will enter member states' legal systems by 2014---2015. Until then, emergency legislation is being proposed in the European Parliament in order to fix the 'loophole' that allows the U.S. government and law enforcement access to European cloud-stored data.
"Companies passing on European data to U.S. authorities still have to comply with EU law. Not in the future, but today”, in 't Veld affirmed.
A lot is still yet to change, so businesses should take heed of the warnings today. The rules need to be approved by European member states and the European Parliament before they can come into effect. This could mean heavy amendments or outright rejection.
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Chambersburg Hospital Sets New Standard for Environmental Cleanliness; Decreases C. diff Infection Rates with Germ-Zapping Robots
Chambersburg, PA – September 19, 2018 – Chambersburg Hospital received the Healthgrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ (2017 and 2018) while also being named one of Healthgrades America’s 100 Best Hospitals™ for Coronary Intervention, Orthopedic Surgery, Pulmonary Care, and Critical Care in 2018. As evidence of its ongoing commitment to patient safety, Chambersburg Hospital invested in state-of-the-art Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots for room disinfection and make their utilization its environmental standard of care.
LightStrike robots emit intense, pulsed xenon ultraviolet (UV) light that quickly and effectively disinfects patient rooms of hard to kill pathogens such as Clostridium difficile (C. diff), Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). After a room is manually cleaned by a member of the hospital’s Environmental Services team, a robot is wheeled in and run for 5 minutes on each side of the patient bed. The robot bathes the room in intense UV light, leaving any remaining pathogens nowhere to hide. The robot does not require warm-up or cool-down time, so once a disinfection cycle is finished it is immediately available for transport to the next room.
“The microorganisms that cause infections are becoming resistant to cleaning chemicals and antibiotics, so we recognized the need for new weapons to fight them. We are using the LightStrike robots on our 6 highest risk units after every discharge to provide a properly disinfected room for the next patient. So far, we have seen a 50{a7dbd90b9ffe087840aba08710c78edd3b62ca0d1e957cc3862d95b1204bafc3} reduction in C. diff rates and we are very proud of the work our team is doing to get our patients home as quickly and safely as possible,” says Ruth Freshman, Infection Preventionist at Chambersburg Hospital.
Chambersburg Hospital originally purchased three robots and closely monitored utilization and the robots’ impact on infection rates. After seeing initial positive infection reduction results, they added three more robots to disinfect additional rooms and areas within the facility. With the rise of superbugs, hospitals are increasingly adopting LightStrike pulsed xenon UV technology as standard of care to help ensure a clean and safe environment for their patients. LightStrike robots are now in over 400 hospitals, and the robots have been credited in multiple peer-reviewed, published studies with helping hospitals decrease C.diff, MRSA and Surgical Site Infection rates by 46{a7dbd90b9ffe087840aba08710c78edd3b62ca0d1e957cc3862d95b1204bafc3} – 100{a7dbd90b9ffe087840aba08710c78edd3b62ca0d1e957cc3862d95b1204bafc3}.
“We are honored to be one of Chambersburg Hospital’s infection prevention partners,” says Irene Hahn, vice president of sales and account management for Xenex. “After carefully reviewing the scientific evidence from other facilities that are using LightStrike robots, Chambersburg Hospital made the initial investment to deploy our technology. Within a few months, they see saw a positive impact on their infection rates and expanded the program. The robots have paid for themselves as a result of fewer infections – which is what we consistently hear from other hospitals around the U.S. We are proud to honor them as a Visionary Hospital for the outstanding work they are doing to set new standards for patient care.”
According to Xenex, Visionary Hospitals are defined as hospitals that 1. Make patient safety a top priority; 2. Seek out and implement technologies with multiple proven outcomes published in peer reviewed publications; 3. Follow manufacturer recommended best practices; 4. Publicize and share results to improve best practices for all hospitals; 5. Openly share their data for their benefit and the benefit of all mankind.
About Chambersburg Hospital
Chambersburg Hospital is part of Summit Health, a nonprofit health system that is dedicated to building a healthier community. As Franklin County’s leading healthcare provider, Summit Health operates two award-winning hospitals in Chambersburg and Waynesboro, 33 outpatient specialty and primary-care practices throughout Franklin County, lab and imaging services, a fitness center, and two walk-in care centers. Visit SummitHealth.org.
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Xenex’s patented Full SpectrumTM pulsed xenon UV room disinfection system is used for the advanced disinfection of healthcare facilities. Due to its speed and ease of use, the Xenex system has proven to integrate smoothly into hospital cleaning operations. Xenex’s mission is to save lives and reduce suffering by destroying the deadly microorganisms that cause hospital acquired infections (HAIs). The company is backed by well-known investors that include EW Healthcare Partners, Piper Jaffray Merchant Services, Malin Corporation, Battery Ventures, Tectonic Ventures, Targeted Technology Fund II and RK Ventures. For more information, visit Xenex.com.
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Barangays of Santo Niño in the South Cotabato province within REGION XII (Soccsksargen) in the Republic of The Philippines
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Philippines, is the only country in the world which is 85% Catholic that created FIVE(5) national laws "favoring", "respecting" and "financing" the religion of ISLAM.
Then made it unlawful to finance all other religions.
The only country in the world that has a government commission that caters to Muslims only, for the hajj, for madrasas, and the spread of Islam at government's expense PAID by the taxes of Non-Muslims.
Religion is always good for the people but it should never be embraced or financed by government. Tax exemption is not tantamount to financing. Every non-profit organization is tax-exempt.
List of Municipalities in the South Cotabato province within REGION XII (Soccsksargen) in the Republic of The Philippines
Banga | Lake Sebu | Norala | Polomolok | Santo Niño | Surallah | Tampakan | Tantangan | T'boli | Tupi
Cities within the Province of South Cotabato: General Santos City (Dadiangas)-Chartered City | Koronadal City (Capital)
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How to get the best out of the Malunggay
Moringa (Malungay) leaves compared to common foods
Values per 100gm. edible portion
Vitamin A 6780 mcg Carrots: 1890 mcg
Vitamin C 220 mg Oranges: 30 mg
Calcium 440 mg Cow's milk: 120 mg
Potassium 259 mg Bananas: 88 mg
Protein 6.7 gm Cow's milk: 3.2 gm
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Santo Niño within South Cotabato province
Location of South Cotabato within the island of Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
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Santo Niño Municipality Hall
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Santo Niño,
South Cotabato Province, Philippines
1 Geography of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
2 Location of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
3 History of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
4 People of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
5 Elected Government Officials of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
6 Businesses in Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
7 Real Estate for Sale in Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
8 Churches, Mosques, or Places of Worship in Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
9 Schools in Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
10 Economy of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
10.1 Jobs in Santo Niño, South Cotabato
11 Natural Resources of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
12 Tourists Attractions of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
13 Festivals, Fiestas and Traditions of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
14 Your Story about Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
15 The oldest man or woman in Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
16 Sports News of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
17 News and Events
18 Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines supports Philippine Cycling
19 Santo Niño, South Cotabato Photo Gallery
20 Disclaimer
Geography of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
Geography of Santo Niño
Location of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
Santo Niño is located ....
History of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
The beginning of Santo Niño
People of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
Total Population of Santo Niño as of 2015 census: 40,947
Total Population of Santo Niño as of May 1, 2010 census: 39,738
Elected Government Officials of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
The Sangguniang Panlungsod is composed of the City (Municipality) Vice-Mayor as Presiding Officer, regular Sanggunian members (Councilors), the President of the Association of Barangay Captains and the President of the Sangguniang Kabataan.
They shall exercise and perform the legislative powers and duties as provided for under Republic Act No. 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991. Shall consider and conduct thorough study all matters brought to their attention and consequently pass resolutions, enact ordinances and to introduce recommendations.
Budget of Municipalities and Cities: The Philippine budget formulation system is not centralized. It has been decentralized since 1991. It is the responsibility of each LGU to submit their budgetary needs for review. Failure to submit is the problem. "IMPERIAL MANILA IS A MYTH!".
Absolutely NO need for FEDERALISM. It is a ploy to give the Bangsamoro an Islamic State and finance the religion of Islam. It violates the constitution's "separation of church and state". We need a representation of a MINIMUM of one SENATOR per REGION..
Contrary to Pres. Duterte's ranting (July 2019): Elected public officials can't be suspended by the DILG or the office of the president. Republic Act 7160 chapter 4.
Elected officials of Santo Niño for the term of 2016-2019
Mayor of Santo Niño: Pablo Matinong Jr.
Vice-Mayor of Santo Niño: Sulpicio Villalobos
Councilors of Santo Niño:
Wilfredo Dimzon
Joel Baradas
Ernesto Funa Jr.
Nelson Segura
Helen Fale
Allan Villarin
James Octaviano
Dante Baylosis
Mayor of Santo Niño: DAMANDAMAN, TONY (UNA) UNITED NATIONALIST ALLIANCE
Vice-Mayor of Santo Niño: VILLARIN, JOHN ALLAN (UNA) UNITED NATIONALIST ALLIANCE
VILLALOBOS, SOLLY (UNA) UNITED NATIONALIST ALLIANCE 6675 13.94%
FRINAL, JOFFREY (UNA) UNITED NATIONALIST ALLIANCE 6237 13.03%
SOLAS, SANCHO (UNA) UNITED NATIONALIST ALLIANCE 6146 12.84%
CORDERO, GERRY (UNA) UNITED NATIONALIST ALLIANCE 6125 12.79%
FUNA, ESTONG (UNA) UNITED NATIONALIST ALLIANCE 5944 12.41%
BIADOMA, EDUARDO (UNA) UNITED NATIONALIST ALLIANCE 5758 12.03%
PALACIO, NARDS (UNA) UNITED NATIONALIST ALLIANCE 5547 11.59%
FIRMALINO, LYDIA (UNA) UNITED NATIONALIST ALLIANCE 5446 11.37%
Mayor of Santo Niño: Antonio Frias Damandaman
Vice-Mayor of Santo Niño: John Allan Legreso Villarin
Sulpicio Flores Villalobos
Geronimo Caras Cordero Jr.
Rey Mamon Madres
Joffrey Faso Frinal
Sancho Mamon Solas
Eduardo Janeo Biadoma
Lydia Salazar Firmalino
Leonardo Boteres Palacio
Businesses in Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
How to Improve Your Business and Livelihood
The Philippine Livelihood Program: The Philippine government provides several programs to enhance the livelihood of the Filipino people. The department of Science and Technology through its Technology Research Center (TRC) regurlarly conducts various types of hands-on and personalized training programs.
DOST - Website
UPLiFT stands for Urban Program for Livelihood Finance and Training. - Website
DSWD Pro-poor and Livelihood Programs - Website
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Restaurants, Carenderias, Coffee Shops, and Bakeries (Bakeshops)
Salons, Spas, Beauty Shops and Barber Shops
Gas Stations, Water Stations, Propane Stations
Real Estate for Sale in Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
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Churches, Mosques, or Places of Worship in Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
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FILIPINOS WAKE UP! THE TAXES YOU PAID ARE USED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO EXCLUSIVELY FINANCE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM.
Freedom of religion, yes. Equality, yes. But no favoritism.
Schools in Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
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School year 2018-2019 starts Monday, Monday, June 4, 2018 and ends on Friday, April 5, 2019, for public elementary and secondary schools. The School Year shall consist of 208 school days inclusive of the five-day In-Service Training and the three days for the Parent-Teacher Conferences (PTC) conducted within the school year. However, learners are expected to be in school for a total of 200 class days.
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PUBLIC NOTICE: Why pretend that the National language of the Philippines is Tagalog? It should be English. To be a Teacher, doctor, lawyer, engineer, architect, nurse, computer technician; what books do you learn from? English books of course. All your tests are in English. The constitution of the Philippines is written in English. All the laws and new laws introduced by congress are in English. For that matter, you can't be a teacher in a school system unless you know English. The "Licensure Exam for Teachers" is in ENGLISH! Who are these people forcing Tagalog down our throats? Tagalog is simply one of the many dialects of the Philippines. Keep your dialects but learn and be proficient in ENGLISH.
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Economy of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
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Jobs in Santo Niño, South Cotabato
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Natural Resources of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
Sewer Systems of the Philippines
It is sad but true that as of the year 2012 the rivers of the Philippines continue to be the #1 Sewer Systems of the Philippines.
Protect & Save the Rivers. Do not let your sewer drain into the river. Your community can be the first to initiate this project.
Build your riverbank protection with a built-in gutter system. Reforest within Ten Years - Guaranteed!
Plant More Trees
Let us plant more trees in every barangay in the entire Philippines. It does not make any difference if the barangay is urban, partially urban or rural; we need more trees. Trees will prevent erosion, provide oxygen, prevent green house effect, and even a place of business for the shade tree mechanic.
The Philippines is a tropical country and practically anything will grow. The DENR has the planting trees project that goes on every year. Lots of picture taking for the media. Planting trees one by one is the "human" way of doing it. This individual planting of trees is good if done to "line" the roads and highways with trees or along fences or property divisions, or if you have a plantation.
To reforest the nation of the Philippines we have to plant trees the "mother nature" way. Sow the seeds during the rainy season. Go deep into "bald" forests and plant trees by sowing seeds. If there's not enough volunteers to do this, use the military helicopters to fly over the designated areas and sow the seeds.
Guaranteed within a few years, The Philippines will be lush again. >>Read More
Save The Rivers in the Philippines. They are Dying.
We are using our rivers as our sewer system. If you ask a Filipino, "Are the Filipinos a clean people?" The answer is an automatic, "Yes!". However, the Filipinos are suffering from the same disease or attitude as most people do, and that is the "NIMBY" disease or "NIMBY" attitude. (NIMBY) Not In My Back Yard. So it is OK to dump my garbage and sewer there. Not mine! Someone else will take care of it.
This attitude is killing our rivers. Your great-grandparents, grandparents or parents were once proud to tell the stories of how they enjoyed swimming in the river behind your house or nearby. However, you can't say the same or tell the same stories to your kids or grand kids. Why? Because your generation is killing the river.
Secretary Roy Cimatu - since May 8, 2017
Visayas Avenue, Diliman, 1100 Quezon City, Philippines
osec@denr.gov.ph
We have so much water in the Philippines and yet very little to drink.
Instead of relying too much on Diesel fuel and Coal to generate the majority of Philippine's Electrical energy Supply, we can concentrate more on renewable and sustainable source of energy such as: Hydro Power, Solar Power, and Wind Power and thermal energy conversion. We have too many black outs.
Tourists Attractions of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
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Festivals, Fiestas and Traditions of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
In the Philippines a fiesta is usually celebrated in barrios or barangays. It is the official holiday of the LGU, the barangay. Filipinos love fiestas. It is a time for joy and celebration. A fiesta is of Spanish origin and is usually commemorated in association with a christian patron saint. Most barangays whose population have been clustered by Muslims(Moros) and their population is more than that of the Christians, the celebration of the fiesta have been cancelled and replaced with the Hari Raya or Eid al-Fitr.
The cities or municipalities usually have yearly festivals where all the barangays participate. The cities or municipalities hold contests for the best floats in parades.
Your Story about Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
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The oldest man or woman in Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
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Sports News of Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines
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Inaugural triathlon at New Clark City set
Monday, August 16, 2019 12:00 am
MANILA, Philippines — All is set for the New Clark City Triathlon which is the first triathlon event to be held at the New Clark City Sports Complex in Capas, Tarlac on Oct. 19-20.
GoClark Sports and Events has partnered with presenting sponsor Robinsons Land Corp. in this triathlon featuring the swim event at the Aquatics Center, the 20km bike in the newly built New Clark City-SCTex connecting road and the run course in the sports complex, including the warm-up athletic track, the river park and a finish lap around the 20,000-seater Athletics Stadium ............................... Full Story»
6% growth target stays
Monday, Septembe 16, 2019
The Department of Finance (DOF) said the government is maintaining its growth target of six percent or higher this year, even as the economy settled at only 5.5 percent growth in the first semester given the delay in the enactment of the 2019 General Appropriations Act (GAA).
Carlos Dominguez, finance secretary, also said to avoid a repeat of the 2019 budget delay, leaders of both the Senate and the House of Representatives are meeting every month to monitor the progress on the budget and the 25 priority bills enumerated in the 4th State-of-the-Nation Address ........... Full Story»
Stocks up, peso stronger
Share prices ended higher yesterday as investors tracked overseas leads to trade the market.
The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) was up 70.20 points to 7,858.65, a 0.9 percent hike ........... Full Story»
Santo Niño, South Cotabato, Philippines supports Philippine Cycling
Philippine Cycling is about cycling in the Philippnes. Philippine Cycling helps promote bike races, cycling clubs, bicycle tours, and the development of bicycle trails. Activities are coordinated with bike shops and cycling clubs throughout the Philippines to promote the fun of riding bikes. Philippine Cycling will be coordinating events with tour of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Road biking and mountain bikings will be promoted by Philippine Cycling.
Cycling Activity to Participate In
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ILOILO CITY, April 27-May 2, 2015 (PNA) – Some 5,000 bikers are expected to join the second Iloilo Bike Festival slated April 27-May 2, 2015 as the city continues to aspire to become a bike-able walkable metropolis. The activity that supported by the John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University (JBLFMU) and Megaworld Iloilo aims to promote Iloilo as a safe and bike friendly city, promote the share-a-road movement encourage Ilonggos to commute via biking and raise Ilonggos awareness on the benefits of biking on health, safety and environment concerns. Read More....
CYCLING Le Tour de Filipinas 2015 set as country celebrates 60 years of top-caliber cycling Feb 1 to Feb 4 2015 - View the result of the race: A four stage race. Stage 1 starts in Balanga and back to Balanga for a 126K race Feb 1, 2015 (Sunday); stage 2 starts in Balanga, Bataan to Iba, Zambales for a 154.7 K race Feb 2, 2015 (Monday); stage 3 starts in Iba, Zambales to Lingayen, Pangasinan for a 150.1K race Feb 3, 2015 (Tuesday); stage 4 starts in Lingayen, Pangasinan to Baguio City, Benguet for a 101.7K race Feb 4, 2015 (Wednesday). For a total distance of 532.5 Kms. Read More >>>
Ronda Pilipinas: Feb 8 - 27 2015:>> Discovering young riders for the national team will be the main objective of the LBC Ronda Pilipinas 2015 when the country’s premiere cycling race hits the road on Feb. 8 in Butuan City. Ronda Pilipinas executive project director Moe Chulani said the international multistage bikathon, which ends on Feb. 27, will have two qualifying legs of four stages each in Mindanao and the Visayas where the top riders will advance to face a tough foreign challenge in the six-stage Luzon finale. Read More>>>
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INSIDE THE PROGRAM: FBCA soccer on the brink; photo gallery
VYPE Girls Basketball Rankings: January 7
With all the holiday tournaments over and teams in the midst of district play, it was time for VYPE to take a look at its basketball rankings and freshen them up.
VYPE's Preseason No. 1 team Cypress Creek has been unbelievable. The Cougars are 25-0 overall and are absolutely rolling. Behind them the rest of the city falls in line with some ultra-talented teams in the mix.
In the private school ranks, The Village School has been crazy good, going 23-5 so far. But that should be no surprise to anyone with the talent on that roster.
Check out the Top 10 Public School and Top 5 Private School girls basketball teams in the city below.
VYPE's TOP 10 - Public School
1. Cypress Creek Cougars (25-0) (Prev. 1)
- Cypress Creek has been absolutely rolling this season. The Cougars have been blowing the doors off opponents of late. In the last few games, Cypress Creek defeated Northbrook (72-17) and Spring Woods (67-10) and has been dominant.
2. Atascocita Eagles (23-3) (Prev. 4)
- Atascocita has been impressive this year, especially coming off a 65-48 victory over rival Summer Creek. That is a big district win for Atascocita.
3. Fort Bend Hightower Hurricanes (21-4) (Prev. 3)
- The Hurricanes got a nice win over Foster, 42-39, on December 31. Destini Lombard is leading the team in scoring, followed by Zaria Johnson. They have a big showdown against Shadow Creek tonight.
4. Cypress Ranch Mustangs (20-3) (Prev. 5)
- Cy Ranch has been solid, outscoring opponents 370-236 in district play to move to 7-0 thus far. The last two losses for Cy Ranch have been to Mansfield Legacy and Centennial, which came at the Spring Creek Invitational. Riane Burton is leading the team in scoring, followed by Shadiya Thomas.
5. Summer Creek Bulldogs (18-4) – (Prev. 2)
- Summer Creek is coming off its first district loss of the year, which came at the hands of Atascocita this past week. The Bulldogs should be able to right the ship against Sam Rayburn on Tuesday with South Houston next on Friday.
6. Clear Springs (18-6) – (Prev. Unranked)
- Clear Springs was impressive in the VYPE-Aldine ISD Holiday Hoops Classic, where they made it to the semifinals of the winners' bracket. A six-point loss to Heights prevented them from moving on to the title game of the tourney. Kylie Minter has been impressive, averaging 14.4 points per game, while Jermia Green is averaging 13.2 points per game.
7. Clear Falls (21-5) (Prev. Unranked)
- Clear Falls has been good this season, winning 21 games. In district before the holiday break they fell to Clear Springs, 62-56. Since then they are coming off three-straight wins over Clear Brook, Dawson and Dickinson. Clear Falls' scoring has been even between Alexis Clayborne (11.1 ppg/6 rpg), Niah Richard (11 ppg) and Josephine Adegbite (10.8 ppg). That is a triple-headed threat that if going all that same time will be hard to stop.
8. Oak Ridge (19-3) – (Prev. Unranked)
- Oak Ridge has been a bit of a surprise this year, the play of Mersadez Nephew has been key to their success. Nephew has been averaging 18.1 points per game and 5.1 rebounds. Behind her has been Nicole Petrakovitz, who is putting up 14.6 points per game This week will be a big test for Oak Ridge, facing Klein and Conroe, which is 6-0 in district play entering this week.
9. Barbers Hill (20-4) – (Prev. Unranked)
- First-year Barbers Hill coach Bryan Harris has his team rolling. The Eagles are 20-4 overall and 3-0 in district play. Harris came over from Manvel in the offseason and has brought a spark to a team that went 17-12 a year ago and eventually lost in the first round of the playoffs.
10. Shadow Creek (19-4) – (Prev. No. 6)
- This may be the showdown of the week in the city of Houston. Shadow Creek will try and take an undefeated district mark into its game against Fort Bend Hightower on Friday night. If that is a meeting of two undefeated district mates, that will be fun. Bre'yon White has been really good this year, averaging 12.5 points and 6.1 rebounds per game. Behind her has been R'Mani Taylor, who is averaging 12.3 points per night.
Others to Watch: Magnolia West, Langham Creek, Waller
Private School Top 5
1. The Village School (24-3)
2. Fort Bend Christian Academy (14-5)
3. Episcopal (13-5)
4. Concordia Lutheran (12-11)
5. St. Agnes (12-11)
Others to Watch - Kinkaid, Lutheran North, John Cooper, Second Baptist, Lutheran South
Through the Lens: Fort Bend Christian competes at VYPE-Aldine Holiday Hoops Classic
HOUSTON - Fort Bend Christian Academy traveled up the road to compete in the 2019 VYPE-Aldine ISD Holiday Hoops Classic presented by the United States Marine Corps over the past weekend.
The Eagles finished the weekend 1-2 in bracket play, falling to Manvel (69-59) and Village School (74-65) but pulled out a victory against Aldine, winning 61-38.
Jared Bohny had a standout weekend for the Eagles, averaging 15.3 points per game. Bohny scored 18 points on two different occasions for FBCA. In the win against Aldine, Owen LaRocca finished with a team-leading 24 points.
Check out some of the best pics of FBCA from the weekend below by VYPE Media's Bradley Collier.
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Somonauk Man Injured in DeKalb County Crash
June 13, 2018 Local Headlines
HINCKLEY – A man was seriously injured after a single vehicle accident that sent his car through the air into a power pole before landing in a creek. According to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Tuesday afternoon south of Hinckley 40-year-old Jeffery Atwell of Somonauk was ...Read more
Danville Man shot by Police
DANVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say police officers in eastern Illinois fatally shot a man when he didn’t drop a gun after they stopped his vehicle. The (Danville) Commercial-News reports the shooting happened about 2 a.m. Tuesday after Danville officers responded to a call about a man ...Read more
One Solar Farm Approved Out of Three
OTTAWA – Petitions for solar farms were on the agenda at the LaSalle County Board meeting Monday afternoon with only one winning approval. The construction of three solar farms were discussed and voted for with special conditions for one. Approval for the construction of a solar farm in ...Read more
LaSalle County Board Passes Resolution to Combat Opioids
OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Board on Monday passed a resolution retaining a law firm to take part in multi-district litigation against pharmaceutical companies and distributors. The resolution would allow the county to pursue in federal court lawsuits against manufacturers and ...Read more
Princeton Police Investigate Saturday Robbery
PRINCETON – A robbery Saturday afternoon in Princeton is being investigated by authorities. Princeton Police were called to the 600 block of North Main Street for a report of an armed robbery. According to the police, witnesses say a man entered and claimed he had a weapon and demanded ...Read more
One Killed in Rural LaSalle County Crash
MENDOTA – A teen from Utica was killed after an apparent single vehicle crash Sunday morning outside of Mendota. Authorities were called Sunday morning to an intersection near North 3973rd and North 4009th Road for a car that had struck a tree. According to the LaSalle County ...Read more
Wet Weekend Brings Upwards of Half Foot of Rain
OTTAWA – A wet and rainy weekend filled with numerous bands of showers and thunderstorms caused minor flooding in areas and some roads to temporarily close. The National Weather Service reports that some areas received for 6″ of rain in the last 48 hours, including many areas in Lee, ...Read more
Streator City Council to Tour Trail Project
STREATOR – The Vermillion Trail project along the river will get a visit from the City Council on Tuesday. A tour from the city contractor responsible for the Greenway Project will be taking suggestions from the Park Board and Council. The plan, to create a nature trail through Streator ...Read more
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Kinigeria actor turned politician Desmond Elliot in Kampala for Commonwealth MPs conference
by Mike Ssegawa
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Nigeria actor turned politician is among delegates at the 64th CPC
Nigerian actor turned politician Desmond Eliot is in Kampala as one of the delegates for attending the 64th Commonwealth parliamentary conference happening this week at the Commonwealth Resort Munyonyo.
Desmond Eliot, a gifted actor, is the MP representing Surulere 1 constituency in Lagos state. The actor with more than 200 appearances joined politics in 2014 on the ticket of All Progressives Congress.
Desmond has checked in Speke Resort Munyonyo and will be attending conferences at Commonwealth Resort among VIPs from across the former British colonies.
The conference opened on Monday with meetings of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) regional secretaries, the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians steering committee meeting as well as the small branches steering committee and the governance review working group.
The 64th Conference in Kampala is running under the theme; “Adaption, engagement and evolution of Parliament’s in a rapidly changing Commonwealth’’. It is expected to close on September 29.
The conference brings together speakers, and delegates from former British colonies and territories.
Elliot is a Nigerian actor, director, and politician who has starred in over two hundred films and a number of television shows and soap operas. He was born on February 4, 1974 in Lagos city Nigeria. In 2003, he married his sweet Victoria, a Mathematics graduate.
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ReVIDA Recovery Centers aims to reduce NAS
by: WATE 6 staff
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – The ReVIDA Recovery Centers Knoxville celebrated a grand opening and open house for its new location on Highland Avenue.
The opioid use disorder treatment center’s CEO recently pledged to reduce Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) in a partnership with 180 Health Partners.
According to the Tennessee Department of Health, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) “is a condition in which an infant undergoes withdrawal from a substance in which he or she was exposed to in-utero.” In 2017, the Tennessee Department of Health recorded 1,090 cases of NAS. However, Tennessee experienced the first decrease of children born with NAS in 2018 after a 5-year rise.
“We’re so excited to partner with 180 Health Partners at our Knoxville location,” said Lee Dilworth, CEO of ReVIDA Recovery Centers. “This partnership will allow our Knoxville clinic to provide the highest quality of care possible for our patients. We look forward to this partnership helping expecting mothers who have been harmed by the opioid epidemic reclaim their lives.”
The new Knoxville location can help with that mission.
The grand opening of the treatment center Wednesday was also supported by the Knoxville Chamber.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) - Is there post-holiday excess lingering in your home? Are you overwhelmed by just a little too much clutter?
If your closets, garage, attic, and office are filled to the rafters, it might be time for a reset.
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SEATTLE (AP) - The U.S. has its first case of a new virus that was found only last month in China. A U.S. citizen who recently returned from a trip to central China has been diagnosed with the new virus.
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343. THE TASTE OF TEA (2004)
August 2, 2018 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies) 2 Comments
Cha no aji
UNCLE: It’s a pretty good story, right?
HAJIME: Yeah, weird… but cool.
—The Taste of Tea
DIRECTED BY: Katsuhito Ishii
FEATURING: Takahiro Satô, Satomi Tezuka, Tadanobu Asano, Maya Banno, Tatsuya Gashûin, Tomokazu Miura, Ikki Todoroki, Anna Tsuchiya
PLOT: A Taste of Tea follows the Haruno family living in rural Japan. The young son has his first crush; the young daughter has a giant doppelganger only she can see; the mother is attempting a comeback in her career as an anime artist; the father is a hypnotist who sends his subjects on psychedelic trips; and a visiting uncle is still melancholy from a romance that ended years ago. A grandfather with a thick gray unibrow and a permanent cowlick watches over the clan while practicing strange poses and singing nonsense songs.
The title may come from a quote by the ancient Chinese poet Lu Tong, who said, “I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.”
Hideaki Anno (of “Neon Genesis” series fame) appears in a cameo as the anime director.
This was Katsuhito Ishii‘s third feature film, but the first to attract much attention outside Japan. It played at Cannes and won awards at smaller festivals. Ishii had just come off directing the animated sequences for Quentin Tarantino‘s Kill Bill. His next project, 2004’s Funky Forest, was even weirder and more random than Tea.
INDELIBLE IMAGE: Little Sachicko’s giant double, who silently and mysteriously watches her as she goes about her daily routine.
THREE WEIRD THINGS: Forehead train; giant doppelganger; egg-head yakuza
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: Katsuhito Ishii revamps the least weird genre of cinema, the familial drama, with gently surreal CGI and a narrative that wanders off into mildly scatological yakuza ghost stories, psychedelic hypnotism, and in-progress anime rushes, all watched over by a giant mute schoolgirl.
Clip from The Taste of Tea (2004)
COMMENTS: The family in The Taste of Tea do drink tea, occasionally, but they never comment on its taste. The film itself, however, Continue reading 343. THE TASTE OF TEA (2004) →
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CAPSULE: REDLINE (2009)
January 30, 2012 Alex Kittle 2 Comments
This review first appeared in a slightly different form at Film Forager.
DIRECTED BY: Takeshi Koike
FEATURING: Takuya Kamura, Yû Aoi, Tadanobu Asano
PLOT: Set in a distant future and moving between multiple planets, this is a fairly simple tale of a major road race taking place on a militaristic planet that doesn’t want it there. Racers “Sweet” JP, the big-haired underdog, and Sonoshee, a single-minded gearhead, are the main focus of the story.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Armed with an eclectic cast of alien characters and a host of over-the-top shenanigans, Redline might come off as “weird” to someone unfamiliar with anime, but I’d say the stranger humor and visuals fit in pretty squarely with other properties of the genre. It’s an imaginative and enormously entertaining film, just not especially Weird.
COMMENTS: The future laid out in Redline is certainly an intriguing one, if completely ludicrous. Hot shot reckless racer JP makes it to the titular big interstellar race, held on a militaristic planet that hasn’t consented to be the host. He cozies up to Sonoshee, a cute green-haired lady who is one of the most serious and intimidating drivers there, and together the two attempt to navigate a strange obstacle course against alien competitors (some with inexplicable magic powers) and large-scale weaponry. Squeezing in ESPN-like profiles of various racers—from an experienced cyborg who’s fused himself with his machine to a pair of scantily clad pop stars hailing from a magical princess planet—there’s some room for satire, too.
This movie is essentially all spectacle and adrenaline, with very little comprehensible or meaningful plot holding it together, but it’s not like the filmmakers are operating under any pretense of depth. They’ve created a gorgeously animated, pumped-up sci-fi thriller, and that’s all that’s needed! The characters are slick, and the vehicle designs slicker, with plenty of exaggerated personalities and colorful attachments for an engaging race line-up. Sure, there’s a silly romantic/secret-past subplot thrown in there, but it’s never taken very seriously. Various secondary stories are introduced, such as the military planet’s worker resistance and JP’s involvement in race-fixing, but the race itself remains the focus and it’s easy to forget that anything else is going on (the script certainly seems to by the end). The set-up can be confusing at times due to an influx of minor characters and limited explanation of the obviously complex political and environmental structures.
The strengths of Redline lie almost completely in its visuals and fast pacing. The dark shading and bright color schemes, the over-the-top hair styles and imaginative alien creatures, the quick-cut-editing and crazy landscapes: it’s all fantastically sweet eye-candy, set to an ecstatic musical score. It’s violent but fun, and there’s probably political commentary thrown in there somewhere. The script is cheesy at points, but vaguely self-aware. It’s just a very cool movie all around, rarely letting up for a moment in its quest to assault the senses with psychedelic imagery and revving engines.
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY:
“One of the most visually spectacular toons in recent years, pic is a thumping ride for fanboys, but the script’s underdeveloped central romance and the fizzling out of intriguing plot threads will impede wider acceptance… [Plays] like a twisted combo of “Death Race 2000,” “Speed Racer” and a ’50s hot-rod movie on steroids…”–Variety (contemporaneous)
2009ActionAnimeJapaneseKatsuhito IshiiRacingScience FictionTadanobu AsanoTakeshi Koike
31. FUNKY FOREST: THE FIRST CONTACT [NAISU NO MORI: THE FIRST CONTACT] (2005)
“Only appearing in your dream. Distorting every sound to create a world like to other. This is what they live for; jumping from one person’s dream to another. Once you have been chosen, you will lose all control of your dreams.”–from the script of Funky Forest: the First Contact
DIRECTED BY: Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Isimin (AKA Aniki), Shunichiro Miki
FEATURING: Tadanobu Asa, Ryo Kase, Susumu Terashima, and a large ensemble cast
PLOT: Funky Forest is a series of absurdist skits—including both computer generated and hand drawn animation segments and musical interludes—sharing some common characters and situations, thrown together in a blender. The movie features the interwoven antics of two squabbling TV comedians, a trio of brothers who are unpopular with women, an English teacher in love with a recently graduated student who sees him as a friend only, and a school where strange bloodsucking creatures are growing, among many other threads. The comic nonsense sketches and dreams are loosely tied together by references to visitations from “alien Piko-Rico.”
There is little hard information on this production that is available in English. Of the three credited co-directors, Katsuhito Ishii, who directed the majority of the sequences, is usually given most of the credit for assembling the collaborative project.
Ishii composed the animated sequences for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003) and had a minor arthouse hit with The Taste of Tea (2004).
Funky Forest is the first movie directing credit for Shunichiro Miki, whose only previous movie credit was a small acting role in The Taste of Tea. Miki directs commercials in Japan. He is responsible for the “monster” segments of the film.
Prior to Funky Forest, Hajime Isimin (who is also known as Aniki) had released one direct-to-video comedy in Japan and worked as the musical director on The Taste of Tea. He is responsible for the “Notti & Takefumi” sequences that contain the film’s major musical and dance numbers.
Funky Forest won the “Most Innovative Film Feature” award at the 2006 Toronto After Dark film festival.
INDELIBLE IMAGE: The still of the Japanese schoolgirl with a tube jammed into her navel hooked up to a strange machine encasing a large orifice while two strangely costumed men look on, from the segment titled “Wanna go for a drink?”, has already become an iconic image on the Internet. It’s the picture people post or email when they want to illustrate either 1. how weird the movie Funky Forest is, or 2. assuming the picture is from a mainstream Japanese soap opera, how weird they think the Japanese people in general are.
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: As the trailer indicates, Funky Forest‘s weird credentials are unimpeachable; if anything, this is a movie that’s almost too weird to be comprehensible, which is why it’s nice that it’s divided into small bites that can be digested independently. It works like a surrealist version of Altman’s Short Cuts.
Japanese language trailer for Funky Forest
COMMENTS: The opening paragraph of every review of Funky Forest is where critics get Continue reading 31. FUNKY FOREST: THE FIRST CONTACT [NAISU NO MORI: THE FIRST CONTACT] (2005) →
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Who is the best pound-for-pound MMA fighter in the world?
To determine the best fighter in the world, you need to take into account plenty of factors: form, skill, opposition and dominance, for example. So, if a champion defends his or her crown via a string of finishes, does that equal or better a run of decisions?
It’s a debate which rings around gyms, television studios, offices and of course pubs all over the world, and that’s exactly why Alistair Hendrie Sport will be releasing its pound-for-pound list at the start of every month.
To qualify for the list, a fighter should be considered active, so although Georges St-Pierre, for instance, is one of the most skilled and dominant fighters on the planet, he vacated his middleweight title, leaving him dormant for the moment.
Now that you know the criteria we’re looking for and pre-requisites for entry, take a look at the pound-for-pound best mixed martial artists in the world.
August 2018 - Men
1 – Daniel Cormier (USA) (205lbs) (+2)
2 – Demetrious Johnson (USA) (125lbs) (-1)
3 – Max Holloway (USA) (145lbs) (-1)
4 – Stipe Miocic (USA) (265lbs)
5 – Robert Whittaker (AUS) (185lbs)
6 – Tyron Woodley (USA) (170lbs)
7 – Khabib Nurmagomedov (RUS) (155lbs)
8 – Tony Ferguson (USA) (155lbs)
9 – TJ Dillashaw (USA) (135lbs)
10 – Jose Aldo (BRA) (145lbs)
11 – Cody Garbrandt (USA) (135lbs)
12 – Rafael dos Anjos (BRA) (170lbs)
13 – Dustin Poirier (USA) (155lbs) (+5)
14 – Yoel Romero (CUB) (185lbs) (-1)
15 – Robbie Lawler (USA) (170lbs)
16 – Dominic Cruz (USA) (135lbs)
17 – Brian Ortega (USA) (145lbs) (+1)
18 – Stephen Thompson (USA) (170lbs) (+1)
19 – Frankie Edgar (USA) (145lbs) (+1)
20 – Kevin Lee (USA) (155lbs) (+1)
21 – Kamaru Usman (NIG) (170lbs) (+1)
22 – Francis Ngannou (FRA) (265lbs)
23 – Marlon Moraes (BRA) (135lbs)
24 – Darren Till (GBR) (170lbs)
25 – Colby Covington (USA) (170lbs)
August 2018 - Women
1 – Amanda Nunes (BRA) (135lbs)
2 – Rose Namajunas (USA) (115lbs)
3 – Joanna Jedrzejczyk (POL) (115lbs)
4 – Cris Cyborg (BRA) (145lbs)
5 – Valentina Shevchenko (KYR) (125lbs)
6 – Jessica Andrade (BRA) (115lbs)
7 – Tecia Torres (USA) (115lbs)
8 – Holly Holm (USA) (145lbs)
9 – Raquel Pennington (USA) (135lbs)
10 – Claudia Gadhela (BRA) (115lbs)
11 – Nicco Montano (USA) (125lbs)
12 – Karolina Kowalkiewicz (POL) (115lbs)
16 – Carla Esparza (USA) (115lbs)
13 – Tonya Evinger (USA) (135lbs)
14 – Megan Anderson (USA) (135lbs)
15 – Barb Honchak (USA) (125lbs)
17 – Felice Herrig (USA) (115lbs)
18 – Cynthia Calvillo (USA) (115lbs)
19 – Germaine de Randamie (NED) (145lbs)
20 – Alexis Davis (CAN) (125lbs)
21 – Julliana Pena (USA) (135lbs)
22 – Angela Lee (CAN) (105lbs)
23 – Sara McMann (USA) (135lbs)
24 – Jennifer Maia (BRA) (125lbs)
25 – Liz Carmouche (USA) (125lbs) (NE)
Whether you agree or disagree with our standings, join in the discussion and let us know your pound-for-pound lists on Twitter.
World Cup 2018: French outwit Croatia in thrilling World Cup final
In a World Cup brimming with late drama, unforgettable goals and seismic upsets, would the final between France and Croatia live up to expectations? It certainly did. France emerged from 90 minutes of mayhem to win 4-2, clinching their second World Cup since their inaugural triumph in 1998 on home soil. Didier Deschamps’ men may be more functional than flamboyant, but that doesn’t matter when you have the burly Raphael Varane putting his body on the line in defence, the ice-cool N'Golo Kante anticipating every passage of play in midfield, and Kylian Mbappe sprinting past opponents with ease in attack.
At 2-1 down on the hour, Croatia drove forward with the kind of intensity that helped them overcome England and Russia after extra-time and penalties. Ivan Perisic should have gambled to convert Ivan Rakitic’s cross, while the unflappable Varane intervened when Perisic was through on goal again. Once France bagged a third though, through Paul Pogba’s deft finish, chaos ensued in a period which yielded three goals in ten minutes. The second of those came from France too, Mbappe slamming home to make it 4-1. Still the madness continued. France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris gifted Croatia a lifeline on 68 minutes, when Mario Mandzukic capitalised on the shot-stopper’s indecision to block the ball into the net from six yards.
Although France will savour their fourth trophy in a major tournament, it seems ironic that on a night when Mbappe became the first teenager to score at a World Cup final since Pele in 1958, Lloris on the other hand committed an error which may haunt him for the rest of his career. Individual performances aside, France were deserved champions, fending off the adventure and verve of Belgium in the semi-finals and Croatia in the decider. With that, Deschamps follows Mario Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer in grasping the World Cup as a player and a manager.
Croatia can come again, though. Zlatko Dalic’s men played with a fierce togetherness throughout their stint in Russia, with Perisic and Ante Rebic in particular scampering after lost causes as if their lives depended on it. Judging by that kind of fight and endurance, it’s no surprise Croatia scored four goals in the 90th minute or later on their way to the final. And although the talismanic Luka Modric, 33, may be coming to the end of his international career, Mandzukic, 32, is Croatia’s only other outfield regular who is over 30. A tilt at the 2020 European Championships beckons.
It was the Croatians who started the final the brighter, Perisic and Ivan Strinic sending early balls from the left towards Mandzukic. Ivan Rakitic, the Croatian central midfielder from Barcelona, looped a ball toward the penalty area but Perisic’s lunge was short by perhaps an inch or two.
Against the run of play, France struck first. Varane skipped across Antionne Griezmann’s arcing free kick, coaxing Mandzukic into heading beyond Daniel Subasic and into his own net. Although Perisic equalised with a volley inside the right-hand post, Griezmann’s penalty put France ahead for a second time. VAR had a defining say. After a video review from referee Nestor Pitana, Perisic was adjudged to have handled Griezmann’s corner. Although Perisic was too close to the flight of the ball to be guilty of a deliberate offense, that didn’t bother Griezmann, who showed nerves of steel to send Subasic the wrong way.
Croatia festered with a sense of injustice. Tremors of thunder filled the air. A pair of streakers bounded onto the playing area. Suffice to say, the second half was all a bit barmy. France found themselves 4-1 up in a flash, Pogba and Mbappe each converting from 20 yards out on 58 and 64 minutes. Pogba’s finish was as assured as it gets, the Manchester United midfielder finding the bottom right-hand corner and wrong-footing Subasic. Mbappe’s was a peach. The gifted 19-year-old trapped Varane’s squared delivery, nudged the ball out of his feet and slammed hard and true into the bottom left corner of the net in one swift, graceful movement. The world is at his feet as they say, and comparisons with Thierry Henry are beginning to look more justified with each passing week.
As Croatia ran themselves into the ground looking for a way back, spaces yawned all over the pitch for both sides. Then came Lloris’s howler for 4-2. The French number one shimmied one way and inexplicably turned back towards Mandzukic, who couldn’t believe his luck as the ball ricocheted off his left boot and into an empty net. It was a calamitous piece of play from a veteran in Lloris who should know better.
That error, thankfully enough, didn’t have a bearing on France’s coronation as world champions. Instead it was Mbappe’s incisive runs that we’ll remember – his slalom around the outside of Domagoj Vida was particularly breath-taking. Griezmann’s deliveries were as reliable as ever, as the Atletico Madrid goal-getter continues to cement his reputation as one of the world’s most complete forwards. Elsewhere, Varane mopped up everything in his wake, directing play with optimum composure. Sure, Deschamps side didn’t provide as much entertainment over the last month as Croatia or Belgium – or perhaps even the hosts – but that won’t weigh on the minds of the French as they lift the trophy.
Learn about another one of the World Cup's star teams - Belgium - with Alistair Hendrie's blog on how the Red Devils taught England a lesson in attacking football
World Cup 2018: Belgium down inexperienced England side to land third place
England aren’t used to flying home from a World Cup this late. Their stay in Russia came to an end on Saturday as they were defeated 2-0 by Belgium in the third place play-off, and although this setback won’t hurt as much as their 2-1 reverse to Croatia in the semi-finals, it will go a long way to show Gareth Southgate how much his side need to improve if they are to advance further at the European Championships in 2020.
This was England’s longest stay at a World Cup since 1990 in Italy, where they also finished fourth, but Belgium’s greater quality of resources underlined the marker that has been set for Southgate and his young, inexperienced and hungry side. Eden Hazard tormented the English defence with pesky dribbling and sudden bursts of pace, the Chelsea winger slotting under Jordan Pickford to wrap up the victory on 81 minutes. Another Premier League gem, Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne, set teammates free with his range of passing and speed of thought. And although the introduction of Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford at half-time provided England with much needed verve and spark, they rarely looked capable of a comeback after Thomas Meunier netted with three minutes gone.
In hindsight, despite the celebratory mood of the last month, it’s easy to forget this Three Lions side still consists largely of young pups. For instance, Dele Alli and Ruben Loftus-Cheek are both only 22; Rashford is still just 19. Furthermore, England’s back three in St Petersburg of Harry Maguire, John Stones and Phil Jones had 72 caps between them, whereas Belgium’s defence – Toby Alderweireld, Vincent Kompany, Jan Vertonghen and Meunier – had 297.
That perhaps fails to excuse an insipid performance from England in their farewell outing. Harry Kane was stilted and absent for long periods. Raheem Sterling, so talented yet so frustrating, was indecisive. The underdogs sat back and let Belgium have the ball, Hazard and De Bruyne directing traffic and attempting to slide in Romelu Lukaku. On a more positive note, Kieran Trippier bent and whipped balls across Thibaut Courtois’ goal with malice, while Eric Dier almost equalised with a dink that was hacked off the line at the last moment by Alderweireld.
The Red Devils took the lead when Hazard crossed low for Meunier, who wriggled goalside of Danny Rose to poke in from six yards. It was an untidy finish, but the pace of Hazard’s delivery made the goal. Belgium thrived from thereon in, De Bruyne looking for Lukaku at every chance. After one such move, Lukaku fluffed his first touch when bearing down on goal and the Manchester United man would regret how he allowed Pickford to intervene.
As Jones struggled to track Hazard, and Belgium’s Nacer Chadli left the game injured for Thomas Vermaelen, Belgium settled in a rhythm and knocked the ball around with the confidence and arrogance of future tournament winners. Some would bet heavy money on them to lift the trophy at Euro 2020. Indeed, keep in mind Germany won the 2014 world cup after finishing third in 2010.
After De Bruyne embarrassed Stones with a nutmeg, England created their best chance of the match on 69 minutes. Rashford wrong-footed every yellow-shirted defender on the pitch with a diagonal ball that set Dier through with an unobstructed path to goal. The Tottenham Hotspur man steadied himself with a touch and floated an audacious chip over Courtois, Alderweireld sliding in on the line to prevent a goal that would have swung the tie in England’s favour.
Having scored the decisive penalty against Colombia in the second round, Dier was suddenly a genuine goal threat. He headed wide, and should have done better, after an improvised cross from Lingard. Although Trippier’s deliveries were handing England hope, Belgium took advantage of how the game opened. Meunier pinged Pickford’s fingers back with a volley, while Hazard settled matters on 81 minutes, darting across Jones and side-footing beyond Pickford with a finish of composure and skill under the circumstances.
It might feel patronising to hail this England team as a group of rookies who huffed and puffed against more seasoned opponents. “Didn’t they do well?”, and all that. We should remember that England avoided the likes of Spain, Brazil and Germany – a quirk which to be fair they had no influence over – and these last two defeats will provide Southgate with more conundrums than clarity. How can the team create more from open play? How can Southgate coax the best from Sterling?
Still, the likes of Maguire and Trippier look tailor-made for international football, while Kane can always be relied upon to score goals. Added to that, Jack Wilshere’s transfer to West Ham could revitalise his career and offer Southgate another option. Youngsters such as Ademola Lookman and Ryan Sessegnon should also be on the radar soon. Perhaps in 2020 we’ll be looking at a team of proven class rather than simmering promise.
To take in more of Alistair Hendrie's insight into the world of British sport, buy his Kindle book, Fight Game: The Untold Story of Women's MMA in Britain
To determine the best fighter in the world, you need to take into account plenty of factors: form, skill, opposition and dominance, for example. So, if a champion defends his or her crown via a string of finishes, does that equal or better a run of decisions? Should Conor McGregor top the list despite his inactivity, or should Tyron Woodley set the pace regardless of a couple of boring fights?
July 2018 - Men
1 – Demetrious Johnson (USA) (125lbs)
2 – Max Holloway (USA) (145lbs)
3 – Daniel Cormier (USA) (205lbs)
5 – Robert Whittaker (AUS) (185lbs) (+2)
7 – Khabib Nurmagomedov (RUS) (155lbs) (+1)
8 – Tony Ferguson (USA) (155lbs) (+1)
9 – TJ Dillashaw (USA) (135lbs) (+1)
10 – Jose Aldo (BRA) (145lbs) (+1)
11 – Cody Garbrandt (USA) (135lbs) (+1)
12 – Rafael dos Anjos (BRA) (170lbs) (+1)
13 – Yoel Romero (CUB) (185lbs) (+1)
14 – Francis Ngannou (FRA) (265lbs) (+1)
15 – Robbie Lawler (USA) (170lbs) (+1)
16 – Dominic Cruz (USA) (135lbs) (+1)
23 – Marlon Moraes (BRA) (135lbs) (+1)
24 – Darren Till (GBR) (170lbs) (+1)
25 – Colby Covington (USA) (170lbs) (NE)
July 2018 - Women
8 – Holly Holm (USA) (145lbs) (+1)
9 – Raquel Pennington (USA) (135lbs) (-1)
16 – Carla Esparza (USA) (115lbs) (+3)
13 – Tonya Evinger (USA) (135lbs) (-1)
14 – Megan Anderson (USA) (135lbs) (-1)
15 – Barb Honchak (USA) (125lbs) (-1)
25 – Marion Reneau (USA) (135lbs)
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Here's why UFC 230's Daniel Cormier is pound-for-pound number one before UFC 230
If you think Daniel Cormier’s heavyweight title defense against Derrick Lewis on Saturday is a foregone conclusion, you’re not the only one. Every major oddsmaker has the champion as the favorite for this weekend’s UFC 230 headliner. Odds for a DC win range from -700 to -800 and don’t forget this is when he’s about a face a man tied for the most knockouts in UFC heavyweight history with 10. Still, analyze Cormier’s pound-for-pound credentials and you’ll see why everyone is backing him.
DC became the pound-for-pound best fighter on the planet in July when he stunned Stipe Miocic in a round to add the heavyweight title to his light-heavyweight crown. It took him to 6-1 NC in his last seven bouts and was one of the biggest upsets in UFC heavyweight history, especially when you consider Cormier hadn’t fought in the division since 2013. Factor in Demetrious Johnson’s flyweight title loss to Henry Cejudo in August and the inactivity of featherweight king Max Holloway, and Cormier sits alone at the top of the rankings. So, ahead of UFC 230, let’s cement Cormier’s argument for standing at number one.
First, his form is better than any other male UFC belt-holder. Since May 2015, he’s won six title contests, more than any other male in the UFC. Johnson and welterweight Tyron Woodley are his closest pursuers with five, while Miocic has four. What’s more, DC is smashing through his adversaries, decking Miocic with a close-range elbow and mauling Volkan Oezdemir on the ground in round two in January. He also leads finishes in title fights since April 2017 with three. His followers? Johnson, Holloway, and bantamweight TJ Dillashaw with two.
A former Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix champion, Cormier also has longevity in his favor. He made his debut in 2009 and 14 months later, he upended future UFC standout Sol Palalei before stopping Antonio Silva and outscoring Josh Barnett in 2011. It’s worth noting that both of the latter were larger and more experienced than Cormier, too.
Later, in 2015, the 39-year-old stood at 15-0 and 4-0 in the UFC before Jon Jones shattered his undefeated ledger, and aside from a second reverse to Jones in 2017 (overturned to a no contest when “Bones” tested positive for Turinabol), that remains Cormier’s only blotch on his record.
His knack for staying at the top, evidenced by his latest figures of 21-1-1 NC, also helped him become only the second man to hold two UFC titles at once, and the fifth man to win two separate UFC belts. All that considered, Daniel holds a longer period of dominance than any active fighter other than perhaps stablemate and lightweight champion, the undefeated Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Form and longevity aside, the American has only opposed the best –that strengthens his place at the top spot. He counts a litany of former Pride, Strikeforce, and UFC champions among his victims such as –wait for it– Barnett, Dan Henderson, Frank Mir, Anderson Silva, and Miocic. Quite the roll call, then.
It has to be said, Cormier’s ascent to pound-for-pound greatness is the biggest selling point for Saturday’s main event at Madison Square Garden. He has never lost when starting as the favorite and added to that, Lewis only competed last month at UFC 229, battling through three rounds of hell before stunning Alexander Volkov in the dying seconds. Conventional wisdom favors Cormier, then, and the mixed martial arts world will be eager to see whether or not he can hold off the likes of Johnson and Holloway and remain at number one.
This article first appeared on The Runner Sports. Read more Alistair Hendrie's coverage for the site here
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4 RDA Recommendations for Open Data Sharing - now published as ICT Technical Specifications
24 July 2017 - The Research Data Alliance (RDA) announced the official publication of its first 4 Recommendations as ICT technical specifications for referencing in public procurement as per Article 13 of Regulation 1025/2012 on European Standardisation on information and communication technology (ICT) technical specifications.
# The ICT standardisation effort in EU ...
... is the cornerstone of the Digital Single Market initiative, ensuring compatibility between systems and guaranteeing the competitiveness and the openness of ICT markets [see: Identification of ICT specifications].
ICT technical specifications are not referenced as standards, but are an agile tool for the European Commission to address the constantly evolving technology in ICT markets, and to realize its ambitious plans of building the European Open Science Cloud. An expert advisory group, the European Multi Stakeholder Platform (MSP) supports the European Commission in the process of the selection and evaluation of ICT Specifications and in defining the future priorities.
# The 4 RDA Recommenadtions
RDA Europe, the European plug-in to the global RDA, has carried forward the evaluation, approval and publication of the 4 Recommendations as ICT specifications and is currently working on the submission of a new set of 5 Recommendations for autumn 2017.
The 4 RDA recommendations are a key milestone for RDA's contribution to making research data open, sharable and re-usable across technologies, disciplines, and countries, and represent key building blocks for an interoperable research data environment:
1. The Basic Vocabulary of Foundational Terminology and Query Tool
- produced by the Data Foundation and Terminology WG, ensures that researchers use a common terminology when referring to data.
2. The Data Type Model and Registry
- published by the Data Type Registries WG provides machine-readable and researcher-accessible registries of data types and a common data model to be applied for making data accessible and accurately re-usable.
3. The Persistent Identifier Type Registry
- produced by the PID Information Types WG, a conceptual model for structuring typed information to better identify PIDs, common interface for access to this information.
4. The Machine Actionable Policy Templates
- produced by the Practical Policy WG, can be used to enforce data management, automate administrative tasks, validate assessment criteria, and automate scientific analyses. It builds the trust needed to foster data sharing.
RDA gathers more than 5800 members from 128 countries belonging to academia, research, public administration or the private sector. The RDA Recommendations and Outputs are:
delivered by the RDA Working groups and RDA Interest groups, self-formed and directly managed by the RDA members;
envisioned as social and technical bridges because they connect different systems, communities, tools etc. and generally take the form of technical specifications, data and reference models, recommended practice and harmonization of existing standards.
Source: Research Data Alliance
RDA BioSharing Registry and RDA Wheat Data Interoperability Guidelines
Research Graph : Data Exchange between Data Description Registry and VIVO platform
Submitted on 27 Jul 2017 by The AIMS Team
from FAO of the United Nations in Italy
standards & formats
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The Anime Fellows: Guilty Crown Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agda...ature=youtu.be
I present you madams and madamosoilles the first episode of Anime Fellows where a group of anime viewers review an anime.
(warning there are a few curse words)
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I'm shifting from Amazon to Powell's, so here's two of my books there:
Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925
by Aaron Gerow
Kitano Takeshi
Some of my other books:
A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan
Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies
Check out other books I contributed to at my Powell's Bookshelf.
Plus some other books:
City Secrets Movies: The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Cinema's Hidden Gems: A City Secrets Book
Defining Moments in Movies: The Greatest Films, Stars, Scenes and Events that Made Movie Magic
In association with Amazon.
DVDs I worked on:
The Roots of Japanese Anime
Get it at Zakka Films.
A Page of Madness
Get it at Flicker Alley
CEAS at Yale
DavidBordwell.net
Japan Focus
Kinema Club
KitanoTakeshi.com
Mark Schilling's Tokyo Ramen
Nishikata Film Review
Zakka Films
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Eiga Kagaku Kenkyu and Film Studies in Japan
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When it comes to old magazines, Japan is still a reprint (fukkokuban) culture. The North American libraries I used from grad school mostly had microfilms or microfiches of old journals, but Japan didn’t really get on the microfilm bandwagon, at least in a broad, commercial fashion. Old periodicals were made available to lots of institutions by reprinting them. With some reprints even reproducing the original colors, they were far better to look at than microfilms but they tended to be quite expensive. Still, it was thanks to such reprints that more libraries now have copies of prewar film magazines such as Kinema junpo, Kinema Record, Kokusai eiga shinbun, or Nihon eiga. The only reprints I had been involved in before were reprints of old film books, such as the Nihon eigaron gensetsu taikei series (Yumani Shobo), for which I contributed commentaries on Gonda Yasunosuke or the Film Law.
Whenever I go to the annual Association for Asian Studies conference, I make a point of visiting the publishers’ booths, in part to find out what reprints have been recently published. Most of the reps of the Japanese publishers know me, so in our conversations, I am occasionally asked what should be reprinted next. Given my current research on Japanese film theory, I often suggest some of the prewar film theory or film studies journals.
That’s been happening for some time, and nothing ever came of it, so I was surprised to get an email in early summer this year from Yumani Shobo (which published our anthology of classical Japanese film theory and the Japanese translation of our research guide). They said they had decided to reprint one of my suggestions—the journal Eiga kagaku kenkyu (Scientific Studies of Cinema—though “Studies in Film Science” could work as well)—and that they needed a statement for the publicity and a commentary for the published volumes in a little over a month.That put a monkey wrench in my summer plans, but in the end, I became the supervising editor for the reprint.
I recommended Eiga kagaku kenkyu, which was published from 1928 to 1932, because it was one of the first concerted efforts by film practitioners to rigorously study the film medium. including not only filmmaking technique, but many aspects from the film business to cinema aesthetics. It is a treasure trove of contemporary insider accounts of the multiple dimensions of cinema, and essential for anyone researching the history of film technology, industry, filmmaking, and aesthetics. Here’s the statement I wrote for the publicity:
The rich history of Japanese film, which has produced many of the masterpieces of world cinema, is the product of many years of hard efforts and foundation building. While it is important how filmmakers acquired the art of film through learning from and training under their seniors at the studio, they did not simply learn cinema through practice. In many cases, film artists researched the cinema, analyzed it, and published their results inside and outside the studio. Eiga kagaku kenkyu (Scientific Studies of Cinema) is a landmark experiment in this history: a serious journal written by those on the film set that “scientifically” researches film. Under the initial editorship of Murata Minoru and Ushihara Kiyohiko, two of the leading directors of the 1920s and early 1930s, the journal featured the participation of a star-studded cast of filmmakers and actors, such as Mizoguchi Kenji, Ozu Yasujiro, Yoda Yoshikata, Itami Mansaku, Natsukawa Shizue, Midorikawa Michio, Suzuki Denmei, Negishi Koichi, and Mori Iwao—as well as critics such as Tanaka Saburo, Ishimaki Yoshio, Ikeda Hisao, Kishi Matsuo, and Futaba Junzaburo. Researching many of the fundamental issues facing the film world of the day, the journal took on many problems, both practical and theoretical, including the introduction of sound, the management of studios and theaters, censorship, film distribution, scriptwriting, the use of film technique, and cinema’s relation to the other arts. With most every issue featuring a detailed analysis of a single film, Eiga kagaku kenkyu can even be considered one of the origins of film studies in Japan.
The 19-page commentary I wrote in Japanese, “Eiga o kagakuteki ni kenkyu suru koto” (inserted at the end of Volume 5), gets into more detail about the nature of the journal and its history.
The reprint includes all the 10 issues produced of the journal, assembled in five volumes. As with many reprints, it is expensive (over $1000), and is not intended for individuals to purchase. The publication is aimed at libraries, and I hope as many can purchase it as possible. Yumani is not likely to reprint some of the other film theory journals I recommended if this doesn’t sell.
Here is the bibliographic data and links to information on the reprint.
Eiga kagaku kenkyu / 映画科学研究. 5 vols. Yumani Shobo, 2019. ISBN 978-4-8433-5577-0
Yumani Shobo page for the reprint. Includes a link to a PDF of the publicity pamphlet.
The University of Iowa Library "Japanese Film Journal Table of Contents browser,” which contains images of the table of contents of all the Eiga kagaku kenkyu issues.
2019/10/25 午後8:16
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Library News 12/28/16
December 28, 2016 /in Front Page, Library, News /by Michael Kelly
Christmas Drawings
Thank You to all those who checked out books and signed up for the Christmas drawings! Congratulations to the winners: Malaika Evans, Sammy Morales, Carter Peterson, and Patti Steffes.
Holiday Closing
The Alton Public Library will be closing at noon on Saturday, December 31 and will not be open on New Year’s Day and Monday, January 2.
Preschool story time programs will begin Wednesday, January 4 at 10:30 am at the Alton Public Library. Come join the fun as we read stories, sing songs, and make crafts! Programs will also be held on January 11, 18, February 1, 8, 15, March 1, 8, 15, 22, April 5, 12, 19 and May 3, 10.
Babygarten
The Alton Public Library will be having Babygarten programs on Wednesday mornings at 10:00 am beginning January 25. Our eight week session will continue through March 15. Parents, grandparents and caregivers are invited to attend with children age 0 – 3 years old.
Popular Adult Fiction
As we look back at 2016, the following titles are some of the adult books checked out most at the Alton Public Library:
When We Were Sisters by Emilie Richards
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
What We Find by Robyn Carr
Mending Places by Denise Hunter
Montana Legacy by R. C. Ryan
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
15th Affair by James Patterson
After She’s Gone by Lisa Jackson
Beneath the Shadows by Sara Foster
Brush of Wings by Karen Kingsbury
The Crossing by Michael Connelly
Extreme Prey by John Sandford.
The adult non-fiction books that were popular in 2016:
Gitchie Girl by Phil Hamman
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey
Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible by Liz Curtis Higgs
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof
National Parks of America by Amy C. Balfour
The Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond
Guide to National Parks of the U.S. by George Fuller
Rise of ISIS by Jay Sekulow
Six Sisters’ Stuff
Ultimate Star Wars by Patricia Barr
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Alton Appreciation Day August 17th
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Library News 12/20/16 – New DVD’s and More! Council Minutes – May 10, 2016
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Aluminum Christmas Trees
Aluminum Christmas Trees, Color Wheels and More
Christmas Tree Store
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Trees by Color
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USA Today Aluminum Christmas Trees Article
We were mentioned in the sidebar to an article in USA Today which appeard on November 29, 2004.
Posted 11/29/2004 10:04 PM Updated 11/30/2004 11:56 AM
Trendy to tacky to kitschy
By Craig Wilson, USA TODAY
MANITOWOC, Wis. â€" Three giant Budweiser bottles are painted on the brewery towers that loom at the end of Washington Street. Some of the locals say they're symbolic of a town that has seen better days: three Buds shy of a six-pack.
This town of 33,000 was known as the Aluminum Cookware Capital of the World, but it's ultimately being remembered for turning out more aluminum Christmas trees than anywhere else.
At the height of the rage in the early '60s, as many as 300,000 tin Tannenbaums were made here during "tree season" â€" July to November â€" bringing new meaning to the term "Tinseltown."
No more. The last aluminum plant closed only last year, but the production of aluminum trees ceased decades earlier, victim of the "back to the land" movement of the early '70s.
The trees, though, still shine in some people's eyes.
Julie Lindemann and John Shimon returned home 15 years ago. The two grew up here along the shores of Lake Michigan, 90 miles north of Milwaukee.
They still look more East Village than eastern Wisconsin, she in her cat's-eye glasses, he very much a young Andy Warhol. And both still dress in Manhattan black, of course.
But here they are in their storefront studio at 719 York St., doing what they do best: photography. Moody, edgy, quirky photography.
By the time the two artists came home to set up shop, the once-trendy trees were turning up, too â€" at rummage sales, barn auctions, antique shops. It was then, as they like to say, they had an "Aha!" moment.
To them, the tree was not only part of their own past but also an art form worthy of exploration. Something not only to behold, but to photograph. The result: Season's Gleamings: The Art of the Aluminum Christmas Tree (Melcher Media, $16.95).
"But we weren't really trying to celebrate a local product," Shimon says.
The little pink book has become different things to different people here, a town where Beerntsen's candy and soda shop still proudly advertises Sanka on the menu.
On a recent evening, a couple of hundred nostalgic souls lined up at LaDeDa Books & Beans to hear the two photographers talk and sign copies, often multiple copies. Many were women who worked at the Aluminum Specialty Co., where Evergleam trees were made.
An accordion player accompanied Ginger Baryenbruch as she sang the Aluminum Specialty Song, a tune she says she and fellow gals on the line used to sing to pass the time. It's to the tune of Glow Worm:
We can cut them
We can wind them
We can pack them
We can bind them
We stay up all through the night
To make your Christmas gay and bright ...
There was even a confessional period during which one woman stood up and admitted she had just paid $800 for a hard-to-come-by pink aluminum tree. She wouldn't give her name because she said she'd like to remain married.
"It's 8 feet tall, and it smells of cigarette smoke, but I don't care. It's mine!"
Illuminating town's history
But for Shimon and Lindemann, the book is something else, a somewhat bittersweet look back at a time when the town was thriving and aluminum â€" whether in a pot or on a tree bough â€" was king.
Lindemann and Shimon bought up as many as 40 castoff trees when they returned and set up an "aluminum forest" in their studio for Christmas. They started taking photos of them with an 8-by-10 view camera, hoping "to portray the people and landscape of this place where we'd been born."
The locals started driving by every evening as if viewing Simon Doonan's famed holiday windows at Barneys New York.
The photographers are philosophical, if somewhat amused, about the attention the book is receiving. CNN paid them a visit this month. CBS'Sunday Morning also is coming to call.
"It might be the best we do," Shimon says when asked whether he's worried that they'd become known only as those "aluminum-tree photographers." Says Lindemann: "There are a lot of other things we're concerned with here."
You have only to visit their Web site (shimonlindemann.com) to see that's true. The two usually photograph not local products but the locals, often the more disaffected young residents, some of whom end up in state prison.
But at the moment, aluminum trees are it, and they're running with it. They know the emotions the trees evoke in townspeople.
Former employees of the Aluminum Specialty Co. began stopping by to share stories when the studio was all aglow, and that included engineer Richard Thomsen, 80, the man who gave the go-ahead for the original Evergleam tree project.
"I was young enough to just say 'Let's go for it!' "
Today Thomsen says he's "flabbergasted" by all this attention being given to his tinsel trees. The night of the book signing, he couldn't even find a place to park.
Thomsen still sets up his 8-foot prototype, a tree that was never marketed because it was too tall for the ranch-style homes of the day. The Wisconsin Historical Museum in Madison would like it, but Thomsen says they'll have to fight his three children for it first.
Manitowoc's mayor allows that some residents don't recall the tree years with such fondness. "It wasn't very pleasant work," Kevin Crawford says. "People kind of moved on from that space-age era."
Shirley Graykowski, 69, knows this firsthand.
"I was the winder, meaning I wound the branches," says Graykowski, who made $1.59 an hour.
She worked the third shift, from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. The process involved gluing and winding strips of aluminum foil needles on wire rods to form branches.
"You had to be fast," she says. "Real fast. It was hard work, dipping those rods into a hot pot of glue."
Whether Lindemann and Shimon are responsible or not, the trees are popping up around town again.
Lisa Genske has nine in her front window at the Washington Street Antique Mall. Some silver. Some red. Some green. Plus two original color wheels.
"My parents had a silver one, and they did what everyone did," she says. "They finally threw it out."
None of Genske's trees are for sale, despite the fact that customers ask almost daily. And some aren't cheap. A 6-foot pink pompon tree (they have the extra burst of aluminum at the end of the branches) in good condition can fetch more than $1,000.
Nostalgia's roots run deep
Across Washington Street, Tina Kugler, a cartoonist who just moved back from Los Angeles, put an aluminum tree in the window of her new children's bookstore, Tweedle Bros.
"I've wanted one forever, but my husband always said no. He's a purist," Kugler says. In L.A., "they're everywhere."
She found her tree on eBay in July for $60 â€" "a steal," Genske says.
The next day Jean Brauer was setting up an aluminum tree display at the Rahr-West Art Museum across town. Her mother also worked on the tree line.
"I think of my mother whenever I see one," says Brauer, who has been known to give vintage aluminum trees as wedding presents. "They look cold, but they have warm roots to me."
Bev Denor, owner of LaDeDa, where a rotating aluminum tree adorns the store window, doesn't have such warm memories. "I remember my dad bringing one home and all of us sitting around it, looking kind of sad," she says. "And then my mom finally said, 'You have to go get a real tree. This just isn't working!' "
As for Lindemann and Shimon, they also know that everything that glitters is not gold. Or even silver.
Shimon confesses: "I was never really that fond of these trees myself."
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AO On-Site – Basel: Art Basel at Messe Basel Through June 18th, 2017
Art Basel, via Art Observed
The 48th edition of Art Basel opened its doors today for the first official day of its week-long run in the Swiss city, and capped its VIP preview with an impressive array of sales that underscored the fair’s lynchpin position in the summer market calendar. Attendees poured into the halls of Messe Basel early this morning, jockeying for position and a first crack at the exhibition’s premier works, and bringing down a rain of early sales that indicated a return to form for a Western market that had struggled in the past year. The hallways were packed for the opening day, with collectors Peter Brant, Don and Mera Rubell, and Uli Sigg rubbing elbows with Beatrix Ruff, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Phyllida Barlow and Wolfgang Tillmans.
Juliana Huxtable at Reena Spaulings, via Art Observed
This rush of guests caused an equally strong rush to buy, with many galleries reporting remarkable early figures. At Mnuchin Gallery, Mark Bradford’s Smear sold quickly, garnering a price of $5.5 million, capitalizing on the artist’s impressive Venice Biennale pavilion this summer, while Pace Gallery sold an impressive range of historical works by Robert Rauschenberg and Sol LeWitt for $1 million and $750,000, respectively. Hauser & Wirth also had a particularly buoyant first day in Basel, selling a deep selection of works by Philip Guston, including the artist’s iconic Scared Stiff, which sold in the early hours of the fair for around $15 million. The gallery also sold an untitled Richard Serra work for $2.5 million. The gallery was also presenting a monumental Jason Rhoades sculpture, Sutter’s Mill at the fair’s Unlimited section, a hulking cluster of steel pipes, wooden platforms and rope that seemed to pull the viewer’s eye in every direction at once.
Jeff Koons, Titi Tire (2003-2010), via Art Observed
Elsewhere in the Unlimited section, artist Matias Faldbakken was reprising his Europe is Balding series, exhibiting a massive entertainment center coated in white tile, while Rob Pruitt had also reprised a popular body of work, his Art World/Celebrity Look-Alikes, a hysterical send-up of the power and prestige of the fair’s opening hours. Posing various artists, dealers and collectors next to a range of pop culture icons (in one, Alex Katz is posed next to a picture of Squidward Tentacles from the Spongebob Squarepants cartoon), the work elicited a stream of chuckling, giggling crowds all day.
George Segal, Early Morning: Woman Lying On Bed (1992), via Art Observed
Also of note was the final work produced by Chris Burden, his immense floating sculpture, Ode to Santos-Dumont, which commemorated the floating dirigible pilot’s orbit of the Eiffel Tower. Presented by Gagosian, the work was a fitting last farewell to an artist who constantly pushed the limits of physical space and conceptual rigor, particularly in the cavernous expanses of Messe Basel.
George Condo, Found Spaces (2017), via Sprüth Magers
Gagosian Gallery was also hosting an impressive range of works in its booth, including its usual attention-grabbing Jeff Koons works, this time the artist’s Titi Tire (2003-2010), which clustered a series of what appeared to be Tweety Bird inflatables clustered around hanging tires, a work which found a strikingly subdued counterpoint from Urs Fischer’s Couple, a play on the artist’s impressive wax candle works that posed an elderly couple locked into a gentle, intimate pose. White Cube was also drawing a crowd, as a 2008 Damien Hirst sculpture, Cupid’s Lie, posed a fetal skeleton in gold plating, complete wth miniature wings. Reena Spaulings was also on hand, marking a continuation of its work with Juliana Huxtable that placed a new series of assemblages on the walls of its booth. At Xavier Hufkens, the gallery was presenting a range of works, including a massive sculpture, Captain Dickhead, by Paul McCarthy, completed after more than eight years, while at Marianne Boesky, the gallery was presenting works by Sanford Biggers and Maria Lai, fresh off her opening at Documenta 14.
The fair’s early sales figures and impressive crowds should result in more strong sales and equally strong attendance in the coming days. The fair closes on Sunday, June 18th.
Damien Hirst, Cupid’s Lie (2008), via White Cube
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Mountain Stages
92nd Tour de France - GT
France, July 2-24, 2005
Main Page Results Overall standings Stage Details Live report Previous Stage Next Stage
Stage 20 - Saturday, July 23: Saint-Etienne - Saint-Etienne ITT, 55 km
Signed, sealed and...
The Armstrong fairytale all but complete
By Anthony Tan and Hedwig Kr�ner in Saint-Etienne, with additional reporting from Tim Maloney
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel)
Photo ©: AFP
It wouldn't have been right if it didn't happen. Today in St. Etienne, he made it happen.
Under cool, hazy skies, Lance Armstrong fulfilled the void of what many thought would be a Tour victory without an individual stage win, asserting his dominance one final time in a tough, technical race against the clock. Averaging 46.4 clicks an hour, the six-time, soon to be seven-time champ pedaled his usual, high-rev cadence throughout the entire 55 kilometre parcours and never - not even for a second - looked like losing, finishing 23 seconds ahead of Jan Ullrich and 1'16 in front of Alexandre Vinokourov.
"I was ambivalent [about getting the win]," said a surprisingly mellow Lance Armstrong after the stage. "I wanted to go as hard as I could, as I always like to do, I wanted to represent the yellow jersey and prove that I was the strongest in the race. But quite honestly I wasn't absolutely sure I could do it. I thought Jan would be strong, and then when I got to the first check I saw that Ivan was seven seconds up. I thought, 'Oh boy, this could be an interesting day.'
"It's nice to finish my career on a high note, not just for the stage, but for the overall," added a composed Armstrong at the post-race press conference. "For me, there was no pressure for this victory, it's just something I had within myself as a sportsman, I wanted to go out on top. That was the only incentive and that was the only pressure."
Once again, the audience was left wondering what might have been if Ullrich was as good as he was today in the first two weeks, which is where the German has lost the race to the Texan time and time again. Regardless, Der Jan's ride today deserved a high distinction, and the 31 year-old can take comfort in his seventh podium finish at La Grand Boucle.
"I gave it all from the very first metre," said a totally spent Ullrich moments after he crossed the finish line, engulfed in a mad, mad media frenzy. "I'm very happy about the podium, but what makes me happiest is that I rode through the Tour healthy; I suffered two really bad crashes and the plain fact that I'm still here and still strong is the best. I have to thank a lot of people on my team for that. But right now, I'm just knackered."
Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile)
Added Armstrong: "Jan's special. He's a special guy; to me, he's still the scariest guy. He needs to come to the Tour not in a lot better shape, but a little better shape. He has the package, but it's just the first 10 days; if he changes that, he wins."
The man who Ullrich knocked off to get his podium spot, Michael Rasmussen, experienced one of the biggest blow-outs in history, crashing twice and requiring three bike changes. It was a shocking, regrettable day for poor Chicken, and falling from a potential podium in Paris to seventh on GC in one afternoon will be hard to forget. On the other hand, Ivan Basso, the fastest at the first check-point, faltered towards the end to finish fifth, but did more than enough to secure his second place overall.
Kazakhstan champ Vinokourov, whose whereabouts for the 2006 season are still unknown, most likely prompted a few more offers on the boardroom table after today's superlative performance. "What a special day," said Vino. "I have a lot of memories in St. Etienne, and I really wanted to give the maximum. Thanks to all the spectators who came to cheer me on, it was magnificent."
Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner)
Photo ©: Jon Devich
Gerolsteiner's Levi Leipheimer didn't have a great day out on his TT bike, finishing 3'13 off the pace for 14th, but as a consequence of Rasmussen's disaster, the 31 year-old still moved up one place on the overall to fifth, his likely resting place in Paree. "I suffered. I didn't have any information, so I didn't know how I was doing - all I knew was what I saw on the clock. It went good on the hill, but I lost too much in the beginning," he said.
"But it's always nice to get it over with," added Leipheimer. "You're always looking forward for the Tour to end, but then, when it ends, there's always a little bit of sadness as well...but it's been a great Tour, so I'm happy."
In contrast to the American, Davitamon-Lotto rider Cadel Evans, seventh at the start of the day, also finished seventh in the stage, but Vinokourov's A+ performance saw him swap his overall position with the Kazakhstani. "This was pretty much the best I could do today; I'm happy with the result," Evans said.
Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto)
"The start went fast, I didn't feel great. I had a bad section with 20, 25 k's to go, but came good in the end. But all in all, for a third week, it was a good time trial. As soon as I get to through the corners of the Champs Elys�es tomorrow, I'm going to be very happy!"
The battle for the maillot vert appears pretty much decided in favour of Norwegian Thor Hushovd (Credit Agricole), who holds a 15-point buffer over Stuart O'Grady (Cofidis) and a margin of 19 on Robbie McEwen (Davitamon), clearly the best sprinter of the 2005 Tour de France. However, with no sprint in sight till 15:30, when the riders are expected to hit Chatenay-Malabry at km 75, before the final hoo-hah on the Champs-Elys�es, the final verdict won't be known till much later tomorrow afternoon.
All things being equal, if O'Grady won the stage, Hushovd would need to finish seventh or worse for Stuey to win overall; and if Rockin' Robbie were to take his third win on the Champs and his third green tunic, Mighty Thor would need to be not so mighty at all, finishing outside the top 10. Both appear unlikely scenarios, but 27 year-old Hushovd's keeping his wits about him: "Like Baden Cooke told me the other day, you have to be concentrated every day and not lose the focus, otherwise something can happen like what happened to Rasmussen today," he said.
Lance Armstrong (Discovery)
About Armstrong's impending retirement, now less than 24 hours away, the 33 year-old said he's more convinced about his decision now than he's ever been.
"I've had an unbelievable career. I've been blessed to ride 14 years as a professional; I've been blessed to win some big bike races before my illness and to win the Tour seven times after my illness; I've been blessed with financial reward that I never thought was possible - it makes my life and my children's life very comfortable now... there's no reason to continue. It's time for a new face, it's time for a new story - no regrets.
"The thing is, this job is stressful, this event is stressful; hopefully, [the holiday] would be a taste of what's to come in the next 50 years."
How it unfolded
Luke Roberts (CSC)
Stage 20 was a difficult, rolling technical course that ran northeast from the grimy industrial burg of Saint Etienne in to the hills surrounding the city, then ran back down to finish at the local fairgrounds. There were intermediate time checks at km 17, km 35, and km 49.7, but the most crucial came atop the Cat. 3 Col de la Gachet (5.7 km climb at 4.5%) after 40.2km.
Kjell Carlstr�m (Liquigas-Bianchi) came through in 1h19'12, then Van Summeren (Davitamon-Lotto), Laszlo Bodrogi (Credit Agricole), and big Fabian Cancellara (Fassa Bortolo) in 1h15'49 bested the Finn's time. Cancellara will go to CSC next season, where he'll meet Luke Roberts, who had an excellent time to move ahead of the Swiss champion by 0'16 with a 1h15'33. Roberts held on until Gerolsteiner's TT specialist Seb Lang posted 1h15'12, 21 seconds faster than the young Aussie. Although he's done little at this year's Tour, last year's maillot blanc of Best Young Rider Vladimir Karpets (Illes Balears) hammered home in 1h14'51, the first rider under 1h15'00. Out on the course, two CSC riders were smokin', trying to give their team leader Basso the best splits; Julich had the new best time at 17 km, with 26'21, with Carlos Sastre second in 26'43.
Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank)
Photo ©: Luc Claessen
The final 20 riders started at three minute intervals, and now the big guns had started to fire with the last 10 riders on the course, starting with Phonak's Floyd Landis in 9th place, who was second to Julich at the first time check after 17km. Third placed rider Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) was on the course in his maillot pois skinsuit and it was about to be the worst day of his life. His front wheel slipped out on a roundabout early on in today's stage and he crashed hard on his right side. He got back up quickly, but couldn't afford to lose any more time on the hard charging Ullrich, who had already pulled back a minute on the Rabobank climber at the first time check. Ivan Basso had started his ride, 3'00 behind the Dane, while Armstrong had left the start house too and was flying over the first kilometres of the course.
Alexander Vinokourov (T-Mobile)
Vinokourov had passed through the first time check with the fastest time yet, as his T-Mobile teammate Ullrich continued to pull back time on the hapless Rasmussen, who had now punctured his rear disc and had a bad wheel change that cost him more time, requiring three bike changes to get it right. Back at the finish in Saint Etienne, Bobby Julich set the new fast time of 1h13'19, 1'32 under Karpets' time. His teammate Basso blasted through the first time check 17 seconds faster than Ullrich, and even 7 seconds faster than Armstrong, but the Italian might have gone out too fast for his own good.
Atop the Cat. 3 Col de la Gachet (a 5.7 km climb at 4.5%) after 40.2km, Vino had the fastest time of 57'33 and was poised to move up on GC with his good ride, while Rasmussen's horrible day continued as he crashed on the descent back to Saint Etienne and went head over heels into a ditch. Landis finished with a good ride, but was only second, 0'29 behind Julich, while out on the road, Armstrong caught Rasmussen for 6 minutes.
Ivan Basso (CSC)
Vinokourov powered across the line in 1h13'02 for the new fastest time, while Basso's fast start had caught up with him as he rode 40km checkpoint 0'46 slower than Ullrich. Just behind Basso atop the Col de la Gachet climb, Armstrong flew through 0'32 faster than Ullrich and was taking time in chunks from 2nd placed Basso. Der Jan Ullrich then set the new best time of 1h12'09, almost a minute ahead of his teammate Vinokourov, and then Basso finished with 1h13'40, 1'31 behind Ullrich. But the inevitable happened and once again, maillot jaune Lance Armstrong came home the winner in a Tour De France time trial for the 9th time in his career. It was his first win of 2005 and he finished in 1h11'46, 0'23 up on Ullrich for an average speed of 46.4 km/h, impressive on such a hilly course. Behind Armstrong, it was Rasmussen who rode in last, finishing 77th in the time test, 7'47 behind Armstrong and losing four positions on GC to end up 7th overall.
Paco Mancebo (Illes Baleares)
Big winners on the day were Mancebo, who suffered to 9th and made it up to fourth on GC; Levi Leipheimer, who hung tough despite a less than brilliant ride today and maintained his 5th place on GC; Vinokourov, who had a storming ride to finish third and move up two places; Evans, who had a excellent ride today in the TT and a superb rookie Tour and moved down one spot on GC to 8th; and Landis, who hung on to 9th place. A gap of 1'19 covered places fifth through eighth, while Pereiro stayed in 10th on GC, his same place as in 2004.
Stage 21 - Sunday, July 24: Corbeil Essones-Paris Champs-Elysees, 144km
The final stage of the 92nd Tour de France is also the final stage of the career of Lance Armstrong, who will hear the Star Spangled Banner for the seventh year in the row atop the Tour de France podium. But first, Armstrong must first cross the Cat 4 climb of Cote de Gif-sur Yvette after 57km, then the sprint at Chatenay-Malabry after 57km, then the traditional criterium of 8 6.5km laps on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, before the final sprint and final moment of Lance Armstrong's professional cycling career.
Images by Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us
Eddy Merckx signs an autograph while son Axel warms up in the background.
Hmm, why did I wear these glasses?
Alexander Vinokourov (T-Mobile) in the start gate.
Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto) looks a little concerned at the start.
Lance Armstrong (Discovery) gets going.
Michael Rogers (Quickstep) sporting the World Champion stripes.
Axel Merckx (Davitamon-Lotto) leaves the ramp.
Bobby Julich (CSC) takes off.
Alexander Vinokourov (T-Mobile) leaving the start house.
Chris Horner (Prodir-Saunier Duval) going onto the course.
Stefano Garzelli (Bianchi-Liquigas) has an interesting helmet.
Mickael Rasmussen (Rabobank) looking a little worse for the wear after his TT.
Floyd Landis (Phonak) comes across the line in 6th place.
Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) gave it his all coming in.
Lance Armstrong (Discovery) wins his last time trial.
Senator John Kerry signs an autograph
Senator John Kerry gives an interview
Images by Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews.com
Senator John Kerry with Floyd Landis' coach Alan Lim at the start
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) grabs one more drink
Sheryl Crow watches with Isabella, Grace, and Luke
A few nerves before his last TT
Lance ready to do it one more time
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) leaves the start ramp for the last time
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) in charge
Ullrich in the zone
Ivan Basso (CSC) prepares
Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) sets off
Ivan Basso (CSC) powers up
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) rides to victory
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) in the mode
Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) was in good form today, but not good enough to beat Lance
Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) powering along
Ivan Basso (CSC) started well
Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) before it went pear shaped
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) drives it home
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) liking the feel of yellow
Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) rode very well for second
Ivan Basso (CSC) finishes fifth
Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) finishes one of the worst days on the bike of his career
Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) post-stage
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) salutes from the podium, as stage winner
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) with his stuff
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) greets Sheryl and Luke David
Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) on track for the win and number 7
Ivan Basso (CSC) rode solidly to keep his second place on GC
Images by Luc Claessen/www.actiefotos.be
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) was unbeatable today
Ivan Basso (CSC) storming along
Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto) rode well, but not quite well enough to keep seventh
Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) managed to move into fifth place, but only just
George Hincapie (Discovery) finished top 10 again
Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) just wants it to end
Floyd Landis (Phonak) assumes the position
Paco Mancebo (Illes Baleares) had a great ride for 9th
Oscar Pereiro (Phonak) defended his top 10 place on GC
Christophe Moreau (CA) trying to put time into Pereiro
Yaroslav Popovych (Discovery Channel) increased his lead in the white jersey comp
Carlos Sastre (CSC) had a good ride today
Jorg Jaksche (Liberty Seguros) on the climb
Giuseppe Guerini (T-Mobile) was 24th today
Michael Rogers (Quick.Step) finished just inside the top 30
Axel Merckx (Davitamon-Lotto) finished 37th today
Mario Aerts (Davitamon-Lotto) keeps it smooth
Phillippe Gilbert (FDJ) in suffer mode
Thor Hushovd (CA) didn't have to go too hard today
Kurt-Asle Arvesen (CSC) going well
It wasn't easy out there
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) salutes as stage winner
Lance on the podium
John Kerry US senator and cyclist
Luke David Armstrong
Images by AFP Photo
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) with Senator John Kerry
Lance lines up for his last Tour TT
Luke Roberts (CSC) set the early best time
Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) gave it everything, but fell short by 23 seconds
A lean looking Jan Ullrich at full gas
Bobby Julich (CSC) had a very solid ride for 4th
Stuart O'Grady (Cofidis) rode within his limits
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) powers along in the final TT
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) was again The Boss today
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) comes up to the line
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) finishes his ride, the best
Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) puts on the maillot jaune one more time
Lance gives the spoils of victory to his kids
1 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 1.11.46 (46.4 km/h)
2 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.23
3 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 1.16
4 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 1.33
5 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 1.54
6 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.02
7 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 2.06
8 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 2.25
9 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2.51
10 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 3.05
11 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 3.09
12 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 3.10
13 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 3.11
14 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 3.13
15 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.25
16 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.26
17 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 3.47
18 Dario Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3.51
19 J�rg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-W�rth
20 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 4.03
21 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 4.24
22 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 4.37
23 Thomas L�vkvist (Swe) Fran�aise Des Jeux 4.41
24 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 4.45
25 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir
26 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.55
27 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 4.58
28 Andrei Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 5.03
29 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 5.13
30 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step 5.18
31 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 5.24
32 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 5.26
33 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 5.37
34 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 5.40
35 Pierrick F�drigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5.48
36 Laurent Lef�vre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5.52
37 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 5.53
38 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel
39 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita
40 Bradley McGee (Aus) Fran�aise Des Jeux
41 Luis Le�n Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 5.56
42 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5.57
43 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5.59
44 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 6.00
45 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6.02
46 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 6.08
47 Maxim Iglinski (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 6.11
48 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 6.12
49 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6.14
50 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.17
51 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel 6.25
52 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 6.26
53 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 6.41
54 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 6.43
55 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 6.44
56 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel 6.48
57 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 6.49
58 Sandy Casar (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 6.52
59 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 6.53
60 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 6.54
61 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir
62 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.55
63 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 6.57
64 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 7.01
65 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.03
66 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 7.09
67 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Domina Vacanze
68 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 7.11
69 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 7.14
70 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 7.19
71 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r-Prevoyance 7.20
72 J�r�me Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.21
73 Kjell Carlstr�m (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 7.26
74 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 7.39
75 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 7.41
76 Volodimir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 7.44
77 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 7.47
78 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 7.51
79 J�rg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 7.52
80 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 7.53
81 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 7.55
82 C�dric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 7.56
83 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 8.01
84 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 8.03
85 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8.05
86 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel 8.06
87 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 8.10
88 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8.12
89 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 8.16
90 St�phane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance
91 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 8.18
92 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 8.25
93 Nicki S�rensen (Den) Team CSC 8.28
94 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step 8.29
95 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Fran�aise Des Jeux
96 S�bastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 8.32
97 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 8.35
98 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 8.36
99 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi 8.38
100 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick.Step 8.39
101 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi
102 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 8.44
103 David Moncouti� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 8.50
104 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 8.53
105 David Canada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir
106 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 8.55
107 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 8.57
108 Walter B�n�teau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
109 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 8.59
110 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 9.05
111 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 9.12
112 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 9.19
113 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 9.21
114 Jos� Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 9.28
115 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 9.29
116 St�phane Aug� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 9.34
117 Baden Cooke (Aus) Fran�aise Des Jeux 9.35
118 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 9.36
119 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 9.41
120 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9.44
121 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 9.46
122 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step 9.50
123 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto
124 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9.52
125 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 9.55
126 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne
127 Francis Mourey (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 10.04
128 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10.09
129 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10.17
130 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 10.24
131 S�bastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 10.26
132 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita
133 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 10.27
134 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 10.28
135 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 10.37
136 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick.Step 10.39
137 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 10.50
138 Fr�d�ric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 10.59
139 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 11.00
140 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 11.22
141 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 11.23
142 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 11.26
143 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Fran�aise Des Jeux 11.29
144 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 11.45
145 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11.49
146 Robert F�rster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 11.52
147 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 12.08
148 Jose Vicente Garc�a Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 12.17
149 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 12.18
150 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 12.39
151 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 13.04
152 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13.05
153 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13.08
154 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 13.14
155 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 13.38
1 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 15 pts
2 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 12
3 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 10
4 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 8
5 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 6
6 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 5
7 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 4
8 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 3
9 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2
10 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1
Col de la Gachet - Cat. 3, km 40.2
1 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 4 pts
2 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 3
3 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2
1 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.14.51
2 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 0.04
3 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 0.58
4 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 1.19
5 Thomas L�vkvist (Swe) Fran�aise Des Jeux 1.36
6 Andrei Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 1.58
7 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 2.08
8 Luis Le�n Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 2.51
9 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3.03
19 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 5.50
20 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 5.54
21 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 6.07
22 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 6.50
23 Francis Mourey (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 6.59
24 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.12
25 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Fran�aise Des Jeux 8.24
26 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8.40
27 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 9.13
28 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 9.34
1 Discovery Channel Team 3.40.52
2 T-Mobile Team 0.50
3 Team Csc 1.03
4 Phonak Hearing Systems 4.48
5 Credit Agricole 6.38
6 Gerolsteiner 7.02
7 Illes Balears-Caisse D�Epargne 7.16
8 Davitamon - Lotto 8.33
9 Liberty Seguros - W�rth Team 9.11
10 Liquigas - Bianchi 10.32
11 Francaise Des Jeux 11.52
12 Bouygues Telecom 12.05
13 Saunier Duval - Prodir 12.07
14 Domina Vacanze 12.49
15 Rabobank 13.16
16 Fassa Bortolo 13.27
17 Euskaltel - Euskadi 14.41
18 Quick Step - Innergetic 16.52
19 Ag2R Prevoyance 17.57
20 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 18.07
21 Lampre - Caffita 19.55
General classification after stage 20
1 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 82.34.05 (41.762 km/h)
5 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 11.25
6 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 11.27
7 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 11.33
8 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 11.55
9 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 12.44
10 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 16.04
11 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 16.26
12 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 19.02
13 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 21.06
14 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 23.40
15 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 23.43
16 J�rg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 24.07
17 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 24.08
18 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 27.45
19 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 28.04
20 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 33.02
21 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 34.24
22 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 36.20
23 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
24 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 38.29
25 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel 44.30
26 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 49.14
27 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 54.03
28 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 55.29
29 Sandy Casar (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 56.47
30 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel 59.48
31 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 1.03.25
32 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.04.49
33 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.07.57
34 St�phane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 1.10.53
35 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 1.11.48
36 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 1.16.21
37 Maxim Iglinski (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 1.18.26
38 J�rg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 1.19.05
39 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1.20.15
40 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 1.21.31
41 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step 1.24.32
42 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.25.35
43 J�r�me Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.31.38
44 C�dric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.33.17
45 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 1.38.33
46 Pierrick F�drigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.41.14
47 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.41.38
48 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.42.29
49 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.42.35
50 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.43.45
51 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.49.22
52 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.53.26
53 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.54.12
54 Dario Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 2.00.39
55 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 2.02.23
56 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 2.03.10
57 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2.03.56
58 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 2.05.20
59 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step 2.07.48
60 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
61 Thomas L�vkvist (Swe) Fran�aise Des Jeux
62 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2.08.37
63 David Canada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.08.56
64 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 2.09.37
65 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.11.18
66 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.15.17
67 David Moncouti� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 2.15.23
68 Walter B�n�teau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.17.06
69 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.22.41
70 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Fran�aise Des Jeux 2.24.00
71 Nicki S�rensen (Den) Team CSC 2.24.08
72 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 2.24.16
73 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 2.24.21
74 Jos� Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2.25.27
75 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 2.26.26
76 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 2.26.49
77 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 2.27.19
78 Andrei Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 2.28.08
79 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.29.34
80 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo
81 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2.31.02
82 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.33.10
83 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 2.33.59
84 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 2.34.40
85 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 2.35.00
86 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2.35.52
87 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 2.36.13
88 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2.38.01
89 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 2.39.27
90 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2.39.51
91 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.43.03
92 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2.45.03
93 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 2.46.24
94 Francis Mourey (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 2.47.14
95 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel 2.49.53
96 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2.51.28
97 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.51.58
98 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Domina Vacanze 2.52.02
99 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 2.52.41
100 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
101 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 2.53.46
102 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 2.54.12
103 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.54.35
104 Volodimir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 2.54.56
105 S�bastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.56.10
106 Bradley McGee (Aus) Fran�aise Des Jeux 2.56.11
107 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel 3.00.59
108 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 3.03.16
109 Luis Le�n Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 3.03.19
110 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 3.04.17
111 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step 3.05.12
112 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3.07.30
113 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 3.09.13
114 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 3.11.02
115 S�bastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 3.14.33
116 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 3.15.40
117 Laurent Lef�vre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.16.06
118 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 3.18.21
119 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 3.18.44
120 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.20.47
121 St�phane Aug� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3.21.30
122 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.21.50
123 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3.23.41
124 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.25.32
125 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 3.25.36
126 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 3.27.03
127 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3.30.59
128 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 3.32.48
129 Fr�d�ric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3.34.59
130 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.37.13
131 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.37.31
132 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 3.37.58
133 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 3.38.43
134 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 3.41.52
135 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 3.42.03
136 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3.43.05
137 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3.44.22
138 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.44.26
139 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick.Step 3.46.24
140 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 3.46.54
141 Kjell Carlstr�m (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 3.47.02
142 Baden Cooke (Aus) Fran�aise Des Jeux 3.47.17
143 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Fran�aise Des Jeux 3.47.35
144 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3.49.30
145 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi 3.51.03
146 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 3.51.50
147 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 3.54.14
148 Jose Vicente Garc�a Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 3.56.34
149 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick.Step 3.59.07
150 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.00.24
151 Robert F�rster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.01.40
152 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 4.02.16
153 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 4.03.09
154 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 4.09.25
155 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.20.24
Points classification
1 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 175 pts
2 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 160
3 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 154
4 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 118
5 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 117
6 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 110
7 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 93
8 Robert F�rster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 85
9 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 84
10 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 84
11 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 79
12 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 77
13 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 77
14 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 75
15 Baden Cooke (Aus) Fran�aise Des Jeux 73
16 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 72
17 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 71
18 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Fran�aise Des Jeux 71
19 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 69
20 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 69
21 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Fran�aise Des Jeux 61
22 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 58
23 J�r�me Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 57
24 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 54
25 Sandy Casar (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 54
26 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 52
27 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 51
28 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 50
29 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 46
30 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick.Step 45
31 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 43
32 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 42
33 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 41
34 S�bastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 41
35 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 40
36 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 40
37 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 39
38 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 38
39 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 36
40 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel 35
41 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 35
42 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 34
43 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 33
44 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 33
45 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 32
46 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 31
47 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 30
48 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 30
49 C�dric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 30
50 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 29
51 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 29
52 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 27
53 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 27
54 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 26
55 Andrei Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 26
56 David Moncouti� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 25
57 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 25
58 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 25
59 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 25
60 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 24
61 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 24
62 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 24
63 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 24
64 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 24
65 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 24
66 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 24
67 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 24
68 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 23
69 Maxim Iglinski (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 23
70 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 23
71 St�phane Aug� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 22
72 Dario Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 20
73 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 19
74 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r-Prevoyance 19
75 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step 19
76 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 19
77 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 18
78 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel 17
79 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 16
80 Pierrick F�drigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 16
81 Jos� Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 16
82 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 15
83 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 14
84 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 13
85 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 13
86 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 13
87 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 13
88 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 13
89 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 12
90 J�rg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 12
91 J�rg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 12
92 Bradley McGee (Aus) Fran�aise Des Jeux 11
93 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 11
94 Thomas L�vkvist (Swe) Fran�aise Des Jeux 9
95 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 9
96 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 8
97 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7
98 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 7
99 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 6
100 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6
101 Kjell Carlstr�m (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 6
102 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step 4
103 Nicki S�rensen (Den) Team CSC 4
104 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 4
105 Luis Le�n Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 4
106 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4
107 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 3
108 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 3
109 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3
110 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2
111 David Canada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2
112 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Domina Vacanze 2
113 Laurent Lef�vre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2
114 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth -1
115 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto -4
116 Walter B�n�teau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom -4
117 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems -5
118 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems -5
119 Francis Mourey (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux -5
120 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel -5
121 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi -10
122 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi -25
Mountains classification
1 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 185 pts
4 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 92
5 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 90
6 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 88
8 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 75
9 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 74
18 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 41
31 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 26
36 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 23
39 Walter B�n�teau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 19
44 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 17
47 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15
53 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 13
60 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 10
62 J�r�me Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 9
63 Luis Le�n Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 9
64 St�phane Aug� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 8
65 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 8
66 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 8
67 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 8
68 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 7
69 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 7
70 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6
71 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 5
72 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 5
73 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 3
74 Pierrick F�drigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3
75 S�bastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 3
76 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 3
77 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3
78 David Canada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2
79 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 2
80 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 2
81 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 2
82 Kjell Carlstr�m (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 2
83 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2
84 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1
85 Bradley McGee (Aus) Fran�aise Des Jeux 1
86 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1
87 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 1
88 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 1
Young rider classification
1 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 82.53.07
3 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 44.23
4 Maxim Iglinski (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 59.24
5 J�r�me Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.12.36
7 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.35.10
8 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step 1.48.46
9 Thomas L�vkvist (Swe) Fran�aise Des Jeux
19 Luis Le�n Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 2.44.17
20 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2.52.00
21 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.01.45
22 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 3.08.01
23 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 3.13.46
24 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 3.19.41
25 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3.24.03
26 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Fran�aise Des Jeux 3.28.33
27 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3.30.28
28 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi 3.32.01
Most combative classification
1 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems
Teams classification
1 T-Mobile Team 245.07.38
2 Discovery Channel Team 14.57
3 Team Csc 25.15
4 Credit Agricole 55.24
5 Illes Balears-Caisse D�Epargne 1.06.09
6 Phonak Hearing Systems 1.09.20
7 Liberty Seguros - W�rth Team 1.47.56
8 Rabobank 2.26.30
9 Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.48.58
10 Ag2R Prevoyance 2.52.04
11 Gerolsteiner 3.05.20
12 Bouygues Telecom 3.13.31
13 Francaise Des Jeux 3.32.15
14 Davitamon - Lotto 3.37.45
15 Euskaltel - Euskadi 3.41.05
16 Domina Vacanze 4.20.38
17 Lampre - Caffita 4.33.06
18 Liquigas - Bianchi 4.50.57
19 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 5.03.04
20 Fassa Bortolo 6.13.26
21 Quick Step - Innergetic 6.36.48
Intermediate timing
1 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 25.41
2 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 0.07
3 Jan Ullrich (Ger) T-Mobile Team 0.17
4 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 0.29
5 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 0.39
6 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 0.40
7 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.46
8 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 1.00
9 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 1.02
10 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.09
11 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.13
12 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole
13 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 1.14
14 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.17
15 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 1.21
16 J�rg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 1.32
17 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 1.44
18 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step 1.46
19 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile Team 1.47
20 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Fassa Bortolo 1.49
21 Andrei Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 1.51
22 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.52
23 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 1.53
24 Dario Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.55
25 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir
27 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 2.00
28 Andrei Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 2.01
29 Pierrick F�drigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.02
30 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel
31 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 2.03
32 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth
33 Bradley McGee (Aus) Fran�aise Des Jeux 2.05
34 Thomas L�vkvist (Swe) Fran�aise Des Jeux 2.10
35 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems
36 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole
37 Laurent Brochard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.11
38 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 2.12
39 Laurent Lef�vre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.13
40 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi
41 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel 2.14
42 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 2.15
43 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 2.17
44 Sandy Casar (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 2.18
45 Daniele Nardello (Ita) T-Mobile Team 2.20
47 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2.22
48 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems
49 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 2.24
50 Luis Le�n Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth
51 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.25
52 Maxim Iglinski (Kaz) Domina Vacanze
53 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
54 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank
55 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner
56 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 2.26
57 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 2.28
58 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2.31
59 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 2.34
61 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 2.38
62 Lorenzo Bernucci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2.42
63 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner
64 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.43
65 J�r�me Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
66 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.44
67 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi
68 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth
69 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r-Prevoyance 2.47
70 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 2.49
71 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.50
72 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team
73 Stephan Schreck (Ger) T-Mobile Team 2.54
74 Nicki S�rensen (Den) Team CSC 2.55
75 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2.56
76 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC
77 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 2.57
78 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.58
79 David Moncouti� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone
80 C�dric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 2.59
81 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel 3.01
83 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel
84 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 3.03
86 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 3.07
87 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 3.10
88 Kjell Carlstr�m (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi 3.11
89 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step 3.12
90 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick.Step 3.16
91 Volodimir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo
92 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 3.18
93 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3.19
94 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance
95 J�rg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze
96 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.20
97 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step 3.21
98 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner
99 S�bastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 3.23
100 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.24
101 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita 3.25
102 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3.27
103 Francis Mourey (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 3.28
104 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.29
105 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
106 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3.30
107 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Fran�aise Des Jeux 3.32
108 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 3.33
109 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi 3.34
110 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 3.40
111 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 3.42
112 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
113 Jos� Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne
114 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.43
115 David Canada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.44
116 Walter B�n�teau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.46
117 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank
118 St�phane Aug� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 3.47
119 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux 3.48
120 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 3.49
121 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 3.50
122 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance
123 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 3.58
124 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4.00
125 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 4.02
126 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 4.03
127 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC 4.04
128 Baden Cooke (Aus) Fran�aise Des Jeux 4.05
129 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 4.06
130 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.07
131 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 4.08
132 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze 4.11
133 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo 4.14
134 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone
135 S�bastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole 4.15
136 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita 4.18
137 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 4.22
138 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 4.26
139 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze
140 Fr�d�ric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 4.29
141 Guido Trenti (USA) Quick.Step 4.31
142 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 4.32
143 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Fran�aise Des Jeux 4.36
144 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.39
145 Robert F�rster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.40
146 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.42
147 Jose Vicente Garc�a Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 4.52
148 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 4.53
149 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 4.57
150 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 5.13
151 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5.17
152 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo
153 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 5.31
154 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.42
155 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 5.54
1 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 46.38
3 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 0.53
9 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.41
10 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 1.45
11 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne
12 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.00
21 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Credit Agricole 2.29
24 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.50
29 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 3.16
34 Luis Le�n Sanchez (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 3.24
37 Laurent Lef�vre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
38 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel 3.30
39 Tobias Steinhauser (Ger) T-Mobile Team
40 Rubens Bertogliati (Swi) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.32
44 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 3.46
45 Jose Enrique Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.48
47 Alberto Contador (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 3.52
48 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.53
50 Maxim Iglinski (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 4.01
52 Sandy Casar (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux
54 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 4.10
55 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank
56 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4.11
57 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 4.13
58 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone
59 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi 4.15
62 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 4.20
64 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team 4.24
67 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r-Prevoyance
69 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Domina Vacanze 4.29
71 Kjell Carlstr�m (Fin) Liquigas-Bianchi
72 Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth
73 J�r�me Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4.32
74 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 4.34
75 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 4.43
80 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
82 Volodimir Gustov (Ukr) Fassa Bortolo 4.53
87 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel 4.59
88 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 5.01
89 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto
92 Nicki S�rensen (Den) Team CSC
93 St�phane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 5.08
95 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 5.14
96 St�phane Aug� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 5.16
97 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Caffita
99 Walter B�n�teau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5.19
100 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone
102 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 5.22
103 Servais Knaven (Ned) Quick.Step 5.24
104 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Fran�aise Des Jeux
106 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 5.27
110 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Fran�aise Des Jeux
111 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner
112 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) Quick.Step 5.31
113 David Moncouti� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 5.33
115 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agricole 5.39
116 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 5.43
119 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
120 Jos� Luis Arrieta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 5.52
123 Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze
125 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 5.55
126 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
127 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 6.00
132 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Caffita
136 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 6.20
144 Robert F�rster (Ger) Gerolsteiner
149 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 7.29
km 40.2
21 Chris Horner (USA) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.40
84 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems
85 David Moncouti� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 6.28
87 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 6.34
91 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance
94 S�bastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole
96 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi
98 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance
99 Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-W�rth 6.54
100 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole
102 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 6.56
111 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems
115 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick.Step 7.26
118 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 7.32
121 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto
127 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
135 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto
144 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Fran�aise Des Jeux
152 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 10.23
153 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10.28
154 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 11.03
155 Daniel Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 11.16
1 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel 1.05.52
13 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner
30 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step
75 Angel Vicioso (Spa) Liberty Seguros-W�rth
81 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank
84 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole
87 J�rg Ludewig (Ger) Domina Vacanze 7.28
88 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 7.33
92 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r-Prevoyance 7.43
96 Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi
98 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas-Bianchi 7.52
101 Beat Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 7.57
102 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r-Prevoyance 7.58
103 David Moncouti� (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone
133 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner
139 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 10.02
140 Fr�d�ric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 10.06
141 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Fran�aise Des Jeux 10.19
142 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo) Lampre-Caffita
143 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 10.27
144 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10.31
145 Robert F�rster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 10.43
146 Jose Vicente Garc�a Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 10.46
147 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 10.55
148 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 10.56
149 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11.02
150 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r-Prevoyance 11.07
151 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11.41
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Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor, 7 résultats 7
Grieg, Nina (1845-1935), Singer, 4 résultats 4
Brodsky, Adolph (1851-1929), Violinist, Principal of the Royal Manchester College of Music, 1 résultats 1
Brodsky, Adolph (1851-1929), Violinist, Principal of the Royal Manchester College of Music, 12 résultats 12
Grieg, Nina (1845-1935), Singer, 12 résultats 12
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor, 12 résultats 12
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893), Composer, 4 résultats 4
Brodsky, Anna (c.1855-1929), scientist, President of RMCM Club, writer, 4 résultats 4
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935), composer, conductor, violinist, 2 résultats 2
Sinding, Christian August (1856-1941), Composer, 2 résultats 2
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Martinius (1832-1910), writer, 1903 winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 1 résultats 1
Picard, Leon (fl.1900s-fl.1940s), 1 résultats 1
Skadowsky, Olga (fl.1856–1940), 1 résultats 1
Fait partie de Brodsky Papers
Grieg writes enthusiastically to Brodsky from London. He recalls the happy times which he and Nina spent at Kaiser Wilhelm Strasse and Brodsky's wonderful violin playing. Grieg has been playing with Neruda [Wilma Hallé] who has charmed him ...
Edvard Grieg is writing to Anna Brodsky on behalf of his wife Nina who is ill. She has been lying in a clinic for 3 weeks as she has a problem with her knees which may be the consequence of too much mineral water. Nina has been taking mineral wa...
Autograph letter signed from Nina Grieg to Anna Brodsky
From what Nina Grieg writes in this letter to Anna Brodsky, we understand that Anna Brodsky has been in Nancy with her sister Olga Picard who has been ill or has faced some misfortune, while Adolph Brodsky has been in Paris with "der stumme f...
Grieg, Nina (1845-1935), Singer
Grieg replies to Brodsky's letter in which Brodsky announces that he is not coming to Norway. Grieg tried to telegraph him that Nina was better and to come; the Eldorado would be going from Newcastle to Bergen that evening. However the addr...
Nina has made a mistake with the London concert dates: the last London concert is the 24th not the 26th May. Edvard would prefer the Brodskys to come to the first concert. Dated 9 May 1906.
Grieg thanks Brodsky for inviting them. He may have to return home prestissimo because of the coronation in Drontheim, but that is unlikely since he has refused to write a cantata for the event. He will be travelling to Warsaw at the end of Marc...
Nina Grieg regrets that Adolph Brodsky has been ill. Edvard is well and the concerts in Prague and Amsterdam have been accomplished. The Griegs hope to go on to London on the 10th for concerts on 17th and 26th [May]. They will be staying at Mr....
Autograph letter signed from Nina Greig to Anna Brodsky
Nina writes to Anna from Troldhaugen. Nina thanks the Brodskys for their letters and expresses her delight that the photographs have turned out so well. Nina's sister Antonie, known as Tony which Nina spells "Tonny", has come out we...
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Women’s Tennis advances in PSAC Tournament
Huskies will face Slippery Rock in semifinal round
Connor McKay, Sports Editor
The Bloomsburg University women’s tennis team defeated Millersville University in thrilling fashion on Tuesday afternoon to advance to the semi-final round of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) tournament.
It was junior Vitoria Nery who led the Huskies to a 4-3 victory against the visiting Marauders in a hard fought battle at the Burt Reese Tennis Center. This win marks the seventh in a row for the Huskies, taking their overall record to 15-2 in 2019.
Nery proved herself to be a clutch player when her team needed her most when the series was tied at 3-3 with #3 of the singles yet to be decided.
She broke the serve that was leading 5-3 in the third set that gave the Huskies the victory they needed to clinch a postseason berth. Millersville’s Kelsey Heckert would be the one to fall to Nery. While Nery won the first set 6-2, Heckert took the match to the deciding set with her 6-4 victory in the second.
In a too-close-to-call third set, Nery managed to seize the victory right after sophomore Giovanna Bonito fell to the Marauder Victoria Hanus at #4 singles to tie the match at an even score of 3-3.
A victory at #1 came from the team of Bonito and junior Taylor earned a victory with a 6-2 score. Their overall doubles record now improves to 13-5.
The duo of Nery and junior Cassidy Calimer also scored themselves a victory at #2, besting the Marauders 6-3 to secure the first doubles point for the Huskies. Proving themselves to be quite the team, Nery and Calimer’s overall record jumps to 13-4 overall.
A 2-0 advantage would be earned for Bloomsburg by the senior Cassie Wentz who bested the #5 Marauder Megan Rovenolt. She scored 7-6 (1) and then finished with a 6-1 win, marking the fifth straight match in a row she has won. Win streaks like that definitely show why the Huskies have earned themselves a spot at the semi-finals for three years straight.
Millersville was not ready to give up that easily, however, as their Corinne Grohoski would best the sophomore Isabella Sarquis in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4. This would mark the first victory of the afternoon for the Marauders.
Despite falling to Millersville’s #2 Jasmine Morris, Calimer would extend the Huskies lead to 3-1. She would secure victories in both the second and third sets with a score of 6-3 both times.
Leading the Huskies with 15 wins on the year, Calimer’s overall record now stands at 15-5. She will enter into the semifinals with seven straight victories, proving herself to be a top contender for the Huskies and is a critical component to their postseason lineup.
The match would be sent into a final between the talents of Nery and Heckert after Katina Jones narrowly outplayed Capoferri at # 1 with two 7-5 wins to earn the Marauders another point. Bonito at #4 would then be bested by Hanus first losing 3-6, then winning two straight at 6-4, ending 6-0.
Now advancing to PSAC’s semifinals, the Huskies will now have to square off against the best the Western Division has to offer, top seed Slippery Rock University.
The Huskies now prepare for the semi-final round against Slippery Rock, which will take place on Friday, May 4 at the Burt Reese Tennis Center.
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What Are the Options for Those Who Can't/Won't Get a Corporate/Government Job?
To understand alternatives to conventional corporate/government jobs, we have to understand "the economy we have, not the one we wish we had."
The average jobseeker is hoping to nail down a corporate or government position, for the usual reasons: security, pay and benefits. This is understandable, and it works for those who do manage to nail down a corporate/government job.
But what about everyone else? What do they do for a career? And what about those who take the Corporate America/state job and realize it isn't a good match for who they are and where they want to go?
The conventional options are on the margins of the economy: a low-wage part-time job or risky self-employment. No wonder most people want a secure Corporate America/state gig.
But there aren't enough secure, high-paying corporate/government jobs for everyone who wants one. The conventional (and carefully unstated) view is: tough luck, welcome to the low-wage serfdom basement of the economy. Take a part-time McJob or three if you can get them and spend your life scraping by.
I don't see low-wage serfdom as the only alternative to a shiny Corporate America/government bureaucracy job. To understand the alternatives, we have to understand the economy we have, not the one we wish we had or the one we might have in the future.
I often receive emails asking for job/career advice, and this is to be expected, given my latest book is titled Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy.
My first response is to list the four conditions that make finding paying work easier:
1. Living in a place with a diverse range of opportunities for work.
2. Developing a network of people who know I’m looking for work and who trust me to do a good job.
3. Having more than one skill so I can take a variety of jobs.
4. Knowing what kind of work I like doing.
Beyond these common-sense points, job-seekers and those changing careers need to understand the disruptive forces transforming the economy.
The Disruptive Forces Transforming the Economy
There are three fundamental forces disrupting the conventional order, and everyone with their eyes open sees them at work every day:
1. Essential resources are becoming more expensive.
2. The system of expanding credit/debt to fund more consumption (i.e. “growth”) has reached marginal returns and is failing.
3. Networked software, automation and robotics are reducing the need for human labor on a global scale.
As a result of these three structural forces, economic instability is not going to go away any time soon. Technology leapfrogs the obsolete and inefficient; no wonder conventional sectors and the market for traditional 9-to-5 jobs are both stagnating.
The realization that ever-expanding debt and consumption are unsustainable has given rise to a new understanding of the economy called Degrowth (French: décroissance, Spanish: decrecimiento, Italian: decrescita).
From the perspective of sustainable prosperity, growth based on ever-expanding debt-based consumption is the road to ruin.
This shift from debt-based consumption to a more productive sustainability is bringing profound changes to the nature of work itself and social arrangements in the workplace.
Though we can’t foresee all the ramifications of networked software, automation and robotics, we can predict one aspect of this systemic disruption: technology will disrupt the most expensive, least efficient sectors of the economy because that’s where the greatest reductions in cost can be reaped.
In our economy, these are healthcare, education, government and national defense, all traditionally viewed as stable sectors with guaranteed job security. That is changing, as the soaring costs of these sectors now exceed the economy’s ability to fund them. If an economy expands by 2% each year and healthcare costs rise by 5% each year, eventually healthcare runs out of oxygen—there isn’t enough income generated by the economy to fund its continued expansion.
Few “experts”—academics, pundits and advisors—have accepted the reality of these forces or thought through the interacting consequences. As a result, we’re on our own in setting a course and navigating the inevitable storms ahead as the old system lurches from crisis to crisis, weakening further as every politically expedient reform fails to address these structural realities.
Outmoded Career Advice Is the Norm
Though the transformative power of these three forces is self-evident, remarkably, conventional career counseling is still stuck in the past, offering three basic bits of advice:
1. Choose a career that aligns with your core talents and interests.
2. Get as many credentials as you can -- degrees, certifications, etc. -- because the gatekeepers who do the hiring require them.
3. Since the goal is secure employment, try to get a job in the government or a big corporation.
In my view, the conventional advice has it all backward. What worked in the past is no longer working because the economy and the nature of work are both being disrupted by forces that cannot be controlled by those threatened by these fundamental changes.
In the conventional view, a college degree prepares one to enter the workforce. This is no longer true, as higher education has largely failed to keep pace with technology and a fast-changing economy.
As for adding more credentials to keep ahead of the pack—degree inflation dooms this strategy for all but the few who manage to secure multiple degrees from elite universities. And even this is no guarantee of lifetime security for everyone, as the number of open slots in gatekeeper-dominated institutions is much smaller than the rapidly expanding pool of over-credentialed applicants.
What matters more than credentials is the ability to keep learning new skills over one’s entire productive life.
And while it’s certainly solid advice to align one’s work with one’s talents and interests, even this advice misses the key dynamics of the emerging economy—which I define as the parts of the economy that are thriving on innovation rather than depending on cheap credit and asset bubbles for their survival.
The thriving parts of the economy rely less on gatekeepers and credentials and more on skills, flexibility, professionalism, mastery and networks of collaboration.
In the emerging economy, security arises not from institutional promises but from a diversity of skills and income streams and a flourishing network of other trustworthy, productive people.
As a result, the goal for jobseekers isn’t just to identify one’s talents and interests but to acquire a diverse suite of flexible skills and a network that enables you to put these skills to good use.
In this view, work isn’t what you do between 9 and 5: it’s a lifestyle informed by a flexible, open perspective and guided by entrepreneurial values.
In terms of values, conventional career advice is based on the idea that happiness and fulfillment require institutional security and ever more consumption. But the more we learn about happiness and fulfillment, the more apparent it becomes that family, community, meaningful work and networks of trustworthy collaborators and friends are the sources of happiness and fulfillment, not the accumulation of institutional promises and more stuff, which turns out to have little impact on happiness or fulfillment.
The Dynamics of Economic Transformation
Capitalism and technology are both disruptive by their very nature. That mature industries shrink or disappear is not the fault of one policy or another; that process of creative destruction (a term coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter) is the heart of capitalism and technology.
Many have attempted to keep technology safely locked up so it can’t creatively destroy their regime or industry. But technology is a genie that cannot be kept in the bottle. To quote Bob Dylan: those not busy being born are busy dying. Every nation or industry that tries to protect itself from technological transformation either stagnates or fails.
One aspect of capitalism that disturbs many people is the mobile nature of capital—that capital will flow to the highest return, regardless of national borders or religious, national and ideological loyalties.
Though many attribute this mobility to base greed, capital that doesn’t seek to expand will fall victim to creative destruction: the only way innovation and productive investment can occur is if less productive investments and quasi-monopolies are dismantled.
This is true not just of financial capital (cash), but of human and social capital—what author Peter Drucker called the new means of production in the knowledge-based economy.
This will have implications for every worker seeking to escape the corporate rat-race or build a career.
One feature of capitalism that is rarely noted is the premium placed on cooperation. The Darwinian aspects of competition are widely accepted (and rued) as capitalism’s dominant force, but cooperation is just as intrinsic to capitalism as competition. Subcontractors must cooperate to assemble a product, suppliers must cooperate to deliver the various components, distributors must cooperate to get the products to retail outlets, employees and managers must cooperate to reach the goals of the organization, and local governments and communities must cooperate with enterprises to sustain the local economy.
Darwin’s understanding of natural selection is often misapplied. In its basic form, natural selection simply means that the world is constantly changing, and organisms must adapt or they will expire. This dynamic is scale-invariant, meaning that it’s true for individuals, enterprises, governments, cultures and economies. Darwin wrote: "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, or the most intelligent, but the ones most adaptable to change."
These new ideas, techniques and processes trigger changes in society and the economy that are difficult to predict. The key survival trait is not so much the ability to guess the future correctly but to remain flexible and adaptive.
Ideas, techniques and processes which are better and more productive than previous versions will spread quickly; those who refuse to adapt them will be overtaken by those who do.
This creates a dilemma: we want more prosperity and wider opportunities for self-cultivation (personal fulfillment), yet we don’t want our security to be disrupted.
But we cannot have it both ways. Those who attempt to preserve the current order while reaping the gains of free markets find their security dissolving before their eyes as unintended consequences of technological and social innovations disrupt their sources of wealth and mechanisms of control.
The great irony of free-market capitalism is that the only way to establish an enduring security is to embrace innovation and adaptation, the very processes that generate short-term insecurity. Attempting to guarantee security leads to risk being distributed within the system. When the accumulated risk manifests, the system collapses.
Why do these characteristics of free-market capitalism matter to jobseekers?
Opportunity is not randomly distributed; it results from what I call the infrastructure of opportunity. If there is no mobility of labor and capital, no transparent markets for labor and capital, no creative destruction of corrupt, obsolete, inefficient systems, weak rule of law, weak property rights, no self-organizing (i.e. transparent, decentralized) access to credit, limited means of cooperation, little room for innovation and no understanding of the essential role of risk in adaptation, opportunities for successful adaptation (what we might call prosperity) are intrinsically scarce. Virtually all bets made in this environment will be lost because there is no fertile ground—it’s a desert for opportunity.
In Part 2: How The Nature Of Work Is Changing, we explore the changing nature of work and what skills and values tilt the odds in our favor. (Free executive summary;Enrollment in Peak Prosperity is required for full access)
THis essay was first published on peakprosperity.com.
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February 25, 2014 — Elise Morrison
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Through the Looking Glass: Performing Gender in Surveillance Art
While surveillance technologies are commonly figured as masculine, protective instruments of patriarchal power, referred to as “the Man” and “Big Brother,” there is a particular blind spot in cultural studies of surveillance when it comes to critically examining the gaze of surveillance as gendered and gendering. My presentation addresses this oversight by exploring the work of surveillance artists that stage surveillance as a “technology of gender”, a term coined by feminist film theorist Teresa de Lauretis to describe dominant visual media, such as Hollywood cinema, that produce and maintain gender norms. I explore a feminist line of inquiry in these works that, while they do not all draw explicit allegiances to feminism, are implicitly in conversation with feminist approaches to defining, critiquing, and building alternatives to a disciplinary “male gaze” in visual culture. We will look at work by artists and activists such as Jill Magid, Steve Mann, Mona Hatoum, and Giles Walker that make visible the gendered and gendering gaze of surveillance, and produce alternative, even transgressive performances of gender under and through surveillance.
**Join us Tuesday from 1-2 p.m. in room 202 of 220 York. A light, catered lunch will be provided.**
Elise received her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from Brown University in 2011 and is currently a postdoctoral associate in Interdisciplinary Performance Studies at Yale. Her book project, Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance, forthcoming from University of Michigan Press, looks at artists who strategically employ technologies of surveillance to create performances and installations that pose new and different ways of interacting with and understanding apparatuses of surveillance.
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The Dallas Stars fired coach Jim Montgomery on Tuesday "due to unprofessional conduct."
"The Dallas Stars expect all of our employees to act with integrity and exhibit professional behavior while working for and representing our organization," Stars general manager Jim Nill said in a statement. "This decision was made due to unprofessional conduct inconsistent with the core values and beliefs of the Dallas Stars and the National Hockey League."
At a news conference later Tuesday, Nill said there were no other employees involved in Montgomery's fireable offense but refused to elaborate on what he called a "material act of unprofessionalism" by the coach.
"I'm not going to discuss the act. Unfortunately, I can't. That's out of respect for everyone involved," said Nill, calling the behavior a "total surprise" to him. "We decided this was unprofessional and a decision had to be made."
Nill said the team conducted an investigation and "went through the records" on Montgomery's transgressions.
Jim Montgomery, who was in his second season as coach of the Stars, was fired Tuesday for "unprofessional conduct." Patrick Gorski/Icon Sportswire
"This all came to light on Sunday," Nill said. "Once I received all the information, we sat down and digested everything. We sat down, talked to general counsel and made our decision."
Nill said the firing had nothing to do with the NHL's new policy on coaches abuse that was announced at Monday's board of governors meeting in Pebble Beach, California. The league was aware of this investigation into Montgomery ahead of that meeting.
"We approve the NHL making this four-point initiative," Nill says. "I was in contact with the NHL, but this decision was made before that initiative was announced. There is no connection."
He spoke to Montgomery on Tuesday and said he was "very disappointed." Nill then addressed the team. While the Stars were "very surprised," he said the team has good leadership.
"They're going to get over this," he said.
"We all want to know all the answers," forward Jamie Benn said, according to The Athletic. "But that's not the case. We believe that Jim Nill and our organization made the right move. So we'll trust in them."
Montgomery, 50, was in his second season with the Stars after five seasons as coach of the University of Denver. He has two years left on his contract at $1.6 million per season.
Dallas finished fourth in the Central Division last season but made a run in the playoffs, losing in seven games in the second round to the eventual champion St. Louis Blues.
The Stars, who are currently fourth in the division, host New Jersey on Tuesday night.
The Stars said assistant Rick Bowness will take over as interim coach, with Texas Stars (AHL) head coach Derek Laxdal joining his staff. Texas Stars assistant Neil Graham will take over for Laxdal.
Bowness and his staff will be in place for the rest of the season, according to Nill.
"It's a shock, and we're going to have to deal with it," Bowness said. "The cold reality of it is that we have a game to play tonight. But we're professionals and this is what we signed up for."
ESPN's Greg Wyshynski contributed to this report.
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Gba-Gonyon, a sitting assistant minister for Youth Development, Ministry of Youth and Sports, has been cleared to run for elective office in the October polls, while Abu Kamara, also a sitting Assistant Minister at another ministry, was denied. – Advertisement – NEC’s judgements of aspirants’ adherence to the Code of Conduct lack consistency, causing some to feel cheatedWith just three days to the end of the political aspirants nomination process conducted by the National Elections Commission, it is becoming certainly clear that the political ambitions of many Liberians will not be realized as a result of the controversial Code of Conduct, which the Supreme Court has upheld as law, and is currently being enforced by authorities of the National Elections Commission (NEC).Many aspirants have already begun to fall prey to the cruelty of the code, but the manner in which the NEC is carrying out the exercise appears shrouded in a great deal of ambiguity, thereby raising more questions than answers.While the fates of aspirants such as former Liberian Ambassador to the United States, Jeremiah Sulunteh, and former Forestry Development Authority managing director, Harrison Karnwea, hang anxiously between NEC rejection on account of the Code of Conduct and a pending Supreme Court ruling on the matter, other presidential appointees have either been beckoned or booted by NEC.NEC has not been able to sufficiently clarify its criteria as to which present and recently-resigned government officials should be cleared to run for elective office in the October 10 polls. For example, Assistant Minister of Post and Telecommunications, Abu Kamara, was outrightly rejected by NEC, citing violation of the CoC. When Kamara appealed the NEC decision to the Supreme Court, the NEC told the Court that the man was a sitting minister, and therefore in clear violation of the CoC. The Supreme Court upheld the NEC decision.However, another political aspirant with a seemingly identical background as Kamara, has been cleared by NEC. He is none other than Assistant Minister for Youth Development at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Lance Gba-Gonyon, who has been given a candidate status to run for Nimba County Electoral District #7.By coincidence, Minister Gba-Gonyon and Mr. Karnwea are both sons of the same district in Nimba, but the former, along with other officials were appointed by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Tuesday, April 7, 2015.Gba-Gonyon came to the Ministry of Youth and Sports as the direct replacement for former Assistant Minister Teeko Yorlay, who was released to go for further studies less than three years ago. Yorlay is also a son of Nimba County and has been cleared by the NEC as a candidate on the ticket of the opposition Liberty Party for the county Electoral District #3.Minister Gba-Gonyon, who reportedly uses government assigned vehicles for his political activities, is not the only current presidential appointee the NEC has favored. Authorities at the NEC have accepted the nomination of Roland G. Duo, an aspirant who holds an appointed position in the office of President Sirleaf as National Security Advisor to contest the upcoming October polls.Mr. Duo is contesting for a legislative seat on the ticket of the National Patriotic Party (NPP), which forms part of the Coalition for Democratic Change, of which Senator George Weah’s Congress for Democratic Change and former House Speaker Alex Tyler’s Liberia People Democratic Party (LPDP) are members.Another presidential appointee is the deputy director at the National Archives and Documentation, Martin Kulah, who is reportedly the favorite to succeed the outgoing Representative of Montserrado County District #6, Edwin Melvin Snowe. Snowe has left District #6 and declared domicile in Bomi County District #1, which he desires to represent, should he make it to the 54th Legislature in 2018. Abu B. Kamara, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, was rejected by NEC on account of violation of the Code of ConductThe situation of Ministers Kamara and Gbo-Gonyon serves as the crux of the ambiguity of the NEC’s decision that is now beclouding the electoral process. While Gba-Gonyon, who is at the same ministerial level as the rejected aspirant, has been given a go-ahead, Kamara believes he has been treated “unfairly.”Yet and still, even those who have been cleared are not completely cleared.In an earlier interview with the Daily Observer, NEC public affairs officer Henry Flomo said, “by the NEC accepting your nomination and giving you your package does not necessarily mean you are qualified and will be contesting the elections. It only allows us to know who all are coming in and so we began our investigations, which is tedious and time consuming, as we have to ensure no one violates any of our set rules,” he explained.“So if your name is to even appear in the preliminary listing does not mean you will contest in October. We will still be investigating candidates and anyone who falls short will be disqualified. You can only be relaxed when your name appears on the final listing because that is what we will use to print the ballots. So this is a long process and no one is qualified yet and those who have been rejected could still get a chance but through the legal means.”Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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October Allocation Survey: Many Investors See Opportunity Overseas, But Not All
October’s Asset Allocation Survey special question asked AAII members why they are or are not allocating to international markets. Nearly a third of all respondents (32%) said they are not allocating to international markets. Many of these individual investors thought U.S. stocks offer better investment opportunities; others thought foreign markets were too risky or said they lacked enough information to invest overseas. About 24% of respondents said they were allocating to international markets for reasons of diversification and/or to take advantage of the global economy. Slightly more than 12% of respondents thought international stocks offered good opportunities for returns. (Some members listed both diversification and the possibility of higher returns as reasons.) About 7% said they had exposure through large U.S. companies or through their funds.
Several respondents volunteered their allocation to foreign markets. Most commonly, these individual investors allocated between 5% and 20% of their portfolios to foreign securities.
Here is a sampling of the responses:
“I diversify because it is a global economy.”
“I am allocating to international markets because that is where the growth will be.”
“I do not allocate to international markets due to political instability, problems with their economy and civil unrest.”
“I get exposure to international markets through U.S. companies.”
“There is not as much good information available for foreign markets and stocks.”
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Book Review of Wonder by RJ Palacio
Like My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece, this title surprised me with the depths of its wisdom considering its guise as a book for pre-teens. I’m thinking of categorising these ‘Sneaky Adult Favourites’.
August Pullman, or Auggie as he is called by his loved ones, was born with a facial deformity that causes kids to ask him if he was in a fire, or if he’s a zombie. A Star Wars fanatic, Auggie also spent two years wearing an astronaut helmet in an attempt to hide his face. At the suggestion of his parents, he decides to leave homeschooling and go to fifth grade. Supported by his remarkable family, the first half of the story is narrated through Auggie’s eyes. Worse than the intentional cruelty of some of the kids (like naming him the Plague and refusing to touch him) is the fake friendliness of some of the teachers and the students, with their ‘shiny’ smiles. The rudeness, Auggie knows and can try to ignore; it’s the false smiles and quick looks away that hurt as much. There’s no anger, just frustration that might be expected of any small boy when so few will be his friend. The reader is also treated to multiple narrators in their own sections, creating a wonderfully multi-faceted story.
The major theme of the novel is ‘be kinder than is necessary’, something that definitely should have pride of place in not just a children’s novel, but in any novel. I struggled to get into it initially, since I was expecting some emotional manipulation with ‘he is deformed, take pity, for shame!’ After all, the book arrived at the office with a packet of tissues attached. But it isn’t manipulative or woeful; just sweetly honest. There are all the castmembers of childhood; kind teachers, bullies, nerds, popular groups, jocks, mean girls. Auggie navigates them all, and gets a little help from his friends.
So often books focus on cruelty and pain, and I would never be so trite to say that life does not deal vast amounts of unfairness on a daily basis to people who don’t deserve it. But it is something of a joy to read a book that celebrates the potential for kindness in everyone. I cried, I laughed, and I loved the characters in their development. I especially loved the line “I think that there should be a rule that everyone should get a standing ovation at least once” from Auggie. This is definitely going to be a hit with the parents that borrow this from their kids once lights are out.
Wonder will be available in paperback in April.
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One Response to Book Review of Wonder by RJ Palacio
Henriël March 20th, 2012 at 6:53 pm #
This and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” were without a doubt the two most beautiful and moving “children’s novels” I read in the past year.
I agree wholeheartedly with the new category “Sneaky Adult Favourites” 😉
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18 December 2012 by Peter Clayton
Discover Tatihou – UNESCO World Heritage Site
According to the old adage, the best things come in small packages. As Peter Clayton discovered, the island of Tatihou is a case in point.
Tatihou island, off the Contentin Peninsula
At a mere 60 acres in area (or 24 and a bit if you prefer it in hectares), Tatihou hardly sounds like a big shot on the tourism map. In fact, the number of visitors is limited to 500 a day. And it’s not exactly encouraging to learn that the island’s name probably originates from a 9th-century Viking leader called Tat.
Yet this modest green rock off the north-eastern tip of the Cherbourg peninsula, just a few hundred metres or so from the shore at St-Vaast-la-Hougue, has more than its fair share of surprises in store.
Vauban Tower and Quarantine Station
For example, it is hardly the sort of place where you’d expect to find a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but it has one – a 17th-century Vauban coastal defence tower. A second such tower, also designated by UNESCO, stands across the water at La Hougue Point close to neighbouring St-Vaast. Both structures are the result in hindsight of the disastrous 1692 Battle of La Hougue, in which the heavily-outnumbered French fleet was defeated by an Anglo-Dutch coalition intent on thwarting Louis XIV’s ambition to take over the English throne. The towers, built in 1699 to strengthen French fortifications in a vulnerable area, are still intact today.
In 1720, tiny Tatihou again rose to prominence with the creation here of a lazaret – a quarantine station – in an attempt to contain the Plague of Marseilles. Immediately on arrival, plague victims and their belongings were fumigated using smoke from burning heather, juniper berries and old leather. The lazaret closed in the 1860s and in 1887 the buildings became a maritime laboratory for scientists from the Natural History Museum in Paris. They studied seaweed, plankton and fish reproduction until, in 1925, the laboratory moved off the island.
Tatihou’s next role, from 1926 until the outbreak of World War Two, was to provide a school of health education for children. Soon after hostilities ceased in 1945, the island then offered hope to wayward teenagers, sent here by courts to be helped by educationalist Camille Belliard, who had settled on Tatihou to cater for young people ‘in difficulties’. This help took the form of building industry training and a strict regime and continued until 1984, after which the island was deserted until 1990.
Tatihou the Nature Reserve
Neglected and uninhabited, Tatihou soon attracted massive colonies of birdlife. The island was then entrusted to the authorities of the La Manche département, who came up with an ambitious plan to develop it for cultural activities. On 5th June 1992 – the tri-centennial anniversary of the Battle of La Hougue – Tatihou claimed its place on the tourist circuit when it was officially opened as a nature reserve and heritage centre.
Getting to the island today from nearby St-Vaast is an event in itself, in a boat made for the job. Tatihou II seats about 50 passengers and sports an unusual extra feature – wheels. Conventional sailing to the island at high tide takes 10 minutes.
At low tide, the boat rolls effortlessly along a specially-laid causeway running through the area’s 250 hectares of oyster beds.
These produce around 6,500 tons of oysters a year, prized by experts for a distinctive hazelnut flavour – the result, they claim, of the quality of the seawater and local age-old traditional oyster farming practices.
So apart from the large and noisy gatherings of gulls and egrets, what can you expect to find when you disembark at Tatihou?
Guided tour and other attractions
The starting point for guided tours is the old Customs House. Going through the grand gateway brings you into the walled and beautifully-tended sub-tropical gardens – a wonderful and surprising sensation of scents and colours and a spectacle of unusual plants, shrubs and trees from all corners of the world, thriving in Tatihou’s mild climate. Further on is the bird reserve, managed by the Ornithological Group of Normandy, which regularly records up to 150 species of migrant and winter birds on the island. Stated simply, Tatihou is a nature photographer’s paradise.
For visitors who come to discover the island’s history and heritage, the attractions include the maritime museum and ship hall, the boat shed, the chapel and the military installations – Vauban tower, powder magazines, barracks and fort.
But as a must-see French island, Tatihou has one more surprise up its sleeve – the annual internationally-acclaimed Les Traversées de Tatihou music festival. For a few days in August, fans of folk music from the world over are thoroughly entertained by a programme based mainly on a nautical theme.
Performances are carefully planned and timed to coincide with the tides so that at low tide festival goers can follow a guide and walk safely through the oyster beds from or to the shore at nearby St-Vaast. The sight of a long procession of lantern-carrying music fans crossing the bay on foot in late evening must be quite an eye-opener for anybodywho happens to be flying over at the time.
Further information on visiting Tatihou
Tatihou is open to a maximum of 500 visitors every day from April to September, and at some weekends during winter months. Booking in advance from the quayside office in St-Vaast-la-Hougue (tel: 02 22 23 19 92) is advised. The price includes the return ferry crossing on Tatihou II and entrance to the museum and the Vauban tower. Free guided tours of the island are also available.
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Real Life Diagnostics: Weaving in World Building Details. How Much is Too Much?
Critique By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy
Real Life Diagnostics is a weekly column that studies a snippet of a work in progress for specific issues. Readers are encouraged to send in work with questions, and I diagnose it on the blog. It’s part critique, part example, and designed to help the submitter as well as anyone else having a similar problem.
If you're interested in submitting to Real Life Diagnostics, please check out these guidelines.
Submissions currently in the queue: Six
Please Note: As of today, RLD slots are booked through June 28. The Sunday diagnostics will shorten that some when my schedule permits, but I wanted everyone to be aware of the submission to posting delay.
Does this feel like too much exposition? Would a whole chapter like this be too much?
Market/Genre: Science Fiction Romance
On to the diagnosis…
Background: Setting: Humans traveled to another star system and spliced native DNA into their own to become a new race called neprians. A thousand years later, another group of humans turns up and find themselves the disadvantaged minority in a tightly controlled society. Their arrival fueled dreams of change for some neprians, but sixty years later human acceptance is under threat from a political movement that seeks to enforce neprian tradition.
The main character is a human who was adopted into a neprian family. This scene appears in chapter three and my main goals are to build the character of the sister, Cora, and her relationship with the main character, and to explain the setting. I have a lot of exposition to cram in because understanding the rules of this society and how marriages are arranged is key to the romantic conflict.
The Birth Authority operates practically the whole government district. We've already passed four blocks of apartment towers that could be charitably described as valuing functionality over aesthetics. God, all those matched couples waiting on family housing grants are stuck in this soul-sucking gray.
We climb the main building steps and make our way to the orientation room where the other new candidates are waiting with their mothers. The women in this room feel no compunction to hide their distaste for my presence. To be fair, I’m probably the first human to enter this room, maybe the whole building. But judging by the scowls you’d think I was skipping around sprinkling my inferior DNA in all their petri dishes.
“Dear sister,” I say to Cora, a little too loudly to be polite, “Methinks I doth disgrace you with my presence.”
Cora smiles and leans close to me, a gesture at odds with the volume of her response. “Tell them to mind their own fucking business.”
She swipes open a Birth Authority document and scowls.
“Have you read this? It’s written for adolescents.”
“Yeah, well not everyone is fascinated by endocrine function.”
She rolls her eyes and reads. “ ‘By considering both personality and genetic compatibility in the matching process, the BA ensures matrimonial satisfaction while engineering strong future generations.’ They don’t even mention complications, let alone alternative theories.”
She sounds like she’s about to launch into one of her tirades on reproductive reform.
“Cora, the orientation hasn’t even started yet.”
She sighs. “Fine. I won’t embarrass you. But this,” she shakes the data pad, “needs serious work.”
My Thoughts in Purple:
The Birth Authority operates practically the whole government district. We've already passed four blocks of apartment towers that could be [charitably described as valuing functionality over aesthetics. God, all those matched couples waiting on family housing grants are stuck in this soul-sucking gray.] This bit of internalization here keeps this paragraph for feeling too infodump. Her judgment provides a reason for looking at it so it flows
We climb the main building steps and make our way to the orientation room where the other new candidates are waiting with their mothers. [The women in this room feel no compunction to hide their distaste for my presence. To be fair, I’m probably the first human to enter this room, maybe the whole building. But judging by the scowls you’d think I was skipping around sprinkling my inferior DNA in all their petri dishes.] Same here. I feel that this is what she thinks and feels when she sees these things, so they don't feel like details stuck in
[Cora smiles and leans close to me, a gesture at odds with the volume of her response. “Tell them to mind their own fucking business.”
She swipes open a Birth Authority document and scowls.] Small thing, but I felt the transition between these two lines was a little jarring. I wanted to see a response from the narrator, even if it was just a smile that shows how she feels about her sister's comment
[She sounds like she’s about to launch into one of her tirades on reproductive reform.] This makes me think this is something this character does, so her "explaining" it by making fun of it fits and makes sense.
The questions:
1. Does this feel like too much exposition?
I don't think so (readers chime in here). The way it's woven into the narrative is well done and feels like what these characters would think and say. The fact that it's all in the narrator's voice keeps it sounding like her and not like the author dumping information. What's being slipped it fits the scene and what's going on, so nothing stands out as "added" details.
The "reading" came across well because the sister was reading it in disdain, which made it work. Had she just read it, it would have felt like infodump through dialog. The attitude about it changed it. Even with just the small bits I learned about her I can easily see Cora doing this.
(Here's more on infodumping)
2. Would a whole chapter like this be too much?
It's hard to say. If the information continues to be backgrounded and woven in like this snippet, probably not. If it's a ton of information that holds the story back, then possibly. But that's true about world building no matter what the story or world.
Trust your gut on what's too much. If it starts becoming more about the information and less about the story then odds are you've tipped over into too much. But if it's flowing along and the plot is advancing, then it's probably fine.
(Here's more on maintaining a balance between exposition and internalization)
Overall this works for me, I like the relationship between the two women (short as it is). I didn't get much, but the rebellious streak and the forceful response by Cora says a lot about her. F-bombs tend to shock or attract attention, and this one clearly shows Cora doesn't care what others think and will defend her sister against them. That the narrator feels accepted enough by her sister to say something she knows will offend or annoy people tells me they have a good relationship and she feels safe taunting them a little.
It's a good example of how to blend in difficult world-building details while at the same time keeping them in the voice of the characters and making them part of the story.
Thanks to our brave volunteer for submitting this for me to play with. I hope they–and others–find it helpful. I don’t do a full critique on these, (just as it pertains to the questions) and I encourage you to comment and make suggestions of your own. Just remember that these pieces are works in progress, not polished drafts, so be nice and offer constructive feedback.
Labels: real life diagnostics, RLD exposition, rld infodumps, RLD world building
S.E. Dee 5/18/14, 10:26 AM
I actually really liked this, "Soul sucking gray..." I could def relate to that feeling. Can't say I'm into romance but am always looking for one to change my mind and the sci-fi parts sound really interesting. Good Luck with it!
I agree with Janice. It didn't feel infodump-y because we got a chance to read from the narrative's POV and her insertions of feeling allowed the read to flow nicely.
Haley 5/18/14, 5:20 PM
I went into reading this sure it was going to be info dump drudgery but ended wishing I could read more. I like the voice and the way the info was woven in.
It was interesting to see a well written piece dissected, and comment made on why it worked. I'm not into sci-fi or romance but liked this piece. The voice is great and the writing has plenty of momentum which makes it easier to digest the information.
O my goodness, this is awesome! I would DEFINITELY read this book, it sounds amazing!
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A whole lotta Love: Soulman C.P. Love kicks off the Ponderosa Stomp’s new “Heroes of Louisiana Music at the Mint” series on May 15th, 2012
May 11, 2012 Lakeview Kid Leave a comment
“Who do you love?” Bo Diddley asked. In the case of this Tuesday’s “Heroes of Louisiana Music at the Mint,” the answer is C.P. Love. This soulful Crescent City singer will be starring in the first installment of a four-part series presented by the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation and the Friends of the Cabildo, in conjunction with the Louisiana State Museum. The presentation starts at 6 p.m. in the Old U.S. Mint’s newly renovated concert space, where Love will perform, chat with music writer Jeff Hannusch, and answer audience questions about his long career in soul and R&B alongside some of the greatest legends of the industry. We hope that at the end of this presentation, you will love C.P. Love as much as you do some of his own musical heroes: Danny White, Smiley Lewis, Otis Redding, and Sam Cooke.
The very definition of an unsung hero, C.P. Love “has the rare distinction of being better known for a song he didn’t record rather than one he did,” according to Hannusch. The legendary King Floyd offered his newly penned song “Groove Me” to Love, who passed on the future 1970 smash hit in favor of its composer. Love brought a demo of King’s version to promoter Elijah Walker and famed producer Wardell Quezergue, who declared with his characteristic understatement: “I believe we have something.” And the rest is history. “I never regretted not recording ‘Groove Me’ — I felt glad for King,” Love said.
C.P. Love
But Love, born Carleton Pierre Love in New Orleans in 1945, is brimming with his own talent, on both vocals and guitar, and has played with dozens of legends in soul and R&B since 1957. Growing up on the West Bank, Love recalled playing his first marquee gig in Marrero with piano giant Professor Longhair. “The band consisted of just Fess and a drummer. … [Fess] was a quiet guy who didn’t go for any humbug.”
In its heyday Love also frequented the city’s most famous incubator of R&B and rock ‘n’ roll, the Dew Drop Inn on LaSalle Street. “I started going by the Dew Drop, where I hung with Deacon John, Esquerita, Curley Moore, and Earl King.” Over the years Love has played in clubs all over the region, from the Devil’s Den on North Galvez to the F&M Patio and famed Bourbon Street spots like the Sho-Bar and La Strada, where he worked with Clarence “Frogman” Henry. “I did Bourbon Street for 10 years at several clubs. That was the best lesson I ever got as a singer.”
Plenty of Room For More – C.P. Love
By 1968, Love was recruited by Elijah Walker and Earl King to cut a single on their King Walk label: “Plenty of Room for More” / “You Call the Shots” — both Earl King compositions reminiscent of Wilson Pickett.
You Call the Shots – C.P. Love
With “Groove Me” a monster hit for King Floyd in 1970 on the Malaco label, Love once again deferred to Floyd and gave him the first shot at “I Found All These Things.” However, Love later cut the song as well, and it became a regional hit on Atlantic – and could have gone bigger if Love had been able to go on tour with James Carr for a stop at the Apollo Theater. “I Found All These Things” is considered a deep soul classic and one of the best souls singles from the Malaco vaults. Love and his band the Invaders toured with King Floyd for nine months and then with Candi Staton and Bobby Womack. He also has opened for talents such as Fats Domino and B.B. King.
I Found All of These Things – C.P. Love.
Love then played Bourbon Street for 10 years until the clubs went non-union, and he balked at the exploitative conditions. “If you wanted to work on Bourbon Street, you had to take a big cut in pay. I wouldn’t accept that.” Love moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1986 and worked the club and festival circuit along the West Coast. He also cut a four-track EP for the Award label and recorded an album on New Orleans producer Carlo Ditta’s Orleans label, whose roster has included Rockie Charles, Guitar Slim Jr., Coco Robicheaux, Danny Barker, and Roland Stone. Bassist George Porter and guitarist Leo Nocentelli of the Meters provided backing for the one-day session, which included three of his own songs.
Indeed, it is Love’s own original songs of which is he proudest, including “Stubborn Girl,” “True Blue,” and “Secondline Home.” He owns his own publishing company, Pierre Publishing, as well as Trip City Jingles, a marketing-jingles firm. Having returned to New Orleans, Love has played the Jazz and Heritage Festival and clubs such as the House of Blues. However, he won’t be returning to Bourbon Street anytime soon. “I’m not going to embarrass myself by working on Bourbon Street for $8 a set.”
That’s why the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation is proud to present C.P. Love in a setting truly worthy of his talents: the Old U.S. Mint’s newly renovated performance hall. For more information on Love, visit his MySpace and Facebook pages.
The Old U.S. Mint is at 400 Esplanade Ave. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. The program runs from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. $30 general admission, $25 for Friends of the Cabildo members. For more information, click here or here, or call 504-523-3939.
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Taking a Trumpspringa: My Break From 24-7 Trump News
A trip to Nepal was the perfect chance to take an extended mental break from Donald Trump.
Erin Gloria Ryan
Updated May. 14, 2017 8:08AM ET / Published May. 14, 2017 12:01AM ET
Like many, I have not felt great about American politics for awhile.
The Trump administration is a drunken elephant in an art museum. Congress is a monkey throwing poop at a battered women’s shelter. The Senate is a turkey that got hit by a car days ago and, horrifically, hasn’t yet died. It’s the world’s worst menagerie.
Living inside it has been exhausting. Working alongside it has been crazy-making. Back in October, I interviewed a few dozen people for a story about Trump fatigue, a phenomenon that, at the time, felt like it was cresting. I asked friends, family members, strangers on social media, regular strangers when they last spent an entire day without thinking about Donald Trump at all, and when they expected to have a day like that again. Most people were pretty sure it would all be over in a few months. It was a quixotic time.
Seven months later, America’s current political awfulness was impossible to escape, at least stateside. Every day was a wall-to-wall gawk at Trump, rivaled only recently by wall-to-wall gawk at the people whorishly trying to curry Trump’s favor. Both targets of the outrage seemed to wall-to-wall not give a shit.
As the Trump Train kept grabbing headlines with no sign of slowing down, I found myself wondering how far a person would have to get from the Beltway in order to completely free themselves of the madness that has seized this country. To stick their head in the sand, if only for a sanity-reclaiming moment. A Trumpspringa, if you will.
Costa Rica? Nah, they speak Spanish; the President probably thinks they’re Mexican. Morocco? Nah, Muslims. Antarctica? Nah, global warming.
But maybe there was some place, some place isolated from all the echoing sound-and-fury apoplexy Trump and his cabal of clowns incite daily. It’d have to be a place with, at best, semi-reliable internet and a low international profile. The Trump-saturation refugee—our test subject—would have to be there alone. They’d have to be completely unfamiliar with the language, so even if the locals were talking about the T-word, our subject would be oblivious. It’d have to be the sort of place President Donald Trump couldn’t likely find on an unlabeled map.
For a person like me, it’d have to be a place like Nepal.
When I booked a trip to Nepal over a year ago, I had no idea that Donald Trump would become the next President. But after November 9, everything changed. The date I was to fly halfway around the world for a five-week stint alone in a landlocked country of mountains and momos stood shining with promise in my calendar.
April 10, I’d think. That’s the day I get to jump off this ride for awhile. That’s the day I stop feeling both angry and bored, always, at once. The real estate occupied by Donald Trump in my brain would be vacated like the White House on a golf weekend, filled with new smells and sounds and people. I would be free, briefly. What would I think about? Would my brain unfurl like a sprouting seed? What space I’ll have to be a person again!
So: Is it possible to run to the ends of the earth, away from Trump fatigue?
The short answer is: No.
The long answer is: Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinda.
My time here hasn’t been totally Trump free. In fact, I only had about 10 minutes before somebody brought him up.
It was my cab driver, the first Nepali to spend any time alone with me at all, who immediately spoiled my Trumpspringa. As I hopped in his backseat, he asked me where I was from. I told him I was from the U.S. He made a sound a person might make while trying to lift a heavy object after major surgery—Urghhhh—as he darted in and out of traffic that seemed to follow no rules at all, or even lanes. I thought he’d hit something or busted an abdominal staple.
“Urghhh,” he said again, in case I didn’t hear it the first time. “TRUMP!”
He steered the cab around a cow that was standing placidly in the middle of the road, then braked suddenly, throwing his arm over the back of the seat to his left as though he was planning on backing up to have a word with the cow. Instead, he screwed his neck around and looked directly at me.
“Why did you vote for that man?”
I wasn’t sure how to answer.
Two days later, I was minding my own business, enjoying the memory of the pastry I’d just eaten at a cafe that had become my favorite when my Trumplessness was again interrupted. In a dusty street-facing stall that sells high powered speakers and cheap cell phone cases in Jyatha, Kathmandu, I ran into Dilli Ram Kander, the administrator of the biggest Donald Trump fan page in Nepal. I am aware that it’s the biggest fan page in Nepal because it’s one of the first things the 33-year-old told me about himself. The page has 97 fans.
Once Kander found out I was American, all he wanted to talk about was President Trump. He sidled up next to me, smiling and maintaining animated eye contact until I looked away. He told me he started his fan page eight months before the election, because he says he knew that Trump would win, he was sure of it. Unlike the American media, he knew.
He didn’t care about any of the President’s missteps thus far. He has faith everything will turn out great.
“Trump will restore the world,” he said, his eyes dancing with excitement.
To what? I asked.
“To order.”
From there, the floodgates opened. As I wandered past earthquake-ravaged temples in Patan, a man asked me if I needed a guide. I told him no thank you. He then asked why I helped elect President Donald Trump. I don’t know what to tell you, I said.
The next day, two security guards at the entrance to Kathmandu’s Durbar Square wondered the same thing. An Argentine backpacker at the Gaia Cafe, down the street from my hotel had questions. Same with the woman at the pharmacy, where I bought what felt like should have been an illegal amount of pre-emptive trek antibiotics. They were all thirsty for answers about what happened, and why I didn’t stop it. Why any American didn’t. Early on, it seemed my experiment would be a failure.
But the further from Kathmandu I got, the less people seemed to care, or even think about Donald Trump at all. Not a single Nepali I met on the trek to Everest Base Camp brought him up. I didn’t even hear his name, until one of our guides turned a teahouse television to CNN on the way back down. When we were in a place where the WiFi kind of worked after days of being mostly cut off, my Twitter feed was an anthill of Trump opinions, thoughts about events that had been occurring without my knowledge.
While Trump was flopping around the deck of American democracy like a snared catfish, I’d been eating fried noodles, shivering outside of the common bathroom at 3 am for the chance to urinate into a porcelain hole, forcing my entire trekking group to listen to Stop Making Sense over and over, because I was the only one with Spotify. I’d been dutifully hanging my socks on the hooks provided in the bare-bones lodging where we slept, I’ve worn the same disgusting Nike bra every single day. I’ve discovered new types of muscle pain I didn’t know could exist. I hadn’t been thinking about Donald Trump at all. I’d just been carrying on with my life as it exists out here. Not knowing or knowing hadn’t made a lick of difference.
At that moment I knew I’d been living in a state of unparallelled luxury.
The swing through Annapurna that followed the Khumbu walk had been similarly bereft of Trump, but now, something’s changed. Everest was crowded; this place is a ghost town. One night, I lie awake in bed listening to chunks of ice hit the roof of my room. We were the only ones staying at the lodge.
I began to feel jittery. I even tried bringing Trump up to my guide, hoping he’d chime in with some Trump opinions of his own. My guide had never seen Star Wars or eaten at McDonalds. He doesn’t concern himself much with what’s going on outside of Nepal. I could tell he was only feigning interest. It was very polite of him.
In the rooms in my brain where Trump once lived, there was no sudden renaissance. I was not writing symphonies, making discoveries, working through my own psychic knots. In the empty space where Trump once lived, there are only small sprouts of what could end up being interesting thoughts. Substitute inanity, at best. Thoughts like:
Why are the pigeons the same here?
Imagine the string section histrionics if Aaron Copland had ever seen the Annapurna in person.
Are my hands freakishly tan, or am I just filthy?
Is this the most beautiful place I’ve ever pissed? Every day it seems I piss in a more beautiful location. Isn’t that something?
I understand why Jack went crazy in The Shining, although I believe he’s a pussy for going crazy in a place based on Estes Park, Colorado. The real shit’s here in the Himalayas. What is Estes Park, 8,000 feet up? Sweetheart, I’ve been 12,000+ feet up for two goddamn weeks, and I’m not crazy. Even though I do find myself speaking aloud to myself in my tiny room, once I get there around midday every day. It’s because it’s lonely out here. Solitude and loneliness bleed into each other. Who wouldn’t talk to themselves when they got lonely? I wonder if anybody can hear me through the walls. I wonder if the women from Taiwan in Khangsar, the high-voiced giggly one that turned out to have a rumbling baritone snore, could hear me. I wonder if the Israeli backpackers in Manang, the ones who were meowing late into the night and laughing hysterically at themselves, could hear me. I hope they could hear me when I woke up at 5 am and passive-aggressively started slamming my trekking gear around as loudly as I could, as punishment for the meowing. I wanted to roundhouse kick a hole in the plywood wall to shut them up, but I’d never do that, because I’m a kind-hearted individual. I’d never hurt anybody. Especially all this way up in the mountains, so far from where anybody would ever find me, or even suspect I’d done anything at all. Anyway, I get it. All work, no play, etc.
I kept a journal, but the journal is heavily weighted toward me comparing the ways various tea houses prepare fried macaroni and yak cheese. I found myself craving the shot of adrenaline I used to get when I’d read the newest batty story about Donald Trump, when I’d be a ready participant in the rounds of social media mocking that would ensue. In Muktinath, I saw Anderson Cooper on a television through the window of a lodge where I wasn’t staying. I stopped and watched, though I couldn’t hear anything. It just felt good to see that Anderson was still concerned.
Has the part of my brain that was devoted to thinking about Donald Trump become so customized to him by now that it’s my mind’s gold toilet? Something only he can use? Do I need him in order to function? God help me.
After Trump fired acting FBI director James Comey, I stopped enjoying my time away from the news and started feeling about the U.S. how a person might feel when they know they’ve ignored an unpaid bill, or if they’d left the garage door open, or if they’d forgotten their credit card at a bar.
Sitting alone in the second-floor dining room of a guest house in Jomsom—for me, the end of the Annapurna Circuit trail—I sighed with impatience as the slow WiFi connection made it impossible to load a story about the clusterfuck at the FBI. In the courtyard, the innkeeper was chattering loudly with her friends. The fattest cat I’d ever seen in this country prowled the periphery. The omnipresent straight-line southbound wind whipped prayer flags hanging from the balcony above them. It was a beautiful and peaceful moment.
All I could think about was whether or not the women had any idea how crazy things had gotten in the U.S. Did they even care about Donald Trump?
The next day, I flew to Pokhara, the second bigly-est city in Nepal. When I planned that portion of the trip, I imagined aimlessly strolling along the lakeside, coming up with cool jokes about things that aren’t politics, taking interesting photographs of unfamiliar birds. But by then, I was practically jonesing for a copy of an American newspaper, an English language news broadcast. A conversational partner who could really get into it about the FBI, about James Comey, about Russia. But the place was teeming with westerners toting trekking poles with the same casual desire to be noticed as 23-year-old girls who work in PR and tote their first Marc Jacobs bags to brunch, and my hotel’s TV only got channels that played cricket and Bollywood. I left the resort town a day early, too wound up with the knowledge that America was resembling the People’s Republic of Trumpistan more than ever to relax.
I’m ready for my Trumpspringa to be over. Whatever chaos the president wrought during my time here will still be chaos whether I’m back at home or somewhere far away, trying to pretend, briefly, that it’s not happening. I was lucky to be here, alone in my head for a few days. I wish I could turn the news on and off in my brain like a sitcom that’s been bad for several seasons, but that I hatewatch anyway. But now, I want back in.
Besides, it feels like we’re about to arrive at the season finale. I wouldn’t want to miss that.
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Cinema Priests: Morietti’s ‘We Have a Pope’ pokes easy fun, misses satirical mark
By John F. Kane
I finally went to see the recent Italian film, “We Have A Pope,” by filmmaker Nanni Morietti. I was the only person at the late showing yesterday, during what I assume is its last week in town. No worries, though, if you missed it. I almost wish I had, but I feel some kind of professional obligation to see films with religious themes since I taught courses on religion and film for more than 30 years.
The film’s premise is promising. A back-bencher gets elected pope when there aren’t enough votes for any front-runner. He accepts his election, but then gets cold feet. The Vatican finds ways to delay any public announcement once he escapes his minders and spends several days in the streets of Rome trying to decide what he should do.
As I say, it could have been interesting had the writer/director really been concerned with exploring the conflicted spirit of the man who, in the film’s last scene (WARNING: plot spoiler) publicly renounces his papacy. For in his short remarks to the cheering throng he says that the pope needs to be strong enough to change things in the church, and loving enough to reach out to the wounds of the world. Then he announces: “I am not that man,” and the crowd grows silent as the film ends.
Yet Morietti seems more interested in having a little Italian fun, and the film (even with the promising premise) is soon revealed as sophomoric farce. It is less concerned to explore the thoughts and motivations of the central character than to poke fun at two sets of “soul guides” – the cardinals assembled from throughout the world and the psychiatrists they invite to help the newly elected Pope come to terms with his election.
The new pope is very well-acted, and his various encounters – with church leaders, psychiatrists, people of Rome – provide ample opportunity to explore his character. But it turns out that they are just filler, with lots of beautiful scenery, to keep some suspense while Morietti gets to the real action – his satirical/farcical presentation of the cardinals and the divorced husband and wife psychiatrists. All funny enough, along with the gentle non-exploration of the central character, which is why most reviewers have been gentle enough in their criticism. So what’s my beef?
It’s once again “Hollywood’s” general inability to deal with priest (and nun) characters – this time with a twist of Italian humor. Initially presented as somberly serious, the cardinals gathered to elect the new pope soon become “keystone cop” masquerades running hither and yon as they fret about their new man’s indecisiveness. At least the satire on the shrinks has some clever density and bite. The cardinals become little more than a crowd of senile clowns, with little density or bite. (Same with the occasional shots of nuns playing stereotypically silent roles.) The intended satire shows itself as little more than superficial farce before the film is half over.
I’m not against satire or comedy directed at priests, even at cardinals and the pope. But when can we get beyond the endless clerical clichés that have filled our cinema, here and in Europe, for far too long? How about some truly insightful satire rather this tired slapstick? Probably that would have required more courage.
How about something that actually takes the plot’s premise seriously? That looks seriously, even if sarcastically, at the human foibles and failures of the pope and other priests. Something like Karl Malden as the courageous priest in “On the Waterfront” – one of the few great priest characters in our American cinema. Or the great and occasionally comic depiction of a group of French monks in last year’s “Of Gods and Men.” But such real and dense presentation is rare in our cinema. What we mostly get is drivel like this.
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Categories: Catholicism, Clergy, Priests
Scandal creates contempt for Catholic clergy
By Electa Draper
Pope Benedict XVI, arriving to celebrate Vespers at the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Fatima, on May 12, 2010, urged priests Wednesday to take a “firm stand” for their vocation at a time when the Catholic Church is being rocked by a succession of scandals over pedophile priests. (Vincenzo Pinto, AFP via Getty Images)
A steady stream of revelations and civil lawsuits over child sexual abuse by priests seem to signal the Catholic Church has the biggest problem with clerical scandals, but experts deny it is a hot zone of exploitation.
Insurance companies, child advocacy groups and religion scholars say there is no evidence that Catholic clergy are more likely to be involved in sexual misconduct than other clergy or professionals. Yet ongoing civil litigation of decades-old cases against a church with deep pockets keeps the Catholic Church in the headlines.
“There is no plausible evidence that Catholic priests are gangs of sexual predators, as they are being portrayed,” said Pennsylvania State University Prof. Philip Jenkins, eminent religion and history scholar, and a non-Catholic who’s studied the church’s abuse problems for 20 years.
Jenkins said there has been no formal study comparing denominations for rates of child abuse. However, insurers have been assessing the risks since they began offering riders on liability policies in the 1980s. Two of the largest insurers report no higher risks in covering Catholic churches than Protestant denominations.
Categories: Catholicism, Clergy, Priests, Protestants, Sex Abuse Scandal
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End-Point Profiling
Hosts that communicate with more than one known threat type should be designated a high risk and repeated threat breaches with that hosts or dependent hosts can be marked as repeat offenders and provide an early warning system to a breach or an attack.
It would be negligent of me not to mention that the same flow-based End-Point threat detection techniques can be used as part of Data Retention compliance. In my opinion this enables better individual privacy with the ability to focus on profiling known bad end-points and be used to qualify visitors to such known traffic end-points that are used in illicit p2p swap sessions or access to specific kinds of subversive or dangerous sites that have been known to host such traffic in the past.
Extreme examples of end-point profiling could be to identify a host who is frequently visiting known jihadist web sites or pedophiles using p2p to download from peers that have been identified by means of active agents to carry child abuse material. The individual connection could be considered a coincidence but multiple visitations to multiple end-points of a categorized suspicious nature can be proven to be more than mere coincidence and provide cause for investigation.
Like DDoS attack profiles there may be a prolific amount of end-points involved and an individual conversation is difficult to spot but analysis of the IP’s involved in multiple transactions based on the category of the end-point will allow you to uncover the “needles in the haystack” and to enable sufficient evidence to be uncovered.
Profiling Bad traffic
End-Point Threat detection on its own is insufficient to detecting threats and we can’t depend on blacklists when a threat morphs faster than a reputation list can be updated. It is therefore critical to concurrently analyze traffic using a flow behavior anomaly detection engine.
This approach should be able to learn the baselines of your network traffic and should have the flexibility to baseline any internal hosts that your risk management teams deem specifically important or related such as a specific group of servers or high-risk interfaces and so-forth enabling a means to quantify what is normal and to identify baseline breaches and to perform impact analysis.
This is where big-data machine learning comes into play as to fully automate the forensics process of analyzing a baseline breach automating baselines and automatically running diagnostics and serving up the analytics needed to quickly identify the IP’s that are impacting services to provide extreme visibility and if desired mitigation.
Automated Diagnostics enable security resources to be focused on the critical issues while machine learning processes continue to quantify the KPI’s of ongoing issues bringing them to the foreground quickly taking into account known blacklists, whitelists and repeat offenders.
As a trusted source of deep network insights built on big data analysis capabilities, Netflow provides NOCs with an end-to-end security and performance monitoring and management solution. For more information on Netflow as a performance and security solution for large-scale environments, download our free Guide to Understanding Netflow.
Cutting-edge and innovative technologies like NetFlow Auditor delivers the deep end-to-end network visibility and security context required assisting in speedily impeding harmful attacks.
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Aurora Woman Was Dawn of Serial Killer Case
This Aurora native with the first name of Afrikka was killed in Indiana.
Aurora means "dawn."
"My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?" ~ Charles Fort, Wild Talents (1932)
The discovery of the body of a young woman from Aurora, Colorado, was the beginning of the unraveling of the mystery of multiple murders in the Gary-Hammond, Indiana area.
Authorities identified the first of the seven victims as Afrika (also spelled Afrikka, in some accounts) Hardy, 19. Hardy was found unresponsive at a Motel 6 in the 3800-block of 179th Street in Hammond (shown above) around 9:30 p.m. Friday, October 17, 2014. An autopsy found on Sunday that she died as a result of strangulation.
Officials said three bodies were then discovered in abandoned homes in Gary late Saturday night, based on a statement or confession from the man in custody. He told officers over the course of time where six other women's bodies could be found. He may have talked of killing women over the course of several years.
The body of a woman police identified as Anith Jones, 35, of Merrillville, Indiana, was found in the 413 E. 43rd Avenue (shown above) in Gary, Indiana.
Early Sunday, the body of Teaira Batey, 28, of Gary, was found in an abandoned home in the 1800-block of East 19th Avenue. She was reported missing in late January, according to her boyfriend, Marvin Clinton.
Late on Sunday, another body, that of 36-year-old Christine Williams, was found at 2200 Massachusetts St. in Gary, Indiana.
Hours later, two more bodies were found in this house in the 400-block of east 43rd Avenue. They have not been identified.
"Once we find out who they are, we can do a timeline back to see who the last person was that they talked to or last person was who they were with and then the investigation can really take off," Gary Police Department Cpl. Gabrielle King said.
The man in custody has not yet been charged. Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson confirmed he is a sex offender from Austin, Texas, who moved to Gary in 2004.
The mayor said he moved many times and has court cases pending. He is also recently divorced. Freeman-Wilson said he filed in Lake Superior Court in East Chicago, Ind.
Police found three more bodies in Gary overnight. A total of seven bodies, all female, were discovered in northwest Indiana over the weekend, according to the Lake County coroner's office.
One body was found in the 4300-block of Massachusetts Street and two bodies were found in the 400-block of East 43rd Avenue Sunday night.
The suspect is Darren Deon Vann, 43. He is a former U.S. Marine, and a convicted sex offender in Texas.
The strange scene inside Vann's home.
Darren a masculine given name, with some theories state that it originated from a Gaelic surname meaning "burnt land or hill," or from an Anglicization of the Irish firstname Darragh or Dáire meaning "oak tree." The name Deon is an African-American baby name. In African-American the meaning of the name Deon is "God." The name Vann (Dutch, Welsh) is derived from the Middle English words fein, fayn, or fane, which all mean "glad."
(Thanks to R.S. on Aurora background for Ms. Hardy.)
The significance of the name Aurora surfaced in 2012.
See the following for more details:
Aurora Update: Superman Killer
Aurora Again - Four Dead
Another Red Dawn: The Webster Link
Aurora Will Be In The Arena
Post-Aurora Lexilinking
The Man Who Predicted The Aurora Shooting
Aurora Copycat Effect: The Complete List
Red Dawn Again
Aurora: Synchromystic Wonderland
Aurora Copycats: Prepare Now
Anticipating Aurora and Beyond
Dark Knight Shooting: 12 Dead, 58 Injured
Bane/Bain Bursts Bare (Part 3)
Bane/Bain Continues (Part 2)
Bane/Bain (Part 1)
A few 2012 interviews, about the Aurora shootings:
WGN - Mike McConnell: Loren Coleman
The Corbett Report: The Copycat Effect with Loren Coleman
Binnall of America: Loren Coleman and Bruce Rux
Talk Shoe - 42 Minutes: Loren Coleman
Posted by Loren Coleman at 11:21 PM
Labels: Anith Jones, Aurora, Christine Williams, Darren Deon Vann, Gary, Hammond, Indiana, Teairra Batey
aferrismoon said...
Another clown story
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-29689505
CVG said...
Anith Jones was reported missing 10/8 (Blood Moon)
Body at Motel 6 leads to 6 other bodies
Darren Vann = 666 (english gematria)
10/17 is 117 weeks (2y 2m 27d) from Aurora theater shooting on 7/20/2012
Michael Hoffman said...
Just in time for Halloween: the widely publicized photos of the alleged death houses resemble the set of a Hollywood horror film.
Sibyl Hunter said...
Another high-profile Motel 6 shooting in California.
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Wasco's Mysterious Clowns
Stay Tuned: There's More Than A Storm Coming
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City Council - Public Comment Period
Ross A. Kearney, II, Angela Lee Leary, Will Moffett, Christopher G. Stuart, Donnie R. Tuck, George E. Wallace, Molly Joseph Ward, Mayor
Call to Order / Roll Call
The Mayor indicated there are 24 citizens signed up to speak. She also indicated that the cards will be available to speak at the 7 p.m. meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m. She also asked that individuals please not duplicate their remarks at both sessions.
George Baisley, Joan Charles, Eddie Deerfield, and Frank Edgar, Sr. spoke on their concerns with the budget.
J. R. Locke, Bill Thomas, Rhonda Scales, Steve Hagwood, and Sharon Durrette-Hunt spoke on the Hampton University Incubator.
Wanda Jordan-Artis spoke in opposition to recent changes to the taxi cab ordinance.
David Braunbeck spoke on his difficulties with Hampton Roads Transit.
A. G. Womble, Robert V. Doggett, Jr., F. C. “Conky” Sorrell, and Neal Lineberry, Sr. spoke in favor of continued funding for the Woodlands Golf Course.
Linda Counts spoke in support of Councilman Tuck's proposal to reduce taxes and on fiscal responsibility.
Julia Templeman and Brian Fuller of the Hampton Youth Commission spoke on behalf of the Hampton Teen Center.
Kenny Taylor spoke on funding of the Hampton Fire Division.
Frank Ottofaro, spoke on the taking of his property on Pine Chapel Road.
Pat Uribes spoke in opposition to the proposed tax reduction.
Edwin M. Boone spoke on the recent reggae festival held at Buckroe and the lack of parking.
B. K. Allen spoke on Arts in the Park which is scheduled for June 11, 2011.
Steven L. Brown spoke on behalf of the Citizens Unity Commission.
Tony Caspariello thanked the Fox Hill station of the Hampton Fire Department and many neighborhood groups for their response to a recent fire at his home.
The meeting adjourned at 7:17 p.m.
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Mon, Oct 14th 5:19pm
Pasadena Weekly 2019 Chuck Manning Jazz Tenor Saxophonist BEST LOCAL MUSICIAN - Really?
It appears that someone in Pasadena voted for me:
Oct. 10th 2019 Pasadena Weekly's Bliss Bowen wrote:
No surprise, jazz remains a go-to soundtrack of choice for many Pasadenans, and jazz tenor saxophonist Chuck Manning was selected as this year’s Best Local Musician, likely thanks to his classy appearances at local venues like the 1881 Bar, Boston Court Pasadena, and Studio City’s Baked Potato.
It's quite a surprise honor, thank you!
-Chuck
Thu, Sep 26th 12:28pm
Looking forward to playing concert series by Bobby Bradford celebrating Jackie Robinson's centennial
See LATimes article 9/26/19
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-09-25/bobby-bradford-jackie-robinson-stealin-home
'Stealin' Home'
Sept. 29, Westerbeck Recital Hall, Pasadena City College, Pasadena
Oct. 21, Crawford Family Forum, 474 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena
Nov. 17, Boston Court Pasadena, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena
Dec. 15, Robinson Park, 1081 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena
All events are free. Info at baseballreliquary.org/events.
Mon, Sep 16th 5:23pm
A Swinging Centennial: Jackie Robinson at 100
I'm very excited to be playing several concerts which will feature the world premiere of Stealin’ Home, Bobby Bradford’s tribute to Jackie Robinson, commissioned by the Baseball Reliquary. The Baseball Reliquary is presenting these very special musical events in celebration of the Jackie Robinson Centennial, A Swinging Centennial: Jackie Robinson at 100.
A renowned jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, Bradford is also noted for his long career as an educator, teaching jazz history and improvisation for 33 years at Pasadena City College, the same school where Jackie Robinson starred in four sports from 1937-1939 (then known as Pasadena Junior College).
Bobby is also a musical mentor of mine for over 35 years. There will 4 upcoming concerts in the Pasadena area. Please watch my calendar for locations and times.
Mon, Jul 22nd 6:26pm
New recording available from LAJQ!!
Darek Oles, Larry Koonse, Jason Harnell and I are very proud to announce a new recording of the L.A. Jazz Quartet,
This Spring of 2019 we performed at a bunch of concerts, celebrating our 25th anniversary of working together as the L.A. Jazz Quartet.
The last concert of the tour was recorded, at a jazz festival in Darek Oles' hometown Wroclaw, Poland and now available online for your listening pleasure.
You have choices of downloading, or streaming our recording from all the major digital music distribution platforms;
CD Baby, Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, Pandora and others.
Please follow the links here:
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/losangelesjazzquartet2
https://lajq.hearnow.com/
Thu, Mar 28th 6:01pm
LAJQ at Sam First!!!
I'm very excited to say that the LAJQ will be at Sam First !!!!
It is the first of a 25th Anniversary mini-tour that ends in a festival in Wrocław Poland!
Saturday March 30th, 2019 - 7:00 PM -
6171 W Century Blvd Suite 180 Los Angeles, CA 90045
https://www.samfirstbar.com/events/la-jazz-quartet-25th-anniversary-celebration
Tribute to Bobby Bradford tonight!
Los Angeles cornetist/composer Bobby Bradford is a local, national and world treasure, and this night will be a celebration of the man and his music. Saxophonist Richard Wood, longtime friend and collaborator of Mr. Bradford's, leads a quintet of musicians who also have a deep connection with Bobby and his unique artistic vision. Join us!
The Richard Wood Quintet:
Richard Wood - woodwinds
Chuck Manning - tenor saxophone
Dan Clucas - cornet
Hal Onserud - double bass
Tina Raymond - drums
Wed, Feb 27th 5:01pm
I'm excited about my Transistions Quartet
Help the LA Regional Food Bank by coming out and hearing…
The Transitions Quartet
Chuck Manning – Sax
Andy Langham – Piano
Tina Raymond – Drums
Ian Solomon – Bass
SUNDAY, MARCH 3 @ 4 pm
* One goodly fat set * 70 - 85 mins
SEATING IS LIMITED **
Valley Glen Address w/RESV: suze@susankrebsmusic.com
Suggested Min. Donation: $20 (cash/check)
Tasty Bites & Libations Included
Portion of Proceeds goes to LA Regional Food Bank
New Website in Sight!
I am working on updating this website... yes, I know, it's about time!
Have a great Holiday Season my friends!
-Love Chuck
Tue, May 1st 4:00pm
Bobby Bradford Mo-tet at The World Stage Friday
I'm excited about playing with the Bobby Bradford Mo-tet on Friday May 4th, 2018 - 9:00PM at The World Stage 4321 Degnan Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90008 http://www.theworldstage.org/ - Featuring a great line up Bobby Bradford - cornet, Michael Vlackovich - trombone, Theo Saunders - piano, Henry Franklin - bass, Yayo Morales - drums
Tue, Jan 2nd 2:24pm
LAJQ in the Desert!
I'm looking forward to play with the LAJQ (Larry Koonse, Darek Oles, Jason Harnell and myself). We will come to the desert at Pete Carlson's in Palm Desert, CA, on Saturday , Jan 20th at 8:00pm!
Tue, Apr 4th 5:56pm
Playing the Baked Potato with Jason Harnell Quartet!
I am really looking forward to playing Sunday, April 9th 9:30PM - 12:30AM with
JOSH NELSON on keys, CHRIS COLANGELO on bass, and of course, THE JASON HARNELL on drums!
Darek Oles Group "Plays the Music of John Coltrane"
On Friday Mar 31st, I'm playing with the Darek Oles Group at the Blue Whale!
Ralph Moore - tenor sax
Chuck Manning - tenor sax
Eric Reed - piano
Willie Jones III - drums
Darek Oles - bass
This will be a very special night for me. I haven't played with these great musicians in many many years!
Fri, Aug 12th 6:44pm
The classic Los Angeles Jazz Quartet makes rare appearance
We are back at the Blue Whale Jazz Club, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles on Sept.10th at 9:00PM featuring Larry Koonse, Darek Oles, and Jason Harnell.
It is always a special experience for me to play with LAJQ It's magical.
Please come by!
Fri, Nov 14th 3:38pm
Don Heckman quotes:
Chuck Manning and Steve Huffsteter. Two of the Southland’s most inventive jazz horn players, saxophonist Manning and trumpeter Huffsteter wrap their improvisational skills around every tune, stimulating each other’s creative imaginations. Vibrato Grill Jazz…etc. (310) 474-9400.
Tue, Sep 30th 5:27pm
NEXT: the creative curiosity of the scientist–artist
I've had the honor of being asked to join a panel with KPCC radio series host Mat Kaplan for a discussion with scientists who are also accomplished artists. Although, I'm not a scientist, I will join Crystal Dilworth PhD, Daniel Durda PhD, and James Gimzewski PhD and we will discuss how science and engineering informs our art, and how music is reflected in our work. These two worlds seem very different and are often portrayed as being at odds. In fact, scientists find inspiration in each field for their work in the other. We will explore this connection between artistic expression and scientific discovery in this edition of the series.
Saturday, October 4, 2:00 - 3:30pm
The Crawford Family Forum
474 South Raymond Ave.
http://www.scpr.org/events/2014/10/04/1509/next-scientist-artist/
Wed, Sep 3rd 4:57pm
I have to cancel my Pinnochio's gig on Sat Sept. 13th.
I have a schedule conflict that evening with the DMQ. I will try to make out at 10:00PM if possible.
Thanks for supporting the music!
Thu, Jul 24th 6:25pm
3 nice gigs and 2 Koonse's this weekend 7/25, 7/26, 7/27!
I'm playing with the great Larry Koonse Friday at Vibrato with Pat Senatore on bass and Tina Raymond on drums.
Then on Saturday I'm back at Novel with the ultra-subtle group the VR Smith Quartet.
Featuring VR Smith – Vocals, Putter Smith - Bass, Larry's dad Dave Koonse – Guitar and Tim Pleasant – Drums.
On Sunday morning brunch at the Hermosa Beach Lighthouse I'm playing with the amazing Carl Saunders Sextet featuring some of the most amazing cats in town!
Tue, Mar 18th 4:41pm
The classic Los Angeles Jazz Quartet makes rare appearances
I'm playing with my old friends and long time band mates Larry Koonse, Darek Oles and Mark Ferber for two rare appearances.
March 28th, 2014 - 7:45 PM - Soka Performing Arts Center
March 29th, 2014 - 8:30 PM - Blue Whale Jazz Club, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
If you are using MS i Explorer and don't see the buttons over my right shoulder of my picture then you need to use a different web browser. Sorry, I will fix this site someday....
March 28th, 2014 - 7:30 PM - Los Angeles Jazz Quartet at Soka University
March 29th, 2014 - 8:00 PM - Los Angeles Jazz Quartet, Blue Whale Jazz Club, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
Thu, Jan 9th 10:55am
Playing with some old friends this weekend
On Thursday, Jan 16th at 9:00pm I will be playing with Robby Krieger's Jam Kitchen Band with my bud Sal Marquez and my next door neighbor Joel Taylor at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood and on Friday, Jan 17th at 8:00pm the same band is at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills.
It should be fun.
Mon, Dec 30th 4:55pm
I will be ending 2013 and starting 2014 with a jam at the Blue Whale. So, come join us at blue whale for New Years Eve! We'll have a motley crew of great musicians, including Jason Harnell, Mike Scott, Jamie Rosenn, Dave Tranchina, and Gary Fukushima on hand to make some noise, and there will be ample opportunities for musicians to sit in. Think of it as a New Year's party for jazz musicians.
Have a Happy and Safe New Year!
Mon, Oct 21st 5:19pm
Brick Wahl posted a nice blog...
Brick Wahl
http://brickwahl.com/2013/09/01/chuck-manning-at-vibrato/
Posted on September 1, 2013 by Brick Wahl
Fri, Jul 26th 4:15pm
I have a busy weekend starting tonight!
July 26th, 2013 - 6:00 PM - with George Kahn's Jazz 7 Blues Revue
Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036, (323) 857-6000
http://www.lacma.org -
July 26th, 2013 - 9:00 PM - Chuck Manning Quartet
Vibrato 2930 Beverly Glen Circle Bel Air, CA 90077, 310 474-9400
https://vibrato.herbalpertpresents.com/ -
July 27th, 2013 - 7:00 PM - with VR Smith Quintet
Novel Cafe 1713 E Colorado Blvd Pasadena, CA 91106, (626) 683-3309
http://novelcafe.com -
July 28th, 2013 - 1:15 PM - With Jamael Dean Quartet
Central Ave. Jazz Festival 4225 S. Central Ave Los Angeles, CA 90008
http://www.centralavejazz.org/ -
The festival is located at the intersection of 42nd and Central in front of the historic Dunbar Hotel
Jamael Dean-Piano
Donald Dean-Drums
Nedra Wheeler - Bass
Playing with some old friend this weekend.
This Saturday, July 13th, I'll be back playing some straight-ahead jazz with the Donavan-Muradian Quartet at Pinnochio's Pizza in Pasadena. Pinocchio's is located at 1449 N. Lake Ave, Pasadena, CA 91104, and has great Italian food (pizzas/pasta/salads) and a nice selection of beers & wines. Call 626-791-7591 for reservations.
Here's the lineup:
Chuck Manning - sax
Chad Edwards - piano
Larry Muradian - bass
Jeff Donavan - drums
8 - 11 PM, no cover. Hope to see you there!
Wed, Jul 3rd 2:17pm
Had a great time in China!
What wonderfully nice people we met in Changsha, China! It would be a privilege to go back again someday. We had such fun and the huge amount of young people who came out really seemed to love the music. There were up to17,000 folks that came out each night. It was amazing.
I will be playing with VR Smith and company this Saturday July 6th. We will be joined by the great New Zealand drummer, Frank Gibson.
Mon, Jun 3rd 9:33am
Chuck Manning at the Orange Island International Jazz Festival in Changsha, China
I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining Bill Cunliffe, Matthew Gordy, Christopher Colangelo, Bob Sheppard, John Proulx, Chuck Berghofer, and Kendall Kay at the Orange Island International Jazz Festival in Changsha, China (Hunan Province) on June 10, 11, and 12!
Orange Island International Jazz Festival
I'm excited to announce that I'll be joining Chuck Berghofer, Kendall Kay, Bob Sheppard, Bill Cunliffe Matthew Gordy , Christopher Colangelo, and Chuck Manning at the Orange Island International Jazz Festival in Changsha, China (Hunan Province) on June 10, 11, and 12!
Wed, May 22nd 4:52pm
Playing at LA's newest jazz club Friday May 31st
On May 31st, Friday, I will be sitting in for Azar Lawrence at the RG Club in Venice Beach, CA at 2536 Lincoln Blvd, just north of Washington.
The band is made up of famous band leaders that I have recorded with:
Theo Saunders -piano,
Henry Franklin - bass,
Alphonse Mouzon - drums
9PM-12:00AM
http://rgclubvenice.com/
It's sure to be an intense evening of music.
Wed, May 15th 5:16pm
Playing with the Los Angeles Jazz Quartet this weekend.
I have a great gig with my long time cooperative the Los Angeles Jazz Quartet on Sunday at the Ascension Lutheran Church in Thousand Oaks. See:http://www.alcto.org/events/great-music-at-ascension-l-a-jazz-quartet/
Thu, Apr 25th 5:48pm
I have some interesting events coming up. First, playing with one of my really long time friends Riner Scivally at Pinnochio's in Pasadena Sat. Then Sun. PM with one of my newest friends, the young 13 year old Jamael Dean, who is a terror and plays like Herbie Hancock. Then playing Wed nite a the Altadena Ale House with Joe Sample's drummer Joel Taylor, Bruce Springsteen's bassist Carlitos Del Puerto, Steve Tyrell's pianist Quinn Johnson
--But really these guys really need no name dropping introductions, they are the best and will just jam hard!!
See my calendar for details.
Wed, Mar 20th 2:30pm
Playing at LA's newest jazz club Satuday
On March 23, Saturday, I will be sitting in for Azar Lawrence at the RG Club in Venice Beach, CA at 2536 Lincoln Blvd, just north of Washington.
Fri, Mar 8th 1:01pm
Playing with my mentor of 30+ years
I'm really looking forward to playing with my long-time mentor, trumpeter, Bobby Bradford in his Mo Tet Sunday Mar. 10th. . I first met him in 1980 and took his jazz ensemble class at PCC. It took a couple years later that I was one of his regular/irregular sax players in his Mo tet (That's mo or less the number of cats in the band). I learned a lot form Bobby and consider it an honor to be playing with him still after all these years.
"One of the West Coast's most under-appreciated and under-recorded jazz treasures," (Santa Barbara Independent) this ensemble is hailed for performing a wide range of jazz from the highly structured to free improvisational styles.
3:00 p.m. Sunday, March 10
Bridges Hall of Music
Free Admission, with open seating
Thu, Feb 28th 11:15am
Rare appearance with Los Angeles Quartet
I am so excited about playing with our old band, the Los Angeles Jazz Quartet with Larry Koonse, Darek Oles and Mark Ferber this Saturday at the Blue Whale in downtown L.A. We have been playing together since the early 1990's and have developed a chemistry that comes out of nowhere the minute we start playing that only gets better as these guys mature into giants of their instruments. I'm very lucky to be associated with this group.
Please join us. See my calendar for details.
Theo Saunder's CD is now out
We just had a successful CD release party at the Crown for Theo's
"When The Saints Go Out" [AJ0198] on Arabesques Records. It sounded fantastic!
http://www.arabesquerecords.com/artists/jazz/saunders/
Working on Henry "the Skipper" Franklin's new CD
Hi! I think this will be one of Henry's best with Henry on bass, Gibert Castellanos on trumpet, Theo Saunders on piano, Ryan Porter on trombone, Ramon Banda on drums, with guests vocalists Dwight Trible and Mon David. Look for it in a few months.
Mon, Jan 30th 3:18pm
Working on a new CD
Well it's about time.
It's been more than 4 years.
I am finally putting together material that I will use on my next CD which I hope will be done this year (2012). I know a lot of people are asking, what's taking me so long? I'm not sure, but I have been busy with other peoples' projects in the last few years and there is a certain procrastination that comes with being busy. I think things are slowing down enough now to start the Manning CD project one more time.
Thu, Jan 20th 4:16pm
Brick's Picks: Hard-Ass Jazz
By Brick Wahl Thursday, Jan 20 2011- LAWeekly
Tenor Chuck Manning is back at Charlie O's on Saturday. We just saw him with Mat Marucci at Jax and what a couple sets that was, with Marucci's propulsive, rolling, explosive drumming and Manning's furious, rollicking blasts of smart post-bop or whatever it is we're calling all that post-Trane saxophonery now. Manning has the ballsy John Heard Trio behind him here. Quite a night.
...since Charlie O's is an old-fashioned hard-ass jazz room. (In the old days in NYC and Chicago, jazzmen were tough as hockey players, as many a guy who couldn't play his ax discovered in the alleys out back.) And while no one gets hurt at Charlie O's — too many lawyers at the bar — you don't wanna be too sensitive on that stage. John Heard hates that wimpy shit.
Wed, Dec 22nd 5:38pm
LA WEEKLY: BRICK'S PICKS: A CHARLIE O'S CHRISTMAS
By Brick Wahl Thursday, Dec 23 2010
Charlie O's is the quintessential jazz room. Outside is a nondescript stretch of the Valley, but you walk inside and it's dark, with a low stage at one end and a handful of players jamming their asses off. So leave it to this joint to book saxist Chuck Manning with John Heard's house trio when you're all supposed to be home with the eggnog and Andy Williams. Manning's intensity really comes out with John Heard behind him; there's a toughness to his sound at Charlie O's. He probably has that sound everywhere he plays, actually, it's just something you notice more at Charlie O's, the way you notice the chance-taking at the World Stage or new ideas at the Blue Whale. A great room has a vibe, and Charlie O's has that badass, nothing-but-straight-ahead vibe. Which makes it special. And not sappy on Christmas Eve.
Mon, Nov 1st 12:50pm
I've got some gigs coming up with with Robby Kreiger The Doors -Jam
Nov. 1st see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFyvowOfCKM
and on Nov. 7th
see http://www.glendaleharley.com/entertainment.htm
Last minute call
I just got a last minute call to play at Charlie O's (I think I'm becoming the house saxophonist) Friday Oct. 1st at 8:00. You just never know. Then I'll be heading over to Henry "the Skipper" Franklin's birthday jam on Sunday.
Tue, Sep 21st 5:03pm
Playing with my old bud on Wendesday
I just want to let everyone know that I'm playing with my old friend and comrade guitarist genius Larry Koonse on Wed 9/22/10 at Charlie O's with the Jimmy Branly Quartet, Jimmy on burning drums and the solid as a rock Chris Coangelo on bass- it's gonna be fun!
Wed, Mar 10th 12:49pm
GO TO THE CALENDAR TO FIND OUT MY SCHEDULE
I have some great gigs coming up!
There are some amazing young jazz players in LA right now
I just want to let everyone know that the replacements have arrived. Yes, that means the older guard jazz cats will be replaced with the great new talent that is brewing up some serious concoctions. You can hear them blowing at various places in town such as the Kevin Kanner jam session at the Blue Whale in downtown LA on Monday nights. Check them out!
Blue Whale Bar
123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St Ste 301
Whart would I do without Brick of the LAWEEKLY?
Brick's Picks: Saxes Roasting on an Open Fire
By Brick Wahl
There is a great selection of local saxophonists across town this week. Tenor (and occasional soprano) Chuck Manning does a long-awaited night with the John Heard Trio at Charlie O´s on Friday. This should be a highlight, as Heard and crew are one powerful rhythm section and Manning will respond in kind. Then on Saturday, he´s at Vibrato with a quartet; it´s a different room, different vibe, different lineup and different Manning. A little lighter maybe, less aggressive, at least till late in the evening. On Sunday he joins trumpeter Sal Marquez´s quintet at Spazio, and expect good things: These two have been pairing up on stages for years, and Manning brings out the best in Marquez, who, when he´s on, is just a terrific bebopper (not to mention personality). On Wednesday, the classic Chuck Manning Quartet (the bunch you heard on his excellent Notes From the Real) play the Caf� 322.
Tue, Jan 19th 4:59pm
Here's hoping that the new decade and 2010 especially is going to be the best ever. It will be for me.
See my calendar section for my up-to-date performance schedule.
Thu, Jul 23rd 4:50pm
Reunion of the Los Angeles Jazz Quartet
It's been quite some time since I have posted any updates. My next CD is postponed until I work out some financial issues.
BUT, I am excited about the reunion performance of the
Los Angeles Jazz Quartet on August 26 2009 at Spazio in Sherman Oaks California at 9:00PM. That band features Larry Koonse -guitar, Darek Oles- bass, Mark Ferber - drums and me. It's been years since we performed together and it will be a wonderful experience. Thanks- Chuck
Mon, Aug 25th 6:40pm
Heading to Greece
I am heading to play at the Thessaloniki Jazz Festival in a few weeks and I will do some recording with the fabulous Greek musicians there. These musicians are amazing and were killing when we played a few gigs late last year.
http://www.myspace.com/chuckmanningquartet
Fri, Jun 6th 2:48pm
Still on Bob Parlocha's Top 40 new releases
"Notes form the Real" is still being featured on the internationally syndicated jazz radio show "Jazz with Bob Parlocha" and he has named the CD on his top 40 new release list for 4 months earlier this year
http://www.jazzwithbobparlocha.com/top40/index.html
The reviews keep coming for "Notes from the Real"
New Jersey On-Line
SIMPLY STATED: "Notes from the Real" Chuck Manning (TCB)
-Zan Stewart May 27, 2008
This is an extremely solid, decidedly listenable presentation of jazz classics, standards, and originals by four veteran Los Angeles-based contemporary jazz musicians. Tenorman Chuck Manning, pianist Jim Szilagyi, bassist Isla Eckinger, and drummer Tim Pleasant all score with their thoughtful, deeply musical expositions, which swing with vitality. On "I Didn't Know What Time it Was," taken at a medium up-tempo, Szilagyi reveals his hefty touch and ability to tell welcome stories without needing to flash. Manning, his tone luminous, his ideas attractive, is similar in approach. Eckinger's alluring "The Spritual" grooves along modestly, building heat as it moves -- Manning particularly intense. The composer's solo boasts enticing packages delivered with a big, ringing sound. Manning and Szilagyi's "Byear" is a brisk long-form blues, full of expressive, energized comments. Monk's "Eronel" is also essayed, and Coltrane's "Dear Lord" proves a fine finishing song.
Wed, May 21st 2:17pm
The reviews are in for "Notes from the Real"
Notes From The Real
The Montreaux Jazz Label
By George W. Harris
JazzWeekly.com
If your attraction to jazz is the warm sound of a tenor sax, well, brother, this one is for you. Chuck Manning has a sound reminiscent of "Ballads" era John Coltrane, but without the hesitancy. Ebullient, autumnal, his tone envelops each song on this evocative collection of (mostly) standards. Ably and sensitively supported by the trio of Jim Szilagyi, Isla Eckinger and Tim Pleasant, Manning embraces and gives life to chestnuts like "I Didn´t Know What Time It Was". Coltrane´s "Dear Lord" is engaging in it´s coy yet firm grip of the melody. Originals like Eckinger´s "The Spiritual" have an assertive bite that are alluring and attractive. The pianist particularly shines on this piece, as well as the clever rendition of Monk´s "Eronel". This is a disc that will fit you like a warm sweater
LA City Beat:Soothe Me, Baby -By Kirk Silsbee 5/14/08
Tenor saxophonist Chuck Manning has one of the best albums by a local jazz artist – Notes From the Real; he´s at Spazio Sunday. He delivers effortless swing on a well-chosen program (Monk, Alec Wilder, Coltrane, Kenny Barron among others) in the album we knew Chuck had in him.
Sun, Apr 27th 2:36pm
CD Release Party in the press
May issue of LA Jazz Scene
CHUCK MANNING QUARTET
AT GIANNELLI SQUARE
Although a couple of blocks off the beaten path of Tampa Avenue, Giannelli Square of Northridge is not placed where you just might happen to drive by. Located in a light industrial area, once past the plain-Jane frontage, stepping inside reveals perhaps the newest and certainly one of the finest jazz
concert venues in Southern California. It was designed, built, and then operated by John and Rhonda Giannelli, respected jazz musicians that understand the needs of performers and fans. It has high qualities of sound, comfort, ambiance, and warmth, all accomplished in this superb 91-seat room. The Chuck Manning Quartet was featured tonight with Manning presenting an impelling, full-out approach to high-energy tenor sax work. This concert was also a CD release party, with the quartet recreating live the playlist of his new "Notes From The Real." Manning´s enthusiasm was contagious, as the audience responded openly to what he played and how he played it. As the tunes varied, he showed he could easily move from a charged, impassioned line to a tender, melodic resolution and back again. Good stagecraft always adds class to a performance, as shown by Manning
when he consistently took time to address the audience and identify each tune to be played, especially for some not as well known as the others. Also, as headliner, he rightly showed off the other skilled veteran players by giving them opportunities and even stepping to far stage-right to let them be better seen when featured. These other quartet members were Jim Szilagyi (piano), Isla Eckinger (bass), and Tim Pleasant (drums).
Selections included "I Didn´t Know What Time It Was;" "Hey, It´s You I´m Talking To," featuring impressive saxophone gymnastics; "The Spiritual," opened slowly with lovely bowed bass, piano, and drums, before sax came in to pickup the pace; pretty renditions of "Ambrosia," "Here And Now," and "While We´re
Young;" "Byear," originally an impromptu tune originated on the spot that come out so well, it was added to their regular tunes; "Change Partners;" "Bonita
Blues," written by Manning several years ago, with more wonderful bowed bass that Eckinger does so well and with responding drum features, one of the highlights of the program; a Coltrane influenced "Dear Lord;" and "I Believe In You" as a closing encore. Really outstanding musicians, Chuck Manning and his
quartet are driving, original jazz players that deserve your attention.
Topping an already wonderful evening of music and celebration, a buffet was set up with a feast of Mediterranean and Near-Eastern foods that included dolma (stuffed grape leaves),
baba ganoush (egg plant), varieties of hummus, mini-pitas, spanakopita (spinach in filo dough), and other tasty dishes I certainly enjoyed but can´t identify!
What a great evening! .
HARVEY BARKAN
Tue, Apr 22nd 2:50pm
Review by Scott Yanow
LA Jazz Scene April 2008 issue 247
By Scott Yanow
CHUCK MANNING
Notes from the Real (TCB)
Chuck Manning has been a fixture in the Southern California jazz scene for the past 20 years. A versatile tenor-saxophonist with a cool tone and a hard driving style, Manning has finally recorded his first solo CD.
Notes from the Real matches Manning with the valuable if underrated pianist Jim Szilagyi, bassist Isla Eckinger and drummer Tim Pleasant. While Manning´s sound is often been compared to Joe Henderson, the opening "I Didn´t Know What Time It Was" he recalls Warne Marsh while on some of the other performances on this CD he comes closer to early John Coltrane. But in reality, he has a tone and style of his own, being creative within the jazz tradition.
There are many high points to the fine project including Victor Lewis´ complex "Hey, It´s You I´m Talking To," Isla Eckinger´s medium-tempo folk song "The Spiritual," an excellent reading of Thelonious Monk´s "Eronel," and outstanding version of "I Believe In You" (which was originally an early hit for Teri Thornton) and a rare revival of Coltrane´s "Dear Lord".
Actually all ten performances are rewarding. Manning´s solos are both unpredictable and ultimately logical, Szilagyi has a knack for matching and extending the tenor´s ideas and Eckinger and Pleasant are stimulating in support of the lead voices.
Straight-ahead jazz fans will definitely want to pick up a copy of Notes from the Real, Chuck Manning´s long overdue debut as a leader. It is available from www.tcbrecords.com.
Sun, Apr 6th 2:38pm
Review from All Music Guide
A long time veteran of the Los Angeles jazz scene, Chuck Manning's long-awaited first recording as an individual leader (though he co-led a 1991 CD with Isla Eckinger) is an excellent introduction to his playing, for those not familiar with his extensive work with the L.A. Jazz Quartet or as a sideman. Eckinger is also on hand, with the quartet also including pianist Jim Szilagyi and drummer Tim Pleasant. The big-toned tenor saxophonist put together a first-rate set list, drawing from standards and time-tested jazz compositions, along with compelling works by currently active jazz composers. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" is a potent opener, while the inventive setting of Alec Wilder's sentimental "While We're Young" has a hopeful air. Interpretations of Thelonious Monk's upbeat "Eronel" and John Coltrane's meditative "Dear Lord" flow with plenty of energy. Also enjoyable are the tense post-bop arrangements of Victor Lewis' "Hey, It's You I'm Talking To" and Kenny Barron's lush ballad "Ambrosia." Eckinger's funky "The Spiritual" and the insistent Manning/Szilagyi post-bop collaboration "Byear" round out an impressive session. ~ Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
Fri, Apr 4th 3:14pm
Review in MetroSpirit; Augusta ,Georgia
MetroSpirit Augusta ,Georgia
Issue #19.37 :: 04/09/2008 - 04/15/2008
Chuck Manning "Notes from the Real"
BY RICH MCCRACKEN II
"Notes from the Real"
TCB Records
AUGUSTA, GA - Chuck Manning has been a staple of the Los Angeles jazz scene for the last 25 years. As a top session player with dozens of collaborations in his roster, Manning has set out to release his first solo CD called "Notes from the Real."
This CD has the vibe of famous jazz quartets from the '50s and '60s. As a guru of the tenor saxophone, Manning plays arrangements that perfectly fit his style.
He plays in a quartet: Jim Szilagyi on piano, Isla Eckinger on bass and Tim Pleasant on drums. They provide a CD is full of new jazz ideas that every fan of jazz music will appreciate.
The song called "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" is a fast tempo jazz tune featuring Mannings' tenor saxophone. It has a true jazz vibe.
"I Believe In You" is another fast-paced tempo jazz number. On this one, you can hear the unique ambience the reverb effect gives to Mannings' saxophone. It creates a atmospheric quality. The drums of Pleasant remind me of Elvin Jones on this track and Manning plays more jazz runs on this than on previous tracks. The bass and piano are a one-unit rhythm section.
"B Year" has a complex arrangement that I think Miles Davis would dig. The tempo on this is almost like two bands playing. The timing, arrangement and chord structures are unique.
Hopefully, you will hear this song on NPR and college jazz radio stations because it's a unique and sparkling jazz effort.
Mannings' new CD "Notes from the Real" showcases some fantastic new music and ideas. It's recommended listening for all jazz buffs.
Sat, Mar 22nd 2:53pm
Review in Nashville City Paper
Riffs: Return of global Hart beats
By Ron Wynn
…..It is well-played, first-rate mainstream material, with enough surprises included to keep listeners attentive throughout each piece.
Tenor saxophonist Chuck Manning takes a similar approach on his horn during his spotlight segments on Notes From The Real (TCB).
When interpreting Coltrane´s "Dear Lord" or Monk´s "Eronel," Manning makes no missteps, playing crisp, clean lines in decisive fashion and demonstrating his skills without requiring excessive or unnecessary effects and mannerisms to illustrate the point. He´s just as credible on "I Didn´t Know What Time It Was," "Change Partners" or "I Believe In You," giving listeners both a clear idea of the original work, then creating a smooth and effective personal direction through his solo.
It´s straightforward, though far from detached or formulaic quartet date, as drummer Tim Pleasant, bassist Isla Eckinger and pianist Jim Szilagyi also each have prime moments (Szilagyi is outstanding as the secondary soloist), and what could have just been another routine bit of ballads, standards and blues is instead upbeat and swinging.
Fri, Mar 21st 8:25pm
IN CONCERT : In and out jazz in L.A. - Versatile tenor saxist Chuck Manning makes his Santa Barbara debut
By Josef Woodard, NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT
When: 8 p.m. Thursday
Where: Muddy Waters Caf�, 508 E. Haley St.
Information: 966-9328, www.myspace.com/muddycafesb
Here in Santa Barbara, we've caught wind of the Los Angeles-based tenor saxist Chuck Manning at odd intervals. A few years back, his acclaimed and presently defunct band, the Los Angeles Jazz Quartet, put on a heady fine show at the Goleta Community Center, sponsored by the Santa Barbara Jazz Society. Manning has also played in town with Theo Saunders, the impressive NYC-born pianist-bandleader who spent a few years in Santa Barbara before settling in L.A.
Just last month, Manning held down the challenging sax chair in a MultiCultural Center concert featuring Bobby Bradford's Mo'Tet. In that gig, Manning was able to showcase his distinctive skill in working both the free and structured corners of the jazz ring, moving seamlessly between avant-garde ideas and swing- and bebop-inclined playing.
It will be a different story, and different song list, next Thursday at Muddy Waters, when Manning makes his official Santa Barbara debut under his own name. As part of the "Experimental Music Night" series led by Colter Frazier and Rob Wallace (who will open the show), Manning and company are coming off of a European tour and the release of his first solo CD, "Notes from the Real," on the Swiss TCB-Montreux Jazz label.
In a recent interview, Manning explained that "when I recorded this album, I was in a personal transition and I needed to say something to myself. It was a gift to me. I wanted to play old show tunes such as Frank Loesser's 'I Believe In You' and Irving Berlin's 'Change Partners' because they are not part of the typical jazz quartet repertoire and so they sound fresh but familiar.
"If I, like so many musicians I know, worked out complicated arrangements and have the musicians read music on the band stand, we would miss out on the magic that happens when the eyes are closed and the inner voices are allowed to sing. This approach is what creates a powerful, personal sound."
One can hear the imprint of John Coltrane's influence, and from various stages of the late, great tenor player's work, in Manning's approach -- as with many other tenor players.
"The Coltrane influence is, like the Miles Davis influence, connected to the idea of musical and personal evolution," Manning says. "John Coltrane transformed himself in such a linear way that mirrored the music's history. This is not true anymore. Now, the most important thing is to be true to one's self."
Manning's particular sense of musical self is notable, in part, for his openness to multiple stylistic approaches. In the vernacular, Manning happily moves between "outside" -- i.e. freer and more experimental -- and "inside," traditional playing. The latter persona, working smoothly with chord changes and an easy-going sense of swing, is more on display on his new CD.
Born in Washington State, he began to affirm his musical attitudes when he went to college at the well-known jazz mecca of North Texas State (now called the University of North Texas) in the late '70s. He later moved to Toronto and finally to Los Angeles in the late '80s. But from his Texas days, Manning remembers "at that time, there was still the idea that jazz improvisation had a linear evolution from the early jazz pioneers in the first recordings to the avant-garde and Miles Davis' jazz-rock abstractions of the '70s.
"I studied the full historic lineage of this music and I was receptive to listening to these recordings, trying to hear them without stylistic prejudice. I realized that the musicians of the early 20th century, like Armstrong, were thinking in an 'outside' way and just as radical as (noted avant-garde saxist) Albert Ayler much later.
"What matters to me still is not the style, context, instrumentation of the performance, but the soul, emotion and thought behind it, and I apply the same standard to all types of music as well."
One influential figure has been Bradford, whom he studied with upon moving to Pasadena in 1980, and in whose band Manning has played a key role. The saxist comments "Bobby Bradford music has always had a big impact on my own philosophy of improvisation. Really, the bottom line is, if you hear it, you should play it. And if you are trying to play a preconceived idea such as one based on a harmonic 'theory,' then that will get in the way of the creative process. My philosophy has been that I needed to really understand jazz like a first language so that I am speaking without thinking."
Clearly, things are coming together for Manning at the moment. It can be a challenge for a serious jazz artist to base operations in Los Angeles, as opposed to the jazz base of New York, but he's doing the right things and deserves whatever attention is coming his way.
"I have never been more in touch with my own voice as I am now," Manning says. "I just got back from a tour in Europe to promote my CD; that was very exciting and I got such a great response from the audiences there. I will be going back to do some festivals in late summer and I plan to record another CD this year. This is the most musically healthy period in my life."
Thu, Mar 20th 9:30am
LA Weekly jazz CD review
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 11:00 am
Brick's Picks: Standard Time and Beyond
Notes From the Real ... and the surreal
Chuck Manning throws his album-release bash at Giannelli Square in Northridge this Saturday. Manning´s tenor sound stands out in this town: His faster-tempo solos are fired-up think pieces but with plenty of heart, while his ballad playing really gets to you without pouring on the sap. (He learned a lot from mentor Joe Henderson that way.) Manning´s brilliant Notes From the Real (on TCB) has that big sound, as if the band is in your living room as they wend purposefully through a great choice of tunes. Manning, pianist Jim Szilyagi and bassist Isla Eckinger all contribute originals; the rest are standards, but ones that don´t show up on every other straight-ahead session. Rodgers and Hart´s "I Didn´t Know What Time It Was" kicks it off, Coltrane´s "Dear Lord" closes beautifully, and in between there are things by Monk, Kenny Barron and others, such as an especially great arrangement of Loesser´s "I Believe in You." The interplay is tight, the sidemen´s solos are in the pocket and to the point, and Manning has plenty of space to explore the tunes. It´s a cool room too, and with your cover you get food and drink on the house. See www.giannellisquare.com for details.
LES DERNIERES NOUVELLES DU JAZZ French jazz review
Chuck Manning is a saxophonist completely forgotten side with us but quis himself elsewhere in Los Angeles Quartet. Yet all those who have been attentive to the evolution of the scene on the west coast of the past 25 years would not have missed this tenor of the tradition that perpetuates the feeling and whose Lesterien Leonard Feather said himself: "Chuck has a bold rythmic sound and keen sense. " When a boy j'entend like there (I was saying the same thing Grant Stewart) I can only welcome this as saxophonists like him perpetuates this sound that tended to disappear. I can also see myself regrettable, the current uniformity of saxophonists traumatized by the free after which appear with one voice reject any history of this sax. Let us listen constantly to understand Barney Wilen combines a tenor can be simple and beautiful melodies when brought in as much feeling. With Chuck Manning is exactly that it is. Never did it tons, never tries to amaze, never in excess either. But what sensuous phrasing, which class in its way of saying things, what elegance! My mind divague and then I see dream in the late Guy Laffitte that I have unfortunately not known but whose Chuck Manning me closer in its way of playing standards (I did not know what time it was or sublime Change Partners) , in the way to go caress blues (The spiritual - a component of his pianist and accomplice Isa Eckinger) or false airs in its sweet boy (genus dream stepmother) on a waltz very Lesterienne (While we were young) . And what strikes at Chuck Manning beyond its elegance and his innate sense of swing is its rhythmic precision, this way of giving something different to the notes he plays, to give a little more in the freed from his sentences. Sometimes the boy conjures (slightly) Dexter Gordon (Eronel of Monk), and sometimes it's a tribute to Coltrane Dear Lord), which manages to get Manning in the footsteps of the master in a very explicit mention but without losing the continuity of his own game The Americans have a word to describe what type of musician, they say: "soulful." One can not say as much better in some soul musicians. The Chuck Manning is satisfied that we all share together, our common ground, our hyphen irreducible codes and modes: the love of jazz.
Jean-Marc Gelin
Tue, Feb 12th 12:25pm
My new TCB "The Montreux Jazz Label" CD "Notes from the Real" is now released in US/Canada!
In this week´s Les Dermieres Nouvelles Du Jazz review of "Notes from the Real", Marc Gelin wrote; "The Americans have a word to describe what type of musician Chuck is, they say: "soulful."
Fri, Jan 11th 3:09pm
Metal Jazz.com: Live review
Live review: Chuck Manning Quartet at Caf� Metropol, January 11.
Chuck Manning enjoys lending the distinctive flutter of his tenor sax to the service of any music he loves. So the relative conservatism of his current path looks like a cyclic tilling of his soil -- not a retreat from his longtime association with the Los Angeles Jazz Quartet, which was sneaky enough to layer its avantish substructures under a beachside cottage veneer. The veneer was a big part of the point, and Manning always found ways to give it texture.
So here was Manning, filling a gap in old pal Rocco Somazzi´s bistro calendar on short notice, and as usual he served up dinner music far above any level you´d expect. For the first set, his working quartet lacked pianist Jim Szilagyi (out on another gig), a situation that provided its own excuse for compare-and-contrast.
Manning has known bassist Isla Eckinger a long time; the Switzerlander´s a natural fit with drummer Tim Pleasant -- both swing like a summer playground. When Szilagyi joined for the second set, instantly focusing the rhythm section with a quick, gentle touch, his hands crowding each other for midrange-centered lightness, it was pretty clear that with this band, Manning was going for support rather than challenge.
A reasonable decision, since Manning constantly challenges himself. He leaped octaves casually on Clifford Brown´s midtempo bopper "Sandu," conjured Sonny Rollins´ virile assurance on "I´ll Remember April." And back-to-back turns on Monk´s jumpy "I Mean You" and languid "´Round Midnight" found him blowing bursts of harmonic condensation and bubbling out fast, subtle tonguing technique. He sounded, actually, like a combination of the main tenor men associated with Monk: the linear invention of Rollins, the slight overblowing touches of John Coltrane, the urbane swing of Charlie Rouse, leaving out only the long machine-gun sprays of Johnny Griffin. But none of those tenorists moved among stylings with such an unusual combination of smoothness and nervous energy. That´s why Chuck Manning is a lone ranger.
The Kenny Barron waltz "Ambrosia" opened the second set with a blissed-out godslurp mood, Manning´s stoned vibrato nearly subliminal. The quartet followed suit with the gin-and-vermouth sleaze of Frank Loesser´s "I Believe in You," with Manning running down feathery arpeggios at microprocessor speed. The lone original was the Manning-Szilagyi tune "The Spiritual," its portentously gloomy Slavonic intro giving way to a Pink Panther-style Big Apple blues; Manning dug deep into the gutter before hitting the sky with multiphonic shrieks, and Eckinger warmed up to a heart-massaging bass solo.
Manning´s got a new album, "Notes From the Real," coming out next month on the Montreux label with the same band. He had to go to Europe to get the record contract, so the least you can do is go to Amazon.
Posted on January 17, 2008 4:32 PM
Thu, Jan 3rd 3:11pm
Review in Open Mag- French CD review
Open Mag´ in France website reviews all CD´s:
He's been side man on dozen of cds, toured with stars world wide, has participated in the adventure of Los Angeles Quartet in million of concerts yet Chuck Manning is not yet written up in the Jazz encyclopedia. There are certain, exceptional saxophonist, who have not wanted to be center stage, but has tranquilly worked the seasons and studios. Chuck Manning lines up with legends. The theme of this current CD of Thelonius Monk ("Eronel") and John Coltrane ("dear lord") while passing by Irving Berlin's standard ("change partners") and by the fabulous "I did not know what time it was" of Rodgers and Hart that begins the CD. His personal composition "Byear" written with Jim Szilagi, proves that this soloist has no fear of accelerating the tempo. If you would like to impress your friends with a tenor saxophonist who brings the house down in the style of Sonny Rollins/Coleman Hawkins, do not look any further, chose this CD.
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"No matter what the context,
tenor Manning’s mix of smarts and heart will get to you —
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for the moment" – LAWeekly.
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January 8, 2017 January 8, 2017 Ciaran
2 Simple Ways To Make Spotify Better
I was a late-starter with Spotify. Despite signing up to it very early on, it took a long time for me to “get it”. For several years after it launched I was quite happy with my pretty large iTunes collection, my Classic iPod and being able to listen to The Beatles.
When I did finally take to Spotify, in large part due to its integration with Sonos which meant I suddenly had a vision of the “celestial jukebox” that early proponents of the web had had in mind – I could listen to almost anything I wanted, whenever I wanted, with not much more than the swipe of a finger. However when I did use it, it was normally with a particular song, album or band in mind – Spotify still lacked when it came to discovery and serendipity.
However, since buying music intelligence start-up The Echo Nest back in 2014 they have got a lot better at working out what sort of music I am likely to enjoy and helping me find it. That ability has really come to the fore over the last year or so, with the launch of Discover Weekly, which uses past listening to serve up a eclectic playlist of things you should enjoy.
Then, came Daily Mix, which does much the same, but on a daily basis and in playlists that are specific to a particular genre.
And, most recently Release Radar, which brings you new releases you should like.
I now spend much if not most of of my time on Spotify (and therefore by default, listening to music full stop) in one of these playlists.
To highlight this exact point, a good friend of mine who somehow stays current with musical trends, despite being a father of two with a very busy job, recently sent me a track he thought I would like, Colour by Pete Josef.
I replied that it was one of my favourite tracks of 2016, but I knew next to nothing about the artist because I had discovered it thanks to an algorithm, not a DJ or tastemaker – it had popped up on Discover Weekly, and I had listened to it incessantly from then on.
Despite all of this, there are a couple of simple changes Spotify could make to its UI to make its discovery tools even more powerful, and really help it fend off the competition from Apple Music & Pandora.
The Daily Mix gives the listener the opportunity to help improve the algorithm, with two simple buttons: a like and a don’t like button – the former saves the song to your library and lets Spotify know you want more of the same, the latter ensures it never gets played to you again (unless you choose to listen to it). The first simple way to improve Spotify is to bring the same functionality to Discover Weekly & Release Radar. It’s so obvious I really don’t understand why it wasn’t done like that from launch.
Likes are such a simple flag for algorithms to use, as everyone has known ever since Facebook copied Friendfeed (just prior to buying the service) and launched them back in 2009. At present the only way of signalling your appreciation of a track in Discover or Radar is to save it to your library. Which brings me to my next point.
Bring back the star. Up until 2012 Spotify had a feature where a listener could “star” a certain track. This added it to a giant Starred playlist, ensured it could be easily found (said list was pinned to the top of the Playlist section), and generally appealed to real music-lovers – Spotify’s core audience. It was replaced with the Save feature, which simply adds it to the listener’s library.
I know (from reading the multitude of posts on this) that I wasn’t the only one sorry to see stars go away. Loving something is not the same as simply saving it. I might have hundreds of albums in my collection, but that doesn’t mean I love every single track on each and every one of them.It strikes me that bringing back this feature (or even replacing it with the Like button now used in Daily Mixes) will really appeal to those of us who have historically spent the most on music and like to really curate our own collections.
If, like me, you spent hours rating tracks in your iTunes library then being able to class something as a true favourite is a pretty powerful signal of intent, with which to improve its various discovery tools even more. This is why I mentioned previously that I think these type of changes might help Spotify fend off competition, and I honestly believe that.
Up until quite recently Pandora was Spotify’s most serious competition, and only really in the US. And Pandora always sold itself (to me at least, whilst I was in agency-roles) as more of a lean-back product – for people who liked music but weren’t necessarily obsessed with it. This was why it only had radio-style products, without the ability to listen to specific tracks or albums. This has now changed, and we all know about Apple Music.
Since Apple got serious about streaming and started throwing money around, it has focussed on exclusivity. But I’m not sure that having short windows on new albums by specific artists is really going to win over music lovers – unless you can get every single album exclusively.
Fan is short of fanatic, but that fanaticism tends to be specific to a certain artist, and in the grand scheme of things, it’s probably still cheaper to buy the new Adele CD than spend something like $100 a year to subscribe.
But if you’re just generally fanatical about music, then features tied to back catalogue is likely to lure you in. Features that help you find undiscovered treasures and features that help you rank, rate and curate your finds. Just think of John Cusack in the adaptation of Nick Horby’s High Fidelity, but with an iPhone.
So, there you go: 2 really simple ways that Spotify could give its recent improvements in discovery an even bigger boost and refocussing on the music nerds. I, for one, would love it if they did.
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The World of Crucis' Court — Cass County's Resident Conservative Blogger
Category Archives: Governmental Interference
Thursday’s Thoughts
Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2015, 11:32 am by Crucis
The FCC is about to vote on their seizure of the internet. There are five Commissioners, three dems and two ‘pubs. The new ruling was authored in the White House and handed to the democrat FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to ram it through. The vote is expected to be along party lines. I first wrote about the nationalization of the internet earlier this month.
The title of the Rule-Making is a lie. It’s not about internet neutrality. It’s about government control of the means, infrastructure and content of the internet. If it is passed, nothing good will come of it and internet access costs WILL go up.
Did you hear that the DoJ had decided not to charge George Zimmerman in the Travon Martin case? The DoJ said there was insufficient evidence for any civil rights violation. What it meant was that the federal persecution of Zimmerman was finally over. Oh, the media did their part accusing Zimmerman of wife beating, girlfriend beating and of being a drunk. What they failed to tell you was that the two women admitted Zimmerman had done nothing. Their claims were lies.
An article appeared in the American Thinker with some thoughts on the actions of the DoJ, none of them complimentary.
Finally Cleared, Zimmerman Should Sue the DOJ
By Jack Cashill, February 26, 2015
“In all criminal prosecutions,” reads the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, “the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial.” In its dangling of George Zimmerman over the pit of judicial hell for the last three years, the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) violated the spirit of that amendment for no better reason than to pacify the Democrats’ increasingly bloodthirsty base.
Finally, on Tuesday of this week, the DOJ announced that it had found insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against Zimmerman. A White House so seemingly appalled by torture had no qualms about torturing Zimmerman needlessly for nearly three years. Indeed, within months of the February 26, 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, the DOJ knew it had no criminal case against Zimmerman, but it kept dangling him nonetheless.
The article continues with an in-depth examination at the American Thinker website.
CPAC is meeting with a long list of potential GOP candidates queued to speak. Dr. Ben Carson was one of the first and he seized ‘the third rail’ of democrat politics. The UK Daily Mail reported on his speech. (Why does this story not appear in the US media?)
Ben Carson charges Democrats with taking advantage of blacks, ‘trying to keep them suppressed and cultivate their votes’
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com, Published: 10:11 EST, 26 February 2015 | Updated: 11:25 EST, 26 February 2015
Prominent black GOP presidential hopeful got aggressive at the Conservative Political Action Conference
‘If you’re black and you oppose the progressive agenda, and you’re pro-life, and you’re pro-family, then they don’t know what to call you’
‘It really is not compassionate to pat people on the head and say, “There, there, you poor little thing, I’m going to take care of all your needs”‘
Carson, a world-renowned retired pediatric neurosurgeon, hopes to follow Barack Obama with a right-wing black presidency
Dr. Ben Carson grabbed the Democratic Party’s third rail with both hands Thursday morning, launching a political attack based on his complaint that liberals are ‘making people dependent’ in majority-black American inner-cities.
Race politics have been the near-exclusive domain of the Democrats since the civil-rights era of the 1960s, and Barack Obama’s successful White House bid in 2008 solidified their position.
But Carson – the most prominent black Republican in the 2016 presidential picture – told the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, D.C. on Thursday that the Democrats now see African-Americans’ support as an entitlement – choosing to ‘keep them suppressed and cultivate their votes.’
‘SUPPRESSED!’: Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson told conservatives near the nation’s capitol on Thursday that Democrats are keeping black Americans dependent on government, and he’s the man to fix it. – UK Daily Mail
Scores of supporters chanting ‘Run, Ben Run!’ – almost exclusively white Americans – arrived with him.
Matthew Brown, a New York college student attending the conference, told Daily Mail Online that Carson is just hitting his stride.
‘He’s shaking people up and freaking people out,’ Brown said. ‘The days of a lily-white GOP are starting to fade, and the only people who seem to oppose this energetic and thoughtful black guy are teh Democrats. That should tell you something.’
Carson, who led off the conference, couched his talk of a presidential run and committed to little, outlining his positions ‘if I were to run – you have to say those things.’
Dr. Carson is a likable, charismatic speaker. He’s not afraid to attack the left’s sacred cows. I like much of his views…except for those of his concerning the 2nd Amendment and RKBA. He’s spoken about those views and they are soft…very soft. Still, he would be a better president than any democrat or RINO, i.e, Jeb Bush or Chris Christie.
From Crucis' Court
Posted in Conservatives, Conservatives in Action, CPAC, FCC, FEC, Free and Unfettered Speech, Gangster Government, Governmental Interference, Governmental Malfeasance
Will it pass?
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 11:37 am by Crucis
For a number of years now, ‘Pubs have filed Right-to-Work (RTW) bills in the legislature. This year is no different. If I’ve counted correctly, three bills have been filed that address RTW, one, a partial implementation, was filed by a St. Louis democrat.
RTW has failed in the past. Narrowly, each time and each year the margin narrows toward success. Will this be the year when Missouri finally passes a true, not some watered down ineffectual version, Right-to-Work bill?
All three bills have successfully passed out of committee. Speaker John Diehl has placed all three on the House calendar for a floor vote. The two bills sponsored by ‘Pubs are nearly identical. The democrat version limits RTW to the construction trades only.
The unions believe they have enough legislators in their pocket to block RTW again. They cite a number of ‘Pub union shills newly elected last November. I note most of them are from the eastern side of the state, primarily around St. Louis.
The unions have gone so far as to put at least one legislator, a democrat, on their payroll. I’d call that an ethics violation. Will the ethics committee? Doubtful. It cuts too close to home for many legislators on the eastern side of the state.
Obama’s feud with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu led him to send for partisan assistance to Bibi’s opponent in the upcoming Israeli election. The fued wasn’t just about Netanyahu’s upcoming speech before Congress. It’s a knife fight in a darkened room.
Israeli Election Update: U.S. Intervention Appears to Backfire
Likud takes its largest lead yet, shortly after news broke of the Obama administration trying to sandbag Netanyahu.
February 9, 2015 – 1:00 pm
Israeli polling published Friday seems to indicate that the Obama administration’s push to remove Binyamin Netanyahu from power and to replace him with the more pliable Yitzhak (“Buji”) Herzog is backfiring. The intervention was first reported by the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz just over a week ago.
This is how the numbers look as of Friday:
This is the most significant lead either of the front-runners has had since this election cycle began. Previously, Likud or HaMachane haTziyoni had led the other by only one or two seats. If the final election results look like this, the most likely governing coalition will involve Likud, HaBayit haYehudi, Yahadut haTorah, Kulanu, Shas, and Yachad (64 seats out of a total 120).
It should be noted that such a coalition, incorporating not only the right-wing Bayit Yehudi but also the nationalistic Yachad, would be on a collision course with the EU and U.S. as the party platforms now stand.
Yachad in particular would tie Netanyahu’s hands and limit his flexibility in ways he would not find congenial. The Yachad party is comprised of three elements: loyalists of former Shas head Eli Yishai, who heads the list; religious Zionist elements disappointed with the secular nationalistic constitution forced upon Bayit Yehudi by Naftali Bennett, who in consequence left that party under Yoni Chetboun; and the radically national ‘Otzma Yehudit faction, who had not joined HaBayit haYehudi when Bennett created the current party out of two smaller, earlier ones because it was insufficiently nationalistic for them.
A split between the Yishai/Chetboun faction and ‘Otzma Yehudit under the strains of coalitionary negotiations appears likely, which would yield a smaller but more wieldy coalition for Netanyahu (probably 62 seats as of this writing).
Obama’s incompetency abounds. The Israeli Parliament has no two-party system. Like most similar governments, governance is by a coalition of small parties constantly in turmoil. Such a government has great difficulty getting anything done. On the other hand, it is much easier to remove a political leader who alienates the country. All-in-all, I still like our bicameral system better.
If the Obama and his pet chairman at the FCC have their way, the Internet, as we have know it for its free-wheeling ways, will soon be gone. Net-neutrality is coming via regulation. The dems have failed to pass Net-neutrality in Congress. Now, Obama will implement it via regulation.
Republican FCC Member Warns Net Neutrality Is Not Neutral
Chriss W. Street 9 Feb 2015
Ajit Pai, the sole Republican Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), inferred in a Tweet that President Barack Obama’s secret, 332-page “Net Neutrality” document is a scheme for federal micro-managing of the Internet to extract billions in new taxes from consumers and again enforce progressives’ idea of honest, equitable, and balanced content fairness.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler recently acknowledged that the two Democrats on the commission had decided to avoid Congressional input regarding the Internet by adopting President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1934 Communications Act to regulate the Internet with the same federal control as the old AT&T customer monopoly. To make sure that libertarian advocates would remain in the dark, Wheeler “embargoed” release of any of the specifics in the new administrative “policy” that will act as law.
The FCC legislation that was passed eighty-one years ago by the most leftist Congress in American history to ban companies from participating in “unjust or unreasonable discrimination” when providing phone services to customers.
But in 1949, the Democrat-dominated Commission implemented the “Fairness Doctrine” that required holders of media broadcast licenses to present “issues of public importance” in a manner that is “honest, equitable, and balanced” in the “Commission’s view. It would take 39 years before a conservative Congress could overturn a policy that hijacked the mainstream media to kowtow to liberals or face loss of their licenses.
If the Internet economy was a country, it would rank fifth, behind only the U.S., China, Japan, and India. Economic activity on the Internet totals $4.2 trillion, and almost half of the earth’s 7 billion people are already connected to the Web.
Ajit Pai’s description of “President Obama’s 332-page plan to regulate the Internet” sounds Orwellian. He tweeted a picture of himself holding the 332-page plan just below a picture of a smiling Barack Obama with a comment, “I wish the public could see what’s inside.” The implication depicted Obama as George Orwell’s “Big Brother.”
Pai also released a statement: “President Obama’s plan marks a monumental shift toward government control of the Internet. It gives the FCC the power to micromanage virtually every aspect of how the Internet works,” he said. “The plan explicitly opens the door to billions of dollars in new taxes on broadband… These new taxes will mean higher prices for consumers and more hidden fees that they have to pay.”
Pai had previously observed that he was concerned about the plan would hinder broadband investment, slow network speed and expansion, limit outgrowth to rural areas of the country, and reduce Internet service provider (ISP) competition.
“The plan saddles small, independent businesses and entrepreneurs with heavy-handed regulations that will push them out of the market,” Pai said. “As a result, Americans will have fewer broadband choices. This is no accident. Title II was designed to regulate a monopoly. If we impose that model on a vibrant broadband marketplace, a highly regulated monopoly is what we’ll get.”
Pai’s confrontational comments came after FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler penned an op-ed in Wired Magazine detailing his spin on the core aspects of the Democrat’s desire to lump ISPs under the amended Title II of the 1996 Telecommunications Act — which was used to break-up the AT&T telephone monopoly into four regional Bell companies at the dawn of the digital age.
“Using this authority, I am submitting to my colleagues the strongest open internet protections ever proposed by the FCC,” Wheeler wrote on Wednesday. “These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services.”
Pai responded that the “Courts have twice thrown out the FCC’s attempts at Internet regulation” during the Obama Administration. On January 14, 2014, the D.C. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals struck down most of the FCC’s November 2011 net neutrality rules. The Appellate Court vacated the FCC’s “anti-discrimination” and “anti-blocking” as essentially discriminatory and blocking in an attempt to again give the FCC political appointees the power to dictate what they believe is honest, equitable, and balanced.
Pai said that after a year of debates responding to the courts twice striking down FCC efforts to regulate the Internet, “There’s no reason to think that the third time will be the charm. Even a cursory look at the plan reveals glaring legal flaws that are sure to mire the agency in the muck of litigation for a long, long time.”
Pai promised he would make further comments as he reviews the plan himself in the next two weeks in the run-up to the FCC’s public vote on February 26. He has blamed the two Democrat Commissioners’ for their dismissal of any negotiations with Congressional Republicans in setting the “basic rules” governing Internet access.
As Breitbart has highlighted before, turning the Internet into a “telephone service” would “empower an intrusive public sector that thrives on high taxes, heavy-handed controls and the status quo.”
The real purpose for these regulation is to enable the FedGov to regulate content on the internet, i.e., to impose censorship. Do not be mislead by democrats, there is nothing ‘neutral’ about this. It’s nothing less than an attempt to nationalize internet access and censor content.
Many people are concerned about the intrusiveness of social media like Facebook. If these new FCC regulations are enabled, Facebook will the least of your privacy concerns.
Just as an FYI, you have to pay a tax in the UK to have access to the internet. In times past, you actually had to have a license to have a webserver, a website, or a phone in the UK. I ‘think’ the latter has loosened up a bit. Maybe.
When federal bureaucrats control our internet, internet access taxes and licensing will not be far behind.
Posted in FCC, Federal Bureauracy, Federal Intrusion, Federal Regulation, FedGov, Governmental Interference, Israel, Obama, RTW
Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 11:34 am by Crucis
I was driving home last night from a meeting and was listening to the radio. The program was about the riots in Kiev, the tensions between the protesters and Putin, Merkel, and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The show reported on the riots, the battles between protesters, police, security forces and the casualties.
A Russian expert, an academician from somewhere, stated that the western half of the Ukraine was no longer under the national government’s control. Only the Olympics and all the western media in Sochi has prevented Putin from taking action as the old USSR had done in East Germany, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. All the show participants agreed that Putin was starting a new cold war and Washington was clueless.
One of the more liberal, if that description was possible, participants on the show said, “That [anti-government riots] can’t happen here.” My immediate thought was, “Yet.” You see, there is already rebellion in some of our states. Not rebellion as in riots, clashes with police, firebombs, tear gas and water cannon, and gunshots.
No, these rebellions have been a quiet ones, so far. The state of Connecticut has, by the stroke of a pen, created hundreds of thousands potential felons. How? by requiring them to register their “assault weapons.” A few thousand complied with the law; an estimated 150,000 or more, did not. When it came time to register their weapons, they just stayed home…a hundred thousand or more refused to obey the law.
The penalty of non-compliance is a heavy fine and a felony conviction.
There is a similar situation building in New York state. The New York state government is threatening to confiscate ‘illegal’ firearms. Mike Vanderbeorgh, one of the bloggers who investigated the BATF’s Fast and Furious gun sales to Mexico’s drug cartels, wrote an open letter to the members of the Connecticut State Police. He also wrote one to the members of the New York State Police.
An Open Letter to the Men and Women of the New York State Police. The Deadline Approaches. What do you intend to do?
To the men and women of the New York State Police:
Deadline, noun:
1. the latest time or date by which something should be completed. “The deadline for submissions is February 5th.” Synonyms: time limit, limit, finishing date, target date, cutoff point
2. historical: a line drawn around a prison beyond which prisoners were liable to be shot.
The deadline for registration of semi-automatic rifles of military utility under the the wildly-misnamed “SAFE Act” is 15 April.(1) With this law, Governor Cuomo and the politicians of your state have written a check with their pens that they expect you to cash in blood. This blood could either be that of yourselves or that of their intended victims — the heretofore law-abiding firearms owners of your state — but almost certainly both. Apparently it is of supreme indifference to Cuomo and Company whose blood is spilled or how much, as long as you, the men and women of the New York State Police, work THEIR will upon the people of New York. I am writing you today to remind you that the deadline approaches and to caution you that it doesn’t have to be this way.
A couple of days ago I wrote a similar open letter to the men and women of the Connecticut State Police, entitled, “You are NOT the enemy (UNLESS YOU CHOOSE TO BE.)”(2) It was so well received that many of my New York readers asked me to write one in a similar vein to you. As New Yorkers, I was informed, you appreciate being told the truth, directly, unvarnished and without much preamble, so I will try to make this letter as short as possible. Still, some introduction is in order since I’m certain most of you have never heard of me, nor is there any particular reason why you should.
My name is Mike Vanderboegh. I am one of the citizen journalists who — along with my friend David Codrea(3) — first broke the story of the Fast and Furious scandal on the Internet and who arranged the contacts between the ATF whistleblowers and investigators from the United States Senate, as well as media folks such as Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News. I have been a Second Amendment activist for more than 20 years and the Three Percent movement that I founded has been denounced on the national stage by that paragon of moral virtue, Bill Clinton. Three Percenters are uncompromising firearm owners who have stated very plainly for years that we will obey no further encroachments on our Second Amendment rights. Some of you, if you read this letter carelessly, may feel that it is a threat. It is not. Three Percenters also believe that to take the first shot in a conflict over principle is to surrender the moral high ground to the enemy. We condemn so-called collateral damage and terrorism such as that represented by the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Waco massacre. We are very aware that if you seek to defeat evil it is vital not to become the evil you claim to oppose. Thus, though this letter is certainly intended to deal with an uncomfortable subject, it is not a threat to anyone. However, it is important for everyone to understand that while we promise not to take the first shot over principle, we make no such promise if attacked, whether by common criminals or by the designated representatives of a criminal government grown arrogant and tyrannical and acting out an unconstitutional agenda under color of law. If we have any model, it is that of the Founding generation. The threat to public order and safety, unfortunately, comes from the current leaders of your state government who unthinkingly determined to victimize hitherto law-abiding citizens with a tyrannical law. They are the ones who first promised violence on the part of the state if your citizens did not comply with their unconstitutional diktat. Now, having made the threat (and placed the bet that you folks of the New York State Police will meekly and obediently carry it out) they can hardly complain that others take them seriously and try by every means, including this letter, to avoid conflict.
Like Connecticut, I have been informed that New York state authorities have opened a criminal investigation of me. This began when I visited your state the day after I gave a speech on the steps of the Connecticut state capitol last April entitled “Defy. Resist. Evade. Smuggle.” (4) Since that time, my friends and I have been regularly smuggling 20- and 30-round standard capacity rifle magazines into Connecticut, Maryland, Colorado and yes, New York. I have further irritated Governor Cuomo by sending him a sample magazine in my “Toys for Totalitarians” program. (5)
But as amusing as the Toys for Totalitarians program was, the issue is deadly serious. Cuomo is a typical politician — an empty, expensive suit that is merely wrapping paper for an insatiable appetite for other people’s liberty, property and control of their lives. But his appetites have moved us all, but especially you in New York state law enforcement, into a very dangerous undiscovered country. New York, like Connecticut, Maryland and Colorado, is now in a state of cold civil war, one that can flash to bloody conflict in an instant if someone, anyone, does something stupid. So please pay attention, for Cuomo and Co. have put all your asses on the line and are counting on your supine obedience to the enforcement of their unconstitutional diktat.
I have quoted about half of the open letter. You can read the complete letter at the website. According to Mike Vanderbeorgh, a state of ‘cold’ civil war exists in several states. Those ‘blue’ states think people will kowtow to the all-powerful government, whether it be federal or state. I fear they may be proven wrong if they persist in their citizen disarmament plans.
Posted in Civil War II, Governmental Interference, Governmental Malfeasance, Gun Control, Liberal Agendas, Malicious Legislation
Posted on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 11:24 am by Crucis
A word was spoken yesterday, in an open forum, by someone who is not a member of the media’s right-wing, extremist, whack-jobs. The speaker was Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute’s Director of Health Policy Studies. He was speaking before a congressional committee hearing about the constitutional limits imposed on the presidency and the implications of President Barack Obama’s disregard for implementing the Affordable Care Act (AKA, Obamacare – Crucis) as written. His statement was this:
“There is one last thing to which the people can resort if the government does not respect the restrains that the constitution places on the government,” Cannon said. “Abraham Lincoln talked about our right to alter our government or our revolutionary right to overthrow it.” — Mediate.
Revolution. Civil War. Scary words that should make everyone hearing or reading them have second thoughts on the consequences of their current, past and future actions. A second Civil War in the United States would make the Lebanese Civil War of the last century look like a walk in the park among cool breezes and playing children. No one who has seen war takes those words lightly, but they have now been spoken by a credible speaker, before a congressional committee. Once spoken, the words cannot be retracted.
The nation has been on this path for decades. It started under Reagan when the democrat congress passed laws to make differences in foreign policy a crime. An incident occurred call the Iran-Contra Affair. The prosecution of Ollie North was the result. North was convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity, obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and destruction of documents, but the ruling was overturned since he had been granted immunity.
From criminalizing differences of political policy to ignoring, failing to enforce law and selective enforcement of law, the democrat party has lead the country to this point—massive repeal of federal laws, abolishment of federal agencies used by democrats to persecute political opposition, and a restructure of the federal government to restore state sovereignty—or chaos and war.
The Republican Party has been an active partner in many of the actions of the democrats. They have ignored the wishes—the demands, of their constituents to maintain their personal positions of power in Washington. They are not guiltless, either.
Michael Cannon continued to say, before the congressional committee this final statement.
“That is certainly something that no one wants to contemplate,” he continued. “If the people come to believe that the government is no longer constrained by the laws then they will conclude that neither are they.”
“That is a very dangerous sort of thing for the president to do, to wantonly ignore the laws,” Cannon concluded, “to try to impose obligation upon people that the legislature did not approve.” — Mediate.
Have we reached the point in this country when law become irrelevant? Many believe so.
Posted in Civil War, Civil War II, Governmental Incompetency, Governmental Interference, Governmental Malfeasance, Opinion, Revolution
Revolt!
Posted on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 10:06 am by Crucis
..or, perhaps, “Bye-bye Boehner.” I’ll take either one. Following the GOP sell-out to the Gang of Eight, John Boehner was on the path to sell-out the country as well—until 80 Representatives gave him a slap upside his head and a reality check.
Boehner had said after the meeting with conservative Representatives the immigration would be presented to the House only if a majority of the GOP agrees. At this moment, that won’t happen.
John Boehner gets a wakeup call.
Boehner tells GOP caucus: I won’t bring an immigration bill to the floor unless a majority of you support it
posted at 1:11 pm on June 18, 2013 by Allahpundit
Not for a moment do I think he’s following the Hastert Rule here on principle, but that’s okay. As long as the House GOP gets a veto, I don’t care what his motive is. Fear works just fine.
“I don’t see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn’t have a majority support of Republicans,” Boehner told reporters following a closed-door House GOP conference meeting…
According to a member who attended the meeting, Boehner argued against the Hastert Rule, but assured his colleagues that he would adhere to it on immigration.
On Monday, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher warned that Boehner should lose his gavel if he moved forward on immigration without majority support, saying it would be a “betrayal” of the party…
Asked by reporters if he agreed with Rohrabacher’s assessment, the Speaker considered the question and replied “maybe.”
GOP Rep. Tom Cotton told Guy Benson last night that he doubts even a small number of Republicans would support a bill like the Gang of Eight’s where amnesty comes before border security. That depends, I suppose, on what he means by “amnesty.” Democrats will insist on probationary legalization first, although they’re willing to let the path to eventual citizenship start later. If Cotton means that security will have to come before even legalization, then immigration reform’s probably dead. A note of caution, though: Boehner also told reporters yesterday that he’s “increasingly concerned” that Democrats would “rather have this as an issue in the 2014 election rather than a result.” That’s the ol’ “sabotage” theory that’s constantly being used to convince conservative amnesty skeptics that the way to really stick it to Obama and Schumer is to pass reform and deny them a wedge issue next year. It’s the purest nonsense, and the fact that Boehner is pushing it even now shows how eager he is to make something happen here. Promising to follow the Hastert Rule is encouraging, but don’t rule out a last-minute betrayal if he thinks he has 218 with Democratic support.
In fact, per National Journal, Boehner and the House leadership have been leaning on conservatives quietly to play ball:
Republicans on and off the Hill say Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy all want to do something on immigration. Boehner “really wants to get that done but he has to be real quiet about it because if he puts his name on it and his brand on it, like he did with the big (fiscal-cliff) deal, then it’s probably going to die under its own weight,” a former GOP leadership aide said…
“What will have to happen, and is happening in private discussions, is that we have to convince these guys if we’re going to go to conference, we’re not going to cave on our principles,” a senior House GOP aide said. “That is the sales job you have to make to those guys.”…
“This is one of those issues where they may only get 80 to 100 Republicans to vote for it on the House floor, but there won’t be the huge internal backlash,” the former aide said. “And that gives (leadership) some room to maneuver and they have some conservative cover. They have (Sen. Marco) Rubio and (Rep. Raul) Labrador,” who are two key conservative Republicans pushing reform.
Boehner, of course, claims he won’t bring it to the floor in the first place if there are only 80 to 100 Republicans to vote for it. Here’s a scenario that seems plausible to me: What if he rounds up, say, 60-75 Republicans to vote yes, which wouldn’t be close to a majority of the caucus but might impress people as a sizable enough minority that it makes the bill “bipartisan” for rhetorical purposes? And what if, on top of that, the RNC and the House leadership start rolling out lots of prominent Republicans to endorse passing the bill with those 60-75 GOP votes, even if it means violating the Hastert Rule? Rubio, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, maybe Jindal, maybe Chris Christie, maybe even Rand Paul — imagine all of them in a full-court media press declaring the bill a triumph, a gift to Republicans, and something that should be passed even if Democrats provide most of the votes. Passionate grassroots righties who follow this stuff day to day would bristle, but all the low-information Republicans out there would probably be impressed by it. The calculus for the party is deciding which is more dangerous to its future, taking the rap for killing immigration reform by having it implode in the House or alienating some conservatives by passing it with most of the Republican caucus opposed. I honestly don’t know which way they’d come down on that. Their eternal trump card, which they’d play again in 2014, is that RINOs are the lesser of two evils vis-a-vis Democrats and therefore most of the righties who declare “I’m staying home!” after amnesty passes will suck it up and vote GOP in the midterms anyway. One thing that would help head off that possibility is having more anti-amnesty conservatives speak up, to sway the low-information voters the other way. Where’s Ted Cruz? Are there no major young Republican governors willing to answer the bell?
By the way, Harry Reid’s suddenly very, very eager to keep immigration reform moving in the Senate. I think Byron York’s right as to why. Keep hope alive.
Let’s hope Boehner and the rest of the House GOP establishment heeds this call.
Posted in Factionalism, GOP, Governmental Interference, Governmental Malfeasance, Immigration, Legislative Malfeasance, Legislative Misfeasance, Liberal Agendas, The Establishment
Clandestine Government
Posted on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 11:53 am by Crucis
I’m back, after a brief hiatus. I’m have been having some health reviews—test, physicals, etc., one of those things everyone should do on a regular basis.
I’ve been lax. I can’t remember when I had a complete physical. I have learned that physicals aren’t completed in one day. No, it’s one test here, another test there, some can be done with a blood test—and more than once when they forget to check off a particular item to be tested. Some are embarrassing, like mine yesterday. That one went well and I won’t need to repeat that one for five years.
All this has disrupted my schedule. I hope, now, the disruptions will become fewer…and less often.
I see the…I’m at a loss what to call them. They are dems, of course, but also more. They’re libs, too, but not just being liberals. Infiltrators? Yes, that, they are. They’ve been infiltrating government and our public institutions since the 1930s. Communists? That’s, while accurate, is blasé. I believe Marxists is the current term. Usurpers? That’s what they want to do.
What do you call those who wish to destroy our country, heritage, our republican form of government, our liberty? A good question. However, we cannot deny that they exist and have an agenda.
We see more and more evidence everyday, from the lies about Benghazi, the overt support for radical Islamics inside and outside the government, the attacks on Christian heritage and conservatism, using government agencies to intimidate political opposition, using government to coerce individuals to submit to bureaucratic regulations, many that may have no supporting law.
Yesterday, another piece of clandestine government was uncovered. A separate, secret layer of communication outside the official means of communication within government. Federal law requires all emails in, from, between government agencies to be archived and available to the public via FOIA, Freedom Of Information Act. Obama and his faction created a secret communication system, an illegal system, using a private e-mail platform and refused to make those e-mails public as required by law. Unless, of course, those wanting the emails pony-up $1,000,000…maybe.
We, here in Cass County, have had experience with clandestine government. With the election of responsible Commissioners last Fall, our county government is restoring trust in our local politics.
In earlier years, county government was government by oligarchy. A small group, of both parties, played fast and loose with contracts, money, and some actions appear to have been fraudulent and those involved guilty of conspiracy. Those allegations are under investigation by a number of agencies including the FBI.
Now, look at the changes that have been made to make county government open—and responsible to, county voters.
County Commission meeting are regularly scheduled and announced in advance.
Information packets of business to be conducted and agendas are released before commission meetings including supporting documents of the topics to be discussed.
Commission meeting minutes are posted publicly and available on CDs for a small fee. The county clerk is required by law to record the minutes of commission meetings. However in prior years, the minutes were frequently late and their contents did not always agree with the memories of those meetings from spectators. In some instances, the minutes were altered, after the fact, by request of some commissioners, some have claimed. Those claims have been echoed by some of the county’s elected officials.
How different is our county government to that of the FedGov? A local government where we have elected officials dedicated to open government compared to the one in Washington, DC, where both parties, in the Administration and in Congress, work diligently to conceal their true motives and actions.
None of the activities being disclosed recently in Washington is surprising. We know the agencies and policies have been in place for decades—supported by both parties. The question now is how can we remove those impediments, remove the obstacles that hinder our liberties and our ability to reduce the power of federal agencies, and make government responsible to citizens?
That is a question that I have do not have an answer.
Posted in Federal Bureauracy, Federal Intrusion, Federal Malfeasance, Government, Governmental Interference, Malfeasance in Office
It’s @)$*&(+_*& Monday!
Posted on Monday, April 15, 2013, 10:22 am by Crucis
For all too many, that’s the sentiment today. Moreso, because it’s also Tax Day where we pony up our gelt to the state and FedGov. Mrs. Crucis and I completed that onerous task last month.
As expected, the internet is filled today with articles about taxes—too many, too much, too little return for our money. If we fail to pay, we can expect a visit by federal leg-breakers. The FedGov’s tactics would make the local loan shark blanch.
An article in the American Thinker, expounds on the concept of taxes being the cost of civilization.
The Rising Price of Civilization
By Jon N. Hall
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously opined: “Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.” Right, but that price is rapidly rising. Might we be paying for more “civilization” than we can afford?
I liked the article’s opening. The rest is just a rant about Missouri’s personal property tax. At one time, “paying the cost of civilization,” may have been accurate. No longer. Today, it seems to me, our taxes are paving our path towards tyranny and a dictatorship.
We see examples all over the country. New York, Colorado and Connecticut have repealed the 2nd Amendment within their states. They ignore McDonald, that declared the U.S. 2nd Amendment applies to the states. The New York law goes into effect today and that state’s Rifle and Pistol Association has filed a lawsuit against Cuomo’s power grab.
In our state of Missouri, our Governor, Jay Nixon, and a number of his department heads have violated state law and subverted the intent of those laws to send private data of the state’s citizens to the FedGov. In particular, Nixon, the Department of Revenue and the State Highway Patrol gave to the IRS a list of Missouri residents who hold CCW permits.
The reason? The IRS wanted to compare those lists with people who receive SSI payments for disability, possibly, mental disability. That would enable them to seize any weapons and ammunition, and possibly jail anyone who appears on both lists.
Nixon and his flunkies also sent Missouri citizen’s private information to a 3rd party to comply with the Read ID act. The problem with that is Missouri law specifically prohibits any state agency from complying with the Read ID act.
In addition to all the above, Colorado is back in the news today. Not only has the state violated the 2nd Amendment, they are now proposing to institutionalize vote fraud.
Voter fraud bill introduced in Colorado
Sunday, April 14, 2013 – Red Pill, Blue Pill by Al Maurer
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 14, 2013 — Under the guise of modernizing the elections processes and increasing voter turnout, Democrats have submitted a bill that will leave the state wide open to fraud. House Bill 1303 was written completely in secret by House Democrats — no surprise in this increasingly radical one-party state government — without the input of the Secretary of State’s office or any of the 64 county clerk and recorder offices who oversee elections.
The bill is 126 pages long and completely re-writes election law in Colorado, creating a permanent system of fraudulent elections.
Just as with House Bill 10-0917 exactly three years ago, this bill introduces same-day voter registration and all mail-in ballot elections. But there is much more.
Sponsors of the bill claim that both methods increase voter participation. In fact, it is a recipe for fraud and creates problems where there are none now.
If this bill becomes law, prosecution will be even less likely. In one very telling portion of the bill, vote fraud is reduced from a crime to a misdemeanor. The word crime is boldly crossed out:
“IT IS A CRIME CLASS 1 MISDEMEANOR”
The intention is pretty clear from that change alone. But there is yet more.
The bill eliminates the category of “inactive voter,” requiring mail ballots to be sent to addresses that have not participated in the voting process in several years. These ballots can be fraudulently returned, causing serious issues of ballot verification.
The residency requirement is reduced from 30 days to 22. A subtle change in the voter’s affidavit is from “I am a resident of the state of Colorado” to “I have been a resident…”
So if you’ve ever lived in Colorado for twenty-two days, come on back and vote!
It seems that every day, the dems/libs make another move to institutionalize their power over us. At some point, we will rebell. I thought that day would be years off. Now, I’m not so sure.
Posted in 2nd Amendment, 3rd Parties, An Enemy of the State, Attacks by Leftists, Corruptocrats, democrats, Department of Revenue, Election Fraud, Federal Bureauracy, Federal Intrusion, FedGov, Governmental Interference, Gun Control, Gun-grabbing, Legislative Malfeasance, Liberal Agendas, State Legislature, State Politics, Tyranny, Vote Fraud
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2.1. Presentation and Manuscript Format: The manuscripts must conform to the follwing format and configuration (APA Format): Letter size, with margins 2.5 cm wide. The text, acknowledgements and references cited must be written with Times New Roman or Garamond font, size 12, double spaced and in line with the left margin.
2.2. Manuscript Divisions amd Pagination: The manuscript must be paginated from the title page through to the tablas. It should contain the following sections that begin on separate pages: (1) Presentation; (2) Abstract – Key words and Resumen – palarbas claves; (3) text – acknowledgements; (4) Cited References; (5) Notes; (6) List of figures with captions in Spanish and English; (7) Figures; (8) Tables with subtitles in Spanish and English. In the electronic version, the presentation, abstract, key words, text, acknowledgements, notes, and figure list must be in the same file. The tables and figures should be in separate files.
The manuscript should not exceed 25 pages (7.200 words), including all the above mentioned sections.
2.2.1. Presentation Page: (see example of the format of organization of the manuscript in section 2.8.): On a separate page include title of the manuscript, name of the authors, institutional affiliation and mailing address all in double space format. The title of the manuscript should be concise, informative and descriptive, and must be written in capital letters, in bold and centered. In the next line, the name of the author(s), separated with commas, centered, using numbers to indicate institutional affiliations and mailing address. In the next line must state “do not quote qithout permission of the author(s)”, all in capital letters and centered. Next, place institutional affiliation and mailing address along the left margin folling the numbers orden.
2.2.2. Abstract and Resumen: On a new page present the abstract of the manuscript which should clearly represent the contents of the manuscript and organized in accordance with the language of the presentation of the manuscript. The words abstract and resumen should not be used as subtitle (see example of the format of organization of the manuscript in section 2.8.). This must not exceed 200 words. The abstract and resumen must be followed by key words and palabras claves, respectively. The key words and palabras claves are descriptions of the manuscript content.
2.2.3. Text: Start a new page. Start without the word Introduction.
2.2.4. Acknowledgements: They should be placed at the end of the text, without starting a new page, before the cited references. This must be left-justified, in italicized letters, followed by a colon that is not italicized (Acknowledgements: …). Here is where you mention all the institutions and people that supported, economically, intellectually and technically the research and the preparation of the manuscript. It is recommended that you include the evaluators whether they remained anonymous or not.
2.2.5. References Cited: Start a new page. Cited references are placed immediately after the Acknowledgements. See section 2.4.
2.2.6. Notes: Start a new page. See section 2.5.
2.2.7. List of figures and figures: In the electronic version the figures must not be included in the main manuscript Word file. Figures must be placed in a separate file. It is required the the text of the figures is translated to English or Spanish depending on the language used for the main text. See section 2.6.
2.2.8. Tables and their respective titles: Start a new page. Tables must be included in a Word file separate from the Word file of the text. The design of the of the tables must be simple, with a limited number of columns, to facilitate the printing. It is requiered that the text of the table is translated to English or Spanish depending on the language used for the main text. See section 2.7.
2.3. Text Elements
2.3.1. Titles: The main title is the name of the manuscript and it is to be placed on the presentation page, with size 12 font for letters, capitalized, in bold and centered; the rest are primary, secondary and tertiary subtitles. The primerz subtitles must be in font 12, in title case (that means everything in lower case letters except for words with more the 2 syllables which are capitalized [with an inicial capital letter]), with bold letters, centered, without leaving an extra line between the subtitle and the text which follows. The secondary subtitles must be in font 12, in a sentence format, with bold letters, left-justified and without leaving an extra line. The tertiary subtitles are written with font 12, in a sentence format, without bold letters, italicized, left-justified, separate of the preceding text and without leaving an extra line.
2.3.2. Use of italicized letters: Apart from the tertiary subtitles the italicized letters are only used for scientific names (examples: Zea mays, Ctenomys sp., note that sp. goes without italized letters) and words different from the orinigal language of the manuscript (example: mit´a). Latin expressions of common usage such as et al., ca, v.gr., sensu, locus, loci, etc. must not be used with italicized letters. Proper pronouns and personal titles should not be italicized either, even when these are in a different language from the manuscript.
2.3.3. Use of Capital/Lower case letters: An initial capital letter is used for proper pronouns, mountains, rivers, countries, specific archeological and geographic areas (examples: Andes, Mesoamerica, Andean South Central area, Central Andes, Amazons).
2.3.4. Abreviaciones: Common abbreviations are written the following way: “for example” e.g., years before and after Christ and before the present: BC, AD and BP.
2.3.5. Hyphens: They are not used in common words (e.g. Preceramic, Post Classic, Precolumbian, infrastructure, intrasite, intersite, interaction, sociocultural, agropastorial, etc.).
2.3.6. Acentos: All words, capital or lower case letters, carry an accent. In case of cited references, there should not be placed an accent in titles which originally didnt carry one when written in capital letters.
2.3.7. Numbers: Cardinal numbers, refering to any matter, are expressed with words if the number is between zero and nine (e.g. three villages, nine musicians). For numbers above nine cardinal numbers should be used (e.g. 53 persons, 14 villages), however, these will be written out when they are found at the beginning of a sentence (e.g. “Twenty-five persons put together…”). The numbers with more than three digits, have a full stop (e.g. 3.200 BC, 1.450 masl (meters above sea level) and not 3200 or 1450. Notice that the abbreviation for msnm is changed to msm). The ordinal numbers are always written with words (e.g. first, tenth, hundreth), except in the case of centuries (e.g. IV century).
2.3.8. Dates: Dates are written in the following ways: 320 years, August 7, 1953, Century III, fourth millennium, during the decade of 1950s, during the fifties (not during the 50s, nor the decade of the 50s or the fifties).
2.3.9. Measures: Measurements must be expressed in Arabic numerals and with an abbreviated metric system, without a period and leaving a space between the number and the abbreviation. Examples: 50 mm; 20 cm; 5 m; 13 km; 32 ha; 8 m2; 2 kg; 400 g; 5 litres (this is the only one spelled out in order to avoid confusion between the number 1 and the Arabic number 1). Exeptions to the expression in numerals are made when numbers are used in a general manner or at the beginning of a sentence (e.g. “Some meters away”; “Eight kilometers to the south…”).
2.3.10. Quotations: Textual quotes of less then three lines are added to the paragraph and enclosed in the double quotation marks. Single quotation marks are used only to indicate a quote inside another or if there are original quotation marks inside the quoted text. At the end of the quote indicate within parentheses: last name of the author / without comma / year of the publication / colon / page(s). Example: The sites with these characteristics have been defined as “fortified villages” (Guevara et al. 1988:23) with respect to their architectual characteristics.
Quotes of three or more lines are separated from the text block, immediately above and below, without quotation marks, indented on the left side. At the end of the quote indicate within parentheses: last name of the author / without comma / year of the publication / colon / page(s) (without space between the colon and the pages). Continuous pages are seperated by hyphen and the discontinuous pages with comma.
The authors describe the site in the following manner:
Se trata de un poblado localizado en la parte alta de la ladera del cerro. La integran 106 estructuras de piedra emplazadas sobre plataformas, que incluyen estructuras de almacenaje y habitacionales. El poblado se encuentra rodeado por un muro perimetral doble. Desde este emplazamiento estratégico es posible tener completa visibilidad del valle (Guevara et al. 1988:24-25).
The square brackets are used to indicate added text by the author within the quote, to show that an underlining is original or done by the author, or if the text quotes a translation: [original emphasis][my or our emphasis][translated by Navarro 1998:23][translated by the author].
2.3.11. Citations in the text: Include last name(s) of the author(s) / year (without comma between the last name and the year). Do not use the expressions Op. cit. o Ibid.
One Author: (Platt 1997) o Rostworowski (1986)
Two Authors: (Durston e Hidalgo 1999) o Bittmann and Munizaga (1984)
Three or more Authors: (Rothhammer et al. 1984) o Arriaza et al. (1986).
The citations in the text with the expression “et al.” must be included in the section Cited References with the initial of the first name of each author included. When the same person is first author in more than one published article in the same year, the co-authors must be mentioned. Example: (Williams, Reyes y Capriles 2002; Williams, Rodríguez y Aute 2002).
In this case letters a, b, c, etc. are not used accompanied by the year (see the use of this format below).
Two or more references of the same author(s) in the same year: (Jones y Brown 1972a, 1972b; Wilson 1973c).
When one, or two or even more authors have publications in the same year, quoted in the text, these are distinguished with the letters a, b, c, etc. Example: for González, Segovia and Aranguiz with two publications in 1999, the correct reference would be (Gonzalez et al. 1999a and b). The authors reffered to as “et al.” must be added in the Cited References section.
Various quoted authors or refeences to the same author: (Dillehay 1998; Lynch 1986; Meggers 1985; Munizaga 1986; Rivera 1973, 1975, 1987)
Two authors with the same last name and publication years: (L. Núñez 1986; P. Núñez 1986) o L. Núñez (1986) y P. Núñez (1986)
Two authors with the same last name but different publication years: (Saavedra 1988; Saavedra 1989) o Saavedra (1988) Saavedra (1989)
Government Agency, company, or similar as an author: (Ministry of Public Works[MOP] 1975)
In subsequent quotes only use the abbreviation (MOP 1975) or MOP (1975).
Reference with page(s) quote(s), tables or figures: It will be written the following way: last name of the author / year / colon / page or table or figure. Notice that between the date and the page, figure or table there are no spaces.
Mulvany (1994:190) Villagrán y Castro (1999:Tabla 3); Arriaza (1995:Plate 1).
When more then one page, table or figure are referred to, these are separated from each other with hyphens when the pages are correlative (Example: Nielsen 1997:343-345) and with a comma when they are discontinuous pages (Example: Hourani 1990, 89-91). All the digits of the pages must be written out (343-345, not 342-5).
Series of various volumes: The number of the volume with Roman or Arabic numerals according to the original.
(Vargas 1997;I:48;II:65) or Vargas (1997;I:48;II:65)
(Ramírez 1999:2:32) or Ramírez (1999:2:32)
Book or Journal Article: The printing date of the reference must be indicated (finalization date of the manuscript, when it went to printing, etc.) Do not use “in press” in the qoute of the text.
(Guevara 1995) or Guevara (1995)
Former, reedited or reprinted editions: (Cobo 1954 [1653]) or Cobo (1954 [1653])
(Bowman 1941:190 [1929]) or Bowman (1941:190 [1929])
Personal communication without publication: (Juan Pérez personal communication 1986) or Juan Pérez personal communication (1986).
This quote do not appear in the Cited References section. Information that has been published in another media or journal must not be cited as personal communication.
2.4. Cited References:
The references must be complete, written with 2,0 line spacing and left-alined. Only include references cited in the text, in the notes, in the tables and in the titles of the figures. All the references cited in the text must appear in the list of Cited References and all the references in the list of Cited References must be cited in the text. All the cited references should be listed alphabetically and chronologically according to the author´s last name. References are to be written the following way: last name of the author in captial letters / comma / initial(s) of the first name with capital letter / period / publication year / period / followed by the title and the other details that may vary according to whether the reference is in a journal, book, chapter, etc. See the indicadet example below.
General Considerations:
All titles of books, journals, published proceedings, memoirs and senior seminars, theses or dissertations recieve italicized letters and title case in each word exceeding two syllables whether they are in Spanish or English.
All the title of articles in journals or proceedings, or chapters in books are without italicized letters and only the word with a capital letter, in Spanish or English.
The titles of the unedited manuscripts are without italicized letters and are to be written as a sentence, in Spanish or English.
The numbers of the pages will be indicated only for articles in journals, chapters in books and in conference proceedings.
2.4.1 Book Reference: Title in italicized letters with title case / period / number of the edition if necessary / comma / publisher / comma / city of publication. The number of pages of a book or any type of information should never appear.
* The edition number is only written down in the case that the cited reference is not the first edition. Reprints do not follow this format (see 2.4.11.).
Moseley, M. 1992. The Incas and their Ancestors. The Archaeology of Perú. Thames and Hudson, London.
2.4.2. Compiled or Edited Book: Title in italicized letters and all capitalized / period / publisher / comma / city of publication.
Cremonte, M.A. (compil.) 1998. Los Desarrollos Locales y sus Territorios. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy.
2.4.3. Translated Article or Book:
If it is an article: title of the article without italicized letters written as a sentence / period / translated by / name of the translator (initial, period, last name) / period / name of the journal where the translation appears in italicized letters / number or volume / colon / pages.
If it is a book: title in italicized letters with title case / period / Translated by / name of the translator (initial, period, last name) / period / publisher / comma / city of publication.
If there there are years between the original publication and the translation, the year of the publication must appear in square brackets followed by the year of translation.
Aljovín de Losada, C. y N. Jacobsen. 2007. Cultura Política en los andes (1750- 1959), Universidad Nacional –mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.
2.4.4. Chapter in Book: Title of the chapter without italicized letters written as a sentence / period / In / title of the book in italicized and capital letters / comma / edited by / names of the authors or editors of the book (inicial, period, last name) / comma / pp. / pages of the chapter / period / comma / city of publication.
Harris, O. 1997. Los límites como problema: Mapas Etnohistóricos de los Andes bolivianos. In: Saberes y Memorias en los Andes. In Memoriam Thierry Saignes, editado por Therese Bouysse- Cassagne, pp. 351-373. Institut Francais d´Etudes andines, Lima, Peru.
2.4.5. Article in Journal: the title of the article as a sentence, without italicized letters / period / name of the journal in italicized letters / number or volume / colon / pages (without a space between the colon and the pages). If the journal has volume numeration system with correlative pages, it is not necessary to indicate the number, only the volume.
Díaz Aguad, A. 2002. Apuntes sobre los Italianos en la provincia de Tarapacá. 1870-1950. Revista Cahiers Alhim 5: 56-78, Universidad de París 8, France.
Olivera, D. 1997. La importancia del recurso Camelidae en la Puna de Atacama entre los 10.000 y 500 años a.p. Estudios Atacameños 14:29-41.
2.4.6. Articles in Conference Proceedings, Seminars, Symposia in Periodicals: Title of the article without italicized letters written as a sentence / period / title of the proceedings without italicized letters and title case / name of the periodical publication in italicized letters / number of the volume (written like that: Vol.) / colon / pages / period.
2.4.7. Articles in Conference Proceedings, Seminars, Symposia: Title of the article without italicized letters written as a sentence / period / title of the proceedings italicized and all letters capitalized / number of volume / comma / pp. / period / pages / period / publisher (without italicized letters) / comma / City of publication.
Galdames, L. (1988) Principios de percepción espacial en los andes a través de los mitos de petrificación.
Actas del Encuentro de Etnohistoriadores, Serie Nuevo Mundo: Cinco Siglos nº 1, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
2.4.8. Presentation in a conference (unpublished): Title of the presentation as a sentence and without italicized letters / period / Presented in / name of the conference or symposium in italicized letters and all letters capitalized / comma / city.
Galdames, L. (1988) Principios de percepción espacial en los andes a través de los mitos de petrificación. Ponencia presentada en el Encuentro de Etnohistoriadores, Santiago, Chile.
2.4 https://rxc..lis-online-uk/.9. Manuscript in press (book or article): Use the writing format according to the article or book.
Soto, J. 2001. Excavaciones en la cueva Río Azul. Antropología, in press.
Ubelaker, D.H. 1999. Temporal trends in Old World patterns of morbidity. En Bioantropología, Cultura y Conservación de Restos Humanos Antiguos, editado por C.M. Santoro y B.T. Arriaza. Ediciones Universidad de Tarapacá, Santiago, in press.
2.4.10. Unedited Manuscript: Title of the manuscript without italics and written as a sentence / period / manuscript in possession of the author(s).
Verano, J. 1994 Commingled human remains from middle preceramic residential sites in the upper Zana valley, northern Peru. Manuscript in possession of the author.
2.4.11. Memoirs and seminars, theses or dissertations: For unpublished memoirs, seminars, theses and dissertations, use the following format: Title in italicized letters and title case / period / indication about whether it is a thesis, memoir, etc. / Department or Faculty / comma / University / comma / place.
Ogalde, J. 2007. Modulación Social del Consumo de Alcaloide Psicoactivos en el Valle de Azapa Durante el Periodo Medio. Etnoquímica del Chamanismo. Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Antropología, mención arqueología, Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
2.4.12. Reprinted old Editions and /or edited by someone: The year of the original edition must be provided in square brackets after the reprinting date. Title in italicized and capitalized letters / period / publisher / comma / place. If the book was edited by someone, this name is added after the title: Title in italicized and capitalized letters / edited by / editor(s) name(s) (inicial and lastname).Bertonio, L. 1984 [1612]. Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara. Ediciones Ceres, Cochabamba.
Guaman Poma de Ayala, F. 1980 [1613]. El Primer Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno, editado por J. Murra y R. Adorno. Editorial Siglo Veintiuno, México.
Focacci, G. 1995 [1959]. Estudio sobre la cerámica de una tumba encistada Playa Miller. Boletín Museo Regional de Arica 1: 11-13. Reeditado por L. Álvarez.
Childe, V.G. 1980 [1954]. Los Orígenes de la Civilización. Fondo de Cultura Económica, México.
In the last case the original year in square brackets belongs to the first Spanish Edition of Childes book, that is to say the version that is cited although the first edition was written in English in 1936.
2.4.13. Reference of electronic atricles: Last name of the author, name of the author. Title of the document or file (day and month when the website was last checked). URL in italicized letters, (date of access).
Barretto, M. 1998. Paradigmas Actuales de la Museología.
(June 3rd). http://www.naya.org.ar/articulos/museologia01.htm (abril 1st, 1999).
2.5. Notes: Notes must be written like a primary subtitle. The notes begin on a new page, following the Cited References. Notes should be used exceptionally and only provide essential information that was not included in the main text, to avoid breaking the coherency of the argument with specific details. The notes must be written at the end of the document (following the Cited References and before the list of figures), numbered with Arabic characters, in Times New Roman or Garamond font size 10. Footnotes are not accepted.
2.6. Figures and List of Figures: They include maps, photos, pictures, graphics, and illustrations of artifacts. In the text they are indicated with the word figure (no abbreviation) and are numbered with Arabic numbers strictly by the sequential order mentioned in the text.
List of Figures: In a seperate page there must be included a list with the title of each figure. The title and/or legend should be brief and contain only essential information. Include references and authorship of the figures in case they do not belong to the author(s), or if they are taken from another source.
Figures: All sent figures should be original and of high quality. Electronic versions are accepted if they have been professionally produced. Electronic version of the sent figures will be used for the printing of the publication.
In case of photos, conventional photos in paper are required – color or black/white – or slides, with high resolution and well contrasted. Digital photos are only accepted if they are of professional quality and are printed on photographic paper with high resolucion and optimum contrast. Photocopies are not accepted, nor prints of scanned images with low contraste and resolucion.
In case of drawings of maps, graphics, or illustrations of artifacts and plans, a digital design is preferred and must be printed on high resolution. These must be professionally produced and they are only accepted when done by statistic software or graphic or drawing programs; they must be sent in a format compatible with the following computer programs: Corel Draw, Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Ilustrator. Scanned figures must be saved at a high resolution of 300 dpi, in TIF, JPG or GIF formats. Only black and white drawing are accepted, but in justified cases color drawings may be accepted.
The maximum dimension of a figure should not exceed letter size paper (28 x 22 cm). Note that the size of the mayority of the figures is reduced in the printing process. Complex figures with small letters will not result in a visually clear finished product. The letters in the figures should be professional (calligraphy, self-adhesive letters or similar, nor typewriting will be accepted) and they must be large to be readable after their reduction. Avoid overloading the figures with too much text. In maps provide the north and a graphic scale (and not numerical [e.g. 1:50], due to the reduction effects). A scale should be included in illustrations of artifacts as well. The figures should not include a title, nor a legend (titles go in the list of figures). All symbols used in the figures must be inside the figure. It is necessary that the titles of the figures are translated in both English and Spanish according to the language used in the text.
2.7. Tables:
The tables contain alphanumeric information. These are sequentially numbered in the order of their appearance in the text. Avoid the usage of large and complicated tables. A table of 10 to 12 columns must be printed in horizontal format. The tables should not be inserted in the text; these must be in separate Word files. The titles of the tables should be placed in the heading of each table. Depending on the language used in the text, it is required that the texts of the tables is translated to either English or Spanish.
2.8. Presentation and manuscript format
A CONSTRUCCIÓN DE LA FIGURA DE PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI EN TEXTOS COLONIALES (1534-1615)*
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FIGURE OF PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI IN COLONIAL TEXTS (1534-1615)
Paula Martínez Sagredo1, Álvaro Ojalvo Pressac2 y Carla Díaz Durán3
DO NOT CITE WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR
* Result of project FONDECYT N°1090110
1 Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago. Correo electrónico:paula.martinez@docentes.uautonoma.cl
2 Universidad de Chile, Santiago. Email: odinojalvo@gmail.com
3 Universidad de Chile, Santiago. Email: anandalister@gmail.com
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Este artículo presenta la figura de Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui desde una perspectiva textual a partir de un amplio corpus de obras.
coloniales (1534-1615), en el cual se analizan ciertas unidades narrativas como la guerra contra los chancas, su nombramiento como Inca, el matrimonio con mama Anahuarque, etc., con el objetivo de intentar establecer filiaciones textuales entre los distintos autores. Además, intentaremos establecer el programa iconográfico tras la construcción de la imagen de este Inca de tal manera que sea posible vincularlo con la creación textual.
Palabra claves: Pachacuti, textos coloniales, unidades narrativas, filiación textual.
This article presents the figure of Pachacuti inca Yupanqui from a textual point of view using an extensive colonial corpus (1543-1615) in which we analyze a few narrative units with the propose of establish an iconographic, textual filiations and a general characterization of Pachacuti between the different authors. We establish an iconographic program of this inca image construction in the way that we can connect it with the textual creation.
Key words: Pachacuti, colonial texts, narrative units, textual and iconographic filiations.
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Opening a chapter
Entre 1534 y 1615 un gran número de textos coloniales1 menciona la figura de Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui: (…)
Acknowledments:
Cited References
List of figures (text in English and Spanish)
List of tables (text in English and Spanish
2.9. Check List (Please fill out and send with your manuscript)
Spanish Title
Complete list of affiliations of authors
Contact info of the author to who the correspondence will be send
Abstract (without this subtitle)
Key words (in English)
Resumen (without this subtitle)
Text in Diálogo Andino format
Cited References, adjusted to format
Missing References
No extra References
List of figures with the respective legends
Numbered figures in order of appearance
Original figures in high quality (professional photos, plans, drawings and maps)
Figures in electronic version in separate files and not in the text
Figures includes their title or legend
Tables numbered in order of appearance in the text
Tables in electronic version in separate files and not in the text
Titles of info boxes in English
Titles of info boxes in Spanish
Title of info figures in Spanish
Title of info figures in English
Maximum size of box of tables and figures: 14,5 x 22 cm
Text in electronic version
Sending of manuscripts
All correspondence should be send to:
Sr. Alberto Díaz Araya
Revista Diálogo andino
Universidad de Tarapacá
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Phone: (56-58) 2205250
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Chapter Four Part Three Inception
Waiting at that hospital bed beside the window, a thousand thoughts ran across Vaidehi's mind. Her entire life flashed pass by her. She saw herself as a small lanky girl of four running bare foot in a white cotton frock that one of her elder brothers had stitched for her, her pig tail loosening its grip with every single step, behind her was her youngest elder brother five years her senior, tall, a boy of nine was running fast. They had plucked some unripe guavas from the "Old Woman's Guava Tree". This was forbidden and doing forbidden things always gives a sense of mirth and pleasure. She saw her mother lying in her death bed, she was eight then sitting quietly in the lap of her eldest brother, twenty years her senior. Her mother recovered within a month after that but by then she had an innocence which reeked of maturity and calm. She remembered how Manu, the youngest elder brother used to fight with her for studying on that side of the lamp where there is no shadow and how their mother used to throw them out of the house and then they came together to hatch in a plan to get into the house. She remembered the time when she was eleven and Manu died and how she still dreams of him occasionally. She remembered meeting her husband, Siddharth for the first time, She remembered her school days, college days. Thoughts came randomly and vanished. She stared blankly at the window thinking all these. She lost track of the time when all of a sudden she felt a soft tug at her Saree. She saw beside her, it was her daughter, her first born, just a few hours old but she was able to recognize her, she knew her smell, her touch. Vaidehi touched her soft head and kissed her forehead softly. She was her bundle of joy, the part of her and Siddharth. The one who completed the family that she and Siddharth started building bit by bit five years ago. She was sleeping silently now and her peace gave her peace, "You are my peace, never be turbulent or I might break." said Vaidehi touching her soft hands.
Vaidehi looked at the wall clock it was almost nine o'clock in the morning. Siddjarth had visited her the night before and had saw her in a bit of pain. He promised her to come by six in the next morning and he is never late. She was a little worried and a little disturbed at this unwarranted late. She was continuously looking through the window which overlooked the window to see as if he is coming or not but all in vain. It was nine thirty by now and she was getting a bit more disturbed. When all of a sudden Siddharth marched into the room with a beaming smile and tear filled eyes. All of Vaidehi's anger evaporated.
"I am sorry...... I am late.....I know you....you have been waiting but....... Mother won't let me go without breakfast. I was rushing.....the doctor.....told me.....told me.....that...." He said panting at first then words escaped him as he saw her, his child, his daughter, his pride, she looked like a small fairy...sparkling eyes, prominent nose, a bit longer than the average new borns, all cozy in the white warm blanket.
He lifted her and cradled her in her arms, tear started flowing from his eyes copiously as he looked from her to Vaidehi.
"Dev..."
"I know Devyani....the name you always thought of." said Vaidehi as Siddharth could no longer speak.
They had many discussions about it even before Vaidehi's pregnancy.
"The chariot of Gods, Devyani. Divinity, strength, direction all together you see Devyani we will have a perfect daughter." Siddharth used to say often.
"And what if we have a boy, think of some name for him too, in case....you never know." said Vaidehi lightly
"No, It won't be."
And now, she was there in his lap looking at him with wonder, trying to imprint this face into her memory...her first glimpses of humanity, these two faces were her only evidence of a human face, her initial imprint on her blank slate of a memory..........
It was fine for them as of now and calm they were at peace as of now and so Devyani slept in her father's arm feeling secured, as of now, the dice of destiny had rolled and it would have rolled further but till then Devyani slept peacfully and Vaidehi had found her peace in Devyani.
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Home » About Goa
Goa is considered to be an advanced State of the country due to its all-round development and growth. This is evident from various development indicators like high literacy, low birth rate and death rate, low maternal mortality rate and high per capita income.
Goa, situated along Konkan coast of India, has a coastline of 105 kms. It has a partly hilly terrain with the Western Ghats rising to nearly 1200 mtrs. in some parts of the state. In the North, the Terekhol river separate Goa and Maharashtra. Karnataka lies to the south. The Arabian Sea is situated on the west and the Western Ghats in the east. The Tiswadi island lies between the Mandovi and Zuari rivers, which are connected on the landward side by a creek. The island is triangular in shape that divides the harbour of Goa into two parts-Aguada at the mouth of Mandovi on the north and Mormugao at mouth of Zuari on the south.
Goa was a Portuguese colony till 19 December 1961 when Indian Military Forces liberated it with the help of Freedom Fighters. Thereafter, the territory was incorporated into the Indian Union. On 30th May 1987 Goa was granted full-fledged Statehood and with this the process of decentralization of administration started. The State has geographical area of 3702 Sq.Kms. divided into two districts, six sub divisions and twelve talukas. There are two Zilla Panchayats, North Goa and South Goa. This decentralization has resulted in higher efficiency in the administration and prompt redressal of public grievances.
The climate of Goa is generally pleasant and normal throughout the year. The summer temperature varies from 24 Degree Centigrade to 36 Degree centigrade. Monsoon begins normally in the first week of June and the State receives good rainfall at an average of 2500 m.m. annually, mostly during June to September. There are six important rivers namely Mandovi, Zuari, Sal, Terekhol, Chapora and Talpona.
People of Goa are peace loving. Their hospitable nature is known world wide. As per 2011 Census, population of Goa is 14,58,545 of which 7,39,140 are male and 7,19,405 are females comprises 66.07% Hindus, 25.1% Christians, 8.33% Muslims and 0.5% other religions viz. Sikhs, Buddhist, Jains and others. The State is excellent example of religious harmony. There is no abject poverty in the state.
The state has three elected representatives in Parliament, two in Lok Sabha and one in Rajya Sabha. Goa has unicameral Legislature, with a Legislative Assembly of forty seats including one seat reserved for Scheduled Castes.
Area 3,702sq.kms.
Altitude Sea level to 1,022 mts.
Capital Panaji
Population 14,58545
Density per sq.Kms. 394
Males 739140
Females 719405
Rural 551731
Urban 906814
Birth rare (per 1,000) 13.0
Death rate (per 1,000) 7.2
Climate Max.36 Deg.C., Min 17 Deg.C.
Annual Rainfall 300 cms (Average)
Infant Mortality rate 11.67 (per 1,000)
Total Literacy (%) 88.70
Male Literacy (%) 92.65
Female Literacy (%) 84.66
Official Language Konkani
Other languages in use Marathi, Hindi, English, Portuguese
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Pagan Writers Community
I'm going to share a strange little story with you, because I live in a state of constant amazement.
Earlier on this year, I was asked if I'd like to become a moderator on a Facebook page called Pagan Writers Community. Being Pagan (loosely, more of a Humanist nowadays) and a writer, I'd been contributing links on and off.
'Go on then,' I said, and was duly opped.
Shortly after I joined, the site manager who opped me, along with the only other moderator, both decided to leave citing not enough positive interaction from members.
On her way out, she was about to delete the group.
'No!' I said 'Please don't do that.'
It had 14,000 likes, which I thought was an awfully impressive number at the time. I felt perhaps the palpable disappointment of 14,000 people might be enough to alter the structure of relativity in such a way as to cause rivers to flow backwards and birds to fall from the sky.
They agreed, and I was left holding the page.
In just under three months, the number of likes has risen from 14,000 to just over 45,000!
I repeat: !!!
I'm not entirely sure it's anything to do with me or the way that I've been running the page. Facebook is a complete mystery in its own right. Someone said that if a page received a sudden influx of shares and likes, FB will somehow promote it, so even more people see it - sort of an avalanche effect.
Even so, with 45,000 followers, we're extremely lucky if even 10% of those see any given message. We seem to gather between 1,500-3,500 views per post. Not all that social a network, really. Still, it's interesting stuff.
Because of this issue with most of our fans never seeing anything we post, I decided to set PWC up with a more permanent online home and it now has a website.
Along with this more stable presence, I've roped in a team of five volunteers (and growing) who help me keep things ticking over. There's Arietta and Nicole seeing to page content and moderation, and Tammie and Joshua helping me float ideas on how to develop the site. Oh, and Alex, who set up a dedicated NaNoWriMo group for this year's shenanigans.
It's proving to be a lot of fun. Ideally, I'd like to get the whole thing up and running in a sustainable, collaborative way, rather than acting as Commander in Chief - seriously, being an Overlord is time consuming.
But it's a truly fascinating project, especially for something I so randomly fell into. I've never experienced anything quite like it with social media before. I think it's safe to say it went viral throughout November. We may even hit 50,000 by New Year.
I'm wondering if we could amass an army and sail for Middle Earth?
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Novel Idea: Editional Issues
Heh, that's the cartoon I promised to share a while back.
Good inni'?
Well, I've just finished chapter five now.
I went with the re-sectioning of chapters idea. Usually my chapters are very short, ten pages or less. I decided that as this is a longer novel, I quite fancied having longer chapters. There's still easy-reading section breaks in there, but now each chapter is about 25 pages, which is around 8-9,000 words.
It makes me feel like an adult, writing all grown up and literary, like.
I reckon I should get about twelve to thirteen chapters out of it.
That would be nice.
Depends on whether the word count goes up or down. I assumed down to begin with, as I managed to knock several thousand words off Lucid when I came to edit that. So far though, this one seems to be going up. Partly because it's historical rather than contemporary, which means you tend to take a more formal approach to both dialogue and prose. Less don't, isn't and I'll, more does not, is not and I will. A small distinction, but over the course of 100k it really does start to add up.
Also, I left a couple of notes for myself throughout the first draft, which are basically a list of things to go off and research more carefully. For instance, something might happen beneath a famous landmark, but that only works if the famous landmark existed in 1853 - did it? Go look it up. If not, think of something else.
Each of those usually results in a couple more lines, sometimes even a paragraph.
Chapters one to four have already gone to Martine & Ruairí, but I've asked them not to comment or feedback until the end. This way I get through it in blissful ignorance of all the things I've done wrong. There will be plenty of time to kick myself and mope about feeling disheartened later.
I've already taken a spin on the roller coaster of Editor's Flump.
The best way to describe flump is erectile dysfunction of the mind.
My last novel, the Nemesis Novel that remains unpublished, was just a nightmare. It was the first time I'd written something and just gone 'meh'. I thought it was good when I wrote it, then I edited it and decided it was shit, now I have absolutely no idea what it is, so I've put it in a draw labelled 'Lost Manuscripts,' second star to the right and straight on till morning.
That's the first time flump ever got that bad, but I hazard most writers will know the feeling.
Dialogue you wrote with as much enthusiasm as licking ice-cream, suddenly turns to sherbet sour. You find yourself squinting at passages that flowed like Tolkien when you wrote them, asking 'Is it any good? Is it even legible?'
Never edit when you're tired, because the answer to both those questions will be a resounding 'no.' Contrary to the old adage write drunk, edit sober, sometimes a glass of wine can help. I used to love editing with a large glass of red and a liquorish rollie dipped between my lips, back when I smoked. You tend to take a much brighter view of your work if you can relax a little.
The other way to push through it is to accept that the first edit is about grammar, and only read it for that. Once you've got most of that fixed up, the second read gets a lot better, because you can enjoy the story for the story's sake rather than combing it for everything that's wrong. Compartmentalise the fixing of the story and the enjoyment of the story, don't try to do both at once, otherwise you'll start to get that creeping downer.
I have a theory, you see.
Back when I was a kid, I was always imagining stories. There were vampire hunters and shops with secret worlds in the basement, monsters that lived in trees, and creepy old ladies who ran secret cults. Being a child was quite an exciting time. It was all about living the stories. Writing them down was secondary. There was very little separation between the mind and the page. You might say only a paper-thin separation.
And it is good that it was all about the story, because my handwriting was shocking. Still is. I was well above average on vocabulary and reading, but nobody could read anything I wrote, which was probably a good thing because if they had been able to my spelling would have left them weeping. I was a late developer in the grammar stakes.
I'm fairly good at spelling now, and usually even better at grammar. Which isn't to say I'm brilliant, it's just to say I'm a lot better than I was. I've sort of caught up. Plus, with the invention of the keyboard, it's no longer a disability that my handwriting is illegible.
Yet with the correct use of every semicolon, em dash and ampersand, you sort of feel as though the wall between reality and fiction is somehow one brick higher. Or, rather, you're not consciously aware of it until you find yourselves reading through some of the best stories you've ever written and instead of saying 'wow, awesome!' you're berating yourself for repetitive use of an adjective.
Seriously, that was never the effing point of writing in the first place.
And that's not a fair assertion either, because stories that are 90% enthusiasm and 10% skill only ever tend to enthral their creators, unless delivered through the medium of film, radio or interpretive dance. Writing is an art, and it's also a skill. You start off in remedial spelling and claw your way up to being good at something (usually because you love that something so much that it consumes you, to the point where you actively enjoy learning about it) and then you take what you've learned and use it to create stories that are not just fun for you, but engaging to lots of other people, some of whom you may never even meet.
You get to mess with people's minds.
But I was thinking in the shower this morning (which is where I do a lot of my thinking) that writing and editing a full-length novel as an adult is definitely very different to the way it felt to write and change stories as a kid. The more novels I write, the more it starts to feel like a clinical operation. Who gave a crap about word count or character continuity aged ten? I know I didn't.
It's not that I don't enjoy writing any more. Obviously I do, I'm just getting started. But I am aware that editing makes me a little grumpy, and that, especially since Nemesis Novel, I find it harder to engage with what I've written after I've written it.
There's this golden space when you're editing where you get so carried away with the story that you realise, several hours and many pages later, that you haven't really been paying attention to the job. I've done that on every novel I've edited at one point or another. Spent an entire day sometimes just enjoying the story rather than weeding out the typos. Yet I find this blissful appreciation for my own work is harder to attain the more I write. It's like those 3D images: try too hard and you'll never see the big picture. You need to relax and allow yourself to be entertained.
Ahwell.
Maybe it's just a phase.
I spent yesterday despairing that the story was dreadful, and today feeling as though it was wonderful. No doubt tomorrow I'll think someone else wrote it.
All of which goes to prove that, beyond a certain point, most authors are completely incapable of being objective about their own work. At which point, you might as well let somebody else read it.
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American Literature Lost
I feel this went highly under reported: American Books Dropped From UK School Curriculum
In an effort to make British reading lists more British, the UK department of education has dropped favourite American classics from its syllabus, including To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men.
I'm in my mid-thirties now, but back when I was in secondary school I remember studying both of those books well. I believe the fastest way to put kids off anything is to force them to study it at school. I didn't enjoy To Kill a Mocking Bird at all, despite my English teacher tearfully extolling its virtues and telling us it was the book she most wishes she had written herself. The only thing that made it partially bearable was the Boo Radleys releasing Wake Up Boo! the same summer.
On the other hand, I loved Of Mice and Men. I'd practise reciting sections of it - reduced me to tears every time.
Honestly, I don't reckon it matters a bit where those books were written. The geographical location of an author has little bearing on how engaging or moving a book is.
At that age, I had my nose firmly pressed to a Point Horror, a Terry Pratchette or a Stephen King. Those were the books I chose to read of my own volition, and I was a bookish kid. Imagine the large proportion of (often male, though this is worth reading) kids who could be damaged for life by inflicting Austen on them.
I watch my twelve-year-old nephew. He loves reading. He reads full YA works, but especially loves manga. More and more boys and girls are soaking up graphic novels nowadays, and I reckon it should be taken seriously. We're not talking The Beano. We're talking tales of high adventure, complex relationships and whacking, bish-boshing quantities of onomatopoeia.
Imagine trying to tell a school under the current government to include graphic novels on the curriculum? You'd get dropped faster than a cat on a hot tin roof. Yet it's been shown that comics and graphic novels do utterly incredible things for literacy rates and vocabulary acquisition.
We just can't seem to shake this idea that for literature to be worth something, it needs to be 'highbrow'. That there's some form of merit in bashing your face against Shakespeare or beating a kid about the head with D. H. Lawrence.
School is not the only route to literature, nor should it be. In this exam-obsessed, clasroom-crammed, overall cock-up of an education production line we've constructed, we've completely overlooked the importance of love of learning.
If you can instil a love of literature in people, they'll go off and find the classics under their own steam, when it means something to them and when it holds relevance. Reading is an entirely intimate act. Part of the pleasure is feeling as though you've uncovered a secret.
Nobody does that in a room full of their overly judgemental peers, rife with hormonal insecurity, under the watchful eye of an authority figure.
Contemporary literature is a gateway drug to classical literature.
If we valued learning at all, we would ask kids to find the books they love and introduce their teachers to them. If this article is to be believed, it would greatly expand the minds of the establishment: Do children still need to read the classics of English literature?
The thing that needs examining is: what are we actually gaining from forcing kids to read classic works rather than contemporary?
Is it for the benefit of young people, or to satisfy some whimsical sense of nostalgia on behalf of their parents? (Or great-great, long-dead, grandparents in the case of many of these authors).
And - why British?
What on earth makes British authors somehow more important than the likes of Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Herman Melville or Mark Twain?
I assume that if we're demoting American literature, we're also demoting all fore'n literature?
Plus, if Scotland ever gains its independence, we should steer well clear of Robert Louis Stevenson.
I fail to see the educational merit in teaching that those authors are somehow less worthy of our time.
Many of our greatest stories come from abroad.
Making curriculum decisions based solely on a misplaced sense of nationalism, rather than on literary merit, is an insult to authors - and readers - the world over.
What a hideous group of hooligans run rampant over the minds of our youth.
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Marina Sofia 6 November 2015 at 10:21
Hear, hear! Alexandre Dumas and Jules Verne are wonderful reading for boys and girls at school - there is so much classic literature out there which is entertaining and educational without being painful. As for nationalism... yuck in any form! I agree also with the self-fulfilling prophecy part about boys and reading, and found that humorous and zany things such as Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Diary of a Wimpy Kid have converted even my younger reluctant reader (plus they are infatuated with Asterix and Tintin).
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Site index > Search result > Keywords: "Career", Viewing items: 1 - 5 of 5
Psychogeography – Providing a Lens on Corporate Culture and its Potential Impact on Career Success: A Novel and Efficient Approach pp99-108
Dorothy Wardale, Linley Lord
© Oct 2017 Volume 15 Issue 2, Editor: Ann Brown, pp57 - 141
Psychogeography refers to the loose interface between psychology and geography. Specifically it examines how we impact on the environment and the environment impacts on us. As a process it involves intimately observing the environment and seeing what may have been previously unobserved. Participants then construct meaning from these observations. This paper describes how we used a time‑limited psychogeography approach followed immediately by a focus group as research method. The aim was to determine if examining participants’ work environment would potentially enable them to identify enablers and barriers to career success. The findings from these two short interventions are compared to the more often used semi‑structured interview approach to reveal that the psychogeography provided another lens to the research. Interestingly factors that were uncovered in the psychogeography and focus groups were generally different to those identified in the interviews. The participants were a group of high‑potential academic women at a large public university in Western Australia. They were enrolled in a career and leadership development program aimed at assisting women access promotions and other senior roles leadership within the university Much of the women’s career development literature focuses on ‘fixing women’ and not the system. To that end we wanted to use a method, in addition to interview questions, to uncover aspects of the corporate environment that might impact on women’s decisions to progress their careers. We asked participants to dérive, stroll or wander within their university campus with a view to observing any ‘career enablers and barriers at work’. To not impose any further burden on their time, and to manage the wealth of data generated by the psychogeography, we asked the women to immediately share their insights through a structured focus group discussion. Participants found the psychogeography exercise a novel approach to discovering and rediscovering their work environment. The findings revealed aspects of the work environment that had not previously been overt. These included participants’ appreciation of students having fun and a carnival atmosphere within the campus yet a simultaneous concern at the lack of quiet spaces to support scholarship and research; a disparity of investment in infrastructure improvements across various schools and faculties, which led to discussions of how disparately workload was managed by different managers; staff being segregated from students and other staff with security doors; the number of steps at the university and the impact this would have on some people with a disability. One pleasing and unexpected outcome of the psychogeography exercise was the level of energy and collegiality it generated. The exercise was conducted at an early stage in an eight‑month career development program and its use heightened participant’s awareness of aspects of their work environment’s impact on career success that may have otherwise remained uncovered or unexamined. Our view is that psychogeography; within a limited timeframe is a valuable method to employ. When the data from such a method is captured though a focus group the impost on participant’ times is lessened, the quality of data is retained with the combined research method producing novel findings that may be different to other more traditional qualitative research methods. In our case, they helped uncover aspects of university culture and enculturation to which many research participants had been previously oblivious.
Keywords: Psychogeography, focus groups, career success, gender, qualitative research, corporate culture
Reflections on Being a Successful Academic Researcher pp55-66
Shaun Pather, Dan Remenyi
© Jun 2019 Volume 17 Issue 2, Editor: Paul Griffiths, pp55 - 101
Research is central to the life of the career academic. However, the framework in which academic research is conducted is not generally well understood and neither is it often articulated or discussed. The literature tends to rather focus on issues in relation to specific research methodologies and the evaluation thereof. Additionally, previous research argues that it is common for university academics to have little or no formal preparation for their role as teachers. This paper posits that the same applies to that of the academic’s role as a researcher. It cannot be assumed that the mere obtaining of a Doctoral degree, prepares the novice academic for a research career. Early career academics are expected to acquire an understanding of how to survive as a researcher through a process more related to osmosis than to the principles of academic discourse. This paper commences with an overview of the origins of the academic career and the doctoral degree. Thereafter, it introspects the requirements to be a successful academic researcher. Aspects of the academic researcher’s agency in relation to personal values, characteristics, integrity, research uptake skills, as well as the benefits and challenges of a research career are explored. By unpacking the salient elements of what is required to be a successful academic researcher, this paper provides a basis for those who are considering a career in academe to make an assessment if such a pursuit is feasible. In addition, the paper provides a yardstick by which early or even mid‑career academic researchers may judge their progress towards being a successful researcher, thereby identifying areas for improvement.
Keywords: Researcher, PhD, Academic, Career, Success, Challenges, Research uptake, Research quality
Establishing Typologies for Diverging Career Paths through the Life Course: A Comparison of two Methods pp139-149
Amelia Román, Dimitri Mortelmans, Leen Heylen
© Oct 2018 Volume 16 Issue 3, Editor: Ann Brown, pp103 - 172
Discussions on policy and management initiatives to facilitate individuals throughout working careers take place without sufficient insight into how career paths are changing, how these changes are related to a modernization of life course biographies, and whether this leads to increased labour market transitions. This paper asks how new, flexible labour market patterns can best be analyzed using an empirical, quantitative approach. The data used are from the career module of the Panel Study of Belgian Households (PSBH). This module, completed by almost 4500 respondents consists of retrospective questions tracing lengthy and even entire working life histories. To establish any changes in career patterns over such extended periods of time, we compare two evolving methodologies: Optimal Matching Analysis (OMA) and Latent Class Regression Analysis (LCA). The analyses demonstrate that both methods show promising potential in discerning working life typologies and analyzing sequence trajectories. However, particularities of the methods demonstrate that not all research questions are suitable for each method. The OMA methodology is appropriate when the analysis concentrates on the labour market statuses and is well equipped to make clear and interpretable differentiations if there is relative stability in career paths during the period of observation but not if careers become less stable. Latent Class has the strength of adopting covariates in the clustering allowing for more historically connected types than the other methodology. The clustering is denser and the technique allows for more detailed model fitting controls than OMA. However, when incorporating covariates in a typology, the possibilities of using the typology in later, causal, analyses is somewhat reduced.
Keywords: careers, life course, optimal matching analysis, sequence analysis, cluster analysis
Volume 15 Issue 2 / Oct 2017 pp57‑141
Editor: Ann Brown
Dr Ann Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Information Management in the Faculty of Management at Cass Business School and Associate Dean for the Undergraduate programme. She took an MSc (Operational Research) at LSE while working at the British Steel Corporation as an Operational Researcher. She obtained her doctorate from City University in 2005, based on her work into the problems and potential of Information Systems applications to create Business Value for organisations. She supports a number of IS academic conferences through her work as a member of conference committees. She was a member of the editorial panel for Information and Management until 2008. Her research spans the exploitation of IS in organisations, the application of qualitative research methods and the impact of non traditional Teaching and Learning methods on student achievement, such as activity based learning.
Keywords: qualitative, methodology, saturation, sampling, interview, coding, gerund, data analysis, constructivist grounded theory, whole networks, inter-organizational networks, evolving markets, connected health, network ethnography, anthropological research methods, insider action research, researching entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship, Psychogeography, focus groups, career success, gender, qualitative research, corporate culture, CQR, qualitative methods, management research, document analysis, semi-structured interviews, Delphi, Delphi method characteristics, Delphi method variants, Information systems research, Taxonomy, Taxonomy development, Phenomenology, Arts Research, Qualitative Methodology, Alchemy Methodology, arts-based research, Husserl
Volume 17 Issue 2 / Jun 2019 pp55‑101
Editor: Paul Griffiths
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Romney rallies the faithful
October 8th, 2012, 3:00pm by Sam Wang
Update, 5:05PM: The Meta-Margin just changed to Obama +2.3%. Maybe let it stabilize a bit more…tune in tomorrow. -Sam
The varied nature of state pollsters is often regarded as a minus compared with national polls. There are partisan outfits, little organizations, one-shot polls, and so on. However, one good thing: when partisan-leaning pollsters get excited, they might rush out and do a survey. This creates a quicker (though possibly overamplified) picture of changes when they occur.
Here is what they show: the post-debate bounce is looking a lot like the post-Ryan-VP bounce. It is about 3.0% in size, closing half the gap between Romney and Obama. As debate-induced changes go, this is exceptionally large. It’s a bit early to say for certain, but there are signs that Romney’s bounce is peaking.
We got a very fast read on the post-debate change: a 3.0% shift in the Meta-Margin, basically in one day. Thank you, Rasmussen, Purple Strategies, and We Ask America. That change is impressively large: it’s bigger than the 1-2% that appeared in 2004 and 2008. It is starting to level off now.
The effect of the debate is looking quite a lot like another event that energized the Republican base: the addition of Paul Ryan in the VP slot. That rise occurred over about a week, and then Todd Akin shot off his mouth. At that point, the race stayed mostly immobile until the Democratic convention got things moving back toward Obama.
Two bits of evidence suggest that Romney’s post-debate gains have come from inspiring partisan voters, as opposed to flipping nonpartisans. First, according to a recent PPP poll in Wisconsin, gains have come in the form of an increased enthusiasm among Republican voters – but not among independents. Second, the RAND survey, which tracks individual sentiment, does not show a massive wave of one-way mind-changing, which is what occurred after the Democratic convention.
If the Romney campaign can keep their supporters fired up, the Meta-Margin should settle where the race has been all season: near Obama +3%. This seems to be a “set point” where this year’s dynamics have naturally gravitated.
Alternately, the Meta-Margin could reverse direction as the focus shifts to the VP debate and home-stretch campaigning. Maybe Team Obama could buy Rep. Akin some national airtime?
One thing I think it won’t do is continue in Romney’s direction as rapidly as it has since last Thursday. Extrapolated, that leads to a 59-41% landslide victory for Romney on November 6th. Obviously, that will not happen. Now let’s watch the graph unfold.
Nadia Hassan // Oct 8, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Professor Wang, have you seen the Kaplan et. al paper on a “mean reversion model of campaign effects”
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/psq_4021.pdf
It seems to be applicable here.
Tapen Sinha // Oct 8, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Gallup rolling average of tracking
The first number in the bracket is month, second, the date
Obama +4 (10/3),
Obama +5 (10/7).
So, Romney comeback lasted two days of a huge explosion?
Sam Wang // Oct 8, 2012 at 3:38 pm
Those changes are too small to unwind, though you could try with this approach. The Meta-Analysis did extremely well at capturing the change within two days. Its accuracy is better than Gallup by a factor of 10.
Joel // Oct 8, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Pew has R+4 in their recent release. There is a huge amount of variability in the polls right now, to my eye. I do think the meta-margin here strikes it about right, as well as the more diverse EV outcomes that are currently showing up.
Jeff Smith // Oct 8, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Love this site!
Two questions: First, following on Tapen’s post, in the Gallup seven day running average, Obama seems to have gone up two points over Romney today from yesterday. In order for that to happen on a seven day average, wouldn’t that mean that yesterday’s daily poll was 14 points higher than the one that dropped off from pre-debate? That seems a big shift (economic numbers?). I’m happy for any shift positive here, but want to check to see if I am doing this right.
Second, the Realclearpolitics average of polls, which seems to be cited quite often, seems to me to have a right wing bias in it. It appears to be the case that Obama-favoring polls get dropped from the average sooner, and Romney-favoring polls stay on longer. Sometimes this takes the form of a +1 Obama poll being kept on when Obama is at +3 or so on the average. Has anyone else noticed this?
Brian // Oct 8, 2012 at 4:45 pm
I can’t easily find details on RCP’s calculation methodology but it’s possible that their “average” is a mean, rather than a median. Means will be thrown off by outliers, whereas medians will neutralize them. If there are more right-leaning outliers than left-leaning, this could tip their average rightwards.
Sam Wang // Oct 8, 2012 at 10:15 pm
Indeed, they use an average. I believe all the other aggregators do.
Iseeurfuture // Oct 8, 2012 at 4:55 pm
You are correct in your statement. I’ve just visited RCP (in which I hate to do) the new Gallup Poll that was revised and released today had BO 50-45 but on RCP currently Gallup is listed with a tie and has an asterisk. Pew who came out with their Poll release has MR 49-45 but that’s PERFECTLY put in place. It’s why I come here. Sam always gets it right. Meanwhile DEMS’s are freaking out.
Prairie Pundit // Oct 8, 2012 at 4:49 pm
The current HuffPo headline — “Pew: Romney Up by 4!” — freaked me out a little, so I came running here. I suspect I am not alone among numerophobes in routinely seeking comfort in this Web site. And Professor Wang never fails to deliver! For the first time in my life, I find math soothing.
Jay // Oct 8, 2012 at 5:15 pm
The reason HP put that up there is to scare lazy democrats into voting. Its sort of a wakeup call.
Olav Grinde // Oct 8, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Jay: “The reason HP put that up there is to scare lazy democrats into voting. Its sort of a wakeup call.”
It should also be noted that the Huffington Post has new ownership: AOL. I have noted some very marked changes there since Arianna Huffington sold out, but even more so in recent months. This is apparent in all sorts of ways, ranging from photo choices, headlines you wouldn’t see before, far more celebrity and other stuff devoid of real content…
Richard Vance // Oct 8, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Sam, I love your sight and agree totally with he logic. Given we still have the warped EV system them the EV is the ONLY thing that matters.
I certainly hope this poll aberration will scare the BeJesus 0ut of all the dems. They were getting too cocky and the President slept through a debate(sic) where all he had to do in response was to hold out an Etch-A-Sketch and say “here yours looks used up.” Where are these strategy people and why is Obama so obviously ignorant on Etch-A-Sketch and other zinger opportunities? Its obvious that with Romney doing what 100 debates this year and Obama doing zero that they should have had used Chris Matthews as Romney in debate preps?? Instead they softballed him and look what happened. Even I was thinking Obama’s not fit.. If he can’t call a stooge a stooge what’s he doing in that big chair?
Arbitol // Oct 8, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Does the Pew poll give you pause, Sam? Have we seen the black swan event?
I’ve been wondering the same thing – can a debate be a Black Swan event? I mean a debate, such as last week’s, that fits within the standard expectations for such events, which allow for the possibility that one candidate will clearly outperform the other. It’s not as if the President wet himself on stage or strangled a kitten. Still, I wonder. . .
Certainly the debate was expected to move opinion. The question was how much. I am surprised.
At the same time, several months ago I suggested the center point of the campaign was Obama +3.0 +/- 2.2. The race is currently 0.3 sigma below the midpoint. The lowest it’s gotten was right after the Ryan VP nomination — Obama +1.6, or 0.7 sigma below the midpoint. Like Chou En-lai said about evaluating the French Revolution…too early to tell.
Matt McIrvin // Oct 8, 2012 at 10:24 pm
What concerns me is the possibility that such stories can now create self-fulfilling prophecies at an unprecedented rate. It could be that Obama’s performance wouldn’t have been a deal-breaker in any previous election cycle, but now, with multiple self-reinforcing news cycles happening over the course of a single day, if you do this it creates a runaway feedback loop and the other guy wins in a 400-EV landslide.
L. Murray // Oct 8, 2012 at 4:58 pm
I have to agree with Prairie Pundit. To see such a big number for Romney in the Pew Poll is very alarming, but I feel somewhat better now. As a humanities person, a great deal of the mathematics here is a little daunting, but if the bottom line is that President Obama is still leading as the election approaches, then Maybe I will get some sleep tonight.
Steve in Colorado // Oct 8, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Would there be any info to be gained by calculating the area between the 2 lines on the RAND voter shift graph?
This seems to be one of the best polls for showing actual momentum.
Ram // Oct 8, 2012 at 5:08 pm
When all the dust is settled, this race appears to be very stable. Mitt Romney has never crossed more than 47% in Gallup poll since Spring with 44% as his floor. On the other hand, Obama starts with 47% floor and has often reached 53%.
Thus my take this appears to be an Obama’s election from 51%-49% to 52%-48% depending on how 1) eventful three debates turn out and 2) get out the vote efforts.
And just like that, the Meta Margin is down another point. Pour me a tall one.
Mark F. // Oct 8, 2012 at 5:29 pm
If Romney ups his PV total by 2% , he might win a solid South with Ohio and CO putting him over 270. Democrats should be worried, especially if he has 2 more good debate performances.
I am thinking nobody will get 50% of the popular vote and the election will come down to a very few states.
Obama is still favored though. Ohio seems like a tough nut for Romney to crack and he really needs it.
Anyone else sensing a really close election?
Matt // Oct 8, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Maybe, but according to Sam Obama has a clear and meaningful lead. What we’ve seen is Obama open up a bit of a lead up to four or five points and have it revert back to about two. This has happened several times. I suppose it could go all the way to tied within the the next month, but it would take another meaningful event like the first debate. I suspect Romney will need something beyond another couple debate wins given expectations and the fact that the next debates are likely to have diminishing returns even if he did well.
Howie Weiner // Oct 8, 2012 at 5:43 pm
As I said last week the entire Meta-Margin will be gone by the end of the week. The debate was a black swan event, immensely damaging to the President. I’m not saying that Obama will lose the election, and I sure hope not, but the political effect of the President’s ineffectiveness will outweigh the otherwise unchanged fundamentals of the race. The polls will revert to their mean over the next few weeks but only if there is not a duplication of the last debate. And that starts tomorrow night.
Joseph // Oct 8, 2012 at 6:41 pm
This is a manufactured “black swan” event, if it’s even that. That is to say, it was totally predictable that, no matter how badly Mr. Romney did, he was going to be cast as the “winner” by the right wing-controlled media. Having even a marginal “win” has been recast therefore into a monumental event. Consequently, it’s not anywhere near “immensely damaging” to the President. Yes, the Republicans have gotten excited about their candidate. Yes, some of the bloom left the rose for the President. But the basic dynamics of the race haven’t changed. Actually, one could say that one dynamic has changed, but that happens to be more positive for the President than negative, and that is the improvement in the jobs numbers. In the long run, I suspect that will have more of a lasting impact than the debate.
Barry // Oct 8, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Guys, take a breath.
All day, we’ve been seeing the bump begin to subside, as Sam first indicated, and some polls trending back to O (Gallup 7-day).
Pew has the race TIED UP at 46 each for REGISTERED VOTERS. The purported 4 point lead is after their likely voter screen.
We already have indications that what Romney’s debate performance did was rev up his base. My take is that the even race for registereds is the top of the bump, covering 4 days after the debate. A likely voter screen is a judgement call as to “likely.”
Watch the state polls, as Sam always says.
KEL // Oct 8, 2012 at 5:53 pm
What is going on with the polls? Why should they move at all in either direction? It would take an extreme event indeed to cause me to change my vote. And i suspect the partisans in the opposing camp feel the same way. The frames as George Lakeoff would label them are quite distinct.
So what is happening in the minds of the persuadable. Or is what we are observing mearly noise in the polling data?
My best guess is, it’s low-information voters who would have been undecided in a “pox on both their houses” way, and maybe some third-party types who were thinking of voting for Gary Johnson, coming over to Romney, combined with Democrats getting dispirited and Republicans with low propensity to vote getting fired up. Probably not many outright Obama supporters switching to Romney.
I work in Boulder, CO, but many of the people here come from farther away. What I have seen here are 3 people (out of ~100, though I only talked to a couple dozen) switch from undecided or Gary Johnson to Mitt Romney after the debate. These are 3 people who consider themselves conservative but disliked Romney enough to go 3rd party or to not vote.
However, the majority here still support Obama. Obviously, this close to Boulder County, it will not be the same across the state, but this area has grown vastly while the mountains have gained much less population. And even the Springs is showing signs of a slight demographic shift as well. So even with these bad numbers in the past 5 days, I actually have an optomistic feeling about Colorado as compared to where it was in July (when I felt it was leaning slightly to the GOP).
This is all right leaning undecideds getting some enthusiasm, enthusiasm that we’ve been building since the Democratic Convention.
Andy // Oct 8, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Many thanks for the excellent analysis, Sam! One of the things that the meta-margin makes clear is that Romney has had a ceiling (so far). Obama has never fallen below a little under +2 in the mm. This reminds me of Romney’s problems in the primaries. He had a “closing-the-sale” problem in that he struggled to win over 40% of the vote in the early primaries (with the exception of Florida, where he spent some $15 m). Only when Sanotorum dropped out in April did Romney start winning majorities in the primaries. Romney seems to have had a similar ceiling in presidential polling so far. As Ram writes above, “Mitt Romney has never crossed more than 47% in a Gallup poll since Spring with 44% as his floor.” The same point is evident in the mm. One wonders if Romney’s ceiling is a consequence of widely discussed changes in electoral demographics. We may soon find out if that ceiling is real, especially if Obama (or Biden) perform poorly in the upcoming debates.
chris brandow // Oct 8, 2012 at 6:26 pm
can you comment on whether the relative dearth of polling, cited by Nate Silver, is having any impact on the accuracy of the meta-margin? higher SDs?
That was July. There’s tons now.
A New Jersey Farmer // Oct 8, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Greetings all. Most of the polls released so far were completed at the height of, or a day after, Romney’s largest debate bounce. We’ve already seen some regression in Romney’s support and, as some have noted, a small rebound for the president. The state action is where it’s at. Romney could win FL, VA and OH, but as long as Obama holds on to WI, NH, CO,and IA, he wins reelection. Given the fundamentals and the mm, what are the probabilities that the president loses?
Exactly. And as other pollsters have noted, party ID can be fluid depending on such factors as who has momentum, such as Romney does right now.
In Obama won, in 2008, by 52.9% with 365 EVs. The current fundamentals like jobless, GDP, demographics, predict this to be a closer race than than 2008. This race was never destined to be a similar landslide either way. After all the VP selection, convention, debate, 47% comment, etc related noise, the current race appears to be trending back to where it belonged to: A CLOSE RACE with demographics and EV collage advantage compensating for less than satisfactory economy.
If Romney had not run such a lousy campaign, the polls probably would have shown a closer race than what we saw till this week. Now that he has moderated his positions, unexpectedly had one sided debate performance and is probably running a decent campaign (without any gaffe in the last two weeks), the race is attaining its equilibrium.
Sam is probably right with Obama prevailing with around 290 EV to 332 EV depending on how the campaigns run the last three weeks but for a extraordinary event or campaign mistake.
Ed Groome // Oct 8, 2012 at 7:33 pm
The “With +2% for Romney” map gives him the electoral edge for the first time in a long time. Perhaps the Presidential election is back in play after all and worth our notice? It was mere days ago that we were told there was little point in paying attention to that race, and that could prove out, but it sure seems scary now!
I fear a Black Swan event on election day itself, and it is this: that the net sum of the voter suppression efforts will be far greater than we expect — especially in the swing states.
We may be very surprised, indeed, at the difference between the polls and counted votes.
wheelers cat // Oct 8, 2012 at 8:10 pm
I think Dr. Wangs analysis on redistricting is sound Olav. It wont affect the presidential, but it can affect downticket races.
I prefer this RAND graph.
https://mmicdata.rand.org/alp/?page=election
in the past 24 hours there has been only .09% improvement in Romney’s position.
The shift graph is misleading I think. Romney started in the hole.
Matt McIrvin // Oct 9, 2012 at 1:35 pm
RAND actually is starting to show something I expected, namely a change in who the respondents expect will win. But I thought it would be much more drastic.
…The other thing to remember about the RAND poll is that it ought to be used for eyeballing changes, not absolute positions. I think the reason the gray bar in their election forecast is so huge is that they don’t know how representative of the electorate their fixed sample is; in a more conventional tracking poll, you reduce that uncertainty by sampling the whole population repeatedly.
To figure out the overall state of the race, it’s better to go with state-poll aggregators like PEC, 538, electoral-vote.com and Votamatic. But right now they’re all hobbled by the fact that we have a dramatic delta-function event developing during the temporal spread of the aggregation, and even during some of the individual polls within the aggregate.
I suspect that most of them are currently showing a better situation for Obama than is the case. But a few days from now they’ll probably be showing a worse situation for Obama than is the case. Temporal sampling effects abound.
DaveM // Oct 8, 2012 at 8:20 pm
A New Jersey Farmer says, “party ID can be fluid depending on such factors as who has momentum, such as Romney does right now.”
It would be interesting to see what kind of relationship there might be between significant events during the campaign and swings in party ID among pollsters who don’t weight for that. In other words, are most “bounces” mostly a result of shifts in party ID composition of polls following such events–presumably due to a greater response rate to pollsters among those whose enthusiasm has been uplifted?
xian // Oct 8, 2012 at 8:30 pm
no, it’s more than that. one way people express enthusiasm for a ticket is by identifying with the party.
Weighting by party ID is generally a bad idea, because for many people party ID is basically a proxy for who they support in the presidential race.
I think Rasmussen is the only major pollster who does it. If I recall correctly, they occasionally readjust their model of the party makeup of the electorate, which makes their numbers jump; the rest of the time, nailing the results to a static model of party ID tends to suppress changes in an unnatural way.
Job // Oct 8, 2012 at 8:35 pm
Dr. Wang,
I’m interested in the effect of the motivated base. Let’s imagine a scenario in which Ryan trounces Biden, and the GOP momentum carries through the following two presidential debates. Few minds are changed from the opposition, so it becomes solely a question of who can get the base out.
What sort of turnout numbers would the GOP need to see to make a Romney win happen? And what sort of turnout would the Democrats need to stop this? Is this statistically probable?
Job, Brownstein, Medved and other pundits have calculated that if Obama has equivalent turnout to 2008, that Romney would need 63-65% of the white vote to win.
That seems pretty impossible given that 33% of whites vote liberal, even Carter got 33% of the white vote.
And Reagan only got 60% at the top of his game.
There just may not be enough whites left in the electorate to carry the election for the GOP anymore.
IPOF, Kerry would beaten Romney this cycle. He got 37% of white males and 41% of white females.
I am wondering to what degree some presidential polls might be off, if they don’t include third-party candidates.
AlexP // Oct 8, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Hi Sam! First time posting here–really love your site. It’s truly a breath of fresh (math) air, especially to a former mathematician from Princeton.
A pair of related questions to you.
1. Do you see that historically there is a tendency for the final election result to be tighter than the final polls
2. Do you think that polls tend to magnify the momentum of the day, i.e., those supporting whoever seems to be on the rise (not necessarily the one leading in the poll) more likely to respond and be open to the pollsters?
In a way, if 2 would explain 1 if it’s an accepted phenomenon in psychology.
Would love your thoughts.
Venkat Ranganathan // Oct 8, 2012 at 10:27 pm
What is the reason for another point of downward revision in the meta-margin? I saw that the meta margin was stabilizing. Is it after the foreign policy speech by Romney? Thanks
Matt // Oct 8, 2012 at 10:29 pm
A few more state polls dropped that showed a closer race in MI among others. It responds only to state polls and updates several times a day.
Ed Groome // Oct 8, 2012 at 10:52 pm
Party ID can be fluid, as can everything else. At the end of the day, PEC and anyone else trying their statistical hand here is in the business of predicting the future, specifically the future behavior of human beings, too many of whom don’t know if or how they will vote when it comes to actually doing it. It’s an entertaining exercise, no doubt, but a fruitless one, I fear. That certainty can change to uncertainty so suddenly should come as no surprise to anyone who has lived for a few decades.
pechmerle // Oct 8, 2012 at 11:37 pm
Olav, I don’t think you’ll see as much of an effect from GOP vote suppression efforts on election day as you fear. Successful court challenges have substantially eliminated or mitigated those GOP efforts, for this cycle.
Mitigation has partly meant court rulings that the i.d. etc. requirements were brought in too close to election day to give voters a proper chance to react to and comply with them. Also too brief a period to properly train poll workers and administer the changes.
That kind of mitigation court ruling, though, does have an implication for 2014 and beyond: some of these same courts would allow these suppressive rules to be enforced after such a longer lead time.
And then you get to an interesting dynamic. GOP voter suppression efforts will continue with a goal of offsetting their increasing demographic disadvantages. Ultimately, I would expect that the GOP has to shift some of its policy positions to remain competitive. Indeed, we know perfectly well that Romney understands that (it’s how he became governor in Mass.) but couldn’t win his primaries this year if he acknowledged or adapted to it.
Iseeurfuture // Oct 9, 2012 at 1:30 am
Nate Silver’s analysis of the recent PEW poll and MR’s bounce put into perspective. He’s finally realizing the hype or at least somewhat calling it out as it should be.
wheelers cat // Oct 9, 2012 at 4:29 am
I suffer from night terrors and brutal insomnia, and I just woke up in a terror sweat from a dream of President Romney to find RAND still essentially and reassuringly unchanged.
Nate is also very calming to read. Usually his high verbal equivocations act on me as a deadly soporific and this is no exception.
“blah blah blah….but the gains that he made on Monday in particular were all because of a single poll.”
I think the Pew results could easily be explained by increased enthusiasm in the GOP leading to an increase in response. Consider the Palin phenomenon…her addition to the ticket actually flipped the curves temporarily, just on the basis of rabid base enthusiasm.
“Pechemerle: Ultimately, I would expect that the GOP has to shift some of its policy positions to remain competitive.”
Exactly. Again, I believe that there are just not enough white conservative voters left in the electorate to deliver the 63-65% of whites necessary for Romney to win. The GOP has to adapt or go extinct.
The death throes of an organism are never pretty.
I think waiting to see how the poll aggregates are effected this week is advisable.
O lente lente currite noctis equi
Bill N // Oct 9, 2012 at 6:55 am
The rapid decline in the meta-margin has been, quite frankly, rather shocking. My understanding is that Gallup is about to release a new poll that is for the first time using a LV as opposed to RV model. The expectation is that Obama’s lead in this poll will be less than it has been with the RV model. Also, I think a Kos poll is about to be released showing Romney leading. My guess is that the meta-margin over the next few days is going to drop below 1%, and maybe below zero. Sam, is it about to reach the point where the Presidential race is now knife edge?
I am still stunned that a single debate could apparently have this kind of effect. If it is the debate, it suggests to me that all you have to do to win a Presidential election now is be obnoxious during a debate and throw out as many lies as possible using the Gish Gallop debate technique. Sad.
Olav Grinde // Oct 9, 2012 at 8:16 am
Wheeler’s Cat & Iseeurfuture: It was indeed heartening to see the very different image that emerged when Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com put the Pew Research poll into perspective. Very in much in line with what Dr Wang has been saying for some time…
By the way, there does seem to be significant new development: Mr Romney has discontinued his series of non-stop gaffes. Perhaps his handlers have tightened the reins. Romney’s recent foreign policy speech was careful cherry-picking, indeed, with hardly any indication of anything that he would do concretely different from President Obama.
Must confess I’m holding my breath here, and am especially watching the downticket races. Won’t be long until the Biden–Ryan debate…
PS Shouldn’t we soon be seeing enough polls on Congressional races to be able to make outcome predictions based on actual polls?
In the meantime, I am fascinated, and rather dismayed, by Dr Wang’s revised House analysis, afte he revisited gerrymandering and other factors. It does not surprise me that the GOP has “reaped the rewards” of Karl Rove’s strategy: winning control of as many swing states as possible in 2010 — and then changing the rules of the game.
Like Nate says, its a single poll. As for Rove’s “strategy”– it isn’t a strategy. It is a tactic in the conservative war against demographic evolution. Its a delaying tactic. It is profoundly anti-democratic, but it can only postpone the inevitable outcome. Game Theory 101 strategy beats tactics in the long game.
And yes, Romney’s debate performance is what my hero, Nassim Nicholas Taleb would call a black swan event. It is a negative BSE for our side, a positive BSE for theirs.
Has no one but Ed Freeland and me read his books?
Matt McIrvin // Oct 9, 2012 at 9:05 am
My current best guess is that Romney had really good days on Thursday and Friday. Maybe cataclysmically good: Pew’s R+4 result may be exaggerated, but PPP apparently did a survey for Kos that also showed him in the national lead during that time, whereas early indications of later results seem to show better numbers for Obama.
We’re still seeing new poll numbers coming out that cover the Thursday-Friday period, and even if Obama had an impressive recovery over the weekend, the numbers are going to keep looking worse for him until polls whose sampling window was in that time period dominate the aggregates.
Michael Worley // Oct 9, 2012 at 12:21 pm
1. Any chance you could start doing a 3pm update?
2. Is a drop from 2.0 to 1.84 in the MM statistically significant?
AMG!
ITS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZxnbBWtGR4&feature=related
We’re going to see about another week of poll numbers with this debate ‘bounce’ in them. Until then, I’d recommend putting on your Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘Don’t Panic’ sunglasses.
Unless you want to start doing to Obama what the right-wing bloggers started doing to Romney after the 47% video came out.
I do have a question about the ‘Power of your Vote’ chart. It would seem that the closest races and the states with the most electoral votes should have the most power, but it doesn’t seem to be that way, as an IA voter seems to have a much less competitive race and fewer EV, yet has about twice the power of a CO voter.
Can anyone explain this to me?
Notice that even with all of the polls released today, the mm has stayed relatively stable as of 8:05pm.
pechmerle // Oct 9, 2012 at 9:44 pm
This is — from The Atlantic and featuring the insights of Jim Fallows, who is well respected by Sam (and me) — is well worth reading on why Obama performed so poorly in the first debate.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/a-limited-and-self-serving-defense-of-political-punditry/263338/
The pundits who said Obama didn’t seem like he even wanted to be there appear to have been exactly right. Also excellent thoughts on why a sitting president doesn’t have the time and inclination to do proper debate prep.
But Fallows makes the excellent point that Obama is a highly competitive guy (the way he sharpened his tone in the following couple of days also illustrates that), and he will want to show people and ‘that darned Romney’ that he is not really to be trifled with. We shall see.
Fallows makes many excellent points, which I commend to you.
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The Barnbow Memorial 2012
ELHAS News December 2012
On the 4th December 2012, more than 200 people gathered in Manston Park, Cross Gates to witness the unveiling and dedication of the new memorial to the Barnbow Lasses.
This was the culmination of months of effort by Councillor Pauleen Grahame, the Parks and Countryside department of Leeds City Council and our society. You will be aware that we approached the council last year with a view to getting the existing memorial in Cross Gates road renovated. When this proved not to be a viable proposition the decision was made to erect a new memorial in the park. The main advantage to this proposal was that the design could include interpretation or information boards which would tell the stories behind the explosions, thus ensuring the courage and bravery of all involved at the factory could be honoured.
The unveiling ceremony was performed by Council Leader Keith Wakefield, assisted by family members of the casualties. Representatives from Churches Together in Leeds 15 provided some moving and meaningful prayers and children from four local primary schools, Austhorpe, Fieldhead Carr, Swarcliffe, and Manston read out the names of the victims. This was followed by a reading of a poem dedicated to workers by Richard Burgon.
Children from Grimes Dyke Primary school also attended along with local Brownie and Guide groups. The whole ceremony took place in brilliant sunshine and was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone present.
The memorial itself, surrounded by a colourful flower bed, is an impressive piece of Yorkshire stone with a beautifully embossed plaque embedded into the stonework. The plaque and the accompanying information boards were designed by staff from the parks department with input from our society. The result is a memorial worthy of the 37 girls and three men who lost their lives working at the munitions factory during WW1.
Children who read out the names of the casualties were presented with a commemorative mug as a momento of the occasion and all the children who attended the event will receive a Certificate of Appreciation. The whole project, from the initial concept to the dedication service, is a credit to all who were involved.
Hot drinks were served in the park prior to the service and afterwards refreshments and hot drinks were available in the Barnbow public house courtesy of councillors Pauleen Grahame, Peter Gruen and Suzy Armitage.
ELHAS would like to thank Pauleen Grahame and the Leeds City Council Parks and Countryside department for their support and enthusiasm for this project.
Photos courtesy of Julia Wynne-Thorpe.
Since the ceremony there have been many inquiries about the poem read out by Richard Burgon so we have decided to add it to this report for all to read:
The Workers' Song
Ed Pickford as sung by Dick Gaughan
Come all of you workers who toil night and day
By hand and by brain to earn your pay
Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread
Have bled for your countries and counted your dead
In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
We've often been told to keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed
But when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore
And expected to die for the land of our birth
When we've never owned one handful of earth?
We're the first ones to starve the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
And always the last when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
All of these things the worker has done
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
We've been yoked to the plough since time first began
And always expected to carry the can.
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IT’S BEEN JUST a few months since Lockheed Martin gave the US Army the most powerful laser weapon ever developed, a ground vehicle–mounted system that can burn through tanks and knock mortars out of the sky. Now the US Air Force wants its own toy, so Lockheed’s engineers are back in the lab.
They’re making a laser blaster for a fighter jet to swat down incoming missiles.
This spring defense contractor Raytheon became the first to destroy a target with a laser fired from a helicopter. At White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Apache AH-64 shot a truck from more than a mile away, while on the move and from a variety of altitudes. Raytheon is also building a laser-firing, drone-killing dune buggy. Boeing has its own anti-drone laser cannon.
The key enabler has been the development of solid-state lasers, which run on electricity. The previous frontrunner tech was the chemical laser, which requires large amounts of chemicals to generate the reaction that produces its powerful beam. In 2012 the US Missile Defense Agency shelved its Airborne Laser Test Bed, a Boeing 747-based chemical laser designed to shoot down ICBMs, because it was too costly and unwieldy.
In the past decade, solid-state lasers have grown in power and efficiency, to the point that they now represent a viable alternative, one with its own advantages. “We’re now able to generate a focused, powerful beam and are able to hold it on the target long enough to disable it,” Raytheon CEO Tom Kennedy says. “It represents a limitless magazine, as long as you have electricity.”
The new assignment falls under the Air Force Research Lab’s Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator program, which, in the ever flexible world of military acronyms, is also known as Shield.
The defense contractor is aiming to have a system it can test on a fighter jet by 2021.
Lockheed will be adapting the system it developed for the Army to address the challenge presented by this new $26 million contract, with a goal of self-protection against ground-to-air and air-to-air missiles. The program’s work will be divided among three subsystems, each with its own strained acronym.
The Shield Turret Research in Aero Effects (Strafe) includes the beam control system.
The Laser Pod Research and Development (LPRD) will power and cool the laser on the fighter jet.
Then there’s the laser itself, known as the Laser Advancements for Next-Generation Compact Environments (Lance).
The core technology will be a fiber laser, which uses fiber optics to enhance the power of the beam, with multiple individual lasers bundled together to create a scalable system. Together, they would work to heat up an incoming missile's fuel tank, causing it to explode, or target control surfaces like fins in order to simply disable it.
Despite recent advances, making a laser weapon work on the highest-speed military vehicle poses a significant challenge. “We’re putting a weapon traveling at the speed of light onto an aircraft capable of traveling the speed of sound, while targeting threats likely also traveling at supersonic speeds,” says Rob Afzal, Lockheed’s senior fellow for laser weapon systems. And it has to work on the move, no matter the turbulence or weather conditions. “Ruggedization is critical.”
Then there’s the question of reducing the laser’s size, weight, and power consumption to the point where it can work on a small jet. Lockheed developed the aforementioned Airborne Laser Test Bed for the Missile Defense Agency, but that system took up most of the 747’s fuselage. Using a solid-state system should help there.
If Lockheed can deliver, the Air Force gets a weapon that’s not just lighter and (likely) cheaper than equivalent missile and machine gun systems, but one that could change how it deploys its fighters. If you’re packing a missile-killing laser, you can go places and do things that now demand the sort of extremely expensive stealth tech of the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning.
“The ability of a helicopter or bomber or fighter jet to shoot down or sufficiently damage or distract an incoming missile could allow them to operate in places they haven’t been able to operate recently,” says Singer, the military analyst. “This will allow non-stealthy planes that previously couldn’t defend themselves new potential lives in future combat scenarios.”
Even if that doesn’t eliminate the need for stealth aircraft—since those systems are largely undetectable and offer the element of surprise—Singer argues that they can work as force multipliers. Better yet, they can provide insurance against the quantum radar systems reportedly being developed.
(( Those of you that were around when the B-1 & B-2 were built might recognize this " quantum radar " as was known back then "Bi-Static Radar" ))
Being invisible isn't so crucial when you’ve got a laser that lets you waltz into enemy territory, do your job while zapping missiles out of the sky, and cruise home.
At least, that is, until the enemy develops lasers of its own. Then, it’s on to whatever sci-fi weapon comes next.
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Re: The decline in the importance of stealth tech
A lot of people have been predicting such a change for a while now - 'truck'-style attack aircraft loaded down with ECMs and other modular defenses are a lot easier to maintain and build than advanced stealth fighters, and, as components improve over time, they're a lot easier to keep from obsolescence than their smoother, stealthier counterparts. The F-18 is the premier example of this - an old 3.5th generation aircraft that still serves as the worldwide symbol of force projection through air power due to its low cost and extensibility.
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Thanks Shane ! This is a great post !
I didn't know about fiber amplifiers. Guess I have to read more to keep me updated
A quick comment: there is also a lot of research done on optical camouflage, which might give an additional edge if combined with thermal and radar cloaking. If something is invisible, you can't target it, even with lasers.
Also, it might be possible that the next generation of military vehicles will be designed to counteract laser weaponry. It might take a while, but I'm pretty sure there is already somebody designing reinforced/cooling heat sinks (and whatnot) fuel tanks for missiles. If you can give a few more seconds of life to the missile under laser fire, it might still hit the target.
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Optic flow — the apparent movement of objects as perceived using the retina —
is a primary cue for detecting predators and prey. Predatory animals attacking stationary prey generally attempt to conceal their presence by approaching very slowly, sometimes relying on a camouflaging background. Active motion camouflage has been proposed as a strategy by which a predator can conceal its movements while shadowing or attacking highly manoeuvrable prey.
Motion camouflage can be achieved if one animal (the shadower) moves in such a way as to produce the same image motion on the retina of another animal (the shadowee) as would a stationary object in the environment.
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A Barrel of Ablative Coating
( from Popular Science : By David Hambling November 4, 2016 )
Back in 2014, a laser gun (the Laser Weapon System, or LaWS), went into service on the warship USS Ponce. Created as a defense system against drones, more laser weapons are making their way to the battlefield. But there’s a problem: Their flying targets have begun to defend themselves.
It was back in 1973 that an Air Force experimental laser first shot down a drone. Ever since, drone targets have been used to prove that laser weapons can effectively take down airborne objects. Lasers are still too weak to be effective against ships, tanks, or planes—but drones, which are smaller and lighter, make for easier prey.
Today, miniature kamikaze drones that can deliver explosives to a target, like the US Switchblade, are being used in warfare all over the world. Many nations, including China and Russia, make or export them, while groups like ISIS have developed homemade versions.
As these flying weapons grow in popularity, engineers are developing defenses against them. Lasers, with their pinpoint accuracy and low cost-per-shot, look like the ideal way of zapping a swarm of incoming drones. That’s why DARPA, the Israeli defense manufacturer Rafael, Boeing, and others are investing in counter-drone lasers.
But developing these lasers takes time—which has given researchers a chance to protect drones in new ways. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) leads in this field: Its Counter Directed Energy Weapons program focuses on countering high-energy laser, microwave, and radio-frequency weapons. One of their simplest solutions? Cover drones in mirrors.
Ryan Hoffman, Counter-Directed Energy program manager, says that mirrors protect well against low-power lasers. “However, reflective surfaces are not 100 percent reflective,” he says. “The small amount of laser energy that’s absorbed will heat the mirror and cause damage.”
To avoid this, drones will require a superior mirror. Dielectric or Bragg mirrors are composed of many layers of dielectric material (a type of insulator), with precise spacing between each one. By adjusting the layers, engineers can create a mirror with a reflectivity of up to 99.99 percent. That reflectivity, however, only works for a specific, narrow range of wavelengths.
“Protecting against all wavelengths would be ideal, but difficult,” Hoffman says.
Fortunately, most lasers operate on a single wavelength, so a dielectric mirror would work as long as drone operators know what type of lasers they will be facing. Instead of a built-in layer, perhaps dielectric mirrors could be applied as spray-on coatings, which could be applied at short notice to defend against specific weapons. The Navy’s work is under wraps, but the Air Force has funded research into making such coatings from engineered nanoparticles.
Mirrors aren’t the only drone-saving method that the ONR is considering. Ablative materials, which can absorb laser energy and use it to transform into a gas, could provide a protective coating around a drone. The laser strike would hit the ablative material and vaporize it, without dealing serious damage to the target underneath.
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Home > News > MANTIUS: Taking a closer look at Cuomo’s plan for the Erie Canal
MANTIUS: Taking a closer look at Cuomo’s plan for the Erie Canal
Cuomo’s $300M plan for the Erie ducks confidential recommendation to block aquatic pests by cutting it into pieces
– By Peter Mantius
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s new plan to spend $300 million upgrading the Erie Canal is designed to boost tourism, help farmers and restore wetlands, but it ducks addressing the canal’s costly role as a “superhighway for invasive species.”
The governor’s proposal bypasses a consultant’s confidential recommendation in October to sever the canal in Rochester and Rome to block the migration of nasty aquatic invaders from reaching the Finger Lakes and other key waterbodies.
Stiff local opposition to cutting off or impeding boat traffic on the 360-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and the Great Lakes helped push the idea to the back burner.
A Cuomo task force charged with “reimagining” uses for the 195-year-old canal was split on the issue of severing the canal, which the panel — with one exception — agreed should be “studied further.”
One task force member “questioned the potential economic impact of complicating the journey for the long-distance boaters who transit those two (Rochester and Rome) points along the canal.”
Another said that forcing through-boaters to resort to “portage, ‘dry lock,’ or boat lift mechanisms, would tend to undermine the Erie Canal’s global brand reputation as a continuous water passageway.
But others “questioned how the state could justify not seizing the opportunity to prevent the spread of invasive species,” including Asian carp and other fish, Zebra and quagga mussels and vegetation like hydrilla.
For the time being, Cuomo has decided to let the controversy simmer.
In his Jan. 6 announcement laying out part of his 2020 State of the State agenda, the governor proposed spending the $300 million on the canal over five years.
“When the Erie Canal was created in the 19th century it set the state and the nation on a path to prosperity, and this year we will repurpose the canal to fit our state’s 21st century needs,” the governor said.
More than half would be spent this year: $100 million on an economic development fund and $65 million to tackle flooding and ice jams near Schenectady.
Part of the 2020 economic development money would fund a whitewater rafting course at the north end of Cayuga Lake near Seneca Falls and four other projects in Brockport, Canastota, Amsterdam, Canajoharie
The remaining $135 million not specifically earmarked to be spent this year would go toward other “efforts to prevent invasive species, flood mitigation and ecosystem restoration.”
The Finger Lakes region stands to benefit directly from the wetlands and irrigation initiatives.
For example, the state proposes to divert canal water and restore old hydrological connections around the Galen Marsh near Clyde and the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge just north of Cayuga Lake.
The goal is to re-nourish wetlands that were disturbed when the canal was built many decades ago. The effort is intended to enhance the migratory stopover zone for more than a million birds and perhaps spur ecotourism.
Diversion of canal water will also allow for an irrigation infrastructure program to help protect farmers in western New York and the Finger Lakes from drought during the critical summer growing season.
Drought in the summer of 2016 resulted in an average crop loss of 43 percent across of swath centered in Livingston, Ontario and Seneca counties.
“Absent irrigation,” the task force report said, “farmers have a difficult time growing high-value crops such as apples and vegetables. These crops require a significantly higher investment in time and labor than low-value crops like feed-corn and soybeans. Hence, a guaranteed water supply is crucial for farmers to commit the investment needed to grow apples and vegetables.”
The report cited the success of a major irrigation program in Southwest Michigan, where irrigated acres more than doubled between 1982 and 2013. “Today the value of crops per acre (in that Michigan region) is almost double that of the rest of the state,” it stated.
While programs for wetlands and farmers are up first, the work on canal infrastructure to deal with invasive species will wait.
Compromises need to be hammered out between environmental interests and the through-boaters and the communities they help support.
The task force noted that many invasive species have already reached the Finger Lakes, including the water chestnut plant and zebra mussels.
But new threats are “at the doorstep,” including the Asian carp, which swims in the Mississippi River Basin and is now threatening to spread into the Great Lakes.
“Any invasive species in the Great Lakes can, and likely will, travel into the internal waters of New York State (i.e., the Finger Lakes) unless preventive measurers are taken.”
The confidential report, written in October, was first reported by the Buffalo News. It was written by R2 Resource Consultants Inc. for the New York Power Authority and BuroHappold Engineering, which NYPA hired to handle its “Reimagine the Canals” project. See the state’s YouTube video here.
R2 sought to identify ways that changes in Erie Canal infrastructure could slow or stop the spread of aquatic pests. The study didn’t attempt to weigh competing interests, such as the impacts on canal navigation.
R2 urged further study of the following:
— Severing the canal in Rochester “to protect the Finger Lakes and Oneida Lake from invasive species coming from Lake Erie.”
— Severing the canal at Rome “to protect the Mohawk and Hudson River Estuary from threats coming from the Great Lakes.”
— Establishing a boat lift/wash station in Oswego “to prevent threats from moving from Lake Ontario to Oneida Lake and the Finger Lakes.”
— Installing a bio-acoustic fish fence near Tonawanda “to deter Asian carp flowing into the canal from Lake Erie.”
Meanwhile, Cuomo wants NYPA to approve his $300 million five-year proposal at its next board meeting on Jan. 29.
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Is The Testament of Sherlock Holmes A Mystery Worth Solving?
Ricci Kearney
Ricci D. Kearney is a emerging writer and a true gaming enthusiast. After working for a marketing firm in Los Angeles, CA creating copy for movies, video games, and television, he is now pursuing his passion for entertainment writing while also earning his MBA. From selling video games, assisting with the creative marketing process, to simply playing his favorite games (anything WWE related) Ricci brings his varied experience in the video game world to GamerHub.TV.
Published November 5, 2012 6:20 AM
Does the adventure puzzler The Testament of Sherlock Holmes succeed? Well, it's simply elementary...
When you hear the title The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, you may think it is the new Robert Downey Jr. film, and not a game from Atlus studios. Truth is, Sherlock Holmes has found his way back into popular culture, and so the aforementioned conclusion is understandable. From movies to television, everyone now has the opportunity to get to know the world’s greatest detective. With Atlus’ The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, avaliable on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, you get to step into the shoes of the title character as he pieces together mystery after mystery. The Testament of Sherlock Holmes may have flown under the microscope, but it is definitely worth giving a try. Why? Well it's elementary my dear…
Play as both Holmes and his old chum Watson.
The game starts of with three kids playing in an attic. They stumble upon a book written by Dr. Watson himself detailing mystery. The story in the game is an original one, but it would no doubt make Sir Arthur Conan Doyle proud. After successfully solving a case involving stolen jewels, Sherlock Holmes is called in to investigate the mutilated corpse of a bishop. Soon after, without spoiling too much, the town of London begins to loose their faith in Holmes. Even Dr. Watson, his most trusted ally, begins to loose faith. The game eventually shifts to the viewpoint of Dr. Watson as you watch Sherlock’s decent into deceit and his quest to return to prominence.
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Cast — Beyond Reality
(Bandcamp no#, 1996, CD / DL)
by Mike Ohman, 1997-02-01:
Can a band really improve exponentially? Cast proves that it may just be possible. I found it hard to believe that they could do much better than their last album, Endless Signs, but their latest really does improve upon it a good deal. Much of the neo-ish tendencies of earlier albums ("Allow Me" and the like) have been jettisoned in favor of a more full-bodied symphonic sound. As always, Alfonso Vidales' rich, classically-influenced keyboard work anchors the album through the four tracks, three of which are quite long and brimming over with moods and colors. Also included as a bonus track, a cover of the old Camel tune "Another Night," a rather loose interpretation of the original; only the vocal melody hasn't been tampered with, yet it's a very strong, not to mention imaginative, version. If their next album is better than this, my head may explode.
by Mike McLatchey, 1997-02-01:
If anything, Cast are at least one of the best when it comes to promoting and marketing their music. A hundred "progressive" bands could learn a lot from the way they do things as they've made quite a name for themselves, especially considering how unremarkable and thrown together their early albums are. Fortunately their talent now seems to be quickly catching up to their marketing drive. Cast is of the neo-progressive school roughly in the Pendragon / Marillion vein with an arsenal of metallic digital synth patches guaranteed to leave the analog synthesist cut to a million pieces. Talentwise theres no problem (although vocalists like these reproduce like amoebas), the drummer has lot of interesting riffs and fills oddly like Iconoclasta, and ignoring some of the tones the keys player is also a definite strong point. Musically there’s a lot to offer the symphoprog aficionado; lots of emotionally charged instrumental sections, nice guitar work, odd meters and all along the way you're thinking with a bit of tweaking these guys will be on their way to a masterpiece. Cast are proof that neo-prog doesn't have to be poppy and whiny — good music is good music.
by Mike Grimes, 1997-02-01:
Cast has released some of the more interesting neo-progressive music in the past few years. In many ways, Beyond Reality is similar to last year's Endless Sings. The strong Trick of the Tail era Genesis overtones both compositionally and in guitar and keyboard sounds and styles, the fuzz guitar solo tone as the exclusive guitar timbre, the occasionally Steve Hogarth sounding vocals, the long instrumental sections, the harmony guitar and keyboard lines — all these traits are reminiscent of past Cast releases. However, Beyond Reality is no mere rehash or clone of the group's previous material. Many of the tunes have more complexity, diversity, and go in different directions than the band has shown before. Nearly all of the songs are primarily in either 5, 6, or 7 time signatures (especially 5) or some alternating combination thereof. It is pleasantly surprising to hear more meter changes in their music. The time changes help to keep the long sans-vocal passages flowing and interesting. Cast stretches out more tonally on this album than ever before too by periodically jumping into different modes (Lydian, etc.), not simply sticking with the standard major and minor. Patrons of neo-prog should enjoy Cast. Beyond Reality is evidence that they are getting better with each album.
Filed under: New releases , Issue 11 , 1996 releases
Related artist(s): Dino Brassea, Cast, Alfonso Vidales
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Free up some GMail storage space
GMail is great and I have been an admirer of the free service since first signing up as an early adopter way back in 2007. I haven't touched Outlook since and have found the whole idea of messages and attachments available anywhere so much better than having them downloaded and access restricted to one or two devices.
Over all the years, though, the volume had built up and, whilst well short of the free 17GB storage Google provide I had noticed that GMail was taking up a good 9GB or so and decided to whittle that down a bit.
First step is to back up messages. That's easier said than done. I used Upsafe which is free and, eventually, seems to have stored them all somewhere on my hard drive should I really need to dig out something from the past. That took a while because there simply have been so many messages and the software seems to have taken several goes at it too. Despite declaring that it 'failed' I can see what appears to be all the messages stored and have read a few at random just to make sure. I have written to Upsafe to enquire what the failed message is all about but haven't heard from them yet. That may be another story. For now, though, I was happy that important messages were still available.
So on to the next stage. Let's delete some messages, tens of thousands of them to be more precise!
If you're happy to delete absolutely everything in a folder then there is a quick option. If you select all on the first page of a folder then Google will put up a message asking if you want to delete the lot. So it may be worthwhile using that - it will save a lot of time as some folders of mine had over 5000 messages. I wanted to keep the first few pages so didn't use that option but I could have made my life easier by changing the label (folder) for the first few pages and then doing the delete all thing for those that remained after moving those I wanted to keep.
That delete, though, isn't enough. they are still there and still counting towards your storage space. You have to delete them forever as Google dramatically puts it. To do that, go to the Bin (also called Trash confusingly) and select the whole lot (using the first page then all of them method described above) and hit Delete forever. It can take a while if there are a few thousand to be removed. That will make a difference, at last.
It didn't do as much as I had expected, though. The culprit may have been the Sent messages folder which had another 8000 messages, many conversations being those that had been deleted in their own folders but, confusingly, remaining, apparently, with the replies I'd made. So most of those got deleted forever as well.
After a good hour or three doing this I managed to get my Storage for GMail down to a bit more than 4GB, a decent reduction but I still cannot figure out what is occupying that 4GB of data from the much reduced messages remaining, mostly just comparatively recent ones. I shall have to investigate that further.
I notice that All mail shows over 70000 messages! Surely I don't have to trawl through that too?
What I am getting at here, as well as indicating how you need to go about freeing up space as things stand, is how Google could help us all a great deal but making their Manage Storage much more helpful. At the moment the link merely shows us a pretty pie chart and some notes on what takes up storage. That's Viewing Storage not Managing Storage! What I'd like is a way to select messages older than n years in folder X, m years in Y and maybe all in Z and delete those forever in one go. With a nice instant display of the effect on storage too. Indeed, that effect could be presented as we select various elements of our GMail and allow us to make sensible choices where one particular folder could account for the majority of space usage and save us having to plough through years of messages with less impact on space use.
Another helpful tool would be to extract attachments from messages. As it is the attachments that are the real culprits in occupying that valuable space and we may well have already kept copies of those we particularly want to save locally, a simple way to delete them would be nice. The Digital Inspiration man has made an attachment finder that works as a script in Google Sheets but that is a bit clunky and I find it keeps failing and, whilst helpfully identifying a few big attachments, you still have to go looking around for them and deleting them one by one which is a real drag.
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Fed's Powell Testimony: What To Expect?
If Powell goes off the script, it will certainly represent a better prospect to trade around wilder volatility but one highly doubtful he is ready to commit to judging by all the factors exposed in the following article.
Fed Chair Powell is due to testify on the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report before the House Financial Services Committee and the world of finance is watching as the ramifications it could have on market volatility are considerable. Everyone and their dog awaits for Powell to clarify the guidance on the Fed's easing path.
Powell will give his testimony at 10 a.m. local time in Washington this Wednesday, the same day the central bank is scheduled to release the minutes of its last policy meeting hours later. On Thursday, Powell will testify again in front of the Senate banking panel. Lawmakers await with pressing questions that will range from issues such as the Fed’s independence amid Trump’s attacks, economic activity, Facebook’s crypto plans, a framework of the Fed's one-year projected interest-rate path, etc.
Will Powell further cement the notion that the codeword given in the last FOMC “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is indeed what the market interpreted as an immediate insurance cut? The rationale for the Fed appears to be justified on the basis of US trade policy uncertainties, the slowdown in global growth, and risks of lower US economic activity. In the case Powell sounds ambiguous and non-committal, in my opinion, will be an admission that his intended course (July cut) of action is undeterred.
If we look at the CME Fedwatch tool, with chances of a 25bp rate cut at 96.2%, it’s essentially baked in the cake in the eyes of Mr. Market. What's clearly created some extra buzz around economists' opinions on whether or not Powell will stick to his guns with a July cut is the stellar US NFP (+224k) or the S&P 500 trading at record highs.
Let’s decode all the information we have at our disposal to make a rational assessment. First of all, let’s be clear. Central Banks like to use fancy and often twisted terms to telegraph their intentions. So when last June 19th Powell said “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, the market picked up on the hint that rates are coming lower, since the literal translation is that a little precaution before a crisis occurs is preferable to a lot of fixing up afterward. In Central Bank semantics, this means all day that the ground is being laid for easing.
It’s important to also bring to the surface what the Fed has obviously tried to subtly camouflaged under its dual mandate. I am referring to the clear shift in directive from being the ultimate guardian of maximizing employment and stabilizing prices to now being a prisoner of financial conditions. The cruel reality is that equity markets have been broadly sustained and FX volatility fairly depressed because Mr. Market counts on a new cycle of easing around the corner.
Sadly, this puts Powell in an awkward position as any admissions during this week’s testimony that may lead the market to second guess Powell backtracking on his intention to ease in July, that alone, will with almost all certainty take financial markets to the woodsheds. I am talking of a much higher USD, stock annihilated and bonds too sold hard.
The commencement of an easing cycle remains the key card Powell must keep hinting to play, which is why the market finds it hard to imagine a suicidal turnaround away from anything that doesn’t imply an imminent insurance cut. One would think he’s learnt his fair share of lessons from last year’s miscommunication that forced him to activate the Fed Put to create a Fed-induced circuit breaker for stocks, alongside the relaxation in trade tensions.
But let’s look at key facts since the last FOMC as risks do exist of an upset, judging by how the Fed has characterized the justification of an easing campaign.
Note, when the last FOMC on June 19th took place, the S&P 500 was a mere 1.5% lower from the current record level, yet the Central Bank signaled, for the first time since the GFC, that the time had come to be prepared for lower rates to keep the record US economic expansion going. It clearly communicates that this time around, unless financial conditions tighten considerably, that the level in equities is not acting as the make or break catalyst should the Fed decide to slash rates in July.
As the comparison of June’s FOMC statement with the one issued on May 1 illustrates, until further clarification is provided, for the Fed it’s rationale to justify an insurance cut lies on the increased uncertainties about the outlook on economic activity, supported by the decade long depressed inflation.
What this translates into, especially on the back of a blockbuster US NFP and a trade truce aimed to temporarily provide a circuit breaker to the rapid escalation in tensions, is that Powell’s updated assessment of risks to the U.S. outlook will be a critical message to decipher as the Fed has made this the base case in its rationale if they were to cut.
If the Fed’s semi-annual monetary policy report from last Friday serves as an indication of Powell’s view, it still portends a rather cautious outlook with reiterated references made to a slowdown in global trade growth and investment intentions.
“Data for the second quarter suggest a moderation in GDP growth — despite a pickup in consumption — as the contributions from net exports and inventories reverse and the impetus from business investment wanes further,” the Fed stated in its semi- annual policy report.
“Trade policy developments appear to have lowered trade flows to some extent, while uncertainty surrounding trade policy may be weighing on investment,” the report added.
While the stellar payroll gains in June may relieve some pressure to cut, the devoid of inflationary pressure in annual wage gains does somehow offset one another. Therefore, this leaves us back to square one with a Fed still potentially seeing the case to go ahead with the insurance cut.
On the ceasefire in the US-China trade war, skepticism is still the name of the game, as the two sides still remain worlds apart on the most pressing issues such as technological transfers, IP rights, and accountability mechanisms. In my view, the weak Yuan tells me trade tensions between the two powerhouses creeping up are set to return.
Also remember, since existing tariffs on Chinese imports were not removed and Huawei is still facing restrictions, the negative impact due to trade-related shocks and investment will still weight in potentially debilitating the economy by disrupting supply chains, higher production costs, which ends up lowering the profit margins of businesses. The Fed sure must be accounting on these risks going forward as it can ultimately feed through the economy by lowering job opportunities.
So, we are starting to deconstruct that the Fed’s risk assessment has not deviated from the last FOMC meeting in June, as it keeps outlining rising risks of an economic slowdown, while steps to assure the continuation of the expansion are also sure to be taken should they be needed.
Even if in terms of timing the first 25bp rate cuts, the Fed is now better positioned to justify waiting at least until September as further evidence can be gathered on trade-related demand shocks and the overall economy, it’s a dangerous gamble for Powell if the can is kicked down the road.
Powell should have learnt from his ‘Fed Put’ days not to swim upstream against the market current (pricing). This time, a delay in the rate cut, while leading to a violent mark-to-market repricing, what's most concerning is the confidence from businesses in investment intentions or housing, that is at stake, especially in a late economic cycle.
What the strong US NFP certainly helped with is to evaporate the chances of a 50bp July rate cut. Here, not only logic defies such a move, but the market agrees, as the odds is now under 5%. The fact that perma dovish St Louis Fed President Bullard made the suggestion that such an aggressive action “would be overdone”, does speak loud and clear that it does look unrealistic.
To sum up, the Fed, one thinks, still enjoys ample room to adjust its policy. Because of that, the precautionary July rate cut, as the lay of the land stands when taking all the factors into consideration, including the not so subtle aspect of not fighting the market, is still a pragmatic approach that should remain the base case. If Powell goes off the script, it will certainly represent a better prospect for volatility but one I doubt he is ready to commit to judging by all that I've exposed above.
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Sen. Seveney intros drink-driving fine to support substance abuse programs
By John McDaid | Thursday, 7 February 2019
Portsmouth Sen. Jim Seveney (D-11) has introduced legislation that would impose a substance abuse fine for those who drive under the influence or fail to submit to a breathalyzer test.
The legislation (2019-S 0238) would impose a $300 fine on any conviction of driving under the influence or a violation for refusal to submit to a Breathalyzer that would fund substance abuse programs.
Senator Seveney submitted the legislation after touring the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal and discussing the need for increased funding for substance abuse prevention programs with Chief Magistrate Domenic DiSandro III.
“I’d like to thank Chief Magistrate DiSandro and Majority Leader Michael McCaffrey for their assistance in developing this alternative funding stream,” said Seveney. “This legislation will require those who drink and drive to fund important substance abuse programs, which in turn will help to mitigate the incidence of driving under the influence.”
Those funds would be allocated to the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Development Disabilities and Hospitals and used to fund substance abuse programs and student assistance programs for youth.
The legislation, which is cosponsored by Senators McCaffrey (D-29), Cynthia Coyne (D-32), Lou DiPalma (D-12) and Adam Satchell (D-9), has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Similar legislation (2019-H 5293) has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Dennis Canario (D-71).
Editorial note: Written from a state house news release.
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General assembly approves red flag and bump stock bills
By John McDaid | Thursday, 31 May 2018
With final approval in both chambers today, the General Assembly approved two bills to prevent gun violence and mass shootings: a ban on bump stocks and other rapid-fire gun modifications and “red flag” legislation that allows courts to disarm individuals who are believed by law enforcement to represent a violent threat to themselves or others.
Both bills were sponsored by Portsmouth legislators, and will now go to Gov. Gina Raimondo, who has planned to sign them in a ceremony tomorrow, Friday, June 1, at 11:30 a.m. on the south steps of the State House.
The first bill, sponsored in the Senate by Senate Majority Whip Maryellen Goodwin and in the House by Rep. Dennis Canario, is known as a “red flag” law because it allows police to seek from Superior Court an “extreme risk protective order” that prohibits an individual from possessing firearms, based on threats and other warning signs that the person might commit violence.
“This legislation is a way to stop tragedies before they happen. Of course someone who has guns and is making serious threats to harm people with them should not be armed. Too often, after a mass shooting we learn about all the warning signs people saw from the shooter and wonder why they still had guns. But the truth is, there isn’t always a legal means to stop them. Our legislation provides a speedy but fair process to ensure that those who pose a legitimate risk do not remain armed,” said Sen. Goodwin (D-1).
Said Rep. Canario (D-71), “As a retired police officer with more than 25 years of experience in the law enforcement field, recent tragic events have placed into focus the extreme dangers of having firearms in the hands of troubled individuals. I thank my fellow officers for their leadership and commitment to this public policy issue. This legislation seeks to take guns away from individuals with behavioral health problems so that our children and the public will remain safe.”
Under the bill (2018-S 2492A, 2018-H 7688Aaa), an extreme risk protective order would prohibit an individual from possessing or purchasing guns, would require them to surrender guns in their possession and would invalidate any concealed carry permits they have. The order would be reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and all state and federal lists used for determining whether those seeking to purchase guns have been prohibited from doing so. Violating such an order would be a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
The order would be in place for one year, but could be renewed by the court. Those subject to one could also petition once per year to have them lifted.
Under the bill, a law enforcement agency could petition Superior Court for an extreme risk protection order if it believes the individual poses a significant danger of causing imminent injury to himself or others by having a firearm. The petitioner must state to the court the specific statements, actions, or facts that give rise to a reasonable fear of future dangerous acts by that individual, and must concurrently file for a search warrant to search for any weapons the individual possesses.
Upon the filing for an order, the court may issue temporary extreme risk protective order, similar to a temporary restraining order, if the court finds probable cause to believe the individual poses an imminent threat to others or himself if armed.
A judge would determine at a hearing whether to issue an extreme risk protection order, considering any recent acts or threats of violence with or without a firearm and patterns of such threats or acts in the previous year, and the individual’s mental health, substance abuse and criminal histories. The court would also consider any unlawful, threatening, or reckless use or brandishing of a firearm by the individual and evidence of any recent acquisition of a firearm.
Such legislation could have helped to prevent the Parkland, Fla., school shooting Feb. 14. Police say the alleged shooter carried out the attack with a legally purchased semi-automatic weapon. Before the shooting, his mother had contacted law enforcement about his behavior on multiple occasions, but Florida did not have a red flag law. It has since passed one.
According to Everytown for Gun Safety, a national advocacy group that supports the bill, a nationwide study of mass shootings from 2009 to 2016 showed that in least 42 percent of those incidents, there is documentation that the attacker exhibited dangerous warning signs before the shooting.
Connecticut, California, Indiana, Oregon and Washington enacted red flag laws prior to this year, and since the Parkland shooting, so have Florida, Maryland and Vermont.
The other bill (2018-H 7075Aaa, 2018-S 2292A), sponsored by Rep. Robert E. Craven and Sen. James A. Seveney, would ban bump stocks, binary triggers and trigger cranks on semi-automatic weapons.
A bump stock is an attachment that allows the shooter to fire a semi-automatic weapon with great rapidity. It replaces a rifle’s standard stock, freeing the weapon to slide back and forth rapidly, harnessing the energy from the kickback shooters feel when the weapon fires.
In October’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, 12 of the rifles in the gunman’s possession were modified with a bump stock, allowing the weapon to fire about 90 shots in 10 seconds — a much faster rate than the AR-15 style assault rifle used by the Orlando nightclub shooter, which fired about 24 shots in nine seconds.
“With the tragic and horrific event in Las Vegas demonstrating the powerful lethality that bump stocks can facilitate, we must make the law clear that Rhode Island will not tolerate these dangerous tools of death. Currently there is some ambiguity to whether or not applying a bump stock to one’s weapon is legal in Rhode Island, but it is still legal to purchase one. This bill will end that practice, making the sale and possession of bump stocks, even if they are not affixed to a weapon, illegal and punishable by the full extent of the law,” said Rep. Craven (D-32).
Said Sen. Seveney, (D-11), “While federal law bans fully automatic weapons manufactured after May 19, 1986, the bump stock and other modifying devices do not technically make the weapon a fully automatic firearm, even though it allows a weapon to fire at nearly the rate of a machine gun. This law would effectively ban these horrific devices in Rhode Island.”
The bill would make it unlawful to possess, transport, manufacture, ship or sell a bump stock, regardless of whether the person is in possession of a firearm. Those violating the provisions, would face imprisonment for up to 10 years, a fine up to $10,000, or both. It would also make it unlawful and apply the same penalties for any person to modify any semi-automatic weapon to shoot full automatic fire with a single pull or hold of the trigger.
The legislation would also ban binary triggers, which is a device designed to fire one round on the pull of the trigger and another round upon release of the trigger, effectively doubling the weapon’s shooting capabilities; and trigger cranks, which attach to the trigger of a semi-automatic weapon and cause the weapon to fire by turning the crank handle.
Both bills have the support of Governor Raimondo, Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, General Treasurer Seth Magaziner, the State Police, the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence, the Rhode Island chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (a part of Everytown) and the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
“I applaud the General Assembly for taking an important step to enhance our gun safety laws public safety by establishing a legal process to keep firearms out of the hands of those who are a danger to themselves or others,” said AG Kilmartin. “While there is no one answer to ending the epidemic of gun violence in our country, I believe measured approaches such as the red flag law and banning bump stocks will improve public safety while also protecting the rights of legal gun owners.”
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Rep. Canario announces State House joins Hasbro ‘Good Night Lights’ tomorrow
By John McDaid | Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Rep. Dennis M. Canario (D-71, Portsmouth, Little Compton, Tiverton) is pleased to announce that the Rhode Island State House will be participating in the “Good Night Lights” program this Wednesday night through Friday night. The program involves businesses, buildings, and groups within the sightline of Hasbro Children’s Hospital whom blink their lights on and off for one minute at 8:30 p.m. every night. Often, blinking room lights can be seen in the hospital as reciprocation to the nightly ritual.
“This is truly a heartwarming gesture that so many have become involved in over the past year and I would like to thank Governor Raimondo and her administration for allowing the State House to hopefully brighten the spirits of the children in Hasbro,” said Rep. Canario.
Representative Canario had written to Governor Raimondo and the Department of Administration about the possibility of the State House joining the other buildings, businesses, and groups who are in view of Hasbro Children’s Hospital and participate in the nightly gesture to the children residing in the hospital. The Department of Administration informed Representative Canario that the State House will be flashing its lights at the children in the hospital for three nights starting tomorrow, April 12.
Editorial note: Written from a news release.
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GETTING HIGH OR GETTING REAL? SYNCHRONIZING WITH THE COSMIC DANCE OF OPPOSITES
The gist of this presentation is ‘thinking’ and its relation to the dual nature or paradox of the mind. It explores how such duality can be reconciled in design or any form of creative endeavour through several key design principles that have been intrinsic to our own South East Asian traditional culture and heritage. These inherent principles can be applied to bring about a transformative shift of mindset and perhaps eventual return or revival of sustainable design and cultural ecosystem. It may even provide a window to a global state of what the author would fancy as ‘design awakening’. Both ‘mind’ and ‘thinking’ are presented through an odd mixture of sober writing and personal rambling, with a touch of academic nuance to remind the author that he is an academician (he often forgets). Taking off from the cosmology of ‘pohon hayat’ (the tree of life) found in the traditional shadow puppet performance around South East Asia, the presentation rambles through a series of synapse jumps from Eastern mysticism to modular traditional design to information system and cybernetic theory, neural network, mind mapping, multiple intelligences, high energy and quantum physics, critical theories and cultural studies. The presentation is divided into 4 main parts, namely ‘the prelude’, ‘re-visiting our shared legacy...’, ‘case examples’ and ‘peace of mind. The first section serves as an appetizer or brain teaser, the second revisits our shared legacy through several key design principles and alternate shifts, the third provides several case examples from the author’s own projects done under various capacities and contexts, and the last serves concluding remark. Due to the author’s laziness, this presentation is not equipped with footnotes and references. Further notes and references may be obtained from the author upon request. The author welcomes everyone to check out his facebook and blog entries at http://hasnulsaidon.blogspot.com/ to either clarify or further confuse some of the issues discussed.
Keywords : Thinking, duality of mind, binary opposites, key design principles, alternate shifts, sustainable design and cultural ecosystem.
1. PRELUDE
We are living in a country that is anxious to reach its ‘vision 2020’ with the ubiquitous 1Malaysia chanting echoes in the forefront of our local mainstream media. Most of us would readily subscribe to an urban lifestyle as dictated by the ebbs and flow of free market liberalism. We swim or surf willingly with the wave of globalization (read western) and the novelties of ICT (information and communication technology). Even our lifestyle can be perceived as a form of design or creative industry and money making business.
Some of us would aspire to emulate the ways of a post-industrial society – contemporary, liberal, efficient, professional, high tech, trendy, hip and don’t forget, rich. It is a society of spectacle in which impression, brand presence, positioning, business acumen and strategic planning are critical to one’s political, social and economic survival. It is a society that is supposed to operate on a highly specialized, systematic, organized, rational, objective and most importantly, scientific system – an ‘apollonian’ legacy left by the male-centric operational logic of industrial paradigm. Linear notion of progress, development and success are highly equated by tangible or quantifiable forms of material gains and numerical indexes. Such is a scenario dominated by a left-brain thinking mode.
We steer our career in the midst of such society. It surrounds our practice. In many ways, it defines, supports and sustains us. Most of us have no qualm about this scenario.
But here comes the catch. Ironically, it is in such society that we may mostly encounter random serendipities, accidents (of all kinds), unpredictability and for some, weird coincidences. System crashes (despite ‘logical’ operation), cracks in buildings and highways (not to mention those that simply crumbled down), urban landslides, increasing crime rates, social deviants, corruptions and malpractices are several familiar features of our so-called progressive and developing Malaysian society. They contradict the rational system and objective operational logic that are supposed to sustain the society.
It is also in such society that we may witness increasing inclinations or growing interests in things abstract and intangible. They signify a yearning and searching soul seeking for peace and tranquillity, if not to escape the harsh objective reality. The interests come in many forms, from spa, deep sea fishing, adventure sports, shopping, video games, watching ghost movies and many more. In some cases, the underlying logic of these interests is ‘no logic’, since they don’t generally operate on a purely logical basis. In fact, in some cases, they rely on abstract vibes, dominated by our right brain mode of thinking.
There is a paradox here, a duality of mind or binary opposites.
I would like to explore deeper into such paradox by using my own working mind as a visual artist.
A right-brain artist like me will probable subscribe to the following abstract vibes – chance, coincidence, accident, kismet, karma, luck, providence, fortune, fate and so on. These are the indulgences of the right brain which for some, represent a lame romantic soul. I like to intuit and meditate upon such abstract vibes.
I also like to operate on an open-ended outset, even though the outset may at times lead me to no where. I like to invite my mind to float and meander in a suspended reality full of probabilities, similar to the trickles, splatters, stains, plots and spots on my paintings. My paintings epitomize a sense of my mind letting go, of detachment and at times, submission.
As a visual artist, I am partly in control, partly not. The seemingly random and unpredictable results of my exploration of materials and techniques reflect my own personal search on the intrinsic qualities of (in this case), painting. My free-form organic composition is perhaps suggestive of my desire to return to what some may refer to as the ‘Greenbergian’ view of painting - painting that speaks about the act of painting, nothing more, nothing less. I create lyrical and melancholic work, characters that some may perceive as too ‘sissy’ or not competitive enough or does not stand out in an open free market society.
But then, who cares? What the hack! I am my own master. I want to be free to indulge in the vast emotional and intuitive mental landscape of my right brain.
Such indulgence may unveil layers upon layers of my subjective realities, previously veiled by the cloaks of presumed rationality and objectivity. They may also sharpen my intuition and provide the possibility of opening the gate of my sub-conscious. I yearn for a higher quantum energy.
In short, I want to dream. I want to fly and ‘get high’, ok!
But then, I need to ‘get real’ too. I need to have my feet firmly rooted on the ground. Even though I may admit that I am not a left brain type (or prefer to silence that side of mental activities), my career is surrounded and in some cases, defined and supported by those left brain types. Therefore, I need to explore my left brain.
Here’s the other side of my brain :
My left brain would probably brush off my previous dreamy endeavours and label them as a form of escapism or some kind of mental trapping. Nevertheless, my logical mind may admit that even dreams can be turned into a money spinner, if I know how to exploit them.
My logical mind also requires tangible evidence that can be objectively tested and scientifically confirmed. I need a subject of observation to work outwardly. This left brain of mine breeds on the sometimes over-rated claim of objectivity which entails me to separate myself as the ‘observer’ from the ‘observed’. Instead of submitting to interdependency, I cling on the snobbish claim of being independence. No wonder I feel so isolated.
This left brain of mine is also conditioned by habitual ‘by default’ thinking that there is an ‘objective’ reality out there, outside my mind. It creates perceptual illusion of tangible reality as physical objects or experiences. It stabilizes my mind, making me more and more attached to my own habitual left brain thinking logic and perceptual forms. It creates layers upon layers of veils that discriminate, analyze, differentiate and separate. It helps me to dwell into the economics of income, earnings, revenue, proceeds, turnover, profits and loss. It makes me fiercely competitive and in a constant drive for dominance and control.
My act of making art is not anymore about ‘getting high’, but must also include perceptiveness towards the market. I need to look at myself outwardly as a commodity striving for a competitive market value, sometimes at the expanse of disengaging with my own deep emotional sentiment. Spiritual, social, artistic, cultural and other intangible values have to be subtly spread thin or re-branded to be more hip and competitive for the open market.
With my left brain, I think, plan and strategize. I look for forms. I formalize and control. I even like to police others to force them to conform to my own version of formalism, technicalities and quantitative control. If they still don’t conform, I disconnect, discriminate and separate.
My logical mind will not let go or submit. It firmly and stubbornly retains my continuous state of what I call as objective reality. This reality fears the unknown and the intangible, the vague and the ambiguous. It despises dreams. It doesn’t want to go crazy. It doesn’t want to fly of ‘get high’.
In short, it wants me to ‘get real’! That’s ok too.
Now let us use a quantum state to further dwell into the paradox of getting high and getting real. Matter or a physical object, from a quantum point of view, can paradoxically feature both wave-like or particle-like sub-atomic behaviours. A wave suggests an idea and always in motion, transient, ephemeral, changing. A particle suggests a form that takes a position, local, seemingly permanent, static. A wave suspends our thinking from being fixed, while a particle implies the desire to locate, formalize, control and freeze a form to see an object.
Such paradox between wave and particle reflects a quantum state in which all potentialities are entangled until the ‘moment of observation’. It embodies impossibility of prediction and control, suspending one’s intent to observe a stable picture of an object from a fixed singular point of view.
Multiple views or points in modular patterns of Islamic art for example, implies a quantum state, a state of fluid, organic and inter-connected whole. It is an art in which the ‘moment of observation’ is chosen democratically by the audience. It signals a break from the classical tradition of linear, mechanistic, deterministic observation and description of the world around us, as epitomized by Newtonian physics. It is about ‘getting high’, and in a mystical context, about ascending.
On the other hand, in Newtonian physics, an outcome of a particular event can be predicted correctly – much like a linear perspective system in which all the receding lines converge on a single vanishing point. In this system, all suspended potentialities are reduced into a single point of view, thus a fixed or single way of looking and observing a picture or object. The view is frozen and determined or given and undemocratically decided for the audience. This is about getting real, and in a mystical context, descending.
We may notice that many local designers or visual artists work according to the classical Newtonian linearity, or trapped in a mechanistic paradigm that reduces all to a predictable uniformity and homogeneity.
Get high, or get real? Do we have to choose between these two binary opposites?
Admittedly, mind can only operate through such duality or binary opposites. For example, one can only understand love by understanding what hate is. No rocket science here. The issue is that whether the opposites are antagonistic or complimentary? At war or at peace? In embrace or in arm race?
How can a mind be at peace with itself? How can a mind synchronize itself with the cosmic dance of splitting opposites to attain peace? How can a peaceful mind churn out a sustainable design or cultural ecosystem? Is there a model to refer to? If there is a model, what are the key principles or guidelines that can be applied in engaging with contemporary design or creative work? If mind is our current frontier, what would come after all of us became aware of our own patterns of thinking? How can such awareness shift our so-called ‘reality’? If all of us are aware of our own thinking patterns, becoming the silent witnesses of our own minds and thinking, what would happen next?
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2. REVISITING OUR SHARED LEGACY WHILST RECONCILING WITH NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE LUCID SPACE OF CRITICAL THEORIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES
The following section will be heavily based on my lazy literature reviews and casual readings, encounters with several individuals or gurus (actually, everything can be my gurus), testing of theories and assumptions through creative projects (mostly using intuition more than scientific research methods) and for most part, personal life experiences when the universe decided to answer my hypotheses or questions through many unexpected ways.
2.1 Revisiting
In various artistic traditions, nature and the universe have been explicated through patterns and presented in mathematical equations. Many forms of Eastern tradition display formal methods of repeating motifs in various configurations (patterns/orders) as a mean to enter a mystical state (beyond quantum perhaps).
If we look at many traditional forms of pictorial recitations, we may find the use of an image of a tree as a symbol. In a ‘wayang’ or shadow puppet tradition in Malaysia and Indonesia for example, an image of a tree called ‘pohon hayat/beringin’ (tree of life) or ‘gunungan’ (mountain) is used to open a shadow puppet performance. In Malaysia, the image is read by several scholars as a pictorial text or a quantum map that signifies a traditional cosmological reading of life. It symbolizes cross-dimensional universe (or multiverses) in which myriads of beings dwell across 3 domains or dimensions:
i. Physical or for some, local (lower consciousness and energy)
ii. Mental-emotional or for some, non-local (higher consciousness and energy)
iii. Spiritual or for some ‘eternal’ (beyond consciousness and energy - awakened/enlightened)
The central core of the ‘pohon hayat’ represents vertical ascension. Eastern mysticism reads such ascension as humans reaching higher level consciousness (high energy dimension). The radiant branching represents descend. Here, humans dwell in their daily lower level consciousness (low energy dimension interfacing through our five senses).
Ascension moves upward (getting high!). It unites to reach or return to ‘Oneness’. Descend moves downward (getting real!). It multiplies to reach diversity. As implied by the embrace of Shiva and Shakti, we have to embrace diversity (or duality) in order to reach unity or Oneness.
In Eastern metaphysics, such a journey across dimensions or multiverses necessitates paradoxical directions – the dual nature of ascend and descend, isra’ and mi’raj, light and shadow, artificial and real, unity and multiplicity, oneness and diversity, ying and yang, as-sham and al-hillal. Unity illuminates inward, while multiplicity illuminates the outward. The source of illumination is the light (energy) of pure compassion and unconditional love.
In this form of Eastern cosmological reading, the essence of a sustainable living is a complimentary convergence, balance (or in the case of this presentation), dance between opposites, as in the pairing or partnering of ascend and descend as well as the previously-mentioned binary opposites. It represents inter-connectedness between the micro and macro, the individual self with societal others, internal and external, spiritual and physical.
Design and creative work within such traditional cosmological reading have always been taken as a part of creating a sustainable cultural ecosystem. This ecosystem induces inter-connectedness, inter-dependency and a balanced symbiosis of opposites across all the three dimensions. Through pure compassion and unconditional love, the ecosystem features complimentary (not antagonistic) cross-existence between the arts and the sciences, left brain and right brain, male and female, apollonian and dynosian and all the binary opposites that we can come up with.
Asian artistic legacies can be traced in its rich cross-cultural heritage. Pictorial recitations or performed paintings in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Japan, Iran and India reflect the legacies of such ecosystem. Can such sustainable cultural ecosystem be retained and conserved or rejuvenated in today’s post-colonial, post-industrial, post-modern matrix of Asian contemporary societies? Can it be reconciled with new media technology and brain studies that now dominate our living experience today?
The answer is yes
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2.2 Reconciliation
Cybernetic paradigm for example, offers interconnected patterns of neural networks in various and constantly changing configurations, similar to the mapping and mystical paradigm of ‘pohon hayat’. It relates to mental models of reality built through various associations of patterns or representations. It allows humans to create and recreate in forming new patterns of thinking, much like the sprouting of new branches on a tree. Artworks, design and other creative disciplines increasingly reformulate multi-dimensional models or patterns of thinking due to efficient information flow and exposure. Technological advances have accelerated contacts and created webs of overlapping networks or multiple realities as well as virtual connections through new media.
Cyberspace, as used by William Gibson in his novel “Neuromancer” describes a composite new space that encompasses patterns in both extremes of scale – the vast macro and global network of telecommunications, and the miniscule or micro space in the microchip with the ever increasing power to store, interconnect and manipulate data. It is not far from the mapping of micro and macro branching and sub-branching of ‘pohon hayat’ and the overlapping micro and macro modular units of Islamic art, Buddhist mandala and Indian kolam. They reflect a quantum map of higher energy in its sustainable state.
Brain studies and human cognition reveal similar fractal (branching) or tree-like networks of neural patterns. Split-brain and whole brain theory, multiple intelligences and radiant mind-mapping reflects multi-dimensional tree-like patterns, connectivity, growth and expansion. Information in living organisms (including cells) is based on the branching and sub-branching concept of systems and sub-systems that are organized into a network of interconnected hierarchies.
We are increasingly shifting into a lucid space in which forms are beginning to be taken over by information (or patterns of thinking). Are we ready to embrace information age where awareness of our thinking or the working of our brain (mind) is our next frontier?
2.3 Enter the lucid space
The following is the scenario of such lucid space. It is a space where information and new media theories propel the shift from modernist to post-modernist discourses. It is a space where cultural studies and critical theories related to post-colonial reflex, language, representation, semiotics, identity, gender, sub-altern perspectives and ‘the others’ provide more inclusive, trans-disciplinary and interconnected new grounds for the reconciliation of tradition with new media technology. It is a space where what was previously taken as ‘third texts’ or ‘pre-modern’ paradigm (read primitive, archaic, uncivilized and not scientific by modernist paradigm) will be reclaimed as a viable solution for a sustainable contemporary living ecosystem.
It is also a space where meta-language (as in the hegemony of global mainstream media for example) is increasingly dissolved, together with its claim of superiority, power, hegemony, dominance and control. It is a space where meta-narrative (as in the way official history is being told for example) is beginning to be taken over by ‘little narratives’ on the periphery.
In this lucid space, the repressive role of certain sign system designed to control the masses through Repressive State Apparatus and Ideological State Apparatus (ISA?) is increasingly being exposed. In this lucid space, one has to flexibly negate one’s own position in regards to a complex webs of languages and overlapping discourses, sign systems and multiple binary contexts (as in local/global, Malay/non-Malay, privilege/non-privilege, Muslim/non-Muslim and many more).
In this lucid space, culture, tradition and heritage may not anymore taken as a fixed or progressing phenomena (in a linear sense), but as all things produced by human intervention, especially ideological. Cultural space may increasingly be taken as an open arena of contestation and change while the value of cultural objects in the whole spectrum of cultural production may begin to be permeated by the conditions of economic exchange. Cultural production of objects, including design and the visual art, may growingly become ‘myth creations’ especially if it is meant to universalize and make the engagement with such objects seem natural to human experience. Meanings that such myths induce may not necessarily be natural at all, instead constructed to serve particular interests of a controlling culture and dominating discourse.
Such lucid space may read nature as a conception constructed by ideological conditioning, not absolutely natural all the time. It reads ideology as a tool to naturalize everything that is economic, political and social in order to make its contingency appear apolitical and timeless – creating myths such as ‘common sense’ or ‘naturally given’. Ideology thus will come to signify a tool used to maintain and reproduce social power.
It is a lucid space that acknowledges how language (including design and the visual art) does not only mirror an object, but constructs and constitutes it. It acknowledges that all cultural forms including design, can be analyzed like a language, especially in regards to identity. The discourse of identity is held to be social and discursive construction.
It is a lucid space where language, meaning and identity are unstable and not fixed. They are nevertheless regulated and temporarily stabilized in social practices into pragmatic narratives. It is a space where meanings are relational and formed within what is termed as ‘language games’ (how ways of speaking about a topic are regulated or controlled).
It is a lucid space where signifying practices produce multiple identities. Meanings attached to a particular design product for example, are produced symbolically through signifying practices of language and representation. Similar to meanings in language, identities are produced by active human agents. Consequently, the space entails a process of ‘listening to people’, instead of ‘talking to’.
The many notions of self, both personal and collective as well as cultural are growingly narrated by the active public at large, not just a small number of so-called ‘experts’ or ‘specialists’. The many notions of self-identity are not necessarily given, universal, homogenous, fixed and frozen, but are rather performed and appear to be in a constant state of ‘becoming’.
Are we ready to dwell in such a lucid space? Are our minds ready to be awakened?
2.4 Key design principles
The summarize this section, allow me to enlist several key design principles that can be traced in many forms of our shared South East Asian design heritage. The principles can also be related to information and cybernetic paradigm, as well as the way our brains work. These principles can be applied in many different forms of creative endeavours across various disciplines. The principles can be used as a basis of reconciling the duality of mind (making peace) and contribute towards designing a sustainable living ecosystem. The principles may also reconcile the dichotomy of ‘getting high’ and ‘getting real’ into a complimentary whole instead of an antagonistic pairing.
Adaptation and Modularity
Modularity refers to the use of small units or motifs that can be combined to form bigger units of motifs. Infinite numbers of combinations can be created and perceived. Together they create infinite and multidimensional interlocking patterns. Modularity increases adaptability. What this means is that anything designed by the use of modular principle can be very adaptive to changing physical situation without changing the core identity. This formal principle is very schematic, which means that it uses mathematical calculation as the basis of visualization. In a mathematical term, such multiplicity is called fractal. This schematic method is also comparable to a computer programming language. Modular principle is used for examples in Islamic arabesque pattern, Buddhist mandala, Indian Kolam, Malay carving, and many other forms of traditional arts. Adaptation and modularity balance the idea of a fixed and rigidly prescribed design. They balance obsession towards permanency. They induce changes.
Flexibility and Audience-centered/Inclusive/Participative/Immersive
Flexibility refers to the result of modularity and adaptation. It avoids a particular design from becoming fixed, permanent and static. It also allows the audience or user to create his or her own pattern of experience, physically and intellectually or emotionally. Flexibility means that every individual can experience a design according to his or her own entry point or point of view. Each audience or user may share similar experience as well as encounter different experience. In many forms of South East Asian traditional arts, this principle refers to the ability of a design to be adapted and changed according to the changing needs - space, time, materials, geographical condition, socio-cultural demands and so on. The changes however, do not erase the essential character of the whole design. Flexibility creates a design that is sustainable, open-ended, participatory, inviting, engaging and nature and human-friendly. It balances personal needs and social demands. One good example is the design of a traditional Malay house. This principle is also used in computer programming and authoring. One main purpose of computer programming and authoring is to design a system that will allow the user to create his or her own pattern of interaction and experience. A good system shares similar flexibility principle and the desired results - open-ended, participatory, inviting, engaging and human-friendly, balancing both personal needs and social demands.
Non-linear and Cyclical, Simultaneous and Multiple View Points
These principles refer to a method of design that can be found in many forms of South East Asian traditional arts. Non-linear and cyclical design has no single focal point or centre. Instead, it has many focal points. The choice of a focal point can be decided by the audience or user. Cyclical design is non-linear because it doesn’t require a singular sequence or flow or direction. Instead, the sequence, flow or direction is determined by the audience or user. To understand this, one may use a comparison between visual system used in an Arabesque design with the singular point of a linear perspective system. In a perspective system, singular point is used in which all the lines converge. The audience has no choice but to follow the direction of perception towards a single focal point. On the other hand, in an Arabesque design, multiple points are used and it is up to the audience to chose which point as a focus. Non-linear and cyclical principle also rejects the idea of linear progression. For example, a typical linear narrative contains single story development from a catalyst towards resolution. The audience or user doesn’t have a choice but to follow the singular story flow. On the other hand, a non-linear system offers multiple stories within stories and it is up to the audience or user to decide which story to follow and how they want to enter the story. Examples of non-linear or cyclical principle can be found in many forms of South East Asia traditional literatures, performing arts, music, architecture and the visual arts. It can also be found in interactive computer products such as games, entertainment and educational CD-ROM.
Interactive and Dynamic, Inter-dependence/Inter-connected and Highly Networked
By engaging the audience or user into a design, it becomes interactive and dynamic. The principles explained before lead to an interactive and dynamic design. Interactivity relies on the idea of inter-dependency and network. Interactivity and dynamism celebrate moments and changes, instead of relying solely on fixed permanency. They induce choice. These features can be observed in both traditional South East Asia痴 arts as well as new media. In the traditional arts, they can be observed for example in the intricate arabesque patterns. In new media, it can be observed in the programming of an intricate network system.
Convergence and Trans-disciplinary
Traditional forms of performing art in South East Asia are multidisciplinary in essence. It means that a performance is taken as a whole, not perceived in fragments of different types of arts.
Balance is the most important principle. It is the key to all the principles mentioned before. It also reflects the idea of reaching unity through multiplicity, negotiating between the opposite forces of the binary pair. It relates to the notion of following a middle path.
2.5 Alternate shifts
The following is a list of alternate shifts that may be used as a guide in propelling rejuvenation and transformative initiatives, charting new territories, advocating sustainability and shifting from defunct paradigm. The shifts may also act as our preludes for ‘synchronizing with the cosmic dance of opposites’. They may hopefully lead us to a door of a ‘global design awakening’.
From Massification to Demassification
From Designer as a Controller to Designer as a Facilitator
From Review of End Product to Review of Process
From Summative to Formative
From Linear to Non-linear
From Permanence & Static to Impermanence and Change (design for change)
From Isolated Specialist to Multi-skilled generalist
From Hierarchy to Network of Relation
From Sequence to Simultaneity
From Hand Skill to Brain/Cognitive Skill
From Organization Man to Migrant Professional
From Goods to Services
From Global Competition to Global Collaboration
From Dominance to Synergy
From Control to Trust
From Formal to Contextual
Independence to Interdependence
From Fixed and Standardized to Modular and Flexible
From Consumer to Prosumer
From Form to Information/Context
From Singular discipline to Trans-disciplines
From Centralized to Multiple Centers/Decentralized
From Pre-determined to Choices
From Object to Time
CASE EXAMPLES
The following case examples represent selected projects that I had engaged under various capacities and contexts. They provide examples of how the above-mentioned paradox, questions/hypothesis, shared legacy, theoretical frameworks, key design principles and alternate shifts have been interpreted, applied and tested in various different ways. Of course, not all the projects were formally approached as a form of scientific research. Nevertheless, some of the projects have been approached as a part of action research in which the outcomes or findings have been comprehensively documented for further discussions. They have become a part of both personal and institutional organic learning process (under my capacity as a lecturer and Director of the Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah/MGTF, USM). Collectively, they have become a significant part of MGTF’s transformative drive and rejuvenation.
MGTF as an institution does compile data and statistics on several Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). It has also engaged in several research projects related to Audience Profile and Behaviour, Info-graphic, Exhibition Design & Technology and Collection Management.
For the sake of brevity, the following case examples are presented in key points.
3.1 Course syllabus and Curriculum Design
i. Expanded Media and Lattalilat
As we go about running 'the business' of art, these beautiful and jovial kids (albeit obviously not materially rich), may teach us a lesson or two about that normally missing part of art - play! They reminded me of my childhood and why I chose to love art.
This heartful project was created and initiated by the Lattalilat Grup UNIMAS, as a part of their Expanded Media 2nd. year course for the Fine Art Programme at the Faculty of Applied & Creative Arts, UNIMAS. I teach the course as a visiting lecturer. The course is meant to challenge the cmodernist convention of visual art by expanding it beyond the confine of formalism and gallery walls. Students are encouraged to fuse visual art with other disciplines to create a lucid space where many different ways of engaging with creativity can be explored. The project engaged kids from low-income family. They collected discarded junks, mostly industrial parts to create objects that can be used as toys and games. The resulting outcomes can also be taken as sculpture, photography, installation and animation.
When the project was presented, I was blown away and my heart melted. Looking at these faces via the documented pictures and video humbled me. While I was busy theorising about multidimensional art, expanded media, convergence, audience-centred, inclusivity, inter-connectivity, participative, immersive, trans-disciplinary, community engagement, sustainability and all those so-called high-end ideas, this project simply 'did it'. They washed away this toxic and noisy mind of mine. Heck, I even felt guilty having to drill the students who did the project about their objectives, problem statement, research questions, hyphotesis, theoretical framework, comparative study, methodology, finding and so on, bla, bla, bla. Just enjoy the pictures.
ii. Mapping Cultural Self, Interfaces, Living the Brands
These projects are a part of a course called ‘Cross-cultural Design”. They were designed to engage students with both personal and collective notions of cross-cultural experience beyond the conventional ethnographic approach. Through the projects, students will hopefully able to become active investigators, readers and contributors of cultural experience, values and identity, rather than passive receivers or subscribers.
i.Antara Semangat
Application of the key design principles discussed above in the design of the stage.
ii.Kebun Bunyi (Garden of Sounds)
“Kebun Bunyi” is a rock-metal-fusion group formed by MGTF with open membership that does not require any formal training or experience in music whatsoever. What is required is an open mind and heart that will allow the soul to vibrate in synchrony with the frequency of the universe. It welcomes audience-intervention especially during its open jamming in various premises. In doing so, it provides experiential learning that is more interactive and inclusive than passive observation.
Sounds and music bring people to groove and be 'in sync' with each other. "Kebun Bunyi" is inclusive. "Kebun Bunyi" propagates collaboration and speaks the universal language of sounds, where each person can be in his/her own groove but yet contribute to the whole. "Kebun Bunyi" encourages us to play together. People who play together, stay together, even though they sometimes annoy each other (that’s part of the groove too!). It teaches us to source our rhythm from 'within' and acknowledge that all of us develop our sense of hearing way earlier (in our mothers' wombs!) than our sense of sight (few weeks after we were born). It’s open jamming allows anybody to come and go anytime, open entry point. That's the beauty of our traditional music legacy, which is very democratic and open-ended. No suffocating formalism here.
The past 6 years of directing MGTF has been a blessing for me. It has been a critical learning lesson for me. The past 9 years of being a citizen of Penang has been more than a blessing. Penang has been providing me with many practical models especially in regards to culture and heritage, that I can learn from. I have also learnt to make peace and synchronize with the ‘cosmic dance of opposites’. I believe that a mind at peace with itself is a crucial pre-requisite to designing a sustainable cultural ecosystem.
Make peace, it is inherent in us and has been an intrinsic part of our shared cross-cultural legacy. In my case, that is what being a Muslim all about. Salam.
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UMDNJ: "A Political Patronage Pit"
We have posted extensively at the troubles at UMDNJ, which now is operating under a federal deferred prosecution agreement with the supervision of a federal monitor (see most recent post here.) We had previously discussed allegations that UMDNJ had offered no-bid contracts, at times requiring no work, to the politically connected; had paid for lobbyists and made political contributions, even though UMDNJ is a state institution; and seemed to be run by political bosses rather than health care professionals. (See post here, with links to previous posts.)
The federal monitor, former federal Judge Herbert J Stern, has issued his first quaterly report, and the findings are stunning. We will summarize them below, as compiled from several news articles listed at the end of the posting.
High Officials Resign After Allegations of Financial Irregularities
The first fall-out from the report were the resignations of R Michael Gallagher, Dean of the UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine, and Robert Saporito, the UMDNJ Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. UMDNJ's new Interim President, Bruce C. Vladek, is considering barring them from returning to academic positions at the school.
Gallagher's resignation means that all of UMDNJ's medical and osteopathic schools will be operating under interim deans. Gallagher is alleged to have made improper use of his discretionary account to purchase Christmas gifts and a country club membership, and to have his university driver run personal errands for him and his wife.
Saporito was the top academic officer for the university, overseeing all three medical and osteopathic schools, the nursing and dental schools, and three others. Saporito is alleged to have abused his expense account, once by renting an Alfa Romeo for a business trip, and other times for renting local hotel rooms for purported late night meetings
Additional Overbilling Found
UMDNJ has already been charged with $4.9 million worth of Medicare fraud. Last month, the monitor suggested a possible Medicaid scandal worth another $70 million. The report now suggests that UMDNJ received another $51 million from the state to which it was not entitled. The amounts that UMDNJ's University Hospital may now owe could threaten its financial viability.
Job Applicants Ranked by Political Connections
The report also detailed a system to formally rank job applicants for UMDNJ positions by the political clout of their sponsors. Applicants sponsored by powerful politicians received a ranking of "1" on a personnel spreadsheet, while those sponsored by less powerful figures, or none at all, received rankings of "2" or "3." The system began under former UMDNJ President John Petillo, who said that the system was intended as "a courtesy." University employees, however, "saw the ranking system as a codification of what had been going on for decades." The system was in operation for about six months.
Politicians whose sponsorship rated a ranking of "1" included US Congressman Robert Menendez (Democrat - New Jersey), New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak (Democrat - Union), and sometimes Newark Mayor Sharpe James (Democrat). Other political patrons identified included Essex County Chief Executive Joseph DiVincenzo, former chief counsel to the governor Paul Fader, husband to Newark Councilwoman Gayle Chaneyfield-Jenkins, Kevin Jenkings, Essex County Democratic Chairman Philip Thigpen, and Newark Councilman Charles Bell.
Sponsors sometimes accompanied their applicants to interviews. Sometimes human resource administrators hand delivered favaored applications to supervisors.
James did not return a call for comment. Neither did Jenkins or Chaneyfield-Jenkins. Menendez denied ever hearing about the ranking system prior to the public report of it. Lesniak said he only recommended one person to UMDNJ, and not for political reasons. Thigpen did not "recall" anything relevant. DiVincenzo forwarded his daugher's resume, but said she did not apply to the university.
When Interim President Vladek heard about this method of institutionalizing political favors, he said "I couldn't believe it," and "it's one of the more astonishing things I've heard."
Suggestions of Organized Crime Involvement
The most stunning aspect of the report were allegations that now former Vice President for Academic Affairs Saporito, sometimes accompanied by former UMDNJ President Petillo, dined on three occasions with a convicted criminal with ties to organized crime, and charged the meals to the university. Their dinner partner was one Louis Garruto, who was convicted in 1985 of a multi-million dollar fraud against some drug companies. The charges included racketeering and income tax evasion. NorthJersey.com also reported that "in the 1990s Garruto's partner in a firm that did business with Passaic County was James Yacenda, who was linked to the Lucchese crime family by the State Commission on investigation."
In summary, John Ingelsino, a lawyer working on the investigation, said, "the auditing and compliance were grossly deficient, and that aided in creating an environment where UMDNJ has been used as a political patronage machine." Furthermore, "it was a place that was used, by and large, as a political patronage pit."
The news about UMDNJ gets worse and worse. It has become one of the most striking cases of an academic medical institution run by conflicted leadership, ultimately to the point of corruption. It is now evidenct that the conflicts of health care leaders may involve politics as well as money.
The problems at UMDNJ apparently evolved over decades, yet only were discovered in 2005 after some energetic investigative work by local newspapers. The case at UMDNJ underlies the need to prevent conflicted and corrupt leadership from taking hold of health care organizations, or at least to discover it before decades go by. Yet such institutions still too often lack formal codes of ethics, ombudsmen or chief ethics officers, and methods for physicians, health professionals, and others to complain about unethical practices. Current licensing and accrediting standards do not seem to address these sorts of ethical issues.
As a society, we will not be able to develop the means to persuade health care leaders to be more ethical, however, until physicians, patients, and policy makers are aware of the frequent mismanagement and corruption afflicting the top echelons of health care organizations. For that to happen, cases like that of UMDNJ must be reported beyond their local areas. So, where is the medical journal brave enough to publish even a single news item on this case? So, where is there a medical or health care leader brave enough to even mention the case of UMDNJ in public? We are still waiting.
Newark Star Ledger: 2 top UMDNJ execs quit as probe widens; UMDNJ may bar two ousted execs; UMDNJ ranked job applicants on political ties; UMDNJ finances in sad shape; how UMDNJ became a 'patronage pit';
New York Times: report finds patronage rife at university
NorthJersey.com: med school executives dined with racketeer
Philadelphia Inquirer: UMDNJ monitor cites 14 inquiries
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Home / Press / Movie News and Reviews / Sundance unveils US, World Competition, NEXT entries – Screen Daily (04dec14)
Sundance unveils US, World Competition, NEXT entries – Screen Daily (04dec14)
04 Dec 2014 /
Tags: Movie News and Reviews, Movie Screenings
Jeremy Kay
New films from Nicole Kidman, Michael Fassbender, Louie Psihoyos and Sebastian Silva are featured in the festival’s line-up of US and world competition strands and the NEXT programme.
Sundance Film Festival director John Cooper and head of programming Trevor Groth have unleashed their first volley of films in what will be a 118-strong line-up overall culled from 12,166 submissions. Of these, 103 features are world premieres. The festival will run January 22 to February 1.
US Dramatic Competition includes Craig Zobel’s post-apocalytpic tale Z For Zachariah starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Chris Pine; Jack Black in comedy The D Train; and Kristen Wiig in the 1970s San Francisco-set coming-of-age story The Diary Of A Teenage Girl.
Other likely highlights are Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment starring Billy Crudup and Ezra Miller; and Saoirse Ronan in Stockholm, Pennsylvania, about a young woman who returns to live with her parents after she is freed from her abductor of 17 years
The US Documentary Competition features The Covedirector Louie Psihoyos back in action with his endangered species film Racing Extinction; covert counter-terrorism footage in (T)ERROR; and Finders Keepers, about an amputee locked in a battle with a man who found his mummified leg in a grill.
World Cinema Dramatic Competition selections include Nicole Kidman and Joseph Fiennes as desperate parents in Kim Farrant’s Australian thriller Strangerland; and Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn in the Western adventure Slow West(pictured) directed by former Screen Star of Tomorrow John Maclean.
Screen LA Star Of Tomorrow Gerard Barrett makes the cut with Grassland, about a taxi driver struggling to protect his family. Jack Reynor, Toni Collette and Michael Smiley star.
World Cinema Documentary Competition entries includePervert Park, about the lives of sex offenders in a Florida trailer park, and Censored Voices, which reveals in full for the first time recordings with soldiers returning from the Six-Day War.
Among the ten NEXT selections are Sebastian Silva’sNasty Baby, about a gay couple’s efforts to have a baby with the aid of their best friend, and H., which centres on two women whose lives are affected when a meteor allegedly explodes over their town.
A Day One Film will screen from each of the US documentary, US dramatic, international documentary, international dramatic and the shorts sections. Selections so far are The Bronze, The Summer Of Sangaile and How To Change The World.
“The selections for our 2015 Festival will take audiences on a wild ride of emotional extremes,” said Cooper. “With approaches ranging from comedic to dramatic, genre to documentary, experimental to short, independent filmmakers are bravely illuminating new opportunities for understanding and empathy.”
Sundance will announce selections in the coming days for Spotlight, Park City At Midnight, New Frontier, Sundance Kids, Premieres and Documentary Premieres, Short Film and a new Special Events section and offscreen programming.
All synopses below provided by the festival
US DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers festival-goers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.
Advantageous
Jennifer Phang
In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.
Cast: Jacqueline Kim, James Urbaniak, Freya Adams, Ken Jeong, Jennifer Ehle, Samantha Kim.
The Bronze
Bryan Buckley
In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory became an American hero after winning the bronze medal for the women’s gymnastics team. Today, she’s still living in her small hometown, washed-up and embittered. Stuck in the past, Hope must reassess her life when a promising young gymnast threatens her local celebrity status.
Cast: Melissa Rauch, Gary Cole, Thomas Middleditch, Sebastian Stan, Haley Lu Richardson, Cecily Strong.
DAY ONE FILM
The D Train
Jarrad Paul, Andrew Mogel
With his 20th reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his high school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he’s changed, Dan rekindles a friendship with the popular guy from his class and is left scrambling to protect more than just his reputation when a wild night takes an unexpected turn.
Cast: Jack Black, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn, Jeffrey Tambor, Mike White, Kyle Bornheimer.
Marielle Heller
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni, Kristen Wiig.
Rick Famuyiwa
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
Cast: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Blake Anderson, Zoë Kravitz, A$AP Rocky.
I Smile Back
All is not right in suburbia. Laney Brooks, a wife and mother on the edge, has stopped taking her meds, substituting recreational drugs and the wrong men. With the destruction of her family looming, Laney makes a last, desperate attempt at redemption.
Cast: Sarah Silverman, Josh Charles, Thomas Sadoski, Mia Barron, Terry Kinney, Chris Sarandon.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Screenwriter: Jesse Andrews
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
Cast: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon.
The Overnight
Patrick Brice
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.
Cast: Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling, Jason Schwartzman, Judith Godrèche.
People, Places, Things
James C Strouse
Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing being a parent to his young twin daughters and teaching a classroom full of college students, all the while trying to navigate the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him.
Cast: Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Stephanie Allynne, Jessica Williams, Gia Gadsby, Aundrea Gadsby.
Two mismatched personal trainers’ lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.
Cast: Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Michael Hall, Brooklyn Decker.
Chloé Zhao
This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.
Cast: John Reddy, Jashaun St. John, Irene Bedard, Taysha Fuller, Travis Lone Hill, Eléonore Hendricks.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Kyle Patrick Alvarez
This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.
Cast: Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Tye Sheridan, Johnny Simmons, Olivia Thirlby.
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
Nikole Beckwith
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Cynthia Nixon, Jason Isaacs, David Warshofsky.
Kris Swanberg
When Samantha Abbott begins her final semester teaching science at a Chicago high school, she faces some unexpected news: she’s pregnant. Soon after, Samantha learns that one of her favorite students, Jasmine, has landed in a similar situation. Unexpected follows the two women as they embark on an unlikely friendship.
Cast: Cobie Smulders, Anders Holm, Gail Bean, Elizabeth McGovern.
New England in the 1630s: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness. When their newborn son vanishes and crops fail, the family turns on one another. Beyond their worst fears, a supernatural evil lurks in the nearby wood.
Cast: Anya Taylor Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Lucas Dawson, Ellie Grainger.
Z for Zachariah
Craig Zobel, Screenwriter: Nissar Modi
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman who believes she is the last human on Earth meets a dying scientist searching for survivors. Their relationship becomes tenuous when another survivor appears. As the two men compete for the woman’s affection, their primal urges begin to reveal their true nature.
Cast: Margot Robbie, Chris Pine, Chiwetel Ejiofor.
US DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Sixteen world-premiere American documentaries that illuminate the ideas, people, and events that shape the present day.
31/2 Minutes
Marc Silver
On November 23, 2012, unarmed 17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis was shot at a Jacksonville gas station by Michael David Dunn. 3 1/2 minutes explores the aftermath of Jordan’s tragic death, the latent and often unseen effects of racism, and the contradictions of the American criminal justice system.
Being Evel
Daniel Junge
An unprecedented, candid portrait of American icon Robert “Evel” Knievel and his legacy.
Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon
Best Of Enemies is a behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F Buckley Jr., and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God, and sex.
Call Me Lucky
Barry Crimmins was a volatile but brilliant bar comic who became an honoured peace activist and influential political satirist. Famous comedians and others build a picture of a man who underwent an incredible transformation.
Matthew Heineman
In this classic Western set in the 21st century, vigilantes on both sides of the border fight the vicious Mexican drug cartels. With unprecedented access, this character-driven film provokes deep questions about lawlessness, the breakdown of order, and whether citizens should fight violence with violence.
Laura Gabbert
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold casts his light upon a vibrant and growing cultural movement in which he plays the dual roles of high-low priest and culinary geographer of his beloved Los Angeles.
Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel
Recovering addict and amputee John Wood finds himself in a stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified leg from Southern entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill he bought at an auction and believes it to therefore be his rightful property.
Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus
Hot Girls Wanted is a first-ever look at the realities inside the world of the amateur porn industry and the steady stream of 18- and 19-year-old girls entering into it.
How To Dance In Ohio
Alexandra Shiva
In Columbus, Ohio, a group of teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum prepare for an iconic American rite of passage — a spring formal. They spend 12 weeks practicing their social skills at a local nightclub in preparation for the dance.
Jean Carlomusto
Author, activist, and playwright Larry Kramer is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary gay America, a political firebrand who gave voice to the outrage and grief that inspired gay men and lesbians to fight for their lives. At 78, this complicated man still commands our attention.
Jimmy Chin, E Chai Vasarhelyi
Three elite mountain climbers sacrifice everything but their friendship as they struggle through heartbreaking loss and nature’s harshest elements to attempt the never-before-completed Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru, the most coveted first ascent in the dangerous game of Himalayan big wall climbing.
Racing Extinction
Louie Psihoyos
Academy Award-winner Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a unique team to show the world never-before-seen images that expose issues surrounding endangered species and mass extinction. Whether infiltrating notorious black markets or exploring humans’ effect on the environment, Racing Extinction will change the way you see the world.
(T)ERROR
Lyric R Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe
(T)ERROR is the first film to document on camera a covert counterterrorism sting as it unfolds. Through the perspective of *******, a 63-year-old Black revolutionary turned FBI informant, viewers are given an unprecedented glimpse of the government’s counterterrorism tactics, and the murky justifications behind them.
Welcome To Leith
Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K Walker
A white supremacist attempts to take over a small town in North Dakota.
Western (US-Mexico)
Bill Ross, Turner Ross
For generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, Texas, from Piedras Negras, Mexico, was the Rio Grande. But when darkness descends upon these harmonious border towns, a cowboy and lawman face a new reality that threatens their way of life. Western portrays timeless American figures in the grip of unforgiving change.
Six bright teenage brothers have spent their entire lives locked away from society in a Manhattan housing project. All they know of the outside is gleaned from the movies they watch obsessively (and recreate meticulously). Yet as adolescence looms, they dream of escape, ever more urgently, into the beckoning world.
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Twelve films from emerging filmmaking talents around the world offer fresh perspectives and inventive styles.
Chlorine (Italy)
Jenny, 17, dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to look after her ill father and younger brother. It won’t be long before Jenny starts pursuing her dreams again.
Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Ivan Franek, Giorgio Colangeli, Anatol Sassi, Piera Degli Esposti, Andrea Vergoni.
Chorus (Canada)
A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation.
Cast: Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Pierre Curzi, Genevieve Bujold.
Glassland (Ireland)
Gerard Barrett
In a desperate attempt to reunite his broken family, a young taxi driver becomes entangled in the criminal underworld.
Cast: Jack Reynor, Toni Collette, Will Poulter, Michael Smiley.
International premiere
Homesick (Norway)
Anne Sewitsky
When Charlotte, 27, meets her brother Henrik, 35, for the first time, two people who don’t know what a normal family is begin an encounter without boundaries. How does sibling love manifest itself if you have never experienced it before?
Cast: Ine Marie Wilmann, Simon J. Berger, Anneke von der Lippe, Silje Storstein, Oddgeir Thune, Kari Onstad.
Ivy (Turkey)
Tolga Karaçelik
Sarmasik is sailing to Egypt when the ship’s owner goes bankrupt. The crew learns there is a lien on the ship, and key crew members must stay on board. Ivy is the story of these six men trapped on the ship for days.
Cast: Nadir Sarıbacak, Özgür Emre Yıldırım, Hakan Karsak, Kadir Çermik, Osman Alkaş, Seyithan Özdemiroğlu.
Partisan (Australia)
Ariel Kleiman
Alexander is like any other kid: playful, curious and naive. He is also a trained assassin. Raised in a hidden paradise, Alexander has grown up seeing the world filtered through his father, Gregori. As Alexander begins to think for himself, creeping fears take shape, and Gregori’s idyllic world unravels.
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel, Florence Mezzara.
Princess (Israel)
Tali Shalom Ezer
While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar’s role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan, an ethereal boy that accompanies her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
Cast: Keren Mor, Shira Haas, Ori Pfeffer, Adar Zohar Hanetz.
The Second Mother (Brazil)
Having left her daughter, Jessica, to be raised by relatives in the north of Brazil, Val works as a loving nanny in São Paulo. When Jessica arrives for a visit 13 years later, she confronts her mother’s slave-like attitude and everyone in the house is affected by her unexpected behavior.
Cast: Regina Casé, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles, Lourenço Mutarelli.
Slow West (pictured, New Zealand)
Set at the end of the nineteenth century, 16-year-old Jay Cavendish journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. He is joined by Silas, a mysterious traveller, and hotly pursued by an outlaw along the way.
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Rory McCann, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooke Williams, Caren Pistorius.
Strangerland (Australia-Ireland)
Kim Farrant
When Catherine and Matthew Parker’s two teenage kids disappear into the remote Australian desert, the couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink as they confront the mystery of their children’s fate.
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes, Hugo Weaving, Lisa Flanagan, Meyne Wyatt, Maddison Brown.
The Summer Of Sangaile (France)
Alanté Kavaïté
Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at the summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents’ lakeside villa. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds in her teenage love, the only person that truly encourages her to fly.
Cast: Julija Steponaityte, Aiste Dirziute.
Umrika (India)
Prashant Nair
When a young village boy discovers that his brother, long believed to be in America, has actually gone missing, he begins to invent letters on his behalf to save their mother from heartbreak, all the while searching for him.
Cast: Suraj Sharma, Tony Revolori, Smita Tambe, Adil Hussain, Rajesh Tailang, Prateik Babbar.
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Twelve documentaries by some of the most courageous and extraordinary international filmmakers working today.
The Amina Profile (Canada)
Sophie Deraspe)
During the Arab revolution, a love story between two women — a Canadian and a Syrian American — turns into an international sociopolitical thriller spotlighting media excesses and the thin line between truth and falsehood on the Internet.
Censored Voices (Israel-Germany)
Mor Loushy
One week after the 1967 Six-Day War, renowned author Amos Oz and editor Avraham Shapira recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing only a fragment of the conversations to be published. Censored Voices reveals these recordings for the first time.
The Chinese Mayor (China)
Hao Zhou
Mayor Geng Yanbo is determined to transform the coal-mining center of Datong, in China’s Shanxi province, into a tourism haven showcasing clean energy. In order to achieve that, however, he has to relocate 500,000 residences to make way for the restoration of the ancient city.
Chuck Norris vs Communism (UK-Romania-Germany)
Ilinca Calugareanu
In 1980s Romania, thousands of Western films smashed through the Iron Curtain, opening a window to the free world for those who dared to look. A black market VHS racketeer and courageous female translator helped bring the magic of film to the masses and sowed the seeds of a revolution.
Dark Horse (UK)
Louise Osmond
Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a workingman’s club who decide to take on the elite “sport of kings” and breed themselves a racehorse.
Dreamcatcher (UK)
Kim Longinotto
Dreamcatcher takes us into a hidden world seen through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell. A former teenage prostitute, Brenda defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community. With warmth and humor, Brenda gives hope to those who have none.
How To Change The World (UK-Canada)
Jerry Rothwell
A group of friends creates, grows, and finally globalises the set of ideas we now associate with Greenpeace; the film uses never-before-seen archival footage that brings these characters and their extraordinary world to life.
Listen To Me Marlon (UK)
Stevan Riley
With exclusive access to previously unheard audio archives, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career and extraordinary life away from the stage and screen, the film fully explores the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely in Marlon’s own voice.
Pervert Park (Sweden-Denmark)
Frida Barkfors, Lasse Barkfors
Pervert Park follows the everyday lives of sex offenders in a Florida trailer park as they struggle to reintegrate into society, and try to understand who they are and how to break the cycle of sex crimes being committed.
The Russian Woodpecker (UK)
Chad Gracia
A Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life by revealing it, amid growing clouds of revolution and war.
Sembene! (US-Senegal)
Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman
In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. This true story celebrates how the “father of African cinema,” against enormous odds, fought a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give Africans a voice.
The Visit (Denmark-Austria-Ireland-Finland-Norway)
“This film documents an event that has never taken place…” With unprecedented access to the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs and space agencies, The Visit explores humans’ first encounter with alien intelligent life and thereby humanity itself. “Our scenario begins with the arrival. Your arrival.”
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Bob And The Trees (US-France)
Diego Ongaro
Bob, a 50-year-old logger in rural Massachusetts with a soft spot for golf and gangsta rap, is struggling to make ends meet in a changed economy. When his beloved cow is wounded and a job goes awry, Bob begins to heed the instincts of his ever-darkening self.
Cast: Bob Tarasuk, Matt Gallagher, Polly MacIntyre, Winthrop Barrett, Nathaniel Gregory.
Christmas, Again (US)
Charles Poekel
A heartbroken Christmas tree salesman returns to New York, hoping to put the past year behind him. He spends the season living in a trailer and working the night shift, until a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.
Cast: Kentucker Audley, Hannah Gross, Jason Shelton, Oona Roche.
Cronies (US)
Michael Larnell
Twenty-two-year-old Louis doesn’t know whether his childhood friendship with Jack will last beyond today.
Cast: George Sample III, Zurich Buckner, Brian Kowalski.
Entertainment (US)
En route to meeting with his estranged daughter, in an attempt to revive his dwindling career, a broken, aging comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave Desert.
Cast: Gregg Turkington, John C. Reilly, Tye Sheridan, Michael Cera, Amy Seimetz, Lotte Verbeek.
H. (US-Argentina)
Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia
Two women, each named Helen, find their lives spinning out of control after a meteor allegedly explodes over their city of Troy, New York.
Cast: Robin Bartlett, Rebecca Dayan, Will Janowitz, Julian Gamble, Roger Robinson.
James White (US)
Josh Mond
A young New Yorker struggles to take control of his reckless, self-destructive behavior in the face of momentous family challenges.
Cast: Chris Abbott, Cynthia Nixon, Scott Mescudi, Makenzie Leigh, David Call.
Nasty Baby (US)
Sebastian Silva
A gay couple try to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Anna. The trio navigates the idea of creating life while confronted by unexpected harassment from a neighborhood man called The Bishop. As their clashes grow increasingly aggressive, odds are someone is getting hurt.
Cast: Sebastian Silva, Tunde Adebimpe, Kristin Wiig, Reg E. Cathey, Mark Margolis, Denis O’Hare.
The Strongest Man (US)
Kenny Riches
An anxiety-ridden Cuban man who fancies himself the strongest man in the world attempts to recover his most prized possession, a stolen bicycle. On his quest, he finds and loses much more.
Cast: Robert Lorie, Paul Chamberlain, Ashly Burch, Patrick Fugit, Lisa Banes.
Take Me To The River (US)
Matt Sobel
A naive California teen plans to remain above the fray at his Nebraskan family reunion, but a strange encounter places him at the center of a long-buried family secret.
Cast: Logan Miller, Robin Weigert, Josh Hamilton, Richard Schiff, Ursula Parker, Azura Skye.
Tangerine (US)
It’s Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, and Sin-Dee discovers that her boyfriend has been unfaithful to her. With best friend Alexandra in tow, the streetwalking prostitute sets out to right this wrong.
Cast: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O’Hagan, Alla Tumanyan, James Ransone.
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Privacy and cybersecurity: Winter agenda 2019/2020
by Rob Beardmore
Our last quarterly horizon scan drew attention to the need to gear up for a no-deal Brexit. That prospect reduced in likelihood somewhat after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s renegotiated withdrawal agreement seemed to be making its way through parliament. The political process, however, has been temporarily paralysed once more pending the outcome of the general election on Thursday 12 December. The UK may still depart the EU, with or without a deal, on 31 January 2020. Meanwhile, a Labour-led administration of any kind may lead to a second referendum and a possible no Brexit outcome.
On the basis that the picture remains unclear and no-deal remains in play, it is worth highlighting that Practical Law has published a No-deal Brexit: data protection toolkit which includes the following resources:
Practice note, Brexit: implications for data protection
Video, Key data protection measures to prepare for a no-deal Brexit
Practice note, Brexit: implications for cybersecurity in the UK
Practice note, Data protection: no-deal Brexit FAQs
Data protection: no-deal Brexit international data transfers quick reference table
Away from the politics, there are a number of forthcoming developments which in-house practitioners may need to be aware of as we head into the winter.
Consultations currently open which you may wish to respond to include:
ICO consultation on application for powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA). The consultation seeks views on the ICO being granted access to investigation and other associated powers under POCA and remains open until 6 December 2019.
DCMS Cyber Security Incentives and Regulation Review 2020 call for evidence. This call for evidence is due to close on 20 December 2019. The review aims to, among other things, identify the barriers which prevent organisations from improving cyber security.
Law Commission’s second consultation on driverless cars: passenger services and public transport. Responses should be sent by 16 January 2020.
ICO AI auditing framework
The ICO expects to publish its final artificial intelligence (AI) auditing framework by 31 January 2020, with the associated guidance for organisations scheduled for publication during spring 2020. The framework is the culmination of a consultation process in which the ICO invited organisations to share thoughts on the challenges of deploying AI technology. For more information, see ICO: AI Auditing Framework.
Other key dates
The AG opinion of the much-anticipated “Schrems II” case is due to come out on 12 December 2019. Following case 362/14, “Schrems I”, where the Safe Harbor Framework was invalidated by the CJEU, Mr Schrems has returned to challenge data transfers between EEA and non-EEA countries on the basis of the European Commission adopted standard contract clauses. For more information, see Legal update, EDPB publishes its pleading made to the ECJ in Facebook Ireland and Schrems case (Schrems II).
On 31 December 2019, the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) is expected to publish its final report on how data is used to shape people’s online environments via the personalisation and targeting of messages, content and services online.
The EU Commission is due to report on the state-of-play of its work in relation to the retention of electronic communications data for the purpose of fighting crime on 31 December 2019. For more information, see Legal update, EU Council adopts conclusions on retention of electronic communications data to combat crime.
By 31 December 2019 the co-operation group established under the Cybersecurity Directive (2006/1148) will identify best practices used at national level and create a toolbox of risk management measures that can be applied at national and EU level. This will be used to advise the European Commission on the development of minimum requirements for the security of 5G networks across the EU. For more information, see Legal update, European Commission recommendation on cybersecurity of 5G networks.
2 January 2020 marks the deadline for the CMA to decide whether to make a market investigation reference for its Online platforms and digital advertising market study. For more information, see Legal update, Online platforms and digital advertising market study: CMA publishes responses to Statement of Scope.
New Practical Law content
We close this edition with a look back at the privacy and cybersecurity-related resources Practical Law has published over the autumn which you may have missed. In addition to the no-deal Brexit: data protection toolkit referred to above, recently published content includes:
Practice note, Blockchain and data protection (GDPR and DPA 2018) (UK) which provides an overview of the data protection issues that arise in the context of blockchain. For wider legal issues, see Blockchain toolkit.
A revised version of Practice note, Data breach notification (GDPR and DPA 2018) (UK) which provides guidance on the key legal elements and considerations of responding to a breach of personal data security, principally the obligation to notify supervisory authorities or data subjects in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR.
Practice note, Resources on Practical Law for those new to data protection law which provides guidance on the use of Data Protection practice area resources for trainees and new joiners in data protection teams, and those new to data protection law.
Standard document, Appropriate policy document (special categories of personal data and criminal convictions data) (GDPR and DPA 2018) (UK) for use by a business processing special categories of personal data and criminal convictions data which complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018.
Three new standard documents, confidentiality agreements with data protection provisions, intended for use where confidential information is being disclosed for general commercial purposes and some of that information includes personal data.
Article, Data protection claims: a green light for representative actions reporting on the landmark Court of Appeal case, Lloyd v Google.
Article, The right to erasure: ECJ limits territorial scope of delisting orders reporting on the landmark decision of the CJEU on right to erasure in Google v CNIL.
Blog post, GDPR eighteen months on: making data privacy governance a positive which highlights the virtues of good data management.
Blog post, Google and the emergence of opt-out data protection class actions providing further commentary on Lloyd v Google.
Blog post, GDPR, data security and the law of unintended consequences which examines an unintended security vulnerability of the GDPR.
Blog post, Remember GDPR? on the importance of making GDPR training memorable.
Blog post, Crunch time for cookies? reporting on the Planet49 case on cookies and similar technologies in the CJEU.
Video, Use of cookies and similar technologies: updated ICO guidance explaining the key points to note in the updated guidance from the ICO on using cookies and similar technologies.
Related topics: Artificial intelligence, Cyber security, Data protection
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10 reasons the Gilets Jaunes are the real deal
I don’t know what the future holds but I do know that all these reasons taken together prove the Gilets Jaunes are the real deal for genuine change; not only in France but also in how the rest of the world conceives and practices politics itself.
The Making of a Police State: Macron Tactics Against Yellow Vests Have Nothing to Do with Public Safety, Everything to Do with Global Politics
8th February 2019 8th February 2019
The Gilets Jaunes have exposed Macron for what he really is: an instrument of power on the global stage who will not be allowed to deviate from his machiavellian road map. Under Macron, France is rapidly being plunged into plutocracy and totalitarianism and the French people are pushing back.
GILETS JAUNES: Civilians in Police Crosshairs as Macron Adopts Totalitarian State-Practices to Suppress Dissent
1st February 2019 1st February 2019
If indeed Macron’s coterie in government are pushing for confrontation between the people and the security forces and introducing increasingly repressive measures to up the pressure on the protestors rather than trying to defuse matters, it is really ten minutes before midnight in France.
Macron is doing his job and his job is to manufacture the conditions in which the privileged, wealthy ruling elite can thrive and further their globalist ambitions which includes military adventurism and resource theft from target nations that include Venezuela and Syria.
Violence will escalate in France because it is state-sanctioned. Unless the police wake up to their manipulation by the state and join forces with the GJs there is a risk of a serious confrontation in the very near future. However, as historian Diana Johstone has said: “for all the lamented decline in the school system, the French people today are as well-educated and reasonable as any population can be expected to be. If they are incapable of democracy, then democracy is impossible.”. There is still hope that the wave of discontent generated by the GJs may still bring down the globalist power structure and replace it with something more allied to the principles of the Republic of France.
Yellow Vests Movement : La Revolution en Marche
This is the moment to be proud as French people. Proud for your resistance, proud for your strength and courage in facing tyranny and oppression who try to take your liberté and egalité away. Proud for your relentless fight for egalité, liberté and fraternité. Traverse la rue, prends ton pays! My phrase which means “Cross the Street and Take Your Country Back!”, as my support to the Yellow Vests and French people, also my support to the students’ protests all over France and Mantes la Jolie.
As the Yellow Vests movement spilled to other European countries such as Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, etc France has became a leader in fighting for human rights, freedom and equality. One thing for sure is that France remembers and learned from its history. If this Yellow Vests Movement inspires other movements all over the world for freedom and equality, France can become once again the world’s leader in terms of Revolution in history. Vive la Révolution!
Can The ‘Yellow Vests’ Protests Go Global?
More significantly, the French have provided the rest of the world with an important lesson. That protest movements should ideally tap into widespread grievances and capture the support of the masses in order to be most powerful and effective. This shouldn’t be hard for anyone, since I can’t think of any major governments anywhere in the world that aren’t completely captured by destructive special interests and unprincipled oligarchs.
Yellow Vests Rise Against Neo-Liberal ‘King’ Macron
7th December 2018 7th December 2018
The gasoline tax was the last straw in a long series of measures favoring the rich at the expense of the majority of the population. That is why the movement achieved almost instant popularity and support.
Briefly, the message was this: we can’t make ends meet. The cost of living keeps going up, and our incomes keep going down. We just can’t take it any more. The government must stop, think and change course.
It is perfectly hypocritical to call the French gas tax an “ecotax” since the returns from a genuine ecotax would be invested to develop clean energies – such as tidal power plants. Rather, the benefits are earmarked to balance the budget, that is, to serve the government debt. The Macronian gas tax is just another austerity measure – along with cutting back public services.
Massive Strike in France Dec 5, 2019 : “Government at War Against Its Own People”
Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky
A must watch for any global citizen of the world who wants to "wake up". Please commit time of almost 3 hour long to watch the video to get full understanding of how the media works, how the world works and how to manufacture consent. The choice is yours, blue pill or red pill.
Max Blumenthal on how corporate media manufactures consent for war and regime change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOV-RYnpQH4
Bolivia coup: Lithium, natural gas, and leaked recordings showing help from US, Brazil, Colombia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMscskEEAyw
US meddling machine is ramping up the Cold War with China
Violent fanatics are assaulting people in the streets of Hong Kong while corporate media cheers them on as “pro-democracy” and oligarchs cash in. I explain how the US meddling machine is ramping up the Cold War with China: pic.twitter.com/hi3kKNlIAt
— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) October 17, 2019
Wikileaks Top 10
You only need to watch the first 14 seconds of this video to see the US State Dept "joke" that sums up everything wrong with the persecution of Julian Assange: https://t.co/HIyMOCUaeC #DontExtraditeAssange #FreeAssange
— Bean🔥 (@SomersetBean) October 23, 2019
List of Books About Human Rights Abuses in Indonesia (Free to Read)
Here is a compilation of writings and books on genocide and crimes against humanity in Indonesia since 1965. You can download and read it freely from this website "Perpustakaan Online Genosida" (Online Library on Genocide): https://19651966perpustakaanonline.wordpress.com
Is Indonesia moving away from democracy? | The Stream
https://youtu.be/fmlGDoqYwns
The People’s Right and/or Duty to Revolt
“When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is for the people, and for every portion thereof, the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.” — French Constitution of 1793, Declaration of the Rights of man and citizen.
The Neglected Genocide in West Papua
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The Juice Media’s “Visit West Papua” Ads YouTube video has just been banned in Indonesia
The Juice Media's "Visit West Papua" Ads YouTube video has just been banned in Indonesia. Here it is to see it on Twitter with Indonesian translation. So much for the freedom of speech in Indonesia. We who care about human rights will not be silenced.
Unfortunately for that Government @nandidamba reuploaded our censored video to twitter and even added Bahasa captions... https://t.co/hM4hgH2mq3
— theJuice 🌏🔥💧 (@thejuicemedia) August 28, 2019
Four Reasons Why Interventionism In Syria Is Crazy And Stupid
Saudi Arabia Executes Indonesian Maid Tuti Tursilawati Over Self Defence
INDONESIA: Chomsky slams Western ‘support’ for Papua atrocities
Poverty and Extreme Poverty: Filming in the Most Depressing City on Earth — Jakarta.
Despite Bannon’s Role in Campaign, Bolsonaro is not Brazil’s Trump – He’s Far Worse
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India Puts Capital on Lockdown as Protests Against Discriminatory Laws Rage on
MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid Invites Quack Body Language Expert on to Trash Sanders
Sleepless in Cairo: Egyptians Reacquaint Themselves to Life In a Dictatorship
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The Energizer Bernie and the Power Behind Him
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Invest in Communities, Not Cops
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Chileans Revolt After Being Told, “Get Up Earlier”
Ecuador: From the middle of the world to the end of the world
The War on Truth: How Israel’s Social Media Trolls Conquered Facebook
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The Motherhood Penalty Needs to be Overturned
The US and Iran’s Perpetual Almost-War Is Unsustainable – and Will End Badly
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Charles Bernstein’s most recent books are Near/Miss (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Pitch of Poetry (Chicago, 2016), Recalculating (Chicago, 2013) and All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010). In the 1990s, he cofounded and directed the Poetics Program at the State University of New York–Buffalo. He was the Donald T. Reagan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania from 2003-2019. Bernstein is codirector of PennSound. He received the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry in 2019. More info at EPC.
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Pierrot le Fou
Explode for small change (PoemTalk #104)
The Boy Soprano
The Value of 'Sulfur'
Introducing Barbara Guest
On Hannah Weiner
Poetry and/or the Sacred
This Poem Intentionally Left Blank
Afterward to 'The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser'
Robert Grenier and Charles Bernstein
Close listening with Keith Waldrop, 2009
The revolution in 'Tender Buttons'
Delany on Close Listening, April 2014
Writing in situ
'Writing is a body-intensive activity'
Futurism and schism
Ways of reading: Marjorie Perloff and the sublimity of pragmatic criticism
Gertrude Stein taunts Hitler in 1934 and 1945
Gertrude Stein's war years: Setting the record straight
Ear turned toward the emergent
Just begun to learn: PoemTalk on Louis Zukofsky's 'Anew'
LINEbreak: Bruce Andrews, New York City 1995
LINEbreak: Barbara Guest in conversation with Charles Bernstein
Barbara Guest: The art of poetry
Poetry in 1960, a symposium: Question and answer session
On Larry Eigner, 'On My Eyes'
On being stubborn
Introduction to Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems
Setting the World on Fire
Making things difficult
Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
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A blog about retro American pop culture from the 1970's through the 1980's.
Coke Formula Uses 30 lbs. of Sugar, Diet Coke at 30, Making It at Home, and More ...
Diet Coke can, circa 1982
2012 marks the thirtieth (30th) anniversary of Diet Coke, in what was (at the time) the first-ever brand extension of the iconic Coca Cola brand name (they have since introduced flavored versions as well as Coke Zero, but Diet Coke was the first). According to AdWeek, the company will release special, limited-edition cans commemorating the anniversary cans (see HERE ) which are slated to hit stores in early September. Note that Diet Coke is marketed in certain other markets as "Coke Light" (for example, in much of Europe). Coke Light communicates something in languages that don't use the term "diet" as we do in the English Language.
I should note that to the best of my knowledge, the Coca Cola (or Coke) brands had never been officially extended prior to Diet Coke, as flavored varieties of Coca Cola like Cherry Coke were largely local soda fountain inventions that weren't adopted [at least officially] by the company until many years later. Indeed, although the 30 year-old diet cola brand is pretty much known as Diet Coke, the earlier cans and bottles also featured the name "Diet Coca Cola" in the company's iconic font (albeit in a tiny version of the font) on the side of the labels and most still do.
Coca Cola has always been fiercely protective of it's iconic cola brand, and the formula for the beverage. According to company legend, the recipe is locked in a bank safe deposit vault at a SunTrust location Atlanta and only two individuals at the company even have access to it (or half of it). Needless to say, it's a fiercely guarded secret, although detailed facts coming from the company are done in such a way to preserve the legend of the Coke brand.
The 1985 "New Coke" Debacle
The so-called "New Coke" debacle from 1985 (hence we can celebrate it's 27th anniversary this year) is alleged by some as a big cover for the mass switch from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup ("HFCS") which is significantly cheaper. However, Snopes reports (see HERE) that in 1980, which was 5 years before the introduction of "New Coke", Coca-Cola had already begun to allow bottlers to replace half the cane sugar in Coca-Cola with HFCS. Six months prior to New Coke's intro, American Coca-Cola bottlers were already permitted to use 100% HFCS. Whether consumers knew it or not, many were already drinking Coke that was 100% sweetened by HFCS. Anyway, cheap HFCS was definitely NOT in the original recipe, that's for certain, as HFCS only became available after researchers in Japan during the late 1970s developed a highly caustic and corrosive acid that's used to process genetically-modified corn (which itself did not exist until recombinant DNA technology emerged in the early 1980s) used in all HFCS. Hence, HFCS has only been in existence for around 35 years itself. The decision was based on little more than economics, hence the company had no problem altering the secret formula for that.
Diet Coke: A Radical Departure from a Brand That's Fiercely Protected
Diet Coke was a radical departure for the company from a branding perspective. Prior to 1982, Coca Cola offered a diet cola known as "Tab" cola, a completely distinct diet cola brand that continues to have loyal fans who can buy it from some local bottling companies even today.
Without getting too far off-topic, today's post is not about diet Coke's 30th anniversary, or even about the New Coke debacle in 1985 (although it certainly could be), but about a fascinating clip I from the weekly radio program "This American Life" produced by Chicago Public Media and distributed by Public Radio International which aired on February 15, 2011. I happened to listen to it while I was on vacation recently. Anyway, in that fascinating program, the reporter, Ira Glass reveals what he believes could very well be the secret formula for Coca Cola, but he also talks with historians on the subject, and even provides some interesting background on why Coca Cola has so much sugar (the formula for a small batch of the syrup alone calls for 30 lbs., that's right, POUNDS of sugar) which is because in 1885, Atlanta voted for prohibition, and Pemberton realized that he was going to have to get rid of the wine he used in his drink. So he kept the two other ingredients, the cocaine and the caffeine. People loved those! (Any guess as to why?).
Early Coca Cola's Secret Formula: Cocaine and Caffeine
Yes, the original formula for Coca Cola contained cocaine (at least it did until 1903). This is big reason Coca Cola has so damn much sugar (or HFCS) in it: apparently, when you mix cocaine and caffeine together, they're extremely bitter. So John Pemberton, Coke's inventor, poured in a ton of sugar to cut the bitterness and voilà, it became Coca Cola. Pemberton called it his "temperance drink" (it may have lacked wine, but the cocaine made up for it).
The interview also explains a bit more about the formula, which, incidentally, "This American Life" says can be seen HERE. The story created a bit of an uproar last February [2011], and they explain why they believe their discovery might be legit, talking to historians, and even soda experts such as Eric Chastain and Mike Spear, who are the VP of operations and the marketing director (respectively) at Jones Soda in Seattle. Jones makes primarily "natural" soda flavors like cream soda and green apple. But, apparently, they're also known for being willing to try almost anything, and the company has even made turkey and gravy soda, as well Brussels sprout soda (needless to say, those flavors weren't among their big hits).
On the cocaine front, the company has special permission from the U.S. Government (largely because it is grandfathered, having sold a product containing the ingredient prior to laws prohibiting it) to attain the raw cocoa leaves, which are considered a Schedule II controlled substance, and they use a little-known operation in Maywood, New Jersey that's part of the Illinois-based Stepan Chemical Company which removes the cocaine from the cocoa leaves so Coke can still have it's distinctive flavor. No details were provided in the podcast on what, exactly, the company does with the wasted byproduct ... cocaine, although Wikipedia claims it is sold for medicinal purposes to a St. Louis, Missouri-based chemical company known as Mallinckrodt (which was acquired by Tyco in 2001, and in 2007, Tyco spun those healthcare business units off under the name Covidien) which also deals with cannibis and opium. I guess it's an interesting company to work for!
I have no perspective on whether the "secret" formula revealed in the program might be legitimate or not, but I can say the discussion was positively fascinating. Have a listen to the podcast (I believe it's about 30 minutes in length, although I have the complete podcast below, and the relevant content is basically the first half, although you're more than welcome to listen to all of it) by visiting HERE (short link http://bit.ly/MjG5Zq). Unfortunately, I initially had some trouble embedding the podcast here (it seems to be working now), but it's definitely worth listening to!
You can also download the podcast via iTunes or Amazon.com. As I write this, the cost was less than a can of Coca Cola is sold for (at least where I live) at just $0.99. This particular story was a good one in my honest opinion, and the press release for this podcast (see the press release at http://prn.to/MjPy2V) actually received a wave of international press coverage because they boldly proclaimed they had found the "secret formula" for Coca Cola.
You can try and make it for yourself if you're so inclined.
You be the judge. I will say that it was a fascinating look into an icon of American pop culture, and for me, the 30th anniversary of diet Coke is a big deal, but for those who like the sugary stuff, or even just details of a closely-guarded corporate secret, this podcast is worth tuning into!
Links in this Post:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/this-american-life-reveals-what-it-believes-is-the-original-recipe-for-coca-cola-116263029.html
Podcast Web Page:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/427/original-recipe/
"Secret" Recipe for Coca Cola:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/TAL_original_recipe.pdf
Posted by Scott S
Labels: 2012, 30, Coca Cola, Coke, Diet Coke, Food, NPR, Podcast, soda
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William Osler
This page lists items in the database related to Canadian physician and bibliophile Sir William Osler (b. Bond Head, Ontario, Canada, 12 July 1849; d. Oxford, England, 29 December 1919):
Osler Library of the History of Medicine in Montreal with:
The Linacre, Harvey and Sydenham triptych (Osler's copy)
The Osler Niche with the funerary urn of William Osler
William Osler's memorial
Oxford University Museum of Natural History in Oxford
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Maude Abbott Medical Museum
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"The Advance of Neurology" by Mary Harris Filer (1954)* Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine in Baltimore
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- M.Bliss, William Osler. A Life in Medicine, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999
- W.F.Bynum and Helen Bynum, Dictionary of medical biography, Greenwood Press, Westport (CT) 2007, vol. 4, pp. 947-51.
- H.Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 voll., Clarendom Press, Oxford 1925
- Alex Sakula, The Portraiture of Sir William Osler, The Royal Society of Medicine, London-New York 1991, pp. 91
- The William Osler Photo Collection
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Voc from a Morphology Point of View: the Influence of Molecular Orientation on the Open Circuit Voltage of Organic Planar Heterojunction Solar Cells
Hörmann, Ulrich
Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Universitätsstraße 1, 86135 Augsburg, Germany.
Lorch, Christopher
Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Hinderhofer, Alexander
Gerlach, Alexander
Gruber, Mark
Kraus, Julia
Sykora, Benedikt
Grob, Stefan
Linderl, Theresa
Wilke, Andreas
Department of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
Opitz, Andreas
Department of Physics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
Hansson, Rickard
Karlstad University, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology (starting 2013), Department of Engineering and Physics. (INTERACT)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4745-1074
Anselmo, Ana Sofia
Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, Materials Science. Karlstad University, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology (starting 2013), Department of Engineering and Physics. (Materialfysik)
Ozawa, Yusuke
Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
Nakayama, Yasuo
Ishii, Hisao
Center for Frontier Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan and Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
Koch, Norbert
Department of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH - BESSY II, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
Moons, Ellen
Schreiber, Frank
Brütting, Wolfgang
Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Universitätsstraße 1, 86135 Augsburg, Germany.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9895-8281
2014 (English)In: Journal of physical chemistry C, ISSN 1932-7455, Vol. 118, no 46, p. 26462-26470Article in journal (Refereed) Published
The film morphology and device performance of planar heterojunction
solar cells based on the molecular donor material α-sexithiophene (6T) are investigated.
Planar heterojunctions of 6T with two different acceptor molecules, the C60 fullerene and
diindenoperylene (DIP), have been prepared. The growth temperature of the 6T bottom
layer has been varied between room temperature and 100 °C for each acceptor. By means
of X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption, we show that the crystallinity and the molecular
orientation of 6T is influenced by the preparation conditions and that the 6T film
templates the growth of the subsequent acceptor layer. These structural changes are
accompanied by changes in the characteristic parameters of the corresponding
photovoltaic cells. This is most prominently observed as a shift of the open circuit
voltage (Voc): In the case of 6T/C60 heterojunctions, Voc decreases from 0.4 to 0.3 V,
approximately, if the growth temperature of 6T is increased from room temperature to 100
°C. By contrast, Voc increases from about 1.2 V to almost 1.4 V in the case of 6T/DIP solar
cells under the same conditions. We attribute these changes upon substrate heating to
increased recombination in the C60 case while an orientation dependent intermolecular coupling seems to change the origin of the photovoltaic gap in the DIP case.
2014. Vol. 118, no 46, p. 26462-26470
Physics; Materials Science
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-35420DOI: 10.1021/jp506180kISI: 000345474000005OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-35420DiVA, id: diva2:797053
German Research Foundation (DFG), SPP 1355Göran Gustafsson Foundation for Research in Natural Sciences and Medicine
Hansson, RickardAnselmo, Ana SofiaMoons, EllenBrütting, Wolfgang
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Kyle King’s strategy in 2016 was to draft a team of young wrestlers with enormous talent, and whip them into shape with intense, non-stop training. Kyle knew what he was doing, as that strategy led The Stranglers to the Team Xcellence title. But a great strategy is worthless without flawless execution, and Kyle proved that he could train his young team to be the best in KCXW. With the announcement of The Stranglers’ 2017 roster, Kyle makes clear that he does not intend to fix what isn’t broken. Look for The Stranglers to not only have a strong start the 2017 Season of Xcellence, but to also show the most improvement of any team throughout the year.
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The prodigal son returns, and The Stranglers couldn’t be happier. Since doing his part to help The Stranglers win the 2016 Team Xcellence title, Leo D’Auria has been on the move honing his skills and proudly representing the D’Auria name. Apparently, Kyle King’s tenacity extends beyond the squared circle; when Draft Day 2017 came, Leo answered the call and committed to return to The Stranglers. From his role in The Stranglers’ win in the inaugural President’s Cup match at KCXW: Tactics to christening the Alamo Drafthouse with a triple-threat victory over Shannon Reed and Cornelius Wyverstone at KCXW: Takeover, D’Auria has had a hand in some of KCXW’s most memorable moments. One of the toughest men to ever wrestle a KCXW match, “Leo D.” can outlast just about anybody, at least long enough to bury them with his lethal Cement Boots finisher.
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Occurrence and Host Plant of Metcalfa Pruinosa (Say) (Hemiptera: Flatidae) in Korea
Kim, Dong-Eon;Kil, Jihyon 1385
https://doi.org/10.5322/JESI.2014.23.8.1385 PDF KSCI
Metcalfa pruinosa was considered to be a very harmful invasive species, due to its high species density in nature and wide range of its host plants. M. pruinosa was distributed in 28 sites among 143 sites. M. pruinosa has wide range and diverse host plants of 52 families 110 species including crop, fruits and forest trees. At present, the identified host plant of M. pruinosa are composed of 62 families and 145 species in total since their first appearance was reported. M. pruinosa was found in roadside 46.7%, followed by forests 33.3% and orchard 20%. Nymphs and adults cause damage to crop and orchard by sucking juice, outbreak of fungi through secretion of wax, and reduction of plant assimilation due to the nectar of nymphs. Also, it reduces the merchantable quality of fruits and thus causes economic damage. It is judged that M. pruinosa has been moved along major road via the traffic vehicles.
Assessment and Analysis of Coal Seam Gas Water Management Study for Water Resource Production -1. Water Production
Shin, Choon-Hwan 1395
Coal seam gas (CSG) production involves extracting methane from coal seams with ground water which is so called a primary by-product of this process, and is often rich in salts and other constituents. The predicted large volume and variable quality of this water make water management a topic associated with CSG production. In the past, the amount of this water used to be pumped into the vacant aquifer, or into the river during the life of individual production wells. Australian government make a strategies for management and beneficial use of the water. From this point of view, a detailed assessment has not been undertaken, it is necessary for water resource production to analysis the "Coal Seam Gas Water (CSG Water) Management Policy Study" published in Queensland, Australia.
Simultaneous Removal of TVOC and Particulate Matters Using Rectangular Bag-Filter System with for a Foundry
Xu, Rong-Bin;Kim, Tae-Hyeung;Ha, Hyun-Chul;Piao, Cheng-Xu 1409
Foundry has an important economic value in the industry. However, the generation of air pollutants like particulate and odor are serious. Due to the unavoidable usage of molding sand, particulate occurs in almost all the processes. That accounts for the majority of respirable dust in the size less than $10{\mu}m$ As well as particulate, over 22 species of odor-causing gases and VOCs including hydrogen sulfide and ammonia are occurred. Therefore, the development of equipment that can simultaneously remove TVOC and particulate is regarded as an essential research. In this study, the spraying absorbent system was connected with the shear bag filter for the purpose to remove TVOC and particulate simultaneously. Maximization of process efficiency for the affective factors like the powder combination and injection method is conducted. The experiment was performed at the de-molding process of one foundry plant. Through these devices, the removal efficiency of more than 95% for TVOC was achieved with the absorbent that composed by 800 mesh Activated carbon (80%) and 300 mesh zeolite (20%). Also, the durability and economic evaluation were assessed. In the result of Durability assessment, the available recovery to maintain the deodorizing effect at 90% was counted to 350 degree.
Heavy Metal Removal of Acrylic Acid-grafted Bacterial Cellulose in Aqueous Solution
Ahn, Yeong-Hee;Choi, Yong-Jin 1419
Electron beam-induced grafting polymerization was employed to prepare Acrylic acid-grafted bacterial cellulose (BC-g-AAc). BC-g-AAc as an adsorbent was applied to remove heavy metals (e.g., As, Pb, and Cd). This study examined followings; morphological change of surface, adsorptive behavior of BC-g-AAc, and interpretation of adsorptive kinetics. Specific surface areas of BC and BC-g-AAc were $0.9527m^2g^{-1}$ for BC and $0.2272m^2g^{-1}$ for BC-g-AAc, respectively as measured by BET nitrogen adsorption, revealing the morphological change of the surface of BC-g-AAc. Batch adsorption test was performed to investigate adsorptive behavior of BC-g-AAc in aqueous solution. The amounts of Pb and Cd adsorbed on BC-g-AAc were $69mg\;g^{-1}$ and $56mg\;g^{-1}$, respectively. However, As was not adsorbed on BC-g-AAc due to its neutral nature. Both the Benaissa model and the Kurniawan model were applied in the study to interpret adsorptive kinetics. From the value of correction coefficient ($R^2$), adsorptive kinetics of Pb and Cd were subjected to Kurniawan model referred to pseudo-second-order. Taken together, the results of this study show that BC-g-AAc has potential as a heavy metal (eg., Pb, Cd)-adsorbent made of an environmentally friendly material.
Effects of Bamboo Powder Supplementation on Growth Performance, Blood Metabolites and Carcass Characteristics of Fattening Pigs and Gas Emission and Microbial Populations in Pig Manure
Song, Young-Min;Cho, Jae-Hyeon;Chu, Gyo-Moon;Kim, Hoi-Yun;Lee, Jae-Young;Kim, Seung-Cheol;Kim, Sam-Churl 1429
In this study, we investigated the effects of dietary supplementation (n = 40 pigs/treatment) with bamboo powder (0, 1, 2 and 3%) for 38 days. We evaluated growth performance, blood metabolites, and carcass characteristics of fattening pigs and gas emission and microbial populations in pig manure, to obtain data on pork producers for environmental management. We obtained the following results. First, supplementation with increasing amounts of bamboo powder had a significant (P < 0.05) effect on feed intake, feed efficiency, and glucose contents (except for initial and final body weight, weight gain, carcass characteristics, and blood urea nitrogen). In terms of blood metabolites, glucose and blood urea nitrogen tended to decrease with increasing amounts of bamboo powder. Second, the amounts of ammonia, methane, amine, hydrogen sulfide, and acetic acid were reduced by increasing amounts of bamboo powder when compared with the controls (P < 0.05). However, there were no significant differences in pH, propionic acid, iso-butyric acid, butyric acid, iso-valeric acid, and valeric acid among all treatments. The lowest gas emission was observed when 3% bamboo powder was used. Third, supplementation with increasing amounts of bamboo powder tended (P < 0.05) to increase the total number of bacteria, Lactobacillus spp., and yeast, but E. coli, Salmonella spp., and Shigella spp. were not detected in any treatment. In conclusion, the results of this study suggest that supplementation with bamboo powder was effective in reducing gas emission and inhibiting pathogen populations in pig manure by lowering the pH of the manure.
Comparative of Energy-Saving by Green Roof Type on Urban Office Building
Kim, Jeong-Ho;Kwon, Ki-Uk;Joo, Chang-Hun;Yoon, Yong-Han 1437
This study, the urban energy used office building green roof type composition of the target by analyze building energy reductions. Green roof is total 6 types(type A~F) were selected, EnergyPlus the energy simulation programs were used. Top floor of green roof types evaluation, the reduction of the cooling peak load type E(1.26%), type D(1.30%), type C(1.37%), type B(1.45%), type F(1.49%), and heating peak load is type D(1.32%), type E(1.40%), type C(1.47%), type F(1.69%), type B(2.13%) order. Annual cooling load of heating load is reduced more than about 1% effect. The heating load reduction ratio for a maximum of 9% respectively. Cooling peak load of the building energy performance evaluation of type F > type B > type C > type D > type E in the order and in the case of peak loads heating type B > type F > type D > type E>type C order. Annual total energy use reduction of 1.07 to 1.22% and earn, type B in the best good. In primary energy use reductions in the presence of a green roof were in the 4249~4876 kWh/yr. Annual $CO_2$ emissions reductions of unapplied type A were analyzed on average 469.78 kg.
The Study on the Sexual Difference in the Cause and the Time of Casualty and in the Size of the Fairy Pitta (Pitta nympha) through DNA Analysis in Republic of Korea
Kim, Eun-Mi;Jeon, Yeon-Seon;Jeong, Gil-Sang;Kim, Se-Jae;Kang, Chang-Wan;Oh, Mi-Rea;Noh, Pu-Reum;Won, Hyun-Kyu 1447
The differentiation of sex is important for species preservation. However, Fairy Pitta is sexually monomorphic and sex of an individual is indistinguishable with its external characteristics. We determined the sex of Fairy Pitta through DNA analysis and investigated the causes and time of injury and mortality and the size based on sex. We collected 21 samples at Jeju Island, Korean Peninsula from 2004 to 2013 and extracted DNA from them and amplified chromo helicase DNA-binding gene from Z and W chromosomes through Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). We confirmed their sex with the banding pattern through Agarose gel electrophoresis, i.e. male (ZZ): one banded and female (ZW) two banded. We distinguished the sex of 17 of 21 samples resulting in 9 males and 8 females. Most casualties were recorded in adult of both sexes. Causes of injury and mortality proved that female casualties occurred from window strikes, dehydration, car accident, predation by natural enemies, and male occurred from window strikes, car accident and dehydration. The time of injury and mortality in adults differ by sex. There was no difference between sexes in any of the six size parameters. As the time of injury and mortality differ by sex, the survey on the role and ecological nature by sex in breeding season must be carried out in the future. External measurements may not be reliable for sexing of Fairy Pitta and other traits such as vocal or characteristics are required to identify the sex of individuals in the field.
The Effect of Cognition Degree of Green Life on Green Consumer Behavior
Jung, Joo-Won;Cho, So-Yeon 1455
The purpose of this study is to examine green consumer behavior (green product purchasing behavior and green consumption life) affected by demographical characteristics, and cognition degree of green life (cognition of a green indicator, a green life catalyst system, and environmental problems). It's also to promote strategy and suggest effective activation plans for the vitalization of green consumer behavior. To carry out the task, verification of credibility, multiple regression analysis, two-step cluster analysis, and multinomial logistic analysis were used. The results are as follows: First, the factors that effect green product purchasing behavior were gender, age, cognitive of a green indicator, carbon points system, electricity peak hour system, and seriousness of environmental damage due to lifestyle. Second, the factors that effect green lifestyle were gender, age, carbon grade indicator system, cognition of a green system, and the seriousness of environmental damage due to lifestyle. Third, the comparative group characteristic analysis showed low rates for careless green consumer behavior groups compared to the passive green consumer behavior groups in cognition of a green indicator, green system, and environmental problems. For active green consumer behavior groups, the analysis showed high rates in cognition of carbon grades, eco-labeling, electricity peak hour system, and environmental damage due to lifestyle. In order to encourage green consumer behavior, it's evident that cognition of a green indicator, a green life catalyst system, and environmental problems need to be improved through strategic education and continuous encouragement.
First Record on the Exotic Parasitoids Anisopteromalus apiovorus Rasplus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in Korea
Cho, Bong-Kyun;Kim, Il-Kwon;Yoon, Chun-Sik;Kim, Hyoung-Gon;Cheong, Seon-Woo 1463
An exotic parasitic wasp Anisopteromalus apiovorus of Pteromalidae was newly recorded in Korea. Specimens of this species have been collected in Gimhae of Korea since 2012. External morphology of this species was described in detail and diagnostic differences of this species from the related species and the host insect were also given. The funicle segments of female antennae are 1.2 to 1.5 times longer than those of Anisopteromalus calandrae, an sister species. Body color is gold-glossy black and with dense creamy-white hairs on the surface. This exotic species has been originated from the African continent including Democratic Republic of Congo and Cote d'Ivoire, and then intruded into other countries, for instance, Korea. This is the first distribution record of this species except the country of origin after original description as a new species. Although little is known about the life history or ecology of this species, we found that a new host of this small parasitic wasp is Lasioderma serricorne of coleoptera through present study. And this species possibly be a new agent of biological control for economic pests. It was presumed that the invasion of Anisopteromalus apiovorus into Korea was prior to November of 2012.
A Study on the Environmental Education Experience and Environmental Perceptions of Citizens in Daegu
Yamada, Keiko 1469
This study, through the survey of citizens of Daegu in regard to the environment education experience and citizens perception, seeks to identify the order of importance and perception on the severity of environment. The survey has found that 36.4% citizens of Daegu have environment education experience. Those who have experience have high standard of living, live in high population density area and where pollutant generating plants are prevalent. In addition they are likely to live in apartment, are younger, and the higher the education level, more opportunities they have in getting environment education. The study has found that the environment education experience gives noticeable influence on environment perception, environment attitude, and environment activities. Also, those who have the environment education are likely to be interested in environment, know green growth policies, and are positive about local environment activities. Thus, they are willing to participate in activities to improve local environment and have emphasized the need for more environment education. As for what environment elements are most severe, they pointed to the "global warming and climate change" and "everyday garbage" and as for what are important, they chose "drinking water quality" and "global warming and climate change." Based on the study, we came to the conclusion that more environment education should be provided to elevate the interest in environment and subsequently, foster the sense of responsibility and civic mind toward the preservation of environment. In light of above, local governments must expand their supports and fully utilize the Local Agenda 21 to promote the education and increase the perception of citizens on the environment.
A Study on Predictability of Snowfall Amount due to Fine Difference of Spatial Distribution of Remote Sensing based Sea Surface Temperature
Lee, Soon-Hwan;Yoo, Jung-Woo 1481
In order to understand the relation between the distribution of sea surface temperature and heavy snowfall over western coast of the Korean peninsula, several numerical assessments were carried out. Numerical model used in this study is WRF, and sea surface temperature data were FNL(National Center for Environment Prediction-Final operational global analysis), RTG(Real Time Global analysis), and OSTIA(Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis). There were produced on the basis of remote sensing data, such as a variety of satellite and in situ observation. The analysis focused on the heavy snowfall over Honam districts for 2 days from 29 December 2010. In comparison with RTG and OSTIA SST data, sensible and latent heat fluexes estimated by numerical simulation with FNL data were higher than those with RTG and OSTIA SST data, due to higher sea surface temperature of FNL. General distribution of RTG and OSTIA SST showed similar, however, fine spatial differences appear in near western coast of the peninsula. Estimated snow fall amount with OSTIA SST was occurred far from the western coast because of higher SST over sea far from coast than that near coast. On the other hand, snowfall amount near coast is larger than that over distance sea in simulation with RTG SST. The difference of snowfall amount between numerical assessment with RTG and OSTIA is induced from the fine difference of SST spatial distributions over the Yellow sea. So, the prediction accuracy of snowfall amount is strongly associated with the SST distribution not only over near coast but also over far from the western coast of the Korean peninsula.
The Evaluations of Fish Survival Rate and Fish Movements using the Tagging Monitoring Approach of Passive Integrated Transponders (PIT)
Choi, Ji-Woong;An, Kwang-Guk 1495
The objective of this study was to evaluate survival rate and fish movement (migration) using a tagging approach of passive integrated transponder (PIT) in Juksan Weir, which was constructed as a four major river restoration projects. For this study, survival rates of each fish species and the mobility of fish individuals were analyzed during 2 weeks by the insertion of PIT tags to various fish species in the laboratory. According to tagging tests in the laboratory, the survival rate 37.5% (30 survivals of 80 individuals) after the insertion of PIT tags. The survival rate of Carassius auratus and Hemibarbus labeo was 100% and 80% after the insertion of the tags, respectively, whereas it was only 13.3% for Zacco platypus. In the field experiments of Juksan Weir, 6 species and 157 individuals from 8 species (563 individuals) were detected in the fixed automatic data-logging system, indicating a detection rate of 27.9% in the fishway of Juksan Weir. In the meantime, some species with no or low detection rates in the fixed automatic data-logging system were turn out to be stagnant-type species, which prefer stagnant or standing water to live.
Recognition of Korean Pre-service Elementary Teachers Concerning Environment Class
Kim, Dong-Uk;Kim, Sung-Hoon 1507
Recognition of Korean pre-service elementary school teachers concerning the factor for the environmental class was investigated and analyzed by the factorial analysis. Korean pre-service elementary school teachers are aware of the factor of 'participation in environment' as well as the factor of 'environmental knowledge' for the environmental class. Furthermore, they had a very positive attitude about the factor of 'participation in environment'.
Fish Passage Assessments in the Fishway of Juksan Weir Constructed in the Downstream Area of Youngsan-River Watershed
Park, Chan-Seo;An, Kwang-Guk 1513
Fish passage asssessments were conducted in the fishway at Juksan Weir, which was constructed as a four-major rivers project in the downstream area of Youngsan-River Watershed. For the research, fish-movements/migrations were analyzed for seven times from April ~ October, 2013 using an approach of fish trap-setting. Fish fauna and compositions were analyzed in the fishway, and seasonal- and diel-movement patterns were analyzed in relation to current velocity in the fishway. Also, abundances of exotic fishes such as bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus), large-mouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), and white curcian carp (Carassius cuvieri) were monitored in the fishway. Current velocity(n = 18) in the fishway showed large variations ($0.82{\pm}0.63m/s$) depending on the location of the fish trap-setting and this physical factor influenced the fish movements. Fish movements, based on the CPUE of individuals, in the fishway was greater in slower velocity (mean: 0.36 m/s, range: 0.10~1.54 m/s) than faster velocity (mean: 1.51 m/s, range: 0.90~1.90 m/s). Seasonal analysis of fish movements showed that most frequent uses (8 speices and 591 individuals, 66.2% of the total) of the fishway occurred in spring period(i.e., June). Diel movement analysis, in the mean time, showed highest in the time period of 00:00 ~ 3:00 am (7 species and 281 individuals, 20.9% of the total). The efficient managements in the fishway at Juksan Weir are required in relation to the hydrological regime.
Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned: The Eulsukdo Wetland Restoration Program
Lineman, Maurice J.M.;Do, Yuno;Kim, Ji-Yoon;Joo, Gea-Jae 1523
Restoration is the process of reducing or reversing damage to an ecosystem so that it can function in its original manner. However, many restoration programs do not achieve this. In the Nakdong Estuary, the largest migratory nesting site in the center of the East Asian-Australasian flyway, an estuarine barrage was constructed in the 1980s that required site restoration following its completion in 1987 and the expansion of several large industrial complexes(Noksan and Jangrim) and a residential development(Myeongji). The goal of the restoration was to restore the function of the wetland to its pre-disturbance state. To achieve this, a restoration program was designed consisting of three stages. The first stage(1993-1995), saw the construction of three artificial wetlands(Shinhori, Daemadeung, and Eulsuk), the second(2003-2005) involved the dredging and returning of farmed lands to their natural state, and the third(2008-2012) focused on the rehabilitation and vegetation development of the wetlands. However, the project has not achieved all of the desired goals, and it is an example of the lapses in ecological restoration following anthropogenic disturbance. Issues that resulted in an incomplete restoration included the timing of the stages, noncompliance with the restoration plan, not directly monitoring the restoration or continuing the monitoring following completion of the development project, and the political subversion of the restoration plan. For the success of the restoration plan, it is necessary to avoid mistakes such as inconsistent monitoring, unequal levels of stakeholder involvement, and political interference.
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City of Knoxville Blogs City Blog Karaoke, Integration and Oth...
Karaoke, Integration and Other Topics at Knoxville History Project Luncheon
For a brief moment at Tuesday’s Knoxville History Project luncheon, the topic at hand was Mayor Madeline Rogero’s karaoke skills.
It was her sometime duet partner and the event’s honoree Bob Booker who broached the subject from the stage where he was being interviewed by KHP executive director Jack Neely.
When Neely asked about Booker’s fondness for karaoke, the 83-year-old author and historian grinned mischievously and threw a nod to Mayor Rogero as well as Marie Owen, proprietress of Marie’s Old Time Tavern, where Mayor Rogero and Booker have shared a mic. Booker’s tastes lean toward classic crooners like Frank Sinatra.
The set for Neely’s interview with Booker was provided by Mid-Modern Collective furniture store, seemingly direct from a mid-‘60s Lane Furniture catalog and appropriately timestamped to Booker’s role in local actions during the Civil Rights movement. Booker, fellow Knoxville College students and others held a number of sit-ins and protests of Knoxville’s segregated lunch counters and theaters, particularly the S&W Cafeteria and Tennessee Theatre, both located on Gay Street.
Booker recalled that the attitude of then-Mayor John Duncan (father of U.S. Congressional Representative John J. Duncan, Jr.) helped Knoxville’s Civil Rights protests proceed in relative peace as compared to those happening in other Southern cities. Booker said Mayor Duncan received some grief about his perceived laxity by a mayor from another city and recounted the gist of the conversation.
“'Are you not a Southern mayor?’ the other Southern mayor asked Duncan. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘but I don’t want things to go in Knoxville like they’ve gone in your city.’”
The Tennessee Theatre opened to black customers in 1964. Consider, then, that the Knoxville Civic Coliseum and Auditorium had opened on an integrated basis in 1961. Booker recalled how excited he and his friends were to attend dances at the brand-new Coliseum and have a new destination for concerts besides the old standby, the Jacob Building at Chilhowee Park.
As fulfilling as the presentation and interview was to those present, the history luncheon provided only a slice of the Knoxville history that has been—and will be—documented by Bob Booker, Jack Neely, and many authors and historians seated in the room.
For more information about KHP and its projects, including the art wraps on downtown utility boxes and the latest publication on Knoxville’s musical history, visit KnoxvilleHistoryProject.org.
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Imaging Suli
by Ewa Róza Janion
Suli is a mountainous land in Epirus in northwestern Greece. This book collates its Greek 19th-century vision with the European view in the works of English, French, Italian, and Polish philhellenes. Investigating the interactions between various images of Suli, it analyses its functioning in different European cultures: the first historical mentions of Suli, the role of Byron’s poems in shaping its image, Greek folk songs about female fighters from Suli, and the… (more)
Suli is a mountainous land in Epirus in northwestern Greece. This book collates its Greek 19th-century vision with the European view in the works of English, French, Italian, and Polish philhellenes. Investigating the interactions between various images of Suli, it analyses its functioning in different European cultures: the first historical mentions of Suli, the role of Byron’s poems in shaping its image, Greek folk songs about female fighters from Suli, and the mass suicide of Suliote women known as the Dance of Zalongo. Especially the legend about the bravery of the Suliotes has been important in Greek national discourse and the study follows the threads of the legend formed by Greek intellectuals and the European Philhellenes.
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Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften (September 25, 2015)
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The (Carpathian) Mountain Miracle
Issue 130, January 2020.
Recalling Karpaty FC’s magical run to the USSR Cup championship
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the biggest sporting achievement in Lviv’s history – the run to the USSR Cup championship by Karpaty Lviv! Lviv Today looks back on the accomplishment and what it meant for the Western Ukrainian capital.
It’s not everyday that Karpaty FC brings home a trophy. In fact, since its founding in 1963, the 1969 USSR Cup is the only hardware the team has managed to win. But oh – what an achievement! The only second-tier club to ever capture the title, the achievement was a monumental occasion for the city. Sure, there have been other big moments for the club – gaining promotion to the big league for the first time, making the Ukrainian Cup final a couple of times, a brief foray into the world of the Europa League – but nothing compares to that magical run in 1969. The team celebrated by bringing some of its heroes to a Karpaty game earlier this year. We wanted to let you relive the achievement in our pages.
The birth of Karpaty FC
While Lviv is famous for hosting the first football game in Ukraine – an event marked by a statue in Stryiskyi Park – the city didn’t really have a club we could call our own until Karpaty was formed in the early ‘60s. Like many clubs of the time, it was made up of factory workers, in Lviv’s case it was Silmash, a major weapons factory. Before this, the only team in the city was the Red Army squad – which, for obvious reasons, lacked the popularity and Ukrainian identity demanded by Leopolitan fans. Karpaty started in the Soviet Second League and it didn’t take long for the squad to start knocking on the door of promotion to the big league. The team started their upswing in 1966 and by 1968 had reached the promotion tournament, held in Sochi. Needing a win in its last game of a four team, round-robin tournament, the team was devastated by drawing 1-1 due to an obvious offside goal by its Russian opponent (Uralmash Sverdlosk). The same referee that missed the call would play a major role in next season’s USSR Cup run.
The miracle run to the USSR Cup championship nearly ended before it even begun. In its first game of the tournament – in the Round of 64 – the team was forced to a replay (which is how they settled draws in football at the time) against lowly Azovets (Zhdanov). Down early in the replay, the team delighted the home crowd by scoring two first half goals to advance 2-1.
First Round: Karpaty (Lviv) 0 – 0 Azovets (Zhdanov)
First Round (Replay): Karpaty (Lviv) 2 – 1 Azovets (Zhdanov)
The second game of the tournament was a big event in the city – thousands of Leopolitans headed out to Druzhba Stadium to endure a nervy 1-0 victory thanks to an 86th-minute penalty by star striker Gennady Likhachev.
Second Round: Karpaty (Lviv) 1 – 0 Red Army (Odesa)
This is when the team discovered that they were something special. Ararat (Yerevan) was one of the top teams in the Soviet Union in the late ‘60s – they would go on to win its own USSR Cup just four years later. The teams played to a 0-0 draw in front of 38,000 ravenous Leopolitans that became distraught when the visitors scored first in extra time. But the mettle of our champions shone through when Likhachev scored on a penalty to draw even and captain Ihor Kulchytiskyi scored 3 minutes from time to advance.
Third Round: Karpaty (Lviv) 2 – 1 (ET) Ararat (Yerevan)
After knocking off heavily-favoured Ararat in the previous round, the tournament was already viewed as a success for Karpaty. The team had never advanced to the fourth round and was “playing with house money” – and the results showed. The team was full value in a comfortable 2-0 over a strong Chornomorets (Odesa) team to set up a quarterfinal match with a tough Trud (Voronezh) team.
Fourth Round: Karpaty (Lviv) 2 – 0 Chornomorets (Odesa)
By this time, Soviet authorities were none too pleased that a plucky second tier team from Western Ukraine had advanced so far in the tournament. Our boys in green and white had to endure a horrendously officiated game – especially after the team went up 1-0 on a Likhachev penalty 30 minutes into the contest. Just 7 minutes from time, a bogus penalty was awarded to Trud. An aggressive move by goalkeeper Viktor Turpak scared the shooter into missing and salvaged the well-deserved win. Off to the semifinal!
Quarterfinal: Karpaty (Lviv) 1 – 0 Trud (Voronezh)
By now, Karpaty was the talk of the town. While most of the world was glued to the TV to watch the Apollo 11 mission – which would land on the moon the day after the semifinal – more than 50,000 Leopolitans (roughly 1 out of every 11 Leopolitans of the day) crammed into Druzhba Stadium to catch the miracle Ukrainian team that could. With a match against Shipbuilder (Mykolaiv), it was guaranteed that a Ukrainian team would play for the USSR Cup. Karpaty had some swagger after topping Trud in difficult conditions and didn’t let the home fans down by scoring two first-half goals on the way to a confident 2-0 win. Lviv was going to the USSR Cup final!
Semifinal: Karpaty (Lviv) 2 – 0 Shipbuilder (Mykolaiv)
The little team from the heart of the Ukrainian homeland would face the powerful Red Army team from Rostov-on-Don in no other locale than Vladimir Lenin Stadium in central Moscow. Expected to lose by almost everyone but themselves and their fans, the team was buoyed by 20,000 travelling superfans that peppered the team with the Ukrainian folk song ‘Cheremeshyna’. It was a surreal atmosphere – Ukrainian fans belt out Ukrainian folk songs in the heart of Moscow at the height of the Cold War.
The game started out roughly for the Ukrainian side, with Red Army going up in the 20th minute. But while they didn’t score before half, the team did take control of the play, gaining confidence for an epic second half comeback. Likhachev once again gave Karpaty the offensive spark with a 62nd minute strike before Volodomyr Bulgakov netted the winner against the stunned Russian team just four minutes later. There were some tense moments at the end, including a Red Army goal disallowed for offside – by the same referee who punished Karpaty the year before! He would later go on to say that he had acted “on orders” to ensure that the Russian team was promoted.
Karpaty – a second tier team from the most Ukrainian part of Ukraine (as Leopolitans are fond of saying) – had managed to pull off the impossible by becoming the only junior league team to ever win the USSR Cup – a feat that would never again be repeated! The accomplishment is all the more remarkable if you remember that at that time, most players came from the city they played for (many of the surviving members still live in Lviv). Scores of fans awaited the team when they arrived back in Lviv and players got kisses from the Leopolitan ladies and free taxi rides to the city centre to celebrate with their beloved fans.
Final: Karpaty (Lviv) 2 – 1 Red Army (Rostov-on-Don)
The next ‘Mountain Miracle’
The victory sent the young team to their first UEFA Cup Winners Cup (the forerunner to the Europa Cup). Despite a valiant effort to overcome a first leg 1-0 defeat at home, the team would manage no better than an entertaining 3-3 draw to get knocked out in the first round. Karpaty finally managed to make it to the top tier of Soviet football in 1971 and finished as high as high as fourth place (in 1976), just four points from becoming champions. The ‘80s saw the club fall on hard times and the team was merged with the Red Army team – an unpopular move as the brightest young stars were often sent to the Moscow Red Army team. After re-emerging as Lviv’s only team shortly before independence, Karpaty would march to the second-ever Ukrainian Cup final. The last major highlight came in 2010, when Ukrainian national team star Artem Fedetskyi sent Lviv’s Ukraina Stadium ablaze after he scored an extra time equalizer – just two minutes after conceding a potentially tournament-ending marker – that saw the team through to the Europa League for its first and only time.
Never count the boys in green and white out – you just never know when they’ll provide another Mountain Miracle.
-- Lee Reaney
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RED Brick Landscaping Ideas
Ideas / January 27, 2019
T's overwhelming and intimidating. Stop by a garden center in spring and you're visually assaulted with color. There are so many to choose from, and each becomes a favorite. Whether or not those preferences are the best choice for your landscape is another matter. Many plantings miss the mark with color that's not quite right.
"Color unifies the house with the landscape, " says Catherine Bowen Drewry, a landscape designer in Crawford, Georgia. "People spend a lot of time thinking about the colors inside their home and on the exterior. They need to factor landscape colors into the equation, " she says.
Take cues from your architecture. Roof, trim, and house colors are all factors in determining the best palette. Make note of mature trees and shrubs that bloom throughout the year. Their flowers should complement the overall scheme as well. "If your house is orange-based brick, ask yourself how that hot pink crepe myrtle is going to look against it, " Catherine says. "Is it going to pick up a little pink in the brick, or is it really going to clash with it?
"A lot of the landscape is seen from indoors. If the dining room is soft yellow and you're looking out into the garden, you might want to see more soft yellow repeated outdoors. It helps make the garden feel like it's part of the house, " she says.
An effective way to illustrate color is by example.
For a Victorian cottage, the front door and brick dictate the color palette. "The door is a rich color, chosen to work well with the old brick. We had to find flowers to complement both and not compete, " says Bill Nance, a garden designer in Huntsville, Alabama. "The salmon impatiens lead your eye up the stairs to the door and mirror its shade. The green ferns add inviting texture and prevent color clutter, " Bill says. The brick, door, copper light fixtures, and flowers are all planned to present a unified presence.
A Mystery Solved
One of the most illusive color concepts is working with brick. Many homeowners struggle with the perfect palette to complement this popular facade. "With brick, you need to determine its base color, " says Bill. "Take red brick-some of it has an underlying yellow base. This makes the brick color go toward orange. Other red brick has a blue cast. You must look for the base color and see if it goes to the orangy side of red, or the blue side, " he says.
"If your brick goes toward orange, choose warm-colored flowers such as oranges and yellows. If you have blue-red brick, go toward the blue and blue-violet flower family. It's when you combine the red-orange flowers with the red-blue flowers that you get into visual trouble.
"When you have a brick home, be careful using azaleas as a foundation planting, " Bill says. It is difficult to find a blooming shrub that works well with brick. Instead, he suggests planting boxwood or another evergreen as a buffer between the brick and azaleas. "I like azalea color against green. It doesn't compete with the brick, and green makes everything look good, " Bill says.
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