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Critique 166: The association between alcohol consumption and suicidal ideation and suicidal attempt — 1 July 2015
Bae H-C, Hong S, Jang S-I, Lee K-S, Park F-C. Patterns of Alcohol Consumption and Suicidal Behavior: Findings From the Fourth and Fifth Korea National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (2007–2011). J Prev Med Public Health 2015;48:142-150 • http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.14.027
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between suicidal behavior and patterns of alcohol consumption in Korean adults.
Methods: This study was based on data provided by the Korea National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey from 2007 to 2011. A total of 42 347 subjects were included in the study, of whom 19 292 were male and 23 055 were female. Logistic regression analysis was performed to assess the association between patterns of alcohol consumption and suicidal behavior.
Results: Among the study subjects, 1426 males (11.3%) and 3599 females (21.2%) had experienced suicidal ideation, and 106 males (0.8%) and 190 females (1.1%) had attempted suicide during the previous 12 months. Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) scores were found to be associated with suicidal ideation in males and associated with both suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in females. Alcoholic blackouts were associated with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in males, and were also associated with suicidal ideation in females.
Conclusions: In this study, we found that certain patterns of alcohol consumption were associated with suicidal behaviors. In particular, only alcoholic blackouts and categorized AUDIT scores were found to be associated with suicidal behavior in males. We therefore suggest that Further research is needed to examine this relationship prospectively and in other settings.
There has often been a discussion about the use of alcohol in conjunction with suicide, and subjects attempting suicide are often found to have been drinking heavily. Further, depression often underlies attempts at suicide, and alcohol consumption can both add to the risk of depression or be used by some to alleviate depression.
The present study evaluates the relation between alcohol consumption and pattern of drinking with self-reports of suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts among men and women in Korea. From data provided by the Korea National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey from 2007 to 2011 with more than 43,000 subjects, logistic regression analysis was performed to assess the association between patterns of alcohol consumption and suicidal behavior.
The key findings of the study reported by the authors are that 11.3% of males and 21.2% of females reported that they had experienced suicidal ideation, and 0.8% of males and 1.1% of females had attempted suicide. Scores on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and and a history of alcoholic blackouts were associated with suicidal ideation for males and females and with suicidal attempts among males.
Specific Comments on the study: For all analyses, the data indicate that increased risk of suicidal tendencies are associated with heavier drinking, especially alcohol misuse (a high score on the AUDIT instrument) and “blacking out” from excessive alcohol. The risk of suicidal ideation seems to rise at lower levels of alcohol intake among women (e.g., an increase in risk with an AUDIT score exceeding 8 for women, but only above 20 for men; also, an increase starts at 3-4 drinks/occasion for women and not even above 10 drinks/occasion for men).
The authors point out that “Among males, no significant associations were found between either drinking frequency or drinking quantity and suicidal behaviors,” suggesting that intoxication is more important that the number of drinks consumed. For women, however (among whom the number of heavy drinkers was low), more frequent drinkers and those reporting more than 1 or 2 drinks per occasion had higher suicidal tendencies. It should be noted, however, that the women in this cohort were primarily non-drinkers or very occasional drinkers: 92% of the women reported consuming alcohol only 2-4 times/month or less frequently, and less than 2% of women were in the highest drinking category of drinking ≥ 4 times/week. Hence estimates of effect among women may be less reliable than those among men.
Overall, drinking alcohol according to the usual guidelines for “sensible drinking” did not increase the risk of suicidal ideation or attempt in this study. For both men and women, there were no significant increases in risk for those reporting no more than 1 to 2 drinks/occasion.
The authors report that 9.4% of males and 17.6% of females reported a history of major depression during the previous year. While their analyses adjusted for this, it is likely that these self-reports of depression did not fully adjust for this condition, generally assumed to be a major factor for suicidal behavior.
The strengths of this study include the large number of participants, and the fact that the cohort is derived from the general population. Also the authors had data on good indices of alcohol misuse, including scores from the AUDIT test for misuse and a history of blackouts associated with excessive alcohol consumption.
The main weaknesses relate to its cross-sectional data collection (with a history of alcohol consumption and of suicidal behaviors being from the same previous year); hence, it is not possible to judge causation between the two. Also, obviously, the study did not include any information related to “successful” suicidal attempts that may have occurred in this population prior to data collection. Reviewer McEvoy stated: “I think that the authors appropriately acknowledged the cross-sectional limitation of their study, and inability to draw causal inferences. I think one of the important contributions of this study is that it indicates that a pattern of excessive drinking, with black outs, may be risk factor for suicide. Regardless of the direction of causality, this finding has clinical implications for intervention and treatment.”
Forum member McCormick added: “Correlation doesn’t mean cause, as we all know. Alcohol might be part of the cause in heavy drinkers, but this paper doesn’t confirm that.” Forum member Skovenborg agreed with the comments of other members: “This type of study, using cross-sectional data, cannot sort out the confounding issues nor address the causality of drinking volume and drinking patterns. To my knowledge the egg and hen question has never been solved – whether the depression or the heavy drinking came first.”
Depression and suicidal tendencies: Reviewer Finkel commented that “Depressive disease in one form or another is pervasive in our society. It is basically the cause of suicide. I am unfamiliar with Korea, but would be surprised were things very different there. More women than men attempt suicide, yet more men die of suicide, probably because the sexes choose different methods: men often shoot themselves in the head, usually fatal; women often take what seems an overdose of pills, not so lethal. Again, I’m citing what I learned practicing in the western world.” He continued: “I would view the relationships exposed in this paper as most likely reflecting that depressed people are sometimes driven to drink to great excess, the more depressed, the more some drink. Black-outs and suicides ensue. I won’t deny that excessive drinking may loosen controls, thus making suicide more likely, but I believe the shoe fits the other way round most of the time. Obviously, the data available in this study cannot distinguish between the two directions.”
The epidemiology of suicide: Forum member Thelle commented: “Suicide epidemiology is not a simple exercise. I have recently been supervisor to a PhD student (Finn Gjertsen) on suicide statistics, and I have provided a few of her findings.” Sections of the work of Giertsen that were provided by Thelle indicate that suicide rates are remarkably stable within populations, even though rates vary markedly across populations. The causes of suicide are poorly defined: undoubtedly social factors within populations relate to suicide rates, with one hypothesis being that an imbalance between integration within the society and the amount of regulation imposed upon them may be important. Others have suggested that suicide increases where there is “need, hunger, and unemployment.”
Forum member Ellison emphasized the large differences in suicide rates between populations. “The present study had adequate numbers of subjects for study, as suicide in Korea is much more common than in Europe and North America. However, there are large cultural differences between populations that limit the application of the findings in this study to other cultures.” Reviewer Evans pointed out that there are large differences in the distribution of genes affecting the metabolism of alcohol and aldehyde (especially ADH1B and ALDH2) between people in the west and those in Korea; these may also relate to differences in the association of alcohol with suicide between the two cultures.
Reviewer McEvoy added: “I was struck by the differences in drinking patterns between women and men, with women drinking much less than men, and many more women reporting non-drinking. I wonder if this reflects differences in societal acceptance of drinking among men and women, and whether women who drink regularly, or who have alcoholic tendencies, face greater censure than men, which could contribute to the greater risk of suicide/suicidal ideation among women at a lower level of alcohol use. I think this may be an important area for future research that the authors missed emphasizing.”
The present study evaluates the relation of alcohol consumption and the pattern of drinking with self-reports of suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts among more than 43,000 men and women in Korea, using data from a 2007-2011 survey. Overall, 11.3% of males and 21.2% of females reported that they had experienced suicidal ideation, and 0.8% of males and 1.1% of females had attempted suicide. High scores on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and a history of alcoholic blackouts were associated with suicidal ideation among both men and women and, for males, with suicidal attempts.
There is little known about the epidemiology of suicidal tendencies, or the specific causes of suicide. It is generally agreed that depression is the most important risk factor for suicide, and depression can lead to alcohol abuse; however, alcohol abuse can also lead to depression. Unfortunately, with cross-sectional data, analyses such as those in this paper cannot sort out the confounding issues nor, more importantly, address the causality of alcohol consumption with suicidal tendencies. The egg and hen question has never been solved – whether the depression or the heavy drinking came first. Thus, whether alcohol abuse increases the risk of depression (that may lead to suicide) or whether depressed people turn to alcohol seeking relief, cannot be determined from analyses such as these. However, it is also noted that this study suggests that drinking alcohol according to the usual guidelines for “sensible drinking” (generally, advising no more than 1 to 2 drinks/day) is not associated with the risk of suicidal ideation or attempt.
Forum members also commented on the large differences between populations in suicidal tendencies, being much higher in Korea and Japan than in most of Europe and North America. This could limit the applicability of the conclusions of this study to western populations.
Comments on this critique have been provided by the following members of the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research:
Ross McCormick, PhD, MSc, MBChB, Professor Emeritus, The University of Auckland; former Associate Dean, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Linda McEvoy, PhD, Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA, USA
R. Curtis Ellison, MD. Section of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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Critique 182: A major meta-analysis on the association of alcohol consumption with the risk of diabetes mellitus — 8 March 2016
Li X-H, Yu F-F, Zhou Y-H, He J. Association between alcohol consumption and the risk of incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis. Pre-publication: Am J Clin Nutr 2016; doi: 10.3945/ajcn.115.114389.
Background: Previous cohort studies have shown that moderate alcohol consumption was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, whether these associations differ according to the characteristics of patients with T2D remains controversial.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore and summarize the evidence on the strength of the association between alcohol consumption and the subsequent risk of T2D by using a dose-response meta-analytic approach.
Design: We identified potential studies by searching the PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases up to 24 March 2015. Prospective observational studies that evaluated the relation between alcohol consumption and the risk of T2D and reported its effect estimates with 95% CIs were included.
Results: Analyses were based on 706,716 individuals (275,711 men and 431,005 women) from 26 studies with 31,621 T2D cases. We detected a nonlinear relation between alcohol consumption and the risk of T2D, which was identified in all cohorts (P-trend, 0.001, P-nonlinearity, 0.001), in men (P-trend, 0.001, P-nonlinearity, 0.001), and in women (P-trend, 0.001, P-nonlinearity, 0.001). Compared with the minimal category of alcohol consumption, light (RR: 0.83; 95% CI: 0.73, 0.95; P, 0.005) and moderate (RR: 0.74; 95% CI: 0.67, 0.82; P, 0.001) alcohol consumption was associated with a lower risk of T2D. However, heavy alcohol consumption had little or no effect on subsequent T2D risk. Furthermore, the summary RR ratio (RRR; male to female) of the comparison between moderate alcohol consumption and the minimal alcohol categories for T2D was significantly higher, and the pooled RRR (current smoker to never smoker) of light alcohol consumption was significantly reduced.
Conclusions: Light and moderate alcohol consumption was associated with a lower risk of T2D, whereas heavy alcohol consumption was not related to the risk of T2D.
Most prospective cohort studies (e.g., Stampfer et al, de Vegt et al, Wannamethee et al) have consistently shown that light-to-moderate drinkers are at a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) than are non-drinkers or heavy drinkers. There have also been meta-analyses and reviews that support beneficial effects on the risk of DM of moderate alcohol consumption (Koppes et al, Baliunas et al, Carlsson et al). The present meta-analysis is based on a very large sample-size (more than 700,000 subjects with over 31,000 cases of DM) which has allowed the investigators to not only evaluate the overall main effect but to carry out a number of sub-group analyses for estimating the effects of alcohol on DM risk.
In the present study, after an extensive review of the literature and exclusion of studies with incomplete or inappropriate information, data from a total of 26 observational studies were used. Eleven studies included in the meta-analysis were from the USA, 9 from Europe, 4 from Asia, and 2 from Australia. As with any meta-analysis, there were problems with heterogeneity among papers. The authors used appropriate statistical methods for attempting to put each study’s assessments of alcohol into consumption categories of “light” (≤ 12 g/day), “moderate” (>12- <24 g/day), and “heavy” (≥ 24 g/day). The referent group was made up of the lowest alcohol intake category in each study, but it appears that in all but 2 studies (in which the comparison group was “none”), the investigators used “never drinkers” for the referent group, in other words removing ex-drinkers from such a group.
Overall, the study reports that light and moderate drinkers had a significantly reduced risk of developing DM. For light drinkers, in comparison with non-drinkers, the overall risk ratio for DM was 0.83, with 95% CIs of 0.73, 0.95 (P = 0.005). For moderate drinkers the RR was 0.74, with 95% CIs of 0.67, 0.82 (P = 0.001). Thus, data from this meta-analysis indicate a 17% and 26% reduction in the risk of DM for these two drinking categories, respectively. For subjects classified as heavy users of alcohol, the RR was 0.98, with 95% CIs of 0.83, 1.09, P = 0.480), interpreted as no effect. In a figure in the paper showing the separate results for each individual study included, with only one or two exceptions the point estimates for the risk of DM were 1.0 or less than 1.0 for light and moderate drinkers. Thus, data from almost all of the studies support the overall finding of a decrease in risk of DM for light or moderate drinkers.
The authors also carried out analyses to evaluate potential confounding or modification by sex, age, BMI, smoking, physical activity, and family history of DM. In each sub-category, the point estimate of the risk ratio associated with light or moderate alcohol consumption was less than 1.0, adding further to the robustness of the overall conclusions of a reduction in risk of DM from alcohol intake. Similarly, for all subjects as well as for men and women separately, there was a clear U-shaped curve for the association between alcohol and DM. The nadir of the effect (the strongest protective effect) was just over 20 grams of alcohol per day (about 2 typical drinks), and even the risk for heavy drinkers did not reach that of non-drinkers.
Specific comments on the study by Forum members: Forum member Ellison noted: “The data presented indicate that almost all of the separate studies included in the meta-analysis had adjusted their results for BMI or waist circumference. Many previous studies have shown that light-to-moderate drinkers have less obesity than non-drinkers, which raises the possibility that the authors have adjusted for one of the mechanisms by which alcohol reduces the risk of DM. If this is the case, the adjusted estimates of effect of alcohol on DM found in this paper could be under-estimates of the true effect.” Reviewer Skovenborg agreed that this was a well-done meta-analysis that confirmed the expected outcomes. He also noted: “It is somewhat surprising to me that the relation between alcohol consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes differs according to smoking status.”
Reviewer Finkel stated: “Although we’ve seen these results before, this redux is welcome in the face of the massive and still increasing numbers of diabetics among us. DM is a mean disease, which viciously challenges the cardiovascular system and creates other havocs. As for patients who have already developed diabetes, endocrinologists of my acquaintance and the conservative American Diabetes Association agree that moderate alcohol consumption is beneficial to such patients. I have long held that diabetics, more than most, need that extra edge, as long as they remember to eat (so as to avoid hypoglycemia). It is shocking to continue to encounter physicians so ill-informed or incorrectly convinced that diabetes is a contraindication to even modest quantities of alcohol.”
Forum member de Gaetano agreed that some physicians are not aware that the protective effects of moderate alcohol are especially important for patients who already have diabetes. A number of randomized clinical trials have confirmed beneficial effects of moderate drinking among diabetics, most recently studies by Shai et al and Gepner et al.
Forum member Ursini stated: “I agree with the comments from other Forum members that there is a strong a positive effect of alcohol (better wine with foods) on diabetes; this is supported by what we learned from basic science. There is a problem, however, with getting this message to the medical establishment and the public. Many of the diabetologists I know refuse to accept this evidence and keep telling their patients that alcohol is a poison, particularly for diabetics. My disappointing feeling is that this view is based on something other than scientific evidence.”
Reviewer Stockley and others pointed out the marked increase in the occurrence of diabetes worldwide, and added: “Almost 300 people in Australia are newly diagnosed with diabetes every day, and the incidence is projected to approximately double in the next 15 years. This adds to the importance of providing simple messages to the public as to what constitutes a healthy diet and lifestyle that may reduce the risk of this disease.” Forum members agreed that, for most adults, moderate alcohol consumption should be considered as a component of such a healthy lifestyle.
Are there differences in effect according to the type of alcoholic beverage consumed? The authors did not provide results separately according to the type of alcoholic beverage consumed. This is unfortunate, as people generally do not drink alcohol per se, but various beverages that contain alcohol. Forum member Van Velden thought that this was a well done meta-analysis, stating that their own studies on this topic supported similar conclusions. “We could not explain the reason for the lower incidence associated with alcohol intake, but in our studies it was red wine intervention that stimulated insulin secretion that resulted in lower blood glucose levels.”
Reviewer Estruch had similar concerns: “This is a well-performed meta-analysis that confirms the protective role against developing diabetes of the light-to-moderate intake of alcoholic beverages; this is probably due to an increase in insulin sensitivity. However, I miss in the discussion whether this protective effect should be attributed to alcohol (ethanol) or other components of alcoholic beverages (for instance, polyphenols). In our groups we have performed short-term randomized clinical trials (e.g., Chive-Blanch et al) exploring the different effects of alcohol and non-alcoholic compounds of wine on insulin sensitivity. We have found that fasting glucose remained constant throughout the studies, while mean adjusted plasma insulin and HOMA-IR decreased after both red wine and dealcoholized red wine. These results support a beneficial effect of the non-alcoholic fraction of red wine (mainly polyphenols) on insulin resistance, conferring greater protective effects on cardiovascular disease from red wine than from other alcoholic beverages. With beer, the effect was not so clear, perhaps because beer contains a lesser content of polyphenols.”
Forum member Mattivi noted: “I am reluctant to accept the odd concept that alcohol is one of the most widely consumed beverages; ethanol should rather be considered as an important ingredient of beverages having a rather different composition. Can we consider ethanol, from a mechanistic point of view, as the sole active agent? Very likely ethanol is a main player here, but at least in some beverages there are several other compounds with reported anti-diabetic activity. I do hope in the future to see meta-analyses considering the separate effects of the different alcoholic beverages.” Forum reviewer Lanzmann-Petithory agreed strongly that wine has shown greater protection against DM, and many other chronic diseases, than have other types of beverages containing alcohol.
References from Forum Review
Baliunas DO, Taylor BJ, Irving H, Roerecke M, Patra J, Mohapatra S, Rehm J. Alcohol as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabetes Care 2009;32:2123–2132.
Carlsson S, Hammar N, Grill V. Alcohol consumption and type 2 diabetes: meta-analysis of epidemiological studies indicates a U-shaped relationship. Diabetologia 2005;48:1051–1054.
Chiva-Blanch G, Urpi-Sarda M, Ros E, Valderas-Martinez P, Casas R, Arranz S, Guillén M, Lamuela-Raventós RM, Llorach R, Andres-Lacueva C, Estruch R. Effects of red wine polyphenols and alcohol on glucose metabolism and the lipid profile: A randomized clinical trial. Clin Nutr 2013;32:200-206 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2012.08.022.
de Vegt F, Dekker JM, Groeneveld WJ, Nijpels G, Stehouwer CD, Bouter LM, Heine RJ. Moderate alcohol consumption is associated with lower risk for incident diabetes and mortality: the Hoorn Study. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2002;57:53–60.
Gepner Y, Golan R, Harman-Boehm I, . . . Stampfer MJ, Shai I, et al. Effects of Initiating Moderate Alcohol Intake on Cardiometabolic Risk in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes. A 2-Year Randomized, Controlled Trial. Ann Intern Med 2015;163:569-579. doi:10.7326/M14-1650
Koppes LL, Dekker JM, Hendriks HF, Bouter LM, Heine RJ. Moderate alcohol consumption lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of prospective observational studies. Diabetes Care 2005;28:719 –725.
Shai I, Wainstein J, Harman-Boehm I, Raz I, Fraser D, Rudich A, et al. Glycemic effects of moderate alcohol intake among patients with type 2 diabetes: a multicenter, randomized, clinical intervention trial. Diabetes Care 2007;30:3011-3016. [PMID: 17848609]
Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA, Willett WC, Manson JE, Arky RA, Hennekens CH, Speizer FE. A prospective study of moderate alcohol drinking and risk of diabetes in women. Am J Epidemiol 1988;128:549–558.
Wannamethee SG, Camargo CA Jr., Manson JE, Willett WC, Rimm EB. Alcohol drinking patterns and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus among younger women. Arch Intern Med 2003;163:1329–1336.
Most previous studies have shown that consumers of light-to-moderate amounts of alcoholic beverages tend to have a significant reduction in their subsequent risk of developing Type II diabetes mellitus (DM). The purpose of the present study was to explore and summarize the evidence on the strength of the association between alcohol consumption and the subsequent risk of DM by using a dose-response meta-analytic approach. The authors identified 26 prospective cohort studies providing data appropriate for a meta-analysis; their analyses were based on 706,716 individuals (275,711 men and 431,005 women) with 31,621 cases of DM.
This meta-analysis reports that light and moderate drinkers have a significantly reduced risk of developing DM. For “light” drinkers (defined as an average of ≤ 12 g/day of alcohol), in comparison with non-drinkers, the overall risk ratio for DM was 0.83, with 95% CIs of 0.73, 0.95 (P = 0.005). For “moderate” drinkers (>12- <24 g/day), the RR was 0.74, with 95% CIs of 0.67, 0.82 (P = 0.001). Thus, data from this meta-analysis indicate a 17% and 26% reduction in the risk of DM, respectively, for these two drinking categories.
For subjects classified as “heavy” users of alcohol (reported intake averaging ≥ 24 g/day), the RR was 0.98, with 95% CIs of 0.83, 1.09, P = 0.480), interpreted as no effect. In a figure in the paper showing the separate results for each individual study included, the point estimates for the risk of DM were 1.0 or less than 1.0 for light and moderate drinkers in essentially all studies. Thus, data from the individual studies support the overall finding of a decrease in risk of DM for light or moderate drinkers.
Sub-group analyses showed that when subjects were stratified by sex, age, BMI, smoking, physical activity, and family history of DM, the point estimates of the risk ratios associated with light or moderate alcohol consumption were less than 1.0 in all groups, adding further to the robustness of the overall conclusions of a reduction in risk of DM from alcohol intake. Similarly, for all subjects, as well as for men and women separately, there was a clear U-shaped curve for the association. The nadir of the effect was just over 20 grams of alcohol per day (about 2 typical drinks), and even the risk of heavy drinkers did not reach the estimated risk of non-drinkers.
Forum members considered this to be a well-done analysis that confirms most previous results from prospective studies indicating a reduction in the risk of developing DM associated with moderate drinking. Further, an increasing number of randomized clinical trials are supporting such beneficial effects on the development and clinical treatment of DM. The Forum thought it unfortunate that beverage-specific results were not available in this study, as increasingly it is being shown that, beyond alcohol effects, there are polyphenols and other substances in wine and beer that provide additional protection against diabetes. Further, the Forum felt it important to also emphasize the protective effects against cardiovascular disease among subjects who already have DM, who are especially vulnerable to coronary heart disease and other effects of atherosclerosis.
Overall, this meta-analysis based on a large number of subjects indicates that the risk of DM is considerable lower among light and moderate drinkers than among abstainers. This finding supports the contention that, for most middle-aged and older adults (with the exception of individuals with specific prohibitions against alcohol such as former drug or alcohol abuse, certain types of neurological or severe hepatic disease, etc.), moderate alcohol consumption should be considered as a component of a “healthy lifestyle” that reduces the risk of diabetes and most of the chronic diseases of ageing.
R. Curtis Ellison, MD, Professor of Medicine & Public Health, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Ramon Estruch, MD, PhD. Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain
Dominique Lanzmann-Petithory,MD, PhD, Nutrition/Cardiology, Praticien Hospitalier Hôpital Emile Roux, Paris, France
Fulvio Mattivi, MSc, Head of the Department of Food Quality and Nutrition, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, in San Michele all’Adige, Italy
Diewertje Sluik, DrPH, Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, NL.
Creina Stockley, PhD, MSc Clinical Pharmacology, MBA; Health and Regulatory Information Manager, Australian Wine Research Institute, Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia
Fulvio Ursini, MD, Dept. of Biological Chemistry, Universityof Padova, Padova, Italy
Andrew L. Waterhouse, PhD, Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis, USA
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Dr Peter Ellyard is a futurist, strategist and a leading international conference speaker. He is a graduate of Sydney University (BSc.Agr) and of Cornell University (MS , Ph.D).
He is currently Chairman of the Preferred Futures Institute and the Preferred Futures Group, which he founded in 1991. He also Chairs the Sustainable Prosperity Foundation.
Dr Ellyard is a highly experienced executive. He is the former Executive Director for the Australian Commission for the Future. He held CEO positions in a number of public sector organizations over 15 years including two associated with Environment and Planning, and one with Industry and Technology. He was also Chief of Staff of an Environment Minister in Canberra for 3 years.
He is Adjunct Professor of Intergenerational Strategies at the University of Queensland and a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators, the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand ,and the Australian Institute of Management. He is an elected Member of the International Union of Associations, based in Brussels, which has 45,000 international NGO members. He is also a Director of Green Cross Australia.
He has been a Senior Adviser to the United Nations system for more than 30 years including to the 1992 Earth Summit where he was a senior advisor on both the climate change and the biodiversity conventions. In this he was the only Australian and one of only 20 globally. At other times he has been a senior consultant to the UNEP, UNDP and UNESCO.
Dr Ellyard is the author of the best selling book Ideas for the New Millennium (1998, 2001) and Designing 2050: Pathways to Sustainable Prosperity on Spaceship Earth (2008). He is an enlightening, challenging, thought-provoking and inspirational speaker.
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17.10.18 | Article by Mazzy-Mae Green | Art, culture
© Urs Fischer, photo: Stefan Altenburger, courtesy of the artist and Gagosian
Modern Matter’s editor-in-chief, Olu Odukoya, met Urs Fischer in a bar by chance on a trip to Zurich, and there, they had a discussion about what linked the artist’s wildly heterogeneous and disparate practice, and how visuals could be curated from that. Odukoya suggested that all of the artworks which he particularly liked of Fischer’s were ones which were included some representation – however abstract – of women: black-and-white silver screen starlets covered by slices of fruit, or warped nude figures, or a drawing which suggested a girl’s open mouth and tongue. While female figures might not be the first thing a viewer may think of when they think of Urs Fischer, it was agreed that they formed the basis for some of his most striking works. On returning to the UK, Modern Matter received an email from Urs Fischer, laying out an idea for a visual essay that he had devised from their conversation. The subject line read: Girls, Old And New, and with this in mind as a theme, Olu Odukoya edited a selection of Fischer’s work – all of which contain some abstract-or-literal representation of girls – for Modern Matter’s sixth issue, a year after discussion with the artist first began.
Until 3rd November, Gagosian is presenting the installation “Dasha” – a larger-than-life-size paraffin and microcrystalline wax sculpture of the Czech-born beauty and friend of the artist Dagmar Kozelkova – known as Dasha, and the piece recalls the quixotic seduction of Fischer’s older works, showing that his representation of the female form still veers in perplexing and fascinating directions. In the artwork, Dasha is seated in a chair, and wears a pink dress that stops at the foot of her heeled sandals. A series of wicks have been placed strategically on her body that will eventually reduce her to a melted candle – a show of materiality that runs through Fischer’s œuvre. This process asks the viewer to consider the gravity and momentum of life and mortality, which is then juxtaposed with the minimalism and beauty of a one-piece installation: memento mori à la Urs Fischer.
Dasha herself is an interesting character: the former wife of Roman Abramovich, owner of the Garage, which the Guardian has referred to as “the Moscow equivalent of the Tate Modern,” and the editor-in-chief of Pop magazine; it feels reductive to introduce her through her ex-husband, but she is also at the helm of two major institutions without any previous arts or journalistic experience. That is not to say that she is not intriguing: her capacity to make good business choices has cemented her place in the fabric of the global arts scene, to the dismay of critics. Her beauty and socialite-level friendships – the Serpentine’s Hans Ulrich Obrist is a fan – have further made her a tabloid favourite. It feels natural that Dasha should find herself the subject of her friend’s sculpture, her elegant figure sitting comfortably in her glamorous attire.
It is not unusual for Fischer to base his works on a friend: in fact, this has long since been a definitive feature of his practice, along with his fascination with mythology. Aside from the incorporation of personal aspects of his life, Fischer is difficult to pin down: since Fischer began showing his artworks in the mid-nineteen-nineties, his practice has expanded to encompass a multi-faceted and playful body of pieces, from slow-melting wax sculptures to birdfeed bread houses. He has shown his works at the New Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art, and is a regular at Sadie Coles and Gagosian, with the latter dedicating the entirety of its 2018 Frieze exhibition space to Fischer, showing a collection of his large-scale mirror paintings, alongside two small space dogs. He now dominates a corpulent share of the gallery scene, and his work is worth seeing, not only because it is visually stimulating, but also because Fischer understands popular culture – and plays with it.
The Kind of Joy That’s Erupting out of Ruined Buildings
I Want to Do as I like; Invent My Own Interests
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Sobriety and Elegance in the Baroque: Portraits from the Collection of the University of Notre Dame
Gonzales Coque | Domenico Dupra | Gerard van Honthorst | Cornelius Johnson | Sir Godfrey Kneller | Sir Peter Lely (Pieter Van Der Faes) | Isaac Luttichuys | Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt | Daniel Mytens the Elder | Jean Marc Nattier | John Opie | Jean Baptiste Oudry | Sir Henry Raeburn | Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn | George Romney | Jean Frederic Schall | Pierre Subleyras | Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel | Louis Tocque | Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun
This is the first complete exhibition formed from the art collection of the University of Notre Dame for exposition elsewhere. Although Notre Dame regularly displays a portion of its collection in the University Art Gallery, and often lends individual works to important exhibitions, few persons realize the size, range, and quality of its holdings. Only about one third of the portraits are included in this exhibition, and portraits form only a small part of the whole collection of some 1,200 items. In addition to paintings, there are drawings, tapestries, sculpture, ivories, porcelains, jewels, furniture, and ritual objects.
Our attention was directed to the excellent paintings to be found at Notre Dame by the art historian Professor Erich Herzog, University of Frankfurt, who saw them during 1958-59 while he was visiting professor in the department of Art at the University of Chicago. Now, in cooperation with the departments of art at both universities, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago is privileged to bring a portion of the Notre Dame collection to the Quadrangles.
From Notre Dame's ever growing collection, the Baroque portraits presented in this exhibition were chosen by the authors of the catalogue, Miss Bertha H. Wiles, Associate Professor of Art and Curator of the Max Epstein Archive; Mr. Francis H. Dowley, Associate Professor of Art; and Mrs. Richard B. Philbrick, Assistant Curator, Max Epstein Archive; together with Mr. Earl E. Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of Art, who had accompanied Professor Herzog on the exploratory trip to Notre Dame; all of the Department of Art; and by Francis Strain Biesel, Director of Exhibitions for the Renaissance Society.
Harold Haydon, President
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.
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Nick Hannula // Published January 28, 2009 in The Concordian
The 2008 Minnesota US Senate race may finally be at its end, and its results, with the associated long running recount and legal battles, has shown the need for reform in Minnesota electoral law.
Incumbent Senator Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken each won about 42 percent of the vote, with Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley scoring 15 percent. Franken appears to have prevailed in the long-running recount, and could be seated in the Senate soon. However, Minnesota has already been one Senator short for several weeks, and depending on how long the legal battles drag on, we could be underrepresented in the Senate for months to come.
The length of the recount is not the only electoral problem that requires reform: neither Franken nor Coleman came anywhere near winning a majority of the vote. If Franken does indeed prevail in the recount and obligatory court battles, he will have barely won a narrow victory to the dissatisfaction of the majority of Minnesota voters; 58 perecnt will have not voted for the winner.
Franken’s Senate race is not an outlier in Minnesota’s recent electoral history. Coleman won his seat with less than 50 percent of the vote in 2002. Minnesota’s gubernatorial election has not been won by a majority of the vote since 1994, having been won with 37 percent, 44 percent, and 46 percent of the vote in 1998, 2002, and 2006, respectively. In the 2008 elections, two Minnesota congressional seats, the third and sixth districts, were won without a majority of the vote.
The fact that most voters did not choose former Governor Jesse Ventura, Governor Tim Pawlenty, Senator Norm Coleman, Senator-to-be Al Franken, Representative Erik Paulsen, and Representative Michele Bachmann in their respective races is problematic in that the voter’s choices are not accurately portrayed through the election results. Third-party candidates have skewed results away from whichever candidate is actually preferred by the voters. The Independence Party and other third parties hold a strong place in Minnesota, and, as such, they should not be disenfranchised in our system. Rather, they should exist within a system that allows a candidate, no matter the party, to win with a majority of the vote.
There is an electoral system that can resolve both the issues surrounding the recount and the problem of non-majority election wins. It is known as a runoff system. There are two major runoff systems that Minnesota should consider. The first is a two-round runoff. A two-round runoff system would mean that, if no candidate attains an absolute majority on Election Day, the top two candidates proceed to a second round soon afterwards. The winner at the second round wins the office. Similar systems are already in place in states and localities nationwide, including Louisiana and Georgia.
The other choice is instant runoff voting, or IRV. In IRV, voters mark their choices for any given office in order of preference. If their first choice is not among the top two vote-getters, their vote is redistributed to their second choice. For example, in last year’s Senate race, a voter could have marked Barkley as their first choice and either Coleman or Franken as their second choice. As Barkley ended up in third place, his votes would have moved to Franken and Coleman, depending on how individual voters marked their ballots. The end result would have been a clear majority victory for either Franken or Coleman, thus negating any need for any prolonged recount.
Regardless of the choice that is ultimately made, electoral reform is needed in Minnesota. We cannot have our elected officials tied up in legal battles when they should be representing us, nor can we have them take office without the election results being anything else besides the best representation of the voters’ choice.
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H.M.S. Mars and H.M.S. Formidable logbook, 1862-1863
This volume contains logbooks of the H.M.S. Mars and the H.M.S. Formidable. The Mars was captained by James Newburgh Strange, and this log was kept by Midshipman Frederick John Rendell from January 1, 1862 through February 7, 1863. It contains... more
This volume contains logbooks of the H.M.S. Mars and the H.M.S. Formidable. The Mars was captained by James Newburgh Strange, and this log was kept by Midshipman Frederick John Rendell from January 1, 1862 through February 7, 1863. It contains fourteen maps, four pen sketches, and two watercolor sketches, and it was kept while cruising in the Levant, stopping at Athens, Beirut, Larnaka, and other locations, thence to Spithead, England The logbook of the H.M.S. Formidable, bearing the flag of Vice Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope and captained by William Garnham Luard, was also kept by Rendell. Entries were made from February 8-May 2, 1863, while the ship was at Sheerness, England less
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Nancy Sifton collection on Rudolf Nureyev, 1960-2013 [bulk 1963-1993]
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Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) was a Soviet born ballet dancer and choreographer who attained political asylum in France, and spent much of his career performing in Western Europe and the United States. The Nancy Sifton collection on Rudolf Nureyev... more
Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) was a Soviet born ballet dancer and choreographer who attained political asylum in France, and spent much of his career performing in Western Europe and the United States. The Nancy Sifton collection on Rudolf Nureyev chronicles the dance career and posthumous acclaim of Nureyev through photographs, clippings, posters, and programs compiled by author, researcher, and dance enthusiast, Nancy Sifton. less
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Connecticut Health Investigative Team (http://c-hit.org/2012/09/20/connecticut_hospitals_dont_make_top_performer_list/)
Connecticut Hospitals Don’t Make ‘Top Performer’ List
By Lisa Chedekel | September 20, 2012
Connecticut is the only New England state—and one of just three nationally—to have no hospitals designated as “Top Performers” by The Joint Commission, which issued an annual report gauging the performance of more than 3,300 accredited hospitals on 45 accountability measures linked to positive patient outcomes.
The Commission’s report lists 620 hospitals, in 47 states, that it says are “leading the way nationally in using evidence-based care processes closely linked to positive patient outcomes.” Every state has at least one hospital on the list—except Connecticut, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Ten hospitals in Massachusetts, 4 in Maine, 4 in New Hampshire, 3 in Vermont and one in Rhode Island were designated as top performers.
The Joint Commission report notes that many hospitals not recognized as top performers “are still performing well on accountability measures, but there is room for improvement.”
Michele Sharp, spokeswoman for the Connecticut Hospital Association, said Connecticut’s 30 acute-care hospitals are all “improving the quality of care they provide. Additionally, this report shows just one part of the hospital quality picture and may not be relevant for some patients.”
She said many other factors are important when choosing where to receive care, such as where a physician practices, specialty care a patient may need, insurance coverage, and how close the hospital is to the patient’s home.
“We encourage patients to use this information to talk with their physician and caregivers to make the right choice for their own care,” she said.
Of the 620 hospitals recognized as ‘Top Performers on Key Quality Measures,” 26 percent are rural hospitals, 45 percent are non-profit hospitals, and 49 percent have between 100 and 300 beds. Major teaching hospitals account for 5 percent of the recipients.
The number of hospitals recognized by the Joint Commission increased more than 50 percent from the list’s debut last year, when one Connecticut hospital—Griffin, in Derby—made the cut.
The top-performer designation is based on performance related to accountability measures for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children’s asthma care, inpatient psychiatric services, venous thromboembolism (VTE) care, and stroke care.
Each of the top performers met two 95-percent performance thresholds on 2011 accountability measure data. Each hospital achieved performance of 95 percent or above on composite scores that include all the accountability measures for which it reports data to The Joint Commission—one for measures with at least 30 eligible cases, and the other including measures with fewer patients.
Overall, more than 88 percent of hospitals nationally achieved composite scores of greater than 90 percent. Since 2002, hospitals have continuously shown improvement on core measures.
The report comes as 23 Connecticut hospitals prepare to forfeit Medicare funds, starting in October, under a new federal policy that penalizes hospitals with significant numbers of patients who are readmitted within a month of discharge. The penalties are based on the percent of heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia patients who return to the hospital for any reason within 30 days.
The Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations and programs in the U.S.
The view the list of Top Performers on Key Quality Measures click here.
Hospital Errors Persist, State Probes Rare
Incidents of pressure ulcers, wrong-site surgeries and other surgical errors reported by Connecticut hospitals have increased in the last five years, despite myriad efforts to curb them, a new state report shows.
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heartatek on October 7, 2012 at 5:20 pm said:
Where’s the list of the hospitals??
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How Far Can ‘Made in Canada’ Go?
Features / April 16 2017 / Shelley White /
Sun, sand and surf are not three things we’re internationally renowned for in Canada. Yet one of our hottest exports of the moment is Shan, a line of chic, high-end resort and swimwear that is designed and manufactured entirely in Laval, Que.
In addition to flagship stores in Montreal and Toronto, Shan has boutiques in Miami and the Hamptons, and 65 per cent of its revenue comes from the 30-odd countries it ships to, says Jean-François Sigouin, vice-president at Shan.
Shan is a line of high-end resort and swimwear that is designed and manufactured in Laval, Que., which allows it to retain full control over its product. As 65 per cent of its revenue comes from abroad, the “Made in Canada” brand works for the company because its international buyers recognize that to mean quality, the company says.
The suits aren’t cheap – they run about $300 each – but that’s sort of the point, says Mr. Sigouin.
“The philosophy of the brand is to offer quality instead of quantity,” he says. By manufacturing in Laval instead of overseas, the company has full control over its product. “We are totally vertically integrated from the design to production to retail because we have everything in the same building.”
Mr. Sigouin says it does cost more to manufacture in Canada. (“You cannot imagine,” he says.) But although lower margins can be a challenge, the “Made in Canada” brand works for Shan, says Mr. Sigouin, because the international buyers that carry its swimsuits have come to know it means quality.
The “Made in Canada” label works particularly well for products where Canada’s image is intrinsically linked to them, like ice wine, maple syrup or winter apparel, says David Soberman, professor of marketing at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
“Some retailers only care about margins, they don’t care where it comes from, from but for retailers that want to sell quality, they care,” he says.
“Last winter I visited our main distributors and I was in Russia and I had a chance to ask, would you like us to outsource our products to give you better margins, better profit when you sell Shan products? They said, ‘No, it’s the inverse, give us higher quality product rather than lower, because we have so many problems with the other brands on the market.’”
But is “Made in Canada” brand a valuable selling point for Canadian businesses, especially considering the extra costs of manufacturing here?
It can be, says David Soberman, professor of marketing at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He says the “Made in Canada” label probably works particularly well for products where Canada’s image is intrinsically linked to them, like ice wine, maple syrup or winter apparel, but he points out that when it comes to manufacturing, Canada is actually most well-known for planes, trains and automobiles.
“Bombardier is the biggest train manufacturer in the world and one of the largest aircraft manufacturers,” he says. “Does the Canadian reputation have a big effect? To the extent that Canada is educated and highly sophisticated, yes it does. For example, people feel they are comfortable dealing with Bombardier and negotiating deals, they will get what they expect, which is why Bombardier is successful.” This “dependable, reliable” reputation of Canada could give businesses an advantage on the world stage, says Dr. Soberman.
“It would be a secondary consideration so that when two products are perceived as being very similar, ‘Made in Canada’ can create an advantage,” he says.
Melissa Aronczyk, associate professor at the school of communications and information at Rutgers University and author of Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity, says that the world’s view of Canada is a positive one, and those feelings tend to stick.
Canadian brands in the spotlight – from Canada Goose parkas to Toronto superstar Drake’s OVO clothing line – have added a cool factor to Canadian goods that also resonates. (Photo: Drake greets fans during the 2013 Much Music Video Awards in Toronto. By Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press)
“Canada is admired abroad,” says Dr. Aronczyk. “The moose, mountains, Mounties stereotype, believe it or not, still really holds sway. And of course, there’s [the Canadian] reputation for niceness, which you wouldn’t think would have anything to do with ‘Made in Canada.’ What does niceness have to do with a good quality product? But people tend to lump all of those qualities together and have a positive impression of Canada in general.”
This year, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania released its Best Countries report, conducted with BAV Consulting and U.S. News & World Report. The survey asked more than 16,000 people worldwide to evaluate countries across a wide range of criteria. Canada came in second in “Best Overall Countries” (after Germany), and came first in the “Quality of Life” subcategory, and in the top three for subcategories including “Education,” “Citizenship” and “Open for Business.”
But Dr. Soberman warns that while the whole idea of “Canadianness” can give a brand and image topspin, it can’t compensate for weaknesses or deficiencies in terms of product functionality.
“In fact, people can feel violated because they have a positive feeling about Canada,” he says. “They buy this product feeling that it’s going to be right for them and then it doesn’t work and they get really mad.”
Quality and safety is one of the attributes foreign buyers see as a feature of Canadian products. This is especially true for food and beverage items, such as maple syrup or wine. “They can trust the product, it’s not going to be a fake ice wine or unhealthy for them to drink,” says Allan Schmidt, president of Vineland Estates.
William Allaway, vice-president of operations at Acadian Maple Products in Upper Tantallon, N.S., says being made in Canada definitely has an advantage on the international scene when it comes to maple syrup.
“When we do trade shows in China or Europe, people are always willing to buy from us because they know we have a lot of food safety, modern equipment and people doing things right,” he says. “It’s also perceived as being clean, with wide open spaces, so all that plays into it.”
Ice wine is another area where being a Canadian product seals the deal. Vineland Estates Winery in Vineland, Ont., does about 25 per cent of their sales internationally, most of which is ice wine sold to China.
“They can trust the product, it’s not going to be a fake ice wine or unhealthy for them to drink, so there’s a trust level there,” says Allan Schmidt, president of Vineland Estates.
Jeff Swystun, president and chief marketing officer of Swystun Communications in Toronto, is a marketing adviser to startups and creative agencies. He agrees that the traditional “moose and Mounties” idea of Canada persists internationally, but that most Canadian brands are just too unknown to create any kind of following based upon country of origin.
“At best, we are seen as safe,” says Mr. Swystun. “If I was in charge of industry and innovation in Canada, I would focus on producing a host of commodity offers that represent quality at a lower price rather than anything that claims outright differentiation or innovation.”
Toronto-based business strategist Tony Chapman says that “wrapping your brand in your country’s flag does little unless the tenets of your brand match how your country is perceived by your target consumer.”
With Canada, he says, the most obvious connotation is “We the north. We can protect you from the cold. We make great ice wine. Come here to ski and snowboard. Then there are the more intangible qualities: our moral code, our values, our tolerance.”
Viberg Boot President Glen Viberg inserts laces into a hiking boot at his factory in Victoria, B.C. One of the products attractions is for buyers in places like Germany and Japan, where consumers have more of an ingrained sense of buying less and buying quality.
In other words: beer, maple syrup, ice wine, Ski-Doos, parkas – yes. “But ‘Made in Canada’ umbrellas, cars, suits?” says Mr. Chapman. “No.”
Raised by Wolves is a Montreal-based clothing and shoe line that might not immediately be pegged as Canadian – there’s not a Canadian flag in sight. But it produces most of its line in Canada – more than 80 per cent, according to co-founder Pete Williams – selling to 90 stores in 15 countries.
Mr. Williams says it costs, in some cases, three to four times more to manufacture in Canada, but “U.K. and European customers seem to be drawn to the place of origin and the Japanese customers specifically place a very high value on a ‘Made in Canada’ product,” he says.
He says recent Canadian brands in the spotlight – like parkas by Canada Goose and Toronto superstar Drake’s OVO clothing line – have added a cool factor to Canadian goods that also resonates.
“For us, it is worth it. The high cost is sometimes a struggle to deal with, especially with fluctuating currency rates. However, our customers have shown they are consistently willing to pay a premium for ‘Made in Canada,’” he says.
Whether “Made in Canada” works for a company or not depends on what the product is, according to business strategist Tony Chapman. So, beer, maple syrup, ice wine, Ski-Doos, parkas – yes. But umbrellas, cars, suits – no. Asia simply has lower manufacturing costs. And Mr. Chapman is skeptical that consumers care enough about ethically-sourced products to radically change their spending habits.
Another “Made in Canada” success story is Viberg Boot Manufacturing Ltd., a family-run boot and shoe company that has been manufacturing in Victoria for more than 80 years. Guy Ferguson, brand director at Viberg, says being made in Canada can hold a lot of sway with foreign markets.
“Almost the further away you get, the more it matters,” he says. “Because our product is so quality-driven and detail-driven, we’ve found success in places like Japan and Germany where they have a real ingrained sense of buying less and buying quality.” (Viberg footwear runs to about $700 a pair.)
He also says the “nature-loving Canadian” connotation works for them.
“For a lot of markets, their idea of Canada isn’t a daily commute in Toronto or a restaurant in Montreal, it’s mountains, lakes and trees. I definitely think that’s a huge factor for us because we have roots in the Pacific Northwest, roots in logging, forest fire fighting, hunting, a lot of these industries in the past fuelled this company.”
Manufacturing Viberg products in Canada also tells customers that its products are made under safe working conditions by people being paid a living wage, adds Mr. Ferguson.
“I think there’s a heightened awareness on the part of the consumer right now and I like to draw parallels between other industries, like the slow food movement, third-wave coffee,” he says. “We have all of these things right now where people are starting to pay more attention to where products come from, and clothing and footwear are components of a comprehensive lifestyle that people are becoming aware of.”
Mr. Chapman is skeptical that consumers care enough about ethically-sourced products to radically change their spending habits, and the higher cost of manufacturing in Canada is a hindrance that will hamper most companies.
“Sadly, Asia has a tremendous cost advantage, even when using our raw materials,” says Mr. Chapman. “[People] talk a big game, but rarely buy beyond immediate gratification.”
Mr. Sigouin says that when it comes to Shan, manufacturing in Quebec goes beyond profitability.
“We had so many options in the past to outsource and put out more volume and increase the margin, but for us we want to be proud of what we do more than being rich.”
“The moose, mountains, Mounties [Canadian] stereotype, believe it or not, still really holds sway,” according to Melissa Aronczyk, professor at Rutgers University.
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Writ Issued for the Humber East By-Election
Written by Administrator on November 4, 2014
A writ of election has been issued for the district of Humber East by Newfoundland and Labrador’s Chief Electoral Officer, Mr. Victor Powers. The by-election will take place on Tuesday, November 25, 2014.
The district Returning Office, located at 1A Lester Avenue, Corner Brook, is open Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., Saturday from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. Special Ballot voting is available during these hours.
Special Ballot voting is also available at Elections Newfoundland and Labrador’s head office at 39 Hallett Crescent in St. John’s.
Electors should take note of several important dates for this by-election:
The official nomination deadline is 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 15, 2014.
Advance poll voting will take place on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Special Ballot voting deadlines:
The deadline to apply for a Special Ballot kit is Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 6:00 p.m.
The deadline for completed Special Ballot kits to be returned to the district Returning Office is Wednesday, November 19 at 4:00 p.m.
The deadline for completed Special Ballot kits to be returned to Elections Newfoundland and Labrador’s head office is Friday, November 20, 2014 at 4:00 p.m.
Electors are encouraged to visit the Elections Newfoundland and Labrador website for information pertaining to voting qualifications, advance poll locations, regular poll locations, Special Ballot voting and more.
For more information please call 1-877-729-7987, or visit www.elections.gov.nl.ca. Electors may also contact the district Returning Officer, Ms. Carol Lahey.
Town of Massey Drive Community Bonfire
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Details of long weekend fatal collision could take weeks
Posted on August 9, 2017 by 40 Mile Commentator
By Justin Seward
RCMP say details of a fatal collision involving a nine-year-old Chestermere girl east of Dunmore on Aug. 7 could take weeks to piece together.
“It’s a technical investigation that requires some time,” said Redcliff RCMP S/Sgt. Sean Maxwell.
“We’ll be waiting for the recontructionist to come back with their report in a few weeks.”
The nine-year-old girl was a passenger in a Pontiac Sunfire driving westbound and collided with the trailer portion of the semi truck that was turning north on to Highway 41 around 3 p.m on the annual Civic Holiday Monday.
Additionally, two 12 year olds that were in the car were transported to hospital. One has life threatening injuries, while the other was in serious, but stable, condition.
The female driver of the car was listed in serious, but stable, condition.
At this time there were no drugs or alcohol involved in the collision.
Maxwell said RCMP are not releasing the names of the people involved in the accident.
There have been collisions in that area over the years and with these type of accidents the RCMP take the data of the collision and send it to Alberta Transportation for them to look at intersection,
“We monitor all the intersections,” said Maxwell.
“If we find that there’s specific issues, we might pay more specific attention in certain areas.”
He added it is too early in the preliminary investigation to make any sort of recommendation for safer driving strategies.
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Immigration and Asylum (other than DACA)
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Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.
Illegal immigration is the illegal entry of a person or a group of persons across a country's border, in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country, with the intention to remain in the country. Illegal immigration, as well as immigration in general, is overwhelmingly upward, from a poorer to a richer country. Living in another country illegally includes a variety of restrictions, as well as the risk of being detained and deported or of facing other sanctions.
Asylum is an ancient juridical concept, under which a person persecuted by their own country may be protected by another sovereign authority, such as another country or church official, who in medieval times could offer sanctuary. This right was already recognized by the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Hebrews, from whom it was adopted into Western tradition.
-- All definitions from Wikipedia
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Re: Immigration and Asylum (other than DACA)
At end of migrant caravan, families fear what lies next
by Maya Averbuch and Joshua Partlow April 29 at 2:17 PM
TIJUANA, Mexico — After more than a month on the road, traversing 2,500 miles across Mexico, the migrants’ caravan came to an end on Sunday at an oceanside park where the U.S.-Mexico border fence juts into sea.
Some 200 Central American migrants who remain in the caravan were expected to turn themselves in to U.S. authorities later on Sunday with the hope they will be given asylum.
But first, there were weddings.
Four couples tied the knot at a ceremony at Friendship Park here, a place where families on opposite sides of the border are generally allowed to speak for a few hours on weekends, despite remaining on opposite sides of the fence. The nuptials underscored one of the migrants’ greatest fears now that they've reached the border: having their families torn apart once they turn themselves over to U.S. immigration authorities.
“We’re fighting so that people who already have kids together are recognized as a family,” said Emma Lozano, a pastor for Familia Latina Unida, an immigrants’ rights group based in Chicago, who performed the wedding ceremonies. The marriage certificate is “a legal document that shows they are a family, so that they don’t divide the family,”
In past years, migrant caravans have served as a way to call attention to the plight of migrants on a dangerous journey, but they often traveled in obscurity. This year, because of tweets from President Trump, the caravan has been tracked closely since it left southern Mexico more than a month ago. Trump demanded that Mexico do more to stop migrants from reaching the United States and used the caravan as justification for tighter border security.
As the group reached the border, U.S. officials have suggested that the migrants should stay in Mexico and warned them — and the activists helping them — from making false immigration claims, saying that they will be prosecuted if they do.
“To anyone that is associated with this caravan, Think Before You Act,” Rodney S. Scott, chief patrol agent in San Diego for the U.S. Border Patrol, said in a statement. “If anyone has encouraged you to illegally enter the United States, or make any false statements to U.S. government officials, they are giving you bad advice and they are placing you and your family at risk.”
The caravan started out with more than 1,000 people, but the numbers have dwindled as the group made its way north by foot, bus and train. Activists and immigration lawyers have helped organize the journey and given workshops on U.S. immigration law.
U.S. law generally allows foreigners to apply for asylum, although the vast majority of Central Americans who apply are not approved. Migrants who pass the initial “credible fear” screening often get assigned a date in immigration court and then are released after a few days in custody. U.S. officials say many migrants skip their court dates and try to live illegally in the United States.
More at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/at-end-of-migrant-caravan-families-fear-what-lies-next/2018/04/29/4f2f9094-4b31-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html?utm_term=.20903ee32fa0
I'm watching the coverage on MSNBC. It is showing a large crowd of people at a border wall, many of whom are climbing the wall and sitting on top of it.
If these people wanted to help Trump's fear-mongering of them, they couldn't be providing better optics. It looks like we're a country under attack and walls won't keep out the attackers.
I wish they'd had better public relations advice.
Man.... I'm sorry to hear that. So many of these poor people are REAL victims of violence and persecution, legitimate asylum-seekers. Those who are showing off for the cameras are NOT being helpful....
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The woman who cuts my hair is Colombian. She and her family got into the US some 20+ years ago under political asylum. I haven't asked her about the circumstances. She is now applying for US citizenship.
I'm concerned that some of these wannabe asylum seekers would otherwise be granted asylum if they were anything other than latinos (or Muslims, for that matter).
4/29/2018, 10:22 pm Share Link to this post PM Birdz
I have the same reaction, Birdz. This administration doesn't want any more brown people in the country.
I agree. If they were arriving from Norway, I don't think Trump would have any problem with them joining us.
(The Hill) - At a campaign rally in Tennessee...Tuesday, Trump said that “in the end, Mexico is going to pay for the wall. They make all of this money, and they do absolutely nothing to stop people from going through Mexico, from Honduras and all these other countries, the caravan, all of this stuff,” the president said. “They do nothing to help us, nothing. They’re going to pay for the wall, and they’re going to enjoy it.”
Mexican President Pena Nieto's response came via twitter: President @realDonaldTrump: NO. Mexico will NEVER pay for a wall. Not now, not ever. Sincerely, Mexico (all of us).
(CNN) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 114 undocumented immigrants working at an Ohio gardening business in one of its largest workplace raids in recent years.... Tuesday's arrests targeted employees of Corso's Flower and Garden Center in Sandusky and Castalia, Ohio....
A family member of one of the arrested Corso's workers who did not want to be identified spoke to CNN affiliate NBC 24. "My soon to be brother-in-law was deported this morning," she told the news station. "He was brought here as a young boy. He's worked at Corso's for many years. They paid him good money. By no means did they pay him what they think immigrants should be paid. They paid him good money. "He did a good job and worked hard to provide for his family. He's got a six-month-old daughter," she added.
More Republican family values....
Um WHICH American jobs were these workers taking?
And WHAT violent crimes were these workers busy committing?
And WHAT welfare cheats were there among these workers?
6/7/2018, 12:16 am Share Link to this post PM JustLis
(CNN) - Woman's forced labor for Salvadoran guerrillas means she must leave US, court rules
She was kidnapped by Salvadoran guerillas three decades ago, watched her husband be killed and forced to cook and clean for the militants. Now she can't stay in the US — because that was supporting terrorists, a court says.
The main appellate body of the immigration courts issued a divided opinion Wednesday with broad implications, finding that a woman from El Salvador is ineligible for status in the US because her 1990 abduction and forced labor amount to "material support" of a terrorist organization.
According to the court documents, the woman was kidnapped by the guerrillas in El Salvador and made to do the cooking and cleaning "under threat of death." She was also "forced to witness her husband, a sergeant in the Salvadoran Army, dig his own grave before being killed."
Nevertheless, the 2-1 opinion holds that the woman's coerced duties for the group constituted "material support" for a terrorist organization, and thus made her ineligible to be granted asylum or have her deportation order canceled in the US -- though a lower court judge had ruled she would otherwise be eligible for such relief.
So...the party of family values is sending her back to the country where she was once terrorized. No, no grounds for asylum at all....
6/7/2018, 8:42 pm Share Link to this post PM JustLis
We are such raving bastards.
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I don't know the particulars of the case beyond the words in this article. I have grown to distrust the media in fairly reporting such stories, so who knows?
The judges said that the law does not provide for this kind of exception. So my question is this:
If the law does not provide for such an exception, do we blame the judges for not overruling the law? Sotomayor was famous for claiming she legislated from the bench, and I am very much opposed to that.
What if the facts were flipped, and the law required that she be granted asylum, but the judges, evil Republican bastards all, decided that was not okay, and turned her down anyway?
Cases like this are why we must have real immigration reform, and it will take compromise on both sides to have it. And no one seems to be willing to consider it. So, until then, her story will be just another partisan arrow fired from one side at the other.
I thought growing old would take longer.
6/8/2018, 8:52 am Share Link to this post PM bigbarry2u
Barry: I don't know the particulars of the case beyond the words in this article. I have grown to distrust the media in fairly reporting such stories, so who knows?
That just is an easy excuse to dismiss what is actually happening. It is a court case, Barry. You can look up the ruling.
The judges said that the law does not provide for this kind of exception.
Yeah, let's look at exactly what TWO of the three idiot judges had to say:
Writing for the majority, Board of Immigration Appeals Judge Roger Pauley ruled that "material support" can be virtually anything that is provided to a terrorist organization that supports their overall mission that they would otherwise would need to seek somewhere else. "In fact, no court has held that the kind of support an alien provides, if related to promoting the goals of a terrorist organization, is exempt from the material support bar, and we discern no basis to import such a limitation," Pauley wrote. Pauley also concluded there was no exception for support given "under duress" under US law and the actions do not need to be "voluntary."
Clearly, the INTENTION and SPIRIT of the law is to bar people who enthusiastically support terrorists and terrorist organizations. That is NOT what this woman was doing. She WATCHED them kill her husband. And she knew they would kill her, too, if she didn't wash their clothes and cook their food, as they demanded. And these judges sit there in their robes, saying, "Sucks to be you."
It simply isn't true that the law doesn't provide for an exception. The law, as the dissenting judge pointed out, spells out a list of very specific examples of "material support" -- offering safe houses, transportation, funds, and other support that specifically furthers the group's mission. As the dissenting judge pointed out, cooking, cleaning, and washing clothes -- especially under duress -- don't fit that list at all. So what TWO of the three judges in her case are doing is CHOOSING to apply the very narrowest definition of the law. Think about the abused women who, for years, were convicted of manslaughter and worse when they killed the husbands who had abused them for years. Was it "legislating from the bench" when judges began to take the totality of the circumstances into account in deciding whether these women should spend the rest of their lives in prison? I don't think so. It is clearly a matter of deciding what the SPIRIT of the law is. And I cannot IMAGINE that reasonable legislators would have created a system whereby tortured refugees would be held responsible for doing what they needed to do to survive -- and then sent right back to the people who tortured them. Current Republicans? Yeah, I see it from THEM all the time. But not from REASONABLE people....
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services website says "Refugee status or asylum may be granted to people who have been persecuted or fear they will be persecuted on account of race, religion, nationality, and/or membership in a particular social group or political opinion." That IS the law. And THESE judges turned her down anyway, Barry.
I agree we need comprehensive immigration reform, Barry. But extremists WITHIN the Republican party simply refuse to allow it to move forward. You didn't see news of the Republican powwow yesterday, where the Republican conference itself couldn't manage to figure out how to move forward? If reasonable Republicans would be willing to work with Democrats, we COULD move forward. But they won't. Party over country.
Party over people.
Party over reason.
Calm down, Lis. Your used of CAPS to demonstrate EMPHATIC INDIGNITY is ridiculous AND ineffective.
I did look up the ruling. Maybe you don't know the difference between a ruling, and a news article about a ruling. For example, did you know the ruling said this:
In a decision dated January 14, 2014, we concluded that the respondent is ineligible for cancellation, finding that she is inadmissible under section 212(a)(3)(B)(i)(VIII) of the Act because she received military-type weapons training from the guerrillas, who we determined were a terrorist organization in 1990. Further, we found no basis for the Immigration Judge’s assertion that there is a self-defense or duress exception in section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Act.
Didn't see that little tidbit in the article.
You display great ignorance with quotes like this. First of all, no. That is not the LAWWWWW. That is a WEBSITEEEEE. Understand the difference?
The actual LAWWWWWW has exceptions for those that support terrorist organizations, one of which specifically named is receiving weapons training. The question here was did this individual meet or fail to meet the bar for this exception because of the nature of most of her duties, or the fact that they were done under duress.
This appeal process has been going on for 7 years now. In several steps along the way, judges found that she did meet the bar of supporting terrorist organizations. And in this very case the judges found 2-1 that she did. This was not a brash, hastily arrived at conclusion. That you don't agree with it is not important to anyone but you.
Look, thank God that not all judges are Harvard graduates, or go to Harvard Law School, or are members of the New York State Bar.
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6/8/2018, 5:05 pm Share Link to this post PM bigbarry2u
Barry: Calm down, Lis. Your used of CAPS to demonstrate EMPHATIC INDIGNITY is ridiculous AND ineffective.
Good heavens, Barry. Grow up. You've been here long enough to know that I use caps to illustrate the words I am emphasizing in a sentence. Always have, always will. I'm plenty calm, your hyperbole notwithstanding. Deal with it.
I did look up the ruling. Maybe you don't know the difference between a ruling, and a news article about a ruling.
Oooh, extra points for being rude. Did it make you feel like a REAL man? In case anyone else is interested, here is the link to the actual ruling.
For example, did you know the ruling said this:
Perhaps you missed the paragraph directly ABOVE that one: "her undisputed testimony that she was kidnapped by guerillas in El Salvador in 1990 and was coerced into undergoing weapons training and performing forced labor in the form of cooking, cleaning, and washing their clothes."
As long as you're being snarky, perhaps you might consider that articles generally don't include the entire ruling within them. Just sayin'.
Gee, Barry. Let's think about what kind of "weapons training" the terrorists would have provided one of their captives. Think they left her with any loaded weapons? Not a chance. As absolutely ridiculously as these judges narrowly interpreted this law, I have to question whether they would consider an order from the terrorists to hit any incoming military officers with a frying pan as "weapons training."
That IS the law. And THESE judges turned her down anyway, Barry.
You display great ignorance with quotes like this.
Always the gentleman, aren't you, Barry? In fact, these two judges completely TWISTED the intention of the law at hand. They spent the vast majority of the ruling trying to explain that the word "material" in "material support" didn't REALLY mean that the support made any material difference in the terrorists' activities; therefore, ANYTHING someone EVER did to support the terrorists counted as them being a terrorist supporter. (As in, this woman was supporting the terrorists who had killed her husband and were holding her captive.) How sick of an imagination do these judges have to have, to reach THAT conclusion?
The LAWWWWWW
Calm down, Barry. You're bound to break or bulge something.
has exceptions for those that support terrorist organizations, one of which specifically named is receiving weapons training. The question here was did this individual meet or fail to meet the bar for this exception because of the nature of most of her duties, or the fact that they were done under duress.
As the judge in the minority explained:
Individuals arriving in this country from “some of the most dangerous and chaotic places on earth . . . may not have been able to avoid all contact with terrorist groups and their members, but we should not interpret the statute to exclude on this basis those who did not provide ‘material’ support to them,” since “[m]any deserving asylum-seekers could be barred otherwise.” Unlike the majority, which apparently would apply the bar without any meaningful limit, I would not decline to carry out our responsibility to strike the foregoing critical balance.
The two heartless judges in this case made NO attempt to strike a balance -- as the judges had held just a year earlier.
This appeal process has been going on for 7 years now. In several steps along the way, judges found that she did meet the bar of supporting terrorist organizations.
Clearly from the many citations within the ruling, the laws and interpretations have been changing. In fact, the immigration judge in 2011 DID grant her application to cancel her removal. It was Homeland Security that appealed. And even your friends in the majority spent PARAGRAPHS pointing out that the primary concern is barring aliens who are "a danger to the security of the United States." Do you REALLY believe this woman, who was enslaved by the terrorists who had killed her husband, was a danger to the security of the United States? For that matter, had she done ANYTHING since 1991 in the United States to demonstrate that she was a danger to ANYONE???
And in this very case the judges found 2-1 that she did. This was not a brash, hastily arrived at conclusion. That you don't agree with it is not important to anyone but you.
Ooooh, look how dismissive you are! Does THAT make you feel like a real man, Barry? Tough guys are just so damn sexy.... Not....
As desperate as you are to defend these judges, you must be awfully proud of their decision to condemn an absolute victim to be returned to a life among those who murdered her husband, tortured her, and might very well return to finish up the job with her. How all-American of you. Would you like me to wave the flag in your general direction, or did you bring your own?
I certainly hope you are never robbed at gunpoint, Barry. Because under YOUR reading of the law, if you watch them murder your wife, and then you VOLUNTARILY hand over your wallet to avoid being killed, you're not only providing the robbers a "donation;" you're materially supporting their criminal activities. That you lost your money is your own damn fault.
That was beautiful, Lis. I don't think I have ever seen you flail like that before.
I see you have no serious response.
I figured as much.
There was nothing to respond to other than your sexist comments, visualization of Cynthia being murdered, and "my reading of the law" which was never in question. The question is the judges' reading of the law, which is more than a quip on a website, or an article which failed to mentioned that the individual had also been trained in weapons.
Your speculation or wishful thinking on the matter is irrelevant and does not warrant a response.
Usually your retorts are awful and hateful, including accusing me of wanting children to die, but most of the time if you look hard enough you will see at least one intelligent point.
Not this time. Not even close.
Yeah, no serious response.
Desperate attempt to figure out an excuse for it, though.
The two judges in this case were very obviously determined to deny this woman asylum, without regard to the exceptions that should have been and could have been made under the law (as the dissenter pointed out). I don't understand the counterargument that Lis is flailing and ought to calm down and stop using all caps. I also don't understand the "fault on both sides" argument, since Trump has thrown a bomb into any compromise about immigration that has so far been reached by Republicans and Democrats. Could I have a link for Sotomayor's claim that she legislates from the bench?
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TWO EXPLANATIONS OF HOW CLIMATE ALARMISTS MISUSE SCIENCE
December 7, 2014, 8:22 am News
Posted 8 December 2014
Here are two explanations of ways in which science is being misused by climate alarmists to justify invalidated claims of dangerous anthropogenic "global warming".
The first, by Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition, and published already by a number of newspapers in North America, may be accessed by this link here
The second is a paper by the Scientific Alliance, of UK, which is copied below.
Misuse of science
Scientists are human and have their opinions. Although we may like to think of science as a purely objective search after truth, we have to be realistic. It would be all but impossible for a researcher to start an experiment without having some idea about the expected outcome. Objectivity then comes in the form of a willingness to accept evidence which points to a different answer. Nevertheless, in most cases there is likely to be a tendency towards confirmation bias: giving more weight to observations which conform to your expectations or opinions.
A well-known example of this is the determination of the charge on an electron, famously first measured in the Millikan oil-drop experiment just over a hundred years ago. This balanced the gravitational pull on tiny oil drops by an applied electric field. Millikan arrived at a value (to five significant figures) which was very close to the accepted present-day value, but it turned out he had the wrong value for one of the factors in the equation. The ever-insightful and quotable Richard Feynman spoke about this in his 1974 commencement address at Caltech (‘cargo cult science’):
“…Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It's a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.
Why didn't they discover the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of—this history—because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong—and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off...”
That is one form of human behaviour we can probably do little about. But there comes a point beyond which science itself is misused and compromised. Rather than having evidence-based policymaking, we end up with policy-based evidence picking. A good (or, should I say, bad) example appeared in the Times this week. The headline says it all: Scientists accused of plotting to get pesticides banned.
The fuss is over the (currently temporary) EU ban on neonicotinoid insecticides over allegations that they are at least partly to blame for recent declines in the population of bees. Environmentalist groups had been campaigning against this class of compounds for many years, despite little evidence of any connection under real life conditions. What tipped the balance was a report from the Task Force on Systemic Pesticides, an advisory group to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which reported on recent scientific work and called on regulators to “start planning for a global phase-out” of these insecticides.
However, the chairman of the Task Force, Maarten Bijleveld van Lexmond, and chairman of the IUCN, Piet Wit, were both at a meeting in Switzerland in June 2010 at which, according to a note leaked to the Times “…scientists agreed to select authors to produce four papers and co-ordinate their publication to ‘obtain the necessary policy change, to have these pesticides banned’. A paper by a ‘carefully selected first author’ would set out the impact of the pesticides on insects and birds ‘as convincingly as possible’. A second ‘policy forum’ paper would draw on the first to call for a ban…. ‘If we are successful in getting these two papers published, there will be enormous impact, and a campaign led by WWF etc. It will be much harder for politicians to ignore a research paper and a policy forum paper in [a major scientific journal].’”
This smacks of environmental activism rather than objective science, despite the protestations of the Task Force chairman, “…a founding member of WWF in the Netherlands,…that the Task Force was independent and unbiased.”
It seems that only scientists outside government and industry are to be regarded as independent. Self-selected bodies such as WWF are inevitably groups of like-minded people and seemingly intolerant of any dissent. Contrast this particular case, in which ‘independent’ activist scientists protest their innocence (and attract little public criticism, unfortunately) with the campaign against the European Commission’s soon-to-be ex-chief scientist, Professor Anne Glover (Chief scientist is forced out after green campaign).
Professor Glover was found guilty of holding the ‘wrong’ opinions about GM crops. The same Stalinist intolerance has also been used to keep the management board of the European Food Safety Authority free of anyone who did not conform to the ‘independent’ template. Professional scientists should be prepared to listen to conflicting views, if based on hard evidence, and not simply suppress them.
In a different area, we are now being told that World on course for warmest year, with plenty of talk of supposed increases in the incidence of extreme weather. Now, it may turn out that average temperatures in 2014 will be fractionally up on the previous high, but it is equally true to say that there has been no trend in either direction since 1998. The latest stories, put out to coincide with the current climate change talks in Lima (COP20), are designed to put pressure on negotiators to make progress towards a binding international agreement on emissions reduction at the pivotal Paris conference in a year’s time. The selection of one of the statements about temperature over the other is a clear form of confirmation bias.
While we expect scientists to be human, we should also expect them to remain grounded in scientific principles and be prepared to question their beliefs if the evidence contradicts them. To do otherwise is to compromise the integrity of the scientific community, the very characteristic which makes scientists among the most trusted groups in society.
Offical web site of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
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Monumental Church
Monumental Church is a former Episcopal church that stands at 1224 E. Broad Street between N. 12th and College streets in Richmond, Virginia. Designed by architect Robert Mills, it is one of America's earliest and most distinctive Greek Revival churches. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is located in the Court End historic district.
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1224 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia
37°32′20″N 77°25′48″W / 37.53889°N 77.43000°W / 37.53889; -77.43000Coordinates: 37°32′20″N 77°25′48″W / 37.53889°N 77.43000°W / 37.53889; -77.43000
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Designated NHL
November 11, 1971[3]
Designated VLR
November 5, 1968[2]
Monumental Church was built between 1812 and 1814 to commemorate the 72 people who died on the site in the December 26, 1811 Richmond Theatre fire. The building consists of two parts: a crypt and a church. The crypt is located beneath the sanctuary and contains the remains of those who died in the fire. The church is an octagonal construction of brick and Aquia Creek sandstone with a stucco coat.
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An aerial view of Monumental Church circa 1973. The Egyptian Building is just behind it. The Nursing Education building was demolished by MCV-VCU.
This site was developed for the first Academy of Fine Arts and Sciences in America, or "The Theatre Square." Chevalier Quesnay de Beaurepaire, a French officer in the Revolutionary army, had developed the idea for the academy but the plan was abandoned due to the war. In 1786 Richmond's first theatre was built on this site, described as having the appearance of a "barn-like building."
The Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788 was held in this building beginning on June 3 for three weeks "after first convening in the temporary capitol at Cary and Fourteenth streets."[4] Among the many individuals in attendance were James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe, Edmund Pendleton, George Wythe, George Nicholas, Edmund Randolph, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee and Patrick Henry.
This building was destroyed by fire in 1802 and the Richmond Theatre replaced it.[5] In 1811, the Richmond Theatre fire resulted in the deaths of 72 people. Chief Justice John Marshall commissioned a church to replace it as a monument, and it was designed by architect Robert Mills, the first American-born architect. He was the architect of the Washington Monuments in both Baltimore and Washington, DC. He also later designed many buildings in South Carolina as superintendent of public buildings. Mills "had a reputation for being particularly concerned with fireproofing."[6] Later he designed Charleston's Fireproof Building.
On Nov. 20, 1817, Monumental Church established the first Sunday School program in Richmond.[7] Famous parishioners included Chief Justice John Marshall, whose family occupied pew No. 23; Edgar Allan Poe, whose foster parents the Allans were members and occupied pew No. 80; the Marquis de Lafayette when he visited Richmond in 1824, William Mayo of Powhatan, and the Chamberlayne family.[8]
Three Richmond congregations were formed from Monumental, including: St. James's in 1831, St. Paul's in 1845, and All Saints in 1888. As the center of population in the city dispersed to the suburbs, Monumental Church was judged too costly to operate. It was deconsecrated in 1965 and taken over by the Medical College of Virginia for classroom space. The College transferred the building to the Historic Richmond Foundation, an affiliate of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
ArchitectureEdit
The design of the Monumental Church generated a certain amount of controversy between the two architects, Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Robert Mills, who were consulted independently by the Committee. Latrobe had submitted his designs initially and believed that his plan was approved by the Committee. However, the Committee approved the plan submitted by Robert Mills, which combined the monument with the church. This resulted in an awkward situation, as Mills had worked as Latrobe's assistant earlier in his career.
Latrobe refused to submit any alternate plan when requested by the Committee, as he felt slighted. However, he commended their decision and wrote glowingly of the Mills's capability to fulfill the assignment.[9]
Following this, additional letters were exchanged between Latrobe and Mills, which were not very cordial at times. Latrobe's last letter of July 22, 1812 addressed to Mills ended the controversy.
Mill's plan consisted of "an emphatic 'monumental porch'"—thirty-two feet square as Latrobe had proposed—grafted onto an auditorium-style church. The porch, which Mills called the "vestibule, dominates the south elevation, and fronts upon the street. The body of the church is an octagon, one facet of which abuts the rear of the monumental porch. Within the church, directly across from the doorway, the pulpit stands within an acoustically conceived apse, which balances the porch. This bay projects from the northern face of the octagon and was intended to serve as the base of the steeple (never executed). To the east and west project corresponding bays; these contain stairways to the balcony that circumscribes the interior, except the pulpit apse on the north face of the nave. A low saucer dome caps the nave, and its center is pierced by a round monitor or cupola."[10] The monumental porch adopted "shadow, void and contrasting forms" to register a lasting impression. The design also adopted large forms with least ornamentation with the brown colour of the Aquia stone sandstone accentuating the solemnity of the structure. The placement of the large piers in the porch brought about a shaded interior. The Doric columns with fluted drums also projected out into the light. The overall effect of the porch was of a geometrically proportioned and balanced structure.[11]
Present useEdit
In 2004 Monumental Church underwent a significant renovation. A monument to the 72 people killed in the fire was replaced by an exact replica. The bodies of the victims remain in a brick crypt below the church.
The documentary Saving Grace-Resurrecting American History, written and directed by writer/director Eric Futterman, follows the process of recreating the monument. Laser scanners were used to record its measurements. The data was sent by Internet to Ireland, where stonecutters used both high-tech computer equipment and old-fashioned stone-cutting created a new 7,000-pound monument.
In 2006, regular tours began. These are operated in cooperation with the Valentine Richmond History Center's "Court End Passport". The building is open on occasion for other private functions.
List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond, Virginia
^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
^ "Monumental Church". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2009-01-14. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
^ "Monumental Church to Observe 150th Anniversary of First Service." Richmond Times Dispatch, May 3, 1964.
^ Weddell, Alexander Willbourne. Southern Churchman, January 9, 1932.
^ Robert Russell, College of Charleston Department of Historic Preservation
^ Evans, Mrs. Wm. E., "The History of the Monumental Church," 1817.
^ "Monumental Church", Richmond News Leader, Dec 3, 1946.
^ bryan, John Morrill (2001). Robert Mills: America's first architect. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 97–103. ISBN 1-56898-296-8. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
^ Bryan, p. 104.
^ Bryan, p. 105
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Monumental Church, 1224 East Broad Street, Richmond, Independent City, VA: 57 photos, 6 color transparencies, 21 measured drawings, 16 data pages, and 4 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
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Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
Fall Events include World, New England & Connecticut Premieres, Navaratri Festival
September 28, 2020 August 3, 2012 by Andrew Chatfield
Rama Vaidyanathan performs on October 21, 2012 as part of the 36th annual Navaratri Festival
Over the course of the next year, a campus-wide steering committee has put together a far-reaching series of global performances, talks and participatory projects, all with the intention of bringing us into an examination of the role of Music & Public Life. We will celebrate and study the sounds, words and spirit of music in public at the local, national and transnational levels, all designed to cross disciplines and to engage the campus and community-at-large. From performances by Middletown’s own Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem to the legendary Hugh Masekela; showcasing student research in the role of music in the current political campaigns; to the creation of MiddletownRemix–there are points of entry for everyone.
In September, we feature dance and theater companies who are exploring the role of the audience as actively engaged in the live creative process of the theatrical event. In ZviDance’s Zoom, patrons use their smartphones to integrate their own photos and text into the work; in Anonymous Ensemble’s Liebe Love Amour!, the audience is engaged in constructing the “performance script.”
October and November bring the return of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar of Urban Bush Women in a stunning work she co-created with Nora Chipaumire (visible) that features an international cast of all-star dancers; as well as the CFA’s commission of a work by the fiercely interdisciplinary writer/director Rinde Eckert (this year’s winner of an inaugural Duke Performing Artist Award). The Last Days of the Old Wild Boy has been developed with students and faculty in Music, Animal Studies and Neuroscience and is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Creative Campus Initiative.
It’s a robust fall, rich with work that brings us into new conversations with art and its possibilities. We hope you’ll join us!
Pamela Tatge
Director, Center for the Arts
Categories Art & Art History, Dance, Music, Navaratri Festival, TheaterTags Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio, Breaking Ground Dance Series, CFA Theater, Crowell Concert Hall, Crowell Concert Series, Dance Department, DanceMasters Weekend, Davison Art Center, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Memorial Chapel, Music & Public Life, Music at The Russell House, Music Department, Navaratri Festival, Outside The Box Theater Series, Patricelli '92 Theater, Performing Arts Series, Ring Family Performing Arts Hall (former CFA Hall), The Russell House, Theater Department, World Music Hall1 Comment
April 5, 2012 April 5, 2012 by Andrew Chatfield
Center for the Arts Director Pamela Tatge reflects on the many events that have taken place this week.
Monday, April 2, 2012:
I had some wonderful conversations, emails and phone calls from students and community members who attended Chunky Move over the weekend. I will say that I thought it was one of the most successful integrations of visual art and dance that I’ve ever witnessed, and I was particularly pleased that Gideon Obarzanek said he’s never seen Connected look better than it did in the CFA Theater. For those of you who were there, thank you for supporting this important performance.
We sent out letters of acceptance to the Class of 2013’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance the same day we found out that the program will be receiving its first grant from the National Endowment for the Arts!
Tuesday, April 3, 2012:
I had lunch with Gillian Goslinga in Anthropology and Jill Sigman, Center for Creative Research Visiting Artist to hear about “Ritual, Health, and Healing”, the course they are co-teaching in Dance and Anthropology as a part of the Creative Campus Initiative. It’s also a Service Learning Course and so they are taking their students to St. Nicks Alliance in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on three Saturdays to conduct research with residents. It will culminate on Sunday, April 22, 2012 as a series of student performance works are presented alongside Sigman’s Thinkdance installation at St. Nicks. See a reflection by one of the students in the class, Hannah Cressy ’13, here.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012:
I attended the opening of the beautiful exhibition, Provincial Elegance: Chinese Antiques Donated in Honor of Houghton “Buck” Freeman, a collection of objects donated by Anna Lee ’84, that’s at the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies Gallery through Sunday, May 27, 2012. I was so moved by Patrick Dowdey’s story of how Anna made the contribution to Wesleyan in honor of the great spirit that was Buck Freeman, whose family made, and continues to make, so many great things possible at Wesleyan. Jean Shaw, former director of the Center for the Arts, told me that not only did Anna graduate the same year I did, but that Anna worked at the CFA when she was a student!
Reception for Senior Thesis Exhibition Week One (3/28/12). Photo by Nam Anh Ta '12.
I also attended the second week of the Senior Thesis Exhibitions in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. If you’ve never taken the time to attend one of the Wednesday receptions from 4pm to 6pm, then you are missing one of the great “scenes” at Wesleyan. Hundreds of students flock to Zilkha to see their fellow students’ capstone project. All of us have the great opportunity to feel the pulse of contemporary art on our campus in all of its many manifestations, from JoAnna Bourain’s video animation installation [sometimes its hard 2 b a woman (i c u looking at me!!)] to Alex Chaves’ vibrant paintings [casual desire] in South Gallery. Exhibitions continue for the next two weeks, with receptions on Wednesday, April 11 and Wednesday, April 18, 2012.
Thursday, April 5, 2012:
Today I’m on a plane headed to Cleveland to do a site visit of Cuyahoga Community College’s Creative Campus project on behalf of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. The project features the prolific and generous violin virtuoso, Daniel Bernard Roumain (you may remember him downstage left playing solo violin for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s performance in the CFA Theater in 2006). He’s written an opera based on Gilgamesh and the composition has been offered on the web to anyone who wants to create their own work using his composition. He has truly democratized the creation process and tonight I’ll have the chance to see his ensemble perform alongside faculty, students and community members.
And I want to wish our senior thesis students in dance the best of luck on their thesis presentations in the Patricelli ’92 Theater, tonight through Saturday, April 7, 2012 at 8pm. Click here for more information about the concerts.
It’s been a busy week.
Categories Art & Art History, Dance, MusicTags Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio, Breaking Ground Dance Series, CFA Theater, Dance Department, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Patricelli '92 Theater, Performing Arts Series
January 4, 2012 by Andrew Chatfield
From now through January 17, share your thoughts about the spring events at the Center for the Arts in one (or both!) of the following ways:
1) Like us on Facebook and write something about our spring events on our Wall.
2) Follow us on Twitter and compose a tweet about our spring events (be sure to mention @WesCFA).
Everyone who writes about our spring events on Facebook or Twitter will be entered to win some excellent prizes, including the following:
—three tickets to see UConn Women’s Basketball play St. John’s (Saturday, February 18, 7pm, Gampel Pavilion, Storrs) courtesy of WNPR
—gift cards to Javapalooza Cafe courtesy of the Hartford and New Haven Advocates
—movie vouchers courtesy of Destinta Theatres
—arts books courtesy of Wesleyan University Press
—earbud headphones courtesy of Wesleyan Information Technology Services
—vintage posters courtesy of the Davison Art Center
—picture frame Center for the Arts magnets
Categories Art & Art History, Dance, Music, TheaterTags Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio, Breaking Ground Dance Series, CFA Courtyard, CFA Theater, Crowell Concert Hall, Crowell Concert Series, Dance Department, DanceMasters Weekend, Davison Art Center, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Feet to the Fire, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Music Department, Outside The Box Theater Series, Patricelli '92 Theater, Performing Arts Series, The Russell House, Theater Department, World Music Hall
Fall events include U.S. & New England Premieres, Navaratri Festival, Lucier Celebration
September 28, 2020 August 2, 2011 by ptatge
At a time when so many of us are turning to YouTube to see performances by our favorite artists, we can lose sight of what it’s like to experience live performance. This fall, the Center for the Arts offers you a wide range of performances and exhibitions that will connect you with some of the brightest minds in contemporary art-making, transport you to foreign lands, and inspire you to think about the world in new ways—and the performers will never be more than 69 feet away!
We recognize that it has become increasingly difficult to classify a work as strictly music, dance, theater, visual art, or film as more artists are blurring the boundaries among disciplines. So we have merged our visiting artist performances into a single Performing Arts Series. We hope this will lead you to cross the boundaries of your own comfort zone and discover new artists and art forms.
Highlights of the fall season include the American premiere of the ground-breaking Italian movement theater collective Dewey Dell and the return of Philadelphia’s Rennie Harris Puremovement, that has been a trailblazer in taking hip hop forms from the street to the concert stage for nearly twenty years. We’ll also host two New England premieres: the astoundingly brilliant throat-singers and musicians from Inner Mongolia, AnDa Union and, continuing our collaboration with the College of the Environment, we’ll welcome Water is Rising, a breathtaking performance by a group of 35 dancers and musicians from the Pacific Island atolls, the first islands predicted to be submerged due to climate change. In November, the Music Department and CFA join forces to celebrate Alvin Lucier, internationally renowned composer who has just retired after serving on our faculty for four decades. Alvin Lucier: A Celebration features a major symposium, concert series, film screenings and an exhibition curated by Andrea Miller-Keller.
With performances and exhibitions by visiting artists, students and faculty, there is an extraordinary amount of good work to see at Wesleyan this fall, with 60% offered free to the public or at ticket prices that make us one of the most affordable venues in the state. Tickets are on sale now online. Starting at 10am on Tuesday, August 16, you can call or visit the Wesleyan University Box Office at 860-685-3355 to receive a 10% discount on your purchase of four or more Performing Arts Series events (and if you buy six or more “Performing Arts Series” events, you’ll save 15%!) Starting August 16, you will also be able to buy subscription packages for both the 35th annual Navaratri Festival (a 15% savings) as well as the Alvin Lucier Celebration (a 25% savings!)
Please join us. We appreciate that you believe, as we do, in the power of the arts to add meaning to our lives and to remind us of the capacity of the human spirit. Thanks for making Wesleyan’s CFA your center for the arts.
Categories Art & Art History, Dance, Music, Navaratri Festival, TheaterTags Breaking Ground Dance Series, CFA Theater, Crowell Concert Hall, Crowell Concert Series, Dance Department, DanceMasters Weekend, Davison Art Center, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Feet to the Fire, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Memorial Chapel, Music Department, Navaratri Festival, Outside The Box Theater Series, Patricelli '92 Theater, Performing Arts Series, Ring Family Performing Arts Hall (former CFA Hall), The Russell House, Theater Department, World Music Hall2 Comments
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In the absence of effective interventions to prevent preterm births, improved survival of infants who are given birth to at the biological limits of viability has relied on advances in perinatal care over the past 50 years
In the absence of effective interventions to prevent preterm births, improved survival of infants who are given birth to at the biological limits of viability has relied on advances in perinatal care over the past 50 years. postnatal injury to the developing lungs. Consequently, lung development is usually markedly impaired, which leads to prolonged airway and pulmonary vascular disease that can impact adult lung function. Greater insights into the pathobiology of BPD will provide a better understanding of disease mechanisms and lung repair and regeneration, which will enable the discovery of novel therapeutic targets. In parallel, clinical and translational studies that improve the classification Gsk3b of disease phenotypes and enable early identification of at-risk preterm infants should improve trial design and individualized care to enhance outcomes in preterm infants. In 1967, Northway, Rosen and Porter explained a fresh lung disease in preterm newborns who acquired hyaline membrane disease (today referred to as respiratory problems syndrome (RDS; find BOX 1 for the explanation of neonatal conditions), which in those days was an extremely lethal condition that resulted from using mechanised venting without positive end-expiratory pressure and high degrees of supplemental air so that they can save these newborns1. For the reason that period, survival was uncommon despite a comparatively mild amount of prematurity (mean gestational age group, 34 weeks), but many preterm infants had a slower and prolonged recovery from lung and airway Deoxycorticosterone parenchymal injury. The writers termed this brand-new symptoms bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD; also called chronic lung disease) based on airway histopathological features. Container 1 | Neonatal explanations and intensive treatment interventions DefinitionsBirth before 37 finished weeks of gestation. That is additional subdivided based on gestational age group into incredibly preterm (<28 weeks of gestation), extremely preterm (28C32 weeks of gestation) and moderate or past due preterm (32C37 Deoxycorticosterone weeks of gestation). Newborns who weigh <1,500 g at birth. Most VLBW babies are given birth to at <30 weeks gestational age. Infants who weigh <1,000 g at birth. Most ELBW babies are given birth to at <28 weeks gestational age. Infants given birth to at <28 weeks gestational age. A measure of the age of an infant that combines gestational and postnatal age, both in weeks. For example, a 23-week gestational age infant at 9 weeks after birth has a postmenstrual age of 32 weeks. Also known as respiratory stress syndrome, this is the formation of a characteristic translucent membrane in collapsed alveoli, which can result from inadequate pulmonary surfactant production and structural immaturity in the under-developed lungs of preterm babies. Also known as fetal growth restriction, IUGR usually refers to infants whose excess weight is definitely Deoxycorticosterone below the tenth percentile for babies of that gestational age or less than two standard deviations below the average weight for babies of that gestational age. Sustained elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance after birth that can cause serious hypoxaemia due to extrapulmonary right-to-left shunting across the foramen ovale and/or ductus arteriosus. InterventionsPositive airway pressure through an endotracheal tube. You will find multiple ways to provide ventilation. Examples include time cycled, pressure limited; volume targeted; and neurally modified ventilatory aid. The percentage of oxygen content that is involved in gas exchange in the alveoli. Supplemental oxygen usually has an FiO2 of <0.5 to avoid oxygen toxicity. Ventilation through an endotracheal tube, usually having a device that is paired with a conventional mechanical ventilator and provides high rates around a targeted mean airway pressure with active inhalation and passive exhalation. Ventilation through an endotracheal tube, usually having a device that provides high rates around a mean airway pressure, with Deoxycorticosterone active inspiration and expiration. Continuous distending pressure, usually measured in centimetres of water, through the nose passage (having a nose or face mask instead of an endotracheal tube), with blended FiO2. Usually a baseline continuous distending pressure with intermittent higher levels of pressure, which can be synchronized or non-synchronized, with blended FiO2. A selective pulmonary vasodilator that reverses pulmonary vasoconstriction by modulation of vascular muscle mass tone. The characteristics of BPD possess evolved within the last 50 years, because so many preterm infants today.
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease characterized by muscle weakness and fatiguability of skeletal muscles
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease characterized by muscle weakness and fatiguability of skeletal muscles. Furthermore, antibodies against other extracellular or intracellular targets, such as titin, the ryanodine receptor, agrin, collagen Q, Kv1.4 potassium channels and cortactin have been found in some MG patients, which can be useful biomarkers. In addition to the improvement of diagnosis, the identification of the patients’ autoantibody specificity is usually important for their stratification into particular subgroups, that may differ with regards to clinical manifestations, prognosis & most their response to therapies importantly. The knowledge from the autoantibody profile of MG sufferers would allow to get a therapeutic strategy customized with their MG subgroup. That is getting specifically relevant as there is certainly increasing improvement toward the introduction Decitabine kinase inhibitor of antigen-specific therapies, concentrating on only the precise autoantibodies or immune system cells mixed up in autoimmune response, such as for example antigen-specific immunoadsorption, that have proven promising outcomes. We will herein review the advancements created by us yet others toward advancement of more delicate detection methods as well as the id of brand-new antibody goals in MG, and discuss their significance in MG therapy and medical diagnosis. Overall, the introduction of book autoantibody assays is certainly assisting in the greater accurate classification and medical diagnosis of MG sufferers, helping the introduction of advanced therapeutics as well as the improvement of disease management and patient standard of living ultimately. in fetal or denervated muscle groups and 2in adult muscle groups (11). Each subunit includes a extremely structured extracellular area (ECD), four transmembrane domains and a structured intracellular domain. The autoantibodies focus on the ECDs from the AChR subunits and so are extremely heterogeneous, since autoantibodies against all five subunits are available in the same affected person, like the subunit from the fetal AChR (12C15). Not surprisingly, approximately half from the autoantibodies bind towards the subunit and specifically the primary immunogenic area (MIR), shaped by overlapping epitopes on the 1 subunit ECD, whose central primary lies between proteins 67C76, although various other segments contribute aswell (16C18). Furthermore, the autoantibodies against the subunit are even more pathogenic than Decitabine kinase inhibitor those against the various other subunits (10). The AChR antibodies belong mainly towards the IgG1 and IgG3 subclasses (19, 20). They are able to, Decitabine kinase inhibitor therefore, activate go with on the postsynaptic membrane and therefore trigger AChR reduction and devastation of its quality structures, which is necessary for efficient signal transduction (21). Additionally, being bivalent, they can cross-link receptors leading to their endocytosis and destruction (antigenic modulation) (22). Finally, autoantibodies that bind close to the ligand binding site can directly interfere with receptor activation by acetylcholine (23). Serological testing for the detection of AChR antibodies is usually often the first step for MG diagnosis, along with electrophysiological examination and assessment of response to acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors. The titer of AChR antibodies does not correlate with disease severity, although some evidence suggests that such a correlation emerges when the titer of only the MIR-directed, or the IgG1 subclass antibodies is considered (20, 24). In individual patients, on the other hand, the titer is usually associated with symptom severity and Rabbit Polyclonal to KLF10/11 with response to therapy (25). Indeed, in a recent Decitabine kinase inhibitor case study, gradually increasing AChR antibody titers were detected retrospectively up to 2 years before the onset of common MG symptoms (26). Therefore, testing serial samples from the same patient attains added importance for monitoring their progress and guiding disease management. Additionally, the AChR antibody titer could provide information with respect to the risk of transient neonatal MG (TNMG), since it appears that TNMG is usually probable when the mother’s titer.
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Roy Orbison’s vocal was tremendous. When this collaboration, "Handle with Care", was deemed too good for such a limited release, the group agreed to record a full album, titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. Of course, they revered Bob Dylan too. [84], Inspired by the Traveling Wilburys' success and particularly its benefit to Petty and Orbison as artists, Lenny Waronker encouraged American guitarist Ry Cooder to form the band Little Village and record for Warner Bros.[85] The group – comprising Cooder, Keltner, John Hiatt and Nick Lowe – released a self-titled album in 1992. With the huge international success — over five million copies sold — of Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1, a follow-up was inevitable. When this collaboration, "Handle with Care", was deemed too good for such a limited release, th… 1, "more and more albums seem to be the rock-and-roll equivalents of bowling night. According to Mo Ostin, the choice of album title came about through "George being George";[9] apparently Harrison was making a wry reference to the appearance of a bootleg that served as a sort of Volume 2. It was they who evolved simple rhythmic forms to describe their adventures. 1's success was "the most sickening thing to me". [51][52] The two producers then flew back to England; Lynne recalls that, throughout the flight, he and Harrison enthused about how to turn the sparse, acoustic-based tracks into completed recordings. Following Orbison's death in December 1988, the Wilburys released a second album, which they titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. Op 17 oktober van dat jaar werd het nummer uitgebracht als de eerste single van het album. [42][43] Petty recalled that, as a friend but also an avowed fan of Dylan's, Harrison felt the need to clear the air on the first day by saying to him: "We know that you're Bob Dylan and everything, but we're going to just treat you and talk to you like we would anybody else." More on Genius. George Harrison first mentioned the Traveling Wilburys publicly during a radio interview with Bob Coburn on the show Rockline in February 1988. [20] The five musicians also bonded over a shared appreciation of the English comedy troupe Monty Python. After several years of unavailability, the two Wilburys albums were reissued by the Harrison estate in the 2007 box set The Traveling Wilburys Collection. [Traveling Wilburys] (Inside out) (Right side up) [Tom Petty] Yeah, don't it make you wanna twist and shout When you're inside out? All five were good friends who admired and respected one another. 1 (1988) Handle With Care; Dirty World; Rattled; Last Night; Not Alone Anymore; Congratulations; Heading For The Light; Margarita; Tweeter And The Monkey Man; End Of The Line; THE TRAVELING WILBURYS videos. Sadly, by this time Roy had died, but there was still great excitement when we visited the Wilburys, recording in the Wallace Neff-designed house at the top of Coldwater Canyon. A squirrel is named "Eddie Wilbury" in that film as well. I think it would ruin it in a way. It's this new group I got [in mind]: it's called the Traveling Wilburys, I'd like to do an album with them and then later we can all do our own albums again. Traveling Wilburys. [5] When Harrison presented the recording to Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker of Warner Bros., the executives insisted that the song was too good to be used as a B-side. Presumed Having a Good Time as a Traveling Wilburys-type side project for Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. [62], Roy Orbison died of a heart attack on 6 December 1988. "[44] While most of the songs had a primary composer,[45] all of the band members were creative equals. Now here’s another one. The Traveling Wilburys Biography by William Ruhlmann + Follow Artist. "[4][nb 1] According to Jeff Lynne, who co-produced Cloud Nine, Harrison introduced the idea of the two of them starting a band together around two months into the sessions for his album,[6] which began in early January 1987. The project's work received much anticipation given the diverse nature of the singer-songwriters. 2- The Traveling Wilburys were the original rock ‘n’ roll supergroup. (C) 2007 T. Wilbury Limited. [24][nb 4] In the album credits, the "Wilburys" joke was extended further, with the band members listed under various pseudonyms and pretending to be half-brothers – sons of a fictional Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr.[56][57] During promotion for the album, Orbison played along with the mock history, saying: "Some people say Daddy was a cad and a bounder, but I remember him as a Baptist minister. . 1 uit 1988. [21] Discussing the Wilburys in Peter Bogdanovich's 2007 documentary Runnin' Down a Dream, Petty said that one of the strengths behind the concept was that it was free of any intervention from record company, management or marketing concerns, and instead developed naturally from a spirit of co-operation and mutual admiration among five established artists. Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 is een cd van Traveling Wilburys "[2][9] Thereafter, they used the term for any small error in performance. De leden gebruikten niet hun eigen namen op de hoes, maar creëerden in plaats daarvan een fictieve familiegroep, die bestond uit de vijf halfbroers Nelson, Otis, Lefty, Charlie T. jr. en Lucky Wilbury. The birth of the Traveling Wilburys was a happy accident. One thing, however, remains certain. Orbison and Dylan were inducted as solo artists, Harrison was inducted as a member of the Beatles and, posthumously, as a solo artist, Petty as the leader of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Lynne as a member of the Electric Light Orchestra. [91], – Tom Petty in The True History of the Traveling Wilburys. 1 op. [35] He said he was "wait[ing] for all the other Wilburys to finish being solo artists" so that they could renew the collaboration. 2020. Jeff suggested “Traveling” instead. [Traveling Wilburys] Inside out Inside out. You can easily improve your search by specifying the number of letters in the answer. "[65] Although there was speculation in the press that Del Shannon or Roger McGuinn might join the Wilburys, the remaining members never considered replacing Orbison. De leden gebruikten niet hun eigen namen op de hoes, maar creëerden in plaats daarvan een fictieve familiegroep, die bestond uit de vijf halfbroers Nelson, Otis, Lefty, Charlie T. jr. en Lucky Wilbury. [90] Each member of the Traveling Wilburys has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, although the band itself has not been inducted. [82] AllMusic managing editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine has similarly written: "It's impossible to picture a supergroup with a stronger pedigree than that (all that's missing is a Rolling Stone), but in another sense it's hard to call the Wilburys a true supergroup, since they arrived nearly two decades after the all-star craze of the '70s peaked, and they never had the self-important air of nearly all the other supergroups. [42] Author Simon Leng recognises the venture as primarily a channel through which Harrison and Dylan could escape the restrictions of their serious media images, but also, in its guise as a "phantom band", a development by Harrison of the Rutles' satirical approach to the Beatles' legacy, in this case by "de-mythologizing" rock history. De Traveling Wilburys was een gelegenheidsband die in 1988 ontstond op initiatief van voormalig Beatle George Harrison.Naast Harrison bestond de supergroep uit Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty en Bob Dylan.De 'Wilburys' brachten twee cd's uit, maar traden nooit op en gaven nauwelijks interviews. As a region, Traveling Wilburys is ranked 23,488 th in the world for Highest Economic Output. The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. I think this can be discounted, not only because of his silly name but also from his habit of impersonating Ethel Merman during lectures. 3 lay with Harrison. At the time it was customary to couple an A-side with a never-before-heard track, giving the single extra sales value. World Census bean-counters crunched the numbers to calculate national Gross Domestic Product. Dim Sun, a Chinese academic, argues that they may be related to “THE STROLLING TILBURYS”, Queen Elizabeth the first’s favourite minstrels, and backs this suspicion with the observation that The Traveling Wilburys is an obvious anagram of “V. Catalogue reissue and Genesis Publications book, Harrison also stated his intention to form such a band in March 1988, in response to a suggestion from television show host, When promoting the Wilburys in October 1988, Harrison joked that the inspiration for the band's formation and their name came originally from. [73] Petty described the album as "a little more rough and ready, a bit more raucous" than Vol. [59] As Harrison had intended, the album defied contemporary musical trends such as hip hop, acid house and synthesised pop; author Alan Clayson likens its release to "a Viking longship docking in a hovercraft terminal". [80] While Harrison was against the idea of touring, Petty recalled: "I kept getting down on my knees in front of George, saying, 'Please, it's so much money!"[80]. Because I do think that it brought a little sunshine into the world. In music journalist Neil Staunton's description, "Harrison is acknowledged as the de facto chief Wilbury". George had invited us to his house, Friar Park, to celebrate Evelyn’s birthday. This was a song we knew could not be wasted on some B-side. The collection sold 500,000 copies worldwide during the first three weeks and remained in the UK top 5 for seven weeks after its release. Believe it or not, I'm in awe of you guys, and it's the same for me. “End of the Line” the final track off of The Traveling Wilburys' Grammy Award-winning first album, The Traveling Wilburys Volume 1, released in 1989. None of this would've happened without him. But I don't think anybody ever took it seriously. Perhaps the biggest supergroup of all time, a roots combo formed by George Harrison with hired … To my thinking, this was a perfect collaboration. Harrison, as primary holder of the rights, did not reissue them before his death. Hugh Jampton, E.F. Norti-Bitz Reader in Applied Jacket, University of Krakatoa (East of Java), “Be careful where you’re walking, You might step in something rough, Be careful where you’re talking, Any saying all that stuff”. In Petty's description, Orbison performed an "unbelievable show", during which "we'd punch each other and go, 'He's in our band, too.' From my point of view, I just tried to preserve our relationship. It was just so sad for that to happen. Traveling Wilburys discography and songs: Music profile for Traveling Wilburys, formed 1988. Just when you thought that real music was gone forever... Join us to get the latest Traveling Wilbury news…. [6][8] The term "Wilbury" also originated during the Cloud Nine sessions. Warner Bros. Records Harrison first suggested "the Trembling Wilburys" as the group's name; at Lynne's suggestion, they amended it to "Traveling Wilburys". Chairman Emeritus We could have a great band up there and the four of us could play acoustic if we wanted to. The clip was filmed in Los Angeles and completed on 28 February 1991. George, being George, titled the second album The Traveling Wilburys, Volume 3. "[66], Harrison was the most active in promoting the Wilburys, carrying out interviews well into 1989. [87] Writing in New York magazine in late 1990, Elizabeth Wurtzel cited the Notting Hillbillies' album and the self-titled debut by Hindu Love Gods – a band consisting of Warren Zevon and members of R.E.M. 3 is the second and final studio album by the Traveling Wilburys, a group consisting of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty.It was released on October 29, 1990 as the follow-up to their 1988 debut, Traveling Wilburys Vol. I've always played around in my own mind what a Wilburys tour could be. Traveling Wilburys lyrics - Find all lyrics for songs such as End Of The Line, Handle With Care, Tweeter And The Monkey at LyricsFreak.com That, of course, was the key to their charm …"[59] Speaking to music journalist Paul Zollo in 2004, Petty agreed that humour and self-effacement had been key factors in the Wilburys' success, adding: "We wanted to make something good in a world that seemed to get uglier and uglier and meaner and meaner … And I'm really proud that I was part of it. Lyrics (albums) Lyrics (songs) Videos; Ringtones; Related Artists. I don't think we ever considered it, really. [49] Over the months following the end of recording in the summer, contractual issues had been successfully negotiated between Warner's and the record companies representing Dylan, Petty, Lynne and Orbison. Lenny and I loved the song so much we asked Tom and the guys to do it at least three times that evening. [53] Overdubs and further recording took place at Harrison's studio, FPSHOT,[32] with "Sideburys" Jim Keltner (drums), Jim Horn (saxophones) and Ray Cooper (percussion). – as examples of a trend whereby, following the Wilburys' Vol. A 30th anniversary, limited edition 12-inch picture disc of 1988's The Traveling Wilburys Vol. The group was born: five guys with star stature in their own rights, but it was George who created this Wilbury environment where five stars could enjoy an ego-free collaboration. The Harrison-made film promoting the Traveling Wilburys, Whatever Wilbury Wilbury, lists the following credits: "Chopper Wilbury" (editor), "Edison Wilbury" (lighting), "Evelyn Wilbury" (wardrobe), "Clyde B. Wilbury" (special effects), "Big Mac Wilbury" (catering), "Zsa Zsa Wilbury" (make-up) and "Tell M. Wilbury" (production manager). Some have even gone on to suggest tenuous links with The Pillsburys, the group who invented Flour Power. 1.The band members again adopted pseudonyms for their contributions, using new names from the fictitious Wilbury brothers. 1. [38] These sessions were held in the house of Eurythmics member Dave Stewart, in Los Angeles. Dr. Arthur Noseputty of Cambridge believes they were closely related to the Strangling Dingleberries, which is not a group but a disease. Overdubs on the 2007 bonus tracks "Maxine" and "Like a Ship" were credited to "Ayrton Wilbury", a pseudonym for Dhani Harrison. 3 was released on 29 October 1990. The Wilburys tour never came about. Later, we don’t as yet know how much later, some intrepid Wilburys began to go away for the weekend, leaving late Friday and coming back Sunday. "[83], Harrison said the project was an opportunity to "put a finger up to the rules" by challenging the norms associated with the music industry. 1 (1988). I’m glad that a song that had once been destined for semiobscurity as a B-side became the catalyst for something so lasting and joyful. [98] Compiled by Olivia Harrison,[99] the book includes rare photographs, recording notes, handwritten lyrics, sketches,[21][100] and first-hand commentary on the band's history, together with a foreword by Lynne. Het verscheen op hun album Traveling Wilburys Vol. Or we could just sing our individual songs and make them Wilbury tunes, as if we'd recorded them that way. 1. 2007, The etymological origins of The Traveling Wilburys have aroused something of a controversy amongst academic circles. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the two Traveling Wilburys albums had limited availability and were out of print in most areas. Crossword Clue The crossword clue Co-founder of the Traveling Wilburys with 10 letters was last seen on the June 25, 2018.We think the likely answer to this clue is ROYORBISON.Below are all possible answers to this clue ordered by its rank. In 1992, in his capacity as producer, Harrison credited himself as "Spike and Nelson Wilbury" on his live album Live in Japan. I suppose George figured that as long as his pals were on hand, why not use them to knock off this flipside? The Traveling Wilburys albums drifted out of print in the late '90s, making the 2007 release of The Traveling Wilburys Collection -- a double-disc set containing both albums, plus a bonus DVD -- a noteworthy affair. Traveling Wilburys tabs, chords, guitar, bass, ukulele chords, power tabs and guitar pro tabs including handle with care, end of the line, congratulations, last night, cool dry place Rolling Stone magazine named Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1 one of the 100 Best Albums of All Time. [7] When discussing who the other members might be, Harrison chose Bob Dylan and Lynne opted for Roy Orbison. The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. "Handle with Care" is een nummer van de Brits-Amerikaanse supergroep Traveling Wilburys. Traveling Wilburys concert tickets are on sale. THE TRAVELING WILBURYS. [30][31] In Petty's recollection, Harrison and Lynne then decided to realise their idea of forming a Wilburys band, and first invited him to join before phoning Dylan, who also agreed to join. Traveling Wilburys was een supergroep, bestaande uit George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty en Bob Dylan. One of the most amazing things ever about the Wilburys was this poles-apart thing of Roy [Orbison] and Bob Dylan. The message of the music travels, as indeed they traveled and as I myself must now travel for further treatment. [13][14] The friendship continued in Los Angeles later that year. It was a bunch of friends that just happened to be really good at making music. Referring to recording errors created by faulty equipment, Harrison jokingly remarked to Lynne, "We'll bury 'em in the mix. The Traveling Wilburys Lyrics "Handle With Care" Been beat up and battered around Been sent up, and I've been shot down You're the best thing that I've ever found Handle me with care Reputation's changeable Situation's tolerable But baby, you're adorable Handle me with care A couple of days later George came by my office to play the new “B-side.” We went next door to A&R head Lenny Waronker’s office so he could hear it too. Whatever it was, we could do it. Would each person do a solo set and then do Wilburys at the end, or would we all go right on from beginning to end and make everything Wilburys? The box set included a DVD containing their music videos and a documentary on the band's formation. Originating from an idea discussed by Harrison and Lynne during the sessions for Harrison's 1987 album Cloud Nine, the band formed in April 1988 after the five members united to record a bonus track for Harrison's next European single. 1 will be released by Craft Recordings on 2 November 2018. [63] In tribute to him, the music video for the band's second single, "End of the Line", shows Orbison's guitar rocking in a chair when his vocals are heard. 3. [77] The album's liner notes were written by Eric Idle, another Python member, who again adopted a pseudonym. Mo Ostin 1324. De groep nam in 1988 het album Traveling Wilburys Vol. Omdat het onze passie is willen we nimmer afbreuk doen aan de kwaliteit. "End of the Line" is the last track from Traveling Wilburys' first album, Volume 1, released in 1988.Its riding-on-the-rails rhythm suggests its theme and the on-the-move nature of the group. 3 track "She's My Baby" was played by rock guitarist Gary Moore, who received the credit "Ken Wilbury".[103]. George felt the spontaneity of it, felt its driving force. As the Wilburys began to go further and further in their search for musical inspiration they found themselves the object of interest among many less developed species — nightclub owners, tour operators and recording executives. George played us “Handle With Care.” Our reaction was immediate. [47] Harrison planned a feature film about the band, to be produced by HandMade and directed by David Leland, but contractual problems ended the project. Lucky, Lefty, Nelson, Otis and Charlie T, Jr – together, they were known as The Traveling Wilburys, but who was really behind the curly hair and shades? Top 100 peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: This page was last edited on 24 December 2020, at 16:44. "[58][35], Vol. [70], Vol. 1. (C) 2007 T. Wilbury Limited. Delen. The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. [70][71] The duration of the main album sessions was again dictated by Dylan's touring schedule and limited availability. They must have taken to motion, in much the same way as penguins were at that time taking to ledges, for the next we hear of them they were going out for the day (often taking lunch or a picnic). There were a lot of nights when the conversation would roll around to that. [28][29], Working on a song that Harrison had recently started writing, the ensemble completed the track, which they titled "Handle with Care" after a label on a box in Dylan's garage. This was mid-1988. According to Harrison's neighbour and fellow musician, When commenting on Dylan's absence from promoting, harvnb error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFSmax2007 (, Last edited on 24 December 2020, at 16:44, "First mention of The Traveling Wilburys", "Jeff Lynne: 'Bob Dylan Wanted To Call Us Roy & The Boys, "You've Seen 'em Before, but Now Meet These Wild Wilburys", "The Traveling Wilburys – Limited Edition Book", "Classic Tracks: The Traveling Wilbury's 'Handle With Care, "Traveling Wilburys – The Traveling Wilburys Collection", "Wilburys Streaming Event Honors Father's Day", "Jeff Lynne Looks Back On Traveling Wilburys & the 30th Anniversary of 'Vol. They consisted of Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Beatle George Harrison, Roy Orbison and ELO’s Jeff Lynne. The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. The name Ayrton was used in honour of F1 driver Ayrton Senna. 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Friday ,07 March 2014
| 9 MB members arrested on charges of burning churches and police stations in Minya | Muslim man accused of kidnapping Coptic minor girl in Luxor | Police removed Kamel Saleh’s handcuffs | Terrorist cell targeting policemen arrested in Menoufia
Ukraine is Egypt – well, not really
By-Dr H.A. Hellyer
Egyptians know now what it was like to watch the Tahrir Square uprising in 2011 from outside of the country – because the same kind of media attention was recently projected on Ukraine. This country, which hasn’t been the subject of monthly breaking news for a while – let alone daily breaking news – has been constantly in the media for the last few weeks. The similarities to Egypt’s situation do not stop at international interest. No, they abound, tremendously, and are shown in so many different aspects of the revolutionary fervour that has swept Ukraine. Well, not really.
OK – there are a few similarities and connections between the two sets of events. But a plethora of headlines and analysis pieces in various parts of the international media would seem to indicate that both countries were almost inextricably joined at the hip in terms of their struggles. It is, as always, more complicated than that. If Egypt is not, say, Libya or Tunisia (by the way, it isn’t), Ukraine is also not Egypt.
For example – some are now wont to claim that Ukraine was “inspired” by Egypt’s revolution. From the outset, it’s not altogether clear why, after the various dramatic and embattled turns the Egyptian revolution has taken, it would be considered an inspiration for people outside of Egypt. Indeed, it might be construed as a warning. (Tunisia, you really ought to pay thanks to Egypt for giving you advance warning as to how disastrous it can be for any political force in a revolutionary transition to ignore the need for consensus, by the way.). Beyond that, however, one might stop to consider that Ukrainians were inspired by, just possibly, their own revolutionary uprising during the Orange Revolution of 2004-2005. Just a thought.
(Egypt, you really ought to apologise to Tunisia – how come you get to steal all the revolutionary thunder when Tunisia started all of this?)
OK – it is true that some Ukrainians in mid-January watched The Square, an Oscar-nominated documentary about Egypt’s revolution, in their own “Euro-Maidan”. I suppose there is a connection there – in addition to the ironic one that thus far, The Square has not been shown in Tahrir Square to revolutionary protestors. Indeed – it still does not have a licence to even be shown in cinemas in Egypt, and Naguib Sawiris seems not to have yet made good on his offer to have the film aired on ONTV.
Yes, both Egyptian protestors and Ukrainian protestors protested in squares that had the word “Maidan” in it. You got me on this one – of course they did, because the word for “square” in both languages is Arabic.
Another similarity between Egypt and Ukraine, perhaps, is that it seems different sides are arguing that protests gave rise to a coup or a revolution. Obviously, most of the 30 June camp argue that Mohamed Morsi’s 3 July ouster was a “revolution” (a minority that supported 30 June do not characterise 3 July in that fashion), while the opponents of 3 July generally describe it as a “coup” (with a minority admitting that it was popularly supported). In Ukraine, although there was no military intervention to speak of in support of the protesters (stand by on that one – there will be one later), the ousted president considered his ouster “coup”. The protesters obviously disagree – but why bring logic into any of this.
Both squares had somewhat unsavoury characters in their midst as supporters at one point or another. There were far-right wing ultranationalists in the EuroMaidan – how many, and what proportion of the protesters? I do not know – but I imagine that in the years to come, they will argue they were fundamental to the protest movement, and others will point out they simply played a role. In Egypt, at least in 2011, a similar force was not immediately evident in Tahrir – the Muslim Brotherhood is rightly called to account in terms of sectarianism, but still. One can legitimately argue that manifests differently later on – as one can argue that another type of “ultra nationalism” came to be seen in Tahrir Square, but not in 2011 to be sure.
The words “foreign intervention” certainly make their appearances in both countries –particularly throughout the last few months. In Egypt, foreign intervention is a particularly strange phenomenon. It is horrendous when any country comments on Egyptian politics, it seems. But when Vladimir Putin endorses a presidential run by Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, it appears that is not foreign intervention at all. Ironically, Putin’s latest move in the Ukraine, where he has essentially invaded the country, is also not considered foreign intervention (at least to the Kremlin), but rather a humanitarian intervention. It’s annoying to students of history that a number of Western countries are decrying “invasions on the basis of false pretexts”. Irony and hypocrisy are just so inconvenient.
“Democracy is more than the ballot box!” So said the pro-uprising Ukrainians to their adversaries – as did critics of the Muslim Brotherhood in the run-up to the 30 June protests. (The Brotherhood now, ironically, use a similar argument in criticism of the current government). “You’re an unelected government!” So says the opposition to the new regime in Kiev, and the opponents to the military backed authorities in Egypt. OK – a marginal similarity there.
I have news for observers – there was 6 April moment in Egypt, just as there was in Ukraine(Of course, the 6 April rally in the Ukraine was an ultranationalist one, while the 6 April group was a pro-democracy gathering – but again, who needs facts.).
But here is the most striking similarity of all – the creation, seemingly overnight, of “experts” on both countries. Out of nowhere, people who neither know the languages of the countries in question, nor have spent much time there, are writing incessantly to provide “insights”. Alas, if only it were that easy. The truth is – it’s often better to just say “I do not know”, but it seems that is poison in our modern world. Egypt already suffered – and suffers – from that malaise. Ukraine, welcome.
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Tuesday ,10 June 2014
| Pope Francis call to pray for peace in the Middle East | Priests of Suez congratulate al-Sisi on presidency | Sawiros: It's time for unity and work | Bishop Jeremiah congratulates Copts on Pentecost
In search for alternatives
By: Rana Allam, Daily news Egypt
“Who is the alternative?”
This was indeed the most repeated and frustrating question asked by the pro-Sisi camp during the past two weeks, before and during the surreal presidential election that brought a military man to power after three years of calls for democracy.
The question is frustrating because this camp thinks that the “revolution” can come up with one name, one leader to rule, as if the “revolution” is a single organisation or entity that can get together in a meeting room and pick its CEO. This way of thinking is naïve, if not outright ignorant of the rules of democracy.
There are theoretically three camps in Egypt: the military camp (Sisi supporters), the Islamist camp (Morsi supporters), and the secular camp (democracy advocates). The third camp, however, is hardly as cohesive as the other two, and represents a hodgepodge of political movements, philosophies, and plans.
Those calling for an Islamist state and those supporting a military man for president are by nature supportive of an authoritarian regime, simply because both frame their beliefs in a way that brokers no argument or debate.
For the Islamists, they do so by implying that any opposition to them is tantamount to opposition of religion, and there’s no competing with that in a country that is overflowing with public displays of piety.
For the military government’s supporters, the game is similar, only instead of impious, they label their opposition as “traitors”, while any call for freedom and democracy is met with booming nationalistic slogans. This attitude has been successful several times over across the globe, and has always failed miserably. Egypt itself fell victim to it during Gamal Abdel Nasser’s era, and suffered greatly from the ensuing crisis when Israel called Nasser’s bluffs in the disaster that was the 1967 War.
Now, the same rhetoric is all over the place, as Egyptians are told on the streets and in the media to work “for the sake of Egypt”, as if this “Egypt” is some separate entity from them. Anyone who does not support Sisi is a traitor working for the downfall of “Egypt”. State institutions mobilised to spread such rhetoric, and the Egyptian media has done their bidding brilliantly.
When any opposition is treason, then, how can an “alternative” arise?
This brings us to the idea of a revolution. The revolution that called for democracy and freedom in 2011, did not want to impose a leader, nor could it. The whole point was to be given a choice – to have several candidates with political and economic platforms presented to the people, and for them to choose what is in their best interest.
Egypt’s democracy advocates are not one entity; they do not have the same political affiliation, nor the same beliefs except for the desire to live in a democracy. They are not supposed to agree on a leader and impose him on the people.
Similarly, the people of Egypt, apart from those who support a religious state or a military one, have no particular political affiliation. Accordingly, average citizens need to be able to choose the candidate with the best platform for them, regardless of his leanings; he could be a leftist, a liberal, or a social democrat. The masses don’t really care. Their self interest is what matters, and this interest is indeed the interest of “Egypt”, which despite all the nationalistic slogans, in reality is nothing but its people.
If we put aside the nationalistic and religious rhetoric in our political life, then democratic groups can present alternatives for the people to choose from. So long as there is a candidate hiding behind religion or the barrel of a gun, there can no alternative, as they stamp out any competition. So long as the people are given no platforms but words of heroism or verses of Quran, there will be no proper political or economic debate, because what discussion can there be when there is no platform to discuss? A leader of a nation should be chosen based on what his programme can offer the people, not based on the group backing him or his personal appeal.
This is, after all, what a revolution does: it presents people with the opportunity to choose. The Muslim Brotherhood killed that opportunity and paved the way for the militarised nationalistic rhetoric to win. Until the day comes when no military man nor religious leader appears on the presidential candidates list, there will be neither alternatives nor a true democracy.
Egypt's Sisi hopes for better times ahead in presidential bid
May 14 - Former Egyptian army chief and frontrunner in presidential race Abdel-Fatteh al-Sisi tells Reuters the U.S. relationship with Egypt is sound as he hopes for better times ahead. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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Amanda Burgess-Proctor
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Oakland University
Feminist criminology
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Help-seeking battered women and the criminal justice system often operate with significant differences in their goals for resolving conflict and perception of victimization. MORE
Women whose self-perceptions and goals for using the criminal justice system are deeply at odds with the perceptions and goals of the system itself are bound to experience conflict, negativity, and dissatisfaction that undermine their criminal justice help-seeking efforts. MORE
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Amanda Burgess-Proctor, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Oakland University, is an expert in feminist criminology, gender-based violence including intimate partner abuse and sexual assault, and crime and drug control policy.
Prior to her academic career, Burgess-Proctor worked as a Personal Protection Order Coordinator in Ingham County, MI and as a research consultant at the Wayne State University Center for Urban Studies. She is an active member of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and currently serves as Chair of the American Society of Criminology Division on Women & Crime.
Her research been published in numerous academic journals including Criminal Justice & Behavior, Justice Quarterly, andViolence Against Women. She is co-founder of the Violence & Abuse Resource Consortium at Oakland University, and in that capacity works with several community anti-violence agencies.
Burgess-Proctor received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University and B.S. in Criminal Justice and Psychology from Grand Valley State University.
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