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America's Most Successful Communist By Howard Husock Summer 2005 Pete Seeger By Francis X. Gannon 2005 Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 By Jon Parelesian January 28, 2014
The Red Warbler: Pete Seeger, 1919-2014
By Ronald Radosh
February 10, 2014 Pete Seeger's Latest Shame—He Proves Again That He Remains a Useful Idiot
By Ronald Radosh
March 24, 2011 Pete Seeger's Continuing Naiveté On How to Achieve Peace
By Ronald Radosh
October 23, 2010 Happy Birthday Pete! Seeger at 90! By Ronald Radosh April 29, 2009 My Final Words On Pete Seeger: Part II By Ronald Radosh May 9, 2009 Pete Seeger's Communist Hootenanny By Ronald Radosh January 1995
See also: Communist Party USA Young Communist League
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Rosenberg Fund for Children Pete Seeger was born in Patterson, New York on May 3, 1919. His mother was a concert violinist, and his father was a musicologist who taught at UC Berkeley from 1912 until 1919, at which time he was fired because of his vocal opposition to America's involvement in World War I. The elder Mr. Seeger was also a member of the Communist Party. In 1932 Pete Seeger became a subscriber to the Communist Party USA's monthly publication, The New Masses. As a young teen he aspired to be a journalist, but by age seventeen he had decided to pursue a music career instead. Seeger attended Harvard University, where he majored in sociology, founded a radical newspaper, and joined the Young Communist League. He dropped out at the end of his sophomore year in 1938 and moved to New York City. Soon thereafter he worked briefly as an assistant at the Library of Congress' Archive of the American Folk Song, where he catalogued and transcribed music. Alan Lomax—who was a close friend of Seeger's father—served as the assistant director of this Archive. In the mid-to-late 1930s Seeger embraced the goals of the Popular Front, which were adopted by the Seventh Congress of the Communist International in 1935. As Manhattan Institute scholar Howard Husock explains:
"[T]he Popular Front tasked communists in the West with building 'progressive' coalitions with various institutions—including political parties and labor unions—that the party had previously denounced as bourgeois and corrupt.... Following this new strategy, the American Communist Party suddenly asserted that it wanted to build upon, not destroy, American institutions.... The Popular Front sought to enlist Western artists and intellectuals, some of them not party members but 'fellow travelers,' to use art, literature, and music to insinuate the Marxist worldview into the broader culture."
"[T]he Popular Front tasked communists in the West with building 'progressive' coalitions with various institutions—including political parties and labor unions—that the party had previously denounced as bourgeois and corrupt.... Following this new strategy, the American Communist Party suddenly asserted that it wanted to build upon, not destroy, American institutions.... The Popular Front sought to enlist Western artists and intellectuals, some of them not party members but 'fellow travelers,' to use art, literature, and music to insinuate the Marxist worldview into the broader culture."
Specifically, the aim was to take the music of poor rural Southerners—which was eventually called "folk" music—and use it as a framework through which to introduce the Marxist cultural vernacular of proletarian revolutionaries into the everyday American lexicon.[1] Thus, Seeger and Alan Lomax enthusiastically set out to create a new, previously nonexistent tradition of social protest in American folk music. By 1940, Seeger was an accomplished musician who sang at many leftist political events. That year, through Lomax, he met the singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie at a New York "Grapes of Wrath" benefit concert held on behalf of California migrant workers. "Made to order for the Popular Front," writes Howard Husock, "Guthrie was a middle-class Oklahoman with a calculated aw-shucks cowboy manner, who just happened to be a Communist Party sympathizer and had written for communist newspapers." "Go back to that night when Pete first met Woody Guthrie," Lomax would later say. "You can date the renaissance of American folk song from that night." Soon after the "Grapes of Wrath" concert, Seeger and Guthrie—along with such performers as Lee Hays, Millard Lampell, Sis Cunningham, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Burl Ives, and a few others—formed the Almanac Singers, one of the first folk music groups organized for mainly political purposes. During their brief time together (only about a year), they recorded some three-dozen songs, many of which dealt with such themes as pacifism, labor unions, and the alleged mistreatment of workers by employers and the U.S. government alike. The group performed at many union meetings and fundraising events for Communist Party front groups. The Almanac Singers' songs were replete with anti-war, pro-union propaganda that was wholly consistent with the views of the Communist Party. According to the Los Angeles Times, "Singing for union causes became almost a religion for Seeger, who ... helped bring folk music from the country into the big cities, mixed with a heavy dose of politics." The Almanac Singers' anti-war songs stopped, however, when Germany violated the German-Soviet non-aggression pact in June 1941 and invaded the Soviet Union. As historian Ron Radosh puts it: "During the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939-41), Seeger sang antiwar songs that, in effect, called for the support of Hitler. When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, he withdrew the songs he had just recorded and suddenly supported the 'antifascist alliance' between the United States and the Soviets." A staunch defender of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Seeger formally joined the CPUSA in 1942. Author Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley writes that Seeger saw himself as "one of the Communist Party's 'artists in uniform,' who believed that 'songs are weapons.'" Indeed, in the 30s and 40s Seeger adopted for himself the slogan that "art is a weapon." After WWII ended in 1945, Seeger helped establish the magazine Sing Out! That same year, he became the national director of People's Songs, Inc, an organization designed to "create, promote and distribute songs of labor and the American People." Within a few years, the California Senate Fact-finding Committee reported that:
"People's Songs is a vital Communist front … one which has spawned a horde of lesser fronts in the fields of music, stage entertainment, choral singing, folk dancing, recording, radio transcriptions and similar fields. It especially is important to Communist proselytizing and propaganda work because of its emphasis on appeal to youth, and because of its organization and technique to provide entertainment for organizations and groups as a smooth opening wedge for Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist propaganda."
In the mid-1940s Seeger began his nightclub career, performing at the Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village, New York. In 1948 Seeger and Paul Robeson toured with the presidential campaign of Henry Wallace, the Progressive Party candidate in that year's election. Also in the late Forties, Seeger invested $1,700 in 17 acres of land overlooking the Hudson River in Beacon, New York, where he would reside for the rest of his life. In 1949, Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman began working together as the Weavers. As City Journal notes, "The Almanacs/Weavers ... dressed the part of authentic jes' plain folks, sporting farmer's overalls on stage," and they enjoyed a moderate degree of commercial success. The group produced several albums of standard folk songs in the early 1950s, and also recorded a number of original songs such as If I Had a Hammer (1949) and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (1950). The former, notes Howard Husock, "pulled off, with great aplomb, the old Popular Front goal of linking the American revolutionary past with the communist revolutionary future, joining the Liberty Bell with the hammer and sickle, and extolling freedom and justice while implying that these quintessentially American qualities were the very virtues that American society lacked."[2] Seeger parted ways with the Communist Party in 1950 and eventually renounced strict Stalinism, in favor of socialism and pro-labor activism. "I realized," said Seeger, "I could sing the same songs I sang whether I belonged to the Communist Party or not, and I never liked the idea anyway of belonging to a secret organization." He continued, however, to describe himself as a "communist with a small 'c.'" In June 1950, Seeger's name was listed in Red Channels, an influential pamphlet that identified performers with suspected Communist ties—though by this point he had already left the party. In 1951 the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee investigated the Weavers for sedition, and in February of the following year a former member of People's Songs testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that three of the four Weavers were Communist Party members. Shortly after the start of the Korean War, the Communist Party connections of Seeger and his fellow Weavers led to the group's blacklisting. Thus the Weavers disbanded, though they would reunite periodically to hold concerts in the mid-1950s. After the dissolution of the Weavers, Seeger—whom critics dubbed "Khrushchev's songbird"—earned a living mostly by playing solo concerts at college coffeehouses, churches, schools, and summer camps. Among his most noteworthy performance venues were the Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin High School, a pair of Communist-run entities in New York City. In 1955 Seeger was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, whose questions about his past Communist ties he answered evasively or not at all. Asserting that "I feel that in my whole life I have never done anything of any conspiratorial nature," Seeger told the Committee: "I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this." In 1957 Seeger was indicted on ten counts of contempt of Congress. In 1961 he was found guilty of that charge and was sentenced to a year in prison, though in 1962 his conviction was overturned on a technicality. The whole controversial ordeal, however, inflicted lasting damage on Seeger's reputation and career; he was barred from appearing on network television for the next 17 years. Throughout the brutal reign of Joseph Stalin in the USSR, Seeger was willfully blind to the Soviet dictator's atrocities, and he remained that way for many years after Stalin's death. As historian Ron Radosh points out, for example:
"[I]n the late 1950s and early '60s, [Seeger] sang songs like 'Hey Zhankoye,' a paean to Soviet collective farms run by Jews in the Crimea, heralding Stalin's supposed freeing of Soviet Jews—at a time when he was preparing for the murder of the Jews of Russia and had arrested and murdered famous Jewish poets as American spies and Zionist agents."
"[I]n the late 1950s and early '60s, [Seeger] sang songs like 'Hey Zhankoye,' a paean to Soviet collective farms run by Jews in the Crimea, heralding Stalin's supposed freeing of Soviet Jews—at a time when he was preparing for the murder of the Jews of Russia and had arrested and murdered famous Jewish poets as American spies and Zionist agents."
In the 1960s Seeger became heavily involved in the civil rights movement and its major demonstrations. We Shall Overcome, his musical interpretation of an old spiritual, became the movement's signature song. Also in the '60s, Seeger performed some benefit concerts on behalf of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Shortly after his indictment for contempt of Congress, Seeger adapted a Ukrainian folk song into the popular Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, which portrayed all war—regardless of the circumstances or the enemy—as senseless, futile, and rooted either in ignorance or a lust for power. Ron Radosh observes how Seeger, throughout the Cold War, consistently sided with the USSR rather than with the United States:
"Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Seeger called for peace, peaceful co-existence between the United States and the Soviet Union, singing songs like Put My Name Down, Brother, Where Do I Sign?—a ballad in favor of the Soviet Union's phony international peace petition that favored unilateral disarmament by the West while leaving the Soviet atomic stockpile intact. He would sing and give his support to peace rallies and marches covertly sponsored by the Soviet Union and its Western front groups and dupes—while leaving his political criticism only for the United States and its defensive actions during the Cold War."
"Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Seeger called for peace, peaceful co-existence between the United States and the Soviet Union, singing songs like Put My Name Down, Brother, Where Do I Sign?—a ballad in favor of the Soviet Union's phony international peace petition that favored unilateral disarmament by the West while leaving the Soviet atomic stockpile intact. He would sing and give his support to peace rallies and marches covertly sponsored by the Soviet Union and its Western front groups and dupes—while leaving his political criticism only for the United States and its defensive actions during the Cold War."
In 1965 Seeger's musical version of chapter three of Ecclesiastes—Turn, Turn, Turn—was performed by the Byrds and reached #1 on the Billboard pop chart. Notably, Seeger's version slightly amended the scripture, which observed but did not pass judgment on the various cycles of life: "To everything there is a season." To the phrase "a time for war, a time for peace," Seeger added: "I swear it's not too late," thereby tinging the words with an activist message. Even as he condemned America's military involvement in Vietnam during the 1960s, Seeger sang in praise of the brutal Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionary communist dictator who ruled North Vietnam from 1945–69. In 1970, Seeger wrote a song celebrating Ho that included the lyrics: "He educated all the people, he demonstrated to the world: If a man will stand for his own land, he's got the strength of 10." In the late '60s Seeger began raising money to finance the construction of the Clearwater, a 106-foot sailing ship that would symbolize a wide range of anti-pollution efforts, particularly the crusade to make the Hudson River's water cleaner. The vessel was first launched in June 1969 with a crew of musicians aboard. Around that same time, Seeger was listed as a sponsor of the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee, which was led by the Socialist Workers Party. Seeger was also a sponsor of the May 11-13, 1973 founding conference of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression—a CPUSA front group that grew out of the Angela Davis Defense Organization. On May 8, 1975—the 30th anniversary of V-E Day—Seeger participated in a "Rally for Detente and World Peace" which was co-sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship (a CPUSA front) and the Marxist publication New World Review. In 1979 the Indiana-based Eugene V. Debs Foundation, named after the famed American socialist, honored Seeger at its annual Award Banquet. In 1981 Seeger was a member of the New American Movement. Just as Seeger had opposed America's involvement in the Vietnam War, in the 1980s he condemned the Reagan administration's military campaigns and weapons buildup. Meanwhile he supported the Nuclear Freeze Movement—a Soviet-sponsored initiative that would have frozen Soviet nuclear and military superiority in place and would have rendered Reagan unable to close that gap to any appreciable degree. As Ron Radosh puts it, "During the Cold War, [Seeger] supported unilateral American disarmament and backed one Soviet propaganda campaign after the other." Seeger was a member of the committee of sponsors for a March 28, 1982 gala luncheon in New York City organized by the Marxist publication New World Review. The event was titled "We Will Make Peace Prevail! Disarmament Over Confrontation, Life Over Death," and nearly all the participants were members of the Communist Party USA. When Al Sharpton in the late 1980s led a high-profile crusade on behalf of Tawana Brawley, a black teenager who falsely claimed that she had been raped by a gang of white men in November 1987, Seeger picketed alongside Sharpton and helped destroy the life of Stephen Pagones, the prosecuting attorney whom Sharpton and Brawley falsely accused of having participated in that rape. On April 5, 1988, for instance, Seeger, Sharpton, and a dozen other activists were arrested for blocking traffic during a protest demonstration on Brawley's behalf. On April 23, 1991, Seeger performed in a concert that was held at New York's Riverside Church and sponsored by Youth For Jobs, Peace and Freedom—a project of the Institute for Democratic Socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America's Youth Section. Seeger was an endorser of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism's July 1992 national conference at UC Berkeley, titled "Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the '90s." On December 7 1992, Seeger performed at a New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) fundraiser where longtime DSA activists Ruth and Victor Sidel were presented with the Paul Du Brul Memorial Award. In 1993 Seeger gave voice to his dream of a classless society, saying: "I'd like to see a world without millionaires." In 1994 Seeger was an initiator of the International Peace for Cuba Appeal, an affiliate of the International Action Center. Other prominent initiators included Cuban Intelligence agent Philip Agee, academic Noam Chomsky, and U.S. Congressmen John Conyers and Charles Rangel.
In 1995, several years after the fall of the USSR, Seeger said that despite communism's failures, he still called himself a communist "because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it." Five years later he reiterated: "I am still a communist." And in an interview with Mother Jones magazine in 2004, Seeger again stated: "I'm still a communist, in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer." In October 1998, Seeger was an endorser of the a Brecht Forum event in New York City titled "Communist Manifestivity to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto." Seeger was a co-sponsor of a May 31, 1998 Paul Robeson birth centennial celebration in New York, held by the Peoples Weekly World, newspaper of the CPUSA. In 1999, along with such notables as Ed Asner and Ossie Davis, Seeger served as an advisory board member of Mumia 911, a group of artists and performers that opposed the execution of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal. The organization depicted Mumia's case as an admixture of multiple elements: "racism, the death penalty, police brutality, incarceration of Black and Latino youth, persecution of revolutionaries, and government suppression of dissent." "We are building a culture of resistance to stop the killing of Mumia Abu-Jamal," said Mumia 911, "and to transform the reactionary political climate in which those clamoring for his execution have thrived." In 1999 Seeger visited Cuba to proudly accept the Castro regime's highest cultural award, the Medal of the Order Felix Varela, in honor of Seeger's "humanistic and artistic work in defense of the environment and against racism." In 2000 Seeger was a signatory to a political advertisement in the New York Times calling for an immediate end to America's economic sanctions against Iraq. The ad charged that the U.S. was responsible for "killing … over one million Iraqis, mostly children under five." Fellow signers included Ed Asner, Joan Baez, Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, William Sloane Coffin, Richard Dreyfuss, Mike Farrell, Thomas Gumbleton, Rev. James Lawson, Liam Neeson, Rosie O'Donnell, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, and Howard Zinn. In 2003 Seeger was a signatory to the "Statement of Conscience" drafted by Not In Our Name, a project of C. Clark Kissinger's Revolutionary Communist Party. This document condemned not only the Bush administration's "stark new measures of repression," but also its "unjust, immoral, illegitimate, [and] openly imperial policy towards the world." To view a list of additional notables who likewise endorsed NION, click here. In the months prior to the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Seeger appeared as a guest speaker and performer at numerous peace rallies across the United States. He supported the activities of such high-profile anti-war leaders as Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange and Leslie Cagan of United For Peace and Justice. Also in 2003, Seeger endorsed a statement condemning the Smithsonian Institution's plan to exhibit the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. He and his fellow 250+ signers—among whom were Noam Chomsky, Norman Lear, Martin Sheen, and Oliver Stone—were opposed to the aircraft being regarded in a "celebratory" manner. Seeger was a national advisory board member of the Disarm Education Fund (DEF), which seeks "to ban all private ownership of handguns." Other notables who have served as DEF board members over the years include Aris Anagnos, Ed Asner, Ramsey Clark, Dave Dellinger, Thomas Gumbleton, Spike Lee, Mario Obledo, Michael Ratner, Martin Sheen, and Howard Zinn. Between 1993 and 2006, Seeger made $3,700 in campaign contributions to political candidates, $800 of which went to Independents and $2,900 to Democrats such as Maurice Hinchey and Bernie Sanders. Seeger made a personal endorsement of the Communist Party USA's People's World in June 2007. In 2008, Seeger sang at a concert to benefit the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. At Obama's inauguration concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in January 2009, Seeger sang This Land is Your Land, the socialist anthem of fellow communist Woody Guthrie. In the summer 2009, the 40th Anniversary Commemoration Committee of the Chicano Moratoriums included Seeger's name on a list of significant "Chicano movement" activists . In 2010 Seeger was listed as an advisory board member with the National Jobs For All Coalition, an organization dominated by the Democratic Socialists of America. Stating that he did not wish to "abandon the world to those who believe in violence," Seeger in October 2010 spoke out in favor of "an economic boycott" designed "to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza." "My religion is that the world will not survive without dialogue," he added. In early 2011, Seeger announced that "I support the BDS [Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions] movement as much as I can." Also in 2010, Seeger served as an advisory board member of both the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and the Rosenberg Fund for Children. In 2011 Seeger voiced his support for the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street movement. That same year, Seeger was a member of Actors and Artists United for the Freedom of the Cuban Five (AAUFCF). The Cuban Five is a group of individuals convicted in 2001 by a U.S. jury for their participation in a brutal Castro spy ring and now serving time in American prisons. Other members of AAUFCF included Ed Asner, Mike Farrell, Danny Glover, Bonnie Raitt, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, and Oliver Stone. As documented by Francis X. Gannon in the Biographical Dictionary of the Left, Seeger was affiliated—as an entertainer, member, sponsor, instructor, or contributor—with a long list of Communist groups and fronts during his life. Among these were: the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born [Americans]; the American Committee for Yugoslav Relief; the American Peace Crusade; the American Peace Mobilization; the American Youth Congress; American Youth for Democracy; the California Labor School; the Civil Rights Congress; the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy; the Committee for the First Amendment; the Communist Party; the Council on African Affairs; Daily World; the Jefferson School of Social Science; the Labor Youth League; the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee; the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship; the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee; the National Lawyers Guild; New Masses; the Political Rights Defense Fund (a Socialist Workers Party front); Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade; and Veterans Against Discrimination of Civil Rights Congress. Seeger died on January 27, 2014. For additional information on Pete Seeger, click here. NOTES: [1] Howard Husock writes that this music included "the African-tinged singing of the Georgia sea islands, the Elizabethan ballads of Appalachia, the blues of the Mississippi Delta ... and powerful gospel songs by poor whites and blacks alike." [2] This song was first performed at a 1952 benefit for communists who had been indicted under the Smith Act, which made it a crime to advocate overthrowing the U.S. government.
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The books of Iman Humaydan Younes, with their poetic language rich in images and their sensitive insight into the interior lives of her protagonists, have led to acclaim for her work world-wide. Ariana Mirza spoke to the Lebanese writer about war, art and society
Ms Humaydan Younes, you've experienced war and written about it. You left your country for a time and emigration is one of the key subjects of your civil war novel "B for Beirut." You also come from a family which lived on the land only two generations ago and bred silk-worms, which is the starting point for your second novel "Wild Mulberries." How much fiction, how much autobiography is there in your novels?
Iman Humaydan Younes: My novels are fiction. In "Wild Mulberries" there is some information which my father gave me, but it is not an autobiographical novel. The protagonist Sara is a fictional person. However there is an episode from my family history which inspired me. The second wife of my grandfather ran away from him. She escaped from the violence and power-hunger of this patriarch, but her later history is unknown. I was happy for the woman when I heard her story; as I say, it inspired me.
An enormous amount of literature was produced during the Lebanese civil war. People wrote in an entirely different way, using stylistic methods which were new to Lebanese literature. There were aspects of surrealism, absurd elements. You could also find extreme irony. And Lebanese women also increasingly were found on the literary stage. What's your explanation? Your first book was also published just after the end of the Civil War in 1991.
Humaydan Younes: The war opened up the literary tradition. The modern Lebanese novel is a product of the war.
What's your opinion of that development?
Humaydan Younes: A war is never, truly never positive. That's what I'd like to make especially clear to start with. But if I try to find a single positive aspect, it's this: war has opened up the tradition, including the traditions of society, which had until then been very strong, with very rigid ways in which men took account of women. Since then, a woman is not just a mother and a wife. Since then, she's also a separate being, one who has to be seen as independent.
The war has not only destroyed the security system of the people, it has also destroyed the social norms. And that has allowed something new to emerge. Writers and artists speak up, and they are listened to. There's a wide variety of voices which claim attention. The war has opened up these strong, official, mainstream voices and pushed them to one side.
How does that show itself?
Humaydan Younes: For example, there are now novels and stories which take place on the edges of the country. There wasn't any of that before; all the cultural production was concentrated on the cities. Before the war, there was no other perspective, no other focus. Now people are telling the stories of the unknown Lebanon, the underground, if you like.
Is that an atmosphere in which girls and young women can grow up more freely than before?
Humaydan Younes: Yes, yes, indeed. In Lebanon, everything is at the edge, except the centre, and that's Beirut. And since the modern independence of the state in 1943, many Lebanese families have moved from rural areas to Beirut. These families suffered a culture shock as a result of urban life. Their children have got over this shock, they've turned into city-folks. And this generation is now re-writing its families' history.
Is there a hope that this generation and the artists and intellectuals you've been talking about will positively influence the way the country is going? Or is this just a private, or at the most a cultural matter?
Humaydan Younes: Unfortunately, this is what has happened: since the war, people in Lebanon don't feel as if they belong any more. That's why they withdraw into religion or into their religious or ethnic community, and they don't see themselves any more as citizens of the country.
But there's also communication beyond the religious limits and, as you call it, the community borders?
Humaydan Younes: Yes, yes, there is. These people really do take a risk. They don't just remove their own masks. They also look closely at things, illuminate the dark corners. They tell people: look here, this is what our society looks like. Look more closely, this is what is happening in Lebanon. See where our sectarianism has brought us. See how this sectarianism has hampered our development.
Do the people involved in culture concern themselves with these questions more than the politicians do?
Humaydan Younes: Exactly. It was officially taboo to talk about the reasons for the war. No-one wanted to shed light on them. But it's breaking through the surface, and that's because of art and literature.
How do you see Lebanon's future? In what direction will society develop? In the West people regard the developments with considerable interest and some latent fear.
Humaydan Younes: Do you mean the fears that Muslim groups will cause unrest, or that a new civil war will break out? I can assure you of one thing: even the most radical groups in Lebanon know they can't win a civil war. Even the groups which think they are the strongest don't make the mistake of believing that they could win a civil war.
I think every Lebanese has learnt that civil war is the worst possible solution for a country. So the groups try to find a non-violent solution. And sometimes, when I listen to the radio or watch the television, then I get the impression that the various communities fight their virtual war in the media because they don't want to fight it in the streets. The most terrible insults and accusations are standard fare, but, apart from a few exceptions, whenever the hate which has been sown in the media spills over on to the streets, it's an unwritten law that each group is careful not to let things go to extremes. That's the lesson of 1975.
That brings me to my last question. What's your hope for the future?
Humaydan Younes: Well, I hope that this new generation realises that we can't go on as we are, that we can't continue to define ourselves by the religious or ethnic community we belong to. We must really, with real commitment, try to work towards a state, a real state – which so far has never existed – a state in which we all see ourselves as citizens and not as sectarians – not as members of a sect, not as members of a community, but as Lebanese.
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Commodities trader Olam has denied accusations made by research firm Muddy Waters that it runs the risk of failure. China Scope Financial's Rajah Chaudhry tells Deborah Kan why investors must use caution when reading into Muddy Waters' report.
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I ... the ... he ... had denied accusations by research firm Muddy Waters that he runs the risk of failure ... I'm Deborah con joining me now is right that ... the executive chairman and China scant financial budget thanks AmEx for joining the ... short seller Carson Block made some pretty big accusations every being ... on a from of owning low quality assets to add that accounting practice is ... so in your pain in the aam was Muddy Waters really wanted to write such a report ... if you did read the book of emotions um dude their incentive is a short seller is the surprise of the share prices down ... um they've put on positions prior to um to running these reports historically has done so in this case ... um so I think ... there is if we question mark over ... whether they wanted ... um in in their accusations I think ... some of their record accusations of being questionable ... and is divided opinions in the market of are ... you know ... which portion of them are ... true and correct in his lungs opinion I think that can be ... interpreted in terms of of the of the facts found the article and themselves above is to come out very strongly in and rejected a lot of the claims and I think ... the market is somewhat divided ... tis thing and that many what is is really just trying to make a quick buck given the fact that you know Adam Curtis and where is it made a comment on the sidelines of this report was due to come out causing the shares added ... to fall after all they are short sellers said ... absolutely amusing to know for themselves ... um does think it's ... that is the view in the market that there are so for two to the market in terms of being a unit ... to check and balance and that's what they try to claim a but ... but he after member what their incentives on and I think the incentives that make money and um they make money by share prices of stocks going down in ... and a Bic really invested in in in a vested interest in that ... city are thinking about making dough ... damaging could this be for all aam and does all on how the case against Muddy letters ... I'm you can clearly be damaging if you look of the history of ... the companies that bought recorders has been engulfed with in terms of of short selling in reporting and challenging ... um in in most cases have not done well ... I'm so so there is merit I think to some of their arguments and in terms of the fact ... that I think ... that the city stretching the truth on this one and you know I think owns that often prevents over ... again ... any particular area or you thought they were stretching the truth ... it is also differed interpretations I think it the ended the day comes down to you know of accounting standards um the standards are in place and no one is vigorously defending the fact that there there's abiding by the standards ... um you know that they've got very reputable accounting Simonsen young men and ... their accounts ... follow the rules ... and said you could make the same pace for hundreds of companies I think um you know it's ... it's interesting though is to do their homework and they've done their homework in this case um so that come out without having them ... some basis to their arguments and I think some of their their accusations ... have some ... some merit but it doesn't give you the dates it's a matter of opinion is this let facts and times of day basis before their arguments and ... it's it misses us to make up their minds as to what the motives of Muddy Waters and what the letters on the company and can make a judgment call ... Muddy Waters of course was the recent trend that blew the whistle on the Chinese the county had scanned all ... that ... tell me do you think now I mean you're you're researching July research into um the hell am a Chinese company is ... do you think that's ghetto actually it ... tightened up corporate governance ... I think so interesting to to Mondays for the money was credit ... in this in the helped in China think there was ... historically and I think if you go back to last five years also numb China's emerging market and I think ... there has been a lot of listings of companies I think the ... likes of muddy waters of help to bring some of those issues to to the fore ... so in that regard I think they've been very helpful in cleaning up um some of the ... so called for German companies but I think there's a lot of other companies with just ... Kokopo corporate governance of a standard that is maybe a little less um I think the environment is oversee very different China and um ... I think they still come he's trying to do the right thing to not necessarily fraudulent ... um but they may have different although standards of corporate governance been applied in the West now I think ... by the wars has helped to improve that so in that regard I think they've been very helpful but I think that probably also realize themselves that this is ... a better standard being employed down and still not perfect it never is but some but there's a better standard of you know I think we've seen its amino research ... um we look at companies in China that the ... that the standard of disclosure is better ... um that that that the ... boxes that people who ... are employing a bet ... um just always room for improvement ... um but but I think they've they've also because money wasn't this'll to realize that there's less room to to to plane in China ... and Kate great thanks Fran much that tally to ten different to knit today ... for more on that story to go to Des beest dot


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I occasionally wonder why "Shameless'' hasn't become a critical and awards favorite, not on the level of "Mad Men'' but at the upper second tier, beside shows such as "The Good Wife,'' "Justified,'' "Parks and Recreation,'' and "Louie.'' Every time I watch an episode of the Showtime series, which returns on Sunday night at 9 for a third season of Gallagher family madness, I am filled with admiration.
The acting is top-notch all around, particularly by William H. Macy, who is seamlessly gonzo as the always drunken Frank, who not only neglects his six kids but adds to their financial and emotional burdens. He steals from them, uses them to manipulate strangers, and hates them when they get in the way of his next drink. In the season premiere, sweet red-haired daughter Debbie (Emma Kenney) is loyally counting the days until Frank returns from one of his binges — he's in Mexico, but that's another story — but shortly after he's back in their Chicago neighborhood, he curses his freckled daughter, and not by name, since he's forgotten it.
Macy and the writers keep Frank unsympathetic as much as ever in the first four episodes of season 3. And that is a great choice, as it protects the show from falling over the line into sentimentality and pure antic comedy. He's such an awful narcissist, you can't quite laugh at him, and he never becomes the stereotypical lovable drunk — Otis on "The Andy Griffith Show.'' Throughout, the tone of "Shameless'' is expertly modulated by Paul Abbott (who also wrote and produced the British version of the show) and John Wells. It is as stringently hard-nosed about poverty and parentlessness as it is celebratory of the Gallagher children's spirit and their scrappy triumphs.
Emmy Rossum also helps to keep "Shameless'' from drifting into pure comedy as oldest sister Fiona, whose trust issues are heartbreaking. Looking at her somewhat depressed demeanor, you can't help but feel badly about her sacrifices for her younger siblings. She's vacuuming up sewage, trying to make enough money to stay in the house, rather than working on any kind of career and using her formidable intelligence. When she and oldest brother Lip (Jeremy Allen White) fight over how to support the family, you sadly realize they're both saddled with responsibilities that exceed their ages.
The editing of the show is also consistently impressive. The story races forward happily and aggressively, but none of the plot strands among the many characters is ever dropped or given short shrift. From Steve, now known as Jimmy, and his family, including his gay father, to Sheila and her son-in-law lover, Jody, all the story lines are regularly reinforced and satisfyingly resolved. "Shameless'' behaves like a crazy burst of life force, always verging on anarchy but never succumbing, just like the family it portrays. The center holds.
Maybe the sexual content in "Shameless'' makes awards people and some critics uncomfortable? It is true that the show is fairly explicit, with the kind of shame-free attitude toward sex that suffuses the entire story. It would trouble me to think that violence doesn't dampen the acclaim of excellent shows such as "Breaking Bad'' and "Boardwalk Empire,'' but that sexuality is a deal-breaker when it comes to "Shameless.'' Of course, the truth may have more to do with the fact that Showtime has a number of other celebrated series, including "Homeland'' and "Dexter,'' and there is only so much room in the rave department for each network. At least viewers have found "Shameless'' — the ratings are strong — and so it will continue. Like the Gallaghers, it doesn't get a lot of praise, but it survives nevertheless.


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Dale Hanson Drives The Soundcraft® Si3 Around Bedford All Night
Hanson is the FOH Engineer for The Story's, Elton John's recent Tour Support Band
Dale Hanson took time off the road to handle eight different acts at The Bedford in London and mixed the evening away on a Soundcraft Si3-its first public, commercial gig. Along with the other Si3 beta testers covering theatre, touring and house of worship applications in Europe and the USA, Dale has taken the Si3 through its test paces but this gig was the ultimate beta test! In typical pro fashion, Dale was calm and collected. "The show was a bit like live TV with eight acts performing a couple of songs each during the evening without any change over time at all really. Not many digital consoles can cope with that type of challenge but the Si3 worked really well. I found that you can use so many different functions at the same time to be really useful. Having control of EQ, Dynamics, Bus Sends and Effects without having to reassign anything was great."
The Si3 is Soundcraft's latest 'mid range' addition to its growing digital family. It follows the Studer Vista 5 SR (Tours including: Celine Dion, Rascal Flatts, Billy Joel, Katie Melua, Keith Urban) and both Soundcraft Vi6 and Vi4, which were just announced with upgrades to 96 and 72 inputs to mix at PLASA (Tours: Bob Dylan, The Feeling, Deep Purple, Diana Krall and Rufus Wainright).
"Although we label the console mid-range in terms of price, that certainly doesn't limit its capabilities. It's a large format console at a mid-size console price point," added James Shears, Soundcraft's Si3 Product Manager. "Amongst many other new features, it has 64 inputs, 24 group busses, Lexicon processing and Distributed Display Technology.�
Very analogue in feel, the Si3 follows the company's digital operational philosophy of 'where you look is where you control' established by Studer on the Vista and OnAir ranges and continued on the Soundcraft Vi Series. Soundcraft has eliminated the need for a large, central screen and instead put the information screens right where you went them; next to the controls. Shears adds, "This console is perfect for users growing out of their smaller digital consoles and looking to upgrade at a sensible price and especially suitable for current analogue users who haven't yet made that switch. That's why we've designed the user interface to be so 'analogue familiar.' Basically, just take your analogue console out and drop the Si3 in it's place - simple!"
"The pre amps sounded really nice and had plenty of headroom,� Hanson adds. "I found that I needed minimal EQ on the night, which is always a good sign. The dynamics were easy-to-use and sounded smooth. I particularly liked the Lexicon reverbs, as they sounded great. The fact that the FX returns appear as normal channels is also great as I could easily send one effect into another; for example; very analogue!"
"It was a great feeling to see the Si3 go through its paces in a real life situation," said Shears. "We'll be running a series of Si3 gigs to provide engineers the chance to come and play with it after the launch at PLASA."
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Click, thump, riiiiing! That's the sound of something you often hear about but rarely see: A carousel rider going for the brass ring.
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It happens on a daily basis on the Looff Carousel at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, where painted ponies have been spinning for a century, a triumph of tradition in a field dominated by the pursuit of new thrills.
"I love it," says 57-year-old Gerry Watt of Sacramento, who has been visiting the Boardwalk for decades and was "never too cool for the carousel, even in my teens."
The Boardwalk, set beside the long, golden sweep of Santa Cruz Main Beach, goes back to 1865 when a man named John Leibrandt opened a public bathhouse nearby. Others followed and soon Santa Cruz was drawing people who wanted to enjoy the allegedly curative properties of bathing in salt water.
Restaurants and curio shops followed, and at the turn of the 20th century, promoter Fred W. Swanton decided to open a casino and boardwalk that would be the "Coney Island of the West."
The carousel made its debut in August 1911, built by Charles I.D. Looff, a master woodcarver from Denmark. Looff had already made his name with his first complete carousel placed at Coney Island in New York.
Back then, rides cost a nickel. Today, the carousel, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark, costs $3 a spin.
Looff apparently had a puckish sense of humor. The story is that he chose the middle initials "I.D." after Ellis Island immigration officials told him he had to have a middle name "for his I.D."
Grab an outside horse
You can see that humorous vein in the carousel horses, several of which boast toothy smiles. The horses have real horsehair tails and details ranging from swords to flashing jewels. Some have items strapped behind the saddles, including a sheep and a pheasant.
There are 73 horses — 71 jumpers plus two stationary horses that are good for parents with unsteady young riders — as well as two chariots decorated with the heads of rams and cherubs.
The big draw of the carousel is its ring dispenser. Rings were once handed out by "ring boys," but since 1950, the process has been mechanized.
The rings — mostly steel these days except on special occasions when brass-plated ones are used — are dispensed by a long arm that riders on outside horses can reach. You grab a ring, throw it toward the gaping mouth of a large clown painted on a backdrop near the carousel and, if successful, are rewarded by bells and flashing lights.
Scoring a hit is a kick, one that often is denied the left-handed Watts, although that doesn't stop him from rushing to secure an outside horse.
"It's really difficult. There's something about the trajectory," he says.
The music has a vintage sound, provided for 100 years by a 342-pipe Ruth und Sohn band organ built in 1894. In 2007, the Boardwalk acquired a Wurlitzer band organ from the closed Playland-at-the-Beach amusement park in San Francisco, and there is a third small Wurlitzer organ.
The carousel has had its moment in the spotlight, being featured in films including "The Lost Boys," "The King of Love," and 'Sudden Impact."
Along the waterfront
Along with rides that range from kiddie to fairly thrilling, the Boardwalk has the usual games of chance, arcades and tempting goodies, including deep-fried Twinkies and Oreos.
If You Go...
SANTA CRUZ BEACH BOARDWALK: 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz, Calif., http://www.beachboardwalk.com/ or 831-423-5590. Parking $12, although lots can fill up early on holidays and warm days. Open daily through Labor Day, weekends through the fall; hours vary but most summer days, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. No entrance fee. All-day passes $29.95, individual ride prices range from $3 to $5.
GETTING THERE: Santa Cruz is located about 70 miles south of San Francisco; take U.S. Hwy 101 south to CA 85 south to CA 17 south. From the east San Francisco Bay area take I-880 south to CA 17.
SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL WHARF: 21 Municipal Wharf; http://www.santacruzwharf.com or 831-420-6025. Open daily.
DREAM INN: 175 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz; http://www.dreaminnsantacruz.com or 831-426-4330. Midweek rates start at $349 with specials available for longer stays.
If you're up for a brief walk, the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf is less than half a mile away, featuring several restaurants and curio shops.
A fun choice is the take-away window at The Dolphin at the end of the wharf which serves up a tasty clam chowder in a bread bowl. Fenced holes in the wharf's planking allows you to get a look at sea lions that may be basking below while you wait for lunch. Watch out for the seagulls; they'll steal your food if you leave it unattended.
A number of hotels and B&Bs are strung along or near the waterfront, with rates generally getting cheaper the farther you go inland. If you're up for a splurge, the Dream Inn is a classic beachfront hotel.
The seaside view adds a unique touch to the Boardwalk's other National Historic Landmark, the Giant Dipper roller coaster.
As a member of the American Coaster Enthusiasts, Watt is a fan of the ride, designed by Looff's son, Arthur Looff, and introduced 85 years ago.
Despite its age, the rollercoaster packs quite the punch, beginning with a truly scary descent into darkness and moving on to a series of peaks and valleys that will have you shrieking, but not absolutely making out your last will and testament.
"That's my favorite coaster in the world," says Watt. "It's one of those coasters that's such a combination of things that you can ride it repeatedly because of the view, the ocean and the mountains, and it's not so big that you get beat up by it. It's just fun and enjoyable. It's very re-rideable."
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2016 already here for fringe hopefuls
Political junkies eager for the next presidential race can already find candidates who have declared they're running in 2016 and not all of them are the cookie-cutter politicians you're used to.
Welcome to the world of alternative presidential candidates, a broad spectrum of personalities ranging from people who want to push their own brand of economics ("eagle-nomics"), to those who are fighting hypocrisy in politics, to those whose chances rely on cosmic intervention.
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Scroll through the already filed Federal Election Commission documents — by the more than 50 candidates who've turned in paperwork years ahead of Election Day — and you'll stumble across "President Princess Khadijah M. Jacob-Fambro" from San Francisco. She writes on her forms that she is running with The Revolutionary Party, and on the section of the FEC filing where potential candidates are asked to write the name of committee, she wrote, "From one alien to another."
Likewise, in the address section of his FEC filing, Chuck Zeiger (no party affiliation), writes "Unknown District, Arizona, Planet Earth, Middle of North America (United States of America)."
While each presidential contest brings along its own round of unique candidates — the FEC website lists at least 400 presidential hopefuls who filed paperwork in 2012 — the ones outside the mainstream will have to work to catch the attention from the political press.
"It's all going to be the Chris Christies, Rand Pauls and Ted Cruzes," said Michael Kinlaw, who is among those lesser known 2016 hopefuls. "The liberal channels will cover nobody but Hillary, even if she don't run. Nobody is going to take me seriously. I already know that. And that's what I need to overcome. … Eventually, the media will have no choice but to cover me because I plan on raising hell."
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Here's a sampling of alternative presidential choices you might see on your ballot in November 2016:
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Meet Kip Lee: He's a perennial presidential hopeful since the 1980s and puts his 2016 electoral success in the hands of one group: The Ashtar Command, an extraterrestrial "benevolent group of cosmic friendship."
"I'm hoping the Ashtar Command will make it so that I get recognized as a viable presidential candidate of the United States," the 59-year-old Lee told POLITICO, adding later that his ideal running mate would be John Stossel, the libertarian columnist who's on Fox Business Network.
Lee's got his hopes in this unknown cosmic force to help with media attention as well as cash flow (an intergalactic Super PAC if you will), and says he's running in part because President Barack Obama "doesn't know what he's doing."
The 'C.I.A.' Candidate
At least one 2016 hopeful might have a problem with the media's background check on him: Doug Shreffler, a 53-year-old male living in Port Hueneme, Calif., who says he's a former CIA envoy "with G4 classification," and a codename of "Strong Ramrod."
Hungry primary reporters eager to dig up knowledge on his black-ops career might hit a few roadblocks, as Shreffler admits that the CIA won't confirm his employment there.
"They will disavow any knowledge," he said, and as POLITICO later discovered, he was right. When we reached out, the CIA was unable to confirm Shreffler's possible employment.
But there was a possible back-up plan, Shreffler told us. He asked that we call up the Secret Service, "ask for voice authentication, tell them that my codename was 'Strong Ramrod,' explain that I have given it to you for validation purposes. But don't ask the person who answers the phone. Ask for voice authentication and they will put you to a command center."
We did as Shreffler instructed.
"Say that again?" the operator at the Secret Service said. "Voice authentication? I've never heard of that department."
Shreffler, who said some of his CIA orders came from "Bill," adds that he's a fan of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and if things don't work out in her own political bid, Clinton has a spot as his Vice Presidential pick.
"The secretary of state is a very public position and one that requires a lady to have as much balls as any man," Shreffler said.


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Eating five servings of fruit and veges a day may help to make us healthy, but a few more could make us happy too, according to new research from Otago University.
A study of more than 280 young adults showed a strong relationship between positive mood and higher consumption of fruit and vegetables.
Co-author Tamlin Conner said that on days when people ate more fruits and vegetables, they reported feeling calmer, happier and more energetic than usual.
Dr Conner said the findings held regardless of the body mass index of the individuals.
"After further analysis we demonstrated that young people would need to consume approximately seven to eight total servings of fruits and vegetables per day to notice a meaningful positive change."
While the study looked at young adults, Dr Conner said the results would probably be the same for all ages, although more research would need to be conducted.
Dr Conner said to get the amount needed to increase positivity, people should make half their plate at each meal vegetables and snack on whole fruit, like apples, during the day.
Greengrocer Hari Sukhalal, from Aro Fruit Supply in Wellington, has been selling fruit and vegetables for more than 30 years, and said the study, which has been published in the British Journal of Health and Psychology, did not surprise him.
He had seen a shift in people's buying patterns and they seemed more positive in their outlook.
"People want to be healthy and being healthy makes them happier," he said.
Clinical psychologist Debbie Newlove said people who bought fruit and vegetables were often more healthy and could have a more positive outlook.
"It could be related to a whole range of factors, not just fruit and veges, but it could be right."
Some bosses have already worked out the benefits of supplying free fruit to their staff.
Employers and Manufacturers Association chief executive Kim Campbell said that people were generally unhappy if they felt sick, and eating healthier foods helped ward off illness.
"Giving your staff some, of course it will make them happy."
Healthy fare keeps worker from nibbling on junk
Caroline Wells takes full advantage of the free fruit offered to staff at Wellington intellectual property firm AJ Park.
"There's usually quite a good range. Lately I've been loving the nectarines and plums."
She works in the marketing team and said she would be upset if the programme were to end.
"Snacking on fruit makes me feel happier and healthier throughout the day because then it means that I'm not snacking on junk, which otherwise I might be."
The company's human resources manager, Sue Quinnell, said it had provided fresh fruit for three or four years. "We know people like it, because every day the fruit baskets are empty and yet the chocolate biscuit jars aren't.
"A quick poll revealed that our younger people are happier having fresh fruit," she said. "So people definitely enjoy the fruit and are making healthy eating choices."
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*281 participants with mean age of 20 completed a daily food diary for 21 days.
*Those with a history of an eating disorder were excluded.
*Participants rated how they felt using nine positive and nine negative adjectives.
*They reported the number of servings eaten of fruit (excluding fruit juice and dried fruit), vegetables (excluding juices), and several categories of unhealthy foods such as biscuits/cookies, potato chips and cakes and muffins.


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Junior 2010-11:
Named to All-Ivy League first team in singles ... Named to ITA Scholar-Athlete team ... Was the team's main No. 1 singles player for the season, holding an even 11-11 record at the top spot ... Went 5-2 in Ivy League singles play ... Defeated the then-No. 12 singles player in the country, Austen Childs of Louisville, 6-3, 6-2, March 6 ... Named the singles champion after holding a 3-0 record at the Harvard Winter Classic ... Led the team with 28 doubles wins ... Went 3-0 in doubles at the Harvard Winter Classic ... Went 16-3 in his first 19 doubles matches of the spring ... Posted an 11-4 doubles record in the fall ... Reached the doubles final of the ITA Northeast Region Championship, teaming with Christo Schultz ... Reached the fourth round of singles at the ITA Northeast Region Championship.
Sophomore 2008-09 (at Brown):
All-Ivy League second team in singles ... Finished the season with a 26-12 record ... Ranked No. 55 nationally in doubles.
Before College:
Earned highest national ranking of No. 51 ... Competed throughout the world playing in various ITF tournaments.
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Antibiotic Steroid Combination Compared With Individual Administration in the in the Treatment of Ocular Inflammation and Infection
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01721694
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn (withdrawn by industry)
First Posted : November 6, 2012
Last Update Posted : December 11, 2014
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|Condition or disease
|Ocular Inflammation Infection Associated Blepharitis Keratitis Conjunctivitis, Bacterial
|Drug: azithromycin 1.5%/Loteprednol 0,5% + placebo Drug: azithromycin 1.5% + Loteprednol 0,5% (separately)
|Phase 3
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|0 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Double (Participant, Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Association of Azithromycin 1,5%/Loteprednol 0,5% Eye Drops Versus Individual Administration of Azithromycin 1,5% and Loteprednol 0,5% in the Treatment of Ocular Inflammation and Infection
|Study Start Date :
|December 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|March 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|May 2013
Experimental: azithromycin 1.5%/Loteprednol 0,5% + placebo
fixed combination of azithromycin 1.5% / Loteprednol 0,5% eye drops + placebo eye drops
Drug: azithromycin 1.5%/Loteprednol 0,5% + placebo
1 drop, AO, QID
Active Comparator: azithromycin 1.5% + Loteprednol 0,5% (separately)
azithromycin 1.5% + Loteprednol 0,5% eye drops (separately)
Drug: azithromycin 1.5% + Loteprednol 0,5% (separately)
1 drop, QID, AO
Other Name: azithromycin 1.5% + Loteprednol 0,5% eye drops (separately)
- Clinical cure [ Time Frame: Day 8 ]Clinical cure achieved when the score of the cardinal ocular signs (hyperemia in the bulbar conjunctiva, palpebral, exudate / conjunctival discharge, eyelid erythema and flaking / crust eyelid) is zero at the time of conclusion of the study (D8)
- irradication of pathogens [ Time Frame: Day 8 ]Success obtained with microbiological irradication of pathogens present at baseline
- ophthalmic evaluation [ Time Frame: Day 4 and Day 8 ]decrease of visual acuity, corneal/anterior chamber changes, IOP increase and adverse event reporting
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients were male or female, of any race and age minimum of 18 years.
- Blepharitis should provide diagnostic and / or keratitis and / or conjunctivitis with or without bacterial involvement corneal by biomicroscopy, with positive staining corneal fluorescein and also provide a composite score ≥ 2 on: bulbar conjunctival hyperemia, eyelid conjunctiva, secretion / exudate conjunctival erythema and flaking eyelids / eyelid crust on at least one eye (the same eye) on Day 1 visit
Exclusion Criteria:
- Intraocular hypertension or uncontrolled glaucoma.
- Use of contact lenses during the study.
- Capacity unilateral visual only.
- Suspected fungal infection, viral (eg, herpes simplex epithelial, dendritic keratitis) or Acanthamoeba, or any other disease where the use of corticosteroids is contraindicated.
- Use of any topical ophthalmic medications preserved during study participation. Not be allowed eyedrops preserved (eg artificial tears).
- Use of any antibacterial agent oral or topical ophthalmic until 72 hours prior to study entry.
- Use of systemic steroids within 14 days prior to study entry. Ophthalmic topical steroids or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), until one week before admission to the study. Will not be allowed to use these medications during study participation. Will not be allowed to use nasal steroids during the study. Will be allowed to use inhaled steroids to aid inhaler. Will be allowed steroids dermal topics.
- Use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) systemic up to 24 hours prior to study entry or at any time during the study, unless the patient is under treatment regimen with stable (not necessary) for at least 2 months before Admission and therapy continues throughout the study.
- Any disturbance or ocular or systemic disease, complicating factors or structural abnormality that affects the conduct or outcome of the study in a negative way or represents an undue risk to patient safety, according to the opinion of the investigator.
- Any current immunosuppressive disorder (eg, HIV-positive), or immunosuppressive therapy (including chemotherapy).
- Known allergy or suspected allergy or hypersensitivity to fluoroquinolones, to steroids or any other component of the study drug;
- Pregnant or lactating. (Women of childbearing age may be admitted if they use contraception and submit urine pregnancy test negative);
- Any patient who has a family member who participates in this study
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01721694
|Department of Ophthalmology of Hospital São Paulo
|São Paulo, Brazil, 04023-062
|Principal Investigator:
|Rubens Belfort Jr., MD
|Federal University of São Paulo / Hospital São Paulo
|Responsible Party:
|Adapt Produtos Oftalmológicos Ltda.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01721694 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
131.835 ( Other Identifier: CEP-UNIFESP-Plataforma Brasil )
|First Posted:
|November 6, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 11, 2014
|Last Verified:
|December 2014
bacterial ocular inflammation
Anti-Allergic Agents
Communicable Diseases
Conjunctivitis, Bacterial
Pathologic Processes
Conjunctival Diseases
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Corneal Diseases
Eyelid Diseases
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10 Greatest Knick All-Star Moments: #1
: Uncategorized : Written by Adam Kaufman : 02-20-2011
As you may know, on Sunday February 20th Amar'e Stoudemire will become the first Knick to start in the NBA All-Star Game since Patrick Ewing did so in 1992. In honor of this momentous occasion, I decided to take a look back at the ten greatest moments in Knicks All-Star history, including a couple great moments from the larger All-Star Weekend. Some of these come from the recent past, while others date back to a time before I, and perhaps some of you, were alive. What all these moments have in common is that they show that Knicks players know …continue reading


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Two Bad Experiences
Fund: Maveron
Posted by secondtime on 2007-10-26
With my first company we received an intro and flew across the US to Seattle to pitch Dan and others. We were told that the business would never work, and rather unceremoniously turned down. Well - the business has worked great (top 100 on the Inc. 500, profitable, growing at 80% + a year)...I saw a partner who joined after that at an event and talked about it. His basic comment was "wow we were idiots for passing" - I tried to play that down as many people passed. A short time after that I decided to start a second business. We raised a seed round led by First Round Capital. As we started to consider who to approach for our series B, a friend of mine who had raised a large round from Maveron made an intro - to the same partner who'd told me they were idiots to pass on my first company. I followed up on his email with one of my own, even referencing having met. To this day, I have not received a response. I'm not sure I will approach them again.PRIVATE: Members Only


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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Creamy Fish Soup
I just realised that I've been posting nothing but dessert recipes in November. That's no good, is it? Hence this creamy-cheesy fish soup recipe today. A similar recipe has appeared in several Finnish food magazines and at least one local magazine. With a few tweaks here and there, I ended up with this lovely, creamy fish soup. Feel free to experiment with differently seasoned cream cheese. I used trout, as it's lighter, but salmon would work well, too..
A lovely weeknight dinner, and it should appeal to small picky eaters, too.
Creamy Fish Soup
(Juustune forellisupp)
Serves 4
1.5 litres fish stock
5 potatoes, peeled and cubed
200 g tub cheese spread (something like this), I imagine)
170 g tub flavoured cream cheese (I used tomato & pesto)
300 g fish filet, cubed (salmon, trout)
To serve:
fresh dill, chopped
black pepper, coarsely ground
Bring the fish stock* to the boil. Add potato cubes and simmer, until tender (10-15 minutes).
Meanwhile, cut the fish into large cubes, taking care to remove any pin-bones.
Remove the saucepan from the heat, stir in the melted cheese spread and cream cheese, spoonful at the time.
Put the saucepan back onto the heat, add the cubed fish. Simmer on a low heat for a couple of minutes, until the fish is cooked through.
Ladle into soup bowls, sprinkle with chopped dill and grind some black pepper on top.
* If using home-made fish stock, then good for you. If you're using good-quality fish bouillon cubes, then take just 1 cube for 1.5 litres of water - the fish and cheese give plenty of flavour -and saltiness - themselves and you don't want the soup to be too salty.
8 comments:
- Kalyn said...
Mmmm, I love the sound of this!
- 5:45 pm, November 19, 2008
Up my street! I was feeling hungry with all those healthy desserts around.
- 7:19 pm, November 19, 2008
- We Are Never Full said...
whoa! adding cream cheese to the soup - genius!!
- 12:18 am, November 20, 2008
- gaga said...
What an interesting soup. It sounds great!
- 6:55 am, November 20, 2008
- Erik said...
I like to use cream cheese to thicken soup too, but I never thought to buy the flavored stuff. It would sure save prep time!
- 5:56 pm, November 20, 2008
- Anitsirc said...
I actually made this soup yesterday and it was delicious! In fact, my husband can't stop talking about it. I used cream cheese with chives, but about 1/2 the quantity you recommended (that's all I had) and added some heavy cream to make up for the rest. It was still yummy! Thanks.
- 5:44 pm, November 22, 2008
- mofoJT II said...
That looks fabulous! The fresh herbs really add a nice touch.
- 7:22 pm, November 23, 2008
- Jeanne said...
I made something similar with salmon over Christmas & again at New Year - sooooo good.
- 8:09 pm, January 06, 2009


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The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Dfb". (Warm Summer Continental Climate).
The average temperature for the year in Shelburne Falls is 46.1°F (7.8°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 69.7°F (20.9°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 21.9°F (-5.6°C).
The highest recorded temperature in Shelburne Falls is 100.0°F (37.8°C), which was recorded in June. The lowest recorded temperature in Shelburne Falls is -26.0°F (-32.2°C), which was recorded in February.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Shelburne Falls is 45.9" (1165.9 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is November with 4.5" (114.3 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of 3.2" (81.3 mm). There are an average of 139.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in April with 13.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in October with 9.0 days.
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Kosher Aristotle and the Shoa Survivor by Gilad Atzmon
Here is a glimpse into the surreal world of Judeo-ethics. It is also an exceptional example of lame Jewish logic.
The French Jewish 'philosopher' Bernard-Henri Lévy is convinced that Roman Polanski should be freed from jail. Polanski was recently arrested in Switzerland for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-oldgirl in 1977. Lévy thinks that Polanski should evade justice, you want to know why? Easy, because he is a 'Holocaust survivor'.
Here is an extract from Lévy's celebrity petition (1):
"Seventy-six years old, a survivor of Nazism and of Stalinist persecutions in Poland, Roman Polanski risks spending the rest of his life in jail for deeds which would be beyond the statute-of-limitations in Europe."
Following Bernard-Henri Lévy's reasoning, survivors are beyond justice. They should never be jailed for the 'rest of their life', not even for unlawful sex with a minor. This sickening and morbid logic explains Israeli barbarism and Jewish collective support of Israeli war crimes. At the end of the day, too many Jews tend to regard themselves as a collective of survivors. Accordingly, in their eyes, they are indeed beyond the law.
I use this opportunity to call the artists who were foolish enough (2) to sign this unethical petition to follow actress, Emma Thompson and withdraw their names immediately. Being a Holocaust survivor doesn't
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In this live training session Unity's own Adam Buckner will take a look at how to create great mobile games using the assets from the Mobile Essentials Pack including: Mesh Baker, Editor Console Pro, Fingers: Touch Gestures for Mobile, Fast Shadow Projector and Cross Platform Native Plugins Ultra Pack. Mobile Essentials is one of the free asset packs you can select when you subscribe to Unity Plus. In this episode we will cover Editor Console Pro by Flyingworm.
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October 27, 2009-Relaunched
We re-launched Wings on Tuesday after 7 1/2 weeks in the yard and it was good to get it back in the water. Judy took some shots of the process.
Click here to see her photos.
Now the big clean up begins.
We've still got to get the new brackets for the wind vane plus the hydraulic panel is not finished and the refer needs some work; oh after the work which was done on the engine it needs a check up before we can start it.
The name needs to be put on the sides.
All of these things can be done in the water.
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In a week we will be sailing.
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, Phuket Thailand
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SwitchEasy Thins Sleeves for iPad 2 Review/
SwitchEasy are back again, and this time with a some new accessories for both the iPad 2 and the entire MacBook line including the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. One of the latest accessories that we're going to take a look at are SwitchEasy's Thins. The Thins are slim sleeves made out of neoprene and come in a few different vibrant colors to match your style for $39.99. Before we can dub these to be another one of those run-of-the-mill sleeves, we're going to take a closer look at the Thins to see if they are worthy of your iPad 2 right after the jump!


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Suspect in custody after bomb scare at Kemah Walmart
A man with a knife and several suspicious devices was arrested Saturday in a Walmart parking lot, after a four-hour stand-off that kept customers and employees trapped inside the Kemah store.
Mehrzad Malekzadeh, 35, of Sugar Land has been arrested and charged with making terroristic threats and displaying a hoax bomb, which are both class A misdemeanor charges.
Malekzadeh is currently in Galveston County Jail on a $5,000 bond.
"Several unknown devices were located in the pockets of the male suspect and attached to his person," Kemah police said in a press release.
Kemah police were dispatched to the area around 9 a.m. in response to a report of a suspicious masked male in a car wielding a knife, first seen in a nearby Target parking lot. He later moved to parking lot of Walmart in the 200 block of FM 518.
The store was locked down around 10 a.m., as the FBI bomb squad and Kemah police responded to the threatening man and searched the area.
The scene was cleared shortly after 2 p.m. with no hazards found by FBI bomb technicians, according to spokeswoman Shauna Dunlap.
John Lamar, who works in the store's automotive department, said that Walmart officials have advised everyone to stay clear of windows while the store was on lock down.
"They've come around with baskets of snacks and water for those locked down in the store," he said on the phone.
A crowd of about 50 nervous friends and family gathered outside the store.
"I was freaked out, this stuff doesn't happen here," said Brandon Blackwelder, whose sister works there.


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