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The Ramsar Bulletin Board, 31 October 2012
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New Assistant Advisor for Europe
After two years in the post of Assistant Advisor for Europe, Kati Wenzel is leaving Ramsar to work at the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution. The Secretariat is pleased to introduce Laura Máiz-Tomé from Spain who is taking over from Kati. Laura has an interdisciplinary background in environmental social sciences. She graduated in Politics from Keele University in 2009, where she focused on the field of environmental policy. Laura has a Master in Management of Natural Protected Areas from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Master of Science in Environmental Assessment and Management from the University of East Anglia. For the first six months of 2012, Laura worked as an intern in the IUCN EURO Office in Brussels. Laura has also had a traineeship in the Observatory of Global Change in Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain). And right before taking up her post at Ramsar, Laura has had a three-month internship in the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park.
We wish Kati every success in her future career and welcome Laura to Gland. [31/10/12]
Rio Conventions Pavilion TV, CBD COP11 (18/10/2012) – Watch an interview with Anada Tiéga, Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, explaining the importance of protecting wetlands and why it must be done multilaterally. "Tiéga affirms that when healthy, wetlands improve human health, agriculture, food security, energy production and tourism. He also emphasises that a long term, multilateral approach to wetland conservation is essential." Click here to watch the interview. [25/10/12]
Notification of call for the nomination of candidates to serve as Chairperson and members of the Ramsar Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) for the 2013-2015 triennium
The Ramsar Secretariat has today issued the call for nominations for the Chairperson and members of the STRP for the next triennium. Under the terms of the STRP modus operandi, nominations can be made by representatives of the Convention's national Administrative Authority, STRP National Focal Points, and the current members, invited experts and observer organization representatives of the STRP. The deadline for submission of nominations is 30 November 2012. The full text of the call for nominations, a guidance note for nominators and nominees, and the forms to be completed by a nominator and nominee are available on the STRP pages here. [24/10/2012]
Vacancy at the Australasian Flyway Partnership Secretariat
The East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) is seeking a Science Officer who will be working at the Australasian Flyway Partnership Secretariat in Incheon, Republic of Korea. Applications should be sent by no later than 6:00 pm (Seoul time) on Friday 16 November 2012. Click here for more details [24/10/12]
Small Grant Fund Project: "Effective Management of Ramsar Sites in Turkey"
The project conducted by Doğa Derneği (Birdlife Turkey) set out to explore the existing wetland management structures in Turkey by arranging several meetings with different stakeholders involved in these processes. The results of these consultations were applied to the case of Ramsar Site Kizilirmak Delta which served as a pilot site. In additional discussions with key decision makers and other stakeholders, all parties agreed that the establishment of a technical commission (also comprising farmers and other land users) in addition to the already existing local Wetland Commission would be beneficial. More [23/10/2012]
New interactive maps on the Ramsar Sites Information Service (RSIS)
Are you looking for a map of Contracting Parties showing the number of Ramsar Sites per country for a PowerPoint presentation or a report? A user-friendly tool, available on the RSIS since January 2012, helps you to build maps according to your needs.
New options have recently been added: visit the new version of the dynamic maps now! Data export is made easy in jpeg or png formats, new data available (Ramsar criteria, wetland types), different colours available and more categories can now be displayed: you can now easily customize your maps! [22/10/2012] - By Alexia Dufour, Regional Affairs Officer
Who's Where?
Lew Young, Senior Regional Advisor for Asia – Oceania will be on a Ramsar Advisory Mission to visit the Taunsa Barrage and the Indus Dolphin Reserve Ramsar Sites in Pakistan from 29 October to 6 November. He will then be in Pokhara, Nepal from 7 to 13 November to attend the International Wetland Symposium as well as meetings with the Administrative Authority and other stakeholders. [29/10/12]
Sandra Hails, CEPA Programme Officer will be attending a CMS/AEWA workshop on the development of capacity building tools for National Focal Points from 1-2 November in Bonn, Germany. [29/10/12]
SG Anada Tiéga and Monica Zavagli, Scientific & Technical Support Officer, are attending the "International Conference on hydro-diplomacy - A Tool for Sharing Water Across Borders" in Chiang Rai, Thailand, from 31 October to 1 November. [29/10/12]
For more old Ramsar Secretariat travel news, see also 'Who Was Where', 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 , 2012
Yesterday's News
Training kits on wetlands in the Masters programmes in Environment and Protected Areas, Senghor University, Alexandria
Following the request some Contracting Parties made at Ramsar COP11 (Bucharest, Romania, July 2012), in the presence of the representative of the Senghor University, the African team of the Ramsar Secretariat and the Department of Environment of the Senghor University of Alexandria are about to integrate several training kits on Wetlands in the Masters programmes in Environment and Protected Areas.
From 29 September to 11 October 2012, Paul Ouédraogo, Senior Regional Advisor for Africa introduced two Training Kits in the course on Protected Areas and Wetlands, for which he has been lecturing as an Associate Professor since 2008, at the Senghor University. The kits introduced were "Concepts of Migration Flyways for Conservation and the wise use of waterbirds and wetlands" and the "Manual of country National Focal Points for the Ramsar Convention". At the end of the course, Dr Martin Yelkouni, Director of the Department of Environment of the Senghor University and 4 students were interviewed to evaluate their appreciation of these two kits". Read here the full report prepared by Paul Ouédraogo | French version here (PDF). [21/10/2012]
Hyderabad Call for a Concerted Effort on Ecosystem Restoration
The Governments of India, the Republic of Korea and South Africa, the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), organised the Ecosystem Restoration Day yesterday at the Rio Conventions Pavilion, on the margins of CBD COP11 held in Hyderabad, India. Read more [18/10/12]
Urgent need to focus on ecosystems as natural solutions to global water management challenges
At CBD COP11, Ramsar's DSG urges a major shift in our attitudes to wetlands, to recognize their major value in delivering water for maintaining people's livelihoods and the world's economies.
In an interview for Climate TV at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP11 in Hyderabad, India, Ramsar's DSG Prof Nick Davidson describes the huge but greatly under-recognised value of inland and coastal wetlands for the benefits they provide to people throughout the world, and the increasing importance of maintaining and restoring our remaining wetlands for all sectors of society. Read more [17/10/2012]
Philippines names subterranean river Ramsar Site
The government of Philippines has chosen as its fifth Wetland of International Importance the extremely interesting Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, which is already a UNESCO World Heritage Site and MAB Biosphere Reserve. The site connects a range of important ecosystems from the mountain-to-the-sea, including a limestone karst landscape with a complex cave system, mangrove forests, lowland evergreen tropical rainforests, and freshwater swamps. Read more (with photos). [15/10/2012]
Kazakhstan designates the Lesser Aral Sea
The Ramsar Secretariat is delighted to announce that the government of Kazakhstan, in designating its 10th Wetland of International Importance, has named the Lesser Aral Sea and Delta of the Syrdarya River (330,000 hectares, 46°20'50"N 061°00'09"E). The site covers the eastern part of the Lesser Aral Sea, including Saryshyganak Bay and the mouth of the Syrdarya River, with a number of lakes at the northeastern end of the Aral Depression. Here are a site description and photographs. [12/10/2012]
Tana River Delta added to the Ramsar List
The Secretariat is very pleased to announce that Kenya has designated the Tana River Delta as a Wetland of International Importance. As summarized by Ramsar's MS Ako Charlotte Eyong, from the accompanying RIS, the Tana River Delta Ramsar Site (163,600 hectares, 02°27'S 040°17'E) is the second most important estuarine and deltaic ecosystem in Eastern Africa. A summary description can be seen here. [12/10/2012]
Vacancy at Ramsar Secretariat for Intern/Assistant to the Senior Advisor for the Americas Region
[11/10/2012] - The Ramsar Secretariat welcomes applications for the position of Intern/Assistant Advisor for the Americas region, a 12-month posting (possibly extendable up to 18 months) in the Ramsar Secretariat in Switzerland to begin in mid-January 2013.
IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, provides administrative services for the Ramsar Convention, and more information and online application for this post is available on the IUCN website at:
The deadline for applications is 7 November 2012. Note: A candidate should SUBMIT HIS/HER APPLICATION ONLINE, USING THE LINK ABOVE. No other method of application will be considered.
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Tunisia assesses its implementation of the Ramsar Convention and launches the removal process of Ichkeul from the Montreux Record
A workshop on the Implementation of the Ramsar Convention in Tunisia was organised by the Tunisian General Directorate of Forestry and WWF Tunisia on 21 September 2012, with the ultimate goal to have a round table discussion with all wetland actors in order to examine the current implementation of the Ramsar Convention in Tunisia and officially launch the removal process of Ichkeul, the first Tunisian site, from the Montreux Record. This brought together over 50 Tunisian wetland actors including government agencies, associations from the Tunisian wetlands Network (TunWet), the Ramsar Secretariat, WWF International, the media and the general public. More [11/10/12]
Cambodia's recent RIS updates
In order to provide the most up-to-date wetland data possible, the Convention's Contracting Parties have committed to updating their Ramsar Information Sheets (RIS) on all of their Ramsar Sites at least every six years. With the assistance of a 2010 Ramsar Small Grants Project "Strengthening and Expanding the Ramsar Site Network in Cambodia", implemented by the BirdLife International Cambodia Programme Office, the Cambodian Ministry of Environment has recently updated its RISs for the Boeng Chhmar and Koh Kapik Ramsar Sites. Site summaries here. [11/10/2012]
Ramsar Secretariat reports to CBD COP11 in Hyderabad on recent developments in its lead implementation role for wetlands for the CBD
[10/10/12] - In line with the Ramsar Convention's lead implementation role on wetlands for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the 5th Ramsar/CBD Joint Work Plan 2011-2020, today Ramsar's Deputy Secretary General Nick Davidson reported to CBD COP11 in Hyderabad, India on the findings of two key current initiatives on:
- the role, importance and value of wetlands and other ecosystems in the global water cycle in managing and delivering water supply and quality to people and nature – and
- the implications of their findings for CBD needing to give more attention to treating water as a key common theme in implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its 20 "Aichi Targets".
Ramsar, along with all biodiversity-related conventions, have committed to working together to jointly implement the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity adopted at CBD COP10 in 2010.
» Text of the DSG's short report [PDF]
» TEEB Water and Wetlands consultation draft report [PDF]
Ramsar is participating in "Livelihoods Day" this Friday at CBD COP11 in Hyderabad
The Ramsar Convention, IUCN and the Livelihoods Fund are jointly organising "Livelihoods Day" on 12 October (11:00; Rio Pavilion) at the 11th Conference of the Parties of the Convention of Biology Diversity in Hyderabad, India.
Livelihoods depend on biological diversity for food security, fuel, health, provision of clean air and water, etc. Local communities thus play a significant role in conserving but also damaging the biological diversity of their environment. The conservation of natural resources will not be possible if rural communities are not fully involved and do not see the benefit of such conservation. The increase in demand for food as a result of world population growth, combined with the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity, call for a profound change in mindset. This change has already begun. More [10/10/12]
Congo designates three large new sites
The Republic of Congo's three latest Ramsar Site designations - Ntokou-Pikounda, Odzala Kokoua, and Vallée du Niari - bring that Contracting Party's total area of coverage under the Convention to 11,335,259 with 10 sites, the third largest total worldwide, after Canada and Chad. The preparations for these new additions to the List were assisted by financial support from the WWF International Freshwater programme. Brief summary descriptions of the new sites have been prepared for the Annotated Ramsar List by Ms. Ako Charlotte Eyong, Ramsar's Assistant Advisor for Africa, based upon the datasheets submitted with the designation letters. Read more. [09/10/2012]
Conserving Fiji's wetlands
Fiji is one of the Pacific's 'Large Ocean Island States'. Of the country's total area of 198,000km2, only 10% is made up of land and this is divided between over 840 islands and islets. The country therefore has a relatively long coastline which supports a wide range of coastal wetland types, e.g. mangrove forests, sea-grass beds, tidal flats and coral reefs, with a rich biodiversity. More [09/10/12]
Release of Invasive Lionfish: A Guide to Control and Management, first issue of a Special Publication Series by the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
The purpose of this manual is to assist coastal managers and field workers with local control and research efforts for invasive lionfish. "Invasive Lionfish: A Guide to Control and Management provides best practices for lionfish control and management, including control strategies, outreach and education, research, monitoring, legal considerations, and ideas for securing resources and partnerships. By following these best practices, resource managers can reduce the local impacts of invasive lionfish in marine protected areas and other places of ecological and economic importance." (From the back cover).
To view or download a free copy please visit: http://lionfish.gcfi.org/manual/. Spanish and French translations coming soon. [08/10/12]
"Les Ateliers de la Terre" workshop days: an inspiring think tank for sustainable development
Created in 2006, "Les Ateliers de la Terre"/Planet Workshops is an international forum for a sustainable development that took place from 24 to 26 September in Evian, France. Members of the Secretariat could share and promote ideas on sustainable water management with the other 800 participants during wide-ranging sessions on sustainable development issues.
The theme of the conference, "Age of co-construction or triumph of competition?" was intensively discussed through presentations of innovative management partnerships between the public and the private sector; initiatives with a positive social and environmental impact; strategic and expert insights on responsible economy, social progress and the conservation of the environment among other topics. [08/10/12]
More information and video clips of the debates and sessions can be viewed here: http://www.planetworkshops.org/en/370/videos/
First stocktaking exercise of progress made 'on the road to' the 2020 target
The European BirdLife Partnership has just published an assessment of the progress towards the targets of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. The strategy aims to reverse the loss of biodiversity and ecosystems services by 2020. This is the first of BirdLife's planned assessments of the strategy implementation and provides a review of progress made in the first two years in the delivery of the six key targets in the strategy (nature conservation; saving and restoring ecosystems; agriculture and forests; fisheries, invasive alien species and global biodiversity).
Find out if the biodiversity in EU countries is really On the Road to Recovery? in BirdLife's full report and one-page executive summary here www.birdlife.org/eubiodiversityreport2012 (also available in French). [04/10/12]


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# Painful (Matador, 1993)
# I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (Matador, 1997)
# And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador, 2000); US #138
# Summer Sun (Matador, 2003); US #115
# I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador, 2006); US #66
Today Is the Day - EP (Matador, 2003)
Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, a husband/wife duo, formed the band in 1984. They went through several other band members before stabilizing with lead guitarist Dave Schramm and bass player Mike Lewis (founding bass player of Boston garage-punk mainstays DMZ and Lyres, and a member of Brooklyn garage band The A-Bones throughout his tenure in Yo La Tengo) for their debut recording, "The River of Water". In 1986, their first LP Ride the Tiger was released.
Schramm and Lewis left the band, and Stephan Wichnewski joined, with Kaplan taking on the role of lead guitar. New Wave Hot Dogs (1987) did much to establish the band's reputation among rock critics, though it sold poorly. President Yo La Tengo (1989) continued this trend, with rave reviews yet poor sales. Wichnewski left the band after this. Kaplan, though typically a pragmatist, starting carrying a bug trapped in amber in his pocket from this point on; for luck.
1990 saw the release of Fakebook, an album of mostly acoustic tunes, including covers from Cat Stevens, Gene Clark, The Kinks, Daniel Johnston, among others, and several songs by Yo La Tengo themselves. May I Sing with Me (1992) included new bassist James McNew (of Christmas and Dump), who has stayed with the band ever since. Painful (1993), Electr-O-Pura (1995) and I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997) marked a steady progression towards a sprawling, multi-faceted style, which included such disparate elements as folk, punk rock, shoegazing, long instrumental noise-jams and electronica oriented songs. Painful was also the beginning of the band's fruitful creative relationship with producer Roger Moutenot, who has produced every subsequent Yo La Tengo album release. During these years their cult grew and, thanks to almost constant touring and unrelenting critical praise, they became one of the most prominent American indie rock bands. They released And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out in 2000 and Summer Sun in 2003.
The band is renowned for its encyclopedic repertoire of cover songs, and every year plays live on the New Jersey freeform radio station, WFMU, as part of the station's annual fundraising marathon, performing (with guitarist Bruce Bennett of Norton Records The A-Bones, and occasional additional guests like Hamish Kilgour of New Zealand's The Clean and Pacific Northwest folk-punk chanteuse Lois Maffeo) impromptu cover-song requests from listeners who call in to pledge money to the station. In 2006 the band released an album compiling performances from the marathons between 1996 and 2003 titled Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics. Yo La Tengo also did a version of the Simpsons' end credits theme for the episode "D'oh-in in the Wind".
In 1996, Yo La Tengo appeared briefly (along with their friend Tara Key of the band Antietam) as the Velvet Underground in the film I Shot Andy Warhol. In 2001, they recorded an instrumental soundtrack for eight short undersea documentaries of Jean Painlevé, entitled The Sounds of the Sounds of Science. Yo La Tengo also provided the soundtracks for the films Junebug, Game 6, Shortbus, as well as Kelly Reichardt's award-winning 2006 feature film Old Joy. Three songs from May I Sing With Me ("Always Something", "Sleeping Pill" and "Some Kinda Fatigue") were featured on the soundtrack to American indie filmmaker Hal Hartley's 1992 movie Simple Men. Their song "Tears Are In Your Eyes" was also in the "Family" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The track 'Autumn Sweater' off I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One was in an episode of the third season of 24.
The group collaborated with Yoko Ono as well on the 2003 album Wig in a Box, Songs From and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch, made as a charity album to support the Harvey Milk High School.
March 2005 saw the group release a 2-disc greatest hits package, entitled Prisoners of Love. A bonus edition included a 3rd disc of rarities and unreleased tracks.
The album I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass followed in September 2006.
In 2007, Yo La Tengo's covers of the Bob Dylan songs "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and "Fourth Time Around" were released on the soundtrack album for I'm Not There.
In March 2008, Yo La Tengo performed under the name "Condo Fucks" at Brooklyn's Magnetic Field.[3] As Condo Fucks, they are releasing an album Fuckbook with Matador in 2009.[4]

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SAN ANTONIO -- So that's what $250,000 worth of rest looks like.
Tony Parker scored 30 points and Tim Duncan had 27 points and 15 rebounds, giving the San Antonio Spurs their money's worth for the unprecedented fine from the NBA they absorbed for putting rest over the league's business interests in a 99-95 overtime victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night.
Coach Gregg Popovich said before the victory he was "disappointed" by the $250,000 fine levied by Commissioner David Stern after the Spurs sent Parker, Duncan and Manu Ginobili -- three of the NBA's biggest names -- home from a road trip early instead of playing them against LeBron James and the Miami Heat on Thursday in a nationally televised game.
This might ease his frustration. Because chances are Popovich wasn't second-guessing his decision while watching the 36-year-old Duncan put up his best game this season, Parker eclipsing 30 points for the third time in five games and Ginobili sinking the tying 3-pointer with under a minute left to force overtime.
Parker mentioned afterward -- perhaps not coincidentally -- that the two days off made him feel like he had "a lot of energy" in the extra period.
"We definitely always have Pop's back. Me, personally I really appreciate what he's done for my career," Parker said. "Because of him, I've been playing all those years and all those summers with the national team because he's always protecting me. Timmy's the same way and Manu is the same way."
He then added how he wanted to win this one for his coach.
"I definitely felt like it was for Pop," Parker said. "I wanted to be super aggressive and win the game."
Marc Gasol led Memphis with 20 points. Zach Randolph had 17 points and 15 rebounds and was one of three Memphis players with double-doubles.
Mike Conley had 18 points and 12 assists, and Rudy Gay had 15 points and 10 rebounds.
While the Spurs' Big Three was refreshed from two days off, Memphis was playing the second half of a back-to-back.
"We don't use any excuses here," Conley said. "We felt like we had a chance to win the game regardless of back-to-back or resting. We felt like we had a chance to win."
The unprecedented fine announced Friday overshadowed the first meeting this season between two of the West's winningest teams. Even Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban -- who knows a thing or two about running afoul of Stern and getting hit in the checkbook -- chimed in before his team's own game Saturday night.
Cuban believes the NBA was right to sanction his top rivals for messing with the league's "money train" -- meaning lucrative national television contracts. Yet he also called scheduling that marquee TNT game at the end of the Spurs' six-game road swing a "dumb" move on the NBA's part.
Popovich said he doesn't know if the Spurs will appeal. He also didn't rule out sitting out players again in the future.
Succinctly addressing the fine before the game, he said the decision shows the NBA thinking about its bottom line and didn't elaborate on conversations with the league before the penalty came down Friday.
"What I do from my perspective is from a coaching perspective," Popovich said. "And I think the league operates from a business perspective. And I think that's reflective in the action that they took."
San Antonio fans welcomed Popovich back with a thunderous ovation before the game. One fan behind the Grizzlies' bench held up a sign reading "Pop knows best." Others wore shirts with more colorful language directed toward Stern.
The Grizzlies played without Tony Allen for a second straight game because of an injured groin. It's unclear when their starting shooting guard may return.
On Thursday, Popovich put his Big Three and starter Danny Green on a plane and sent them home. It came at the end of a six-game road trip and after the Spurs had played five times in seven days, and Popovich justified his decision by saying he didn't want to subject them to so much wear-and-tear this early in the season.
Stern apologized to NBA fans before the Miami game and vowed his office would hand down "substantial sanctions," which he delivered on the next day. He said he "concluded that the Spurs did a disservice to the league and our fans."
Teams are required to report as soon as they know a player will not travel because of injury. The league's statement said the Spurs were in violation of league policy reviewed with the board of governors in April 2010 against resting players in a manner "contrary to the best interests of the NBA."
The rest didn't benefit everyone. Green was scoreless in 19 minutes before leaving with tightness in his left hamstring.
Notes: Popovich said it's unlikely that starting F Kawhi Leonard (knee) will return on this weeklong homestand. Leonard has missed nine games. The Spurs hit the road again Dec. 8. ... San Antonio beat the Grizzlies for the fifth straight time after sweeping them last season. Memphis hasn't won against the Spurs since knocking them out of the playoffs in stunning fashion as the No. 8 seed in 2011.
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Josh Mannis
May 31-July 12, 2014
Thomas Solomon Gallery
Thomas Solomon Gallery presents Sexus, a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles artist
Josh Mannis. In addition to noting Henry Miller's book of the same name, in which the
permissions of sex, and those of artistic becoming are often one and the same, the show's title
"Sexus" evokes a science of classification. This seems to imply a system of names, expressions
and concepts from which identifications can be attached to objects. The implication of the new
works is that this array of conceptual containers can be divided up and then mixed and matched
among the artist's different multi-figure scenarios.
However, these drawings are often further complicated by a third, observing figure: pictured as
analyzing, reporting, policing, or sanctioning. Generally, the explicit portrayal of sexual subject
matter is used for the purpose of arousal. We know it is associated with voyeuristic activity—
provoking an urge to stare, and implying the social context that prohibits sex. Straddling a
boundary between an internal moment of deep absorption and another of outward public
acknowledgement, the figurative elements of each piece proceed from an interest in types—
pretenses and public guises that are entered as scrambled self-presentations set across a
spectrum of art historical guidelines and modes of figuration. Expressionist printmaking,
counterculture illustration and Baroque-era compositional ideas combine to take on a perversely
descriptive focus. These decorative, extensively worked pieces situate themselves somewhere
between allegorical narratives and impossible, non-functional puzzles.
This process becomes a medium for improvising combinatory possibilities, and the resultant
compositions act like unsolvable riddles that continuously switch and change in their formal and
conceptual relations. All this endless shifting and interference serves to short-circuit the closure of
interpretation, in favor of a free intellectual context in which Mannis can assert and celebrate the
interpersonal potential of art. In Mannis' videos and drawings from the past few years,
intellectual process is always mired in a maze of sensual contacts and contradictions. It is a zone
of art making that declines viewers' classifications and labeling in favor of open-ended,
nonthematic experience.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Josh Mannis currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
He received his BFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan and his MFA from the
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Mexico's Grupo Reforma: 18,000 Citizen Editors
Traditional advertising-heavy media, like newspapers, magazines, television, and radio, appear to be endangered businesses. Thanks to the internet, virtually anyone can produce and distribute stories and information. Stanford Business magazine asked David Weir, a journalist who covers the media industry, to interview alumni in the thick of the changes but from dramatically different perches -- in Mexico, and China.
Executives inside the troubled U.S. newspaper industry are searching desperately for ways to return to financial health. They could do worse than to take a peek south of the border at Grupo Reforma, Mexico's leading newspaper company.
Grupo Reforma publishes 10 newspapers in 5 Mexican cities with an average daily circulation of 1.5 million. These include the largest metro newspapers in Mexico City (Reforma), Monterrey (El Norte), and Guadalajara (Mural).
Jorge Meléndez, 46, is vice president of new media for the company, where he has worked in a variety of positions for the past 18 years. He says the types of financial problems facing newspapers in the United States -- falling circulation and advertising revenues, waves of layoffs and buyouts, burdensome debt loads -- have been avoided at Grupo Reforma.
"Our major broadsheets, the ones you can compare to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, have stable circulation and have maintained advertising growth over the last 10 years," says Meléndez.
One reason, he says, is an "ultra-local" concept -- that newspapers need to be embedded in their communities. "We have a saying in Monterrey, where grilled cabrito [young goat meat] is one of the main regional dishes: 'When you pick up El Norte, it better smell like cabrito.'"
The company also has developed unique ways to interact with readers in their communities and to build reader loyalty. The news-papers have created a series of editorial boards, each composed of 12 to 14 community leaders, corresponding to every section of the news-paper -- autos, food, fashion, and so forth.
The community boards meet with section editors at the paper every week or two to discuss three standing agenda items:
- What the section is doing well.
- What the section is doing poorly (and how to fix that).
- New Ideas for sources, stories or sections.
There is no compensation for board members; the term is typically one year, save for two or three members who stay on to preserve continuity.
The company's commitment to the boards is such that it pledges that it will fix whatever it is doing wrong and enact the ideas for new coverage or else explain why it cannot do so "to the board's satisfaction."
"Each year we have 900 people sit on these boards, and we've been doing this for 20 years," Meléndez says. Giving over this control to the community is entirely alien to the U.S. newspaper culture, and yet, in an age of "citizen journalism" and social media, it's precisely these kinds of ties U.S. companies need to learn how to forge if they are going to survive in the digital age.
"The community is a gold mine," he says, "because we have to know when we are wrong so we can correct it." Over the years, roughly 18,000 people have served on the boards, so they now make up 10 percent of the group's subscriber base.
"They are extremely loyal, plus they know how we work," Meléndez says. "They know who to call or email. They are a source of stories, new sections, and opportunities."
There are many other things U.S. news-papers could learn from Grupo Reforma, including how to survive the transition from free to paid content online. The company made this change seven years ago and now allows print subscribers free access to all of its websites. Others must subscribe to the web version, which is priced at 80 percent of the newsstand price.
How the company pulled this off goes back to those community editorial boards. It used them essentially as focus groups to figure out how to help as much of the audience as possible make the transition. The boards held many meetings with readers helping them learn how to access the websites and create passwords. A lot of communication was involved as they slowly brought the readers along. "We thought we would lose 90 to 95 percent of our online readers, but working with the boards, we lost only about 25 to 30 percent," Meléndez says. "And you know what? Our internet advertising revenues actually went up that year!"
Another key to the group's success is the production of multiple editions targeted at different audience segments. Inner-city inhabitants get tabloid editions with plenty of photos and an "emphasis on police stories, girls, and entertainment."
One of these in Mexico City has grown from a circulation of 25,000 seven years ago to 320,000 today. "It is a very aggressive paper," he says, "and very well designed to appeal to its audience."
Next up are the big city metro broadsheets, which do award-winning investigative reporting about drug lords, government corruption, and business scandal, and have successfully campaigned for open elections, a freedom-of-information law, and other important national reforms.
Covering the drug war is particularly demanding because of the Wild West-style ruthlessness that produces a steady series of brutal murders. The company covers the drug violence closely but publishes no bylines to protect its reporters from retribution.
Finally, besides the tabloids and the broadsheets, the company produces a regular set of suburban editions for its wealthier readers. These once again take advantage of the group's tight relationship with its readers, as they are thick, photo-crammed books covering the marriages, vacations, and lifestyles of Mexico's wealthy.
The rich families clearly welcome the group's reporters and photographers into the intimate routines of their daily lives, which is not always the case in the United States. In the process, the group gets to collect lots of hyper-local advertising from the restaurants, furniture stores, resorts, and other businesses that cater to these prime consumers.
From a business perspective, margins in places like Sierra Madre, the suburban Monterrey county that is the wealthiest in Mexico, are impressive: An investment of only 20% of the company's overall production costs yields a return of fully 50% of its total ad revenues. There are additional factors behind Grupo Reforma's success including its early and consistent focus on technology, which in turn led it to establish one of the earliest major websites in Mexico as well as a proprietary printing system.
With his excellent English and U.S. degree, Meléndez has often served as a point man in attempts to establish partnerships with other North American newspaper companies. In this role, he says he is astonished to see the difference in focus at the top of the U.S. companies as opposed to his company.
"In the U.S., being editor-in-chief of a newspaper seems to mean something quite different than it does here," he says. "They seem to see themselves as stars who appear on television and go on long book tours. Here, if I am the editor-in-chief [one of the jobs he has held in the past], I don't travel, I don't write books. If I did, I probably wouldn't be doing the best job of covering my city.
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Director John Ridley and star Andre Benjamin discuss the film Jimi: All Is By My Side; David Bianculli reviews the new drama Transparent; Ron Perlman talks about his book Easy Street (The Hard Way).
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Friday, September 26, 2014
Animal behaviorist John Bradshaw's books Cat Sense and Dog Sense detail what cat and dog owners should expect from their animals. Cat Sense originally aired Sept. 5, 2013. Dog Sense originally aired May 26, 2011.
British Coalminers Strike With A Gay Coalition In 'Pride,' A Crowd-Pleaser
Friday, September 26, 2014
The film is based on a true story about the '80s strike Margaret Thatcher vowed to break. It's full of the Britain's best actors, and nearly every line makes you cackle or puts a lump in your throat.
In 'Transparent,' A 70-Year-Old Divorced Dad Comes Out As A Woman
Friday, September 26, 2014
The new drama, which launches Friday on Amazon Prime, stars Jeffrey Tambor as a transgender woman coming out to her three grown kids. Tambor acts the role without any hint of cheap humor.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Charles Blow says he was 7 years old when he was sexually abused by a cousin. His new memoir, Fire Shut Up In My Bones, is about what he says happened, his recovery and his bisexuality.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Jimi: All Is By My Side focuses on the year Hendrix changed his name and recorded his first album. Director John Ridley and star André Benjamin (a.k.a. André 3000) talk about portraying the guitarist.
After WWI, A Mother And Daughter Must Take In 'Paying Guests'
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Sarah Waters' spellbinding novel — about two women in 1920s London — is no simple period piece. Waters is a superb storyteller with a gift for capturing the layered nuances of character and mood.
Pere Ubu's 'Carnival Of Souls' Is A Dreamscape That's Never Dreamy
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Led since the late '70s by co-founder David Thomas, Pere Ubu has created something far more rich, experimental, and emotional than the spooky, horror-movie that Carnival of Souls is named for.
'Madame Secretary' Pales In Comparison To 'The Good Wife'
Thursday, September 18, 2014
The CBS dramas about women juggling family lives and high-intensity jobs showcase excellent acting. But while The Good Wife is one of the best shows on TV, Madam Secretary's writing is disappointing.
The Long, Scary Journey From A 'Terrorist's Son' To A Peace Activist
Thursday, September 18, 2014
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Nov21-12, 02:36 PM
Can we simply understand a softened phonon mode as one having reduced energy/frequency?
Does "soft" indicate smaller value of the spring coefficient like the k in
where f is force and x is displacement of a spring, so a "soft" spring has a smaller k value?
Thanks for all help.
Nov21-12, 05:23 PM
The decrease in frequency does not come from a change in k, but from a loss of order. Changing the value of k does not change the degree of order in the system. Changing the value of k is like a change without a phase transition. The breaking of the spring is very much like a phase transition.
It is not complete to say that a soft phonon mode corresponds to a decrease in phonon frequency. I think it is more correct to say that the soft phonon mode corresponds to a decrease in crystal symmetry. The decrease in phonon frequency is a consequence of the decrease in crystal symmetry. The decrease in crystal symmetry is usually associated with a certain type of phase transition.
Soft phonons are usually associated with phase transitions in crystals that have more than one distinguishable lattice. There is a lattice associated with each atom of a unit cell which is distinguishable from the lattices associated with the other atoms of the unit cell. As long as all the lattices are intact, the crystal will have a band structure that includes several kinds of optical phonons. If one of the lattices becomes disordered, leaving the other lattices intact, the optical phonons associated with the disordered lattice become acoustical phonons. The optical phonon associated with the disordered phonon is referred to as a soft phonon.
Look at the phase transition as a type of partial melting. One of the lattices melts while the other lattices remain solid. While the crystal is entirely frozen, there will be transverse optical phonons associated with vibrations within each lattice. Each optical phonon has a finite frequency at zero wave vector. However, suppose one of the lattices melts. Liquids cant support transverse waves, and neither can this melted lattice. Obviously, the vibrations associated with that transverse mode can no longer occur. So the zero wave vector frequency of this phonon has to become zero when that lattice melts.
Before the lattice melted, the crystal had a high degree of symmetry. The equilibrium point of every atom was restricted to a specific point on the unit cell and on the lattice. After a lattice melts, the atoms in that lattice can diffuse anywhere in the crystal. Thus, the crystal has a very low degree of symmetry after the transition. Therefore, the soft phonon mode is closely associated with the symmetry of the crystal before and after the phase transition.
Diffusion is one difference between what you are saying and the reality of soft phonons. In a crystal that isnt undergoing a phase transition, the phonon could decrease in frequency without the associated atoms diffusing. One can heat or stress the crystal resulting in a lower phonon energy, and there will be no atoms diffusing. However, if one of the lattices becomes disordered, the atoms in that lattice can diffuse. So the decrease in frequency during this phase transition signals the onset of diffusion.
Here are some links concerning soft phonons and phase transition.
The concept of "soft phonon" associated with a phase transition signifies a phenomenon in which a phonon mode, which coincides with a lower-symmetry structure, is very much amplified immediately before the onset of phase transition from a higher-symmetry structure.
Zone-boundary phonons: When the distortion is driven by a zone-boundary phonon, the distorted structure will have a larger unit cell (the translational symmetry is broken). The 12 zone boundary point will then fold to the new zone center, and the soft phonon will harden below the phase transition to become a new zone center phonon.
The soft phonon phase transition is one of the best established mechanisms by which a crystal structure can change. In the pressure-induced case, the frequency of a given vibration in the lattice goes to zero as the transition is approached: zero frequency implies that the lattice structure is unstable, and will transform, typically to a lower symmetry phase.
Nov22-12, 01:48 PM
I greatly appreciate your comprehensive explanation.
Actually, it is much beyond my interpretation. I am working on a model for interactions of superconducting electrons under the mediation of phonon modes. In the model, if the phonon frequency around the mediating phonon modes is lowered, desired interactions would be favored.
I remember I read somewhere that a dip in phonon dispersion curve would be an indication that the phonons were engaging in coupling with electrons.
It seems that I only look at k-space while phonon softening is more related to real space. Considerations of both spaces would of course make things better, but it is really difficult to me.
Thank you again.
Nov22-12, 07:47 PM
About soft phonon mode: is it simply of reduced energy
A phonon becomes soft during the phase transition from "solid insulator" to "solid electrolyte". As the temperature rises, the phase transition occurs when one of the sublattices in the crystal structure breaks down. This is a change in what you are calling "real space". The electronic structure is not changing significantly independent of the positions of the nuclei. The nuclei associated with a sublattice is breaking down.
The phonon changes during the phase transition in the following way. Long wavelength vibration turns into diffusion. The frequency at the band center goes to zero when diffusion of atoms replaces the vibration of atoms.
I wonder if a solid electrolyte can also be a superconductor? I know that metals don't become solid electrolytes. However, maybe ceramic superconductors can become solid electrolytes. If a ceramic superconductor can also become a solid electrolyte, then maybe you can tune the frequency of the phonon by inducing the phase transition. Perhaps you could look into the possibility.
There has been a lot of work on solid electrolytes. A lot of research has been done on soft phonons because of the possibility of solid electrolyte technology. The hope is that a safe car battery can be made with solid electrolytes instead of with the liquid electrolyte solutions.
Battery acid is very dangerous partly because it can slosh around. The high voltage batteries needed for electric cars will require even more corrosive chemicals. A corrosive solid may be safer then a corrosive liquid. Therefore, a solid car battery could be much safer than a liquid based car battery. To make such solid state batteries, one needs solid electrolytes.
Dec11-12, 01:01 PM
Here is an exemplary paper in which "softening" of phonon mode is used for the other meaning:
It is said "Besides an overall renormalisation, an anomalous softening of the highest optical branch is clearly visible."
The highest optical branch does not go to zero at the long wave end, and the "anomalous softening" (dip?) does not occur at the long wave end; it happens at around [0.2,0,0].
BTW, what does it mean by "renormalisation"? Does it mean that the dispersion curve deviates from a standard dispersion curve?
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