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Efficacy/Safety of Human Plasminogen Eye Drop in Ligneous Conjunctivitis Patients
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First received: December 20, 2011
Last updated: May 15, 2013
Last verified: May 2013
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Kedrion Human Plasminogen, a sterile human plasma-derived plasminogen preparation for topical ocular use will be evaluated for the indication of treatment of ligneous conjunctivitis.
KB-046 will be an open-label, historically controlled clinical trial. An estimated 10 subjects with ligneous conjunctivitis, with up to 20 affected eyes, will be treated and assessed. All 10 subjects will receive the investigational medicinal product (IMP) for 12 to 26 weeks, with a possibility for extended treatment.
Ligneous Conjunctivitis
Biological: Human Plasminogen
Phase 2
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Historically Controlled Phase II/III Study to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of Kedrion Human Plasminogen Eye Drop Preparation in Patients Diagnosed With Ligneous Conjunctivitis
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: congenital plasminogen deficiency
MedlinePlus related topics: Pinkeye
Drug Information available for: Tetrahydrozoline hydrochloride Boric acidU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Number of eyes with recurrent ligneous membranes after initially showing total regression after treatment or after surgical excision. [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Number of eyes with reduction of overall membrane surface area assessed by measurement of scaled photographs at study start and at the end of each 4 week cycle. [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Number of subjects who experience adverse events. [ Time Frame: Up to 26 weeks. ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Number of subjects who develop antibodies against human plasminogen. [ Time Frame: Up to 26 weeks. ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Number of subjects who develop antibodies against bovine aprotinin. [ Time Frame: Up to 26 weeks. ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Number of subjects who experience signs and symptoms of sensitization. [ Time Frame: Up to 26 weeks. ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|January 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Intervention Details:
Biological: Human Plasminogen
Eye Drops
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects should be diagnosed with ligneous conjunctivitis associated with Type I plasminogen deficiency, confirmed by the central laboratory and documented at pre-enrollment screening. The concomitant presence of other ligneous pseudomembranes at different sites will not constitute an exclusion criterion.
- Subjects should have documented historical record or knowledge of lifetime disease course, including age of LC onset, history of pseudomembrane lesions, disease duration, past treatment for LC, response to treatment (including regression and recurrence) available for at least 6 months before study entrance.
- Subjects, or their legally authorized representative, in the case of study participants < 18 years of age, should have been informed of the nature of the study, agreed to its provision, signed and dated the informed consent approved by the investigational review board (IRB) or ethics committee (EC).
- Subjects available for the duration of the study will be included.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects presenting ligneous conjunctivitis not associated with Type 1 plasminogen deficiency.
- Subjects with any condition which, in the opinion of the Investigator, might interfere with the evaluation of the study objectives, or participation in this trial.
- Subjects unwilling to give written informed consent or assent to participation.
- Subjects who have participated in another clinical trial within 1 month before study initiation, i.e. they have received any test drug within 30 days prior the study.
- Females of childbearing potential who are either pregnant or not using an adequate method of birth
- Females who are breastfeeding.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01554956
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|Sub-Investigator: Cinzia de Libero, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Giacomo Maria Bacci, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Neri Pucci, MD
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 25, 2016
|Responsible Party:
|Kedrion S.p.A.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01554956 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 20, 2011
|Last Updated:
|May 15, 2013
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by Kedrion S.p.A.:
Plasminogen Deficiency
Ligneous Conjunctivitis
Ligneous Conjunctivitis in Plasminogen Deficient Patients
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Skin Diseases, Genetic
Conjunctival Diseases
Eye Diseases
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Skin Diseases
Ophthalmic Solutions
Pharmaceutical Solutions
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Nasal Decongestants
Vasoconstrictor Agents
Respiratory System Agents
Fibrinolytic Agents
Fibrin Modulating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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Cindy Crawford Launches Strength For Caring To Help Millions Of Caregivers Provide Support To Loved Ones With Cancer
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Last Modified: August 4, 2002
More than 1.3 million cases of cancer will be diagnosed in 2002. The family members and loved ones of these patients are often confronted with the challenge of being the caregivers outside of the hospital setting. Many caregivers accompany patients to their appointments, becoming advocates for these patients in the hospital setting. A study conducted by the Fatigue Coalition found that caregivers frequently missed as many workdays as the patients for whom they were caring, causing the caregiver financial and emotional strain. Research has shown that caregivers suffer both physical and emotional problems as a result of caregiving. Researchers at The University of Pennsylvania felt that if caregivers were provided with the knowledge and tools to manage caregiving, they may be better able to handle the experience. With these thoughts in mind, an educational program for caregivers was developed in 1993, in conjunction with three other healthcare institutions. The program, called Strength for Caring, was funded for 5 years by a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health's Cancer Control Program. At the conclusion of the grant, Ortho Biotech, who currently promotes the program nationwide, assumed the program. Model Cindy Crawford is a dedicated cancer advocate who knows first hand the toll cancer caregiving can take on a family. Cindy has teamed with Ortho Biotech Products to encourage participation in the Strength for Caring program.
Strength for Caring is a free program, which addresses topics such as understanding cancer and it's treatment, managing patient symptoms, dealing with changing family roles, community resources, and improving the caregiver's physical and mental health. The programs are taught by trained health professionals (nurses and social workers), and offered at locations around the country. Health professionals may also contact the organization for information about starting a program in their area.
When Cindy Crawford was eight years old, her younger brother was diagnosed with leukemia. The illness affected the entire family, but most significantly, her mother, who was the child's main caregiver. "It was extremely difficult for my entire family when my younger brother was suffering from leukemia," said Crawford. "My mother was his primary caregiver, but we were all deeply affected by the emotional and physical tolls of cancer caregiving," added Crawford, who ultimately lost her brother to the disease. "My family was not fortunate enough to have the support of a program like Strength for Caring when my brother was ill. We faced the tough challenge of caregiving alone," she continued. "Now caregivers can get the help they need from the Strength for Caring program, which provides support, empowerment and practical coping mechanisms for cancer caregivers."
The Strength for Caring program offers workshops across the country in conjunction with local hospitals, healthcare facilities and cancer centers. For more information, call 1-888-I-CARE-80 or visit the Strength for Caring website.

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Dr. Amy Novak assumed the presidency of Dakota Wesleyan University on June 1, 2013.
Novak had served as provost and executive vice president at DWU since 2008. In addition, she has served DWU in several positions since 2003: director of Student Support Services TRiO Grant, dean of enrollment management and vice president for enrollment management.
Her achievements include:
· Leading the creation of the university's Learn Strong strategic plan resulting in the development of three colleges, six new majors, significant curriculum revisions to nearly all academic majors, a reconfiguration of student experience focused on developing student strengths, alignment of capital and academic priorities, and a strengthened connection to the institution's United Methodist roots.
· Securing, in partnership with institutional advancement staff and former president Bob Duffett, $11 million for the Glenda K. Corrigan Health Sciences Center.
· Facilitating an 18 percent growth in enrollment through the addition of athletic programs, new majors, and the expansion of online and master's degree programs.
· Development and expansion of mission trips and study-abroad experiences for students.
· Development of a new scholarship model that leveraged academic success resulting in the largest and academically strongest incoming class since the 1960s.
· Partnering with the United Methodist church to offer Fusion, a weekly worship service.
· Secured donations and partnerships for the building of the DWU/Avera Sports and Wellness Complex.
A native South Dakotan and graduate of Mitchell High School, Novak has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Notre Dame, and a master's degree in economics from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She earned her doctoral degree in interdisciplinary leadership at Creighton University in Omaha and was selected for the Seagren-Joekel-Ihrig Award for Best Interdisciplinary Leadership Dissertation.
Novak's previous experience includes organizational consulting for Digital Equipment Corporation, directing a federal grant at Edison State College, teaching business communication courses at Denver Technical College, conducting market research for several local companies, as well as providing leadership to a variety of not-for-profit organizations in the U.S. and Canada.
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Ken Novak earned his undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A published author, Ken's professional background also includes 11 years of service to the U.S. Air Force, including roles as a military acquisition specialist, teacher of the year at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the chief speechwriter for the U.S. Air Force Command in Europe.


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5 Wacky Internet Pranks That Can Get You Jail Time
Several years ago, I convinced a lot of people on our message board to prank call a local radio DJ after he was mean to a friend of mine. You can imagine my surprise when I was arrested within a couple of hours, charged with, I guess, instigating phone shenanigans. (To this day I'm not completely sure they didn't just make up a law to charge me with.)
The point being, there's a whole lot of silly shit that people like me do online because there's this unspoken rule that what happens on the Internet stays on the Internet. That illusion is often shattered only by the sound of a cop kicking down your door.
Among the things that can get you into surprising amounts of legal trouble are ...
#5. Embarrassing Your Friends With Wacky Pranks
Ever photoshopped the head of your friend onto, say, some midget porn? Or set up a fake Facebook page to mock somebody at school? Or maybe just posted a video of a guy doing something embarrassing, like puking at your Halloween party?
Harvard'll love that.
You know, like these kids in Massachusetts, all 13 or 14 years old, who got together and created a Facebook profile for another student at their school. They then did what you and I would do after setting up a fake Facebook page, which is make it look like that person is spewing ridiculous insults toward everyone at the school (though we also might have opted for the old standby, the "I can prove Hitler was right" status update). All of the kids involved wound up charged with identity theft. The victim of the prank got harassed at school over it, then somebody complained to the police, and the Internet service provider was more than happy to help them track down the kids and that was that. (Hint: You're basically never anonymous online.)
No matter what mask you wear.
In Georgia, another kid got arrested and charged with criminal defamation for pulling the same prank. He got the stiffer charges because instead of posting wacky insults, he basically made it look like the victim was confessing to a crime. Turns out that's a big deal.
And of course in both cases there were young victims there, so you can see the cops stepping in to protect a kid. But then you have this Canadian student who set up a fake Facebook page assuming the role of one of his teachers. You know, the kind of smirking prank Ferris "hacked into the school computer to change his records" Bueller would have pulled off if Facebook had existed in 1986. Only this student got charged with personation, defined under Canadian law as impersonation with criminal intent (similar to identity theft in the U.S.).
The punishment, as with all infractions of Canadian law, is impalement by Mounties.
But of course all of this is skipping over the most famous example. Remember the "Star Wars Kid" meme? When teenager Ghyslain Raza filmed himself with a golf ball retriever pole, swinging it around like Darth Maul? He didn't upload it himself -- he just left the tape in the basement, where it was found by some kids who uploaded to every video hosting site they could find. It became the most widespread viral video in Internet history. The part of that story you might not know is that the kids who uploaded it wound up probably paying enough money to buy Star Wars Kid a house.
It turns out Raza had to drop out of school because of the constant harassment and undergo psychiatric treatment.
"I'll jam this right into your goddamn eye. Don't fuck with me."
His parents filed a $250,000 lawsuit against the families of the four boys who uploaded the video. It was settled out of court, and we'll never know how much they had to pay. But we know it was enough to make it worth it to the family to not go for the quarter-million. And we're going to take a wild guess and say it's way, way more than a bunch of teenagers thought they'd have to pay for making the school nerd look stupid.
#4. Nude Photo Shenanigans
If you can't use Photoshop to crop your friend's head onto a naked person's body, then we're not sure what Photoshop is for. Hell, somebody sticking the head of the boss onto a porn star's body was the basis of a whole episode of The Office (the British version).
The American version actually has someone who looks like a porn star.
For all we know, that episode may have been what inspired a guy named Osa Bezue to take the driver's license photos of at least two female coworkers and photoshop their heads onto naked Internet women. He uploaded them to the internet and bam -- jail. Yeah, it turns out that's considered cyber stalking. Oh, and by the way, he was also a cop, so he gets the added charge of "malfeasance while in office."
OK, so what about real naked photos? You know, like how the good guys in Revenge of the Nerds planted cameras in the sorority house and later sold topless pics of the hottest girl? That can't be a big deal, right? Maybe I just hang out with the wrong crowd, but almost everyone I know has had a nude photo taken of them at least once in their lives. Actually, maybe that makes them the right crowd. And I'd be shocked if my dick isn't on the Internet somewhere. You know, like in the background at a party or something.
Screw FIOS. Patron is the fastest road to the Internet.
But if so, the uploader could be looking at jail time. Ask Marcus Bustos, who posted nude photos of his ex-girlfriend and wound up being brought up on the same cyber stalking charges, coupled with intimidation.
Yeah, but what if the girl posts photos of herself? Isn't that what webcams are for? You know, like this high school student, who sent out pics of herself to dudes she met in chatrooms.
Yeah, that's child porn. She was 15, and if you're thinking it was the dudes who got busted for possessing the illicit material, you're wrong -- she got charged for distributing it. Since she was underage when she took those pictures, she was charged with sexual abuse of children and dissemination of child pornography. And since her computer contained those pictures of herself ... possession of child pornography. Even though the child in question was her. Doesn't matter.
Justice is blind. And also retarded.
Google shows hundreds upon hundreds of these exact cases where teens do the sort of thing teens do, unaware that they're committing a felony in the process. The same can be said for ...
#3. Boasting About How Much Weed You Smoke, Dude
By my count, approximately 97 percent of the world's online gaming profiles reference weed in the username or avatar. Millions upon millions of forum profiles do the same, and people talk and joke so openly about how they totally smoke weed every day that it's actually pretty easy to forget that the shit is still illegal.
Above: The video game industry's secret fuel.
For instance, we have Rajneel Kumar who, along with millions and millions of others, posted pretty consistently on his MySpace page about his smoking and growing of marijuana. The problem is that he lived about a block away from an elementary school, and some people who didn't like that idea turned him in.
When the police raided his home, they found half a pound of weed, along with the bonus of two ounces of meth and shitloads of paraphernalia.
That's actually his beard.
Well ... he did live close to a school. We suppose we can see how parents wouldn't want their kids getting a contact high from ... uh, walking past his house or whatever. But then you have this guy, who was growing a single hemp plant and documenting its stages in videos that he uploaded to YouTube. Police collected the videos, which gave them more than enough evidence to raid his home and confiscate not only the plant but all of his hydroponics equipment. Luckily, he got off with a warning, which is why his name wasn't released by the police department.
We can't say the same for Rachel Stieringer. She took a picture of her baby looking like it was smoking (an empty) bong. You know, as a joke. She posted it on Facebook, then was immediately arrested on drug charges and became the subject of a Department of Children and Families investigation, which could lead to her losing her child. Not to mention the fact that any future employer who does a quick Google search of her name gets page after page of that story.
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Next month I'll visit Thailand and (maybe) Malaysia. From 19th july to 20th august muslim countries celebrate the ramadan. When we were in Egypt, we didn't perceive that we were in ramadan, but in Dubai we had a lot of problems to eat or drink. So I would like to know which limitations or how easy-difficult is to eat and drink during ramadan in Thailand and Malaysia.
In Thailand, it depends on where you'll be going. Anywhere from Bangkok northwards, you won't notice anything in relation to Ramadan. There's a significant muslim presence in the south of Thailand (the sliver of land that borders Malaysia), but I don't know to what extent Ramadan celebrations there spill over into public life.
Malaysia is religiously tolerant, simply because there are so many different communities in that country. So, in the big cities, you might find areas where Ramadan celebrations are hard to avoid, while there will be others where life will go on as usual. Small towns could be markedly different, but I have no info on that, sadly.
Having been to both during Ramadan:
In all reasonably touristy areas in Thailand, including the southern resort islands, you basically will not notice Ramadan at all -- pretty much everything is open as usual.
Malaysia, though, is a different story. While you certainly can get drinks and food, most places that stay open do so a little discreetly, with curtains on the windows etc, and you'll want to show respect to people who are fasting by not eating, drinking or smoking in public. The flip side of the coin is that once the time for buka puasa (breaking the fast) rolls around at sunset, many restaurants will be packed with Muslims, so you may actually want to beat the rush and grab your dinner before 6! Out in the nearly 100% Malay countryside, though, virtually everything will shut down during the day.
(Anecdote: I once had the slightly surreal experience of walking into a packed KFC in KL Sentral, getting my dinner and sitting down -- only to realize that nobody in the restaurant was touching their food. So I took the cue, waited for a few minutes until the call to prayer started, and then joined the ravenous horde in tucking into my fried chicken.)
The other travel glitch to beware of is that the end of Ramadan (Eid ul-Fitr, or Hari Raya Puasa in Malay) is the local equivalent of Christmas, when everybody takes time off and goes back to their families. This means most transportation is fully booked for several days and even the traffic jams are legendary. Plan ahead so you can avoid travel at this time.
Thailand is over 80% Theravada Buddhist. I have lived here for years and the average Thai would not even know what Ramadam is - or at least would not think it concers them in any way. There are pockets of Muslims communities around Thailand.
In CM there is a fair sized community, they will honour Ramadam tradition, but are not at all extreame - so again, even if you stayed in the middle of their community you would not notice much (maybe a lack of food carts that day, but plenty around the corner!)
In the south, especially very far south around Yala, Narathiwat, Songkhla and Satun, the Muslims are known to be more extreame in their views (Malaysian) - but it is very doubtful you will be holidaying anywhere near these areas (if so Ramadam would be the least of your worried - not getting blown to pieces at the local 7-11 would be higher on the list!)


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I'm curious whether any self-hosted password managers other than the Clipperz community edn exist? I'm currently using it, but it is crude, unfinished (from a UI/performance perspective), and appears to be unmaintained.
I'm not interested in any desktop or mobile application alternatives.
Update 2011-06-08: I found an alternative called PasswordBolt that I'm currently investigating.


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Experimental rock band Thinking Plague will be traveling to Olympia later this month for the 19th Annual Experimental Music festival. Richard Sinclair, host of Dancing in Circles, recently chatted with the band's co-founder, Mike Johnson. You can hear the interview on Tuesday, June 25, 9 – 11 PM PST.
The Olympia Experimental Music Festival is June 28-30 at Northern, 414 1/2 Legion Way.


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Ashish Singru
Senior Manager, Integrated Communications Insights & Analytics, Central Marketing Group
Is marketing more art or science? For insight on this debate, talk to Ashish Singru (MBA 1996).
As the person at Microsoft in charge of making sure that analysis-backed customer insights drive strategic marketing decisions at the world's largest software provider, he couldn't agree more about the increasing power of "science" in the marketing equation.
Relying on more than 12 years of experience in marketing strategy, insights, and analytics, Ashish is currently pioneering work within Microsoft on designing a customer data analytics strategy that integrates diverse data sources for marketing campaigns—both offline and online, attitudinal and behavioral—and analyzes them via rigorous statistical analysis to improve holistic understanding of ROI from marketing efforts.
His work in these areas has helped Microsoft optimize its marketing communication resources to deliver customer engagement on complex cross-media campaigns for both its commercial and consumer products (Office and Windows).
"Here, we got closer to demonstrating the impact of advertising on revenue and profits. Anyone who has ever managed a marketing budget will likely agree this is both important and very difficult to do."
At that time, event marketing was becoming utilized and Ashish was able to connect analysis to inform decisions about and improve the return on promotional events.
"It's also very rewarding because I get to work on a lot of products that really touch people's lives in a very international arena."
How has Tippie helped Ashish?
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Ashish also credits the team-based project work that is the cornerstone of the Tippie experience.
"The real world is very team-oriented. I'm constantly working with people from different backgrounds and skill sets. My time at Tippie, from a soft-skill perspective, was very good preparation."
Lastly, Ashish values the strength of the Tippie faculty.
"They did a good job of teaching us the basics of what are the main things to keep in mind when developing strategy and programs."
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MB & OD: an apt comparison? UPDATE
This morning reading a short report on the demonstrations in Egypt, I came across this description of the Muslim Brotherhood written by Stephen Cook at Foreign Affairs: "The Brothers, like the Free Officers who came to power in 1952 and produced Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and Mubarak, are what the Yale anthropologist James Scott calls "high modernists." High modernism, which places a premium on scientific knowledge and elites with special skills, is inherently authoritarian. It might seem a strange designation for the Brotherhood, since most observers think of it as a religious movement. But in reality, the group has used religion to advance a political agenda. To suggest that the organization's leaders are dilettantes when it comes to Islam would be an overstatement, but the majority of them are first and foremost doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, and engineers. They think of themselves as a vanguard that is uniquely qualified to rebuild Egypt and realize its seemingly endless quest for modernization...."The description reminded me of Opus Dei under the Franco regime after World War II, that is, professionals and technocrats with strong religious convictions and a mission to modernize Spain.Is this an apt comparison?UPDATE: For those interested in the current situation in Egypt, here is a detailed but relatively brief account of the major players and their strategies. "The Brother and the Others." May sound familiar to students of the French Revolution. No mention of OD!
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While I'm not qualified to comment on the aptness of the comparison, I just want to note that the description here of the Muslim Brotherhood is quite different form that impression I've absorbed thus far, which is more along the lines of the Muslim Brotherhood as Islamists with a tinge (or more than a tinge) of extremism. Educated elites were not part of my mental picture. Sounds like it's time to reset some preconceptions.
Morsi himself has an engineering degree from someplace in the U.S.--Cal Tech??? Wiki: Ph.D in materials science from USC and taught at California State (Northridge) before returning to Egypt where we was chair of the engineering dept. at Zigazag University until 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Morsi#Early_life_and_educationPresu... not everyone in the MB has a Ph.D.
There certainly seems to be a high technology type. The Nazis also were totally authoritarians and valued science/technology enormously. Remember their race to develop the a-bomb and their rockets.But I don't think that support for science for its own sake is the same as the appreciation of technology. Einstein was no von Braun, and von Braun was no Einstein, however practical vonBraun's rockets were. I wonder which group the Spanish ODers belonged to -- science or technology lovers. Their new OD universities aren't known for their strength in either, are they?Bit of a detour: take a look at this map of where the hundreds (thousands?) of German rockets hit London during WW II. Makes Tel Aviv look like Disneyland.http://www.thedailybeast.com/davidfrum.html
Opus Dei, Rockefeller Republicans, and Kiwanis lunch eaters ? FOX News ,please copy this. .
Ed --From what I've read of the ODers, they wouldn't be caught dead at a Kiwanis lunch. Lunch with the Rockefellers themselves, yes. Those guys are interested in real power. Like the Papacy.
Comparing the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt and Opus Dei of Franco's Spain seems pretty apt to me, although I wouldn't characterize OD leaders as "dilettantes" when it comes to Catholicism. "Authoritarian," on the other hand, would fit both. Considering the inherent differences between the way Islam and Catholicism are lived these days, I suppose it would be more likely for a leader of political Islam to be less educated religiously than his Catholic counterpart.
Margaret.. I still say ODers are Kiwanis lunch eaters with over blown expectations. I've met both groups.
Does anyone know if Bp. Finn of tainted OD persona was an** habitue of Kiwanis lunches" Lots of good, conservative Catholics love those kinds of groups.** is that correct: "an" habitue? I have always heard it that way.
My idea of OD and Spain, I now remember, comes from Jose Casanova's book, Public Religions in the Modern World. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks... interestingly, he has written about the process of modernization that Islam must face up to and compares it to the Catholic process in the 19th and 20th century, though I don't remember that he makes a specific reference to OD.
Jim McC. =="Habitue'" is a French word, and in French the "h" would not be pronounced. Hence the "an habitue'"..
"From what Ive read of the ODers..."Ann, have you read this, by John L. Allen?http://www.amazon.com/Opus-Dei-Objective-Controversial-Catholic/dp/03855... may help round out your reading on OD.
Mark P. --No, I haven't read the book. But I've read columns about it by him. Yes, he does admit the virtues of some in the organization, but he also sees the weaknesses. I even wrote to him once about it. It was commonly thought that he was pro-OD because his wife was a member of the organization. I found this very odd, and wrote to ask him about it. He replied in rather a huff that the rumor was totally unfounded, and that it was a particularly silly rumor because his wife is, in fact, Jewish.
Ann--Yes, he touches upon that in the intro to the book. The fact that such a ridiculous, slanderous and, oh, by the way, completely false accusation was once "commonly thought" to be true is just one more example that, in certain quarters, OD brings out the irrational.Heck, I hear some people have even wondered if they are comparable to the Muslim Brotherhood. The mind boggles...
MP: Really!!! The question is whether the MB in its "modernizing" mode bears some resemblance to OD in post-WWII Spain and its efforts to modernize the Spanish economy. Don't let your mind boggle, it's bad for the brain-a bit like shaken baby syndrome.
Ann,I understand John Allen in his book on OD covers the self-flagellation issue as akin to a gym workout. Is that accurate? If memory serves, Paul Baumann alluded once to that in a side reference on dotC. Maybe not, but I have little trust in OD as they once tried secretly to recruit my eighth grade daughter. It was a scary close call. I find it anything but an innocent religious organization.A cult is more like it, with even separate entrances and exits for men and women.
MS--Got it--in comparing the Opus Dei to the Muslim Brotherhood, you meant it as a compliment to the Opus Dei.
The group sometimes gives "unprecedented access" to various high-profile Catholics who then report on it. Better to do your own research, imho. Lots of material available. Here are some leads from Google. (The third one down, a 1995 article from America by James Martin, S.J., is interesting, imho.) http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=opus+dei+campus+recruiting... (What is the point of comparing the Muslim group to the Escriva group?)Anyone interested in The Da Vinci Code should take a look at Wordcrime: Solving Crime Through Forensic Linguistics, by John Olsson, Continuum, 2012. See Chapter 4, "Is The Da Vinci Code Plagiarism?" http://www.amazon.com/Wordcrime-Solving-Through-Forensic-Linguistics/dp/...
Point of comparing: Jim Pauwels gave one good reason: "I just want to note that the description here of the Muslim Brotherhood is quite different form that impression Ive absorbed thus far, which is more along the lines of the Muslim Brotherhood as Islamists with a tinge (or more than a tinge) of extremism. Educated elites were not part of my mental picture. Sounds like its time to reset some preconceptions."Resetting our preconceptions. Educated elites play important roles in modernizing their societies, whether or not they turn out to be fascists, communists, or liberals. No reason not to be better informed.... Thank you Jim!
Carolyn --I agree with your summary of OD. From what I've read of it, and from what I learned from a former member, it is extremely underhanded, which is enough to put me off it immediately. It is also extremely authoritarian, with the Spanish brand being particularly so. No adult should give up s much self-determination as the ODers do. I think it's sick.However, though it is generally a creepy group, I don't doubt that there are many sincere people in it. Hopefully the reorganization will make it change its loathesome ways, but that remains to be seen.I also particularly dislike its emphasis on having lots of money. Granted, money can be used for great good, but ODers seem to like *using* it too much. That, it seems to me, would be very dangerous to one's spiritual good.
Margaret, I see what you and Jim are saying. (I think.) You regard the Muslim Brotherhood and the Escriva group as having a POSITIVE influence on the countries (and religions) where they achieve the highest offices (Presidency, Supreme Court, Papacy, e.g.). (Even if "they turn out to be fascists," etc.)Have to disagree. (Commonweal's defense/celebration of such groups shocks me.)
Gerelyn, your persistent misreading of what is said here strikes me as truly pathetic for someone who presents him/herself as an educated person.We don't know that it's positive in Egypt. As I suspect Jim P was suggesting (I don't want to put words in his mouth), that the conventional American view of the Muslim Brotherhood is that they are maniac terrorists; they are not alQueda, and as far as I know they are not Salafis. In the context of facist Spain, is it possible that OD was a moderating and modernizing force. Whatever it may have become in more recent times.... Just as I suspect the MB are not the Wahabis of our "ally," Saudi Arabia, who are after all the breeding ground of al Queda.
John Allen has consistently been in denial about his wife's association with OD. He admitted that they were wooing her. She does not have to be Catholic as OD sought to get to Allen through her. There is no other explanation for his favorite treatment of OD. After critics started to call him on this, Allen used the "She is Jewish" language to thwart criticism as if observers would dumbly accept his response. Another factor often overlooked is Ratzinger's wooing of Allen. Which I believe was quite succesfull as Allen began to almost idolize the great enforcer. Ratzinger rewarded Allen with the "scoop" on his selection as pope before anyone else knew it. Tom Fox the NCR publisher gloated over this. I wrote to Fox that this scoop was gotten at the price of journalistic integrity. Allen's shift to the right has enriched him in many ways as he has an immense access to the speaker vault in conservative circles. The lavish praise George Weigel pours on Allen is telling. John Allen, contrary to his earlier professional life, is not regarded well in progressive Catholic circles.
I dont know the makeup of the Muslim Brotherhood, but its slate of candidates could not have achieved the success it did without support from the vast, very tradition-minded Egyptian peasantry. And its hard to imagine it being a modernizing force in the economy, education or culture unless it promotes increased female access to education and careers, emphasizes secular over religious education and promotes freedom of thought. Is it known for any of these things? What exactly are the policies that it advocates that it is hoped will result in modernization? To say it is better than al Qaeda is damning with faint praise, and if it does govern as a fascist political party, I would think thats all we would need to know to conclude its going to be plenty negative for Egypt, even if it makes the trains run on time.
Bill--You seem to know Mrs. Allen better than Mr. Allen knows her.
Mark--I am certainly working with more facts than you are. How are your market forces working for you?
Bill--I'm curious, how would you know, for a fact, that "John Allen has consistently been in denial about his wifes association with OD"?
Gerelyn, your persistent misreading of what is said here strikes me as truly pathetic for someone who presents him/herself as an educated person.Puerile. (Puellarile?)In the context of facist Spain, is it possible that OD was a moderating and modernizing force. I repeat my suggestion that anyone unfamiliar with the organization do his/her own research. (Don't rely on those susceptible to the blandishments of those skilled at blandishment.)
Curious is ok, Mark. But call me when you are serious.
Normally, Bill, dodges are a bit more artful.
The Muslim Brotherhood's grab for power and attempt to enact an Islamist constitution is having adverse consequences on Egypt's economy. Notwithstanding the economy's weakness -- some say it is on the verge of collapse -- Egypt has asked the IMF to postpone a loan of $4.8 billion because all the unrest has prevented it from enacting economic reforms to which it agreed as a condition of the loan.


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This is a follow-up to this question (in fact, this is what originally motivated me to ask that one.)
Let's say that a sequence $\{s_i\}$ of positive reals covers a set $X\subset\mathbb R$ if there is a collection if intervals $\{I_i\}$ such that $X\subset\bigcup I_i$ and the length of each $I_i$ equals $s_i$.
Does there exist a sequence $\{s_i\}$ such that $\sum s_i<\infty$ and $\{s_i\}$ covers any set of Lebesgue measure zero?
For example, simple things like geometric progressions do not work: they cannot cover a union of infinitely many copies of a compact set of positive Hausdorff dimension, separated by a distance at least $\max_i \{s_i\}$ from one another.
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I cannot reduce the screen brightness in Ubuntu 13.04, my device is an Acer Aspire 5742. Ubuntu systems settings says the graphics driver is "Intel® Ironlake Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2" but my laptop comes with "Intel HD Graphics". So I assume it's a problem with my graphic drivers. It would be great if some one could tell me how to uninstall my current driver and install the correct one. Thank you.
Try to press Fn and the right or left arrow keys.
Installing graphics driver for Intel has become so easy.. You can use Intel Linux Graphics Installer to install/update your currentt graphics driver. After installation it will automatically scans your graphics device and install/update as needed.
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8. The Live And Let Die Alligator WalkIt takes a lot of chutzpah to create a fictional character that is capable of walking on water. It's just so improbable, right? Well -- in our literary experience -- there are a few ways it can happen, but only one of them relates to the think-fast/quick-on-your-feet/holy-sh*t-those-are-alligators ingenuity that is 007's hallmark.
If you don't agree that making the decision to literally walk across a river of alligators (and having the skill and timing to do it!) takes some mental horsepower, then we're just going to end this right now. We're obviously not on the same page. These were alligators. Alligators.


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The 6 Most Horrifying Ways Anyone Ever Got Rich
#3. The People of Vernon, Florida Mutilate Themselves for Profit
Why did more than two-thirds of all loss-of-limb accident claims in the United States in the late '50s and early '60s come from the Florida Panhandle? Well, in the words of John J. Healy, insurance investigator, "Vernon's second-largest occupation was watching hound dogs mating in the town square, its largest was self-mutilation for monetary gain."
Yep, the good townsfolk of Vernon were deliberately maiming themselves in order to claim insurance policies they'd taken out on their limbs. Nearly 50 people in Vernon (population 780) had some kind of horrific "accident".
L.W. Burdeshaw, an insurance agent, told the St. Petersburg Times in 1982 that his list of policyholders included a man who sawed off his left hand at work, a man who shot off his foot while protecting chickens, a man who lost his hand while supposedly trying to shoot a hawk, a man who somehow lost two limbs in an accident involving a rifle and a tractor, and a man who bought a policy and then, less than 12 hours later, shot off his foot while aiming at a squirrel.
Insurance agents, probably disillusioned by the whole Belle Gunness affair, were a little suspicious. Cutting your hand at work may be possible. Sawing off your entire hand at work really takes some amount of sustained effort. But that the kind of can-do attitude that marks the people of Vernon (besides a disturbing lack of symmetry).
These people either had enormous balls, or they really, really needed the fucking money.
How Much Did They Make?
No one in the town was ever convicted of fraud, and it's not easy to find out just how much they got away with. What we know is that one farmer took out policies with 38 different companies before, in some no doubt comical accident, he lost his left foot.
Luckily, the particular day of the "accident" he happened to be driving his wife's automatic, since if he'd been driving his own stick shift he would have needed the left foot to use the clutch. He also happened to have a tourniquet in his pocket (in case of snake bites, he insisted). He could be telling the truth, right?
For snakes?
Well, it turned out he'd taken out so much insurance that he was paying premiums that cost more than his total income. He collected more than $1 million from all the companies.
The insurance companies fought it but conceded, "it was hard to make a jury believe a man would shoot off his own foot." Proof once again that there is good money to be made by being just a little crazier than the world thinks possible.
#2. H.H. Holmes
You know what makes a bad combination? Medical degrees and murderous insanity.
And so we have H.H. Holmes, who graduated in medicine from the University of Michigan in 1884. He was a likable man, handsome, friendly and charming. In the late 1880s, to seek his fortune, he moved to Chicago and took a job in a pharmacy. A nice man all around, you might think. But only if you were retarded and completely skipped the rest of this article.
By 1888 Holmes had murdered his boss and stolen her drugstore (telling friends she was "in California"). The key to a good business, though, is expansion, so he bought up a vacant lot on the other side of the street and built a large hotel.
Well, it wasn't really a "hotel," except in the sense the Hotel California was a hotel. You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave. Except you can't check out. Because you're dead. Or slowly suffocating in an airtight vault, or being stretched on a rack in the basement that Holmes used to see how far the human body could stretch (Answer: not that far).
In retrospect, it's nothing like Hotel California.
And that's just the basement. The building was designed to Holmes' specific instructions to create a labyrinth with secret chambers, trap doors, sliding walls, hidden laboratories and torture rooms. We'd think the contractors would have asked a few questions, but some people don't like to pry.
But Holmes didn't design all that just for fun. Like everyone on this list, he was a businessman. Once a guest at the hotel had been killed, Holmes would take them to the basement, strip them of their flesh, craft them into skeleton models and then sell them to medical schools.
Holmes left his hotel after 1893 due to a lack of guests, possibly because the Chicago World's Fair had ended, possibly because he'd killed everyone in Chicago. He then moved to Philadelphia and promptly murdered his business partner, to collect on a $10,000 insurance policy.
Actually, "Murdered," isn't really descriptive enough. We'll let Holmes himself tell you about it:
"I proceeded to burn him alive by saturating his clothing and his face with benzene and igniting it with a match. So horrible was this torture that in writing of it I have been tempted to attribute his death to some humane means-not with a wish to spare myself, but because I fear that it will not be believed that one could be so heartless and depraved."
Holmes then went on the run, taking with him, for some reason, Pitezel's three children. Guess what happened to them?
Holmes was arrested for the murder of Pitezel and his three children, and hanged. The only official number of victims is 27, though it's thought the real number is a lot higher, probably around the death toll of a Michael Bay film.
How Much Did He Make?
The reason it's so hard to pin down the number of Holmes' victims is because he was a pathological liar, on top of everything else. So who knows how much cash he collected from his carnival of horrors. What we do know is that he kept turning a profit right up until the end, when he sold his confession to the Philadelphia Inquirer for $10,000.
#1. Dr Marcel Petiot, The Anti-Schindler
It's January 1942, Nazi occupied France. There is a small time con man named Dr. Marcel Petiot, who moved to Paris and set up a medical practice, claiming to have been an intern at a mental hospital. That was pretty close to the truth. He had been a patient there.
Thanks to his well-rounded experience of having seen a mental health facility from both sides of a straight jacket, Petiot spent his time selling addictive narcotics and conducting the occasional illegal abortion. When World War 2 and the Holocaust came along, Petiot saw his opportunity to make some extra cash on the side.
The Nazis were on the hunt for Jews to send off to concentration camps. Petiot put out word that he'd help fugitive Jews escape from the country, for a fee of 25,000 Francs per person. We know what you're thinking. Sure, the guy charged an arm and a leg. But in the end, he was doing good, right? He was lining his pockets, but saving lives at the same time!
Where did he get all those suitcases?
You might want to stop reading now, so you can keep believing that.
When customers came to Petiot, he told them that in order to enter Argentina (their alleged destination) they had to be inoculated. He would stick them with a needle and...
On March 6, 1944, the police arrived at Petiot's burning three story house. Once inside, they found a large heap of quicklime mixed with human remains. There was a pit dug in the stable, full of quicklime and corpses in various stages of decomposition. They found basement sinks large enough for draining corpses and a soundproof octagonal chamber with wall-mounted shackles and a peephole in its door. On the staircase leading to the basement, police found a sack containing a headless corpse, missing its organs.
Petiot was later arrested and during the trial, maintained that the whole thing was a big, wacky misunderstanding. They didn't buy it, and Petiot was beheaded.
How Much Did He Make?
Petiot not only would collect on his huge fee, but would take all of the victim's possessions (they were fugitives, so would come to him with all of their life savings on them). Authorities say Petiot's haul ran up to--holy shit--200 million Francs.
The lesson? Crime doesn't pay, but apparently unfathomably dark, monstrous evil pays quite well.
If you're ready for something totally different from that, to restore your faith in mankind, check out Third Reich to Fortune 500: Five Popular Brands the Nazis Gave Us.


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verb; Jutting out the lower jaw when tipping up a bottle at a club or bar as to not lose eye contact. Comes from the term "bottoms up." This creates the look of a bulldog.
he was bulldogging that bottle
He bulldogged like a champ
He bulldogged like a champ
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Well, for those of you that are familiar with rodeo you know what that means. It's when one peson jumps off a horse and grabs the steers horns and tries to get all the steers legs off the ground for a spit decond, and it goes a little like this: There are two horses and a steer. One rider and horse on each side of the steer, the rider on the right is to keep the steer running in a straight line, the rider on the left will just off their horse and grab the steers horns and as quickly as possible try to get all four of the steers legs off the ground for a split second, and it's a hell of allota fun.
Cowboy up you pussy lets do some bulldogging, that steer ain't gonna hurt ya.
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Losing total control of your bowels via diarrhea and vomiting at the same time.
You should have seen my bathroom after that broad left, she totally bull dogged the whole place. I needed a HAZMAT suit to clean up. Bulldogging is not a sexy thang.
by Kid Stardust November 24, 2008
When a male tucks his genitalia between his legs while nude and bends over, giving the appearance of a bulldog from the rear.
Guy 1: Man, I can't remember much of last night.
Guy 2: You were pretty wasted. You downed a bottle of vodka and then you started bulldogging my in-laws.
Guy1: Sorry son.
Guy 2: You were pretty wasted. You downed a bottle of vodka and then you started bulldogging my in-laws.
Guy1: Sorry son.
by nma12345 July 15, 2010
to sprint full speed into someones garage door at night like ding dong ditching but louder more and people freak out when it happens.
I just went bulldogging and bulldogged the shit out of that dudes house there's a fucking dent in his garage door and his outside lights broken.
by Kingfozz October 22, 2011
When having sex with a chick, you cum around her pussy, but not in it, and then eat her out, and when you're done, you look like a mad bulldog.
"shit, i was bulldogging this bitch for like five hours last night, and it took two hours to wipe the shit off my face
by Pgess November 25, 2006
Punking, Bowss, Being better.
aye man, remember when i punked this kid after i beat him in his own game... Straight Bulldogging.
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"Classicism is enduring because it is impersonal"What did Balanchine mean?
Posted 05 June 2008 - 05:18 PM
Okay. I thought I know what he meant. Then I thought again ... and wasn't sure.
What WAS Balanchine trying to say? Does anyone know the context in which he said it? Why would NYCB turn this dictum into an epigraph -- or defining principle? -- for their current program?
Edited to add: They must keep changing the epigraph. I just went back to re-check the wording and something entirely different was in its place.
Posted 05 June 2008 - 07:06 PM
Posted 05 June 2008 - 07:38 PM
Personality, if it was Martha Graham's, lasted as well. All you have to do is see her company 10 years after her death. These kinds of delimitings are necessary to produce a domain that sets itself off and they are concerned with matters of value and taste more than any kind of truth that would really be inclusive enough to apply to more than what is within the domain itself.
Also, worth is not purely determined by its enduring properties, because many things could be said to have endured, but not nearly as long as much more longer-lasting things. Fo example, Homer is not necessarily greater than Beethoven, but it thus far is far more enduring. I don't know if one terms Homer 'classical' in the same sense as Haydn and Mozart.
Posted 05 June 2008 - 07:55 PM
Interesting that the epigraphs change -- I can't help but thinking that that would be quite a chore!
Posted 05 June 2008 - 08:03 PM
I think the key distinction in what I quoted of Kirstein is illumination vs. imposition. One learns the language, and then it's not that one's personality doesn't come through in speaking that language, it's that it each personality shows us the beauty of that language in its individual way. I think of Balanchine telling Darci Kistler not to act. She didn't have to act like a swan queen, she just had to dance the swan queen's steps and she'd be one, one like had never quite been seen before. In passing on the steps, he gave her a way to illuminate her individuality.
Is Balanchine's own personality invisible in his works when performed most reverently? Of course not. You see it. If his isn't, it's unrealistic to say that the performer's would be either.
Posted 06 June 2008 - 07:08 AM
Posted 06 June 2008 - 07:57 AM
Balanchine often referred to his dancers as angels, by which he did not mean lovely, ethereal creatures, but messengers of the divine. "I know God because I can see the face of Christ," he once said, and he saw his dancers, in one important way at least, as able to be the physical manifestation of that divinity. The most physical of the arts to Balanchine could be the powerful road to the world that "is not here." Through his choreography, rooted, almost monastically, in the discipline of classical dancing, his 'angels' could become the messengers of transcendence. "La dance, c'est une question morale" whose beauty is itself an enduring message, but it can't be delivered by vessels that are so full of themselves they crowd out the transcendence. In order to be filled with light, the vessel must empty itself and submit. Only in that way does the dancer become completely him/her self, the religious paradox that might explain why artists who made themselves as impersonal as they could had some of the strongest, most individual personalities ever seen on a dance stage. I really don't think one can make the statement, however it was put into words, into a logical, rational critical belief without doing violence to Balanchine's often-expressed religious passions.
Posted 06 June 2008 - 08:00 AM
. The modern dancers, back in the day, almost always started their careers with solos while working out their theory. What was dance? Contraction and release? Fall and recovery? Classicism doesn't have those theories. Not saying either is right or wrong, good or bad, but it's a big divide in Western art.
Interesting that the epigraphs change -- I can't help but thinking that that would be quite a chore!
Yes, and it's now too late for me to go back and change my first sentence--obviously I do take such remarks seriously, just not literally, for the reasons outlined. They are important and serious because they demarcate and protect, but the 'endure' part is not literal in either the sense that nothing else endured in quite the same way (enduring is enough in itself, and this other styles and sensibilities did also last), and also that the 'impersonality' may not be the only reason why classicism does endure. I had mentioned the aim toward being godlike, and this is inevitable; it is peculiarly human to strive for--and achieve--the godlike. But there is always the less advantageous side to the 'impersonal eternal' of the gods, which is what the Ring Cycle is all about, with Wotan at the center of the decision-making process, having built Valhalla on corrupt 'funding', having to defer to Fricka because her defense of marriage is stronger than the products of his lechery and adultery, viz., the Volsung Siegmund; followed by Brunnhilde's inability, even as instrument of his will, to carry it out when it comes to destroying all love just because 'Fricka is right' about the uncleanness of Siegmund's and Sieglinde's incest, i.e., she won't kill Siegmund just because it worked within the laws of the all-too-human greedy gods. It is interesting that this towering epic, much like the Bible in its ambitions, has at its core the limitations of gold.
So that the divide is always there, as you point out, and it needs to be. And those on either side of the divide must cultivate their art by opposing the other side--this is not a matter of fairness and being democratic about someone else's work when you are in the hot places of actually creating it. What occurred to me when kfw first brought up Balanchine/Kirstein and Graham was ways this divide has presented itself in music in the 20th century, not yet far back enough in time for it to seem as clear as when we look all the way back to the 19th century. When the high modernists like Boulez and Stockhausen were at their hottest, their evolution from the Viennese School seemed to be the only thing worth talking about in the 50s and 60s, it was the vanguard. I've recently been getting familiar with large amounts of Britten and Michael Tippett and, when I hear it with no received wisdom (or have minimized it as much as possible), I cannot find it to be less important music. But these great British composers were not using the techniques of the high serial composers, it went along in its own mostly separate tradition. By contrast, some of it like Britten's 'Spring Symphony' and Tippett's 'Midsummer Marriage' and Piano Concerto, are very romantic by comparison to the severe and impersonal serialism in Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maitre as well as all of his piano sonatas. I've even played the Second Sonata of Boulez in public. But even that familiarity was as nothing to when I heard Tippett's concerto: There was a cerebral excitement to the more severe music, but it is never enough to sustain one. When I worked on the Boulez, I enjoyed only playing it, but I never wanted to listen to it; but in the last 3 weeks I've listened to the Tippett concerto perhaps 12 times....these are just some related thoughts about the dialectic of personal/impersonal, classical/romantic.
given that Balanchine's style is very personal and not at all codified. It has an extremely thick "accent," to use his expression.
Definitely agree with Hans on this, which again bolsters my contention that statements like this are not so much literal, but are very important for buttressing and fortifying the battlements of a school.
Posted 06 June 2008 - 09:11 AM
Hans, given that SAB does have a syllabus and that there is such a thing as Balanchine technique, I don't understand what you mean when you say his style isn't codified. Yes Balanchine is "neo-classical," but then there is his retort upon first returning to Russia that "the home of classic ballet is now America."
I wonder if Kirstein actually had Balanchine in mind when he expressed that opinion, given that Balanchine's style is very personal and not at all codified. It has an extremely thick "accent," to use his expression.
Posted 06 June 2008 - 09:29 AM
[ Yes Balanchine is "neo-classical," but then there is his retort upon first returning to Russia that "the home of classic ballet is now America."
I think most of Balanchine's quotes, varied and many, are about his own work. Surely this 'home of classic ballet now in Ameica' is his work being talked about. Similarly, nad more egregiously (because the previous may have been the case for a period of decades anyway), when he talks about 'between Lehar and Beethoven, I prefer Lehar, he is more interesting, less boring', he is talking about how Lehar is more suitable for his purposes as a choreographer. Only the most die-hard fans, with little interest in musical content as a thing in itself, would take it as a serious criticism of Beethoven. In fact, the more I hear of some of his quips, the less impressed I am--his wisdom displays itself considerably more in his metier, which is not letters. And this remark about America as home to classical ballet would not resonate very much based on the Peter Martins NYCB--especially for those of us who just saw the Kirov, nevermind that we saw it in America.
Posted 06 June 2008 - 11:43 AM
Patrick first post raises an important point. Discussion of ballet aesthetics does seem to lack a clear, defined, and universally shared vocabulary. That means we often get into trouble because we use important terms differently. "Style," "language" (or "idiom"), etc., are especially difficult in this regard.
On another aspect of the topic, I just Googled the entire sentence and came up with an answer to the question about its origins. Anna Kissselgoff, discussing New York City Ballet's 50th Anniversary in 1998, wrote in the NY Times:
Given Balanchine's limited grasp of English at the time -- and his dependency, really, on Lincoln Kirstein as his guide to what was literally a New World -- it does indeed seem likely that Kirstein may have chosen the words that froze Balanchine's phlosophy into a brief epigram that strikes me as being intentionally provocative and sybilline.
It is worth recalling again the words Balanchine uttered upon his arirval from Europe to settle in New York. "Classiscism is enduring because it is impersonal," he told the British critic Arnold Haskell in 1933.
He Kisselgoff article is here:
It's an ambitious piece and a thoughtful one -- qualities I don't usually associate with Kisselgoff's regular reviews. (But that's another thread.)
Posted 06 June 2008 - 11:52 AM
One historical note -- Balanchine would not have been under Kirstein's influence in 1933. Perhaps he spoke in French. Whatever the origin, his statement reflects the philosophy and aesthetics that he would have been taught at the Mariinsky, where aesthetics, and the idea that ballet is a philosophy, dating back to the first dancing masters, was taught. There's a lot written about ballet aesthetics, actually, but most of us don't have access to it, and it's certainly not in the popular press!
Posted 06 June 2008 - 11:55 AM
In another aspect of the topic, I just Googled the entire sentence and came up with an answer to the question about its origins. Anna Kissselgoff, discussing New York City Ballet's 50th Anniversary in 1998, wrote in the NY Times:Given Balanchine's limited grasp of English at the time -- and his dependency, really, on Lincoln Kirstein as his guide to what was literally a New World -- it does indeed seem likely that Kirstein may have chosen the words that froze Balanchine's phlosophy into a brief epigram that strikes me as being intentionally provocative and sybilline.
It is worth recalling again the words Balanchine uttered upon his arirval from Europe to settle in New York. "Classiscism is enduring because it is impersonal," he told the British critic Arnold Haskell in 1933.
A thought that strikes me too is that B is echoing the "cool modernism" of the neoclassicals (Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot), who were pushing back against what they must have seen as the neo-Romantic excesses of self-expressive (read: personal) "hot" modernists like Isadora. In other words, as Alexandra suggests, it's a quip with quite a past!
Posted 06 June 2008 - 12:08 PM
Posted 06 June 2008 - 12:14 PM
Ray, you gotta write a book: A Quip with a Past. (I love that phrase!)
Actually, I do have to write a book That's probably why I'm posting so much!
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