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Creeping Credit Crisis or Poor Risk Management?
I receive a daily feed from Biz Journal. One of the stories from The Triangle Business Journal was a Chapter 7 bankruptcy of CJ Woodmaster, a manufacturer and retailer of wooden furniture down in the Tar Heel State. I don't know the details surrounding the causes of the liquidation of CJ Woodmaster other then a few quotes by attorney William Yeager, the bankruptcy counsel for the company, "Their level of debt and the limitation of getting new credit lines snuck up on them," he says. Mr. Yeager continues to state that hundreds of customers who have paid for purchases but have yet to have their order filled will lose money. Ouch!
I began to shake my head. Aha, hard evidence of the recession and an example of contagion from the soft housing market. You don't need furniture for houses that are not being built and consumers whose credit cards are maxed out can't buy a sofa from CJ. Yet another example of the creeping credit crisis that prowls around like a ravenous cougar seeking some small business to devour.
Mr. Yeager goes on to offer some additional observations about CJ Woodmaster. He says he is trying to get a handle on the company's assets and liabilities from the numerous companies set up by CJ Woodmaster and further adds that the IRS is a major creditor and that "various business units owe tens of thousands of dollars in taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. The federal tax liens date back as far as 2002″.
Now I'm not so sure that the creeping credit crisis can be blamed for this one. The few cursory observations I gleaned from this brief article suggests to me a telling breakdown in CJ's ability to manage risk factors that eventually led to its Chapter 7 Bankruptcy filing.
Having hundreds of customers waiting for orders to be filled is a sign of a vibrant company. If CJ had that many customers and it was losing money it indicates unrealistic product prices it charged to its clients. This mispricing could be the result of an inefficient manufacturing operation or the strangulating costs associated with developing and managing distribution through a chain of retail outlets. Perhaps CJ should have decided it was either a manufacturer or distributor of furniture goods. Not both.
This assertion may be supported by additional observations made by Mr. Yeager in the article. Mr. Yeager is having difficulty getting a handle on the extent of the company's financial condition. He blames the complexity of the company structure and apparently the numerous financial statements he must put together. This is evidence of a problem in corporate structure and governance, information management and reporting. These factors may lie at the root of CJ's inability to determine inefficiencies in its manufacturing or distribution functions and why its integrated strategy was unprofitable.
Lastly if a company has a series of tax liens pending for five years this is a major red flag. CJ's inability or reluctance to satisfy tax liabilities shouts a disturbing ambivalence to corporate governance. It is a disclosure that would give any potential credit provider or equity investor a strong reason to pause.


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I compared the link map files (.map) for the working and not_working builds and found that the non_working version was missing the .intvecs section in addition to several .text sections from both the HAL and OS source files. If you compare the section allocation maps of the two .map files you will see the differences.
In the not_working version, since you are linking the HAL and OS as libraries, the linker will bring in only those library functions that are called from the main application. That is the intent of static libraries. In your project, functions like _c_int00 (in HL_sys_startup.c) and several others are not explicitly called from main.c, hence the linker does not bring them into the final link. This results in incorrect operation of the application. The linker does provide an option to force a library function into the build. Please read about the --undef_sym option in the ARM Assembly Language Tools Users Guide. If you choose this path, note that you would need to add this option for every unreferenced function/symbol that you want to force to be part of the executable. For a large number of symbols, it may be more practical to add the options to a command file, then supply that command file to the linker.
The other option of course is to add the source files directly to the project as you have done already with the working project.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for looking into that issue, I will try it today with option with the linker arguments.
Would you additionally please show me an example of a command file that adds symbols as undef_sym?
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user6135372Would you additionally please show me an example of a command file that adds symbols as undef_sym?
Create a text file with .cmd extension that contains a list of linker options, like so:
You would need to add all functions/symbols that need to be brought into the link.
Then add that .cmd file to the project so it get passed to the linker along with other command files that are already present.
ok, thanks for the Details on the command file.
I had a detailed look at the map files, and the only things, that prevented the Startup seemed to be
after adding these two options, main was reached, FreeRTOS started, and LEDs started blinking.
Based on your answer I thought there must be missing more than one or two functions - can the solution really be so simple?
user6135372 can the solution really be so simple?
It can be.
I didn't know which functions were actually "required" for the application. The map file of the "non working" version showed several missing functions compared to the "working" version and I wasn't sure which ones were necessary.
Glad you have it working.
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Suggestion: At the start of a new game, make the systems within reach of your ships pre-explored.
Reason: The first decisions of the game include choosing where to send your starting ships, (which includes a colony ship). The effect of colonising the best available planet, within range, at the start of the game is magnitudes greater than colonising a planet later in the game. A few turns difference to using that first colony ship counts. I find that I start a new game, scout the starting systems, and then reload to get the best choice. Having to move fairly blindly makes those first moves either a lottery or a save/load situation. Relying on star descriptions isn't enough.
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There are two stars. The yellow star gives a human colony to annex. The red star, despite the description, gives a medium garden world with natives to colonise. The colony ship should go to the red star and another ship to the yellow star. This gives you 3 systems on turn 3. Sending the colony ship anywhere else or not moving it delays you by 3 - 6 turns. The star descriptions prove useless in making the initial movement decisions.


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Britney Spears is on yoga, workout and dance therapy
Los Angeles, Oct 9 (IANS) Singer Britney Spears has taken a break from music and is realigning herself, her Instagram is a proof.
Spears recently shared a photo from her workout session on Instagram.
In the image, she can be seen sitting in a yoga studio while in Maui on vacation.
Dressed in bikini and thigh-high white socks, Spears can be seen stretching while posing for a mirror selfie, reports dailymail.co.uk.
""So I found this adorable simple yoga studio in Maui … I tried to start off by doing yoga but I danced the first 20 minutes and let go ….. I finished with stretching, splits and yoga!"
"Most of the year I did a lot of heat yoga, and I over did it. I prefer cardio and dancing now !!! My trip to Maui was amazing, but I lost 7 hours of footage because my phone didn"t have a back up plan. I was extremely upset … I had 3 outside videos and 7 pics and hotel footage … but anyhow … I kept moving forward !!! Oh, and at night the studio had baby twinkle lights .. I preferred nights … it was magical, the "Toxic" hitmaker captioned
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"I hope y"all haven"t forgotten about me!!! I"m taking this transition in my life to focus on what I really want … I"ve been working nonstop, well, since I was 8 years old in the business. Sometimes it"s good to stop and reflect !!!! Miss you all … I really do have the best fans in the world ," she wrote with a couple of throwback photos.
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For the last several months, SFU masters student Karen Sawatzky has been crunching the numbers on AirBnB in Vancouver.
The popular short-term rental site is a boon to both travellers looking for hotel alternatives, and home owners looking to supplement their income.
But Sawatzky is concerned where that leaves renters in Vancouver.
READ MORE: B.C. renters caught in an 'affordability crunch'
"I think that AirBnB is making it easier for homeowners and worse for tenants," she says.
"There's significant financial incentives to rent through AirBnB instead of to tenants. The average rate for a one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver is about $1100, whereas the average rate for an entire apartment or unit on AirBnB is $142. If you do that say 10, 15, 20 nights a month, you can make more than you would through regular rentals."
While AirBnB doesn't publicly provide how many rentals exist, Sawatzky analyzed data on their website – and found the number of Vancouver listings has increased 17 per cent in the last five months. More than 75 per cent of all Metro Vancouver listings are in the city of Vancouver itself.
It's potentially another pressure on affordable housing in a city where vacancy rates are regularly under one per cent.
The rental crunch: How a lack of apartments is affecting Canadian cities
"There are a whole bunch of other policy decisions being made about rental housing right now which are already decreasing the vacancy rate and making it increasingly difficult for somebody at the low end of the income spectrum to find housing," says Tony Roy, Executive Director of the B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association.
What Sawatzky's data doesn't show is whether the listings come from home or condo owners, landlords with spare units in their buildings, or tenants subletting places behind their landlord's back.
That will require more digging, both from the city and Sawatzky – who looks forward to sharing her thesis when complete.
"I'm still working on my thesis…my results aren't final but I thought I could make a contribution by contributing some data," she says.
"I know the city of Vancouver is interested in my work and I'm going to be talking to them about it next week. When my thesis is published, I'll certainly share that with them."
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AWARDS for their commitment to learning have been presented to more than 40 secondary school pupils in Middlesbrough.
The awards scheme has also seen the youngsters helping their local communities.
Year 10 students aged 14 and 15 from five Middlesbrough schools entered into a two-year Learner Contract.
Under the scheme the youngsters commit themselves to regular school attendance, improving their learning progression, and working on a team project to help the community.
Their efforts at getting through their first Milestone year were recognised when they received awards for commitment to learning from Middlesbrough's Mayor Ray Mallon at a ceremony in Middlesbrough Town Hall.
The pupils were from St. David's, Hall Garth, King's Manor, Newlands and Unity City Academy.
The scheme is organised by the council's school improvement service, together with the HBS Training Centre at the town hall.
For their community project, some of the youngsters made and donated 20 floral hanging baskets to local charities.
All students taking part agreed to meet a standard for school attendance, punctuality and behaviour over the two years of the scheme.
Further commitments had to be given on issues such as homework, using careers guidance, service to the school and community, and attending workshops out of school time.
In return, the youngsters are offered a package of support.
In their second year of the contract they will be linked to the HBS Training Centre to gain work-related skills.
Students who successfully complete the two-year contract will also get an incentive award of £100 and a council reference for prospective employers.
Brenda Thompson, Executive councillor for children, families and learning said: "This is a very worthwhile scheme that will give the young people some very important skills for their future training, education and careers."


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Important Steps to a Neuroscience Career that Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
- Overall GPA.
- Psychology GPA minor (if you have one).
- GPA last two years in college GPA.
- Maintaining a high GPA from your freshman year on
- If you do not get an A or B in a course you should probably repeat the course, especially if it was a Psychology course.
- Get research experience related to legal issues to show you are motivated to study legal issues.
- Get even more involved in research by doing a Senior Honors thesis or some other research where you can get your name on a conference presentation or journal publication. This kind of recognition is rare for an undergraduate and will really boost your standing when you apply for a job.
- You can get involved in research as part of Independent study course and thus earn credit hours and possibly increase your GPA if it counts as a graded course or volunteer.
- An advantage to working in a lab is that you get to know a faculty member who can write you a strong letter of recommendation when you are ready to apply for jobs. Given you need more than one letter of recommendation, it is probably best to work in two different labs as an undergraduate.
- By doing an internship you can again show your high level of motivation for a job.
- This internship can be with an with an on-campus clinic/organization or off-campus clinic/organization dealing with neuroscience.
- There are a number of skills you can develop in addition to what you learn in classes and by conducting research-- computers, writing, and oral communication skills.
- You can volunteer at various places that involve legal issues: a law clinic, law office, local, state, or Federal court, etc.
- This involvement demonstrates a high level of motivation and interest in Psychology and law. Any involvement just adds to your overall record and makes you a more competitive applicant.
This can include Psi Chi (the National Honor Society In Psychology) or any Psychology club on campus and neuroscience organizations.
- Once again, this involvement demonstrates a high level of motivation and interest in Psychology and in neuroscience. Any involvement just adds to your overall record and makes you a more competitive applicant.
- It is not critical that you are employed in a neuroscience context (such as those listed above) as an undergraduate, but if you can get such a job that is a real bonus.
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- Position: Linebacker
- Height: 6-0
- Weight: 225
- Roster Years: 1986-1988 | 1990
- Hometown: Mesa, AZ
His parents are William and Gloria. He married Julie Demke on July, 1987. Bob was recruited by Arizona, Northern Arizona, San Diego State and New Mexico. Bob's mother is full-blooded Italian, his uncle, Dan Piluga, was a tight end at Arizona State. He benched 460 pounds. He liked to "bonk" heads off the field with teammates who don't wear helmets. He majored in criminal justice.
Before BYUEdit
High School - Played tight end and linebacker at Mountain View High...lettered in football and wrestling...all-state in football...team was 15-0 in football...team MVP...coached by Jesse Parker (Oklahoma).
BYU CareerEdit
1986 Freshman YearEdit
Played for the jayvees...suited up for several varsity games.
1987 Sophomore YearEdit
Slow start due to hairline leg fracture...earned starting spot at inside linebacker by midseason...ninth in defensive points in half a season.
1988 Junior YearEdit
One of 12 finalists for the Butkus Award...All-WAC...honorable mention All-America by AP...finished further ahead in defensive points than any BYU player ever with 290 compared to 193 for runner-up Chad Robinson...had 148 tackles, returned from knee scope after Utah game to play against Miami and in bowl game...selected as WAC defensive player of the week and defensive player of the game by the media for his performance on ESPN at Hawai'i...at Hawai'i he had 10 unassisted tackles, six assisted tackles, three tackles for losses and four quarterback hurries...had eight assisted tackles at Miami and 10 unassisted tackles vs. Colorado in the Freedom Bowl...had shoulder surgery after season...had knee scoped again after tearing ligaments weight lifting.


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St. Charles Library Sunday Concert Series hosts vocalist Maureen Christine and Jazz saxophonist Michael Bazan
Jan 19, 2017 09:19AM
By Neighbors Magazines
The St. Charles Public Library Sunday Concert Series will host award-winning vocalist Maureen Christine and Jazz saxophonist Michael Bazan on Sunday February 5th. They will be accompanied by 2016 Grammy nominee Don Stille on piano and accordion. The concert will take place at 2 p.m. in the Carnegie Auditorium, One S. sixth Avenue, St. Charles Il. The program "Come-on-a-my-house..Sophisticated songs of the 50's" will pay tribute to such musical greats as Rosemary Clooney, Johnny Mathis, Debbie Reynolds, Elvis, Dave Brubeck and more.
Vocalist Maureen is a national recording artist and concert vocalist "a voice crystal clear, not a note or syllable wasted" (New York's Pink Paper). She has opened for Willlie Nelson, shared the stage with Barry Manilow, and sung for Astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Michael Bazan, Director Of Bands at Wredling School St. Charles and adjunct saxophone professor at Wheaton College Conservatory Of Music, is also a professional woodwindist. Pianist and Accordion player Don Stille will complete the trio.
The concert is free, and is open to the public. Registration is suggested.
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"People Inspire Us In Life To Create Beautiful Memories"
I walk past the entrance to Crime Cocktail Bar three times before finding this speakeasy in TREC KL. The entry is an unsigned, unassuming door, (look for Crave restaurant and you'll find the passageway to the left) leading to a blood red stairwell. Caging protects the bullet spattered walls and I wonder if it is keeping us in, or them out?
Crime Cocktail Bar Entrance
Mounting the doomy stairwell, I am greeted at the landing by an army outfit clad mannequin. Reminiscent of 1930's wartime, the figure poses next to a table hosting an antique phone, where a passcode may be keyed in to enter through the hidden door.
What that door leads to is a beautiful, gangster style speakeasy, bedecked in exposed brickwork and cement walls, with luxurious leather sofas, soft lighting and jazz playing seductively, gently lulling us into a false sense of security. When the door opens I fully expected Jessica Rabbit to saunter in with a smoking gun at her hip.
Speakeasy Bar KL
The focal point of the room is the gently lit, bespoke bar, caged in arched meshing, reminiscent of an old theatre ticketing booth. A sliding ladder glides effortlessly from one side to the other, allowing the mixologist to reach the prohibited, top-shelf hooch. Even if you are not a fan of cocktails, there is an impressive array of gins, whiskies, vodkas and anything that the heart can desire. The bitters alone take up a large portion of one shelf, many of which are homemade. The ice machine occasionally clanks as the fresh batch deposits itself into its steely belly.
Our host, James, is a gently spoken, Japanese-trained mixologist, whose knowledge of ingredients and alcohol seems infinite. He regales tales of lost love, worldly travels and charming anecdotes, whilst listening to the woes of anyone who wants to discreetly unburden themselves. It seems that his sole purpose in life is to help release his customers' stresses and strains of the day, all through his genius concoctions and empathetic ear. Finding the Japanese style rather too 'serious', James likes to inject fun and relaxation, melting one's troubles away, using his dulcet tones.
Crime Cocktail Bar Menu
Before he even lifts the first bottle from the shelf, James, unashamedly tells us that the Charlottinian (RM40) was created for an unknowing, unrequited subject of his affection. The full year that it took him to perfect it, makes the story all the more heart-rending, and you can truly say that this drink was 'made with love'. Served in a simple crystal flute, the lilac hue belies the flavours that follow. With a violet and blue pea flower base, I'm expecting a floral hit of sweetness. Instead, the Thomas Dakin gin, lemon and lime juice and Aperol more than balance the flowery notes with a sharp, citrus hit. Elderflower tones the citrus down a notch. The creamy top is delicately decorated with lavender, osmanthus and of course, what love story would be complete, without a rose(bud) or two?
The White Lady Of Elderidge
James tells us that our journey starts on the lighter side, gradually developing to warmer, more complex beverages. To continue our floral theme we are presented with The White Lady Of Elderidge (RM38) based on the original White Lady, but "less trashy." What makes it less trashy, I wonder? The absence of egg white perhaps? Known as "The Alchemist," James squeezes lemon zest into the copper Boston shaker adding its juice, where that smell alone already gets the salivary glands going. He adds Marasquin, Chase Rhubarb vodka, lychee spirit, Chase elderflower vodka and our friend, osmanthus, and shakes with flare. This is then strained into a hand-made crystal coupe and topped with a lemon garnish. "Springtime in a glass," claims James. Not to be intimidated by the guns adorning the bar, we dive into this ghostly looking glass. The explosion on the palate is intense. First of all, the lychee beats its way to the front with a lingering rose-petal flavour. It finishes off with soft cherry. This will not be everyone's preferred flavour profile, but for me, this was a delight. Had I not a (terribly difficult) job to do of trying another four cocktails, I daresay I'd have had a few more!
The Last Word
The Last Word (RM38) is a curious blend of citrus and herbaceous flavours. Strega, the Italian cousin to Chartreuse, is laced with spices, herbs, anise and saffron. Roku (meaning 'six') gin is a patriotic showcase of Japanese flavours, with eight core botanicals, and a further six Japanese ones (hence the name) of yuzu, cherry blossom, cherry leaves, two green teas and Japanese pepper. These are married with a home-made sugar syrup (interestingly made with sugar and malt extract, so it never crystalises), Luxardo and the juice from macerated cherries. A dehydrator discretely sits at the far end of the bar. James not only dehydrates fruit for Crime Cocktail Bar, but fellow, local bartenders call on him to do the same for them. The garnish, says James, is as important as the drink itself. In this case, he chooses dehydrated grapefruit (which he merrily munches in the background) as the finishing flourish. With a medicinal quality to it, if you are a fan of Ricola herbal sweets, this would be right up your street.
Rumoured to have been created in the late 1970's at the KL Hilton, our next show-stopper is a version of the Junglebird (RM40). With the traditional Campari, pineapple and lime juice, the difference comes from the THREE different rums James uses – 69% Plantation Rum, Pineapple Plantation Rum, and Original Dark Plantation Rum. The taste immediately conjures images of sitting on a tropical beach, surrounded by blue skies, turquoise seas and white sand. With notes of a high-end piña colada without the coconut, this little beauty makes my taste buds sing. James could not serve this in anything other than a cheeky tiki cup, garnished with pineapple and leaves to bring the story to life.
The eponymous Alchemist (RM40) is indeed towards the heavier end of the drink spectrum. Smoky Lagavulin, Balvenie and Monkey Shoulder are curiously paired with Monin donut syrup (who knew?!), absinthe syrup and lengthened with pineapple and lime juice. James quips that it's "like having a festival" as he theatrically smokes the drink, using dried lemon peel, beneath a particularly elongated cloche. "It's actually quite dangerous," we are warned, as smoke fills the atmosphere. James originally made this with pandan rather than donut syrup but adapted slightly to make more accessible to more customers. The emphasis is on relaxation and with a couple of these, you will certainly be relaxed!
The Hacienda De Havana
To round the night off, we move on to The Hacienda De Havana (RM40). As the name suggests, this is a rum-based cocktail (my drinking partner's favourite booze!) so we anticipated this with glee. What we weren't prepared for were the FIVE rums that James generously poured into the shaker. All of the aforementioned Plantation rums were joined by Bacardi Blanco and Oro and balanced with brown sugar, and James' homemade lime sherbert (brown sugar, lime juice and lime peel). This is proudly served in a Slovakian Crystal glass. The flavours were sweet and sour, honey and lime, really harmonious soft vanilla front of mouthfeel, lifted at the end by the citrus. A truly balanced cocktail and a perfect end to a tour of all of our senses.
Crime Cocktail Bar Review
Having similar palates and taste preferences, Monica and I both choose the Junglebird and the White Lady of Elderidge as our firm favourites. Whilst there is a cocktail menu to hand, you are invited to choose the kind of profiles you like – Sweet? Sour? Smoky? Fruity? Whatever your preference, James will create the perfect drink for you.
This is a truly stylistic and cool bar – definitely somewhere to impress your friends or clients, quiet enough to have a conversation but with enough buzz, even if you were solitary, in the bar. For the non-smokers amongst us, it's a lovely change to not have to immediately go home and wash my hair due to the no smoking inside rule. There is a seated outdoor area for those who partake, however, where you can comfortably watch the world go by.
Reasons to visit Crime Cocktail Bar: Cool décor; fantastic array of cocktails; James' rhetoric; our favourites were the Jungle Bird and the White Lady of Elderidge.


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Children's Theatre Production of Robin Hood at McComb/Bruchs PAC June 17 & 18
McComb/Bruchs Performing Arts Center in Wautoma will be showcasing the talents of over 47 area youth in the Prairie Fire Children's Theatre original musical production of "Robin Hood", with script and original music by Daniel Nordquist and Deborah Nelson Pick, in performances on Friday, June 17 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, June 18 at 1 p.m. The show is sponsored by the Wautoma Kiwanis Club, Dawn and Dave Peterson, Cindy and Patrick Getchius, and Kubasta, Bickford and Lorenson Law. Two professional actor/directors from the staff of Prairie Fire Children's Theatre, Mark Lamont and Caitlin Miller, will direct the production and play the roles of the The Sheriff of Nottingham and Flora Queen of the Faeries.
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"Decolonizing Architecture: Internal Colonialism – Refugee and Colonial Heritage – Knowledge Production" är en konferens organiserad av de avancerade kurserna Decolonizing Architecture och R-Lab vid Kungl. Konsthögskolan, Arkitektskolan vid Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH), Konsthall C och Tensta Konsthall.
Kampen mot kolonialismen, som initialt i första hand befann sig utanför Europa, har idag förflyttat sig till inom Europas gränser. Vad man i media kallar "flyktingkris" är i verkligheten Europas oförmågan att komma till rätta med bakgrunden till femhundra år av kolonialism. Det är inte möjligt att förstå dagens förskjutning av människor och migrationsflöden, eller modern fascism, utan grundlig kunskap om det koloniala arvet. Konferensen presenterar en serie komparativa och tvärvetenskapliga förhållningssätt till studien av kolonial arkitektur, och utvidgar begreppet kolonialt utrymme till nuvarande realiteter. Den kommer att undersöka den inre koloniseringen av det samiska landet i Sverige, remitteringens urbanism och ny kamp för kunskapsproduktion i Europa, ställa obekväma frågor kring arvet i palestinska flyktingläger – de äldsta flyktinglägren i världen – samt konfrontera det koloniala arvet hos Europeiska museer och institutioner. En andra dag är avsedd för guidade utställningsbesök på Konsthall C och Tensta Konsthall och en kvällsföreläsning av Forensic Architecture som kommer att kräva mobilisering av arkitektur som både en form av forskning och aktivism.
26 April, KTH School of Architecture
09.15-09.30 Introduction
Session 1. Decolonizing North
09.30-10.15 Joar Nango
10.15-10.35 Respondents: Meike Schalk and Maria Lind
Session 2. Knowledge Production
11.20-12.05 Diego Barajas and Camilo García (HUSOS)
12.05-12.25 Respondents: Fernanda Ruiz and Carlota Mir (Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Course)
Session 3. Critical Cultural Heritage
14.00-14.45 Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal (DAAR)
14.45-15.05 Respondents: Jennifer Mack and Thordis Arrhenius
Session 4. Decolonizing the Museum
15.45 – 16.30 Afaina de Jong
16.30 – 16.50 Respondents: Corina Oprea and Ulrika Flink
16.50 – 17.45 Q&A and final remarks by Peter Lang
17.45: Drinks
KTH School of Architecture's Public Lecture:
Architecture and Philosophies ResArc Research Course Lecture convened by Hélène Frichot
See https://philosophiesresarc.net/thinkables/
18.00-20.00 Lectures and launch
Isabelle Doucet: Activist Tools for Situated Architectures
Alessandro Armando: Five problems on the politics of design practice
Launch: Resist, Reclaim, Speculate: Situated Perspectives on Architecture and the City, Architectural Theory Review (ATR) 22:1, edited by Isabelle Doucet and Hélène Frichot
27 April, Konsthall C and Tensta Konsthall
Guided visit by Corina Oprea of the exhibition "Precarious terrain and entangled situations" with Ayesha Hameed, Carola Grahn, Elizabeth Povinelli & The Karrabing Film Collective, and Hanna Husberg
Guided visit by Maria Lind of the exhibition "Soon enough: Art in Action" with among others Joar Nango, Dale Harding and Kultivator.
Eyal Weizman: Forensic Architecture
Architecture + Philosophy
KTH, School of Architecture, Osquars backe 5. Subway: Tekniska Högskolan
Konsthall C, Cigarrvägen 14. Subway: Hökarängen.
Tensta Konsthall, Taxingegränd 10. Subway: Tensta
Alessandro Armando
Alessandro Armando is assistant professor of architectural and urban design at the Polytechnic University of Turin, from which he holds a Ph.D. in architecture and building design. Since 2005 he has been working as project consultant for the Urban Center Metropolitano in Turin, a department of the Turin municipality that acts as an interface between public and private investors on large scale urban developments. His research activity focuses mainly on the political and bureaucratic effects of architectural design on the urban processes.
Thordis Arrhenius
Thordis Arrhenius (SAR, PhD, professor of cultural heritage, Linköping University) is an architect and architectural researcher with a strong interest in contemporary architectural and urban practice and associated theories. Her teaching and research are characterized by dedication to contemporary critical issues in heritage and urbanism where the historical perspective informs actions and strategies. Recent publications include Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (eds. Arrhenius, Lending, McGowan, and Wallis), Lars Müller Publisher, Zurich, 2014 and Experimental Preservation (eds. Arrhenius, Langdalen, and Otero-Pailos), Lars Müller Publisher, Zurich, 2016.
DAAR – Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal
DAAR's work combines conceptual speculations and pragmatic spatial interventions, discourse and collective learning. DAAR explores possibilities for the reuse, subversion and profanation of actual structures of domination: from evacuated military bases to the transformation of refugee camps, from uncompleted governmental structures to the remains of destroyed villages. In Hilal and Petti's practice, contemporary art exhibitions are at the same time a site of display, material production, research and political imagination. Alessandro Petti is a professor in Architecture and Social Justice at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm where he teaches the advanced course in Decolonizing Architecture.
Isabelle Doucet
Isabelle Doucet is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester where her research focuses on the relationship between politics, aesthetics, and social responsibility in architecture. She is particularly interested in architecture and urban politics in the 1970s and the repercussions of architecture's "post-political" turn. She examines such questions through both conceptual-methodological inquiries and historical and contemporary cases.
Ulrika Flink
Ulrika Flink is a curator from Stockholm, Sweden, at Grafikens Hus. She received her MA in curating contemporary art at the Royal College of Art, London. Recently she held the positions of director of Konstfrämjandet at Stockholm, assistant curator and producer at Tensta konsthall and co-founder of the Stockholm-based curatorial collective Parallellogram. Flink has worked on numerous exhibitions at Tensta konsthall, Autograph ABP and Tate Modern. Recent curatorial projects include The Artist Council (2015- ) an art festival developed with artists in exile in Sweden, film screening and talk: The Stuart Hall Project by John Akomfrah (2014), in collaboration with CinemAfrica, The Shadow office, Parallellogram (2013- ), a project aimed to creating new models for artistic and curatorial collaboration, and Construct (2011), a group exhibition, Folkestone Triennial, UK.
Hélène Frichot
Hélène Frichot is professor in critical studies of architecture, at KTH School of Architecture. Her research is located between the disciplines of architecture and philosophy. She is the editor with Catharina Gabrielsson and Helen Runting of Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies (Routledge 2017); with Catharina Gabrielsson and Jonathan Metzger, Deleuze and the City (EUP 2016); with Harriet Edquist and Laurene Vaughan, DeSigning Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice (Rowman and Littlefield 2015); and with Stephen Loo, Deleuze and Architecture (EUP 2013). In general her research places a methodological emphasis on architecture-writing and ficto-critical methodologies.
Husos – Diego Barajas and Camilo Garcia
Husos is an architecture and urbanism design firm committed to explore social and biological forms of care from a spatial and territorial perspective. Founded in 2003 by Diego Barajas and Camilo Garcia, it is based in Madrid and operates between Spain and Colombia. Work by Husos forms part of permanent collections at the FRAC centre in Orleans, France, and the History Museum of Rotterdam, and received a distinction from the Zumtobel Award for Sustainability and Humanity. It has been presented at the Venice Biennale, the Rotterdam Biennale, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, Matadero Madrid, the Tápies Foundation, Witte de With Museum in Holland, and PhotoEspaña, among others.
Afaina de Jong
Afaina de Jong is an Amsterdam-based architect specialized in spatial design and design strategy. Afaina's aim is to cross the boundaries of the traditional architecture practice by dealing with the existing city with an interdisciplinary approach, integrating research and design. She has worked for renowned international firms before establishing her own studio in 2005. With her creative studio AFARAI she works on the boundary of architecture and art. Her work is deeply connected to represent people and cultural movements that are not traditionally represented in architectural form. Afaina teaches at the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Delft and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. She is a member of various advisory bodies and is currently working on her PhD dissertation on the participatory practice of public space.
Peter Lang
Peter Lang is professor in architectural theory and history at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, where he conducts post-graduate and pre-doctorate research courses in architecture, design and multimedia communications. Lang works on the history and theory of post-war Italian architecture and design, with a focus on sixties Italian experimental design, media and environments. Lang has written and curated a number of projects on the Italian Radical Design and Architecture movement, most recently in 2016 "The Mondial Festival" at Vancouver Art Gallery Museum. He has been a member of the Rome based urban arts research group Stalker since 1997.
Maria Lind
Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator based in Stockholm. She is the director of Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, and the artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale. She was director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2008-2010), Iaspis in Stockholm (2005-2007), and Kunstverein München (2002-2004). From 1997-2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, responsible for the format of Moderna Museet Projects with 29 positions with among others Simon Starling, Apolonija Sustersic, Koo Jeong-a and Matts Leiderstam. Currently she is professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo.
Jennifer Mack
Jennifer Mack is a researcher at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University. She combines history, ethnography, and formal analysis to study social change and the built environment. Recent publications include The Construction of Equality. Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
Carlota Mir
Carlota Mir is a curator and researcher currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work, of a multidisciplinary and multilingual nature, interrogates the relationship between gender, sexuality and space in visual culture, design, curating and architecture and focuses particularly on the notion of domesticity as a political arena from a feminist and queer perspective. Carlota holds an MA in contemporary art and visual culture from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Museo Nacional Reina Sofia. She is a participant of the research group Decolonizing Architecture and R-Lab at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.
Joar Nango
Joar Nango is an architect and practicing artist, working primarily with place-specific installations and self-made publications. His work explores indigenous identity and the contemporary Sami Space, and sits on the boundary between architecture, design and visual art. He has exhibited at Documenta, OCA in Oslo and most recently at Tensta Konsthall.
Corina Oprea
Corina Oprea is Artistic Director of Konsthall C, Stockholm, running the program The Decolonial Option. Oprea holds a PhD from University of Loughborough-UK, with the thesis The End of the Curator: on curatorial acts as collective production of knowledge. Oprea is a Allumni of Curator Lab at Konstfack- Stockholm and holds a MA in Arts –Cultural Policies in the Balkans from Belgrade University. From her recent exhibitions are Precarious Terrains and Entangled Situations and Nordic Trouble at Konsthall C, the video-work Sicherheit co-authored with Saskia Holmkvist and Ellen Nyman and presented at Gothenburg Biennial and the co-curated winning apexart Franchise exhibition, Washed Out, Feb 2011, at Konsthall C-Central Tvätt, Stockholm.
Fernanda Ruiz
Fernanda Ruiz is an urbanist and architect, MSc Building and Urban Design in Development from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL. Her interests engage with questions of global inequalities and how spatial practices can act as forms of political interventions. She is co-founder of Chilean based NGO Cerros Isla where she has been working on urban projects with an interdisciplinary approach combining research and practice. She has approached the architectural practice through urban interventions, exhibitions and publications collaborating with different organizations and institutions.
Meike Schalk
Meike Schalk is an architect and associate professor of Urban Studies and Urban Theory at KTH School of Architecture. Her research on architecture and urban questions combines critical inquiry into issues of sustainability, democracy and participation in urban development processes with practice-based research methods. Schalk is part of the nonprofit association Action Archive dedicated to urban research through approaches of oral history. Her recent publications include Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialisms, Activisms, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections, co-edited with Thérèse Kristiansson and Ramia Mazé, 2017
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is an architect, professor of spatial and visual cultures and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2010 he set up the research agency Forensic Architecture (FA). The work of FA is documented in the exhibition and book FORENSIS (Sternberg, 2014).


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The Budget, with its increases on fuel, alcohol and tobacco will do nothing to help retailers, according to trade associations representing petrol and convenience retailers. James Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) ) said the Chancellor's failure to act to prevent tax rises will hurt local shops: "At a time when
Devon-based independent filling station and convenience store retailer Julian Holliss has raised £7,500 for the NSPCC following the completion of a number of endurance feats. He is pictured presenting the cheque to Carrie Cardale,
Forecourt operator Dolphin Retail has gone into liquidation. The company which had 22 sites in the UK, including petrol stations in Scotland and Yorkshire, blamed the move on the credit crunch.
BP is now offering its customers the chance to purchase a range of gift cards from leading retailers, following a deal with gift card programme provider Coinstar E-Payment Services Limited. The introduction of the programme to
The Scottish Grocers' Federation (SGF) has called on the Scottish Parliament not to proceed with plans to ban the display of tobacco as proposed in the Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Bill. In its submission to the
Gulf Retail has appointed Karlos Ambrus as regional manager, Scotland. Ambrus, 45, from Falkirk, will be responsible for business development from The
It's been pretty much a roller-coaster ride on the business rates front. The last-minute reprieve announced by the Chancellor Alistair Darling was welcome in one sense, except that payments have only been deferred, and then there are next year's increases on top of those, with the remainder the following year...
The Chancellor's 11th hour decision to back down over business rates is a step in the right direction but still not enough to help retailers, according to industry groups. Business rates were due to rise across the
If you think you've got what it takes to win the prestigious Forecourt Trader of the Year award then now's the time to prove it. If your site is worthy of such an accolade then what are you waiting for? Get your pens and cameras out now and start filling in the forms and taking the pictures that will put you in the running for this top prize. The awards are now in their 13th year, and the list of winners reads like a who's who of the industry. These are the people who put their heart and soul into their businesses and there's no reason why you can't join them.
In ice cream companies up and down the country, many fingers are crossed and there's lots of touching of wood. The reason? Well, as the firm's unveil their 2009 line-ups, they're hoping that the sun shines and people come out in force to buy their ice creams. After two lacklustre summers, they're hoping it will be a case of third time lucky.


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GUZHEN, China, Nov. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The 16th China (Guzhen) International Lighting Fair was successfully concluded at the Guzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre on October 26th, 2015. The 5-day exhibition was sponsored by China Association of the Lighting Industry (CALI), Zhongshan Municipal People's Government, and organized by Bureau of Commerce of Zhongshan City, Guzhen Township People's Government of Zhongshan, Guzhen Lighting Expo Co., Ltd.
Altogether, 234,373 visitors from home and abroad were attracted to this short 5-day exhibition. The main hall saw 68,194 visitors, including 3,419 from 112 countries and regions. The number of visitors had an increase of 20% over the number in 2014. The whole site was crowded with traders from domestic and overseas markets.
Today, based on the highlight of the procurement model "1 Exhibition Hall + 5 Trade Marts," Guzhen Lighting fair further develops this mode of innovation, forming the whole new structure with the Guzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre as the main hall, and five great trade marts of Light Cube LED City, STAR ALLIANCE Lighting & LED Expo Center, Lighting Era Center, Besun Lighting Plaza, and Taigu Lighting Plaza as integrated parts. The area of the main hall covered over 30,000 sqm, attracting 616 distinguished enterprises. Many renowned domestic and overseas enterprises, including Opple Lighting, NationStar Optoelectronics and Huayi Lighting, participated. Of the enterprises, 143 were from Gudong Province, excluding the local city, and 55 from other provinces of China. Various kinds of products covering the whole production chain both in the up-stream and down-stream, including commercial lighting, electric lighting, outdoor lighting, LED lighting and lighting accessories, could be seen. The whole new design was widely applied in the comprehensive product catalogues.
The grand opening ceremony of the 16th China (Guzhen) International Lighting Fair and 2015 Guzhen Lighting Festival was held at the Guzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre at 10:30 am on October 22, 2015. The China Association of Lighting Industry (CALI), China National Light Industry Council (CNLIC), and provincial and municipal governors attended the ceremony. A series of activities took place at the ceremony: the signing ceremony of the "Guzhen-South Africa Joint Construction of Lighting Experience Hall," issuing the letter of appointment of the "Public Welfare Propaganda Ambassador" to Mr. Su Bingtian, issuing commercial tablets to cultivation units of the country's direct selling base, awarding innovation and business start-up platforms, such as the "China Lighting Capital and International Innovator Centre," awarding the tablet of "Production Base for the China Lighting Industry," announcing re-certification documents of the "evaluation of Guzhen Town as China's Lighting Capital," issuing the Honorary Certificate and issuing the Award of Outstanding Contribution of China's Lighting Capital. The opening ceremony of the 16th China (Guzhen) International Lighting Fair solemnly commenced with a gun salute.
With the participation of persons of authority in the lighting industry, there were plenty of meetings, forums and activities, such as "2015 Seminar on Property Rights Protection of Lighting Industry," "Global Lighting Designer Salon," "2015 China International Lighting Design Competition Nominee Works Comments," "The 12th China Lighting Capital Industry Summit Forum," "Award Presentation Ceremony of The 16th China (Guzhen) International Lighting Fair Exhibits Contest & 2015 China International Lighting Design Competition Awards," "The 1st China Lighting Capital Direct-sales Base Forum," and the "Area Brand Building Experience Exchange." Experts and professional teams gathered to discuss market information, technology development and enterprise development approaches guiding the new fashions of the lighting industry. Focusing on the existing hotspots, these activities initiated a brainstorm to help with industry upgrading and enterprise development, resulting in a win-win situation.
This exhibition also promotes for the first time a "special decorative lighting area" with the combination of innovation, art and technology where all the lighting enterprises show off their best products and capacities based on the theme of decorative lighting. The exhibition combines lighting with space, innovation, design and technology, and not only creates visual shock for the visitors, but also encourages their deeper reflection on the product and the industry. In addition, in order to optimize the exhibition's participation effect and enrich the visiting experience for the dealers, the organizer also promoted "Business Matching Meeting" for overseas purchasers, which effectively drew buyers closer to suppliers and was provided with ad-hoc, on-the-spot meetings to overseas visitors.
Together with the fair, the First Guzhen Lighting Festival was held on October 21-27. The fair and the festival constitute the most distinguished feature of "Visiting the Exhibition during the day while enjoying the lighting at the night." With Renmin Square as the centre, the lighting festival radiates toward the areas of Zhongxing Avenue and East Dongxing Rd. Twenty-eight lighting decoration scenery spots and seven performance sites were set along the road in which a festooned vehicle cruise, music fountain, light cube lighting show, Liufang Dragon Dance and Night Dragon Lighting, etc. were performed as part of a seven-day cultural feast for the visitors. Based on the theme of "Guzhen Dream, Zhongshan Dream and China Dream," the lighting festival fully combined local lighting with technical and cultural elements to demonstrate lighting effects, a stunning nightscape and unique lighting charm, as well as organically integrating the colorful lighting theme culture with the lighting industry and touristic cultural resources of Guzhen Town to promote the industries of the town.
The 16th China (Guzhen) International Lighting Fair has concluded successfully with the performance to price ratio, exhibits and people oriented services. The exhibition has proven to be a high-end exhibition welcomed unanimously by visitors from home and abroad. The 17th China (Guzhen) International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) is under close preparation and is planned for March 18-21, 2016 in the Guzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre.


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Post by Guest Contributor E Victoria Grover, PA-C, CEO of Full Circle Health Care, an independent family practice
A few years ago I had a new patient, we'll call her Mary. She grew up in my community in northern Maine but she had lived for many years in Rhode Island, working as a waitress. In her 60's she developed lung cancer. When she finished her chemotherapy in Rhode Island and was told that she was "cancer free", she decided to retire and return home to Maine. She never married and had no children, so she hoped to reconnect with family here.
A couple of months after Mary's "establish care" visit with me, she came in with a new, persistent cough. I ordered a chest x-ray and brought her back to my office to tell her the lung cancer had returned. She was upset, but I reminded her that she did very well with her previous chemotherapy, and I asked her to see our local oncologist for an assessment and possible treatment options. I explained that I would receive copies of all her reports and that I would still continue to see her regularly, to answer her questions, to make sure everything was going along as it should.
A week later and a few minutes after the conclusion of Mary's first visit with the oncologist, she stood at my secretary's check-in window, asking to see me–she couldn't wait until her scheduled appointment. We don't usually take walk-ins, but my secretary is very good at knowing who really can't wait, so forty-five minutes later Mary and I were alone in an exam room. Mary said the oncologist first told her he had reviewed all the medical records from Rhode Island that our office had sent him. Then he looked at her x-ray on his computer and with his eyes still on the computer screen, told her that when this type of cancer comes back, even with treatment the best a person can hope for is another 4 to 6 months of life.
"That's not enough time– I just barely got here!" she said, and started to cry. She believed the oncologist completely. She knew he was a highly-trained specialist who had the power to see into her future. Mary seemed like a very tough woman, not prone to tears, but what else could she do when all her hopes and plans for reconnecting with her family lay in ruins at her feet?
I leaned in and told her that the oncologist knew a lot of very important things, but he did NOT know her future. He knew a statistical probability curve and while it was true that she was somewhere under that curve, he had no way of knowing exactly where. I drew a bell curve on a piece of paper and explained that it was built out of the records of hundreds of thousands of people with her type of cancer. While that told the oncologist something about her chances of living or dying in the future, there was no way for him to know exactly where her particular place was under that curve. I placed a small "x" under the first half of the bell curve and told her that she could be one of the unlucky people who died sooner than the midline of 4 to 6 months. But she was equally likely to be someone who lived longer than the average patient. I showed her the long tail of the curve, stretching out towards 8 months, 10 months or more of life, and tried to help her see the possibility that her "x" might belong to the farthest-out point of that long, thin tail.
I'd done this many times before to help patients understand the medical probabilities that loom so large in many specialist/patient conversations. This time it wasn't working—Mary couldn't grasp it. Maybe it was because she'd only been my patient a few weeks, or maybe she wasn't ready to learn statistics. But then I thought of something she might be able to understand, despite her fear and grief. I put my bell curve aside and asked Mary if she'd ever heard about Seabiscuit.
Her crying slowed a little. Yes, she told me, she did know about Seabiscuit—she saw something about him on TV while she was still living in Rhode Island. After that she had asked her old boyfriend, who liked to hang around the race track, if the story was true and he told her all about the famous race horse.
I asked her to remember what the professional, highly trained and very well-paid horse racing experts said when they evaluated Seabiscuit–how they looked at the horse's bowed legs, the wobbly way he ran, his lousy pedigree, and they all predicted he'd be a big flop, a waste of anyone's money. But what actually happened when he started to race? There was more to Seabiscuit then the experts could see. He won his races, over and over again, and he became a legend.
"You're like Seabiscuit before he ran in any races", I told her, "we only know the barest statistics about you. We don't really know YOU at all. We don't know what you're really bringing to this race. " Mary had stopped crying. She asked a few questions, and then finally understood. At first she didn't want to go back to the oncologist, she was mad at him, but I told her he was a good oncologist and we needed him, we needed his knowledge and advice, and the treatment that he offered. I promised her that I would continue to meet with her and help her understand what was happening in her treatment. She went back to the oncologist, had a course of chemotherapy and radiation over the next 4 months and did very well. We celebrated when she crossed over the 6 months point, healthy enough to walk a mile and put on a Fourth of July party for her nieces and nephews.
But at her next visit with the oncologist, he told her that her cancer had started growing again. He advised a somewhat experimental course of chemotherapy. After some discussion with her family and with me, Mary decided to give it a try.
After only 3 out of the 8 planned treatments she was so weak and sick that she needed a wheelchair. She was too nauseated to eat, even with the anti-nausea medication, and nothing tasted good. At her appointment with the oncologist he reviewed her most recent CT scans, which showed no significant shrinkage in her tumors. Some had even grown slightly. The oncologist strongly recommended that she complete the next 5 treatments, but when he was pressed by Mary and her niece, who had begun coming with Mary to her medical appointments, the oncologist finally acknowledged that the treatment would not cure her; at best it would prolong her life by a few more weeks. Mary told the oncologist she would think about it. She knew she had an appointment with me early in the next week.
Mary came to her appointment in a wheelchair, too weak to walk. We discussed the oncologist's findings and his recommendation and then I asked her: "What's the most important thing to you about the next weeks?" She answered right away: "I want to be with my family. I want to have fun with them. I want to talk to my brother and sister about when we were kids, I want to bake cookies. I don't want to just get weaker and weaker, so that I can't even go to the bathroom by myself! I want my food to taste good again. Look, I'd do all that chemotherapy and more if I really thought it was going to get rid of the cancer, but not if it's just going to give me a few more weeks of feeling miserable." I suggested she go home, talk to her family, think about it, and call me back.
Two days later she called to tell me she'd decided to stop the chemotherapy. She also told me that her family supported her decision. I told her that I also supported her decision, and I would continue to make sure that her medical needs were met.
At her next appointment with the oncologist she told him what she had decided. When she described this to me later, she said she was glad her niece was with her because the oncologist was not happy. He was especially upset when Mary told him she didn't need any more CT scans, PET scans, labs or appointments at the hospital. When the oncologist argued that he felt she should proceed with all these tests, even if she did want to "take a break" from the chemotherapy, Mary's niece spoke up and asked "Why? Will the tests tell you how to cure her?" The oncologist sputtered a long and complicated answer that both Mary and her niece were finally able to recognize as "no". They politely thanked him for his time and her niece wheeled Mary out the hospital door.
They both felt wonderful, even triumphant! Mary tried to twirl her wheelchair in the hospital parking lot and her niece had to catch her when she started to spill out, but both of them were laughing. They knew that in the face of powerful opposition, Mary had just won her right to choose how she would live the last weeks of her life. Mary was free.
A couple weeks later Mary was feeling much stronger. She was able to park the wheelchair in a corner of her bedroom "for a while", she told me. She went on to have several weeks of the independent life she really wanted, only needing a small amount of medication from me to keep her comfortable. When she began needing more medication and also more help with meals and the other tasks of daily living, Mary and I discussed hospice, and she accepted that service gracefully. Her extended family stepped in to take care of her. Two weeks later she died peacefully in her sister's home, her little dog on the bed beside her and her family all around to say goodbye.
Mary lived 10 months from the day she heard the oncologist say she had only 4 to 6 months left. During that time she was only bedridden and completely dependent on the care of others for the last 4 days of her life.
Yesterday I went to a lecture at our local hospital in which a young vascular surgeon was introducing primary care providers to a new surgical procedure designed to improve venous circulation. His lecture consisted of specific cases he had worked on since he came to our hospital, as examples of how this new procedure could be applied. It was a useful presentation and as I listened I began thinking about one of my patients with chronic skin ulcers on his lower leg, wondering if this surgery could help him. But then a new case went up on the screen and I forgot my patient's leg ulcers. The young surgeon was talking about a woman dying from advanced pancreatic cancer. He reminded us that it's common for people with this type of cancer to develop an uncomfortable accumulation of fluid in the abdomen. In this woman's case, the surgeon and the patient's oncologist decided to perform the new procedure to see if opening up the veins around her liver would slow down the fluid accumulation. The surgeon told us the procedure could not stop the changes in her abdomen caused by the advancing cancer, including the increased fluid in her belly, but there "might be a slight chance" that it would delay her death "for a while". He justified the pain, risks and expense of the surgery by reminding us: "You know what the oncologists say—every day counts." He sounded smug and very sure of himself.
In a heartbeat I was filled with fury! Who advocated for that dying woman? Did she have a real chance to say "no, thank you", to the medical specialists? The surgeon's language answered that question for me. When he said "We decided…." it was obvious that he was not including the patient or the patient's family as part of the "we". And why should he? Everyone knows that when the specialists say: "You need this surgery" (or test or treatment), you're supposed to just say yes. And if you hesitate for a moment, then look into the eyes of your children or your spouse and see all the hopes and fears your illness has piled on them, unspoken hopes and fears because no one has created any space for them, what else can you say? You only have a few moments to give your "informed consent". The busy specialist stands silently waiting, fidgeting, looking at the notes for his next patient. You are keeping this important man from his work. All you can say is yes, I'll do it.
Every day counts, I thought, it counts as another day to find some expensive procedure to do to a captive, fearful, dis-empowered patient. It counts as another day of confused suffering, another day for a bewildered family to hope that help is on the way, Mom will be home soon, we'll take good care of her then, we'll get a chance to talk and laugh and reconcile old memories after she comes home. But when there's a complication from the latest test or treatment, Mom has to stay in the hospital a little bit longer. And if one complication leads to another, as it frequently does, and Mom gets sicker and dies never getting to come home, well, it won't be anyone's fault; not the surgeon, not the oncologist, not the hospital administrators, because all of the hospital's specialists on the treatment team agreed that the surgery was worth the risk. After all, "every day counts".
But in the months and years after the funeral, her husband and children will feel vaguely guilty and wonder, in the long and silent night, what they could have done to make it different.
The irony of bankrupting Medicare by spending billions of dollars on patients in the last few months of life is that the patients themselves don't really want what Medicare is buying for them. They don't want one more painful, humiliating and very lonely day in the hospital. What they do want is a chance to understand what's happening to them. They want to know both the possibilities and the limits of the treatments and procedures they're offered. They want to talk about it, ask questions, get straight answers (even if the answer is "I don't know"), think about it and then make choices. They want to hold on to some measure of dignified control over their life and over their own body.
Think about how different the treatment of catastrophic illness would be if every patient had a primary care provider to explain and advocate for them, to make sure they and their families got the information, time and authority needed to make real informed choices. How much better would families recover from the emotional devastation they experience? Unspoken questions keep people awake at night. No matter what the answers are, bringing questions into open conversation helps people pass the night more peacefully. It's better than Ambien.
So why doesn't this happen now, for all patients? Well, speaking as a primary care provider who has performed this service for my patients for thirty-seven years, I can tell you that it takes a lot of time, pays virtually nothing and makes you very unpopular with local hospitals and specialists. Also, in the 1990's America decided that health care should no longer be seen as a service but instead should be re-structured as a business; and just like any business, the focus should be on selling a product. So now, in the same way that Proctor and Gamble sells mouthwash and deodorant, your local hospital sells cardiac surgery, MRI's and radiation oncology. And, like any other retailer, hospitals have learned how to make their products sell: They know that people who feel confused, alone, frightened and helpless are willing to buy just about anything.
On top of that, primary care providers today have largely lost their independent voice. Dogged by the sky-rocketing costs of medical education and maintaining a private medical office, most primary care providers have either jumped or been pushed into the deep and secure pockets of large hospital corporations. This has fundamentally shifted the relationship between provider and patient. Providers no longer see individual patients as the source of their livelihood. Instead, they have transferred their loyalty to the medical corporations that give them a salary, pay off their huge student loans, and supply them with the equipment and staffing they need to work.
While almost all primary care providers go to work each day determined to give the best medical care to their patients, they must do so with constant reminders that a large and expensive corporate entity needs to be supported by their work. They have neither the time nor the energy for meaningful follow-up appointments with patients they have "turfed off" to specialists, let alone the conflicts with co-workers on the hospital team that might arise from such appointments. So most patients must travel forward alone into the increasingly complex and confusing world of specialty medicine, hoping that somewhere, someone will give them a chance to fully understand what is happening to them and let them choose what they really want to do.
In my personal office I now have a photograph of Seabiscuit, prancing down the track, his jockey on his back and his trainer holding the lead. Mary gave it to me the last time she came to see me, only a couple of weeks before she died. Mary grumbled about the wheelchair her niece used to bring her into my exam room, but I heard them laughing together just before I opened the door. After her niece left us alone, Mary surprised me with the elegantly framed photograph. As I admired it she explained: "I asked my boyfriend in Rhode Island to send me a picture of Seabiscuit, so I could get it fixed up and give it to you. I want you to remember me and use it—you know, for the next person who needs to know that the cancer doctor doesn't always know the future."
I've used her gift just as she wanted, and I'm sure I'll use it again. Every patient who sees that race horse and knows his story understands what he is telling them: "Your future is still unknown," Seabiscuit says, "so have hope! Take charge! Remember, this is your story. It doesn't belong to the experts, or any doctor, drug company or hospital, or even anyone else in your family, it belongs only to you. Lots of people will give you advice, but only you will run the race. Hold on to your story, and one day you'll realize that no matter how it ends, it's the story of a winner."
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I am a former Catholic, having left the Catholic Church about three years ago. I left the Catholic Church because I found that many Catholic teachings had no basis in scripture (for example: penance, purgatory, indulgences, veneration of Mary, prayers to the dead, prayers for the dead, etc.) I came to realize that I was saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and his death on the cross for my sins. I realized that I could not be saved through the sacramental system of the Catholic Church.
I do have a concern with the following scripture verses: John 6:53-56 "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him."
Catholics use these verses to prove that in the Eucharist, they actually receive the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus. What is your understanding of these verses? Thank you.
This is the one subject that has sent may Christians to their deaths Donna.
- Roman Catholic Law… If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist are contained truly, really and substantially the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ, but says that He is in it only as a sign, or figure or force, let him be anathema (Session Thirteen, chapter 8, canon 1). Vatical Council II
- The word anathema means accursed and worthy of death.
- During the Roman Catholic Inquisitions, many were put to death because they refused to say that a priest had the power to pull the Lord Jesus out of heaven to become the Eucharist wafer (the body of Christ), or that he could transform the wine of the mass into the actual blood of Christ.
The Lords Supper has been and always will be a way to remember the Lords sacrifice on the cross! As for John 5:53-56, it's a spiritual verse that the Catholics made a literal one. Many religious people seem to have a hard time separating the spiritual from the natural! The Savior was trying to tell Nicodemus in John 3 about being Born Again and ole Nic just couldn't seem to grasp it! John 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 3:10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? 3:11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
Do you remember seeing the letters I.H.S., on the bread when you took the mass? These initials are supposed to represent, "Iesus Hominum Salvator", "Jesus the Savior of men". To the pagans in Rome it meant: "Isis, Horus, & Seb", in other words, "The Mother, the Child, (reincarnated father) and the Father (or husband who dies) of the gods", in other words, "The Egyptian Trinity". When the real Christians saw very quickly the real character of their sacrifice, they refused to partake of it. These Christians were treated as heretics. But Rome saw that the heresy might be to their benefit in controlling the people; and therefore the practice of offering and eating this "unbloody sacrifice" was instituted by the Papacy; and now, throughout the whole bounds of the Roman Catholic communion, it has replaced the simple, but most precious ordinance, the Supper instituted by our Lord Himself.
In performing the mass, the priests are supposed to be given the power to transform a piece of bread into the very body of Christ, and the wine into His blood. Transubstantiation is the changing of one substance into another; hence the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of the Lord, but this is actually the unbloody sacrifice of the Egyptian sun goddess and not the Lord's supper. It's not the crucifying of Christ afresh, but the unbloody sacrifice that is implied in the mass that dismisses a man's sins! Sounds like blasphemy to me.
The papacy teaches that after the consecration, the body and blood as well as the divine soul of the Lord Himself are present in "the Eucharist". If you refuse to take the Eucharist, the priest the has the power to deny you of your salvation! In past centuries, if you said the Lords Supper is a symbolic event that brings us to remembrance of the Saviors sacrifice, you would have been burned at the stake or even worse.
Actually, once you receive salvation, you're in the hands of the Savior, and if you're in the hands of the Savior, you're also in the hands of God Almighty. Look at what Jesus said about that: John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 10:30 I and my Father are one. No one, including a Roman Catholic priest, can deny you salvation given to you by God Himself.


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- by Corrie Shenigo
- posted at 7:10 am
- April 7, 2011
Yes, yes… we're all aware that the big three fashion weeks (namely New York, Paris and Milan) aren't the only fashion exhibitions in the world. Why, my very own Los Angeles has one, last week we reported on Nashville's entry into this illustrious list, and London has been the punk-rocker step-child to the big three for as long as I can remember. And Russia… (*screech)… Russia?
Sponsored by Mercedes Benz, Russian Fashion Week has just drawn to a close and, we have to admit, some of the designs (and presentations) were… well… a little questionable. There were several Gaga-esque designs, think no pants and disproportionately overblown embellishments, such as the intergalactic shoulders and weapon-esque cuff bracelet at designer Alla Belchenkova's runway.
And speaking of weapons.
Designers Shiyan & Rudkovskaya chose to take the "sexy spy" genre to a whole new level by embellishing their entirely mainstream fashion (on actual failed-spy Anna Chapman and Russian pop-star Dima Bilan) to include an actual gun to Bilan's throat in a hostage-like situation? Sexy? Um. No.
The theatricality didn't stop there – as costumes seem to overshadow the actual designs at numerous shows. A design in the Young Designers Collective Show seemed to say "Way less pants, way more shoe, way more body-padding (???), way way way more shoulders… and… what the heck… let's add a cat mask." And I'm really not sure how another model in the same show ever made it down the catwalk alive without eye holes (or how he fit in the door for that matter):
While I admire designers who take a risk and stretch the boundaries of fashion and form – should they still have some thought of function? We here at Posh Beauty.com would love to hear what you think!


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Get ready to say 'Alola'! Modeled after the most recent entries in the video game franchise, Pokémon TCG: Sun & Moon will welcome players to the series' seventh generation. The latest expansion to the Pokémon Trading Card Game will take players to the sunny and tropical Alola region. New booster packs of 10 random cards from the expansion will be available on February 3rd, 2017. These packs will sell at popular retailers for the standard price of $3.99 USD. New players can also select from three theme decks of 60 preconstructed cards that will introduce them to the game. The design of the Pokémon TCG: Sun & Moon expansion will reflect the exotic and beautiful art of the Pokémon Sun & Moon.
As always, the new starter Pokémon Rowlet, Litten, and Popplio will headline a list of 140 new cards. More than 40 creatures from Pokémon Sun & Moon will make an appearance in the trading card expansion. This roster includes brand-new Alolan variations of classic Pokémon that will sport a new look and special abilities. Pokémon TCG: Sun & Moon introduces 11 Pokemon-GX, which are "super-powered Pokémon" with attacks so powerful that players can only use one during a single match. Pokémon Sun & Moon's legendaries, Solgaleo and Lunala will join the TCG as Pokémon-GX. Pokémon TCG: Sun & Moon theme decks and booster packs will include codes that also unlock virtual cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online.
The Pokémon series has gone through some evolutions of its own since it began. The release of Pokémon Sun & Moon were highly anticipated and delivered many changes to the familiar formula of the games. The company's altered reality app Pokémon Go recently began its expansion into the second generation of monsters. It won't be too long before players can make real-world adventures with the Pokémon of Alola. Until then, players can catch 'em all by playing Pokémon Sun & Moon and Pokémon TCG: Sun & Moon.
A fanatic of all things human, Steven spends an alarming amount of time researching untrue facts. Did you know that the Trojan horse was nicknamed "Tro-jo"? Just like you, he loves video games, movies, "the telly", and all sorts of wacky thingamajigs. Though writing about games is his current side hustle, Steven hopes to create an impacting journalism career by turning his thoughts into words, sounds, and images.


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Subway, one of the largest sandwich retail outlets with 41,241 restaurants in 105 countries, is in the process of removing a chemical called azodicarbonamide from its bread, after a health activist launched a campaign to remove the chemical.
"We are already in the process of removing azodicarbonamide as part of our bread improvement efforts despite the fact that it is (a) USDA and FDA approved ingredient," Subway said in a statement, reported Daily News. "The complete conversion to have this product out of the bread will be done soon."
Azodicarbonamide, commonly used in yoga mats and shoe soles to increase elasticity was used in Subway breads to strengthen dough, and Food Babe blogger Vani Hari noted that it causes respiratory issues as well as allergies.
"Everyone from The First Lady Michelle Obama to the American Heart Association (AHA) to several Olympic athletes have endorsed Subway for their purportedly 'fresh' and 'nutritious' meals.
"Unfortunately, not only have these people and organizations been duped, but millions of people across North America have been as well," Hari noted in her blog.
In her blog, Hari claims that the chemical is used in 9-grain wheat, Italian white, honey oat, Italian herbs & cheese, parmesan/oregano, roasted garlic, sourdough and Monterrey cheddar breads, served in the U.S. and Canada.
She also launched a petition, which has since been signed by 74,723, seeking the removal of azodicarbonamide from Subway sandwich bread. Hari also wrote that Europe and Australia has banned the chemical owing to health concerns and in Singapore, one can be fined 450,000 dollars and serve up to 15 years in prison for using it.
Center for Science in the Public Interest, or CSPI, on its website noted that when azodicarbonamide is baked, it breaks down into semicarbazide, which caused cancers of the lung and blood vessels in mice, but poses a negligible risk to humans, and urethane, which is a recognized carcinogen.
"Considering that many breads don't contain azodicarbonamide and that its use slightly increases exposure to a carcinogen, this is hardly a chemical that we need in our food supply," CSPI said on its website.


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