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As we mark one year since the horrific massacre of 49 LGBTQI people and allies at Pulse, DignityUSA remembers the lives lost, sends loving prayers to their families, and to those survivors whose lives were forever changed, and gives thanks to all those who responded with courage and kindness in the aftermath. We recommit to being a place of sacred healing for those whose sense of belonging and safety was shaken by this targeting of our community. We rededicate ourselves to challenging those, especially leaders in our own Church, who fail to take responsibility for how judgemental, dehumanizing language, teachings and practice contribute to a climate where violence like this can occur.
Below are some remembrances of some of the victims, and some excerpts from DignityUSA's witness on their behalf at the 2016 meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
As we remember the people who were murdered at the Pulse Nightclub one year ago, let's take a few minutes to remember them and the lives that they lived.*
On his way to the Pulse nightclub, Stanley Almodovar III laughed and sang, posting to Snapchat while a friend drove. Amanda Alvear loved taking selfies. Oscar Aracena-Montero's countenance brightened his English classroom each week. Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala loved his career and was known for his compassion. Army Captain Antonio Davon Brown of the U.S. Army Reserve was a "down to earth guy" and a "gentle soul" who always looked out for his friends. Darryl R. Burt II was celebrating the fact that he had recently earned a Master's Degree. Jonathan Camuy moved to Florida to work for a Spanish TV network. Angel Luis Candelario-Padro was a member of the National Guard and a Zumba enthusiast. Omar Capo's Snapchat video, taken about 12:30 a.m. in a dark club, captures Capo jumping around with friends to blaring, Latin music. Simon Carrillo and his partner had recently purchased their home.
As we honor these people's memory and the memory of all LGBTQ people who have died as a result of violence, help us all feel safe and loved, as our lives unfold in accordance with God's plan for each of us.
Luis Daniel Conde, 39, went to the same high school in Puerto Rico as Juan Pablo Rivera Velazquez. They were partners and ran a beauty salon together. Both died at the Pulse Nightclub. Cory James Connell was a "family man through and through…and the sweetest kid ever." Tevin Eugene Crosby was a dedicated business owner. Anthony Luis Laureano Disla loved to dance. Deonka Deidra Drayton, known as DD, was in the midst of what her father called a personal renaissance the morning her life ended. Leroy Valentin Fernandez was a natural performer. Mercedez Marisol Flores had reshaped herself over two years, shedding 180 pounds. Peter O. Gonalez-Cruz made everyone around him happy. Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22, went to Pulse Night Club with his boyfriend, Christopher Andrew Leinonen. Both were killed at the Pulse Nightclub. Paul Terrell Henry loved his two children.
Let us remember these LGBT people and allies who were murdered in the largest mass murder in U.S. history.
Frankie Hernandez taught his kid sister how to walk in heels. Miguel Angel Honorato was a devoted husband and father who managed several restaurants in the Orlando area. Jimmy De Jesús was kind and generous with his time. Javier Jorge-Reyes had a quick smile, sass and energy. Jason Benjamin Josaphat was computer savvy, loved to work out and had an interest in photography. Eddie Justice's last text was "Mommy I love you." Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21, was an outgoing native of Cuba. Juan Chavez Martinez, 25, worked, whose hometown was Huichapan, Mexico, was a housekeeping supervisor in the Orlando area. Brenda Lee Marquez-McCool was a mother of 11 children.
We pray that God's light of his love will shine on all of these beautiful souls.
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez love his dog and participated in dog shows. Kimberly "KJ" Morris had recently moved to Orlando to be closer to her grandmother. Akyra Murray was celebrating her graduation from West Catholic Preparatory High School in Philadelphia with a trip to Orlando. Geraldo Ortiz-Jimenez flew to Orlando from his home in Puerto Rico to attend a Selena Gomez concert on Fridqay, and went dancing at Pulse on Saturday. Joel Rayon Paniagua loved to dance. Jean Carlos Mendez Perez met his longtime partner thanks to the fragrance Declaration by Cartier. Enrique L. Rios lived in New York, and was in Orlando celebrating a friend's birthday. Eric Ortiz died days before his first wedding anniversary to his husband Ivan Dominguez. Jean Carlos Nieves Rodriguez recently bought his first house because he wanted his mom to live someplace nice. Xavier Emmanuel Serrano was a dancer entertained crowds throughout Florida.
We remember these wonderful, loving and talented people.
Christopher Sanfeliz, a 24-year-old Tampa bank employee, was remembered by a former classmate as "the most positive guy I've ever known." Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan was married to race-car driver Juan Borges and a mother of two children. Edward Sotomayor Jr. was a well know figure in the gay travel industry. Shane Evan Tomlinson was a singer with the band Frequency. Martin Benitez Torres, 33, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, was visiting family in Orlando. The last publicly posted photo on Luis Vilma's Facebook profile shows a group of young people posing in front of Cinderella's Castle at Magic Kingdom with the caption "True friends who become family." Jerald Arthur Wright, 31, was part of at least two families — his biological one and tight-knit group of friends he worked with at Walt Disney World.
The world lost many incredible LGBTQ and straight people one year ago at the Pulse nightclub. Family members, friends and coworkers lost loved ones. People all over the world grieved the loss of these people. Let us take a moment to remember, and to be inspired, by the lives of these 49 human beings.
Below are excerpts from remarks by Executive Director Marianne Duddy-Burke at a witness for the Pulse victims and murdered transgender people outside the 2018 US Conference of Catholic Bishops' Annual meeting:
In the early morning of June 12, 2016, a lone gunman began shooting the patrons of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL. This club was established as a haven and community space for the LGBTQI community by a Catholic woman to honor her gay brother who had died of AIDS. Those inside of Pulse were subjected to hours of terror, intense pain, and the horror of witnessing the murder of friends and lovers. The news reports and images were beyond imagination. In the still-dark Florida morning, police cars and ambulances ringed a nightclub in Orlando that served the LGBTQI community. Dozens were dead, many more injured, and it was said that cars in the parking lot had been rigged with bombs. As the day wore on, the numbers of wounded and dead climbed. By mid-afternoon, we knew that 49 patrons and the perpetrator had been killed, and 53 people were being treated in area hospitals. Most were young, Latin@ LGBTQI people.
In the hours and days following this unspeakable violence, Pope Francis, many Catholic bishops and our national bishops conference issued statements about the shooting. All condemned the violence and expressed condolences to the families of the victims. However, fewer than 10 out of nearly 300 bishops acknowledged that this horrific event targeted people who were LGBTQI. A handful. The worst mass shooting in modern US history occurred at a gay club, and the leaders of our Church failed to explicitly link this violence and the homophobia and transphobia so rampant in our society and in too many religious communities. They hid behind words like "innocent victims" and "tragic loss of life" – certainly true, but sinfully incomplete. One bishop, Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida, did dare to link the shooting to teachings and statements by Catholic leaders. He said, "Sadly it is religion, including our own, which targets, mostly verbally, and also often breeds contempt for gays, lesbians and transgender people. Attacks today on LGBT men and women often plant the seed of contempt, then hatred, which can ultimately lead to violence." Very soon, he was soundly chastised by Bishop Wenski of Miami, his Metropolitan, for his comments….
We are here to remember and honor the lives of all of those lost to anti-LGBT violence. These are beloved children of God. They are daughters and sons of loving parents, siblings, cousins, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, parents, friends, colleagues, neighbors to us all. They were Army veterans, students of literature, finance, health care, package delivery workers, artists, store managers, and bouncers. They had survived cancer, car accidents, addictions, and traumatic childhoods. One young woman was in Orlando to celebrate graduating third in her Philadelphia Catholic high school class, and being awarded a basketball scholarship that would have enabled her to attend a Catholic college. They are remembered as outgoing, energetic, passionate, loyal, and full of life. They had amazing gifts and talents of which the world is now deprived.
We honor them, not only is ensuring their names and their lives are not forgotten, but in recommitting ourselves, as people of deep and enduring faith, to ending all hatred and violence rooted in misunderstanding, ignorance, and inflammatory religious rhetoric. We will continue to remind the leaders of our Church that LGBTQI people and our families are numbered among the people of God, that we members of their flocks, and that we deserve and demand pastoral care and policies from our Church that respect our dignity, humanity, and the reality of our lives. They can start by naming us as LGBTQI people, using the names we use, and the terms that honor the communities with which we identify. Our bishops can talk with us, rather than about us. Our bishops must take a clear, unequivocal stand against any violence—physical, verbal, theological, emotional—directed towards LGBTQI people or our community. They must work with us and with our families to develop pastoral care programs and protocols that are appropriate and respectful. This is what we call for in the name of LGBTQI people whose lives have been lost to violence.
* We thank the reporters and editors of the Orlando Sentinel for their incredible efforts to make sure that we know the story of these peoples' lives. The biographical details are based on their reporting.
Source: DignityUSA


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In the 2nd installment of our viner interview series, we talk to one of the funniest Dads on Vine, Stewart (Brittlestar) Reynolds. He chats about his run-ins with the paparazzi, keeping secrets, and being Burt Reynolds' cousin. Actually we made that last part up, but we can only assume it to be true since they have the same last name.
Lets get right to it:
You remind me a lot of a guy I know. Do you get that a lot?
Since that bastard, Drew Carey, lost a bunch of weight I get compared to him a lot. I was told that Paul Gross (actor that plays the mountie in the TV cop Show Due South) was mistaken for me once, though I'm not sure if he's ever been mistaken for Drew Carey. Though I feel strongly that all three of us have said 'come on down' before at some point.
What's it like working with your sons on Vines?
I'm always blown away by their concepts and little technical things like plotting out scenes and visual composition of each scene. We usually have a ton of fun... which I think is sadly unusual for some dads and their teen kids. I love it. It's not always easy though. You know, because they're kids and I'm an immature adult.
Tell us about your craziest run-in with the paparazzi.
I've yet to have a terrible experience with any paparazzi... though last November I was taught some very basic choreography and then danced out of the Disneyland castle in California to take selfies with Pluto in front of TV and other cameras as a 'Social Media All Star'. That was weird.
What is the best thing about Vine? The worst?
Best? Anyone with a camera on their phone/tablet can create and share a moment, feeling, whatever. Letting people be creative keeps them sane.
Worst? It doesn't seem to count towards my Klout score so I can't get more free body wash.
Why did you first join Vine?
My youngest son, Gregor (GregorR on Vine), heard about it a week or two after it was released in the App Store and started showing me Vines he thought were hilarious. I thought they were hilarious too... I also thought, "Pffft, that looks easy. I can do that." It looked like a fun and easy way to capture an emotion that others could watch and say "Hey! That's how I feel!"
Would you rather ride an elephant or a camel?
Elephant. Without question. Roomy. Trustworthy. Wang-esque nose.
We noticed you wear a lot of nerd shirts in your vines. Are you a true nerd or just a poser?
I love technology. I'm not a gearhead. I don't lust over specs but I love the potential uses of it. Does that make me a nerd? I love early 80's tech stuff because it was such an exciting time. It suddenly felt like the future was here or was just around the corner. That period of time was the beginning of the digital revolution to me. People just figuring our how they could use technology to do what they wanted it to do. That time was the birth of Digital DIY, and I like to celebrate that through the wearing of stylish chemises.
How would you summarize Vine in 6 words?
Engaging contemporary haikus in video form.
Can you keep a secret?
Why? What do you know and who have you been talking to?
Tell us your biggest secret.
I can eat 10 buttertarts in one sitting with no remorse. (buttertarts are little sugar, butter and raisin tarts)
Do you have a process for vining that you typically follow? What does creating a Vine look like for you?
I've been revising my Vine creation process constantly since I started. My own sense of humour is sometimes a bit too subtle or dry to really convey itself well in a Vine, so I need to really distil it down to an emotion and then amplify that emotion to the point of ridiculous.
I'll usually start with a concept/scenario that I hope is familiar to a lot of people. Then try to find one element of that concept/scenario that I can really exaggerate.
What's your favorite Nick Cage film? Please name only one.
I refuse to answer this ridiculous question. Who can name only one?
What's your go-to order at Long John Silver's?
This is a tricky question, as I don't think there are anymore Long John Silvers in Canada. We used to have one here in our town but its main reputation was for how Steve Campbell put his running shoe in the deep fat fryer one night. With that in mind, I'll say Hush Puppies (though I think Steve's were actually Converse).
We'd like to thank Brittlestar for filling us with the urge to gorge on buttertarts while watching our Klout score sit AND NEVER MOVE. While we do that, you be sure to follow him on vine, so you can lap up his comedic brilliance!


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Tom Campbell leads GOP Senate poll
Days after jumping into California's U.S. Senate race, moderate Republican Tom Campbell has catapulted into the lead as the top GOP candidate and the strongest potential foe of incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer, a development that may herald a more competitive race in the Democratic-leaning state, a new Field Poll shows.
The poll results suggest that shock waves from Republican Scott Brown's Senate upset this week in the Massachusetts special election could extend to California in the fall.
Campbell, a former South Bay congressman and dean of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business - and not a favorite of the state's GOP establishment - received 30 percent support from California voters in the latest statewide Field Poll released today.
That puts Campbell ahead of two Republicans who've been campaigning and fundraising for months - former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, with 25 percent support, and state Assemblyman Chuck Devore, who has 6 percent. Thirty-nine percent of likely GOP voters were undecided.
The poll among 958 likely state voters in the November general election and 202 likely voters in the June GOP primary was conducted Jan. 5-17, as Campbell withdrew from the California gubernatorial contest and declared himself to be a Senate candidate.
If the election were held today, no GOP candidate could defeat Boxer, the poll shows. Campbell is closest, 10 points behind the three-term Democrat.
In the wake of Brown's upset victory Tuesday over Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts, the California poll appears to indicate the influence of the 1 in 5 California voters who are independents.
"A moderate candidate like Campbell ... could actually cut into the support that Boxer gets among nonpartisans to a greater extent than Fiorina or DeVore," Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo said of the findings. "And if that's where the battle is going to be waged, he'd be the stronger candidate."
But the Massachusetts election must concern the Boxer camp, he said, because it "really underlines the vulnerability that the Democrats have on the issue of health care, more than anything else. That's the message out of Massachusetts."
DiCamillo said the economy will become increasingly important to voters this year: "That is the 800-pound gorilla, and if voters are feeling as down and as vulnerable as they are now, Democrats and Boxer could be in trouble."
Campbell said Wednesday that the Massachusetts election reflected that "economics are the issues, along with single-party rule," as voters in the Democratic-leaning state expressed anger with overspending.
He said his campaign will go after voters who had a key role in that race - the independents.
Fiorina downplayed the poll and attacked Campbell as too extreme. "What all those polls say is that Barbara Boxer is vulnerable," she said. "Tom Campbell has run for office several times ... and when voters realize on many important issues his positions are indistinguishable from Barbara Boxer, his ratings will fall."
While the poll numbers depict Campbell's rising strength, they also suggest weakness in Fiorina - who has been talked up by GOP national leadership as a potential Democratic giant-killer - and DeVore. Both of them are largely unfamiliar to voters.
Democratic strategist Jason Kinney said Boxer is a formidable foe.
"Here we are, standing at a high-water mark for anti-incumbent, anti-Democrat sentiment and she's maintaining a double-digit lead over a five-term former congressman whose name has appeared on three statewide ballots," he said. "That's a fairly good spot to be in right now."
The poll has a maximum margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points overall and 7.1 percentage points among likely GOP voters.
Senate poll findings
Among the Field Poll's findings:
-- In head-to-head matchups, Boxer leads Campbell by 10 points, Fiorina by 15 points and DeVore by 17 points.
-- Campbell beats his two GOP challengers in all geographic regions of California among strong conservatives, moderate voters and voters who are 65 and over.


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A. 4π
B. 8π
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E. 256π
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Area = π(8)2
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Publication Type: Journal Article
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Sheppard, CRC, Ateweberhan M, Bowen BW, Carr P, Chen CA, Clubbe C, Craig MT, Ebinghaus R, Eble J, Fitzsimmons N, Gaither MR, Gan C-H, Gollock M, Guzman N, Graham NAJ, Harris A,Jones R, Keshavmurthy S, Koldewey HJK, Lundin CG, Mortimer JA, Obura D, Pfeiffer M, Price ARG, Purkis S, Raines P, Readman JW, Riegl B, Rogers A, Schleyer M, Seaward MRD, Sheppard ALS, Tamelander J, Turner JR, Visram S, Vogler C, Vogt S, Wolschke H, Yang JM-C, Yang S-Y,Yesson C
Journal: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Volume: 22
Pagination: 232–261
Keywords: British Indian Ocean Territory, Chagos, coral recovery, fisheries, island conservation, marine invasives, Marine protected area, reef disease, reef fishes, seamounts
The Chagos Archipelago was designated a no-take marine protected area (MPA) in 2010; it covers 550 000 km2, with more than 60 000 km2 shallow limestone platform and reefs. This has doubled the global cover of such MPAs.
It contains 25–50% of the Indian Ocean reef area remaining in excellent condition, as well as the world's largest contiguous undamaged reef area. It has suffered from warming episodes, but after the most severe mortality event of 1998, coral cover was restored after 10 years.
Coral reef fishes are orders of magnitude more abundant than in other Indian Ocean locations, regardless of whether the latter are fished or protected.
Coral diseases are extremely low, and no invasive marine species are known.
Genetically, Chagos marine species are part of the Western Indian Ocean, and Chagos serves as a 'stepping-stone' in the ocean.
The no-take MPA extends to the 200 nm boundary, and. includes 86 unfished seamounts and 243 deep knolls as well as encompassing important pelagic species.
On the larger islands, native plants, coconut crabs, bird and turtle colonies were largely destroyed in plantation times, but several smaller islands are in relatively undamaged state.
There are now 10 'important bird areas', coconut crab density is high and numbers of green and hawksbill turtles are recovering.
Diego Garcia atoll contains a military facility; this atoll contains one Ramsar site and several 'strict nature reserves'. Pollutant monitoring shows it to be the least polluted inhabited atoll in the world. Today, strict environmental regulations are enforced.
Shoreline erosion is significant in many places. Its economic cost in the inhabited part of Diego Garcia is very high, but all islands are vulnerable.
Chagos is ideally situated for several monitoring programmes, and use is increasingly being made of the archipelago for this purpose.
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1248
Short Title: Aquatic Conserv: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst.


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Remembering Mr. Collins.
Something wonderful happened when we started The Tiniest Tiger's facebook page. We met and became friends with many people that we would not have had the opportunity to meet without the power of social media. Our page was created to unite friends that love and care about all cats big and small. But we don't limit our love only for cats, we care for all living beings. [Read more…]


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"When embarking on a journey, never ask directions from someone who has never left home."
— an ancient Chinese proverb
My Winding Path...
"You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness." ~Brene' Brown
My life, like most of ours, is made up of stories. The most powerful elements of our stories are punctuated by our defining moments…those times when we had the greatest lesson or when we were at the proverbial 'fork in the road' or a pivotal moment. The following are two defining moments that has shaped my work and my life….
My 1st Small Business and Business Partner
I grew up in Camden, New Jersey…one mile from Philadelphia. The environment was blue collar and inner city. When I was 12 and my brother was 10, like most kids that age, we asked our Mom for an allowance, but as a single parent, my Mom could only provide the necessities.
Being the innovative kids we were, we made a deal…if she put up the starter money to buy an Italian Ice barrel…which was around $10, we would manage the rest…she agreed. Our deal? We would pay her back and for safety sake…we'd sell it in front of the school yard across the street from our house.
So that summer we took our Red Flyer wagon, a barrel of cherry Italian Ice, small cups for our confection, an ice cream scoop, a large umbrella, $5.00 in change and started our Italian Ice business.
Within a month we were selling cherry, orange and lemon Italian Ice in three different sizes. That summer we made $600 and in 1968…that was a lot of money…that was our 1st business…a partnership. My learning curves and lessons included understanding the value of money, the ups and down of supply/demand, and the benefits and challenges of a partnership.
Leading by example
Fast forward four years to 1972. At that time in a blue collar neighborhood, being a professional and a woman meant you were a secretary, a nurse or a teacher.
At 16, I had the opportunity to work for the Board of Education in City Hall as a co-op student, meaning, I attended school in the morning and in the afternoon, I went to work. To my surprise, there were women wearing suits, in charge, making decisions, traveling around the country and the world. They were my first glimpse of women in leadership positions…managing departments…replica rolex watches people reporting to them for guidance. Seeing these women, of all races, running things allowed me to see that the world was much larger than the diameter of my inner city environment and broader than the scope of my circumstance.
I remember declaring to my Mom, "I am going to college and become a business woman, with my name on the door and travel around the world!!!" I've been on the leader track ever since.
That summer had so much of an impact that I changed my high school academic track from Business Courses to College Preparatory. My experience at City Hall was a defining moment because it exposed me to different styles of leadership and especially in that time period…it validated that becoming a leader was possible for me, not just as a woman, but as a woman of color.
My Evolving Story
My defining moments have shaped my beliefs, molded me as an entrepreneur and developed me as a leader. My work as leadership consultant and collaboration strategist calls for me to help organizations leverage their leadership teams by aligning their practices with their desired outcomes...in essence, helping teams get out of their own way.
I believe we have a responsibility, as leaders, to create fertile ground for developing greatness in others by creating an environment that nurtures the human spirit while simultaneously achieving business results. I've witnessed proof of it time and time again.
With three decades in the leadership, learning and organizational development fields, I have the opportunity to serve numerous industries, in the areas of culture alignment, leadership development, performance improvement, change/transition management, group process and intentional dialogues.
The wisdom, challenges and paradoxes emerging led me to create a platform on LinkedIn called LEADing from the MIDDLE. We wanted to build a community for those leaders who are at middle-level leadership. My experience tells me there is a great opportunity for our organizations to thrive by leveraging the untapped ingenuity of our middle managers.
In 2013, I gave birth to my first book, a Special Printed Edition of insights and quotes entitled Waves of Influence: Words that Speak to Your Heart and Lift Your Spirit! The Special Printed Edition of Waves of Influence has beautiful photographs, at the beginning of each chapter, and at the end of each chapter you will find "Waves of Wonder". In 2016, the companion book, WOW! Insight into Your Highest Self, was created to assist readers further on the self-development journey.
When not guiding leadership teams, speaking and writing, I can be found in a neighborhood restaurant noodling ideas, laughing out loud with my friends, reading my Kindle at the local pancake house, or practicing being a citizen of the world. #leaders#books#lovestravel


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$9 billion Nghi Son refinery ready for operation
Vietnamese passport makes minor gain, still among world's least powerful
Two-month pepper export turnover reaches 138.8 million USD
FIFA expert to help develop Vietnamese women's football
Ho Chi Minh City: Festival promotes traditional Ao Dai charm
Vietnam's second refinery ready for operation
Cambodia starts issuing residency cards to ethnic Vietnamese
Vietnam, India share trust and common interests: President Quang
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Can Tho needs industrial reform: People's Committee
Farmers harvest rice in Can Tho City. The city's People's Committee says the city should move away from its over-reliance on rice and fishery production and reform its industrial sector. — Photo baocantho.com.vn The Can Tho People's Committee has called for industrial reform as the city's Industrial Production Index (IPI) is not growing as quickly as in other cities. At a meeting of the People's Committee, departments and district officials on Tuesday, the city's Department of Planning and Investment reported that Can Tho's IPI was 4.4 per cent lower than in January. In addition, the overall IPI in the first two months was only 5.63 per cent higher compared to the same period last year. This was the lowest IPI increase among other big cities in the country. Nguyen Minh Toai, director of the city's Department of Industry and Trade, said the city's rice harvest season had not arrived yet and workers were either on Tet (Lunar New Year) break or spending their time maintaining machinery for the harvest season. The city's IPI is mostly tied to rice and fishery production and processing, and will increase once the harvest season starts and workers resume their normal work load after Tet break, he said. However, the People's Committee said the city's low IPI was due to over-reliance on the rice and fishery sectors, which are insufficiently profitable and slowing the city's growth. The committee said the Department of Industry and Trade should work with other departments to introduce more advanced technologies… [Read full story]
Seafood processing for export - Illustrative image (Source: http://baocongthuong.com.vn) Can Tho (VNA) – The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho needs to accelerate industrial restructuring, towards creating breakthroughs in its economic growth, a local official has said. During a recent meeting with representatives from departments and sectors, Vice Chairman of the municipal People's Committee Truong Quang Hoai Nam urged the municipal Department of Industry and Trade to devise measures to promote industrial restructuring, especially high-tech industries. It is also necessary to adjust policies to encourage the development of support industry, and expand and development of new industries, he said. According…... [read more]
After 19 years of establishment and development, Can Tho City currently has five active industrial parks (IPs), along with one under construction and four under planning, with a total area of 2,267.65 hectares. The operation of these industrial parks has contributed greatly to the city's socio-economic development. Up to the present, Can Tho's Industrial Parks have attracted 214 projects with the total investment capital of USD 1.9 billion. The investment projects in these industrial parks have contributed to creating jobs for more than 32,000 employees and accounted for about 40 percent of the total revenue of the city. Particularly in…... [read more]
Can Tho needs investment in 9 projects worth $1.1 billion (23-07-2007) CAN THO — The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Can Tho is calling for domestic or foreign investment in nine projects worth a combined US$1.1 billion. Among the largest projects are a $500 million oil refinery with an annual capacity of 2.5 million tonnes of crude oil; a $480 million plant processing petroleum-based products; a 5 million-tonne-per year fertiliser factory; and a facility making veterinary medicines. Earlier, the city made a call-for-investment in a list of 33 projects, worth a combined $425 million, in such sectors as shipbuilding,…... [read more]
The nation's mechanical sector need radical reform despite its recent progress in quality and output, experts and policymakers agree.The consensus was expressed during a scientific workshop on future development of the mechanical sector held on Thursday in the northern province of Thai Nguyen, a location famous for rich minerals and robust mining activities.The workshop reaffirmed the mechanical sector's critical role in the country's modernisation and industrialisation efforts, and sought to identify obstacles and weaknesses hindering its growth.Participants also discussed appropriate policies to unleash the sector's full potential.According to reports by the mechanical sector's business association and the Ministry of Industry…... [read more]
Education in dire need of reform (09-01-2007) Two leading experts talked with Tuoi tre (Youth) and Tin tuc (News) about the state of education and scholastic reform, highlighting the challenges ahead for policymakers and academics alike. Professor Hoang Tuy says we should not build a university in all provinces without due consideration. In the global integration process, education must face many challenges. The fact of the matter is we need a higher skilled work force that can meet industry needs. If our universities do not progress, we will lack students in quality and quantity. A series of foreign universities will…... [read more]
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Doctor: Pain Has Never Killed Anyone/
By John Hsu, MD, Guest Columnist
The opioid problem with medicine began when The Joint Commission promoted the concept that pain is the fifth vital sign, and that patients should be asked about their pain and the quality of their treatment.
Ten years ago, when my hospital was undergoing an inspection, I clearly remember the examiner chastising me about my multimodal pain therapy and her concern that it would leave patients in pain. Clearly, doctors were put on alert that they could be sued for leaving a patient in pain.
Pain as a fifth vital sign is really contraindicated. Pain has never killed anyone, but opioids killed over 29,000 Americans last year. They don't have any vital signs.
Doctors are now at a crossroads. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has attached patient satisfaction scores to reimbursement. A patient comes to the office and demands pain meds. If the doctor prescribes pain meds, the doctor can not only lose their license, but go to jail for murder, as Dr. Lisa Tseng from Rowland Heights, CA has. Or they can risk poor patient satisfaction scores and, if they are a part of an accountable care organization (ACO), risk losing their employment.
Why are doctors burned out? Because other people have come between the doctor-patient relationship. I had a nurse tell me that she would put her 21 years in ICU up to my skills as a physician, to which I retorted that she still had to take orders from me.
This loss of respect amid the loss of autonomy is frightening. It is one of the major complaints doctors describe when they are asked about burnout and why they are leaving medicine. The healthcare team is no longer run by the doctor. It is run by nurses from the quality review department, enforcing best practices on physicians so protocols and guidelines set up by the government are followed.
I call that evidence-less based medicine. Guidelines have destroyed the doctor-patient relationship. Does the government really have patient interests at heart or is the government really just a big micromanager?
Perhaps the answer to the opioid problem lies with outside-the-box thinking. What if we correctly promote that pain must be present for us to live and that some pain is good? Unlike Patrick Henry, who said "Give me liberty or give me death," I personally would prefer to say, "Give me pain and give me liberty, but don't give me death."
Patients have a responsibility to take care of their own health. All prescriptions written by doctors and filled by pharmacists were written correctly. Yet some patients are not compliant and take too many pills. We all know we should not overeat, but 70% of the American public is obese. Humans are their own worst enemies. Unpopular as this stance may seem, it must be mentioned that while the population of the U.S. is 324 million, 259 million opioid prescription were written in in 2012.
The Joint Commission's edict that no patient should be in pain changed patients' expectations. Everyone expected and demanded to be pain free. But focusing on the short term discomfort experienced by those in pain ignores the long term goal of improving a patient's health.
The government (FDA, DEA, CDC and policymakers) has decided to restrict opioid prescriptions. This is logical, but does not address human nature. The end result has been that addicts and patients who cannot get prescription opioids have turned to cheaper and easily attainable $5 bags of heroin. Heroin deaths have quadrupled in the last decade. In 2015, over 10,000 people died from heroin overdoses. The situation is rapidly worsening, as illicit drug makers are mixing heroin with fentanyl, which is 70 times stronger than morphine.
The opioid conundrum has become readily apparent. Opioids may be the best treatment for pain, but they raise the risk of addiction, respiratory suppression, and death.
Cultural Shift Needed in Patient Education
The solutions needed for this dilemma include a cultural shift in the education physicians and nurses give to patients and the perception that pain is bad. We have to forsake the short term treatment of pain with opioids and look to the long term goal of preserving human life.
Let's look at patient satisfaction scores and medical education. Studies show that when patient satisfaction scores are considered in prescribing care to patients, their care is not only more expensive, but often worse -- resulting in higher morbidity and mortality. Despite this evidence, CMS has connected patient satisfaction scores to hospital reimbursement.
The Joint Commission has promoted an atmosphere where patients believe that they should never have to suffer pain and have the right to be "pain free." More opioids were prescribed, but often patients demanded and even threatened doctors if they did obtain pain relief. Doctors were accused of elder abuse and medical negligence if they did not prescribe pain medication, despite the lack of medical indications or consideration of narcotic alternatives.
Fast forward a decade and suddenly the government realized that more addicts existed and more people were overdosing. Nearly 19,000 people died in 2014 from opioid prescription overdoses legally obtained from physicians and correctly filled by pharmacists. The government ironically declared that doctors were to blame.
The government could not blame patients for the problem, even though the general consensus is that patients were non-compliant with their prescribed opioid doses and shared their narcotics with family and friends. Patients were not blamed for their actions because they vote and they reelect government officials.
The government's solution to the current opioid overdose epidemic was a policy change. The FDA and CDC forced physicians to limit opioid prescriptions, and increased the difficulty of prescribing opioids by changing the scheduling of hydrocodone from Schedule III to Schedule II. The government also began criminally prosecuting physicians for murder, even though the patient was noncompliant and overdosed on opioids.
Why did the The Joint Commission, representing the federal government, have to get involved in medicine? Why should a federal entity interfere with the doctor-patient relationship? It is not our fault that policies make us do certain things we believe are not in the best interest of the patient.
The Hippocratic Oath directs physicians to not allow outside influences effect their patient care decisions. I would like to see medicine practiced so that the government can no longer come between patients and their doctors. Let us amend the constitution so that there is a separation of medicine and state, just like the separation of church and state.
John Hsu, MD, has been practicing anesthesia at 600-bed hospital inCalifornia for the past 23 years.
Dr. Hsu recently founded MedRev Pharma, a pharmaceutical development company which is developing a safer opioid that minimizes the risk of abuse, addiction and respiratory depression. Dr. Hsu is also the Director of SBS Medical Management, a consultation service that addresses issues relating to healthcare reform policies, physician practice management, and medical devices.
Pain News Network invites other readers to share their stories with us. Send them to: email@example.com.
The information in this column should not be considered as professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. It is for informational purposes only and represents the author's opinions alone. It does not inherently express or reflect the views, opinions and/or positions of Pain News Network.


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AXIS/GFA Architecture + Design was retained by ABA Hospitality to design a 105 room new build hotel on a prominent site located on Oceanside Blvd. just west of Hwy 5 in this Northern San Diego County community that is less than 5 miles from Legoland and renowned for its great beaches. The unique challenge of the project is minimizing the cut and fill on a steeply sloping site and mitigating the visual impact of the retaining walls. The design team has employed the use of a series of terraced and structural walls accented with native landscaping. The conceptual design has been completed and the owner is pursuing entitlement. The approval process is expected to take 12 months.
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It's always nice to receive a Christmas card with a little bit of interest and I think these folk tale cards do the job very nicely. Read on to discover a few nice (and not so nice) Christmas traditions from around the world . . .
Hadley is a very small business (at the moment!) and one of the perks of this is that I know a lot of my stockists personally and really love the shops they run. I thought this blog would be a nice opportunity to talk to them and also to show off about some of the gorgeous shops you can find my cards in.
First up is Rooms of E5. I know Kentaro from my antiques days: I would always see him around the boots and fairs with a granny trolley for his treasure. He really gets stuck in to the finding the best bits and it shows; the shop is just gorgeous. I thought I'd start off with really the hard hitting questions . . .
What's your favourite colour? And why?
It would have to be green. I have amassed a large collection of green objects mostly from the thirties to fifties. When I first opened Rooms the shop became known for its green cabinet. There are so many shades of green which suit every interior and period and so is always a certain talking point when a customer comes in! My mother is Japanese and I associate the colour so much with the earthy limes of matcha tea or the emerald green of melon soda. In fact you really should look that up, it's the most shocking shade you've ever seen. I love bakelite green items as well as colourful plastic objects which I collect every time I visit relatives.
It's obvious you really love curating and arranging Rooms are you ever entirely happy with how it looks? Or are you a forever-tweaking and changing kind of person?
There have definitely been times when I've been completely happy with the way the shop has been curated but objects pass through Rooms so frequently that tweaking and rearranging will always be something I do every day. With my background in styling for photo shoots I'm constantly playing with the placement of objects and how shapes and colours play off each other and for that reason I'll always spot something that can change or be moved to a new home in the shop!
What's your best display tip?
From a retail point of view it absolutely has to be about accessibility and visibility but this ethos can sometimes be at odds with the vibe of the shop. Rooms should be abundant and shopping in it should be an experience. I love sourcing from different places be it the auctions and antique shops in Clare, Suffolk to a dilapidated house I recently stumbled upon whilst visiting family in Japan. I want my customers to have a glimpse of this process and feel somewhat close to the thrill I get when I find the perfect object.
What is it about antiques?
I love the stories each piece holds, the history and the connections to the person and their possession.
For example, I purchased a large Victorian desk with bookcase that had been formed by marrying a mid Victorian piano and parts of an earlier library bookcase together, the result is a lovely but rather out if proportion item! It's all about context and I love the fact that when inherit an object it suddenly takes on a new history and by placing it with other objects the stories become endless.
Do you get disappointed if someone buys something that really tied the shop together?
The shop is all about the bigger picture and although I grow attached to certain items I can't be precious about what I let go, especially when it goes to someone who's picked it out and obviously loves it! If the success of my shop relied on one object it'd be a cause for concern. Luckily there will always be another beautiful piece that will fit right in.
Have you made any really exciting purchases recently?
I recently purchased a beautiful large highly ornate 1890s gilt overmantel mirror. I'd had my dining room renovated and had been searching for the perfect piece to tie everything together. The mirror has become the crowning glory of the room and guests frequently comment on it whilst we're having supper!
Are there any secrets to running a successful shop? Tell us please!
Passion for your product and the ability to speak to different customers and work out what they want. Starting your own shop is hard work and the long hours both in an out of opening times can seem thankless but a grand idea will keep you focussed on the end goal.
What are your customers like?
I have broad mix of customers including artists, prop & food stylists, art directors and designers looking for interesting and unusual objects and furniture as well as families looking for practical storage. The kettle is never far from being boiled for one of my impromptu chats with a regular. It's been a great way to meet and make new friends from all walks of life.
Which Hadley cards sells best for you?
The little house delights and sells well but I think the smiling face with its crisp green envelope is my best seller of yours.
What did you do before becoming a shop keeper extraordinaire? What was your journey to Rooms?
On leaving school I went to Middlesex University where I did their foundation art course, after which I went to LCF where I studied fashion styling and photography for two years which led to me working with fashion stylists and photographers. I was then lucky enough to meet the late Isabella Blow whom I assisted for eight wonderful turbulent months after that I had a year's break and decided to change direction and went into interior design assisting Camilla Guinness for four years.
Does your aesthetic reflect your politics/world-view/personality?
I can't stand waste and believe this is something that has an impact on everyone and will become more and more apparent as time goes on. I'm known amongst friends for being almost aggressive in my drive to recycle and prevent waste. Perhaps without me knowing the shop in some way reflects this. A lot of the items I sell represent beautiful craft from times gone by and are still strong and functioning and have so much to offer still in our modern lives.
Would you put an ugly chair in your house if it was really, really, really comfy?
Absolutely not.
Do you have a tactic for those times when you get gifted something truly hideous for your house?
Sell them carefully and secretly!
Thank you Kentaro you lovely bean!
Look at these beautiful naive pieces of needlework . . .
I recently had the pleasure of perusing the website of Robert Young Antiques after I was sent a nice picture of one of their pieces by the ever wonderful Madeleine. (I was lying in bed with Maggie the marmalade cat asleep on me if you need a fuller picture)
Aren't these needleworks wonderful? So very inspiring: the sense of flattened perspective and the meticulous attention to detail in very specific and unexpected areas. I love that an artist might spend a long time picking out every single rope on a ships rigging but then show the see as a plane of blue: it shows where their interest lies. I will pop these images in my visual memory bank and see if some new cards might pop out.
On a moderately related note: I get really cross when creative people steal visual ideas from their peers, it's so counter-productive and anyone who does it is only putting themselves at a disadvantage. My advice if you ever need a little visual inspiration is to go way back, get historical on it, I like to look at medieval imagery: things were just better then . . . actually that's probably not true, what with the plagues and pestilence and feudal society and all that. For an example of what I mean by 'better' you simply have to look at an image search for 'mermaid', then adjust it to 'medieval mermaid' - see, much better.
Can you see a slight medieval vibe in the prints in the shop now?
I've made new business cards and they're tiny greeting cards complete with tiny envelopes - really cute. I hope it might entice folks to take them as I'm off to Top Drawer at the weekend! My first ever trade show, exciting stuff.
I'm not a tidy studio worker: I often leave designs laid around unfinished for ages, I need to have things out where I can see them or they never get finished but I think there's a certain beauty in busy studios.
Here's a little sneak peek of the brain of the Hadley studio in case you're interested.
My Granny's collection of Indian nesting baskets crammed full of random sewing bits. I like to have things of sentimental value where I work.
Paste! For making paste paper. I'll upload instructions on how to make it soon.
Very low quality block printing ink, I love the goopy quality of it
BOXES. I can't throw a little box away - they're so handy! It's a curse
My glue shelf - because when you make collage you're basically a professional glue spreader, there's a real art to gluing things right.
My Mandrake print - got to have a reminder of the end point: what it's all about.
Very expensive Gouache! A real investment set there - from AJ Fitzpatrick, I love gouache, it's the most supreme paint, you can use it in so many different ways. Maybe I'll go in to that a little more in another post too.
The pretty pot graveyard. I have many pots for brushes, rollers, pens - you name it. If a pretty pot gets a bit broken in the kitchen it I snaffle it for my shelf and if I'm at a car boot and find a useless but pretty pot I have the perfect excuse to buy it. Perks of the job.
These drawers are incredible, everything goes in them. I know that's not handy because they were such a brilliant find that isn't replicable. If only Ikea did their Moppe drawers in a massive size it would be the perfect piece of studio furniture.
If you're looking for a really cute gift for a little person I would really recommend a tiny boiler suit from biz-e-kids - they're so, so sweet and really perfect for any child who likes to keep busy all the time (that must be all of them right?).
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Greetings all. With oil prices rising and likely topping $100 per barrel in the New Year, I revisited a favorite subject in the Long Island Press this week. This week's Off The Reservation is an update to a cover story penned two years ago about the oil speculation scandal in 2008 that artificially drove prices through the roof.
Returning to the subject, I found that not much had changed. A couple of the players, perhaps, but the speculation scheme is alive and well. So when you read projections from "industry analysts" who see crude oil prices rising due to a weak dollar and surging demand, you'll know the real deal. Don't get me wrong, these are key drivers of crude oil but are far from the entire picture. There are those who believe that pricing for the last several years is anywhere between 60% and 70% as a result of speculation; the remainder is due to market forces.
So when you're at the pump cursing the Saudi's, China, Obama, the Fed – whatever your poison – the biggest ass f#$*ing is still coming from Wall Street.


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s06e18 "Burn This"
Recapping Season 6, Episode 18 of Pretty Little Liars. Ezra hypnotizes Aria into having two boyfriends by making her an author she can't recuse, Hanna is shitty to everyone, especially her OTP Mona, because no one is #Janna, so A blows up her bachelorette party, Emily traces down the source of that Airwolf monster truck engine noise, but her investigation hits a wall until she finds a new clue by staring at Mona's ass, and Spencer defends Spaleb to her father Nolan North, and brutish Toby, and flashes back to the time Spoby was that one Ben Folds Five song.
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We're seeing a lot of advice lately on how to make the best Christmas cocktails. Use hot chocolate, mix in eggnog, and it's gotta be topped with whipped cream sprinkled with fresh Indonesian nutmeg shavings and garnished with a cinnamon stick imported from a cooperative in Sri Lanka.
Good grief.
Let's keep this simple. We took three classic cocktails and gave them the Rogue Spirits treatment. You won't have to wander the stores looking for the ingredients. Best of all, we put them together in a easy-to-use guide that you can print and bring with you to your Christmas celebrations.
Made with actual spruce tips, our Spruce Gin will take you over the river and through the woods whether you own a sleigh or not.
Yaquina Head is a basalt headland near our hometown of Newport, Oregon. It extends a full mile from the coast into the Pacific Ocean. Our Oregon Rye Whiskey stands out too, with a spicy aroma that you can only get with rye in the mash.
A spirited version of Rogue's Dead Guy Ale, our Dead Guy Whiskey is based on Brewmaster John Maier's classic recipe. If you're in the mood for an Old Fashioned Christmas, this cocktail can't be beat.
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Avengers Midwest
Deadly Nightshade
Beautiful but dangerous
Lia Yancy is a pretty half-Asian girl with long brown hair and striking violet eyes. Her preferred casual dress is a leather jacket over the latest urban chic—usually off-the-shoulder T-shirts, leather pants or acid-washed jeans, and lots of chains. Lia's costume as Deadly Nightshade is a purple bodysuit with thigh-high green boots, green gloves, and a deep purple domino mask, along with a dark green waist sash or silver crossed belts. In her costumed identity, Lia dyes her hair vibrant pink with her natural chemical secretions to further conceal herself.
As Deadly Nightshade, Lia's powers include the ability to generate emotion-altering pheromones, turn her own bodily secretions into powerful poisons or acids, and natural bone spurs that she can extend into lethal weapons. Lia is constantly holding back from her real level of lethality in an effort to "play nice," but her powers could make her an extremely deadly combatant.
Lia Yancy is a half-Hmong girl from the greater Chicago area. Her father fought in the Vietnam War, and her mother was a Hmong fighter helping the American forces against the Communists. From a young age, Lia showed the rebelliousness of both of her parents, and it was only a matter of time before she fell in with a bad crowd.
During one of her gang's outings, she wound up being exposed to a chemical spill that made her very sick—but when she was well, she discovered that she had gained amazing powers! She swore off her former associates and decided to use her newfound powers to help people, which eventually led to her being asked to join the Midwest Avengers.


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'A Plastic Ocean' Special Screening
CAPIM will host a special screening of 'A Plastic Ocean', a multi award-winning documentary on the ecological impacts of plastic pollution.
This event will be a unique opportunity to meet film producer Jo Ruxton, on an official visit to Australia. Jo will introduce the film, provide behind-the-scenes stories and update on the current and future initiatives of the Plastic Oceans Foundation "to change the world's attitude towards plastic within a generation".
In this documentary, an international team of adventurers, researchers, and Ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the surface of our seemingly pristine Ocean. The result will astound viewers–just as it did our adventurers–who captured never-before-seen images of marine life, plastic pollution, and its ultimate consequences for human health.
Filmed in 20 locations around the world, 'A Plastic Ocean' documents in beautiful and chilling detail the global effects of plastic pollution and introduces workable technology and policy solutions that can, if implemented in time, change things for the better.
Light refreshments will be precede the screening, which will be followed by Q&A.
This is a free public event. Gold coin donations are welcome.
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(This review first appeared at Spectrum Culture on March 2, 2017.)
I have a good friend from high school who plays the tabla. He took up the Indian instrument in the mid-'90s, when he was just a Jewish kid in central-Jersey, listening to Talk Talk and Ozric Tentacles and Bela Fleck. One of the local college radio stations, Princeton University's fiercely eclectic WPRB, had (and still has) a regular Saturday morning show devoted to Indian music of all stripes, and that's how he'd first heard the sound and become obsessed. Not long after first exposure, he was taking lessons from Lenny Seidman, a Jewish guy from Philadelphia whose studio of young protégés was curiously well-populated with young Jewish kids from the suburbs. The next decade or so would take him from New Jersey to CalArts in SoCal, then to the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, and on to Kolkata, India, all in pursuit of mastery on an instrument he'd first heard by chance on the radio.
At this point, the two of us don't get together all that often, but not too long ago we spent a late evening drinking beer and listening to strange music. The beer wasn't memorable, but the music has stayed with me, from Morton Feldman to Kool Keith, Scritti Politti to Kneebody. At some point we talked about how much had changed since high school and the days of digging through dusty bins of used LPs, CDs and cassettes at our local independent record mecca. Interestingly enough, this friend of mine now works on music recommendations at Spotify, so it's certainly not lost on him (or on me) how much easier it now is to get your ears around strange music, new or old. Back then, pre-internet, it used to take real effort (and real money), and it wasn't at all unusual to go weeks or months without being able to hear something you'd never heard before. Now you can just dial up whatever you might want (and a whole lot more that you probably don't want besides). My friend speculated that if he'd been a teenager now instead of then, he probably would have heard the intriguing sounds of the tabla and then spent a few days obsessively listening to whatever he could find online before moving on to something else, his future life's trajectory not significantly altered.
Ben Ratliff's book Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty is ostensibly about this sea change in how we encounter and acquire new music. In the introduction he makes a compelling case for what it means to be "listening in the time of the cloud" by suggesting that we as listeners/consumers are more powerful now than ever before. He says that that power exists primarily in the form of potential, which we can choose to use (or not), and he warns that our power could be used against us (as streaming services like Apple Music, Pandora and Spotify charge us to listen while collecting our data for free). Ratliff argues that well-used potential could take the form of "a fresh kind of aural reception, an ability to size up a song and contextualize it in a new or personal way, rather than immediately rejecting it based on an external idea of genre or style."
Of course, this more democratic approach to listening has always been available. It's just that file-sharing and music streaming services have made much more music available to a much larger segment of the population. (It's no longer just the obsessives with money and proximity to a good record store who are empowered to trek to the furthest reaches of the musical landscape.) In that sense, Every Song Ever is not so much about the vast potential of the cloud as it is about how we could listen and what we could listen for. To that end, each one of the book's 20 chapters is devoted to a specific sonic quality that can be found in a wide variety of musical forms and styles; there are, for instance, chapters about repetition, speed, virtuosity, sadness, density, improvisation and so on. And the songs and symphonies and other selections that Ratliff highlights traverse a wide variety of musical styles and traditions.
But why, in the time of the cloud, is Ratliff's book not accompanied by some sort of online or otherwise digital component? Each chapter is followed by a handy list of the musicians and works discussed in the pages that precede it. Ratlif could have easily provided playlists for each chapter on a preferred streaming service. No matter. It was easy enough to put together the playlists myself, turning to YouTube for the few selections that weren't available on Spotify. True to the book's title, (nearly) everything was readily available online. Even something like Janet Cardiff's 40-speaker sound installation, "The Forty Part Motet," yielded several pages of relevant results on YouTube. There was only one possible exception: Chapter 10, subtitled "Endless Inventory," deals with the completist impulse and its failure in the face of hyper-prolific artists like Fela Kuti, Merzbow and the Grateful Dead. Still, even much of that can be tracked down with the right torrent search.
Ratliff's prose, meanwhile, is clear enough and his ideas are thought-provoking if not altogether compelling. He's been a music critic for The New York Times for over two decades, and has clearly been a sensitive and enthusiastic music listener for much longer than that, so there's reason for him to claim authority on the subject. At the same time, his tone can tend toward being too authoritative, with his statements on a given topic at times veering sharply toward pronouncement in a way that might be off-putting to some. Consider an assertion like this: "Speed has no practical purpose in music. It doesn't inherently increase or enhance the feeling of the notes themselves, or the listener's physical pleasure." Maybe so. Maybe not. Ratliff is reliably able to make a compelling case for his ideas—when he takes the time to do so—but I found that statements like these made me want to talk it out, to better understand where Ratliff might be coming from, to offer conflicting arguments or counterexamples and, ultimately, to listen to more music. Admittedly, that's not a bad outcome for a book dedicated to listening more and listening more effectively.


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