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Orthostatic hypotension
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Synonyms and Keywords: Postural hypotension; orthostatic intolerance; head rush; dizzy spell
Orthostatic hypotension is a sudden fall in blood pressure, typically greater than 20/10 mm Hg, that occurs when a person assumes a more vertical postion such as from sitting to standing or from lying down to sitting or standing , usually after a prolonged period of rest.
Common Causes
Common causes of orthostatic hypotension may include:[1]
- Medical conditions:
- Pregnancy
- Heart problems: Bradycardia, heart valve problems, heart attack and heart failure.
- Dehydration: Fever, vomiting, severe diarrhea, overuse of diuretics and strenuous exercise can lead to dehydration.
- Endocrine problems
- Blood loss
- Septicemia
- Aanaphylaxis: reaction include foods, certain medications, insect venoms and latex.
- Anemia: Lack of nutrients (vitamins B-12, folate)
- Medication:
- Apomorphine hydrochloride
- Bromocriptine
- Cidofovir
- Entacapone
- Ethacrynic Acid
- Fluphenazine
- Hydrochlorothiazide
- Iloperidone
- Loxapine
- Niacin
- Pergolide
- Perphenazine
- Rasagiline
- Risperidone
- Ritonavir
- Rotigotine
- Thioridazine hydrochloride
- Thiothixene,
- Tiagabine
- Vincristine sulfate liposome
- Orthostatic hypotension is primarily caused by gravity-induced blood pooling in the lower extremities, which in turn compromises venous return, resulting in decreased cardiac output and subsequently lowering of arterial pressure. For example, if a person changes from a lying position to standing, he or she will lose about 700 ml of blood from the thorax. It can also be noted that although there is a decreased systolic (contracting) blood pressure, there is actually an increased diastolic (resting) blood pressure. However, the overall effect is an insufficient blood perfusion in the upper part of the body.
- Still, the blood pressure does not normally fall very much, because it immediately triggers a vasoconstriction, pressing the blood up into the body again. Therefore, a secondary factor is required that, in turn, cause a fall in blood pressure greater than normal. Such factors include hypovolemia, associated disease states, pharmacotherapy, or, very rarely, safety harnesses[2].
- Drug side effects
Orthostatic hypotension may be caused by hypovolemia (a decreased amount of blood in the body), resulting from bleeding, the excessive use of diuretics, vasodilators, or other types of drugs, dehydration, or prolonged bed rest. It also occurs in people with anemia ,pregnancy in females and venous varicosities .Certain circulating endogenous vasodilators which causes hyperbardykinism and mastocytosis may also cause postural hypotension.
The disorder may be associated with Addison's disease, atherosclerosis (build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries), amyloidosis, alcohol neuropathy, spinal cord disease, multiple sclerosis, multiple cerebral infarcts, Tabes Dorsalis, Syringomyelia, idiopathic orthostatic hypotension, diabetes, carcinoid syndrome, pheochromocytoma, and certain neurological disorders including Shy-Drager syndrome and other forms of dysautonomia. It is also associated with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
It is also present in many patients with Parkinson's Disease resulting from sympathetic denervation of the heart or as a side effect of dopaminomimetic therapy. This rarely leads to syncope unless the patient has developed true autonomic failure or has an unrelated cardiac problem.
Orthostatic hypotension can result from antihypertensive medicines such as diuretics especially furosemide, Lisinopril and Hydrochlorothiazide, Beta Blockers, Calcium channel blockers and ACE Inhibitors,Prazosin and Tamsulosin which is a drug for treatment of Benign prostatic hyperplasia. Nitrates have shown to cause side effects of postural hypotension. It can also be the side effect of certain anti-psychotics such as Clozapine, zotepine, Olanzapine, neuroleptics ,sedative hypnotics and anti-depressants, such as duloxetine, tricyclics[3] or MAOIs.[4] It is also a side effect of the short-term use of marijuana. like Nabilone.[5] Dopamine agonists such as Pramipexole, and ropinirole can cause orthostatic hypotension.
The use of a safety harness can also contribute to orthostatic hypotension in the event of a fall. While a harness may safely rescue its user from a fall, the leg loops of a standard safety or climbing harness further restrict return blood flow from the legs to the heart, contributing to the decrease in blood pressure.
Risk Factors
Common risk factors in the development of orthostatic hypotension include:[6][7]
- Age (y>65)
- Medications (alpha blockers)
- Disease: Parkinson's disease, diabetes
- Postpartum mothers
- Patients who have been on bedrest.
Natural History
- The symptoms of orthostatic hypotension usually develop in the first/ second/ third decade of life, and start with symptoms such as ___.
- The symptoms of (disease name) typically develop ___ years after exposure to ___.
- If left untreated, [#]% of patients with [disease name] may progress to develop [manifestation 1], [manifestation 2], and [manifestation 3].
Common complications of orthostatic hypotension include:[8][9]
- Moderate low blood pressure:
- Severely low blood pressure:
- Heart damage (Heart failur)
- Brian damage (Stroke)
- Prognosis is generally excellent/good/poor, and the 1/5/10-year mortality/survival rate of patients with [disease name] is approximately [--]%.
- Depending on the extent of the [tumor/disease progression] at the time of diagnosis, the prognosis may vary. However, the prognosis is generally regarded as poor/good/excellent.
- The presence of [characteristic of disease] is associated with a particularly [good/poor] prognosis among patients with [disease/malignancy].
- [Subtype of disease/malignancy] is associated with the most favorable prognosis.
- The prognosis varies with the [characteristic] of tumor; [subtype of disease/malignancy] have the most favorable prognosis.
History and Symptoms
Symptoms, which generally occur after sudden standing, include dizziness, lightheadedness, headache, blurred or dimmed vision (possibly to the point of momentary blindness), and fainting. They are consequences of insufficient blood pressure and cerebral perfusion(blood supply).
- The diagnosis of [disease name] is made when at least [number] of the following [number] diagnostic criteria are met:
- [criterion 1]
- [criterion 2]
- [criterion 3]
- [criterion 4]
Physical Examination
- Patients with orthostatic hypotension usually appear well, pallor and tiredness. [13]
- Physical examination may be remarkable for:
- Fall in blood pressure, typically greater than 20/10 mm
Medical Therapy
There are medications to treat hypotension. In addition, there are many lifestyle advices. Many of them, however, are specific for a certain cause of orthostatic hypotension.
Some drugs that are used in the treatment of orthostatic hypotension include fludrocortisone (Florinef), erythropoietin and midodrine. Pyridostigmine bromide (Mestinon) is now also used to treat orthostatic hypotension.[14][15][16]
- Treatment of neurogenic orthostatic hypotension:[17]
- Avoid triggers: large meals, hot bath, prolong standig
Lifestyle Advice
Some suggestions for minimizing the effects include:
- Checking blood pressure regularly with a home monitoring kit. Check when lying flat and when standing as well as when symptoms occur.
- Standing slowly rather than quickly, as the delay can give the blood vessels more time to constrict properly. This can help avoid incidents of syncope (fainting).
- Take a deep breath and flex your abdominal muscles while rising to maintain blood and oxygen in the brain. This, however, may be contraindicated in individuals with Stage 3 hypertension. Usually medical personnel have their patients "dangle" before rising from bed to decrease the likelihood of dizziness / falling due to orthostatic hypotension. The dangling is done by having the patient sit on the side of their bed for about a minute so they do not have the sudden dizziness.
- Maintaining an elevated salt intake, through sodium supplements or electrolyte-enriched drinks. A suggested value is 10 g per day; overuse can lead to hypertension and should be avoided.
- Maintaining a proper fluid intake to prevent the effects of dehydration.
- As eating lowers blood pressure, eat multiple smaller meals rather than fewer larger meals. Take extra care when standing after eating.
- When orthostatic hypotension is caused by hypovolemia due to medications, the disorder may be reversed by adjusting the dosage or by discontinuing the medication.
- When the condition is caused by prolonged bed rest, improvement may occur by sitting up with increasing frequency each day. In some cases, physical counterpressure such as elastic hose or whole-body inflatable suits may be required.
- ↑ Hohmann M, Künzel W (1991). "Orthostatic hypotension and birthweight". Arch. Gynecol. Obstet. 248 (4): 181–9. doi:10.1007/bf02390357. PMID 1898124.
- ↑ Suspension trauma. Lee C, Porter KM.
- ↑ Jiang W, Davidson JR. (2005). "Antidepressant therapy in patients with ischemic heart disease". Am Heart J. 150 (5): 871–81. PMID 16290952.
- ↑ Delini-Stula A, Baier D, Kohnen R, Laux G, Philipp M, Scholz HJ. (1999). "Undesirable blood pressure changes under naturalistic treatment with moclobemide, a reversible MAO-A inhibitor--results of the drug utilization observation studies". Pharmacopsychiatry. 32 (2): 61–7. PMID 10333164.
- ↑ Jones RT. (2002). "Cardiovascular system effects of marijuana". J Clin Pharmacol. 42 (11 Suppl): 58S–63S. PMID 12412837.
- ↑ Arnold, Amy C.; Shibao, Cyndya (2013). "Current Concepts in Orthostatic Hypotension Management". Current Hypertension Reports. 15 (4): 304–312. doi:10.1007/s11906-013-0362-3. ISSN 1522-6417.
- ↑ Canobbio, Mary M.; Warnes, Carole A.; Aboulhosn, Jamil; Connolly, Heidi M.; Khanna, Amber; Koos, Brian J.; Mital, Seema; Rose, Carl; Silversides, Candice; Stout, Karen (2017). "Management of Pregnancy in Patients With Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Scientific Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association". Circulation. 135 (8). doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000000458. ISSN 0009-7322.
- ↑ Romero-Ortuno R, Cogan L, Foran T, Kenny RA, Fan CW (April 2011). "Continuous noninvasive orthostatic blood pressure measurements and their relationship with orthostatic intolerance, falls, and frailty in older people". J Am Geriatr Soc. 59 (4): 655–65. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03352.x. PMID 21438868.
- ↑ Ricci, Fabrizio; Fedorowski, Artur; Radico, Francesco; Romanello, Mattia; Tatasciore, Alfonso; Di Nicola, Marta; Zimarino, Marco; De Caterina, Raffaele (2015). "Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality related to orthostatic hypotension: a meta-analysis of prospective observational studies". European Heart Journal. 36 (25): 1609–1617. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehv093. ISSN 0195-668X.
- ↑ Bleasdale-Barr KM, Mathias CJ (July 1998). "Neck and other muscle pains in autonomic failure: their association with orthostatic hypotension". J R Soc Med. 91 (7): 355–9. doi:10.1177/014107689809100704. PMC 1296807. PMID 9771493.
- ↑ Khurana RK (July 2012). "Coat-hanger ache in orthostatic hypotension". Cephalalgia. 32 (10): 731–7. doi:10.1177/0333102412449932. PMID 22711896.
- ↑ Robertson D, Kincaid DW, Haile V, Robertson RM (June 1994). "The head and neck discomfort of autonomic failure: an unrecognized aetiology of headache". Clin. Auton. Res. 4 (3): 99–103. doi:10.1007/bf01845772. PMID 7994169.
- ↑ Stewart JM (May 2013). "Common syndromes of orthostatic intolerance". Pediatrics. 131 (5): 968–80. doi:10.1542/peds.2012-2610. PMC 3639459. PMID 23569093.
- ↑ Singer W, Opfer-Gehrking TL, McPhee BR, Hilz MJ, Bharucha AE, Low PA. (2003). "Acetylcholinesterase inhibition: a novel approach in the treatment of neurogenic orthostatic hypotension". J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 74 (9): 1294–8. PMID 12933939.
- ↑ Figueroa, J. J.; Basford, J. R.; Low, P. A. (2010). "Preventing and treating orthostatic hypotension: As easy as A, B, C". Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 77 (5): 298–306. doi:10.3949/ccjm.77a.09118. ISSN 0891-1150.
- ↑ Freeman, Roy; Abuzinadah, Ahmad R.; Gibbons, Christopher; Jones, Pearl; Miglis, Mitchell G.; Sinn, Dong In (2018). "Orthostatic Hypotension". Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 72 (11): 1294–1309. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2018.05.079. ISSN 0735-1097.
- ↑ Freeman, Roy; Abuzinadah, Ahmad R.; Gibbons, Christopher; Jones, Pearl; Miglis, Mitchell G.; Sinn, Dong In (2018). "Orthostatic Hypotension". Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 72 (11): 1294–1309. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2018.05.079. ISSN 0735-1097.
External Links
- John G. Bradley, M.D., and Kathy A. Davis, R.N. Orthostatic Hypotension American Family Physician
- DYNA Dysautonomia Youth Network of America, Inc.


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There are four methods of consuming marijuana these days eating edibles, dabbing, smoking and vaporizing. Simplified consumers smoke it, eat it, vape it or dab it. Of course, each of these four methods has numerous options among them. For now, we are focusing specifically on the differences between smoking and vaporizing marijuana.
Conduction versus Combustion versus Convection
The image below illustrates the differences between conduction, combustion, and convection. Simply put Convection is the heat source that is necessary to vape. Combustion is needed in order to smoke. Conduction is that area snaking the edge of combustion. Heated enough to almost spark but no actual flame has occurred. Conductions temperature are well over the threshold to be considered vaporizing.
- Combustion – using a flame, very high heat (see below)
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Each of the variant types, stains, and breeds has a threshold boiling point. This variant will affect the type of device used to consume. To simplify, the higher the temperature the more toxins that are released or could be released.
- Vaporizing: occurs between 325 – 400 degrees, the optimal range of temperature is 350 – 375 degrees.
- Smoking: occurs between 375 degrees and higher or when a flame has been created.
Smoking Marijuana
Possible Side Effects – Respiratory issues and aggravation, chronic cough, munchies, asthma, COPD, lung disease, a lingering smell, yellowed teeth, and fingers
Types of Smoking Varieties
(Direct quotes in this section had been found and are being shared with special thanks to the writers of the Urban Dictionary.)
- Blunts – marijuana is wrapped in a cigar-like paper or a hollowed out cigar and smoked in the same manner as a joint. Blunts tend to not burn as hot or as quickly. Can be a harsher than average alternative to smoke.
- Bongs – I found best described by the urban dictionary, "a device made of clay, ceramic, plastic tubing or PVC, glass, a two-liter coke bottles, or any other man-made or fabricated substance that is normally filled with water to smoke fine and tasty nuggets of marijuana with; can be of varying lengths and sizes"
- Bowls – "the part of a marijuana (weed, pot, ganja, etc.) pipe in which the marijuana is placed (packed) to be smoked. it may have a little hole (carb) on the side of it, which you cover while you are inhaling the marijuana smoke while holding the whole pipe and smoking." This can include things like a crafted toilet paper tube, aluminum can, aluminum foil, random fittings found everywhere or as classy as a hand was blown glass piece and are also found in various lengths and sizes.
- Bubblers – "A device used for smoking pot. Different from a bong in that a bubbler tends to be smaller, and does not have a removable bowl. In a bong, when you want to pull your hit through, you take out the bong. In a bubbler, you let go of the shottie (a hole in the side). The concept behind a bubbler is similar to a pipe, except there is water involved."
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E-cigs Necessary Accessories – Glass Screen Filter: add to the e-cigs to keep from combusting. Not all brands offer this accessory so be watchful when purchasing.
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Possible side effects – Respiratory issues, chronic cough, asthma, COPD, increased heart rate or racing heart
I am sure like many of the doctors that the possible vaporizing side effects with change over time as vapes are still relatively new items.
Types of Vaporizer Varieties
- Dry herb vaporizers – such as the common e-cig, may or may not allow the product to touch the heating element, little is truly known as few test have been done. These most commonly heat up dry plant parts.
- Vape Pens – tend to be used to heat up a concentrated cannabis oil or wax.
- Vapes made of plastic – can be known to release a volatile array of toxins as the plastic gets hot or even starts to melt.
- Vapes with glass parts – lessen the toxic risks as little to no plastic parts but hold a higher cost.
Potential issues arise when vaping oils and waxes. They are known to all have a different extraction process. They might have additives that are unknown. Could contain harsh chemicals. They lack any sort of regulations while also risking consumers to inhale potentially harmful solvents.
THC levels are also hard to know or regulate. In the plant form, the average THC levels are 10-20% whereas in the waxes and oils this THC level could jump as high as 70% and up.
Is Vaporizing Marijuana Healthier than Smoking Marijuana
We have very little way of knowing what the effects are of the act of smoking or vaping as cannabis research is desperately lacking. We have access to even less information on the effects of vaping, vaporizers (long term or short term).
Tests and Studies – Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment recently found in a study that vaping marijuana can lead to ammonia in the vapor measuring toxic levels. Asthma attacks, lung irritations, and ill effects on the nervous systems are a few issues known to be caused by ammonia. The report, however, did not give any more details than that currently.
According to one Dr. Mitch Earleywine when asked about the medical risks quoted: "Anything that lights the plant on fire creates respiratory irritants." It is said that vaporizing marijuana emits a vapor that is as much as 80-98% free from smoke as well as a carcinogen, though this percentage varies by study and report.
Smoke High versus Vape High
- Smoke High – is felt in the head and throughout the body. Known for its relaxing components, dulling aches and creating a happy-go-lucky feeling. Leads one to an overall "good mood" which can also make some feel "heavy" or lazy. Known to cause dry mouth and cause one to get the munchies.
The cons can include a dry mouth, munchies, and a lingering smell. Creates a second-hand smoke that like most marijuana areas has yet to be properly tested or studied.
- Vape High – similar to the smoke high is felt in the head. You do not get that "stuck" feeling typically. Uses less product due to the lack of fire. No lingering smell, no smoke, no stained teeth and no ashtray is needed.
The cons are you sober more quickly normally. Some have an issue with becoming light headed. The high does not last as long nor is it felt as "strongly".
The Bottom Line
The older the smoker the more set in their way whereas the younger and newer smokers tend to be more adventurous when it comes to trying new things. There is no wrong or right answer as to which way to smoke is better. Personal preference is the key!


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2. ES File Explorer
There is no operating system that does not have already pre-installed a file explorer, how else would you be able to organize your files.
Remember, Android TV's are more than just televisions, there run on an operating system and the best way to keep your downloaded files, images, music and basically every download organized if not through the use of an explorer.
The ES explorer is one of the best file explorers, not only does it let you organize your files, it also allows you to transfer files from your computer via an FTP or SFTP session. Download it here
We cannot mention the best television applications without mentioning Haystack. This application was recognized in 2017 by Google for the 2017 Google play awards for the best TV experience award.
Haystack provides you with the best news in real time. What is most fascinating about this app is that it lets you select your interest and your preferred sources.
It will then take your interests from what you selected and ensure that it provides you specifically with your preferred and most needed information. You can get this here
Google Drive
Having easy access to your files by just connecting to your cloud is one of the good things about using an Android TV. This gives for very easy access to your files.
With your Google drive installed on your TV, you can easily store your files on the cloud and access them easily on your device. Follow the link to have yours installed
Music is life and it is essential in my honest opinion that you have this application on your Android TV.
Spotify lets you stream your favorite music right on your smart television. This application comes free but the paid version gives you unlimited access to music, allows you to skip music and you'd be free of ads. You can get it here
Air screen
It is really amazing how innovations are making things easier and more enjoyable.
Do you know that you can now cast your android screen to your Android TV and air screen is the best app to provide that service for you? With the use of an air screen, you can share all kinds of the operating system with your Android TV.
The fascinating thing is that it allows you to use your internet connection to share your screen with your friends and families. Download
Worthy of mention is this amazing app. This app streams video contents right to your Android TV, what is even most amazing is that this app comes absolutely free.
It searches the internet for contents that you must have indicated interest in, giving you an opportunity to stream your favorite contents.
This is not available in the store. You need to sideload (I.e install it) in your device. You can get Mobdro APK from here
How to Download Mobdro APK File and Install it
Gaming App
The truth is I cannot specify the particular game that you should have installed on your Android TV but if you are a lover of games then you should definitely have your favorite game installed on your android device.
If you have no idea of which game to choose, they are a plethora of games on the Google play store.
These applications aforementioned basically cover everything you need to do on your Android TV from games to music to file arrangement. You can decide to explore the Google play store and download any other app of your choice.


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The haters may accuse Transformers: Dark of the Moon of being too noisy, but sound re-recording mixer Greg P. Russell, a 14-time Oscar nominee, tells the Hollywood Reporter that the movie is "the most ambitious" sound mix he has ever worked on. In fact, director Michael Bay didn't just settle for innovative 3D photography, he also insisted on a cutting edge sound experience. Russell -- along with re-recording mixers Gary Summers and Jeffrey J. Haboush -- used the new Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound, and moviegoers can hear the results for themselves. Read More on hollywoodreporter.com...
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Dr. Kyle Salloum has always had an interest in sports injuries and general musculoskeletal complaints. During his internship at CMCC he also became interested in chronic pain and pain pathology.
Dr. Salloum believes in the evidence based medicine model, which combines patient values, clinical experience, and the best available evidence to make decisions about patient care. He uses his knowledge of the human body in conjunction with manual medicine, joint manipulations and mobilizations, soft tissue therapies, postural and functional alterations (and a wide knowledge of exercises, nutrition, and supplementation), to help reduce pain, improve function and allow his patients to live their best quality of life.
Dr. Kyle Salloum grew up in Nanaimo after moving from Calgary (shortly after he was born). He participated in many youth sports including soccer and basketball, and continued to play men's soccer for Nanaimo United. In his down time, Dr. Salloum enjoys spending time outdoors hiking, golfing, and surfing.
At 17, a soccer injury left Dr. Salloum reliant on crutches. After an orthopaedic surgeon informed him he might not walk without crutches again, he sought out alternative therapies, including chiropractic care. With the help of Dr. Stacey Scott he was eventually able to return to playing soccer competitively. This sparked an interest in chiropractic care; and after studying biology at Vancouver Island University, Dr. Salloum attended the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College to earn his Doctor of Chiropractic designation.
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How Skillsonics exports the Swiss learning model to India
Skillsonics has already trained 5000 Indians according to Swiss learning methods. Franz Probst, its founder and president, presents the necessary adjustments to the Swiss model, as well as its ambitions in Bangladesh, Brazil and South Africa
Emerging countries are not only interested in the dual training model. They implement it. This is the case of India. Skillsonics collaborates with state departments and Swiss companies to "export Swiss apprenticeship to this continent," according to Franz Probst, founder and chairman of the company responsible for making the Swiss learning model available to companies in India.
"Bobst was our flag bearer, one of the top four companies that played the game," he tells us in Zurich. ABB, Bühler, Rieter and others, Swiss, German and now Indian have trained 5,000 Indians according to the Swiss apprenticeship model, he says. 500 have completed more than one year of training, while others have shorter courses lasting from one week to six months to meet specific needs.
The need for strong growth
Skillsonics, present in 25 locations in India, plays the role of "facilitator of this transfer of know-how," according to Franz Probst. It does not create an additional training institute but offers "software", namely an English curriculum, exam system, engagement criteria and certification.
Specifically, companies pay Skillsonics for its service, which pays a commission to Swissmem and the Confederation. His model needs a strong growth of students. "In 2016, we will reach 6,000 apprentices. We need to increase the number of students by 1,000 per year to achieve balance, "argues Franz Probst.
It all started in 2007 with the Federal Office for Vocational Training and Technology (OFFT) and the need expressed by Swiss companies present in India that belonged to the Swiss machinery industry (Swissmem), explains Franz Probst, at President of the Swiss-Indian Chamber of Commerce.
"India fascinates me. I've been to school since 1965. I was ten, "says Probst. His father had already participated in the installation of Rieter in this country. The president of Skillsonics is also a business lawyer in Winterthur and Zurich, "my real livelihood, a job that rarely offers adventures to participate in innovation," he observes.
Profitable and sustainable knowledge transfer
The export of Swiss apprenticeship is conditional on a sustainable and profitable transfer of knowledge. The challenge is threefold: "The private sector must take over from the Confederation, which can not finance it permanently. India must collaborate. Finally, Switzerland and India must work hand in hand and form a bilateral team, "he says. Recall that Switzerland and India, despite ongoing discussions, have not yet reached bilateral agreement in the field of vocational training.
One hundred professional trainings are on the program. Skillsonics is preparing for the introduction of two new courses: Sanitary Installer and CFC Trade Employee. The latter is addressed not only to companies of machines but to all branches.
Local adjustments
The Swiss model implemented in India is not quite identical to the original Swiss version. "It has to be adapted to the local context," says Franz Probst. In Switzerland, the system is based on the needs of the labor market, and therefore of the private economy. A Swiss polymechanic training requires many skills and four years of training. Such a period does not meet any demand in India. The course is present on the list of 100 courses offered, but only takes two years. The reference is lower. "It must be designed to be adapted to young people in rural areas, who have a different philosophy of life," explains Franz Probst. Training begins with learning English, teamwork, time organization, the importance of punctuality.
In India, courses, usually two years old, are offered to young people a little older than in Switzerland, after two years of training at the ITI (Industrial Training Institute).
In India, training meets more specific needs. For example, a Swiss welder is responsible for machine preparation, material selection and even final control. An Indian welder only manages one step. The system is also more segmented according to the duration of the courses.
Limited grants
The Confederation participated in the project through the State Secretariat for Education and Innovation (SERI), which allows the financing of projects up to 60%. Set up in 2008, the program was subsidized until the end of 2012. The state paid half, "less than five million," according to Franz Probst. The rest was provided by companies and Skillsonics. The latter was created in 2011, before, in 2013, National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) became part of its capital. The latter is an investment vehicle, privately managed, financed by the Ministry of Finance in the amount of $ 200 million. Indian regulations have also been adapted to allow the dual system.
The success rate for exams for new courses exceeds 90%. "They are not easy," according to Franz Probst. "In 2015, Swissmem offered to lighten them, which we refused to guarantee their quality," he adds.
Now in Bangladesh
The difficulties encountered by Skillsonics in exporting Swiss apprenticeship resemble those of start-ups. The organization is small. It has only 24 employees. The second challenge is to "convince local businesses that adopting the model is an investment (not a cost) and that it increases competitiveness and productivity," says Franz Probst. "However, I do not believe that Indian companies will compete with Switzerland soon. Conversely, Swiss companies can not focus on mass products and must invest in low-cost markets, "says the lawyer.
Competitive projects at Skillsonics exist. Germans, English and Australians also bring their own models. Skillsonics is trying to introduce it to South Africa and Brazil. She has just started in Bangladesh with a Swiss company, which does not want to be named yet.


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This year, International Women's Day falls on March 8 2019. Many beauty and fashion brands take this opportunity to celebrate by releasing limited edition products that donate a percentage of their profits to worthy women's and girl's charities. It is also a chance to show your support and feminist side by donning either an article of clothing or perhaps by gifting something to a girlfriend or female family member.
Here are our top picks to celebrate IWD 2019:
Isabel Marant International Women's Day Printed Cotton-Jersey T-shirt: £95
'You Go Girl' is an empowering slogan t-shirt that can be worn at any time of the year. Made using quality cotton and especially for International Women's Day. Sizes: XS-XL.
PANDORA International Women's Day Tulip Dropper Charm: £55
A beautiful way to commemorate International Women's Day 2019 and perfect for the special woman in your life. Made from sterling silver and featuring clear cubic zirconias and beads. The first pendant has a tulip design on the front, on the reverse are the words 'Strength, Love & Happiness'. There is also an enamel pendant with an inscription 'PANDORA My Inspiration International Women's Day 2019'. For every sale, Pandora will donate 20% to Ovacome, the UK's leading ovarian cancer support charity.
Perfect Moment International Women's Day Printed Cotton-Jersey T-shirt: £145
Made especially for International Women's Day, this is a loose-fit t-shirt with the word 'Power' in navy and the 'O' styled as a rainbow star. Sizes: XS-XL.
Elizabeth Arden Limited Edition Beautiful Color Moisturizing Lipstick: £24
Red lipstick is the epitome of strong women and this limited-edition red signature lipstick would make a great addition to any make-up bag. Not only that, but a whopping 100% of all sales go to global charity UN Women, champions for gender equality.
Zadig & Voltaire X Micol Sabbadini T-shirt: £45
History in the making and preserved for all time on a t-shirt by young Italian photographer – Micol Sabbadini. He took the iconic picture on this t-shirt whilst photographing the 2017 Women's March in New York City. Fashion brand Zadig & Voltaire has their own history of supporting women's causes and this year all profit from the sales of this item go to the charity Every Mother Counts, which helps to make childbirth safe for every mother.
L'Occitane Shea Orange Blossom Solidarity Balm: £5.00
L'Occitane shows that small things matter and can make a difference. This balm is made using shea butter and can moisturise lips, body and hair. Best of all, 100% of profits from sales go to support the women who work in Burkina Faso, where the company get the shea butter from.
Alexa Chung International Women's Day Flocked Cotton-Jersey T-Shirt: £85
We like this t-shirt because you can wear it any day of the week to show your feminist credentials. 'Divine Feminine' is embellished in red velvet and the tee is made from soft cotton in a loose-style fit. Sizes: XS-XL.
Alison Lou Enamel & Yellow-Gold Girl Power Single Earring: £170
If you don't want to flaunt your feminist affiliations just yet then be subtle with this 14ct yellow-gold single earring from Alison Lou. Hanging from it is the symbol for the female gender in a hot pink enamel coating. Secures with a hinge-back.
Miller Harris Feminist T-Shirt: £35.00
Miller Harris is another fashion brand that consistently brings out products for IWD. We love this t-shirt but it was hard to choose a favourite. Designed exclusively by JEMIMASARA, this features hand printing in pink ink on heavy white cotton. Sizes: S, M, L.
Bella Freud Solidarite Feminine Printed Cotton-Jersey T-Shirt: £95
Lovely soft cotton-jersey material in a slim-fit with 'Solidarite Feminine' printed on the front. Sizes: XS – L.
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As any parent knows once they're in our life, we can't imagine it being any different. To be their mother or their father is really such a gift and even though birthdays are for them sometimes it's about us, their moms or their dads. It marks the day we were entrusted to nuture and raise them in this sometimes crazy world we live in. No matter what mischief she's been up to lately, those big brown eyes, gentle heart, and smile remind us every day we are so incredibly blessed that we get to call her ours.
I kept saying five might hit me kind of harder than the other birthdays. We will enroll her in kindergarten shortly after her fifth birthday. She will always be ours but each day she grows up a little more. She gets a little more independent and self sufficient each day, which in some ways is great, but with each birthday she's closer to who she'll become. Each birthday brings her closer to the one where she will look at us and head out to make her own way in this world.
As the old saying goes, we only hold their hands for a little while, and I'm seeing now it's so much harder to let go as the parent than it was as the child ready to seek her independence. I remember wanting to tell my parents to let me go, let me make my own path. I didn't understand the resistance. I was just a young kid, thinking I was grown, and it shouldn't be so hard for them to understand and let me go. Oh, but I understand now. I love watching her grow and seeing who she's becoming but this time is so fleeting. Five years has been such a quick flash in time. Before I know it she'll be fifteen and not too long after that eighteen and think she's ready to take on the world.
Why is childhood so short? Why can't we spend more of our lifetime lost in the innocence of childhood? As children ourselves we're in such a hurry to grow up, and now as a parent I wish it would all just slow down. I don't mind holding their hands a little longer.
I have years and years to go until mine are ready to leave the nest. I'm sure I won't handle it well but here is a poem I wrote over ten years ago when I left my reluctant parents. I wonder in just another ten years or so from now how different the one I will write will be as the parent rather than the child.
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Large scale, hypersharp photographic prints on Canson Ragmat 310gsm paper.
Take a look at Brutalism in a new way. These images are from a series called 'Outdistance' by the Australian photographer Derek Swalwell. Their portrayal of Italian Brutalist architecture shows uncompromising design softened by time and context.
Brutalism is often seen as stark and uninviting. Derek Swalwell's photography is anything but. There are no people in his images. Instead, he allows ageing structures and vegetation around them do the talking.
Shot entirely in Italy, Swalwell takes an intimate look at the works of famed architects Carlo Scarpa, Aldo Rossi and Carlo Aymonino to uncover a new narrative around these historically significant locations.
Through his curious lens and precise composition, Outdistance pays an extraordinary tribute to these design greats, focusing in on the details whilst capturing the magnetic dance between architecture and light.
Derek's work has featured in a magnitude of design and architecture books and magazines across the world, including Architectural Digest (USA), Architectural Digest (MEX), Vogue Living, Architectural Review, Architecture Australia, Elle Decor to name a few.
Architecture has always been a fascination for me, and I think one of the contributing factors was my time traveling and seeing architectural innovation from across the world. I became interested in how the light worked through buildings. The way that the design of a building contributes to it's changing throughout the day upon their trajectory of the sun."
Tomba Brion
Most striking is Tomba Brion, a family tomb designed by Carlo Scarpa in the 1970s. Weathering has added a new dimension to Tomba Brion which Swalwell celebrates. The tomb appears somehow ancient, almost overpowered by the vegetation around it.


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1628 * John Bunyan, English minister and preacher who wrote The
Pilgrim's Progress (1678).
1835 * Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), US author of The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer (1876).
1840 Napoleon Bonaparte's remains were returned from St. Helena to
1874 * Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World
War 2.
1900 Irish author Oscar Wilde died in Paris at the age 46.
1913 Charlie Chaplin made his film debut in Making a Living.
1922 The first purpose-built aircraft carrier, the Japanese Hosho
began its first sea trials.
1936 The "Crystal Palace" in London, was destroyed by fire.
1954 The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, celebrated his 80th
1955 * Billy Idol, English rock singer.
1955 Floodlights were used for the first time at Wembley Stadium,
during an international game with Spain.
1966 Barbados celebrated becoming independent from Great Britain.
1968 The Trade Descriptions Act - which comes into force
1982 A letter bomb from a group called the Animal Rights Militia,
exploded inside 10 Downing Street the British Prime Minister's
London residence, injuring a member of staff.
1983 Dutch brewing millionaire Alfred Heineken was kidnapped in
Amsterdam but later freed.
1994 Almost 1,000 people were forced to abandon the Achille Lauro in
the Indian Ocean off east Africa after it caught fire.
1995 Bill Clinton, the first serving US president to visit Northern
Ireland, received a rapturous welcome by both Catholics and
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Arabesque Tapered Wrap Ring with Multicolored Tourmalines and Diamonds
Bringing unexpected modernity to ancient art forms, the Arabesque Collection rings embody confident femininity with their balance of richly hued gemstones accentuating the wearer's beauty.
Diamonds and colored tourmalines adorn the tapered line of this elegant and ethereal wrap ring.
- 18k gold
- 0.08ct champagne diamond
- 0.23ct white diamond
- 0.45ct colored tourmaline
Style ID: 5111336
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Call for submissions: Fragments
Submissions are now open for the Fragments issue, with a deadline of just one month from now: June 20, the solstice. The issue editors are Olivia Dresher and Catherine Ednie. All submissions must be sent through our submissions manager.
Theme description
The theme for this issue is fragments: writing "in the wild." Overly crafted pieces can feel less honest, less real, even boring… whereas fragments are illuminations, a flash of lightning, a light turned on for just a second. Shards, torn pages, unstrung beads, homeless paragraphs, scraps, brevities, miniatures… brief excerpts from notebooks… writings that may be aphoristic or simply wordplay, meditative or emotionally raw… unpredictable, probing, urgent, spontaneous. We love writing that contains an element of surprise, reflecting a commitment to fragments as a literary genre.
Send us your pieces that stand alone or consist of a series of short fragments. Optionally, we'd also like to receive (as an introduction or postscript) your thoughts on the mystery of fragments… or simply submit fragments about fragments. We have a preference for fragments that can be read on the screen without much scrolling, roughly 500 words or less. We're also seeking art work and photography on this theme, as well as audio and video recordings. Please note that audio recordings for the podcast will be voluntary for this issue, due to the challenges of recording fragmentary material.
To read about fragments as a literary genre, we recommend the Introduction to In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing, which can be found in the book description online. And to explore fragmentary writing in more depth, visit FragLit Magazine, where you will find many fragments, as well as bibliographies of fragmentary writing.
Olivia Dresher is a publisher, editor, anthologist, and writer of poetic fragments and aphorisms. She is the publisher of Impassio Press, and was editor of FragLit Magazine until it was suspended in 2010. She is also co-founder and director of the Life Writing Connection. Her poetry, fragments, and essays have appeared in anthologies and in a variety of online and in-print literary magazines. She is the editor of In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing and co-editor of Darkness and Light: Private Writing as Art: An Anthology of Contemporary Journals, Diaries, and Notebooks. She has written thousands of poetic fragments at Twitter (@OliviaDresher), spontaneously, and plans to select some of these for two print collections.
Catherine Ednie is a writer of fragments who is happy to have found a home for her work at FragLit, qarrtsiluni, and the In Pieces anthology. She also has been exploring the possibilities of fragmentary writing at Twitter (@cednie). She is a proud member of her local poetry community, Poem Alley at Curley's Diner, Stamford, Connecticut, and has edited and contributed to a number of their publications. She writes: "My writing is deeply rooted in keeping a personal journal, a regular practice for 40+ years. At some point, I became disenchanted with traveling what felt like the same old territory in my journal. Using techniques from poetry — rhyme, rhythm, metaphor, detail, narrative — I found I could go to new places in my notebook. From reading and studying poetry, I learned ways to keep writing meaningful yet mysterious, and engaged with both emotion and language. I've explored automatic writing, prose poetry, constraint-based writing (OuLiPo), and visual poetry. I like to surprise myself when I reread what I have written. Thanks to Olivia Dresher, I found out I was a writer of fragments."
Call for Submissions: Imitation
Submissions are now open for the Imitation issue. The deadline is November 30, and we expect the issue to begin serializing here sometime in January, after the conclusion of the current Worship issue.
Theme description
Imitation — that sincerest form! — is in art all too often maligned. "Better to fail in originality than succeed in imitation," no less a writer than Melville once sneered. For Emerson, imitation was "suicide." Especially since the Romantic revolt, writers and artists in the West have taken for granted that originality is the soul of creation.
Originality, though, is crippled without discipline, and imitation is an uncompromising practice. The Great Masters of the past knew this well, and would apprentice for years to gain fluency of form; the literature of earlier eras, too, was woven with both homage and parody. Poetry in particular has lent itself to the game: both John Keats and William Blake published An Imitation of Spenser, while Spenser, in turn, openly mimicked a more antique verse. Robert Lowell's Imitations is humbling in its breadth, and how many countless poets have affixed an italicized "after xx" beneath a title?
We believe there's plenty to be gained from reviving the imitative tradition — be it in jest, out of reverence, or somewhere in between — and so, for the next issue of qarrtsiluni, we're asking you for your greatest imitations. Whether you've always dreamed of being Faulkner (or Milosz or O'Keefe or Banksy or Bresson), or just want to try your hand at highbrow fanfic, here's your opportunity.
Submissions will be evaluated not only on their own merits but by how well they evoke the style or approach of another. Though it's up to you whether or how to acknowledge the model in the submission itself, we do ask that you spell it out in your cover letter. (Where appropriate, you might include a copy of the work being emulated — or spoofed.)
Submission details
Our limits this time are three poems, five images or videos, and/or 1000 words of prose per submission. All submissions must go through the submissions manager (which also includes our general guidelines). If you've submitted to other publications that use this system, Submishmash, you'll need to log in with the same username and password. Otherwise, you'll create a new account as part of the submission process.
As always, we consider contributions of nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, photographs, digitized artwork, short films, original musical compositions, spoken word recordings, translations and collaborative works.
The editors
Siona van Dijk is an entrepreneur, writer, and graduate student in Depth Psychology. Prior to qarrtsiluni, Siona has served on the editorial staff of The Amherst Review, Circus, and A Further Room. Her favorite mimic is the lyre bird.
Dave Bonta handles most of the day-to-day operations at qarrtsiluni, but once a year he likes to don the hat of an issue editor, too. Some of his other online projects include the videopoetry collection Moving Poems and a daily microblog of observations from his front porch. His most recent print publication is in The Book of Ystwyth: Six poets on the art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
Call for Submissions: Imprisonment
Submissions are now open for the Imprisonment issue, which will begin to appear on the site on June 1. The editors are Ken Lamberton and Ann E. Michael.
Theme Description
Is a prisoner simply in the lock-up, or locked up in a multitude of ways? Penned, caged, in the slammer, shut off, closed down, barred and gated, captive, detained, committed, incarcerated, in custody, kidnapped, impounded, seized, snagged, pinched, restrained, jailed… English offers hundreds of ways to name kinds of imprisonment — physical, emotional, intellectual, metaphorical — perhaps because something very basic within us rebels against containment, even when it has its benefits. Like the seedling tree that pushes through cliffside rock to reach sunlight, barriers are things we instinctively push against and try to overcome. Perhaps we are all prisoners.
What are the objects, desires, laws, thoughts, that imprison us? Why do we withhold ourselves; what holds us back? Must punishment be linked to constraints; and where are our prisons of the mind, heart, and place? Might there even be times when imprisonment is welcomed? The editors ask writers and artists to engage in an exploration of the idea and the physical experience of containment and to send work to us that surprises and expands the notion of what it means to be a prisoner.
Submission Details
The deadline for submissions is April 30. All submissions should go through our submissions manager. If you've submitted to other publications that use the same system, Submishmash, you'll need to log in with the same username and password. Otherwise, you'll create a new account as part of the submission process. People without easy access to the internet, such as prisoners, may get someone else to submit on their behalf. For this issue, we may be able to accommodate postal submissions from prisoners as well, but please query first: qarrtsiluni[at]gmail[dot]com.
As always, we consider contributions of nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, photographs, digitized artwork, short films, original musical compositions, spoken word recordings, and collaborative works. The size limits per submission this time are 3 poems, 4 images, 2 prose pieces at 1000 words maximum each, or any combination thereof.
The Editors
Poet, essayist, librettist and occasional radio commentator Ann E. Michael is also Writing Coordinator at DeSales University in eastern Pennsylvania. She is the author of four chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Capable Heart (Foothills Publishing). An avid gardener and an advocate for the arts, she is a past recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in poetry. With Jessamyn Smyth, she edited qarrtsiluni's New Classics issue, and we are delighted to have us with us again.
Ken Lamberton went to prison in Arizona in 1987, where he joined the creative writing workshop of poet and author Richard Shelton and began publishing articles and essays about two subjects he knew well: prison and the natural history of the Southwest. During his incarceration, his articles and essays began appearing in national magazines and literary journals such as Alligator Juniper, Puerto Del Sol, the Gettysburg Review, and David Quammen's anthology The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000. In January 2000, Mercury House published his first book, Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist's Observations from Prison, to critical acclaim. The book won the 2002 John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. After release from prison, he completed an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arizona. The University of Arizona Press has published four of his books, most recently Time of Grace: Thoughts on Nature, Family, and the Politics of Crime and Punishment (2007), which won a Soros Justice Fellowship, and Dry River: Stories of Life, Death, and Redemption on the Santa Cruz. He's currently the managing editor of the prison journal Walking Rain Review.
Note to readers: the Translation issue is still a month from completion, and will resume serialization here on Monday.
Call for Submissions: Translation
The editors invite submissions of poetry, short fiction, essays, visual poetry, photography, artwork and video for a translation-themed issue. The deadline is
December 6 December 31, and the issue will begin to appear online after the New Year. All submissions must be made via qarrtsiluni's new submissions manager.
In addition to work translated into English, we encourage a universal interpretation, including though not limited to movement between and within cultural fields and from signifier (code, symbol, signal) to signified (message, meaning, transcription). Translation being inherent in all acts of writing/reading, both semantic and non-verbal, we are interested in short, non-academic essays relevant to such readings and mis-readings. Please also send adaptations, definitions, conversions, and homophonic translations. Text submissions should not exceed three poems or short prose pieces, or some combination thereof, for a maximum of three single-spaced pages in .doc or .rtf format.
For translations, include originals, permission status, and a bio for the original author as well as your own. Translations from any language are welcome. We look forward to reading or viewing your work.
—Nick Admussen, Nathalie Boisard-Beudin, Nick Carbó, Alex Cigale, and Ayesha Saldanha
Nick Admussen is a Ph. D. candidate in Chinese literature at Princeton University, preparing a dissertation on contemporary Chinese prose poetry. His translations are forthcoming in Renditions, and have appeared in Cha magazine; his original poetry has appeared in magazines like the Boston Review and the Kenyon Review Online, and his first chapbook is due out this winter from Epiphany Editions.
Nathalie Boisard-Beudin is a middle aged French woman living in Rome, Italy. She has more hobbies than spare time, alas — reading, cooking, writing, painting and photography — so hopes that her technical colleagues at the European Space Agency will soon come up with a solution to that problem by stretching the fabric of time. Either that or send her up to write about the travels and trials of the International Space Station, the way this was done for the exploratory missions of old. Clearly the woman is a dreamer.
Nick Carbó is the author of El Grupo McDonald's (1995), Secret Asian Man (2000), which won the Asian American Literary Award, and Andalusian Dawn (2004). He is the editor of three anthologies of Filipino literature: Pinoy Poetics (2004), Babaylan (2000), and Returning a Borrowed Tongue (1995).
Alex Cigale's poems recently appeared in The Cafe, Colorado, Global City, Green Mountains, and North American reviews, Gargoyle, Hanging Loose, Redactions, Tar River Poetry, 32 Poems, and Zoland Poetry, online in Contrary, Drunken Boat, H_ngm_n, McSweeney's, and are forthcoming in Many Mountains Moving and St. Petersburg Review. His translations from the Russian can be found in Crossing Centuries: the New Generation in Russian Poetry, in The Manhattan, St. Ann's, and Yellow Medicine reviews, online in OffCourse, Danse Macabre and Fiera Lingue, and forthcoming in Crab Creek Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. He was born in Chernovsty, Ukraine and lives in New York City.
Ayesha Saldanha is a writer and translator based in Bahrain. She has translated a wide range of Bahraini fiction and poetry. Some of her translations of Gulf poets will appear in Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry to be published by Garnet Publishing/Ithaca Press in 2011. She blogs as Bint Battuta.
Editors' names link to their work in qarrtsiluni, where applicable.
This issue is a first for us in three respects: it will represent qarrtsiluni's very first foray into publishing translations; it's the first we've tried to work with a team of more than two issue editors; and it's our first experiment with a real submissions management system. If you've submitted to other publications that use the same system, Submishmash, you'll need to log in with the same username and password. Otherwise, you'll create a new account as part of the submission process. Most of our general guidelines remain the same, and are included on the submissions page.
Please let us know via email (qarrtsiluni [at] gmail.com) if you experience any problems with the new system. We're cautiously optimistic that it will help us keep better track of submissions, and we're pretty certain that contributors will appreciate the ability to log on and see how their submissions are doing, but we'll see how it goes. For more about the service, check out this interview with one of the lead developers.
We hope this call for submissions will prompt some imaginative responses from past contributors and expose us to the work of new authors and artists as well. Best of luck to all.
—Beth and Dave
Call for Submissions: The Crowd
The crowd, the flock, the herd, the mob, the swarm, the tribe: we are simultaneously fascinated and repelled by this super-organism, capable at times of great beauty and even wisdom (cf. The Wisdom of Crowds) and at other times of appalling ugliness and violence. Aristotle defined humanity as an animal whose nature it is to live in a polis, but in all ages we seem incapable of deciding whether this is a good or bad thing; one commentator's inspiring revolutionary struggle is another's mob rule. For the next issue of qarrtsiluni, we are open to all perspectives, positive and negative, historical and biological, on crowds and other aggregations of social animals. Inspiration can be sought in the ecstasy and fervor of the stadium, the battalion, the game, the march, the final episode, the fad, the stampede — or the collective consciousness in general. With the planet's burgeoning human population threatening to exceed our ecological carrying capacity, and so many crises now requiring urgent collective action, it seems imperative for artists and writers, so often antisocial ourselves and preoccupied with the struggles of individuals, to turn our attention to sociality in its most vital and basic form.
We welcome submissions from all genres that we regularly consider: poems (no more than five per submission, please), prose (no more than 1000 words per story or essay), photos, videos, or other digitized artwork. For this issue, we will also entertain suggestions for crowd-sourced compositions. Email us with a proposal, and you might find yourself in charge of a wiki or survey set up for the nonce.
As always, please refer to the general guidelines for complete details on how and what to submit. One big change: we have taken down our online contact form. Too many submissions have been lost that way in recent months.
There are no guest editors this time; we are editing this issue ourselves. (See the About page for our bios, if you're interested in knowing just who you're dealing with.) The deadline for submissions is June 30, and we expect to begin serializing the issue in August.
We hope to hear from you soon!
—Beth Adams and Dave Bonta
Call for Submissions: New Classics
What is a classic? What does it mean to us?
In this issue of qarrtsiluni, which will begin publishing around May 1, we invite you to engage, interpret, revisit and re-invent classics through your own idiosyncratic and modern sensibility.
We're looking for work inspired by the archetypes and forms of familiar pieces of art, sacred story, poetry, iconography or folk tales, but the term "classic" should be interpreted both broadly and internationally, and could certainly encompass contemporary work so familiar it has become part of our collective psyche.
Yes, Greek myth or Roman epic as archetype or inspiration for your own peculiar spin, but also: Sundiata, Pride and Prejudice, Andy Warhol paintings, Basho's haiku, the Green Man, the VW Bug, Frankenstein, Tiamat, The Dhammapada, rock and roll, Anansi tales, banshees, Sedna, avatars turned online/gaming identity, fox woman, Nero Wolfe, creation stories, 1950's creature features — surprise us with something we can't help but recognize, even as we've never seen it put to your uses.
Transform, transpose, transgender, trans-border our expectations with your wholly familiar, yet wholly new, take on a classic.
We're open to any forms, including cross-genre. Flash fiction/very short stories are especially welcome (1,000 words or under). Please send no more than three poems or photographs, and only one video, at a time. As always, be sure to refer to the general guidelines before submitting. The deadline for submissions is March 31.
Looking forward!
—Ann E. Michael and Jessamyn Smyth, guest editors
Poet, essayist, librettist and occasional radio commentator Ann E. Michael (website) is also a college educator/tutor in eastern Pennsylvania. She is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, an avid gardener, and an advocate for the arts.
Jessamyn Johnston Smyth's writing (website) has appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Red Rock Review (forthcoming), Nth Position, Abalone Moon, qarrtsiluni, and other journals and anthologies. She won listing in Best American Short Stories/100 Distinguished Stories of 2005, and has received a Pushcart Prize nomination, a Bread Loaf Writer's Conference grant, a Vermont Community Foundation Artist Grant, and a writing grant from Change, Incorporated. Jessamyn has just finished a collection written during a year spent in the forest, and is working on placing Green Mountain Prose Poem. She has several other books in progress.
Call for Submissions: Health
We're pleased to announce that submissions are open for the winter issue, which will begin publishing after the New Year. The theme this time is Health, broadly defined, and the editors are Susan Elbe and Kelly Madigan Erlandson (the links go to their works here at qarrtsiluni; see below for more about them). We're having the submission period now, in November, to avoid the busy holiday season. The deadline is November 30th. As always, please refer to the How to Contribute page for general submission guidelines (and note that there have been several minor changes).
The editors have chosen a theme that should resonate far beyond the current health care debate in the United States:
We are interested in creative interpretations of health, which will of course include the health (or lack thereof) of the human body, but also of the mind and spirit, the environment, or the culture. How systems stay in balance, how one attains wellness, how we relate or respond to our own state of health and the health of others, and the extent of an individual's physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with his/her environment would all be fair game. Unusual health-related practices also intrigue us (serpents? psychic surgery?) as well as tales of spontaneous recovery. How much control do we have over our own health? Explore superstitions, regale us with symptoms, or simply make a well-written toast to our health — we'll consider it. Keep in mind too that the etymological roots of health include "whole" and "hale," but also "holy."
Our limit is three poems or one prose piece per submission, with a 1,200-word limit on the prose.
Both editors hail from the American Midwest, and they've been friends for years. Susan Elbe is the author of Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Press) and a chapbook, Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including Blackbird, diode, MARGIE, North American Review, Ocho, Salt Hill, Smartish Pace, and A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women's Poetry (Calyx Books). Among her awards are the inaugural Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize (Calyx), the 2006 Lorine Niedecker Award, and fellowships to Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Susan has served on the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission and currently serves on the Council for Wisconsin Writers Board. You can learn more about her and her work at susanelbe.com.
Kelly Madigan Erlandson is the author of Getting Sober: A Practical Guide to Making it Through the First 30 Days (McGraw-Hill). Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in Best New Poets 2007, Crazyhorse, The Massachusetts Review, Plains Song Review, Terrain.org and Prairie Schooner. She has been a writer-in-residence at Jentel Artist Residency Program and the KHN Center for the Arts. Kelly was awarded the Distinguished Artist Award in Literature from the Nebraska Arts Council in 2006, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2008. She has worked as a licensed alcohol and drug counselor in Nebraska since 1983. Visit her website at KellyMadiganErlandson.com.
Don't forget to join the qarrtsiluni news group on Google if you want to receive these announcements via email. We'd also like to emphasize something we mention in the general guidelines which some contributors seem to overlook: if you don't receive an acknowledgment note within two days after you send something, assume that we didn't get it and re-submit. If you still don't hear anything, try sending from another email. If you're submitting via the Contact form, please be sure to type your email address correctly. Sometimes we can find the correct address by Googling, but there was one guy who submitted to the current issue who we never were able to track down — and we wanted to publish his essay, too! Finally, please make sure your email is set to accept messages from qarrtsiluni(at)gmail(dot)com. Getting an automatic reply telling us we have to jump through extra hoops to communicate with authors makes us very grouchy indeed.
If this is the first you've visited the site in a while, be sure to check out all the great stuff we've been posting for the Words of Power issue — and stick around, because there's much more on the way. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
—Beth and Dave
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