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Many studies into BHD syndrome have investigated the prevalence of pneumothorax and renal cell carcinoma amongst FLCN mutation carriers. Previous estimations of the RCC risk have varied from 6.5% to 34% (Toro et al., 2008), and for pneumothorax, from 24% to 38% (Schmidt et al., 2005; Toro et al., 2007; Toro et al., 2008). This variation is likely to be due to ascertainment bias. Recently, a study by Houweling et al. (2011) investigated 115 FLCN mutation carriers from 35 families to reassess the risk of RCC and pneumothorax in BHD syndrome. The study also evaluated the histological subtypes of renal cancer commonly found in BHD patients. The majority of patients were referred by dermatologists and so it is important to remember that this study may also have an ascertainment bias.
From the 115 FLCN mutation carriers assessed in this study, 28 (24%) had a history of pneumothorax, 8 of which were recurrent. The mean age of the first pneumothorax was found to be 36 (range 18 – 74). CT examination of 12 FLCN mutation carriers showed that 5 patients (42%) had multiple lung cysts. After incorporating data on relatives who did not undergo DNA testing for FLCN mutations, the estimated prevalence for the first episode of spontaneous pneumothorax was found to be 29% at 70 years.
The same analysis was carried out to determine the risk of RCC amongst BHD patients. 14 out of the 115 FLCN mutation carriers (12%) had RCC, 5 of which had metastasised. Three BHD patients had multiple cases of renal cancer. Taking all the data together, including the non-tested BHD family members, the prevalence for renal cancer was 16% at age 70.
Previous reports found that the most prevalent RCC histology identified in BHD syndrome was a hybrid chromophobe and oncocytic tumour (Pavlovich et al., 2002). However, several other histologies have also been identified. The histology of the renal tumours in this cohort was determined and it was found that the majority of tumours had characteristics of both chromophobe and clear cell carcinoma. The tumours also resembled those seen in sporadic RCC. Knowing the histological pattern expected in BHD tumours could aid early diagnosis.
Determining the prevalence of pneumothorax and RCC risk in BHD syndrome is important for planning the correct surveillance programme for FLCN mutation carriers and their families. The guidelines proposed by Menko et al. (2009) suggest beginning renal cancer surveillance for BHD patients at age 20 and performing annual MRI scans. Although the reported prevalence in this study for both RCC and pneumothorax is lower than that in some of the previous studies, the need for surveillance and an awareness of BHD symptoms is as important as ever.
- Schmidt LS, Nickerson ML, Warren MB, Glenn GM, Toro JR, Merino MJ, Turner ML, Choyke PL, Sharma N, Peterson J, Morrison P, Maher ER, Walther MM, Zbar B, Linehan WM. Germline BHD-mutation spectrum and phenotype analysis of a large cohort of families with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome. Am J Hum Genet. 2005 Jun;76(6):1023-33. Epub 2005 Apr 25. PMID:15852235
- Toro JR, Pautler SE, Stewart L, Glenn GM, Weinreich M, Toure O, Wei MH, Schmidt LS, Davis L, Zbar B, Choyke P, Steinberg SM, Nguyen DM, Linehan WM. Lung cysts, spontaneous pneumothorax, and genetic associations in 89 families with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007 May 15;175(10):1044-53. Epub 2007 Feb 22. PMID:17322109
- Toro JR, Wei MH, Glenn GM, Weinreich M, Toure O, Vocke C, Turner M, Choyke P, Merino MJ, Pinto PA, Steinberg SM, Schmidt LS, Linehan WM. BHD mutations, clinical and molecular genetic investigations of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: a new series of 50 families and a review of published reports. J Med Genet. 2008 Jun;45(6):321-31. Epub 2008 Jan 30. PMID:18234728
- Houweling AC, Gijezen LM, Jonker MA, van Doorn MB, Oldenburg RA, van Spaendonck-Zwarts KY, Leter EM, van Os TA, van Grieken NC, Jaspars EH, de Jong MM, Bongers EM, Johannesma PC, Postmus PE, van Moorselaar RJ, van Waesberghe JH, Starink TM, van Steensel MA, Gille JJ, Menko FH. Renal cancer and pneumothorax risk in Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome; an analysis of 115 FLCN mutation carriers from 35 BHD families. Br J Cancer. 2011 Dec 6;105(12):1912-9. PMID:22146830
- Pavlovich CP, Walther MM, Eyler RA, Hewitt SM, Zbar B, Linehan WM, Merino MJ. Renal tumors in the Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome. Am J Surg Pathol. 2002 Dec;26(12):1542-52. PMID:12459621
- Menko FH, van Steensel MA, Giraud S, Friis-Hansen L, Richard S, Ungari S, Nordenskjöld M, Hansen TV, Solly J, Maher ER; European BHD Consortium. Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: diagnosis and management. Lancet Oncol. 2009 Dec;10(12):1199-206. PMID:19959076
www.bhdsyndrome.org – the primary online resource for anyone interested in BHD Syndrome


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we're not humans without h e a r t s
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being fed to strange birds
with s t r a n g e r heartbeats-
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and they h a n g themselves
from a ghost of our r i b s.
-ra'ahe khayat//fallen alone
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Aboobucker Mohamed Abdul Azeez, born in Vannarponnai,
I make this statement not as an indictment of our leaders of independent
My predecessor in office, the Late Honourable Sir Lalitha Rajapakse, who followed Dr A M A Azeez after he delivered his maiden speech in the Senate on the 25th February, 1953 has this to say:
"The speech was not only elegant but was also full of fresh ideas. One knows that the Hon. Muslim Senator was, until recent times, a brilliant star in our administrative firmament and that he answered the call of his community and the country. He made a bold sacrifice, which very few people had made before to espouse the cause of education and culture. It is a great pleasure to have him in our midst. His maiden speech, which was not only couched in beautiful language but was also replete with fresh ideas, is a foretaste of what is to come. I feel sure that this honourable House is the richer by his presence. The Hon. Senator's speech was both illuminating and incisive. Let us only hope – and I say it in all sincerity – that my Hon Friend will make more contributions to debate in this House in times ahead."
These comments by Sir Lalitha Rajapakse were certainly not meant to flatter the unflappable Dr A M A Azeez. Reading through, 'A collection of speeches' made on the subject of education leaves me in no doubt that not only was he an orator par excellence, but he was also a man of vision and a courageous one at that.
The subject that has been assigned to me today is Post-Colonial Identity Dilemma of Sri Lankan Muslims. Although I concurred with the Dr. Azeez Foundation on the topic at the time, I feel, having read his collection of speeches and writings that it would be more meaningful if I restricted myself to the context of the identity dilemma in Muslim education rather than to deal with the whole dimension of political identity.
I consider it a great privilege to have been invited by the Dr. A M A Azeez Foundation to deliver the oration on the occasion of the birth centenary which falls today. Dr Azeez himself had a similar honour bestowed upon him by the Moors Islamic Cultural Home on the occasion of the birth centenary of the late I L M Abdul Azeez on the 27th of October 1967.
Quoting from Dr Azeez's own address on that occasion, I am inclined to take the same approach to reflect upon the life and times of Dr Azeez and the impact of his incisive and intellectually accurate observations and predictions on succeeding events. He said:
"The current controversies that engaged his contemporaries, and co-religionists, controversies some of them born of jealousy, some characterized by acrimony, some of both, some fruitless and of no value and yet some pregnant with consequences of far reaching import, all of them have alike receded into history. And today we who live at this distant date are possessed of the hindsight that would enable us to deal with the events of his life and his period, detachedly and objectively, to separate the wheat from the chaff to distinguish the essentials from the non-essentials. We are therefore in a position to appraise justly the role of Abdul Azeez in the history of modern
Dr Azeez commenced his early education at the Allaipichchai Madrasa followed by the
The Ceylon Muslim League felicitated the rising star of the Ceylon Muslim Community at the Galle Face Hotel on the night of 13th April 1935. The Muslim leaders discovered that they were not merely hosting an ambitious young Civil Servant in the service of the Empire but rather a man with a great concern for his people. Apologizing profusely to his hosts Dr Azeez told his audience "…the fact that I am the only Muslim in that service should at once make us ask ourselves the question why it is so and remind ourselves of the great backwardness of our community in the sphere of education." To Dr Azeez the Civil Service was not an end. It was a means to an end that was to find shape and substance in the years that followed. He viewed the subject of education not only of the Muslims but also of the other communities of colonial
When President Vaclav Havel of the
He cannot be a herald of unpopular truths or of something which may be in the interests of the future of humanity but which most of his electorate regard as a threat to their current pursuits"
Dr Azeez was not afraid to be the herald of unpopular truth. His interest was indeed the future of humanity. He was the unapologetic Iqbalian. Permit me to quote:
"The strength of the West is due to knowledge and science.
Her lamp is a light from this fire only.
Knowledge does not depend on the style of your garment.
And a turban is no obstacle to the acquisition of knowledge. "
"Arts and Sciences, O Lively and eager youth,
Require keen intellect not western clothes,
What is needed in this quest is Vision,
Nor this or that particular head dress!
If you have a subtle intellect and a discriminating mind
They would suffice to guarantee success. "
It is indeed ironical and in a sense though it may have been co-incidental that Marhoom Dr Azeez took over as Principal of Zahira College in 1948, the year of our independence. His 13 year tenure as its Principal was no doubt an epoch making period in raising that institution to great heights from where Dr T B Jayah had begun.
Before I proceed further on the subject of Education in the context of post-colonial Identity dilemma, I must share with you some of the profound observations made by Dr Azeez on issues that still remain in the realm of controversy and debate. Post Sinhala-Only legislation the following questions were raised: What should be the status of the Tamil Language in
Participating in the debate on the address of thanks to the throne speech on 8th May, 1956 he said that his prayers and hopes were for a multi-lingual and multi- religious State.
"We were at one time hoping that Ceylon would have two official languages, Tamil and Sinhalese, throughout the Island but unfortunately for us and of the Tamil language, the Sinhalese people, it is not merely the power seeking politicians as one would say, but the Sinhalese people by and large – it is my feeling and it is the considered view of many Muslims – have convinced themselves that parity of status cannot be obtained without parity of strength. They think, may be groundlessly, may be their fears are exaggerated, but I think they sincerely are of the belief that the Sinhalese language cannot survive if parity of status is granted to Tamil. I am not saying that this is the correct view, but I am saying it seems to me to be the sincerely held view" The post- colonial Sinhala affirmative politics to A M A Azeez was both incongruous and inevitable.
Dr Azeez's passionate, lengthy and laborious arguments in the Senate when the Official Language Bill was debated was a testimony to his courage and eloquence. Given the euphoria and the emotive sentiments roused in people with a host of Muslim leaders from the south taking the path of least resistance, Dr Azeez realized that the topic of Official Language could not be discussed without stepping on toes.
In my experience the only way to avoid stepping on toes is to stand still. The character of Dr Azeez was such, he was very embodiment of forward movement. He begins his speech on the official languages Bill in the Senate on the 3rd July, 1956 with this rejoinder to the Leader of the House, "the Hon'able Leader characterized this Bill as a 'Simple Bill'. And quite a simple bill. I may say that in the history of legislatures past and present of the entire world, this is probably the shortest of bills ever introduced. But fraught with the gravest of consequences".
There are three vital postulates from his speech that is worthy of note. Firstly, he argues that the abandonment of Tamil by Muslims of the south and central
He bemoaned the misfortune that there is an impression in the minds of some distinguished people that the Muslim Community is the least affected by the language problem.
He was certainly a much relieved man when the then Government brought in the Tamil Language (Special) Provisions Bill which came to be enacted virtually conceding the disastrous sentimental folly of the original Official Language Bill. In a sense, the Government was atoning for its mistake, though somewhat belatedly. His persuasive arguments, I note, are always interspersed by very relevant quotations which lend weight to his points of view. In the course of his speech in the Senate on this occasion he quoted Prime Minister Nehru of India who warned against the communalism of the majority as reported in the 'Morning Times' on 12th May 1958: "The communalism of the minority was dangerous, but it petered out sometime or other. But the communalism of the majority is far more dangerous than the communalism of the minority because it wears the garb of nationalism. We have this communalism ingrained in us, and it comes out quickly at the slightest provocation, and even decent people began to behave like barbarians when this communalism is roused in them".
The next quotation he relies on further garnishes his arguments on the official languages special provisions Bill is even relevant to the present times; he quotes the then Indian Minister of Scientific Research and Culture, Humayun Kabir on the subject of group identity at a seminar on National Unity versus Group Isolation as reported in the periodical Quest:
"Minorities are generally more sensitive about the retention of their separate character. Majorities do not generally insist on such retention, because they know that greater uniformity is likely to lead to the acceptance of their way of life by the minority rather than vice versa. This is one of the main reasons why religious minorities are so anxious to preserve their special traditions and characteristic culture even at the cost of estranging the majority. The same fear is behind the passion exhibited in recent times over the question of the languages of
It is easy for the majority to press its own point of view under the guise of national interest and dismiss the fears of the minority groups as parochial. One may certainly argue that the larger national interests should always prevail over the interest of a section or group. Unfortunately, however the majority has often a tendency of identifying the national interest with its own interest. There need not be any dishonesty or hypocrisy in such identification, for it is a common human failing – in
On Tamil Language and Muslims he stated "We are now being called upon by the federalists to solve the problem by accepting the new and novel theory of the existence of a so-called Tamil-speaking nation in Ceylon-quite a different concept from the Tamil-speaking peoples of
On Tamil as a medium of instruction in schools he says, "Tamil has to be recognized as a medium of instruction throughout the
What would be the litmus test to measure the Community's progress in the post-independence period? To my mind if our middle class is disproportionately smaller than the share of Muslims in the total population that would indicate regression. Reading Azeez and reflecting on his prophetic comments made in the 1950s and 1960s, one of the main obstacles to upward mobility in the south and central Ceylon could be attributed to the decision by succeeding generations of parents to abandon educating their children in their mother tongue at least up to the primary level as strongly advocated by Dr Azeez. I would dare say that lack of courage among succeeding generation of Muslim Leaders to pointedly tackle this issue has virtually forced Tamil into the ghetto. This is more vividly noted in the urban centers of the south.
Take for instance the catchment area of students around this – pardon me for saying this – erstwhile center of excellence for Muslim education –
The Four Citizenships of A M A Azeez was a brilliant exposition of the Muslim dilemma of the period of conflict and the post conflict phase of our history.
"It is our conviction that we best serve
The farsighted scholar statesman anticipated other Muslim leaders of
English of course was the tongue of the colonial rulers. You may even concede that it was the language that was spoken by both master and slave. Many of the objections against English as the language of education and administration were valid in the colony. It was then an imposition. A M A Azeez was a universalist who had no inhibition to arrive at what he thought was the correct and in the best interest of independent
A M A Azeez was the first Sri Lankan Educationist who framed the question of the language of the departing British in the post- colonial psyche and our inability to come to terms with the realities of the global markets that emerged at the turn of the last century.
With a remarkable premonition, A M A Azeez referred to the report of the Radhakrishnan Commission of India, which pointed out that English is not merely the language of the Englishmen but also of the British Isles, the
Mahathir Mohamed says "…. We do not become European simply because we wear a coat and a tie, speak English and practice democracy instead of feudalism. We have to learn the language of international communication, and the language of telecommunications, of computers, of the internet. Learning in English language will reinforce the spirit of nationalism when it is used to bring about development and progress for the country….True nationalism means doing everything possible for the country, even if it means learning the English language."
Consider the world as it is today. The number of speakers of English is estimated to be over one billion. According to Wikipedia (2006), the top ten English speaking nations are India (350 million), the United Stated of America (251 million), the Peoples Republic of China (250 million), the United Kingdom (60 million), the Philippines (43 million), Germany (36 million), Canada (25 million), Australia (17 million), Pakistan (17 million) and France (16 million). These figures show that the so called native English speakers are far outnumbered by those whom I would call Geo English speakers.
Our failure to recognize the relevance of English that A M A Azeez illustrated with such clarity of purpose has made English the exclusive preserve of the affluent. In the world of education that A M A Azeez inhabited, the University at
Why do I say so? I say so because we have failed to domesticate English. It still retains the aura of privilege. It is not so in many other former British colonies. The process of domesticating English demands that the post- colonial practitioners adopt the language in the same manner that English has been shaped and sculpted to fit the environment it has been transplanted in as a first language, in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and as a second language in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and other Commonwealth countries.
What of the future? The visionary educationist in whose honour we are assembled here in this Institution he once adorned says: "There should be at the earliest opportunity one examination where the English medium will be enforced in respect of certain subjects and the Sinhalese or Tamil medium in respect of the rest of the subjects. By this method alone could we ensure equality of educational opportunity both to the city pupil as well as the pupil from backward areas? The claims of English so necessary on utilitarian grounds could thus be harmonized with the claims of Sinhalese or Tamil which is so essential on national grounds. For these reasons, bilingualism should become an essential feature of the New Society of Ceylon where every member will know English in addition to his national language, namely, Sinhalese or Tamil".
"At this stage we shall have to ask ourselves the question, what is meant by bilingualism? What is the kind of knowledge of English that is required of every individual? And, whether those who are not seeking higher education should be required to possess this knowledge of English?"
Here again he provides an answer that seems to be more relevant to this day than in 1956. He is insistent that bilingualism is not equi-lingualism.
"A bilingualism that is good enough for a salesman is hardly sufficient for a teacher. He need not possess the ability to speak the second language fluently. In the second stage, he will be required in addition to converse intelligibly and fairly fluently in the second language. The accent may not be perfect and the idiom pure. He may not have the ability to write the second language but he will be able to read easy fiction and magazines. Here the second language begins to be an opportunity and new vistas are opened up and the life of the individual enriched. In the third stage, he will possess in addition the ability to write the second language correctly. He need not in writing the second language reach the height of literary excellence but whatever he writes must be free from grammatical and spelling errors and without gross violation of idiom. In the fourth stage, he should in addition possess a correct and convincing power of expression both in writing and speaking the two languages. In the fifth stage, he commands a greater facility and power in the use of both languages than 90% of the people who use either of these languages as their mother tongue. In the sixth stage, he will possess the unapproachable ideal of 100% perfection in both languages".
A M A Azeez never cringed in resolving the eternal Muslim dilemma.
He says "The views of the Muslims may not be quite pleasant either to the Sinhalese or the Tamils, but I am sure they will appreciate that by virtue of our history, by virtue of our geographical distribution, by virtue of the basis on which our community is built, and by virtue of the fact that we have been a minority community from the very beginning and we have been a minority community for the last 450 or 500 years not only from the point of view of numbers but also from the point of view of influence – we are bound to take a slightly different view from the other minorities, or the larger minority community."
A M A Azeez was explicit in his declaration that as Muslims "We have a distinctive view."
Please bear with me and allow me to recall some great pearls of wisdom given to us by Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, who was the first Minister of Education of Independent India.
I quote "It was
On this note I wish to conclude by saying that our own great Educationist and Humanist A M A Azeez lived out those words of the same essential humanism. He was the synthesis of the many caravans that reached our island. For him the modernity and the new sciences of his age and the cultural diversity of his environs provided a rich canvass for him to paint his inherited glorious Islamic traditions, To him the word of God was clear. "Those who seek knowledge are the inheritors of the PROPHET" – QURAN.
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Hiya everyone! There are 3 designers who have hidden special prizes at Free Dove this month, and I'd like to show you the prizes from Fission tonight. They are all found at Free Dove, in small light aqua colored bags. So let's have a peek at what you can find :)
First we have this elegant beauty called Faye Cocktail dress, which has a classic feel with a modern twist in my opinion. Love the color and the pattern as well :) This is in the bag #1 in the hunt.
If you're feeling more casual, this is actually 3 separate prizes and can be mixed and matched into your wardrobe however you choose. The preppy looking sweater is prize #4, Keira in green, and the pants are Heather leggings in tan which are prize #3. The very cute shoes are Plaid strapped pumps for Slink high feet and are prize #2. Random thoughts on mixing and matching...I'd probably pair the sweater with a pencil skirt of some sort, the leggings with something solid colored and lacy or boho feeling, and the shoes can go with anything!
Hooray for pretty, fun spring colors! This sweet little number is Fission's Go Outside in pink, and is found in bag #5. The cap sleeves are a nice touch, along with the closures down the front.
This is another great warm weather dress, their prize #6 Wide Open Spaces in peach. The texture suits the soft flowing style so well.
Prize #7 is another terrific dress, this one is called Runaway Baby in teal. Love the sequined texture on the skirt, I feel like this dress needs to be taken out dancing :)
Finally we have prize #8, Free Dove boho dress, with a darling texture full of flowers and heart and butterflies in such soft colors. This seems to be the same mesh as #5 but I don't mind that a bit, as I'd never seen it before and am a big fan already.
All in all, there are several terrific generous prizes from this mini hunt, so I highly recommend going :) Stay tuned for the other prizes from the other mini hunts. My nails in all the photos are the Pulcino nails I previously blogged from their lucky board at Kiyomizu Mall. Wishing everyone a fabulous day full of magic and hugs!
All Prizes from the Free Dove May Hunt: Fission:
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Dress: Fission: Faye Cocktail dress- Orchid $0L Prize #1
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Pants: Fission: Heather Leggings- Tan $0L Prize #3
Shoes: Fission: Plaid strapped pumps $0L Prize #2
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Dress: Fission: Go Outside-Pink $0L Prize #5
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Driver escapes as container crushes bus
It was a lucky escape for a driver yesterday when a container fell on his bus in Ilasamaja, Mushin, Lagos.
The driver, Sunday Eneche and his motor boy jumped out of the bus before it was crushed by the container which fell off a trailer.
Eneche was on his way to deliver bread to customers in Ojota, Lagos.
The driver said the trailer was behind him when he saw the container tipping towards his direction.
The driver said: "There was no way I could overtake the trailer because I noticed he was trying to avoid a pothole. I waited for the trailer to move forward. When I saw that the back tyre was trapped in the pothole, myself and the motor boy jumped out of the bus because it almost fell. The bus is not mine; I work with a bread company. I don't really know if the driver was taking to a hospital because I couldn't think straight when the trailer fell. I can't really tell what happened afterwards. There were no casualties."
An eyewitness, Ismail Omikunle, described Eneche as "lucky."
Had it been the container trapped him inside the bus, he would not have survived, Omikunle said.
"The driver was rolling on the floor thanking God for saving his life. Passerby also thanked God with him," he said.
Omikunle, Wheel Oil Filling Station Manager, pleaded with the government to rehabilitate the Cele to Sadiku portion of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway.
Residents, he said, had lost count of the accidents involving trailers around the area.
Besides, Omikunle said, the traffic gridlock the potholes are causing was unbearable.
Motorists, he said, are stuck for hours in the gridlock daily. A passerby said sympathisers broke the trailer's windscreen to rescue the driver.
A trader, Mrs Bose Adediran, said she was in her shop when she heard a loud bang, adding that she saw the bus driver, saying: "God saved me".
She said: "I am so happy no one died because I don't know how I would continue to trade here if lives were lost. It wasn't the trailer driver's fault. There is a big pothole on that spot. At times vehicles breakdown causing gridlock."
Mr Goddy Obitolu said he saw people running when he looked and saw that the container had tipped to a corner.
"We shouted for the driver to come out and immediately the trailer fell but before then the driver called some people to help him push his car away from the trailer because his bus was also stuck and one of his back tyres was trapped in the pothole, at this point, the trailer was now falling so we shouted on them and they fled," he said.


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This Oct 15, 2018 AFP graphic shows the positions of different military forces in Syria's Idlib province.
BEIRUT — An al-Qaida-linked coalition in Syria cemented its hold on the last major rebel stronghold in the country after Turkey-backed opposition groups accepted a surrender deal that effectively gives to the extremists control of the entire region in northwestern Syria, opposition activists and a war monitor said Thursday.
The developments threaten to derail a cease-fire in the area reached in September between Turkey and Russia that averted a potentially catastrophic Syrian army assault on Idlib
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Arabic for Levant Liberation Committee, or HTS, took over control of Idlib province and the surrounding countryside after forcing rival insurgents to accept a deal for a civil administration run by HTS in their areas.
The developments threaten to derail a cease-fire in the area reached in September between Turkey and Russia that averted a potentially catastrophic Syrian army assault on Idlib.
READ MORE: Turkey urges global support for cease-fire in Syria's Idlib
The deal follows days of fierce fighting during which the HTS seized more than two dozen villages from the Turkey-backed National Liberation Front.
Idlib province is the last major rebel stronghold in civil war-torn Syria outside of government control, with the exception of northeastern Syria, which is controlled by US-backed Kurdish groups. Control of the province has so far been divided between HTS, which is spearheaded by al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria formerly known as the Nusra Front, and rebels backed by Turkey.
In this file photo taken on Aug 14, 2018, Syrian fighters attend a mock battle in anticipation of an attack by the regime on Idlib province and the surrounding countryside, during a graduation of new Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) members at a camp in the countryside of the northern Idlib province. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
The Syrian government has repeatedly threatened to launch an offensive to recapture Idlib province, which is packed with 3 million people, including many who were displaced from other parts of the country. The deal reached in September between Turkey and Russia, a key ally of Assad, averted a potentially catastrophic battle for Idlib that would have likely triggered a new wave of bloodshed and refugees. The deal required jihadist groups to leave a frontline buffer zone.
ALSO READ: Fighting erupts between rival insurgent groups in Syria
The latest advances by the HTS, which include many foreign fighters, raises questions over the future of the deal.
"HTS' governance will result in increased human rights abuses and further deterioration in the humanitarian situation, and this situation will be used as an excuse by the Assad regime and Russia to launch an offensive to retake Idlib," says Kenan Rahmani, advocacy manager at The Syria Campaign.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said jihadis are now the strongest party in Idlib.
"This paves the way for a Russian-backed government offensive to retake the province, now that it is controlled by HTS," he said.
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Let's hear it once again for social networking, all right?
For the record, the management defended its decision by saying that the building is for "independent" living. Hello? A senior citizen who is independent when the lights are on and the AC is going is not necessarily independent in more adverse circumstances. Heck, I'm barely independent without AC and electric. Apparently, the people in charge of a building full of senior citizens are unaware that many people over the age of 60 have middle ear problems that impair their sense of balance. They can't walk in the dark without falling down.
Of course, those abandoned could have called 911 for help. But it turns out our 911 service was malfunctioning for over 72 hours. I just found this out today. You see, unlike the power companies - which at least put out continuously updated outage reports and repair schedules - Verizon didn't really tell anybody. Nice.
|Trust me, these guys are schvitzing.
Too expensive, the power companies insist. But, as one Tweeter pointed out, does it really cost that much more than pulling in utility crews from other states every time there is an ice storm or high winds? And how do you put a price on the suffering and fear my neighbor's dying mother experienced when her oxygen delivery system didn't work?
I'll be back tomorrow with my sense of humor. But I still want someone to explain in the comments what's up with the Instagram craze.
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Open Humanities Press is an international open access publishing initiative in the humanities, specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP's editorial board includes leading scholars such as Alain Badiou, Jonathan Culler, Stephen Greenblatt, Jean-Claude Guédon, J. Hillis Miller, Antonio Negri, Peter Suber and Gayatri Spivak among others.
The Open Humanities Press (OHP) is a scholar-led publishing initiative founded by Paul Ashton (Australia), Gary Hall (UK), Sigi Jöttkandt (Australia) and David Ottina (US). Its aim is to raise awareness of open access publishing in the humanities and to provide promotional and technical support to open access journals that have been invited by OHP's editorial oversight group to join the collective.
OHP launched in May 2008 with seven open access journals and was named a "beacon of hope" by the Public Library of Science.[1] In August, 2009 OHP announced it will begin publishing open access book series edited by senior members of OHP's board.
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- New Metaphysics edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour
- Critical Climate Change edited by Claire Colebrook and Tom Cohen
- Fibreculture Books edited by Andrew Murphie
- Liquid Books edited by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall
- Immediations edited by the SenseLab
- Technographies edited by Steven Connor, David Trotter and James Purdon
Journals Open Humanities Press also host several open access journals, including the following:
- Culture Machine
- International Journal of Zizek Studies
- Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
See also
- arXiv
- List of academic databases and search engines
- H-net
- Public Library of Science
Further reading
- "New Open Access Press Makes its Debut," Jennifer Howard, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 May, 2008
- "OA in the Humanities Badlands," Tracy Caldwell, Information World Review, 4 June 2008
- "OA on the Crest of a Wave," Julie Hare, Campus Review 18.26 1 July 2008


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January 16, 2008
CBF Virginia Executive Director Ann Jennings has been named by Gov. Tim Kaine to serve on the state's Commission on Climate Change. The 32-person advisory panel is charged with preparing a climate change action plan for the state.


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Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) – partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 08 January 2011
The Metolong Authority has signed a US$1,27 million (about R8.55 million) contract with Canadian and South African consulting companies to develop a plan that would resettle and compensate those affected by the construction of the Metolong Dam.
The Metolong Dam and Water Supply Programme (MDWSP) will supply potable water for domestic and industrial use to Maseru and the rural towns of Roma, Mazenod, Morija and Teyateyaneng.
The Metolong Authority Public Relations Manager, Matšeliso Makoele, told Public Eye on Wednesday this week rePlan Inc. (Canada) in association with SRK Consulting Engineers and Scientists (South Africa) were expected to complete the work by March 2014.
Makoele said the consultants would develop the action plan which would include an evaluation and monitoring programme and a baseline socio-economic survey in consultation with local stakeholders such as the directly-affected communities, local chiefs, relevant community councils and other interested parties.
She said the consultancy would be implemented within the framework of the Metolong Resettlement and Compensation Policy and Procedures which was completed in June last year.
"It will also be implemented in accordance with the national and international land acquisition, compensation and resettlement policies and legislation such as the Lesotho Land Act of 1979, the World Bank Operational Policy 4.12, as well as other international best practices," Makoele said.
She said prior to the awarding of this contract, the Metolong Programme compensated community members affected by activities under Advance Infrastructure Phase 1 and 2, the proposed camp and Water Treatment sites.
An Abbreviated Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) was also prepared as an interim measure to deal with compensation issues while the Policy and Action Plan were still being prepared. Under the Abbreviated RAP, 130 out of 149 people affected by the project received compensation.
The programme is part of a larger initiative by the government of Lesotho to increase access of safe water supply to Lesotho's lowland areas.
Makoele said secure water supplies to these areas would boost socio-economic development by ensuring the continued development of the manufacturing and textile industries, job-creation, and food production and would therefore greatly assist with poverty alleviation.
The construction of the Metolong Dam and Water Supply Programme (MDWSP) is being co-funded by the Government of Lesotho, Government of South Africa, World Bank, Kuwait Fund, BADEA, Saudi Fund for Development, OPEC Fund for International Development, Millennium Challenge Corporation and the European Investment Bank.
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Great to see a new Heroes episode tonight, but did anyone else get the huge Watchmen vibe during Nathan and Linderman's conversation? Showing influences by giving nods to prior art is cool, but the plot Linderman revealed seemed to me to cross well into "imitation" territory.
I find it interesting that the Heroes wiki doesn't currently have any references to "watchmen". Here's the earliest reference I could easily find in Google to someone that raises the same question. And here's an article that would have spoiled it for me had I been looking for spoilers before watching this week's episode.


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Cristiano Ronaldo remains one short of 400 Real Madrid goals despite celebrating milestone after Champions League hat-trick
Manchester United hero bagged a treble against Atletico Madrid but has been celebrating his quadruple ton too soon
CRISTIANO RONALDO is stuck on 399 Real Madrid goals for a few more days at least despite the La Liga kings and phenomenal finisher insisting he has hit 400.
The Manchester United legend scored a brilliant hat-trick in the Champions League semi-final win over city rivals Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night.
But the celebrations over the Portuguese's treble and supposed quadruple ton were premature as a technicality means he is one shy of the stunning figure.
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The contentious goal came in the September 2010 win over Real Sociedad that Madrid triumphed 2-1.
With 16 minutes left, Ronaldo rifled a free-kick into the net and celebrated the goal but it was clearly deflected by Portugal and Real Madrid team-mate Pepe.
La Liga awarded the goal to the defender, even though he did his best to hand it over to his record-breaking friend.
At the time, Pepe said: "Regardless of what the official match report says, the goal belongs to Cristiano."
But, seven years on, the goal is still credited to Pepe - despite Ronaldo's protests – and the striker is busy celebrating his false milestone.
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After Ron's Bernabeu brilliance, he said: "The team did a tremendous job, we were outstanding.
"It was a complete performance and we performed very well right from the first whistle to the last.
"I'm very happy to have struck a hat-trick and made it 400 goals for Real Madrid."
Fearsom rival Lionel Messi is officially on 502 goals in all competitions for Barcelona but he has only ever played for the Catalan club.
Ronaldo also hit 118 competitive goals for Manchester United and five for Sporting Lisbon.


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Life!? Son, if the Academy WANTED you to have a life, it would have made it a MANDATORY COURSE! Now sit and give me twenty pages on Dutch colonialism in Indonesia, and you'd BETTER by the Dean address the discourses of construction of gender, technology, and MOTORCYCLE CLUBS or I SWEAR I'll shove that stack of tomes where the sun don't shine! Grad students make me PUKE! Why do you ask me stupid questions like that!?
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Gods are Tenatious like that.
Right, this part I made up to stretch out the Athena joke. But the first part was true.
Right, this part I made up to stretch out the Athena joke. But the first part was true.
Based on a true story. No, honest. A bunch of Gardenarians called down Athena for wisdom, and she tore them up one side and down the other. I guess she prefers to be clothed. Always think about what god you're calling.
Willow pushes her luck, and dispenses some wisdom. I love the fact that she's wearing a bow, despite the fact she's a grown woman. But I'm sure that other people have noticed that many pagans are just as quick to judge other people by their labels they use as their brother/sister Christians.
COTC Cola. Clan of the Cats. A bad injoke. Whenever people at the institute drink Cola, they drink COTC cola. Who me, worried about copyright infringement? never.
2011 note: I stopped reading Clan of the cats years ago. I don't think I ever thought Stupidity in Magic would keep going this long.
?O.o? When did this run go from being about the Bible to being about Labels?
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In a haven of green they placed an amazing transparent tent.
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For years, researchers have known that large amounts of methane are frozen in permafrost soils, which may be released into the atmosphere as the climate warms.
But new research from NASA reveals that the Arctic Ocean itself may be a possible source of the potent greenhouse gas—and another potential contributor to global warming.
During five research flights, scientists detected concentrations of methane at higher altitudes than they had expected. Researchers believe that methane escaping from cracks in the sea ice contributed to higher-than-normal levels.
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[Lead study author Eric Kort] noted that previous studies had detected high concentrations of methane in Arctic surface waters, but no one had predicted that this dissolved methane would find its way into the overlying atmosphere. Scientists are not yet sure how the methane is produced, but Kort suspects biological productivity in Arctic surface waters may be the culprit.
The photograph below shows cracks in the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska:


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I Am Ironman. I Mean Woman. Ironwoman.
Maybe you can't tell from this blog, but like most suburban white ladies with an inferiority complex and five (okay, okay, ten) extra pounds hanging around her hips, I have moments of extreme insecurity. Most of the time I'm your average smart-ass who could give a crap about what you think of me. Those are the days when I confidently sport my Unicorn Success T-shirt and fail to put in my contact lenses, in case you're wondering. However, there is a chink in this armor that gets breached once in a while.
In my short career as a blogger, I'm starting to notice a pattern. About once a month (usually coinciding with Mercury in retrograde, oddly enough) as I make my daily circuit through fellow bloggers' new material, I'll find reasons to feel insecure and left out. I am not funny enough. I am not unique enough. NO ONE LOVES ME. Whether it's glancing through a blogroll and noticing that I may not be on it despite being a devoted fan/comrade/peer/shrink, or worse, discovering that someone who used to frequent my blog no longer cares for me, I'll find some reason to feel alienated and *gulp,* unpopular.
Then I go emotionally eat the Cinnabons someone at work left out on the kitchen counter.
On these days I feel like I don't quite fit in the blogging world, and because I definitely don't fit in the real world, this makes me teary-eyed and ready to hang up the pity-party streamers and speed-dial the local Yogurtland.
Yogurtland should really deliver.
I could go into old childhood wounds and how they shaped me as a woman blah blah, but let me just show you this picture instead:
Every woman (at least those who grew up with Welcome to the Dollhouse) knows this teenage girl who is homely, rejected by everyone, and basically a miserable outcast who just wants people to like her. Because every woman has some version of Dawn Wiener inside her. *Sniff*
Seeing as I have the added bonus of having lived with depression since I was old enough to manifest hypochondriatic illness, I have gathered a few tools for dealing with these tempting opportunities to delve deeper into pain and social pariah-dom. When I get into these funks, which are precursors to a depressive episode, I immediately seek out the help I know I need. Lord knows I tried booze and that didn't work.
The Empress over at Good Day, Regular People taught me a lesson or two I'll never forget, and every time I have a mini-breakdown over a blogging failure, I go over and reread those posts. That helps keep me in check. Because apparently not everything is about me. I DON'T HAVE TO BE THE PIONEER WOMAN.
While I'm sharing all my depression-fighting techniques, this from Havi at The Fluent Self also helps put me back to center. Because I am emotionally constipated.
*Deep breaths.* Not everyone is going to be over the moon for me. Not everyone is going to love what I write so much they will want to adopt it and nourish it and call it their sweet baby. That's okay.
I am me, for better or worse.
If you don't like it, well then you can suck it.
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Round off your shopping spree at Wine Stop, a boutique wine shop with a vineyard-to-table concept serving bottles from some of the best independent producers. If you're not sure what to buy, don't worry: there's a tasting bar at the back of the shop where you can take your time." - Monocle, December 2019/January 2020
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Rooms in Bloom
The day has arrived, and we are thrilled to unveil our completely redesigned and revitalized Luxury and Signature rooms – a key foundation of the vital new Fairmont Royal York experience. A total of 898 rooms, across 11 floors of the hotel, have completed renovations to date. And they are spectacular.
The room aesthetic exudes a timeless, classic style. It honours our storied past, while embracing our dynamic new future at this essential landmark, and all the big energy of Toronto today.
It goes beyond design. The entire room experience has been upgraded, with HDTVs in every room (with
upgraded services on demand), satellite iPad check-in during peak hours, paperless checkout, and digital
path-finding monitors to navigate the hotel. Fairmont Royal York is clearly ready to embrace a new era.
You simply must see it for yourself. We look forward to welcoming you.
We have big plans for Fairmont Gold at the Royal York – and it's sure to cast a glow over the entire city. A soaring lounge with heartstopping views. Suites from the artist who brought you the Plaza in New York. A signature Toronto experience. Strike Gold. Coming in 2018.


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Does anybody remember the Digital Divide? It was the term you heard a lot around ten years ago, during the much hoopla'd Y2K turn of the millennium -- which was like the 2012 thing only without distortions of Mayan culture. The idea was that because of a lack of mastery of English, Latinos would not be able to take advantage of the Information Age, and would lag behind. We would have split into a society of high tech Anglos and ignorant, out-of-it low-tech Hispanics who would be a burden on the economy . . .
Yeah, they actually believed it. The media spent a lot of time discussing it.
I was even asked about it by a reporter from the now-defunct Latino.com while being interviewed about my novel Smoking Mirror Blues. I said I didn't think it was going to be an issue. At the time I was taking computer classes at Glendale Community College here in Arizona, often sitting next to young women in Islamic head scarfs, overhearing conversations in Vietnamese, while black and brown kids did cell phone tech support for their parents in languages that weren't officially recognized Spanish or English.
Hm. Just where do those ideas for my stories come from?
And it turns out I was right. We're into 2011 and the dreaded Digital Divide is all but forgotten. After all, technology doesn't care what language you're using, or culture you're practicing, or what color your skin may be.
Here in Aztlán/Arizona, the people helping me puzzle out the newfangled are, more often than not, young Latinos who are more bilingual than I am. Chicano techies and hackers are so common they are almost a cliché. Even Mexican grandmothers have smart phones. You can't judge a person's immigration status by their ability to telecommunicate.
I'm also delighted to see how Hispanoid cultures are jumping into cyberspace and going wild. There are sites like La Bloga, and others that I keep discovering daily. That border turned out to be easy to cross. The electronic revolution is here, beyond my early visions of dipping microchips into salsa.
The fall of traditional publishing is creating new opportunities with electronic self-publishing, and new ways of marketing and networking. Also, bilingual editions are now possible in new ways. Language barriers will break down as a result.
So my suggestion to all the struggling Latino and Chicano writers is to join the revolution. I'm publishing and networking online. I'll soon be putting my books out as ebooks. I'll let you know how it goes.
And before I sign off, let me throw out an idea: The iPad and new ereaders are making it possible to do illustrated ebooks. Comics have gone electronic. Two of my most visited posts on Mondo Ernesto are about Mexican comic books. Every day people look at them from all over the world. What if they went from pulp to digital? In bi- and multilingual editions?
Maybe they need a catchy new name, like mexga . . .
Ernest Hogan has decided to work harder as professional writer in 2011. Got any freelance work out there?


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I installed KDE Plasma 5 on my openSUSE 13.2 machine. Aww. That looks quite sleek & I adore the classic menu. After a long time using both Gnome 3 (on various distros) and Unity, I am appreciating a vanilla KDE desktop. One could simply replace KDE 4 by KDE Plasma 5 in openSUSE as:
sudo zypper in plasma5-session
Note: As stated, this will replace KDE 4 and your previous desktop preferences will be overridden.
Once installed, re-login after selecting the Plasma 5 environment at the login prompt.
How to re-configure the touchpad?
My touchpad behaved differently. It was set to two-finger scroll, while I prefer the vertical edge scroll. I looked around but could not find any GUI utility to re-configure the touchpad. Could only find mouse controls under System Settings.
I believe these glitches won't be around when KDE Plasma 5 will ship by default in openSUSE. Meanwhile for people who're giving a try, the fix is to install kcm-touchpad5 and look for the Input Devices in systemsettings5.
sudo zypper in kcm-touchpad5
System Settings > Hardware > Input Devices > Touchpad


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Brian Hamilton is a lifelong entrepreneur who dedicates his time to bringing entrepreneurship to those who wouldn't have it otherwise.
Brian Hamilton
Founder, the Brian Hamilton Foundation
Co-Founder, Sageworks
Brian Hamilton is an entrepreneur who has decades of experience starting businesses across a range of industries, including landscaping, real estate, and technology. Raised in a working-class neighborhood near Bridgeport, Connecticut, Brian has first-hand knowledge of the challenges that people face in breaking out of the socioeconomic categories into which they are born. He uses this first-hand knowledge and his entrepreneurship experience to help historically disadvantaged groups create and grow businesses. The son of a Marine, Brian's work ethic developed early. Brian ran a landscaping business to pay for his undergraduate degree, allowing him to become the first in his family to attend college. He graduated from Sacred Heart University, where he later served on the Board of Trustees, and received an MBA from Duke University.
After graduating from Duke in 1990, Brian was the minority business consultant for the SBA in the state of North Carolina. While there, he met his friend, Reverend Robert J. Harris, who he would eventually work with to help people in prison start their own businesses. This work became the basis for Inmates to Entrepreneurs. During this time, he also started a chain of coin laundromats in inner cities that were designed specifically to improve the laundry experience of people by developing community and providing better services. Some of these services included Mom's Day Thursday, Free Dryer Wednesday, and Bible study groups. Brian co-founded Sageworks in 1998, the country's first fintech company. After 20 years of growing the Inc. 500 company into the largest provider of software to U.S. banks, he sold his stake to a leading private equity firm in 2018. During his time building Sageworks, Brian earned multiple patents for his work in automating financial analysis. He is a regular guest on CNBC and Fox and frequently writes for and is quoted in all major national media publications. Brian is also a contributor to Inc. and Entrepreneur magazines. Brian's work has earned him awards and recognition from organizations including Duke University, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, and George H.W. Bush's Points of Light. Most recently, he started the Brian Hamilton Foundation, which is based on the belief that entrepreneurship is for everyone in America, not just the people who were lucky enough to be exposed to it or to the privileged. Brian enjoys spending time with his two sons, fishing, and hanging out with his little brother, Ryan, and; of course, his two dogs, Sean and Stacey.


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12 Handcrafted Dragons
According to Chinese astrology – New Year 2012 is the year of Black Water Dragon. The dragon is the fifth in the cycle of Chinese zodiac. Each of us knows that the dragon is very powerful but no less endowed with wisdom. Culture and traditions of ancient China always have their own fans. Therefore I would like to draw your attention to the jewelry performed in the Dragon theme.
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Gerhard Richter – Painting
If you're an avid follower of the fine art world you'll know that Gerhard Richter is the hottest thing going these days. At least, that's what I'm told; I'm not an avid follower, and I didn't know much about Richter before seeing Corinna Belz' documentary, Gerhard Richter – Painting. After seeing it, I still don't know much about him. A thorough understanding of his work seems to be an entrance requirement for this movie.
Richter's work, at least in the time Belz was filming, seems to be marked by a certain peculiarity: he takes a basic painting and then starts smearing, streaking, and smothering it almost to the point of unrecognizability, and sometimes beyond. It seems that sometimes he's started with photorealistic renditions similar to his earlier works and has applied this "blur" to them. We see him working with abstracts works, where the base piece comes together much more quickly.
Early on, Richter stands in front of two plain white canvases with a bucket of paint in one hand and a house-painter's brush in the other. He slops some yellow merrily onto one canvas before going to consider the other. A little later he returns with a blue bucket, which smears and blends with the yellow. Red follows. Richter paces back and forth, daubing at each piece until he decides to stop.
At this point he likes them, but he says that in some time — maybe hours, maybe days — he'll realize that they're absolute rubbish. He comes back with an enormous "squeegee", which is more of a ten-foot piece of plexiglas than the rubber scraper we're familiar with. He loads it down with paint and proceeds to smear it across the canvases. Sometimes it leaves blobs of paint in the textural imperfections of the existing painting as the blade passes; sometimes it scrapes up existing paint, pushing it forward to be redeposited later. He repeats this process with different squeegees or brushes, in different directions, over and over, until he judges them complete. At least, complete for the moment — two pieces reach an almost uniformly mottled grey-brown, only to be all but completely whitewashed later.
Belz includes some shots of Richter in his office, talking about the images on his walls, or preparing for a gallery opening, negotiating over the lighting. She even digs up some old documentary footage of him from the 1960s, shortly after his escape to West Germany.
The thirty-year-old Richter blows off questions about explanations, saying that painting is a way of expressing what cannot be put into words, and that he can't answer what he was thinking about while painting because painting is itself a different kind of thinking. These comments seem to be held up to excuse Belz from asking the questions again of the eighty-year-old Richter, which really is her job as a documentarian.
Besides, I don't even buy it as anything but the posturing of a pretentious twit, which it seems every artist is at the beginning of his career. It's not that I think he's wrong, but humans are masters of ex post facto rationalization. Even if, on some level, the Richter explaining the painting is not the same Richter who was actually doing the painting, there's no reason he can't look at the work and make conjectures, the same as any other critic. To not press him on this point marks this as a cinematic puff piece.
Someone is making decisions as these paintings are composed. We see Richter right in the middle talking about how loading a squeegee up with blue paint was a huge mistake and he had to walk away before he made it worse by actually applying it to the canvas. A decision-making process is taking place, and there is no attempt made to explore it.
I'm not denying that on some preverbal level Richter knows something that would be "better" or worse" depending on whether or not he used the blue paint. I'm not even saying that the results — and thus the decisions — are entirely subjective. Mathematicians can make objective measurements that clearly separate Jackson Pollack's paintings from similar imitations, which was obviously not Pollack's conscious intention. But if the decision-making process is really so completely internal to Richter's own artistic mind, what exactly is the point in watching it?
If the art is in how an observer reacts to a piece, then whatever the artist did to get to that point is immaterial. If the art is partly in what the artist does — and Rauschenberg's erased de Kooning shows that clearly it is — then in documenting the artist's process some attempt should be made to explore what's going on, if not by the artist than by the documentarian. And if Belz isn't even going to do that, then she's not a documentarian; she's a public-relations representative. We'd learn as much by watching the paintings dry.
Worth It: no.
Bechdel Test: if it applies to documentaries, fail.


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The Next Wonder Fruit: Siberian Berry, Oblepikha, aka Sea Buckthorn
As the Acai craze continues, albeit at a more moderate pace, and the Goji berry goes the way of the dodo bird, American marketers are now salivating at the prospects of the next big miracle wonder Super Fruit, the badly named Siberian sourced Oblepikha, or Sea Buckthorn in english.
You may remember the goji, a red Himalayan berry that promised the usual health benefits catering to the health nuts out there that will buy anything. Then came acai, the exotic Amazon purple berry from deep within the massive South American jungle. Acai is/was said to remedy the gamut of human ailments from hangnails, to obesity, and every other problem in between.
Well, you had to know, as sales of these past "super frutis" began to fade, that marketers were scouring the globe for the next big Acai like super fruit. Well, you can exhale a big sigh of relief, and open your wallet wide, as marketers have finally found the new, exotic, Siberian Oblepikha, also known by the rather awkward english name: Sea Buckthorn. Clearly the marketing guru's haven't spent enough time coming up with a more exotic english name yet.
The poorly named Sea Buchkthorn, aka Oblepikha is a bright orange Siberian berry that is already well known to the Russian people. Russian old timers have long considered the berry to have a wid variety of benefits to the health of humans. But, they are no match to the mind of the American marketer! Now, if you can believe one website, Dr. Oz is even recommending it!
This site says that Sea Buckthorn oil can be used as a mouth ulcer remedy, a tooth and gum health remedy, and of course, for weight loss. Several websites (thousands more to come, no doubt) oblepikha juice, oil, and pills can reduce weight, ease constipation, soothe acne, rejuvenate skin, and so much more! One website even goes as far to claim that this super fruit "goes to space as a special food, keeping astronauts well adapted to a complex and hectic space environment." Nice touch.
As is usually the case, the badly named Sea Buckthorn, or Oblepikha (say that 3 times fast) health benefit claims, have not been evaluated by the US Food and Drug Administration. Nor are they ever likely to evaluate the claims.
Amika, a New York based hair products/accessories company with a creative director from the Ukraine, has actually started using the fruit in cosmetics which isn't a bad idea as the sea buckthorn oil has been used in hair and skin in the far east for a long time. Amika makes masks, serums and sprays using the oil from the berry. At least this is something that has some benefit to humans, and New Yorker's lover their skin products.
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The facts on the Slane bypass
Dear sir - The Bypass Slane Campaign (BSC) has repeatedly accused 'commentators' of being 'ill-informed', and spreading 'misinformation'. So, let's deal with the critical facts here, regarding the proposed Slane bypass. The first fact is that it has been Meath County Council, acting as agents of the National Roads Authority (NRA), who have proven themselves lacking in the information department. That is why An Bord Pleanala forced them to publish additional information, and re-open public consultation. Submissions can now be made to An Bord Pleanala until 15th October. All the previously withheld information on the proposed bypass, including; the western route options; the potential impact on Brú na Bóinne; archaeological reports on the 44 impacted sites; and the relationship of the bypass to the N2 Ashbourne to Ardee project, is now available on the Meath County Council web site. Even the original Environmental Impact Statement, which was not available on their web site during the original consultation, is now available for download. The second fact is that while the Fianna Fail leaders of BSC, Thomas Byrne TD and Cllr Wayne Harding have attacked ESRI economist Dr Edgar Morgenroth, for calling the bypass proposal 'idiotic', the fact of the matter is that the NRA agreed with Dr Morgenroth and cancelled the Slane Bypass in May 2009, on economic grounds. In a letter delivered to councillors at a Slane Electoral Area meeting, reported in this paper, the NRA said that it needed to concentrate on a number of other national projects which are seen as being "particularly important for regional development". Because of this, and the continued uncertainty regarding public finances, the NRA regretted that "it is not possible at this time to provide funding for the construction of the N2 Slane Bypass." The third fact is that the HGV ban was approved unanimously by Meath County Councillors in April 2009, and the County Manager, Tom Dowling, is under a legal duty to implement it, as he was told in the Transport Committee hearing last year. Residents of Slane, including the Ban HGVs from Slane campaign led by Carina Mount Charles, have campaigned and protested for years for a HGV ban in the village. The Minister for Transport, and Fianna Fail TD for Meath, Noel Dempsey, was even reported in this paper in 2009 as promising to "actively implement" the HGV ban. But the HGVs still roll through the village at an alarming rate, endangering lives every day. The fourth fact is that a bypass of Slane has already been constructed, at a cost of over half a billion euros to the taxpayer. It is called the M1 motorway, and lies about five miles to the east of the village. It runs along the eastern boundary of the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site, with a massive bridge over the Boyne, clearly visible from the Unesco site. Minister Dempsey and the Fianna Fail led BSC campaign would rather endanger lives in Slane on a daily basis than force the HGVs to use the road that was built for them, in order to unfairly pressurise An Bord Pleanala into approving a non-viable bypass, based on artificially inflated traffic volume. Yours, Vincent Salafia, Save Newgrange, Suite 108, The Capel Building, Mary's Abbey, Dublin 7.


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An ideal place for the construction of facilities for various purposes, or other large projects.
Sunny Lustica peninsula located at the entrance of the picturesque Bay of Kotor — a favorite vacation spot of local people.
A clean and healthy mountain air makes Lustica not only an excellent holiday destination, but also a health resort.
This unique and beautiful place one of the last non built-up areas of the Montenegrin coast.


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Hello friends, I guess you all know what time of the year it is as you can feel the happiness in the air. Christmas is just around the corner and this is the best part of the year when you can gather your family and create some precious memories. I think that all of those Christmas lovers, would love to share the Christmas mood even on their websites and therefore here I am sharing couple of useful features that can turn your website more festive during the holiday season.
In this article, I will introduce to you few plugins for WordPress and Joomla with which you will be able to express the mood of Christmas on your websites. After all the people which are accessing your websites may not like the season, but no matter how grumpy the people are, when they see the snow falling, the sound of a good Christmas song, even the coldest heart would melt.
So now straight to the point, first I am going to provide you with a list of couple of plugins for WordPress:
1. WFS Let It Snow, the plugin which is going to make the snow falling on your websites pages. Those pretty snow crystals falling down on your website and making the magic of Christmas much more real for your visitors. You can download the plugin from here.
2. POWr Holiday Countdown, the plugin with which you can easily create a beautiful counter to countdown the days before Christmas or to some specific event which you have set for your website. You can download the plugin from here.
3. Xmas Lighs, this plugin will add animated christmas lights on top of your website. It is simple and beautiful plugin that can add a lot of joy to your visitors. You can download the plugin from here.
As for the installation of the above plugins it is pretty straight forward just access your Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New -> Upload Plugins and then just upload the installation package of the desired plugin provided from the above links.
So now lets make the Christmas joyful and for those Joomla lovers:
1. Snowfalling, I guess the name says it all, again a plugin which is going to make the snow falling on your website. You can download the plugin from here.
2. Deplaneet Snow, this module is going to put an Chrismas footer on your website. The footer looks very nice and ads a nice touch to your website during the holiday season. You can download the module from here.
3. POWr Countdown Timer, the same as the "POWr Holiday Countdown" plugin for WordPress this plugin is going to let you create beautiful counter for your Joomla. You can download the plugin from here.
The installation of the above plugin is standard for Joomla, just access the administration area of your website -> Extensions -> Extension Manager and upload the installation package of the desired plugin which you have downloaded from the links provided above.
Happy Holidays to you all and please check our blog frequently so you can stay tuned with the latest feeds from the technical world.


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By Hamish Fraser et al.
Given the absence of a properly functioning demand-side in electricity markets, the need for a centralized Capacity Payment Mechanism (CPM) has been widely accepted in many jurisdictions around the world. While there is no universal agreement on the best CPM design, most schemes implemented worldwide produce a uniform capacity price for an entire region or country. This lack of a locational dimension tends to exacerbate network congestion, and a number of alternatives outside the centralized CPM construct have been implemented to avoid local capacity shortfalls. However, many of these mechanisms present a number of efficiency problems. Regulators and independent system operators are still looking for capacity solutions that promote efficient co-ordination of generation and transmission investment.
In this article from the March issue of The Electricity Journal, NERA Vice President Amparo Nieto and Affiliated Consultant Hamish Fraser explore the range of traditional and innovative locational incentive mechanisms adopted in the US and abroad. They evaluate these methods from the point of view of the incentives provided to market participants and their potential impact on the efficiency in the market. The authors conclude that a well-designed CPM with built-in locational incentives holds more promise for signaling the value of capacity to potential investors than cost-based payments directed to must-run generators. Specifically, forward capacity auctions present potential additional merits over CPM methods based on bilateral contracting, as the bidding process can reveal crucial information of the opportunity cost of new resources. Notwithstanding the advantages of these innovative CPM schemes, their effectiveness is yet to be seen; the authors discuss the key areas that will need further work to increase the probability that locational CPMs succeed in restoring the missing signals.