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Desert Daze: October 11-13, 2019
Desert Daze 2019
Ah, the mornings are beginning to be met by a cool autumn breeze...so this must mean desert festival season is under way! Desert Daze has been a myriad of magical atmospheric wonder along with the most entertaining of artists ....
I think this was my first time seeing The Flaming Lips, but I could be wrong. Seems odd that this was "a very special Early Evening performance", since the band's psychedelic/space rock seems to work better at night …
Headliners include ESG, The Apples in Stereo, Superchunk, Waxahatchee, Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab), Sneaks, Elf Power, The Veldt, Pylon Reenactment Society, Eureka California and Tunabunny. …
Devo is in top form. They have their show down to an artform, complete with their own lights and fog machine and images on screen. With this sort of tight control over their images …
Anyway, Gene and Dean Ween are back, newly reunited as Ween, proving that they haven't quite push the little daisies just yet. The reunion was announced last year (November 2015) …
The entire Wu-Tang Clan (minus the ones that are no longer on Earth) is back in the studio with RZA for a new record this Fall. In the meantime, the group released "Family Reunion" to celebrate their 20th anniversary. …
Along their way to Minneapolis, Temples have been building huge buzz appearing at Great Escape 2013 and (recently) SXSW 2014. With all that excitement for the band, they sold out the Turf Club presale …
Opening up the show will be Alvvays, who we recently caught at the Turf Club on December 2014 and reported, "Although the band only has one album, you couldn't ask for better surf-pop sweetness." …
A similar story happened with Russian punk group Pussy Riot being jailed for performing "Virgin Mary, Please Drive Putin Away" song in front of a church…
It is said that autumn is a time of rebirth, reflection and revitalization the soul. It's a time of coziness, togetherness and ease as the cooler weather blankets our everyday lives. For some this means pumpkin spice lattes and dinners with friends by a fire and for some, it means an expansive weekend long music festival filled with a wonderland of modern-day rock legends. It means a perfectly curated playground of psychedelic art and communion with the promise of an all-around good freakin' time. For some, the allurement of this season is the sprinkling of rock tunes on your tongue and a whole new version of Woodstock. Rock, my friends, is not dead.
This festival has undoubtably earned the title of a SoCal staple as each year gets seemingly better and better. Last year was challenging with the rain and the parking situation of a new venue, but the location is in the same stunning setting of Moreno Beach (situated beautifully between the San Jacinto and San Bernardino Mountains), so this year they've worked out the kinks. You can float peacefully on the lake while hearing your favorite bands christen the sky in the background. You can head on over to The Mystic Bazaar, a safe haven for those needing a breather from the enormity of the crowd energy. Here in this village holds all the yoga, tea ceremonies and sound baths your little heart can desire. The amenities and curated adornments here are endless, and there is always some amazement around every corner.
Now for the bands!
The gentleness of Friday starts out with Triptides, Wave, Frankie and the Witch Fingers and DIIV. Brooklyn's DIIV released their third album, Deceiver, yesterday on the label Captured Tracks. The album is grungier than they've been in the past with a kind of Silverchair resemblance to it, so with this drop it is sure to be a highly anticipated performance. Singer-songwriter Jessica Pratt will be performing recent LP Quiet Signs at the Block at 4pm. Fred Armisen will do a comedy set in the mid-afternoon, followed by Atlas Sound and Crumb.
Saturday kicks off with Blackwater Holylight, the super heavy psych all-girl band from Portland. This group has all the elements to make you squirm and drool with delight, from folk-rock to grunge melodies to whispers of gothic intensity…and they're mesmerizing onstage. Following acts are Klaus Johann Grobe, Altin Gün, Anika, Surfbort, Big Business and the true legends themselves- JJUUJJUU. Going into sunset time is DEVO, Cruel Diagnonals and Lumerians. Ween, Nick Hakim, and Pussy Riot. Temples highlight the evening.
The most massive act on the list is surely Wu-Tang Clan, performing their 36 Chambers LP on Sunday. The crew of DD this year (started by Phil Pirrone's of JJUUJJUU, who always performs at least one killer set) were smart, because they saved a ton of the most exciting acts for the wee hours into Sunday evening. Also performing Sunday are Dead Meadow, Moses Sumney, The Black Angels, White Fence and Shintaro Sakamoto, to name a few.
Weather permitting (Tame Impala got rained out last year halfway through their set) this upcoming weekend will surely be one of mystery, wonderment and delight. The scintillating adventure of time travel or a portal to a new universe is always optional…but never enforced.
Details and lineup:
Lake Perris, California
More Info: desertdaze.org
The Flaming Lips Perform 'The Soft Bulletin'
Fred Armisen Comedy For Musicians But Everyone Is Welcome
Connan Mockasin Presents Botsyn N' Dobsyn Episodes + Solo Performance
Jessica Pratt
Faye Webster
Jonathan Bree
Frankie & The Witch Fingers
Al Lover
Triptides
Opening Ceremonies With Ian Svenonius
'We Intend To Cause Havoc' Documentary + Q+A W/ Emmanuel Jagari Chanda
THE SANCTUARY: Cristopher Cichocki - Circular Dimensions, Kid 606, Tom Hall, Byron Westbrook, Devin Sarno, Mitchell Brown, Ellen Phan, Conscious Summary, Wave
Ween Perform 'Chocolate And Cheese'
Devo - The Beginning Of The End
Flying Lotus 3D
The Locust
Connan Mockasin + Friends
Viagra Boys
Altin Gün
Surfbort
Klaus Johann Grobe
Jjuujjuu
Black Water Holy Light
Trupa Trupa
THE SANCTUARY: Cristopher Cichocki - Circular Dimensions, Dntel, Pod Blotz, Cruel Diagonals, The Eternal Chord Featuring Gabie Strong, Jim Haynes, Rotary Ect, Jeff Frost, George Jensen
Wu Tang Clan Perform 'Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)'
The Claypool Lennon Delirium
Shintaro Sakamoto
Dead Meadow
White Fence
Jakob Ogawa
Jerry Paper
George Clanton
Froth
Richard Rose
Particle Kid
Kills Birds
Les Claypool & Sean Lennon Q+A
THE SANCTUARY: Cristopher Cichocki - Circular Dimensions, Randy Randall, Ensemble Economique, Shana Shenai, White Boy Scream, Ellen Phan (Hypnosis Session), Zachary Paul, Live For Each Moon
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Minneapolis: July 07 to July 08, 2017
Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from July 07 to July 08, 2017.
Basilica Block Party
The 20th Anniversary of the Basilica Block Party is taking place on Friday (July 11) and Saturday (July 12). I have mentioned before that it's not a great place to see music (because of the talkers....
After the first few songs, the band is joined on stage by none other than Brandi Carlile! Carlile actually sang backup on many of Ray's songs, including the encores. …
The latest song, "Shut Up And Dance" was the #1 song on Spotify charts... and it's a good indication of what's to come when they release their sophomore album on RCA Records later this year..…
at Basilica St. Mary
07/07/17-07/08/17 (5pm/$60)
basilicablockparty.org
The annual Basilica Block Party starts next Friday, July 7th and spill over to Saturday. Tickets are $60 per day, or if you bought early bird tickets, they were discounted to $55.
We're big fans of the event, with Basilica Block Party 2015 as one of our all-time favorite shows.
This year, fan-favorites Brandi Carlile and Walk The Moon will be taking the headliner stage.
Please note, there are three stages and their set time overlaps - so either be prepared to see only partial sets or "camp out" at your favorite stage.
Friday, July 7:
Great Clips Stage
The Roosevelts
PreferredOne Stage
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Star Tribune Stage
Jaedyn James & the Hunger
Nick Jordan
Saturday, July 8:
Ben Rector
Julia Brennan
Enemy Planes
Nooky Jones
Jackson & The Roosters
As you can see from his setlist (which does not list encores), he had wedged in three Bauhaus songs in the middle of his set. Those songs were well-received... as for most of the well-known songs. . .…
Saturday 07/08/17 (8pm/$20)
Poptone is Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins, of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and Tones on Tail. Joining the duo to form Poptone will be Haskins' daughter Diva Dompé, formerly of the Los Angeles rock band Blackblack.
We're obviously fans, so if you grew up in the same time period, you really need to be at First Avenue on Saturday.
For this retrospective tour, Poptone will play songs from all their previous bands, heavily leaning on the rare Tones On Tail songs. Expect to hear dance classics 'Ok This Is the Pops' and 'Go!'
Transmission's DJ Jake Rudh will play music videos before the show.
07/06 - St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall **
07/08- Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
07/09 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
08/03 - Asbury Park, NJ @ The Stone Pony **
08/04 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero Theatre **
08/05 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza **
08/08 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club **
08/11 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage **
Hippo Campus
The crowd at the music stage began swelling very early on, as local favorites Hippo Campus played first, with a spirited 40 min. set that included new single, 'South' (EP out Oct 2 on Grand Jury Records) .…
HIPPO CAMPUS and POLIÇA
at Bayfront Park
Saturday 07/08/17 (4:30pm/$25)
bayfrontfestivalpark.com
This is a really solid event. If you live in Duluth, or willing to drive from Minneapolis, the show looks outstanding.
We previously have seen all headlining bands before, with Hippo Campus recently in March 2017 and noted, "The buzz for Hippo Campus at their homecoming show was simply amazing. As soon as the band took the stage, a hundred cellphones went up in the air to record every moment of the band. The audience was generally young teenagers, but that is expected for a semi-rare all-ages weekend show at First Avenue. The last time we saw Hippo Campus, they were definitely one of the key attractions to Rock the Garden 2016. Their RTG 50-min set "wowed the many in the crowd who were there to see them play a danceable mix of familiar and some yet-to-be-released songs." Some of those preview songs are now available on their debut record landmark (Grand Jury Records). "
This show is presented by First Avenue, The Current, and KUMD. Since this is an open area, so the show will go on rain or shine.
Remo Drive
Also, as tradition goes, we stopped by the Leinie Lodge Bandshell to catch a little set from Texas-born, Louisiana-based Marcia Ball playing some old time rock and blues on her keyboard. …
07/07/2017 Don't know how is it that Chicano Batman hasn't been sued by DC Comics, but the band is thriving with their recent release of Freedom is Free via ATO Records (Billboard consider the album as "Best Albums of 2017 So Far"). Khruangbin will open the Turf Club in St Paul... the event is sold out. Brainstory is also on the bill. 8pm, $20.
07/07/2017 Former Drive By Trucker's Jason Isbell (billed as Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit) and The Mountain Goats will be at the new Palace Theatre in St Paul this Friday. The Mountain Goats' Goths is out now on Merge Records. The show is sold out. 7pm, $49.50.
07/08/2017 Jared & The Mill and Canyon Spells will be playing the 7th Street Entry on Saturday. 8pm, $12.
07/08/2017 Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum singer-songwriter Michelle Branch will be headlining the Fine Line Music Café on Saturday, in support of her new Hopeless Romantic album from Verge Records. No opening band listed on the venue's website, but her poster shows Haerts. 8pm, $30.
07/08/2017 Today, Philadelphia four-piece, by way of New York, Palm is headlining the Turf Club in St Paul. Their new EP Shadow Expert is out now on Carpark Records. Palberta will open. 8pm, $10.
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History, Memory and Identity
Interview with Giorgij Anchabadze
Biographical Salon guests from Georgia
In the first days of March, a new chapter was opened in the history of the Biographical Salon: two guests from Georgia were welcomed and shared their experiences. "We are glad that the space is opening up, for deeper and wider exchange - both on the past and its impact on current living conditions", Caucasus-Program Director Oliver Wolleh commented this development.
On 1 March, Professor Natalia Lazba from Batumi State University became a visiting guest in our evening-salon. Natalia has an ethnic Abkhaz background (Makhadzhirstvo). She resides in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Georgia. As usual our moderator Mramza Dzhikirba led the discussion. One central topic was the relationship between different ethnic communities in Ajara before and after the war.
One day later we were glad to host one of the coordinators of our project "History Dialogue", Rusiko Marshania, in the Biographical Salon. After the war, Rusiko was forced to leave Abkhazia together with her Georgian husband and their children. In conversation with Abaza TV host Liana Ebzhnou, Rusiko shared memories about her life in Abkhazia before the war, she told us how and why she had to leave, how she built her new life in Georgia and about her relationships with her relatives in Abkhazia after her departure. The event was recorded for the Abkhaz Televisionchannel Abaza TV.
The readiness and openness of our guests, our partners and our audience made it possible to reach a new level and include more and broader topics into official discourses on the war in Abkhazia. We are looking forward to further developments!


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Nikola Radic Lucati
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Ethnographers argument
Ethnomimicry
Radio witness
The insufficiency
Condensate
Predictable outcomes
The fever (numismatic value)
Communal dwellings
Radio witness, 2017-2018. brass and lead plates 2x1m each, 3 channel video, 3 channel audio.
Boccanera gallery, Trento, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Volkskunde museum Vienna. Curated by: Noa Treister, Zoran Erić.
Radio-witness
The work "Radio-witness", uses a selection of Balkan war veterans and victims/witnesses testimonies, taken from the "Naming it war" audio archive and other sources. In my work, these testimonies become a central part of an installation piece and the material for a radio broadcast, where these testimonies are presented in context with other, related testimonies, recovered media content, forming the in-depth social and memorial spatial and audio-documentary with intimacy of local, live programme. During the production of this work, additional research was conducted, new statements and conversations recorded, media and data have been collected and produced for each location and time to which the testimonies are referring. These re-researched and collated units have become the separate, independent episodes of the new audio-only programming, as stipulated by the original call for artworks. The visual material was also recorded at the locations where civilians were persecuted by the very same army and police units from which the veterans organizations would form. The second set of photographs, taken some 20 years later, is of the veterans organizations workshops and panel talks. It was used to analyze the group dynamic and behavior over time, in a safe and permissive environment, yielding preserved hierarchical internal group dynamic, and nearly absolute lack of empathy with the civilians. the presentation of the work is here available for future reference, expanding the comparative field of work as a response to the reductive conditioning favoring the integrity of the original subjects' statements.
The statements, referred to the artists as testimonies, are presented in the narrative forms of dialogues, and at some future point could be encoded and transmitted to the virtual meetings of personal histories, memories, views and convictions, along with their associated additional, contextualizing content. Resulting narrative and aural works will be presented in a non-partisan and depoliticized manner, as is preferred by the still non-lustrated state and private actors with economic interest and political capital tied in the legacy of the 1990s wars.
The traditional documentary methodology is here subverted by a demand for a constant focus on the projection of the physical, testimonial mediascape as a socializing and dialogic enabler of reflexion, re-interpretation and study of formerly isolated, one-dimensional, and self-referential subjects, insulated from the consequences of their own actions. In this conditioned focusing, what becomes pre-determined is the empathic outcome of the entire exercise, through the insertion of the emerging, historical, yet socially engineered figure of the aged veteran, militarily and politically useless, yet, successfully re-profiled into a PTSD patient, a socially endangered subject, a proxy victim, wholly owned, exploited, and therefore excusable for its actions by the state. With the preset empathic outcome, embedded in the overall curated testimony project for years, what remains to the newly invited artists, that are themselves also a category of "project subjects", is the formal refuge of meticulous repetition of the historiographic methodology itself, with its obligatory treatment of the veterans' statements as valuable scientific, cultural and psychological sources.
While integrally and respectfully presented, the sources are still subjected to effects of the self – initiated process of retroactive memorial policy formation, through recognition, reception, evaluation, and analysis. Presentation through the media field pre-determined by the terms of the call, is being performed in the forms most fitting to the state's culturally encoded, dissemination – a targeted influence campaign, in state-sponsored rehabilitation of the executioners of the "mini-lebensraum" civilian-clearing plans for a "greater nation state". The overall normative "field of inculpability", is being produced as a binding contemporary legal framework serving multiple historical timelines. The intention of the author is to recognize and reproduce this reading of the facts offered with their causalities and intended socio-political outcomes.
Village house on the road Prishtina - Peć/Peje, 1998.
Serb war veterans at the artist project worskhop "Testimony - truth or politics", Fruška gora, 2016.
Unharvested crops, village on the road Prishtina - Peć/Peje, 1998.
Internally displaced Albanian widow with child, Prishtina 1998.
Roma refugees from Kosovo, Karaburma, Belgrade 1998.
Serb police checkpoint, road Prishtina - Peć/Peje 1998.
Alabanian refugee woman in labor, evacuation to a hospital in Serb - held Prizren, 1998.
Internally displaced Albanians, Pagarusha, 1998.
KLA village defense unit, frontline, Pagarusha, 1998.
Kosovo war, 1998-1999, Abanian and Roma refugees in Kosovo and Belgrade. Taken while on assignment for Helsingin Sanomat and Avvinimenti. The Reliefweb report is published in integral form. To the best of my knowledge, it is the only remaining document relevant to the displacement of population in the Pagarusha area in summer of 1998. UN Inter-Agency Update on Kosovo Situation Report 57 – UNHCR, WFP 26 Aug 1998
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
This report has been compiled by UNHCR with support from OCHA and with inputs from UN Agencies and other humanitarian organizations in FRY, FYROM and Albania
1. KOSOVO
1.1 Fighting was reported in several areas in recent days: west of Pec in Rugarovska area, along the Stimlje and Suva Reka road, on the Komorane – Kijevo stretch of the Pristina – Pec Road and near the Pristina airport 12 km south-west of Pristina leading to new displacement.
Thousands of people, mostly women and children, have fled their homes since Saturday following shelling of villages in central Kosovo. A UNHCR team visited on Tuesday the village of Pagarusa between Orahovac and Malisevo and found several hundreds encamped in the woods.
Most of the new arrivals into Pagarusa are sheltered by villagers in their homes but many others were staying on a hill on the outskirts of the village. Pagarusa already was hosting some 8,000 who arrived earlier in the month. On Tuesday, the UNHCR team saw small groups of several dozen people on foot, on carts and tractors heading toward Pagarusa under overcast skies and chilly winds.
The people said they came from the villages of Lower and Upper Pecan, Slapusan, Semetiste, Prestan, Studencan, Samodregja and Dobrdolan in the Suva Reka municipality and Optorusa, Reti and Zeciste which had come under heavy shelling the past three days. The people there said that on Tuesday one woman died of illness and a baby was born in the woods.
1.2 Returns. At the same time there has been considerable return of population to Orahovac. The return to Ade village remains tentative, as police continues to occupy some houses of displaced persons, while water and electricity have yet to be reconnected. Some returns have also taken place in the Srbica area. It is estimated that 30,000 persons altogether have returned.
Estimated Displacement Figures: (as at 24 August 1998)
Displacement within Kosovo* – 170,000
Displacement into Montenegro** – 33,500
Displacement into other parts of Serbia – 20,000
Refugees into Albania*** – 14,000
Visitors into FYROM**** – 1,000
TOTAL – 235,500
* Estimated figure based on information from various organisations in Kosovo.
** An average figure based on figures provided by the Montenegrin Ministry of Interior and the Montenegrin Red Cross, as shown in the next page.
*** Includes 7,000 registered in Tropoje District and an estimated 7,000 who have left for other areas.
**** Figure provided by a local NGO, El Hilal.
1.3 Desperate Civilians Fear Further Attacks. A 34-year-old woman was bringing a 5-week-old baby in her arms to the clinic at Pagarusa for treatment of diarrhea and fever. She said the baby was born in the woods last month, when she first fled her home at Reti village in Orahovac. After four weeks in the woods, she returned to her home in Reti, seeing other villagers going back. The woman said Reti had been relatively untouched during last months bombardments and she had stayed at her home for about a week. On Saturday, however, she fled once again after hearing artillery rounds hit her village. She fled in a group of 15, but lost her 3-year-old son and 1-1/2 year-old daughter during the flight. She said she saw flames in her village and still did not know what happened to her house. The woman claimed she had nowhere to go except Pagarusa because the area was ringed on one side by Serb forces and two main roads on the two other sides with heavy police presence.
1.4 Increased Concern Over Safety and Security of Aid Workers: Three Relief Workers Killed Under Fire. According to media reports and a witness on the ground, three workers of a local relief agency run by Kosovo Albanians, the Mother Theresa Society (MTS), were killed on Monday when tank fire hit their tractor. The workers were reported to have been on their way to distribute relief supplies in the village of Vlaski Drenovac outside Malisevo.
Another MTS worker who witnessed the incident from about 500 meters away told UNHCR that his tractor was raked with automatic fire but he escaped with only minor burns he suffered while trying to save some of the food packs on his trailer.
The victims were on a convoy of seven tractors that had earlier picked up the supplies at the MTS warehouse at Lapcevo, 10 kilometers west of Malisevo, delivered by a UNHCR/WFP escorted multi-agency convoy just two days earlier. Safety and Security of relief workers remain to be of high concern.
1.5 More Aid Reaches Displaced Persons. UNHCR escorted a multi-agency convoy to Barane on Tuesday to deliver supplies for some 30,000 displaced people and host families in the area 12 kilometers south of Pec. The 10-truck convoy carried shipments from Doctors of the World, Mercy Corps International, Catholic Relief Services, World Food Program, Handicap International, U.S. AID, and Papa Giovanni XXIII. The convoy transported 110 tons of wheat flour, 2,000 family food parcels, oil, beans, milk power, plastic sheeting, clothes, blankets, toothbrushes, toothpaste, detergent and sanitary napkins.
1.6 Reports of Land mines. Sightings of land mines believed to have been laid by UCK have been made on dirt tracks leading north of the town of Junik as well as in areas near Malisevo and Orahovac. Diplomatic sources said they had found evidence of anti-personnel and anti-tank mines and craters made in the blasts. There were also indications rebels had set up explosives rigged from water tanks and jerry cans.
There are reports of land mines laid by the Serbian authorities on the Albanian border and along the Macedonian border through the Sar Mountains to General Jankovic (Blace).
1.7 WFP Food Aid Update. According to WFP, 160 MT of mixed food aid arrived in Pristina on 21 August. Up until now, food deliveries by WFP have consisted of emergency high protein biscuits. For those with access to cooking facilities, deliveries of wheat flour, oil and pulses will take place. Distributions in Kosovo remain frequent with rations limited to one week. This is due to the continued hostilities and constant movement of ethnic Albanians within Kosovo.
1.8 UNICEF Mobile Medical Team Continues Assistance. In order to assist internally displaced women and children in remote and mountainous areas, UNICEF established a mobile medical team. The team, composed of a physician, a pediatrician, a gynecologist, a pediatric nurse and a midwife, last week visited villages of Novo Selo in Berisha Mountain and Veliki Ribar in Lipljan municipality. About 20,000 IDPs were reported to have found shelter at the Berisha Mountain, and in the village of Veliki Ribar, 4,000. The Mother Theresa Society provided health workers and UNICEF provided transportation, essential drugs and medical supplies.
The first checkups of about 400 people, mainly children and pregnant women, proved that diarrhea, bronchitis, scabies and lice are the most common diseases among children. The mobile teams have distributed oral rehydration salt, as well as UNICEF leaflets and brochures containing health messages.
1.9 Community Based Health Education Project. In the village of Veliki Ribar, UNICEF has launched a community based health education project based on the "Facts for Life" messages. Both local population (2,500) and internally displaced (4,000) will benefit from the project. The training of 25 young women on health education has started, and they will continue to disseminate messages in the local community.
1.9 Update on Distribution by UNICEF. Last week, UNICEF distributed following assistance directly to the internally displaced population in the villages of Suva Reka, Berisha Mountain, Lipljan, Klina, Pec, and Decane municipalities:
10 essential drug kits (each covering needs of the population of 10,000 for three months);
590 collapsible water containers;
150 packs of water purification tablets;
390 baby hygiene kits;
36 boxes of diapers;
25 boxes of sanitary napkins;
3 boxes of soap, and 80 blankets.
1.11 WHO Releases Epidemiological Report. In the frame of the Regional Health Coordination meeting co-chaired by WHO and the Institute of Public Health (IPH) of Pristina, a weekly epidemiological report has been established by WHO and distributed to all partners in the health sector. Epidemiological reports of the past three months show a high incidence of acute intestinal diseases associated with a high lethality rate, a high incidence of acute respiratory diseases, a high incidence of lethality rate for meningitis, a high prevalence of tuberculosis, and four cases of suspected heamorrhagic fever (among which one serologically confirmed).
2. MONTENEGRO
2.1 One Thousand New Arrivals in One Day. Marking the largest single influx since mid-June, over 1,000 people arrived into Rozaje yesterday from Pec. These people apparently fled fighting taking place over the last couple of days in Rugovska Klisura, a valley west of the town of Pec. The area which is comprised of 35 villages was considered a safe area, just as recently as until last week, with no armed clashes being reported. Many people who fled recent fighting in various villages in Western Kosovo, therefore, had sought refuge in the area, before coming under fire during the last two days.
2.2 Large New Influx Confirmed by Authorities. The arrival of 1,000 newly displaced persons into Montenegro has been confirmed both by the police and by the Montenegrin Deputy Prime Minister. 500 people out of the 1,000 have transited through Rozaje, and have proceeded to Ulcinj. This has been confirmed by the local Red Cross. As the number of IDPs have already increased to 56 per cent of the total local population of 25,000 in Ulcinj, urgent measures continue to be needed.
2.3 Thousands More May Be Fleeing. UNHCR Podgorica also received unconfirmed information that another 4,000 people are still in the mountains, and could arrive in Montenegro in the coming days. Accommodation will be a serious problem, if this influx happens.
2.4 Humanitarian Agencies Decide on Contingency Action. As a result of an urgent meeting held today between UNHCR, ICRC and the Montenegrin Red Cross, additional aid will be dispatched to the area immediately from existing stocks in the country, in preparation for a potential large influx in the days ahead. These relief items which will be donated by ICRC and UNHCR include mattresses, blankets, oil, flour, and family parcels. UNHCR offices in Podgorica and Pristina are monitoring the situation closely, as well as the ICRC team in Pec.
Statistics (as at 25 August 1998)
Ministry of Interior Count of New Arrivals: 33,336
Montenegrin Red Cross Registered Caseload:
Ulcinj – 14,125
Rozaje – 4,160
Podgorica – 4,507
Plav – 7,273
Others – 4,119
Total – 34,184
Average of the two figures is shown on the first page. The discrepancy may be due to the fact that the Ministry of Interior is not keeping track of IDPs traveling through mountain paths. The registration in each municipality conducted by the Commissioner for Displaced Persons' Office is proceeding slowly, with only 9,000 IDPs recorded to date.
2.5 UNICEF To Fund Textbooks for IDP Children. Following discussions with the Ministry of Education of Montenegro in Podgorica last week, UNICEF will fund 1,000 complete sets of first grade textbooks for displaced children from Kosovo in order for them to attend school in September. UNICEF is also seeking funds to cover the needs of an additional 8,500 IDP students. Save the Children Fund (SCF) is also interested in supporting education for IDP children, and is requesting funds for this purpose. The Ministry of Education has decided to allow IDP children without certificates to attend classes, reversing its previous position.
2.6 Essential Drug Kits Donated by UNICEF. UNICEF provided six essential drugs kits to the Institute of Public Health of Montenegro. The kits have already been distributed to health centres in the places with largest number of IDPs: Podgorica, Plav, Rozaje and Ulcinj.
2.7 WHO Completes Health Data Collection. WHO in close collaboration with the Institute of Public Health of Montenegro and the Director of Mental Health Care services of Dobrota Hospital has now completed the stage of data collection of a health survey among IDPs. The survey intends to outline the health status and mental health status of IDPs in Montenegro.
2.8 MSF Completes Health Assessment Mission. An assessment mission by Medecins Sans Frontiere (MSF) left the country last week. It was their view that the medical system was efficiently coping with the crisis and there were no imminent risk of an outbreak of contagious diseases. However, drug shortage may be expected in the future. Risk of epidemic diseases cannot be ruled out and monitoring should be maintained.
2.9 Food Distribution for August Completed in Montenegro. August distributions have been completed in Montenegro. The full 145 MT of food aid (125 MT wheat flour, 10 MT oil and 10 MT of pulses) which was delivered to Podgorica in June has been distributed to IDPs in Rozaje and Plav. Approximately 20,000 IDPs received WFP food aid. (10,500 IDPs received wheat flour and 9,500 IDPs received wheat flour, oil and pulses.) An additional 18 MT of high protein biscuits were distributed to children under seven years of age and elderly people as a supplementary food.
WFP is now working on plans for the September distribution. As a number of new agencies are opening offices in Montenegro, coordination of food aid will be important.
3. NORTHERN ALBANIA
3.1 Food Distribution for August Completed. August distributions have been completed in Albania in Tropoje District, Tirana, Durres and Shkoder. WFP has distributed a total of 160 MT of food aid in monthly rations to more than 6,700 individuals.
4. FYR of MACEDONIA
4.1 WFP Assessment Mission in Skopje. WFP is conducting a week long assessment in Skopje, paying particular attention to the establishment of an office there. A permanent presence of WFP in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia may be required to adequately meet food aid needs, should there be a large influx of people from Kosovo in the future.
Nikola Radic Lucati © 2023. All Rights Reserved.


A permit-to-work system is a formal written system used to control certain types of work that are potentially hazardous. A permit-to-work is a document which specifies the work to be done and the precautions to be taken. Permits-to-work forms an essential part of safe systems of work for many maintenance activities.
They allow work to start only after safe procedures have been defined and they provide a clear record that all foreseeable hazards have been considered. A permit is needed when maintenance work can only be carried out if normal safeguards are dropped or when new hazards are introduced by the work. Examples are an entry into vessels, hot work and pipeline breaking.
This Technical Measure Document refers to permit to work systems required to control work. Such as maintenance activities on chemical plant and so prevent a major accident.
Contents of the work permits.
Communication failure during the use of a work permit system.
Whether there is sufficient provision available to full the requirements of the work permit system.
equipment is handed back to operation.
Unauthorised staff performing work permit functions.
Insufficient monitoring of the work permit system.
HS(G)5 Hot work: welding and cutting on plant containing flammable materials, HSE (Not in current HSE list).
Paragraph 3 refers to the precautionary measures needed when welding in areas that could be potentially flammable by planning and controlling the task using a work permit system. Paragraph 72 refers to the importance of management controlling the work permit system. Paragraph 73 refers to the principles that should be followed when operating a work permit systems.


Santa Clara's Darius Ramirez and Ventura's Mary Sinclair are the top athletes from last week.
Comment: The sophomore running back rushed for 198 yards on 15 carries, and scored touchdowns on a 70-yard touchdown reception and 80-yard kickoff return to help spark a 20-6 victory over host Panorama on Friday. He finished with nearly 400 yards in total offense as the Saints improved to 2-1.
Comment: Sinclair had 16 kills, 13 digs, 12 assists and five blocks in a 25-22, 25-15, 25-20 win over Rio Mesa, then followed with 11 kills, 16 assists, 13 digs and three blocks in a 25-13, 25-13, 25-10 win over Santa Barbara for the Cougars (9-3).


Homemade pesto-pasta is a banger.Jäger SchnitzelGreated with a smile, schnitzel amazing, ratatouille fantastic, euro style bi...The salad also is very tasty !
Very good restaurant with good price on the menu, mainly the benedicte eggs, its a régal ! and its very quiet.
Super service, Big portions, fair prices. Would visit again. Makes food as you like it. Really friendly and smiling staff.
Best restaurant ever, with homemade pickles!
Get quick answers from Restaurant Ratatouille Koh Phangan staff and past visitors.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions is mulling firing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe after an internal review recommended he be terminated. McCabe is currently on 'terminal leave' and is set to retire on Sunday with his full pension. If McCabe is fired before Sunday, he will not receive his government pension.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton reacted to the news and called for President Trump to demand action. Judicial Watch has been on the front lines fighting McCabe's corruption with FOIA lawsuits. Thanks to Judicial Watch, we know Andrew McCabe recused himself from Hillary Clinton's email investigation only ONE WEEK before the 2016 presidential election despite obvious conflicts of interest.
AG Sessions is reviewing an internal report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz as he decides McCabe's fate. According to Horowitz's report, McCabe authorized illegal leaks to the media and misled the Inspector General's investigators.
As previously reported, according to the New York Times, McCabe authorized a leak to the Wall Street Journal which led to an October 2016 article that revealed an internal dispute between the FBI and DOJ about how to handle Hillary Clinton's email investigation that had just been reopened after classified emails were found on Weiner's laptop. President Trump previously blasted McCabe for trying to run out the clock in order to receive his taxpayer funded pension.
President Trump is aware of what McCabe is doing. Hopefully he demands action just like Fitton called for. Americans should not fund McCabe's pension after what he did to weaponize the FBI, mislead the FISA court among other criminal actions.


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from rest_framework import status
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework.views import APIView

from vio.pub.msapi import extsys
from vio.pub.vim.vimapi.nova import OperateServers
from vio.pub.vim.vimapi.nova import OperateService
from vio.pub.exceptions import VimDriverVioException
from vio.swagger import nova_utils

class HostsView(APIView):

    def get(self, request, vimid, tenantid):
        try:
            vim_info = extsys.get_vim_by_id(vimid)
        except VimDriverVioException as e:
            return Response(data={'error': str(e)}, status=e.status_code)

        data = {'vimid': vim_info['vimId'],
                'vimName': vim_info['name'],
                'username': vim_info['userName'],
                'password': vim_info['password'],
                'url': vim_info['url']}

        services_op = OperateService.OperateService()
        try:
            hosts = [nova_utils.service_formatter(svc)
                     for svc in services_op.list_services(data, tenantid)]
        except Exception as e:
            if hasattr(e, "http_status"):
                return Response(data={'error': str(e)}, status=e.http_status)
            else:
                return Response(data={'error': str(e)},
                                status=status.HTTP_500_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)

        rsp = {'vimid': vim_info['vimId'],
               'vimName': vim_info['name'],
               'tenantId': tenantid,
               'hosts': hosts}

        return Response(data=rsp, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)

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State Police have now identified a woman who was killed after being hit by a DelDOT snow plow early this morning.
51-year-old Denise McFadden of Wilmington was walking in the area of Philadelphia Pike and Washington Street Extension in Penny Hill around 6:30 this morning when she was hit by the plow. State Police say the plow was making a u-turn when the truck hit McFadden who was waliking along eastbound Washington Street Extension.
The body was turned over to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death. McFadden was pronounced dead at the scene.


LONDON, Jan. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC ("IGT") (NYSE: IGT) today announced that it will present a set of world-class solutions for its gaming, lottery, interactive and betting customers at ICE Totally Gaming 2018 ("ICE"), Feb. 6-8, 2018 at ExCeL London. Under the theme "Designed to Entertain," IGT will demonstrate its commitment to creating diverse, market-attuned gaming innovations by showcasing more than 200 of its solutions in stand N3-160.
"Our ICE 2018 portfolio represents IGT's passion for driving the player experience forward through meaningful innovation that caters to our customers' market-specific opportunities," said Walter Bugno, IGT CEO International. "IGT will showcase market-ready products that have undergone extensive internal and external testing to help ensure their performance on casino floors. In addition, we will deliver the world debut of IGT's CrystalDual® 27/27 cabinet – a modern, internationally relevant upright cabinet that is backed with a game library that our customers can deploy with confidence. Our ICE portfolio also features mobile solutions that are designed for consumers who consistently look to their smartphones for entertainment."
The CrystalDual® 27/27 Cabinet: IGT's CrystalDual 27/27 cabinet will make its world debut at ICE. The striking hardware represents the evolution of the Company's Crystal Hardware series and gives operators a reliable, dual-screen core video cabinet option for their casino floors. The cabinet includes a range of unique features such as two 27-inch, high-definition displays, intelligent cabinet lighting, the option for bank-wide synchronized lighting, a mobile device charging port, and more. IGT will unveil this product by showcasing a range of new and "Proven Performer" game themes such as the Golden Egypt™, Ocean Magic™, Wolf Ridge™, Dancing Reels Salsa™, Golden Gecko™ and Brilliant Fruits™ games. IGT will also highlight its new USwitch™ multi-game bundles. USwitch games are compatible with the CrystalDual 27/27 and CrystalSlant™ cabinets, and feature a user-friendly game selector that groups like games, making it easier for players to find games that suit their individual gameplay preferences.
The CrystalCurve™ Cabinet: Featuring a 43-inch, curved, ultra-HD 4K display, the CrystalCurve cabinet is backed by a rich pipeline of core and premium game content. IGT will demonstrate core titles such as the Cleopatra® Gold, Wild Fury Jackpots™, Star Rise™ and ICY WILDS™ Deluxe games – each one designed exclusively for the CrystalCurve cabinet. IGT will also highlight premium, multi-level progressives on the CrystalCurve cabinets with titles such as the Fort Knox® Video Slots and Fortune Gong™ games.
TRUE 4D™ Content on the CrystalCurve™ TRUE 4D™ Cabinet: ICE attendees can enjoy the next dimension of gaming entertainment with IGT's Ghostbusters™ 4D and SPHINX 4D™ games. Housed on the CrystalCurve TRUE 4D cabinet, the games leverage glasses-free TRUE 3D™, gesture recognition and mid-air haptic technologies to deliver an award-winning multi-sensory player experience.
Mobile Solutions Cardless Connect™ and PlaySpot™ Technology: IGT will showcase its award-winning Cardless Connect and PlaySpot mobile innovations. Both solutions are designed to enhance the land-based casino environment and give players more choices for how they enjoy their favorite casino games. The Cardless Connect technology enables casino patrons to use their smart phones to perform a variety of actions such as initiating a patron loyalty session at a slot machine, or transferring funds to-and-from a slot machine. With the addition of IGT's Resort Wallet, Cardless Connect technology users can seamlessly initiate funds transfers between multiple casino properties owned by a single operator. The Company will also spotlight its PlaySpot mobile technology. The PlaySpot mobile solution gives players the option to wager on live roulette and baccarat games, keno, sports and more from their mobile devices from approved areas within a resort-casino. IGT's PlaySpot solution integrates with many of IGT's other casino products such as the Cardless Connect, IGT Advantage®, Live Connect, and IGT Dynasty Electronic Table Games (ETG) solutions.
New Content for the AXXIS® 23/23 Cabinet: IGT will extend its content portfolio for the internationally celebrated AXXIS 23/23 cabinet with the introduction of the new diversity™ HD multi-game bundles. At ICE, IGT will showcase diversity HD 5, 6, and 7 – each bundle comprising 12 player-favorite IGT titles such as the Ocean Magic™, Golden Egypt™ and King of Macedonia™ games. IGT will also showcase the Money Strike™ game on the AXXIS 23/23 cabinet – a bolt-on progressive that will enhance IGT's diversity HD suites 5, 6 and 7.
Interactive content for the Company's Remote Game Server (IGT RGS®), including new slot games, casual games, skill-based games, and live demonstrations of a new tournaments feature.
PowerSight™ technology demonstrated on the CrystalCurve ULTRA™ cabinet. PowerSight technology enables a player to stare at on-screen objects to unlock them in pick bonuses and other player-selectable components of gameplay.
Glasses-free TRUE 3D™ titles such as the James Cameron's AVATAR™ 3D Video Slots and Phoenix Rising™ 3D games.
New content for the S3000® gaming machine, including the much-anticipated Money Storm®linked progressive.
Chill Gaming's skill-based Fortunes of the Brave™ game and Bloomtopia™ game, along with IGT's Video Reel Edge™ (VRE) games and Skillcade™ experiences such as the Race Ace®Arcade game.
The Spin-Splosion! ™ video tournament solution on the CrystalSlant cabinet.
IGT Dynasty Electronic Table Games (ETG) featuring a landscape, 4K display.
The Quasar™ Video Lottery Terminal (VLT), along with exciting content and the INTELLIGEN™ central management system.
Leading casino management systems such as IGT Advantage®, GALAXIS™, System2go™ and Casinolink® systems.
ZEST Gaming's multi-card bingo games.
A new version of the industry-leading Game King® video poker suite, along with new game titles such as the Five Star Poker® 2.0 game.


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Cody Hodgson, född 18 februari 1990 i Toronto, Ontario, är en före detta kanadensisk professionell ishockeyspelare som spelade som center för Nashville Predators i NHL. Han har tidigare spelat för Vancouver Canucks och Buffalo Sabres.

Hodgson valdes av Vancouver Canucks som 10:e spelare totalt i 2008 års NHL-draft.

Hodgson gjorde sitt första NHL-mål 2 februari 2010 mot Phoenix Coyotes.

År 2016 avslutade han sin karriär.

Statistik
OPJHL = Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey League, OMHA = Ontario Minor Hockey Association

Klubbkarriär

Internationellt

Referenser

Noter

Externa länkar
Cody Hodgson hockey-reference.com
Cody Hodgson nhl.com

Födda 1990
Kanadensiska ishockeyspelare
Spelare i Vancouver Canucks
Spelare i Buffalo Sabres
Spelare i Nashville Predators
Män
Levande personer
Idrottare från Toronto
Spelare i Brampton Battalion
Spelare valda i NHL Entry Draft 2008
Spelare valda av Vancouver Canucks i NHL Entry Draft

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Ponga doesn't feel like he is being targeted
Chris Kennedy NRL.com Reporter
Mon 4 Jun 2018, 08:01 AM
Knights fullback Kalyn Ponga bounced back in commanding fashion against Parramatta following a tough game against Cronulla in which both he and his team were swamped by an aggressive Sharks outfit.
Ponga came in for plenty of rough treatment in the 48-10 round 12 loss, spending 15 minutes off the field getting a HIA following a high shot from Luke Lewis which attracted a grade one charge from the match review committee.
He also copped an apparent crusher tackle from Wade Graham, though Graham successfully challenged the resulting charge at the judiciary.
The end result was Ponga's least effective game for the club including his second-lowest run metres (89) and tackle busts (four) of the season.
With Mitchell Pearce still a couple of weeks away from a return, it looked as though an out-and-out plan to shut down Ponga may be all that was required to keep the Knights quiet until his return but Ponga and young half Jack Cogger put that theory to bed in a wonderful performance against Parramatta on Saturday night.
Match Highlights: Eels v Knights – Round 13, 2018
"I don't really worry about that [being targeted]," Ponga said after a match in which he was one of the best players on the field, including a whopping nine tackle busts, 168 metres and a try assist.
"I didn't feel like they [the Sharks] were targeting me a lot last week.
"Like anything, if we're all on they've got other players to worry about than just me so if they want to do that then they can do that and that allows other players to do that as well."
With both Pearce and Brock Lamb missing from the halves, it's important Ponga gets some help and both Connor Watson and Jack Cogger played strongly against the Eels.
"Coggs was good ... I think a lot of the players out there were good and that collective effort got us that win," Ponga added.
"It came down to our mentality, our effort and working for each other. We lost it for a bit.
"When things go downwards you can go into your shell and I think a few of the boys did that [during the four straight losses].
"Through a week where we reflected a bit and said 'let's just go out there and work for each other and grind them out' I think we did that, I think we executed the game plan very well. I felt like we were on from the get-go.
"We need to keep this sort of momentum, we can't go into next week poor and fall back into what we did last week against the Sharks, we need to grab some confidence from this and put in another effort next week."
Knights fullback Kalyn Ponga. ©Robb Cox/NRL Photos
Asked about his supposed flying visit to Queensland Origin camp, Ponga said he'd heard nothing other than what had been on the news.
"I don't know. I literally don't know," the likely future Maroons star shrugged.
"I think the media know something I don't! I've been hearing on the news, it says I'm in camp and I'm sitting there at home. I don't really know. I haven't heard anything. He [Queensland coach Kevin Walters] hasn't called me or come to me about anything, no."
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There are moments when grief is brought to the for front of your heart and smacks you about the head and shoulder daring you to ignore the pain and emptiness it's bring with it. You try your best to push it down, to lock it in a box until a more appropriate time comes along to handle all the big feels, but grief will not allow it. My heart skips a beat or three, my hands get sweaty and I just know that the tears will come with the next breath. I just know it.
This happened to me recently when attending a wedding. The bride was resplendent in her gown of white, her hair swept up supporting a veil edged with lace. She was glowing.Her groom was glowing. They had made it to their wedding day and you could not take your eyes from them, their joy was palbable.
Then the dancing started. First the couple and then the Father-of-the-Bride and the Bride. "Fly Me to the Moon" started and the room filled with the couples cherished guests started serenading them and sang along. It was just awesome. I sang and smiled. I smiled and sang.
Then I looked at my husband and the expression on his face silenced me. A single tear rolled down his cheek. His eyes were glazed over as if he wasn't really here with us but far away lost in his own thoughts.
It took me a moment to realize what was happening.
He and his beautiful daughter would never share this moment together. Jerry would never sing "Fly Me to the Moon" while twirling his sweet Courtney, dressed all in white, on the dance floor. He would never hold her in his arms again. He would never her take her hand and lay it with love into the hand of her future spouse.
My husband's heart was breaking anew and it would not be the last time.
I gently put my head on his shoulder and gently grasped his hand in mine. I stood still and just leaned into the moment with him and silently sent up a prayer to Our Lady for my beloved and his hurting heart. I asked her to gently hold Jerry's other hand and intercede with her Son Jesus, allowing her Son's grace and love to flow through him and repair his brokenness.
After all, she carried Our Lord in her womb for nine months. She watched him grow up to preach and heal. She had watched as his life slowly left his body. She knew exactly what Jerry was dealing with in that moment and I knew without a doubt that she was right there with us, praying and loving us in the hurt.
After the dance was done, the floor exploded with youngsters doing their best to out dance each other. So much fun to watch. Eventually we made or way, hand in hand, to join in the insanity. My guy was smiling again, laughing, singing and dancing. He had weathered the remembering and the pain that brought with it.
The remembering sometimes brings joy and sometimes tears but always love for the one we lost. For our sweet girl who now dances with her Beloved Lord day in and day out, we will always love you and we will miss you every single moment of every single day as long as we both draw breath.
But one day? One day we will be together again if God so will's it.
Until then we live, taking the good with the bad, the joy with the sorrow, the hard with the easy.
Oh the things you endured. The pain your heart must have felt as your son was ripped away from you. The endless humiliations he suffered and all you could do was pray for it to end. No mother ever wishes to lay her child down in death, but you showed us how to survive that very event. You wept and mourned and then you carried on with the Lord's work, your heart pierced by the sword of grief. Help us Mother Mary. Help those of us who have laid our children down in death to weep and mourn our child and then help lift us up to carry on the Lord's work. Our job is not yet done.
I had one of these moments a few years ago when I showed up at a regular Sunday Mass that was a First Communion Mass. I was so overcome realizing Shelby still had not made her First Holy Communion…and might not ever.


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What is method? Or, dis-solving the Susan Strange dilemma
LiamStanley	method, methodology	 July 9, 2018
As scholars, how do we know what we know?
And what, exactly, is method? Does all scholarship necessary draw upon a method? And what does it mean to say that a piece of work doesn't have a method?
In thinking through these questions below, I want to suggest that social scientists (and especially perhaps political economists, such as myself) face a dilemma in how we interact with the issue of method: do we want to open up the black box of how we know what we know — or would we rather leave it closed?
Although seemingly arcane, this dilemma has implications for how we collectively draw the boundaries of scholarship — and therefore how we reproduce the field, train and mentor early-career researchers, and distribute value and recognition in academia, i.e. whose work gets valued and recognised, and whose doesn't.
Professor Susan Strange
Susan Strange is a giant in my field of international political economy (IPE). In Benjamin Cohen's intellectual history of the field, Strange is named as one of the 'Magnificent Seven' who made and shaped the discipline. Strange effectively invented IPE as a field of study in the UK, and she then went on to produce some its most important and enduring works: often holistic and historicised accounts of power relations in a constantly evolving global economy. (To read more on the methodology and contribution of Susan Strange, then have a look at these pieces by May, Palan, and Tooze).
If you haven't heard of Susan Strange, then it's no problem. I would guess that all fields of social science have equivalent figures: roughly mid-century-and-later classical scholars who take synoptic approaches in tackling big problems, but do not have what would be considered today to be a 'method'. I'm certain that one could find equivalent figures in, say, political science and international relations, the other two fields I know quite well.
Anyway, when I was a PhD student, I asked a prominent Professor in my field about what they thought of Strange's work. He responded with a shrug of the shoulders and said something along the lines of: "her work was really just journalism, and not proper social science" — so what, so meh, so put it in the bin, it was implied.
That interaction has always stuck with me. In hindsight, the statement was clearly intended to discredit her work. But the claim did nevertheless contain a dilemma of sorts: her work, like much classic work, has no method of the type favoured and propagated by today's research methods textbooks and funding bodies.
Ever since, I've always wondered what the implications of this are: if work like Strange's has no method, can it be social science? Or, on the other hand, if we wish to insist that Strange's work is social science, then must her work have a method?
We can expand on this questions: if it is the work of journalism rather than science, then are we able to credibly cite it in academic work? Should we treat Strange's work as a relic, as important but ultimately 'of its time'? Should we actively discourage scholars from pursuing work that is like Strange's, so to ensure the field is less 'journalistic' and more 'scientific'? Or, should we look to challenge this, by asking whether it is possible to do social science without a method? Or, whether instead, we should look to reclaim whatever Strange did as scholarly and as method-ical?
To put it even more simply, is this work scholarship or not? That's the dilemma, which I'll call the Susan Strange dilemma. If it isn't scholarship, then fair enough, we should (at best) treat it a product of it time. If it is scholarship, then what kind of scholarship is it? Don't we need to understand it? Although prompted by Strange's work, this is just a working example: these questions have implications for social science as a whole.
These questions were raised once again for me recently, when attending a workshop on methods in political economy. It's not the first workshop I've attended on methods (in political economy, even), and, like the other events, it was a productive and (for a geek like me) fascinating discussion.
However, like after all of the these workshops, I came away with a slight frustration. In my experience, workshops about method tend to go one of two ways: either into demonstrations of different techniques for collecting and analysis discrete datasets, or into discussions about ontology and epistemology (and therefore onto methodology rather than method).
There's no issue with this per se. But it doesn't really help with my Susan Strange dilemma. In that context, there is a danger that these discussions of method can end up circular and repetitive, or, worse, reproduce boundaries about what counts as legitimate knowledge — in a way that mirrors the Susan Strange encounter above.
I think I've come to realise the source of frustration. It is not an issue to do with how these workshops are organised or their rationale, but is instead a wider disciplinary issue. We don't have a clear conceptualisation of what 'method' is. Consequently, our entire way of interacting with questions of method falls back onto a 'positivist' or 'orthodox' vision of research and scholarship — a point forcibly made to me by Ian Bruff when I was a PhD student, and one that I'm still coming to grips with.
This, in and of itself is not a problem. But the issue is that it can end up drawing a dividing line about what counts as method-ical research, and therefore implicitly bracketing or leaving out other legitimate and rigorous ways of knowing about the world. This is especially relevant and important to scholars who do work that does not use formalised techniques for collecting and analysis discrete datasets — which is a lot of work, possibly the majority of the work I read, cite, and enjoy.
So let me restate the Susan Strange dilemma again: is work that seems to be lacking in a method unfit for purpose because it is unscientific or unscholarly? Or, is that such work has a method, it is just that that the method is otherwise not recognised? We cannot think through this dilemma without first addressing the following question: what is a method?
In preparation for the workshop, I read Johnna Montgomerie's edited collection Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy, John Law's After Method, and Bruno Latour's Science in Action. I found plenty of inspiration for thinking about method in these books.
Rather than thinking of myself as engaging in (social) 'science', I prefer to think in terms of 'scholarship'. It has less baggage (or, more accurately, a different kind of baggage, but one I feel more comfortable carrying).
Scholarship is the collective process of producing knowledge. From the standpoint of the individual, the central social purpose of scholarship is to contribute to knowledge — whether that be through conducting research, supporting the process indirectly (such as peer reviewing), teaching students, or myriad other ways. To contribute to knowledge is by definition a collective endeavour. A finding or an argument that resides only in a desk drawer cannot contribute to knowledge.
Latour and Law show us that at it's most basic scholarship involves making credible 'statements', or knowledge claims, about the world. Even if such statements may be rich interpretations, ethical claims, or prescriptions on how to conduct research, they are still essentially statements about the world. For Latour and Law, the process of scholarship rests on convincing other scholars that they should drop all modalities used in relation to a particular statement.
For those unacquainted with this kind of Science, Technology, and Society' (STS) work, this might seem an odd and arcane definition. But it makes much more sense in the context of their work: observing how science works in action, by conducting ethnographies of laboratory life. One observation from this body of work is the 'moment of truth' for a scientist is not necessarily in suddenly comprehending reality or answering a question, but in convincing other scientists that a knowledge claim or statement is credible and useful. Much of this work is done in the proverbial laboratory, but much of it also done in writing and in interacting with other scientists.
To make sense of 'modalities in relation to a statement', we can imagine an academic article that is discussing the finding from a different paper. There are different ways to state those findings: 'the paper suggests X', 'the paper argues X', and 'the paper demonstrates X'. In one sense, these statements are synonymous. But in another sense they are subtly different, with each mode of expression ('suggest', 'argue', 'demonstrate') conferring weaker or stronger authority onto the claims of the hypothetical findings. Or, as Latour puts it:
You need them [other scholars] to make your paper a decisive one. If they laugh at you, if they are indifferent, if they shrug it off, that is the end of your paper. A statement is thus always in jeopardy, much like the ball in a game of rugby. If no player takes it up, it simply sits on the grass.
This is why for Latour and Law, the objective of scholarship is to convince other scholars to use one's statements or knowledge claims — and, perhaps, for other scholars to use 'demonstrate' rather than 'suggest' in the discussion of those statements.
On this basis, we can challenge conventional understandings of knowledge and science — that truth emerges from gaining more accurate depictions of reality. The Latour and Law depiction instead suggests that (scientific) truth emerges from a collective process of consensus making, which centres on how statements are about the world become credible — which in itself helps enact reality, rather than simply mirroring it. As Latour puts it: 'The construction of facts, like a game of rugby, is thus a collective process'.
But, as Law writes, such statements 'do not just idly freewheel in mid-air, or drop from heaven'. They are produced, as a collective process. But how? This is my way of getting to a definition of method, which I would like to formulate as: how we get from the point of not knowing (i.e. not being able to make a credible statement about the world) to knowing (i.e. being able to make a credible statement about the world). One important implication of this definition of method — how we get from Point A (no credible knowledge claim) to Point B (credible knowledge claim) — is that any claim to knowledge, or statement, must have a method, logically speaking.
The Menu, as depicted in Bryman (2012)
This is a fundamentally different conception of 'method', as it is normally conceived of within the majority of methods textbooks, modules, and so on. I say 'conceived of within' rather than defined, because in my experience it is unusual for 'method' to be explicitly defined and conceptualised. It is instead implied. And one of the main ways in which it is implied is through what I will call The Menu.
When I was trained as a social scientist — as an undergraduate, but especially in preparation for doing a PhD — I got taught research methods, as many now are. That's when I first became aware of The Menu. The Menu is the list of methods that are taught to trainee social scientists. If you look at almost any research methods module or textbook, you'll find the same thing: usually after some preliminary thinking about the logic of inquiry, the bulk of time and space is taken up by going through different formalised techniques of data collection and analysis, which is almost always organised along a qualitative-quantitative divide. It will almost definitely include survey research and interviewing (and maybe also content analysis, discourse analysis, focus groups, experiments, and so on). It may also come complete with a secondary Menu that presents the various ontological and epistemological packages available for plug-and-play, e.g. positivism, interpretivism, critical realism, etc.
I don't know if others feel the same, but as a PhD student I felt pressure to pick something off The Menu, and that if I didn't then I wouldn't be "proper" and neither would my research. Because research is meant to go like this: You have a research question, some ideas about how you want to go about answering it, and so then you consult The Menu for a method. You order whatever it is you need off The Menu, and you assemble it, being sure to follow the rules and procedures. Once applied, you will get an end product, that you will naturally compare and contrast with an image of what it was supposed to look like — 'does it look right?', 'have I executed it accordingly and in line with the instructions?', etc.
The kinds of methods that are included on The Menu all have a family resemblance. This language of method tends to be "skills", "tools", about "collecting and analysing data", and as something that is distinct from theory. This kind of method is used in a seemingly disconnected and formalised way to generate knowledge claims ("an experimental study", "a focus group study", etc.). And — for me the most important — they all tend to interact with data in a certain way. As Alan Bryman's industry standard textbook puts it: 'to many people, data collection represents the key point of any research project, and it is probably not surprising therefore that this book probably gives more words and pages to this stage in the research process than any other'.
This definition of method is not just limited to social science orthodoxy. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson's The Conduct of Inquiry is the best book on methodology I have read. At the start of his book, he makes clear that he is talking about methodology rather than method: whereas methodology is about 'the logical structure and procedure of scientific inquiry', methods are 'techniques for gathering and analyzing bits of data'. Even Montgomerie's brilliant edited collection, which rightly calls for a new vocabulary of method, ends up reproducing something like The Menu in Chapter 4. It is genuinely difficult to talk about method without falling back into this.
If method is about data, then what is meant by data? It is possible for data to be defined in a broad sense, but I don't think that's generally the case here. The majority of methods on The Menu share a certain relationship with data: these datasets are discrete, cataloguable, separate, and formalised. Data, which is assumed to be doing a lot of the knowledge production heavy-lifting, must be separated — disembodied — from the scholar. Jackson's definition seems telling in this respect: 'bits of data', with 'bit' presumably meaning a thing or an object; as something that is objectifiable.
So, the common sense understanding of method is something like: (1) a method is a skill or tool for collecting and/or analysing data; and (2) that data should take form as an object.
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Why does this matter? The methods on The Menu are undoubtedly a valuable resources to many researchers. I have used and will continue to use many of them myself. But I also wonder what it means that many ways of making knowledge claims about the world — i.e. methods, at least in my terms — are not included on The Menu.
Earlier I said that the social purpose of scholarship is to contribute to knowledge. This is of course important to remember in contemporary university life, in which knowledge is increasingly instrumentalised or set to compete against other imperatives (such as grant revenue or placing higher in rankings).
Methods are no exception to this. In principle, I've always thought that we should select our methods on the basis of a kind-of wager: that this particular way for knowing is the best — most productive, efficient, illustrative, and so on — way to answer a particular research question or puzzle.
This is obviously a utopia. Social science does not work like this. Most of us are trained or socialised in one way, and it's very difficult to retrain another way due to time constraints, let alone other and more complex reasons. Most of us value the ways in which we were trained, and then go on to become embedded in scholarly networks that also values those ways. This process is sometimes such that method and/or methodology become the tie that holds together a network of scholars.
This same process can also happen on a more subtle, but larger, disciplinary scale. In fact, it's probably inevitable. All disciplines value certain types of knowledge over others, and all disciplines value certain types of methods over others. After all, disciplines require discipline: standardisation, a canon, silo-ing, and so on. This is a transactions cost problem — it makes producing knowledge easier, because it provides a readily accessible context, like hooks to hang on.
International Relations scholar Laura Shepherd memorably blogged that if one of the leading US-based journals 'publishes a collection of poems and photographs that stand alone as a comment on practices of global politics, then we will know we have forgotten, have transcended' the field and its methodological disciplining. If one scholar thinks poetry is scholarship and others don't, then this raises an important and difficult question: where do the boundaries of legitimate ways of knowing lie? And who gets to set them?
We can think a bit more about the underlying mechanisms of these boundaries. The boundaries of legitimate scholarly knowledge only exist inasmuch that they are produced and reproduced (and therefore evolve) through the meaningful actions and non-actions of individuals.
There's two noteworthy features to these boundaries. One is an in/out feature, like a circle in which you are inside of or out. A way of knowing, and therefore the resulting knowledge claims, are excluded from what is considered legitimate scholarly knowledge. Rightly or wrongly, a volume of poetry ('that stand[s] alone as a comment on practices of global politics') would probably not be awarded a PhD in most Politics departments in the UK.
The second feature is a centre-periphery feature, like a set of concentric circles in which you can be placed closer to the centre or further away. In this case, the knowledge claims are 'in', and your way of knowing is seen as meeting the basic criteria of legitimate scholarship — but it doesn't quite fit the ideal of what disciplinary knowledge should be. It is not valued as highly, not rewarded as highly, not cited as much, or included within debates. It's an all-knowledge-is-equal-but-some-knowledge-is-more-equal-than-others kind of vibe. I think of it like this: it's one thing to be invited to the party, but what's the purpose of going if you're just standing in corner by yourself because no one wants to talk to you?
Sara Ahmed puts this far more forcefully: 'citations are academic bricks; and bricks become walls'.
Although Ahmed is referring to a process that extends far beyond methods, we can still identify what Law calls 'methodological normativity': some methods — ways of knowing — are seen as more legitimate methods than others, while some processes of knowing are not seen as legitimate at all.
Methodological normativity shapes how we reproduce the field, train and mentor early-career researchers, and distribute value and recognition in academia, i.e. whose work gets valued and recognised, and whose doesn't. For example, research grant proposals especially for the ESRC require a systematic outline of the methods of analysis. It also matters for REF, in which one of the three criteria for assessing published work is 'rigour'. This intersects with important ways of knowing that are often marginalised, such as post-colonial, queer, or feminist theory.
Methodological normativity also matters for the sake of scholarship. We want to know stuff. So if we know how we know, then surely we will be able to know better. As Howard Becker writes in Tricks of the Trade, social and scientific convention is the enemy of thought: 'we need ways of expanding the reach of our thinking, of seeing what else we could be thinking and asking, of increasing the ability of our ideas to deal with the diversity of what goes on in the world.'
An example of how rigour is discussed in context of REF
The original dilemma was whether work that has no explicit method or discrete dataset can be considered scholarship; or whether we should look to reclaim the meaning of method so include this work within the boundaries of scholarship. On the terms that I have set out, it is untenable to choose the first of these two paths. To claim that, say, Susan Strange's work is not scholarship — or even proper scholarship, whatever that means — is not credible. However, taking the second path — as Montgomerie's edited collection does, as does Law's After Method — is not straightforward, and itself prompts many questions and issues. I'll consider two here.
The first is over the dangers of reclaiming method. Strange's method — inasmuch as she has a way of going from not being about make a credible claim about the world, to being able to do so — is somewhat black-boxed. Her claims are credible and — to me, at least — compelling. I would go even further and say that her work offers a true depth of insight and richness. Yet, despite teaching with Strange for the last four or five years, I would struggle to explain, when push comes to shove, what her method is. Her approach is method-ical, but you can't order it off The Menu.
Will reclaiming the methods of, say, Strange mean simply adding more options onto The Menu? This is the worry that some political economists that I have spoken to have about these ideas. That there is a danger of formalising ways of knowing; of reducing complex, methodologically holist, and often critical work into a series of plug-and-play techniques and tools. Or, that by talking about method, that the substance and politics of knowledge claims risk playing giving way to an obsession over and fetishisation of technique and process.
This need not be the case. The autobiographical vignettes in Montgomerie's book — I found those by May, Shilliam, and Bruff especially useful in this respect — show that it is possible and productive to reflect on the process in which knowledge claims are produced (or 'cultivated', in Shilliam's terms) without falling into the trap of formalisation. If Susan Strange had written an equivalent of C. Wright Mills' brilliant 'On Intellectual Craftsmanship', then that would be a tremendous resource for political economy students, no doubt. In other words, to reclaim method then The Menu must be subverted.
A second issue relates to how method is defined. Here, I have defined it in very broad terms — as the way in which we go from being able to not make a credible statement about the world, to being able to make one. When taken seriously, this definition vastly opens the boundaries of 'method'.
For example, we classically think of Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) as though it is theoretical, conceptual, or even methodological. I don't think anyone would describe Varieties of Capitalism as a method. VoC is an exemplar of comparative ideal-type analysis in the Weberian tradition. (I've written about ideal-typification here). In principle, the purpose of these ideal-types such as 'liberal market economy' or 'coordinated market economy' is to provide a 'data container' for empirical research, at which point the method comes into play. But those ideal-type concepts do not just work in that way, because they too also end up being claims to knowledge in their own right. For swathes of political economists, when they 'look' at Germany, they 'see' a coordinated market economy. Does this make ideal-typification a method, that cannot be meaningfully disentangled from the empirical data collection and analysis strategies?
To take another example, I don't think any social scientists would describe a literature review as a method. Literature reviews are normally considered to simply synthesise knowledge rather than produce it. Fair enough. But I wonder how many terms and concepts that have become taken-for-granted parts of social reality have emerged from academic literature reviews? In that case, the 'method' of the literature review is a complicated process that eschews formalisation. It involves reading and learning, synthesising, reorganising, and writing. Writing is an essential part of that. Most people will be taking notes as they go, which is not simply an archive of thoughts, but is the process of making those often transient thoughts real.
Describing ideal-typification or (let alone literature reviewing) as a method might be seen as a problem, because concepts are theory, and theory is not method. But is this a problem because this broad definition of method is wrong, or is this a problem because it is a challenge to the methodological conventions of social science? And, if not this definition of method — the process in which we are able to make credible statements about the world — and not the definition that equates method with discrete data, then which definition? I am not sure if this is this is the right definition. But I would like to explore it more.
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