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In 1903, Edward Haefeli, whose father, Adolph, was a beekeeper in Switzerland, arrived in the San Luis Valley. In 1907, Edward opened his beekeeping operation in Monte Vista, Colorado. In 1935, Edward's son, John, finished high school and started building the Monte Vista Honey House. He and his wife, Patti, ran this business for 35 years.
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Immigration Policy Isn't Working for the Economy. Let's Fix That.
blog, Immigration, Public Policy January 31, 2019 /by Jeff Farrah
Policymakers are constantly looking for ways to boost economic growth. They tweak the tax code, write and rewrite regulations, and deploy a variety of other tools at their disposal. But one underutilized tool is immigration policy; specifically immigration policy that facilitates the creation of new companies, which research shows is the true growth engine of the economy. The best part is it won't cost the federal government one red cent.
Here are the facts: immigrants have founded iconic American companies like eBay, Google, Pfizer, and Tesla. More than half of all the country's "unicorns" (privately held companies valued at more than $1 billion) had one or more immigrant founders, creating a collective value of $168 billion. An NVCA report showed that one-third of all venture-backed IPOs between 2006 and 2012 were companies that were founded or co-founded by immigrants. Another study found that immigrant entrepreneurs have founded or co-founded more than one-quarter of all science and technology firms in the U.S. The hits go on and on.
Surely the U.S. embraces immigrants who create jobs for Americans, right?
Given these impressive numbers, you'd think the United States makes it easy for talented foreign-born entrepreneurs to launch a new company here. But you'd be wrong.
The reality is there is no dedicated visa category for immigrant entrepreneurs. This means these job creators must use other means to gain immigration status to start a new company in the U.S. Visa categories like the E-B5 investor visa and E-2 visas are wholly inadequate for company founders. Often, an immigrant who wants to start a new enterprise will come to the U.S. on an H-1B visa and work at a larger company. Because the H-1B visa is tied the employer, the immigrant often toils away for several years before earning a green card that allows her to pursue entrepreneurship.
Take the case of Jyoti Bansal who sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion last year and went on to found Unusual Ventures. According to Jyoti, he came to the U.S. in 2000 but "waited 7 years for my employment-based green card…I wanted to leave my job and start a new company but couldn't." The story ended well for Jyoti—though arguably the country would be far better off if he were able to found AppDynamics 7 years earlier. But Jyoti said he has "friends who became frustrated with the uncertainty and after years of waiting they finally left the United States." That is economic waste and it can't be tolerated in a time when capital is more available worldwide than it ever has been before.
We need a reliable instrument for attracting the world's best entrepreneurs to the United States. There are two ways to do this, and both are strongly supported by NVCA.
The first is by creating a startup visa, a new visa category specifically for immigrant entrepreneurs. This would mean top-flight entrepreneurs could launch a startup immediately and not need to wait like Jyoti Bansal. There's good and bad news when it comes to this proposal. Always good news first: on January 31, the bipartisan Startup Act was re-introduced by Senators Moran (R-KS), Warner (D-VA), Blunt (R-MO), and Klobuchar (D-MN). We love the Startup Act for a variety of reasons, but a big reason why is it creates up to 75,000 startup visas for immigrant entrepreneurs that raise capital from VCs or other investors and create American jobs. By tying qualification to job creation, the startup visa is resoundingly a net job creator. The Startup Act also creates a common-sense STEM visa so 50,000 U.S.-educated foreign students, who graduate with a master's or Ph.D. in STEM fields can receive a green card and stay in this country where their talent and ideas can fuel growth and create American jobs.
So what's the bad news? The startup visa concept has been around for quite awhile and has seen strong VC proponents, like Brad Feld at Foundry Group. In fact, a startup visa was included in the 2013 comprehensive immigration legislation that passed the Senate. The challenge continues to be that legislating a startup visa is tied to the larger immigration reform debate, which appears intractable even to optimists like myself. However, bipartisan support for the startup visa is important because one day the political stars will align on immigration reform and because of that support a startup visa should be included in the legislative package yet again. This is why we're grateful for the leadership of Senators Moran, Warner, Blunt, and Klobuchar.
Surely there must be something we can do rather than wait for a big immigration package to bubble up. Yes, there is, which brings us to the second way to address the problem of how to attract and retain top entrepreneurs. Toward the end of the Obama Administration, it became apparent comprehensive immigration reform was not moving. Since new visa categories can only be created through legislation, the administration looked to existing legal authority that would allow foreign-born founders to launch new companies in the U.S. That led to creation of the International Entrepreneur Rule, which operates like a startup visa, even though it is not technically a visa (it relies on so-called "parole" authority under current law).
The NVCA-supported International Entrepreneur Rule (IER) has been met with stiff resistance from the Trump Administration. We lobbied hard for President Trump to embrace the rule as the job-creation measure that it is, even building support for IER in emerging ecosystems in America's heartland. Sadly, it has been caught up in the administration's broader immigration crackdown. The Department of Homeland Security tried to kill it in July 2017, which caused NVCA to file its first lawsuit against the government in the history of our organization. We won, with a federal court ruling the administration skirted well-established administrative procedures.
Rather than back down, in May 2018, the Trump Administration tried to end IER again through a different mechanism. NVCA rallied our allies and submitted comments demonstrating why more immigrant entrepreneurs are what our country needs to bring dynamism to the economy, why IER is a great tool to achieve that end, and why the administration's second attempt to end IER is just as illegal as the first one.
That brings us to the current day. The Trump Administration hasn't moved forward with ending IER since mid-2018. What comes next is up in the air, but whatever it is you can count on us to lead the fight.
Frustratingly, as our country has dithered, countries like Canada, France, Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom have instituted immigration programs to bring entrepreneurs to their shores. That is creating impressive startup ecosystems the world over and helps explain why the U.S was home to 54% of global venture capital last year when we boasted approximately 95% just twenty years earlier.
But let's end on a positive note: immigrant entrepreneurs have overcome incredible hurdles to create American companies, and I am hopeful that one of those hurdles—U.S. immigration policy—will be knocked down soon.
Read NVCA's letter of support for the Startup Act here. For questions on NVCA's work on immigration policy, please reach out to Jeff Farrah at jfarrah@nvca.org.
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KVSC gives voice to Somalis
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – KVSC 88.1 FM has launched a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week web stream radio station dedicated to the Central Minnesotan Somali Community. St. Cloud Somali Radio is an online radio station housed in the KVSC studios at St. Cloud State University and funded by a grant from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy fund.
Ben Prchal, Program Coordinator for St. Cloud Somali Radio said, "KVSC's mission as a radio station has been about taking ideas, music, and information that doesn't normally get out into the community and bringing [it] out." He said it's important to bring out voices that the community doesn't normally hear.
St. Cloud Somali Radio aims to serve as the cultural and heritage hub of Somali music and feature programming. There are approximately 8,000 Somali immigrants living in St. Cloud and surrounding communities.
Prchal said, "There's no other source of media that serves this community, which is growing in a significant portion of the St. Cloud population."
Haji Yusuf, a Somali selected as the Project Developer for Somali Radio, said, "We want to reach out to the world. We want this to be a premier radio station through which Somali stories are heard here and across the world."
But Yusuf said the goal is not only to share Somalis' stories, but also to help them assimilate in a place that is not their home.
Yusuf said, "Somalis are not here by choice. Many came as refugees after the Somali civil war."
Yusuf hopes to include a little bit of everything in the programming, including information about healthcare, politics, and youth programming.
He said, "They are American citizens now. It is important that they are educated about politics, social issues, economics, and other issues of the United States."
Because Somali Radio is broadcast online, Yusuf said, "It can be all over the world, and we want to tell the world about the Somalis and their successes in North America. We tell the world that we are here and we are surviving. It's very important that those stories be told."
Prchal said KVSC is looking for volunteers who want to help bring Somali Radio to the next level. "We've officially launched the station, the content is out there, and now we want more people to get involved to start producing more content."
St. Cloud Somali Radio programming is accessible at www.kvsc.org/somaliradio. Prchal asks that people interested in volunteering visit this website or send an email to info@kvsc.org.
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For over twenty five years Nyetimber has had a single aim: to make the finest English sparkling wine, one to rival the very best in the world, including champagne.
A true pioneer, Nyetimber was the first producer of English sparkling wine to exclusively grow the three celebrated grape varieties: Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay. Each bottle of Nyetimber is made from one hundred percent estate-grown grapes.
1988, Nyetimber planted its first vines. In 1997 in a blind tasting Nyetimber's 1992 Blanc de Blancs caused a debate as to which area of France it came from. Nyetimber wines have since won rave-reviews and International medals and, have also won the admiration of members of the Royal Family and various Heads of State. Owner and Chief Executive Eric Heerema and winemaker Cherie Spriggs are committed to producing wines of exceptional quality.
Nyetimber Manor is mentioned in the Domesday Book and was once home to Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII. 1,000 years later it is producing one of the finest sparkling wines in the world.
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Award-winning, London-based Family Atlantica are back with their far-reaching second album 'Cosmic Unity', released on May 13th via Soundway Records.
It follows on from their 2013 eponymous debut - an album that won the band a range of awards including Songlines Magazine's Best Newcomers 2015.
'Cosmic Unity', like the band itself, mirrors the mixed-up, intercontinental terrain of their home town. Moving through genres as diverse as psychedelic highlife, steel-pan Ethio-funk, calypso, baião and scorching equatorial jazz underpinned by deep afro-Atlantic dance rhythms, they have created a cohesive, forward-looking sound that echoes classic tropical recordings of the past whilst still sounding fresh and contemporary. Lush string and horn arrangements give way to acidic commentary on the immigration system and slavery as well as incantations of unity.
Producer and multi-instrumental director, Jack Yglesias (also a core member of the underground pysch-jazz-funk unit The Heliocentrics) leads the explosive ensemble. Alongside Jack, the band features the powerful vocals and poetry of Venezuelan diva Luzmira Zerpa and the percussive West African mastery of Nigerian/Ghanaian Kwame 'natural power' Crentsil as well as Adrian Owusu (Guitar).
Joining them as guests on the album are two musical legends: The Sun Ra Arkestra's bandleader Marshall Allen on alto saxophone, ewi and vocals, and Nigerian Afro-beat colossus Orlando Julius on tenor sax who was at the time of the recording living with Yglesias and Zerpa. The diversity of the Family Atlantica project is reflected in the lyrics, with singing and poetry in Spanish, English, Yoruba and Portuguese. This is a rapid-fire, rhythm-heavy journey, simultaneously moving between the past and future of trans-Atlantic roots music.
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Moving to Ghana almost six months ago has been an eye-opener for me even though I had lived here for most of my formative years.
As a working adult aka being in the big bad world; my first experience of paid work had been in London where the lines are clear and systems are in place until a certain point of human interaction may breed prejudice and other societal blocks but that's a lecture for another day.
Ghana has progressed slowly towards clear-cut systems for things considered basic in the Western world and connections and favours have to be granted to facilitate a lot of things around here. The morally upright are then stuck with a dilemma of getting the job done as soon as possible or bending by pushing through with an IOU or a brown envelope. Trying to pay your taxes is a pain which is mind numbing when you are just trying to do the right thing…ask my husband, he can go on for a while about his experience at Ghana Revenue authority.
A friend told me to consider bribes as a fast track fee in the UK, which kind of makes sense but the whole point of my plenty typing is in anticipation of the new expose Number 12 by Anas Aremeyaw Anas of Tiger Eye Private Investigations. There are so many blatantly wrong and corrupt things that go on and this group brings us all an insight into how easy or nonchalant the perpetrators are about this actions. It is everyday life for them and as someone who is re-adapting to the Ghanaian system of things, it could easily be any one of us.
You can go so far without bending to get out of a situation around here and if you don't check yourself regularly, emotionally, morally and as a patriot of this nation, you could be next in being exposed in over 10 viewings at the Accra International Conference Centre or in abridged in various programmes on BBC Africa which streams to millions of viewers across the globe.
This documentary focused on corruptions within the Ghanaian Sports Industry with a brief clip shared a few weeks ago already leading to the arrest of Kwesi Nyantakyi, the head of the Ghana Football Association over some comments he made about the President.
Out of context, it was jarring to hear but the point of all this hard work by Tiger Eye and Anas may be to awaken us all to these vices and check ourselves so we can build our nation to the heights we can be proud of.
I may brave the crowds and go watch it in person when all the fanfare has died down but for now, I will absorb reactions through all media channels as this is the only thing Ghana is talking about for the past month.
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Avan Academy will face Banants at their Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium in Yerevan to play their next game of the Armenian Premier League.
Avan Academy or Ararat-Armenia lead the league with 42 points after 23 games. The White and Blues have 12 wins, six draws and five losses in their record. Their recent statistics include four wins and one draw. They beat Pyunik, Gandzasar, Alashkert and Artsakn. Their meeting with Shirak Gyumri ended with a highly scoring draw 2:2. The hosts have scored 35 goals and conceded 18 goals.
Banants are second in the standings with one point of gap from the leader and nearest rival. The Proud Eagles have the following basic statistics: 12 wins, five draws and six losses, 33 goals for and 24 goals against. Actually they are undefeated too. Recently they beat Ararat Yerevan, Gandzasar and Alashkert. The games against Pyunik and Lori ended with a draw. Both H2H meetings of the current season ended in favor of guests.
Both teams have almost similar current successful runs. We guess the leader will not lose for the second time at home.
On this page you will find the prediction for the FOOTBALL match of Avan Academy vs Banants of the Premier League, Armenia. In this personally prepared preview we use h2h stories, over/under stats, Avan Academy - Banants match facts and team news. For more accurate analysis we use any additional information like injuries, suspensions or weather forecasts. On BetFAQ.com website we provide information for helping you make your own decision regarding a bet on this event. Odds for the Avan Academy - Banants match prediction are relevant at the time of publication.


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Awesome automobiles on display in the Valley.
By Rebecca L. Rhoades | Photography by Dave Pisani
A grouping of vintage Corvettes greets visitors at the Martin Auto Museum, which houses the personal collection of car enthusiast Mel Martin. From front to back are a 1961 convertible, a 1967 Stingray and a black 1978 coupe. The yellow car is a 1955 Ford Thunderbird.
Mel Martin has always loved automobiles. "I started working on cars when I was 12 years old," he recalls. "My brother got a '26 Chevy with a little four-cylinder motor when he was 16—but he wasn't mechanically inclined. When it would break down, I'd fix it."
As a teen in Mayer, just south of Prescott, Martin helped out at his dad's Richfield gas station and later opened his own service and towing business. In 1955, he moved to South Phoenix and established another garage and auto body shop. Work flourished, and Martin expanded his reach into other industries, including car auctions and leasing commercial buildings. His success afforded him the ability to indulge in his passion for motorized machines.
"I began collecting a little bit of everything," he says. "I had about 20 cars before I said to myself, 'This is stupid. I should specialize in something.'" That something was Ford Mustangs. "They're very unique cars. I felt like I knew them really well, and I could work on them." At one point, Martin owned 105 ponies, from '64½ models through '67s, which he stored on a 10-acre property off Broadway. He sold off most of the collection when he moved to North Phoenix, but it wasn't long before his garage once again started to fill up.
Today, Martin owns more than 120 vehicles. Not just a mere assemblage of supercharged engines and shiny chrome, the quirky collection focuses on autos that capture the eye and tell a story. For example, there's a 1933 Buick Ser90 limousine once owned by the Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina. Befitting royalty, its passenger carriage is lined in sumptuous silk. A forest green 1952 Mercedes Phaeton was prominently featured in the farewell scene of 1960s sitcom "Hogan's Heroes." Another dark green vehicle, this one a bit more modern, holds the world record for the fastest front-wheel drive car. The 2000 Pontiac Bonneville "Salt Flats" custom V6 racer reached documented speeds of 204.31 miles per hour.
As his collection began to outgrow a 5,000-square-foot warehouse—"I had so many cars in there, I could hardly walk around," he remarks—the self-described autophile came across a 20,000-square-foot building just off Interstate 17 north of Bell Road and moved about half of his vehicles into the space. In 2008, he opened the doors to the public under the moniker Martin Auto Museum.
Five showrooms house 65 vehicles, ranging from a replica of the world's first patented automobile—an 1886 Benz Motorwagen—to modern-day concept cars. There are Packards and pickup trucks, original Woodys and aluminum-bodied beauties, stylish midcentury convertibles and, yes, even a few Mustangs, just to name a few.
The avid collector shows off his prized 1965 Shelby Cobra, which was once owned by the vehicle's designer, Carroll Shelby. With only 6 original miles on the engine, it is one of the few automobiles in the museum that remains behind velvet ropes.
A row of candy-apple red Corvettes spanning the 1960s and '70s greets visitors. "I love Corvettes. They're fast and have a lot of horsepower," Martin says, adding that he's already pre-ordered a 2020 Stingray. A 1992 Lister model—one of only two in existence—sits near the entry, offering Martin easy accessibility whenever he feels the need for speed. "I drive it a lot," he says with a smile. "I really enjoy it."
In fact, all of the vehicles in Martin's collection are streetworthy. "If they're in here, they're drivable," he notes. Every couple of weeks, Martin and his team start each car and even take some out for a spin.
With such a unique mix of automobiles, the enthusiast has a hard time choosing a favorite. Three top his list: a 1930 Duesenberg Boattail, a 1965 Shelby Cobra and a 1930 Cadillac LaSalle Dual Cowl Phaeton.
Visitors to the museum can peek under the hood of the rare aluminum-bodied 1930 Duesenberg Boattail. It's one of Martin's favorite vehicles.
"It was the poor man's hot rod," says Martin about the 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air. "It has a lot of horsepower, but its narrow tires would often lead to crashes."
The eye-catching red Duesenberg once belonged to notorious Prohibition-era gangster Jake "the Barber" Factor. An open hood panel offers viewers a glimpse into the bright green 320-cubic-inch engine with dual overhead camshafts. "Duesenberg was so far ahead in its engineering," Martin explains, noting that the car was the first to feature hydraulic brakes and could reach speeds of 100 miles per hour. This vehicle was priced at $15,000 in 1930 (equivalent to more than $220,000 in today's currency). A similar model recently sold at auction for $2 million.
The Cobra holds an equally impressive provenance. This muscular roadster, featuring a classic blue aluminum body with white racing stripes, was once part of the personal collection of its namesake, Carroll Shelby. The racing legend even autographed the dashboard after Martin purchased the car. With a 427-cubic-inch engine, the speedy sports car can go from 0 to 60 in less than three seconds and tops out at 164 miles per hour. Not that Martin would attempt this, of course. His prized auto has only 6 original miles on it. Next to it sits a red 1959 AC Bristol, the design of which Shelby based his Cobra on.
What he does take out regularly, however, is the LaSalle. Martin frequently can be found tooling around town in the four-door sedan. "I drove it twice in the Great Race (a cross-country vintage car rally)—one time from Marietta, Georgia, to Anaheim, California; the other from Houston to San Diego," he says.
Although he has more cars than he could easily operate in a year—to do so, Martin would have to switch vehicles every three days—the aficionado shows no signs of slowing down. He's currently in the market for a larger venue where he can organize his entire collection—and perhaps add a few more to the mix. "I really enjoy getting my hands on the engines and fixing them up," he notes. "Sure, I could collect art, but I can't work on that."
When Martin purchased the curvaceous classic, Shelby autographed the dashboard.
Amazing Autos
January is car month in the Valley. The following six highly anticipated auctions offer the opportunity to view up-close some of the world's rarest and most expensive vehicles, from vintage hot rods and muscle cars to exotic roadsters and even celebrity-owned machines. Don't forget to bring your checkbook!
Barrett-Jackson, Jan. 11-19
USA Today's Best Attraction for Car Lovers returns to WestWorld of Scottsdale for its 49th year. A highlight of the 2020 auction is a collection of 21 vehicles owned by the late "The Fast and The Furious" star Paul Walker, ranging from 1960s wagons to modern-day race cars and pickup trucks, and even a selection of motorcycles. (barrett-jackson.com)
Gooding & Co., Jan. 15-18
Specializing in antique, classic, sports and racing cars, this auction, held in Old Town Scottsdale, holds three of the Top 10 records for most expensive cars sold in the state. This year brings an assortment of midcentury Ferraris to the block. Also, don't miss the pristine 1948 Tucker 48, originally billed as the "Car of Tomorrow." (goodingco.com)
Russo and Steele, Jan. 15-19
More than 800 cars will pass through this five-day event. With a new location at the intersection of Scottsdale Road and the Loop 101, the high-energy auction celebrates 20 years of its unique "in-the-round" format. Included this year are a Can Am racer, a 1919 Great Race participant and a 1956 Buick police car. (russoandsteele.com)
Leake Scottsdale, Jan. 15-19
America's first collector car auction company has been putting sweet rides under the hammer since 1964. This year's gathering, held at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, features nearly 120 vehicles—including a selection of 1950s European- and American-made classics—owned by internationally recognized collector John Staluppi. (leakecar.com)
Bonhams, Jan. 16
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Set in a post-war galactic civilisation, Embers of War delivers classic space opera action whilst feeling like a true 21st century novel.
The Trouble Dog is a sentient warship, now decommissioned and run by a skeleton crew of misfits. The war is over and it's a time of reconciliation and redemption so these days the Trouble Dog is in the business is rescuing people, not killing them. The well-paced narrative focuses on a rescue mission which isn't quite what it seems, and opens out into a story into whose large-scale sensawonder is worthy of an Iain M Banks Culture novel.
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>symlink so install is in it's FHS-compliant place.
why hardcoded pathes at all?
don't we have the path set to both /bin and /usr/bin?
not even in chapter 5, as the standard-path is prefixed with the tools!
i propose to remove pathes wherever possible in all scripts.


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No, actually, this thing is not at all like that thing: Trump, Russia, and "McCarthyism"
The astonishing closeness of Donald Trump and his campaign to the current (and increasingly murderous) Russian regime has attracted comment from Democrats (and other patriots). That in turn has attracted counter-comment from some of Trump's defenders (and their dupes, and random Clinton-haters, plus some stray lefties still feeling the loyalty to the anti-anti-Communist cause even though Russia is now functionally fascist rather than communist) complaining about "McCarthyism."
The comparison seemed to me so clearly absurd as to be scarcely worth the effort of refutation. But, as it seems to have some legs, here goes:
McCarthyism – as practiced not only by Joe McCarthy himself but also by (e.g.,) Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover  – was the political strategy of falsely imputing a lack of patriotism to people supporting progressive domestic causes such as civil rights and anti-poverty programs, or a foreign policy that tried to minimize the risks of nuclear war. It involved two distinct fallacies:
 Confounding reforms completely compatible with a basically capitalist economy with "socialism," and in turn socialism with totalitarian political rule as practiced in the Soviet Union.
Imputing differences of opinion on policy to disloyalty.
McCarthyism did not end with McCarthy's censure and death. Roy Cohn, McCarthy's deputy, subsequently made a successful career as an influence-peddler with largely Republican connections; the young Donald Trump was one of Cohen's clients, and his protégé. Even today, some Republicans (and glibertarians) seem incapable of discussing Obamacare or progressive taxation without reference to the gulags. And false accusations about divided loyalty – now updated to claims that someone-or-other is "an agent of the Muslim Brotherhood" rather than "a card-carrying member of the Communist Party" – are as current as the attacks on the Khan family for daring to challenge Donald Trump.
There are even some who still defend McCarthy's own reckless career of character assassination. William F. Buckley, whose first book was a defense of McCarthy, remains a revered figure on the supposedly respectable Right, and immigrant-and-Muslim basher Michelle Malkin published a pro-McCarthy screed a few years ago.
McCarthy and his cronies did not operate entirely without some basis in fact. Historically, there was a tendency among some parts of the American left to sympathize with the Soviet Union, and in a few cases that extended to actually disloyal actions.
People actively working against the national interest (as opposed to, e.g., people who had been Communists or fellow-travelers before WWII) were a tiny minority of the victims of the "anti-Communist" crusade. In addition to a bunch of innocent bystanders, McCarthyism proper attacked a panoply of patriotic heroes, including Dean Acheson and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Still, actual subversives (the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss) did in fact exist; by contrast, "agents of the Muslim Brotherhood" actually influential in American politics are completely imaginary.
The situation with respect to Russia today is utterly different. First and foremost, Russia is now, in operational terms, fascist (ethno-nationalist, homophobic, anti-labor, and crony-capitalist) rather than communist, and while Russian policy does support nominally left-wing governments and movements such as Chavismo in Venezuela, the politicians who get Russian support in the developed world – Orbán in Hungary, Le Pen in France, Berlusconi in Italy, and now Trump in the U.S. – tend to be on the political right, either because Putin judges right-wing politicians to be more venal and less patriotic or because he regards right-wing policies as the most potent threat to the liberal order he so hates. Thus there is no earthly reason why supporters of progressive politics should feel drawn toward contemporary Russia.
There is some tendency for anti-militarists (of the left and the libertarian and isolationist right) to want to apologize for Russian aggression in Ukraine and the Baltics for fear that acknowledging the fact of aggression might imply some need to do something about it militarily. Still, no substantial faction on the left or on the right is systematically pro-Russian in the way that the CP-USA and its fellow-travelers were systematically pro-Soviet.
However, precisely because Russia is not the sort of adversary the Soviet Union was during the Cold War, Russian money has been able to penetrate U.S. politics in a way that Soviet money could not. The RT (formerly Russia Today) and Sputnik networks masquerade as news organizations, though they are in fact Russian state enterprises devoted to peddling the Kremlin line. And some U.S.-based political consulting/lobbying/influence-peddling enterprises, including the one headed by Paul Manafort as well as the Podesta Group and Mercury, have taken money – directly or via sketchy cut-outs – to support Viktor Yanukovych's attempt to convert Ukraine into a Russian client state.
Again, there's no evidence that any of this was ideological. It has less resemblance to Communist subversion than it does to the (very successful) influence-purchasing operations of the Saudi monarchy.
But the simple fact remains that the Trump campaign is riddled with people in the Russian orbit. In addition to whatever the candidate's own business dealings or loan obligations might be, there were Manafort himself as campaign manager, Boris Epshteyn as a surrogate, Carter Page on Trump's foreign policy advisory team, and retired general (and paid RT commentator) Michael Flynn as a another surrogate and even a rumored potential running-mate. Coincidentally or not, Trump's positions – especially his denial that Russia did anything out of line in annexing Crimea and his announced unwillingness to have the U.S. live up to its treaty obligations in case of a Russian attack on one of the Baltic nations – track the Russian line pretty closely. And of course Trump has said repeatedly that he prefer's Putin's brand of "leadership" to Obama's.
It's also the case that Putin has more or less openly intervened on Trump's behalf, both by having RT and Sputnik run anti-Clinton propaganda and by authorizing some of the hacker groups allowed by the Russian state to carry out lucrative criminal hacking, especially abroad, in return for collaboration as needed with Russian intelligence services to hack into the computers of the Democratic National Committee (releasing those emails, via WikiLeaks, in a way timed to cause maximum disruption at the Democratic Convetion) and the Democratic National Congressional Campaign Committee. (It now emerges that U.S. counterintelligence agencies had spotted the hack as a Russian operation, and informed Congressional leadership about it, months ago.)
That's the point that Trump's critics have been making: that we have a Republican Presidential candidate who, personally and through his staff, has unknown but possibly quite deep financial entanglements with an unfriendly foreign power, whose positions seem more favorable to the interests of that foreign power than to the interests of the United States and its allies, and who is getting assistance from that foreign power in his campaign.
The fact that Republicans used mostly false accusations of affiliation to the Soviet Union to discredit Democrats does not make it wrong for Democrats to make true statements about the relationship of Donald Trump and his associates to the Russian fascist state.
Footnote Yes, there is a broader policy implication here. The existing U.S. political system is far too vulnerable to foreign penetration. The Foreign Agents Registration Act needs to be tightened to make it harder for foreign powers to use NGOs as cut-outs to purchase the services of U.S. lobbyists, and to require more disclosure from law firms about foreign clients. Most of all, the "corporate free speech" doctrine enunciated in Citizens United and similar cases needs to be drastically modified to prevent foreign nationals from using U.S.-based but foreign-owned entities as an end-around to evade the ban on foreign contributions to U.S. political campaigns. In addition, not-for-profits – both 501 (c) (3) charities and 501 (c) (4) advocacy groups – need to be required to disclose the sources of their funding.
Author Mark KleimanPosted on August 21, 2016 September 9, 2016 Categories 2016, Domestic Politics, Everything ElseTags DNC hack, Flynn, Manafort, McCarthyism, Russia, Trump, Ukraine
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Stuart_Levine says:
Godwiin's Law Alert: And, in addition to your comments, try the Trump variation on the "stab in the back" meme: That if he loses the election, this will be a "stolen election" through fraudulent voting. http://slnews.us/gc082116a
Some possible typos: Paragraph 1–Shouldn't "Community" be "Communist"?
The first word in the phrase "subverives (the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss)" should be "subversives."
Finally, in the footnote, the phrase "far to vulnerable to foreign penetration" should be "far too vulnerable to foreign penetration."
Mark Kleiman says:
Yes. Thanks. Fixed.
"Still, actual subverives (the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss) did in fact exist; by contrast, "agents of the Muslim Brotherhood" actually influential in American politics are completely imaginary."
Weren't liberals saying the same about communist subversives, at the time? In fact you still encounter a lot of liberals who like to pretend the Rosenbergs were innocent, among other denials. So, forgive me if I'm less than confident in your judgement here.
I'll agree with you, though, that we're not looking at McCarthyism here. Maybe a bit of projection, and a whole bunch of wild hyperbole, instead.
J_Michael_Neal says:
If you have any evidence that there are agents of the Muslim Brotherhood who are influential in American politics, by all means, step up and share it. If you don't have any, you're just engaging in broad character assassination.
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JeffreyK622 says:
I don't think it's character assassination so much as it is Groucho Marxism. In "A Day at the Races," Groucho is pretending to be a doctor and giving out nonsensical diagnoses; when an actual doctor says "that's insane!", Groucho responds, "That's what they said about Pasteur!" Or about Alger Hiss, as the case may be.
aajaxx says:
And who else were McCarthy supporters? John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.
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Developing new hyperspectral vegetation indexes sensitive to yield andevapotranspiration of dry beans
EYÜP SELİM KÖKSAL
CENGİZ ERDEM
MEHMET TAŞAN
KADİR ERSİN TEMİZEL
10.3906/tar-2011-5
Dry bean (phaseolus vulgaris L.) field experiment was carried out under the subhumid climatic conditions of Bafra, Turkey, to evaluate the possibilities of using hyperspectral reflectance data for estimating yield and water consumption. Three irrigation management treatments that depend on monitoring soil water content and one rain-fed treatment were subjected to dry beans arranged in a randomized complete block design with three replications. In addition to soil water measurements, hyperspectral reflectance observations were made throughout the dry beans? growing season. Actual crop evapotranspiration values were calculated by using a detailed soil water balance approach. After smoothing the hyperspectral reflectance data, the first and second derivatives of spectra were calculated. Statistical analysis methods were applied to determine the most sensitive wavelengths to dry bean yield and evapotranspiration (ETa) for developing new spectral indexes based on measured spectral data. Furthermore, some of the well know spectral vegetation indexes were calculated. Statistical comparison between spectral indexes and yield showed that the difference of the second derivative of spectra in 749 and 697 nm could be a good indicator (r = 0.998 and RMSE = 0.027) for estimating dry bean grain yield. Similarly, the difference of the second derivative of spectra in 1003 and 717 nm gave the most significant statistical comparison result (r = 1.0 and RMSE = 3.0) for ETa.
KÖKSAL, EYÜP SELİM; ERDEM, CENGİZ; TAŞAN, MEHMET; and TEMİZEL, KADİR ERSİN (2021) "Developing new hyperspectral vegetation indexes sensitive to yield andevapotranspiration of dry beans," Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry: Vol. 45: No. 6, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.3906/tar-2011-5
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/agriculture/vol45/iss6/5
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Julie Andrews Serves a Spoonful of Sugar to 'Aquaman'
Toward the end of December, magic will be in the air. And possibly in the water too.
Many Disney fans are eagerly anticipating the return of Mary Poppins. As captivating as Emily Blunt looks in the trailers, many original fans were hoping there would be a surprise cameo from the iconic Julie Andrews.
Dick Van Dyke will be in the sequel, so why not, right? Wrong.
Although Julie Andrews has been vocal with support for the dazzling actress and upcoming movie, she will not be making an appearance. As EW reports, it's "out of respect" for Blunt to allow her to shine as bright as possible.
While that's a lovely gesture, it's not like the Oscar-winning actress will be sans a winter blockbuster this year.
Release the Karathen
Aquaman producer Peter Safran has confirmed the most powerful creature on earth, Karathen, will be voiced by none other than Julie Andrews.
"We wanted the Karathen to have the voice of a classic British actress, albeit somewhat digitally altered. And when we found out Julie was interested and available and excited to do it, casting her was a no-brainer."
Then, there's James Wan with his confirmation edification of it all via Twitter:
The most powerful creature on Earth is a dame. https://t.co/7K3K32i0nv
— James Wan (@creepypuppet) November 24, 2018
Ironic how that all went down.
Here's a woman known to have a magical effect on bringing families together and there she goes, as a mythical sub-terrestrial titan to help bring the seven seas together.
And, uh yeah, the whole-not-being-in-Mary-Poppins-although-you-are-the-namesake thing.
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Rue is a short film about a gay couple whose lives are impacted by the ongoing hate crimes against homosexual people in the world today.
This is an ongoing issue for homosexual people who are being impacted by on a daily basis. The purpose of this film is to bring this hate violence out into the open.
Hand held camera movement in order to bring across a feel of uneasiness. Extreme Close Ups to show emotional arch of characters.
Editing was done with Premiere Pro CC, the visual style included jump cuts purposely to bring you in and out of the characters emotional arch's in the film.


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One could headline this New York Times article thusly: War planners gotta warplan. Administration sources told Eric Schmitt and Julian Barnes that the acting Secretary of Defense has updated the US plans to deal with military provocations by Iran or its proxies, reportedly after prompting by "hard-liners." Even the Times reporters note that the scale doesn't really look that "hard-line," though:
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Is that "hard line"? Depends on one's point of view, but given that this is a response to Iranian military provocation against American assets and allies, it sounds more like a strategic plan rather than just a tactical reaction. More to the point, it's the kind of war planning that we expect the Pentagon to do. When reading media reports such as these, remember that "Pentagon draws up war plans" is not really a news story … it's a job description.
Still, someone bothered to leak it. Cui bono? Is it someone who wants to stop The March To War — or someone who wants Iran to know we're taking incidents like this weekend's sabotage spree in the Persian Gulf seriously? The latter seems far more likely.
At any rate, Donald Trump denied it this morning, saying any such plans would be (ta da!) much larger in scale:
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— ABC News (@ABC) May 14, 2019
That should get some attention in Tehran, too.
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2666 is the last novel by Roberto Bolaño. It was released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death. It is over 1100 pages long in  Spanish, and almost 900 in its English translation. It is divided into five parts. An English-language translation by Natasha Wimmer was published in the United States in 2008, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the United Kingdom in 2009, by Picador. It is a fragmentary novel.

Significance
Critical reception of the novel has been positive. In Chile, it won the Altazor Award in 2005. The New York Times Book Review included it in the list of "10 Best Books of 2008"; Time named it Best Fiction Book of 2008; and the novel won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Wimmer's translation was nominated for the Best Translated Book Award. Critics have compared it to the work of W. G. Sebald. They praised the book's multiple story lines and scope.

Premise
The novel revolves around an elusive German author and the unsolved and ongoing murders of women in Santa Teresa, a violent city inspired by Ciudad Juárez and its epidemic of female homicides. In addition to Santa Teresa, settings and themes include the Eastern Front in World War II, the academic world, mental illness, journalism, and the breakdown of relationships and careers. 2666 explores 20th-century degeneration through a wide array of characters, locations, time periods, and stories within stories.

Background
While Bolaño was writing 2666, he was already sick and on the waiting list for a liver transplant. He had never visited Ciudad Juárez but received information and support from friends and colleagues such as the Mexican journalist Sergio González Rodríguez, author of the 2002 book of essays and journalistic chronicles Huesos en el desierto (Spanish: "Bones in the Desert"), concerning the place and its femicides. He discussed the novel with his friend Jorge Herralde, director of Barcelona-based publisher Anagrama, but he never showed the actual manuscript to anyone until he died: the manuscript is a first copy.

Originally planning it as a single book, Bolaño then considered publishing 2666 as five volumes to provide more income for his children; however, the heirs decided otherwise and the book was published in one lengthy volume. Bolaño had been well aware of the book's unfinished status, and said a month before his death that over a thousand pages still had to be revised.

Title
The meaning of the title, 2666, is typically elusive; even Bolaño's friends did not know the reasons for it. Larry Rohter, writing for The New York Times, notes that Bolaño apparently ascribed an apocalyptic quality to the number. Henry Hitchings noted that "the novel's cryptic title is one of its many grim jokes" and may be a reference to the biblical Exodus from Egypt, supposedly 2,666 years after God created the earth. The number does not appear in the book, though it does in some of Bolaño's other books—in Amulet, a Mexico City road looks like "a cemetery in the year 2666", and The Savage Detectives contains another, approximate reference: "And Cesárea said something about days to come... and the teacher, to change the subject, asked her what times she meant and when they would be. And Cesárea named a date, sometime around the year 2600. Two thousand six hundred and something".

Plot summary
The novel is substantially concerned with violence and death. According to Levi Stahl, it "is another iteration of Bolaño's increasingly baroque, cryptic, and mystical personal vision of the world, revealed obliquely by his recurrent symbols, images, and tropes".  Within the novel, "There is something secret, horrible, and cosmic afoot, centered around Santa Teresa (and possibly culminating in the mystical year of the book's title, a date that is referred to in passing in Amulet as well). We can at most glimpse it, in those uncanny moments when the world seems wrong."

The novel's five parts are linked by varying degrees of concern with unsolved murders of upwards of 300 young, poor, mostly uneducated Mexican women in the fictional border town of Santa Teresa (based on Ciudad Juárez but located in Sonora rather than Chihuahua) though it is the fourth part which focuses specifically on the murders.

The Part about the Critics
This part describes a group of four European literary critics, the French Jean-Claude Pelletier, the Italian Piero Morini, the Spaniard Manuel Espinoza and the English woman Liz Norton, who have forged their careers around the reclusive German novelist Benno von Archimboldi.  Their search for Archimboldi himself and details of his life causes them to get to know his aging publisher Mrs. Bubis. Then in a seminary in Toulouse the four academics meet up with Rodolfo Alatorre, a Mexican who says a friend knew him in Mexico City a short while back and that from there the elusive German was said to be going to the Mexican border town of Santa Teresa in Sonora. Three of the academics go there in search of him but fail to find him. A major element of this part centers around romantic entanglements between the critics.

The Part about Amalfitano
This part concentrates on Óscar Amalfitano, a Chilean professor of philosophy who arrives at the University of Santa Teresa from Barcelona with his young adult daughter Rosa. As a single parent (since her mother Lola abandoned them both when Rosa was two) Amalfitano fears Rosa will become another victim of the femicides plaguing the city.

The Part about Fate
This part follows Oscar Fate, an American journalist from New York City who works for an African-American interest magazine in Harlem, New York City. He is sent to Santa Teresa to cover a boxing match despite not being a sports correspondent and knowing very little about boxing. A Mexican journalist, Chucho Flores, who is also covering the fight, tells him about the murders. He asks his newspaper if he can write an article about the murders but his proposal is rejected. He meets up with a female journalist, Guadalupe, who is covering the murders and who promises to get him an interview with one of the main suspects, Klaus Haas, a German who had become a citizen of the United States before moving to Santa Teresa. The day of the fight Chucho presents Oscar to Rosa Amalfitano. After a violent incident they end up at Óscar Amalfitano's house where the father pays Fate to take Rosa with him back to the United States by car. Before leaving, however, Rosa and Fate go to the prison with Guadalupe to interview the femicide suspect, Klaus Haas.

The Part about the Crimes
This part chronicles the murders of 112 women in Santa Teresa from 1993 to 1997 and the lives they lived.  It also depicts the police force in their mostly fruitless attempts to solve the crimes, as well as giving clinical descriptions of the circumstances and probable causes of the various homicides. One of the policemen focused on is Juan de Dios Martínez, who is having a relationship with the older Elvira Campo (the head of a sanitarium) and who also has to investigate the case of a man, aptly nicknamed "The Penitent," who keeps urinating and defecating in churches. Klaus Haas (the German femicide suspect Fate was to interview in "the part about Fate") is another of the characters this part focuses on. Haas calls a press conference where he claims that Daniel Uribe, son of a rich local family, is responsible for the murders.

The Part about Archimboldi
This part reveals that the mysterious writer Archimboldi is really Hans Reiter, born in 1920 in Prussia. This section describes how a provincial German soldier on the Eastern Front became an author in contention for the Nobel Prize. Mrs. Bubis, who was introduced in the first part, turns out to have been Baroness von Zumpe; her family were a major part of Archimboldi's childhood, since his mother cleaned their country home and young Hans spent a lot of time with the Baroness's cousin, Hugo Halder, from whom he learned about the artistic life. Reiter meets the Baroness again during the war while in Romania, and has an affair with her after the war (she is then married to Bubis, the publisher). At the end of this part Bolaño's narrator describes the life of Lotte, Archimboldi's sister, and it is revealed that the femicide suspect Klaus Haas is her son and thus Archimboldi's nephew.

Critical reception
The critical reception has been almost unanimously positive. 2666 was considered the best novel of 2005 within the literary world of both Spain and Latin America. Before the English-language edition was published in 2008, 2666 was praised by Oprah Winfrey in her O, The Oprah Magazine after she was given a copy of the translation before it was officially published.
The book was listed in The New York Times Book Review "10 Best Books of 2008" by the paper's editors. with Jonathan Lethem writing:
"2666 is as consummate a performance as any 900-page novel dare hope to be: Bolaño won the race to the finish line in writing what he plainly intended as a master statement. Indeed, he produced not only a supreme capstone to his own vaulting ambition, but a landmark in what's possible for the novel as a form in our increasingly, and terrifyingly, post-national world. The Savage Detectives looks positively hermetic beside it. (...) As in Arcimboldo's paintings, the individual elements of 2666 are easily catalogued, while the composite result, though unmistakable, remains ominously implicit, conveying a power unattainable by more direct strategies. (...) "

Amaia Gabantxo in the Times Literary Supplement wrote:
"(A)n exceptionally exciting literary labyrinth.... What strikes one first about it is the stylistic richness: rich, elegant yet slangy language that is immediately recognizable as Bolaño's own mixture of Chilean, Mexican and European Spanish. Then there is 2666s resistance to categorization. At times it is reminiscent of James Ellroy: gritty and scurrilous. At other moments it seems as though the Alexandria Quartet had been transposed to Mexico and populated by ragged versions of Durrell's characters. There's also a similarity with W. G. Sebald's work.... There are no defining moments in 2666. Mysteries are never resolved. Anecdotes are all there is. Freak or banal events happen simultaneously, inform each other and poignantly keep the wheel turning. There is no logical end to a Bolano book."

Ben Ehrenreich in the Los Angeles Times:
"This is no ordinary whodunit, but it is a murder mystery. Santa Teresa is not just a hell. It's a mirror also—"the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant, useless metamorphosis."... He wrote 2666 in a race against death. His ambitions were appropriately outsized: to make some final reckoning, to take life's measure, to wrestle to the limits of the void. So his reach extends beyond northern Mexico in the 1990s to Weimar Berlin and Stalin's Moscow, to Dracula's castle and the bottom of the sea."

Adam Kirsch in Slate:
"2666 is an epic of whispers and details, full of buried structures and intuitions that seem too evanescent, or too terrible, to put into words. It demands from the reader a kind of abject submission—to its willful strangeness, its insistent grimness, even its occasional tedium—that only the greatest books dare to ask for or deserve."

Francisco Goldman in New York Review of Books:
"The multiple story lines of 2666 are borne along by narrators who seem also to represent various of its literary influences, from European avant-garde to critical theory to pulp fiction, and who converge on the [fictional] city of Santa Teresa as if propelled toward some final unifying epiphany. It seems appropriate that 2666s abrupt end leaves us just short of whatever that epiphany might have been.."

Online book review site The Complete Review gave it an "A+", a rating reserved for a small handful of books, saying:
"Forty years after García Márquez shifted the foundations with One Hundred Years of Solitude, Bolaño has moved them again. 2666 is, simply put, epochal. No question, the first great book of the twenty-first century."

Henry Hitchings in Financial Times:
"2666... is a summative work – a grand recapitulation of the author's main concerns and motifs. As before, Bolaño is preoccupied with parallel lives and secret histories. Largely written after 9/11, the novel manifests a new emphasis on the dangerousness of the modern world.... 2666 is an excruciatingly challenging novel, in which Bolaño redraws the boundaries of fiction. It is not unique in blurring the margins between realism and fantasy, between documentary and invention. But it is bold in a way that few works really are – it kicks away the divide between playfulness and seriousness. And it reminds us that literature at its best inhabits what Bolaño, with a customary wink at his own pomposity, called "the territory of risk" – it takes us to places we might not wish to go."

Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly:
"This surreal novel can't be described; it has to be experienced in all its crazed glory. Suffice it to say it concerns what may be the most horrifying real-life mass-murder spree of all time: as many as 400 women killed in the vicinity of Juarez, Mexico. Given this as a backdrop, the late Bolaño paints a mural of a poverty-stricken society that appears to be eating itself alive. And who cares? Nobody, it seems."

In 2018, Fiction Advocate published a book-length analysis of 2666 entitled An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom by author and critic Jonathan Russell Clark. An excerpt of the book was published in The Believer in March 2018.

Awards and honors

It won the Chilean Altazor Award in 2005. The 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction was posthumously awarded to Roberto Bolaño for 2666. It was short-listed for the Best Translated Book Award. Time also awarded it the honour of Best Fiction Book of 2008.

Adaptation

In 2007, the novel was adapted as a stage play by Spanish director Àlex Rigola, and it premiered in Bolaño's adopted hometown of Blanes.  The play was the main attraction of Barcelona's Festival Grec that year.

In 2016, it was adapted into a five-hour stage play at Chicago's Goodman Theater. The stage adaptation was praised for its ambition, but according to The New York Times, it fell "short as a work of dramatic art."

In 2016, it was adapted into an 11-hour play by Julien Gosselin and his troupe "Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur". It was presented at the Festival d'Avignon and then in Paris at the Odéon theatre as part of Festival d'Automne.

Notes

External links
  2666, at complete review. Aggregates links to most of the professional reviews.
  Roberto Bolaño's "2666", by Francisco Goldman
  "Natasha Wimmer on Roberto Bolaño's 2666"
  "On Bolaño's 2666" by Eric Fershtman, Construction Magazine (24 February 2012)
"Por una ética del desorden en América Latina (2666)" in Revista Nómadas

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