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Per Zennström
Photographer & Filmmaker
With over 2 decades of experience in the creative field, his versatile talents as a Visual Storyteller often sees him donning the hats of photographer, filmmaker, online publisher and digital marketer, in and out of his role as Creative Director.
A native of Stockholm, his work has taken him all over the world, where he's worked with some of the biggest brands of our time, including Dior, Guy Laroche, Nina Ricci, Absolut Vodka, Porsche and Bentley, to name a few. He's lived and worked in the visionary hubs of Paris, New York and Berlin ﹘ adding to his internationally diverse portfolio every step of the way.
Per's attraction to entrepreneurial creativity and new media keeps him busy with an assortment of projects, including:
Founder of theLAB-berlin ﹘ an artist collective that works with clients to deliver digital storytelling solutions
Publisher and Creative Director of 11horses ﹘ an online pop culture magazine
Contributing Editor to urban culture platforms such as MG magazine and Cool Shaker
Currently based in Berlin, he thrives on the unique, cosmopolitan and decidedly urban atmosphere the city offers in abundance. Per is highly sought after as a vibrant and enthusiastic speaker and educator by top schools such as Fotoskolan STHLM & Berliner Teknische Kunsthochschule.
For a snapshot of Per's creative process behind the scenes:
Shot in the middle of the pitch black Niger night in the sprawling Sahara Desert with no electricity whatsoever, this was Per's most challenging photo shoot technically and logistically. Armed with only a few battery-powered flashlights, Per worked the magic together with his creative team. The ad concept was based on African folktales, drawing inspiration from stories of magic, witches and enchanted creatures roaming the night. They spent many hours looking for Absolut visual elements (the shape of the bottle, the ice-cold blue colour) in the grass, clouds, sand and anything else they could lay their eyes on.
Bentley Fragrance
In order to interpret the heritage and core values of this luxury brand in a modern way while staying true to its origins, Per's solution was to focus on the origin and location of the brand. Incorporating subtle but distinctive elements of London and the city's role in the image, he gave it the right presence and weight without overpowering the overall look and feel. The brief included very specific requirements for the lighting, including "the blue hour". It had to look like the sun had just dipped beneath the horizon, with the scene still illuminated by the light summer night sky and golden sunset clouds.
engaged to conceptualise and manage the multi-media extravaganza hosted by leica at the berlin fashion week in july 2011, per took on the roles of creative director, photographer, director, pr & marketing person, all rolled into one. he saw the project as an opportunity to transform an otherwise single dimension event into a multi-faceted avenue, enabling him to tell the story using different voices. he wanted to do more than just hang a beautiful picture on the wall. so he took it to a whole new level.
teaming up with celebrated fashion designer michael sontag, per orchestrated the event as three distinct parts interconnected by the simple but innovative use of qr codes. a life-size print of natasia koechy wearing an elegant green dress by sontag on the wall revealed a qr code on her leg, linked to an online video. natasia also stood next to her picture in real life with a faux tattoo of the same qr code, which viewers scanned to watch the same video. as a result, people were interacting with both the print and model, scanning, watching and sharing the video the entire time.
i speak: Swedish, French, German and English.
Staff, LeadershipJustin Merino November 7, 2014
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Well I am currently 41 yrs old. I was born in 1971. I grew up in Vt on a airstrip where my father kept his airplane. To be a kid with a airplane in your yard, was way too cool with my friends. Both my uncle and dad have a love for "round engines". At a young age I was a "hangar rat" so I spent many weekends at either at home or at the big airport 7 mi away. So while both family members were interested in old airplanes, I followed and so did my cousin. My father also had a deep interest in military history. Being that my 3rd Great-Granfather served in a Vt regiment during the Civil War, we would take his memiors and walk the fields where he once fought. So this at a young age began my interest in "Preservation" of our past. Only would I find out that Airplanes & Military Vehicles mix all too well.
As a kid riding the back roads of Vt. I remember looking for green vehicles with a faded star or the typical "army truck grille" peeking out of a barn. You would think, a kid my age then would dream about 57 Chevy's or Corvettes, "well I did both!!" Dad had a 57 when he was in the AirForce and my uncle has always had Corvettes. I would love a 71 Stingray and someday I will. But these army trucks, I could not resist either. In grade school, I did not take very well to math or any science, but history I did. Doing reports about the Civil War or WW2. I remember the day when our school library put on the shelves the complete Time Life Vietnam History Series. I had eventually checked out each one by the time I was in the 7th grade.
My 1st job, was in Aviation. I worked for a aerial advertising company in S. Fla for 6 yrs. 5 of them working on the ground crew setting up banners. My last yr with the company was in Aircraft Maint. I did this while attending my final yr in A& P school.
In 1994 I moved back to Vermont and went to work for a Commuter Air Carrier working on thirty 19 seat airliners. I was also involved in the restoration and maint of the company's three DC-3/C-47's.
My current and 3rd job I took in 1999 is working for a Regional Air Carrier maintaining 50 seat Jets.
I was interested in the Vietnam war because of a past experience when I was really young. So I started to read as much as I could all through high school. When I got to college and working for a living, my studies went on the back burner and I concentrated on my future career of Aviation Maint. But in 1995, I was single and the money was good, my father and I bought a 1951 3/4 ton M37 and started its full, frame off restoration. In 97, I finally got one of my dreams........all 13,000 lbs of it!! I would get distracted from the M37 when I bought a book called "GunTrucks" by Tim Kutta. With all the reading I had done about the war, I found that this was a "untold" story. So I was back to research again. More trucks have arrived, more distractions from the M37. Got Married, and now juggled a family. But I still manage to do it and I finally got the M-37 completed. I could not do it without the support of my wife Bonnie who lets me fill the yard with rolling steel and allows me to spend time to make it all come together.


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Judy Asks: Can the EU Solve the Budget and Rule-of-Law Crisis?
Hungary and Poland have vetoed the next EU budget in protest of a new rule-of-law conditionality. What instruments and treaties can Europe use to circumvent Budapest and Warsaw's hostage-taking?
Ian BondDirector of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform
The EU can easily solve the budget crisis—give in to Hungarian and Polish blackmail tactics, and the EU's next seven-year budget will be approved. But that would exacerbate the rule-of-law crisis, which is much more important.
The rule of law enables the EU to function. The single market works because companies from one member state can rely on consistent laws, consistently applied, in the others. The European Arrest Warrant works because courts in one country can trust courts in another to try cases fairly.
There should be no dispute between Central European member states and others about the rule of law's importance, so it is good to see the chairman of the Slovak parliament's European Affairs Committee (and former Carnegie Europe director), Tomáš Valášek, and Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban pushing back against the Hungarian and Polish governments.
Rule-of-law problems in the EU should be a common concern; look at the corruption uncovered by journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta or the allegations against former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Even if Hungary and Poland delay agreement on the EU budget for 2021–2027 and the Next Generation EU coronavirus recovery fund, EU leaders must stand firm. They must defend core EU values, not reward countries for rejecting them.
Marek DabrowskiNon-Resident Scholar at Bruegel
The position taken by the governments of Hungary and Poland is unacceptable. Other member states must not give in to such pressure and should find an alternative way to adopt the Next Generation EU instrument. Legal experts should answer whether the enhanced cooperation or a separate intergovernmental treaty is a better solution.
However, a similar solution does not seem to be possible in the case of the seven-year budget—the multiannual financial framework (MFF)—which must be adopted by unanimity. The EU will have to function with a temporary budget as determined by Article 312(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union until the MFF is finally accepted.
It is also important to draw lessons from the current crisis in case of future changes to the EU treaties.
First, the MFF's unanimity requirement should be replaced by qualified majority voting. This would help prioritize genuine European public goods over cross-country transfers and limit the bargaining process between member states.
Second, there is a need to strengthen the enforcement mechanism—both political and judicial—of the EU treaties and EU secondary legislation in individual member states, especially in respect to the basic values referred to in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union.
Martin EhlChief International Editor at Hospodářské Noviny
The exact answer would be that the EU could solve the budget crisis, but not the rule-of-law one. As the EU left Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to develop into an autocrat within the club during the last decade, it now seems too late for a radical turnaround—which an intergovernmental solution would be.
The EU's Southern and Eastern members are desperately waiting for recovery-fund money, so the core issue of principles will need to be put into the freezer, at least for some time.
Hungary and Poland are also in desperate need of EU money. And both governments depend domestically on the dynamics coming from their "defense defense-of-national-interest" strategy—or campaign, to say it more precisely. To reconcile both needs, they will look for some face-saving solution that would allow them to say to their domestic audiences that such solution did no harm to their national pride and that the flow of money will be preserved.
The German EU presidency will do literally anything to resolve the situation quickly. So I would expect that the political dispute will change into a legal one and be parked at the European Court of Justice—which will decide in one or two years, when the situation in Europe and in both countries could be different.
Roland FreudensteinPolicy Director of the Wilfried Martens Centre
Yes, it can—if it wants to. It was probably not such a brilliant idea to have the rule-of-law conditionality adopted in the same package as the budget and the recovery fund. The latter could have been adopted by unanimity, and the former by majority voting afterward.
But anyway, now that the crisis is here, we need to somehow move ahead. That may still include adopting the conditionality separately, followed by the budget and recovery fund as well as a solemn declaration by the other member states about the political impartiality of the process and legal remedy.
The option to go ahead, if necessary, in an intergovernmental framework—as with the EU's stability pact—should definitely remain on the table. Orbán and Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), mustn't get away with what they have mostly gotten away with up to now: a compromise in which they keep 90 percent of the substance and only 10 percent of the others—that is, values and principles.
This proportionality needs to be reversed, otherwise the EU can forget about its proclaimed values. Incidentally, it could also forget about projecting good governance and therefore stability to the neighborhood. There is no democratically legitimate power without values.
Daniel HegedüsFellow for Central Europe at the German Marshall Fund of the United States
The primary ingredients to solve the budget and rule-of-law crisis are determination and political will.
Experience with Hungary's and Poland's autocratization over the past years has clearly demonstrated that fine-tuned policy instruments and technocratic quibbles do not provide any solution if stakeholders lack clear political vision and determination to use them.
Circumventing the Hungarian and Polish blockade by establishing the Next Generation EU recovery package as an intergovernmental or enhanced cooperation excluding Europe's semi-authoritarian twins is not a solution.
It might guarantee EU member states access to the coronavirus recovery funds in the second quarter of 2021 but provides no answer for the blockade of the MFF, which would likely continue. However, it can indeed be a useful threat posture against Budapest and Warsaw.
Watering down the rule-of-law conditionality or terminating the Article 7 procedures would only encourage extortion by veto in the future, create a Mexican standoff with the European Parliament, and rehabilitate Budapest's and Warsaw's illiberal Fidesz and PiS governments, respectively, which are—as a matter of fact—in serious noncompliance with fundamental EU values.
The only way forward is undermining the raison d'être of the Hungarian and Polish blockade by officially adopting the rule-of-law conditionality as soon as possible and offering some (non-substantial) concessions for Budapest and Warsaw to withdraw while saving face.
Shada IslamEU Commentator and Managing Director of New Horizons Project
Ursula von der Leyen was sworn in almost a year ago, in December 2019, as president of a "geopolitical" European Commission. In fact, her main struggles are not global but domestic and center on her ability to ensure that the EU can stand up to the "illiberal" governments of Hungary and Poland, which are upending the bloc's founding values and principles.
Both countries are becoming increasingly confident of their EU-wide role and influence. For example, Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Minister Sigrid Kaag said after a meeting of EU development ministers on November 23, 2020, that she was "deeply alarmed and deeply concerned" over attempts by Budapest and Warsaw to "push back on women's and girls' rights."
It's time to say enough is enough and to call the two states' bluff. The €750 billion EU Next Generation recovery fund is vitally important. More than that, the EU's domestic and international credibility is at stake.
First, the European People's Party, the largest political group in the European Parliament, must stop protecting Hungary and Poland.
Second, EU leaders must be more vocal in calling out the two countries on their violation of EU values.
Third, the EU should use all other provisions in its toolbox, including qualified majority voting and enhanced cooperation to move ahead on key goals, even if it means leaving some countries behind—at least for the moment.
Bruno MaçãesSenior Advisor at Flint Global and Former Europe Minister of Portugal
There are two separate questions. First, what to understand by "rule of law" and, second, what concrete cases an EU rule-of-law mechanism can apply to. This will always remain contentious and open to debate.
But the negotiation process this time has been clarifying in at least one respect: Hungary and Poland have vetoed a viable compromise, thereby placing themselves outside the whole debate.
There is an opportunity here to apply an ad hoc mechanism. The other countries should separate the recovery plan from the budget and proceed without Hungary and Poland. It is as if a rule-of-law mechanism—a political one in this case—was already to be applied to the negotiations themselves.
Why is this necessary?
EU member states share sovereignty. They make decisions together. If a member state does not have guarantees that decisions in other countries are democratically legitimate, then their own democracies will be impaired, and their own citizens will be subject to partially illegitimate decisions and regulations. On this there can be no compromise.
Alina Mungiu-PippidiDirector of the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building at Hertie School
This could be part of a series together with "Can humanity solve global warning while letting poorer countries catch up?" and "Can we stop the spread of the virus while relaunching the economy?" to be studied in public-policy classes. Only, it would instead be studied in the "tradeoffs" class. No?
The reason for the EU's special recovery fund is that remedies for epidemics and common market slumps need to be applied at the same time to the whole organism for the recovery to work.
That's the problem with negative externalities. We cannot isolate them. So to build recovery, excluding Hungary and Poland cannot work—except maybe as an efficient threat in a game of chicken.
The differences in values or standards among the EU's twenty-seven member states are too complex to be "solved" by a standoff, which is a simple power contest. The issue is how to cut the EU funds of the bad guys without them being able to pose a veto, and how sound a rule-of-law mechanism modeled after the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism for Bulgaria and Romania is.
We all want the bad guys to lose, but we will have to make them lose the Hungarian and Polish constituencies they still have. That's the real battle.
Christian OdendahlChief Economist at the Centre for European Reform
There is an odd pessimism in the question. This is not a crisis. The EU, for the first time, is trying to lock in a meaningful rule-of-law mechanism into its spending programs, even though it needs the consent of the governments it is trying to contain.
How to solve this conundrum?
First, put a humongous pot of money on the table ready for the opposing governments to tap into. The coronavirus pandemic has provided that opportunity. Hungary and Poland, for example, have not been hit particularly hard by the pandemic and yet are bound to receive enormous amounts from the new recovery plan.
Second, make sure the financial deal contains elements for everyone, including the allies of the opponents, so that vetoing this carefully crafted deal is certain to piss off everybody else.
Third, turn the rule-of-law screws until the reluctant governments squeak.
Fourth, show them the EU's arsenal—for example letting spending programs just run out—should they veto the deal.
Fifth, find their pain threshold and settle just below it.
Et voilà, another EU standoff is resolved. Don't panic. We are currently in stage four and need calm resolve and patience to proceed to five.
Marta PilatiPolicy Analyst at the European Policy Centre
It can and it will. At least in this specific case. A classic EU political compromise will be reached within weeks.
Hungary and Poland know they cannot scrap the rule-of-law mechanism, whose text will remain untouched, but they might be able to obtain some political reassurances on the respect of national sovereignty, for example. They will be able to claim a win in the eyes of their national publics—their main intention to begin with—and the remaining EU leaders and the European Parliament will score the introduction of a new mechanism and a coronavirus recovery package.
Importantly, however, the battle over the rule of law should not finish here. The mechanism is a first step in the right direction, but it is not very powerful.
The link to the EU's financial interests is difficult to prove and restricts the scope of what is sanctionable. Press freedom, minority rights, and other violations of EU values are excluded. Nothing prevents EU leaders from introducing a wider, stronger, and more usable rule-of-law conditionality in the future; there is a qualified majority for it. In this case, they should get ready for a real fight.
Gianni RiottaVisiting Professor at Princeton University and Director of Luiss Data Lab
There are no values or ideals involved in the latest brouhaha between Hungary, Poland, and the European Union. Pundits write: "This is a feud over the rule of law!"—but do not believe the hype. Budapest and Warsaw do not have the stamina to block the EU's €1.8 trillion budget-and-recovery package, which is desperately needed by millions of citizens during the worst pandemic in a century.
Like grumpy neighbors, Hungary and Poland will eventually yield—however, not before feeding their populist constituencies a sanguine diet of slogans, muscle flexing, and boasting.
This horror movie mirrors the American final saga of U.S. President Donald Trump: like the defeated Republican leader, Kaczyński and Orbán huff and puff, aware that they will not stop German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Yet both scary movies hide a real danger. U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will arrive at the White House, and the EU recovery fund will survive the Eastern swamps. But the United States and Europe need a functioning governance, ready to undercut the greedy nationalistic blackmail.
Our post-pandemic world will need sharp innovation and brave plans to spur the economy. Biden and the European Commission should act fast to isolate the naysayers.
Martin SandbuEuropean Economics Commentator for the Financial Times
Yes—if by that we mean the narrow crisis of Hungary and Poland's veto of the seven-year budget and the recovery package in protest against the conditionality regulation agreed between the European Council and European Parliament negotiators.
There is no good endgame for the vetoers if everybody else holds their nerve. The conditionality rules will become law by qualified majority.
If the budget remains vetoed, a limited rollover of the previous one will apply—leaving Budapest and Warsaw worse off financially and without avoiding the rule-of-law condition.
The recovery package can be pursued at the level of twenty-five members through enhanced cooperation or, more awkwardly, as an intergovernmental structure. That leaves Hungary and Poland without the very substantial grants they were set to receive. In addition, they will suffer further opprobrium from indefinitely blocking core EU activities.
This is far from ideal but a situation the twenty-five can tolerate longer than the two. This will become clearer as 2020 draws to a close. A minimally face-saving gesture and well-judged pressure will encourage a lifting of the veto.
This would not divert the Hungarian and Polish governments' course away from the EU as a common project. But rewarding their obstructionism now would accelerate that drift.
Daniel SmilovAssociate Professor at the University of Sofia and Programme Director at the Centre for Liberal Strategies
The EU's budget crisis caused by the Hungarian and Polish veto is an opportunity for the union.
If the other twenty-five member states stick together and make a credible effort to pass the recovery aid package through enhanced cooperation, the EU will achieve two goals.
First, it will show to opportunistic national populists that there will be no compromise on values such as the rule of law and the rights of minorities. The union should not be blackmailed by leaders who have gone down the autocratic road or become paragons of corrupt governance.
Second, making enhanced cooperation operational will solve a long-term strategic problem for Europe. At present, the EU appears to be in a joint-decision trap: any meaningful reform is likely to be blocked by one country or another. Because of that, the only viable options appear to be either status quo or exit. This trap fuels populist and anti-European sentiments. Enhanced cooperation could allow the EU to move forward and achieve deeper and more efficient integration.
Furthermore, if enhanced cooperation becomes a plausible policy option, opportunistic veto players, such as Hungary and Poland in the present case, will most probably back down and avoid the threat of being marginalized.
Zsuzsanna SzelényiRichard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy
Ten years after Orbán openly began challenging democratic values, his EU partners got the political will to introduce the rule of law as a conditionality of EU financial transfers.
The fact that the Hungarian and Polish governments took the risk of vetoing the EU's historic crisis-recovery fund demonstrates how crucial a problem this conditionality is for them. They used the urgency of the crisis to gain a negotiating position.
Urgency is the reason why I think EU leaders will reach a compromise at the European Council summit on December 10–11.
For Germany, keeping the bloc together is an ultimate priority, and they want to wrap up the budget dossier before the end of 2020. The compromise will result in a more watered-down conditionality, and I predict that Orbán will require further informal concessions, for example that the ongoing Article 7 procedure against Hungary is dropped. Von der Leyen's informal promise would be valuable for Orbán.
The EU will move on from the actual debate, but the rule-of-law crisis will remain with us.
The confrontational action has, however, resulted in further loss of trust toward noncomplying countries, and it will be tempting in the future that coalitions of the willing move on to more exclusive forms of cooperation. To save the EU, however, the real job is to work more consistently on reinforcing democracy.

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Join In On The Seattle Mama Doc Podcast?
Always a work in progress here — trying to think on ways to share new data, expert advice & enjoy the journey of parenthood. I'm excited to announce we're going to pilot a Seattle Mama Doc Podcast early next month. Since this blog's inception in 2009 we've covered nearly 650 standard blog posts, vlogs, guest contributors, interviews and now I'm going to test out a podcast. I am a huge fan of crowd sourcing and co-design, so will you help create the look, feel and content of the podcast alongside me? I would love to know what topics you're interested in, which you're tired of hearing about, who you want me to interview and frankly, anything else you'd like to share.
My hope is to interview experts and researchers here at Children's, parents, and patients when there's interest in sharing the experience of raising children. We'll include the smarts of friends and peers across the country working on preventing and preventing illness while raising children. We'll highlight all the tips and tools we learn along the way, new evidence, expert opinion and ideas to feel better about our decisions while raising our children.
I've recorded 3 options for the introduction of my podcast (I'm well aware of kind of bootleg smartphone audio quality for these little demos — promise to record high quality content in studio for the actual podcast).
Which resonates and makes you want to tune in?
Tell me what to cover. And also, would you want to join me on the podcast? SAY SO, PLEASE!
#2! Without "lust." Otherwise it's perfect.
What a great new way to share parenting information! I also like the beginning of option 3 the best with the words of option 2.
#2, and I agree with Carey's suggestion of one small edit. Can't wait to hear these!
looking fwd to your podcast and any additional allergy/food sensitivity discussion/tips…esp new school/classroom, summercamps and all the rest of it!
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THESE!!!!!!
Recording pilot today; appreciate the boost and guidance.


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Компания звукозаписи : Greenleaf Music
Музыкальный стиль : Modern Creative, Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Free Funk
Время звучания : 53:00
Код CD : GRE 03 (0 99923 58962 4)
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Recorded in New York, Jan-May 2005.
Dave Douglas is among the most ambitious jazzmen in recent history. The sheer breadth and depth of his catalog is, when taken as a whole, rather startling, not only for its ambition but for its remarkable consistency. Keystone is Douglas' tribute to Roscoe "Fatty" Arbunkle, one of the first real movie stars who was destroyed by a scandal that took three trials to have him exonerated of all charges. But it took its toll: Arbunkle was essentially ruined by it, and the rumors of that time still persist. Douglas sets the record straight in his liner notes here. Keystone is a double-disc set with a DVD of Arbunkle's short silent films with the soundtrack provided by Douglas. The other is a CD of the full pieces that stands on its own as an album. This is Douglas' electronic band and features Jamie Saft on Wurlitzer piano, DJ Olive on turntables, drummer Gene Lake, saxophonist Marcus Strickland, and bassist Brad Jones. David Torn co-produced the album with Douglas and is like a silent member of the band because of his atmospheric touches and nuances. This is a groove-oriented recording. Douglas goes for the easy, loping, languid shapes and colors that are both impressionistic and expressionistic in the formal aesthetic senses of those terms. Certainly Bill Frisell (a frequent Douglas collaborator) set a precedent with his two albums devoted to the films of Buster Keaton, but Douglas takes it a step further to what feel more like songs in their structures. There are melodies here one can hum to. Compositionally, one can hear Wayne Shorter in these tunes, as he wrote for the early Miles Davis electric band. (And one wonders what Miles would have thought of this approach by Douglas.) Keystone is more accessible and lyric than Freak In (2003), but it shares the same restraint and fine taste to showcase the savvy and swagger of his band rather than the technology available. The technology used on the set is an enhancement to a band playing in the studio rather than as a crutch to lean on. It is not intrusive, but rather a reflective backdrop from which the band articulates its lyric approach. Nowhere is this more evident than on the opener, "A Noise from the Deep"; the utterly elegant and graceful "Mabel Normand"; the spooky yet graceful "The Real Roscoe"; and the funky, swinging "Famous Player," all of which are in the center of the record. Keystone is an excellent, brave, and exciting offering from a man whose talent and vision are perfectly balanced.
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Brad Jones (Bass)
Gene Lake (Drums)
Marcus Strickland (Saxophone)
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Expanding on Lakoff and Johnson's theory of underlying metaphors in the English language, and S.I Hayakawa's elegant explanation of Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics, I've taken all language to be abstract representations of physical motion and placement. This allows for a system or lens by which students can analyze authorial style without resorting to summary.
The symbols physically representing the concepts discussed were a collaboration between the CMHS AP Language students from the graduating class of 2013 and myself. The symbols were used as shorthand during annotation. The class of 2014 took the initial theory, which had ten motions, and whittled them down to eight. The word lists paired with each of the eight movements were a collaboration between the CMHS AP Langauge classes of 2013 and 2014. The students' willingness to work with an untested method of analysis and their beautiful whimsy in applying it made the gambit seem like wisdom.
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Manuel G. Fontanilla Class 1955
Anesthesiologist • Critical Care Medicine
He took up medicine at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and University of Maryland School of Medicine and Hospital. He went to premed and medical school through the US Educational Benefits of his dad who served in USAFFE even before WWW2.
He graduated in 1963 and became a faculty at the UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. He also attended the University of Maryland in Baltimore where he specialized in Anesthesiology and Brooke Army Medical in Military Medicine.
He obtained his General Surgery Residency at the Lutheran Hospital of Maryland, then became
House Surgeon at the Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia; and, later, the General Surgeon, at Baltimore, Maryland. He served in the US Army in Vietnam in 1970-71, as well as, in Germany and Japan.
He came from a poor background in life although his father retired as a Colonel in the defunct Philippine Constabulary. As
an "Army Brat", his family went wherever the dad was stationed. So when he was Detachment Commander of the P .C .in Balayan , Batangas, Manuel studied at Immaculate Conception College , etc., until his dad's Army retirement at Camp Crame . He finally finished elementary education at F. Balagtas Elementary School and then continued secondary education at AHS Manila North HS. Using his dad's US Educational Benefits, he took the entrance exams at UST College of Liberal Arts for Pre-Medicine and then enrolled at the UST Faculty of Medicine & Surgery graduating with MD degree on 3/28/63 . During all these times , he was also doing extra work outside to supplement his stipend from the US Veterans Administration . During those days, the living condition was a lot cheaper. A P2 daily allowance included food and transportation. To save money, coming from Grace Park, he walked to UST from Rizal Avenue instead of taking UST- Morayta jeepney at Blumentritt .
On 15 June 1964, he went to Baltimore to start postgraduate medical training starting as medical intern, residencies in General Surgery at Lutheran Hospital of Maryland , and another residency in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at University of Maryland in Baltimore . He retired from both Private Medical Practice as Senior Anesthesiologist and Critical Care Medicine at Harbor Hospital Center in Baltimore .
His US Army career started at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio Texas , then various US Army hospitals in USA and many overseas assignment including General Surgeon of the US 27th MASH in Chu Lai South Vietnam providing medical support to the US 23 rd Infantry Division and US Marines . Finally, he retired as Colonel , 0-6, Medical Corp , US Army after 28 years of dedicated service in 20 August, 1996.


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The 9mm Glisenti is an Italian pistol and submachine gun cartridge.

History and usage
The 9mm Glisenti was developed for the Italian Glisenti Model 1910 pistol, first used in World War I. It was also used in other Italian weapons such as the Beretta Model 1915 and Beretta M1923 pistols, the OVP and Beretta Model 1918 submachine guns, and the Villar-Perosa aircraft submachine gun.  The Medusa M47 revolver can also fire 9mm Glisenti ammunition along with many other .38 and 9 mm cartridges.

Specifications
The cartridge was based on the German 9×19mm Parabellum; in fact, both cartridges are dimensionally identical. However, the powder charge of the 9mm Glisenti cartridge is reduced compared to a typical 9×19mm cartridge, making it significantly less powerful, as it is also meant to be used in blowback pistols, which are easier and less expensive to manufacture than locked breech firearms. This means that 9mm Glisenti cartridges will chamber and fire in 9×19mm firearms, at the risk of not cycling properly and causing malfunctions, but it also means that 9×19mm cartridges will chamber and fire in 9mm Glisenti, presenting a significant risk of catastrophic failure to the firearm, and a risk of injury to the shooter.

The cartridge is now obsolete, but Fiocchi Munizioni occasionally produces batches.

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Greg Currie
Papers on anthropology and archaeology
Aesthetic sense and social cognition: a story from the Early Stone Age
Title: Aesthetic sense and social cognition: a story from the Early Stone Age
Author: Joint author with Xuanqi Zhu
Publication: Synthese (2019)
Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02476-3
Abstract: Human aesthetic practices show a sensitivity to the ways that the appearance of an artefact manifests skills and other qualities of the maker. We investigate a possible origin for this kind of sensibility, locating it in the need for co-ordination of skill-transmission in the Acheulean stone tool culture. We argue that our narrative supports the idea that Acheulean agents were aesthetic agents. In line with this we offer what may seem an absurd comparison: between the Acheulean and the Quattrocento. In making it we display some hidden complexity in human aesthetic responses to an artefact. We conclude with a brief review of rival explanations—biological and/or cultural—of how this skills-based sensibility became a regular feature of human aesthetic practices.
Aesthetic explanation and the archaeology of symbols
Title: Aesthetic explanation and the archaeology of symbols
Publication: The British Journal of Aesthetics, volume 56, issue 3, pages 233–246
Link: https://academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics/article-abstract/56/3/233/2708281?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Abstract: Philosophers of science have worried about how 'theoretical entities' such as forces, fields and electrons could play a respectable role in the explanation of observable events and processes; some of them concluded that we have no reason to believe in such things. There are archaeologists who show signs of treating the aesthetic in the same way: as a suspicious postulate of theory, far removed from experience. While I'm content to believe in some entities which, by any reasonable test, would count as theoretical I don't put the aesthetic in that category. Nor do I worry about its capacity to pay its keep by contributing to explanations. Here I argue for the reality, and the explanatory power of the aesthetic. I illustrate the latter claim by considering the role of aesthetic attributions in explaining the emergence of symbolism.
The Master of the Masek Beds: Aesthetics and the evolution of mind
Title: The Master of the Masek Beds: Aesthetics and the evolution of mind
Publication: The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology Oxford University Press, 9-31
Link: https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732142.001.0001/acprof-9780199732142
Abstract: I investigate the significance of what seems to be very early aesthetic activity among our ancestors as far back as one million years ago. I consider the hypothesis that this activity was the result of the pressures of sexual selection, and argue that accepting this hypothesis is consistent with regarding these artefacts are aesthetic ones, and treating the activity which produced them as significantly related to fully artistic activity.
Art and the anthropologists
Title: Art and the anthropologists
Publication: Aesthetic Science Oxford University Press, 107-128
Abstract: This paper develops a modest version of the thesis of aesthetic universalism--the idea that all human cultures express, through their material productions, a concern with and a delight in the skilful making of beautiful things. It is argued that the use of the expression "aesthetic" in this context does not involve an illegitimate imposition of ideas drawn from one culture and imposed on another, but reflects the widely attested phenomenon of the accessibility of one cultures standards of beauty to agents from another culture. It is argued that this accessibility is initially limited, but is capable of being deepened through a study of the relevant culture's history, values and modes of life. It is further argued that aesthetic factors may play an important role in the project of explaining a culture's practices. The aesthetic is thus a universal and an explanatory concept.


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Samsung's Heir Makes Mark With $8 Billion of Deals
Lee Jae Yong is putting his stamp on Samsung Group after his father's hospitalization with $8 billion in proposed deals, including a stock buyback. Shares of its electronics company surged.
Samsung yesterday unwound holdings involving at least eight businesses, with crown jewel Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) saying it would purchase about $2 billion of its own stock. The group disposed of stakes in chemicals and defense businesses, adding to mergers and initial public offerings announced since the 46-year-old Vice Chairman Lee took a greater role after patriarch Lee Kun Hee's heart attack in May.
As his father recovers, Lee Jae Yong is trying to find a way forward for the more than 70 companies his family controls amid slumping earnings at the world's biggest smartphone business and government curbs on chaebols. With interests that include TVs, weapons, shipbuilding and insurance, Samsung is narrowing its focus to prepare for the transition to a third generation of Lees.
Samsung: Giant in Transition
"Samsung is transferring to a new generation and this is part of the group's strategy to burnish Lee Jae Yong's image and increase his visibility," said Park Ju Gun, president of corporate watchdog CEOSCORE. "Lee Jae Yong must have made the final call on the deals in the absence of Lee Kun Hee."
Samsung Electronics surged 5.3 percent to 1,264,000 won at the close of trade in Seoul. The stock earlier surged as much as 8.3 percent, the most in almost six years. The buyback was announced after the market closed yesterday.
Samsung Buyback
Samsung Group companies typically have their own management and boards of directors. The family controls the chaebol through a web of cross holdings while holding only about 2 percent of its total shares.
The stake sales and IPOs come as Lee Kun Hee's three children face taxes of more than $5 billion if they inherit his $12.2 billion fortune.
Samsung Group is due to announce its annual management revamp next month, and the younger Lee may be elevated to chairman of Samsung Electronics, which contributes 70 percent of the group's total revenue.
Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest maker of televisions and memory chips, will buy back 1.65 million common shares and 250,000 preferred stock for an estimated 2.2 trillion won, according to a regulatory filing yesterday. The stock purchase from the market will be completed by Feb. 26.
The Suwon, South Korea-based company's market value rose about $8.4 billion to $169 billion today. The increase is more than four times the estimated size of the buyback.
"The vice chairman didn't play a leading role in the latest stake sale," said Kevin Cho, a spokesman for Samsung Group.
Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T Corp. and four other units will sell their stakes in Samsung Techwin Co. (012450) and Samsung General Chemicals Co. in a deal raising 1.9 trillion won ($1.7 billion), the conglomerate said earlier. The buyer, Hanwha Group, has been making explosives for more than six decades.
"We view this as part of business consolidation/transfer within Samsung Group before the group-wide restructuring," Sara Lee, a Seoul-based analyst with Morgan Stanley, wrote in a report.
The sales follow this month's 1.16 trillion-won IPO of Samsung SDS Co. (018260) and the announcement that Cheil Industries Inc., the de facto holding company, will begin trading next month after filing for a 1.52 trillion-won initial share sale.
The conglomerate had proposed a 2.5 trillion-won merger of Samsung Heavy Industries Co. (010140) and Samsung Engineering Co. (028050), though that was scrapped last week after shareholders claimed buyback rights.
'More Deals'
"This clearly shows Lee Jae Yong's intentions that he will focus on businesses that Samsung can do well and drop the uncompetitive part," said Kim Ji San, an analyst at Kiwoom Securities Co. in Seoul. "This is evidence that Samsung Group's management decisions are now centered around the vice chairman."
The changes come as the electronics division tries to rebound from posting its smallest quarterly earnings since 2011. Samsung's reign as the biggest smartphone maker is being challenged in the high end by Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone 6 models and in the budget category by devices from China's Xiaomi Corp. and Lenovo Group Ltd.
The squeeze is hurting Samsung's other businesses, curbing earnings at its display and processor chip divisions, as it prepares to release phones with flexible screens next year. Samsung Electronics shares are down 7.9 percent this year after falling 9.9 percent last year.
"We can't rule out the possibility that more similar deals are under way," said Kim Sang Jo, a professor of economics at Hansung University in Seoul. "Samsung may ditch some of its unprofitable construction businesses, as well."


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Spiral Stool by MisoSoupDesign
Duncan Macleod December 16, 2016
Our design feature today is the "Spiral Stool", winner of a Product Design Golden Pin at the Golden Pin Design Award 2016 ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan. The Spiral Stool is a DIY cardboard stool, which can be unfolded and recycled. By following simple assembly instructions, you can finish it within 15 minutes without hardware or glue. The high quality recyclable cardboard creates a beautiful and tight surface for people to sit on or use as a low table. Inspired by ancient wisdom, the stool features the mortise and tenon joint method traditionally used in woodwork to connect the eight pieces of cardboard sheets together. The key aspect of designing the stool is in the precision and tolerance. The joints have to fit perfectly — a one millimeter gap could make the structure weak — and the structure must be strong enough to withstand the weight of a maximum 100 kilograms. This stool is suitable for both children and adults, and can also be configured to become a low table.
Husband and wife team Daisuke Nagatomo (from Japan) and Minnie Jan (from Taiwan) first met in 2004 when studying design at graduate school with Columbia University in New York. They worked together in New York for five years before moving to Barcelona. When they moved to Taiwan they formed a design and architecture company, MisoSoupDesign. The name of the company picks up the combination of concepts coming from Daisuke's Japanese background and the international context in which the couple works. "Miso" in Japanese language refers largely to the paste made from soybeans, salt and kojia, mixed with Dash stock to form misoshiru (Miso Soup). Miso is also the Japanese word for "brain", connecting with the thoughtful preparation of products and spaces by the studio. Daisuke and Minnie talk about the background behind the Spiral Stool design.
In 2012 they first started working on design of a prototype for the S Cube, a child seat and adult stool. Using digital fabrication for our prototypes they realised that cardboard would be the easiest and most affordable material to work with. They were then invited to create material for a shop space using cardboard, a shelf, a wall, a coffee table. This time they cut back on the glue element used in their earlier work. In 2014 Daisuke and Minnie were working to design a cardboard pavilion in Tainan. With access to machines for folding and cutting cardboard they realised that their work could lead to an affordable product accessible by home buyers. The furniture product would need to be affordable, good looking and able to be assembled at home. They tried a few prototypes to test the joints and the tolerance of cardboard material, discovering that the structure becomes weak when the joint gap exceeds 1 mm. They were inspired by the Japanese origami art form which focuses on humans folding and assembling paper. They were also inspired by the machine's capacity to cut, shape and score cardboard. Daisuke and Minnie are committed to sustainability and creativity. With this product they hope to provide an environmental friendly furniture range that adds a sense of beauty to modern living.
The Spiral Stool is available for sale online at UDesign and LeZ Design, and also at Chimei Museum as part of their origami exhibition.
Jury member Cheng-Neng Kuan, Vice President at Shih-Chien University in Taiwan, comments on the work:
"The work is made of corrugated cardboard–a material that offers a sense of familiarity and comfort – that is folded into a clean triangle shape. The structure of this work is sound. Even if it becomes worn with use, it can be fully recycled. The cardboard material allows children to draw on it, which gives each piece individual character and the potential for fun."
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Six new interim orders were imposed during this period. 34 cases were concluded at final hearing with seven registrants struck off, seven suspended, five subject to conditions of practice and one receiving a caution. 11 cases were not well founded.
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There were 175 concerns raised about practitioner psychologists – a 9% increase on the previous year. Only 0.72% of practitioner psychologists were subject to a concern in this period, which is slightly higher than the HCPC average of 0.66%. 68% were raised by a member of the public, 8% were raised by the registrant's employer and 7% were raised by other registrants.
Two new interim orders were imposed during this period. 15 cases were concluded at final hearing with two registrants struck off, one registrant consenting to be removed from the Register, five suspended, two subject to conditions of practice and one receiving a caution. Four cases were not well founded.
Prosthetists / orthotists
There were three concerns raised about prosthetists / orthotists, when only one was raised in the previous year. One was raised by a member of the public, another by the registrant's employer and the final one was a self-referral. Only 0.27% of prosthetists / orthotists were subject to a concern in this period, which is significantly lower than the HCPC average of 0.66%. No new interim orders were imposed during this period. One case was concluded at final hearing with the registrant subject to conditions of practice.
Radiographers
There were 69 concerns raised about radiographers, a 12% decrease on the previous year, bucking the trend for HCPC registrants as a whole. 39% were raised by the registrant's employer, 28% were self-referrals and 19% were by members of the public. Only 0.2% of radiographers were subject to a concern in this period, which is significantly lower than the HCPC average of 0.66%.
Six new interim orders were imposed during this period. 24 cases were concluded at final hearing with five registrants struck off, one registrant consenting to be removed from the Register, two suspended, five subject to conditions of practice and four receiving a caution. Seven cases were not well founded.
Social workers in England
There were 1,345 concerns raised about social workers in England – a 15% increase on the previous year. 56% were raised by a member of the public, 23% were raised by the registrant's employer and 13% were self-referrals. Only 1.42% of social workers were subject to a concern in this period, which is significantly higher than the HCPC average of 0.66%.
50 new interim orders were imposed during this period. 154 cases were concluded at final hearing with 30 registrants struck off, four registrants consenting to be removed from the Register, 41 suspended, eight subject to conditions of practice and 17 receiving a caution. 49 were not well founded.
Speech and language therapists
There were 18 concerns raised about speech and language therapists – a third less than the previous year, bucking the trend for HCPC registrants as a whole. 39% were raised by a member of the public, 39% by the registrant's employer, 11% were self-referrals and 11% were raised by other registrants. Only 0.11% of speech and language therapists were subject to a concern in this period, which is significantly lower than the HCPC average of 0.66%. No new interim orders were imposed during this period. Three cases were concluded at final hearing with three suspensions.
Improving our fitness to practise process
In 2018–19, we concluded a major programme of work, our Fitness to Practise Improvement Project, designed to the improve quality of our decisions and timeliness of our work.
This work is in the process of being embedded, meaning both registrants and complainants will begin to feel the benefits.
However, we strive to improve and are currently identifying how we might operative differently within our current legislative framework and how we might adapt following any future regulatory reform.
In February 2019, we also implemented a new case classification process. This allows us to better understand the nature of the concerns raised and how they proceed through our processes. This information will be hugely helpful to us and our stakeholders in future.
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The Kroger Pharmacy Cincinnati-Dayton KMA has been a leading division in the provision of clinical care for the company for a number of years. In addition, Kroger pharmacies have been a forerunner in their local community at making pharmaceutical care a reality in community pharmacy. Clinical services provided by Kroger Pharmacy include point of care testing; medication therapy management; smoking cessation; immunizations, fitness, nutrition and weight management; diabetes and hypertension coaching; and diabetes self management education, including five sites recognized by the American Diabetes Association.
The Cincinnati-Dayton division also partners with the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy to administer an ASHP/APhA accredited PGY1 residency program with an emphasis in community care. The program has graduated twelve residents to date and has helped to expand the depth and breadth of clinical services offered, as well as to increase focus on quality improvement.
For Project IMPACT: Diabetes, Kroger partners with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the City of Cincinnati to improve the health of city employees and reduce costs to the City health plan. The City of Cincinnati provides incentives to employees with diabetes to obtain pharmacist counseling for better self management of their conditions.
In the video above, community members discuss the type of care patients received during Project IMPACT: Diabetes and the role pharmacists played in improving people's health.
Kroger Pharmacy Cincinnati-Dayton Division partners with TriHealth, Medco, and various dietitians through Project IMPACT: Diabetes. TriHealth is a full-service, not-for-profit health system that provides a wide range of clinical, educational, preventive and social programs and administers the City of Cincinnati's wellness program. Together, the organizations drive referrals through physicians' offices and employee benefits programs.
Patients that participate in the diabetes program are either one of the 8,000 active employees of the City of Cincinnati, or retired employees of the City. Patients may also be active management (non-union) employees of Kroger. The City waives co-pays for active employees with diabetes as long as employees remain in the program, and participants receive $100 into their health reimbursement accounts as an extra incentive to participate in the program.
Patients are engaged through their employer's health and wellness coordinators, physician's office, human resources/benefits office, health fairs, etc. They then schedule an appointment via a centralized appointment line. Patients meet with a pharmacist during their first appointment in order to be enrolled in the service. This visit is classified as an enrollment visit at which consents are signed, initial assessments are conducted, and surveys are taken. A comprehensive medication review is also performed to optimize the patient's therapeutic regimen and identify/resolve any drug-related problems. The pharmacist then forms an education plan and health improvement strategy based on the information gathered in this initial visit. During the second visit, the pharmacist conducts a nutrition and exercise assessment and provides education according to the customized plan. The patient also sets personal short-term goals with the pharmacist. Patients also have access to a dietitian for assistance with reading labels, choosing healthy foods, and meal planning. Paper and electronic charts are maintained to facilitate communication between providers. Follow-up visits are usally scheduled every 1-3 months based on the patient's clinical status and ability to self-manage and entail additional education, accountability, and further goal-setting.
Learn more about Kroger, City of Cincinnati and TriHealth from their profile in Pharmacy Today.
Ohio Department of Health. Diabetes fact sheet 2012. Available at: http://www.healthyohioprogram.org/~/media/HealthyOhio/ASSETS/Files/diabetes/FactSheet_2012_Final.ashx. Accessed on July 2, 2013.


I agree that the final exam was very difficult. It did not include much of the material that we were led to believe would be on the test. I pray there is a curve.
My view is that there were no questions not based on learning objectives, and that most were drawn from the last third of the course.
I have not seen the test scores yet, so I do not know what, if any, steps I will take in light of the situation.


ART Habens is celebrating its ten years long successful activity launching a special biennial edition, that will once again explore new trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art scene.
ART Habens offers a unique opportunity to get featured in their renowed publication, that over the years has reached an international audience, providing artists, curators and gallerist with the chance of being part of a vivacious community from all over the world that loves art and culture. The publication in the special biennial edition includes features on art and artists, highlighting notable new exhibitions and events around the world and it will engage with artists dealing with process-driven changes in our society.
The competition is open to all artists and is great for both established and early career artists who need a boost to their portfolio.
You can fill out our submission form or email us (arthabens.biennale@europe.com) your proposal including further materials (pdf files, images or stills) for evaluation.
Since its foundation, ART Habens has featured more than 1200 artists, giving them the chance to branch out and get ahead, showing their works off the world through many publications, since it's becoming more and more important for artists to take the promotion of their image and their art upon themselves.
Inspired by worldwide art scene, we highlight that art is an essential element in our lives: ART Habens reserves a special place to explore these transformations; first, by acknowledging the energy and effort that goes into the creation of art, and second, by investigating the new life a work takes on as it is transferred from artist to world.
ART Habens offers a unique opportunity to be published in print and digital issues, as well as online on teir website and social media.


Many enrolled in the STEM Starter Academy are Chelsea High School students from BHCC's TRiO Chelsea program, which helps students complete college coursework while still in high school. With thirty-five percent of TRiO graduates intending to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields, the STEM Starter Academy is a great way to help jump-start students' major-specific courses, allowing them to complete their degree programs on time or even early.
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Bhambri, Myneni back; Paes out
Agencies14 Aug 2017 7:04 PM GMT
New Delhi: India on Monday brought back top singles player Yuki Bhambri, who is playing some of the best tennis of his life, to counter Canada in the Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie while veteran Leander Paes was not considered due to his low ranking.
Also making a comeback to the side was big-serving Saketh Myneni, who is ranked eighth among the Indians in ATP list at number 495 but made the cut. Prajnesh Gunneswaran (220) Sumit Nagal (261), N Sriram Balaji (291), Vishnu Vardhan (410) and Sasi Kumar Mukund (440) are placed above him but Myneni was chosen ahead of the others due to his ability to play both singles and doubles.
Myneni had missed the previous tie against Uzbekistan in Bengaluru due to a foot injury. Yuki, ranked 157, had also missed that April tie and recently made a comeback on the Tour and stunned world number 22 Gael Monfils at the Citi Open. However, Myneni, chosen for Arjuna Award this year, is not going to get a singles match since Ramkumar Ramanathan, who is second-best ranked Indian at number 180 is also playing some of the best tennis of his career.
The Chennai-based player recently got the better of world number eight Dominic Thiem at Antalya Open. Myneni will team up with Rohan Bopanna, who was an automatic choice for the doubles rubber being the highest ranked Indian in ATP doubles chart at number 17. Balaji and Gunnesweran, who both made their Davis Cup debuts in April in Bengaluru, remain in the side as reserves for the September 15-17 tie in Edmonton.
"We look at the rankings but not always," selection committee chairman SP Misra said when asked about reasoning behind Myneni's selection ahead of others. "If you look at the other players above Saketh, most of them, except Balaji, can only play only singles. Saketh can play both. So it made sense to have him in the playing four," Misra added.


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25-May-2011: Pc tells of terror arrest struggle
A policeman has admitted that he used "significant force" to arrest a terror suspect in south London but rejected claims that he and other officers beat him up.
Pc Roderick James-Bowen, 40, said he had an "immense struggle" with Babar Ahmad, 37, as he detained the suspected al Qaida backer in an early morning raid, Southwark Crown Court heard.
The stocky 6ft 1ins officer, who weighed 16 stone at the time, alleged that Mr Ahmad adopted a "fighting stance" and looked around for his samurai sword as police entered his bedroom to seize him.
James-Bowen told the court that he charged into the suspect "like a rugby tackle" and grappled with him in a "ferocious" struggle. The policeman alleged that martial arts expert Mr Ahmad rained down blows on his back as he tried to bring him to the ground.
He insisted no officers kicked or punched the suspect in the bedroom, but said he believed there was "justification for strikes and blows".
He told the court: "I don't accept Mr Ahmad was beaten up at all. Significant force was used and I documented it, but he wasn't beaten up."
James-Bowen, Pc Mark Jones, 43, Pc Nigel Cowley, 34, and Detective Constable John Donohue, 37, all deny assaulting the suspect at his home in Tooting, south London, in the early hours of December 2 2003.
Mr Ahmad, whose house had been bugged by MI5, was suspected of being the leader of a group which provided al Qaida and other fundamentalist networks with computer, financial and logistical expertise.
The operation to arrest him came 11 months after Detective Constable Stephen Oake was murdered in Crumpsall, Manchester, by terror suspect Kamel Bourgass. Police chiefs briefed the arresting officers that Mr Ahmad was to be considered as dangerous as Bourgass and said they feared he would resist, the court heard.
Mr Ahmad was never charged in relation to his arrest but is now in custody awaiting extradition to the US for alleged terrorism offences
SOURCE: Press Association


No set of ideas has been pronounced dead more frequently than that of Marxism. Yet, 200 years after the birth of Karl Marx, his ideas stand as vibrant as ever, while bourgeois thought is at an impasse, unable to truly grasp the events that are shaking up the world of our time.
The illusion that the capitalist world, driven by the 'invisible hand of the market', would create a harmonious heaven on earth after the collapse of the Soviet Union, has been shattered by the 2008 crisis. Instability has reached every corner of the world and class struggle is picking up pace in one country after another. As Marx predicted, Capitalism has become bound up in insoluble contradictions, making it incapable of solving any of the pressing problems facing humanity.
At a time where all the industrial, technological and scientific preconditions exist to create a heaven on earth, the capitalist system is dragging the world down into the swamp of barbarism and decay. Of course, under the impact of this crisis, the working class, which has never been larger than today, is also being radicalised throughout the world. The ruling class is terrified of the spectre of revolution, but it is unable to change the laws governing its own system.
Karl Marx managed to uncover these inherent laws. He explained that capitalism is a chaotic system of production beyond the control of humanity. While it raised human productive capacity higher than anytime before, it is doomed to plunge society into ever-greater crises. But Marx also explained that the system creates the modern proletariat. This class is set to overthrow the capitalist class and, on the basis of modern production, build a planned economy to use the resources of society for the benefit of all. These are not outdated ideas but vastly more in touch with the general processes in our world today, than most modern texts.
Marx developed his ideas as a direct continuation of the greatest thinkers of German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism. More than anything, Marx developed a method, a comprehensive philosophy, and a world outlook purely derived from the material world that we live in. Marxism is the science of the underlying laws that govern nature and society. It is only by studying these laws that we not only achieve the best understanding of society, but also discover the role and tasks of revolutionaries.
Far from a dead, dry ideology, Marxism is the science of revolution, a guide to action. For any revolutionary today, a serious study of the ideas of Marxism is an urgent necessity in order to understand the the working of the world that we are trying to change. The below reading guide, although far from exhaustive, gives a thorough introduction to the main fields of Marxism on the basis of classical works of Marxists themselves.
We would like to encourage all our supporters and those interested in learning more about Marxism to read (or re-read!) the works on this list. We also encourage you to form a reading group to engage other people and improve your understanding.
– An article published to commemorate the 134th anniversary of Marx's death, which outlines Marx's contributions to building the socialist movement and developing the theories of scientific socialism.
– These eleven theses, which were never published in Marx's lifetime, outline Marx's basic critique of Ludwig Feuerbach and other Materialists. In levelling this critique however, Marx also clarifies his own philosophy and worldview.
– Marx pays tribute to Hegelian dialectics, in this elaboration of Materialist Dialectics. He and explains how Hegel's ideas must be"demystified" ande cleansed off the idealism and superstition at the heart of Hegel's method.
– Engels analyses the 1848 uprisings in Germany and draws parallels with the peasant rebellions in the Middle-Ages. He explains the economic forces behind both revolutions, and their defeats.
– Lenin's early theoretical contribution analyses the emergence of capitalism in Russia, and how the country's backward, semi-feudal relations influenced its unique character.
– Kautsky's analysis of the emergence and development of Christianity is a masterstroke of dialectical materialism. He explains that the origins of the Christian faith can be found in the material relations of ancient Roman society, rather than the divine.
– Alan Woods applies the historical materialist method to the ancient world, providing a Marxist explanation of the material processes that led to the fall of the Roman Republic.
– Alan Woods explores the history of human society and the relationship between the development of human culture and the productive forces.
– Engels' summation of Capital distills Marx's main economic ideas, with special emphasis on his theory of surplus-value.


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Overseas Vietnamese OVs & Homeland
December 18, 2021 | 04:40 (GMT+7)
Overseas Vietnamese – huge resources for national development
A strong contingent of 600,000 Vietnamese intellectuals abroad, mostly in developed countries, have been seen as huge resources for Vietnam's development, particularly in innovation and technology transfer, an official has said.
Vietnamese language honored in overseas Vietnamese communities
State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs launches portal
Young overseas Vietnamese prove crucial to homeland's innovation
In the current digital environment, it is unnecessary for the overseas Vietnamese intellectuals and scientists to return home as they still can effectively contribute to the homeland from abroad, according to Luong Thanh Nghi, Vice Chairman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Hoang The Ban, an overseas Vietnamese in Japan, director of the Vietnam-Japan training and technology transfer center, supervises and assesses vocational skills of workers at the High-Tech Park in Ho Chi Minh City.
Over the past years, OVs have made practical and effective contribution to the cause of national construction and defense, especially in terms of finance and knowledge, he said, adding that many of them have run businesses at home, with a total of 360 projects valued at USD 1.6 billion as of late 2020.
Vietnam is among the top 10 remittance recipients in the world, and the World Bank (WB) forecast that the remittance inflow to the country would reach USD 18.06 billion this year, equivalent to 5 percent of the national GDP.
Overseas Vietnamese intellectuals, experts and scientists have regularly returned home and coordinated with domestic research institutes, universities, ministries and localities to offer consultancy and contributions to national scientific-technological development, Nghi said.
He also cited the formation of networks and clubs of Vietnamese intellectuals abroad that have maintained close links with the homeland, such as the France-based Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts (AVSE Global), among others in the US, Japan, the Netherland, Finland, Germany and Poland.
In early December, the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs in coordination with the Ministry of Science and Technology debuted the Network of Overseas Intellectual Associations Supporting Technological Innovation and Commercialization that gathers presidents of forums of overseas Vietnamese intellectuals.
Given complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Committee has also made efforts to bring together OVs online to seek solutions to the country's urgent issues this year.
Through virtual workshops, overseas Vietnamese experts, including those in the U.S., France, the Netherlands, Germany and Singapore, have contributed initiatives to help the country respond to the pandemic, boost digital transformation and recover the national economy, according to the official.
Tag(s): overseas Vietnamese
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Los crímenes de Van Gogh es una novela del filósofo, escritor, periodista y guionista cinematográfico argentino José Pablo Feinmann publicada en 1994.
A pesar de su trama policial, la obra no se limita a este género narrativo y hace una reflexión sobre la actualidad social de aquel momento a través de la parodia y el grotesco.

Argumento
Fernando Castelli, cinéfilo protagonista de esta novela, trabaja por las mañanas en un videoclub y por las tardes en una productora. Su vida no vale demasiado comparada con las tramas sublimes, los gestos inolvidables y las frases magistrales de las películas que conserva en su memoria como recuerdos propios. Su admiración por Hitchcock remeda la ausencia del padre y lo distrae de Doña Clara, su madre, tan indeseable como la de Norman Bates, el asesino de Psicosis. En síntesis, su adicción al celuloide crece a la par de su hastío de la realidad.

La repentina aparición de Jack el Destripador cambia su vida: alentado por este personaje, Fernando se propone escribir un guion excepcional, encarnándolo en la vida real. Como el mismo dice: "Mi imaginación es tan inmensa, tan desmesurada, que no sólo puede crear la ficción, sino también la realidad". Así comienzan a sucederse una serie de crímenes sanguinarios a medida que la escritura del guion avanza.

Novela policial, parodia bizarra de la sociedad en pleno gobierno menemista y homenaje a las obras maestras del séptimo arte, Feinmann construye aquí una trama de intensa complejidad (en la que se cruzan Borges y Chandler) que devuelve la magia del cine a través de la literatura, o viceversa.

Libros de 1994