What Hurricane Katrina did was kill nearly 2,000 people and displace and relocate 1 million people throughout the Gulf Coast. In New Orleans the population of the city fell by half due to loss of homes and displacement. Fifty percent of the city's residents' homes were uninhabitable or lost, and multiple generations of New Orleanians were forced to move. Historical and proudly black communities were wiped out.
Now some people like McQueary will likely say, but New Orleans is back! Who is New Orleans back for? For people who look like me (i.e. white people). Not the people who lived in those predominantly black precincts.
Let's be honest, the word white often makes white people uncomfortable. Many of us who are white, when asked to describe ourselves, do not include our race in our personal descriptions. A typical white person's description of their self will likely include their gender, their ethnicity, and their looks. For example, my description would sound something like this, "I am male, of Italian and German descent, 5' 8" and bald." Notice how race is not mentioned.
The reason many white people don't often think in terms of our own race is privilege. It is privilege that makes it so we don't have to think about our race every single minute of every single day.
In 1989 a professor named Peggy McIntosh wrote a paper titled White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. [PDF] In this document she lists many privileges that white people have been taught to ignore and just accept as normal without even thinking twice about them.
To educate the public about Nakba, the 1948 Palestinian exodus when over 700,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes, the Chicago chapter of the American Muslims for Palestine are hosting two events in Chicago this May.
The first event was Thursday at Daley Plaza, where a group of volunteers, 31 in total, handed out informational materials at Daley Plaza. The materials aimed to educate passers-by about the 1948 events and what Nakba means today. Most of these volunteers came from Universal School in Bridgeview. 3,000 total copies were distributed, according to Kristin Szremski, director of media and communications at the organization.
Szremski said that reaction Downtown was mixed. While some people read the educational brochure and were intrigued by it, others were rude and definitely anti-Palestinian, she said. She said this was difficult for the students who encountered this since they are Americans of Palestinian heritage.
On Saturday, the chapter will host an event that includes a Palestine Parade, authentic Palestinian cuisine, a bazaar, folk dancing and songs and bread, freshly baked on traditional 'taboon,' or ovens outside of the Universal School in Bridgeview.
"We want people to know that the Nakba still continues today in the Israeli apartheid policies that result in the military occupation of Palestine, the restriction on freedom of movement, the demolition in thousands of Palestinian homes and the random arrest and detentions of thousands of political prisoners, including 700 children, every year," said Nida Sahouri, AMP-Chicago chapter chairwoman. "We Americans fund this with our tax dollars. We just want people to know the truth so one day they will pressure Congress to approve a more fair and balanced foreign policy in the Middle East."
Last week in Chicago and throughout Illinois we suffered through the latest installment of the polar vortex. Unfortunately, the frigid weather brought out a heated and ugly side of many students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
On Sunday the 26th, all UIUC students received an email from their school's chancellor Phyllis Wise reading, "Classes and operations at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will proceed as scheduled Monday Jan. 27. Please use caution as you proceed in and around campus during what is forecast to be an extremely cold and windy day and night."
In an elegantly simple bit of journalism, Dan Weissman took a camera on the Red Line. Read his full story.
Part of WBEZ's Race: Out Loud series.
GB has already cited this great story by Ward Room's Ted McClelland, but I would like to give it a little longer treatment because it's so well written and speaks to an issue that we generally, for some reason, just tacitly accept: that Chicago, heart of the bluest of the blue counties in the country, is deeply segregated. In fact, the third most segregated city, by the Census' count.
Chicago's famed racial segregation goes back nearly a century. When blacks arrived here from Mississippi and Alabama to build weapons for the World War I doughboys, they were forced to live in a narrow strip of land known as the Black Belt. The ghetto finally burst open in the 1950s and '60s, consuming most of the South and West sides, despite Mayor Richard J. Daley's efforts to hold back the tide by crowding blacks into housing projects and walling off their neighborhoods with highways. The city is roughly a third white, a third black and a third Hispanic, but most Chicagoans live in neighborhoods no more diverse than Ireland, Nigeria or Mexico. In some places, you can drive under a viaduct and see the world turn a different color. Chicago's greatest monument to segregation is a 12-foot-tall berm that carries the Burlington Northern Railroad through the Southwest Side. It separates Lawndale, a once-Jewish neighborhood that "turned" in the 1950s, from Little Village, an old Eastern European neighborhood that is now Hispanic. The Poles and Ukrainians established the tracks as a racial barrier, especially after Lawndale went up in flames following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. The custom has persisted with the new residents: South of the tracks, it's 97 percent Hispanic; on the other side of the tracks, it's 89 percent black.
WBEZ broke a big story yesterday, releasing a video that appears to show two Chicago Police Department officers engaging in what the station describes as "questionable" behavior. Standing outside a squad car, the officers allow a large group of men to gather closely around the open back door to hurl insults as well as apparent gang signs and slogans at another man, who is visibly shaken, in the back of the cruiser.
Vega says he first came across the video on Facebook. Assuming it would be quickly pulled, he ripped the video, downloading it to his computer. As he predicted, the video and the user account did disappear within a few days--leaving Vega the only one known to have a copy of the tape besides its original owner.
The hunt for a "consensus candidate" to represent the African American community in the forthcoming mayoral election ended several weeks ago. Few outside the inner circle of the decisionmaking body of the Chicago Coalition for Mayor, made up of many prominent African American politicians in the city, know how the consensus was reached, and at first, no one seemed very forthcoming with details of the process. But an incredible little interview on Vocalo.org with one of the process's participants slipped almost entirely under everyone's radar last week, despite the inside look it gives on how the candidate was chosen.
Christopher Cooper, a local civil rights attorney, had considered throwing his hat into the 2011 mayoral race, only to promptly retract it. Rep. Danny Davis of the 7th district was eventually chosen, and he's quickly entered into campaign mode (which thus far appears to mostly mean lobbing bombs at Rahm).
But let's rewind for a second. How did this "consensus candidate" sausage get made? Everyone acknowledges that it's a messy process--the very idea entails boiling down all of the complexities of a large, diverse community, with all its different ideas and interests, into one candidate who supposedly represents all of them--but there are few insider accounts of how the actual process went down. Enter: Cooper's appearance on The Barber Shop Show last week.
The things that the coalition said to me...certainly implied, "We're going to make it impossible for you to get even a dime."
The coalition made it clear that it would destroy any black person who dared run against "the Consensus Candidate."
The individuals involved in the coalition made some very, very serious threats... essentially, we will destroy you, we'll make sure you don't get name recognition, we'll work against you.
Cooper goes as far as naming a few names during the interview. His honesty and openness in discussing the behind-the-scenes action in local politics is almost shocking in a city where political decisionmaking has historically been done with little transparency.
In the middle of the interview, Cooper says, "I'm young, and if I plan to have a future in Chicago politics, I really need to be careful about making members of the coalition angry." If that's the case, he better hope no one from the coalition minds his airing of their dirty laundry on-air.
To hear Cooper's interview, listen to the first segment of The Barber Shop Show here.
Chicago consistently ranks among the most racially segregated cities in the country--which shouldn't surprise anyone who has traversed the city with their eyes open. But Chicago Breaking News is reporting a particularly bold case of alleged racial discrimination by two white homeowners in the Bridgeport neighborhood who, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, agreed to sell a home to a black couple for $1.7 million, then inexplicably took the home off the market.
According to the complaint, Lowe [the sellers' real estate agent] said in an interview while under oath that while he was representing the Sabbias [the sellers], Daniel Sabbia told Lowe "he would prefer not to sell the home to an African-American, though he qualified the testimony, saying 'but if it was for the right price he did not care who bought the house.' "
"It's amazing that in 2010, in this day and age, this type of thing is still going on."
Activists demonstrate against the Westboro Baptist Church.
The Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group that chartered themselves as a church to get away with their harassment of Queer groups, Jews, military families and others, conducted a tour of Chicago on March 8th.
The group of five lonely haters targeted Jewish centers, protesting everything more modern than the middle ages at Hillel's at UIC and the University of Chicago before holding their signs outside of the Israeli consulate.
Hundreds of queer rights activists rallied against the Westboro group. Activists used humorous and satirical signs to mock WBC. UIC student Jason Connell used the appearance of the hate group to raise money for queer rights groups such as Human Rights Campaign, International AIDS Foundation and Chicago based Jerusalem Open House. Donations were named in honor of the Westboro Baptist Church and community thank you cards will be sent from the non-profits to WBC leader Fred Phelps. Connell called it a, "Lemons to Lemonade" situation.
Kurt Esslinger Lee, an Presbyterian ordained minister from the UIC Agape House Christian Campus Ministry said, "We don't care so much about this group of hate, we know that they are not going to listen to anything we say. What we are care about is the closeted, afraid LGBTQ students around UIC who are are taught to hate themselves to think that god is also loathing them, so we reaching out to them to break through that ignorance."
Video of the event is available through Dogstar7's Youtube Channel.
Satire of WBC is at the Youtube Channel of CrazyPastorFred.
Public sector workers were once among the most abused members of the labor force. It was when Dr. King turned his attention to the working class--to fighting on behalf of the working classes of all races--that he became intolerable to the status quo.
He was standing with AFSCME workers in Memphis when he was murdered. Today the constant assault on the public sector workers is just an echo of the eternal assault by the right wing against the rights of the working class. Back then, it was the public sector workers that were dragging down the working conditions and wages of the heavily unionized private sector; today, the situation is reversed. Ignore the crocodile tears of the right wing ideologues about taxpayers' money. Breaking the back of workers' organizations is the ultimate goal of the right wing, wherever those organizations exist.
Wow. That's One Nasty Flier.
Former gang member turned political consultant Wallace "Gator" Bradley is supposedly behind this nasty flier in support of Todd Stroger for Cook County Board President. The Illinois Review, the Chicago Current, and Chicagoist have covered this as well.
"If none of us win," Mr. Stroger said of himself and Ms. Preckwinkle and Ms. Brown, "there will not be a single black executive in the state who deals with real money -- you know, like a billion dollars or more."
"If you break down our state," he continued, "and you look at who's the governor, who's the speaker of the House, who's the Senate president, who's the mayor of the city of Chicago, who's the water reclamation district president, who's the chairman of finance for the city and who's the chairman for finance for the county, you'll find that they're all Irish males."
So even if this flier was produced without coordination with the Stroger campaign, it can't be dismissed as the one-off act of a lone radical. There is a current of thought among some segment of the black political class that may be seeing the refusal of their traditional white allies to step up as a hostile act. The media, by typically pigeonholing "black" candidates, must feed this perception. But given the cruel and subjective nature of identity politics, this flier is actually more harmful and hurtful to Dorothy Brown, Toni Preckwinkle, and the other black politicians maligned as "sellouts" and race traitors. The outcry over Rod Blagojevich's statement equating shining shoes with blackness is offensive exactly because it places unfair expectations and roles on black men and women. Similarly with this flier, these black politicians are being told how they have to behave and who they have to support to "qualify" for blackness.
These two fliers have been lighting up the blogosphere. You see posts at Capitol Fax, Illinois Review, Newsalert, Chicago Current, and there's even one at Instapundit about these fliers.
Rich Miller mentions the flyer in terms of the news that Rep. Bobby Rush, who he says is "infamous for his race-baiting ways," will endorse Stroger. Then goes back and says that Rush would "have a tough time topping a group called 'Soldiers for Stroger,' headed by Gator Bradley, which is distributing some pretty nasty fliers on behalf of the board president."
The Stroger campaign released a statement late last night denying any involvement.
"The Stroger for President campaign did not produce or distribute the flyers in question. The Stroger campaign does not endorse or condone this type of behavior or activity," it said.
I posted here a video about Black religious leaders attempting to drum up support for Todd Stroger. The concern there as it appears to be here is that without Stroger, blacks could lose the County Board presidency.
You know it just seems so easy to pull the race card!
Danny Davis will announce this morning that he will seek reelection for his 7th District Congressional seat. Davis' announcement didn't come with any endorsement, but he did say that at least part of his reasoning was not wanting to split the black vote among four black challengers.
We all have our feelings about Todd Stroger and the job he's doing since he became county board president in 2006. Today we find out that the state House has voted in favor of a bill to reduce the threshold for overriding a veto from fourth/fifths of county commissioners to three/fifths but also were unable to roll back the seemingly unpopular penny on the dollar sales tax.
This video from ABC7 is really old news from yesterday. Stroger got one out of two today, but seemingly got a decent boost with this endorsement yesterday. In endorsing Stroger for re-election to the county board president slot, they called for Rep. Danny Davis, Ald. Toni Preckwinkle, and circuit court Clerk Dorothy Brown to remain in their current position.
Even with this boost Todd Stroger has a long way up. Watch this video interview Stroger did in Springfield with Rich Miller at the CapFax, it's indicated here by Miller. Check out this report from Mike Flannery, it's indicated there as well. Danny Davis says he has polling that has him leading Todd Stroger in an election in both videos from ABC7 and Mike Flannery.
Either way in making this endorsement the ministers know that most of the people in their congregation may well listen to them. Indeed in wanting to clear the field of the black challengers, they want to be sure that a black will remain in the position of county board president. There is a white challenger in Terrence O'Brien who currently sits on the Water Reclamation District.
Well, there is a question in my mind. Were these ministers wise in endorsing Stroger in this race? Couldn't they have endorsed any of the challengers?
An April study by the Washington, D.C.-based Sentencing Project found that the number of African Americans incarcerated for drug offenses dropped 21.6 percent nationwide from 1999 to 2005, while the number of white drug offenders increased by 42.6 percent during the same period.
Of course, the study is an evaluation state incarceration rates, not federal rates. And while the rate of incarceration federally increased for blacks, it tracked similarly for whites and Latinos, no change there. Nor did drug use rates change--generally. But they did drop for crack-cocaine a drug that, unlike marijuana, will nearly always result in arrest if you're caught possessing it. The drop in incarceration reflected to a significant degree drops in arrest rates and convictions for blacks caught up in drug offenses.
First, we have seen over time that drug offense arrest rates are largely a function of law enforcement practices, rather than absolute levels of drug use or selling.
This is interesting. What institutions nationally help determine the practices of local law enforcement agencies?
A radical, in his own words.
If we are to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of socialism.
"I think all discussion of race is a painful diversion," Rev. Jackson said Wednesday when asked whether he agreed with U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Chicago, that the job should go to an African-American.
"Roland's case is a legal case, it isn't about his race, or gender or religion," Rev. Jackson said. "Does the governor have the power to appoint a successor, yes or no? I think yes."
The veteran Civil Rights activist, whose son, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Chicago, was widely seen as a potential candidate to fill the slot, praised Mr. Burris, a former Illinois attorney general and comptroller. "He's always been an outstanding public servant operating with great credibility," Rev. Jackson said. "There's almost a consensus on his reputation. The issue has been the governor, not Roland."
Hmm, I think we could have used Jackson's input during the whole race-baiting episode. He waited until it looked like Burris might actually get his seat!
By all accounts, Cong. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is on the "short list" of possibilities to fill Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat for the next two years. Some newspapers and activists have been actively lobbying for Gov. Blagojevich, who has sole discretion in the decision, to appoint Jackson.


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Michael Shannon Walks Back Those Zod Flipper Hands Comments
Posted on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 by Angie Han
A few weeks ago, Michael Shannon sent the Internet in a tizzy when he casually revealed Zod would have flippers for hands in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Did this back up certain rumors about a certain transformation? Was he actually talking about flippers, or just flipper-shaped prosthetics? For that matter, why's Zod in Batman v Superman at all?
Well, Shannon's finally got some answers for us, sort of. The actor has walked back those Zod flipper hands comments, claiming that it was all a joke and he made the whole thing up. And while Shannon is involved with Batman v Superman, it's a voice-only role. Read his clarification after the jump.
To back up, last month Shannon told Vulture a funny little anecdote about getting trapped in a Porta-Potty:
I was in my costume, and I couldn't use my fingers because in the sequel I have flippers instead of hands. So I had these wax flippers on my fingers, and I couldn't open the door, and I could hear Zack [Snyder, the director] being like, 'Where's Shannon? Where the fuck is he?' and the whole crew was standing around. I was like, knocking on the door with my flippers, 'Let me out of here!'
Naturally, that offhand comment about the wax flippers raised a lot of speculation. So when he sat down for a recent interview with The Daily Beast, he set the record straight:
Somebody was asking me about this in New York and I made up some ridiculous bullshit answer about how my character Zod has flippers, and this went viral on the Internet or something and people have been asking me about that. That is so obviously a complete bullshit story, right? But people took it seriously.
Why Two Weeks Ago Shannon would make up a fake story about getting trapped in a Porta-Potty is unclear. But he insists he didn't suit up as Zod, and that he won't appear in the movie. According to Present Day Shannon, the character's only involvement will be in a voiceover:
The thing about the whole Krypton universe, apparently, is that even when you destroy them, there are ghosts. The first [film], Jor-El is there even though he's been dead for lord knows how long. I went over and did some voice-over stuff because it's like that ghost thing. But I don't know if I'm supposed to say that. I get very nervous.
All that said, Shannon seems game to don flippers another time:
Maybe they should add it, I don't know! Maybe in Part 3, Doomsday will have flipper hands. I mean, look—nothing would make me happier than to work with Zack again, he's hysterical and he's a lot of fun to work with.
So, do we believe Sheen's denials about the Zod flipper hands, or do we think he was telling the truth last time and is messing with us this time? Maybe the fact that he's spread confusion is enough — now no one knows what to expect from Zod in Batman v Superman.
Robert De Niro, Mike Myers, Timothy Olyphant, Michael Shannon, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, More Join David O. Russell's Mystery Film
Pete Davidson Wants to Live Again in 'It's A Wonderful Life' Charity Table Read with All-Star Cast
Star-Studded Assassin Movie 'Bullet Train' Adds Michael Shannon to the Ensemble
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FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food Course
March 23, 2023, 9-6pm EST
The Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation (referred to as the Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation) is intended to ensure safe manufacturing/processing, packing and holding of food products for human consumption in the United States. The regulation requires that certain activities must be completed by a "preventive controls qualified individual" who has "successfully completed training in the development and application of risk-based preventive controls". This course, developed by the FSPCA, is the "standardized curriculum" recognized by FDA; successfully completing this course is one way to meet the requirements for a "preventive controls qualified individual".
This course is taught by Lead Instructors trained by the FSPCA, who have been instructed in how to teach the FDA-recognized standardized curriculum.
NOTE: Virtual Sessions are administered in two parts. This registration is for Part 2 of the "Blended Course". The certificate given upon completion is no different from an in-person course. Part 1 is administered through the FSPCA website with a cost of $198 including certificate fee. More information and registration can be found here. Part 1 registration and completion is REQUIRED before beginning Part 2, but we recommend registering for Part 2 as soon as possible to ensure you have a space in the course. Completion of Part 1 is not required to register for Part 2, only for beginning the course, not for registration.
Lead Instructors: David Jones
Date: March 23, 2023, 9-6pm EST
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Seats are limited. If this session is full or you cannot make this date, let us know if you would like put on the list to receive notification when the next course is open for registration.
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Upcoming Sessions (all In-person sessions are hosted at NQAC Dublin):
In-person: April 12 – 13, 2023 (9am-6pm EST) & April 14, 2023 (9am-12pm EST), $749/participant (includes lunch and certificate)
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Household consumption of sugar, confectionery and ice cream the Netherlands 2006-2016
Published by Brigitte van de Pas, Oct 25, 2018
This statistic displays the percentage change on previous year of the household consumption of sugar, confectionery and ice cream in the Netherlands from 2006 to 2016. In 2006, the household consumption of ice cream in the Netherlands grew by 0.3 percent in comparison to the previous year. In 2016, the household consumption increased by nearly three percent in comparison to 2015.
Percentage change on previous year of the household consumption of sugar, confectionery and ice cream in the Netherlands from 2006 to 2016*
2016* 2.9%
2015 4.8%
2013 -2.5%
* The figure for 2016 is provisional.
Confectionery consumption per capita in the Netherlands 2010-2021, by type
Gross profit margin of chocolatiers and confectionery stores Netherlands 2014-2018
Value of the import and export of licorice in the Netherlands 2008-2018
Gross profit margin of bakery and confectionary shops in the Netherlands 2014-2018
Statistics on "Confectionery market in the Netherlands"
Netherlands: manufacturers of cocoa, chocolate & sugar confectionery 2008-2016
Number of confectionery chains in the Netherlands 2017, by number of branches
Total number of chocolatiers and confectionery stores in the Netherlands 2013-2019
Total turnover of chocolatiers and confectionery stores in the Netherlands 2013-2018
Turnover per chocolatier and confectionery store in the Netherlands 2013-2018
Average turnover per square meter of chocolatiers in the Netherlands 2014-2018
Confectionery sales value in the Netherlands 2016-2017, by type
Confectionery sales volume in the Netherlands 2016-2017, by type
Turnover of chocolate and ice cream in supermarkets in the Netherlands 2013-2017
Turnover of chocolate sales in the Netherlands 2017, by flavor
Distribution of the candy market in the Netherlands 2018, by brand
Chocolate sales increase during the Valentine's period in the Netherlands 2017
Aspects taken into account when buying chocolate in the Netherlands 2017
Buying from snack vending machines at schools in the Netherlands 2017
Consumer spending on sweets in the Netherlands 2015-2018
Household consumption on sweets in the Netherlands 2015-2018
Household confectionery expenditure in the Netherlands 2016, by supermarket chain
Per capita consumer spending on sweets in the Netherlands 2015-2018
Expenditure on confectionery in the Netherlands 2016-2017, by household type
Consumption of sugar and confectionery in the Netherlands 2012-2016, by type
Customer confectionery taste preference in the Netherlands 2016
Distribution of confectionery consumption in the Netherlands 2012-2016, by time
Distribution of the sugar consumption in the Netherlands 2012-2016, by place
Share of youth eating candy daily in the Netherlands 2001-2017
Value of sugar and confectionery imported to the Netherlands 2008-2018
Leading suppliers of sugar and confectionery to the Netherlands 2018, by import value
Value of sugar and confectionery exported from the Netherlands 2008-2018
Leading export countries of sugar from the Netherlands 2018, by export value
Value of the import and export of white chocolate in the Netherlands 2008-2018
Value of the import and export of chewing gum in the Netherlands 2008-2018
Value of the import and export of pastes and marzipan in the Netherlands 2008-2018
Household expenditure on sugar, confectionery and ice cream the Netherlands 2006-2016
Chocolate, confectionery and ice cream import value from the EU to Japan 2012-2016
Sales turnover of confectionery, chocolate and ice cream in Sweden 2008-2018
Turnover value of the ice cream production in the Netherlands 2008-2018
Value import and export ice cream in the Netherlands 2008-2018
Change in revenue of worst performing confectionery formats United Kingdom (UK) 2016
Revenue of worst performing confectionery formats in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016
Change in revenue of confectionery formats in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016
Revenue of confectionery formats in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016
Volume import and export ice cream in the Netherlands 2008-2018
Should retailers display confectionery at the checkout tills in Great Britain 2014
Ice cream retail sales in South Korea 2016, by manufacturer
Brazil: companies in the ice cream industry 2018, by type
UK: leading confectionery brands on YouTube 2019
Revenue of Hennig-Olsen Is 2012-2017
Ice cream sales in discounters in South Korea 2015-2017
Italy: frequency in eating ice cream 2018, by gender
Italy: drivers to purchase packaged ice cream 2018
Confectionery Industry Chocolate industry Snack Foods Industry
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. (June 23, 2017). Percentage change on previous year of the household consumption of sugar, confectionery and ice cream in the Netherlands from 2006 to 2016* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 21, 2020, from https://cdn1.statista.com/statistics/728009/percentage-change-household-consumption-of-sugar-confectionery-and-ice-cream-in-the-netherlands/
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Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Percentage change on previous year of the household consumption of sugar, confectionery and ice cream in the Netherlands from 2006 to 2016* Statista, https://cdn1.statista.com/statistics/728009/percentage-change-household-consumption-of-sugar-confectionery-and-ice-cream-in-the-netherlands/ (last visited January 21, 2020)


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Gmina Dishnicë (alb. Komuna Dishnicë) – gmina miejska położona w południowej części Albanii. Administracyjnie należy do okręgu Përmet w obwodzie Gjirokastra. W 2011 roku populacja gminy wynosiła 1159 osób w tym 557 kobiet oraz 602 mężczyzn, z czego Albańczycy stanowili 95,00% mieszkańców.

W skład gminy wchodzi piętnaście miejscowości: Katundishtë, Tolar, Beduqas, Panarit, Gërdes, Riban, Varobop, Kuqar, Mërtinje, Seniçan, Benje, Leskovec, Kodrishtë, Xhanaj, Fratar.

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Larry and Kathy Rasmussen have enjoyed their seven years of operating Fairview Lanes in Albion, a place where all ages gather to enjoy recreation and conversation.
"We really value the friendships and relationships we've formed here, but we're determined to retire by this fall," said Larry.
They certainly don't want to see the bowling center and restaurant close, and Larry emphasized that it has always been a "good business" for them.
"We've had such loyal customers — and they've all become friends," said Kathy. "Our hired help has been very good, too," added Larry.
Although the business has many positive attributes, the Rasmussens have not yet found a buyer and the time for their retirement is drawing near.


Oki SUP! — Okinawa SUP!
Created by SUP, fitness and yoga enthusiasts.
At Oki SUP, we are committed to providing a safe, quality experience. All of our guides and instructors have completed SUP training and are well versed in ocean safety.
We love SUP so much, that we decided to make a job out it. Our guides know the islands and the waters and will show you all of the splendor Okinawa has to offer from the other side of the beach. Contact us today to book your private group tour or group class. We also offer group tours through Kadena Outdoor Recreation.
Two of our favorite things combined at once. We think it's a fun time and just an amazing experience. Let nature be your studio. Get out and get some sand, salt, and sun. We have trained instructors that will guide you step by step and make it more accessible for beginners and intermediates alike.
2. Comfortable suit and/or rash guard, swim shorts for practicing yoga and getting wet.
5. Water shoes, booties, or other suitable water footwear.


This incredibly unique glass mosaic dining table is a showcase of modern craft. Each tiny glass segment has been individually hand-cut and hand-colored, a process taking hundreds of hours. A minimalist metal base completes a sophisticated silhouette ideal for the modern home.


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YPI partners with Malta-based Trader Marine
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Assessment of survival in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis using quantitative HRCT indexes
Sebastiano Emanuele Torrisi ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6660-35631 na1,
Stefano Palmucci2 na1,
Alessandro Stefano3,
Giorgio Russo3,
Alfredo Gaetano Torcitto2,
Daniele Falsaperla2,
Mauro Gioè4,
Mauro Pavone1,
Ada Vancheri1,
Gianluca Sambataro1,5,
Domenico Sambataro5,
Letizia Antonella Mauro2,
Emanuele Grassedonio6,
Antonio Basile2 &
Carlo Vancheri1
Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine volume 13, Article number: 43 (2018) Cite this article
The assessment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) using HRCT requires great experience and is limited by a significant inter-observer variability, even between trained radiologists. The evaluation of HRCT through automated quantitative analysis may hopefully solve this problem. The accuracy of CT-histogram derived indexes in the assessment of survival in IPF patients has been poorly studied.
Forty-two patients with a diagnosis of IPF and a follow up time of 3 years were retrospectively collected; HRCT and Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs) performed at diagnosis time were analysed; the extent of fibrotic disease was quantified on HRCT using kurtosis, skewness, Mean Lung Density (MLD), High attenuation areas (HAA%) and Fibrotic Areas (FA%). Univariate Cox regression was performed to assess hazard ratios for the explored variables and a multivariate model considering skewness, FVC, DLCO and age was created to test their prognostic value in assessing survival. Through ROC analysis, threshold values demonstrating the best sensitivity and specificity in predicting mortality were identified. They were used as cut-off points to graph Kaplan-Meier curves specific for the CT-indexes.
Kurtosis, skewness, MLD, HAA% and FA% were good predictors of mortality (HR 0.44, 0.74, 1.01, 1.12, 1.06; p = 0.03, p = 0.01, p = 0.02, p = 0.02 and p = 0.017 respectively). Skewness demonstrated the lowest Akaike's information criterion value (55.52), proving to be the best CT variable for prediction of mortality. Significant survival differences considering proposed cut-off points were also demonstrated according to kurtosis (p = 0.02), skewness (p = 0.005), MLD (p = 0.003), HAA% (p = 0.009) and FA% (p = 0.02) – obtained from quantitative HRCT analysis at diagnosis time.
CT-histogram derived indexes may provide an accurate estimation of survival in IPF patients. They demonstrate a correlation with PFTs, highlighting their possible use in clinical practice.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a rare pulmonary disease characterized by a progressive fibrosis of the lungs that leads to the inexorable worsening of lung function [1]. IPF is also characterized by a very poor survival rate, ranging from 3 to 5 years from diagnosis, which is worse than in many cancers [2,3,4,5].
ILD assessment using HRCT requires great experience and is limited by a significant inter-observer variability, even between trained radiologists [6]. In the longitudinal evaluation of disease progression, some studies are based on a "visual" semi-quantitative analysis of HRCT; however, this method has been considered "tedious and not reproducible" [7].
A more objective evaluation of HRCT through automated quantitative analysis may hopefully solve this problem. Recent studies started exploring this second possibility using, in most cases, complex algorithms, able to perform texture analysis. However, although very promising, texture analysis requires high computational steps, currently reserving its use for a research setting. To date, only a few studies have focused on CT-histogram evaluation, which is a different quantitative analysis method requiring fewer computational steps than texture analysis. These characteristics of objectivity and relative simplicity make this analysis potentially usable and reproducible in a realistic clinical setting.
Therefore, the aim of this study is to evaluate in a real-life work setting, the prognostic value of histogram-based quantitative HRCT variables in predicting mortality in a cohort of patients affected by IPF.
A retrospective analysis of our interstitial lung disease (ILD) database identified a total of 210 patients who had received a multidisciplinary team (MDT) diagnosis of IPF according to 2011 ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT IPF guidelines over a period of three years (January 2012 to August 2015) [1]. Only patients with an unenhanced, supine, volumetric thin-section CT exam performed in our departmental CT-scanner a well conducted clinical and functional follow up were included in the analysis. A median follow up time of 3 years was also required to assess survival. A total of 42 consecutive IPF patients fulfilling these criteria were finally included in the analysis (Fig. 1).
Flowchart reporting the selection process
This study received approval the ethical committee of Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele Hospital of Catania.
All clinical information was obtained from medical records. PFTs (Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) and Diffusing Capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO)) were performed according to the ATS/ERS guidelines using Vmax Sensor Medics [1]. Results were expressed as percentages of predicted values. PFTs were matched with HRCT examinations (mean distance between PFTs and HRCTs was 9.59 days ±44). All patients were treated, as recommended, with antifibrotic therapies (pirfenidone or nintedanib). No difference in terms of treatment dose was observed between deceased and non (p = 0.19).
HRCT examinations were acquired according to the following technical parameters: thickness ranged between 0.625–1.25 mm; sharp kernel imaging reconstruction, contiguous or overlap images; no contrast media administration. A user-friendly DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine) - based image processing software for automatic lung parenchyma segmentation was used to calculate HRCT quantitative parameters. This tool has been developed in the MATLAB R2016a simulation environment (The MathWorks, Natick, MA, USA), running on iMac (3,5 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 16 GB memory random-access memory; Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA, USA) with Mac Operating System OS X El Capitan.
HRCT attenuation histogram was extracted after automatic lung parenchyma segmentation using region growing algorithm to include voxels between − 200 Hounsfield units (HU) and − 1.024 HU. kurtosis, Mean Lung Density (MLD), skewness, High Attenuation Areas (HAA) % and Fibrotic Areas (FA) % were subsequently calculated (Fig. 2).
Example of lung parenchyma segmentation and CT-derived histogram
It is known that kurtosis, skewness and MLD may provide prognostic estimation of disease severity in subjects with IPF and other ILDs. In particular, low kurtosis, low skewness and high MLD values may indicate severe IPF [8].
HAA may reflect the presence of parenchymal lesions, such as ground-glass opacity and reticulation. HAA% was calculated as percentages of the extracted whole lung volume with attenuation values ranging from − 250 HU to − 600 HU. In the same way, FA% was calculated considering values raging from − 1.024 HU to − 700 HU [9].
Characteristics of the study population were expressed as mean (SD), median (interquartile range) or as percentage of the relative frequency as appropriated. Wilcoxon test for unpaired data was used to assess differences between baseline and follow up time. Reported data were adjusted using Holm's correction. Spearman's rank correlation was used to assess relation between CT-histogram based variables. Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression analysis were performed to assess Hazard Ratios for predictors of survival. Akaike's information criterion (AIC) was used to estimate the relative quality of the statistical models. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to assess overall survival while ROC analysis was used to assess sensitivity and specificity. All the statistical analyses were performed using STATA/IC 14.2 version. A p less than 0.05 was considered significant.
The study evaluated 42 consecutive subjects with an MDT diagnosis of IPF. Thirty-five were male (83.33%) and 7 were female (16.67%). There were 33 (78.57%) former/current smokers and 9 (21.43%) never-smokers. The mean age at diagnosis was 68.26 ± 6.34 years. The mean follow up time was 1037 ± 430 days. Thirty-height (90.48%) patients were treated only with pirfenidone while 4 (9.52%) switched from pirfenidone to nintedanib because of drug-related adverse events. A total of 10 patients (23.33%) died during the follow up period. All demographic, PFTs and CT-derived variables at baseline are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1 Characteristics of study population
A subset of 23 patients underwent a follow up HRCT within 12 ± 3 months from baseline. No significant differences were found in the variation of kurtosis, skewness, MLD, HAA%, FA%, FVC and GAP index (p = 0.25, p = 0.25, p = 0.40, p = 0.40, p = 0.68, p = 0.88, p = 0.21 respectively) (see Table 2).
Table 2 Differences between baseline and 12 ± 3 months
Univariate Cox proportional hazard regression analysis demonstrated, as expected, that both FVC% and DLCO% at baseline were significant predictors of survival (HR 0.93 and 0.93; p = 0.019 and p = 0.005). Similarly, also kurtosis, skewness, MLD, HAA% and FA% were good predictors of mortality (HR 0.44, 0.74, 1.01, 1.12, 1.06; p = 0.03, p = 0.01, p = 0.02, p = 0.02 and p = 0.017 respectively). Results of univariate Cox hazard regression are summarized in Table 3.
Table 3 Univariate Cox proportional hazard regression of the predictors of mortality
Akaike's information criterion (AIC) was calculated to estimate relative quality of the statistical model. Skewness demonstrated the lowest AIC value (AIC = 55.52) (see Table 4).
Table 4 Akaike's information criterion for CT indexes
A multivariate model was created considering FVC, DLCO, age and skewness, which was considered the best CT-derived variable because of the lowest AIC value. This model demonstrated an HR of 0.98, 0.94, 0.98 and 0.28 respectively for the four considered variables (AIC = 56.86) (see Table 5). ROC analysis shown in Fig. 3, demonstrated a sensitivity of 70% and a specificity of 71.9% for a threshold value of ≤0.76 of kurtosis (AUC = 0.70; p = 0.05), a sensitivity of 80% and a specificity of 75% for a threshold value of ≤1.15 of skewness (AUC = 0,731; p = 0.021), a sensitivity of 70% and a specificity of 78% for a threshold value of > − 762.97 of MLD (AUC = 0.722; p = 0.032), a sensitivity of 80% and a specificity of 62.5% for a threshold value of > 14.76 of HAA% (AUC = 0.681; p = 0.104) and a sensitivity of 80% and a specificity of 62.5% for a threshold value of > 24.26 of FA% (AUC = 0.706; p = 0.045) in predicting mortality.
Table 5 Multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression
ROC analysis for kurtosis (a), skewness (b), MLD% (c), FA% (d), HAA (e)
Each threshold value demonstrating the best sensitivity and specificity in predicting mortality was used as cut-off point to graph Kaplan-Meier curves specific for the CT indexes as shown in Fig. 4.
Kaplan-Meier curves for kurtosis (a), skewness (b), MLD (c), FA% (d), HAA% (e). Cut-off points: kurtosis ≤0.76; skewness ≤1.15; Mean lung density > − 762.97; FA% > 24.26; HAA% > 14.76
In recent years, HRCT has become a cornerstone in the diagnosis of IPF. Furthermore, the less-invasiveness of the exam compared to lung biopsy and the possibility of evaluating lung damage using quantitative analysis, has promoted HRCT as a reasonable marker of disease extension [10, 12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. To our knowledge, only three studies, evaluating the predictive value of CT histogram indexes in assessing survival, have been published [11, 19, 20].
Analysing these studies, we found some differences in terms of CT quantitative analysis protocols, treatments and duration of follow up. In particular, Tanizawa et al. and Ash et al. analysed scans (1 or 2 mm thick) every 10 mm of intervals while Best et al. analysed (1 mm thick) scans every 20 mm [19]. Best et al. considered patients enrolled in a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial of interferon β-1a while Tanizawa et al. evaluated a non-homogeneous cohort of IPF and other fibrotic ILDs that received multiple drugs (corticosteroids, immunosuppressive agents or pirfenidone) [11]. No information about treatment is reported in the study of Ash et al. [20]. These studies also differ regarding duration of follow up. Tanizawa et al. reported a median follow up time of 1,140 days while Best et al. and Ash et al. reported 547.5 and 465 days respectively.
For this reason, in our study, we tried to re-evaluate the predictive value of CT histogram indexes in assessing survival, analysing 1 mm thick scans without interval in a homogeneous cohort of consecutive IPF patients treated with antifibrotics and with a follow up time of 3 years.
Univariate Cox proportional analysis, as in previous studies, demonstrated that kurtosis, skewness, MLD, HAA% and FA% are significant predictors of mortality. Of all of these, skewness demonstrated the lowest AIC value and, according to our analysis, should be considered as the best CT histogram derived variable in predicting mortality. We also evaluated sensitivity and specificity of these variables with respect to mortality. Based on this, we identified possible cut-off points that we used to graph Kaplan-Meier curves. Although these cut-off points were extracted from a relatively small number of patients and need a validation in larger-group cohorts, we demonstrated how CT-variables and cut-off points may help in identifying patients with different life expectations. This finding could greatly help the clinician in the management of patients, especially if they are not able to correctly perform PFTs.
We also tested the role of skewness, FVC, DLCO and age in predicting mortality in a Multivariate model. As shown in Table 5, although skewness is able to correctly predict mortality, it demonstrates in our model a less significant weight than DLCO, which was confirmed as a strong predictor of mortality.
Our study also evaluated changes after 12 ± 3 from baseline in a small subgroup of 23 patients. Differently from the study of Best et al., no difference was demonstrated, neither for CT quantitative variables nor for FVC changes. A possible explanation of this finding could reside in the treatment the patients received. In our study, subjects homogeneously received antifibrotic therapy resulting in a relative functional and radiological stability after one year. To our knowledge this represents the first study analysing patients treated with pirfenidone and nintedanib with this approach.
This study has some strengths. We analysed the entire volume of the lungs taking into account every thin section in the final calculation of the indexes; every exam was performed with the same protocol and in the same CT-scanner both at baseline and follow up; all patients were treated with antifibrotic drugs reproducing a real clinical setting; patients were followed for a long enough period to assess survival.
This study, however, also has several limitations. The retrospective design and the single-centre nature of the study represent the first great limitation. We also analysed a small number of patients, even if only the study of Best et al. considered a truly greater number of patients with this method. Our analysis considered HRCT scans performed with the same protocol and in the same CT-scanner. This is the reason for the exclusion of a large number of newly-diagnosed IPF patients over the considered period. Moreover, as is known, this kind of analysis may be greatly influenced by the level of inspiration of the patients. An incorrect manoeuvre or the presence of artifacts may erroneously affect quantitative CT indexes. Given the retrospective nature of the study, we did not used a spirometric control during acquisition to ensure an optimal inspiration. However, all CT-scans were reviewed and approved for the inclusion in the study by our radiologists. Another notable and previously mentioned limitation of the study includes the need for some computational steps required for the image processing to get the CT-indexes.
Based on our results, baseline HRCT indexes are able to provide a prediction of survival and can be used as a surrogate marker for prognosis. Given the characteristics of simplicity, objectivity and reproducibility, this method could actually help the clinician and the radiologist in the evaluation of sub-clinical changes and the prognosis of patients in daily clinical practice. Further studies with larger cohorts and an external validation are needed to confirm these data.
AIC:
Akaike's information criterion
Diffusing Capacity for carbon monoxide
FA:
Fibrotic Areas
Gender-Age-Physiology index
HAA:
High attenuation areas
HRCT:
High-resolution computed tomography
MLD:
Mean Lung Density
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Departmental funding from the "Progetto Dipartimentale #A" has been used for this study. The funder of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. The corresponding author had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.
The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. The data are not publicly available due to the containing information that could compromise research participant consent.
Sebastiano Emanuele Torrisi and Stefano Palmucci contributed equally to this work.
Regional Referral Centre for Rare Lung Diseases, A.O.U. Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, via Santa Sofia 78, Catania, Italy
Sebastiano Emanuele Torrisi
, Mauro Pavone
, Ada Vancheri
, Gianluca Sambataro
& Carlo Vancheri
Radiology I Unit, Department of Medical Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, University Hospital "Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele", Catania, Italy
Stefano Palmucci
, Alfredo Gaetano Torcitto
, Daniele Falsaperla
, Letizia Antonella Mauro
& Antonio Basile
National Research Council (IBFM-CNR), Contrada Pietropollastra-Pisciotta, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, 90015, Cefalù, Italy
Alessandro Stefano
& Giorgio Russo
Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Mauro Gioè
Artroreuma srl, Outpatient of Rheumatology Accredited with National Health System, Corso San Vito 53, 95030, Mascalucia, CT, Italy
Gianluca Sambataro
& Domenico Sambataro
Section of Radiological Sciences, DIBIMEF, University Hospital "Paolo Giaccone", University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Emanuele Grassedonio
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SET and SP contributed equally to the study design, data collection, analysis of data, literature search and manuscript preparation; AS, GR, AGT, DF contributed to the literature search, data collection and analysis of data; MP, AV, GS, DS, LAM and EG contributed to the literature search and data collection; MG contributed to the analysis of data; AB and CV contributed to review the manuscript.All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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SET and SP contributed equally.
This study (protocol QH- IPF) has been approved by the ethical committee of Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele Hospital of Catania with letter number 0029883 released on June 2018 by Ethical Committee n. 114/2018/PO.
SET has received honoraria for lectures from Boehringer Ingelheim and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. SP has received honoraria for lectures and a financial support for an educational program from Boehringer Ingelheim and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. CV is part of the F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. Scientific board. He has received consulting fees and/or speaker fees from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Menarini. The authors AS, GR, AGT, DF, MG, MP, AV, GS, DS, LAM, EG and AB declare that they have no competing interests.
Torrisi, S.E., Palmucci, S., Stefano, A. et al. Assessment of survival in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis using quantitative HRCT indexes. Multidiscip Respir Med 13, 43 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40248-018-0155-2
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"It is a reaction to what's going on in the UK right now" Matt Fitch and Chris Baker on the story behind Our Land webcomic
They've taken us to space and back with Apollo and Adventures in Science, but with their new Our Land webcomic, Dead Canary Comics' Matt Fitch and Chris Baker have opted for a more earthly tale of racism and Native Americans, but with their own other-worldly twist. Despite this, we find out how this North American set tale actually has it's roots in the UK.
Tell us a bit about the origin of the world in your new Our Land webcomic? What made you choose to write about Native Americans in the US? It's a bit different to Apollo!
Matt Fitch: We do love a space story, but the theme we seem to unintentionally keep coming back to in our writing is America. Not just the place, but what it stands for.
But despite the setting, Our Land is actually a reaction to what's going on in the UK right now. Our country is so divided at the moment, with deep-rooted racism and hatred everywhere, we saw an opportunity to tackle some of those issues by focusing on the plight of the Native American.
You're releasing it as a webcomic, why did you choose this instead of a print release? And have you had to change any of your writing practices to help fit this new schedule?
Chris Baker: We did pitch the story to a number of publishers, and feedback was positive across the board, but 'big two' aside, the comics industry is a place of tight-budgets and small release slates, so despite the praise nobody was willing to take it on. That pushed us to think about alternative routes, and releasing it through Dead Canary as a webcomic seemed like a logical step.
The digital space is actually very exciting, it's been really eye-opening for us. There's something really nice about being able to give readers something new every other day and receive instant feedback. It's been very rewarding seeing our readership grow each day as people become invested in the story and want to know what's coming next.
The full script for Our Land is already written, so our writing practices haven't changed much, but releasing pages one at a time does allow us to review them one by one and make dialogue changes on the fly if we want to, which is fun and quite liberating as writers.
Will it be getting a print release once it's complete? And how long is the series planned to be?
MF: Our Land was written as a four-issue miniseries, and the plan is to retain that four-part structure even though it's now a webcomic. If there's demand we might release it as a trade once the story is done, but for now we're just focusing on making the best digital release possible.
You've worked with artist J Francis Totti on Adventures in Science, did you have him picked out for Our Land from it's creation? Or did you develop the story together?
CB: Joe is a force for nature and the three of us get on extremely well both creatively and as friends, so we were keen to work with him again on pretty much anything. We pitched Our Land over drinks at a con and without even blinking he accepted the challenge.
What does he bring to the story and what do you love most about his artwork?
MF: Joe has brought a lot to the table. We've worked closely with him to develop the world, characters and visual language of the story. He's done a lot of his own research into Native American imagery and contributed some lovely touches to how Dena's powers manifest themselves. When we look for an artist to collaborate with, we look for a true partner, somebody we can rely on to dive in and own as much of the story as we do. Work ethic is also really important to us, and Joe has that in spades… many a late night has been sacrificed to bring you this story.
Were there any books or films which inspired Our Land?
CB: We like to say Our Land is us doing 'Michael Bay with substance', so we've watched a lot of action movies in preparation! We also watched old war movies and sci-fi B-Movies from the 1940s and 50s, as well as a number of documentaries about the time and place we were writing about. Even though this is fantastical, as with all our projects we wanted it to feel authentic so we did a lot of real-world research, looking at everything from old maps of the area to vehicles and weapons of the time.
And finally, are you working on anything else at the moment which you can mention?
MF: We're working on something very special (and very secret) right now. It's certainly the most ambitious thing we've ever done, and once again it's set in America. But for now that's all we can say…
You can read the Our Land webcomic online here, with new pages released every Wednesday and Friday. You find out more about Chris and Matt's other work at www.deadcanarycomics.com.
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Taliban splinter group releases photos of suicide bomber who attacked Pakistani border crossing
by The Long War Journal | Nov 13, 2014 | Monitor |
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a newly formed Pakistani jihadist group, released photographs of the suicide bomber who attacked the Wagah border crossing to India on Nov. 2.
Ihsanullah Ihsan, the spokesman for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, sent three photographs of "brother Hanifullah (Hamza)" to The Long War Journal. Hanifullah "carried out successful martyrdom operation on murtad [a Muslim who rejects Islam] army in Wagah Lahore," Ihsan said in the email.
One of the photographs shows Hanifullah sitting in a field. In another photograph, he is sitting in front of a green screen, likely recording his martyrdom statement. The third image appears to be the announcement for his upcoming video.
The Nov. 2 suicide attack at the Wagah border crossing, which is just east of Lahore, killed more than 50 people and wounded over 100. The suicide bomber detonated his vest hundreds of yards from the area where Pakistani and Indian border guards put on a daily display of lowering their flags that attracts thousands of people.
After the attack, both Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Jundullah both claimed credit for the suicide attack in Wagah. But Jamaat-ul-Ahrar's spokesman immediately identified the suicide bomber as Hanifullah and promised that a video of the attack was forthcoming. He also rejected competing claims of responsibility for the attack by other jihadist groups as "baseless."
Ihsan said the suicide bombing was "the revenge of the killing of those innocent people who have been killed by Pakistan Army particularly of those who have been killed in North Waziristan." The Pakistani military launched an operation in North Waziristan in mid-June and has targeted the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and foreign jihadist groups such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Other Pakistani Taliban factions such as the Haqqani Network and Hafiz Gul Bahadar Group have not been targeted in the operation.
The Pakistani military has claimed it targeted "terrorists involved in Wagah border suicide attack" in an airstrike in the tribal agency of Khyber on Nov. 11. "Intelligence sources believe that the mastermind and handlers of Wagah border incident might be among the dead," Dawn reported.
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), the newest branch of the global jihadist group, is known to operate in Khyber. On Oct. 11, the US killed Sheikh Imran Ali Siddiqi, a member of AQIS's shura, or executive council, in a drone strike in the tribal agency. AQIS has incorporated various jihadist groups from Pakistan, India, Burma, and Bangladesh, and seeks to overthrow these governments and impose sharia, or Islamic law. [See LWJ reports, AQIS leader, 'good' Taliban commander killed in 2 US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas and US drone strike kills veteran jihadist turned senior AQIS official.]
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, which was formed in late August after a leadership dispute with the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, is comprised of jihadist factions, including the Mohmand Taliban branch, that have been involved in deadly suicide attacks and assaults throughout Pakistan. Just two weeks before the group officially announced its formation, it participated in a joint suicide assault with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan on two Pakistani military airbases in Quetta. [See LWJ reports, Taliban splinter group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar forms in northwestern Pakistan and Quetta airbase attacks carried out by Pakistani Taliban, IMU.]
Omar Khalid al Khorasani, one of the top leaders of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, is closely allied with al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri.


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Burna Boy Tops CNN's List of Biggest Music Stars in Africa
By GistTribe.com - December 1, 2019
American news-based pay television channel, CNN has published their list of the Top Ten Biggest Music Stars in Africa, with Burna Boy topping this prestigious nod, all thanks to his excellent achievements this year.
The other Nigerian superstars who also made this cut include Wizkid, Yemi Alade, Tiwa Savage, and Mr. Eazi.
Burna Boy Tops CNN's List of Africa's Biggest Music Stars, See the full list below:
1. Burna Boy
Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, known professionally as Burna Boy, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence in 2012 after releasing the lead single "Like to Party" from his debut studio album, L.I.F.E. Wikipedia
2. Angelique Kidjo
Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo, known as Angélique Kidjo, is a Beninese singer-songwriter, actress, and activist who is noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. In 2007, Time magazine called her "Africa's premier diva". Wikipedia
3. Diamond Platnumz
Nasibu Abdul Juma, popularly known by his stage name Diamond Platnumz, is a Tanzanian bongo flava recording artist, dancer and businessman from Tandale, Dar es Salaam. He has had several hit songs including "Number One" which he featured Nigerian artist Davido. Wikipedia
4. Yemi Alade
Yemi Eberechi Alade, simply known as Yemi Alade, is a Nigerian Afropop singer and songwriter. She gained prominence after winning the Peak Talent Show in 2009, and is best known for her hit single "Johnny". Wikipedia
5. Tiwa Savage
Tiwatope Savage, known professionally as Tiwa Savage, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Isale Eko, she relocated to London at the age of 11 for her secondary education. Five years later, she began her music career doing backup vocals for artists such as George Michael and Mary J. Blige. Wikipedia
6. Wizkid
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, known professionally as Wizkid, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. He started recording music at the age of 11 and managed to release a collaborative album with the Glorious Five, a group he and a couple of his church friends formed. Wikipedia
Oluwatosin Ajibade, better known by his stage name Mr Eazi, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is the pioneer of Banku music, a fusion sound he describes as a mixture of Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian chord progressions and patterns. Wikipedia
8. Sho Madjozi
Maya Christinah Xichavo Wegerif, known professionally as Sho Madjozi, is a South African rapper, singer, songwriter, actress and poet. Regarded as one of the best performers in Africa, Madjozi incorporates the Tsonga culture through her music and public image. Wikipedia
9. Busiswa Gqulu
Busiswa Gqulu, known mononymously as Busiswa or Busi, is a South African singer-songwriter and poet. Born in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa, she gained public recognition in a feature on DJ Zinhle's song, "My Name Is", after being discovered by Kalawa Jazmee's CEO Oskido. Wikipedia
10. Mwila Musonda.
Mwila Musonda, more widely known by his stage name Slapdee is a Zambian hip hop and rap musician. Having won multiple awards since his debut in 2006, he is often regarded one of the pioneers of Zambian Hip-hop. Wikipedia
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I suppose in the event of a chemical attack or nuclear apocalypse, a crowd of Dallas Contemporary patrons would be as good company as any to be stuck with. They are certainly relaxed, orderly, and polite.
I found this out on Saturday night at the Contemporary. Halfway through the opening for the long-anticipated Loris Gréaud show, a group of actors disguised as party-goers walked into the building and began pulling works off the walls and flinging them to the ground, and kicking over plaster sculptures. Another group of actors disguised as security guards immediately began to wrangle the half-bemused, half-blithe crowd toward the exits. Lights flashed, a few sirens sounded. People kind of good-naturedly lumbered out.
We were herded back out into the front outdoor ramp and parking court. They shut the doors behind us and I think we were meant to imagine that the destruction would go on inside until the whole show was in ruins, or that the security detail was methodically arresting the fake party crashers. I also think the Contemporary was going to move us back inside after a spell, and thankfully the weather was nice. A few hundred people stood around the parking lot chatting about, to my ears, just about anything besides what they had just witnessed. I overheard people talking about where to eat later, whether it was worth getting in the long line for a drink at the outdoor bar, what kind of car they were leasing… . I heard a few people wondering how long we'd have to wait to go back in. No one seemed in the least shocked or dismayed that they had just seen some artwork being damaged. And that's not a criticism of their ability to grasp the event. There wasn't much time to become invested in the work. It's not like a group of actors had just walked into an institution and took axes to a selection of Rembrandt paintings, that's for sure.
I stuck around for fifteen minutes and left. But I drove back over the next day to see just how much of the work the actors had destroyed in the end. I was thinking: Maybe if they've really pulverized everything in the building there'll be some redemption in this idea.
But they had not. I didn't have a surveyors' wheel or a calculus expert with me, but I estimate less than 25% of the show was seriously damaged. Most of the damaged works were parts of multiples or casts. Certainly the effect is that anyone who walks through the show still has an immediate sense of what it all is, sans disruption. Most of what I think of as Gréaud's tableaus—the individual sets of works that present much like a separate stage or movie sets—were still standing. I was disappointed.
Because the destruction felt a bit feeble in light of how fully the artist and Contemporary could have committed to the idea. As a member of the press, I knew what was planned and sworn to secrecy. I had a day to imagine the worst, and that was fun. I was also, as a person formerly in charge of a non-profit, quite nervous on behalf of the Contemporary. People could get hurt. That sense of danger and uncontrolled chaos is where the real interest is in an art-destruction stunt when the work is big and heavy and made with sharp edges and there's a crowd and alcohol involved. (Remember Survival Research Labs in the '90s?) An artist publicly destroying much of his catalog is interesting in itself, too.
Those of us who saw the show prior to the mini mayhem will have a sense of "before and after," as the artist wished. The destruction of the work was the show. Or at least the artist indicated as much to the press. But it was hardly a shock; instead we're left with a partial and contrived ruin. Which isn't to posit the initial effect upon entering the Contemporary is completely hollow; individual aspects of certain tableaus do work. I liked the soundtrack in two rooms, and the videos are visually compelling. And the various physical objects and their arrangement fill up the Contemporary better than any previous show I've seen there, with or without the damage. We all know that's a difficult space to negotiate, for artists and curators alike.
I imagine there will be some national press about how Gréaud destroyed his own work in Dallas. But here I'll take a moment to point out that Gréaud traffics in the kind of heavy conceptual art that works its metaphors and theories hard. Meanwhile, the actual physical objects appear inexplicable and are often ponderous objects or installations. This is a side of conceptual art that runs the risk of didactically separating form and content, where the whole feels like less than the sum of its parts. We might call it top heavy, or as I call it, Conceptual Opaque.
Most of his objects are indeed meant to stand as physical manifestations of his obsessive indexing/analysis/labor/cataloging of facts, systems, or historical vestige, but unless someone or some text tells you all about it (and then you have to take it on trust), you're left with work that might have you wondering why it needs to exist. And furthermore, once the belabored nature of the work is revealed, we wonder if the viewer is meant to take on the burden of some its (at times) epic commandeering of artifacts. For example, Gréaud claims to have sourced 900,000 hourglasses for their sand, which was then recycled into blown-glass clouds for the viewing public's consideration. Are there any hourglasses left in the world? I get it: the inside of the hourglasses– the part that once represented time—is now transformed into the part that represents space. But an hourglass already contains this conceit. So, is the destruction of the work meant to be our release from all that industry? If so, I might have welcomed more destruction and less burden. Sulfurous lighting aside, the whole often felt wanting of a poetry that struggled to live up to its conceptual billing.
And more often, of course, explanation and analysis kills poetry (and jokes) outright. The soundtrack in one room—my favorite thing in the show—comes through a speaker and is a hard Bronx-accented man reading out what sounds like a bonkers list of absurdist tense conjugations. At first it feels sad and urgent and angry, and since it plays in a room filled with sixty-something outstretched fists, there's a dose of revolutionary or fascistic satire coming through. But it's actually cult filmmaker Abel Ferrara reading William Burroughs. When the artist explained this to us at the press preview, and all the editing tricks he employed and the reasons he chose that famous pal to read that particular text, all the mystery left the room. For me. I suppose some people would like the piece more after they got the backstory.
I'm not altogether sure when (or why) Gréaud decided to destroy the work to make the show, and whether or not showing in Dallas had any significance in that decision. It could have been five years ago or five weeks ago. I'm wondering if it matters now that it doesn't feel to me like there was enough resolve, just as I don't think it would have mattered had the spectacle been more spectacular. But it crosses my mind nonetheless. At this point, he can tell us what it's meant to mean (according to his own rules) and we can be moved or not. But perhaps moving us was never his point. We may never really know.
Loris Gréaud: "The Unplayed Notes Museum" at the Dallas Contemporary through March 21.
Sounds like Claude Wampler did it better at Diverseworks, back in 2001.
Wampler truly had the element of surprise: only a core group of DW staffers and audience plants knew what was going to go down at her performance (which our writer Chas Bowie described as "a heart-stopping ride" in the link above).
It was probably a mistake for Gréaud to leak to the NYT (or anyone) in advance, unless, as you note, the goal was to make people examine how they're not surprised by a surprise they knew was coming.
M.Gréaud was honored by a panel discussion at UTDallas on the 15th January. The discussion was preceded by a statement by Nicolas Bourriaud, the head of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Artts in Paris. M.Bourriaud is M.Gráud's idle. M.Bourriaud's main tenet is that there is no 'origin' to anything.
The discussion that followed featured distinguished academics in the area and M.Gréaud himself. The ideas that were shared by M. Gréaud are very exciting, about a movie he made about a concert designed for deep sea creatures to elicit a response which would be visual (to us).
Perhaps the ideas motivating the DMA exhibition, are just simply more exciting and a deeper experience than any manifestation about them could possibly be. As you say "maybe we'll never know". Your article is appreciated, thanks. It makes me believe that 'Moving and Unmoving' isn't a performance piece but strictly an installation piece.
I meant Dallas Contemporary, my apologies.
Ce est boiteux combien de personnes savaient!
I agree with Guy. People knew going in something was going to happen and when it did the result was a pretty sad trombone. If there really was an implied threat I imagine heart attacks and lawsuits. Better luck next time.
The exhibition and performance were awesome. I came back the next day and was impressed with the damage to the exhibition. Great stuff.
Merci Nick . Je me demandais combien d'années il faudrait Realtional Esthétique pour vraiment atteindre Texas, car le livre a été écrit en 1998. Je devinais 20 ans ( qui semble être la norme pour atteindre Texas – il suffit de regarder toutes les barbes ), mais Texas vous me avez étonné ! Mais il est encore si triste que Rirkrit Tiravanija a été donné un petit spectacle " Focus " triste à la Art Moderne de Fort Worth – il aurait été donné l'ensemble du musée !
I gave Liam Gillick the whole FW Contemporary for show in 2011. Beaucoup RE during those weeks. He really made the rounds, too. Here's a link to his talk at the Modern the week of the opening. It's quite good.
Mes excuses, ce est- Relational Aesthetics!
Oui, Guy, comme vous devez le savoir, il faut du temps pour nos idées avancées pour atteindre les enfers-régions philistins de cette planète. Texas devrait être à l'affût de la pratique sociale. Le vulgum pecus saura qu'il est arrivé quand ils reçoivent des adjudications hebdomadaires aux ateliers du musée «radicales».


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The two-term congressman reportedly plans to drop out before the May primary.
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Cargo Culting
I was spending some time researching cargo cults earlier. A usually primitive island culture adopts the symbols of modern technology without understanding what it means, how it works or even what it's supposed to be. The famous examples include the building of whole airports from bamboo with equipment, planes and radios. The idea being that by repeating an airport, they'll bring back planes with supplies. Recently, this more Wasp Factory style cultish island appeared on the media stream and I found myself puzzled by how what would traditionally be considered some sort of arcane horror fiction was tapped in reality.
Cyber Bugs
Remeber Dino Riders? Humans and aliens from the future thrown back in time to the (confusingly broad) age of dinosaurs where they repurpose their spaceship technology to ally or tame the lizards and then continue their pithy war using them as cannon fodder? Well we've got that now with cockroaches and stuff.
Apparently DARPA had a hankering for mind-hacked insects so they could get into small stuff and look at things - don't know, it's not really clear, the point is there's a prevailing attitude in the US of 'if nature can do it, DARPA can do it.' So they've given it a fair shot and they reckon they can actually open up the technology to anyone with around $50 and a few spare hours and a cockroach that looks like it could use a new god-figure in directly controlling its actions. Hell, you can even control your helpless insect slave from your iPhone! Great for a laugh, ah the dominion of man.
OK moral issues aside it is quite clever. Humans have been mind-controlling other human for hundreds of years and this is a step forward. It's hard to sell perfume to a cockroach using David Beckham's underwear, but now you can successfully hook it's brain up to a circuit board.
Cockroaches are probably more useful anyway as well known apocalypse survivors, where dinosaurs as we know didn't do too well.
It's hard to know whether Robert Reich's new film Inequality For All will be political point scoring or an actual real-to-god-holy-fuck-how-did-this-happen documentary in the styling of the superb Inside Job. He was labour Secretary under Clinton and despite an apparent alliance between the two administrations it's easy to see Reich coming out and punching below the belt in favour of the cult of Clinton. The film recently got kickstarter funded which at least means it's not just mindless lobbying but the problem with all these things is (and even Inside Job does this) they look for someone to blame. The modern solution to any intractable problem is to find someone who does or should understand it and get enough people to agree it's their fault and blame them.
I can't 'blame the bankers' for the mess we're in because they were symptomatic of an ideology and just essentially did what people and government told them to do - make a shit load of money and damn the consequences. It's equivalent to laying the blame for a nasty infection at bacteria when really you should have washed your hands properly. Not that I'm comparing high volume trade to a nasty infection.
Anyway, here's a clip from Inequality for All and one from Inside Job because I fucking love that film and might go and watch it now.
Oh and because I'm on a run with great financial docu drama things here's the WHOLE of Enron: Smartest Guys in The Room
And the WHOLE of Last Days of The Lehman Brothers. I'm a giver.
OMG Future Cities
The Beeb has done an article about what our future cities might look like. Put aside the sheer volume of work that's been done on this for the last few hundred years by everyone from writers, film makers, artists, designers, architects, engineers, politicians, scientists, religions, financiers, entrepreneurs, big business, minor celebrities, third world dictators, anabaptists and basically every man and his dog and you have quite a boring article that's about twenty years out of date.
Don't even know why I mention it.
A Nice Graph
Love a graph.
Big announcements this week as non-Wired readers suddenly got all giddy about old pictures of Google Glass and a new ad. In Freudian terms this whole thing is aimed at the geek superego. Almost all of the points-of-view and activities of the ad are uniquely male as the larger geek community regrettably is. (See previous posts for info on sexism in geekdom.) But all geeks already have glasses. So we're imagining a world where the type of people who furiously follow tech blogs a) don't already have glasses and b) do stuff like skydiving or whatever which no one actually really does. And if you have to wait until you're skydiving to find use of your Google Glasses I just wouldn't bother with either.
Frankly the whole thing's a little premature and riddled with problems. Plus the dreamy tech projection of everyone hanging around in expensive sporting apparatus in a seemingly perpetual sunset/sunrise has a rank stink of either an apocalyptic scenario or a kitschy folksy ad exec's wet dream with the extra wicker weave. Gross.
Genuinely, it would be more interesting if they showed a video of a guy dodging AR highlighted bulldog shit in Whitechapel.
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