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A Ranking of the BEST Books by Murakami
by Julie | Dec 30, 2020 | Books, Japan
This post is for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of reading a Murakami book yet and can't decide on which book to read first. It's also for those of you who've already read one or two or three books by Murakami and can't decide on which one to read next.
I've ranked all the Murakami books that I've read so far from least favorite to most favorite.
Why trust my opinion?
Good Question since maybe my tastes aren't the same as yours.
To answer that question, first, let me explain what kind of books Murakami writes. There are two kinds:
Magical realism books – Books with loads of weird stuff going on like people who can talk with cats, sheep that enter people's bodies, paintings that come alive, and parallel universes.
Realistic books – Books without any magical realism. Ordinary tales of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, and then tries to get girl back. No talking cats or magical passageways to alternate worlds.
I prefer the realistic books to the magical realism ones. That's not to say, I don't dislike magical realism. It's just that if I had to choose between the two, I'd prefer books with no talking cats to ones with talking cats.
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14. The Strange Library
Translator: Ted Goossen
Number of Pages: 96 with pictures
Setting: in a library
"Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?"
This is the only Murakami book that was written especially for children. It's also definitely the creepiest story he's written. Plus the shortest book (96 pages with loads of pictures).
A young, lonely boy ends up imprisoned in the basement of a nightmarish library by a sinister librarian. The boy is not allowed to leave until he memorizes all three volumes of a book on the Ottoman Tax Code. Together with the help of a mysterious girl and a sheep man, the boy tries to find a way to escape the library and get back home to his mother.
Reading it gave me the same frustrating and unnerving feeling that I got when I read Franz Kafka's The Trial—a story about being punished for some unexplainable bureaucratic reason. In fact, Murakami has said that Kafka is one of his favorite writers.
Even though it was written for children, adults who are huge Murakami fans will probably also get a kick out of the book. It is a fun, short read. But if you're new to Murakami, start somewhere else. To really appreciate his books, read a longer book that can display his talent for developing characters.
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13. South of the Border, West of the Sun
Translator: Philip Gabriel
Setting: a nameless suburban town, Tokyo, and Hakone, from the 1960s to late 1980s
"Day after day, you watch the sun rise in the east, pass across the sky, then sink in the west, and something breaks inside you and dies. You toss your plow aside, and, your head completely empty of thoughts, begin walking toward the west, heading toward a land that lies west of the sun. Like someone possessed, you walk on, day after day, not eating or drinking, until you collapse on the ground and die."
South of the Border, West of the Sun is one of my least favorite books by Murakami. There are no mystical cats, moons, or hotel rooms. There's also no riveting plot or subplots and no interesting characters.
It's just a simple straightforward tale that's been told a million times before. Hajime is a thirty-year-old man who's bored with his perfect life (perfect wife, car, job, salary). Yet he still can't get over his first love, Shimamoto—a girl he bonded with over the fact that both were only children and both loved music. Then suddenly she reenters his life. She's beautiful and mysterious and they bond immediately. He's now faced with the decision of whether or not to throw away his perfect life for his true love.
One thing I did like about this book is that it does have a thought-provoking message that I could relate to. It gets you to reflect on your own life and whether it's all been worth it. I don't want to give away too much, but I will tell you that the meaning is tied to the title of the book. South of the Border is from a Nat King Cole song and West of the Sun has to do with a Russian tale about a Siberian farmer.
The other thing I liked was how much the book captures Japan's post-war society. This really feels like a book that could take place only in Japan. It sometimes feels that his other books could have taken place in any country (excluding the very Japanese World War II subplots found in books like Kafka on the Shore or Wind-Up Bird Chronicle).
If you're looking for your first Murakami book to read, don't start here. It's not a good representation of what Murakami is all about. If you've already read one, two, or three books by him, look elsewhere as well. For those who are big Murakami fans, of course, read it.
12. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Setting: Japan, Greece, Boston, Hawaii
"Someday if I have a gravestone and I'm able to pick out what's carved on it, I'd like it to say this:
Haruki Murakami 1949 to 20…
Writer (and Runner)
At least he never walked
At this point, that's what I'd like it to say."
There are two kinds of people that this memoir is written for: fans of Murakami and fans of running. If you're one or both, then run (don't walk) to the bookstore (or your laptop) and get this book.
As the title more than suggests, it really is a book about running.
I'm a fan of Murakami's writing.
But, I'm not a runner. In fact, I loathe running.
So, much of it was kind of…boring.
Murakami does talk about other aspects of his life other than running. He talks about the moment he decided to start writing and the time he decided to sell his bar and write full-time. There's an interesting story about him as a teenager standing naked in front of a full-length mirror and adding up his physical flaws. He's very open about his character and personality (he thinks you wouldn't like him if you really knew him). And his running is related to his writing. These parts were all very fascinating, BUT there just wasn't enough of them to quench my curiosity.
I'm still waiting for a book that'll tell me where he came up with his kooky ideas, what he loves about writing, what he hates about it, and how he got to be such a great writer.
If you're a first-timer to Murakami's books, of course, don't start here.
11. Men Without Women: Stories
Translators: Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen
"Perhaps an even more distressing prospect for Habara than the cessation of sexual activity, however, was the loss of the moments of shared intimacy. To lose all contact with women was, in the end, to lose that connection. What his time spent with women offered was the opportunity to be embraced by reality, on the one hand, while negating it entirely on the other."
If you've already read a bunch of Murakami novels AND you like short stories, by all means, this is a pretty good collection.
For those who prefer his books with talking cats and alternative universes, you might be disappointed. as only one of the stories is crazy in that way.
If you're just starting out with his books, short stories just don't do Murakami justice.
The biggest joy I get from his books is getting emotionally attached to his idiosyncratic characters through their elaborate backstories and the intricate details of their everyday habits. With short stories, they're just too short for characters to develop very deeply, and as a result I'm not ranking this book very high on my list.
That being said, there are a lot of stories in this collection that are a joy to read. Two of my favorite are "Drive My Car" and "Kino".
As the title more than suggests, all of the stories are about the loss of an important woman in the main character's life. The loss leaves them worse off—lonelier, emptier, and sadder. But each of these characters express their emotions in different ways: dying, running away, seeking revenge, etc. And for these men, what the woman means to them in their lives is not so much about the sex but about intimacy.
10. Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
Translator: Jay Rubin
Setting: Tokyo, 1984
"Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Guts have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own—with whatever guts you can muster."
If you're looking for a book by Murakami that's got plenty of magical realism and a lot to say about love and loss and the history of Japan during World War II, then Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is not a bad choice.
Uninspired by his career and unambitious in general, Toru quits his job. His wife, Kumiko, tells him, "Hey, no problem. I'll work long hours to support the both of us." He spends his days making sandwiches, lying on the couch listening to music, perusing the want-ads, looking for a lost cat, chatting it up with his teenage neighbor, and waiting for his wife to come home.
Kumiko, meanwhile, is coming home later and later, dropping hints that Toru doesn't really understand her, and thinking up excuses to not have sex. Before Toru realizes it, his wife's left him. No note. Nothing.
Toru's heartbroken but is determined (in an apathetic sort of way) to find her and get her back. First, though, he must find the cat and uncover the hidden history of Japan during World War II, the mystery of the abandoned house, and the secrets of Kumiko's sinister brother.
Lots of Murakami readers love this book. My feelings are mixed. On the one hand, I couldn't wait to get done reading it not because I wanted to learn what happened at the end but mostly because I was simply bored by the story and characters.
On the other hand, I appreciate the symbolism, the underlying meaning, the great writing, and the feelings of being left by someone you thought you knew it evoked.
9. 1Q84
Translators: Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel
"I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books."
It breaks my heart to rank this Murakami book so low. I absolutely adored the first half. Loved it so much that I got through the first 500 pages (out of 1,000) in four days. My favorite part of the first 500 pages is that it contains THREE of my all-time favorite Murakami characters, one of whom is a female assassin with a fetish for bald men. What's not to love about a character like that?
There is a bit of magical realism and Murakami weirdness in the first half, but it adds to the story in a good way.
The second half goes off the rails, and it took me two months to finish the book. The magical realism overtakes the story. Subplots that are promising in the beginning eventually go nowhere. New and uninspiring characters are introduced. In the end, a hot mess.
There are two alternating stories. The first is about Aomame, a female assassin who works for a wealthy woman who runs a shelter for battered women. Aomi's job is to kill the bastards who hurt these women. While on the way to an appointment, Aomi ends up in the alternate world of 1Q84.
The second story is about Tengo, a part-time novelist and part-time cram school math teacher. Tengo agrees to rewrite a bizarre story by an odd, dyslexic teenager with ties to a weird cult. Tengo's decision entangles him in this cult and pulls him into the parallel world of 1Q84.
Eventually, Aomame and Tengo's stories converge. Along the way, you meet a repulsive private investigator, a sex-crazed police officer, a gay assassin, a bunch of miniature beings, two ruthless bodyguards, and a persistent NHK fee collector.
For Murakami first-timers, don't start with this book. Keep scrolling down. For those who've read three or four Murakami books, try 1Q84. There's still a lot to like about the book.
8. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Translator: Alfred Birnbaum
Setting: Tokyo in the future, a mythological Town
"Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically – whether actually more realistic or not – I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return."
What would you do if you were told that you had only 48 hours to live? Wanna know what Murakami would do? Read Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
The book is two stories told in alternating chapters. The first, The Hard-Boiled Wonderland, is a sort-of sci-fi novel about a Computec (we never learn his name), who works for the System, a quasi-governmental organization that stores people's data. The Computec's job is to shuffle the data so that it can't be stolen by a mafia-like organization called the Factory. To do this shuffling, the System has altered the Computec's mind.
The second story, The End of the World, is a sort of a mythological/dystopian story involving a nameless protagonist who arrives in a Town surrounded by an impenetrable wall. Upon arrival, his memory is taken away, his eyes are pierced, his shadow is cut away from him, and he is assigned a job working in a library as a dream reader. The rest of the story is about how the dream reader tries to get his shadow (memory) back and escape from the Town.
You won't really find out how the two stories are connected until towards the end of the novel.
Hard-boiled Wonderland has the same smooth-flowing language found in most Murakami novels. Like all other Murakami novels, the main character is an apathetic, laid-back, take-what-comes kind of thirty-something guy and the side characters are all quirky and endearing.
What I liked about this one is that compared to his other more recent books the story seems to be well-plotted out with a nice clear-cut ending that would give even Sheldon Cooper some peace of mind.
The theme of what is our unconscious selves is an interesting one that takes some background reading of Jung and Freud along with a second reading of Hard-boiled Wonderland to really grasp what Murakami is saying.
What would I do if I had 48 hours to live? Before Corona, I'd say I'd hop on a plane and spend it in Mexico or some country I'd never been to but that could be reached quickly. In a post-Corona world, I couldn't come up with much of anything.
7. Killing Commendatore
Setting: present-day Odawara
"None of us are ever finished. Everyone is always a work in progress."
Killing Commendatore is Murakami's most recent novel. Mostly set in the mountains of Odawara, it's a story about love, loss, and art.
Murakami has called the novel his homage to The Great Gatsby (my all-time favorite novel).
The marriage of the nameless protagonist, the portrait painter, has just ended after his wife admits to having an affair. Devastated by the breakup, the painter leaves Tokyo and moves into the former home of a friend's father, Tomohiko Amada, a famous painter of Japanese traditional art.
One night, the portrait painter hears a noise coming from the attic, so he goes to investigate and finds a painting hidden away in the attic called Killing Commendatore. Unbeknownst to the portrait painter, the uncovering of the painting unleashes a series of bizarre events that eventually lead him on a journey through an underworld.
I love the characters, especially the portrait painter and his eccentric and wealthy neighbor, Wataru Menshiki (Jay Gatsby).
I love the setting of the novel–the mountains of Odawara. I've been to this beautiful area with its views of Mt. Fuji, its hot springs, and its winding roads through forested mountains. You can read about the area in my Hakone travel post.
I found myself completely absorbed in the mysteries of why Tomohiko Amada left Vienna, what the Killing Commendatore really means, what will happen with the shrine behind the house, and what's up with Menshiki.
I listened to this book as an audiobook and the reader had the perfect tone and cadence. If you're looking for a good audiobook, get Killing Commendatore.
6. Sputnik Sweetheart
How many pages: 229 pages
Setting: Tokyo and Greece in the late 1990s
"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"
Sputnik Sweetheart is a story of unrequited love, loneliness, and conformity.
It's narrated by a young man, a teacher, who is in love with his friend Sumire, a free-spirited writer. Sumire is an odd character who dresses in her own way and who doesn't conform to what society wants her to be.
He hasn't told her how he feels about her. Mainly because Sumire isn't in love with him. Instead, she's fallen for her employer, Miu, a successful and glamorous woman seventeen years older than Sumire.
One day, K gets a phone call from Miu telling him that Sumire has disappeared. They were on a Greek island and for some unexplainable reason, no one can find her.
I really loved Sputnik Sweetheart. The story just had an effective amount of magical realism that fit perfectly into the story. Not too much and not too little. And it came at the perfect point in the novel.
At less than 300 pages, it's a short novel for Murakami so I felt there weren't too many slow parts.
K's story really touched me as well. Here is a guy who's lost something of himself by trying to mold himself into what society sees as acceptable. It's a great theme that reflects issues that give you a deeper understanding of the culture of Japan.
I find that a lot of Japanese novels are about loneliness—a feeling that many of us experience in this world of social media and now (if you're reading this in 2020) of being isolated in a pandemic. I wish American and British writers would write more about it as I think it's universal.
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5. A Wild Sheep Chase
Setting: Tokyo, Sapporo, and Hokkaido (1978)
"Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."
This next book on our list is a good start for Murakami virgins who want a bit of magical realism.
Murakami novels can be unwieldy beasts. Too long (998 pages) jam-packed with loads of intricate subplots and characters with detailed backstories. A Wild Sheep Chase is short (299 pages) with one main plot and no detailed subplots and just enough backstory that doesn't cause you to lose track of the main story.
Wild Sheep Chase is the third novel Murakami wrote and the third in the Rat Trilogy. You don't need to read the first two to understand this one. Besides, the other two are out of print.
Our nameless protagonist is a newly divorced 30-something executive running a publishing company in Tokyo. A friend sends him a seemingly innocuous (at least to any sane person) photo of a herd of sheep that our protagonist inadvertently sticks in an article. Little does he realize is that the sheep in the photo are magical and evil. They can enter humans and take over their lives. Publishing the photo also gets the attention of a powerful right-wing politician. He's given an ultimatum: find the sheep or face horrible consequences. Our protagonist goes on a search for some sheep and ends up all the way into the snowy mountains of northern Japan.
This is a fun book with enough magical realism and humor to keep you wanting to find out whether our protagonist ever finds the sheep. On the surface, a story about sheep doesn't sound very compelling, but in the hands of Murakami, even a book about sheep is a hoot!
4. Dance Dance Dance
Setting: Tokyo, Sapporo, and Hawaii (1983)
"So what can I do now?" she spoke up a minute later.
"Nothing," I said. "Just think about what comes before words. You owe that to the dead. As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself. Is that too much to ask?"
"A little," she said, trying to smile.
"Well, of course it is," I said, trying to smile too.
"I doubt that this makes sense to most people. But I think I'm right. People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies. Personally, I don't buy it."
This is another great book for those of you looking for the perfect touch of magical realism but not so much that it overtakes the story. Dance Dance Dance is the sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase. I personally think you need to read one before the other to really appreciate this one.
The story begins four years after the end of A Wild Sheep Chase with the same nameless narrator. He's as lost, unambitious, apathetic, and directionless as ever before, and he's still searching for someone. This time it's his missing girlfriend. As he looks for her, he ends up meeting up with a junior high classmate turned actor and taking under his wings a 13-year-old precocious girl with an attitude and mysterious powers.
I see the book as about two kinds of regrets: (1) you regret treating others unkindly (2) you regret failing to take charge of your life and doing something to change it. Don't sit back and passively let the world come to you. Instead, you've got to go out and dance, dance, dance.
The book has all my favorite elements of a Murakami book: great writing, plot, and characters. It also has something that his later works don't have and that is a tight plot without a lot of subplots that take readers off course.
3. Kafka on the Shore
Setting: Shikoku
"What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow."
Kafka on the Shore is one of those novels that you need to be prepared for before reading. It's magical realism at a level 8.
The story revolves around two central characters: the young Kafka Tamura and the elderly and illiterate Nakama.
In order to escape a prophecy that he will murder his father and to search for his missing mother and sister, Kafka Tamura runs away from home. He ends up in a private library on the island of Shikoku. There he meets the beautiful but odd Miss Saeki, who he believes may be his mother, and the even odder but more helpful Oshima.
A parallel story centers on the eccentric Nakata, an illiterate old man who makes his living finding lost cats. One day he's hired by the mysterious Johnnie Walker to find a lost cat. But it turns out Mr. Walker is actually a cat killer. Nakata is forced to leave Tokyo and goes on a journey where he is joined by the truck driver, Noshino, who inexplicably becomes attached to Nakano. The journey takes him to Shikoku where events conspire to bring him and Kafka together.
I enjoyed Kafka on the Shore for its cleverness, its metaphors, and its utterly strange but fascinating characters. I also love the setting—I mean of all the places to run away to and hide out in a library for me would be perfect!
Whereas other Murakami novels start out with some semblance of normalcy before eventually meandering into a series of surreal events, Kafka on the Shore starts out that way from the very beginning. It's a book in which you need to let go of all reasons and just go with the flow. If you need a book with concrete characters and a straightforward plot where everything makes sense, then I'd suggest holding off on this one.
I highly recommend purchasing this book over borrowing as it requires more than one reading to really grasp the meaning of everything.
You can read an interview with Murakami on the book here.
2. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage
Setting: Nagoya in the 1990s and Tokyo in 2000s
"Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the end they always left. They came, seeking something, but either they couldn't find it, or were unhappy with what they found (or else they were disappointed or angry), and then they left. One day, without warning, they vanished, with no explanation, no word of farewell. Like a silent hatchet had sliced the ties between them, ties through which warm blood still flowed, along with a quiet pulse."
Set in modern-day Tokyo, Colorless Tsukuru is the story of Tsukuru Tazaki and his journey to find out the truth of a loss that deeply impacted him his whole adult life.
As a teenager in Nagoya, Tsukuru Tazaki was blessed with four friends whose friendship was so perfect that it could only have come out of a Hollywood movie.
Then after graduating from high school, his friends stay in Nagoya, while he moves away to go to school in Tokyo. In his sophomore year, without any explanation, his four friends abruptly and without any explanation cut him off. During that same year, another friend does the same. These inexplicable losses devastate him to the point where he contemplates suicide.
Later while in his mid-30s, Tsukuru is encouraged by a new girlfriend to confront his past and find out what happened years ago between him and his friends. Tsukuru goes on a journey to discover the truth and to recover his happiness.
Colorless Tsukuru is a purely realistic novel by Murakami. I don't think there is an ounce of magical realism in the whole book.
I loved this book because having just experienced something similar to what Tsukuru went through, I could really relate.
I love mysteries, and this novel had a compelling mystery. I really wanted to know why his friends stopped communicating with Tsukuru. It kept me glued to my couch on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.
I had a difficult time arranging most of these books by Murakami in order from most to least favorite except for this one. Colorless Tsukuru is definitely my second favorite book by Murakami.
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1. Norwegian Wood
Number of pages: 296 (U.S.); 400 (U.K.)
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
Finally, we've come to #1. Stripped of all mystical and surreal elements, this is Murakami's finest and funniest novel. If you're looking for a novel filled with talking cats and two moons in the sky, this is not it. But it does have the other usual elements of a Murakami novel: beautiful writing and interesting, humorous dialogue, and well-developed characters.
This is the novel that made Murakami so famous in Japan that he had to leave the country and move to the United States in order to maintain his privacy and anonymity.
Toru Watanabe is a freshman at university in Tokyo in the late 1960s. His best friend committed suicide seven months prior. Toru is in love with two women: the emotionally unstable and sensitive Naoko (also the former girlfriend of his dead friend) and the confident and outgoing Midori. However, it's not really a love story. It's more a story of how Toru grows up emotionally and learns to deal with loss.
What makes this book so special is that it feels like we're not just reading a story about Toru but a story about Murakami, himself. That's how real it feels. Murakami has this ability to draw the reader into his story so much so that it almost feels voyeuristic as if you're right there with Toru and Naoko as they walk the streets of Tokyo or Toru and Midori as they hang out on the rooftop of her family's bookstore.
However, I have to admit that not everyone is going to like this book There is a lot of sex in it, and some of the sex scenes are disturbing to say the least. Some reviewers find Murakami's portrayal of mental illness to be way off as well. If these aspects of the book don't sound appealing, yet you're looking for a less surreal book, then consider Colorless Tsukuru (#2 on my list).
That is my growing list of best books by Murakami ranked from least to most favorite.
If you love magical realism, then start with Kafka on the Shore.
If you want to read more books on Japan, check out my list of some great books on Japan.
And if you're looking for information on traveling to Japan, check out my travel guide to Japan.
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Socioeconomic factors - not race or ethnicity - influence survival of younger patients with multiple myeloma
Published	 Tuesday 23 August 2016	 Published	Tue 23 Aug 2016
Advances in the treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell, have led to improved survival predominantly among young and white patients, with less of an increase in survival observed in patients of other ethnicities. A new study indicates that this gap is mostly due to socioeconomic differences between whites and ethnic minorities, not race itself. The findings are published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
When Luciano Costa, MD, PhD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his colleagues studied data on more than 10,000 US patients less than 65 years of age with multiple myeloma, they found that race/ethnicity was not the most important factor associated with patients' risk of dying early, but that marital status, income, and insurance status contributed more to an affected patients' chances of survival.
Four-year estimated overall survival was 71.1 percent, 63.2 percent, 53.4 percent, and 46.5 percent for patients with 0, 1, 2, or 3 adverse sociodemographic factors, respectively. As an example, a patient who was not married, lived in a low income county, and was beneficiary of Medicaid had a 25 percent lower likelihood of being alive four years after diagnosis than a patient of the same age who was married, lived in a medium to high income county, and had private insurance.
"This finding strongly suggests that there is a huge disparity in outcomes that could potentially be overcome by improving access and affordability of treatments," said Dr. Costa. "With the recent emphasis on comparative effectiveness in oncology, it also becomes crucial that all variables affecting outcomes - including sociodemographic factors - are accounted for when comparisons between different therapeutic approaches and health care systems are made."
Article: Impact of marital status, insurance status, income, and race/ethnicity on the survival of younger patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma in the United States, Luciano J. Costa, Ilene K. Brill, Elizabeth E. Brown, CANCER, doi: 10.1002/cncr.30183, published online 22 August 2016.
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Joe Biden claims that he and his son Hunter aren't corrupt – is he lying?
Is Joe Biden "The Manchurian Candidate" for president?
There was a neat story that broke late on Thursday night by Kimberly Strassel, writing for the Wall Street Journal. It's covers additional information about the Hunter Biden – China scandal. The latest story is that an investor involved in the deal between the Biden family and EFC China Energy, a Shanghai-based conglomerate, has decided to come forward and speak out.
The article says:
[A] former business partner of Hunter Biden's has come forward to provide the ugly details of the "family brand." Tony Bobulinski, a Navy veteran and institutional investor, has provided the Journal emails and text messages associated with his time as CEO of Sinohawk Holdings, a venture between the Bidens and CEFC China Energy, a Shanghai-based conglomerate. That correspondence corroborates and expands on emails recently published by the New York Post, which says they come from a Hunter laptop.
In a statement, Mr. Bobulinski said he went public because he wants to clear his name, which was contained in those published emails, and because accusations that the information is fake or "Russian disinformation" are "offensive." He attests that all the correspondence he provided is genuine, including documents that suggest Hunter was cashing in on the Biden name and that Joe Biden was involved.
There are indicators that Joe Biden was not only invovled, but stood to gain financially from the deail:
Hunter, in his own angry texts, makes clear that his contribution is his name. He rails at Mr. Bobulinski that the CEFC heads are "coming to be MY partner to be partners with the Bidens." He reminds him "that in this instance only one player holds the trump card and that's me. May not be fair but it's the reality because I'm the only one putting an entire family legacy on the line." Mr. Gilliar privately tells Mr. Bobulinski to show flexibility, since "I know why [CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming] wants the deal and what makes it enormous, It's the family name."
CEFC was closely entwined with the Chinese government and military until it went bankrupt, following U.S. charges of money laundering. There is no question CEFC was buying Hunter for influence.
Joe Biden claims he has never discussed his son's business. Yet a May 2017 "expectations" document shows Hunter receiving 20% of the equity in the venture and holding another 10% for "the big guy"—who Mr. Bobulinski attests is Joe Biden.
In one text, Hunter says that "my Chairman gave an emphatic NO" to a version of the deal. Mr. Walker, Hunter's partner, explains in a text to Mr. Bobulinski that when Hunter "said his chairman he was talking about his dad."
Mr. Bobulinski's texts show he even met with Joe Biden. Mr. Gilliar reminds him in May 2017: "Don't mention Joe being involved, it's only when u are face to face, I know u know that but they are paranoid." Mr. Biden had left office by then, though CEFC was always a suspicious company with ties to a rival government. It would have a been risky for any public figure to deal with it, much less a potential presidential candidate.
WSJ using paywalls their articles after a few hours, so you can read the full text of the article here.
In the Thursday night debate, Joe Biden said that the e-mails and the laptop were "Russian disinformation". Unfortunately for him, he couldn't point to the names of anyone. On the other hand, there are specific people who contradict what he said, specifically, the Director of National Intelligence.
The Daily Wire reported:
John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, told Fox Business on Monday morning that Hunter Biden's laptop was not part of a Russian disinformation campaign despite the media's attempts to claim otherwise.
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo pressed Ratcliffe about claims from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who made repeated false claims during the Russia investigation, that the news surrounding the laptop was Russian disinformation.
"Is this Russian disinformation, director?" Bartiromo asked.
Ratcliffe responded, "So, Maria it's funny that some of the people that complained the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing intelligence and unfortunately in this case, it is Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who as you pointed out on Friday said that the intelligence community believes that Hunter Biden's laptop and e-mails on it are part of some Russian disinformation campaign."
"Let me be clear, the intelligence community doesn't believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that and we shared no intelligence with chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden's laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign," he continued. "It's simply not true."
So it's pretty clear that Biden lied about the laptop and the emails that implicate Hunter Biden in a scheme to purchase access and possibly influence with foreign dollars. Hunter was cashing in on his father's position, and the evidence suggests that Joe Biden was at least aware of what was going on, and might even have been getting a cut of this foreign money.
By the way, the image is from one of my favorite anti-communist movies: "The Manchurian Candidate", 1962. Do NOT see the re-make. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
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Wuhan virus: communist China destroyed samples, silenced doctors, and disappeared critics
The Wuhan Virus started in China
I'm not a big fan of National Review these days, but I wanted to link to this article because it quoted a bunch of pay-walled articles to make some good points about how we got the Wuhan virus. Not only is China to blame for the Wuhan virus, but they are actually trying to cover it up now, and shift the blame to the countries that they are damaging.
Here are the main points of the article:
China destroyed samples and suppressed information about the Wuhan Virus since December 2019, leaving other nations in the dark and unprepared
Chinese doctors who warned about patients with the Wuhan virus were silenced by the communist regime in China
In January, Chinese authorities denied that the Wuhan virus could be spread between people, and allowed huge gatherings of people in Wuhan
The President of China knew about the Wuhan virus for weeks but refused to tell anyone about it
The communist China government let 5 million people leave Wuhan without screening them
Critics of China's handling of the Wuhan virus – even rich businessmen – are disappearing
I love the article, because it links to articles behind paywalls from the UK Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, etc.
Here's the UK Times:
Chinese laboratories identified a mystery virus as a highly infectious new pathogen by late December last year, but they were ordered to stop tests, destroy samples and suppress the news, a Chinese media outlet has revealed.
A regional health official in Wuhan, centre of the outbreak, demanded the destruction of the lab samples that established the cause of unexplained viral pneumonia on January 1. China did not acknowledge there was human-to-human transmission until more than three weeks later.
The detailed revelations by Caixin Global, a respected independent publication, provide the clearest evidence yet of the scale of the cover-up in the crucial early weeks when the opportunity was lost to control the outbreak.
And here's the Washington Post:
As word of a mysterious virus mounted, Li Wenliang shared suspicions in a private chat with his fellow medical school graduates.
The doctor said that seven people seemed to have contracted SARS — the respiratory illness that spread from China to more than two dozen countries and left hundreds dead in the early 2000s. One patient was quarantined at his hospital in Wuhan, China, Li said. He urged people to be careful.
Li and seven other doctors were quickly summoned by Chinese authorities for propagating "rumors" about SARS-like cases in the area — but their warnings were prescient. Soon, health officials worldwide would be scrambling to combat a novel virus with a striking genetic resemblance to SARS.
Here is something else I found on the Daily Wire – the response of the atheistic communist Chinese regime to being caught:
The National Security Council blasted the Chinese Communist Party on Tuesday for expelling journalists from the country and spreading false information about the origin of the virus instead of focusing on stopping the virus, which originated in China.
"The Chinese Communist Party's decision to expel journalists from China and Hong Kong is yet another step toward depriving the Chinese people and the world of access to true information about China," the NSC said in a statement. "The United States calls on China's leaders to refocus their efforts from expelling journalists and spreading disinformation to joining all nations in stopping the Wuhan coronavirus."
The statement from the NSC comes after China announced it would expel American journalists working for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
"It also demanded that those outlets, as well as the Voice of America and Time magazine, provide the Chinese government with detailed information about their operations," The New York Times reported. "The announcement went on to say that the American journalists now working in mainland China 'will not be allowed to continue working as journalists in the People's Republic of China, including its Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions.' The two territories are semiautonomous and in theory have greater press freedoms than the mainland."
Rather than admit responsibility, apologize and make restitution, they are responding by throwing out the journalists who criticize them. And you can bet those journalists would be murdered in secret if they were not American citizens. After all, the communist Chinese regime has been credibly accused of a massive organ harvesting operation – including harvesting the organs of living victims as they are being killed:
Last week, the Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China issued its final report concluding that China engages in the systematic human-rights atrocity of killing political and other prisoners and harvesting their organs.
[…]The Judgment convincingly concludes that China is guilty as charged. According to the report, beginning at page 415, there are four methods by which China kills prisoners and harvests their organs.
Organ harvesting from prisoners incompletely executed by shooting;
Organ harvesting from prisoners after lethal injection;
Execution by organ explanation (killing by organ harvesting);
Organ harvesting under the pretext of brain death (taking organs from people not really dead).
The United States is not alone in suffering major economic and public safety consequences because of the decisions of the communist Chinese government. There is even talk of demanding reparations. We are already in a bear market, and there is likely to be a recession because of their suppression of the evidence. And I also think that there is a lesson there for our election in November – this is what people on the secular left always do when they fail to deliver on their promises. They deny responsibility and silence or destroy those who warned them. It's standard operating procedure for communists. Communism requires atheism. And without God, any immorality you can imagine is possible.
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I'm learning about Bernie Sanders from his employees and supporters
This Bernie Sanders supporter shot Republican Congressmen at a baseball game
One way to learn about a political candidate is by looking at the kinds of people who work for them. Candidates don't say anything in their campaign speeches or campaign ads that might hurt their chances of being elected. But if you listen to their employees, and look at the actions of their employees, you can find out where they stand. Let's look at two employees of Bernie Sanders.
Here is the latest reported by the Daily Wire:
A far-left campaign staffer for 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appeared to repeatedly advocate for the use of extreme violence in an undercover video that was released on Tuesday by James O'Keefe's Project Veritas.
Sanders campaign Iowa field organizer Kyle Jurek was busted making the following statements in a variety of settings:
On reaching people that he deems to be "fascists": "The only thing that works, the only thing that fascists understand is violence. So, the only way you can confront them is with violence."
On what happens if Trump is re-elected: "F***ing cities burn."
On if Trump supporters should be "re-educated": "I mean, we gotta try, so like, in Nazi Germany after the fall of the Nazi party there was a s**t ton of the populace that was f***ing Nazified. Germany had to spend billions of dollars re-educating their f***ing people to not be Nazis. Like, we're probably going to have to do the same f***ing thing here. That's kind of what Bernie's whole f***ing like, 'hey, free education for everybody!' because we're going to have to teach you to not be a f***ing Nazi."
On Soviet gulags: "There's a reason Joseph Stalin had gulags, right?"
On what will happen if Sanders does not win the Democratic nomination: "If Bernie doesn't get the nomination or it goes to a second round at the DNC convention, f***ing Milwaukee will burn. It'll start in Milwaukee and then when they f***ing, and when the police push back on that, other cities will just f***ing [explosion sound and gesture]. … Be ready to be in Milwaukee for the DNC convention. That's all I'm gonna say. …"
On using violence against those who use offensive free speech: "Whatever it takes, and that's why they're like 'oh, anti-fascists are violent,' it's because we're willing to go above and beyond what the law says is acceptable, like oh free speech, yeah like they try to be like 'oh you're against free speech' and no, we're not against free speech, we're against f***ing hate speech, and if your speech is something that like these people shouldn't exist, then I don't give a f*** if it's free speech or not, you don't need, like free speech has repercussions. … Yeah, there are consequences to your f***ing speech, right? And if your speech is calling for the elimination of people based on race, or gender, or religious like for whatever reason, things that people can't change, then you should expect a f***ing violent reaction and you deserve a violent reaction because that's just not an acceptable thing. It's not acceptable."
On wanting to "throw down": "I'm ready to throw down now. I don't want to wait and have to wait for f***ing DNC [against] the billionaire class. The f***ing media, pundits. Walk into that MSNBC studios, drag those motherf***ers out by their hair and light them on fire in the streets."
On what will happen to those who oppose Sanders' agenda: "Well, I'll tell you what, in Cuba, what did they do to reactionaries? … Do you wants to fight against the revolution? You're gonna die for it motherf***er."
And here is the video:
OK, fine. So that's what the people who work for Bernie Sanders say. But what about their actions? Do they actually put their words into practice in their actions?
The far-left Washington Post explains:
The man suspected of firing dozens of rounds into an Alexandria baseball field Wednesday morning has been identified by federal law enforcement officials as James T. Hodgkinson, 66, of Belleville, Ill.
A Facebook page belonging to a person with the same name includes pictures of Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, and rhetoric against President Trump, including a post that reads: "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co."
Now, you might say, "well that's not what Bernie Sanders believes, that's just what his employees and supporters believe". The thing is, Bernie Sanders has been defending communist regimes FOR DECADES, and those regimes kill millions and millions of innocent people. So you really have to look at what Bernie Sanders says about those murderous communist regimes if you want to know what he thinks is an acceptable cost for implementing the communism he admires so much.
Here is a good re-cap about what Bernie Sanders has said in the past about countries that adopted communism:
Naturally, Bernie Sanders is not going to say anything in an election campaign that would cause voters to not vote for him. That's why it's important to look at his employees, supporters, and previous statements.
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Obama says that limited government and capitalism have never worked
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Investors Business Daily explains the latest speech on economics from the man who has doubled Bush's 2007 unemployment rate, and increased Bush's 2007 budget deficits tenfold.
One thing is certainly true about President Obama — no matter how many times people point out the falsehoods in his speeches, he just keeps making them. Case in point: his latest "economic fairness" address.
In that speech Tuesday, Obama once again tried to build a case for his liberal, big-spending, tax-hiking, regulatory agenda. But as with so many of his past appeals, Obama's argument rests on a pile of untruths. Among the most glaring:
• Tax cuts and deregulation have "never worked" to grow the economy. There's so much evidence to disprove this claim, it's hard to know where to start. But let's begin with the fact that countries with greater economic freedom — lower taxes, less government, sound money, free trade — consistently produce greater overall prosperity.
Here at home, President Reagan's program of lower taxes and deregulation led to an historic two-decade economic boom. Plus, states with lower taxes and less regulation do better than those that follow Obama's prescription.
Obama also claimed the economic booms in the '50s and '60s somehow support his argument. This is utter nonsense. Taxes at the time averaged just 17% of the economy. And there was no Medicare, no Medicaid, no Departments of Transportation, Energy or Education, and no EPA. Had Obama been around then, he would have decried it all as un-American.
• Bush's tax cuts on the rich only managed to produced "massive deficits" and the "slowest job growth in half a century." Budget data make clear that Obama's spending hikes, not Bush's tax cuts, produced today's massive deficits.
And Obama only gets his "slowest job growth" number by including huge job losses during his own term in office. Also, monthly pre-recession job growth under Bush was about 40% higher than post-recession growth has been under Obama.
• During the Bush years, "we had weak regulation, we had little oversight." This is patently false. Regulatory staffing climbed 42% under Bush, and regulatory spending shot up 50%, according to a Washington University in St. Louis/George Washington University study. And the number of Federal Register pages — a proxy for regulatory activity — was far higher under Bush than any previous president.
• The "wealthiest Americans are paying the lowest taxes in over half a century." Fact: the federal income tax code is now more progressive than it was in 1979, according to the Congressional Budget Office. IRS data show the richest 1% paid almost 40% of federal income taxes in 2009, up from 18% back in 1980.
• We can keep tax breaks for the rich in place, or make needed investments, "but we can't do both." Not true. Repealing the Bush tax cuts on the "rich" would raise only about $70 billion a year, a tiny fraction of projected deficits. With or without the Bush tax cuts, the country can't afford Obama's agenda.
The Heritage Foundation describes the effects of the Bush tax cuts.
President Bush signed the first wave of tax cuts in 2001, cutting rates and providing tax relief for families by, for example, doubling of the child tax credit to $1,000.
At Congress' insistence, the tax relief was initially phased in over many years, so the economy continued to lose jobs. In 2003, realizing its error, Congress made the earlier tax relief effective immediately. Congress also lowered tax rates on capital gains and dividends to encourage business investment, which had been lagging.
It was the then that the economy turned around. Within months of enactment, job growth shot up, eventually creating 8.1 million jobs through 2007. Tax revenues also increased after the Bush tax cuts, due to economic growth.
In 2003, capital gains tax rates were reduced. Rather than expand by 36% as the Congressional Budget Office projected before the tax cut, capital gains revenues more than doubled to $103 billion.
The CBO incorrectly calculated that the post-March 2003 tax cuts would lower 2006 revenues by $75 billion. Revenues for 2006 came in $47 billion above the pre-tax cut baseline.
Here's what else happened after the 2003 tax cuts lowered the rates on income, capital gains and dividend taxes:
GDP grew at an annual rate of just 1.7% in the six quarters before the 2003 tax cuts. In the six quarters following the tax cuts, the growth rate was 4.1%.
The S&P 500 dropped 18% in the six quarters before the 2003 tax cuts but increased by 32% over the next six quarters.
The economy lost 267,000 jobs in the six quarters before the 2003 tax cuts. In the next six quarters, it added 307,000 jobs, followed by 5 million jobs in the next seven quarters.
The timing of the lower tax rates coincides almost exactly with the stark acceleration in the economy. Nor was this experience unique. The famous Clinton economic boom began when Congress passed legislation cutting spending and cutting the capital gains tax rate.
If, in the 2012 election, half the country decides to vote for the person who gives the best speeches and who is cheered on the Comedy Channel, then we are going to have four more years of 9% unemployment and 1.4 trillion dollar deficits. Barack Obama knows nothing whatsoever about economics.
UPDATE: Obama says that small business owners didn't build their own businesses
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Why do conservatives accuse Obama of engaging in "class warfare"?
From the left-leaning Politico. (H/T Dennis Prager)
Obama has characterized Republican votes against his jobs bill — which are predicated, at least in part, over concern that new, temporary spending financed by tax increases will not help the economy — as a rejection of the most wholesome of American workers.
"They said no to more jobs for teachers, no to more jobs for cops and firefighters," Obama said during a speech Wednesday to the administration's Forum on American Latino Heritage, "no to more jobs for construction workers and veterans, no to tax cuts for small-business owners and middle-class Americans."
But in these same remarks, Obama also subtly suggested something far worse — that his opponents are racially biased.
"I ran for president for the same reason many people came to this country in the first place," he explained. "Because I believe America should be a place where you can always make it if you try, a place where every child, no matter what they look like [or] where they come from should have a chance to succeed. I still believe in that America. I believe we can be that America again."
The clear suggestion is that someone has made this country a place where what a child looks like can hinder them — and Obama is the one who can erase the discrimination that has been permitted to return.
First lady Michelle Obama made this point more explicitly at a Washington fundraiser the night before.
"Will we be a country where opportunity is limited to just the few at the top?" the first lady asked. "Or will we give every child — every child — a chance to succeed, no matter where she's from, or what she looks like, or how much money her parents [have]? Who are we? That's what's at stake here."
Her suggestion that "what's at stake here" in the 2012 race is whether a child will be judged by color is an outrage, implying that a Republican victory would result in discrimination.
Obama's rhetoric has become increasingly shrill. I find it very alarming that the President of the United States is somewhere to the left of celebrity blowhards like Michael Moore. How does he expect to negotiate with people in good faith when he is constantly impugning their motives and caricaturing their policies?
In other news, Herman Cain, who is black, leads by 8 points in the Iowa Caucuses. Wouldn't it be funny to see Barack Obama, who is only half-black, take on Herman Cain in a debate, and accuse him of racism? The rich, pampered Ivy-league ACORN trainer against the businessman with a Masters in Computer science from Purdue, whose mother was a cleaning woman, and whose father worked three jobs.
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Manufacturing Technology Orders Drop Slightly
According to the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report from The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT), manufacturing technology orders declined slightly in November 2016.
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According to the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report from The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT), manufacturing technology orders declined slightly in November 2016, dropping 2.4 percent compared to October 2016. Overall, orders were down 5.1 percent for the year compared to the same point in 2015.
The sectors showing increased orders in the last few months of the year include automotive, aerospace and job shop sectors — indicating capital investments in anticipation of needed additional manufacturing capacity. Additionally, the recent Purchasing Managers Index from ISM grew for the fourth consecutive month to 54.7 in December, and new orders and production for U.S. factories rose to their highest levels since 2014, suggesting stronger activity ahead.
"We always talk about New Orders driving the bus and this month's number reflects consumer confidence which, I think, is at a 13 year high in the month of December," explains Bradley J. Holcomb, CPSM, CPSD, chair of the Institute for Supply Management Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. "It starts and ends with the consumer purchasing manufactured goods and it translates to at 7.2 percent increase in New Orders."
Industry analysts for manufacturing technology forecast that orders may begin to rebound as early as April. November 2016 total order value was $329.61 million. Year-to-date orders were valued at $3,577.71 million. Orders for the same point in 2015 were valued at $3,771.28 million.
"While our industry endured some challenges in 2016, bookings for the last few months of the year were better than expected and early input on January is very promising, particularly in the aerospace and job shop sectors," said AMT President Douglas K. Woods. "We are seeing improvements in the overall economy, with post-election business confidence on the rise as demonstrated by strong performance in the financial and equity markets. We hope the new presidential administration and Congress keep that momentum going by focusing on comprehensive tax reform, global competitiveness and building a skilled workforce to ensure a strong future for U.S. manufacturing."
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Because of the ever-changing international situation, the supply and prices of international bulk graphene powder are still very uncertain.
Researchers at University College London have demonstrated a graphene nanomentum that is highly hydrophilic, ultra-hydrophobic and low oil adhesion underwater.
In this work, the researchers took a natural inspiration for the manufacture of high-performance graphene membranes to perform tricky oil/water separation -- even in stable emulsions. They demonstrated the impressive water permeability of graphene nanomentum over a wide pH range and at a very low transmembrane pressure difference.
The researchers explain that they used chitosan-functionalized graphene nanomentum to achieve this superior water flow rate and very high selectivity, resulting in a water recovery of 98.7%. The chitosan repels contaminants on the surface of the membrane, and the nanonet reduces the path length of the water molecules, which quickly travel along and through the graphene layer covered with nanopores.
The team says its nature-inspired Chemical Engineering (NICE) approach and its systematic nature-inspired solution approach allow fundamental mechanisms that support desired properties in natural systems -- such as scalability, efficiency and resilience -- to be used in engineering applications. "We have demonstrated the success of this approach in fuel cells, sustainable manufacturing, medical engineering applications and more."
The researchers were inspired for this work by the structure of cell membranes, specifically aquaporins. Aquaporins are proteins embedded in cell walls that act as biological channels. They keep cells alive by selectively regulating the flow of water, gases, ions, and other solutes in and out of cells in a way that is unmatched by anything made by humans. The reason aquaporins are so efficient is that their channel walls repel water (i.e. they are hydrophobic), and they are very narrow, with subnanometer diameters. This narrowing forces water through the channel in a single line at a staggering rate of 3 billion water molecules per second.
Inspired by nature's elegant and efficient designs, the team created nanonets by introducing "nanopores" through graphene oxide sheets. These nanopores reduce the distance water must travel across the membrane and also benefit from sliding along the graphene nanosheet. Combined with the low friction between the graphene nanosheets and water molecules, this results in a high permeability of almost 4000Lm(-- 2)h(-- 1)bar(-- 1), approximately 260 times that of the GO film.
Scaling is an inevitable problem in membrane separation. The pores of the membrane will be blocked, which prevents the flow and prevents the membrane from working properly. Scaling is a particularly serious problem for oil separation technology because oil droplets adhere easily to film surfaces.
In this case, nature also provided inspiration. Because hydrophilic and charged groups form a hydration layer on the membrane, the cell membrane has a natural antifouling mechanism. Chitosan with similar functional hydroxyl and amino groups has been proposed to functionalize surfaces to prevent fouling.
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Montréal-la-Cluse ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Ain in der Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Sie gehört zum Kanton Nantua im Arrondissement Nantua.

Geographie
Montréal-la-Cluse liegt auf , etwa zehn Kilometer südwestlich der Stadt Oyonnax und 27 km östlich der Präfektur Bourg-en-Bresse (Luftlinie). Das Dorf erstreckt sich im nördlichen Bugey, in der Ebene nordwestlich des Lac de Nantua im Jura, an der Ange am Eingang in das Juraquertal der Cluse de Nantua.

Die Fläche des  km² großen Gemeindegebiets umfasst einen Abschnitt des südlichen französischen Juras. Der westliche Teil liegt in der Ebene von Brion, die hier eine Breite von fast zwei km aufweist und eine Synklinale im Faltenjura bildet. Früher war die Ebene ein großes Sumpfgebiet, das nach der künstlichen Absenkung des Seespiegels des Lac de Nantua im Jahr 1856 drainiert und in Kulturland umgewandelt wurde. Die südliche Grenze verläuft entlang dem Abflusskanal Bras du Lac, welcher das Wasser dem Oignin zuführt. Auch die Ange aus dem Oyonnax-Tal durchfließt die Ebene und mündet bei Brion in den Oignin.

Begrenzt wird die Talebene im Westen vom Höhenzug bei Montréal. Nach Osten erstreckt sich das Gemeindeareal in das dicht bewaldete Gebiet des Hochjuras. Hier befinden sich das Plateau de Don (), das mit einer Felskante steil zum Lac de Nantua abfällt, das tief eingeschnittene Erosionstal des Dorfbachs von Le Landéron und das gegen Osten langsam ansteigende Hochplateau der Forêt de Montréal. In diesem Waldgebiet wird mit  die höchste Erhebung von Montréal-la-Cluse erreicht.

Die Gemeinde Montréal-la-Cluse besteht aus verschiedenen Dörfern und Weilern, nämlich:
Montréal () leicht erhöht am westlichen Rand der Talebene der Ange
La Cluse () an einem wichtigen Straßenkreuz am Nordwestufer des Lac de Nantua
La Croix-Chalon () in der Ebene an der Ange
Le Landéron () am östlichen Rand der Talebene der Ange
Le Grand Pont () in der Talebene der Ange

Nachbargemeinden von Montréal-la-Cluse sind Izernore und Martignat im Norden, Apremont im Osten, Nantua und Port im Süden sowie Brion und Béard-Géovreissiat im Westen.

Geschichte
Die früheste Siedlung auf dem heutigen Gemeindegebiet hieß Sénoche und befand sich in der Talniederung der Ange östlich des jetzigen Montréal. Nachdem die Herren von Thoire-Villars von 1244 bis 1248 auf einem Felssporn ihre Burg erbaut hatten, die sie Mons Regalis nannten, gaben die Bewohner von Sénoche ihre Siedlung auf, ließen sich am Fuß des Burghügels nieder und gründeten somit das Dorf Montréal. 1287 wurden dem Ort gewisse Freiheitsrechte zugesprochen. Unter Humbert VII. von Thoire-Villars wurden Burg und Dorf 1402 den Grafen von Savoyen verkauft, die von nun an befugt waren, den Kastlan von Montréal einzusetzen. Die Siedlung La Cluse entwickelte sich an der Stelle des einstigen Siechenhauses von Montréal.

Mit dem Vertrag von Lyon gelangte Montréal im Jahre 1601 an Frankreich. Unter König Heinrich IV. wurde die Burg Montréal 1602 abgerissen. Auf Veranlassung von Ludwig XIII. wurde die Burg 1622 jedoch wiederaufgebaut und Garnisonsstandort. Doch folgte bereits 1635 der erneute Abriss. Im 17. Jahrhundert ging die Herrschaft Montréal an die Familie Douglas über, welche bis zur Französischen Revolution hier residierte.

Im Jahr 1979 wurde Montréal offiziell in Montréal-la-Cluse umbenannt, da La Cluse am Straßenkreuz am Eingang in die Cluse de Nantua mittlerweile wesentlich größer geworden war als das Dorf Montréal.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
Die Pfarrkirche Saint-Maurice in Montréal wurde im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert im gotischen Stil errichtet; das Schiff hingegen wurde im 17. Jahrhundert weitgehend neu erbaut. Auf dem Felssporn oberhalb von Montréal sind Ruinen der einstigen Burg sichtbar. Auch auf dem Mont Bey befinden sich Ruinen eines ehemaligen Herrschaftssitzes. Zu den Natursehenswürdigkeiten zählt der Lac de Nantua, der in einem Becken eingebettet zwischen steilen, von Felsbändern durchzogenen Hängen liegt. Am Seeufer bei La Cluse gibt es einen schönen Park.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) gehört Montréal-la-Cluse zu den mittelgroßen Gemeinden des Département Ain. Seit Beginn der 1960er Jahre wurde eine markante Bevölkerungszunahme verzeichnet, verbunden mit einer Verdoppelung der Einwohnerzahl. Die Siedlungen La Cluse und Montréal sind heute schon fast zusammengewachsen. Die Ortsbewohner von Montréal-la-Cluse heißen auf Französisch Montréalais(es).

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur

Montréal-la-Cluse war bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein ein vorwiegend durch die Landwirtschaft und die Forstwirtschaft geprägtes Dorf. Im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelte sich La Cluse zu einem Industriestandort. An der verkehrstechnisch günstigen Lage in der Talebene westlich von La Cluse entstanden seit den 1970er Jahren größere Gewerbe- und Industriezonen. Hier siedelten sich Betriebe der Metallverarbeitung, der Kunststoffindustrie, der Möbelfabrikation und der feinmechanischen Industrie an.

Die Ortschaft ist verkehrsmäßig sehr gut erschlossen. Sie liegt an der Kreuzung der Departementsstraßen, die von Nantua nach Bourg-en-Bresse und von Oyonnax nach Pont-d'Ain führen. Der nächste Anschluss an die Autobahn A 404 (Saint-Martin-du-Frêne–Oyonnax), welche das Gemeindegebiet durchquert, befindet sich in einer Entfernung von rund zwei Kilometern. Im Weiteren liegt La Cluse an der Bahnstrecke Bourg-en-Bresse–Bellegarde mit Verbindungen nach Bourg-en-Bresse und Morez.

In Montréal-la-Cluse befinden sich zwei Vorschulen (école maternelle), eine staatliche Grundschule (école élémentaire) und eine Gesamtschule (collège).

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website der Gemeinde Montréal-la-Cluse (französisch)

Einzelnachweise

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