I've never used BitTorrent or anything else for that matter because I've never had any issues with uTorrent. I'd assume there can't be too many differences, I just like uTorrent because I can start a download, go off and browse MB/play poker/watch a movie and it never makes a peep or causes my other programs to stutter or lag.
Hey AwwSugar, found out the one I have is uTorrent. It's really good. Never had any problems with it at all. I highly recommend it!
2. The file itself, supported by a good number of seeds/peers, which is usually found on popular websites in which the file has been downloaded a lot and seeded a lot.
uTorrent is a client program that allows you to download the files.
There are other client programs that do the same thing, but uTorrent is a good one.
Once you've got a client program, you can just go on google and search for what you want, while adding the term "torrent" in the search. All the results you get will be results that are hosted by torrent sites.
This is the point where you'll need to wisely choose which torrent site to download the source file from. The source file is simply a small file that links your download through your client program.
What you should be looking for in a particular download is a high number of seeds and a decent number of peers.
The way torrents work is that you download pieces of the file from many different sources. These sources are generally people who've downloaded the same file. You're downloading pieces of the file from a lot of people who are "seeding" that file, aka, uploading portions of the file.
All together, you get high speeds if there are a lot of sources.
Your client program, aka uTorrent, is simply the program that assimilates all this into a workable solution. You should pay more attention to the torrent site and whether the file you wish to download is being supported with people who are seeding the file and are available to do so.
These parameters are: Seeds, and Peers.
Regardless of your client program, those are the two items you need to look at. The higher, the better.
I know all of this. ^_^ You aren't insulting my intelligence, just reiterating what I already know.
I know all of this, what I'm wondering is if it can harm your computer as much as... say Limewire.
Sorry to resurrect an ancient thread but I'm curious about current good sites. I'm new to the torrent thing and have been a little underwhelmed by the sites I've checked out (demonoid, isohunt).
I'd recommend Extratorrent, it's fairly easy to navigate and the torrents up there are mostly verified by mods so you don't have to worry about getting viruses.
How are they for jazz? That's one the things I've been striking out on.
I just looked it up, there's well over 2000 jazz torrents. Hopefully you find what you need.
Can someone explain to me what the advantage of torrents are to file sharing sites? To me they're more confusing, take longer to download, and there's a greater chance of getting caught.
So I'm just wondering why people bother with torrents?


An unusual thing happened as a series of shootings rocked Baltimore: People took notice, got organized and hit the streets to show their outrage.
In a city where the toll of violence is seldom met with palpable anger, a recent stretch that saw more than 40 shot and 16 killed touched off a series of anti-violence demonstrations that continued into Monday. Those behind the events included ministers and politicians, but also young professionals, fraternity members, a party promoter and longtime residents who are simply fed up.
"This tremendous stretch of crime has captured everyone's minds and has been an igniter to wake people up," said Lt. Col. Melvin Russell, a 34-year veteran who oversees the Police Department's community partnership division. "You get a huge swelling of people coming to the table. It will fall off, but you will have a stronger nucleus than it was before."
There are scores of community groups and activists who are regularly working to improve Baltimore, and many of those involved in the recent efforts say it is not their first time speaking out. But the recent violence has propelled activism to a level that has surprised even the most active advocates, who now wonder how the community can channel and maintain the energy.
On Monday, a group of ministers promised to take on a bigger role in violence prevention and activists held a peace rally and barbecue in East Baltimore. Recent days have seen a citywide prayer tour and calls for a 24-hour Baltimore "cease fire."
The most visible example of the increased passion came Friday night, when organizers said 600 men walked the length of North Avenue and back — about 10 miles — to protest violence. Among those who attended was 66-year-old Cornell Rigby of Northwest Baltimore, who said he came to the event after hearing about it on the radio.
"If we don't demonstrate, it's like saying [the gun violence] is OK, that society is accepting of it," said Rigby, who led call-and-response chants during the march. "We're redeeming ourselves, because we've been quiet too long."
Those involved in the efforts say many people don't pay attention to crime until an incident hits close to home. Others might want to get involved but have trouble figuring out how.
"It's just so challenging to figure out what to do," said the Rev. Scott Slater, of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, at a ceremony Monday in East Baltimore to dedicate a peace mural.
The Rev. Willie Ray has been trying to galvanize residents for decades, including an annual event that sought to get people to link hands along the length of North Avenue — but which sometimes drew only a handful of participants.
"It's a slow process, and you have to go with the flow," Ray said. "You find a few people that's going in your direction, and you roll with it."
At the corner of Broadway and North Avenue, where Marques Dent sold snow cones for three summers as a child, the former Air Force captain threw a peace rally on Monday afternoon complete with a DJ, grilled hot dogs and drinks.
"Baltimore's small," said Dent, who grew up in the area and started an IT job-training nonprofit when he got out of the Air Force in January. "It might not be my cousin, but it might be the cousin of someone I know. I have several friends who have been affected. They say, 'I'm tired of going to funerals.'"
Dent said the violence has shaken Baltimore because it seems to be on the uptick, with few answers as to why.
"People are upset — they're upset with our law enforcement, they're upset with our legislature, they're upset with our community leaders," he said. "People can't be dropping like flies just because it's hot outside."
Akintola Marke, who stopped by the rally at Broadway and North Avenue in front of the new Apples and Oranges grocery store, said he felt people still weren't paying enough attention.
"We're talking about people being murdered, but what are we doing to prevent it?" said Marke, 24, a recent Towson University graduate from the Atlanta suburbs. He said his interest in mentoring at-risk youth has grown with the "alarming rate" of shootings.
"It starts with us being the change that we want to see," he said.
Munir Bahar, a 32-year-old who owns a fitness facility on Washington Boulevard, has been inundated with phone calls and messages since Friday's North Avenue march drew a larger-than-expected turnout, including a guest appearance by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. The event came together in about a week and exceeded the goal set in its title: the 300 Men March.
"A lot of people are asking 'What's next?' and I say, 'Ask yourself what's next,'" Bahar said. "I've been in the trenches a while — the problem is getting other men to get in and get in the trenches too."
Bahar's event was promoted entirely through word of mouth and social media. Among those who helped get the word out was Keenan Richardson, a 22-year-old Morgan State University student whose "Mr. Baltimore" Twitter account is typically full of posts promoting the hottest area parties. He found out about the march from a friend and decided to push it as a public service.
"I felt as though, if I'm getting large sums of people to come out to different [nightlife] events, why not get them to support something that's easily way more important," Richardson said. "This was about men standing up to fight, not in the literal way, but fight the odds, [to say] that all men don't kill, all men don't take out their anger with a gun."
Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts joined Rawlings-Blake in sending off the marchers. Since taking over the department, Batts created a division to forge stronger partnerships with churches and the community, led by Russell, a minister who for years led the department's Eastern District.
A key to Batts' tenures as police chief in the California cities of Long Beach and Oakland was support of clergy, and on Monday in West Baltimore, members of the Baptist Ministers Conference of Baltimore and Vicinity held a news conference where they cheered his efforts but said more must be done.
John Lunn Sr., the group's president, said churches would renew their efforts to connect with residents.
"No longer are we just going to walk with police officers, but walk our blocks and talk to our people ourselves," Lunn said.
At Collington Square Elementary/Middle School in East Baltimore, the Episcopal Community Services of Maryland unveiled a peace mural that had been in the works since the organization obtained a grant for a project with a "pay it forward" theme. But violence was a recurring topic as they talked to community members about what it should depict.
The end result was a mural showing a group of individuals holding hands and working together.
"It does take on extra meaning," said acting executive director Nancy Fenton, referring to the recent violence.
City Councilman Carl Stokes attended the event and said groups such as the nonprofit have been consistent in fighting violence through the services they offer.
What he's seen more of in recent weeks, he said, are people who typically are not engaged with the community stepping forward to express outrage that more isn't being done. He said he hopes they connect with the groups already working on addressing the violence and its root causes.
Richard Parker, 35, of Southwest Baltimore is among those looking to become more involved. He started a campaign last month called "My Corner. My Street" and hopes to get residents out of their houses every Friday in August, whether for prayer, cookouts or games of chess. He said he has reached out to Bahar, the march organizer, and others.
"Any people who are doing anything, I'm grateful to be a part of it," Parker said. "Too many people have formed organizations that become more about the organization than the movement. We have to join together."
Baltimore Sun reporters Justin George and Carrie Wells contributed to this article.


In his book, The Joy of Bird Feeding, Jim Carpenter notes that one secret to attracting a diversity and abundance of birds to your feeders is to provide seeds and others foods that are suited to the birds found in your area in season. Food preferences vary from species to species and from region to region. For example, chickadees and titmice prefer black-oil sunflower seeds and sunflower chips over white millet. Many native sparrows and juncos, however, prefer white millet over black-oil sunflower seeds.
The easiest and best way to find out what foods the birds in your area prefer is to speak with the knowledgeable staff at a wild bird retail store. Another good start is to refer to the PROJECT WILDBIRD food and feeder preference chart. This guide was developed by the Wild Bird Feeding Industry and uses data from hundreds of citizen scientists who followed a scientific protocol to determine bird preferences for foods and feeder types. The chart provides information for 15 species of birds that commonly use backyard feeding stations, and it assesses 10 seed and food types, as well as thee basic types of feeders.
Provide the right foods in the right feeders, and you'll attract a fascinating assortment of birds to your yard. If you provide seeds that are not appealing to the birds in your area, you'll be less successful and also end up with uneaten seed that makes a mess and may attract less desirable visitors such as rodents.


At first glance, UV Skinz showcases quite the array of summertime clothing geared toward protecting you from the sun. A closer look at this remarkable brand, and you'll quickly and clearly see their passion and penchant for what they stand for is hardly just skin deep.
Beyond UV Skinz being home to fashionable and stylish outerwear for men, women and kids, this brand boasts quite the practical twist: their products all are certified UPF 50 plus, giving consumers peace of mind that they'll be protected from the sun to the tune of 98% of UV rays blocked. The UV protectiveness comes from the tight fabric weave .
UV Skinz and Chief Executive Officer Rhonda Sparks deserve high praise for not only constructing clothing that shields their customers from the sun also piecing together designs that might easily make your forget the practicality and duality of everything they offer.
And for Sparks, the creation of UV Skinz goes far beyond the formulaic approach of devising a business plan or selling merchandise. For her, UV Skinz was underscored with a personal tone and fueled by touching sentimentality.
"I started the company after losing my husband to melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer," Sparks recalls. "The other piece to the company, above and beyond making a dollar, is we are completely head over heels passionate about bringing awareness to sun protection."
Those who have had the pleasure of dealing with UV Skinz at one of the many non profit events they're participating in or have ordered from the web site, quickly come to the determination that this brand truly believes in the cause of education when it comes to skin cancer and sun protection.
"We put activity sheets into shipments that go out to kids (such as circle the animals that are using protective products) or including a UV detector key chain, a little item you can put on a back pack or purse. It will change colors with the intensity of the rays," Sparks says.
And, of course, you would be doing a disservice to the overall ideology of UV Skinz if you didn't mention how incredibly active they are from a charitable standpoint.
"We participate in non profit events, and May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and we partner with medical offices around the nation. We believe sun protection should start with the littlest member of the family all the way up. No baby especially should feel what sunburn is like," Sparks says.
The remarkably robust online retail sector could use more companies like UV Skinz. This organization not only manages to combine a uniquely functional concept but has a compelling, heartfelt and emotionally charged story to tell, one that inspired the business and thus cultivated a powerful mission statement that is hard not to rally behind and universally laud for its genuineness.
The clothing, from its style, substance and price point, doesn't hurt, either.
"Only a few companies on the market are selling sun protecting apparel, and they were very pricey. We're not going to gauge customers with crazy pricing. After years of research, there definitely was wiggle room to reduce pricing and keep quality the same, if not better. And that's been really rewarding," Sparks says.
Equally rewarding for Sparks is the inane ability to create clothing that protects you from the sun that consumers actually want to wear.
"Stuff doesn't have to be ugly; that's definitely what was on the market; " Sparks says. "You want to wear it, and you want kids to wear it. That was a big challenge. We wanted really fun and fashionable designs, not just solid colors or nothing fancy at all. We do a lot of fun designs on our products."
Any competent, cognizant and coherent company knows that your business needs to grow every minute of every day, year by year to achieve maximum success. UV Skinz clearly has positioned itself as a retailer on the cusp of changing the landscape of clothing as it relates to protection from the sun.
"The biggest dream of mine is to make sun protection, in particular UV Skinz, a household name," Sparks says. "Definitely to be number one choice of adults when they think of when they need sun protection. We just broke into the kids camps and swim schools, hotels and resort are on the horizon, too."
But UV Skinz isn't content on just that aspect of their business. Sparks and company want to usher in a totally different mindset when it comes to sun protection and how shading yourself from it is absolutely paramount.
Those who have had the chance to buy and wear UV Skinz and communicate just how satisfied and grateful they are for the products assures Sparks that she's accomplishing exactly what she set out to do eight years ago when she created the company.
"We get testimonials all the time," Sparks says. "We just launched our Spring catalog, and we have a section in it called 'community corner.' "We did an article on a little girl who lost her life at 17 months due to skin cancer passed in utero through her mother. A young boy had 50% of his body burned, and we helped him with our products."
"Those are the stories that keep us going."


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Laboratory measurements of mineral dust scattering phase function and linear polarization
Robert A. West, Lyn R. Doose, Andrew M. Eibl, Martin G Tomasko, Michael I. Mishchenko
Lunar and Planetary Lab
With the goal of improving our understanding of how small mineral dust particles scatter light at visible and near-infrared wavelengths, we measured the scattering phase function and linear polarization of small mineral dust particles over the scattering angle range 15°-170° at three wavelengths (0.47, 0.652, and 0.937 μm). Particle samples were obtained from Duke Scientific Corp., and include aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, aluminum silicate, antimony oxide, calcium carbonate, and cerium oxide. Particle equivalent-sphere radii range from a few tenths of a micron to about 10 μm. The particles were injected into a laboratory chamber, where they scattered light as they fell through the air. They were collected on a scanning electron micrograph (SEM) substrate. Particle shapes and sizes were then measured from the SEM images. We compare measured phase functions with those calculated for spheroids with a distribution of axial ratios and sizes, random orientation, and refractive index 1.53 + 0.008i [Mishchenko et al., this issue]. Two of the samples (one of which has a refractive index close to that used in theoretical computations) produced scattering phase functions that were quite similar to those for spheroids. Two samples produced phase functions whose variation between 15° and 170° was much less than that for the spheroids or for the other samples. We suspect this difference may be due to the very high refractive index of those particles, although differences in particle microstructure may also be important. Two samples produced positive linear polarization which had a single broad maximum near 100° scattering angle, and a magnitude greater than 40% at some wavelengths. Two samples had generally positive linear polarization but a more complicated structure, and two samples produced mostly negative polarization whose amplitude was small. We do not have numerical results for the appropriate refractive index and size parameter with which to compare the polarization measurements. We hope the questions raised by this work will stimulate additional effort to develop and test numerical codes for scattering by nonspherical particles.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Published - Jul 27 1997
linear polarization
Particles (particulate matter)
Aluminum Silicates
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Space and Planetary Science
Astronomy and Astrophysics
West, R. A., Doose, L. R., Eibl, A. M., Tomasko, M. G., & Mishchenko, M. I. (1997). Laboratory measurements of mineral dust scattering phase function and linear polarization. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 102(14), 16871-16881.
Laboratory measurements of mineral dust scattering phase function and linear polarization. / West, Robert A.; Doose, Lyn R.; Eibl, Andrew M.; Tomasko, Martin G; Mishchenko, Michael I.
In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Vol. 102, No. 14, 27.07.1997, p. 16871-16881.
West, RA, Doose, LR, Eibl, AM, Tomasko, MG & Mishchenko, MI 1997, 'Laboratory measurements of mineral dust scattering phase function and linear polarization', Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, vol. 102, no. 14, pp. 16871-16881.
West RA, Doose LR, Eibl AM, Tomasko MG, Mishchenko MI. Laboratory measurements of mineral dust scattering phase function and linear polarization. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 1997 Jul 27;102(14):16871-16881.
West, Robert A. ; Doose, Lyn R. ; Eibl, Andrew M. ; Tomasko, Martin G ; Mishchenko, Michael I. / Laboratory measurements of mineral dust scattering phase function and linear polarization. In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 1997 ; Vol. 102, No. 14. pp. 16871-16881.
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In this ultimate issue Dirk Flinthart delivers a rollicking good tale with pirates & Patti Kurtz has a rotten time with elves ("Really, the last thing I wanted to do was trudge through a raging thunderstorm with an Elf" goes the first line, so you know you're in for an adventure right there.) My AA-winning story A Scar for Leida (with witches!) is reprinted along with an interview where the editor asks me why people keep thinking I write YA fiction.
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Press Releases Press Enquiries
【The Hong Kong Arts Centre】
The 5th Collectors' Contemporary Collaboration
Traversing the diversity of Chinese contemporary art and collections
Venue: Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 27 March – 22 April 2019
Organised by【The Hong Kong Arts Centre】(HKAC), the 5th Collectors' Contemporary Collaboration will be held from 27 March to 22 April at the Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre. The exhibition explores distinctive collections and Chinese contemporary art archives for audiences to understand the development of China's contemporary art scene over the years. Presenting the collections of three renowned collectors from China – Guan Yi, Lu Xun and Zheng Hao alongside archives from prominent scholars and curators Fei Dawei and Gao Minglu to explore the development of Chinese contemporary art, the exhibition unravels the diverse features and history of contemporary art and collections in China.
Ling Min, curator of this exhibition, is an associate professor in art history at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University. She has created a platform for the public viewing of contemporary art development in China. In recent decades, Chinese contemporary art has evolved in a multifaceted manner alongside the economic and social development in the region, and marched into several remarkable stages since the 1970s. The private art collection market in China has been growing disruptively. The phenomenon began with the rise of contemporary arts collection, hitherto, resulted in a vigorous growth in arts market in China. The exhibition introduces the contributions and influences to the development of artists and arts industry by collectors.
"This exhibition outlines contemporary art in China from three different collector aspects through collections and archives. Due to the vast size of China, the art scene in different regions largely varies from each other and this 5th edition focuses primarily on private collections in the eastern and coastal areas to review the history of leading cities," says Ling Min, curator of the 5th Collectors' Contemporary Collaboration.
The Collectors' Contemporary Collaboration has been hosted by the Hong Kong Arts Centre since 2013 and endeavours to explore the diversity and development of contemporary art collections, as well as encourage dialogue between art lovers through public viewings of private art collections. Embarking on its 5th edition, the exhibition diverts its spotlight to three collectors whose collections are all unique in genre and style, enabling audiences to experience multiple perspectives of Chinese contemporary art.
Guan Yi will present a selection from his collection including "Today No Water 1/5" (1985) [2005 edition], a large-character poster created by Wu Shanzhuan, and Zhong Ming's art piece "He is Himself—Sartre" (1980), which has stirred controversy from the art scene on two issues - "Should artists have their own personalities?" and the topic of "self-expression".
Lu Xun will introduce the architectural project for "Sifang Art Museum" (2013) designed by celebrated American architect, Steven Holl which highlights the intricate process of close cooperation between collectors, artists and architects. Photo documentation of "Movement Field" (2016), the permanent resident artwork at Sifang Art Museum by Xu Zhen from his series of works starting in 2013 will also be presented, showcasing works that incorporate green turf forming irregular and intertwined routes. "Your Future's Bleak, You're So Last Week." (2014) by Hong Kong artist Lee Kit will also be exhibited.
Zheng Hao has collected over 300 pieces of artwork created by German conceptual artist, Joseph Beuys. This exhibition marks the first presentation of Beuys's work at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, including the renowned "White Rabbit" (1979), and the well-known photography work "We Are the Revolution" (1972) which showcases the big step forward Beuys took in his work hinting on his artistic life and determination to devote himself to society.
Gao Minglu will present the archives from the exhibition China/Avant-Garde (1989). The exhibition was the first avant-garde contemporary art exhibition to be held in China Art Gallery. It focused on experimental art, which presented contemporary art practices from all around the country.
Fei Dawei will introduce the archives from Chine Demain pour Hier (1990, France) and Exceptional Passage (1991, Japan), the two exhibitions he curated in early 90's. The archives present the state of the early oversea exhibitions by Chinese contemporary artists, which mark the important moment of showcasing Chinese contemporary art in the international art scene at the time.
"The Annual Collector's Contemporary Collaboration fosters partnerships between collectors and the Hong Kong Arts Centre, and provides audiences the opportunity to explore the roles collectors have in Asia and further understand their contributions to the art scene and the development of artists through their personal collections. It also provides an opportunity for the public to trace the history and development of a city," says Connie Lam, Executive Director of the HKAC.
A series of public programmes will also be held during the exhibition, including lectures, screenings, and guided tours. Details will be announced shortly.
Time: Monday to Sunday, 10am – 8pm
Programme Enquiries: 2582 0200/hkac@hkac.org.hk
Screening session co-presented by HKAC and Goethe-Institut Hongkong: Beuys
Date: 30 March 2019 (Saturday)
Venue: Black Box Studio, Goethe-Institut Hongkong
Director: Andres Veiel
Length: 107 minutes
Remarks: In German and English with English subtitles
High-resolution images can be downloaded here:
Link: http://gallery.sinclaircomms.com/
Password: talkofthetown
Guan Yi
Wu Shan Zhuan
Today No Water 1/5
1985 (2005 edition)
Photo courtesy of the artwork collector Guan Yi
Zhong Ming
He is Himself - Sartre
Zheng Hao
We Are The Revolution
Print on polyester sheet
Photo courtesy of the How Art Museum
Silkscreen print on filing card
Xu Zhen
Movement Field
Photo documentation of installation
Photo courtesy of the Sifang Art Museum
Lee Kit
Your Future's Bleak, You're So Last Week.
Print on paper
For more information, please contact Sinclair at (852) 2915 1234:
Sheriza Wadhwani | sheriza@sinclaircomms.com | (852) 9128 8151
Vivian Tsang | vivian@sinclaircomms.com | (852) 9509 0023
About Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) - The relevant destination for arts and creative inspirations in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Arts Centre is a multi-arts centre that fosters artistic exchanges locally and internationally, bringing the most forward creations to Hong Kong and showcasing home grown talents abroad. The HKAC stimulates innovation and promotes creativity. Being Hong Kong's only independent non-profit multi-arts institution, the HKAC offers exhibitions, screenings and performances, connecting the arts of Hong Kong to the rest of the world through programmes and collaborations. Come to the HKAC to experience, appreciate, learn and be inspired by arts.
http://hkac.org.hk
About Curator
Professor Ling Min is an associate professor in art history and tutor of graduate students in modern and contemporary art history at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University. She also served as research scholar in art curation at Goldsmiths, University of London, visiting lecturer in art curation at Liverpool John Moores University, and participated in leadership placement for Liverpool Biennial.
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Zheng Hao, a cultural entrepreneur, he is committed to building an art complex integrating with art, design, technology and education. In 2013, he established How Art Museum in Wenzhou, creating a new design cross-border integration platform which facilitates cross-fields exchanges and cooperation. He continues to present public education and outdoor art projects to the public, leading a new lifestyle which integrates art, design and technology.
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Gao Minglu, born in 1949, Tianjin, is a research professor in the Department of Art History and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1978, he was admitted to the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, received his master's degree from the Chinese National Academy of Arts and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China through the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. He then studied art history at The Ohio State University and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. From 1984 to 1990, GAO served as editor of Art magazine and assisted in the editorial work of Fine Arts in China. During this period, he engaged in a wide range of writing and curatorial projects relating to the development of experimental art in China, and especially curating '85 Youth Art Movement Large-scale Slide Show and Academic Symposium (Zhuhai Conference, 1986) and China/Avant-Garde Art Exhibition in 1989, to promoting the '85 New Wave Art movement.


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"Ant tribe" (simplified Chinese: 蚁族; traditional Chinese: 蟻族; pinyin: yǐzú; Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄧˇㄗㄨˊ) is a neologism for a group of low-income university graduates who settle for a poverty-level existence in the cities of China. Those who belong to the ant tribe class hope that, in time, they will find the jobs for which they were trained in college. Lian Si (Chinese: 廉思), then a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University, coined the term "ant tribe" to draw a comparison between the lives of these college graduates and ants: "They share every similarity with ants. They live in colonies in cramped areas. They're intelligent and hardworking, yet anonymous and underpaid."[1] Typically consisting of those born during and after the 1980s, the ant tribe is considered the fourth disadvantaged social class in the Chinese social paradigm, alongside the traditionally disadvantaged classes of the peasantry, the migrant workers, and those formerly employed by government-owned corporations and left unemployed by the economic reform in China.
A Chinese paradigm
After reading "The Down Youth" (Chinese: 向下的青春),[citation needed] an article in China Newsweek[nb 1] about the difficult living conditions of college graduates born in the 1980s, the PKU social scientist Lian Si began to research the living conditions of college graduates. Lian found that there was a similarity between the hard-working, smart and "stuck on the ground" ants and the struggling crowds of city-dwelling college graduates. This led Lian to coin the viral phrase "ant tribe".[1][3][4] The college graduates, with degrees in economics, engineering, management and medicine, and based upon a seven-city survey are earning on average US$286 (CNY 1,904) a month as reported in 2010. The 2010 Annual Report on the Development of Chinese Talent, which reports the results of another survey, estimates that there are 1 million people who fit the definition of ant tribe members living in slum conditions.[1]
A key characteristic of the ant tribe is their optimism. After completing their college education, the young people often seek to stay in urban areas to maximize their career prospects. As a result, they accept the short-term consequences of starting-level positions for which they are over-qualified, believing that they will rise to their desired job level in time. There's a correlation between the prestige of one's degree and the size of the city that they hope to eventually stay in. Students from the best colleges generally flock to big cities, while students who have only completed vocational training are more likely to vie for positions in smaller cities.[5][6][7]
To control costs, ant tribe people are likely to rent small rooms or share a crowded small apartment in the city slums. Accommodations are often spartan: little furniture and no air conditioning, even as the temperatures in the major cities of China frequently exceed 100 °F (38 °C). Some ant tribe dwellings have no window and many utilize a shared bath, unless their owners are able and willing to shoulder the costs for a private bath.[8] Some have no access to hot water or heating.[9] These apartments, while located in the major cities of China and host college-educated people, are noted to resemble slums in third-world countries.[8]
Some of the factors that made the plights of the ant tribe possible and difficult to surmount in China are:
General economic and market factors
Rising housing costs, as much as 33% increase over recent years[when?] and a 9.5% increase from 2009 to 2010, have made it very difficult to find affordable housing. Successful programs to recruit college students has resulted in a large number of individuals seeking professional positions. In 1998 the program to build the number of professionals saw the successful number of graduates reach 830,000. The number rose to 6 million by May, 2009. However, there were no reciprocal programs to ensure that professional positions would be available for these new graduates.[7][8][9]
In 1996, China began expanding university enrollment to meet growing demands of educated laborers, which contributed to the deflation of the undergraduate degree. Excessive enrollment and ignorance of professional training skills massively inflated the raw number of college graduates, while the market demanded more technical laborers.[7][8][9] As a result, the skill set of Chinese college graduates became undesirable to the growing market.
Wages in many positions have been cut between 50 and 100% in large cities because of the large number of people entering the job markets there, making wages lower than factory workers. Regarding alternative temporary jobs, these young adults may accept jobs where their wage is subject to aggressive sales quotas that, if unmet, lowers their actual wage. Wages for professional positions has not seen a substantial change up or down. Consequently, even if the ant tribe people eventually attain their desired job level, these jobs would worth even less due to increases in the cost of living. Due to the structure of China's economy, the demand for uneducated manual laborers to work in manufacturing has soared, resulting in an up to an 80% increase in pay over the six-year period between 2003 and 2009.[7][8][9]
Socio-economic factors
Most of the ant tribe come from rural or less developed districts, and many are raised in uneducated agricultural families. Graduates who come from a rural background may not have the social skills and connections ("guanxi") important in building a successful career. People who have migrated into the city are not eligible for government supported programs, such as social welfare benefits and subsidized housing. Traditionally, those who have migrated from rural towns to the cities consider it shameful to seek work in their hometown. Often, their parents have endured significant hardship to support the student through college and placed hopes of attaining a higher living standard in the cities upon those college graduates. To many in the ant tribe, it is preferable to stay in the city regardless of the living and working conditions, even if many of them cannot even afford to travel home during Chinese New Year, traditionally a time for family reunion. As of 2012, the 80s generation are approaching the age when they are socially pressured to marry and to have children, which requires even better living conditions.[7][8][9][10][11]
If more opportunities do not become available for the 1980s generation, their dissatisfaction presents a significant socio-economic challenge for the Chinese government.[9]
As the result of publicity of Lian's book on the ant tribe, representatives from the National People's Congress (NPC) visited Tangjialing, a district of Beijing reportedly with the largest population of ant tribe people, to review the situation. Following their review, a plan was developed by the local government to improve the ant tribe's living conditions.[3] About 50,000 young people were displaced to nearby villages as Tangjialing prepared to begin demolition and reconstruction of the area.[8]
In the meantime, many of the people that Lian originally studied are still living a marginal existence.[4] To them, living in a large city means living a poor life due to the higher cost of living. There may be a general trend for young people to move to smaller and mid-sized cities as Chinese companies relocate to those areas from the larger cities to control their costs.[6][9] Another strategy these young adults employ is to modify their career goals by seeking highly demanded positions in the medical industry, such as nursing; or education.[7] Instead of flocking to big cities in search of the American Dream, social scientists encourage them to try their luck in smaller cities. Rather than being blinded by the glamor of success in a big city, "they should gain more insight into their own strengths and weakness, in order for them to make the right decisions."[12]
To relieve the pressure felt by the ant tribe and caused by the rapidly increasing real estate prices, the Chinese government has taken some actions, such as lowering taxes, constructing cheaper rental apartments, and legislating a higher minimum wage.
Another proposed solution is for universities to limit their enrollments and to establish undergraduate curricula that more specifically aimed at fields with attainable jobs.[13]
Song composed by Li Liguo and Bai Wanlong which expresses the feeling of the ant tribe.
The Struggle of Ant Tribe (Chinese: 蚁族的奋斗, or 我要怒放的生命)
Comparison to other countries & regions
Generally, the rate of unemployment is much reduced for individuals with college or university degrees. As of 2008, there were only four countries where the largest share of the unemployed were made up of people with college or university degrees: Taiwan, Belarus, Peru and the United States.[14]
In Asia, based upon an International Labour Organization (ILO) report from 2010, there is a lower job participation rate by young adults, which may make them another "Lost generation." This is partially due to college graduates leaving their homelands to find jobs in other countries resulting in a "brain drain".[15]
In Palestine there are about 45,000 people entering the job market each year (no identification of number or percentage of college graduates), the Palestinian Employment and Social Protection Fund is working to expand employment opportunities, including those for college graduates.[16]
In Egypt, 90% of the unemployed are younger than 30 years of age, this is partly due to different expectations between employers and college graduates of the skills required for gainful employment and a lack of support for graduating young adults for a successful "school-to-work" transition. An International Labour Organization project is being initiated to "modernize" Egypt's employment office services to better support the transition of young adults into the workforce.[17]
In Hong Kong SAR, a Youth Preemployment Training Programme was developed to help ease graduates into the workforce. About 2000, 50% of graduates interested in attaining employment found good jobs. Further monies were provided to the program at the turn of the decade to continue the program.[18]
In Indonesia, where the rate of college graduates in the labor force has been increasing over the past 30 years, the rate of employment is higher for those with college degrees than those who have not graduated from college, therefore governmental programs to address unemployment among young adults focuses on training programs to develop marketable skills. The government also encourages university graduates to establish their own businesses.[19]
Rat tribe
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^ China Newsweek is not affiliated from the United States Newsweek publication. It was founded as is managed by China News Service.[2]
^ a b c "China's 'ant tribe' still struggling." China Daily. December 14, 2010.
^ China Media Guide. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
^ a b Xiao, Zhang. (January 5, 2011). "Ant Tribe leader marches forward." China Daily. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
^ a b Yao, Li. (January 6, 2011). "Prof bonds with ant tribe." China Daily. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
^ '"Ant tribe" grows bigger.' China Daily. December 20, 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
^ a b Hongyi, Wang. (August 19, 2010). 'Ant tribe' should try luck in smaller cities: poll. China Daily. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
^ a b c d e f Jacobs, Andrew. (December 11, 2010). "China's Army of Graduates Struggle for Jobs." The New York Times. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
^ a b c d e f g Wei, Wang. (August 8, 2010). Ant tribe swams to new villages. China Daily. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
^ a b c d e f g Jennings, Ralph (writer); Pomfret, James (reporter); Goldin Megan (editor). (February 17, 2010) China's "ant tribe" poses policy challenge for Beijing. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
^ Looking at city "ant tribes" is the starting point to solve the problem. Tencent News. February 22, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2012. (Translated).
^ Siew, Chen; Yahong Li. (January 13, 2010). China's 'Ant Tribe': Between Dreams and Reality. Archived March 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine IPS News. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
^ 'Ant tribe' should try luck in smaller cities: poll. China.org. August 19, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
^ The Ant Tribe's solutions. WIX.com. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
^ Educational attainment and illiteracy International Labour Organization. pp. 8–9. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
^ Clifford, Mark L.; Pau, Janet. (2011). "Through the Eyes of Tiger Cubs: Views of Asia's Next Generation." John Wiley & Sons (Asia). p. 27-28. ISBN 978-1-118-09463-1.
^ ILO–Palestinian Authority Agreement International Labour Organization. p. 52.
^ "Decent work for Africa's Youth" International Labour Organization. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
^ Hong Kong: Active Labour Market Policy Youth Employment in Asia and the Pacific: Analytical Framework and Policy Recommendations, International Labour Organization. pp. 64–65. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
^ Indonesia. Youth Employment in Asia and the Pacific: Analytical Framework and Policy Recommendations, International Labour Organization. pp. 65–72. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
Lian, Si. (editor). (2009). Ant Tribe: A Record of Inhabited Village of University Graduates. (Chinese: 蚁族:大学毕业生聚居村实录). Guangxi Normal University Publishing House.
Lian, Si. (2010). Ant Tribe II: Whose Era Is It. (Chinese: 谁的时代(2010中国"蚁族"生存报告)). Zhongxin Publishing House.
Yan, Huan. (2010). Ant Tribe: Place Our Youth in the Ant Cave. (Chinese: 蚁族:蚁穴中安放的青春). The Northern Women and Children Publishing House.
Cheng, Baoyan. (2011). "Student Loans in China: Efficiency, Equity and Social Justice." Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. pp. 7–11. ISBN 978-0-7391-4550-0.
"China: From an Active Employment Policy to Employment Promotion Law. Coping with economic restructuring and labour market adjustments." International Labour Organization. November 20, 2011. ISBN 978-92-2-125442-3.
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China's Hotel Recovery Evaporated in 2 Weeks
China must weigh whether the economic pain is worth the price of such tough lockdown measures in response to outbreaks that pale in comparison to those seen in markets like the U.S.
China, usually seen as the global leader in the hotel industry's recovery from the pandemic, took a massive fall last week in its hospitality comeback due to the Delta variant. Prior industry optimism about the country's ability to quickly rally after a setback doesn't seem to apply this time around.
Average occupancy rates across Mainland China fell from 70 percent to just shy of 40 percent in a matter of two weeks, according to STR's most recent data. Revenue per available room, the hotel industry's key performance metric, is now at roughly half of 2019 levels.
The swift descent stems from the country's tough crackdown policies and travel restrictions, which led economists to lower expectations on the country's economic recovery trajectory. The hotel downturn is a brutal collapse for a country that saw at points last month mid-week occupancy rates — typically when business travel occurs — reach close to 80 percent, an outperformance of 2019 levels.
"We know from many places globally that Delta is harder to shut down and it spreads faster," Jesper Palmqvist, the Asia Pacific area director at STR, told Skift via email. "In light of this, and even if for previous outbreaks we've seen faster and more V-shaped recoveries, we now expect a somewhat slower and more U-shaped pickup this time."
The latest outbreak, impacting more than half of the country's provinces and municipal regions, is significantly more widespread than the Delta variant outbreak in Guangdong province in late spring. Even that smaller outbreak earlier this year took longer to recover from than prior case surges in China.
The weaker efficacy of Chinese vaccines like Sinovac compared to those from companies like Pfizer and Moderna are helping fuel the rapid spread, analysts say. China has responded to the latest outbreak with another round of lockdowns and travel advisories, but they are more widespread this time compared to the more concentrated Guangdong outbreak.
Government leaders are reportedly considering the economic feasibility of this type of mitigation effort, especially in the greater context of the virus. China reported 82 new cases yesterday and 811 in the last week, according to Johns Hopkins University & Medicine. The U.S. — with its economy largely open — reported 135,177 new cases yesterday and 859,515 in the last week.
"I don't think 'zero tolerance' can be sustained," Xi Chen, a health economist at the Yale School of Public Health, told the Associated Press this month regarding China's containment policy. "Even if you can lock down all the regions in China, people might still die, and more might die due to hunger or loss of jobs."
Premature Celebration
Leaders at hotel companies like Marriott have touted China's ability to quickly contain an outbreak and generally regain its recovery momentum within a matter of two weeks, as previously seen with outbreaks in Beijing last winter and summer.
Those tough measures, coupled with China's essentially sealed international borders and strong domestic travel base, played a major part in hotel companies seeing their strongest performance in China for a bulk of the pandemic.
But the longer snap back from the Guangdong outbreak and now this latest case is a fresh reminder the recovery from the pandemic is extremely uncertain, even in countries with the most stringent containment efforts.
It's the latest wake-up call for a hotel industry that has appeared overly optimistic in recent weeks about its recovery trajectory in spite of rising cases around the world.
While Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano on the company's most recent investor call touted Mainland China for exceeding pre-pandemic performance levels in April and May, he acknowledged there was a setback in June due to the Guangdong outbreak. Marriott leaders expected a snap back in July, but it isn't public yet how much the company was impacted by the latest Delta cases.
Hilton CEO Christopher Nassetta similarly noted April and May exceeded 2019 performance levels at the company before sliding in June and later regaining steam. IHG CEO Keith Barr remarked "China is back to normal" earlier this week on an investor call.
The latest data suggests otherwise.
Tags: china, coronavirus, coronavirus recovery, hilton, ihg, marriott
Photo credit: China's latest outbreak of new cases is believed to have originated from a flight into Nanjing (pictured). Pxhere


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Die Saldenburg, später auch als Schloss Saldenburg bezeichnet, ist eine der Burgen des Dreiburgenlandes und wird wegen des charakteristischen Aussehens des Hauptwohngebäudes im Volksmund "Waldlaterne" genannt. Die Burg gab der Ortschaft Saldenburg im niederbayerischen Landkreis Freyung-Grafenau den Namen und war Herrschaftssitz der geschlossenen Hofmark Saldenburg. Die Gipfelburg ist weithin über Höhen und Täler sichtbar. Die Anlage wird als Bodendenkmal unter der Aktennummer D-2-7246-0020 im Bayernatlas als "untertägige Befunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit im Bereich der zu großen Teilen abgegangenen Burg Saldenburg" geführt. Ebenso ist sie unter der Aktennummer D-2-72-142-1 als denkmalgeschütztes Baudenkmal von Saldenburg verzeichnet.

Geschichte
Burg Saldenburg, deren Namen mit Glücksburg übersetzt wird, wurde ab 1368 von Ritter Heinrich Tuschl von Söldenau im Auftrag der Grafen von Hals erbaut. Vermutlich sollte die Burg der Sicherung einer Handelsstraße nach Böhmen sowie als Grenzbefestigung zum Hochstift Passau dienen.

1388 verkaufte Schweiker III. Tuschl die Burg an die bayerischen Herzöge, die sie 1389 für 30.200 Gulden an Ulrich den Egger verkauften. 1446 erbte nach Ableben seines Schwiegervaters Peter von Egg Graf Heinrich von Ortenburg die Burg. 1468 kam sie über Elisabeth von Törring, die zweite Ehefrau und Witwe Heinrichs, in den Besitz des Hans Gewolf von Degenberg. Da er Mitglied im Böcklerbund war, belagerte Herzog Ludwig IX. der Reiche die Burg und erzwang eine Übergabe im Jahr 1468. Dabei wurde die Burg allerdings nur wenig beschädigt. Von 1479 bis 1587 hielten sie die Grafen von Ortenburg erneut. Die älteste Ansicht Saldenburgs findet sich in den Landtafeln Apians von 1566.

Nach weiteren Besitzerwechseln erhielten sie als Allod die Grafen von Preysing-Moos. Unter ihnen wurde die etwas heruntergekommene Burg 1682 von Enrico Zuccalli barockisiert, weshalb man auch von "Schloss Saldenburg" spricht. 1742 wurde es von den Panduren in Brand gesteckt.

Der letzte Preysing auf Saldenburg, Graf Kaspar II., vermachte das Schlossgut 1826 seinem Firmpaten, dem Oberleutnant und Kammerjunker Kaspar Freiherr von Berchem. 1848 ging die Saldenburg in den Besitz des Bayerischen Staates über. Seit 1928 befindet sich die Burg im Besitz des Deutschen Jugendherbergswerks Landesverband Bayern e. V., der seit dieser Zeit im gesamten Gebäude eine Jugendherberge betreibt.

Heutige Nutzung
Die Saldenburg ist ausschließlich für Gäste der Jugendherberge zugänglich; Führungen finden nur während der alljährlichen Burgweihnacht am Wochenende vor dem 1. Advent statt. Heute ist die Burg als landschaftsprägendes Baudenkmal D-2-72-142-1 "Ehemaliges Schloss, jetzt Jugendherberge, viergeschossiger kubusartiger Walmdachbau, Bruchstein, im Kern 1368, wiederhergestellt 1682 von Enrico Zuccalli; im Inneren Schlosskapelle, um 1680; mit Ausstattung; Reste des Bergfrieds, Bruchsteinmauerwerk über quadratischem Grundriss, mittelalterlich; Ringmauerreste, Bruchstein, mittelalterlich" sowie als Bodendenkmal D-2-7246-0020 "Archäologische Befunde und Funde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit im Bereich der zu großen Teilen abgegangenen Burg Saldenburg" vom Bayerischen Landesamt für Denkmalpflege erfasst.

Beschreibung
Die Saldenburg ist ein fünfstöckiger Wohnturm mit einem zeltförmigen Dach. Die Bauform als rechteckiger Wohnturm ("Donjon") ist ein architektonischer Import in Folge der Pilgerfahrt Heinrich Tuschls ins Heilige Land, wo Kreuzfahrerburgen häufig als Donjon errichtet wurden. Im Burghof, der von Resten der Ringmauer umgeben ist, steht ein Zugbrunnen. Über einen Burggraben führt eine Holzbrücke zum Gebäude. Im Erdgeschoss sind die Wirtschaftsräume mit der Küche. Im ersten Obergeschoss dient der sogenannte Rittersaal heute als Speisesaal. Das Deckengemälde eines italienischen Künstlers zeigt den Triumphzug eines römischen Feldherrn oder Kaisers. Im zweiten Obergeschoss hat der "gotische Saal" ein Rippengewölbe. Die barocke Schlosskapelle wurde 1680 errichtet. Sie ist den Heiligen drei Königen geweiht. Das Deckengemälde zeigt Christi Beschneidung, das Altarblatt die Anbetung der Heiligen Drei Könige.

Literatur
 Isidor Mühlberger: Burgen, Schlösser und Ruinen im Land um Ilz und Ohe. Verlag Duschl, Winzer 2007, ISBN 978-3-937438-71-9, S. 16–17.
 Ursula Pfistermeister: Burgen und Schlösser im Bayerischen Wald. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1547-X, S. 86–87.
 Donatus Moosauer, Jochen Wöhrl: Burgen und Schlösser in Niederbayern. 1. Auflage. Verlag Neue Presse, Passau 1991, ISBN 3-924484-40-6, S. 84–85.
 Günther T. Werner: Burgen, Schlösser und Ruinen im Bayerischen Wald. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 3-7917-0603-9, S. 103–105.

Weblinks

 Burg Saldenburg beim Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte (Abbildungen, Pläne, Geschichte, Baugeschichte, Baubestand)
 Burg Saldenburg bei burgenseite.de
 Rekonstruktionszeichnung im mittelalterlichen Zustand
 Saldenburg Jugendherberge

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Happy birthday to absolute legend Cillian Murphy!
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Today, May 25, marks the day Irish actor of the stage and screen Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, Co. Cork in 1976.
Happy birthday to you, good sir!
Murphy, who turns 43 today, is famous for his leading role in the series Peaky Blinders and for the films "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," "28 Days Later," "Breakfast on Pluto," the Dark Knight trilogy, and "Dunkirk."
Read More: Is Cillian Murphy the next James Bond?
His breakout role came in Enda Walsh's famous play Disco Pigs in 1996, in which Murphy was cast as the male lead. The play was only supposed to run for a limited time but was so popular that it went on a two-year tour of Europe.
Until this time, Murphy had been a law student at University College Cork and focused on playing music with his band. After the tour, he decided to act full time and aren't we glad he did. In fact, he has credited failing legal studies with helping to spur on his acting career.
After a slew of other stage work and indie films, Murphy collaborated with director Danny Boyle on "28 Days Later," which cemented him as an actor to watch.
Read More: Cillian Murphy's Peaky Blinders haircut is setting a trend
VICE Autobiographies: Cillian Murphy
In this episode of VICE Autobiographies, actor Cillian Murphy tells us what happened after his glorious failure in law school: http://bit.ly/2bpB18c
Posted by VICE on Sunday, January 1, 2017
Accordingly, he traded Dublin for London, but in recent years, Cillian Murphy and his wife, the artist Yvonne McGuinness, with whom he has two sons, have moved back to Ireland to embrace the calmer pace of life.
What's your favorite Cillian Murphy role? Let us know in the comments section, below.
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Your superstars packed their lunch box and came to play. Speaking of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, the pairing put the clamps on the field Sunday afternoon. Both players had better scores on Day 4 than any of the final three remaining in the playoff for the famed green jacket. Phil pops off a score of 30 on the front nine at Augusta, improving his overall score from -4 under at the start of the day to -10 under. He birdie's six of the first nine holes and inches closer and closer to the lead. Tiger Woods, while his putting left something to be desired, had to double-bogey his way out of the tournament on holes 17 & 18. Before that, Tiger was Tiger. Two birdies and an eagle leading up to the final holes put Woods in play and pressure on the leader board. The roars of the crowd followed Phil and Tiger all day long while the pairings behind them were attempting to hold onto their lead heading into Day 4. The most glaring statistic was that at one point in the final day, Tiger and Phil were well under par and the field was sitting at +6. Even though Tiger and Phil finished outside of the top three, the fact that they made it as exciting as they did, shows you how good they are. Yea, they stole today from the leaders, and while missing huge shots in the final holes, both Lefty and Tiger put on a show for the fans at Augusta, and the many watching at home.
A Master's rookie, shouldn't go unnoticed. While we were busy following the game's best around the fairways and greens, an American in his first time at Augusta, tore up the course shooting a day's best 66. That would be one John Merrick. Merrick had three birdies on the front nine and through holes 13, 14, 15, and 16, Merrick birdied four consecutive holes. John Merrick finished the tournament tied for sixth, with the likes of Tiger Woods, Steve Flesch, and Steve Stricker, who have a combined 26 years of Master's experience. No other first year player in the '09 Master's, finished better than twentieth. After back to back days of 70+ scores, and sitting nine off the lead, Merrick made the biggest charge on Sunday and we can take this as his assertion in Augusta. I don't know much about golf, but in the past year Merrick has finished sixth at Augusta and also finished sixth at Torrey Pines in the '08 U.S. Open, I'd say this guy is going to make the jump very soon.
Tee off shot lands in the woods, and you get a green jacket. The winner, Angel Cabrera, puts his ball right in the woods off the tee in the first hole playoff. Tiger did this an hour or more earlier, and bogied the hole playing his way out of the tournament. Not Angel, oh no. Cabrera drills the ball into the woods, pounds his second shot off a tree and puts the ball in perfect position to get it up on the green. Destiny. When Cabrera won this tournament the first thing which comes to mind is that shot, he puts it straight off a tree, you think he's gone, and then before you know it he's pulling on a green jacket. Cabrera spends the first three days of this tournament under 70, and on the final day he does everything but throw the tournament in the trash. Cabrera has to birdie three of the last four holes and needs his pairing mate to bogey the final two holes to even get a shot in a playoff. Anyone who says that Angel Cabrera wasn't meant to win this tournament, is flat out crazy. A rough and tumble final day, balls into the woods, three bogey's in the first ten holes, and Angel Cabrera still wins the 2009 Master's Tournament.
NO golf tournament is complete without a collapse. Thank you, Kenny Perry. Before I get into his collapse on 17 & 18, when the jacket was all but on him, both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson bogied 18, and Tiger even bogied 17. Kenny Perry winning would have been exciting, oldest to ever win a jacket, Tiger and Phil having failed on the final holes, it was his to win. Then he lost it. By the time the playoff rolled around, and Perry had just lost the tournament by putting up bogies on the final two holes, he was spent. Every shot in the final two playoff holes looked forced and tiring. Perry managed to play it safe all morning and keep the lead, 11-straight pars. His pairing mate, Cabrera, and other opponent in the playoff, Chad Campbell, had already bogied five holes combined before Perry even birdied a hole. Tiger and Phil missing crucial putts, what else could have gone right for the 48-year old Perry. Then, he collapses, and bad. Shoots his only bogies of the day on his final holes and that's all she wrote. He struggled in the playoff and it was only a matter of time before Cabrera made a great shot. I'd be pretty bummed if I was Perry, because he couldn't have had it better.
That is probably the only column your going to get from me about golf, but after watching the final day of play at Augusta, I couldn't avoid it. Thank you for reading as always.
BTW, the past tense of "Bogey" is spelled "Bogeyed," not "Bogied"


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Little Daughter
Freedom (Befreit)
By George Obama and Damien Lewis
George Hussein Onyango Obama is the youngest son of the Obama clan, born to a Luo mother and the father he shares with the US President. George's father died when he was barely six months old, and he spent his infant years growing up in his mother Jael's extended family. When George was aged six his beautiful and spirited mother met and married a French aid worker, called Christian. George and family went to live with Christian in the well-to-do Umoja Estate, a suburb of Kenya's capital city, Nairobi. Umoja is a place of white-painted bungalows and leafy, sun-dappled streets. As Christian was the only white person living on the estate, George soon became notorious as being the 'kid with the mzungu father' – mzungu being Swahili for white person.
Young George knew this made him different somehow. Still, he and Christian bonded over drives into the wild Kenyan bush, and games of Scrabble, Monopoly and Chess at home. And over time, generous, peaceable Christian became the father that George had never had. At age nine George was sent to attend a boarding school in the foothills around Mount Kenya. Modelled on the British fee-paying school system, this was a place of starched uniforms, regimented discipline and keen learning. After initial homesickness George thrived and he became a star pupil. He regularly came within the top five in his academic year, and his swiftness of foot earned him a coveted place on the school rugby team. Holidays were spent at home in Nairobi, where George could look forward to the presents that Christian had bought him whilst visiting his native France.
But when George turned fifteen Christian and his mother separated. By now George was attending the prestigious Dagoretti High School, a colonial-era boarding establishment in Nairobi. George reacted badly to the loss of his father figure. He began truanting, and his mother could do little to discipline her strong and wilful son. George drifted into the gang on his estate – smoking pot, and drinking. To fund his new lifestyle he resorted to petty crime. When the Kenyan police arrested George for a street robbery, Jael was beyond despair. Ashamed of how he had let his mother down, George drifted away from home – first to live with the Nairobi street kids, and then into the vast sink of the city slums. He lost himself in the sprawling chaos of the ghetto – a lawless tin-and-waste-wood shantytown that is home to two million dispossessed. Closed and dangerous to outsiders, the ghetto welcomed in this restless and troubled young man, and offered him a community and a home.
Over time George's crimes became more audacious, as he stole to get money to share with his newfound ghetto family. The extremes of wealth in Nairobi are shocking to behold: sumptuous, gated villas sit back-to-back with the stinking shantytowns. The ghetto is rife with drugs and illegally-brewed changa'a alcohol – which offer temporary respite from the harsh reality of life in the slums. With his new life of crime George told himself that he was taking from the rich to help his people, the poorest of the poor. By the time he had turned twenty he was using a gun and carjacking. Targeted by the Kenyan police, George was arrested and framed for an armed robbery that he did not commit. Thrown into the brutal hell of a Nairobi gaol, George was too proud and stubborn to turn to his family for help in getting a lawyer, and securing bail. Instead he chose to spend nine months on remand, locked away in the inhuman conditions of that hellhole of a Nairobi gaol.
An excellent English speaker, George went on to argue his own case at trial, electrifying the court with his performance over three hearings. In an extraordinary turn of events he went on to win his case and his freedom. But prison had changed him forever. 'Those were the darkest days of my life,' George remarks of the months behind bars. He vowed to turn his life around. He felt certain that if he did not, he would end up dead, as many of his friends had done. Unlike most slum-dwellers, George was still able to turn to his family – both in Kenya and the USA – in his hour of greatest need. He asked for, and was given, a second chance, and was able to restart his studies. Aware of how this set him apart from those born and bred in the slums, George decided to give something back to the ghetto. He joined youth, community and charity groups, in an effort to bring hope into the lives of the slum children – those who'd never had the kind of chances that he had. Through football, photography, video work and other, truly innovative schemes, he found a way to empower the most powerless – the children of the ghetto.
George had first met his American brother, Barack Obama, when he was five years old. Barack Obama had paid a visit to George's Nairobi school, to reach out to the youngest sibling in the Obama clan. In 2006 George met him again, at a time when Barack Obama was a Senator and already turning his eyes towards the challenge and promise of the US presidential elections. They travelled to their shared ancestral homeland, so both could rediscover the father they had barely known. Death had taken George's father during the first months of George's life; it was the separation of continents that had kept his American brother's father from him. But for both men, rediscovering their father was a vital part of rediscovering their own identities.
From some in the African Obama clan George detected a sense that he wasn't entirely welcome within their number. He was the 'black sheep' of the family, the ex-prison convict who hailed from the ghetto. To them he was far from being the ideal brother for an American Senator, and something of an embarrassment. But George never detected such sentiment from Barack Obama. Instead, he sensed a deep curiosity within his American brother – a desire to reach out to George and learn more about the extraordinary and unorthodox life that he had led. How had he survived? How had he persevered and overcome, and turned his life around? And what had he learned along the way?
Like many Africans, George was proud of Barack Obama's towering ambition – only more so, for they were brothers. George celebrated his American brother's presidential aspirations, and saw in them an inverse reflection of his own calling. In the slum children in particular George recognised an extraordinary energy and potential. Kids born and brought up in the ghetto were just crying out to be given a chance. Whereas his American brother aspired to become the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, George would become an advocate for the most powerless – the people of his slum homeland.
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Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (CCCM 192)
Gerardus Magnus
Opera omnia I
1. Prolegomena, 2. Contra turrim Traiectensem
R.T. M. van Dijk, R.H.F. Hofman (eds.)
817 p., 2 b/w ill., 155 x 245 mm, 2003
Languages: Latin, German
Retail price: EUR 320,00 excl. tax
Volume 192 of the CC CM series is devoted to Geert Grote or Gerardus Magnus, the founder of the Deuotio Moderna, a religious reform movement which was widely influential in the Low Countries and beyond towards the end of the Middle Ages and fairly long after that. The volume, Vol. 1 of the subseries Gerardi Magni Opera omnia, opens with a general introduction to the life and works of Grote. This section is followed by a survey and analysis of all extant manuscripts containing works of Grote and by a critical evaluation arranged in the order of Grote's works, in addition providing information on manuscripts transmitting the individual works and earlier editions. After this Part 1, which is more general in nature, follows Part 2, the critical edition of Grote's little treatise Contra turrim Traiectensem, a venomous invective in which Grote tries to prevent further building activities having as their aim to enlarge the Dom tower in Utrecht, the tower of the cathedral church of the Dutch diocese.
"With the publication of this Prolegomena, Rudolf van Dijk has laid a most solid and indispensable foundation for the publication of Grote's opera omnia, and with his rigorous and critical methodology he has set the bar very high indeed. Consequently we can look forward with confidence to the continuation and completion of this most laudable and valuable undertaking of the Titus Brandsma Institute."
(G. H. Gerrits, in: Speculum, 80, 2005, p. 577)
"Such a valuable scientific edition makes the works of the deacon of Deventer more easily accessible and will serve as a reliable starting point for further study."
(J. Vercruysse, in: Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses, 80, 2004, p. 554)
Corpus Christianorum Medieval Latin Series
Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis
Library Catalogues : manuscripts
Catalogues of manuscripts for an author or a group of authors
Christian devotion & forms of religious expression
Sermons & preaching
Latin literature
Medieval Latin literature
Scripta medii aevi de vita Isidori episcopi Hispalensis
Martín-Iglesias A catalogue of works pertaining to the explanation of the creed in Carolingian manuscripts
Keefe Alphabetum narrationum (Arnoldus Leodiensis)
Brilli The Letter Collections of Anselm of Canterbury
Niskanen Homiletica Vadstenensia (Homiletica)
Berggren Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus (Stephanus de Borbone, Exempla)
Berlioz et al. The Sermons of William of Newburgh
Kraebel


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