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Nicolas Hajj BS (* 30. Juni 1907 in Machgara, Libanon; † 12. Januar 1995) war Melkitisch Griechisch-Katholischer Erzbischof von Banyas.

Nicolas Hajj wurde am 1. April 1934 zum Ordenspriester der Melkitischen Basilianer vom Heiligsten Erlöser geweiht. Am 30. Juli 1965 erfolgte die Ernennung zum Erzbischof pro hac vice und Weihbischof im Melkitischen Patriarchat von Antiochien sowie zum Titularerzbischof von Damiata dei Greco-Melkiti. Am 9. September 1965 spendete ihm der Patriarch von Antiochien, Erzbischof Maximos IV. Sayegh SMSP, die Bischofsweihe. Mitkonsekratoren waren die Erzbischöfe Pierre Kamel Medawar SMSP und Néophytos Edelby BA.

Am 3. November 1984 wurde Nicolas Hajj zum Erzbischof von Banyas im Libanon berufen. Altersbedingt wurde er am 18. September 1985 emeritiert. Vom 14. September bis 8. Dezember 1965 war er Teilnehmer an der Vierten Sitzungsperiode des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils. Erzbischof Hajj war Mitkonsekrator bei den Erzbischöfen Saba Youakim BS, Denys Gaith BC, François Abou Mokh BS, Jean Mansour SMSP, Ignace Raad und André Haddad BS.

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The Martin Luther King Jr. celebration breakfast kicks off the Week of Inclusive Excellence.
Cal State East Bay will host a series of speakers and events during its annual Week of Inclusive Excellence. The festivities, which begin the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Tuesday, Jan. 16, celebrates the university's culture of diversity and inclusion.
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President Leroy M. Morishita and the Office of Diversity, Leadership and Employee Wellness will kick off the Week of Inclusive Excellence with the annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast. The event will celebrate Cal State East Bay's commitment to inclusiveness through music, poetry and special presentations.
All participants are encouraged to bring shelf-stable food items for the Pioneers for H.O.P.E. program. These items will go to students who are food-insecure.
Join Dr. Khalid White for a film screening of "Black Fatherhood," followed by an open discussion. Stories will be shared of men who have stepped up and created a better world for their sons and daughters, as they provide new models of fatherhood while navigating socio-economic class, gender and race.
White is an ethnic studies professor and the Umoja Academic Success Program coordinator at San Jose City College. He is a lecturer in African American Studies at San Jose State University, as well as an entrepreneur, author, filmmaker and mentor.
Join a conversation to better understand barriers of poverty, class and socio-economic status. This full-day workshop will provide a framework for understanding how class and socioeconomic status impact student success, retention and perseverance, and develop approaches to better serve students. "Bridges out of Poverty" is designed to help Cal State East Bay faculty and staff work effectively with first-generation and lower socioeconomic status students.
Campus Counsel Rikesha S. Lane presents on "Freedom of Speech, First Amendment Rights and the Protection of Hate Speech." This presentation will explore what kinds of speech and activities the First Amendment protects, CSU and Cal State East Bay policies, and real life examples of how free speech controversies are playing out on campuses across the U.S.
This session will feature an interactive dialogue led by Dr. G.T. Reyes from the Department of Educational Leadership and initiator of the #CrossThisOut movement that has been generating momentum at Cal State East Bay, K-12 schools and other universities across the nation.
The College of Science presents this event, which celebrates Cal State East Bay's diversity in the people studying, teaching and practicing STEM. The program includes breakout sessions, a panel and mixer.
Tim Wise, a prominent anti-racist writer and educator, will examine the ways in which American politics and culture serve to rationalize inequalities on the basis of class and race. Wise will explore the importance of undermining the dominant white racial narrative in order to fight racism, economic and social injustice.


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Laws and Rules - Oregon Immunization Law Oregon Immunization Program
Vaccines and Immunization
Laws and Rules - Oregon Immunization Law
Oregon ALERT IIS Registry and Tracking Laws
Getting Immunized
ALERT IIS
For Immunization Providers
Oregon Revised Statutes 433.090-433.102
Development of immunization registry and tracking and recall system
Authority to disclose registry information
Disclosure and confidentiality
Rulemaking and consent
Responsibility for immunization
Use of registry for potential disease threat
Disease control in schools: Definitions
433.090 Definitions for ORS 433.090 to 433.102.
"Authorized user" means a person or entity authorized to provide information to or to receive information from an immunization registry or tracking and recall system under ORS 433.090 to 433.102. "Authorized user" includes, but is not limited to:
The Oregon Health Authority and its agents;
Local health departments and their agents;
Licensed health care providers and their agents;
Health care institutions;
Insurance carriers;
State health plans as defined in ORS 192.556;
Parents, guardians or legal custodians of children under 18 years of age;
Clients 18 years of age or older;
Post-secondary education institutions;
Schools; and
Children's facilities.
"Children's facility" has the meaning given that term in ORS 433.235.
"Client" means a person registered with any Oregon tracking and recall system.
"Immunization record" includes but is not limited to records of the following:
Any immunization received;
Date immunization was received;
Complication or side effect associated with immunization;
Date and place of birth of a client;
Hospital where a client was born;
Client's name; and
Mother's name.
"Immunization registry" means a listing of clients and information relating to their immunization status, without regard to whether the registry is maintained in this state or elsewhere.
"Local health department" has the meaning given that term in ORS 433.235.
"Parent or guardian" has the meaning given the term "parent" in ORS 433.235.
"Post-secondary education institution" means:
A public university listed in ORS 352.002;
A community college operated under ORS chapter 341;
A school or division of Oregon Health and Science University; or
An Oregon-based, generally accredited, private institution of higher education.
"Provider" means a physician or a health care professional who is acting within the scope of the physician's or professional's licensure and is responsible for providing immunization services or for coordinating immunization services within a clinic, public health site, school or other immunization site.
"School" has the meaning given that term in ORS 433.235.
"Tracking and recall record" means information needed to send reminder cards to, place telephone calls to or personally contact the client or the parent or guardian of a client for the purposes of informing the client, parent or guardian that the client is late in receiving recommended immunizations, hearing or lead screenings, or other public health interventions, including but not limited to the client's:
Insurance carrier; and
Health care provider.
"Tracking and recall system" means a system attached to an immunization registry designed to contact clients listed in the immunization registry for the purposes of assisting in the timely completion of immunization series, hearing or lead screenings, or other public health interventions designated by rule of the authority. [1993 c.297 1; 2003 c.573 1; 2003 c.593 1; 2007 c.196 1; 2009 c.595 640; 2011 c.71 1; 2011 c.637 271]
433.092 Purpose of ORS 433.090 to 433.102; waivers of consent to release certain medical information.
The purpose of ORS 433.090 to 433.102 is to waive the requirement of consent for release of information from, or providing information to, the immunization record of a client of any immunization registry and to waive issues of confidentiality in regard to this information. The waiver allows authorized users to share information from the immunization record through or between immunization registries without violating confidentiality. The immunization registries and the associated tracking and recall systems are designed to increase the state's immunization rates for clients and help prevent the spread of the diseases at which the immunizations are aimed. Immunizations are a proven benefit to individuals and society. An immunization registry reduces inappropriate immunizations and increases appropriate immunizations because clients' records will be easily available to authorized users. [1993 c.297 2; 2007 c.196 2]
433.094 Development of immunization registry and tracking and recall system; standards.
The Oregon Health Authority, a local health department, or both, or their agents or other providers may develop an immunization registry and an associated tracking and recall system.
The immunization registry and tracking and recall system shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
Registering all clients born in, living in or receiving services in this state;
Tracking and updating immunization histories of the registered clients;
Allowing a provider, the authority or a local health department to provide information to and obtain information from the immunization records contained in the immunization registry, and the tracking and recall records contained in the tracking and recall system, without the consent of the client or the parent or guardian of the client;
Allowing an immunization record of a client who is under the care of an authorized user or enrolled in an authorized user's program to be released to the authorized user;
Notifying in writing the parent or guardian of a client, at least through five years of age, when the tracking and recall system indicates that a client has missed a scheduled immunization;
Integrating with any immunization registry and its associated tracking and recall systems; and
Working with health care providers to develop information transfer systems.
The immunization registry and tracking and recall system may allow information to be released to an authorized user from an immunization record or a tracking and recall record for purposes including, but not limited to:
Outreach to clients under the care of the authorized user or enrolled in the authorized user's program who have missed immunizations, hearing or lead screenings, or other public health interventions designated by rule of the authority; or
Public health assessment and evaluation related to immunizations and vaccine-preventable diseases conducted by the authority or by a local health department for clients within the local health department's jurisdiction. [1993 c.297 3; 2003 c.573 2; 2003 c.593 2; 2007 c.196 3; 2009 c.595 641; 2011 c.71 2]
433.096 Authority to disclose registry information
Nothing in ORS 179.505, 192.410 to 192.505, 192.553 to 192.581 or 677.190 (5) or the client and provider privilege prevents:
Authorized users from providing information to and receiving information from the immunization registry regarding a client's immunization record or tracking and recall record; or
The immunization registry from:
Providing immunization information to or receiving immunization information from an authorized user regarding a client's immunization record or tracking and recall record;
Notifying or personally contacting a client or the custodial parent or guardian of a client about the client's immunization status; or
Providing or publishing information in aggregate form that does not identify a client. [1993 c.297 §4; 2003 c.86 §11; 2007 c.196 §4; 2011 c.71 §4]
433.098 Nonliability for disclosure; confidential status of information; availability with consent client.
An authorized user and the employees or agents of an authorized user are not liable for sharing or using information from the immunization registry regarding a client's immunization record or tracking and recall record as provided in ORS 433.094.
Information in an immunization registry regarding a client's immunization record or tracking and recall record, or derived from the registry or record, is confidential and may not be disclosed to any person who is not specifically authorized to receive information under ORS 433.090 to 433.102.
When a client who is 18 years of age or older requests in writing that the client's immunization record be removed from an immunization registry, the agency that maintains the registry shall purge the client's immunization record from the registry as soon as is reasonably possible.
Before sharing data with any immunization registry, an immunization registry maintained in Oregon shall ensure that the immunization registry receiving the data has confidentiality and security policies at least as stringent as the policies of the registry sharing the data. [1993 c.297 §8; 2003 c.573 §3; 2007 c.196 §5; 2011 c.71 §3]
433.100 Rules; parental consent not required for enrollment in registry; fees.
The Oregon Health Authority shall adopt rules pertaining to the development and implementation of the immunization registries and associated tracking and recall systems. The rules must include a process that allows a client who is 18 years of age or older, a custodial parent or guardian to control the transfer of information from the client's immunization record or tracking and recall record when such control is necessary to protect the health or safety of the family or the client.
Nothing in this section requires the consent of a parent or guardian prior to enrolling the child in the registry or restricts the registry from providing information from a tracking and recall record to a custodial parent or guardian.
Pursuant to rules adopted by the authority, the authority may charge fees to authorized users, except hospitals, schools and individual health care providers, for services requested from an immunization registry, including associated tracking and recall systems maintained by the authority. Authorized users may make voluntary contributions to the authority to help support the operation of an immunization registry established under ORS 433.094.
Fees authorized under paragraph (a) of this subsection may be assessed only against managed care organizations, health maintenance organizations, physician organizations and insurance carriers that are using the information from the registries for quality improvement activities for their privately insured patients.
All moneys received by the authority under this section shall be paid into the State Treasury and placed in the General Fund to the credit of the Public Health Account. Such moneys are continuously appropriated to the authority and shall be used only for the administration and enforcement of ORS 433.090 to 433.102. [1993 c.297 §5; 2003 c.593 §3; 2007 c.196 §6; 2009 c.595 §642; 2011 c.71 §5]
433.102 Parental responsibility for immunizations; medical or religious exemptions
Nothing in ORS 433.090 to 433.102 is intended to affect the responsibility of a parent or guardian to have a child of that parent or guardian properly immunized.
Nothing in ORS 433.090 to 433.102 is intended to require immunization or tracking of any child otherwise exempt from immunization requirements under ORS 433.267 (1)(b) or (c). [1993 c.297 §§6,7]
433.104 Use of immunization registry for potential catastrophic disease threat.
The immunization registry and associated tracking and recall systems established under ORS 433.094 may be used as a vaccination management and tracking system in preparation for a potential catastrophic disease threat, such as smallpox or pandemic influenza.
When used as authorized by this section, the immunization registry may include persons of any age, and vaccination records may be shared with authorized users of the registry without obtaining the prior consent of the clients of the registry.
As used in this section, "client" and "immunization registry" have the meanings given those terms in ORS 433.090. [2003 c.593 §4]
DISEASE CONTROL IN SCHOOLS
As used in ORS 433.235 to 433.284:
"Administrator" means the principal or other person having general control and supervision of a school or children's facility.
"Children's facility" or "facility" means:
A certified child care facility as described in ORS 329A.030 and 329A.250 to 329A.450, except as exempted by rule of the Oregon Health Authority;
A program operated by, or sharing the premises with, a certified child care facility, school or post-secondary institution where care is provided to children, six weeks of age to kindergarten entry, except as exempted by rule of the authority; or
A program providing child care or educational services to children, six weeks of age to kindergarten entry, in a residential or nonresidential setting, except as exempted by rule of the authority.
"Local health department" means the district or county board of health, public health officer, public health administrator or health department having jurisdiction within the area.
"Parent" means a parent or guardian of a child or any adult responsible for the child.
"Physician" means a physician licensed by the Oregon Medical Board or by the Oregon Board of Naturopathic Medicine or a physician similarly licensed by another state or country in which the physician practices or a commissioned medical officer of the Armed Forces or Public Health Service of the United States.
"School" means a public, private, parochial, charter or alternative educational program offering kindergarten through grade 12 or any part thereof, except as exempted by rule of the authority. [Formerly 433.263; 1991 c.255 §1; 1995 c.278 §55; 2001 c.900 §156; 2003 c.14 §246; 2005 c.343 §1; 2009 c.43 §5; 2009 c.595 §647]

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Papantonio: Rampant Corporate Fraud And Whistleblowers – America's Lawyer
Via America's Lawyer: Mike Papantonio discusses the process whistleblowers must go through to expose companies that are defrauding the U.S. government and speaks with attorney, Chris Paulos, about some of the biggest cases involving the False Claims Act.
CORRECTION: The False Claims Act was passed in 1863, not 1963. We regret the error.
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Papantonio: Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Daniel Ellsberg – those are the names that most people think of when they hear the term "whistleblower." These names have been in the news for years as they helped uncover massive corruption within our own government. But there are other types of whistleblowers that deserve just as much recognition, and those are the people who help uncover the fraud and corruption of massive corporations that do business with the federal government. These whistleblowers receive far less attention in the media, but they are attacked just as viciously as people like Snowden and Manning.
America's whistleblower story actually begins around the time of the Civil War. As the war began, contractors lined up to get lucrative government contracts to provide supplies for the troops – a trend that continues today. And just like they do in modern times, contractors in the 1860's wanted to get as much money as possible while providing the lowest quality of service. The government soon began receiving sick horses and mules, shoes that were falling apart, food rations that were rotten, and rifles that wouldn't fire. This is what their contractors were sending them after getting those lucrative government contracts.
In response to the massive amount of corruption in that contract system, Congress passed in 1963 the False Claims Act that allowed the government to sue companies who failed to uphold their part of the deal when they receive federal contracts. But the law also included a Qui Tam provision, and this provision has proven to be one of the most powerful in that piece of legislation. This provision allowed employees at these companies to sue the company on behalf of the federal government if they discovered the company was trying to defraud the government. This Qui Tam provision is still in place today, and the results have been tremendous.
In 2015, the federal government was able to recoup more than $3.5 billion dollars from corporations in cases brought under the False Claims Act, with more than 70% of that coming directly from Qui Tam cases. In 2016, that number rose to $4.7 billion dollars. Most of this money would have never been recovered had it not been for whistleblowers coming forward to expose the conduct of these corporations.
And that's why we see corporate media attacking whistleblowers like Snowden and Manning – it isn't because they think these people harmed our democracy; it's because they want to discourage all forms of whistleblowing, especially when it could result in huge lawsuits against corporations. They do that by attacking one kind of whistleblower relentlessly, and by that, they are hoping others will be too afraid to come forward.
Joining me to talk about the struggle that corporate whistleblowers face, as well as how they help hold corporations accountable, is attorney Chris Paulos. Chris, tell us a little about the history of the False Claims Act and this thing called Qui tam. Tell us about it.
Paulos: Well, Mike, your intro was pretty spot on in terms of the reason why this law was enacted during the Civil War. The law has evolved over time and during certain periods of time in our history, sometimes it's been more active or not. For example, FDR pretty much dissolved the Qui tam Statutes and the False Claims Act during World War II, and there was rampant fraud during the ramp up into World War II. However, in 1986, the law was revived and, at that point in time, the teeth were put back into it, providing for rewards and awards to whistleblowers; to those brave folks that stepped forward and report this conduct. They can actually participate in the prosecution of the case with the government and then are rewarded for disclosing the fraud based on the recovery that is realized.
Papantonio: Chris, this is your specialty. Tell us how would a person initiate a Qui tam lawsuit. I mean, they catch the corporation doing something they know is illegal; they're selling goods to the government; the government taxpayers are paying huge money for faulty goods. How does that person who knows what's going on initiate this kind of false claim to where they get paid for that claim, and the government, actually we find out who the corrupt corporation is and what they're doing. How does that happen?
Paulos: That's a very important question to ask and I'm glad you asked it Mike. It's because there is a procedure, a very precise procedure of reporting fraud against the government that one must take in order to actually participate in the suit and to stand in the shoes of the government and bring the case, and in order to receive their bounty or their reward for bringing it. And, you should seek the advice of a qualified and experienced lawyer because the way that you disclose the information to the government, and the timing of that disclosure with the filing of your lawsuit, needs to be very precise. And, if someone does that inappropriately, if they tell the government something at one point in time, and then don't disclose it through the proper procedural framework in the U.S. Courts, they could destroy or ruin their claim. If they run to the media before they file their lawsuit, they could destroy or ruin the chances of them being successful in their claim.
The type of disclosure and the way it's disclosed, it needs to be done precisely and the law governs that, and the assistance of a qualified lawyer is key in a whistleblower doing that. My first advice would be, contact a lawyer; make sure that you are protected; that you have legal advice; and that you are guided appropriately through the procedural framework of the Qui tam Statutes.
Papantonio: Okay. A couple of things Chris. First of all, we're seeing a lot more of these cases; we're seeing more because there are more government contracts that are being given away out there. But, at the same time, we also see huge recoveries where people that are whistleblowers are paid several hundred million dollars sometimes, and people read that story and they say, 'Well, gee whiz, that sounds easy.' But the truth is that whistleblower goes through an awful lot; personally, the fight that they have to wage against that corporation usually is huge. Give us some examples of the most impressive Qui tam cases that we've seen in recent years.
Paulos: Well, recently, I think one of the poster children cases of a whistleblower award is that of the UBS Whistleblower Award; that was a $780,000,000 fine that was levied against UBS for some tax fraud and other fraudulent conduct. The whistleblower in that case received $108,000,000 award, but that was not without risk. That whistleblower actually went to prison for his participation in the scheme that he reported. Now, granted he was given a significant award, but he also had to serve time, so there are significant risks to blowing the whistle and you need to be aware of those risks when you do it and have proper guidance and counsel when you go forward and report these things to the government.
Other cases that we've seen, GlaxoSmithKline, pharmaceutical company that's on the list of recidivist fraudsters, they paid a $2,000,000,000 fine for multiple different types of fraud that they were doing in the pharmaceutical industry that bilked hundreds of millions, and if not billions of dollars, from the federal coffers through the Medicaid and Medicare Program.
You've got Actavis; they were hit with a $202,000,000 settlement after a verdict when a jury found that they had committed fraud against the government. And, you have companies, again, like Bristol-Myers Squibb, half a billion dollar fine levied against them for off-label marketing, and that is inappropriately marketing their prescription drug, Abilify, to patients for uses it was never indicated for.
Papantonio: Chris, let me ask you this. The whistleblower does take a huge risk, but the whistleblower, if they bring the type of evidence that uncovers this kind of fraud that you're describing right here … By the way 4.7 billion dollars recovered for the government from whistleblowers. If they do their job, what percentage do they get for what they recover; how does that work?
Paulos: Well, the range according to the statutes, the federal statute, is anywhere between 15% and 30%, and that will depend, that range will depend on the type of information that's disclosed; the role that the whistleblower plays in the prosecution and the presentment of the claims to the government. If they have independent insider knowledge that the government had no access to but for their involvement, then the award will be increased. If they were complicit; if they did not help the government very much or maybe even frustrated the investigation, the DOJ or the government maybe just decide on a lower award. There's a range and that range is typically 15% to 30%; on average, you'll see about anywhere between a 17% and 20% award go to just your average whistleblower.
Papantonio: Okay. Chris, you talk to whistleblowers every day. I mean people are always calling you cause this is your specialty, and they want to talk to somebody who has experience. What do you find … What kind of pressure from the company do you see these people usually facing? What's a typical pressure?
Paulos: Well, oftentimes, you'll see a culture inside a company that discourages the trickle up of information; or you'll see a corporate structure that provides for plausible deniability. Oftentimes, people will be discouraged from simply reporting to their superiors something that they see because they fear retaliation, and retaliation in fact is taken against these squeaky wheels, so to speak, inside these corporations. You'll see folks being terminated, or you'll see their job being assigned to corporate Siberia, when they start to complain or become vocal about things that they may be seeing on the manufacturing floor, or in the sales practices of a corporation, or in how that corporation conducts business with the government. Internally, you're seeing companies that don't foster an environment where disclosure of something wrong is done and that, of course, is an improper type of environment.
Now, the law does provide for protection against those retaliatory actions. The Qui tam Statute will allow you as a whistleblower to include retaliation claims, along with the government claims that you're bringing, so that certain conduct that you do to report wrongdoing is protected by the federal law.
Papantonio: If I look at these cases, they seem to come from the pharmaceutical industry; they come from the defense industry; they come from hospital corporations; they come from Wall Street in a big way, where we have Wall Street scammers scamming the government for various things. But, I think every time I've looked at one of these cases, the thing I've seen about that person that's coming forward, is it takes a great deal of courage; it takes commitment, but in the end, if they do their job an if they really do recover money for the government, they end up getting compensated for it.
Chris Paulos, thank you.
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Nato in Germania da genitori italiani emigrati per lavoro nel 1915 deve rientrare in Italia per rispondere alla chiamata alle armi. A ostilità cessate si laurea in ingegneria a Padova e trascorre il ventennio fascista dedicandosi esclusivamente alla professione. Si dedica in particolare alla progettazione di edifici sacri, tra i quali (a titolo di esempio) la cappella dell'asilo di Fanna (1929-1931) e le chiese di Campagna, frazione di Maniago (1931), e di Brugnera (1935). Dopo la caduta della Repubblica Sociale Italiana viene chiamato dal prefetto di Udine a capo dell'ufficio speciale per la ricostruzione e nel 1948 viene eletto deputato. L'anno successivo, con la presentazione di un progetto di legge per la creazione di un ente autonomo per il Friuli, avvia il lungo e laborioso iter parlamentare che si conclude solo il 22 febbraio 1968 con l'istituzione della provincia di Pordenone. Deciso a ricandidarsi viene improvvisamente a mancare a causa di una malattia nell'anno delle elezioni.

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So, you wanted Tiger at his best, did you?
The new generation wanted a piece of the old man, begged for a taste of it in living color.
They wanted Tiger Woods freed from back procedures and fading memories, from short-game struggles and off-course issues. They wanted him in the red shirt, whole, hungry and in the cauldron.
At half-past 2 on a cloudy Georgia afternoon, Tiger Woods pushed past 11 years of lost time, past a fleet of youngsters built in his image, and won the 83rd Masters on one of greatest days in golf history.
Twenty-two years ago at Augusta National Golf Club, youth was served.
On Sunday, youth got served.
"It's what I watched as a kid," co-runner up Xander Schauffele said of Woods' 15th major. "It's what I watched growing up."
Said Brooks Koepka, who clipped Woods at last year's PGA Championship, but fell one short Sunday: "This is probably one of the greatest comebacks I think anybody's ever seen."
You can lose the "probably" and drop the "one of." No athlete in modern times has risen to Woods' heights, fallen so dramatically, and then resurrected his being so thoroughly.
In 1997, Woods's first major sent a sonic boom through the sport. It smashed perceptions, blew up prejudices, and ushered in a period of growth the game had never seen.
His decade-plus run of dominance placed him in the pantheon of the world's most recognizable people, let alone athletes. He mingled with Mandela. His father compared him to Ghandi. His tee times included U.S. presidents from both sides of the aisle.
It was heady stuff for anyone, let alone a 20-something whose formative years included a complicated upbringing, thick glasses and the college nickname Urkel.
It crumbled in the heap of an embarrassing scandal, the perfect pitchman suddenly exposed, the game left with a gaping hole, parents scrambling for the manual to explain fallen heroes to sons and daughters.
A decrepit back followed, plus a decaying short game and a springtime DUI. Tiger Woods – the child prodigy with the abnormal childhood – seemed to be disappearing down a spiral of self-sabotage.
Ben Hogan's return from his car crash on a foggy Texas highway was a triumph of the human spirit, of his audacious golfing genius and indefatigable grit.
Muhammad Ali became heavyweight champion seven years after being stripped of his title for refusing to fight in the Vietnam War, going from one of sports' all-time pariahs to one of its most beloved figures.
Jack Nicklaus won the Masters at the age of 46, compartmentalizing his financial troubles and weaving together a magical Sunday in Augusta.
George Foreman came out of mothballs to sell grills and positive thinking to the aging set, becoming the oldest heavyweight champion at the age of 45.
But the mountain Tiger climbed was a world apart, even if many of the detours and hazards were of his own doing. He climbed out of the detritus of ridicule, from a string of poor decisions, a streak of lampooning NY Post covers, to summit Olympus yet again.
As a 43-year-old divorced father of two, Woods has never been more relatable, humanized by his mistakes, humbled by the game, motivated by the coming of age of his children.
What he showed us in Augusta is that Woods might have been better than we even imagined, his mental toughness somehow restored, his once-in-a-lifetime skill set intact.
During the height of his power, Woods became the most underrated golfer in history, making a game featuring a dimpled ball and a crooked stick look effortless.
Four straight majors won? A streak of 142 consecutive made cuts? Just Tiger being Tiger.
Maybe it took him losing everything to arrive at this point, with the roars in St. Louis and Atlanta and Augusta sounding so much different than they did two decades ago.
Shock and awe have been replaced by appreciation and love, the complications of sporting worship be damned.
Tiger Woods – fantastic and fallible, lost and found – is climbing the charts, with a bullet.
The Tiger babies asked for it.
They had no idea what they would get.
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One week left.
The College Football Playoff kicks off Dec. 31 when the Michigan Wolverines and TCU Horned Frogs match up for a spot in the National Championship.
Since we have some time to kill before then, let's take a deep dive into some fascinating games to watch this week while we wait.
Wisconsin Badgers vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
Bowl: Guaranteed Rate Bowl
Stream: Sling TV
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 27
Time: 10:15 p.m.
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Weather: None (DOME)
DraftKings Odds: UW -3.5, O/U: 43, ML: OKST +140, UW -165
Best Bet (19-19): U43
This game will be chaotic as hell and could be one of the biggest dumpster fires in the bowl season. Luke Fickell has taken over at Wisconsin with a full staff from the previous regime coaching their final game with the program in an awkward turnover period.
Oh, and starting quarterback Graham Mertz is headed to Florida via the transfer portal. The Badgers still have Braelon Allen, one of the Big Ten's best running backs, which is why they are 3.5-point favorites. Who knows what this team will look like once the ball is snapped.
On the other end are the Oklahoma State Cowboys and longtime head coach Mike Gundy, coming off losses in five of their last seven games. They will also be without their starter behind center, as Spencer Sanders is currently in the transfer portal. Freshman Garret Rangel will likely get the call to lead a Cowboy offense that struggled mightily down the stretch. They'll need him and their defense to step up if they want a chance in this one.
With both sides having a new signal caller, and a strange dynamic coming from Madison, I expect this to be a rather low-scoring affair. Give me the under 43 as neither offense does much to impress.
Arkansas Razorbacks vs Kansas Jayhawks
Bowl: AutoZone Liberty Bowl
Date: Wednesday, Dec. 28
Location: Memphis, TN
Weather: 40 degrees, cloudy
DraftKings Odds: ARK -3, O/U: 69, ML: KAN +125, ARK -145
Best Bet (19-19): ARK -3
On the completely other end of the spectrum, if you like offense, you will love this game. Both teams tout impressive, dual-threat quarterbacks. When healthy, Kansas' Jalon Daniels has been really fun to watch. He actually leads the country with a 90.0 QBR per ESPN's metrics.
The Razorbacks' KJ Jefferson is equally as impressive. He's had a total of 2,871 yards, 29 touchdowns and four interceptions this year. In his best game against BYU, he dropped 367 yards and five touchdowns in a 52-35 win in Utah.
Did I mention both of these defenses are TERRIBLE? Somehow, both Arkansas and Kansas are bowl eligible despite each of them allowing over 450 yards per game.
I have found myself rooting for Kansas the majority of the season. The Cinderella story under head coach Lance Leipold has been amazing to watch unfold and there is a lot of confidence in him turning the program around after signing a long-term extension.
But I don't think they get it done against this SEC opponent. Arkansas lost three of four down the stretch, but I think the Razorbacks have more overall talent to run away against a bad Kansas defense in a shootout.
No. 15 Oregon Ducks vs North Carolina Tar Heels
Bowl: San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl
Weather: 58 degrees, chance of rain
DraftKings Odds: ORE -14.5, O/U: 73.5, ML: ORE -14.5, UNC +450
Best Bet (19-19): U73.5
The prestige of this game is the largest so far this bowl season. UNC quarterback Drake Maye was spectacular this season with 4,768 yards, leading the team in both passing and rushing yards. His 42 total touchdowns tied him for the third-most in the country. He may be the top quarterback prospect in the 2024 class.
Oregon quarterback Bo Nix announced he is coming back for the 2023 season, so he'll be in the same draft class as Maye, more than likely. He made some big-time plays this year and gets the Duck's offense rolling. They averaged over 500 yards per game this season while scoring nearly 40 points per game.
The problem is that Oregon lost two of its last three, and North Carolina has lost three straight. Neither team is really playing their best football right now, and the under hit in three of the Duck's last four. A similar trend comes from the Tar Heels, as four of their last five games were under. With the total being set at 73.5, I like the under to hit in this game despite two explosive offenses.
Takeaways from Michigan's blowout loss to Penn State Michigan's tournament hopes are starting to feel like a pipe dream
Report: Harbaugh has follow-up meeting with Broncos owner in Ann Arbor Plenty of smoke, but nothing to worry about for Michigan fans.


A small parcel came in the post this morning. It was the Microset R50 2m linear amplifier I ordered from a dealer in Italy on eBay on 24th October, almost 4 weeks ago!
I had given up hope of ever seeing it. In fact, I spent quite a lot of time yesterday installing the Spectrum Communications transverter to use in place of the FT-817 for 2m use.
The Italian dealer, Sitec, were very prompt in sending the amplifier off. However they missed off the first two letters of the tracking number when they sent it to me so I couldn't check progress on the Poste Italiane website. On 5th November I contacted them again. They gave me the right number. Then, with the help of Marco I4MFA, I was able to find out that it had been at Rome airport on 29th October with a destination of Great Britain. So where had it gone?
On Monday 16th I contacted Sitec asking them if they could obtain compensation from the Post Office. Unfortunately I had not purchased insured delivery as my lack of Italian didn't enable me to select this when purchasing - I had just picked the default shipping option. I assumed that my amplifier had been stolen or lost. So its arrival was a complete surprise.
I am very happy to have received the amplifier at last, not just because I had paid for it but because there are no alternatives at an affordable price that will amplify the 5W from an FT-817 to 50W. The manufacturers, Microset, informed me that this model R50 is no longer available as the power transistor used is obsolete, and it is not available from any dealer in the UK. The only choices are the R45, a 6.5dB gain amplifier that would produce about 25W when driven by an FT-817 and the SR100 with 9dB of gain, which is bigger and much more expensive because its maximum output power is 100W.
Another good thing about buying this amplifier from Italy was that it cost £89, whereas Waters and Stanton in the UK wanted £129 for the lower powered R45. However if I was buying from this dealer again I'd make sure they sent it FedEx or some method like that. Three weeks to wait for a parcel from Europe is no joke.
By the way, the DB6NT transverter for 2m is still for sale.
I'm glad it turned out OK in the end, Julian. Just to please you a little more, Sitec have now increased their price by 10% ! See link.


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Pakistani singing sensation Taher Shah has left the country after receiving death threats from haters.
Shah became an internet sensation after his debut 2013 single 'eye to eye' went viral. Of course, his other single 'Angel' that he released this year created a social media frenzy.
"Pakistan's famous singer Tahir Shah, who is known for spreading love through his music had been receiving life threats for quite some time," said Tahir Shah's agent in a statement.
Shah made his film debut with Pakistan's first online film 'Oye Kuch Kar Guzar'. His agent speculates that haters are not happy with him spreading love and peace through his work.
"Mr Shah was left heartbroken when the government failed to provide him security and as a result of which he decided to leave Pakistan," the agent said.
Apparently even the agent is not aware were Tahir has gone off to, but he confirms that the singer/actor has indeed left Pakistan.


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Q: In Stochastic Gradient Descent as the cost function is updated based on single training data , wont it lead to overfitting? When we are dealing with Stochastic Gradient Descent, the cost function is updated based on single, random training data.
But this single entry may alter the weights to its favour and as the cost function is only dependent on that entry, the cost function might mislead us, as it isn't actually reducing the cost, but instead it is overfitting the particular entry. With the next entry, once again, the weights will be updated to favour this entry.
Won't it lead to over fitting? How do I go about resolving this issue?

A: The training data isn't random - SGD iterates over all the training points (either singly or in batches).  Because the loss function is calculated for data batch (or individual training point), it can be thought of as a random draw from a distribution of gradient vectors in weight space that will not match exactly the global gradient of the loss function calculated over the entirety of the training data.  A single step is absolutely "over-fit" to the batch / training point, but we only take a single step in that direction (moderated by the learning rate which is typically << 1).  Then we move on to the next data point (or batch) and calculate a new gradient.  There is a "recency" effect (data trained more recently effectively counts more), but this is moderated by small learning rates.  In aggregate over many iterations, all of the training data are equally weighted.
By doing this over all of the data in turn, each individual backprop step is taking a small random (but not uncorrelated) step in weight space.  Across many training iterations, the network may be able to find its way to very good solutions (not a lot of guarantees about global optimality, but neural networks are highly expressive by their nature and can often find very good solutions).  However, it may take many stepwise iterations over the same data set to converge to a local basin of attraction.
Over-fitting on training data is absolutely a concern for Neural Networks, but that's a function of their expressivity rather than the Stochastic Gradient Descent algorithm.  Techniques like dropout and kernel regularizers on the training weights can provide regularization robustness, but the only way to

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Two Items That Aren't On Your Meeting Agenda, But Should Be
A study of effective meetings finds that social time isn't wasted time, and asking what worked will quickly make things work better.
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In this era of frequent testing, schools get a dizzying quantity of data about their students. Figuring out what to do with it, though, is more complicated than collecting it.
The Data Wise Project at Harvard University began with the goal of helping schools make better use of test results. Then, over the years, the researchers noticed something. Some schools were able to make a lot of progress, and some weren't. Those that were making progress tended to structure their meetings in a certain way. So, says Kathy Boudett of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the team wanted to know, "What's happening in those meetings that's making such a huge difference in who can improve student learning and who can't?"
They reviewed notes from hundreds of meetings over five years and, for a book Boudett cowrote called Meeting Wise, created a checklist on how to conduct an effective one. Some aspects of effective meetings are well-known (e.g., appoint a timekeeper). But here are two others the researchers found that might not be on your agenda.
Time For Chitchat
People are going to chat about their weekends and the latest news anyway. This is human nature. But one of two things tends to happen. Either the check-in time bleeds into the whole meeting, derailing other conversations, or somebody cuts it off right away with the admonition that no one has time for this. That early confrontation can set a bad tone for the whole meeting.
Instead, put five minutes at the start of the meeting for socializing and catching up. "When you put it on the agenda as something that has an end time, with a timekeeper who's in charge of saying we're done with that, it definitely keeps it bounded," says Boudett. But more importantly, getting to know your fellow meeting goers has an upside. "We saw that people might have a misconception that to have an efficient meeting, it needs to be all business," says Boudett, when in reality, good decisions require trusting each other.
As her colleague Meghan Lockwood puts it, "We're asking people to open up their practices to one another, to push each other to improve, and that just can't happen without trust." In other words, letting people share something about their lives "is an incredibly efficient use of time."
A Meeting Analysis
Based on what they found, at the end of meetings, the Data Wise Project team members now spend five minutes on what they call "plus/delta." The "plus" part means shout-outs for things that went well in the meeting. "It's a time to celebrate team members and the hard work they do," says Lockwood. "It makes people feel good at the end of a meeting about how hard we worked to prepare, and the efficient processes we used."
As for delta? That means change–what could use some improvement. It is a very quick way to improve meetings, because getting immediate feedback alters practices in a way that smoldering resentments and behind-the-back criticism do not. Indeed, while the Data Wise Project team recommends various meeting best practices, if you change nothing else, the plus/delta habit will quickly bear fruit. That's because "people will back into the other behaviors if given the chance," says Boudett. People might note that they felt ineffective because the meeting ran out of time. How can you stop that from happening? You can appoint a timekeeper. People might say they would have liked to have a copy of a document someone kept referring to. That brings up the issue of how people prepare for meetings.
Do this enough, and each meeting will be better than the last. And that means you may need fewer meetings while accomplishing more. That would be a big win because, as Boudett says, "There's nothing better than getting stuff done."
Related: Are You Managing Meetings Efficiently?
Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time (Portfolio, June 9, 2015), What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast (Portfolio, 2013), and 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (Portfolio, 2010). She blogs at www.lauravanderkam.com.
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Taiyo Matsumoto with Inio Asano and Keigo Shinzo
by mangabrog
So, today I bring you a recent conversation between Taiyo Matsumoto, Inio Asano and Keigo Shinzo that ran in Monthly Spirits. The first two names should be familiar to everyone, but I don't think anything of Shinzo's has been translated into English, so I don't suppose anyone knows anything about him. He came out with a pretty good first book that generated mild buzz among cool manga readers back in 2010, and he's put out a few things since then that I mostly haven't read yet. Here's a sample of what his stuff looks like.
But anyway, here's the conversation. Don't say I never do anything for you, internets.
Keigo Shinzo: Okay, right off the bat, the question I most want to ask you, Taiyo, is how did you feel about your manga when you were 27 years old? I think it would've been right around the time you'd finished Tekkon Kinkreet.
Taiyo Matsumoto: How old are you, Shinzo?
Shinzo: 27.
Matsumoto: I've almost got two decades on you, then — I'm 46. What about you, Inio?
Inio Asano: I'm 33.
Matsumoto: You guys are so young. You wouldn't know it reading your manga. These days, they sometimes put your age in brackets next to your name when you get interviewed for something — "Taiyo Matsumoto (46)". It always gets me. Like, "They can't mean me, can they?"
Shinzo/Asano: (laugh)
Matsumoto: Okay, when I was 27… Let's see. Tekkon Kinkreet was a total flop, so I took my editor's advice for my next work and went with a sports manga — Ping Pong. It was after finishing Ping Pong (at age 30) that I decided I wouldn't do weekly magazine serializations anymore. I would wake up, sit at a desk stacked with CalorieMate bars, start drawing, and the next thing I knew it'd be evening. It was no way to live.
Asano: True.
Matsumoto: But it was around that point that I started hearing good things here and there about my work.
Shinzo: Did you see Tekkon Kinkreet as a failure at the time, even after all that effort?
Matsumoto: I really did put a lot of effort into it. It's hard to judge these things. I personally thought it was pretty good, but there wasn't much of a reaction among the readers, so you start to think, "Huh? Maybe I failed."
Shinzo: That's exactly how I feel now.
Asano: I got the impression that you've always been allowed to do whatever manga you want to make, Shinzo.
Shinzo: It's true, I do get to do what I want.
Matsumoto: You know, though, you both seem to me like you're making whatever you want, however you want. Then again, people tell me I'm just doing whatever I feel like, too.
Asano/Shinzo: (laugh)
Matsumoto: I'm actually holding back more than you'd think, though.
Asano/Shinzo: (more laughter)
Asano: The way I saw it, Tekkon Kinkreet didn't get much appreciation at the time, but then after Ping Pong, people started going back and re-evaluating your work. Did it feel like you'd finally gotten through to people?
Matsumoto: I'm not sure about that. It wasn't an "I told you so!" moment. I was just happy that people were slowly starting to read my work.
Editor: Did you have some sort of idea at the time that you would try to make a manga unlike anything that came before it, Taiyo?
Matsumoto: When I was young, yes, I wanted to make something that no one else had made before. That stopped around the time I did Tekkon Kinkreet. As you get older, you start to settle for making something that you personally haven't tried making before. Like with Ping Pong: I liked Makoto Kobayashi's Judo-bu Monogatari, and I thought there ought to be a manga like that about table tennis. Past that, I don't think I thought much about whether I was doing something that'd been done before or not.
Shinzo: In terms of story, you mean?
Matsumoto: The story, the characters, the setting. Maybe the artwork too.
Asano: Looking at the three of us here, I'd say that the two of you have some traceable lineage in common, whereas I'm sort of off somewhere else. The styles of one generation of artists tend not to be inherited by the next generation, because it's too close to them. You've got to wait another ten years, say, for the pendulum to swing back that way.
Shinzo: Apparently my generation strikes some people as being a throwback to manga from a long time ago.
Asano: Right. So the way I see it, the art and atmosphere in your manga is sort of like the antithesis of all these manga from the past few years that aim to be as realistic as possible.
Shinzo: The total opposite of your work. (laughter)
Asano: That's how this stuff goes, though. When I was in high school and reading Ping Pong as it ran in Big Comic Spirits, I was drawn to it, but I knew that I shouldn't try to pull off something like that myself. You might admire someone who's out there doing something really amazing, but you don't want to follow them. I see that as being the dynamic here between the three of us.
Editor: Inio, who do you admire from the generation before Taiyo's?
Asano: I guess it'd have to be Kyoko Okazaki.
Shinzo: So it's like you've got these realists like Katsuhiro Otomo, then you have cartoony artists like Taiyo, and then things get realistic again, then cartoony, then realistic, then cartoony, and it goes on and on like that.
Asano: That's how it always is — especially in terms of seinen magazines.
Matsumoto: I guess the star for my generation was Katsuhiro Otomo. I remember when I was just starting out, feeling this pressure to come down on one side — do you like Otomo, or not? He was just so influential. There were people who didn't want to admit they'd even read him, they so hated the thought of being accused of his influence. So I decided that I for one would admit to liking his work.
Asano: I see.
Matsumoto: Who do the two of you see as rivals within your own generations?
Shinzou: Tsuchika Nishimura for me.
Asano: [You and Nishimura] seem more like comrades than anything to me. (laugh) Out of Big Comic Spirits artists, I'd say Kengo Hanazawa.
Matsumoto: Seiki Tsuchida was a big one for us. He had something undeniable. When you're an artist just starting out, you're convinced that you're ten times better than you actually are, so even when you're confronted with artists who are as good as you or even a little better than you, you can keep telling yourself, "I'm better than them, I'm better than them." Tsuchi, though, was actually doing work on ten times the scale I was — just a whole other level in terms of artwork and storytelling. You just had to revere him. I still feel like I'm trying to catch up to him, even now.
Asano: Still?
Matsumoto: Still. It was a pretty big blow when he died. I wanted his acknowledgement, and I wanted to surpass him.
Asano: So you had someone from the same generation who was clearly ahead of you, then.
Matsumoto: Right. I think I was fortunate that way. When it's someone from an older generation you can just sort of stand back and admire them, but Tsuchi was actually a little younger than me, so he kind of got me panicking.
Asano: Taiyo, you have this unique art style, and yet you still manage to get your manga in mainstream magazines like Spirits. I'm interested in hearing how someone from that position sees the evolution of the manga industry, and where it's heading.
Matsumoto: I'm 46, but I don't feel any different from when I was 26, so I'm not sure I could tell you much about the evolution. I'm still just chasing after Otomo and Tsuchi. But looking at the two of you, I can see that new talent will keep coming, which is something I look forward to. In the generation just before mine, with Minetaro Mochizuki, Katsuhiro Otomo, Fumiko Takano and the like, I feel like they were all really unique artists, so I do worry just a little about whether our generation can manage to pass them on to the next generation.
Asano: (laugh)
Matsumoto: But now I'm starting to feel like artists like you two will be the ones to carry that torch.
Asano: Just knowing that Big Comic Spirits was the magazine that ran Taiyo Matsumoto manga, it felt like a more welcoming magzine. That's part of the reason I approached Spirits with my manga.
Matsumoto: That's very nice to hear. Do the two of you read a lot of manga?
Shinzo: Not really.
Asano: Yeah, I don't read much these days either.
Shinzo: I'll read something if the cover strikes me the right way, though.
Asano: Did you ever read weekly manga magazines, Taiyo?
Matsumoto: When I was sorting through my book collection a couple of years back, I found some old issues of Big Comic Spirits, from when Zero was running in it. I hadn't read the other manga in there.
Asano / Shinzo: (laugh)
Matsumoto: I was reading Jimihen and the 4-koma manga, but that was all. I thought to myself, "Huh, I guess even all the way back then, I wasn't reading much manga." It's also something I do intentionally, too, though.
Asano: Same.
Matsumoto: I have read the tankobon of Oyasumi Punpun and Midori no Hoshi, though. They were really good! It's too funny, the character you've made Punpun into. He looks like a bookmark! It's hard to believe your editor gave you the go-ahead for it.
Asano: Yes, I really lucked out. (laugh)
Matsumoto: Your editor must've been pretty surprised when you showed it to him for the first time.
Asano: He called it very quirky. It's fine and good once you get the green light and it starts to sell, but you do need a bit of magic for that first stage before that, to make the manga come to fruition. Before Punpun I'd done Solanin, which was pretty well received, so that's why I managed to force this one through.
Matsumoto: The panels always go straight to the top and bottom of the page, but the sides are bordered. Is it supposed to look like film?
Asano: I see manga as being read vertically — pages start in the top-right and end in the bottom-left. Hence why it looks like film.
Matsumoto: That's true. Not many people try that. And Solanin was the same way too, wasn't it? It's pretty neat. And what I like about Midori no Hoshi, Shinzo, is the way the artwork keeps moving around — like it's unfixed, you know? And it might keep on changing!
Shinzo: Oh, I have something I want to show you, Taiyo. When I was a first-year in high school, I redrew some of Ping Pong. (shows a reproduction of an entire chapter of Ping Pong)
Asano: (flipping through the pages) Wow, it's good! You could really draw, right from the start.
Shinzo: I was just copying, though.
Asano: Even so!
Shinzo: I changed around the first part.
Matsumoto: Alright, let's see these changes.
Shinzo: I went for a cinematic look.
Matsumoto: So I see. Interesting. Wow. (to Asano) You've never redrawn a manga like this, have you?
Asano: Not me!
Matsumoto: As much as I admire Otomo, I've never done anything like this.
Asano: I mean, I've tried imitating drawings before, but I've never fully redrawn a manga, with the panels and all.
Matsumoto: Why would you do this? Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered, but…
Shinzo: I really liked this manga. I don't suppose you'll let me get away with saying I was just bored, will you? (laughs) You know what, forget it, I'm putting it away now.
Shinzo: Taiyo, do you draw your characters totally by just picturing them in your head?
Matsumoto: Oh, no. I take photos. I've started taking a lot fewer recently, though. With Ping Pong, I had my wife taking photos for just about every pose, because I was drawing the panels from such strange angles. What about you two?
Shinzo: I take photos of myself with my phone, setting the camera on a timer.
Asano: For poses?
Shinzo: For poses, by myself. You don't use photos like that, do you?
Asano: Not for characters, anyway.
Shinzo: I think that's great. Lately I've been finding that it's been turning out alright when I try to draw from imagination.
Matsumoto: What I'm afraid of doing is drawing things through habit, which is what happens quite a bit when I don't take photos. I didn't take many for when I was doing Takemitsu Zamurai, and I started to just draw facial expressions to express emotions in the simplest way possible. Taking photos helps you understand how there's all sorts of different nuances to facial expressions, so I think taking the occasional photo is a good habit to get into.
Asano: It's true — even a normal person walking along can actually take some pretty strange forms when you actually look at them in a photo. I didn't do it for any of my main characters, but for background characters I used to trace from photographs. You could say it's a shortcut of sorts for becoming a better drawer, in a way.
Shinzo: Lately I've forgotten what about my manga makes it my own, and I wanted to ask you two about that.
Asano: That's pretty vague, so it's kind of hard to give an answer…
Editor: When people talk about the qualities that are characteristic of your work, do you ever find yourself disagreeing with them?
Asano: I do. In interviews, I get asked more about the words than the pictures, when actually you could say I'm not even all that interested in the words. It's not what I'm about. So it's surprising to find people paying so much attention to that stuff.
Matsumoto: What part is it that does interest you?
Asano: I just want to draw well. That's all. I'm only making up a story as an excuse to draw.
Shinzo: Do you have something you're trying to get through to the reader?
Asano: Like what?
Shinzo: Like, something that you want to get off your chest, by drawing it as manga.
Asano: Well, like Taiyo said, you're serious when you're in your twenties, so I was making a lot of characters around my actual age, who I used as mouthpieces to some degree… but then I hit 30. People call my manga "adolescent" a lot, and that's what I was like a long time ago, but I personally am not actually like that anymore. I'm actually nostalgic for all those juvenile, earnest feelings.
Shinzo: I see.
Matsumoto: Reading Punpun, you worry for the guy who drew it. It seems like a wonder that he would still be alive.
Asano: After a certain point, I was distancing myself as I drew it. I came up with the plotline when I was in my twenties and just went on following it right on into my thirties, so after a while Punpun was a totally different character from who I am. I knew at the time that people would probably see it as worrying, even though I'm actually all right.
Editor: Taiyo, you're often interviewed for foreign media, even. No doubt you've had your share of experiences of being surprised at how you're seen.
Matsumoto: Oh, I don't know. I don't generally read things written about me.
Asano: You do vanity Google searches every day, right, Shinzo?
Shinzo: I do indeed. I can't help myself.
Matsumoto: What do you mean, "vanity Google search"?
Asano: Typing your name or manga titles into a search engine and reading what comes up.
Shinzo: It's the only means I have of getting feedback. Do you guys get fan letters?
Matsumoto: No, not anymore. Maybe I'm just not as popular as I used to be, or maybe the media landscape's changed so that people just put their thoughts on the internet now. I'll bet you get a ton though, Inio.
Asano: Well, I don't know about a ton. They're mostly from teenagers. You probably don't get too many letters nowadays because it's hard to send one to such a reverent figure, way up there in the clouds. My fans, on the other hand, are a little too friendly.
Everyone: (laugh)
Asano: They see me as being on the same level as them. I'm just fine with that, though.
Editor: Do you get any chocolate on Valentine's Day, Inio?
Asano: No, my fans don't go that far.
Matsumoto: Back when I was doing Straight in Morning, I got a whole cardboard box full. They stopped coming after about the third year. Not sure why. (laugh)
Asano: Chocolate from a woman?
Matsumoto: Right.
Shinzo: I wasn't sure if I should mention it or not, but…
Asano: You got some?
Shinzo: Yeah, this year. Just a small one, department store wrapping and all. I ate 'em.
Editor: So anyway, what do you do when you encounter negative comments during your vanity searches, Shinzo?
Shinzo: I don't encounter any. It's actually troubling, somehow. Asano gets some doozies though.
Asano: Yeah, they tell me to go die.
Shinzo: Any manga that sells is going to have its critics.
Matsumoto: Why do they tell you to die?
Asano: Apparently they don't like me. I'm used to it now.
Matsumoto: That's a hell of a thing to be able to get used to.
Asano: But you have to, or you won't be able to keep going. At times I've almost felt like I was drawing manga in dialog with the criticism — like, "Oh yeah, you think so? Well how do you like this?!"
Shinzo: I haven't gotten any criticism.
Asano: Well, it's not like it's a fun thing to get.
Shinzo: So, another thing I think about a lot is how far along my favorite older artists were when they were my age.
Asano: I don't think there's much point in thinking about that sort of thing. The fact that you admire those artists means that they've mastered their art — you can go back and reread them later when you're the same age as them, but you still won't find that you're any closer. I used to chase after artists I admired like that, but over the years you eventually stop thinking that way.
Shinzo: Really?
Asano: As you go on drawing manga, there's this stage you hit where you come to understand your skills and your tics, and it all becomes a matter of looking back and honing that stuff. Once you're at that point, the way other people draw becomes irrelevant. I said earlier that I don't read manga anymore, and the reason for that is because it stopped being useful to me.
Editor: Is there anyone in particular you wish you could draw like, Shinzo?
Shinzo: I'm starting to realize that that's not a good way to look at it, and that I need to be true to my own style… but then at the same time, I just can't quite seem to escape from Taiyo's influence.
Asano: I imagine Taiyo himself is constantly adapting to fit whatever series he's working on, though.
Matsumoto: I am. I used to want to make perfect manga, but after a while I figured that that wasn't possible, so now I try to think of things in terms of the overall whole — maybe I'll draw something really cheerful for a while, then go on to do something really dark, and hopefully it'll all balance out well in the end.
Editor: Are you talking about more than just your artwork here?
Matsumoto: Yes, I suppose I mean everything. I didn't even like my own manga back when I was in my twenties — I thought it was ugly. Like, I'd go to draw an airplane and it'd come out looking soft.
Asano: One might see that as artistic style, though.
Matsumoto: Well, no matter how many times you're told that that awkwardness is actually good, it doesn't seem good when you're the person drawing it. Really, the only answer is to keep working on improving your technique. Looking back from where I am now, having improved my technique somewhat, my older work seems… awkward, and like I thought I had everything all figured out. With Hanaotoko and I suppose with Tekkon Kinkreet too, I was pretending like I had all the answers, you know? But now I can see that as maybe kinda cute, in a way.
Asano: How old were you when you started feeling that way?
Matsumoto: My late thirties, or maybe around 40. You almost start to see your past works as if they were made by another artist, I think.
Asano: I see — so as you get older, you start to see this young artist trying to impress people as cute?
Matsumoto: Yeah — cute. Or maybe earnest is the word.
Asano: Oh, I think I see — he comes off that way because he's so earnest.
Matsumoto: So earnest you're almost embarrassed for him.
Shinzo: I want to know how to make my stuff sell.
Asano: Another awfully frank question. (laugh)
Shinzo: I'm really worried right now that people'll forget all about me.
Matsumoto: It's normal to have dry spells where you don't get any calls from anywhere for a few years. Having done this for 25 years, I've had times where I'm in the spotlight, and I've had times where I've been totally forgotten about. I wouldn't quite say that it doesn't bother me at all anymore — I do have times when I worry about being forgotten — but I know that basically what it boils down to is, sometimes you draw a manga and it's a hit, and then sometimes it isn't.
Shinzo: Do you have barometer for that sort of thing — for knowing when your manga is going to be a hit and when it's not?
Matsumoto: Hmm, not really. But you know, when I'm not getting approached by anyone, I actually find myself better at settling down and drawing.
Asano: What do you mean by "not getting approached"?
Matsumoto: Not getting approached with job offers by publishers. I don't go on the internet so I don't actually know first-hand what kind of reaction my work is getting, but once I start to get a little hype on there, I get all kinds of offers from publishers. And then there are times when I don't hear anything from them. Really, you just need to make sure you've got some savings, for those dry spells.
Shinzo: How about times when you just feel sick of drawing manga — have you ever had that?
Matsumoto: Yeah, after finishing Hanaotoko. I was convinced that things would change because of manga. My manga. But then I go to Seven Eleven after my series had ended, and obviously there's the next issue of Big Comic Spirits just sitting there like always, as if nothing had happened. I had this realization that my manga was no big deal, and it took me some time before I started up again. I was so young, I was convinced that it would make a difference.
Editor: Make a difference in what — society? The manga industry?
Matsumoto: Basically, I just thought people would make a bigger deal out of it, that's all. (laugh)
Asano: Oh, I'm constantly expecting big-deal treatment. (laugh)
Shinzo: I guess everyone feels that way.
Asano: When I started Punpun I was really expecting it to cause more of a fuss, but people got used to it in no time. There I was, doing some pretty weird stuff, but after a few weeks people just take it for granted that there's this bizarre manga, you know? It was a real lesson in how quickly people can become used to something unfamiliar. I realized then that I can't rely too much on that shock factor.
Shinzo: The desire to make a difference in the world, then — how does that change over time?
Asano: Well, I still want make some waves even now, you know.
Shinzo: Right.
Asano: But anyway — you're saying that you want your stuff to sell. Wouldn't you say that having your books sell is itself a sign of an audience reacting to your work? Isn't that why you want your stuff to sell?
Shinzo: So a manga that sells is therefore good?
Asano: What I'm always searching for is the sweet spot where what I want to draw and what people what to read meet. I can't force myself to make manga that I'm uninterested in just because I think it'll sell.
Matsumoto: I'd say striking that balance is something I'm always thinking about too. I've got things I want to draw, but if I go ahead and say that I don't care whether it sells or not, then I might as well be drawing it for myself as a hobby. ♦
15 thoughts on "Taiyo Matsumoto with Inio Asano and Keigo Shinzo"
astralrejection · June 16, 2014 at 7:27 pm ·
Thank you so much for translating this! Asano and Matsumoto are two of my very favorites. There is so little information about Asano on English language net, so this wonderful to read.
mangahakuran · June 17, 2014 at 5:19 am ·
Yeah, considering how much of a readership the guy has in the English-speaking internets these days, there's a real lack of interviews or whatever. I'm going to work on spamming this blog with more stuff like this as I find it, so stay tuned!
justaddsoysauce · July 28, 2014 at 8:56 pm ·
*thumbs up*
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manjiorin · June 20, 2014 at 4:47 pm ·
What an interesting conversation. I really like Asano's work. Blog seems really interesting and I hope you'll post more!
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Santiago Jerez Ferrante · July 13, 2014 at 11:50 pm ·
Thanks again, always good to read some of Asano's thoughts and also Matsumoto. Kinda want to read some of shinzo's stuff now.Get in that new seinen wave haha. Keep them coming, always very much aprecciated.
i agree with santiago. the way shinzo's artwork is described is interesting and i've been meaning to check out tekkonkinkreet for a while.
as usual, i enjoyed the article.
asano is very talkative. i find it cute. it's adorable how shinzo and asano were fanning of taiyo's works.
Andu · August 27, 2014 at 1:18 pm ·
Thank you for translating this. Inio Asano is a pretty articulate guy. I remember reading an interview of his in which he mentions that he only uses vertical bleeds anymore. Would you happen to know which interview that was?
ORN9 · November 21, 2014 at 6:13 am ·
Wow. This was definitely a great conversational read between 3 amazing artists. Thank you for taking the time out to translating this. I really really appreciate what you've done here. I hope there's more to come and you'll never get bored doing this. Thanks again!
Swu · December 23, 2015 at 2:41 am ·
It's a rare treat to see my favorite artists Asano and Matsumoto talk about their craft. No offense to Shinzo. I actually like his work. It's creative and cheerful. But again, thank you so much!
GLBL · December 26, 2015 at 1:56 am ·
Please translate these: http://natalie.mu/comic/pp/pingpong_comic
mangahakuran · December 26, 2015 at 12:05 pm ·
I did read that and comment on it once — https://mangabrog.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/a-conversation-between-katsuhiro-otomo-and-takehiko-inoue/#comment-85
I don't think I want to actually translate it though
bonbon · April 2, 2021 at 2:26 pm ·
everything i have read so far from shinzo is amazing, i really hope they translate more of his works
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Taiyo Matsumoto talks shop with one of his favorite artists, Fumiko Takano
A 2016 interview with Tsutomu Nihei
Berserk artist Kentaro Miura interview: "I actually don't think I could let such a long grim story end with a grim ending"
The Togashi crack-up
A short interview with Hitoshi Iwaaki (Historie, Parasyte)


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After Manchester we need action not banalities
Here we go with the platitudes from officialdom and religious leaders, seized on by the BBC: "We stand defiant"; "The spirit of Manchester – and the spirit of Britain – is far mightier than the sick plots of depraved terrorists"; "The terrorists will never win, and we will prevail"; "We will not hand victory to the attacker by allowing ourselves to become divided"; "We must unite in the face of terror"; "When we are attacked by hate, we respond with love. Nothing and no one can divide us."
As Brendan O'Neill puts it so well in Spiked:
'The banalities roll off the national tongue. Vapidity abounds. A shallow fetishisation of 'togetherness' takes the place of any articulation of what we should be together for – and against….. It is becoming clear that the top-down promotion of a hollow 'togetherness' in response to terrorism is about cultivating passivity. It is about suppressing strong public feeling. It's about reducing us to a line of mourners whose only job is to weep for our fellow citizens, not ask why they died, or rage against their dying. The great fear of both officialdom and the media class in the wake of terror attacks is that the volatile masses will turn wild and hateful. This is why every attack is followed by warnings of an 'Islamophobic backlash' and heightened policing of speech on Twitter and gatherings in public: because what they fundamentally fear is public passion, our passion. They want us passive, empathetic, upset, not angry, active, questioning. They prefer us as a lonely crowd of dutiful, disconnected mourners rather than a real collective of citizens demanding to know why our fellow citizens died and how we might prevent others from dying. We should stop playing the role they've allotted us.'
No it is not 'love' we should feel for the murderous cult practised by Salman Abedi or those Muslims who support him. It is rage and fury. 22 were killed in Manchester on Monday night and 59 injured. Many of the injured will have suffered 'life-changing injuries' which is a synonym for loss of legs or arms. Neither should we feel 'love' for the imams who whip up hatred nor for the university vice-chancellors who in the name of 'free speech' turn a blind eye to extremist meetings.
By all means do the candlelight vigils and the hashtags and the imams, rabbis and vicars holding hands. But do not think that's going to solve anything. Only a joined-up anti-terrorist strategy will do that.
Salman Abedi had only recently returned from Libya. He was apparently known to the security services. Was he under surveillance and if not, why? There are reports that his home had a 'black flag with Arabic writing' on the roof.
This could well have been the ISIS flag. It is illegal to display this flag, if there is also suspicion that the person is a supporter or member of a proscribed organisation. Why was he not prosecuted then?
This monster should surely not have been free to travel to the Manchester Arena to maim and murder. And what about security at the Arena itself? There was no security to stop Abedi entering the concourse. I am told that the concourse is contiguous with the station and there are many entrances to it, so proper security is hard. Well in that case it needs to be modified. At many airports – including in Israel – there are security checks on entering the terminals and even on vehicles entering the airport area. That doesn't stop terrorists but it does mean that if they succeed, the damage is reduced, because the people density of their target is lower. If the Manchester Arena really cannot be secured – then it should not be licensed for large events.
And a message to those who criticise the Prevent programme – like the new Mayor of Manchester did on Radio 4 Today today (Wednesday).
The Prevent programme – with Challenge, its deradicalisation strategy – is working. Ok, Salman Abedi slipped through the net. But many more have been caught – you just don't hear about them, because their personal details have to be kept confidential (Challenge is a voluntary programme and who is going to agree to take it if they think their name will be published?). There is only one Party that is serious about tackling radicalisation. It's not the Liberal Democrats and it's certainly not Labour. Under the previous Labour government, Prevent actually gave extremists a platform. Plus Labour is led by a man said to be an IRA sympathiser and who could not even use the word 'terrorist' in his Manchester statement (he referred to 'horrendous events').
The threat level is now Critical – meaning that another attack is expected imminently. 13 such attacks have been foiled since 2013. The attack on Manchester Arena on Monday night was unspeakably evil. The best way to honour the victims is to direct our anger and fury into ensuring that it can never be repeated. Gestures – candles, Rabbis and Imams holding hands and hashtags – are very worthy, but have zero impact on public policy.
British Jewry
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Jewish-Muslim Relations
#WeRemember?
Andrei Schwartz


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Aston Villa wonderkid Carney Chukwuemeka 'will NOT sign a new deal at the club, putting Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool on high alert'
Daily Mail | November 27, 2021
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Aston Villa face losing wonderkid Carney Chukwuemeka on the cheap as he is unwilling to sign a new contract, according to reports.
The 18-year-old midfielder is viewed as one of the brightest prospects at the club, and is regularly involved with senior matchday squads.
But according to the Guardian, Chukwuemeka is frustrated over his lack of first-team football and will therefore look to leave, reportedly putting Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool on high alert.
The Austrian-born youngster started Villa's 1-1 Premier League draw against Brentford on August 28, playing just over an hour, but that has been his only league appearance this season.
See full article at Daily Mail