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The Postcolonial Artist Who Found Minimalism Before the Americans
by Ellen Pearlman January 8, 2016 January 7, 2016
'Black Phoenix' covers (1978–79). The issue on the left shows Rasheed Araeen performing "Paki Bastard" (1977). (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
HONG KONG — Rasheed Araeen is a Pakistan-born, Britain-based, self-described "Afro-Asian" artist whose art and writing are so wildly subversive, it's taken 40 years for the critical dialogue to catch up to his tremendously prescient but fractious vision. Besides dealing with Minimalism in Britain early on, he was an outspoken and original firebrand deciphering and strategizing about issues of race and power, inventing the idea of the postcolonial artist as he went along. An outsider in the established British art world, he pushed against that status for so long that it finally flipped, leaving him an anointed theoretical and aesthetic insider.
On the occasion of Araeen's first ever solo show in New York this past year, critic Holland Cotter explained the artist's importance:
Mr. Araeen also produced some of the most influential writing of [the 1980s] (I still have his clips from 30 years ago) and organized shows like "The Other Story" in London, which laid the foundation for the concept that modernism, far from being a Western phenomenon, had happened all over the world, on different schedules.
Going East, Araeen's solo show at Rossi & Rossi in Hong Kong, traces his career from his earliest abstract drawings to his recent postminimalist sculptures and abstract paintings. The issues of Afro-Asian identity he deals with are so complex that this short article cannot do justice to the entire oeuvre beyond his debut Hong Kong exhibit. Ironically, the people of Hong Kong, a linchpin of postcolonialism, are more preoccupied with the mainland northern behemoth breathing down their necks on a daily basis than they are with paying attention to this critically important voice against colonial oppression landing smack at their front door. However, "museum curators and dedicated collectors are happy to invest the time [to view Araeen's work] and also make acquisitions," notes the gallery.
Rasheed Araeen "Untitled B" (1962), suite of six drawings (image courtesy the artist and Rossi & Rossi)
Trained as a civil engineer in Karachi in the 1950s, Araeen took basic art classes at the local US Information Service library before moving to Great Britain in 1964 to begin work as a civil engineering assistant. One of his earliest pieces in the Hong Kong show, "Untitled B" (1962), a set of six drawings, shows the integration of his engineering training and critical eye with the tenets of Minimalism. Not having the canon of Western art history to wrestle with, however, he just drew what he wanted.
During his first year in London, Araeen attended the opening of the New Generation exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, which showcased pieces by many of the students of sculptor Anthony Caro. Caro himself focused on welding, but Araeen lacked the financial resources to make such massive, expensive sculptures. So he consciously chose a more egalitarian framework, building modular structures that he could make and remake, and that could be shaped by the viewer's perspective.
Rasheed Araeen, "Chad Yaar 1 (Four Friends)" (1968–2014) (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
By 1965, social change was fomenting in Great Britain. The activist Malcolm X visited, bringing his then incendiary message of black self-organization, and the next year, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party in California. Their ideas deeply affected Araeen and other minorities throughout the UK.
By now Araeen had converted his sketches into colorful constructed sculptures, many designed with his signature latticed grids. Even though they resembled Minimalist sculpture, he was not aware of the movement in America until 1968, when he heard about Sol LeWitt's show in Paris and saw it the following year in London. His own experience of independently developing a form of Minimalism convinced him that modernism was not solely a Western development.
In 1969 the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize awarded him an honorable mention and £300 for his sculpture "Boo," a blue and orange, wall-mounted, lattice-like structure. It was a tremendous accolade for an influential painting organization to acknowledge a sculpture. This should have heralded Araeen's acceptance by the British art establishment, but it did not. His work was pooh-poohed as a watered-down version of American Minimalism, though he believed the snub was racially motivated.
He then joined a British arm of the Black Panthers (later renamed the Black Workers Movement) as well as the radical Artists for Democracy, and turned his attention to critical writing. On July 31, 1977, he performed "Paki Bastard (Portrait of the Artist as a Black Person)" at Artists for Democracy. In the piece, he sat blindfolded and gagged in front of one of his latticed sculptures, holding a broom and sweeping the floor. Over the course of the performance, he was mock attacked, murdered, and left for dead.
"Paki Bastard" was the second part of a trilogy of art events, and served as a form of notes for a radical black manifesto he had written in 1975 and subsequently published in the magazine Black Phoenix (1978–79). Black Phoenix eventually morphed into Third Text (1987), which Araeen edited until 2011, when he was removed by an internal coup (the magazine still continues) and spun off a short-lived Third Text Asia (2008). His work in these publications constitutes a body of seminal writings on postcolonial theory and the havoc of globalization on world cultures. Though Araeen may contest discussions of his art being enmeshed with his political and cultural views, they are inextricably linked.
In 1978 he wrote a letter to the Arts Council of Great Britain, asking them to mount a survey exhibition of black artists; the request was, of course, turned down. In 1982 he once again wrote to the council, explaining that Afro-Asian artists were woefully neglected. "We cannot place Afro/Asian people outside of the context of 20th century by shifting them to some remote part or ethnic categories just because their specificity poses a complex problem," he wrote. "After exterminating millions of people and then looting their belongings the West today has the audacity to call itself the protector of the artistic and cultural heritage of the world." Frustrated, he went ahead and curated two critical exhibitions exploring themes that no one else would touch: The Essential Black Art (1987) at Chisenhale Gallery and The Other Story (1989) at Hayward Gallery.
Rasheed Araeen, "La Grande Jatte" (1991–94) (image courtesy the artist and Rossi & Rossi)
In early 1980s, Araeen developed a method of combining photographic images with painted images in a grid of nine rectangles stacked in three rows. This resulted in layered canvases like "La Grande Jatte" (1991–94), wherein he placed images from the first Gulf War alongside expanses of green. He was in Karachi at the time and took photos of Western aircraft fighter planes on a TV with poor reception. Using a Christian cross form, he inserted — or ruptured — the images into a consciously Islamic green picture plane, creating an unusual analogy at that time. To enhance the blurry quality of the warplanes, he painted dots on the bounding pictorial frames, turning the revealed RGB dots into a mimicry of traditional pointillism. The loveliness of the dots abuts Western symbols of power and destruction, all framed by an omnipresent Islamic voice.
For a long time, Araeen remained a provocative outsider, since there was no institutional British dialogue reframing the history of Minimalism outside of its New York origins; it was considered taboo to ask if he had indeed begun a unique strain of the movement. Because of that dismissive attitude, it wasn't until 2007 that Tate London purchased examples of his early sculptures, though he was already in the collections of many other museums worldwide. In 2014, Araeen's work was included in Other Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum in New York, an exploration of Minimalism outside its traditional Western context, which helped placed him inside the art historical canon. In 2015, he finally had his first solo show in New York.
Rasheed Araeen, "In the Midst of Darkness 1A" (2012) (image courtesy the artist and Rossi & Rossi)
In the meantime, Araeen set up a studio in Karachi, reviving his painting practice with a new body of work called Homecoming (2010–14). These works take the names of key members of the Abbasid philosophical movement and turn them into abstracted blocks of pure color using complex geometrical shapes. Araeen is particularly interested in the medieval philosophers Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali and Abu al Walid Muhammed ibn Ahmand ibn Russh, or Averroes, both of whom he believes changed Western art and culture; Al-Ghazali introduced Aristotelian thought into Muslim theology, and some consider Averroes the founding father of secular thought in Western Europe. One of the paintings in the series is titled "In the Midst of Darkness 1A," reflecting the darkness of current world events but also suggesting subtly that the words of ancient philosophers may lead us out of it.
Over the course of almost seven decades, Araeen's work has run the full gamut, from nascent engineering drawings to latticed, minimalist structures; from drawing and sculpture to writing and critical theory; and from angry separatist rhetoric to a new, unnamable ineffable. This show in Hong Kong reintroduces his prescient observations and highlights the responsibility that Western critics, curators, collectors, as well as the art-going public have to recognize his important voice that has long offered a non-Western take on minimalism, abstraction, and the power politics of neocolonialism.
Rasheed Araeen: Going East continues at Rossi & Rossi (6 Yip Fat Street, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong) until January 16.
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11 replies on "The Postcolonial Artist Who Found Minimalism Before the Americans"
src45 says:
Rather than making Araeen a Minimalist who – shock, horror! – became before the Americans, wouldn't it make more sense to recognise that Minimalism is just a small if well supported – financially and critically – part of the general 20thC trend toward reduction and basic geometric form?
Sam Cornish
Hrag Vartanian says:
That's a good point but he is written in the newer histories of the movement, and was part of the Jewish Museum redux show, so he is part of that history too.
My problem is that putting him as a Minimalist just repeats the idea that Minimalism was a defining moment which everything leads up to or follows from. He was a modernist – understood as a very, very broad church, including Minimalism. From a distance – I only read reviews – the Jewish redux show just seemed to reinforce the very hierarchy it purported to disrupt.
It wasn't perfect, that is true, and it had lots of holes, but I think it is possible to be part of many paths, movements, roads, etc. at the same time. I think he's one of those artists who was able to be part of the same
Yigru Zeltil says:
There isn't one Minimalism, there are many minimalisms.
Franklin Einspruch says:
The Americans were all over these ideas before Araeen got involved with them – post-painterly abstraction in New York and California hard-edge were producing works by 1960 that make the above drawing look rather slight.
lapsus5 says:
This is not minimalism.
Repetition and seriality are characteristics of minimalism…
Another click-bait, art-history-rewriting-for-art-market-appropriation title – what's going on, Hyperallergic? Ellsworth Kelly was making proto-minimalism in Paris long before 1962, if we want to make competition…
At least Rasheed Araeen is starting to getting the credit he deserves.
Ellsworth Kelly was not a minimalist even though he may have influenced it. He was far to intuitive to be a minimalist, which is far more based on systems and theories.
By that definition, Agnes Martin isn't a minimalist either. Sorry, I don't agree with this reductive definition of minimalism. More or less, minimalism is literal and "theatrical" (M. Fried) – and there's quite a lot of Kelly's oeuvre that fits in there.


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It looks like little Blue Ivy Carter has inherited her mom Beyoncé's glam sense of style! At the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, the four-year-old was ready for her close-up in a ball gown and sneakers – a fairytale outfit that perfectly complemented her mama's feathered Francesco Scognamiglio gown.
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Evans predicts tough test at Deepdale
Steve Evans praises Preston North End quality...
Rotherham United Manager Steve Evans understands the tough task that lies ahead of his team tonight as they face Preston North End at Deepdale for the first time since 2004.
The two sides faced off in the Millers' first home game back in League One in August when they played out a 0-0 draw, but this will be the first encounter at Deepdale since the 2-0 victory which featured Claude Davis in the Lillywhites lineup. The Millers go into the game on the back of four straight wins, and unbeaten in seven whilst opponents Preston sit one place above them in fourth with only one defeat in 10.
"Some members of the press reminded me that I'd said after our game at New York Stadium that if we were next to them in the table when we played again then we'd be having a successful season," Steve Evans told Millers Player.
"What they've got is a good manager with a great track record, proven at getting teams promoted from League One. I understand that he's meticulous in his work, a great coach, he works hard watching games and in Glynn Snodin he has a number two who is very capable."
Craig Davies has recently joined the Lancashire outfit, to complement namesake Kevin in the North End frontline, and with Joe Garner on 17 goals at present there's plenty of firepower for the Millers to defend against today.
"They've got an excellent squad of players, they're in good form and in the words of Paul Raynor they're a great football club with fantastic fans," Evans added. "They've got an array of talent which means they can mix it up going direct or into feet. Is there anyone better at winning headers in the box than big Kevin Davies in League One? I don't think there is. Craig Davies will always be a threat and then I saw Beavon come on at MK Dons and cause all kind of problems too."
You can watch a full interview with the gaffer, here.


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Vera Belova
Veronika Belova
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" I should have guessed that being showered by garbage wouldn't bother you.
- Commander Vera defeated in Commanders Challenge "
Veronika Belova (Ukrainian: Вероніка Бєлова), who is commonly known as Vera Belova (Ukrainian: Віра Бєлова) is a Ukrainian freedom fighter who restored a sense of order and hope to the Soviet people after the collapse of their leadership after the war. She is also known as the White Sparrow.
" So you won. What do you want, a medal?
- Commander Belova, when the Commander's Challenge is outstanding victorius "
Her promises of glory and retribution have inspired a new generation of Soviets to take up arms in the defense of their nation. She stood as a symbol for propaganda to encourage Russians and also to boost their morale. She is recognized as the White Sparrow. Throughout her career for the Soviet Union, Vera accumulated a number of victories and was made an example to follow. Although she is cold, Vera can show her lovely side to both seduce and then shatter. Commander Belova is implied to have some friendship with Natasha, holding in high esteem the Soviet commando.
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Vera is part of the new Soviet Underground under the command of former intel officer Dasha Fedorovich. She is not directly reported of by the Commander during the campaign against FutureTech and President Thornley but it strongly suggested that she fought hard for the Union and won a few victories. She did not take part in the assault of Japan with Oleg and Moskvin which suggests that she remained in Ukraine or Russia to rebuild their glorious Union.
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She first appears in "Where Satellites Go To Die" where she welcomes the Commander to the Orbital Reentry Area. The attractive Vera asks if he doesn't mind that she dumps some Soviet trash in his backyard. When she is defeated, she states that she should have guessed that being showered by garbage would not have bothered the Commander.
During "Reap What You Sow", she discovered the plans for a long lost experimental version of the Sickle and squared off against the Commander once more. Before starting the battle, Vera told the Commander that it was just them and that he/she should not worry as she won't tell anyone that she defeated the Commander. When defeated, an annoyed Vera tells the Commanders that he won and what more he wanted; a medal?
She later appears in "Cat Fight", where she insults Lydia Winters by asking her to look after some books rather than engage in the battle on the island. At some point after Lydia and then Takara are defeated she blows out "Dasvedania, honey, (blowing a kiss)."
At the time of "Caught in the Crossfire", she replies to Giles Price comment which suggested that the Commander go after Belova first. Vera tells the Commander to go ahead as she was right there and that once she was finished with him/her, she was going after Giles hiding behind the Commander.
She appears in "Dangerous Skies" where she mockingly asks that the Commander came so soon against her. After which, she states that in this battle, she along with Commander Giles Price are going to take the Commander down. Upon being defeated, she says that she should have known not to count on that blow hard (Giles) to help her.
In "Scavenger" she faces off against the Commander and Takara Sato. She informs them that on the island, her Natasha was responsible for killing the drivers of several tanks leaving the husks behind. After which, she informs her opponents that if they work quickly enough, they can get a few of those vehicles for themselves. After being beaten, she tells the Commander that he can laugh now but she will be sending Natasha to take care of him/her.
During "Offshore Killing", she warns the Commander along with Kenji Tenzai and Douglas Hill that the oil rigs in the region belonged to the Soviet Union whereupon she told the others to leave. When she is defeated, Vera warns her opponents that the Soviet Union will not forget what they had done and that they will all pay for what they did in the battle.
The last challenge she appears in is "The Motherland," where she tells the commander that if he/she wanted the Soviets' Kirovs, he/she should've just asked. When defeated, she states she didn't know how the commander did it, and comments that it was "Pretty good.:
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Red Alert 2 Alexander Romanov • Zofia • Vladimir • Yuri • Boris • Sam • Soviet Commander
Red Alert Mobile Bronislav • Natasha Volkova • Soviet Commander
Red Alert 3 & Uprising Anatoly Cherdenko • Nikolai Krukov • Gregor Zelinsky • Oleg Vodnik • Zhana Agonskaya • Nikolai Moskvin • Natasha Volkova • Dasha Fedorovich • Vera Belova • Soviet Commander
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Hillary Clinton compares herself to Irish pariah Typhoid Mary
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Gage Skidmore/WikiCommons
Hillary Clinton stated in her first interview since losing the presidential election that being an ambitious woman meant she was treated like Irish woman Typhoid Mary who was quarantined for much of her adult life
"By the time they finished with me, I was Typhoid Mary," said former Secretary of State Clinton.
Using the analogy of Typhoid Mary and blaming part of her loss of the election on misogyny, Clinton told the Women in the World summit she "spends a lot of time wrestling" with the fact that 53% of white women voted for Trump.
"Certainly misogyny played a role," she said.
Mary Mallon, the first person in the US identified as carrying typhoid without displaying any symptoms, was quarantined and kept alone for decades. She was once described as the most dangerous person in America.
"Poor Mary, she didn't deserve it either, when you go back and look at the history," said Clinton.
"By the time they finished with me, I was Typhoid Mary" -Clinton on her popularity as secretary of state and after https://t.co/8zvmKUw3p0
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 6, 2017
Co. Tyrone born Mary Mallon, commonly known as "Typhoid Mary", was the first healthy typhoid carrier to be identified by medical science. She became famous after giving rise to the most famous outbreaks of the carrier-borne disease in medical history and was blamed for 51 cases and 3 deaths of typhoid.
Born in 1869, she moved to the US in 1884 working as a cook for families throughout New York City. When several members of the family of New York banker Charles Henry Warren fell ill with typhoid while she worked with them, it emerged that a run of families had suffered the same fate while she was in their employment.
Mallon had never shown any outward signs of the disease, however, and felt persecuted as a fully healthy person wrongly blamed for the illness of others.
"I never had typhoid in my life, and have always been healthy. Why should I be banished like a leper and compelled to live in solitary confinement with only a dog for a companion?" she argued.
She even took it upon herself to sue the health department, eventually being released from quarantine in 1910. Her freedom didn't last for long, however, as having changed her name to allow herself to work in kitchens again, she was found to be the cause of an outbreak of typhoid fever in the Sloane Maternity Hospital.
This time she was to remain in an isolated cottage on North Brother Island for the rest of her life.
Read more: How 'Typhoid Mary' infected countless and still haunts New York Island
Poster warning how Typhoid Mary spread the disease.
In the wide-ranging live interview with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Clinton also spoke of the need for intervention in Syria just hours before it was reported President Trump had launched a missile strike on a Syrian government airbase believed to be responsible for the deaths of at least 72 civilians in a chemical weapon attack earlier this week.
"I really believe we should have and still should take out his airfields and prevent him from being able to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them," said Clinton, reiterating that in 2012 a plan to arm rebels she put forward with then-CIA director David Petraeus was rejected.
"I thought we should have done more at that point," she said.
Read more: The one big reason Hillary Clinton lost the White House
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The former Secretary of State also expressed her hope that US politicians could come together and "start acting like patriotic Americans" to investigate the possibility that Russia interfered with the 2016 election.
"What was done to us was an act of aggression and it was carried out by a foreign power under the control of someone who has a deep desire to dominate Europe and to send us into a tailspin," Clinton said.
"What Putin wanted to do was sow distrust and confusion as well as influence our election.
"I'm hopeful Congress will pull together and realize because of the success the Kremlin feels it had, they're not going to go away."
Taking a hit at her former election rival Trump, Clinton declared that Putin did not like strong women "although he did shake hands with me", a clear criticism of Trump's refusal to shake the hand of German leader Angela Merkel when she visited the White House last month.
Clinton, who was greeted with a standing ovation from the crowd when she appeared, also stated that she found it "somewhat gratifying" that President Trump has so far been unable to repeal or replace Obamacare.
H/T: The Guardian
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Name: Guardian Heroes
Format: Saturn
Genre: Scrolling Beat 'em' Up
Region Reviewed: PAL
Year of Release: 1996 (UK)
Reviewer: Olly023
It's getting hot in here...
Well that's gonna leave a mark!
I knew nature was evil...
Guardian Heroes was Treasure's (Gunstar Heroes, Alien Soldier, etc.) mammoth explosion onto the 32-bit home consoles and 5th Gen overall. But this was an explosion not of a terrorist, but one much like the firework-laden contribulations of a Disney park.
The game can be classed as a side-scrolling Beat-Em-Up with RPG elements, so its appeal from the off can be seen as pretty widespread. You have a choice of memorable characters to do battle and progress through the game with. I'm very typical in that my favourite is Han, because the guys badass yet amusing.
I kinda dont wanna speak about the story too much, but for what is a typical beat-em-up it throws you off guard. Or at least, did when I had no idea what to expect popping the disc in the first time those many moons ago. The plot is fairly well crafted, with various twists and turns. Its, in short; rather epic. Or at least, as epic as a game such as this can get.
But this is a Treasure game on a Sega console. If you know what that means already, then you'll be as happy as Bob. If not, you'll get a first class lesson in what they're all about. Dashes of genuinely funny humour fill the game, bright, quirky characters and sometimes nutty enemies with awesome boss fights. Yup, s'all here! But this game is special in fact that it holds a certain humanity, a quaint quality lacking in many a game. When you fight to save the world in this - it...It actually feels important. Not a plot point, but important. Legit.
Musically, I don't have a whole lot to say - but it does have some catchy tunes and moments of off-kilter jazz infused madness that you've come to expect. The audio quality itself though is top notch as always on the Saturn.
The gameplay, as with any good sidescroller, is addictive as all hell. What makes it worse/tenbazilliontimesbetter is that there is multiple paths that trail off, with choices you make having direct influence on the games outcome and where the story leads. With the various branches, multiple cut scene variations and endings; the replayability is off the charts. You can play the same game twice, but you can go roughly five other games before doing so if you do it right and thats not including changing up who you're playing as. AWESOME.
Guardian Heroes really is a masterpiece of game design. No, really. It is. A supremely stupendous piece of magnificence that looks down snidely on lesser games. It feels dirty to put it alongside some of the other titles in my meager PAL Saturn collection as they are underserving.
It's not just the main game that is a thing to behold, the arena combat mode, time attack and ranking options all add to the package as a whole and further shows a clear example of a developer absolutely on their (pardon the pun) game. The multiplayer elements are also first class and help make the seemingly impossible sections feel a bit more do-able.
The graphics are so well detailed even when they switch from forground to background and the CD-32 aside (private joke with Megatrons_Fury) this reviewer has never seen so many colours, everything just radiates class.
This was the first game I ever played fully on the Saturn, co-oping with my buddy (most of you know the story of me and the Saturn by now). To this day? It remains my favourite. All time. 32-bit. Game.
Guardian Heroes, is quite simply? Priceless.
Verdict:- Some games are utterly timeless and this is one of those prime examples, Treasure may be the name of the developer but treasure it is what you will do when you play this.
As defining to the saturn as Goldeneye was to the N64 or Metal Gear Solid to the Playstation it's just magnificent as a software title and is every single bit as good today as when first released.
Those quick to judge the Sega Saturn need to sit down and play this and know how great it was.
Second Opinion:- This game makes Transbot smile. After checking all memory modules and data capsules Transbot has concluded that this game is perfect.
By order of the imperium of the galactic federation of Two-Level's you are hereby ordered to proceed with much haste to pick up a copy of this game and enjoy your miserable human lives. Obey fleshlings!
Transbot Scores:- 10 out of 10


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Developmental Dislocation of the Hip
- DDH involves displacement of the femoral head from the acetabulum (during the perinatal period)
which disrupts the normal development of the hip joint;
- DDH is estimated to occur in 1 - 1.5 cases per 1000 live births;
- when an agressive screening system is in place (including routine use of ultrasound), it is not uncommon to
have a prevalence of 5 / 1000 cases;
- in certain sub-populations, such as North American Indians, incidence can be as high as 35/1000.
- normal hip development: (limb development);
- Perinatal observations on the etiology of congenital dislocation of the hip.
- The fetal acetabulum. A histomorphometric study of acetabular anteversion and femoral head coverage.
- Growth and development of the acetabulum in the normal child. Anatomical, histological, and roentgenographic studies.
- Morphometric study of the fetal development of the human hip joint: significance for congenital hip disease.
- Histological study of the fetal development of the human acetabulum and labrum: significance in congenital hip disease.
- Growth characteristics of the fetal ligament of the head of femur: significance in congenital hip disease.
- The pathogenesis of femoral head deformity in congenital dislocation of the hip. Experimental study of the effects of articular interpositions in pigs.
- risk factors for DDH:
- left hip is more often involved (? due to fetal positioning);
- females: 80% of cases;
- breech birth (may account for 25-45% of DDH cases):
- first born:
- fixed positions of extension and adduction;
- Down's syndrome;
- congenital muscular torticollis
- pathogenic factors (impediments to reduction)
- natural history of untreated DDH
- The conservative management of congenital dislocation of the hip after walking age.
- Conservative treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip in the newborn and infant.
- teratologic dislocation:
- distinct category which represents a true congenital hip dislocation;
- occurs in 1-2% of perinatal hip dislocations;
- associated w/ arthrogryposis, chromosomal abnormalities, Larsen's syndrome, and others;
- typically the hip is not reducible at birth (equivalent to the untreated hip in a 3-4 year old;
- operative treatment is controversial and is associated w/ multiple procedures to keep the hip reduced;
- Teratologic congenital dislocation of the hip. Report of two cases.
- Teratologic dislocation of the hip.
- The hip in arthrogryposis multiplex congenita.
- Pathology of limbus in untreated teratologic congenital dislocation of hip. A case report of a ten-month-old- infant.
- Physical Exam:
- Barlow's Test
- Ortolani's test
- Radiographic Features:
- x-ray features:
- Radiological outcome of innocent infant hip clicks.
- Improvement in acetabular index after reduction of hips with developmental dysplasia.
- ultrasound of the hip
- Management of DDH:
- primary goal is to obtain a concentric reduction of the femoral head in the acetabulum;
- w/o this reduction, normal development and growth does not occur;
- diff dx: consider septic hip in the differential diagnosis of DDH;
- treatment based on age:
- Treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip in older children.
- Treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip. Management before walking age.
- Treatment of dislocation of the hip, detected in early childhood, based on magnetic resonance imaging.
- Acetabular dysplasia in the adult.
- Acetabular dysplasia in the adolescent and young adult.
- Acetabular development after reduction in congenital dislocation of the hip.
- treatment options:
- neonates with a hip "click" or an equivocal examination should be evaluated with ultrasound at 4 to 6 weeks of age
if the physical examination does not improve;
- ref: A clicking hip in a newborn baby should never be ignored
- pavlik harness
- traction
- ref: Ultrasound-guided gradual reduction using flexion and abduction continuous traction for developmental dysplasia of the hip: a new method of treatment.
- closed reduction
- open reduction
- femoral osteotomy
- pelvic osteotomy
- total hip replacement
- Long Term Complications:
- avascular necrosis:
- ref:
- The surgical treatment of established congenital dislocation of the hip: results of surgery after planned delayed intervention following the appearance of the capital femoral ossific nucleus.
- Presence of the Ossific Nucleus and Risk of Osteonecrosis in the Treatment of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
- subluxation
- dysplasia
- Growth disturbance of the proximal part of the femur after treatment for congenital dislocation of the hip.
- Cause and prevention of osteochondritis in congenital dislocation of the hip.
- Congenital hip dislocation. Long-range problems, residual signs, and symptoms after successful treatment.
Current Concepts Review. Reduction of Congenital Dislocation of the Hip.
Subluxation of the femoral head in coxa plana.
Osteoarthrosis and congenital dysplasia of the hip in family members of children who have congenital dysplasia of the hip.
Congenital dislocation of the hip in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Hip dysplasia associated with abduction contracture of the contralateral hip.
Paralytic pelvic obliquity. Its prognosis and management and the development of a technique for full correction of the deformity.
Paralytic dislocation of the hip in myelodysplasia. The role of the adductor transfer.
Etiologic factors in congenital displacement of the hip and myelodysplasia.
Hip dislocation in spastic cerebral palsy: long-term consequences.
Congenital dislocation of the hip in boys.
Management of hip dislocations in children with arthrogryposis.
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Taking a break from work to study is a popular move with respondents to the latest eZonomics poll but cost is seen as a barrier. Overall, 38% of respondents said they would stop work for a year to improve their education but 39% said they could not afford to.
The costs of education may be more complex than many people think. Research published this month suggested certain law school graduates have to earn more than $30,000 more a year than their peers who did not go to university, before the years of study pay off in financial terms. Author Herwig J. Schlunk - of the Vanderbilt University School of Law - factored not being in fulltime work and tuition and fees into the cost, while students' ability to "land very lucrative" summer jobs partly offset the expenses.
When the employment market toughened in 2003, The Economist reported a "dual degree does not come cheap" in a story about MBA students coupling the course with a Master's degree in an entirely different discipline. It noted opportunity costs included "foregone salary and career advancement".
A paper published last year for the Centre for Economic Policy Research found the "college premium" in earnings may tend to be partly eaten away by graduates living in large - and expensive - metropolitan areas.
Like networking, keeping skills up-to-date is a popular piece of careers advice. United Kingdom government information portal Careers Advice wrote: "Learning new skills may cost a little bit but not learning new skills can cost you more in the long run. If you keep your skills up to date you'll have a wide choice of jobs, probably earn more and be in demand by employers."
Popular video Did you Know? - created by Scott McLeod, Karl Fisch, Laura Bestler, The Economist and XPLANE - noted how quickly the world was changing and claimed the 10 jobs expected to be the most in-demand next year did not exist as recently as 2004. The rapid pace of change highlighted the importance of keeping skills fresh.
Individual circumstances, hopes and dreams determine what to study and the relative benefits of full or part-time education - or whether to study at all.


Our winery is called Fiddlehead, so why not have a little fun and call our vineyard Fiddlestix?!
Fiddlestix is the quintessential Pinot noir dream vineyard, located at the western end of the transverse-oriented Santa Ynez Valley, AVA. In 1996, Kathy took a leap of faith and purchased what was a 133 acre "flower farm" (Sta. Rita Hills AVA granted in 2001). We can't help but be proud of her intuitive investment.
Located in a narrow slot of the cool climate Santa Rita Hills AVA (located mostly within the SYV AVA), at mile marker 7.28 on Santa Rosa Road, Fiddlestix is where perfect Pinot noir elements of soil and Region I climate pull together.
On the north side of this tight east-west running valley, fog hangs over the vines until mid-morning, the temperature barely rises above 75, and the coastal breeze blows through the Santa Rita Hills, ensuring cool grapes throughout a lengthy day of sunshine. The soil is well-drained Gazos and Botella clay loam, loaded with chirt and Monterey shale. There are 96 planted acres, with an ideal spacing of 1556 vines per acre. With the intent to maximize variety, the vineyard is designed to 32 mini-blocks, representing unique combinations of our six clones, three rootstocks, and various elevation, exposures, and soil combinations.
In the vineyard we customize our farming in response to each vintage's demands. We conscientiously and meticulously farm to produce grapes of distinction, and yields are carefully controlled to produce unsurpassed Pinot noir quality. Fiddlestix is nurtured by hand many times over again; we shoot thin, leaf pull, and crop thin numerous times in a single season, ensuring ideal cluster exposure to the suns ripening rays, leaving only goodness on the vines. And Kathy is pleased to partner with Atlas Vineyard Management.
We currently produce three distinct bottlings of Fiddlestix Pinot Noir. Cuvees Lollapalooza, Seven Twenty Eight and Doyle. You will also find some of our precious fruit in wines of other highly respected, discriminating and dedicated winemakers.


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Novella Nostalgia
The Novella Nostalgia Series
This publishing initiative brings together the uniqueness of the novella and various memorable classic movies from the history of cinema.
The word 'novella' comes from the Italian for 'novel.' It has been interpreted in various ways including 'a long short story' or a 'short novel'. It can be traced back to the early renaissance in Italy and France. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote 'The Decameron' in 1353. This comprises 100 tales of ten people fleeing the black death. It was not until the 18th and 19th centuries that the novella emerged as a literary genre.
Until recently, most modern novellas were published by Penguin Modern Classics. The various novella prizes seem to stipulate a word count of between 7,500 and 40,000.
A key feature of the novella is its limited punctuation. There are no chapter headings and no breaks apart from spaces where the author needs to show a change of scene and/or time.
City Fiction has now created its innovative Novella Nostalgia series wherein iconic films inspire modern stories.
The first, 'Lunch with Harry', pays tribute to one of the great films produced by Hollywood. Made in 1961, 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' was based on the novella written by Truman Capote. It produced a mesmeric performance by Audrey Hepburn. The modern tale is transferred to London and features the charismatic Ella van Houten and Harry, who is guilt-ridden following the death of his wife. They meet in Regent Street in unusual circumstances. Their growing relationship parallels their search for a model of the Mexican general, Santa Anna, who burned 'The Alamo' to the ground.
The second, 'Twelve Troubled Jurors', published early in 2017, has echoes of '12 Angry Men' which gave the film world one of Henry Fonda's greatest performances. The updated story tells of the trial of a fraudster and the convoluted divisions amongst the jury until one member takes over to engineer a surprise verdict.
This was followed by 'Forever on Thursdays' which hints at the unforgettable British film 'Brief Encounter'. The love affair between Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard remains an icon in film history.
In its updated form, the unhappy Carey meets the compelling Mark and, in doing so, not only writes her first novel but finds the man with whom she will spend the rest of her life.
The fourth novella, 'The Man Who Hated', launches the odious Milton Grant who begins a self-imposed mission to hit back at what he perceives to be human faults.
It was inspired by the 1993 film, 'Falling Down' starring Michael Douglas.
The above novellas are all written by Tony Drury, the author of the DCI Sarah Rudd Detective series.
In October 2018, City Fiction has published the first novella by a solicitor come writer, Oliver Richbell. He and Tony worked together on 'Twelve Troubled Jurors'.
The fifth in the Novella Nostalgia series, 'Gloriana', written by Oliver, takes its theme from the 2008 Tom Cruise film, 'Valkyrie' and the conspiratorial plot to kill Adolf Hitler. In the updated version a committee of conspirators intend to reverse the result of the Brexit referendum by killing The Prime Minister.
November 2018 sees 'A Search for the Truth'' by Tony Drury. This controversial novella is inspired by the 1947 film, 'Gentleman's Agreement', starring Gregory Peck. This examines anti-Semitism in post-Second World War America. The modern story features Lily, an undergraduate, who must write a dissertation titled 'To Define a Jew'. She not only discovers the complex world of Judaism but faces deciding on one of two suitors both of whom might transform her life.
In early 2019, Oliver Richbell returns with 'The Courageous Witness', based on the 1988 American drama, 'The Accused' starring Jodie Foster and telling of a horrendous gang rape at an office party. Oliver updates the story and introduces Amanda Buckingham, a barrister who is destined for a brilliant legal career. Further stories from 'The Amanda Buckingham Series' will follow charting her meteoric rise.
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Learn About Nick
Where Nick is Playing
Nick Barr
My first "gig" with a bluegrass band was in 1966. I played mandolin with a band known as ... well, the name isn't important. Since then I've performed with a number of bands playing various instruments and singing various parts.
In 2016 I'm celebrating my 50-year career with a concert which I'm calling "50 Years In The Making." I will get as many musicians as possible that I have played with over the years to attend. The show will be at the Linda, WAMC's Performing Arts Studio located at 339 Central Ave., Albany NY. It's a great venue. It will occur on Saturday, October 15, 2016; the show will start at 8:00 P.M.
As of now, I will have the following:
From my first band in 1966 in southern Connecticut, Dave Kiphuth and Phil Rosenthal. Both of them have made a lot of progress musically since then.
Bluegrass Samurai: a band I was in in the late 70s and early 80s. Mark Patton on guitar, Deane Lewis on banjo and Frank Orsini on fiddle. I played upright bass
Blue Moon: A band I was in in the late 90's to the mid 00's. Deane Lewis on banjo, Pat Mullally on guitar, Fred Woodward on bass. I played mandolin and a little fiddle.
I played on an album put out by Marty Wendell called "Rockabilly Heart" It was all original materal from Marty. It won't be very bluegrassy, but I think you'll enjoy it. I played upright bass.
Helping out throughout the evening will be local legendary musicians Al and Kathy Bain.
We will also include the world premier of the Barr Brothers. Come to the show to find out what that's about.
I will also be performing with my fellow Saturday night WAMC radio compadres: Wanda Fischer and Tim Coakley. We'll behave ourselves.
This is a full evening of entertainment. There may be some additions between now and showtime, and of course you never know who might show at the show. I'll have more information on this page as the details become reality. I hope to see you there!


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When I talk to other people, I say things like "it's such a blessing for the children," and "it's so much better for her to be with family." Which is not completely a lie.
The kids know that their great-grandmother sometimes thinks they're her sisters. It doesn't phase them. In fact, they've begun referring to themselves as Charlotte and Penelope. She has no idea who I am and usually thinks I'm the housekeeper. She says things about my housekeeping under her breath when I'm in the room. Ninety year old women have no volume control, so "under her breath" is arguable.
It would make me crazy if it weren't for my best friend, who lives across the country taking care of her eighty year old father-in-law. We compare notes. I am a little luckier because when Louella throws things at me, they don't go very far. Charles is an all-star baseball player in comparison.
She's luckier than me because the things Charles throws are all physical and can be dodged.
We call each other when things get bad. She called today.
"He's gone," she says. I know by her voice that it's not the usual call signaling a neighborhood search and a trip to the parking lot where his favorite bowling alley used to be.
"I went to wake him for breakfast. It happened in his sleep. I'm just waiting for someone to come and... you know."
I think of her sitting in an empty house, waiting for the body to be removed. She'll have arrangements to make. I figure I should fly out and be with her at the funeral.
"I'm sorry," I say, but she knows that's not what I mean. I only say it because jealousy is a sin.
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He said if I was,
I would get there -- to Heaven.
She said we should shave our legs.
Another He told me he loved me.
I believed him and
Let go everything in a breath.
A breath!
a sigh a slither a touch a shiver
I forgot everything.
The line between me now
and the holy me,
God says I should be:
It is so fine
a razor's edge even.
It cuts when I touch it.
No unbitten apple, no snake,
no nothing --
Can undo what I did.
I wake in the arms of a man who is not God.
I shave my legs and
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The dog entered on the south east end of the Experience just as the evening show was starting overhead. Little knots of people, t-shirts clinging to their backs, gazed up at the LED lights, not noticing the dog as it slipped between them, tacking back and forth up the Strip.
Darryl caught the dog on monitor 05 as it crossed into the camera's field of view. The dog had its eyes on the people, alert for danger, watching the families - for someone it recognized, maybe, or just on the lookout to avoid potential threats. Children, cops, all unpredictable.
Check this out, Darryl said. Aaron swung his chair around and they watched the dog together, a wolfhound from the size of it. Something big and rangy, with tongues of grey fur streaming from its legs, a long lean snout like the barrel of a carbine testing the desert air.
You think it's one of those dogs from the news? Aaron wondered. Darryl knew what he meant, had seen the stories about the animal shelters filling up with dogs from foreclosed and abandoned houses. Some people walk away from the mortgage and they just leave the dogs and cats behind. Assholes, thought Darryl, although he also knew that sometimes a person got tossed out by the bailiff and the pets were left to roam the neighborhoods. Sometimes your life just broke and your dog is one of those broken pieces. Nothing to be done about it, but sometimes the animals were a problem. This was the first he'd seen it with his own eyes. Better call the cops, Aaron said.
Darryl nodded, but what he really wanted to say was Let's hold on. Hold on just a second. For what, he wasn't sure. For the dog to cross through the grid of monitors as it made its way up the block? For a child to reach out and pet some lost animal with crazy marbles for eyes? Maybe just to see where the where that dog thought he was going.
The dog zagged out of monitor 05. Darryl switched his eyes to monitor 08 just seconds before it trotted into view. This time it stopped in front of a woman in a motorized chair. Darryl sensed its alertness, the active processing of the woman gliding down the street. The dog skirted a wide crescent around the woman, who barely acknowledged the animal beyond a glance as she motored on. She pushed the joystick on the armrest, and the chair picked up speed and moved off, bound for monitor 07.
The cameras implanted along the edges of the Fremont Street Experience captured everything that happened on the street below. All the people who stopped to watch the LED light show with its resolving and dissolving images of guitars and chorus girls, or sat at a bench and gazed at nothing with the reflective, interior gaze of the disastrously broke, or just ignored the show above altogether and passed along, their faces and shoulders dimpled with points of light. The camera collected them all. The ones who didn't bother to look up had somewhere to go, except there was nowhere in particular to go in this part of town. A hotel room, a casino, a Walgreen's. Sometimes Darryl caught his father wobbling along the street, clutching a plastic yard of neon-tinted booze, on his way from a bar to a casino or back again, throwing Darryl's mother's money away in small and large chunks, peeling off the whole family's future, one binge at a time.
Darryl hoped that his dad would be walking down the Strip at that very moment. Darryl hoped that he would find the dog and take him home, and maybe the dog would keep him there, keep him from straying from his place out to the Strip. But no, that wouldn't work, Darryl's dad had been keeping all kinds of places, motel rooms here and there, apartments belonging to various women who worked at Nevada's or the Palace or wherever. He lived in between: jobs, houses, women, families too probably. One day he'd die in between, and his body would be divided between all his lives. But putting that pisser in the ground: that job, Darryl knew, would be handed off to him.
Darryl switched his attention back to the dog. A man was petting the animal, and for an embarrassing intstant Darryl thought it really was his father. The cracked red corona of skull with white hair flaring away down the skull, the reddened shelf of forehead and the belly bulging out against a plain white shirt - it was all dad's. But the man was almost certainly a tourist - just something about the way he was taking in the sights. Just the way he looked at things told Darryl everything he needed to know. Darryl twisted the camera joystick clockwise, zooming in on that sunburned bald spot, closer and closer until it seemed that he was almost touching the top of the man's skull.
Sometimes Darryl felt that boring in this close to the surface would give him access to what was beneath the surface, as if to approach so smoothly and invisibly was to penetrate. In those moments he felt - believed, even - that he could see with the eyes of the people he watched: that man who was stroking the dog, the dog looking back, ceasing for a moment from darting its gaze back and forth, for a moment relaxing into the man's affections, believing briefly that this might be home. Go on then, Darryl thought as he picked up the phone, go on and take that dog home.
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Her fingers arc out, stretching. Trying to span the distance between who she's been and who she's becoming. To hold it within her hands, to feel the weight of this new world and know she will be able to bear it as her own. She closes her eyes, feeling the brush of cotton against her fingertips, imagining it skin on skin...
A tiny shudder. We both feel it. Excitement and revulsion. The ecstasy to come.
A ghost of a smile flutters across her lips - an unspoken promise, the tiny half-crescents that carve her cheeks translating the primal elements of language into the gentle, rhythmic pulses of galvanic response - and her shoulders press back, deep, against the welcoming slope of the bench. She works through the groups, one by one: neck, shoulders, upper and lower back. Abdomen. Quads and hamstrings, long and limber, tapering into calves that seize and clench, tight and strong, then flow loose — muscle memory vivid with years of long runs, how the miles slipped away with the steady course of blood and breath, impact and release. And her fingers, arcing, farther and ever farther, feeling their way across this undiscovered country, tracing the anatomy of hope and desire blindly, carefully, protectively.
It is an intimate braille; a mother tongue coded in protein chains and the silent barter of oxygen. A syntax of pheremones, there to be heard and understood by any who might listen. Who might learn it as their own, capturing nuances and inflections. Studying. Absorbing. Preparing for that moment of recognition: a native speaker?
A tiny shudder. I wonder if we both feel it. The anticipation of something wonderful drawing near.
She luxuriates in this thin shard of sunlight, the oblique angles of late October belying the warmth of a summer that lingers, reluctant to let go. She closes her eyes as her lungs fill, air tasting of pinesap and distant woodsmoke. Breasts swelling taut beneath thin white cotton. Saturating with warmth, and the knowledge of loving and being loved. Her fingers, stretching, arcing along with the lunar curve. And then she smiles - no ghost, this - and whispers, "A harvest moon" and the sugar maples tremble their leaves, a fluttering of wings in the warm autumn breeze, and the sky is a tumbling riot of reds and golds and in that moment ripeness is all and she cannot help but laugh and her voice
rises
twisting along the dry edges of falling leaves, leaping upward from one to the next, spiraling and spinning and soaring, joy lighter than air, and
I shudder, chilled by the breeze and this deep shadow, secreted beyond the sun's reach. But I do not make a sound. I never make a sound.
A crow settles in a nearby tree, and cries once. It listens, carefully, for a reponse, and she honors it by doing the same. It is quiet, save the rustling of brittle leaves.
We wait. For now, we wait.
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He craved touch. The feel of hot, supple skin sliding against skin. If he only closed his eyes he could feel it. The invisible rasp of tiny hairs bending as nerve endings lit up like a pinball machine on tilt, blood vessels singing as they pumped harder infusing a warming flush, it made him dizzy just to consider.
Then again he felt the same way about waffles. He really did, though his friends laughed when he tried to explain. The feel of hot batter in his mouth, mixing and playing with the cold syrup and melting butter… it was too much for him. Everything was far, far too much. Always had been, truth be told. So he went to doctors and sought professional help only to be told the problem was in his mind. More doctors, more tests and experiments and he learned, over the years, to expect the sad shake of a head that doctors tried to hide from him right before they shrugged their shoulders and sent him to talk to someone else.
He tried to live alone for a while, eliminating as much of the world as possible. He tried to control his urges. Even then, he would get out of bed in the middle of the night to pee and the feel of the chilled hardwood floor under his bare foot - the grain of the varnished wood just hinting up along his heel - sent chills through his spine.
Blind desire filled his every waking moment and yet somehow, maddeningly, never dulled to the point of the far-too-well-known. Twenty years into his personal hell he gave up. Five years after that he gave in. The doorknob's smooth brass slid against his palm like the whispers of the universe and he grabbed it tighter, turning it. The door opened and a warm breeze licked at his neck, making him swoon. The sun prickled along his face, like the kisses of a thousand needles and he smiled into it, stamping down the urge to run and hide. Where could he go, anyway? Bed? With its soft sheets and warm covers? That wouldn't be better so why not just enjoy it, embrace it and run in the grass?
And so he gave in. To all of it. He made it as far as the driveway before dropping to his knees and rolling around in mindless pleasure and desire. They found him that way, two days later - dew covered and sleeping with a huge smile on his face. Back into the house he went, drugged so that he wouldn't wake up and feel the hands of the people carrying him. Back into the fake house, past the fake lawns and neighborhood he could have seen if only he had been able to take twenty more steps. But none of that would matter in a while.
Their experiments were almost done, after all. Soon they would know enough about how these desires worked in humans, to launch the first attack wave.
They couldn't wait. They wanted nothing more than to board their attack ships and feel the smooth Hrnjds-skin seats against their backs while engines purred like lovers and…
"Wyksboh?" Gskri asked, "Did you spill the klrtht'ing formula on us? Awwww jhraso!"
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"When I whet my flashing sword and my hand takes hold in judgment, I shall take vengeance upon mine enemies and I will repay those who hate me"
-Deuteronomy 32:41
The weight of it inside the sleeve of his coat felt good. Solid. Comfortable and righteous. It felt like a phantom appendage that had long ago been amputated. Back now for purpose. It didn't hurt nothin that he had, over the course of ten years or so, become a fucking conductor of classical pieces with the thing. Racking shells of .00 in as quick as he could pump them out. Full precision. And today would be a fucking ticker-tape parade of spent, contorted plastic tubes. The prodigal bastard son. Returned.
The tables of Ninnie's Dinner still held the same sticky condiment rack -frontside of the same greasy menus- on the wall side of the booth. Years of wiping down bottles with cold, day old dishwater had left a build up. He raked his fingernail down the side of the ketchup bottle, looked at the grime and wiped it on the leg of his jeans. Bile rose in his throat and made it to the back of his tongue before he could swallow. And, who the fuck was Ninnie anyway? Before he "left" he'd been here his whole life and never did meet a "Ninnie". Ninnie? The name bounced around in his head like names of far off places he'd never visit. A curious thing, like music you can ignore. But ignore he did as he lined up the cast of characters that were, as per usual, congregating at Ninnie's for the lunch special.
There was Sheriff Branson who went first. It was fairly close range, and all that was left of his left shoulder and neck after was a pink mist that sort of hung like the sunset from last night then settled on the filthy, sticky condiments there on the wall side of the booth. Swing steady and level to the left, some had ducked behind the pleather backs of their booths, but he knew Ninnie's like he knew his own bones. Mr. Tackett, the owner of the Savings & Loan and head of the City Council, was sitting in number sever like he always did. Only now you could see, through the wide hole in the back of his skull, the soup d'jour as he lay face first into it. Clam chowder I believe it was. Possibly Manhattan style. Now it was, anyway. "Big" Bill Foreman worked the grill. Actually, it was "Big" Bill's joint and I reckon running the show in the kitchen gave him a proprietary hard on. Now, "Big" Bill, sizzling on the grill, with his left leg in the ether somewhere and the kitchen knife he went for right before the Conductor pumped round after round into "Big" Bill still in his hand...the harder they fall and all that shit.
There was pure, white panic now. They remembered now. They remembered the injustice, the complete lack of tolerance. How they had done what they did for sport. As they shrieked and pleaded and ran amok in and through the booths - it was like watching static on television after three a.m. There was a chaos theory to it as he pumped another round though the chest of Coach Talbot completely vaporizing that annoying fucking whistle. Fucker. The symphony had come to it's climax and he thumbed 12 more rounds into the chute. He jacked the pump up and pulled down, fixing to bring it home. 'Where are you, Tommy Paul Shipley,' he mumbled under his breath. 'Theeeeere you are.' Tommy Paul with his stupid two first names. Tommy Paul started it all so very long ago, and now, Tommy Paul had soiled himself and was a blubbering hot mess. He walked over to Tommy Paul, said, "shhhh, now. shhhhhh...it'll all be over soon." Taking a sticky menu off the table, our Conductor held it fast to Tommy Paul's face with the business end of the Remmington and rocked the cradle, painting a rose on the wall behind Tommy Paul's head. Now, Tommy Paul was beautiful.
"Thank you for all of this." A voice from behind and under the counter. "Beg pardon," replied the Conductor. "These folks had this comin for a long time now. So, you know, thanks. One thing though - who are you?" The Conductor thought about this question. He thought abut the voice behind the counter, that cotton voice, the face hidden but all too famliar. "I know you, boy. My name - my name is Wrath. And I'm your new best friend."
"I been waitin for you," the disembodied voice replied.
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Soil scientists are developing the first ever digital soil map of Africa, covering 42 countries south of the Sahara. The map will provide up-to-date information on the health and properties of the soil, helping farmers and policymakers to improve degraded soils and increase crop production.
The map will be made from satellite measurements of soil nutrients, moisture and organic matter. These data will be combined with samples taken over the next four years at 60 randomly chosen sites across sub-Saharan Africa, where researchers on the ground will measure the soil's chemical and physical properties and its organic content.
Using this information, scientists can predict soil properties at places they have not sampled, checking their models by comparing predicted soil properties against actual measurements. The map will also incorporate existing soil maps and information on geology and climate.
A farmer in Malawi, for instance, could use the map — which will be freely available online — to find out how much fertilizer, and of what type, his or her land needs. The project is also looking into sending information to mobile phones, which are very common in Africa.
The map will divide the continent into squares that measure 90 metres x 90 metres — giving 100-times greater resolution than the best current maps of African soils, say scientists.
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"This is a quantum leap," says Alfred Hartemink, a soil scientist at ISRIC — World Soil Information, an independent foundation in Wageningen in the Netherlands, and one of the scientists leading the project. "With these maps we can now produce quick, cheap and accurate information."
Poor knowledge of soil conditions has hampered efforts to improve African soils, which are some of the most depleted on Earth, Hartemink says. Existing soil maps are incomplete and date from the 1960 and 1970s, he says.
"This project will benefit farming families in Africa by showing how they can reverse declining soil fertility, a major reason for slow growth in the region's agricultural productivity during recent decades," says Namanga Ngongi, president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya, a partnership to promote sustainable agriculture in Africa.
The mapping project, called the African Soil Information Service, is launched today at the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute in Nairobi, which is leading the initiative. The institute is part of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, a non-profit research body funded by international organizations and private foundations.
The African initiative is the first phase of a bigger project to develop a global soil map, called GlobalSoilMap.net, which will be launched in New York next month.
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I am working on rather intricate conflicts issues this week (which I am enjoying) so I am turning to the blog for a little cerebral relief (equally pleasing). In  EWHC 1544 (Ch) Deutsche Apotheker- und Arztebank EG v Leitzbach , reported with thanks by Ashfords, Hodge J correctly applied the COMI test of Regulation 1346/2000 to dismiss jurisdiction for the courts in England and Wales.
Dr Leitzbach had obtained a bankruptcy order after a previous attempt in which he had failed to testify to COMI in England and Wales. His, successful, second attempt, it now became clear, was obtained after misrepresentation. Dr Leitzbach's arguments pro COMI it seems were mostly based on residence in the UK, proof for which he sought to obtain from (in fact non-existing) supermarket loyalty cards, as well as receipts of purchases made hundreds of miles apart within a short time-frame.
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New Delhi [India], November 24 (ANI): Hailing the Centre's decision to extend the free ration scheme till March 2022, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said the move was made with a sense of duty and responsibility.
Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani on Wednesday inaugurated Indo French Chamber of Commerce and Industry's (IFCCI) third edition of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Conclave and Awards along with Ambassador of France to India Emmanuel Lenain as the Guest of Honour.
Addressing the conclave, the Union Minister said, "I come here on a day when the Prime Minister has taken the decision to extend the free ration scheme to 800 million Indians till the month of March 2022. We are the only nation that has ensured to feed 800 million fellow citizens. We did it not for a sense of piety. We did it from a sense of duty. We did it not from a sense of privilege. We did it from a sense of responsibility. So today I use this forum to say thank you fellow citizens, for standing up when your country needed you the most."The Centre on Wednesday decided to extend the 'PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana' (PMGKAY) to provide free ration till March 2022. It is a food security welfare scheme that was envisaged by the Prime Minister to provide assistance and help mitigate the economic impact of COVID-19. Under PMGKAY, 5 kg of additional food grain, per person, is given to all beneficiaries covered under National Food Security Act.
She also said that India has tackled the COVID menace very bravely and all should take pride in the same with regards to vaccination and PPE kits manufacturing.
"We are grateful for the partnerships, the investments, the cultural exchange that we have seen between India and France but the pandemic was a testimony our humanity was tested. We are a country which in 75 years of independence did not manufacture a single PPE. We had a global lock down the borders were sealed as a country that did not have the raw material, the machinery but in three months, not only we start manufacturing on our own, but we became the second-largest exporter in the world and this is Indian enterprise," stated Irani.
Ambassador Lenain highlighted the solidarity shown by French companies in India during the second wave of the pandemic adding that their efforts mirrored the help that India extended to France last year.
"Together, the French State, IFCCI and more than 50 French companies carried out an unprecedented solidarity mission, bringing 180 tonnes of liquid oxygen, several shipments of medical equipment and 29 French-made state-of-the-art oxygen generator plants that have made as many Indian hospitals oxygen-aatmanirbhar. I see healthcare as a promising new field of the Indo-French strategic partnership," Ambassador Lenain said. Around 70 CSR heads of Indo-French companies attended the event. CSR projects of top French companies in India showcased at the conclave. IFCCI recognised the companies who contributed to the successful accomplishment of the French Solidarity Mission for India's oxygen crisis, caused due to the second wave of COVID-19 at the Conclave. (ANI)


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FOOD INSECURITY: ARCTIC HEAT IS THREATENING INDIGENOUS LIFE...
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Subsistence hunters in the Arctic have long taken to the sea ice to hunt seals, whales, and polar bears. But now, as the ice disappears and soaring temperatures alter the life cycles and abundance of their prey, a growing number of indigenous communities are facing food shortages...
The decades-long trend of extreme Arctic warming hit new heights this winter, as a mass of exceptionally warm air invaded the region, raising temperatures by almost 50 degrees Fahrenheit above average in some areas and driving temperatures above the freezing mark at the North Pole in late December. Arctic Ocean ice cover reached a new record winter low last month, putting even more stress on sea-ice-dependent seals and polar bears. Other wildlife populations, including caribou and some seabirds, are declining as species struggle to adapt to a swiftly changing polar ecosystem.
All these changes are also making it more difficult for Arctic people to put food on the table. The big Arctic melt is having a profoundly negative impact on many indigenous hunters, who for millennia have relied on the pursuit of whales, seals, fish, and land mammals such as caribou to feed their families. Even today, in an era of greater government support of far northern Native communities, indigenous people across the Arctic — from the Inuit of Canada and Greenland to the Yupik and Dene of Alaska — still depend heavily on subsistence hunting.
Now, as sea ice becomes an increasingly unreliable hunting platform and soaring temperatures alter the life cycles and abundance of prey species, some indigenous communities are facing worsening food shortages and a lack of proper nutrition. Last year, the U.S. government had to ship in frozen fish to Alaska communities whose walrus hunts had failed.
More than one-third of households in the vast Arctic territory of Nunavut lack access to safe and healthy food.
In northern Greenland, where hunters often use sled dogs, some owners have been forced to kill the animals because it is too costly to continue feeding them given the paucity of prey on their hunts.
According to several recent Canadian studies, one-third to two-thirds of the households in the vast Arctic territory of Nunavut lack access to safe and healthy food. In some places in northern Quebec, soup kitchens are having trouble keeping up with the demand, and food scarcity has been linked to the slow growth of many Inuit children.
Food shortages have always been a challenge for the Inuit and other aboriginal people in the Arctic, as dependence on subsistence hunting and fishing has meant that life is often lived on the edge. Engaging in a rugged life on the land and sea also has been problematic for a new generation of Inuit who tend to identify more with southern cultural values than the ones their parents and grandparents held.
The current food shortages, however, are something quite different, because along with skyrocketing food prices — milk often costs $15 a gallon and steak more than $25 a pound — climate change has made subsistence hunting less reliable and more dangerous. Once-stable sea ice is now breaking apart under the feet of indigenous hunters and their sled dog teams.
"In the 1980s, we could expect three to five feet of ice in early March," says Inupiaq elder Austin Swan, 68, who lives in the small community of Kivalina on the north slope of Alaska. "Today [in mid-March], we have open water in some places and very thin sea ice elsewhere. Weeks of minus-40 weather seem to never come, as they did in the 1980s." He says the decline in sea ice makes it difficult to hunt bearded seals and almost impossible to hunt beluga and bowheads.
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Inuit hunters are traveling longer distances to get around open water.
"It's too dangerous," says Swan. "It's the same with caribou on land. They've really declined."
Swan is one of 146 Alaskans representing 81 villages who contributed to a report on food security published by the Alaska Chapter of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) in December. In addition to citing climate change, rising fuel and food prices, and resource development as causes of the problem, the report calls for a complete reevaluation of how wildlife and resources are managed in the Arctic during a time of rapid change. This reassessment would involve an examination, for example, of how oil, gas, and mineral development might negatively impact caribou herds.
Arctic food security, or "insecurity" as some call it, became a hot-button issue in 2012 when Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations' Right-to-Food envoy, publicly criticized the Canadian government for failing to address the growing problem of hunger among the Inuit and indigenous people of Canada. At the time, Leona Aglukkaq, the Inuit minister in charge of Canada's Environment Department for the ruling Conservative Party, dismissed De Schutter's criticism, insisting that the Inuit were doing well feeding themselves with food they harvested from the land and the sea.
This controversy inspired the Canadian Council of Academies — an independent group that supports scientific research — to study the issue. In 2014, the 15 experts who contributed to the report sided with the UN envoy.
"A significant body of research has confirmed that access to wild foods can help in significant ways to mitigate conditions of indigenous food insecurity," David Natcher, senior research chair with the Global Institute for Food Security at the University of Saskatchewan and a contributor to the report, said in an email interview. "Climate change is just one of a number of factors that make it difficult for the Inuit and other Northern indigenous people to put food on the table. But it's a big one that's going to get a lot worse.
"Changing ice conditions have increased the time and cost of harvesting. Changing environmental conditions have also made it more difficult for Inuit elders to share their predictive knowledge of the weather. This has contributed to growing uncertainty among younger harvesters to access the land, sea, and ice. There was no doubt in our mind that this is having a direct bearing on indigenous food security in northern Canada."
The implication of all this came into sharp focus in 2013 when then-Alaska Governor Sean Parnell declared two Inuit communities — Gambell and Savoonga — economic disaster areas after changing weather patterns in the Bering Sea forced hunters to abort their annual bowhead whale and walrus hunts. The disaster declaration opened the region to state assistance funds.
The state did not fly in food, but the following year the communities did need emergency food assistance. After a second year of low sea ice led to another failure of the walrus hunt, Vera Metcalf, director of the Eskimo Walrus Commission, asked for help. The U.S. Coast Guard shipped in 10,000 pounds of halibut to the communities of Gambell, Savoonga, Diomede, and Wales. The halibut was supplied by SeaShare, a Washington state-based food bank that specializes in providing seafood to communities in need.
Speaking of his own Alaskan community of Kivalina, Swan said, "Most people here are related, so they share as much as they can, just as they did in the old days. But sooner or later, it's not going to be enough, if this continues. Welfare checks help, but they are not the answer."
Carolina Behe, indigenous knowledge and science adviser for ICC-Alaska, says that climate change and food security are more than just a matter of calories and nutrition; they're also a matter of culture. "People here are identified by their ability to hunt and provide food for those who need it," she says. "This identity is threatened when it becomes unsafe to go out on the ice to hunt, or too expensive to travel the long distances that are now needed to track down animals on land."
Many Inuit leaders were heartened by this month's joint pledge by U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to protect the Arctic from overfishing, shipping, resource development, and the impacts of climate change.
People here are identified by their ability to hunt and provide food for those who need it," says one indigenous leader.
But ICC president Jim Stotts is dismayed that the Inuit were not consulted beforehand about the agreement between the two leaders.
"The attention to the Arctic and issues that matter to Inuit is appreciated," he says. "But the United States Arctic policy requires consultation with Inuit. Moving forward, we must be meaningfully engaged in decisions that affect us."
Indigenous leaders in Nunavut were outraged recently when a Canadian regulatory review board gave the green light to two mining companies that want to drill for minerals on the calving grounds of the Bathurst caribou herd, which straddles the border between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
Like many of the world's 24 major migrating caribou herds, the Bathurst herd is not faring well. In 1986, scientists estimated there were as many as 450,000 animals in the herd. Today, there are roughly 20,000.
A growing number of roads, pipelines, and mines threaten to destroy caribou habitat and interfere with migration. But global warming is taking a heavy toll on the animals. More biting flies and parasites, for example, sap the caribou's energy reserves.
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As the U.S. and Russia take the first steps to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, experts say the harsh climate, icy seas, and lack of infrastructure means a sizeable oil spill would be very difficult to clean up and could cause extensive environmental damage.
More frequent winter rains and sleet freeze snow cover and make it harder for caribou to paw up nutritious lichen below. Earlier spring blooms no longer coincide with the birth of animals on the Arctic coast.
Aboriginal hunters in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are angry that they have been banned from hunting Bathurst caribou, even as potentially harmful mining activities in the herd's territory are being approved. Inuit and Dene hunters are struggling with, and in some cases vowing to defy, hunting bans in their territories.
"There is this impression in government and in some circles that jobs, jobs, jobs will fuel the economy," says Ross Thompson, the executive director of the Beverly Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board, which helps manage two caribou herds that migrate across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. "What they don't realize is that in many communities the caribou are the economy."
Some economists agree. One 2008 study, which was updated in 2013, pinned the economic value of the Beverly Qamanirjuaq caribou herds at $20 million annually. To each hunter in Nunavut, one caribou was worth $1,720 in income, the study said. To replace that caribou with high grade beef, the study stated, would cost hunters three to five times more.
Swan is hopeful that governments will finally appreciate what climate change and resource development are doing to fish and wildlife in the Arctic and to villages such as his, which are sliding into the sea due to melting sea ice, rising sea levels, and thawing permafrost.
"We've always been able to adapt to natural change in the environment," he says. "But what's happening up here now is not natural. It's making it difficult to put food on the table."
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Canadian author and photographer Ed Struzik has been writing on the Arctic for three decades. In previous articles for Yale Environment 360, he has reported on shrinking snowpack and glaciers in the Rockies and the tar sands industry's proposed Arctic export route.
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