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Lenin As He Is Today
Many of our readers know that in the middle of Moscow, right on the Red Square, next to the Kremlin there is a Lenin's tomb, called "mausoleum".
There, inside, mummy of Lenin lies. Really, not only Egyptians made mummies but Soviet authorities decided to make a mummy of Lenin as a symbol of Soviet Era and October Revolution.
This Lenin's tomb was a real shrine for all the Russian people who came all over the vast Russia to visit the Red Square and mausoleum. There were alway long lines on entrance, people had to wait a few hours as minimum in order to enter and take a fast glance of Lenin, or the piece of what 70 years ago was called Lenin.
Nowadays many people demand to remove the body or the mummy from the middle of the Red Square and bury it, but still there are many people brought up in communist style who are against this so powers afraid on making some sheer action on the tomb.
And because its all made of flesh and bones, at least it was made of it, it needs some cleaning and service a few times a year. Here we have some screenshots from Russian TV channel where the operation of regular service on Lenin's mummy was shown.
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108 responses to "Lenin As He Is Today"
Jesus, he looks alot worse when shown there naked.
Granted, what did I expect from someone dead about 80 years. ;D
Ленин жил, Ленин жив, Ленин будет жив!
Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live!
Lenin died, Lenin is dead and Lenin will stay dead. Thank god.
God is dead. Nietzsche.
Nietzsche is dead. God.
You're dead. Me.
Nietzsche is dead. Good.
Nietzsche is God
I´m god
Your Dilutional
You're Delusional.
I am not a 15 years old. I am 52 yo. I am a victim of a communist regimen, who have to left my country because my own ideas were again a dictatorial regimen implant there for the former URSS. I am not a common citizen of USA, I am an emigrant who coming to this country (USA)for freedom. I don't know what old are you, I am not criticized you. You only need to learn more about the real history of the world.
Probably you are a victim like myself, in your case worse because you are still defending something it's indefensible.
You are a brainwash victim of the communist. My intention is not at all offense you, again for me you are a victim.
Most "victims" of the communist regime were scumbags, traitors, whistlers and other riffraff. The country that you left for built its so called freedom on the bones of hundreds of millions, not just millions of people.
What would you have to say to the dead of Pol Pot's Killing Fields????
so the millions and millions of people that called for help from the russian czar Alexander 2 and belived in a power hungry man called V.I Linen who said land peace and bread, and ended up being a liar who took over the government as a dictator and secured the rule of Joseph Stalin who killed millions upon millions of innocent people in the purges where people were illegally charged for almost everything that was tortured out of them. Those innocent people were scumbags traitors and riffraff. No they were innocent people who were slaughtered for no reason. These people were not victems, and if you think communism is the best form of government, then you can kiss my democratic a*s
Mayor is right. I have no experience at all with communism, so you can call me dumb, but you can't excuse the millions of deaths that lenin and his gang caused.
I think the big lesson to be heeded here is, beware any person promising any sort of Utopia here on earth – because that will inevitably result in a drastic upheaval of society, and oceans of innocent blood being spilled.
Lenin is responsible for so much blood being spilt, Russian or otherwise, that it's not even funny.
Yes, the Czar was not that great to the Russian people – yes, there needed to be a new government – but not an opressive, dictatorial regime (a dictatorship of the Proletariat is still a dictatorship!).
Lenin buttraped the Russian people, only to be followed by that major a$$#ucker of them all, Josef Stalin.
You Russians deserved better than this!!
The body shown during procedure is NOT Lenin`s body. It is a "test-dummy", that was used during the research in 1920`s, to measure the compounds of solutions and to polish the "technology". As I remember, it belonged to unknown homeless person, who died on one of Moscow`s railway stations in 1924.
The tomb itself is designed to house a coffin at below-ground level, so it is technically a crypt. A lot of people are buried in crypts all over the world.
And what I personally recommend to everybody – do not disturb the dead. Leave it where it is.
I read that Mao's embalmers in the 70's did some extra restorations on Lenin's body since it was in pretty bad shape back then. Like his ears were falling off and were replaced with wax models. Pretty gross.
As far as I am concerned, bury the man and let him rest in peace. I guess if he would have known he was going to be put on display after his death he wouldn't agree with that. Anyway.
It was part of communism's ideology -they haven't believed in God, Jesus Christ and so on… There was atheism. Lenin also was atheist. I think he wanted to be in such condition in our times, he was a real lider with faith in what he was doing. I don't want to say that all what he has done – good for Russia. I mean that he was unusual person.
And photos 4-10 – it isn't Lenin, you can find a differences.
Jesus is no longer in his grave, Lenin is. Lenin will rise again with the rest of us to be judged.
You said it brother! God bless you!
"Praise Gawd-uh! Praise Jaysus-uh! Kick a queer for Christ-uh! Send in your donations now-uh! Phone lines are open-uh! Operators are standing by-uh! If we don't get enough to build a 30,000 seat church and buy me a Bentley, the Lawd will call me home-uh! Please pay no attention to the man in the airport bathroom stall blowing a twink and smoking crank-uh! Forgive me for I have sinned-uh!"
Christianity is for con men, hicks and closet cases.
I know I'm over 5 years late in saying this, but your comment is really funny!
I find it hard to believe that the Red Chinese would provide such assistance to the Soviet Union after the split and became rivals, but strange things have happened so maybe they did.
Also, I read that every four or five years the Vietnamese fly Ho Chi Mihn's body to Moscow, quietly and without ceremony, where it is then given the same treatment.
"The body shown during procedure is NOT Lenin`s body"
Have seen this NTV programme years ago myself.
I wonder who will be the next president. I heart mr. Stoiber of Bavaria is still available !
Disguisting JEW!
are you ani-semitic?
well, why?
There is only face and hands preserved from Lenin
Lenin was a leftie scumbag who wanted to keep Russia as a backward country. Granted, Joe Stalin was considerably worse, but Lenin was no saint either.
fortunately, other presidents are noble, honest and
untouchable people. they would never invade in other
countrys for no rason (or oil).
good point. the existence of more than one bad leader means we can never criticize any of them
Far out! This is very interesting. Thanks for posting it.
Is that a Russian Orthodox church next to the tomb?
It must be St Basil's.
HEh he's skin looks like rubber..
Saw the tomb back in the early 80's. I still have red 3D Lenin pin looks just like him in tomb. Soviets said they were atheists but Lenin was their Jesus, Moses, Muhammed all rolled into one.
That's really amazing
Using black necromantic art we will raise him from the grave to promote World Communist Revolution. Mueahehehe!
Yes, any socialist, whether alive or dead, is never a nice thing to look at. Ugly people. Rotten on the inside and outside.
Now, where are the pictures of his wang?
i think you are mistaking socialist with communist.
He had itty bitty pee pee, not proud to display BIG russian man with teenie winky!
What. -__-
Nat Sherman miniature cigars + embalming fluid = "sherms"
At one day we will burn him.
I don't know why is this porn posted there? Is it available to see for children? Lenin is NUDE on photos.
Congratulations! You just broke the internet.
russian burned pretty much everything related to communism in 1990-1991. They put down all those statues. Why did they keep lenin's body ?
Wow. They are aren't even wearing gloves.
Freaking gross.
Hi,What shall I say,a man in the fhoto looks like a man who distroyed the world.He is death now,so no coments about death people.God,let us have good hearted people,please.
Hi,What shall I say,a man in the fhoto looks like a man who distroyed the world.He is death now,so no coments about death people.God,let us have good hearted people,please.
Damn that must be one of the freakiest jobs I've seen!
Vladimir is an icon of revolution
Fools who does not know any thing except fate can criticize the real sun.
His body gave a faith that ideas will never fall.
For any who are interested, the book "The Mummy Congress" by Heather Pringle has a fascinating interview with some of Lenin's last remaining Mausoleumists. I find it intensely creepy that the Mausoleumists were given the best medical training and equipment in the Soviet Union, to care for a dead man, while we living had to make do with semi-skilled butchers.
wow. He doesn't look as good without the warm lighting and such. Looks like his hair has lost all color and his body is not nearly as good condition as it would have seemed.
I wonder if he needs to get serviced like that so often how long the body can last before it really starts to fall apart. Since that time there have been better techniques developed that wouldn't require such servicing, like that used on Eva Parone.
I think it's time to bury or cremate what is left of this human being. At present it just represents a gross and morbid spectacle more in keeping with a Victorian freak show.
lenin, you're great people!
Does anyone know what music was (still is?) played inside the Lenin mausoleum?
I'm still interested in knowing what the haunting music is playing in the Mauseleum… anyone?
Trully , what You Americans can say about Russia? You olways consider yourself asa a people who know everything. And I must say NO. You have no idea what comuunism were and what is going on in Russia novadays! Open your's horisons. Thank you.
may be or may not be…….he may be lenin or not,,.he lives in my hearty..and in my conciousness..
Only for think different and speak about my different ideas I was tortured. I was put in a drawer as if I were an object for a week. They beat me on many occasions.
I was put in a solitary cell with no toilet, water once a day for 5 minutes, without light or sun light, no soap or dental paste, using same clothing for 8 months for the crime of not sharing the ideas of the Big Brother. Eating "food" the animal don't eat. One of the time they beat so hard in my lower back, was necessary one surgery. After the surgery I became paraplegic for the damage in my spine.
All for the big crime of think different and speak about it.
For love my country and freedom I am not a traitor, or other qualified you gave to me. I don't think bad about you. I think you are product of the very thin scope of knowledge and opportunities to learn. If you learned from you were a baby, white is black, it's normal for me the way do you think. Sorry I don't know your native language, if is Russian. I would love to know if you read English, I will send you any kind of literature for you learn the true.
By the way I told you my age. How old are you?
Have a nice day, because I believe in God, I wish you God bless you and your family.
You're clearly a troll paid from Voice of America agitprop radio.
Lenin was a dictator!!! Killed a lot of Russian people for no reason!!!!!!!
Burn in hell Lenin!!
Fascinating post…thanks for sharing. IMHO, it's probably time to take him off permanent display. A pretty creepy thing to do to any human body, I think.
Sadly, my IQ went down a point after reading the comments…
Why do you said that about myself if you don't have the remotely idea what kind of person you are talking about?
I don't receive any paid from any government. The problem for people like you don't understand people can have own ideas. Because you are a parrot of dead regimen don't mean I have to be like you.
Read my other input in this blog and you will know more about myself and my opinions.
You'd think the way they get him out of that goo, an arm would pull off, or his head would fall off! I wonder if they can plastinate him now? Maybe, the goo is already some kind of ploymer? Nothing like a country trying to be modern in today's world while simultaneously carrying around their "mommy" (I mean mummy!)!
those who do not honor theirselves will not be honored by anyone.
Russia is like a place on the edge. She is not Communist or Democratic. Lennin's corpse remains, but the government he established is gone…or is it? In USA it would be like having a mummy of George Washington on display in front of the White house! Freaky!
Да здравствует Россия!!! Ура, товарищи, УРА!!!
There is something wrong with the symbolism of the embalmed body, they embalmed the dogs from space also on display. In a way it looks disrespectful when I am sure it was not meant to be originally. He led a revolution, a peoples revolution reportedly. The skill sets of the embalmers are of importance? No the respect of a person is important. Maybe he should be buried. My mother told me about stories, I have no intention of ever entering a grave to view a body. I won't even go to museums anymore either,they made me look at an ancient mummified corpse. I remember my grandparents, it was like they were sleeping to a small child. They put makeup on them like dolls or something, they never wore makeup. They were cold to the touch…strange customs we learn such things, but is it right? Maybe I'm superstitious, but superstitions were usually for a reason…just like folktales…
I thought I would mention I am reminded somehow of an old poem that I was taught in childhood from nursery rhyme books. Little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice, little boys are made of frogs and snails and puppy dog tails.
puppy dog tails….no I don't like this and you made me look at those photographs also. It looks like a shell….
what did they do with all his innerds?
So, this mummy of Lenny gave me an idean of a horror movie, imagine all world slowly turning to a lenin zombie, eating brains, all talking about comunism, sharing all graves…
будет жив
hi friends; always my role model is lenin only, because i have a lenin's total life history and i like communist thoughts.now around the world politicions & leadres very bad,worest activities,in future communist world only.
the greate leader and inspaird person long sleep…
Eeuahuhreuhrr… Why is everything about the Soviet way so.. sooo nasty! Have you seen those huge Soviet subs?? They're scary! I wouldn't use the bathroom of a Soviet-era public swimming pool if you maybe slightly get what I'm saying??
I wouldn't want to fall sick in Moscow in the year 1953, because I'd have to enter a Soviet hospital, anyone understanding me?
No offence to modern Russia =)
Notice that Lenins right hand fingers on those screenshots are in different position than at official photos.
Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Mussolini, Ceaucescu, Idi Amin Dada, Papa & Baby Doc, Mobutu Sese-seko, etc…
All dictators, all killers of their own people. Nothing good left to say about them, but we know where they are know: IN HELL!! Blessed is The LORD!
Time to bury him and lay the past to rest.
Uncle Lenin is taking his annual? bath. So what?
What is the truth about Lenin? Who knows that? The one who wrote the article about Lenin for the Wikipedia? Is he/she called Mr./Mrs. Truth? Who is right? I think no one. Closest to the truth get scientists and even that knowledge is very often uncertain.
I am an old man and have seen all kinds of things with my own eyes all over the world. However I never understood why people make wars. If you ask any person he/she wants to live in peace. I haven't seen any exception.
Then came the Internet available for ordinary people (in addition to students and scientists) and now I understand. Just reading these comments it's obvious why people make wars.
I doubt that these pictures are thos or Lenin. For one thing I have been working in burial rites and so on for quite some time. I've seen Lenin on a visit to Moscow (as a fact I've worked there for 8 months) and I know his right hand is a fist. Now way this can be undone while washing the person after al this time. If someone has other (better and real) pictures I'd be amazed. This does not fly. I'ts not possible. And for more, Lenin as how I did see hem in his crypt is bald. What's whith the hair on some of the photo's?
Lenin was the swine! The mausoleum needs to be destroyed, and him normally to bury – all the same the person. And to destroy all monuments in all cities.
happy birthday Lenin!
I read about Lenin and I remember when I was only 9 year, so is very difficult to have an
right think, because the story of him have confusion about Lenin. Is different how I has read, and what the komunist sistem in Albani tell about him. I have understand that Lenin has been a clever man, but also hi do lot of crimnalitet by his land, and have giv so bad thinks to other land to. But I thought has been some one his back paint .I hope never this world meet any mor like as Lenin, but I am afraid that one those day is other people bring up in this world.Who suport by many hi to go thought europe and to bill revolution
This question must find ??? Sorry i can not write so good in the inglish because i have forgot lot of word after learn Norwegian language ,about that i can not ecplayn all what i have in my mind.
The concept of socialism, which was establised by Lenin in Russia must bury the evil and noodness of democracy from the world.
"Nowadays many people demand to remove the body or the mummy from the middle of the Red Square and bury it, but still there are many people brought up in communist style who are against this so powers afraid on making some sheer action on the tomb." The museum are nice to look at, but when im started to see the mummy i feel scared.
Thanks for the great images of Lenin's preservation. I think he should be preserved, as the body has been preserved so long, why stop just because people think his ideas don't work? He hasn't been mummified, just preserved for all these years, and I think he should be preserved for future generations to judge. They'll thank us for preserving him. It's just a hollow shell, but it might have some good clues in centuries to come about what made him tick, or something.
Anyway, it's Lenin. Can you honestly bury him? He's like a god to us, we don't want him buried, but preserved. Looking at the images, more so now than ever, he died so long ago, but still there's some physical thing left of him, his corpse.
Lenin's body has been retreated and retreated with chemical compounds since 1924 and this is a real picture of him. It is not fake. When you continuous submerge the human body in LIQUID, it will lose more and more color. I'm sure they had to dye his hair again and again. It's DEAD skin; can you imagine trying to preserve that? It's been on display for 86 years; treated with chemical for 86 years.Really, it's ridiculous to leave a dead body in this way. DEATH is not meant to be treated this way. We came from dust and we are meant to go back to dust. Nothing ever good comes out of humans worshiping another human. God is only meant to be worshiped. Any human that was worshiped like a God turned be negative. Humans are not God and can not handle worship. Pride, arrogance, control, selfishness, discrimination, etc. are all products of human worship of humans. Lenin and Stalen died horrible deaths.. Horrible and painful. Stalin was given rat poison that made his brain bleed and he laid in his own urine for over a day because he was unable to move; Lenin suffered several strokes and the last one made him mute. Russia is even considering burying Lenin's body; Stalen is already buried. I think it's extremely morbid to keep a body out for view for 86 years. Gross….!
F.you here
Im back at home in austria : D and first thing i see on ER is some na/zi stuff…schäm dich ER, aber wirklisch…
@Praise God: are you blind? Look at the hands! When the body is laid for the public, his right hand clearly shows a fist, while the one from the bath cleary has both hands open. Don't tell me they can still change the state of his hands. Would be nice though… Let him give the audience the finger 🙂 !
Lenin was a great leader,great revolutionery and great visionery.What he did for society was great and unmatchable. I hope lenin born again in 21st century to save the world
Perhaps Lenin if he could see this would acknowledge that his remains are serving a purpose even today. The pictures of the hollowed out body shows us clearly that what remains after death cannot survive.
I commend the author of this web page for showing the reality. Even if the body being serviced isn't actually Lenin.
The ear is different, the hairline is VERY different, and as many have pointed out, the right hand is different. Although there is passing facial resemblance, these differences seem to prove the bathed body is NOT in fact that of Lenin. I assume they showed us the process on a different body to avoid disrespecting Lenin.
The body on the table has hair. Lenin was bald. Soooo… who's the guy on the table?
To all those people who are calling Lenin a criminal. Listen he is a real leader and fought for the poor and won. He stopped riches(buzoasies) to steal people's money from them in the name of Capitalist system. Now riches will become angry with this man and they will shout on social networking sites.But communists don't pay attension to all that dogs who burks behind them so u people carry on barking,take care & good bye.
I am harsh i like russian cultural and Russian men and women and Russian countery i. like Russian
Russia is a great country, if it wasn't for such fanatic cruel people it would have developed into something greater than any other nation but those people brought it to its knees.
Lenin was definitely bad. His communists were murders. But let Lenins body be in the mausoleum. It is a museum showing what happened in the Soviet Union. By the way I visited it already in 1999.
That person being washed is definitely not Lenin. However, I also read that people believe the body in the mausoleum is not Lenin either, but a wax figure of him.
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Why didn't Kristen Stewart get any ice cream?
The actress, 22, visited Jon Stewart on The Daily Show Thursday to promote her latest film On the Road. In August, the host welcomed her then-estranged boyfriend Robert Pattinson on the show for his very first interview after Kristen cheated on him with director Rupert Sanders.
Jon, 50, greeted the heartbroken Pattinson, 26, with some ice cream, and joked, "Boy, you are better off. Kick her to the curb."
The Twilight heartthrob didn't end up taking Jon's advice, and reconciled with Stewart shortly after the scandal. (Kristen issued a public apology to Pattinson saying, "This momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob. I love him, I love him, I'm so sorry.")
But unlike Jon's attitude towards actor Hugh Grant, Kristen isn't holding a grudge against the host for his comments. She happily greeted the host Thursday, saying, "Thanks for having me. This is cool. I can't believe I'm sitting at this desk right now."
Jon praised Kristen's work in On the Road — especially her dance moves in a party scene with costar Garrett Hedlund.
"I was pretty scared of that scene," Kristen admitted. "My moments are pretty few and far between where I really get to exhibit pure, wild nature, exuberance."
"She definitely needed to represent what the 'it' of On the Road is," the actress explained of her seductive character Marylou, the 16-year-old wife of Dean Moriarty (Hedlund).
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10 Facts Retailers Don't Want You to Know About Online Shopping
This article is re-posted from ZNet.
When the news covers Cyber Monday every year, the focus is on sales and consumer spending – not the real cost to the workers who deliver all of those orders. The whole system is built on unsafe, low-paying, temporary jobs. Workers in U.S. shipping centers and warehouses that fulfill online orders for major retailers like Amazon.com and Walmart are subject to dangerous, sweatshop-like working conditions. These workers are consistently asked to work at unreasonable and backbreaking speeds, but they endure the pain because they're afraid of losing their jobs. Get the real deal on online shipping:
1. Backbreaking pace of work: Workers in shipping centers who fulfill online orders are asked to grab items for boxes at unsustainably high speeds. In many cases, workers are required to collect 1,200 items in a 10-hour shift, or one item every 30 seconds.i If employees can't keep up, they are disciplined or fired.
2. Marathon walking: Workers have to continuously cross great distances inside the massive warehouses. "Pickers," who locate and collect items for shipping, reportedly walk on average between 12ii and 15iii miles every shift. Despite some items being football fields apart iv, workers are expected to maintain the same frenzied pace.
3. Extreme temperatures: Temperatures in warehouses are often extreme – either way too hot (120 degrees!v) or too cold. The warehouses can become literal sweatshops. Rather than slow the pace of work or provide air conditioning, last year Amazon executives arranged for paramedics to wait in ambulances outside its warehouse in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to treat all of the workers suffering from dehydration or heat stress.vi
4. Physical injuries: With a frenzied work pace, repetitive heavy lifting, constant walking, and extreme temperatures, many workers report being injured on the job.viiviii ix Many workers last less than six months at the job because of the grueling physical demands.x
5. Contractor curtain: Sweatshop shipping is such a secret now because many online retailers have grown adept at distancing themselves from the problem by hiding behind a "contractor curtain." Retailers use a dizzying number of contract and temporary firms to hire employees to fulfill their orders – removing themselves from the responsibility of maintaining safe conditions on the job.xi
6. Expendable employment: Temporary employees at online warehouses lack job security because they are employed in an industry that thrives on disposable labor. New workers cost less than long-time employees, and often warehouses fire staff after only a few months. The high firing rate ensures no one knows how long his or her job will last.xii
7. Low wages: Temporary workers in warehouses on average make $3 less an hour than the permanent employees doing the same work.xiii Less than four percent of online warehouse workers in Illinois have health insurance. Sixty-two percent of these workers earn below the federal poverty line. More than one-third of them have to work a second job to pay the bills.xiv
8. Taxpayers forced to foot the bill: Without adequate wages and benefits, one in four workers requires government assistance, such as food stamps or welfare.xv As a result of online retailers not paying warehouse workers enough to make basic ends meet, taxpayers are forced to cover the difference.
9. No voice on the job: Today, workers face sizable obstacles and intimidation from their employer if they try to organize a union to improve working conditions on the job. Due to outdated labor law, temporary warehouse workers face the unrealistic challenge of organizing and overcoming resistance from both the retailer and the temp agency. Given the odds, temporary workers have little to no voice on the job and are extremely vulnerable to retaliation when they speak out.xvi
10. Wage theft: Many warehouse employees are paid on a "piece rate," or paid per item rather than per hour. While the piece rate results in inconsistent paychecks for workers, it also leads to illegal wage theft as employers exploit workers, taxpayers, and competitors who play by the rules by paying less than minimum wage requirements, failing to pay workers proper overtime, and failing to pay adequate employment taxes. At a warehouse in Riverside, California, one employer racked up nearly half a million dollars in fines for failing to provide itemized wage statements to its employees.xvii
We can stop sweatshop shipping. Online retail is driven by customer demand for discount goods delivered within a day or two. We have to tell these retailers what we do want and will pay for: products from companies that deliver on good jobs by…
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As a professional marketing advisor with over 30 years of hard-earned marketing experience, I thought I knew something about managing risk. Past markets made that quite clear. Protecting profitable prices early in the marketing season had a very profitable track record. I gave many a marketing lecture on the subject.
As it turned out, I didn't know as much as I thought.
The marketing tsunami which swept in last season has taken the concept of risk management and smashed it all to pieces. Most likely, if you had a marketing plan in 2008, you wish you hadn't. Taking your chances and not doing anything turned out to be a winning strategy. Success has gone to the risk taker not the risk manager. Needless to say it has been a humbling experience.
We are now dealing with the aftershocks. The concept of forward pricing, especially the hedge-to-arrive, is being seriously questioned. Elevators and cotton buyers alike have found the current market volatility too hard to manage and are reluctant to book very far out.
Traditional risk management strategies are in disfavor and in many cases are no longer available. It is a marketing landscape no one is familiar with.
Exactly how we got to this point is open to debate, but the contributing factors are well-known. A weak dollar, high energy costs, inflationary fears and a push for biofuels have all contributed.
There were even some bullish fundamentals to consider. But unlike other bull markets, the primary market movers were not involved in the production and distribution of our commodities. They weren't even the broad array of speculators we are used to seeing.
Instead, the real market movers could be found in a few select boardrooms. Huge amounts of speculative money pooled together and controlled by a relatively few fund managers have overwhelmed the traditional market participants.
For those of us on the supply side of the equation, this avalanche of speculative money has turned out to be a mixed blessing. We certainly appreciate the high prices, especially when you consider rising input costs. But it is now too much of a good thing.
The dominating power of the trading funds has brought a disconnect between the futures markets and our cash markets; just ask your local elevator manager or your local cotton buyer.
Price moves in the futures markets are not necessarily reflected in the cash markets. That makes it very difficult on traditional short hedgers and has forced our buyers to the sidelines. Most participants agree the markets are simply not working the way they used to.
While regulatory agencies and market participants try to figure out how to deal with this broken market problem, producers and those of us who work with producers have several questions to consider.
Should we shelve risk management strategies that have worked in the past and take a more speculative wait-and-see approach in seasons to come?
If buyers no longer book crops one, two and even three seasons ahead, should a producer who wants to protect a profitable price be encouraged to carry the hedge position or stay at risk?
Will our lenders be willing to become more involved?
What role should options play? How about crop insurance?
How will the new farm bill affect marketing strategy?
We certainly have more questions than answers at this point. I expect managing marketing risk will continue to be important but the strategies we use may look quite different. This is definitely a work in progress, stay tuned.
Scott & Associates Agricultural Marketing, Inc., provides marketing advice to farmers and other commercial interests in Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee.
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So, simply scroll down, select a year, click the link, and lavish yourself with a year-end music list for every year from 1965 onwards. If you need a music description, you can play the songs on the embedded playlist which has been provided free of charge, and then come up with your own goddamn music description.
As for this site. you get to read award winning NC-17 rated fiction that is outrageously funny, wickedly profound, controversial, disturbing, immoral, and contains every other disgraceful feature known to humankind! And it somewhat goes along to the music. So you can either just listen music, just read the stories and not play any music at all, do both, neither--whatever you want to do.
What are you waiting for? Click a year, and the spend the rest of your day asking yourself "what the fuck did I just read?????" Probably start with the year you born, but don't start with 1977-- that's last.
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The Mansion According to the plant and animal life on Earth, which eventually unfriends the human race amidst bold accusations coming from an oddly-shaped row of trees: the concepts of government, religion, and economics were fabricated by the same sources that devised such absurdity as Black Friday sales, fashionable bowling attire, expiration dates for vaginal lube, and marketing strategies to entice specifically targeted mayonnaise consumers … and these sources obviously did not originate on the Planet Earth. From Prohibition to the dystopian future plagued with revolution, animosity towards society, and farming hippos with growth hormones, characters such as Squirrel Abraham and Jimmers Waffles (raccoon) not only challenge the status quo, but also question the entire history that created it.
Compiling 30 Sections and 68 different themes and storylines, which explore topics ranging from concepts of customer service to victimless crimes to a town in West Virginia that repeatedly becomes a ghost town; and featuring guest appearances from the likes of seahorses, dragonflies, praying mantis, chickens, and raccoon, The Mansion chronicles the plight of the human race, where Primitive Man evolved into the species known as Homo Bowler, and set out to destroy the world in a quest for decorative plates, generic shoes, and non-dairy powdered creamer.
The definitive overview and quite possibly the most controversial piece written on this website! A Universal Monument, The Enchanted Sanctuary of Miracles (AKA- The Fascinating City) was destroyed by the U.S. Government in order to build a corporate chain store shopping center and transformed into The Desolate Wasteland. Beginning with the rise of The Crying Generation and altering back and forth 26 years leading up to The Invasion and that one memorable night at The Nearby Tavern, "The Red Alert" documents the elements that led to the ultimate catastrophe in which the human race was deemed a failure, and the aftermath that ensued. 160 Songs and definitely Rated NC-17.
Top 100 Songs From 1965 & Before + "The Origination of Modern Society"
100 Song List. Chronological narrative theorizing the origination of the universe with absolute facts based on testimonials from all of those who were present to witness it. Also, a study of the various roles religion and government played in the creation of evolution, and how the creation of religion led to the de-evolution of government; absurd comedy + biting social commentary set to a wide range of music recorded from 1897-1965.
BEST OF 1966 + "Important Studies in Mating"
100 Song List. Music from albums widely considered the all-time greatest sets the soundtrack to the story about the very first person to ever video rabbits mating in the wild. Features musical scenes with a variety of animals singing the songs and a daring plot to overthrow the zoo; commonly considered cute and adored by fans of cartoons and animations of animals behaving like people.
The Top 100 Songs of 1967 + "Lifelong Truce"
100 Song List the creates the perfect soundtrack for a psychedelic war story. Explores numerous aspects of war and the draft, which was happening in 1967. Centered around one draftee's struggles with sanity afflicted with being in a war in which he did not even support + two opposing of troops who declared a lifetime truce after a zero casualty stalemate. Essential tracks that changed the course of music forever, including Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Captain Beefheart- many others.
1968 + Four Events in American History
Legends of rock n roll set the stage for legends in history. Part I: An entertaining horror story about the Roanoke Colony mystery; Part II: The New York Slave Revolt of 1712; Part III: The Boston Massacre; and Part IV: The Trail of Tears. Parts I & 3 are entertaining- but don't read for accurate historical content; Parts 2 & 4 are biting narratives/social commentaries and may cause anger and resentment- don't read for happiness and pleasure.
1969 + The 3 M's of Happiness
The soundtrack to summer of love: Sex, drugs, and rock and roll! The 3 M's = Music, Marijuana, and Masturbation. Proud owners of The Adult Superstore, The Hash Lounge, and The Concert Venue attempt to save the human race. MC5, King Crimson, The Stooges and 97 others provide the soundtrack. Contains brief nudity.
1970 + 3 Days in Sheboygan
A lucky couple wins a dream vacation to lovely Sheboygan, Wisconsin. However, the town is cursed from a series of homicides that took place over two centuries ago and their ultimate getaway turns to horrific madness. The top 125 songs from 1970 provide the soundtrack for a comedy/horror with a slight glimpse of a supernatural romantic love story.
1971 + Unreliable Narrators
History had been re-written by a series of unreliable narrators, including all forms of government, Christopher Columbus, and God. Therefore, how much of history is genuinely accurate, and how much has society been severely altered by the doctrines outlined by unreliable narrators? The Top 130 Songs provides the soundtrack to one person's struggles with insanity after accidentally killing a person in self-defense intertwined with the destruction of Paradise in a quest for superficial valuables.
BEST SONGS OF 1972 + Elements of Insanity and The Only Cure
125 Song List. The #1 song of this year wasn't actually released properly until 1976, and that alone has caused so much controversy it merited an NC-17. Five Chapters: No Country For Aardvarks, Miserable Elderly, The Devil's Church, Nude Grocery Shoppers, and Mannequin Sleep Disorders.
Best of 1973 + 6 Grindhouse Films
A dusk til dawn B-movie extravaganza counting down the best songs of 1973. Six sections/six films: Leading off with the pornographic 30 Days in a Ho', followed by the raunchy slasher flick Hate Boat, an experimental psychological mind trip Together Forever, a science fiction porno western Space Hookers & The Texarkana Cowboys, the drug induced midget exploitation meets Superfly titled Symporium, and ending with Sugar Daddy of Death about a Vietnam Veteran turned serial killer. Contains pornography. Must be 18. Enjoy!
The Best Songs of 1974 + Paradigm Shift
Intro: (before the credits even roll) A man escapes prison and flees to a deserted island where he discovers a genie and is granted one wish. Being a fugitive, he has no desire to leave the island, money is no good, and he blamed a woman. His wish: For animals to be able to speak and understand humans. The rest takes place in regular society when at 4:27 PM EST on August, 22nd, animals suddenly are able to talk and communicate with humans, and nobody has any clue how this happened. Punk rock raccoons, a centipede who can perform multi-instruments simultaneously, and a multitude of criminal animal mischief set to the best songs of 1974.
THE BEST OF 1975 + "The Red Alert"
The definitive overview and quite possibly the most controversial piece written on this website! A Universal Monument- The Enchanted Sanctuary of Miracles (AKA- The Fascinating City) was destroyed by the U.S. Government in order to build a corporate chain store shopping center and transformed into The Desolate Wasteland. Beginning with the rise of The Crying Generation and altering back and forth 26 years leading up to The Invasion and that one memorable night at The Nearby Tavern, "The Red Alert" documents the elements that led to the ultimate catastrophe in which the human race was deemed a failure, and the aftermath that ensued. 160 Songs and definitely Rated NC-17.
The top 150 Songs of 1976 + The Wicked Wizard of Oz
An NC-17 Rated musical that is both the sequel to Wicked and The Wizard of Oz, all set to the best songs of 1976. This award winning performance would make a nice 6 series DVD set with a blend of comedy, social commentary, and scenery that is both surreal and serene. Also featuring The Scarecrow performing Play That Funky Music, The Tin Man singing Queen's Somebody to Love, The Cowardly Lion doing a Tom Waits rendition, fabulous dance moves, bloody punk rockers, a band of rabbits, and much much more.
At Last! The Best Songs of 1977
The top 150 songs of the best year in music provide the soundtrack to greatest come-from-behind victory in The History of The Universe. Intended to be read last…always. This is the grand finale to all things written on this website.
Best of 1978 + Collision Course Distress Signal
The excellent wide range of music from 1978 sets the stage for a surreal multiple/intersecting storyline involving a bus driver, a grave digger, a sunken ship, an unmanned bicycle, mascot headed terrestrials, a mysterious obituary, and the prediction of the savior. After three days together, he discovered that she had been dead for 26 years; but she wasn't dead-she wrote her own obituary…she was only 24 years old, so she couldn't possibly be dead. Centered around the imminent collision between the Planet Earth and Planet Placidity, there is a race within the universe to protect the Earth's core which is supposedly scheduled to hatch and give birth to The Savior.
Identity Theft + The Top 150 Songs of 1979
A love story plus social commentary that questions: Should work dictate happiness, should happiness be defined by currency, is getting rich the only means to be happy? Is it better to be like everybody else in order to generate more currency for the bank owners in the tops of the skyscrapers? Or, is it better to be individual and make history? The quest for love is natural; the quest for greed is not. 1979 was the best year for music.
1980: The Year of Radical Change
This was the list that started this entire website. However, due to relationship issues and a major break-up, the project was never finalized…until now. Technically entry #1. 1980 was the year that brought forth the most drastic change in music and cultural history. There is no obscure storyline with this list of songs, and serves as a basic straightforward description of music. An ideal place to learn about music history, specific genres, and popular culture as it pertains to everyday life. 200 songs, and arguably the best set of 25 songs in history.
Re-written Harmony + The Best Song of 1981:
200 Song List + a collection of 85% fiction + 1 true story. A dead woman named Gertrude keeps multiplying, an alien informs the residents of Earth how to get into contact with God, some bitch named Mrs. Watson who everybody hates, and the sad but now famous true story of being pulled over by the Texas state police while transporting a dead body.
The Top 150 Songs of 1982 + More Dysfunctional Sex Cravings and Mysterious Disappearances:
150 Song List + what critics are calling "A Fine Collection of Short Stories" 150-126: Miscellaneous unattached segments; 125-101: Lesbian porn; 100-76: Punks vs. Douches; 75-51: Offsetting the balance of the universe; 50-26: Cheating wives and The Pampered Chef lady; 25-#1: The disappearance of an entire village.
Best of 1983 + "What Will Be, Will Be":
Includes the cult classic, "Married to the Mayonnaise Man" 150-126: 86 year old Agnes goes to prison for using marijuana to cure her arthritis; 125-101: A mysterious sofa, and a futon store who tries never to sell anything; 100-76: Some pervert named Templeton who works at the mayonnaise factory; 75-51: The funeral in which no person is invited; 50-26: Figure It Out For Yourself Week; 25-#1: Anticipation of miracle from God, who works in mysterious ways.
100 Planes of Parallel Existence + The Best of 1984:
150 Song List. Conceptual story about living 100 lives simultaneously on 100 parallel universes. Counting down the best songs of 1984, 150-126 gives an introduction on how this concept actually works; 125-101 displays where these factors take place and the ultimate dilemma. The remainder 100 songs, 100-#1: depicts each of the 100 lives of the one person who caused the ultimate dilemma- some guy named Bosco.
1985 + "Done: With Errors on the Page"
150 Song List was the very first entry on this site! Consists of 150 different scenarios, randomized with very little structure. A new format was adopted that revolutionized the standard music list. Rather than write brief music descriptions similar to numerous other sites, I wrote fictitious passages based on the music. This is where it all began. The incomplete process that proceeded anyway.
"Customers: A Documentary" + THE BEST SONGS OF 1986:
200 song musical documentary about the world of customers, with an alternate title: "My Life as a Customer/My Life with a Customer." Over the span of 200 songs, explores every possible aspect (well, not every- but an enormous amount) of dealing with customers, dealing with employees as a customer, and ploys used to handle customers. A must read for any person who works in the service industry dealing with the general public; a must read for the general public.
SONGS OF 1987 + "Dr. Pritchard's Gynecology Clinic"
175 Song List! Gripping tale about the drama that occurs at a gynecology clinic; and the aftermath after Dr. Pritchard is stricken by a curse cast upon by a competitor from a different gynecology office. Not to be taken seriously. Prelude with an incident at theater before the previews even begin. Based loosely on a friend who was an auto mechanic and people always discussed car troubles and wanted him to look at their cars- just wondered if he were a gynecologist- exact same situations, different occupation.
SONGS OF 1988 + "At War with Television, Tiffany, and Satan"
A neighborhood endures a series of absurd events as a battle rages against the television sets that have taken over; including an ice cream mascot that has come to life, the most notorious killer on television, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, and a cast numerous other off-kilter characters. Also, a study on a girl who attends various concerts wearing the exact same Tiffany T-shirt.
SONGS OF 1989 + "Temptation Vs. Fate"
Romance story about the love affair of Travis & Jane, raises questions about other aspects that define compatibility outside attraction and common interests. Music styles from all across the globe, shoegaze to thrash metal to jangle pop to Russian punk rock.
BEST SONGS OF 1990 + "It's Not a Wonderful Life"
Begin a new decade of songs with a parody of the Christmas Classic. After an angel shows a troubled individual what the world would be like if he never existed and finds out the world would actually be a better place, the angel deletes him permanently and then gets addicted to deleting people. 2nd half delves into one crazy party, a series of shootouts, and artistic surrealism. Contains the growing popular "brawl at The Cheese Bar" scene.
SONGS OF 1991 + "General Help Wanted":
Social misfit takes a job at a furniture store in the midst of gang warfare in which furniture store owners are battling for turf; includes ghosts from a sunken hi-jacked ship carrying furniture, aliens investigating a sofa on the moon, sales associates on dope, dead giraffe mascots, one vicious store boss, numerous shootouts at furniture galleries, and the ultimate girlfriend never to be fucked with.
The Top 100 Songs of 1992 + "McQuestion Marks???"
Part I: The Most Famous Restaurant in the World
Part II: Worst Case Scenario
Part III: Merle's First Day on the Roadkill Cleanup Committee
Part IV: Vultures and Empty Saviors (crackheads & prostitutes; name taken from the featured song by The Black Crowes)
The Top 100 Songs of 1993 + "Lab Class Reunion"
A class reunion in which all 20 of the invited students attend- including the ones who are dead, disappeared, homeless, in prison, at war, the tearchers & an alligator- set to the music of 1993. Four chapters total, but several subsections including The Invitations, 4284 Milaine Drive, The Journey, Rock Bottom, BBW Lust, The Escape, Mrs. Connie Hatcher, and A Surreal Climax.
The Matador + The Top 100 Songs of 1994
A deep complex look into the world of bullfighting, featuring matadors Luis, Marco, a bull named Lasher, a crowd of tourists, and more from The Grand Scheme of Things Board Committee. Featuring a soundtrack of 100 songs, with popular faves such as Soundgarden, Oasis, Beastie Boys, Beck, Nine Inch Nails...indie favorites Pavement, Sonic Youth, Drive Like Jehu, Jesus & Mary Chain, Kyuss, Portishead...as well as obscurities like Die Goldenen Zitronen, Space Streakings, Flowerpornoes...and, of course, Jeff Buckley.
The Top 100 Songs of 1995 + Puppy Love in Raincoat City
A wide range of music provides this soundtrack that depicts a person's interest in a woman who he is too shy to ever speak to her. Just a couple blissful pop tunes in the midst of dark/noisy/hazy/psychedelic/shoegaze/experimental. Also features the hit songs 1979 & Fake Plastic Trees.
The Top 100 Songs of 1996 + Blacklisted as a Communist
My favorite 100 songs of 1996 provides the soundtrack to three days in my life in 2012. Autobiography...Always dreamed this would be called "Unbrainwashable...How I Adopted the Status of Sex Symbol in Two Separate Centuries Despite the Inability to Wink & Snap My Fingers"
The Extreme Midget Wrestler + The Top 100 Songs of 1997
A portrayal of fictitious Midget Wrestler, Flyin' Brian Valentine, that delves into the lives of Midget Wrestlers both inside and outside the ring. A story of love and hardship also features high flying acrobats, a cage match, and a wildly entertaining main event. Both funny and contemplative, The Extreme Midget Wrestler will entice viewers who also praised The Wrestler, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, and Crash; the top 100 songs of 1997 providing the soundtrack.
1998 + Family Affair
It has been determined that many women tend to fall in love with men who remind them of their fathers. And, some women actually fall in love with their fathers. The top 125 songs of 1998 provide the soundtrack to a story that centers on a young man who became a father at the age of 17 and is forced to take a job at a marshmallow packaging plant to provide for his young family. Family Affair chronicles the events from teenage pregnancy, to marriage, raising kids, divorce, and ultimately, a controversial second marriage. Contains the hit song This Is Hardcore by Pulp.
1999 + Death on Mars
An Earthling documents in his will that he wants his body disposed of on Mars. Not long after his untimely mysterious death, his wish is granted. Aerospace Headquarters dumped the cadaver in a desolate area of Mars equipped with video monitoring to examine the atmospheric decomposing process on another planet. Approximately one year later, the body got up and walked away. Death on Mars contains narratives from multiple perspectives, (primarily from the antagonist who returned to life), surreal dream states, complex entanglements, and 125 songs from the year 1999.
SONGS OF 2000 + The Final Act in History:
100 Song List for the year the world supposedly ended... again. Topics include a domestic dispute over a toaster; the inventions of dehumidifiers, haemorrhoid medicine, mail order brides, & vaginal lube; a computer glitch regarding record sales, and ultimately, the end of the world. The Sigur Ros segment would make for a powerful spectacle on the big screen should that ever happen, so hopefully you have the ability to envision that.
SONGS OF 2001 + "The Corner of 5th & Average":
The year an event or two may or may not have happened. Set primarily on a busy corner infested with shops and unethical business practices, studies the pattern and meaning of life as outlined by a mysterious doctrine. Also, a spiritual awakening that defies the doctrine; a look into some of the lives of people on September 9, 2001; some people who died September 10, 2001; one song devoted to September 11; and the aftermath that raises serious questions about the pattern of life contained in the doctrine.
THE BEST SONGS OF 2002 + "Making the Best of Bad Situations":
Entry #2. Features the longest song to secure the #1 slot in a countdown... over 30 minutes long though- depicting the horror of The Beast. Written in the midst of a breakup after a move, primarily inspirational tales about making the best of a bad situation. WARNING: While I pride myself on playlists being completely void of mainstream crap, contains a song by both Coldplay and by Christina Aguilera.
The 200 Songs of 2003 + The Decoy Project
Eleven people cohere to pull off one of the top few best heists in history that also includes an autistic man, the bank manager, the driver, a poodle, and the baddest chick in existence. When the perfect plan slightly malfunctions, simply apply the same scheme with the same strategy. Broken Social Scene, The Strokes, The White Stripes and 197 others provide the soundtrack for this surreal action comedy that is a social commentary, a bank robbery, and a prison break… with a major twist of course.
Shingles + The Best Traxxx of 2004
Creepy must-read masterpiece for fans of The Twilight Zone! The Top 200 songs of 2004 provide the soundtrack about a mysterious growth that seemingly can cure all ailments known to man. But, conflict overwhelms as humankind struggles with the ability to control them. Prize Winner with great music.
2005 + The Mind over Matter Experiment
The top 200 songs of 2005. Chronicles the development of a Christian mom who develops a masturbating addiction leading to series of events that ultimately lead to a catastrophic family disaster. Tonya falls in love with younger schizophrenic boy from her work and that alters her entire belief system; as her love for Tristen strenghtens, the hatred for her family intensifies. Contains extremely disturbing content.
The Best Songs of 2006 + No Love For Anybody
A failed love relationship between a sign language interpreter and a Gomer Gopher mascot from a children's pizza restaurant leads to turmoil and chaos. The top 200 songs of 2006 provide the soundtrack for an unsettling tale that is ugly, wretched, horrendous, and somehow hilarious. Warning: extremely disturbing content may be unsuitable to sensitive viewers.
Best of 2007 + The Bad Sugar
150 song soundtrack set in the world when the sun has disappeared forever. The final two pure souls that could have blended the sour ingredients of the human race face the corruption of the contaminants of the polluted society that had ultimately failed. Thus, the majority of people either follows norms, or does things intentionally in spite of those same conventions; there are multiple forms of contamination.
Best of 2008 + Pitchfork Brigade
Brandon Kindle made one controversial film and was on the route to stardom. Just as he was on the verge of massive success, he was brought up on severe charges that created media hysteria surrounding the case. The Top 150 songs of 2008 provide the soundtrack that portrays the media's role in convicting an accused suspect due to disagreement with the film's content.
Plan DD + The Top 150 Songs of 2009
Plan A seemed like a good idea, but in this economy, a career change can lead to disaster. Plan A failed, so did Plans B through Plans Z; Plan AA-CC did not serve well either. Plan DD deals with the struggles seeking employment in this economy that lead to desperate measures. Outrageously funny, with bsurd yet truthful social commentary, Plan DD lives up to the NC-17 rating…with the best music of 2009 as the soundtrack.
BEST SONGS OF 2010 + "Counting Down Various Mysterious Useless Activities"
The first series written while the songs were still relatively new. Songs compiled in December 2010, and then came this...the descriptors became stories, and the title says it all (many of these years could be titled the exact same thing actually). Eight pages, 8 different stories, including Homeless Hamlet, the moon exploding, a sex addict who never gets laid, one evening at a nightclub, an occupied nation, and books falling from the sky.
The Top 200 Songs of 2011 + "The Best Christmas Ev-errr!!!
The award winning holiday sensation! Opening with tribal African natives filming a documentary for National Geographic about "White People Just Be Wastin' Money at Christmas" then exploring wonderful gift ideas such as Mail Order Brides all the way to family functions, retail employees going on strike, to finally officially giving up your own voice of reason for The Ultimate New Year's Resolution. Features the popular favorite "Give the Gift of Real Life Sex Dolls."
The Top 150 Songs of 2012 + 2012: The Smurf's Apocalypse
Oh dear Lord, the God damn mother fucking world is supposed to be coming to an end again. Enough of this shit! Although the so-called end of the world had become a cliché, The Apocalypse is the theme for the 2012 feature, in which the Top 150 songs serve as the official soundtrack. This is no ordinary Apocalypse however, this is an NC-17 rated episode of The Smurfs. Beginning with the precursor that explains The Death of Papa Smurf's Generation, to the dignity salvaging creation of 100 Smurfettes appropriately named with adjectives like their chauvinistic male counterparts, a couple misadventures, then ultimately, the doomed fate of Smurf Village. Must be enjoyed with a warped sense of humor.
Working at a Department Store Chain has some perks, but the music is as bad as possible. It is so bad, that Journey and Bon Jovi did not even make the list, let alone top the charts. Features an array of brainless Top 40 Pop Bullshit that should be banned from the planet Earth in order to restore any hope for cultural advancement. This is an all-out assault against fluff material that most of society has been too sensitive to brutally attack. We can no longer comfortably ignore this movement and dismiss it as merely harmless, for its effects are finally destroying society.
BEAR 21... The Story of a Man and Her Umbrella
A premonition that I was going to die in 3 weeks by means of being eaten by a bear while walking home from work, BEAR 21 is a 21 day memoir reciting the events leading up to my brutal, tragic death. Aside from random encounters with a ravenous bear that had been on a rampage, subplots include life working in retail and an analysis of not obtaining jobs based on gender. A fake autobiography... based on true events, but less than 26% factual. Features a soundtrack of over 200 songs.
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Life Science: Session 4
Sally Florkiewicz, Lakewood, CO
"The best part about teaching life science is that I think the kids really relate to it. It gives them a hands-on experience. They can actually sit and observe something and relate to it. Some of the other sciences are a little bit more abstract and they're not able to have that hands-on experience, so it's life science that they really enjoy."
School at a Glance:
Glennon Heights Elementary School
Lakewood, CO
- Enrollment: 257
- Students per Teacher: 15.9
- Ethnicity:
72% White
17.5% Hispanic
7.5% Asian
1.5% American Indian
- Percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch: 18% versus a state average of 32%
Like Mary Bitterlich, Sally Florkiewicz teaches third grade in Glennon Heights in Lakewood, CO.
Sally says that the best part about teaching life science is that her students love it. "They're natural little scientists," she explains. "They're always asking questions, always wondering, and always wanting to observe how things work."
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An exhaustively reported, data-driven Bloomberg story comes up with some eye-opening figures on compensation trends for 1.4 million public employees in the most populous 12 states, including Ohio. One state — California — stands apart from the others as setting "a pattern of lax management, inefficient operations and out-of-control costs," Bloomberg reports in the first story in "America's Great State Payroll Giveaway," a six-part series. California in 2011 had the highest average salary for public employees, at $60,313. Its nearly 246,000 public workers also collected $964 million in overtime payments that year. Ohio, by contrast, paid state workers an average of $48,812, which was sixth-highest among the 12 largest states. (Doesn't it seem like Ohio is almost always in the middle, no matter what's being ranked?) The state's 66,510 workers collected $108.4 million in overtime in 2011. The issue of compensation for public employees has become a hot-button political issue of late, prompting, for instance, Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin to strip most government employees of collective-bargaining rights and to take other steps to limit payroll spending. The averages don't strike me as all that outrageous, though benefits for public workers undoubtedly are more generous these days than the typical private-sector worker. Bloomberg, though, did turn up some particularly striking examples of public pay largesse. For instance, Britt Harris, chief investment officer at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, last year collected $1 million, including his $480,000 salary and two years of bonuses — more than four times what Republican Gov. Rick Perry was paid. Pension managers in Ohio and Virginia made up to $678,000 and $660,000, respectively, according to the data, which Bloomberg obtained using public-record requests. (In an interview, Mr. Harris told the news service that public pension pay must be competitive with the private sector to attract top investment talent.) Bloomberg also notes that psychiatrists were among the highest-paid state employees in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and New Jersey, with total compensation of $270,000 to $327,000 for top earners. Also, "state police officers in Pennsylvania collected checks as big as $190,000 for unused vacation and personal leave as they retired young enough to start second careers, while Virginia paid active officers as much as $109,000 in overtime alone, the data show," according to the story.
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Public employees do quite well for themselves
Ohio employers are more conscious of wellness than those in many other states, The Business Courier of Cincinnati says, based on a report from benefits consulting firm Horan Associates. Nearly 19% of Ohio employers surveyed offered a company-sponsored wellness program, compared with slightly less than 18% nationally, according to Horan. The finding comes from the 2012 Health Plan Survey conducted by Horan's national partner, United Benefit Advisors. The research includes responses from 17,905 health plans sponsored by 11,711 employers across the country, the Business Courier noted. Wellness programs, the paper says, "have become employers' key strategy for reducing health expenditures," as many companies "feel they're getting diminishing returns from cost-shifting strategies, such as increasing deductibles and copays." They now trying to implement programs that will reduce the number of medical claims their employees make. The emphasis on wellness, though, isn't stopping the rise in health coverage costs. United Benefit says the average renewal cost of all plan types for clients was 5% this year. For Ohio firms, though, that figure was 7.5%.
Companies are getting back into the holiday spirit, according to this survey by the Society for Human Resource Management. Nearly three-quarters of employers surveyed — 72% — said they are holding holiday parties this year, up from 68% in 2001 and 61% in 2010. Only 10% of respondents said they had to cut back on holiday parties this year due to financial challenges, down from 20% in 2009. "At the height of the recession when employers were operating on very lean budgets, events like holiday parties were among the first to be cut," said Evren Esen, manager of the organization's Survey Research Center, in a statement. "An increase in this area may be a sign that more organizations are resuming their pre-recession business practices." Among other survey findings:
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Abdominal pain is a pain that you feel anywhere between your chest and groin. This is often referred to as the stomach region or belly.Pain in the abdomen can originate from any organs related to digestion -- the end of the esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas, said Dr Wadah Aljoudi, General Surgeon, Zulekha Hospital, Dubai. "However, the pain may start from somewhere else -- like your chest or pelvic area. You may also have a generalised infection such as the flu or sore throat that affects many parts of your body." In infants, prolonged unexplained crying (Colic) may be caused by abdominal pain that may end with the passage of gas or stool. Colic is often worse in the evening. Abdominal pain may actually be caused by an organ in the chest like the lungs (for example pneumonia) or the heart (like a heart attack). Or, it may stem from a muscle strain in the abdomin. Cancers of the colon and other gastrointestinal areas are serious but uncommon causes of abdominal pain. Other more unusual causes of abdominal pain include a type of emotional upset called somatization disorder, reflected as physical discomfort (including recurrent abdominal pain). Strep throat in children can cause abdominal pain. More worrisome signs include pain that occurs more often, lasts longer (more than 24 hours), or has a fever with it. Kidney stones and gallstones are common causes of this type of belly pain. For mild pains --Sip water or other clear fluids --Avoid solid food for the first few hours. If you have been vomitting, wait six hours. If the pain is high up in your abdomen and occurs after meals, antacids may provide some relief. Avoid citrus, high fat foods, fried or greasy foods, tomato products, caffeine, alcohol, and carbonated beverages. Call your healthcare provider if: --You are currently being treated for cancer. --You are unable to pass stool, especially if you are also vomiting. --You are vomiting blood or have blood in your stool. --You have chest, neck or shoulder pain. --You have sudden sharp stomach pain. --You have pain in or between your shoulder blades with nausea. --Your belly is rigid, hard and tender to touch. --You are having difficulty breathing.
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Monotherapy With Darunavir-Ritonavir -- the Monet Study
In December 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) updated its guidelines for the treatment of HIV-positive people. These guidelines recommend specific regimens (which the DHHS calls "preferred" regimens) for doctors and their patients to consider, including these:
efavirenz (Sustiva) + tenofovir (Viread) + FTC
atazanavir (Reyataz) + low-dose ritonavir (Norvir) + Truvada (tenofovir + FTC)
darunavir (Prezista) + low-dose ritonavir + Truvada
raltegravir (Isentress) + Truvada
For pregnant women, the guidelines prefer that the following combination be used:
- lopinavir-ritonavir (Kaletra) + AZT (zidovudine, Retrovir) + 3TC (lamivudine); the latter two drugs are co-formulated into one pill and sold as Combivir
Each of the DHHS preferred combinations contains three or more drugs. All combinations have been proven effective at reducing the production of HIV in the blood and raising CD4+ cell counts, leading to a return to health. Because HAART does not cure HIV infection, this therapy has to be taken for life. Yet some of these combinations are relatively new in the history of HIV treatment and no one knows what their long-term side effects might be. This lack of long-term data puts HIV-positive people and their doctors in a difficult position when it comes to weighing the risks and benefits of each combination, knowing that lives can be saved but that problems might appear in the future.
One possible way to make a regimen more tolerable, easier to adhere to and perhaps safer may be, in some cases, to drastically reduce the number of drugs to just one powerful anti-HIV drug. Some researchers are exploring this experimental concept in clinical trials. In the past several years, studies that have investigated this idea have used highly adherent volunteers whose viral load had been suppressed for many months and who had their therapy simplified to a boosted protease inhibitor, usually lopinavir-ritonavir. The latest drug to undergo testing as monotherapy is darunavir-ritonavir. In this case, the sole purpose of low-dose ritonavir is to boost and maintain levels of darunavir in the body. This type of therapy is essentially monotherapy.
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The manufacturer of darunavir, Tibotec, is conducting a study called Monet which is expected to last for up to three years. Volunteers for Monet had been taking HAART for at least six months prior to entering the study and for that time had a viral load less than 50 copies/mL. In total, 256 people were randomly assigned to one of the following regimens:
darunavir-ritonavir 800-100 mg once daily (monotherapy group)
darunavir-ritonavir 800-100 mg once daily + two nukes (triple-therapy group)
A virological comparison of the two regimens after 48 weeks suggests that both regimens have similar effectiveness.
Study Details
The average profile of participants at the start of the study was as follows:
19% females, 81% males
age: 44 years
CD4+ cell count: 574 cells
length of time previously on HAART: 7 years
25% had never used protease inhibitors before
13% were co-infected with hepatitis C virus
After 48 weeks, the proportion of participants whose viral loads were less than 50 copies were as follows:
monotherapy: 86%
triple therapy: 88%
By the statistical rules underpinning Monet, these results show that switching to darunavir-ritonavir from darunavir-ritonavir-based HAART is roughly equivalent, at least for 48 weeks.
CD4+ cell counts remained stable in each study group throughout the trial.
Focus on Failure
In this study, treatment failure was defined very strictly -- any participant who had two consecutive viral load assessments that were greater than 50 copies/mL by week 48 or who had otherwise quit the study. Using this strict definition, a total of 20 participants who received darunavir monotherapy had treatment failure. But 18 of these (90%) had a viral load below the 50-copy/mL mark at week 48. According to the study researchers, most of the repeated elevations in viral load were in the range of 50 to 200 copies/mL and occurred at times of poor adherence or co-infections.
In the triple-therapy arm there were 19 cases of treatment failure; 17 of these (89%) had a viral load below the 50-copy/mL mark either at week 48 or at their last test.
Upon investigating cases of elevated viral load in both groups, researchers found that hepatitis C co-infection was somehow linked to an increased risk for elevated HIV viral load. However, no details were released to explain this finding.
Researchers were able to analyse blood samples to check for HIV that was resistant to therapy in only 57% of cases (35 of 61) where viral load was greater than 50 copies. In 33 out of 35 cases, HIV was sensitive to the effects of all ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitors and to non-nukes.
Complications and Side Effects
Serious adverse events were seen in 18 participants, nine in each arm of the study. Side effects that were graded by investigators as moderate-to-life-threatening in intensity were mostly nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.
Common abnormalities in blood tests results were elevated lipids and liver enzymes. The number of participants with severe elevations in liver enzymes (AST and/or ALT) was as follows:
monotherapy: six people
triple therapy: two people
According to investigators, most of these people had recent infections with various hepatitis-causing viruses, which likely accounted for the elevated liver enzyme levels.
Sustained increases in total cholesterol levels graded as severe were distributed as follows:
- monotherapy: five people
- triple therapy: two people
Putting It in Perspective
The overall results from Monet are an exciting development. They suggest that in some highly adherent people whose viral loads are suppressed with HAART, simplification to once-daily monotherapy with boosted darunavir is usually able to continue providing virologic and immunologic benefit, at least for 48 weeks. The Monet data cannot be extended to assume that initiating therapy with boosted darunavir (or any other protease inhibitor) alone instead of HAART would be adequate.
In general, protease inhibitors do not penetrate the brain and spinal cord -- the central nervous system (CNS) -- well. However, in the Monet trial, neuropsychiatric events occurred at a similar rate in both study arms, suggesting that there was no increased risk of these problems in the monotherapy arm. There was no sub-analysis using functional MRI or other state-of-the-art imaging techniques of the CNS. Nor was there extensive neuropsychological testing of the kind that is used in studies of neuro-cognitive function and HIV infection by neurologists. Therefore, subtle changes to parts of the brain that deal with higher intellectual functions, memory and thinking may not have been detected by the Monet researchers.
The research team stated that its results suggest that "a switch to darunavir monotherapy can be considered in treatment-experienced patients who have a history of [viral load] below 50 copies/mL on other treatments but who are wishing to avoid toxicities related to nucleoside analogues, non-nucleosides or other antiretrovirals."
Since HIV-positive people will likely be taking therapy for life, longer studies are needed to assess the effects of darunavir monotherapy. If further studies confirm its potential benefits and treatment guidelines endorse the use of darunavir (or other protease-inhibitor-based) monotherapy, this approach would not be for every HIV-positive person. Doctors will need to check their patients' medical history, assess the presence of co-infections (particularly hepatitis B virus) and carefully screen potential monotherapy users for factors that can affect adherence, including anxiety, depression and substance use.
For now, the DHHS considers monotherapy in HIV infection to be experimental. But as long-term data on the effectiveness of monotherapy accumulate. the position of this approach to therapy may be reconsidered by treatment guidelines.
Arribas JR, Horban A, Gerstoft J, et al. The MONET trial: darunavir/ritonavir with or without nucleoside analogues, for patients with HIV RNA below 50 copies/mL. AIDS. 2010 Jan 16;24(2):223-30.
Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. Guidelines for the use of antiretroviral agents in HIV-1-infected adults and adolescents. Department of Health and Human Services. December 1, 2009; 1-161. Accessed March 30, 2010.


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Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is going forward and moving back in big ways these days.
Sunday night, the 42-year-old actor who played D'Angelo Barksdale in "The Wire" debuts as the newest member of AMC's "The Walking Dead," as TV's most popular series with young adults starts its fourth season.
And in an interview last week, the Baltimore School for the Arts graduate, who grew up on the city's west side, said he had recently moved back to Baltimore after living in Los Angeles the last nine years.
"Although I was born in New York, I moved to Baltimore when I was young," Gilliard says. "And I like to say New York birthed me, but Baltimore...