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Pieces #6
$3 A6 86p 45g
This zine documents Nichole's experience of getting a job 55 miles from home and the long commute she took every weekday for 3 months (after which point she moved house) to get to and from that job. She describes her daily routine – the rigid sleep and wake pattern, the lack of social life, gradually getting to recognise other regular commuters and attempting to start conversations, and so on. A nice thick zine that would make a very good accompaniment to a long train journey.
Plastic Knife #7
$3 A5 84p 100g
The latest issue of Plastic Knife contains the usual strange little stories and a special sealed section on Yukio Mishima!
Plastic Knife #9 / YOU
$3 A5 (approx) 140p 208g
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Prison in Macedonia
$4 A5 28p 37g
"In prison, in Macedonia, you have to take your own bowl and cup and spoon. This is because, in Macedonia, it is your own or your family's responsibility to provide you with the tools with which to eat. Your cutlery and crockery is not the problem of the state, the state feels." Prison in Macedonia is a story from Tamara's travels to her almost-homeland, Macedonia. It is a sad and happy story, and makes a great accompaniment to Tamara's other recent, equally powerful, zine, I am Natasha, which you can find elsewhere in this catalogue.
Raining in my Room
$1 A6 32p 24g
A zine made in one day one October that felt like it could be getting to be winter again, and therefore that some zine-making, Temptations-listening and cut-n-pasting was in order. The next day was hot and sunny again, and life resumed as usual.
Rav 5
$7 A5 68p
Coming soon.
Rhetorical #8
$3 A6 16p 11g
I find zines difficult to make. Well, to finish – I keep ripping them apart, starting over, re-writing & then giving up after getting too self-conscious. But I enjoy maing them & I kinda need to make them; to create rather than to passively consume." The introduction to issue #8 of Chiara's Rhetorical zine sums up the problem of zine making. The problem that is also the purpose, maybe. In this issue Chiara writes about Reading Ellen Willis' recent essay collection Out of the Vinyl Deeps and seeing Wild Flag play in Sydney. It's about more than those things, too, but they're the starting point, and it's illustrated in Chiara's distinctively cool/school notebook-scratchy style.
Rhetorical #9
$3 A6 16p + foldout 16g
"I'm not a singer. I was kicked out of school choir in year 5 (I snuck back in), failed at Singstar in high school (barely able to register any notes) and still mime my way through any rendition of Happy Birthday…" In issue #9 of Rhetorical Chiara writes about setting herself the challenge to sing in her band and more notes about pop/unpop music, with a special focus Mary Timony.
Rice & Peas #1
$1 A5 16p 30g
Rice & Peas is a short but sweet reggae fanzine. This, the first issue, looks at the history of sound systems and how they evolved the reggae sound and culture. There are also short pieces on dance styles and women in reggae (a really interesting subject that the zine's editor, Robin, promises to explore in greater detail in another zine).
Rice & Peas #2
$1 A5 20p 40g
Subtitled 'the independence issue', this issue of reggae/dancehall fanzine Rice & Peas takes a look at Jamaica's fiftieth anniversary of independence celebrations, a history of the Festival Song Competition, film and book reviews and a series of interviews with Jamaican men who cook (an activity still generally thought of as woman's work in Jamaican culture).
Robot Etiquette: A Handy Guide to Surviving the Human World
$2 A6 20p 8g
An informative guide for robots and humans alike, this zine by the Robot Humane Society Press is back in stock and well worth your attention, especially if like me, humanoids leave you feeling confused and awkward.
Scribbler #3
50c A6 18p 7g
Yet again, it does what it says on the box – a mini zine by Hannah of Chasing Hot Air Balloons zine, with little pictures and thoughts. Courtesy the Snapdragon zine fair Absent Zinester Table!
Sex Industry Apologist #2
$3.70 A5 32p 42g
"I'm a white queer feminist with a degree in sociology and gender studies and a general interest in marginalised and misrepresented groups. I should note here that my zine, like my previous work, focuses on prostitution rather than porn, stripping, or other forms of sex work. I'm interested in those too, but they're not my area of expertise so I'm not talking about them here." The second issue of Nine's zine that aims to bust your misconceptions, prejudice informed opinions and general wrong-headedness about sex work and sex workers.
Strange: Seven Times with You
$2 A6 24p 15g
"I saw his profile on gaydar. He was cute. A small build and a cheeky face. IN one image he's wearing white underwear and reclining strangely. I can't tell if it's serious or not. I message him. he replies. I don't remember what was said but at some stage I gave him my number…" An account of a love affair that was never meant to last, but that the author can't help but feeling emotional caught up in.
Stuffed Turtles: A Childhood Memoir of Darwin in the 1950s
$7 A5 24p+vinyl/fabric cover slip 51g
This is Bertievan's second confident foray into zine making. As the sub-title says, it's a childhood memoir of Darwin in the 1950s. "The other thing the photograph doesn't give you is its smell. Darwin's smell. I'll close my eyes and tell you – damp, steamy, fruity, mangoes, paw-paws, heady flowers, frangipani, green ants, sweaty, Mum's perming lotion – all combined."
Suicide Psychosis Live at the Temporal Lobe!
$2.50 A5 24p 43g
"Until very recently I considered my past experiences with psychosis to be rare brain farts confined to the exceptional cicumstances of usually stressful events. But now that I've clocked up psychosis number three I'm having to confront the prospect that these hallucinations and disordered thoughts are not simply seldom stress related occurances but a recurring theme." Skully writes openly about two of her episodes of psychosis in this zine, with the aim of promoting better understanding of what psychosis is and what it can be like to experience.
$2 A5 35p 54g
Sutures is by Amanda of Tiny Paper Hearts, who also writes Ampersand after Ampersand, Epitaph for my Heart and Panacea for Loneliness, all fine zines, as I'm sure you're well aware by now. It seems pretty pointless to try to pick a favourite out of such a quality output, but Sutures is especially special. It's the story of Amanda's heritage, of having a Lebanese mother and father of Scottish extraction, and the story of her parent's flight from Lebanon, just before her birth, to escape the escalating civil war. It features reflection on culture and identity, memory and nostalgia, all written around the time Amanda's mother is to return to Lebanon for work, for the first time since Amanda's childhood. The kind of zine that sort of single-handedly justifies the medium, in my opinion.
Skinned Heart #3
$3 A5 32p 39g
"I have decided that all I can be is the change that I want to see in the world. My contribution is my critique and artistic contributions as a Brown working class woman in a privileged american society. I want to continue living on the fringe, avoiding mainstream living. So this zine is just that, observation in my personal life and interactions. I still have so much to learn and grow." Nyky writes about competing for male attention, inequalities within the punk/activist 'scene', losing white friends, gardening and growing.
$1.50 A6 56p 38g
An ambiguous, melancholy love letter to Sydenham, the (soon to be?) former industrial suburb of Sydney. This cut and paste style zine features a mix of original writing and quotes juxtaposed with images to explore identity through place.
Taking Things Too Far
$3 A6 40p+cover 30g
"An anarchist zine about feelings & monsters. A feminist zine about violent protests & the song 'Love is a Battlefield.' An excessively constructed personal zine… This zine is about the same things I've been making zines about for however long. Anger, & how to use it without burning off all other emotions. What it is to move through this world in this body. What it is to live as a woman & an anarchist. The collective projects of trying to learn to live."
Telegram Ma'am #20
$3 A6 46p 35g
In this issue of Telegram Ma'am Maranda writes directly about her mental health, and her experiences with mental illness. She writes about the diagnoses she has received, her therapist, spells spent in hospital and peoples' attitudes towards being on a disability pension and 'not having a job in a conventional sense'.
Telegram Ma'am #22
$3 A6 34p 22g
A zine chronicling some of Maranda's adventures from 2010, her 'Year of Change'. It starts with a trip to Halifax to participate in the Roberts St Social Centre residency, where she proposed (then followed through on) a project to make a zine. She also writes about returning to her home town, going to Portland for the zine symposium, going to a writers fest to take a workshop with author Cordelia Strube and joining a Derby team.
Thank You For Your Love
$3 A5 36p 46g
"Gender is a thing that is immensely personal and individual: no one can tell you what your gender is; it's something you feel. But it's also a thing that relies on interactions with other people – you need to be 'seen' by others to be real… This is a zine of words written by others and myself, assembled to show you my vulnerability and my need for your support, but also to share with you the pride I have in my identity, the joy I feel being free to live my life and be authentic while allowing myself to grow and change."
The Idea of North
A zine by Skully Adams about "a testing time in 2010, when the [recurring] dream appearances of a character from the hit BBC TV series Spooks, Lucas North, over a 12 month period played a pivotal role in how I came to process and come to terms with a diagnosis of cyclothymia, a mild form of bipolar disorder."
Three Essays on the WikiLeaks Saga
$3 A5 24p 38g
From Skully Adams, author of Suicide Psychosis, The Sugar Horse and other zines. Contains three thought provoking essays titled Julian Assange and the Smear of Effeminancy, Bradley Manning's Sexuality is Relevant and Wikileaks: A New Modus of Radical Journalism.
The Wolves at the Door
$0.50 A5 28p 38g
"We are some anarchists writing and living in Sydney. We are interested in exploring the particulars of our situation here while remaining connected to struggle everywhere. We are interested in reflecting on the spaces we inhabit within capitalism, on what cracks appear and what opportunities for resistance are present. When we return to anarchism, it's not as an identity or a creed but as a space we move through, a point of abstraction, an accumulation of ideas of liberation and attack."
They Want To Socialise You
$3 A7 20p + fold out 11g
"So instead of studying and writing essays, I've been re-visiting Sleater-Kinney. Now, classical sociological theory and Sleater-Kinney lyrics have belended in my tired mind." A short, funny and perceptive illustrated analysis of the Sleater-Kinney song 'Call the Doctor' by an essay-weary 3rd year sociology student (Chiara of Rhetorical zine).
Tomorrow's Machine Today #1
50c 10x10cm 12p 8g
A new serial zine from Emma D. The idea initially was to pick a song or musical encounter that has influenced her in some way and to write about that, but as this is the first issue it remains to be seen whether it will continue in that vein. This issue's about hearing songs by US punk bands like DKs and Black Flag for the first time via the unexpected educational portals of Dolly and Girlfriend magazines. You can hear someone (with a male north American accent – a bit different to how I actually sound, but no matter) do a reading of it here!
Tomorrow's Machine Today #2
$2.50 A5 16p 20g
This issue of TMT uses UK band The Fall and author H P Lovecraft as an excuse to talk about class and other things. To quote a nice review of it that Thomas wrote for Three Thousand: "Of the thousands of articles written about both parties, I have read few that delve quite so deeply; the whole zine only discusses a mere twelve words from one Fall song, but never seems to be scrabbling around for new things to say about them. Even if you're fairly well-versed on the two wordsmiths, Tomorrow's Machines Today #2 is great window into the fanaticism they can both still provoke." Thanks, Thomas.
Tomorrow's Machine Today #3
$3 A5 36p
Coming soon.
To Praise is the Thing
$5 A5 12p (single sided) 50g
Another zine by Tamara, who also wrote Briefly, Birds and House. To Praise is the Thing is a series of poems inspired by Tamara's experience of fruit picking in 1996. She praises the hard work she did and characters she met, and the memories she kept.
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POINT PLEASANT — The trial of the three men accused in the 2011 murder of Rene Gonzalez has been rescheduled for July 10 — the original trial was set to begin next week, on April 10.
Chad McCallister, Matthew C. Woods and Steven L. Adkins, Jr., along with their respective legal counsel, appeared in Mason County Circuit Court this week for the continuation of a pretrial hearing which began last month.
Though no official orders explaining the decision to move the trial date have been filed yet, the new trial date has been noted in Mason County Circuit Court.
Also newly scheduled are pretrial hearings for Adkins on July 5 and for McCallister and Woods, respectively, on June 29. Again, all three men, at least at this point, are set to go to trial on July 10.
As reported last month, at various points in the legal proceedings of this case, attorneys for the three men have all individually expressed a desire for their clients to be tried separately. Also, McCallister's attorney requested a change of venue, claiming the pretrial publicity has been "extensive, biased and prejudicial." In addition, counsel for Woods filed a motion to suppress statements made by Woods on the grounds that these statements were obtained and/or otherwise taken in violation of Woods' Constitutional rights. Counsel for Woods has also filed a motion to exclude "gruesome photographs," including autopsy and body photos of Gonzalez, stating these could arouse "anger" or "passion" and as such are "highly prejudicial" to Woods. Council for Adkins has filed a similar motion in regards to these types of photographs.
Subpoenaed witnesses in the case are still to report to Mason County Circuit Court on April 10 to receive further instructions.
As reported last year, according to the criminal complaint, McCallister, Woods and Adkins were together at McCallister's Apple Grove residence on or around July 11, 2011, where they allegedly discussed, planned and entered into a conspiracy to rob Gonzalez at his residence.
Woods allegedly drove Adkins from McCallister's home to Gonzalez's residence with the intent to carry out the planned robbery. Upon arrival, Adkins is said to have shot Gonzalez twice. Following this, both Adkins and Woods fled the scene and returned to McCallister's home. Investigators allege McCallister had a personal beef with Gonzalez.
Adkins, McCallister and Woods have all pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and conspiracy regarding Gonzalez's murder in July 2011.
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The Pawsox give it up to the Indianapolis Indians 8 - 4 today at McCoy stadium. Jerry Sands batted a grand slam in the first inning of the game giving the Indians a big lead while making it tough for the Pawsox to comeback throughout the game. PawSox Manger Gary DiSarcina has a few words to say applied towards improvement for the last game against Indy today (Tuesday).
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Its high marks in CRM going forward were contrasted with questions about Oracle's CRM strategy, as I covered in Monday's Today in SAP blog post at SAPexperts. Oracle's overall strategy brought concerns from customers, according to a survey I looked at on Tuesday.
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Monday: How SAP Can Turn the Corner in CRM
By incorporating the elements that SAP has been emphasizing in development -- in-memory, social, cloud, analytics -- into CRM, the company seems to have breathed life into the product.
Tuesday: Oracle's Fusion-Focused Strategy Leaves Customers Underwhelmed, Confused
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Wednesday: SAP Hires Former Autodesk Employee to Global Talent Role
Also of note: EMEA is one of SAP's foremost focus points in terms of growth areas, so having somebody with experience and expertise in that area is certainly a selling point.
Thursday: NetSuite's CEO Confident in Battle vs. SAP and Oracle
Nelson's argument is essentially that as cloud computing grows in reliability and is more widely adopted, it will be easier for NetSuite to be adopted by bigger companies than it will be for SAP or Oracle to be adopted by smaller companies.
Friday: Sustainability Program Is Popular with SAP Employees
Perhaps there is more of a focus to hire sustainability-friendly employees. Whatever it is, SAP is doing something right when it comes to sustainability, and the company is seeing benefits.
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Dear Shari: Why is my hair greasy??? I take showers every day and I get grease if I go under the front part of my hair (if that makes any sense). I don't know why—I use sulfate-free shampoo and Suave Naturals coconut conditioner.
A: Without knowing the history of your hair and your diet, it is difficult to offer a solid answer. However, there may be synthetic ingredients in the products you are using that are weighing down your hair and causing a reaction. Is your facial skin oily as well? With limited information, I would like to suggest that you only use the conditioner on your ends and not on your scalp. Also, when you are cleansing the scalp area, make sure you scrub well and rinse well. Lastly, if you are using any stylers on your hair when it is dry, this, too, may be causing the greasy effect.
Dear Shari: I have 3b (50:50 chemically treated, natural-in-the-process-of-growing-out) curls, and I've been using Deva No Poo for almost close to a year now. I have found myself on an extended vacation in Grenada (Caribbean), and it's probably the weather and frequent ocean swims that have lead me to wash my hair more often than usual (from twice a week to three times a week). And I've run out!!! Any suggestions? I have at least another 3 weeks with no access to any line of sulfate free shampoo….what do I do? My scalp is drying me crazy. Also what's the deal with sea water…good or bad?
A: Sea water contains salt—BAD for the hair. It is dehydrating. I suggest that you use conditioner as both the cleanser and the conditioner and leave some in when rinsing for extra moisture. Make sure the conditioner does not contain silicone as it will clog the hair and prevent moisture from penetrating.
Dear Shari: I've been shampoo free for about 2 weeks now, and my hair is already feeling great, but I'm having a situation with my root hair. It's super oily/over-conditioned, I don't know, it's impossibly soft. Perhaps it's only the change, going from a sulfate shampoo to co-washing… So I thought I'd better use a low sulfate shampoo every two weeks or so. I don't know what to do.
A: There is nothing wrong with only using DevaCurl Low-Poo which has less moisture than DevaCurl No-Poo. In addition, do not use the conditioner on your scalp at this time. It seems not to need it.
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March 20th, 2011 at 12:19 pmDear Shari, I want to start doing the co wash without using shampoo but I can't really afford salon products. Is there a good conditioner I can use & buy at walmart? I am desperate to get my curls into shape for summer!
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September 6th, 2011 at 9:43 pmI find that my hair tangles really bad. I am using the Deva Care No Poo Shampoo. I have 4b hair. Any suggestions? Should I stop using the shampoo and condition wash only?
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September 15th, 2011 at 7:07 ami bought the no poo, conditioner, angel, set it free, and mister for my 11 year old daughter. this set me back a pretty penny. i was so excited i thought finally this would work but to my disappointment it failed miserably. her hair poofed out in about an hours time and when she came home from school her hair looked dryer than before. any suggestions?
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HINSDALE — Schools are closed Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
But the students learn about King's impact in a variety of classes during the year.
"We teach about (King) in the context of (Mahatma) Gandhi and (César) Chávez in our world cultures and history courses, but he is highlighted specifically in U.S. history and AP U.S. history," said Jessica Hurt, chairman of Hinsdale Central's social studies department.
An African-American history class also is offered at the sophomore level. Five sessions of the class, with about 25 students in each, are being held this school year.
The students read King's 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" sent to white ministers who perceived him as an outsider bringing demonstrations to Birmingham, said teacher Noah Lawrence.
In that letter, King writes, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Lawrence also explores King's understanding of morality and the law. King believes there are two types of laws: just and unjust, which he also explains in his letter from the jail. King advocates obeying just laws, but says people have a moral obligation not to follow laws that are unjust, Lawrence said.
"African-Americans are particularly unique among all immigrants because they were the one group brought here against their will," Lawrence said.
Their fight for equality "helped the country live up to its ideals stated in the Constitution."
At Hinsdale South, a group of students are preparing to pay tribute to King in a performance set for Feb. 21.
"The theme is Restore the Dream, going back to Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream," said Ayesha Truman, faculty sponsor of the school's Urban Arts Club.
The second annual production will celebrate King's life and African American History, Truman said, as well as some often underutilized talents of the club's members.
In preparation for the show, club members are researching King's life and his "I Have a Dream" speech of 1963.
"His speech will frame the entire performance," which will include music, spoken word, skits and dancing, Truman said.
Sandy Illian Bosch contributed to this article.


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Chinese weightlifter Chen Xiexia faces heavy pressure
BEIJING: When Chinese weightlifter Chen Xiexia grips the barbell Saturday, the weights won't be her only burden. As the favorite in the women's 48 kilogram (106 pound) category, the 25-year-old world champion is under pressure to give the host nation a perfect start to the Olympics.
The competition is scheduled to end at about the same time as the women's 10-meter air rifle the first two events of the games so if Chen wins she could receive the first gold medal. If she fails, her disappointment will be shared by millions of Chinese who count on weightlifting a sport China normally dominates to boost the country's overall medal tally.
The ponytailed native of Guangdong province showed no nerves on Thursday, barely glancing at the pack of reporters watching her practice. Afterward she declined to talk even to Chinese journalists, while team officials sought to downplay the expectations.
"In terms of weightlifting, whether it would be the first gold medal in the games or not doesn't make any difference," Chinese weightlifting boss Ma Wenguang said. "I never put unnecessary pressure on my lifters.
"Women's team coach Ma Wenhui said the pressure would only help the Chinese athletes, "because we can turn it into power." China has the strongest team, he said, although the rest of the world has "one or two lifters who can compete with us in every category.
"China won five weightlifting gold medals in the last Olympics and hopes to do even better in Beijing, where it's represented by six men and four women the maximum allowed. While Chinese women are big favorites in the 58 kg (128 pound), 69 kg (152 pound) and 75 kg (165 pound) categories, Chen is coming into the lightest division with only a slight edge on her closest opponents.
They are both from Turkey defending Olympic titleholder Nurcan Taylan and 20-year-old Sibel Ozkan, who made the Chinese camp nervous after reportedly saying that she was lifting world-record weights in practice. Taiwan and South Korea also have strong challengers, while Thailand has two lifters aiming for medals in the category.
"In the women's 48 kg, we have 14 lifters competing against each other and everyone wants to get a medal," Thailand coach Zhang Baoshun said. "We are aiming to learn from China because they are very powerful in this sport.
"That's certainly true for Chen's division, where she was competing with world-record holder Yang Lian and former world champion Wang Mingjuan for a spot on the Chinese team. The coaches picked Chen, who won last year's world championship and this year's Chinese title, at the last minute after determining she had recovered from an injury she suffered in July.
To win as many golds as possible, China's 10 lifters are spread out across nine of the 15 weight categories. The Chinese have only doubled up in one weight class, with Liao Hui and Shi Zhiyong both competing for the men's 69 kg (152 pound) title.
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Chen battles the Turks as Olympic weightlifting starts
BEIJING, Aug 7, 2008 -
Chen Xiexia faces a twin Turkish obstacle when she gets China's drive to the Olympics weightlifting summit underway on Saturday.
China is a strong contender for eight gold medals in the sport at its home Olympics.
"China have dominated weightlifting for a number of years so we know it's going to be tough when you have to compete with Chinese weightlifters," Canada weightlifting coach Guy Grevette said.
The first Olympic gold medal on offer is in Chen's 48kg category, one of four women's classes where the hosts are favoured to win.
Fellow world champion Cao Lei (75kg), along with Chen Yanqing (58kg) and Liu Chunhong (69kg) are also ranked top of their respective weight classes in the women's division.
Although none of China's male lifters are rated top of their class they remain leading contenders to win four of the eight categories, as the home team attempts to surpass their five-gold haul at the Athens Olympics four years ago.
However, coach Zhang Baoshun is not making any firm predictions.
"Every athlete in our team has a 50 percent chance of winning," he said.
The initial focus will be on Chen when the competition begins, with the tiny lifter overcoming injury in a pre-Olympic competition to win selection over her world record-holder compatriot Yang Lian.
Barring her way are two formidable Turks -- defending Games champion Nurcan Taylan and junior world champion Sibel Ozkan, with their coach Talat Unlu tipping the fast-developing Ozkan to upstage the more senior Chen and Nurcan.
However, with countries restricted to a maximum four women competitors, Thailand, North and South Korea and Belarus stand out in the 53kg, 63kg, and over 75kg divisions where China is not represented.
Nastassia Novikava, the Belarussian who on paper is the strongest 53kg lifter, said: "There are no Chinese athletes, so the main competition will be against Thailand."The Thai entry in her class is Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon who broke two world records last year when she changed her name from Chanpim Kantatian for added luck.
The Chinese men's squad, headed by defending lightweight champion Shi Zhiyong, faces tougher competition than their women, according to Romanian coach Marin Zaldou.
"China, Russia, Belarus are all very good but the competition is open. It's possible something unexpected will happen," he told AFP.
Perennial powerhouse Russia, with the formidable Oleg Perepechenov in their ranks, will look to dominate the heavier weight classes, while the Belarussians rule the 85kg and 105kg divisions with Andrei Rybakou and Andrei Aramnau.
Vietnam, North Korea, and South Korea each have lifters favoured to win the lower weight classes, while Iran is tipped to take the 94kg class.
After Iran's world record holder and Sydney and Athens Olympics champion Hossein Rezazadeh chose to sit out the Beijing Games on doctor's orders to cure a leg injury however, the title of the world's strongest man is wide open.
This is expected to be closely contested by Russian world number two Evgeny Chigishev and current European champion, Vienna-born Matthias Steiner who won German citizenship a year after placing seventh in Athens.
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Taylan confident of retaining title as weightlifting action kicks off
Weightlifting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing kick off today and will continue until Aug. 19, and Turkish lifter Nurcan Taylan is determined to successfully defend her 48 kilogram crown. The 48 kilogram competition this morning is one of the first events in the Beijing Olympic Games.
"Gold, silver, bronze medals, they are all possible as Thailand, China and Turkey are all very strong in the women's 48 kilogram event," said Taylan's coach Osman Nuri Vural. "But gold is what I want. We sent two [women] lifters, Thailand sent two and China one. It will be a thrilling competition," he added.
The 25-year-old Taylan, Turkey's first-ever woman Olympic medalist, beat Li Zhuo of China to take the women's 48 kilogram gold at the Athens Games. Taylan's compatriot Sibel Özkan will also be competing in this division. Both of them lifted a total of 196 kilograms at the European Weightlifting Championships last April, but Taylan grabbed the gold because of a lighter body weight.
However, Vural and Taylan have both refused to comment on the Chinese opponent, Chen Xiexia. Chinese weightlifters have the traditional advantage in this division; however, at the 2004 Athens Olympics, Chinese strongwoman Li slipped and was beaten by Taylan.
"I want to make history again. I believe God will give me what I deserve, because I try so hard," Taylan stated.
The heaviest category for women weighing over 75 kilograms also promises to be a colorful contest. Korean Jang Mi-Ran is a likely candidate for gold, but fans should keep an eye on tattooed Samoan lifter Ele Opeloge, who, along with other athletes from a smattering of tiny Pacific islands, has risen to the top league.
Men's competition
In men's competition young Turkish lifter Taner Sağır, who won the gold medal in the 77- kilogram category in Athens, will also be vying for gold again.
Sağır set new Olympic records in the 77-kilogram snatch, clean and jerk and combined events to become the youngest Olympic champ in the weightlifting history at the age of 19. The Turkish nation wants him to repeat that feat in Beijing. Bunyamin Sudaş is another Turkish medal hope. The others are Sedat Artıc and İzzet İnce.
A showdown between German super-heavyweight lifter Matthias Steiner and Latvian parliamentarian Viktors Scerbatihs is likely to provide one of the most thrilling spectacles in Beijing.
The men's super-heavyweight event on Aug. 19 could be set for some surprises after Hossein Rezazadeh, known as the "Iranian Hercules," pulled out of the Olympics due to a knee injury. What looked like a sure win for Rezazadeh, the strongest man in the world, has turned into a platform for Steiner and Scerbatihs.
In the lighter categories, lifters such as Manuel Minginfel from the island of Yap, a mere speck on the world map, and Papua New Guinean Dika Toua, are just about the only medal hopes for their tiny nations.
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Chinese weightlifter wins gold, breaks Olympic record
By Lindsey Craig
China's Chen Xiexia broke an Olympic record and became the first gold medallist in weightlifting on Day 1 of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games.
Xiexia, 25, lifted 117kg in the clean and jerk, which, combined with her 95kg lift in the snatch, made her the Olympic record holder in the women's 48kg class, with 212kg in total. She's also the 2007 world champion and holds the world record in the clean and jerk.
Taking silver was Turkey's Ozkan Sibel, who lifted 199kg total (88kg in the snatch and 111kg in the clean and jerk). Sibel, 20, is still of junior age.
In third place was Chinese Taipei's Chen Wei-Ling, 26, who lifted 196kg total (84kg in the snatch and 112 in the clean and jerk).
Canada's Marilou Dozois-Prévost placed 10th, lifting 166kg in total (76kg in the snatch and 90kg in the clean and jerk).
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Chen wins China's first gold of Beijing Olympics
BEIJING (AP) — Chen Xiexia has won China's first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics by lifting a total of 212 kilograms in the women's 48-kg weightlifting category.
Turkey's Sibel Ozkan won the silver medal Saturday while Chen Wei-Ling of Taiwan finished third. Chen Xiexia dominated the competition from start to finish, lifting 95 kilogram in the snatch and 117 kilogram in the clean and jerk, an Olympic record.
Ozkan was a distant second with a total of 199 kilograms, 3 kilograms ahead of Chen Wei-Ling. The 2004 Olympic champion, Nurcan Taylan of Turkey, was eliminated after three failed attempts in the snatch.
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Chen wins women's 48kg to give China first gold
BEIJING -- Chen Xiexia gave China its first gold of the 2008 Olympics when she won the women's 48kg weightlifting title on Saturday.
Yelling "jia you!" (come on!) to pump her up in front of a roaring gallery, the 25 year-old world champion succeeded on all six attempts as she set two new Olympic records with a lift total of 212kg and a final clean and jerk heave of 117kg on the way to victory.
Chen equaled the four year-old clean and jerk Olympic record of 115kg on her second heave.
She wrapped herself up in China's red flag as she waved to the crowd from the victory podium.
World junior champion Sibel Ozkan of Turkey took silver with Wei-Ling Chen of Taiwan winning bronze.
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BEIJING (AP) -Chen Xiexia won China's first gold medal of the Beijing Games on Saturday, setting two Olympic records in the women's 48-kilogram category.
Sibel Ozkan of Turkey won the silver medal, while Chen Wei-ling of Taiwan finished third.
"I have been thinking of winning a medal but never thought it would turn out to be the first gold medal for China,'' Chen said. "I'm very happy and I think I did a very good job.''
Buoyed by a roaring home crowd, the 25-year-old world champion dominated both events, lifting 95 kgs in the snatch and 117 kgs in the clean and jerk, an Olympic record.
Her total score of 212 kgs was also an Olympic high score, beating the previous record by 2 kgs.
Ozkan was a distant second with a total of 199 kgs, 3 kgs ahead of Chen Wei-ling. The Taiwanese had a shot at the silver medal, but failed in her final attempt at 115 kgs, collapsing to the floor as the bar dropped.
The 2004 Olympic champion, Nurcan Taylan of Turkey, was eliminated after three failed attempts in the snatch. Afterward, Taylan said she was not well prepared for the competition.
"I only had 20 to 30 training days and I had injuries, so I could be better,'' she said.
It was clear already after the snatch, in which the bar is raised above the head in one continuous motion, that Chen was in a class of her own. She was already 7 kgs ahead of Ozkan at that stage.
"Chen is very good,'' the 20-year-old Ozkan said, adding she was satisfied with the silver.
Chen continued to dominate in the clean and jerk, a two-step lift in which the bar is first held at shoulder level, and then pushed overhead.
She was the only one to successfully complete all of her six lifts in the competition, struggling only slightly on her final clean and jerk.
"I had the special support from the Chinese audience, and therefore I don't think I was under great pressure,'' Chen said.
Wrapped in a Chinese flag, she received the gold medal and sang along with the crowd to the Chinese national anthem. It will likely be sung many more times at the gym of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as China is expected to win at least five gold medals in weightlifting, a sport it has dominated in recent years.
Seventeen-year-old Long Quing is next up for the Olympic host in the men's 56kg category on Sunday. He faces strong challengers, however, in world champion Cha Kum Kol of North Korea and 2008 Asian champion Anh Tuan Hoang of Vietnam.
China doesn't have any entries in Sunday's other competition, the women's 53 kg division, where the top spot looks set to be a three-way battle among Thailand, South Korea and Belarus.
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Lifting China
By Rebecca Blumstein, Ellen Zhu contributed
TANGLI VILLAGE, China -- As a child, Chen Yanqing was the fastest girl in this farming village. She often outran the boys. One day at a sporting match, a coach noticed her throwing skills and took out a tape measure. She was 11 years old, and the muscles in her arms and legs were extraordinary.
Many of China's athletes come from the countryside. WSJ's Rebecca Blumenstein looks at the
upside and downside of a girl's decision to leave her family and become an Olympic weightlifter.
So was the proposition her parents received: Release their daughter to the state, and she could go away to sports school and improve her future, with possible financial benefits for the entire family.
"It was rock hearted of us, but we had no choice," says her father, a farmer named Chen Zufu. "If we didn't send her away to sports school, she would have ended up a farmer." In rural China, that likely means an annual income of less than $2,000.
Chen Yanqing, now 29, went on to reach the heights of global competitive weightlifting. Her rise helps to explain why many think China may win the medal count in the Beijing Games -- unseating the U.S. from its spot as Summer Olympics medal king.
China is in a position to compete for the top spot because of its unique mix of central planning and poverty that drives an intense desire to get ahead. Almost all the 52 Chinese athletes who won gold medals in Athens in 2004, including Chen Yanqing, came from the nation's system of elite athletic boarding schools. The primary recruiting grounds for those schools is the poor countryside, where some 700 million of China's 1.3 billion citizens dream of joining the nation's economic renaissance.
As the world record holder in the snatch lift, Chen Yanqing is key to China's hopes when she competes on Monday. "A rich person would never let his child do this," says Mr. Chen, Yanqing's father.
These athletes lifted their nation to the No. 3 medal spot in Sydney in 2000, and to the No. 2 spot in Athens in 2004. This month, their undisguised intention is to finish on top.
Out of Poverty
Mr. Chen's decision to hand over Yanqing has borne fruit -- a gold medal in Athens, a 2006 world record that she still holds and the opportunity to win gold again as part of the first Chinese Olympic team to compete at home. Her success helped lift her entire family out of poverty, according to interviews with her parents, sister and coach. In her small village, on a remote island off of Suzhou, two hours west of Shanghai, she is a hero.
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"Children in the village all worship her," says Zou Haoming, who runs a family hotel near Chen Yanqing's home.
But Yanqing's success has come at a price, only part of which her parents foresaw: the heartache of saying goodbye to her village, her friends and her family, the loneliness of long separation. "When kids in other families were sitting on the knees of grandpas, my daughter was suffering at the sport school. We were heartless parents," says her father.
Among the unexpected turns her story took, Yanqing left home because she was fast of foot -- yet wound up a weightlifter. That was the result of a strategic decision China made as female weightlifting prepared for its debut at the 2000 Sydney Games. Recognizing a big medal opportunity, China searched its vast pool of athletically elite females for promising weightlifters. At the 2004 Athens Games, the result was dramatic: Ms. Chen's gold medal was one of three that China won in female weightlifting, more than any other country. In two winning lifts, the clean and jerk (hoisting the weights in stages above one's head) and the snatch (lifting from the ground in a continuous motion), she hefted a combined 523.5 pounds. That's more than four times her body weight of about 130 pounds.
Weightlifting horrifies her mother, who refuses to attend her daughter's competitions. The elder Ms. Chen says female weightlifters suffer from callused hands and a stigma that helps explain why her daughter remains unmarried. "She is almost 30. That is very old, especially in the countryside," says her mother, Lu Liuyun, whose two older daughters are married. "My biggest wish is that she can marry. Her friend's kids are already grown up and she hasn't even started."
How Chen Yanqing feels about her father's decision to send her away at age 11 isn't clear: Like nearly all Chinese Olympians, she has been strictly sequestered from the media. Yanqing has a reputation for never complaining, and has seemingly accepted her life. In one of the smallest weight classes, she is amazingly lean for her strength. She sends her family pictures of herself in front of places they will never see, and calls when she can, reassuring them she is fine. Though she has been pressured to stick with her sport, she is clearly determined to win again. "Just watch me at the Games," she told China's President Hu Jintao when he visited China's weightlifters at practice last month, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Parental Misgivings
Her parents, however, have misgivings. They stand behind the rationale that drove their decision: Had they turned down the opportunity, their daughter may well have joined the next generation working the family rice paddy. But they wish they had understood -- or been fully informed about -- the implications of their decision. They thought the school would turn Yanqing into a teacher, as it does many of its students. Only the elite, after all, make it to the Olympics.
The Chens hadn't recognized how exceptional their daughter was. "We are farmers for generations. I hoped she could do something different," says her father. He cites a Chinese saying that the life of one teacher is better than that of 10 farmers. Still, he beams with pride as he talks about his daughter's accomplishments.
Her sister, Yanfen, doesn't plan to watch Yanqing compete. "The pressure is too much," says Yanfen. "Twenty years of her life were put into this sport."
Yanqing's athletic prowess was discovered 18 years ago amid hard times on the farm. Her father was trying to pay school fees for his three daughters, but money was scarce and he often had to borrow from friends and family. Most of the time, there was no meat to eat, so the family subsisted on vegetables and rice.
One day, Yanqing attended a sports match in Suzhou, four hours away by boat, where she caught the attention of Cao Xinmin. A former weightlifter who has coached some of China's best in that sport, Mr. Cao searched for rural kids in particular because they can "certainly endure more hardship" than urban kids. "Frankly speaking, no girl would enjoy weightlifting," he said. "Only after some achievements can you persist."
Lu Liuyun, left, and Chen Zufu, right, hold a family photograph
of their daughter, Olympic weightlifter Chen Yanqing,
and her older sister Chen Yanhua.
Yanqing's ability to run and throw a softball impressed Mr. Cao. At home, she told her parents that a coach had measured her entire body at the competition. Shortly thereafter came a letter from a sports school inquiring about Yanqing. In the letter was an attractive offer: athletes who excelled would receive free tuition and government subsidies for life.
Mr. Chen agreed to it without too much thinking. If she became a teacher, she could come back to help on the family farm during the summer, he remembers discussing with his wife. "Our life was very difficult at that time," he recalls. "Yanqing could help to relieve the family pressures."
Her mother remembers feeling torn. Her daughter was not only a great athlete but also a good student, particularly in math. "I didn't know what to do. Suzhou is so far away. We had to take a boat to see her, and sports school is so difficult."
In 1989, as the summer holiday was about to finish, Mr. Chen started to pack luggage for his youngest daughter and made a special shopping trip to buy her new T-shirts. Knowing she was leaving soon, Yanqing cried. Then the family hired a boat that took her on the hours-long journey to the school.
Chen Yanfen, Yanqing's older sister, said she hated to see her sister leave. "She was so little," says Yanfen, who now lives with her husband and daughter in a village near her parents. Still, she said that the family hoped Yanqing would "jump over the dragon gate," a Chinese expression for achieving greatness.
Almost immediately, Yanqing became a weightlifter. On her parents' first visit to the Suzhou Juvenile Spare-time Sports School, her mother was shocked to find her daughter's hands so chafed that the skin was peeling off.
'No Pain, No Gain'
But her father advised Yanqing's coach to be strict with her. "No pain, no gain. Kids from poor families can stand the hardship. Yanqing is always a strong girl," Mr. Chen recalls telling her coach. "I hoped she could do well as quickly as possible so that our [financial] burdens could be relieved."
When her parents' visits ended, Yanqing cried.
As an athlete, she thrived. In 1995, Yanqing won her first gold medal at the Junior Asian Women Weightlifting Championship. The family didn't have TV at that time. So they didn't know until they got a letter from their daughter a few weeks later. Other gold medals followed, including at a 1997 world championship.
She did so well that at age 15 -- younger than most elite athletes -- she began receiving 617 yuan (about $88) a month for her food and school fees, enabling her father to concentrate on putting his other two daughters through high school and a technical training school. Over time, Yanqing's success helped raise the standard of living for her parents and sisters.
Her mother turned down invitations from Yanqing's coaches to watch her daughter compete. Seeing her lift so much weight, "I feel pain in my heart," she says. She also worried about her daughter's education. She says the athletes would have a little schooling in the early morning, and again in the evening after a long day of grueling workouts. "By the time she did her homework, she was too tired."
In 2000, the first year women's weightlifting became an Olympic event, Yanqing was the best lifter in her weight class on the Chinese team. But just before the list of athletes was set to be announced, Chinese sport officials heard a rumor that a secret North Korean competitor had lifted the same amount as Chen Yanqing, according to the state media reports confirmed by Yanqing's family. This competitor had never been seen at international games, but China's sport officials didn't want to blow a chance for a medal. Since each team can only enter competitors in four of seven categories, they scratched Yanqing from the Olympics lineup. The rumor turned out to be false -- and the weightlifter who took Yanqing's place in another weight class lost anyway.
Yanqing was devastated. Her performance suffered in other games after the Olympics. In 2001, she decided to retire and enrolled to study at Suzhou University.
Her parents supported her decision. "Yanqing told us women weightlifters have difficulties finding a date or a good job. People all thought they were fat and bad-looking. Yanqing is still slim and looks nice, but we wanted her to start up a normal life," her father says.
On May 4, 2004, while attending her sister's wedding, Yanqing got an urgent call from sports authorities. They wanted her to compete in the Athens Olympics, only three months off. She dropped everything, immersed herself in training and flew off to Athens.
Back home, her family -- along with the entire village -- watched her compete. When she won a gold medal, they celebrated with fireworks and candy.
Returning to retirement, Chen Yanqing entered business school at Suzhou University. But last year, Coach Cao and some local sports officials began urging her to compete in the Beijing Games, and lobbying her parents as well. Her father says that if she said no, it would have affected what job she would get in the future.
"Her future would be uncertain. As we have walked 80 kilometers, we should finish the remaining 20 kilometers," said Mr. Chen.
Struggling Afterward
Chen Yanquing wearing medalist's laurels in Athens in 2004.
There is reason for concern. Many of China's athletes struggle after they leave the system. One of China's former weightlifting champions, Zou Chunlan, could only find work in a public bathroom until donors helped her buy a laundry, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Explaining why he encouraged her to compete again, Mr. Cao says, "It's very difficult to find another person with the strong mind, the experience, the control of skills and the stability in performance like her."
Her father wasn't sure. He was concerned about a steroid scandal that had hit some Chinese weightlifters, including a former teammate of Yanqing's who was found doping and was punished. But after warning her to watch everything she eats and drinks, he supported her decision to re-enter competition.
Even as his excitement builds about his daughter's performance in her homeland, Mr. Chen remains haunted by his decision to send her off as a little girl.
"I love her very much. I always tell people I do. But she herself rarely heard it. We could only ask her to take care of herself every time she called. Our care could only be extended to her over telephones," said Mr. Chen.
He hasn't seen her since January, when she was allowed to come home for a three-hour lunch. The last time Yanqing called was July 27, when she told her father she was doing fine and wouldn't be able to call again until after the Games.
Whatever happens during the Beijing Games, Mr. Chen hopes that afterward his daughter will land a vice director's position at the Suzhou sports bureau, along with a husband. "We hope Yanqing can find a man who will love her and take care of her," says Mr. Chen.
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