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New Azerbaijan Party
|New Azerbaijan Party
|Ilham Aliyev
(since 31 October 2003)
|Heydar Aliyev
|December 18, 1992
|Bülbül prospekti 13,
Baku, Azerbaijan
|Azerbaijani nationalism[1]
|Political position
|Blue, yellow, white
72 / 125
|Official Web Site
(Azerbaijani) (English)
|Politics of Azerbaijan
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The New Azerbaijan Party (Azerbaijani: Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası, YAP) is the ruling political party in Azerbaijan. It was formed on 18 December 1992 by the former President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, who led it until his death in 2003.[2] It is now led by his son, Ilham Aliyev, who succeeded his father as the party leader and as President of Azerbaijan since 2003.
The New Azerbaijan Party has been described as a post-Soviet party of power.[3] Political scientists have stated that the party is loosely based on nationalism and a personality cult centered on Heydar Aliyev, and lacks a true political ideology.[4]
The party's stated ideologies are lawfulness, secularism, and Azerbaijani nationalism. It wants to build a "social-oriented" economy, and lists civil solidarity and social justice as the basis of its ideology.[1] The founder of the party, Heydar Aliyev, was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until July 1991.[5]
The main contention between the ruling New Azerbaijan Party and the opposition can actually be seen as a power struggle between the old Soviet elite, which still controls Azerbaijan, and the new intelligentsia that has long-opposed Soviet institutions.[6]
Electoral history[edit]
At the elections (5 November 2000 and 7 January 2001), the party won 62.3% of the popular vote and 75 out of 125 seats. Its candidate Ilham Aliyev was reported by the government to have won 80% of the popular vote in the 2003 presidential elections, which faced criticism of vote-rigging from groups such as Human Rights Watch. At the 2005 parliamentary elections, it won 62 out of 125 seats. At the 2010 parliamentary elections, it won 72 out of 125 seats. Presently, New Azerbaijan Party has 518,000 members.[7]
- ^ a b "History".
- ^ Ruling Party Sees Victory in Azeri Vote
- ^ Herron, Erik. "Elections and Democracy After Communism?" Palgrave Macmillan, May 26, 2009. (p. 86-87)
- ^ Guliyev, Farid; Pearce, Katy E. The Challenges of Electoral Competition in an Oil Rich State: Azerbaijani Pre-Election Report Washington Post. October 6, 2013. Accessed July 2, 2014
- ^ "Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev".
- ^ Joël Krieger, Margaret E. Crahan. The Oxford companion to politics of the world. Oxford University Press. p. 59.
- ^ Ruling New Azerbaijan Party will mark membership of 500,000th person
Further reading[edit]
- Ishiyama, John (2008): Political Party Development and Party 'Gravity' in Semi-Authoritarian States. The Cases of Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. In: Taiwan Journal of Democracy 4/1: 33-53.
- Küpeli, Ismail (2010): Stabilisierung autoritärer Herrschaft: Das Fallbeispiel Aserbaidschan. Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg 2010.
External links[edit]
- Official website (Azerbaijani) (English)


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Those 12 cells of BU063 are a good example of the complexity of life in the mouth: They came from a single healthy person but represented 8 different strains of the bacterium. BU063 is closely related to the pathogen Tannerella forsythia, a bacterium linked to periodontitis, but the 2 have clear differences in their genetic makeup. Those genes lacking in BU063 but present in T forsythia are likely a secret behind T forsythia's virulence and are good targets for further study. There is one particular gene complex in a whole list of periodontitis-related bacteria that could be involved with virulence.
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Lake Stevens Police Officer James Wellington, 41, was terminated on December 31, 2013 after working under a "last chance" agreement with the City of Lake Stevens.
Wellington, who has been the subject of a minimum of six internal investigations since 2009, lost his job after an additional internal affairs investigation found that he had violated search and seizure duties.
"IA13-001 concluded there was a sustained Lake Stevens Police Department policy violation committed by Officer Wellington related to search and seizure responsibilities," the City of Lake Stevens said in a written statement. "As a result of this internal policy violation, previous recent discipline, past work performance, and the overall impact of the incident on the City and Police Department, the City of Lake Stevens separated its employment relationship with Officer Wellington on December 31, 2013."
Within Wellington's file it states that he has been disciplined for several items including smelling of alcohol at work, purchasing a backup handgun using his uniform allowance, abusing his sick leave and for his prosecution for drunken disturbance inside a hotel in Yellowstone Park.
The city asked for this last investigation after Wellington was on the list of potential witnesses in the Molly Conley shooting against suspect Erick N. Walker.
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Under the guidelines of Wellington's last chance agreement, he has "no recourse" if he gets terminated for a policy violation. The only exception is if there is a "preponderance of evidence." It also states that an arbitrator cannot reinstate Wellington if he chooses to take his case to an arbitrator.
Wellington was one of the officers involved in the lawsuit against the city by Maryville resident Brandon Fenter. The city paid out $100,000 to Fenter and his wife to settle the claim.
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ABSTRACT: To investigate the clinicopathological features and postoperative survival of patients with mucinous colorectal carcinoma (MC) and to identify the factors related to long-term survival.Surgery Today 06/2014; · 0.96 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Although fecal diversion is reported to improve the quality of life (QOL) of the patients with active perianal disease, the effect of the concomitant abdominal surgery was not well studied. The aim of this study was to investigate factors that impair postoperative QOL of patients with Crohn's disease. A SF-36v2 questionnaire was mailed to patients who underwent abdominal operation between January 2001 and February 2007. Patients were also asked about the medical therapy they were receiving. Data from 50 patients were analyzed. Univariate analyses revealed that patients with active perianal disease had lower scores for role physical, bodily pain and social functioning than did patients without it. Social functioning and role emotional scores were lower in patients older than 40 years than in those younger. The physical component summary score was significantly affected in patients with active perianal disease. Fecal diversion had no effect on QOL after abdominal surgery for Crohn's disease. Multivariate analysis showed that the physical component summary score was significantly lower in patients with active perianal disease than in patients without it. Active perianal disease is an important factor that impairs QOL in patients who have undergone surgery for intestinal Crohn's disease.Hepato-gastroenterology 09/2012; 59(118):1814-8. · 0.77 Impact Factor
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|Tue, 08-07-2012 - 11:32pm
Kate - Praying for Teddy! Hope everything checked out ok.
Ella - I SO FEEL YOUR PAIN!! We are having the exact same issues with Selin. It was SO hard when I was on our trip without DH. We were in a hotel by ourselves until DH got there (long story) and there were moments when I was *thisclose* to losing it and I could literally feel my blood pressure rising yet there was no where for me to go. Even some of my relatives were starting to get irritated with her because there were some times where she was just crying for every little thing (not her typical behavior) and wanting me to hold her all the time. At one point she said to me, "I'm sorry mommy that I'm not listening" then of course it's hard to be mad at her after that! Thank God it eased up significantly when DH arrived otherwise I might have boarded a plane by myself and headed for home, lol! Those kind of days make me question TTC #2 but I know she won't be this way forever and I don't want our kids any further apart than they're already going to be (a little over 3 years). GL and know you're not alone! Feel free to email me anytime. ;-)
|Tue, 08-07-2012 - 11:04pm
Name/SO's Name: Christine/DH
Children's names and ages: Selin, will be 2-1/2 on the 22nd
Any new milestones or fun stories: Nothing really new, still talking up a storm, doing better with potty training
What are you looking forward to this month: My BFF is flying in tomorrow for a few days, TTC this weekend (eeek!!), starting at my new school in a few weeks
Just for fun, complete this phrase - "Before I had kids, I thought...I would want them close together. Ha, not anymore!"
AFM: We just got home from Canada last night. Overall it was a good trip but Selin really made my life hell before DH arrived. We were there for about 3 days before he arrived and she was just throwing tantrums left and right and having accidents all over the place so we had to put her back in pull-ups for most of the trip. Since we've been home she's been back on track with potty training so hope it was just a temporary setback. Once DH got there it was like she flipped a switch and was back to her normal self. She did ok on our two flights there, mainly didn't like being buckled in her own seat when we were waiting at the gate and taxiing for take-off.
I had to be up at 5:30am this morning for my new teacher orientation. Same thing tomorrow as well (ugh) and my BFF is flying in tomorrow afternoon so it's going to be a busy week. We're kayaking at our lakefront on Friday, which I'm totally psyched about.
Oh and Katja - your ticker has been added to the front page!
|Tue, 08-07-2012 - 10:55pm
Kate - Do you have an update about Teddy? I've been thinking about him (and you!)!
AFM - We've been having more "are we SURE we want more kids??" days lately... Eliza at age 2 has been... difficult to say the least. Normal toddler behavior, but OHSOFRUSTRATING. I am trying so hard to keep my attitude positive and to stay calm but some days I just can't. Lately I've felt like calling my mommy every other minute, and/or running screaming out the back door. It's not that bad all the time of course - when that girl is sweet, she is SO DANG SWEET - but I think I've been letting my frustration build up and I haven't been taking enough mommy breaks and time for myself so it's been harder lately. My mom always tells me to "keep the faith", which I remind myself sooo often! I am trying to raise this girl right, and I *think* I'm doing a good job, but then there are days/weeks where she is just so frustrating and I feel like I'm failing... but it's so normal and will pass, so I just try to hold on to that.
Anyway, sorry to come in mid-month and be so negative and venty. But thanks for listening!
|Tue, 08-07-2012 - 10:40pm
Anyway, hi ladies
Name/SO's Name: Ella (and Andy)
Children's names and ages: Eliza, 2 yrs 9 months!?
Any new milestones or fun stories: Um.... Eliza pooped on the basement floor this morning. Soooo, that was awesome. And disgusting (OMG someone please tell me that the 3s are easier... anybody???).
What are you looking forward to this month: The State Fair!
Just for fun, complete this phrase - "Before I had kids, I thought .... I knew what tired meant."
|Tue, 08-07-2012 - 6:55pm
We paid for a zygosity test to be done (a private lab) - our healthcare provider wouldn't do it because it wasn't "medically necessary". It was worth paying out of pocket though.
Yah, a lot of people are like, "duh. couldn't you tell just by looking at them?" LOL
|Tue, 08-07-2012 - 6:26pm
It's just that they reeeeeally look alike!
BTW: How did you found out?
|Tue, 08-07-2012 - 6:03pm
Kate - that's so scary. How's Teddy doing now? Did you take him to the dr? I agree, it must be so much easier once they can tell us what is going on/how their bodies feel!
AFM - just a quick post to let you guys know we found out the girls are in fact identical twins. It's actually been pretty crazy to process because I had thought of them in a different way for SO long! Anyway, kinda cool. Oh, and joy of joys, Elia got thrush - geez! They are both teething an insane amount (I feel ya on that, Kate!) - the doctor who saw her today and diagnosed the thrush said all of her canines are coming through and two molars are on their way as well. That might explain why they have been such a fussy mess lately, gah!
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If a request for this to be nerfed, I dont know the mechanics or the arguments, only that I see alot of complaints about people getting backstabbed. , but it saves thieves lives in PVE, and its useless against bosses, so at least keep backstab the way it is for PVE. It would be like removing poise for melee chars, or making mage cast times longer in PVE. In PVP if theres a mechanic problem with it ok, fix it, and its useless against bosses, I dont even know what the Lag part means, but its useless against bosses in pve, so let a poor thief live....
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The technical aspect obviously requires proper practice for you to hone your skills. Here are some things that have helped me on the mental side.
1. Attack the ball rather than react to it. When you commit to coming in for the volley, assume the ball is going to be hit within your reach. Don't waste a millisecond to process the decision of "If it's close enough, then I will hit it. If it's not within reach, then I will not hit it." If the opponent hits a near-perfect pass where only an instant reaction on your part will save the point, taking the time to make the decision of whether or not it's within reach can be the difference to whether you actually could have gotten it or not. This leads me to my next tip.
2. Don't be afraid of making a spectacular lunge for a volley... and end up swatting empty air. When you come up to net, sometimes you will get passed. Take it as a fact and get over it. There's no shame in getting passed. Don't worry about "If I had stayed back, I could have returned that last shot." Coming up to net is a gamble which increases the odds that the point will end on the next shot. Once again, perfectly segueing to my next tip.
3. Choose when to come in to volley wisely (in match time at least). Since coming in escalates the odds, you want to make sure you do it when they're in your favor. If you really have no feel or sense for approaching, just approach all of the time when you're practicing with a buddy. You'll get a feel for which of your opponents shots you can hit better approach shots off of, as well as what parts of the court you hit better approach shots from.
4. Approach shots are very important. No matter how good of a volleyer you are, if you come in to the net after hitting the opponent an easy sitter, you can expect to: a) get passed; b) get lobbed; c) get a fuzzy ball slammed down your throat. If you notice yourself consistenly having to go to rediculous lengths just to hit your volleys, you might want to consider if your approach shots are what you need to fix first. If you come in behind a good approach shot, you should be the one feeling in control of the point. Of course, even if you do hit a great approach shot and expect little more than a weak chipped floater back your way, don't get complacent and sloppy. Recall tip 1 and attack the ball and don't let up until you've taken the point.
5. Don't be afraid of getting hit by the ball. Assuming the opponent hits the ball from the baseline or further back, even if he nails it, unless it hits you in the face, it shouldn't be a big deal (unless you're 80 and you play guys 50 years younger than you
). By the way, the odds of the ball hitting your crotch are too small to even consider. Aside from making you seem like a wuss, the problem with worring about getting hit is that if you're brain is trying to simultaneuosly process how to both hit a good volley as well as protect your body from what you mistakenly interpret to be an utlimate and untimely death, your brain's naturally going to give more focus to the "survival" response. Rather than thinking "
I will asses the opponent's return and use the information to determine if it poses a threat to my livelyhood. If not, will hit a good volley
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Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc. (IAA), the leading live and live-online salvage auto auction company and wholly-owned subsidiary of KAR Auction Services, Inc. (NYSE: KAR), is proud to announce support for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation's (ALSF) 9 th Annual National Lemonade Days. In June, IAA plans to sell lemonade at 142 of its 160 North American branches, from coast-to-coast, as well as its Chicago-based headquarters to help generate $100,000 for research into new treatments and cures for childhood cancer.
National Lemonade Days returns annually each June in an effort to raise $1 million for childhood cancer research over the course of three days. With the support of over 1,800 IAA employees, the company hopes to raise much needed funds by selling lemonade onsite during auction sale days. Additionally, each IAA branch location has a fundraising page on the ALSF website for generating funds. Each site will be active from May 15 through June 22 where the public can offer their financial support and donate online ( www.AlexsLemonade.org/campaign/midwest-lemonade-days). IAA partnered with Alex's Lemonade Stand last year as well, where five branches raised $10,000.
"We are thrilled to have the support of IAA in the battle against childhood cancer," said Liz Scott, Alex's mom and Co-Executive Director of ALSF. "By enlisting the support of their employees, vehicle providers, friends, neighbors and relatives, IAA is helping to continue the mission of our daughter, allowing us to take strides toward finding a cure for all kids with cancer."
On select dates, families affected by childhood cancer will be present at a number of the lemonade stands set up at IAA auction facilities across the nation to help support IAA's fund generation efforts."It has always been IAA's mission to give back to the communities in which we live and work," said Tom O'Brien, chief executive officer at Insurance Auto Auctions. "We are honored to partner with Alex's Lemonade Stand for the second year in a row on this important fundraising initiative to help raise awareness and critical funds for childhood cancer causes. Our employees are energized and excited to have the opportunity to give back to their communities in a meaningful way."
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cocaines a hell of a drug
It's even got piping (dryer hose) for intercooler!!
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The picaresque novel (Spanish: "picaresca," from "pícaro," for "rogue" or "rascal") is a popular sub-genre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts, in realistic and often humorous detail, the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society. This style of novel originated in sixteenth century Spain and flourished throughout Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It continues to influence modern literature.
Seven qualities distinguish the picaresque novel or narrative form. All or some of these may be employed for effect by the author. (1) A picaresque narrative is usually written in first person as an autobiographical account. (2) The main character is often of low character or social class. He or she gets by with wit and rarely deigns to hold a job. (3) There is no plot. The story is told in a series of loosely connected adventures or episodes. (4) There is little if any character development in the main character. Once a picaro, always a picaro. His or her circumstances may change but rarely result in a change of heart. (5) The picaro's story is told with a plainness of language or realism. (6) Satire is a prominent element. (7) The behavior of a picaresque hero or heroine stops just short of criminality. Carefree or immoral rascality positions the picaresque hero as a sympathetic outsider, untouched by the false rules of society.[1]
The word picaro starts to first appear in Spain with the current meaning in 1545.[2] The word picaro does not appear in Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the novella credited with founding the genre.[citation needed] The expression picaresque novel was coined in 1810.[3][4]
The character type of Lazarillo, which determines the story and the so-called picaresque novel genre, has been shaped from characterization elements already present in Roman literature. With Petronius' Satyricon, Lazarillo takes some of the traits of the central figure of Encolpius, a former gladiator,[5][6] but it is unlikely that the author had access to Petronius' work;[7] from the comedies of Plautus, it borrows from the figure of the parasite and the supple slave; other traits are taken from Apuleius's The Golden Ass.[5] The Golden Ass and Satyricon were particularly revived and widely read in renaissance Europe, and are rare surviving samples of a mostly lost genre, which was highly popular in the classical world, known as "Milesian tales."
Arabic literature, which was read widely in Spain in the time of Al-Andalus and possessed a literary tradition with similar themes, is another possible formative influence on the picaresque style. Al-Hamadhani (d.1008) of Hamadhan (Iran) is credited with inventing the literary genre of maqamat in which a wandering vagabond makes his living on the gifts his listeners give him following his extemporaneous displays of rhetoric, erudition, or verse, often done with a trickster's touch.[8] Ibn al-Astarkuwi or al-Ashtarkuni (d.1134) also wrote in the genre maqamat, comparable to later European picaresque novels.[9]
While elements of Chaucer and Boccaccio have a picaresque feel and are likely to have contributed to the style, the modern picaresque begins with Lazarillo de Tormes,[citation needed] which was published anonymously in Antwerp and Spain in 1554. It is variously considered either the first picaresque novel or at least the antecedent of the genre. The title character, Lazarillo, is a pícaro who must live by his wits in an impoverished country full of hypocrisy.
The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, written in Florence beginning in 1558, also has much in common with the picaresque. Another early example is Mateo Alemán's Guzmán de Alfarache (1599), characterized by religiosity. Guzmán de Alfrache is a fictional character who lived in San Juan de Aznalfarache, Seville, Spain.
Francisco de Quevedo's El buscón (1604 according to Francisco Rico; the exact date is uncertain, yet it was certainly a very early work) is considered the masterpiece of the subgenre by A.A. Parker, because of his baroque style and the study of the delinquent psychology. However, a more recent school of thought, led by Francisco Rico, rejects Parker's view, contending instead that the protagonist, Pablos, is a highly unrealistic character, simply a means for Quevedo to launch classist, racist and sexist attacks. Moreover, argues Rico, the structure of the novel is radically different from previous works of the picaresque genre: Quevedo uses the conventions of the picaresque as a mere vehicle to show off his abilities with conceit and rhetoric, rather than to construct a satirical critique of Spanish Golden Age society.
Indeed, in order to understand the historical context that led to the development of these paradigmatic picaresque novels in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is essential to take into consideration the circumstances surrounding the lives of conversos, whose ancestors had been Jewish, and whose New Christian faith was subjected to close scrutiny and mistrust.[10]
In other European countries, these Spanish novels were read and imitated. In Germany, Grimmelshausen wrote Simplicius Simplicissimus (1669), the most important of non-Spanish picaresque novels. It describes the devastation caused by the Thirty Years' War. In Le Sage's Gil Blas (1715) is a classic example of the genre,[11] which in France had declined into an aristocratic adventure.[citation needed] In Britain, the body of Tobias Smollett's work, and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722) are considered picaresque, but they lack the sense of religious redemption of delinquency that was very important in Spanish and German novels. The triumph of Moll Flanders is more economic than moral.
The classic Chinese novel Journey to the West is considered to have considerable picaresque elements. Having been written in 1590, it is contemporary with much of the above — but is unlikely to have been directly influenced by the European genre.
In the English-speaking world, the term "picaresque" has referred more to a literary technique or model than to the precise genre that the Spanish call picaresco.
The English-language term can simply refer to an episodic recounting of the adventures of an anti-hero on the road. Thomas Nashe's novel The Unfortunate Traveller is often cited as one of the earliest examples of an English picaresque novel.[citation needed] Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews (1742), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great (1743) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749), but, as Fielding himself wrote,[12][need quotation to verify] these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares (Exemplary Novels).[13]
Voltaire's French novel Candide (1759) contains elements of the picaresque. An interesting variation on the tradition of the picaresque is The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824), a satirical view on early nineteenth century Persia, written by a British diplomat, James Morier.
Charles Dickens, who was influenced by Fielding, wrote his first six novels in the picaresque form, with Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) being the transitional novel to his later more serious and mature works. Another novel with elements of the picaresque is the English The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Some modern[need quotation to verify] novelists have used some picaresque techniques, as Gogol in Dead Souls (1842–52).[citation needed] Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) was consciously written as a picaresque novel[citation needed]
Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901) combined the influence of the picaresque novel with the modern spy novel. The illustrated The Magic Pudding (1918), by Australian author Norman Lindsay, is an example of the picaresque adapted for children's literature.
The Enormous Room is E. E. Cummings' 1922 autobiographical novel about his imprisonment in France during World War I on unfounded charges of "espionage", and it includes many picaresque depictions of his adventures as "an American in a French prison". Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk (1923) is an example of the picaresque technique from Central Europe. J.B. Priestley made use of the form in his The Good Companions (1929) which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Many other novels of vagabond life were consciously written as picaresque novels, such as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (1934).[citation needed].
Camilo José Cela's La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942). John A. Lee's Shining with the Shiner (1944) tells amusing tales about New Zealand folk hero Ned Slattery (1840–1927) surviving by his wits and beating the Protestant work ethic. Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March (1953) is a picaresque novel with bildungsroman traits. So too is Thomas Mann's Adventures of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954), which like many novels emphasizes the theme of a charmingly roguish ascent in the social order. George MacDonald Fraser's novels about Harry Flashman (1969) combine the picaresque with historical fiction. Günter Grass's The Tin Drum (1959) is a German picaresque novel.
Sergio Leone identified his spaghetti westerns, more specifically his Dollars trilogy (1964), as being in the picaresque style.
Hunter S. Thompson's "gonzo journalism" (1970) can be seen as a hybrid of fictional picaresque with memoir and traditional reporting. The picaresque elements are especially prominent in Thompson's less journalistic, more literary and psychotropically themed works, such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) and The Great Shark Hunt (1979).
Recent examples include Under the Net (1954) by Iris Murdoch,[14] Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird (1965), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man (1964), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle (1973), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces (1980), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna (1987), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel (1988), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys (1999), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend (1991), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt (1993), Christian Kracht's Faserland (1995), Umberto Eco's Baudolino (2000),[15] Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver (2003), and Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger" (Booker Prize 2008)[16]
Some science fiction and fantasy books also show a clear picaresque influence, transported to a variety of invented worlds—for example, The Dying Earth series of Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat series, James H. Schmitz's The Witches of Karres and L. Sprague de Camp's Novarian series.[citation needed] The genre-bending fiction of Gene Wolfe combines strong elements of the picaresque with a catalog of other forms of fiction—bildungsroman, memoir, mythic poem, classical drama, modernist fiction, and others. This is the case particularly in his Book of the New Sun, the tale of Severian the Torturer's rise to the monarchy in a remote future world that is probably Earth.[citation needed] More recently, Scott Lynch's The Gentleman Bastard Sequence fantasy novels have been described as fine examples of the sub-genre.[17]
A Lazarillo or picaro character is an alienated outsider, whose ability to expose and ridicule individuals compromised with society gives him a revolutionary stance.[18] Lazarillo states that the motivation for his writing is to communicate his experiences of overcoming deception, hypocrisy and falsehood (desengaño).[19]
The picaro's revolutionary stance, as an alienated outsider who nevertheless constructs his own self and his world, [...]


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President Barack Obama renewed pressure on European leaders to prevent a dismantling of the single currency before euro-area finance ministers meet today to seek a resolution to the two- year-old debt crisis. Moody's said it may cut ratings of lenders in 15 European countries as a "rapid escalation" of the crisis threatens the region.
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OAO Magnit, the country's biggest food retailer by market value and potash producer OAO Uralkali both rallied.
Magnit rose 0.4 percent to 2,888.7 rubles and Uralkali climbed 0.9 percent to 243.34 rubles.
X5 Retail Group NV surged 5.9 percent to $24.45 in London trading after the retailer said net sales jumped 39 percent to $3.62 billion. The company reported a net loss of $2.1 million in the third quarter after a foreign exchange loss, compared with profit of $79.6 million a year earlier. X5 agreed to acquire Russian discounter Kopeyka for 35 billion rubles ($1.1 billion) in December, beating off interest from Wal-Mart.
"The company has managed to mitigate the negative impact from Kopeyka integration costs, which were scheduled to peak this quarter and now ?5 has completed the integration process of all Kopeyka stores," Natalia Kolupaeva, an equities analyst at TKB Capital, wrote in a report today.
The Micex has lost 14 percent this year, trading at 5 times analysts' earnings estimates for member companies. That compares with a 19 percent slide for Brazil's Bovespa index, which trades at 10.1 times estimated earnings, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Shanghai Composite Index trades at 11.4 times estimated earnings, and the BSE India Sensitive Index has a ratio of 13.9.
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