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Velcade is a proteasome inhibitor—the first to be tested with humans and the only one to be approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Patients in all stages, even those with refractory or rapidly advancing disease, have shown complete clinical responses.
Mechanism of Action
Velcade contains a boron atom that binds to a specific proteasome (26S proteasome). Proteasomes are enzymes that break down important proteins in both healthy and cancerous cells.
In healthy cells, the 26S proteasome regulates the production and function of proteins including those that control apoptosis, a process that tells a cell to die. The 26S proteasome also removes abnormal or misfolded proteins in the cell. Velcade inhibits this process in myeloma cells, leading to a build-up of proteins. It is believed that this excess in protein is what leads to cell death, suppressing tumor growth (related Beacon news).
Myeloma cells are much more sensitive to proteasome inhibition than normal peripheral blood cells and most other cancer cell lines. The reason for this sensitivity is not completely understood.
Velcade was developed in 1995 by Myogenics, a company that later changed its name to ProScript. The drug was tested in a small Phase I clinical trial on multiple myeloma patients after promising preclinical results. ProScript was bought by the company Leukosite in May 1999, which in turn was bought by Millennium Pharmaceuticals in October 1999. This turnover resulted in the project dropping in priority relative to others at the new company.
One of the first patients to receive the drug in a clinical trial achieved a complete response and remained alive four years later. This led to subsequent clinical trials that indicated the possibility of a complete response in 15 percent of patients in similar conditions.
In May 2003, the FDA approved Velcade for the treatment of relapsed/refractory myeloma. It was approved in 2005 for patients with relapsed myeloma and in June 2008 for previously untreated myeloma patients. Today, Velcade is approved for use in myeloma in over 85 countries.
In 2004, Velcade was named the Oncology Compound of the Year at the Pharmaceutical Achievement Awards.
Usage in Multiple Myeloma
In the U.S., Velcade is used to treat all phases of myeloma. Data from clinical trials in newly diagnosed or untreated patients shows that Velcade is effective and superior to standard therapies and consistently reduces numbers of myeloma cells.
In several countries, Velcade is approved for myeloma patients who have been treated with at least one other therapy.
New data suggest that Velcade may significantly improve the condition of bone disease in myeloma patients. This benefit appears to be independent from a patient's response to Velcade. Velcade has also been shown to be active and safe in patients with myeloma-related kidney damage, since the body does not use the kidneys to remove Velcade.
Recent research and clinical trials have been investigating whether combining Velcade with other agents can make the drug more powerful. For instance, the addition of thalidomide (Thalomid), Revlimid (lenalidomide), inhibitors of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), or arsenic trioxide may be beneficial. In laboratory studies, Velcade has been shown to kill myeloma cells more efficiently when combined with histone deacetylase inhibitors, thapsigargin, or Celebrex (celecoxib). The effectiveness of these combinations for myeloma patients has not been confirmed.
Dosage & Administration
Velcade is given by an injection into the bloodstream for three to five seconds at a doctor's office or clinic. Dosage varies based on the type of myeloma, and the total length of therapy differs for each patient.
In previously untreated myeloma, Velcade is typically given in nine six-week cycles. Each treatment cycle consists of 11 days of therapy, a 10-day rest period, another 11 days of therapy, and a second 10-day rest cycle. During the first four cycles, 1.3 mg/m2 of Velcade is given twice per week and doses are spread at least 72 hours apart. During the last five cycles, 1.3 mg/m2 of Velcade is given once weekly. Velcade is commonly given in combination with melphalan and prednisone (Velcade-MP).
In relapsed or refractory myeloma, Velcade is usually given in eight three-week cycles. Each treatment cycle consists of 11 days of therapy followed by a 10-day rest period. During each cycle, 1.3 mg/m2 of Velcade is given twice per week. After the eight cycles, Velcade treatment may continue on the same schedule or follow a maintenance schedule.
Side Effects
Many of the most common side effects of Velcade-MP affect blood cell counts in the body, such as thrombocytopenia (low numbers of platelets), neutrophilia (low numbers of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell), and anemia (low numbers of red blood cells).
Peripheral neuropathy, felt as a burning, tingling, or numbness in the hands or feet, occurs in approximately 30 percent of patients. Occasionally the peripheral neuropathy can be painful, and this may be worse in patients with pre-existing neuropathy.
Other frequent side effects include nausea, diarrhea, or constipation; fatigue or weakness; loss of appetite; and fever.
The side effects considered most serious for myeloma patients are low blood cell counts, peripheral neuropathy, fatigue or weakness, pneumonia, diarrhea, and low potassium levels.
Velcade-MP is also associated with a higher rate of shingles, which is caused by a reactivation of the herpes zoster virus, the virus that causes chickenpox, and results in a painful rash. Velcade-MP can also cause an allergic reaction, characterized by hives, difficulty breathing, or swelling.
If side effects do develop, physicians can reduce dosage, temporarily stop treatment, or manage the side effects with other medications. Drinking more fluids can also help reduce side effects.
Drug Interactions
The extract Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which is found in green tea, has been shown to reduce the effectiveness of Velcade (related Beacon news).
Patients should take particular caution if they have previously experienced tingling or numbness in the arms, hands, legs, or feet. Medications designed to reduce blood pressure may cause complications if taken with Velcade, like medications that affect the removal of Velcade from the body, such as azole antifungals, macrolide antibiotics, rifamycins, St. John's wort, and seizure medications.
Patients with a history of fainting or dehydration should also use caution when taking Velcade. Those with diabetes, heart disease, or respiratory problems may need to be monitored more closely by a physician.
Ongoing Clinical Trials
Phase 1:
- University of Utah: Velcade with panobinostat in relapsed/refractory myeloma (NCT00891033)
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: Velcade with CCI-779 in multiple myeloma (NCT00483262)
Phase 2:
- University of Wuerzburg: Velcade as maintenance treatment following autologous stem cell transplantation(NCT00311337)
Phase 3:
- Merck: Velcade plus Zolinza in relapsed or refractory myeloma (NCT00773747)
Phase 2:
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: Velcade in untreated myeloma (NCT00153920)
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: Velcade treatment following allogeneic stem cell transplantation (NCT00504634)
- Janssen-Cilag International NV: Velcade in patients previously treated with and responsive to Velcade (NCT00431769)
For a more detailed listing of clinical trials involving Velcade, see the government's clinical trials Web site at www.clinicaltrials.gov.
Clinical Trial Results
Velcade Approved As Initial Treatment For Patients With Multiple Myeloma (2008): When given in addition to melphalan and prednisone, Velcade significantly improved time to progression and overall survival in patients with newly diagnosed myeloma. The results of this international Phase 3 trial, called VISTA, led to the FDA's approval of the drug for use in untreated myeloma patients. For more information, see the abstract in the New England Journal Of Medicine.
Velcade Delays Progression Of Relapsed Multiple Myeloma (2005): The results of APEX, an international Phase 3 trial, show that Velcade was more effective than high-dose dexamethasone in delaying disease progression in patients with relapsed myeloma. Serious side effects occurred in patients taking Velcade, but more of these patients were alive after one year than those taking dexamethasone. For more information, see the abstract in the New England Journal Of Medicine.
Patient Assistance Programs
Velcade Reimbursement Assistance Program
866-VELCADE (835-2233), option 2
Velcade Reimbursement Assistance Program Enrollment Form
Chronic Disease Fund, Inc.
HealthWell Foundation
Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPARx)
Patient Advocate Foundation, Co-Pay Relief
Links of Interest
Velcade Package Insert
Millennium's Web site for Velcade
Research Article about Velcade's Mechanism of Action
Related Articles:
- Phase 1 Clinical Trial Studies Velcade And Zolinza In Myeloma Patients
- Velcade-Doxil-Dexamethasone Regimen Followed By Post-Transplant Revlimid May Be A Highly Effective Treatment For Newly Diagnosed Myeloma Patients
- New Recommendations Issued On Stem Cell Collection And Treatment With Revlimid, Thalidomide, And Velcade
- FDA To Review Velcade-Melphalan-Prednisone Regimen
- New Clinical Trials Combine Zolinza And Velcade For Multiple Myeloma Treatment


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The Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported that trainer Leonid Labo had the animals, aged 45 and 48, drink 10 liters (2.6 gallons) of vodka diluted in warm water -- and a veterinarian said later that only the tips of their ears were frostbitten.
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Given what we've discussed in the last two articles, Am I an Artist? and Am I a Real Artist? Not to mention Part-Time Artists
Are Artists, Too--you probably have a pretty good idea of what my
answer to this one will be, but let's talk about it.
It takes a long time to make a mountain, and piling a few
rocks on top of one another just doesn't cut it. In the same way, becoming an
artist involves time, patience, and effort--but not necessarily making lots of
money. Chief
Joseph Mountain by Steve Henderson, oil on canvas, of Steve Henderson Fine Art.
For some reason, people have the idea that if we do
something part-time, or if we don't make a killing selling our oil painting work or charcoal drawings, then we're not
really whatever it is that we're doing. By this definition, the volunteer
firefighters in many rural communities who put their lives on the line
protecting people and property aren't really firefighters.
Or substitute teachers--what would school systems do
without these people?--aren't really teachers. Our nuclear physicist--who works part-time because of
family obligations--isn't a real nuclear physicist.
A bit absurd, isn't it? But it's understandable, since an artist doesn't depend upon
a degree, certification, title, or job description to be an artist. He or she can have
those things, or not; and having them doesn't ensure that they are artists.
Artists make art. They don't talk about making art; they don't emote about making art; they don't wax
eloquent about making art--people who do that, and stop there, are artistes not artists.
True artists spend a lot of time creating. My own Norwegian Artist paints; others
sculpt, work with wood, brass, clay, and beyond the visual arts we have
dancers, writers, actors...if I miss one please don't yell at me. But what they
all have in common is that they create new things from whatever materials they have
on hand, and they're pretty serious about doing it well.
The sign of being a real artist has less to do with how much
money you make at it than it has with how much time and effort you spend
getting better at it. At least that is where I stand. What about you? Leave a comment and let me know.
Being an artist isn't a 9 to 5 job, it's a way of life, thinking, and seeing the world. We're artists even when we're doing something else!
The answer to that would explain why after people see my paintings often say, "wow, you really are an artist". I always wonder what they originally thought when I said I was an artist. For me an artist is anyone who devotes a majority of their life to creative expression.
Thank you for the enlighting article......it is so difficult to explain (which I usually don't)
About being an artist. Just because the artwork fills every space In my humble abode. I live and breath art but do not do it as a job, Art just is a full time part of who I am. Never explain and never complain! Think ART!
In my opinion, it's impossible to put a label on a state of being which is abstract. In layman's terms, I'm a starving artist, but in my own mind (which is where is matters most) I'm constantly looking for ways to expand my horizons. I think as soon as it became an urge of mine to rearrange rooms in my house to make them more compositionally complete I was willing to accept whatever label people need to identify my passions.
My definition of an artist is an individual who cannot NOT make art. In other words, they are compelled internally to create. Whether or not they get external validation (praise, recognition, sales) is largely secondary. The extent of commitment may vary, as well as the time devoted to learning, experimenting and seeking to improve (in whatever dimension improvement is aspired to). Perhaps there are serious artists and there are casual artists, but I would never use the word 'talent' as a discriminator. What people see as 'talent' is more often the result of passion and hard , hard work.
As Norwegian I do experience it is the education which very much decides wheter you are regarded as an artist or not.
Either you have to have an a master from the Accademy or you have to have earned enough points from having exibited your work at reccognised exhibitions that have a jury. the most important is the Autom Exhibition in Oslo, but there are others also.
I have an education from a private art school and have experienced that galleries have been interested when they have seen my work, but withdrawn when they learn to know that I do not have background from the Accademy or have earned enough exhibition points. So far I have mannaged to have a few exhibitions at somewhat reccognised galleries, but I do not yet dear to call myself an artist even though I do work with teaching people in drawing and paionting.
Artist is as much a part of me as my gender. Although I spent years working in vario's other fields of employment in order to earn a liveable paycheck, I never doubted that I was an artist. It is a passion within my soul and I thank God constantly for this blessing.
It always amazes me when I hear a "you are not a real artist" judgment from someone. Funny enough where I have seen this most in an artist-on-artist situation. Most non-artists, I think, rarely if ever exhibit this type of prejudice.
I have even seen other art-related prejudice too - like a photographer who paints is not a real painter and the opposite, a painter who takes up photography is not a real photographer. If you work abstract, realistic, digital, film, fabric, collage there is always the chance you will encounter someone to challenge your validity.
I have seen a fair share of academia prejudice too --- very sad especially to see this from folks who teach for a living...as if that is the only legitimate side-career to have to support yourself. If you are a banker, a lawyer, an administrator that takes precedent over being an artist. You could be declared merely a dilettante if you chose to be financially independent and work a non-art-related job.
Best to stay away from toxic individuals and situations - or just ignore those who think like this. Nothing good can be gained from the dialogue and it will just piss you off.
Rubbish,people that arnt artists always make out they know what they are talking about,but it's lies
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Like a tornado unleashing havoc along its path, so the field in the CAF Champions League was devastated at the weekend with a host of prestigious casualties following the conclusion of the third round, second leg matches.
The biggest name to fall was undoubtedly defending champions Al Ahly, who were denied the prestige of a record-breaking five successive appearances in the final as they were eliminated at the hands of Kano Pillars on the away goals rule. A Nigerian side also claimed last year's runners-up Coton Sport of Cameroon, as they were unable to pull back a one goal deficit from the first leg of their tie against Heartland FC.
Cote d'Ivoire's perennial challengers ASEC Abidjan, were also denied the chance to make a record tenth appearance in the group phase of Africa's top club competition as they were knocked out by Monomotapa.
The series of shock results means there will be five newcomers in the field for Thursday's draw when the two groups are decided. The two Nigerian sides are joined by Al Merreikh of Sudan and Zesco United, the first club from Zambia to make the league phase since the new format was introduced by CAF in 1997.
Of last year's final eight, only Al Hilal of Sudan and previous winners TP Mazembe Englebert of the Democratic Republic of Congo are making a return. It means that 2007 winners Etoile Sahel now emerge as the favourites in arguably the most open field in the competition to date.
Etoile had their own upset early elimination in the third round last year in the defence of their CAF Champions League title, but there were no such problems at the weekend as they brushed aside the challenge of Libya's Al Ahli Tripoli with goals from Sadat Bukari and Ammar Jemal.
However, it was a close run thing for both Al Hilal and Mazembe, who have high hopes of success given the inexperienced field they will be up against when the group phase gets underway in June. Al Hilal needed the away goals rule to overcome Primeiro Agosto of Angola after winning 2-0 in Khartoum on Sunday night with goals from Mohamed Taher (penalty) and Congolese import Blaise Mbele. Mazembe held out for a goalless draw in Morocco against Ittihad to ensure they held onto their slender 1-0 lead from the first leg in Lubumbashi.
The weekend's glory undoubtedly belonged to the unfancied sides, notably Pillars and Monomotapa. The Nigerians were not given much chance after failing to beat Al Ahly at home in the first leg but caught the Cairo club in complacent mood in the Egyptian capital.
Two goals from the Nigerians suddenly turned the tie on its head, stunning the local fans, and left Al Ahly having to score three of their own in the final 20 minutes. To their credit, the holders made a good effort of the task with goals from Flavio and Mohamed Barakat but despite an extended period of additional time added on at the end of the game, the illusive third did not come.
Coton Sport were 2-1 down from the first leg of their tie at Heartland FC and were expected to turn around the deficit, especially when last year's finalists scored an away goal. But Thankgod Ike's 40th minute effort extended Heartlands' lead in Garoua and effectively set Coton Sport the target of three goals to win the tie, which they failed to achieve. Salif Keita's equaliser on the stroke of half-time threatened the possibility of a comeback but the Nigerians defended well for the rest of the game.
Monomotapa, a team who only gained Premier League status in Zimbabwe in 2005 were 1-0 down from the first leg of their match in Abidjan. It took them just five minutes to achieve parity as Charles Chitusa scored, but the drama was saved for the climax when Monomotapa snatched an injury time winner, with Daniel Kamunenga ensuring a famous triumph.
Meanwhile, Zesco United's coach Fighton Simukonda was unable to give an intelligible comment on Saturday after his side's progress at the expense of Djoliba of Mali. "I'm too excited to say anything," he told bemused reporters after his team's 2-1 win.
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Monomotapa 2-0 ASEC Abidjan (Monomotapa win 2-1 on aggregate)
Al Hilal 2-0 Primeiro Agosto (Al Hilal win on away goals)
Al Ahly 2-2 Kano Pillars (Kano Pillars win on away goals)
Coton Sport 1-1 Heartland FC (Heartland FC win 3-2 on aggregate)
Al Merreikh 1-1 Kampala City Council (Al Merreikh win 2-1 on aggregate)
Ittihad Khemisset 0-0 TP Mazembe Englebert (TP Mazembe Englebert win 1-0 on aggregate)
Zesco United 2-1 Djoliba (Zesco United win 2-1 on aggregate)
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I like this game, but let's cleanse the audience so to speak and get the controversial stuff out of the way: 1). It's an Asian cash-shop game. If you hate those, you will hate this. Move along, nothing to see here. 2.) It's 3D cutesy anime style. Think Flyff. If you hate those, you will hate this. Move along. 3). It's still beta. There are class balance issues, some aspects are not fleshed out, and I get occasional sound drop-outs and computer lock-ups. Also, (and I suppose it is because it is beta) it needs to be downloaded from various game sites that you need to register to use. (I had the fastest and best luck at Gamershell) None of the above renders the game unplayable, but if you have low tolerance for such, come back later.
Still with me? Ok, now for the gimmick. What makes this somewhat different is the nautical aspect. Yes, we've seen that in Voyage Century and others, but in this case you and your ship are like another character with its own customization and skill-tree independent of your "land" skill tree and having your own pool of skill points for it, meaning you don't have to sacrifice land-skill points to bump your sea skills. But you DO get attribute points when you level at sea to spend on your character. Very nice. They really want you to go to sea, and seem to make it no-down-side to do it.
You get a pile of character slots—at least five on a server. Usually games try to annoy the world by giving you one less slot than there are classes. Speaking of classes there are four which subdivide at a later level. I'm actually a fan of archetype class systems, but the skill trees in the style of Diablo 2 allows for good customization at first glance.
The grind is, well, pretty grindy. It's classic quests to "go kill [x # of creatures]" go out into the field where the mobs await as if on a farm.
But it is still on my computer which is unusual as most free-to-play get deleted within a half an hour. So, my first-impression review is try it.
Now we're calling prostitutes "sex workers". What's next? Calling hit men "end-of-life technicians"?
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Just thought I'd say that I like your review. (Particularly points #1 and 2-- Not quite sure why people try a game like this and then complain that they didn't like it for those reasons. It's pretty easy to tell what it is from the website alone. It's like buying apples and complaining that they aren't oranges. )
I am no good at the sea combat yet. I am sure I will get the hang of it. I was going to play with people I know IRL, but they have video cards that have difficulties. The video issue is something people might want to look into before they download. With any luck, that will get resolved.
I've played this game and I notice a few things...
1. Guides to the classes like helping you out on the stats/skills are bit out of date
2.Not many people are playing this game. I swear this that you will not find more than 10 - 14 max people in the town some barely even have 3 people.
I use to play this game a couple of months ago and it was full of people. I am downloading now because I started thinking of how charmful it was. I hope its not already dead before it got started.
Last time I was in which was Nov 30 there really weren't many people....I saw only about 8 in town or 14 most of which were just fishing and having markets up
I went on the United States / English Server the other day and it was till full of people. What server are you on?
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really full of people? where in town or field....the beginner town doesn't count try riding your boat and heading over to the other island and let me know when you see more people, as a matter of fact take a screenshot and show me, and yes I played on the english server
The beginer town does not count? What do you mean? Are all the people quiting once they leave the first town? Your statement does not make sense. What are you saying? Are you saying that the game is not populated or only the starter town is populated? I am not going to make a screenshot because I am not here to prove anything and its not that serious. There are people in the town and in the fields. There are more people playing the game now then when I tried it 3 months ago. Why would I have to go looking for people when I see people running around everywhere when I log on?
Geez dude it's just a screenshot calm down, Im just saying try going of to another island and look at the other towns see if its filled with more than 5 - 6 players.


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I want to welcome you to Woodfin Elementary School's website and to our school community as a whole. I begin my first year at Woodfin after spending all of the first 16 years of my career here in Buncombe County. Along with Woodfin, I have been principal at Fairview Elementary School and an assistant Principal at several elementary, middle, and high schools. Prior to my administrative career, I was a science and social studies teacher at Enka Middle where I also was a basketball and baseball coach. I am married to my wife, Sarah, an agent with the NC Division of Child Development, and have one son, Tyrus, a 3rd grader at Bethel Elementary School. Both of my parents are retired educators. My mother, Treva, taught for 30 years at the middle school level while my father was a teacher, high school principal, and superintendent of schools. I am a graduate of Pisgah High School in Canton and of Appalachian State University as well as Western Carolina University with degrees in Middle School Education and School Administration. I enjoy spending time with my family, pulling for the Carolina Hurricanes, Appalachian Mountaineers, Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta Braves. Reading is an important pastime in my family as well. I enjoy regional non fiction, historical non fiction, particularly World War II era, and Marvel and DC comics that my son and I read together.
I can't put into words my excitement to begin working with the children and families of Woodfin. I know we have a tremendous staff of dedicated professionals that look forward to their work each day, families that are involved with their children's lives and their community, volunteers who sacrifice each day, and a community that dearly loves its school. We look forward to continuing our work in advancing our children's access to technology, growing our student garden, deepening our skills in reading and math, and having sense of place and community in the process. It is our pleasure to work to give our children the very best of us each day by keeping them safe, healthy, and eagerly engaged in their educations and lives. I appreciate each family and look forward to serving Woodfin.


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Destination Blog: How to Travel to Dubai and Rock It
It is crazy to think that this was all dirt not that long ago. We arrived during a minor sand storm.
Getting there is half the fun — especially when you are flying in Emirates Airline business class. I wasn't sure what to expect from Dubai after my 14 hour non-stop flight from Seattle. […][Read More]
UPDATED: Air India Delays Delivery of their Boeing 787 Dreamliners, But Why?
Air India's 6th Boeing 787 Dreamliner seen on the factory floor in Everett, WA. Photo by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren.
Things for Air India aren't exactly going so great right now. The airline is in the middle of a pilot strike that has been going on since May 8th and has cost the airline over $63million, due […][Read More]
APM Market Place: Airline Fees Aren't That Evil
Allegiant MD-80 and Spirit Airbus A319 hanging out in Las Vegas. Photo by Joe (JX).
Recently, I was able to sit down at my local NPR studio and talk with Tess Vigeland about airlines and their fees. Previously, I wrote a story on how it makes sense that airlines, like Allegiant and Spirit, charge […][Read More]
Airline Livery of the Week: Eastern Airways Puts Union Jack on a E-135
Eastern Airways Embraer 135 (G-CGMB) in special patriotic livery. Photo by Eastern Airways.
Eastern Airways is an airline based out of Humberside Airport (HUY) in England. The airline operates a fleet of 30 regional aircraft including the Jetstream 41, Embraer ERJ135 and the SAAB 2000. They were founded in 1997 and currently fly to 21 […][Read More]
Flying on the Inaugural Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Flight With Lufthansa
Lufthansa's first Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental is one beautiful aircraft. Here she is seen after her first flight in DC.
It has been a long road from the conception of the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental to the first passenger flight on June 1, 2012. Being based in Seattle, I have had the privilege of watching Lufthansa […][Read More]


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Picozu is a drawing and photo retouching app that is built on JavaScript, HTML 5 and CSS 3.
Many times, we want to make slight changes to a photograph to make it look perfect. Although there are many tools available to alter photographs and drawings, Picozu has been specifically designed for retouching and has some amazing features. With Picozu, you can use brushes, filters, action history, layers, textures, curve, rendering and much more to edit and retouch a photograph or a drawing.
The aim of Picozu is to support dynamic windows, HSL, CYMK, layers, filters, brushes, actions history, primitives, batch processing, curves, cropping, texture rendering, complex polygons and much more. Using Picozu will make retouching much easier for you.
All you need to do to get access to the amazing features of Picozu is to sign up for an account and start editing! Picozu is free of cost and that leaves no reason for not giving it a try.
Using Picozu is incredibly easy. You do not need to be a web designer to alter photographs and drawings according to your wish. Not only editing, you can also paint a picture on Picozu. Think it like the Photoshop of the Internet, only that it is free of cost and is more suitable for a browser!
After you open an image on Picozu, you can apply filters to the image ranging from simple blurs to complex effects like vintage. You can change the look of a photo with a single click. It was never easier to change the tone of a photograph.
For use Picozu, you do not need to install third-party add-ons or software. For using the app, you just need a modern browser such as Firefox 5, Safari 5, Opera 10, Chrome or Internet Explorer 9.
Picozu can make a photograph look professional and different. It is a very useful app that allows you to retouch photographs/drawing easily and without any charges.


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Write thesis-based essays that provide strong support and specific details
Engage in a writing process that includes invention, drafting, and revision
Demonstrate proficient use of Standard Written English
4 In-Class Essays (350-word min. each)
4 Formal, Revised Essays (750-word min. each)
Quizzes, Project, and Participation
10% (Qs)+ 5% (Project) + 5% (Participation) = 20%
In this class, the following numerical equivalents for final grades are used: A = 100-90%; B = 89-80%; C = 79-70%; D = 69-60%; F = 59-0%. Grades on individual assignments will be calculated using the following pattern: A+ = 99%; A = 96%; A- =93%; etc.
All Formal Essays must be submitted typed in MLA format with stamped topics, pre-writing, rehearsal drills, and required drafts in a folder containing all previous Formal Essay assignments.
By enrolling in this class, the student expressly grants MSU a "limited right" to all intellectual property created by the student for the purpose of this course. The "limited right" shall include but shall not be limited to the right to reproduce the student's work product in order to verify originality and authenticity, and for educational purposes.
Note: You may not submit a paper for a grade in this class that already has been (or will be) submitted for a grade in another course, unless you obtain the explicit written permission of me and the other instructor involved in advance.
No late work will be accepted unless arrangements have been made with the instructor. In the event of "Authorized Absences," arrangements should be made to turn in work early. If work is missed, students should meet with the instructor to determine what can be made up. Missing work will receive a zero grade.
Regular class attendance is expected. Roll will be taken at every class. Students may miss a week's classes without repercussion; however, after the first three absences, students will have three points deducted from their final averages for each unexcused absence. After one late arrival (a freebie), three late arrivals will count as one unexcused absence. "Authorized Absences," as defined by the MSU Catalog, will not be counted as unexcused. Students may be dropped from class for excessive absences.
For definition, arrival after the roll has been taken constitutes a late arrival.
This University is part of the academic community in which certain standards of behavior are upheld. In addition, a university education is expensive and part of the responsibility of the instructor is to ensure that each student has an equal opportunity to receive that education. Thus, certain guidelines will be observed during class:
No electronic devices should be turned on or visible during class. Any student seen with such a device out during class will be asked to put it away. Any student who must be asked twice to put the device away or any student whose device has gone off twice during class will be asked to leave and be marked absent. If the instructor sees any device in use during a quiz or exam, the student's paper will be picked up and receive zero credit. A student may also have a cell phone on vibrate in an emergency situation, but the instructor must be informed before class, and the student must sit so he or she is able to leave class with minimal disruption.
In addition, in accordance with university policy, students are not permitted to eat or drink during class.
Students are expected to come to class prepared. Students must ensure that they have read the assigned reading, as per the schedule.
Any student behaving in a disruptive manner will be asked once to stop the behavior. If the disruption continues, the student will be asked to leave and marked absent for the class. If a student is consistently disruptive in class, he or she will be reported to the Dean of Students and potentially dropped from the course.


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In Windows 8 the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon sits permanently in the System Tray even though no external drive is plugged into the computer. If you click on that icon the only clickable option is "Open Devices and Printers." Hiding this (or any other) icon causes the "Show Hidden Icons" icon to display in the System Tray. Can the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon be removed from the System Tray without hiding it? Thanks.
I had a similar problem with Windows 8. When I clicked on the icon in the system tray, it displayed "Open Devices and Printers" along with three dots, like "..." underneath. All of my USB cables and devices were disconnected from my computer except the USB mouse and USB keyboard. I selected "Open Devices and Printers" and removed a device called "USB 2.0 Reader". The icon immediately disappeared.
When I restarted my computer, the operating system started to automatically re install the "USB 2.0 Reader". The icon reappeared along with the three dots. Keep in mind, there is no USB reader attached to the computer.
Instead of removing the device (Windows would just re install it again), I decided to disable it. I opened the Windows Device Manager and selected the "Disk Drives" and selected "Generic - Multi-Card USB Device". I right clicked it and selected "Disable". The icon immediately disappeared.
I restarted my computer and the icon did not reappear. The device still shows up in the Device Manager, but it is disabled. The keyboard and mouse continue to work and I can connect my Windows phone to my computer.
It isn't clear what the root cause is, but I was able to remove the icon, stop Windows from re installing it, and if there is a problem in the future, I can always enable the device again. Also, this allows other "actual" devices to be connected and display the icon in the system tray (the true intention of the notification icon).
Hope this helps!
One way to remove it is to right-click the Notification area, and select Properties. Under the Notification area heading, click Customize.
Find the Safely Remove Hardware icon and select Always hide in the Behavior column next to it. (Press OK and Apply to back out.)
If any of your virtual drives are open the icon seems to be open in systray. Open devices and select the virtual drives and remove them from the devices and the icon from systray will go off.
In my case I managed to solve it by disabling the virtual SCSI drive that Alcohol 52% has installed on my computer. For some reason Windows detects it as an external drive or something and then displays the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon with the three dots (...) in the context menu. When I disable it in the device management screen, the icon goes away.
So that's what solved it for me. I hope someone may find this of any use when they come across my answer. Good luck.


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41254-012: Governance and Capacity Development Initiative (Phase 2)
Project Data Sheet (PDS): Overview
The TA constitutes a second phase of RETA 6385 and will continue to support the regional departments in the implementation of GACAP II and the Capacity Development Framework and Action Plan. It is anticipated that up to 10 countries will be provided support to prepare country and sector level governance risk assessments to inform the formulation of their respective CPSs for 2009-2010. Under Phase 1 of the implementation of GACAP, a learning by doing approach with a range of analytical ... Read More
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Technical Assistance
|Public sector (Sovereign)
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TA No. 7277
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|ADB Financing ($ thousand)
Public sector management
|Public expenditure and fiscal management
|Strategic Agendas
Inclusive economic growth (IEG)
|Drivers of Change
Governance and capacity development (GCD)
Partnerships (PAR)
Project Data Sheets (PDS) contain summary information on the project or program. Because the PDS is a work in progress, some information may not be included in its initial version but will be added as it becomes available. Information about proposed projects is tentative and indicative.
The Public Communications Policy (PCP) recognizes that transparency and accountability are essential to development effectiveness. It establishes the disclosure requirements for documents and information ADB produces or requires to be produced.
The Accountability Mechanism provides a forum where people adversely affected by ADB-assisted projects can voice and seek solutions to their problems and report alleged noncompliance of ADB's operational policies and procedures.
In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of, or reference to, a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area.
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Robert Reich: Let's also stop hoping Wall Street will mend itself. What just happened at J.P. Morgan reveals how fragile and opaque the banking system continues to be.
Hypersexual Disorder: Stop Blaming Gays and Lesbians
Carl Matthes: It's time to stop putting the blame for violent or predatory sexual activity in the military on gays and lesbians. Even facing unfair characterization and laws, gay men and lesbians enlist. They serve loyally, even though they must lie about their sexual orientation. And, yet, they remain willing to possibly give, ultimately, their life for their country.
What Still Ails America
Department of Justice Torture Report Goes Soft On Crime
Both the Washington Post and The New York Times have that the much-anticipated report of the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) on how the torture memos came to be national policy will recommend not prosecuting Federal Appeals Court Judge Jay Bybee, Steven Bradbury, and John Yoo for enabling the Bush Administration to torture […]


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Cary Adams, CEO, Union for International Cancer Control
Cancer is a worldwide issue which requires collaborative, international efforts to control. Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control, highlights how key meetings such as the World Cancer Congress and the World Cancer Leaders' Summit bring together individuals and organisations and help to put the disease at the forefront of the global health agenda
To begin, could you explain the motivation behind the World Cancer Congress (WCC) and its main objectives?
World Cancer Congresses have been running for over 50 years with the ambition of bringing together individuals around the world who care about cancer control to exchange best practice globally and become committed to fighting the disease.
Organised by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), what was achieved at the 2011 World Cancer Leaders' Summit?
The World Cancer Leaders' Summit runs every year and the 2011 Summit in Dublin last November sought to raise the profile of the United Nations High-level Meeting (HLM) on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and to ensure cancer organisations around the world responded positively in support of national governments to fulfil the commitments of the Political Declaration on NCDs. The Summit also allowed for individuals and organisations to make public commitments on projects and programmes on specific areas of cancer control; for example, the establishment of the global registries programme and a new cancer law centre in Melbourne, Australia.
What advances have the UICC been able to facilitate through its World Cancer Leaders' Summit?
A progress update regarding all previous commitments made at the 2011 World Cancer Leaders' Summit was a key focus at the 2012 Summit, which was held during the WCC in Montreal, Canada (27-30 August). The World Cancer Leaders' Summit and WCC are established to ensure that key factors which can affect and improve cancer control are shared and understood by all parties around the world. Representatives from 150 countries attend the Congress and each gain key insights to help them fight cancer in their respective country.
This year the WCC was hosted by the Fondation québécoise du cancer, McGill University and Université de Montréal, with the theme 'Connecting for Global Impact'. How are you hoping to highlight the need for continued support and momentum in maximising the benefits of knowledge gained through research and practice to the lives of those living with, and affected by, cancer?
The WCC is attended by organisations committed to improving the lives of those living with cancer and their families. The connections that UICC is able to facilitate as a direct result of the event are vital to encourage the sharing of best practice amongst the international cancer community.
In what way is the Congress addressing the issue of knowledge transfer amongst the international cancer community?
The 2012 WCC featured plenary sessions, symposiums and panel discussions all conducted by world leading experts in cancer control. Through this, and the networking opportunities available at the Congress, we are confident that the WCC represented a unique opportunity for the exchange of knowledge and best practice across the world.
Although cancer has a lot of dedicated research, do you think that it is truly part of the global health agenda? Are there many global programmes?
Yes. Since September 2011 cancer has become part of the global health agenda due to the HLM on NCDs. Many cancer programmes run by the UN and partnership agencies are ongoing to drive improved cancer control across the world, but particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
What are some of the challenges that arise from convening the cancer community?
Inevitably, convening the international cancer community presents logistical challenges. One particular difficulty concerns the availability of funding for attendees from low- and middle-income countries; however, where possible, we do offer travel grants.
Could you explain the role that the Global Village played at the Congress?
This year's WCC featured the unique addition of a Global Village, a new central space aimed at encouraging networking and delegate interaction in a dynamic environment. The Global Village provided access to poster presentations, e-abstracts and cutting-edge technology, such as the ability to participate in interactive sessions led by internationally renowned experts using smart phone apps. It also provided an informal space to relax and catch-up with other delegates.
For the first time at the WCC, a prevention area was open to the public. What did this involve and were Medical Doctors on hand to answer questions?
The novel WCC 2012 public prevention area aimed to promote earlier detection of cancer, particularly colon cancer. To bring the disease to life the area featured the Giant Colon, a unique educational and interactive replica of a human colon, presented by the Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada. The 40 ft long by 8 ft high, inflatable walk-through exhibit was specially created to educate the public about the signs and symptoms of colorectal cancer, as well as other diseases of the colon.
By whom are you funded and have you found support difficult to secure in light of the economic downturn?
UICC is funded primarily by our member organisations from around the world, in addition to foundations and the private sector. The economic downturn has not affected our fundraising – people still care about cancer control, and the rising toll of the disease means we must continue to work to improve the lives of people living with cancer.
Why would you say the dissemination of research is so vital for today's science community?
Research is valuable to all, not just the scientific community, as a vital way to progress in understanding ourselves and the world around us. It also helps drive the agendas and work of patient advocacy groups, non-governmental organisations, politicians and the UN in fighting cancer and other diseases.


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Lately I've been noticing that there seems to be a big difference in the way my SE30 responds at higher volumes, compared to other amps I've used. I know this isn't the "SE" amp section, but this is just me wondering about different amps in general, not SE amps specifically. Anyways, some amps I've tried seem to get brighter and more harsh at high volumes, and I end up turning the tone and treble down, whereas the SE30 tends to want the tone controls turned up higher at max volume to get those frequencies back. Kind of like the old Plexi's, I've noticed guys always play them with the tone stack all turned up. So what is it that makes some amps behave this way? My guess would be either the transformer or the position of the tone stack in the signal chain, but I really have no clue. Maybe it's just the quality of the amp. Thoughts?
PS - for the record, I do prefer having to turn up the tone controls, I hate amps that get harsh when you crank them up!


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Wait a minute. Is that? Is that really who I think it is? Is that meant to be Laurie Penny and has Kieron Gillen really remade her into a superhero/villain?
Well, sort of. I'm so incredibly jealous right now.
Wait a minute. Is that? Is that really who I think it is? Is that meant to be Laurie Penny and has Kieron Gillen really remade her into a superhero/villain?
Well, sort of. I'm so incredibly jealous right now.
Featuring Laurie Penny, China Mieville & Chris Nineham.
I'm glad Sandra isn't here anymore to see how her party, the Socialist Workers Party, deals with accusations of sexual harassement and rape (as reported by Laurie Penney):
This week, it came to light that when allegations of rape and sexual assault were made against a senior party member, the matter was not reported to the police, but dealt with 'internally' before being dismissed. According to a transcript from the party's annual conference earlier this month, not only were friends of the alleged rapist allowed to investigate the complaint, the alleged victims were subject to further harassment. Their drinking habits and former relationships were called into question, and those who stood by them were subject to expulsion and exclusion.
Lenny isn't impressed either, both by the waqy the central committee handled the original accusations and now has tried to stop criticism of its attempts at covering it up:
This is the thing that all party members need to understand. Even on cynical grounds, the Central Committee has no strategy for how to deal with this. A scandal has been concealed, lied about, then dumped on the members in the most arrogant and stupid manner possible. The leadership is expecting you to cope with this. This isn't the first time that such unaccountable practices have left you in the lurch. You will recall your pleasure on waking up to find out that Respect was collapsing and that it was over fights that had been going on for ages which no one informed you about. But this is much worse. They expect you to go to your activist circles, your union, your workplaces, and argue something that is indefensible
Richard Seymour is right to put this despicable affair in its proper context, that of a failing, undemocratic, unsocialist party ruled by a nomenklatura of central committee members and hacks, lurching from crisis to crisis, with no real answers to contemporary crisises other than what can be gleamed from the moldering manuscripts of the party's founder, Tony Cliff. That the CC would cover up sexual assault was only a matter of time, as the leadership has been busy for years if not decades creating the very atmosphere in which these attacks thrive.
The SWP has always been dedicated to the principle of democratic centralism, in which policy and ideological decisions are supposed to be taken by the leadership as a whole, then directed by the central committee, with no room for base politics once these decisions have been made. This is of course rife to abuse and it has long since degenerated into a mockery of socialist democracy: the central leadership is free to think out and dictate policy on its own whim, with no democratic oversight whatsoever, as all room for debate has been removed from the party except for during ritualised conventions.
Sandra, though an active member of the SWP for years, was quite aware of these failings, summing them up as the party being ruled by a generation of professional activists convinced it's still 1973 and the revolution is right around the corner, but she was equally convinced that flawed as it was, the SWP was one of the few, if not the only political organisation capable and willing to remake the inequalities in our society. But, no matter how cynical she was, I don't think that she expected the leadership to be as clueless and evil as to coverup sexual assault; nor would she have wanted to stay in such a party.
Further confirmation that the supposed gap between the great mass of lawfully protesting DecentOrdinaryFolk and the StudentRadicals of UK Uncut is not as great as certain career opportunists might want us to think, here's a letter of support for UK Uncut signed by various union and NGO bigwigs:
UK Uncut have played a significant part in changing the terms of debate around economic policy in the UK and have been praised by politicians and the media for doing so.
Indeed UK Uncut played a key role in ensuring that more people were at the march on Saturday than otherwise would have been. At all times they acted in a way which complemented and supported the TUC march.
However, in taking the type of peaceful action which UK Uncut routinely undertake on Saturday, targeting Fortnum and Mason on this occasion, they were treated in a political and deceptive manner by the police which sends an ominous message about the right to protest.
It would appear activists were misled by the police about not being arrested when asked to leave the Fortnum and Mason building, after which they were held for a significant length of time, their clothing was confiscated and they have been denied the right to protest in the near future.
This situation has now been seized on by the media and politicians to further threaten the right to protest. UK Uncut activists have been blamed for damage they did not cause and this story has become a substitute for discussion of the real issues raised by UK Uncut and the TUC march in general.
You could set your alarm by it, it's so predicable: that moment in every large scale protest movement where the opportunists start to concern troll their more radical allies, usually echoing rightwing propaganda when doing so. With the 2001-2003 protests against the War on Afghanistan and the War on Iraq, it was ANSWER, a smallish antiwar organisation that had taken the lead in organising protests when most liberals were still wringing their hands on whether or not they could trust Bush to run their war, that suddenly was the bogeyman when more respectable organisations and people finally jointed the antiwar movement. It supposedly had ties to groups that supposedly had ties to groups that supposedly had ties to terrorists and there were some *gasp* communists amongst its members and of course the people attacking ANSWER were not McCarthyites, but surely we should not let such a controversial group lead our antiwar protests, think of what it would look like to Middle America… The result was a divided and weakened American antiwar movement that found it that much harder to oppose these wars, but at least various centrists and liberals had shown how serious they were.
In the fight against the ConDem cuts we've now reached the point where both the Labour Party and the TUC are on board and helping to organise mass demonstrations like the March 26 demos in London, which had some 500,000 people marching, as well as saw more radical groups repeating the same tactics that had been used in earlier protests, including the early student protest: attacking and occupying shops owned by tax cheats and other symbols of the economic order that had fucked up Britain and made the cuts "necessary".
With Labour and the TUC now directly in the picture, it was therefore inevitable that the professional pearl clutchers would start to doubledown on condemning these "childish vandals" and Oxbridge student activists (an old favourite) and accusing them of trying to hijack the movement, contrasting them to the thousands of real working people trying to have a decent, peaceful, lawful protest and who disapproved mightely of these antics. None did so more pompously than Anthony Painter, who ended his sermon like this:
The group's retail outlet of protest choice is TopShop. Instant gratification consumerism has a mirror image in instant gratification politics. The dopamine rush of credit card financed prêt-a-porter fashion finds its corollary in the jejune fantasies of the retail activist chic. Meanwhile, those who are really hit hard continue to suffer.
I hope the TUC continues marching. I hope it gives voice to the voiceless in every village, town, and city in the land. UK Uncut owes a lot of apologies. Without trading Martin Luther King quotes – a glib game as we have seen – better instead to respect and understand his legacy. We can overcome. But only if we are wise. A small minority were not only unwise on Saturday. They were downright dumb.
(Oddly enough this appeal to end senseless violence and concentrate on lawful ways of protest does nothing so much as make me want to punch his smug, fat face in — childish, I know.)
Thing is, as anybody not gripped by tabloid hysteria knows, this supposed divide between ordinary folk decently protesting and evil anarchists just does not exist. Take the eighties squatters riots in Amsterdam for example, huge violent affairs in which the city centre was the battlefield between hardcore anarchists and riot police, whole streets ripped up to throw at the police etc etc, yet support for the squatters movement was never greater. That's because quite a few ordinary, non-political people could actually see for themselves that the squatters had a point, that it was a scandal that private landlords let buildings rot away when so many people could not find housing at all.
The same goes for UKUncut and its occupation of Fortnum: for all the tabloid hysteria, plenty of people have no problem seeing the same rich bastard that caused the crisis that might cost them their own jobs suffer a bit. You can't split the uncut protestors into two groups of supposed vandals ruining it for everybody and decent, hardworking ordinary people just wanting to have a meaningful protest. Criticising a particular kind of protest is of course legitimate, but demonising them and the people who undertook them will only serve your opponents cause. What somebody like Painter does is helping to divide the anticuts movement, which doesn't help anybody but the ConDems. If you worry more about policing what those on your side are doing than what you can do to put the pressure on the real enemy, you are the enemy.
So, to recap: last Saturday, at the end of the Right to Work Conference, coincidently held close to where British Airways was "negotiating" with the unions, several hundred or so people went from the conference to the negotiations to show their support for the airline workers and ended up shouting at BA boss Willy Walsh, with the union leaders looking on in annoyance, while . Cue much pearl clutching from Andy Newman and co, convienced that this would finally be the end of the SWP (joy!) but also mean the ultimate failure of the negotiations, union militacy in general, the socialist project and world revolution (oh noes!).
The whole controversy is remarkably silly, but to be expected from people for whom that bit from Life of Brian about the Judean People Front isn't satire, but an instruction manual..
Back in the real world it's clear this stunt didn't matter much one way or another. It didn't "disrupt" the negotiations as overblown rhetoeric had it immediately afterwards, but neither did it achieve anything else, other than provide a show of moral support that might have been better expressed differently. I do worry about the attitude of people who think a stunt like this is inherently wrong and counterproductive, or who worry too much about how "the rightwing media" or "the bosses" will spin this, or who get outraged at the "disrespect" shown to union bosses. It reminds me of those liberals who back in 2002/2003 were too good to join antiwar protests organised by giant puppet making hippies.
Dave's Part on an all too common occurrence, as three socialist parties will stand in the Glasgow North East by-election:
The picture was complicated in 2005, as former Labour MP Michael Martin sought election as Speaker of the House of Commons. In accordance with convention, the ballot paper did not describe him as Labour, and neither the Tories nor the Lib Dems ran against him.
To general astonishment, the Socialist Labour Party secured 14.2%, an all-time high for the Scargillites, almost certainly thanks to confusion on the part of the electorate. The SSP tally came to an additional 4.9%.
But nothing can excuse the wilful display of light-mindedness the division flags up in neon lights to potentially sympathetic punters, just months ahead of a general election. Credible this is not.
The far left, both sides of the border, should remember that until it starts taking itself seriously, there is no reason why anyone else should do so.
That there will be three socialist parties with broadly the same ideology and policies standing in this by-election is silly, but it's not the cause, nor even a sympton, of the socialist left's irrelevance in UK politics. In fact, it's the obsession with unity that shows how much the left has declined in the past three decades. Healthy parties do not bother with alliances and bpopular fronts; they rely on their own strengths. And as each of the various initiatives undertaken in the last ten years — Socialist Alliance, Respect, the Campaign for a New Workers Party etc — they don't work: little electorial succes, no real gain in membership or activists and infighting soon ruining all of them. The most succesful of these projects is the SSP, which did go from an electorial alliance to being a real party, only to be nobbed by the whole Tommy Sheridan affair.
The differences on the left, between social democrats and socialists, socialists and communists, communists and trotskyists have alwas been there but didn't matter when the left was healthy. If the left makes a turnaround it won't be through desperate unity projects, but through hard slog and by confronting the realities of 21st century Britain. Some group or party will get it right, go their own way and become "the next Labour party" — maybe even the Labour party itself.
So I was wondering why the comment I left on Socialist Unity, linking to my post about the Bengali famine and who was responsible for it, seemed to have disappeared when I looked again on Sunday, but other matters interfered. It wasn't until tonight that I learned that it hadn't been an mistake on my part – - a comment left by Andy Newman on Louis Proyect's blog reveals that I have been banned! Apparantly this ban is due to the "snide and destructive nature of [my] interventions" and has nothing to do with the comment I left, but rather with my "general impact on debate on the blog" — which is quite a compliment considering how rarely I actually commented there…
If it was true, that is. Because a Google search on my name at the Socialist Unity site reveals that my comment was posted and only removed afterwards, as there are several hits on "Martin Wisse on PERSONAL SLANDER SHOULD HAVE NO PLACE IN DEBATE", which is the post I commented on…
Now I'm not going to cry censorship or something stupid like that, because it is Andy's blog and he can do what he wants with it. But it does reveal a deep seated insecurity that you would ban somebody over a factual disagreement, then tell fibs about it when caught.
So Andy "Socialist Unity" Newham and Louis "Unrepentant Marxist" Proyect have gotten in an online cat fight, after Louis objected to what he saw as Andy's glorification of Winston Churchill. In Louis' view, and I'm inclined to partially agree with him, Andy praised Churchill too much, gave him too much credit in what circumstances forced him to do and neglected to mention the dark side of how he led the war, as for example with the starvation in India:
When I brought up the topic of 6 to 8 million Bengalis dying because of British wartime policies that caused a famine, I was treated like a skunk at a garden party by Newman and his supporters, including Paul Fauvet, a signer of the Euston Manifesto who wrote: "Louis Proyect's tactic is to change the subject. He doesn't want to talk about Churchill's role in World War II, so he talks about the Bengal famine instead." Meanwhile, Newman also chastised me for "prioritising the entirely secondary issue of India…"
To which Andy responded angrily. I'm not so much interested in the wider disagreement between the two and whether or not Andy was slandered by Louis or is too defensive, but in the argument Andy makes in the comments about the Bengali famine:
The bengal famine actually killed roughly two million people. There is no mileage to be gained by exagerating.
In Eastern Europe tens of millions of people died due to the war, including widespread famine.
To select one incident of famine being used as a deliberate wespon of murder, remember that in 1944 the Nazis deliberatly blocked all foodstuffs being transported to Western Holland as a form of collective punishment for a rail strike, and this left some 18000 dead.
The Bengal famine was not deliberate, but the result of callous incompetence, and an inaccurate model of economic understanding. Small consolation to the dead, but an important moral and political difference. My own maternal grandmother died of malnutrition in England in 1936, due to similar faulty economic theories. She was 26 years old. That dodn't mean that the British tory government was as bad as Hitler, although I am sure it seemed like it to my granddad, my mum and her siblings.
Nor is it as straight forward as you make out in your simplistic statement that the rice went to British soldiers.
There was the loss of Burma to Japan, which had been a major rice exporter to Bengal, and then a major cyclone, and an outbreak of a disease in the rice plants. The crop was down, and there were less imports.
The British and Indian armies did buy a lot of rice, but the main cause of the famine seems to have been an unregulated market, so that the percieved drop of rice availability led to hoarding, price rises, putting rice out of reach of the poorest. the hoarding was mainly carried out by more prosperous bengalis.
There was undoubtedly racism and incompetence in the government that led to a slow administrative response; but the famine was arguably more due to faulty economic theory, which made the government slow to intervene to lower prices.
In the post itself Andy had justified his own omittance of the famine by saying that well respected histories of the Second World War, including Angus Calder's, The People's War often omit it as well, which doesn't strike me as a particularly strong argument. That at the time people in England rarely cared or thought much about India is understandable, but more than sixty years onward and in the context of the war as a "People's War", things like the Bengali famine need to be mentioned and evaluated, as it shows how some peoples mattered more than others.
Moving on to the meat of Andy's argument about the famine itself, what struck me was that, while he agrees with Louis on the reality of it (though not its importance, as mentioned), he (unconsciously) seems to want to lessen the crime of it, by coming up with all sorts of reasons as to why it wasn't a crime as much as an accident. He compares it to deliberate acts of nazi terrorism (though the famine in Holland was due more to the liberation of most of its agrarian parts before the densely population of western Holland than to deliberate starvation), worse tragedies in Eastern Europe and finally argues it was caused by "callous incompetence" and "faulty economic theories" rather than design. These phrases may sound harsh, but their main effect is still to remove responsibility for the famine from those who administered Bengal and those who profited from the panic.
This idea that atrocities like the Bengali famine taking place under (imperialistic) capitalism are unintended side effects for which nobody can be held responsible is a widely used excuse for the crimes of capitalism, which are not tolerated when used to diminish responsibility for similar atrocities taking place under Stalinism, say. The famine in Bengal is like the famines in the Ukraine in the thirties, a foreseeable consequence of deliberate policies introduced without the consent of the people they affected; at best both these atrocities were treated as acceptable costs, at worst these were the intended outcomes of these policies. Let's not forget that part of English colonial rule in India was the deliberate destruction of the old local, village based support networks that used to prevent or alliviate famine earlier and its replacement by a nation wide free market. It was in this context that the deliberate decision was made by the government to divert part of the harvest to English soldiers, to not interfere in the free market and let speculation continue that priced what was available out of reach of much of the population. The famine was not a tragic accident, but the unavoidable outcome of these decisions and hence as much a crime as if these people had been gunned down instead.
Capitalism as a system has avoided much of the guilt for its crimes because we are trained to only look at the goals the bosses in business and government want to achieve and to see the negative consequences of achieving those goals either as a natural part of the system or at worst as regrettable accidents. What we need to realise instead is that these consequences cannot be decoupled. If a water company is privatised and then raises its prices beyond the reach of the poorest third of the population, this means that deaths due to cholera caused by drinking unsafe water are as much a goal of the company as the increased profits, as the latter is not realisable without the former. Socialists should know this and not make excuses.
In this crisis and with the BNP victorious the left must unite says the SWP:
An open letter to the left from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)
Labour's vote collapsed to a historic low in last week's elections as the right made gains. The Tories under David Cameron are now set to win the next general election.
The British National Party (BNP) secured two seats in the European parliament. Never before have fascists achieved such a success in Britain.
The result has sent a shockwave across the labour and anti-fascist movements, and the left.
The meltdown of the Labour vote and the civil war engulfing the party poses a question – where do we go from here?
The fascists pose a threat to working class organisations, black, Asian and other residents of this country – who BNP führer Nick Griffin dubs "alien" – our civil liberties and much else.
History teaches us that fascism can be fought and stopped, but only if we unite to resist it.
The SWP firmly believes that the first priority is to build even greater unity and resistance to the fascists over the coming months and years.
The BNP believes it has created the momentum for it to achieve a breakthrough. We have to break its momentum.
The success of the anti-Nazi festival in Stoke and the numbers of people who joined in anti-fascist campaigning shows the basis is there for a powerful movement against the Nazis.
The Nazis' success will encourage those within the BNP urging a "return to the streets".
This would mean marches targeting multiracial areas and increased racist attacks. We need to be ready to mobilise to stop that occurring.
Griffin predicted a "perfect storm" would secure the BNP's success. The first part of that storm he identified was the impact of the recession.
The BNP's policies of scapegoating migrants, black and Asian people will divide working people and make it easier to drive through sackings, and attacks on services and pensions.
Unity is not a luxury. It is a necessity. If we do not stand together we will pay the price for a crisis we did not cause.
The second lesson from the European elections is that we need a united fightback to save jobs and services.
If Cameron is elected he will attempt to drive through policies of austerity at the expense of the vast majority of the British people.
But the Tories' vote fell last week and they are nervous about pushing through attacks.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne told business leaders, "After three months in power we will be the most unpopular government since the war."
We need to prepare for battle.
But there is a third and vital issue facing the left and the wider working class. The crisis that has engulfed Westminster benefited the BNP.
The revelations of corruption, which cabinet members were involved in, were too much for many Labour voters, who could not bring themselves to vote for the party.
One answer to the problem is to say that we should swallow everything New Labour has done and back it to keep David Cameron, and the BNP, out.
Yet it would take a miracle for Gordon Brown to be elected back into Downing Street.
The danger is that by simply clinging on we would be pulled down with the wreckage of New Labour.
Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the PCS civil service workers' union, has asked how, come the general election, can we ask working people to cast a ballot for ministers like Pat McFadden.
McFadden is pushing through the privatisation of the post office.
Serwotka proposes that trade unions should stand candidates.
Those who campaigned against the BNP in the elections know that when they said to people, "Don't vote Nazi" they were often then asked who people should vote for.
The fact that there is no single, united left alternative to Labour means there was no clear answer available.
The European election results demonstrate that the left of Labour vote was small, fragmented and dispersed.
The Greens did not make significant gains either. The mass of Labour voters simply did not vote. We cannot afford a repeat of that.
The SWP is all too aware of the differences and difficulties involved in constructing such an alternative.
We do not believe we have all the answers or a perfect prescription for a left wing alternative.
But we do believe we have to urgently start a debate and begin planning to come together to offer such an alternative at the next election, with the awareness that Gordon Brown might not survive his full term.
One simple step would be to convene a conference of all those committed to presenting candidates representing working class interests at the next election.
The SWP is prepared to help initiate such a gathering and to commit its forces to such a project.
We look forward to your response.
But with the examples of the Respect party and Socialist Alliance fresh in their memory, will the rest of the socialist left trust the SWP not sabotage any new regrouping again? Deservedly or not the party does have a reputation of using coalitions only for their own ends, ending them when they no longer seem to gain from them or they might lose control of it. The party needs to show that they're serious about this open letter before anybody else will want to work with them on anything but a case by case basis.


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Incident period: September 16, 1999 to September 18, 1999
Major Disaster Declaration declared on September 19, 1999
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December 6, 1999
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- Friday, Dec. 17, is the last day for homeowners, renters and business owners who had damage as a result of Tropical Storm Floyd in September in 11 New York counties to apply for disaster assistance, according to Federal Coordinating Officer Marianne C. Jackson and State Coordinating Officer Edward F. Jacoby, Jr. As the request of Gov. George E. Pataki, Albany, Dutchess, Essex, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Schenectady, Ulster and Westchester counties were declared disaster areas by President Clinton following Tropical Storm Floyd in September.
November 17, 1999
News Release
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Operating hours for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) toll free registration line and the disaster information Helpline are changing as of Monday, November 22. According to Marianne C. Jackson, federal coordinating officer for New York, both lines will be available from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, but will be closed on Sunday. In addition, the lines will not be in operation on Thanksgiving, November 25, but will reopen on Friday, November 26.
November 12, 1999
News Release
ALBANY, N.Y. -- The deadline for New Yorkers to apply for federal/state assistance in the wake of Tropical Storm Floyd has been extended to December 17. Officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Washington approved the deadline extension this afternoon, following a request from Gov. George E. Pataki.
October 28, 1999
News Release
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Nassau and Suffolk counties are now are eligible to apply for state and federal disaster assistance to help pay for debris and emergency protective services and to help repair or replace infrastructure damaged by Tropical Storm Floyd, disaster recovery officials announced today. Deputy Federal Coordinating Officer Jerry Dobinson designated the two counties eligible for the Public Assistance Program following a review of additional information regarding emergency activities and damages that occurred during the storm.
October 22, 1999
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Disaster Recovery Centers to Close in Three Counties; Applicant Information Still Available by Phone
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Three FEMA/New York State Disaster Recovery Centers, which have been bringing face-to-face information to victims of Tropical Storm Floyd in Rockland, Putnam and Westchester counties will close by Oct. 30. Disaster assistance applicants will still be able get information about their application through the FEMA Disaster Assistance HELPLINE: 1-800-525-0321. The centers have been operating from several locations in the counties since Oct. 1. The schedule for the final week of operation is as follows:
October 19, 1999
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- Two Disaster Recovery Centers will open Thursday for three days to help victims of Tropical Storm Floyd, state and federal emergency officials said today. In Westchester County, a new center will open at the Fairview Greenburgh Community Center, Second Level, 32 Manhattan Avenue, White Plains. In Rockland County, the center is opening at Town Hall #2, 10 Maple Avenue, New City. Both centers will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, October 21-23.
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