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Issue 3: Höller At Me
While being an internationally recognised and celebrated artist for many years, it was in 2008 that Carsten Höller became part of London's collective consciousness with his 'art meets nightclub meets ethical charity project, 'The Double Club'.
Of course that's not to overlook his other notable achievements (in particular his 2006 exhibition 'Test Site' at London's Tate Modern), but his work with Fondazione Prada on TDC offered up art to (an often unknowing) mix of Congolese, club kids, celebrities and of course, the obligatory art crowd. For eight months, it was the talk of the town and has since been indoctrinated into clubland folklore. Fresh from his survey show at the New Museum in New York, Frieze Art Fair curator Sarah McCrory caught up with the ever charming Mr. Höller…
Sarah McCrory: So Carsten, you know Ponystep because Richard organised the 'Western' side of the music for your Double Club project you made in London in 2008 with the Prada Foundation. When did you first have the idea for the club?
Carsten Höller: It's very hard to say how the idea came about. I've always liked the idea of combining two things that are basically incompatible. I was going to see Miuccia Prada, and she asked me if I could propose a project. I thought this Congolese – Western club would be a very good idea. I thought she would just say no to it because it was a very ambitious project. It became a restaurant and a bar as well as a club, and was just something that developed, very quickly actually. Jan Kennedy, who works for Prada as a consultant and producer, and made the Pharmacy with Damien Hirst, really pulled it off. He presented Mourad Mazouz of Momo and Sketch to operate as a partner with Richard Mortimer. And then we had Congolese partners to work on the Congolese side. It was an amazing experience.
I think there were lots of people who ended up spending nights in the Double Club who didn't know that it had stemmed from an art project, or from an artist.
I really like that. I think that's a good art project in a sense. It becomes dirty. It's not presented in a clean white space like a museum, where you say, 'this is art and I have to look at it as if it's art'. I wanted it to be something that could be appreciated on very different levels. If you wanted to have a beer it was a perfect place, but if you wanted to see it as an art installation it was also a perfect place. It was really about creating a space that produces a specific experience, which is of course very different depending on who you are, what background you come from, how old you are, which gender you are, the different things that make you up.
Quite often in your work the way you employ the audience is interesting, but when you create a project as a bar, or something that is live, would you say you lose control of them as soon as it opens?
I thought it was pretty controlled, don't you think? It was super controlled! I was sort of paying attention so everything Congolese stayed on the Congolese side and the other way round. I think its very interesting when you talk to someone and you see a background behind them which is Western, and the person who is talking to you is seeing Congolese, what kind of discussion is that creating? It's also about being art and non-art like many other things. The only thing I'm kind of insisting on is that you have to be physically present. It's not something you can see on the net or that somebody can just explain to you. You have to take your body there and spend some time in it in order to get this very specific experience.
We opened in November 2008 and thought that maybe the association with Prada and my name would be enough to attract a significant amount of people from the art world and from the fashion world and some other people who were more into music, but this didn't work out at all.
What was the most unexpected thing that happened at the Double Club, for you?
Probably the very strange dynamic that it had. I had no experience of making something like that at all, to open a club or a restaurant or bar, and certainly not the three of them at the same time. We opened in November 2008 and thought that maybe the association with Prada and my name would be enough to attract a significant amount of people from the art world and from the fashion world and some other people who were more into music, but this didn't work out at all. That's why it was so important that Richard and Mourad were part of the project because they brought their crowds. At the beginning it was completely dead. On New Years Eve I looked at the website and it didn't even say that it was open on the 2nd of January, and I was angry about it, but then suddenly it was full of people. And that's how it stayed. It just became some kind of hype. I think that's quite a London thing. I wanted to have a very diverse audience not some kind of expert crowd or whatever.
Where did your interest in making a Congolese bar in particular come from? I'm talking to you and you're in Ghana at the moment, aren't you? You partly live there, is that correct?
Yes we have a house here near Cape Coast.
Where did the interest in making the Congolese element come from?
I think the music is great. Ghanaian music is not as great, although it is interesting. They have something called hiplife, which is not so bad at all. From my knowledge, and I think I have quite a good knowledge of African music, Congolese music is just the most extreme and different and very interesting. I wanted something that was different to Western music, so Congolese, which is so unique, was really a very good choice. Plus it comes coupled with the fact that 'congo' when you just say the word, is in 99% of cases, coupled with some very bad news. I thought that was interesting because I am actually very much against this idea of only speaking badly about a place because it obviously makes it even worse. How we speak about the country is certainly extremely damaging to them. We don't understand that the problems in the Congo are mostly happening on the Eastern side of the country. Kinshasa is on the other side and is a completely different atmosphere.
There are a lot of musicians and bands, quite recently, who have been influenced by Congolese music – particularly a number of bands in London and New York.
It used to be virtually unknown to anybody, but I do think it's changed a little bit. There are some groups that were successful. Did you hear of Staff Benda Bilili?
Yes, I know them.
They're disabled. Which fits a Western stereotypical image of poor Africans. The poor Congolese, destroyed by years of war – that kind of thing. I really like them. I often like the most popular stuff in the Congo and that's still something nobody really listens to, which may have something to do with the fact that the recordings are a bit too 'plastic' for our Western ears, we like it a bit more rough. The other band that became so famous, Konono No. 1, they're using megaphones and amplifiers which is just based on traditional Congolese music from a part which is close to the border with Angola. To us it sounds underground in a way, but it's just because they didn't have other means of production.
One of the things I really wanted to ask you was, of all your works, what do you consider successful and which do you consider perhaps a failure of some kind?
Well some I think were a complete failure. You learn with time, so you learn how to avoid failures. I never went to art school so I made my mistakes in public. Some works I really like myself but they don't seem to be liked by many other people, and then others I find almost too popular that I want to stop doing them because I'm suspicious when it becomes a too popular thing, like the slides. I had a show in New York at the New Museum that has closed now. It was extremely popular in terms of numbers of visitors and it was in the news, but I'm not sure what that means and if it should be something I should be happy about or not. I have my doubts to be honest.
So which work have you felt to be really successful but you've been disappointed with the reception?
There's plenty. Though I'm never really satisfied with a work. There was one work in New York that I liked very much, called What is Love, Art, Money? It was just three telephones on the wall and they're very inconspicuous, just cream-coloured plastic things, and then next to the telephone there's an answering machine. Each of the phones is connected to a toll free number. I wrote a little text about art, one about money, and one more about love, and we approached people to call and leave a message about how they feel about it. If you were at the show, somebody would call live and speak about money, commenting on this text, but the callers didn't know it was played in a museum and the museum visitors wouldn't have known what the callers had read or what they were speaking about. Two worlds, which are incompatible because they don't know each other, produce a common sense.
Is there a battle for you between a work like that which has an undefined outcome and is quite subtle versus your bigger, more spectacular works? For me it's interesting because curating the projects at Frieze Art Fair I have a similar issue. I need to produce a programme where there's balance between the spectacular and the intimate.
I understand exactly the dilemma you must be going through.
It's the most visually noisy kind of art experience – probably one of the most difficult art viewing experiences you can have. So trying to make something which comments on the context and appeals to different audiences is difficult. Do you look for that balance?
I look for the balance but I don't think it works out so well. I have to find some other ways. I really think it all belongs together and it's based on the idea that not one of them can give you fulfilment or can really bring you somewhere, but maybe together with all these different approaches you can somehow encircle something in the middle there which is 'unsayable'. The works could be a way to catch it, in a literal way to encircle it. It can't escape any more. It's about pinning it down. But it's certainly beyond language so it's not really possible to speak about it in an interview!
I always wonder when an artist is very well known for their most popular work, If there is a parallel between that and being a successful band, like being Pulp and always being asked to do Common People. Is that something that concerns you? This comes back to a question about audience. I suppose the slides are your big hit, they're incredible. Do you ever get tired of playing your big hit?
No. It would be a problem if they were meant to be produced once and then they were a hit but I think there should be as many as possible, so I'm happy to promote them. I think the problem really is more about yourself, if you have a big hit, as you call, it's kind of tempting to stay with it and try to develop it further and then it could
become linear.
Maybe it's good to finish by going to your beginning. You have a really interesting background. As you said earlier on, you didn't study art. I did read somewhere earlier about the title of your PhD and it was, completely baffling.
You mean, 'Efficiency Analysis of the Parasitoids and Hyperparasitoids of Cereal Aphids'.
Yes! How did that shift happen from your scientific background to making the first thing that you consider a work of art?
Well, I don't know. It's a process. It probably has to do with interests. It's just another way to try to express your self, a tool to try to understand the world, but then there must be other ones. This cannot be it. That's really the thing, I thought, 'this cannot be it'. With art, I also think this cannot be it. I'm constantly looking for what it could be. But as yet, I haven't found anything after art.
Photographic assistance Lars Brönseth
Post production K56 Studios
Thanks to James Perra Studio,
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Turkish bond yields dropped to the lowest level in almost four months after a lira rally this year prompted the central bank to provide cheaper funding and keep currency appreciation under control.
Yields on the benchmark two-year debt fell 15 basis points, or 0.15 percentage point, to 9.21 percent, the first decline in four days and the lowest level since Oct. 20, raising this week's retreat to 25 basis points. The lira strengthened 0.3 percent to 1.7566 per dollar, lifting this year's gains to 7.7 percent, the third-biggest appreciation among emerging markets in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
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I have a new blog. It's at http://www.xanga.com/jessie84
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Have changed my blog. New address is http://www.xanga.com/jessie84
04.21.05 (12:01 pm)
Easier said than done... [edit]
I keep saying how I'm gonna change the blog, but I don't ever get around to it. But I'm really gonna try. Hmm. It's getting late here and I thought I'd post something before heading to bed...
I worked last Sunday at a soccer game, the hometeam was playing, and my dad usually helps out up there being a soccer coach himself. So he asked if I wanted to help out and I agreed. It was actually a lot of fun and I sold candy, coffee, hot dogs and etc together with my stepmom Jenny, my brother Martin and Jenny's friend. Went quite well and during the break there were so many people we didn't have a a free second. Martin and I were alone a few times during the game when practically no people bought anything. We had really fun and I was eating candy and it seemed like every time I put candy in my mouth, we got customers so I couldn't speak. I even had soda in my mouth and couldn't say anything at all because I started laughing, so did my brother and he kept laughing while talking to the customer. Yeah, we're true professionals... I'm helping out at the next two home games aswell... It's a lot of fun and you get to be backstage.
On Monday I'm going with half my family to visit the puppy Martin is getting in May. He's still so young, the dog, so he can't leave his mom yet. The dog is a Christmas present for Martin but it's getting more like a birthday present cause he gets to take the dog home just a few days before his birthday. So, we're gonna see it for the first time on Monday and I bet he's gonna be the cutest puppy. Martin is, without a doubt, really excited.
In June my brothers, my mom and me are going to Gothenburg. I really look forward to it. I love going away on trips. We're going to a themepark and I love those.
My birthday is coming up soon... The big 21...
03.17.05 (5:14 am)
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Pointless blog posts seems to be a running theme for me. I usually say I'm bored when I write this and now isn't an exception. I think it is fun to have one of these but just get stuck when I'm actually supposed to write anything. And I call myself a writer... No, actually, I don't. I went with a friend to hear about colleges and saw this really cute american guy who's here as an exchange student for the semester. I could barely concentrate on what the teacher was saying cause my attention was constantly pointed at him. That's a nice personality trait... If some cute guy is around I can't focus. It was interesting to hear about schools but it's so hard to know what to do. I have no clue what I wanna study or do.
Some personal things is looking brighter and making progress so that's very nice. Trying to write on my stories... I try to focus on my main one but lately I've been writing more on another one I recently found. Started writing on it when I was 14 years old and that was a long time ago.
One of my ultimate fave shows is tomorrow that I'm eagerly anticipating. Yeah, me and my shows. :)
Big year for my younger brother. He's graduating high school in june. Getting his driver's licence as a graduation gift. Who would have known that he would drive before his older sister and brother? Well, I could see how he would learn to drive before me cause I just plain suck at it. My youngest brother who's 12 will probably learn before me too...
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It's been a long time since I updated the blog so I thought I'd do it today. I'm also gonna make a few changes on this, like change the song that's been on here forever. I'll change the banner and stuff too. Very interesting, I know...
I celebrated New Years with my best friend Carina and my brothers. But I got a migraine so I was not feeling well most of the evening... I kept wondering why I couldn't have gotten the migraine the next day instead or something, instead on New Years?
I got this great big Tom poster from Carina for Christmas and I thought I'd put it together and put it on my wall today. :)
I thought of a hundred things to write about but now I can't think of much at all, so I'll post this for now and get started with the other updates, like the banner and song.
Take care everyone.
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Finally, I've signed up for a writing course. I've wanted to do it for years but it's never been done. Until today. I made the call and signed myself up. It's gonna be a lot of fun and a great learning experience.
I had plans today but I got such a bad stomache pain so I've been in bed practically the whole day ( incredibly boring ) and just been listening to music. I've bought two new CD's recently, Linkin Park and Avril Lavigne, so that's what I've been listening to. ( Mostly Linkin Park though ) And I'm very happy that all my three fave shows are coming back next week and the week after. It's been so long since the season finales and it's gonna be so good to have something to watch.
This weekend my mom and I are gonna be horseback riding. I haven't done that for 2 ½ years. It's a gift from me to my mom cause she recently had her birthday. Anyway, it's going to be a lot of fun!
Feel like writing a lot more but I'm still not feeling well so I'm just gonna post this instead. :)
07.28.04 (8:47 am)
Well, summer's finally here... [edit]
I wanna come up with something to do... I'm so bored right now. I think I'll write or something or go out somewhere, I should do that while the weather's like this, cause we might just get rain again.
I hardly have anything interesting to say most of the time, so let's just post this.
07.24.04 (11:40 am)
Back from Denmark and bored [edit]
We also visited Hard Rock Café which I've always wanted to do and it was very cool. It was packed with people but I enjoyed it very much. They were playing music videos of old classics and everytime a song from "Grease" came on, the bartenders would jump up on the bar and dance throughout the entire song. They were really good and it kinda made me think of the movie "Coyote Ugly", though it was nothing like that.
We also visited a themepark called Bakken and they have the world's oldest rollercoaster in wood. Martin and I loved it and went 10 times. That was a personal record for me for just one visit. But it was great and I even screamed the first time we went, I never do that. But when we realised there was a tunnel and everything went black, I screamed. They had a lot of fun rides and Martin and I went for many of them. Even a ride with boats that went backwards. We laughed so hard. We even accidentally went into a Ghost castle or whatever it's called. We don't like that, but we thought it said "Mirror" instead of "Ghost". Those words sound pretty similar in Danish. Dad and Jenny thought we should go and it turned out to be a Ghost castle instead and when we realised it we couldn't go back. We were pretty scared, I can tell you that. lol Anyway, we went into a fun house and etc etc and had a really good time. The trip home felt long and we were really tired when we finally came back to Sweden and our hometown.
Enough of this rant now. I'll just post this.
07.19.04 (5:55 am)
The fun of packing... [edit]
In two days I'm going to Copenhagen with some of my family and I really need to start packing and burn some CD's. If there's something I have to have with me, it's music. So I have to make sure I bring all the CD's I want and write down everything else I need with me so I won't forget anything. My younger brother is very excited about this trip aswell and we've been talking about it a lot. I'm trying to convince my older brother to lend us his video camera but he's still undecided. He doesn't like to lend it out to anyone if he's not coming aswell. I hope he agrees though cause it's a lot of fun to have and watch later. Anyway, I hope the weather's better in Denmark cause here it sure has been raining a lot.
Don't have that much to say today so I'll just post this.
07.05.04 (3:22 am)
Fifty nine days [edit]
It's been so many days since I last posted a blog here so I thought it was about time I did that. Well, it's July and summer but looking at the weather we've been having for quite awhile, it sure doesn't seem like it. It pretty much rains all the time. I've been sick aswell for the last several days and today I feel better than I have during my cold. I still don't feel a 100 % well, but hopefully I feel well enough to go out tomorrow cause I've been at home so much now, being incredibly bored, so I just have to get out tomorrow and do something, even if it's just being outside the front door. :D Laying on a couch can be *very* boring to say the least. Especially when you can't do anything else cause you're feeling terrible. Anyway, enough about that...
Later this month I'm going to Copenhagen with some of my family. My dad, Jenny, my brother Martin and me are going and we're gonna be away for a few days. We're gonna visit two themeparks among other things. I really look forward to that cause I like travelling and I don't get to do that very often.
Anyway, enough with this rant. I'll post this now.
05.06.04 (2:27 pm)
My 20:th birthday [edit]
Like I've mentioned a lot of times before, I often have a birthday message to someone, and today it's my own birthday. I turn 20 years old today and it feels pretty cool. :) I went to Gothenburg with Carina today and I had a great day. I bought a new shirt and new movies. I'm gonna buy the rest of my presents here. I got my cell phone yesterday and I love it. I'm sending MMS and I'm taking pics like you wouldn't believe. I just simply love it. :D I got great presents from everyone and I loved them all. :D
I'm really really tired cause I've been up since 6.30 am this morning. I just wanted to stop by here and write a quick message before I go to sleep. Good night everyone.
05.05.04 (4:04 am)
Going on 20 [edit]
Yes, tomorrow's my 20:th birthday. I'm leaving the teenage years behind and I'll be entering my 20's. As a birthday gift from my mom, I got a trip to Gothenburg where I get to shop for my presents myself. So tomorrow I'm going to Gothenburg with my friend Carina. I really look forward to it and I'm currently sitting here surfing for what DVD's I want so I know what to buy there tomorrow. I've been wanting to have new movies for such a long time. Yesterday I got a present from Carina and it was a great shirt with my guys Greg, Ryan and Tom on them. Guess what's my fave shirt now? :D I love it! Tonight some relatives, my dad and Jenny are gonna come over and celebrate me. We're doing it today since I won't be home tomorrow. I'm getting a new cell phone from my dad that I chose myself, though I didn't get to be there when they bought it. I get it tonight and I have been wanting a new one for such a long time cause my current one is being stupid... It turns off itself and etc all the time. This new one is great and I can take pictures with it!
Anyway, I can't really sit here that long, I've promised my mom to dust the apartment today so I gotta do that. Just wanted to write a short post. :)
04.28.04 (4:13 am)
Finding something to do [edit]
It's in the middle of the day and I'm trying to think of something to do. It's great weather outside so I was thinking of going out, though I have no idea what I'm gonna do. Probably just take a walk or something, cause I might be bored sitting inside all day. And a walk, or if I'm gonna take my bike, is good aswell when I need new ideas for my stories, which I thought I'd focus on today. Gotta work by my mom's work today aswell to have some stuff printed out. I wish we had one at home, but we don't, so I have to have my stuff printed at her work or at my dad's house. Anyway...
Lately I've been having a lot of birthday messages and today is no different. My fave Tom had a birthday two days ago on April 26:th and I was gonna mention that then, but I've been too tired to update my blog so I do it today instead. And today is Clay's birthday so I thought I'd mention that aswell. Anyway, again... :)
[b]Happy 27:th Birthday to Tom![/b]
[b]Happy 20:th Birthday to Clay![/b]
04.24.04 (12:04 pm)
Busy evening [edit]
My brother and I went out on our bikes today and were out for almost three hours. We had a lot of fun and laughed a lot. We even crashed into each other once and almost ran into several things. We also went to the store and I had to have milk and several other things in a backpack on my back and it was incredibly heavy so my shoulders hurt really bad now. Anyway, it was my first time out on my bike this year, though you could almost think it was my first time ever considering I was so clumsy. But I really needed the exercise anyway.
I wanted to wish my friend Teuta a happy birthday today aswell and hopefully I'll get to see her next week in Math class, haven't seen her in awhile.
I'm at my dad's right now and my brother and I are gonna play a PC game soon so this post will be short. Just felt like updating a bit and post a birthday message to Teuta.
[b]Happy 21:st Birthday to Teuta![/b]
04.17.04 (2:11 pm)
Boredom [edit]
Is what I'm going through at the moment. I've had a relaxing day today and then went to Sofia. It's her birthday today so I went over to her and gave her the birthday presents. We went out for a walk to some places where I grew up and went to school when I was younger cause she hadn't seen it before. Last time we were out she showed me where she went to school and where she used to live.
I'm actually quite tired at the moment. Probably because of the walk. We were out for about two hours or something. It was really nice weather today, you can really feel that spring is coming. if not here already.
I just had some things to do online and thought I'd just write something here. But I'm tired so I'm gonna make this a short post. Take care
[b]Happy 19:th Birthday to Sofia![/b]
04.12.04 (12:01 pm)
I think I'm in love... [edit]
Today I was having my PCTV on while writing and Smallville was on. It was an episode from season one. During the episode they played a song they've played once before and it reminded me that I wanted to find out who sang it. And I absolutely love it! It's such a great song and I've been listening to it a hundred times just this afternoon I think. Maybe I should use that song on here?
And I have to mention about yesterday. The hockey team from our town won Gold and that's definitely worth a mention! Carina, Martin and I went out to the city and there were so many people out cheering and everything. Read today that 20 000 people were out. So yeah, like you can tell, it was a big day!
I'm doing my own soundtracks, so to say, to my fave shows TW, Everwood and Smallville. So I'm trying to find every song played from all seasons so far.
My writing is coming along very nicely and I've been reading through my workshop lessons. It's really making you find out even more about your own characters. So I wrote some on a story of mine this afternoon.
Tomorrow it's back to school again after having a week off though it feels like I haven't been to school for several weeks.
Anyway, I have some more things to do and then I have to give the computer to my brother. Take care.
04.11.04 (2:33 am)
Random things [edit]
I was gonna update the blog yesterday but was not home much so I decided to do it today instead. I fell asleep late last night but still woke up early today not feeling tired at all. I haven't done all that much today except sitting here checking updates and eating breakfast. I got a new lesson from my workshop in my mail so I have that to read later which I'm looking forward to. This past week my two fave shows finally had new episodes so I've been watching those. I'm glad they're back. :)
I was thinking of adding some pics here soon. Hey, you know me and pics, I always have at least one in every post. :D But anyway, today I'm adding one of Ryan aswell cause he had his birthday yesterday so I thought I'd add one of him aswell. Well, anyway...
I'm thinking about what I want for my birthday next month. I'll probably buy DVD's mostly cause I've been wanting to have new movies for a very long time now. I don't have that many movies yet so why not add some more? :)
I don't have that much to write about at the moment so I'll post this now. Take care.
[b]Happy 21:st Birthday to Ryan ( though his birthday was yesterday ) [/b]
04.07.04 (5:56 am)
New banner and still deciding on a song [edit]
As can be seen, I have a new banner. The last one disappeared and I couldn't find it. So with the help of my brother David, I now have a new one and it obviously has two pics of Ryan and Greg in it.
I've joined a writing workshop which means I get a lesson once a week in my e-mail so I can learn how to write good characters for my stories etc. I decided to join one because I thought it'd be really good and so far I've gotten one lesson so I spent some time at the computer answering the questions which was a lot of fun, but it turned out I couldn't answer them all yet. It's questions involving my characters.
I really am changing the song on my blog ( I've been saying that quite a few times now ) but I haven't made up my mind about which song I'll have here.
I gotta give the computer to my brother so I have to post this now, but first I have these test things I did that I'll put here. And obviously, I'll have a pic on here aswell at the start of my post.
03.31.04 (7:52 am)
Name search [edit]
I went to the doctor today to check on my inflammation that hasn't gotten better. I got medicine for it and have to go back in about a month again. It went well and all and I also had to go get a shot aswell.
It feels like spring is coming cause it's been really nice weather. So I thought I'd wear my summer coat today but it still was a bit too cold for that... Anyway, it's nice with this weather we've been having.
I just signed up for this course on the internet where you get assignments to your mail about how to write good characters for your stories. I'm looking forward to that cause I need to learn as much as possible. The writing is going well but I haven't done as much lately. Spent an afternoon in my room going through papers and stuff of what I've written and reading books and stuff like that. Just writing here makes me feel like writing on my stories again so I think I should do that... Plus that I have to find last names to a lot of characters... :D
My brother David agreed to help me make a new banner for my blog and I'm gonna do something as surprising as to make one with Greg, Tom and Ryan. Now, who would have ever known that I would do something involving those guys? :D
My birthday's coming up in about a month and I'm getting a new cell phone from my dad and Jenny. My old one keeps shutting itself off and being a real pain so I needed a new one. So I look forward to when I get it.
My brother Martin and I were supposed to go to the movies to see a movie ( who knew you watch movies at the cinema? :lol: ) but they stopped showing it already so I guess we're gonna see another one.
I also wanted to say Happy 20:th Birthday to Eia who had her birthday yesterday.
Anyway, time to post. Take care. :)
03.24.04 (7:06 am)
Math tests... [edit]
I went to school today on my day off to do a Math test. I wouldn't say it went well, but hey, who knows. I'm just glad if I pass, but enough about that cause I finally am in a better mood so let's not spoil that with talking about how I did on my test.
I was in a bit of a bad mood this morning, but it got better and then worse again cause I got a headache aswell. But I don't want to be in a bad mood so I did other things to try and make it better.
I'm going to the movies soon but I don't know which movie we're gonna see yet. As far as I know there's not a movie in particular I wanna see that's showing right now.
I've also cut my hair. I got bangs although I wasn't sure if I was gonna do it, but I did. Just wanted to try it out and see how it looked. Anyway, I don't have that much to write about at the moment. I'm hungry so I gotta go eat though.
Here's a little survey thingy about my two faves Greg and Ryan.
Favorite Actor #1
Name: Greg Smith
When did you first discover him? In 1998
How did you discover him? I saw him in "Small Soldiers"
What movies of his have you seen? Well, I've seen several with him
Which do you plan to see? "Book of Love" and "A Wrinkle in Time"
What is your favorite overall movie he's in? "American Outlaws"
What is your least favorite overall movie he's in? "Small Soldiers"
What is your favorite character he's played? The character of Ephram he plays on "Everwood"
What is your least favorite character he's played? Don't really have one
Any specific line you think of when you see him? "At least when it sucks you know you're alive" cause it's one of my fave ones he's said on Everwood
Do you find him attractive? Oh yeah
Do you think his work is appreciated enough? No
What do you know about him personally? That he's a laid back and nice guy and that he's Canadian
Have any of his movies turned you onto specific music (ie- like soundtrack music)? No
What movie do you think he looks best in? "Book of Love"
What movie do you least like his look in? There's no one in specific, I think he has always looked cute
Favorite Actor #2
Name: Ryan Merriman
When did you first discover him? In 1999
How did you discover him? I saw him in "Deep End of the Ocean"
What movies of his have you seen? A few
Which do you plan to see? I'd like to see his new one, "Spin" cause I haven't seen him in a new movie for awhile
What is your favorite overall movie he's in? "Deep End of the Ocean"
What is your least favorite overall movie he's in? Haven't seen that many with him yet, so none really
What is your favorite character he's played? Sam Karras/Ben Cappadora
What is your least favorite character he's played? Don't have one
Any specific line you think of when you see him? Not really
Do you find him attractive? Absolutely
Do you think his work is appreciated enough? No
What do you know about him personally? That he's a very sweet person
Have any of his movies turned you onto specific music (ie- like soundtrack music)? No
What movie do you think he looks best in? His show "Veritas" ( I know, it's not a movie... )
What movie do you least like his look in? None. He's always a cutie
03.20.04 (10:39 am)
Relaxing and doing surveys [edit]
Sitting here by the computer, doing some surveys. Got a little bored and decided to find some new ones to do and I'm adding two of them here. I've spent the evening checking out sites, talking on the phone etc. Right now I'm just listening to music and thinking about if I'm gonna write for a little bit. Recently I bought all these folders for my stories and everything but I haven't put anything in there yet so I have to do that soon. This post isn't very long cause I gotta eat and then I've got some other things to do. Just wanted to update a bit.
Anyway, I read through the surveys I did and one of them is one I did awhile ago so it's not from today. The phone survey is one of them I did today. After that very interesting note, here they are:
In the past week
Have you...
1. Cried? Yes
2. Laughed? Yes
3. Made someone laugh? Yes
4. Bought something? Yeah
5. Did something new to your hair? No
6. Felt stupid? Yes
7. Written a real letter? No, just e-mails
8. Written on paper? Yeah
9. Taken a test? No
10. Met someone new? No
11. Written in a journal? No
12. Watched a movie? No
13. Heard your favorite song? Yeah
14. Talked to someone you love? Yes
15. Given someone a present? Nope
16. Had a serious talk? Yes
17. Hugged someone? Yes
18. Kissed someone? Nope
19. Missed someone? Yes
20. Fought with your parents? No
21. Fought with your friends? No
22. Hung out with your friends outside of school? Yes
23. Did something different from the ordinary? Nope
24. Anything amazing happen in the last week? Nope
25. Went out of town? Nope
26. Anything tragic happen? No
27. Did you get really sad? Yes
28. How was the past week? It's been good
Phone survey
1. Are you addicted to the phone? No
2. Do you have your own phone? If so describe it? If it means if I have one in my room, then yes, I have a phone and it's blue. If it means if I have a cellphone then yeah, I have that too and it's blue aswell
3. Do you have your own phone line? No
4. Do you have a caller ID? Not on my phone and I don't have one on my cell either
5. What message is on your answering machine? I don't have one
6. Does it annoy you when people call when you aren't home and they don't leave a freakin' message? No
7. When was the last time you talked on the phone? Just now
8. Who did you talk to? Sofia
9. Have you ever been prank called? Explain. Yes. By my brother's friend and he really scared me
10. Do you ever prank call? Explain. No, I don't
11. What is the longest time you've spent on the phone without getting off? That was a really long time ago and it was for a *very* long time, but if you just count recently, it was an hour
12. Have you ever made up an excuse to get off the phone with someone? Yes, but long time ago
13. What is your phone number? That's a secret
14. Have you ever called your crush, blocked the call, and hung up as soon as he answered just to hear his voice? No
15. Do you ever talk on three-way? Yes, but haven't done that in a long time, used to do it with two friends of mine
16. Do you have a headset for your phone? Nope
17. What is the weirdest subject you've talked about on the phone? That would be a very long list
18. Do you have a phone limit? No
19. Do you have call-waiting? Yes
20. How many hours do you spend on the phone a week? That really depends on who I'm talking to
21. Do you spend more time on the phone or online? Online
03.19.04 (4:58 am)
The planning of a birthday party... apparently not an easy thing [edit]
I haven't been good at updating here at all. I noticed that my header is gone for some reason. I wonder when that happened? Anyway, so far I haven't done that much today, but I'm going out in awhile, just thought that I'd write here for once. Thought I'd put some more surveys here again but I just gotta find some new ones first.
My birthday is coming up in a little over a month and I'm getting a birthday party from my parents. They and Jenny keep asking me what I wanna do and stuff like that but I seriously have no idea. I haven't had a big birthday party in probably 10 years but this year they wanted to give me one cause I turn 20. Practically the only thing that's been decided is that it's gonna be at my dad's house cause it's more space there since he lives in a house and have a yard and everything. And we're gonna have a birthday party for both my brother Martin and me aswell cause our birthdays are so close.
I have to post this blog now cause I have to get ready and head out pretty soon.
And as usual, I'll add a pic of someone whose name I don't think I have to mention anymore... :D
03.05.04 (11:18 am)
It's been awhile... [edit]
What's up everyone? It's been awhile since I wrote here, so I thought today I'd write something. I also thought I'd add a couple of surveys I did in a few moments of boredom not very long ago. And also, as always, add a pic of my favorite celebrity guy, Greg. :D
Today I've been home doing different stuff. Spent a lot of time working on something that's gonna be ready soon. And I'm gonna keep working on it tonight cause I want it to be ready this weekend.
I have a few minor tests and a big test coming up in Math class. Let's see how that goes... I've been seeing the guy I like a lot lately. I saw him yesterday while waiting for the bus after school. But I didn't notice him at first. His two friends came first and I looked at one of them and didn't notice him until he came and stopped right next to me. Talking about being surprised. :D A pleasant surprise, of course! But they took a bus that got there almost at the same time they did, so they were only there for like two seconds. :(
I have a lot to do this evening so I'm gonna post my surveys now. Take care.
A Bunch Of Random Questions
* What was your first piercing? I've never gotten any piercings at all
* What languages can you speak? Swedish and English
* Do you wax or shave your legs? Shave
* What was the last movie you watched? "Jerry Maguire"
* Last song you heard? Rollergirl "Dear Jessie"
* How many bones have you broken? None, I've sprained both my feet and hands though
* How would you describe your style? Uhm...I just wear what I feel comfortable in, so...comfortable clothes? lol
* What's the worst pain you ever felt? That's a hard question, my pain in my rib and my inflammation in the cartilage
* How much time do you take to get ready in the mornings? About 10 minutes
* Astrological sign? Taurus
* Siblings? David, Joakim and Martin
* Pets? 1 cat
* Hair length? A bit down my shoulders
* Shoe size? 7
* Where do you shop? Different places
* do you have any piercings? Nope
* Do you play sports? No, I used to though
* What is your biggest fear? I have more than one
* What are you listening to right now? Hank Zimmer with "Tennessee"
* Who are you talking to right now? Carina
* What kind of car do you have? I don't have one, since I don�t have a driver�s licence
* What kind of car do you want? I really don't know
* Where do you want to get married? In my hometown
* Do you have a pager? No
* Ever stolen before? Once or twice when I was about 8 years old
* Do you have a job? Yes
* Ever been involved w/ the police? No
* How many schools have you been to? 6
* Do you get along w/your parents? Yeah
Family survey
- What�s your Mom's name? Agnetha
- What�s your Dad's name? Ulf
- Are your parents still together? No
- How old are your parents? My dad is 48 and my mom is turning 47
- Do you get along with your parents? Yeah
- How many Siblings do you have? 3 brothers
- What are their names and ages? David, 23, Joakim, 17 and Martin, 11
- Do you get along with your Siblings? Yeah
- Do you wish you had more or fewer brothers and sisters? I've always thought it'd be great with many siblings
- How many grandparents do you have? My paternal grandparents and my maternal grandparents
- Which one's your favorite? I don't have favorites
- How many aunts and uncles do you have? 1 aunt and 2 uncles
-Which one's your favorite? No favorite there either
- How many cousins do you have? 10
- Who's your favorite? No favorite there either, but my cousin Ann and I have always gotten along great
- How old is your oldest cousin? 38
-how old is your youngest cousin? He's 15, turning 16 this year
- Who lives closest to you? My cousin Tobias and my cousin Mikael lives pretty near aswell
- Who do you live with out of your family? Mom and my brothers David and Joakim mostly, but I'm at my dad's house with dad, my stepmom Jenny and brother Martin as often as possible
02.24.04 (6:04 am)
It's cold outside [edit]
My subject today is taken from a title I came to think of because it's so cold out today. It's windy and it's snowing and it just makes you freeze like never before. I don't know how cold it is now though...
Went to Math class in the morning today which means I had to get up very early and so I am so tired right now that I will probably fall asleep at 7 pm today or something. I have a day off tomorrow so at least I don't have to get up so annoyingly early. When I had my class I was not in the mood for it, but I worked a lot anyway. I did almost a whole chapter which is a lot to do for just 90 minutes. Maybe I just needed to be preoccupied or something cause I was pretty annoyed and I have been most of the day. I know why that is, but there's no reason for me to go into *that* right now. The English class is voluntary so I decided not to go today cause I wasn't feeling well. I got dizzy, so I'm doing my English at home instead.
Anyway, I'm in a good mood now, it's just that I'm bored. I really gotta change the song here soon though. Just gotta find the link, cause it might help to have that... :D
Came to think about a title that fitted perfectly with a story of mine. It's called "Family secrets" and it was just perfect for the story that I wondered how I didn't think of that title sooner. Well, better late than never. :)
02.19.04 (8:42 am)
Sleep deprivation and inability to pronounce certain words [edit]
[b]Greg and his co-star Emily[/b]
What's up everyone? It's been a little while since I wrote here. I've been to school today and I have been so tired all day. How come that when you actually manage to get to bed early and sleep enough hours at night, you get more tired during the day then when you go to bed too late? Just curious. I wasn't exactly in the best mood this morning but it got better and better as the day passed. After English I went upstairs to sit and wait for a whole hour until Math was starting. I was bored out of my mind, but then my friend Teuta showed up and that was the beginning of an afternoon filled with laughter. Man, I've been so tired today that I apparently lost the ability to speak properly. It cracked Teuta up all the time. When we were sitting in the classroom, at least trying to work, I was gonna tell her I was freezing, but instead of "freeze" I said "float". She was like, "What?" and then started laughing. I mean, we were so tired and felt we didn't get anywhere with our Math. I don't have a rubber and when I was gonna tell Teuta I didn't have one, I instead said I didn't have a gum. :lol: I mean, it so wasn't my day today cause I couldn't say a thing right. :lol: We had a little break during the class and we went for a walk and thought we were gonna get stuck in an elevator cause it was moving incredibly slow. :lol:
I saw the guy I like today. First with this teacher doing an exercise, then when he was with his friend and then while waiting for the bus. Teuta hadn't seen him before, so when he came I said, "There he is" a little too loud, I think. :oops: But he didn't hear it though.
Tomorrow I have an English test so we'll see how that goes. I think I'm about to fall asleep now.


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The Blog
Does this Mean Obama's Raised Enough Money?
2:41 PM, Oct 10, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN
The Hill's Amie Parnes and Niall Stanage report:
One wonders if the president feels a certain sense of sadness about this shift in his priorities. Fundraising being something, after all, that he is still undeniably good at, even as his other gifts seem to have atrophied.
Interesting, of course, that the president is not forgoing the private fundraisers in order to spend more time at the office, doing the job he was elected – and being paid – to do. It is unrealistic, of course, to expect the president not to campaign or raise funds during the election season but this President has done an awful lot of fund raising at all times of the year, every year that he has been in office. The widely circulated measure is that President Obama has "held more re-election fund raisers than the previous five presidents combined."
Some might not mind. If he wants to spend his time playing golf and raising cash for his next campaign, then he may be distracted and too busy to do things that might cause real damage to the country. Others, however, find it unseemly that the president should spend his time this way; Gregg Easterbrook among them. Easterbrook's ESPN column, Tuesday Morning Quarterback, is a reliably lively mix of football, politics, technology, and popular culture ... among other things. In this edition, Easterbrook takes on professional football's obsession with complexity:
Later in the column, he turns to the president's relentless pursuit of money, which Easterbrook finds ... well, distasteful. If the Supreme Court will not allow limits on political spending (i.e. free speech), he writes, that does not mean that the voters cannot insist on legislation that prohibits elected officials, as a condition of their employment, from engaging in fundraising:
Sounds good and reasonable. But the political class will not be denied. Loopholes large enough to serve as hangers for Air Force One would quickly be written into the legislation. And the wink-wink, nod-nod culture would find a way to prevail. "Whatta you mean 'fundraising,' I was there to talk policy. Not my fault that someone passed a hat after I finished speaking."
The crusade to get the money out of politics is doomed and the reason is ... because there is so much money in politics. The Washington area is rich. And that is not because it is sitting on top of vast reserves of oil and natural gas.
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The TV Remote, Why So Many Buttons?
I have to admit, I rarely watch TV, and the reason is because I can't ever figure out the dang remote!
I have to admit, I rarely watch TV, and the reason is because I can't ever figure out the dang remote!
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As the holidays roll on, we're going to see more and more Christmas and holiday classics on TV. But what if they were all together as one?
Once again, Walmart is the scene as customers go nuts over a TV that was on sale.
One woman can be heard yelling "I had it first". and of course people recorded the incident...
The day is coming soon where people will wait outside for hours until stores open on Black Friday to get the deal of the year.
To help out, here is a list of the top 9 deal for Black Friday...
I hate Nicki Manaj! Well she didn't say that, but you knew who she was aiming at! Leave it to Mariah to tell us just how things went down.
All of the 'Toy Story' toys (and the famous actors who provide their voices) have returned for the Pixar holiday special 'Toy Story of Terror,' which has just released its first clip. Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) Woody (Tom Hanks) and Mr. Pricklepants (Timothy Dalton) have to deal with a missing Mr. Potato Head, and it's possible he was taken by a ghost!
In an episode called 'A Bar Full Of Bull", Spike TV's Jon Taffer and his "Bar Rescue" crew visited New Bedford recently. The subject of their rescue was Libads Bar & Grill.
DC comics and Warner Bros. have frequently been accused of following Marvel's more successful lead in the last few years, most recently in regards to the blockbuster film franchises on either side, but never has it been more clear than with DC's latest shocker. Just minutes after the debut of Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' Warner Bros. has announced the Batman franchise will return to TV with 'Gotham,' a new FOX drama with Commissioner Gordon at its center.
When you think about big stars from the 90's, the cast of "Friends" are certainly that. However, did you know that Jennifer Aniston may not be where she is if not for a one actress turning down the role of Rachel? So which star was a favorite for the spot?


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QR Codes
This is where technology, street art and art history meet. And it is going to be awesome. I haven't started this project yet, but I wanted to outline my ideas for you.
First off… This is a QR Code:
QR codes are similar to bar codes, in that you scan them. Most smartphones including iphones, blackberries, and android phones have free QR code scanning applications available (here is a list of QR Scanning apps, or on your smartphone's app store search for "QR Code" ). The app basically uses the phone's camera to scan the code and then the device is directed to whatever the code was generated for. For example, if you scan this code with your phone you'll be directed to the GoneTomorrowSF homepage.
Now that we got that out of the way, I can explain the project. I've been inspired by the Street Artist Invader but I'm going to add my own little art history twist. Basically this project is dedicated to creating a visual database of street artworks in the bay area that are no longer around. Basically once an artwork has been painted over/cleaned away/or faded from the weather, I will generate an individual QR code for that artwork, which once scanned will link to an image and description of the peice. I will then mount that code to a mosaic tile and cement it somewhere near the site of the original piece. Then there will be a small, site specific record of the artwork that was there before. The idea is that a passerby may see this code and out of curiosity, scan it. They will then be linked to an image/description of the art work that used to be on the wall right in front of them.
The location and community a street artwork is placed in is an important component to understanding that artwork more completely. I think the placement of the artwork is something that should be seriously considered when viewing these artworks, thus the QR Code Project.
I haven't started this project yet, because I'm focused on getting the street art map up to speed. But here are some pictures of the tiles as I make them, hopefully that illustrates the project a little better:
I start by generating a QR code and printing on regular paper… This QR code is for the Trust Your Struggle Mural in Oakland, and if you scan that code, it will direct your phone to a picture of the mural.
Next you cut it out and glue it to a ceramic tile.
Then you spray the crap out of it with chemicals to seal it in and make it water proof and ready to face the elements
And Ta-da! QR code tile is prepped and ready for action. Eventually I'll cement this tile somewhere near the original and there will be a small, site specific record of the artwork that was there before. Completely accessible to anyone who can go online!
Still confused about this project? Want to know more? Send me an email, I'd be happy to explain. GoneTomorrowSF.com


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Should health insurers be required to reimburse for special diets for clients with
celiac disease?
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Celiacs don't need to have special gluten free products like gluten free bread, they can avoid bread completely…
the price difference between wheat flour, corn flour, potato flour and rice flour has virtually disappeared, and there are plenty of gluten free cookbooks that detail how to cook with these other flours in order to have the same general consistency of a wheat flour based bread….
there is even a gluten free grocery shopping guide so you don't have to struggle to find out what has gluten in it
You don't have to buy pre-made products, you can make your own pastas and breads, and there are no excuses, my niece is allergic to so many things, my brother and his wife spend the weekends cooking from scratch to avoid all the products that would put her in the hospital, including peanuts, cheeses, certain fruits, eggs, dairy and a ton of food additives, that are in almost all pre-packaged foods. Should they also be allowed to have re-imbursement from their insurance company, if your arguments hold true? Because if she has these food additives she would go into anaphylactic shock, thus she MUST avoid these alleren triggering foods.
yes they pay a bit more for the flours she can eat, but they have the added burden of buying nonadditive added foods. they do spend a great deal of their free time making sure that the foods are safe for their daughter to eat…
A lot of the complaints here just seem like you want to take the easy way, and rather than eliminate the foods that cause the health problems, or preparing your own replacements, you want the insurance company to pay for commercially produced replacements.
Nope. Insurance companies shouldn't pay for that. that is like a diabetic buying sugar free chocolate and wanting the insurance company to pay for it because they don't want to give up their chocolate.
We have three celiacs in the family, two are children. This diet has at least doubled, possibly tripled, our food bill. I'm in favor or either a tax credit (not deducation) for the difference in food cost or help from the insurance company. This diet is absolutely medically necessary as non compliant celiacs face intestinal lymphoma and other cancers, among other things. This diet is not a choice. Insurers who help their clients become diet compliant by sharing the cost of GF foods (the treatment for celiac) would likely see payouts for cancer and other treatments reduced in these patients.
I think all people with life threatening illnesses requiring special food should have the same benefit.
I have been on no work restrictions for a year. DX'd with RA, Fibro, Raynauds,severe anemia, SLE and now Celiac and it is believed that the Celiac triggered it all. Hell yes insurance should help with the expense of GF food. Try being single with no income with all these medical problems and now being told my already limited food bill needs to triple. My life is already very limited and just became even more so. Celiac is a disease and if insurance doesn't want to cover the expense of treatment then they should not be allowed to call it a preexhisting condition.
All of you who said no and have no experience with Celiac symptons….your attitude would change real quick after 6 months with Celiac. The diet is not as simple as you all think. You don't need this disease to go on it so go ahead, give it a try if you believe it so simple.
I was diagnosed a year and three months ago. It gets difficult.
Rice Chex is now gluten free. Today is the first time I bought
Gluten and Dairy Free pancake mix. It costs $5.49 on sale saving $1.30. It is 22 Oz. I also bought Gluten Free, Dairy Free Brownie Mix and it costs $3.99 with a savings of .90. I may have these transposed as the products are simply listed as Bob's Red.
There is also a new Rice/Corn Chex cereal with cinnamon in it.
I went to buy soy whipped cream to put on strawberries. I asked for a price check and it was almost six dollars a can so I did not buy it. It is expensive. You have to stick to an almost totally natural diet. I would mind a $300 voucher each year from my health insurance to help out with the special costs. Then again, where is the limit. . . diabetics have a problem as well. A lot of people go undiagnosed their entire lives and eat regularly and feel like they are sick all the time. I heard of one case where the man get well after seven years. It is a difficult diet and hard to monitor.


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October 13, 2015
WASHINGTON (March 20, 2014) The unemployment rate for working-age veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. armed forces since September 2001 edged down slightly in 2013, to 9.0 percent, but Labor Department figures also show that the rate remained well above the overall civilian unemployment figure of 6.7 percent.
The decrease followed a decline to 9.9 percent in 2012.
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Tomorrow, noon, the newly reconstructed board of New River Behavioral Health Care will meet in the Watauga Commission meeting room on King Street. The new board, challenged with the tasks of closing down New River, was finally constituted late Friday as Watauga Commissioners
adopted changes to the document that created New River, creating a board of five—one member of each commission board of the five counties remaining in the New River service area—plus each county's manager as ex-officio members. As of late Friday, the task of determining how much money New River has in the bank, how much is coming in, and how to handle the payroll coming this Friday seemed the most pressing issue. Meanwhile, the pouring over of New River books continues as the issue of what happened to take down the mental health provider continues, with questions from some commission boards about possible fraud in what could be $3 million unaccounted for. The meeting will be public, but not a public hearing.
After the Wednesday meeting, Watauga Commissioners will meet Thursday morning at 8 to discuss and take actions necessary locally in the New River issue, most likely on monies needed for payroll. Legal counsel for the Watauga board advised against making a premature allocation to New River funds citing state law on county obligations in a debt situation—that apparently backed by the School of Government in Chapel Hill. The law was written to head off unauthorized expenditures. Other counties have allocated funds for the pay period based on the service provided each—Wilkes with the largest chunk, so far—over $300,000. Reports from Friday's Watauga Commission meeting indicated that over $900,000 would be needed to make payroll for October. New River will shut down November 15th.
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013by Mark McGee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Fireball, Along Comes Molly, Built Ford Tuff.Don't recognize those names on the Lipscomb volleyball roster for 2013? Well, maybe you know them better as Caitlin "Dot" Dotson, Molly Spitznagle and Lauren Ford.What about those other names? Well, they were inspired by an afternoon spent watching the Nashville Rollergirls roller derby team work out downtown at the Municipal Auditorium. All of the Rollergirls have nicknames so the volleyball players decided they needed new names as well.For most of the Lady Bisons the practice session was their first exposure to roller derby. Lipscomb coach Brandon Rosenthal, who spent part of his life on the West Coast, was a little more familiar with the sport.Rosenthal is amused by the nicknames, but he had a reason for the practice visit. Aggressiveness is a buzz word for the Lady Bisons this fall and it is difficult to find a sport that is more aggressive than roller derby."They are some tough ladies," Ford said. "The aggression they had really showed their passion for their sport."Whether they were new at it, and just learning, or veteran players they want to be involved. They want to be a part of a team. They want to make their team win."Ford thinks that the Lady Bisons got the message of how aggressiveness can work to their advantage."Why can't we beat up on the other team when we are on the court?" Ford asked. "We can hit harder. We can run down more balls. We can just want it more than the other team. That is a lot of what the roller derby girls were showing us."Rosenthal got some quizzical looks when he told his players they would be attending a roller derby practice."It was a really unique experience," Ford said. "We had heard it was a bunch of tough girls beating each other up on roller skates. We didn't know what to expect."It was really cool to see there were rules about how to hit people and why they were hitting people. There is rhyme and reason to it. It was cool to hop into their world and see what it was all about."Another area that Rosenthal is stressing this season is to have his players be more vocal on the court. Spitznagle listened to how the Rollergirls use verbal communication while they are skating."They hold each other accountable," Spitznagle said. "They are constantly talking to each other. They are very verbal."We are holding each other accountable in practice so Brandon doesn't have to get on our backs as much. It was good to see other people doing it, especially in another sport. It was good to see that it works. It is a real effective way of doing things."Spitznagle was also impressed by the intensity of the skaters."A lot of them have kids and real jobs," Spitznagle said. "I walked away with a lot of competitiveness. They are very competitive. They really go at each other."They are very hard core intense all the time. That really does translate well to us because we are the same way. That is what Brandon expects from us all the time in practice, matches and everything we do."Dotson also pointed to the way the players were individually accountable in order to make the team successful."It related very well to volleyball," Dotson said. "Within the team you have to do your job. In roller derby you want to be the best blocker or jammer. You are pushing yourself individually and you know what you have to do. But if you are the jammer you have to rely on your team to block if you are going to be successful."They were pretty competitive within their own team. They pushed each other. They weren't afraid to get on each other in order to make each other better which is something we need to work on. That has been one of our goals that we have been working on since the spring and we have made huge steps in that area."Dotson also liked the way the players did not waste a single second during their practice drills."They went for two minutes at a time and they went all out for those two minutes," Dotson said. "They knew they had to give it their all for 120 seconds."They did not let down. That is something everybody can learn from."


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Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, the most common paediatric cancer, has been the subject of study in the PhD thesis of ElixabetLpez.In the work entitled New genetic markers for treatment personalization in paediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, the UPV/EHU biologist has presented new genetic markers that could improve the classification of risk groups and predict treatment toxicity in the patient.That way it would be possible to achieve better personalisation of the treatment.
Over the last few decades survival has increased from 10% to 80%.This improvement has been achieved by using combined therapies and separating the patients into risk groups.For example, stronger treatmentis used in the groups in which a worse response is expected.That way the survival probability in the groups with a poor prognosis is increased, while chemotherapy toxicity in patients with a better prognosis is reduced.
However, the classification of the risk groups, which today is carried out by means of clinical markers, like the number of lymphocytes or age of the patient, and some genetic markers, is not totally exact.For example, some of the patients initially considered as lower risk do not respond well to the treatment and in the middle of their treatment their therapy is changed to that of greater risk.In these cases, "survival could be improved as the condition would be treated more intensively right from the start," points out Lpez.
On the other hand, children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia receive very strong doses of chemotherapy, and toxicity problems, which can be very serious, often occur.What is more, "as they are children and the toxicity can leave them with sequelae for the rest of their lives, it is quite important to try and prevent it," says Lpez.Currently, there is no toxicity marker that is used in a
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