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Oktoberhaz - a blogger in Hungary
This is a selection of writings and
pictures I put together over the
past 3 years in Hungary - mainly its capital city, Budapest, but also
in the Alföld region in the East of the country - the uncovering
of a
blogger's intimate sphere, whose commitment and responsibility I
propose to discuss more openly here.
Budapest, New Year's eve, 31st of December 2007
It's always ironic for someone to start photography on his first experience abroad. The need for photographic practice very often derives from feelings of fear, loneliness or foreignness. It is there for simple reasons if you are still looking for light, colours and contrasts; a struggle against representation, at the same time a kind of tragedy: sacrificing the pleasure of results and frames for more effort and walking. So for whom are we - bloggers, travellers and picture-takers - collecting this massive data? This is a question worth asking as over the years we learn to travel more and more through the camera obscura.
"Smell of tobacco in the plastic chairs
Soda in your cheap wine
Good wine is for food
Old coffee resting amidst the fumes
of menthol cigarettes of mosquitoes from the Tissza
The dog is wailing for company
We recite our week's walks and encounters
How was work, where is the wine?
Home-mades and home-stomachs
Glory be for a bit of kocsmálya*
in my memory box
Oh for a good wine discussion"
- Posted on September the 18th 2008.
I was told by my girlfriend, who is a Hungarian national, that this description of her father's kocsmálya (* which stands for "his pub"), one I wrote on my return to London, made her very sad. She found words of plastic, fumes, cigarettes and mosquitoes hard to take in a poem about home. She didn't go any further and eventually swept the matter away, as those were my own words, my own images. Of course this didn't satisfy me. I keep on reflecting on the kind of criticisms I receive when I decide to picture the debris of a broken-down building. They don't just stem from a sense of harmony between a population and a government's politics of representation, nor simply from a sense of national pride. To me, it's a gap in between pride and history. The no-man lands of construction and the marginalised bits of history lie behind the big Puma or McDonald's banners, and those kilometres of temporary walls are symbolic holes in a country having to imagine its future at extra euro-speed. (The irony of an outsider's position, to seek those symbolic cracks around the city whilst through his own country the wind of finance blows down an economy so fragile) The advertisement banners and temporary walls on the way to university, to the supermarket, to the bank, to the bar, to bed, to the night-job, to the tube... those banners stay up, reflected everywhere in the plastic colours left by Soviet history. They stay up, and mirrors are everywhere that tell history in their own moments.
Martfü, Alföld region, 3rd of January 2009
Colours at Loss
their profile was well chosen
colour was as golden as branch
words were leaves drafting dust
and his was a shadow of doubt
The tree of their body
gave way to the cold window
instantly travelling away
to the east, Hortobágyi train
the pale blue of the wood
they left on the window sill
was like a bottle on a bench
words of solitude
- Posted on December the 7th 2008
Budapest, 31st of May 2007
It's a cold December afternoon and I feel a reproachful gaze breezing past me towards the hills of Buda standing in the mist. When I stand in the Pest side of the Hungarian capital, there is an unavoidable tension in the air drawing from the hills opposite. A duality resonating in the Danube's valley, a duality of a country's history, tensions of generations and times. Such is the atmosphere that recalls to me now the beginning of a phrase by the late writer Márai Sándor as he walks in the ruins of post World War II Buda, and in his memories recalls going down this hill he would never climb up later again: "as I was about to descend the Granite stairs to return to the world in ruins below." (*) It was a world in ruins while shiny cars and French jewelry were being parachuted like Marshall plan shells, while a country's sovereignty was drifting in the air in the fumes of fallen bridges, soon to be overshadowed by the red flags of victorious Soviets. 'The Slavs', this barbarian east Márai describes that Hungary was forced into, a culture's representation pushed further out when the 'Iron Curtain' - a political turn imagined as this solid metaphor by Winston Churchill - symbolically fell in the 1990s, and tourists rushed into the thermal baths of Pest, who had been designated as the wash-basins of Ostalgia [or 'Nostalgia for the East'].
"After World War II pessimists endowed with imaginative power likened Europe to such a ruined house with an unscathed façade" (*)
- Written in Budapest, December 2008
Train from Szolnok to Martfü - Alföld region, 4th of September 2008
Framing a struggle
Familiar signs appear around me as I raise my eyes in streets of North-East Pest or the London underground. In a corridor at University waiting for exam-time or on the staff-board... A Hungarian name, a label that reads 'made in Hungary', and the complexities those words swallow for our good use.
Further on I am searching for colours of those very grounds that project those signs. History bares no dress when one is shy and curious at the same time, colours referring to the unsaid, to the patterns of life and craft of passing time, which itself is no pure human gift. There is a sense in which we re-create time as representations go, but the responsibility is so complex there is no one road to it. Responsibility means having the time, means of travelling and walking, and making use of this time in that elsewhere constructed as an observer. Of course such poetics are a choice, but is it possible to reduce the image to mere personal experience when it comes to such media-spaces as blogging?
This is not to say - it would be absurd of me - that each picture is an ethical choice. Instead, this is merely the reflection upon me of my experience as well as the reflection of the eyes of passers-by looking dubiously at me for choosing this particular place and scaffolding or bus tire to stop and observe. They cannot be disconnected, as much as a digital picture is only rarely reserved 'private' today. Hungarian is a great language to play with associations - being so unique, some words are found in other languages but with completely different meaning - and the word 'ami' is a very relevant example for me here. It both means "that which is" in Hungarian and "friend" in French. Similar to the effort of translation, in blogging I take it as both an affectionate relationship on my behalf to a certain place and people, as well as a sense of this very place, a part of it. In practice: a drive towards respect.
- Posted on December the 21st 2008
Budapest, Újpest, 4th of November 2007
Sweeping the street he dresses his frame
In a theatre for the cold
And whenever he stops the light comes in
Place reflected in his everywhere
Sweeping into the street they dress that fame
A theatre of gold
And whenever they disappear with pens of silver
Space is nowhere but in the heart
Of the street colour's metteur en scène
- Written in Budapest, January 2009.
Media-responsibilities are in transition, participation is everywhere and young adults finishing their studies run the risk of falling sick of the human record. Blogs are the bastard-children of the possibilities left by an era of words sinking in rivers, while rivers sing out the words in a language we are too busy to get to grips with. This blog, reflection of place as much as it reflects the media space I participate in, is a reflection of and on this era of blogging and self-propelling media that risks the exclusion of a real understanding of place.
"One is always ashamed when one finds out he is not a hero but a dupe: a dupe of History" (* Márai Sándor Memoirs of Hungary 1944-48)
I leave you with the mark of a bourgeois yet brilliant writer of his time (indeed Márai himself stresses who can write but the bourgeoisie? The deal is different now, but his commentary leaves a trace on the meaning of our travels to the east, the south and those poles of others' existence), a poet dressing up the times of transition between two wars, while at this very hour a war is being waged simultaneously in the streets of Gaza and on my contacts' Facebook status. The colours are grey indeed in this October house.
Based on the blog "an Eastern feather flies around" http://oktoberhaz.blogspot.com/
Dylan originally discovered digital photography together with blogging, which allows him to keep on writing with a freedom he enjoys. In the past years during his degree in Anthropology and Media this has taken on a different - ethical - meaning but he wants to develop this reflexive and 'amateur' format as he values its potential. He is originally from countryside Brittany in France, born in a family of musicians and dancers.his heart rooted in South African gospel.


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It is a small historical town, founded in 1762. It is the oldest town in the state. I cannot believe I have not visited before, small historical towns are my favorite. On our way out of town we drove through some of the residential streets. We saw beautiful historical homes one after another. I definitely could see myself settling into a small town like that, what a treat!
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Having a film day today as I'm busy for the next 4 days :/ with job interviews and work. I'm hoping she gives me Monday off but tbh because I've now been trained to cook, I doubt anyone else will get the Monday shift >.< Watched all my recorded stuff, Mr Selfridges, World Without End and movies - Dream House and now The Day After Tomorrow.
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We asked Delia......
all sorts of Christmas questions that we thought you'd like the answers to. So, from storing mince pies to alternative marzipan and how she likes to spend the day, here's what Delia has to say.
Turkey and other birds
What's a good accompaniment for goose?
Can I use a frozen turkey?
Yes, as long as you really give it enough time to defrost thoroughly. I think the best way is to defrost it in the fridge for 2 days, and leave it overnight in a cool place before cooking.
Should goose be covered with foil to avoid it drying out?
If goose dries out, this is probably due to overcooking, so rather than cover it with foil I would give it slightly less cooking time.
What do you do with your leftover turkey?
I like cold turkey with cold bread sauce and stuffing. One day we have it with sauté potatoes and the next with bubble and squeak. After that I make Turkey and Leek Flan, Turkey with a Hint of Thai and Curried Chicken Salad (made with turkey instead).
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What can I use instead of marzipan as I don't like almonds?
Can I microwave your Christmas pudding recipe to heat it up on the day?
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I found a jar of last year's mincemeat at the back of a cupboard. Will it still be edible?
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It's best eaten within a year of making, but actually you can make it the night before you need it.
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Yes. If you paint the cake with apricot jam, you can use a fondant icing and just fix it on with the jam.
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Are any of your Christmas dessert recipes suitable for freezing?
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What's the best way to store mince pies, in a tin or the freezer?
Can your Christmas cake be adapted to fit a 6 inch square tin?
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What would you serve for a Christmas cheeseboard?
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I have a Bronica SQ-B with its original 120 back, plus an extra 120 back for an SQ-Ai. I've used both without problems for several months, but the last two times I used both, the developed film from the SQ-Ai back showed some sort of light leak on every frame. The film from the other back showed no leaks.
The leak appears in the same spot on every frame (upper left), but varies in intensity, sometimes quite noticeable, sometimes barely . It crosses the rebate. Here is a scan:
I checked the back carefully and all the light seals are fine. Plus I can't see any tiny holes or cracks that might be causing this. The condition of the Sq-Ai back appears identical to the other back that is light-tight.
I doubt that I let light into the film roll as I was loading or unloading the insert (twice), because the leak appears on exactly the same spot on each frame.
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Adjournment Debate. - Labour and Energy Matters.
Wednesday, 1 May 1991
Dáil Éireann Debate
An Ceann Comhairle: The House will now hear two minutes statements on matters appropriate to the Minister for Labour and the Minister for Energy. I propose to call on the Deputies I have selected in the following order: first, Deputy Gerry Reynolds, second, Deputy Michael Finucane in respect of two matters and third, Deputy Philip Hogan. [1867] Each Deputy is entitled to two minutes in respect of each matter and each statement will be followed immediately by a two minute reply by the appropriate Minister.
Mr. G. Reynolds: I thank the Minister for being here. I raise this matter on grievance time because it was brought to my attention this week that a constituent of mine who is a widow applied to be a participant in a social employment scheme in her local area but was unsuccessful due to an anomaly in the system. She is very much involved in the local community and the community got together to try to have a social employment scheme in the area. There seems to be an anomaly in the system which I hope the Minister will correct. There also seems to be a certain amount of discrimination against widows in this country, this lady is relatively young, has a young family and wishes to find employment. This would be an ideal type of employment for her for 12 months, but, due to an administration factor she is not able to gain employment this way. I would be grateful if some change could be made so that this person would be entitled to get employment under this scheme.
Minister for Labour (Mr. B. Ahern): The social employment scheme is the principle Manpower intervention to assist the long term unemployed and provides an opportunity for persons who have been long term unemployed to become involved in work, albeit on a part-time basis, for one year. Participants must be over 25 years of age and in receipt of unemployment assistance or registered as unemployed for over 12 months and in receipt of unemployment benefit.
Widows who satisfy these conditions can participate in the scheme. The demand for places exceeds the number available, so an extension of the eligibility [1868] criteria to additional categories of persons could only be at the expense of those for whom the scheme was devised. I take the point which Deputy Gerry Reynolds made but I should like to point out that the Programme for Social and Economic Progress includes a recommendation that the live register requirements in the case of women applicants should be relaxed to facilitate women who wish to return to the workforce. I have already indicated to the House that I am examining ways in which this recommendation can be implemented and later on in the year we will formulate proposals to see if that can be done.
Mr. Finucane: I wish to refer to McCormack Joinery Works in Ardagh, County Limerick, where an industrial dispute has been going on for some time. The Minister is aware of the history of this dispute because he was kind enough to respond to a question of mine on a previous occasion which I hoped would lead to success in resolving the dispute.
I raise the matter as a result of frustration on the part of the workers because the dispute is still going on and the factory has closed down. The nub of the issue appears to be that the management are not prepared to recognise the trade union's right to negotiate on behalf of the workers. Within the mechanism of the new Labour Relations Commission, is there a provision for a body like that to get involved to seek a resolution to this issue and to break the impasse?
Minister for Labour (Mr. B. Ahern): This dispute began in December last and involves about 26 workers. It centres on the issue of union recognition and a retrospective pay increase. Since I spoke to the House on this dispute in February last, the Labour Court issued a recommendation that the company should recognise and negotiate with the union. However, the recommendation has not been implemented by the management.
The Labour Relations Commission [1869] have been in touch and continue their efforts to bring the parties together to try to resolve the impasse. However, I must point out to the House that, while workers have a right to join a union, employers have the right to decline to recognise it. Unfortunately, that is the position in this case.
Mr. Finucane: The second matter is in relation to a recruitment consultancy firm which approached me when two advertisements appeared in a newspaper. In one case FÁS were looking for a bar manager and steward; in the other, Shannon Free Airport Development Company were looking for a general manager. The point was made to me that this was unfair competition in relation to FÁS and the Shannon Free Airport Development Company.
In the past, when employment was probably a little more buoyant, FÁS were very much involved in this aspect. What is the current policy in relation to FÁS advertising for managerial positions? Perhaps the Minister will comment on both cases as the other company are also semi-State.
Minister for Labour (Mr. B. Ahern): The Labour Services Act, 1987, specifies that one of the principal functions of FÁS is the provision of an employment service whereby persons seeking employment and persons offering employment are brought into contact with each other. The Deputy will be aware that there are over 246,000 people on the live register at present. It behoves FÁS, as the national placement service, to do everything they can to find employment for as many of these people as possible. This requires the organisation to co-operate in every way with employers to assist them to fill the vacancies as quickly and effectively as possible. This co-operation may require FÁS to advertise vacancies on behalf of the employers when suitably skilled [1870] people are not available on the live register. In such circumstances the employer bears the cost of the advertisement.
The provision of a free employment service is a commitment into which Ireland entered through the participation in the International Labour Organisation. That may be of interest to the Deputy because a criticism of the organisation is that they do not have a high enough share of the vacancies available. Other member states — namely, Italy and Germany — do not permit the operation of private employment agencies. The figures which these organisations show in relation to securing jobs for people compared to FÁS are naturally far higher. Non-EC countries, like Sweden, which have very good organisations in this regard, do not allow private employment agencies. We do and that is where the problem arises. In the meantime, FÁS have a statutory duty in that regard which they must attempt to fulfil.
An Ceann Comhairle: I had expected to call on Deputy Hogan to make a statement appropriate to the Minister for Energy but I do not see the Member in the House.
Mr. Hogan: I apologise to you, a Cheann Comhairle, and to the Minister for my late arrival, which was due to another commitment.
Minister for Energy (Mr. Molloy): I was about to issue the information to the Kilkenny branch of the Progressive Democrats.
Mr. Hogan: I thank you for the opportunity of raising this important issue in relation to the extension of the natural gas grid to Kilkenny. I am aware that the Minister made an announcement in regard to this matter some time ago but I am merely seeking information on the progress of the work which will get natural gas to the business community, [1871] hospitals and domestic consumers as quickly as possible.
Is the Minister in a position to give a progress report in relation to the plan he envisage for the installation of a very cheap and efficient domestic fuel? It is important to bring a native source of fuel like natural gas to Kilkenny because it is environmentally friendly and smog-free and we are very conscious of our environment in the Kilkenny city area. This would make a major contribution towards enhancing our environment as well as making a competitive and cheap fuel available to make our business more competitive in the years and decades ahead.
Minister for Energy (Mr. Molloy): The idea of natural gas for Kilkenny was first mooted by BGE in 1983, when they had under consideration a project involving the supply of gas to an industrial market and the Kilkenny Gas Company. The proposal did not proceed due to the condition of the gas network in the city. No alternative viable project could be identified at the time and in 1986, BGE were asked to assist the Kilkenny Gas Company in the orderly close down of their operations. BGE purchased the Kilkenny network in 1986 and a spur-line to the city outskirts was built in 1987, in order to facilitate the supply of gas to commercial and industrial consumers.
Discussions have been ongoing with potential customers since then. While [1872] none has been connected to date, a new proposal to supply commercial customers in Kilkenny city with natural gas emerged in mid-1990 and was approved by the board of BGE. The approved project involves the expenditure of over £420,000 for the construction of a ring main which follows the new ring road from Purcellsinch Industrial Estate, continuing on to connect Kilcreen Hospital and over-land to St. Luke's Hospital on the Fethard Road.
Supply contracts have been agreed with the South Eastern Health Board, for the supply of gas to three hospitals in Kilkenny and with a number of industrial and commercial customers. Negotiations are continuing with other potential customers. It is hoped to have these discussions concluded shortly. Construction of the main pipelines will commence in mid-May and will extend through the summer.
It is expected that natural gas will flow to the first customer in Kilkenny by early August 1991.
Initial gas sales will be over 800,000 therms per annum. Provision has been made for the extension of the network to connect other industrial and commercial customers within the city. The question of supplying domestic customers in areas adjacent to the pipeline will be considered in the future, if viable projects can be identified.
The Dáil adjourned at 9.35 p.m. until 10.30 a.m. on Thursday, 2 May 1991.
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The state auditors focus was the Western Mining and Railroad Museum.
On March 23, the state auditor's office issued a management letter detailing the results of an investigation into allegations of conflict of interest, improper cash receipting and inappropriate grant revenue disbursement transactions at Helper's Western Mining and Railroad Museum.
The auditor's report identified several significant weaknesses involving Helper and the museum, which left uncorrected, the state agency advised could culminate in an unacceptable amount of errors or misappropriations of public monies to occur without detection.
The period scrutinized by the state auditor's office ranged from July 1, 2006 through July 31, 2008. The significant financial accounting weaknesses outlined in the state agency's report included:
â¢Helper failed to exercise adequate oversight for transactions between the museum and a related party vendor. Subsequently, the city purportedly processed inappropriate financial transactions involving the former museum director and the vendor.
The director had full responsibility at the museum, overseeing all transactions, including cash receipting, revenue disbursing and inventory at the facility. The former director's ownership in at least one of the vendor's businesses and occupancy of the same residence created a conflict of interest, pointed out the state agency.
The director did not formally disclose the interests to the city prior to making disbursements to the vendor, in violation of the Municipal Officers' and Employees' Ethics Act, Utah Code 10-3-1307, added the state auditor's office. But after becoming aware of the situation, Helper continued to approve disbursements for the questionable transactions.
"Transactions between related parties carry more risk; therefore, a higher level of independent oversight by the city should have been performed. Failure to exercise proper oversight for related party transactions increases the risk that misappropriations could occur without detection," emphasized the state auditor's management letter.
â¢Misappropriations and improprieties occurred due to the lack of adequate internal control procedures, proper review and approval of related party transactions by the council.
The auditor's office reviewed all 26 disbursements from July 2006 to July 2008 and identified several inappropriate or disbursements of grant monies to the related vendor for museum projects that have never been completed.
According to the state agency, disbursements totaling in excess of $20,000 in grant funding were dispersed to the related vendor for producing a museum catalog along with coal mining, Kenilworth and band room exhibits at the facility. In addition, the auditor's report questioned the propriety of disbursements for photo reprints, darkroom expenses at the museum and charges on the former director's credit card.
The state agency recommended that Helper implement internal control procedures and review policies to ensure documented expenditures. The auditor's office encouraged Helper to seek reimbursement for the misappropriated funds.
â¢Helper failed to execute contracts with the related party vendor for services at the museum. Contracts are necessary to document the terms and requirements of agreements. Without contracts, Helper officials may be exposing the city to unexpected risks, financial obligations and/or loss of revenue.
â¢The former director authored a book using museum photographs/artifacts, creating a conflict between the discharge of the employee's public duties and personal interests.
The museum board approved the former director's actions. But the members did not have the authority to grant approval under the city's resolution establishing the board and the matter should have been referred to the Helper council.
Helper did not enter into a contract documenting the book agreement. The former director's access to the museum's photos/artifacts were key resources for the publication.
The author continues to benefit from all royalties and the city failed to establish adequate internal control procedures to compensate for the former director's conflict of interest.
Records indicate that the museum purchased 361 copies of the director's book during an 11-month period. Because of the increased risk of fraud associated with conflict of interest, the city should have implemented procedures to ensure that the purchases were proper, book revenues were deposited and the facility's inventory was safeguarded..
Helper should approve all actions taken by the museum board and obtain written contracts to protect the city's interests, indicated the auditor's office. The state agency also recommend that the city and museum avoid transactions with potential conflicts of interest or establish the proper internal control to compensate for the situations.
â¢Inadequate separation of duties exists when one individual has access to assets and accounting records or reconciliation responsibilities.
The former director had access to the museum's cash records, committed the entity to exchange and reviewed expected receipts. Inadequate separation of duties could allow errors and fraud to occur without detection, noted the report.
â¢Helper lacks adequate internal control procedures to properly account for grants and related matching funds.
Without proper review, approval and accounting, the city cannot ensure that grant funds are spent according to specifications or that required matches are met, pointed out state state auditor's financial evaluation.
Responding to the auditor's report, Helper officials indicated that the city did not intentionally permit inappropriate financial transactions to the related party vendor and claimed that the undisclosed actions of the former museum director contributed to the problems. The officials assured the state agency that the city will closely review all purchase orders, execute contracts on projects, retain supporting documentation, refine the ordinance pertaining to the board and director, implement policies to avoid future conflicts, comply with separation of duties guidelines and establish as well as closely monitor separate grant accounts.
In addition, Helper officials indicated that the city intended to pursue reimbursement of the misappropriated funds with legal action if necessary.
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Donna Martin Graduates (to Prostitution): My Favorite Made-For-TV Movies
I was lucky enough to grow up in a veritable golden age of made-for-TV movies. Between Lifetime, Hallmark, and ABC After School Specials, the '80s and '90s were positively overflowing with melodramatic tales theoretically designed to be watched and discussed as a family but more usually devoured and mocked at slumber parties. Much of the time, these flicks starred popular teen actors in an effort to draw more viewers, but even with unknowns, the stories were as gruesome and depraved as they were memorable. A few that scarred me for life:
For the Love of Nancy (aka the Tracey Gold eating disorder movie)
Eating disorders were an extremely popular topic for made-for-TV movies, so it was hard for me to pick just one. After all, the Calista Flockhart vehicle The Secret Life of Mary Margaret taught me that some bulimics store their vomit in Tupperware in their bedroom closets. And Perfect Body starring none other than the Pink Power Ranger, Amy Jo Johnson, tied together eating disorders with the competitive world of gymnastics. Hard to resist. But this Tracey Gold special was particularly poignant because the actress herself was suffering from an eating disorder at the time and actually collaborated with the filmmakers to incorporate elements of her own story. Most important, Mark-Paul Gosselaar plays her brother. Enough said.
Co-Ed Call Girl
Tori Spelling at her absolute cheese-tastic best! Based on a true story (but of course), Tori plays a debt-ridden young college student who gets drawn into the world of high-class escorts before finding out (shocker) that it's not all it's cracked up to be. The clear predecessor to more recent gems like The Client List, this movie stuck with me because of how easy they made it look to fall into the world of depravity and paid sex. Tori gets involved because her roommate signs her up as a joke. A simple college prank leads to prostitution and (spoiler alert) a shoot-out! Should we be doing this to all our enemies?
Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
This movie was actually made in the 70s, but for some reason (read: brilliance) it's remained meaningful even to those of us born in later decades. Starring Linda Blair of The Exorcist, Sarah T. tells the story of a 15-year old girl who has the same problems most 15-year old girls have. She's lonely, her parents are divorced, she's jealous of her older sister, and so on. The inevitable solution to these arguably mundane teenage woes is, of course, alcohol. To an extreme degree. Sarah T's life devolves from there, culminating in a shocking climax involving a dead horse. Yeah, it goes there.
I Know My First Name is Steven
Another ripped-from-the-headlines winner, this movie is based entirely on the true story of Steven Stayner, kidnapped at the age of seven and held against his will until he escaped at age fourteen. Honestly, this is one of the best made-for-TV movies out there and I am being entirely serious. While it is admittedly terrifying (pedophiles! kinky threesomes! cigarette smoking!), it's also extremely well done, well acted, and true to the real life events. If you read the Wikipedia page about Steven Stayner and then watch the movie, you'll see that almost every detail in the movie is accurate to what really happened. This whole story has to bear at least some of the blame for my ever-present and crippling fear of kidnapping, despite the fact that I am now at the age where I'd more likely be the perpetrator than the victim.
15 and Pregnant
What's funny about this Kirsten Dunst vehicle is that given our current obsession (and resulting acceptance) of shows like 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, there's nothing shocking about the premise. But at the time, I was completely scandalized. A 15-year old girl from a decent home was not only having sex but becoming pregnant? And having to just, like, deal? Despite the fact that at the time I was absolutely, positively, tragically nowhere near kissing a boy let alone doing anything that could theoretically lead to a baby, this movie scared the crap out of me. From not being able to button her favorite jeans to catching her baby daddy cheating, life for Kirsten was grim as an expectant mother. Although looking back now, the message of this movie was a little shady because the unwanted baby does, in fact, help heal Kirsten's broken family and bring them all closer together. Hmmm.
She Cried No a.k.a. Freshman Fall
No list of made-for-TV movies would be complete without this shining piece of history, starring none other than Candace Cameron and Mark-Paul Gosselaar! He plays, of course, a known date rapist who Candace readily befriends in an effort to fit in her freshman year of college. Lo and behold, he sets his sights on her, and one disturbing party scene later, her life is ruined. This movie is actually mostly about how hard it is to prosecute date rape and the double standard of Candace's tarnished reputation vs. Mark-Paul's golden boy image. It's all interesting enough, or at least it was in 1996, but all that matters to me is that we're supposed to buy Zack freakin' Morris as a date rapist. Kelly and Jessie would definitely not approve.
While these movies should be lauded for tackling serious and sensitive issues most TV shows don't dare approach, the overall lack of production quality, mediocre writing, and at once saccharine-and-gratuitous tone are what most people remember. But if you want to host a whole different kind of Halloween horror movie night, you can always scare yourself stupid with a double feature of kidnapping and DJ Tanner date rape.
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Jennifer Steinhauer
WASHINGTON — Senator Harry Reid of Nevada knew he would anger Republicans when he threatened to change the rules of the Senate to make it harder for the minority to gum up legislation. But he is also running into resistance from fellow Democrats about the way those rules would be changed — essentially by ramming the changes through with 51 votes, rather than with the agreement of two-thirds of the Senate, which is how rule changes are meant to be made.
Because Republicans are united in their dislike of the proposed changes, Mr. Reid would never get 67 votes — two-thirds of the Senate — to break a filibuster on the filibuster change. So he could instead avail himself of a controversial option that some proponents believe is available only on the first day of a new Congress and change those rules via majority rule, or 51 votes. Opponents insist that such a move would violate Senate rules.
A majority of Democrats, frustrated by what they say is the consistent and brazen abuse of the filibuster by Republicans, appear to support changes to the rules, and some believe they do not go far enough. But others, deeply aware that a majority party today can be the sad and lonely minority tomorrow, are not keen on playing the "nuclear option" card, with majority rule.
"I don't like the nuclear option," said Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida. "I reserve the right to decide later, but instinctively I don't like it. It's avoiding the rules." Mr. Nelson added that "a body like this runs on comity and common sense," and he said he worried that going nuclear would do serious damage to that atmosphere.
The divide exists somewhat along electoral generational lines. Newer senators, appalled by the molasseslike movement of bills and the overall dysfunction of the chamber, have been urging Mr. Reid to make the changes. Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico, who took office in 2009, has been especially ardent, though he gets a great deal of support from Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, who has been laboring against the filibuster for decades.
The refusal to stomp on the will of the minority is one of the greatest differences between the Senate and the House, where the majority simply rules. Many senators in both parties agree that comity will be damaged if a 51-vote rule change comes to pass. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, has been nearly apoplectic about the issue on the Senate floor this week.
Consistently tossing back Mr. Reid's words from previous years — in which he defended the Senate rules process — Mr. McConnell railed against the proposed changes over and over again. "I'm just perplexed about the judgment on display here," he said, "blowing up the Senate at a time when the election is behind us."
But Democrats argue that the filibuster has been increasingly used to block routine nominations, hold up Senate business and generally infuriate the majority, and that the rules must be tightened.
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2012 seems to have brought good news for Mumbai realtors. Home buyers are returning to make purchases despite developers announcing a fresh round of price hikes, reports CNBC-TV18′s Priyanka Ghosh.
Faced with rising input costs on one hand and the new DCR guidelines which have reduced the developable area on a plot of land on the other, real estate companies in Mumbai have begun to increase prices of apartments again.
Case in point, Oberoi Realty , which hiked prices of its Goregaon projects by Rs 1,000 – 1,500 per square foot.
But what's probably more interesting is that the hike has not affected demand, with Oberoi clocking in robust volumes of about 36%. This clearly wasn't the case last year when the company had increased prices by 11% and saw volumes drop by 30%.
Other players such as Sunteck Realty too are confident that its Goregaon project, soft launched at Rs 9,000 per square foot, will be able to fetch about Rs 12,000 per square foot when formally launched in June.
Lodha Developers too have confirmed that the company is looking to increase prices across projects by 3-5%.
So, what has changed in 2012? Analysts say, after an extended downturn, demand is slowly trickling back.
Anuj Puri, country head at Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj says, "Cycle has started again. Even with the price increase, buyers are coming out and buying. Maybe not to the extent 18 months ago but certainly more than six months back when the prices were about 10-12% cheaper than what they are today."
However its still not smooth sailing. Experts say only the mid segment buyers are ready to take on price hikes.
"High end is a wait and watch for now but there are locations such as Navi Mumbai and buildings in Thane which have seen appreciation. So like I said we are predicting a 10-11% hike in the mid range and nothing in the high end", says Shweta Jain from Cushman and Wakefield.
Mumbai has been starved of new launches owing to lack of government approvals in the past one year and some say, this has led to a pent up demand in the market.
So, while the first few launches may receive good response despite an increase in price, whether the demand will be sustainable, will depend on how steeply prices rise in the future.
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Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial (DLCST)
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The trial is a randomised trial comparing annual CT screening for lung cancer with no screening in 4104 smokers and former smokers between the age of 50 and 70 years. The goals are: 1) to evaluate if annual CT screening can reduce lung cancer mortality by more than 20 % (in collaboration with the NELSON trial in the Netherlands, 2) to evaluate psychological effects of screening including the effects of false positive diagnoses, and 3) to evaluate possible effects on smoking behaviour. The trial is funded in full by the Danish Ministry of Interior and Health.
Lung Cancer
Procedure: annual CT screening
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|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind
Primary Purpose: Screening
|Official Title:
|Screening for Lung Cancer. A Randomised Controlled Trial of Low-Dose CT-Scanning.
- Lung cancer mortality [ Time Frame: 10 years ]
- lung cancer incidense and stagedistribution [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
|Study Start Date:
|October 2004
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|January 2010
The trial is a parallel randomized controlled trial comparing either a yearly low dose CT scan or no screening. It is scheduled to enroll 4000 smokers and former smokers, and the study is scheduled to last 5 years, i.e. an initial (prevalence) screening is followed by 4 annual (incidence) screenings.
In addition the following investigations are done: A prospective, longitudinal questionnaire assessment of enrolled participants who have received a false positive diagnosis. The questionnaire will focus on the consequences of receiving a false positive diagnosis. Answers from enrolled subjects who have received a false positive diagnosis will be compared to their own "baseline" responses, and responses from subjects who have received a negative result of their own low-dose CT scans All participants will annually be questioned regarding smoking habits, their motivation for cessation of smoking and will be advised to refrain from smoking to assess the effect of participation in a screening protocol for lung cancer on cessation of smoking.
Socioeconomic consequences of screening for lung cancer will be assessed by longitudinal registration of costs and benefits (e.g. morbidity, hospitalization, GP consultations etc.
Assess the value of PET scanning when screening for lung cancer.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|50 Years to 70 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Smoking exposure > 20 pack years
- Quit smoking < 10 years
- Fit to undergo treatment
- Pulmonary function test > 30 % of expected (FEV1)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Bodyweight > 130 Kg
- Formely treated for lungcancer, breastcancer, melanoma or hypernephroma.
- Serious co-morbidity with life expectancy below 10 years.
- Treated for other malignant diseases within the last 5 years.
- Treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis within the last 2 years.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00496977
|Lung Screening Clinic, Gentofte University Hospital
|Hellerup, Denmark, DK-2900
|Principal Investigator:
|Jesper H Pedersen, MD, Dr.Sci
|Gentofte University Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark
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|Study First Received:
|July 5, 2007
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|July 5, 2007
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|Denmark: Danish Dataprotection Agency
Keywords provided by Danish Lung Cancer Group:
lung cancer
CT scan
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Neoplasms
Lung Diseases
Neoplasms by Site
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
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How to Improve ANSF Development
Security Force Development is no easy business, even under the best conditions. But the task becomes all the more difficult when the trainers and the force in development are also in the midst of — or will soon be — battling an active insurgency. In a new report, Gen. James Dubik, former commander of Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq, outlines the necessary steps for accelerating the training and expanding the size of the Afghan National Security Forces, while increasing and more effectively bringing to bear the ANSF's combat power. Read the report here.
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The Real Problem with the Strykers
Within the last six months, the difficulties of the Stryker brigade in southern Afghanistan have largely been attributed to vehicles' technical inadequacy in the face of the country's inhospitable terrain, their vulnerability to the improvised explosive devices of which they had become a frequent target, and thus the hurdle they presented in allowing the soldiers of the 5/2 SBCT to pursue the population-centric counterinsurgency mission with which they had been tasked. But an article yesterday from Sean Naylor in Army Times reveals what the real problem has been: a leadership deficit, along with an enemy system that was badly underestimated and misunderstood. Read the piece here.
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Will NATO Follow Rasmussen's Lead?
In keeping with his past efforts to steel allied resolve for the mission in Afghanistan, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has once again made clear that NATO is committed to success in the embattled country — as defined in large part by indigenous forces that can confidently take the lead in battling the Taliban — and noted that alliance forces won't depart until the security situation there is well in hand:
"I know some are wondering how long international forces will stay; they are worried we will leave too soon. Let there be no doubt the international community will stand with you and help in rebuilding your country until you are ready to stand on your own and ensure that terrorism will never take root again."
On the question of training and fielding Afghan National Security Forces, Rasmussen noted that "they will start to take the lead when and where they are ready. This transition will be conditions based, not calendar driven. We will stay the course."
Rasmussen should be applauded for his bold rhetorical commitment to the mission in Afghanistan. One can't help but be concerned, however — as the Dutch and Canadians prepare to depart RC-South in the coming year, and with the revelation that 1,500 of the "additional" NATO forces committed to the Afghan mission are in fact already in country and will simply have their deployments extended — that the Secretary General is writing the proverbial check that the national leaders within his alliance won't allow him to cash.
Cyber Army on the March
A week and half ago, I worried that Russian organized cyber crime's support for Tehran websites could turn more ominous. Late Thursday night, Iranian hackers took down the Twitter homepage, showing instead a screen with a green flag and the words "This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army". Twitter was able to fix the problem within a few hours and soon reported that "Twitter's DNS [Domain Name Service] records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed." Compromising the DNS records allowed the hackers to redirect visitors from Twitter's homepage to the new website (instead of just defacing the homepage). Another website, the Iranian reformist http://www.mowjcamp.org/, continues to be down and show the Iranian Cyber Army page. These events don't necessarily mean that RBN is selling its hacking services to Iran; after all, Twitter (an obvious target because of the well-publicized role of Twitter in the June election protests) has had multiple problems with security over the past six months and homegrown Iranian hackers could have the skills necessary for this attack. However, in combination with Tehran's connections to RBN, this attack is worth paying attention to.
British Defense Programs: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
According to a report released just yesterday by the British Parliament's National Audit Office, the UK defense ministry is facing a budget shortfall of up to 36 billion pounds over the next decade. (The predicted shortage is equivalent to about 95% of Britain's current annual defense budget.) "The current [defense program] is unaffordable," the NAO simply said in its public release accompanying the report. Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, summed up the current state of British defense procurement:
"The Ministry of Defence has a multi-billion pound budgetary black hole, which it is trying to fix with a 'save now, pay later' approach. This gives a misleadingly negative picture of how well some major projects in MOD are managed, represents poor value for money and heightens the risk that the equipment [Britain's] Armed Forces require will not be available when it is needed or in the quantities promised."
A striking features of this year's report is the NAO's finger-pointing at the precise impact of the programs' delays. Among other factors, the NAO condemned the government's delay tactics that are supposedly designed to achieve affordability in the short-term. According to the NAO, however, these tactics directly undermine their original purpose, which is to save taxpayer money. In fact, nearly two-thirds of the cost overruns of the MOD's top 15 defense programs resulted from delays.
Rasmussen and the Russians
In the early reporting on NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen's trip to Moscow, pessimism rules the day when it comes to NATO-Russia relations and the latter's support for the alliance's mission in Afghanistan. Rasmussen is in Russia to negotiate an agreement with the Kremlin to allow the transit of NATO military equipment through Russian territory. In addition, NATO would like the Russians to allow its military aircraft to pass through Russian airspace. Currently, only non-lethal NATO supplies can travel through Russia — and then only by train, at an exceptionally slow pace. So far, the Kremlin has also been ignoring calls by some NATO leaders to provide military hardware in support of the Afghanistan mission, as well as more oil and gas, for free, instead of the high price currently charged.
To be fair, there already exists a fair deal of cooperation between NATO and Russia on Afghanistan. As Margarete Klein, a Russia expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), said in an interview, "There is a regular exchange of information, transit agreements have been agreed and a project for the training of Afghan and Central Asian personnel combating drug trafficking exists." However, others complain about Russia's lack of will, real or perceived, at serious cooperation with NATO on Afghanistan. After all, an alliance bogged down in Afghanistan may well be in the Russians' best national interest. The proponents of this line of argument are quick to point to the Kremlin's, as they see it, disingenuous proposal for a new European security treaty.
Japan Strategy: Domestic Priorities v. Foreign Demands
Given Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama's non-decision on honoring a 2006 U.S.-Japan agreement to move Marine Air Station Futenma to a new location at Camp Schwab on Okinawa, it may be time for U.S. officials to start recognizing some unpleasant realities. First and foremost, Hatoyama and his Democratic Party of Japan care most about their own political control at home. The DPJ spent 15 years clawing its way to power in Japan, and part of the Faustian deal was a coalition with the tiny Social Democratic Party and New People's Party in the Upper House of parliament. The DPJ can't control the Upper House without them, and they are not about to risk their political life for what they consider to be a minor agreement with the Americans–they've got bigger fish to fry in changing Japan. This is hardball politics that Washington should surely understand.
Secondly, the Japanese side may well be gambling that Washington really has no other place to go in Asia for its main bases, and therefore will simply accept whatever Hatoyama ultimately decides on relocation, realignment, and the like. Guam most likely can't handle the Futenma station, given all the other buildup on the island, and any other location would likely put the U.S. farther out of the western Pacific. Having lost its southern anchor in the Philippines in the early 1990s, with the closing of Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base, there is little likelihood the White House or Pentagon would dare push the Futenma relocation issue to the point of breaking the alliance. As much as Japan needs the U.S. for its security, the lack of any immediate, existential danger may give it confidence in the hand it is playing.
The Logistics of Victory
A few articles in recent days have reiterated what had become clear over the last 8 years: with its unforgiving terrain, punishing climate, and meager infrastructure, Afghanistan is a logistician's nightmare. The U.S. military's transport, supply, and logistics challenges will only become more acute as additional troops and equipment are flooded into the country in the coming months. As Ash Carter, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, noted recently, "At this phase, Afghanistan is a logistics war as much as any other kind of war." For more, check out Steven Mufson and Walter Pincus's account of the military's looming fuel supply challenges in the Washington Post, as well as August Cole's review of the Pentagon's logistics priorities with respect to Afghanistan in the Wall Street Journal .
DoD photo by Spc. Tia P. Sokimson, U.S. Army/Released
In its continuing quest for all things arms control-related and multilateral, the Obama administration now appears prepared to begin discussing cyber arms control with Russia. According to the New York Times, upcoming discussions will include a Russian-sponsored internet security conference in Germany and a session of the the United Nations committee on disarmament and international security in January. Russians laud this as a perceptible shift in U.S. policy toward a disarmament treaty for cyberspace — which, if they had their way, would entail limiting weapons development (in which they lag behind the U.S.) and a ban on "cyberterrorism," widely defined to include political dissent — while the U.S., according to an unnamed State Department official, simply hopes to use these talks to strengthen international anti-criminal cooperation in cyberspace. As numerous security experts (including Jeff Carr and Tim Stevens) have already pointed out, cyber arms control talks are little more than a waste of time. Russia has already refused to cooperate on cross-border law enforcement, opting out of the Council of Europe's current Convention on Cybercrime, because they argue it violates their sovereignty (and Constitution) to allow foreign governments to conduct internet searches inside Russian borders. Back in October, General Sherstyuk, a deputy secretary in the Russian Security Council (the Russian NSC), warned that as long as the European Cybercrime treaty allowed these searches, Russia would never sign it. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Russia can agree not to use cyber arms against each other, but given Russia's preferred technique of outsourcing cyber attacks to both criminal groups, such as RBN, and patriotic young citizens defending the motherland, a cyber arms control treaty would be meaningless. Hopefully the Obama administration will soon recognize the futility of these discussions and focus their time and effort on more important issues, such as shoring up U.S. cyber defenses.
Kara Flook is a reasearch associate at the American Enterprise Institute.


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