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Matthew has made a brilliant little piece of art; the way the Remain campaign should have been done.
If you are on a mobile you will have to "request desktop site" (it's always there somewhere) - it's because of the music, which is hilarious.
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Beautiful art on a big decision
Matthew has made a brilliant little piece of art; the way the Remain campaign should have been done.
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Saturday, 4 June 2016
Music of the Mundial Final
This post studies the music used in the final of the Mundial de Tango in the years 2012-2015. I have no information about how or why the music is chosen, or whether any guidelines exist for the person or committee choosing the music. In this post I simply observe what they actually chose.
DataI compiled this data by watching the videos in this playlist. They are kindly provided by Aires de Milonga, a website I recommend; they provide these videos for nothing, but they offer additional services to those who subscribe a very small annual sum via Paypal.
Each final consists of approximately forty couples, and is divided into four Rondas. For each ronda, three tracks are played. Only tangos are used; no milonga or vals.
Over the four years, this gives a total of 3 x 4 x 4 = 48 tracks, but there are actually 49, because in the first ronda of 2013 something happens off-camera during track 3 that bumps the floor and disturbs the competitors' concentration. A fourth track is played, in the same style.
To begin with, I noted the orchestra, singer, and title of each track. I then searched for the tracks on tango.info and on YouTube until I was reasonably satisfied that I had identified them correctly.
The full data set can be downloaded here: if you notice an error, please describe it in the comments. The tracks are announced at about the 3-minute mark of each ronda, immediately after the couples do their preliminary walk around the floor so the judges can see their numbers.
Style rotationI perceived the tracks for each ronda as covering a predominantly dramatic style, a predominantly rhythmic style, and an in-between, lyrical, or other style, in no particular order. I have added these wholly subjective categorisations in the full data set. You will probably disagree with at least some of them, perhaps many. The word "Lyrical" is fairly meaningless and just refers to the in-between or mixed or melody-led style of track that isn't either of the others; often it is the track that would allow competitors to show off the technical achievement of a slow, smooth, graceful walk. I may update my classifications to make them a bit more meaningful and regular.
The use of these three broad styles in each ronda makes sense on the basis that each couple gets the chance to show off a broad range of technical and musical powers. Each ronda in each final obviously needs to be stylistically similar to the other two. I note, though, that 40 couples seems a lot for a 'final'; the naive observer might have expected to see, say, only ten different couples, and see them dance for a little longer or to a wider range of music.
OrchestrasThe orchestras used looked like this.
|Orchestras of recordings used in the final of the Mundial de Tango, 2012-2015
It seems notable to me that there is absolutely no Biagi, and absolutely no Canaro.
Given the volume and excellence of their output, if they were going to be used at all, you'd think they'd be in there somewhere, over the four years. If you were practicing for the final, and you didn't have this data, you might spend time with those guys; but it seems you'd be wrong.
It can imagine a pretty good argument for not using any Biagi. There's no reasonable substitute, so if you used, say, one of the great Biagi instrumentals in one ronda, it might seem very unfair not to use another in each of the four Rondas. Everybody needs a roughly equal chance to either shine or make fools of themselves; and that would make Biagi too prominent and would mean you had to sacrifice something else. I hypothesise that if there were a vals competition, there'd be plenty of Biagi in there.
There is already a widely-held belief that Argentinians consider Canaro a bit 'common'. Nothing in this data really supports or dispels such an idea; but they don't use any in the final. Nor do they use any of the orchestras that come to mind as stylistically similar to Canaro's most currently-popular output; Lomuto, OTV, Carabelli, Típica Porteña, etc. So it does support the idea that this style of music is not considered appropriate for competition. And again, if there were a milonga competition, we'd see Canaro.
Years of RecordingThis is what the years of recording look like.
|Year of recordings used in the final of the Mundial de Tango, 2012-2015
|Decade of recordings used in the final of the Mundial de Tango, 2012-2015
CommentaryIf you were doing well in the Mundial and you were practicing for the final, it would make a lot of sense to spend about a fifth of your time on each of D'Arienzo, Di Sarli, Pugliese, and Troilo, and the other fifth on exploring how what you have learned applies to whatever else you like among tracks that can be used as stylistic subsitutes for those four; provided that it is not Biagi, not Canaro, and not anything recorded before 1934.
You would also think about three (or more - this is very subjective) broad classifications of style, and you would focus on forming a range of improvisational habits that worked well for each style, regardless of the orchestra.
If you dance socially in Europe, it might also make sense to spend some extra time improving your dance to the 50's output. There's some support in this data for the widespread idea that the Argentinians think the Golden Age of tango music began and ended five to ten years later than the Europeans think it did. You may be less familiar with the nearly 30% of these tracks that were recorded after 1945, and you will probably have no chance to show what you can do with anything before 1935, so that experience is somewhat wasted. Being able to hit 80% of Biagi's off-beats will also be 100% useless, while being able to dance to 50's tangos generally without getting the giggles could be something you need.
Further research, or exercises for the interested readerYesterday I attended the first round of the related competition organised in London (there were 14 couples, one from the UK). You might be wondering if the pattern I've seen here was followed, or if it is followed in your own local competition, or the European competition, or anywhere else. I haven't gone through my notes yet, but the data so far says no. Despite dividing thirteen couples into a rather excessive three rondas, I don't think they followed the rotation of styles, and Pablo played both Canaro and OTV. I probably won't attend rounds 2 or 3, as it costs £25 to get in, and that adds up to a bit much, but if you feel like having something to focus on while you're there, go ahead and collect the data. It would be good to note the couple numbers in each round, too, along with your personal top six, and the results.
My guess is that no guidelines are published anywhere about the music, so the practice in local competitions is probably completely unrelated to what's done in the final. I have not tried to collect data for the semi-finals, either, and there's no reason to assume it's the same.
An interesting exercise for the reader - or for further research - would be to consider what three tracks you would use if you wanted, by observation, to identify the best dancers - by your own definition - in a room.
[Edit: I think the announcement at yesterday's competition was that there were 13 couples, but my notes show 14 different numbers; so I've changed it to 14. I could be wrong].
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Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Sometimes people take video clips of tango events I travel to. And occasionally, like everyone else, I can see glimpses of myself dancing, in between other couples.
If I see myself leading, which is rare enough for me not to be used to it, the one thing that really hits me is how TINY I am.
Now, this could be partly in relation to my partners. I usually (not always) change into flat shoes if I want to lead, and most (not all) of the women I dance with usually (not always) wear about a 7cm heel for following. I am about 166cm tall, which when I look it up turns out to be two to four centimetres taller than average for an English woman. The women I dance with vary a lot in height, but most of the time their heels will prevent them looking much smaller than me. And I am rather lightly built, so I don't look like much of anything from a distance.
But I don't think that's what makes me look tiny. What does that is the contrast in size and bulk of us as a couple, with the other couples led by men. And that's something I simply never think about, and am never aware of, until I see it.
I am like a little dog that doesn't know what "small" is.
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Red silk tango boots, 1910-1920
How did I miss this? SilkDamask.org:
"These red, silk satin French-made "barrette/Tango boots" are in the collection of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto (http://www.batashoemuseum.ca) and date circa 1910s-1920s. Even if you do not fancy dancing, they just beckon you to have some fun, don't they? In order to dance the Tango, the shoe needed to be well-fitted and secure. The lacing, or barrette-style straps, run up the ankle (and often the calf, as in this example) adding a provocative, sensual twist – appropriate for the dance itself."Look at them! I don't have permission to use the image; if I can find a way of getting in touch, I will ask, and if it's ok I'll add it here. But comments are restricted, and I can't find an email.
Everything SilkDamask writes about the requirements for a tango shoe still applies; it must hold firmly to the foot, flatter the leg, look beautiful, be sensually pleasing, and fit well. They must also have a very flexible sole, on which the dancer can easily pivot. The fashion for heels is thinner, and the shoes themselves are generally less substantial.
These days we have numerous manufacturers to choose from, and they compete for the custom of serious dancers on comfort, fit, function, beauty, and to some extent price, although generally not on prompt delivery or reliable service.
I invite you to compare the Yeite glossy red by Balanceo, the Silver Ramona by Madame Pivot, and the Recoleta in purple polka dots by Regina. From the Argentine manufacturers, Fabioshoes make this rather gorgeous practice shoe. Comme Il Faut have continued to make their more extreme, colourful, elaborate and detailed designs, but are possibly collected as art objects about as often than they are used to dance in, at least nowadays in the European market.
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Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Vague, Subjective Guide to Obvious Tango Orchestras
In no particular order, not even alphabetical, this a dump of my 100% subjective and fairly eccentric mental catalogue. In no way should this be taken as reliable or comprehensive.
Sounds the most orchestral of all orchestras - the most like a symphony orchestra. If there seems to be a lot going on, with numerous different sounds having equal prominence, and at the same time it's all rather grand and maybe wants to be part of a larger work, it's probably Troilo. Also sounds like everybody, so if you know you know it, but can't think who it is, it's probably Troilo.
Di Sarli
I can't improve on Mike Lavocah's insight: Di Sarli does everything with the violins. Recorded over a long time with huge variations of style and sound and feeling, but the violins thing is consistent. Also sounds like Fresedo with a difficult girlfriend. Some of the late stuff sounds like Di Sarli trying to be Pugliese; with results that are kind of wonderful, if you can keep a straight face.
Sounds loud, even when playing quietly. Dense texture. Had Biagi at the piano for a lot of it, and sounds like Biagi without the holes. Some of the late stuff sounds not just intense, but completely bonkers, until you compare it with Biagi. The flesh and organs of tango.
Sounds like D'Arienzo with holes in. A lighter texture, and not just intense, but genuinely eccentric. The offbeats are much more unexpected. Appears never to have recorded a bad or boring track. A truckload of amazing valses, not enough milongas. In the late recordings he doesn't fall into the trap of imitating Pugliese; he's influenced by changes of style, and grows, but remains his entirely genuine, electric, eccentric self.
Kind of the backbone of tango, including the dodgy discs and the odd hernia, gunshot splinter or missing fortune. Always sounds totally professional, brisk, and organised. Best when there's a really strong tune and Maida singing. But recorded a lot, for a long time, and is very various.
Sounds glossy and dark. Salon in a dark suit. Tbh I can't describe it very well because are only a few tracks I like all that much, and most of those remind me of the JAWS theme. The ones that are good are magnificent.
Sounds like a 30's Hollywood movie involving palm trees and pineapple hats. Tuneful, romantic, often a bit sugary. Or like Di Sarli with a nicer girlfriend and fewer violins.
Sort of buzzy. Like dancing bees. The most famous tracks have Alberto Podesta doing the operatic tenor thing. When he flies, he still comes down at the right moment. Bermudez has a darker, lower voice. But the bees are still there.
Sounds kind of like teeny-tiny Troilo for a much smaller room. Still a lot going on, but more portably.
The sound of the orchestra itself, with or without the singer, is full of love. This is music of a bigger picture, but expressed for and by two humans in one embrace that embraces a whole world. Pugliese is never caught up in narrow emotionality; but is deeply and satisfyingly real, like a plate of egg and chips. Pugliese was so influential that all the modern orchestras seem to be trying to sound like him, which is a trap better musicians than they are have also fallen into.
Sounds like walking along very carefully, one step at a time, not stepping on the lines on the pavement, because of the bears. But either quite amiably tipsy, or, in some tracks, weeping drunk.
Sauntering, episodic, and sounds a bit pissed off, or rambling drunk. Nice to play with when you're not going anywhere in particular. On reflection, I prefer the ones where Vargas comes in early and sings his thing, and the orchestra provides a fairly brisk, minimal frame otherwise.
De Angelis
Another kind of sauntering and episodic that wanders off in no particular direction and has a giant drama while staring at some random wall. Generally a bit art-movie. History's most annoying Cumparsita, which wurbles on for what seems like twenty minutes, is instantly forgotten, and then keeps coming back in your head for days.
Probably the one that sounds most like late 19th century opera that you can dance to. Like the Pearl Fishers or Tosca. Properly entertaining music, with loads of rhythm, super tunes, and the occasional quite good joke.
Lush (Mike Lavocah again). A gooey chocolate hazelnutty sort of sound with a trace of jazz. I love it.
Daaah-dum. Dark woodwind with a distinctive ending.
OTV (Orquesta Tipica Victor)
Victor studio house band: sounds incredibly professional and picked good songs. Wants to be driving scene music for a low-dialogue film.
I usually don't hear the opening of the first track and name the orchestra in my head, unless the track is a particular favourite or has a very distinctive opening: I usually just focus on how much I like it, and who I am most interested in dancing with, based on the general feeling it gives me. When I name the orchestra it's usually later, whether I'm dancing or not. This is why I get absolutely ropeable if the DJ plays their weakest track first in the tanda, or plays inconsistent tandas that don't carry through what the first track promised. Don't do it!
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Friday, 11 March 2016
Undead Tango at the Peacock, and scenes I'd like to see
So, one of the reviews said "you have to admire Cornejo's effort to rejuvenate tango for 21st Century", and I think it would be a very good thing if somebody actually did try to reinvent the tango show for the 21st Century. So I thought I'd better go and see if it had been tried. I expected the reviewer to be mistaken, but I was open minded.
Content warning: some adult language.
It really was trying to be different. It contained things I didn't expect. They included a farthingale, a longish session of ballet pointe-work, a Disney princess and a lot of schmaltz. At least it realised it should try.
Its attempt to avoid cliché opens with "Tango de Roxane" in gold Kylie dresses. The first half continued with various slightly steampunk-themed scenes, musical solos, a wedding with a kind of Widow Twankey thing going on, then the Disney princess, an extended scene of one ballerina en pointe with six men as props, and a lot more that I don't remember. The tango was pouting, one-paced, unvarying, frenetic, kickety kickety kick.
The second half consisted mostly of what you would expect - a succession of the kind of single-couple choreographies that usually do well in the Escenario section of the Mundial. Mundane is what they certainly are. One of the couples paused twice and looked briefly at each other, rather than exclusively at the audience and into space. Then they did an endless turn through a long silence. That, and the obvious fall, were the only moves I remember.
The Widow Twankey bit came back with a clown scene all about the huge impractical costumes, which were pretty much the theme of the production as a whole. There was also the obligatory single scene of men dancing with each other, and of course they had to make it a play-fight, because two men who can actually dance, actually dancing with each other would be - well, what?
On New Year's Eve I was at a festival in France and one of the things I was privileged to see, when I wasn't too busy dancing, was two of the most truly charming and attractive men on the European tango scene dancing together socially and having fun. There's no video, because it was social dancing and it was about actually being there (although if you took video, you should TOTALLY send it right now. I won't tell). I got to dance with each of them as well, and they were both lovely.
This wasn't that. This was so utterly terrified of appearing remotely interesting, let alone sexy, that it threw a punch and ran for the hills. They had to bring a woman on to calm things down with the magic tits of pornobanality.
Tango is a traditional partner dance and a gender-role-play game. It's also a social dance scene in which women dancing together because they want to dance with each other is common, and normal, and often looks compelling and wonderful; and in which men dancing together because they want to dance with each other is much less common, and is also normal, and also often looks compelling and wonderful.
And I'm somehow supposed to be impressed by this on the stage at Sadler's Wells?
This production seems completely unaware that anyone, anywhere in the world, dances tango with another person because they want to. The 'tango' presented is an achingly narrow bonsai product. Irrelevant to its global practice, contemptuous of its audience.
I have no problem with anybody arranging Skyfall as a tango and dancing to it. None. I think that's a great idea. It has a pretty good tune. If you've got a good arranger and a good band, and the song says something you want to say, totally go for it. Dive right in if you think you're good enough. The more good songs get well arranged and well played as new tangos, the better; eventually some of them will be good enough to dance to, and to get there you have to experiment and practice.
I also quite liked the steampunk look. Why not? Long skirts are challenging for the cast, but if it means something to you, do it. Some of the costumes near the end reminded me of passing through Birmingham on a bus at 5am in 1997 on my way to the British Grand Prix, happy days. What they meant to the director is anyone's guess, but I have no problem with it. I just don't think it counts as innovation. Nor does ballet, and nor does rock-and-roll, especially if not very good.
There were moments of genuine emotion; the emotions were misogyny, transphobia, and the kind of sexism directed mainly by men at men which is often referred to as 'toxic masculinity'. The production seemed unconscious of these, so I can only suppose they were sincere.
I would have left the theatre indifferent, but not especially cross, if I hadn't seen the encore and read the programme notes. In the encore, they put on 80s 'fame' costumes and danced tango to 50's rock and roll. If you want to dance rock and roll in a tango show, I would like you to dance rock and roll, preferably well. As for the programme notes, I'll spare you.
It's possible that the costumes were intended to be the plot.
In fact, I'm not going to discuss the production any more. It met my expectations, which shouldn't be an excuse. Instead I'm going to discuss what a tango show should be. Let's make up some possible ground rules and just put them out there.
Ballet is not innovation. Rock and roll is not innovation. Gymnastics are not innovation, nor are they in themselves good dancing. Long skirts are not innovation. 80's timewarps are not innovation. Dancing to a Bond theme has been done rather better on Strictly Come Dancing nearly a decade ago. Same-sex dancing is not innovation. It may be striking, significant, beautiful, or even unusual on stage, but it is not new.
I would like to see innovation, ambition, and imagination in tango shows. I would like to see choreography that means something and says something. I would like to see things more like the performance that came second in the Mundial this year, which made me feel something. I've seen tango performances in the last twelve months that moved me to tears. It is totally possible.
Here are some things I would like to see in a tango show. Not all in the same show. These are just some ideas, some possible directions, in no particular order. They are not revolutionary. Most of them are extremely conservative, and would be tiny steps in relation to the format and traditions of tango shows. They're things that might give you a reason to dance tango on stage, rather than something else.
Innovation, in tango shows, would be literally anything that wasn't crap. But, how about:
- A variety of styles and ways of dancing, chosen for the ideas they communicate. Tango is expressively rich, technically diverse, and global. Like Shakespeare.
- A scene that tells the story of its music, in the sense of addressing its content. There are songs about gender violence, dead babies, loyal dogs, has-beens, falling in love, selfishness, poverty, crushes, breakups, second thoughts, pretentiousness, humanity adrift in a mechanical world, bad dancing, warfare, emigration, immigration, homesickness, money, church bells, and lots more. The content is sometimes difficult. Why not take it on?
- If you're going to dance to 'Ojos Negros' as a vals, and you have a good band, a costume budget, and a talented arranger, why not tell some of the story of that tune? You could still have the Disney princess dress in there, if you wanted.
- A scene that subverts, defies, or reimagines the content of a well-known tango, or uses it as a clever joke.
- A scene that tells a story about travel and Europe and Japan in the history of tango.
- An ethnically diverse cast.
- If (as it's clear this production does) you have total contempt for the very existence of European social tango, why not satirise it? I saw enough plastic Chichos at a small festival in France a couple of weekends ago to make anybody laugh out loud. I bet the cast could make fun of that. You could dance in vomit-green swooshpants, bare feet, a bath-ring beard and a man-bun. Hell, you could make fun of Noelichicks, Carlitoheads, Salonsters, bloggers, wielders of the Minirig, or dancing in airports. At least you wouldn't be insulting our intelligence, and it could hardly fail to be funnier than the Widow Twankey. Or show me the hilarious and touching things I don't know about that (probably) happen in Seoul and Shanghai.
- Any scene at all that alludes to tango as it exists in the world.
- Scenes of same-sex dancing that are more than displacement activity. Why not make it about love, or friendship, or teamwork, or learning, or solidarity, or society, or even, for fuck's sake, sex?
- Any scene at all about about complex human feelings or the way people take care of and teach and support each other in bad situations.
- A scene that shows someone wanting to dance with someone else. For any reason.
- A scene about how dancing enhances people's lives.
- A scene that communicates how magical it feels to find that you are apparently leading because someone has decided to follow you, and how amazing that process is.
- A scene alluding to the contemporary experience of tango tourism, from any point of view. Daring, huh?
- A funny story about a badly-organised tango competition. Even more daring.
- A scene alluding to the funny, complicated or stressful side of organising a social dance.
- A musical story that says something about the relationships between tango, jazz, blues, and rock, and shows off the versatility and knowledge of cast and musicians, without abandoning what music means to people.
- A cast spending less time obviously out-of-breath.
- If you're going to have a backdrop of random stars, why not have a backdrop of obviously non-random stars, with the Moon and Orion the Southern way up?
I don't think the explanation for all this is commercial. It looks commerically stupid to ignore the European tango scene. It has an absorbing hobby, it has time, and it has money. You don't have to limit yourself to standing ovations from randoms who have no idea what they've just seen. You could carry on pleasing them and still refrain from insulting the people who should be your fans and evangelists.
The show wasn't "Immortal Tango". It was undead. If you are a stage producer or choreographer and think you can revive it, please contact Sadler's Wells. Please.
[Review: Immortal Tango, Peacock Theatre, Sadler's Wells, till 19th March]
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Saturday, 13 February 2016
Day-making ice skating
Apropos my ice skating reference in the previous post, thank you Detlef for sharing this absolutely beautiful performance from the European Figure Skating Championships, by Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, of France:
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Absolutely beautiful. Not a moment or a movement without meaning. Not a transition in sight. And you'll notice the commentator stops talking, after a while.
Update: I would draw your attention to this interesting interview with their coach from last year.
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Mr Burfoot's son was ticketed after crossing into the Onewa Rd transit lane more than 50 metres before turning into a petrol station.
Drivers are allowed to enter transit lanes 50m before exiting.
Mr Burfoot says cutting across closer would have been dangerous.
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In first quarter of last year, Ogbozala Autonomous Community in greater Opi in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State was in the news following the strange emergence of a cult of randy youths who had delight in raping women old enough to be their grandmothers. The phenomenon baffled a lot of people. Many reasons for this anathema were advanced by several schools of thought who tried to provide answers for the bestial acts of the youths.
Until the intervention of the famous Umuada Igbo, a socio-cultural organization of eminent Igbo women led by Kate Ezeofor, octogenarian women in the beleaguered community which has qualified for modern day Sodom and Gomorrah, lived under constant fear of being raped by youths who serially assaulted their hapless victims.
There was, however, respite after the intervention of the Lady Ezeofor-led women organization until the youths arrested for the heinous crime were discharged by the court for what the presiding magistrate called; "want of diligent persecution." So, the town was peaceful and grandmothers had their peace until the boys who were charged to court were discharged.
Soon after their return, the rape of grandmothers started again. A source told Daily Sun that some bewildered citizens who tried to unravel the reason for the strange phenomenon in the once peaceful Opi attributed it to another kind of mental sickness that has diminished the sense of decency of the promiscuous youths.
Others say the gang belonged to a cult that demands that every member must rape 25 old women as pre-condition for benefit. Other bizarre reasons have been advanced by people for the unnatural behaviour of the Opi youths.
Daily Sun also discovered that beyond the façade of the Opi imbroglio is another simmering feud engendered by the scramble for a whopping sum of money expected from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) as compensation in respect of buildings and farmlands which it acquired for the planting of high tension electric masts in the community.
Daily Sun gathered that because of the enormity of the sum expected from PHCN there is an on-going tussle between some influential members of the community who had allegedly planned to corner the money and shortchange the bona-fide owners.
The President General, Ogbozala Town Union, Chief Emma Ugwu, who was recently attacked in his business premises located along the Enugu Makurdi expressway near Opi junction told Daily Sun that he suspected the attack was the handiwork of those who had planned to secretly evaluate the said farmland and building and collect the compensation which runs into millions of naira.
As this was on, recently Opi women rose up again in protest over the sharing formula adopted in some bags of rice given to the community by a serving commissioner from the area. The protest was widely reported in the media. Since the publications, there have been reactions from many quarters prompting the Mayor of Nsukka City Council, Mr Tony Ugwu, to convene a security meeting with Ogbozala community leaders.
At the end of the meeting, Daily Sun spoke with the traditional ruler of Ogbozala, Igwe Fabian Ogbuabor, the Opi Youth Association General Secretary, Mr James Ezema, the Councilor representing Ogbazala, who is also deputy leader of the council, Ezema Bertrand, the leader of Ogbozala Opi Women, Mrs. Patience Abonyi, and the President of Opi Town Union, Chief Emma Ugwu.
According to Ezema, more efforts are needed to stem the rape menace, saying that although the community has been making effort to curtail the problem of rape but the efforts were not enough.
"The government has done the much it could. Umuada Igbo have also done their best. It is on record that since after the intervention of Umuada Ndigbo, organization the community was peaceful and the rapists went underground, especially after the arrest and detention of some of the suspected rapists," the councilor said, adding that the recent protest by Opi women was about rice gift and not rape of old women.
"The photographs in some newspapers and their caption did not represent the true picture of what transpired in Ogbozala on February 8. The protest was about rice gift and not rape. The women said that the way the rice given to them by a commissioner from the area, was shared was not fair. There was no recent rape in the community. The photograph was in bad faith. We are appealing to the media to be careful the way they publish things", Ezema wtrned, describing the publication as a deliberate malicious act by some people in Ogbozala.
Also speaking, the Ogbozala Traditional Ruler, Igwe Ogbuabor, a former secretary to the state government of Enugu State, described the February 8, demonstration as politically motivated.
The traditional ruler maintained that the last protest was not about rape. "What is happening in the town is that some people are angling and aspiring for political positions in the town using their influence and women to make the community ungovernable.
"To any sane mind, it is not understood why young boys should chose to rape grandmothers. Since April last year, we have been fighting and fighting this menace. We empowered the women to raise fund to fight criminality of rape, but I am not happy that the women are spending the money raised to fight the criminality, to pursue negative publicity in order to make cheap political point.
"I thank the Chairman of Nsukka Local Government,. Tony Ugwu, who called us to a meeting to discuss the issue of negative press report about Opi. The photograph was stage managed. What I know is that the women disagreed with me over my sharing formula for rice gift to the community.
"All efforts I made to call their leaders to reason with me over the formula fell on deaf ears. These things were stage managed. The issue is about rice, not rape. I appeal to the media to heed the appeal made by our people to stop putting us in negative publicity," the monarch pleaded.
Also speaking, the Ogbozala Women leader, Mrs Abonyi, said: "The truth is that the February 8, demonstration has nothing to do with rape. It was purely a demonstration about rice given to us (women) by a commissioner, Engr. Iyke Ugwuegede, which was diverted.
"We have three autonomous communities – Ogbozala, Idi and Ibeku. We rejected the three bags of rice given to us by the Igwe because our investigation showed that the commissioner gave us 10 bags of rice. So, when our Igwe gave us three bags, we rejected it. So, after our meeting on February 8, we decided to go on demonstration to protest the sharing formula. I am surprised that the photograph in the newspapers said we were demonstrating against rape. Since the incident of last year, no rape has occurred in Ogbozala."
Also, the President General, Ogbozala Town Union, Chief Ugwu, said: "After the incident of last year, no rape of old women had occurred in our community. The demonstration of February 8, which photograph was published on the front pages of newspaper is not about rape, but about rice."
There was a lone case of a girl, who was raped at Ibeku autonomous community, but the victim is from Ogbozala, the rape did occur in Ogbozala.
"The demonstration of February 8, which photograph was published in the front pages of newspaper is not about rape, but about rice. The women demonstrated about rice given to the community by the Commissioner from Opi.
Also the President General Ogbozala Town Union, Chief Ugwu said: "After the incident of last year, no rape of old women had occurred in our community. There was a lone case of a girl, who was raped at Ibeku autonomous community, but the victim is from Ogbozala, the rape did occur in Ogbozala.
The women demonstrated about rice given to the community by the Commissioner from Opi. We are surprised to see that photograph, which was credited to News Agency Nigeria (NAN) in the newspapers. The misinformation is the handiwork of disgruntled elements in the town, who lost in the town union election and since then have been causing disaffection and chaos in the community, manipulating the women.
For the Nsukka City Council boss, Mr Ugwu, the NAN photograph was done in bad faith.
"I am an advocate of freedom of Information Bill, but every freedom has a responsibility attached to it. I am surprised that no write-up accompanied the photograph published by the newspapers. However, I held a meeting with the stakeholders of Ogbozala community and during the meeting we discussed extensively and discovered that the women actually demonstrated, but about rice gift sharing formula and not about rape. The local government is still trying to unravel the myth of the rape saga. This is so because until now, nobody has come to us to say she was raped and when some suspects were taken to court, nobody came forward to say she was raped. We believe seriously that the recent demonstration was related to leadership tussle in the community and was instigated by some elements in the community. We call for calm and a stop to negative publications that demean our image," Ugwu said.
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"I don't know what the opt-out means, whether that's Division III or another model."If the Big Ten schools dropped athletic scholarships and moved to Division III or into the non-scholarship FCS realm occupied by the schools of the Ivy and Pioneer leagues, it would inject some intellectual honesty into this debate. Schools and leagues say they want to run amateur sports that enrich the collegiate experience, but then they run football and men's basketball like professional sports. This would mean a group of 14 schools leaving millions of dollars on the table to run true amateur athletic programs that exist only to enhance the university experience of their students.If this happened, I would stand and applaud. Finally, someone would be putting higher education ahead of high finance. But the actions of the Big Ten's presidents in the past few years make it difficult to believe they would follow the example of the Ivy League schools and Big Ten founding member the University of Chicago, which de-emphasized sports in the 1940s.Five months ago, the presidents of the Big Ten schools voted to poach Maryland from the ACC and Rutgers from the Big East. They did not do this because the football or men's basketball teams at Maryland and Rutgers offer a terrible amount of value to a wealthy league already chock full of brand names. The value to the Big Ten lies in the location of those schools, which sit in heavily populated metropolitan areas. That means those areas boast more cable subscribers who, Big Ten leaders hope, will soon have to pay more than $1 a month to their cable or satellite provider for the Big Ten Network -- whether they actually want that programming or not. Assuming the millions of subscribers who now find themselves in the Big Ten footprint are charged that fee, it will result in a massive financial windfall for the conference.Delany said the additions of Maryland and Rutgers came in response to a changing landscape. "We're all in competition with each other -- as the SEC comes into Missouri and Texas and as the ACC comes into New York and Pennsylvania," Delany said. But if it's not about money, why does that matter? Delany also disagreed with my oft-repeated assertion that the Big Ten changed the revenue model for major college sports when it launched the Big Ten Network. Delany counters that the league took control and assumed half the financial risk -- Fox has the other half -- because ESPN's stranglehold on college content allowed that network to lowball leagues. "We simply wouldn't deal with a company that simply wouldn't pay us what we thought we were worth," Delany said. Football stars whose jerseys get sold in the school bookstore might say the same thing about the organizations that insist they are no more valuable than the setter on the volleyball team. The difference is they don't have the financial clout to start their own league. They can, however, put the squeeze on the people controlling the money now. Presidents who will vote to attack other leagues to increase revenue seem highly unlikely to turn down millions of dollars and nationwide television exposure for the sake of a principle to which they've never actually adhered in practice. This is what makes the opt-out scenario difficult to believe. What makes it somewhat believable? The very real possibility that to comply with Title IX in a pay-for-play scenario, departments may have to cut sports, which means they have to cut scholarships, which means actual educational opportunities would be lost. Of course, there is a solution that would work for both parties, but the leaders in college athletics want no part of it. Delany isn't alone in joining the NCAA in its fight against the O'Bannon plaintiffs, who originally sought payment for the NCAA and schools' use of the likenesses of former players for commercial reasons but have since expanded the case to seek a piece of television revenue for current and former athletes. Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott, SEC executive associate commissioner Mark Womack, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, Texas athletic directors DeLoss Dodds and Chris Plonsky, Wake Forest president Nathan Hatch and a host of others also filed declarations. Some were more forceful than others. The Texas ADs said the school had "no interest" in a pay-for-play plan, but the Joneses stopped short of threatening to de-emphasize sports. Fresno State president John Welty appeared to use the same legalese template as the Texas duo, repeating passages word for word. It's unclear who came up with the language first, but someone plagiarized someone. (At most of these schools, such plagiarism would result in a failing grade. It's apparently OK in federal court filings.) Welty's declaration did differ from the Texas duo's in one way: It suggested Fresno State might have to eliminate football to save the rest of its sports. This is probably not a bluff. But Fresno State probably wouldn't have to do that if it didn't attempt to cast its lot with Alabama, Michigan and the rest of schools in a much higher income bracket. Wake Forest's Hatch also threatened a move out of the FBS, which probably wouldn't register a blip of resistance outside the school's own fan base. PDF DECLARATIONS: Bowlsby | Dodds/Plonsky | Hatch | Scott | Welty | WomackIf Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Nebraska and the rest of the Big Ten suddenly downsized athletics, though, it would profoundly change college athletics by ticking off some massive alumni bases and by sending more revenue to the SEC, Big 12 and Pac-12 if they didn't follow suit. Would Urban Meyer still coach football at Ohio State if he saw his salary cut and lost the ability to offer scholarships to the best players? Would Tom Izzo still want to coach basketball at Michigan State if Central Michigan could offer recruits a more attractive financial package? Probably not. Would the schools of the Big Ten continue to be elite institutions of higher learning without big-time sports? Absolutely. The Ivy League schools once ruled college football. Then they de-emphasized athletics. The move didn't hurt them at all from an academic or reputation standpoint. It didn't hurt major college football, either. The sport rolled merrily along without them. Just like the Ivy League schools, the Big Ten schools don't need major college football, and major college football doesn't need them. De-emphasizing athletics would be an awfully noble move by the schools of the Big Ten, but their actions suggest they don't have the guts to take that drastic a step.Remember, Delany said his opinion hasn't changed since he wrote that op-ed in 1996. What has changed? The money. According to a 1995 court filing, the Big Ten distributed $43.5 million to 11 member schools in 1994. In 2012, the Big Ten distributed $284 million to 12 schools. That's a 600-percent increase in revenue per school. In November, SI's Pete Thamel reported that Big Ten officials presented Maryland with a projection stating each of the league's schools would receive $43 million from the league in 2017 after the Big Ten signs its next media rights deal. That would be a 1,088-percent increase over the per-school take in 1994. Delany counters that tuition costs have risen in the neighborhood of 300 percent and Big Ten schools are giving scholarships to 50 percent more athletes. Still, the math favors the league and not the athletes in the two sports that make all that money.The money has gone somewhere. It has gone into fancier stadiums and into the pockets of football coaches, basketball coaches, athletic directors and conference officials. It also has gone into scholarships for more athletes -- specifically more female athletes. I can't blame anyone for a second for wanting to protect their personal revenue stream -- and it's certainly a worthy goal to protect scholarship opportunities -- but they can't be surprised someone finally ran the numbers and realized there is a substantial payday awaiting the attorneys who motivate the labor force to ask for a larger share of the pie. When a sport becomes a multibillion-dollar business, someone has to be Curt Flood, and someone will want to represent that guy.So now they'll dance in briefs and motions. So far, Delany has made the most dramatic statement with a hint that some of the nation's most iconic programs may de-emphasize athletics if the plaintiffs prevail. This may simply be gamesmanship. Write a doomsday scenario, hope someone like me finds it and distributes it and sit back and watch as panicked fans of Big Ten schools turn their vitriol on plaintiffs, who currently enjoy a favorable public opinion. But Monday, Delany sounded as if he really means it. "It's not a bluff," Delany said. "It's a statement of belief. I think that's what would happen. I do not believe that the hypothetical case being put forth -- if it actually became the case -- that Big Ten institutions would engage in that." Bear in mind that Delany also said in December 2011 that he doubted Big Ten schools would agree to take part in any kind of football playoff. In June 2012, the Big Ten agreed to participate in a football playoff. But just in case Delany is correct, savor watching some excellent Big Ten basketball programs these next few weeks in the NCAA tournament. The Division III tournament might be a bit more difficult to find on your cable box. Comments More College Football


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Seventeen-year-old surfer Taylor Clark from Encinitas is riding a streak of recent wins.
Wednesday, it was the National Scholastic Surfing Association men's open contest in Huntington Beach – marking him the best high school NSSA surfer in the country.
Before that, it was the USA Surfing National Championship a couple of weeks ago.
Before that, it was the Volcom VQS national title, which won him a trip to compete against international youth surfers in Fiji, a contest in which he took third.
The kid has big things ahead of him.
The ultimate goal? Get on the World Championship Tour. But this summer, he'll surf in the 'QS, which is the World Tour's qualifying tour – a rigorous crucible to make it to the big leagues if there ever was one.
Wednesday, though, the NSSA win was all that mattered.
"It means so much to me. I've done NSSA since I was about 8. Almost 10 years later now to get an Open (title), it feels so great," the North Coast High School graduate said. "My parents are always here supporting me, and everyone hanging out with me and helping out so much. I've been having good boards. Everything just came together and everything worked out. I'm just so stoked."
Wednesday's NSSA national title is the last NSSA youth surf competition he'll take part in, and he went out with a bang.
In an extended 30-minute heat against some of the top-ranked youth surfers in the country, Clark managed to take the lead about halfway through, and he never looked back, downing Hawaiian brothers Josh and Seth Moniz, along with fellow Encinitas surfer Jake Marshall.
Seth Moniz, a 15-year-old surfer from Hawaii Kai, took an early lead in the heat, snagging solid if not-quite-spectacular scores of 5.0 and 3.0 on his first two waves before any other surfer was able to get on the board.
That didn't last long.
In a heat in which surfers took their time selecting just the right waves, Clark was able to stick an aerial before milking the wave for an additional slashing turn and a 5.33 score.
Not that the wave mattered. Clark quickly managed a second aerial on another wave, netting him a 6.27, and scored an 8.27 on a third wave.
That pair of high scores gave Clark the margin he needed to walk away with the win.
Seth Moniz nearly caught up at the end, cleanly riding the peak of a wave for an 8.50, but he couldn't replace his 5.0 with a better score that would have allowed him to top Clark.
Josh Moniz, who vied with Marshall for the third spot, was effectively knocked from contending when he and Marshall nearly ran into each other on a wave, and he was called for interference.
Marshall, who is only 14, will have plenty of chances to come back and work for another NSSA championship.
So will Dax McGill, a 14-year-old Hawaiian surfer who Wednesday won her second NSSA national championship in the women's open.
She claimed her first title last year.
In a heat with few long rides and many lead changes, McGill managed to squeak out the win, despite falling to fourth place for the first half of the heat.
San Clemente surfer Tia Blanco made it to the finals round. At 15, she, too, will have more chances ahead of her.
Wednesday's finals marked the end of week-plus NSSA nationals competition, and also marked the last NSSA contest of the season.
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High rate of hepatitis C virus (HCV) recurrence in HIV-infected individuals with spontaneous HCV RNA clearance
Version of Record online: 11 MAY 2014
DOI: 10.1111/hiv.12160
© 2014 British HIV Association
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Volume 15, Issue 10, pages 615–620, November 2014
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Peters, L., Mocroft, A., Soriano, V., Rockstroh, J., Kirkby, N., Reiss, P., Katlama, C., Zakharova, N., Flisiak, R., Lundgren, J. and EuroSIDA in EuroCoord (2014), High rate of hepatitis C virus (HCV) recurrence in HIV-infected individuals with spontaneous HCV RNA clearance. HIV Medicine, 15: 615–620. doi: 10.1111/hiv.12160
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- Version of Record online: 11 MAY 2014
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Following resolution of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, recurrence has been shown to occur in some persons with repeated exposure to HCV. We aimed to investigate the rate and factors associated with HCV RNA recurrence among HIV-1-infected patients with prior spontaneous HCV RNA clearance in the EuroSIDA cohort.
All HIV-infected patients with documented prior spontaneous HCV clearance, and at least one subsequently collected plasma sample, were examined. The last sample was tested for HCV RNA and those with HCV RNA ≥ 615 IU/mL were defined as having HCV recurrence and their characteristics were compared with those of patients who were still aviraemic. Logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with HCV recurrence.
Of 191 eligible patients, 35 [18.3%; 95% confidence interval (CI) 12.8–23.8%] had HCV recurrence. Thirty-three (94.3%) were injecting drug users (IDUs). The median time between the first and last samples was 3.6 years (interquartile range 2.0–5.8 years). After adjustment, those on combination antiretroviral therapy [odds ratio (OR) 0.44; 95% CI 0.20–0.99; P = 0.046] and older persons (OR 0.51 per 10 years older; 95% CI 0.28–0.95; P = 0.033) were less likely to have HCV RNA recurrence, whereas IDUs were over 6 times more likely to have HCV RNA recurrence compared with non-IDUs (OR 6.58; 95% CI 1.48–29.28; P = 0.013).
Around 1 in 5 HIV-infected patients with prior spontaneous HCV RNA clearance had detectable HCV RNA during follow-up. Our findings underline the importance of maintaining focus on preventive measures to reduce IDU and sharing of contaminated needles. Clinicians should maintain a high degree of vigilance to identify patients with new HCV infection early.


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CHIP DESIGNER AMD has announced plans to lay off approximately 10 per cent of its workforce to cut costs.
Since AMD appointed Rory Read as CEO earlier this year there have been a few months of relative silence from the firm, but now Read has announced that AMD will engage in restructuring to save $10m in the fourth quarter of 2011 and $118m in 2012. As part of that restructuring around 10 per cent of the company's workforce will be laid off, which amounts to about 1,000 jobs.
Read said the job losses are part of reducing the firm's cost structure and "focusing our global workforce on key growth opportunities". In a statement that tries to calm investors rather than employees worried about their jobs, Read said, "The actions we are taking are designed to improve our ability to consistently address the needs of our global customer base and stake leadership positions in lower power, emerging markets and the cloud."
While Read mentioned the cloud in his statement, AMD also said that the money it saves from slashing its workforce will be ploughed back into research and development to reduce power consumption and address emerging markets.
This year saw AMD launch its first consumer Fusion processor that combines CPU and GPU cores on-die. AMD has bet a lot on Fusion clawing back lost ground from Intel in the mainstream market and some analysts are claiming that the market for combined CPU and GPU chips is growing fast, with AMD doing particularly well. Nevertheless, AMD needs to cut costs and wait for more applications to arrive with GPGPU acceleration before it can really stick it to Chipzilla.
AMD said its workforce reduction will occur throughout the company and at various locations throughout the world, just in time for Christmas. µ
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City Engineer Edward Kemp will present a $1.2 million Fiscal Year 2014 capital improvements work list for improvements to Starkville's roads, drainage systems and sidewalks to aldermen today during a 5:30 p.m. recess meeting at City Hall.
Starkville previously obligated itself to or already constructed improvements in many of the projects, according city documents, including Carver Drive drainage ditch improvements ($697,700 for construction, inspection, testing and federal review), road work in Bay Meadows and Kerkling subdivisions (a combined $198,000) and Lynn Lane right-of-way acquisitions ($132,000).
Kemp's plan calls for remaining capital improvement funds to go toward numerous small-ticket, storm drainage projects at areas including Huntington Park, Pleasant Acres and Colonial Hills (about $49,000); a Garrard Road sidewalk connector ($9,600); Priority 7 street improvements for Gillespie and Montgomery streets, Forrest Hill Drive and the Highland Estates subdivision (about $152,000); and a speed table for Sycamore Street ($3,500).
To fund the project list, the city will draw from its capital improvement budget allocations, funds specifically marked for the Carver Drive drainage ditch project, the board of aldermen's contingency plan and a $628,000 CAP loan.
Starkville will turn its attention to Priority 8 and 9 streets in 2015 and 2016, respectively. With testing and contingency funding factored into the total, Kemp's report estimates $455,004 is needed in 2015 for 2.18 miles of roadwork, while about $450,000 is needed the next year for 2.73 miles of forecasted projects.
The city's Priority 10 road list, which is comprised of 24 separate projects, is estimated to cost at least $1.23 million.
Aldermen previously delayed Kemp's report to today after the board attorney said a public hearing on the matter was needed.
Carl Smith covers Starkville and Oktibbeha County for The Dispatch. Follow him on Twitter @StarkDispatch
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