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Muslims have a longer and deeper socio-economic and cultural experience in Europe and this presence requires a deeper understanding of the ways Muslims have become a part of Europe. In this vein, everyday practices (reading, talking, walking, dwelling, cooking, eating, clothing, consuming, shopping) are considered significant because they are not the "obscure background of social activity", rather, they are the "investigation of ways in which users operate" (de Certeau). The socio-religious practices are obscure and not familiar with a non-Muslim, and the everyday practices are necessary to discover and penetrate this deeper experience of Muslims. The practices concern a mode of operation, a logic of doing, a way of being and a meaning. They do not link only to the question of personal choice and liberties. The content of the practice is to "make explicit the system of operational combination… to bring to light the models of action characteristic of users…" (de Certeau). The everyday practices create free areas through hobbies, games, art, clothes to the users in which one can see an essential formation of the self. We would need to discuss the increased sense that Muslims have of their distinctive-similar spatial locations that serve a free area or refuge to realize him or herself.
This workshop sets out to understand the everyday practices of Muslims living in Europe. The diverse and various (non)-religious daily life practices indicate the non-defined boundaries of Muslims whose practices can be a part of the stigmatised-open spaces in public discourses. Examining the relationship between Islam and liberal democratic values, it is important to note what kind of practices and daily life experiences are exercised in private-public areas, which also determine the views and public perception of Muslims. The identification of Muslims with one or another practice is not a simply neutral matter; this entails also an attachment to liberal, communitarian and civil meanings. Regardless of the daily life activities, these perceptions of Muslims face the challenge that Muslims are not a fixed group, but they share the same practices that others have and do. Food and eating practices, consumer way of life, marriage, salutations; these banal practices of everyday life are central to discover the subjectivity of Muslims, or in other terms, a sense of the self, a way of embodiment. These daily practices are inextricably linked to the problematic of subjectivity. The meaning, discourses, argumentations and reasoning behind the daily life practices are detailed experiences of the self. This workshop seeks to explain the daily life choices and preferences in the context of subjectivity and self, looking at the questions concerning the religious-cultural-ethnic constructions of practices in which different perceptions are mediated on Muslims. The daily life practices and habits are not simply a matter of realising the self, taking enjoyment. They are in articulation with manifold cultural-religious-social meanings and discourses which serve to mark boundaries, to share some common values, to distinguish rituals, to strengthen social ties, and to symbolize a distinctive group awareness. Each of these functions and constructions concretise a kind of belief in everyday life, support a choice, and contribute to the construction of a self.
However, the daily life practices and rituals have received little serious scholarly attention because of their "normal" nature and their link with ordinary subjects rather than with polemical and controversial issues such as integration, citizenship, security and sharia. Devoting attention to daily life practices needs to disrupt and disturb these debates about Muslims in Europe.
A particular focus will be on the impact of daily life on two areas and aspects: consumption and artistic performances.
Muslim consumerism and leisure time
Many such debates dealt with the integration and the compatibility of Muslims with western values indicating how Muslims should be. At the level of consumerism, there is little attention through the lens of religious rituals and everyday practices in Europe. Muslims' relation with eating, leisure times, clothing, fashion, shopping etc. are interesting topics to look closely the transformative processes in public and private life. At these micro levels of analyses, the consumption practices offer a valuable route to understand relations between memory, body, space, culture, ethnicity, and gender among Muslims living in Europe. The on-going processes of transnationalism put in forward these daily practices as means of change and assume the creation of new religious combinations, hyphenated performances as seen in Muslim fashion. The daily life practices reveal the conceptualization of individuality, modernity and indicate how these (in)differences are produced between Muslims and non-Muslims. The complex socio-economic, religious and cultural elements that are involved in the construction of Muslim self through consumerism surface the question of modesty, secularism, and bodily prescriptions, public-private borders. Do the daily consumerist practices unsettle some of the established normativity in social codes in Europe or continuity with the local-existing culture? Around this question, this part of conference will look at a possible way of convergences between Muslims and non-Muslims to point the social-cultural mobility.
Artistic performances
Arts and religion are nowadays in controversial turns. Often debates about how art approaches a religious matter illustrate some social phenomena and crises linked with sacred-profane relations. Controversies between religion and art become a sort of parameter to re-think what contemporary Muslims in Europe do, know and believe. Examining artistic performances of Islamic patterns and visual expression of faith provides new elements on how Muslim cultures are translated and concretized in European public life. Certain kind of artistic creativities, including popular culture, traditional art, painting, cinema, theatre, hip-hop, new sufi groups, architecture; this theme of the conference would like to align the circulation of daily life practices with the artistic expressions of Muslims in Europe according to the title of this conference. How can an artistic expression of Islam be analysed in terms of everyday practices? In which way artistic productions transcend the existing boundaries creating new forms of practices and introducing these new daily practices in public spaces? What are the new socio-cultural and political contexts of artistic practices? How these contexts influence on Muslim aesthetics? Is there a kind of Muslim aesthetics? This theme of conference will not be only an analysis of the production of 'Islamic art', including the architectural side. The aim is to cover the performative and architectural expressions of Islam, the emerging of new styles, and of compositions from Muslims in Europe. The circulation of these new styles, expressions between performers and the public encompass new theoretical debates on boundaries, space, and body, transculturality.
Authors are invited to send abstracts (maximum 500 words) of their papers on themes of their own choice, which include at least one of these two aspects that the conference wants to treat.
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What did you think of the first episodes? I have high hopes. I think it might be even better than the first series.
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I also have high hopes. It will be different but similar.
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My theory is that Amon is an Energy Bender. Before you say that the Equalists are not Energy Benders, they are not apart of the "Anti-bending" part of Energy Bending. They did not say that the Equalists had a connection to the "Bending" part of Energy Bending. After the war, I bet the people in the Avatar World would want to know how Ozai lost his Firebending. Whether if Aang told the people, or Aang taught his children, or it was written in a book, or the spirit library came back through the convincing of the professor, or someone found old manuscripts, or the Lion Turtle taught another, or just through experimentation Amon learned about Energy Bending.
Another part of my theory is based around Avatar Roku calling the Avatar State a "defense mechanism," which makes you wonder if the Avatar was created intentionally. Notice how the Lion Turtle said "before the days of the Avatar, people bent the energies within themselves." Also keep in mind that Ty Lee was able to block the Chi of a bender to keep the bender from bending. This implies that the way chi is placed in a body determines if a person can bend and what type of bender the person is. This is also supported by the placement of the Chakras. By using Energy Bending I think it could be possible to turn a non-bender into a bender. And going off what the Turtle said I assume the Energy Benders of Old created the Bending Arts and an Energy Bending prodigy or a group of Energy Benders bent the Chi in a body in such a way that the person was able to bend all four elements. Not only that, but they managed to create the Avatar State.
Going back to Amon, I think he either resents benders or he wants to be all powerful or possibly both. I think in the beginning he wanted to rid the world of bending with the use of Energy Bending. But as he experimented with Energy Bending he found it can also grant people the power of bending. I believe Amon wants to become as powerful as the Avatar, and at the same time rid the world of the Avatar using Energy Bending. There are two ways of becoming equal, subtraction (riding the world of benders) and addition (becoming a bender or as powerful as one).
What a finale would that be! Two people who can bend all elements in an awesome conflict between the forces of good and evil. A battle, which will determine the fate of the whole world!
Keep in mind I wrote this a while back
Interesting theory. I definitely think it's more likely that he wants to be a bender than take bender's powers away, unless he wants to do both. That would make for an interesting story if people started losing their bending, as long as they could get it back of course because I don't want to watch at all if there is no bending.
Well... It looks like Amon is taking peoples' powers away XD

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From Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and University of California, Los Angeles, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California; and Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Grant Support: The work of the CanCORS Consortium was supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to the Statistical Coordinating Center (U01 CA093344) and the NCI-supported Primary Data Collection and Research Centers (grant U01 CA093332 to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Cancer Research Network, grant U01 CA093324 to Harvard Medical School/Northern California Cancer Center, grant U01 CA093348 to RAND/University of California, Los Angeles, grant U01 CA093329 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, grant U01 CA093339 to the University of Iowa, grant U01 CA093326 to University of North Carolina) and by grant CRS 02-164 from the Department of Veterans Affairs to the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Mack was funded by an American Cancer Society Mentored Research Scholar Grant and by the National Palliative Care Research Center.
Potential Conflicts of Interest: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M11-1622.
Reproducible Research Statement:Study protocol: Available on request at www.cancors.org/public/pub. Statistical code: Available from Dr. Mack (e-mail, firstname.lastname@example.com). Data set: Not available.
Requests for Single Reprints: Jennifer W. Mack, MD, MPH, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215.
Current Author Addresses: Drs. Mack, Taback, and Weeks and Ms. Cronin: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215.
Drs. Huskamp and Keating: Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115-5899.
Dr. Malin: Division of Hematology-Oncology (111-H), VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90073.
Dr. Earle: Cancer Care Ontario and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Office: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, G Wing 106, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: J.W. Mack, J.L. Malin, C.C. Earle, J.C. Weeks.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: J.W. Mack, A. Cronin, N. Taback, H.A. Huskamp, N.L. Keating, J.L. Malin, C.C. Earle, J.C. Weeks.
Drafting of the article: J.W. Mack, A. Cronin, N.L. Keating.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: J.W. Mack, H.A. Huskamp, N.L. Keating, J.L. Malin, C.C. Earle, J.C. Weeks.
Final approval of the article: J.W. Mack, A. Cronin, N. Taback, H.A. Huskamp, N.L. Keating, J.L. Malin, C.C. Earle, J.C. Weeks.
Provision of study materials or patients: J.C. Weeks.
Statistical expertise: A. Cronin, N. Taback.
Obtaining of funding: J.C. Weeks.
Collection and assembly of data: A. Cronin, J.L. Malin, J.C. Weeks.
Background: National guidelines recommend that physicians discuss end-of-life (EOL) care planning with patients with cancer whose life expectancy is less than 1 year.
Objective: To evaluate the incidence of EOL care discussions for patients with stage IV lung or colorectal cancer and where, when, and with whom these discussions take place.
Design: Prospective cohort study of patients diagnosed with lung or colorectal cancer from 2003 to 2005.
Setting: Participants lived in Northern California, Los Angeles County, North Carolina, Iowa, or Alabama or received care in 1 of 5 large HMOs or 1 of 15 Veterans Health Administration sites.
Patients: 2155 patients with stage IV lung or colorectal cancer.
Measurements: End-of-life care discussions reported in patient and surrogate interviews or documented in medical records through 15 months after diagnosis.
Results: 73% of patients had EOL care discussions identified by at least 1 source. Among the 1470 patients who died during follow-up, 87% had EOL care discussions, compared with 41% of the 685 patients who were alive at the end of follow-up. Of the 1081 first EOL care discussions documented in records, 55% occurred in the hospital. Oncologists documented EOL care discussions with only 27% of their patients. Among 959 patients with documented EOL care discussions who died during follow-up, discussions took place a median of 33 days before death.
Limitations: The depth and quality of EOL care discussions was not evaluated. Much of the information about discussions came from surrogates of patients who died before baseline interviews could be obtained.
Conclusion: Although most patients with stage IV lung or colorectal cancer discuss EOL care planning with physicians before death, many discussions occur during acute hospital care, with providers other than oncologists, and late in the course of illness.
Primary Funding Source: National Cancer Institute and Department of Veterans Affairs.
The box plots show the median time from diagnosis to completion of baseline and follow-up interviews.
The CanCORS study response rate, which accounts for both unsuccessful contacts and refusal or nonresponse, was 51.0%. The cooperation rate, which does not account for unsuccessful contacts, was 59.9% (12). Please see definitions provided by the American Association for Public Opinion Research for details of calculation of response and cooperation rates (19). CanCORS = Cancer Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium; CRC = colorectal cancer.
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Mack et al propose that "Physicians involved in longitudinal care, however, may be best informed about the patient's prognosis and disease trajectory and best equipped to have meaningful discussions about the patient's values and goals."
Prognosis however is tricky to estimate and physicians may be subject to bias. In a study examining prognostic accuracy Christakis et al concluded that
"Moreover,the better the doctor knew the patient--as measured, for example, by the length and recentness of their contact--the more likely the doctor was to err."(1)
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The full report is titled "End-of-Life Care Discussions Among Patients With Advanced Cancer. A Cohort Study." It is in the 7 February 2012 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 156, pages 204-210). The authors are J.W. Mack, A. Cronin, N. Taback, H.A. Huskamp, N.L. Keating, J.L. Malin, C.C. Earle, and J.C. Weeks.
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| So, these are the first ideas that I would like to share with you, and I
| would really appreciate it if you would send me your thoughts by posting
| comments. I sincerely believe that with a small contribution by each of us,
| we'll be able to design a new process for standards development that will
| allow anyone to participate without needing to be a representative of Company
| Y, or to have a certain degree, and so on. At the end of the day, standards
| developers or not, we're all standards users.
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| Also integrated into the MarkMail archives are group messages from
| OpenOffice.org, a community in excess of 1 million volunteer and sponsored
| contributors who develop, translate, support and promote the leading
| open-source office productivity suite. Its file format, the OpenDocument
| Format, an ISO standard, has fundamentally revolutionized the ecology of
| electronic documents and is now being used or considered for use by dozens of
| national and regional governments and enterprises around the world.
OOXML appeals: Now or never
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| I think that ISO and IEC are on the edge of a precipice which, if they fall
| off, will cause them to rapidly lose relevance to IT (ICT) developments in
| many parts of the world, especially emerging markets.
| What they appear to be saying to India, Brazil, South Africa, and Venezuela
| is "Go away, our process works. We love our process. You are wrong. Live by
| our rules and be quiet."
| If the appeals process is cut off without detailed community examination of
| the charges against what happened in the OOXML experience, I think that the
| reputations of the ISO and IEC will continue to diminish. It does not seem to
| me that anyone at the senior levels of these organizations get this. Rather
| than giving these four nations the cold shoulder, and doing it with what
| appears to this reader as having arrogant undertones, it makes far more sense
| for ISO and IEC to allow the process to carry on.
The ISO Document: Brazil's Appeal and ISO/IEC's Attachments 1 & 2 - as text
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| Brazil is a P member of SC 34, so according to my reading of the clause, it
| has the right to appeal if any of the three above issues apply, and arguably
| they all do. According to South Africa, if the issue is ISO's reputation, or
| if there is a matter of principle involved, Brazil can appeal. Even point
| three could apply, in that Brazil raises matters such as incorrect tabulation
| of votes, which, if true, one would hope ISO wasn't aware of.
| [...]
| Why did they bother to go, one might ask? Why vote, if votes disappear from
| the record? By my reading, Brazil paints a picture of an orchestrated event,
| tilted away from criticism or a negative result and a refusal to give
| substantive consideration to issues delegates wanted to discuss, due to time
| constraints Brazil calls arbitrary, and worse.
New doubts about ISO's fast-track standardisation of Microsoft OOXML
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| An internal document of the International Standards Organization (ISO) that
| found its way late last week on to the Wikileaks whistle-blower platform
| raises further questions about the choice of a fast-track certification for
| Microsoft's OOXML document format. The paper, by Joint Technical Committee
| No. 1 (JTC 1) of the Geneva standards organization, which dates back to July
| 2007, says the fast track procedure chosen for certifying Microsoft's
| document format is only intended for the acceptance of unaltered standards
| and that a standard not accepted in its original form, while not to be
| regarded as "2nd class" or illegitimate, should be put through the normal
| five-stage standardisation process, should necessary corrections be
| identified in advance. The fast-track process, it says, is intended for
| making changes to an original draft.
Puppet countries leaves P membership
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| Microsoft Puppet countries are leaving the P membership. Lebanon, Turkey,
| Cyprus, and Trinidad & Tobago have already dropped out. All those countries
| voted Yes without comments to OOXML.
Martin Bryan: we are getting "standardization by corporation"
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| A November informative report of Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
| WG1 highlights the fallout of the ECMA-376 fast-track process for ISO. He
| says he is 'glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible'
| [...]
| In what is an astonishingly outspoken report, Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 has given us insight into the total mess that Microsoft/ECMA
| have caused during their scandalous, underhand and unremitting attempts to
| get - what is a very poorly written specification {i.e. DIS 29500 aka OOXML,
| AR} - approved as an ISO standard. …
Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft's application to make the Word format an ISO
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.
EU Commission Investigating Microsoft's MSOOXML Push
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| I hope they think to investigate the smear campaigns that seem to always
| happen to anyone on the other side from Microsoft. What happened to Peter
| Quinn was by no means unique.
Software wars
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| Allegations of committee-stuffing, the outcome of votes overridden by
| political appointees, a final decision that many involved consider tainted:
| this may sound like a discredited election in some third world country. But
| it is actually a description of an ugly fight over international technical
| standards that wrapped up this week. Microsoft came out on top, but at the
| cost of tarnishing its reputation and the credibility of an important
| back-room process that oils the wheels of many global industries.
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text: On 10/17/06, Charles Landau <clandau at macslab.com> wrote: > At 11:28 PM -0700 10/16/06, Tyler Close wrote: > >This disagreement makes me think that it's not such a bad thing that > >"Confused Deputy" is getting a new name. "Confused Deputy" is a really > >bad name for the attack. > > Perhaps, but is "cross-site request forgery" better? It sounds > awfully web-specific. And, where is the forgery? The authorization is > legitimate, it is just misused. Yes, this new name doesn't seem very good either. Something like the "Penless Notary" might be more descriptive of the crux of the matter, but I don't know that that's a good name either. Naming is hard. Tyler -- The web-calculus is the union of REST and capability-based security: http://www.waterken.com/dev/Web/ Name your trusted sites to distinguish them from phishing sites. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/957/


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Author Affiliations: Department of Internal Medicine, Memorial University Medical Center, Savannah, Georgia.
Despite public health measures to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), obesity has reached epidemic proportions with staggering medical costs. Although risk reduction therapies to improve survival and quality of life are well known,1 implementing effective strategies for sustained lifestyle modification and reducing health care cost remains a challenge.
To improve the long-term financial well-being of our society, minimize the costs due to poor health, and reduce CVD in the general population, a lifestyle modification program at the community level is crucial. The company Ourlife (Savannah, Georgia) conducted a county-sponsored comprehensive lifestyle program to reduce the burden of chronic disease and associated health care spending.
Subjects were employees of Chatham County Municipal Government in Savannah. These employees were overweight or obese, with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or greater (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) and currently receiving treatment for hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and/or hyperlipidemia. All participants received intensive behavior, nutrition, and physical activity counseling from multidisciplinary staff. Dietary recommendations were based on the 2006 Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee.2,3 Regular physical activity was encouraged, and approaches to managing obesity and minimizing its complications were provided. Clinical objective data including BMI, waist circumference, blood pressure, and fasting blood glucose, hemoglobin A1c, and fasting lipid levels were collected on enrollment and at the completion of the program. Open-label use of generic medications was encouraged. Medication dose titration and adjustments were performed on the discretion of the physician.
Participants achieved a mean weight loss of 8 kg at 13 weeks. Body mass index and waist circumference improved for all participants at the end of the program. Annual health care savings, based on generic substitutions of the established drug program, were estimated to be $3090 per participant. Mean blood pressure and low- and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels remained stable despite generic substitution of medications.
The primary goal of this study was to reduce the economic burden of overweight and obesity in the Savannah community by promoting healthy behavioral interventions. Clinically meaningful weight loss was achieved during a 3-month period, with concomitant reduction in BMI. Encouragement of a healthy lifestyle with an exercise program as a covered benefit, such as Medicare's SilverSneakers, or an employer-sponsored worksite wellness program, is one of many known effective strategies to reduce long-term health care costs.4 The other increasingly attractive option is the use of generic substitution of original medication to control the spending on outpatient prescription drugs, which is the third largest component of health care expenses after hospital care and physician services. Although improvement in lipid analysis was not appreciated on a similar basis, a portion of the samples collected were on a nonfasting state and several participants had their high-potency–branded statins changed to lower-potency generic ones. Despite this, an important finding of the study was the absence of worsening lipid status. The annual health care dollars saved using generic versions of commonly prescribed medications was approximately $105 092, with an estimated $35 087 in annual health care cost savings after employer expenses.
The delivery of appropriate and effective preventive care involves motivation, education, and societal and community factors. Some of the limitations of our study include a small sample size and the lack of a control group. Larger studies among various other employers within the community will determine the applicability and efficacy of an employer-sponsored lifestyle modification program.
Correspondence: Dr Bhadriraju, Department of Internal Medicine, Memorial University Medical Center, 1101 Lexington Ave, Savannah, GA 31404 (email@example.com).
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Bradley. Acquisition of data: Bradley. Analysis and interpretation of data: De Castro, Bhadriraju, and Bradley. Drafting of the manuscript: De Castro, Bhadriraju, and Bradley. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Bhadriraju and Bradley. Obtained funding: Bradley. Administrative, technical, and material support: Bradley. Study supervision: Bhadriraju and Bradley.
Financial Disclosure: Dr Bradley is affiliated with Ourlife, a company focused on wellness that provides onsite programs to corporations to improve the health of their employees.
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The events will take place at the Dream Theater (Cultural Center of the Philippines) on August 21-28, 2004 (please check the festival website for film schedules, tickets, events, award details, etc.).
The mission of the 2004 Pride International Film Festival (PIFF) is to help advocate HIV/AIDS education on awareness, prevention and care through films and other events during the festival. PIFF also has a beneficiary, where portions of the proceeds from its festival and events will be donated to a local non-profit organization fighting for HIV/AIDS prevention and control, and facilitating support responses for the needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS in the Philippines.
Pride International Film Festival is currently being assisted by major international organizations like UNAIDS (Switzerland); local government agencies such as the Philippine Department of Tourism, Department of Health, Department of Foreign Affairs, Philippine National Aids Council; international gay organizations such as PlanetOut Partners (PlanetOut and Gay.com); noted Hollywood websites such as the Hollywood Reporter.Com, NotesfromHollywood.Com, New York Public Relations Firm "SASiPR"; and international film festival organizations such as Teddy Awards of Berlin, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Los Angeles OUTFEST, LesGaiCineMadrid, the Tokyo International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and alot more. PIFF has also been assisted by international film festival organizers, producers, directors, and film distribution companies.
The Festival will present its program, an exhibition of work that will showcase the best of international and Philippine GLTB digital films and videos. The Film Festival programming staff have viewed over 150 submissions (from shorts, documentaries to features) from all over the world, which include submissions from India, Israel, Lebanon, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, USA, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. This wide range of programs will represent the best and most diverse work by, about, and of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities worldwide. PIFF's exhibition of films will include shorts, animations, documentaries, and full length feature films never before shown in the Philippines or in Southeast Asia.
The Closing Night Gala will present the Canadian hit film "MAMBO ITALIANO," preceded by the presentation of the "Judy" Award to Madonna and the honoring of Sir Ian Mckellen with the festival's "Lifetime Achievement" Award. The "Judy" award, named after the late Ms. Judy Garland, is presented to the Most Influential Woman in the Entertainment Industry. Madonna, who has been an "Icon" of the diverse GLBT communities all over the world for the past few decades now, and has excelled tremendously with her hit songs and albums, not limiting to her Golden Globe winning role as "Evita" in the same movie title, will be honored during this event. PIFF's "Lifetime Achievement & Distinction" award will also be presented to Sir Ian Mckellen for his excellence and outstanding performances in acting and his unending advocacy for gay rights. Sir Mckellen, a noted and well known thespian, will be awarded the highest honors of the Festival this August in Manila.
The films Pride International Film Festival will be screening in the Philippines have previously participated in international gay and lesbian film festivals such as OUTFEST (The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival); THE NEW FESTIVAL in New York, USA; THE TEDDY AWARDS in Berlin, Germany; DUBLIN GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL in Ireland; the MELBOURNE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL in Melbourne, Australia; the LONDON GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL in London, England; INSIDE OUT TORONTO in Toronto, Canada; AUSTIN INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL in Texas, USA; MIAMI GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL in Florida, USA; PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN & GAY FILM FESTIVAL in Pennsylvania, USA; the SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL in California, USA; the NEW MARDI GRAS FILM FESTIVAL in Sydney, Australia; and the TOKYO INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL in Japan. Some of these films were also premiered in 2003 at Robert De Niro's TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL in Tribeca, NY, Robert Redford's SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL in Utah, USA, FILM FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DI MILANO in Milan, Italy, and the TURIN INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL in Turin, Italy. All digital films and videos that will be screened during PIFF will be its Philippine and Southeast Asian premiere. The screening of each film will only be shown once during the festival.
Some of the features will include : "KIKI & TIGER" (2002, Germany), a story based on true events of pure friendship between a Kosovo Albanian and a Serb; "LILY FESTIVAL" (Yurisai) (2002, Japan), a light hearted story of love for aged women; "SUOR SORRISO" (Sister Smile) (2001, Italy - recently premiered at Espoo Cine in Helsinki, Finland), a true to life story of a once famous Belgian nun and her misfits; "THE PERFECT SON" (2002, Canada), a story of sudden life changes between two estranged brothers; "SHOW ME LOVE" (1999, Sweden), a contemporary story about two teenage girls who are longing for joy & pain and the comical aspects of being in love; "EDEN'S CURVE" (2003, USA), a coming of age romance in a conservative U.S. southern school in the 70's; "DANNY IN THE SKY" (2001, Canada), a story of a young goodlooking man searching for love; "THE POLITICS OF FUR" (2002, USA), a melodramatic story of a woman who lives with a pet tiger cub and her erotic liaison with a wanna-be-rock star; "GALLANT GIRLS" (2003, Germany), a temperamental story, based from true events, of seven young women and their idealism in the 80's; "UNDER ONE ROOF" (2002, USA), a story brimming with humor about a young asian guy and his irresistible hottie living under the same roof; "LIKE IT IS" (1999, UK), a story of an aspiring young boxer, struggling with his sexual identity; "JOURNEY TO KAFIRISTAN" (Die Reich Nach Kafiristan) (2001, Germany), a tender love story of two women searching for refuge in 1939; "A NORMAL LIFE" (2003, USA), a story of a gay man who married a woman and bore a child; "GOLDFISH MEMORY" (2003, Ireland) a film that chronicles the ups and downs of several Irish singles; "BETWEEN TWO WOMEN" (2000, UK), a classically performed story of forbidden love, class divisions, social roles, and destiny; "LUSTER"(2002, USA), an authentic romantic love story and a charming look at a queer boy's adventure in love; "FLUFF" (2002, Canada ), a comedy of greek interpretation translated in modern love; "SAGITARIO" (2002, Spain), a romantic-drama about a woman who finds herself going from no man in her life to having more suitors than she can handle; and "GARMENTO" (2003, USA), a story of the dark and comical look at New York's wholesale garment industry, to name a few.
Pride International Film Festival will also stimulate the viewing Philippine audience with such great Boys Shorts like : "L.T.R." (2002, USA); "BLUE HAVEN" (2001, USA); "ROCK BOTTOM" (2002, USA); "SUMMER BLUES" (2002, Norway); "LIMBO" (2002, USA); "COFFEE DATE" (2000, USA); "DEPARTURE" (2002, USA); "FOTOSTAR" (2002, Switzerland); "SUNDAY MORNING" (2001, UK); "PHINEAS SLIPPED" (2002, Sweden); "AUDIT" (2001, USA - starring Alexis Arquette & Sally Kirkland); "FIRE ISLAND PINES ON $0 A DAY" (2002, USA); "PARADISCO" (2002, France); "RED CHEWING GUM" (2000, USA - a Lebanese Short Film); "LUCKY BUGGER" (2001, UK); "PRECIOUS MOMENTS" (2001, Norway), "TRUTH OR DARE" (VERDADE OU CONSEQUENCIA – 2002, Brazil) and much more. The Girls Shorts will include : "ATOMIC SAKE" (1999, Canada); "IS YOUR WIFE A SECRET LESBIAN" (2002, USA); "BEAUTEOUS" (2002, USA); "LOVE LIFE" (2002, USA); "HOW TO MEND A BROKEN HEART" (2002, Canada); "STARCROSSED" (2003, USA); "PUSSIES FROM OUTER SPACE" (2003, USA); "LIVES OF THE PHAROAHS" (2001, Australia); "BABY'S BEDROOM" (2003, USA); "THE GIRL AND HER WILD ASS" (2002, USA); "BLUE TUESDAY" (2001, Canada); "LAS AMIGAS BONITAS" (2002, USA); "SELMA & SOFIE" (2002, Sweden); "EX" (2003, Australia); "PEELING" (2002, USA); "LIPSTICK" (2002, USA), to name a few.
Pride International Film Festival will also showcase GLBT animation shorts, which includes : "BLUE EYED MOON" (2001, Bulgaria); "GAY LIFE FOR BEGINNERS" (2002, Germany); "AU COMMENCEMENT" (In The Beginning) (2003, Belgium); "THE FABULOUS NUTCRACKER" (2002, USA); "VIA WIRE" (2002, Hong Kong); to name some.
With these list of digital films and videos for the 2004 Pride International Film Festival, the organizers hope to bring out to the general public the message of our mission and to build bridges amongst audiences & filmmakers, both foreign and local, through the exhibition of high-quality gay and lesbian themed films and videos.
With these, the festival may be able to set a new international standard in the local filmmaking, festival and cinema industry; and help develop gay themed films and filmmaking in the Philippines. For this year, the festival theme will be "Pride, Freedom and HIV/AIDS awareness."
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The Marshfield Clinic Personalized Medicine Research Project, launched in 2002, comprises more than 20,000 participants aged 18 years and older with DNA, plasma, serum samples, questionnaires, and access to comprehensive electronic health records. More than 20 active studies are underway using the biobank. Policies and processes are in place to facilitate use of the samples. Lessons learned in the first 10 years of the biobank will be shared.
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