Ontario Government names Deborah Leckman and Bob Plamondon to OPTrust Board
TORONTO, February 8, 2019 – The Government of Ontario named Deborah Leckman and Bob Plamondon to the Board of Trustees in January 2019.
Ms. Leckman is a senior investment professional with over 30 years of experience in the pension fund and retail wealth industries. Most recently, Ms. Leckman completed a six-year term as Commissioner, Director and Adjudicator at the Ontario Securities Commission, whose mandate is investor protection, promoting fair and efficient capital markets and contributing to financial stability. Ms. Leckman was responsible for the $15 billion public equity program at OMERS and held the role of Senior Vice President at TD Waterhouse prior to that. She is a trustee of various other pension plans and life health trusts.
Ms. Leckman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a B. Comm and an MBA from McGill University.
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IAN SWEET on Trust, Transitions, and Her New Short Film
By Amy Garlesky
We tend to commend the artist who pours everything into their work–searching to the depths of their heart and soul to deliver work representative of their experience. Deciding to twist this tradition, LA-based artist Jilian Medford took a different approach for her third full-length record as IAN SWEET–she chose to leave space.
It's a process Jilian found liberating when writing Show Me How You Disappear. Rather than aiming to fit her personal experiences into her work, the collection of tracks find a new sense of intention and take on a life of their own–supporting one another's stories and carefully bracing their commonalities. The result is a record incredibly resolute in its healing and determined in its personal exploration. It's one where, even in its more surprising and dizzying moments, we can feel guided through Jilian's memories and struggles–maybe to even find, in the end, bits of our own reflections too.
Earlier this year, Jilian picked up a disposable film camera to show us the behind of the scenes of her new short film for Show Me How You Disappear. In our subsequent conversation, we discussed the lead-up to her album and the influences and themes behind it. Read our exchange and watch her new film below.
Slumber: If you could describe Show Me How You Disappear in three words to someone who's never even heard your music, what would you say?
Jilian Medford: Transparent, Restless, Freeing
Slumber: This album cover is very different from your past releases but still reminds me of how colorful and vibrant Shapeshifter was. How do you see this album cover compared to your past albums? What inspired it & the decision for you?
Jilian: It was difficult for me to land on the cover. I wasn't sure at first if I wanted it to be a photo or something more graphic/hand-drawn. I decided not to have a photo of myself for this one because this album feels like so much more than that. I didn't want a single picture stamped in time to be what this album feels like (to a viewer) forever. This album is chaotic, restless, entangled, freeing, and so fucking honest. I wanted a piece of art that felt like all of those things–so it made sense for it to not just be one solitary image but rather a blend of multiple.
"My intention with the record aligned with my intentions in outpatient therapy––to heal, transform and find a new beginning with myself. I will always be working on those things ... but this record made me dive headfirst into them."
Slumber: Speaking of color, what colors do you most associate with this release? What are the colors that embody it and remind you of its process & completion?
Jilian: This release feels both dark and then also very neon to me. I see black and bright, bright … almost blinding green.
Slumber: Inklings of this record began over two years ago in 2018. What has changed during the process of creating this mix of new songs–did you find yourself having different feelings, intentions, and goals at the end of the process than when you started?
Jilian: Definitely. I was in a big transition period in my life while writing the record. I was finding things out about myself and then writing the songs in real time. Processing the feelings with each new lyric or chord. This record was very emotional for me to make, sometimes overwhelming and emotionally taxing but I pressed on because I knew I wanted to document these feelings as I was feeling them!
My intention with the record aligned with my intentions in outpatient therapy–to heal, transform and find a new beginning with myself. I will always be working on those things, it's a never-ending cycle but this record made me dive headfirst into them.
Slumber: The pandemic is over and life returns to normal–where's the first place you want to perform this record?
Jilian: I think I just want to play it for my close friends to start. But then I'd love to play outdoors somewhere maybe at a festival. This record and these songs need a big space I think! I want the music to be loud as fuck haha!
Slumber: Is there anything sonically distinct about this record? Did you try any new recording techniques, gear, anything that defined its sound for you?
Jilian: There are basically no live drums on this record so that was very different for me. Worked hard on programming drums and building a lot around that! That wasn't totally my plan but then the pandemic hit and had to adapt.
Slumber: How have you been spending your time during the pandemic? Have you started any new hobbies, or more generally, any new part of life you've discovered that excites you?
Jilian: I got a dog!! His name is blueberry and he's the best thing that has ever happened to me. I spend a lot of time with him, hiking and running around. I picked up crocheting and have been knitting hats and bags and all sorts of things! I love it so much.
Slumber: You make a lot of references to nature on this record…bodies of water, clouds, wilderness. Was that an intentional choice or was there something, some experience, or some place inspiring that motif?
Jilian: I think I was manifesting those things. Wanting to become the body of water or relating a relationship to drowning in it. During the pandemic, I was doing a lot of camping and it felt amazing. I just like to relate my body and my emotions to nature…since we are all made up of crushed-up rocks anyway.
Slumber: What's something you like your listeners to gain, learn, or feel after they listen through this release. How is it different from your past releases?
Jilian: I want listeners to feel connected to themselves, powerful, brave, safe, and held. This release is different from others just because I was going through very specific and difficult things that led to the music being more honest and open than ever before.
"This album is chaotic, restless, entangled, freeing, and so fucking honest. I wanted a piece of art that felt like all of those things..."
Slumber: And to turn it back around, what have you gained or what lessons do you think the album has instilled for you moving forward to your next project?
Jilian: This record has helped me to trust myself and my instinct. I have struggled in the past to be proud of what I make, I have always been my own worst enemy and super harsh critic (who isn't) but I have been very hard on myself in the past, like almost intentionally hurting my own feelings before anyone else does. But on this record, I felt proud, strong, intentional and it has, in turn, helped me feel confident in what I've made.
Slumber: Lastly, for those planning on listening to Show Me How You Disappear once it's released: what's the ideal setting for listening? Feel free to be specific as you like.
Jilian: For some reason, I feel like maybe in a parked car? Outside of your house? At dusk?–Haha–Or driving somewhere? … with windows down, without distractions.
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Pentecostal Churches in Zimbabwe are almost always evangelical in character (and so are sometimes called "Evangelical Pentecostal Churches"). Accordingly, most churches of pentecostal character in Zimbabwe belong to the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, founded in 1962.
These churches typically emphasize the "African gifts of the spirit", including healing. The term "African Initiated Church" (AIC) is used of any of a number of Christian churches started in Africa by Africans and not directly by missionaries from another continent. Often they contrast themselves with the so-called missionary churches and emphasize traditional gender roles and social structures. Most pentecostal churches (with the exception of the Apostolic Faith Mission and Celebration Church) fall into the AIC category.
A variety of overlapping terms exist for these forms of Christianity: African Initiated Churches, African Independent Churches, and African Instituted Churches. Note: Religion in Zimbabwe uses the term "African Indigenous Churches" for a separate group of churches which almost exclusively target Africans and are often concerned with local customs.
Some large Pentecostal churches or movements include:
Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe
Bethesda Apostolic Church
Celebration Church
Christ the Rock Ministries International
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Elim Pentecostal Church
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Full Gospel Church of God in Zimbabwe
Gospel Assembly Church
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Harvest House International Church
Impact Christian Centre
New Life Covenant Church
River of Life International
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Tabernacle Pentecostals
United Family International Ministries
Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA)
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The Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe Church (AFM) is one of the largest Pentecostal denominations in Zimbabwe. Until independence in 1980, it was part of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, which is South Africa's largest Pentecostal church.
Faith Alive assembly is a church of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe based in the Adylin section of Westgate in Harare. From humble beginnings with a congregation of less than 12 people,it has since grown to more than 1300 people. AFM Faith Alive church building was officially opened on the 4th of July 2009 by the former President of AFM in Zimbabwe, Reverend Manyika, on a colourful occasion that was attended by believers from different churches, as well AFM leaders from Zimbabwe and South Africa.
See also Apostolic Faith Mission International and the Apostolic Faith Mission of Africa (Bulawayo), a branch of the Apostolic Faith Mission of Africa based in Masvingo.
Bethesda Apostolic Church was founded in 1952 after Loveless Matarirano Manhango received numerous visions near Chegutu (formerly Hartley). The farm is situated 8km from Chegutu towards Kadoma town.
The women's fellowship, named Ruwadzano, wears a blue-red-white uniform revealed in a vision to the founder. The Church maintains a current website with numerous photos and downloads.
Celebration Center in Harare.
RelZim.org articles about Celebration Church
Founded since Zimbabwean independence by Senior Pastors Tom and Bonnie Deuschle from America, Celebration Churches have created a wide network of ministries and enterprises with a contemporary media awareness. There Celebration Churches in Harare, Kadoma, Bulawayo, as well as South Africa.
Christ the Rock Ministries International frequently organises seminars and workshops that are aimed at equipping believers with competence in subjects to do with business and finance from a Christian perspective. It was established in 1998 and has churches in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. CTRMI's Head ministry office is located in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Church Team Ministries International (CTMI)
After more than 20 years of working in the Indian Ocean Islands, Africa, Europe, India, and America, CTMI has united men and women from diverse cultural backgrounds who work together to equip and encourage church leaders. As a result, a growing network, made up of leaders and churches sharing the same vision, has been established in over 22 countries.
CTMI Countries : Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo Republic, DR Congo, France, India, Kenya, La Réunion, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Selbourne Park Christian Church in Bulawayo.
A local branch of the Elim Pentecostal Church founded in Ireland in 1915, Elim Zimbabwe runs a hospital, schools and over 50 churches. Elim is headed by Pastor Pious Munembe. The Mutare Memorial church, which also houses the Headquarters of Elim Zimbabwe, was built with funds raised following the Vumba massacre. On 23 June 1978, twelve people were slaughtered at the Elim Mission station in the Vumba Mountains, northern Zimbabwe. The first Elim Missionaries to Zimbabwe were Mr and Mrs Jessie Williams who went in February 1949 and were based at Penhalonga, located 18 km north of Mutare.
Faith Ministries is a charismatic, Bible-based ministry with communities in Zimbabwe and the UK. It was started in 1976 by a Scotsman called Alastair Geddes.
Through its amalgamation with the Church of God which is represented in 162 Countries, the Full Gospel Church of God in Southern Africa is an International Church. In the year 1909 George Bowie came to South Africa as a missionary sent from the Bethal Pentecostal Assembly, under the leadership of Minnie Draper, Newark in New Jersey, U.S.A It was in the month of April 1910 that the Pentecostal Mission was started, and this Pentecostal Mission was to become The Full Gospel Church of God in Southern Africa, a bilingual Church— in 1995 there were 82 congregations and 7,200 members; 14,400 people were affiliated with the church.
Gospel Assembly Church is a non-denominational Pentecostal Church with branches all over the world. In Zimbabwe they have branches in all major cities of the country. Gospel Assembly Church Bulawayo is located in the suburb of Romney Park. The Bulawayo Assembly is pastored by Rev Eddie E. Gatsi with his wife, Joyce Gatsi.
Bishop Langton Kanyati and Bishop Florence Kanyati co-founded Zoe Life Changing Ministries and Grace Unlimited Ministrie, which are active in Harare through teaching and healing crusades. Bishop Langton's publications include Building a Great Home – Establishing a Strong Marriage, (review). Bishop Florence has also written a number of books on Christian marriage and her women's ministry is particularly visible.
RelZim.org articles about HHI
Harvest House International Church (HHI) is one of the leading Pentecostal Churches in Southern Africa. It has followers all over Zimbabwe. Outside the region, this Church has believers in Australia, Nigeria and England. Bulawayo community founded in October 1995 with just 8 people is, currently, building a 12,000-seater conference centre for its rapidly-accelerating congregation.
Impact Christian Centre (ICC)
Impact Christian Centre puts emphasis not only on praise and worship and teachings of the word of God, but also on achieving excellence by its members. The Impact Young Executives, is the Church's Youth Ministry where the ICC looks at how to groom youths to be ladies and gentlemen, as well as future leaders. ICC was founded in 2010 by Pastors Davison and Gwen Kanokanga.
Jubula New Life Covenant Church is a multi-ethnic Harare-based congregation with a large number of cell groups with a leader and a stable cell host. The activities of its 26 churches around Zimbabwe include intercessory prayer, leadership development, economic empowerment, social engagement, evangelism. Bishop Tudor and Pastor ChiChi became the senior pastors of what was then New Life Temple in 1982. In the years since they have assembled a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural congregation. New Life Temple became New Life Covenant Church in 1998.
River of Life International is affiliated to the Faith Ministries family. River of Life was born on the 17th of December 1999.
After serving with Victory Fellowship under the leadership of the Apostle Kenneth Eric Haskins, Pastor and Prophet Bothwell Tiger Phiri left to fulfill the call of God to start the ministry.
RelZim.org articles about Spirit Embassy
Spirit Embassy was founded by Prophet Uebert Angel on March 12, 2007. Spirit Embassy Church has 20 branches worldwide including cathedrals in South Africa, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe.
Tabernacle Pentecostals (Branhamites)
The post World War II faith-healing movement founded by William Branham has several congregations in Zimbawe including Spoken Word Tabernacle and Eastlea Tabernacle in Harare.
RelZim.org articles about UFIM
United Family International Ministries (UFIM) comprises the United Family Interdenominational Ministries and The United Family International Church. It was founded by Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa and operates mostly around Harare and in Mashonaland Central.
UFIM charity work in Chitugwiza.
This ministry is one of the fastest-growing in Zimbabwe, largly due to the charisma of their leader. According to the UFIM site, an estimated 17,000 people joined them in 2010 in a period of three months.
Launched in August 2008 as a lunch-hour fellowship at the Anglican Cathedral in Harare, the fellowship was so popular, that after only a week at the cathedral, it moved to the State Lotteries Hall and subsequently to the City Sports Centre.
Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa
RelZim.org articles about ZAOGA in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa (ZAOGA) is a large Pentecostal church known internationally as Forward in Faith Ministries International (FIFMI). As of 2000, there were 4,000 congregations and 539,683 members. ZAOGA is divided into 26 provinces in Zimbabwe. The movement was founded in the late 1950s by a group of Pentecostals from the Apostolic Faith Mission who gathered around the charismatic Ezekial H. Guti. He continues to lead the church and holds the titles of Dr, Apostle and Archbishop. Zimbabwe is the location of the ZAOGA-FIF headquarters and the host-nation of a number of international gatherings for FIFMI.
ZAOGA has schools in Zimbabwe including Grange Primary School in Chisipite, Denda Primary in Mutoko, Christ for Zimbabwe High School, a children's home in Mutare, as well as three bible schools in Harare, Chiredzi, and Bulawayo.
According to an article posted on ZAOGA-FIF website in May 2012, "In Waterfalls (a suburb of Harare) the church recently built a state of the art hospital. This medical institution also has a non-medical unit where those with spiritual needs will be ministered to through prayer and the Word."
The Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) is currently under construction in Bindura on a 100 hectare property.
David Maxwell, in his book African Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecostalism & the Rise of Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement, traces the transformation of Ezekiel Guti and his prayer band from small beginnings into the present day transnational enterprise, which is now ZAOGA. See review of this book.
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The 2013 Golden Game Award: Game-Off Number 1
August 18, 2013 Rob	Comments off
It's time for this year's first game-off between contenders for the coveted Golden Game Award. The winner of this epic battle will win a place in the final and a chance to go down in history as a game that Miss B likes more than some other games on a particular day.
Miss B introduces our contenders for the day.
In the Red corner, nominated by Miss B herself, we have a game that represents an entire family of boardgames that allow you to draw on the board with crayons. It's a game that is nowhere near as pretty looking as its competitors, but it's one that rewards strategy, planning and luck, and involves building a huge rail network in order to deliver goods throughout the North-east of the USA. Yes, it's Empire Express.
In the Blue corner, nominated by me and representing the hopes and aspirations of what is probably the biggest gaming franchise of the last 20 years, the Catan empire, we have a game that allows you to trade goats for cutlasses and swap stuff for parrots: Catan Junior.
To be honest, I'm a little surprised by the selection of Empire Express, but also very pleased by it. I like the "crayon rails" range of games, having played several of them in the past, though they are notable for being quite time consuming to play for fairly low complexity games. Empire Express cuts out some of the options and gives you the option of a flying start, and makes the whole game playable for the two of us in maybe an hour and a half now Miss B knows her way around the game. Still quite a long time for one game with a six-year-old, but it's just about manageable.
This play went well and really held Miss B's attention throughout. Thanks in part to some good card draws and me trying to be too clever for my own good (though it must be said, my track was beautiful, I just needed a longer game…) Miss B won. Actually, she didn't just pip me at the post, she totally walked it, leaving me at least a couple of deliveries behind her. Well played!
As for Catan Junior, we always get on well with that one and it plays quickly, usually in the ballpark of half an hour. There was a little complaining when I built a pirate lair where Miss B wanted to go, but then she managed to get her own back soon afterwards. This time, though, her usual strategy of buying lots of parrot tiles (which give assorted bonuses) wasn't quite enough and I managed to win by the narrowest of margins.
Miss B told me, "Empire Express is really good because you have the crayons and you can do a bit of drawing. Catan Junior is a teeny bit worse because you can't have a draw in the game." (Actually, you can't get a draw in Empire Express either, but there you go.)
Based on this assessment, Miss B has awarded Empire Express 16 out of 20 and Catan Junior 15 out of 20, and thus our first finalist for this year is Empire Express. Personally I think Catan Junior is a better kids/family game, but I'm delighted because it means we'll get to play Empire Express again very soon.
Categories: TaG Awards Tags: award, Catan Junior, Empire Express
The 2013 Golden Game Award (formerly the Golden Thingummy): The Shortlist
August 15, 2013 Rob	2 comments
If you've been reading this blog for a while (or have rummaged around in the archives), you may be aware that for the last couple of years Miss B and I have given a notional award for some game that we think is good. So, in what is definitely now an annual tradition, I give you the opening salvo in the 2013 Golden Game Award.
If you would like to maintain a sense of suspense, please don't look at this picture until you have read the rest of the post.
This is, of course, a change of name. As Miss B gets older and develops more sophisticated critical faculties, she seems to be developing a knack for spotting when I am talking absolute rubbish. As part of this she has decided that the Golden Thingummy is not a title suitable for such an auspicious endeavour as this (possibly not her exact words), so from now on we have a new, more sensible name.
The rules are this… We have a shortlist of four candidate games from those that we have played over the last year, two picked by Miss B and two picked by myself in a vain attempt to choose something that she might prefer to her own picks. The games, incidentally, must be ones for us to play with just the two of them, so Apples to Apples is off the cards. We then have two game-offs, playing one of her choices and one of mine back-to-back before discussing how the games went and getting Miss B to choose the one she preferred on the day. Then the two winning games go through to a grand final game-off to decide which will be awarded the prize of… Well, nothing, not even including prestige.
In 2011 the winner was Enchanted Forest, played with simplified rules.
In 2012 Miss B couldn't decide an outright winner, so Dominion and Robo Rally (also with some rule concessions to make it viable for a 5-year-old) shared the honours.
This year the shortlist has been drawn up and, if you have seen the picture at the top of this post, you will already know what the selections were. I seriously suck at this suspense thing. But just for the sake of form…
Miss B's choices were Empire Express and Enuk. Two more different games can hardly be imagined given the candidates, but they are both games that Miss B loves and Empire Express in particular doesn't get played as often as we would like due to it taking a comparatively long time to play (the box says 60-90 minutes, which is probably about right for the two of us).
My choices were Augustus and Catan Junior, both of which are quick, fun and work some of those Euro-gaming muscles a little. Catan Junior is a great game to have in the collection and one which we have, in the past, pulled out when a friend of Miss B's came for a play date.
So, over the next week or two I plan to post the gory details of our game-offs. Can you handle the suspense…?
Categories: TaG Awards Tags: Augustus, Catan Junior, Empire Express, Enuk
More goats? You should set up a farm.
December 18, 2012 Rob	Comments off
Yesterday Miss B had a play date, bringing one of her friends from school, Miss A, home for a couple of hours. This sort of thing usually involves a lot of running around the house and shouting, but we know Miss A has Loot and Sleeping Queens at home, so Miss B wanted to try a board game with her. The one we chose was Catan Junior.
We took a few minutes explaining the main rules (with Miss B very keen to help) and then got started. To be honest, I don't know Miss A very well so wasn't sure quite how much was sinking in. Such is the way with six-year-olds. I shouldn't have worried as after two or three turns, Miss A was clearly getting the hang of things and working out what trades she needed to make to complete her next build. She took an early lead and, despite Miss B and I rallying to catch up, our guest managed to hold on to the win.
I was really impressed at how well this game worked out for playing with a young visitor and held her attention. Catan Junior is not a deep game and probably would probably bore most adult gamers after not too many plays, but it is proving to have been an excellent purchase for us. And I'm more than happy to play it any time it is requested.
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It would be good if we really had a parrot called Coco
October 1, 2012 Rob	Comments off
Catan Junior is pretty much what you'd imagine from the title: a version of Settlers of Catan, reworked with a younger audience in mind. I was a little wary of this, having heard less than stellar reports of an earlier attempt to shift the Catan franchise towards a younger audience (Kids of Catan), but over the last few months a steadily expanding body of positive reviews have built up. Then, while I was off at the highly enjoyable TringCon, I stumbled across a copy at a very reasonably price, so I laid my cash down…
Pirates everywhere! (Though here we're forgetting to keep hold of our parrots.)
I mean, there are pirates in this version of the game. Surely that's enough?
Actually, my early impressions of the game are great. The basic mechanics of the game are almost identical to the original Settlers, but trading has been tweaked (so you trade with a non-player market or the bank), resource cards have been replaced by gorgeous tokens (though the design of the gold counters leaves something to be desired) and the development cards are now "Coco the parrot" tiles which do something good for you when you buy them.
We've played this a couple of times so far, with three and two players, and both worked well. Actually, during our first play I rushed reading the rules and we ended up playing with unlimited trading and no bonus for collecting parrots. This actually worked out quite fun, mind, but we have shifted to the proper rules now. The game zips along quite quickly, even with Miss B getting distracted and singing a song or chatting about the fact she doesn't think there should be as much wood as it isn't as interesting as goats.
In some ways I think this is actually better than the original Settlers. It is certainly less likely that someone makes a poor or unlucky start and never recovers. This could really turn into a very good gateway game which I'd be more than happy to play with an adult group. I think the "Junior" label is a bit unfortunate as it makes the game sound like more of a kids' game rather than the great little family game it actually is.
The verdict from Miss B (aged 5¾): "Catan junior was 10 out of 10 when you could get a lair onto Spooky Island because you had the most Cocos. I liked it because it was still part of the points because lairs score points when they're on the board."
The game: Catan Junior (Mayfair Games), 2 to 4 players, aged 6+.
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Group urges states to enact disability law
By Gordi Udeajah - Umuahia
14 hours ago Nigeria
Soyinka warns against imputation of pronouncement as attack on faith
Nigeria committed to good governance in Africa, Buhari insists
Citizens with disabilities have urged states to enact laws to remove barriers that hinder them from enjoying equal rights as citizens rather than being discriminated against and marginalized on the basis of their disabilities.
The Executive Director of the Center For Citizens With Disabilities (CDD), Mr David Anyaele, who made the call in Umuahia Abia state capital commended the federal government under president Muhammadu Buhari for enacting the disabilities law and also setting up a Commission to implement its provisions.
Anyaele decried that only about ten states have enacted this law noting that in the case of Abia, the bill has been undergoing legislative processes.
He urged the Abia State Independent Electoral Commission to provide people with disabilities the conducive environment/facilities to participate in, vote and be voted for in the scheduled state Local Government poll December 18.
According to him persons with disabilities should not be subjected to long time queuing before casting their votes.
His words: "Election materials, campaign jingles and posters should be translated into forms they can easily read, interpret and comprehend."
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Works by Camil Ungureanu
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Religion in Contemporary European Cinema: The Postsecular Constellation.Costica Bradatan & Camil Ungureanu - 2014 - Routledge.details
The religious landscape in Europe is changing dramatically. While the authority of institutional religion has weakened, a growing number of people now desire individualized religious and spiritual experiences, finding the self-complacency of secularism unfulfilling. The "crisis of religion" is itself a form of religious life. A sense of complex, subterraneous interaction between religious, heterodox, secular and atheistic experiences has thus emerged, which makes the phenomenon all the more fascinating to study, and this is what Religion in Contemporary European Cinema does. (...) The book explores the mutual influences, structural analogies, shared dilemmas, as well as the historical roots of such a "post-secular constellation" as seen through the lens of European cinema. Bringing together scholars from film theory and political science, ethics and philosophy of religion, philosophy of film and theology, this volume casts new light on the relationship between the religious and secular experience after the death of the death of God. (shrink)
Democracy, Law and Religious Pluralism in Europe: Secularism and Post-Secularism.Ferran Requejo & Camil Ungureanu (eds.) - 2014 - Routledge.details
In contrast with the progressive dilution of religions predicted by traditional liberal and Marxist approaches, religions remain important for many people, even in Europe, the most secularised continent. In the context of increasingly culturally diverse societies, this calls for a reinterpretation of the secular legacy of the Enlightenment and also for an updating of democratic institutions. This book focuses on a central question: are the classical secularist arrangements well equipped to tackle the challenge of fast-growing religious pluralism? Or should we (...) move to new post-secular arrangements when dealing with pluralism in Europe? Offering an interdisciplinary approach that combines political theory and legal analysis, the authors tackle two interrelated facets of this controversial question. They begin by exploring the theoretical perspective, asking what post-secularism is and looking at its relation to secularism. The practical consequences of this debate are then examined, focusing on case-law through four empirical case studies. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, philosophy, religion and politics, European law, human rights, legal theory and socio-legal studies. (shrink)
Derrida's Tense Bow.Camil Ungureanu - 2013 - The European Legacy 18 (6):727-739.details
This essay explores both the appeal and the difficulties of Derrida?s ?democratic Romanticism.? Derrida?s broader philosophical project seeks to make explicit the paradoxes or aporias that are embedded in practical experience. In unveiling these aporias, Derrida pleads, particularly in his later writings, for a transformation of democracy and religion so as to make them hospitable to difference. However, I will argue that Derrida?s reduction of the great variety of moral-political and religious situations to one aporetic logic runs into conceptual problems (...) and risks undoing the moral tissue that makes hospitality possible in the first place. (shrink)
Derrida: Value Theory in Continental Philosophy
Jacques Derrida in Continental Philosophy
The Post-secular Debate: Introductory Remarks.Camil Ungureanu & Lasse Thomassen - 2015 - The European Legacy 20 (2):103-108.details
Derrida on free decision: Between Habermas' discursivism and Schmitt's decisionism.Camil Ungureanu - 2008 - Journal of Political Philosophy 16 (3):293-325.details
Sacrifice, violence and the limits of moral representation in haneke's caché.Camil Ungureanu - 2014 - Angelaki 19 (4):51-63.details
:This article revisits Michael Haneke's Caché as a filmic transformation of the traditional bond between sacrificial violence, morality and community building. By drawing mainly on striking correspondences with Jacques Derrida's view of the "mystical" origin of authority and of the limits of moral representation, the article aims to probe into Haneke's strategies of concealment. In so doing, the article proposes a "postsecular" interpretation of the symbolic meaning of the enigmas of the "ghost director" within the film, and of Majid's theatrical (...) self-sacrifice. (shrink)
Bourdieu and Derrida on Gift: Beyond "Double Truth" and Paradox. [REVIEW]Camil Ungureanu - 2013 - Human Studies 36 (3):393-409.details
Bourdieu and Derrida share a focus on the ambiguity of the practice of gift relationships already pointed out by Mauss. From Bourdieu's perspective, the question of gratuity is epistemically futile, as it veils the objective truth of gift-giving, yet ethically and politically relevant, as it refers to a hypocrisy which can be instrumental to enhancing civic virtue and solidarity. Bourdieu's "scientific humanism," however, implausibly reduces this ambiguity to interest maximization, and aims to build a solidaristic democracy by means of the (...) generalization of the hypocrisy of gratuity. In turn, by interpreting gratuity as "unconditionality," Derrida aims not at dissolving, but at dramatizing the ambiguity of gift relationships by turning it into "madness" and an "impossible possibility". Whereas I agree with Derrida's insistence on the salience of the requirement of gratuity, his approach can lead to counterintuitive and hubristic consequences. Instead, I suggest some elements of an alternative way of understanding gratuitous gifts as communicative acts irreducible to an economic calculation or circle. From this standpoint, a gratuitous gift can be constituted by certain forms of recognition, emotions, or convictions without for that becoming an "impossibility". (shrink)
The Contested Relation between Democracy and Religion.Camil Ungureanu - 2008 - European Journal of Political Theory 7 (4):405-429.details
In recent years, various European and UN documents have been advancing the idea of `open, transparent and regular' dialogue between religion and democracy. Is this the naïve rhetoric of the `Good European'? This article will discuss this issue starting from the debate between Habermas and Rawls on the role of religion in the public sphere. My approach presupposes a passage from deliberation to democratic rhetoric, the correlative abandonment of some of the tenets of Habermas's secularism, as well as a greater (...) concern with the question of the power asymmetries underpinning discursive exchanges. (shrink)
Democracy in Social and Political Philosophy
John Rawls in 20th Century Philosophy
Multiculturalism in Social and Political Philosophy
Rights and Religion in Social and Political Philosophy
Social Relationships in Social and Political Philosophy
Cinema and Sacrifice.Costica Bradatan & Camil Constantin Ungureanu (eds.) - 2015 - Routledge.details
Cinema has a long history of engaging with the theme of sacrifice. Given its capacity to stimulate the imagination and resonate across a wide spectrum of human experiences, sacrifice has always attracted filmmakers. It is on screen that the new grand narratives are sketched, the new myths rehearsed, and the old ones recycled. Sacrifice can provide stories of loss and mourning, betrayal and redemption, death and renewal, destruction and re-creation, apocalypses and the birth of new worlds. The contributors to this (...) volume are not just scholars of film but also students of religion and literature, philosophers, ethicists, and political scientists, thus offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between cinema and sacrifice. They explore how cinema engages with sacrifice in its many forms and under different guises, and examine how the filmic constructions, reconstructions and misconstructions of sacrifice affect society, including its sacrificial practices. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities. (shrink)
Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion: Between Public Reason and Pluralism.Paolo Monti & Camil Ungureanu - 2017 - London and New York: Routledge.details
What is the place of religion in a pluralist democracy? The continuous presence of religion in the public sphere has raised anew normative and practical issues related to the role of religion in a democratic polity, generating spirited political debates in Western and non-Western contexts. Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion provides an advanced introduction to, and a critical appraisal of, the major schools of political thought with a focus on the relationship between democracy and religion. Key features of this book (...) include: -/- - Analyses of different political traditions: liberalism, republicanism, deliberative democracy, feminism, postmodernism, multiculturalism, and interculturalism; -/- - Critical discussions of key contemporary philosophers, such as John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Susan Moller Okin, Martha Nussbaum, Will Kymlicka, Chandran Kukathas, and Bhiku Parekh; -/- - A pluralist approach that questions the strict divide between analytical and continental political philosophy; -/- - Discussion on the place of religion in politics from multiple perspectives by drawing on a plurality of political contexts, both Western and non-Western; -/- - Analyses of legal and political cases related to different religious traditions, for example, Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism. -/- This comprehensive text will be of great use to students of religion and politics in the fields of political and legal theory, and religious and theological studies, while also offering critical insights and arguments that will be of interest to the experts in the field. (shrink)
Multiculturalism, Misc in Social and Political Philosophy
Religious Ethics, Misc in Normative Ethics
Jürgen Habermas: The Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy.Camil Ungureanu & Klaus Günther - 2011 - Routledge.details
Jurgen Habermas is widely regarded as one of the outstanding intellectuals. This title focuses on the theory of law which can be distilled from his vast compendium of work. It places this theory in the context of Habermas' overall contribution to the theory of society, political theory and social philosophy.
El gusto por lo extremado: un análisis crítico de Baudrillard y Derrida sobre el terror y el terrorismo.Camil Ungureanu - 2012 - Isegoría 46:193-213.details
Baudrillard interpreta el «nuevo terrorismo» como un intercambio simbólico de regalo y contra-regalo: la muerte del terrorista es un contra-regalo irrefutable que rompe el círculo coercitivo de las relaciones sociales «impuestas» por el sistema global. A su vez, la concepción de Derrida tiene dos dimensiones, explicativa y normativa: en primer lugar, Derrida considera el 11-S como un síntoma multifacético de una crisis autoinmune que tiene aspectos políticos, religiosos y tecno-capitalistas. En segundo lugar, Derrida arguye que existe un «momento» de terror, (...) violencia y sacrificio que es constitutivo en las decisiones y en la responsabilidad éticas. De forma crítica, argumentaré que la concepción de Baudrillard se basa en una noción extremada y partidista de un sistema que se interpreta como un inmenso mandato de un gobernante totalitario. Por su parte, Derrida convierte de forma innecesaria la observación de que las acciones humanas pueden tener consecuencias perversas en una ley de la autoinmumidad inspirada en la biología. Al considerar el terror como algo constitutivo incluso en las relaciones éticas más comunes, Derrida corre también el riesgo de convertir un fenómeno extremado en un concepto que lo abarca todo, y de perder contacto con la práctica ética corriente. Concluiré que las concepciones de Baudrillard y de Derrida sobre el terror y el terrorismo comparten un «gusto por lo extremado» que las hace en última instancia poco convincentes. (shrink)
Michel Houellebecq's shifting representation of Islam: From the death of God to counter-Enlightenment.Camil Ungureanu - 2017 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 43 (4-5):514-528.details
Michel Houellebecq has, I argue, changed significantly his portrayal of Islam: in earlier novels, he advances a hostile view of it premised on the secularist belief in the death of God and the inexorable decline of monotheism. Houellebecq sets capitalism against Islam, and advances a vision of a godless 'religion positive' better suited for capitalist modernity. In contrast, in his last novel and interventions, Houellebecq makes a post-secular turn largely driven by the radicalization of positivist ideas relying on evolutionary biology. (...) This turn is opposed to modernity and favourable to a reconsideration of Islam as the religion of submission and a remedy to personal crisis and Europe's decline. I show that, evaluative differences notwithstanding, Houellebecq's stereotyping of Islam has remained constant in his literary work. (shrink)
A note from the East.Camil Ungureanu - 2017 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 43 (3):345-346.details
Dworkin´s Last Word: Religion Without God.Camil Constantin Ungureanu - 2014 - Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 13 (38):220-228.details
Review of Ronald Dworkin, Religion without God , (Harvard University Press, 2013), 180 pages.
Ethics in Value Theory, Miscellaneous
Habermas on Religion and Democracy: Critical Perspectives.Camil Ungureanu & Paolo Monti - 2017 - The European Legacy 22 (5):521-527.details


Hollywood vs. History
Catching up with The Butler
http://www.conradmblack.com/380/hollywood-vs-history
Feeling somewhat mellow last week on my way home from London after my only daughter's wedding to a very bright and attractive Frenchman we have known and liked for several years, I yielded to the Satanic temptation of an in-flight film. The Butler, billed as the true story of Cecil Gaines, who served as White House butler under all eight presidents from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, stirred my curiosity, as well as my antennae for Hollywood mangling of history and the prodromal symptoms of Hollywood mytho-nausea alert. But the lingering pleasures that attach to being father of the bride lulled me into Morphean complacency, and I pressed the fatal buttons. The stroke was committed and it was inexorable. I take no issue with the depiction of the eventual White House butler's mother's being raped by the plantation owner, leaving her in a stupefied state for the rest of her life, nor with the rapist employer's shooting the future White House butler's father dead; it might have happened, and even if it didn't, that segregated plantation life was an evil system and the rise of Cecil Gaines from a Macon plantation child-worker to White House head butler has all the makings of an uplifting tale.
I braced myself, however, for a portrayal of America's leaders from 1945 to 1989, the whole extent of the Cold War, that could be a deadly ambush of character assassination, hagiographical myth-making, and equal-opportunity, no-fault, sure-grip treacle. My precautions were inadequate. If I had started on defibrillation as President Eisenhower came into view, I might have disembarked from the airplane several hours later without suffering glottal stops, suddenly walking in tight circles, repeating childhood prayers, and compulsively clutching my forehead, and would probably not still be hearing something approaching Jefferson's infamous "firebell in the night" ringing without warning in my ears several days later, after a good deal of annealing spousal and self-administered therapy.
I started on this film adventure with teeth clenched in fear like Hansel and Gretel approaching the woods-cottage. As a public-service mental-health warning, I gently recount what followed. In the film, Dwight D. Eisenhower feared that, if he forced the integration of Little Rock Central High School, there would "be another civil war." In fact, he had his reservations about the Supreme Court's desegregation decision but did not mistake Orval Faubus ("just a po' boy from Greasy Creek") for Robert E. Lee, and did not need lessons from Sherman Adams on the need to uphold a Supreme Court order over the outright defiance of the governor of Arkansas.
The saccharine presentation of John F. Kennedy, coming on the heels of Richard Nixon's distributing Nixon buttons in the White House kitchen, attacking JFK to the waiters and busboys there, and promising to take care of the White House staff if it voted for him in 1960, should not have surprised me, but it did. Nixon was brought up in a Quaker house where African-American school friends were invited home to dinner from school, a family that knew and tolerated no racial prejudices. Nixon warned Eisenhower of the dangers in the world of the United States' being portrayed by the Communist powers as racist, and advocated a Republican effort on behalf of civil rights all his public career, while the Kennedys were completely indifferent to the issue until they saw its potential, morally and politically, sometime after JFK was inaugurated. It does nothing for John F. Kennedy, an attractive and popular president, though not one who in his brief term was able to accomplish a great deal, to portray him as a saint that he was not.
The psychotic compulsion always to portray Richard Nixon as a thug of no redeeming characteristics or attainments (who in this case is claimed to have ordered the murder of the leaders of the Black Panther organization, which is complete piffle) would dishonor Hollywood, if that were possible. It is now generally recognized that Nixon was a very successful and distinguished president, and that there was only a very questionable basis for removing him from office, though he was in some respects a neurotic man and had some unattractive foibles. No possible purpose is served in presenting these Manichaean caricatures except to aggravate the contempt in which Hollywood is held by the overwhelming majority of people in the world who have any taste or recognition of the damage the American film industry does by its defamatory coarseness and myth-making and spurious distortion of American life and public policy. At least we were spared the usual cameo companion piece to the Nixon-demonization, of Henry Kissinger verbally abusing underlings while committing war crimes. By that point in the film, I was grateful for whatever relief could be found.
Only the most knowledgeable viewer would realize that LBJ had actually fought for and signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, as he appears in this film as an unfathomably boorish man who did nothing but cling to the pristine coattails of the Kennedys. Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter have the good fortune to appear in authentic newsreel segments in secondary roles, but Ronald Reagan, though portrayed as an amiable man — who, with his wife, invited the butler in question and his wife (the inevitable Oprah Winfrey) to a state dinner as guests — is also portrayed as a hag-ridden apologist for the apartheid white-supremacist regime of South Africa. He was nothing of the kind, but was not convinced that sanctions would assist in a solution by "making things better by making them worse." The facts of the South African question are presented so as to make Reagan appear, despite his geriatric bonhomie, a tool of the racists, and in practice no better than the segregationists and murderers of the Black Panthers confected in previous Republican administrations.
The career of Eugene Allen, the real-life butler on whom Cecil Gaines is based, is quite dramatic and would easily sustain a full-length film without these monstrous distortions. And his views are very interesting. He gave an interview at the time of the election of Barack Obama, to a London newspaper, and explained that he liked all the presidents for whom he worked; that they were all courteous and considerate gentlemen, and that his politics were that he always voted for the president who employed him regardless of party and when there was no incumbent in the race (1952, 1960, 1968), his vote was a secret. He also said that next to the day of the assassination of President Kennedy, the saddest of all in his 35 years in the White House was the day of the resignation of Richard Nixon. Mr. Allen is obviously a fine man, discreet and thorough and well-disposed and exactly what one would hope for in such a role. His life is somewhat inspiring, whether the travails of his plantation youth are exaggerated, and whether he had a son who died in Vietnam or one who was a freedom rider, or not.
Oprah Winfrey is workmanlike as Mrs. Cecil Gaines. Other usual suspects are in the frame, including Harvey Weinstein — which prompts the question of why such accomplished people lend themselves to this bunk. There are now fairly frequent examinations of the Kennedys that present a fairly complete picture, including, but not overstating, some of that family's less salubrious qualities and quirks. Balanced appraisals of Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson are no longer hard to come by, and Nixon's chief accusers, especially Woodward and Bernstein, have been pretty thoroughly discredited. The burning question is why Hollywood continues into its second half-century feeding and fattening these false impressions of modern American history. In olden times, the desire for happy endings and for heroes was understandable, although it led at times to unrigorous history. War propaganda — even such hilarious whitewashes of Stalin as Mission to Moscow — was always excusable in the greater cause. But as I pull myself together from post-flight shock, I cannot imagine what rationale there could be for inflicting such a farrago of falsehoods as this upon the world. Eugene Allen deserves better, and so do all the presidents whom he served.
— Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, A Matter of Principle, and the recently published Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership. He can be reached at [email protected].


The Blue Lotus: Rare Tintin painting sells for record €3.2m
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An original painting by Belgian illustrator Hergé has sold for a record €3.2m ($3.9m, £2.8m).
The illustration was painted using gouache, ink and watercolour and shows Tintin and his dog Snowy hiding from a dragon in a porcelain jar.
It was initially intended to serve as the cover for Hergé's fifth book, The Blue Lotus, but was rejected due to reproduction costs.
A simplified version of the illustration was later used instead.
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The painting was sold online by Parisian auction house Artcurial for a total of €2.6m plus fees. It had been expected to fetch between €2.2m and €2.8m.
Thursday's sale breaks the previous record for the sale of comic book art set by another Hergé artwork in 2014. The two-page illustration, which dated back to 1937, sold for €2.65m including fees.
The Blue Lotus was first published in 1936 and sees Tintin travel to China during the 1931 Japanese invasion.
According to the auction house, the illustration was a gift to the son of Hergé's publisher. But this has been disputed in French media, with experts arguing that the drawing did not include a dedication, unlike other artworks the illustrator gave as gifts.
Hergé, a Belgian whose real name was Georges Remi, created Tintin in the 1920s. The series has been translated into dozens of languages and sold more than 200 million copies.
The comic book hero has been adapted by Hollywood and has even received an operatic makeover.
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Home Researches Time to reappraise how we interpret minerals
Time to reappraise how we interpret minerals
Professor John Wheeler: "These calculations show that we need to reappraise how we interpret minerals which grew within the Earth"
A study by the University of Liverpool has provided new insight into how minerals grow under the Earth's surface.
Using new calculations, a researcher in the School of Environmental Sciences was able to predict that the difference in stress acting on a rock in various directions has played a more significant role in influencing the growth of minerals in the Earth's crust and mantle than was previously supposed.
Basis of our understanding
Minerals are formed under the earth's surface as a result of geological influences such as heat, pressure and fluid interaction and therefore provide the basis of our understanding of the science of the earth.
They can be used to fingerprint the temperature and pressure at the time they grew. A diamond, for example, can grow only at pressures of greater than 40,000 atmospheres – in the same way that ice can form from water only below 0 degrees Celsius.
Liverpool geologist Professor John Wheeler, who undertook the research, said: "These calculations show that we need to reappraise how we interpret minerals which grew within the Earth"
"It has previously been assumed the effects of differential stress on mineral growth are small. But now I have shown that changing the stress (applied force per unit area on which it acts) in
one direction by, say, 500 atmospheres might have an effect equivalent to changing the overall pressure by 5000 atmospheres".
"These calculations mean that current estimates made by geologists for burial depths could be 20 km or more above or below their true values, and temperature estimates could be 100 degrees C above or below the actual values when minerals grew. So we need to revitalise our approach to what minerals tell us".
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Density differences
Stresses result from density differences within the Earth and movement of tectonic plates and can be hundreds of atmospheres different in value, depending on the direction of the stress. As stress is applied slowly over time, rocks deform and change shape forming aligned mineral textures which are very common.
The theory also has an impact on the understanding of metals which, like rocks, are interlocked crystals of different chemistries and are often processed by deformation which, as in rocks, occurs in parallel with chemical change.
The complete study is available online: geology.gsapubs.org/content/ea… 5718.1.full.pdf+html
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[ARCHIVED] City of East Lansing Waives Business License and Entertainment License Fees During COVID-19 Crisis
EAST LANSING, Mich. — In an effort to assist businesses that are suffering financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis, the East Lansing City Council approved a resolution during its virtual meeting on Thursday, April 30 to amend the City of East Lansing budget to waive business license and entertainment license fees in Fiscal Year 2020.
While these license fees have been eliminated, businesses that maintain business and/or entertainment licenses are still required to submit a renewal application. The East Lansing City Clerk's office is preparing to mail renewal applications to businesses in early May and applications must be submitted to the City Clerk's office, 410 Abbot Road, by June 30.
Community members with questions can contact the City Clerk's office at (517) 319-6914.
Other Financial Resources for Businesses
In addition to the City of East Lansing waiving license fees, the East Lansing Downtown Development Authority (DDA) has allocated $250,000 in discretionary funds to launch a Business Relief Program (BRP) for DDA businesses that are suffering financial hardship during the COVID-19 crisis. Brick-and-mortar businesses located within the DDA boundaries can apply for a $2,500 business relief grant through the program. A total of 100 DDA businesses will be awarded grants. The BRP application is now open and will be available through Thursday, May 7 at 11:59 p.m. via a web-based form at www.cityofeastlansing.com/businessrelief. It is anticipated that awarded grant funds will be delivered to businesses by close of business on Wednesday, May 20.
The East Lansing City Council will also be considering additional potential business and community support options at its May 12 and May 26 meetings, during which public meetings will be held on the FY21 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program budget and allocation of CDBG-CV funds.


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The Year-End Countdown Billboard Magazine
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It sounded so easy when we were sitting at home listening to a station's New Year's Eve (or Day) top 100 of the year just passed, and writing down every song. (Admit it, you did that too.) But even before year-end programs became research projects that were written and produced with amazing detail, it was still easy for things to go wrong, especially when 100 or more titles were involved. Songs played out of order or were listed twice. There were compilations with one song missing or one big hit just forgotten.
With stations just starting to get their year-end countdowns together for multiple airings during the holiday break, it seemed a good time to review some basics when creating what for most listeners is top 40's biggest show of the year.
Top 40 observers like Alan Burns and Associates' Jeff Johnson (left) and WSPK's Skywalker have smart tips for creating year-end countdowns.
SOUND 'BIGGER THAN LIFE'
For many stations, a simple live playback of the year's biggest songs in reverse order without a lot of information about artists, songs and what happened in 2013—or leaving that to one of the syndicated countdown program's year-end editions to take care of—will suffice for the end the year. But Jeff Johnson, senior VP at radio consultant Alan Burns and Associates, is a firm believer in local stations going out with a bang. "Countdowns that sound 'bigger than life'—with a ton of 'year in review' audio from news, movies, social media and local events—should be an integral part of the end-of-the-year programming for [mainstream and adult] top 40 stations."
The idea dates back at least to the mid-1960s, when the Bill Drake- and Gene Chenault-consulted chain of top 40 stations (including KHJ Los Angeles and KFRC San Francisco) pioneered the idea of the larger-than-life year-end show, stopping the regular format and current songs altogether to count down the year's top hits, front-sell several songs an hour with sound bites of news events from the month of a song's popularity, and—a very big draw at the time—give away all 100 songs to lucky callers. Those stations were also the first to run the countdown multiple times through New Year's Day. Polling listeners about their favorite artists and songs of the year as the countdown played also began during this era.
These days, the year-end show is about much more than just the music, says the producer of WSPK (K104.7) Hudson Valley, N.Y.'s countdown, Assistant PD Skywalker. "We use actualities from our prep services as well as from interviews we've done over the year, including at our summer and winter station concerts. Also, each jock is welcome to put their own spin on pop culture in review for their portion of the countdown. For example, I may cover slang used in 2013, like 'selfie,' while our morning show may report on the top celebrity scandals of the year."
BOTH RANK AND FILE
Arguably, the list part of the year-end countdown is less of an issue, as there's no longer a need for a music director or intern to go through weekly lists and reverse-rank songs (explaining the missing or twice-listed errors cited earlier). At WSPK and likely most stations, the final rank is based on real spins, Skywalker says. "We simply print out a year-to-date Selector report."
While Johnson also recommends "a list based on the number of spins over the course of the year, station monitors and any music research that is available," he stresses another key programming element beyond just a straight ranking. "It is important to schedule the music for a countdown just like you would any other hour on the station. Watch for balance in song type, tempo and role." So if Nos. 45 and 44 both turn out to be ballads, it's perfectly fine if one of those swaps places with No. 46 or 43. We won't tell.
Scheduling is also important when planning the first hours of a countdown, especially one where total songs mirror a station's dial position and lower-ranked songs tend to be those that never really took off when they were added. "I'm not a big fan of having the countdown be the 'top 107 songs of 2013,' Johnson says. "You don't want the first hour or so to be full of marginal hits. And does anyone really care what song ranked No. 98?" Many stations still airing a top 100, such as WHTZ (Z100) New York, have mastered the art by spicing the first hour with current hits on the rise and listener-reaction songs or club hits that may have aired only at night.
WHEN, AND HOW OFTEN?
It's very simple: Live is good, but a pre-produced countdown is better, Johnson says, "so you can get everyone on air involved with it and be able to work around holiday vacation schedules." That's how it happens at WSPK where, according to Skywalker, "Each full-time jock hosts a portion of the countdown. Pre-producing lets some of the full-timers enjoy some well-deserved time off, as we have board ops run the show."
While many stations may be booking studio time now, others prefer getting it done when the clock is running out on the year. "I assemble it the week between Christmas and New Year's, which is probably the slowest week at the station," Skywalker says. "It's a very time-consuming process production-wise, but the end product sounds great."
So your year-end countdown's ready to go: Songs perfectly ranked, content covering everything listeners remember from the year, with sound bites and artist interview clips. When, and how often, do you air it? Johnson at Alan Burns believes in "running the countdown multiple times during the New Year's holiday period. I'd run it, at minimum, on New Year's Eve and a couple of times on New Year's Day."
That's how it runs on WSPK, Skywalker says. "We air ours twice both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, beginning at 10 a.m."
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Liberty and Dwarfs join Allies as relegated clubs from Ghana Premier League
Liberty have been relegated from the GPL
Liberty Professionals and Ebusua Dwarfs have joined Inter Allies as the relegated clubs from the Ghana Premier League as the 2020/21 season concluded on Sunday.
Liberty drew 0-0 with King Faisal at the WAFA Park in Sogakope. The result favoured the Isha Allahu Boys as the maintained their top-flight status while the Scientific Soccer Lads suffered relegation after 22 years.
Ebusua Dwarfs picked three points in their final game as they beat Bechem United 2-1 but it was not enough to secure their safety.
The two clubs along with Inter Allies, who were relegated three weeks ago, will compete in the Division One League next season.
Kotoko were handed 150,000 Ghana cedis dummy cheque and 40 medals for finishing second after they were beaten 1-0 by Elmina Sharks at Len Clay Stadium in Obuasi.
Sharks' victory ensured they beat the drop as they entered the last round of matches in the relegation zone.
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2021 AFCON: The Black Stars is scheduled to arrive in Cameroon on January 7
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Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. Class A to Host Earnings Call
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / February 11, 2019 / Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. Class A (NASDAQ: BBGI) will be discussing their earnings results in their 2018 Fourth Quarter Earnings to be held on February 11, 2019 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time.
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(Bloomberg) -- Wealthy investors rushed to offload stock in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. after China began an investigation into alleged monopolistic practices at billionaire Jack Ma's internet giant, according to Citigroup Inc.'s private bank."A large number" of the bank's ultra-rich clients cut or exited their holdings in China's largest e-commerce firm after reports of the probe emerged, Citi Private Bank's Lab for Family Offices said in a report released Tuesday. China's stock market previously attracted significant inflows from the firm's wealthiest customers in the second half of the year, according to the report.Once hailed as drivers of economic prosperity and symbols of the country's technological prowess, Alibaba and rivals including Tencent Holdings Ltd. face increasing pressure from regulators after amassing hundreds of millions of users and gaining influence over almost every aspect of daily life in China. The $35 billion initial public offering of Alibaba's affiliate payments firm -- Ant Group Co. -- was abruptly halted last year, helping send Alibaba's American depositary receipts down more than a fifth since late October.Read more: China Halts Ant Group's IPO, Throwing Ma Empire Into TurmoilChina's central bank said last week that Ant Group is working on a timetable to overhaul its business while ensuring operations continue, underscoring the determination to rein in Ma's business and offering little clue on how far the firm needs to go to assuage Beijing. Ant Group makes up more than a quarter of Ma's $52.9 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.Alibaba shares rose 1.2% at 9:55 a.m. in Hong Kong Wednesday.(Updates Ma's wealth in fourth paragraph, adds stock move in last)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
Here's How Much Investing $1,000 In Bank Of America Stock 5 Years Ago Would Be Worth Today
Investors who owned stocks since 2016 generally experienced some big gains. In fact, the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) total return in the past five years is 120.4%. But there's no question some big-name stocks performed better than others along the way.Bank of America's Big Run: One market leader of the past five years was Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC).Big banks were crushed during the worst of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. Among the banks that survived the crisis, Bank of America was one of the hardest-hit. In fact, Bank of America shares dropped as low as $2.53 in early 2009 as investors questioned whether the company could avoid bankruptcy or total nationalization.By the beginning of 2016, Bank of America shares had worked their way all the way back up to around $16.45. Within months, the stock hit its low point of the past five years, dropping down to $10.99 following a bout of early-2016 volatility related to concerns over an economic slowdown in China.Bank of America then went on a tear for the remainder of 2016, more than doubling off its lows to around $23 by the end of the year. The stock made it to $33.05 by early 2018 before stalling out for roughly a year and a half.Related Link: Here's How Much Investing ,000 In JPMorgan Stock 5 Years Ago Would Be Worth TodayBank of America In 2021, Beyond: Bank of America shares broke out to the upside again in the closing months of 2019, surging to new highs of $35.72 before the COVID-19 sell-off pushed the stock back down to $17.95 in early 2020.Since then, Bank of America shares have regained nearly all of their lost ground and are currently trading at around $33.Bank of America investors who held on through a volatile few years were rewarded for their patience, and $1,000 worth of Bank of America stock bought in 2016 would be worth about $2,518 today, assuming reinvested dividends.Looking ahead, analysts expect Bank of America to take a breather in the next 12 months. The average price target among the 24 analysts covering the stock is $33.50, suggesting only 1.5% upside from current levels.Photo credit: Mike Mozart, FlickrSee more from Benzinga * Click here for options trades from Benzinga * Here's How Americans Are Spending Their Stimulus Payments * 5 Key Questions About The Federal Reserve's Approach In 2021(C) 2021 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
TREASURIES-Treasuries slip after Yellen says tax cuts should be repealed
Yellen, a former Federal Reserve chair, urged lawmakers to "act big" on the next coronavirus relief package, adding that the benefits outweigh the costs of a higher debt burden. Yellen said she believed some of the signature 2017 tax reform act should be repealed, such as the cut in corporate tax rates, though rates would not go back to their pre-2017 levels.


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The gallery is constantly filled with new works and at present it's collection consists of more than 900 works. It is located in the historical center of Moscow, not far from the Kremlin, in an ancient mansion, which was constructed by well-known Russian architect Y. Tyurin in 30s of the XIX century, and in a new building which was united with the first one by the same architectural style. The harmony of painting, architecture and classical music create a special atmosphere of Spirituality and Beauty in the halls. A.Shilov's portrait gallery will show you the diverse and complex picture of life of Russia. In the exposition are also represented lyrical landscapes and still - lives. A. Shilov's art activity is found on the best traditions of classical realistical painting and proves that eternal ideals of kindness, humanity, beauty and spirituality are still alive. On Saturdays concerts of classical music and Russian romances are held in the halls of the gallery. The comfortable cafe of the gallery will gladly open to you its doors
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Cesar PsyOp?
An excellent post at The Conservative Treehouse recalls to mind how many viewed the Cesar Sayoc "domestic terrorist bombing" affair as a potential false flag.
From the post:
Everything about last year's headline story just two-weeks before the mid-term election was weird; including the refusal of the FBI to state what 'specifically' was the material suspect Cesar Sayoc was accused of using to create his Acme-looking pipe bombs. [Full Indictment Here]
You might remember: FBI Director Christopher Wray outlined during his remarks that the devices consisted of PVC pipe, clocks, batteries, wiring and "energetic material that can become combustible when subjected to heat or friction".
The FBI director went out of his way to state: "these were not hoax devices."
We also were skeptical. When things don't add up, they don't add up, and enquiring minds want to know why not.
As Judge Judy Scheindlin often astutely states,
If it doesn't make sense; it's not true.
Wouldn't you love to have Judge Judy adjudicating Sayoc's case?
We were immediately skeptical. It behooves everyone to recap the Sayoc affair, in light of the most recent progressive (false flag) hoax: The Jussie Smollett affair.
We discussed the Cesar Sayoc affair at length, beginning with comments at this link. What follows is a summary of facts we thought particularly suspicious:
The immediate attempt by the alt-left, progressives, Democrats, the media and even some of the alleged targets (Soros, e.g.) to blame President Trump for the incident(s).
That it happened only two weeks before the critical mid-term election, not to mention how deliveries were spread out over time to keep fresh incidents in the news until the elections.
The list of alleged targets: A veritable who's who of the anti-President-Trump "resistance," including CNN's Jeff Zucker, George Soros, the Clintons, the Obamas, John Brennan, James Clapper, Kamala Harris, among others.
How it's questionable whether the packages were actually mailed: insufficient postage, stamps not canceled, no bar codes, packages not labeled with weight, for example.
Obviously nonfunctional devices. If a false flag, then perpetrator(s) wouldn't really want anyone on the list to be hurt.
Devices were subsequently referred to by the government as IEDs (when perhaps they were actually sulfur-powered LED clocks).
Deceptive photos that made the "devices" appear much larger than they actually were.
The obvious Hansel-and-Gretel-like "bread crumbs" lending false credence to the contention that Sayoc was inspired by Trump's rhetoric and other alt-right deplorables (e.g., note the "parody" ISIS flag, use of Larry the Cable Guy's slogan, Sayoc's ridiculously "pristine" photo-and-slogan-wrapped van, that conveniently plays into virtually every anti-Trump narrative and meme imaginable–a vehicle that someone just happened to consider so curious that he or she took multiple photos of it before the event, for the media's use. A vehicle that was ostentatiously in public view but was never vandalized, unlike most vehicles sporting only a Trump bumper sticker.)
The alleged Trump-supporting alt-right perpetrator, Sayoc, who was historically a Democrat, according to this researcher.
Cesar Sayoc (a play on psyop?) isn't his name. His true name is Cesar Altieri Randazzo, or some combination, according to the same researcher. Sayoc's true ethnicity is also in question.
The many photos showing Sayoc at Trump events that seem obviously photoshopped, again according to the same researcher.
The anti-Trump Southern District of New York (where James Comey's daughter works) handling the prosecution of Sayoc (unfortunately, not Judge Judy).
As with most of the usual suspects in potential false flag events, Sayoc pleads guilty instead of having a trial where evidence is put to the test and where discovery and transparency occur. (Interestingly enough, Sayoc is now going back on aspects of his guilty plea, by claiming that the "bombs" were never intended to harm anyone and he knew it when he sent them, even though he previously told the judge otherwise, because his lawyer told him to.)
Sayoc's history of steroid abuse and financial difficulties, including bankruptcy, and the fact that he suddenly registered as a Republican in 2016, after having previously been a Democrat, as multiple screenshots show.
The MAGA hat. (Just like with Jussie Smollett. Just like with other fake hate incidents that turn out to be hoaxes designed to smear President Trump and his supporters and turn Trump's slogan into a "dog whistle" for hatred and political violence.)
Sayoc's long arrest record, despite which he mysteriously was not in jail and so was free to commit these crime(s).
Surely there's a lot more that's curious about this affair that deserves notice.
If this was a false flag, as many suspect, is there more to it than just a desire by partisan persons unknown to influence the mid-term elections?
Or worse, could it have been an illegally run psyop, within this country, by government actors unknown, designed to help oust a president that the Deep State dislikes or fears?
Was this just another part of the insurance policy? If the players were ever exposed, would they claim "justification" based on a (false) "sincere" belief that the current president is a foreign agent? (See here for an explanation of what the Deep State may consider "justification" for any unconstitutional, illegal, or un-American activities.)
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85 responses to "Cesar PsyOp?"
Zenway | April 11, 2019 at 6:01 pm | Reply
JUST ……N U T S !!!!! N U T S !
https://www.michellesmirror.com/2019/04/reparations-not-just-for-black.html#.XK_GFuhKiUk
Miri | April 14, 2019 at 2:08 pm | Reply
http://www.michellesmirror.com/2019/04/reparations-not-just-for-black.html
REALLY…??? WOW ….WTP ….PONDER WHY WOULD that B? ha'
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ocasio-Cortez-Omar-say-they-re-targeted-with-13757991.php
And Jussie was a target of MAGA-hat-wearing, white Trump supporters.
OK ….NOW! ….. JUDGE DAVID MORALES …here-here!
https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2019/04/10/south-texas-native-david-morales-confirmed-federal-judge-seat/3429384002/
YouTube >>>>> Hides PragerU Video of Candace Owens' <<<<< !!!
Testimony in 'Restricted PragerU
announced on Wednesday that YouTube has placed another of its videos
in "restricted mode," meaning that not everyone who visits the video-sharing website will be able to watch it. The restricted video is of Candace Owens' powerful testimony before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
This time, the restricted video is of Candace Owens' testimony before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, which had created several viral moments, one of which has also recently become the most watched
C-SPAN video of a House hearing on Twitter.
This is N O T the First of PragerU's videos to have ended up on YouTube's Restriction LIST. According to the organization's founder, Dennis Prager,
80 of their 400 videos are on a restricted list, meaning that the videos are "lumped with pornography & violence, so that kids in libraries & schools can't see them," said Prager.
"If you are not on the left, you are to be shut down," said Prager to Breitbart News in an interview on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Daily last February, "We have never, ever had anything like this in American history."
"We are in a dark age because of the left's control of Silicon Valley, academia, & media," added Prager, "It's a dark age that we are living in
right now, & it is entirely left-wing induced."
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/04/11/youtube-hides-prageru-video-of-candace-owens-testimony-in-restricted-mode/
6. Laurene Powell Jobs: Being Steve's job widow means Laurene gets more than free iPhones for life: upon his untimely passing, Laurene inherited $18 Billion. Now, she strives for social justice and education reform through the Emerson Collective. …… $18 BILLION …..
NADA ??? ha' …. COMEY SPYS ….. BIGLEY …
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/04/12/disgraced-comey-denies-spying-on-trump/
Well now the good senator's position on gun control is coming into focus
as we learn she means gun control for people Other than Her-Self. <>> "I was a career prosecutor." !!! SO WHAT miz BIG-SHOT!!!
DEAD is DEAD ….no matter WHO & WHY it's DONE!
You're likely reading into that correctly. She Packs for Personal Safety, she says. Because she had a job that demands such a thing. People like her — Powerful People – have exerted their power in pursuit of truth & justice so they OF COURSE need firearms to ProtecT themselves.
https://www.redstate.com/slee/2019/04/12/kamala-harris-doesnt-hate-guns-carries-one-just-doesnt-want-one/
??? Why Are Democrats Upset at Illegal Aliens Being Sent to Their Sanctuary Cities? … EAT SHIT .. U FOOLS!!! REAP what ya SOW?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45929/ny-press-club-announces-truth-power-award-winner-hank-berrien …pelosi slurs …a LOT …
choking over LIES? …..such FOOLISH HUMANS …..so SAD!
Such idiots.
~ RUSSIA ~ RUSSIA ~ RUSSIA ~ .. wasted TIME & U$A's MONEY!
THEY ..PLAY STUPID ..because that is WHO they R .. SLY CHEATER
https://drkatesview.wordpress.com/2019/04/12/they-all-knew-the-russia-story-was-fake/#comment-101802
Papoose | April 12, 2019 at 8:28 pm | Reply
A blast from the past.
Corruption and Fraud… to this day… AntiAmericanism in your face 24/7/365
http://conservativefighters.com/news/maxine-waters-caught-illegally-spending-money/
Worse than a muslamic in our Hall.
Confession of Treason
https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/privacy/domestic-surveillance/maxine-waters-obama-database.htm
Uh, huh.
And she even admitted the political purpose, too. Very useful idiot.
We need a Funny section, Meer.
I was the head of the FBI but I am totally in the dark. Umm I can't remember my lies from the forest… umm the trees?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comey-says-he-had-no-idea-what-the-heck-barr-meant-by-saying-spying-did-occur-on-trump-campaign
Clown. He makes me sick. What a wimp and a weasel.
Papoose | April 12, 2019 at 10:24 pm | Reply
Omigosh. This is what I was thinking… Extradited to America for a Deal… you'regoing to be arrested grab the Gore Book…
Trump trumping, 🙂
I believe nothing the MSM says about Julian Assange . I'll tell you why. I don't believe A N Y T H I N G they spout. That's why.
Welcome to the USA!
alfy | April 13, 2019 at 5:32 pm | Reply
important 1 and important 2
The Deep State had to shut him up. One way or another. He knows the truth. They trumped up an old charge, probably incapable of being proven, that has nothing to do with the First Amendment rights of Assange as a journalist.
ANGRY …..NASTY …. PEOPLE!!! ….24/7 …. WHY?
Why are there so many UN-happy & ANGRY people in OUR world? Because they don't know What God's Purpose is for Their Life. They become AngrY when their Own view of what their life should BE doesn't Pan O U T … for them. Hollywood builds on this discontent, parading made up people with Phony lives (run by PR agencies) before us day & night. This bubbling anger is exploited for political gain & personal power by Big Media, Big academia & Big government.
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/why-is-the-world-filled-with-unhappy-angry-people/#MI71kF6ZjS5j2Std.99
https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/why-is-the-world-filled-with-unhappy-angry-people/
eat SHIT / EAT CROW! .. big crappy stink-in' pack of pit-BULL wolves !
The Left's Hysteria over Trump's suggestion that the many Thousands of Illegals who have Invaded the country be sent to Sanctuary Cities would be Hilarious if it were not so unspeakably Hypocritical. It is the Democrats who have D O N E Everything in their Power to encourage these people to come, to Breach O U R Borders. But they do not want them in Their Communities. Trump, as usual, trolled them into Revealing who they REALLY R !!!! ….. disingenuous, Elitist Snobs.
OUR TRUMP…. is a Genius, & he is the
….. (be> ) … "BEST" President ( EVER EVER )….since Reagan. ?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/trump_trolls_the_democrats_to_highlight_their_hypocrisy.html#ixzz5l1JJ6vV1
. MIS – LED …BIG TIME .. & GETS AWAY with IT?.. So…NASTY!!!
O' BLACK MAN …LOOK HOW FAR U ..ALL have COME!!! HANDS UP?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45902/jussie-smollett-purposely-misled-police-claiming-joseph-curl
The way they twist themselves into knots to try to avoid the OBVIOUS–that this was a political scheme, a political false flag designed to harm Trump and probably orchestrated by his most infamous political enemies. Now we're supposed to believe that Jussie only said they were white to throw the cops off the trial of the Nigerian brothers? And that the addition of the MAGA hats was just to lend credence to the claim that the attackers were white? They really do think we're stupid. He claimed they were white MAGA-hat-wearing Trump supporters because that's exactly what the script required to falsely smear Trump and his supporters as "white supremacists" and "white nationalists," all to help the DemoncRATS in 2020.
https://theforensicator.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/sorting-the-wikileaks-dnc-emails/
Analysis of the bogus "hack".
http://www.michellesmirror.com/2019/04/nimbys-by-any-other-name-are-still.html#.XLJvWuhKiUk
https://www.prageru.com/video/build-the-wall/
Trump is THE MAN, is he not? Brilliant ploy. The DemoncRATS, you do notice, have made it a plan to plant all these illegals (who do and will vote) in RED STATES. All to turn them purple and then blue.
Billy Maher To Democrats: If You Make 2020 A 'Woke Contest,' You Lose
https://www.dailywire.com/n…
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-9.12.38-PM-1.png?resize=600%2C405&ssl=1
Hey, just so long as they lose. 🙂
foxyladi14 | April 14, 2019 at 1:40 pm | Reply
Oh this is very good……the communist, anticontitutionalist Comey! I love Diana West, a very talented source rich journalist.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=chris+farrell&&view=detail&mid=5CD9EC09A8601F8BC9DB5CD9EC09A8601F8BC9DB&&FORM=VDRVRV