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The death toll from the collapse reached 1,036 today, but the recovery of 'Reshma' is giving rescuers hope that more people may still be found alive.
Rescuers carry a survivor pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Saver, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday. When the woman, whom soldiers identified as Reshma, was freed within an hour of her discovery in the flooded basement of the building, the crowd erupted in both cheers and tears.
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EnlargeSeventeen days after the building collapsed killing more than 1,000 workers in Bangladesh, armed forces and firefighters have rescued one woman alive from the basement of the eight-story building at?4:28 p.m.?local time, raising cautious hope that more people could still be found alive.
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Saad Hammadi is an investigative journalist based in Dhaka, covering Bangladesh for The Christian Science Monitor and The Guardian.?He is also the assistant editor of Xtra, the weekend magazine of New Age, one of the leading English dailies in Bangladesh.?Saad graduated from the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh with a BSS in media studies and journalism and a minor in English.
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When the woman, whom soldiers identified as Reshma, was freed within an hour of her discovery in the flooded basement of the building, the crowd erupted in both cheers and tears. Despite her ordeal, she appeared to be in good shape and was rushed to a military hospital on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital.
Reshma?s rescue comes 12 days after Bangladesh mourned a failed attempt to rescue another woman, Shahina Akhter. After the death of Ms. Akhter, rescuers lost hope of finding anyone alive in the rubble and rolled out heavier equipment to clear the rubble and recover dead bodies. But with Reshma's rescue, the mood at the scene has been uplifted.?
The death toll from the collapse of a building, which housed five factories, reached 1,036 today, and that number is expected to rise as more bodies are being found. The incident is being described as the world's deadliest garment industry disaster and one of the worst industrial accidents. As many as 6,000 people may have worked in the building, according to some estimates. The collapse puts a spotlight on the often extremely poor labor conditions of the country?s $20 billion garment industry, which provides cheap clothing for major retailers around the world.
As some bulldozers were crushing building beams to clear the way to look for bodies today they reached the basement, and noticed something.
?We were removing slabs. Between 2:45 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. we learned of the trace of a person,? says Lt. Col. SM Imran-Uz-Zaman, an Army spokesman at the site. ?We immediately halted work in all other areas and [focused] people on rescuing Reshma.?
Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardy, coordinator of the search and rescue operations at the disaster site, told The Christian Science Monitor how she was discovered: ?She shouted when we were going inside. We saw her. I talked to her,? he says.
?We have halted use of all heavy equipment such as hydraulic drilling. Our rescuers are working with information we are getting from her,? said Sarwardy ? just before she was rescued.?
Rescuers at the site said Reshma was confined between two beams and they had to be extremely cautious in order to rescue her alive.?
After a fire broke out just before the rescue of Shahina, Imran said the rescuers put water around the perimeter of their rescue operation to ensure that wouldn?t happen again.?
Once the woman was pulled out alive, says Sawardy, ?we provided her with oxygen and saline.? Reshma was rescued unhurt but with complications after 17 days without food and trauma.
Though Reshma told rescuers there were no more survivors in her area, workers began to sift through nearby rubble for more survivors.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated the rescuers for saving Reshma.?"This is an unbelievable feat," she was quoted as saying by her assistant, Mahbubul Haque Shakil.
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My mother, Dr. Rita Bonchek, is a psychologist who specializes in grief and loss. A career discussing death and dying, however, was insufficient preparation for hearing the words, "Mom, I have metastatic breast cancer."
Mom and I have reacted very differently to the news of my stage IV cancer. I was online within days writing posts about the steps I was taking. I wrote immediately about how to help children in the days following a diagnosis like mine. As my readers know, I'm very open about this part of my life.
My mother, on the other hand, is much more private. She would never write a blog the way I do. She didn't want to share this news with people; she wasn't ready to talk about it. I respect her decision but that approach doesn't work for me. Sometimes our different ways of thinking lead to disagreements. Despite our differences we always support each other.
I thought it might be helpful for readers to hear what she has to say about reading my posts. Some of us with cancer choose to be very public with our daily lives but our parents are often forgotten in the discussion.
I am Lisa's proud mother and I have followed her blog from its first day. As her mother, I read her blog from a unique point of view, and I want to share my perspective with you.
Those of you who are reading this blog follow Lisa and her incredible writing. It is her understanding of human behavior, her expression of feelings of her heart and thoughts of her mind that make so many people want another blog from her as soon as the one being read is finished.
Yet, as the mother of this outstanding-in-all-aspects daughter, my reading of Lisa's blog posts is complicated because each piece contains an extra layer of heart-wrenching pain for me. Lisa's blog is a precious sharing of her everyday life, of medical explanation and analysis of each and every test result, of measured consideration of her hopes, fears, etc. Parents rarely get the opportunity to get "up close and personal" to this extent with a child. As Lisa's mother, knowing her innermost thoughts is a gift and a curse.
If you (or anyone else but Lisa) were writing about a life journey with a cancer diagnosis, I could handle reading about the physical assaults on your body and the emotional assaults on your psyche because I would be more objective and not involved in your everyday life. I could read your blog, feel empathy and sorrow for the diagnosis, but step away from it. However, I am enmeshed in Lisa's writing.
Lisa's father stopped having the blog posts sent directly to his e-mail because he was often caught unaware with heavy emotional subject matter arriving at inappropriate times. He now accesses the blog posts only when he feels emotionally prepared for whatever he may find.
While this would also be a very reasonable decision for me to make, I have the ambivalent feelings of wanting to be close and share every moment of what Lisa thinks and feels at that moment versus retreating from the declarations of how her life is now and her fears for the future for her and the family -- her family and my family.
Lisa and I share the personality trait of always wanting to know the truth so we are as well prepared for the worst as we can be. Lisa and I promised each other that we would never withhold any information to protect each other. The honesty Lisa promised me is the honesty she has promised to all of you, her readers.
On one level, her blog reveals to me everything I want to know, but on another level what I unconsciously don't want to know. This emotional see-saw of wanting to read it but not wanting to read it is a decision that I must make each time a new blog-post appears in my inbox.
Why is this "to know or not to know" decision so difficult for me? When I read Lisa's writings, I imagine the sub-text that she does not reveal: how she is managing to keep her family's lives as "normal" (whatever that means) as possible.
Lisa is, as most mothers are, the hub of her family's life. When Lisa writes in a blog-post that she was very tired and rested for hours, I know that her closed bedroom door makes every family member who sees that closed door go into overdrive with founded or unfounded concern and fear.
Lisa and I share the goals to make the most of each day and to cherish and to love one another. These are life affirmations within our control when so much of life is out of our control. Share our goals as you and I, Lisa's readers, benefit from Lisa's greatest gift to us: who she is and how she lives her life, in sickness and in health.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Rising optimism about global growth pushed world shares to a near five-year high on Monday, while comments from Japan's economy minister that consumers could suffer if the yen falls further lifted it off a 4-1/2 low.
Data last week that showed U.S. consumer sentiment at its strongest in nearly six years continued to support equity markets. MSCI's world index is at its highest since June 2008 as top European shares started the week up 0.2 percent.
With risk appetite dominating, safe-haven German Bunds fell 45 ticks, while gold, also pressured by signs the U.S. Federal Reserve could start winding down its support, extended it longest losing streak in four years to hit a 1-month low.
"We have started to see a series of positive readings coming out of the United States. We are positioned for a rising market and think that the best way is to invest in financials," said HSBC equity strategist Robert Parkes.
In the currency market, focus remained largely on the yen and it edged up from last week's 4-1/2 year low after Japan's economy minister suggested over the weekend the government might be satisfied with its level after it recent slump.
"People say the excessively strong yen has corrected quite a bit. If the yen continues to weaken steadily from here, negative effects on people's lives will emerge," Japanese Economics Minister Akira Amari told a Sunday talk show.
As European trading gathered pace Brent crude held steady at $104.60 a barrel while copper eased 0.36 percent to $7,282.50 a tonne as the talk of the Fed tapering its bond purchases weighed on sentiment.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/shares-grind-higher-yen-edges-amari-comments-085920684.html
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May 20, 2013 ? Earthquakes that last minutes rather than seconds are a relatively recent discovery, according to an international team of seismologists. Researchers have been aware of these slow earthquakes, only for the past five to 10 years because of new tools and new observations, but these tools may explain the triggering of some normal earthquakes and could help in earthquake prediction.
"New technology has shown us that faults do not just fail in a sudden earthquake or by stable creep," said Demian M. Saffer, professor of geoscience, Penn State. "We now know that earthquakes with anomalous low frequencies -- slow earthquakes -- and slow slip events that take weeks to occur exist."
These new observations have put a big wrinkle into our thinking about how faults work, according to the researchers who also include Chris Marone, professor of geosciences, Penn State; Matt J. Ikari, recent Ph.D. recipient, and Achim J. Kopf, former Penn State postdoctural fellow, both now at the University of Bremen, Germany. So far, no one has explained the processes that cause slow earthquakes.
The researchers thought that the behavior had to be related to the type of rock in the fault, believing that clay minerals are important in this slip behavior to see how the rocks reacted. Ikari performed laboratory experiments using natural samples from drilling done offshore of Japan in a place where slow earthquakes occur. The samples came from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, an international collaborative. The researchers reported their results recently in Nature Geoscience.
These samples are made up of ocean sediment that is mostly clay with a little quartz.
"Usually, when you shear clay-rich fault rocks in the laboratory in the way rocks are sheared in a fault, as the speed increases, the rocks become stronger and self arrests the movement," said Saffer. "Matt noticed another behavior. Initially the rocks reacted as expected, but these clays got weaker as they slid further. They initially became slightly stronger as the slip rate increased, but then, over the long run, they became weaker."
The laboratory experiments that produced the largest effect closely matched the velocity at which slow earthquakes occur in nature. The researchers also found that water content in the clays influenced how the shear occurred.
"From the physics of earthquake nucleation based on the laboratory experiments we would predict the size of the patch of fault that breaks at tens of meters," said Saffer. "The consistent result for the rates of slip and the velocity of slip in the lab are interesting. Lots of things point in the direction for this to be the solution."
The researchers worry about slow earthquakes because there is evidence that swarms of low frequency events can trigger large earthquake events. In Japan, a combination of broadband seismometers and global positioning system devices can monitor slow earthquakes.
For the Japanese and others in earthquake prone areas, a few days of foreknowledge of a potential earthquake hazard could be valuable and save lives.
For slow slip events, collecting natural samples for laboratory experiments is more difficult because the faults where these take place are very deep. Only off the north shore of New Zealand is there a fault that can be sampled. Saffer is currently working to arrange a drilling expedition to that fault.
The National Science Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft supported this work.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/8I4KmSqzd7g/130520114021.htm
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This guest post was written by Amanda Anderson, RN, BSN, CCRN, a staff nurse in an ICU in a New York City academic medical center and a graduate student at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing.
Amanda Anderson, RN, BSN CCRN
At work, sometimes I get the opportunity to change lives. Other times, I work to change deaths.
Mrs. T was dying when I walked into her life. Imminently. A 7-week aggressive course of acute cancer treatment left her body riddled with side effects and complications from a long list of interventions that never promised to cure. Everyone on the unit knew her painful stay and her family?s tireless desire to ?do everything.?
During my first night as her nurse, she breathed for herself and maintained stable vital signs. Her handsome husband and loving children calmly willed her to improve. She opened her eyes to their loving voices.
I spent the first evening talking with them congenially. I learned she was a great cook and that she held her religious beliefs close to her heart. Photos of grandchildren, stories of first dates; I felt like a 12-hour member of their family.
That night, I didn?t broach the topic that I knew would become important to discuss very soon ? a reality I saw the second I laid eyes on Mrs. T ? that she was dying, and that we needed to decide how to manage the progression of her dying process. I had no right to start this conversation that night; it would have only lead to broken trust. Minutes prior, I was just another New York stranger.
After her family left for much-needed sleep, Mrs. T rested peacefully. But as the night turned to day, her conditioned worsened. By morning, she needed medications to sustain her blood pressure, and she labored to breathe. My trained eye saw that her death was approaching quickly, the pace of her journey accelerating toward its inevitable end.
I?ve seen this slope countless times. Some of my patients travel its path with the aid of comfort and love, leaving quietly. Many others are painfully pinned to the world by families wishing to stop death?s progression, adding lines and tubes to ward off that which can?t be cured.
As I gave report to the day shift nurse, we wondered about Mrs. T?s family. Which way would they swing? She?d likely not last the day. On my bike ride home, I prayed that my little lady and her family would come to a peaceful place while I slept.
When I returned a short 12 hours later, I was surprised to see her there in the bed. Still breathing unsupported, Mrs. T?s process had progressed during the day, along with the team?s attempts to slow it. In report, I learned that her family was still asking for aggressive care.
In the ICU, you quickly learn to prioritize based on skilled assessment of impending disaster. That night, I knew my first and most urgent task was a conversation with Mrs. T?s family. I ensured that my second patient was comfortable and stable, charted my 20:00 vitals to prove I was present, put on some lipstick, and took a deep breath.
In the room, I found the whole family. Called to Mrs. T?s side early in the day, I soon learned they felt emotionally exhausted from the team?s attempts at strong-arming them into transitioning to comfort care. Only their oncologist had sustained hope, adding yet another medication. They were still in it. They still wanted to fight.
I sat down. For over an hour, we talked like family members. I asked more about Mrs. T?s life, and her wishes when she had entered the hospital two months before. I asked how she felt about her illness, which had spanned the course of two decades. Using real-people words, not doctor words, I walked them through what would likely happen next ? her shallow breathing, the rise of C02, arterial blood gases, her eventual need for a ventilator. I told them about cardiac arrests, resuscitation, vasopressors; answering each of their spoken and unspoken queries as I went along. We talked about her current mental status, and how her personality might never return after a resuscitation attempt. I told them about comfort care. They asked more questions, they cried. I almost cried.
As we talked, I assured them that whatever path they chose for her was the best one. Life only comes with one mother, one true love. That person enters life once, and leaves only once. These decisions were not ones to be forced or rushed; they would be remembered forever. Talk, think, we?ll decide as the night moves on.
When I left them, two hours of my shift had passed. I hadn?t charted one thing or given a single pill. My other patient hadn?t alarmed, but I hadn?t really listened, either. I told a co-worker I needed a minute, left the unit and stared blankly at the bathroom wall for a while. Exhaustion already?
The night progressed, and slowly, Mrs. T?s family let her go. After our talk, her condition changed exactly as I had predicted it would; her ability to exhale C02 decreased, her need for a ventilator transpired. The family said few words about their decision to move towards comfort; they very simply confirmed their decision with the doctors. A DNR/DNI order was placed. We waited together.
Mrs. T died in the light of early morning, her husband and son at her side, the river quiet below her. No codes, no extra tubes. With her family?s help, we assessed her pain throughout the night, and all agreed she didn?t seem to have any. I didn?t give her a drop of pain medicine, and when her heart finally stopped, she looked angelic. Her family, her husband especially, almost seemed relieved in their grief. Looking back, I realized that she was my most peaceful death. I?m not sure that miracles exist, but if they do, this may have been one.
My point in sharing this story is not to call attention to my nursing skills. I have led many discussions that have not ended this way. I have asked questions too soon, pushed my views insensitively, and tripped over my words countless times. My point is this: I spent two hours providing my patient with an intervention that changed the course of her life and death. My documentation of this intervention consisted of a box checked on an education flowsheet. I wrote no note, used no diagnostic code, submitted no bill. But she died a death her family was peaceful and happy with, and one that incurred minimal? medical waste.
I was able to do this because I work in a hospital that promotes the practice of going above and beyond for patients. Administration frequently encourages us to sit at the bedside and chat. My manager, seeing my late-administered meds will likely not care. He knows that I can prioritize and that I work hard. My co-workers watched out for my other patient, and furthermore, I only had one other patient.
Imagine I worked on a medical floor, where 9 other patients waited for my care. 9 families had questions about the course of the day and the medical team?s decisions. 9 humans were scared, annoyed, frustrated, sick and worried. 9 lists of medications waited to be given. How could I spend two hours talking to just one of them? I couldn?t.
In my tiny opinion, the breakdown of nursing care begins when safe staffing ends. Long-standing research shows clear ties between poor staffing levels and dropping patient satisfaction, and dangerous health outcomes. With little to no federal and state regulation mandating safe staffing, or publicly available data on staffing, nurses are caught in the abysmal wasteland of unsafe practice environments. In many ways, poor staffing has reduced a vocation once centered on the art of care to a job primarily concerned with performing robotic tasks in a timely manner.
Without mandated staffing ratios, the practice of nursing will further degrade to unsafe and inartistic levels. Without the time I took to discuss Mrs. T?s course of care, her life would have likely ended in a tragic series of futile, gruesome and painful medical procedures. Her family would forever remember her death with pain that was instead replaced with peace and comfort. But I was safely staffed that night, and had the luxury to spend the time. Most nurses don?t even know what that opportunity would feel like.
Action must be taken. Tomorrow, the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) will lead a Safe Staffing Day of Action, culminating in a rally on the lawn of the state capitol, to show legislators that nurses are serious about staffing ratios. New York should join California, and set clear and legally-mandated staffing ratios, setting the precedent for the other 48 states to follow. Lives, and deaths depend on it.
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Source: http://centerforhealthmediapolicy.com/2013/05/20/not-enough-staff-for-the-art-of-cares/
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"No" is a picture that perches precariously on the cusp of a paradox.
A cunning and richly enjoyable combination of high-stakes drama and media satire from Chilean director Pablo Larrain.
A mesmerizing, realistic and often hilarious look at the politics of power and the power of ideas ...
A political drama, a personal drama, a sharp-eyed study of how the media manipulate us from all sides, No reels and ricochets with emotional force.
It's a funny look at the way the media warp public opinion, and a curiously hopeful one.
On every level, "No" leaves one with bittersweet feelings about democracy, love and the cost of compromise.
... like Mad Men, it's a period piece set in the world of advertising and it pays a distracting (and sometimes humorous) amount of attention to period details.
It works as drama. And strangely, considering we know the outcome, it generates considerable suspense.
Despite the light-heartedness, there's a hard, tense edge to the film.
Shooting the entire film on video equipment of the era gives No some visual snap but it is very much a pedestrian, by-the-numbers docu-drama tale, with the emphasis on the former rather than the latter.
NO is an important film - especially for people too young or too far removed from Pinochet's "Dirty War" to remember how horrifying the situation was in Argentina during the '70s and '80s. Bernal's screen presence goes a long way in making the movie work
A bitingly funny, fascinating and moving portrait of Pinochet's fall that's smartly shot and superbly performed.
"NO" is an inspirational political drama in which the people are roused by the visual to overcome the vicious.
... features a fine performance by Gael Garc?a Bernal as young ad exec Ren? Saavedra, who didn't, at first, quite realise what he was in for when he decided to assist in the bringing down of military dictator Augusto Pinochet.
No is a great historical document as to how one very important revolution started with a commercial.
The understated performance by Bernal was inspiring, as was the pic.
It's not easy material but it's truly fascinating, and expertly done.
An extremely perceptive and intriguing examination of the effect that media hype and spin have on the political process.
...a bitter and knowing meditation on media manipulation and political subversion.
Larrain deftly mixes social satire and historical drama.
All historical and little drama.
Larrain does a fine job of making No look and sound authentic to its time period, although the VHS-quality photography, all washed-out with colors bleeding together as camcorders did in the '80s, is an occasional irritant.
Silliness is on the side of the angels in a brilliant and highly entertaining film that's part political thriller, part media satire.
It's clear that the language of advertising has become universal, and that political commodities can be sold like soap. But toppling a dictatorship? Now there's a story.
A reflection of a moment in time, made in the image of that moment.
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ROME (AP) ? Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will renew their rivalry in the Italian Open final Sunday ? exactly a week before the French Open starts.
In Saturday's semifinals at the Foro Italico, Federer held off a stiff challenge from Frenchman Benoit Paire 7-6 (5), 6-4. Six-time Rome champion Nadal defeated sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-2, 6-4, a day after Berdych rallied to beat top-ranked Novak Djokovic.
It will mark Nadal's eighth consecutive final since his return earlier this year from a seven-month layoff because of a left knee injury. As for Federer, who recently returned from a seven-week break from the circuit, it will be his first final of the year.
"We are here in 2013 and he is No. (3) in the world and I am No. 5 after not playing months and we are still playing good, and I hope that this is not going to be the last time," Nadal said.
On the women's side, top-ranked Serena Williams moved within one victory of winning her fourth consecutive title this year. She'll face third-seeded Victoria Azarenka in the final.
Williams overcame an early break of her serve to ease past Romanian qualifier Simona Halep 6-3, 6-0 and extend her career-best winning run to 23 matches. Azarenka kept her concentration through two rain delays to beat seventh-seeded Sara Errani 6-0, 7-5.
Williams is coming off consecutive titles in Miami, Charleston and Madrid.
The men's final will mark the 30th meeting between Federer and Nadal, and it will be a rematch of the 2006 Rome final that Nadal won in a fifth-set tiebreaker. These days, Masters series finals are best-of-three sets.
Nadal holds a 19-10 edge head to head against Federer, but they have split their last four meetings.
"It's nice to have these revival moments for both of us," Federer said. "I'm sure we're both looking forward to it. I clearly am."
Federer overcame a break of his serve midway through the first set against the 36th-ranked Paire, who was playing his first Masters series semifinal. The set was decided by just a few points in the tiebreaker, which Federer closed out with an overhead smash.
Federer then went ahead with an early break in the second set and stayed in front from there.
Nadal broke in the opening game of his match and immediately took control.
After being pushed to three sets in his previous two matches ? against Latvian qualifier Ernests Gulbis and fourth-seeded David Ferrer ? Nadal appeared back in his comfort zone against Berdych.
"The first set was fantastic," Nadal said. "I think I played one of the best matches since I'm back."
Williams' only title at this clay-court event came in 2002, when she beat Justine Henin in the final. That was also the year she won her only French Open title. Last year in Paris, Williams lost in the opening round of a major tournament for the first time, falling to 111th-ranked Virginie Razzano of France.
"I love the clay. I haven't had many wins at Roland Garros, but I do love it. I love to slide," Williams said. "My goal is just to win a match there this year."
Williams had twice won 21 matches in a row before, although both of those runs came more than a decade ago, in 2002 and the beginning of 2003.
Martina Navratilova established the longest women's win streak in the Open Era at 74 matches in 1984.
At 31, Williams is back at the top of her game after missing 11 months in 2010 and 2011 with a right foot injury and a pulmonary embolism.
Williams went directly to the practice court after winning.
"I was unhappy with some things today," she said. "I want to do well here as well as (in Paris)."
It's Azarenka's first final since beating Williams for the title in February at Doha. That followed her Australian Open victory. Since then, Azarenka has been slowed by right ankle and left foot injuries.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/federer-nadal-renew-rivalry-rome-final-195252333.html
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Demonstrators are upset with efforts by Kenya's lawmakers to give themselves a pay raise.
Kenyan demonstrators, some chained to each other, gather near the gate of parliament in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday. Police fired tear-gas, water cannons and swung their batons at protesters gathered outside Kenya?s parliament building to pile pressure on the country's legislators to drop demands for a salary increment.
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EnlargeKenyan police?on Tuesday?fired teargas and used water cannons to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who had camped outside Parliament protesting an attempt by lawmakers to increase their own pay.
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Fredrick Nzwili is a Kenya-based journalist with 15 years experience in writing for newspapers, international magazines, and international news organizations from Africa. Between 2003 and 2010, he covered the religious dimension of news across the continent. He has also traveled to several African countries on assignments covering peace and conflict, humanitarian work, environment, and interfaith relations and dialogue, among other subjects.?
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The protests began with a march through Nairobi's streets, with demonstrators chanting and carrying placards critical of Members of Parliament (MPs). Protesters had planned to then go inside and "Occupy Parliament," but that proved difficult after police in riot gear surrounded the building.
The police made 15 arrests, but struggled to control the agitated crowd as well as a drove of pigs ??bearing the inscriptions "MPigs" ? which demonstrators brought to the assembly's entrance. They also covered the ground with pig blood, which the pigs mingled in.
?We want to see resources being directed to service delivery, not meeting the wage bill? of lawmakers, says Morris Odhiambo, the director of the Centre for Law Research International.
According to Mr. Odhiambo, many Kenyans were living in deplorable conditions, because their tax money has either been stolen or paid to undeserving people. Nurses and teachers, who have sought pay increases, have not received serious attention from the government, he says. ?The attempt by MPs to increase their salary emphasizes the highest level of impunity.?
Kenya recently decreased the legislators? annual earnings from $120,000 to $75,000 to rein in the burgeoning salary expenses, following the creation of new state offices by a new constitution. Some analysts were already warning government operations may become unsustainable unless the government controls salaries of state officers.
Disregarding the developments, MPs have demanded an upward adjustment of the salary from the current $6,250 back to $10,000 per month, demands that have angered the public.
?If they can?t take the pay, they should resign. We want to rein in their greed. They have not done any work and we are disappointed they are seeking a pay raise even before they work,? says Mr. Simon Muoki, a young environmental rights campaigner.
?This has been our country?s problem for the last 50 years. MPs have forced decisions ? including their pay ??in disregard of the feelings of those who elect them,? says Jedida Wanjiru, an octogenarian at the demonstrations.
For the past month, the lawmakers have arm-twisted the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC), a government body that?s sets salaries of all state officers. With MPs threatening to disband it, the SRC has stuck to its guns.
On Monday?the commission said it will not increase the salary even with threats and intimidation. Sarah Serem, SRC?s chairperson said the commission?s concern was how to reduce the wage bill so that the savings can be used for development work. She said Kenya's total revenue was $11.8 billion, but the country spends $5.7 billion on salaries.
?This amount is not only huge, but it is unaffordable and unsustainable. It stands in the way of the country?s development agenda,? Ms. Serem told a news conference in Nairobi.
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Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in Damascus, Va., Saturday, May 18, 2013. Witnesses said the car drove into a crowd at the parade and hurt several people, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, Earl Neikirk)
Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in Damascus, Va., Saturday, May 18, 2013. Witnesses said the car drove into a crowd at the parade and hurt several people, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, Earl Neikirk)
Hiker "Quinoa" talks about being given credit for saving the lives of Carson Balckburn, Dalton Thomason, and Faith Ritchie after he ran them and others off the road with a water gun during a festival parade in Damascus, Va., Saturday, May 18, 2013. Just as the children ran off the street, a car came down the road and struck several people. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, Earl Neikirk)
DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) ? About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.
It happened around 2:10 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival, an annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, near the Tennessee state line about a half-hour drive east of Bristol.
Washington County director of emergency management Pokey Harris said no fatalities had been reported.
The injuries ranged from critical to superficial, he said. Three of the victims were flown by helicopters to regional hospitals. Another 12 to 15 were taken by ambulance. The rest were treated at the scene.
At a news conference, Damascus Police Chief Bill Nunley didn't release the driver's name or age but said he was participating in the parade. Multiple witnesses described him as an elderly man.
Nunley said the man's 1997 Cadillac was one of the last vehicles in the parade and the driver might have suffered an unspecified medical problem when his car accelerated to about 25 mph and struck the crowd on a two-lane bridge along the town's main road. The driver was among those taken to hospitals.
"It is under investigation and charges may be placed," Nunley said.
There were ambulances in the parade ahead of the hikers and paramedics on board immediately responded to the crash.
Nunley cited the "quick action" by police, firefighters, paramedics and hikers to tend to the victims, including a Damascus volunteer firefighter who dove into the car to turn off the ignition. The firefighter, whose name wasn't released, suffered minor injuries.
Nunley said about 1,000 people participated in the parade. Nunley said the driver was a hiker, too ? someone who had traversed the Appalachian Trail in the past.
What caused the car to drive into the crowd wasn't immediately known. A thud could be heard, people yelled stop, and at some point, the car finally stopped.
Witnesses said the car had a handicapped parking sticker and it went more than 100 feet before coming to a stop.
"He was hitting hikers," said Vickie Harmon, a witness from Damascus. "I saw hikers just go everywhere."
Damascus resident Amanda Puckett, who was watching the parade with her children, ran to the car, where she and others lifted the car off those pinned underneath.
"Everybody just threw our hands up on the car and we just lifted the car up," she said.
Keith Neumann, a hiker from South Carolina, said he was part of the group that scrambled around the car. They pushed the car backward to free a woman trapped underneath and lifted it off the ground to make sure no one else was trapped. Another person jumped inside to put it in park.
"There's no single heroes. We're talking about a group effort of everybody jumping in," he said.
Mayor Jack McCrady encouraged people to attend the festival on Sunday, its final day.
"In 27 years of this, we've never had anything of this magnitude, and is it our job to make sure it doesn't happen again," he said.
McCrady said a donation fund was being set up to assist the injured, some of whom don't have medical insurance.
"We want to make sure they don't suffer any greater loss than they already have," he said.
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Steam rises from Kentucky Derby winner Orb as a groom washes him after a workout at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013. The Preakness Stakes horse race is scheduled to take place May 18. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Steam rises from Kentucky Derby winner Orb as a groom washes him after a workout at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013. The Preakness Stakes horse race is scheduled to take place May 18. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Preakness Stakes entrant Goldencents with jockey Kevin Krigger aboard, walks the track at Pimlico Race Course Friday, May 17, 2013 in Baltimore. At right on the pony is assistant trainer Jack Sisterson. The Preakness Stakes horse race is scheduled for Saturday. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Arnold Velasquez walks Preakness Stakes favorite Orb in the shed row after a morning gallop at Pimlico Race Course Friday, May 17, 2013 in Baltimore. The Preakness Stakes horse race is scheduled for Saturday. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Kentucky Derby winner Orb stands as he is cooled down after a workout at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013. The Preakness Stakes horse race is scheduled to take place May 18. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
BALTIMORE (AP) ? There are only two outcomes when it comes to Saturday's Preakness Stakes ? either the Kentucky Derby winner Orb wins the race to set up a Triple Crown try in the Belmont Stakes in three weeks, or another horse pulls an upset and prevents a shot at history.
With that in mind, here are 10 things to know about the Preakness ? and beyond.
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1. ELEVEN HAVE DONE IT. Starting in 1919 with Sir Barton, 11 horses have won the Triple Crown, sweeping the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Orb will be trying to become the 34th horse with a Triple Crown chance. Of the horses who failed, 19 didn't win the Belmont and three didn't make the race, including I'll Have Another in 2012. Last year's Derby and Preakness winner was scratched the day before the Belmont with a tendon injury and retired.
2. INSIDE SLOT. Orb leaves from the No. 1 post in the Preakness, not among the most popular places to start. Since 1961, only one horse ? Tabasco Cat in 1994 ? has won from the rail.
3. SECOND CHANCERS AND NEW SHOOTERS. Kentucky Derby winner Orb will be facing five familiar foes from the Derby and three new shooters. The Derby five are Mylute, Oxbow, Will Take Charge, Itsmyluckyday and Goldencents; the fresh faces are Departing, Govenor Charlie and Titletown Five.
4. SHORTER DISTANCE. The Preakness distance is 1 3-16 miles, a sixteenth of a mile shorter than the Kentucky Derby, and five sixteenths shorter than the 1?-mile Belmont Stakes, called the Test of the Champion. The longer distance is considered one of the major reasons why Triple tries are thwarted. In recent years, two horses who won the Preakness convincingly ? Funny Cide by 9? lengths in 2003 and Smarty Jones by a record 11? lengths in 2004 ? fell short in the Belmont. Funny Cide was a length off the lead with a quarter mile to go and finished third; Smarty Jones was passed in the final 70 yards by Birdstone.
5. A NICE REBOUND. Goldencents and Co. are looking for a little Preakness history. If the horse wins, he will top Louis Quatorze for the best rebound from the Derby. In 1996, Louis Quatorze finished 16th in the Derby and won the Preakness two weeks later. Goldencents was 17th in the Derby. A win would make Kevin Krigger the first black jockey to win the race since Willie Simms with Sly Fox in 1898, and it would make Doug O'Neill the first back-to-back Preakness winning trainer since Bob Baffert in 2001 and 2002.
6. THREE CHANCES. D. Wayne Lukas has one-third of the field in the nine-horse Preakness. The 77-year-old trainer is seeking his sixth Preakness win, which would break a second-place tie with Bob Baffert and Thomas J. Healey. The leader is Robert Wyndham Walden with seven, including five in a row starting in 1878. Lukas also is seeking a record 14th win in Triple Crown race win, which would put him one ahead of "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons. Lukas trains Oxbow, Will Take Charge and Titletown Five.
7. ROSIE'S RUN. Rosie Napravnik will be aboard 5-1 second choice Mylute. A win would make the rider who started her career in Maryland the first female to win the Preakness. She posted the best finish for a female rider in the Derby when Mylute ran fifth.
8. HOF LINEUP. There are a half-dozen Hall of Famers in the Preakness. The trainers are Shug McGaughey (Orb), D. Wayne Lukas (Oxbow, Will Take Charge and Titletown Five) and Bob Baffert (Govenor Charlie); the jockeys are Gary Stevens (Oxbow), Mike Smith (Will Take Charge) and John Velazquez (Itsmyluckyday).
9. THE GREATEST. The fastest Preakness was run by 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat. Big Red won in 1:53. By comparison, last year's winner I'll Have Another won in 1:55.94. For those looking ahead, Secretariat also has the record for the Belmont, covering the 1? miles in 2:24. The second-fastest time is 2:26 by Easy Goer in 1989 and A.P. Indy in 1992. Union Rags won last year in 2:30.42.
10. THE DISAPPOINTMENTS. If Orb wins the Preakness, he will become the ninth horse since Silver Charm in 1997 to have a chance at the Triple Crown. The others who missed after winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness were (Real Quiet, 1998), Charismatic (1999), War Emblem (2002), Funny Cide (2003), Smarty Jones (2004), Big Brown (2008) and I'll Have Another (2012), who never made the race because of an injury.
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By Andy Sullivan and Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service angered Republican lawmakers on Friday by resisting their demands that he identify who at the tax-collection agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
But during the first hearing into a growing IRS scandal that could preoccupy Washington for months, Republicans did learn that a top official in President Barack Obama's administration knew that the IRS was looking into targeting by the tax agency nearly a year ago.
That detail could encourage Republicans' efforts to link the scandal to the White House as the administration faces a series of setbacks that threaten to derail Obama's second-term priorities, which include revamping immigration laws and reaching a budget deal with Republicans.
Friday's hearing was dominated by lawmakers' grilling of acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, who provided few clear answers while apologizing for the extensive questioning and years-long delays that many conservative groups have experienced after applying for tax-exempt status.
Miller, who was fired by Obama on Wednesday, said the overly aggressive scrutiny of such groups was the result of mismanagement, not partisan politics. His comments echoed the findings of a Treasury Department inspector general's report released this week.
"I think what happened here is that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient," said Miller, who will leave his post next week and be replaced by Daniel Werfel, a budget specialist in the administration.
Miller said he did not know who had come up with the idea to single out groups that appeared to be politically conservative for intense reviews of whether they qualified to be tax-exempt.
He said that although the added scrutiny was wrong, he did not think that IRS employees had broken any laws.
That claim drew the ire of Republicans on the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, as did Miller's shrugs when lawmakers pressed him over why he had not told Congress about the probe even though he learned about it a year ago.
"This is offensive, to hear this testimony," said Representative Tom Reed, a Republican from New York.
A LINK TO THE WHITE HOUSE?
The hearing did seem to yield some fruit for Republicans who are trying to cast the targeting of conservative "Tea Party" and "Patriot" groups as a political initiative encouraged by the Obama administration, a claim the White House rejects.
Critics have hammered the White House this week on the IRS scandal, its handling of the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, and the Justice Department's seizure of phone records of Associated Press journalists in a criminal probe into intelligence leaks.
The Treasury Department's internal watchdog, J. Russell George, told the House panel that Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin, an Obama political appointee, learned nearly a year ago that a government watchdog was looking into inappropriate targeting by the IRS.
Wolin, the No. 2 official at Treasury, is due to testify next week before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
In a statement, the Treasury Department said it made the probe public last fall in an annual report that listed more than 200 other internal investigations.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was told about the investigation when he took office in March, the department said, but neither he nor Wolin was told about its findings even as a preliminary version circulated elsewhere within the department.
Miller's often-defiant appearance on Friday was unlikely to satisfy Republicans who have accused Obama's Democratic administration of using the machinery of government to target political foes.
They also have accused Miller of misleading Congress last year.
Miller acknowledged that he learned that IRS investigators were looking into the issue a year ago, but he did not mention the probe to lawmakers until the news became public last week. He said he had not misled lawmakers by keeping quiet about the issue in prior appearances on Capitol Hill.
"I was answering the questions that I was asked" by Congress, he told the House committee.
Miller appeared to grow irritated over the course of the four-hour hearing, repeatedly interrupting questioners, flashing quizzical looks and shrugging his shoulders.
Miller said the IRS has had trouble keeping up with the flood of 70,000 tax-exempt applications it has received in recent years, and asked for money to hire more examiners.
Several Republicans responded that the IRS should instead be shrunk.
The IRS has seen the number of groups applying for 501(c)4 status nearly double in the wake of January 2010 Supreme Court decision that loosened campaign-finance rules.
That status allows groups to keep their donor lists secret while engaging in limited political activity. Political campaigns, by contrast, must make their donor lists public.
Several Democrats on the committee said the IRS needed to take a harder look at those applications to ensure that political groups do not exploit the tax code to shroud political activities in secrecy.
Miller said the IRS needs clearer guidance from Congress to determine what constitutes political activity.
FACEBOOK POSTS, BOOK LISTS
The scandal has angered lawmakers in both parties, but Miller's appearance appeared to further inflame Republicans who see it as a symptom of a federal government that has grown too large and is overly intrusive into Americans' lives.
Tea Party groups investigated by the IRS say the tax agency made unusually extensive demands, such as asking the groups to provide social-media posts and lists of books that members had read, and tell agents whether any members of the group planned to run for public office in the future.
The questioning in some cases took nearly three years, preventing some groups from participating in the 2010 and 2012 elections.
The Treasury Department report did not identify individuals in the IRS's Washington headquarters or its Cincinnati field office who were responsible for coming up with the criteria used to single out conservative groups. The watchdog is continuing its investigation.
Republicans have vowed to find out who was involved, but Miller did not provide much of a road map.
"Who is responsible for targeting these individuals?" asked Representative Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican.
"I don't have names for you," Miller responded.
Republicans accused him of dodging their questions.
"I'm hearing, 'I don't know, I don't remember, I don't recall, I don't believe,'" said Representative Dave Reichert of Washington. "You don't even know who investigated the case, but yet you say it was investigated."
Democrats seemed more inclined to accept Miller's explanation.
"I am not convinced that this is a great big political conspiracy," Democratic Representative Danny Davis said.
Two other congressional committees will hold IRS hearings next week. One of them, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, plans to question five lower-level IRS employees over whether they played a role in the targeting of conservative groups.
Wolin and Douglas Shulman, who was IRS commissioner when the targeting occurred, also are scheduled to testify.
(Additional reporting by Karey Van Hall, Patrick Temple-West and Susan Heavey; Writing by Andy Sullivan; Editing by David Lindsey, Jackie Frank and Jim Loney)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/irs-chief-declines-identify-employees-involved-scandal-005432151.html
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NEWARK, N.J (AP) ? An airline official says a US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble. No injuries were reported.
US Airways spokesman Davien Anderson tells The Associated Press that a turboprop plane that left Philadelphia shortly before 11 p.m. Friday landed safely at Newark with its landing gear retracted at about 1 a.m. Saturday.
Anderson said the flight, being operated by Piedmont Airlines, was carrying 31 passengers and three crew members. He says the plane circled Newark in a holding pattern while working to get the gear down. After several failed attempts to get the gear down, the plane landed on its belly.
Anderson says the passengers were evacuated to the terminal by bus. He says US Airways is cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident.
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Russia?s largest sugar producer Prodimex is officially the largest land owner in the country with 480,000 hectares (1.18 million acres), which is 20% of all private land. The figures come from auditor BEFL's annual landowner report.
Prodimex has 16 sugar factories in 3 different provinces, and produces over 1.1 million tons of sugar a year.
The company's general director, Viktor Aleksakhin told Vedomosti that production requires such a large land holding due to the nature of sugar beet cultivation - which must be replanted on a different field each year.
Russia accounts for a sixth of the world?s landmass and has several private land owners, with the top five having ties to agricultural production.? At the beginning of 2012, agricultural land in Russia was 196 million hectares, 115 are fertile and in use. In April 2013, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture said the industry was ?unprofitable?, and only made possible by state subsidies.
RusAgro, which specializes in pig breeding, and production of sugar and cooking oil in the Moscow region, owns 452,000 hectares.
Vamin, a dairy specialist in Tartarstan that has recently declared bankruptcy, owns 450,000 hectares.
Siberian agricultural major Sakho has 400,000 hectares and is owned by State Duma Deputy Airat Khairullina.
Tatar agro-company Krasny Vostok Agro has 350,000 hectares.
Before Prodimex was founded in 1992, nearly all sugar was imported from Ukraine.
Kings of agriculture dominate landholding in Russia, but in the US, it?s a millionaire ranch and cattle club.
John Malone, Liberty Media Chairman, owns almost twice as much land as Russia?s largest sugar producer, about 890,000 hectares (2.2 million acres) which combined are the equivalent of 150 Manhattans.
Malone owns ranches in Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico. The most famous is ?The Bell Ranch?, a 290,100 acre cattle ranch which he bought in 2010 for a listed, but not confirmed price, of $83 million.
Malone?s equities are widespread. Liberty Global agreed to buy Britain's Virgin Media cable company for $16 billion in February 2013. Malone also has diversified interests in US sports teams (the Atlanta Braves) and media (Starz channel).
Land has made a comeback ? from cattle, private ski resorts, hunting and fishing clubs, to Maine coastline ? for American entrepreneurs who prefer to take a stake in natural real estate to diversify and hedge their assets against the risky gold, oil, and stock prices.
With an improving US housing market, land holdings are likely to appreciate, especially those acquired during the recession.
Media mogul Ted Turner, the owner of CNN has over 2 million acres of land spread through New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Florida. The grand Vermejo Park ranch in New Mexico and Colorado is 590,823 acres and his hunting sanctuary in Florida, where he has residence is 30,000 acres.
Source: http://rt.com/business/russia-largest-land-sugar--428/
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The state Division of Gaming Enforcement announced today that the proposed regulations for online gaming will be published on June 3.
That will leave a 60-day window for public comment before a final adoption of regulations.
The Division has posted a 77-page draft of the proposed regulations on Internet wagering on the Division?s website at http://www.nj.gov/oag/ge/proposed_rules.htm.
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?Pursuant to State law, Division Director David Rebuck will announce the date on which New Jersey casinos will be permitted to begin accepting wagers over the Internet at least 45 days prior to commencement.
?New Jersey has once again proven to be in the forefront of casino gaming with the development of Internet wagering regulations for all casino games,? said Rebuck. ?I commend Division staff for their commitment and diligence to developing regulations that ensure both effective oversight and the integrity of operations?.
Mobile gaming regulations were the precursor to the Internet gaming regulations. Through extensive research of those regulations, the Division examined domestic and foreign jurisdictions, including Nevada, Alderney, France, Spain, Italy and Denmark; reviewed standards of others gaming operations; and considered guidelines employed by Federal Reserve regarding network security. The Division also reviewed and incorporated standards recommended by the National Council on Problem Gambling?..
Technical standards for establishing player integrity and safeguarding against underage and problem gamblers, including ensuring that people on the Division?s Self-Exclusion and Exclusion Lists are not able to wager, are proposed in the regulations. System software standards for age verification, prevention of fraudulent and criminal conduct and funding limits for patron accounts are also proposed.
Key operational controls and security measures are required in the regulations to ensure that patron access to the Internet is occurring within the boundaries of the State of New Jersey. Individuals do not have to be residents of the State, but must be located within the State to participate in Internet gaming through a permitted Atlantic City casino.
The proposed regulations provide for substantial civil penalties for companies that are not an Internet gaming permit holder and who advertise and utilize their premises for placing Internet gaming wagers. There is also full disclosure that it is a criminal offense to allow a person who is under the age of 21 to gamble on an established Internet gaming account.
A gaming-related casino service industry enterprise license application would need to be filed for any entity that intends to provide software to casinos or to offer Internet gaming on behalf of a licensed casino. Applications are being accepted so as to ensure that only reputable companies- those that meet the highest standards of integrity- will participate as partners with New Jersey?s licensed casinos.
The Division has recently requested bids for an Internet gaming consultant to assist the Division in implementing Internet gaming in New Jersey. ?We are looking forward to having additional technical resources and expertise as we enter into a new era of gaming regulations and anticipate completion of this process in the near future,? said Rebuck.?
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Darcy James Argue describes his 18-piece Secret Society ensemble as a "steampunk big band," but that's not exactly literal. The composer and bandleader does operate on a similar, cross-genre and -era aesthetic as steampunk, but his jazz big band doesn't fully embrace the subculture's outlandish fashion, for one, and it also works with elements of indie rock, world music, and sometimes comic-book culture. The latter in particular, in the case of his second album Brooklyn Babylon. It is the musical end of a collaboration with Croatian comic artist Danijel Zezelj, who created an animation to go along with live performance. Ahead of Argue's performance of Brooklyn Babylon's music at the Atlas on Saturday, the bandleader talked to Washington City Paper about the nature of multimedia collaboration, the music with and without animation, and how improvising fits into the framework.
Washington City Paper: What was the genesis of the Brooklyn Babylon project?
Darcy James Argue: Well, basically, shortly after Infernal Machines came out, I was called up for a meet-and-greet with Joe Melillo, who's the executive director of BAM. It was sort of billed as a very casual meet-and-greet, but at the end he asked?and I'd had sort of an inkling that he might?"Well listen, if there's every any artistic project that you have in mind that might require BAM's financial resources to execute, let us know."
And so I actually said, "Well, funny you should mention that," and I whipped out one of Danijel's forthcoming graphic novels that a friend of mine at Vertigo had kindly slipped me an advance copy of. At that point I hadn't met Danijel, but I knew going into that meeting that I'd need something prepared to pitch him. So I thought about what it might entail, and it went through a lot of different possibilities and potential collaborations with artists outside of the jazz world. Something with dance? Something with film? And I ultimately decided, "Well, something with a comic book artist would be cool."
As I said, I had a friend who was working at Vertigo, which is a comic and graphic-novel imprint, and she recommended some people. I saw Danijel's website and instantly thought, "OK, this is the guy," and I bought everything I could get my hands on of his. Then I discovered that he was very experienced with multimedia collaborations with musicians?he'd done many collaborations with [saxophonist/composer] Jessica Lurie?and the visual style was a perfect mesh with my sensibilities. So then it was just a matter of me sitting down with him and saying, "We might be able to pitch something to BAM if you're interested." I think he was pretty skeptical when we first met for coffee; I don't think he was necessarily a big-band fan, but when he heard the record he was like, "OK, this makes sense."
WCP: How did the collaboration work?
DJA: It actually was a pretty extensive collaboration. The way these things normally work is that one does a full animation, and you're writing to finished film. But in our case, it was more of a give-and-take: Danijel came up with this story, and then we talked about it and refined it over time, and then he started to paint images.
So he would send me these still images, but there was no time dimension yet, and it was left up to me to determine how long these images would last, and how long each section would last, whether they?d be moving fast or slow and what the duration would be, depending on the story. I would do a mockup with the music and say, ?OK, I want this frame to land at this point in the music, Bar 29, Beat 4, and this frame delayed here and this one here.? And Danijel would take the mockup and my suggestions as to how I was hearing it, and work it out.
For the most part I think we were on the same wavelength. Whenever Danijel would have something that would require a musical rewrite, I might be initially resistant but I could see that the story demanded that we take more time here or less time here. Also, at the end of the process I had to admit that all of the changes he requested made the music stronger. So, it was a genuine collaboration and that was something we were very much set on. We were really looking to create a balanced mode of storytelling.
WCP: When you bring in improvising musicians, are you talking about another level of collaboration?
DJA: Well, the way that the piece is structured, it begins with a prologue and ends with an epilogue that weren?t tracked to the animation. They?re less constrained than the rest of the work in terms of duration and solos because they didn?t have to track. So we began and ended the work more organically.
And for each chapter of the music?there were eight chapters that were performed to animation, and in those cases we had to be very careful about things like tempo, and solos had to be preordained in a certain way to sync up and tell the story that we wanted to tell. But in between each chapter we have interludes, there are seven interludes in Brooklyn Babylon. And those are deliberately left more open. They?re meant to give the band, and the audience, a break from the highly structured music that the chapters involved. It serves as a kind of a palate-cleanser for the next chapter.
WCP: Even so, this sounds extremely difficult to conceive as standalone music, on a CD.
DJA: Well, there is going to be a graphic novel. We?d hoped to have that ready with the CD release. Unfortunately the production of the graphic novel has been somewhat delayed?it turns out making graphics, having them printed in Croatia, and shipped over to the United States is a time-consuming process! It?s all new illustration, none of the paintings from the show. All pen-and-ink illustrations, and I?m looking forward to this coming out so that there?s a visual element that people who aren?t able to see the full multimedia production can associate some imagery with it.
As for making it a standalone, it?s a question I struggled with when deciding whether or not to record this material. After the BAM show closed, I was so bound up in the whole process of creating music for this specific purpose that I hadn?t really stopped to consider what it might sound like on its own. And I needed to get a little bit of distance from it in order to even think about that question.
We had a live recording from our final night at BAM, and that needed to be mixed and given to presenters so they had an idea what the music sounded like. So going through that gave me an opportunity to listen to the music just by itself, and disconnect it from the images?and just give it to people who hadn?t seen the show and say, ?Hey, what do you think of this??
It seemed to me that the music did work on its own. Obviously I think it works best the way we tried to set it up with the packaging on the CD, where there?s a little hint of the story, and the images from the digipak and the digital booklet are chosen to stamp certain images in your mind and spark the imagination, so that when you listen to it, there is that kind of process of imagining your own visual narrative to go with the music, the way that people who have never seen the dance Petrushka might have their own idea what it looks like. Or The Rite of Spring or any of those ballets that get performed in concert versions frequently.
It was my hope when this thing went out that it would be an album that sounded satisfying as a piece of music, not just as a soundtrack. And the response suggests that it does fill that role. And I?m glad, because it?s something that I sweated for a long time before deciding, ?Well, let?s put it out and see what happens!?
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