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Back to Journals » Clinical Epidemiology » Volume 10
Rising trends in pancreatic cancer incidence and mortality in 2000–2014
Authors Wu W, He XK, Yang L, Wang Q, Bian X, Ye J, Li Y, Li L
Received 21 December 2017
Accepted for publication 5 April 2018
Published 9 July 2018 Volume 2018:10 Pages 789—797
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S160018
Checked for plagiarism Yes
Review by Single anonymous peer review
Peer reviewer comments 3
Editor who approved publication: Professor Vera Ehrenstein
Wenrui Wu,1,2,* Xingkang He,3,4,* Liya Yang,1,2 Qing Wang,1,2 Xiaoyuan Bian,1,2 Jianzhong Ye,1,2 Yating Li,1,2 Lanjuan Li1,2
1State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; 2Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, China; 3Department of Gastroenterology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University Medical School, Hangzhou, China; 4Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
*These authors contributed equally to this work
Background: The morbidity and mortality of pancreatic cancer vary considerably around the world. The aim of this study was to characterize and evaluate recent changes in incidence and incidence-based mortality in the USA.
Methods: Incidence and incidence-based mortality data were based on the 18 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registries through SEER*Stat software. We adopted joinpoint regression to analyze the temporal trends stratified by age, gender, ethnicity, stage, tumor site, and size.
Results: Based on 18 SEER data sets, the age-adjusted incidence of pancreatic cancer increased from 11.85/100,000 in 2000 to 14.70/100,000 in 2014, increasing by an average annual percentage change (AAPC) of 1.6 (95% CI 1.5–1.8, p<0.05). The incidence-based mortality also increased, from 9.96/100,000 in 2001 to 12.96/100,000 in 2014, increasing by an AAPC of 1.9 (95% CI 1.3–2.5, p<0.05). However, we observed a deceleration in mortality since 2005, with the annual percentage change decreasing from 4.1 (2001–2005) to 1.0 (2005–2014). These increasing trends in pancreatic cancer were observed in most subgroups (stratified by age, gender, ethnicity, stage, tumor site, and size).
Conclusion: The incidence and mortality rates of pancreatic cancer in the USA have increased significantly since 2000, highlighting the need for increased preventive, screening, and surveillance efforts.
Keywords: epidemiology, pancreatic cancer, incidence, mortality, trend, SEER
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By Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency, 06.10.2016, www.thecommunists.net
From the its beginning in 2011 until today, the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) has always supported the heroic Syrian Revolution as part of the Arab Revolution. (1)
We have always recognized the democratic character of the Syrian Revolution as an uprising of workers and poor peasants outraged by the bloody and sectarian dictatorship of the Assad clan. This democratic revolution has been distorted and hampered by the petty-bourgeois secular nationalist and Islamist leadership. But contrary to the numerous pseudo-left doomsayers, until now the Syrian Revolution has neither been defeated nor has it lost its democratic and progressive character. The Revolution continues to live though the Local Coordination Committees, through the numerous popular organizations, through the tens of thousands of rebel fighters and their militias and the millions of Syrian workers, peasants and refugees who are supporting the ongoing liberation struggle.
The RCIT reaffirms that the most significant failure of the Syrian Revolution has been both a product and a manifestation of the absence of a revolutionary party and independent mass working class organizations. Therefore, the strategic task of authentic Syrian revolutionaries is to fight against the non-revolutionary leaderships and for the creation of independent proletarian organizations by participating inside the camp of the Syrian Revolution.
Numerous Dangers for the Syrian Revolution
However, the ongoing heroic Syrian Revolution which started in March 2011 is in a state of crisis and faces numerous obstacles and dangers. The most imminent danger is the barbarous war which Assad and his Russian backers are waging against the Syrian people and, in particular, against the besieged people of eastern Aleppo, a brutal siege which threatens to annihilate this enclave of resistance in the country's biggest city.
Furthermore the Syrian Revolution is under attack by Daesh (the so-called "Islamic State" or – as most Muslims would say – "Un-Islamic State"). This reactionary, counter-revolutionary force is focusing its struggle not on attacking the Assad regime but rather on attempting to destroy the Syrian and Kurdish rebels.
In addition, the Kurdish PYD/YPG leadership – while standing at the head of a legitimate struggle for national self-determination for the Kurdish people – is betraying both the Syrian Revolution as well as the Kurdish liberation struggle by voluntarily offering itself as a willful servant both to US as well as Russian imperialism.
Another danger is the Erdoğan regime which sent the Turkish army – with the help of some corrupt Free Syrian Army (FSA) leaders – into northern Syria to occupy a 960 square kilometer buffer zone and to weaken the Kurdish liberation struggle.
Last but not least, the Syrian Revolution is threatened by the betrayal and backward goals of its fragmented leadership. A sector – like those in the Syrian National Council – has always looked for help from US imperialism and is ready to offer itself as servants to Washington's plans.
Another sector of the leadership – among them a number of FSA leaders – has proven to be self-serving, corrupt and incompetent.
The petty-bourgeois Islamist forces like Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) and Ahrar al-Sham certainly have many dedicated fighters in their ranks and are also far more competent militarily than various FSA units. Without a doubt, these petty-bourgeois forces are currently the most significant defenders of the areas liberated from Assad's hordes and the latter's foreign mercenaries which are militarily much more numerous and significant than the official army. (2) However, the leaderships of various Islamist groups have created unholy alliances with the ruling class of various Gulf States and are consequently combining the progressive struggle against the bloody Assad dictatorship with the perspective of a reactionary social order. Furthermore, these Islamist groups take a chauvinist position denying the Kurds' national rights.
Finally, many leaders of Local Coordination Committees as well of various armed rebel units are honestly serving the revolution, but unfortunately lack a working class perspective for the road to liberation.
Nevertheless the Syrian Revolution is far from dead – irrespective of the fact that some of the literary friends of the Syrian Revolution have already written its obituary. (3) The heroic struggle of millions of Syrian workers, peasants and youth is living testimony to the ongoing revolutionary process.
However, while Assad and Putin's bombs might be the most immediate threat to the Syrian Revolution, strategically the biggest danger is the looming agreement between the two main imperialist powers – the US and Russia – which would divide Syria and open a counter-revolutionary settlement.
Imperialist Interventions in the Syrian Civil War
The imperialist intervention in Syria has been catastrophic for some years now. Russia and its Iranian ally (plus Hezbollah) have provided tons of modern weapons and ammunition, troops, etc. to the Assad regime which quickly ran out of Syrian soldiers. In fact, the regime's war against the revolution is hardly being fought by the official Syrian army itself which is instead focusing its efforts on extracting tribute from the local population. Rather, the fighting is being waged by private militias and foreign troops as Mikhail Khodarenok – a Russian military expert and retired officer working for the General Staff – noted in a recently published article:
"The actual fighting against opposition groups is mostly done by Syrian militias, the Lebanese Hezbollah Shia units, Iranian and Iraqi volunteers and Private Military Companies. The main military actions Assad's army engages in is extorting a tribute from the locals." (4)
In short, without Russia's and Iran's massive support the Assad regime would have collapsed years ago.
For a long time US imperialism hoped to replace Assad – who collaborated with the CIA torture program after 2001, but who has primarily been a long-time ally of Russian imperialism – with a more compliant lackey. However, Washington was always clear that it didn't desire to achieve this goal via a popular revolution which would destroy the state apparatus. Since 2011, the Libyan Revolution – which the pro-Russian social-imperialists still absurdly claim was a US conspiracy – has been a daunting example for Washington, with its ambassador, Chris Stevens, being killed in Benghazi in 2012 and all ambassadors of the Great Powers being expelled from the country. (5) In other words, from the beginning US imperialism intended to keep the Assadist state apparatus without Assad.
However, Washington came to realize that this goal was impossible to achieve. US imperialism is simply too weak to impose its goals. (6) Washington has hardly any loyal troops on the ground. The few Syrian rebels who are fighting with US advisors as part of the Syrian Democratic Forces hardly count. The only relevant force on the ground which is closely collaborating with the US and Western imperialists are the Kurdish PYD/YPG who refused to support the Syrian Revolution from the beginning. However, as they are a Kurdish nationalist force with only a limited number of soldiers, they cannot be used to pacify the whole of Syria, as the Kurds constitute only 9–10% of Syria's population. Furthermore their use is also hampered by the fierce opposition of Turkey – a key player in the region.
Contrary to the repeated claims by the pro-Russian social-imperialist friends of Assad, Washington didn't provide any meaningful support for the Syrian rebels. They hardly sent any modern anti-tank or anti-aircraft weapons to the rebels that would enable them to defend themselves against the murderous artillery and aircraft attacks by the Assad regime and the Russians. (7)
Quite the contrary, US imperialism is, under the pretext of its war against Daesh, actively targeting a sector of the Syrian rebels – in particular those of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham – and has already killed numerous militants as well as civilians. In the past weeks, US forces killed three leading members of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham – Abu Hajer al Homsi, Abo al-Farej al-Masri, and Abo Omar Saraqeb. (8) According to reports, the US-led coalition has carried out more than 5,300 airstrikes in Syria since September 2014, likely killing at least 850 civilians and potentially over 1,200. (9)
The South African Think Tank Afro-Middle East Centre correctly observes:
"The US views the fight against IS and Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formally Jabhat al-Nusra), still believed by the Obama administration to have links with al-Qa'ida, as more pertinent, and believes that a political solution, however skewed in the regime's favour, would help attempts to combat these groups. (…) Conversely, the Russians possess strategic interests in Syria, are fearful of a power vacuum were the regime to fall, and perceive most Islamist rebel groups as terrorists that pose a threat to the country. Since September 2015 Russia has acted directly, militarily, to protect these interests. Convergences over IS, and US reticence to confront Russia, meant that the USA endorsed or ignored Russia's actions." (10)
In order to achieve its goals, US imperialism actively opposes any meaningful actions against the Assad regime. The Washington Post reported recently that the Obama administration put huge efforts to prevent the US Congress from putting any sanctions on Assad:
"The White House worked behind the scenes last week to prevent a bipartisan bill to sanction the Assad regime for war crimes and atrocities against civilians from getting a vote in the House of Representatives. The Democratic leadership bowed to White House pressure and withdrew its support for voting on the bill for now." (11)
In short, the goals of US imperialism are to weaken and finally destroy the Syrian Revolution and to achieve a political settlement for Syria which keeps the old state apparatus in place and which gives Washington as much influence as possible.
The US secretary of state made this unambiguously clear to some leaders of the Syrian opposition as recently leaked audio files have shown.
"Mr. Kerry told the Syrians that their best hope was a political solution to bring the opposition into a transitional government. Then, he said, "you can have an election and let the people of Syria decide: Who do they want?" (…) At one point, Mr. Kerry astonished the Syrians at the table when he suggested that they should participate in elections that include President Bashar al-Assad, five years after President Obama demanded that he step down." (12)
Finally, the ongoing imperialist aggression of both Russia and the US has lent legitimacy to Daesh which (wrongly) presents itself as the only consistent opposition against the Great Powers. This is particularly the case given the fact that both the US and Russia are targeting Daesh but not the Assad regime despite the fact that the latter have killed one hundred times more people than Daesh has. Many people in Syria and around the world rightly recognize this as further prove of the reactionary and hypocritical character of the imperialist powers.
The Biggest Danger: The Reactionary Kerry-Lavrov Agreement
As we noted above the biggest strategic danger for the Syrian Revolution is the looming Kerry-Lavrov Agreement. Such an agreement would be a local repetition of the reactionary Sykes-Picot Agreement between France and Britain of May 1916 which divided the Middle East between these imperialist powers. Likewise, a Kerry-Lavrov Agreement could lead to the division and occupation of Syria. It would be an agreement in order to liquidate the Syrian Revolution and to establish a counter-revolutionary order in the country.
There already have been ongoing negotiations between the Russian and the US foreign ministers for several years (as expressed, for example, in the Geneva I Conference in 2012 and the Geneva II Conference in 2014). As the RCIT has pointed since long ago, both Great Powers have a joint interest in liquidating the Syrian Revolution and in pacifying the country. Not surprisingly, they have been arch-enemies of the Arab Revolution from the beginning in 2011. This, by the way, has also been the reason why they both supported the military coup of General al-Sisi in Egypt in July 2013. (13)
No one should have any illusions: Such an agreement would not mean peace. Rather it would pacify the civil war on some fronts (i.e., between the regime, the pro-Western sectors of the rebels and the Kurds) and unify the military firepower of Assad, of the Kurdish YPG, of some pro-Western rebels as well as of Russia, the US, Iran and Hezbollah against Daesh, as well as against intransigent petty-bourgeois rebel forces.
To quote again the Afro-Middle East Centre:
"The USA, believing that IS poses a greater threat than the Syrian regime, and having misgivings about the main Islamist forces that are currently the strongest and most well-organised rebel components, and which would benefit most from Asad's fall, will go along with a Russian initiative. The balance of power on the ground heavily favours Russia, and dissuades active interference by other foreign powers for fear of confrontation with Russia. Further, the Turkish incursion into Syria is also likely to lead to a weakening of support for opposition groups, especially in light of the recent Turkish-Russian and Turkish-Iranian rapprochements and the belief that Turkey is reassessing its position on Asad. Already, thousands of Turkey-backed fighters have withdrawn from east Aleppo to focus on consolidating Turkey's control of its 900-square kilometre incursion, and to prepare for a push towards the IS-held town of Al-Bab." (14)
A reactionary Kerry-Lavrov Agreement would unite and increase the counter-revolutionary pressure, forcing sectors of the rebels to cease their struggle against the regime and accept a truce with the Assad regime. It would lead, most likely, to the killing or disarming and capitulation of huge numbers of rebels.
The "Yemeni" and the "Bosnian" Solution
Theoretically, two basic scenarios for such a counter-revolutionary settlement resulting from a Kerry-Lavrov Agreement are possible, with a number of conceivable combinations of the two. One scenario would keep Syria relatively united (probably on a federal basis) with a joint government and state apparatus. Such a government would keep the Assadist state apparatus while integrating sectors of the opposition into it, perhaps with Assad himself moving to a backstage position after some time. The process in Yemen in 2011, in which Saleh retreated and his vice-president took power and various oppositional parties joined or supported the government, could be a model for this scenario.
The alternative would be a solution similar to that imposed on Bosnia in 1995 where the Great Powers divided the country into three regions. In this case, the formal unity of Syria might be preserved, albeit only in name, but in reality the country would be divided into different regions – probably an Alawi-dominated region ruled by the Assad clan supported by Russia and Iran, a Sunni-Arab region ruled by some pro-Western opposition forces with US and EU backing, and a third, Kurdish, region.
If this second scenario were to transpire, it is unclear which Great Power would dominate the Kurdish region, as the PYD leadership has been making advances both to the US and to Russia. Obviously this question will be also influenced by the foreign policy maneuvers of Turkey's Erdogan and which Great Power would give more assurances to the PYD leadership.
It seems to us that the "Bosnian" solution is the more likely of the two for the following reasons:
a) The deep hatred of the regime by the popular masses would make it very difficult for the opposition leaderships to sell the people such a betrayal, while a Sunni-Arab mini-state could be sold as the only realistic option, however unfortunate this may be.
b) The increasing rivalry between the US and Russia which would be a destabilizing factor in the case of a united Syria with a joint government.
Regardless, it is clear that both of these scenarios would constitute a tremendous counter-revolutionary defeat for the Syrian workers and peasants. It would mean either the disarming and suppression of the popular masses by an essentially Assadist government (with some oppositional Quislings among their ranks) or a division of the country with the a very likely massive population exchange (i.e. ethnic cleansing) as took place in Bosnia in the 1990s.
A recent example of such a reactionary "peace" solution based on ethnic cleaning took place in Daraya, the historic birthplace of the Syrian revolution, during the past five years. The UK-based Syria Solidarity Campaign reports:
"The regime's surrender terms included the forced displacement ("evacuation" according to the Assad regime and UN) of more than 7,000 Syrian civilian residents and families. In the aftermath of Daraya's fall it has also emerged that the regime is resettling Iraqi Shia militiamen and families in their place — comprising a clear attempt at engineering a forced demographic change and continuing a policy of sectarian/ethnic cleansing pursued in other recaptured territories of Syria." (15)
Various Obstacles
However, there are various obstacles to such an agreement based on dividing Syria. First, there are tens of thousands of rebel fighters supported by millions of Syrian workers and peasants who deeply despise the Assad regime and who are determined to continue the revolution. True, after years of fighting there may be signs of exhaustion. But at the moment such signs are difficult to see. These rebel fighters and popular masses despise and distrust not only Russian imperialism but US imperialism as well. This is hardly surprising, since Washington considers several Islamist resistance organizations like Jabhat Fateh al-Sham as "terrorist" organizations and kills their leaders.
The popular rejection of the US-Russia conspiracy against the Syrian Revolution has been reflected in numerous statements released not only by the Islamist organizations targeted by the US, but also by many others.
For example, a group of 150 Syrian intellectuals, composed mostly of writers, artists, academics, and journalists, all identifying themselves as secular democratic opponents of the Syrian regime, have issued the statement to express their condemnation of the role being played in their country by both Washington and Moscow. The signatories include globally known figures such as Paris Sorbonne Professor Burhan Ghalioun, who was the first chairperson of the Syrian National Council in 2011–12; award-winning novelist Samar Yazbek, whose works are published in many languages; the famous Syrian intellectual Sadik Jalal Al-Azm; Farouk Mardam-Bey, a writer who edits the most important journal dedicated to the Arab world in France; playwright Mohammad Al-Attar; and Yassin al-Haj Saleh, a prominent independent voice of the Syrian opposition. (16)
Yet another example is a statement by 21 brigades of the Free Syrian Army, condemning the recently negotiated (and failed) truce agreement struck between the US and Russia. (17)
Second, the Assad regime – as well as the Russian and the Iranian rulers – still hopes to defeat the rebels and to regain control over at least significant parts of the country. However, these efforts are completely dependent on the will of the Russians and Iranians to support such an effort. From the moment Putin and Khamenei reach a deal with the US, Assad will be forced to stop his war. However, currently Assad and his backers are encouraged by the fact that US imperialism – in contrast to that of the Russians – is hardly in a position to seriously engage in the Syrian civil war against Assad (see the quotes by Kerry which we cited above). The US lacks a serious proxy force on the ground in Syria and is completely unwilling and unable to commit ground troops to the war there (particularly in light of the opposition of Russia and China).
Third, while both the US and Russia have a mutual interest in liquidating the Syrian Revolution, they are also imperialist rivals competing against one other for spheres of influence. This is why Russia has been keeping Assad in power and why the US has been trying to get some influence among the official Syrian opposition. This is also why the two Great Powers stood on opposing sides in the civil war in the Ukraine.
As an aside, we note that the recent events in Syria have once more convincingly proved that Russia is an authentic imperialist Great Power and not some semi-colonial lackey of the US – contrary to the foolish claims of various centrist groups. (18)
Finally, a reactionary settlement in Syria is hardly possible without occupation troops to enforce it. But who could provide the necessary numbers of soldiers? The US and Russia both very unlikely prepared to send any meaningful number of ground troops to Syria. The popular hatred of Syrians against both these Great Powers, their respective US and Russian public opinions opposing such involvement, and the US's recent debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq (while Putin is already finding it difficult to justify having sent soldiers to the Ukraine) practically exclude this option. Neither are EU troops, in any meaningful numbers, likely to be deployed.
The only conceivable alternative is to create a force of ground troops from states in the region to enforce a settlement reached by the Great Powers. However, troops from Saudi Arabia (or other Gulf States) in are also not very likely to be sent in larger numbers, in light of their military limitations already attested to during their invasion of Yemen. Turkey, with its large and experienced army, is a realistic candidate – also given the fact that it is less discredited among the majority of the Syrian people. However, here the problem – from the Great Powers' point of view – is that the Erdoğan regime is not very reliable, as has been recently demonstrated by the attempted coup d'état attempt and the president's foreign policy zigzagging. Iranian troops – in territories dominated by the Alawi minority – are another possibility.
Regardless of whichever country sends a larger contingent of troops to Syria as a "peace-keeping force" (i.e., an army of occupation), in advance it is quite clear that such a country will become the target of popular hatred and armed resistance. It could face a fate similar to that of the US in Lebanon in 1983 or of India in the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka in the late 1980s. In both cases, the occupying forces faced massive armed resistance and ultimately had to end their occupations with a bloody nose. Furthermore, such a highly risky operation abroad is very likely to provoke substantial opposition among the domestic population of the country or countries involved, and make these countries even enhance their identity as targets of terrorist operations (as we have already seen in France and Belgium). In short, while a reactionary pacification of the Syrian civil war could lead to some stability in the short term, it is likely to provoke even more political instability in the long run.
The Strategic Lessons of the Crisis of the Syrian Revolution
The crisis of the Syrian Revolution makes it urgent for the revolutionary vanguard in Syria and internationally to learn the strategic lessons of the past failures. As we have outlined in our Theses on the Arab Revolution, as well as in other documents, there are several key lessons which, in our opinion, must be assimilated in order to revitalize the Syrian Revolution along with the revolutionary struggles in other countries. (19)
First, the most important failure is the lack of independent mass organizations of the working class. While hundreds of thousands, even millions of workers and poor peasants support the revolution, their leaderships have been hijacked by petty-bourgeois nationalists and Islamists. The Local Coordination Councils are a distorted expression of a democratic organization of the popular masses. However, they limit themselves mostly to organizing daily survival (which naturally is extremely important) but do not desire to play any political or military role. As a result, the political leadership is either in the hands of aspiring bourgeois politicians who are ready to sell out the interests of the people at the negotiating table in exchange for some posts, or it is in the hands of various strands of Islamists who oppose any authentic social and democratic revolution, and who often follow a more or less sectarian policy. Furthermore, while there are numerous militias which obviously do have connections with the popular masses, they do not represent workers and peasant militias, as they are not elected and controlled by the people.
Fighting for the creation of authentic workers' and poor peasants councils in liberated areas and of popular militias is the foremost task for authentic revolutionaries in Syria today!
Second, the workers and fallahin, in order to be victorious, must pursue the revolution to its end, and not stop in the middle. This means essentially that, first of all, the democratic, to say nothing of the socialist, revolution must smash the old state apparatus which is so dramatically overblown both in Syria as well as throughout the entire region. This means the revolution must destroy the huge "bureaucratic-military machine" (Karl Marx) including the army, the secret services, the judiciary, etc. which constitutes the direct foundation for the Assad regime (just like for other regimes in the region).
Third, the workers and peasants must erode the social basis of the Assad regime. Thus, they must expropriate the rich business men and the foreign corporations and put them under control of the toilers.
Fourth, the democratic revolution in Syria can only succeed if the workers and poor peasants take power and create a workers' and peasants' republic. The popular masses will always be betrayed if they leave the power in the hands of the old elite or transfer it to a new aspiring elite, instead of taking it into their own hands.
Fifth, it is urgent to fight against all forms of intervention by the imperialist forces – both by Russia as well as by the US. Furthermore, it is dangerous to build a strategy on relying on the supposedly "well-meaning" intervention of any Great Power (or regional power like Turkey, Saudi-Arabia or Iran). The ruling classes of these countries will always put their own strategic political and economic interests first and subordinate to them the interests of the Syrian people. The US is an excellent example of this realpolitik: while it opposed Assad in words, it has never supported the rebels fighting against Assad in any meaningful way with weapons, and today it wants to force the opposition to accept a transitional government which will be based on the Assadist state apparatus (and maybe even Assad himself). The entire strategy of the Syrian National Council, which hoped for a victory against Assad with the help of the "international community," i.e., the Great Powers in particular the US and the EU, has proven to be a castle of sand.
In other words revolutionaries must never seek to align the rebellious masses with the US or the EU or with Russia and China, nor with the regional powers!
Such a socialist perspective can only be implemented if revolutionaries combine fighting for such goals with actual participation in the ongoing mass struggles against the Assad regime – in the country itself as well as in the international arena where many migrants and solidarity activists have been organizing protests for years. It is alien for revolutionaries to excuse themselves from participating in such struggles on the basis of the united front tactic, and by deferring to the petty-bourgeois nationalist and Islamist leaderships of such struggles.
Revolutionaries must fight against the various Islamist and secular petty-bourgeois leaderships which so often possess significant influence among the popular masses, as well as against various reformist and centrist forces which often join the camp of the open counterrevolutions, or instead take a neutral stand on the sidelines in struggles of life and death.
Finally, the most important task in order to revitalize the Syrian revolution and to successfully complete its tasks, i.e., to foment a permanent revolution, is the creation of a revolutionary leadership of the workers and poor peasants; in other words, the formation of a revolutionary party in the tradition of Lenin and Trotsky, as part of a new World Party of Socialist Revolution. However, until now such a party has been sorely missing in all countries, and this absence has been the most important factor in the defeats which the Syrian (and all Arab) proletariat has faced in the past few years. From this it follows that the most important task for revolutionaries today is to create an international Bolshevik organization – as a precursor to such a world party – with sections throughout the world, including in the countries of the Arab world.
Building a revolutionary party – national and international – is the most important factor to achieve political independence of the working class and to lead it successfully towards the socialist revolution!
(1) We refer readers to the numerous documents and articles which the RCIT has published on the Syrian Revolution since its beginning in 2011; in particular: Joint Statement: Solidarity with Aleppo! Hands off Syria! 4 October 2016, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/joint-statement-aleppo/; Syria: For an Independent Revolutionary Road! Down with the Bombing and Siege against Aleppo! Stop the Turkish Invasion and Occupation! No to the Imperialist Conspiracy against the Syrian Masses! Joint Statement of the RCIT and Sınıf Savaşı (Turkey), 25.09.2016, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/defend-aleppo/; Yossi Schwartz: The Revolution in Syria won a Tactical Victory! Down with Assad the Butcher! 21 August 2016, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/aleppo-victory/; RCIT: Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Arab World: An Acid Test for Revolutionaries, 31 May 2015, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/theses-arab-revolution/; RCIT: The Arab Revolution is a central touchstone for socialists! Open Letter to All Revolutionary Organizations and Activists, 4.10.2013, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/open-letter-on-arab-revolution/. For many more RCIT documents on the Arab Revolution see on our website: http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/
(2) See e.g., Martin Chulov and Kareem Shaheen: Sectarian fighters mass for battle to capture east Aleppo. Hundreds of Syrian troops and an estimated 5,000 foreign Shia fighters plan imminent advance into besieged area of city, 29 September 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/29/aleppo-attack-foreign-syrian-fighters-plan-shia-islamic
(3) See e.g., the "League for the 5. International" which recently wrote: "Meanwhile, the Islamist forces, even those defending the besieged populations, are, at the same time, trying to smother the most progressive aspects of the Syrian revolution. In short, the Syrian revolution is on the point of expiring." (L5I: Statement on the Assault on Eastern Aleppo, 30/09/2016, http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/statement-assault-eastern-aleppo)
(4) Mikhail Khodarenok: Here's why Assad's army can't win the war in Syria, 09.09.2016, Gazeta.ru, https://citeam.org/here-s-why-assad-s-army-can-t-win-the-war-in-syria/
(5) On the Libyan Revolution see the following RCIT documents: RCIT: Stop the US Bombing of Libya! Mobilize against the Expansion of the Imperialist War! Defeat the Imperialist Aggressors and Their Lackeys in Libya! 23.2.2016, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/us-bombing-libya/; RCIT: General Sisi, Hollande, Obama: Hands Off Libya! Defeat General Haftars' Imperialist Lackeys! Down with the Daash-Gang of Killers! For a Workers' and Popular Government! 26.2.2015, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/hands-off-libya/; Michael Pröbsting: Liberation Struggles and Imperialist Interference. The failure of sectarian "anti-imperialism" in the West: Some general considerations from the Marxist point of view and the example of the democratic revolution in Libya in 2011, Autumn 2012, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/liberation-struggle-and-imperialism/; RKOB: After the collapse of the Gaddafi regime: Where now for the Libyan Revolution? 24.8.2011, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/libya-collapse-of-gaddafi-regime/; Michael Pröbsting: The intervention of the imperialist powers in Libya, the struggle of the masses against Gaddafi's dictatorship and the tactics of revolutionary communists"; in: Revolutionary Communism No. 1, September 2011, www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa/libya-revolutionary-tactics
(6) On the US decline and the emergence of the new Great Powers China and Russia see e.g., RCIT: World Perspectives 2016, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-perspectives-2016/; RCIT World Perspectives 2015, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-situation-january-2015/; RCIT World Perspectives 2014, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-situation-april-2014/; RCIT World Perspectives 2013, (http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-situation-march-2013/; Michael Pröbsting: China's transformation into an imperialist power. A study of the economic, political and military aspects of China as a Great Power, in: Revolutionary Communism No. 4 (2012), http://www.thecommunists.net/publications/revcom-number-4; Michael Pröbsting: The Great Robbery of the South. Continuity and Changes in the Super-Exploitation of the Semi-Colonial World by Monopoly Capital Consequences for the Marxist Theory of Imperialism, 2013, http://www.great-robbery-of-the-south.net/; Michael Pröbsting: China's Emergence as an Imperialist Power, in: New Politics, Vol: XV(1), 2014, http://newpol.org/content/china%E2%80%99s-emergence-%E2%80%A8imperialist-power; Michael Pröbsting: The China Question and the Marxist Theory of Imperialism, in: Revolutionary Communism No. 32 (2014), pp. 27-37, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/reply-to-csr-pco-on-china/
(7) On the myth of the Assad regime as being anti-imperialist in any way we refer readers to the following RCIT articles: Yossi Schwartz: The Myth of Assad's Syria as an Anti-Imperialist Regime, November 2013, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/myth-of-assad-s-anti-imperialism/; Michael Pröbsting: US Administration: "Rebels fighting the Assad regime wouldn't support American interests if they were to seize power", 22.8.2013, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/us-opposes-syrian-rebels/
(8) Al Jazeera: US air raid kills Syrian rebel commander, rebels say, 2016-09-09, http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/air-raid-kills-syrian-rebel-commander-rebels-160909040202201.html; Reuters: Nusra Front Says Drone Killed a Senior Leader in Syria, 3.10.2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/world/middleeast/syria-nusra-front-masri.html; US-led coalition kills second commander in Fatth al-Sham, 2016-10-03, http://orient-news.net/en/news_show/124448/0/US-led-coalition-kills-second-commander-in-Fatth-al-Sham
(9) Charles Davis: U.S.-led Airstrikes Have Allegedly Killed Over 850 Syrian Civilians. So Where Is the Outrage? September 27, 2016, http://inthesetimes.com/article/19501/the-u.s.-recently-apologized-for-killing-syrian-soldiers.-why-wont-it-do-th; see also Syria Solidarity Campaign on this US Friendly Fire incident, 18 September 2016, https://www.facebook.com/SyriaSolidarityCampaign/posts/343217749354749
(10) Afro-Middle East Centre: Unenforced Syrian ceasefire was bound to fail, Brief No. 15/2016, 29 September 2016
(11) Josh Rogin: White House worked secretly to delay Syria sanctions bill, Washington Post, 20 September 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2016/09/20/white-house-worked-secretly-to-delay-syria-sanctions-bill/
(12) Anne Barnard: Audio Reveals What John Kerry Told Syrians Behind Closed Doors, New York Times, 30.09.2016, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/30/world/middleeast/john-kerry-syria-audio.html
(13) The RCIT has published numerous articles and documents on the Egypt Coup in 2013. See e.g. Yossi Schwartz: The Struggle against the Bloody Dictatorship in Egypt. The Failure of the Egyptian "Revolutionary Socialists" in Past and Present, 3 September 2016, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/egypt-sisi-and-rs/; Michael Pröbsting: The Coup d'État in Egypt and the Bankruptcy of the Left's "Army Socialism". A Balance Sheet of the coup and another Reply to our Critics, 8.8.2013, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/egypt-and-left-army-socialism/. For many more articles on this subject see http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/
(14) Afro-Middle East Centre: Unenforced Syrian ceasefire was bound to fail, Brief No. 15/2016, 29 September 2016
(15) Syria Solidarity Campaign Statement: The fall of Daraya and its ethnic cleansing was ordained by the US, Britain and Jordan, 21 September, 2016, http://syriasolidarity.org.uk/2016/09/21/syria-solidarity-campaign-statement-the-fall-of-daraya-and-its-ethnic-cleansing-was-ordained-by-the-us-britain-and-jordan/
(16) Syrian Writers, Artists, and Journalists Speak Out Against US and Russian Policy. They say the two powers have been working to co-opt the Syrian liberation struggle under the rubric of the "war against terror.", 2016-09-21, https://www.thenation.com/article/syrian-writers-artists-and-journalists-speak-out-against-us-and-russian-policy/
(17) Free Syrian Army: Statement regarding the proposed truce as part of the US-Russian agreement, 16.9.2016, https://eternispring.wordpress.com/2016/09/16/the-free-syrian-army-rejects-savages-the-terms-of-the-us-russian-deal/
(18) See on this various RCIT documents like Michael Pröbsting: Russia as a Great Imperialist Power. The formation of Russian Monopoly Capital and its Empire – A Reply to our Critics. In: Revolutionary Communism No. 21, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialist-russia/; Michael Pröbsting: Lenin's Theory of Imperialism and the Rise of Russia as a Great Power. On the Understanding and Misunderstanding of Today's Inter-Imperialist Rivalry in the Light of Lenin's Theory of Imperialism. Another Reply to Our Critics Who Deny Russia's Imperialist Character. In: Revolutionary Communism No. 25, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialism-theory-and-russia/; Michael Pröbsting: The Uprising in East Ukraine and Russian Imperialism. An Analysis of Recent Developments in the Ukrainian Civil War and their Consequences for Revolutionary Tactics. In: Revolutionary Communism No. 28, pp. 3-30. http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/ukraine-and-russian-imperialism/
(19) RCIT: Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Arab World: An Acid Test for Revolutionaries, 31 May 2015, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/theses-arab-revolution/


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Artists move out of comfort zone in Guadalupe show
For the past few months, five San Antonio artists have been working with a team of advisers to develop their artistic vision and business acumen.
Funded by the Surdna Foundation, the new Artist Lab program at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center launched in September with artists Fernando Andrade, Kim Bishop, Nicole Geary, Daniela Riojas and Luis Valderas in the inaugural group of participants.
"It was started because we saw a need for more development programs for artists in San Antonio," said Haydeé Muñoz de la Rocha, deputy director of visual arts at the Guadalupe. "I think it's a very unique program in the sense that it's a two-year program, so the artists get feedback all throughout those two years, not only on the creative side, but also on the business side."
An exhibit of the latest work by the participating artists is on display at Museo Guadalupe. The show includes drawing, painting, sculpture and installation.
On the financial side, the artists have been working under the guidance of small business lender Acción Texas. On the creative side, they have been meeting every other month with one of four creative advisers: Spanish artist Carlos Aires; Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, curator of the Museo del Barrio in New York; Tey Marianna Nunn, director and curator of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in New Mexico; and Andrea Torreblanca, curator of Museo Tamayo in Mexico.
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The Artist Lab
What: Inaugural exhibition by participants in the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's Artist Lab program
When: Through Jan. 31
Where: Museo Guadalupe, 723 S. Brazos St.
Information: 210-271-3151, www.guadalupeculturalarts.org.
Each artist also receives a $6,000 stipend over the course of the program. In return, each of them is expected to donate 10 service hours to the Guadalupe.
Torreblanca, who was in town for the opening of the exhibit, said she already sees changes in the artists' work.
"I think they have moved out of their comfort zone, which is a good thing for artists," she said. "They're trying to explore and experiment with other ideas and other methodologies, which I think is very good, and you can really see the results in the work."
Known for her meticulous drawings, Bishop contributed three portraits to the show — one of herself as a child, one of her father and one of mother — based on snapshots. But the artist also explores newer territory with a trio of light boxes. Illuminated from below, the murky, indistinct images look as if they were shaped from smoke. In places the surface is covered by patches of wax that evoke peeling skin.
Large- and small-scale works on brown paper by Valderas show the artist drawing his 21st-century take on Mesoamerican glyphs with a looser, more expressive hand, and adding an image of what looks like a wildly crackling atom to his repertoire.
In his drawings of dismembered body parts, Andrade, who frequently deals with border violence in his work, has replaced paper and canvas with black garbage bags, using oil pastels to create ghostly images.
Riojas, a multimedia artist known for photographic self-portraiture in which she takes on the guise of various female archetypes, created a performance piece for the show.
Geary, meanwhile, contributed drawings, collage, sculpture and installation, which reflect her interest in geologic phenomena as a metaphor for human experience. For example, her sculptural cores — smooth cylinders composed of different layers of materials based on geologic samples — reference memory.
Geary, who currently teaches printmaking at the Southwest School of Art and St. Philip's College, said she has begun thinking of herself and her work in a different way since the program started.
"I wasn't thinking about myself as a full-on artist," said Geary, 33. "When I got this opportunity to talk with people who had so much more experience than I did and saw so much more work, they saw more potential in me than I even saw in myself. It was so reaffirming, because I hadn't really felt like that in a long time."


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The Mexican tenor with vocal and domestic issues that have resulted in frequent cancellations is about to make his debut as an opera director. January 24 in Lyon is where it's happening – Massenet's Werther, with Arturo Chacon-Cruz, Karine Deshayes, Lionel Lhote and Anne-Catherine Gillet. Leopold Hager conducts. More here.
I'm sorry to say that Rolando Villazón has become a prime example of one of my most-used phrases: "Just because you CAN do something…
doesn't mean you SHOULD." It is sad to see someone with his talents in such vocal and personal trouble, and much was due to some very wrong choices of repertoire. Nobody can sing everything or sing everywhere, and such choices as "Don Carlo" and the Verdi Requiem certainly didn't help his condition. When you combine too-heavy repertory with a tendency to throw oneself into performances without having some reserve to draw on, it's no wonder that Villazón got into vocal trouble. It's like driving a car with an oil leak; you might get a short distance, but the engine will soon seize up beyond repair if it's not attended to. Vocal cords don't come with a "Check Engine" light; their owners need to rely on good sense and careful use of their voices, since one can't install another larynx the way one can replace a car's engine.
Another thing I think might have been a factor is that perhaps Villazón came back too soon after his surgery for vocal nodes. He might have done better to follow the example of the very wise soprano Lucrezia Bori, who did not sing in public from 1915 to 1919 after surgery for nodes, and who waited until 1921 before returning to a house the size of the Old Met. Also, once Bori was back, she stayed away roles that were too much for her voice. With this reasoned approach, Bori lasted until 1936 at the Met with no recurrence of nodes, and later served honorably on the Met's Board of Directors. Here's an introduction to Bori for those who'd like to know more: http://www.cantabile-subito.de/Sopranos/Bori__Lucrezia/bori__lucrezia.html
Villazón, sorry to say, does not strike me as someone who is as cautious and patient as Bori was. It's just not in his temperament to stay away from performing for so long, or to adopt a more circumspect approach, even if it might help him heal once and for all. Thus, I have my doubts that he'll sing again with his former ease and beauty, although nobody would me more pleased than I to be proven wrong. Given his temperament and the current state of his voice, he's probably better off if he concentrates on operatic production and other well-chosen non-singing pursuits. Here's hoping he can put all his energy and personality to good use!


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Irish monastic founder, the brother of Sts. Foillan and Ulan, praised by St. Bede. Fursey was born on the island of Inisguia en Lough Carri, Ireland, as a noble. He founded Rathmat Abbey, now probably Killursa. In 630 Fursey and his friends went to East Anglia, England, where he founded a monastery near Ugremouth on land donated by King Sigebert. In his later years, Fursey went to France to build a monastery at Lagny, near Paris, France. He was buried in Picardy. St. Bede and others wrote about Fursey's intense ecstasies.
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The sign of Christ's cross upon my forehead,
The sound of the Holy Spirit in my ears,
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The vision of heaven in my eyes,
The conversation of heaven's company on my lips,
The work of God's church with my hands,
The service of God and my neighbour in my feet,
A home for God in my heart,
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We love The Presets. They are gold. It's so great to see the boys return with the first official single from The Presets forthcoming album Pacifica, which now has a video. Premiering earlier today Ghosts, is a sea shanty-inspired techno-pop track accompanied by a beautifully shot, black and white meditation on athleticism directed by Abteen Bagheri
Ghost will be accompanied by remixes from the likes of Adrian Lux, Fort Romeau, DJ Spinn and Hermitude. Check it out below..!


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Attend Fat Tuesday at Down the Hatch in Lahaina on Tuesday, June 12th. Here's your chance to head to the West Side for some southern aloha and Maui Mardis Gras-style fun. Food specials include gumbo, shrimp po boys, beignets and southern fried chicken. Drink specials include lots of celebratory libations like hurricanes and hand grenades. 21+. 9pm. Down the Hatch, (658 Front St., Lahaina); 808-661-4900; Dthmaui.com
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Children living in homes with all vinyl flooring or flame-retardant chemicals in the sofa have significantly higher levels of potentially harmful toxins in their blood or urine, putting them at risk of cancer and other diseases, study has found.
Researchers from Duke University in the US found that children living in homes where the sofa in the main living area contained flame-retardant polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in its foam had a six-fold higher concentration of PBDEs in their blood serum.
Exposure to PBDEs has been linked in laboratory tests to neurodevelopmental delays, obesity, endocrine and thyroid disruption, cancer and other diseases.
According to the study published in the journal Children from homes that had vinyl flooring in all areas were found to have concentrations of benzyl butyl phthalate metabolite in their urine that were 15 times higher than those in children living with no vinyl flooring.
Benzyl butyl phthalate has been linked to respiratory disorders, skin irritations, multiple myeolma and reproductive disorders.....Read more
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Dive Brief:
- A group of Whole Foods workers emailed nearly all of the grocer's employees yesterday urging them to unionize, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to the email, a copy of which was posted by The New Food Economy, workers are unhappy with current compensation and benefits and are concerned by recent layoffs. It notes these problems will worsen under Amazon's ownership. "There will continue to be layoffs in 2019 and beyond as Amazon aims to aggressively trim our labor force before it expands with new technology and labor models," the email stated.
- The email calls for the creation of a "cross-regional" committee to address worker grievances with Whole Foods. It also calls for a $15 minimum wage, paid maternity leave, a matching 401k plan and other benefits.
- The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union is assisting the efforts of Whole Foods employees. The union has been in touch with Whole Foods prior but talks have become more frequent lately, the RWDSU told the Journal.
Dive Insight:
Some of Whole Foods'employees are looking to unionize, citing changes in benefits, day-to-day operational changes and profit-sharing since Amazon's acquisition of the company. This isn't the first time Whole Foods workers have pushed for union representation. But workers are now pointing to the pay gap between workers and managers, as well as layoffs the company has made as it's streamlined operations and come into the fold with Amazon.
The employees also noted the company no longer offers stock-option to lower level employees ever since Amazon's takeover. For years prior to Amazon's takeover, Whole Foods had offered employees annual stock options and almost 94% of the options were owned by employees outside of the c-suite, according to financial reports.
Just a few months after Amazon acquired it, Whole Foods employees came out to criticize a new "scorecard" system and an order-to-shelf system put in place. The "scorecards" are essentially checklists that serve as tests to ensure employees are following through with the new inventory-management system. However, this has resulted in many complaints from workers saying the system is too stringent. Both employees and consumers, meanwhile, grew frustrated with out-of-stock issues that impacted stores earlier this year.
Whole Foods, as it has in the past, came out against the most recent unionization efforts. "We offer competitive wages and benefits and are committed to the growth and success of our team members," a Whole Foods spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal.
That's a tame response compared to the one offered up by CEO John Mackey, who once compared unions to herpes. In a 2013 interview with Yahoo Finance, Mackey said the company isn't so much anti-union as "beyond unions."
Things aren't much different over at Amazon. The company has faced extreme criticism for its working conditions and treatment of employees since its early days. Four years ago, Amazon's maintenance and repair technicians filed a petition which announced their intentions to create Amazon's very first union, according to TIME. Amazon immediately hired a lawyer to put an end to it. A report published nearly 20 years ago highlighted Amazon's internal system among managers instructing them on how to identify and end unionization efforts. The e-tailer has fired numerous workers for advocating union representation, the New York Times reported.
While the push for unionization and the companies' resistance are not new, a key difference could be the labor market. Unemployment rates are the lowest they've been in half a century, potentially giving employees more bargaining power over employers.


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My Journey from Soldier to Oriental Rug Retailer
Finding a few fine and rare Oriental rugs, the best of the Persians is my hobby and passion and has been since I was a young man. Fresh out of the Army in 1966, I backpacked from Europe thru the Middle East to India where I first saw these wonderful rugs being made along the way and thus set my future course.
I became an oriental rug retailer, importer and wholesaler for over 30 years but now I'm retired. I still enjoy using my contacts to find a few top quality hand-made rugs at special prices for individuals who appreciate the lasting beauty of this art form. Most people know little about oriental rugs, it's a specialized field so when you buy a Persian or another carpet from me you will be getting not only a really great price but a carpet that guest who know rugs will compliment you on, and so will everyone else.
Only Highly Selected Quality Persian Rugs
Like most things quality shows and for that reason I don't sell "market goods", only the top 10% from the looms of master weavers. I carry a small inventory of the finest Persian carpets plus special rugs from Afghanistan that I specially selected for its high quality, beauty, and value. I buy direct at great prices and am able to sell at these low prices.
Persian carpets are the original and have been treasured world-wide for centuries. Other countries copy these designs but they don't have the quality of wool, investment or prestige of genuine Persian carpets. I find special rugs now as a hobby and have a very modest markup. You skip the N.Y. Importers and Retailers with their high markups as all the rugs I sell are at or below wholesale prices, clean, and of the finest quality. Great carpets from Persian looms should be affordable and my prices are far below what you can find online or in shops. I will offer an antique or semi-antique piece and the condition will be noted.
It's an item that will be admired and cherished every day for a lifetime and passed on to the next generation as a heirloom. Classical Persian rugs never go out of fashion. Contact me, I would love to answer questions, discuss your needs and what is available.
Note on Antique and Semi-Antique Carpets
I have now expanded my selections to include area rugs and Runners. Most of these rugs will be antique pieces from old Persia. I have always loved the more primitive village and tribal weavings out of Iran and let me explain why. With most carpets, past and present, the weaver uses a design drawn on graph paper by a professional designer where each colored square represents a knot. These are the "City or Sophisticated" rugs with their flowing lines and complicated designs.
In village or tribal rugs, the weaver, usually a woman, creates the design as she ties the knots, from her memory, of designs traditional to that village or people. She may add whimsical items and her design usually is not perfectly centered or symmetrical. No two of these rugs were ever the same, totally unique, and now having survived 80-100 years the colors have muted and many have also become incredibly beautiful.
Being antique you will need to accept wear, not being perfectly straight or square in some cases, different dye lots having been used (abrash), or other characteristics not acceptable in new or "City" rugs. Also many of these old rugs will have used natural dyes which is a beauty in itself.
There are so many rug weaving villages in Iran that I often find it difficult in identifying exactly where the rug originated so I will often list the providence or geographic area of the country where I think it came from.
I have selected the nicest pieces in my eye and experience. I hope you enjoy these rugs as much as I do but I still offer a 7-day in-home trial. Send back for a full purchase refund.


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THE AGONIST Frontwoman Talks 'Prisoners' In New Video Interview
Seriah Azkath of The Last Exit conducted an interview with vocalist Alissa White-Gluz of Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based melodic death metallers THE AGONIST after the band's May 27 concert at The Bug Jar in Rochester, New York. You can now watch the chat below.
THE AGONIST's long-awaited third studio album, "Prisoners", will be released on June 4 in Europe and June 5 in North America via Century Media Records. The CD was produced by Christian Donaldson (CRYPTOPSY) and mixed by Tue Madsen (THE HAUNTED, DARK TRANQUILLITY, SUICIDE SILENCE) and it "picks right up where 2009's 'Lullabies For The Dormant Mind' left off, with soaring melodies over complex metal passages that fans of thinking-man's metal can appreciate," according to a press release.
In regards to the album artwork, Alissa White-Gluz states: "We wanted to really include a chaotic visual to reflect the chaotic sound of the band, but we also wanted to show that the lyrics on this album are a lot more introverted…The human face was left non-descript on purpose — it doesn't belong to any particular person, but we could call him the Lonely Solipsist."
"Prisoners" track listing:
01. You're Coming With Me
02. The Escape
03. Predator Prayer
04. Anxious Darwinians
05. Panophobia
06. Ideomotor
07. Lonely Solipsist
08. Dead Ocean
09. The Mass Of The Earth
10. Everybody Wants You (Dead)
11. Revenge Of The Dadaists
In a recent interview with MetalConcerts.net, Alissa White-Gluz stated about the musical direction of the follow-up to 2009's "Lullabies For A Dormant Mind", "I wouldn't say it's heavier or more melodic. I think it sounds more mature. It has the same sort of schizophrenic side that 'Lullabies' has, but it also has some other I guess what you would call classic influences. Like, there's some PANTERA influence, there's some RADIOHEAD influence. I mean, there's a lot of influences that we didn't really have before."


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If you think that sink will be the only thing in your kitchen that can't be created into the pretty or unique look, you will completely wrong. You can always do things for any side and stuff to get an awesome decoration that you really wish including your kitchen sink. Since it is something that will get wet frequently, you have to make sure that you don't put too many things around because that will give you trouble to take care of those things.
For your sink, if you want to add beauty into it, better for you to choose the designs that you want than decorate it with stuffs or ornament. There are so many different sink designs that you can choose. It is divided from the function to the style. For the function, you can choose it based on your needs, for example if you might use it in a massive way, better for you to choose the double sink,. However, if just use it to deal with little stuffs, then the single sink will enough for you.
Talking about the style, there are so many sink styles available that can be adjusted based on your kitchen style. Let's say if you have rustic or farmhouse kitchen style, you can have the stone sink that will give you nature touch to make it in harmony with your rustic concept. In contrary, if you have a modern kitchen style, then you can choose the stainless steel sink. Do the same thing for your own sink by adjusting it with your kitchen style and your needs.
Anyway, if you think that your sink still could be added with some ornament and you really wish to have it, then just do it! However, we do advice you to choose the ornament that match with the sink condition and won't give you trouble for the maintenance. The easiest way of it is by putting one or two decorative plants that will really work well in a wet condition around your sink.


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A lesbian was targeted in her local pub and subjected to a violent attack, a court was told.
Three people appeared before magistrates charged in connection with the incident at the Pulman pub in Blyth, which left Lynsey Cain with a serious head injury.
George Watt, 27, and his wife Cattrysse, 29, of Chestnut Avenue, Blyth, and Lindsay Tweddle, 23, of Delaval Crescent, Blyth, formally pleaded not guilty to the offences.
George Watt denied affray and further denied unlawfully wounding Miss Cain at the pub on August 22.
Cattrysse Watt and Lindsay Tweddle each denied affray.
The court was told Miss McCain was pushed in to an interior glass partition, breaking it and leaving glass embedded in her head.
Neil Fodor, prosecuting, argued the case should be dealt with at Crown Court because it involved individuals "being targeted because of their sexuality".
He said Miss McCain had been grabbed by the head and throat and dragged towards the glass partition and her head pushed in to the glass.
After listening to argument from defence solicitors, the magistrates decided they would hear the case themselves.
It was adjourned for a two-day trial in November and conditional bail was renewed for the three accused.
As reported in the Chronicle, Miss Cain was in the pub with Donna Smith, 24, when violence broke out.


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With South African unemployment sitting at a thirteen-year high of 26.6%, both the public and private sector are scrambling to find solutions. While the spotlight is rightly being shone on education, it is arguably the country's deep pool of entrepreneurs who can make the most immediate and powerful impact.
When entrepreneurs succeed, they act as powerful change-makers within their communities – creating jobs, promoting new skills and knowledge, and laying the foundation for an ecosystem of entrepreneurship and growth.
"With the right mentorship, funding and institutional support, our country's most dynamic and promising entrepreneurs and thinkers can turn their businesses into stable and thriving enterprises with global reach," says Catherine Townshend, Managing Director at Endeavor South Africa (EndeavorSA), a global non-profit organisation that is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world.
Since Endeavor SA's inauguration in 2004, they've been supporting entrepreneurs through various initiatives, and interviewing prospective candidates to grow their local portfolio. Three years in, they initiated an Excelerator programme targeted at black-owned businesses demonstrating the potential to scale within a defined timeframe.
"We believe that by searching for and strategically supporting a select group of high impact entrepreneurs who are transforming their communities, their industries and their countries, will drive the positive momentum that is so desperately needed," she said.
According to Townshend, high impact entrepreneurs are those that lead businesses that grow rapidly (by 20%-30% per annum) in the first several years of existence. These are entrepreneurs who, with the right support, become influential business leaders and/or serial entrepreneurs and ultimately become investors in the next generation of entrepreneurs.
The current Endeavor SA portfolio is comprised of approximately 200 mentors, an active network of 34 Endeavor entrepreneurs from 23 companies; 6 Excelerator entrepreneurs from 6 companies, and a proud alumni network of 40 Endeavor entrepreneurs from 31 companies and 34 Excelerator entrepreneurs from 26 companies.
"By selecting businesses that have high growth potential and local impact, Endeavor essentially builds upon a robust global network that provides inspiration, invaluable connections to experienced local and global mentors, opportunities to grow into global markets through the global Endeavor network and eventually, access to capital," adds Townshend.
"Our results show a decade of phenomenal financial and job growth with approximately 21 000 jobs created by Endeavor South Africa companies since 2004," she added. "This is an indicator of a community that is growing and gaining momentum, and we are excited to see Endeavor South Africa fast becoming an enabler of positive change."
According to Endeavor Insight, the non-profit's global research arm, Endeavor Entrepreneurs are four times more likely to inspire others, eight times more likely to serve as a mentor and four times more likely to invest in the next generation of entrepreneurs.
"In South Africa, where both venture capital and high level mentorship have been notoriously tough to access for emerging business leaders, organisations such as Endeavor can have an immediate and incredibly transformative impact," she said.
Over the past 20 years, Endeavor has globally become a shared vision, cultivated and expanded by its many stakeholders that support the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world. With multiple locations across North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, Endeavor currently operates from 50 offices in 25 markets and supports 1,403 entrepreneurs from 875 companies.


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My name is Beth Still and my blog is Nebraska Change Agent. I was honored when Wes invited me to guest blog during his absence. This post is cross-listed on my blog, but I wanted to increase the audience since this is a project that can help so many of us. I hope you will help by adding your ideas to the wiki.
The number one complaint I heard about sessions during ISTE is that there were too many sessions which focused on the tools, but not nearly enough that discussed how to actually implement the tools into the classroom. There is a large segment of educators who are familiar with web tools and have even tested them out with their students, but they are ready to move to the next level which is figuring out how to use these tools effectively to improve communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity in their classrooms.
I created a wiki that I have named Web Tools in Action. As a community of educators we need to build it together. If all of us take a few minutes to add something or ask some of our colleagues to share their projects, we are going to have one heck of a great crowd-sourced resource at our fingertips. The idea is to add links to projects that exist all over the web and write up a short description of them so others can see what it means when we say things like we use blogs and wikis in our classroom. Many of us have our students do things like take digital picture of create podcasts, but where do teachers begin who want to do this? While this wiki is supposed to be about how to implement web tools we cannot help but talk about individual tools and that is OK! But we all know tools come and go so if you discuss a specific tool you might want to add several other similar tools in case one of them goes away. (Most recent example I can think of is ScreenToaster and for different reasons, Ning.)
If you know of any examples to share that are not yours please contact the teacher to see if they would mind if you shared them. I am looking to fill this wiki with examples from all grade and subject levels. So what are you waiting for! Let's fill this thing up. And don't be shy about being the first to edit a page. There are no specific rules or format when editing. Click here to see an example that I included. As you can see it does not take much time!
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On this day..
- Planning for Smart School Network Management - 2015
- Use IFTTT to Auto-Tweet New Posts from Your Classroom Blog - 2013
- Reflections from the M - 2011
- We Need More Hawkeyes - 2010
- Are virtual interactions REAL? A video answer from @danlovejoy - 2009
- New media changing journalism norms - 2009
- Helping young people prepare for IT related careers - 2008
- Videos for Professional Development - 2007
- Learning with the Podcast Shuffle - 2005
- Google news embraces RSS feeds! - 2005


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A couple of points I need to make:
1) @Transtopic. Sorry if I implied you did not respect other's opinions. I was *trying* to while *you* may well respect other's opinions, I don't necessarily.
2) This NWRL DD idea is *not* something I think should happen. I just think it's something that *will* happen.
Guys, just think about why Sydney went DD in the first place: basically it's a cheap way of expanding a system without having to lay more track.
You'll be able to get from Oran Park "directly" to Richmond via Glenfield,Liverpool,Sefton,Bankstown,Baragaroo,Epping and Rouse Hill .


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|Why choose a pet sitting service over boarding?
* Your pet remains in the safety and familiar surroundings of their own home.
* His/her normal diet and routine are maintained.
* He/she will be cared for by a trusted, reliable individual who will shower your dog or cat with lots of personal TLC.
* Your pet will not be exposed to the animals of strangers, and will not return home with unwanted fleas, kennel cough, or stress related issues.
* You will not have the inconvenience of dropping your pet off and picking him/her up during specific hours. This can result in extra money spent!
* A pet sitter offers much more than animal care. We provide HOME SECURITY by visiting your house several times a day, picking up mail, newspapers, packages, turning lights on/off, and collecting garbage bins. We also feed other small animals (fish, birds, etc.), water plants, and circumvent emergency situations regarding your house or property. This is a lot of bang for your buck!
Why choose OUR service over other pet sitting services in the area?


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Sample Price : Depending on the customs tariff
Delivery Time : within 5 working days(depends on your quantity)
Model Number : NJP1200
Place of Origin : china
Category : Plastic Vacuum Forming Machinery
NJP1200 Automatic Capsule Filling Machine
This model NJP-1200 is suitable to fill the medicine, and chemicals (powder, pellet, granule, pill) in to hard capsules, also can be used to fill vitamin, foodstuff and animal drug, etc. It is welcomed and applied by the factories of pharmaceutical, foodstuff, and chemicals worldwide.
Salient Features
1. Electrical Appliance control system approved to CE, and international standard.
2. Fully closed rotating table and dosage stations for integration of the whole capsule filling plants, which conforms to GMP norms.
3. Large cam mechanism keeps the rotating table of mould together with the whole equipment running in balance, and completely guarantees the machine operating with highest precision and accuracy.
4. Removable powder hopper for cleaning and easy auger adjustment easy to change fills weights.
5. Quick and accurate part changing system, easy to remove rotary table and ring carrier assembly.
6. Capsule vacuum positioned mechanism to make the capsule qualified over 99%.
7. Touching-Screen, PLC program control panel with LCD.
Easy speed selection and closed capsule length adjustment.
New Design of Fully Closed Rotating Table
. Improved the inner design of Mould rotating table, 90 pieces of Japan imported beeline bearings for each machine, which guaranteed the equipment precision and extended the life of machine.
New Design of Fully Closed Dosage Station
. Enlarged the size of dosage pan (3cm larger), increased the powder flowing uniformity in the dosage pan, according to the international standard.
. Adopt three dimensional control elements; Take the undersurface plane of dosage as datum, so as to eliminate the natural transmutation of the dosage pan and copper saucer. Patent design at domestic (Patent No. 20042006795X).
Technical Parameters
Automatic capsule filling machine NJP1200 Images


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The other day our little grandson had a big discussion with his mama about who was in charge. Theo, age 2, claimed he was the boss. His mama reminded him that she was in charge. In the middle of the discussion, Joshy, age 6, interrupted by declaring, "Actually, God is the boss!" How can you argue with that?
While we had a good laugh as a family over the discussion, it's a great reminder. Jesus is sovereign. In other words, He's the boss.
Scripture tells us, "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted" (Job 42:2, NASB). "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My good pleasure'" (Isa. 46:10). "He (Christ) is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that in all things He may have the preemminence" (Col. 1:17-18).
Even though we read these Scriptures, trust is still hard, isn't it? His sovereignty raises questions like, "What if God's plan for my life includes suffering? Or what if He allows suffering in the lives of those I love? Can I trust that His plans for me are always good?" I understand. I've wrestled with those questions myself.
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When I am struggling to trust God, I remind myself of these three truths:
Jesus is good. If God were evil and sovereign, I would feel terrified! But here's the thing: God is good. All the time. His every intention towards me comes out of the goodness of His heart. He even promises that He will work all things—even my mistakes—for my good (Rom. 8:28). As I dwell on His goodness, I find trust a whole lot easier.
Jesus loves me. So simple, yet so true. You don't intentionally hurt someone you love. God's not out to get me or punish me. He calls me "precious" (Isa. 43:4). He continually pursues a relationship with me. And the same holds true for you. He loves you. He's madly and categorically in love with you. He declares you chosen, holy and dearly loved (Col. 3:12). He's on your side, so celebrate His love today!
Jesus weeps when I suffer. One of my favorite Scriptures is John 11:35: "Jesus wept." I, like you, need a Jesus who can crawl into my suffering and sorrow when life is unfair, when tragedy strikes and when evil threatens. Jesus understands and weeps with you when you lose a loved one, or when someone you love wrestles with cancer, or when a child is hurt. He never shames those who cry. Nope. Instead, He cries with you.
I don't know about you, but when I find myself wrestling with trust, I return to these three truths, and my ability to trust grows.
Becky Harling, an author, certified speaker, leadership coach and trainer with the John Maxwell Team, is an energetic and motivational international speaker inspiring audiences to overcome their greatest life challenges and reach their full God-given potential. Her most recent book is How to Listen So People Will Talk. Her husband, Steve Harling, is the president of Reach Beyond, a nonprofit organization seeking to be the voice and hands of Jesus around the world. Connect with Becky at beckyharling.com, Facebook or Twitter.
This article originally appeared at beckyharling.com.
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