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One, a policy analyst, disagrees with privatization approach; the other, a state department secretary, looks to help turn a vision into reality.
Gov. Pat McCrory campaigned as a moderate bent on buffing North Carolina's brand. Well-publicized political scandals and a high unemployment rate, he argued, had tarnished our state's national standing. Voters agreed and sent McCrory to Raleigh to restore our good reputation.
That is not what he has done in the first quarter of his inaugural year in office. Instead of building on the state's success and repairing what is wrong, McCrory is dismantling large parts of state government and putting these public functions under the control of private companies. He is not rebranding North Carolina; he's remaking it.
McCrory's moves thus far put him in questionable company. Even tea-party-backed governors in states such as Florida, Arizona and Ohio are championing Medicaid expansion in their states. Not McCrory. Our governor signed legislation turning back federal funds that would have provided health insurance coverage to our most vulnerable citizens. This harms not only individuals and families; it impacts hospitals and health care providers. And allowing ideology to trump good policy diminishes our brand as a moderate Southern state. Extremism is bad for business.
All of this set the stage for the governor's announcement on April 3 that his administration will work to privatize our Medicaid system.
McCrory has not released a detailed plan but he did outline his proposal at a press conference. North Carolina will contract with several Medicaid managed care companies, and perhaps a public or nonprofit entity, to enroll low-income patients and oversee all of their care. The companies will get a flat fee per plan enrollee based on the level of attention the patient requires.
This initiative will save money because the private companies will get a set budget from the state. The insurers will then use the magic of the free market to cut expenses, provide superb care, and still turn a tidy profit. That's the theory. This is never how it works in reality.
We have seen this exact plan play out in a number of states. Most recently, Kansas and Kentucky have implemented this proposal. In Kansas, the rollout is too recent to judge, although some early problems are emerging. In Kentucky, there is chaos. The state auditor there began a probe when he heard reports that small medical providers needed new lines of credit to stay open. In the first several months of implementation, the auditor discovered, managed-care companies received $708 million from the state and paid out just $420 million in claims.
The auditor in Kentucky announced that he would form a new unit dedicated to investigating the Medicaid managed care companies. He also released a series of scathing recommendations, including one that mental health services be removed from managed care. Legislators in that state want to give the Department of Insurance authority to directly regulate the Medicaid companies.
These results are tragic but predictable. The truth is that managed care companies don't have any secret sauce to saving money. To keep their executives and shareholders well- compensated, these corporations delay payments to providers and deny care to patients.
What is especially disturbing about McCrory's proposal to dismantle our Medicaid program is that our state serves as a national model. Community Care of North Carolina, or CCNC, is a nonprofit network that primarily serves Medicaid patients and works with providers to reduce costs by implementing best practices. Thanks in part to the expansion of CCNC, North Carolina's Medicaid system had the lowest spending growth in the nation over the past three years.
After McCrory held his press conference, the N.C. Medical Society released a statement that read, in part: "We have a homegrown, nonprofit, national-award-winning program in CCNC that addresses problems the governor identified and has produced hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer savings through coordinating health care. We question the wisdom of handing this important function off to Wall Street." Indeed.
North Carolina has traveled this path before. When the state identified problems in the public mental health system, politicians dismantled that network and privatized services. That process proved disastrous.
If we repeat that mistake across Medicaid, it will hurt patients and wreck our brand as a national leader in health care.
Adam Linker is a policy analyst with the N.C. Justice Center, a Raleigh-based nonprofit and liberal advocacy group that works statewide to alleviate poverty.
The "Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina" that Gov. Pat McCrory and I announced this month is a bold framework to improve mental and physical health care and outcomes for North Carolina's most vulnerable citizens. This framework was based on significant input we received from health care providers, recipients and advocates, but the real work of building a sustainable future for the state's Medicaid program is just beginning.
To turn this vision into reality, we must continue to engage with the public and private sectors and seek creative and innovative ideas as we finalize the details of the plan.
We began this reform process by putting out a call for ideas and suggestions and we received more than 160 responses. The responses shared many common concerns, including a disjointed IT system and too much administrative duplication. But there was also agreement that our Medicaid system did not look at a person as a whole, separating physical health and mental health and even substance abuse into different silos of care that didn't collaborate to improve patient outcomes. In our current system it is often difficult for Medicaid recipients to know where to go to get the services they need.
We used those responses to develop our framework, which will create a comprehensive system to coordinate a network of care around the whole person. The central piece of the "Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina" is the formation of approximately three "comprehensive care entities." These entities will be responsible for coordinating physical and behavioral health care for all Medicaid recipients. They will build or partner with existing providers or networks to ensure each individual will receive the right care at the right place and at the right time based upon their needs.
A common question about the plan – especially among the North Carolina provider community – has been, "Why do we need yet another plan to fix the Medicaid system here in North Carolina?" Admittedly, our state is nationally recognized for innovations and accomplishments in community-based care. That is why our goal for this reform is to build on – not undo – those gains and take them to the next level.
Our plan also takes into account important lessons learned, good and bad, from managed and community care reform in other states. As a physician, I lived through a difficult implementation of a system of managed care in New York during the 1980s. In fact, it was so "well-managed" that it managed many physicians right out of business! With our plan, we want to make North Carolina the best place to practice medicine in the country.
In the past, our state used a piecemeal approach to reform, but cutting services for short-term savings only yields short-term results. This effort is not a budget exercise. This effort is bold action to ensure our costs are more predictable and sustainable in the long term.
Now, the work of making this plan a reality begins. We are continuing to invite everyone to join us in this exciting effort to create a Medicaid system that cares for the whole person. Our state Medicaid director and I are holding "office hours" for anyone who would like to find out more and provide feedback and contribute to this process. We have even launched a web page at www.ncdhhs.gov/medicaidreform where we'll be posting updates on our progress in developing a plan and providing a place for the public to ask and get answers to their questions.
For the first time, we have a comprehensive vision for a sustainable Medicaid system in North Carolina. We know this change may be difficult for some, but I firmly believe that this partnership can build a sustainable Medicaid system that creates a healthier North Carolina if we work together to make this vision a reality.
Aldona Wos, M.D., is secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.


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Mike Holman is overjoyed with his new lab-boxer mix, named Eddie, but he knows that somewhere someone's heart is breaking. Holman adopted Eddie two months ago after the dog's previous owner contacted the rescue group Cause 4 Paws because he could no longer keep Eddie. Liz De Arvil of Cause 4 Paws and Lean on Me Doberman Rescue said pet owners are definitely feeling the financial strain of the economy, and unfortunately, it's the pets that often end up paying the price.
Mike Holman is overjoyed with his new lab-boxer mix, named Eddie, but he knows that somewhere someone's heart is breaking.
Holman, who has worked at Country Lane Kennels in Loves Park for the past six years, adopted Eddie two months ago after the dog's previous owner contacted the rescue group Cause 4 Paws because he could no longer keep Eddie.
"He was really upset when he brought Eddie here to give him to me. He had all of Eddie's things with him," Holman said. "He was teary-eyed. He told me he and his wife had to move out of their home. He was getting his hours cut and was worried about getting laid off. He just found out that his wife was pregnant. I felt bad for him."
Liz De Arvil of Cause 4 Paws and Lean on Me Doberman Rescue said pet owners are definitely feeling the financial strain of the economy, and unfortunately, it's the pets that often end up paying the price.
"We just got two dogs that were abandoned in a trailer park. They were just left there. People are desperate," said De Arvil, a Chana resident. "We're seeing more dogs come to us in poor health, too, an indication to us they weren't getting proper veterinary care. Things like heartworm medication. We're seeing more and more dogs just not on it."
Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary office manager Mary Hielkema said pet adoptions have been coming a little slower lately. The no-kill, nonprofit shelter is almost always at capacity for cats, she said, while there is a waiting list for people to give up their dogs. The shelter has about 40 cages for cats and can hold up to 15 or 16 dogs. Kittens and puppies from the same litter are occasionally caged together.
A lot of the popular dog breeds are not being adopted as quickly, Hielkema said.
"We have had a couple Shih Tzus here a couple of weeks," she said. "We usually don't even have time to put them up on our Web site."
Dawn Lauer, outreach coordinator with the Humane Society of the United States, said there are no national statistics available that show an increase in pets being surrendered to animal shelters.
"But we are in contact with many organizations all over the country and many have reported an increase in animals coming and a decrease in adoptions," she said.
Hielkema said for people to plan for their pets as they would their own housing needs.
"If you think you are going to be evicted from your home, start trying to place your animals as soon as you know that," she said. "Some people will call on the 27th and have to be out on the 30th."
There is help out there for pet owners who are struggling financially. For people who want to keep their pet but are having trouble paying for food, assistance is available.
Noah's Ark has a limited supply of pet food that is donated to them by a local business, usually broken bags of food.
"We see more people come to our pet-food pantry because they can't afford to feed their animals," Hielkema said.
A new pet-food pantry called Kibble Korner will help people feed their animals. Kibble Korner will be available through the Rock River Valley Food Pantry in mid-July, Kibble Korner organizer Melissa Seeling said.
"A lot of Internet and telephone research revealed that many successful pet-food programs partnered with community food banks, and Rock River Valley pantry agreed to help warehouse and distribute pet food for Kibble Korner," Seeling said.
Seeling said the goal of the organization is to keep families intact, which includes pets.
"It is our hope that Kibble Korner will keep dogs and cats at home and ease the burden our struggling area families are facing," she said.
Corina Curry can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or at (815) 987-1371. Matt Williams can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com at (815) 987-1389.
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Tips for pet owners
* Check with friends, family and neighbors to see whether someone can provide temporary foster care for your pet until you get back on your feet. Agree to a specific time frame, and check on the pet regularly.* If you are moving into a rental property, make sure pets are allowed and get permission in advance and in writing. * Contact your local animal shelter, humane society or rescue group, in advance of your move. If a shelter agrees to take in your pet, provide medical records, behavior information, and anything else that might assist shelter workers in finding your pet a new home. Source: ASPCA

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Before I left for Japan I went up to Book Soup on Sunset to find something to read on the plane. This is a stupid thing to do because I'm almost never able to read much on the plane to Japan. About 2 hours into the flight they turn off all the lights and I feel like an ass if I turn mine back on. Before that there's always meal services and stuff happening. I end up reading like 10 pages of whatever I bring and that's it.
But I like reading and it was an excuse to buy something new. I was thinking of getting that book, The Man Who Heard Voices, which is all about how hard it was for M. Night Shaylaman (I think that's the spelling) to make that new movie of his, the one nobody saw. I didn't see it. But the book sounded good. Especially because I've been tasked with making a movie out here. Anyone who's got any bright ideas about that is welcome to write me. We have some money to invest, our company has to be part of the production and it can't be an Ultraman movie. Those are the parameters.
Anyway, while I was at the book store I noticed that Chuck Klosterman had a new book out. So I bought that instead. I really like Klosterman's writing. Plus he lived in Akron for a few years and he's a major fan of KISS. How can you go wrong with that combination? The first book of his I read was Killing Yourself to Live and that was really good. Then I read Fargo Rock City, which was good until the end where he just goes on and on forever about his alcoholism. Robyn Hitchcock has a great song called "Tell Me About Your Drugs." It's a sarcastic rant about people who like to regale others with their drug stories. Boring! So are drinking stories. But that's just the last, like 20 pages, and the rest is spiffy, so I'll forgive him and still recommend the book.
Chuck Klosterman IV is a collection of articles he wrote for SPIN, Esquire and even the Akron Beacon Journal (hoo-zah!). The first part is mostly celebrity profiles and investigative type writing. The Britney Spears piece is getting a lot of coverage. But that's not my favorite. I was more interested in the report about the fact that Morrisey has a tremendous Latino following especially in LA, which I did not know. There's another pretty funny piece about Akron's clairvoyents. Klosterman does not bowl, but he went to a bunch of psychics asking them if he had any chance of making it on the pro bowling circuit. Most said what they thought he wanted to hear. Pretty much what I'd have expected.
The second part of the book wasn't quite as good as the first. For one thing, in part one he introduces each essay with some interesting backstory type stuff about how, when & why it was written. I always like that kind of thing. But in part two he dispenses with that and writes these dopey thought problems, "You are on a raft in the middle of the ocean with your worst enemy and a friendly dog. Who do you eat?" Well, that wasn't in there. But stuff along those lines. I know some people like that kind of thing. I just don't see the point. If I ever find myself in such a situation, I'll do whatever I do. There's no point wasting brain cells on such thinking. I guess if you enjoy thinking, thinking, thinking all the time, you're probably always searching for crap like this to keep the garbage soup inside your noggin churning around.
One interesting point he brought up is what is called the "paradox of choice" which is summarized as, "choice makes us depressed." It's absolutely true. Even though Klosterman gives credit to a professor named Barry Schwartz for inventing the theory, it's been around a lot longer than that. There's a famous Buddhist poem that opens, "The Way is not hard to follow, just give up choosing."
Klosterman brings up the paradox of choice in reference to Johnny Carson. When Carson died everybody said, "there'll never be another Johnny Crason." This is true because everybody in America knew who Johnny Carson was whether they liked him or not. These days even a pop culture vulture like Klosterman misses out on lots of things that are huge hits with certain parts of the population, simply because there is so much more on offer these days. No one can possibly keep up with it all. This is why there'll never be another Beatles either. No one can ever possibly have that kind of impact again unless we were to completely dismantle the Internet, cable TV, satellite radio and all the other media outlets we have access to now.
It's always "57 Channels And Nothing On" as The Boss said. Even in the age of a Godzillion choices, there's still only a tiny portion of truly worthwhile stuff out there. The fact that nowadays everyone and his brother can be a writer, a film maker, a graphic artist or a musician at the touch of a button (Heck, you can even pretend to be a Zen Master if you want to. Who's gonna know you aren't?) hasn't seemed to have produced any greater wealth of truly good stuff. At best some of the good stuff that might not have gotten an audience before, now has a better chance of being seen or heard. But that stuff would've been produced anyway. Artists of any kind with true passion for what they do will create even if there's not a chance in Hell of anyone ever seeing or hearing what they do. Pretty much nobody read Dogen's Shobogenzo for 800 years after it was written. There weren't even printing presses then for cryin' out loud! Yet he still wrote 95 frikkin' chapters of the thing.
This paradox of choice also relates to Buddhism. In reading Dogen, you'll find a lot of passages where he extolls the virtues of Buddhism. But its interesting to note that in his time (the 13th century) the alternatives were far fewer than we have now. No one in Japan had ever so much as heard of Christianity, Judaism and Islam back then. Religion meant only Japanese folk religions (Shintoism) and Buddhism. There were a few varieties of Buddhism by then and Dogen gave each one a go. He found esoteric Buddhism lacking, discovered something more valid in Rinzai style Zen Buddhism but still felt it wasn't quite right and finally discovered the truth through the study and practice of Soto style Zen Buddhism.
Nowadays we have about a trillion flavors of religion to choose from. There must be easily a couple hundred brands of Buddhism on the market. So how do we know which one is right? I've already answered that question for myself. But I was lucky in that what turned out to be the real deal was always right there for me. The few times I encountered bad teachers I dismissed them immediately. I have no idea why this happened. But it did. So I didn't waste a whole lot of time searching and searching. I looked into a few other things and the fact that they were bullshit was abundantly clear without my even having to really dig into them too deeply.
Lately some people have accused me of "sectarianism." But, honest to Jesus, I have no idea what they mean. I suppose they think that anyone who sticks clearly to one principle is, by doing so, implying that we should go out and kill everyone who believes anything else, or, at the very least that we should stick bamboo shoots up under their fingernails until they say they agree with us. Of course this is all true but....
NO! NO! I'm kidding! I have to be careful. Or maybe I don't. Bob Dylan had a great line. A reporter asked him if he felt alarmed that his songs might be misinterpreted and, for example, be seen as an endorsement for drug abuse and other such bad stuff. He said, "That's not my problem." I like that. Anymore that's the way I feel. I can't stop people misinterpreting me unless I just shut up forever. And I'm not gonna do that. So, go ahead and misinterpret away. It's not my problem.
At any rate, choice makes us miserable. I've never seen any happiness come from wafting around from philosophy to philosophy looking for just the right one. When you do that you just become addicted to being a Seeker of Truth. It's far better to just stick with one thing and see it through to the end. Of course you need to watch out that that one thing isn't Aum Shinrikyo or something like that. But it's not necessary to try absolutely everything. Most of what passes for religion or meditation is crap. Sturgeon's Law, you know, "98% of everything is crud."
If I didn't believe in the way that was handed down to my teacher and that he passed on to me absolutely, I would not have become part of his lineage. Otherwise why do it at all? If you want someone who'll tell you that all the other methods of meditation out there are equally OK, I am not your go-to guy. There may be a million and a half choices out there, but I only buy into one way. The others are of no interest at all.


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AlisonM necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 95 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Launchpad Coaching helps people create homes where they are renewed and rejuvenated, and that support them in making the changes they want in their lives.
This new brand and logo for an existing business will support us in offering coaching, programs and information products for sale online and in person. There are three modules: CLEAR, CREATE and ACTIVATE.
Target market is professional women who are not too corporate. Design should be sophisticated enough, yet light, inviting, non-intimidating, beautiful and showing movement.
Launchpad Coaching: life design begins at home
Please see the Launchpad Coaching business overview at http://insideoutdesigncoaching.com/…ching.html. (Current business is http://www.InsideOutDesignCoaching.com) I've streamlined services and am changing my branding/identity approach significantly – moving from a sense of introspection to a sense of dynamic movement, and from a focus on one-on-one coaching and feng shui consultation to information products and online marketing and sales.
Logo should include the tagline with the name. I'd also like a graphic element/s that I can use without the words… can be the same as the one with the words, or a different but related image.
May create a visual (logo or separate) that incorporates the three modules (see the link to detailed description for more info on the modules).
Open to different colors, and especially attracted to oranges, reds, yellows (and also purple and green – doesn't leave much out, sorry!) Ok to use whatever colors will tell the story best.
"Pad" is a play on pad=home. Launch is the idea of movement into one's life dreams and possibilities. It would be great to have a logo that captures both of these ideas. Very open to other ideas, too.
The feeling should be of an upward and outward bold energy while also
stabilized and grounded. Other qualities to possibly incorporate:
Not too precious
Abundance, richness
Clean, clear, concise – sense of an EASY, ordered experience
Not overwhelming
Inviting/Not intimidating
Heart energy / warm
If there's some way to show the three modules visually in the logo – even just hinting at it (for example, with three related colors) – that would be great (but I want to see other concepts, too). Ideally, the 3 modules will be branded, too – for example, that each module has a color associated with it, that there's a model that shows all three, etc. YOU're the design pro here, though, so help me out!
I would also like your style suggestions for matching style – fonts, sizes, etc.
Please only submit high quality designs that are of professional
design standard. Final should be vector-based and needs to be delivered in all necessary formats for use on the web, print, b&w and color.
Thank you so much!
No rockets, please! (though something else could be launched)
No frogs/lily pads.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 217 diseños de 83 diseñadores freelance.
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• 'Corazón Contento' ('Happy heart) is a new brand for reusable bags. In our market this category tends to be low-quality (cheap), plain, boring, simple, serious and rational.
• Our brand is trying to create a green-conscious, spontaneous, fresh, optimistic, FUN, HAPPY and high-quality brand.
• Our goal is to generate conscious consumers that avoid the use of plastic bags through a FUN perspective.
• We're looking for a charismatic monster like Monsters Inc, Mike Wachowsky http://bit.ly/58FzEN or this logo mascot http://greenmonster.com.mx/ or this ones http://bit.ly/cUprcl
Young adults (Female & Male -Generation Y), they are conscious about the environment but they also like to look authentic, cool and easygoing. They enjoy living green, but they also believe that it can be enjoyable and fun.
• We want to create a FUN-HAPPY-AFFECTIONATE-COOL monster for the logo
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On Wednesday's edition of "Conan," all five of Mitt Romney's sons—Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben and Craig—dropped by to share some quirky tidbits about their father.
The highlight? The presumptive Republican presidential nominee loves to sing "Taco! Burrito! What's coming out of your Speedo?"—a line from a "Saturday Night Live" sketch starring Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri as the Spartan cheerleaders.
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Although the brothers appeared on the TBS talk-show on the eve of their father's much-anticipated address to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) conference in Orlando, politics didn't figure prominently in their chat with Conan. They were much more eager to discuss the former Massachusetts governor's love of pranks.
"I remember a story from when he was in high school ... I guess it was a little after high school," Tagg Romney said. "His friend was getting married. And he found his way into the hotel room ahead of time, and the groom's outfit was there. He took some pink nail polish and wrote on the first shoe, 'H-E' on the sole, and on the next one, 'L-P.' And no one noticed it. It was a Catholic wedding, and when he knelt down to be blessed by the father, the word 'HELP' appeared."


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Calling All Canucks: Are We For Democracy Or Not?
A simple yes or no would do. Everybody's been waiting for this for five long years now, all the parties say they support it, and the shameless inter-partisan mewling and foot-shuffling about it has gone well past the point of international embarassment.
It was in 2005, in the dying days of Paul Martin's Liberal government, that all the main federal parties at least nominally united behind the proposition that Canada should show some foreign-policy spine in the global advance of democracy. Strongly backed by Conservatives, the idea of a well-resourced Canadian Democracy Promotion Agency even won grudging support from the New Democratic Party and the Bloc. Ever since, the Liberals and the Conservatives have competed with one another for the mantle of the agency's champion.
And here we all are, in the middle of the fourth federal election in seven years. If this election will mean anything at all to "the issues," as all the parties are hectoring us to believe that it must, could we not tell the lot of them to rise above the partisan spitballing for once and actually get on with something useful?
In November, 2009, the Senate Advisory Panel Report on the Creation of a Canadian Democracy Promotion Agency called on the government to just bloody well do it and set it it up with an annual budget of up to $70 million. That is hardly asking for much for the cause of democracy, considering the vast and bloated expenses involved in aid-agency interventions when despotisms collapse. Late last year, the Agency proposal was considered by the Prime Minister's office. Nothing happened. Even so, earlier this year Steven Fletcher, minister of state for democratic reform, insisted that the Harper government was still behind it.
To get a sense of how embarassing this is and just how marginal Canada has allowed itself to become on this thing that is described in the parochial Canadian vernacular as "the world stage," all you really need to do is read this headline: "Dream of Canadian democracy centre melts as Arab world boils." But you should read more than just the headine. Jennifer Ditchburn's excellent article provides rare insight into the extent that Canada has been rendered useless to the cause of democracy's global advance at precisely the historical moment of its astonishing flowering across the Middle East.
Given the absence of leadership on global democracy that has afflicted all the federal parties (see if you can set aside for the moment your partisan pick of which one is worse), it should come as no surprise that none of them has made a big deal about this. It's a disgrace, and not one of the party leaders comes off looking good in it.
The Opposition parties and the Ottawa press corps appear perfectly content to drag any debate about these things back down into that boring soap-opera agony narrative about how Ziocon Hegemonists have besmirched the stainless reputation of a certain Montreal GONGO known as "Rights and Democracy." The Conservatives have been pleased to let that little drama unfold as its scriptwriters wish. After all, it's only $11 million a year, and more than a third of that money is spent in Montreal rather being dished out as dubious R&D disbursements to such dictators' clubs as the Arab League and the UN Human Rights Council.
It would all make for a good laugh we could have at the expense of Canada's political class, but the idiocy involved has real-world implications for Canada's national interests, to say nothing about how it makes a mockery of "Canadian values" and leaves the goodwill of ordinary Canadians, no matter their party preferences, swinging in the wind.
"As we witness the promise of change in the Middle East, and as the pro-democracy movement spreads outward from that region, it reaches throughout the Muslim world, where the thirst for democracy and freedom is palpable. Polls in many countries of the Middle East and Central Asia show that the majority of the people in these regions support democracy and see it as the only alternative to the dictatorial, corrupt and oppressive governments under which they live for now," writes Babur Mawladin of the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee.
(I confess: that's me who shows up as author of the Solidarity Committee's March 2010 Keeping Our Promises report, a key recommendation of which was that Ottawa get to work and kick a Canadian Democracy Promotion Agency into high gear).
"Afghanistan's newborn democracy gives hope to the region, but the challenges ahead are still significant and Afghan democracy still very fragile. Yet, should democracy in Afghanistan succeed, the implications for the region as a whole could be profoundly positive, giving momentum to the pro-democracy movement in the surrounding region, and entrenching stability in a country that has too often served as the pawn for interfering neighbours and, under the Taliban, for the multinational terrorist network of Al-Qaeda. The stakes are very high and the international community cannot afford to forfeit the opportunity to ensure that Afghanistan's nascent democracy only progresses forward, rather than collapses on itself. . ."
And that's just the kind of stakes involved in Afghanistan.
Related and encouraging news: The new CF mission will be centred on Kabul, Herat, and Mazar-i-Sharif. Worth noticing: Unsurprisingly, pretty well every reference to Mazar these days immediately associates the city with the April 1 UN compound massacre. Too quickly forgotten is that only a week earlier, without a single security incident, hundreds of thousands of Afghans descended on the city for the ancient and happy Nowruz celebrations, which the Taliban had outlawed as a heresy.
The Afghan National Security Forces handled the security for the massive event, and required only backup assistance from American and German ISAF forces. But there's still a desparate need for military training and equipment and support in Afghanistan's north, just as there is now more than ever a desparate need to nurture and shore up Afghanistan's fledgling democracy. Failing to finish the job will risk the whole thing crumbling back into jihadist savagery again.
It's just the way the world works, and it would be really nice if just for once our politicians were honest about it. If advanced democracies like Canada invest in democracy abroad, now, we won't be saddled with the crushing costs of trying to build democracies from scratch when tyrannies collapse, later, as they always do.


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Learning Haskell and Number Theory: The End of GCD
This is the fifth installment of my series "Learning Haskell and Number Theory", in which I work through Gareth and Mary Jones' text, Elementary Number Theory, and translate its ideas and algorithms into Haskell. In the last installment, I used the Haskell
foldl function to convert a binary greatest common denominator into one that operates on a list. This time, I fix a glitch in that implementation, the dreaded "space leak," and look at strict and lazy evaluation in Haskell.
The implementation of
gcdmany from last time looked like this:
gcdmany :: forall a. Integral a => [a] -> a gcdmany = foldl gcd1 0
This is a correct implementation, but not a good one. Before we can understand why, though, we need a diversion through tail recursion. Everyone who's done much functional programming knows the importance of tail recursion. It turns O(n) space into O(1) space. For example, this implementation of factorial:
fact 0 = 1 fact n = n * fact (n - 1)
uses O(n) space because it's not tail recursive. The evaluation of
fact (in a strict language; I'll talk about Haskell's quirks later) would look like this:
fact 6 6 * (fact 5) 6 * (5 * (fact 4)) 6 * (5 * (4 * (fact 3))) 6 * (5 * (4 * (3 * (fact 2)))) 6 * (5 * (4 * (3 * (2 * (fact 1))))) 6 * (5 * (4 * (3 * (2 * (1 * (fact 0)))))) 6 * (5 * (4 * (3 * (2 * (1 * 1))))) 6 * (5 * (4 * (3 * (2 * 1)))) 6 * (5 * (4 * (3 * 2))) 6 * (5 * (4 * 6)) 6 * (5 * 24) 6 * 120 720
Each line represents the set of computations that needs to be stored in computer memory at any stage of execution. You can see that the memory needed grows with the value of n. (It doesn't matter much for factorial, because merely storing the answer also uses space that's O(n) in the size of the input. That's beside the point.)
An alternative implementation is:
fact n = fact' 1 n where fact' a 0 = a fact' a n = fact' (a * n) (n - 1)
This one is made tail recursive, by following a very common technique of keeping an accumulator as an explicit parameter (in this case,
a) with an outer setup function. If you look back at the fourth installment, you'll see that this is exactly what I did to turn the first implementation of
gcdmany into the second one. I introduced an explicit accumulator parameter, and then used it to convert the routine into a tail recursive one with setup. In a strict language (like, say, the ML family of languages) that would be sufficient to turn the
fact function into O(1) space.
The execution of this one (again, in a strict language) looks like this:
fact 6 fact' 1 6 fact' 6 5 fact' 30 4 fact' 120 3 fact' 360 2 fact' 720 1 fact' 720 0 720
This is much better! In our hypothetical strict language, we've solved the problem. In Haskell, though, it's not quite good enough. Haskell, being a lazy language, won't even do simple multiplication until we ask for the result. The execution, therefore, looks like this:
fact 6 fact' 1 6 fact' (1 * 6) 5 fact' (1 * 6 * 5) 4 fact' (1 * 6 * 5 * 4) 3 fact' (1 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3) 2 fact' (1 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2) 1 fact' (1 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1) 0 1 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 30 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 120 * 3 * 2 * 1 360 * 2 * 1 720 * 1 720
And, oops! We're back to using O(n) space again. This is the dreaded "space leak".
Back to our
gcdmany function. It, too, contains such a space leak. Instead of computing intermediate greatest common divisors as it applies arguments one by one, it actually accumulates the GCD operations for the whole list, before it starts to evaluate any of them.
We'd like to fix this. Haskell provides a way to do so: selective strict evaluation. In other words, we can tell Haskell that certain things must be evaluated strictly rather than put off for later. Doing this never changes the answer to a successful computation, but it can do two things:
- Make a computation run faster, and with less memory.
- Make a computation fail or run forever, when it might otherwise have succeeded.
The first effect is what we want here. The second, though, is interesting as well. Consider the following code:
mylist = [1, 2, 3, undefined] main = print (length mylist == 4)
Running this program will print
True. In a strict language, this program would fail because the fourth element of the list is undefined. (To elaborate more, you might design a language to avoid failing if the term is known to be undefined. But what if teh function that computes it goes into an infinite loop? In Haskell, it wouldn't matter because we never use that value. In a strict language, it would matter quite a lot!)
In the case of
gcdmany, though, I can verify that I am not doing anything that might cause the system to go into an infinite loop or fail. It is, therefore, safe, to replace it with a strict version.
The first way of doing this is standard Haskell 98. It looks like this:
gcdmany :: forall a. Integral a => [a] -> a gcdmany xs = gcdmany' 0 xs where gcdmany' p [] = p gcdmany' p (x:xs) = (gcd1 p x) `seq` gcdmany' (gcd1 p x) xs
The magic function
seq makes this all work. If you read the description of
seq in the standard library, it's quite confusing for beginners to Haskell. What it really means is that is evaluates the first bit of code (so, as a side effect, if the first bit goes into an infinite loop or throws an exception, it'll do that too), and then goes on with the second one as if the first one didn't exist. However, evaluating the first one means that instead of it being work put off until later, the result is already known. That gets us back to the nice O(1) memory usage.
The second way of doing this does the same thing, but is shorter and only works in GHC with the
-fallow-bang-patterns option.
gcdmany :: forall a. Integral a => [a] -> a gcdmany xs = gcdmany' 0 xs where gcdmany' !p [] = p gcdmany' !p (x:xs) = gcdmany' (gcd1 p x) xs
The ! in front of the argument
p does the same thing as
seq but is much nicer to read.
Both of these require that we write out
gcdmany by hand, though. Before, we were able to make it a lot nicer using
foldl. The third option fixes that. It's not part of the standard Haskell 98 prelude, but it does exist in GHC.
gcdmany :: forall a. Integral a => [a] -> a gcdmany = foldl' gcd1 0
foldl' function is just a strict version of
foldl. It does exactly what we want. So with all those words, the solution was achieved by adding one small character. (Why, though? Because of the ability to use higher order functions to do functional abstraction!)
In general, one wants to use
foldl' when folding over an operation that produces a distinct result, and
foldr when folding with a data constructor or an operation that builds more complex data structures. In the first case, you avoid space leaks. In the second case, you can use lazy evaluation to only build a piece at a time of the data structure you're operating on, and thus save even more memory through lazy evaluation.
That's all for now. Next time, I'll look at some cool connections between Euclid's GCD algorithm and the Fibonacci numbers, and then move on to chapter 2.
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Paul Johnson / Jul 6 2007 2:19 am
(gcd1 p x) `seq` gcdmany' (gcd1 p x) xs
As I understand it GHC doesn't do common subexpression elimination. So surely this will compute (gcd1 p x) eagerly, then throw away the result and do it again lazily.
What you would need to do is more like:
let g = gcd1 p x in g `seq` gcdmany' g xs
But I may have misunderstood.
sorear / Jul 6 2007 10:07 am
There is a third possibility: Adding seqs can make your program vastly slower and use vastly more memory. After all – laziness is usually a good thing!
rot13 ch
| ch >= 'a' && ch = 'n' && ch = 'A' && ch = 'N' && ch
Cale Gibbard / Jul 6 2007 10:30 pm
While your solution with "(gcd1 p x) `seq` gcdmany' (gcd1 p x) xs" will work to stop the stack overflow, it will also cause GHC to evaluate gcd1 twice as many times. GHC is *not* going to do CSE here — it only does a particularly trivial form of CSE that this isn't covered by. The reason that it causes the stack not to overflow is that evaluating that gcd1 will inadvertently force the evaluation of p (supposing that your number type is strict), like the bang patterns do, but at a far greater expense.
You'll effectively cut the number of times gcd1 runs in half by forcing it to share, using the "let g = gcd1 p x in g `seq` gcdmany' g xs" variant.
To see this, try profiling the code and looking at what happens to the "entries" column when you make the change.
Don Stewart / Jul 6 2007 10:56 pm
See http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GCD_inlining_strictness_and_CSE for an analysis of how CSE, strictness, inlining and specialisation interact to get the best code from this example. :-)


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LITTLE ROCK � The �B� word might be invoked once again when the SEC�s 2014 football schedule comes up early next month at the league meeting in Destin, Fla.
�Bridge� was used to describe the 2013 schedule when it was released. The previous year, the word was implied in the Southeastern Conference release that said, �the 2012 schedule is not based on any other previous or future scheduling formats.� In other words, a one-year bridge to incorporate the addition of Texas A&M and Missouri.
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Alabama coach Nick Saban, who spoke out last summer in favor of the nine-game conference schedule, said last week that more weight needs to be given to quality of schedule.
Along those lines, the Big Ten will begin playing a nine-game conference schedule in 2016 and stop playing Football Championship Subdivision schools after current contracts expire. �We think it�s good for the fans, we think it�s good for the players,� Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney told ESPN.com. �It strengthens our schedule from the perspective of the postseason ��
Agreed. FCS schools show up regularly on SEC schedules. This year, Arkansas plays FCS member Samford in Little Rock. Last year, the Razorbacks opened with Jacksonville State of the FCS.
Moving to a nine-game conference schedule, the Big Ten joins the Pac-12, and the Big 12. The Atlantic Coast Conference backed away from a plan to play a nine-game schedule when Notre Dame agreed to play five games a year against ACC teams.
In the Big Ten, each school will play three teams from the other division, meaning that every athlete will have the opportunity to play against every other team in the league at least once during a four-year period.
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According to what was written in the document:
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Attorney Quentin Rhoades called in to KGVO Radio's Talk Back program on Monday morning, May 5. Listen to his comments below.
Vice President for Integrated Communications for The University of Montana Peggy Kuhr responded to the letter on Monday morning.
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Kuhr has been working with the regents during the legislative session.
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Since rates began falling in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, global demand for higher-yielding assets has been steadily rising. This demand has outstripped supply to drive prices higher and yields lower. At this point, after four years of a bull market in the asset class, it's reasonable to ask if high-yield bond buyers are still being adequately rewarded for their investment risk. Based on a review of key statistical data, along with our conversations with key bond market players, we're willing to suggest they are, at least to a degree. Here's why we think signs point to a marginally positive outlook for the broader non-investment grade asset class.
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From a fundamental perspective, the financial strength of issuing companies within the U.S. high-yield market remains fairly strong. Strong enough, in fact, that the 12-month rolling default rate in the high-yield market has remained around a historically low 2% since 2008. Not surprisingly, issuers in the space have taken advantage of their solid balance sheets to refinance pre-2008 debt at today's significantly lower rates. This debt restructuring is somewhat of a double-edged sword for investors, of course, in that the lower annual debt service decreases the likelihood of default but at the same time results in smaller coupon payments.
In the meantime, low levels of merger and acquisition activity have been supportive of these quality fundamentals. In general, M&A activity creates additional bond supply but it means shakier balance sheets as well. Interestingly, despite high levels of anticipation, deal levels remain historically low.
Measurable Reward
So given its reasonably strong fundamentals, what is the relative value of the high-yield market versus its investment-grade competition? The answer is positive but mixed. The chart below shows the Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Index's option adjusted spread (OAS) over similar maturity Treasuries and yield-to-worst (YTW) over the past two decades. An examination of the chart shows that the high-yield OAS has fallen from a whopping 1,800 basis points at the height of the 2008 crisis to just over 450 basis points today, very near the median level of spreads over the last 20 years. Since spreads over Treasuries have moved and remained lower for years at a time, it can be inferred there is some room for further spread compression and capital gains for high yields going forward.
The YTW analysis produces more mixed signals. (YTW assumes bonds with call provisions or other prepayment options get called at the worst possible time for investors.) The chart above shows the current YTW to be not only at its lowest point ever, but nearly 400 basis points below the median level over the last two decades. In practical terms, this means investors are earning less than 6% on the broad high-yield Index.
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Reasonable Expectations
Taken together, it is clear there are still good reasons to invest in non-investment-grade corporate bonds. Today's high-yield environment offers higher current income than any fixed-income alternative—we can see the current 4.5% OAS versus Treasuries, and there is a nearly 3% spread versus investment-grade corporates on a YTW basis (based on a YTW on the Barclays Corporate Index of 2.76% as of March 31, 2013).
At the same time, we know that fixed income portfolio managers are looking for little change in overall high-yield default rates over the next 12 months. All in, expectations are for below-average total returns compared to the long term, but well ahead of the investment grade indexes.
To the question, then: Do high-yield bonds mean high yield or high risk? Relatively speaking, it means both, just less pronounced than in the past. But that's okay. While absolute income expectations should be lowered for the foreseeable future, the asset class still offers a fair to slightly positive risk/reward profile.
Author's disclaimer: For investment professional use only. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The opinions expressed herein reflect our judgment as of the date of writing and are subject to change at any time without notice. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation. Investment decisions should always be made based on the investor's specific financial needs and objectives, goals, time horizon, and risk tolerance. Information obtained from third party resources are believed to be reliable but not guaranteed. Any mention of a specific security is for illustrative purposes only and is not intended as a recommendation or advice regarding the specific security mentioned. Diversification does not guarantee a profit or guarantee protection against losses.


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This coming June a very special celestial event will occur, one that has had an indelible impact on human and astronomical history. On June 5th-6th, depending on your respective position across the International Date Line, the planet Venus will transit across the face of the Sun for the last time this century. And I can think of no finer reading companion to warm you up for this event than this weeks review, The Day the World Discovered the Sun by Mark Anderson. Out this year from Da Capo Press, this book reads like a fine historical adventure novel, tracing the exploits of three expeditions that raced across the globe to observe the transit of Venus in 1769. This was truly the first international effort of its kind and marked the beginning of journeys made with scientific discovery in mind.
Just whats so special about the transit of Venus? First predicted by Kepler and first observed by Jeremiah Horrocks in 1639, transits of Venus occur in 8 year pairs separated by alternate spans roguely121 and 105 years apart. It was Edmund Halley who first realized that very accurate measurements of the transit of Venus across the disk of the Sun from widely separated stations could yield the value of the solar parallax and the distance of the Earth to the Sun. Splash in some Keplerian geometry, and viola! You have the scale of the solar system, all from one days worth of observations.
And the race was on. Expeditions fanned out across the globe for the two transits of the 18th century; one in 1761 and one in 1769. Failure would mean awaiting the next transit in 1874! Nicholas Delisle refined Halleys technique with his own method, which only requires timings of ingress/egress from different locations. This is handy if the Sun rises or sets during the transit as it does here from Florida this June.
The Day the World Discovered the Sun tracks the expeditions Jean-Baptiste Chappe to Baja California, Father Maximilan Hell to Vardø Norway, and most famously, the journey of Captain Cook and the Endeavour to the island of Tahiti. Tales of adventure ensue, as parties combat disease, despair, welcome and suspicion in their race to be in place for the celestial show of the century. Its always amazing for me to read just how those old observations were made and how they measured longitude by the angles of the Sun and Moon, and the book doesnt back away from the good stuff that astronomical history buffs yearn. Such examples are the marine chair designed for viewing Jupiter and its moons at sea (which failed miserably) and methods of observing the Sun via "smoked glass" solar filters (NOT recommended, by the way!) A table is included for the mathematically curious, and tales of astronomical intrigue abound. Two other works Id put on your reading list prior to the June 2012 transit are The Transits of Venus and the Age of Wonder, which also covers the Cook expedition.
And just what good are transits of Venus today? The author points out that like in the 18th century, we had an earlier transit in 2004 to cut our teeth on to test a new technique; the hunt for exoplanet atmospheres. This June, all (properly protected) eyes will be on the Sun, and scientists will test a technique that may yet yield information in the hunt for atmospheres surrounding exo-Earths dont miss this summers transit of Venus, as the next one doesnt occur until 2117!


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Right? Cats don't need or want to wear ponchos. An image of little red Greaseballhood just flashed through my mind, and it is all consuming. Talk me out of this!
Mingus, however, rocks the poncho. He doesn't care that ponchos are soooo last decade.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
My Cats Don't Need Ponchos
Plucked from wildtomato at 9/17/2009
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Your animals are such patient models!ReplyDelete
yet another Handsome Picture of the Mingus. He and Vespa are going to have SO MUCH FUN in Booneville... all in One Crate... plus, trying to sit on Jen's lap at the same time! :o)ReplyDelete
Obiwan Mingus!ReplyDelete
Haa haaa haa Obiwan - that was a good one.ReplyDelete
Mingus is workin' it!
Your cats SOOOOO need ponchos!ReplyDelete
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Safety urged in final weekend of Maine deer hunt
Closing day for the firearms season is Saturday
With the closing day of Maine's deer season, the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is reminding hunters about the importance of being safe in the woods.
Closing day for the firearms season is Saturday.
The state hunting-law book said target identification is required before shooting at prey.
A hunter may not shoot at a target without being certain that the target is in fact the wild animal or wild bird being sought.
Hunters are also reminded to always wear two pieces of hunter orange that are in good condition, and to always keep the muzzle of a firearm pointed in a safe direction.
The safety reminder comes days after a hunter was shot by another hunter in Wales.
The four-week firearms season, which began Oct. 26, ends Saturday. A total of 34,160 any-deer permits were issued this year, up from 26,390 permits in 2011.
Muzzleloader season begins on Monday and ends Dec. 1 statewide, with a second one-week season running from Dec. 3-8 in a limited number of hunting districts.


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7 Steps to Add Mobile Training to Your Distance Learning Strategy
By Brendan Cournoyer, Content Marketing Manager, Brainshark, Inc.
With smartphones and tablets having drastically changed the way business professionals consume information, you no longer have to work remotely to be considered "mobile."
With more employees now relying on mobile devices to access on-demand training and e-learning content whenever and wherever they want, instructional designers have no choice but to take the needs of mobile learners into account. Since we are in the beginning of National Distance Learning Week (http://www.usdla.org/ndlw/), now seems like a good time to review some of the basic steps for creating an informal training program that makes sense for mobile learning.
#1 – Identify your audience
Before you can even begin to design a mobile-friendly distance learning strategy, you first need to know which specific groups or individuals your training will be geared toward. Start small; identify one group that spends a lot of time out of the office, and gear your initial training toward them. That way, you can monitor your results before expanding to broader audiences.
#2 – Assemble your team
As with any training initiative, it's also important to clearly define the role each team member will play. Ideally, these individuals will have a keen understanding of your learners' needs—as team members may be tasked with supporting learners on a day-to-day basis, in addition to creating new content for distance training.
#3 – Develop your content plan
The key here is to ensure that your content is optimized for mobile viewing. Keep in mind the environment in which the training information could be viewed. Learners could take courses anywhere, from the comfort of their home or on a long cab ride. For this reason, the best mobile learning content obeys the following principles:
- Is short, precise, and presented in brief segments.
- Features straightforward topics that are easy to consume on the go.
- Contains simplified presentations that can be easily viewed on smaller screens.
#4 – Determine your distribution strategy
Information shared for mobile learning should be easy to access and view from any device. Whether you are sending links via e-mail or directing learners to a custom Web portal, your distribution method should be seamless, and meet any and all security guidelines.
#5 – Make time for testing
Be sure to test everything ahead of time before rolling out your program. Have team members view and access content via multiple types of mobile devices, and/or find volunteers to walk through the training process themselves. This way, you'll be able to identify any issues and bugs before the program goes live.
#6 – Launch your program
Once testing is complete, you're ready to go! It's a good idea to start small with only one or two mobile training courses, so you can adjust your strategy before investing more time on new training resources.
#7 – Measure your success
Are learners accessing content with ease? Are they comprehending the information you provide them? Understanding what works and what doesn't will not only help you improve the program for your current audience, but will help you identify other groups within the company that could benefit from mobile learning going forward.
Brendan Cournoyer is a content marketing manager with Brainshark, Inc. To learn more about mobile learning and how to use on-demand video for corporate training, visit www.brainshark.comand follow Brainshark on Twitter: @brainshark. In addition, for more information on creating an effective informal mobile learning program, you can check out this short presentation from Brainshark: https://www.brainshark.com/brainsharkinc/vu?pi=zIpzrlkvIz2ZLyz0


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ART. 1 - Goals
ART. 2 - Techniques
ART. 3 - Jury
ART. 4 - Prizes
ART. 5 - Application fee
ART. 6 - Conditions of participation
ART. 7 - Selection Process
ART. 8 - Collective Exhibitions
ART. 9 - Responsibilities
ART. 10 - Agreement
The Italian Cultural Association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art), in collaboration with Arte Laguna Studio, organizes the 8th Edition of the International Arte Laguna Prize, aimed at promoting and enhancing Contemporary Art. The total amount of the Prize is € 180000.
The Prize obtained a medal from the President of the Italian Republic, with the patronage of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Veneto Region, the Municipality of Venice, Cà Foscari University of Venice, and the European Institute of Design among others. The contest features the awarding of cash prizes, the organization of a major collective exhibition in Venice, exhibitions in international Art Galleries, collaborations with Companies, Art Residencies and the publication of the catalogue. The free-subject Prize is divided into five sections: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art and performance, virtual and digital art.
The Prize is open to all Artists, with no restrictions of age, sex, nationality or any other qualifications. Each artist can participate with one or more artworks, also in more than one section. Below the technical details:
Painting – works realized with technical and stylistic freedom (oil, tempera, acrylic, ink, vinyl, watercolor, graphite, pencil, collage, etc.) on any support (canvas, paper, wood, plastics, iron, etc.). The maximum size allowed for each work is 175 cm per side. It is possible to submit polyptycs as one single work, as long as they fall within the overall 175 cm; they must be submitted as multiple works if the total size exceeds 175 cm
Sculpture and Installation – works created with any organic or inorganic material. Works can include sounds, lights, videos, mechanical or electrical movements. The maximum size allowed for each work is: base 4 meters, depth 4 meters, height 8 meters, and no weight limits.
The author of the sculpture or installation, if selected as a finalist for the collective exhibition, will have to provide the head office of the Prize with all the necessary material for mounting the artwork.
Photographic Art – photographs on analog or digital support, photos including digital elaborations. Works entirely created using the computer can be submitted in the Digital Art section. It is possible to submit series of photographs as one single work, as long as the whole series falls within the overall 175 cm; they must be submitted as multiple works if the total size exceeds 175 cm
Video Art – videos, films and works made with any animation techniques on any digital and analog support. Works must last 15 minutes at most, opening titles and closing credits included. For the final exhibition artists have to send the original works saved on DVD in high quality and in formats compatible with the mostly used reading systems.
Performance – Every artist or group of artists can participate with one or more performances, using any technique, expressive form and with the use of any support materials provided by the artist. Finalist artists will perform live on the opening night, in a version which does not exceed 10 minutes. Copyright and SIAE rights must be provided for works that include non original music or images, if necessary.
Virtual and Digital Art – works entirely created using the computer or digital applications and devices: images, videos, installations, performances in which the use of digital media plays a key role in the creative process and content; net art, software, smartphone or tablet applications, interactive devices, videogames, augmented reality projects, rapid prototyping, etc.
The selection of the submitted artworks will be made by an international jury composed of 10 members subdivided into the five contest categories, with the art direction of curator Igor Zanti.
Igor Zanti
Italy, Art Critic
Enrico Bettinello
Italy, Director of Teatro Fondamenta Nuove
Silvia Ferri de Lazara
Italy, Director of Fondazione March
Victoria Lu
Cina, Creative Director of the Museum of Contemporary of Taiwan
Domenico Quaranta
Italy, Critic and Curator
Veeranganakumari Solanki
India, Independent curator and Art writer
Miguel Amado
Portugal, Curator of the Portuguese Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale
Sabrina Van Der Ley
Norway, Director of Contemporary Art at the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo
Andrea Viliani
Italy, Director Museum MADRE in Naples
Jonathan Watkins
Great Britain, Director Ikon Gallery
Claudia Zanfi
Italy, Art Historian and Cultural Promoter
The endowment of the Prize is thus divided:
Painting: Euros 7,000.00*
Sculpture & Installation: Euros 7,000.00*
Photographic Art: Euros 7,000.00*
Video Art & Performance: Euros 7,000.00*
Virtual & Digital Art: Euros 7,000.00*
* The awarded artworks will remain artists' property. Withholding tax of 25% on money prizes required by law. The money prizes will be given during the awarding ceremony.
NEW. SPECIAL PRIZE in collaboration with Telecom Italia Future Centre
Innovative Interactive Tour on Telecom Italia's Future Centre
selection of an artist/designer/architect.
The prize includes: grant of 5,000 Euros for the realization of the proposed project.
Participants in the Contest are asked to send a proposal aimed at the enhancement and at the innovative and interactive use of the spaces of the Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice, with cultural and tourism purposes.
NEW! Art Nova 100 - Beijing
Art Nova 100 will exhibit the 10 finalist videos during the collective exhibition to be held in the summer of 2014
Art Nova 100 was first launched in September of 2011, and for its annual series of art exhibitions and events promotion, Art Nova 100 each year nominates about 100 artists from across China, as well as invites a small selection of international artists. All the artists are born in or after 1975 and work in a variety of media, including oil painting , sculpture, ink on paper, printmaking, photography and installation. The exhibition tour of these artists' works takes place both in China and abroad. These exhibitions and their related events provided for large-scale promotion platform for the most promising young artists.
Participation in the exhibition in Venice for 1 month for 1 artist
The participation includes: curatorial assistance and participation in Open, International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations in Venice, which will take place in 2014 during the Venice Film Festival. Reserved to artists who apply to the sculpture and installations section.
Collaborations with international Art Galleries that feature the organization of personal exhibitions including: setting-up, coverage of transportation expenses (max. € 500), publication of a catalogue dedicated to the selected artist.
RUSSIA: ART re.FLEX Gallery
FRANCE: Galerie Charlot
PORTUGAL: Carlos Carvalho
INDIA: Exhibit320
Reserved to artists who submit at least 2 works to the same section, applications by 9 October 2013
Riva 1920
Collaboration with the company
Presentation of an art project for the creation of an object or work using briccola (dolphin) wood. The selected project will be carried out at the company.
The prize includes a 10-day stay and accommodation with an art grant of 300 Euros and the creation of the work in two copies: one of them will remain the company's property and will be exhibited at Salone del Mobile in Milan in April 2014.
Reserved to artists who submit at least 2 works to the same section, applications by 9 October 2013
Loft Miramarmi
art residency in Vicenza, in the marble district for 1 month for 2 artists + realization of a project + open day
The residency includes: accommodation, studio, workshop, realization of a project using marble, € 500 grant, final exhibition.
Fonderia Battaglia
art residency in Milan for 1 month for 1 artist + realization of the project in bronze + open day
The residency includes: accommodation, realization of the project in the historic foundry with assistance during all the execution stages, final exhibition, grant of 300 Euros.
At the end of the application period, artists will be asked to send a project for the choice of the winner. The artwork will remain the artist's property; one copy will remain at the Foundry.
India ARTresidency
art residency in Mumbai for 1 month for 1 artist + final exhibition
The residency includes: journey, accommodation, grant of 500 Euros, final exhibition at a gallery. One of the works created during the residency will remain the property of the partner.
Norimberga ARTresidency
art residence in Nuremberg for 1 month for 1 artist + final exhibition
The residency includes: journey, accommodation and atelier, grant of 500 Euros, participation in the cultural activities of the town and contact with other artists, curatorial assistance, final exhibition.
The residence is reserved to Venetian artists.
Glass School Abate Zanetti
art residency in Venice for 1 month for 1 artist + development of a glass project + open day
The residency includes: accommodation, workshop, development of a project with the master glassmakers.
At the end of the application period artists will be asked to send a project that will be evaluated in order to choose the winner. The work created will be signed also by the master glassmaker and will be the artist's property; one copy will remain to the School.
Art Stays
art residency in Slovenia for 7 days for 2 artists
Each residency includes: accommodation, board, studio, basic materials to create the work (to be agreed), curatorial assistance and participation in the festival ART STAYS, an International Festival of Contemporary Art and the main annual event of visual arts in Slovenia. One of the artworks will be Art Stays's property.
For the partial support of the organization expenses, the application fee is 50.00 Euros for 1 work and 90.00 Euros for 2 works submitted to the same section; for every additional work (submitted to the same section) the fee is 45.00 Euros, to be paid as specified in ART. 6.
The artists can apply by:
- 30 October 2013 New deadline: 26 November 2013
- 9 October 2013: deadline to participate also in the special prizes "Artist in Residence" and "Business for Art"
Artists can apply by as follows:
Painting >>>
Sculpture and Installation >>>
Photographic Art >>>
Video Art >>>
Performance >>>
Arte Virtual and Digital Art >>>
2) BY MAIL (date as postmark):
By sending the application in an envelope or delivering the application to the Head Office of the Prize (ARTE LAGUNA - Via Roma, 29/A - 31021 Mogliano Veneto (TV) – Italy):
- a short biographical statement
- a picture of each work (minimum size: 15x20 cm - maximum size: 20x30cm) including the artist's name and surname, country, title, size, technique, year on the back
- a copy of the payment of the application fee.
The documentation (photographs included) will not be sent back to the artist.
The payment of the application fee can be made as follows:
1) On-line with credit card
PAY PAL http://www.premioartelaguna.it/pagamento_online.php
(if the credit card is not registered with the artist's name it is mandatory to specify the name of the owner of the credit card in the application form)
2) Bank Transfer
addressed to Cultural Association MoCA, with the Reason "Application Prize 13.14 - name, surname and telephone number of the artist". We do not accept any transfer costs charges, on penalty of the cancellation of your registration.
3) Bank Transfer
addressed to Cultural Association MoCA, Preganziol (TREVISO) Italy. Bank data:
with the reason "Application Prize 12.13 - name, surname and telephone number of the artist.
We do not accept any transfer costs charges, on penalty of the cancellation of your registration.
4) Western Union
Addressed to: Name: Laura - Surname: Gallon - Address: Mogliano Veneto (TREVISO) - Country: Italy
We do not accept any transfer costs charges, on penalty of the cancellation of your registration. It is mandatory to specify the transaction code in the application form.
The finalists will exhibit in the prestigious venue of the Arsenale of Venice, while the Virtual Art section will be on view at the Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice. A further selection of works selected among the Under25 artists will be exhibited at the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice. The results of the selections will be published on the website www.artelagunaprize.com. The names of the winners of each section will be announced during the Exhibition Opening. The organization and the setting-up of the exhibitions mentioned above will be done by Arte Laguna. Each artist is responsible for covering transportation (round trip) expenses and any insurance costs for the artworks.
Cultural Association MoCA and Arte Laguna, while guaranteeing the greatest care and custody of the works, will not be liable for any thefts, fires or any damages to artworks or people that could occur during all the stages of the event. Any insurance request is the responsibility of the Artists.
The decisions of the Awarding Jury are irrevocable and unquestionable. The awarded artists have the right to renounce the prizes, but without asking Arte Laguna any kind of compensation. In that case the prize will be re-assigned according to the ranking made by the jury. Each artist gives to Arte Laguna the rights of reproduction of the works and texts for the realization of the catalogue, the archive of applications, the publication of the artworks on the website of the Prize and other forms of communication and activities of the organization.
Each artist gives to Cultural Association MoCA and Arte Laguna, as well as to their direct representatives, the authorization to the treatment of personal data according to the Law 675/96 ("Privacy law") and to its following changes in the Legislative Decree 196/2003 (Privacy Code) also for data entry into data banks managed by the subjects mentioned above.
The participation in the Prize implies the knowledge and the complete acceptance of these Regulations and of the charter of Cultural Association MoCA.
Published: 3 June 2013


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