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Book Showcase: ALICE AND THE ASSASSIN by R.J. Koreto

Alice and the Assassin

by R.J. Koreto

on Tour April 1-30, 2018

Alice and the Assassin by R.J. Koreto

In 1902 New York, Alice Roosevelt, the bright, passionate, and wildly unconventional daughter of newly sworn-in President Theodore Roosevelt, is placed under the supervision of Secret Service Agent Joseph St. Clair, ex-cowboy and veteran of the Rough Riders. St. Clair quickly learns that half his job is helping Alice roll cigarettes and escorting her to bookies, but matters grow even more difficult when Alice takes it upon herself to investigate a recent political killing–the assassination of former president William McKinley.

Concerned for her father’s safety, Alice seeks explanations for the many unanswered questions about the avowed anarchist responsible for McKinley’s death. In her quest, Alice drags St. Clair from grim Bowery bars to the elegant parlors of New York’s ruling class, from the haunts of the Chinese secret societies to the magnificent new University Club. Meanwhile, St. Clair has to come to terms with his hard and violent past, as Alice struggles with her growing feelings for him.

Book Details:

Genre: Historical Mystery
Published by: Crooked Lane Books
Publication Date: April 11th 2017
Number of Pages: 280
ISBN: 1683311124 (ISBN13: 9781683311126)
Series: Alice Roosevelt Mystery #1

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I had a nice little runabout parked around the corner, and Alice certainly enjoyed it. It belonged to the Roosevelt family, but I was the only one who drove it. Still, the thing about driving a car is that you can’t easily get to your gun, and I didn’t like the look of the downtown crowds, so I removed it from its holster and placed it on the seat between us.

“Don’t touch it,” I said.

“I wasn’t going to,” said Alice.

“Yes, you were.”

I had learned something the first time I had met her. I was sent to meet Mr. Wilkie, the Secret Service director, in the White House, and we met on the top floor. He was there, shaking his head and cleaning his glasses with his handkerchief. “Mr. St. Clair, welcome to Washington. Your charge is on the roof smoking a cigarette. The staircase is right behind me. Best of luck.” He put his glasses back on, shook my hand, and left.

It had taken me about five minutes to pluck the badly rolled cigarette out of Alice’s mouth, flick it over the edge of the building, and then talk her down.

“Any chance we could come to some sort of a working relationship?” I had asked. She had looked me up and down.

“A small one,” she had said. “You were one of the Rough Riders, with my father on San Juan Hill, weren’t you?” I nodded. “Let’s see if you can show me how to properly roll a cigarette. Cowboys know these things, I’ve heard.”

“Maybe I can help—if you can learn when and where to smoke them,” I had responded.

So things had rolled along like that for a while, and then one day in New York, some man who looked a little odd wanted—rather forcefully—to make Alice’s acquaintance on Fifth Avenue, and it took me all of three seconds to tie him into a knot on the sidewalk while we waited for the police.

“That was very impressive, Mr. St. Clair,” she had said, and I don’t think her eyes could’ve gotten any bigger. “I believe that was the most exciting thing I’ve ever seen.” She looked at me differently from then on, and things went a little more smoothly after that. Not perfect, but better.

Anyway, that afternoon I pulled into traffic. It was one of those damp winter days, not too cold. Workingmen were heading home, and women were still making a few last purchases from peddlers before everyone packed up for the day.

“Can we stop at a little barbershop off of Houston?” she asked. I ran my hand over my chin. “Is that a hint I need a shave?” I’m used to doing it myself.

“Don’t be an idiot,” she said, with a grin. “That’s where my bookie has set up shop. I’ve had a very good week.”

Excerpt from Alice and the Assassin by R.J. Koreto.  Copyright © 2018 by R.J. Koreto. Reproduced with permission from R.J. Koreto.
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Author Bio:

R.J. Koreto

R.J. Koreto has been fascinated by turn-of-the-century New York ever since listening to his grandfather’s stories as a boy.

In his day job, he works as a business and financial journalist. Over the years, he’s been a magazine writer and editor, website manager, PR consultant, book author, and seaman in the U.S. Merchant Marine. He’s a graduate of Vassar College, and like Alice Roosevelt, he was born and raised in New York.

He is the author of the Lady Frances Ffolkes and Alice Roosevelt mysteries. He has been published in both Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. He also published a book on practice management for financial professionals.

With his wife and daughters, he divides his time between Rockland County, N.Y., and Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

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The genesis of the Assam-Mizoram border dispute

The genesis of the Assam-Mizoram border dispute

27 July 2021

By Explained Desk

Assam-Mizoram border dispute: The violence spotlights the long-standing inter-state boundary issues in the Northeast, particularly between Assam and the states that were carved out of it.

Visual of violence at Assam-Mizoram border. (Twitter @himantabiswa)

At least five Assam Police personnel were killed after the old boundary dispute between Assam and Mizoram exploded in violent clashes at a contested border point on Monday.

In October last year, residents of Assam and Mizoram had clashed twice in the space of a week over territory, in which at least eight people were injured and a few huts and small shops were torched.

The violence spotlights the long-standing inter-state boundary issues in the Northeast, particularly between Assam and the states that were carved out of it.

What happened in October 2020?

Residents of Lailapur village in Assam’s Cachar district clashed with residents of localities near Vairengte in Mizoram’s Kolasib district. Days before this clash, on October 9, similar violence had taken place on the border of Karimganj (Assam) and Mamit (Mizoram) districts.

On October 9, a farm hut and a betel nut plantation belonging to two Mizoram residents were set on fire.

In the second incident in Cachar, some people from Lailapur had pelted Mizoram police personnel and Mizoram residents with stones. “In turn, Mizoram residents mobilised and went after them,” Kolasib Deputy Commissioner H Lalthangliana had said.

What led to the violence and clashes?

Lalthangliana said: “According to an agreement between governments of Assam and Mizoram some years ago, status quo should be maintained in no man’s land in the border area. However, people from Lailapur broke the status quo and allegedly constructed some temporary huts. People from Mizoram side went and set fire on them.”

On the other hand, Keerthi Jalli, then Deputy Commissioner of Cachar, had told The Indian Express that the contested land belongs to Assam as per the state’s records.

In the October 9 incident, according to Mizoram officials, the land claimed by Assam has been cultivated for a long time by residents of Mizoram.

The Karimganj DC, Anbamuthan MP, however, said that although the contested land was historically cultivated by Mizoram residents, on paper it fell within the Singla Forest Reserve that is under Karimganj’s jurisdiction. Anbamuthan had told The Indian Express that the issue was being resolved.
Mizoram borders Assam’s Barak Valley; both border Bangladesh.

Mizoram’s civil society groups blame “illegal Bangladeshis” (alleged migrants from Bangladesh) on the Assam side. “Illegal Bangladeshis are creating all this trouble. They come and destroy our huts, cut our plants and this time pelted stones on our policemen,” said B Vanlaltana, president of the students’ union MZP (Mizo Zirlai Pawl).

What is the genesis of the boundary dispute?

In the Northeast’s complex boundary equations, showdowns between Assam and Mizoram residents are less frequent than they are between, say, Assam and Nagaland residents.

Nevertheless, the boundary between present-day Assam and Mizoram, 165 km long today, dates back to the colonial era, when Mizoram was known as Lushai Hills, a district of Assam.

The dispute stems from a notification of 1875 that differentiated the Lushai Hills from the plains of Cachar, and another of 1933, that demarcates a boundary between the Lushai Hills and Manipur.

A Mizoram Minister had told The Indian Express last year that Mizoram believes the boundary should be demarcated on the basis of the 1875 notification, which is derived from the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (BEFR) Act, 1873.

Mizo leaders have argued in the past against the demarcation notified in 1933 because Mizo society was not consulted. MZP’s Vanlaltana said the Assam government follows the 1933 demarcation, and that was the point of conflict.

Before the incidents of Monday (July 26) and last October, the last time the boundary saw violence was in February 2018.

On that occasion, the MZP had built a wooden rest house in a forest, ostensibly for use by farmers. The Assam Police and forest department officials had demolished it, saying this was in Assam territory. MZP members had then clashed with Assam personnel, who also thrashed a group of Mizoram journalists who had gone to cover the incident.

Source: The Indian Express

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Multi-ethnic teenagers cheering at prom

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We know a Prom a right of passage for a teenager to experiences in high school.
That right of passage is either at their Jr. Prom or their senior prom, but either way, it’s a tradition that a teenager experiences.
The latest trend in Proms are for the Pre-kidergarten children.
Yes, that’s right, parent sending their Pre-K baby’s to their prom nights in limousines, tuxedos, full length gowns with tiaras and dates.

One school that is participants of this new tradition is in Eagle Pass, Texas. This school sent home a letter to the pre-k parents and asked that they send their little ones in “formal attire” to the Prom night.
So dressed to impressed, one pint sized was sent in a custom-made sit, while another was sent in a floor-lenght gown.
One child’s auntie took to Twitter saying, “When your niece is off to her Pre-K prom and she has 3 dates waiting for her. They grow up so fast.” and then she tweeted again saying, “So my niece graduated and after her 3 dates she had to prom she picked Subesh as her boyfriend.”
Dr. Sanam Hafeez, child psychology, told CBS New York, “Some of the pictures that I saw were low-cut gowns, you know, getting their hair done, putting makeup on.”
She’s saying that doing a prom so early in their life could put a lot of pressure on them and could cause some insecurities like you see in teenagers.
She even said, “That’s the other thing, the king and queen, like you’re basically identifying one or tow children saying they’re better than you now. Older 17, 18, it’s still tough at that age. Can you imagine at age 5 you are looking at the other kids going, ‘Why is he better than me?'”
What do you think, would you send your pre-k child to a prom night in limo, tux or even gown and let them have little dates?

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LPs from the Attic: The Byrds — The Byrds

March 29, 2010

The Byrds — The Byrds (Asylum, 1973)

This should have been a great record. On paper, looking at the personnel and track list, it certainly looked like it was guaranteed: the fantastic original lineup of Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, and David Crosby doing new Byrdsongs and covers by Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. Self-referential and -reflective titles like “Full Circle” engender thoughts of renewal and strength of purpose. The album cover shows all hands on-deck and awash in the red glow of the stage lights as they play in tight formation. David Crosby appears to be smiling a bit as he sings. On the back cover, the band makes with the camaraderie at what we assume to be a favorite watering hole. All things seemed in place. This *should* have been a great record.

But it isn’t nearly as great as it should have been; it certainly isn’t greater than the sum of its parts, and that’s a shame. Where the average fan back in 1973–and the long-time fan in 2010, for that matter–was looking for a reinvigorated, fully engaged Flyght, he only finds what amounts to a better-than average “phone-in” by all present. This seems more like a one-off gathering where the members were more interested in promoting solo material than functioning as a cohesive unit.

While McGuinn‘s “Born to Rock ‘n’ Roll” proves a sturdy rock anthem and criminally underrated Gene Clark turns in a few gems with “Changing Heart” and “Full Circle,” the rest of the material is well-played but uninspiring. At least ole Neil wouldn’t put ’em down for their cover of “Cowgirl in the Sand”–it’s pretty damn good.

That said, listening to the 12-string jingle-jangle and those magnificent harmonies, I realize that the classic Byrds trademarks are in place and up to snuff. The Byrds at their worst–and this is far from any nadir–were still better than many of their contemporaries (and present-day devotees) at their best.

Track list

1) Full Circle

2) Sweet Mary

3) Changing Heart

4) For Free

5) Born to Rock ‘n’ Roll

6) Things Will Be Better

7) Cowgirl in the Sand

8) Long Live the King

9) Borrowing Time

10) Laughing

11) (See the Sky) About to Rain

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The Canadian and Australian economies are the envy of the industrialised world.  Both countries share the common feature of benefiting from booming demand for their resources driven by emerging market economies. In Australia we have an abundance of resources but it is iron ore bound for Asia that has driven our economy.

It stands to reason that tremors in the iron ore market would send shockwaves throughout our economy, beginning with the share market.  And there is no denying our share market has been in shock for well over a year.  Here is a two year chart of the ASX Materials Sector Index the XMJ, telling the sad story in a single image:

Have we truly gone from boom to bust?

A few days ago Economists at Deloitte Access announced that the boom will end in two years. As evidence they cite the decline in resource project investment and rising production costs.  At roughly the same time the Deloitte experts were offering their prognostications, a study from US based business research firm Fast Market Research came to a completely contradictory conclusion.  These people see iron ore output increasing from 2011 totals of 481 million tonnes to 758 million tonnes by 2016.

A few days later an economist at CommSec confirmed that rosy outlook.  Craig James calls our mining boom the “modern day equivalent of the gold rush” and says it is “only just the beginning.”  He argues that industrialisation in China has a long way to go, with the Chinese population only beginning to own cars, washing machines, and many other consumer goods that require steel products derived from iron ore.  In addition, the vastness of that country argues against the belief they have built their last bridge and their last building.  However, despite what he sees as a continuing rise in demand, he acknowledges the price of minerals may drop.

With such divergent views about the fate of the mining boom, it is instructive to look to past history for some hint of future outcomes.  So we return to our original question – what just happened?  How did we get here?

At the heart of it all is the fact we live in a world of uncertainty.

In an uncertain world we rely on speculation about causes and outcomes.  Unfortunately, when the volume of speculation reaches critical mass, it begins to pass as certainty.  In addition, speculation can and very often does influence outcomes that later prove to be simply wrong.

With certainty in the share market, investing would be easy, but it isn’t.  So we rely on what we hope to be intelligent and informed speculation.  But global share markets have a peculiar feature in that investors can profit from failure as well as success.  Here is a two year share price performance chart for two of Australia’s most storied companies – BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto:

Both these companies trade in the US under the ADR (American Depository Reserve) system.  The chart looks horrible but for literally thousands of Australian and American investors it looks as sweet as a Monet landscape.  They are making money betting against BHP and RIO, and the more they pile on, the lower the share price goes regardless of economic realities or company fundamentals.

All the while much of the speculation you have read for close to two years comes from less than objective sources.  If your advisory service is long BHP and RIO you look for even the most obscure positive news to put forth.  And if you are short those names, you put forth whatever evidence supports the view China’s economy is grinding to a full stop rather than a slowdown, and the Euro will die as the Eurozone collapses.

Short sellers have a reputation for “getting it right” so when legendary American short seller Jim Chanos goes public with the news he is shorting Fortescue Metals (FMG) big time, investors and other investment advisers pay attention.

While there is occasionally outright fraud with rumour spreading, the truth is the shorts most often base their positions on genuine economic issues.  The GFC hit most of the world very hard but we were spared largely because China stepped in with a massive infrastructure effort that wildly fueled their demand for steel and hence our iron ore.

But that is over and China has faced new economic pressures which have ratcheted up speculation about a slowdown and a soft landing and a hard landing to deafening levels.  In the face of uncertainty about what is going to happen in China, most share market participants assume the worst.  So we have seen historic levels of volatility as the slightest bit of bad news drives share prices down and the slightest bit of good news drives share prices up.

Then you add the European debt crisis to the mix.  Although we have little direct exposure, China does and now the new uncertainty has led to more speculation.  When you add concerns about the US economy to the China-Euro stew, the pot bubbles over and critical mass is here.

We appear to have reached that point with mining stocks – especially pure play iron ore producers.  Even good news is scrutinised with the eye of someone expecting that the worst will happen.

Australia’s fourth largest iron ore producer, Atlas Iron (AGO) released it quarterly production report on 25 July 2012.  They shipped 1.5 million tonnes, a 25% increase over the previous quarter, and they expect to double total production by the end of 2012.  Atlas is a low cost producer – with their costs at $50 a tonne – and some analysts feel they are in a good position to withstand any further downturn; yet the share price dropped in response to the report.  Here is their one year share price performance chart:

First, if the demand for iron ore is drying up, who is buying this increased production?  Instead of seeing this as potential evidence things might not be as bad as they seem, market participants shrug it off in the belief demand simply won’t hold up over time.

BHP Billiton recently reported increased shipments in the current quarter and forecasted a 5% rise in output by the end of 2012.  Rio and Fortescue also reported higher production and the shares of all three continued their decline.  Increased production right now doesn’t matter because conventional wisdom – which is nothing more than hopefully intelligent speculation – says demand destruction is based on fact, not speculation.

If that is so, why would another pure play iron ore producer – Northern Iron Limited (NFE) – be a takeover target from India’s resource giant Aditya Birla Group?  And why would this group want to increase its offer by 14% after NFE rejected their initial offer?  The shares of NFE got a nice initial pop, but already they are dropping.  Here is a one month chart:

There is real evidence of real problems in global macroeconomic conditions.  But today it seems there is a greater reluctance to consider the contrarian point of view – that she’ll be right mate.  What is going on? Market historians in the distant future may look at events like these as examples of the Lehman Effect.

When American investment bank Lehman Brothers failed in 2008, almost no one saw what was coming.  The global financial world had become such a tangled web that it took months to figure out who owed what to whom as a result of the complicated financial hedging products across the world.  The resultant credit freeze had disastrous consequences as companies lost the ability to raise the life blood of all corporations – cash.

So a big part of what has happened to our mining boom could be attributed to the Lehman Effect.  While Atlas Iron’s results are impressive, their plans for three new mines and the stgelopment of both rail and port infrastructure projects has sounded the alarm over how they are going to pay for all this.  Investor panic over debt levels and capital raises reflects an underlying concern about a company’s viability in the event of what we now refer to as a Lehman-like event.

Our big three miners played into this with their insistence they would pursue huge capital expenditures to increase production capacity to meet demand going forward.  Some investors cited this as evidence not to fear the worst.  But when BHP began to waiver in its commitment to further investment, they played right into the sky is falling scenario.  Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group also hinted at a possible slowdown in their expansion, but remained firm in their overall expansion plans.

On July 17 2012 Rio released its quarterly production report showing record setting production and reaffirming yet again its commitment to expansion.  The shares continued to drop.  Commenting on the results, RIO CEO admitted global economic conditions and sentiment had “dropped markedly in the second quarter.”  He listed three conditions that serve as good explanation for what just happened to our mining boom:

The pace of the US recovery;

The continuing Eurozone crisis; and

The impact of efforts to stimulate the Chinese economy.

As yet, there is no certainty about these conditions, one way or the other.  However, one could look at share market performance in general and the materials sector in particular and conclude investors have made up their minds on the equally important issue of sentiment.

What is more important – economic conditions or sentiment about them?  Negative sentiment in the face of sound or unsound speculative reasoning can lead to increased unemployment, cost-cutting, and reduced investments; all of which serve as self-fulfilling prophecies for the very economic malaise about which we are so concerned.  Negative sentiment can be and often is overdone.

There is one final point about what has just happened to us that bears some discussion, and that is that sentiment is colored by things as they appear to us right now, not as they might be in the future.

Some of you may be old enough to remember the oil crisis in the 1970’s.  At that time conditions and sentiment were filtered through our understanding of technology as it then existed, not as it might be in the future.  Alarmist predictions about when the last drop of oil would be extracted from beneath the earth failed to even consider the possibility of deep sea exploration and other enhancements that have actually boosted the world’s proven oil reserves.

Today the death of the mining boom is again and again linked to troubles in China and by extension to trouble in Europe.  Do they not need steel in India and throughout Asia?  Is urbanisation a phenomenon unique to China or are other emerging markets ready to begin constructing bridges and buildings and warehouses and more factories?  And what of the global sleeper – Africa?   Africa has over 30% of the world’ mineral resources and is in the dawn of its own mining boom.  Large international mining companies are casting covetous eyes on Africa.  Their infrastructure needs represent billions of dollars in investments, and that means lots and lots of steel.

There are investors everywhere who believe share markets are essentially rational and over time will accurately price their listed companies.  You know there has been for some time an irrational disconnect between the rising price of gold and the falling share price of many gold miners.  Yet that is not the only example of market irrationality we could cite as a final explanation for what has just happened to our mining boom.

If sentiment about the death of the miners has any truth to it at all, one would expect a corresponding decline in the share prices of mining services providers.  And indeed many like Leighton (LEI) and Downer EDI (DOW) and Forge Group (FGE) and others have suffered; but there is one standout exception that defies logic and rationality.  That company is Monadelphous Group Limited (MND).  Here is their two year share price performance chart compared with one of their biggest customers, BHP:

A sceptic could easily dismiss this performance by citing MND’s diversification across sectors.  Yet their success stems from the long term relationships with Australia’s cream of the blue-chip resource and energy companies, and the share prices of their customers from BHP to Woodside have been crushed of late.  BHP has dropped 20% over two years but so has Woodside.  MND is joined at the hip with the resources and energy sector here and both sectors are victims of negative sentiment.  So if investor sentiment says the growth of companies like BHP and Rio are levelling off, why does that negative sentiment not extend to Australia’s leading provider of services to those very companies?  So much for rational markets.

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June 2nd, 2008
06:51 PM ET

Deciding on a treatment plan

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent

We now know Sen. Ted Kennedy flew down to Durham, North Carolina, over the weekend, and underwent awake brain surgery at 9 Monday morning at Duke. The operation was "successful," according to his surgeons, and a significant amount of his malignant glioma was removed. The whole thing was a bit of a surprise given that his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital hadn't publicly raised the possibility of an operation. They mentioned only chemotherapy and radiation as his options. Clearly, over the last couple of weeks, the senator and his family decided they wanted more. They wanted to fight this tumor, and they talked to experts all over the country and finally decided on Dr. Allan Friedman at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke to help them in his battle.

So, what sort of things go into that decision making process?

Well, for starters, Duke is a highly regarded brain tumor hospital. The chief of neurosurgery has been at Duke for over three decades and removes around 90 percent of the brain tumors at that hospital. Its staff members,  along with those of several other hospitals, are regarded as experts in what is known as brain "mapping." Even as a neurosurgeon,  I find mapping to be a truly wondrous advancement.  As the patient, in this case the senator, lies awake on the table with his head immobilized, the doctors probe various areas of the brain with a device that looks like a small fork. Carefully, they "map" out the areas of his brain responsible for things like speech. While they are probing with a slight electrical current, if the patient suddenly has trouble raising his hand or identifying an object, the doctors know to stay away from that area – even if tumor is present. The risks would outweigh the rewards. First do no harm.

Kennedy may have ended up at Duke simply because he really liked the doctors and felt comfortable in their hands – attitude, such an important thing for a patient. He may have gone to Duke because he thought they were the "best." Finally, it could also be because of a vaccine clinical trial that is going on there. Just today, researchers at Duke reported on a small study that found that a cancer vaccine could double the survival time of people with one of the deadliest brain tumors, from around 14 1/2 months to 33 months.
The surgery Kennedy had today will most likely be covered by his health plan because removing the tumor is an approved treatment, even though he left his network of doctors in Boston to travel to Durham.  According to the NIH, health insurance and managed care providers often do not cover the patient care costs associated with clinical trials, if that is the route he decides to go.

All of this got me to thinking: how does the average person make these decisions? How do they decide where they are going to get treated and is it even possible for most to find the "best" in the country? I'm eager to hear your experiences and any tips you might have for fellow bloggers and patients.

Editor’s Note: Medical news is a popular but sensitive subject rooted in science. We receive many comments on this blog each day; not all are posted. Our hope is that much will be learned from the sharing of useful information and personal experiences based on the medical and health topics of the blog. We encourage you to focus your comments on those medical and health topics and we appreciate your input. Thank you for your participation.

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Why I became an oncologist
An unidentified patient goes through chemotherapy treatment.
June 3rd, 2011
07:10 AM ET

Why I became an oncologist

Editor's note: George Sledge, M.D., is president of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists, the organization of America’s cancer doctors, whose annual meeting begins today. Treating cancer can be an extraordinarily difficult field, guiding patients on a roller coaster ride of fear, pain and sometimes true exhilaration. Dr. Sledge shares the story of the patient who made him decide to become an oncologist.

Cancer doctors tend to get to their profession in one of three ways. Some are drawn in through their love of cancer science. Cancer has always been something like a cobra to those who study it: dangerous and beautiful and endlessly fascinating. Cancer is a universe. One can spend an entire life exploring it without ever getting bored, for the biology of cancer is the biology of life.

Some doctors are inspired by a great teacher. Medicine is still a profession dominated by old-world apprenticeships, where a mentor’s passion can be transmitted to a new generation. I have known several oncologists whose careers turned on chance encounters with inspiring professors.

Others get there by way of their patients. I’m one of these. When I was a resident, cancer patients were the ones who touched my heart. In fact, I can remember the very moment I started my path to becoming an oncologist.

I was an intern at St. Louis University, a brand-new doctor, with my white coat still fresh and creased, when I first met Carmelita Steele. Carmelita was in her early twenties, married, with (as I recall) two young children. She came to our hospital as a transfer in the middle of the night. She had undergone a routine dental procedure, and after her surgery had first oozed, and then gushed blood. By the time she got to us she was severely anemic, and had a low platelet count. There was a very real concern in those first few hours that she would bleed to death.

We worked through the night stabilizing her. Her veins were hard to access–they had all been used up during her time at the other hospital. In those days (the late 1970's) we lacked modern venous access devices, and I remember it taking a frighteningly long time establishing an intravenous line. Through it all I spoke to Carmie, who was a cheerful if appropriately anxious African-American woman, somewhat overweight, proud of her children and her loving family. We poured several units of blood into her that night, bringing her back from the brink.

We spent the next couple of days establishing a diagnosis. She had Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, then as now a dangerous disease requiring toxic chemotherapy to clear the blood and bone marrow of treacherous cells. I learned the diagnosis shortly after morning rounds. Her staff doctor, an elderly hematologist (or so he seemed then, though I am now about his age) would, I discovered, be off campus until the following morning. I knew that Carmie and her family were desperate for news, so I phoned the staff physician and asked if it was OK for me to speak to her. He agreed.

I had never told a patient that he or she had cancer before. I sat on the edge of her bed and told her that she had a type of leukemia, that it was very dangerous but that it was potentially curable with chemotherapy. I told her that we would be starting treatment the following morning, as soon as her staff physician had a chance to go over the drug regimen with her.

Carmelita had sat quietly while I spoke, a sad look on her face. When I was through she said, almost in a whisper, "Doctor Sledge, who will take care of my children?"

It was the last thing I was expecting, and it was thoroughly devastating. I did not know how to answer. Today I hope I would do better, but at the time I was in my mid-twenties, just a few years older than Carmie, and I did not know how to answer that question. I stammered something, barely maintaining my composure, and then left her room and hid in a stairwell for a half an hour sobbing.

The next day we started her chemotherapy regimen, full of hope. I spoke to her regularly, and to her family. Her husband, a quiet decent man, stood by looking worried. Her mother, a medical technician who understood leukemia, rarely left her daughter's bedside. They were the sort of family we all should have.

For several days things went well. Then, as her blood counts plummeted in response to the chemotherapy, she developed an infection in the area of her intravenous line, followed by sepsis. Her blood pressure dropped, and her breathing became rapid and labored. She was transferred to the intensive care unit, intubated, and treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Sometime in the middle of the night, disoriented and alone, she pulled the breathing tube out of her mouth. Though she was quickly re-intubated, things rapidly went from bad to worse, and she died the following day.

I went home that night in a furiously angry mood. I was supposed to be going out with my girlfriend, but in my grief and guilt I simply could not think straight or act civil, so I begged off. I relived every moment of her care: what had I missed, what could I have done differently, what foul-up had I committed that kept a 22 year-old from taking care of her young children? It is the arrogance of interns that they believe that acute leukemia would turn out differently if only they had gotten a little more sleep.

A few weeks later I got a call from Carmelita's mother. She wanted to meet with me. I agreed, with real trepidation. The wound was still too raw, and there was part of me that feared she might hold me responsible for her daughter's passing.

But she was as gracious as I could ever have imagined. I have three sons, all in their twenties, and if one of them died of leukemia I do not know how I would handle it. Poorly, I suspect. But she was dignified, pleasant and grateful. She told me that Carmie, before she had died, had told her that, come what may, she wanted to give me a gift to thank me for my care, and for the hours I had spent with her. She then handed me $40 and told me I was to spend it on something fun. Carmie had wanted it that way.

My patients, starting with Carmelita Steele, have taught me so much about what it means to be a good doctor and, I hope, a good person. I am an oncologist because of her, and it is a job I have loved for three decades. But Carmelita's question still haunts me: "who will take care of my children?"

There are some debts you can never repay.

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Pork Verde Skillet

Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 15 mins
Total Time 35 mins
Course Breakfast, Main Course
Cuisine Mexican
Servings 4

Verde Sauce

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Releasing on the heels of one of the country’s most assertive civil rights movements comes Da 5 Bloods, a Spike Lee (“BlacKkKlansman”) joint about one of the most overlooked groups in civil rights history: Black veterans of the Vietnam war. The film seemingly couldn’t have been released at a more relevant time as viewers can empathetically reflect on the plight of these traumatized patriots as some of their concerns of oppression are deeply entangled in the current social and political climate. No other filmmaker could have approached this type of war drama with the assertiveness and unapologetic-pride in which Lee could, giving this film an aesthetic that is harrowing, penetrable, and eerily informative. The director is certainly at his peak stylistically here — his signature dialogue fitting appropriately with the film’s era and his cut-heavy pacing being deliberately introduced throughout the film.

The two and a half-hour epic follows a group of US Army veterans — self-proclaiming themselves ‘Da 5 Bloods’ — as they search for not only the remains of the leader of their battalion, but also a massive treasure of gold the men left behind at the peak of the war. Setting this stage, Spike intertwines documentary footage of the war and the major political events that catapulted it into the massive civil rights plot in which it became. Some of this footage may be seen as over-the-top or even gruesome, but it sets the context for Lee’s heavy-handed methodology.

Spike uses a first-act littered with grainy atmospheric flashbacks and quick-cut war scenes to loosen us up for a second-half full of dense monologues and potent character moments. The gritty glimpses into the broken minds of these soldiers — Paul (Delroy Lindo, “Battlecreek”), Eddie (Norm Lewis, “Preaching to the Choir”), Otis (Clarke Peters, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock Jr., “Corporate Animals”) — and their methods of coping with the mental damage war unceremoniously ladens upon participants are the most effective components of this script. But the performances by the cast make the script even more distressing and captivating than it must have been on paper. When Lee offers the perspective of the Vietnam era lens matched with Newton Thomas Sigel’s enthralling jungle-based cinematography, it feels as though the content is stripped directly from the government’s archives of footage. In addition to this, hailing Terence Blanchard’s original score as heroic, nerve-wracking, and poetic is an understatement.

Delroy Lindo is simply remarkable in his heart-wrenching portrayal of Paul and is the film’s sole star. Should his name not come up in the best leading role conversations during the upcoming award season, I will personally be offended. His performance is not raging and unnecessarily radicalized, but is rather a humbling representation of the literal under-represented. Along with Chadwick Boseman (“Black Panther”) in a supporting role as Stormin’ Norman, and up-and-coming talent Johnathan Majors (“The Last Black Man in San Francisco”) as Paul’s son David, Spike Lee is spoiled with on-screen talent more than capable of depicting his vision with a sense of delicacy and gravitas. This ultimately makes Da 5 Bloods a historical roller coaster of emotions fueled by anguish, inherited rage, and an uneasy sense of self-reflection that seems unnervingly significant and highly enlightening.

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The Japanese Schindler

As of January 2012, 24, 356 people from 47 nations were recognised by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority based in Jerusalem, as Righteous Among the Nations. These people have all been recognised for their sacrifices, risking life or liberty, to save Jews from the horrors of the Holocaust during World War II. In this list of people and nations there is only one man from Japan who has been recognised. This man is estimated to have saved at least 6,000 Jews and yet he is virtually unknown in his native Japan.

Sugihara Chiune (杉原 千畝) was born, literally, at the turn of the century, January 1st 1900. He was born in the town of Yaotsu in Gifu prefecture to an upper-middle class family, the second son in a family of five sons and one daughter. The Japanese education system was, and still is, highly competetive to a fault. Chiune showed his intelligence by graduating from Furuwatari Elementary School with top honours and went on to graduate from Daigo Chugaku High School. However, Chiune showed, at this early stage, his propensity for disobedience. His father had pressured him into taking the entrance exams for medical school in the hope that Chiune would follow in his footsteps as a physician. Chiune, however, had other ideas and intentionally failed the exam, writing only his name on the paper. Instead, Chiune entered Waseda University, in Tokyo, in 1918 to study English Language. In 1919 Chiune earned himself a Foreign Office scholarship for the remainder of his studies and, upon graduation, was sent on his first mission, by the Japanese Foreign Ministry, to Harbin, Manchuria. Whilst he was in Harbin Chiune studied German and Russian, becoming fluent in the latter. His skill with Russian gave him the tools necessary to become and expert in Russian affairs and he even went as far as converting to the Orthodox Church taking the name Pavlo Sergeivich Sugihara and married a Russian girl, Klaudia Semionova Apollonova. His experience in all things Russian earned him the position of Deputy Foreign Minister in Manchuria where he was tasked with negotiating with the Soviets over the sale of their rights to the North Manchuria Railway. However, later that year, 1935, Chiune resigned his post in protest at Japanese mistreatment of the Chinese.

Just before returning to Japan Chiune and Klaudia’s marriage dissolved and ended in divorce. Chiune remarried a Japanese woman, Yukiko Kikuchi, with whom he would have four children. However, Chiune’s insubordination, regarding Japanese treatment of the Chinese in Manchuria, did not do his career any favours. He was soon re-posted in a demoted role as a translator to the Japanese legation in Helsinki, Finland.

On the eve of the War in 1939 Chiune was posted to the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania as vice-consul. His main job was to collaborate with Polish intelligence and keep an eye on German and Soviet troop movements. Although Japan was in an alliance with Germany they had reasons to be suspicious. Hitler and Stalin had devised a plan of cooperation for a joint invasion and annexation of Poland to be followed by a non aggression pact. This had worried the Japanese who viewed the Soviet Union as the main threat to their Empire in Asia.

The Germans and Soviets invaded and occupied Poland soon after Chiune’s arrival in Lithuania. This was followed almost immediately in 1940 by the Soviet overthrowing the governments of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This led to an influx of Eastern European Jews to Kaunas in search of nations that would offer visas. Chiune asked the Japanese foreign ministry for instruction regarding visas for the Jews. The Ministry replied that visas can only be given to those who had through appropriate immigration procedures and had enough funds to purchase it. Most of the Jews coming in fulfilled neither of these criteria.

By July 1940 it was starting to become increasingly clear what would happen to the Jews if they remained in Eastern Europe. Chuine decided to take his own initiative and started to churn out ten-day transit visas as well as speaking to Soviet officials who agreed to let the Jews use the Trans-Siberian Railway (at five times the normal price). Chiune would reportedly spend 20 hours a day writing the visas, producing a months worth of them in a single day. By September he had given thousands of visas to Jews, many of whom, as the heads of family, could use the visa to transport their entire families to Japanese territory. However, in September the Japanese consulate was closed and the Japanese staff told to leave. Chiune and his wife Yukiko stayed up all through the night writing more visas. Apparently he was still writing them while in transit from his hotel to the train station. Finally, in desperation, he resorted to signing pieces of paper affixed with the seal of the Japanese consulate which could then be written over into visas. Flinging them out of the train windows into the crowds of desperate refugees. Chiune left a copy of his signature and the consulate stamp with some Jesuits in Vilnas who continued issuing visas in his name.

He is estimated to have saved at least 6,000 Jews through his insubordination. When one considers that one visa issued for the head of a family could transport that whole family, the real number is probably in the tens of thousands. Many of the Jewish refugees were able to use these visas to get to Vladivostok or Manchuria where they would get a boat to Kobe, Japan. With the help of the Polish ambassador in Tokyo they would then proceed on to Canada. Others remained in Japanese-occupied China and would also survive the War.

During the rest of the War, Chiune would serve in Prague, Konigsberg and finally in Bucharest. In 1944 the Soviet Union invaded Romania and Chiune was captured and placed in a POW camp until the end of the War. He was released and allowed to return to Japan in 1946. Soon after his arrival he was sacked by the Foreign Ministry, officially this was due to general downsizing but others have speculated that this was due to his earlier insubordination over the visas in Lithuania.

Like many other families in early post-war Japan, Chiune and his family found themselves in dire poverty. Chiune had to take up jobs like selling light-bulbs door-to-door. Chiune was finally able to get a steady job for an export company where his command of Russian got him sent to represent the company in the Soviet Union (possibly as a spy for the US military). However, this time in the USSR was brief and Chiune was soon back in Japan.

In 1968, the Israeli economic attaché in Tokyo, Jehoshua Nishri (whose family had been saved by Chiune’s visas in the 1940) managed to track down his saviour. He brought Chiune to Israel in 1969 where he was greeted by the Israeli government and lobbying was begun on the Yad Vasham. In 1985 the Yad Vasham granted Chiune the title of Righteous Among the Nations (he and his family were also given perpetual Israeli citizenship) although he was too ill to travel to Israel to accept the award which was received by his wife instead.

Chiune Sugihara died in 1986. In Japan he was still a complete unknown and it was only when a huge Jewish delegation from around the world and the Israeli ambassador to Japan came to his funeral that his neighbours find out what he had done. Although not officially a saint, Chiune is considered as such by some Eastern Orthodox Christian, some of whom have icons of him.

When asked why he went to such lengths to produce visas Chiune answered: “It is the kind of sentiments anyone would have when he actually sees refugees face to face, begging with tears in their eyes. He just cannot help but sympathize with them. Among the refugees were the elderly and women. They were so desperate that they went so far as to kiss my shoes, Yes, I actually witnessed such scenes with my own eyes. Also, I felt at that time, that the Japanese government did not have any uniform opinion in Tokyo. Some Japanese military leaders were just scared because of the pressure from the Nazis; while other officials in the Home Ministry were simply ambivalent.

People in Tokyo were not united. I felt it silly to deal with them. So, I made up my mind not to wait for their reply. I knew that somebody would surely complain about me in the future. But, I myself thought this would be the right thing to do. There is nothing wrong in saving many people’s lives….The spirit of humanity, philanthropy…neighborly friendship…with this spirit, I ventured to do what I did, confronting this most difficult situation—and because of this reason, I went ahead with redoubled courage.”

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With a vast music influence ranging anywhere from grunge to electronic, Adrian spent the best part of the past years DJ-ing, promoting and organising parties throughout the island.

Poptart, an alternative-rock, indie and electro party that he started in 2004, was one of the Adrian’s greatest hits. As his weelikeme alter ego, Adrian and Poptart bagged the award of ‘Best Local Club Night’ in JUICE Magazine’s ‘Best of 2005’ awards.

Reputed as “the one who cranks up dancefloors” wherever he plays at, Adrian’s track record speaks for itself with a string of successful residencies, parties, and awards in the bag. Adrian now helms the decks at Velvet Underground’s exclusive Lounge, dishing out a tasty repertoire of house, electronic, electro, pop and rock.


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Thrift Store Shirt

Pinterest Story Prompt: She bought the shirt for a dollar at the thrift store and found the key in the pocket a week later. –

Melly loved her monthly thrift store treasure hunts. She usually went in with a particular theme or purpose, but was just as usually diverted down fascinating rabbit holes of unexpected finds and inspiration.

Her focus was mostly on metal bits and bobs, small accessories and other odds and ends that she could use in the sculptures she created and sold on her Etsy store. This time though, she needed some work clothes, sturdy shirts and pants that could stand being covered in sawdust, paint and glue. The $1 corner of the clothing section was made to order, she picked up two long-sleeved tees, a pair of men’s overalls that no one in their right mind would wear in public thanks to their interestingly-placed holes, and a comfy, roomy men’s plaid shirt.

She got home, washed all four, then tidied them into the cupboard in her ‘studio’ (more commonly known as the back shed). The following weekend, with an entire Saturday clear (bliss!) she headed down there and pulled the shirt out to cover herself while painting. The breast pocket thudded against her with an unexpected weight, a weight that most definitely wasn’t there when she’d pulled the shirt out of the shopping bag, the washing machine, or off the line.

From the outside, it felt like a key and when she fished it out, that’s what it was, a nondescript sort of key, with a stamp for the city railway station on one side, and a number on the other. There were lockers for rent at the station, could this be for one of them? And where had it come from?

All thoughts of painting gone, Melly headed for the street and the bus that would take her into town.

Making her way to the bank of lockers at the Central Station, and counting through the numbers on the doors, she came to the one matching her key, tucked in a back corner.

She carefully fitted key to lock, holding her breath as it turned, and the door opened. She didn’t know what she was expecting, but it surely wasn’t a guitar, a couple of CDs (did she even own a CD player any more?), a photo album and a letter, addressed to her.

She carefully propped the guitar back inside the locker and leaned against the wall as she opened the letter…

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Melbourne Open House: St Paul’s Cathedral

St Paul’s Cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Primate of Australia and home church for Anglicans in Melbourne and Victoria.

Around 20 worship services are held here every week, and are attended by both regular congregations and visitors to Melbourne. The Cathedral is also the venue for many ecumenical services, official commemorations, state funerals and other major events. In its style, the building echoes the grand cathedrals of Europe. Designed by distinguished English revival architect William Butterfield, the Cathedral is built in the neo-Gothic transitional style, partly Early English and partly Decorated. The foundation stone was laid in 1880, and work continued for eleven years, leading to the consecration of the Cathedral on 22 January 1891. The construction of the three spires did not begin until 1926, to a revised design of Sydney architect John Barr rather than the original design of Butterfield. The central spire is the second highest in the Anglican Communion, after Salisbury Cathedral.

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First-team manager Wally Downes has issued a special message of thanks to Dons Trust members and volunteers for the support given during our run to League One survival.

(If the video above doesn’t play on your device, you can see the video on the AFC Wimbledon YouTube channel.)

On behalf of all Dons Trust members and volunteers, we’d like to officially extend our own thanks to Wally, assistant manager Glyn Hodges, the players and all the backroom support staff for the effort that they put in to achieving League One survival in such dramatic fashion.

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Why is ‘The Fair List’ important?

Many teachers of EFL/TESOL in the UK are women. It is only fair then that there be many women senior academic staff, owners and principals of language schools, and presenters and plenary speakers at UK ELT events.

Women have talents and ideas aplenty so, if we are not hearing their voices during plenary talks at conferences, we are all missing out on varied, interesting ideas.

Presenting work at plenary level at a conference is a great spur to creativity and thinking, as well as to career movement, publication in conference proceedings, promotion etc. If women don’t get or take these chances, they miss out.

Some men who find themselves the only gender represented in a list of plenary speakers or on a speaker panel and then talking to large numbers of women participants, find this an odd experience. (See Jeremy Harmer’s piece under ‘Reactions’.)

There are plenty of women participants at UK ELT events. If they do not feel represented in the balance of speakers in front of them, this may feel demeaning to them and lower their self-confidence.

If it is usual to see lots of men presenters at events, this imbalance will start to feel ‘normal’. As a result, having more than one woman speaker may, strangely, start to feel ‘abnormal.’

If the same gender and the same ‘names’ come up all the time as plenary speakers, these oft-mentioned people are seen as more important than others. The pool of those up for invitation gets smaller and shallower. It gets harder for organizers to remember other speakers’ names. (‘People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory.’ Kahneman, 2011 page 8 – see Resources page.)

If there is only one woman on a speaker panel, it becomes easier for her voice to be ignored, or for her to be talked over amongst the, understandable, male camaraderie. More women on the panel and the dynamic changes. They may feel more comfortable too.

The more women accept invitations to give plenary talks, the more practice they get, and the better they will get at it. You have to do it, to get better at doing it.


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Have you ever heard of Michael Harding Handmade Artist’s Oil Colours? Well, if you haven’t we suggest you to read this exclusive interview with Michael Harding, a master paint maker behind the most exceptional oil paints in the market. Time to switch from acrylic to oil paints, folks!

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Please tell me I’m not alone. If I am I need help. If I’m not, I need to find a community…

I have this thing, this thing where I see others on the height in their passions:

1. Dancing on stage after rehearsals of perfecting

2. Speaking another language after months of practice

3. Coaching the youth for inspiration after years of polishing

And because it looks so flawless and effortless…and the people are so passionate and motivated…and I’m drawn to difference and distinction, I too desire to do what they’re doing! I want to become it too!

Its springs up in me to seek it, learn it, and be it, but when it doesn’t come out as pretty or perfect or polished as theirs, I start wondering….

I think~

I think~

I think I was attracted to their passion and I thought it was their art. God help me!

Am I alone?


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This is what you need to know about one of China’s fastest growing hotpot chains. And why its shares are down so much.

I’ll tell you what’s one of the lousiest type of industry to invest in. Restaurants.

Why? They produce one of the lowest profit margins (usually less than 10%) — high staff and rental costs.

Plus, you need to have many capable store managers to run your operations. And if there’s hygiene complaints, your restaurant gets shut down.

That’s not all.

Walk along the streets and you’ll find competing restaurants.

But there’s one restaurant business that stands out.

In fact, it’s operating a highly profitable hotpot business. This business has made a man so rich he’s one of Singapore’s richest man today.

Haidilao International (SEHK:6862) started out as a four table restaurant in Sichuan, China.


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Voltage Translator Market Growth Opportunities, Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Geographic Segmentation & Competitive Landscape Report To 2026

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Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights (Tenth Anniversary Edition) [Album Review]

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Fire Note Says: Turn On The Bright Lights at 10 sounds even more fresh and innovative today!

Album Review: I can’t believe that 10 years has already passed since Interpol released Turn On The Bright Lights. Some may say that it is too early to celebrate its greatness but this packaging by Matador will convince you otherwise. Turn On The Bright Lights is now fully remastered with a deluxe hardbound book that contains unreleased photos and a second disc of bonus tracks. The set also includes a DVD that includes all three music videos and live footage from a 2000 Mercury Lounge performance and a 2002 show at the Troubadour.

This anniversary edition is all about the extras and how they showcase the development of a spectacular record. At this point it should be understood that regardless of the new remastering here the original album extremely shines no matter how you spin it; either through a private sitting with headphones or cranking up the volume past 10. With that said you get 17 bonus tracks here on the Tenth Anniversary Edition that includes one previously unreleased song, four previously unreleased demos, eight B-sides and pre-album EP tracks, and lastly four peel session tracks. The bonus demos really pulled me into the record deeper because they show a true progression into the final product. “PDA (First Demo)” is a prime example as it just comes off OK and has no glow to it. From the lack of kick in the opening drums to singer Paul Banks sounding somewhat flat during the chorus the album stand out track never reaches a peak level. It just shows listeners why there is a process in making a record and how little tweaks can make or break you. When you get to the “NYC (Third Demo)” you start to hear where the band is going and know they guided it in for a perfect finish.

The final question to answer here with the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Turn On The Bright Lights is should you pick this up if you already own the original release? For Interpol fans I think it will be an enjoyable addition to your collection. The book, the demos, the early DVD footage is all worth the price of admission. For casual fans it may be a bit much but if you don’t have the album or are new to Interpol because you were 10 years old when this record was released – I say go for it! Turn On The Bright Lights continues to excite me when I play this album and it has aged well. I honestly can’t ever foresee diminishing returns as this record ages and predict I will feel the same in 2027 when Turn On The Bright Lights turns 25!

Key Tracks: ” Gavilan (Cubed) (Third Demo)”, ”PDA”, “Obstacle 2 (Peel Session)”

Artists With Similar Fire: Echo & The Bunnymen / Joy Division / Psychedelic Furs

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