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- Robert Young: Quotidian View exudes history, philosophy - Georgia Straight
- Tsvangirai mourns MP Nyamande - Zimbabwe Times
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| Pac-10 starting quarterbacks who major in philosophy are rare, but so ... - Oregonian Posted: 12 Nov 2009 10:57 AM PST By Paul Buker, The OregonianNovember 12, 2009, 11:22AM View full size"He's a thinker," Oregon State offensive coordinator Danny Langsdorf says of quarterback Sean Canfield (above).THURSDAY, what we filed for Friday's print edition:CORVALLIS – It may be a good thing for offensive coordinators everywhere that there are few starting quarterbacks in NCAA football majoring in philosophy. Aristotle, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Sartre? What did they know about Cover 2 defenses and the zone blitz?
Who: 6-foot-4, 214-pound fifth-year senior from Carlsbad, Calif. And then Canfield, trying not to giggle, will tell Langsdorf on the headphones, "I'm fine. My bad. … you yelling doesn't do any good.''» On pace to shatter OSU record for completion percentage » Has completed 69.6 percent of his passes (217-312) for 13 TDs (record is 60.6 by Matt Moore in 2006) » Canfield No. 5 nationally in completion percentage, trailing Colt McCoy of Texas (72.9), Nick Foles of Arizona (71.4), Case Keenum of Houston (71.0) and Max Hall of BYU (70.6) » Is averaging 62 pass attempts per interception this season after entering 2009 with an interception every 22 pass attempts » Is No. 5 all-time at OSU with 5,080 passing yards and is No. 4 in TD passes with 30, which ranks fourth on OSU's all-time list. » Is averaging a Pac-10-high 264.6 passing yards per game and has thrown just one INT in his last 156 attempts. The last OSU quarterback to lead the Pac-10 in passing is current Cleveland Browns' QB Derek Anderson (2004, 301.2 yards per game) » Is 13-7 as a starter at OSU Langsdorf said Canfield — notoriously matter-of-fact in those situations — is often oblivious to his tirades. "I'll yell at him, and I'll swear at him, and he won't (respond),'' said Langsdorf, grinning now. "I want him to start yelling back, but he won't. … and really, that's perfect, because we need him to be a calming force in the huddle.'' Canfield's reasoned, philosophical approach to football and life has been very apparent in his fifth year on the OSU campus — but the path to inner peace and OSU's fourth consecutive bowl appearance has often been strewn with potholes. He arrived as a 17-year-old who graduated early from high school — a strong-armed left-hander with huge expectations on his young shoulders. "You didn't know if he had (the stuff) to be a leader on the team,'' said Langsdorf bluntly. "He was laid-back. … he had a lot to learn about the position, too.'' He may not have been as outspoken or as outwardly brash as coaches wanted, but Canfield had a fleeting shot at replacing Matt Moore in 2006 before he took over as No. 1 in 2007. Then a late-season shoulder injury (torn labrum) in the USC game had Canfield contemplating the end of his career. Suddenly, the throws he could make in his sleep were difficult, and painful. "He called me one night,'' said Daniel Canfield, Sean's father, "and said, 'Dad, I don't know if I'm every going to play again.' " The strength in Canfield's arm came back slowly. As the 2008 season evolved, Moevao was making headlines as the team's charismatic No. 1 quarterback. Then the two players' careers did another 180-degree turn. Moevao suffered his own shoulder injury, last Nov. 1 against Arizona State, and it would eventually require rotator cuff surgery. Before that ASU game, Canfield had called his dad and said excitedly, "I'm back to throwing hard in practice! I've got the deep ball back! I can compete now.'' It was fortunate timing for OSU: Canfield started and won the Arizona and UCLA games — directing a memorable last-second drive in Tucson — and helped OSU qualify for another Sun Bowl appearance. Then Canfield had to sit back down and watch Moevao take over (despite the shoulder) and play the Civil War game and the bowl game. Up, down, up, down. At times, getting his heart ripped out. Through it all, Canfield has come to appreciate every twist and turn. He is … philosophical about all that has happened to him since he left his San Diego-area home and enrolled early at Oregon State. "I wouldn't change a thing,'' he said. "Really. … I think I am the person I am because of all the experiences I've gone through.''
"I'm going to miss him. I'm going to miss him, and everything he brought to the team.'' Which was always one-sided. - PB This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Robert Young: Quotidian View exudes history, philosophy - Georgia Straight Posted: 12 Nov 2009 11:19 AM PST  In works like Study for Poet 2, veteran artist Robert Younglooks at the Russian avant garde and political dissidence. Robert Young: Quotidian View At the Burnaby Art Gallery until November 29 There's a small print in Robert Young: Quotidian View that is definitely more than the sum of its subtle parts. Titled Citrus Utopi, it combines etching and Japanese woodcut techniques, and at first glance resembles an old botanical print. Comprising a delicate line drawing of a lemon branch with fruit and leaves, a scalloped wedge form filled with tiny dots, and a pale green trapezoid fading away into space, the work aligns Young's formal and philosophical concerns. The sources of these images include a lemon branch the artist's father long ago grafted onto another tree and a receding rectangle in a painting by Kazimir Malevich, the inventor of suprematism. The historical and philosophical references include the grafting of a political agenda onto an aesthetic movement, and specifically the utopian aspirations of the Russian avant-garde of the early 20th century. Most of the prints, drawings, and watercolours in this survey exhibition of works on paper reveal a contemplative calling. Covering the years 1982 to the present, they meditate on still-life arrangements, domestic interiors, and garden views from windows of the artist's small Mount Pleasant house. Young invests the most humble objects—a broken chair, a dandelion, a colander—with a Zen-like reverence for the everyday. Young also looks beyond his home, toward the enriching influences of music, poetry, and religion. As well, he honours those who have aspired to improve the human condition. His images of the Russian dissident Pyotr Yakir and Myanmar's jailed political leader Aung San Suu Kyi remind us of the need to be aware of history and the importance of striving to overcome the worst of human nature. The composition of three mixed-media studies and a woodcut print of Yakir sets the image of the persecuted historian's face between an untitled book and a collage by another suprematist, Lyubov Popova. In an understated comment on the failures of the Russian avant-garde as it aligned itself with the (again, utopian) ideals of the Russian Revolution, Young has reversed the collage that stands as a backdrop to the portrait. Even without knowing who Yakir is, the viewer recognizes the gaunt face, shaved head, and scruffy beard of someone who could only be a political prisoner. He looks like a man whose beliefs are being starved and tortured out of him. In all his work, Young treads a fine line between his aesthetic, philosophical, and political inquiries and his often-stated opposition to what he sees as postmodernism's orthodoxies. At the same time that he believes that a work of art should be autonomous and not "instrumentalist", he also fills his art with a rich range of cultural and political references and personal observations. Young's work affirms the belief that the unexamined life is not worth living. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Tsvangirai mourns MP Nyamande - Zimbabwe Times Posted: 12 Nov 2009 11:47 AM PST November 12, 2009 By Our Correspondent RUSAPE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai hailed the late Makoni Central MP John Nyamande as one of Zimbabwe's humblest legislators.  The late John Nyamande Tsvangirai was speaking at the burial of the MDC politician on Thursday. He died in a road traffic accident on Saturday. Fellow parliamentarians, representatives of other political parties and friends joined the family for the burial ceremony at Chemusango Village in Makoni District, Manicaland Province. "Nyamande's life's work was not to champion (the interests of) those with wealth or power or special connections," Tsvangirai said. "It was to give a voice to those who were not heard." Tsvangirai described how Nyamande had decided to leave his wife, family and business in the UK in 2007 to return to Zimbabwe to contest in the March 2008 parliamentary elections. He defeated Zanu-PF heavyweight, Patrick Chinamasa. Nyamande died in freak car crash in the early hours of Saturday as he was driving from his Makoni Central constituency. His official twin-cab rammed into the back of a stationary Mazda T35 truck at the 25km peg in Ruwa, killing him instantly. In attendance at the burial were Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe, Finance minister Tendai Biti and deputy national organiser, Senator Morgen Komichi, MDC spokesperson, Nelson Chamisa, members of Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara's party, several Cabinet ministers, MPs and MDC supporters. Friends and relatives packed the village church with soaring arches and stained glass windows. A choir sang as heavy rain pounded the roof. Readings came from several generations of the Nyamandes. Since Nyamande's death on Saturday, the MDC has staged a series of memorials, and his death has been treated as a devastating blow. Speaker after speaker described Nyamande as a fearless fighter for democracy, a man who believed in the nobility of politics and prevented differences of party and philosophy from becoming barriers to cooperation and mutual respect. "Honourable Nyamande was a respected man who had a warm and friendly personality and was always considerate towards others," Speaker of the House of Assembly Lovemore Moyo said. He said Nyamande served in the Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade portfolio committee. "His contribution in the House will be greatly missed by all in Parliament," Moyo said. "It is impossible to properly express how much we will miss him personally, and how much the House of Assembly will miss his presence," MDC chief whip Innocent Gonese said. The 57-year-old Nyamande was the holder of a Bachelor of Philosophy and Master of Arts degrees. Prior to joining the MDC, he was a school teacher, a headmaster and a businessman. He joined the MDC in 1999. He left the country for the UK in 2000, where he continued serving the MDC as Information and Publicity secretary for Southern branch. He returned home in 2007 and subsequently contested in the March 2008 elections on an MDC ticket. Matthew Nyashanu, the MDC spokesman for UK said in a statement: "We have lost a committed cadre who wanted to complete the change and see justice prevailing in Zimbabwe. "The honourable John Nyamande will be remembered by UK and Ireland Province for the hard work he did to mobilise funds and fuel for the 2008 election campaign during his tenure as provincial interim chairman. Our hearts, as South West district, go to Mrs Nyamande and all family members."  Print This Article  Email This Article This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Byron Dorgan's Financial Plan: Common Sense From The Senator Who Saw ... - Huffingtonpost.com Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:42 PM PST He got it right last time. Senator Byron Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, was one of eight senators who stood up to oppose the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act in 1999. That repeal, which was signed into law by President Clinton exactly 10 years ago today, broke down the barriers between commercial banking and investment banking, and led to the growth of behemoth financial firms that were able to take enormous risks with impunity, because they were "too big to fail." "I think we will in 10 years' time look back and say we should not have done this," Dorgan said back then. The video of his speech has become something of a cult favorite for wonks -- ten years, a $700 billion bailout and a major financial crisis later. Washington has an odd habit of listening to the people who consistently get such things wrong, and ignoring the ones who get them right. So today, on this solemn anniversary, how about listening to this guy? What does he think we should do now? "Three things," the senator told me in an interview. "One is to separate investment banks and FDIC-insured banks. Second, prohibit FDIC-insured banks from dealing in risky financial instruments on their own proprietary accounts... And third, abolish 'too big to fail.' If you're too big to fail, you're too big. Too big to fail is what I call no-fault capitalism." All in all, it's a much more forceful agenda than his party leaders -- including his president -- are advocating. Why isn't the administration at his side? "You'd have to address that question to the administration," Dorgan said. He did, however, express disappointment. "I would like to see them more aggressive on this issue." But he's still hopeful. "We don't have any bill on the floor of the House or the Senate to evaluate," said Dorgan, who is not on the Senate's Finance Committee. "My hope is that we'll get a piece of legislation that will restore that separation." Dorgan said he hasn't yet taken a position on the administration's proposed Consumer Finance Protection Agency, but "clearly there needs to be consumer protection. The question is how." Also, he said, "I think you have to regulate hedge funds... You have to have transparency on these financial instruments." And then there's the whole issue of accountability. "It's one of the most frustrating things," Dorgan said. "We essentially have had modern-day bank robbers -- except that they wore gray suits and not masks -- and there's been no accountability for it." Dorgan has repeatedly called -- fruitlessly -- for a federal task force to investigate and establish accountability for the crisis. What's needed, he said, is an agreed-upon "master narrative" for the story -- and then prosecution of any criminal activity. Dorgan, who is finishing up his third term in the Senate, is also an author. His latest book, published in May, is titled: "Reckless! How Debt, Deregulation and Dark Money Nearly Bankrupted America and How We Can Fix It". In it, he writes about the government's obligation to right the tilted playing field of modern free-market capitalism, which currently favors the major players over regular folk. He writes: Every day we see energy speculators, war profiteers, managed health-care providers, media propagandists, and/or financiers given some unfair advantage over the average consumers and taxpayers, and the cumulative effect of the American people watching selfishness prevail over the public interest has been an undermining of the public's trust in government. "There's no question the system is rigged against the little guy," Dorgan told me. "The bigger interests have a lot more information. They jerry-rig the system so that they always win." "I think that has to be one of the lessons that comes out of this experience," he said, noting that it's been "one of the most expensive lessons in the history of our country." As for what motivated him back in 1999, Dorgan said: "I just felt that merging the risks of investment banks with FDIC-insured banks was going to cause very expensive problems for the taxpayers of the country. And it turns out that's exactly what happened." WATCH: Here's Dylan Ratigan "celebrating" the 10th birthday of the Glass-Steagall repeal. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| gameplan philosophy - Seattle Post Intelligencer Posted: 10 Nov 2009 03:57 AM PST  Posted by tony-kang at 11/10/09 3:48 a.m. I believe that contrary to popular opinion, the Hawks do have the talent right now to be a serious playoff contender. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
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