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In support of the government's thrust to achieve inclusive growth, DTI formulated the Department's PWD Economic Empowerment Program to help facilitate integration of PWDs into the mainstream of society. The program provides the following interventions: (i) enterprise level assistance, (ii) enabling environment, and (iii) policy advocacy.
Prepared and disseminated to DTI PWD Focal Persons, for comments and additional inputs, the draft DTI Manual on Disability Inclusive Governance.
Represented DTI in the following meetings, seminars, and workshops:
National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) Governing Board Meeting
National Workshop on the Development of Policy Guideline on Disability Inclusive Business
Meeting of the NCDA Sub-Committee on Information Communication Technology (ICT).
Submitted to Commission on Audit (CoA) the DTI 2018 PWD Accomplishment Report and the 2019 Plans.
Conducted meeting with DTI-Consumer Protection and Advocacy Bureau (CPAB) and DTI- Fair Trade and Enforcement Bureau (FTEB) regarding the possible extension of Bagwis Awards to most PWD-friendly establishments and other areas of collaboration.
Assisted the Board of Investments (BOI) in coordinating with the Department of Health (DOH) and NCDA for their proposed sensitivity orientation seminar.
Represented the DTI in the meetings of the National Working Committee on Women with Disabilities Day Celebration.
In preparation of the DTI Manual on Inclusive Governance (ManDIG);
Coordinated with DTI PWD Focal Persons on their submission of comments and inputs to the draft Manual
Incorporated comments and inputs from head office and regional offices, the latest DTI organizational structure and DTI PWD accomplishments
Prepared write up on DTI Accomplishments which will be part of the annexes of the Manual.
Represented DTI in the following inter-agency meetings:
1st National Working Committee (NWC) meeting in preparation for the celebration of the National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Week in the 3rd week of July
National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) -PWD Sectoral Council 1st Quarterly Meeting focusing on the accomplishments of National Government Agencies relative to Executive Order 417 or Economic Independence Program for Persons with Disabilities. Reported on DTI accomplishments for the past 4 years including consumer advocacy services and activities
1st Quarterly Meeting of the NCDA Sub-Committee on Training, Employment and Livelihood (SCOTEL).
Accomplished the survey questionnaire of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) +25 Philippine Progress Report specifically on the portion pertaining to women and girls with disabilities.
Represented DTI in various inter-agency meetings:
2nd meeting of the National Working Committee for the 41st NDPR Week on 26 April 2019
2nd meeting of the NCDA Board on 26 April 2019
Conducted meeting with KMIS regarding the production of PWD materials for the mural to be displayed in the DTI main building in relation to the NDPR Week Celebration.
Prepared concept note on the inclusion of the Most PWD Friendly Establishments as special citation in the Bagwis Awards Program.
Preparations for the DTI activities for the 41st NDPR Week Celebration in July 2019, as follows:
Finalized and submitted to NCDA the approved DTI Calendar of Activities which shall form part of the overall Calendar of Activities of the 41st NDPR Week Celebration
Ongoing coordination with resource speaker for the Seminar on Demystifying Organizational Stress for Higher Performance to be attended by DTI employees
Ongoing coordination with NCDA regarding the handover ceremony of the DTI ManDIG by Undersecretary Zenaida Maglaya to NCDA Officer-in-Charge Carmen Zubiaga on 15 July 2019
Ongoing coordination with the DTI regional disability focal persons regarding the submission of hi-resolution photos of PWD entrepreneurs/cooperatives to be featured in the DTI digital wall in July in commemoration of NDPR Week.
Accomplished and submitted to NCDA the State of the Nation Address (SONA) Survey form with focus on sensitivity orientation of DTI Persons with Disabilities Focal Persons.
Represented DTI in various inter-agency meetings, as follows:
Stakeholders Consultation Meeting for the EDSA Greenway Project of the Department of Transportation
2nd Quarter Meeting of the Sub-Committee on Training, Employment and Livelihood (SCOTEL)
3rd National Working Committee Meeting for the 41st NDPR Week Celebration.
Continued coordination with Focal Persons of DTI regional and provincial offices regarding the additional requirements of KMIS for the digital wall display for the 41st NDPR Week and prepared brief background on PWD Mural as requested by KMIS.
Attended the 4th meeting of the NWC for the 41st NDPR Week Celebration on June 20, Thursday, at the NCDA Boardroom, Quezon City.
Organized the following activities for the DTI celebration of the National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Week:
Seminar on Organizational Stress for Higher Performance for selected DTI employees;
Flag raising ceremony on July 15 in commemoration of the 41st NDPR Week Celebration;
Hand-over ceremony of the DTI Manual on Disability Inclusive Governance to NCDA;
Disability Inclusive Governance Mural at the DTI Main Lobby featuring PWD beneficiaries of DTI programs and services
Attended the 1st Philippine Accessibility Summit on 24-25 Jul at Heritage Hotel, Pasay City.
DTI Permanent PWD Focal Persons with Dr. Mark Gapultos and the RGMS Secretarat pose for photo opportunity.
Dr. Mark Gapultos as a resource speaker during the first day of the Seminar on Demystifying Organizational Stress for Higher Performance which was held on 17-19 July 2019 at the Summit Ridge Hotel, Tagaytay City.
Dr. Mark Gapultos, resource speaker, during the first day of the Seminar on Demystifying Organizational Stress for Higher Performance which was held on 17-19 July 2019 at the Summit Ridge Hotel, Tagaytay City.
Disseminated to DTI bureaus and offices copies of the DTI Manual on Disability Inclusive Governance for their information and guide in implementing disability programs and services.
Conducted meeting with CPAB to discuss preparations needed for the launch of the additional category in the Bagwis Awards Program, the "Most PWD Friendly Establishment". Also prepared the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the conceptualization and development of the AVP for the launch of the new category and assessment sheet which will be used in selecting the winner next year (2020).
Facilitated the participation of the two identified PWD entrepreneurs for the forthcoming Diskwento Caravan held at the FTEB grounds on October 14-16.
Updated the PWD briefer to include among others the Marrakesh Treaty which facilitates greater access to published works by the blind, visually impaired and print disabled persons.
DTI Manual on Disability Inclusive Governance - Handover Ceremony
15 July 2019, Lobby, DTI Main Building
In a simple ceremony that took place on 15 July 2019, DTI ROG Undersecretary and Permanent PWD Focal Person Zenaida C. Maglaya provided Ms. Myrla P. Sedenio of the National Council for Disability Affairs (NCDA) with a copy of the DTI Manual on Disability Inclusive Governance. Witnesses to the said event were DTI-Resource Generation and Management Service staff led by Ms. Zenaida F. Pre and Ms. Aurora A. dela Rea, with Mr. Randy Calsena of NCDA. The ceremony was held at the DTI Main Lobby wherein the DTI Mural on Disability Inclusive Governance is displayed.
The DTI Mural on Disability Inclusive Governance features persons with disabilities/organizations in the various parts of the country that DTI helped through its programs and services.
Both the handover ceremony and the mural are part of the DTI Calendar of Activities in support of the 41st National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week Celebration this month. The celebration is geared "to strengthen national efforts towards disability prevention and rehabilitation to enable the effective integration of persons with disabilities into the mainstream of society". The theme for this year--"Lokal na Pamahalaan: Kabalikat sa Pagtupad ng Karapatan ng mga Taong Maykapansanan"-- focuses on regional/local efforts particularly of local government units in increasing awareness about persons with disabilities and promoting their rights.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2018
Coordinated with DTI- Regional Operations Group (ROG) and consolidated the PWD 2017 Accomplishment Report for submission to Commission on Audit COA and National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA);
Prepared draft Department Order on the designation of Permanent PWD Focal Person in each bureau/office/regional office/attached agency and listed the functions/responsibilities of a PWD Focal Person.
Represented DTI in the following meetings/activities:
Accessible Tourism Seminar hosted by the ASEAN-Japan Centre, the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the NCDA at the Manila Diamond Hotel on 01 March
National Working Committee on Women with Disabilities Day Celebration at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Biodiversity Management Bureau (DENR-BMB) office and updated the members on the topic for the Entrepreneurship and Employment Conference for Women with Disabilities slated for March 26
2nd National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Working Committee meeting to discuss preparatory activities in July 2018 and suggested inclusion of a booth for consumer advocacy services as one of the free services to be offered to PWD guests at the SMX MOA on the last day of the celebration
Sub-Committee on Training, Employment, and Livelihood (SCOTEL) at the NCDA Boardroom in 07March.
Continued updating of the DTI PWD Economic Empowerment Framework based on the 2017 accomplishments of DTI bureaus and regional offices, latest PWD laws and related policies.
Represented the DTI in the 4th and 5th meetings of the National Working Committee-40th National Disability and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Week Celebration. Prepared memo request inviting Consumer Protection and Advocacy Bureau (CPAB) and National Capital Region Office (NCRO) to send representatives to handle possible DTI booths on Negosyo Center and Consumer Advocacy Services during the culmination of the celebration on 23 July.
Prepared DTI report on the updating of the Philippine Compliance Report to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of PWDs (UNCRPD).
Prepared DTI inputs to the Philippine Compliance Report to be used for the State's Constructive Dialogue with the UNCRPD and the UN 11th Session of the Conference of State Parties to the COS-CRPD.
Attended the NCDA Sub-Committee on Training, Employment and Livelihood (SCOTEL). Highlights of the meeting included revision of Board Resolution requesting Department of Health (DOH) to provide guidelines allowing use of PWD IDs to avail tax holiday by private firms thus encouraging them to employ PWDs; revision of Board Resolution requesting Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to establish Disability Desk during Jobs Fair and to identify various types of services that can be accessed by PWDs; instruction to Secretariat to request TESDA to conduct write shop in relation to the Development of Plans and Guidelines in the Conduct of Abilympics.
Provided updates on DTI interventions on PWD economic empowerment as inputs to DOT's communication plan for barrier-free tourism in the Philippines.
Organized DTI's celebration of the 40th National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Week during the DTI Flag Raising Ceremony on 16 July 2018.
Organized DTI activities for the NDPR's free services by government offices for PWDs at SM MOA on 23 July 2018, as follows:
Consumer advocacy services by CPAB;
Business advisory, information, and advocacy services by the DTI-NCRO;
Seminar on entrepreneurship development by Bureau of Small and Medium Enterprise Development (BSMED); and
Intellectual property rights (IPR)-related services by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL).
Conducted Sensitivity Workshop cum Planning Session for DTI PWD Focal Persons from DTI Head Office and Regional and Provincial Offices on 01-03 August 2018.
Conducted meeting with the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) on the preparation of the DTI-PWD Operational Manual, which will outline the programs and services that DTI can provide to PWDs and how they can avail of them.
Coordinated meetings with Resource Generation and Management Service (RGMS), HRAS, BSMED, and Assistant Secretary Fajardo to discuss activities towards making DTI programs and services disability inclusive.
Organized meeting between Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT), DTI- Knowledge Management and Information Service (KMIS), and DTI- Information Systems Management Service (ISMS) regarding the audit of the DTI website's compliance with DICT Memorandum Circular No. 2017-004 "Prescribing the Philippine Web Accessibility Policy and Adopting for this purpose ISO/IEC 40500:2012 Information Technology-- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as the Philippine Standard for Making Web Content More Accessible to a Wider Range of People with Disabilities".
Accomplished and endorsed to the office of ROG Undersecretary Maglaya the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific UNESCAP Survey for the project entitled "Towards the Incheon Strategy to ensure the rights of PWDs in Asia and the Pacific", which will be discussed in a workshop in Bangkok on 25-26 Oct 2018.
Coordinated with HRAS regarding the provision of free hearing aids by Starkey Philippines in coordination with NCDA.
Coordinated the conduct of the Seminar on Entrepreneurship and Best Game for this year's celebration of Deaf Awareness Week on 15 Nov 2018.
Conducted a writeshop, participated by PWD Focal Persons from DTI bureaus/offices and regional/provincial offices, for the crafting of the DTI Manual on Disability Inclusive Governance.
Provided secretariat support during the 2018 International Day of Persons with Disabilities Celebration on 03 December at La Breza Hotel, Quezon City.
2018 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES CELEBRATION
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated every 3rd of December across the globe. This year's theme is "Empowering persons with Disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality" which is aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development "where no one is left behind."
In support of the international theme, the Philippines has adopted as sub-theme "Trabaho, Negosyo at Kabuhayan Para Taong Maykapansanan" (Job, Enterprise and Livelihood for Persons with Disabilities).
In December 3, the Department of Trade and Industry, together with the New Vois Association of the Philippines, Inc. led the observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities with the able support from the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) and more than 100 guests from PWD organizations, various Persons with Disability Affairs Offices (PDAOs), and other government agencies at the La Breza Ballroom, La Breza Hotel, Mother Ignacia, Quezon City.
Brother and sister team of Mr. Einstein and Ms Aika Rojas, representing New Vois Association of the Phils. Inc, acted as Masters of Ceremony.
Ms. Carmen R. Zubiaga, Officer in Charge of NCDA, welcomed everyone to the event. She thanked DTI for leading the celebration of the said event, and informed the audience that DTI has done a lot in terms of inclusion of PWDs in economic activities. DTI's Negosyo Center Business Counselors were trained to assist PWDs which is very reassuring for any PWD client who would like to avail of their services/programs. Further, DTI is the first agency to come up with the Disability Inclusive Governance Manual which ensures full participation and equalization of rights and opportunities for PWDs. She also urged PWDs to form and grow self-help groups to be economically independent. Other agencies like TESDA and DOLE provide assistance through job fairs for PWDs such as the one to be held this week in Quezon City wherein 1,000 jobs are in the offing.
NCDA officer-in-charge, Ms. Carmen Zubiaga delivering the welcome remarks for the event.
DTI Assistant Secretary Ameenah A. Fajardo delivered the inspirational message during the event. She underscored the capability, resilience and the potential contribution of Persons with Disabilities to the economy. She also shared that DTI continues to advocate the creation of an enabling environment that provides opportunities for the entrepreneurial development of PWDs to have productive and better lives and become mentors to others.
DTI Assistant Secretary Ameenah A. Fajardo delivering the inspirational message for the event
She mentioned the programs and services that DTI offers like 7 Ms – mindset change, mastery, mentoring, money, machine, market access, and models of negosyo.
Right after, the entrepreneurship seminar was handled by Ms. Elizabeth Manuel, former Acting Deputy Director of the Philippine Trade Training Center and President of the Rotary Club of Meycauayan Uptown. She introduced and involved everyone to the "Best Game cum Entrepreneurship Challenge" for them to experience what it is like to be involved in a business - whether as a producer or retailer.
Assistant Secretary Ameenah Fajardo and Mr. Sean Ignacio manning the product clinic booth
Meanwhile, DTI put up the Negosyo Center booth manned by DTI-NCRO Misses Dahlia Nuñez and Nerissa Sulib, and Mr. Sean Ignacio of the Office of Assistant Secretary Demphna Du-Naga handled product clinic booth.
Drafted a working paper on PWD status, laws and regulations passed in support of PWD development, DTI accomplishments and challenges and recommendations to improve responsiveness of the programs to the needs of PWDs which can serve as basis for a PWD Summit or Convention that will result to a Pledge of Commitment among DTI and cooperating partner agency and/or private sector.
Coordinated with the DTI-Knowledge Management and Information Service (KMIS) on the status of making the DTI website accessible to PWDs, and accomplished the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) template to reflect the update which formed part of the submission to the Office of DTI PWD Focal Person Regional Operations Group (ROG) Undersecretary Maglaya and her alternate, ROG Assistant Secretary Fajardo
Represented the DTI on 13 February 2017 at the NCDA Boardroom during the 2nd National Working Committee Meeting on the preparations for the 2017 Women with Disabilities Day Celebration scheduled on 28 March at the Philippine Arena.
Represented the DTI in the 1st National Working Committee Meeting that approved the final theme of the National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Week Celebration which was held in July 2017. Also identified the 2017 chair/host and lined up all succeeding meeting dates and venues. Lastly, prepared highlights particularly the NCDA comments regarding immediate or full implementation of certain laws like RA No. 10905 which calls for all television networks to have closed captioning to enable the PWDs particularly the deaf to have access to news and other information that will improve their welfare.
Coordinated with NCDA on the list of some national agencies' PWD focal persons as well as the heads of national PWD organizations in relation to the drafting of invitation letters on the Department's hosting of the Consultative Meeting of DTI Officials with other National Government Agencies and PWD Organizations held on 03 August 2017.
Represented the DTI in the NDPR-National Working Committee Meetings on the preparations for the NDPR Week Celebration; prepared highlights of the meeting including the request of NCDA for DTI to provide assistance to PWD entrepreneurs (who will participate in the PWD Bazaar at QC Hall) in product labeling and packaging; and requested for the inclusion in the Calendar of Activities of NDPR Week Celebration the General Assembly of DTI PWD Focal Persons as a pre-event activity.
Undertook research on the access to transportation by PWDs and prepared comments/inputs to the draft Executive Order on Accessible Public Transportation for PWDs for endorsement by the DTI Alternate PWD Focal Person to the Bureau of Trade and Industrial Policy Research for official communication to the Office of the President
Prepared memo seeking approval of the DTI PWD Focal Person to have small window for PWDs in the Livelihood Seeding and the Shared Service Facility Programs of the Department as these can provide concrete assistance to the sector in terms of livelihood opportunities
Hosted the start of the 39th NDPR Week Celebration on 17 July 2017 by reciting the Panata ng Isang Tagapagtaguyod ng Karapatan at Prebelihiyo ng May Kapansanan at the flag raising ceremony at the DTI Head Office attended by some of the ExCom members.
Updated the DTI PWD Economic Empowerment (PWDEE) Framework and added global and national statistics on PWDs to provide factual information about the sector; this document was presented during the General Assembly of information of the PWD Focal Persons.
Conducted the General Assembly for DTI PWD Focal Persons on 13 July 2017. A total of fifty-two (52) PWD Focal persons from DTI Bureaus, Regional and Provincial, and attached agencies participated.
Coordinated with the Office of the DTI Alternate PWD Focal Person Assistant Secretary Ameenah A. Fajardo to enjoin the Human Resource and Administrative Service (HRAS) to send a representative to the CBM International's South East Asia Regional Office's Employers' Forum 19 October 2017 at the Sequoia Hotel, Quezon City. This is in relation to the employment of Persons with Disability, since the said unit handles the hiring of personnel within the Department. Also attended the forum and submitted memo and highlights of event to Asst. Secretary Ameenah A. Fajardo.
Attended the Knowledge Sharing Forum on Disability Development Programs conducted jointly by the Korean International Cooperation Agency-Philippine Office, and the Philippine–Korean Fellows Association and the NCDA on 27 October 2017, at the Discovery Suites Manila, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City; and prepared the highlights of event.
Represented the DTI in the Joint Seminar on Mid-Decade Review of the Asia and the Pacific's Decade of Make the Right Real which was conducted by NCDA and the Rehabilitation International (RI) Korea on 03 November 2017 at the NCDA Boardroom, Holy Spirit Drive, Quezon City.
Represented the DTI in the 1st National Working Committee Meeting in preparation for the 2017 International Day of Persons with Disabilities Celebration in the 1st week of December.
Coordinated with the Consumer Protection and Advocacy Bureau (CPAB) and KMIS regarding appropriate advice and opinion on the possibility of having braille labels on some goods/products for visually impaired customers and how it may relate to RA 7394 or the Consumer Act.
Represented the DTI PWD Focal Person, Undersecretary Zenaida C. Maglaya, in the NCDA Board meeting on 12 December at 10 am, at the Alcuaz Function Room, Manila Pavilion, Manila. Raised concerns on the RA 10524 (1% of government positions reserved for PWDs), and the portion of EO 417 on 10% procurement to be sourced from PWD suppliers, both of which the Chair had asked the Board Secretariat to include in the next meeting of the Board; Finally prepared the highlights and the endorsement memo on 13-14 December.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2016:
Collated and submitted the 2015 DTI PWD accomplishments to COA and NCDA
Prepared and submitted the 2016 DTI Plans and Programs to NCDA for endorsement to the Sub-Committee on Training, Employment, and Livelihood.
Prepared comments/inputs on:
Draft IRR of RA 10754 or "An Act Expanding the Benefits and Privileges of Persons with Disability"
Senate House Bill No. 205 entitled "An Act Providing for the Alternative Learning System of Education for Adults, Out of School Youth, Members of Cultural Minorities, Indigenous People, and Persons with Disabilities".
Participated in the various inter-agency PWD-related activities/workshops/fora, as follows:
Women with Disability Day Celebration at the Occupational Health and Safety Center held last 30 March 2016
38th National Disaster Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Week Celebration held from 17-23 July 2016
Program Assessment and Planning Workshop on Disability Inclusive Programs/Services for PWDs held last 16 – 18 March 2016 in Angeles City, Pampanga
Enhancement of Communication Plan following the Incheon Strategy Framework for Persons with Disabilities
Special Inter-Agency Meeting on Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act No. 10754 or "An Act Expanding the Benefits and Privileges of Persons with Disability"
Launching of Apolinario Mabini Awards at the Bulwagang Amoranto, Quezon City Hall
Inter-Agency Committee preparatory meeting for the 27th White Cane Safety Day Celebration
Public Hearings on the Draft Joint DTI-DA-DOE Administrative Order for Senior Citizens and Persons with Disability
Mid-Term Assessment on Incheon Strategy Implementation and the Status of the National Plan of Action on Effective Data Generation
NCDA Sub-Committee on Advocacy
Conducted Orientation Workshop on Disability Sensitivity for Negosyo Center Business Counselors
Batch 1 – DTI and LGU representatives from Northern Luzon in Clark, Pampanga on 19-21 July 2016
Batch 2 – DTI and LGU representatives from NCR and Southern Luzon in Pasay City on 09-11 August 2016
Batch 3 – DTI and LGU representatives from Mindanao in Davao City on 16-18 August 2016
Batch 4 – DTI and LGU representatives from Visayas in Pasay City on 06-07 September 2016
Conducted Orientation on Disability Sensitivity for PWD Focal Persons in DTI bureaus and regional and provincial offices
Continuing advocacy for the welfare of PWDs:
Implementation of various laws to ensure the protection of PWDs' civil and political rights based on DTI's mandate i.e. Republic Act No. 10524 "An Act Expanding the Positions Reserved for PWDs", Batas Pambansa Blg. 344 "Accessibility Law", Executive Order No. 417 "Directing the Implementation of the Economic Independence Program for PWDs"
PWD accessibility of the DTI website
Inclusion of "provision/granting of special discounts to PWDs" in the guidelines on the DTI Bagwis Program
Click to access a comprehensive list of Disability Laws at the National Council on Disability Affairs website.


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Q: $doc->getElementById('id'), $doc->getElementsByName('id') not working
Possible Duplicate:
PHP HTML DomDocument getElementById problems

I'm trying to extract info from Google searches in PHP and find that I can read the search urls without problem, but getting anything out of them is a whole different issue. After reading numerous posts, and applicable PHP docs, I came up with the following
// get large panoramas of montana
$url = 'http://www.google.com/search?q=montana+panorama&tbm=isch&biw=1408&bih=409';
$html = file_get_contents($url);
// was getting tons of "entity parse" errors, so added
$html = htmlentities($html, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8', true); // tried false as well

$doc = new DOMDocument();
//$doc->strictErrorChecking = false; // tried both true and false here, same result
$result = $doc->loadHTML($html);

//echo $doc->saveHTML(); this shows that the tags I'm looking for are in fact in $doc

if ($result === true)
{
    var_dump($result); // prints 'true'
    $tags = $doc->getElementById('center_col');
    $tags = $doc->getElementsByTagName('td');
    var_dump($tags); // previous 2 lines both print NULL
}

I've verified that the ids and tags I'm looking for are in the html by error_log($html) and in the parsed doc with $doc->SaveHTNL(). Anyone see what I'm doing wrong?
Edit:
Thanks all for the help, but I've hit a wall with DOMDocument. Nothing in any of the docs, or other threads, works with Google image queries. Here's what I tried:
I looked at the @Jon link tried all the suggestions there, looked at the getElementByID docs and read all the comments there as well. Still getting empty result sets. Better than NULL, but not much.
I tried the xpath trick:

$xpath  = new DOMXPath($doc);
$ccol   = $xpath->query("//*[@id='center_col']");

Same result, an empty set.
I did a error_log($html) directly after the file read and the document has a doctype "" so it's not that.
I also see there that user "carl2088" says "From my experience, getElementById seem to work fine without any setups if you have loaded a HTML document". Not in the case of Google image queries, it would appear.
In desperation, I tried
echo count(explode('center_col', $html))

to see if for some strange reason it disappears after the initial error_log($html). It's definitely there, the string is split into 4 chunks.
I checked my version of PHP (5.3.15) complied Aug. 25 2012, so it's not a version too old to support getElementByID.
Before yesterday, I had been using an extremely ugly series of  "explodes" to get the info, and while it's horrid code, it took 45 minutes to write and it works.
I'd really like to ditch my "explode" hack, but 5 hours to achieve nothing vs 45 minutes to get something that works, makes it really difficult to do things the right way.
If anyone else with experience using DOMDocument has some additional tricks I could try, it would be much appreciated.

A: are you using the the javascript getElementById and getElementsByTagName if yes than this is the problem
 $tags = $doc->getElementById('center_col');
    $tags = $doc->getElementsByTagName('td');

A: You will need to validate your document with DOMDocument->validate() or DOMDocument->validateOnParse before using function $doc->getElementById('center_col');
$doc->validateOnParse = true;
$doc->loadHTML($html);

stackoverflow: getelementbyid-problem
http://php.net/manual/de/domdocument.getelementbyid.php
it's in the question @Jon post in his comment!

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Gratz & Grutter: Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
Jennifer Gratz
Following the lead of states such as California, Florida and Washington, which have elected to eliminate all consideration of race in government contracting, hiring, and state-supported education, Michigan voters passed a ballot initiative to end racial preferences. Appearing on the November 2006 ballot as Prop. 2, the amendment passed with 58% of the vote and went into effect on December 22, 2006.
In addition to singling out public universities, the amendment broadly mandates that "the state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting."
The initiative was spearheaded by California businessman Ward Connerly and CIR client Jennifer Gratz, who formed the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative to obtain the requisite number of signatures to put the issue on the ballot. MCRI submitted 508,202 signatures on January 6th, 2005, well more than the 317,757 required.
Prof. William Allen
To help ensure that Michigan residents heard both sides of the debate, a second organization was formed in early 2005 called Toward a Fair Michigan. Led by Michigan State Professor William Allen and CIR client Barbara Grutter, the organization initiated a variety of educational programs designed to educate the public about the harms and benefits of racial preferences.
The legal assault on Prop. 2
Before Prop. 2 had even made its way onto the ballot, the advocacy group "Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary," known commonly as "BAMN," demanded that U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Tarnow remove the initiative from the ballot. BAMN claimed that MCRI had violated the Voting Rights Act by using the terms "racial preferences" and "affirmative action" misleadingly. At the last minute, the District Court rejected BAMN's claims, allowing Prop. 2 to stay on the ballot.
After Prop. 2 passed overwhelmingly, BAMN then sought to delay its enforcement by claiming that the amendment violated the U.S. Constitution. Three days before Prop. 2 was scheduled to take effect, on December 19, 2006 U.S. District Judge David Lawson ordered a delay on Prop. 2 until July 1, 2007, which would have bypassed an entire admissions cycle at Michigan's universities. Representing UM law school student Eric Russell, CIR moved to intervene in the case. On emergency appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, CIR succeeded in lifting Judge Lawson's order on December 29.
The Sixth Circuit then remanded the case to Judge Lawson for a decision on the question of whether Prop. 2 violated the U.S. Constitution. After a year of extensive discovery, Judge Lawson upheld the constitutionality of Prop. 2 on March 18, 2008. In December, 2008, Judge Lawson denied the plaintiffs' motion to reconsider and the case is now on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
CIR's successful defense of Prop. 2 removed a legal cloud hanging over ballot initiatives in other states. Led by Ward Connerly, the American Civil Rights Institute (ACRI) successfully passed a similar initiative in Nebraska in 2008, while falling short in Arizona and Colorado. ACRI plans to file similar initiatives in the 2010 elections.
Click here to learn more about ACRI
Gratz v. Bollinger; Grutter v. Bollinger
Who Were Gratz and Grutter?
What Was the Dispute?
Undergrad Preferences
Law School Preferences
The Rulings
Consequences and Commentary
Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
Minority enrollment bounces back at UM
By Maryanne George
Detroit Free Press, June 7, 2005
Aggressive recruiting — everywhere from church pulpits to the Internet — appears to have helped the University of Michigan recover minority enrollment in its incoming freshman class, which had dropped significantly in 2004, the university reported Monday.
The preliminary numbers, based on deposits for fall enrollment, show U-M's minority enrollment is approaching levels achieved under the admissions system it used before a U.S. Supreme …
Top 10 percent may hurt minorities, report says
By Melissa Mixon
Daily Texan, February 24, 2005
An unpublished study, reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education, said black and Hispanic students from predominately minority schools are less likely to enroll in selective colleges such as the University of Texas at Austin.
The report, which examines Texas' top 10 percent law, was conducted by Marta Tienda, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, and Sunny Niu, a research associate …
A New Route to Racial Diversity
Texas A&M raises minority enrollments without race-conscious admissions
By Peter Schmidt
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 28, 2005
CASTING FARTHER, REELING HARDER
Texas A&M University at College Station has undertaken a multi-pronged effort to enroll more minority students without considering race in admissions decisions. Its key elements:
Dispersed Recruiters
Until this academic year, Texas A&M and the University of Texas at Austin had jointly operated several "outreach centers" around the state, their goal being to …
Students in U-M case seek damages
Detroit Free Press, December 10, 2004
Lawyers for two white students who sued the University of Michigan claiming they were denied admission in favor of less-qualified minorities have asked a federal judge to award damages to 30,000 other white and Asian students, who also may have been illegally denied admission.
The motion, filed with U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan in Detroit late Wednesday, is seeking nominal damages of $1 for …
Diversity stymied
Washington Post, November 29, 2004
ONLY LAST YEAR the University of Michigan won a landmark battle in the Supreme Court establishing the legitimacy of carefully designed affirmative action programs to ensure diversity in higher education. This year, fresh off that victory, the university experienced a sudden drop in African American enrollment. Applications from black students for undergraduate admissions were down more than 25 percent. Total undergraduate enrollment by African Americans fell …
Universities record drop in black admissions
By Michael Dobbs
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Despite winning a marathon Supreme Court struggle last year to continue using race as a factor in admitting students, the University of Michigan is reporting the smallest class of African American freshmen in 15 years.
A similar decline in the number of incoming black students has been recorded at many state universities across the country, from California to Georgia to much …
Critics assail study of race, law students
By John Hechinger
Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004
A new study that's raising controversy in law-school circles questions whether admissions preferences for black students help them or set them back in their careers.
Research by a respected law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, asserts that blacks who benefit from affirmative action are being admitted to law schools where they find themselves in over their heads, achieving lower grades and …
A new study that's raising controversy in law-school circles questions whether admissions preferences for black students help them or, ironically, set them back in their careers.
Research by a respected law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, asserts that blacks who benefit from affirmative action are being admitted to law schools where they find themselves in over their heads, achieving lower grades …
A&M pushing for diversity
School strives to recruit minorities through phone calls, VIP visits
By Holly K. Hacker
The Dallas Morning News, November 1, 2004
What does it take to get a minority student to Texas A&M University?
University President Robert Gates has personally phoned students at home, encouraging them to become Aggies. Recruiters promote the university at high schools across the state and arrange campus visits, ferrying minority students to College Station in SUVs.
Texas A&M officials would …
Poll: Voters support affirmative action ban, but it's confusing
Associated Press, April 2, 2004
Most Michigan voters would support a ban on affirmative action at public agencies and universities based on the language in a ballot initiative, according to a poll released Friday.
But the name of the group pushing the proposal, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, may be confusing voters. And several groups have gone to court over the wording of the ballot language, saying it doesn't clearly …
Grutter Opinion
Gratz Opinion
Grutter Filing
Gratz Filings
Amicus Filings
The Men Who Would End Affirmative Action
When, in 1994, Michael Greve and Michael McDonald wanted to make a point about politically correct speech, they successfully defended …
D.C. Public Interest Law Firm Puts Affirmative Action on Trial
Michael Greve stages lawsuits as if they were theatrical productions, so when he began a legal assault on affirmative action…

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Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit - Eclipse LP
Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless spirit, deeply engaged with the era's new movements in contemporary art, music, literature, and philosophy. His work, beginning in the late 1960s placed him on the leading edge of these developments; he began expanding on the most radical elements of American and European free jazz, infusing them with the raw feedback and dissonance of electronic and avant-garde music. With his various New Direction groups, Takayanagi broke free of traditional structures and developed a new theory of music that embraced an aggressive and unrelenting style of playing that has remained almost completely unparalleled in its ferocity. Of all the albums to be released during Takayanagi's lifetime, 1975's Eclipse was perhaps the most enigmatic and sought after. Released in an edition of only 100, it almost immediately disappeared and became a holy grail for Japanese connoisseurs of adventurous music, and rightly so. It's first side contained a two-part realization of Takayanagi's "Gradually Projection" modality -- a searching interplay between instruments -- slowly emerging from a sparse open field and building with the tension of a looming thunder storm. The second side contains an epic performance of a "Mass Projection", a high energy, densely layered barrage of sound that in its 25 minutes, never once slackens its intensity. It would be another 31 years before this key album in Takayangi's oeuvre would finally have a (slightly) wider audience through a CD release by Japan's P.S.F. Records.
Black Editions present a deluxe vinyl edition of this masterwork, revealingly remastered from the original tapes by Elysian Masters. The album is packaged in a heavy double tip-on gatefold jacket that pays tribute to the original handmade packaging and features a previously unseen studio photograph of Takayanagi by Tatsuo Minami. Recorded in Tokyo, March 14, 1975. Engineer: Mikio Aoki. Cover, photographs and design by Kazuharu Fujitani. Gatefold photograph by Tatsuo Minami. Insert Notes by Yasunori Saito. Produced by Satoru Obara, Yoshiaki Kamei, Nihon Gendai Jazz Ongaku Kenkyukai. Originally released in an edition of 100 by ISKRA Records, Japan in 1975. Remastered from the original master tapes by Dave Cooley, Elysian Masters, and produced by Peter Kolovos. Deluxe heavy tip-on gatefold LP with matte black paper, second tipped-on metallic gold wrap and insert.


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Growing 8K Ecosystem, HDMI 2.1 Specification to Drive 8K Home Entertainment Adoption
Written by Joseph Palenchar
Hyper-realistic 8K UHD video is on the road to becoming a major force in the home entertainment industry, and the HDMI 2.1 specification is playing an essential role in driving 8K into the home.
With 33.2 million pixels, 8K images are 4-times denser than 4K images, enhancing image quality at typical viewing distances in the home, new research shows. Sharper, smoother edges around objects, more realistic color tonality, and perceived enhancements in brightness and contrast add depth to the image, creating a 3D-like effect. Subtle textures of leaves, concrete and other objects become visible. And pixels disappear, even at close range, enhancing realness and delivering a film-like look.
8K Ecosystem Advances: All the pixels are starting to fall into place to drive 8K into the home. They include:
• a small-but-expanding ecosystem of 8K content-creation tools such as professional cameras and encoders;
• a small-but-growing supply of native 8K content, including a growing reserve of movies and TV shows captured and archived in 8K for future 8K distribution;
• the late-2020 launch of 8K game consoles by Microsoft and Sony;
• NHK's December 2018 launch of an 8K/60fps satellite channel delivering live action, scripted movies and episodic content for 12 hours each day;
• plans by select media companies to broadcast the 2020 Olympics in 8K;
• the expected 2020-2021 launch of limited 8K streaming in select countries, with robust 8K streaming libraries available perhaps as soon as 2023 or 2024, Strategy Analytics analyst Michael Goodman said;
• and accelerating 8K TV sales as more suppliers launch their first models and TV prices continue to drop.
Other factors moving the 8K needle forward include continued advances in 8K encoding efficiency, which promises to reduce the amount of bandwidth needed to distribute 8K to homes without reducing picture quality. Lower bandwidth requirements will encourage satellite, cable and telco MVPDs (multichannel video program distributors) to offer 8K, given that a single 8K channel consumes the bandwidth of multiple 4K channels and even more HD channels.
More efficient encoding will also make 8K streaming more practical via broadband, as will continually accelerating broadband speeds delivered either by wired networks or expanded wireless 5G networks.
Though the requisite broadband speeds are already available to many households, the price of high-speed bandwidth is still too high to foster broad adoption, so "greater compression efficiency will be necessary if the cost of Internet bandwidth remains the same for the next few years," said Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa, CEO of Spin Digital, which makes video encoders and decoders. As a result, Alvarez-Mesa expects more powerful encoders will be deployed to reduce the bit rate of the widely adopted HEVC codec while efforts are underway to develop the VVC codec, which promises a 50% bitrate reduction with no performance loss.
TV Trends: TV-market trends also promise to lift 8K's fortunes. One major trend is growing consumer demand for big-screen TVs at least 65 inches in size. Those screen sizes deliver the best 8K experience at typical viewing distances, and 8K TV suppliers have exclusively focused on those sizes for their 8K launches.
By 2025, all TVs with screen sizes of at least 60 inches will account for 23% of total global TV shipments in 2025, up from 6% in 2016, Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) said in a mid-2019 forecast. And 8K will account for a disproportionate share of big-screen sales. Every 75-inch TV and 60% of 65-inch TVs shipped in 2025 will feature 8K, DSCC projects.
Another trend generating 8K tailwinds is a forecast substantial drop in big-screen TV prices due to an expected "huge oversupply" in big-screen LCD panels, said DSCC president Bob O'Brien. In China, newly built government-subsidized 10- and 10.5G-class LCD-panel factories are optimized for the efficient production of 65-, 75- and even 98-inch panels. Some of these panels will deliver 8K, and their increasing affordability will encourage consumers to step up from 4K, he said.
O'Brien expects overall TV prices to decline at a rate of about 20% per year in the coming years.
With 8K TV supplies growing and prices expected to fall, the number of global 8K TV households will rise to more than 18.5 million in 2023, up from only 400,000 in 2019, Strategy Analytics said in a June 2019 forecast.
HDMI 2.1 Specification Role: In 8K's growing end-to-end ecosystem, HDMI 2.1 Ultra High Speed Bandwidth connectivity is the last link in the content-delivery chain and the glue holding an 8K home entertainment system together.
The HDMI 2.1 specification is so critical to 8K adoption that the 8K Association (8KA), a cross-industry group, includes the specification in its 8K TV performance and certification requirements, which define an 8K TV's minimum capabilities. Requirements include resolution, peak brightness, black level, color gamut, high dynamic range (HDR), and refresh rates.
With bandwidth of 48Gbps, certified HDMI 2.1 ports and Ultra High Speed HDMI Cables support the transfer of uncompressed 8K content at up to a 60Hz refresh rate to TVs from planned next-gen Microsoft and Sony game consoles, future 8K-capable OTT video-streaming devices, and cable-, satellite- and telco-TV boxes.
At 60Hz, high-speed 8K action can be rendered with smooth sharp images with less judder, or shakiness, on big screens displaying bright HDR (high dynamic range) images, said Chris Chinnock, president of Insight Media. Higher refresh rates are particularly important to sports fans, action-movie enthusiasts, and gamers.
For even smoother ultra-fast action, HDMI 2.1 specification also supports uncompressed 4K video at 100-120Hz refresh rates and uses optional VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC) 1.2a lossless compression to deliver 8K at 100-120Hz refresh rates.
Just as important, HDMI 2.1-certified products and Category 3 "Ultra High Speed HDMI Cables" ensure that 8K content and other HDMI 2.1-supported features can be delivered reliably to a TV from an external source, avoiding compatibility glitches among products from different suppliers.
Other key HDMI 2.1 features include support for dynamic-metadata HDR (high dynamic range) formats, low-lag Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM) for responsive game play, and Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) for a smoother gaming experience.
HDMI 2.1 technology also supports 5K and 10K imagery for commercial and industrial applications such as digital signage, simulators, and medical imaging.
Native Content, Upscaling: With native 8K content still scarce, consumers might question the wisdom of purchasing an HDMI 2.1-equipped 8K TV. But TV suppliers anticipated this objection by offering all of their 8K TVs with sophisticated 8K upscaling technologies that generate compelling 8K images from lower resolution content.
The latest upscaling technologies significantly outperform their predecessors, using such techniques as machine learning and artificial intelligence to restore sharp edges, create texture, and reduce noise and other compression artifacts, Insight Media said.
Sophisticated upscaling will encourage consumers to buy into the 8K ecosystem, thus expanding the installed base of 8K TVs and encouraging content creators and distributors to deliver native 8K content.
"Being able to enjoy superior upscaling and have a TV ready for native content as it becomes available can make buying an 8K TV a good future-proofing strategy," said Insight Media's Chinnock in an FAQ developed by the 8K Association, which promotes 8K adoption.
The supply of native 8K content, meantime, continues to grow. Sources include 70mm catalog films scanned and remastered in 8K, along with movies and TV episodes captured in 8K for archiving content and for creating the highest quality 4K masters.
"For cinema or high-value content production, having the high-resolution [8K] master makes for a much better archival version and will enable distribution of 8K versions at the appropriate time with little additional cost," the 8K Association contends.
For its part, NHK is "proving that a full channel of 8K content can be produced on a regular basis," the 8K Association said of the Japanese broadcaster's 8K satellite channel.
More 8K broadcasting will accompany the 2020 and 2022 Olympics. NHK plans to broadcast the full 2020 summer Olympics in 8K from Tokyo. Italian broadcaster RAI also plans 8K broadcasts of the 2020 Olympics, and the Chinese National Engineering Research Center is developing an 8K terrestrial-broadcast system that it wants to make ready for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Several major European streaming services have also announced intentions to join the 8K ecosystem, including Chili, The Explorers, MEGOGO, and Rakuten TV.
Other content includes thousands of 8K videos available on Vimeo and YouTube.
With the ecosystem evolving, "the pieces of the 8K transition are in place and progressing in ways that mirror the way 4K was adopted," Insight Media's Chinnock concluded.
For additional information, see:
https://www.technologyintegrator.net/post/ps5-project-scarlett-push-tv-tech-forward/#ne=b20613571be4f7a22b2990
Avid gamers won't enjoy the full potential of high-frame-rate 8K gaming on their next-generation game consoles without HDMI 2.1-capable cables and HDMI 2.1-capable 8K TVs, according to this Technology Integrator story.
https://www.displaydaily.com/article/display-daily/8k-tv-more-than-just-pixels
This Display Daily article delves into the latest research showing that 8K image-quality enhancements can be perceived at typical viewing distances in the home.
https://www.csimagazine.com/eblast/Digital_Editions/September2019/CSI-Digital-Edition-September2019.pdf
CSI magazine takes a deep dive (pages 8-12) into the state of 8K capture, production, display, experimental broadcasts, and the capabilities of the distribution chain.
Valerie Robbins


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In this seminar we will trod fiction's "path not taken" -- the tradition of the novel of ideas that, with the triumph of Realism in the nineteenth century of Dickens and Balzac, became mainstream fiction's dark shadow. Our exploration will stretch from Rabelais, in the sixteenth century, to Thomas Mann, Walker Percy, Milan Kundera and Iris Murdoch in the twentieth, with stops in between for Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, Franz Kafka and Marguerite Yourcenar. Throughout we will focus on what this tradition can tell us about what the novel is, what it became -- and what it can be.
A student's record of attendance and participation in class discussion, together with the quality of his or her writing, will determine the success of our class and contribute the better part of the grade.
Schedule Note that all classes will meet Tuesdays at 2 pm in Wheeler 301. Update: Class will meet in Wheeler 300.
Reading Our primary reading will draw on a series of novels, classic and contemporary. They are listed below under Required Texts. I strongly urge you to obtain these books in your own copies and in the edition specified, either from local bookstores or from online suppliers, so that we will all be "on the same page" and so that you will be able to highlight and annotate them.
Presentations Each student will make one presentation on the theme of the course, in some way tied to the current reading. Use of multimedia and social media during the presentation is strongly encouraged.
Writing Depending on response to the reading there may be an occasional in-class quiz, which will be short "pop" quizzes presented at the beginning of class.
To bolster the clarity and vigor of your English prose, I strongly suggest studying two works: George Orwell's essay, "Politics and the English Language," which can be readily found on the web, and Strunk and White's little manual, The Elements of Style.
Office Hours I will count on meeting with each of you individually at least once during the course of the term. We will make these appointments on an ad hoc basis. I am best reached via email, at mark@markdanner.com. My offices are Wheeler 229 and North Gate 32. My writing, speaking and other information can be found at my website, markdanner.com.
August 28 – Introduction to the Novel's Other Path. Works of Art in Prose.
Our discussion focused on defining--or attempting to define--the genre of the Menippean Satire.
*As Kundera writes The Unbearable Lightness of Being he has been living in Paris for nine years.
The inherent musicality of the text can be seen in the seven parts of the book; the letters to the right emphasize the strange 'chronology' of the narrative, a chronology not predicated on the trajectory of ordered time but rather characters and their 'themes'.
*Death in Venice is realism but with a mythological, "mythico" (psychological level being brought into the novel), and allusionary 'secondary plot line'. It is by no means a work of realistic fiction (such as Dickens). It is a free and direct narrative that utilizes the "self-portrait" technique—we see this in Aschenbach's description of his morning routine, among other things. Mann draws inspiration from Plato's Symposium and Phaedra, and Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy.
Conclusion: as the narrative progresses, Aschenbach's apollonian obstinacy is adulterated. He becomes ever the more Dionysian in character.
-Cholera as a "Dionysian infection": the disease shares the same characteristics as the god; Dionysus is an outsider from Asia, an "invader from without" and Cholera was spread from the east to the west.
Pages 3-4: Imagery of death (cemetery, Greek crosses, the "red" featured devil-like stranger).
-The beginning of a mythological stream that runs throughout the book.
*The first man possesses devil-like characteristics: red haired, horned, teeth pulled back, situated by a graveyard. This figure triggers Aschenbach's sudden need to escape; the devil tempts him.
Description of the foliage: too ripe, verdant, monstrous, moist, rank= utter opposite of the "Apollonian Aschenbach" in its most unrestrained form.
-The ending: doesn't make sense in the realistic vein of the story, but rather the mythological one.
-Notes on "Love": Obsessional love or not love at all?
*A book about what it is to love humanity; we can consider it a philosophy book explaining the themes of its era.
*When Rabelais published his first chronicle (pre-dating Pantagruel) it was best seller. The chronicle is effectively a comic book with some of the same features that can be seen in his books on Pantagruel and Gargantua.
Giants: "Tales of giants" predate Rabelais—everybody knows the "giants" stories; Gargantua existed before Rabelais. Pantagruel also pre-dated Rabelais, however Rabelais made him a giant.
-with the revival of the classics and Greek/Latin, people were able to read the holy texts themselves.
-Edits were made to Pantagruel/Gargantua because of church censorship (e.g. Rabelais stopped criticizing the Sorbonne, the center of French theology.
-ideal renaissance education= formula for new learning in the new age!
-the church had a monopoly on knowledge (before the renaissance).
-However, by book three the emphasis on them being giants disappears.
-The model of Faust came 50-60 years earlier.
-They don't do any of the practical things you might think they should, i.e. actually find Panurge a woman.
The dialogue (i.e. the diatribe) is at the root of this literature--this form is a descent of Lucien.
Implies that we do not necessarily need to destroy old social values in exchange for new ones such as education.
*Commentary on the reformation is especially prevalent in Book Four.
-The Council of Trent (1545) is happening.
Attempts to solve the problems exposed by Calvin and Luther, among other reformists.
-Considered the first postmodern novel": some may consider Cervantes' Don Quixote the first of the moderns (he wrote fifty years after Rabelais).
-Released serialy in book form, two volumes at a time, from 1759-1767; by volume nine it was a very famous book, a hit.
"Ab ovo" (versus in medias res): meaning "from the egg". The book begins with conception versus "in the middle of things".
-Pages 1-2: the "early interruption" (the source of all of Tristram's problems).
-satirizing novels or the conventional beginnings of novels.
Fragmented narrative (i.e. digression): sermons, his father's story, Toby's story, etc.
Highly self-conscious; obsessed with the means of art-making. He is obsessed with the act of storytelling.
Sterne gives more attention to time and duration versus clock-time, a form that will give the reader a more faithful depiction of reality.
He's comparing narrative time to elapsed time, that of which can be further subdivided by pendulum time (time by the clock) and duration (time passing).
-One of his superstitions is noses: the family does not have big enough noses; Tristram's nose is crushed by forceps.
-Walter tries to fit things into his preconceived notions. He has his determined categories into which everything can be organized .
-How do we know that the external world exists?
The book is immensely self-conscious, aware of its subversity and its modernity. It is a long concatenation of stories, love stories actually, involving deception--as well as game-playing, masks, land lies. But why all the deception?
1. Chronotope: configurations of time and space are represented in language and discourse--either literal or figurative (or both, simultaneously) temporal and spatial elements.
2. The "first narrative": the temporal level of the narrative; the predominant narrative.
-What is the "first narrative" in Jacques the Fatalist? Because it reads like drama (in all of its realist, very immediate dialogue), what is the predominant narrative? Is it the discourse/conversation between Jacques and his Master? Is it the assumed author's commentary and digressions?
-Toby misses the double-entendres but the reader does not.
"The manuscript doesn't say…", i.e. the voice of the editor (and not the narrator). This voice is also present on page 251. Diderot is making fun of editors, scholars, critics. It is a much more knowledgeable voice than Toby's: "You are wrong insidious slanderer" (the editor speaking to the reader). The editor also offers us three different options for the ending of book.
"Kisses her...hand" correction: in the original French edition, what Jacques kisses remains ambiguous; he does not necessarily kiss her hand.
Discrepancy with page 406 in Tristram Shandy: No naive, innocent character--i.e. Toby--interrupting and misinterpreting. Also, Denise is aware of what she is doing; she's notably nervous.
-The third ending is ridiculously novelistic.
-It ends with reference to Rabelais and cuckoldry.
-These questions come from who?
-The novelist has complete caprice but Jacques does not.
-Paradox between freedom and determinism: Jacques' master stands for freedom, for Christian non-determinism.
-Renaissance versus Modernity: things can be known versus what do we know?
-One of the temptations with Kafka is to try to penetrate the surface and find an answer (but rather, try to ward off the constant itch to answer things).
-Kafka published six books in his lifetime. He was well-known amongst literary circles of his time.
-Hannah Arendt on Kafka: Sees K. as a humanist figure who is isolated because he dares to ask for basic human rights. He should be regarded as the only "normal" character.
-Amalie's story shows the sexual exploitation of village women by the officials.
-Code of honor: if you turn down an official, you lose your honor.
-"Earthly buildings". It is what it is but it represents something; religious imagery paired with the castle. It is not necessarily heavenly but yet he's extolling it.
-The assistants serve as rivals to K.; they undermine his quest.
The rich glory of humanism in Hadrian vs. the darkness of Nightwood in which everyone is dealing with unsatisfied desire and grief over love-lost.
-But where do they cross paths?
Obsessessional quality in Nightwood and Hadrian. In Hadrian, grief was an impetus to create, i.e. Antinopolis.
-Eternally angry, eternally separate; love itself, because you're doomed to be separate, is painful.
-There isn't much that happens; the love affair does not have much to it; there is a sort of emptiness, then, at the heart of the book.
-Too much doctor, too much pain, and too little pith (in terms of the affair).


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Amazon Prime Video orders second season of 'Modern Love'
MUMBAI: Amazon Prime Video announced today that it has ordered a second season of the half-hour romantic anthology series Modern Love. Modern Love, which debuted globally on Prime Video on 18th October, is inspired by the popular The New York Times column of the same name.
The series explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, as each standalone episode brings some of the column's most beloved stories to life with a stellar cast. Season two of Modern Love will premiere on Prime Video in 2020 in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
Amazon Studios today also announced a new overall deal with John Carney (Once, Sing Street), the writer, director and executive producer of Modern Love.
"Since its debut just last week, the reaction to Modern Love from viewers has been incredible. It's a show with so much emotion and warmth – every episode touches the heart in a different way," said Amazon Studios Head Jennifer Salke. "We're so excited we'll be able to bring our global Prime Video customers more of the beautiful stories of romance, friendship, and family from Modern Love."
"Being given a green light to proceed with Modern Love is a great opportunity for us to continue to tell stories of love while opening up the series into new cities and worlds. The possibilities are truly endless," said Carney. "Subsequent seasons can really branch out and dig deep into what it means to love in this complicated world. It's incredible news for everyone involved in the series, and we are dizzy with possibilities moving forward."
Said Daniel Jones, editor of the "Modern Love" column, The New York Times: "I couldn't be prouder of this show, and the global outpouring of emotion has frankly blown me away. John Carney managed to honor the complexity of the original column while making a series that's beautiful, upbeat and hopeful. I can't wait to get to work on Season 2."
Among the first season stars are Jane Alexander ("The Good Fight"), Sofia Boutella ("Kingsman: The Secret Service"), Gary Carr ("The Deuce," "Downton Abbey"), Olivia Cooke ("Ready Player One"), Emmy Award nominee Brandon Victor Dixon ("Power"), Emmy Award winner Tina Fey ("30 Rock"), Tony Award winner John Gallagher, Jr. ("The Newsroom"), Academy Award nominee Andy Garcia ("Ocean's Eleven"), Emmy Award winner Julia Garner ("Ozark"), Brandon Kyle Goodman ("Plus One"), Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway ("Ocean's Eight"), Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener ("Get Out"), Caitlin McGee ("Bluff City Law"), Cristin Milioti ("Black Mirror"), Academy Award nominee Dev Patel ("Lion"), Laurentiu Possa ("Killing Eve"), James Saito ("Always Be My Maybe"), Andrew Scott ("Fleabag"), Emmy Award nominee John Slattery ("Mad Men") and Shea Whigham ("Homecoming").
Carney, Trish Hofmann, and Anthony Bregman are executive producers of Modern Love. Sam Dolnick and Choire Sicha of The New York Times also serve as executive producers and Daniel Jones serves as a consulting producer. Modern Love is produced by Amazon Studios, Storied Media Group, Likely Story, and The New York Times.
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Happy Easter! 2 0 1 0 Guess what I'll be gorging on this week?
The day started off with a nice breakfast, albeit tiny portions. I'm happy to say I lost a few pounds but it has certainly been a challenge. Anyway, I had a few grapes, blackberries, half of an egg and cheese toast and a glass of chocolate milk.


Judge Andrew Napolitano has a deep take on the recent guilty by Michael Cohen.
He views the plea as a gift by special counselor Robert Mueller to Cohen for what else he has told Mueller in detail that is not public, since what Cohen pled guilty to carries only a likely six-month sentence.
The judge explains in detail in the below clip.


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Q: What does "apathy on matters African" mean? "America's apathy on matters African is one reason such initiatives have slowed of late." What does "apathy on matters African" mean?

A: This contains an inversion sometimes used in formal speech or writing. The non-inverted version would be:
"America's apathy on African matters is one reason such initiatives have slowed of late."
African matters = African affairs
It means that America doesn't care what happens in Africa.


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525: Dr. Daniel Chung: Developing Gene Therapies for Rare Inherited Retinal Diseases
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Dr. Daniel Chung is the global medical strategy lead for ophthalmology at Spark Therapeutics. Dan earned both his bachelor's degree in biology and master's degree in family counseling from Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts. He also holds a doctorate degree in Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. Afterward, Dan became a research training award fellow at the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, studying retinal gene therapy, and he went on to complete his residency in ophthalmology within the Summa Health System in Ohio. Dan joined the Cleveland Clinic as a pediatric ophthalmology clinical/ocular genetics research fellow and subsequently worked as a senior investigator at the Scheie Eye Institute in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania for eleven years before joining the team at Spark Therapeutics in 2014. In this interview, Dan shares more about his personal and professional passions, as well as his research.
People Behind the Science Podcast Show Notes
Life Outside of Science (2:21)
When he isn't working or traveling, Dan enjoys spending time with his family. He is also an avid photographer who loves capturing photos of nature, landscapes, and wildlife. In particular, Dan has really enjoyed photographing the panoramic landscapes of Monument Valley in Arizona, brown bears in Alaska, and polar bears in Northern Canada.
The Scientific Side (4:46)
Spark Therapeutics is a company that concentrates on discovering, developing, and delivering gene therapy for rare diseases. Dan works in the area of ophthalmology, and he and his colleagues brought the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease to market. This therapy was created to treat an inherited retinal disease that results in blindness and is caused by having variants or mutations in both alleles of the RPE65 gene.
A Dose of Motivation (5:42)
What Got You Hooked on Science? (7:31)
When he was two years old, Dan immigrated with his parents from South Korea to the United States. Home and family were important as he grew up, and his parents were very supportive of his early interests in science. Dan was particularly fascinated with insects. He had a bug collection, and he could often be found plucking insects off of trees and trying to catch them in his butterfly net. Over the years, his interests shifted to animals, biology, and disease. Dan enjoyed research because it allowed him to answer questions about how things worked. He was also drawn to the sense of discovery, collaboration, learning, and relationship-building that were part of doing science. Though the area of inherited retinal diseases wasn't the most popular topic in medicine, it resonated with him to try to solve problems in an area where there weren't currently any solutions.
The Low Points: Failures and Challenges (17:24)
There were many challenges along the way as they developed the first FDA-approved gene therapy for inherited retinal disease. Going through the regulatory pathway, completing the clinical trials, and creating their own novel endpoints for their clinical trials were all difficult endeavors. Dan and his colleagues also faced challenges in working on a rare disease. An important aspect of determining whether a new therapy is effective is whether it can change the natural history of a disease. Unfortunately, relatively little data were available on the natural history of this inherited retinal disease. As a result, they had to conduct their own natural history study, and they developed a novel mobility test to measure functional vision.
A Shining Success! (20:09)
After all of the hard work that went into the project, it was so exciting when the gene therapy was approved to treat the inherited retinal disease related to the RPE65 gene variants/mutations. Dan was grateful to be part of the excellent team at Spark Therapeutics and to have been involved in bringing not only the first gene therapy for a retinal disease to the clinic, but also the first gene therapy for a genetic disease. Years ago during his medical fellowship working in an inherited retinal disease clinic, it was difficult for Dan to tell patients that he didn't have any therapies to offer them. He would assure the patients that there was great research going on in this area and that one day there might be a gene therapy. Being able to develop this therapy has been incredibly rewarding.
Book Recommendations (22:43)
The Bible, photography by Art Wolfe and Thomas Mangelsen
Most Treasured Travel (24:13)
Through his science, Dan has had the opportunity to travel all over the world. London is among his favorite cities in Europe. When there, he likes to find restaurants off the beaten path to enjoy some delicious fish and chips. Dan has traveled throughout Italy for his work, and he recommends visiting the Colosseum in Rome, Vatican City, and the beautiful Italian countryside. Tokyo is one of Dan's favorite cities in Asia because the people are nice, the city is clean, and the food is amazing. There are also phenomenal camera shops there that have everything you could possibly want to buy.
Quirky Traditions and Funny Memories (27:33)
In one of the labs Dan worked in previously, he and his colleagues were studying gene therapy relatively early in the history of the field. It was easy to get frustrated with the lack of positive results in their research. To help vent their frustrations, they would set up a series of conical tubes and try to knock them over by stretching out and launching rubber gloves at the tubes. Scientists are often very serious about the work they do, but they are also creative and find innovative ways to have fun.
Advice For Us All (32:57)
Persistence and hard work are key in science. If you are stumped by a problem, take a step back to look at the bigger picture. Trying new and potentially unorthodox methods may be the key to the solution. Keep an open mind and be flexible. Persistence usually pays off, but it doesn't always pay off. In Dan's case with the gene therapy they developed for the RPE65 gene mutations, it took nearly 16 years from when they first published their preclinical work to when the therapy was approved. It may seem like a long time, but it was worth it in the end.
Guest Bio
As the global medical strategy lead of ophthalmology at Spark Therapeutics, Dan was heavily involved in the design and development of the Multi-Luminance Mobility Test (MLMT) – the novel endpoint used in the clinical trial to show efficacy of LUXTURNA, the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease and the only pharmacologic treatment for inherited retinal disease (IRD). Dan's journey into gene therapy and inherited retinal disease began in the early 2000's, during his fellowship years, when he saw that there were no existing treatments. Inspired to be a part of the solution, Dan joined the molecular ophthalmology group at the University of Pennsylvania and joined the RPE65 gene therapy clinical trials group at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and eventually became instrumental in the development for the MLMT under Spark. When Dan is not serving as an ophthalmology/IRD resource at Spark, he enjoys spending time with family and photographing nature and wildlife scenes. To date, his work has been displayed at a number of local cafes, art galleries and art shows in the greater Philadelphia area. To view his photography work, please visit Dan's photography website. More information about his work with Spark can be seen here.
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Russia Sentences Dzhemilev's Son To Five Years In Prison
June 10, 2015 16:55 GMT
Khaiser Dzhemilev has said he shot his friend by accident.
A Russian court has sentenced the son of a leading Crimean Tatar figure to five years in prison for the equivalent of manslaughter, a ruling his lawyer says is illegal.
Khaiser Dzhemilev, son of veteran Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, was arrested in May 2013 by Ukrainian authorities in connection with the shooting death of his friend. Khaiser Dzhemilev has said he shot his friend by accident.
After Crimea's annexation by Russia in March 2014, the Moscow-backed authorities took over the case and transferred him to the Krasnodar region in southern Russia. Mustafa Dzhemilev has accused Russia of holding his son hostage.
Dzhemilev faced a possible murder conviction, but a Krasnodar court on June 2 found him guilty of inflicting death by negligence, which carries a lesser sentence. He was also found guilty of stealing and possessing a firearm.
Dzhemilev's lawyer, Nikolai Polozov, said on June 10 he will appeal.
According to Polozov, a court in Kyiv previously sentenced Dzhemilev to three years and eight months on the same charges. He said Russia cannot by law sentence a citizen of another country for a crime he has already been convicted of at home.
Polozov also said that Russia ignored a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that said that Russia must release Khaiser from detention as he is a Ukrainian citizen and committed a crime in Ukraine against another Ukrainian citizen.
Mustafa Dzhemilev, who strongly protested the annexation of Crimea and is currently living in Kyiv, was barred in May from entering the peninsula and has claimed Russia was holding his son hostage.
The elder Dzhemilev, 71, is a member of the Ukrainian parliament and a well-known Soviet-era human rights activist. He served six jail sentences in Soviet prison camps from 1966 to 1986.
He is also known for going on a 303-day hunger strike -- the longest in the history of the Soviet human rights movement.
With reporting by UNIAN and TASS
Crimean Tatar Leader's Son Found Guilty
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SERENA RYDER'S MUCH ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM UTOPIA OUT MAY 26
NEW VIDEO FOR "ELECTRIC LOVE" PREMIERE ON PEOPLE.COM
Ryder to kick-off festival season headlining CBC Music Fest on May 27
13 April 2017 (TORONTO, ON) – Multi-award winning songstress, Serena Ryder will release of her new record, UTOPIA, on May 26 via Serenader Source/Universal Music Canada, the country's leading music company. The lead single "Electric Love" hits radio waves today and you can view the flashy new video that premiered on people.com. The track will be available to download and stream tomorrow and fans can pre-order the album and limited edition bundles here.
"Electric Love is a song about feeling the magnetic energy between two people." Serena describes, "It goes beyond race, religion and sexual identity. Whether you like it or not, the force is out of your control and it's up to the individuals to decide if they should to act on it or not…but I would."
For this new album, Ryder was inspired by the Cherokee parable of the Two Wolves. The story states we all have a fight inside us between good and evil, light and dark; the "two wolves." Ryder found personal resonance in this duality and during the songwriting process explored both sides to create a balance, her UTOPIA.
"I found in a lot of the songs there was that dynamic when I looked back," Ryder reflects. "So many people, when they put out a record, it's all dark or it's all light and happy. But on this record there's a lot of juxtaposition of both those things – the light and the dark. I was wondering what if you married the two. "
Ryder's genre-defying songwriting is showcased on UTOPIA. She has found the fine balance of blending her singer-songwriter sensibilities, her rock intuition while effortlessly lacing in the undeniable catchiness of what makes a song pop.
UTOPIA follows the critical and commercial hit, Harmony (double platinum certified). Harmony produced the unstoppable, triple-platinum single, "Stompa" and platinum, "What I wouldn't Do" and garnered three Juno Awards plus a 2014 MuchMusic Video Award. Ryder was also awarded a 2014 Canadian Screen Award for Achievement in Music for her original song for "It's No Mistake" from the movie The Right Kind of Wrong.
Serena Ryder and her band will perform at multiple festival dates this summer, including CBC Music Fest on May 27 in Toronto with a headlining tour to come this fall. For full list of tour dates, please visit serenryder.com.
UTOPIA TRACKLISTING
Got Your Number
Me and You
It's No Mistake
Deluxe Only Tracks
Saying Hello
The Flame


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Typhoon Goni (left) and Super Typhoon Atsani (right) churning in the Pacific on Aug. 19, 2015.
Typhoon Atsani — one of a pair of typhoons churning over open water in the Pacific Ocean — has now intensified to a super typhoon.
Atsani's new super typhoon status (meaning the storm has sustained winds of at least 150 mph, or 130 knots) makes it the seventh Category 5 hurricane-equivalent storm that has formed on Earth so far this year.
Currently, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is predicting that Atsani will move north toward Japan over the next week. The JTWC track also has Atsani curving away from the country before making direct landfall, though there is some uncertainty with that forecast.
Typhoon Goni — the other typhoon that formed with Atsani in the Pacific — is still in open ocean, but it might pose a significant threat to the northern Philippines and Taiwan later this week.
The most recent JTWC projection shows Goni recurving, away from a direct hit with Taiwan before landfall, but even if it does curve away, Goni could still bring heavy rain and strong winds to the island nation. This could be potentially disastrous for parts of Taiwan that are still recovering from the more than 50 inches of rain dumped on parts of the country by Super Typhoon Soudelor last week.
Goni also poses a direct landfall threat to Japan's Shikoku Islands that have been hard hit by several storms this year. It's also possible that the storm could move on to the Japanese mainland after that. However, the JTWC is still emphasizing the high degree of forecast uncertainty when the storm slows down near Taiwan.
At the time of the last JTWC warning Wednesday, Typhoon Goni clocked in with sustained winds at 126 mph, or 110 knots. It is not currently forecast to reach super typhoon status.
Super Typhoon Atsani's has sustained winds of 161 mph, 140 knots, according to the JTWC.
Typhoon GONI is also getting bigger and stronger.. Too many typhoons these days..


Good afternoon and thank you to Council Member Arroyo and the members of the Health Committee for the opportunity to speak today about three exciting and bold new proposals that address the continuing epidemic of tobacco use head-on: Intro 1020, Intro 1021, and Intro 250.
All eyes are on New York City this week as the City Council holds a public hearing on three pieces of bold tobacco control legislation that were proposed by either Mayor Bloomberg or City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. The proposals focus on tobacco product displays, pricing, and the minimum legal sale age for tobacco products.
But let's not forget the recent good news from Washington. On April 22, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by Big Tobacco against Cincinnati's court ruling that upheld the requirement for large graphic warnings on cigarette packs, even though the court did not have any specific images for review.
The decision allows the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to move forward with developing new graphic cigarette warnings that comply with both the 2009 law and recent court rulings. The 2009 law requires graphic warnings that cover the top half of the front and back of cigarette packs and 20 percent of cigarette ads.
Studies and evidence presented to the FDA show that large, graphic warnings are most effective at informing consumers about the health risks of smoking.
The Supreme Court protected the FDA's powers to regulate the tobacco industry. We hope the FDA moves quickly to find court-acceptable graphic images and provides all the evidence needed to show that graphic images will reduce the number of new or current smokers.
Otherwise, tobacco will continue to addict and kill millions.
An impossible dream? Not if U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler's ruling stands.


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