Four Voices of Pound in Cantos I-XVII

Between 1922 and 1924, Ezra Pound completed the first sixteen Cantos. He had published three Cantos in 1917, but suspended work on them shortly thereafter. It was not until 1922, after he had moved to Paris that he resumed work on the Cantos, piecing together what now stand as the first sixteen by the summer of 1924. This places the creation of Cantos I-XVI at the same time as the writing of Ulysses and The Wasteland. Cantos XVII-XXVII were published in 1929. In July of 1922 Pound wrote of the first Cantos in a letter: The first 11 cantos are preparation of the palette. I have to get down all the colours or elements I want for the poem. Some perhaps too enigmatically and abbreviatedly. I hope, heaven help me, to bring them into some sort of design and architecture later. Because these first cantos represent such a freshly prepared palette, they provide an excellent microcosm in which to examine the elements of Pound\u27s art. Although Canto XVII was written later than the first sixteen, sometime between 1922 and 1928, it adheres so closely to them thematically and stylistically, in many ways tying elements of the first sixteen together, that studying it with I-XVI is helpful in gaining a glimpse of Pound\u27s nascent design and architecture

Four Voices of Pound in Cantos I-XVII

Between 1922 and 1924, Ezra Pound completed the first sixteen Cantos. He had published three Cantos in 1917, but suspended work on them shortly thereafter. It was not until 1922, after he had moved to Paris that he resumed work on the Cantos, piecing together what now stand as the first sixteen by the summer of 1924. This places the creation of Cantos I-XVI at the same time as the writing of Ulysses and The Wasteland. Cantos XVII-XXVII were published in 1929. In July of 1922 Pound wrote of the first Cantos in a letter: The first 11 cantos are preparation of the palette. I have to get down all the colours or elements I want for the poem. Some perhaps too enigmatically and abbreviatedly. I hope, heaven help me, to bring them into some sort of design and architecture later. Because these first cantos represent such a freshly prepared palette, they provide an excellent microcosm in which to examine the elements of Pound\u27s art. Although Canto XVII was written later than the first sixteen, sometime between 1922 and 1928, it adheres so closely to them thematically and stylistically, in many ways tying elements of the first sixteen together, that studying it with I-XVI is helpful in gaining a glimpse of Pound\u27s nascent design and architecture

IMMOVABLE PROPERTY MARKETS IN METROPOLITAN TIRANA, ALBANIA

This paper uses information from three empirical studies to describe, after seven years of privatization and real estate market transactions, how the physical space of the city of Tirana is presently organized, and how active real estate markets have been. The first empirical study, fielded in December 1997 (completed in January 1998), was based on an "area sample" of the city of Tirana. One-hectare grid squares were overlaid on the city's 3,060 hectares within the municipal boundary, and a random sample was taken of these grids. Eighteen grid squares within the ring roads (an area of 340 hectares) and 14 grid squares between the ring roads and the outer municipal boundary (an area of 2,720 hectares) were randomly selected. Within the selected grid squares of 1 hectare each, research teams visited each property and questioned the holders about its use, who owned it, when it was constructed, and other characteristics of the property. The sample values obtained from the questionnaires were then "expanded" by the sampling ratio to describe the physical space of Tirana within the city's municipal boundaries. The second study of the transactions recorded in the Hipoteka Office of Tirana was done in early 1998. All documents from 1993 through 1997 were classified according to type of property involved, and the number of transactions were tabulated. The third study of real estate prices from 1993 to 1997 was done based on the data of one real estate agency in February 1998. This database represents approximately 70 percent of all offerings of real estate for sale done through real estate agencies in Tirana.Real property--Prices--Albania--Tirana, Land use, Urban--Albania--Tirana, Land titles--Registration and transfer--Albania--Tirana, Real estate development--Albania--Tirana, Land markets--Albania--Tirana, Land tenure, Urban--Albania--Tirana, Land Economics/Use,

Asset-pooling in uncertain times : implications of small-group farming for agricultural restructuring in the Kyrgyz Republic

Substantial theoretical and policy debate in the early 1990s led to an excessive focus on de-collectivisation and individualisation of land rights through privatisation across the former communist bloc. The objective of this paper is to examine “individualised” production systems more closely in order to understand better how certain specific organisational approaches to production differ with respect to a set of indicators of technical efficiency. In this paper we provide quantitative analysis of these new types of farming units and provide a rationale for a deeper exploration into the nature of these groups. Overall we find that the total factor productivity of small groups formed on familial and social ties is higher than that of individual farms, given the uncertain rural environment in Kyrgyzstan and the resource constraints facing landholders at this point in time. The explanation for this hinges primarily on understanding the assetpooling, risk-sharing and labour specialisation functions of groups. In-depth qualitative fieldwork performed in conjunction with this study confirms these explanations (see Sabates-Wheeler 2004). As transition agriculture continues to adapt to land reform choices that were made ten years ago, a major policy question facing the Kyrgyz government must be, what kind of agrarian structure should be facilitated in order to promote agricultural growth? Despite the push for de-collectivisation there remains a place for encouraging group farming, on grounds of both poverty alleviation and agricultural growth. Keywords: Kyrgyzstan; agricultural restructuring; asset-pooling

How do practitioners characterize land tenure security?

Improving land tenure security (LTS) is a significant challenge for sustainable development. The Sustainable Development Goals and other recent global initiatives have renewed and increased the need to improve LTS to address climate change, biodiversity loss, food security, poverty reduction, and other challenges. At the same time, policymakers are increasingly interested in evidence- based policies and decisions, creating urgency for practitioners and researchers to work together. Yet, incongruent characterizations of LTS (identifying the key components of LTS) by practitioners and researchers can limit collaboration and information flows necessary for research and effective policymaking. While there are systematic reviews of how LTS is characterized in the academic literature, no prior study has assessed how practitioners characterize LTS. We address this gap using data from 54 interviews of land tenure practitioners working in 10 countries of global importance for biodiversity and climate change mitigation. Practitioners characterize LTS as complex and multifaceted, and a majority of practitioners refer to de jure terms (e.g., titling) when characterizing it. Notably, in our data just one practitioner characterized LTS in terms of perceptions of the landholder, contrasting the recent emphasis in the academic literature on landholder perceptions in LTS characterizations. Researchers should be aware of incongruence in how LTS is characterized in the academic literature when engaging practitioners.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/155485/1/csp2186.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/155485/2/csp2186_am.pd

Albiglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (Harmony Outcomes): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial

Background: Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists differ in chemical structure, duration of action, and in their effects on clinical outcomes. The cardiovascular effects of once-weekly albiglutide in type 2 diabetes are unknown. We aimed to determine the safety and efficacy of albiglutide in preventing cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke. Methods: We did a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial in 610 sites across 28 countries. We randomly assigned patients aged 40 years and older with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (at a 1:1 ratio) to groups that either received a subcutaneous injection of albiglutide (30–50 mg, based on glycaemic response and tolerability) or of a matched volume of placebo once a week, in addition to their standard care. Investigators used an interactive voice or web response system to obtain treatment assignment, and patients and all study investigators were masked to their treatment allocation. We hypothesised that albiglutide would be non-inferior to placebo for the primary outcome of the first occurrence of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke, which was assessed in the intention-to-treat population. If non-inferiority was confirmed by an upper limit of the 95% CI for a hazard ratio of less than 1·30, closed testing for superiority was prespecified. This study is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT02465515. Findings: Patients were screened between July 1, 2015, and Nov 24, 2016. 10 793 patients were screened and 9463 participants were enrolled and randomly assigned to groups: 4731 patients were assigned to receive albiglutide and 4732 patients to receive placebo. On Nov 8, 2017, it was determined that 611 primary endpoints and a median follow-up of at least 1·5 years had accrued, and participants returned for a final visit and discontinuation from study treatment; the last patient visit was on March 12, 2018. These 9463 patients, the intention-to-treat population, were evaluated for a median duration of 1·6 years and were assessed for the primary outcome. The primary composite outcome occurred in 338 (7%) of 4731 patients at an incidence rate of 4·6 events per 100 person-years in the albiglutide group and in 428 (9%) of 4732 patients at an incidence rate of 5·9 events per 100 person-years in the placebo group (hazard ratio 0·78, 95% CI 0·68–0·90), which indicated that albiglutide was superior to placebo (p<0·0001 for non-inferiority; p=0·0006 for superiority). The incidence of acute pancreatitis (ten patients in the albiglutide group and seven patients in the placebo group), pancreatic cancer (six patients in the albiglutide group and five patients in the placebo group), medullary thyroid carcinoma (zero patients in both groups), and other serious adverse events did not differ between the two groups. There were three (<1%) deaths in the placebo group that were assessed by investigators, who were masked to study drug assignment, to be treatment-related and two (<1%) deaths in the albiglutide group. Interpretation: In patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, albiglutide was superior to placebo with respect to major adverse cardiovascular events. Evidence-based glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists should therefore be considered as part of a comprehensive strategy to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes. Funding: GlaxoSmithKline

Analiza e Perdorimit te Tokes ne Tirane

20 p.Analiza e Perdorimit te Tokes ne Tirane dhe ne 6 rrethe te tjera te Shqiperise, ishte nje iniciative e Departamentit te Politikes se Tokes te Njesise se Menaxhimit te Projektit per Sistemin e Regjistrimit te Pasurive te Paluajtshme. Objektivi kryesor i saj ishte vrojtimi sistematik i peisazhit urban te Tiranes gjate periudhes se Tranzicionit te Shqiperi drejt ekonomise se Tregut si dhe krijimi i nje baze informacioni per NMP ne procesin e rregjistrimit fillestar ne zonat urbane. Studimi perfshiu rregjistrimin e te gjitha pasurive brenda 32 blloqeve me madhesi prej nje hektar te qytetit (brenda vijes se verdhe), te cilat ishin te shperndara ne vende te ndryshme nga pikpamja gjeografike dhe te zgjedhura ne menyre te rastit. Ne total u numeruan 2146 pasuri te cilat u klasifikuan ne 8 lloje strukturash dhe ne 8 lloje te perdorimit. Per cdo pasuri u mblodh informacion per llojin e perdoruesit, vjetersine, kohezgjatjen e zoterimit, siperfaqen ne meter katrore dhe dokumentacionin

Analiza e Perdorimit te Tokes ne Kukes

19 p.Land Use Survey in Kukes continues to be an initiative of the Land Policy Department of the Project Management Unit for the Immovable Property Registration System. Its main objectives have been the systematic observation of the urban landscape of Kukes during the transition period in Albania towards the Market Economy as well as the creation of the information basis for PMU in the first registration process in the urban zones

Analiza e Perdorimit te Tokes ne Elbasan

22 p.Analizimi i Perdorimit te Tokes ne Elbasan vazhdon te jete nje iniciative e Sektorit te Politikes se Tokes ne Njesise se Menaxhimit te Projektit per Sistemin e Regjistrimit te Pasurive te Paluajtshme. Objektivat e saje kryesore perfshijne vrojtim sistematik ku perfshihet pejsazhi urban i Elbasanit gjate periudhes se Tranzicionit te Shqiperi drejt ekonomise se Tregut, si dhe te krijonte bazen e informacinit per te informuar NMP ne procesin e regjistrimit fillestar ne zonat urbane. Studimi perfshin regjistrimin e te gjitha pasurive brenda 10 blloqeve me madhesi prej nje hektare te qytetit (brenda vijes se verdhe), te cilat ishin te shperndar ne vende te ndryshme nga pikepamja gjeografike dhe te zgjedhura ne menyre te rastesishme. Ne total u numuruan 719 pasuri dhe u klasifikuan ne 8 lloje strukturash dhe ne tete kadegori te perdorimit. U mblodhe informacini base per menyren e zoterimit, vjetersine e ne moshe, kohezgjatjen e zoterimit, siperfaqet ne meter katrore dhe dokumentacionin e pasurive

Land Use Survey in Kukes

20 p.Land Use Survey in Kukes continues to be an initiative of the Land Policy Department of the Project Management Unit for the Immovable Property Registration System. Its main objectives have been the systematic observation of the urban landscape of Kukes during the transition period in Albania towards the Market Economy as well as the creation of the information basis for PMU in the first registration process in the urban zones