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OPSU wins men’s, all-around titles in Weatherford
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By Chaney Latham
Oklahoma Panhandle State University
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – The Oklahoma Panhandle State University rodeo teams continue to gain momentum heading into the final stretch of the Central Plains Region season.
The Panhandle State men took some major strides during the 40th annual Southwestern Oklahoma State University rodeo last weekend, winning the team title and collecting the all-around championship with Joe Frost collecting big points in bareback riding, bull riding and steer wrestling, qualifying for the final round in all three events. .
“I was excited about the effort given from all our kids,” said Craig Latham, the university’s rodeo coach.
Frost also competes in tie-down roping and team roping.
“It was fun,” Frost said. “Having Craig back really helped.”
Latham had been away from the team a big portion of the spring season while undergoing medical treatments; the rodeo in Weatherford was his first since returning home earlier this month.
“I could tell he was happy to be back, and he motivated me. I just knew I had to make the best runs I possibly could, and give 110 percent.”
Latham was quite happy with what he saw in the young Utah cowboy.
“He just had flat determination,” Latham said.
Frost tied for second in the two-ride aggregate in bareback riding with 124 points, a 60 in the first round and a 64 in the short round. He also shared second place in the steer wrestling with times of 6.4 seconds and 5.2. He was one of just two cowboys to make the qualifying eight-second ride in bull riding in both rounds, finishing with 133; he had a 76 in the long round.
Josh Griggs qualified for the final round in the bareback riding and bull riding. He scored a 68 in the first round of the bareback and a 65 in the bull riding to earn him a few points in each event. Jeff Bertus also competed in the championship round of the bull riding, after earning a 64 point score in the first round.
In the saddle bronc riding, four of the eight cowboys in the championship round wore Panhandle State vests. Panhandle cowboys Kole Wynia, Whit Peterson, Allen Boore, and Preston Kafka ended up in second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-place finishes, respectively. Along with Frost, Dusty Moore and Dixon Winn also qualified for the short round in steer wrestling. Only five cowboys managed to throw their steers in the championship round, with Winn finishing second with a two-run cumulative time of 14.1 seconds – he had a 6.2-second run in the first go and a 7.9 in the final round.
As for the women’s events, Samantha Martinez finished second in the first round of breakaway roping with a 3.6-second run. She was fast in the short round with a 2.2, but a broken barrier resulted in a 10-second penalty.
The wind seemed to play a major factor in the timed events with only two women catching in the final round, and Martinez earned second place even with the penalty. Junior Callie Schafer also competed in the championship round in breakaway roping and goat tying. She tied for fourth place in goat tying with a 16.7-second two-run aggregate.
After competing this coming weekend at Fort Hays (Kan.) State University, the Panhandle State teams will wrap the 2011-12 season by hosting the Doc Gardner Memorial Rodeo at Henry C. Hitch Pioneer Arena from April 26-28.
“If we finish strong, we can still reach the goals we started out with,” Frost said.
Those goals are important, but so finishing strong is also the team’s main plan of attack.
The plan is the “same as it is every time, and that is to win,” Latham said.
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Vodka Facts
Vodka History
Vodka Making
History of Vodka in Poland
To this day historians and scholars cannot pinpoint exact origins of the vodka, famous alcoholic beverage that is today enjoyed all across the world. However, one thing is certain. Poland and Russia are two countries who are trying their best to prove to everyone that their distilleries were the first one who started producing this great drink.
There are many unknowns about this question, but several historical writings point us to 8th century AD Poland, and the distilleries that possibly started producing Vodka one century before Russians (9th century). Creation of vodka was not possible before that date, because vodka cannot be derived from natural fermentation, and distillation was discovered in 8th century. These claims are not 100% verified, and undisputable information about vodka production can be located only in Russian city of Khlynovsk around 1174.
The first written record of the word “vodka” comes from Poland in 1405, as a part of the court documents “Akta Grodzkie “ from the Palatinate of Sandomierz. During that time, vodka was not widely used as a drink, but more as a medicinal substance for sterilizing wounds, numbing injuries and as a cosmetic cleanser. First Russian mention of the word Vodka came more than century later in 1533, and it referenced Polish medicinal drink. During 1400s, Polish people stopped looking at vodka solely as a medical ingredient, and started consuming is as a recreational spirit. This popularity grew, and mass production distilleries were formed all around Poland, and especially in the area of Krakow, Poznań (city that had 698 distilleries in 1580) and Gdańsk. Some of them are even in business today – Żubrówka from 16th century, Starka vodka from 16th century and Goldwasser from early 17th.
Important change in the production of Vodka in Poland happened in mid-17th century when nobility started enforcing monopoly on creation and selling of vodka on their territories. Encouraged by high profit margins and large demand, distilleries were created all across Poland for the next two centuries, and exports to dozens of surrounding countries (and few distant ones like England) became more and more popular. By the end of 18th century, production of Vodka by nobility and clergy truly reached its highest point with the introduction of modern industrial production facilities (first one in 1782). By 1925 entire production and distribution chain of vodka drink was monopolized by Polish government, after WW2 by Poland's communist government. This all ended in 1980 when Polish trade union won their victory, and all distilleries were privatized.
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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
December 26, 2011 By Matt V Leave a Comment
Director Steven Spielberg and Producer Peter Jackson collaborate for their marvelous adaptation of The Adventures of Tintin. As a welcome Christmas gift to fans of the classic long-lived European comics as well as the uninitiated, this is the first motion-capture animated film I can fully praise with an abundance of exclamation points. Spielberg has directed a sprawling action-adventure film for families that springs with life and leaps with wit.
In the 1940s, young reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell) purchases a model collector’s ship, the Unicorn, that immediately thrusts him into danger. The model contains a riddle and secret code, but what does it mean and where does it lead? Accompanied by his trustworthy pup, Snowy, Tintin must elude several dangerous characters seeking to steal his rare artifact. This leads the young adventurer to Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), a notorious drunk who may be the key to solving the secret of the Unicorn.
With Tintin, the infamous Steven Spielberg finally returns to light up cinemas following a 3-year absence. Ironically, this film may have more in common with Raiders of the Lost Ark than his last disappointing outing with the famed archeologist. Tintin is full of exciting mystery and grandiose action sequences, brilliant animation, shades of inviting humor, and a gorgeous 3D presentation. This is easily the best animated film I’ve seen all year, and contains one of the year’s most entertaining action sequences, live-action or animation.
As for the motion-capture technique, Spielberg and Jackson know what they’re doing here. I’ve found the work done by Robert Zemeckis (who’s recently been obsessed with the technology) over the last seven years to be a total snooze. The Polar Express, Beowulf, and Christmas Carol never got it quite right despite painstaking efforts to be sure. Tintin, however, is a visual marvel. The animation is spot-on, and the performances behind the characters onscreen, chief among them Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, and Andy Serkis, are uniformly excellent.
The film ends with the setup for another adventure, and I hope American audiences seek out The Adventures of Tintin, as it is not a well-known property here. Forget about needing to know anything. Walk in blind and let the film dazzle you from beginning to end.
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Ridley Scott’s difficult epic finally reaches movie theaters after several failed attempts at reincarnating the infamous legend of Robin Hood. The laborious project began as an investigation thriller under the title of “Nottingham,” and took the perspective of the Sheriff of Nottingham tracking the hits of the mysterious Robin Hood and his merry men. The […]
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Browsing the "Features" Category
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Fede interdetta? L’esercizio della libertà religiosa collettiva durante l’emergenza COVID-19: attualità e prospettive
Fuccillo A., Abu Salem M., Decimo L.
In response to the Covid-19 epidemic, the government and local authorities have adopted measures which restrict religious freedom. The Italian authorities have imposed urgent and binding ordinances suspending all religious ceremonies, and have limited access to places of worship. These measures are justified by an emergency decree aimed at the protection of public health. Is such banning of religious practice entirely legitimate? The Italian Constitution stipulates that religious freedom can only be limited in certain manifestations and under specific conditions. Precise time constraints must be adhered to, and restrictions must be balanced against other constitutional rights including, of course, the right to health.
The adopted measures taken by the government are applicable to religious denominations that have cooperated with the State. These denominations, in fact, have anticipated the needs of the State towards the protection of public health by closing places of worship and encouraging the faithful to practice autonomously. This state of emergency has ultimately strengthened the cooperation and understanding between State and denominations in important ways.
The extraordinary health emergency that our country is experiencing, however, must lead the jurist to ask some fundamental questions. Will it happen again? Could there be other future events which will call for the limitation of individual and collective religious freedom? Might the State and religious denominations collaborate together in advance of such events in accordance with the principles of bi-laterality? These questions must be answered promptly in order to safeguard the right to religious freedom and the autonomy of religious denominations from possible regulatory circumvention
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MAHONEY CLAIMS OPENING LEG OF REVENTON TRIPLE CROWN
Aaron Mahoney is the 2018 Reventon Classic Champion following a series of wins in Melbourne last week. The event was the first of three big money tournaments on this year's Australian amateur circuit, which have received significant financial support from long term enthusiastic sponsors, the Reventon Group. To find out more about the series as a whole, please read our preview here.
There were 96 entries for the $25,000 tournament which was initially held at venues across Melbourne, but was concluded at the Reventon Snooker Academy. The players were split into Round Robin Groups, with the top two from each qualifying for the Last 32 Knock-Outs.
Among the well known names competing were Matthew Bolton, currently on the professional main tour, and Kurt Dunham, who has just finished his spell on the top tier. Both advanced to the KOs with 100% match records, but Dunham lost to Robert Elsley 3-0 in the Last 32, whilst Bolton was eliminated by ex-tour card holder Ben Judge by the same scoreline in the Last 16.
Judge, a former Oceania Champion, went on to defeat veteran Robby Foldvari (4-2) in the Quarters and James Mifsud (4-2) in the Semis.
Mahoney's route to the final was eventful. After topping his group undefeated, he came through a 3-2 victor against Marc Fridman (Last 32) and then had spare change in seeing off Marc Bullen 3-0 in the Last 16.
Johl Younger, another Australian who has appeared on the pro circuit before, won back-to-back frames to force a decider against him in the Quarter-Finals, although he went through comfortably in the decider.
Mahoney would have to endure another deciding frame finish against reigning Australian National and Oceania Champion Adrian Ridley in the Last 4. Having earlier in the tie registered breaks of 108 and 66, Mahoney had to take the last two frames to secure his final berth.
In the Best of 9 Frames Final Mahoney made an ideal start as runs of 56 and 41 helped him take a 3-0 profit. Judge got a foothold in the affair when chalking up the next two frames, but Mahoney followed suit (making a 71 in F6) to record a 5-2 result.
The victory banks Mahoney an impressive $10,000 payday. The remaining two events in this lucrative trio - the Reventon International and the Reventon Masters, will both be played in December. The International boasts a $50,000 prize pot ($15,000 to the winner) which is the largest amount in Australian Snooker at this level.
In the meantime, there are plenty of other prestigious titles that will be decided, most with the backing of the Reventon Group.
To see the full results, please visit the Australian Billiards and Snooker Council website here.
2018 Reventon Classic - Results (from the Quarter-Finals onwards)
Adrian Ridley (59) 4-1 (71) Charlie Chafe
Aaron Mahoney 4-3 Johl Younger
Ben Farnworth 0-4 (50, 95, 111) James Mifsud
Ben Judge (40) 4-2 Robbie Foldvari
Ridley (57, 54) 3-4 (108, 66) Mahoney
Mifsud (54) 2-4 Judge
Mahoney (56, 41, 71) 5-2 (55) Judge
Highest Break
Johl Younger (126)
Article written and published by Michael Day on the 12th May 2018
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Raves for Sedge’s New Book, The Oracle, from US REVIEW
The Oracle by Michael H Sedge
reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott
"She could only recall the eerie sensations she felt in the cave of the Sybil and the echoing words... The soul cannot die. It will survive forever."
American Jack Jeffrey, his wife Valerie and daughter Becky travel to Italy to visit Jack's sister-in-law, some years after the tragic and purportedly accidental deaths of Jack's brother and young niece. They bring their own private sorrows: Becky is suffering the effects of an earlier trauma, the vacation an attempt to shake her out of her self-protective imaginary world.
Sister-in-law Jennifer is also battling personal demons; early on, we learn that she attacked her husband and daughter in a drunken rage. She manages to put on a welcoming face for the three visitors, but before long they notice a strange atmosphere in the sunny seaside villa, including a foul odor that grows worse with each passing day. Valerie feels trapped by an evil presence when she ventures into the villa's dank cellar. Becky has disturbing paranormal visions. Meanwhile, Jennifer is becoming increasingly edgy; something seething in the fetid basement impels her to secretly purchase a revolver, she babbles about killing someone or something. When the perplexed Jack encounters a group of American scuba divers hunting for antique relics, he begins to piece together the macabre mystery of the villa, with its ancient link to an undead oracle.
Author/journalist Michael H Sedge is very well placed to compose this harrowing yarn based on ancient Greco-Roman lore about the wisdom and fearsome power of the legendary Sybil. An American citizen living in Italy, Sedge has recently written an award-winning nonfiction book, The Lost Ships of Pisa, about the archeological recovery of Italian maritime relics. It's clear that he is at home with both the setting of this book and many of its more arcane details.
Though most of his published works have been factual (i.e. Among other distinctions, he has been a military correspondent for Newsweek and The Associated Press.), Sedge's fiction writing passes muster. His plot is sufficiently mysterious, and his characters credible. In The Oracle, his prose attains a certain gory glory when describing the putrid thing that haunts the villa: "It hovered over her, its split tongue hanging out, drooling smelly spit... deep giggles belched from its gullet." However the book includes a full-chapter account of the family's overseas flight that slows down the book just at the point when it should be ramping up; and the reader anticipates, but never is given, any resolution to Becky's psychological problem that provided the original reason for the Italian excursion.
The Oracle features two vulnerable young girls, a distraught but sexy wife, a scheming madwoman, an exotic setting, a creepy cave, a lurking monster, and a well-meaning male trying to figure out what's going on in the haunted villa. Add all that up and you have the potential for a cinematic scream-fest. Since Sedge is also an entrepreneur and has been called a "wizard of marketing" with much practical advice for his fellow professionals (i.e. His books on publishing include Marketing Strategies for Writers and Successful Syndication.) he may well transform The Oracle from a book that appeal to fans of horror with a classic overlay, to a feature film or made-for-TV movie.
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NH Avalanche 2000 @ East Coast Wizards – The EDGE Sports Center
I don’t know if this is similar or not but I am going to make a small correlation between writing and youth hockey. When I sit down at my keyboard to write, I often times do not know exactly what is going to be written once I start typing. Similarly, in my mind, I, maybe we, do not know what I am going to see when our NH Avalanche 2000 team takes to the ice.
Yesterday the Avs traveled to Bedford, Mass. for a game at The EDGE Sports Center against the East Coast Wizards. What resulted was a well played game where players played individually well, but as a unit they played together even better. The effort was excellent and once they got their legs going a few minutes into the contest, the game was most certainly on.
The Avs scored first when Tyler Whiting took a big hit to make a pass out of his own end of the ice. The pass connected with Cody Sullivan who carried the puck up ice for a shot on net. The shot bounced off of the goaltender, hit his linemate, Sebastian Beal, in the shin pads, who played his own carom and smacked the puck into the net, giving the Avs a 1-0 lead. It was a nice goal and it gave the Avs some confidence, or so it seemed. Ultimately the first period would end with the Avalanche holding a 1-0 lead. Less than a minute into the second period goaltender Spencer Burgess gave up a goal on a shot that I am certain he would save 99 times out of 100. He wasn’t happy with himself, but we will hear more from him later.
The Avs would answer in a big way during the second period. First, on the power play, Max Lajeunesse scored on a rising wrister after some beautiful passing that saw all five Avs skaters touch the puck in succession before Max scored from Beal and Whiting. Sullivan and Caiden Paradise also made clean, crisp passes prior to the two assists handed out. A couple of minutes later Sebastian Beal and Max Lajeunesse (both from Goffstown) teamed up to score a goal during a two-on-three rush up ice. Beal flipped a pass/shot towards net that hit the goaltenders’ right pad just as Max arrived at that spot. The puck hit the pad, landed on the ice, and Max slid it home in an instant, 3-1 Avs.
Just 25 seconds before Max scored his second goal of the day, teammate, Tyler Whiting, had been injured at center ice and lying on the ice writhing in pain for several minutes. Thankfully, Whiting would return in the third period but this left a short bench even shorter for half of the middle period.
Sydney Herrington, Michael Perry, Clay Sanders, and Christian Levesque all stepped up, played in different positions and/or line combinations to cover for the injury and even later when Caiden Paradise was called for a trip. The entire team battled, created chances, drew penalties, and kept their cool. Perry, Herrington, and Levesque all had scoring chances during power play opportunities.
The Wizards would pull to within one goal in the third period when they scored after a seemingly endless frantic scrum in front of Burgess. But they would not score again. I mentioned that we would hear from Burgess again. Well here it is. With 6:29 showing on the clock Burgess came up LARGE. Coming out of their own end, the Avs turned the puck over at their own blue line, and a two-on-one resulted instantly. One neat pass later, it was a breakaway. Burgess, aggressive in his angles after gaining the 3-1 lead, came out, and made a brilliant save to protect the lead and save his team’s backside. Gavin Cram was present, dressed, and ready but was not called into relief duty for this game, but I’m sure he was cheering on Spencer’s goaltending heroics especially in the third period.
The Avs earned their first win on the ice this season. They played well together and had a fight in them, as a team, that was nice to see. They didn’t let emotions run away as shown in the penalties in minutes handed out. The Wizards took 35:30 in penalty minutes to just 4:30 taken by the Avs. I’m not saying the officiating was good, consistent, or even one-sided, but the emotional maturity shown by one team over the other was proportionately equal to the minutes handed out to the two teams.
It was a nice effort, and a great ‘first win’ of the season.
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LEFT AT FULHAM BROADWAY
Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea
Chelsea in the ’70’s
Modern Chelsea
Kicking Off
Posted on April 27, 2019 December 16, 2020
Ron Green – The Shrew Ron Ron
26/11/1988 Chelsea 2 Shrewsbury Town 0
Hats off to Ron Green – lord of all he surveyed on this grey autumnal day at Stamford Bridge 30 years ago. A small sample of his brilliance recorded above.
Ron Green. Even the name conjures up images to engulf the ageing fan in the warmest of retro glows. His superb performance at Chelsea in 1988 remains one of the greatest goalkeeping performances I have ever witnessed & in retrospect a last hurrah for the era so readily evoked by the name itself. Ron Green. A solid yeoman with a solid yeoman’s name, a worthy holder of the flame for those great keepers (& characters) who were everywhere in the 1960’s & ’70’s, cornerstones of the English game. Harry Dowd. Charlie Wright. Roy Burton. Ken Mulhearn. Bill Glazier. Colin Boulton. You can imagine any one of those names belonging to a peripheral character in Coronation Street back then, one of those types hanging around the bar at the Rovers Return just long enough to garner a one night only bunk up with Elsie Tanner before beating a hasty small hours retreat, the old warhorse of crushed romantic dreams left once again with little more than additional heartache & badly smudged mascara. These are names evoking fast fading memories of Players No 6, pink evening sports papers, roasted chestnuts & Double Diamond, & also, lest we go full jumpers for goalposts here, fans amending Build A Bonfire to sing ‘You Ain’t Got One ‘Cos You’re A Bastard, You’re A Bastard Referee.’ Football & society may be much changed but the contempt for match officials at football remains firmly intact & is all too often well deserved. Blame the likes of Clive Thomas, Graham Poll & Mike Dean equally. I always do.
Admittedly It was easy to be generous to Ron Green on this occasion. Chelsea were 2-0 up against Shrewsbury before Green really got into his stride, Bobby Campbell’s team riding the crest of an unbeaten wave that would last another five months. Shrewsbury were never going to stage a comeback based around their loanee goalkeeper’s impressive exploits, & there was a fund of goodwill towards the opposition that day, their former Chelsea ranks swelled by terrace legend Micky Thomas, former youth & reserve team midfielder Phil Priest & the simultaneously hilarious & terrifying Doug Rougvie. Ian McNeill, John Neal’s popular assistant at Chelsea in the first half of the decade, was also the Shrews boss at the time.
Within barely a year of Ron’s successful efforts of depriving Chelsea a near double figure victory we entered the 1990’s. Things then changed. Quickly. There would still be the occasional Fred Barber to keep Ron company in his goalkeeping dotage but soon we were ensconced in a world of foreign goalies as the long held, seemingly unassailable British belief that our keepers were the best in the world foundered. Move over Perry Digweed, it’s time for Ludek Miklosko, Espen Baardsen, Dmitri Kharine, Hans Segers & Pavel Srnicek. Mysterious, exotic sounding names redolent of cold war Bond villains & high end international drug barons. Goalkeeping duties at Man Utd back in 1990 were shared between Les Sealey & Jim Leighton. Names that would have fitted your local brickie or plumber. After the departure of Peter Schmeichel the new century at Old Trafford began with the arrival of Fabien Barthez via a short disastrous flirtation with the ill fated Massimo Taibi, both sounding like they could be casino based international playboys. Now the English game has Claudio Bravo, Hugo Lloris & Rui Patricio, sounding glamorous & intriguing regardless of the reality of their respective backgrounds. Fabien Barthez even had a supermodel girlfriend, Linda Evangelista, notorious for saying she would not even get out of bed for less than £10,000 a day. Ron Green probably struggled to clear £10,000 a year at the start of his career. Never mind Ron. Balding of pate with a minor hint of paunch you nonetheless put on a goalkeeping masterclass at Chelsea that day. Here we come to praise the stalwart, traditional British goalkeeper that time & Murdoch billions has done its best to bury. Despite denying me an avalanche of Chelsea goals against Shrewsbury Town the memories are curiously fond. The selection of clips from that season’s highlights video are a sample of Ron’s excellence. A splendid tip over the bar from a near post Kevin Wilson flick & a superb point range block from a close range Kerry Dixon diving header are the best on show here, not to mention thwarting the valiant attempt of defender Doug Rougvie to repeat his famous own goal at Wembley wearing the blue of Chelsea in the 1986 Full Members Cup final. Ron spared Doug’s blushes this time but not future nightmares for the rest of us at Stamford Bridge. Big Doug leant his head back & laughed in the aftermath of this incident, revealing a ghoulish smile, punctuated by missing teeth, that rendered Freddie Krueger’s cinematic grin less terrifying than that of Bungle from Rainbow in comparison.
It is always pleasing to doff your cap at such an outstanding performance for goalkeeping is a precarious existence. No other performer in football walks the hero to zero tightrope with the same frequency. When things are going well a keeper is frequently a figure of wonder & sometimes mystery. In my formative years we heard tales of the enigmatic, black clad Russian Lev Yashin, lithe, agile & exotic. Sadly there was not much footage available to view with Yashin spending most of his career playing behind the Iron Curtain. Here we had the all encompassing brilliance of the late, great Gordon Banks. I had the very real pleasure of seeing him play a couple of times, so imposing he appeared to fill the goal yet in one of the last pictures I saw of him he was dwarfed standing next to the current Stoke stopper Jack Butland. Stature on a football pitch can clearly not be measured merely by height & weight. Nonetheless some of the man mountains in the modern goal have scaled similar heights of brilliance, namely Denmark & Man Utd’s belligerent Schmeichel in the 1990’s, & presently the splendid Bayern Munich keeper Manuel Neuer, both earning less affection but almost as much admiration as the men from yesteryear. The supernatural reflexes of Atletico Madrid & Slovakia’s Jan Oblak also see him currently vying for the joint accolades of current best keeper in the world & all time great. It must be said there were fewer plaudits for Mr Schmeichel’s mercifully shortlived ’90’s rap career.
This rather melancholy novel was a staple on many a young boy’s bookshelf in the early 1970’s. It is a rather cynical but doubtless honest riposte to the lovable 1950’s style cliches that infused comic book football legends like Roy Of The Rovers (Tiger) & Billy’s Boots (Scorcher)
Brian Glanville did not eschew cliche with the book’s title though, albeit one superglued to the truth. Goalkeepers are indeed different. Always have been & hopefully always will be. Maverick eccentricity abounds in the world of the goalkeeper & has done since the early days of the professional game. Chelsea bought Sheffield United’s legendary shot stopper William Fatty Foulke for £50 in 1905. He reputedly weighed in regularly around the twenty stone mark & plenty of tales are attached to his legend, often as tall as he was wide. At the tail end of the twentieth century we enjoyed World Cup sightings of Colombian Rene Higuita & Jose Luis Chilavert of Paraguay. Higuita’s extravagant mane of hair left him looking like Charles II in a tracksuit when he played at Wembley against England in 1995, during whch he famously unveiled his outrageous scorpion kick, contemptuously flipping his legs over his head & clearing a strange cross cum shot from Jamie Redknapp with his heels. Higuita clearly had as much regard for Mr Redknapp’s footballing prowess as most of us have for his tedious modern day punditry. Rene scored nearly 50 professional goals from free kicks & penalties, & frequently indulged his fondness for joining in the play a long way from the goal he was primarily supposed to be defending. Sadly he missed the 1994 World Cup in America due to a spell in prison, courtesy of having received money for acting as a go-between in a child kidnapping case involving the infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar. Makes Peter Shilton’s pre-senile pro Brexit sloganeering & one time alleged extra marital auto-erotic activities seem pretty tame. Rene’s contemporary Chilavert aced him on the goalscoring front, scoring 67 career goals including eight in international football for Paraguay. With both Jose Luis’s prison sentences having been suspended Higuita retains the edge on the porridge serving front though. Recent photographs of the long retired Chilavert suggest that William Foulke might sue anyone using the perennial soubriquet attached to his name were he alive today. Suffice to say that the Paraguayan is now one big chunk of hunk. All power to both him & Higuita anyway. Shine on you crazy diamonds.
There can undoubtedly be a dark side to the life of a goalkeeper. The most dramatic example of this is undoubtedly the sobering story of Robert Enke, deputy keeper in the German national team when he shocked an unsuspecting football world & threw himself in front of a train in 2009. He had struggled with deep periods of depression for many years & endured personal off pitch tragedy but his father later confirmed that football had also been a major contributory factor towards his awful & horribly premature death. Specific incidents & episodes in his career conspired to encourage the black dog to fester & linger throughout Enke’s career. After making a vital mistake in 2003 playing for Fenerbahce he was traumatised at being bombarded with bottles, firelighters & mobile phones by angry fans. At Barcelona the sense of isolation felt by many a goalkeeper, frequently outsider loners in a team sport, had been compounded by a sense that coaches & playing colleagues generally did not believe in his abilities or facilitate his settling in at the club. While there he was reduced to the occasional appearance in domestic cup tournaments, never a high priority in Spain. Generally though it was continuing to conceal the fact of his serious depressive tendencies from the football world at large that proved the most debilitating, constant & ultimately fatal hurdle to overcome. In the case of goalkeeper John Budgie Burridge what seemed to be a peculiar but harmless, childlike obsession with his craft masked a problem that would only manifest itself fully on retirement. At a quite advanced stage of his career Burridge once claimed in an interview that he liked to take both his goalkeeping gloves & a football to bed with him, sometimes wearing his boots as well. He eventually retired at 47 after playing for more than two dozen clubs between 1969 & 1997. The career longevity was telling, a preoccupation with physical health supporting the continuation of the football life he loved seemingly overriding similar considerations for his mental well being. He ended up in The Priory simply unable to come to terms with the prospect of an existence without playing football. Thankfully he is now back in the game coaching goalkeepers overseas.
The absurdist philosopher Albert Camus was a goalkeeper himself in his teenage years. ‘There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide’ he once wrote. If its shits & giggles you were after then an evening round at Albert’s was probably not the place to start but did he first formulate his ideas on acknowledging the true futility of human existence while standing between the sticks as a callow youth? Either way both his philosophical beliefs & goalkeeping exploits would doubtless have led him to appreciate the cruel irony of the stray dog incident at Griffin Park in 1969 when Brentford’s goalkeeper Chic Brodie was felled by a canine pitch invader running full pelt into him. Cue widespread mirth on the terraces. Not so funny for Chic. He sustained serious ligament damage in this freak incident & never played again, the laughter that rang around the ground as he lay in agony probably still ringing in his ears decades later.
The problem for all goalkeepers is that there is nowhere to hide when things go wrong. Miss three sitters as a striker but score a late winner & your aberrations are swiftly forgotten. A miskick or underhit pass to a colleague by any outfield player & there is a good chance a colleague will rescue the situation & spare your blushes. Often that colleague will be your goalkeeper. Unfortunately a string of brilliant saves made in a match will soon be overlooked by media & fans alike if you let one through your legs in the 89th minute & your team loses the game. Take lovely Peter Bonetti. A Chelsea hero with 600 appearances who famously helped the club to its 1970 first FA Cup win on one leg having been battered by Mick Jones of Leeds in the replay at Old Trafford. A year later a breathtaking late save secured a Cup Winners Cup final win over Real Marid. He was our Yashin, a slight but wonderfully agile & supremely fit man who still turned out for the veterans team into his ’60’s. Outside SW6 however, his name is eternally greeted with laughter & disdain in many quarters. He won seven international caps, keeping clean sheets in five with England winning six of these matches. Unfortunately the odd game out was the small matter of a World Cup quarter final, the first game he had played since his Old Trafford heroics. Bonetti had an off day. Somebody had to carry the can for the nation’s misery & it was the man known as The Cat, forever reminded about it by smartarses everywhere outside The Shed for the rest of his playing days. Several of his defensive colleagues went missing that day & appear to have been absent ever since whenever the postmortem recommences & the buck inevitably stops with Bonetti yet again. Another Chelsea goalkeeper, Dave Beasant, famously threw in three horrendous second half goals to cost his team the match against Norwich City in 1992. Within an hour of the final whistle his manager swiftly threw him to the lions, or more accurately the assortment of weasels regularly infesting the Chelsea press box back then. Many Blues fans were howling with rage long before he commenced his bowed head walk of shame off the pitch. As a fan I found his ineptitude that day infuriating but it was a hard heart that could not at least spare a thought for a broken looking Beasant at that moment. Inciting the rage of your own fans allied to the inevitable aftermath of frenzied media ridicule is a potent cocktail. Big Dave looked like the loneliest man in the world at quarter to five that day. God alone knows how poor Loris Karius coped after his notorious cock ups playing for Liverpool on the massive stage that was the 2018 Champions League Final against Real Madrid.
Being abused by your own fans may well be the worst experience for any footballer, but dealing with opposition supporters can also be a huge ordeal. Being closest to the terraces on the old days frequently involved goalkeepers running the gauntlet of a variety of missiles, from the ubiquitous toilet roll to darts, knives, coins, fireworks, ball bearings & whisky bottles. The fact that these were more commonly aimed at goalkeepers above other players was usually more logistical than personal but this was probably scant consolation at the time. Sometimes things did get personal too, especially for higher profile players, & often emphasising the complex & contradictory nature of the relationship between goalkeeper & fan. When Chelsea played Derby in the first match of the 1990-1 season Rams veteran goalkeeper Peter Shilton was given a resoundingly warm & effusive ovation by The Shed as he took his place between the sticks. Recently retired from international football & already over 40, Shilton had been part of the Italia ’90 England team that had helped restore faith in the national game after years of doom, gloom, terrace violence & Terry Fenwick. For the previous decade he had not always been so fortunate though. After lurid reports of a late night marital misadventure in his car Shilton was goaded by supporters of rival clubs throughout spells at Nottingham Forest & Southampton. He was a brilliant keeper in his prime but in the first game after the story broke the taunts of the Arsenal crowd were loud even on television highlights & the game was lost for Forest after an uncharacteristic Shilton blunder. When injury required on loan Eric Nixon to briefly replace him in the Southampton goal at the Manor Ground a few years later the Oxford fans regaled him constantly with chants of Shilton’s With Your Missus. Nixon found it amusing apparently. Shilts may have found it harder to raise a smile. In 1995 David Seaman ran out at Stamford Bridge to a sea of theatrically flailing arms singing Let’s All Do The Seaman. Four days earlier Arsenal had lost the Cup Winners Cup final to Real Zaragoza, the winning goal an outrageous 45 yard shot from former Spurs midfielder Nayim which induced the panicked & futile physical response from the Arsenal goalie now being reproduced by Blues fans in all four corners of the Chelsea ground. Seaman threw his head back & laughed & continued to smile thoughout most of the game depite the endless goading. His good humour departed only once, quite understandably, towards the end of the game, when a small section of supporters decided to bring his private life into the equation with Seaman Seaman Where’s Your Kids. Once again the proximity to the crowd rendered a goalkeeper vulnerable & exposed to pointless & wholly undeserved personal abuse.
Happily all is not torture & torment in the world of the goalkeeper. I know little or nothing about Ron Green’s life away from the football pitch but like to believe that he was one of those many stalwarts of the goalkeeping game who seem to have played through their careers bereft of existential angst. I fondly imagine him as a Banks’s Bitter & Dominoes in the snug at his local kind of chap. I have no evidence for this of course. He may have spent his spare time paragliding & dropping acid for all I know, but he cut a calm, steady, frill & fuss free figure on the pitch. He was not a big name in football but this performance was remembered by the Chelsea faithful. Two years later he returned to Stamford Bridge for a 1990 League Cup tie against Walsall, unchanged save for the balding pate looking to have slightly advanced. Walsall were the exception to the knockout rule in this era which usually decreed that Chelsea would lie down happily & spread their arse cheeks for any lower division opponent. Not Walsall though. We always battered Walsall. The first leg away had been won 5-0 & the second leg saw another comfortable win. Ron failed to repeat his 1988 heroics & conceded another four goals but The Shed showed they had not forgotten him, chanting Ronnie Ronnie Give Us A Wave, warmly delivered & reciprocated with the requested response by the man himself despite having just shipped eight or nine goals over the course of the two legged tie by this point. His name would not generally have been tripping off the tongues of too many in the SW6 area. The Shrewsbury game was the only explanation. In fact, while generosity & opposition players were usually alien concepts in The Shed during the 1980’s, it was goalkeepers who were usually the exception. For four years prior to the club’s absurd relegation in 1988 there had been frequent visits from Liverpool & Everton, then the two best teams in the country. Opposition to be respected but not usually engendering any love. Nevertheless I can recall both their goalkeepers, Bruce Grobbelaar & Neville Southall respectively, being warmly clapped when taking their place in the goal at Chelsea, & both readily acknowledging that applause. Liverpool & Everton had some truly hateful players at the time. Steve McMahon, John Aldridge, John Bailey & Pat Van Den Hauwe to name but a few. A veritable Who’s Who of 1980’s footballing shithousery. There was more chance of Chelsea fans turning up in white shirts with a cockerel logo on them & singing Nice One Cyril for 90 minutes than giving any of those charmless characters a clap or a cheer. Even in this feral era goalkeepers were not only different but frequently treated differently by opposition supporters. Grobbelaar & Southall were both brilliant & fascinating characters. Grobbelaar was the larger than life soldier from Rhodesia, a flamboyant attention seeking showman, egotistical & acrobatic, happy both to play to the gallery & engage with it. Southall was a natural scruff who sometimes looked like he both lived in & dressed from the dustbins he had emptied for a living before he turned pro. He largely let his considerable talent do the talking for him & may well have been the best goalkeeper in the world for a time. In retirement he has also shown himself to be a unique & admirable man, entirely untypical of someone from his footballing background & all the more impressive as a consequence. He is now a champion of all sorts of good causes, committed to defending & supporting oppressed & underprivileged members of society, & doing so with the same intensity & obsessiveness that drove him to such great heights during his time at Goodison Park.
Grobbelaar became famously embroiled in one of the more squalid episodes in recent footballing history before he retired, but a quarter of a century later still comes across as a boorish, unpleasant, spivvy chancer. The reckless arrogance which made him such a charismatic presence on a football pitch clearly translates rather less palatably into civvy street. Sadly he would fit perfectly into the modern game. I suspect it would be anathema to Big Nev. These are two goalkeepers who were definitely different though. Not least from each other.
And Ron Green? It must be said that Ron’s Google footprint is almost invisible apart from a Wikipedia entry & a few statistical career breakdowns dotted about the place. He retired in 1992 after a career taking in two stints at both Shrewsbury & Walsall as well as spells with Bristol Rovers, Scunthorpe, Wimbledon, Kidderminster Harriers, Colchester Utd & Bromsgrove Rovers. The glamour & glitz may have eluded him but we can be confident that he deserves to rest easier in his dotage than the likes of Bruce Grobbelaar. Photos of Ron also proved difficult to come by online. At least I did eventually come across a doubtless dated heads up at https://www.where-are-they-now.co.uk . In a similarly presumptuous & patronising manner to my prior imaginings of his social existence I envisaged him to be indulging the traditionally linear retired footballer’s route from playing days to pension. Running a newsagents or a pub. Was this correct or was there to be a delightful twist, the erstwhile guardian of the Gay Meadow goal morphing into a spy or an international jewel thief in his latter years? Neither according to https://www.where-are-they-now.co.uk – they last have him working as a postman in Sutton Coldfield. Maybe my pint of Banks’s & Dominoes in the snug theory is not so far off after all. You would imagine the Post Office would have to up their pay structure a smidgen before Linda Evangelista joins their ranks though doubtless she would rock a pair of those shorts better than Ron. I think we can also be confident that neither Fabien Barthez or Claudio Bravo are ever likely to see out their working lives delivering the Royal Mail in Sutton Coldfield, or indeed anywhere else. Then again neither has ever remotely put up as good a show at Stamford Bridge as Ron Green did on that chilly, drab November afternoon 30 years ago, earning not millions but a deserved & prolonged respect from those of us who witnessed it. Sadly this pays no bills in 2019 but for what little it is worth, in a sport now sickeningly consumed by greed, remains a proper football fan response to a proper footballer.
Cheers Ron.
Triumph, despair, laughter & tears. Glamour, squalor, Bates & Mears. It was a long, bumpy ride until the Russian billionaire rolled into town. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. Oh West London…..
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ZeniMax (Bethesda) Asks Court to Halt Sales of Oculus Rift VR Headset
Motwera February 25, 2017 GamingLeave a Comment
There was a major court case between ZeniMax (Bethesda) and Oculus (Facebook) over issues surrounding Oculus VR. Claims of stolen code and other problems lead to the two parties going into the courts to get things worked out. The end result was that ZeniMax one and Oculus (Facebook) having to cough up money to compensate for damages.
Publisher ZeniMax Media has made good on its intention to file an injunction against Oculus to stop the sale of Rift and any associated software that infringes upon ZeniMax’s copyrighted code, according to documents filed in Texas court this week.
Earlier this month, a Dallas, Texas jury awarded $500 million in damages to ZeniMax after finding that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, and by extension Oculus, failed to comply with a non-disclosure agreement. Of that total amount, ZeniMax was awarded $50 million for copyright infringement.
But sadly issues are still present regarding this case, as ZeniMax is asking the courts to halt the sales of Oculus VR Units.
“The jury’s damage award here, however substantial, is an insufficient incentive for Defendants to cease infringing,” ZeniMax said in court documents. “Just minutes after the jury revealed its verdict, Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, publicly stated that the jury’s verdict of a half billion dollars was ‘not material to [Facebook’s] financials.’”
ZeniMax’s injunction intends to block the sale and distribution of any Oculus products that use its copyrighted code. That includes, but is not limited to, system software for Oculus PC and mobile products, as well as Oculus integration with the Unreal Engine and Unity Game Engine. The injunction could impact not only Oculus and the sale of Rift hardware, but developers working on software for the virtual reality platform.
It’s a shame to see this issue still popping up and if Oculus doesn’t comply with these demands if the court pushes for them, it would have major implications on VR game development. While the PS VR and Vive will continue to get success in the VR landscape, Oculus Developers could lose jobs and more if issues with the company continue to pop up. If you want to learn more about this story, consider reading the full article on Polygon that this report is based on.
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[Update: Apple explains] Apple doubles cost of RAM upgrade for entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro
- Jun. 1st 2020 12:45 pm PT
Apple has quietly adjusted the pricing for RAM upgrades in the entry-level $1299 MacBook Pro. Until today, Apple had charged $100 to upgrade from 8GB of RAM to 16GB of RAM, but now that upgrade costs $200 in the United States.
Update 6/1: Apple has reportedly informed The Verge that this price change is actually a price correction:
The price to upgrade RAM from 8GB to 16GB is $200 on other Macs, including the iMac and MacBook Air, and this change is meant to keep the fee consistent. Apple says it will honor the earlier pricing for those who purchased the cheaper RAM upgrade before the price change went into effect.
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As first noted by MacRumors, the change also applies to other countries; in Germany, the price has doubled from €125 to €250. In the United Kingdom, the upgrade price has doubled from £100 to £200.
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Apple refreshed the MacBook Pro lineup last month, bringing the new Magic Keyboard design and performance improvements. The entry-level model, however, went largely unchanged, with the only upgrade being the new scissor switch keyboard.
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First Prize to Darrell Duffie, Piotr Dworczak, and Haoxiang Zhu for Benchmarks in Search Markets in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Jaroslav Borovička, Lars Peter Hansen, and José A. Scheinkman for Misspecified Recovery in the December 2016 issue.
Distinguished Paper to Stephen Foerster, Juhani T. Linnainmaa, Brian T. Melzer, and Alessandro Previtero for Retail Financial Advice: Does One Size Fit All? in the August issue.
First Prize to R. David McLean and Jeffrey Pontiff for Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability? in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Peter Koudijs for The Boats That Did Not Sail: Asset Price Volatility in a Natural Experiment in the June issue.
Distinguished Paper to Pavel Savor and Mungo Wilson for Earnings Announcements and Systematic Risk in the February issue.
First Prize to David O. Lucca and Emanuel Moench for The Pre-FOMC Announcement Drift in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Tobias Adrian, Erkko Etula, and Tyler Muir for Financial Intermediaries and the Cross-Section of Asset Returns in the December 2014 issue.
Distinguished Paper to Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Vyacheslav Fos for Do Prices Reveal the Presence of Informed Trading? in the August issue.
First Prize to Leonid Kogan and Dimitris Papanikolaou for Growth Opportunities, Technology Shocks, and Asset Prices in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Ralph S.J. Koijen for The Cross-Section of Managerial Ability, Incentives, and Risk Preferences in the June issue.
Distinguished Paper to Matthias Fleckenstein, Francis A. Longstaff, and Hanno Lustig for The TIPS-Treasury Bond Puzzle in the October issue.
First Prize to Andrea L. Eisfeldt and Dimitris Papanikolaou for Organization Capital and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to Itamar Drechsler for Uncertainty, Time-Varying Fear, and Asset Prices in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Robert S. Goldstein and Fan Yang for On the Relative Pricing of Long-Maturity Index Options and Collateralized Debt Obligations in the December 2012 issue.
First Prize to Zhiguo He and Wei Xiong for Rollover Risk and Credit Risk in the April issue.
First Prize to Nicolae Gârleanu, Stavros Panageas, and Jianfeng Yu for Technological Growth and Asset Pricing in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to Ľuboš Pástor and Pietro Veronesi for Uncertainty about Government Policy and Stock Prices in the August issue.
First Prize to Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua Rauh for Public Pension Promises: How Big Are They and What Are They Worth? in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to Alexi Savov for Asset Pricing with Garbage in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Hui Chen for Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads and Capital Structure in the December issue.
First Prize to Joao F. Gomes and Lukas Schmid for Levered Returns in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Joel Peress for Product Market Competition, Insider Trading, and Stock Market Efficiency in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazinni, and Christopher Malloy for Sell-Side School Ties in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to Richard C. Green, Dan Li, and Norman Schürhoff for Price Discovery in Illiquid Markets: Do Financial Asset Prices Rise Faster Than They Fall? in the October issue.
First Prize to Péter Kondor for Risk in Dynamic Arbitrage: The Price Effects of Convergence Trading in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales for Trusting the Stock Market in the December 2008 issue.
Distinguished Paper to Lily Fang and Joel Peress for Media Coverage and the Cross-section of Stock Returns in the October issue.
First Prize to Ricardo J. Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy for Collective Risk Management in a Flight to Quality Episode in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Lauren Cohen and Andrea Frazzini for Economic Links and Predictable Returns in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to Rui Albuquerque and Neng Wang for Agency Conflicts, Investment, and Asset Pricing in the February issue.
First Prize to Paul C. Tetlock for Giving Content to Investor Sentiment: The Role of Media in the Stock Market in the June issue.
Distinguished Paper to Lauren Cohen, Karl B. Diether, and Christopher J. Malloy for Supply and Demand Shifts in the Shorting Market in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Andrew W. Lo and Jiang Wang for Trading Volume: Implications of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model in the December 2006 issue.
First Prize to Leonid Kogan, Stephen A. Ross, Jiang Wang, and Mark M. Westerfield for The Price Impact and Survival of Irrational Traders in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Mark Loewenstein and Gregory A. Willard for The Limits of Investor Behavior in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Gur Huberman and Wei Jiang for Offering versus Choice in 401(k) Plans: Equity Exposure and Number of Funds in the April issue.
First Prize to Joshua D. Coval and Tyler Shumway for Do Behavioral Biases Affect Prices? in the February issue.
First Prize to Lu Zhang for The Value Premium in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Murray Carlson, Adlai Fisher, and Ron Giammarino for Corporate Investment and Asset Price Dynamics: Implications for the Cross-Section of Returns in the December 2004 issue.
First Prize to Markus K. Brunnermeier and Stefan Nagel for Hedge Funds and the Technology Bubble in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Andrea L. Eisfeldt for Endogenous Liquidity in Asset Markets in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Ravi Bansal and Amir Yaron for Risks for the Long Run: A Potential Resolution of Asset Pricing Puzzles in the August issue.
First Prize to Luboš Pástor and Pietro Veronesi for Stock Valuation and Learning about Profitability in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Eli Ofek and Matthew Richardson for DotCom Mania: The Rise and Fall of Internet Stock Prices in the June issue.
Distinguished Paper to Maureen O’Hara for Presidential Address: Liquidity and Price Discovery in the August issue.
First Prize to Mark Mitchell, Todd Pulvino and Erik Stafford for Limited Arbitrage in Equity Markets in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Timothy C. Johnson for Rational Momentum Effects in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to David Easley, Soeren Hvidkjaer and Maureen O’Hara for Is Information Risk a Determinant of Asset Returns? in the October issue.
First Prize to John Y. Campbell, Martin Lettau, Burton G. Malkiel and Yexiao Xu for Have Individual Stocks Become More Volatile: An Empirical Exploration of Idiosyncratic Risk in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Mark Grinblatt and Matti Keloharju for What Makes Investors Trade? in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Bengt Holmström and Jean Tirole for LAPM: A Liquidity-Based Asset Pricing Model in the October issue.
First Prize to Joshua D. Coval and Tobias J. Moskowitz for Home Bias at Home: Local Equity Preference in Domestic Portfolios in the December 1999 issue.
Distinguished Paper to Qiang Dai and Kenneth J. Singelton for Specification Analysis of Affine Term Structure Models in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Katrina Ellis, Roni Michaely and Maureen O’Hara for When the Underwriter is the Market Maker: An Examination of Trading in the IPO Aftermarket in the June issue.
First Prize to Kent Daniel, David Hirshleifer, and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam for Investor Psychology and Security Market Under – and Overreaction in the December issue.
Distinguished Paper to Jonathan B. Berk, Richard C. Green, and Vasant Naik for Optimal Investment, Growth Options, and Security Returns in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Philippe Jorion and William N. Goetzmann for Global Stock Markets in the Twentieth Century in the June issue.
First Prize to Gregor Andrade and Steven N. Kaplan for How Costly is Financial (not Economic) Distress? Evidence from Highly Leveraged Transactions that Became Distressed in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Todd C. Pulvino for Do Asset Fire-Sales Exist? An Empirical Investigation of Commercial Aircraft Transactions in the June issue.
Distinguished Paper to Alon Brav and Paul A.Gompers for Myth or Reality? The Long-Run Underperformance of Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from Venture and Nonventure Capital-Backed Companies in the December issue.
First Prize to Kent Daniel and Sheridan Titman for Evidence on the Characteristics of the Cross Sectional Variation in Stock Returns in the March issue.
Distinguished Paper to Owen Lamont forCash Flow and Investment: Evidence from Internal Capital Markets in the March issue.
Distinguished Paper to Darrell Duffie and Kenneth J. Singleton for An Econometric Model of the Term Structure of Interest-Rate Swap Yields in the September issue.
First Prize (tie) to Shmuel Kandel and Robert F. Stambaugh for On the Predictability of Stock Returns: An Asset-Allocation Perspective in the June issue.
First Prize (tie) to Peter Tufano for Who Manages Risk? An Empirical Examination of Risk Management Practices in the Gold Mining Industry in the September issue.
Distinguished Paper to Keith C. Brown, W.V. Harlow, and Laura Starks for Of Tournaments and Temptations: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives in the Mutual Fund Industry in the March issue.
First Prize to William G. Christie and Paul Schultz for Why Do NASDAQ Market Makers Avoid Odd-Eighth Quotes? in the December issue.
Distinguished Paper to Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny for Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk in the December issue.
Distinguished Paper to Judith A. Chevalier for Do LBO Supermarkets Charge more? An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of LBOs on Supermarket Pricing in the September issue.
First Prize to Mitchell A. Petersen and Raghuram G. Rajan for The Benefits of Lending Relationships: Evidence from Small Business Data in the March issue.
Distinguished Paper to Lawrence R. Glosten forIs the Electronic Open Limit Order Book Inevitable? in the September issue.
Distinguished Paper to William L. Megginson, Robert C. Nash, and Matthias van Randenborgh for The Financial and Operating Performance of Newly Privatized Firms: An International Empirical Analysis in the June issue.
First Prize to Lisa K. Meulbroek for An Empirical Analysis of Illegal Insider Trading in the December issue.
Distinguished Paper to John Y. Campbell and John Ammer for What Moves the Stock and Bond Markets? A Variance Decomposition for Long-Term Asset Returns in the March issue.
Distinguished Paper to Lucy F. Ackert and Brian F. Smith forStock Price Volatility, Ordinary Dividends, and Other Cash Flows to Shareholders in the September issue.
First Prize to Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French for The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns in the June issue.
Distinguished Paper to Laurie Simon Bagwell for Dutch Auction Repurchases: An Analysis of Shareholder Heterogeneity in the March issue.
Distinguished Paper to Raghuram G. Rajan for Insiders and Outsiders: The Choice Between Informed and Arm’s Length Debt in the September issue.
Distinguished Paper to Ivo Welch for Sequential Sales, Learning, and Cascades in the June issue.
First Prize to Jay R. Ritter for The Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings in the March issue.
Distinguished Paper to Robert Gertner and David Scharfstein for A Theory of Workouts and the Effects of Reorganization Law in the September issue.
Distinguished Paper to Campbell R. Harvey for The World Price of Covariance Risk in the March issue.
First Prize to David A. Hsieh and Merton H. Miller for Margin Regulation and Stock Market Volatility in the March issue.
Distinguished Paper to Milton Harris and Artur Raviv for Capital Structure and the Informational Role of Debt in the June issue.
Distinguished Paper to Deborah J. Lucas and Robert L. McDonald for Equity Issues and Stock Price Dynamics in the September issue.
Distinguished Paper to G. William Schwert for Why Does Stock Market Volatility Change Over Time? in the December 1989 issue.
First Prize to Paul Asquith, David W. Mullins, Jr., and Eric D. Wolff for Original Issue High yield Bonds: Aging Analyses of Defaults, Exchanges, and Calls in the September issue.
Distinguished Paper to Michael J. Fishman for Preemptive Bidding and the Role of the Medium of Exchange in Acquisitions in the March issue.
Distinguished Paper to Marshall E. Blume, A. Craig MacKinlay, and Bruce Terker for Order Imbalances and Stock Price Movements on October 19 and 20, 1987 in the September issue.
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First Prize to Arpit Gupta for Foreclosure Contagion and the Neighborhood Spillover Effects of Mortgage Defaults in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to David Schoenherr for Political Connections and Allocative Distortions in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Andrey Malenko and Nadya Malenko for Proxy Advisory Firms: The Economics of Selling Information to Voters in the October issue.
First Prize to Anthony A. DeFusco for Homeowner Borrowing and Housing Collateral: New Evidence from Expiring Price Controls in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Nicolae Garleanu and Lasse Heje Pedersen for Efficiently Inefficient Markets for Assets and Asset Management in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to James Dow and Jungsuk Han for The Paradox of Financial Fire Sales: The Role of Arbitrage Capital in Determining Liquidity in the February issue.
First Prize to Emily Breza and Andres Liberman for Financial Contracting and Organizational Form: Evidence from the Regulation of Trade Credit in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Brian T. Melzer for Mortgage Debt Overhang: Reduced Investment by Homeowners at Risk of Default in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Martin C. Schmalz, David A. Sraer, and David Thesmar for Housing Collateral and Entrepreneurship in the February issue.
First Prize to Johannes Stroebel for Asymmetric Information about Collateral Values in the June issue.
Distinguished Paper to Jean-Noel Barrot for Trade Credit and Industry Dynamics: Evidence from Trucking Firms in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Brendan Daley and Brett Green for An Information-Based Theory of Time-Varying Liquidity in the April issue.
First Prize to Shai Bernstein for Does Going Public Affect Innovation? in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to Ulf Axelson and Philip Bond for Wall Street Occupations in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein for A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity in the August issue.
First Prize to Douglas W. Diamond and Zhiguo He for A Theory of Debt Maturity: The Long and Short of Debt Overhang in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Ulf Axelson, Tim Jenkinson, Per Strömberg, and Michael S. Weisbach for Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts in the December 2013 issue.
Distinguished Paper to Ricardo J. Caballero and Alp Simsek for Fire Sales in a Model of Complexity in the December 2013 issue.
First Prize to Francisco Pérez-González and Hayong Yun for Risk Management and Firm Value: Evidence from Weather Derivatives in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Maxim Mironov for Taxes, Theft, and Firm Performance in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to Markus K. Brunnermeier and Martin Oehmke for The Maturity Rat Race in the April issue.
First Prize to Marianne Bertrand and Adair Morse for Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases, and Payday Borrowing in the December issue.
First Prize to Philipp Schnabl for The International Transmission of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market in the June issue.
Distinguished Paper to Vicente Cuñat, Mireia Gine, and Maria Guadalupe for The Vote Is Cast: The Effect of Corporate Governance on Shareholder Value in the October issue.
First Prize to Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman for Bankruptcy and Collateral Channel in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Arthur Korteweg for The Net Benefits to Leverage in the December issue.
Distinguished Paper to Andrew Hertzberg, José Mariá Liberti and Daniel Paravisini for Public Information and Coordination: Evidence from a Credit Registry Expansion in the April issue.
First Prize to Andrew Hertzberg, José M. Liberti, and Daniel Paravisini for Information and Incentives Inside the Firm: Evidence from Loan Officer Rotation in the June issue.
Distinguished Paper to Thorsten Beck, Ross Levine, and Alexey Levkov for Big Bad Banks? The Winners and Losers from Bank Deregulation in the United States in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to José M. Liberti and Atif R. Mian for Collateral Spread and Financial Development in the February issue.
First Prize to Ulf Axelson, Per Strömberg, and Michael S. Weisbach for Why Are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to Paul Oyer for The Making of an Investment Banker: Stock Market Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income in the December 2008 issue.
Distinguished Paper to Mark T. Leary for Bank Loan Supply, Lender Choice, and Corporate Capital Structure in the June issue.
First Prize to Heitor Almeida and Thomas Philippon for The Risk-Adjusted Cost of Financial Distress in the December 2007 issue.
Distinguished Paper to Michael L. Lemmon, Michael R. Roberts, and Jaime F. Zender for Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross-Section of Corporate Capital Structure in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to Daniel Paravisini forLocal Bank Financial Constraints and Firm Access to External Finance in the October issue.
First Prize to Ilya A. Strebulaev for Do Tests of Capital Structure Theory Mean What They Say? in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to Christopher A. Hennessy and Toni M. Whited for How Costly Is External Financing? Evidence from a Structural Estimation in the August issue.
Distinguished Paper to Amir Sufi for Information Asymmetry and Financing Arrangements: Evidence from Syndicated Loans in the April issue.
First Prize to Joshua D. Rauh for Investment and Financing Constraints: Evidence from the Funding of Corporate Pension Plans in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Mark T. Leary and Michael R. Roberts for Do Firms Rebalance Their Capital Structures? in the December 2005 issue.
Distinguished Paper to Aydogan Alti for How Persistent Is the Impact of Market Timing on Capital Structure? in the August issue.
First Prize to Christopher A. Hennessy and Toni M. Whited for Debt Dynamics in the June issue.
Distinguished Paper to Marianne P. Bitler, Tobias J. Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen for Testing Agency Theory with Entrepreneur Effort and Wealth in the April issue.
First Prize to Belen Villalonga for Diversification Discount or Premium? New Evidence from the Business Information Tracking Series in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Christopher A. Hennessy for Tobin’s Q, Debt Overhang, and Investment in the August issue.
First Prize to Antoinette Schoar for Effects of Corporate Diversification on Productivity in the December 2002 issue.
Distinguished Paper to Aydogan Alti for How Sensitive is Investment to Cash Flow When Financing is Frictionless? in the April issue.
First Prize to Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler for Market Timing and Capital Structure in the February issue.
Distinguished Paper to Anil K. Kashyap, Raghuram Rajan and Jeremy C. Stein forBanks as Liquidity Providers: An Explanation for the Coexistence of Lending and Deposit-Taking in the February issue.
First Prize to Per Strömberg for Conflicts of Interest and Market Illiquidity in Bankruptcy Auctions: Theory and Tests in the December 2000 issue.
Distinguished Paper to Douglas Diamond Raghuram Rajan for A Theory of Bank Capital in the December 2000 issue.
First Prize to John R. Graham for How Big Are the Tax Benefits of Debt? in the October issue.
Distinguished Paper to Raghuram Rajan, Henri Servaes and Luigi Zingales for The Cost of Diversity: The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment in the February issue.
First Prize to Clifford G. Holderness, Randall S.Kroszner, and Dennis P.Sheehan for Were the Good Old Days That Good? Changes in Managerial Stock Ownership Since the Great Depression in the April issue.
Distinguished Paper to Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer for Corporate Ownership Around the World in the April issue.
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Some of My Friends Read Comics 069 – Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
December 6, 2017 December 6, 2017 Vincent Goodwinshadows of the empire n64, some of my friends read comics, somfrc, star wars, star wars comic books, star wars expanded universe, star wars graphic novels, star wars shadows of the empire, star wars videogames, steve perryLeave a comment
In the mid-90s, Lucasfilm decided to fill in the Star Wars gap between episodes 5 and 6 with Shadows of the Empire.
There was a game, a book, a soundtrack, a junior novelization… pretty much everything except a movie.
There was even a comic book! And we read it! All 6 issues!
What’s gonna happen?
Is Luke gonna die?! (no) Is Boba Fett gonna die?! (no) Is Han gonna get delivered to Jabba?! (yeah) Is Leia going to be the victim of sexual assault?! (omg, what the hell did we just read).
MP3: http://bit.ly/2iqYPt0
Saturday Night Love S42E11 – Felicity Jones
January 20, 2017 Vincent Goodwinfelicity jones, rogue one, saturday night live, Saturday Night Love, snl, snl season 42, star warsLeave a comment
We’re back from the holidays with a new episode of SATURDAY NIGHT LOVE! This time, we’re talking about Star Wars star Felicity Jones and what we feel was a particularly mediocre episode.
We also talk Beck Bennett’s Beard Hunk and Prince. And what’s Donald Trump’s Sunday morning routine? And how do we feel about Tina Fey calling us out?
MP3: http://bit.ly/2iQPR6e
All My Friends Are Right Here 068 – International Space Station Movie Draft
July 25, 2016 July 25, 2016 Vincent Goodwinair force one, all my friends are right here, amfarh, guardians of the galaxy, international space station, movie draft, planet of the apes, star trek, star warsLeave a comment
Recently, Gizmodo made a Freedom of Information Request to find out what movies were aboard the International Space Station. The full list contains a bonkers mix of recent Best Picture winners, blockbusters, Christmas movies, and forgotten romantic comedies.
On this episode: Kia, Dylan, and Vince imagine themselves as astronauts part of the Space Station’s movie planning committee. What movie are they watching for the first night? What movie are they watching when the Russians come to visit? And what movie franchise or TV series are they totally binge-watching?
Also, the boys discover who’s the best ghost writer in all of Hollywood!
MP3: http://bit.ly/2aaHqSq
Saturday Night Love S41E10 – Adam Driver
January 21, 2016 Vincent Goodwinadam driver, golden globes, hot takes, kylo ren, saturday night live, Saturday Night Love, snl, star wars, undercover boss, undercoverren, vanessa bayerLeave a comment
Saturday Night Love is back from the winter break with some fresh hot takes to warm you up!
On this episode, we cover Adam Driver’s hosting stint. Find out what we thought of Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base, Social Puppeteering, and America’s Funniest Cats!
Boy-yoy-yoing!
#undercoverren #saturdaynightliev
MP3: http://bit.ly/1V9VKJ1
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That Was a Game 007 – Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing
January 2, 2016 Vincent Goodwinkart racer, star wars, star wars episode one racer, star wars videogames, super bombad racing, that was a game, twagLeave a comment
Hey everybody, do you like Mario Kart? Do you like Star Wars? What if I told you there was a Star Wars racing game in the style of Mario Kart? Today, we’re talking about Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing.
Continue reading “That Was a Game 007 – Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing” →
All My Friends Are Right Here 042 – 2015 Wrap-Up
December 28, 2015 Vincent Goodwin2015 wrapup, best of 2015, box office gross, game of thrones, grantland, jurassic world, pixels movie, serial podcast, shea serrano, star warsLeave a comment
IT’S OUR SEASON FINALE SPECIAL!!
Jurassic World! Carly Rae Jepsen & Justin Bieber! H is for Hawk!
That’s right, we’re recapping 2015 in a big way! Listen as we reflect on the year that was — including our hot takes on Johnny Carson, The Sopranos, and Roy Orbison!
We also take a look at 2016 & beyond to worry about Star Wars Episode 9 and the state of sports journalism.
Also, is a fear of dinosaurs a uniquely American trait?
MP3: http://bit.ly/1PqGJke
That Was a Game 006 – Star Wars: Racer Revenge
December 20, 2015 Vincent Goodwinstar wars, star wars episode one racer, star wars playstation 2, star wars racer revenge, star wars videogames, that was a game, twagLeave a comment
Remember Star War Episode One Racer, the Nintendo 64 and Sega Dreamcast podracing game? What if I told you there was an Episode Two Racer?
Yes, today we’re talking about Star Wars: Racer Revenge for the PlayStation 2.
Continue reading “That Was a Game 006 – Star Wars: Racer Revenge” →
That Was a Game 005 – Star Wars: Episode One Racer (Game Boy Color)
December 19, 2015 March 23, 2017 Vincent Goodwinstar wars, star wars episode one racer, star wars game boy, star wars videogames, that was a game, twagLeave a comment
Remember Star Wars: Episode One Racer, the futuristic F-Zero X/Extreme-G-esque racing game for the Nintendo 64? Well…we’re not looking at that game. We’re looking at the Game Boy Color port of Star Wars: Episode One Racer.
Continue reading “That Was a Game 005 – Star Wars: Episode One Racer (Game Boy Color)” →
AMFARH 040 – Star Wars: 20 Nice Things to Say About the Prequel Trilogy
December 14, 2015 Vincent Goodwinattack of the clones, christopher lee, darth maul, force awakens, george lucas, phantom menace, prequel trilogy, revenge of the sith, samuel l jackson, star wars, yodaLeave a comment
We make internet history this week as we dedicate an entire episode to saying nice things about the Star Wars prequel trilogy. In the spirit of the holidays and good cheer, we challenge ourselves to come up with 20 things that the prequel trilogy does well.
Also… What are the lyrics to “Duel of the Fates”? Is Star Wars part of The Matrix? Just how awesome are Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee?
MP3: http://bit.ly/1IOHVyh
Some of My Friends Read Comics 017 – Star Wars: Dark Empire
December 9, 2015 Vincent Goodwindark empire, dark horse comics, episode 7, force awakens, han solo, luke skywaker, some of my friends read comics, somfrc, star wars, tom veitchLeave a comment
A long time ago in a continuity far, far away… Dark Horse Comics made a TON of Star Wars comics, more than 500 of ’em. And they kicked the whole thing off with Dark Empire, a story where Luke turns to the Dark Side.
Apparently, this thing was so important that all the Star Wars novels from the 90’s kept referencing it, so we decided to read it and see what all the fuss was about. Join us as we ask the questions: Is Leia a trucker? Is the Emperor a vampire? Is Boba Fett good at anything?
Marvel owns the rights to all these comics now, what with Disney owning everything in the world these days, so if you’d like to read them just head on over to Marvel Unlimited.
MP3: http://bit.ly/1Y0Dpyv
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Hoya Highlight (3) Apply Hoya Highlight filter
Mexico City Welcomes Hundreds of Hoyas for Georgetown’s 2018 International Alumni Weekend
This year’s International Alumni Weekend, held in October in Mexico City, connected more than 250 Hoyas from nine schools and 17 countries.
NHS Professor Catches the Scent of Fresh Discoveries
Every day, Blythe Shepard, assistant professor of human science at the School of Nursing...
Georgetown Holds Conversations on Legacies of Slavery
In April, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gayle Jessup White—a descendant of Thomas Jefferson and community engagement officer at Monticello—conversed on stage with...
Maker Hub Celebrates International Successes in Innovation
Refugees have immediate needs of water, food, medicine, and shelter. But they also need something else to start their lives anew: a credit score. To help migrants and refugees build credit, a cross-...
SFS Institute Wrestles With New Global Migration Challenges
The Institute for the Study of International Migration at SFS studies a range of complex contemporary issues such as forced migration from environmental and political causes.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan Stands up for Scholarships
The first thing to know about comedian Jim Gaffigan (B’88) is that he’s hilarious but still down-to-earth. He has several shows available on your streaming devices so you can see how he spins the...
New Task Force to Focus on Gender Equity at Georgetown
In March, Georgetown President John J. DeGioia announced the creation of a university-wide Gender Equity Task Force to assess how gender equity can be strengthened and encouraged among faculty and...
Main campus reunion 2018
More than 4,500 alumni and family members returned to the Hilltop for Reunion 2018.
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ToyaPakeh
Toyapakeh is a very popular dive site in Nusa Penida. It catches a lot of tourists for a variety of reasons. One is because of its richness in fish life due to its constant currents. The current goes through the slope of the Lombok strait instead of running into it. This lets you dip down to 24 meters or 79 feet where you can drift over the fields of corals.
Toyapakeh’s marine life includes big schools of small tropical fish, lion fish, moray eels, scorpion fish, butterfly fish, bat fish, reef sharks, nudibranchs, sea turtles and occasionally sunfish or Mola Mola. Its marine life is excellent in deeper areas where large pelagic fish could be seen. If you would like to see Mola Mola, you should try coming in Toyapakeh in early August or October to avoid the mob.
This site impresses people for it has the great pillars of coral at about 10-15 meters or 33-49 feet which make Toyapakeh resemble an underwater city. It has a stretch of reefs and in the southern area of the bay; there is a similar place of rugged bommies which are rich with fish and colors. The water is clear and abounded with corals.
Regardless of the bay’s exposure, it offers some protection from the wild currents flowing along the straits.
Toyapakeh is also known to be one of the few sites in Nusa Penida where big gorgonians and soft coral bushes are found.
Location: Northwest Nusa Penida, Indonesia
Main Attractions: Drift Diving, Marine life
Minimum Depth: 3 meters (10 feet)
Maximum Depth: 37 meters (121 feet)
Conditions: Constant current.
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Foods That Will Win the War and How to Cook Them
by C. Houston & Alberta Goudiss
Save Wheat
Reasons Why Our Government Asks Us to Save Wheat, with Practical Recipes for the Use of Other Grains
A slice of bread seems an unimportant thing. Yet one good-sized slice of bread weighs an ounce. It contains almost three-fourths of an ounce of flour.
If every one of the country's 20,000,000 homes wastes on the average only one such slice of bread a day, the country is throwing away daily over 14,000,000 ounces of flour—over 875,000 pounds, or enough flour for over a million one-pound loaves a day. For a full year at this rate there would be a waste of over 319,000,000 pounds of flour—1,500,000 barrels—enough flour to make 365,000,000 loaves.
As it takes four and one-half bushels of wheat to make a barrel of ordinary flour, this waste would represent the flour from over 7,000,000 bushels of wheat. Fourteen and nine-tenths bushels of wheat on the average are raised per acre. It would take the product of some 470,000 acres just to provide a single slice of bread to be wasted daily in every home.
But some one says, "a full slice of bread is not wasted in every home." Very well, make it a daily slice for every four or every ten or every thirty homes—make it a weekly or monthly slice in every home—or make the wasted slice thinner. The waste of flour involved is still appalling. These are figures compiled by government experts, and they should give pause to every housekeeper who permits a slice of bread to be wasted in her home.
Another source of waste of which few of us take account is home-made bread. Sixty per cent. of the bread used in America is made in the home. When one stops to consider how much home-made bread is poorly made, and represents a large waste of flour, yeast and fuel, this housewifely energy is not so commendable. The bread flour used in the home is also in the main wheat flour, and all waste of wheat at the present time increases the shortage of this most necessary food.
Fuel, too, is a serious national problem, and all coal used in either range, gas, or electric oven for the baking of poor bread is an actual national loss. There must be no waste in poor baking or from poor care after the bread is made, or from the waste of a crust or crumb.
Waste in your kitchen means starvation in some other kitchen across the sea. Our Allies are asking for 450,000,000 bushels of wheat, and we are told that even then theirs will be a privation loaf. Crop shortage and unusual demand has left Canada and the United States, which are the largest sources of wheat, with but 300,000,000 bushels available for export. The deficit must be met by reducing consumption on this side the Atlantic. This can be done by eliminating waste and by making use of cereals and flours other than wheat in bread-making.
The wide use of wheat flour for bread-making has been due to custom. In Europe rye and oats form the staple breads of many countries, and in some sections of the [pg 13] South corn-bread is the staff of life. We have only to modify a little our bread-eating habits in order to meet the present need. Other cereals can well be used to eke out the wheat, but they require slightly different handling.
In making yeast breads, the essential ingredient is gluten, which is extended by carbon dioxide gas formed by yeast growth. With the exception of rye, grains other than wheat do not contain sufficient gluten for yeast bread, and it is necessary to use a wheat in varying proportions in order to supply the deficient gluten. Even the baker's rye loaf is usually made of one-half rye and one-half wheat. This is the safest proportion for home use in order to secure a good texture.
When oatmeal is used, it is necessary to scald the oatmeal to prevent a raw taste. Oatmeal also makes a softer dough than wheat, and it is best to make the loaf smaller and bake it longer: about one hour instead of the forty-five minutes which we allow for wheat bread.
The addition of one-third barley flour to wheat flour makes a light colored, good flavored bread. If a larger proportion than this is used, the loaf has a decided barley flavor. If you like this flavor and increase the proportion of barley, be sure to allow the dough a little longer time to rise, as by increasing the barley you weaken the gluten content of your loaf.
Rice and cornmeal can be added to wheat breads in a 10 per cent. proportion. Laboratory tests have shown that any greater proportion than this produces a heavy, small loaf.
Potato flour or mashed potato can be used to extend the wheat, it being possible to work in almost 50 per cent. of potato, but this makes a darker and moister loaf than when wheat alone is used. In order to take care of this [pg 14] moisture, it is best to reserve part of the wheat for the second kneading.
Graham and entire wheat flour also effect a saving of wheat because a larger percentage of the wheat berry is used. Graham flour is the whole kernel of wheat, ground. Entire wheat flour is the flour resulting from the grinding of all but the outer layer of wheat. A larger use of these coarser flours will therefore help materially in eking out our scant wheat supply as the percentage of the wheat berry used for bread flour is but 72 per cent. Breads made from these coarser flours also aid digestion and are a valuable addition to the dietary.
In order to keep down waste by eliminating the poor batch of bread, it is necessary to understand the principles of bread-making. Fermentation is the basic principle of yeast bread, and fermentation is controlled by temperature. The yeast plant grows at a temperature from 70 to 90 degrees (Fahrenheit), and if care is taken to maintain this temperature during the process of fermentation, waste caused by sour dough or over-fermentation will be eliminated. When we control the temperature we can also reduce the time necessary for making a loaf of bread, or several loaves of bread as may be needed, into as short a period as three hours. This is what is known as the quick method. It not only saves time and labor, but, controlling the temperature, insures accurate results. The easiest way to control the temperature is to put the bowl containing the dough into another of slightly larger size containing water at a temperature of 90 degrees. The water of course should never be hot. Hot water kills the yeast plant. Cold water checks its growth. Cover the bowl and set it in the gas oven or fireless cooker or on the shelf of the coal range. As the water in the large bowl cools off, remove a cupful and add a cupful of hot water. At the end of one and one-half hours the [pg 15] dough should have doubled in bulk. Take it out of the pan and knead until the large gas bubbles are broken (about ten minutes). Then place in greased bread pans and allow to rise for another half hour. At the end of this time it will not only fill the pan, but will project out of it. Do not allow the dough to rise too high, for then the bread will have large holes in it. A good proportion as a general rule to follow, is:
3½ cupfuls of flour (this includes added cereals)
1 cupful of water or milk
½ tablespoon shortening
1½ teaspoons salt
1 cake of compressed yeast
In this recipe sugar has been omitted because of the serious shortage, but after the war a teaspoon of sugar should be added. The shortening, although small in quantity, may also be omitted.
These materials make a loaf of about one pound, which should be baked in forty to fifty minutes at a temperature of 450 degrees (Fahrenheit). Allow a little longer time for bread containing oatmeal or other grains. Such breads require a little longer baking and a little lower temperature than wheat breads. If you do not use a thermometer in testing your oven, place a piece of paper on the center shelf, and if it browns in two minutes your oven is right. If a longer period for raising is allowed than is suggested in the above recipe, the yeast proportion should be decreased. For overnight bread use one-quarter yeast cake per loaf; for six-hour bread, use one-half yeast cake per loaf; for three-hour bread, use one yeast cake per loaf. In baking, the time allowed should depend on the size of the loaf. When baked at a temperature of 450 degrees, large loaves take from forty-five to sixty minutes, small loaves from thirty to forty minutes, rolls from ten to twenty minutes.
It is well to divide the oven time into four parts. During the first quarter, the rising continues; second quarter, browning begins; the third quarter, browning is finished; [pg 16] the fourth quarter, bread shrinks from the side of the pan. These are always safe tests to follow in your baking. When baked, the bread should be turned out of the pans and allow to cool on a wire rack. When cool, put the bread in a stone crock or bread box. To prevent staleness, keep the old bread away from the fresh—scald the bread crock or give your bread box a sun bath at frequent intervals.
Even with all possible care to prevent waste, yeast breads will not conserve our wheat supply so well as quick breads, because all yeast breads need a larger percentage of wheat. The home baker can better serve her country by introducing into her menus numerous quick breads that can be made from cornmeal, rye, corn and rye, hominy, and buckwheat. Griddle cakes and waffles can also be made from lentils, soy beans, potatoes, rice and peas.
Do not expect that the use of other cereals in bread-making will reduce the cost of your bread. That is not the object. Saving of wheat for war needs is the thing we are striving for, and this is as much an act of loyalty as buying Liberty Bonds. It is to meet the crucial world need of bread that we are learning to substitute, and not to spare the national purse.
Besides this saving of wheat, our Government also asks us to omit all fat from our yeast breads in order to conserve the diminishing fat supply. This may seem impossible to the woman who has never made bread without shortening, but recent experiments in bread-making laboratories have proved that bread, without shortening, is just as light and as good in texture as that made with shortening—the only difference being a slight change in flavor. These experiments have also shown that it is possible to supply shortening by the introduction of 3 per cent. to 5 per cent. of canned cocoanut or of peanut butter, and that sugar may also be omitted from bread-making recipes. In fact, the war is bringing about manifold interesting experiments which prove that edible and nutritious bread can be made of many things besides the usual white flour.
The recipes herewith appended, showing the use of combinations of cereals and wheat, have been carefully tested in The Forecast School of Modern Cookery. Good bread can be made from each recipe, and the new flavors obtained by the use of other grains make a pleasing and wholesome variety.
A family which has eaten oatmeal or entire wheat bread will never again be satisfied with a diet that includes only bread made from bleached flour. Children, especially, will be benefited by the change, as the breads made from coarser flours are not only more nutritious, but are rich in the minerals and vitamin elements that are so essential to the growth of strong teeth, bones and growing tissues.
The homemaker, too, will never regret her larger acquaintance with bread-making materials, as the greater variety of breads that she will find herself able to produce will be a source of pleasure and keen satisfaction.
To Conform to U.S. Food Administration Regulations During the War, Eliminate Fat and Sweetening in Breads—Whenever Fat Is Used, Use Drippings
Return to the Foods That Will Win the War and How to Cook Them Summary Return to the C. Houston & Alberta Goudiss Library
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Punjabi People
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Category:Punjabi people - Wikimedia Commons __ Gallery of images of Punjabi People plus links to related materials. - illustrated - From wikimedia - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Punjabi_people
Category:Punjabi tribes __ A list of articles related to Punjabi Tribes found in Wikipedia - From wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Punjabi_tribes
Jattworld.com - The Punjabi Jatts __ "In a recent survey taken by JattWorld from 115 random members and visitors, it was found that only 26.96% people now think that Jatt is a "Caste". Majority 57.39% think that Jatt is an Ethnic Tribe or a Race of People. While 3.48% think its a distinct Nationality altogether..." You will find a lot of information and perhaps an answer to the survey question. - illustrated - From jattworld.com - http://www.jattworld.com/portal/modules/HotNews/
Kamboj, Kamboja, Kambojas, Kamboh - Community, Society & Culture ... __ A good overview including click-to-read articles about who they are, culture, language and much more. - From kambojsociety.com - http://www.kambojsociety.com/
Khatri __ An encyclopedic article with links to related materials. - illustrated - From wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatri
Khatri __ "The Khatris (Punjabi) or Kshatriyas (Sanskrit, (K) silent) are a north Indian community that originated in the Potwar Plateau of Punjab." An encyclopedic article with links to related materials. - From sikhiwiki.org - http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Khatri
Mohyal : Who, What, Where, When __ A brief introduction to this Punjabi people along with links to a few related resources. - From servinghistory.com - http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/Mohyal
Mohyal World __ An extended blog about Mohyals with a variety of informative topics. - illustrated - From mohyalworld.com - http://www.mohyalworld.com/
Punjab: History, Archeology, Society and Culture __ It is all here plus information about the struggle for freedom, monuments, sports and more. Texts and images are from the archives of the Punjab government. - illustrated - From Punjabi Cultural Society of Chicago - http://www.pcschicago.org/Punjab/
Punjab Online: Introduction __ History, culture, current events and popular culture. - illustrated - From punjabonline.com - http://www.punjabonline.com/servlet/library.library?Action=Intro
Punjabi people __ You will find an encyclopedic article with links to related materials. - illustrated - From wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_people
Punjabi Rajput : Hindu Rajputs Of Punjab __ A general introduction and a lot of linked resources. - From servinghistory.com - http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/Punjabi_Rajput::sub::Hindu_Rajputs_Of_Punjab
Punjabi Recipes __ An excellent collection of traditional Punjabi foods. I like to cook myself and can verify the quality of at least one of them. You will have to guess which. Here is a hint: chicken tikka masala. - From punjabonline.com - http://www.punjabonline.com/servlet/community.recipes?Action=Main
Punjabi Shaikh __ "The Punjabi Shaikh are a multi-ethnic community who are partly descended from Arabs, Persians, Afghans and Turks." An encyclopedic article with links to related materials. - From wapedia - http://wapedia.mobi/en/Punjabi_Shaikh
Rajput clans __ You will find a Rajput clans summary with 5 pages of encyclopedia entries. - From bookrags.com - http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Rajput_clans
Religion and expressive culture - Punjabi __ "As of the 1981 census, the population of Indian Punjab reported itself as being 37 percent Hindu, 61 percent Sikh, 1 percent Muslim, and a little more than 1 percent Christian, with smaller portions of Buddhists, Jains, and others." A good overview of Punjabi religion and its social interaction. - From everyculture.com - http://www.everyculture.com/South-Asia/Punjabi-Religion-and-Expressive-Culture.html
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Sydney Motorsport Park to host Radical Australia Cup return
2020 Radical Australia Cup
If nothing else, the 12th season of the Radical Australia Cup has already proven memorable, despite campaigning just a single round back in March - five long months ago - the championship, like so many others, hampered by the ongoing presence of Covid-19. Despite the challenges of the pandemic though, organisers have revealed that the season will continue, with a return to competition at Sydney Motorsport Park across the September 4-6 weekend.
“I’ve given up counting how many variations this year’s calendar has had, but it had been changing almost by the week at one stage,” Category Manager Karl Reindler reflected.
“What we do know, is that we have a round scheduled in a months time at Sydney Motorsport Park as part of the NSW State Series - which has continued to compete over the last month having contested rounds at both Wakefield Park and in Sydney.
“Our second round will be held alongside their third event, with race formats yet to be finalised, but we will run on the Sunday, with practice on the Friday prior - SuperSports races are running on Saturday with the Radical Australia Cup drivers able to join the round if they want additional laps, so there will be plenty of running for the Radical teams.
“Sadly the Sydney round does impact our drivers who are based outside of New South Wales, although there are only a small number, and I’ve had ongoing discussions with their team owners, and they’ve been very understanding of the situation. They are awaiting any changes to the border closures, for which Queensland is up for renewal at the end of August, which might allow those drivers to join the event, but they are aware of the situation and will follow the government directives.
“As for Victoria, those teams understand that under the new Stage-3 and 4 regulations, that they won’t be eligible for the round, and whilst disappointed, they are looking to later in the season once borders re-open and there’s a chance to start competing again.”
With the pandemic border closures the deciding factor for future rounds, Reindler was quick to point out that additional dates would remain fluid until late September when the Victorian regulations would be revisited, with both The Bend and Phillip Island scheduled for October ahead of the season finale at Bathurst in November.
“Again, Covid-19 restrictions take precedence in all our planning and that’s still very much a moving brief,” Reindler confirmed. “If the Victorian border closures end in late September, and Queensland is open to New South Wales, then The Bend will be our third round on October 17-18 as part of the Shannons Motorsport Australia Championships. There is talk of a double-header weekend at The Bend, which is one option - again based on what happens with Covid-19 - alternatively our other scheduled event is at the end of October at Phillip Island, border restrictions of course a big consideration there, but that is more than a month after Melbourne’s newly imposed lockdown is set to end.
“From there the season ends as per our original pre-season schedule at Bathurst as part of the ARG event on November 13-15, a great way to close out the year after so many seasons of starting our calendar off at Bathurst with the 12 Hour.
“With any luck, this will be an achievable calendar, but we are still looking at options beyond September in case something happens with the pandemic, but I have to say, Motorsport Australia have been fantastic through the whole situation and have been very accommodating with respect to keeping Radical front of mind, and that has been very reassuring.
“It has been a tough year for everyone, and whilst we are disappointed that we don’t have the flexibility we might have enjoyed 12 months ago [with dates and venues], I think everyone understands that to continue racing right now, we need to be able to make adjustments to suit what in reality are safety priorities, and we will follow all those directives to meet the requirements at the time.
“Sydney though is already looking like a fantastic event based off the back of a strong Radical presence at the recent SuperSports round (August 1) which saw 13 cars, it’s clear drivers are keen to go racing again, a view the team owners have reinforced in our ongoing discussions.
“There are a few things we still need to iron out with the championship as it unfolds, but the important issue of setting a date to continue racing has been established and that gives us something to prepare for over the coming weeks.”
For any teams or drivers interested in being a part of the 2020 Radical Australia Cup round at Sydney Motorsport Park of September 4-6, please contact Category Manager Karl Reindler on email; karl@radicalaustralia.com.au or by phone; mobile: 0422 114 115.
2020 Radical Australia Cup - Championship Points (after one round of five)
1. Chris Perini (81-points), 2. Peter Paddon (71), 3. Stephen Champion (54), 3. Carmelo Bonaventura (54), 5. Kosta Pohorukov/Brad Shiels (52), 7. Mitchell Neilson (40), 8. JP Drake (38), 9. Zig Fuhrmeister (36), 10. Peter Clare/Josh Hunt (34), 12. Rowan Ross (30), 13. Susan Esselmont (31), 14. Paul Braico (24), 15. Jon Grant (21), 16. Jim Hernandez (20), 17. Tony Haggarty/Simon Haggarty (18), 19. Warwick Morris (16), 20. Bill Medland (7)
2020 Radical Australia Cup - Calendar
Rnd#1 - 6-8 March - Sydney Motorsport Park, New South Wales
Rnd#2 - 4-6 September - Sydney Motorsport Park, New South Wales
Rnd#3 - 17-18 October - The Bend Motorsport Park, South Australia [TBC]
Rnd#4 - 29 October-1 November - Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, Victoria [TBC]
Rnd#5 - 13-15 November - Mount Panorama, Bathurst, New South Wales
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Five Hemingway Scrapbooks Digitized and Available Online for the First Time
by kadlerabramson on July 21, 2013
by Jessica Green and Tiffany Link, Graduate Student Interns (Simmons College and Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Grace Hall Hemingway created and annotated five scrapbooks to document her son Ernest’s first eighteen years of life, long before he became a Nobel Prize-winning author. These unique scrapbooks include countless photographs of the Hemingway family and their friends both on vacation at their cottage in Michigan and at their home in Oak Park, Illinois. There are also many of young Hemingway’s letters, childhood drawings, homework assignments, and brochures from plays and events he attended. These scrapbooks are a valuable resource not only for Hemingway scholars, but for those interested in early 20th century life as well.
Cover of Mother’s Scrapbook 1
The first two scrapbooks were digitized in 2007 and the scrapbooks in digital form have been available for research in the John F. Kennedy Library for the last few years. During her 2012 summer internship in the Audiovisual Reference Department at the JFK Library, Tiffany Link digitized scrapbook volumes 3, 4, and 5. There is a sixth scrapbook made by Grace Hall for Ernest’s grandparents (Grandparents’ Scrapbook) that has yet to be digitized.
The fragile condition of these scrapbooks has limited access to them by researchers in the past. Fortunately, Tiffany’s work last summer allows researchers to now view the scrapbooks in digital form on our website. The digitized versions allow researchers access to the information contained in the scrapbooks without causing harm to the delicate artifacts that might occur by handling them. PDFs of all five scrapbooks are now available for download on our website. High resolution images are also available at the library for viewing. To make an appointment to view the digital scrapbooks or other photographs in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, please email JFK.AVarchives@nara.gov or call the reference line at 617-514-1622. In the future, the scrapbook images will be available through the library’s Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) with complete metadata.
Though the actual digitization process took nine weeks last summer, the effort was years in the making. Several years ago, audiovisual archivist James Hill and a former Hemingway Department intern, Alyssa Pacy, photographed the scrapbooks, creating 4×5 negatives for each page and each page of any inserts. The digital images were created from the 4×5 negatives. The first two weeks of the current digitization effort were spent organizing the 440 negatives and assigning each image a digital identifier. The next five weeks involved scanning each of the negatives. The last two weeks were spent identifying individuals in the newly scanned photographs and letters.
We Need Your Help Solving Mysteries!
While most photographs included caption information, some were blank or identified people with the infamous Hemingway family nicknames. We are hoping there is someone out there who can help us complete the collection by identifying some of the unknown individuals!
1. Who is Sue? She is pictured alongside Sunny (Hemingway’s sister Madeleine) in the following photos in Scrapbooks 3 and 4. Is she his sister Ursula or somebody else?
Four Kids and a dog (Sunny + Sue), April 1908. Scrapbook 3, p. 84, EH10440P
Sunny & Sue, June 1910. Scrapbook 4, p. 17, EH10495P & EH10496P
2. The baby pictured in the image below looks similar to Hemingway’s sister Carol in the top image, but the caption identifies her as Don. Are they the same baby or different? Who is Don?
3 mo[nth] old Carol; Little Don in her nest 3 mo[nth] old, n.d. Scrapbook 4, p. 45, EH6216P & EH10529P
Tiffany Link is a student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She worked as an intern in the audiovisual reference unit during the summer of 2012.
Jessica Green is a student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. From February 2012 to June 2013 she was an intern working with the Ernest Hemingway Collection.
Tags:Carol Hemingway digital collections digitization projects digitized scrapbooks Ernest Hemingway Collection Ernest Hemingway scrapbooks Grace Hall Hemingway Hemingway family Madeleine Hemingway scrapbooks
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Alyssa Taylor Wendt is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and curator working in Austin and Detroit. Her recent projects reference ritual, animism, mysticism, architecture and history using video, sculpture, staged photographs and performance. Earning her MFA from Bard College, she has shown and performed internationally since 2004. Her three-channel video H A I N T premiered at the Visual Arts Center at UT Austin and she's currently finishing a video project about inherited memory. She has exhibited extensively including: Women and Their Work, Austin (2015); Co-Lab Projects, Austin (2012, 2010); Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2011); and Babel, Norway (2009); TSA, Los Angeles (2018); Wassaic Project, New York (2018); DEMO Gallery, Austin (2017); Third Man Records, Detroit (2016); New Museum for Contemporary Art, NY (2011); and Miami Art Basel (2008); Museum of Art and Design, NY (2013), Deitch Projects, NY (2005) and Fusebox Festival, Austin (2012). She is a recipient of several awards, including winner of the International Istanbul Film Festival Award for H A I N T (2018) and the City of Austin Cultural Council Grant (2015-2020). She is currently a candidate for a Master's in Museum Studies through Harvard and plans to open a small non-profit museum in the near future.
I am a hunter, a storyteller, a presence, a seer. I've been this way for as long I can remember. A full-time working artist in Austin, I work with ideas of inherited memory, material degradation, temporal engagement and mourning patterns in my work. The cosmology that people recognize in my projects come from a dark cinematic world of interiors, both architectural and spiritual, and most undoubtedly, a projection of my own consciousness—fierce, complicated and full of possibility. As a strong woman who has forged her own path and the child of an immigrant, I feel strongly about the fluidity of ownership and the collective memory of trauma. My cross-disciplinary practice uses video, sculpture, installation, staged photographs and performance. I have recently come to realize two things: One, that sharing my works is a process of healing; and two, that all the projects I make are about revealing hidden layers of history, both in my own ancestry and in the world at large. The latest works are personal and conceptual responses to questions of ritual, ruin, history and cultural relevance, using my own family history as a springboard while examining my feminine identity as a leader and redefining my artistic role in times of upheaval and change. The work tends to gather complexity the more time is spent with it encouraging interaction and asking the viewers to use their own metaphysical lenses. The works you will see here on the registry are unapologetically aesthetic, mythic and conceptual responses to questions of mortality and transformation using a cosmic, complex and somewhat occult approach.
Cinematic and mannerist in its appearance, all of the projects I work on gather complexity the more time is spent with them. Notable recent projects include: Curating and participating in a group exhibition at Big Medium Gallery called Sanctum about inherited memory, including my newest video TMI; Collaborating on a two person show with Kate Csillagi at our ICOSA Collective gallery in Austin about boundaries and parallel realities; And exhibiting a three-channel video installation H A I N T after a five year process that premiered at the Visual Arts Center at UT Austin in January 2019 and won the International Istanbul Experimental Film Festival. My recent video projects H A I N T and TMI both examine the residue of aftermath, from conflict to neglect. This exploration is echoed in my sculptural works such as LST VSSLZ and Yggdrasil with installations that ponder ruin and escape. I use these questions to push both myself and the work into uncomfortable explorations of power, healing and collective memory. For my current series of films and work, I am researching the concept of genetic memory, that we inherit more than DNA from our ancestors and carry the habits, failures, pain, joy and actions of those that came before us. I want to know where the boundaries of cultural interaction lie within these parameters of memory. Art continues to give me the foundation that my given life did not and this is the cure for a fervent imagination, marginalized visions, shadows and the inheritance for our cultural bedrock. We build our visions from opportunities that give a platform to the complex conversations in contemporary art.
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ArtsFairfax workshops and webinars are learning opportunities for artists, arts administrators, and arts organizations to gain new skills, knowledge, and connections to further their personal and organizational goals, and build the capacity of the arts in Fairfax County.
2021 WORK-SMART Series
The ArtsFairfax WORK-SMART workshops will focus on building inclusion, diversity, equity, and access into the arts sector recovery. Fairfax County takes pride in its diverse community, yet the leadership and programming of our arts organizations often does not reflect our demographics. By engaging a strong team of advisors and designing a series of community conversations and free workshops lead by experts in the field, we will make progress in our vision of arts for all.
Join ArtsFairfax for a Community Round Table on Thursday, February 4, 2021 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm. It is free but registration is required.
ArtsFairfax launched the first WORK-SMART series in the spring of 2020 focusing on marketing. Arts groups and artists learned techniques and practical strategies to increase sustainability and capacity. Explore the four marketing sessions:
Marketing Foundations (March 6, 2020)
Angela Inzerillo and James Lawson, founders of Impact Business Solutions
Angela Inzerillo and James Lawson, Impact Business Solutions, explored planning framework, budgeting on a shoestring and marketing return on investment. Be sure to check out their presentation from the workshop.
Audience Development & Community Engagement (April 3, 2020)
Anneliese DeDiemar, Director of Marketing and Communications, Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation
Anneliese DeDiemar, Director of Marketing and Communications, Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation presented techniques to streamline marketing communication efforts, audience diversification strategies, enhanced dynamic experiences and creating a culture of brand ambassadors. The presentation with an interactive worksheet was recorded. For permission to use content in this webinar, please contact Anneliese DeDiemar at anneliese.m.dediemar@gmail.com directly.
Audience Development and Community Engagement Workshop Recording
Branding & Digital Marketing (May 1, 2020)
Shawn Pastor, Senior Digital Sales Manager, Hibu and Ceylon Mitchell, Founder of M3| Mitchell Media & Marketing
Ceylon Mitchell, Founder of Mitchell Media & Marketing and Shawn Pastor, Senior Digital Sales Manager, Hibu and discussed developing your own image & owned media, effective storytelling with social media and email, geofencing and website development. Ceylon’s presentation with an interactive worksheet along with Shawn’s presentation were recorded.
Branding and Digital Workshop Recording
Tools of the Trade (June 5, 2020)
Rachelle Etienne-Robinson and Stan “Substantial” Robinson, cofounders of Substantial Art & Music
Rachelle Etienne-Robinson and Stan “Substantial” Robinson, cofounders of Substantial Art & Music provided techniques for prioritizing social media networks and management tools, leveraging analytics/insights to grow your audiences and engagement and using data to develop future posting strategies were recorded.
Tools of the Trade Workshop Recording
What’s Next for the Arts and How to Plan For It (May 22, 2020)
Anne Corbett, Principal, Building Creative and Mary Robinson, President & Founder, Capacity Partners participated in a moderated discussion on how to plan for reopening, including official phases, hybrid programming, the role of the arts in rebuilding our cultural landscape, building partnerships to stay connected with the community and dynamic approach to planning during the COVID crisis. Anne and Mary’s presentation along with Mary’s interactive worksheet were recorded
What’s Next for the Arts and How to Plan for It
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Manuela Quintero Fehr
mquintero@artsfairfax.org
Manuela serves as the Communication assistant managing ArtsFairfax’s social media profile and community engagement. She joined ArtsFairfax in August of 2020.
Prior to joining ArtsFairfax, Manuela was the Social Media Coordinator for a small arts and crafts company in Costa Rica. Her professional experience at organizations such as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Arena Stage, BalletX, PhiladanCo, and The Rock School for Dance Education has fostered a love of learning and passion for non-profits and the performing arts. Manuela is a graduate of The University of The Arts in Philadelphia and holds an MA in Arts Management from George Mason University.
Karan Bansal
Information & Technology Manager
571-395-4624 | kbansal@artsfairfax.org
Karan serves as the Information & Technology Manager overseeing the website and managing all office technology-related issues. During the past year, Karan has led many technology advancement initiatives in the office including transitioning every employee to a home office environment. Karan joined ArtsFairfax in July 2019.
Prior to joining ArtsFairfax, Karan worked for Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on robotics and engineering education for students from kindergarten to college and served as a research intern at NASA Langley Research Center. Karan holds a BS in Information Security from George Mason University.
Lisa Mariam
Director of Grants & Services
571-395-4617 | lmariam@artsfairfax.org
Lisa serves as Director of Grants & Services, overseeing ArtsFairfax’s grant programs, the Artist Residency Program, Arts for Life, Creative Spaces, and workshops. In addition, Lisa works closely with the Master Arts Plan Task Force to plan facilities and public art for Fairfax County. She also managed ArtsFairfax’s Imagine Art Here public art engagement projects. Lisa joined the staff of ArtsFairfax in 2009.
Prior to joining ArtsFairfax, Lisa organized traveling exhibitions and coordinated loans at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Lisa reviews grants for other local arts agencies and selects artists for local public art projects. In addition to her arts leadership, Lisa served for eight years as the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Cultural Arts Chair in Fairfax County elementary and middle schools, Girl Scout Troop Leader, and is a member of the class of 2020 Leadership Fairfax. Lisa is a graduate of Georgetown University, and she holds a MA in Art History from George Washington University.
Brenda MacRoberts
Director of Development & Operations
571-395-4619 | bmacroberts@artsfairfax.org
Brenda serves as the Director of Development & Operations. In this role, she directs and manages all fundraising activities, including the Arts Awards, and oversees the organization’s operations. She works with the President & CEO and Board of Directors to set priorities and strategies in these functions. She joined ArtsFairfax in November 2016.
Prior to joining ArtsFairfax, Brenda was Executive Director of the Broadway Rose Theatre Company. Before that, she worked for several years and held many positions at Young Audiences of Oregon and SW Washington. While at Young Audiences managed the Run for the Arts raising over $700,000 for arts in the schools. She is the Vice-Chair of the Tysons Regional Chamber of Commerce and chaired the Tysons 2050 event in 2019 and 2020. Brenda holds an MBA in Arts Administration from Golden Gate University and a BA in Theatre Arts from California State University, Fresno.
Linda S. Sullivan
571-395-4616 | lsullivan@artsfairfax.org
Linda serves as President & CEO, reporting to and working with the Board of Directors to meet the organization’s mission, goals and objectives. Linda provides overall management of the organization’s programs and activities, staff and fiscal administration. As a consultant from 2001 to 2010 she worked with over two dozen arts organizations, of all disciplines, in the Washington DC region. Linda came to ArtsFairfax in November 2009 as a consultant, and she assumed the full-time position in March 2010.
Prior to coming to ArtsFairfax, Linda served the greater Washington area as an arts management consultant, specializing in interim directorships, capital project development and all aspects of arts management. Linda has worked with museums and exhibition centers as well as literary, performing arts and multi-arts presenting organizations. Additionally, her professional activities include teaching fundraising for George Washington University’s Museum Studies Program and serving as a Standards of Excellence reviewer for Maryland Nonprofits. Linda also has served as a commissioner, board member and grant reviewer for numerous state and local arts councils. She holds a MFA in Arts Administration from Columbia University.
Kimber Craine
571-395-4618 | kcraine@artsfairfax.org
Kimber serves as the Grants Manager, administering a $500,000+ annual grant funding program, manages grantee communications, as well as, oversees the Fairfax Poet Laureate Program. Kimber joined ArtsFairfax in 2018.
Prior to joining ArtsFairfax, Kimber was the Director of Program Initiatives for the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PCAH) for almost 14 years. During that time, Kimber supervised programs like the National Student Poets Program and managed Save America’s Treasures. Before PCAH, he was the Communications Manager for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), the Project Director for an artist residency project as part of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, and oversaw a national public art initiative. Additionally, he worked for several regional theaters in new play development, arts education outreach, and other capacities. Kimber holds a MA from the University of California Santa Barbara in Theater.
Claire Renn
571-395-4621 | crenn@artsfairfax.org
Claire serves as the Development Manager supporting all development activities as well as general administrative activities. Claire joined ArtsFairfax in October 2018.
Prior to joining ArtsFairfax, Claire was a board member of the Hermitage Museum and Garden’s Young Associate’s Board for three years. She completed internships with the National Endowment for the Arts in their Events and Development Department, working on the 2019 Jazz Masters and the 2019 Poetry Out Loud Finals. Claire holds a B.F.A. in Art History from Longwood University and an M.A. in Arts Management from George Mason University.
Danielle Stoebe
Arts Education Program Manager
571-395-4625 | dstoebe@artsfairfax.org
Danielle serves as the Arts Education Program Manager overseeing the Artist Residency Program, Arts for Life, and other special initiatives. Danielle joined ArtsFairfax in 2019.
Prior to joining ArtsFairfax, Danielle completed internships with both ArtsFairfax and the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings over the past two years. She also teaches private music lessons to students in the Fairfax area at Crescendo Studios. Danielle has a B.A. in Music with a minor in Business from George Mason University.
Dana Stewart
Director of Communications & Advocacy
571-395-4623 | dstewart@artsfairfax.org
Dana serves as the Director of Communications & Advocacy overseeing ArtsFairfax’s strategic communications plan chief storyteller. In her role as an advocacy leader, Dana directs the local, state, and federal advocacy services. She joined ArtsFairfax in July 2018
Prior to joining ArtsFairfax, Dana was a founding partner and Vice-President at Cornerstone Government Affairs where she managed clients’ federal appropriation and policy strategies. In the non-profit arena, Dana led the development and implementation of The Washington Animal Rescue League’s communication department and served as a National Conservation Advocate for the Marine Fish Conservation Network. For the last three years, Dana has been a regular contributor to a variety of blogs and online magazines. Dana has a BA in Communications from the University of Kentucky and a Masters of Public Policy from American University.
Be the voice of the arts by joining ArtsFairfax and Americans for the Arts (AFTA) for the annual National Arts Advocacy day in Washington, D.C. during March.
At the State
Be the voice of the arts by joining ArtsFairfax to engage state elected officials to encourage their support of arts funding and policies that benefit the arts. We collaborate with Virginians for the Arts to promote participation in the January Arts Advocacy Day at the State Legislature in Richmond, Virginia.
In Fairfax County
Be the voice of the arts by joining ArtsFairfax at their annual Arts Advocacy Day in early April. For this event, we invite the general public and the arts community to show their support of the arts at the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors’ annual budget hearings. Prior to the 2019 election, ArtsFairfax surveyed the candidates on their views of the arts.
Read the Complete Survey
Be the Voice for the Arts
When the community provides success stories, data analysis and information about the needs, goals, and outcomes of art programs, they are providing key information that contributes to effective solutions and building strong communities.
ArtsFairfax defines advocacy as the process of educating the general public and decision- makers in the public and private sector, who influence policy and resource allocation at the local and national level. Government decision-makers deserve to be well-informed as they craft policy and appropriate funding. ArtsFairfax educates at the local, state and federal agencies and elected officials on the policies, initiatives and funding that impact the arts community.
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Know Your Facts
Knowing your community makes you the best advocate for the arts. Knowing the facts shows that you are not only passionate but understand how the arts impact our local, state and national economy and culture. Learn more?
Educating Decision-Makers = Advocacy
How You Make a Difference
One voice has considerable strength, especially when expressed collectively. Educating and advocating for the arts can occur through many ways:
In public forms including candidate rallies, composing emails and letters, attending official government meetings and offering testimony.
Interacting with decision-makers and their staff.
Inviting elected officials to programs or events and providing a private tour.
Category 2: Next Step Grant
Designed to be more intensive and tackle major issues, it provides technical assistance and funding to carry out a transformative capacity building project by providing consultant support before, during, and after the project. To apply, organizations must first submit a Letter of Intent and requires a substantial commitment from both staff and board of the selected organization. Possible Projects include:
Planning (strategic planning, fundraising plans, communications, growth opportunity, or business planning)
Board Development (Board Training, Governance Structure, Board Engagement Strategies)
Marketing (plans or campaigns)
Strategic Relationships (mergers, partnerships)
Internal Operations (Financial management, websites)
Category 1: Organizational and Professional Development Grant
These grants help support and create greater organizational capacity to anticipate, prepare and adapt so that organizations can deliver and fulfill their mission. Possible Projects can include the following activities:
Financial management training
Communications, marketing and rebranding
Professional development training or conferences
Facilitation of a board retreat
Upgrading technology, including new computers, website upgrades and design, and software
ArtsFairfax grants are awarded through a competitive process. The process begins with a staff review of each application to ensure its completeness and the applicant’s eligibility. Applications are then reviewed by a panel composed of arts professionals with experience in a variety of disciplines. The panel meetings are open to the public, and applicants are encouraged to attend and observe. Following the panel meetings, the Grants Committee, a standing committee including members of the ArtsFairfax Board of Directors, makes funding recommendations based upon the panel’s scores for approval by the ArtsFairfax Board of Directors.
ArtsFairfax invites applicants to attend the peer-review panel. In-person panel meetings are open to the public and applicants will be notified of the schedule for the panel meeting and are encouraged to attend. If necessary, panel meetings may be held on-line. Virtual panels will not be open to applicants for observation; however, staff notes summarizing the discussion and comments will be available. You will be notified prior to the panel review.
Grant Programs Overview and Timeline
Description of grant program
Grant Information Session date
Grant Panel Date(s)
Fast Track Fund one-time unforeseen needs or activities for arts organizations that fall outside the regular cycle or scope of ARTSFAIRFAX grants. Contact ARTSFAIRFAX Staff Rolling N/A Within 30 Days
Operating Support Fund arts organizations’ basic operational needs. January 14, 2020 February 26, 2020 May 12-14, 2020 August 2020
Emergency Relief and Recovery Grant FY 2021 Supports arts organizations and artists as they adjust to losses sustained due to programming and/or operations that have been modified or suspended as a result of COVID-19/ June 3, 2020 June 29, 2020 July 29-30, 2020 August 2020
Project Support Project Support grants fund programs and activities that engage new audiences in the arts and contribute to community arts activities in Fairfax County. Suspended for FY21 Suspended for FY21 – –
Organizational and Professional Development Fund activities that improve organizational management. Suspended for FY21 Suspended for FY21 – –
Artist Grant Recognize individual artists for outstanding accomplishments Suspended for FY21 Suspended for FY21 – –
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Donald J. Trump Is Full of It on Syria — It Was Him Who Used Kurds for Raqqa and the Oil Fields
Kurds now protected where they are occupiers, but Empire invites their mortal enemies into their actual home
Our Benevolent Empire
Brett McGurk 8 Oct 19 825 8
The ‘good old days’ of US forces wearing YPG Pinko-Commie Kurdish patches
Editor’s note: Brett McGurk was US Special Envoy to Syria which in practice meant envoy to the Syrian Kurds. As such he is no doubt biased but he is not wrong. His Tweet chain is a valuable memory jog.
McGurk is right to point out it was under Trump that the US guided the Kurds to turn southward and take Raqqa which they themselves had little interest in, and to then proceed with the “Race for the Euphrates” and to snatch Syria’s oil fields on the Euphrates right-bank ahead of the advancing Syrian army racing to lift the Siege of Deir Ezzor.
Trump’s claim that Kurds were paid “massive amounts of equipment” for this is bellied by the fact that to this day the YPG remains a light infrantry force with some US-supplied mine-resistant armored cars, but next to no artillery, or armor.
Trump may not have initiated the alliance with Syrian Kurds, he may not have liked it either. But he did go along with it, and it was under him that the relationship expanded into US armored car shipments that were driving Turks crazy, and the taking of vast swathes of Arab-populated eastern Syria to deny it to the advancing Syrian government.
Now we are in a situation where the US is still “protecting” the YPG in the Arab-populated south from the Syrian government army, as a way to deny eastern Syria to its legal government, but is inviting the Turks with their coterie of jihadists lite into the northern border zone where Kurds actually do live and where their main demographic enclaves are found.
Kurds are protected where they are occupiers, but where they actually live and where their ethnic enclaves are actually located their mortal enemy is invited to conquer them, and to replace them with ethnic Arab refugees ejected from Turkey.
That is indeed the height of cynicism.
And that is what makes it a true stab in the back, rather than a mere divorce. A disengagement respectful of the services the Kurds have provided the Empire as garbage men cleaning up its mess in granting ISIS a huge swathe of Syria, as well as temporarily denying it to Assad themselves, would have instead entailed a US retreat which commenced from the south, but for the time being kept checking Erdogan in the north, thus granting the Kurds the space and time to make a security arrangement against their mortal enemy with Damascus and the Russians instead.
The US is keeping the Syrian Army from moving north into N.E. Syria and allowing the Turkish Army to move south. This is the single worst policy for the Kurds. There is no good policy for the Kurds, but allowing the Turks to prey on them is the worst.
— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) October 7, 2019
They are not allowed to reconcile with Syria & the Syrian Army has not been allowed north of the Euphrates. And the Turkish Army is being handed parts of the north. The Kurds living in that zone will be sitting ducks.
American soldiers may be left in the unenviable position of holding down the Kurds in the south while Turkey rapes them in the north. The grim truth is that only by allowing the return of Syrian sovereignty & military protection over the north could this have been avoided. pic.twitter.com/nIaQA3Onug
Regarding Syria and Turkey, there is some disinformation out there (including from the POTUS himself), so here is some background on what is admittedly a complex matter with no easy or magic formulas:
— Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) October 7, 2019
The SDF suffered thousands of casualties in the Raqqa battle. Not a single American life was lost. Trump later expanded the operation down the ERV. He touts these operations in political rallies but without apparent thought as to who did the fighting and dying.
The weapons provided were meager and just enough for the battle against ISIS. (The SDF cleared IEDs by purchasing flocks of sheep.) They were not “paid massive amounts of money and equipment” (as Trump said today). Nearly all stabilization funding came from the @coalition.
Second: the United States did not partner with SDF over realistic alternatives. Both Obama and Trump developed and considered options to work with the Turkey-backed opposition, which is unfortunately riddled with extremists, many tied to al Qaeda.
Nonetheless, our best military planners spent months with counterparts in Turkey across both administrations. The only available Turkey-approved option in NE Syria would have required tens of thousands of American troops. Two U.S. presidents rejected that option.
Third: the United States is not “holding” ISIS detainees in Syria. They are all being held by the SDF, and barely so given meager resources. State and DOD Inspectors General have covered this in depth. Summary here 👉 https://t.co/aFQ3RSyx6U
Turkish entry by force into NE Syria risks fracturing the SDF, pulling its fighters out of former ISIS strongholds, abandoning ISIS prison facilities, and making it impossible for U.S. forces to stay on the ground in small numbers with an acceptable level of risk.
Fourth: It was the Trump administration that dramatically expanded the Syria mission in 2018 beyond ISIS to include staying on the ground until Iran left Syria and the civil war was resolved (meaning many years). Another example of maximalist objectives for a minimalist POTUS.
Indeed, the administration expanded the mission and policy aims in Syria while Trump cut U.S. resources by more than 50 percent, leaving our people on the ground scrambling with no backup from the president himself. Misaligned ends/means = policy incoherence & risk.
Trump then (twice) abruptly reversed course after 1) a foreign leader call and 2) without consulting his own military advisors. If anyone still believes Trump cares about Syria, they’re mistaken. He doesn’t and his erratic swings heighten risk to our personnel on the ground.
Finally: the U.S. leads a @coalition that includes over 80 countries and nearly two dozen contributors to the military and/or stabilization mission in Syria. Leading a coalition requires consultation with coalition partners before major decisions are taken. This is elementary.
The consequences of such unreliability from the Oval will reverberate well beyond Syria. The value of an American handshake is depreciating. Trump today said we could “crush ISIS again" if it regenerated. With who? What allies would sign up? Who would fight on his assurances?
Bottom line: These are matters of war and peace, life and death. Our military personnel, friends and allies, deserve deliberation and thought before decisions are made (the essence of “command”). Erratic swings favor far more patient adversaries in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran.
Séamus Ó Néill
Brett McGurk, Bottom line: Take your murdering mercenary “soldiers” back home to their own cesspit, they’re certainly not fighting any noble cause and they’re definitely not wanted in Syria or anywhere else !
America’s military are nothing more than war criminals who have illegally invaded yet another country (Syria) under the pretext of “terrorism,” “humanitarianism” or other bullshit US pretexts.
America’s beloved war criminals deserve to be put on trial for these crimes and hung by the Syrians–just as Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan should also prosecute their own American war criminals.
As for America’s “erratic swings” favoring Russia, China, and Iran.
That’s a good thing.
McGurk is yet another American imperial cunt, whining like a little bitch that America is unsuccessful in waging its colonial wars for global American Empire.
McGurk should be put on trial and face his day of judgement as well.
thomas malthaus
If the president stays true to his words, we’ll see a parade for the recently returned Syrian vets and someone will post a confirmation of servicemen returning to their home base.
I won’t hold my breath. Iraq and Afghanistan troops will need to follow. While we’re at it, lets throw in European theatre servicemembers.
John Rourke
The US is like a bad uninvited house guest that never leaves.
John C Carleton
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No sympathy for the Kurds; US and Turkey are in collusion, this has been planned for some time.
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Natural_Texan
US Service Uniforms now come with Velcro on the shoulders and lapels.. This is so they can pull-off and slap on any patch, Flag, name or unit. Kurdish, Ukraine, Israel, Saudi Arabia? how about Eric Prince, Inc?
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A rather rare 19th century wood camera is currently at auction on ebay. The "Tom Thumb Camera," is a highly sought after detective type camera first introduced in the summer of 1888, and utilizing 2.5 x 2.5 inch dry plates.
I have seen serial numbers in the 100's to the 700's, which helps get a sense of the camera's production. It was advertised for at least 3 years. One of the more beautiful looking cameras ever produced (if you ask me), the camera is highly sought after by collectors.
Please note I have no relation to seller. Seller was kind of enough to allow me to use his ebay images of the camera.
UPDATE: Camera sold for $ 4,870.00 USD
Tom Thumb Camera ~ Image courtesy of Ebay User decobill
Ad from an 1892 Scovill Catalogue
Click on patent image to get access to the full patent
I don't plan on spending much time discussing modern cameras, but the Fuji X100 is considered to be the closest digital has come to a classic fixed lens rangefinder experience of years gone by. The Online Photographer Blog has a great review of the Fuji X100 by Ken Tanaka. Short, but excellent, balanced review.
The camera is out of stock nearly everywhere at its listed $ 1,199. Ebay is your current choice. Premiums running $ 200-350 !
The most popular page on my an entire website is the Rolleiflex TLR page. And, in case you were wondering, Leica M Lenses takes 2nd place, Pentax 67 Lenses 3rd, and Leica M Cameras 4th. This is among the 94 pages that currently make up this site. Its pretty clear much of my site's traffic is from Leica and Rollei fans.
So, why do I think my Rolleiflex page is the most popular page on my site when there are plenty of similar sites across the internet? Given the incredible amount of variations and models of Rolleiflex TLR's, I think readers appreciate the simplified reference, sorted by serial number, as well as the personal analysis of current market values for these models.
Having said all that, I am always looking for more high quality Rolleiflex TLR links and I have found a great one, Club Rollei User. Although not a new club, it is a new website with a lot of Rollei information including some free articles from its members-only Rollei magazine. Click here to see.
Rolleiflex 3.5F Type 4 with 6 element lens
The Rochester Optical Company was a major player in the amateur camera market in the late 1880's and the 1890's. Over the next month or two, I will be posting periodic entries regarding the Rochester Optical Company ( "ROC" ), but I though I would start off with two pieces today. The first piece, is a "trade card" or what we now call a "business card," from Rochester Optical. Given the address listed on the card itself, I have narrowed down the year of issuance to be 1892 or 1893. While I have owned plenty of "billheads" (aka "invoices") from Rochester Optical over the years, as well as other cool advertising pieces, this is the first time I have come across a business card. I can imagine "trade" or "business" cards were printed by the boatload each year which should make them fairly common, however, I think their small size, somewhat fragile paper construction and the lack of purpose in saving these cards long term, are all possible reasons for my perception of the scarcity of these cards. If anyone knows more or has a key to this mystery, please let me know....Anyway, this particular example was found in an unopened envelope leaving it in near perfect condition, some 110 years later.
The piece below the trade card is a copy of a two page article that Scientific America published in 1895 covering the Rochester Optical Company. Great information and gives the reader insight as to the internal workings of a camera maker.
More Rochester Optical Company posts to come in the future, stay tuned.
As I've stated in other areas of my site, my primary camera and lens collecting focuses on pieces that meet all of the following:
1. Made prior to 1900
2. Made of wood
3. View Camera (no folding plate cameras/cycle types)
4. Made in America
5. 4x5 or smaller in image size
I believe one should focus one's collecting pursuits with the goal of becoming an expert in your area of interest. That's what I enjoy and I think most long term collectors feel. I am also an advocate for keeping one's collecting pursuits narrow, if that suits your personality and spending style. In keeping my collecting focus narrow, I may only acquire one, two or three major pieces to my collection per year. The "hunt" is difficult and competition among fellow collectors is high. So, it usually takes some good effort and a healthy wallet on my part when that special piece shows up on eBay.
All that said, I thought I would post a list of items that I am especially seeking. Take a look. Email me.
Keh.com has a rarely seen Leica collectible for sale. A 40mm F/2.8 Elmarit-C Lens.
Leica M 40mm F2.8 Elmarit-C Lens (rare item of the week)
"Leica 40 F2.8 Elmarit-C (M mount)- Produced in 1973 with a very compact design for use with the Leica CL. Comes in a bayonet mount only, rangefinder manual focus. The production numbers on this lens were at approximately 400 and were never officially sold to the general public. Has a rarity classification of R9 (on a scale of 1-10, R9= "Almost Unique" with R10 being "The Impossible"). BGN grade, $1,950. Find it here."
Source: http://www.kehblog.com/
Another example of this lens (in box) went unsold on ebay at $ 2,812. See here.
For those with strong interests in classic rangefinder cameras eventually, money willing, will want to try out the Canon 50mm F/0.95 lens. Its almost a right of passage. The Noctilux is out of reach for most everyone, but the Canon remains (somewhat) more reasonable. I have owned a few copies in my time, including the two samples shown below. The best thing you can do to get the most out of this hunk of glass is to have it aligned on your camera by someone who knows what they are doing. That means don't cheap out on getting the lens properly adjusted and aligned... Shooting anywhere from F/0.95 to F/1.2 and you get razor thin DOF so adjustment and proper alignment are key to have images that aren't mush !
Canon's Super Fast 50mm F/0.95 Lens
The Canon 50mm F/0.95 lens arrived on the scene in 1961, and was the fastest traditional camera lens yet available. It also replaced the f/1.2 Canon as the fastest lens in the Canon family. While many on the internet claim it has the same optical formula as the 50mm f/1.2, it is actually slightly different. The rear most element on the f/0.95 lens is thicker than in the f/1.2 lens, and the glass types are different in elements # 2 and # 3 (supported by optical layouts from a Canon publication). Peter Kitchingman has also confirmed that elements 4,5,6 and 7 differ in curvatures between the two lenses.
Read about Canon's 50mm F/1.2 Rangefinder Lens. The slightly, slower sibling of the Canon 50mm F/0.95 lens and a great alternative.
Leica has numerous rarities from its 90+ years of manufacturing and one of the earlier ones is the "Rigid" Summar Lens. While the common, collapsible Leica Summar is a plentiful 50mm F/2.0 lens that Leica used as its standard lens from 1933 to 1939, the earliest versions were mounted in a "rigid" barrel. One historian explains this was Leica's attempt to improve lens performance using a rigid barrel to remove any possible performance robbing "play" that collapsible lenses can have in their barrel. All of the Rigid lenses were made in 1933.
Leica historian, James Lager, writes in his Volume II on Leica Lenses that the Rigid Summar was code named "Sumar" and "factory records suggest" that less than two thousand Rigid Summars were "completed.'' He also notes that Willy Hahne, another Leica historian, in "10 Jahre Leica Historica,'' states that Leica advertised in Leica Photography (1934) offering to convert rigid Summars into collapsible Summars for $17.50. He goes on to state that "hundreds" of lenses were converted and "explains in part the scarcity of the rigid Summar.''
Rigid Summars are found with a serial number of 167,xxx or 186,xxx* and most are finished in nickel while some have an even rare chrome finish. Depending on condition and current market demand, these lenses typically sell in the $ 1,200-2,000 range on Ebay.
Leica author Laney, rates the rarity of the Rigid Summar in Nickel at R7 and the chrome version at R8 ( R10 being the rarest possible). In comparison, the collapsible Summar is an R1 (very common).
* Please note that Leica "expert" Erwin Puts states in his own serial number research and listsings that Rigid Summars were also produced in the serial number range of 190,051 to 191,000 but I have never seen one in this range.
Rigid Summar Nickel
Image Courtesy LiveAuctioneers.com
Chrome Version Rigid Summar. Image Courtesy of PeterLoy.com
Thomas Sutton of Kensington, London (1819-1875), was an important figure in 19th century photography. A few of his many photographic achievements include:
1. 1856. Founder and author of the magazine, Photographic Notes. Runs for over 10 years before consolidating with another magazine.
2. 1858. Publishes the first English Dictionary of Photography
3. 1859. Invents and patents the "Sutton Patent Panoramic Water Lens."
4. 1861. Designs and has Dallmeyer build the "Sutton Panoramic Camera" Only 30 are estimated to have been built.
5. 1861. Patents the first Single Lens Reflex Camera.
6. 1861. Takes the world's first permanent color photograph.
Sutton was a well respected figure in photography from the 1850's until his death in 1875 and his colleagues and business partners included the likes of Thomas Ross and John Dallmeyer.
Sutton wrote the following article, "Sketch of the History of Photographic Lenses" in 1866. This is mere 27 years after the birth of photography.
It's not often I add to my collection given it's narrow focus, however, a 4x5 Greenpoint Optical Company "Eureka" Camera has found it's way into my display cabinet.
The camera shown, is more commonly known as E.& H.T. Anthony's "Eureka" camera sold as part of it's "Eureka School Outfit." However, many examples of this camera are found stamped as being sold/made by the Greenpoint Optical Company ("GOC") with both camera and lens displayng GOC markings.
Anthony had maintained and owned a camera making plant located in Greenpoint, NY, essentially northern Brooklyn. About 1880, "Greenpoint Optical Company" was formed by E.& H.T. Anthony employees, yet E.&H.T. Anthony maintained some level of ownership and control in the company until 1891 when GOC was sold off to the Blair Camera Company. It could very well be that early examples of the Eureka (1889-1891) are marked by GOC while later, post 1891 Eureka models, have no markings on the body and Anthony on the lens, after GOC's ownership change. If not this, some other business or marketing reason would have dictated the reason some bodies/lenses are marked GOC while others have an unmarked body with E.& H.T. Anthony marked lens.
The "Eureka" was only produced in 4x5 size with it's body made of mahogany and non-folding bed made of cherry wood. The "Eureka" was available from about 1889 to 1901. The original lens supplied with the camera was E.& H.T. Anthony's Single Achromatic Lens which is stamped on the lens. On the GOC versions, "Greenpoint Optical Co." replaces the Anthony name on the lens stamping but the lens retains the Single Achromatic Lens wording. This simple landscape lens was the standard lens found on many of Anthony's dry plate, amateur view cameras, starting c. 1889 and all through the 1890's. It is frequently referred to as Anthony's "Cone" lens in collecting circles. Anthony's catalogue refers to the lens as its "Single Combination" lens and it was sold in various sizes for many years.
Greenpoint Optical Company "Eureka" Camera
1891 Anthony Catalogue Advertisement
This camera is an excellent example of the type of simple, inexpensive, amateur view cameras that were on the market in the 1890's to meet the increased interest in amateur photography using "simple" dry plate glass negatives.
The Eureka cameras are scarce in today's marketplace, especially in original and complete condition. Since many of these simple dry plate amateur cameras were constructed with lesser materials and craftsmanship, they are frequently found in poor condition. Yet, other times they are found snug inside their wooden cases and appear as new, some 125 years later, often including some or all of the components originally contained in the outfit. Prices generally range $ 400-550 in good condition.
This particular camera has great provenance having been owned by Eaton Lothrop and Leon Jacobson before him.
Greenpoint Optical Co. "Eureka" Camera
Further research on this particular camera by collector, Larry Pierce, revealed this model camera was also distributed by Perry Mason & Company of Boston as a premium for it's salesforce and was marketed as the No. 1 "Companion Camera."
Click here to see a rare copy of the Companion Camera's manual.
Image Courtesy http://piercevaubel.com/cam/anthony/eureka.htm
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FROM THE EDITORS: The Politics of “Blind Submissions” Policies
There exists a myth, prominent in the literary world, of an objective standard for literary excellence; one whose criteria has nothing to do with a writer’s or reader’s identity or background. A glance at the submissions policy of a range of literary journals and magazines reveals many who take pride in “reading blind.” The assumption of this practice: by disregarding a writer’s name and bio when considering her work for submission, we create a fair basis from which to judge work–we eliminate bias in the reading process, we judge only by literary excellence.
However, artistic and literary aesthetics are not an algorithm, and “literary excellence” is not an infallible mathematics. In fact, this standard is based on a preponderance of white, cis-male, heteronormative writing that has been and still is central to the literary mainstream.
Recently, our poetry editor, Joey De Jesus, publicly criticized Rattle Magazine for its failure to regularly publish black and brown writers. This critique was consistent with Apogee’s mission to challenge the status quo in mainstream publishing. In response to Joey’s valid and warranted question (Rattle recently published an NYC poets issue in which all seventeen of the selected poets were white), the editor publicly dismissed Joey’s questions and insulted his work, calling it “overwrought”–language which many perceived as racially charged. This incident revealed disregard for writers of color and their concerns.
The ensuing conversation was one in which the “objective standard” was at issue–the editor believed he was simply publishing the best work in their submissions pile. This assumption attempts to strip the author of identity without considering the editor’s own identity in his editorial role. A blind reading is impossible when the reader has his own charged interpretation of the words on the page. This editor, and many others, work from the assumption that they have the authority on literary goodness without first considering the origins of their own preferences.
While Rattle later released a statement apologizing for the exchange, and expressing a commitment to re-examining its submissions policies and editorial guidelines, the incident raised questions about the logic of “blind submissions,” as the magazine’s NYC issue seemed to prove that, far from limiting bias, the policy maintained an unrepresentative status quo.
Historically and today, white male writers have been granted cultural access to publication and voice (both as writers and gatekeepers), and with it have been allowed to write the histories, perceptions, and voices of women and people of color. And, in both roles, they have time and again misrepresented POCs. Even allies with the best intentions should recognize that they are not doing anyone favors by speaking in the place of someone who is perfectly capable of speaking for themselves.
It’s also important to consider that literature doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s a cultural product and a part of a greater artistic and social conversation. An audience doesn’t read “blind” or “for merit,” they take authorial identity into consideration. Trying to strip a piece of literature from the identity of the person who wrote it is pretending that it exists outside of the culture in which it was created.
Kazim Ali, a poet we published in Issue 05, phrased the problem this way: “Claiming to judge work solely based on literary merit is inherently and inescapably racist. There is…a lot of work to do in terms of taking a good long hard and critical look at the structures by which we privilege literary work and promote and develop new writers.”
How are literary standards determined? Through literature class syllabi, which disproportionately feature white male authors, ranging from middle school to graduate writing programs. Through well-read publications whose pages consistently show disparity in publishing women and writers of color. See the research of VIDA and Roxane Gay for proof.
In the past, Apogee has invited writers to comment on this problem through our Alternate Canon blog series (featuring writers Anelise Chin and Rachel Eliza Griffiths). By reading diversely, we come to see that it is not only content that is affected by perspective and identity, but voice, perspective, tone, diction, syntax, mood, and rhythm.
Blind submissions don’t actually protect writers from the existing prejudices of editors, and they alone do not contribute to editors reading inclusively.
There are valid reasons for doing blind submissions. Our friends at The James Franco Review are all about blind submissions in order to stop the cult of celebrity. The Atlas Review takes blind submissions, yet they remain committed to diversity in staffing and in solicitation. The gatekeeper’s role should not be understated here. To some extent their choices will always be subjective, favoring one over the other (and, usually, the known over the unknown), but creating a diverse staff to variegate the voices that appear in print often helps.
We polled some literary journals that have proved themselves to be committed to publishing diverse voices, either explicitly through their mission, or implicitly through the work they’ve put out, about whether they read submissions “blind.” Responses were along the lines of: “No, because we focus on publishing work by a very specific group,” and “No, because our journal’s mission promises that over half of our contributors are from underrepresented groups.” This signals to us that, at least at the present moment, maintaining a commitment to publishing marginalized voices means making some deliberate efforts.
Publications must reconsider the practices designed to create fairness and non-bias, and investigate those biases central to the judgment of “literary merit.” One strategy is to enshrine conscientious reading into your editorial guidelines. Apogee’s guidelines stipulate that accepted work should portray marginalized protagonists and characters in multi-dimensional ways; challenge mainstream stereotypes; and engage with and interrogate the status quo in the literary mainstream, and in society more broadly, either in content or through form.
Questions of position and personal experience are those which our editors take very seriously–not just in consideration of first person, nonfictional accounts, but also in our reading of poetry and fiction. But our work is not insular; it happens in conversation with the writers who entrust their work to us, and with the other literary publications and organizations doing good, hard work to keep this profession breathing. We do this for all of us.
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Funded PhD position; in Stable Isotope Physiology; at Sustainable Land Use Group; University of Basel; in Switzerland
The Sustainable Land Use Group at the University of Basel (Prof. Kahmen) seeks a PhD student in Stable Isotope Physiology. It will be within the ERC project HYDROCARB, which addresses the potential of stable hydrogen isotope ratios (δ2H values) in plant compounds as new proxy for the carbon metabolism in plants. Research suggests that exciting and previously unknown opportunities exist to exploit δ2H values in plant compounds for information on the carbohydrate metabolism of plants. Such an application of δ2H values would be highly relevant for a broad range of biological and biogeochemical disciplines.
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The goal of HYDROCARB is to perform the experimental work that is now needed to identify the key biochemical and physiological processes that determine the metabolic information that is recorded in the δ2H values of plant organic compounds such as leaf wax lipids, lignin and cellulose. The key objective of the advertised PhD project is to perform experiments with different vascular plant species under controlled environmental conditions to identify the precise biochemical processes with respect to a plants carbohydrate metabolism that shape the δ2H values of different plant compounds.
We are looking for a dynamic, reliable and motivated student with M.Sc./Diploma in biology, biochemistry, organic geochemistry or related disciplines. Strong interest in process-oriented research and hands-on experiences with analytical instruments (stable isotope mass spectrometers), biochemistry and analytical chemistry are beneficial. Teamwork within the group and project partners requires spoken and written English language skills.
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Please send your complete application (CV, letter of motivation, contact information of three references) to Mrs. Maura Ellenberger (maura.ellenberger@unibas.ch). Application deadline is September 15th 2017. Further information can be obtained from Prof. Kahmen (ansgar.kahmen@unibas.ch).
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Urban Outfitters shoppers are living for this cropped teddy jacket — and it’s $30 off today
Ari Bines
When an Urban Outfitters sale strikes, there’s one thing you shouldn’t do: wait too long to start shopping. Over 100 shoppers are raving about this BDG Cropped Teddy Jacket right now, which means it should be in your cart while it’s on sale for $30 off.
As the winter continues to settle in, people are shopping for more clothes that are thick enough to layer. That’s why it’s actually perfect timing that Urban Outfitters is offering up to 40 percent off select gifts across women’s accessories, beauty products, men’s fashion, tech and home. Now is the time to stock up while prices are low.
The BDG cropped teddy jacket is a must-buy because it’s made from soft, plush material, comes with a hood and it’s available in four pretty colors.
Shop: BDG Hooded Cropped Teddy Jacket, Light Blue, $49 (Orig. $79)
Credit: Urban Outfitters
This cropped teddy jacket also happens to be highly-rated at Urban Outfitters with 4.6 out of five stars and over 150 reviews. There are over 50 pages of customer feedback, with many positive comments about the jacket. Not to mention, 95 percent of shoppers recommend it.
“I own this in the blue and light brown,” one shopper wrote. “Love them. So warm and soft. I live in Minnesota and it’s warm enough to wear out in the winter! [The cropped length] is the perfect length for me.”
Shop: BDG Hooded Cropped Teddy Jacket, Pink, $49 (Orig. $79)
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One thing that another shopper noted is that the cropped teddy jacket tends to run small, and recommended sizing up.
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Virus hits Japan's Top League, All Blacks' showpiece scrapped
11 January 2021, 11:08 pm ·1-min read
All Blacks star Beauden Barrett is a new recruit of Japan's Suntory Sungoliath
A season-opening clash featuring All Blacks stars Beauden Barrett and Kieran Read was scrapped on Tuesday after dozens of people tested positive for the coronavirus in Japan's Top League rugby.
The outbreak comes during a surge in cases which has prompted a state of emergency in the greater Tokyo area, just six months before the capital is scheduled to host the postponed 2020 Olympics.
The Top League announced 44 people from three teams -- Toyota Verblitz, Suntory Sungoliath and Canon Eagles -- tested positive in pre-season screening, without revealing any identities or how many were players or staff.
As a result, "Japan Rugby Top League chairman Osamu Ota decided to cancel two matches (involving the three clubs) after discussions with stakeholders", a statement said.
Another team, Toshiba Brave Lupus, later said two of their players had tested positive. There was no announcement about their game against NTT Shining Arcs on Saturday, but the team said all players would quarantine until further notice.
The cancelled matches include the opening-day match-up between Read's Toyota Verblitz and Barrett's Suntory Sungoliath on Saturday.
The games will not be rescheduled, but will be recorded as 0-0 draws with the teams awarded two points each. Tickets will be refunded, the league added, apologising to fans.
The rugby cluster comes as Japan battles a third wave of virus infections that has caused a record spike in cases.
The worsening situation appears to have hardened public opinion against holding the Olympics this summer, with just over 80 percent of respondents in a poll published Sunday favouring further postponement or outright cancellation.
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It should have never come to this. Steph Curry has now scored 62 points in a game, a career-high for him and a high for anyone in this new season, and we should have just been able to enjoy it for what it was: yet another outburst of brilliance from a generational player, the most influential of his era, singular in his imagination and range. We—no one—should have to frame this performance as a rebuke to the haters. It should have simply been the case that no one ever said things so stupid that they needed such a counterpoint; it should never have been said that Curry is some kind of “system player,” that he excelled only because of the talent around him, that he never had to make it in this sport for real. But if what it took, to conjure this display, was just such self-satisfied, smug, concern-trolling doubt from hot take professionals, from rival fanbases and players, I suppose we might consider thanking these small and ungrateful minds. In our thanking them for their genius-fueling foolishness, though, it is important that we not forgive them for doing such a graceless, clumsy dance, upon a grave they had merely imagined.
And really, it was probably not the idiocy of various reaches of the basketball ecosystem that broke the dam on Curry’s early season static, so much as the re-introduction of Draymond Green back into the Golden State Warriors’ lineup. Teammate to Steph for the better part of the past decade—half of which the two spent going to the NBA Finals—Green and Curry have a timeless on-court shorthand together, a two-man game that transcends the very concept and stands as the most dynastic personnel understanding of the modern NBA. Together, the two are now strapped with clearing a bar both lower and higher than those of the recent past: they’ve got to make a team of young projects, cast-offs, and unknowns cohere in a way that all of the newer Warriors have only witnessed on their televisions before.
In Curry’s breaking-out-all-over-again game (a convincing Warriors win over the Portland Trail Blazers), Green’s role was as indecipherable in the box score as ever, and equally as obvious to anyone who watched it happen. With his fierce intelligence and moxie, he makes everyone around him better. This phrase is a cliché, of course, but great players at their best give gravity to clichés. Screaming war-like at all the rapscallions still figuring things out around him, zipping the ball to everywhere it needs to go, Green turned unwieldy flow charts of consideration into nothing more complicated than two-factor algorithms for his teammates. Curry, of course, knows this, and in Green he now has a playmaking release valve that should prevent teams from continuing to quintuple-team him at mid-court.
One can see the development of promising rookie center James Wiseman accelerate exponentially as he is finally granted the privilege of playing with both future Hall of Famers. Wiseman is exceptionally fast and coordinated for his size, and a very willing cutter who’s already decisive in the open court. In limited time with the duo, it was soon clear how effectively he will come to move upon the generous scaffolding that the Green-Curry braintrust provides. Andrew Wiggins and Kelly Oubre, two wingmen with dubious but undeniable talents—talents that have yet to materialize into much utility in their pre-Warriors careers—have similarly shown more flashes of role identity in their brief time playing with the two stars than they have at arguably any previous point of their respective careers.
All in all, what we have here is just maybe a Western Conference playoff team. With Klay Thompson out for the year, the Warriors’ margin for error is miniscule, and any time either Curry or Green is out for a game or more, their path to victory lengthens dauntingly. It all makes for a fascinating transitional campaign for the Warriors, who were so injured and dismal last year, so inertly within their post-zenith hangover that they were more cryogenically frozen than they were moving toward anything new. Now is the time for that, the moment that their bedrock is tested and they attempt to reach toward something like what the San Antonio Spurs of yore accomplished. (That’s 22 straight years in the postseason, with nearly half of them ending no sooner than the Conference Finals, and five championships).
It’s a hazy era for the Warriors: the post-Rome effort to make something more lasting, which necessarily requires Curry and Green to prove themselves as under-utilized players, who were capable of much more through their years with Thompson, Kevin Durant, and Andre Iguodala. What Golden State now needs from Green is for him to be a very powerful dad to lost basketball souls—so cosmically paternal enough that he can turn his less accomplished teammates into the versions of themselves that were so optimistically described on their draft nights. And from Curry, the Warriors will be requiring plenty more 62-ish scoring nights; for him to reach more deeply into his bag of magic than he has had to in some while. It’s rare that a team of such high profile relies so fundamentally on just two players, and certain that we’ll learn more about each of them this season, the Warriors’ odyssey past the peak, their search for new basketball meaning.
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The Wall project
Posted on 22 May 2020 by Bryn
I’m excited to see a project underway on a wall system that features in my novels:
perhaps the most enigmatic episode of ‘Great Wall’ construction in China and Mongolia: A wall system located in North China and Mongolia that covers a distance of over 3,500 km. The construction of this complex system, which includes long earthen walls and accompanying ditches, auxiliary structures and roads, is dated roughly to the 10th to 13th centuries CE, but it is unclear who built it, for what purposes, and how it functioned.
The Wall project, on the site of Gideon Shelach-Lavi:
https://gideonshelachlavi.huji.ac.il/wall-erc-project
This ‘enigmatic’ wall system has been wretchedly hard to research. Often referred to as the Jin walls on the guess they date to the Jurchen Jin dynasty, they are sketched in on maps, with sketchy accounts of them, and conjecture what they were for.
I make them Jurchen walls, and directed against Mongols — original Mongols, in the first place, and Great Mongols as Tchingis Khan sought to unify nomad peoples.
If you look at the map from the full project proposal:
The Northern Line on the map is known to Mongols as ‘the Tribute Wall’ in the first of my trilogy, Against Walls. This is an installation to police them, and where they have to bring their tribute in sheep to the Jin government.
The Southern Lines are half-built at the time of Against Walls. You can see on the map the southernmost of them, described by Temujin’s father Yesugei and friends — from the inside — as ‘jaws open wide’. These are placed to close off grass and divide steppe peoples from one another. The other activity on the Southern Lines I am currently writing about in the third of my trilogy, Scavenger City.
The Wall project has a fascinating working hypothesis:
Our research hypothesis is that the medieval wall system was not built as a defense against invading armies, but rather as a means to monitor and sometimes stop the movement of nomadic peoples and their herds. The Wall project will test this hypothesis against a more conventional view of this wall (and other long-walls in world history) as a military installation.
I have been guided before by work of Gideon Shelach-Lavi, and this hypothesis — that walls might function as ‘a means to monitor and sometimes stop the movement of nomadic peoples’ — seems a possibility on lines familiar to me from his previous. I did a post on nomads as state evaders (https://amgalant.com/nomads-state-evasion/), where I squee over a chapter he wrote on how people might choose a pastoralist lifestyle. Were walls, sometimes, to hem them in?
From the project proposal:
The motives behind the construction of the MWS [medieval wall system], its political context and ecological implications, are highly relevant for the understanding of the complex history of China and Mongolia on the eve of Chinggis Khan’s rise to power.
In the third of my Amgalant trilogy, the rest of the Southern Line is built in reaction once Tchingis stands as a champion of People in Felt Tents. Along this wall, nomads are forcibly settled in order to control them. It becomes a battle over lifestyles.
I eagerly await more news from the project, hoping I can profit by some of its research before I finish Scavenger City.
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Temujin’s Jesus tribute act at Baljuna
Posted on 29 January 2020 by Bryn
It isn’t often we find a new primary source, with new material. The Akhbar-i Moghulan by Qutb al-Din Shirazi (1236-1311) is a collection of historical notes, discovered in a miscellany of papers and first published in Qum, Iran, 2009. George Lane has put out an annotated translation, available cheaply in ebook.
The work opens with a single episode chosen from the life of Chinggis Khan, at the muddy waters of Baljuna where Chinggis was in the trough of his fortunes. Legends and variant stories grew up around Baljuna, and the Akhbar-i Moghulan has one we have not heard before. The text runs:
Early accounts of Temujin record events in Wadi Baljuna, which is close to the lands of the Chinese. His followers had gone without food for a few days, when one amongst them succeeded in shooting down a desert sparrow. The bird was cooked and then it was presented to their leader. Temujin ordered that the bird be divided equally into seventy portions, and from that he took his own share that was no larger than any of the other portions. It was because of his willingness to share the tribulations of his men and because of his righteousness that people became his devotees and followers and were prepared to surrender their souls to him.
In his notes Lane says, ‘This episode recounting the magical feeding of the seventy is mentioned in no other source’. Lane has also written the entry for this work in the online Encyclopaedia Iranica, where he is more explicit on the ‘magical’ nature of the feeding:
The one anecdote concerning Čengiz Khan portrays the Great Khan in an almost biblical light, magically distributing the meager rations between his beleaguered faithful in the valley of Baljuna, dividing the meat of one desert sparrow among seventy and “from that sharing and righteousness the people became devotees and followers, and towards him they surrendered their souls”.
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/akhbar-e-mogolan
By ‘biblical’ he obviously means miracles where Jesus feeds a crowd with five loaves and two fishes, that multiply.
Until I came to Lane’s annotations, I took the division of the sparrow to be an exaggerated/impossible rendition of a concern for equal shares of food (and other stuff). In Against Walls I wrote:
Luxury clothes and clothes-stuffs were a major item of trade, the major, if not the one and only item coveted by nomads that they do not make. It is lightweight wealth, easy to circulate, and infinitely divisible. A strip, a shred of cloth, sumptuous and opulent, can be sewn onto one’s felts and furs – as a sheep can feed an army if you have an army to feed. And the cutting-up thereof, and the counting-out of mutton inches, has a quasi-religious care and solemnity seen otherwise in apportionment of spoils.
I have only the translation to base on, but I think it might be either: an impossible but not miraculous splitting of a sparrow, so that seventy people each get a shred, or a tribute act to Jesus with the loaves and fishes.
I do Jesus tribute in my portrait of Temujin. On the way to Baljuna, at the bottom of his fortunes, Temujin offers to give himself up to an obsessed enemy, and have his head cut off on terms that save his people. Bo’orchu answers him that the enemy wants to ruin Temujin’s image, not help him to a grand self-sacrifice: ‘He wants to expose the effigy for a scruffy rag of felt. He doesn’t want Yesus Christ’.
At Baljuna, on the theme of fairness with food, I tell a variant story of Central Asian traders who arrive with sheep for sale. In his destitute state Temujin can’t pay for the sheep, but he stakes his life to the wary traders that his starving followers won’t steal.
“I see you fear my troops. For that you have no cause. They are hungry, but we won’t rob traders.”
“No insult, Your Majesty. Hungry troops have stomach for strong action. Hungry troops we know.”
He was insulted, nevertheless. “Mine you do not. I’ll be your hostage. Water your sheep, and if a sheep of yours is butchered by my troops, you can truss and butcher me.”
They hovered between a smile and another curtsy. “That… is an extreme guarantee.”
“It is nothing, for my life is in my soldiers’ hands, quite aside from the matter of your sheep. Robbery I won’t have in my army, and these, as you can see, have proved fast to me in my misfortunes. The fettle they are in – their gruesome visage – is the badge of their integrity and not a sign that they are rogues.”
On this promise the traders stay, since they need the water at Baljuna too, and Temujin has time for a charm campaign. He refuses to join them in a sheep feast with his officers, but instead sends his several amputees from their recently lost battle to eat a sheep. In the end the traders are impressed enough to give the flock of sheep to Temujin, and expect payment when his fortunes rise. They tell him this decision through a story about their Prophet Muhammad.
On the third day they came to him and Hasan said, “King, there is a story of our Prophet. He had marched on Mecca and was encamped outside. To judge how dangerous he was the Quraysh sent Urwa to him, who said, ‘Muhammad, you march to war against your own clan – the bluest blood of the Arabs – with slaves and scraps from this-and-that tribe. I warn you, the Quraysh have their milch camels out in leopard skins and swear you won’t enter Mecca. And this motley crew you call Muslims? I see them desert you tomorrow.’ Abu Bakr, who sat beside the Prophet, cried enraged, ‘Suck your moon idol’s nipples. We desert him?’ Urwa watched the Prophet among his companions, watched their treatment of him. When he washed they ran for the water he had used; if he spat they ran to that; if a hair shed from his head they pounced on it. After his observations he returned into Mecca and told the Quraysh, ‘On the one hand these Muslims of his amount to fifteen hundred and are only armed with swords. On the other hand, I have been to see Chosroes in Persia, and I have been to see Caesar in New Rome, but never have I seen a king treated by his subjects the way Muhammad’s companions treat him. The people I saw with him won’t drop off from him, no matter what. Come to your own conclusions.’”
Of course, they mean to say they have seen a similar spirit among those with Temujin while he’s down and out. The traders enter his service, ‘surrender their souls’ to him in Shirazi’s words. They are his first Muslims. He already has Christians, for steppe Christianity was a thing, and so the Jesus (‘Yesus’ on the steppe) references are allowed. Through these Muslims I have Temujin do a Prophet Muhammad tribute act as well.
Lane illustrates Shirazi’s Baljuna tale with two Dashi Namdakov sculptures of Chinggis Khan as visionary with closed eyes, Chinggis in his spiritual aspect (here’s a video of one of these sculptures introduced at Marble Arch, London). He thinks Dashi’s ‘Divine Chinggis’ conveys the ‘biblical style’ of the anecdote in the text. In other words, we need to think of his charisma, and accept from the sources that virtues of unselfishness and humility were a part of it. Another source quote that always struck me as Jesus-y is (as paraphrased in Imaginary Kings) ‘he’d give you the shirt off his back, or step down from his horse and hand that to you and go on foot’. Conscious that I had to create a figure who earned such devotion—earned in the reader’s mind as well as from his followers—I early on turned to religious imagery, and invoked Jesus both explicitly and indirectly.
You notice Muhammad doesn’t speak in that story of him; he sits there in the centre stage but in the background of the action. It’s all about his followers. Last week I read Naomi Standen on ‘followership’ in Inner Asian politics, ‘followership as practiced voluntarily and from positions of political strength’, that is, people’s preference to follow, even when qualified to lead. Instead of a ‘shoving match’ where everyone wants to climb to the top of the heap—a narrative she thinks laid over the sources by the Western political tradition—Standen suggests we imagine a more cooperative ‘dance’. Followers have agency; in premodern conditions on the steppe, followings confer leadership upon a person of their choice. Standen writes of the 7th-10th centuries, and sees traces of these Inner Asian attitudes around leadership ‘at least’ until the 13th century and the age of Chinggis Khan. I feel I have extended them into my Tchingis’ story. Followers make Tchingis, and this seemed to me evident in the Secret History’s tales about his rise. Certainly my young Temujin fits the ‘reluctant leader’ trope. Standen points out that leadership may not be sought by all potential contenders but seen as a ‘responsibility’ that individuals feel they are better off without. I have Temujin’s father describe the khanship to his son in exactly those terms: a heavy responsibility that nobody wants. But there’s more to it than the negative: it’s not only avoidance of leadership, it’s that followership is valued, is valourised. Scholars have observed that the Secret History’s heroes are his followers, not him. As I have him say, ‘Temujin is me; Tchingis is us’. In writing, I thought that religious movements were an analogue I can use to understand this group feeling around an inspirational figure.
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Women and art in the ARB
Posted on 1 June 2019 by Bryn
I’ve reviewed two titles for the Asian Review of Books, with more in the works. These are two terrific titles to start out on. Please read and share the reviews.
“Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire” by Anne F Broadbridge
“Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art” by Roxann Prazniak
I offered to review Mongol history titles for them after they took my novel for review, the results of which are here:
against-walls-by-bryn-hammond
Mongols, Rape and Popular Culture
Posted on 9 April 2019 by Bryn
If most places in the world of George R.R. Martin’s series A Song of Ice and Fire have a rape culture, still Dothraki are different; Dothraki have a society based on rape. Others rape in war, but only Dothraki rape at wedding celebrations – in the open, ‘like animals’, as the norm. Dothraki are meant to be reminiscent of Mongols and other steppe peoples. Why Mongols? Why rape? Our popular culture (I’ll use ‘ours’ in this post about largely English-language fiction, to own it, being a white woman, British-Australian. I don’t need to address PoC with a post like this.) – our popular culture equates Mongols with rape. It goes unquestioned. The Mongols raped their way through China, Iran and Europe, is the common wisdom, and the common material for fiction on or inspired by the Mongols. But how historical is this? In this post I look at the evidence, and at our habit of stigmatising the Mongols with rape, above other peoples – such as ourselves – in fiction.
Dothraki are animalised sexually: they have sex in public like their horses; the Dothraki sexual position is ‘dog-style’, from behind; the bestial sexual customs of Dothraki are kept front and centre in the story.
The Dothraki mate like the animals in their herds. There is no privacy in a khalasar, and they do not understand sin or shame as we do.
She was afraid of the Dothraki, whose ways seemed alien and monstrous, as if they were beasts in human skin and not true men at all.
Yet every night… Drogo would come to her tent… to ride her as relentlessly as he rode his stallion. He always took her from behind, Dothraki fashion…
Daenerys teaches her husband Khal Drogo to couple face to face – like human beings.
It is instructive to look at Martin’s first novel Game of Thrones (1996) alongside a novel of the same vintage, the 90s, Pamela Sargent’s historical fiction about Genghis Khan, Ruler of the Sky (1993). Possibly Martin read Sargent, both being in the American science fiction crowd, but I won’t hang an argument on that. Though dated to the 90s, of course, Martin’s fiction is still very much active in our culture, while Sargent’s has become a lesser-known. But Martin conceived of the Dothraki in the same decade that Sargent used the Mongols to tell a story about rape. Sargent has more frequent rape in her novel, and more violent, than Martin manages in his sections on Dothraki. Yet she comes from a very different place. I knew her as a feminist SF writer and editor of the Women of Wonder anthologies. Her reason to write about rape was a feminist one. Her choice of setting was the same as Martin’s: let’s use the Mongols.
To fail to ask why is racist. On racist stereotypes bell hooks says: ‘the sexual stereotype of black men [is] as overly sexual, manly, as “rapists”.’ Jeff Yang talks of American ‘stereotypes of Asian males as emasculated and nonsexual.’ When Black means hyper-sexual, while Asian means emasculated, where do the Mongols sit? They are Asian, but they are everybody’s rapists. They have been fantasized as a threat to white women. An old scare about the Mongol stain emerging in Europeans down the centuries has been replaced by a DNA meme – ‘1 in 200 men alive today descended from Genghis Khan’ – which on investigation (you can do this on the internet) is pseudo-scientific tripe.[1] The assumption behind both memes is a lot of rape. Never mind that when a similar percentage of modern European populations are attributed to Charlemagne, the case of the white Christian king is not immediately explained by the proposal that he had intercourse with every woman in sight.
Evidence for the early thirteenth century – Chinggis Khan’s conquests – is simply insufficient to say much about rape. Did Mongol armies rape in war more than other armies, so that they are justifiably associated with such stories? Did they rape at home, more than other societies? Was rape more prevalent among them than we call the baseline, so that we choose them to be the protagonists of such stories? The answer is: not to our knowledge. It can’t be proved either way.
Here’s a transcript of Jack Weatherford when questioned at a talk:
I know of no documented case where [rape in war] happened… The whole Mongol masculinity is so different than ours… Steppe culture in general – rape was not a part of it… To my knowledge, [rape in war] did not happen. I cannot prove this, but no-one can prove to me it did happen.[2]
Weatherford goes out on a limb, not for the first time, since we can scarcely imagine war without rape. Most obviously, he discounts the ‘horrid acts to women’ in Ibn al-Athir. Weatherford is not alone in this judgement. To Ibn al-Athir, who watched from Mosul out of the Mongols’ reach, as to Juzjani who escaped and wrote from Delhi, Mongols were evil and prone to every evil act. There is no possibility of scrutiny of what they heard and wrote down. How are we to distinguish rumour, news, and horror tales from the thirteenth century, when we can’t today? We can assess historians.
Juvaini is the most detailed source for the sack of cities in Chinggis Khan’s war against the Khwarazm Shah in Turkestan and Iran – for the worst of the massacres. In his description of sack and massacre, a city to be plundered has its residents ordered outside and kept under watch, ‘men and women’ the same. Where the population is to be punished with massacre, they are killed without distinction. Indiscriminately – but indiscriminately does not mean an unleashed slaughter. Massacres weren’t messy but done with discipline and efficiency, each soldier allocated an equal number to kill. Juvaini’s usual ‘men and women’ might be thought a pat phrase, if not for a single city where the procedure changes. At Merv, under Tolui’s command, Mongols put the men and women into separate groups. Juvaini takes the opportunity to sentimentalise the women’s situation:
The Mongols now entered the town and drove all the inhabitants, nobles and commoners, out onto the plain. For four days and nights the people continued to come out of the town; the Mongols detained them all, separating the women from the men. Alas! how many peri-like ones [peris are fairies] did they drag from the bosoms of their husbands! How many sisters did they separate from their brothers! How many parents were distraught at the ravishment of their virgin daughters!
If he had reason to write like this at other sites, he would. At Merv, both groups were massacred just the same, without mention of a sexual motive for splitting them up. Splitting them caused upset, however – we see from Juvaini’s sentiments. It would not be efficient to split them. Treatment of women was a flashpoint, likely to cause trouble. Juvaini and Ibn al-Athir have two different stories about the death of a well-known religious scholar at Bukhara. In Ibn al-Athir, the Mongols commit ‘horrid acts with women’ while people look on and weep; some, the scholar and his son among them, cannot accept the sight and choose rather to protest, fight and be inevitably killed. Juvaini has this same religious scholar give the local imam a speech of quiescence. It’s possible both have the right of it: pious resignation until he challenged Mongols on women. Protest did not have to be about sexual assault; it was enough that Mongols killed women just like men – they did not make the distinctions a chivalrous society was used to.
It is not that we don’t hear about women, it is not that they are ignored. The explicitness or vagueness of language is a problem. For example, the word ‘ravishment’ in the quote above at Merv. ‘Ravish’ means ‘to seize away’, like Juvaini’s other escalating sentences; it can also mean ‘to rape’. The word is an ambiguous translation of an imprecise original. Juvaini makes some use of the stock phrase ‘rapine and pillage’. Rape and pillage go together (‘like a horse and carriage’, Sinatra might sing) in our speech habits too. The Mongol army was alien to most of our witnesses. It behaved in ways unfamiliar to them. A stock phrase cannot be conclusive. Juvaini records a sentence from an eyewitness at Bukhara, circulated by survivors for its ‘succinct Persian’: ‘They came, they sapped, they burnt, they slew, they plundered and they departed.’ Absent is ‘they raped.’
Silence is not evidence that a thing did not occur, but my aim here is to prove our lack of evidence. In a lack of evidence, our assumptions rush into the breach, with those auxiliaries our fantasies.
I’m going to attempt a general comment. In my view, industrial-scale rape alongside industrial-scale massacre can be ruled out. Silence is not evidence. Even so, Juvaini, who does not stint on description of the massacres, and who sentimentalises women victims, does not have rape as an official practice, and that is weighty. And if it wasn’t ordered, it wasn’t done, large-scale – not in an army whose discipline was inexplicable to witnesses from other societies. Mongols laid enormous stress on communal action. You did it in a group or you didn’t do it. This was the grounds of their efficiency. To exceed orders – to do violence where he had specified no violence – was severely punished by Chinggis. Rape, I think, at sacks or at the scene of massacres, was either ordered or frowned upon. No in between is likely.
What about captured women?
In the sacks I dealt with above, it is wives and daughters of the (Qangli Turk) garrisons who are taken into captivity, while women of the main city populations (Iranian) are not. Those led into captivity are lost sight of, even queens. The Khwarzm Shah’s mother eked out a ‘miserable existence’ (no details) among the Mongols for twelve years; Chinggis Khan gave other royal women of Khwarazm to Muslims in his service.
We should not think of captive women as necessarily in the custody of men. Often they were distributed to royal and noble Mongol women, who ran households (these may seem to us more like caravan convoys) staffed and well-populated by women. Pascha, who by luck has her story told in the sources, is one of these.[3] Friar William of Rubruck is in the Mongol capital Karakorum:
We were discovered by a woman from Metz in Lorraine, named Pascha, who had been captured in Hungary… She belonged to the household of the lady who had been a Christian and whom I mentioned above, and told us about the unheard-of destitution she had suffered prior to her arrival at the camp. But now she was well enough off: she had a young Russian husband, by whom she had three very fine little boys, and he knew how to construct dwellings, which they regard as a worthy craft.
After a journey on foot from Europe – a journey the friar himself, on horseback with Mongol companions, found a harsh trial – she was given to an Oirat wife of Mongke Khan. Intriguingly, she has been wed to another captive. Did her mistress marry them, to make the useful household unit they are when the friar finds them? Friar William makes no inquiry or comment about sexual abuse of this young woman.
A more extraordinary captive’s story is that of Fatima. A Muslim woman captured in the Khwarazm campaign, she became a companion to Queen Toregene, who, once in charge of the state as a khan’s widow, made Fatima de facto prime minister.
Ordinary stories do not get preserved.
One thing we can say with certainty is that ‘miscegenation’, which disgusts Dothraki, did not bother Mongols in the least. They were exogamous to begin with, and Chinggis’s sons and grandsons had wives from the royal families of defeated enemies. Also, adoption of enemy children was common practice: Temujin does this with steppe enemies, and then with a Tangut boy too. When Dothraki after a victory are raping women over piles of corpses, Daenerys again tries to civilize them: ‘If your warriors would mount these women, let them take them gently and keep them for wives… let them bear you sons.’ Qotho, a cruel Dothraki, laughs: ‘Does the horse breed with the sheep?’ But Mongols did not need to have such a conversation.
And Chinggis Khan himself? Now I have words with Rashid al-Din. The more gaudy tales about Chinggis Khan often come from Rashid, whose account of Chinggis has a legendary flavour, in distinction from his coverage of the grandchildren’s times, where he is in sharp focus. It is Rashid who tells us Chinggis had ‘nearly five hundred wives and concubines, each taken from a different tribe. Some he requested after the Mongol fashion of marriage, but most he took as booty when he conquered a territory or tribe.’ Hundreds of wives and hundreds of children is not gospel, although it is an internet fact. Rashid al-Din, prime minister, ex-Jewish Muslim who wrote the first world history, was nothing if not representative of the new cultural mash-up of the Mongols in government in Iran and China. When he writes, Mongol rulers have harems and concubines, but these are not Mongol words, and Chinggis kept to a frugal Mongol lifestyle. True, Chinggis’ wives after Borte were political signals; he took one from each steppe people who joined him, and then demanded a princess in treaty with Tangut and China, this being a clause that signified he had the better of them in the treaty. Further than that we are in guesswork, and Rashid’s five hundred looks like an exaggerated brag that he conquered five hundred tribes and peoples. In addition to Borte’s nine children, Rashid names four others, from women of the steppe. He doesn’t claim there were more offspring, in spite of the number of wives. To lose track of offspring would be suspicious, what with the prestige of the Chinggis line. Children from a casual rape were not thought nothing of: twice in his genealogies of Chinggisids, Rashid tells us that a certain child – a named Chinggis descendent – was begotten when his father had sex, once, with a slave’s wife. In each case the father isolated the woman in a tent away from her husband to see whether a pregnancy resulted, afterwards returned her to her family, and brought up the child. Rashid al-Din doesn’t leave out of his Chinggis count two who died in infancy, and his practice is to include daughters as well as sons. Thirteen children looks like a complete list.
Most general histories of the Mongols repeat Rashid’s five hundred wives figure and repeat the DNA meme. They do not offer a specific discussion of rape. It isn’t for the sake of Chinggis’ reputation that I want more scrutiny, more caution; it’s because these claims foster a connection between ‘Mongols’ and ‘rape’. Wives acquired in conquest are not the same as later institutionalised harems. Historians who write jocularly – one recent history book has Chinggis ‘go forth and multiply’ – need to remember they are writing about rape. What ends up on the internet is that Genghis ‘f___d every woman in sight’.
Rashid, too, is responsible for a quote that has grown to be ubiquitous; you can scarcely read about Genghis Khan without it. Because it’s so perfect – too perfect, we ought to suspect.
A man’s greatest pleasure is to defeat his enemies, to exterminate them and seize everything they have; to watch their wives weep, to ride their smooth steeds, to treat their lovely queens and concubines as pyjamas and pillows, to gaze on and kiss their rose-tinted faces, to suck their sweet lips berry-tinted like their nipples.
This quote is very often put into plainer language, so as to sound more like a thing Genghis Khan might say and less like a Persian historian. You’ve met the flowery language of Persian historians with Juvaini and his peris, above. To fiddle with the quote may seem like a fair way to do history. It is not a fair way to do history. You can’t change the words into more believable ones and then present them as what Genghis is known to have said. I’m afraid that’s cheating with the evidence. Did Chinggis talk about pyjamas and pillows? No. Did he say this at all, in his own language? His own language can be found solely in the Secret History of the Mongols, the only extant primary source. It is where to hear how the early Mongols thought and spoke, what stories they told themselves, what figures of speech they used; where to study their imaginations. I can only answer that similar talk of the use of women’s bodies, or of war as a pleasure (rather than a condition of life) does not occur in the Secret History.
So what about that Mongol lifestyle, what about abduction of women in steppe society? On this our source is the Secret History and we know so much because both Temujin’s mother and his wife were abducted. Since it is Temujin’s family we tell the story, and what we do is add violence. Value-add is violence-add, to us. Almost always, we have Borte, Temujin’s chief wife, raped violently by the man she is given to in an enemy tribe. Both Pamela Sargent and Stephanie Thornton in her novel The Tiger Queens: The Women of Genghis Khan (2014) make him rape her in public, for humiliation or as normal treatment of a captured wife. None of this is from the Secret History. The text only says that this man ‘cared for’ or ‘kept’ her, and he is given a conscience in the story. He is her husband by coercion, but he is not a violent type and does not insult her. Mongol society had its rules around abducted women, had its expectations. In our fictions, we imagine violence instead.
Two incidents of mass sexual violence
Note: These two stories, post-Chinggis, are not told in the Secret History either. Again I have to say they are not gospel.
The Oirat had flouted Ogodei’s instructions as to where to give away their daughters. His new instructions were to assemble the girls of Oirat, four thousand by report, and whoever was present had to rape them. For once – and I mean once – we have in our sources a scene out of Game of Thrones; this is the kind of thing that happened at the celebrations when ‘Daenerys Targaryen wed Khal Drogo with fear and barbaric splendour’. Now let’s notice the differences. The Mongols thought this a tyrannical act and a disgrace to Ogodei. It was an enormity and a one-off. Ogodei included it in his four misdeeds when near the end of his life he gave in public his own verdict on his khanship, with a list of four things he did right and four things he did wrong. For Dothraki, on the other hand, this is perfectly normal behaviour.
Tolui on campaign in China is being pursued by an army much bigger than his own.
Because of their own multitude and superiority and the fewness of the Mongols, pride and vanity had taken root in their brains and they looked with the glance of contempt upon the Mongol army and spoke big words, saying: ‘We shall encircle these Mongols and their king, and take them prisoner, and do this and that to their womenfolk.’ And they gave expression to shameful ideas and unworthy desires.
After a fraught few days the Mongols defeat the Chinese army.
And because they had jeered at the Mongols, speaking big words and expressing evil thoughts, it was commanded that they should commit the act of the people of Lot with all the Chinese who had been taken prisoner.
‘The act of the people of Lot’ — for Rashid al-Din, with reference to the Sodom story in the Quran — is anal intercourse. Tolui takes revenge for the enemy’s obscene threats to Mongol women, and he takes it on the bodies of those who threatened. He seems to have invented this revenge for the situation. We don’t know what he might have heard of as a precedent. By this time the Mongols have fought halfway around the known world, and been exposed to much in foreign practices in warfare. Although this campaign is in North China, the enemy threats had teeth because Mongol women operated near front lines, involved in the baggage and in custody and transportation of loot. We think ‘camp followers’, but this is Mongol wives and daughters in official function.[4] It is worth noting too that obscenity has not been found a Mongol speech habit, in times when we can attest such things; foreign obscenities might have been upsetting.
You notice these are both cases of ordered rape – not licensed abandonment. They were ordered to rape and they did, whether tribal comrades or Chinese men. Mongols’ obedience to orders astonishes outsiders. Obedience is a dangerous weapon, as we know.
Tales of our own masculinity
Where I have dots in my transcript of Jack Weatherford, he explains to the questioner that Mongolians do not have the ‘macho’ culture of the West. It’s typical that Temujin is younger than his wife, the other way round from the West. Weatherford briefly sketches out a masculinity his audience doesn’t recognise. Mongolia is having its Me Too moment, but the terms won’t be exactly the same. Masculinity is not a constant across cultures, although the ‘young men’ bracket towards which much Mongol fiction is aimed, aren’t asked to consider this. They want to see themselves. In the first of Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror series, Wolf of the Plains about young Genghis, masculinity is written as emotional lock-down and an absent father. Everything womanly is devalued and thought weak, down to the wives’ tribe Olqunot. There is no honour in this tribe living off giving wives to other tribes — unlike what’s in the Secret History, where the wife-giving tribes have prestige and boast of their peaceful relations to others. Instead, in Iggulden, they are debased, despised, and they bash their wives and daughters. Temujin’s father Yesugei cannot express his feelings, and his sons have to work very hard for a slight word of approval from him. It is a script of use to boys who have a difficult relationship with their fathers, and who see that men around them have trouble to emote. This isn’t criticism: it is right that our fiction be written for us. The bad thing is the ‘feedback loop’ whereby we believe this about Mongols – and disbelieve pictures that don’t resemble this.
Helen Young says that readers are caught in a ‘feedback loop’ in which George R.R. Martin’s work helps to create a neomedieval idea of the Middle Ages, which becomes their idea of what the Middle Ages ‘really’ looked like, which is then used to defend Martin’s work as ‘realistic’ because it matches their idea of the Middle Ages.[5]
If we come to acknowledge the simple truth that there is no reason to pin rape culture on the Mongols ahead of other medieval societies, that would be a great step forward. But at this point in the feedback loop, to disassociate Mongols and rape in the public mind frankly looks impossible. When we choose to portray Mongol men (against the evidence) as ultra-masculine, non-emotional and anti-weak, with a contempt for women, we prime them to be rapists. We prime ourselves to think of them as rapists.
Hyper-masculinity and its ills is Sargent’s main subject in her novel on Genghis Khan. Like Iggulden, she addresses a Western readership to say what she wants to say about men to them. She has a poignant story of a son, the consolation of the women’s quarters while he is a child, who at adolescence learns a shame of the womanly, acts from then on as if he despises his mother-figures, and takes his place in the ranks of men for whom rape is normal sex. This is a terribly sad story and told for a purpose. But whether we want to teach boys how to be men, or whether we want to spotlight toxic masculinity, in either case we write about Western culture. We displace Asian masculinities, we project ours into a Mongol setting. In a funny way this means we do examine our own rape culture when we write about the Mongols (or Dothraki). But we avoid admitting it’s ourselves. The distance of the Mongol setting lets us look at hyper-masculinity, emotional inability, and rape culture – our problems. Sargent was either aware that the masculinity she wrote about was Western or else she universalised. In her feminist fiction it is half-acknowledged that our toxic masculinity is the subject. She still badmouths the Mongols in order to do this, so I’m conflicted about her fiction.
You can see the difference if you watch English-subtitled films made in Mongolia about Chinggis Khan and his times. To grow up and be a man does not need that rejection of the mother, of the woman, seen in our fiction. The way Mongolian films portray grown men and their mothers – through the story of Chinggis Khan – would get a laugh, or an embarrassed titter, in Hollywood. These films are also far less violent than would float in Hollywood.
Jochi’s paternity makes a case study. Jochi is the child conceived around the time of Borte’s abduction and which man fathered him, Temujin or the enemy husband, was uncertain. The story we like to tell is about disputed paternity, and very often we have Temujin reject Jochi or hold his origins against him. The Japanese movie Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (directed by Shinichiro Sawai, 2007) makes disputed paternity the crux of the plot. Temujin’s mother and wife were both abducted; in the film first Temujin has to prove he is a true son, and then Jochi has to prove the same to Temujin. Both were in danger of infanticide at the hands of their fathers. Infanticide, as far as I know, is not attested in Mongol life. We hear a great deal about adoption of children, which suggests the steppe’s problem was underpopulation, not an excess of mouths to feed.
A scene in the Secret History tells us differently. Chagatai, the next son, is disgruntled to be number two and calls Jochi a bastard. Chinggis and one of his oldest friends react with shock and dismay. Jochi answers Chagatai, ‘Our father has always treated me the same as his other sons, and now you…’ The Secret History, I say again, is the only extant primary source. But audiences (in Japan this time) want a tale about the importance to men of paternity. So Temujin’s generosity to Jochi becomes a grudge in the great majority of our fiction. An honourable exception is Sergei Bodrov’s movie Mongol (2007), which has Temujin cheerfully adopt not one but two children of Borte’s by other men.
The Stallion Who Mounts the World
Dothraki await ‘the stallion who mounts the world.’
The stallion is the khal of khals promised in ancient prophecy, child. He will unite the Dothraki into a single khalasar and ride to the ends of the earth, or so it was promised. All the people of the world will be his herd.
Clearly the Stallion references Genghis Khan, whom Juvaini calls ‘the world-conqueror’. Perhaps I have said enough to make you see how unMongol this imagery is. It is a sexualised image that certainly the Mongols did not use in any official capacity, such as this Dothraki prophecy and public acclamation. It is fantasy. It is of the same stuff as the DNA meme. I have seen newspapers tell us that the DNA study means Genghis Khan was the alpha male of rapists in world history. I have seen history books say almost as much. But this is our sexualisation of conquest. The Mongols, to my knowledge, never spoke in these terms, or inclined towards such images. This is us.
image at WikiCommons
Description from the Commons: ‘The Bulgarian Martyresses, 1877 painting by the Russian painter Konstantin Makovsky, depicting the rape of Bulgarian women by Africanised Ottoman bashi-bazouks during the suppression of the April Uprising a year earlier, served to mobilise public support for the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) waged with the proclaimed aim of liberating the Bulgarians.’
I use this piece of propaganda because a writer whose work has been important to me, Dostoyevsky, fired up into one of his worst phases of ethnonationalism and issued racialised propaganda for this war himself, due to how newspapers wrote up the rape of Bulgarian women by Turks.
[1] You can begin here: http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/youre-descended-from-royalty-and-so-is-everybody-else
[2] ‘Jack Weatherford speaks about Genghis Khan at Embry-Riddle Honors Series’ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v81_hm8T92c. Weatherford on rape begins at 1:06:24.
[3] Carolyne Larrington in Winter Is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones (I.B. Taurus 2016) says that Pascha’s circle were voluntary visitors, ‘Europeans who had come to trade or work there’. No, this is a community of captives.
[4] Some primary sources on women here, translated by Paul D. Buell: http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/7.1/buell.html
[5] Shiloh Carroll, Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones (Boydell & Brewer 2018), 6%.
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Invent No Evil: hopepunk history
Posted on 11 March 2019 by Bryn
“The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk. Pass it on.”
For me, the above short message (sent on Tumblr) is self-explanatory. I had for years pulled faces, quietly, at grimdark, and ‘hopepunk’ is a fabulous name for its antidote. If you need more, the originator of the word wrote a blog post: One atom of justice by fantasy novelist Alexandra Rowland.
Grimdark has no room for human improvement. Hopepunk, by Rowland’s explainer, scarcely believes in improvement – it isn’t ‘noblebright’ where the world can be set right, but in spite of that, it’s activist.
My fiction practice is activist. An example that I care about: execution.
Mongols have a reputation for a cut-his-head-off approach to justice. They even had back then, when ‘to punish in the way of Chinggis Khan’s Jasaq’ meant a capital punishment. At once I have to tell you two items of information to mitigate this impression. One is, over the course of Mongol history punishments inclined towards fines. Another is, when in government in China the Mongols greatly reduced (or simplified) the preexistent list of capital crimes. [1] Even so, execution was a visible feature of life and in my story of the rise of Tchingis Khan I had frequent close encounters with execution to write about. How does a grimdark author write about executions, and how does a hopepunk?
A hopepunk author who hates capital punishment today (me) won’t let go to waste those ‘mitigations’ I mentioned. Behind a trend towards fines, there must have been sentiments, attitudes, people who didn’t like execution altogether. A hopepunk author notices an extraordinary reluctance to execute known individuals in the Secret History of the Mongols. A hopepunk author is fascinated by the information that Mongols considered it a cruelty to let a sentenced person wait for death.
Unlike Texas today, where you can wait on death row for years. Are you astonished to hear that 13th century Mongols have a critique of present-day execution in Texas on grounds of inhumanity? You shouldn’t be. Medieval Europe also offers critiques of modern indifference, if you look for them, if you want to write about them. Grimdark doesn’t want to: grimdark paints it black, and Grimdark Genghis is ‘ruthless’, ‘merciless’ – adjectives demonstrably untrue, but nailed onto his name in grimdark history. Grimdark fiction (and I have a certain fiction in mind), makes up execution practices, as hideous as possible, and presents them as ‘steppe culture’.
Aside from the demonisation of steppe culture, what does this do, what does this contribute to? It lowers our expectations for humans; it leads us to think, when our ‘civilizations’ are stripped away, this is what we are. Dystopian SF or barbarian HF: the grimdarks of both teach this lesson.
In the hopepunk camp myself, I think the lesson is untrue. Both camps can dig up evidence, of course, and frankly, I’m persuaded it’s a matter of temperament, where you sit. I won’t convert a grimdarker with my little pieces of evidence about the humanity of Mongols, or Vikings, or us after the breakdown of society in the imminent apocalypse.
I use execution as an example because no author has been more influential on me than Dostoyevsky, and his own close call with execution often turns up in his fiction. He describes the psychological cruelty of a wait for execution. His descriptions are what Mongols saw and knew, when execution was so near at hand and not removed from public view. In Europe at the same time, we probably think of public spectacle and ghoulish crowds. In the midst of this, though, I am only the more struck by accounts of times when a crowd decided to be sorry for the criminal instead, and made a great emotional event of their grief and sympathy. In an incident recorded by Beyhaqi, an ex-vizier is executed in the streets of Balkh, 1059. ‘The order was shouted out for people to stone him, but no-one touched a stone and everyone was weeping uncontrollably.’ Silver coins were given out to bribe ‘the rabble’ into picking up stones, but they didn’t fancy it, and the executioner had to strangle him. Perhaps it’s because I’m hopepunk that I find this a rare insight, and deeply indicative.
Hopepunk doesn’t paint it black; hopepunk searches out those chiaroscuro shafts of light. To let readers know, a crowd once in 11th century Balkh didn’t want to throw stones on instructions from the state. For a hopepunker, this is important. You’d better believe I’m going to seize on these nuggets and feature them in my fiction. When they are true.
And that’s the thing. When they are true. I have a rule, hard and fast (unusual for my rules): Invent No Evil. It feels like slander to say a person who was once alive committed a bad act I know he didn’t, or one he might be accused of in the gossip of his enemies, but can’t be convicted of. He may not have recourse to a court but I can feel his ghost, reading over my shoulder. Why would I trash the reputation of a person, even if he’s centuries dead?
To make a good story? Good for who? Not for Mongols. Not for Mongol image. I won’t make up evils so that you can think the worse of Mongols. Yes, you know it’s fiction, but fiction sticks. Fiction affects your views, and the majority of people think Mongols were pretty much as they appear in popular fiction. You know this is true.
But it’s not just about the Mongols, is it, about my chosen subject? It’s hopepunk. It’s the question: Are you hopepunk? Or are you grimdark? If you’re grimdark, pile on the evils, revel in them, invent them freely – since to you they are the truth. They are fair invention. Details are made up for the story, but the bottom line is accurate, this is the base of how humans behave.
If you’re hopepunk, it isn’t.
Invent no evil. The grimdarks do. It’s rude to quote actual examples, but you can imagine the kind of thing: cannibalisation of live enemies, etc. I’ll include every piece of evil that is well-documented in the sources, but I’ll never make evils up. I feel I have a duty to the historical people I write about, but behind that, deeper than that, in my hopepunk bones… you just wouldn’t catch me adding unnecessarily to the world’s evils, telling people this is how it is. There is evil enough in my tale without inventions. It does a disservice to the evils that took place: how can you look real evil in the face when you’ve confused the real with inventions? Hopepunk isn’t about avoidance.
Take Dostoyevsky in the House of the Dead. After his sentence to hang was commuted at the place of execution, he was sent to hang out in Siberia. A few political prisoners, gentry class, in with the serf class who were criminals. You can read about what happened to him in The House of the Dead, his documentary-novel. This is what he thought going in:
‘There are bad people everywhere, but among the bad there are always some good ones,’ I hastened to console myself. ‘Who knows? Perhaps these people are in no way worse than those outsiders, those who are outside the prison.’ I thought this and shook my head at the notion; but – God in Heaven – if only I had known then to what extent it was true!
Dostoyevsky wasn’t hopepunk when he went in. He was liberal-minded, idealistic, and ‘perhaps the convicts are as human as my outside acquaintances’ was a piety that he felt he ought to believe. It fell away quickly, once inside, and he experienced the prisoners as monsters – for years. Nearer to the end of his prison term than to its beginning, he underwent a change. He came out with a deep conviction, a kind of conversion that stuck with him for his life: that frail liberal piety he had in his head when he went in, turned out to be the actual truth. Nobody else had grasped it, he thought – none of his old acquaintance who would have mouthed the same piety, but didn’t have his lived experience of individual convicts – murderers and worse – whom at last he perceived as fully human.
Dostoyevsky is my guiding light in writing people who do evil. From the redemption of the criminal on the last page of Crime and Punishment to the round of cheers that finishes off his last book, he is unabashedly hopepunk. I’ve had several conversations with people who assume he’s grimdark, because they have heard of his dark material. No, he’s one of ours. Let me link you to a piece on his radical empathy, written by a novelist: Dostoyevsky’s Empathy by Laurie Sheck.
I haven’t always had faith. I went through grimdark years fed by evolutionary psychology which I took to be the science of the day. The darkness was total, and in my anguish of spirit I reached out for Dostoyevsky, who fought tooth and nail against the unfreedoms of the science of his day. I don’t feel free in grimdark fiction; I feel trapped in a dark cell, otherwise known as its vision of humanity. Let the light in. There’s a window. Go hopepunk.
1. see the section on ‘Law’ in Sechin Jagchid and Paul Hyer, Mongolia’s Culture and Society, Westview Press, 1979, pp. 353-63.
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snow leopard © Rixipix/istock
Chinggis reception
Posted on 23 November 2018 by Bryn
One day — and I aim to be still alive for the event — there’ll be published a Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Chinggis Khan, to match the Reception of Alexander the Great I just saw announced (Table of Contents).
It must have 800 pages, like the Alexander. I was disappointed enough when Cambridge’s History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age came out at half the spine-width of one of its History of China volumes. Obviously my sin is envy.
I have slowly become as interested in Chinggis reception as in the history itself. Not only our reception today — his portrayal in popular and academic mediums; the study of that portrayal, its whys and wherefores, its habits and its tropes — but the history of reception. His portrayal, say, in 18th-century France and England, which is a high point (I dipped into this in my post Genghis Englishhed in the Eighteenth Century). His reception by Roger Bacon in the English 13th century, and in turn the use of Bacon and Mongols in John Cowper Powys’s 1956 novel The Brazen Head. His reception in biographies, like the one by Ralph Fox which I collected to see how a British communist in 1936 explains the Mongol conquests. (What for? Believe it or not, it sheds light on how we do. We are positioned too.) A year or two ago I outlined a vast research project on the reception of Turks and Mongols in Byzantine and Persian historians of the 11th to 13th centuries, and how the shapes they made of history might persist in centuries afterwards. And I’d love to fulfil that project, as far as I am equipped to… except my first task is the piece of reception I am writing myself: my novel.
One part of Chinggis reception that does attract attention is in modern-day China. The ‘Who owns Chinggis’ thing would be a controversial chapter in this prospective book.
No history is told straight. It is always received. And what Chinggis has been made to represent in different times and places, fascinates me. Reception history fascinates me: I collect those I find analogous, such as Emma Bridges on ‘imagining’ Xerxes and the Persian Wars. Because again, I want to see a similar for Chinggis and Mongols.
Resources on Race and Medieval Studies
Posted on 3 January 2018 by Bryn
The Mongol khan meets envoys. From Rashid al-Din’s world history.
2017 was a year of urgent attention paid to race and medieval studies, with resources made for general use as well as for teachers and researchers.
I followed these projects on Twitter, which has turned out a great venue for medievalists: news, crowdsourced efforts and scholarly engagement with the public.
There is now available a bibliography, facilitated by Jonathan Hsy and Julie Orlemanski.
It has sections on ‘Academic publications’ and ‘Blog posts and journalism’.
Link to PDF:
Race and Medieval Studies: A Partial Bibliography
Over 2017, The Public Medievalist website curated a series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages. This series extended to forty posts by contributors. It is written to reach the general public, and is a great place to start on race issues. Here’s the final post of the year, from where you can browse through the subjects covered:
Race, Racism and the Middle Ages: Looking Back, Looking Forward
For those interested in medieval Mongols, it is exciting to have these resources and a new focus on race — as ‘race’ was then, and in the way we study the past today.
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The School of Death and Chaos
Posted on 23 December 2016 by Bryn
In late Jurchen China, as the Jin dynasty slowly lost its war with the Mongols, a school of poetry came into existence, coalesced among intellectuals in Pien where the court, and cultural figures, retreated for the last few years. It’s called the School of Death and Chaos. Alternate translations: Death and Disorder, Loss and Chaos. Yuan Haowen, who was captured with the city in 1233, was its chief poet. In the week between the Mongols’ seizure into custody of the entire Jin court and his own removal as a prisoner, he wandered the empty royal chambers (as he was allowed) and wrote a suite, ‘In the Farcical Style’. There isn’t much of farce about these poems, beyond the savage irony of that title and the employment of an unusual measure, for serious verse.
Stephen H. West: ‘[Yuan Haowen’s poems] are seen by traditional and modern critics alike as some of the finest examples of historical poems ever written and are extolled for the way in which they carefully trace and lament the decline and subsequent extinction of the Jin.’ The above-mentioned cycle of fifteen ‘introduce the master tropes that will govern his poetry over the next two years: the cold seas of political chaos and the flowing rivers of cultural dissolution’. Everything was at stake in the view of Yuan Haowen: ‘…by the imagery of dissolution and exodus, he suggests a return to a precivilized state… the dispersal of Chinese civilization’. [1]
J.I. Crump: ‘Much poetry written during this period is called sang-luan verse, or “poetry of death and destruction,” and sang-luan verse in many ways is a far more accurate measure of the emotional battering the Chinese underwent at the hands of the Mongols than any amount of historical documentation.’ [2]
It’s a tragedy of Jin that this century-old foreign dynasty was finding its own distinctive voice, its unique arts, as the Mongols struck, and inspired unexpected loyalty in its last fight. I’m a fan of Jin China; being both short-lived and foreign, it hasn’t had much glory in the history books. Those books, too, disagree, by wide margins, on how much fight Jin put up against the Mongols. My answer: Jin put up enormous fight, and the loyalty of Han and non-Han – old chauvinism, often, set aside – was of great inconvenience to Temujin.
When Song China in the south went to war against Jin in the north, on the eve of its Mongol troubles – Song thought to exploit a difficult situation for Jin, that hadn’t used its once-frightening war machinery in years, that was meant to be crippled by floods and famine – Song sent out agitation for the native Chinese population to rise against the foreign rule. For Han officers to mutiny and kill Jurchen officers.
It didn’t happen. Jin discovered they had a unity that nobody knew for sure was there, until Song tested them. This is bad news for my Temujin. And that war machinery, which Song hoped had rusted in their forty-year peace? Functions pretty well.
Another tragedy of Jin: some historians say the dynasty didn’t come to terms with the Mongols the way a traditional Chinese dynasty might be expected to; they refused to pay the Mongols off, which perpetuated the war. That is, the fact they were foreigners and didn’t act to script led to confusion and unusual destructiveness. My story’s a little different to this. But the achievements of late Jin, as a culture and as a society, are found, are recognised, even as they are engulfed. And that is tragic.
I’m going to have to antedate the School of Death and Chaos, give them a slightly early start, because I end when Temujin ends and he’s not around for the win over Jin’s fallback capital at Pien. Artistic license: no way am I missing out on the Death and Chaos School. As an arts person, I notice that the story can be told through the fate of the arts, and isn’t well-told without. There are, of course, other tales. In enclaves of Chinese who had made peace with the Mongols under local leadership, zaju drama was hatched, even while the war went on, from a fusion of cultures, as creative people gathered to these safety areas too.
A week back I nearly disqualified myself from writing book three, as I watched Aleppo on Twitter and told myself, I haven’t been in an Aleppo. How do I have the nerve? Past couple of days, end-of-year existential angst hits and I feel, past two years, everything I hold dear is under threat. My only enemy is on the loose. And my mind reverts to the Death and Chaos School, which I was fascinated by as I’ve always been fascinated by ruin, but which I did not foresee I’d feel so close to.
Writers are vultures.
1 ‘Chilly Seas and East-Flowing Rivers: Yuan Haowen’s Poems of Death and Disorder, 1233-35’ in China Under Jurchen Rule: Essays on Chin Intellectual and Cultural History, eds. Hoyt Cleveland Tillman and Stephen H. West, State University of New York Press, 1995.
2 Chinese Theater in the Days of Kublai Khan, University of Arizona Press, 1980.
Image A.Y. Jackson, A Copse, Evening, 1918, from the Commons.
Racism again
Posted on 8 December 2016 by Bryn
Last year I wrote a post where I used the word racism of the state of affairs in Mongol studies. A year ago (but doesn’t a lot happen in a year, these days?) that felt almost daring, actually, because very few seemed to be addressing it, or calling it out, as I said. The skimpy bibliography I attached to the post was the most I knew of to point to.
Racism: In a history book near you
It was a crude post, because I don’t have the analytic tools on this subject of racism. But boy, have I been bothered by its obvious presence in Mongol history-writing.
Now a PhD candidate, Sierra Lomuto, has written a post that is being much shared, on ‘the utter lack of racial consciousness in our field of Medieval Studies’.
White Nationalism and the Ethics of Medieval Studies
It’s a welcome post, and what excites me is that Lomuto says she is working on Mongols and race: ‘As a mixed-race Asian woman working on histories of racial structures in medieval European-Mongol relations, this lacuna in Medieval Studies is not news to me. I regularly read adjectives like “uncultured” and “barbaric” to describe Mongols in books published within the last decade. I still see “Oriental” used uncritically to refer to Asian peoples.’
I hope she publishes soon. I hope she or others address racism in the historiography on Mongols.
New project: Genghis Englishhed in the Eighteenth Century
It’s been quiet a while on my blog – ever since I went back to university to study historiography. The way we write history. This I was led to by curiosity as to the way we write the Mongols’ history. I was in search of explanations as to why we write the way we do, what goes on behind the results I read in my research books, and what goes wrong with that process.
I have turned my eyes back to the 18th century. Edward Gibbon’s views on Zingis fascinated me back when I first encountered our great Mongol (in those years of early intellectual stirrings; I have kept my notebooks, fondly. I like my consistency). To study Gibbon is mostly an excuse to bathe in his sentences: listen to the cadence in this, his most famous pronouncement on Zingis.
But it is the religion of Zingis that best deserves our wonder and applause. The Catholic inquisitors of Europe, who defended nonsense by cruelty, might have been confounded by the example of a barbarian, who anticipated the lessons of philosophy and established by his laws a system of pure theism and perfect toleration. [7.64]
Thank God for historians who are great writers.
Much more recently I have become intrigued with a life published in London in 1722, translated from the French by a novelist, Penelope Aubin (I’m sidetracked by her too). Its original was written in the 17th century by François Pétis, an interpreter of Arabic and Turkish at the French court, and published by his son François Pétis de la Croix twelve years before its Englishhing. Perhaps the title, The History of Genghizcan the Great, First Emperor of the Antient Moguls and Tartars, gives its rather heroic flavour.
I want to know both about the state of knowledge and the attitudes in these 18th century works, so I am out to investigate as part of my historiography study.
I don’t like to drop old history in the bin. Obviously one doesn’t drop Gibbon, being a great writer with a great concept of how to write history. But the idea that most history books become obsolete never made sense to me. The ‘of-its-timeness’ that is easy to spot in an old history book, is just as true of the histories written in our time, where, being contemporaries, we cannot spot it. So it’s terribly useful to read history from another time. Also, let us not assume that the latest history is the most intelligent. By golly, I haven’t found that true in Mongol studies. I feel the need to get back behind the 19th century, with its huge ideas that affected history-writing.
It is easy perhaps to see why we’d want to get back behind the 20th century. Those World Wars influenced the way we think of the Mongol world war. Is that influence for better or for worse? Either way, post-20th century it is inescapable, unless you go back and read history written beforehand – and see the difference. Mired in our time, we might think them innocents (‘now we’ve learnt what a world war is’) or we might think them imprisoned by ideas of religion or politics. But we do not see our own prisons, although we are guaranteed to be in them. This is about the struggle to get out.
So I am going to bask in 18th century English for a bit, and try to see the whys and wherefores of their biographies of Genghis Khan. Who knows? They might have been placed to understand things that we are not placed to understand. In fact, I think that’s a safe bet for any era, on any subject.
Facsimile of François Pétis’s Genghizcan the Great here.
This is my ornamental set of the Decline and Fall. I have updated them for research purposes.
Historical fiction on the Mongols
Titles out:
Against Walls (Amgalant One)
Imaginary Kings (Amgalant Two)
universal buy link–ebook
Arrows of Desire
Merry Geese
On moral fiction
sale and news
Misogyny is a Greek Word
Against Walls in Asian Review of Books
‘Based on’
Under new sails
The sister art of anthropology
Humani Nihil
John Caviglia on Amgalant
Published: Voices from the Twelfth-Century Steppe
Complaint of a Mongolian princess, 1935
Cross-faith conferences: Mongols and Mughals
Amgalant graphics
English imitation
Watch Mongolian — watch Chinese
Chaucer goes to the Golden Horde
Marco Polo: the women
On popular history
A chance to write about my craft
Two Sacrificial Deaths
Genghis Khan and Tangut
Give an indie a go
Hoaxes, satire, legends
thoughts of Three
Good cop/bad cop: Chinggis/Genghis
Mongol women: a miscellany, part 1
Why I like indie covers
I want to thank…
Oral epic online
Inspiration by Dashi
Regrets, I’ve had a few: the self-critical spirit in the Secret History
‘Milk in his veins’: Mongol slang
Slumming in historical fiction
Research through enemy eyes
Translations of The Secret History
link: Perceptions of Genghis in Mongolia today
books & authors (4)
draft and daft (14)
house-gods of hf (1)
Mongol history (32)
none of the above (7)
spirit of indie (2)
steppe culture (16)
steppe fiction (7)
the wider Mongol world (3)
the woes of publishing (14)
From 15th century Turkestan: an artist known as Mehmet Siyah Kalem - Mehmet Black Pencil.*
my research library
A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990
by James Forsyth
'Has the fate of the Siberian natives been similar to that of the Indians and Eskimos of North America?' the author asks. The answer is, extremely similar, but the tale has been less told. A sad and bloody tale, and the first full treatm...
The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T'ang Exotics
by Edward H. Schafer
This famous book is a bit spoilt for me by his uncritical quotation of the Chinese on the Uighurs. In Schafer's text too they are 'arrogant, haughty' and nothing else, their behaviour when in China enough to disgust a civilized person. H...
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
by Christopher I. Beckwith
This book is a like a bomb thrown in the steppe cause. It goes off messily, but messy's what you need, arguably, when the cause is down and out, when you want to start a revolution. The giant prologue and epilogue are where the genius li...
Flexibility and Limitation in Steppe Formations: The Kerait Khanate and Chinggis Khan
by İsenbike Togan
Here's an obscure book. I hate to take a point off, but have to: the footnotes are in a riotous state, and much of the text is too. I've never seen a scholarly book more in need of an organisational hand. Also, the actual coverage of K...
Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John
by Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev
This is a crazy book too, of which I am very fond, for its originality - major originality. I found it chaotic to read the first time, but not the second. He has a few weird theories. I disagree madly with one or two. For me, though,...
by Francis Woodman Cleaves
The translation I'm fondest of: Francis W. Cleaves, who has run afoul of the majority for his attempt at a King James Bible English. He argued that he should be archaic, like his original, and that the King James style was 'singularly co...
Shamans And Elders: Experience, Knowledge And Power Among The Daur Mongols
by Caroline Humphrey
A marvelous account of Mongol religion and ritual, with chapters such as 'Elegant Armour and Ancient Trouvailles' on the shaman's costume... a title I just had to quote. True, it's about the Daur Mongols, and has stuff that mightn't be t...
Mongolia's Culture and Society
by Sechin Jagchid
Invaluable. From an insider, and obviously, in deep sympathy with the culture. Start here.
Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, And The State
by Philip Carl Salzman
Fantastic. Key for nomads and politics. Do, do start here, and not with, for instance, the more famous Khazanov. One has to take sides on these matters: Salzman gives you quite a different interpretation, and me, I was glad to have Khaza...
by Paul Ratchnevsky
I have severe issues with this book. It's the standard biography of Genghis/Chinggis Khan, and how I wish that wasn't so. On a positive note, it's stuffed full of information. Its most egregious negative: have other people noticed this...
Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, 1844-1846
by Évariste Régis Huc
Am deeply fond of this book. Huc and Gabet were French priests out to convert Mongols. Don't be put off: they have the attitude of explorers, they write a fantastic, lively travel book and they fail to make conversions. Unlike other old ...
Ethnic Identity in Tang China
by Marc S. Abramson
Wonderful, if you have an interest in ethnic groups and China, and the troubled, ambiguous history of the foreign and foreigners in China. This book uses the word 'ambiguity' a lot, always a great sign, for me. If you're into the steppe,...
Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period
by Don J. Wyatt
I threw this one in for the great title. If you have a reason to explore the Chinese and war - war with other cultures - you'll come across this. Lots of excitement on that academic front lately.
The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
by David W. Anthony
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire
by David Christian
He has gone on to help invent Big History. He always thought big: this, perhaps more than any other book, explains how and why the steppe was different from the start. You'd never know what's in there by the title.
I have to wish this wasn't the standard history on the Mongols. In the second edition he adds a chapter on scholarship since 1985. Read that, and see what a change there has been in our ideas. But he has 'not tried to update the main tex...
The A to Z of the Mongol World Empire
by Paul D. Buell
If only this were three times the size. Has he more in store for us? His 'introductory essays' are stuffed with new, sensible, fascinating ideas, facts, conclusions. There's a lot in the A-Z part too of great enlightenment. Can't he do u...
The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World
by Michal Biran
The only book on the subject, guys. Grab it. Half the book is 'political history' and half is 'aspects of cultural history'. The politics covers less than a century, so you get to know the actors in this drama - a few amazing people. T...
History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The Crossroads of Civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750
by R. Shabani Samghabadi
These were hard to get hold of. They've been a bit bagged, too, as uneven (scholarship-wise), but I found them worth the hassle. Large coverage of ideas: religion, science, the arts. Massive in scope, in fact.
Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
by Thomas T. Allsen
Why hasn't this book got a galaxy of stars? His two books on culture - cross-culture - under the Mongols have changed the arena. We're wrestling in a different arena, since. Maybe the other one's more fun.
Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles
Here's his other one. Dear me, three stars? Can I tempt you with this? The scholar asks, "is the image of Mongols draped in gilded cloth that would gladden the heart of a Liberace really true?" Questions that need an answer.
Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan
by Linda Komaroff
The Legacy Of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art And Culture In Western Asia, 1256 1353
A lavish picture book that cost me way too much. Mongol Persia, and the art that resulted. Art fashions changed with the Mongols: they liked portraiture and book-painting... gloriously illustrated books, just like this one.
Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History
by Nicola Di Cosmo
Loyalty and Leadership in An Early Islamic Society
by Roy Mottahedeh
Made for the historical novelist. For other people too, I guess. He wants to tell us about the 'self- understanding of the societies discussed' - through 'self-description'. We see the society in its own terms. He says, I do not call a ce...
The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, & Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia
by David Sneath
The devil's advocate. Steppe politics - nobody understands it. This wants to overturn everything you think you know. Tribal egalitarianism? - out the window. Liberty, equality - a fantasy of the observer. Look, I'm not convinced. But suc...
Tang China And The Collapse Of The Uighur Empire: A Documentary History
by Michael R. Drompp
It's great. About Uighur refugees after the collapse of their steppe state, and how they tried to negotiate with China: can we come in? We've helped you in the past. As the author makes you aware, we have most of this history from Chine...
The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great Power Among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese During the Early Middle Ages
Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tukles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition
by Devin Deweese
A little hard to get through to be honest. But valuable, and pretty much on its own. The intersections of old steppe religion (my interest, and he unearths things I haven't found elsewhere) with Islam.
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia
by Peter C. Perdue
Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics
by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance
by George Lane
A major work on Hulegu and the early days of Mongol Iran. Absolutely fascinating, and often new. It isn't 'just' the political history - it casts a wide net. I learnt a great deal about law courts and the operations of law - in an actual...
Mongols, Turks, and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World
by Reuven Amitai
A hodgepodge of essays. Patchy - for me - but the one by Gideon Shelagh I think a quiet revolution. It's about steppe identity, nomad ideology (uses those phrases) and concludes that the decision to go nomad was often a 'political strate...
Chinggis Khan
Imperial China 900-1800
by F.W. Mote
The only history of China for me. For my purposes (steppe study) - he is no less than fantastic on the frontier states or conquest dynasties... right up until the Mongols. I felt let down in that section. However, he still gets five sta...
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China
by Dieter Kuhn
I doubt you can do better on the topic. Sensible, stuffed with information, and not off-putting to me, who's on the Mongols' side.
The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
by Piers Vitebsky
Imperial Nomads: A History of Central Asia, 500-1500
by Luc Kwanten
Old and obscure, but I found this quite valuable for ideas I hadn't met elsewhere.
Discoveries: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
by Jean-Paul Roux
This is a tiny little picture book, and at first sight, easy to mistake as one for the kids. But it's great. The pictures, along with the highly intelligent captions on them, give a wealth of cultural insight. The text, while short and n...
Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion
by V.V. Bartol'd
Written in 1900 (the Russian version) and still indispensable.
The Great State of White and High: Buddhism and State Formation in Eleventh-Century Xia
by Ruth W. Dunnell
This state has an interesting history, which Ruth Dunnell has to herself in English.
The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China
by Thomas J. Barfield
This has been a must-read since it came out, because it's a book with a theory. Whether you are convinced or unconvinced by the theory of steppe history here, you have to engage with this one. As a matter of fact I'm largely unconvinced,...
The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy
by Michael Prawdin
Why do I like this one? It's an older book - the German dates from 1935, as far as I can determine; I've seen it scorned as a less than serious contender in Mongol histories. I didn't expect much when I read it. It has a concept of nom...
The History of the Mongol Conquests
by J.J. Saunders
Shamanic Worlds: Rituals and Lore of Siberia and Central Asia
by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
Genghis Khan: The History Of The World Conqueror
by Ata-Malik Juvaini
by Michel Hoang
Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World
by Leo de Hartog
by Arthur Waley
If The Secret History is what you're after, Waley only gives extracts. As he says himself, "Of The Secret History, I have translated only the parts founded on story-teller's tales." Whatever he means by that, it's loose translation, stor...
The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century
by Igor De Rachewiltz
The History And The Life Of Chinggis Khan: The Secret History Of The Mongols
by Urgunge Onon
Shamanism, History, and the State
by Nicholas Thomas
Animal and shaman: ancient religions of Central Asia
by Julian Baldick
Unless you can trawl through academic journals, or read French, there's so little in the way of historical work on indigenous steppe religion. It's great to have this: a survey that pulls together the information, and tries to draw toget...
Mongolian Nomadic Society: A Reconstruction of the 'Medieval' History of Mongolia
by Bat-Ochir Bold
War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900?1795
by Peter Lorge
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
Jack Weatherford is a cultural anthropologist whose speciality is tribal peoples. He has written several books I value - 'Indian Givers', 'Savages and Civilization', 'Native Roots'. He brings to this one on the Mongols a knowledge and un...
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Not enough content... I can't help but suspect exploitation of the subject after his hit with Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, where he had a lot to say. I like Jack Weatherford - sorry to be a downer PS. If you're int...
Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276
by Jacques Gernet
Old-fashioned in a bad sense.
The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Mongke, 1253-1255
by Willem Van Ruysbroeck
Mongols And Mamluks: The Mamluk Īlkhānid War, 1260 1281
by Reuven Amitai-Preiss
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
by Ibn Khaldun
The World Of The Huns; Studies In Their History And Culture
by Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen
Ancient Queens: Archaeological Explorations
by Sarah Milledge Nelson
Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search For History's Hidden Heroines
by Jeannine Davis-Kimball
Sketchy - more like an archeologist's adventures - didn't strike me as specialist enough, and she leaps from culture to culture.
The Knights of Islam: The Wars of the Mamluks
by James Waterson
Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity
by Patricia Crone
The Jurchen in Twelfth-Century China: A Study of Sinicization
by Tao Jing-Shen
China Under Jurchen Rule: Essays on Chin Intellectual and Cultural History
by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman
Excellent, on a subject on which there are almost no books. Three sections: Politics; Religion and Thought; Literature and Art. Heavy on the cultural side, but you can get your history elsewhere. I like most the chapter on a poet who li...
Wind Against the Mountain: The Crisis of Politics and Culture in Thirteenth-Century China
by Richard L. Davis
Fascinating and very different. Mostly, it's about loyalist suicide when China was lost to the Mongols: a study of the psychology, the cultural traits behind a fashion in loyalist suicide like nothing outside of the Romans. We need this ...
Unbounded Loyalty: Frontier Crossing In Liao China
by Naomi Standen
Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in Tigers` Jaws
by Lynn A. Struve
Firsthand history - diaries, eye-witnesses - in very troubled times. Fifteen different accounts. A major siege seen from the inside - with a massacre at the end - sticks in my head.
Peace, War, and Trade Along the Great Wall: Nomadic-Chinese Interaction Through Two Millennia
Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds
by Anne F. Broadbridge
More about diplomacy, I thought. If you want to know about diplomacy between the Mongols and Mamluke Egypt.
Religions of the Silk Road
by Richard C. Foltz
Singing the Past: Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry
by Karl Reichl
Oral Epics of Central Asia
by Nora K. Chadwick
Old but never obsolete. The one to go to on steppe epic: thorough, funny, not in the least old-fashioned, in a bad way. An enjoyment to read and tells you everything you're likely to find out, unless you have other languages.
The Oral Epic of Siberia and Central Asia
by G. M. H. Shoolbraid
The Cambridge History of China, Volume 6: Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368
by Denis C. Twitchett
The Textbook. And worthy to be. It's just great, on every society.
The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia
by Denis Sinor
The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age
by Peter Golden
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
by Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia
by Stephen J. Bodio
I learnt about eagles - ignorant of them before, I learnt to have the awe for them I ought to. Grand descriptions of the Altai Mountains. - That's where he goes, to find the old-style Kazakh hunters with eagles. Atmospheric, enthusiastic...
Conqueror of the World
by René Grousset
This is half-history, half-novel. Or history told like a novel; with extracts from the original material - whole pages of speech from The Secret History, for example - and with picturesque chapter names such as 'Misery and Grandeur of th...
Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection
by John Man
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
I doubt I can be objective on this book. It was my first full-scale history of the steppe; my first real acquaintance with the life of Jenghiz Khan, too (as spelt in Grousset). First published 1939; in print for its 'majestic sweep and g...
The Book of Dede Korkut
'Dirse Khan came home. He called to his wife, "Come here, luck of my head, throne of my house, my sugar- melon, my honey-melon."' 'great sorrow came over his wife; her black almond eyes filled with bloody tears' 'the boy gave the bull a...
Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan
by Adam T. Kessler
You need that cover big-scale. It's a gilt-bronze grave mask from the steppe society of the Qidan (known as the Liao). Better than Tutankhamen. Aside from the pictures, the text in this book is high-standard. I learnt things about the ...
Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and Its Neighbors
by Yihong Pan
The Rise Of Chingis Khan And His Conquest Of North China
by Henry Desmond Martin
Old - 1950 - but indispensible, and militarily, beats whatever else I've read since
History of Chinese Society: Liao
by Karl Wittfogel
This is an old work from 1949. It is exhaustive and you can't do without this book, in spite of its age - it's hard to imagine such a thorough work, heavy on my lap, being either compiled or published these days. Call me a cynic. It tra...
The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume I: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition
by Marco Polo
For Yule's notes. A treasure-house.
Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China
by Linda Cooke Johnson
On the 'barbarian' dynasties Liao and Jin, created by northern tribal peoples, the Khitan and the Jurchen. More about Liao, for Jin quickly took on Chinese culture and values. Even in Jin, though, observers from Song China noted the barb...
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PODCAST – Narrowing the Diversity Divide in Cybersecurity
By Wes O'Donnell 10/23/2020
The vast majority of cybersecurity professionals are white men, but there’s a major push to close this diversity gap. In this episode, learn about the changes organizations must make to successfully recruit more minorities and women, and the role of schools to build awareness about cybersecurity opportunities among young students. Join AMU cybersecurity program director Dr. Kevin Harris as he talks to Larry Whiteside Jr. about his job as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO); the evolution of cybersecurity during his 25-year career; and the passion driving his work as a founding member of the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals.
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Larry Whiteside Jr. is a veteran CISO, former USAF Officer, and thought leader in the cybersecurity field. He has
25+ years of experience in building and running cybersecurity programs, holding C-level security executive roles in multiple industries including DoD, the federal government, financial services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.
Larry currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer at CyberClan, a full-service global incident response and managed security services provider for small- to medium-sized business.
Larry is also the co-founder, president, and on the Board of Directors at the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP), a 501(c)3 non-profit association that is dedicated to increasing the number of minorities and women in the cybersecurity career field by providing workforce development that includes skills assessment, training, education, mentorship, and opportunity.
Dr. Kevin Harris: Welcome to the podcast Protect and Secure. I’m your host, Dr. Kevin Harris. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we’re grateful for you sharing a few moments on this very important topic.
Today’s guest is Larry Whiteside Jr., a former Air Force officer who ran InfoSec at the Pentagon before cyber even existed. He served as CISO for multiple large organizations over his vast 25-year career, and more recently he founded the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals. Welcome to Protect and Secure, Larry.
Larry Whiteside: Thanks for having me.
Dr. Kevin Harris: Larry, with this being Cybersecurity Awareness Month, do you mind just sharing a little bit with us and our listeners about your career and how you’ve seen this cybersecurity field grow?
Larry Whiteside: Absolutely. So it’s been an amazing journey. If I think about where we started in the mid- to early-90s, right, where it was really about network security at that time, because we were just getting to the world of really interconnecting devices. And we were focused really on that the network. We were focused on that infrastructure piece of trying to watch bad guys coming in across this new thing that we were experiencing called the internet.
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And as we watched it grow and change and morph, and all these different things come about to where we are today with this thing called the cloud and all the new threats that we’re starting to experience. It’s been a wonderful journey, right?
I didn’t, I couldn’t have predicted where we are today, but I can honestly say, I’m glad that I’m a part of it. I think God purpose-built me for this industry. I think to be successful in the field of cybersecurity, you have to have a certain mindset, and there’s a certain way of thinking as it relates to just everyday risk and how you deal with things in technology. So it’s been fun to watch, and I really think we’re, we’re still in the midst of massive change that we’re going to see happen over the next two decades as well. With information and data becoming so sprawling and so broad, I think we’re in for a lot more change and I’m excited about that.
Dr. Kevin Harris: Yeah, Larry, when I hear you use excitement and fun as you talk about your career, it sounds like it’s been a very rewarding career. Do you mind just talking a little bit about the current state of the workforce in cybersecurity and any gaps here in the country and globally?
Larry Whiteside: Yeah, so the current state of the workforces is an interesting dilemma. There are two sides to a coin that we get into a debate on a regular basis.
So the first side is, do we have a talent gap? And some people say there is not a talent gap, right? Some people say there’s no talent gap because there are people in the field of cybersecurity who have skills and cannot find a job. Well, the reality is, is we’ve got millions of open jobs.
And so for those who think that there’s not a talent gap, what they say is we are just poorly writing job descriptions. We’re writing jobs for things like certification. We’re writing jobs that require things that are absolutely placing people out of an ability to actually get into them. Wanting an entry-level job with two year’s experience. Wanting someone to have a four-year degree, right? Having all these requirements that really don’t line up to where people are at skills-wise.
The other side to the coin is people saying that well yeah, there is a skill shortage because when you look at the field and you look at the number of people coming out of college or coming out of just any aspect of learning, trying to enter the field, the number of jobs that is being created is more than the number of people coming into it. So we’ve got this dilemma of the two.
From my perspective, a way to solve this is diversity, right? If you look at the field as a whole, the largest percentage of people in the field of cybersecurity is white men. Now that’s common amongst many technology disciplines, and that’s common amongst many different career fields. But when you look at the lack of diversity coming into the field, there’s a combination of problems that have led to that, right?
I don’t want to get on the whole social injustice and lack of education and things of that nature, but there’s a lot of that plays into the fact of people not even knowing that the field of cybersecurity exists.
If you go into underserved neighborhoods, if you go talk to a school of all women or all girls at the middle school and elementary school level, they don’t even know about cybersecurity. It’s not a field that they are aware of, right? It’s not something they even recognize as an opportunity for them to go into and feel like they can do something. And so if they don’t know the field existed, you’re not going to get people to come into it.
But then once they do know, if you don’t empower them and make them recognize that they are capable, that they can develop analytical thinking, and that they can be successful in this field, then you’re not going to get people to go into it.
Because diverse candidates, it’s been shown that at the seventh and eighth grade, girls and people of color tend to convince themselves that they’re not good at certain STEM- and STEAM-based disciplines.
And we know that in the field of cybersecurity, it’s important to have analytical thinking. It’s important to be able to do analytical problem-solving. So if someone has convinced themselves that they’re not good at these types of things at an early age, by the time they get to a point of graduating high school and getting ready for college, or are in college in whatever discipline they’re in and looking to join the workforce, this isn’t necessarily a field that they will have prepared themselves for.
And so I think as it relates to the lack diversity in the field, the lack of talent that some people feel exists in the field, the plethora of jobs that are continuing to be created in the field. I think if we start early and we create a better pipeline at the middle school and up level, as well as for those people in high school or coming out of high school, or in college and coming out of college, create better training mechanisms to get them prepared for the workforce and create the analytical thinking and the mindset that they need to be successful, we can help fill a lot of these gaps.
Dr. Kevin Harris: When you talk about those gaps and diversity. I know you’re the founder of the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals. Do you mind just describing ICMCP for our listeners and how that organization supports closing the skills gap?
Larry Whiteside: Yes, absolutely. So, I am very blessed to have a circle of friends who are very like-minded. And in 2014, a number of us came together because in our global travels, right, for work and for speaking and everything else, we all came to the same realization that there are not enough people that we see that look like us.
It doesn’t matter where we were. We could be in Johannesburg, or we could be in the UK, or we could be anywhere here in the states or Canada. No matter where we went, the room was never filled at that time with more than 15% in total of women and minorities.
We felt there was a problem, and so when we formed the ICMCP our goal was to what we call to close the great diversity divide, right? We recognized that there was a huge gap in how diverse candidates were coming into the field, the number that existed in the field, and how they were being not just utilized, but also trained and educated to be able to get to the next level.
Because our goal is we want to see a lot more diverse CISOs. We want to see a lot more diverse C-level executives, right, in the field of cybersecurity, because then theoretically they will reach back and pull more that look like them, more that have backgrounds like them, more that come from these diverse backgrounds as well. Because it leads to better outcomes for the company.
So from an ICMCP standpoint, what we’re doing now to really help close this gap is we are providing training mechanisms. We are providing a job pool, right, where we identified this year and a number of conversations that we’ve had over the last year, that there’s a sourcing problem for diverse candidates in cybersecurity.
All of these hiring companies that I’ve spoken to for months and months and months at a time, they all say, Hey, you know, we want to hire diversity. We have the best intentions. We’ve put these jobs out to hire diverse candidates, but we just seem to not be getting them to apply.
And that’s because when a company goes to hire, even if they change their mindset to say they want to hire diversity if they haven’t changed their tactics, then they’re going to get the same candidates they’ve always gotten.
So they’re just putting it on LinkedIn, and they’re just putting it on Dice, and they’re just putting on Indeed and the normal job sources, and they’re just giving it to head hunters, they’re going to get a lot of the same results that they’ve always gotten.
They also aren’t taking into account something I mentioned earlier as it relates to the requirements and what they put down as requirements for the role. If you are putting down that a degree is mandatory if you’re putting down certain certifications are mandatory, if you were putting down certain things, you may be literally canceling out a large population of diverse candidates because they don’t have some of those things, right?
There’s a far greater likelihood for a person of color to not go to college than to go to college. So if you put a college degree is required, are you going to necessarily get as many diverse candidates as you’re going to get non-diverse candidates? Probably not.
So when you think about that, then you have to factor in, it’s been statistically proven that diverse candidates will not apply to roles to which they do not align to nearly 100%. So back to the point of the requirements. If you’re putting requirements on there, which someone does not completely align to, even if they align to almost everything else, if there are one or two that they don’t align to nine times out of 10, they’re not going to apply.
So what we’re doing is, in recognizing these two competing powers, we’re working with hiring entities to post jobs in our cyber careers area. What that does is that then allows our members who get to see these jobs to know, “Oh, these jobs they’re being posted because they specifically want someone who looks like me. They specifically want someone with my background. They specifically want someone who brings to the table potentially what I bring to the table.”
So it removes some of the apprehension that these diverse candidates may bring to the table as it relates to not applying for the role, and what we’re seeing in working with these hiring entities is that they are getting a better list of diverse candidates in front of them for potential roles.
Dr. Kevin Harris: Thanks, Larry. I really appreciate that perspective and sharing what ICMCP’s purpose is and some of the great work that you all do there. Another question: There’s a lot of interest for individuals that are in the military or have an interest in going into the military. And I know with your military background it’s probably a question that you get a lot. Any advice you could give someone who’s interested in serving our country through military service and also interested in the cybersecurity field?
Larry Whiteside: Yeah. So if you are interested in going into the service, right, it’s an honorable thing to do, and it’s a personal decision. I loved the military. I miss a lot of the camaraderie and brotherhood that comes from the military, and I owe the military a lot because it created the guy that everyone sees today, right? It is part of the foundational components that created who I am today.
To add to that, the military also is one of the leading entities as it relates to cybersecurity and innovation, right? The military, and the Department of Defense, and government as a whole are doing a lot around cybersecurity because at the end of the day the next major war is going to be a cyberwar. Right? And so because they recognize that they are ramping up their investment in cyber consistently. They are doing a number of different, innovative things on a regular basis.
So it is a good way for someone to go in and get a very good from the ground up training and understanding. Because the other thing the military does well is train.
In the private sector, we have not gotten to the point of building good career paths for our employees in the cyber field. We just don’t do a great job of it. But the military does. The military because of the rank structure and system, they’ve got a very, very good training program to align both your rank and the skills that you need as you move up. And so it’s a good way to start.
The military is not for everybody, right? Because some people feel that the military is very regimented and very, very strict. But the military does serve a great purpose, and as I stated, me being a former military member, I do miss it.
Dr. Kevin Harris: Larry, one of the things that I left out earlier when we talked about your being a CISO with multiple organizations, could you just explain that title and what that means for someone in that role?
Larry Whiteside: Yeah. The Chief Information Security Officer is a very interesting role, and at the end of the day, the role is purpose-built to really manage technical and data risk for an organization, right? We sometimes call it the top of the food chain in the field of cybersecurity on the operation side.
But what a lot of people don’t realize is when that role really began, probably a couple of decades ago, where it was officially starting to be called CISO, it was largely a technical role, right? You went into a number of organizations and the people who sat in that role were deeply technical. They were talking about switches and firewalls. And when they put together PowerPoints, it was a lot of numbers and things on there that were really technically driven.
Today’s CISO, today’s Chief Information Security Officer is largely a business person, which is why we’re starting to see people come from different disciplines and backgrounds into the CISO role. I know some great CISOs who have little to no technical background because they came out of other disciplines. Some of them have come out of different aspects of business to being the CISO.
And so today’s CISO business leader has to understand the business just as well as any leader of a particular business unit does. They have to understand the business just as well as the CEO does. They have to understand business strategy because, at the end of the day, the CISO is one of the people leading the technology risk persona. They’re one of the ones who are helping to make the risk-based decisions as it relates to how data is used, how data is accessed, and what technology is going to help enable the business to be better, and what security controls must go in place.
As the role transitioned over the years, it was funny to watch it go from—and I was in it—go from me being required to be really technical, to then people looking at security as the office of where it was just the place that people came, where we told them what they couldn’t do.
It started to become this business entity where we started participating in more strategically and understanding business strategy so that we can get ahead of the business strategy and implement mitigating controls so that we could enable the business to do what they wanted securely versus trying to bolt something on at the end.
So it’s been an interesting journey, and most CISOs that you speak with today that have been in a CISO role for 10 years or more can talk about this journey quite a bit. And it’s been fun. It’s been very interesting to see.
But I will say, it is a job that I don’t think everybody sees it and they think they want it because of the paycheck, and they think they want it because it is, quote-unquote, the top of the food chain. But I don’t think a lot of people realize and understand a lot of the strife that comes with the role, right? The politics.
Corporate politics are painful and they’re not fun. And being in the CISO role, you tend to have to deal with corporate politics. It’s not something that I ever anticipated having to work through. And so it’s part of the reason, with all of these other things outside of where the CISO role started, that you sort of see the CISO role, the tenure of the CISO role being 18 to 24 months.
Dr. Kevin Harris: I can definitely see that. As you talk about the role of the CISO changing from technical to business-oriented, it kind of leads me to conversations that I hear people talk about that if there’s an interest in cybersecurity and someone’s not highly technical, or that program is not an area that they’re interested in, are there roles for individuals that aren’t technical in cybersecurity?
Larry Whiteside: Absolutely. So I think there’s a fallacy that’s gone on that in order to be in cybersecurity, you have to know command line, be able to get on a Linux machine, and be able to hack this box. And it’s not true, right?
Cybersecurity is probably one of the vastest technology disciplines that exist, right? There are so many different things that you could get into and not even really know the technology extremely deeply.
Like I hired a young lady from HR to be a governance risk and compliance analyst because she had an understanding of controls. I’ve hired a project manager to be a governance risk and compliance analyst because she knew how to manage projects. So she came in and ran my vulnerability management program because doing vulnerability management isn’t necessarily about running the tool. The tool can run itself.
It’s about when the output comes out, how do you get all of the things that are identified as vulnerabilities, how do you get them fixed in a timely manner? How do you ensure and hold IT and the responsible parties accountable to ensure that things are getting done?
Larry Whiteside: Well, that’s not a technical job, right? That’s not something where someone has to know ones and zeros. They don’t have to understand the command line. They just know, “Hey, this task needs to be assigned to this person, or this group, or this team. And they need to get it done within this timeframe or there’s a problem, or we’re creating risks.”
And so there are a number of different disciplines in the field of cybersecurity that someone who is even not technical can get into.
Dr. Kevin Harris: All right. Thanks, Larry, for helping dispel that myth. I know it’s out there, keeps floating around. So really appreciate you, somebody that’s in it day-to-day, kind of helping to share the truth on that area.
With your career, that you’ve kind of talked through some of the broad areas that you’ve worked in, what would you say is been the biggest accomplishment of yours during your distinguished career?
Larry Whiteside: From a career perspective? Honestly, the biggest accomplishment that I’ve made is co-founding ICMCP. I love what I do. I love my career. I love what I’ve accomplished professionally.
But at the end of the day, when I think about everything I’ve done, the people I’ve led, the teams I’ve built, the thing that’s been the most impactful to me personally, the thing that is driving my passion and fulfills my soul, is ICMCP.
Recognizing the lack of diversity and actually doing something, or trying to do something about it, and leaning forward and being willing and open to having tough conversations with people that weren’t prepared for a tough conversation. Being able to start dialogues with people and even start just a movement of the communication in the community that we’ve started to build around the fact that we know there’s a lack of diversity. For me, this is the thing that I hope becomes part of a legacy.
It wasn’t intentional when we did it. We weren’t doing it in hopes of creating a legacy. But the more we’ve done it, and the more we see the change and the impact it’s having on people’s lives when people receive these scholarships, the life-changing moments that are happening for them.
To see some students that we mentored years ago, to see them now be in the field for a couple of years and being successful and watching their growth, these things have and continue to shape me and drive me more than anything else.
And so as much as I love the field of cybersecurity, and I love my job, and I continue to love what I do, ICMCP is really the thing that I’m most passionate about and most proud of.
Dr. Kevin Harris: Gotcha. So that kind of leads me, I’ve got to ask this, Larry. When I hear you talk about the passion and then the work of ICMCP, if somebody is looking to help mentor, or they are wanting to be a part of ICMCP. They’re interested in the field and want to join ICMCP. How do they go about doing that?
Larry Whiteside: Yeah. Just go to our website. It’s free to join for the rest of 2020, but you go to our website and there’s a link for you to join. There’s also a link for you to get involved, right? We’re looking for volunteers. We’re looking for people to volunteer on different committees. We’re looking for people to get involved. We’re looking for chairs of some committees, right? So if you really have a passion about this.
And I want to make sure I’m clear about something. ICMCP’s mission is to increase diversity in the field of cybersecurity, right? We want to close the great cyber divide. That doesn’t mean to be a member that you have to be a person of color, that you have to be a woman. Because at the end of the day, if you believe in our mission and you trust in our mission, then we want you to participate.
We’ve got volunteers of every shape, color, size, and from every background, you can imagine, because they believe in our mission and what we’re doing. They believe in the people that we’re trying to help.
And they recognize, like I do, that cybersecurity as a field can actually be a driver of a socio-economic change in certain communities. So if we leverage it appropriately, we continue to communicate it openly into these underserved communities, letting people know that this is a field that you can be successful in and to drive them towards it, it can be impactful in people’s lives.
I can tell you from my own personal story, that today I’ve got five children with my ex-wife. And my children have been afforded a life and experiences that I would’ve never even thought of as a youth myself. My children will never experience the things that I had to deal with growing up as a youth.
And it’s because the field of cybersecurity has enabled that. My children and the education they’ve been able to receive, and what they are going forward within their own careers as they go on their journeys, they all have benefited from the field of cybersecurity indirectly.
And so when I look at this for me, it’s directly provided generational change. And so, as I think about it for others, if we continue and we’re able to build this pipeline and get more women and more people from underserved communities into the field of cybersecurity, we can help make the socio-economic change that needs to happen in this country for some of the social justice problems.
Dr. Kevin Harris: Perfect. So just to remind everybody, if you are interested, icmcp.org for interest, or just to find out more about what the work that Larry’s doing. And just as we’re finishing up, Larry, what piece of advice would you have somebody have for somebody that’s looking to enter the field?
Larry Whiteside: If you are looking to enter the field of cybersecurity, number one, don’t pick something for the money. I know a lot of people who’ve gotten into this field for the money, and they’ve realized it’s not right. Doing it for the money for the wrong reason.
This field is very, very broad. Find something in this field that you’re passionate about. There’s tons of opportunity in it. And so if you find something in this field that you’re passionate about, you’ll be more successful than you can imagine, because passion drives success. Passion drives effort.
Passion also exudes out of you and others around you will see it, because passion is also infectious. So the people that I’ve seen be most successful, the people that I have seen do amazing things in this field, are the ones who are the most passionate about it. So drive and follow your passion.
Dr. Kevin Harris: Thanks for that, Larry, and thanks for sharing your passion. I definitely hear it. Thanks for sharing your expertise and perspective on this issue. Thanks for joining me on today’s episode of Protect and Secure.
Larry Whiteside: Thanks. I appreciate it, Kevin.
Dr. Kevin Harris: And thanks to our listeners for joining us. You can learn more about these topics, and more, as you continue to stay tuned in to Protect and Secure. Be well and stay safe.
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Elizabeth Dodson
Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States
The Life of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Dodson was born on 28 August 1809, in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John D Dodson, was 38 and her mother, Clarissa Harrison, was 27. She married Charles T Millard on 3 March 1831, in Huntington Mills, Huntington Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Huntington Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. She died on 3 April 1851, in United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Waterton Cemetery, Shickshinny, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Charles T Millard
Marriage: 3 March 1831
Clarissa Ann Millard
Madison Wilbur Millard
Mary Malinda Millard
Elvira M. Millard
Miner Dodson Millard
Weston M. Millard
Addison Barclay Millard
Roselia Millard
Huntington Mills, Huntington Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States
John D Dodson
Clarissa Harrison
Mary Nancy Dodson
Ann Dodson
Amanda Dodson
Susannah Dodson
Samuel Dodson
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
English: patronymic form of Dodd .
Elizabeth Millard in household of Charles Millard, "United States Census, 1850"
Elizabeth Dodson Millard, "Find A Grave Index"
Stephen Dodson & Lydia 6 children, son of John Dodson 3 wives 20 children named in History of Luzerne County
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Odisha Tenders
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Odisha is one of the states in India that has a religious, cultural and historical heritage. The former name of this state was "Orissa." This state is famous for Jagannath puri temple, Oriya culture and the historic land of Kalinga. Bhubaneshwar is the capital of this state. Since the Orissa government is in its rapid developing phase, it has excellent support of the central government in issuing state as well as national projects.Primarily, there is a huge requirement for the irrigation department, construction corporations, school education, universities, infrastructure, tourism development and other government and semi-government projects.Odisha government frequently releases tenders to cater to all the development needs, and they need organisations that will complete the projects within the deadline.We have shortlisted five organisation from 33 departments who which frequently issues tenders in Odisha. They are given below.Municipal Bodies,Rural Water Supply and Sanitation,EIC-CIVIL,Odisha Tourism Dev. Corp.,WATCO Bhubaneswar. Municipal Bodies-There are a total of nine urban local bodies in Odisha under the AMRUT scheme. These local municipal bodies are responsible for carrying out the functions of tax and financial administration, infrastructure development, town planning, public health and sanitation and environment protection program.Tenders in Odisha are issued for carrying out the work of electric line installation, building micro compost sites and dumping yard, construction of drain cover and slab for the drainage line, supplying of raw materials like cement, sand, construction materials etc.Till date, Municipal bodies have issued more than 200 tenders for the developmental work under the government of Odisha.Rural water supply and sanitation-This department handles the task of providing clean and pure water to the rural areas of the state, most of the work in this department is of laying pipelines, constructing water points, supplying hydro motors, and building the high capacity water tanks.This department has issued more than 50 tenders in Odisha under the eprocurement Odisha. Bid assist helps you to get all the necessary information and documentation of e tenders in Odisha.WATCO Bhubaneshwar-WATCO is known as Water Corporation of Odisha. The primary function of this department is to provide clean water and effective sewerage services. Tenders are mostly issued in this department for the construction of the sewerage lines, creating drinking water pipelines, constructing water reservoir, and supply of hydro jets. More than 15 tenders for e-procurement Odisha has been issued for this department under the government of Odisha.EIC - CIVIL-EIC is known as Engineer in Chief (CIVIL Department). This department looks after the construction and maintenance of the govt infrastructure, offices, schools and community centres. This department floats tender for reconstruction, management, and repair of the govt infrastructures. E tenders in Odisha are also issued for construction of roads, reworking on damage road and plotting the design and layout of the service road, footpaths etc.EIC Civil department has issued more than 100 tenders for the eprocurement Odisha, and there is a high demand for the road and civil construction of the government infrastructure. Hence it is possible that the count of tenders for this department is to raise more in comparison of other e tenders in Odisha projects. Bid Assist gets done all your works regarding e-tenders, Whether it is registration or documentation, All at one place. ...Less
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Tamil Nadu Tenders
Servicio De Emergencias Sanitarias De Valencia Direcci N Econ Mica Gerencia
Servicio De Emergencias Sanitarias De Valencia Direcci N Econ Mica Gerencia Authority Tamil Nadu State
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Tamil Nadu comes under one of the most developed states in India, the governmental administration is quite efficient than any other states. They have a total of 22 organisations which issues tenders in various departments. We have shortlisted the best four organisations that will help you to select the best tenders for your business. The list of them is given below. TNCSC, TN Cements Corporation, PWD Tamil Nadu, MAWS. TNCSC-The main functions of TNCSC are to procure essential commodities like sugar, rice, wheat, etc., storage and movement of such food stock for its distribution from the operational godowns to several public distribution system outlets with the help of Co-operative Societies and agencies. The TNSC also initiates the procurement of hulling, paddy, and utilization of rice under a decentralized system of procurement. TN Tenders are issued for gathering and supplying of the grains and the food stock. The Tamil Nadu Government also issues the tender for the employment of the workforce for the controlling and protecting this stock from wastage. Get more information about Tamil Nadu tenders only at Bid Assist.TN Cements Corporation- Tamilnadu Cements Corporation Limited (TANCEM), a wholly-owned Government of Tamilnadu undertaking, started a business from April 1976 with a share capital of Rs. Eighteen crores are taking over cement plant at Alangulam and setting up another plant at Ariyalur in the year 1979. The company has its main objective is the production of cement and cement-based products and primarily cater to the needs of Government departments. Limestone is the main raw material. The company reserved enough limestone bearing lands which are sufficient to run the cement plants for decades. Hence, TANCEM plays an important role in the development of the state. TN Tenders are issued for providing raw supply and propylene woven bags for carrying cement. If you are interested to know more about the tenders issued by these organisations, log on to Bid Assist now. PWD Tamil Nadu- PWD Department looks after the four regions of the work, It handles the Operation and Maintenance}) Plan, Design, Research, Analysis and Construction Support. Each of them is under the control of one PWD Engineer. Tamil nadu Tenders are floated for the supply material like cement, sand, steel, tools etc. Tenders are also issued for the reconstruction and renovation of the old construction and design the new infrastructure such as office buildings, roads, highways etc. To know more about the TN tenders, log on to Bid Assist now. MAWS-The Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department came into existence in the year 1916 as 'Local and Municipal Department'. It consists of Local, Municipal, Plague, Medical and Legislative Branches. This department has made a massive investment for undertaking critical capital investment works in the urban local bodies for water supply, roads and buildings, stormwater drains, street lighting, solid waste management, sanitation and bus stands, There are 15 municipal corporations, 121 municipalities and 528 gram panchayats in Tamil Nadu. Tenders are issued for official work like providing security and workforce, supplying raw materials for construction, repairing of damaged governmental assets like road, footpaths, parks, speed breakers etc. The Tamil Nadu Government has issued more than 130 tenders under the MAWS Department. ...Less
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Fic: Through Time And Space: Chapter 26 – Cake And Celebrations
Title: Through Time And Space: Chapter 26 – Cake And Celebrations
Characters: Ianto, Jack, OCs, Alonso Frame.
Spoilers: CoE, House of the Dead, Miracle Day
Summary: It’s been a long journey, but Auber and the other Tallans are finally home. That calls for a celebration or two, and what’s a celebration without cake?
Written For: Challenge #131: Cake at fan_flashworks
A/N: Well, here we are at last, after more than a year of writing – the final chapter of Through Time and Space. Hopefully it won’t be the last story set in this ‘Verse though, just the end of this particular story. I hope you’ve all enjoyed reading my epic fanfic as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it. Thanks to everyone who has read, commented, followed, favourited, and left kudos, you kept me motivated to finish the journey and I salute you all!
Saying goodbye to Alonso on Paramian was both simple and unbelievably difficult for Jack. Over the months that they’d been travelling together, they’d got to know each other well and respect had blossomed alongside their friendship. Alonso had helped Jack more than he’d realised at the time, allowing him to remember all the good times he’d had with Ianto and the rest of his team instead of just dwelling on those fateful five days when his whole world had been systematically torn apart. Letting go of the person who had become his anchor was going to leave a hole, but the truth was that he didn’t need Alonso any longer and it was time for the other man to get on with his life. He was comforted by the knowledge that they’d be able to keep in touch and by Ianto’s promise that they’d visit once Alonso had settled back into life on Sto.
Ianto stood back and watched Jack and his friend hug. Over the last few days, Jack had gradually become more like his old self, though he was clearly still grieving for his grandson and his shattered relationship with his daughter. It would probably still take some time before he stopped blaming himself, or at least managed to make some sort of peace with everything that had happened. Nevertheless, he seemed lighter, less burdened, and ready to start living again, for which Ianto was grateful. He’d hated seeing Jack looking so broken.
They’d spent the previous day, after getting Jack’s belongings from storage, seeing the sights and booking Alonso passage on the next star liner heading for Sto; this time he was to be a passenger on the luxury liner rather than crew, and the ship itself had an excellent safety record, so hopefully the trip would be relatively uneventful. Now, as Alonso took his place in line to board, Ianto moved over to stand beside Jack, twining their fingers together.
“I’ll miss him,” Jack murmured.
“I know. So will I, even though I only knew him for a short while. We’ll be seeing him again before too long though.” He squeezed Jack’s hand as Alonso disappeared from sight into the boarding tunnel. “D’you want to stay until the ship leaves?”
“No point really; it’s not like Alonso could wave to us once he’s aboard.”
That was true. Even if they made their way up to the observation deck, all they’d be able to see would be the bulk of the ship in its berth, the ports too small at their distance to see anyone who might be looking out.
Hand in hand, they made their way back to the TARDIS, where they’d left her masquerading as a very ordinary door in an archway that in reality led into a narrow alley. The door opened of its own accord as they approached, closing softy behind them once more as they stepped through into the welcoming, coffee-scented console room.
Jack leant against the wood-panelled wall, frowning, as Ianto brewed them both a coffee using the machine that stood on its own little station in an alcove.
“That looks an awful lot like the coffee machine we had in the Hub.”
Ianto laughed. “I think it might well be, just repaired, or reconstituted after the explosion. Apparently a lot of the décor was influenced by images from my mind. Not all of it was successful, but we worked the kinks out.” He told Jack about the Conversion Unit-inspired medical bay he’d been confronted with during his initial exploration of his new home.
“Ouch! That must’ve been an unpleasant surprise.”
“To put it mildly; I think I freaked out a bit. It’s much nicer now it’s been remodelled, all white and blocky. Not that I’ve needed to use it except to treat accidental sunburn.”
Settled into comfortable chairs, their sipped their coffee. Silence reigned for a few minutes as they savoured the brew and munched on slices of chocolate cake Ianto had fetched from the small auxiliary kitchen just off the console room. Finally, Ianto spoke again.
“Next stop, Talla?”
Jack nodded slowly. “I’ve seen my friend off, now to get yours home.” He smiled. “I imagine the rest of their tribe will be very happy to see them.”
Auber and his people had described in detail the area of their planet that they called home, and the TARDIS had also scanned the images they held in their memories, so they could be taken not only to their home planet, but to the lands occupied by their tribe.
The planet was as beautiful as Ianto remembered, though on his last visit he’d been in a different area, living with one of the many other tribes that called Talla home. Auber guided them to land at the edge of a copse of trees, a short distance from his tribe’s village. The TARDIS took her favourite form, that of a tall tree with spreading branches, which she said was the best shape for collecting airborne particles from which to create anything they needed. Stepping out onto the bluish grass, cropped short by the village’s wandering herds of grazing animals, Auber and the others simply stood, breathing in the familiar scents, gazing around themselves with a kind of quiet joy as Jack and Ianto looked on.
“I had accepted that we might never see our home again,” Auber said softly. “To be standing here once more is a dream made truth.” Sniffing the air, he wrinkled his snout in a smile. “The air smells of late summer, we have been gone for more than a year. Come, we have kept our families waiting for long enough.”
With a spring in their step, the small band of Tallans set off toward the cluster of huts that could be seen some distance away. It was mid-morning, so the communal cooking fires were merely smouldering until they were needed for making lunch, sending up thin, lazy trails of smoke into the clear, warm air. As the travellers approached, they saw that the village’s inquisitive inhabitants were gathering just outside the circle of their dwellings, no doubt drawn there by the curious sound of the TARDIS’s arrival. As soon as they were close enough to be recognised, the air filled with excited chatter and the villagers scurried out to greet them.
Jatso, Kellik, and Diller’s families clustered around their long-lost kin, everyone patting each other and rubbing snouts in enthusiastic greeting; Auber’s other children, three boys and twin girls, clustered around him and Olan, demanding to know where they had been for so long. Auber’s mate had passed some years before, when their youngest son had been no older than young Jatso, but he had brothers and sisters in this and neighbouring tribes scattered across the wide valley that was their home.
“There are many tales to be told,” Auber told his family and the members of his tribe. “Send out runners, gather the tribes and prepare a feast to welcome our new friends. The tales we must now tell should be heard by all of our kin.”
In Auber’s absence, his eldest son, Thilo, had become tribe leader, and now the gathered people of the tribe turned to him for confirmation of Auber’s orders. He nodded to his father. “It shall be as you say.” Despatching runners, he turned to walk with his father back into their settlement where the other Tallans were already scurrying about, preparing for the requested feast. “Will you take your place as tribe leader again?” he asked diffidently.
“No, my son, my time as leader is done. I shall take my place with the elders while I am here, but I think I am not yet done adventuring. I taught you well, it is clear to me that you have been a strong leader in my absence, I would not take that right from you now.”
“Thank you, father. I shall do my best to live up to your example.”
“Then I can be sure that the tribe of Nerrim is in safe hands.”
By mid afternoon, the tribes were gathered, babbling with excitement as a great feast of vegetable stew, flat bread, fresh fruit and delightful little cakes filled with sweet sap was prepared and eaten. Then, as the first moon rose, Auber took his place in front of the vast gathering and in a clear voice, began to tell the tale of his small band’s adventures on other worlds.
The story captivated everyone and all four moons were up by the time it ended. Many questions were asked and answered, and then Ianto was called to take his turn in front of the crowds to tell a little about earth and the places he’d visited before finding Auber and the others. Finally, he extended an invitation to any Tallans who wished to experience other worlds first hand, to travel aboard his ship for half a year. Auber had already decided to stay on, and would act as a sort of den mother and leader so that families would not need to worry about their sons and daughters. As a tribal elder, he was well able to teach the youngsters anything they needed to know.
At last, with the talking done, the gathering divided into family units, settling down to camp beneath the stars. The Tallans seldom slept indoors when the weather was good, preferring to spread their pallets where they could freely breathe the sweet night air and be woken by the rising sun. Jack and Ianto stretched out on their own bedrolls by the embers of one of the large cooking fires and worn out by the excitement and fresh air, slept until morning.
The next day dawned bright and sunny, perfect weather for Olan and Diller’s joining ceremony, which was to be held at noon, when both the suns were high in the sky, and followed by another feast. The Tallans must have been up since before dawn as the camp was bustling, preparations for the festivities already underway when Ianto and Jack woke. They quickly rolled up their beds, stowing them in Auber’s family hut, then hurried to the TARDIS to get themselves ready.
Everyone was to be dressed in their very best festival clothes, so Jack and Ianto scoured the wardrobe level for suitably colourful attire, eventually emerging in light coloured trousers and brightly patterned Hawaiian shirts, which were greatly admired by everyone. Ianto felt somewhat silly but didn’t want to let everyone else down by wearing his usual attire, and anyway, the weather was really too hot for a suit.
Several other couples were also going to be wed at the same time as Olan and Diller; apparently it wasn’t unusual for couples to wait until a large gathering of tribes to have their joining ceremonies so there could be one big celebration instead of a bunch of smaller ones. It gave Jack an irresistible idea.
“Ianto, how would you feel about you and I getting married?”
“Are you proposing?” Ianto raised one eyebrow, looking surprised.
“Yes, I guess I am.” Impulsively Jack dropped to one knee and took Ianto’s hand between his own. “Ianto Jones, will you do me the honour of marrying me?”
As far as Jack was concerned, Ianto’s smile outshone the suns. “Yes, you idiot, of course I will! Nothing would make me happier.”
Jack’s answering smile was every bit as radiant as Ianto’s. In the back of his mind, Ianto could sense the joy his TARDIS was feeling. She was quite giddy with happiness for them.
Together, Jack and Ianto sought out Auber to tell him the news; unsurprisingly, he was delighted.
“This is joyous news indeed; may you find great happiness together,” he told them warmly. “Will you be pledging yourselves to each other in the joining ceremony with the other couples?”
“Would that be allowed?” Ianto asked.
“Of course. You are both family now, you belong to the Tribe of Nerrim.”
“I meant,” Ianto blushed slightly, “will no one think it strange as we’re both male?”
“Why should they? Each of us joins with the one who makes our spirits sing; male or female, it is no matter, we have always followed our hearts.”
Jack and Ianto shared a look. “As long as no one minds, I can’t think of anything more perfect,” Ianto decided.
“Our first wedding,” Jack beamed back at him.
“Well, what’s legal here won’t be considered binding everywhere we go, so there’ll probably be other ceremonies on other worlds. We could become the most married couple in the universe! We’ll be legendary!”
Ianto laughed. “Why not? Sounds like fun!” He looked around at the crowds. “You know, I always wanted a big wedding, but this takes the cake.”
The ceremony was to be held in a nearby meadow where two trees beside a sparkling stream had been trained to form an archway. The TARDIS, wanting to be as involved as she could be, had moved position and was now standing a short distance away, her spreading branches providing a shady, cooler spot for the Tallans to set out rough wooden trestle tables piled with fruits and vegetables, several kinds of bread, little flat, sweet biscuits decorated with flowers, and cakes made of ground nuts and dried fruit. There were other cakes too, small, spicy and fragrant, which would be used in the ceremony itself.
Auber, Jatso and Kellik had disappeared inside the TARDIS soon after she arrived in the meadow, their presence having been requested. Jack and Ianto had been curious, but the TARDIS had told them to keep out or they would spoil her surprise. Unwilling to offend her, they’d done as they were told, instead helping out with the preparations wherever they could, which mostly meant fetching and carrying. Not that they minded; the entire settlement was in a party mood with much laughter and merriment, so that even mundane chores seemed like fun.
Eventually, shortly before the ceremony was due to begin, the three Tallans emerged from the TARDIS. Jatso set up a sturdy table from the console room just outside and to one side of her doorway. Auber and Kellik followed, bearing between them the biggest and most elaborate wedding cake Ianto had ever seen. It was seven tiers, delicately iced in white, and decorated with tiny icing flowers in red and blue. Arrayed on its surface were finely modelled miniature figures representing of all the Tallan couples who were to be joined that day, and in the centre of the top tier stood a mini Jack and Ianto, in their usual attire; Ianto in a pin-striped suit and red shirt, and Jack in his World War Two era clothing and coat. It was a marvel; Ianto only hoped it would taste as good as it looked.
‘Of course it will,” the TARDIS murmured indignantly in his head. ‘I used your favourite fruitcake recipe, the one you liked to make for Christmas. I wanted to contribute to the feast. There will be hot Welshcakes too, for after the ceremony.’
Ianto couldn’t help smiling. ‘I wasn’t really doubting your skills,’ he assured his ship, ‘I was mostly remembering Rhi’s wedding cake. It looked beautiful, but it was dreadfully dry and as heavy as lead. Johnny’s mother had made it so we all had to pretend to enjoy it.’
‘I can assure you that this wedding cake will not disappoint.’
‘I’m sure you’re right.’
By then, there were crowds of Tallans gathering around to admire the snow white, towering confection, and Jack was busy explaining to them that where Ianto came from, such cakes were a wedding tradition.
“The newly joined couple cuts the cake and makes a wish, and everyone gets a slice,” he told his audience. “They’re usually not quite so big, but then there are a lot more people here than there are at most earth weddings.”
That, Ianto thought, was rather an understatement!
By the time the twin suns had reached their highest point in the sky, the preparations were completed and everybody had gathered in the meadow beside the archway. Of the seven couples to be joined that day, Olan and Diller would be first while Jack and Ianto had opted to be last, partly because Ianto didn’t think it would be polite to jump ahead of the other couples, and partly so that they could watch everyone else and make sure they fully understood what to do. Auber had explained the ceremony to them, and it sounded straightforward enough, rather like a handfasting on earth, but still, it wouldn’t hurt to observe first so that they didn’t make any awkward mistakes.
The combined tribes gathered, forming a circle dozens deep around the tree arch and the seven couples who were to be joined. The eldest joined couples from each of the tribes stepped forward, raising their joined hands to form a tunnel leading towards the archway on the other side of the stream and one Tallan, older and more grizzled than any Ianto had seen, hobbled over leaning on a tall staff to officiate. Despite her obvious age, her voice was clear and strong.
“We gather on this beautiful day to bear witness as these of our people pledge their lives and hearts, one to another, in accordance with our traditions.” She turned to the couples. “May each of you find joy and contentment with your chosen partner and may you live long, rich lives together.”
A small Tallan child trotted forward then, carrying a plate of the ceremonial cakes, each no bigger than a walnut. All those who were to be joined took a cake in their left hand, then bowed their heads so that the child’s mother could place a woven circlet of flowers on each head. Ianto straightened up carefully, hoping his didn’t slip down over his eyes. Human heads were smaller than Tallan heads. Thankfully, the makers seemed to have taken that into account and though it slid down his forehead a bit, it stayed put.
At a gesture from the officiator, Olan and Diller came to stand before her. They announced their names and tribe, vowing to stand together as one and to share each other’s joys and sorrows through this life and into the next, then with their right hands clasped together, they fed each other the ceremonial cakes they held in their other hand before clasping their now empty left hands.
Bowing first to each other and then to the officiator, they ducked their heads to walk through the tunnel formed by the elder couples, jumped the stream and stepped through the arch formed by the two trees where they stopped and raised their joined hands to form the beginning of another tunnel on the far side of the stream.
One by one, the other couples followed suit until by the time it was Jack and Ianto’s turn, there was a tunnel formed of six couples on the far side of the tree arch.
“Bet their arms are getting tired,” Jack whispered to Ianto just as they were beckoned forward.
Walking side-by-side, they went to stand in front of the officiator. Ianto spoke first.
“I, Ianto Jones of the Tribe of Nerrim, pledge my life and heart to the one who stands beside me, to be as one and to share both joys and sorrows, in this life and the next; may our love never fade.”
Jack, of course, couldn’t resist going a little off script.
“I, Jack Harkness of the Tribe of Nerrim, pledge my life and heart to my gorgeous Ianto who stands beside me, to be as one and to share both joys and sorrows, in this life and the next; may our love never fade.” Jack smiled at Ianto, clasping his partner’s right hand with his own as they turned to face each other, each popping the small cake they held into the other’s mouth. They were crisp on the outside, but moist and spicy on the inside. Jack licked a stray crumb from his lips with a smirk and Ianto rolled his eyes. Their left hands met and clasped, and they bowed first to each other, then to the officiator, who stepped to one side, allowing them to approach and pass through the tunnel. Being taller than most Tallans, they had to bend a little more, but they got through without bumping into anyone and easily jumped the narrow stream, taking their place at the end of the line, arms raised as the officiator followed them, turning towards the newly joined couples and striking the end of her staff against a previously unnoticed stone set it the ground. It rang like a bell.
“May you live your lives together well, bringing joy and harmony to your families and your tribes, and peace and plenty to all our lands,” she intoned as the older couples who had formed the first tunnel ducked under the raised arms of the newlyweds to complete the ceremony. The staff struck the stone again with a second clear, bell-like note, and as it faded, the officiator raised her voice so that all could hear her. “Let the celebrations begin!”
Still holding hands in their pairs, the other newlywed couples broke into a dance, spinning each other around dizzyingly as music began to play, drums and pipes and rattling gourds. Jack and Ianto did their best to follow the steps, but quickly found it impossible to keep track, never mind keep up. It didn’t seem to matter and soon everybody seemed to have joined in, skipping and twirling, making the most of the happy occasion.
Gradually, people began to drop out of the dance as they tired, drifting over to the tables of food and drink in the shade of the TARDIS’s leafy branches. Breathless and giddy, but still holding hands, Jack and Ianto meandered in that direction too, badly in need of a cool drink. They quenched their thirst with tart and refreshing fruit juice, sipping slowly as they cooled down from their exertions. The Tallans, despite their fur, seemed not to even notice the heat, though Ianto noticed that quite a few of them had very wet feet as if they’d gone paddling in the stream before seeking refreshments.
A while later, Auber approached them where they were relaxing with their backs against the TARDIS’s trunk.
“Ah, there you are! Is it not time yet to cut the cake?” His eyes were bright with eagerness and Jack couldn’t help but laugh.
“You know, I do believe it is!” He scrambled to his feet, offering Ianto a hand up. “Come along, Mr Jones, can’t keep our guests waiting for cake!”
“Shouldn’t that be Harkness-Jones now?” Ianto asked archly.
Jack considered that. “Why not Jones-Harkness?”
“Doesn’t sound right somehow. The other way around just flows better.”
“How can I argue with that logic?” Jack teased. “Okay, Harkness-Jones it is. Let’s go cut that cake!” And he strode off towards the tables, practically dragging a laughing Ianto behind him.
Breaking tradition slightly, they dismantled the cake before cutting it, setting the seven tiers side by side on the table so that each of the couples could cut that all-important first slice and make a wish. Ianto didn’t know what Jack had wished for, but his own wish was that Jack would find inner peace and be able to set aside the guilt he still felt over the deaths of Stephen, Tosh, Owen, Gray, and so many others he hadn’t been able to protect or save. He didn’t deserve to be so weighed down by past losses, especially since he could neither have predicted nor prevented the events that caused them.
The cake really did taste as good as it looked, maybe even better; the sweet icing carried a hint of lemon and the cake itself was richly fruited yet still somehow light as a feather. There was just enough for everyone to have a small slice, something Ianto should have expected since the TARDIS had created it and no doubt planned accordingly, so no one got left out, but Ianto couldn’t help wishing there’d been some left over for later.
Once the last crumb of wedding cake had been consumed, Auber, Jatso and Kellik went back inside the TARDIS and returned with large platters laden with stacks of warm Welshcakes. “Help yourselves,” Auber boomed cheerfully, “there’s plenty more where these came from!”
Ianto grew misty-eyed as he bit into one.
“Are you okay?” Jack asked, concerned.
“Yeah, it’s just… This is the taste of home. We always used to have freshly baked Welshcakes on special days. Birthdays, celebrations, Christmas breakfast, it was a family tradition when Rhi and I were little. I wish she and the kids could’ve been here today, they would’ve loved all this.”
“We’ll bring them here someday, I promise.” Jack slipped his arms around his husband, sharing a crumb-filled, Welshcake-flavoured kiss. “We have all the time in the universe ahead of us, and a time machine to help us make the most of it.”
Ianto smiled at that. “True, we have a lot to look forward to; there’s still so much I want to see.”
“That’s good, because there’s a lot I want to show you; places I visited with the Doctor and with the Time Agency, places I’ve only ever heard about and never seen. This is what I always wanted, the chance to show you all that’s beautiful in the universe.”
Ianto nodded. “I know, and I’ve seen so much already but I’ve barely scratched the surface! Back on earth, most of what came through the Rift was either broken and useless, or dangerous, but I know it’s not all like that. If the people of earth only knew what wonders there are out here, perhaps they’d stop fighting each other and put their efforts into space travel so they could come and see for themselves.”
“They will someday, Ianto,” Jack assured him. “I’m living proof of that. In the future, humans will colonise dozens of planets, and we’ll be here to see it all.” He smiled as he squeezed Ianto’s hand. “This is just the beginning of our adventures through time and space!”
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Fake Indians
Thu Aug 23rd 2012 by abagond
Fake Indians are people who claim to be Native American but are not. Unlike Blacks or Asians, many Natives are too mixed to “look” Indian, leaving an opening for fakes.
While many Americans are part Native by blood, very few belong to an Indian tribe that they call home. The American government knows which are the true tribes and each tribe knows who belongs. That simple.
Fake Indians want the advantages – like coolness points, affirmative action, book deals, casinos and parts in films. But without the disadvantages, like having no money, not enough heat or food, poor schooling, poor health, being thrown in prison and substance abuse.
And seeing one’s culture mocked and opportunities taken by fake Indians.
Fake Indians have to play to stereotypes to seem “real”, which strengthens the racism against Indians. The only real American Indian I have ever met did not play to stereotypes – because she did not have to.
Fake Indians also make it hard to know much about true Indians. Which makes being fake even easier!
Some fake Indians:
Almost every Cherokee tribe – only three are real:
Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma)
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (Oklahoma)
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (North Carolina)
Carlos Castaneda – made up the research for his PhD thesis and for “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge” (1968). Lost his degree – but sold millions of books.
Douglass Durham – put in charge of security by AIM (the American Indian Movement) at their 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee. Was working for the FBI.
Ward Churchill – former Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado. Fired for plagiarism, fabrication and falsification. Author of several books on Indian issues. Wrote about the FBI undermining AIM but is suspected to be FBI himself! Calls Carlos Castaneda “the greatest hoax since Piltdown Man.” Claims to belong to the Keetowah Cherokees, which they deny.
Jamake Highwater – author of “Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey” (1973), which won a Newberry, “The Sun, He Dies: A Novel About the End of the Aztec World” (1980) and “The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America” (1981), which became a PBS documentary. He fooled the New York Times and the National Endowment for the Humanities, but not Susan Sontag!
Hyemeyohsts Storm – author of “Seven Arrows” (1972), which the Cheyenne say misinterprets their sacred practices.
Iron Eyes Cody – appeared in over 200 Hollywood films and the iconic “Keep America Beautiful” ad where he cries.
Margaret B. Jones – pen name of Margaret Seltzer who wrote about her fake childhood as a half-white, half-Indian foster child in a black ghetto in “Love and Consequences” (2008). Both a fake Indian and a wigger!
Nasdijj – author of “Geronimo Bones” (2004) and other fake Navajo books.
Forrest Carter – wrote about his fake Cherokee boyhood in “The Education of Little Tree” (1976), which sold millions. Outed in 1991 as Asa Carter, Klansman and speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace.
Some of these books won awards. Some are still in print!
– Abagond, 2012, 2015.
Update (July 1st 2015): Removed Winona LaDuke from the list. I confirmed that she is a member of a federally recognized tribe. Thanks to Troy Felsman for the correction.
Sources: Dean Chavers: Racism in Indian Country, An Open Letter To The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post In the Form of a Last Chapter on Jamake Highwater, Slate: David Treuer: Going Native
BIA: List of federally recognized tribes
Notes on how not to write about Native Americans
Margaret Seltzer
wigger
BET Fallacy – the fallacy that blacks are somehow in control of their image. This is way less true for Indians.
Tasadays
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 12:13:26 Jefe
Indeed, fake Native American tribal affiliation is definitely exploited for personal gain.
But, isn’t it possible to realign yourself with another ethnic identity after birth — I don’t think the ethnic identity of your parents is the sole determinant of your ethnic identity. Isn’t some sort of ethnic conversion or realignment possible?
I do not support people who are obvious fakes, but I don’t fully begrudge people who make an honest decision to engage themselves directly into any particular ethnic group.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 12:15:11 B. R.
Wow, hahha about some of these fakers…..they need to get a life…I guess some got the money…you can get the money and still be pathetic…Ward Churchill stands out in my mind
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 12:15:27 leigh204
I remember Iron Eyes Cody in that “Keep American Beautiful” environmental campaign. He was so into his “native” heritage, he even helped pen his autobiography claiming he was part Cherokee and part Cree. The thing is, I was surprised to learn he was actually Italian-American. Imagine that.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 12:32:29 sam
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 12:40:40 positiveblackstereotype
Except its appropriation, not to mention if what your appropriating is based on stereotypes and falsehoods than your doing the group you so call “admire” a disservice. And the fact is, no matter how much one would like to be part of another ethnic group, they will never actually be part of that group because they simply weren’t born into that group. Most people who pretend to belong to another group do so because they have very defined ideals of what a member of said group is supposed to be like even if these ideals would offend members of said group. In many instances people who engage in this sort of behaviour are incredibly racist, they just are too confused to realize how racist they really are. If one has to claim a group, chances are they don’t belong in that group, whereas if someone is born outside of an ethnic group but identifies with said group having been emerged in the culture, etc the group more often than not will claim that person as one of them without the person having to do so themselves. More often than not, people who are claimed by other ethnic groups know who they are and are proud of who they are, but realize they aren’t quite like others within their own respective ethnicity.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 13:42:47 truthbetold
This is shows us that whites are not happy being white. Anything to align themselves with a long suffering group will make them feel better about their European heritage.
I used to wonder why whites would lie about having “black blood”. Why attach yourself with a group that is marginalized? Because deep down, they want attention, money and are desperately trying to distance themselves from their past.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 15:43:33 Sondis
I don’t think, they want to distance themselves from their past, than to just want sympathy, something white people only get from their own, group.
The only people in America, that can “legitimately” receive sympathy, are black people and other people of color.
So I think they seek out sympathy by trying to claim a minority entity, when they are impoverished.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 16:14:40 SomeGuy
Findians.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 16:23:52 satanforce
No. Not Ward Churchill. Not Ward Churchill.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 16:32:50 Cornlia
One thing that chocked me from when I was a child, was why and who you “disguise” yourself into “another person”, not even a “character”. I have NEVER understood how my friends could disguise themselves as “Chinese person” or “an African” or “an Indian” at Carnival. I could never have done it. If I did when I was very little (I don’t remember, I was disguised by someone else. It wasn’t my choice). I would have felt ashamed because I felt it was totally wrong somewhere.
Now I understand it was because I could not get it why someone would want to “possess” another human being to the point of being him or her. Take away his or her being and make it a joke…
ThruthBeTold, I don’t think it is because they are not happy with being themselves. They are ultimate narcissists, they love their own selves like crazy. I think it’s more like what I said here^^.
They want to possess everything and everyone, decide for everyone who they really are, name everything and everyone, classify everything and everyone, know what everybody think and wishes t be able to stop them from getting it, hide and transform everything and everyone that they imagine could be seen as better than them. (The Mysteries of Africa/Egypt. Cleopatra…)
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 16:47:11 chulanowa
Espera DiCorti (Iron Eyes Cody) at least “walked the walk.” He and his wife – she was Native American – adopted several Indian children, donated a great deal of time and money to Indian causes, and very much tried to be respectful members of the greater Indian community.
I don’t know whether it was a mental thing or something… but he really, honestly believed he WAS an Indian. It wasn’t quite like “I’m in it for the cool and hopefully government goodies” like some of the others on the list. Espera was an honestly decent guy, even while being a Wannabee.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 17:15:22 Kushite Prince
This is a very interesting post. I used to work with a white guy that was a real redneck. He was an older man with grey hair and blue eyes. Once in awhile the subject of race would come up and he would always mention his great grandfather that was Native American. It was very strange to me. From time to tome he would make racist remarks about Asians and Mexicans. Yet,he would always bring up his Native American ancestry as if to show he identified with people who are discriminated against. It was all a bunch of horse manure! These white folks just want to distance themselves from the racist past that they’re ashamed of.
Agreed Bulanik. That is indeed how far it goes.
(Can you tell me how you “quoted” me ? I still haven’t figured out how to do that…
lol @ Cornlia I’ve been trying to figure that out, since I first joined this blog.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 17:28:43 Stop Along The Way
Well said. It’s exactly the reason I cringe when another word or phrase from the African-American lexicon is appropriated by white culture at large.
Btw- when I was in high school I was too naive to hear the imitation of the Native American voice in “The Teachings of Don Juan”. I actually thought I was learning something.
@someguy:
Actually findians are not fake indians, they are mixed folks up in Minnesota and there abouts, mix between mainly chippewa and finns who lived next or among them. Reason was that the only white guys who actually wanted to live in remote forests etc. were finns who had lived that way back in their home land. But findians do not try to tell anyone they are pure native tribe etc. at all. As far as I know.
Sorry about that. Please follow the example on the top picture here:
but substitute “blockquote” instead of “i”.
Let’s see if it works… Thanks Bulanik.
Kushite Prince,
These white folks just want to distance themselves from the racist past that they’re ashamed of
unfortunately, I think that a lot of them are not ashamed…
They don’t feel shame. This is what allows them to continue the same BS all over. This is what astonishes non-racists and makes it so difficult to fight them.
Shame is a feeling, they have none. They don’t care about the past. They just don’t want to have to talk about it, it bothers them to have conversations about it.
In France, they shout against “the call for repentance” that they think is what people who want that history to be taught are asking for. They don’t see anything wrong with it, so they don’t see what the point is talking about it. They want other people to feel guilty, not them.
“If it happened to you, it’s for a reason, you were looking for it. It’s the consequence of something you did or who you are”.
“We brought civilization but you don’t know what to do with it”..
Blah blah. Bible stories. From the beginning.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 17:56:44 Delwin
There is another group of people who have been determined to entitlement of Indian staus. That would be anyone, of any race, who has been raised in a traditional Indian culture. This could be by adoption, for example. These individuals encounter the same cultural clash with the dominant culture and can be discriminated against because of their cultural upbringing.
@positiveblackstereotype
they will never actually be part of that group because they simply weren’t born into that group
How about the case of adoptees? Unless the adoptive parents are of the same exact ethnic heritage as the adoptee’s parents, the adoptee will be raised in a different ethnic group than he/she was born into. And the ethnic group of the adoptee’s biological parents will probably never accept them into that ethnic group either. I believe that the adoptee will most likely adopt the ethnic group of the adopted parents. In rare cases the adoptee may try to reinsert himself / herself into the original ethnic group with limited success, or even may try to find a 3rd ethnic group to align with.
How about the case of biracial or multiethnic persons? They may have grown up in early childhood identifying with one of the parents’ groups, and then realign themselves with the other one later in life. Even having a parent who had a prior identity with a particular ethnic group does not mean that the child was necessarily “born” into that ethnic group or accepted as part of that group from birth. And, they might find themselves better accepted into an ethnic group that neither parent claims.
How about the case of interracial / interethnic / interfaith marriage? In some societies or cultures, one of the spouses (typically the wife) must realign herself to the other spouse’s (eg, the husband’s) ethnic group in order for the marriage to be valid and they would have to raise any children in that culture. In that case, the spouse has realigned the ethnic affiliation.
In none of these cases do I believe that the individual is “pretending” to be part of an ethnic group. They might be just honestly trying to “find” an ethnic to participate with.
Not that I am saying that most of these fake (American) Indians are being honest.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 18:22:52 Kwamla
“…They want to possess everything and everyone, decide for everyone who they really are, name everything and everyone, classify everything and everyone, know what everybody think and wishes t be able to stop them from getting it, hide and transform everything and everyone that they imagine could be seen as better than them. …”
I think as Bulanik has commented there is a hidden unacknowledged history and practice of cultural appropriation. Stemming from the days of colonialism and imperialism.
But I agree with Truthbetold:
“…This shows us that whites are not happy being white…”
There is a deep unacknowledged dissatisfaction here. Which only makes itself known in the presence or company of POC. Its when they are made to go through the mental process of comparing and contrasting. themselves a feeling of emptiness can emerge. Of course its easy to hide and disguise this in the alternative world of “superior white society” thats already been set up and created for us ALL to forcibly or freely dissolve ourselves into. But even this is not enough hence the need to fake a different “minority” or other than white identity.
Surely this type of psychosis should have a label?
@Leigh204 When I was a teenager I used to go to a comic book shop with some of my friends. The owners of the shop were a white couple. I remember the wife always bragging to me and my friends that Iron Eyes Cody was her grandfather and she was so proud of being part Native American. Hmmm…..I wonder if she knows he’s Italian. Or maybe she just didn’t want to tell us that little bit of information.lol
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 18:55:04 Jared
I noticed the same cultural appropriation thing is happening in the Orisha religion , where a couple whites have been initiated into the priesthood.
now they have websites and are writing books about the Orisha.
When white people do this, it’s possible because the history that enables that cultural appropriation to happen – through violence – has been erased.
@ Cornlia I see what you’re saying to a degree. They probably don’t feel much shame or guilt. If they truly did feel guilt,they would stop mistreating people of color. But why do you think some white people do bring up they’re racial mixture? What’s the point? They always have a motive for everything they do. Don’t you agree?
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 19:05:42 Herneith
How about crackeritis?
@ Kushite Prince:
Or, maybe she couldn’t handle the truth that her grandfather, that is, if Iron Eyes Cody was actually her grandfather, was a fraud.
BINGO!!You maybe right.lol
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 19:57:02 brothawolf
I remember seeing Iron Eyes Cody. That guy had us all fooled about who he really is.
I wonder if this pathology is why several sports teams have named themselves after Native Americans like the Atlanta Braves, or is there something else at work.
Actually findians are not fake indians, they are mixed folks up in Minnesota
I didn’t even know there was such a thing. I just combined “fake” with “Indians”.
Bwahaha!
“I feel that the white people who engage in the “fake Indians” thing, etc., may choose to believe they are disconnected from the forms of oppression that their ‘appreciation’ and ‘celebration’ reinforces, but even their sense of entitlement to have their experience of ‘other’ cultures prioritized is symptomatic of white supremacy!”
Very well stated.That just about sums it up. I can’t add anymore to that.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 20:49:29 Fiamma Blu
The Washington “Redskins” also comes to mind. Its not confined to sports teams, either, lest we forget the Jeep “Cherokee” and the Mazda “Navajo” (as well as the Volkswagen “Touareg”, the named of which was approriated from the Tuareg / Touareg “Berber” people of Africa).
Jefe, my personal opinion is, anyone who has any trace of real Indian blood in their veins, has their own personal right to identify on the inside with their origins, and can research and seek out or not seek out….as long as they dont get out of joint if a tribe has official laws of how to be considered one of the members..they have to accept those physical realities
My son has some traces of Indian blood in him, its not nearly as big as the Afro Brazilian or European , but maybe as much as I have German blood…but he isnt looking to find his long lost tribe, but, I see how he can relate and I think its just fine…dont let anyone influence you from seeking out the truth in your life that you want to find out…I could hardly care less what anyone thinks my son can or cant do about discovering and identifying what his roots are
I just think people using fraud to bring it out in public, especialy to make money, are low. Or people who wear it on their sleeve .
I also think that all humans have something inside that makes them fascinated by other cultures ( as well as a side that is repelled by strangers) , with elements of wanting to asimilate things about those cultures…I might go out to an Indian (from India) or a Japanese restaurant , and, indulge in their marvelous cooking and feel like for a small instane Im immersing myself in their culture, and, actualy have a great respect for those cultures even just on the basis of tasting their cooking and imagining what it would be like living there and eating the foods and soaking up that atmosphere…
But, being false or patranising is negative, and brings a lot of negative baggage with it
The truth is, culture doesnt have a cutoms gate you have to pass to get stamped to give somebody the right to seek out and learn and apreciete someone elses culture…and it is human to want to do that and there are huge examples of humans everywhere in the world learning and assimilating other peoples cultures. Imagine thinking Wynton Marsalis shouldnt play European Classical music because he isnt from that culture…that is total bs…the truth is if someone really pays the price of discipline and has the will and affinity, they can assimilate into someone elses culture …we all are sucking on all each others culture far more than we know
Who am I to criticise some white hippies who go down to New Mexico to set up a teepee and try to do their version of Indian culture. I may think its silly and the real Indians may think its silly and not like it, but, I dont care , who am I to criticise them
Its the exploitation of cultures, of wiping them out and then falsly representing them in history books or movies, burying them, making them seem like they are less than Western culture, making money off them by white people who push it as though its theirs or that they invented it . Or pretending they are that like these fake Indians…That is where the real problem begins
Iron Eyes Cody huh? Who would have thought….? haha
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 23:05:41 mary burrell
Iron Eyes Cody was Itatalian? What! Man you learn something new everyday.”Wow”. Anyway good post Abagond.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 23:30:50 M
Iron Eyes Cody was Italian? Wow..did nt have any idea that he wasnt Native American.
Fiamma,
Can someone verify, if Mexicans are Indians?
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 00:19:27 titibop
you should post about young asians acting like black people.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 00:22:02 Sondis
@ titibop
Why should there be a post about Asians, “acting” black? you are obviously white…
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 00:59:44 Oyan (@Oy_aN)
1.) I like what ‘Cornlia says @ “on Wed 29 Aug 2012 at 16:37:03
2.) I don’t know if ‘titibop’ is being facetious, but there are a lot of the KPop entertainers who have utilized a lot of ‘urban black’ culture as part of their act;even to the point of getting ‘afro-perms’, ‘black-face’, etc.
3.) I have family in New Orleans, who have claimed ‘Indian’ membership/ancestry for generations. They have huge festivals, wear intricate ‘outfits’ representing the ‘Tribe of the Yellow Pocahontas”, which dates back to the 1800’s. They are not an ‘official’ ‘nation, but have a strong cultural link to the native culture of Louisiana. I’m unsure if this is cultural appropriation…
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 01:04:17 SW6
…you can get the money and still be pathetic…
Jefe, my personal opinion is, anyone who has any trace of real Indian blood in their veins, has their own personal right to identify on the inside with their origins, and can research and seek out or not seek out…
The truth is, culture doesnt have a cutoms gate you have to pass to get stamped to give somebody the right to seek out and learn and apreciete someone elses culture…and it is human to want to do that and there are huge examples of humans everywhere in the world learning and assimilating other peoples cultures.
Wynton Marsalis shouldnt play European Classical music because he isnt from that culture…that is total bs…the truth is if someone really pays the price of discipline and has the will and affinity, they can assimilate into someone elses culture …we all are sucking on all each others culture far more than we know
B.R. thank you so much for what you’ve said thus far in this thread. Your comments are beautiful and true. You’re asserting the individual’s freedom to choose and explore, while respecting him/herself and the culture they are exploring or developing affinity for. You’re highlighting the importance of coming to learn about one’s self and doing so in fellowship with others. Self exploration can be a solitary activity but not indefinitely; it must include others and “their world” at some point.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 01:26:24 Linda
“Sondis
Mexico has a large mestizo population–mixed native Indians (Amerindians indigenous to Southwest US) with Spanish (European) and depending on area, mixed with African. There are also unmixed Amerindians living there, I believe Mayans and other groups.
http://www.cabosanlucasvillas.net/mexico/about/
http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2007-11-16-voa47-66528207/553747.html
also many native Indians live today throughout Mexico and Central American and South America…In the Caribbean, they did not die out as US/western history likes people to believe, they intermixed, that’s why the Dominican Republic insists that they are also mixed with native Amerindian, and Puerto Ricans were found to be majority Amerindian mixed with Spanish and/or African.
http://www.indigenousportal.com/es/Herencia/15-of-Dominicans-have-Ta%C3%ADno-DNA.html
http://www.centrelink.org/KearnsDNA.html
This is why I think it is wrong to tell Caribbean/South American Latinos (no matter the phenotype) to choose between black and white, because depending on the country they are from, also determines the mixture.
Majority are mixed-raced, no matter how much they like to push their Spanish European ancestry
Sondis, this has come up (very tangentially) before on this blog. I’m interested in the question too; more importantly the answer interests me.
Have a look at this, it’s very interesting:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e6ChgL1EC4)
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 01:37:53 King
I don’t think I understand this question.
Can someone (who knows their shit!) say a little about who/what the Carib Indians are? Is anyone aware of a concise but good history of the Caribbean prior to the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Are the Carib Indians essentially just Indians of the Americas (but located far South), just as the more well known North American Indians are understood as Indians of the northern region of the Americas?
Oh sorry, Linda already answered it.
SW6, I believe that the pre-Columbian “Indians” found in the Caribbean islands were the product of the same trans-Siberian migration across the Bering Straight that all native people’s of the New World come from. They are basically Asians, far removed from their origins.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 02:22:54 Jefe
@BR
my personal opinion is, anyone who has any trace of real Indian blood in their veins, has their own personal right to identify on the inside with their origins, and can research and seek out or not seek out….as long as they dont get out of joint if a tribe has official laws of how to be considered one of the members..
At what point does “Identifying on the inside with their origins” become “wearing it on their sleeve” and interpreted as being fake?
For example, President Obama can confirm that he is actually the descendant of ante-bellum black slaves (on his mother’s side, no less), and he were to go out and become famous by raising money to make redresses to descendants of black slaves based on his own ancestry, would he be fake (since he does indeed have black slave ancestry, but his recent black (ie, “sub-Saharan) ancestry is not at all traced to black slaves)?
This might sound like simply a rhetorical question, but there is some reality to this problem. Personally, I had ample direct contact with both my mother’s and father’s families growing up, knew all of my grandparents very well, and felt like I should be entitled to identify with the cultural background of my grandparents. Yet, time and time again, I have AT BEST been treated as “fake” by both sides, but more often as simply not entitled. I have had contact with other persons who have mistaken me as members of their ethnic group, even after knowing me for years. I have indeed entertained the thought of whether it might be easier to realign myself with a different ethnic group where I am less considered to be a “fake” even though technically, I would be.
Certain tribes have rules about tribal membership probably just to control for “fakes”. It is likely that no such rules existed when such tribes were still intact.
I think it is abhorrent to claim fake ethnic heritage to exploit for personal gain, but given my current situation, I can’t totally condemn others. I have my own problems about being “fake”. :-\
Thank you King. If the rest of you know some more, please share.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 02:48:18 BadWolf
White people like to add group X because they perceive it to their advantage and what does that say about racism In America today? It’s not psychotic it’s $$$
There is a marked difference between appropriation and imitation.
We all may imitate things from other cultures all of the time. That’s not a problem in my book. BUT appropriation is taking things and trying to pass them off as your own, or at the least not acknowledging where it comes from originally.
For example, wearing Native American jewelry is fine IMO. However, saying that I’m one fifth Cherokee just to make myself seem like I’m more exotic while I’m wearing it would be wrong.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 03:04:29 Cornlia
Bulanik, B.R. Kushite Prince, Brothawolf and others…
very interesting points.
I will re-read all this and try to answer or at least express a thought on Kushite Prince’s question.
But why do you think some white people do bring up they’re racial mixture? What’s the point? They always have a motive for everything they do. Don’t you agree?
Just a quick thought. I think the constant inversion of facts (and that includes “disguise” being the others that we despise) that we notice in white-minded/white people’s attitudes, behavior, actions, policies, etc… stems from the very fact that, if Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Perversion Narcissistique in French) is actually one of the foundations of the troubled personality they display, one of the key symptoms of that disorder is that they constantly invert/reverse/put things upside down. After a while, and several consecutive reversals, they find themselves at a loss to explain their own selves.
From their point of view it would be : Are they full of pride or empty ? Are they superior or looking for ways to feel so ? Do they need others or do they despise them ? Is/Are their culture/s superior or do they need the input from others ?
After trying so hard to distanciate/dissociate themselves from nature and their own selves, they keep trying to steal from others’ own nature and selves. But constantly remind these others that they don’t need them. that they know better and that they must lead.
I don’t know if this makes sense… Difficult to make sense of nonsensical attitudes and ideologies…
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 03:09:30 Randy
… Chicago Blackhawks, and,
the Washington Redskins?
Is it to ‘honour’ a defeated people? To remind us that “they” fought, but failed?
This paradox doesn’t make sense unless the idea of the Native American is stripped bare and seen for what it represents: a malignant presence to be wiped out, or kept under control, or depicted as a form of local “wildlife”.
How about sports teams with the following mascot names:
– Trojans
– Spartans
– Fighting Irish
– Cavaliers
– Vikings
I suppose if you’re determined to find offense you’ll nearly always succeed.
PS: Howdy King!
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 03:24:26 B. R.
King, I think you are saying what I think, except, for example,my son, who may be 10 percent Indian, mentions about doing something artistic , using paint to put on in an Indian style , exactly because he feels something in himself that has those origins in his blood (at the same time doing things that ackowledge the other parts of his origins , like the Afro Brazilian side). And, I absolutly see no harm in any way if he wants to do that to explore that side of himself…
SW6, I just dont get some kind of over pshyco analysis of why some people might want to dress up and for what ever reason, fantasize and go out side of themselves…I mean, we might as well over psycho analyse every actor and actress who exists because that is just what they want to do…get outside of themselves..I mean we can go after white people who do at as Indians now, next week its going to be the next person for wanting to dress up…I dont want any part of that mentality….I beleive very powerfully in creativity and flights of fantacy
We the thread is talking about people who purposefully deceive the world around them with false claims of who they are and then, some of them make money and comercialise it…..or as I said and as King points out, and apropriating and not ackowledging where it comes from originaly , the rip offs, the burying of the other culture, the not trying to tell the real story, the deceit and comercial gain from that deceit , the absolute media distortion…that is something to condemn
thanks for your ackowledgement
I was the one who said that and Bulanik went further
I think the “psychopatic racial personality” (see Abagond post) and the related Narcissistic Personality Disorder would start to answer your question.
I have a question: what do you make of those people who are classified as white in the racial vision of humanity but do not classify themselves as such ?
Let me explain: I do not define myself as white. Does that make me an unhappy white, or a person who has no problem with her own self and doesn’t care about the system some of her ancestors’ built to make themselves feel better about their own selves, while in the process forcing everyone they encountered on their path to enter that system ?
In other words, is a light-skinned non-racist / not suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder person viewed as “an unhappy white”, since that person refuses to be labeled as “white” ?
Do you see what I mean ? Finally, I think that it all depends if your question occurs in a totally racially-defined world or if you acknowledge that there are people, of all origins, who do not define themselves inside the frame of race (while at the same time recognizing its impact on society(ies) and their obligation to comply with many aspects of it in their actual life, in spite of their not adhering to the idea).
I am trying to develop on this following your remark, because it either means that you envisage “whites” as a racial natural reality of light-skinned people (all of them suffering from inherent and innate “unhappiness” and there really is no hope…), or you omitted the fact of self-determination and therefore possible self-happiness…
Jefe, it seems you are mentioning both aspects I talked about, your inner thoughts about it versus the physical reality…
If you go inside yourself to find the answer or to ask yourself the truth, you dont have to deal with anyone’s regection. You have to live with yourself and the truth….you cant let other people, even family , accept or reject what you need to know about the truth of yourself , inside…but, you will have to deal with the physical reality of their truth and desician not to accept you…
I dont have any hang ups about Obama…I know the klan would regect him..that is all I need to know…the bottom line is what he does. How people want to define it, is up to them
Oyan, very interesting you mentioned your family that dresses up as Indians in Carnival in New Orleans, because , “being Indian” may only be the surface rationalisation, there may be other origins to this practice underneath that are hidden
There is a parrallel custom in Pernambuco Brazil…They call them selves “Cabocolo de Lanca”, and , while part of it is mixed with Indian custom, part of it is unmistakingly African in origin.They only come out in Carnival, just like the “Indians” of New Orleans
The costumes are elaborate , with richly dressed headdresses and scarfs underneath, they drink a mixture of buckshot and cachasa,and carry giant lances. They have costumes that use a lot of feathers , the beats are more African, they call it “Maracatu Rural”…
But, I noticed that the “Indians” of New Orleans Carnival, have costumes that sort of mimick Indian costumes but they have other charactoristics also, and, some of those remind me of the Cabocolos
Ill try to bring in a picture to show you, It just takes me awhile to do google and I wanted to tell you this now
@Cornelia
Yes, I agree more with your view Cornelia. What you said reminded me of a fucking snot of a woman that Jane Elliott encountered in England. The woman I’m talking about is the blonde schoolteacher (shudder).
A couple of salient timestamps in the video:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxKfjijWGc)
They want to possess everything and everyone, decide for everyone who they really are, name everything and everyone, classify everything and everyone, know what everybody think and wishes t be able to stop them from getting it, hide and transform everything and everyone that they imagine could be seen as better than them
Here she is again as the poster child of what you say above:
she starts up at 3:54
(she does not get it and she doesn’t need to, that’s pretty much her message. A “schoolteacher” for God’s sake.)
I’ll end with something pleasant. Contrast the obstinate ignorant woman with the woman who directly precedes her just before 3:54. That woman understands life is change. She understands the ideas that B.R. expressed.
check this out Oyan and tell me what you think
Hey there Randy!
@ B. R.
I generally see nothing wrong with children playing make believe and incorporating other cultures into their play whether they actually share any blood with the heroes of their imaginations or not If kids want to be Persian princes, Gypsies, Barbary Pirates, English Butlers, Chinese Kung Fu Monks… whatever, I say let them.
Now the tricky part comes in when it’s no longer a question of just pretend. things can get complicated. For example, a lot of Blacks are just as guilty of Native America appropriation as Whites are. Notice I say APPROPRIATION not PERSECUTION. Too many Blacks that I know have never had any serious research done to verify their family rumors, and yet will swear on a stack of Bibles that they are 1/24th Cherokee! We’ve all seen this.
But then the example with your son begs the question, just how Indian do you have to be before you’re a “real Indian?” Is it the one drop rule? What do the tribes themselves say? Interesting 🙂 I’d like to know what others might think?
Jefe, I think each person , who might face your dilema , has to know at what point they are wearing it on their sleeve as oposed to dealing with it on the inside…are they leading with that in their conversations, bragging about it, using at “look at me”?
Or are they really searching for the truth inside themselves, prepared to not be accepted or not deemed worthy , by family even . But, secure enought to know that the only person who really counts in knowing what is true for them is looking at themselves in the mirror…
King, I think he doesnt want to do it to be accepted by a “tribe”, or think that that is his total identity…by the way , he is 24, so, its not a kids thing but it is an artistic thing he wants to do…he is a performer. He knows that the Indian part of him is only a part, and a smaller part compared to other parts ….but, he will also dress up on stage in a Lampion hat, which were bandits in the Noerhteast of Brazil with an infamous reputation…he definitly isnt that , but, is using that identity in his performance as a tribute to the Northeast and its culture…
Interesting what you said about other black people that you know and their Indian notions….I think that for sure there is a certain amount of Indian blood in some black Americans. In Brazil, which is 50 percent Afro descendant, maybe 60 percent of the people have some kind of Indian blood , for sure some much smaller than others. And, I think the black American community plays out in a somewhat similar way, maybe not the exact percentage, but as an undelying presence
Indian influence on our cultures is much more subtile than we perceive. Its all over our dinner table, and, the musical aspects are very subtile and not as dominate as the African rhythms and the European harmony, but , it is in there. I perceived this with some Brazilian carnival expresions like “Caboclino” which is a referance to the Indian culture in Brazil but has more of an African groove. Indians just dont have the same groove,and, their “one , one one” time feel seems to be similar from American Indians down to Brazilian Amazon Indians, even if the way they do it looks differant, the beat concept is very similar….to my ears
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 04:16:46 Fiamma Blu
“Puerto Ricans show an approximate 61% contribution of Taíno mitochondrial DNA”
The whole DNA thing is a little tricky. I had an mtDNA test done about 5 years ago. I am no expert by any means, however, from what I do know, mitochondrial DNA does not reveal “race’, but rather it reveals one’s early, direct female maternal origins. Mitochondrial DNA is passed from women to all their offspring. In other words males receive mtDNA, but they do not pass it on to their own offspring. Men pass on Y-DNA, but to their sons only
So, what the above quote means is that a direct maternal early female ancestor of 61% of Puerto Ricans was Taino. That the ‘race’ of one of our early, though direct, ancestors was Amerindian, it cannot be taken to mean that her present day descendants are also genetically Amerindian being that mtDNA only accounts for a small percentage of one’s total DNA. We all have lots and lots of ancestors who are not accounted for by this fraction of our genetic profile.
I myself have epicanthic eye folds, high cheek bones, longish torso / shortish legs, shovel-shaped incisors (a feature of ‘Sinodonty’, which is also common among East Asians), second toe longer than the big toe — all features which are said to be Amerindian traits. I have been mistaken for (or told that I appear to be): East Asian, South Asian; a Sabra, ” an Italian with a tan”, Sicilian, Egyptian, Hawaiian and Puerto Rican. Yet, my own mtDNA originated with one woman who lived in East Africa 70,000 years ago My more recent ancestry definitely includes sub-Saharan African, but it also definitely includes indigenous North American and European as well.
The test to find out one’s own genetic breakdown as to ‘race’ (ie, the race of one’s more recent ancestors), I believe is referred to as an ‘autosomal DNA’ test.
Its funny, My family moved from Chicago, after I left hme, and they moved to New Mexico , and the house they bought, which is up for sale now since my Mom died, is right next to some immence Indian land. So when I would visit them, i would be right next to Indian life. And, I also always felt an Indian curse on me , saying “get out, this place is not for you…” . Not because Im white, just because of what is…because where I live now, they discovered a very very old Indian site , very close by right on the beach, and , I always felf very welcomed by those spirits…they love me, they gather around me and give me hugs
Ah… forgive me. I should have asked how old your son was. But again, the stage is a magical place or make believe as well. However, when you’re an adult I think the requirements for due diligence are more pressing. He doesn’t need my advice, of course, so I’m just stating my opinion.
– When performing in portrayal of another culture, I think it’s necessary to do thorough research. Know the culture you are enacting and know it from the source–actual people from that culture. Get the history right, cross check with as many academic sources as possible.
– Explain to everyone what you are doing, where you got it from, and why. Be sensitive to response to your portrayals and allow yourself to be teachable, particularly by the members of that culture.
– Take the time to be authentic. If you want to reflect another culture, then respect them enough to learn their ways—don’t try to short-cut it with YOUR VERSION of their ways.
– Be humble, and don’t ever consider yourself to be an “expert” on somebody else’s culture – No matter how much you think you know about it.
I think that by keeping things like this in mind, one can avoid the trap of appropriation and redefinition of other people’s culture.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 05:39:05 sam
I guess we see here some signs of very old way of seeing ones enemies. That is, the romans respected the germans for their military prowess and actually emplyed them as mercenaries (in imperial guard for example) even though they did not like them as a people or culture. They respected the celts of Ireland and High Lands as warriors even though they saw them only as savages etc. Tacitus writes many times positively about the enemies IF they were brave enough.
In 1346 blind duke of Luxemburg was litterally dragged into the killing field in the battle of Crecy between the english and the french under his orders. He wanted to use his sword one more time and the only way was that this blind man was escorted directly to the melee. He was killed but after the battle the english washed his body and escorted it to the enemy in honorable manner with all the shows of a hero. In their mind he had been an enemy to be killed but he had been a brave warrior so all the respect.
In very early stage of the conquest of North America, some whites began to see the natives in romantic light, even though less human or as the Other. This developed into a weird cultlike phenomena where some believed that the natives were like Adam and Eve like figures living free and happy life in the Nature. Thus was born the romantic savages. Fenimore Cooper is perhaps the best known of this, The Last of the Mohicans etc. There are good and bad natives and noble and savage natives, cruel and the brave, honorable and devilish etc. BUT there is the Hawk Eye, the best native of them all, who was adopted into the tribe BUT is a white man living like a native.
Some european settlers who had lived in the most remote areas of Europe before moving to the colonies got along pretty well with the natives because the way of living was recognisable for both, but pretty quickly these comparisons were wiped out from the records and those living too close the native style were branded as renegades or “gone native” by the officials. The idea was not to assimilate but to conquer and replace.
The idea of assimilation in to the native culture did not dissappear though. It lived on and since many native nations could and did adopt white children etc.the romantic idea never dissapeared. It live on and still lives on. Some how, for what ever reason, it is this romantic idea which fuels the whole phenomena of fake indians. It has nothing to do with the reality but everything to do with the romantic idea of the Native Americans some how representing the Real spirit of USA, which of course is the country that stole their lands, killed them and their culture and destroyed whole ways of life.
Airborne troops still yell Geronimo when they jump from the planes, because their idea is that Geronimo did what they do, that is fight directly among the enemy on the hostile ground surrounded by the enemy and still be victorious. That is, of course, a load of poop, since Geronimo fought on HIS land against the invaders, not vice versa. But he was the tuffest enemy the whites knew and while being a murderer and dangerous savage in their eyes, he also gained respect, particulary after he surrendered in desperation.
Somehow there is the whole tradition of romantizising ones enemies, reflecting ones own rebellious or counter culture ideas on them, and this older tradition of respecting the enemy warriors who put up a good fight. Perhaps…
I mean, how many of us when playing as kids wanted to be indians, not those boring soldiers or others? What was our idea of indians that made us to do so? I, for one, always wanted to be the guy who sneaked in the woods without a sound like shadow and run around the clumsy soldiers.
Did I reflect my own wishes in to that and how, and more importantly, where did I get those wishes and ideas which I placed on the indian I was playing so seriously that I slept outside on our self made teepee in a small patch of forest in the edge of the city with my friends?
What was the image of the indian that made me think, few thousand miles away, that they were the good guys? In western they attacked and were the enemy but we cheered them on. We wished that they would win in at least one movie, but of course, they never did. Why we were seeing them like that? Where we did get that idea of romantic warrior?
I guess we see here some signs of very old way of seeing ones enemies. That is, the romans respected the germans for their military prowess and actually emplyed them as mercenaries (in imperial guard for example) even though they did not like them as a people or culture.
Well… eventually yes. But there was a very looooong history from the first Germanic campaigns to the Gothic Wars where the Romans were simply cutting down the Germans like they were grinding sausages. Eventually the Germans learned to be much better warriors as a direct result of their exposure to centuries of lopsided defeat at the efficient hands of the legions. It was either adapt or be completely wiped out, so they were able finally to develop weapons and armor that were capable of competing with Rome. However, it is usually noted that the Germans at their peak would have been no match for the Empire in it’s heyday. Nevertheless, however crude they were, the Germans were always brave in battle.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 08:41:32 kind of like the mona lisa
There’s something mythical about NA culture, and everyone wants a piece. It’s an ancestry whites can claim without diluting their whiteness, and blacks can claim to dilute their blackness. While I think a lot people do have it, it’s harder to fact check someone’s claim that they are NA, than some other races.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 09:15:31 Yawn
“Fake Indians are people who claim to be American Indian but are not.”
Of course they’re not, American Indians don’t exist. Indian Americans and Native Americans do though.
At least forgo “indian” for native american and or aboriginals. Tired of hearing that stupid term.
@Kind of like the mona lisa
‘It’s an ancestry whites can claim without diluting their whiteness, and blacks can claim to dilute their blackness.”
BAM, hit the nail on the head to be honest. Back in the 20s/30s/40s/50s/60s being Native or half was deemed undesirable, something that stained your white heritage. Now a days though it’s been completely reversed, now NOT being of partial Native heritage (or any heritage really, but mainly Native) is seen as dull, bland and not with the “times”.
It’s sad really.
I can’t really comment though towards the “blacks can claim to dilute their blackness.” as I don’t have many black friends, and the ones I do are mainly non mixed.
@Truth
Of course not, how can they be if they’re condemned on a daily basis for being white? In this day and age being seen as strictly “white” is to be looked down upon, hence the stupidity of massive tanning even though it’s killing them.
They’re not happy being seen as white, take a gander why. Hence the other need to embrace foreign cultures to the point of they wish they were them and not white. You see some people around the world who aren’t white, wanting to be white but god forbid some poor bastard feels the opposite and happens to be white.
Which is why no one is ever going to be happy, not even when most of the West is so damn diverse that whites are pushed out. In the end it’s better to NOT be white, and to embrace the darker kin, because in the end whites will go extinct, well figuratively of course. They’ll be around, just a darker shade than before.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 09:46:49 Matari
“Of course not, how can they be if they’re condemned on a daily basis for being white?”
The condemnation is not about being “white.” The condemnation is about being DELUSIONAL and RACIST … embracing WHITENESS (aka the White Racial Frame). Just ask Zeke…
“The condemnation is about being DELUSIONAL and RACIST … embracing WHITENESS”
But I was called out for “embracing” whiteness when I’ve never ever heard such a term used in my life, nor would I even know what that is.
“embracing WHITENESS (aka the White Racial Frame). Just ask Zeke… ”
So in essence, “I don’t dislike white people, I dislike people who think and act white (as abagond so put it) but is that statement no different then the motto of white racists who like blacks who are more like them? (for example, Thomas Sowell) who many call an uncle tom (something I find childish).
Isn’t embracing BLACKNESS just as equally wrong?
And who’s Zeke?
All well and good , King, your opinion, but, how is your opinion going to stack up against this giant celbration in Recife about the Indians?
What do you have to say to all these people , who are celibrating Indian culture, but, they obviously have very little valid information or any true referance to the Brazilian Indian culture? Are you going to condemn them all ? How does your opinion stack up about my son doing the James Brown and copping the splits in his performance ?
Those people in that celibration have about the same ratio mixture of my son as far as Indian blood…the beat they are doing cant be found in real Brazilian Indian celibrations…there is absolutly no attempt at being authentic…or brining any real attention at the plight that Indians have faced in Brazil and Brazil has a real ugly history past and present at dealing with Indians also.
King, again, respecting your opinion, I have to go back to art doesnt really make you stamp a passport to go through cutoms to be able to express it….how are we going to deal with Jim Maplerthorpe’s peeing on the crucifix foto? Does he offend? Absolutly…is it still art and expresion?…Absolutly
Is writing a book pretending you are someone else art or valid? No. Its done with false pretence, lying and making comercial profit with those lies
I have to seperate that and building a teepee in the back yard and sleeping in it
My son, would not be trying to bring attention to Indian problems and authenticity…he is expressing something about himself that is inside of him and he has every right to do that…in my opinion..without having to pass out broshures or have a big explanation about what he is doing at every concert or on a record cover
check out this gigantic celibration in Brazil about Amazon folk culture…its so un authentic as far as really being true to the Braziian Indian culture of the area…but they are expressing themselves…what are we suposed to make of that?
I just dont really like scrutinising art and culture too much to psycho analyse all the motives behind it…which I consider differant than a media barrage that constantly feeds lies and misrepresents the history and reality of a people
Like I said, I think hippies building a teepee and doing Indian culture in Taos, isnt my cup of tea, but, just maybe a couple of them might go a little farther and discover that Indians in New Mexico are extremly poor and have really high incidences of alcoholism and maybe a couple f them might try to make a differance because of their affinity for them. Having affinity is the first step towards discovering the humanity of a people and could lead to the next step of what to do to help them
So who am I to scrutinise them and critisize these white hippies for doing what they do? Its just not what I would do, although, I did play cowboy and Indian as a kid , being the Indian as much as the cowboy…heck, I grew up in a state with an Indian name and live in a city now with an Indian name…Indian names have always been around me in the Americas
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 12:13:10 Kwamla
@ Cornlia
I wasn’t directly attributing your quote to Bulanik but commenting on Bulanik’s development of it. Nevertheless, I take your point as it could easily be misconstrued. You do however raise some interesting questions regarding my own comment.. Lets start with this one:
I personally look to how they seek to define themselves first irrespective of how I might be tempted to define them. You can experience this many times when coming across various shades Black people and you learn not to make the basic assumptions based solely on what you physically see.You can have a extremely light skinned person who will immediately identify or associate themselves with the culture of Black – in all manners verbally and behaviorally.
Then you can have a very dark skinned person, who one might assume would identify as Black, who through the same mannerisms – verbally and behaviorally – would eschew association and identification with the culture of Black indirectly associating and identifying with the culture of white.
So the answer to the question is not so much what do I make of people of any description but what do they make of themselves. I prefer to allow people to make their own choice then I work with that.
“..I am trying to develop on this following your remark, because it either means that you envisage “whites” as a racial natural reality of light-skinned people (all of them suffering from inherent and innate “unhappiness” and there really is no hope…), or you omitted the fact of self-determination and therefore possible self-happiness…”
This is a good point. Yes you are right. I omitted this last part of the possibility of self-determination and self-happiness. My reason being, generally speaking, when engaging in these discussions about the many hidden and unacknowledged pathological disorders of white people (the topic of this post being one of them) it almost seems impossible to get to a stage of acknowledgment and acceptance that this is actually an issue worth studying. Just like so many debates on the various multifaceted ways in which the living phenomenon of racism manifests itself but can still be denied the reality of an existence.
The first stage is acknowledgement and acceptance there is an issue that needs to be addressed. Getting to this stage still remains the toughest hurdle.But let me make some comments on what I believe the next stage to be for those white people successfully (and there are many to be found) navigating this first hurdle.
The second stage is about owing up to your true past history with all its negative and positive accomplishments.Acknowledging and realizing that the negative accomplishments have been purposely and intentionally hidden away from you to give you a false feeling of fullness, superiority, privilege and purpose. Rejecting this as the cause of a great feeling of present emptiness and instead of trying to fill this with more negative accomplishments – fake ethnic identities, cultural appropriations etc…simply because you can – No. Seek to fill this with positive accomplishments like giving back to and crediting those peoples you believe have been cruelly robbed of their accomplishments in the past. Seeking to fill that void of emptiness by challenging what you now see as an artificially controlled and imposed imbalance in a society which seeks to elevate the superiority of white people over every other peoples.
So yes there is hope and the possibility of self-determination and therefore possible self-happiness for white people but only if they can make it to the second stage!
One other point which I think is worth mentioning in this discussion about imitating other ethnic groups. We need to move past this false notion of pure races. Its a scientific and intuitively false idea of our being. We all have the memories of multiple peoples encoded in our DNA. The type science refers to as “junk DNA” and we can all draw on this to recall past lives experienced as many different peoples. Obviously accepting this reality will require major readjustments into how we ALL see ourselves.
Perhaps if we accepted and were ready to come to terms with this there would be no need for fake ethnic identities or cultural appropriations.
By the way, King, I think in many essences, I am in total agreement with you, I just bring to your attention my differance on artistic expresion because I think its wrong to start putting arbitrary goal posts on what is ok in artistic expresion and isnt…Dont let other people make you think you have to set some arbitrary goal posts because they are over pshyco analysing why an artist is doing something and whether they have some kind of “right ” to do so or not, or some kind of permision or rules about whether they should or not….
And, if we are going to start scrutinising people who dress up as Indians, then, since this title of the thread doesnt mention any one country, it is absolutly anemic and weak if we dont analyse an immence country like Brazil. Look at all those people who dress up as Indians, maybe have a little Indian blood in them, but, sure dont belong to a tribe, they are about as authentic as an Idaho white high school doing a play and having people dress up as Indians, yet the Brazil celibrations are just enormous in size in comparison. The beats both those huge celibrations have are much more African, there is a huge comercial market around the Amazon area celibration I brought in and they sell songs made over those African style beats…and sell huge amounts of clothes for the celibration, Im pretty sure they dont go to the Indian tribes on the reserve areas in Brazil
I just distance myself from arguments that over scrutinize what rules an artist has to adhere to , to make self expresion
I remember touring Germany with a black Puerto Rican. We were sitting at a bar , and he started getting really deep and saying that he knew he had been here before, when he never had traveled there before…he knew something inside himself that “felt” something very deeply about being there, a deep affinity that I with my little 10 percent or less German blood ( I was just tickled to discover German dark beer) didnt feel at all….did I think it was not cool for him or that he should ask permision to feel that way or express it in his art? Of course not, he can take that affinity as far as Im concerned and express it any way he wants…sure, we have the right to say we dont like it because its too aggresive ,or, not our taste, or express why we might think its wrong, as the Christians certainly will do with Maplethorpe…but, I think we have to look at art and artists and expresion in people even if they arent profesionals, differantly than we are going to scrutinize people who deceive us that they are something they are not and lie about it and comecialise it to make money..or media trends that perpetuate lies and bury cultures and dismiss them or dont give credit to the true innovators.
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUIADOumshQ”
actualy, a comment is in moderation so here is the absolutly enourmous celibration in Partins in the Amazon area, an enormous celibration that people dress up as Indians who have about the same percentage as my son and dont belong to a tribe , and are about a authentic as my son is in what he would do..if my son has to follow some kind of rules of expresion for sure all these people have to come under the same scrutiny
this should link up better
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 14:10:28 truthbetold
@ Aba
This discussion and reading these comments have proven to me what I’ve long suspected:
Whites are always willing to distance themselves from their “whiteness” when it suits them because their white privilege ALLOWS them to do so. When it’s convenient, they use the skin colour advantage for their betterment, for money and fame and for attention.
when desperately trying to dodge a racist comment/ action, they bring out that “Indian Grandpa in the Closet” for deflection. Can you imagine how absurd it would be if blacks did that? What if I, a mixed woman with brown skin, denied my African heritage? Not only would I be branded an outcast but the term Tragic Mulatto comes to mind. Tiger Woods anyone?
The reason why this phenomena occurs, is because of the white skin colour privilege that allows whites to slip in and out of whatever they wish when their discontent of themselves hits too close to home.
I am totally with you on this. I think “stage 1” cannot be completed without “stage 2” in your description.
Adhering to “whiteness” automatically means denying the negative and the cruelty towards others in the European expansion. “Why do we have to constantly go back to the past ?” they say.
I began to consciously know about my “absence” of adherence to whiteness when (I was a teenager) I started asking myself questions about “how come they want me to believe that Egypt is not in Africa ?” and all the rest that goes with it (including Queen Tiye being “a leucoderm”) and “what does it means to be an “explorer” and a “discoverer” when you are “exploring” and “discovering” places that are already occupied by other people ?”
It had to imply that you do not consider your own self on the same level as those “others”…
Questioning the whole culture is, I think, a necessary step.
Thanks for the interesting insight.
Your welcome Cornlia!. Thanks for posing some valuable questions.
@ B.R. The info you’re providing and the feelings you are expressing are very interesting in the sense that they show you belong to a syncretic society. The epitome of it being the sentiments you express as to your links with the souls of the ancient dwellers of the place you now live in. You don’t possess the place, you obviously consciously share it.
You are showing that the use of “costumes” is definitely linked to “customs” (as the etymology shows) and is different from the use of “disguise” which is the negation of “customs”.
Both words mean “in the means of”, “in the ways of”, “-wise”, but “costume” is positive, as in “in accordance with the person/way you imitate”, whereas “dis-guise” is the negation of the “manner” you are copying. In French and English, and I guess there are similarities Brazilian, “dis-guise” means “modify to deceive”.
What you are describing is “costuming” (re-viving customs in a respectful manner), whereas what Abagond’s post is referring to is “disguising” as in “hiding truth”…
My etymological references are from “Le Robert, Dictionnaire Historique de la Langue Française”, my own translation.
I had this “intuition that there was something there that, again, participate in the deception inherent in racism…
Words are never “innocent”.
Oh and by the way,
in French, we use both words at carnival, but somehow, “costume” seems to be the piece of clothing when it is not worn, in its box, and “déguisement” when people have it on…
Also, “un costume” is “a suit” that men (and now some women too) wear as a uniform to go to work, hé hé.
How interesting…
Yes, the Tainos (Arawak, Lokono) and Carib Indians are/were native Amerindians who lived in South America and came up north and populated the islands in the Caribbean and these were the people who Columbus met.
Before Columbus, the Caribs (who called themselves Kalinya, Kalihna or Galibi) were strong military-wise and they would raid the Arawak villages for the women. Because they were strong fighters, they managed to come through somewhat intact against the Spanish and other European invaders.
The Caribs still live in South America, like in Suriname, Brazil, and Guyana, and the Caribbean, the island of Dominica as an intact indigenous ethnic group, living in their own territories (and they intermixed with other groups)
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/jlu/ciel/pages/kalihna.htm
Both the Tainos and Caribs, helped the Africans in Caribbean and South America to escape and fight against the Europeans (the Maroons)
The Maroon nations still carry the names of the original African ethnic groups that formed them back in 1600’s and they still follow the customs of the original Africans.
In Suriname, there are Maroons and Amerindians still living in their own territory. They’ve been autonomous since the 1700’s, the Europeans got tired of the guerilla wars and signed treaties, seperating European controlled land from the Maroons and Amerindians.
but currently, they are having a hard time because they are being persecuted by outsiders and the government, who want to take their land.
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/the-suriname-maroon-crisis
http://www.lab.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1356:land-rights-of-the-kalina-and-lokono-indigenous-peoples-of-suriname&catid=66&Itemid=39
Thanks for the info Linda.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 19:28:32 Mel
Abagond, I think Taylor Lautner (Twilight) should be added to the list. In Australia, it’s crime. There are people who look like Nicole Kidman who claim to be Natives and are rewarded for it with Literary awards, grants, etc.
Maybe that’s the most insulting part. The real Natives get no benefits for being Natives, but the fake ones get fame, money and book deals for it.
Cornlia, I get that the thread is about fake Indians and not about people who dress up as Indians…
And I want to make it clear, I wasnt really arguing Kings points , I was making the point to all about my son, scrutinising art or play, and, also, that if we are going to scrutinise people who dress up as Indians, Im sorry, these people are doing the same thing. They are the mix of my son, not in a tribe , there is comercialism in these events that doenst go to the reservation, and , no , I dont really see the differance…and I dont condemn white people for dressing up as Indians, I condemn fake Indians who lie and deceive the public and try to make money off of it or status.I condemn a media that in general purpetuates the lies, and not giving credit to the real innovators and covers up other real cultures and just doesnt show them…that is a crime to me, not an artist dressing up,
You see, Cornlia, if we start dogging white people for dressing up as Indians, who is going to be next to get dogged for dressing up as someone ? I dont like the logic behind it..
Its all for the sake of discusion , right, just want to point out again, you are kind of getting hung up on semantics.
I wasn’t commenting against what you were saying, B.R., but the thing is you may not have seen the way some people “play” out their disguise… I don’t think it’s as “respectful” as the celebrations you are referring to…
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 05:08:39 Lurgy
@King “They are basically Asians, far removed from their origins.”
Haha, no. If anything, Indians were from an ancient Eurasian group, much like modern-day Asians and Europeans descend from ancient Eurasians and are therefore their own people. We’re all Africans far removed from our origins. Better yet, we’re all primates far removed from our pre-human origins.
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 05:11:12 King
By the way, King, I think in many essences, I am in total agreement with you…
And I, for my part, am not saying that your son should not perform his art. I’m just giving general guidelines on the subject.
I just bring to your attention my differance on artistic expresion because I think its wrong to start putting arbitrary goal posts on what is ok in artistic expresion and isnt…
Well, I wouldn’t say “arbitrary.” This isn’t just random rules and considerations. There is thought, respect, reverence, and kindness, guiding these suggestions.
Dont let other people make you think you have to set some arbitrary goal posts because they are over pshyco analysing why an artist is doing something and whether they have some kind of “right ” to do so or not, or some kind of permision or rules about whether they should or not…
I can’t see how you can avoid it.
What if some White artists decided to perform a blackface play called “Jigaboo” where the main character was a jolly Negro called “Porch Monkey?” Would you say: “Well, normally this would be offensive, but since we’re calling it “Art,” it would be dangerous for anyone to speak against it?” If that is true then we must all apologize for all of the stereotypes we’ve fought against for so many years as most of them were portrayed in the the name of Art of some kind.
However, I’m also not saying that every time someone dresses up like an Indian, it’s offensive, but what I AM saying it that in every case, it should be The Indians themselves who decide if the portrayal of their culture is offensive or not. And if they have never really been asked, then the number of people who participate in the costume party cannot legitimize it. If the Indians are, by and large, OK with it, then there’s no problem.
@ Lurgy
So then you are suggesting that Asians were descended from Europeans? Or do you just mean that they share the same supercontinent?
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 07:05:20 sam
I think the essence of this thread is not weather some one dresses up as some one else, acting or dancing or what ever, but the fact that some claim that they are whom they imitate. In opera for example people dress up as Othellos and Romeos and Julias but nobody gives a toot because we all read that code. We all know: ok, this is opera and that fat lady screaming on top of her lungs is not actually japanese geisha and that fat tenor is not actually egyptian etc. We can read that cultural code.
Just look at how russians have been portrayed in american films, litterature, tv, commercials, comic books etc. all trough the ages! And yet, nobody gives a poop about that. Why? Because they are white? No. I think it is because we all can see that those are not real russians.
BUT if someone dresses up as native american and claims to be one, then he is no longer acting or playing etc. That individual is actually claiming the whole culture as his/hers, the whole identity with everything it contains. And that is whole another ball game indeed.
Of course natives and africans etc. can say that this is not right in a film, that this is not who we are or this is not our culture, and in many cases it is more than correct to do so. Of course, if any art is racist, it should be pointed out. There is racist art and has been, we all know that. But if I wear a bonnet and war paint, not a single person takes me seriously because no matter how serious I am, everyone can see that I am not native american. BUT if I insist, claim, that I am, then I become a fake indian. Faking it. Stealing the cultural heritage and everything else. And that is what this thread is all about: faking.
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 09:41:00 Kwamla
@Cornlia & Bulanik
I agree with both of you on the power and usage of words. But I would say this in reference to Bulanik’s comment:
“…I would go further and say, that those who wish to use the medium of words – but generally do not care too much about words, or their impact, much – reveal they know what they say is not “innocent”, but say it anyway, all the time pronouncing ” it does not matter.”
This is not only insulating, stubborn, and also — aggressive….”
More often than not people use words in ignorance rather than aggressive knowledgeable intent. And even when they do use it in this way they do so still from a place of ignorance not fully appreciating or comprehending their real meaning. This is not to say that people who use words in this way should be let off or their usage ignored. It means those of us more finely attuned to the power and usage of words need not be so personally offended or threatened.
Words in themselves are neutral. Their power comes from the meaning we collectively give to them and how we take that meaning to personally apply or not apply to us. .
“Culture never exists in a vacuum, it’s never been“pure”, nor should it be. It’s ever-changing and evolving.”
“Have you noticed that Indian (not Native American) culture seems to be the current “flavour” to imitate and “commodify” at the moment?”
Yes, now as well as back in the 1960s, I believe.
“The Artist is not a special breed of person!
And, “Art” is not the escape-hatch to wriggle into and slide away from normal responsibilities and accountability. It is not a shield to stand behind, either.”
Art should be free to critique society, but society should be equally free to critique art—It’s a two way street. Artist should be protected in the sense that soldiers will not break down the doors of their studios, confiscate their paintings, and burn them in the public square. Singers should not be arrested and dragged offstage for singing lyrics that criticize the government or predominant religious institutions.
However, artists are not, and should not be immune from Art criticism. People should be free to decide for themselves what is Art and what is not. The artist does not get to define what is Art for everyone else. Artists can use their gifts to pressure societies to change. However, society can also exert the pressure of criticism upon the artist to affect change, if her work is deemed to be offensive, unfair, abusive, or inaccurate.
The right to criticize and define what is Art is just as important a freedom as the right to create Art. But many artists don’t understand this and believe that they should exist in an environment free of criticism, rules, or pressure of any kind.
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 12:04:11 B. R.
Here is my take on it….lets look at “black face ” and “minstrel”…it was some kind of expresion…what becomes valuable about it is, it does give us a great insight into the mind of the people who did it..in that sence, its invaluable…like looking at what the kind of art that was championed in Nazi Germany…you can see the shallowness of it , yet, we have to recognise the depth of Wagner
When we find out these writers are fake, their expresion becomes shallow, they lose all the depth that their deceipt tried to portray as valid..
Intent is everything….I already said Chritians have the right to hate Maplethorpe and criticise it…that isnt the question
I look at this debate we are having and think of Jefe, and his dilemna, and here is what I say, yes, he wont be accepted by a tribe he thinks he belongs to, yes, his family wont accept him, he has to live with that.
But, if he knows deep inside that he has Indian blood, what is the only thing he has left after he looks in the mirror and can accept who he is on the inside ?
Self expresion, He can write a poem, he can write a song, he can paint a picture, he can make a video, he can wear something that will give him some feeling of identity, not to go in front of his family and say “look at me”, but, to take it into his personal life to feel himsefl inside . He can surround his living space with Indian art…
What I wont do is hold people up to doubel standards, condemn some white hippies in Taos for building a teepee but saying the celibrations in Brazil get a pass…They are both ok in my eyes.
Jefe would have a right in my eyes to dress up as an Indian if he wants to
Im much more concerned about the way the media has a small group of people sitting around in a meeting saying they arnt going to produce some honest work about Indians and theiir culture and contributions because “it wont sell”
But, I distance myself from the finger pointing pshyco analysis about what people can express in their own self expresion, this kind of arbatrary making up the rules about what is ok and what is not for how people should express themselves
(continuation)….is not what I want to be about
This isnt about looking at someones self expresion and saying they dont like it…its about some people here want to point fingers and say its “wrong” and shouldnt be done…without having really forged it in a struggle like Malcom X forged “black” into a new meaning based on that struggle…What? the struggle of whether dressing up as an Indian is right or wrong? Something Ive proved without a doubt that happens in a big way in Brazil, not being authentic, with comercialism being involved by people who most of them arnt in a tribe…all the things used as criticism of the Americans who might have some Indian blood and want to self express themselves and the white people who might want to have some affinity for a moment?
Its arbatrary criticism .these same people want to judge people on what words are to be used, just out of the whim of how they personaly feel about it, not on some international referendum on it…
That just makes it a personal opinion that I happen to disagree with
And then look at Oyan, who, because some people here took this thread about fake Indians and turned it into a criticism of “dress up”, comes in and sais maybe his family involved in the “New Orleans Indian” tradition, might be an example of that….
When in fact, the traditions his family are doing might also be linked to African traditions and have similarities to a traditoin going on in Recife Pernambuco
So he has to feel that something might be wrong or that it is an “apropriation ” of Indian culture when it may be much more than that…this is the danger I feel in just arbitrarily deciding we have to condemn ” dressing up as Indians”….There may be much more involved than some surface criticism can evaluate….intent of each situation is what needs to be examined..not just blanket make up the rules
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 12:46:52 Cornlia
Yes, everything is relative. To culture, to opinions, to policies, to attitudes, to history…
Then what do we agree on ? Do we continue doing thing that hurt others (even though we KNOW it does ?) for the sake of art ? Is “art” more important than how people feel when their own being is at stake ? (Take for example Makode Linde’s cake)
I’m just asking the questions, I’m not criticizing. I think it’s a very interesting and profound topic.
Also, even “art” is all relative. “Art” in Africa, at least in the past, now it is being increasingly considered in the same perspective as in Europe (I don’t know about art in other cultures). is/was part of life, part of every day actions, part of making things… It adds a sacred aspect to life. Dancing was (and still is) a way of expressing/accompanying many things in every day life. There is/was no “stage” or “room” for art, art was part of it all. The masks that Europeans/Americans now keep (HIDE) in their museums were not works of art per se, but spirits of/in the cultures, part of it, and such an important part. Taking them away was one of the worst things Europeans did to the cultures they invaded and colonized. You can find the masks in Carnival, but where has the whole meaning gone ? At least in Caribbean and Brazilian carnivals, there might be something there that remains of the original spirit(s)…
The modern (or not so modern ?) European take on art is to separate it from life, to make it something outside of things. Classify it, like everything else. Everything in its box.
As a matter of fact, they do worse than hide masks. They SHOW them. For instance, there is a mask in the Branly museum in Paris that belongs to a Bamileke village in Cameroon. That mask should never have been seen or exposed, it should have remained inside the “Chefferie” and had a role in there. Nobody except the Chief and notables should have access to it. Now they expose it as “Bamileke art”, which it is NOT. It is a SPIRIT.
Also, a few years ago, I saw this doc about a couple of people from an island in the Pacific (French-speaking but I can’t remember which one – so it’s not just Africa that is concerned here-) who had learnt that one of their culture’s masks was inside a box in the back rooms of the Musée de l’Homme in Paris. They asked to come and have a look at it. Which they were “allowed” to do (that’s where I start boiling inside). When they finally see it, the curator insists on staying with them BECAUSE THEY MIGHT BREAK IT ! They wanted to perform a ceremony and they also asked to bring it back where it belongs. It was rejected on the ground that “they will not be able to take proper care of it”.
What the …. ???? What ? Their OWN spirit ??? No. I mean, this is the type of stuff that gets me totally infuriated. I always write to those people, but rarely get a reply, or if I do, it’s “we have taken your remark into account”…
Here we have the conflict between “customs” and “disguise”, but in another light.
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 15:41:38 deepdkchocolate
The Cherokee tribe is run by a bunch of white perpetrator’s who expelled real black Cherokees from the tribe.
I think “fake impresions ” of Indian culture in the media and burying the real thing is more damaging than anything…
Americans have no idea of the depth of Indian culture is on their dinner tables….If you just look at corn and understand how much food we buy at a supermarket is made of corn or corn extracts, all of us Americans should dress up as Indians once a month and have a day of honor , corn is really immense in our culture
For me, it was never the fact that the white Americans copied black American culture , the truth is, we all copy each other and assimilate things from differant cultures into our own…its the fact the white man copied it, lied and said it wasnt black culture, comercialised it, made more money off of it, and buried and hid the real geniuses of the culture…and , on top of that, dished up racism, discrimination, Jim Crow, Klan, lynchings and so on…but, it was never about being bad because white people copied black culture
So , for me, its not that white people want to assimilate some things Indian, its the fake impresions from the main media and the major cultural ommisions that do far more damage
I want to say this , I can say it directly to you Cornlia, I dont think the people who are mentioning the “dress up as Indians ” are being negative, I basicly think the intent is good..I just dont agree, and, it relates directly to how I feel my son can do anything he wants to self express himself about what part of him has Indian blood, until it directly offends or is in major conflict with someone else, and then its case by case situation
Ha, I absolutly catagoricly regect the idea that public criticism has some kind of moral high ground over the artist…
Do you people have any idea how many great artists have been ridiculed and rejected by public criticism , banished to obscurity and after they died they were “discovered” and found to have incredible vision and clarity and humanity in their art
Mind boggling and perplexing some of the atitudes Im seeing on here
Even more reason I give my son unconditional support to find his vision and express himself the way he wants to
Artists create and express
critics critique
the public buys or not
only time tells if there is great depth and something of lasting value or shallow drek
Artists should be free to create…
I think what Cornila has said here accurately describes a clear distinction in the way we’ve been taught to perceive art from a Western perspective – Separate, devoid of spirit or consciousness as a thing unto its self. This alone explains why its become OK to “mix and match” and take for granted other peoples sacred cultural expressions. From a Westerner’s perspective they just become things, objects of desire, exotic displays or decorative appendages…fashions like new dance steps…etc..
Yes this can be viewed as a form of Western arrogance. But its also ignorance too. More often than not when people display arrogance. They do so based on assumptions they believe are beyond question. – The great white inventor – to use as just one example. The people who would choose to make this argument may do so out of a conscious intent to boast and remind everyone of the superiority of Western cultural people. And they may well proclaim this arrogantly and aggressively to anyone who would dare even challenge it.
But this wouldn’t matter because it still would be built on questionable assumptions and the foundations for those assumptions would always be built on the ignorance of what they don’t, or couldn’t be bothered to, know about.
Its arrogance but its based on ignorance too
Because if it were really true and they were right it wouldn’t be just arrogance. It would be smugness too!
(actualy, I have no desire to make it sound like Im addressing anyone personaly on these points Im making, they are points made to the arguments not the people, sorry for any apearance of personal reaction to anyone….Im thinking more of how I feel in reguards to my son and these arguments, which makes it close to home )
on Sat Sep 1st 2012 at 01:28:38 Cornlia
Personally, I did get that… (you were commenting from a perspective that takes your sons work into account and your multiple cultures).
I am also expressing things generally, asking questions mostly.
Except on the sacredness of masks. That, I have no patience or acceptance of explanation too. I think it is ignoble. To keep spirits in boxes or in glass walls. I have no words to express how it makes me feel.
There are two things I really hate: museums (the “collections of ancient artifacts” ones, not the “art” ones) and zoos.
I think they reflect exactly what “whites” / the west has done for several centuries:
– steal
– use
– remove from nature
in order to possess,
make other cultures look small.
make themselves believe they are the greatness they keep in their walls.
If we were to return all those things to their homes, that’s when we would see the greatness of those cultures, the “masks cultures” would have their spirits back and would be stronger (they know very well why they took them away).
If they (the others) were to come and take from whites/Europeans what is great and/or sacred in their countries (pieces of buildings, the bodies of saints in churches…) , they would all shout “sacrilege !!!” but that’s what they have done to others. Others would say: “oh, but you should react like this really, all we are doing is protect them from you, because your civilization is not strong enough to keep those secure.” “Plus, we want to show how great you are.”
btw, the MET in NYC has a room for African arts (mixed with others, which gives the impression that Africa is really small) and a room for Egypt.
Egypt is not in Africa. Not yet. Maybe one day. Maybe one day they’ll put “African art” and Egyptian art in the same side of museums, so we can see the similarities.
Museums are a huge disguise.
on Sat Sep 1st 2012 at 01:52:52 Oyan (@Oy_aN)
Greetings ‘B.R. for sharing. Here are the ‘Mardi Gras’ ‘Indians.
on Sat Sep 1st 2012 at 10:03:52 B. R.
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Yt6wpXJVI&feature=related”
Oyan, thanks for blowing my mind !! Ive seen Mardi Gra Indians on video before, but, these shots are spectacular and prove how unbeleivably similar these two celibrations are , yet, they are so far apart as far as distance , absolutly mind blowing ….I hear right away the grooves the New Orleans Indians are doing is very similar to a groove in Recife called “coco”. Its very Afro diasporic . I would say the last thing you need to worry about is if the New Orleasns Indians are doing something wrong , or apropriating Indian culture…this is culture , as much Afro diasporic as anything, that is extremly valuable and needs to be demonstrated…and that is a very powerful argument as to why no one should be too eager to vamp on “dressing up as Indians”
my link above of more shots of Maracatu Rural showing the very interesting parallels to the Mari Gra Indians
Cornlia, interesting take on masks and museums. I hadnt thought of that before , but, I think you are right that seeing them in live celibrations in Brazil is the real way they are meant to be worn , and lots get lost in seeing them in a case…
So just to find some ground of agreement here, yes, I think someone prancing around dressed up as an Indian and claiming to be part of a tribe when they arnt, is what is wrong…like these fake Indians that are what the thread is about
Im just concerned about the situation of a person like Jefe, or my son, who have some Indian blood , arnt members of a tribe, but, have a need to express something very real inside of them. And, how Oyan , might even think for a second that possibly the incredible rich Mardi Grau Indians could be classified as apropriating Indian culture when that isnt true at all, its a unuque powerful rich culture that stands on its own even if it uses the title of Indian …
This is why I debate these points, anytime there is a sweeping moral judgement about what is right or wrong about art or expresion, someone gets hurt in the process
I just saw a docu yesterday about really incredible sculptures and masks from Tibet that were all destroyed in the Chinese cultural revolution, because they thought these religious artifacts were so against their moral judgements….heartbreaking
The Talaban destroyed beautiful statues that they deemed moraly wrong
And even close to home, in the black revolution of the USA in the late 60’s, the great black American art of tap dancing was thrown under the bus and deemed to Uncle Tom and too shuffling and smiling for the white man…this unbeleivable AFrican American art has never quite recovered , inspite of Herculean efforts of Gregory Hines and some new young guys like Glover (forgot his first name)..it just has never quite gained respect again for the high art it is….Louis Armstrong was also thrown under the bus for being too Tom in the eyes of the policy makers, thank God, Wynton Marsalis and the Ken Burns docu on jazz helped to shine a bright light on his contributions and genius to restore his honor
It just shows, no matter how noble the aspirations of moral judgements on art and expresion are, they can cross a fine line of posibly doing more damage than good, if they repress and over judge art and the value of its expresion
on Sat Sep 1st 2012 at 13:39:10 King
But it’s a mirror image. The public could just as easily state that they absolutely and catagoricly reject the idea that the artist has some kind of moral high ground over the general public.
“Do you people have any idea how many great artists have been ridiculed and rejected by public criticism, banished to obscurity and after they died they were “discovered” and found to have incredible vision and clarity and humanity in their art”
Then by who’s estimation have these artists become “great?” Many “great” artist are people who the public (or by proxy, the art critics) at some point rejected and then many years (or decades) later accepted and brought to prominence. But their eventual acceptance was just as much dependent on the reaction of the public as was their initial rejection.
Art is relative. The very use of the term “great artist” implies a hierarchy of criticism above creation. After all, every artist who ever created could deem his own talent to be the acme of artistic achievement. However, “greatness” is decided later on by who the public eventually recognizes. There are great artist and not so great artists, That perception itself is the result of artistic criticism and judgement.
Bamileke masks. These ones you can see. Important ones because they are the chief’s honoring his father. There are all kinds of secret and sacred aspects to those, that only knowledgeable people recognize.
A people in South Africa has similar red inverted hats. The dance is not just “dance” as spectacle too.
The way the earth is stomped sometimes makes me thing of Native American dances…
The ones inside the chief’s house (mind the gleaming white pyramids as roofs) you will never see. Unless they are the ones stolen and put in museums.
I am pretty sure there are similarities with Caribbean, Louisianian and Brazilian Carnivals here. In the way they move, dance… I imagine there have been comparative studies of this…
on Sat Sep 1st 2012 at 14:42:17 Kwamla
“…I simply don’t think that “white privilege” was something an artist like Sinead O’Connor was prepared to see IN HERSELF, or relinquish, because of that stubborn and addictive need to put herself above all else….”
I understand what you are saying here, Bulanik, with an artist like Sinead as an example. She is basically speaking from her own position and privilege. Which is what she knows. So why would we expect her to speak from any more of an informed position?
That can only come from other more knowledgeably informed Black Artists whom she could then take the lead from. Unfortunately these are not widely known in her knowledge of the Black public arena. I have no doubt after making that statement she would have probably been introduced to a few!
I do’nt know that much about my ‘Mardi Gras’ ‘Indian’ heritage, just what I learned online, and from speaking with relatives who participate in the ceremonies. I think, after viewing many of these Black American ‘Mardi Gras Indian’ celebrations, and examining white/white American appropriation of Indian culture, I think what Abagond is pointing out is the difference between ‘cultural con artists’, and actual cultural participants of a given cultural dynamic/aesthetic.
White/White American appropriation of Native/Indian culture may, be akin to whites dressing up in ‘black face’ for frat parties, holidays etc. For example, a few years ago at the University of California, San Diego, there was a furor when it was discovered that many students were hosting parties that were specifically designed for them to come as stereotype caricatures of urban/hip-hop members. All of the white students were in ‘black face’, wearing ‘urban gear’, afro wigs/braids or ‘dredlocks’; females dressed as ‘video butt shakers’, many/most carrying 40 ounce bottles of alcohol etc. The images of these folk was horrific; I think that this is partly where Abagond is coming from.
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDaS_oBsjfM&feature=related”
Great, Cornlia , love that, love the drum beats , in heavy 6/8…here are some of the direct roots of the influence of West African drumming and religion on Brazil, through the slaves brought from Africa…you can see some masks and a similar beat, with a slight differance
Oyan, absolutly, this thread is about fraud..You shouldnt have to feel any problem at all about the Mardi Gras Indians having done anything wrong or like they are apropriating Indian culture….The Mardi Gras Indians are a more Afro Diasporic expresion with amazing parrallels in Recife , Pernambuco , Brazil, that just blow my mind with the similarities..and it is valuable black American culture
For me, the militant stance that some American Indians have taken, that you hear some of that represented here, is only being hypocriticle if they dont include what is going on in Brazil, and, if they are going to condemn ( which I have read the literature of one American Indian blog so I know this is what they say) someone with some Indian blood for wearing Indian clothes or jewelry , they have to condenm those celibrations in Brazil, which are comercialised, done by people who mostly are not members of a tribe, and are not authentic. Ive even seen some of the comercial musics done on TV with the women dressed in American Indian stereotype costumes with a feather sticking up….and I absolutly dont condemn these Brazilian ceremonies in any way…as I dont condemn my son for expressing what is inside of his blood in anyway that he wants to.
Even I would be skeptical of a white person opening up a teepee, and selling a Shamon cerimony bath for 50 dollars, yet, they have white Brazilians who took over the Santa Daime , ayuasca halucingenetic ceremony , for sure they arent giving anything back to the Indian community…and isnt that the same thing, even on a bigger scale? But, I dont feel I have to condemn that…
I dont walk lock step with just any militant stance that comes down the pike, I dont walk in lock step with womens militant feminism, militant religious fundamentalism, American nationalistic militant views or Brazilian ones…I respect the views of any group and dont judge them as wrong, I just dont agree with anything that comes down the pike….
The truth is, time will tell if people dressing up as Indians is something to be frowned on and scrutinised in a negative way,or if it will be one of those things that has too much grey area to deserve to be cristalised as set in stone…I think there are too many differant ways people do it and each differant way will judge whether it is something shallow or something that isnt demeaning
King, I would never say the artist is above the public or critics, I just absolutly say the public and critics dont have the high moral ground …no one does
The truth is , the way it really goes down is , an artist has tremendous success from the public , and, 50 years after his death, its obvious that his work was shallow and not worth . Its usualy not the case that someone recognised later on gets huge public acceptance, its usualy the experts in the feild that judge that that person’s work is valuable and then it starts getting studied…the major public usualy doesne really care…they arent going out and buying Louis Armstrong records in millions after we find out how much he really did influence all of American culture with his playing and singing…
And, it even shows the value of having artists create works that are filled with stereotypes and racism, that is how we look back and see that Birth of a Nation or Jazz Singer have horrible stereotypes, that make you say ” what was wrong with them…” and at least you can see it blatently. Look at the plethora of films that show the Indians in the worst stereotypes, and this is my opinion as the worst offenders, the major comercial media and the desicians they put out on all of us.
The funny thing is , people look back and see minstrel shows and black face are ridiculous, but they cant see what that is today. Mick Jagger goes out and does a minstrel show , and makes the most money, and no one cares…I sure dont say he is wrong and shouldnt do it…by all means, I want freedom of art , I just dont like it, like I hate Sinead O Connor, Im not surprised she put her foot in her mouth saying what black people ought to do…
King, there is one area that I think Im in agreement with you, if a tribe is in the same area as a school and they protest that there is a demeaning Indian name for the teams or something like that. If a tribe files a petition to have it changed, I could accept that…
But, I just cant buy into blanketing every situation of wearing Indian jewelry or clothes items as demeaning or especialy trying to say my son cant express something that is inside of him because the militant wing of a few group of people make some rules that may need to be taken back to the drawing board and tweaked , anyway.
this part is only a thought of my son, its not even a part of his present show and you can beleive, he has lyrics that will offend some people , but, I hardly think he has to stifle his art just because something he is going to say is going to offend someone…
I mean what if he offends the racist people ?Is the offence then OK?
who is going to be the judge of what is offensive or not? I wouldnt trust many people to be the judge of that who have atitudes Ive seen
Artists should create and time will tell if they are shallow or have something of real value
B.R. I think you may be missing my point. I really have no objection to anyone wearing Indian jewelry! I mean 90% on the jewelry is sold to non-Indian tourists these days for just that purpose. I also don’t have any more objection to people wearing Indian Halloween costumes than I do people dressing up as medieval knights or Egyptian princesses.
Like we’ve all been saying (including yourself) the original post wasn’t about dress-up, its about faking being a Native American for the sake of either making money or exoticize oneself.
The way I see it on the “Art side” is as follows:
1) Celebrating a certain day(s) as an accepted local tradition by dressing up as Indians? Just as harmless as dressing up like an Irishman for St. Patricks Day.
2) Doing your own take on Native American costume and face painting? OK, so long as you’re clear in saying. “This is my own design, inspired by the original Native American traditions.” (In that way it’s not appropriation or redefinition.)
3) Replicating actual Native American designs? Check with the tribe, ask to use their traditions, and ask them if there are any restrictions or requirements. Have the courtesy to respect them enough to allow them to control the use of their own traditions.
4) Don’t allow your own “right” to do what you want become more important than their right to protect what they have.
That’s all I’m saying. It’s really not that onerous, it’s just being polite and respectful, and it doesn’t stop people from being able to perform.
And, Ill tell you, artists become artists because they have something deep inside that they have to say , more than anything in the world thay have to express themselves no matter what the reaction around them.
An artist can not censure themselves or you will not have great art…or actualy any real art. An artist has to express, and that is on any leval, no matter how small or large the scale .I will never ever be a judge of what artists are suposed to say or not , even if I want the right to say I dont like it and why….yes, let the public , and, critics have their say and then let time tell if it has any value
Even more reason to look at the real villain in this story, the major media , since Birth of a Nation, has fostered the worst stereotypes on us all. And its not a fair game .
Where are the Indian voices in the media? Where are their stories ? Its the absence of the Indian voice that sais more than anyone wearing Indian clothes , as the real problem . Amazing how that gets lost to the little indivudual finger pointing and psycho analising.
They will always lie and say that “it wont sell” or some other rationalisation…Its not even for the money, because they could make money on the real Indian stories..its pure power back stabbing politics
King, your post came in after this last of mine was finished being typed….
I mean, that is totaly how I could feel , that what you said….
I am mostly pontificating about my son, I dont think Im in disagreement with you
Yes, I’m an artist myself.
I paint, I sculpt, I write, I’ve even done some theater.
I’ve got nothing against artistic expression, believe me. I just don’t hold it to be any ‘holier’ than any other expression. We artists are important, we’re just not more important. If that makes sense?
King, absolutly it makes sence…and, I cant tell you and every one else how much it means to discuss these ideas with you , and, you personaly, King, who have always been a wonderful inspiration…
I apologise for indulging this defence for my son…Im so into seeing him find himself….I really enjoyed you mentioning your artistic endeavers , I didnt mean to dwell on it just from an artistic concept.
What I could say is, he also has three tatoos , one Indian, one African, and , one Euro ( for Gods life of me, I have no idea of the meaning and origins, its what he sais…)…so we dont have to make it about art…that kind of makes it permanent on that end….haha
I really liked the definitions you mentioned of where you are coming from
Absolutly,the USA is very bad in its history of represion , as dirty as it can get
actualy, “militants” was an error on my part , its because the extreme party’s on the right or left, the more vocal extremes, are refferred to as “militantes do PT ” (for, example)…I realise that was my error now…I forgot the term in English
Not at all B.R., I certainly take no offense. I think I agree with most of what you said, and have learned as much as anyone from the discussion.
My very best wishes for your son, who no doubt will do great work, based on stirring his inner passion. Forgive me if I in any way led you to think that I was not in full support of his creative process/journey.
@ Bulanik — yes we ‘creatives’ must be somehow drawn to Abagond’s cerebral honey. 🙂
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 01:39:42 vanishing point.
@B.R.
As a white person, I thought a lot of what you have been saying was off the wall, such as “YOU PEOPLE” , which I find very offensive…Also, this idea that what is offensive is somehow subjective as an artist, but does not take into account the impact of the object of derision..or whatever you decide to call it..
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 01:51:53 B. R.
Vanishing point,some people like you are trying so hard to find some kind of hiddon psychotic racism in what Im saying that it is almost painful to watch….The people talking on this thread are a wide variety of people, saying “you people” pretty much has no conotation of identity….ecept to address the people on this thread
I sure dont want you to be in charge of who is going to be deemed to express what….I sure dont want to be in charge of that
these kind of points of view only feed my desire to encourage my son to find his own way…you keep probing, Vanishng point, maybe some day you will find somthing that will stick
LOL, I don’t need to keep probing with B.R… as you are too easy.. A man who has not investigated his own racism..but asks me to probe mine..glad you are free, B.R… keep on posting to yourself…freedom..
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 04:56:22 King
@ vanishing point
That point your trying to make here might have been more effective if you actually waited for someone to say something that was truly offensive. As it is, it just looks like you’re pressing a ridiculous point that’s obviously lacks any real substance.
Vanishing point, Im much more willing to look at my racism than you might think .I am very much in agreeing with what Abagond has said about being raised in an American envirnment brings a lot of baggage.
But , the truth is, the last time you actualy came into this blog was trying to acuse me of something racist , when my defence , mistaking a word somebody said, was exactly what you did, mixing up names.You put your foot in your mouth , in a big way, so, Im very skeptical of your acuasations. Its funny, I cant make a statement without getting labled the opressor. Its interesting, I live intimitly with two people who have mixed Indian blood, and, Im responding to the extreme political agenda that a few blogging Native Americans ( which I have seen but not brought in here, and doesnt represent a national Native American position) have put out there to tell people who have some Indian blood what they should do or not…I beleive I have a right to answer that, and, I have brought in youtubes that provide some compelling evidence that there is some room for debate on this subject. Yet, I get dogged by you and classified as the “opressor” by another person, with a vague referance to a Sinead O Connor statement that I am starting to think was directed at me. Which, in the light that if you look at any statement on this blog I have ever made , I have never once told black people what they ought to do , seems strange to me….
I apreciete the observation, King, and only hope to aspire to live up to not saying something offensive
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 13:50:45 Cornlia
If anything, Vanishing Point illustrated one thing: that people who have nothing to say or not much on a certain topic tend to criticize people instead of ideas.That apparently allows them -maybe- to feel that they have said something and argued on a specific point. It’s a pattern.
The next stage is insults as a response to the targeted person’s reply, which they think “must be upset” (as they attempted to indeed make that person upset). Even if that person’s reply showed no anger or anything, they will find it somewhere (invent it). People who find themselves in those discussions for the first time usually don’t realize it’s pure provocation from ignorance.
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 14:17:49 Yawn
“I live intimitly with two people who have mixed Indian blood, and, Im responding to the extreme political agenda that a few blogging Native Americans ( which I have seen but not brought in here, and doesnt represent a national Native American position) have put out there to tell people who have some Indian blood what they should do or not…I beleive I have a right to answer that”
Keep at it, I might not fully agree with you some times but I side with you on this fully.
I’ve been in the same situations, and it gets tiresome.
That’s true Bulanik. I’m at the disadvantage of taking comments only at face value for the time being. I’m not aware of personal history or individual squabbles. Thanks.
Thanks for the info Bulanik.
That means that we should all try to stick to debate and using arguments, as I imagine we don’t necessarily have time to read every other thread on this blog to know “who’s who”. Which we will never as this is the internet, plus even in “real life”, you never really know who someone is. I learned it the hard way.
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 18:03:03 winchinchala
@abagond, do you have a source for the Winona LaDuke info? I’ve never heard that about her, although all of the other pretend Indians you mention are non-Native. The movie Reel Injun has an interesting interview with Iron Eyes Cody’s son, who lives on the Navajo reservation and speaks fluent Navajo.
Here is some info on White Earth: http://www.indianaffairs.state.mn.us/tribes_whiteearth.html
Hey , lets be upfront, Bulanik acused my of belittling her as a black woman ( I thought she said black girl and repeated it back, and got some strange acuasations, and the 2 people even mixed up names the same way I mixed up “woman” and ” girl” making their acuasations look ridiculas)
I have always been deeply perplexed at this since I always showed the greatest of respect to Bulanik , I have profusly complimented here in the past..she is a wizard at links, if she wants to point directly where this is ( I am not talking about the “woman” “girl” part , Im talking about where I belittled her as a black woman) , Id be happy apologise or try to reasure her of what I really meant…Ive been waiting and waiting..instead all that gets built up is drama…
why not clear this up once and for all ?
Yawn, I dont understand why the person with mixed blood has to take the worst of this…
Example, my wife is maybe 25 percent Indian blood, and she tried out as a dancer at a very young age, for one of the known Bloco Afros in Salvador Bahia.They told her she was too light (?!) My wife is nut light brown and her hair is an afro if she doesnt straihten it, she is obviously Afro Brazilian with ad mixture…
So, because of her Indian blood, she cant be accepted in an Afro organisation, and, according to the extreme political agenda of some small group of Native Americans, she cant wear Indian clothes or Indian jewelry because she doesnt have enough Indian blood…
working for almost slave labor as a maid, and got humiliated very badly for it….Thank god she went on to be a two time Billboard charting artist and even up to now , she dances on the stage all over in places like Rio, New York, Sao Paulo, Miami….and had her songs played on over 200 radio stations…but what obsticles and discriminations put on her every step
That is why I wont lock step with any extreme political agenda that comes down the pike
It seems for being mixed Indian blood, she just gets punished worse, on top of that, she had brutal racism against her for being black
…its perplexing that Bulanik would acuse me of belittling her as a “black woman”, I honestly dont even know what her real ethnic background is…
All I say, why keep some mystery and drama going when we can easily clear this up right away? Is it to someones advantage to keep the impresion that I am some racist going here ? Without getting to the basic fundimental facts and reality to really find out?
I am more than prepared to be set up as an example of someone racist if there really is some truth to it…but dont condemn me on flimsy witch hunt mentality…all we have to do is go to the link where I have belittled Bulanik as a black woman….and I can aplogise , or explain what I really meant, or both….
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 20:08:19 Hannu Lipponen
Hello, King, long time no post…that is, I haven’t been very active myself for the longest time…
An artist, you say? How convenient, so am I. Anyways, for you to make proper conclusions of words said and assumptions made, I suggest you jump in the blogospheric time-machine and read posts of old…
Oh common now Hannu, why dont you just admit you were one of the people who laid into me about mixing up “girl” with “woman” something I thought I was repeating back of what somewhat one else said( that petty nothingness is all on the Open Thread), and then you actualy mixed up some peoples names…you never did say that maybe you were a little hasty in your judgement…vanishing, you too….you did the same thing..then the only next post you make on here is now coming in dogging me…that is trollish
What really gets strange is , you all are so upset over what really is an innocent mix up on my part that I said was sloppy on my part…why arnt you interested in the part where Bulanik is so sure I belittled her as a black woman ? That is the real question here…that is what I want to find out….like I said, I need to see it so I can either apologise or reasure Bulanik what I meant
Why the drama for nothing, when this all can be cleared up ? Ive had nothing but the greatest respect for Bulanik on here, even when we bash heads…other wise this is just little cyber games witch hunting going on
You know , its great when the force upstairs smiles on me, and, when two people are dogging me for what I claim to be me mixing up what someone said, mixing the words up , and, then these two people absolutly trying to be rude and gross and call me a racist…do the exact same thing and mix up some names…..I mean, fate doesnt cut me breaks like that often…too bad its on an internet blog and not about getting me some big record deal
Of course I laid it into you.
You are either accidentally or deliberately oblivious to your choice of words. If you cannot understand why people, including me, reacted the way they did, I cannot help you. And why exactly do you yourself participate keeping the ‘drama’ alive? And why exactly does Bulanik’s ethnicity bother you so much? You are the only person probably ever on this blog to be so bizarrely fixated on something like that.
Bulanik’s or anybody else’s lineage has absolutely nothing to do with her or their arguments. If she wishes not to reveal her personal life here, you should be a gentleman and RESPECT that wish. Just leave her alone, you are getting mighty tiresome.
By Jupiter’s balls.
Hey Hannu! What’s up?
Oh, ups and downs, you know…trying to put a comics project together and have it published. Done it before, need to do it again and in a bigger scope.
Really sorry to hear about your loss. My deepest condolences. I unfortunately have a case of terminal illness in my family, just waiting for the chips to fall.
Nice to hear from you again. Don’t be stranger, stranger. 😀
ps. I’ll leave my e-mail address on Abagond’s doorstep, it’s there for you to pick up if you ever feel like doing so.
Alligators, crocodiles and somesuch creatures…
Sounds like and interesting project. Comic or Graphic novel? Hand drawn or computer assisted? Who’s doing the writing?
Wow Hannu, really sorry to hear about your family illness, but where there is life, there’s hope. Don’t give in to death until you’re sure you have to.
I’ll pick up your email from Abagond. I think I might have had it before… but everything’s a bit of a haze.
There you go, Hannu ( sorry for your family situation, by the way) trying to imply i care about Bulanik’s ethnicity, when I stated I dont know why she would think I belittled her as a blackwoman….because I dont even know her ethnicity….that doesnt mean her ethnicity is important to me
That is really stiff on your part
Oh, don’t pretend like you don’t know or remember what you said in the past. Your fixation with Bulanik and her background was bordering on perversion.
But alas, I must go. This hasn’t been nearly as amusing or insightful as I had hoped.
Just stick to your drumsticks. And save the last dance for meeeeeee….
Cheers, Hannu
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 21:24:01 abagond
I just forwarded you Hannu’s email address.
…Sure ,Hannu, I did say I was curious about who she was, as well as Im curious about a lot of people on here, its not like I have some fetish about Bulanik and her ethnicity…puleeese
Ive been acused of racism, which Id be happy to examine to find out if its true or not..maybe we can all learn something if it is…but, until we see the conversation where I suposidly belittled Bulanik as a black woman, this is all manipulative cyber petty games for nothing….it sure isnt about me being curious about what people are like in real life here….gees, this is really hilarious….we could clear this up so fast if we wanted to….I guess its more fun for you if we dont
Yeah, get me back to my drumsticks
Don’t you think it’s interesting that two white people have told you that your choice of words is offensive, and yet you feign innocence? Lots of white people like to say, “just an innocent mix-up”. Maybe that is one of the top excuses for being oblivious to the IMPACT of your words, such as just recently, you said,”you people” on this blog.
Also, it’s strange that you constantly cloak yourself in your wife and child’s ethnicity, like some sort of costume. Have you thought about that?
And in this thread, your logic was something like, well, white people in Brazil dress up like Indians, therefore it must be ok. That just doesn’t even make any sense to me..
I read this blog daily, why? Because I learn so much every single time I come here. And yeah, I don’t have a lot to contribute because there are so many more here who do have the knowledge that I lack and I appreciate it, even if it sometimes makes me feel uncomfortable or some other emotion. I appreciate that and am sorry if I worded things wrong.
http://www.neiu.edu/~lsfuller/Poems/bridge.htm
This poem influenced why I think it’s important that white people point out white racism to other white people. Hope this clarifies how I think.
on Mon Sep 3rd 2012 at 00:41:23 B. R.
Well , Vanishing point, at least you are trying to discuss this….No , I dont cloak myself in my wife and son, their story was very relevant to this thread…I dont talk about them every thread…but, I find some of the subjects here relevant to their story….if there is another thread relevant to their story, I wont hesitate to bring in it up…but, I dont bring it up on every thread…
I have a big objective to not get banned on this blog…Im not trying to win any award for congeniality, to be honest, and I dont think I look to attack people, but, I will defend , at times ferociously.Im not trying to be accepted and I have great respect for individuals on here who I have learned from, which is why Im here , but, just take a look at the BWE thread and understand I dont think anyone is looking for quarter here, you take your lumps and try to play by the rules, this isnt suposed to be pretty
About Brazil, if you want to be a provincial country bumpkin sitting on a log naive to the ways of the world , dont talk about Brazil, because in terms of all the things that are mentioned on this blog, its all happeining in a very big way in this marvelous country of close to two hundred million people , and you could learn so much about exactly these issues by spending some real time down here. And, exactly because of this, I have contributed in a great way to bring the attention of some of the problems that are extremly relevant to these discusions , that would really be off most peoples radar..not that everyone would agree with me, I have had epic battles with a guy living in Brazil as long as I have and we went to war o n here.
Two white people telling me ? Mean anything ? Why should it? Its your opinion , I just think you are wrong…”you people”…there was people I knew were white in there….what is your point? “you people that think that critics and the public hold the moral high ground over the artist….” was the context, do you have an objection to that?
About the mix up, then should we grill you and Hannu for your mix up, I mean what was your psycho logical problem to mix up Bulanic with Truthbetold? Is there some deep trauma in your past that would make you do that ? Could that be that you have some kind of psycho in denial they all look alike thing?
Im just teasing, but do you see what Im saying
on Mon Sep 3rd 2012 at 01:04:56 Cornlia
What does “our” blood say about us, what does it make us say ?
Does the blood we have inside (as if poured into us by some superior entity’s counting hand -1/4 of this, 1/5 of that, 1/3 of this…) makes us do ?
Is it the blood ?
Is it the culture ?
Or is it me, again, with “semantics”. Words that ‘mean nothing out their context” or can they *never* mean something ?
Is a person Indian by “blood” ? By culture ? By choice ? By obligation ?
How does an African-American who has always thought he/she had “Indian blood” think and feel when, he/she learns that his/her family has never had the slightest drop of it (as shown in Pr Gates documentary, he himself being the direct descendent of an Irish king) ?
How does it feel when you have always thought you were someone, and really really felt it deep inside, but it so happens that you were not ?
Is it genetics or culture that tells you who you are ? Is it politics ? Policies ? Masks ? Disguise or costumes ?
Is it yourself who tells you who you are, or is it others ?
Do you build yourself against others or by ignoring them ? By obeying them or by rejecting them ?
I have no idea who my ancestors really are, apart from Alsatian, Swiss and from Normandy (so maybe Northmen/women). But as has often been the case, there maybe be “others” from very far too, whom I’ve never been told about, because this is a secret.
I happen to prefer some aspects of other cultures to mine. Does it mean I *may* have those cultures’ blood in my veins ? Of course not. Because blood is not culture, culture is not blood, but we were told it might be.
Interesting how age-old concepts still traverse our societies, minds and cultures…
Well, I think its absolutly complex
I do beleive that the Indian tribes have a right to make their rules about who is admitted and accepted in the tribe….
For me, breaking the media open ( we can dream a little) is the key to getting enough Indian voices and stories and real culture and contribution across . Then, those can become real influences , not the phony stereotype
And, being on the look out for phonies like mentioned here…who write books like they are real and make a prophet
Interesting Bulanik.
When I read “Aryan” and think “Nazi” and “Hitler” it always strikes me how that man CONTROLLED the minds of his audience and people. What did he have his OWN looks that corresponded to the “Aryan” ideal ?? Nothing…
I just finished reading this book on racial colonial rules and their influence on the constitution of the populations of some islands in the Caribbean… It is crazy how many categories they invented to correspond to the “percentages” or “fractions” of “blood” people were supposed to “contain”.
Same as for Hitler, when you how many people were actually the descendents of “unknown fathers”… it would be laughable if it wasn’t so tragic.
on Mon Sep 3rd 2012 at 18:10:01 SW6
thank you. My Grandmother was a Carib. But this word is not a good descriptor, it is like saying i am black, which nominally i am but as we ought to understand, these words are like place holders for information. What do I mean? I spoke about it with Bulanik a little while back:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/open-thread/#comment-134679
“not a good descriptor,” what else do I mean? I need to investigate my family tree one day.
It’s in French: “La Couleur comme Maléfice, Une Illustration créole de la Généalogie des Blancs et des Noirs” by Jean-Luc Bonniol, Albin Michel, 1992. He is an anthropologist and the goal of the book was to try and understand how “color” in phenotype seems to “stick” so well in the choice of partners in generations in colonial and neo-colonial settings, and more largely, in today’s larger world with the resilience of “color” as a marker of self.
I am actually beginning to read extensively and intensively on this after years of thinking by myself, observing and reading novels… I had all those books in my library that I am now opening one after the other and often together… I’m also taking sociology classes targeting “race” and “cultures” to broaden my access to references. I hope I can then really work on that and do narrowed research… To hopefully find some tools to fight the beast…
I have been listening to a series of radio programs on “Western” and “Eastern” (Occidentaux, Orientaux) Jews on France Culture radio. The Jews’ story is so complex. First, before the 19th century, they were absolutely not “one” people. They spoke all kinds of languages, were accepted or persecuted, rejected or integrated, allowed to do this or that, … the French revolution and then Napoleon in France forced them to unify so that the “Republic” could control them as a religious group… and at the same time they helped them emancipate, etc… But that’s only in France. All over Europe there was a wide range of treatments.
Where is “blood” in all this ? Just like “race” it is a simplifying factor.
on Tue Sep 4th 2012 at 00:32:18 vanishing point.
@B.R. what is the difference between you, me, Randy, and a Fake Indian.. take your time…I want an answer but if you are not up to the task, I will understand…
on Tue Sep 4th 2012 at 01:23:38 B. R.
Where are you from , Vanishing point? Why dont you just tell me the answer since I cant read minds and Im sure you have one ready to tell me
Down in Brazil, there are so many words for the differant mixtures:
morena clara, morena escura, mestico , negra, pretinha, caboclo , branco , mameluco , pardo,mulata ( like or lump it , its a word used in Brazil frequently…), sarara criolo,indio, criolo,japa ( yes they call any japonese “japa”)
People arnt uptight about admiring the differant mixtures…its as much a national past time as watching the women virtualy naked on the beach.It would be absurd to be uptight wondering what a person’s background is. They will take DNA tests and talk about the differant blood mixtures , nothing uptight about that
They just past quotas for the universities classifying people based on race. They had to, or the white Brazilians wouldnt have ever given up the power
I lived in Chicago, New York, a little in L A, never ran into the one drop rule ever , I never read about it as a marker for a court case in those cities or a marker for anything..I think its really strange to just define the USA as though its crawling with the one drop rule…
Im wondering if any of my black American colleagues who lived in those cities I mentioned , ever ran up against the one drop rule?
No matter how you slice it, most of the major problems mentioned here are happening in Brazil also…
on Tue Sep 4th 2012 at 02:28:36 Linda
KSW6
thank you. My Grandmother was a Carib. But this word is not a good descriptor, it is like saying i am black, which nominally i am but as we ought to understand, these words are like place holders for information. What do I mean? I spoke about it with Bulanik a little while back”
SW6, you’re welcome.
As a descriptor, it’s not too bad because “Carib” describes your grandmother’s ethnic group, if you are familiar with the different ethnic groups of Native Indians in the Caribbean, then you could easily figure out which island she came from.
the Caribs and Arawak Tainos were the largest ethnic Amerindian groups in the Caribbean.
I believe the Carib-descendents lived/live mostly in the lower Antilles (ex. Trinidad and Tobago. Guadalupe, Dominica, etc). Since there are many Indians (from India) living in the Caribbean, someone saying that they are “Carib” Indian would definitely describe who they are and possible where they come from, as well as their ancestral origins.
Before Colombus, the two groups had lived seperate from each other, islands & territories marked–the Caribs often crossed the threshold to go raiding. Tainos were peaceful (until Colombus came along) and the Caribs were warriors, great hunters and sailors.
It was mostly the men who had travelled up from South America and island hopped; they killed the Taino men, took over the village, and married the Taino women (they also did this with the Igneri people)
“Karibna” was the original name of the “Caribs”, and as usual, the Spanish and other Europeans mispronounced the name, and the word “Carib” stuck.
The different “Carib” nations call themselves (depending on location) – Kali’na and Kalinago.
Like many other indigenous people, they are trying to take control of their history and their cultural identity, which got hijacked by the Europeans and their tendency to re-name whole groups of people and re-write history.
The Garifunas in Central American (Belize, Honduras) still speak the Carib-language but they longer have the stereotypical “Indian” look like the Kalinagos. I believe in Dominca, the Kalinago have lost the language and are trying to revive it.
Currently, the biggest problems for the Dominican Kalinagos are severe poverty, brain-drain, and intermarriage with non-Kalinagos.
There is a lot of resentment between the Kalinago Indians and the creole Afro/Euro-descended population of Dominica. The Kalinagos naturally want more of their territory back (probably the whole island) and want the “foreigners” out of their existing territory.
There has been so much intermixing in the past, that there are not many “pure” blood Kalinagos left.
So, the ruling Chiefs are/have tried to convince and encourage the remaining group members to keep it all in the family and not marry outsiders, so they can lessen the dilution of the group, revive their nation, and keep their heritage/culture alive.
http://zeroanthropology.net/2008/05/10/dominica-carib-chief-seeks-legislation-barring-intermarriage/
http://news.discovery.com/human/native-tribe-survival-carib.html
The Garifunas in Central American (Belize, Honduras) still speak the Carib-language but they longer have the stereotypical “Indian” look like the Kalinagos.”
I meant to say, “the Garifunas no longer had the stereotypical “Indian” look like the Kalinagos.”
Linda, great information, and, with that information and if you look at the information I brought in about Brazil, it looks like we in the AMERICAS have lots of names to describe ourselves.
I would challenge anyone here to go into the names I brought in about Brazil and seperate which names were from the “white slave owner” and which were self identified names. Just as I brought in a link about the implication that some black Americans who were there in times of slavery actualy chose to be called “black” or “African”, it seems there are words all over the Americas that came into being to describe the mix of people there.
This is why it would be wise to look at the whole picture of the Americas before just atributing things to only the USA.
Black Americans demonstrated by their sheer will and self determination, that they could change how the whole country refers to them, practicly eliminating terms like “colored” and “negro”from normal everyday interaction
I dont think it all boils down to racists white Americans labeling and making up all these words that describe people and the implication that it is all “wrong”
People have to look at the whole picture in the Americas to understand the dynamic that is going down
(of course, in the Brazilian words like “mulata”, its obvious it came from the slave master, but,there are a bunch of other words there that definitly cant be described as that)
on Tue Sep 4th 2012 at 14:16:03 abagond
All your comments about mikveh were getting caught in my spam filter because I once had a troll named Mik. I unblocked that.
on Wed Sep 5th 2012 at 14:12:18 B. R.
The truth is, “extreme political agendas” ought to be scrutinised as much if not more than artistic expresions. It works the same way, it takes years to find out if an extreme political agenda can really bring value to the table or not…unfortunatly, when it goes wrong , extreme political agendas can do huge damage, it can actualy lead to death and destruction.
Look no furthar than Jim Crow Laws, an extreme political agenda that murdered and lynched people, put unrealistic mandates and objectives out that demanded people had to follow, and has huge lasting consequences also, up to church bombings in the 60’s and filters into the political agendas of the right in the USA now
Look at Iraq as an extreme political agenda that caused horrible concequences
Look at communism as an extreme political agenda that has caused as much suffering and misery and death in the world as anything. People who can recite American aggresions around the world in great detail rarely bring up or mention at all that millions and millions and millions of people have been just eliminated and killed under communist regimes that have failed miserably when practicing pure communism, the Chinese are authoritarian capatalism now.
The concequences of lock stepping with just any “extreme political agenda”, whether right , left or center, if it isnt well thought out, can really leave long term damage. Where as something thought out that stands the test of time against the struggle are the ideas that mean something, not arbatrary mandates ready to say who is wrong if they dont lock step on them.
What I find going on a lot is some people are indulging in “instant extreme pollitical agendising”…people are engaging in instant extreme political agendising ” about the use of the word black”, something Malcolm X forged in the heart of the real struggle , in blood and guts (which is an example of an extreme political agenda that worked), or about “Africans dont call themselves black”, or” all the terms Americans use” “or America is the only country with race quotas”, when it is obviously a dynamic going on in places like Brazil. Its great if people know the history of Europe, the migrations of Asia and the Islamic rules of slavery, but, if they cant also see the whole dynamic of slavery and race in the Americas and weigh it against a country like Brazil, they are only seeing one part of a complete picture…”blood” gets instantly politicly agendised, and muddies the problem with why certain extreme Native American political postions about people that are only part blooded Indian shouldnt be expressing themselves in certain mannors of dress..
Tie in words like “opressor” or “racist” with these other “instant extreme political agenda” positions and its all you need to not really face what are the problems that are the most detrimental to Indian issues and shut down valid arguments that need to be addressed. Which most certainly pertains to media impresions that we all have been subjected to throughout our lives about Indians
on Wed Sep 5th 2012 at 22:31:15 Linda
“B. R.
Black Americans demonstrated by their sheer will and self determination, that they could change how the whole country refers to them, practicely eliminating terms like “colored” and “negro” from normal everyday interaction”
BR, I see where you are trying to go with this but Here comes the “but”
No, I don’t think that black Americans or Brazilians continuing to label themselves by colour is similar to the Carib Indians wanting to be called by their real ethnic name “Kalinago” – this is a group of people who know their True ethnic identity.
The only thing the Caribs have in common with the afro-descents in the Americas, is that it was the Europeans who chose to label both groups of people as they (Europeans) saw fit and both groups fought to gain respect and rights in their own countries.
The Kalinagos are not choosing a “label” out of thin air or upholding a racial classification system based on phenotype that they did not create.
The Kalinagos never forgot their Ethnicity or lost their true Ethnic name, they did not lose their culture or heritage–they are just trying to set the record straight finally after bending over for so many years and letting history be written by the victor.
Unfortunately, many African descended people in the Diaspora don’t know their full ancestral history – the African ethnicity was lost due to slavery and it’s agenda of de-humanizing the Africans.
As a black or brown person of the Caribbean, North or South America, it doesn’t matter what non-white people call themselves–at the end of the day, our respective histories in the Americas is what now defines us–black Americans are Americans, black Brazilians are Brazilians. etc
So black/negro, brown, coloured, morena, mulatta, pretinha, caboclo, trigueno, biracial—all these labels do, is signify that the person is African descended and mixed with European and/or other races – it is a vague label that describes only a part of that persons ancestral heritage.
Ancestral ethnicity needs to have more of a definitive meaning for African descended people.
Most black/brown people can tell you what continent their ancestors came from—Africa (and/or Europe/Asia) because that’s the obvious answer based on features – but what exact country, ethnic group, or region of the continent—who knows? That information was lost for so many people.
Many mixed-race people in the Caribbean and South America can probably tell you what part of Europe their white ancestors came from because their ancestors made sure to pass that information down the line–and that in itself, is the real crime
Instead of saying “I am American and I am black”, wouldn’t it be nice if a black American could say: “I am American with Yoruba, Igbo, English, and German ancestry.”— since most white Americans have this privilege of reciting their ancestral ethnic backgrounds; black Americans (any afro-descendant really) should have this privilege as well.
Thanks to people like Henry Louis Gates, it is now possible to find out what region your ancestors came from in Africa, Asia, or Europe…by finding out this information, blacks/browns in the Diaspora can then make an effort to reclaim their true ethnic identity just like the Kalinago.
on Thu Sep 6th 2012 at 00:26:32 B. R.
OK Linda , thanks for clarifying …i dont want to make any assumptions about where you come from and by the way, Im not saying all Brazil is in agreement . The range of differant opinions there is as big as the country, Im just telling you about things I know are true , that they did just nationaly start quotas in universities and there are Brazilians who call them self “black”..On our recent business trip to Salvador, Pelourinho , my song heard someone say to a woman …”oi Morena …” and she said happily “Nao , eu sou Negra..” ( hi morena…no im black ) , and that has always been my point that, its not just the USA that has these paramaters of description and laws in place that define people by race…Dont you think its important to clarify that ? In a discusion where a mandate coming from an activist blog from some Native American Indians ( by the way, their total right and more power to them, I just dont have to agree with everything they say , and I do agree with plenty of other stuff they say) saying that even people with some Native Indian ancestry, shouldnt dress up in Indian clothes or wear Indian jewelry , when there are enormous celibrations in Brazil where most of the people are part black and white and Indian, dressing in Indian costumes , making a comercial enterprise and not authentic, dont you think its important to bring that to the attention of people who are willing to put it out as a mandate ?
Brazil is so big that so many dynamics go down inside its borders. Some one mentioned the lightening theory, that is what was done in Brazil. They imported lots of immigrants from Germany and Italy and encouraged them to mate with all kinds of the Brazilians there…for exactly this theory mentioned..that is why there is tremendous mixture in Brazil, it is a laboratory of mixture, many definitions of people are needed because there is so much mixture down here..is it as simple as you put it , Linda ?
I think, in my opinion, what can be learned from comparing countries like the USA and Brazil, two enormous countries , shaped in very individual ways , by similar historical backgrounds , are the things that ring similarities in actual solving the problems , and, what things actualy would not be right for one , or the other, or ,would be hypocritical to have for one and say ,no, the other one cant do that.
Like finding that , even though quotas are bad in one way and can be arugued against, eventualy, the political climate in Brazil, starting to realise it had to make a change, made racial quotas for universities legal in Brazil. They would never do that to copy the USA, they would hate to do that, they did it, because they came to the same conclusion, that to bring any kind of chance of oportunity for black Brazilians, they had to make laws , because the white Brazilians just would never give up the power…like in the USA….
These places have to learn for themselves how to deal with their problems. I would never say Brazil should copy the USA, but, they sure are going to have to face the same problems that the legacy of discrimination and slavery have left in their wake..
Its some mandates that wont transfer, and, those mandates are what are worth looking at , also, to see if they are valid..like how people dress, who they can date or go out with, how a person can express themselves…those things dont transfer well..and its good to compare other countries and models as a referance
on Thu Sep 6th 2012 at 01:03:32 Linda
Im just telling you about things I know are true , that they did just nationaly start quotas in universities and there are Brazilians who call them self “black”.”
Good for them. I come from a country that used to have Colourism as bad as Brazils–it’s gotten better but it’s still there on the fringes.
Coming from a society where the white/light brown members want to treat people based on their skin tone, It’s important for African descendents to love themselves and their features
so if standing up and saying that “they are black” and not mulatta, triguena, etc, gives them a “sense of self”, then that’s great.
My point was that it doesnt’ really matter, as black/brown people, what colour we call ourselves — our real African ethnic identities are lost– so if self-determining by colour gives people a sense of power, then I support that–whatever it takes to have a sense of self –but it is not our “true” Ethnic identity.
Calling ourselves “black vs morena” doesn’t help us as African descendants to regain that actual link back to the continent of our ancestors, the same way that the Amerindians in Brazil are linked to their ancestral lands in South American continent. They’ve retained their actual ancestral heritage and want to reclaim their heritage and what they stand for as a people. I support that as well.
Question: how much are those University quotas are based on Brazil’s classism versus it’s colourism?
From what I’ve heard, having money in Brazil means alot, it can even by a black person into the “white” category on paper.
Having to force the lighter class to be more inclusive with the darker class is not something new for countries that have a white/brown minority ruling class.
Recently in Jamaica, companies were called out for trying to go back to old times–hiring brown (mixed race, mestizo, moreno) people and not hiring anyone black.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111002/lead/lead5.html
So, Brazil is not alone–Colourism is still a problem in Caribbean, as well as Central/South America.
Some one mentioned the lightening theory, that is what was done in Brazil. They imported lots of immigrants from Germany and Italy and encouraged them to mate with all kinds of the Brazilians there…for exactly this theory mentioned”
I mentioned it to you in the “psychopathic racial personalities” post
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/psychopathic-racial-personality/#comment-142083
My opinion, the “black” Brazilians just need to keep doing what their doing and demand their rights.
It needs to be hammered home to the white/brown class that they also have African heritage but unfortunately for countries like Brazil, colourism is tied firmly with classism. Typically, Light = upper class/ middle class and dark = poor
As long as money and privilege is linked to skin tone, it’s going to be difficult to change the mindset.
Linda, from what I understand, there are definitly questions about racial background, about how the person describes themselves.Of course the detractors mention how so many people can cite black blood in their background and that it will not be fair, but, in my opinion , at least a certain amount of phenotype black people will get through to give them a chance…
Because, if you get down to the nitty gritty, its how many phenotype people do you see at the universities, in the media , in politics , at the gates waiting for flights, at hotels traveling…there are so many phenotype black people in Brazil , the low numbers in so many places is painful…and, prison numbers are high and conditions frightening, and people getting shot by the police, the black and brown numbers are high
And, Brazilian Indians are not well represented in the media also…of course there is as much mixture of Indian in the population as Afro , but, if you look at a novela, you wouldnt know it…and the mixture of Indian and Afro isnt well represented…except, look at the National Soccar selection…that is the real Brazil, and, yes, if you have money and are famous, you can get what you want…remember, Brazil had the mixture policy, but, it doesnt play out in society as much as you would think for the men especialy , I beleive, mostly because of class at that point , but, subconcious things at play in the white Brazilians that wont let brown and black in the elite sociey easily.
Interesting about your article, this is what Im saying at least, you have to try to get to know all the Americas to at least make judgements about how any one country is going about their dynamic of genocide to Indians, African slavery and colonising Europeans
There also may be questions on the forms about income and financial background , I dont know
Im also , in no way an expert on Indians in Brazil, but, Ive seen enough documentaries and news reports to know how they look and what some of their culture and music sounds like .
I know there are some tribes that havent met white people yet…and, there are clashes with gold miners and loggers with land and dam building projects that threaten Indian land
I saw a documentary about the history of Indians in my state and there were brutal massacars, so obviously, the Brazilian story is a brutal one also
There were communitees of run away slaves all over Brazil called Quilombos, and Indians would come in with them. There are certain areas in the Amozon where there is more of an Indian mixture, but, it is with everyone. That is where one of those celibrations I brought in takes place, but, its definitly mixed people dressing up as Indians
Yes , thanks Linda, you and ex poster Thad, who broke it down from the author “Freyre”
on Thu Sep 6th 2012 at 02:15:05 Cornlia
@ Linda, to your comment on the 5th at 22:31:15 (I don’t want to quote it all here !)
I think it would be interesting if so-called “white” also acknowledged their African ancestry in the US, and the Caribbean, where they still live by themselves with ridiculously archaic mindset.
“Mixity” doesn’t go one way, though of course, in a colonial white supremacist setting it was meant to go one way.
So maybe “whites” should also know about their “true ethnic background”. It would probably make things a little easier…
on Thu Sep 6th 2012 at 02:29:04 fiamma blu
In a discusion where a mandate coming from an activist blog from some Native American Indians ( by the way, their total right and more power to them, I just dont have to agree with everything they say , and I do agree with plenty of other stuff they say) saying that even people with some Native Indian ancestry, shouldnt dress up in Indian clothes or wear Indian jewelry….
Well, I’ve worn quite a bite of Native jewelery in my time, including silver & turquoise earrings and beaded bracelets. Have even considered ordering a pair of beaded moccasin boots to wear with my jeans. Never donned the head band though, as the appearance of it on others always struck me a laughable for some reason.
Never had anyone approach me in real-life to demand that I cease and desist wearing Native-related items. Still, I await the day with bated breath.
Linda, one thing Id like to ask you in relation to names. Maybe the Indian tribe you were talking about is one thing, but, are you telling me Jamaicans dont have names that identify and self identify that distinguish color and ethnic differances ? And, here is my point about the names, which is pertinant to pointing out that it is not only the USA that has these breakdown in names, including “black” to self identify, and they are not all names from the white slave master.
I dont know about Jamaica, but in Brazil,the black Brazilians affected the language immensly, like in the USA. Lets face it, there are so many words in USA popular culture that have influence from black culture it would be foolish to think it didnt go on in slavery times also, just like the banjo got adopted by country and western picking.And where Indian words are not used in popular culture as much, many places in the Brazil and the USA still have Indian names. I honestly beleive some of those names from Brazil I named, came out of self identification or just the slang of the language as it developed.
The truth is, so much doesnt get talked about as far as the total relationship in the Americas that the Indian genocide, African slavery and European colonisation have in common. The African slave , was actualy resisting all the time to being a slave. They would hide their real culture behind Catholic Saints, and this stretches from Brazil with Candomble, to Haiti with voodoo to Cuba with Santera all the way up to the black Ameirican church and how some of the frequenters would “get the feeling” and go into a trance…Im wondering if Jamaica has this , the celibration of West African religionous practices woven into a local culture ? I have thought they do but I dont know what it would be called. Only to show that there are things all over the Americas that relate to its developement and clash of 3 differant cultures, forced into existance through brutal conquest and slavery . Things that affect all the places where this dynamic was played out in the Americas
Do we really know the origins of all those names ? Couldnt some of them been self identifying slang that seeped into the popular language ? I raise all these points in the face of arguments that just break these things down as only some white American phenomenon, this would be misleading
Linda, I was typing my question when the other question came in, dont mean to over inundate you with questions
Flammablu, I mean, sure, why do people put out mandates that just are going to fail in the first place ? Maybe that is what they want…It certainly isnt a national Native American agenda…
Well, Vanishing point, where did you go? You asked me a leading question, and never got back..since you had “fake Indian” in the question , at least it relates to the thread so, Ill try to give you an answer, but always when someone does this on a forum on the internet, its a leading question meant to trip someone up….but, Ill try to answer
The differance between you , me, Randy and a fake Indian…
I certainly think differant than Randy, I am not a fake Indian,and, I dont know anything about you so I cant compare…now, you can tell me the answer you already have in mind
on Fri Sep 7th 2012 at 04:25:00 Linda
@ Linda, a small question
Do you have an opinion why “Indian” as a descriptor is still preferred and used as the name for the native Americans/first nations of the Americas?
Of course people realize that Columbus made a mistake – but I’m curious why “Indian” has stuck and the alternatives rejected, to this day.”
Bulanik, Since I am getting back to you so late, I believe Abagond answered your question in his newest post.
My opinion, I think the term “Indian” stuck because the Indigenous American people of the past never stood up and said “hey, we want to be called xyz”
From what I’ve seen lately, many groups are trying to rectify this now and are active in their civil rights.
They would hide their real culture behind Catholic Saints, and this stretches from Brazil with Candomble, to Haiti with voodoo to Cuba with Santera all the way up to the black Ameirican church and how some of the frequenters would “get the feeling” and go into a trance…Im wondering if Jamaica has this , the celibration of West African religionous practices woven into a local culture?”
Of course, in Jamaica, our version of old world religion married to folk magic is called “Obeah”…as you mentioned, this type of mysticism is what most of the islands have in commom that the Africans brought over similar to Voodoo and Santería.
In the Jamaica (and I’m sure the other islands in Caribbean as well), many aspect of the African culture/language had survived and helped to create our culture. Jamaican patois contains many Igbo and Akan words that have retained their original meaning (like the word “duppy” which means “ghost” in English). Many of our foods also retain their original African or Spanish derived names.
In Jamaica, everyone (black/brown/white) is very aware that our culture is derived from Taino, African, European, and Asian and this mixture is celebrated openly, hence our National motto ‘Out of Many One People’.
This knowledge of intertwined/shared old world cultures doesn’t stop the colourism and the class divisions that exists; and I am sure this is also the case in Brazil.
The unfortunatel part, is that because of slavery, with many of the African traditions and customs that we have retained in our culture, the true meaning behind the practices has become lost, example
We celebrate during Christmas time a festival called “Jonkonnu” — no one really knows how it got started, all that’s known is that possibly:
a Chief named “Prince Jean Konnu or he was called “dzon’ku nu” (which meant a “sorcerer” and “nu” meant “man”) demanded to hold a celebration with his people after being brought to Jamaica during slavery — no one knows the true meaning anymore.
Lets face it, there are so many words in USA popular culture that have influence from black culture it would be foolish to think it didnt go on in slavery times also, just like the banjo got adopted by country and western picking.And where Indian words are not used in popular culture as much, many places in the Brazil and the USA still have Indian names”.
The problem the US has is that it does not acknowledge the contributions that the African descendents made to it’s society. This is where the main problem lies.
You have kids today (both black and white) who don’t realize that things like “rock music” originated from black musicians and don’t want to listen to it because they think it’s “white peoples” music. Nothing will change until subjects like this becomes common knowledge and not relegated to 1 month out of the year.
Ignorance is bliss in US society.
Many cities/rivers in Florida retain the actual names given by the Native Indians such as Ocala and Lake Okeechobee, which comes from the Hitchiti words “oki” (water) and “chubi” (big) — this is information that has not been lost, so their true meaning and it’s relevance in connection to it’s origins, should be taught and not brushed over.
Linda, my comment to you is in moderation.”
OK, but I’ll probably have to get back to you tomorrow, I’ve got 1 eye open 🙂
on Fri Sep 7th 2012 at 09:57:34 B. R.
Linda, thanks for that education on Jamaica, it just adds to the bigger picture of the truth about what was going on.
In my opinion, there is so much lost in the slave period about what was really going on with the black people brought over as slaves. WE just dont know enough about it. Brazil is about as rich a country as anywhere as seeing living photographs of what the culture might have looked like back then, there are so many referances (buried treasure , though, the average person knows nothing of this) of folkloric cultures that can give somewhat of an idea. The USA of course banned black culture from developing in slavery…but you know it did develope anyway
“Food”, oh my gosh, absolutly down here in Brazil that is seriously in effect, and, I live with a person with incredible knowedge in the kitchen…my favorite dish of all time is the AFro Brazilian dish , “muceca”
When I was a kid, I had a big thing for Jamaica and Calypso. Im not such a big reggae fan, but, I loved Calypso, and always dreamed of going to Jamaica. For sure the Harry Belafonte records I listened to werent authentic, but, it fed my fantacy of Jamaica in a big way, that and some films like Dr No
on Fri Sep 7th 2012 at 14:51:51 vanishing point.
@B.R., sorry in getting back to you so late! Here is a link to a great essay, I hope you read it is a few times over, I think it will help in trying to get my point across.:)
http://zuky.tumblr.com/post/903970904
Vanishing point…Great, I dont see myself in that, I dont like labeling myself a liberal or anti racist, I dont like to be backed in a corner
While you and the other white person you mentioned think you have me pegged as a racist, Ive already scoped both of you are naive and new to really confronting the dynamic of racism and how it affects black people and white people in everyday life.
That little tight feeling in your chest and anxiety you feel trying to look at the realities in our racist society, how “lets just all be freinds” just doesnt work in the face of the anger and frustration that black people have to feel at the hands of violence , discrimination and obsticles thrown in their path at every step, Ive been facing in myself for decades…maybe you arnt even new to it, but you sure havent been dealing with it as long as I have…and , I dont mean ” I was in the Civil Rights movement and you werent”..I mean in everyday real life in much the same way you may be…When I see you came charging in so sure that I am a racist, when you havent quite analysed the situation or really read things I have said throughout the blog, it becomes really obvious you got your nervous exitment up thinking you had found some liberal closet racist to out for everyone to see…
The truth is, what I havent seen from one white person on here , including the well meaning ones, is some testamony that black people in their life have actualy inspired them to be better people, I dont mean a spouse, or iconic figure, Im talking about everyday growing up life. Some indication that there were black people who they admired as individuals who helped them to grow and understand life.
That is what is missing, and Ill tell you something else, not one white person on here can really define what is the genius and contributions and culture of the Afro Diaspora. Not even Bulanik can do that.
They dont know how to put in a concise tangeble statement what the value of the culture of ancient sub Sahara Africans is and how it affects most of us in the world today..Many white people here can talk about migrations, arceological findings, history, but, they are really mute on what is the gift of how to go about life that the Afro Diasporic culture is so rich at. Other black people on here have talked about it, Kwamla, Satanforce, Wilson, and other black people on here like Matari and Brothawolf and Truthbetold , instead of attacking semantical dead ends, have gone into “wrapping oneself with their whitenes” as the real problem, which actualy makes real sence in getting to what the problem is instead of semantical crusades as though that is the solution
Those are some pretty important things to understand if you ask me. You will never really know what the battle is about and what is at stake if you cant really look at things like that….the black people in your life that inspired you by setting an example in just everyday life, to help you grow as a person, some people you admired and inspired you . And if you cant really see the genius of the people who are discriminated against , and cant articulate it, you will never know why it is so disgusting and horrible that a people that has offered so much to humanity and civilisation has to be subjected to such disgusting treatment..its a whole lot more than “they are just people too”
And, Vanishing point, where plenty of people in here are brining in intimite details of their lives, on a regular basis, I think its strange that you single out the fact that I mentioned my wife and son . Its like you are trying to sniff something in me that other people are doing but you think you have my number because of some words in a peice you read…Even the blog owner has mentioned his situation with his wife and kids….but, you have to single me out…
Ive chosen to be transparent on here, me my wife and son are entertainers and have done many tours, we are out on the streets, we almost got attacked by a gang (that happened to be white) in South Beach walking home from a presentation. Our names are out there and we are in public to be scrutinised and face the good with the bad…mentioning them on a blog like this is not anything that is going to bring in anything worse than being exposed on the streets and the stage and I sure dont need them to hide behind to talk about race
on Sat Sep 8th 2012 at 01:20:16 vanishing point.
@B..R.
Lots of thoughts but I don’t want to derail this thread, but I will say this… I am trying to help you because other’s have helped me..and if you look back, I never once called you a racist….Of course, I am not in a position to help you, as I am on a learning curve myself..
on Sat Sep 8th 2012 at 10:08:52 B. R.
No Vanishing point you did imply am I aware of my racist tendencies , and, judged things about me that you didnt judge other people doing the same thing
I want to help you too, and Im on my learning curve also
I totaly question your analysis of me
the truth is, Vanishing point, you saw something in my personality you dont like and then are trying railroad it into impling its not being aware of my racist tendancies..I dont trust your judgement..and the way you are barreling ahead about it and not really trying to find out the truth sais a lot about you
Plenty of white people have come in here saying black people didnt contribute anything to the world..
Where are the white voices to counter that bogus claim? Where are the white voices that can speak to that claim and be able to answer back on the tip of their toungue what the contributions of black people to humanity and civilisation and the world are?
Plenty of white people come in here saying “this black person did something bad to me..black people are like that”
Where are the white voices to come in and say “no , I have had black people inspire me,teach me (outside of a politicly active racial dynamic mode since you better listen to a black person about that, anyway) and I admire those individuals because of how they helped me out in regular life and just learning how to grow” ?
I have seen political agendas ,rhetoric and dogma and pseudo psycho analysis come down the pike for decades now, and this relates to the issues we are discussing here about the blogging American Indians putting out their political agenda about what everyone else should or shouldnt do..
Ive seen the wrong turns and the political activist agendas that worked and the ones that didnt, that dashed on the rocks and has fallout into today, Ive studied it in differant countries, and seen the atutudes and agendas that failed miserably and ruined lives …if you are in this for the long haul, you better beleive there is a lot to learn
on Tue Sep 11th 2012 at 17:34:32 Cornlia
You know B.R. some are here, even though, like me, they do not accept the “white” labeling, simply they are not white-minded. And I don’t care, really, what people think of this political statement, because it is a political statement, and as such, is subjective. And I *think* it preferable to call myself who I am than to validate the frame of reference of race. Why should I, really ?
That said, an African man (probably Senegalese, but I was too little to remember) taught me to swim. Sounds trivial, right. But, Africans were not (and still are) not supposed to be “natural swimmers”. The people who say that have seen met Douala people. They may have met Bamiléké people who have that cultural fear of water due to the spirits they believe live in rivers.
Sounds trivial, still so. But what is not so trivial in my case is that that man was hired by my grandpa who was the public swimming-pool director at the time.
So in one movement, I DIDn’t learn what society would have taught me: that Africans have a certain range of capacities (one), which don’t include swimming, that my grand father was not supposed to be hiring a “black” man because he was supposed to be doing things like others -not hire a black person- (two) and that an African can’t teach anything to a French person (three). All in one, I couldn’t thereafter be taught that it wasn’t possible because I had experienced the opposite personally.
My grandma (that grand-father’s wife), when I was probably about the same age, didn’t allow for prejudice to enter my head. She told me the story of how she saw her first car ever, when she was little herself. It was in her village of Gouville on the Normandy coast, in the summer. A doctor (first event in the village of fishermen) came to stay at the village’s auberge with is family, driving a brand new car (second event) and the doctor was a French west-indian, so-called “black” man (third event).
My grand-parents basically didn’t allow for racism to settle in me.
All the stereotypes were broken, and that never goes reversed.
And then I learned much more, from and with dark-skinned Africans and Afro-descendents. And it seems just “normal”. Has always.
I meant “have NEVER met Douala people” ^
on Sun Sep 23rd 2012 at 11:59:52 B. R.
Cornlia, absolutly…
There is nothing trivial at all about telling that you were taught to swim by a black person…it is exactly what we need to see more of, white people saying that they learned from black people ,….because we are hearing so much crud going in the other direction, “black people havent contributed to civilisation”, “black people arent as smart as blah blah”…we dont hear enough from white people saying that they learned from black people, that they admired and were inspired by black people in their lives to make them better people…because the hypocracy is unbeleivable how big it is
Yes, Im lucky, in the face of white flight, my parents moved our family when I was very young into an integrated neighborhood , and Im eternaly thankful to them for that
on Sun Oct 7th 2012 at 17:58:36 restlesstextuality
I think this is an interesting post, Abagond. There is something here which can be seen between many cultures, not just between ‘whites’, ‘blacks’, and ‘Indians’. As a first generation immigrant, I never knew my birth-country, I grew up with a Russian family in a starkly different Canadian environment. While I spent almost my life here, there was always a heavy disconnect with my Russian cultural identity because of the distance and alienation, but I could not identify with a Canadian identity. Many immigrants face the issue of claiming a distinct identity, especially when growing up. I am sure there are often some confusing feelings, like guilt, associated with trying to claim a solid basis in one or another.
What is frustrating and certainly even more confusing, is why someone who has deep roots in one country, lives in this country, and whose entire being is tied to this country, why they would claim an identity of another country? In a way, I think this is a viral flaw in Canada and the U.S. (at the very least). Without a sense of true pride and connection to a culture and its prevalent characteristics, be they even stereotypes, this person might resent their own culture and seek something “more interesting”, or “more appealing”.
The only solution to this is for them to be educated about their own cultures and reclaim their own place. I have often met many Canadians who learn about others being of a different culture, and then either express how much more ‘cool’ that seems than being Canadian, or read off a list of their German, Native, Spanish, Australian and three-quarters Irish-immigrants to Macedonia heritage…. This is confusing, ignorant, and misplaced. I think we need to re-examine how we learn about culture, what heritage is, and how we can establish an identity in societies that do more to destroy, alienate, and appropriate identity.
With regard to individuals who claim to be of a different culture for image or money, there will always be nutcases.
on Mon Oct 8th 2012 at 08:03:13 Legion (formerly SW6)
on Tue Oct 16th 2012 at 15:53:47 Cornlia
Saw this on Facebook. I thought it was an interesting illustration to the conversation here.
on Tue Oct 16th 2012 at 17:21:56 Legion
I very much like what he said also.
on Tue May 14th 2013 at 04:07:43 Jim
You should see all the fake Indians running Foxwoods casino many are just there for the money but have no respect for the employees that helped build their now sinking empire.
on Sat Aug 3rd 2013 at 07:16:54 Aaron
Wynona Laduke is not a member of a fake tribe,her dad, Vincent Laduke , also known as Sun Bear was an actual Chippewa Tribal member who started a fake tribe: “…Sun Bear (Gheezis Mokwa) , 1929-1992, Chippewa,
Sun Bear, who was born Vincent LaDuke, was a writer and actor who is probably best known for founding the Bear Tribe in the 1970’s in Washington.”
on Sun Sep 15th 2013 at 01:36:45 hucipher
Do you have any links to the history of the “$5 dollar” Indians? Supposedly when the government was granting Indians and people with actual Indian heritage land and other government assistance(sometime in the late 1800’s early 20th century I believe) many Whites who wanted this government assistance would bribe the government official who was in charge of stamping ones papers as Indian or non Indian with $5.00(a lot of money back then but well worth it)
on Thu Sep 19th 2013 at 05:17:31 Stephanie Williams
Add Jay Tavare to that list of pretendians. He claims to be navajo and apache which he clearly isn’t. He is of Persian/Iranian heritage.
on Fri Oct 25th 2013 at 07:07:02 Asplund
I don’t really get the point of hostility here.
If a white man is 1/16 Cherokee, he’s 1/16 Cherokee. Don’t really get all the speculation regarding the motives of whites with Indian ancestry. I could just as easily speculate that the folks here don’t like whites having Indian ancestry because it legitimizes their presence in N.America, something attacked in other threads.
As far as I go, I don’t identify as Indian but my father does. Technically I’m a Choctaw citizen. However, I’m a mix of Choctaw and Finnish. Finnish is extreme N European genes. My dad’s close to a light skin black in coloration but my mother is the fairest person I know, and I take after her 90 percent.
I don’t really get how rednecks being prejudiced against blacks invalidates Indian blood. I’ve known full Choctaw who have hated all sorts. If you remember a few years ago there was controversy because descendants of freedmen previously owned by Cherokee wanted the courts to force their citizenship into the nation, even though they had no claim in the Dawes Rolls and thus no blood. I remember some full Cherokee being pretty hostile during that time.
Also keep in mind, these benefits everyone thinks exist often have extreme stipulations attached, and mosr of the federal money goes to Western nations who are struggling. Those nations are least likely to have many white or black citizens.
on Fri Oct 25th 2013 at 12:59:24 Brothawolf
Asplund,
Analyzing, critiquing and deconstructing racism is not hostile.
on Wed Jan 8th 2014 at 22:33:56 Lone Warrior
Other fakes include Jay Tavare whose real name is Jai janini and he is persian and/or Iranian, who had many native parts. He claimed to be Apache of the Deer Clan, well, guess what, there is no apache deer clan. Rudy Youngblood who claimed at least 3 different tribes from North America (he starred in Apocalypto via Mel Gibson.lol.) and he is actually from South America via Texas. His mother and sister and girlfriend told a native american producer the truth that he is NOT of the 3 tribes he claimed. He actually claimed he had relatives who died at the Battle of the Little Big Horn and at Wounded Knee! which really ticked many Sioux off. Rick Mora, another actor has no Tribe either. Kelly Two Wolves, a psychic and artist among other money-making schemes, claims Oglala. When asked how she is Oglala she merely exclaims that she just is. Johnny Depp has actually black roots not native american roots. After his movie the Lone Ranger failed miserably he tried to bring more attention to himself saying he would by Wounded Knee from the owner of the land and give it to the Sioux. He even made an appearance down there!LOL. He never spent a dime down there when he was there. Many will say they don’t want to honor the government by having an ID but the fact is it’s the Tribe, people who give the ID. Reverse racism doesn’t work on the rez. I’m from the Rez and can spot a fake a mile away.LOL.
One more comment about Iron Eyes Cody. It is irrelevant that he walked the walk which he didn’t because no matter if you marry native or do all kinds of native causes the fact remains he still was not and never will be Native. He was conveniently asked to remove himself from a room during a National Congress of American Indians conference just before the opening ceremony because to them he WAS SIMPLY NOT NATIVE. The nerve of some people. No disrespect intended here.
on Thu Jan 9th 2014 at 21:35:13 Herneith
We have the same type of fake Indians here in Canada except they are more mundane as they are not famous in some sort of way. It especially comes in handy when you call them a racist. They will allude to some remote First Nations ancestry as to why they can’t be!
on Thu Jan 23rd 2014 at 16:53:30 Naomi S
Hmmm i know this chick. She looks white and is some kind of ”alternative model”. In some her shoots she’s barely dressed, wearing fake regalia fit for carnival. She claims to be 70% indian and that she’s showing her pride with those photographs. And of course most of her fans buy this bullshit HAHAH!
Now, why would a woman who has some self-respect show pride for her heritage by running around like a clown? That only lets me draw the conclusion that she’s lying. What a shame.
on Thu Mar 20th 2014 at 06:36:19 Legion
I think cultural appropriation is on topic for this thread. The following is not about Fake Indians but fake Arabs, if you will. If you deem it off topic Abagond, please say so early.
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/04/why_i_cant_stand_white_belly_dancers/
I laughed out loud at the title of the piece but I read the piece too and the subject is serious. (I still get a kick out of the title though.)
A comment from the Salon comment section:
That is racist and stupid. I have the right to dance however I want. If I wanna swing naked from the ceiling in a thong, you better believe Im gonna do it, and I dont have enough GAFs to go around, so yeah. Bellydance is very spiritual and healing for me as a woman and as a PTSD survivor and I should be denied that based on my skin color? Ah Hell no. End the race bainting, were all one human race. PFFT!
This commenter has a point. However, I smell oversimplification at work too.
There is a sequel!
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/18/i_still_cant_stand_white_belly_dancers/
I have not read the author’s embedded links but the article itself is very good. She says this:
…one person can’t stop anyone from doing anything: White women will continue to belly-dance. What I’m asking is, when you are part of the dominant culture and live in a country that subsidizes the theft of land and resources from Arab people; in a country that supports and financially aids Arab governments that silence and even imprison democratic protesters; in a country where kids don’t feel safe telling schoolmates that they’re Arab-American – maybe think twice before you put on some genie pants and kohl and call yourself Samirah Layali?
it serves as one kind of answer to the quote of the commenter above.
I was particularly disgusted by two comments, to the sequel, that I came across:
blue 9 hours ago
I’m sorry I clicked this and read still more of this writer’s utter contempt for anyone outside her own ethnic background and leanings. Bigotry being presented as something moral and righteous is nothing new, of course. That’s what FOX news is all about. This writer is in the same ilk as Anne Coulter in my opinion. Shrill, dogmatic and proud to be mean spirited and divisive. The writers and thinkers I respect are those who recognize the humanity in everyone and address particular issues without blanket blame for anyone who happens to be in the neighborhood.
Serai1 9 hours ago
I just realized how fitting it is that both the pictures that accompany these articles are of one body part only, and it’s not the women’s faces, as Jarrar also refuses to consider the humanity of the women involved, and sees them only as icky offensive bodies moving to music to which she presumes to claim ownership.
The sophistry of the second comment is so ingrained it would be easier to extract a melted ice cube from a drink than to ever get through to this calculating, icy, holier than thou and pseudo humanitarian commenter.
on Sun Jul 27th 2014 at 20:31:31 Mark Swift
Lumbee tribe of north Carolina is the Biggest fake tribe made by politicians during jim crow for votes ,they started out as mulattos of scuffleton,NC an Immemorial homogenous free negro settlement,A home where the yellow(mulattos)gathered by 1900 they changed their name to the Lost colony croatans ,then Cherokee of robeson county when that failed they got through lobbying more politicians for a casino and free HUD money to pose them as a Lost tribe that forgot its language,customs,history and anything Indian(Lame excuse to cover up no indian culture)They copy plains Indians or anything off tv and try too hard to convince you they are real Indians yet having no indian genealogies ,treatys,culture or language,they all appear white,black white mixed and lack any significant native American Dna results.
Intensive modern genealogical research has been done by Prominent Drs Heinegg and Demarce and have come to the conclusion the lumbee are an invented tribe who ancestors migrated to Robeson county from tidewater Virginia same as all other colonist and their ancestor are all listed as Black,white or mulatto never as Indians or tribal people.
http://www.academia.edu/2008598/The_Limits_of_Advocacy_The_Case_of_the_Lumbee_Indians
on Wed Nov 19th 2014 at 08:37:22 Moanika
Hipster Racists, Pretenders and Race Benders love playing the five dollars Indian game for rape romantic, exotic appearance points and gov freebies. It’s scary to see people stealing another people’s blood and land. It kinda hurt my soul to see this full level of chaos towards the First Nation. Same way like the Aboriginals and other people caught into the bloodshed homicidestorm. The worst event in my life is seeing a person celebrating Thanksgiving, Christopher Columbus and other manmade holidays while claiming their victim’s bloodline. Same time by disliking them behind their backs.
on Wed Jan 7th 2015 at 03:18:24 b hand
I know a woman that pretends to be native American just so more people will buy her Native American reproduction art, her name is Supaya Gray Wolfe, she calls her business Many Tears, she uses this fake name so people will buy and spend more on her art, whereas she would most likely do fine if she were honest about her heritage, she seems to do better with her fake personallity.
on Wed Jan 7th 2015 at 13:47:00 Naomi S
that is just disgusting woah! there are a lotta people like that out there. Would be cool to expose all of them in public…hmmm
on Tue May 12th 2015 at 19:58:31 bahesmamam
Yeah, I think Winona La Duke is actually enrolled Chippewa as was her father who did start his own Rainbow-type tribe. I argued with him once on the radio when I was a kid. But she does a lot of good work with the tribes and IEN. Her dad was more about his guru-thing and I seem to recall she grew up separately from him.
on Tue Jun 30th 2015 at 14:31:43 Troy Felsman
Winona LaDuke is enrolled White Earth Ojibwa. That status cannot be denied. I would recommend if you are going to call somebody a phony Indian you should be more careful in your research. A tribe that has been around longer then her father was alive. Her mother was Jewish. Do the right thing and take her down from this website as she is Native American, look up her father Vincent LaDuke who is without a doubt native.
on Wed Jul 1st 2015 at 21:13:47 abagond
@ Troy Felsman
Thank you for the correction.
I confirmed that she is not fake and removed her from the list. Unlike the others on my list, she is not mentioned in any of my sources, so I do not know where I got that idea.
on Wed Jul 1st 2015 at 21:27:05 Lone Warrior
Her father tried to create his own tribe, the Sun Bear clan which was based on new age or fake spiritualism as compared to established native spiritualism. There were many alleged violations against women by him and his associates in these so-called ceremonies which mixed any and everything from Plains ceremonies to eastern philosophy.
@ Lone Warrior
Thanks. That is probably how I got the idea she was fake.
on Thu Jul 2nd 2015 at 18:36:06 OnTheReservation
It says something that 3 years after the date of this original blog that people are still responding. First, it’s clear that some people will manufacture a false identity purely for purposes of financial profit as with various authors and speakers who are selling a book or a “solution”. However most of the “Pretendians” and “Fauxchontases” I encounter seem to be doing it for personal reasons though I’m not sure why anyone would feel so inadequate and insecure about themselves that they would have to engage in fiction to compensate but they do. I think some people might start out with an innocent “white lie” (no pun intended) of “Yea I’m 1/8th Cherokee” perhaps simply because someone in their family said so. And over time the lie builds and evolves into a self-accepted “truth”. (By the way, why is it ALWAYS Cherokee when there are over 560 Federally recognized tribes ? At least mix it up now and then).
With the advent of cheap DNA testing a person could *easily* determine if and to what extent they have “Indian blood”. For example the company 23andMe will charge you around $100 and in return provide a detailed lineage report. The price will only get cheaper as time goes by so I expect the fakers to be fewer since people will either have to “put up or shut up”. In the end I don’t care what lies a person tells themselves or what deceptions they perpetuate to friends and acquaintances but if you go public with it and try to tell me you are Indian (when it’s really clear that you aren’t) then I’m going to ask you to prove it. Get mad if you want “bro” – get defensive if you want but if you are trying to horn in on a culture that is NOT yours then I’m going to push back on that.
Lastly, one of the lamest variations on the whole Pretendian thing I’ve heard lately was a white woman who claimed that “past life regression” revealed that she was an “Indian Princess” in her past 2 lives. (not a worker or an average person but a PRINCESS). So she claimed that this should qualify her for tribe membership.
on Thu Jul 2nd 2015 at 19:48:26 Lone Warrior
Yes. There are many reasons for claiming. There is the mystique or romanticism of being someone they try so hard to believe or identify with. There are also fake medicine men who will tell them, mainly white females, that they were native in a former life.lol. Purely for ‘hookup’ purposes or to make themselves feel important. Still many think nothing of truth, only of where there’s a will to lie, there’s a way that others will listen.LOL.
on Wed Dec 30th 2015 at 16:19:42 txcherind
While most of what you said was true, you put in one stereotype that plagues Indian Country. NOT ALL REAL TRIBES ARE FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED. Are you saying that the Pamunkey, recognized in 2015 were fake before that? Were the Jena Choctaw, recognized in 1995, fake before that? No, you are just reinforcing bigotry. Most groups calling themselves tribes are fake and everything you said is true about such fraudulent groups. However, there are groups that are not Federally Recognized that have never had that relationship with the US government, or they are now in the legitimate pursuit of it, that are REAL historical tribes, real Natives.
A few examples: The Kansas Wyandot Nation, has an 1896 Federal roll, they are legit but not recognized. They have an issue with continuity of government after the death of their traditional Chief, George Zane, but they are still REAL INDIANS;
The Mount Tabor Indian Community in east Texas formed in 1844 in part by an Executive Order of US President Polk, mentioned in numerous books (Cherokee Cavaliers and Genealogy of Old and New Cherokee Families to mention two, not to mention the Indian Papers of Texas, and a number of college papers), although known by different names, has existed as a political entity from historical times to present. It is the only group that is Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Creek (The name comes from one of the founders John Adair Bell, a Cherokee, in a letter to Stand Watie in which he calls his place “Mt. Tabor”. Further, if you know anything about the Cherokee during the Civil War, most families that left Indian Territory (CSA supporters) did so for Rusk County, Texas (aka Mount Tabor). Today the group is made up of six families that never left after the Civil War. All well documented American Indians, through the Guion Miller roll and Old Settler roll, 1832 Creek Census for Horse Path Town, 1818 Chickasaw Annuity Roll and Dawes Commission cases such as the William C. Thompson et al vs Choctaw Nation case.
Then finally you have the Miami Indians in Indiana. Although turned down for recognition on a technicality, they are legitimate American Indians according to the BIA and may still gain recognition through the courts.
These are but a few of the tribes still being held back and now discriminated against by people like you. Maybe you, the writer should do a little more research as well to get the real picture of Indian Country. The fakes truly hurt the non-recognized legit tribes/bands more than any others making people like you lump them all together. For the record, there is NO LEGITIMATE Cherokee tribe beyond the three federally recognized. Mount Tabor, although beginning as a Cherokee group, was made up of refugee Creeks, Yowani Choctaws and a few Chickasaws by the 1850 US Census. Most were mixed bloods, but they are not Cherokee only, making the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the only legit groups in the USA. No others can trace their history/government from historical times to present as a single entity. There are some individual families that are really American Indians and not part of recognized tribes, but 1 family does not make a tribe. Do a little more research.
on Thu Dec 31st 2015 at 06:30:08 jefe
@txcherind
I will concur that I also have an issue with this statement by Abagond:
The American government knows which are the true tribes and each tribe knows who belongs. That simple.
It certainly is not that simple. There are many Native American groups that are not recognized by Federal or State governments. Some that pushed for even state recognition often spent many decades doing it. Some tribes had been recognized for centuries, then had it taken away from them.
I alluded that it is a thorny issue determining which American Indians are genuine and which are fake, and in general, that has not helped their cause. It is an ongoing issue, and the impetus from Congress and corporate interests is to BLOCK their recognition.
(https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/american-indians-legal-recognition/)
Are you saying that the Pamunkey, recognized in 2015 were fake before that?
You must certainly be aware that their recognition was rescinded in October 2015 by an appeal from Stand Up California, which advocates that they are not authentic Pamunkey. So, at least some members of society still claim that they are fake.
I mentioned it here:
(https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/the-native-peoples-of-the-chesapeake-bay-region/)
This is despite the Pamunkey
– holding reservation land since early colonial times (some 350 years)
– paying their annual tribute (consisting of deer, turkey, animal skins) to the Commonwealth of Virginia every single year without fail ever since the treaty with the Virginia colony set aside reservation land for them.
– being forced to be reassigned as “colored” under Walter Plecker’s enforcement of the Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act.
– being forced to attend Indian schools designed to strip them of their culture and identity
The Pamunkey have kept up their end of the bargain since colonial times. The US and Virginia governments have not. Still the Bureau of Indian Affairs considers (frivolous in my opinion) appeals from lobbyists representing white corporate interests to rescind their recognition. If it were solely in the hands of Congress, all of these appeals for federal recognition would be thrown in the waste bin.
on Thu Dec 31st 2015 at 15:14:27 Lone Warrior
Like they say when citing truth. If it wasn’t written down it never happened. So for the gov’t’s purposes, if a tribe isn’t federally recognized it doesn’t exist to the gov’t. lol. js.
on Thu Mar 17th 2016 at 08:01:23 Douglas
Add the Bruchac family to the list! Lewis (Haplo: R-M269) Henry Bowman’s Y-DNA Markers:
12-23-15-10-11-17-12-12-13-14-13-30-15-9-10-11-11-24-15-18-28-14-17-17-17-10-11-19-23-15-15
Louis (Haplo: Q1a3a1) Napoleon O’Bomsawin’s Y-DNA Markers:
13-23-13-10-15-17-12-12-12-14-14-31-14-9- 9-11-10-27-14-21-30-13-18-19-20-12-11-19-23-15-16
NOTICE that the Y-Marker’s highlighted DO NOT MATCH between Bowman and O’Bomsawin.
This PROVES that the two men ARE NOT RELATED. Lewis Henry Bowman Sr. CANNOT BE …
… As Joseph Edward Bruchac III’s has written his ancestor’s narrative.
The repeatedly published and spoken Bruchac about “his Bowman grandfather and great-grandfather was an Abenaki” narrative is now genetically proven wrong.
on Thu Jul 14th 2016 at 21:12:41 Quanah Parker Brightman
Response to Pennie Opal Plant’s “Open Letter” Regarding Quanah Brightman. — at Gathering Tribes.
on Wed Sep 21st 2016 at 23:19:27 Afrofem
Professor Andrea Smith should be added to the list of fake Indians.
She was outed over a year ago in various media outlets, among them Indian Country Today.
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/01/four-words-andrea-smith-im-not-indian
Some of her work is featured in this Abagond blog post:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/the-three-pillars-of-american-white-supremacy/
on Mon Sep 26th 2016 at 16:45:13 Naomi S
all of this fakery makes me feel sick. makes me want to vomit
on Mon Sep 26th 2016 at 20:08:44 Lone Warrior
Yes…they should all be proud of whatever it is they have in their bloodlines. We are NOT a club.LOL.js.
on Tue Sep 27th 2016 at 02:09:56 Douglas Lloyd Buchholz
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yrW0_JXZQ) FAKE FRAUDULENT VERMONT State Recognized “Abenakis…. (DO NOT LAUGH TOO MUCH AT THIS) It’s really pathetic… (Are those real Eagle Feathers on a non-federally recognized Nulhegan “Cowasuck” “Chief” ???
on Thu Sep 29th 2016 at 00:20:13 naomi s
lool the funny thing is. everytime i meet such a person, their hair is dyed black (with blonde or brown roots CLEARLY visible) and a fake tan (to a lesser extend)
on another note. I can´t believe how long it has been. this article was posted 4 years ago and we´re STILL dragging these wierdos through the mud hahahahaha
on Sun Dec 18th 2016 at 21:25:46 nomad
“Iron Eyes Cody lived and worked as an Indian for all his adult life; he labored for decades to promote Native American causes, and was honored by Hollywood’s Native American community in 1995 as a “non-Native” for his contribution to film.”
Lived life as a Native American. Somehow I don’t consider that fake. I consider it honorable and honorary.
on Sun Dec 18th 2016 at 22:32:14 Solitaire
@ Nomad
Yes, if you look around, you’ll find there’s more mixed opinion in Indian country about Iron Eyes Cody than these other people — because he walked the walk. He married a Native woman, adopted and raised Native children, supported Native causes both financially and with his time. But he still lied about his racial background for decades while taking paying jobs that otherwise would have gone to Native actors. He built his entire acting career on a lie and received more industry recognition and public acclaim than actors who truly were Native.
on Mon Dec 19th 2016 at 15:00:43 Arlen Lee
There is no argument here. I’m full blood and no one can live “as a native.” It’s in our dna. No one has our unique experiences as Original Inhabitants of Turtle Island. No one has our Red Road in the Black Hills of South Dakota and so many other distinct issues and oral histories common only to us. Many people will say they were native spiritually…no. You have to be native in the blood. That is where no one can go unless they are native to Turtle Island.
on Mon Dec 19th 2016 at 16:36:20 jefe
^ I understand that it is kinship, more than blood per se which determines the native connection (although blood quantum is of course among the rules of membership in many tribes). Relationship by blood is the more common kinship arrangement, but others are possible (e.g., adoption). I know of some cases.
on Tue Sep 17th 2019 at 00:29:09 John Holmes
I was told by my mom when l was 14 l had Cherokee blood.l when on a journey l mean a journey.l when from Rez to Rez from the buetful people to the original people.l have seen the young die the old drunk the hopeless faces,the far away look no l am only part a small part but the best part of me is CHEROKEE!!.
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Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded
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By Barry Meier
Sarah Edmondson left Nxivm after being branded as part of a secret ritual.CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times
ALBANY — Last March, five women gathered in a home near here to enter a secret sisterhood they were told was created to empower women.
To gain admission, they were required to give their recruiter — or “master,” as she was called — naked photographs or other compromising material and were warned that such “collateral” might be publicly released if the group’s existence were disclosed.
The women, in their 30s and 40s, belonged to a self-help organization called Nxivm, which is based in Albany and has chapters across the country, Canada and Mexico.
Sarah Edmondson, one of the participants, said she had been told she would get a small tattoo as part of the initiation. But she was not prepared for what came next.
Each woman was told to undress and lie on a massage table, while three others restrained her legs and shoulders. According to one of them, their “master,” a top Nxivm official named Lauren Salzman, instructed them to say: “Master, please brand me, it would be an honor.”
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A female doctor proceeded to use a cauterizing device to sear a two-inch-square symbol below each woman’s hip, a procedure that took 20 to 30 minutes. For hours, muffled screams and the smell of burning tissue filled the room.
“I wept the whole time,” Ms. Edmondson recalled. “I disassociated out of my body.”
Since the late 1990s, an estimated 16,000 people have enrolled in courses offered by Nxivm (pronounced Nex-e-um), which it says are designed to bring about greater self-fulfillment by eliminating psychological and emotional barriers. Most participants take some workshops, like the group’s “Executive Success Programs,” and resume their lives. But other people have become drawn more deeply into Nxivm, giving up careers, friends and families to become followers of its leader, Keith Raniere, who is known within the group as “Vanguard.”
Keith Raniere, founder of Nxivm, in 2009. CreditPatrick Dodson
Both Nxivm and Mr. Raniere, 57, have long attracted controversy. Former members have depicted him as a man who manipulated his adherents, had sex with them and urged women to follow near-starvation diets to achieve the type of physique he found appealing.
Now, as talk about the secret sisterhood and branding has circulated within Nxivm, scores of members are leaving. Interviews with a dozen of them portray a group spinning more deeply into disturbing practices. Many members said they feared that confessions about indiscretions would be used to blackmail them.
Mark Vicente, a filmmaker and former top Nxivm official, said that after hearing about the secret society, he confronted Mr. Raniere.
“I said, ‘Whatever you are doing, you are heading for a blowup,’” Mr. Vicente said.
Several former members have asked state authorities to investigate the group’s practices, but officials have declined to pursue action.
In July, Ms. Edmondson filed a complaint with the New York State Department of Health against Danielle Roberts, a licensed osteopath and follower of Mr. Raniere, who performed the branding, according to Ms. Edmondson and another woman. In a letter, the agency said it would not look into Dr. Roberts because she was not acting as Ms. Edmondson’s doctor when the branding is said to have happened.
Separately, a state police investigator told Ms. Edmondson and two other women that officials would not pursue their criminal complaint against Nxivm because their actions had been consensual, a text message shows.
State medical regulators also declined to act on a complaint filed against another Nxivm-affilated physician, Brandon Porter. Dr. Porter, as part of an “experiment,” showed women graphically violent film clips while a brain-wave machine and video camera recorded their reactions, according to two women who took part.
The women said they were not warned that some of the clips were violent, including footage of four women being murdered and dismembered.
“Please look into this ASAP,” a former Nxivm member, Jennifer Kobelt, stated in her complaint. “This man needs to be stopped.”
In September, regulators told Ms. Kobelt they concluded that the allegations against Dr. Porter did not meet the agency’s definition of “medical misconduct,” their letter shows.
Mr. Raniere and other top Nxivm officials, including Lauren Salzman, did not respond to repeated emails, letters or text messages seeking comment. Dr. Roberts and Dr. Porter also did not respond to inquiries.
Former members said that, inside Nxivm, they are being portrayed as defectors who want to destroy the group.
It is not clear how many women were branded or which Nxivm officials were aware of the practice.
A copy of a text message Mr. Raniere sent to a female follower indicates that he knew women were being branded and that the symbol’s design incorporated his initials.
“Not initially intended as my initials but they rearranged it slightly for tribute,” Mr. Raniere wrote, (“if it were abraham lincolns or bill gates initials no one would care.)”
From the Message
Below is an excerpt of a text message Mr. Raniere sent to a female follower, which suggested that he knew women were being branded and that the symbol’s design incorporated his initials.
“… Not intended initially as my initials but they rearranged it slightly for tribute(if it were abraham lincolns or bill gates initials no one would care). The primary meaning and design of the brand symbol has nothing to do with my initials …”
Joining the Sisterhood
Ms. Edmondson, who lives in Vancouver and helped start Nxivm’s chapter there, was thrilled when Lauren Salzman arrived in January to teach workshops.
The women, both in their early 40s, were close and Ms. Edmondson regarded Ms. Salzman as a confidante and mentor.
“Lauren was someone I really looked up to as a rock star within the company,” said Ms. Edmondson, an actress who joined Nxivm about a decade ago.
During her visit, Ms. Salzman said she had something “really amazing” she wanted to share. “It is kind of strange and top secret and in order for me to tell you about it you need to give me something as collateral to make sure you don’t speak about it,” Ms. Edmondson recalled her saying.
The proposition seemed like a test of trust. After Ms. Edmondson wrote a letter detailing past indiscretions, Ms. Salzman told her about the secret sorority.
She said it had been formed as a force for good, one that could grow into a network that could influence events like elections. To become effective, members had to overcome weaknesses that Mr. Raniere taught were common to women — an overemotional nature, a failure to keep promises and an embrace of the role of victim, according to Ms. Edmondson and other members.
Submission and obedience would be used as tools to achieve those goals, several women said. The sisterhood would comprise circles, each led by a “master” who would recruit six “slaves,” according to two women. In time, they would recruit slaves of their own.
“She made it sound like a bad-ass bitch boot camp,” Ms. Edmondson said.
Ms. Edmondson and others said that during training, the women were required to send their master texts that read “Morning M” and “Night M.” During drills, a master texted her slaves “?” and they had 60 seconds to reply “Ready M.”
Trainees who failed had to pay penalties, including fasting, or could face physical punishments, two women said.
In March, Ms. Edmondson arrived for an initiation ceremony at Ms. Salzman’s home in Clifton Park, N.Y., a town about 20 miles north of Albany where Mr. Raniere and some followers live. After undressing, she was led to a candlelit ceremony, where she removed a blindfold and saw Ms. Salzman’s other slaves for the first time. The women were then driven to a nearby house, where the branding took place.
Sarah Edmondson showed her brand. CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times
In the spring, the sorority grew as women joined different circles. Slaves added compromising collateral every month to Dropbox accounts, and a Google Document was used to list a timetable for recruiting new slaves, several women said.
Around the same time, an actress, Catherine Oxenberg, said she learned her daughter had been initiated into the sorority.
“I felt sick to my stomach,” said Ms. Oxenberg, who starred in the 1980s television series “Dynasty.”
Ms. Oxenberg had become increasingly concerned about her 26-year-old daughter, India, who looked emaciated from dieting. She told her mother that she had not had a menstrual period for a year and that her hair was falling out.
Ms. Oxenberg said she invited her daughter home in late May to try to get her away from the group.
When Ms. Oxenberg confronted her about the sorority, her daughter defended its practices.
“She said it was a character-building experience,” Ms. Oxenberg said.
Catherine Oxenberg was informed that her daughter, India, had become part of Nxivm’s secret sorority.CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times
‘Humans Can Be Noble’
By the time the secret group was taking shape, Mark Vicente, the filmmaker, had been a faithful follower of Mr. Raniere for more than a decade.
Mr. Vicente said he had been contacted by Ms. Salzman’s mother, Nancy, a co-founder of Nxivm who is known as “Prefect,” after the 2004 release of a documentary he co-directed that explored spirituality and physics.
Soon, Mr. Vicente was taking courses that he said helped him expose his fears and learn strategies that made him feel more resolute.
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He also made a documentary called “Encender el Corazón,”or “Ignite the Heart,” which lionized Mr. Raniere’s work in Mexico.
“Keith Raniere is an activist, scientist, philosopher and, above all, humanitarian,” Mr. Vicente says in the film.
Mr. Raniere has used those words to describe himself. On his website, he said he spoke in full sentences by age 1, mastered high school mathematics by 12 and taught himself to play “concert level” piano. At 16, he entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
Before Nxivm, he helped run a company called Consumers’ Buyline Inc., which offered discounts to members on groceries and other products.
In the mid-1990s, several state attorneys general investigated it as a suspected pyramid scheme; Mr. Raniere and his associates agreed to shut it down.
Through Nxivm, Mr. Raniere transformed himself into a New Age teacher with long hair and a guru-like manner of speaking.
“Humans can be noble,” he says on his website. “The question is: will we put forth what is necessary?”
By many accounts, Mr. Raniere sleeps during the day and goes out at night to play volleyball or take female followers for long walks. Several women described him as warm, funny and eager to talk about subjects that interested them.
Others saw a different side. Nxivm sued several former members, accusing them of stealing its trade secrets, among other things.
Mr. Vicente said he was aware of the negative publicity, including a 2012 series by The Albany Times-Union that described alleged abuses inside Nxivm.
Mr. Vicente’s views began to change this year after his wife was ostracized when she left Nxivm and he heard rumors about the secret sorority.
Mark Vicente and his wife, Bonnie Piesse, both former members of Nxivm. Mr. Vicente confronted Keith Raniere about the secret society within the group. CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times
Mr. Vicente said he got evasive answers when he asked Mr. Raniere about the group. Mr. Raniere acknowledged giving “five women permission to do something,” but did not elaborate, other than to say he would investigate, Mr. Vicente said.
Mr. Vicente said he suspected Mr. Raniere was lying to him and might have done so before. Suddenly, self-awareness techniques he had learned felt like tools that had been used to control him.
“No one goes in looking to have their personality stripped away,” he said. “You just don’t realize what is happening.”
Followers Start to Flee
In May, Sarah Edmondson began to recoil from her embrace of the secret society.
Her husband, Anthony Ames, who was also a Nxivm member, learned about her branding and the couple both wanted out.
Before quitting, Mr. Ames went to Nxivm’s offices in Albany to collect money he said the group owed him.
He had his cellphone in his pocket and turned on its recorder.
On the recording, Mr. Ames tells another member that Ms. Edmondson was branded and that other women told him about handing over collateral. “This is criminal,” Mr. Ames says.
The voice of a woman — who Mr. Ames said is Lauren Salzman — is heard trying to calm him. “I don’t think you are open to having a conversation,” she said.
“You are absolutely right, I’m not open to having a conversation,” he replied. “My wife got branded.”
A few days later, many of Mr. Raniere’s followers learned of the secret society from a website run by a Buffalo-area businessman, Frank R. Parlato Jr. Mr. Parlato had been locked in a long legal battle with two sisters, Sara and Clare Bronfman, who are members of Nxivm and the daughters of Edgar Bronfman, the deceased chairman of Seagram Company.
Nxivm’s Executive Success Programs offices in Albany. The organization has chapters across the United States, Canada and Mexico. CreditNathaniel Brooks for The New York Times
In 2011, the Bronfman sisters sued Mr. Parlato, whom they had hired as a consultant, alleging he had defrauded them of $1 million.
Four years later, in 2015, the Justice Department indicted him on charges of fraud and other crimes arising from alleged activities, including defrauding the Bronfmans. Mr. Parlato has denied the claims and the case is pending.
Mr. Parlato started a website, The Frank Report, which he uses to lambaste prosecutors, Mr. Raniere and the Bronfmans. In early June, Mr. Parlato published the first in a torrent of salacious posts under the headline, “Branded Slaves and Master Raniere.”
A Nxivm follower, Soukaina Mehdaoui, said she reached out to Mr. Raniere after reading the post. Ms. Mehdaoui, 25, was a newcomer to Nxivm, but the two had grown close.
She said Mr. Raniere told her the secret sorority began after three women offered damaging collateral to seal lifetime vows of obedience to him.
While Ms. Mehdaoui had joined the sorority, the women in her circle were not branded. She was appalled.
“There are things I didn’t know that I didn’t sign up for, and I’m not even hearing about it from you,” she texted Mr. Raniere.
Mr. Raniere texted back about his initials and the brand.
By then, panic was spreading inside Nxivm. Slaves were ordered to delete encrypted messages between them and erase Google documents, two women said. To those considering breaking away, it was not clear whom they could trust and who were Nxivm loyalists.
Late one night, Ms. Mehdaoui met secretly with another Nxivm member. They took out their cellphones to show they were not recording the conversation.
Both decided to leave Nxivm, despite concerns that the group would retaliate by releasing their “collateral” or suing them.
Ms. Mehdaoui said that when she went to say goodbye to Mr. Raniere, he urged her to stay.
“Do you think, I’m bad, I don’t agree with abuses,” she recalled him saying. He said the group “gives women tools to be powerful, to regain their power for the sake of building love.”
Nxivm recently filed criminal complaints with the Vancouver police against Ms. Edmondson and two other women accusing them of mischief and other crimes in connection with the firm’s now-closed center there, according to Ms. Edmondson. The women have denied the allegations. A spokesman for the Vancouver police declined to comment.
Ms. Edmondson and other former followers of Mr. Raniere said they were focusing on recovering.
“There is no playbook for leaving a cult,” she said.
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Reading, Pa. newspaper CEO on buying the Village Voice: ‘It just needs food and water’
“I’ve always loved the publication. It was one of the formative things I read in prep school,” Peter Barbey told Billy Penn. “I plan to invest in the place.”
Chris Krewson
Oct. 12, 2015, 5:43 p.m.
The new owner of the Village Voice is keen to invest in the storied New York City weekly newspaper, he told Billy Penn on the afternoon that news broke of his acquisition. Peter D. Barbey, the 57-year-old CEO of the Reading Eagle Company, said his plans are to add staff until the weekly is “as big as we need to be. Bigger, definitely bigger. Until we get happy with the way the book is.”
Barbey told Billy Penn that he’ll remain CEO of the company that publishes the Reading Eagle, and that the newspapers would likely share back-office functions. But to be clear: The Eagle is not buying the Voice.
“I’ll continue to be President and CEO of the company, and the Voice will be a client in some things, in terms of operating, the back end of the Village Voice,” Barbey said. “But this is a New York paper. It is for New York, it’s going to have New York writers, it’s not a Pennsylvania thing.”
Barbey said he was in the process of looking for a home in New York City, and that he’s often in the Big Apple. During one of those trips, he was presented with the chance to buy the newspaper. But his interest in it goes back decades.
“That goes back to the ‘70s, man. I read this in school. I’ve always loved the publication. It was one of the formative things I read when I was in prep school in western Massachusetts,” Barbey said. “I’m honored I had an the opportunity to purchase it and be part of its future. It’s one of the world’s great journalistic brands. It deserves to survive and prosper. It’s important to a lot of people. It needs to not be resource constrained. Kind of like anything organic, it just needs food and water.
“We’re going to add writers,” he added. “Given my resources (the Barbey family ranks at no. 50 on the list of the richest in the United States, per Forbes), I plan to invest those in the place.”
For now, the Voice shares content with a number of sister publications, including the Miami New Times. That will continue, Barbey said, until he begins expanding staffing and ramps up his new staff. But he wouldn’t share details (“I don’t want to talk dollars”) and would say only that the amount of original content would grow.
“In the immediate sense, we don’t have a target. We have a budget for writers for the next few months, a headcount budget. We’re going to see how that plays,” said Barbey, who also plans a renewed push for freelance submissions and contributed work. “The Voice has always been a journal that people want to submit to… if it’s great stuff, we want to print it. If it’s in the wheelhouse of the Voice. You look at Vice Media, the way they grew through submissions… you not only grow by your staff.”
But it’s a long task ahead, he warned.
“Journalism’s been difficult. A lot of it is because there hasn’t been enough effort put into content. A lot of newspapers look at content like bullets in a gun that you shoot and get advertising. The ones that succeed are very thoughtfully curated and composed content. And the best writing wins,” Barbey said. “Like the Reading Eagle. I’ve been running that for four years now. We introduced new products and sections. And now we’re the best performing newspaper in Pennsylvania.”
Barbey said he plans to retain the current Village Voice staff, and that he’s not planning any cuts.
“We’re going to add. You’ve got to build your team going forward,” he said. “There’s some great talent there.”
chris@lionpublishers.com @ckrewson
Chris Krewson is the executive director of LION Publishers, a national nonprofit association that serves local journalism entrepreneurs build sustainable news organizations, and the founding editor of Billy Penn. He lives in Havertown.
Philly teen’s music video, a year in the making, carries Dr. King’s message into the future
Jehmir Nixon’s “Things That Matter” urges people to speak out against racial injustice.
By Lamar Reed
· Yesterday
VIDEO: Martin Luther King Jr. at Girard College in Philadelphia, 1965
The civil rights leader spoke to a crowd protesting segregation at Girard Collge.
By Billy Penn Staff
Royal Izakaya’s $1,000 nigiri plate is basically art
Chef Jesse Ito usually turns down requests because the dish is so time intensive.
By Danya Henninger
· Jan. 17
Philly’s coronavirus response
These daily updated charts track COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Philly and Pa.
How many people have been inoculated so far — and how close is herd immunity?
Flying into Philly from abroad? You’ll need to prove you don’t have COVID
The airlines are running point on the new CDC requirement, which will be enforced at PHL Airport.
By Layla A. Jones
Someone tore down the new tribute to LGBTQ activist Gloria Casarez within 48 hours
The building owner said they expected the artwork to remain up until at least the end of the month.
Philly DA vows to refile charges against fired police inspector after judge clears him of protester assault
Joseph Bologna was arrested in June after a baton-beating video went viral.
By Max Marin
New Philly mural shouts out Black and queer organizers’ role in getting Biden elected
"We Did That" is up near the Pa. Convention Center, at the spot that felt like the center of the universe during ballot counting.
Down the block from the whitewashed mural, a colorful new Gloria Casarez tribute
Queer artist Tiff Urquhart eased her pain by installing a wheatpaste of the LGBTQ icon.
How UPenn could revoke Trump’s Wharton degree
The bylaws don’t have a clause for incitement of insurrection, but there’s always the question of cheating on the SAT.
These are the 90+ elected officials from Pa. who supported challenges to Biden’s win
Several major corporations are stopping donations to lawmakers on this list, which includes eight congressional reps and more than 80 state reps.
‘Draw to Action’ coloring book features Philly artists and supports Philly nonprofits
When you buy a copy, you can choose which org gets the proceeds.
Know a City of Philadelphia employee who took part in the insurrection? Kenney asks for tips
The mayor emphasized he supports the First Amendment right to free speech.
Temple alum’s martial arts program aims to pull kids away from gun violence
“You never see a Black man or Black kids do jiu jitsu,” said Jeff Whittingham, who is trying to change that.
Philly has a ton of worker protection laws. But do workers actually know they exist?
It's not easy to spread the word about employee rights, so the city is looking to community partners.
South Philly was jealous, so film buffs opened the city’s third Free Blockbuster
The Delco native who came up with the idea is hoping no corporate buzzkills shut them down.
Say hello to Black Philadelphia Magazine, a new publication covering culture and community
The first issue of the glossy mag is out now, from the same publisher as the Uptown Standard newspaper.
City’s Hall’s evacuation plan: How Philly government has responded to past breaches
The most dangerous situation in recent history was a 1990 pipe bomb in the basement.
After Capitol breach, Philly terrorism expert warns of coming ‘paramilitary’ insurgency — led by Trump
The first step to quelling an insurrection is installing a competent government, said author and Navy veteran Malcolm Nance.
Sign up with Philly Fighting COVID, opening a vaccine clinic in Center City
When you sign up, you’ll get an alert as soon as your “phase” is eligible for inoculation.
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‘Things are getting worse’: economic collapse looms again in Zimbabwe
Posted on September 24, 2018 By News Team
Locals say conditions have deteriorated since July’s contentious election, as world powers keep their distance
Zimbabwe faces a deepening economic crisis as hopes fade of a new wave of international investment and aid following historic elections in July.
The poll, the first after the military takeover that led to the ousting of Robert Mugabe, was won by the ageing autocrat’s former righthand man, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mnangagwa’s campaign slogan was “Zimbabwe is open for business”, but people in the former British colony say conditions have deteriorated since the election.
Majory Manjoro, a part-time currency dealer in Harare, said life had become unbearable. “Things are getting worse. Everything goes up [in price]. Those in authority need to make sure things get better,” Manjoro, 33, said.
Although the elections in July did not see the systematic violence of those under Mugabe, alleged irregularities during the count and violent repression following the vote have resulted in only lukewarm support for Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu-PF party from major international powers.
The shooting by soldiers of six unarmed civilians in Harare during opposition protests has made endorsement of the new government difficult, officials privately admit.
Catriona Laing, the outgoing British ambassador, told local reporters the UK was concerned by the 1 August shootings and hoped to see political reform.
This has made the prospects of the multibillion-dollar financial package needed to stave off economic collapse unlikely, which has in turn discouraged private investors.
Mnangagwa faces very significant challenges. The country ran up massive debts during Mugabe’s 37-year rule which need to be repaid or rescheduled. Government revenues barely pay the wages of large numbers of public sector workers.
Few people in Zimbabwe have jobs, and infrastructure is crumbling.
At least 30 people have died in a cholera outbreak caused by sewage leaking from broken pipes into drinking water in Harare.
The UN has said that more than a million people need food aid, with more expected to need help if predictions of droughts later this year and in 2019 prove correct.
In Kuwadzana, a poor suburb in Harare, 35-year-old Blessing Mahwata said her business was falling apart due to rising prices.
“This is the toughest time I’m going through. Every time I go back to my suppliers the prices go up and it’s unsustainable,” said Mahwata, who feeds and clothes three children on her earnings as a peanut butter dealer and a part-time domestic worker.
Zimbabwe abandoned its own currency amid runaway inflation nine years ago and now uses US dollars and South African rands, supplemented by bond notes printed by the central bank which command little confidence.
Many commodities are in short supply.
Zimbabwe owes at least $18bn to major international lenders, with arrears of around $1.8bn making it hard to obtain further loans.
There are also 141 entities and individuals in Zimbabwe, including Mnangagwa and Mugabe, currently under US sanctions.
Manisha Singh, the US assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs, told a House of Representatives hearing earlier this month that the new government has to demonstrate it is “changing its ways” before these can be lifted.
“Our pressure on Zimbabwe remains in place. We are trying to use this pressure to leverage political and economic reforms, human rights observations … We want to see fundamental changes in Zimbabwe and only then will we resume normal relations with them,” Singh said.
China has proved unwilling to provide the immediate funds needed by Zimbabwe, citing concerns over the country’s ability to repay existing unpaid debts.
Mnangagwa recently named Mthuli Ncube, a former chief economist at the African Development Bank and a lecturer in finance at the London School of Economics, as finance minister.
The choice has been welcomed by observers.
Ncube has spoken of the need for radical reforms. Last week, he said at least $15m set aside to buy cars for ministers and parliamentarians would instead be used to fight the cholera outbreak.
In recent days, the price of bread has increased by 10%, owing to an acute shortage of wheat, while fuel prices have also risen.
Authorities have deployed riot police to disperse stallholders in Harare accused of worsening the cholera outbreak by selling contaminated fruit and vegetables.
The vendors have vowed not to move.
“I cannot go off the streets but I fear that something bad might happen to me. They have threatened us countless times but I have no choice … the streets are our home,” said Tafadzwa Sakwe, an electrician who was laid off five years ago and has polished shoes since.
“The economy is deteriorating and prices are rising every day. On a good day I make US$13. I rent a one-roomed apartment in Chitungwiza with my wife and two children. It’s not enough,” he said.
Many in Harare say they are angry that life has not improved since the fall of Mugabe.
“Most Zimbabweans who marched against Mugabe never thought we could be in a worse state, a year later,” said Bright Ndebele, a 27 -year-old unemployed graduate.
“We wanted Mugabe gone so that we can have a better future. This is far below our expectations,” he said.
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Porsche stops making diesel cars after VW emissions scandal
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Stephen Rubio's Blog
"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box." -Edward R. Murrow, on television
Screw You, Ubisoft, I’m Gonna Go Do Parkour
Ubisoft pretty much single-handedly killed open worlds for me. I’m sure anyone who plays games regularly can remember the excitement open world games used to bring, and I blame Ubisoft for stamping that excitement out. I can trace this arc most clearly through how I played the Assassin’s Creed series, which is perhaps the purest distillation of Ubisoft’s open-world formula. I played Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, Revelations, and III over the course of about a month, voraciously devouring them in a mad dash to complete the games before III came out. When I started the franchise, I was in love, and when I finished it, there were few games I hated more. And the core of this very strong emotional response was how the games handled their open worlds.
See, Ubisoft games have one *hell* of a honeymoon period. When I started all of the Assassin’s Creed games, Watch Dogs, and Far Cry 4, I was raving about how great they were. I talked about their amazing ideas, reveled in their genuinely novel high concepts, and delighted in exploring their mechanical idiosyncrasies. But then, about four hours in, the honeymoon phase fades, and I realized the relationship was shit all along. I discovered that the parkour really is that shallow, that the driving really is that shit and it’s never going to get better, that, oh my god, they seriously expect me to climb this tower for the seventh time. And then the monotony hits, usually all at once. I start to dread having to explore the open world, I started to cringe how formulaic the story is, and, most of all, I start to notice the checklists.
Out of everything in Ubisoft games, the checklists are the things I despise the most. They turn the wonder and mystery of an entire, digitally-created world into a series of to do lists for you to complete to increase your overall completion percentage, which is clearly your objective meter of how much Fun(TM) you’re having. Soon, the allure of exploring a new world fades into the conditioned monotony of seeing how many items you can check off this list before you get so bored that you give up on it. And that emotion, boredom, becomes the driver for how I play Ubisoft-style open world games. I have to do all these side missions, so let’s keep doing them until I get bored and have to do a story mission to hold me over until the boredom peaks again. I’ve thought about it, and even my favorite open world games like Skyrim could have their core engagement of exploration obliterated with a simple checklist. The greatest moments in those games are when you find a hidden cave tucked away behind some out-of-the-way mountain, explore every nook and cranny, and find some magic item with a weird effect that you hang onto because, sure, it’s a good item, but you have a story about how you found it. If Skyrim was made by Ubisoft, you would see a marker on your map for the magic item’s exact location, and be told that you need to collect it and the 2534 other magic items in the world to reach 100% completion, so that by the time you got there you would just follow the line on your map to the item, pick it up, and leave. All the magic is gone, you’re just going from Point A to Point B.
So, is that it? Has Ubisoft’s destruction of the reasons I loved open world games infested the industry so thoroughly that I will never enjoy one again? Apparently not, because Mirror’s Edge Catalyst came out last week, was a Ubisoft-style open world in everything but name, and I loved the goddamn hell out of it.
The original Mirror’s Edge game came out some eight years ago, and has been one of my all-time favorites ever since I first played the demo at a friend’s house. In the time since then, there has never quite been anything like it. Sure, Brink had some parkour, Titanfall took the basic stylings and made it crazy fast (and added jetpacks, which is always nice), and Dying Light applied it to a Ubisoft-styled open world on their own, but while I love all of those games (except Brink, c’mon, Bethesda, what were you thinking?), none of them even come close to Mirror’s Edge. Because as fun as their movement systems are, at the end of the day, the feel just a bit too floaty, too removed, and, most importantly, too easy. Movement is never the core gameplay of those games. In Mirror’s Edge, it was basically all you had (I’m not going to talk about the shooting mechanics, and no one else should either). While Ubisoft games had me hating going from Point A to Point B, Mirror’s Edge is basically nothing but that. So, they figured, if our game is entirely about getting from one place to another, why not make that really freaking fun? And they did! The movement in Mirror’s Edge is filled with this flow, heft and weight. Faith can get up to some serious speed, but she lands with a thud, will get hurt if you don’t time your roll right, and fall to the ground with a sickening crunch if you miss a ledge grab. The game asked you to be constantly aware, not just to stay alive, but to move as fast as you can and look as cool as you can while doing it. The aesthetics of parkour, of traversing a complicated space in a unique way and making it look effortless, translated so well into gameplay that I am amazed that, eight years later, NO ONE ELSE HAS GOTTEN IT RIGHT. But the first Mirror’s Edge was a linear, level-to-level game, and while I really admire and enjoy its purity, this year, when we *finally* got a sequel, they changed that.
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is a straight-up, Ubisoft-inspired, checkbox-ridden, collectible-filled open world. It has an overall completion rate, barfs icons for random tasks onto your map, and doesn’t provide and mechanical incentive to do any of those things. And I freaking love it. Most open world games get very tedious, very fast, because a decent chunk of your game time is just walking from objective to objective, but in Mirror’s Edge, running everywhere is the core gameplay, so they focus on making it as engaging as possible. I had a blast finding out different routes from the various points of interest in the game, felt amazing whenever I found a new shortcut to shave off some travel time, and got genuinely, shout-an-exclamation-of-joy-at-two-in-the-morning-and-piss-off-my-parents excited when I unlocked a new upgrade that let me double wall jump. I didn’t care if I was parkouring to a fixed objective on the map that added to my overall completion, I was doing parkour! I wish I had more to say about it than that, but all it took to make this style of open world enjoyable was to just make going from place to place exciting. The walking wasn’t a chore anymore. I learned every detail of the environments because they were useful to me. And a type of game that I had *hated* for years suddenly was something I was raving to friends about again. Except this time, the honeymoon phase didn’t wear off.
This entry was posted in Concepts, Game Analysis and tagged games, gaming, mirror's edge, mirror's edge catalyst, video games on June 14, 2016 by Stephen Rubio.
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March 3, 2020 January 14, 2021 Candace Paul
A Look Back: Stephen Vladeck Debates the Merits of Supreme Court Term Limits
During this term, the Supreme Court will likely hear several contentious cases that will shape law and policy – thus impacting American lives for generations. The process of Supreme Court nomination and confirmation is etched into Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. And with each confirmation, a Justice holds a lifetime appointment. Should that change? Should U.S. Supreme Court Justices be subject to term limits?
In 2017, University of Texas Law Professor and EPIC Advisor, Stephen Vladeck participated in the National Constitution Center’s Debate series where they took on this question. Alan Morrison, Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service Law at George Washington University Law School and Ward Farnsworth, Dean of the University of Texas School of Law argue for the motion. Stephen Vladeck, professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law and John Eastman, director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence at Chapman University Fowler School of Law argue against the motion. Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center moderates.
Watch this fascinating debate below.
For more information on Stephen Vladeck and other topics, please visit www.epic.org.
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Chemical data of depth profiles of stations in international water collected during the SWERUS-C3 Arctic expedition
Leif G. Anderson
Depth profiles of data from water samples collected by a rosette-CTD system in international waters during the second leg of the expedition SWERUS-C3. Noted are the CTD pressure, temperature and salinity at the tripping of the bottles, together with the following data from the analysis of the collected water: Salinity, oxygen, phosphate, nitrate, silicate, total alkalinity, dissolved inorganic carbon and pH.
Marine Marine chemistry Arctic Ocean Hydrography Nutrients Carbon system
Anderson, L.G., G. Björk, O. Holby, S. Jutterström, M. O’Regan, C. Pearce, I. Semiletov, C. Stranne, T. Stöven, T. Tanhua, A. Ulfsbo, M. Jakobsson. (2017). Shelf –Basin interaction along the Laptev – East Siberian Sea. Ocean Science, 13, 349-363, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-349-2017
Anderson, L.G., J. Ek, Y. Ericson, C. Humborg, I. Semiletov, M. Sundbom, A. Ulfsbo. (2017). Export of calcium carbonate corrosive waters from the East Siberian Sea. Biogeosciences, 14, 1811-1823, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1811-2017
Björk, G., M. Jakobsson, L.G. Anderson, J. Nilsson, C. Stranne, K. Assmann, L. Mayer. (2018). Bathymetry and oceanic flow structure at two deep channels crossing the Lomonosov Ridge. Ocean Science, 14, 1–13, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1-2018
Water samples were collected using a rosette system equipped with 24 bottles of Niskin type each having a volume of 7 L. The bottles were closed at predefined depth during the return of the CTD-rosette package from the bottom to the surface. Water samples for all constituents were drawn soon after the rosette was secured in a CTD container and all analysis were performed on the ship, typically within 24 hours of sampling. State of the art analytical techniques were used resulting in the following data quality. For oxygen precision was determined using replicates from the same depth and was better than 0.5 µmol/kg, with the accuracy determined by titrating standards to better than 0.1% of the concentration. The precision for nutrients, based on 28 determinations of standards, were 1.2%, 2.7% and 1.3% for NO3, PO4 and SiO4, respectively. Accuracy was determined from analysis of CRM to -0.1 µmol/L for NO3 and -0.02 µmol/L for PO4. For both DIC and TA the precision was determined to better than 2 µmol/kg from duplicate sample analysis, with the accuracy set by calibration against certified reference materials (CRM, Batch #123 and #136), supplied by A. Dickson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (USA). For pH the accuracy was estimated to 0.006 from internal consistency calculations of analysed CRM samples and the precision, defined as the absolute mean difference of duplicate samples, was 0.001 pH units. The seawater pH is reported on the total scale and in situ temperature. All data is contained in one xlsx file.
Leif G. Anderson is PI of the chemical data.
Leif Anderson
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 461
SE-40530 Gothenburg
GCMD science keywords
Earth science > Oceans > Ocean chemistry
GCMD location
Ocean > Arctic Ocean
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These data are collected within the SWERUS-C3 project supported by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation as well as the project “Sources and sinks of carbon dioxide in a changing Arctic Ocean and their impact on ocean acidification” supported by the Swedish Research Council. The latter project aims at increasing our understanding of the feedbacks among the physical and biogeochemical components of the Arctic Ocean carbon system, which comprise the assessment of carbon transformation on the large shelf areas and the exchange with the deep central basins, as well as likely changes in the effect on vertical carbon flux by export of marine produced organic matter to the deep central Arctic Ocean when the sea ice coverage is absent during the productive summer season.
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Summer's finally here, and Derek Fallon is looking forward to pelting the UPS truck with water balloons, climbing onto the garage roof, and conducting silly investigations. But when his parents decide to send him to Learning Camp, Derek's dreams of fun come to an end. Ever since he's been labeled a "reluctant reader," his mom has pushed him to read "real" books-something other than his beloved Calvin & Hobbes.
As Derek forges unexpected friendships and uncovers a family secret involving himself (in diapers! no less), he realizes that adventures and surprises are around the corner, complete with curve balls. My Life as a Book is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
5.8 X 0.85 X 8.48 inches | 0.78 pounds
Janet Tashjian is the author of acclaimed books for young adults, including The Gospel According to Larry, Vote for Larry, Fault Line, and Multiple Choice. Disney adapted Tru Confessions into a television movie starring Clara Bryant and Shia LaBeouf. Tashjian studied at the University of Rhode Island and Emerson College. She lives in Needham, Massachusetts, with her family.
"This book is visually appealing to reluctant readers and shows that all kinds of stories can surprise us." --Chicago Tribune
"Janet Tashjian, known for her young adult books, offers a novel that's part Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007), part intriguing mystery; yet the best element here is really the first-person voice, which captures so completely the pushes and pulls in the life of someone with learning disabilities . . . . Give this to kids who think they don't like reading. It might change their minds." --Starred, Booklist
"Amusing stick figures accompany Derek's narration, dutifully following his teacher's suggestion of animating any difficult vocabulary word." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Sure to engage fans of Jeff Kinney's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" books (Abrams) as well as those looking for a spunky, contemporary boy with a mystery to solve." --School Library Journal
"[The] illustrations, drawn by Tashjian's 14-year-old son, Jake, are quite clever." --Publishers Weekly
"A kinder, gentler Wimpy Kid with all the fun and more plot." --Starred, Kirkus Reviews
"My Life as a Book is a fabulous, fast-paced choice for reluctant and avid readers alike." --BookPage
"Cartoon drawings by the author's teenaged son decorate the margins and not only re-create Derek's illustrated vocabulary lists but also reduce the amount of text on each page, making the book more approachable for kids like Derek. Derek tells readers, "If my life were a book, I'd have my own cool adventures." It is, and he does." --Horn Book
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The Serpent 2021
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The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.
Genre : Drama, Crime
Stars : Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Ellie Bamber, Billy Howle, Amesh Edireweera
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“PURCHASE GARMENTS, TEXTILES, VEHICLES PRODUCED IN GHANA” – PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO TO PUBLIC AGENCIES
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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has directed all public agencies to source garments, textiles and vehicles from domestic producers in the country.
Speaking at the unveiling of the first Volkswagen assembled vehicles on Monday, 3rd August 2020, President Akufo-Addo explained that when COVID-19 reared its head in Ghana, one of the key objectives set by Government, in response, was to use the challenge of the pandemic as an opportunity to inspire the expansion of the country’s domestic capability, and deepen our self-reliance.
“To wit, we want to rely on the things we make and grow, not on the things we import. Indeed, the pandemic has disrupted the global supply chain, but it is also opening up opportunities for us to enhance our industrial, productive capacity, increase our agricultural output to engender our food security, and, generally, boost Ghanaian exports to markets in the continent and beyond,” he said.
A clear case in point, according to the President, has been the country’s recent experience in the garment and textiles sector, with the onset of COVID-19.
“With the support of Government, our, hitherto, dormant domestic garment factories have, over the past few months, been revived, and have been able to produce, currently, fifteen million face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPEs) for frontline health workers, and for all those, i.e. students, teaching and non-teaching staff, involved in the partial reopening of our junior and senior high schools, universities and other tertiary institutions,” he said.
President Akufo-Addo continued, “This has saved our nation millions of dollars in foreign exchange, and, at a time of job losses, has created jobs for thousands of people, especially young people, across the country. These job opportunities would have, otherwise, gone to foreigners in distant shores, had we chosen to import these PPEs.”
Government, the President stressed “is determined to continue this development with appropriate policy, including insisting that all public agencies purchase, henceforth, their textile and garment needs from domestic sources.”
He added that Government wants to replicate this example in all other sectors of the economy, including the automobile industry, adding that “we want to assemble and produce vehicles in Ghana, and, thereby, reduce, eventually, our over-reliance on the importation of used vehicles.”
To this end, President Akufo-Addo said the Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, has issued, recently, a new directive to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies, and, indeed, to the Public Procurement Authority, to give first preference to the acquisition of locally assembled vehicles, when public funds are used to buy vehicles.
He revealed further that, in the Finance Minister’s Mid-Year Budget Review Statement to Parliament, Government is going to establish an Automobile Industry Development Support Centre, which will, amongst others, co-ordinate the technical processes for licensing domestic vehicle assemblers and manufacturers, and monitor, also, their compliance with industry regulations and standards.
The Centre, in addition, will also co-ordinate the implementation of an essential element of a viable automotive sector, that is the establishment of a Vehicle Financing Scheme, which will link financial institutions to individuals and groups interested in purchasing newly-assembled vehicles in Ghana.
“Furthermore, the Centre will carry out an Automotive Skills Enhancement Programme to provide requisite skills for the various categories of the value chain of the automobile industry. All these measures are situate in the context of the Ghana Automotive Development Policy,” he added.
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Jane Eyre: A Graphic Revision Guide for GCSE English Literature
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Graphic Revision Guide for Jane Eyre, specially written to support special educational needs (SEN) and lower ability students
This Graphic Revision Guide for Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre makes studying or revising this iconic novel easy. Suitable for all GCSE English Literature examinations. Brilliant Publications' Graphic Revision Guide for Jane Eyre has been specially written by Elizabeth May to support students with lower ability or special educational needs (SEN). It contains teaching resources especially tailored to strengthen the student's understanding of plot, characters, quotes, themes and more.
The book brings an element of fun and informality to the study of this classic GCSE text, repackaging large amounts of complex information in an engaging and simple manner. Studying the sheets doesn’t seem like reading or working, yet having these graphic sheets in front of them helps students immensely in understanding and sequencing the plot, remembering key events, distinguishing between characters and understanding characters’ perspectives.
Although initially designed to help and support SEN students, the author soon found that all the students in the class wanted copies of the graphic sheets and benefited from using them. Many students find it difficult to remember what happened in a book and in what order, let alone to write a timed essay picking apart the intricacies of it. With this book, students will gain confidence in their knowledge before jumping into the deep end.
Our Graphic Revision Guide for Jane Eyre contains:
the story of Jane Eyre re-told in comic form, making it easy to follow the plot
context pages, giving background information on 19th Century England, Charlotte Brontë, Gothic Fiction, Romantic Fiction and Bildungsroman
character pages for each of the main characters, including quotes from the book
theme pages for the key themes of the book – gender roles, love, religion, class – with relevant quotations for each
additional graphic reference material to help with the setting and bringing the plot to life
activity pages ranging from vocabulary lists and matching the quote to the picture to character and quote analysis maps.
The sheets are designed to be accessible to students with a range of special educational needs (SEN) through the use of:
a heavy focus on visuals to help students to remember, understand, get interested in and create associations to the text
simple language for greater accessibility
a focus on vocabulary – explaining and rephrasing tricky words
a focus on plot comprehension; chapter summaries are condensed to include key events, and are image-based to help students remember what happened and consolidate a full picture of the plot
key quotes are repeated and linked to characters and themes.
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Governments’ Failed Response to Coronavirus Reminds Us Why Bed Bugs are Still “A Thing”
When you think about the coronavirus, bed bugs are probably the absolute last thing that come to mind.
But for me, a person who has been helping people get rid of bed bugs for the past 6 years, the government response to “Covid-19” comes across as the same song, second verse.
This is because the way government has shut down society and kept otherwise healthy low-risk categories of people from work, school, and travel due to the current “pandemic” closely mirrors the same inept and devious handling of the worldwide bed bug epidemic.
Covid-19 and Bed Bug Treatments: a Monopoly in the Making
Recently the FBI raided a Michigan medical spa for providing intravenous vitamin C treatments, something they’ve done for the past 10 years, “to help support people’s immune systems and to help those with the virus recover quicker”, according to owner Dr. Charles Mok.
Just a month ago, CNN tweeted “There is *no evidence* that garlic, water, vitamin C, essential oils, colloidal silver, or steroids will protect you from coronavirus, no matter what you read on the internet”.
…Imagine the irony of CNN saying on the internet, that you can’t trust what you read on the internet.
Vitamins C, D can help prevent coronavirus, Oregon State University researcher says
In what seems like common sense to me, Oregon State University researchers have gone on record to say that nutrition, including foods rich in vitamin C, can help in fighting off the novel coronavirus, because it strengthens the body’s immune system.
And yet, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, in an interview with CNN, said that the site would remove videos of anyone saying that taking Vitamin C would cure the coronavirus.
Sure, vitamin C may not be a cure for the common cold, or the coronavirus, but knowing just how liberal these silicon valley tech giants are when it comes to censoring people on their platform, it presents just one more hurdle to the average person attaining a higher level of basic knowledge to protect their own health.
And That’s Just How Government and the Medical/Pharmaceutical Industry Want It
Governments around the world have failed to inform the public of all the things they can do to bolster their immune systems, and in fact, have actually shut down societies in half the world as an over-reaction that may actually be counter-productive to surviving Covid – 19.
And this brings me back to bed bugs.
This is Why the Bed Bugs Bite
As of right now, one of the absolute best, cheapest, safest and completely natural remedies to eliminate a bed bug infestation is being held from the general public as well.
It’s called natural amorphous silica, and it can be found in the bottom of freshwater lakes as well as oceans. It’s a type of fine dirt that also goes in the agricultural food supply as well. Cows eat it and it kills microscopic parasites in their digestive tracts.
People put it down in their chicken coops to eliminate ticks, fleas, and mites. I’ve eaten it myself probably 15 – 20 times, as it also attacks parasites in humans just as effectively, and strengthens hair and nails.
And the Environmental Protection Agency tells people NOT TO USE IT against bed bugs, even though it has a proven efficacy which I can verify along with 100’s of thousands of people who have also used it against insect pests.
Is it 100% safe?
Well, you probably shouldn’t snort it like it was a line of cocaine. But even if you have been unfortunate enough to breathe in a bunch of it as I have myself when recklessly demonstrating how I could eat a spoonful of it to an acquaintance, it’s good to know that 1) I survived, and 2) “Inhalation of amorphous silicon dioxide, in high doses, leads to non-permanent short-term inflammation, where all effects heal.“
Pesticide Grade Silica Does Exist, Though It’s Less Effective, and Government and a Few Companies Have a Monopoly Over It
It’s true, the EPA licenses silica for use against crawling insects, and I sell it from my website specifically for bed bug treatment, though I sell an existing product from a company that was founded before World War 2.
And when you consider the cost of bed bug extermination vs. silica, it becomes almost criminal that the government has created a de facto monopoly over this type of cheap, abundant and natural resource, as silica costs far less than getting an exterminator and is much preferable to using chemical compounds which could have lasting, harmful side effects.
Government Creates Dependency, Scarcity, and Ignorance
It’s like this worldwide regarding both bed bugs and the coronavirus. Instead of governments putting out the most useful, empowering, and effective information on dealing with problems, they act as if the only solution is going to be a vaccine, and the only solution against bed bugs is calling Terminix and getting your house sprayed down with chemicals for anywhere from $500 to $1,000.
Not only is this a terrible approach to solving a problem- any problem- it’s also intellectually and morally dishonest, and lazy. Instead of empowering people to solve their own problems, they are actively shutting down the economy, ruining people’s lives, and demanding compliance and uniformity.
And it’s about time the world woke up to how things really are, and not trust the facade that “authoritative sources” would like us to believe.
Your health, future, and survival could very well depend on it.
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WHO urges mask wearing at Christmas, fearing new Europe coronavirus surge
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COPENHAGEN (AFP) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Europe on Wednesday (Dec 16) urged families to wear face masks during this year’s Christmas family gatherings, as it warned of a “further resurgence” of Covid-19 in early 2021.
The United Nations agency said people should not underestimate “the importance of your decisions” and encouraged extra precaution for holiday gatherings, even within the family.
If possible, the WHO said celebrations should be held outdoors and “participants should wear masks and maintain physical distancing”.
For indoor festivities, the WHO said limiting the number of guests and ensuring good ventilation were key to reducing the risk of coronavirus infection.
“It may feel awkward to wear masks and practise physical distancing when around friends and family, but doing so contributes significantly to ensuring that everyone remains safe and healthy,” the health agency said in a statement.
The plea came as the WHO noted that “Covid-19 transmission across the European region remains widespread and intense”, even though some “fragile progress” had been made.
“There is a high risk of further resurgence in the first weeks and months of 2021, and we will need to work together if we are to succeed in preventing it,” WHO Europe said.
The WHO’s European Region comprises 53 countries and includes Russia and several countries in Central Asia, a region that has registered more than 22 million cases of the coronavirus and close to 500,000 deaths.
In the last seven days, nearly 1.7 million new cases have been recorded, as well as more than 34,500 deaths.
As a second wave of the coronavirus is sweeping over the continent, many countries have once again introduced tough measures to curb the spread.
On Wednesday, several new measures were imposed, including the closure of non-essential shops in Germany and pubs and restaurants in Britain.
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker Is An Extremely Good Game That You Should Play
Thinking of escaping the rat race of your 9-5? Feel like Earth is holding you down? Hardspace: Shipbreaker is your chance to see where all this capitalism is taking us. It’s space. We’re going to do some space capitalism.
You know how Elon Musk recently sent a load of shite into orbit around Earth – because that’s something you can do if your dad owned an emerald mine in Zambia, apparently – and really annoyed astronomers? Hardspace: Shipbreaker is about the potential fallout of that kind of hubris. It’s about cleaning up cosmic debris and making scraps from the chewed up chicken bones of hyper-capitalism.
Space here is like a teenager’s bedroom, but instead of discarded socks it’s hulking capital ships and derelict space shuttles. There’s money to be made for anyone brave enough to float out there in the expanse to salvage it, as long as you make enough to pay off the billions in debt you accrued just to get up here in the first place.
I realise I’ve made that sound stressful, and I’m sure it would be in real life, much like the act of simply existing in this modern world is a living nightmare for our monkey brains. But let me tell you: there’s something strangely relaxing about this game. It might be the most relaxing game I’ve played all year, in fact.
Most video games are secretly about cleaning up. And I’m not talking about games that are specifically about cleaning, like Viscera Cleanup Detail – I mean open world games. All those icons dotted around the world map represent repetitive tasks – treasure chests, collectibles, pigeons, audio logs. We will literally hoover up anything if it has an icon.
What compels us to tick them off? It’s because, like I said, we have idiot monkey brains, and that’s why those “oh so satisfying” channels where someone just, I dunno, rubs a carpet pile so it’s all even are so popular.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker leans into this cleaning compulsion and asks you to, well, break ships. You use your thrusters to float out towards them and you cut them apart or tactically rip them open with well-placed explosive charges.
You start each job with a list of objectives, and the idea is to turn them all in before your shift is over, while balancing the durability of your tools, thruster fuel, and oxygen levels. But you can’t just go in thoughtlessly.
Take this one job. One of my objectives was to turn in a cargo hatch. Easy. That’s the thing on the top of the ship there. Two small slices with my precision laser cutter is all it takes to loosen it free, at which point I’m free to use my laser tethers or grapple to deposit it in the correct processing bin. But there’s a small problem – I didn’t depressurise the ship. It pops like a pack of crisps that’s just been run over by a car, debris flying in every direction. The entire bay is filled with unidentifiable debris. In plain terms: I absolutely fucked it.
The correct way to do it is to open an airlock, wait for the inner door to pressurise, head inside, find the pressure controls, and activate them. From here you cling to the ship so you’re not sucked into the void and you wait for it to stabilise. Once that’s done, that’s when you can start cutting. But even then, you have to be careful about it. One wrong slice can damage expensive components or catch a fuel line.
Each ship type has its own quirks, too. There are specific points you have to cut to break them open, and they get more complex as you progress. But even with the danger, there’s something meditative about it – like your character in zero-G, you feel weightless, almost zen.
Simply lassoing ship parts into the various recycling zones is meditative, slowly shifting them into place as the Earth comes into view below while Americana music strums away, making way to synths when you inevitably bump an unstable power core into a hard surface.
It’s one of those games that finds the perfect balance between tension and calm, and there’s a surprising amount of depth if you want to play it in a more serious way, too. That grapple of yours is bound by the laws of physics, so you can use it to speed yourself up by attempting to pull something that’s heavier than you, performing a last-minute air break while flipping through a small opening in the side of a ship. However you want to play it, though, buying Hardspace: Shipbreaker almost makes capitalism feel worth it.
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Review: The Proposal at Siesta Key + 5 Book Giveaway
The Proposal at Siesta Key by Shelley Shepard Gray
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A young Amish woman, yearning for freedom, crosses paths with a handsome Mennonite celebrity in a deeply moving tale of friendship and self-discovery—the second installment in the unforgettable New York Times bestselling author’s new Amish Brides of Pinecraft series.
Penny Troyer rarely disobeys her parents. In the years since her sister’s tragic death, they’ve wanted nothing more than to keep her safe…even if it means never leaving the house.
But tonight, she’s bending the rules because Michael Knoxx, the most famous member of The Knoxx Family Singers, a traveling Mennonite Evangelical family —is scheduled to speak. Penny has heard of Michael—how he lost part of his leg in a terrible accident and uses the experience to inspire others—and knows she must meet him. So, for the first time ever, Penny stands up to her parents and goes out on her own.
Though he speaks about living life to the fullest, Michael knows he needs to take his own advice. Life on the road is grueling and Michael wants to slow down, to rest…to perhaps meet someone who sees him as a man, not just a celebrity. So when a twist of fate allows him the chance to stay a little longer in Pinecraft, Michael knows God is showing him a new path, especially when he discovers how much he and Penny Troyer have in common.
But new friendships can’t stop time. Soon, Michael’s time in Pinecraft will be over and he’ll be back on the road. Her time with Michael has brought her happiness, but will she be able to follow her heart? Or will she be faced with the one thing she’s sure she’ll never have the courage to do?
Since reading The Promise of Palm Grove, I have been eager to return to the heart of Sarasota, Florida. In the second book in the Amish Brides of Pinecraft series, Shelley Shepard Gray invites readers back to the small Amish community of Pinecraft and the quaint Orange Blossom Inn. New primary characters are introduced, and familiar favorites are enjoyed in the secondary story line.
The Proposal at Siesta Key charmed me from the first page until the last! The story boasts vivid imagery, endearing characters, a unique story line, and a tender romance. I enjoyed The Proposal at Siesta Key and can’t wait to read the next book in this delightful series!
P.S. Don’t miss the great bonus material that is included in the back of the book. In addition to an author’s note and discussion guide, readers can enjoy a Chocolate Pecan Pie recipe, Shelley’s top five must-see spots in Pinecraft, scenes from Pinecraft, and a sneak peek of the next book, A Wedding at the Orange Blossom Inn.
I received a complimentary copy of The Proposal at Siesta Key through Litfuse Publicity. I appreciate the opportunity to read this book and share my honest opinion.
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Vascular Plant Flora of Two Natural Areas in Wabash County, Indiana
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ABSTRACT The Kokiwanee (56 ha) and Hathaway (29 ha) preserves are located in northeastern Indiana. Both sites include gorges cut by tributaries of the Wabash River, which produce a range of microenvironments that are unusual for this part of Indiana. Floristic inventories were done from 2004 through 2011. Kokiwanee had 467 vascular plant species, while Hathaway had 316. A total of 529 species, representing 325 genera and 104 families, were found in the two sites combined, with 254 species being found in both. Many of the 213 species found only at Kokiwanee occurred in mature forest on a southwest-facing bluff or in fens; most of the 62 species found only at Hathaway were found in a crop field, old fields, or an east-facing gorge wall. Forty-three percent of the species found were county records. Nineteen percent of species were exotic, a significantly lower proportion than for the state as a whole. One state threatened-list species (Dactylorhiza viridis) and three state watch-list species (Liparis loeselii, Panax quinquefolius, and Veratrum woodii) were found. A number of species are near their northern range limits at these sites. Floristic quality is relatively high.
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November 24, 2008 by Jimmy Holbrook Local News Items 0
A Garden Lakes man who is accused of murder has made a confession to the crime and said the stabbing occurred after he and the victim began arguing when he attempted to buy cocaine.
Barry Edward Smith, 40, of 115 Morgan Drive, was jailed early Sunday after his arrest in the stabbing death of Eva Joy Rogers, 70, of the same address, police said.
“Somebody came to offer to sell him drugs,” said Sgt. Gary Conway of the Floyd County Police Department. “Ms. Rogers got extremely upset about it."
Smith was not able to pay for the cocaine and grew angry when Rogers told him the behavior was unacceptable.
“She told him to hit the road,” said Conway.
Rogers boyd has been sent to the GBI Crime Lab in Atlanta
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The Civil War Months
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The Battle of Fredericksburg
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December 13, 1862 – Major General Ambrose E. Burnside launched a doomed Federal assault on General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate defenses south and west of Fredericksburg.
By this date, the two corps of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia held a line seven miles long on high ground overlooking the town. Lieutenant General James Longstreet’s corps held the Confederate left, west of town, which included Marye’s Heights, a sunken road, and a stone wall. Lieutenant General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s corps held the Confederate right, south of town, which included Prospect Hill and other ridges. Major General Jeb Stuart’s cavalry covered Jackson’s right flank.
Burnside ordered Major General William B. Franklin to lead his Grand Division in an attack on Jackson’s positions before dawn, using the darkness to hide their advance across the open plain. Major General Joseph Hooker’s Grand Division would come up in support. Burnside expected Franklin’s assault to force Longstreet to reinforce Jackson, thus leaving the Confederate left vulnerable. Major General Edwin V. Sumner’s Grand Division was to exploit this weakness by attacking Longstreet’s positions.
Franklin’s pre-dawn assault did not happen because Franklin did not receive the order until after sunrise. By that time, Burnside had changed the plan so that Hooker would support Sumner and not Franklin. The early morning fog lifted around 10 a.m., and artillery opened on both sides before Franklin’s Federals marched toward the hills south of Fredericksburg.
The Federals advanced on the Old Richmond Stage road and onto the plain to attack Jackson’s defenders at Hamilton’s Crossing. The fighting intensified and the Confederate line wavered, but Jackson assured an aide, “My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one–never.”
On the Confederate right, Stuart announced that he was “going to crowd ‘em with artillery.” Major John Pelham, Stuart’s promising young artillery chief, expertly placed his cannons so their fire enfiladed the Federals’ left and stalled their advance for nearly two hours. Lee complimented Pelham, “It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.”
Around 1 p.m., Major General George G. Meade’s Federal division broke through the enemy line and separated two brigades in thick woods; Confederate Brigadier General Maxcy Gregg was killed and his South Carolinians routed during the action. However, Franklin did not send reinforcements to follow up his advantage; of the two corps under his command, a division of I Corps and the entire VI Corps did not get into the fight at all.
Meanwhile, Confederates under Generals Jubal Early and William Taliaferro hurried forward to knock the Federals back and shore up the line. More Confederates under Major General D.H. Hill also hurried from their positions further south along the Rappahannock to reinforce Jackson. Fighting ended when the Confederates finally pushed the Federals back to their original positions.
A mile northwest, Sumner’s II and IX corps began moving west out of Fredericksburg around noon to attack Longstreet’s corps holding Marye’s Heights and other high ground. The only way to take the enemy positions was to advance across open ground, exposed to the Confederate guns. As the Federals approached, a Confederate artilleryman told Longstreet, “General, a chicken could not live in that field when we open on it.”
The Confederate fire cut down rows of Federal soldiers as they tried coming forward. Survivors struggled for two hours to take the heights before either falling back or seeking cover on the field. Every Federal charge was repelled at a terrible cost of human life. Lee watched the carnage from atop Marye’s Heights and said, “It is well that war is so terrible; we should grow too fond of it.”
Federals charge Marye’s Heights | Image Credit: Wikimedia.org
Hooker’s III and IV corps began another advance near nightfall, but this was repulsed in a similarly murderous fashion. The Confederates easily fought off 14 assaults, with no Federals coming within 20 yards of their line. When word spread that Burnside might order another attack, many officers announced that they would not obey. Burnside then planned to personally lead one more assault, but his subordinates talked him out of it.
This was the worst defeat ever sustained by the U.S. army, as the Federals lost 12,653 men (1,284 killed, 9,600 wounded, and 1,769 missing). The Confederates reportedly lost 5,309 men, but this was later adjusted to 4,201 when it was discovered that the figure included over 1,000 soldiers who went home for Christmas just after the battle. Most of the Confederate casualties were sustained in Franklin’s attack. This stunning and decisive Confederate victory solidified the reputation of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia as the premier fighting force of the war.
Jackson tried counterattacking near dusk, but Federal artillery on Stafford Heights across the Rappahannock stopped him. The Federal troops in front of Marye’s Heights were pinned down on the battlefield, unable to retreat without being exposed to Confederate sharpshooters above them. Many men remained there overnight with no shelter in the freezing cold. Some froze to death.
Journalist Henry Villard rushed from the battlefield to relay news of the battle to President Abraham Lincoln at the White House. Arriving late that night, Villard warned Lincoln that nearly every officer believed the army could be destroyed if the troops were not pulled back across the Rappahannock. Lincoln, not yet aware of the defeat’s magnitude, said, “I hope it is not so bad as all that.”
Lee met with his top commanders that night, and nearly all of them expected Burnside to attack again. Lee telegraphed Richmond at 9 p.m.: “I expect the battle to be renewed at daylight.” Around midnight, this seemed confirmed when Confederates captured one of the Federal messengers delivering Burnside’s order to attack in the morning. Lee hoped to repel these assaults and then launch a counterattack that would destroy the Army of the Potomac once and for all.
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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentOther - Politics & Government · 2 months ago
Do you think America has changed for the better or the worse compared to several decades ago, and why?
To the worse.. you only have to listen to that idiot AOC for five minutes to see that!!
It is most definitely worse...much worse.. and it started under Obama.. he promised us the world and gave nothing but a lousy health care system. But during his terms came the rise up of the angry black community that thought because a black was in the white house they should get everything for nothing. It has gotten even worse under Trump because once again blacks, Hollywood, commie dems etc decided that they hated him and would ruin him no matter what. There is no dignity or honesty in Washington at all.. no matter what party. The world looks at the U.S. as a failed nation, and they are right!!!
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Worse. 1. We have been spending money we do not have and are now 25-30 trillion in debt. Sooner or later we are going to have to pay that debt. 2. We have this crazy idea that we must have the absolute best ships, planes, tanks, etc and we do, but we got very few of them and can be easily overrun by a nation that makes a lot of stuff that is OK but not super. (That is how we beat Germany, we outproduced them in the factories.) 3. People think it is up to the government to take care of them and they do not have to assume any personal responsibility for their own bad choices.
Steady decline for decades.
Source(s): https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/19/...
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Seems like a swinging pendulum. It goes too far in one direction and then you think its getting better for a while and then it swings way too far in the other direction. It doesn't seem as though members of our government want to actually fix anything.
Worse... America would be looking like India by next year if that Orange moron got reelected. The best decades for the United States were probably the 1980s and 90s. I can't remember any other decades for economic expansion. Now, we're living in something worse than feudalism under Trump!
Definitely for the worst. The average American used to be able to raise a family on a single income. Then, it became difficult to raise a family on two incomes. Now many Americans with two incomes see the raising of a family as an unattainable goal and are forced to work several low-wage jobs while living in an apartment with no benefits.
it has gone downhill over the last 40 years, and especially over the last 4, hopefully Joe will be able to start it back in the right direction, I really hope Trump was the last salvo of the Reagan era.
Trumps America is now in Food Lines, while he eats 6 Mc Donald's Burger, 4 large French fries, 2 milkshakes and 10 apple pies in 30 minutes and that's just a snack.
Clinton and Obama really ruined this country. There's a leftist stench that lingers.
Why are people surprised that ANTIFA infiltrated the pro-Trump protests and stormed the Capitol?
If Hitler became a dictator during the great depression then how hard can it be for Trump to become a dictator during the pandemic? ?
Were the rioters not part of the Trump supporters, but from a group to undermine the U.S.A. & its democracy?
Why did Donald Trump call the impeachment a "witch hunt"? What he did was wrong, and some Republicans voted for impeachment.?
Should MAGA be viewed as a Domestic Terrorist Organization?
When will the international community be introduced to the Metric Calendar and clock?
In honor of Trumps show. Can we do a unanimous You’re Fired!.... tomorrow?
Will tomorrow be a historical event that goes down in history books? ?
Is Nancy Pelosi going to become the next Anthony Weiner or Hunter Biden with her recent laptop scandal?
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Spike Lee reportedly compliments Drew Brees for standing up to Donald Trump in meeting with Saints
June 9, 2020, 9:19 p.m. ·2 min read
Spike Lee is standing up for Drew Brees.
The acclaimed film director reportedly met with the New Orleans Saints on Tuesday and complimented the New Orleans Saints quarterback for standing up to President Donald Trump amid the fallout from his comments on NFL player protests.
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Lee met with team members on a Zoom call for 45 minutes and spoke about his experiences with race relations. The players “loved” Lee, according to the report.
What led to Brees-Trump social media confrontation
Brees drew widespread criticism after telling Yahoo Finance last week that players who protested social injustice and police brutality during the national anthem were “disrespecting the flag.”
After the backlash that came from the larger sports community and his Saints teammates, Brees issued two apologies, vowing to become a “part of the solution” in standing up for equal opportunity and social justice.
Some of his Saints teammates accepted the apology.
Spike Lee reportedly spent 45 minutes in a Zoom meeting with Saints players. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Meanwhile, Trump seized the moment as an opportunity to reignite the false narrative that protests led by Colin Kaepernick were a symbol of disrespect to the American flag instead of calls for change. Trump said that Brees shouldn’t have apologized for his remarks.
...We should be standing up straight and tall, ideally with a salute, or a hand on heart. There are other things you can protest, but not our Great American Flag - NO KNEELING!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2020
Brees responded with an Instagram messaged addressed directly to Trump proclaiming “this is not an issue about the American flag. It has never been.”
A post shared by Drew Brees (@drewbrees) on Jun 5, 2020 at 7:10pm PDT
Lee presumably complimented Brees for that Instagram post.
Lee’s films like 2019 Oscar winner “BlacKkKlansman” often tackle issues of America’s turbulent history with race relations. His 1989 breakthrough “Do the Right Thing” dealt directly with police brutality and its impact on black communities.
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Health officials say 2 new probable cases of COVID-19 in Fort Liard
Health officials in the Northwest Territories have identified two more probable cases of COVID-19 in Fort Liard over the past 24 hours. On the weekend, three cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the community of about 500. Fort Liard was placed under a two-week containment order Saturday evening. According to a statement released Monday evening, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the N.W.T. stands at 28, with no hospitalizations and 24 cases listed as recovered. "Probable cases are treated the same as confirmed cases in an investigation," Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Kami Kandola said in the statement. "Contact tracing and isolation begins immediately while the samples are confirmed." According to the statement, all of the diagnoses are in the same cluster and connected to out-of-territory travel. Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms is asked to call the rapid response team at 867-695-1655. Health officials now believe the COVID-19 wastewater signal detected in Hay River was related to the cluster of cases in Fort Liard. Since Jan. 11, 189 people have come forward for testing related to the Hay River wastewater signal and none have tested positive for COVID-19. Yellowknife update No new cases of COVID-19 were identified at the Avens Manor in Yellowknife. A rapid response team had been testing there to identify the source of an infection in Yellowknife. Health officials will continue to monitor wastewater signals, but "it is highly likely that the source has passed their communicable period." "As time passes, if there are no detects, we will determine that widespread community transmission did not occur and that this was a single locally acquired case with no identified source," Kandola stated. People in the N.W.T. are asked to get tested at the first sign of any symptoms of COVID-19. "No matter where you are in the N.W.T., it is more important than ever for you to get tested for COVID-19 at the first sign of any symptoms," Kandola stated. "This will help identify new cases, new contacts who should be isolated, and prevent additional transmission."
New Brunswickers want better access to psychologists: poll
A majority of Canadians, New Brunswickers among them, want improved access to psychologists, according to a poll conducted by Nanos. Canadians most frequently report having the most confidence in psychologists when it comes to helping people with mental health problems, but many say access to these professionals is still a problem and they’d like both the private and public sector to help them do that more easily. “COVID-19 has impacted the psychological health of New Brunswickers who were already faced with a shortage of psychologists,” said Mandy McLean, executive director of the College of Psychologists of New Brunswick. "Access to necessary psychological support was difficult before – and the need for the services of licensed psychologists continues to grow." Fifty-eight per cent of New Brunswickers responded that COVID-19 has had a negative or somewhat negative impact on their ability to access mental health care by psychologists. In the public sector, which includes psychologists who work in schools, hospitals and community mental health systems, the shortage is significant, McLean told the Times & Transcript. Of New Brunswick respondents, 46.1 per cent said the amount of time needed for Canadians to get access to psychological services in the publicly-funded health-care system is either unreasonable to somewhat unreasonable. More than 88 per cent of New Brunswickers supported or somewhat supported improving access to psychologists through the publicly-funded health-care system. Many New Brunswickers say the cost of receiving care from a psychologist is influencing their decision to pursue treatment privately. More than 83 per cent said cost was very or somewhat significant in deciding whether to access a psychologist. McLean said some extended workplace health plans are offering benefits for sessions with a psychologist for about $300 a year, which would not provide more than a couple of sessions with a private psychologist. More than 76 per cent of New Brunswickers said providing greater access to psychologists through employer health benefit plans would be a good or very good idea. Access is also about wait times. Long wait times significantly or somewhat significantly were a factor for 76.2 per cent of New Brunswickers in deciding to access a psychologist. Psychologists have nearly a decade of training or more, said McLean, making them unique in their extensive training in how people think, learn and behave. Nearly half of New Brunswickers believe psychologists are effective in diagnosing people living with depression, anxiety, addiction of learning disabilities. Nanos conducted a representative online survey of 3,070 Canadians, drawn from a non-probability panel between Sept. 25 and Oct. 2, 2020. The research was commissioned by the Canadian Psychological Association and the Council of Professional Associations of Psychologists and was conducted by Nanos Research before being compiled into a report. Clara Pasieka, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Telegraph-Journal
Alberta pauses future coal lease sales in Rocky Mountains, cancels 11 recent leases
Alberta's energy minister says the province will cancel 11 recently issued coal leases and pause future lease sales that would have allowed open-pit coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Sonya Savage said the province had listened to public concerns in recent days about its decision to rescind the decades-old policy. "I want to be absolutely clear: Under the current terms, just as it was under the 1976 coal policy, coal leases do not allow for exploration, development or production without a comprehensive regulatory review. A lease-holder has no more right to set foot on lease property than any other Albertan. The same rules apply now, as before," Savage said in release late Monday afternoon. "This pause will provide our government with the opportunity to ensure that the interests of Albertans, as owners of mineral resources, are protected." Savage said the decision won't impact coal projects currently under regulatory review. The 11 recently issued leases also represent a small number of existing coal leases in the area, which are unaffected. Marlin Schmidt, the NDP's environment critic, said while the "backpedaling" from the government is a small victory for those against the policy, Alberta's scenic landscapes are still at risk. "They still have not committed to reinstating the coal policy and to consulting before making further changes. Without these commitments, these precious wild spaces are still under threat," he said in an emailed statement. Schmidt asked if the cancellations create any financial obligations for the province. "How much are taxpayers on the hook for?" Only 0.002% of leased land cancelled Katie Morrison, with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, said there are more than 840,000 hectares still at risk and that the 11 cancelled leases represent only 0.002 per cent of leased land. "Whether or not the coal leases were existing or new, open-pit coal mines are now allowed in Alberta's headwaters where they previously were not," she said. WATCH | Alberta's new approach to coal: The closest coal project to becoming reality currently before the Alberta Environmental Regulator (AER) is Grassy Mountain. The open pit mine, which would be located roughly seven kilometres north of Blairmore, Alta., could produce an estimated 4.5 million tonnes of coal annually over 23 years. It would create nearly 400 full-time jobs, but many fear it could pollute nearby waters affecting millions downstream, destroy endangered species' habitats, and damage cattle-grazing areas. More than 100,000 signatures had been collected as of Monday on two petitions opposing the United Conservative government's move to rescind the coal policy. One of the more high-profile voices of opposition is country singer Corb Lund, who posted a video criticizing the government and saying the plans endanger the province's future. Environment Minister Jason Nixon said in an open letter to Albertans on Monday evening that the province's environmental protections remain strong. He said since the policy was rescinded this year, no new project applications have been submitted to the AER and that all applications will go through the same review process. "I have lived in the area for most of my life … I have a personal investment in ensuring [the eastern slopes] are protected," he wrote. A hearing had been set for Tuesday in Calgary's Court of Queen's Bench on the issue, where the province will seek to dismiss a request from ranchers for a judicial review and, if it's not dismissed, consolidate that judicial review application with two others filed by First Nations. The groups have argued the government is required under law to consult before it changes a land-use plan. A spokesperson for the energy minister said it will be up to the court to decide if Monday's announcement will have any impact on that proceeding. Calgary city council also heard Monday from city administration that it was not consulted on the province's decision to change the policy, which affects the region's watershed.
Three B.C. salmon populations will receive priority attention under proposed new laws formalizing the federal government’s obligation to protect and restore Canadian fisheries at risk. The draft regulations released Jan. 2 stem from the amended Fisheries Act in 2019 that included the formation of binding commitments on the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans to manage major stocks at sustainable levels and rebuild those at risk. “[These regulations] would strengthen fisheries management framework leading to better conservation outcomes for the prescribed stocks, more demonstrably sustainable fisheries, and compliance with the Fisheries Act,” reads a government statement accompanying the proposed regulations. “In addition, the proposed regulations would result in the increased transparency and accountability that accompanies regulatory oversight as compared with policy approaches.” DFO policy already steers toward the regulation’s goals, but critics complain the followthrough is often weak and drawn out. The new laws aim to cement government accountability by forcing the development of a rebuilding plan within three years of identifying a stock at risk, coupled with concrete timelines and thorough assessments of why they’re suffering. “The plan provides a common understanding of the basic ‘rules’ for rebuilding the stocks,” the statement continues. The proposed laws indicate that within five years DFO will prescribe all 177 major fish stocks with a limit reference point (LRP), the point at which a stock falls into serious harm. DFO will be required to develop rebuilding plans for those stocks below their LRP level. The first batch of 30 stocks include 17 below critical numbers, including Okanagan chinook and Interior Fraser Coho. Threatened stocks of west-coast Vancouver Island chinook and Pacific herring around Haida Gwaii are both on the path of receiving a rebuilding plan early this year. B.C.’s two populations of yelloweye rockfish are also below their LRP threshold and have already received completed rebuilding plans. Once threatened stocks grow above their LRP, the minister must implement measures to maintain them at or above the sustainable level. Despite the stated goals behind the proposed regulations, Oceana Canada wants to see “surgical fixes” to the proposed laws before they’re approved, as the current draft offers too many loopholes. The organization recommended three key improvements to the regulations: speeding up the process of assigning all critically low stocks with rebuilding plans; setting clearer targets within those plans; and establishing maximum-allowable timelines for targets and milestones. “They explicitly say … they don’t want to set a standard. They want to maintain full flexibility depending on the stock they’re looking at,” Andrew Wilson, Oecana Canada president said. “The regulations say there must be a target set, but surely, every policy already says they [DFO] must manage stocks up to a healthy level. So what are their definitions? This doesn’t define that. It just says set a target, any target, essentially. It also says they have to set a timeline, but that can be anywhere from one to 100 years.” Oceana Canada released a critical audit of Canadian fisheries last November that found only one-quarter of stocks are healthy, down 10 per cent since its first audit in 2017. Stocks of caution have risen from 16 to 19 per cent, while stocks in critical states have increased from 13.4 per cent to 17 per cent in the same time period. In B.C. the organization also highlighted troubling decreases in crustacean populations, the backbone of Canadian fisheries, and small forage fish that are vital prey for other commercially important fish. Oceana cautions Ottawa that consumers are increasingly demanding sustainably-caught fish, to which the adoption of robust regulations and global best practices are key to ensuring a successful Blue Economy Strategy currently under development. “Without changes, the draft regulations that are now open for public comment would squander this opportunity, depriving Canada of the economic and environmental benefits that come with rebuilt fish populations,” reads an Oceana statement. Quinn Bender, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince Rupert Northern View
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Jorge Masvidal’s drawing power is clear after UFC 251. Now what can he do with it? | Opinion
July 14, 2020 Marcus A
“This thing is trending off the charts. This thing is trending higher than a Conor McGregor fight. … This thing is trending as big as a fight as I’ve ever seen in my entire career.”
When UFC president Dana White said this the day before UFC 251, you figured he was just doing his job as a promoter. Not that Jorge Masvidal didn’t become the breakout star of 2019 (he certainly did), but when you start talking about the possibility for anyone’s fight to outdo Conor McGregor numbers, it’s hard to believe.
And yet, it was revealed Monday in a report by The Athletic that UFC 251, which featured Masvidal losing to welterweight champion Kamaru Usman in the headliner, generated an estimated 1.3 million pay-per-view buys this past Saturday on ESPN+ only. It marked the fifth time that the UFC has reached 1.3 million buys for an event, with the most recent being UFC 229 in October 2018 – headlined by Khabib Nurmagomedov’s win over McGregor – which holds the promotion’s buyrate record at 2.4 million.
So, let’s try and put this into perspective. Just how big of a star do these numbers suggest Masvidal really is? Consider the following:
Masvidal’s first fight of 2020, with practically no promotion, outdid McGregor’s highly anticipated return to MMA after more than a year off in January at UFC 246, which sold 1 million.
UFC 251 performed higher than any of the pay-per-views headlined by one of the promotion’s biggest stars, Ronda Rousey.
UFC 245 last December featured many of the same components as UFC 251 – Usman in the main event, Max Holloway vs. Alexander Volkanovski 1, Jose Aldo, and Petr Yan. We don’t know the numbers from that event (likely because they weren’t great), but if I had to make a generous guess, I’d say no more than 500,000. And I’m probably being too generous, but for the sake of this discussion, let’s go with that, which basically would equate to Masvidal single-handedly being responsible for roughly 800,000 buys.
If anyone doubts the latter statement above, Masvidal’s UFC 251 post-fight news conference video has 2.7 million views on YouTube compared to Usman’s 406,000 as of this writing.
And just to make one other comparison between UFC 245 and UFC 251 as it relates to MMA Junkie, our play-by-play post – always our biggest traffic driver on fight nights – did 40 percent more page views for UFC 251 than it did for UFC 245.
In other words, Masvidal isn’t just a “BMF.” He’s a “BMF” who sells.
Prior to accepting the Usman fight on six days’ notice, Masvidal was engaged in a public dispute with White and UFC executives over his compensation, which is why the bout fell through in the first place. Usman’s original UFC 251 opponent, Gilbert Burns, testing positive for COVID-19 gave Masvidal all the leverage he needed when the UFC came calling in an emergency, but even then he admitted he didn’t get paid exactly what he wanted – but it was enough to make him happy.
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One day before UFC 251, Masvidal was asked about what he learned from these negotiations and offered advice to young fighters.
“Know your value,” he said. “A lot of the young guys just don’t know their value. Because a lot of the young guys don’t know their value, and it’s not their fault. I didn’t know my value. When I was 19, 20 years old, if somebody offered me $2,000, I’d kill a gorilla. It’s tough as these kids are coming up.
“All I can tell them is know your value and stick to your guns.”
Masvidal certainly knows his value now, and there’s no question that future fights with McGregor, Nate Diaz, Colby Covington, or even Leon Edwards after their infamous “three-piece and a soda” encounter, would capture the attention of the general public and sell big to varying degrees.
Can he stick to his guns, though, to ensure he gets paid exactly what he deserves moving forward? At 35 and nearing his 17th year as a professional fighter, it’s super necessary he does.
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Study Finds Long-Acting Shot Helps Women Avoid HIV Infection
by Marilynn Marchione
Monday November 9, 2020
Researchers are stopping a study early after finding that a shot of an experimental medicine every two months worked better than daily pills to help keep women from catching HIV from an infected sex partner.
The news is a boon for AIDS prevention efforts especially in Africa, where the study took place, and where women have few discreet ways of protecting themselves from infection.
Results so far suggest that the drug, cabotegravir, was 89% more effective at preventing HIV infection than Truvada pills, although both reduce that risk.
The results mirror those announced earlier this year from a similar study testing the shots versus the daily pills in gay men.
Cabotegravir is being developed by ViiV Healthcare, which is mostly owned by GlaxoSmithKline, with Pfizer Inc. and Shionogi Limited. The study was sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and ViiV. The drugs were provided by ViiV and Truvada's maker, Gilead Sciences.
"This is a major, major advance," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease doctor at the NIH. "I don't think we can overemphasize the importance of this study.
It promises HIV prevention help to young women, "those who need it the most," he said.
Young women may be twice as likely as men to get HIV in some areas of the world, according to one study leader, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
"They need discreet options ... without having to negotiate with their partners" to use measures such as condoms, said Deborah Waterhouse, of ViiV.
The study involved more than 3,200 participants in seven African countries who were randomly assigned to get either the shots every two months or daily Truvada pills. Independent monitors advised stopping the study after seeing that only 0.21% of women receiving the shots caught the AIDS virus versus 1.79% of women on the pills.
There were more side effects, mostly nausea, with the daily pills.
Cabotegravir's makers are seeking approval from regulators to sell it for this purpose, and Truvada already is widely used.
"The urgent work now" is to make all prevention medicines affordable and more widely available, said Mitchell Warren, who heads AVAC, formerly known as the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, a nonprofit focused on prevention efforts that had no role in the study.
Condoms remain widely recommended because they help prevent a host of sexually spread diseases, not just HIV.
"People need choices for HIV prevention," and this gives a new option, Warren said in a statement.
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We love a mama who thinks and acts outside the box, and that’s a category Evangeline Lilly fits squarely in. You may know her as the effervescently beautiful star of the cult favorite television series Lost, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. Currently, she’s appearing on the big screen in both Antman and Wasp and The Avengers. But then she’s also done a lot of things outside of acting that you wouldn’t expect a Hollywood A-lister to do….like base herself in Hawaii instead of LA. And write a children’s book series called The Squickerwonkers that’s a surprisingly dark yet playful group of cautionary tales that will engage reluctant readers.
We spoke to the mom of two (her sons are 7 and 2) about her own mother’s influence on her choices, why she’s not making any big career moves while her kids are small, and more.
I’ve read that you were an unenthusiastic reader as a kid until you found Edward Gorey. I actually have an Edward Gorey book called The Dwindling Party from my own childhood, and read it to my 2-year-old recently and was surprised to realize, well, everyone dies…The story and illustrations are amazing…but I definitely didn’t remember how morbid it was!
Ha, yes! I wasn’t a terrible reader when I was little, just slow, and Edward Gorey was the first author I read who had five or six words on a page, who’s books were digestible, but who was addressing sophisticated and adult topics…and I loved it! Books designed for my age group at that time (around 8-years-old) would take me too long to read; if it took someone else a week it would take me two months. That was frustrating. There was the option of reading easier books but the subject matter was so childish it was insulting. I was aggravated—I thought, I’m not stupid because I’m not a fast reader. I think that he was an adult who was willing to talk to me about heavy things that no one talks to kids about…he always let me in on everything. I could feel the respect in that.
Why write for this age, around eight years old?
This is the age when they’re starting to choose their own books. For kids that aren’t voracious readers…when you connect to literature for the first time, that makes your soul sing. You’re recognizing your soul out in the world—it’s a very profound thing. It’s the most exciting for me to write for them because they’re moving out of their emotional space and into their mental, intellectual space. But they’re still able to access magic, fantasy and imagination—to fall into a story and believe it’s real.
Was becoming a mom a catalyst for writing the series?
It was literally cause and effect. I had my first child and in the first year of his life I started to create the series, got an illustrator, and made plans for self-publishing. But these books were in the making since I was 14-years-old. I remember reading the first one to my mom. Moms are amazing. She kept pestering me for years and years, saying what are you doing with that Squickerwonkers book? When I finally decided to take the leap to becoming a published author that was the first thing I started with.
Moms are a force, for sure! I noticed the series has a circular nature…will fans of Lost see a similarity?!
Ha, definitely! For years I would think, Why do I always find myself in this sci fi genre? As a film consumer and reader my taste is not in that genre. I like really grounded material so I was always confused by how I always ended up [here]. But I realized I’ve actually been drawn to fantasy since I was little. I was so into Tolkien, and obsessed with unicorns and fairies. There are wonderful elements for people who want to dive deeper like a Lost fan would!
Awesome, because I know some people are still sad about the end of that show! Switching to movies…in Antman and Wasp, you’re the first female main character in recent history in a Marvel film. How important is this?
Ironically for me, it has become slightly more difficult for me to talk about since Times Up/Me Too. I think the topic has become so polarizing for some people. The thing that is most important to me as a women who cares deeply about the rights of little girls and women and believes human beings are equal, is that for me that’s not female power—that’s men and women walking hand and hand side by side. I always try to bring that balance to my writing or acting. That’s the power of equality.
What other messages are you interested in sending, as an actress and as a writer?
One of the main goals in writing Squickerwonkers is to say, You are flawed but so am I. We’re all a great big mess but that doesn’t make you less loveable. There are ten protagonists in my stories and all ten of them are a red hot mess. But what can’t be lost in our modern approach to parenting is what tends to get lost—cautionary tales for modern day brats. We can love one another despite our faults and also teach our children how their choices will result in consequences. And teaching them about good and bad choices is so very important. We’re all flawed—even moms! It makes us human.
Living in Hawaii, I’m guessing you fly pretty often. Any tips on flights with kids?
I do travel often with my kids. When they were super little I used to always tell moms that if you’re breastfeeding, the number one tip is it doesn’t matter if hell or highwater, save your feed for the ascent and descent because it will help the ear pressure! I have been on a plane with a baby crying for two hours solid, and it was a red eye and I locked myself in the bathroom for two hours. I figured it was the kindest thing I could do at the time. When we landed, he was still distraught and we didn’t know what to do, and I got this great piece of advice from an airline employee who said that usually keep an oxygen mask that can steam the babies nose and sinuses.
Great tips! Do you always bring the kids with you when you travel for work?
Almost always. I have a strict policy that if they aren’t able to come with me I won’t do [a job] unless it’s very short. I’ve questioned my line of work period…I have an 8-year-old and he’s in an immersion school and learning a second language.
Would you ever leave acting for writing?
Writing is really my dream. If I could just write, I think I might do a movie once every two years—that sounds very nice to me. I can take my kids out of school once every two years and emotionally take on another world and another being every two years.
What does writing give you that acting doesn’t?
Writing plays more on my imagination and my intelligence, and that’s a greater strength for me as a person. But as a mom with young kids, it’s a hard time to be developing a new career. A few years ago I said, I’m making the break and doing the writing thing and keeping my day job…and with those two and my activism and humanitarian work, I wasn’t seeing my kids as much as I’d like. My kids are only going to be this age for a little while longer, and in five or so years they’re going to want nothing more to do with their mom—and that might be the time to dive in and say, This is what I’m going to do with my life. Until then, my attitude is just to go with what comes…I’m just going to ride this wave.
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August 5, 2020 by amandakylegibson
We’re hiring a postdoc to work on the lab’s new NIH R35 MIRA grant on the genetics and evolution of parasite resistance. Link and ad below:
https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Research-Associate-in-Biology_R0017284
The Department of Biology at the University of Virginia invites applicants for a post-doctoral research associate position to work in thew lab or Professor Amanda Gibson.
The Gibson lab (coevolving.org) at the University of Virginia studies the evolutionary ecology and genetics of host-parasite interactions with the goal of understanding how organisms adapt to rampant uncertainty – uncertainty in the species and strain of parasite a host might encounter and uncertainty in the environment in which that encounter will unfold. We are starting a five-year NIH-funded project to determine how genetic and environmental contexts changes the selective advantage of resistance alleles. This research will make use of the fabulous experimental tools and resources available for the model nematode C. elegans and its natural parasites. These tools include experimental evolution with cryogenic preservation, high-throughput phenotyping, a variety of transgenic methods, and wild isolates with whole genome sequences. Researchers on the project will have ample opportunity for creative experimental design, independence, and training in a variety of skills and areas of scholarship. In joining the lab, new members sign on to our commitment to promoting an inclusive and safe environment, supporting all the members of our team in realizing their full potential, and actively valuing the creativity and productivity that comes from the meeting of diverse minds.
The lab is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate to contribute to this work. The proposed research integrates techniques and concepts associated with the fields of host-parasite coevolution and evolutionary genetics, and eligible candidates will have demonstrated strengths in one of these areas or in closely allied fields. The postdoc will be involved in designing and implementing experimental evolution studies, quantitative trait mapping and high-throughput phenotyping (using e.g. qPCR, fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry and other automated phenotyping schemes), mentoring of undergraduate trainees, data analysis, and writing of manuscripts. The postdoc will receive mentorship from the PI and support to pursue independent research projects.
QUALIFCATION REQUIRMENTS: An ideal candidate would have:
A PhD in Biology or a related field
Excellent written and oral communication, demonstrated by a strong publication record, consistent with the candidate’s career stage, and presentations at conferences
Demonstrated ambition, creativity, independence, and ability to work well with others
A strong background in experimental design, data analysis, and data management
Experience with analysis and interpretation of genomic data and design of mapping studies
Interest and confidence in developing new techniques, notably molecular genetic tools, for hypothesis testing
Experience in mentoring undergraduate students and a dedication to promoting underrepresented groups in STEM
An enthusiasm for nematodes
The Biology Department at UVA (http://bio.as.virginia.edu/) is an excellent training environment for curious, highly motivated scientists. The successful applicant can expect to interact frequently with the department’s strong, collegial group of evolutionary ecologists and geneticists (https://www.eebvirginia.org/). There may be opportunities for research, training, and outreach at Mountain Lake Biological Station (https://mlbs.virginia.edu/), in southwestern Virginia.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Apply online at https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs and attach a cover letter, curriculum vitae, 2-3 writing samples (preferably first-author publications, published or in prep), and contact information for three individuals who can provide professional reference letters. In the cover letter, please address your fit with the qualifications above and your experience in mentoring undergraduates. Applications by members of all underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged.
Please note that multiple documents can be uploaded in the box.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Review of applications will begin on August XX, 2020, but the position will remain open until filled. The University will perform background checks on all new hires prior to employment.
This is a one-year appointment; however, appointment may be renewed for an additional two, one-year increments, contingent upon available funding and satisfactory performance.
Interested applicants are invited to email Amanda Gibson, Assistant Professor, at akg5nq@virginia.edu to discuss the position.
For questions about the application process, please contact Richard Haverstrom, Faculty Search Advisor, at rkh6j@virginia.edu.
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Manhattan edges Quinnipiac 65-63 on Greene's game-winner
HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — Tykei Greene scored on a layup with 1 second remaining in the game and Manhattan slipped past Quinnipiac 65-63 on Sunday.
Until his game-winning shot, Greene had made just 1 of 10 shots from the floor, including 0 of 6 from 3-point range. Pauly Paulicap topped the Jaspers (11-10, 7-5 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) with 15 points and eight rebounds. Warren Williams pitched in with 14 points, four rebounds, three blocks and two steals off the bench.
Manhattan led 31-29 at halftime and Paulicap's dunk pushed the Jaspers' lead to 51-40 with 9:09 left in the game. Tyrese Williams nailed a 3-pointer with 1:19 to go to pull Quinnipiac even at 60. Nehemiah Mack hit two free throws and Paulicap made 1 of 2 for a 63-60 Jaspers' lead, but Aaron Falzon hit a 3-pointer to knot the score with 12 seconds left. Manhattan called a timeout to set up Greene's game-winner.
Williams paced the Bobcats (11-11, 6-6) with 21 points, sinking 4 of 8 from 3-point range along the way. Reserve Aaron Falzon added 14 points on 4-of-6 shooting from beyond the arc. Kevin Marfo notched his 15th double-double of the season with 11 points and 13 rebounds.
Quinnipiac shot the ball better and won the rebound battle but the Bobcats turned the ball over 25 times compared to just 10 for Manhattan.
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By MATTHEW COLES - Feb. 07, 2020 01:27 AM EST
A Utah player on the bench reacts after a Utah score against Stanford in overtime during an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The time was right to let Branden Carlson and his impressive wingspan roam free.
Carlson had 15 points, 10 rebounds and eight blocks to lead Utah over Stanford 64-56 in overtime on Thursday night.
Utah coaches encouraged Carlson to go after the ball whenever the Cardinal players drove to the hoop.
“Sometimes I’m more reserved," Carlson said. "Definitely, coaches want me to alter shots and block them. Tonight I was really more comfortable going after them.”
Carlson, a freshman 7-footer, posted career bests across the board and notched the third-highest blocked-shot tally in Utah history.
The Utes (13-9, 4-6 Pac-12), who also got 15 points from Timmy Allen, started fast and finished strong but struggled to score the rest of the game.
Tyrell Terry scored 14 points and Daejon Davis had 12 for Stanford (16-6, 5-4).
Jaxon Brenchley made a 3-pointer and then fed Carlson for a dunk to make it 59-53 in overtime and essentially clinch the win.
“My guy was closing heavy to me because I had just made that 3 and I drove baseline," Brenchley said. "I saw BC’s guy coming to me, I just dumped it off and he’s going to throw that down.”
Utah has won four straight over the Cardinal. The Utes are 9-1 at home this season.
The Cardinal paces the Pac-12 in scoring defense at 59.7 points per game — a mark that ranks seventh-best nationally — and they held the Utes to 36% shooting but managed just 35% themselves.
Utah led 26-16 with a smooth running offense before the Cardinal clamped down and Utah began self-destructing, going the final 10 minutes of the half without a field goal but still leading 28-22 at the break.
“We couldn’t hit shots. There were a bunch of turnovers, just careless mistakes,” Brenchley said.
Thanks to the Utes’ early trapping defense that seemed to surprise the Cardinal, the Utes were able to overcome their own anemic attack.
“They had a great game plan. Our pace slowed down and around the rim they were able to block some shots,” Stanford coach Jerod Haase said.
Oscar da Silva’s layup gave Stanford its first lead of the game at 45-44 as the Cardinal held the Utes scoreless for over six minutes.
“After the start, our defense was good but we need to find ways to put the ball in the basket,” Haase said.
Terry’s 3-pointer with 55 seconds to play put the Cardinal up 50-49 for their second and final lead of the game.
Allen made 1 of 2 free throws to tie the game at 50 with 3.9 seconds remaining.
The clock didn’t start when the Cardinal inbounded the ball and rushed up the court. The officials whistled the play dead and, after a lengthy delay, decided to give Stanford the ball near midcourt with 1.6 seconds on the clock. Terry missed a 30-footer at the regulation buzzer.
As is the case with most young teams, Utah and its core of freshmen and sophomores plays much better at home. The Utes have only won one true road contest and only dropped one at home. But no one can figure out exactly why.
“Life on the road is tough,” Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak said. “It’s not anything mystical. … I just know a bunch of our guys play better at home for whatever reason.”
Utah’s home-court elevation at 4,657 feet may play a part.
“Sometimes the altitude gets to them,” Krystkowiak said. “Their shots at the end were coming up short.”
Stanford: Coming off a 70-60 win over then-No. 11 Oregon, the Cardinal couldn’t capitalize on another strong defensive performance. They only got to the line four times, compared to Utah’s 23 free-throw attempts and they couldn’t shoot over Carlson. Bryce Wills left with a lower leg injury at the nine-minute mark, which would be a big loss going forward if he can’t return soon.
Utah: In road losses against Southern California and UCLA, the Utes faded in the second half. The long scoreless stretches almost doomed the Utes again but a sparkling overtime performance and Carlson’s breakout game gave the Utes hope for a strong finish to the season.
Stanford: visits No. 24 Colorado on Saturday afternoon.
Utah: hosts California on Saturday evening.
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Tennessee defensive back Bryce Thompson (0) and Henry To'o To'o (11) celebrate the team's 31-27 win over South Carolina in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
Missouri (0-1) at No. 21 Tennessee (1-0), Saturday at noon ET (SEC Network).
Line: Tennessee by 12 1/2.
Series record: Missouri 5-3.
Missouri is looking for its first victory under first-year coach Eliah Drinkwitz as the Tigers start a two-game road swing. Tennessee has a seven-game winning streak second only to Air Force and Notre Dame, both tied at eight straight, among Football Bowl Subdivision teams. The Vols also are working to erase all memories of last year's 1-4 start to the season.
KEY MATCHUP
Tennessee QB Jarrett Guarantano against Missouri's defense. Guarantano threw for a career-high 415 yards the last time these teams met, the fourth-most passing yards in school history. The Tigers had nine tackles for loss in their season-opening loss to Alabama, and safety Martez Manuel had a career-best 3 1/2 tackles for loss.
Missouri: QB Shawn Robinson was 19 of 25 (76%) against Alabama, the best completion percentage by a Tigers quarterback in his first start since at least 2000. He sat out last season after transferring from TCU.
Tennessee: Senior RB Ty Chandler averaged 6.6 yards per carry against South Carolina, piling up 86 yards on just 13 carries.
Mizzou is trying to avoid its first 0-2 start since 1996. ... Missouri is 3-1 at Neyland Stadium and leads the overall series 5-3. ... Missouri is 4-4 in its first road game of the season since joining SEC in 2012. ... Drinkwitz went 6-0 in road games last season as head coach of Appalachian State, including wins at North Carolina and South Carolina. ... Tennessee's lone win in Knoxville in this series was in 2016. ... Fan capacity at Neyland Stadium will be approximately 25%. ... This is the latest home opener for Tennessee since Oct. 20, 1962. ... This game is being played on the date originally scheduled before the SEC switched to a 10-game, league-only slate. ... The Vols have won four straight at home, outscoring opponents 119-48 in that stretch.
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“We developed the site for those who work and play on a surface that isn’t a road. That means providing information and tools wherever and whenever users need them regardless of the device they’re using: a phone, a tablet or a computer,” says Benoît Bessette, Vice President Marketing and Communications at Camso. The site is a fully portable product selector for users of OTR equipment.
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The site also offers editorial content created by Camso product specialists. Their unique view of the industry helps explain the specific product needs and niches of the OTR industry. The content informs visitors on: how to select the right track or tire for a construction application, what to consider when buying forklift tires, what are the benefits of tracks in agricultural operations or how to equip an ATV with a track system.
The site was designed to reflect the company’s new name and identity: Camso, the Road Free company. 100% of the content and its industrious tools are focused on helping users overcome mobility issues in off-the-road tire and track applications in the four sectors in which the company operates.
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Is O2 sharing your phone number with the sites you visit?
Like to do a little bit of web browsing on your mobile? Well, you could be giving out more information than you think. In fact, if you’re with O2, this provider could be sharing your phone number with the sites you visit.
You may not know it, but when you visit a website from your mobile, you’re sharing information about your phone in the HTTP header of your web browser. This includes what browser you’re using and what phone you own. This helps websites display content in the best way on your mobile.
However, what if your network provider was sharing more than that? What if it was handing out your phone number?
Your phone number is…
Well, on Twitter, Lewis Peckover (@lewispeckover) discovered that O2 is doing just that, albeit unwittingly. While you’re happily browsing your favourite sites (Which? Convo being one I hope) you could be unwittingly handing over your phone number. Well, that is, O2 is unwittingly giving out your number.
Most sites don’t record this type of information, and even if they do it’s unlikely that reputable sites are taking advantage of this phone number leak.
However, now that we know this information is being thrown about, malicious websites might not be so discerning. If you use your phone for a lot of browsing, you could receive spam texts galore and – even worse – scams.
You can see whether you’re affected by going to Lewis Peckover’s website from your phone. We’ve tested this in the office on phones using O2’s network, and even on GiffGaff which runs on the O2 network, and they both gave out the phone number.
When we did the same on Virgin, Vodafone, T-Mobile/Orange and 3 phones, a number was not recorded.
Is your provider giving out your number?
We’ll be very interested to see whether your phone is sharing your phone number too, so please try it out on Lewis’ website and tell us in the comments, along with the network provider you use. Dr Rob Reid, Which? scientific policy advisor, comments on the leak:
‘Phone numbers are personal data and as such O2 could be in breach of the Data Protection Act. As a result the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) should investigate how this has happened and if it feels O2 has breached the Act, the ICO should take enforcement action.
‘O2 needs to take action to resolve this immediately, inform all of those affected and advise them on the steps they should take to protect themselves.’
We’re in touch with O2, which has said on Twitter that it is looking into the problem, so we’ll share any statement with you as soon as we get it. Hopefully they’ll close this loophole soon – otherwise people might start switching mobile provider.
[UPDATE 12.10pm 25/01/12] – We contacted the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) about this, which makes sure companies adhere to data privacy laws in the UK, and it sent us this statement:
‘Keeping people’s personal information secure is a fundamental principle that sits at the heart of the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. When people visit a website via their mobile phone they would not expect their number to be made available to that website.
‘We will now speak to O2 to remind them of their data breach notification obligations, and to better understand what has happened, before we decide how to proceed.’
[UPDATE 3.45PM 25/01/12] – O2 has confirmed that it has fixed the problem, releasing the following statement along with an online Q&A:
‘Security is of the utmost importance to us and we take the protection of our customers’ data extremely seriously.
‘We have seen the report published this morning suggesting the potential for disclosure of customers’ mobile phone numbers to website owners.
‘We investigated, identified and fixed it this afternoon. We would like to apologise for the concern we have caused.’
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Simon Parkyn says:
I’ve just checked my phone on Lewis Peckover’s website above and yes my number was displayed in the headers. I’m on giffgaff and I’m quite annoyed!
Yes, it seems O2’s subsids GiffGaff and Tesco Mobile are affected. GiffGaff has told us on Twitter that they are also investigating.
Same here Simon – GiffGaff runs on the O2 network, so it is clearly added at some point in the chain when they both converge. I have been heretofore very pleased with both O2 and GiffGaff, so I’m quite disappointed to see such a blatant disregard for my privacy.
craig_t says:
I’m Craig from the giffgaff community team. As Patrick has said, we’ve been made aware of this and wanted to update you with some news from our side.
The privacy and security of our customers and community are really, really important to us – our utmost concern in fact. As a result, we’re looking into this as a top priority. Initial impressions are that this appears to be an O2 network issue, but of course we’ll need to confirm this.
If you’d like to keep a track of this on our side of things, we’ll be updating and discussing on our community this thread fgaff.com/t5/Service-Updates-Notice-board/Mobile-Number-Information-Issue-25-01-11/m-p/2854061/highlight/false#M25550) – and be back with news there as soon as we have info.
Kelpie says:
Just checked on O2 and no number appears on either iPhone or iPad.
It appears to be only effecting users who are using the wap.o2.co.uk APN to access the internet. Changing these details to mobile.o2.co.uk and the username to o2web rather than o2wap will stop addition of the extra headers.
The iPhone 4S and the Galaxy Nexus both seem to default to these APNs which is why some users haven’t been seeing the issue.
It also seems that a number of o2 services only require phone number for security as detailed on http://blog.networksaremadeofstring.co.uk/2012/01/25/potential-social-engineering-avenues-resulting-from-the-o2-header-issues/ which could lead may scams against phone owners who don’t know about this leak.
It appears to be more complicated than that.
My phone number is being passed to websites and my iPhone 4 APN is set to use idata.o2.co.uk
mister squirrel says:
For once I am glad to say thank god I’m using BlackBerry as the O2 number giving out doesn’t affect BlackBerry users (I don’t say “thank god I’m using a BlackBerry” that often)
Hi everyone, it looks like O2 has closed this loophole, though we’ll let you know as soon as O2 confirms it’s fixed.
Hope so. That’s a quick win if it works.
Does closing this loophole also including fixing their services that only require your phone number to work?
I wonder if other providers in-house services work the same way as well…
We contacted the ICO again about whether a phone number is considered personally identifiable information and thus would be in breach of the Data Protection Act. It told us:
‘In terms of this alleged breach, O2 seem to have mistakenly exposed people’s phone numbers. As they are legally required under the Data Protection Act to keep people’s details secure (of which people’s phone numbers are a component of customer information), then this could breach Data Protection and PECR rules.
‘As for whether a phone number in itself constitutes personal data – this depends on the circumstances, and we can’t say in this case until we have looked into it.
‘If a phone number was written on its own on a post it note with no other details and then discarded in the street then this may not be strictly personal data. However, if a phone number is coupled with other information – for instance IP addresses – then this may constitute it. In any case, the essential issue here is whether O2 has kept its customer information secure. In short, it’s not as simple as a yes or no answer and depends on the individual circumstances.’
loones says:
That is very interesting, because by definition your IP address is part of the request sent to any site you are accessing, strengthening the ICO case.
Also, this information is also sent to any sites who’s content is embeded in a page you are viewing. If you go to a page that has an advert in it which comes from another site, the advert provider gets the same information.
Alan Henness says:
As far as I’m aware, for O2 at least, the IP address is not allocated to each individual phone, but is a generic one assigned to all or part of O2’s network. If this is right (and I may be wrong), then – to use Patrick’s Post-it note analogy – it would be your phone number on it with O2’s address. So having the IP address as well may not bring it within the ICO’s definition of personal data.
Scott A J Reynolds says:
This is very bad for Telefonica Uk, Who run on O2 mobile network in the Uk, & Run such networks as, O2, Tesco Mobile PAYG & Monthly, GiffGaff.Co.Uk PAYG Online only.
How does one know if there mobile numbers been recorded using the above website?.
O2 has confirmed that it has fixed the problem – I’ve added its statement as an update above.
sloany says:
loones, Think you’ll find the IP address with be the IP Address of the server the handset is connected to as far as I know IP addresses are not used on the GPRS network, the routing from the server to the mobile is carried out by the networks servers. So it may not be as clear cut as you think.
source = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPRS_Core_Network
Bhoy Fett says:
With this supposed breach of certain rules/regulations/guidelines, is there sufficient grounds to terminate your contract without penalty?
I recall many leaving O2 after call charges were restructured a few years ago and they could not penalise customers wishing to sever their contract early.
After this data breach, it does leave me considering how reliable my network operator is.
Hello Bhoy Fett, it’s a good question. I spoke to senior Which? solicitor Joanne Lezemore, who said that it depends on the individual situation:
‘Many firms actually state that they will share your information with others, unless you opt out of this (usually an opt out/opt in button). However, where you have opted out, then forwarding any of your personal data will be a breach of the Data Protection Act.
‘If you want to cancel a contract you have to show there has been a fundamental breach of contract i.e. a serious breach. Where there is a breach of the Data Protection Act, it could be argued this would be sufficient for customers to cancel their contract, regardless of how or why the breach occurred.’
I hope that’s of some use, but we are looking a bit closer at O2’s contract to see how clear it is that they share your data with trusted third parties.
Nikki Whiteman says:
I’m really curious about the reason they need to share my phone number with trusted partners anyway. They say that it’s for checking that I’m over 18 – but this kind of identification can surely be done by sending a binary value (over 18? yes/no). Sending my entire number would seem irrelevant.
It also contradicts the initial part of their statement (which has now been edited to add more detail) where they said that your phone number wasn’t linked to any other identifying information about you. If that’s the case, how can it be used to tell that I’m over 18? or to provide me with ‘download and paid-for services’ for billing purposes? I don’t really understand, and would appreciate some more clarity on this.
I’m actually not with O2, but with giffgaff, and I think we’re affected in almost exactly the same way.
tpoots says:
Extremely good point about the binary value for the age control.
Also, for billing purposes, they could send a unique billing ID rather than your mobile number…a number which is meaningless to anybody outside O2.
Yes – a unique ID would work well too.
daffieduck says:
I would be very grateful if someone could provide the instructions on how to check if my telephone number has been compromised
Hello Daffie, the loophole appears to have been closed now. There are currently no reports that any phone numbers have been taken by a malicious website.
However, if you’d like check for yourself that your number is not being shared please type this URL into your smartphone’s web browser: http://lew.io/headers.php You’ll see your phone number highlighted in red towards the bottom of the page if it is. If not, you’ll see nothing. Thanks.
Baz Cleaver says:
Can I claim compensation from O2 for divulging my personal details?
And if so, how much would they likely pay out?
I’m seriously not happy with this breach of security.
It’s disgusting.
Hello Baz, breaches of data protection are dealt with by the Information Commissioner’s Office, but it cannot award compensation. However, it has made a comment:
‘We’ve received a large number of complaints about an alleged data breach on the O2 mobile phone network. We now have enough information to take this matter further, so there is no need for customers to complain to us.’
So the ICO will investigate and take action if it thinks it needs to. If you do want to claim compensation, you could bring a claim in the county court for breach of the Data Protection Act: http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/data_protection/practical_application/claiming_compensation.pdf
Also, it’s worth noting that Which? called for the right to compensation for consumers in data breaches to be added to EU data protection laws. The good news is that this right has been added, but it could take as long as three years for the changes to be implemented. We’ve published a Conversation about this if you’re interested: https://conversation.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/eu-data-protection-rules-personal-data-european-commission/
Cheers Patrick! Thank you!
Your a good un!
KE says:
Which Conversation-Comment-Is O2 Sharing Your Phone Number-16Apr2012
The more I look into this supposed mishap, the more suspicious I become. Indeed, the O2 official statement confirms that the only true accident was that the data were shared with every Website, rather than just a selected list of ‘partners,’ with whom Telefónica UK Limited (a.k.a. O2 UK) has commercial agreements. These partners are not defined or listed anywhere! O2 are likely building a loyalty scheme of partners who share personal data for marketing and product development with each other. If so, when did we join this scheme?
I have been digging into the terms and conditions in O2’s latest (2011) Pay-Monthly Contracts and its official Privacy Policy. The data sharing practices mentioned in these documents might make you shudder.
First, there is the basic contradiction regarding whether you opt-out or opt-in to sharing data with these non-specific partners and others. The Contracts outline an Opt-Out approach, i.e. as soon as the new contract applies (e.g. upgrade, purchase a new service plan or SIM, purchase an add-on [?], account migration [?]) your data can be immediately distributed; you must notify O2 (and wait) if you do NOT wish your details, including phone number, other personal identifying information, and usage data being shared for marketing and other purposes. The Privacy Policy outlines an Opt-In approach. Which is to be believed?
Second, O2 seems to be aggressively migrating accounts over to their latest in-house O2 billing system, i.e. if, like me, you had an account via a retailer such as Carphone Warehouse or Phones 4u, you may find that, without notice or consent (unlawful?), your account has been migrated directly onto O2. This may imply a different contract being forced upon you, as the retailer is no longer the billing company. I also discovered that a different phone plan had been forced upon me (fraud?); but a search of the net reveals that I am far from alone in seeing this ‘migration’ apparently used when O2 suddenly makes a service plan or feature obsolete, e.g. pay-upfront-for-life [PUFFL] or rollover minutes. A legal test is whether this results in “material detriment.” Well, changing contract terms, changing service plans, and, in my case, I now have no working SIM… seem to meet that definition. Worse, O2 has thus far refused to deal with my contractual or migration questions, insisting I continue to pay what had become a non-competitive rate (twice going price) for my ‘new’ monthly service (years since my initial 12-month ‘sentence’ was completed), de facto consenting to the new contract without discussion. In any case, the migration had failed and would not allow me to pay, so my SIM was barred. And that treatment is after more than a decade as a loyal O2 customer (a.k.a. ‘muppet’)!
Third, I have reviewed statements in the industry press, by various O2 executives, confirming their intentions to build a huge customer relationship management (CRM) database in the Czech Republic to exploit our data for marketing and other purposes.
Fourth, the O2 official explanation ( http://blog.o2.co.uk/home/2012/01/o2-mobile-numbers-and-web-browsing/ ) refers to “trusted partners who work with us on age verification…premium content…” But why should merely landing upon a site, which could be accidental, result in automatic disclosure of your phone number? I can see if you click on some upfront ‘age confirm’ panel or at the point of purchase (although other identifiers could and should be used), but not until those conscious decision points had been reached. Also, as of 02 January 2012, and despite many commenters (on the O2 official statement), O2 has refused to identify the list of ‘trusted partners’, let alone any other ‘partners’. We have a right to know with whom our personal data are being shared.
I am not buying the O2 official explanation. The comments on the O2 board suggest many customers remain sceptical. IMHO consumer watchdogs like Which? and the various regulators, Otelo (8 weeks of delay), Ofcom (toothless?), and the Information Commissioner, should continue to investigate.
Oh, and this O2 data sharing policy applies to all Telefónica Group subsidiaries (that’s worldwide, including regions without EU or strong data protection laws!) and ‘their’ partners. It also includes subsidiaries not obviously O2 or Telefónica, e.g. GiffGaff is a wholly-owned (with shared staff) O2 subsidiary not an independent MVNO as many of its customers (I nearly fell for it) still believe. Start shuddering!
Patrick Lee says:
I use a phone paid for but never used by my partner. today, I received a spam text addressed directly to her using her name. I am with O2. as she has never used this phone or this number, I can only assume that her details came from O2. In dialogue they have denied that they have handed out the number and details associated with it and suggested that I complete a long and tedious online form so that they could pursue this despite knowing, the number, my name, my email address. Is O2 handing out information? what can I do about this?
Hello Patrick, we’re covering spam texts in this latest Conversation: https://conversation.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/nuisance-phone-calls-bbc-panorama-telephone-preference-service-ico/ You can report the text to the ICO, which is linked to from the Conversation.
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the dangling carrots
Individual commitment to a group effort–
that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work,
a civilization work.”
I watch a lot of college football, as most of you already know.
I am known to watch pro-football, but the love is not there like it is for
college ball…
It just happens to be football and I like football.
Maybe this love comes from the fact that my husband played college football.
Maybe this love can be traced back to my having gone to a college where the name Herschel
was the most important name on campus…or more like the most important name in the
entire state of Georgia…
that is unless, of course, you were a GA Tech sort of person.
In my 4.75 years at that college, I never missed a home football game.
I also went to a few away games along with a bowl game or two.
And the name Dooley will always be the name of ‘my’ coach…much
like “the Bear” will always be the name for many in our neighboring state.
But maybe, just maybe, this love goes back to my having grown up in a household
where football was about the only thing ever watched every Saturday and Sunday.
Back in the day, when most bowl games were all played on New’s Day
and there were but three major networks showing the handful of games,
my dad would move three televisions into the den in order
to see all the games airing simultaneously.
It was that serious.
But no matter the origin, the love is in my blood.
So last year about this same time, I wrote a post of both lamentation and discontent.
I wrote about my dismay and even anger over football players “opting out” of playing
in their school’s bowl game.
Opting out due to the fear of getting hurt, or some other excuse,
as they declared their intention to leave school for the NFL draft.
Playing in the bowl game might mess up that chance of going pro.
Never mind that they might never be picked or picked up as some sort
of free agent…
Some players are leaving early, only after a year or two of playing college ball–
forget about getting a degree—the carrot is calling.
At least some are actually graduating seniors…which is what makes sense.
It’s all about a progression—school, work, study, play, degree then a job or the
elusive dream of professional sports.
I wish the NFL would quit dangling the money carrot to these kids the minute
they seem to step foot on the playing fields of their campuses of choice—
Just as I wish colleges would quit dangling scholarship carrots to kids as young
as the 7th grade–making promises to a 12-year-old kid if they’ll, in turn, give a
little verbal sort of promise of their own.
However back to what has truly stoked my ire…
Between injuries and those opting not to play, there was something like 13 Georgia
players not participating in the bowl game.
So when the game started New Year’s night, it was as if an entirely new and
different Bulldog team was taking the field…
much like an opening game of a new season.
There were some familiar old faces but there were also many new faces…
No one could really say what the team would be like as it was to be a new rhythm with
many unknowns.
The outcome was a success but that’s not really the issue.
A win is always a good thing but doing the thing that should truly be done is really
the most important thing.
We can’t help an injury roster.
We can’t help the list of ineligible players due to failed courses or poor grades.
We can, however, do something about kids deserting…or so I’d like to think.
The thing is these kids are a part of a team.
Each member being a connecting piece to a whole.
We always hear that it isn’t about the individual but rather about the team as a whole.
Yet we are seeing more and more about those who prefer being an individual when
the carrots start dangling.
I think those opting to leave school after only a year or two of play, say
the sophomore year, for the NFL, is self-indulgent and overzealous.
But to ditch a bowl game because of wanting to keep oneself in prime condition
for the draft is, in a word or two, selfish and self-serving.
Firstly, most often these players were given a scholarship to come play.
Secondly, these players worked day in and day out with a team—a team they often
refer to as “brothers”—where others helped each individual to become that shining star
they hoped to become.
Quarterbacks throw.
Receivers catch.
Linemen block.
Tackles tackle
Kickers kick.
Each individual doing what they do to ensure that the whole can become successful.
And so after all of the investment, the time, the work, the sweat, the pain, the
ticking off of one win after another…the climbing of the mountain to become
bowl eligible, an achievement that once meant something—only to suddenly announce
a “no thank you” is, in my opinion, a sad demonstration of this really being
all about me—as in the individual and not the team.
Forget those “brothers” of yours as you leave them behind when they truly need you.
Forget those coaches who invested their time in making you the best you could be.
Forget the school that helped to pay for your going to school.
Forget all those opportunities given you…
Because you’re leaving all of that behind for nothing more than an elusive carrot.
I fear we might be witnessing a reality where things such as bowl games,
which were once the long-sought-after goal of a season, lessening as they become
just another game while the dangling carrots of a Draft grow more tantalizing.
So yes, our sports and sadly our players are out of hand.
The importance of such is now deeply skewed.
The notion that all of this is just a mere game and it’s simply supposed to be fun
left us long ago.
That was when the carrots started dangling.
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One of the most effective new terms to arise in the digital age is “disruptive.” While once it was a negative word, used to describe something troublesome, something interrupting a steady flow of events, now it’s seen as a positive. Disruptive technology is synonymous with innovation and improvement.
Really, though, it works best when you consider both meanings. A disruptor offers a better way of doing things, but in doing so it wreaks havoc on those enjoying the status quo. Workplace collaboration app Slack is a disruptor. To several of the world’s leading video conferencing vendors, it is a troublesome one at that.
Since Slack reinvigorated office communication with its instant messaging and video calling platform, Google and Microsoft have made big changes to their leading video calling brands to stay relevant.
Now, Cisco Webex and Spark are also undergoing a brand change. Spark is set to disappear altogether, in name at least, and Webex, with its 40 million users, will become something of an add-on under its own banner.
Confused? Well, that’s what happens when the established players try to adjust to new rules created by a troublesome upstart.
Cisco Webex and Spark Merge
Cisco Spark may not actually have been around long enough for anyone to mourn its demise. It was launched a little more than two years ago as a standalone product despite the presence and success of video calling stablemate Webex. Spark was a cloud-based messaging, audio and video conferencing, and presentation app intended as an all-in-one communications hub. It was surrounded by some impressive hardware, including a digital whiteboard called the Spark Board, and a complete system for small huddle spaces called the Spark Room Kit.
While all that energy was put into making Spark shine, Cisco’s older video calling child, Webex, established itself as one of the most popular video conferencing apps on the market. At its peak, it held a 41% share, more than double its nearest rival, GoToMeeting (18%).
Then, back in April, Cisco used its Collaboration Summit to announce it was making a change. Webex and Spark would share a name, Spark would be scrubbed from the company ledgers, and Webex would become Webex Meetings.
Why? To make things simpler.
It doesn’t seem to have worked.
Spark Meetings are Dead. Long Live Webex Meetings
The subheading above is taken directly from Cisco’s own blog. It’s hardly reassuring if you’re a Spark user, or very enlightening if you’re a Webex user–weren’t they already having Webex meetings? In a nutshell, the page says that users were confused because Spark meetings were accessible only from the Spark app, and Webex meetings only from the Webex app. They’ve solved that by making both meetings the same, with the same functions and the same presentation.
The problem is, there are still two distinct apps accessing this common meeting platform. Spark has been rebranded Webex Teams, and the original Webex will be known as Webex Meetings. The Teams brand will take advantage of a “new type of meeting,” while Webex Meetings will be…a standard video meeting? Yeah, we’re a little confused, too.
It has been suggested that, in practice, Teams is the new headline product, the new rival to Slack with its all-in-one messaging and huddle room design. Meetings, on the other hand, will merely provide the video calling platform–which creates little incentive to remain a Webex Meetings member, seeing as you’d get exactly the same video experience as with Teams but without the Teams extras… which may be the point.
In effect, this looks a little like Cisco is just trying to apply the more established Webex brand to its preferred Spark app. If that’s true, it’s a muddied way of retracing the Spark steps. But we’ve seen more confusing rebranding undertaken by big video players in search of a Slack antidote.
Google and Microsoft Forge New Identities
Google has spent recent years tying itself in knots trying to distill its video conferencing offerings into a coherent order. After cycling through a seemingly endless parade of names and functions, it has finally settled on a three-pronged attack: Hangouts Meet, for professional video calls; Hangouts Chat, for Slack-style instant messaging and file sharing; and Google Duo, a social caller for one-on-one conversations. It seems to have followed the same path Cisco did in order to introduce a new product without losing a major brand name. Splitting Hangouts into two offerings is no more eloquent than hiding Spark under the Webex banner.
If you want to see how a bold transition to a new service is made, you need to look to Microsoft.
The giant is so convinced that Slack-style collaboration hubs are the future it is killing off its flagship Skype for Business brand altogether and going all in with the new product Microsoft Teams. At some time this year, most of the 100 million Business users will have to migrate across to Teams, or find somewhere else to make a video call. That’s a huge risk to take, it’s also decisive and clear. Should it survive the transition (and we think it’ll be just fine), Microsoft will have a singular service to sell–it won’t be hiding services within services.
But all the name-switching and constant change in big-name video conferencing platforms shows just how much havoc troublemaking disruptor Slack is creating for these established peers. The best way to pull off the can’t-beat-them-join-them trick may be to admit change is underway, and just present your answer as a shiny new device.
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Yoel Wagschal Becomes Last Chance Funding’s CFO
October 10, 2018 | By: Todd Stone
Above: Yoel Wagschal speaks at Broker Fair in Brooklyn, NY | May 14, 2018
Yoel Wagschal, an accountant who specializes in servicing MCA funding companies, told deBanked today that he will now be the CFO for Last Chance Funding (LCF), which has been one of his clients for about five years. Wagschal said he will maintain his private accounting practice, spending half the week working for LCF and the other half running his own business, serving other clients, mostly in the MCA space.
“I always treated my clients like I was a part time CFO,” Wagschal said. “Yes, it’s a little different to be the officer of one particular company, and that’s why I feel it’s important to make this announcement so my clients or prospective clients know that I am an officer, officially, of Last Chance. You can either embrace it, or not.”
For those who might see this arrangement as a conflict of interest, he argued that this has essentially always been the case since he has two dozen MCA clients.
“If the accountant is honest and doesn’t exchange information from one client to another, his knowledge will only be better, and [the client] will gain from having an accountant with other clients in the same space.”
Wagschal said he believes that every company needs a CFO. And being a part-time, per diem CFO, largely in the MCA space, has been his niche for the past 15 to 20 years.
Already, Wagschal has eliminated some jobs in LCF’s accounting department by creating a more efficient system, he said. (No one was fired; a few employees were just moved elsewhere). Wagschal believes that many accounting departments are often too big and that great leadership actually frees up time for a company.
“If you have proper accounting procedures in your company, then the compliance and the reporting comes so easy, it’s a piece of cake,” Wagschal said.
LCF’s owner and CEO Andy Parker is very excited about Wagschal’s new role at the company.
“I have never come across a more talented accountant in the MCA space,” Parker said of Wagschal.
Parker said that since he co-founded the Long Island-based company in 2011, they have seen triple digit growth year after year.
“As we continue to grow, we really needed a serious level accountant and we’re glad Yoel accepted the position,” Parker said.
Wagschal’s introduction to the MCA industry was a dramatic one. As a forensic accountant, he had contacts with tax attorneys, one of whom introduced him to the owner of an MCA firm whose partner had made a really costly mistake. Instead of sending an agreed-upon $9,600 to a merchant, he accidentally added an extra zero to the end and $96,000 was sent to that merchant. In what Wagschal described as a “very intense” experience, Wagschal drove to the town where the merchant operated from and said he rescued the money within 48 hours of being contacted.
But beyond this initial Indiana Jones-esque introduction to the MCA industry, Wagschal said that he began to see a void.
“It was a very new industry. People were confused, and I saw an opening,” Wagschal said.
Todd Stone was a reporter for deBanked.
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Ethereum is an open-source blockchain-based platform that essentially enables hundreds of decentralized cryptocurrencies and projects to be built and deployed exist without having to build their own blockchains.With the second largest market cap in the cryptocurrency world, Ethereum has drawn a lot of attention from investors and crypto enthusiasts alike.Ethereum not only presents a significant change to the status quo, it also allows for the quick development and deployment of new applications presenting niche solutions for various industries.While Ethereum’s utility is obvious to programmers and the tech world at large, many people who are less tech-savvy have trouble understanding it. We’ve designed this guide to appeal to both crowds and expose anyone from complete crypto beginners and intermediates to this potentially world-changing cryptocurrency.
Ethereum vs. Bitcoin
If you’re interested in Ethereum, chances are you have some sort of foundational knowledge of Bitcoin.All cryptocurrencies inevitably get compared to Bitcoin, and it frankly makes understanding them much easier.Bitcoin launched in 2009 as the world’s first cryptocurrency, with the single goal of creating a decentralized universal currency. This currency would not require any intermediary financial institutions, but would still ensure safe and valid transactions. This was made possible by a revolutionary technology called the “blockchain.”The blockchain is a digital ledger, continuously recording and verifying records. It’s used to track and verify Bitcoin transactions. Since the global network of communicating nodes maintains the blockchain, it’s pretty much incorruptible. As new blocks are added to the network, they are constantly validated.Similar to Bitcoin, Ethereum is a distributed public blockchain network. While both Ethereum and Bitcoin are cryptocurrencies that can be traded among users, there are many substantial differences between the two.Bitcoin, for example, utilizes blockchain to track ownership of the digital currency, making it an extremely effective peer to peer electronic cash system. Ethereum, on the other hand, focuses on running the programming code of an application. Application developers largely use it to pay for services and transaction fees on the Ethereum network.Both Bitcoin and Ethereum are “decentralized,” meaning they have no central control or issuing authority. Respective miners run each network by validating transactions to earn either bitcoin (for Bitcoin) or ether (for Ethereum).If you’re still having trouble making the distinction, the words of Dr. Gavin Wood—one of Ethereum’s Co-Founders—might help:
“Bitcoin is first and foremost a currency; this is one particular application of a blockchain. However, it is far from the only application. To take a past example of a similar situation, e-mail is one particular use of the internet, and for sure helped popularise it, but there are many others.”
Dr. Gavin Wood, Ethereum Co-Founder
Ethereum is simply the application of blockchain technology for a completely different purpose.
Simply put, Ethereum is a blockchain-based decentralized platform on which decentralized applications (Dapps) can be built.
Remember, blockchain isa database with no central server that keeps track of every transaction and exchange. The vast majority of cryptocurrencies and decentralized projects run on some application of blockchain.
We’ll jump into decentralized apps—referred to as dapps–in greater detail later, but just know they are applications that serve a specific purpose to a user. Fasten your seatbelts, some of these dapps are amazing.
Ethereum’s appeal is that it’s built in a way that enables developers to create smart contracts. Smart contracts are scripts that automatically execute tasks when certain conditions are met. For example, a smart contract could technically say, “pay Jane $10 if she submits a 1000 word article on goats by September 15, 2018,” and it would pay Jane once the conditions are met.These smart contracts are executed by the Turing-complete Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), run by an international public network of nodes.The cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network is called ether. Ether serves two different functions:
Compensate the mining full nodes that power its network. This keeps things running smoothly at an administrative level.
Pay people under smart contract conditions. This is what motivates users to work on the Ethereum platform.
If you’re still a little confused, don’t worry. The underlying technology is complicated even at a surface level.By the end of this guide, you’ll have a better understanding of Ethereum than 99.999% of people out there… and that’s a pretty good start!We’ll go over things such as how Ethereum functions, Ethereum’s history, and some of the exciting dapps running on the Ethereum platform.
Welcome to a Wild Ride: Ethereum
In 2011, a 17-year-old Russian-Canadian boy named Vitalik Buterin learned about Bitcoin from his father. Buterin became a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine and a leading writer for the publication. Buterin currently serves on the Editorial Board of Ledger. As a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Ledger publishes original research articles on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The publication shows interest in any topics relating blockchain to mathematics, computer science, engineering, law, and economics.In 2013, after visiting developers across the world who shared an enthusiasm for programming, Buterin published a white-paper proposing Ethereum.In 2014, Buterin dropped out of the University of Waterloo after receiving the Thiel Fellowship of $100,000 to work on Ethereum full-time.In 2015, the Ethereum system went live.In 2017, Ethereum hit a cap rate of $36 billion dollars.Whether you’re looking at this from an investment standpoint, tech perspective, or witness to history; Ethereum is extremely exciting.Buterin’s goal was to bring the same decentralization from Bitcoin to more than just currency. This could be accomplished by building a fully-fledged Turing-complete programming language into the Ethereum blockchain.The Ethereum white paper goes into detail for some of the potential use cases, all of which could be built through decentralized apps on the Ethereum network. The list goes on and on:
Token Systems
Identity and Reputation Systems
Centralized Autonomous Organizations
By building these apps on the Ethereum network, these dapps can utilize Ethereum’s blockchain instead of having to create their own.
Ethereum’s Founding Team
The core Ethereum founding team in 2014 consisted of Vitalik Buterin, Mihai Alisie, Anthony Di Iorio, and Charles Hoskinson, additionally attracting the attention of Joseph Lubin to join the team. Lubin moved on to found the now near 1,000-employee Brooklyn-based “venture production studio” ConsenSys.Rumored to be one of the top buyers in the Ethereum crowdsale, Lubin, who had been funding ConsenSys with his stash of Bitcoins, says he began selling some of his Ethers last year to fund the firm’s development
The Ethereum Virtual Machine
Early blockchain applications like Bitcoin only allowed users a set of predefined operations. For example, Bitcoin was created exclusively to operate as a cryptocurrency.Unlike these early blockchain projects, Ethereum allows users to create their own operations. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) makes this possible. As Ethereum’s runtime environment, the EVM executes smart contracts. Since every Ethereum node runs the EVM, applications built on it reap the benefits of being decentralized without having to build their own blockchain.
Smart contracts are strings of computer code capable of automatically executing when certain predetermined conditions are met.Instead of requiring a single central authority to say “yay” or “nay,” these contracts are self-operated. This not only makes the entire process more effective, it also makes it more fair and objective.For example, a simple smart contract use case would be:
Jim wants to bet Sarah 100 Ether (ETH) that the price of ETH will be above $1000 on August 30th, 2018.
They agree on a data feed to be used to determine the ETH price.
They each escrow 100 ETH to a smart contract, with the winner taking the full 200 ETH.
On August 30th, 2018 the data feed is queried and the contract immediately executes sending money to the winner.
Using the smart contract, there’s no need for Jim and Sarah to trust each other. They just have to trust the data feed.Keep in mind that this is only a very simple example. Many smart contracts are extremely complex and can work wonders.The takeaway: Smart contracts can automate a variety of tasks, without requiring intermediaries. All a smart contract needs is the arbitrary rules written into it.
Ethereum’s Challenges and Initiatives
Handling financial transactions alone presents hugely complex problems in terms of reliability and security. And since the Ethereum network comprises a general purpose blockchain that handles assets other than money, more complex challenges arise beyond mere financial transactions. Moving into the future, Ethereum confronts issues of scalability, energy consumption, security, privacy, and decentralization.
As a general purpose blockchain, Ethereum needs a mechanism to represent assets other than money. The ERC-721 standard has been created to transact unique items of value. The ERC acronym stands for Ethereum Request for Comment and provides a formal process for the Ethereum Foundation to improve its product. The ERC-721 standard originally drove the development of the highly successful CryptoKitties collectibles, but it allows for the representation of any digital asset.
Casper The Friendly Finality Gadget
Any blockchain relies on a trustworthy, fair, secure, and reliable consensus protocol for placing transactions onto the system. Like Bitcoin, Ethereum uses a Proof of Work (PoW) approach, but the Ethereum blockchain plans to implement a Proof of Stake (PoS) algorithm. The Casper finality gadget implements PoS as an independent module. As an independent module, Casper lives on top of the current PoW system, making the Ethereum network a hybrid system of both PoW and PoS. Also as an independent module, this allows the PoW portion of the network to be removed at a later date.The Casper PoS protocol utilized game theory incentives to maintain the integrity of the system. It also provides benefits of greater security and reduces the massive energy consumption required by PoW mining.
Scaling the Heights
Scaling presents a great challenge for Ethereum, as it does for other blockchains. Scaling defines a system’s ability to handle a large and growing workload without showing strain or stress to the system. Think of this both as a system’s power and efficiency to complete tasks and also as a user experience challenge. If a user waits too long for a response after clicking a button, frustration results, and users give up on the system.The web confronted this problem in the early days as well. In the first web applications, every action a user took on a web page resulted in the entire page having to be reloaded from the server and rendered again on the client’s browser. Web 2.0 came along, introduced the ability to refresh only the relevant part of the page, and responsive user interfaces became the norm on the internet.
Vitalik Buterin on Scaling
Vitalik Buterin identifies scaling as a primary concern that needs to be addressed in blockchain technology. He made the following comments in September 2017 in an interview with Naval Ravikant at the Disrupt SF 2017 conference.
“Bitcoin is currently processing a bit less than three transactions a second; and if it goes close to four, it’s already at peak capacity. Ethereum over the last few days, it’s been doing five a second. And if it goes above six, then it’s also at peak capacity. On the other hand, Uber on average — 12 rides a second, PayPal — several hundred, Visa — several thousand, major stock exchanges — tens of thousands. And if you want to go up to IoT, then you’re talking hundreds of thousands…”
The New Blood of Plasma Bringing Fresh Life To the Network
What the Lightning Network brings to Bitcoin, Plasma brings to Ethereum. Joseph Poon (the creator of the Lightning Network protocol) and Vitalik Buterin jointly design and architect Plasma.Efforts like Lightning and Plasma ease stress on the network by taking work offline to a side chain. Users engage in multiple transactions over time on a channel on the side chain without utilizing the main blockchain at this point. After a number of transactions complete, the final state of these transactions moves over to the main blockchain as a single transaction with a single fee. Multiple interactions to process thereby reduce to a single action on the blockchain, consequently reducing strain on resources and improving scalability.
Swimming With the Shards
Computer science boils down to the art of putting something somewhere, then retrieving it when you want it. Storing only what you require in a manner that makes retrieval simple and elegant, and retrieving only what you need, and doing it all as quickly as possible defines efficiency. Sharding presents a technique for storing data in an efficient manner to improve retrieval. And efficiency determines scalability.Sharding basically defines ways to break data into separate pieces and store them separately. Consequently, you only have to deal with the small piece containing the data you are interested in and not wade through every piece of data contained in the entire system. Database technology has long utilized sharding to increase scalability, and now the Ethereum Foundation researches how sharding can improve blockchain technology.
Raiden of the Lost Ark
Similarly, Raiden also presents side chain capability similar to Lighting and Plasma. Raiden is not a project of the Ethereum Foundation but a product of an independent company.
Decentralized Apps (Dapps)
Most of us have a pretty good understanding of what an application (app) is. An application is formally defined as a program or piece of software designed and written to fulfill a particular purpose of the user. We use apps every day: Apps allow us to check our bank balance, scroll through a live feed of pictures, or even launch a Flappy Bird into oblivion.Now take this definition and ~*~decentralize~*~ it. Dapps serve similar functions, but run on an entire network of nodes rather than a central source. The fact that they are decentralized gives dapps an enormous advantage over traditional apps.You know when Instagram is down because the server is down? This doesn’t happen with dapps. How about when Zomato got hacked and exposed the information of 17 million people? This doesn’t happen either.Moreover, Dapps are:
Open Source – Dapps allow users to view the app code on both the frontend and backend. No sketchy “allow us to use your location” nonsense unless otherwise stated.
Autonomous – Dapps automatically act by the rules encoded into them. No room for outside corruption.
Secure – Data and protocols are stored on the blockchain cryptographically. No hacks.
100% Uptime – The blockchain is always running, meaning zero downtime for dapps. No crashes.
Easier to Implement – Developers wanting to take advantage of blockchain technology do not need to create a new blockchain. The framework is there, saving dapp creators a ton of time and effort spent creating a potentially subpar framework. In order to run on this decentralized network, dapps just pay transaction fees.
In many cases, front-end users can’t even distinguish dapps from regular apps. Dapps typically use HTML/JavaScript web applications to communicate with the blockchain, appearing the same to users as many applications you’re already using today.
Will the Real Killer App Please Stand Up
While Bitcoin provides a network for financial transactions, Ethereum aspires to provide a platform for decentralized application development. Ultimately, a programming platform requires good applications built on it to be taken seriously. CryptoKitties gained popularity for a while, but we continue to wait and see how well Ethereum serves as a foundation for application development.Quartz asked Vitalik Buterin “What decentralized apps do you find interesting? on September 14, 2017. He answered as follows:
“There are a few categories that are flourishing already. Some of them are various financial applications, financial contracts, derivatives, things like Maker. Games are another one. In the non-financial space, identity verification is getting to be a big one. With prediction markets, Augur and Gnosis are going to be fairly successful. Also in the not-quite financial space there’s an interesting thing called Akasha. It’s an Ethereum-based forum that uses ether-based cryptocurrency mechanisms to manage things like upvote and downvote and spam prevention.”
Ethereum Dapps Use Cases
Fasten your seatbelts and get your Twitter-fingers ready, it’s finally time for the most exciting part of this guide.Ethereum’s intersection with the real world is paved with innovation and disruption. There are already a huge number of projects, both live and in development, built on the Ethereum network. Here are just some of the most successful and promising of these dapps. Golem: The Golem project aims to make a global supercomputer easily accessible to anyone. It’s essentially the first decentralized sharing economy of computing power. As a global market, users would be able to make money by “renting” out their idle computing power, or spend money to have access to a supercomputer. Hold up, have you ever used a supercomputer? Supercomputers cost between a million dollars and a good fraction of a billion dollars. The modern Tianhe-2 Supercomputer has the power of roughly 18,400 Playstation 4s. Golem’s goal is to make this sort of power easily accessible anywhere in the world at an infinitesimal cost.Check out our Golem Beginner’s Guide. Augur: Augur’s goal is to utilize a decentralized network to create a powerful forecasting tool using prediction markets. Augur would reward users for correctly predicting future events. While at a surface level it may just seem like a decentralized betting platform (which is still worth a lot), Augur could potentially provide powerful predictive data for virtually any industry. Prediction markets are more accurate at forecasting than individual experts, traditional opinion polling, and surveys.Check out our Augur Beginner’s Guide. Civic: Civic aims to protect user’s identities and provide blockchain-based, secure, low-cost, on-demand access to identity verification. This would not only prevent and provide users with assistance for identity fraud, but it would also remove the need for constant personal information and background verification checks. Think about how many times you’ve left your social security number with someone’s assistant and you can see the benefits of Civic.Check out our Civic Beginner’s Guide. OmiseGO: OmiseGO vision is to solve the problems and inefficiencies of financial institutions, processors, and gateways by enabling decentralized exchange on a public blockchain at a lower cost and high volume. This means anyone will be able to conduct financial transactions such as payments, payroll deposits, B2B commerce, supply-chain finance, asset management, and loyalty programs without having to rely on a single server… and without exorbitant fees! The system is built in a way that allows the best currency (whether fiat or decentralized) to win.Check out our OmiseGO Beginner’s Guide. Storj: Storj’s aim is to make it possible for users to rent out their excess hard drive space in exchange for the crypto STORJ. Users could therefore also use Storj to rent additional hard drive space.These are only a handful of different dapps all running on the Ethereum platform. What really stands out with dapps is how their founder are able to “raise” real capital by selling tokens. Whereas traditional apps have to seek outside investment or IPO, a dapp can simply “ICO” and raise the capital they need to build their company. While this removes friction from the financing processes, it has unfortunately also made it possible for many sub-par dapps to ICO and take advantage of eager speculators.Check out our Storj Beginner’s Guide.For more dapps, check out the State of the Dapps.
Ethereum vs Bitcoin: Continued
Now that you have a decent understanding of what Ethereum is and how it functions, it’s useful to revisit how it compares to Bitcoin at a technical level.While the two cryptocurrencies serve different purposes, Ethereum provides a number of benefits over Bitcoin:
Shorter Block Times – On Ethereum, blocks are mined roughly every 15 seconds compared to Bitcoin’s 10-minutes rate. This shorter time allows the blockchain to more quickly start confirming transaction data, although it also means more orphaned blocks.
More Sophisticated Fee Structure – Ethereum transaction fees are based off storage needs and network usage. Bitcoin transactions are limited by block size and compete with each other.
More Sophisticated Mining – Bitcoin mining currently requires ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits), necessitating a large amount of capital investment to mine. Ethereum’s mining algorithm was designed with ASIC-resistance in mind, thus leveling the playing field and aiding in the decentralization of mining.
Ethereum arguably currently functions better than Bitcoin as a currency. With Ethereum, you can reliably send transactions faster, pay lower transaction fees, and mine at a more profitable rate (although it still has its downfalls for miners).Read: Is Ethereum Mining Profitable?However, Bitcoin does have a relatively more stable price—and therefore functions as a better value storage option—from a trading and value storage perspective. Ethereum is much younger but has covered a substantial amount of ground in recent years. Although Ethereum certainly shows promise as a currency, its true potential lies in features nonexistent in Bitcoin’s code.
The DAO: Trouble in Paradise
The most famous DAO was simply known as The DAO. The nearly identical name causes a lot of confusion for people and gives DAOs a bad reputation.The DAO was a decentralized autonomous organization primarily functioning as its own investor-directed venture capital fund. It didn’t have the conventional management structure or board of directors, was not tied to any particular government, and instead ran on open source code. The DAO was set up to give funders the power to vote for which dapps deserved investment through DAO tokens.Dapps had somewhat of an approval process:
Get whitelisted by reputable figureheads in the Ethereum community
Get voted on by those who held DAO tokens
Get an approval of 20% in the vote in order to receive a share of DAO funds they required to get started.
The DAO is most famous for the largest crowdfunding campaign in history, raising over $150 million in ether from more than 11,000 investors. The DAO is also most infamous for getting hacked for $50 million. This hack inevitably caused a split in the Ethereum community, creating what we now know as Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC). The hack happened because of The DAO’s “Split Function.” Funders who wanted to exit The DAO could use its “Split Function,” which would give them back the ether they had invested. The only stipulation was that existing funders had to hold their ether for 28 days before they could withdraw them.On June 17th 2016, an unknown person or group of people took advantage of a lapse in the Split Function’s security with a simple recursive function. This frustratingly easy hack allowed the hacker(s) to repeat their request to withdraw the same DAO tokens multiple times before the system registered it as $50 million.The news of this hack created chaos in the Ethereum community. While this hack had nothing to do with the Ethereum platform and everything to do with The DAO platform, many members of the Ethereum community were invested in The DAO. The community as a whole had 28 days to come up with a solution, which ended up being to “fork”—stop the current blockchain entirely and create something new from scratch. The new Ethereum (ETH) is the result of the fork, and is essentially the blockchain before the hack. The old Ethereum (Ethereum Classic – ETC) is still running the original blockchain with the hack included.The vast majority of the Ethereum community including the Ethereum founders pivoted along with ETH, with a small minority staying loyal to the original blockchain.
Future Updates to Ethereum: The Long Road of the Future
Software never stops changing until people stop using it. The Ethereum Foundation follows a roadmap of future modifications and enhancements to the system. No system ever runs fast enough, so scaling continues to develop. Privacy remains paramount, and research into zero-knowledge proofs continues. Decentralized systems demand constant attention to security. Many aspects of the future remain unknown. Some new and popular application not yet on the market may well demand new capabilities from the system. As the world changes, Ethereum continues to evolve.The future for Ethereum is bright, but it is not without its potential uncertainty.A notable event on the horizon is the Metropolis hard fork that is set to occur in late September. This hard fork indicates some major upgrades for the platform including:
Increased anonymity with new zero-knowledge proofs, or “zk-SNARKs.” This means users will be able to conduct transactions at much more secure levels of anonymity than ever before.
Smart contracts and programming will be much easier to work with. Gas is also going to be adjusted for bill setting.
Masking will increase security on the network. Users will be able to determine the address for which they have a private key, and this will protect them from quantum computer hacking.
A “difficulty bomb” will be included in the upgraded, meaning mining will become much more difficult. This is a significant step as Ethereum transitions from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-sake (PoS).
We won’t know how this hard fork will affect the price of Ethereum as markets could adjust in a variety of ways. If the upgrades attract more users, the price could rise. However, if mining becomes more difficult and slows, the price could fall.The next upgrade after Metropolis is referred to as Serenity, which should increase stability and encourage more investment.
While there is a lot of speculative interest around Ethereum, it’s important to note that the Ethereum and dapp communities are very much focused on building a tangible future.Ethereum is a phenomenal application of the blockchain and has made it possible for hundreds of projects to exist.
“Blockchain solves the problem of manipulation. When I speak about it in the West, people say they trust Google, Facebook, or their banks. But the rest of the world doesn’t trust organizations and corporations that much — I mean Africa, India, Eastern Europe, or Russia. It’s not about the places where people are really rich. Blockchain’s opportunities are the highest in the countries that haven’t reached that level yet.”
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Founder
The primary goal of Ethereum’s founders isn’t to create a cryptocurrency that makes speculators a ton of money; it’s to change the world. The Ethereum community attracts ideological supporters in the same way Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies do, but it’s use cases give it life far beyond that of other coins.
How to Buy Ethereum
The easiest way to buy in Ethereum is by using a cryptocurrency exchange. We’ve compiled a list of the best exchanges where you can buy Ethereum. On this page you can find key details of these exchanges, as well as links to their individual reviews and user guides.If you’re new to the world of cryptocurrency, Coinbase offers one of the simplest ways to buy, sell, and store Ethereum.For those interested in regular trading, the following exchanges may be more suited to your needs:
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These are the experiences of our volunteers in Cambodia.
July 7: Latrines Week Two–New Work Site
Posted in Cambodia on July 7, 2014
There was quite the thunderstorm here last night at about 0400 with torrential rain and lightning, but when we woke up the rain had stopped long before breakfast and it was breezy and noticeably cooler.
I woke up early and got some work done writing and working on photos and got a Facebook message from Annie that she wasn't feeling well. I went next door to check on her and she was nauseous and had spent most of the night dizzy and in cold sweats. She didn't have a noticeable fever, so I ruled out malaria and chalked it up to probably not taking yesterday's two plus hours on a rocking boat at sea too well. She admitted that she hadn't probably had enough water, too, so I encouraged her to drink a full bottle and start working on another. After a conference with Dan and Vy, we decided to leave Dan's cell phone with her and let her stay in the room and rest for the day.
We left the hotel on schedule and dropped by the local post office. Hansena mailed a bunch of postcards and was a bit worried because she said that she had to lick all of the stamps. Maybe not a good idea in Cambodia. Oh well--we'll see if that gets her.
We next stopped at a "hardware store" and I bought two shovels for a total of $7. These were medium-sized spades with handle grips that I thought would help us at the site since we didn't have very good shovels last week.
The drive to the new worksite was a little longer and we turned north off of the main road instead of south. Once onto the dirt road, we went about a half-mile into the countryside where we found the homes to be more spread out with rice paddies/fields separating all of them. It was really beautiful and we liked the area immediately.
We got out of the car and walked across a palm tree log bridge that spanned a small pond and then shortly arrived at the first work site (photos here). We dropped Team 2 there and they rejoined their team leader from last week who was already started digging the square trench for the foundation. Team 1 walked about another 100m across a couple of rice fields to the second site that was next to a rather larger house with accompanying palm frond roof barn for the animals. The land around the house was much more spacious and open and we were shaded by coconut palms.
Jay was there and he and Mr Song had already dug the foundation and were pouring concrete over the granite boulders that they'd placed with sand in the foundation trenches. We immediately started placing the first layer of bricks onto the foundation concrete following the guide lines and also started digging the septic pit.
Once again, we struck water before we made it much deeper than a meter, but that was proceeded by a lot of work cutting through palm roots to get to the base clay. Winston was schooled by one of the ladies of the house (age 49) on the proper use of a hoe to dig a hole. She was amazingly strong and effective and we were all humbled. She MAY have weighed 110 lbs, but I doubt it. Winston had another digging helper, too, whom we presumed was the man of the house, but that's still TBD since they speak no English and we speak very few Khmer words. Once they got through the roots, the work went very fast, though, and by lunch time it was clear that we would have the concrete cylinders in place later in the day.
As we laid the bricks, mixed the concrete, and really got into a groove, we noticed that almost everyone around us was supporting the effort. Little kids were delivering bricks and shoveling mortar into our buckets. The sisters that live in the house were helping dig holes, delivering fresh coconuts for refreshment, and doing as much as possible. At our last site, I have to admit, it was frustrating to see the number of idle people doing nothing--at least at our latrine site, though Team 2 had a little more support on their side of the road. Today, it was our team with the support and our work showed for it.
There was a lot going on at the farm, too. Seven-day-old puppies were yipping in the wood and palm leaf cooking shed next to us and a couple of them tried to crawl out from underneath. Chickens were constantly running around us and the kids were everywhere. Still, despite the distractions, we were moving at a great pace and had more than seven rows of bricks laid with the door mounted and sand and rocks inside the latrine before lunch. (Photos here)
We drove to The Vines again for lunch and had their amazing Cambodian salad with peanuts again, along with a squash and chicken soup. We decided to cut lunch short and get back to work earlier than usual since the weather was so good and we were being so productive. We called Annie to check on her and she reported feeling quite a bit better, but we decided to let her rest through the afternoon and prep for work tomorrow if she continued to improve.
We were back from lunch before 1330 and spent the afternoon placing the cylinders and working hard on the bricks. The ladies brought us rambutan fruit (like red, really spiny lichee nuts) and bananas (later) as well as sweet, iced Vietnamese-style coffee. The weather continued to be nice, so we mixed batch after batch of concrete on the hard ground near the front of the house and the kids kept us going. We had four bricklayers for most of the afternoon, except for mixing breaks and when we put the cylinders in. By the time the afternoon was complete--and we worked until 1700--we had at least 18 rows of brick laid (over 6' high), the cylinders placed, and Jay was installing the concrete vent pieces. (Photos here)
Vy came over and helped me chat with the family while I was laying the last couple of rows of bricks. They explained that three sisters (ages from the late 40s to early 50s) lived there and in neighboring houses with all of their kids, Grandma lived next door butslept i nthe big house at night to protect her from "ghosts," and that the small baby was five months old. I explained the composition of our group and our purpose and made it clear that we were in the US Air Force. They were very happy to have us and kept thanking me over and over again. I tried to convey how much we enjoyed the work and appreciated their support as we worked and their participation in the process.
We left at about 1700 knowing that both groups had had a great day. We were happy to be more in the country and around the rice fields and really like the families that we were helping. Of course, I spent most of my break times taking photos of people and our work, so you can see those photos here.
When we returned to the hotel, Luke suggested an early dinner, meeting at 1800 to walk over to a French Bistro named "Brise de Kep." Everyone showered and cleaned up quickly and Annie joined us, too, feeling much better and ready to work tomorrow. We walked over and generally enjoyed the meal. I ordered a tuna steak for $4 and it was overcooked, but Dylan had Magret de Canard and it was good, while Hansena had a good barracuda filet and Annie ate their version of a fried chicken breast. To pass the time, we played cards (the France Family's official card game that we call SOYN). It was a good time and it kept us busy and not complaining about the service all of the way through dessert--which was the best part of the meal.
We're looking forward to tomorrow and will finish the bricklaying in the morning and hopefully get most of all of the stucco done tomorrow afternoon. We're feeling good about finishing on Thursday now.
Here's the slide show of all of the photos taken today:
Marty France
USAFA Faculty Chaperone & DWC Volunteer
Kep, Cambodia: July 2014
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Young people aged 12 to 24 across the state are being encouraged to join a panel that will inform the development of a new three-year Youth Action Plan for South Australia.
The plan will guide the State Government’s efforts to ensure the best outcomes for young South Australians in the future, including the areas of education and employment.
The Youth Panel will bring up to 50 young people together to help develop the plan through all stages of the process. It’s an exciting opportunity for young people to tell us how we can work better together so we can achieve the best outcomes for our youth in South Australia now and in the future.
Young people are invited to let us know their thoughts for our plan to ensure it represents all South Australians and in turn, will make a real difference in their lives. This includes hearing from young people living in the regions, young people with disability, from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and from our LGBTIQA+ communities.
Those interested in joining the panel will need to be available to attend a workshop over the weekend of 10 and 11 August 2019.
Find out more about the Youth Panel and nominate to join before 9am Monday, 29 July 2019 on the YourSAy website.
In addition to the Youth Panel, there will be a range of opportunities for the public, government and non-government organisations, to contribute to the action plan later in the year
Young South Australians can complete an online survey to help us understand what is important to them and what they want to see addressed in the Youth Action Plan.
The survey can be completed until 2 August 2019.
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Mercedes Schneider On NOLA Charter Chaos
In this post, Mercedes Schneider tries to untangle the mess created by lack of oversight in all-charter New Orleans.
She begins:
In all-charter New Orleans, New Beginnings Schools Foundation (NBSF) operates three charter schools in New Orleans, one of which is John F. Kennedy High School.
Kennedy is in the throes of an astounding fraud which resulted in almost 50 percent of its Class of 2019 being found to not have actually met state requirements for graduation. As a result, 87 out of 177 students who were allowed to participate in a graduation ceremony and who thought that they would receive diplomas discovered that they would not be receiving diplomas after all. In an effort to mop up this mess, the NBSF board offered post-haste summer school as an option that 53 of the affected seniors participated in. Mind you, this last-minute, thrown-together clean up effort put students who had been offered scholarships at a critical disadvantage because official, complete, state-approved high school transcripts were not available in May 2019, when the students supposedly/legitimately graduated.
It is now August 2019; college/universty fall classes will soon begin, and the Kennedy seniors who participated in the alleged summer-school fixer still have not received copies of their transcripts. (For the extensive backstory and continuing saga, see here and here and here and here and here and here.)
On August 06, 2019, Nola.com reported on Kennedy student and parent efforts to require release of student transcripts via court order.
What is of particular importance in this all-charter arrangement is the fact that the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) (ironically renamed NOLA Public Schools) has no direct authority over those “public” schools to require the schools to release the transcripts. In this “portfolio model,” the school board is left out of any authority over ensuring school data integrity; the charter school deals directly with the state in delivering data, which is part of the problem since the state apparently had no controls in place to audit charter school grading practices.
The district was left out of Kennedy’s grading processes until a whistleblower brought the fraud to district attention, and then the district requested a state audit of all charter high school grading practices.
What comes through loud and clear is that any accountability depends of whistleblowers. The data mean nothing because they are generated by charter schools that are trying to create impressive records, even though fraudulent.
Categories Accountability, Charter Schools, Education Industry, Education Reform, High School Graduation, New Orleans, Privatization
The only source of accountability is whistleblowers? Doesn’t the state have Kira Orange-Jones with the perfect meeting attendance record on the state board….wait…
Monty Thornburg says:
Untangling fraud will get worse. I just returned from NOLA where I began my career 50 years ago in 1969. Without going into detail I’ll say it’s a mess, and moving to Atlanta next. I learned through (inside) authentication that the district will have a shortfall of teachers in this next year – up to 700 who have “disappeared” moved on to new lives. This massive experiment will prove to be a disaster in my opinion. There will be some successes, but, for the majority of students (Such those at Kennedy H.S) it’ll only get worse. The mess will move to Atlanta in that the “testing scandal” was nothing but a fraudulent attempt to create in Atlanta what Hurricane Katrina created in NOLA. Watch: http://www.onechildleftbehindmovie.com.
Thanks for the link.
Americans of all races should have protested in the streets when the Atlanta teachers were charged. And, we should not have backed down until the billionaire-funded testing regime was toppled in all of the nations’ cities and states.
Gates funds SETDA, an association of public employees who promote digital education and public-private partnerships. The association representing all 50 states has “Gold, Silver, Event and Strategic” private partners. It is the type of situation that makes oligarchy rain down destroying Main Street.
melchi34 says:
So good to hear you say that Americans should have protested the charging of the Atlanta teachers. Most of us are so taken up by our own little problems that we fail to see how something over there might affect us and spread.
Hopefully that might change.
One of the goals of this blog is to disseminate knowledge about what is happening in many cities and to understand the nature of the privatization movement
The Atlanta School Board was captured by TFA. Its leaders are using their power to gut public education.
Waiting to be informed- how many TFA’ers are on staff at the Green Dot school funded by Bill and Melinda Gates that is the subject of a lawsuit.
The mother of the boy assaulted at the school relied on her attorney to describe the family’s view, “The staff did everything wrong, every step of the way and showed callous disregard for the 12 year old student’s life and well being.”
These kids just want to start college this month, but may never be able to do so, because of this transcript fiasco. These charter school operators — who otherwise insist that they’re running “public schools” — are actually contradicting themselves in court, and pulling out the “We’re private” Card to justify denying these same (their recent former) students their transcripts, as in…
“We’re private, so no one — not the students’, the students’ parents, the authorizing/overseeing school district, any court or judge — has the right or power to force us to provide transcripts or to do ANYTHING, not now, not EVER, and if you don’t like that, TOO BAD!”
Just as with other private entities such as Walmart or whatever, they now claim that they have no obligation to provide these “customer-students” with anything, if that’s what these charter operators choose to do, or not to.
Yep, that’s the “New Orleans Miracle” so celebrated by Jeanne Allen, The74, Education Post, and all the rest.
John Oliver needs to do a sequel to this:
Given the recent news coming out of Ohio — which Oliver cites as maybe the worst state when it comes to charter schools — this video is more applicable than ever.
Indeed, Oliver’s video includes;
1) Ohio governor Kasich’s “pizza shops” as competition analogy,:
2) a charter operator, citing the Bible to justify her embezzling ed. funds to live a luxurious lifestyle, because … the Bible says that she will experience the good life first, and then — per some vague Bible quote which she blathers — she can then transfer those* “good life”* experiences to the children at the charter school.
What duh fun?
“Bible and charter schools” – The founder of Pahara where the L.A. Archdiocese of Catholic Schools’ superintendent is a Fellow, said the goal of charters was “…brands on a large scale”. Pahara’s founder made the declaration from her role as New Schools Venture Fund’s founder.
The Pahara Fellow list for Summer 2018 has the name of the Asst. Superintendent for Talent for the Louisiana Dept. of Ed. The Gates-funded operation, Pahara, was founded by Kim Smith, who claims she founded or co-founded TFA, New Schools Venture Fund and Bellwether. In an interview in Philanthropy Roundtable, Smith identified the goal of charters, “…brands on a large scale”.
Louisiana’s Pahara Fellow listed is Hannah Dietsch.
Also in that summer cohort, a Senior Research Fellow from the Charles Koch Institute. Bill Gates is Charles Koch’s ideological twin.
Also, in that summer cohort, from the Catholic Schools Archdiocese of L.A. , the Senior Director and Superintendent, Kevin Baxter.
It has been reported that Bill Gates met with Jeffrey Epstein to discuss philanthropy. Gates rode on Epstein’s airplane.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/14/jeffrey-epstein-met-with-bill-gates-years-after-financier-served-jail-time.html
Why does Bill meet with a convicted pedophile but refuses to meet with me? I could discuss philanthropy.
IF America lived up to the ideals that so many sacrificed so much for, a headline would read, “Legislators, judges, governors, public servants media, and colleges refuse to meet with and take money from Bill Gates and Charles Koch – both of whom are covered in the blood of the innocent, common good.”
Gates refuses to participate in democracy. Perhaps the news worthy item is, activists condemn despots in protest over their theft of democracy and refuse to meet with them.
I’m living here in New Orleans with my kid in the system, trying to advocate for all kids in the system. Electing a good state Board of Education Rep might go a long way (current rep Kira Orange Jones is tool of billionaire ed reformers)…you can help with that here: https://electdrwyatt.com/?fbclid=IwAR13r1OoXRyqCaSzxYKLrTRcPUiUy5lDejmsaSTppxxhk6OS3cPeh8l8vEA
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Best Consular Blog. Dead, So Very Dead.
November 2, 2009 By domani spero in Consular Work, Foreign Service, FS Blogs, FSOs, Realities of the FS, Tigers Are Real Tags: Madam le Consul
Image by Colin Purrington via Flickr
And don’t you dare write another one!
Madam le Consul went missing from the blogosphere 30 days ago today. If you go missing for more than 48 hours in real life, the chances of finding you drop precipitously. The chances of recovery in virtual disappearances, um don’t really know.But she’s gone.Missing for over 700 hours now. The trail is cold. Most likely dead. Just dead. And we can understand if she wants to stay dead for now.
I imagine that there are folks out there who are relieved that though she may browse among us, she is now a ghost among us. And ghosts, you know, can’t be seen or heard, and have not been known to blog, yet. Dead blogger gone. End of line.
Other folks out there, of course, still harbor hope that she comes back.Why, to continue our rudely interrupted conversation, of course.Dead bloggers like cylons (see Battlestar Galactica) have many resurrection ships nearby: WordPress.com, Tumblr.com, LiveJournal.com, Yahoo 360 and more … dead bloggers do not really go away, they just get new URLs. But I won’t be surprised if she stays dead.
Every single day I also get somebody knocking on my door looking for MLC.I suspect that she is more popular now dead than she ever was, alive. If Madam le Consul is not resurrected, I hope her ghost starts micro-blogging on Twitter soon, if only to give the folks responsible for her demise nightmares and ulcers.
Yup, I’m going to hell for wishing that. Whatever. I’m still royally pissed that I no longer have her company when I have coffee each morning.
Liam Schwartz who publishes the Consular Corner has a brief piece on Madam le Consul (republished below with permission):
Respect for MLC
“The Consuls’ Files” — probably the best visa blog in the universe — has disappeared from our screens. Over a relatively short period of time, ‘Madam le Consul’ provided more consular education to more people than any of us would have thought possible. For her devoted audience, the reason for MLC’s sudden disappearance remains a mystery; that said, opinion in consular cyberspace is virtually unanimous that “The Consuls’ Files” was forced to close down by a skittish Bureau of Consular Affairs.
For a brief few months, MLC provided us with an enhanced level of information regarding the world of consular officers. In so doing, she created more public trust and support for that world than any one person has done in a very long time. We are deeply saddened by the loss of “The Consuls’ Files” and thank MLC for having given so much in such a short period of time.
MLC’s final blog piece, posted on October 2, 2009 was perhaps appropriately entitled “Yuck.”
Yuck, indeed!
I think we have to remember that the Bureau of Consular Affairs was born out of the McCarthy furor of the 1950’s and was set up under INA of 1952. Robert Walter Scott McLeod, the first Assistant Secretary of State for what was then called the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs (SCA) was known for his bureau’s slogan, “an ounce of loyalty is worth more than a pound of brain.” Also known apparently was his “field study” of 19,000 employees at home and abroad trying to find “security risks.”Donald Warwick, author of A Theory of Public Bureaucracy (1975 p.19) writes that “to become a “security risk,” one needed little more than an unflattering remark by a colleague.”
Ah, the bad, old days. Don’t you just miss them?
I’m not saying that MLC was a security risk or that the bureau is still trying to fumigate the commies out there — just that the bureau’s “skittishness” may steam from its turbulent and sad history.In any case, I think we’ll let MLC rest in peace now.Let’s have a parade when she comes back.
Um, but what’s this I hear? — is it true that the latest consular cable has an odd item discouraging the conception, immaculate or otherwise, of a consular blog? Oh, please, do tell.
US Embassy Kabul: Honoring DEA Agents Lost
November 2, 2009 By domani spero in Af/Pak, Obama, People, US Embassy Kabul, War
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At dawn on October 29, at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the bodies of the three DEA special agents and 15 U.S. troops who died recently in Afghanistan were received by President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Michele Leonhart, the acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
That same day, the US Embassy Kabul held a ceremony to honor the three DEA agents who lost their lives in the line of duty on October 26. The three special agents – Michael Weston, Chad Michael and Forrest Leamon — members of the Kabul Country Office, died when the U.S. military helicopter they were on crashed while returning from a joint counter narcotics mission in Western Afghanistan. DOD has now identified the seven soldiers who also died that day. The helicopter was an MH-47 helicopter and the crash occurred in Darreh-ye Bum, Afghanistan. The soldiers names are here.
Our thoughts and prayers to the loved ones they left behind. More photos here of the US Embassy Kabul ceremony.
Obama to meet plane carrying soldiers killed in Afghanistan (cnn.com)
Obama Honors Fallen U.S. Soldiers at Solemn Service (abcnews.go.com)
The AFSA Challenge: Prove This Theory Wrong
November 2, 2009 By domani spero in Awards, Dissent, Foreign Service, FS Groups, FSOs
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Francesca Kelly in the latest issue of AFSANews writes:
On June 18, AFSA honored seven members of the Foreign Service community for their extraordinary work in the field, including three who were honored for their constructive dissent. These individuals serve as an inspiration to all members of the Foreign Service.
However, two AFSA constructive dissent awards were not given out at the ceremony: the Herter Award for a senior FSO, and the Harriman Award for an entry-level officer. Why not? Because there was not a single nomination in either of these two categories. In trying to determine the reason for this, one AFSA staffer astutely postulated: “The entry-level officers are too junior to rock the boat, and the senior FSOs don’t want to jeopardize their position of power.” This may well be true.
And once we started thinking about it, we wanted to find out. So AFSA is offering a challenge to the FS community worldwide: Prove this theory wrong.
Of course, before anyone can pick up the AFSA challenge, somebody has to pick up the dissent challenge. As Ambassador Ed Peck writes: “The basic criterion for winning an AFSA dissent award is clear: you must take up the cudgels, but strictly within the system. Resigning eliminates any element of risk, and going public takes the issue outside the system. Either action therefore removes eligibility for an award.”
Read A Challenge to Honor Dissent, FSJ November 2009, p.51, online edition.
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Quickie: The FS Blogosphere in 2009
November 2, 2009 By domani spero in Foreign Service, FS Blogs, FS Groups, Technology and Work
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The November issue of the Foreign Service Journal (FSJ) is out. It features The FS Blogosphere in 2009 written by Mark Hay, a student at Columbia University who was an editorial intern in the Journal.
He writes that American diplomatic blogging activity lags behind Russia, Israel, and Syria but that “the FS blogosphere is assured of its place and seems set for further growth.”
“[I]ts effects on the nature of the Foreign Service community’s self-perception, tolerance for dissent and contributions to literature are all unknown. But there is no doubt of its potential to promote U.S. soft power, foster the expression of dissent and build connections within the FS community.”
He also points out in the article that many of the blogs noted in last year’s compilation are no longer operational. “Even during the time it took to prepare this article, several blogs under consideration died and were replaced, and ultimately surpassed, by newborn or revived blogs.”
The piece divided the blogs into three broad categories — FS members’ journals, family-member accounts and, finally, critical or analytical offerings. Within each, there are various subsets as follows: The Journal, Slices of Life, The Training Journal, Trailing Spouses, Both Spouses-Approach, How-To Guides, Thoughtful Musings, News with an FS Bent, and Retirees’ Reflections.
Some of our favorite FS blogs made the list (NDS, TH, Jill, Donna), and some did not. Most conspicuously absent, of course is — The Consuls’ Files. I’m not sure if the lead-time for the magazine is one or two months. But Madam le Consul was certainly not dead yet in September 2009. Consul-At-Arms II, Life After Jerusalem, Avuncular American and John Brown’s Public Diplomacy and Blog Review, as well as John Brown’s Notes and Essays are all alive and well but are not on the list. (John Brown, yes, one of the three FSOs who quit over Iraq).
The article links to AFSA’s blog list but page is empty right now. We had an FS bloggers index here for a while but pulled that down after MLC disappeared; have not decided yet what to do with it. Life After Jerusalem does have an extensive list of over a hundred FS blogs that’s worth checking…
DiploPundit (I think that’s us), made the list under News with an FS Bent “In these news aggregators, discerning bloggers cull the news for stories of interest to diplomats and either present them unaltered or with a dash of insider commentary. Regardless of the garnish and delivery, they are among the premier sources for pre-filtered diplomatic news.” Reinventing Public Diplomacy is on the list but that blog has not been updated since March 8, 2009. Our blog friend, TSB at The Skeptical Bureaucrat made the same list with us.
The FSJ is the trade publication of the Foreign Service with a circulation of 15,000 and approximately 30,000 readers. We appreciate the blog press; just hope we won’t see a blog cop carrying a big hammer and a deletrius gun (used to disintegrate, or ‘delete’, an object) with nothing better to do, try and knock on our door in the weeks ahead.
Dude, you know we have a disclaimer, right? No ostrich has been harmed in the writing of this blog.
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Ride quality in the C 300 punches well above its price and weight class.
Whether you’re shopping in the mainstream or luxury segments, buying a sedan, coupé or crossover, you’re likely to come across an engine displacement of 2.0L. Narrowing things down into the compact luxury sedan class, there are five major players. Each and every one comes with a more powerful option, but the entry-level powertrain is a 2.0L turbocharged inline four-cylinder. Mercedes-Benz has updated their C-Class for the 2019 model year, and while the visual changes are subtle, there’s more than meets the eye if you look beyond the skin.
Tested here is a 2019 Mercedes-Benz C 300 4MATIC, a sedan that slots in the lineup between the smaller CLA and the spectacular E-Class (reviewed here). The C was last redesigned for the 2015 model year (chassis code W205), and is a segment leader when it comes to safety features, interior, and overall ease of use. Given how easy to get along with this car is, it’s easy to see why there are so many C 300 4MATICs spotted around the city and surrounding suburbs of Toronto.
For 2019, the biggest change is a new 2.0L turbocharged inline-four, now putting down 255 horsepower and 273 lb-ft. of torque. The torque figure is unchanged from last year, but it now arrives at 1,800RPM rather than 1,300. A new twin-scroll turbocharger system helps boost that power number, and as such the new C-Class’ four accelerates quickly and effortlessly. Turbo lag seems to have been virtually eliminated, and passing power is more than adequate. The vast majority of buyers will appreciate the slight bump. Of course, if you’re looking for more power, it comes in the way of the 385-horsepower AMG-tuned C 43.
The only available transmission is a nine-speed automatic. It offers a manual mode via the steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters, but you won’t really want to use it. When the drive mode selector is left in “Comfort”, the automatic does a decent job of changing gears without making itself seem obvious. When set to “Sport”, we found the transmission holding gears far too long, and being very resistant to upshifts. Overall it’s a decent box, and we don’t see any need for a dual-clutch setup in the C 300. 4MATIC all-wheel-drive is standard on all C-Class models sold in Canada.
Ride quality in the C 300 punches well above its price and weight class, with the suspension and chassis doing a sensational job of soaking up any road imperfections and uneven surfaces. At highway speed, the C-Class simply glides, with the engine quietly humming along at very low RPMs and the laminated glass absorbing most external noises. It’s quiet and smooth, exactly what the average buyer wants, with no surprises or unexpected quirks.
Fuel economy is about on par for the segment, with the 2019 C 300 4MATIC returning 9.2L/100km in combined driving over about 500km. We saw city numbers rise to 11.4L/100km when stuck in a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam with frequent stop and go, and as little as 8.5L/100km on the highway. Our test took place in sub-zero temperatures and on winter tires, so your mileage may vary. The C-Class requires premium 91-octane fuel, and that’s what our test was conducted on.
The interior of the new C-Class adds subtle updates, with the most obvious being updated infotainment and a new steering wheel that has trickled down from the E-Class. Materials are all fairly good, with a nice open-pore matte wood accenting the cabin of our tester. The wood looks and feels good to the touch, but it’s a bit thin and prone to creaking in colder weather. Visibility is excellent, with no prominent blind spots thanks to the handsome proportions and an adequate driving position. The C-Class boasts more usable rear seat space than the Genesis G70 (reviewed here) as well as the Jaguar XE.
Infotainment is an area in which this car was in dire need of an update. A 10.25” screen is controlled using the COMAND rotary controller, and an optional package will add a 10.25” digital instrument gauge cluster as well. The new Mercedes Me app is capable of a variety of features, including alerts if the vehicle has been broken into or is being stolen/towed. It uses an iOS/Android app and the vehicle’s theft/tilt sensors to summon the owner in case of such an event. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are also supported with this system. A Burmester audio system produces wonderfully clear sound quality, regardless of the genre of music being played.
Mercedes’ high-tech Intelligent Drive Package has now made its way into the C-Class as well, which gives the vehicle semi-autonomous driving support and a host of active safety features. This system is right up there with Volvo’s Pilot Assist and will keep the vehicle on track with minimal intrusion from the driver. IDP also supports Lane Change Assist, where the C 300 will automatically check the blind spots and change lanes on demand. Our vehicle was not equipped with this option, but we have tested it in other applications and it’s about as seamless as it gets.
Mercedes-Benz Canada prices the C 300 4MATIC at $46,100 to start. Our test vehicle added $890 for the Emerald Green metallic paint, $500 for premium 19” wheels, and a few important packages. A $4,000 Premium Package adds a panoramic sunroof, touchpad controller, navigation, 10.25” screen, intelligent key, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. A $2,300 Premium Plus Package adds park assist, 360-degree camera, and a garage door opener. A $1,700 Sport Package adds AMG body styling, bigger wheels, a sport suspension and brakes. The sticker on our test vehicle crested $56,000 before fees and taxes.
An underdog rival to the C 300 is the Volvo S60, a car that is geared squarely towards comfort and serenity over sportiness. The C-Class has a better ride than the Audi A4, a nicer interior than the 3-series, and more interior space than the Lexus IS. While the others in this very competitive segment are on the constant hunt to be the top performer, the 2019 Mercedes-Benz C 300 4MATIC soldiers on with a great overall package and feel akin to a finely-tailored suit.
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Article of the Year
How does Family Integrated Care in the NICU affect short-term infant and parent outcomes?
MANUSCRIPT CITATION
O’Brien K, Robson K, Bracht M, Cruz M, Lui K, Alvaro R, da Silva O, Monterrosa L, Narvey M, Ng E, Soraisham A, Ye XY, Mirea L, Tarnow-Mordi W, Lee SK; FICare Study Group and FICare Parent Advisory Board. Effectiveness of Family Integrated Care in neonatal intensive care units on infant and parent outcomes: a multicentre, multinational, cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2018 Apr;2(4):245-254. PMID: 30169298.
Kathleen E Hannan, MD
Stephanie L Bourque, MD, MSCS
In a population of neonates born at 33 weeks’ gestation or earlier, does a Family Integrated Care (FICare) model compared to standard NICU care affect infant weight gain at 21 days, breastfeeding frequency, parental stress and anxiety, infant mortality, major neonatal morbidities, duration of oxygen therapy, and length of hospital stay?
Design: Multicenter, cluster-randomized controlled trial
Allocation: Not concealed
Blinding: Unblinded
Follow-up period: The primary outcome of weight gain was assessed at 21 days after enrollment. Morbidities were assessed through the infants’ birth hospitalization.
Setting: This study took place in 25 NICUs throughout Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Eligible infants included those born before or at 33 weeks’ gestation and who were on no or low-level respiratory support, defined as oxygen by cannula or mask, or non-invasive ventilation. Parents in the FICare group committed to being present in the NICU for at least 6 hours per day, to attend educational sessions, and to actively care for their infant. Centers that were eligible for the study included units that agreed to provide educational resources for families and nurses if randomly assigned to receive the intervention, provide families with a rest space and sleep rooms for the exclusive use of parents, comfortable reclining chairs at bedside, free parking or transport vouchers, and nurses with FICare training in preparation for the study.
Infants who excluded were those receiving palliative care, having a major life-threatening congenital anomaly, critical illness or those who were deemed unlikely to survive, requiring high-level respiratory support (invasive ventilation), scheduled for early transfer to another hospital, or born to parents unable to participate because of health, social, or language barriers.
Intervention: Sites randomzied to the intervention group participated in the FICare model. A team from each FICare intervention site attended a 2-day training workshop focused on implementation of a parent education program with small group education sessions, parent coaching at the bedside, parent involvement in medical rounds, tools for NICU staff to mentor, coach, and support parents, policies, procedures, and environmental resources to operationalize parent invovlement, and a program of psychosocial support for families while admitted to the NICU.
The primary outcome was infant weight gain (measured by change in weight Z score) at 21 days after enrollment.
Secondary outcomes included weight gain velocity (at enrollment, day 7, day 14, and day 21), high-frequency breastfeeding at hospital discharge (defined as 6 or more feeds per day at the breast), parent stress and anxiety at enrollment and day 21, NICU mortality and major neonatal morbidities, duration of oxygen therapy, length of hospital stay, and incident reports of adverse events.
Analysis and Sample Size:
Analysis was by intention to treat.
There were 14 sites randomized to the FICare intervention group, with 3012 patients assessed for eligibility. Among those eligible, 895 were enrolled, all were included in intention-to-treat analysis. 12 sites randomized to the stardard care group, with 2015 pateints assessed for eligibility. Among those eligible, 891 enrolled and all were included in the intention-to-treat analysis.
Patient follow-up: % included in analysis: Among enrolled infants, all were included in the analysis.
MAIN RESULTS
The FICare and standard care groups had similar distribution of infant sex, birthweight, and mean weight at enrollment. A greater percentage of infants in the FICare group were lower gestational age and of Caucasian race, whereas a higher percentage of infants in the standard care group were singletons. Other infant and maternal characteristics were similar between the groups.
Primary outcome:
Infants in the FICare group demonstrated better weight gain at 21 days, compared to infants in the standard care group with mean change in weight Z score of -.071 compared to -0.155 (p<0.01). The difference in weight Z score remained significant after adjustment for covariates and after sensitivity analysis. Infants in the FICare group also had higher mean daily weight gain (26.7g vs. 24.8g, p<0.01) and percent change in weight at 21 days (42.6% vs 38.9%, p<0.01).
Secondary outcomes:
Rate of high-frequency breastfeeding (>6 times per day) was higher in the FICare group compared to the standard care group (70% vs 63%, p=0.02), however infants receiving any breastmilk at discharge was higher in the standard care group compared to the FICare group (81% vs. 75%, p=<0.01).
At enrollment, total stress and anxiety scores among parents were similar between groups. Mean scores decreased in both groups at day 21, however the mean stress and anxiety scores for parents in the FICare group were significantly lower than those for parents in the standard care group (stress score 2.3 vs. 2.5, p<0.01, anxiety score 70.8 vs. 74.2, p<0.01).
There were no significant differences between groups in the secondary outcomes of neonatal mortality or major morbidities, duration of oxygen therapy, and hospital length of stay. No adverse events attributable to FICare were reported during the trial.
In this cluster randomized controlled trial, the authors show that infants receiving FICare had improved weight gain in the NICU at 21 days post-intervention, increased high-frequency breastfeeding, and decreased levels of parental stress and anxiety. There was no difference in mortality or major neonatal morbidities, and no adverse events associated with the implementation of FICare were reported.
Family involvement in the NICU is known to improve infant outcomes and parental mental health (1,2). Studies have examined single care interventions such as kangaroo care(3), however, structured and comprehensive approaches for integrating family as primary caregivers during infant admission have not been formally studied.
This study evaluates a comprehensive program, the Family Integrated Care (FICare) model, on several short-term infant and parental outcomes through a multicenter, cluster randomized-controlled trial (RCT). Infants in the FICare group demonstrated improved weight gain, higher rates of high-frequency breastfeeding, and lower parental stress and anxiety, compared to the standard care group. They found no significant differences for infant mortality, major neonatal morbidities, duration of oxygen therapy, or hospital length of stay.
This was a well-designed and carefully thought-out RCT. A major strength is inclusion of 25 centers across 3 countries, allowing for increased generalizability. Most previous studies examining care-by-parent programs were in low- and middle-income settings often with overall lower NICU acuity(1,4). Further, this study population included a wider range of preterm infants from 22 to 33 weeks gestational age (GA). The intervention was also a multi-layer model, including a comprehensive program of parental education, facilitated engagement, and nursing support. Previous studies have shown the importance of particular elements of family-centered care in the ICU such as family presence and support for families(5), however optimizing direct care by families at the bedside is a novel approach.
There were several limitations to this study. The primary outcome of weight gain was recorded at 21 days post-enrollment and was not analyzed at later time points. Although optimal growth velocity has been associated with improved neurodevelopmental outcomes, there is little evidence on the persistent effects of short-term weight gain in the NICU (5). Biases including different centers with different practices, patient populations, and staff may have contributed to the results, either positively or negatively. Given the strict requirement of parental involvement for >6 hours/day, eligible families likely had different resources than ineligible families and although the authors attempted to address this through a sensitivity analysis, it is unlikely that this accounted for all confounders.
Despite these limitations, this RCT provides novel information on the positive impact of family engagement in the NICU on important infant and parental outcomes. The benefits and barriers to involving families in the care of their infant in the NICU have been well described(6), and this study supports that despite being resource-intensive, FICare is a specific and feasible approach. We feel that both previous qualitative studies and these RCT data indicate that this model improves the outcomes of some of our most vulnerable neonates. The feasibility of implementing FICare may be difficult for units with space constraints and most certainly requires adaptations in how bedside providers interact with families. More work is also needed to evaluate longer term effects, such as neurodevelopmental progress, hospital readmissions, and family dynamics post-NICU stay, however this study provides encouraging evidence of the importance of integrating families into the medical care of neonates in the NICU.
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EdgeTheory
Eating Our Own Dog Food
Watch as a technology-based digital marketing firm boldly experiments on itself
By Gregg Newby
If you’ve ever taken high school geometry, then you’re sure to remember all those bothersome proofs. In geometry, as in life, nothing is true unless you can prove it.
The same goes for digital marketing as well. Many a claim’s been made about this approach or that, but few Internet gurus ever bother to back up their assertions with any evidence. Maybe this is why so much digital marketing theory comes across as indecipherable. With enough doublespeak anything seems true.
What makes EdgeTheory different is that we have long sought to back up our claims with verifiable outcomes that clients can build upon. Every client defines success differently, but at heart they all want the same thing: to generate more online business. What varies between clients is simply the manner in which they achieve it.
So rather than simply demanding you accept our techniques at face value, we’d prefer to prove them to you with measurable results. All you need do is sit back and watch while we do all the heavy lifting.
But what exactly is the EdgeTheory approach, and how in the name of Dickens are we going to prove it works? Actually, it’s not all that complicated. As for our methods, EdgeTheory is built on the premise that mass deployment of targeted messaging yields tangible business outcomes. You can deploy your messaging anywhere you like, but our preferred platform is Twitter. We prefer Twitter because it’s an open social network that gets repeatedly indexed by various search engines and other content aggregators. Send out enough of the appropriate content on Twitter and you’ll rise in the Google rankings as well. People will find you when they’re not even looking for you.
Thanks to some back-end technology we’ve developed, EdgeTheory is able to deploy considerably more messaging on Twitter than any individual — or even marketing team — could ever hope to accomplish alone. And it’s not all the same content, either. Our proprietary Graph database uses keyword substitutions and variations in phrasing to ensure that each version of a particular tweet is unique from the others. Let’s say an original tweet for a client selling mountain gear reads, “You can’t climb Mt. Everest without a proper ice axe.” The next time the system posts that particular tweet, it will choose phrases and keywords that render a completely different message. It might now read, “Never try to take an Alpine ridge without durable climbing shoes.” Later, it might tweet, “There’s no scaling a vertical cliff face without dependable ropes and footwear.”
As all of these messages get repeatedly indexed by various web crawlers, Google begins to sit up and take notice. The client then begins to rise in the search rankings. See how that works?
Now for measurement. Because EdgeTheory’s technology is built for deployment across Twitter, we’ve also created an analytics tool that measures our client performance. This tool — known as Kudzu — is able to count screen views, link clicks, new followers, and so on. It’s even able to tally the number of times a client’s tweets get indexed by crawlers. We’ll be using Kudzu to measure our own performance and openly sharing the results here on Medium.
But that’s not the only way we’ll be measuring our success, however. We’ll also be tracking our performance via certain Google search terms, most notably “conversation,” “conversation media,” “conversation technology,” and “conversation share.” Once this project has been successfully executed, a person who searches Google for “conversation” or “conversation media” will get a page one link leading back to EdgeTheory.
Actually, let’s aim a little higher and say that, in time, we want to land at the very top of the search results. This is no less than what EdgeTheory strives to do for all of its clients. Only now we want to eat our dog food, so to speak. We want to prove our method works by using it on ourselves.
So here’s what we’ll be doing: Over the coming months, I’ll be blogging around the topic of online conversation on the EdgeTheory website. You’ll be able to view that material here. As that blog content gets posted, I’ll also be blanketing Twitter with relevant messaging that leads followers back to it. Kudzu will then record the relevant data, which I will post and discuss here for you to review. We’ll also track our progress in Google page searches, which you’ll be able to verify for yourself.
In the meantime, there’s still some setup work to be done before the project can start gaining steam. I’m off to take care of some of it and to get the messaging going out on Twitter. I’ll be back in a few days to share some initial results and to say a little more about what we do at EdgeTheory.
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Researchers Pave the Way for Timekeeping Battery-less IoT Devices
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July 11, 2020 by Stephanie Leonida
A new circuit design introduces the electronics community to a future of batteryless device technology.
Researchers from two universities in the Netherlands, Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) are leading the way in bringing time-keeping battery-free industrial internet of things (IoT) devices to the consumer market. The researchers created a circuit that is able to keep track of time for devices even during the event of a power outage.
Why is Time Keeping Important?
When something like a power outage occurs and a computer cuts out, the system can take a substantial amount of time to reboot, which can be quite frustrating. The computer needs to rejig its memory to see where you last left off. Even more frustrating and anxiety-inducing is that any unsaved work or important projects can be lost even when the computer does come back to life. Timekeeping is quite important for many devices including computers as it helps run applications, system services, and security features.
Hester and Pawelczak’s System
For IoT devices, Hester and Pawelczak’s novel circuit ensures that timekeeping is no longer an issue. In a news release from last month, research co-lead Josiah Hester from Northwestern said, “We built a custom system that reliably keeps track of time despite numerous power failures and interruptions for any IoT device.”
This means that a small IoT device like a security camera, smartwatch, fitness tracker, or medical sensor can restart quickly without you even noticing there was a power shortage in the first place. The circuit designed by the researchers enables a device to save “a stitch in time” by sewing together the seams to restore the fabric of a system as it was when it was being used.
Botoks custom software and hardware platforms for batteryless devices. Image used courtesy of Northwestern University
Hester, along with research co-lead Przemyslaw Pawelczak from TU Delft produced two papers, one that outlines the hardware of their time-keeping circuit and another that focuses on how it can be used to convert battery-powered devices into batteryless devices. Both papers were presented at the Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2020 annual meeting.
Although Hester and Pawelcak understand that completely removing batteries as a current source of energy will have consequences, they are outweighed by the immense benefit to the environment. Currently, it is posited that around 3 billion batteries enter landfill sites every year. Some batteries like lithium, contain both lithium and cobalt which are toxic to the environment, with lithium being flammable and quite hazardous. leaching of such materials into the environment can disturb the balance of ecosystems and also harm the individuals mining the materials.
“If we hope to have a vision of computing that is sustainable, then we have to rethink how we design these systems,” said Hester in the same news release. Developing a system like their conscientious circuit design may be an integral step to encouraging steps towards further development of more sustainable methods of sourcing, storing and utilizing energy.
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A Fake Partisan Fight Over a Fake Palestinian State, Updated
Jaime Omar Yassin 1 October 2011
Several months ago, the GOP made a legislative three-ring circus out of the immigration issue. Branding President Barack Obama an addict to extreme leftism, Republicans staged an intervention-performance to prevent him from compulsive granting of amnesty to undocumented immigrants.
The Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation Act—HALT—absurd in both the full and acronym, never went anywhere beyond a comedic set of hearings. There’s a good reason for that; it was clear to everyone involved that nothing like amnesty was planned by Obama, and that even his claim to move more humanitarian cases to the end of the docket had no firm parameters. The HALT act was merely a stage on which to enact anti-Obama theater.
Obama, for his part, told his Latino supporters that immigration reform was impossible, because he lacked a “dance partner” on the Republican side. What the antagonistic spectacle obscured was the reality that the mainstream Republican and Democrat immigration policies have been seamless on the federal level. Unbelievably, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney criticized Obama for un-kept promises in reducing immigration, saying “the truth is, he didn’t even try.” This was a week or so before it was announced that Obama had surpassed the Bush deportation rate by a factor of four [I wrote about some of this on my own blog here].
Democrats and Republicans “hand in glove”
A similar choreography, with familiar personalities, disguises the hand-in-glove approach of Democrats and Republicans to the issue of Palestine and Israel. In this case, the Palestinian Authority’s UN bid for recognition of statehood has provided a useful stage for a partisan battle. Despite the fact that the Obama administration has, at every turn, expressed viral opposition to the statehood bid at the UN, Republican luminaries have still gotten a lot of mileage out of the claim that Obama policies have encouraged the Palestinian Authority’s quest. Texas governor Rick Perry, another Republican presidential hopeful, and pundit-minions such as former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee all blamed the PA statehood bid on Obama. Mitt Romney’s criticism, posted on his website, offers a condensed summary of the Republican line. Obama had:
“[distanced] the US from Israel”
“thrown” Israel “under the bus” by locking it into the 1967 final state parameters.
And, in a comical turn, Romney claimed that Obama’s mention of the words “state” and UN to Palestinians at some point previously had planted some a kind of irresistible suggestion in the mind of Mahmoud Abbas that had led inexorably to the statehood bid.
Romney insisted that
The United States also should communicate that we are prepared to cut foreign assistance to the Palestinians so long as they continue to pursue statehood apart from the negotiating table.
Less than a week later, the Republican controlled Foreign Appropriations Sub-Committee did just that. Under the heading of recommendations for the West Bank and Gaza, the report recommends withholding funding…
[…] until the Secretary of State certifies that the Palestinian Authority is not attempting to seek recognition at the United Nations of a Palestinian state […]
Obama playing both sides
The UN bid has generated the same opportunity for spectacle by Republicans as the “amnesty” scuffle I mentioned above. Obama has played both sides of the field in similar fashion, feigning impotence before the ostensible intransigence of Palestinians and Israelis and sometimes publicly expressing frustration with Israel’s right wing government. Like his predecessors and Republican counterparts, however, Obama accedes to every Israeli desire behind the scenes.
As Eli Lake reported at Newsweek, Obama publicly demanded a settlement freeze with Israel when he took office in 2009, only to be repeatedly rebuffed. There was no delay in the transfer to Israel of bunker buster bombs secured under the Bush administration, however, which were being delivered to Israel even as Obama seemed to be demanding “tough” concessions. Obama added his own stocking-stuffer of billions of dollars worth of fighter jets in return for a meaningless extension to Netanyahu’s subsequent 10 month “settlement freeze” in 2010. Meaningless, because, as Max Blumenthal, Peace Now and other groups documented, construction continued, despite the ‘settlement freeze’.
The fake “settlement freeze” of 2010 was no different than the fake “settlement freeze” of 2008, during which time President George W. Bush promised the bunker busters to Israel, despite then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s indifference to public reproach on the settlement issue. In fact, contrary to Romney’s outlandish assertions about 1967 borders, the parameters were the Republican party’s position on a final negotiation during the Bush years, then known by the first date in the 1949-1967 period both allude to.
US security cooperation with Israel has increased under Obama
The Bush and Obama policies on Israel’s colonial project are the same. But like so much of the pernicious overlap in the administrations, Obama has actually increased the extent and pace. As Elliot Abrams put it, the “trajectory” of security cooperation has strengthened “from Clinton to Bush to Obama…”
As a final note, far from the unhinged cry of statehood decried with varying hysteria by Obama and the Republicans, Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority he leads seem eager to cash in their UN bid for a return to Oslo. The PLO made some heads spin by immediately reacting favorably to a quartet proposal for revived negotiations this week—the equivalent of answering a call from a jilted lover on the first ring.
A seamless bipartisan policy
Despite all the feigned antagonisms, the UN bid is little more than another act in a complicated dance performance that once again hides a seamless, bipartisan policy. Republicans get to pull out their Obama trifecta—secret Muslim/weak on national security/easily hypnotized by swarthy evil leaders.
Obama and Democrats get to floss their never-ending devotion to Israel while they secrete crocodile tears for Palestinians and boast their non-stop commitment to a peace-process, any peace-process. In a sense, Abbas has provided a new script, creating an excuse to bring up negotiations again in a way that all three parties can talk about with a straight face now that the dance number has grown derivative and obviously pointless.
Its being reported that the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Appropriatons Foreign Operations Sub Committee—both controlled by Republicans—are holding up some level of funding to the PA and, seperately, to USAID programs seperate from the PA. The fact that this consitutes the fake infighting that I was writing about above is illustrated by the reponse of US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta who is in Israel this week. In a photo op with his Israeli counterpart, Ehud Barak, Panetta stated that the Obama administration opposes the block, and by extension, one is to assume, the appropriations committee recommendation to cut funding for 2012. Panetta remarked that funding should continue during this”critical time”. The funding issues are complex, and not being well reported in the press. This post from Americans for Peace Now, does a good job of explaining the congressional committees involved and how funding is allocated and disbursed [h/t Alex Kane at Mondoweiss].
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Jaime Omar Yassin has been involved in alternative media for nearly twenty years, and believes that popular participation in the creation and interpretation of news is crucial to substantive and lasting change. He’s worked with Paper Tiger Television, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, written for Extra! and other independent magazines, published fiction and non-fiction and maintained his own blog—Hyphenated Republic—for the last seven years. He is a product of two diasporas, living in a nation that tends to collect them. He tries to do right by all three.
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New Release: The Rebel’s Queen
Elizabeth is pleased to announce the release of the final audiobook in the Companion Series by Tanya Bird: The Rebel’s Queen, now available at Libro.fm. This is the sixth and last installment in the compelling medieval romance series, produced through Findaway Voices. The rest of the audiobooks in the series are available at Libro.fm, Audible, and elsewhere.
A rising king. A falling queen. An unimaginable love.
Queen Cora is married to a monster. Three years she has played wife, and all she has to show for it is a marked face, an empty womb, and a bitter taste in her mouth best washed away with wine. It is a good thing she is made of something solid, because marriage is a life sentence. Or is it? The rebel prince is coming for the crown. Powers will shift, and loyalties will be tested. As Cora’s future unravels, she must fight to keep hold of her position, her sanity—and most definitely her heart.
Brom is leader of the Nydoen people, a mountain rebel—and next in line to rule. His brother is self-destructing, and the time has come to replace him. He has the love of a kingdom and a clear path to the throne, but not everyone wants him to succeed. War is coming. He is going to need allies if he stands any chance against his enemy. The one they call Ice Queen might be the key. Experienced, intelligent, well-connected. Intoxicating. If he can just find a way to thaw her solid heart, she may prove to be his greatest ally yet.
This is the sixth and final book in The Companion series. If you enjoy a medieval tale with a strong heroine and plenty of action, then you will love The Rebel’s Queen.
Trigger warning: This book contains violence and dark themes.
on October 19, 2020 October 19, 2020 </a by gloriana 2 Comments
New Release: Running Start
Elizabeth’s latest release is the first book in the new Dark Runs series: Running Start by J.A. Sutherland, now available at Audible. Elizabeth will be narrating the second book, Running Scared, for Tantor Audio in November. Sutherland is also the author of the popular Alexis Carew series, which should be returning next year.
What if you discovered you’d been sold?
For Mason Guthrie, a sudden arrest, railroad trial, and quick conviction for the “vandalism” of fixing things around his tenement building come as a shock.
For Rosa Fuentes, it’s just more confirmation that, to Earth’s rulers, they’re nothing but commodities to be bought and sold.
Together – along with Rosa’s disturbingly capable AI – they break out and make their way off Earth to start a new, free life.
Unfortunately, the folks they stole a billion credits from along the way would like those back.
on September 30, 2019 September 30, 2019 </a by gloriana
New Release: The Common Girl
Elizabeth’s latest release is The Common Girl, the second book in the Companion Series by Tanya Bird, now available at Audible. Elizabeth narrated the first book in this series, The Royal Companion, and will be narrating three more books later this year.
Love has never been more dangerous.
Companions are the kingdom’s most beautiful and educated women – possessions of Syrasan’s royal men. But the longstanding tradition is about to change. A new trade agreement between two kings will see women sold across the border.
Prince Tyron never wanted a companion, but now he cannot fathom a life without her. But when a rebellious act brings brutal consequences, Tyron realises his feelings put his companion at risk. As her future grows more uncertain, he will do whatever it takes to keep her safe.
Aldara never wanted to be a companion, but at age 16 the choice was made for her. She never imagined she would grow to love the man who owns her more than her own freedom. But when her life at Archdale begins to crumble, Tyron sends her back to the safety of her family, where she must find a way to exist without him. As Zoelin continues to tighten its grip on Syrasan, the pair soon discovers there are no safe havens.
Tender and heart-stopping, The Common Girl is a love story about family, sacrifice, and the roles that bind us.
on August 14, 2019 August 14, 2019 </a by gloriana
New Release: Queen Immortal
Elizabeth’s latest release is the first book in a new fantasy series by Kaci Morgan: Queen Immortal, now available at Audible. Be sure to listen to the sample from this exciting debut at Audible!
Queen Beza is a woman untouched by those around her. Immortal as she might be, she hasn’t yet learned the art of loving anything other than her crown. For more than 300 years, she perfects being cold, hard, and relentless, refusing to let her walls down for anyone.
After an attempt is made on her life, she is led down a path of darkness, deceit, and betrayal, uncovering secrets along the way that were never meant to be uncovered. With her lead guardsman attempting to break through the ice surrounding her heart and a peasant woman who unveils the likelihood that Beza may not be the sole heir to the throne, Beza delves deeper into suspicion, isolating herself further.
Now, she must search for a brother she never knew, convinced he is after her title. In her quest to find the truth and defend her nation against forces both seen and unseen, Beza’s greatest ally may be her heart. But can she learn to trust those closest to her before she loses her queendom, her chance to love again, and most importantly, her life?
An enticing fantasy by debut author Kaci Morgan, Queen Immortal explores the lengths one woman will go to secure her power and status, even at the cost of all she should hold dear.
on January 14, 2019 January 14, 2019 </a by gloriana
New Release: The Queen’s Pardon
The latest audiobook in the Alexis Carew series by J.A. Sutherland is now available at Audible: The Queen’s Pardon. This is the sixth book in the popular SFF series, and follows the previous installments, beginning with Into the Dark. Alexis (and Elizabeth) will be back with Book #7 in Fall 2019.
Allies and enemies are not always what they seem.
Trapped on a hostile world, hunted by pirate bands, and abandoned by her fellow captains, Alexis Carew must lead her small band to safety, even though it seems every hand is set against her. Stalked by pirates in the skies above and shadowy alien figures on the planet below, Alexis must convince former enemies to trust her even as she discovers where the tendrils of her true enemies lead.
on January 6, 2019 January 6, 2019 </a by gloriana
New Release: Door Into Faerie
The final audiobook in the Shards of Excalibur series by Edward Willett is complete and available at Audible! All five of the books in this wonderful YA fantasy series can now be downloaded and enjoyed: Song of the Sword, Twist of the Blade, Lake in the Clouds, Cave Beneath the Sea, and the latest release Door Into Faerie.
Shortlisted for the 2017 Aurora Award (honouring the best in Canadian science fiction and fantasy) for Best Young Adult Novel!
In the climactic fifth book of the Shards of Excalibur, Ariane, Wally, Flish, and Rex Major are on a collision course, converging on the resting place of the final piece of the sword: the hilt, long ago removed from its original hiding place by the descendants of King Arthur. When Wally uncovers its surprising location, far closer to hand than they’d ever guessed, it seems all Ariane and Wally have to do is claim it and reforge the sword to defeat Merlin forever.
Except…how, exactly, do you reforge a magical sword? Especially, how do you do it when the richest man in the world is on your trail and pouring all of his enormous resources into stopping you?
When the pieces of the sword are at last reunited, the long-closed door into Faerie swings open wide. Who – and what – emerges from it may destroy everything and everyone Wally and Ariane have fought so hard to save – and allow Rex Major to snatch victory from the very jaws of defeat.
on November 9, 2018 November 9, 2018 </a by gloriana
New Release: Cave Beneath the Sea
Book #4 in the wonderful YA fantasy series The Shards of Excalibur is now available at Audible! Cave Beneath the Sea by Edward Willett is the latest installment in this contemporary retelling of Arthurian legends. The final book, Door Into Faerie, will be coming out very soon. Elizabeth is proud to have narrated this excellent series, with Books 1-3 already available at Audible.
The fourth shard of Excalibur might come with a price Ariane doesn’t want to pay: her mother.
Seeking to recover the shards of King Arthur’s sword Excalibur before Rex Major (the ancient sorcerer Merlin in a modern-day guise), Ariane and Wally have traveled around the world, and their quest is not yet over. Ariane’s magical powers as heir to the Lady of the Lake, combined with Wally’s clever thinking, have enabled them to hang on to two of the three shards they’ve located so far – but Rex Major still has one shard of his own and will stop at nothing to claim all the pieces for himself and use its power to rule Earth and invade the magical realm of Faerie.
And now Major has his eyes on a big prize: Ariane’s mother, who went missing after she refused the power of the Lady of the Lake.
Thanks to Wally, Ariane knows her mother is alive – and that Rex Major is trying to find her. If he succeeds, Ariane fears she’ll have no choice but to surrender the two shards she and Wally possess, because she’ll do anything – and give up everything – to have her mother back with her again.
Ariane and Wally race to the Caribbean as they try to find Ariane’s mother and the fourth shard of Excalibur before Major does. As they struggle to stop Major, Ariane and Wally face desperate danger…and must make the most difficult decisions of their lives.
New Release: Dracula
Elizabeth is proud to announce the release of The Online Stage production of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which is now available at Audible. Elizabeth plays the role of Mina Harker, and also served as producer and editor for this production. The book is a dramatic reading and is performed by a full cast; you can hear Ben Lindsey-Clark as Dr. Seward and Ben Stevens as Van Helsing in the Audible sample.
Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel is the most famous vampire tale ever told. British solicitor Jonathan Harker finds himself imprisoned in a castle in Transylvania and begins to believe his host, Count Dracula, is not entirely human. As his horror mounts, he suspects that Dracula plans to invade and conquer England, one victim at a time.
New Release: Lake in the Clouds
Elizabeth is excited to announce the release of Book #3 in the Shards of Excalibur series by Edward Willett: Lake in the Clouds, now available at Audible. The first two books in the series – Song of the Sword and Twist of the Blade – are also available, and Elizabeth will release the final two installments very soon. Cave Beneath the Sea (Book #4) is in post-production, and Door Into Faerie (Book #5) is in production now. This wonderful YA series is a Canadian reboot of the King Arthur legend, featuring a modern-day Lady of the Lake and descendents of Arthur himself.
Ariane is on her own and on the run. Rex Major has swayed her erstwhile best friend Wally to his side. And when she finally hears the faint call of the third Shard of Excalibur, it’s on the other side of the world, in New Zealand!
Wally, meanwhile, is discovering that life as Major’s “guest” isn’t all it promised, especially when he finds out Major’s plans for Ariane’s aunt. With Aunt Phyllis under threat, Ariane has no choice but to walk directly into Rex’s trap – and hope she can find a way to protect both the Shard and those she loves.
New Release: Twist of the Blade
Elizabeth’s latest Audible release is the second book in the Shards of Excalibur series by Edward Willett: Twist of the Blade. The first book in the series is already available at Audible: Song of the Sword, which has garnered very positive reviews. The remaining three books in the series will be released over the course of the summer. This wonderful Canadian YA fantasy series is a unique twist on the old Arthurian stories of Merlin, the Lady of the Lake, and the powerful sword Excalibur.
Having saved the first Shard of the sword Excalibur from Internet mogul Rex Major (aka Merlin), Ariane and Wally are on the lookout for the second. Wally is worried that the power of the first Shard is already changing Ariane, giving her the strength to do good and evil, and when she badly injures his bullying sister, Flish, it seems he’s right.
Meanwhile, they have a serious problem: Ariane’s located the second Shard in France. Sure, her inherited powers from the Lady of the Lake enable her to travel magically through fresh water, but it hasn’t escaped their notice that there’s a huge saltwater ocean separating them from their next target. And Rex Major is already on his way there.
As Major uses Wally’s doubts – and his secret wish to be more than just a nerdy sidekick – to cause a rift between the friends, Ariane takes the chance to go it alone. But if the first Shard’s power is barely controllable, how will she fare when two Shards are united? And what can Wally do to get his friend back?
on May 9, 2018 May 9, 2018 </a by gloriana
L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, narrated by Elizabeth and available here.
A Wind From the Rift (Price of Magic #2) by Bonnie Wynne.
The Scandal at 23 Mount Street and The Shadow at Greystone Chase (Angela Marchmont #9 and 10) by Clara Benson.
The Rebel’s Queen (The Companion #6) by Tanya Bird.
Wonder Tales: Favorite Fairy Tales From Around the World.
Murder on Eaton Square (Ginger Gold #10) by Lee Strauss.
The First Husband by Laura Dave.
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Falconress: A Facebook Avatar
April 15, 2014 By winpen in Highland County, VA, landscape, natural history, people, place, plants, Uncategorized, Vinegar Hollow Tags: falconress, falconry, Falkland Palace, Old Course, Rachel Dickinson, St. Andrews, T. H. White, Trevor Leat, vinegar hollow, willow sculpture 4 Comments
Trevor Leat’s sculpture of a falconress (perhaps meant to be Mary Queen of Scots) at Falkland Palace, Kingdom of Fife, Scotland.
My friend and professional mentor Jill Swenson had reminded me once again—“no egg heads on Facebook.” I figured it was time to take action. I have been slow to join Facebook because I struggle with reticence, but having found Twitter a treasure trove of interesting associations and even new windows into the natural world, I decided to dive into Facebook and solve the egg head problem.
But, what image should signify my presence in the world of Facebook? Myself? A photograph of me taken 30 years ago recently turned up. I could photograph that with my iphone and use it, but it seemed so vain to use my youthful unblemished self. On the other hand, my newer, older, self is less pleasing—the neck wrinkles, the liver splotches, the creases around the eyes. I love old faces, but mine is in transition, a work in progress, not fully perfected. When I have, hopefully, reached the fullness of true old age, I intend to love my wrinkles.
Salamander on fall leaves.
I started looking through my digital photos, quickly, because the whole idea of choosing an image, the opposite of an egg head, made me nervous. A lovely salamander appeared, coiled like a rune or a Buddhist symbol on overlapping, damp leaves. So lovely, but perhaps indecipherable when reduced in size. I stopped at a beautiful purpley red sunset. A cliché?
Sunset in Vinegar Hollow, Highland County, Virginia.
A sunset should never be taken for cliché, but, out of context, brought into Facebook as avatar, no, I would not want to reduce the beauty of any sunset to the level of cliche–the danger of representation at the hands of an inept human. Then the pond at Seven Fields appeared. Countless times I have tried to catch reflections in this pond: the crooked tree, the branches, the necks of the geese. I love this tree and this pond, but reduced, perhaps not the tribute I would most wish.
Pond, trees, and geese at spring-fed pond, Seven Fields, Enfield, Ithaca, New York.
Then I moved into photos taken on a recent trip to Scotland to see younger son, the golfer, who was studying at St. Andrews, Scotland for a semester.
The Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland. (Photo credit: David Fernandez)
While the golfer was studying, writing gobbets, my husband and I roamed the Kingdom of Fife, happening upon Falkland Palace, and there she was, the one I am calling the Falconress, the work of Scottish sculptor Trevor Leat, who creates large, expressive sculptures made from many varieties of willow that he grows organically. Some of his large pieces are burned at festivals, like Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebration.
Trevor Leat’s willow falconress.
Mary Queen of Scots spent a few happy years at the palace as a young woman. We saw her tennis court (she was an avid player) and her ornately carved bed. However, after seeing her death mask, it was a relief to go outside, though it was a rainy, misty day in mid-October. Tall dark-brown stalks of giant delphiniums tilted against a long stonewall. Giant cedars towered luminously, blue-green in the mist. A small greenhouse glowed with climbing geraniums in all shades of red. Two large garden beds were entirely planted with pale lavender-grey phacelia, a species good for soil improvement the sign said. Falkland has received awards for being one of the most floriferous villages in Scotland. The perennial beds of Falkland Palace must be one its glories in summer.
The many hues of the sculpture’s weathered willow branches.
The gallery of sculptures, posted on Leat’s website and available elsewhere, shows that he is drawn to archetypal forms, like the stag and the human female. Leat’s female figures have flowing lines and generous proportions, and their earthen colors, golden browns, beiges, and greens, glow in an outdoor landscape. Although his women are tall and robust, their arms taper to delicate wisps. Apparently some of the sculptures bud out in spring, I suppose because some of the willow branches are still green enough or root into the ground a bit. Willow sculptures in the outdoors transform gradually, broken down by sun and rain, often just lasting five years.
The falconress leaves a verdant train in her wake.
A history of Falkland Palace states that the Stewart monarchs used the palace to practice falconry, so it is fitting that Leat’s sculpture of the Queen shows her in the attitude of falconress. A brief perusal of the life of Mary Queen of Scots is enough to put one off a royal life for an eternity. The intrigue, the double dealings, the difficult men, it was all dastardly and over the top. She handled the beheading, apparently, with equanimity and grace, thankful perhaps that her life was finally over. During her imprisonment she was allowed to fly a merlin in and out her window. This must have been a pleasure, being so close to a wild creature, a vicarious experience of freedom. One can imagine her listening to the swoosh of feathers through the air at take off and her watching the bird disappear into the sky.
I have never been attracted to falconry, though I am a great fan of T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, where the art of falconry figures, and The Goshawk, an account of White’s tempestuous relationship with a young hawk he tried to “tame,” his first, and last, attempt at being a falconer. For a current account of falconry practiced in North America, see Rachel Dickinson’s book Falconer on the Edge: A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West. White’s Merlyn is a great fictional character. He advised (my paraphrase): when you are sad, learn something. This is good advice.
Some historians speculate that falconry began between 4000 and 6000 BC. A Japanese historical narrative of 355 AD, Nihon-shoki, states the first falconer in Japan was a woman, whose daughter followed in her footsteps. Women in 19th century England were said to outshine men in proficiency. The word “falconress” is not in the OED, however. The only use of the word I have come across is in a poem by Robert Duncan called “My Mother Would Be a Falconress.” The poet compares the relationship between mother and child to that of the falconress and her falcon. It’s a dark, moody poem reflecting some of the strangeness of the relationship at the heart of falconry–and at the heart of parenting. Nevertheless, Leat’s sculpture appeals to me. Both bird and woman appear poised for flight. She is both sinew and grace. How lovely to be made of willow!
A final view of Trevor Leat’s falconress.
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Susan Dixon says:
Wonderful – both the sculpture and the writing.
winpen says:
Thank you for the comment and thank you for reading!
selesser says:
Splendid! I so loved reading this. Falconry is not something I often think about. It is good to have your beautifully written explanations. Thank you.
You are welcome! Yes, but for this sculpture I would not have been writing about falconry!
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Elementos de Marca: Color y Frases
Introducción al Marketing
Universidad de Pensilvania
Curso 1 de 5 en Fundamentos Empresariales Programa Especializado
Aprende las bases de Marketing llegando al fondo de toma de decisiones del cliente. Después de completar con éxito este curso, puedes aplicar estas habilidades en un reto empresarial de la vida real como parte de la Programa Especializadode Fundamentos de Negocios de Wharton.
Marketing, Promotion (Marketing), Consumer Behaviour, Online Advertising, Promotion And Marketing Communications
La traducción no es la mejor, pero los subtitulos en ingles ayudan mucho (más que en castellano). A alguno de los profesores le conozco presencialmente y son magníficos.
Excelente curso para mantenerse actualizado en marketing,\n\nSi tuve muchos problemas con las traducciones en español, sobretodo en los videos de la tercera semana.
BRANDING: Estrategias de Comunicación Eficaz de Marca y Estrategias de Reposicionamiento
La profesora Kahn vuelve en cuarto módulo, el segundo de sus Módulos de Branding, donde tratará las estrategias efectivas de comunicación de marca y estrategias de reorientación. Uno de los aspectos más importantes para entender el comportamiento del consumidor es el de cómo los clientes perciben el mensaje y la comercialización de tu marca: lo que los consumidores perciben es lo que afecta a sus acciones, y lo que ellos perciben ¡no tienen que ser necesariamente cierto! La profesora Kahn en el último módulo del curso, profundiza en el comportamiento del cliente y en su percepción y explora estrategias eficaces para influir en ambos.
Mensajería y Comunicación de Marca12:06
Elementos de Marca: Escoger el Nombre de una Marca19:57
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Reposicionando una Marca18:58
Barbara E. Kahn
Professor of Marketing and Director, Jay H. Baker Retailing Center
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[MUSIC] Now that we discussed brand name, let's think about some of the other elements that can go around a brand name and I'm going to talk about two that are extremely important. One is choosing a color. And color has very, very strong perceptual cues. We'll show you some of those things, but people associate a lot with different colors. And the other is this notion of choosing a slogan or a tagline, which can add additional meaning to the brand name. So let's start with color first. There's a few rules about color that you should think about. First of all, the best use of color if you can possibly get it, is to own a color. and that's not, very many brands can do it. There aren't that many colors out there and to really own a color is pretty hard to do. But, when you do it it's extremely powerful. If you think about Tiffany's, and they own the light blue color box, you know this is a globally known, this light blue box. This is such an important cue, that the Tiffany empty boxes are sold on Ebay. And people will purchase those boxes, and then put another product, maybe not a Tiffany piece, in that product. But, people getting a gift in a Tiffany box, this just shows you how strong the perception is. We'll think the product in side that box is higher quality. But Tiffany's light blue box is extremely valuable brand image for their, I mean it's very high quality, and, and, many times with jewelry, unless your an expert it's kind of hard to necessarily judge quality so people will use this light blue box as a cue for high quality products. Mary Kay owns the pink color. That's, it's a very feminine business, cosmetics. Mary Kay gives away pink Cadillacs to their sales people. and she has really used that bright pink, that to, to symbolize her business, and it's been very strong. color can also be used within a brand to separate product lines. So, different American Express has different colored cards. The green card, the black card, the silver card, all these different kinds of cards. and you, you infer different qualities to the card as a function of its color. And that's used in lots of different products, as well. you have to be careful with color, because color can be experienced differently it can be experienced differently across different platforms. So a lot of times if you're going to test a color you want to test it on a computer, on a phone, in real life, and the colors may vary a little bit. And when you want a color to really be identifiable with a particular brand, you want to make sure you have that consistent color across. and colors also can create very strong perceptions. If, if you look at a product line and you see some of the products or it's gold or silver or black and white, that cues luxury, and you just assume that product's more expensive than more basic colors like a red and blue. So that those colors can just signal high quality just because it's gold and silver. Similarly, you see something that's blue or pink, you think female or male. just by the color, can be the exact same product but the color changes and you think it's for girls versus boys. So we know some theory about color. We know that there's two basic axes of color. There's the arousal axis, you know, how stimulating it is, versus how calming it is. And there's the affect axis, which means how much people like it or don't like it. The affect axis is extremely important, but it does vary a little bit by cultures. Some colors are better liked in some cultures than others. But what I'll show you here is kind of the way the U.S. looks at it, and it may be different in different cultures. It is true that high arousal colors are like red and orange. those ha-, create much more tension, much more excitement, and common colors are more blue and green. That's pretty universal. but then also, if you think about, on that affect, or that liking dimension, the blues and greens tend to be better liked colors in the U.S. where oranges and yellows are a little bit less liked in the U.S. And this may be different in other cultures. For example, orange is a very popular color in India. There's other rules about colors. But there's been a, color's an interesting thing. And, there's been a lot of research on color. and so there's certain things that we know of that the way people automatically react to these colors going back to that perception. So, red for example, as I mentioned is an exciting color. It can, it gets attention. It's part of the reason why fire engines are red. Or sometimes they're yellow. Both of them are very attention-getting colors. Red also means love. It means passion. But red also stimulates appetite. And so you'll see a lot of food logos like McDonald's, Pizza Hut, K, KFC, Windows, Chipotle, Windows, Wendy's, Chipotle. They all stimulate appetite, and they all have a lot of red in their logo. Blue, on the other hand, is a calming color and it is not a good color for food, for food. Blue actually is a color that curbs appetite and some people have said that if you're on a diet and you want to like try not to eat as much, having blue plates can curb your appetite a little. blue, as I mentioned, is also a color that's frequently preferred by men. Green is a color that's tranquil. It means health. It can mean money. It can mean nature. A lot of environmental companies use the green color to give you that green notion. But green also means fertility. And if you've seen some of the recent M&M's ads. And you know, Miss Green, you know? She's a pretty sexy M&M. And that's also that green color. Brown is reliable, bor-, a little bit boring, practical earth. White is an interesting color, because white can mean purity, it can mean innocence. people play around with white space. They can, it can be high design, if there's a lot of white space. the spacious, is, issue. People there's a lot of things that are done with white, white's a very interesting color. Black, on the other hand, sometimes is seen as evil, you know, it, it can symbolize in some cultures death or mourning but, you know, people wear a lot of black because they think it creates the perception that they're thinner. yellow is a very bright color. It creates a lot of energy. It has been shown, and this is somewhat interesting, that yellow can sometimes make babies cry. So, it's kind of maybe not the best color to paint for a newborn's room. Orange is exciting, warm, it, it's, it, an enthusiastic color. Lavender on the other hand, is calming, more relaxing. Purple is associated with royalty, with wealth, with wisdom. And pink as I mentioned is more of a girl's co, color. It, it's warm. It's a calming color. very feminine. And so one of the things you can look at is look at some of these different colors and see which companies use these different colors. So you know, the bright yellow color is used on Nike, on Shell Oil, on Best Buy, on McDonald's, to get, on DHL, to get a lot of attention. The friendly fun orange color is used on Hooters and Nickelodeon and Firefox. The red colors I already mentioned is used on a lot of food companies like Kelloggs, Coca Cola. It's also used to get attention. CNN uses it Netflix has used it. I've showed you before Virgin uses it. Purple is more of a creative color. So, you see Yahoo using it, Barbie uses it, Hallmark, Taco Bell. Blue is this trust color. So, companies like Oral B, Walmart, IBM, Pfizer. You don't, American Express, GE, a lot of really solid companies, not a lot of food companies. Again, green is more of this natural color, Whole Foods uses it some, Starbucks uses it, some of the oil companies have used it to show that they have environmental leanings, BP has tried to use it. and then the grey, black and white colors are more of a balance colors. So you see New York Times is a black logo. Apple sometimes has a silver apple. Mercedes Benz is a silver kind of color. So those colors silver, and things like that are more balanced. But if you look at the logos and start thinking about them. And thinking about how the colors are working, we kind of get a sense of what's going on here. So let's look now, at symbols. And symbols as I mentioned, Mickey Mouse is a very famous symbol. Symbols can add a lot of fun, a lot of attention to a brand. I had some symbols here on the slide. Mr. Clean is a symbol that communicates certain types of associations. Mr. Clean is a product for cleaning up. And what they show is a strong muscular man, so it's assuming that you can have a lot of strength in this product. The next one I showed you here is Wells Fargo. There's a lot of multiple associations with the Wells Fargo that shows independence, the wild west adventure and so there's other kinds of things that you can associate with it. Charlie the Tuna is the last one, it invokes positive feelings, liking Pillsbury's Dough Boy is kind of like that. And so you can just have fun with these different symbols. But, the symbols can get out of date and in the last section in this, we'll talk about how you can reposition and rechange these symbols. Symbols, because they can get dated and they can be very much tied to a particular era. So you have to be careful with symbols. Slogans can be tailored to help the positioning strategy, we talked about earlier. So that, you have a brand name and you want to really communicate that brand mantra. One way you can do it is through your positioning strategy. And sometimes, if you just have, you know, these brand elements, you may want a slogan or a tagline that can help remove some of the ambiguity that's associated with the brand or the symbol. And it's also, the tagline can create its own emotion, like, "reach out and touch someone" or, you know, can create its own kind of warmth and emotion. and finally, the brand or the tagline can reinforce the name or the symbol. and can just, because if you have these redundancy in the tagline, is reinforcing the imagery, or the brand name. You're seeing this multiple times, it makes for a very strong message. Some of the basics about taglines, you want them short. It's similar to a brand mantra, they have to be very short. You really want em differentiated, if they all sound the same they don't do anything, so you have to make sure it's not the same, or would be confused with the competition. Similarly it should be unique, it should be easy to say and easy to remember. you don't want it to have any negative interpretations, so you have to market test it, particularly when you go across cultures. and again, if you have a really great tagline like "just do it" you want to trademark it so that it's protected. And as I mentioned, an emotion if you can evoke an emotion with your tagline, that will make it much stronger. So what are the different types of taglines? Well there's Imperative. Just Do It, Think, Invent! You know, those kinds of things, so they're telling you what to do. There's Descriptive, which adds more information. Moving at the Speed of Business, bullish on America, You're in Good Hands. They can be Superlative. The Ultimate Driving Machine. There's no Better Way to Fly. Those kinds of things. Or they can be Provocative and kind of clever. Got Milk? was one of those and clever. Another clever one is what VW (Volkswagen) have done with their slogan. 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