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The sport of mixed martial arts and its premiere brand, Ultimate Fighting Championship, were once thought too hot to handle — playing to meager crowds, deemed illegal in some states and unacceptable in polite society.
"I think that everybody has been gun shy, from the day we bought this thing," UFC President Dana White said. "First it was venues. Venues didn't even want to talk to us. Then, you know, it's television, pay-per-view, athletic commissions, sponsors. You know, it's taken time."
Now, according to White, those days are gone.
"The first eight years of this thing were the hardest to get over the stigma that was attached to this thing at the beginning," he said. "And the next eight years are going to be a lot easier."
The privately-held UFC says its revenues for 2008 were $275 million, up 37 percent from two years earlier. And the league signed its first Fortune 500 sponsors. In 2008, Bud Light became the official beer of the brand and Harley Davidson rides the league's exploding popularity.
It says a lot about the growth of a brand that was once near extinction, a sport White himself has helped raise to new heights with a shrewd business sense and unique, self-assured style.
"I'm not the smartest guy you're ever going to meet," he said. "Not even close to it. But I know fighting. And I know for a fact there's nobody in mixed martial arts that knows more about the business than I do."
A college dropout from South Boston, White's rise to the top of the UFC was anything but certain, and hardly the typical corporate career path.
He held jobs as a hotel bellman, aerobic kickboxing instructor, and had run a couple of gyms, before he convinced childhood friends, Las Vegas casino owners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, to buy the near bankrupt league in 2001.
"We bought this thing when it was — as low as it could possibly get," White said. "The first organization in the world, the UFC was going out of business, okay? And there was — there was no hope and sight."
But the Fertittas rolled the dice: they bought the UFC for $2 million, invested $44 million more, and put an untested White in charge.
"People at the time said, 'Well, Dana has never run a big business or done this or done that.'" I said, "Didn't matter. He's got street smarts. He's got passion. And he's gonna make it work," said Lorenzo Fertitta.
"If this business was run by some Harvard MBA, it probably wouldn't work, 'cause so many things are unconventional"
Unconventional is probably one of the more polite things the Ultimate Fighting Championship has been called since it came on the scene in 1993, as a mix of wrestling, boxing, Brazilian ji-jitsu and other martial arts.
The UFC was quickly targeted by politicians for its brutality. It was even banned from television, and financially, it stood on the brink of bankruptcy. That's when White, more fan than financier, convinced the deep-pocketed Fertittas to step in.
But a full four years after White took over, the UFC was still suffering financially, hemorrhaging money just to finance the events and pay the fighters, sometimes out of the Fertitta's own pockets.
"It was difficult — losing the kind of money that we did," Lorenzo Fertitta said. "Here we're successful in our casino business. And you're taking good money that you're making and maybe putting it after a bad investment."
But Fertitta says his passion for the sport kept him from throwing in the towel. And White knew the key to making the league a success was getting it sanctioned by state athletic commissions and back on television. Neither was easy considering its controversial past.
"We went around to all the networks and pitched them every show we could think of and everybody was terrified of it," White said. "This was something that wasn't allowed on pay-per-view, you know, a couple of years before."
"Porn is on pay-per-view, okay?" he said. "You can watch porn on pay-per-view. The UFC wasn't allowed on pay-per-view. That's how bad it was."
So bad, in fact, that the Fertittas and White ended up producing and paying for a television series themselves.
In 2005, they debuted "The Ultimate Fighter" — a reality show pitting up-and-coming mixed martial artists against each other for ultimate supremacy. It caught the attention of Spike, a new cable network targeting young men.
"Spike's strategy has always been to look at fringe sports and see if there's a way to make them mainstream and the UFC seemed like a sport, you know, that was on the rise," said Kevin Kay, Spike's President, who signed the show.
"The Trojan horse was The Ultimate Fighter reality show," White said. "Reality was hot and this would be the way to get it on TV. You're watching mixed martial arts without realizing you're watching mixed martial arts."
The first season featured UFC superstar Randy Couture.
"I think the first season of The Ultimate Fighter gave people a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into making a guy who fights in a cage for a living," Couture said. "They saw that we weren't a bunch of thugs, we weren't a bunch of knuckleheads that just like to beat people up. We're real guys from real walks of life that this is our outlet."
"The Ultimate Fighter" was a hit, and Spike signed on for more. The two have since extended their partnership through 2011.
But if the Spike series helped put the UFC on the map, pay per view, where the real money is, has taken the league to the next level. In 2008, pay per view events generated more than five million buys, beating the demand for boxing and wrestling.
That windfall has brought huge paydays for UFC's top fighters. Big stars like Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell — who famously faced off at UFC 57 — each earned $250,000 for that bout alone. But an unheralded fighter can make as little as $3,000 for 15 minutes of punishment.
Events typically sell out and remain a hot commodity. Seats to the marquee UFC 100, in July 2009, went in a matter of minutes and ranged from $500 to $40,000 apiece in the secondary market. Evidence to Lorenzo Fertitta that the UFC is weathering the economic downturn pretty well.
"We are up year over year in every category. Revenue, profit, pay per view, live gate, international TV sales, sponsorships, everywhere," Fertitta said. "The question is without our recession, where would our business be?"


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He was placed in foster care with Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York when he was just a toddler, separated from his six siblings. He considers his first foster mother to be the only maternal figure he had, but then an aunt claimed him, reuniting him with all but two of his siblings. The children soon ended up back in foster care, and Raul bounced from foster home to foster home, constantly getting into fights at school. One foster mother physically abused him, but he never told his social worker.
"I always felt like I didn't count so I should just keep quiet and not ask for help," said Marrero.
He was eventually injured and sent to Little Flower's Residential Treatment Center (RTC), where he lived in a cottage with other children and an adult caretaker who helped him address the trauma, conflict and frustration he had grown up with.
"Even though the other boys weren't my blood," said Marrero, "we lived together, we ate together, we slept under the same roof. I hadn't had that sort of togetherness my whole life."
It wasn't the end of the road yet, though. He moved in with his aunt, a drug abuser who stole all the foster care checks, and turned to a life of crime where was obsessed with robbing people and selling drugs.
"At first it was just for things I needed, but then I wanted new clothes; I wanted to show off to my friends. I thought I was 'the man,' but really I was just setting myself up for a fall," said Marrero.
He was arrested several times, but the biggest hit came at 16, when he was sentenced to six years in prison. That was his wakeup call. He has been steadily employed since 2003, is about to graduate from Nassau Community College with an associate's degree in criminal justice, and will transfer to Queens College to pursue a degree in sociology or psychology.
He hopes to use his personal experiences to help kids who are going down the wrong path and want to turn their lives around.
"And that's what I want foster kids today to know - that we all need help and you just have to figure out how to ask for it," said Marrero. "It sounds so simple, but for a foster child dealing with being abandoned, it takes strength."

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Prompters- do they work? I have been offered one (just for somone who doesn't know this is someone who taps on the desk when they feel you feel distracted in a exam.
I have been offered one, but i doubt it would make any difference as my difficulties are mainly with processing and writing- not getting distracted- although i sometimes do, i do not feel that is the main problem.
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10 Great Bites In (and Around) East Hampton
Like any town where people use the word "summer" as a verb, East Hampton has tons of restaurants that don't nearly justify their prices—places where you can brunch on unexciting $18 omelets, or $30 plates of could-be-better fried seafood. But there are good spots to be found as well. I spent last weekend driving around East Hampton and surrounding areas looking for good eats, thanks to Mercedes-Benz's "On the Road with Daniel Humm" trip; here are the best bites I stumbled across. (Plenty of these aren't quite in East Hampton, but the farther-aflung ones I deem worth the trip. When it comes to good eats, boundaries are arbitrary.)
This is just based on the bites of a single weekend. Where do you eat in (and around) East Hampton?
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Fried Puffer Fish at Lobster Roll Restaurant »
Lobster Roll at Clam Bar at Napeague »
Fish Tacos at La Fondita »
Pizza at Sam's Bar & Restaurant »
Burger at Rowdy Hall »
Baked Goods at Mary's Marvelous »
Fish and Chips (and Onion Rings) at The Seafood Shop »
Heroes at Villa Italian Specialties »
Nick & Toni's »
La Capannia »
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Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — China and the U.S. will set up a military hotline, hold high-level nuclear strategy talks and increase joint exercises, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Chinese counterpart, General Cao Gangchuan, said.
The two officials announced the moves today after a meeting in Beijing in which Gates said he pressed Chinese officials, with mixed results, to be more open about the nature and goals of their military modernization program.
Gates said the Chinese agreement to deepen discussions on strategic modernization and nuclear strategy "will provide the opportunity, at least, for us to address the issues of transparency that we have discussed in the past."
The limits of this transparency were highlighted when Gates asked his hosts for an explanation of the shooting down in January of a low-earth-orbit weather satellite, which triggered worries that China could target U.S. military satellites.
"With respect to the anti-satellite test, I raised our concerns about it — and there was no further discussion," Gates said in response to a question about the issue during a joint news conference with Cao.
Gates said he also talked with Cao about "the uncertainty over China's military modernization and the need for greater transparency to allay international concerns" about it.
Cao, while praising the "candid and friendly" nature of his talks with Gates, dismissed concerns about China's buildup.
"It has been normal deployment of our own military force in our own territory," Cao said through an interpreter.
The agreement to establish the phone hotline was concluded "in principle," and some technical issues must be worked out before it becomes operational, Cao said.
Other agreements included a new joint naval exercise, more educational exchanges for young officers and better cooperation between military archivists to resolve questions about missing U.S. soldiers from the Korean War, Cao said.
China is in the midst of a decade-long military modernization drive that has led to concerns on the part of some U.S. officials that China is seeking to change the military balance of power in Asia. It is also accelerating a diplomatic and economic "soft power" offensive throughout the developing world, especially Africa and Latin America.
Gates said last week that he didn't consider China a military threat to the U.S. at present.
China's 350 billion yuan ($47 billion) military budget for 2007 is the world's third biggest, after the U.S. and Japan. U.S. defense officials say China underreports its defense spending by a factor of two or three.
Iran's Nuclear Program
Other issues discussed today were U.S. concerns about what it calls Iran's drive for nuclear weapons and China's distress over what it regards as Taiwan's moves toward independence.
While Chinese leaders haven't yet accepted the need for tougher international economic sanctions on Iran, they were more forthright today than in the past about their thinking on the issue, said a senior U.S. defense official.
The Chinese said they face a dilemma involving their need for access to energy sources on the one hand and their concerns about nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, said the official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.
Chinese concerns about Taiwan were crystallized by Cao, who told reporters that "anybody who seeks to split Taiwan from the motherland will go down in history as a sinner and will bear the shame of 1.3 billion Chinese people." He said China will take "necessary actions" to prevent Taiwan's independence.
Taiwan's UN Referendum
Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian's move to hold a referendum on joining the United Nations has angered the Chinese leadership, which calls the vote a step toward permanent separation. China considers Taiwan a part of its territory.
Cao and Gates met on the first day of Gate's week-long Asia trip. He plans to meet Chinese President Hu Jintao tomorrow and travel later in the week to South Korea and Japan.
In Seoul, Gates will sound out South Korean leaders on the likelihood that the country's parliament will accept President Roh Moo-Hyun's proposal to keep half of his country's 1,200 troops in Iraq for another year.
Gates will end the trip in Tokyo, where he will explore prospects for a resumption of Japanese refueling of U.S. warships in the Indian Ocean to support the war effort in Afghanistan. Japan ended that operation last week because of a parliamentary standoff between ruling and opposition parties.
Japanese leaders in turn are likely to discuss their concerns over the prospect that the U.S. may take North Korea off a list of state sponsors of terrorism before that country resolves a dispute with Japan over the abduction of its citizens.
Another issue likely to arise is the planned relocation of a U.S. air base on Okinawa, to which local communities are objecting for environmental reasons.
To contact the reporter on this story Ken Fireman in Beijing at firstname.lastname@example.com .
Associated Press, November 6, 2007
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Chinese counterpart agreed to work together to steer Iran away from its nuclear ambitions in talks that Chinese President Hu Jintao described Tuesday as "very candid and friendly."
Gates agreed with Hu's assessment.
Gates and Hu spoke briefly with reporters before they met Tuesday morning for a discussion which, Gates later revealed, did not involve Iran.
"The flow of the conversation was such that we really spent all of our time on our military relationship and Taiwan," Gates told reporters.
U.S. defense officials, describing Gates' meeting with Cao on condition of anonymity because it was private, said the U.S. delegation was pleased with the quality of the discussion about Iran.


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Setting and following trails is a fun way to get active. These hardwood discs are sold individually so that you can make up your own trail.
The discs are approximately 7-8cm in diameter with a hole drilled in the top. They may vary slightly in size, due to the nature of the natural product.
*Please note that this is a natural product. It will have knots and imperfections and there maybe small cracks in the wood. This is all perfectly normal and does not detract from the quality of the product.
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"Christianity transformed from a persecuted, unorganized group of believers into a hierarchical, dominating Church over the course of seven centuries, developing alongside the changing political environment of post-Roman Europe. The development of the institution of the Catholic Church and the spread of Christ throughout Europe during these seven centuries directly impacted every aspect of late-antiquity and early-medieval life, especially politics and the relationship between kings and religion. During this time period the Church rejected its domination by the Roman and Byzantine emperors, in turn exerting its own type of spiritual dominance over the rulers of post-Roman Europe. Christianity, through the Church, became organized and "conquered" all of Europe by the time of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
Christianity had developed as a religious idea in Roman Palestine, and had slowly spread throughout the eastern part of the Empire toward the west. During the first three centuries of its existence, Christianity remained disorganized and concentrated within the cities. Each group of believers centered around a few charismatic local leaders and developed their own liturgy. However, the conversion of Emperor Constantine in AD312 changed the structure of Christianity and turned it into a well-organized, quasi-political institution. The Church provided Constantine with a tool to use to hold together the crumbling Empire. The Church came under the Emperor's control with the Emperor as the divus caesar, or divine emperor. Constantine used the Christian bishops as imperial officials to administer law and justice throughout the Empire. These "imperial bishops" answered directly to the Emperor, thus instituting imperial dominance over the Church. The Council of Nicaea in AD325 further brought the Church under imperial control with the establishment of a uniform liturgy to use throughout the Empire and approved by the Emperor. Imperial dominance was completed with Theodosius II proclaiming Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire a century later. Thus began the period of praeparatio evangelii, the Christian conquering of the world."


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The Butler-McCook House is a sunny, yellow gem that stands proud in the middle of downtown Hartford, beckoning curious passersby to explore this Colonial structure, nestled among the modern-day buildings of Main Street.
Four generations of an extraordinary family lived here and watched the city transform from the American Revolution to the mid-20th century. Original furnishings and artifacts were left to Connecticut Landmarks, a non-profit network of nine historic museums across the state, making the house feel like a time capsule. Parents and children can wander into the War Room, filled with armor from the Middle Ages and Civil War maps, as well as a nook showcasing classic sports memorabilia, such as big-wheeled bikes and banners from Trinity College in the 1800s. Seeing these heirlooms enlightens a youngster and gives him wisdom about his place in the world.
"We all kind of need to know where we are and where we're from. And we need to make it fun because history really is about stories," says Sheryl Hack, executive director of Connecticut Landmarks, which is launching a season focused on children on Saturday, April 20, with a 3-hour walking tour starting at 9 a.m. from the gardens at the Butler-McCook House through the Coltsville section of the city, guided by historian Dave Carrier dressed as infamous industrialist Sam Colt.
"You may hate him, you may like him, but you will definitely have a strong opinion of who this guy really was," says Carrier, as he details the growth Hartford experienced after Colt built his firearms factory. Carrier is always struck by the insight he hears from children during these strolls: "Sometimes you just don't give kids enough credit for understanding things, and they can say the most amazing things to you."
A new membership program invites families to "travel through four centuries of Connecticut history" by visiting many of our state's fascinating properties, such as the Nathan Hale Homestead in Coventry and the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden in Bethlehem, which is holding a "Fairies & Wizards Festival" in early May. As opposed to a standard history class, Hack aims to make these lessons interactive and multi-sensory in a vibrant landscape, as boys and girls witness activities like cooking on a fire instead of an electric stove: "It's got to come from a kid's perspective and it's got to come from an understanding of what they'd be doing if they were living back then."
An expressive work of art at the Butler-McCook House, created by American sculptor John Rogers in the late 1800s, provides a particularly poignant moment for many kids. The tabletop statue, called "The Wounded Scout," shows a freed slave helping an injured soldier from the South walk to safety, a symbol of the human spirit. This profound image inspires yet another lesson from the past that could affect a child for a lifetime.
>>Find more information about the tour at http://www.ctlandmarks.org. To see video of the Connecticut Landmarks tour of Coltsville, tune into today's Fox CT Morning News.


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Along with an impressive wrestling resume, Joe Warren has brought a mouth to his MMA fights.
That's infuriated Alexis Vila (9-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC), who on Saturday meets Warren (7-1 MMA, 5-0 BFC) in the opening round of Bellator's season-five bantamweight tournament.
Villa is on the warpath one day after Warren came on MMAjunkie.com Radio and called him a "juiced-up Cuban."
"I'm going to [expletive] him up," Vila today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
That's one of the nicer declarations the Olympic bronze medalist spat during an interview in support of their headliner at Bellator 51, which marks featherweight champ Warren's first at 135 pounds.
Bellator 51 takes place at Canton Memorial Civic Center in Canton, Ohio. The event's main card airs live on MTV2, and preliminary action streams live on Spike.com.
Vila, 40, is just the latest target of the bold banter that's characterized the decorated American wrestler's relatively new career in MMA. But this time, Warren has clearly struck a nerve.
In particular, his steroid claim drives Vila mad. Villa said it goes beyond selling the fight, one, and two, it's hypocritical given a positive test for marijuana that cost the 34-year-old Warren a spot on the 2008 Olympic team.
"Go look at his report from the Olympics," Vila said. "He got caught for drugs, and he said, 'Oh, my friends do drugs, too. How about that?' Why do you say that? You're no man. You're no [expletive] man."
All that wouldn't matter so much if Warren hadn't been cordial when the two met at a previous Bellator event.
"He's like, 'Hey, I'm a big fan, we're both wrestlers,' Vila said. "Now, we're not face to face and he's talking a lot, man. He's a [expletive]."
"If you don't like me, I don't like you, and we're not friends. OK, man. But don't say, 'We're both wrestling champions, I respect you a lot,' and now you're not face to face and you're talking [expletive], man?
"That's not what we do, man. He's got little balls and a big head."
While a win over a Bellator champ would certainly put Vila off on the right foot in the promotion, he's not putting any more importance on Saturday's encounter. More important is putting food on the table for his three kids.
Still, he'd love to shut Warren's mouth.
"If I get in a fight with somebody on the streets right now, it's just another fight," Vila said. "I fight against this kid. People say [I] have a wrestling background. No. I don't wrestle. I fight. I'm going to go in there, and I'm going to punch him in the face."
And when he goes into the cage to do so, he doesn't want to hear any excuses after the fight.
"Because when I beat him up, I don't want him to say, 'I cut too much weight; I'm the 145-pound champion, I should have never gone to 135,'" Vila said. "Because I don't want that [expletive], man.
"We're going to fight like two men. If they tell me I lose Saturday, or I win Saturday, I'm going to say I tried my hardest. And if Joe beats me, he beats me fair and square. I don't want Joe talking [expletive], man."
For the latest on Bellator 51, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.


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Stein reheating furnaces for green performance in China
HBIS SHISTEEL - Shijiazhuang Iron & Steel Company within the China's HBIS Group – ordered two reheating furnaces to reheat blooms and billets. The ultimate choice was Stein Digit@l Furnace® from Fives due to its green performance.
Turkey calling: a new reheating Stein Digit@l Furnace
Fives was contracted by Habaş to design and supply a new generation slab reheating furnace for its hot strip mill, located in Izmir, Turkey.
Ultra-low emission reheating furnace for China
Fives was selected by Yantai Walsin Stainless Steel to design and supply an ultra-low NOx emission furnace to reheat long products. Yantai Walsin Stainless Steel is a subsidiary of Walsin Lihwa, a world leading manufacturer of stainless steel, power cables and wires.
Fives selected for major revamping project of CGL in China
Ma'anshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (Masteel) in China has been investing in upgrading production facilities and has now awarded Fives a turnkey contract to revamp a continuous galvanizing line (CGL) to produce new quality coated products.
Severstal orders world-class slab reheating furnaces from Fives
Leading Russian steelmaker Severstal has placed an order with Fives for two new high-capacity walking beam slab reheating furnaces as part of the major reconstruction of its №2 rolling plant at the Cherepovets Steel Mill in northwestern Russia.
Fives' thermal optimization solution to maximize performance at Masteel
Ma'anshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd (Masteel) in China is investing in automation of furnace control to maximize process efficiency of advanced high-strength steels production.
Fives has been selected by Masteel to design, install and tune its proprietary thermal optimization solution -...
Baosteel Zhanjiang chooses Fives' furnace for automotive steel production
Baosteel, the largest automotive steel producer in China, continues to expand its Zhanjiang integrated steel production complex in southeastern Guangdong province. The expansion project comprises the installation of the cold rolling mill N3, aiming to meet demand for automotive grade steel...
Thin, precise and green – the DMS 20Hi EcoMill wins another customer
Ningbo Baoxin Stainless Steel Co., Ltd., China ordered a new cold rolling mill DMS 20Hi EcoMill to process precision stainless steel for high-end applications. This will be the company's first cold rolling mill to produce precision steel, but the fifth ordered from Fives over the last 20...
Poland's Cognor contracts Fives for furnace renovation
Polish steel producer Cognor S.A. contracted Fives to implement a challenging project – the renovation of a reheating pusher furnace at its Krakow plant. The steelmaker was looking to improve furnace performance, both in terms of production availability and operational cost reduction.
Stein reheating furnace with a smart combustion system for high quality production
SteelAsia Manufacturing Corp. (SteelAsia), one the world's largest rebar manufacturing companies, again contracted Fives to supply a new reheating furnace for its Compostela plant in the Philippines.


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This message is brief and provides clarity to our business situation during the COVID-19 out-break. Firstly, to our local customers of Ballarat we are pleased to announce that both our stores are operating as of normal; but, if you prefer, you can safely shop online and select "Safe Drop – Ballarat & Surrounding" as the delivery method for your goods. This allows you to shop online where items will then be delivered to your door; fuelled, oiled, assembled and ready to go (where applicable) for $25 extra.
To our online customers – Henderson's ensures things are still going ahead as normal. So long as there is freight companies' delivery, Henderson's will be taking orders and packing your outdoor power equipment goods from the best brands to be delivered to your door. Please be patient though as some delays are expected during this time.
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Once a Scout is elected by his peers at the Troop Level, he is considered a candidate. Each Candidate must complete an induction weekend to become an Ordeal member in the Order of the Arrow. A candidate has one calendar year from election to participate in their chosen induction weekend. The TKäen DoD Lodge holds Induction Weekends twice in the spring and once in the fall. At the time of election each Candidate receives a letter of information, and a registration form. Ordeal registration is not automatic with election but can now be completed online.
The induction weekend begins on Friday evening and lasts through an open lodge meeting on Sunday Morning. At registration(Between 6:30PM and 7:30PM), a Candidate is assigned a group, called a Clan, that they will work with throughout the Ordeal. An Order of the Arrow member called an Elangomat guides each clan. The Elangomat stays with the clan during the entire Ordeal. Throughout the Ordeal the Candidate learns about the Order of the Arrow and contributes to various improvement or service projects. If the Candidate is successful, an Ordeal sash with a red arrow is placed upon his shoulder at the Ordeal Ceremony. The sash signifies that he is now an Ordeal Member of the TKäen D?D Lodge of the Order of the Arrow and he will recive a member handbook, a membership card, a lodge flap, and their first years dues are covered. New members are encouraged to take advatage of the Jump Start program soon after achieving Ordeal Membership.
Any member is considered active if his yearly Lodge dues are current, they are a registered member with the Five Rivers Council, Boy Scouts of America, and they keep in touch with lodge activities.
To deepen their understanding of the Order and become a Brotherhood member, an Ordeal member must participate in a Brotherhood Ceremony. To be eligible for Brotherhood, an Ordeal member must be active for at least 10 months following the Ordeal, and must be registered with the BSA. Shortly before a Brotherhood Ceremony is to take place, the Ordeal member receives a Brotherhood letter of information, and a registration form. If successful, the Ordeal sash is replaced by a Brother sash with a red arrow and two red bars.
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On "I Want You Women Up North To Know"
Constance Coiner
As Olsen began her writing career, workers started pouring into the available unions. New Deal legislation included the National Industrial Recovery Act (1933), and Section 7A guaranteed workers tile right to organize and bargain collectively. "Many workers," James Green observes, felt "the tide of history had finally turned" (even though the NRA was skirted for more often than it was enforced by the establishment of "company" unions and was declared unconstitutional in 1935. Three major strikes of 1934 demonstrated the great potential for working-class militancy. In February, 900 National Guardsmen failed to break a massive picket of 10,000 workers from the community surrounding the Toledo Auto-Lite plant. Significantly, the striking electricians alone could not have defied the Guard. Their strength came in sheer numbers, and those numbers came from other workers willing to join the picket in solidarity. The Maritime Strike on the West Coast, which involved Olsen directly, began in May. And in July, Minneapolis Trotskyists led the teamster strike that inspired Le Sueur's "I Was Marching," closing down the trucking industry and tying up the entire city.
Such was the dramatic setting in which young Tillie Lerner, "fierce for change," was writing. As much as a youthful zealousness and what I term the CP's "official certainty," this expanding unionization and increasing working-class militancy affected her writing. As noted above, Olsen has said of the '30s: "We believed that we were going to change the world." As one might expect, then, Olsen's 1934 publications are more polemical, more akin to orthodox proletarian writing than her more recent writing. Their settings and subjects, for example, are standard for proletarian writing--conditions in a (garment) factory; the murdering of socialists by a fascist regime; an exploited mining community; an arrest of Communist labor organizers; and a strike.
When Olsen was 21 and an active YCL member, her first publication, a poem titled "I Want You Women Up North To Know," appeared in The Partisan (March 1934), a magazine of the West Coast John Reed Club. This poem grew out of a letter to New Masses (9 January 1934) from a Texas woman, Felipe Ibarro, indicting the owners of the Juvenile Manufacturing Corporation who exploited workers--in this case, Chicanas--in the San Antonio garment industry.
Ibarro reports that Catalina Rodriguez, "in the last stages of consumption, works from six in the morning till midnight," never earning more than three dollars a week. Ibarro adds that she no longer wonders "why in our city with a population of 250,000 the Board of Health has registered 800 professional 'daughters of joy' and in addition, about 2000 Mujeres Alegres (happy women), who are not registered and sell themselves for as little as five cents." Ibarro reports that the Chamber of Commerce has dubbed San Antonio "Where Sunshine Spends The Winter" as part of its campaign to compete with Florida and California for tourists. "I don't know whether the tourists came," she adds, but "Capital came and let out the children's dresses for home work."
Olsen's basing her poem on Ibarro's letter locates "I Want You Women Up North to Know" loosely within the genre of workers' correspondence poems (although Ibarro was not herself one of the workers, she knows the "bloody facts" because she had "spoken to the women" workers). The Daily Worker identified Harry Alan Potamkin as the first to use workers' correspondence as a theme for poetry. Gold, another practitioner of this genre, crafted poems from letters sent to the Daily Worker. The correspondence from Ibarro included many specifics--names, ages, wages. Olsen repeats many of these details in her poem.
. . .
Like much reportage, this poem foregrounds fundamental antitheses: the abstract women up north who have the money to shop at "gimbels, marshall fields" versus the particular "maria, ambrosa, catalina," "down in San Antonio," "stitching these dresses from dawn to night, / in blood, in wasting flesh." In the concluding two lines (taken verbatim from the concluding sentences of Ibarro's letter), the poem embodies the "official certainty" characteristic of '30s proletarian literature, while another line describes the Soviet Union as "heaven ... brought to earth in 1917." Like many Party members, Olsen believed in an American socialist future with the buoyancy Lincoln Steffens expressed upon his return from the Soviet Union: "I have seen the future and it works."
In the following passage from the poem Olsen opposes herself to what she terms "the bourgeois poet" by moving abruptly from a parody of traditional lyrical poetry, which in her view would ignore or distance the reader from the plight of these exploited workers, to prosaically announcing their low wages and their only available alternative for employment, prostitution.
. . .
Olsen parodies a long bourgeois tradition of "romanticizing" the worker while displaying the mental agility of the poet. Olsen could easily have had Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper" in mind:
Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending;--
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
Olsen could also have been thinking of the no-less-condescending Yeats poem, "The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart":
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old
The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould,
Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.
The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart,
With the earth and the sky and the water, remade, like a casket of gold
For my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.
These are only two of many such examples from the bourgeois tradition at which Olsen's poem takes aim. An amalgam rather than a blend of poetry and reportage, "I Want You Women Up North to Know," is nevertheless at points sensitive to the richness and rhythm of language. The free verse form and the repetition of words and phrases may represent a debt to Whitman, while a bold central metaphor transforms the women into the clothing they embroider--that is, into commodities.
But the discomfort this poem causes its readers is ambiguous. While the text succeeds in its intention to force us to confront the agony and injustice of these garment workers' lives, it is also unsettling because it preempts our emotional and moral responses. It bludgeons us, its exhortatory language announcing a distrust that the reader will respond appropriately to the garment workers' suffering. The language announces itself, too, as "movement" discourse, which in practice turns back on itself, speaking to itself rather than to a general audience--that is, the already converted speak to the already converted in the special discourse of Converts. Because those who might have been persuaded are, in effect, excluded by this discourse, the poem's intention is undercut.
Even so, in this first publication we already see emerging in Olsen's writing a tendency, which will later become dominant, that competes with her desire for monological authorial and pedagogical control. In this "worker's correspondence" poem, she gives others a voice, straining toward a collective form. The poem is a vehicle for the stories of exploited Chicanas, as Tell Me a Riddle will be permeable to multiple oppressed voices. And in nascent form, "I Want You Women Up North" prefigures Silences' maverick intertextuality. Olsen "yields the floor" Filipe Ibarro's words as she will to dozens of other writers in the later text, and she allows Ibarro's words to conclude the poem, as she will give the "last word" in Silences to Rebecca Harding Davis.
By Constance Coiner. From Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Elaine Neil Orr
In her first published poem, "I Want You Women Up North to Know," Olsen transforms history into poetry, and in so doing amplifies rather than romanticizes the debilitating effects of mass production upon the laborer. The poem depicts a mechanistic and capitalistic world in which the lives of many are sacrificed to a few. In the poem, women's flesh and blood are substitutes for thread and dye:
i want you women up north to know
how those dainty children's dresses you buy
at macy's, wannamakers, gimbels, marshall fields,
are dyed in blood, are stitched in wasting flesh,
down in San Antonio, "where sunshine spends the winter."
I want you women up north to see
the obsequious smile, the salesladies trill
"exquisite work, madame, exquisite pleats"
vanish into a bloated face, ordering more dresses,
gouging the wages down,
dissolve into maria, ambrosa, catalina,
stitching these dresses from dawn to night,
in blood, in wasting flesh.
The poem invites a Marxist reading. The dresses illustrate alienated labor, since the mothers' work is not for their own children but for the mothers and daughters of the north, who in actuality purchase the time and lifeblood of the mothers down south. The radical depersonalization of capitalistic work suggested by Marx is clearly evident further in the poem. "Maria, ambrosa, catalina"--workers--are the same woman, the same hands, fingers, the same labor, ultimately the same product. Like "Catalina Rodriguez, 24,/ ... / last stages of consumption," they weave their own deaths. Their value is slight and arbitrarily set: "Three dollars a week,/ two fifty-five,/ seventy cents a week."
The poem was based on a letter by a worker, Felipe Ibarro, appearing in New Masses (9 January 1934). Thus, Olsen's voice draws from the many women who experience such debilitating work, through the voice of Ibarro, finally becoming the authorial "I" that opens the poetic address: "I want you women up north to know." The voice becomes a force of solidarity seeking to uphold the women whose work destroys them. Fused in Olsen's representational "I," the multiple experiences of the women stand against the unraveling, dehumanizing and finally, deadly work created by a capitalistic market. Paradoxically, the voice seems to gain strength as the poem progresses even though the story of overwork told by the voice reveals greater and greater horrors. Unfortunately, perhaps, the voice adopts the declarative mode at the end: "... I want you to know,/ I tell you this can't last forever./ I swear it won't." More powerful than the threat is the authorial "I" developed in the poem as a plural voice of many women brought to written expression. This most unabashedly political voice, then, already points to the narrative perspective Olsen will develop in the more subtle art of telling stories from a perspective within the literary world of the work.
Twenty-one or twenty-two when she wrote this poem, Olsen takes a critical stance toward the religion that appears to rob "Ambrosa Espinoza." She gives her pennies to the church, "to keep the priest in wine," "to keep [her] god incarnate." Given Espinoza's world, the criticism does not seem naive, but in retrospect the authorial insertion later in the poem--heaven "was brought to earth in 1917 in Russia"--does. What the poem suggests in our discussion is a redefinition of true morality, hence, of true spirituality, which begins in connection with people's actual circumstances.
The second poem, "There Is a Lesson," is another poetizing of politics, this time European. The poem is preceded by a newspaper excerpt:
"All Austrian schools, meanwhile, were closed for an indefinite period under a government decree issued to keep children off the hazardous streets" (15 February 1934, San Francisco Chronicle).
The poem follows immediately:
Keep the children off the streets,
there is an alphabet written in blood
for them to learn,
there is a lesson thundered by collapsed
books of bodies.
They might be riddled by the bullets
of knowledge
. . .
there is a volume written with three
thousand bodies that can never
be hidden,
there is a sentence spelled by the
grim faces of bereaved women
there is a message, inescapable, that
vibrates the air with voices of
In the earlier poem, two materials coalesce; bodies and cloth. Here the bodies weave a message of revolt against fascism. The poem seems to indicate the dire but necessary costs of revolution. Yet the vision is ambiguous, for the images, like those of the earlier poem, are haunting: "riddled by ... bullets," "grim faces of bereaved women," "deadly gas of revolution." The men's bodies stack in metonymic similarity, while the faces of the women, an image we will see again in Yonnondio, elicit the archetypal image of grieving woman.
The central transformation of the poem is the creation of language, and therefore, of a message, out of death and violence. Blood makes an alphabet; bodies are texts that tell of terror; faces of mourning write a sentence.
From Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision. Jackson: UP of Missouri. Copyright � 1987 by The UP of Missouri.
A close reading lines from from "I Want You Women Up North to Know"
Lines 85-97 of Tillie Olsen's first published poem "I Want You Women Up North to Know" contain the climactic turning point of this poem, and the language and form reflect this change. Instead of being humble and disjointed victims who remain mostly anonymous, the workers are transformed into an angry and unified group of distinct individuals. This shift in mood is accomplished by three devices: imagery, grouping, and capitalization of proper names.
The imagery in this passage helps turn the tone of the poem from victimization to anger. In addition to fire images, the overall language is completely stripped down to bare ugliness. In previous lines, the sordidness has been intermixed with cheerful euphemisms: the agonizing work is an "exquisite dance" (24); the trembling hands are "white gulls" (22); the cough is "gay" (25). But in these later lines, all aesthetically pleasing terms vanish, leaving "sweet and �blood" (85), "naked� [and]�bony children" (89), and a "skeleton body" (95).
Another way this passage turns the mood of the poem is by using grouping and form to link the workers together, both in
inference and appearance. Previously, each worker�s situation has been treated as an isolated story, literally separated from the others by a blank line. However, lines 85-97 are crowded together without spaces, suggesting unity by the very appearance of the lines. All of the grievances are briefly repeated, and then a sequence of "ands" binds the one-sentence recaps together. Yet in spite of this sense of solidarity, each person�s story is given its own sentence with a period boundary, subtly emphasizing their individual importance: solidarity is acceptable, but anonymity is not.
A final significant device in this passage is the use of capitalization. The proper names of the workers have been sporadically capitalized earlier in the poem, but here they are all consistent and correct. Again, this is an emphasis on individual importance, an insistence that each of these people deserves a unique proper name. The earlier all-lowercase names like "catalina rodiguez" (16) actually blend into the lines of poetry, suggesting crouching and obscurity, but here the uppercase letters in their names stand out clearly from other words. Interestingly, although the personal names are capitalized, "christ" (96) is left in lowercase, similar to the previous treatment of "god" (57, 60, 62). This contrast with the capitalization of the worker� names implies that God and Christ have failed the workers and are now overshadowed by a budding self-confidence in the workers.
Lines 85-97 are a clear turning point in the tone of Olsen�s poem. As mentioned, the earlier segments are written to be
disjointed and uncertain, with the ugliness partially concealed by false voice of a "bourgeois poet" (21). However, as more true details are revealed, this voice recedes and is completely vanquished by line 85. The anonymous workers become more and more individual to the reader, peaking between lines 95-97. In addition, these lines represent the development of the narrator of the poem, the unnamed "I." Like the workers being described, the narrator begins the poem in a state of anonymity, not "I" but "i" (1). However, this quickly switches to "I" (6), implying that he or she gains authority and confidence to speak on behalf of the workers. By line 85, the speaker has capitalized all the workers� names, raising them up inside him or her in their authority to speak. Lines 85-97 thus become a launching point for the poem�s conclusion, empowering the narrator and the workers when they threaten that the abuse "can�t last forever" (99).
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Suzanne Lynch
"I Want You Women Up North to Know" takes on the authorial voice of one who knows the horror of working in a sweatshop, of being migrant and of being an unvoiced female. To the women up North she introduces four women who, each in their individuality, dies silently as a result of an exploitive capitalism. She presents the women up North as innocent sources of this capitalism. Seduced by the marketing strategies of unconcerned businesses, gullible women buy into the rhetoric that "exquisite work" and "exquisite pleats" make them exquisite women and exquisite mothers.
What is interesting in this poem is that although the speaker attacks the entire system of production and consumption, she restricts her comments strictly to female consumers. I can't help thinking that there is an implicit female cohesion working in the poem that drives the message forward and gives credence to her plea so that it does not fall on deaf ears.
There is something very gendered about each woman described. More than just women who work blindly, mechanically, through the night to the demands of a proprietor's voice, these women, in their individuality, fulfill roles and qualities typically associated with women. There is the delicacy of Catalina Rodriguez, the longing of maria, the motherhood of Calalina Torres, and , of course, the sacrificing protection of Ambrosia. And although the worlds of these women represent something quite different from the worlds of the women up North, I think the recent struggle to gain national voice hints at the possibility of a female solidarity that extends beyond class lines so that "this can't last forever."
As one who has voice, and as one who is obviously able to traverse the lines of class, the speaker understands the level of communication needed to address the women up North. She takes them piecemeal into the world of these working women, moving first through the Macy's, the Gimbles, the Marshall Fields, and gradually diluting the scene of department store extravagance with silly "salesladies trill." Continuing in her dilution, she reveals the "bloated face: so distant from the women's reality, who "order[s] more dresses,/ [and] goug[es] the wages down," until the image finally "dissolve[s] into maria, ambrosa , catalina/ stitching these dresses from dawn to night, in blood, in wasting flesh."
While in the world of Calalina R, of catalina T for that matter, the speaker leaves her cautiously, calculating persona that has guided the Northern women thus far into a world of poverty and abuse they would never have known. Here the Northern women encounter the unveiled reality of dying women unable to voice their pain, their outrage, and their humiliation. The speaker speaks for them in controlled protest with a language that is both caustic and mimetic "This is the exquisite dance of her hands over the cloth and her cough, gay, quick, staccato like skeleton's bones clattering, in appropriate accompaniment fot the esthetic dance of her fingers and the tremolo, tremolo when the hands tremble with pain." Her point here is obvious--how easy it is for us to remove ourselves from another person's reality even when faced with verity. In truth, there is nothing poetic, nothing musical, and nothing aesthetic about catalina's trembling hands. There is nothing artistic about the raveled clothing of Catalina's four children, yet somehow distance speaks for these women with a romanticized eloquence that displaces their pain and turns it into something palatable and saleable.
Through the voice of solidarity, the speaker attempts to educate, and to implore an understanding, not only of the hidden and voiceless women, but of the contributions we make and can make as women subject to the manipulations of male capitalism.
Copyright � 2001 by Susanne Lynch
Cary Nelson
Tillie Olsen, who was then writing under her maiden name Lerner, wrote a poem based on a letter that had been published in the January 9th, 1934, issue of New Masses . . . New Masses published the letter under the heading "Where the Sun Spends the Winter," a version of the slogan adopted by a Texas Chamber of Commerce as the motto for a tourist campaign. The letter describes the impossible lives of four women who survive by hand embroidering children's dresses for a few pennies each. The author of the letter, Felipe Ibarro, may well have been a journalist or a social worker or perhaps simply an activist, so the letter is not the direct testimony of the workers described but reported testimony that is already self-consciously rhetorical. Nonetheless, it offers nonetheless one interesting version of this distinctive 1930s genre. It is worth comparing the opening two paragraphs of the letter with the first three stanzas of the poem. Here is the opening of the letter:
I want the women of New York, Chicago and Boston who buy at Macy's, Wannamaker's, Gimbel's and Marshall Field to know that when they buy embroidered children's dresses labeled `hand made' they are getting dresses made in San Antonio, Texas, by women and girls with trembling fingers and broken backs.
These are bloody facts and I know, because I've spoken to the women who make them. Catalina Rodriguez is a 24-year-old Mexican girl but she looks like 12. She's in the last stages of consumption and works from six in the morning till midnight. She says she never makes more than three dollars a week. I don't wonder any more why in our city with a population of 250,000 the Board of Health has registered 800 professional `daughters of joy' and in addition, about 2,00 Mujeres Alegres (happy women), who are not registered and sell themselves for as little as five cents.
Here are the opening stanzas of the poem:
i want you women up north to know
how those dainty children's dresses you buy
at macy's, wannamaker's, gimbels, marshall fields,
are dyed in blood, are stitched in wasting flesh,
down in San Antonio, "where sunshine spends the winter."
I want you women up north to see
the obsequious smile, the salesladies trill
"exquisite work, madame, exquisite pleats"
vanish into a bloated face, ordering more dresses,
gouging the wages down,
dissolve into maria, ambrosa, catalina,
stitching these dresses from dawn to night,
in blood, in wasting flesh.
Catalina Rodriguez, 24,
body shrivelled to a child's at twelve,
catalina rodriguez, last stages of consumption,
works for three dollars a week from dawn to midnight.
A fog of pain thickens over her skull, the parching heat
breaks over her body.
and the bright red blood embroiders the floor of her room.
White rain stitching the night, the bourgeois poet would say,
white gulls of hands, darting, veering,
white lightning, threading the clouds,
this is the exquisite dance of her hands over the cloth,
and her cough, gay, quick, staccato,
like skeleton's bones clattering,
is appropriate accompaniment for the esthetic dance
of her fingers
and the tremulo, tremulo when the hands tremble with pain.
Three dollars a week,
two fifty-five,
seventy cents a week,
no wonder two thousands eight hundred ladies of joy
are spending the winter with the sun after he goes down . . .
Olsen works with Ibarro's letter to draw out its drama and intensify the metaphoric power of the suffering it recounts. The title, "I Want You Women Up North to Know," drawn from the letter, serves as a refrain line that becomes a paradigm for North/South relations and for those who benefit, often indifferently and sometimes in ignorance, from economic exploitation. Olsen uses her own metaphors as well as Ibarro's, but her poem remains nonetheless an inventive extension of the original letter. Keeping true to Ibarro's wish to have women up north understand the economic and social relations that are hidden within the clothing they buy, Olsen adds a passage describing a department store where the children's dresses are sold. Notably, however, the poem's most explicit challenge--a challenge built into the original letter--is not to the businessmen who hire the dressmakers or to the department store owners who sell them but to the consumers who buy them and thus fuel the entire set of transactions. Olsen is not alone in focusing on how ordinary people's actions help sustain economic exploitation--Kenneth Fearing, for example, often satirizes the way people's illusions reinforce the ideology of the market place--but attacks on industrialists were certainly more common during the period.
The primary change from Ibarro's text to Olsen's, as with most poems based on worker correspondence, is the generic shift itself, the move from prose to poetry. This is a shift Olsen embraces, but with uneasiness, as her effort to emulate (and thereby critique) a bourgeois poet's lyrical evocation of Catalina Rodriquez's dying efforts at embroidery suggests: "White rain stitching the night, the bourgeois poet would say, / white gulls of hands, darting." As Constance Coiner points out in her reading of the poem, Olsen moves "abruptly from a parody of traditional lyrical poetry, which, in her view would ignore or distance the reader from the plight of these exploited workers, to prosaically announcing their low wages and their only available alternative for employment, prostitution." But Olsen's poem is itself, as Coiner demonstrates, "at points sensitive to the richness and rhythm of language. The free verse form and the repetition of words and phrases may represent a debt to Whitman, while a bold central metaphor transforms the women into the clothing they embroiderthat is, into commodities" (163). Yet Olsen cannot actually cast out the imagined bourgeois poet's literariness without casting out her own as well. She would reject an obfuscating metaphoricity that substitutes fantasies of birds on the wing for hand movements that are actually painful. Yet one could also take the line as celebrating a deft beauty in the midst of suffering. The poem in short puts forward an argumentative dichotomy which the poem itself simultaneously destabilizes and undermines, making the reader examine his or her own relationship to the moral and political implications of figurative language.
Where Coiner and I differ is in how much weight we are finally willing to place on the poem's reflective self-consciousness about language and about the final effect of its unwavering critique of border capitalism. Coiner's conclusion lays out her doubts:
While the text succeeds in its intention to force us to confront the agony and injustice of these garment workers' lives, it is also unsettling because it preempts our emotional and moral responses. It bludgeons us, its exhortatory language announcing a distrust that the reader will respond appropriately to the garment workers' suffering. The language announces itself, too, as "movement" discourse, which in practice turns back on itself rather than to a general audiencethat is, the already converted speak to the already converted in the special discourse of converts. Because those who might have been persuaded are, in effect, excluded by this discourse, the poem's intention is undercut (p. 163).
Yet the audience that Olsen has her doubts aboutas the poem makes clearis the audience of consumers. Will upper middle-class consumers stop buying these dresses? Almost certainly not. The expectation that she cannot reach those consumers is built into the poem's adoption of a revolutionary solution. But the revolutionary context of the poem is not so much armed insurrection as it is the more utopian versions of trade unionism at work in the country just as Olsen was writing. As Coiner points out, "as Olsen began her writing career, workers started pouring into the available unions . . . their strength came in sheer numbers, and those numbers came from other workers willing to join the picket in solidarity" (160). The poem urges this sort of solidarity on sympathetic readers, including workers themselves, and does not seek a transformed upper middle class. Whether one admires the results is partly a matter of taste, politics, class identification, and literary training. One may be hailed or alienated by the poem's rhetoric and by the general rhetoric of 1930s revolutionary poetry; in the case of either response, it is not a matter that can be objectively resolved, despite the temptation to turn our preferences into transcendent values . . . .
For all these reasons I find Olsen's poem aesthetically and politically successful. The concise specificity of its account of exploited labor is persuasive and moving. The continuing existence of such sweat shops around the world nearly seventy years later gives the poem continuing and long-term historical relevance. The poem's final homage to the Russian revolution may seem dated but its detailed story of the garment industry is as current as yesterday's news. A single witness's testimony about four women in one 1930s city becomes synecdochic in four senses: these workers become representatives of their class, their suffering becomes emblematic of a whole range of values the culture should either resist or espouse, their time becomes a figure for economic inequities of long duration, and readers now as then are challenged about their complicity in an economic system and urged to reposition themselves within solidarity. The experience of working people thereby becomes a fitting ground for all the ideological investments the culture makes in literariness, particularly in poetry. Finally, to make poetry out of working-class experience, to return to working people their own narratives (or narratives about them) in poetic form, is explicitly to overturn much of the class prejudice inherent in the culture's hierarchical view of aesthetic value.
In all of this Olsen is effectively Ibarro's agent in the domain of literariness. The first person in the title of Olsen's amplifies what she feels we should know. Olsen thus draws out the structural implications of the underpaid work these women do and of the religious faith that helps keep them positioned as they are. Ibarro reports Ambrosa Espinoza's struggle to "pay rent for her shack, pay insurance, support the Catholic Church and feed herself." Olsen intensifies the ironies and adds an explicit anti-religious commentary:
but the pennies to keep god incarnate, from ambrosa,
and the pennies to keep the priest in wine, from ambrosa,
ambrosa clothes god and priest with hand-made children's dresses.
Olsen also offers a more explicit revolutionary message. Espinoza's crippled brother, who lies "on a mattress of rags" and "dreams of another world" does not quite know that an alternative world "was brought to earth in 1917 in Russia,/ by workers like him." Except for a slight rearrangement of the words in the first line, however, the last stanza (with its revolutionary promise) is quoted directly from Ibarro's letter:
Women up north, I want you to know,
I tell you this can't last forever.
I swear it won't.
from Cary Nelson, Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left, copyright � Routledge 2001.
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Most people around the world and especially at home are deeply saddened and shocked to hear of the death of four Americans inside our own embassy in and near nations we helped freaking liberate. Hell, even some of the more radicalized Egyptians and Libyans know this was a first class fuck up.
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Salon— "It's disgraceful," Romney's statement, which was released late Tuesday night, read, "that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."
That's not at all what happened, of course. The actual chronology goes something like this: As anti-American protests inspired by a crude Terry Jones video began gathering steam, the U.S. embassy in Cairo – and not the Obama White House — put out a statement condemning "the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims — as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions."
The obvious intent was to cool the passions of the protesters. As Marc Ambinder explained, it was "exactly what Americans inside the embassy who are scared for their lives now and worry about revenge later need to have released in their name."
So the asshole who didn't even mention the wars started by his predecessor and barely touched on foreign policy at his jamboree in Tampa is, per usual, lying his smarmy Mormon ass off trying to paint the guy who cleaned all that shit up as sympathizing with the terrorists who killed our guys yesterday.
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Walker, who was patrolling alone as most troopers do, called for backup after being fired upon just before 1:30 p.m. The second trooper arrived within two minutes and saw a male suspect firing into Walker's marked police vehicle, which was down an embankment off the southbound lanes of the interstate near the woods, Geller said.
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Posted: Wed 20 Apr 2011, 03:32
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i thought this was quite funny ...
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Posted: Wed 20 Apr 2011, 05:01
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Whoah good that you warned me that was so funny my stomach hurts laughing that much.
But this comment is alarming read this one more time:
Update: My Shout Out To dionoea At VLC
I participated in a thread on the VLC forums
where running as root was a major issue. Basically, VLC had implemented code that blocked the root account from running the video player. It was hardcoded into the program. The reason for this was because some of the developers felt that nobody should run VLC on the root account, even though it would work fine.
Us root users made our case for running VLC on whatever account we want, and some pansy named Remi Denis-Courmont kept trying to argue that we shouldn't be running as root in the first place, so we have no business demanding that VLC removes their idiotic and unnecessary root check.
Thankfully, a developer named dionoea was able to come to a compromise with us. She added a compile time option that allowed VLC to be ran under the root account. The USE FLAG "run-as-root" was introduced into Gentoo's portage so that VLC can be compiled this way. Thank you, dionoea.
If you can think of any other projects that give you a hard time about running as root, let me know. Remember, it's your computer. Don't let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do.
I mean what is going on. Hardcoded to shut root user out.
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Yes there are quite a few apps that have an annoying root warning, and some even more annoying apps that will refuse to run as root. Silly things like xscreensaver have a root warning, why? it's beyond belief! Other apps you have to hack them to actually get them to run. I don't know if you've tried the VLC from portablelinuxapps.org but that has been compiled to not let you run as root. Here's what it says when you run it in a terminal
VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.
If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports
you can use ./VLC-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and
cannot be run by non-trusted users first).
Imagine the uproar if it refused to run under an account with 'administrator privilege' on windows!
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Posted: Wed 20 Apr 2011, 16:54
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666philb I have a very naive idea. It could be a kind of insurance or damage management. In USA there is a culture of suing the company if something goes wrong so to not get sued they try to warn for anything.
So VLC and others try to curb, to stop the flood of people suing them for letting in the bad guys through some vulnerability in their product?
Cover that asses as we say over there. That would make it very logical but I totally agree that it reads like a joke. It is a kind of bad joke when one see it first time.
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Posted: Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:59
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Hi Philb!
That link to that article is absolutely
I'm glad you posted it!
Let me tell you something: I've been using a computer now for
25 years
( going on my 26th year pretty soon come to think of it! ) and the entire time as either "Admin" or "root".
When I used Windows I only caught ONE virus - period.
In those 25+ years I've
destroyed my computer. "Accidently" I should add. LOL! A few times purposefully for the heck of it just for fun. And yes - you read that correctly.
Boredom does funny things to the mind...
The biggest mistake I've EVER made whilst running as Admin/root was that I ended up deleting my Mozilla ( now SeaMonkey ) profile and hence all my email/addressbooks. And yet even THAT wasn't such a huge disaster as it sounds because I make weekly backups. The most I lost were a few new emails and updates from forums. Big deal and big whoop IMHO. ( For the record: I've never used a "recycle bin" nor "trashcan" as I've either shredded or by-passed and gone directly to delete. )
So all this hubbub over "running as root", such as is currently going on at "DW" and elsewhere? I just take it with a pinch of salt and go on. Two things, however, that I
have learnt:
#1 I rarely EVER tell ANYONE I run as root as I'm tired as being looked down upon as a 4th class citizen in Linux. #2? I've come to LOVE and bookmark articles like the one you've posted above!
Thank you for giving me my "Smile For The Week" my fellow Puppian Friend!
Now I have some Fluxbox themes to go and install if I didn't delete them...
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One step you can take to run programs that complain about "running as root" is to change the "PROGAM.desktop" file in /usr/share/applications as follows:
Exec=su -c YOUR-PROGRAM-EXEC spot
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seaside wrote:
One step you can take to run programs that complain about "running as root" is to change the "PROGAM.desktop" file in /usr/share/applications as follows:
Exec=su -c YOUR-PROGRAM-EXEC spot
Yes, but that does not work for me on Puppy 525. Does it work for you?
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Posted: Fri 22 Apr 2011, 11:06
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thanks for sharing your
Exec=su -c YOUR-PROGRAM-EXEC spot
Going to try it in wary
Edit: Now I see there is
Browse as user "Spot"
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Posted: Fri 22 Apr 2011, 11:44
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i'm pretty sure rambo didn't run as spot
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Rambo is the one that inspired Barry to make a safe Spot to hide behind
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Posted: Fri 22 Apr 2011, 13:21
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L18L wrote:
Going to try it in wary]
was multilingual wary503q
started the code from CLI there was an error about permissions
chmod +w /dev/null
made it work.
Note, starting from default browser icon you are root.
dragging defaultbrowser.desktop to the desktop and then klicking that will start defaultbrowser as user spot.
My apologies for having misused your thread.
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Posted: Wed 27 Apr 2011, 08:28
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example of what a total newbie has to learn in protected OS.
I am in Peppermint Ice now. Taste good indeed. No Spearmint at all. The Real Thing as we say.
Anyway it did not allow me to save changes to grub.cfg due to the decent rule that one should write a 40_comment or whatever name it has and then do a grub update too.
Anyway it all get overwritten when the Pepper update so what the heck.
So I got more and more angry when the su and sudo failed to allow me to get permission to save. So Google to rescue. This is a GK machine so one need to gksu leafpad and path to the file one want to edit. Now it saved. Thank Earth for her nature to just be.
But the odd thing is that despite everything looks normal the edit does not show up so maybe something odd is going on. cflf or lfcf or somethinglike that?
How can text that looks perfectly normal in the editor be invisible at boot?
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Posted: Sat 30 Apr 2011, 21:52
Post subject: Root: Historical Perspective
This business of "running as root is bad" is a fallacy in my opinion.
The whole idea of having different levels of access to a PC was derived from people's experience with mainframes. In the old days (the late '60s, '70s and '80s), mainframes ruled the roost. These mainframes had programs dealing with the payroll, employee personnel files, market analyses, accounting figures, scenario analyses, the nuts and bolts of a business. Very early it became clear if the mainframe failed the business could go under.
So the mainframe had different groups of users that had access to only the data and programs which they needed as part of their jobs and I/O for the programs was physically handled by computer operators based on instructions given by programmers (IBM had Job Control Language - an ugly POS). The users were physically separated from the machine. This was all done to ensure the integrity of the data and the machine.
Minicomputers were controlled in the same way.
What characterizes mainframes and minicomputers was (and is) that they were almost always multi-user systems.
Today's Linux systems are derived from that heritage. The root account is a simplification of the concept of users with high levels of privileges. However, in general, with PCs, we are dealing with single user systems. Users usually are not physically separated from their PCs. Furthermore, the data that users handle is more precious than the PC software. So security should centre on safeguarding data not safeguarding the software.
To summarize, security efforts should focus on keeping data safe, say, by doing frequent backups and we should not fall into the trap of the "running as root is bad" fallacy as what should be protected is your data and running as an ordinary user or root is irrelevant. You can always download the system again and install whatever additional pets you need. A bother but not the end of the world.
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i have 2 vps's connected to the internet 24/ 7 and they both run all their apps as root.
on a commodore 64/ amiga 500/ amstrad cpc6128 whatever old microcomputer you have used, they are single user and you are effectively root when you use them. Maybe the ppl who awear you must not login as root should launch a campain to destroy such computers. Did anyone here ever accidently type in like 20 characters in the specific sequence needed to delete all the files on any of their disks using these computers?
when you use windows 95 or windows xp or whatever you are usually in a single user environment and that is fine. Its acceptable even tho you are at the exact same risk of deleting everything from your C drive as you are when you are logged in as root on a linux system.
has anyone here accidently highlighted every file on there windows OS then right clicked on them and pressed delete? have any of you accidently gone to the start menu then run then typed cmd then once in the commandline accidently entered in del *.* /s ?
Has for instance a cat walked accross your keyboard and typed in rm -rf /* ?
its fine to be a root level user on any other OS than linux the experts will have you believe.
On windows its taken as a given you can run whatever files you like and remove them and thats cool. But login as root on a Linux system and what you get is:
its like the firewall issue, linux doesnt need one but everyone says you gotta run one so most people do even tho they dont need to. The linux root issue os the same, everyone says you shouldnt do it so alot of people dont do it and that is the only reason people dont login as root, because everyone says you shouldnt.
You gotta wonder what goes on in the psyche of someone who wakes up in the morning and logs into their linux system as root then freezes and then starts shaking in fear because they just *might* accidently perform the intricate and delicate and precise finger movements that are required to enter in rm -rf /* .
I run everything as root. if its worth doing its worth doing as root. when people tell me that ppl shouldnt run stuff as root, i say: "well...... im not a retard. Maybe someone with some severe mental disability or disassociative personality disorder might accidently enter in rm -rf /* but im sure a normal person would realize they where infact typing on the keyboard and maybe they should look at what they are typing. If you sleep type then maybe you shouldnt sleep next to your keyboard. If you sleep walk and sleep login as root and type rm -rf /* then you really shouldnt be living by yourself at home or even be within 10 meters of a computer and you possibly need to be looked after in a mental institution or something. im sure normal people dont usually and accidently type in rm -rf /* ".
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The root issue is the biggest BS exercise out there.
Give me the money shot...excuse the French.
I should have bookmarked the page where someone here recently posted
as to why root >> existed >> from the days of IBM.
This crap will produce more division here than any other event.
And who is going to stand up and answer all the questions
when browsers and printers etc don't work.
A meaningless pathetic exercise.
I will use a similar description posted by Caneri years ago, in evicting
someone off his server.
Barry ...you have been sucker punched.
How about fixing Wireless Security instead?
Such as this...My latest April 2011 technique .
No...no response...wireless needs more security.
Yet we drone on with this Root shite.
Now instead of being different to all the othe Lemming robots,
we have been assimilated.
A true case of if you whine the more...idiots hear the roar.
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