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MOGADISHU, Somalia – When a bank transfers money to Somalia, can it be sure it's not sending money to terrorists? That question is forcing one of Britain's largest banks to cut ties with the largest cash transfer bank in Somalia, a company that brings in the majority of the country's $1.2 billion in yearly remittances.
Many in Somalia are in desperate need of money. Payments from family and friends overseas are how many get by, and that's why more than 100 aid workers and Somalia experts signed a letter this week pleading with the British government to find a solution.
Barclays bank will no longer allow customers to send money to Somalia via the Somali bank Dahabshil. A financial power-house in Somalia, Dahabshil describes itself as "the most trusted money transfer company for many immigrants willing to support their families and friends." But anti-terror laws hold banks — like Barclays — responsible if they transfer money to criminal or terror elements. As a result, fewer are willing to send money into Somalia.
Such transactions for Somalis in the United States became more difficult in late 2011, when a bank in Minnesota closed accounts that facilitated such transfers. Sunrise Community Banks decided to halt the transactions after two women were convicted of sending money to the terrorist group al-Shabab.
"It is recognized that some money service businesses don't have the proper checks in place to spot criminal activity and could therefore unwittingly be facilitating money laundering and terrorist financing," Barclays said in a statement. "We want to be confident that our customers can filter out those transactions, because abuse of their services can have significant negative consequences for society and for us as their bank."
Abdirashid Duale, chief executive of Dahabshiil, noted that his company is one of a number of transfer businesses affected by of Barclays' decision.
"Naturally, Dahabshiil is appealing this decision and would like to emphasize that to date Barclays' has acknowledged that our Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing policies are fully compliant with industry regulations," he said.
Dahabshiil, he said, remains operational while it explores alternative banking arrangements.
The group of aid workers and researchers said the decision at stake here "is a lifeline that provides essential support to an estimated 40 per cent of the population of Somalia." The group said it has seen firsthand the impact remittances have on families in the Horn of Africa.
"My son is in the U.K. He sent us money every month for our sustenance and school fees for the children. Where are we going to get the money to pay our bills?" said Dahabo Afrah, a longtime customer of Dahabshil in Mogadishu. "This is unfair to us and will affect hundreds of thousands of Somali people."
Many big banks in the U.S. have already stopped handling transfers to Somalia, saying the federal requirements designed to crack down on terrorism financing were too complex and not worth the risk. Last April, U.S. Bank confirmed it is working with Dahabshil to allow Somalis in Minnesota to send money back home. U.S. Bank spokeswoman Teri Charest said Monday that the bank is working closely with Dahabshil but the transactions have not yet started.
Barclays said it remains happy to maintain a relationship with businesses that have anti-financial crime controls. Western Union operates in Somalia but does not have a presence in many places, including Mogadishu, the capital.
The aid groups said that one study of financial transactions in Somalia found that 73 per cent of remittance recipients said that they use the money they receive from relatives — an average of $2,040 per year — to pay for basic food, education, and medical expenses.
"One-third of recipients said that they would not be able to afford basic food if the remittances were stopped," the group said in a letter to the British government on Monday.
The group is calling on the British government to help money transfer businesses to find alternative banking partners. It also asked that Barclays extend its termination deadline for six months until other solutions are found.
A study released earlier this month by the Food Security Nutrition Analysis Unit for Somalia, a project by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization found yearly remittances to Somalia to be a minimum of $1.2 billion per year. The aid group Oxfam said that soon to be published research shows that Somali immigrants in the U.K. send more than $154 million back to Somalia each year, behind only the U.S.
Straziuso reported from Nairobi, Kenya. Associated Press reporter Amy Forliti in Minneapolis, Minnesota contributed to this report.


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9 YouTube Cooking Channels That Will Make Your Mouth Water
YouTube Cooking Channels
Put away those frozen meals and start cooking like an Iron Chef with these cooking channels available free on YouTube. You can learn simple recipes, like how to make a vegan shake. Or take on a bigger challenge like, say, prime rib. Either way, the videos will be short, entertaining, and easy to follow. So grab an apron and get to mixing!
Have a favorite cooking channel we didn't mention? Feel free to share it in the comments below!
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So, as I get better, I have to remember that when I was fully dissociative, I was protected! you could hit me with a 2 by 4 and would not feel a thing accept rage or electrical shock; I was so incased within myself beyond numbed out protective walls! How soon I forget who Im dealing with at times! As I wake up, many people are appearing rude! They are appearing worse then rude; and I have to wake up and deal with them! Im learning, I dont have to deal with them; I have to remember, Im an adult and I can ask God for help, to receive assistance in finding people and places and things better suited to the better new me! The old places of recovery working working at times; these places can attract jokers and not people serious about their recovery! Im not suggesting these rooms are all filled with players; but players come n go and it puts a negative spin on things! I have to remember to stop playing the working; I dont have to be a victim anymore! I have to learn how to not be one; I have the choice today!
Looking forward to recovery breakthroughs! Im getting close to being free or the first segments of freedom concerning dissociative disorder and my inability to get physically close to people! I tell people about my victimhood over n over; exposer therapy! seems to be victim; its very slow!
Opening up to other people; to women! ITs not easy, not at all! it takes pure fear; Im so worried that Im not enough; that I will be laughed at and dismissed!
walking up to women; I feel like such a victim! I give all my power away as if they are all worthless and ready to attack! this wont work if your interested in finding relationships because it wont work! I have to open up; take more chances around women; im more scared then they are! Im not sure why I got a grudge against them or a chip on my shoulder about them! I dont think its real; but Im trying everything I can to make it real and keep that chip; and its not working! I think its fear and being un-comfortable! I dont trust women; I never have! for good reason! but what about the women I can trust! Thats the problem; it takes courage to step out and find them! It really does! its a scary deal; Ive made mistakes with people in my life; big ones! when young; everything was wrong! I was being manipulated and never knew it! and hated by everything and everyone around me and never knew it! I was led to believe I was in a safe life and a safe house with a safe experience; nothing could have been further from the truth! soon I would be thrown out or given away! So, I trust no one! Thats the old story!
The new story is; I do trust people and I do give them a chance and Im working with the Universe and God to be around the right people! and I cant give up on this desire! and I wont; I have to keep fighting for it that much more; their is sadness and pain surrounding this desire; but I not dropping the desire; Im dropping the sadness and the pain; However, this will take time and work!
The goal is a social break through! Im looking to break through from the C-PTSD controlling me and triggering me when up to close to people; the way Im fixing this now; take chances up close with people and see what happens! I have to get used to people again up close; and trusting people up close!
Expectations are resentments looking to happen! when I dont expect anything from someone, Im not hurt when things dont work out! so; I have to really look at why, in some situations, I allow myself to have expectation of people I know cant live up to my standards!
I was born into abusers! and I have to remember that feel safe around unsafe people; and I get what I get when Im around unsafe people!


text: Indigenous peoples have become more visible in the last 50 years, largely due to efforts from within their own communities and organizations. However, it has not been easy for the international community to create legal instruments that would guarantee their autonomy, cultural integrity, protection of their special needs… in general to guarantee their rights. Indigenous peoples are the inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to other people and to the environment. Indigenous peoples have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that are distinct from those of the dominant societies in which they live. Despite their cultural differences, the various groups of indigenous peoples around the world share common problems related to the protection of their rights as distinct peoples.


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Yesterday was the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy over the heresy of iconoclasm (and over all other heresies).
I grew up an iconoclast. I just know that had I lived back then, I would have been an iconoclast. There were such heavy abuses going on, not taught by the Church, but nevertheless engaged in by the populace. I would surely have wished to "destroy the idols," oblivious to the fact that you can't just destroy whatever is abused or you'd rid yourself of absolutely everything.
A saint is someone who has outstandingly succeeded in following the promptings of the Holy Spirit and thus allowing God to live the Divine Life in his body. Each saint, therefore, is a unique and precious expression of God. Each is a prism reflecting the Divine Light in a unique way. That is why we honor and love the saints.
And that is why we venerate their icons; each one is in reality an icon of Christ with a different face. And as we believe He is always with us, so in Him are all the saints with us.
If I wish to kiss St. Paul in greeting on a Sunday morning, as I greet other fellow-worshipers, well, St. Paul is not here in the body for me to do it. If I want to weep all over the Lord's feet like that other sinful woman, well, His feet are not visible to me. But His icon is, and St. Paul's icon is. So I kiss them both to satisfy love's promptings.
The Lord is glorious in His saints. And that this is true should surprise nobody, for it is as He Himself wished and prayed, "And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I am glorified in them." and again, "And the glory which You gave Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one:" (John 17:10, 22)
So on this Sunday we carry almost as many icons as possible in procession, and we read portions of The Synodicon (decree of the Holy Synod, 7th Ecumenical Council) including this favorite excerpt:
As the prophets have seen,
as the apostles have taught,
as the Church has received
as the teachers have set forth in dogmas,
as the whole world has understood,
as Grace has shone forth,
as the truth was demonstrated,
as falsehood was banished,
as wisdom was emboldened,
as Christ has awarded;
thus do we believe, thus we speak,
thus we preach Christ our true God and His saints,
honoring them in words, in writings, in thoughts,
in sacrifices, in temples, and in icons,
worshipping and respecting the One as God and Master,
and honoring the others,
and apportioning veneration to them,
because of our common Master
for they are His genuine servants,
This is the Faith of the apostles,
this is the Faith of the fathers,
this is the Faith of the Orthodox,
this is the Faith that sustains the whole world.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Sunday of Orthodoxy
Yesterday was the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy over the heresy of iconoclasm (and over all other heresies).
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- Christopher D. Hall said...
I have read much on the Iconoclasm Controversy, but not much on the "horrible abuses" that were happening then. I've read the rationale for iconoclasm must have come from Islamic sources, not on account of abuses by Christians. Can you share some more info?
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I'll be presenting an expression tutorial developped by Paul Tuersley at MGLA tonight!
The tutorial can be found here : viewtopic.php?t=630
And MGLA is here :
The Gallery Theatre at Barnsdall Art Park
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(between Vermont and Normandie)
Hollywood, CA 90027
Between 7pm and 10pm
Hope to see some of you there!
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MGLA tonight
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InterContinental Century City Chengdu
Good morning, everyone! One Hour: Tai Chi Come and learn some traditional Chinese martial arts by doing Tai Chi in the morning in the lobby of the hotel. It's the best opportunity to experience how locals maintain good health. A coach is always available for assistance. At the most famous endangered animal. You must have heard about giant panda. Visit the base, the best time is early in the morning before 9:30am, two reasons as following: 9:30 is the time when the panda are fed, so pandas tend to be more active during this time than the other hours of the day, after their breakfast, if we are lucky enough, you will see them playing with water or climbing the trees just like in wild, it takes about 2 hours to visit the base. Also you can hold the baby panda and take pictures with the lovely baby pandas. After the nice panda trip, let us to Du Fu Thatched Cottage, It was DU fu's former residence, originally named Chengdu Thatched Cottage. Du Fu and his family moved to Sichuan, built the thatched cottage and settled here to flee from the An-Shi Rebellion. Now, Du Fu Thatched Cottage has become an architectural complex, typical of the civilian residences in wesyern Sichuan, combining Du Fu's former residence with a memorial hall and traditional gardens.
Now, we will be arriving at Wuhou Temple ( Zhugeliang Memorial Hall), in the history of every country, there are heroes of every time period that have performed such amazing feats and deeds, that they become legends. The fame and stories of these legends become a part of the very culture that bred them, and that are told from generation to generation. In China, Zhugeliang, the Prime Minister of Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period, is respectfully called "Wuhou" (or Martial Marquis) and honoured by people for his outstanding military exploits and intelligence. But, above all, he is honored for his loyalty. He is one such hero. No record indicates the exact date of the construction of Wuhou Temple, but the one thing that is certain is that this temple was indeed built to honour Liu Bei, The Emperor of Shu Kingdom, reading the tablet on the main gate, four Chinese characters state that this is the "Zhao Lie Temple of Han Dynasty", here " Zhaolie" refers to the Emperor Liu Bei. So why do people refer to this as the Wuhou Temple, despite the strict hierarchical system of reverence that is one of the many things China is known for? The answer is that even today, after all these centuries past, Zhugeliang's brilliant achievements continue to prevail over the emperor's fame. Now, It is almost 16:00pm, just nearby the Wuhou Temple, there is a very famous Ancient Street named " JinLi", Jinli was one of the oldest commercially busiest streets in the history of western Kingdom of Shu. Today, it is still one of the most popular streets in Chengdu. Every evening, the big red lantern are lit, and many colourful activities are held to display the cultural practices of the ancient Kingdom of Shu. Unlike the Wuhou Temple or the other historical scene spots, you do not really need to know the background of the Shu Kingdom or Sichuan to enjoy the authentic Chinese atmosphere.
Now, it is the time for dinner, Chengdu is famous for its HOT POT. Chengdu hotpot is hot and spicy, with a long lasting flavor. Under the collective name there is a variety of different special ties, such as ox offal hotpot, mutton hotpot. fish hotpot, etc. There are some other types of hotpot that are also very popular, such as the seafood hotpot, and the ice cream hotpot. Altogether there are more than ten types, and several hundred different menus for hotpot. On the opposite page are some dishes common to a hotpot menu. Hotpots served with a pot of cooking oil with various flavorings and seasonings.This determines the basic favor of various hotpots. You will also receive a small sauce dish and other spices and seasonings. Such as sesame oil mashed garlic, coriander, salt, oyster oil, peanut powder ,chili pepper powder, etc. After you order your dishes, wait until the pot is boiling and then add your food items. After a minute or two (depending on the items), pick the items up with your chopsticks or the slotted spoon and put them into the sauce dish. Stir them around and enjoy.
Sichuan Opera
The most amazing stunt in Sichuan Opera is Face Changing. It is an unique thrill to see opera players repeatedly swipe a hand across his face,instantly replacing one mask with another.
Sichuan Tea Culture
It is said that "China has the best tea house in the world and Chengdu has the best teahouse in China." Be sure to try Sichuan Tea at least one time.


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Release Date: 2006 |
Album Rating: 3.5Great album, but the vocals can be a major hurdle for some.
some people think tha screaming=bad. So yeha it true what CaC sed bout vox . This band are great tho.
Album Rating: 5.0this review is too right, just a shame it left off anything about 'In This Light' which is an immense melodic song again a little like peep show and has, in my opinion, the best solo in, certainly not the most technical but creates a beautiful harmonised sound that is catchy to anyone!!!
Album Rating: 5.0Nice review, probably could have given stuff on other tracks e.g. in this light, way beyond the fond old river etc. which are also great imo
Album Rating: 4.5It's a wicked album, well reviewed =] My favourite line is the bland street bloom "About as much fun as drinking a pint of piss" line hah =D
I think, although it is an immense album, it's hard to listen to all the way through, because it's far from easy listening
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good band. good review.
Album Rating: 4.5amazing album, i just can't stop listening to it!!!
good review, but somehow incomplete, you should really either do an overview or a complete trackbytrack, rather than odd tracks (unless its a 22-track album or something, then i could let it slide!), but yeah i'd positive vote this if you edited in descriptions of the other tracks.
Album Rating: 4.5i love this album its amazing.
Good review it swayed me to go out the day after i read the review and buy it! and i wasnt disapointment sikth havnt lost any originality but i must say id of loved them to of put a track or two like cant we all dream and tupelo on it to create more of an atmosphere but its an amazng album.
Album Rating: 5.0how do i editt?? *head explodes with sheer frustration*
Album Rating: 3.5Two things. 1. How exactly is this a Progressive Rock album and not a metal album? 2. This album is definitely not a five star album. "You wanna say why youre wanking in a well for?" Yeah, that lyric ranks right up there with "and she's buying the stairway to heaven". LOL. I will give it one thing though, this album does vary. It can go from crap to catchy in the same song. Thus endeth my slag.
Album Rating: 4.0I dont think this is the better sikth album, but how were they gonna top Trees..
Album Rating: 5.0to "Volunteer" - its progressive rock because of the odd time signatures, vocal style and the style the riffs are played i.e. the slapped harmonics. it is a metal album but unfortunately theres no "progressive metal". and the lyric made me laugh, im 15, im easily amused.
These guys are very bad at making up album names.
Album Rating: 5.0cheers lol, im a bit of a spaz when it comes to this site...
Album Rating: 4.0^^^ Dont worry about it my friend. You write good reviews and have an awesome taste in music :p
I absolutely adore this album - one of the most original, progressive and dense albums I have ever had the joy of listening to. I am definitely going to try and see this band live in October - they will playing at a venue near to me so I will endeavour to get down there.
My friend is trying to get me into this band and all I can say is that they are an acquired taste.
Any recommendations for good songs to get me into some SikTh? I'm trying to get into SikTh and dredg because ive heard fantastic things about them on mx.
Album Rating: 4.5if you're into more melodic stuff, start with "peep show," "where do we fall," "in this light," "scent of the obscene," and "part of the friction."
otherwise, add to the above list, the following "if you weren't so perfect," "hold my finger," "skies of millennium night," "wait for something wild," "way beyond the fold old river," "when the moment's gone," and "as the earth spins round."
also, their covers of nick cave's "tupelo" and iron maiden's "wrathchild" are pretty damn amazing. as are mikey's spoken word tracks "when will the forest speak" and "mermaid slur."
hell just get all their stuff!!!
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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Queer Tango Lessons and Práctica
March 13, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Queer tango lessons, offered by Tango Queer Madison, will be held on Mondays, 7-9pm, at Happy Bambino on Madison's east side beginning January 16, 2017. The queer tango movement began in 2001 in Germany and Argentina, and has grown to an international movement offering lessons, social dancing, and festivals worldwide. Queer tango lessons are open role: anyone of any sexual orientation or gender identity can lead or follow. Lessons will be led by instructor Antonio Testolin, an accomplished lead and follow with 15 years of experience in salón, milonguero, and nuevo styles of Argentine tango. Each two-hour session will include one hour of beginner lessons, followed by one hour of social dance práctica. Free, plentiful, accessible parking is available at the Happy Bambino location. Queer Tango Madison offers these lessons with two goals: 1) to offer tango lessons in an environment safe for members of the LGBTQ community, 2) to build and support a community of LGBTQ Argentine tango dancers in Madison, Wisconsin. Please help us spread the word!
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Mondays, 7-9pm
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A-Rod expects to be back with Yankees on Monday
Alex Rodriguez, who underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left hip in January, expects to return to the Yankees on Monday in Texas, he said in a radio interview with WFAN's Mike Francesa on Wednesday.
"We'll see through the weekend. We started the 20-day rehab and once we felt he could complete the 20 days and be available to us in Texas," general managaer Brian Cashman said in a phone interview with ESPN.com. "So let's get through the weekend and see where he is at and see if he is Major League able."
The Yankees could activate the third baseman either Monday or Tuesday.
After 10 rehab games -- the past two with the Double-A Trenton Thunder in Reading, Pa. -- Rodriguez is pleased with his progress. He's not really worried about his 5-for-28 performance at the plate, either. Rodriguez will not play in Wednesday's series finale against Reading, in conjunction with a scheduled day off. He'll make his next rehab appearance on Thursday with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
"I feel good. What I'm happy with is I'm getting the barrel of the bat on the ball," said Rodriguez, who was 0-for-3 with a sacrifice fly and an RBI in a 6-3 loss to Reading on Tuesday night. "I'm swinging at strikes. I'm getting the ball into the air to the outfield. I'm eliminating the ground balls.
"I never really paid that much attention to rehab statistics until this year. To me, getting the barrel of the bat on the ball is much more important."
Rodriguez did hit the ball hard in three of his at-bats Tuesday, and he started a double play in the field. A-Rod looked confident and fluid both offensively and defensively, and he is making progress.
"I agree with that," said veteran Trenton manager Tony Franklin. "I think he looks good. He's certainly been productive in the two games he's played with us. It's been good having him around."
During his rehabilitation stint, Rodriguez has described his progress as "checking off boxes." He talked of a few that were taken care of after Monday's game and, without using that barometer, "checked off" a major one after Tuesday's contest. He was able to play seven innings at third base in four straight games, two with Class A Advanced Tampa and the two with Trenton.
"Playing those innings in four straight games is a step I needed to take in this," Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez was asked for reaction pertaining to MLB Players Association head Michael Weiner's comments explaining any suspensions leveled as a result of the Biogenesis investigation likely won't take effect until after the 2013 season. As usual, he deferred.
"Good question, but you will have to ask Michael, who knows a lot more about this than me," Rodriguez said. "I can't comment."


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Charter Schools
Read the NEA Policy Statement on Charter Schools
Adopted by the 2017 Representative Assembly
NEA is committed to great public schools for all students. As taxpayer-funded schools, charter schools must be held to the same safeguards and high standards of accountability, transparency and equity as public schools.
There are 44 states plus the District of Columbia that have state charter school laws:
- Many do not require that charters comply with the same open meetings laws and conflict of interest requirements that apply to public school boards, school districts and employees. These are commonsense protections that parents and communities rightly insist upon for all other taxpayer-funded schools.
- None adequately prevent for-profit management and operations of its charter schools.
- Many do not require charter school teachers to meet the same certification requirements as public school teachers.
With weak regulation and lax oversight in many states with charters, other issues of major concern to students, parents, taxpayers, and communities have emerged, such as:
- Under-funding our neighborhood and magnet schools. By their very nature, charter schools drain funding from local public schools, which enroll over 90 percent of students in K-12 schools
- Instability. Charters are very unstable. One out of three charter schools that opened in 2000 had closed by 2010, usually due to poor performance or financial mismanagement.
- Waste, fraud and abuse. Governments at all levels have failed to implement systems that proactively monitor charter schools and hold them accountable. A 2016 report from the Center for Popular Democracy documents waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement of charter school funds, totaling more than $216 million. Download the full report here ( PDF, 953 KB, 52 pgs.)
- Wasteful competition: Due to unregulated competition between its neighborhood public schools and charter schools, Detroit found itself with 30,000 more school seats than students
Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Public funding for charter schools (including local, state, and federal expenditures) is now more than $30 billion annually. Despite this tremendous investment of public dollars to charter schools, and despite previous reports documenting gross financial mismanagement, government at all levels has still failed to implement systems that proactively monitor these schools for waste, fraud, and abuse. This new report from Center for Popular Democracy documents that, absent this monitoring, the total waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement of charter school funds has now reached more than $216 million. Download the full report here ( PDF, 1.1 MB, 52 pgs.)
About Charters
Charter Schools 101
The what, why and how of charters schools.
4 Features That Make A Great Charter School
All charter schools should operate in a manner that is transparent, accountable and equitable to ensure a quality education for students.
Meet the Teachers and ESPs Who Work in Charter Schools
Read what these charter school educators love about their job and what union membership means to them.
Policy and Research
Public Accountability for Charter Schools
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University released a set of standards for charter schools aimed at ensuring accountability, transparency and equity. The report calls for the Annenberg standards to be implemented in state and charter authorizer policies that would better serve all students and protect the public's investment in public education.
Plans for how to address low-performing public schools differ in critical ways. Corporate-backed initiatives seek to remove local control of schools and favor the privatization of public education; proponents of community schools believe parents, teachers, and communities are the greatest assets in restoring strong educational outcomes.
Spending Blind: The Failure of Policy Planning in California Charter School Funding
When California legislators first created charter schools, their intent was clear. They sought to empower small groups of educators to launch a wide variety of innovative start-ups that, by experimenting with new approaches to education, would develop superior models fit to meet the needs of the diverse students that make up state's school population.
However, because legislators' vision for charter schools has not been incorporated into funding formulas, the hundreds of millions of dollars spent annually on charter facilities have not created the hoped-for incubator of innovation and continual improvement. While some charter schools have proved exemplary, much of the industry has become dominated by the same types of organizations legislators had sought to reform: large chains of schools where materials, methods, and evaluation are centrally dictated and teachers lack the power to set the curriculum; Charter Management Organizations (CMOs) that replicate a single model over and over again with little variation; and schools whose quality of education is no better than that of nearby public schools, and who do not serve to spur improvements in the wider system.
Download the report (PDF, 59 pps, 2.2MB)
- Florida Charters Fall Short on State Assessments
- State Takeovers of Low-Performing Schools: A Record of Academic Failure, Financial Mismanagement & Student Harm
- The Tip of the Iceberg: Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
- Over $30 Million in Proven or Suspected Fraud Exposed in Pennsylvania's Charter School Industry
- Charter School Fraud Estimated at $54 Million in New York
- $27.7 Million Charter School Fraud Estimated in Illinois in 2014 Alone
- Charter School Fraud Could Be Costing California Taxpayers More Than $81 Million
- System Failure: Louisiana's Broken Charter School Law
Current Members
Being a NEA member means being connected to 3 million fellow educators.
Why Organize?
Learn what joining a union means and how it can help your school.
New Teachers
From lessons plans to online communities, we can help you strengthen your teaching skills.
Charter Schools Report
Common Enrollment Systems: Issues & Considerations
(Brochure - PDF)
E-mail your members of Congress
Visit nea.org/parents for tips on helping your child do well in school and more.
Malloy Signs Charter School Transparency Bill
Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed legislation increasing charter schools' transparency under the Freedom of Information Act.
Read additional charter school stories on EdVotes.org.


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'Dora the Explorer' Voice Made $300k Over 3 Years
She claims she's worth millions ... but TMZ has learned the girl who voiced Dora on "Dora the Explorer" was paid roughly $300,000 for her three years on the show -- the same rate she agreed to when she signed her original contract back in 2007.
According to our spies inside Nickelodeon, Caitlin Sanchez raked in approximately $1,250 an hour for her work on the popular children's TV show -- and still has untold amounts of cash in the pipeline from merchandise royalties and residuals from reruns.
But as we previously reported, 14-year-old Sanchez claims her salary just doesn't cut it -- insisting she was unfairly pressured into accepting the deal and subsequently lost out on the millions she thinks she's worth.
How much were you making at 14?


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WATERFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut man purchased a 17-pound lobster at a Waterford restaurant, then released the crustacean back into Long Island Sound.
Don MacKenzie of Niantic tells The Day of New London he knew the lobster, nicknamed "Lucky Larry" by local children, would have to be about 80-years-old to reach his current size and felt it deserved to live.
MacKenzie won't say how much he paid The Dock restaurant to take Larry off the menu.
He took the lobster back to sea Tuesday, releasing it in a secret location.
MacKenzie received a send-off from a group of children chanting "Let Larry Live" and the lobster was given a salute from the Niantic River Bridge operator who sounded the lift bridge's siren as the boat carrying it headed back to sea.
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Miguel de Cervantes, in full Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, (born September 29?, 1547, Alcala de Henares, Spain--died April 22, 1616, Madrid), Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and the most important and celebrated figure in Spanish literature. His novel Don Quixote has been translated, in full or in part, into more than 60 languages. Editions continue regularly to be printed, and critical discussion of the work has proceeded unabated since the 18th century. At the same time, owing to their widespread representation in art, drama, and film, the figures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are probably familiar visually to more people than any other imaginary characters in world literature. Cervantes was a great experimenter. He tried his hand in all the major literary genres save the epic. He was a notable short-story writer, and a few of those in his collection of Novelas exemplares (1613; Exemplary Stories) attain a level close to that of Don Quixote, on a miniature scale.
Cervantes was born some 20 miles (32 km) from Madrid, probably on September 29 (the day of San Miguel). He was certainly baptized on October 9. He was the fourth of seven children in a family whose origins were of the minor gentry but which had come down in the world. His father was a barber-surgeon who set bones, performed bloodlettings, and attended lesser medical needs. The family moved from town to town, and little is known of Cervantes's early education. The supposition, based on a passage in one of the Exemplary Stories, that he studied for a time under the Jesuits, though not unlikely, remains conjectural. Unlike most Spanish writers of his time, including some of humble origin, he apparently did not go to a university. What is certain is that at some stage he became an avid reader of books. The head of a municipal school in Madrid, a man with Erasmist intellectual leanings named Juan Lopez de Hoyos, refers to a Miguel de Cervantes as his "beloved pupil." This was in 1569, when the future author was 21, so--if this was the same Cervantes--he must either have been a pupil-teacher at the school or have studied earlier under Lopez de Hoyos. His first published poem, on the death of Philip II's young queen, Elizabeth of Valois, appeared at this time.
That same year he left Spain for Italy. Whether this was because he was the "student" of the same name wanted by the law for involvement in a wounding incident is another mystery; the evidence is contradictory. In any event, in going to Italy Cervantes was doing what many young Spaniards of the time did to further their careers in one way or another. It seems that for a time he served as chamberlain in the household of Cardinal Giulio Acquaviva in Rome. However, by 1570 he had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish infantry regiment stationed in Naples, then a possession of the Spanish crown. He was there for about a year before he saw active service.
Relations with the Ottoman Empire under Selim II were reaching a crisis, and the Turks occupied Cyprus in 1570. A confrontation between the Turkish fleet and the naval forces of Venice, the papacy, and Spain was inevitable. In mid-September 1571 Cervantes sailed on board the Marquesa, part of the large fleet under the command of Don Juan de Austria that engaged the enemy on October 7 in the Gulf of Lepanto near Corinth. The fierce battle ended in a crushing defeat for the Turks that was ultimately to break their control of the Mediterranean. There are independent accounts of Cervantes's conduct in the action, and they concur in testifying to his personal courage. Though stricken with a fever, he refused to stay below and joined the thick of the fighting. He received two gunshot wounds in the chest, and a third rendered his left hand useless for the rest of his life. He always looked back on his conduct in the battle with pride. From 1572 to 1575, based mainly in Naples, he continued his soldier's life; he was at Navarino and saw action in Tunis and La Goleta. He must also, when opportunity offered, have been familiarizing himself with Italian literature. Perhaps with a recommendation for promotion to the rank of captain, more likely just leaving the army, he set sail for Spain in September 1575 with letters of commendation to the king from the duque de Sessa and Don Juan himself.
On this voyage his ship was attacked and captured by Barbary pirates, and Cervantes, together with his brother Rodrigo, was sold into slavery in Algiers, the centre of the Christian slave traffic in the Muslim world. The letters he carried magnified his importance in the eyes of his captors. This had the effect of raising his ransom price, and thus prolonging his captivity, while also, it appears, protecting his person from punishment by death, mutilation, or torture when his four daring bids to escape were frustrated. His masters, the renegade Dali Mami and later Hasan Pasa, treated him with considerable leniency in the circumstances, whatever the reason. At least two contemporary records of the life led by Christian captives in Algiers at this time mention Cervantes. He clearly made a name for himself for courage and leadership among the captive community. At long last, in September 1580, three years after Rodrigo had earned his freedom, Miguel's family, with the aid and intervention of the Trinitarian friars, raised the 500 gold escudos demanded for his release. It was only just in time, right before Hasan Pasa sailed for Constantinople (now Istanbul), taking his unsold slaves with him. Not surprisingly, this, the most adventurous period of Cervantes's life, supplied subject matter for several of his literary works, notably the Captive's tale in Don Quixote and the two Algiers plays, El trato de Argel ("The Traffic of Algiers") and Los banos de Argel ("The Bagnios [an obsolete word for "prisons"] of Algiers"), as well as episodes in a number of other writings, although never in straight autobiographical form.
Back in Spain, Cervantes spent most of the rest of his life in a manner that contrasted entirely with his decade of action and danger. He would be constantly short of money and in tedious and exacting employment; it would be 25 years before he scored a major literary success with Don Quixote. On his return home he found that prices had risen and the standard of living for many, particularly those of the middle class, including his family, had fallen. The euphoria of Lepanto was a thing of the past. Cervantes's war record did not now bring the recompense he expected. He applied unsuccessfully for several administrative posts in Spain's American empire. The most he succeeded in acquiring was a brief appointment as royal messenger to Oran, Algeria, in 1581. In vain he followed Philip II and the court to Lisbon in newly annexed Portugal.
About this time he had an affair with a young married woman named Ana de Villafranca (or Ana Franca de Rojas), the fruit of which was a daughter. Isabel de Saavedra, Cervantes's only child, was later brought up in her father's household. Late in 1584 he married Catalina de Salazar y Palacios, 18 years his junior. She had a small property in the village of Esquivias in La Mancha. Little is known about their emotional relationship. There is no reason to suppose that the marriage did not settle down into an adequate companionableness, despite Cervantes's enforced long absences from home. Neither is there any special reason to suppose that Catalina was an inspiration or a model for characters in the poetry Cervantes was now writing or in his first published fiction, La Galatea (1585; Galatea: A Pastoral Romance), in the newly fashionable genre of the pastoral romance. The publisher, Blas de Robles, paid him 1,336 reales for it, a good price for a first book. The dedication of the work to Ascanio Colonna, a friend of Acquaviva, was a bid for patronage that does not seem to have been productive. Doubtless helped by a small circle of literary friends, such as the poet Luis Galvez de Montalvo, the book did bring Cervantes's name before a sophisticated reading public. But the only later editions in Spanish to appear in the author's lifetime were those of Lisbon, 1590, and Paris, 1611. La Galatea breaks off in mid-narrative; judging by his repeatedly expressed hopes of writing a sequel, Cervantes evidently maintained a lasting fondness for the work.
Cervantes also turned his hand to the writing of drama at this time, the early dawn of the Golden Age of the Spanish theatre. He contracted to write two plays for the theatrical manager Gaspar de Porras in 1585, one of which, La confusa ("Confusion"), he later described as the best he ever wrote. Many years afterward he claimed to have written 20 or 30 plays in this period, which, he noted, were received by the public without being booed off the stage or having the actors pelted with vegetables. The number is vague; only two certainly survive from this time, the historical tragedy of La Numancia (1580s; Numantia: A Tragedy) and El trato de Argel (1580s; "The Traffic of Algiers"). He names nine plays, the titles of a few of which sound like the originals of plays reworked and published years later in the collection Ocho comedias, y ocho entremeses nuevos (1615; "Eight Plays and Eight New Interludes"). Fixed theatre sites were just becoming established in the major cities of Spain, and there was an expanding market geared to satisfying the demands of a public ever more hungry for entertainment. Lope de Vega was about to respond to the call, stamping his personal imprint on the Spanish comedia and rendering all earlier drama, including that of Cervantes, old-fashioned or inadequate by comparison. Though destined to be a disappointed dramatist, Cervantes went on trying to get managers to accept his stage works. By 1587 it was clear that he was not going to make a living from literature, and he was obliged to turn in a very different direction.
Cervantes became a commissary of provisions for the great Armada. Requisitioning corn and oil from grudging rural communities was a thankless task, but it was at least a steady job, with a certain status. It took him traveling all over Andalusia, an experience he was to put to good use in his writing. He was responsible for finances of labyrinthine complexity, and the failure to balance his books landed him in prolonged and repeated trouble with his superiors. There also was constant argument with municipal and church authorities, the latter of which more than once excommunicated him. The surviving documentation of the accountancy and negotiations involved is considerable.
After the disastrous defeat of the Armada in 1588, Cervantes gravitated to Sevilla (Seville), the commercial capital of Spain and one of the largest cities in Europe. In 1590 he applied to the Council of the Indies for any one of four major crown posts vacant in Central and South America. His petition was curtly rejected. Wrangles over his accounts and arrears of salary dragged on. He seems to have kept some contact with the literary world; there is a record of his buying certain books, and he must have managed to find time for reading. In 1592 he signed a contract to supply six plays to a theatrical manager, one Rodrigo Osorio. Nothing came of this. His commissary work continued, and the litigation came to a head; in September 1592 he was imprisoned for a few days in Castro del Rio.
In 1594 Cervantes was in Madrid seeking a new post. He received an appointment that took him back to Andalusia to collect overdue taxes. Although it was in effect a promotion, the job was no more rewarding than the previous one and was similarly fraught with financial difficulties and confrontations. Cervantes was not by temperament a businessman. Probably by mutual agreement the appointment was terminated in 1596. The previous year he had won first prize (three silver spoons) in a poetry competition in Zaragoza. Back in Sevilla, he likely started seriously writing stories at about this time, not to mention a wickedly satirical sonnet on the conduct of the duque de Medina Sidonia, to be followed by one obliquely disrespectful of the recently deceased king himself. Again he met with financial troubles. In the summer of 1597 discrepancies in his accounts of three years previous landed him in the Crown Jail of Sevilla. He was confined until the end of April 1598 and perhaps conceived there the idea of Don Quixote, as a remark in the first prologue suggests:
And so, what was to be expected of a sterile and uncultivated wit such as that which I possess if not an offspring that was dried up, shriveled, and eccentric: a story filled with thoughts that never occurred to anyone else, of a sort that might be engendered in a prison where every annoyance has its home and every mournful sound its habitation?
Information about Cervantes's life over the next four or five years is sparse. He had left Sevilla, and, perhaps for a while in Esquivias and Madrid, later for certain in Valladolid (where the royal court established itself from 1601 to 1606), he must have been writing the first part of Don Quixote. Early versions of two of his stories, Rinconete y Cortadillo ("Rinconete and Cortadillo") and El celoso extremeno ("The Jealous Extremaduran"), found their way into a miscellaneous compilation, unpublished, made by one Francisco Porras de la Camara.
In July or August 1604 Cervantes sold the rights of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha ("The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha," known as Don Quixote, Part I) to the publisher-bookseller Francisco de Robles for an unknown sum. License to publish was granted in September and the book came out in January 1605. There is some evidence of its content's being known or known about before publication--to, among others, Lope de Vega, the vicissitudes of whose relations with Cervantes were then at a low point. The compositors at Juan de la Cuesta's press in Madrid are now known to have been responsible for a great many errors in the text, many of which were long attributed to the author.
The novel was an immediate success, though not as sensationally so as Mateo Aleman's Guzman de Alfarache, Part I, of 1599. By August 1605 there were two Madrid editions, two published in Lisbon, and one in Valencia. There followed those of Brussels, 1607; Madrid, 1608; Milan, 1610; and Brussels, 1611. Part II, Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha ("Second Part of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha"), came out in 1615. Thomas Shelton's English translation of the first part appeared in 1612. The name of Cervantes was soon to be as well known in England, France, and Italy as in Spain.
The sale of the publishing rights, however, meant that Cervantes made no more financial profit on Part I of his novel. He had to do the best he could with patronage. The dedication to the young duque de Bejar had been a mistake. He had better fortune with two much more influential persons: the conde de Lemos, to whom he would dedicate Part II and no less than three other works, and Don Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas, archbishop of Toledo. This eased his financial circumstances somewhat. However, it is apparent that he would have liked a securer place in the pantheon of the nation's writers than he ever achieved during his lifetime--he wanted a reputation comparable to that enjoyed by Lope de Vega or the poet Luis de Gongora, for example. His sense of his own marginal position may be deduced from his Viage del Parnaso (1614; Voyage to Parnassus), two or three of the later prefaces, and a few external sources. Nevertheless, relative success, still-unsatisfied ambition, and a tireless urge to experiment with the forms of fiction ensured that, at age 57, with less than a dozen years left to him, Cervantes was just entering the most productive period of his career.
No graciousness descended on Cervantes's domestic life. A stabbing incident in the street outside the house in Valladolid, in June 1605, led ridiculously to the whole household's arrest. When they later followed the court to Madrid, he continued to be plagued by litigation over money and now, too, by domestic difficulties. The family lodged in various streets over the next few years before finally settling in the Calle de Leon. Like a number of other writers of the day, Cervantes nursed hopes of a secretarial appointment with the conde de Lemos when, in 1610, the conde was made viceroy of Naples; once more Cervantes was disappointed. He had joined a fashionable religious order, the Slaves of the Most Blessed Sacrament, in 1609, and four years later he became a Franciscan tertiary, which was a more serious commitment. Students of Cervantes know, too, of some increased involvement in the literary life of the capital in the form of his attendance at the Academia Selvaje, a kind of writers' salon, in 1612.
The next year, the 12 Exemplary Stories were published. The prologue contains the only known verbal portrait of the author:
of aquiline countenance, with dark brown hair, smooth clear brow, merry eyes and hooked but well-proportioned nose; his beard is silver though it was gold not 20 years ago; large moustache, small mouth with teeth neither big nor little, since he has only six of them and they are in bad condition and worse positioned, for they do not correspond to each other; the body between two extremes, neither tall nor short; a bright complexion, more pale than dark, somewhat heavy in the shoulder and not very light of foot.
Cervantes's claim in this prologue to be the first to write original novellas (short stories in the Italian manner) in Castilian is substantially justified. Their precise dates of composition are in most cases uncertain. There is some variety in the collection, within the two general categories of romance-based stories and realistic ones. El coloquio de los perros ("Colloquy of the Dogs," Eng. trans. in Three Exemplary Novels [1952]), a quasi-picaresque novella, with its frame tale El casamiento enganoso ("The Deceitful Marriage"), is probably Cervantes's most profound and original creation next to Don Quixote. In the 17th century the romantic stories were the more popular; James Mabbe chose precisely these for the selective English version of 1640. Nineteenth- and 20th-century taste preferred the realistic ones, but by the turn of the 21st century the others were receiving again something like their critical due.
In 1614 Cervantes published Viage del Parnaso, a long allegorical poem in mock-mythological and satirical vein, with a postscript in prose. It was devoted to celebrating a host of contemporary poets and satirizing a few others. The author there admitted that writing poetry did not come easily to him. But he held poetry in the highest esteem as a pure art that should never be debased. Having lost all hope of seeing any more of his plays staged, he had eight of them published in 1615, together with eight short comic interludes, in Ocho comedias, y ocho entremeses nuevos. The plays show no shortage of inventiveness and originality but lack real control of the medium. The interludes, however, are reckoned among the very best of their kind.
It is not certain when Cervantes began writing Part II of Don Quixote, but he had probably not gotten much more than halfway through by late July 1614. About September a spurious Part II was published in Tarragona by someone calling himself Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda, an unidentified Aragonese who was an admirer of Lope de Vega. The book is not without merit, if crude in comparison with its model. In its prologue the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded, though with relative restraint if compared with the vituperation of some literary rivalries of the age. He also worked some criticism of Fernandez de Avellaneda and his "pseudo" Quixote and Sancho into his own fiction from chapter 59 onward.
Don Quixote, Part II, emerged from the same press as its predecessor late in 1615. It was quickly reprinted in Brussels and Valencia, 1616, and Lisbon, 1617. Parts I and II first appeared in one edition in Barcelona, 1617. There was a French translation of Part II by 1618 and an English one by 1620. The second part capitalizes on the potential of the first, developing and diversifying without sacrificing familiarity. Most people agree that it is richer and more profound.
In his last years Cervantes mentioned several works that apparently did not get as far as the printing press, if indeed he ever actually started writing them. There was Bernardo (the name of a legendary Spanish epic hero), the Semanas del jardin ("Weeks in the Garden"; a collection of tales, perhaps like Boccaccio's Decameron), and the continuation to his Galatea. The one that was published, posthumously in 1617, was his last romance, Los trabaios de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia setentrional ("The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story"). In it Cervantes sought to renovate the heroic romance of adventure and love in the manner of the Aethiopica of Heliodorus. It was an intellectually prestigious genre destined to be very successful in 17th-century France. Intended both to edify and to entertain, the Persiles is an ambitious work that exploits the mythic and symbolic potential of romance. It was very successful when it appeared; there were eight Spanish editions in two years and French and English translations in 1618 and 1619, respectively.
In the dedication, written three days before he died, Cervantes, "with a foot already in the stirrup," movingly bade farewell to the world. Clear-headed to the end, he seems to have achieved a final serenity of spirit. He died in 1616, almost certainly on April 22, not on the 23rd as had been traditionally thought. The burial certificate indicates that the latter was the day he was buried, in the convent of the Discalced Trinitarians in the Calle de Cantarranas (now the Calle de Lope de Vega). The exact spot is not marked. No will is known to have survived.
Cervantes's masterpiece Don Quixote has been variously interpreted as a parody of chivalric romances, an epic of heroic idealism, a commentary on the author's alienation, and a critique of Spanish imperialism. While the Romantic tradition downplayed the novel's hilarity by transforming Don Quixote into a tragic hero, readers who view it as a parody accept at face value Cervantes's intention to denounce the popular yet outdated romances of his time. Don Quixote certainly pokes fun at the adventures of literary knights-errant, but its plot also addresses the historical realities of 17th-century Spain. Although no proof has been found, it is likely that Cervantes was a converso (of Jewish descent), given his father's ties to the medical profession, the family's peripatetic existence, and the government's denial of his two requests for posts in the Indies. However, the author's nuanced irony, his humanistic outlook, and his comic genius contrast notably with the melancholy, didactic tone attributed to many other Spanish converso writers.
Cervantes's strikingly modern narrative instead gives voice to a dazzling assortment of characters with diverse beliefs and perspectives. His inclusion of many differing opinions constitutes a provision called heteroglossia ("multiple voices") by the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin, who deemed it essential to the development of the modern novel. Don Quixote's comic edge illustrates another of Bakhtin's concepts, carnivalization, which favours the playfully positive aspects of the body over an ascetic rejection of the carnal. Sancho Panza's rotund shape--his name means "holy belly"--offsets Don Quixote's elongated, emaciated frame, and together they recall the medieval folkloric figures of an expansive, materialist Carnival and a lean, self-denying Lent. Yet, far from depicting illusion and reality as equal opposites, their relationship undergoes constant change: if Don Quixote assumes the lead in Part I, Sancho overtakes his master and secures his own independence in Part II.
The differences between Part I and Part II demonstrate Cervantes's awareness of the power of the printed word. Don Quixote's history began with his obsessive reading of chivalric romances; in Part II, he realizes that his adventures are eagerly read and discussed by others. The knight's visit in Part II to a Barcelona printing shop, where he finds a spurious Part II in press and denounces it as injurious to the innocent reader and to his own rightful authorship (since he stands to lose royalties from its sales), underscores the cultural and economic impact of books of fiction. Despite his own books' popularity, Cervantes earned little from their sales. Nonetheless, his innovative reworkings of literary forms--from the pastoral novel La Galatea and exemplary short stories to the acclaimed novel Don Quixote and his one serious attempt at romance, the posthumously published Persiles y Sigismunda--show just how well Cervantes understood not only the 17th-century marketplace but the social effect of literature.
Cervantes's influence resonates in the popular term "quixotic" and the immediately recognizable forms of his two major protagonists, whose adventures reappear continually across the cultural landscape in theatre, film, opera, ballet, and even comic books. No study of the novel can ignore the author or his most famous work: the Hungarian theorist Gyorgy Lukacs considers Don Quixote "the first great novel of world literature," while the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes calls Cervantes the "founding father" of Latin American literature. The novel form, according to some late 20th-century critics, has no one origin but began to exist in different countries at different times and for different reasons. Nonetheless, Cervantes's novel, with its innovations to Spanish literature, is outstanding in its creation of a new worldview. It is not coincidental that the writers most influenced by Cervantes--Daniel Defoe, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Smollett, to name only British novelists--initiated radical changes in their own literary traditions.
By illuminating the many differences in and surrounding his world, Cervantes placed in doubt the previous ways of portraying that world, whether those were literary or historical. Indeed, one of Don Quixote's main tenets is that fiction and historical truth are frequently indistinguishable, as both are dependent on the reader's perception. Cervantes's approach is frequently dubbed "dualistic" since he often opted to express diverse modes of thought through the pairing of opposites, as with Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, the talking dogs of "Colloquy of the Dogs," or the image of the baciyelmo ("basinhelmet," as the narrator describes the bright object worn on a distant rider's head). Representing the opposites of reality and illusion, baciyelmo is Sancho's brass basin but Don Quixote's gold helmet.
The split depicted within Cervantes's characters--Don Quixote's "reasoned unreason" for example--has sometimes been attributed to the author's intended contrast of reality and illusion (as well as of other opposites). The question of whether the self-proclaimed knight stands for an idealism never fully attainable or for a laughably meaningless madness continues to shadow interpretations of Don Quixote, as it has since its introduction by the German Romantics. Opposition between idealism and realism as a leading theme in Cervantes's fiction, including the Exemplary Stories and his plays, remained influential as late as the mid-20th century.
Yet Cervantes was characteristically ambiguous on these issues, and this ambiguity inspired criticism of the later 20th century to reconsider previous judgments on his literary prominence. Translated almost immediately into English, French, and Italian, Don Quixote was viewed primarily as a comic work or a satire of Spanish customs. Ironically, it was the German Romantics, selectively reading Don Quixote as a tragic hero, who granted his author world standing. In contrast, 19th-century Spanish academics dismissed Cervantes's accomplishments, even though his style and language set the standard for modern Castilian. Not until the 20th century did the acclaim of foreign critics and Spanish expatriates finally rehabilitate Cervantes in his own country.
When Freudian psychology became popular, it engendered critical interest in the psychological force of Cervantes's fiction. European criticism was predisposed early on toward psychoanalytical approaches, which stressed the Spanish author's duality and ambiguity. From the 1970s, French and American criticism viewed Cervantes as a fragmented character not unlike his protagonists. Both the author and his characters have been perceived as psychoanalytical cases, with Don Quixote's madness attributed to his "middle-age crisis" and Cervantes's treatment of several characters to his "subconscious sympathies." As these critics worked to reveal unexpressed desires, they also analyzed the roles played by women. Feminist and gender studies have increasingly looked to Cervantes for his perceptive approach to portraying the women of 17th-century Spain. Unlike the majority of his contemporaries, Cervantes expressed great empathy toward women. Although he stops short of a "feminist" position, numerous female characters such as Marcela and Dorotea in Don Quixote and Isabela Castrucho in Persiles y Sigismunda speak forcefully in defense of women's rights.
Similarly, criticism in the late 20th century began to focus on Cervantes's preoccupations with contemporary economic and historical events. The 1609 expulsion of the Moriscos (converted Moors), the correct governance of Spain's overseas colonies, and the exploitation of African slaves are often considered as covertly polemical topics for Don Quixote's alert readers. The Exemplary Stories and plays have been plumbed for their engagement with political and economic factors. Documented in Don Quixote and Persiles y Sigismunda, Cervantes's knowledge of and interest in the New World are central to his perception of a different world, one equally as cross-cultural and multilingual as that of the 21st century.
Among the many translations of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha and Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha are the early The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha (1612-20), translated by Thomas Shelton; and The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote (1755, reissued 1997), translated by Tobias Smollett. A modern version best adapted to 17th-century English is presented in Don Quixote: The Ormsby Translation Revised, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (1981), edited by Joseph R. Jones and Kenneth Douglas. Don Quijote: A New Translation, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism (1999), translated by Burton Raffel and edited by Diana de Armas Wilson, is at times disconcertingly modern but well-paced and accurate.
For Primera parte de la Galatea there are two older translations: Galatea: A Pastoral Romance (1867), translated by Gordon Willoughby James Gyll, and Galatea (1903), translated by H. Oelsner and A.B. Welford.
The classic translation of Novelas exemplares is Exemplarie Novells (1640), translated by Don Diego Puede-Ser (James Mabbe). A fine modern translation is Exemplary Stories (1972, reprinted in 1984), translated by C.A. Jones.
A good modern translation, without annotations, of Los trabaios de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia setentrional is The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1989), translated by Celia Richmond Weller and Clark A. Colahan.
As for theatre, an older translation of La Numancia is Numantia: A Tragedy (1870), translated by Gordon Willoughby James Gyll. For Ocho comedias, y ocho entremeses nuevos, there is S. Griswold Morley's translation, The Interludes of Cervantes (1948), and the excellent Interludes (1964), translated by Edwin Honig.
Cervantes's satirical poem, Viage del Parnaso, has no 20th-century translations. Two 19th-century translations are: Voyage to Parnassus (1870), translated by Gordon Willoughby James Gyll, and Journey to Parnassus (1883), translated by James Gibson. Some of his burlesque sonnets have been translated in Adrienne Martin's Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet (1991).
Amazon link: Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes is the most important and celebrated figure in Spanish literature. He is best known for being the author of Don Quixote (1605, 1615), a widely read literary classic. He also was noted for his short story collection Novelas exemplares (1613; Exemplary Stories) and several plays and poems.
Miguel de Cervantes was the fourth of seven children in a family that originated in the minor gentry but had come down in the world. His father was a barber-surgeon who set bones, performed bloodlettings, and attended lesser medical needs. The family moved from town to town and may have been converso (of Jewish descent).
Miguel de Cervantes never made much money from his writing in his lifetime. As a young man, he was a soldier and was later held captive as a slave. After that he served as a royal messenger, a commissary of provisions for the Spanish Armada, and a tax collector.


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The contest did start on time despite the presence of rain mixed with cold temperatures, but was halted after 3 1/2 innings with the Royals leading 1-0.
Kansas City scored the lone run in the bottom of the third, when Elliot Johnson singled off Rays starter Roberto Hernandez and stole second before coming home on an Alex Gordon base hit.
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- By cultivating our four core technology fields, we have continued to leverage both our brand and our rich technological heritage to shift our business model toward market opportunities in higher value, higher margin areas.
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- December 22, 1936
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On his last day as a presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich is clutching his torn Achilles and grumbling that you people were such jerks about space.
Gingrich has been competing with a torn Achilles tendon since August, The National Review's Robert Costa reports, but he didn't get surgery because he didn't want to take time off from campaigning. Gingrich's senior adviser, Joe DeSantis, told Costa, "He'll walk miles. He's been walking around with this torn tendon. It probably needs surgery, and he's just walking around with it. Why? Because he won't take time off. And he still carries his own bags. He won't let other people help him." But Newt's surprising physical toughness does not appear to be matched by a mental toughness. The soon-to-be-ex-candidate told USA Today he's still mad that people made fun of him when he proposed a moon colony.
Gingrich will officially drop out of the Republican presidential primary with a speech in Virginia Wednesday. In his exit interview with USA Today's Susan Page, Gingrich said he was was surprised by the "irresponsible and cynical reaction to my proposals for space" from "elites." He pointed to Americans' excitement when the space shuttle was retired and took a goodbye lap over Washington, D.C. and New York in April. Reporters tweeted tons of photos of the shuttled going by, and Gingrich's spokesman R.C. Hammond responded, "Thousands in DC flee offices to spot shuttle overflight, yet a moon colony is a silly idea. #justsayin." We thought it was mostly a joke, but it turns out it was mostly serious. At least, it was for Gingrich.
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[#] Fri Jan 26 2018 09:34:28 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
Subject: Re: Citadel mentioned in Apple documentation!
Cool ... I thought those servers were abandoned years ago. In any case, welcome Apple server refugees? :)
So there's actually a BBS running somewhere in 2018...
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Yup. We'll be celebrating 30 years online in a few weeks. It's still the best place to be.
Six more weeks of winter, according to Punxsutawney Phil.
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Happy Fleeb Hog Day!!
But he's working hard at dropping that weight!
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Now that's just mean
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oh my ... prognosticating rodents and overweight zombies ... whatever shall we do?
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I just say hello to be polite, to all the beautiful peoples. Here is my friend Nick, from Malta.

My shadow gets a bit less easy to see as I lose the weight.
I should think everyone would encourage the weight loss for the early spring.
Six more weeks of winter, according to Punxsutawney Phil.
Yeah, who thought of Gobbler's Knob, anyway?
Seriously... that's an discomforting name for a place.
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I just plowed the driveway with a John Deere tractor while wearing a Caterpillar hat. I really didn't think that would work. I do have a John Deere hat but I couldn't find it. One of the tire chains fell off during operation ... assuming that was the work of a ninja cat who found a way to bypass the digital security on the cat door.
[#] Wed Feb 07 2018 17:49:37 EST from wizard of aahz
Or possibly one that snuck in the last time you opened the garage door.
Does your tractor have a "Trump 16" bumper sticker on the back?
[#] Thu Feb 08 2018 09:48:13 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
No, but my car does. The tractor doesn't because it's a John Deere ... so it's kind of implied.
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Happy force-everyone-to-celebrate-a-holiday-everyone-hates day!
Hail to the king, baby.
Uh, thank you. Thank you very much.
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