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Men may cook, or weave or dress dolls or hunt hummingbirds, but if such activities are appropriate behavior for men, then the whole society, men and women alike, votes them as important. When the same occupations are performed by women, they are regarded as less important.
Mead has also written, in a review of my work, a nice description of the universality of patriarchy (i.e., hierarchies) and male dominance (i.e. male-female encounters and relationships):
It is true that, as Professor Goldberg points out,... Men have always been the leaders in public affairs and the final authorities at home.
No amount of "redefiniton" can avoid this fact, the fact that we wish to understand.
For twenty years I have been making a point that would seem too obvious to require making even once, but many people get overwhelmed by their desire to ignore it. But I'm an optimist, so I'll give it another shot.
Of course nothing is inevitable in the future because it has happened in the past. The sun may not rise tomorrow. Does anyone seriously think I am arguing otherwise.?
What past universality indicates is that there is a deep reason why no society has failed to associate dominance with males and that an assessment of the likelihood that this will or will not be the case in the future must be based on an explanation of the universality. If the causation is merely technological, then as in [XX]' examples, the future may be very different. It is significant that [XX] ---and all the others who make his argument--must invoke mere technological examples because even examples like the incest taboo (where the causation is far more removed from physiology) do not present late-blooming exceptions.
Thus: my central point is that the universality is owing to neuroendocrinological differences between males and females and the behavioral differences of threshhold and tendency that these generate. In theory, of course, this could be eliminated by social manipulation--just as we could make females as strong as males by having the latter stay in bed while the former lift weights. But societies are not theoretical in this sense; the social is the primarily dependent variable and the neuroendocrinological is the primarily independent variable. Social possibility is limited--and its general direction given--by our (specifiable and describable) neurophysiological make-up. In other words, all populations associate hierarchical and dyadic dominance with the male because they observe that the male more readily exhibits dominance behavior. Primitive societies may not be able to specify the neuroendocrinological reasons for the male readiness to exhibit dominance behavior, but they see it and incorporate it in their expectations and their cultures just as we do.
Let me make it clear beyond the possibility of misunderstanding that-- if it were the case that the Iroquois women could seriously be argued to have superfamilial power equal to, though taking a different form from-- that of men, I too would consider the Iroquois an exception to the universality of patriarchy (and would extend the definition of "patriarchy" to reflect this non-universality). But, because, as we shall see, this is not true of the Iroquois or any other group, we can define and identify "patriarchy" in terms of those who fill the hierarchical positions of power.
It is true that the Iroquois women served the roles of nominators of the males (that is why I'd choose the Iroquois if I had to argue for an exception, feeble as would be the argument). But it is also clear that women's power was less than meets the eye: the "nominee" could be rejected by the (male) chiefs of the relevant phratries and by the (male) council [Goldenweiser, 1914]. In practice, there was rarely a great difference between the men and women as to which man should lead--just as, in the United States, there is rarely a great difference between the political choices of men and women. And, in any case, a system prohibiting women from filling hierarchical positions is not precisely what those who call for "sexual equality" have in mind.
Henry Schoolcraft [1847] nicely summerizes the political position of Iroquois women:
(The Iroquois) gave to women a conservative power in their political deliberations. The Iroquois matrons had their representatives in public councils; and they exercised a negative, or what we would call a veto power, in the important question of the declaration of war. They have the right also to impose in bringing about peace.
Women in the United States make up over half of the voters (and have far more than just a "veto power), can be (and occasionally are) Senators, and have all the formal legal rights possessed by men, but no one could reasonaby deny that the U.S is patriarchal and male-dominated. (Feminists don't deny this, but give us endless examples of its being true and then incorrectly deny or ignore the role of sexual psychophysiological differentiation.) Women in many primitive societies "owned" the land and many primitive societies were matrilocal and matrilineal. None of this began to render these societies an exception to the universals we discuss. The Iroquois are, as I have written, probably the best example of a society in which come together all of the various political powers given to women in the various non-democratic societies societies in which women are not permitted the hierarchical positions.
But, with all of this, it is more than a stretch to present the Iroquois as even beginning to give women anything approaching an equal share of the power. A rarely-used veto power and a nominating power that follows male instructions is hardly a counterpoise to leadership that is solely male; it certainly does not justify a claim of "sexual egalitarianism".
That the political powers given Iroquois women do not justify a claim of "sexual egalitarianism" is clear from the description by Morgan [All serious analyses of the Iroquois are based on Morgan's League of The Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee or Iroquois (Dodd, Mead, 1901)]. On page 315, Morgan writes:
The Indian regarded women as the inferior, the dependent, and the servant of man, and from nurturance and habit, she actually considered herself to be so.
The crucial point is that it is ludicrous to argue that a society in which women were regarded (by both sexes) as the inferior, the dependent, and the servant of man conforms to anyone's idea of a sexually egalitarian society. [See FOOTNOTE 3]
[XX] attempts to deal with this devestating blow to any claim of Iroquois "sexual egalitarianism" by simply rejecting Morgan in favor of other evidence that also argues against any claim of "sexual egalitarianism". His criticism is pretty much limited to the claim that Morgan misunderstood Iroquois treatment of captives (hardly a reason to dismiss a monumental work) and the entirely unsubstantiated charge that Morgan interviewed only men on the subject of sex differences.
Let us agree, for argument's sake, that Morgan was incorrect in his description of captive treatment. Does a misunderstanding of a relatively rare event that the Iroquois wished to hide from Morgan imply that Morgan would misunderstand the male-female interactions he saw from moment-to-moment?
Cara Richards, [XX] own primary source for his claims of early Iroquois sexual equality finds that, had Morgan been more accurate in his description of Iroquois treatment of captives he would have found additional evidence refuting any [XX]ian claim of informal female power:
Richards writes: (Matriarchy or Mistake, p. 38):
The forgoing examination of the documents indicates that far from being able to make key decisions concerning the fate of captives, women in the early period had little if any decision making power. Later they shared power with men in the family but could only exercise this power after the captors and the council (both male) had waived their claim. Still later the position of women appeared somewhat stronger since they were able to intervene and even actually investigate the capture of an individual although it was still necessary to complete the formality of obtaining council approval.
Richards even more directly contradicts [XX]' claim of an equal, if informal, female decision-making power. She writes (footnote 1):
One such statement [which, I, sg, assume Richards takes as accurate] was that the head chief of the Six Nations had no clan mother, and was not expected to have one. He was chosen for the post by the rest of the chiefs....Thus, the most important post in the federal council was filled by the men without any need for the clan mother's nomination.
[XX] writes that Richards' "first reaction to my news that Goldberg considered all cultures 'patriarchal' was a hearty belly laugh". Richards is a good anthropologist, so the best guess is that the representation of my work [XX] made to Richards had as much to do with what my work really says as his representation of the evidence on the Iroquois has to what that evidence really says. Anyone can elicit a "belly laugh" by sufficiently misrepresenting someone else's work. What no one can do is do this and then expect to be taken seriously once he is exposed. (I'd be very interested in Richards' comments on all this.)
But, let us grant, for argument's sake, that [XX] is correct to reject Morgan in toto and let us ignore Morgan altogether. Furthermore, let us ignore the fact that Richards, [XX]'star witness, ends up testifying against him. (I realize that this is doing an awful lot of granting, but the extreme weakness of [XX]' claim permits us to do it. SEE FOOTNOTE 4)
What about the other scholars?
Beauchamp ( Journal of Folklore; VXII,No.XLIX, April-June,1900) tells us:
...women's work was often assigned to men who had become slaves of the Iroquois. They had lost their rank as warriors... (p81)
Charlevoix, quoted by Beauchamp, describes the reality of Iroquois life (as opposed to the structure as it looks "on paper"):
In fact, the men never tell the women anything (that) would have to be kept secret; and rarely any affair of consequence is communicated to them, though all is done in their name. ...the real authority of the women is very small. (p86)
To the extent that the Iroquois represent a society in which there is sexual equality (but not the sort [XX] has in mind), the sexual equality is owing not primarily to the influence of women in super- familial political life, but to their satisfaction with their female roles.
As Martha Randle writes (speaking of the modern Iroquois in the Bureau of American Ethology, Bulletin 149, p. 170):
My observations at Six Nations bulwark the thesis that Iroquois women today identify completely with their feminine role and do not seek "equality" with men...
Randle's summing up of "times past" (p. 180):
To sum up, The family-centered life of the Iroquois woman in the old days made for a secure woman who entered into masculine activities in a subsidiary but important fashion.
*In this sense, the Iroquois, and many other societies, have been sexually egalitarian. But this has nothing to do with "sexual equality" as [XX] uses the term (a "sexual equality that requires an at-least-informal equality of political power).
9. Let us pretend, in order to make a more general point, that the evidence on the Iroquois is truly ambiguous and leaves unanswered the question the Iroquois woman's position.
A bit of scientific common sense would be in order. When no one denies that 99.9% of societies exhibit the universals I discuss and when not even the committed environmentalist questions that dominance in male-female relationships is associated by both men and women with the male in every one of these societies, when it is easy to imagine an analogue of the contemporary environmentalist in the distant future arguing that the contemporary U.S. is "sexually egalitarian" (since the U.S. has full formal equality for women, women have over half the votes, and there is even a holiday for celebrating mothers), common sense argues that any claim of exceptionality be stronger than invocation of a society in which women were not permitted in leadership roles and which the ethnographers summarize male-female relations in the way we have just seen. One would like- wise not take seriously a claim that there was a society in which it was the men who gave birth unless that claim was supported by very powerful to say nothing of unambiguous--evidence.
And if one dismissed (even correctly on methodological grounds) an ethnographer's claim that it was the women who gave birth in the society in question, one would hardly conclude that--because the methodology reporting that the females gave birth was faulty---it is likely that it was the males who gave birth.
Put this another way: if a Martian knew nothing about human society other than that which has been written about the Iroquois, he might conceivably take seriously the arguments, made by [XX], attempting to demonstrate Iroquois "sexual equality". (Though, given the evidence cited above, the Martian would, it seems to me, have a tough time buying the arguments even if he knew nothing about the thousands of other societies. But let us grant that the Martian, knowing nothing about any other societies, sees the ambiguities and contradictions of the evidence on the Iroquois as leaving the question of Iroquois "sexual equality" open.)
Now let us inform the Martian that there are thousands of other societies and every one of them lacks "sexual egalitarianism". Scientific common sense will tell the Martian to suspect that if the smoke of ambiguity were to clear, the Iroquois could be seen as "sexually non-egalitarian", just like all the other societies. The Martian would find it extremely unlikely--though not logically false or empirically impossible that the Iroquois would turn out to be "sexually-egalitarian".
Likewise: the Martian would not, as [XX] does, claim as an example of exceptionality a society (the Mbuti) about which the author (of the ethnographic work on which [XX] undoubtedly bases his claim) writes:
Emma (mother) is associated with love; eba (father) is associated with authority (mota). (Turnbull; The Wayward Servants)
This description of [XX]' "exception" could serve as a definition of "male dominance" and "female nurturance".
[I consider [XX]' Agta at great length in Why Men Rule and can not do so here. I mean, I do have some other stuff to do. However, I might mention here that [XX]--and the source he quotes--say only that some Agta women hunt. So what? Some American women are Senators and some Jordanian women are professors. (The case of the Agta demonstrates clearly how very risky it is to invoke evidence from popular publications and college readers; recourse to scholarly works often the same authors always presents a picture diametrically different from the popular presentation. Academics are very good at seeing which way the wind is blowing and not very good at resisting it.)]
[XX] writes:
...I've verified the existence of the primary source, and that it says what I was told it did...
No he didn't and no it doesn't. Neither the second-hand misrepresentations provided by Sanday, nor the watered-down popularizations of ethnographic works are "primary" sources. In WMR I address, as I have addressed [XX]' Iroquois here, Sanday's "exceptions" and every other claim of exceptionality of which I am aware. If [XX] wishes to claim exceptionality for a society I have not addressed (after he consults the primary ethnographic work on which his claim is based), I'll be happy to respond. (Well, to be truthful, not actually happy checking out this stuff gives new meaning to the word, "boring", but I will check it out none the same.)
I'll end this discussion by making clear beyond the possibility of misunderstanding: nothing I say here denies the refutory power of a single exception. Here I argue only that common sense demands that the claimed exception have a lot more arguing for its exceptionality than does the Iroquois case.
2: Incidentally, I argue that the high-status roles are not given high status primarily because they are male. Males fill many low-status roles. The high status role--for whatever cultural reason it is given high status in a given society--exerts a stronger pull on males. That is a primary reason why doctors tend to be male in the U.S. and female in Russia. As status falls, the "status pull"--and therefore the competition--lessens, less dominance behavior is required, and more women can enter the field.]
3: I hasten to add that "superiority" and "inferiority" are scientific concepts only to the extent that they refer to social standing. As general concepts they are scientifically meaningless. I would also point out that even if one assumes that Morgan meant (by saying "from nurturance and habit, she actually considered herself to be so") to say that that which he observed has only a social causation, this would simply be an attempted explanation of the empirical fact that "the Indian regarded women as the inferior" (an explanation that, obviously, I believe all evidence argues against).]
4: A point that is, while not relevant to the forgoing discussion, worth keeping in mind whenever reading the reports of travelers, missionaries, and others with no anthropological training: From Herodatus until the maturation of modern anthropology, writers have often, when observing a society that gave women rights, powers, etc. different from those given women in their own societies, responded by exaggerating the importance and prevalence of these rights, powers, etc. (A modern equivalent is the Latino who sees the United States as a land in which the women rule the men.) There is always some truth to the observation (i.e., it is always the case that that which is observed is in some way different from that of the society of the observer). But the observed society no more lacks patriarchy or male dominance than does the United States. (And, to repeat, the writings of even these observers, when taken in full, never describe a society even vaguely lacking patriarchy or male dominance. They describe societies that see themselves as delegating to women authority in specific--usually "household-related"--areas, an authority granted women in a host of societies.
Re: The reason for the universality of the incest taboo. This is a fascinating question that will probably never be answered.
Among the explanations:
Biological #1: The deleterious effects of inbreeding. This has often been challenged on the grounds that primitive peoples don't know genetics. This criticism is not very powerful. Primitive peoples didn't have to know genetics; all it takes is a few two-headed (I exaggerate) offspring of brother-sister couplings to persuade primitive peoples that their gods don't like incest. It would certainly persuade me.
Biological #2: We have neuroendocrinologically built-in abhorance of incest (or perhaps a built-in tendency to feel that "familiarity breeds contempt") and the incest taboo is the social manifestation of this. Possibly, but one does wonder why there is such a need for the taboo's constant ratification if we don't want to do it anyway. We need no taboo against running head first into concrete walls.
Freudian: All societies are based on the family. If fathers and sons come nearly to blows over who gets the family car tonight, what would happen if the argument were over who gets mom tonight. Social stability requires the incest taboo.
Sociological: Societies are ordered by blood connections. If you and your grandmother were permitted to have offspring, you'd be your own grandpa (or something). I believe that there is a folk song to this effect.
It may be that the Freudian, the sociological, and one or the other of the biological hypotheses are each sufficient to necessitate the incest taboo.
For demonstration of the non-exceptionality of the Navaho and other claimed exceptions to universality, please see the Addendum to Why Men Rule
A number of contributors argued that, since the degree of patriarchy and male dominance vary so much, we can expect further (heretofore unknown) reductions:
The impressiveness of what variation there is--and one's assessment of the likelihood of a future variant further removed from the average than has been any society that has heretofore existed--is to a great extent a function of the "height" from which one is viewing the variation. Certainly there is a great difference between the Saudi Arabian treatment of women and the American treatment of women.
However: select whichever society you wish to see as the society that comes closest (or once came closest) to "sexual egalitarianism". (I refer here to the society as it really is presented in the ethnographic works, not a vague memory of "some African group").
You will find that the society you chose does not begin to approach anything that the feminist-environmentalist would consider all that big a step forward. Even in Scandanavian societies with relatively high numbers of women in their political hierarchies, women are practically shut out in the corporate, legal, etc. worlds. Indeed, I would think that nearly any contemporary women would prefer the U.S to any other society and the U.S does not seem to represent anything approaching an egalitarian society in feminist terms.
Not that there's any reason anyone should care, but my preference has always been to play from strength. If I were a woman I'd prefer to live in a society giving very high status to the maternal roles a man can not play. (Such a society is increasingly unlikely in a modern society, particularly one in lousy economic shape, but I'm speaking in terms of all cross-cultural variation, not contemporary practical possibility.) here.)
[XX] takes "redefinition" tack:
...we can identify "patriarchy" by a simple _attitude_, without regard to how the lines of power and authority are actually drawn, then the vast majority of societies are both patriarchal _and_ matriarchal; where there is a significant division of roles between men and women, there is a strong tendency for each sex to regard what _they_ do as the real, important business of living, while the others are wasting time on frivolities. I doubt that Goldberg or Sheaffer are willing to admit a definition of "patriarchy" so weak that it is compatible with symmetrically defined "matriarchy" in the same society.
And if you define "patriarchy" and "matriarchy" in terms of wearing clothes, then all societies are "patriarchal" and "matriarchal". Again: you can't avoid an empirical reality you dislike by playing word games. The empirical reality remains.
It is true that, as [XX] writes,:
...there is a strong tendency for each sex to regard what _they_ do as the real, important business of living, while the others are wasting time on frivolities...
but this is because most women in most--probably all--societies value above all the maternal roles men cannot play.
[It might have been better had Robert said that my interest was in formal and real leadership, rather than in "formal" leadership. Males everywhere have the overwhelming possession of both. (Here I speak of the superfamilial level. They also everywhere have the authority in the family to the extent that they are present in the family but I don't want to get into that now.) ]
A biological basis that differentiates behavior in a way that is observed by a population, a population that then bases its expectations and institutions on the reality of the behavior (i.e., the social is the independent variable) renders it unlikely that this will ever be reversed. I use the word "inevitable" to make patently clear the falsifiability of the claim. If a non-patriarchal society develops, then I am incorrect. But there is no reason to think--given the explanation of the universality--that this will ever happen and there is every reason to think that it will not.
I do not attempt to justify patriarchy (any more than I attempt to justify it's being men who have the height to be professional basketball players.) Justification is a meaningless concept if that which is claimed to need justification is inevitable.
A contributor wrote:
...your argument precisely parallels the 18 century argument that democracy was not a viable political system. Why not viable? Because it's against human nature? Why is it against human nature? Because prior to 18 century, the absolute majority of societies were ruled by kings, and the short democratic experiments in Greece and Rome failed spectacularly.
1. There were many primitive societies that could be reasonably called "democracies". Therefore, any argument based on the universality of non-democracy is immediately refutable. The problem with the oft- encountered "X was universal, but isn't now" argument is that--excepting the "technological argument" discussed above--X wasn't universal.
2. It is always simple to make people living in past centuries look like fools. However, in the absence of modern neurophysiological evidence, it was perfectly sensible--though not necessarily correct--for people to use the term "human nature" to "explain" behavior they saw to be universal. The term was a sort of promissory note, promising that the specific physiological mechanism would be provided down the road apiece.
With reference to the issues we discuss, this is no longer necessary; the neuroendocrinological evidence is known. Therefore, I never use the term "human nature".
I agree with Mr. Crews' points about the tendency to use terms like "biologically-based", etc. without rigorous definition. It is crucial to specify (in terms of "thresholds for the elicitation of a specified behavior" and the like) what one is claiming. It is certainly desirable to specify the physiological mechanism as well as the mechanism describing how the physiological is mediated through behavior, etc.
I think I do this in Why Men Rule and I hope he'll take a look at the book (out any day now). I do not think that any evolutionary analysis is required (though it is, of course, welcome); I take human males and females as physiological givens and do not attempt to explain how or why they got that way.
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Brunch is without a doubt my favourite meal. And doubly so when it's in a picture perfect environment. So when we headed down to London recently, Clerkenwell Grind was next on my London to-do list.
Clerkenwell Grind is part of a small chain with several eateries across the city. Sandwiched in between Old Street and Barbican, it's nestled in between the hustle and bustle of the capital, yet the minute you walk in you're surrounded by slick surroundings and pretty details.
Think gold brass, pink neon signs, white subway tiles and plush velvet booths and its interior is reason enough to visit. Thankfully the food is just as good too. There is a bottomless brunch option but we skipped liquor and headed straight to the food. Unsurprisingly I went for a Full English - after the two hour train ride and convincing myself a banana for the journey was a good shout, I was ravenous.
Maybe it was the life reminiscing but the food arrived in the middle of 'remember when?s…' and it filled the hungry hole that the 200 mile trip had prepped. The ingredients lived up to the pictures, albeit my poached eggs not being as cooked as I'd like but I can forgive that for the rest and all of the laugh 'til you cry stories, like when we hitched a lift in a stranger's cow trailer in Wales, or when we attended a Lake District charity ball, lost my sight for an hour and then saw a ghost in the bedroom. Pretty standard if you ask me.
But what isn't standard is this place. It's a hidden gem just waiting to be uncovered and is a chain I will quite happily return to. People bang on about London being expensive but it's not extortionate if you know the right places to look, and if I haven't convinced you with my words, maybe my pictures will do the trick.


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BMW was the top ranked motorcycle manufacturer and ranked just behind two other automobile manufacturers, Toyota (11th place) after losing 16% of brand value due to the recent recall which, Interbrand states, "seemed to contradict everything the brand stands for" and, German rival, Mercedes-Benz (12) which gained 6% because it "stuck to its core values (safety, luxury, excellence, pride in its products and innovation) and has seen its brand benefit as a result."
Harley-Davidson nearly dropped off the ranking entirely. Dropping from 73 to 98 with a dramatic 24% loss in brand value. "Over the past three years, Harley-Davidson has seen a rapid decline in brand value as it becomes a less relevant purchase due to the recession. To deal with its losses, the brand has decided to restructure, exiting the sport bike market; it will discontinue its Buell product line and sell its MV Agusta unit, with the goal of focusing fully on the Harley-Davidson brand. However, unless it also invests into innovating, its product could become stale. This year, the brand also experienced some negative social media and press from an audience upset by the fact that the new, numbers-focused CEO does not ride a Harley." Ouch!
The top of the list remained unchanged in ranking with Coca Cola first (+2%), IBM second (+7%) and Microsoft third (+7%). Other automotive brands ranked were Honda (20, +4%), Ford (50, +3%), VW (53, +6%), Audi (63, +9%), Hyundai (65, +9%), Porsche (72, +4%) and Ferrari (91, +1%).


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A recent Barna research release indicates that approximately two-thirds of Christians have or currently face periods of doubt with regard to their faith and relationship with the Lord. Precedent for dominating doubt goes all the way back to the first century, One of Jesus' specially chosen apostles would be forever nick-named "Doubting Thomas" because he refused to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead until he could personally see and touch him.
According to church tradition, Thomas overcame his doubts and eventually took the Gospel of Christ to the Indian subcontinent in AD 52, ministering in what are the present-day states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. There he baptized the first Christians of that region, founding what is now known as the Mar Thoma Church.
How should Christians today deal with their doubts? We no longer have the Lord physically present to reassure our wavering faith and dispel our doubts as did the Apostle Thomas. But we do have a secure foundation upon which to rest our faith, quell our fears, and satisfy our questions. And that is the biblical revelation of the character and purposes of God.
The Apostle Paul encouraged the Thessalonian Christians that God would ensure their establishment in the faith. Furthermore, He would protect them from the onslaught of attacks from the evil one, designed to disrupt and destroy their faith in the Lord (2 Thess. 3:3). Similarly, the Apostle Jude, using the same Greek word, assures his readers that God is able to keep them from stumbling in their faith and to eventually present them in a sinless, perfected state on the Day of Resurrection.
Left to our own strength and wills, we would have reason to worry and doubt our ability to follow the Lord to the end of this earthly pilgrimage. But, thankfully, our long-term spiritual welfare rests upon the promises God has made to His own, not upon our own ability to navigate the temptations and spiritual minefields of this world. So take heart, Christian, our faithful God will never give up on you.


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Your tweets now show up in Google desktop search results, too
Next time you perform a Google search on your desktop, keep a look out for something new: tweets.
Google quietly updated search via desktop on Friday to include relevant tweets in search results about whatever you're searching. Searching for Taylor Swift, for example, now summons a virtual carousel of tweets from the pop star, tucked underneath news links towards the top of web site results.
See also: Why Twitter struck a deal with Google
Likewise, a search for corgis — you know, the beloved stubby-legged canine breed — reveals a few choice tweets with adorable images toward the top of related search results.
Today's change follows a similar move earlier this year, when Google began integrating tweets into mobile results, and comes roughly six months after Twitter announced a deal with the tech giant.
Of course, this isn't the first time Twitter and Google paired off, nor is Google's the only search engine to serve up tweets. (Bing has offered Twitter integration since summer of last year.) The two companies signed a deal in 2009 under which tweets also appeared in search results, but the deal expired just two years later, reportedly because then-Twitter COO Ali Rowghani wanted more control over user content.
This time, however, the partnership could be more instrumental to Twitter's future. With 316 million monthly active users, Twitter's user base continues to grow, but at a much slower pace than in years past. Indeed, the social network has come under fire in recent months for issues around user growth, user retention and disappointing results from its direct-response advertising business.
Twitter is banking on newer deals like its agreement with Google to effectively extend its reach. It hopes the tweets non-Twitter users see in search results will compel them to sign up for accounts with the social media platform.


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Nearly a century ago, the publisher Alfred A. Knopf released a slim book of spiritual fables by an obscure Lebanese-American poet and painter named Kahlil Gibran.
Knopf had modest expectations, and printed around 1,500 copies. Much to his surprise, the book — titled "The Prophet" — took off. It became a huge hit, and went on to sell more than nine million copies in North America alone.
Until now, the publishing house that still bears Knopf's name has held the North American copyright on the title. But that will change on Jan. 1, when "The Prophet" enters the public domain, along with works by thousands of other artists and writers, including Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Agatha Christie, Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, P. G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens.
This coming year marks the first time in two decades that a large body of copyrighted works will lose their protected status — a shift that will have profound consequences for publishers and literary estates, which stand to lose both money and creative control.
But it will also be a boon for readers, who will have more editions to choose from, and for writers and other artists who can create new works based on classic stories without getting hit with an intellectual property lawsuit.
"Books are going to be available in a much wider variety now, and they're going to be cheaper," said Imke Reimers, an assistant professor of economics at Northeastern University who has studied the impact of copyright. "Consumers and readers are definitely going to benefit from this."
The sudden deluge of available works traces back to legislation Congress passed in 1998, which extended copyright protections by 20 years. The law reset the copyright term for works published from 1923 to 1977 — lengthening it from 75 years to 95 years after publication — essentially freezing their protected status. (The law is often referred to by skeptics as the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act," since it has kept "Steamboat Willie," the first Disney film featuring Mickey, under copyright until 2024.)
Now that the term extension has run out, the spigot has been turned back on. Each January will bring a fresh crop of novels, plays, music and movies into the public domain. Over the next few years, the impact will be particularly dramatic, in part because the 1920s were such a fertile and experimental period for Western literature, with the rise of masters like F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf.
"Eventually, these books belong to the people," said James L. W. West III, a Fitzgerald scholar. "We can have new attempts to edit and reinterpret all of these iconic texts."
Once books become part of the public domain, anyone can sell a digital, audio or print edition on Amazon. Fans can publish and sell their own sequels and spinoffs, or release irreverent monster mash-ups like the 2009 best-seller "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."
Theater and film producers can adapt the works into movies, plays and musicals without having to secure rights. Rival publishing houses can issue new print editions, and scholars can publish new annotated versions and interpretations. Free digital copies will circulate online. At the start of the new year, Google Books, which has more than 30 million works scanned in its vast online digital library, will release full digital editions of works published in 1923, among them Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Tarzan and the Golden Lion" and Edith Wharton's "A Son at the Front."
It's difficult to say exactly how many works will enter the public domain this January, because some authors and publishers allowed their copyright to lapse, and some foreign-language books first published overseas in 1923 may remain under copyright for now, like Felix Salten's "Bambi." More than 130,000 copyright registrations were filed in 1923 for various creative works, but most of those were not renewed, according to John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library strategist at the University of Pennsylvania.
Some publishers and the writers' heirs fear that losing copyright protections will lead to inferior editions with typos and other errors, and to derivative works that damage the integrity of iconic stories.
"Publishers are right to be concerned about a proliferation of unreliable editions, some of them probably not very good," said John Kulka, the editorial director of Library of America, a nonprofit organization that publishes American literary classics.
Still, many scholars and legal experts argue that American copyright law, which is mind-numbingly complex, has skewed toward enriching companies and the heirs of writers and artists at the expense of the public. When the first Copyright Act was passed in the United States in 1790, the maximum term was 28 years. Over the decades, lawmakers repeatedly prolonged the terms, which now stretch to over a century for many works. "It's worse than the tax code," said Rebecca Tushnet, an intellectual property expert at Harvard Law School. "The copyright term is way too long now."
Some studies show that extending copyright can actually have a negative impact on the sales and availability of books. A few years ago, Paul J. Heald, a law professor at the University of Illinois, used software that randomly sampled books available on Amazon, and discovered that there were more new editions of books published in the 1910s than from titles published in the 2000s. Publishers often stop printing books that aren't selling, but still retain the copyright, so no one else can release new editions. Once the books enter the public domain, a wider variety of new editions become available again, filling in a hole in the public and cultural record.
Legal experts say that Congress is unlikely to pass yet another copyright extension because the political dynamics have shifted over the decades, with growing public opposition to stringent intellectual property protections.
For readers and book buyers, the proliferation of competing texts and editions will mean more selection and cheaper books. In 2019, the digital publisher Open Road Media is publishing around a dozen newly available works from 1923, including e-books of Jean Toomer's "Cane," Gibran's "The Prophet," Sigmund Freud's "The Ego and the Id," P. G. Wodehouse's "The Inimitable Jeeves" and Christie's "The Murder on the Links," one of her early novels featuring the detective Hercule Poirot.
Legacy publishers are also snapping up newly available works. Penguin Classics is releasing new editions of "Cane," Gibran's "The Prophet" and Proust's "The Prisoner." Vintage Classics is publishing a new edition of Robert Frost's "New Hampshire" — which will feature the original woodcut art and some of his best-known poems, including "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" — as well as Dorothy Sayers's "Whose Body?" and three new editions of classic Agatha Christie novels.
In anticipation of a flood of new editions of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" when the copyright expires in 2021, the Fitzgerald estate and his publisher, Scribner, released a new edition of the novel in April, hoping to position it as the definitive version of the text. The novel has sold around 30 million copies worldwide, and continues to sell more than 500,000 copies a year in the United States alone. But in two years, anyone with a laptop will be able to publish an e-book of the text, or sell fan fiction based on the story.
Blake Hazard, Fitzgerald's great-granddaughter and a trustee of his estate, said she hoped some interesting new interpretations of the story would emerge. But she also worries about what would happen to the novel's legacy when the inevitable homages and retellings land, which will probably include unauthorized Gatsby sequels or novels told from Daisy Buchanan's perspective.
"I hope people maybe will be energized to do something original with the work, but of course the fear is that there will be some degradation of the text," Ms. Hazard said.
But publishers who specialize in classics see a tremendous opportunity to reintroduce old works. Some have been planning for this moment for decades.
Penguin Classics had a number of 1923 titles lined up for 1998, when the copyright for books published that year was set to lapse, but those plans were scrapped after Congress extended protections. About three years ago, Penguin's editorial team went back to their list of 1923 titles and began looking for classics that still resonate and sell well. Several jumped out, including "The Prophet."
John Siciliano, the executive editor of Penguin Classics, wanted something to distinguish its edition of "The Prophet" from the others, so he decided to commission a new introduction from a contemporary poet.
"I'd been thinking of who the perfect person would be, someone like Kahlil Gibran, a poet with mass appeal," he said. "It became obvious that Rupi Kaur was the one."
In January, Penguin will publish 20,000 copies of its edition of "The Prophet," with a new introduction from Ms. Kaur, a young Canadian poet whose large social media following has helped build a huge audience for her work. Mr. Siciliano hopes it will bring a new audience to Gibran's book.
"Having multiple editions of these works and renewed publication energy behind them enlarges the market rather than cannibalizing it," Mr. Siciliano said. "It's an opportunity to breathe new life into these works."
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Torrington public safety promotions help bring transitional period to a close
Pinning ceremony official ends 'transition period' for fire department
TORRINGTON >> After a long, transitional five years, the Torrington Fire Department is finally fully staffed.
The last two promoted firefighters were pinned at Wednesday night's Board of Public Safety meeting. The department has hired 30 firefighters and promoted 20 within the department over the last five years, and should be done with departmental vacancies for a while, officials said.
"This is a completion of a transition that started in 2009," said Fire Chief Gary Brunoli. "The deputy chief and myself are glad it's over."
The two members of the department pinned Wednesday evening were Deputy Fire Marshal Todd LaMothe and Jason Walter.
"We're looking forward to moving ahead," said Brunoli.
The finalization of promotions seemed to have come at an opportune time, as the department has been busy battling a number of brush fires in the area, Brunoli said.
"We're asking people not to burn anything; it's just too dry right now," he said.
Sgt. Ken Brouillard, member of the Torrington police special response team, was pinned at the meeting as well. Brouillard has worked at the police department for six years and, according to Police Chief Michael Maniago, has recently taken on the responsibility of grant writing for the department.
"This is a fine example of what we've been hiring and the people we've been promoting lately," said Maniago.
The board also approved the permanent appointment of six police officers: Capt. Wayne Newkirk, Capt. Louis Gonzalez, Lt. Vincenzo Calabrese, Lt. Thomas Rouleau and Sgt. John Maiga, all of whom have completed their six-month probationary period.
"We're very proud of all these new promotions, they are the future of the department and we are in good hands," said Maniago.
Officer Brian Fox was also approved for his permanent position after a year-long probation period.
"He's doing an outstanding job and is fitting in with the department nicely," said Maniago.


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Now the moment you've been waiting for—testing our changes!
Preventing Duplicate Users
Our registration form currently allows users to register with an email address that's already associated with an existing account. We can update the
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We've made solid progress. 0:00 Now the moment you've been waiting for, testing our changes. 0:02 Well, hold onto that thought for just another moment or two. 0:06 Before we debug our web app, 0:10 there's a couple of quick things that we need to take care of. 0:11 If you have an existing FitnessFrog database, you'll need to delete it first 0:15 before you attempt to run the application, otherwise you'll get an error. 0:19 I'll quick into Quick Launch and type SQL. 0:24 Then I'll select SQL Server Object Explorer. 0:29 I'll click on the refresh button then expand MSSQLLocalDB and 0:34 Databases, and here is my existing FitnessFrog database. 0:39 I'll right click on it, select Delete, and check Close existing connections, and OK. 0:43 And then my database is gone. 0:50 I'll close this window, done with it for now, and 0:53 we're ready to make our next change. 0:55 Earlier, we disabled owin, now we need to enable it so 0:58 our identity middleware component will be able to run. 1:01 In the route of our project, go ahead and open the Web.config file. 1:05 Scroll down a bit and look for the appSettings section, and 1:12 in particular, the owin:AutomaticAppStartup setting. 1:15 Currently, it's set to false. 1:20 Let's change that to true and save and close the file. 1:22 Now, let's debug the app and take a look at our finished user registration page. 1:27 Here's our homepage, showing a list of the available entries. 1:34 To get to the user registration page, we can simply click on the Register button. 1:38 And here's our user registration page. 1:43 Let's test our client-side validation. 1:46 I'm not gonna provide any values, I'll just click the Register button. 1:49 Well, that's encouraging. 1:54 We're being asked to provide our email and password fields, so 1:55 we know our required field validations are working. 1:59 I'll provide an email address and for the password I'm going to type 2:02 a single letter, the character P, and click Register. 2:04 Now we're being told that our password must be at least 6 characters long, and 2:09 that our password and confirmation password values don't match. 2:14 Well, that makes total sense, we didn't even provide a confirm password value. 2:19 So let's fix the problem. 2:24 For my password, I'll type password, and for 2:25 a confirm password, I'll type password again. 2:29 Now we're getting all green check marks. 2:33 But before I click Register, I'm gonna go back to Visual Studio. 2:35 And in Solution Explorer, I'm going to expand Controllers and 2:40 open up AccountController. 2:44 I'm going to scroll down to the Register post action method and 2:49 just inside of that method on line 38 here, I'm going to set a break point. 2:53 Back in Chrome, I'll click Register to submit the form. 2:59 Okay, here we are at our break point. 3:04 Now let's step through the code. 3:07 Our model state is valid. 3:09 So we move into that block and we instantiate an instance of the User class. 3:11 Now we're just about ready to call the _userManager.CreateAsync method, 3:17 which will create our user in the database. 3:21 The result was successful, so 3:26 we can see that the succeeded property is set to true. 3:28 And if we step to the next line of code, 3:31 we're ready to call the signInManager's SignInAsync method. 3:34 Now we're signed in and 3:39 we're going to redirect the user back to the entry's index route. 3:41 Press F5 to continue execution. 3:46 Now we're back at our homepage. 3:49 But what's changed? 3:51 Notice that now we're seeing the add entry and sign out buttons. 3:52 This is because identity after creating our account and signing this in, 3:57 sent an authentication cookie back to the client as part of the response. 4:02 This allowed the authentication cookie to be sent back to the server with the next 4:07 request, the request here for the homepage. 4:11 And remember, if we take a look at our layout page. 4:15 Views > Shared > Layout. 4:21 Here in our Layout page, we're checking to see if 4:25 the Request.IsAuthenticated property is set to true. 4:29 And if it is, we display or render the Add Entry and Sign Out buttons. 4:33 Else, we display the Register and Sign In buttons. 4:43 We can use Google Chrome's DevTools to actually take a look at the authentication 4:49 cookie itself. 4:54 Here in this tabbed interface, I'm gonna select Application and 4:59 then over on the left we have a Cookies folder, and then we have cookie here for 5:03 our localhost domain. 5:08 Make that column a little wider and we can see the name of our cookie. 5:11 AspNet.AplicationCookie, and 5:14 to the right of that, we can see the value of the cookie. 5:17 The value of the cookie is our encrypted identity information. 5:21 If we delete the authentication cookie and 5:25 then go back to the browser and refresh the page. 5:29 Notice that the menu switches back to showing the Register and Sign In buttons. 5:33 This is happening because we deleted our authentication cookie, so 5:38 it's no longer available to send back to the server. 5:42 That resulted in the Request.IsAuthenticated property 5:45 being set to false. 5:49 Which then, in our layout view, rendered the Register and Sign In buttons. 5:50 Something else worth knowing, if we browse back to our user registration page. 5:54 Currently, it's possible right now to register again 5:59 using the same email address that we used last time. 6:02 It's totally possible to be able to prevent this using server-side validation. 6:06 If you'd like to see how to do that, check out the teacher's notes. 6:10 This is great, now we have a way for our users to register with our web app, but 6:14 we need to add a way for registered users to sign in. 6:19 That's what we'll do in the next section. 6:22
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Babe Ruth The Sultan Of Swat George Herman Ruth Jr. is by far one of Americas greatest sports heroes. He is known primarily for his great baseball exploits and secondary as a man who stayed out late before every game and partied until there was no one left to party with. There is more behind the story of Babe Ruth than just baseball and parties. As a boy Ruth was your average youth who got himself into a little to much trouble and paid the price.
As an adult he was a husband and a father who cared more about his family than he liked to show. George Ruth was a baseball hero and an alcoholic, but nobodys perfect. I plan on exploring Babe Ruths life and noting the good and bad points of Americas greatest Baseball hero. George Herman Ruth Jr. was born on February 6, 1895 in his grandparents house at 216 Emory St.
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in the tough water front section of Baltimore. Babe Ruths parents Kate and George Herman Ruth were 19 and 23 when they had their first child, George Jr. The young father earned his living as a bar tender in a combination grocery store-saloon near the Baltimore water front. Babe was not an only child. He did have a sister named Mary Margaret, also known as Mamie, who was born in 1900.
The Ruths did have six other children, but none of them survived to adulthood. Soon after Mamies birth his father opened his own tavern at 426 West Camden St. The family would later move into an apartment above the bar. George spent the first 7 years of his life running around the Bay area watching street fights and stealing from the shop keepers. It didnt take long before he was known well by local police. When he was 7, Kate and her husband finally decided they could no longer tend to the mischievous boy, and brought him to St.
Marys Industrial School for Boys. Despite his crying and begging to be brought home, his custody was singed over to a group of strange men dressed in black robes. Though he didnt realize it at the time, this would become his home throughout his young adolescence. George was released to live with his family on a few occasions, but one way or the other he would return to St. Marys. George didnt adjust well to his new home.
Living on the streets was the life he was accustom to and now that there were rules to follow he was beginning to feel miserable and regretful. To add to that pain was the knowledge that he had been abandoned by his mother and father. After two years of living at St. Marys not one of his relatives came to visit. He began to feel neglected saying that he was to fat or ugly for anyone to want to see him.
Fortunately he found someone he could trust and respect. Someone that boosted his morale and made him feel good about himself. The person responsible for this act of kindness was Brother Mathias. He acted like a father to him. He taught George to read and write and the difference between right and wrong. Brother Mathias was a giant 66 and well built to about 250 pounds, which meant he could accomplish any objective without raising his voice or using physical force.
The first time George swung a baseball bat was at the school. He knew then he was to be a hitter. He said to a friend, It was one of those things you could just feel.(59) Brother Mathias taught him to be a better ball player. He schooled Ruth in the fundamentals of the game. George finally had something to be happy about.
He had Brother Mathias his new father-figure and he had baseball. Babe Ruth became a great baseball player while at St. Marys. Even when he was young he was playing in the higher age divisions. By the time he was nine he was playing on the 12 year old team. When he was 12 he was competing with the 16 year olds.
And at the age of 16, he was playing on the varsity team. Because of Ruths amazing talents he was given a chance to play at a higher level. In February of 1914, shortly after Ruths 19th birthday, Jack Dunn, the manager of the Baltimore Orioles, and St. Marys Xavernian Brothers agreed on a contract between George Ruth and the Baltimore Orioles. Ruth played great for the team while a member. Unfortunately for the Orioles because of financial problems and the fact that Ruth was the best player on the team, he was sold to the Boston Red Sox for $2,900 only five months after he was signed. Ruth was not bothered by the change having been a member with the team for such a short time. Babe Ruth performed great where ever he played. When he was signed to the Red Sox he did great things for them. He didnt just play baseball while he was in Boston.
This is where he would meet his first wife to be. She was Helen Woodford, whom at the time was a waitress, working at a local cafe called Landers Coffee Shop. She waited on George every weekday morning. One morning he confronted her and asked, How about you and me getting married, hun?(183) It only took her a few minutes to think before she replied, yes. After only three months of being aquatinted they had tied the knot. Helen was shy, reserved, and quiet.
She was the exact opposite of her husband. George liked to go out drinking almost every night. Their marriage lasted legally for fifteen years but only the first few were happy. From there on, despite his intentions, the more famous Babe became, the farther they drifted apart. Playing with the Red Sox was a great time for Ruth.
Even though his teammates at first made fun of him because of his looks, he still enjoyed the game. Of course, it couldnt have hurt too much, considering they were too scared to say it to his face. Even so to the Red Sox Ruth was a savior, though none of his teammates looked at it that way. If it wasnt for Babe, they probably never would have won the World Series three times in four years, (1915, 16, & 18). He also set a record when he pitched 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in the 1916 and 1918 World Series, a record which still stands today. And in 1919 Ruth shocked the baseball world by hitting 29 homers in a season, something that was never thought of in his days.
Yes, sir the Red Sox really had it good when they got Ruth. He was someone that every team wanted, and unfortunately would have a chance to get, for the Red Sox were about to make the biggest mistake in Franchise history. In 1920 Ruth was traded to the New York Yankees for $125,000. He was traded because the team and Harry Frazee, the manager of the team were in debt. Of course, when he was traded things would never be the same.
As everybody knows, the Red Sox have not won another world series since. By 1921 Babes marriage was a mess. He would be on long road trips and was hardly home. Helen got very upset by this. Their home was in Sudbury, Mass. which meant George would only be able to visit when he was playing in Boston.
Helen was getting tired of being home in such a big house by her self. So in an effort to relieve Helen of her loneliness, in 1921 George adopted a baby daughter, whom they named Dorothy. She brought much happiness to the couple, but unlike George had hoped her arrival did not repair their marriage. Its not that George was a bad husband but between the many differences the couple had and the fact that George was obligated to play baseball, which was his job, that they knew it was not going to work out. Ruth and Helen never got a divorce, because of religious beliefs, but still the Babe dated other women.
There was this one woman in particular that George grew very fond of. Her name was Claire Hodgson, a pretty and brainy young widow from Georgia, who had come to New York in 1920 with her three year old daughter Julie. She was introduced to the Babe in 1923 while she was at a casino in New York. Shortly after their introduction they had fallen in love but couldnt get married because he was still married to Helen. This would change soon enough. One night while Helen was sleeping in her home a serious problem occurred. There was an electrical failure which caused a large fire to burn down the house and it took Helen with it. The death of Helen would now allow Claire and George to get married.
So they did so on April 17, 1929. Luckily Dorothy was not in the house at the time of the fire. Since Helen had been killed the couple received custody of Dorothy. As expected Ruth played great baseball for the Yankees. He broke all of his old season highs in batting.
Beside putting up incredible statistics, Babe Ruth helped lead the Yankees to World Series championships as well. They won four World Series in fact, in 1923, 27, 28, and 32. Below is a chart of Babe Ruths statistics during his career in New York. G AB H 2B 3B HR R RBI BA YEAR 1920 142 458 172 36 9 54 158 137 0.376 1921 152 540 204 44 16 59 177 171 0.378 1922 110 406 128 24 8 35 94 99 0.315 1923 152 522 205 45 13 41 151 131 0.393 1924 153 529 200 39 7 46 143 121 0.378 1925 98 359 104 12 2 25 61 66 0.29 1926 152 495 184 30 5 47 139 145 0.372 1927 151 540 192 29 8 60 158 164 0.356 1928 154 536 173 29 8 54 163 142 0.323 1929 135 499 172 26 6 46 121 154 0.345 1930 145 518 186 28 9 49 150 153 0.359 1931 145 534 199 31 3 46 149 163 0.737 1932 133 457 156 13 5 41 120 137 0.341 1933 137 459 138 21 3 34 97 103 0.301 1934 125 365 105 17 4 22 78 84 0.288 Totals 2,084 7,217 2,518 424 106 659 1,959 1,970 0.370 G, Games; H, Hits; 2B, Doubles; 3B, Triples; Hr, Home Runs AB, At Bats; R, Runs; RBI, Runs Batted In; BA, Batting Average; (1419) When Yankee Stadium was built, in the Bronx in 1923, it became known as the House that Ruth Built. Indeed, you can say this man made himself into somewhat of a legend. He was also given many nicknames during his glory years. Probably the most famous being Sultan of Swat.
Babe Ruth finished his career with the Boston Braves in 1935, after being released by the Yankees. He signed a one year deal with the Braves. Ruth was told he would manage the team after the year was over. Mid way through the season George found out that he was just being used to draw crowds, but still finished out the season because he was under contract. Ruth dreamed of managing a major league team, but never got that chance because of his wild reputation.
In 1948 after two years of heart problems Babe Ruth passed away. He died at 8:01 p.m. on August 16th at Memorial Hospital at the age of 53. If you wanted to say George Ruth had it made all his life, you could. He made a lot of money, had two great wives and two great children, played the game he loved, partied half his life, and broke all the standing baseball hitting records of his time.
But I bet if you were able to ask him today if he felt he had it made, he would probably say no. He did many great things on the field, but you have to remember the only way he became a star was by losing something every child needs, his parents. George Ruth had it all and was every little boys idol, but it didnt come easy. Biographies.


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- Caribbean Locales/Global Artworlds
From what is art autonomous?—Okwui Enwezor, "The Black Box," Documenta XI, exhibition catalogue, 2002
In our own reluctance to ask how work engages within the larger social context, we are attempting to protect art and the artist from censorship; however, in practice we are actually participating in the bourgeois notion of the isolation of the artist from society and of so-called high culture from the debates about representation and plurality current in popular culture.—Carol Becker, Social Responsibility and the Place of the Artist in Society
Visual art in the twenty-first century is a field in transition. Perhaps no other activity has undergone as radical a redefinition over the course of the twentieth century as the practice of "art." Indications of such change can be found at all the major curatorial extravaganzas that constitute the pantheon of contemporary art at the global level. Megashows such as Documenta 11, the Havana Biennale, and the Venice Biennale have reflected this shift in the new media they have increasingly created space for; media such as video, film, site-specific projects, and concept-based artwork that bear little or no explicit resemblance to the staples of modernist art agendas—painting, sculpture, photography, installation, assemblage—that still dominate art locales in some parts of the Caribbean. Artists from several Caribbean islands, especially Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Martinique, and to a lesser extent, Trinidad, Barbados, and Jamaica, have, however, become regular participants in these global exhibition arenas. [End Page v]
In an uncanny way Documenta 11, under the directorship of Okwui Enwezor, seemed to presage—indeed almost set the stage for—the kind of images and visual information that would challenge the very operating systems of global power brokers such as the United States and Britain. Enwezor's focus on processes of transitional justice, truth and reconciliation commissions, state-sponsored torture, state impunity, systemic violence, repression, war crimes, and human rights violations presciently foregrounded the very issues raised today by the publication of photos of Iraqi prisoners suffering gross and inhuman abuse at the hands of American and British soldiers and by the very use of visual representation—photography—as an intrinsic form of torture. If there was a moment when the battle for the control of Iraq shifted gears and world opinion decisively turned against the Americans it was during the war of images that occurred soon after the anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2004. Today the photo of the hooded and garbed prisoner, arms outstretched, balancing for dear life on a shaky crate is likely to become as iconic a memento of this era as the image of Kim Phuc's naked, napalm-covered child's body, arms outstretched, desperately fleeing hostile skies, was to a previous one.
The parade of visual evidence amassed against the invaders framed the naked bodies of prisoners, stripped not only of their clothing but also of humanity, being violated—poked, probed, prodded, invaded, electrocuted. The dissemination of the images well beyond the closed circuits they were intended for revealed the poster boys of democracy to be no less barbaric and inhumane than the regimes of brutality they were supposed to be rescuing Iraqi citizens from. That these were Muslim/"heathen"/non-Western bodies unaccustomed to appearing unclothed in public made the pictures that much more horrific, their message now freighted by the additional burden of infinite otherness cloaking them. What are the "spectatorial regimes" governing the consumption of such images? How should we respond as members of a community that claims a special relationship to the visual in the Caribbean? In the midst of the series of unfolding global crises, how should art and representation be rethought? Where do art and visual representation in Caribbean locales fit in or relate to these newly defined "global" definitions of art and politicized representational landscapes?
Caribbean locales are riven by their own battles for meaningful visual representation. Recent debates generated by Redemption Song, the Jamaican monument to Emancipation unveiled in August 2003, constitute another kind of war over representation, more specifically, a struggle over the memorialization of the battle to end...


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Sentinel-hub Playground is a wonderful tool to explore Sentinel images. I really appreciate its capability to deal with the temporal information, but custom scripts using temporal information are rare. Getting an image every 5 days allow to do wonderful things, such as having computed cloud free images in places where there is too much clouds…
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It has been a while since we have had anything new from Melvita, but I think these new additions to the already popular Rose Nectar range are worth the wait. As a fan of anything Rose I was very pleased to be sent these ahead of their release and they compete brilliantly with more expensive offerings such as the REN Moroccan rose line. Melvita are including three different types of wild Rose in their rose line up, as well as adding rosewater as well. I think Rose can be tricky to get right, but Melvita have nailed it here.
Starting with the new additions to the body care, the Rose Petal shower gel (£13 for 250 mls) is exactly what you would expect from a rosey shower gel, light, fresh and with a floral twist rather than a heavy rose. I found this a pleasure to use and feels suitably luxurious without breaking the bank. The Hydrating Body Veil (£15 200 mls) is one of my favourite daytime moisturisers, I always find Melvita products to be very well formulated and this is no exception, you get hydration without any hint of stickiness and it is very much an apply and go product which is why I am so fond of it for the morning. This is not designed to tackle extremely dry skin, you will need something more heavy duty for that but as an everyday moisture and scent hit, this is really pretty. A Pretty little multi-purpose balm in Melvita's usual stunning packaging, the 3 Roses Nectar (£10 for 8 mls) is a nice smooth balm, perfect for lips or anywhere in need in some moisturisation. Just like the other products in the range infused with rose, but it is light and not overpowering in the final formulation. Last but by no means least comes my favourite product of the bunch the Roses Sauvages perfume (£36 for 50 mls) which is a stunning natural Eau de Toilette. The rose scent is crisp and fresh but with a definite sweetness, I have seen other reviews mention a baby powder sweetness on the dry down, but I have to disagree on that one as I think this is far more sophisticated than that for my nose. As a natural Eau de Toilette the lasting power isn't as good as a perfume but I am more than happy to reapply throughout the day as I love it, having said that I find Melvita perfumes better than other natural brands for staying power so another plus for them there.
I have had a couple of people contact me regarding Melvita now selling in China and how this affects their animal testing policy, this is the first time I have reviewed anything of theirs since they made that move and although I spoke to them about it at the time I have asked for an update but not yet received any more information. I tend to think that for most small brands it is easy to avoid the Chinese market but for larger brands like Melvita (under the L'Occitane umbrella with Erborian) a Chinese presence is now more important than ever. Although I cannot agree with Chinese regulations I feel that brands are damned if they do and damned if they don't, it is the brands with a Chinese presence that are working with the authorities to drive forward change, which is happening although slowly and that is something that seems to get largely ignored in the Cruelty free debate. My stance is that I support the brand because of their overall philosophies and quality of products and will continue to do so, I also hope that China and many other countries around the world change their policy so we don't keep having to have this conversation.
I think these are brilliant additions to what is already a very successful line, they are sold on the Melvita website and John Lewis. Melvita is an Ecocert certified organic brand with a long natural and sustainable history. Have you tried this range? Which is your favourite?


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What is DOS Taekwondo SydneyTaekwondo Sydney is not your average taekwondo school. We are an academy that does not only train students' how to fight, but we train our students' the art and discipline of taekwondo martial arts. When it comes to fitness, we are your perfect choice. We do not only improve physical fitness of our trainees, even psychological, behavioural and spiritual aspects are improved. Taekwondo Sydney is not all about achieving the highest rank; we promote the development and growth of inner-self and to master the art and techniques of taekwondo that would result to a better lifestyle.
Congratulations to all DOS fighters for a job well done during the 2015 Australian Taekwondo National Championships!
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On our travels across the length and breadth of the British Isles this summer, I have noticed one or two strange things.
To whit:
1. As part of the official tourist map of Weston-super-Mare, there is a prominent advert for a funeral directors. You know, just in case you were planning to die there.
2. The Bram Stoker Dracula Experience will take visitors on a "frightful journey" through Castle Dracula. Handy, therefore, that it also has baby changing facilities – just in case you'd choose to take your delicate newly-born children on a frightful journey…


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My April was tough. It started off with the back end of my move to Kentucky and ended with more stress than I would like to dwell upon, so let's get on with the rest of the post, shall we?
Here's what I am currently…
Baking: Not a thing. I have yet to even turn on the oven in my apartment. I considered it when I was getting ready to eat leftover pizza (I prefer oven reheating to the microwave for pizza), but then I realized I could eat the pizza much faster if I had it cold. I actually enjoy cold pizza and French fries, but only if they are "in the fridge overnight" cold. "Left out on the counter" cold is not the same thing.
Listening To: Podcasts at home, for a change. I started out my life in Louisville by listening to the radio as I got ready in the morning, as usual. Then I realized that, with no commute, I didn't have a built-in time to listen to podcasts! So I replaced music with conversations, and now I'm back in business. I'm sad that Modern Manners Guy has ended, but I'm glad that Beyond the To-Do List and the GTD Virtual Study Group are publishing new episodes again.
Loving: Bagels. Sometimes it's as simple as that. I eat a whole-wheat bagel with butter and drink orange juice every weekday morning. I could eat less expensive or more protein-packed breakfasts, but that's what I like. In a life where not much is normal anymore, it's nice that some things don't change.
Planting: Ha! My grandmother was good with plants (flowers and vegetables), but that skill did not trickle down through the generations. I am from a fake plant family and have no shame about that.
Remembering: Nothing, as usual. I have always had a terrible memory. When I embraced GTD and built the habit of writing things down, I solved that problem! I recently left my beloved Wunderlist when they announced the planned shutdown. They didn't give a date, but I was already burned when Microsoft bought, ate, and shuttered Sunrise. I'm not letting that happen again; I started using Todoist instead. The transition is still in progress, but I'm mostly back in action. I have some separate posts about that in the works.
Recapping: April
- Mr. Man and I observed the whole Triduum together.
- I switched task management apps from Wunderlist to Todoist.
- Therefore, I published what will probably be the last post in my Wunderlist and GTD series.
- I attended the Peak Work Performance Summit online, where I heard some of my favorite speakers and some new ones.
- My refrigerator broke. My landlord replaced it as soon as he could… which was a week later.
So what's new with you? What are you listening to currently?
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If you're a New Yorker, nothing surprises you. Not a guy walking down 8th Avenue with a parrot on his shoulder; not a naked cowboy strumming his guitar in Times Square.
But what if you tried to park on the street in a legal spot and were told you can't… because someone was holding the spot for another driver? Does that actually happen in the Big Apple, and is it legal?
The answers may surprise you. Larry's Blog — a clearing house of information about NYC parking tickets — takes on this topic:
Does a doorman's kingdom include the parking spaces in front of his building?
I was recently regaled by an article listing the 25 most expensive things in the world. This exclusive list included a $2M set of audio speakers, a $35M 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, and a $25M Haute Joaillerie from Chopard (a wrist watch). However, I was totally shocked by one glaring omission…A "NYC parking space."
How much would you pay for a vacant, on street, NYC parking space waiting for you when you and your chariot return home? Well, residents of some of the posh upper east side buildings have this added luxury because doormen are saving parking spaces in front of the buildings.
Here is a "Curbed" article from 2010 about Doormen reserving parking spaces
"In her NYT Appraisal column today, Christine Haughney pulled her '06 Chevy Malibu up to some posh buildings to test the staff's willingness to cooperate with the laws of this great land. The results were mixed.
Some doormen said Haughney was inconveniencing the buildings' elderly tenants by parking out front and tried to shame her into leaving, and some got even more aggressive:
The award for the best-guarded legal parking space goes to 55 East End Avenue. When the Appraisal began pulling in, a broad-shouldered doorman came out to stop the car. When the Appraisal politely asked about parking, he said that elderly people lived there and that parking was not allowed.
But when the Appraisal made it clear the intent was to park in the space, the doorman lifted his metal "no parking" sign into the street to stop the car from parking. When the Appraisal explained that this was for an article, asked for his name and began snapping pictures of him, he responded hostilely with an expletive and added: 'That's what it is.' "
Is this bad doorman behavior still true today?
Is it legal to reserve a parking space in NYC?
It is not only illegal to reserve a NYC parking space, but it is down right dangerous. First, let's start with the illegal part. The NYC parking rule states:
"4-08 (n)(7) Unofficial reserving of parking space. It shall be unlawful for any person to reserve or attempt to reserve a parking space, or prevent any vehicle from parking on a public street through his/her presence in the roadway, the use of hand-signals, or by placing any box, can, crate, handcart, dolly or any other device, including unauthorized pavement, curb or street markings or signs in the roadway."


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Live dangerously.
Warner Bros. has had it pretty bad lately with its PC ports- Mortal Kombat X, which was outsourced to High Voltage Software, was a disaster, and Batman: Arkham Knight, which was outsourced to Iron Galaxy, was so bad that Warner Bros. actually had to suspend all further sales of the PC version until they rebuilt the entire game to an acceptable standard.
So, being wary of an upcoming PC version of a Warner Bros. game? That's a very reasonable stance to take. Nevertheless, there are those who like to live dangerously. If you are one of those people you probably want to run Mad Max on your PC. In which case, you need to know what the required specs are.
Here goes:
The 6GB RAM requirement is making me think this might not be the best optimized port again, but… I guess we will find out once the game launches on September 1 on PC, and Xbox One and PS4.
Stay tuned.
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