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"The more you drill down into the November jobs report, the worse it looks. ... 1.
The two-tenths drop in the
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The labor force participation rate fell to 63.6% from 63.8% in October. If it had just held steady since then, the unemployment rate would be back over 8%. Indeed, if the LFP rate was just where it was in November 2011, the unemployment rate would be 8.3%. Some 542,000 Americans left the labor force just last month. 2. If labor force participation was at its January 2009 level, the unemployment rate would be a whopping 10.7%. ... 3. In November, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 4 cents to $23.63. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have risen by 1.7%. Unfortunately, inflation -- as measured by the consumer price index -- has risen by 2.2% over the past year, meaning average hourly earnings have fallen by 0.5% in real terms. 4. The number of long-term unemployed remains at sky-high 40.1%, the same as in August. 5. Since the beginning of this year, employment growth has averaged 151,000 per month, about the same as the average monthly job gain of 153,000 in 2011.
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Activities at Opuwo Country Lodge
Epupa Falls Excursion
Epupa Falls Excursion
(The road might become inaccessible during parts of the rainy season between Dec to April)
This is a full day excursion, which departs at 08h00 from the lodge after breakfast. The excursion is conducted in a 4x4 vehicle. Driving time is approximately three hour to reach Chief Kapika's village. After visiting the village you will continue for another 35 km to Epupa Falls where you will enjoy your picnic lunch packs on the bank of the Kunene River while marvelling at the white water rushing over the Falls. Return to the lodge just before sunsets.
• The activity includes bottled water and picnic lunch packs.
• Not included – are extra soft or alcoholic drinks. Please request the lodge to pack extra if you wish to have a larger choice.
• Minimum number of guests per tour are
4 x full paying adults.
• Maximum number of guests per tour per day are 6 per vehicle.
Guided Excursion Package for Fly-inn Charters
Pick-up at Opuwo run way at +/- 11h00 by Lodge transfer.
Arrive at Opuwo Country Lodge for a welcome drink and toilet stop. Depending on your time of arrival, lunch can be served before or after the Himba village excursion, which normally takes +/- 1 to 2 hours. The lodge will provide the pilot with a complimentary day room whilst clients are on the excursion, alternatively he/she may join the excursion at no extra charge. Transfer back to the Opuwo airstrip between 14h30 and 15h00 for your return flight.
• Light lunch is included in the price
• Duration of Himba drive will depend on your time of arrival. Departure time should not be later than 15h00. Late arrival will result in a shorter excursion.
• The excursion is based on a minimum of 2 guests per excursion.
Himba Excursion
Meet the Himba people of Kaokoland with our guide / interpreter on an excursion to a traditional Himba village. Interact and photograph one of the last remaining nomadic tribes of Africa. You will have time to ask questions while your guide answers and explains the Himba`s intricate traditions, customs and beliefs.
The following vehicles are used for the Himba excursions:
2 x 6 seater Condors (4x4)
1 x 25 seater Excursion Truck (only used for big groups)
• Morning departure is at: 8h30 after breakfast.
• Afternoon departure is at: 14h00 during summer and winter.
• Mineral water is included.
• Duration is approximately 3 - 4hrs.
• Private Himba excursions have to be booked in advance to ensure vehicles and guide availability.
Ruacana Falls Excursion (All year activity)
The dramatic Ruacana Waterfall was once a natural wonder, but all that changed when Angola's Calueque Dam, 20km upstream, and NamPower's Ruacana hydro power plant was built to generate electricity. When there's a surfeit of water, Ruacana returns to its former glory as one of the most spectacular sights in Namibia.
The Ruacana Falls form part of the Kunene River in Northern Namibia. The waterfall is 120 meters (390 ft) high and 700 meters (2,300 ft) wide in full flood. It is among the largest waterfalls in Africa, both by volume and width. The falls can be visited throughout the year. If the water is not enough for the Calueque Dam to open its floodgates, the falls and surrounding scenery still remain a wonderful sight.
• The activity includes bottled water and picnic lunch packs.
• Not included – are extra soft or alcoholic drinks. Please request the lodge to pack extra if you wish to have a larger choice.
• Minimum number of guests per tour are
4 x full paying adults.
• Maximum number of guests per tour per day are 6 per vehicle.


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|08 Feb 2010
Can an external hardrive update automatically?
Hi everyone I have an external hard drive which i use to back up all my music and files on, is there a way that when i connected the external drive to my computer it can update all the new music and files i have added?
hope someone can help,
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It depends on how you backed them up... if you did a manual back up ( copy & paste ) then the answer is no... If you used a 3rd party program like Acronis True Image Home, then you should be able to do an differential backup without any problems...
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Thanks for the reply mate, i just used the copy paste method but would like to understand how the other way would work. I understand an image is just a backup of whatever it is you decide to backup but i dont really want an image of my backed up music and files just an automatic update of the files when i connect the external hd to my computer if you see wat i mean.
thanks again
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yes, Acronis will do what you want ... its called a differential backup... only backs up files that have changed since your last backup... You may have to start the process manually but that shouldnt be a problem.... Good Luck ...
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Thanks so much mate is there a free version of acronis around? I did find another program called d sync which lets you sync 2 folders at a time to automatically update seems quite good to. Dont think the macrum free image program i have installed will do wat acronis can will it?
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Im not familiar with Macrium, sorry....
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I use Paragon. They do free versions
Both the backup s/w and the partition manager.
You can search it or use this link;
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
For something like this, I don't think you necessarily want a backup application.....rather you want a sync type application to make a duplicate copy to your external drive.
I use robocopy at the command line
robocopy C:\musicfolder E:\musicfolder /MIR
The /MIR switch tells it to mirror the source and the destination. So, if I delete files from C:\musicfolder...it removes it from E:\musicfolder when I run it.
Robocopy just does files that have changed since the last run, so it's very fast.
The other tool you might want to try is Sync Toy. This is a GUI based Microsoft freebie that does the same thing as described above....just not from the command line.
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Thanks so much everyone for all your help, your right parks its not so much an image program im after i have macrium for that, i will try the 2 sync tools you sugested tho as the d-sync app only lets you sync 2 folders
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It used to be said, that in places like this, nature eventually failed to support man, the truth is exactly the reverse, here man failed to support nature. Ten thousand years ago man regarded the natural world as divine, but as he domesticated animals and plants so nature lost some of its mystery and appeared to be little more than a larder that could be raided with impunity.Sir David Frederick Attenborough
It was the hour before the Gods awake. Across the path of the divine Event The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone In her unlit temple of eternity, Lay stretched immobile upon Silence' marge. Almost one felt, opaque, impenetrable, In the sombre symbol of her eyeless muse The abysm of the unbodied Infinite; A fathomless zero occupied the world.Sri Aurobindo
The Infinite alone justifies the existence of the finite and the finite by itself has no entirely separate value or independent existence. Life, if it is not an illusion, is a divine Play, a manifestation of the glory of the Infinite. Or it is a means by which the soul growing in Nature through countless forms and many lives can approach, touch, feel and unite itself through love and knowledge and faith and adoration and a Godward will in works with this transcendent Being and this infinite Existence. This Self or this self-existent Being is the one supreme reality, and all things else are either only appearances or only true by dependence upon it. It follows that self-realisation and God-realisation are the great business of the living and thinking human being. All life and thought are in the end a means of progress towards self-realisation and God-realisation.Sri Aurobindo
Spirituality is not necessarily exclusive; it can be and in its fullness must be all-inclusive. But still there is a great difference between the spiritual and the purely material and mental view of existence. The spiritual view holds that the mind, life, body are man's means and not his aims and even that they are not his last and highest means; it sees them as his outer instrumental self and not his whole being. It sees the infinite behind all things finite and it adjudges the value of the finite by higher infinite values of which they are the imperfect translation and towards which, to a truer expression of them, they are always trying to arrive. It sees a greater reality than the apparent not only behind man and the world, but within man and the world, and this soul, self, divine thing in man it holds to be that in him which is of the highest importance, that which everything else in him must try in whatever way to bring out and express, and this soul, self, divine presence in the world it holds to be that which man has ever to try to see and recognise through all appearances, to unite his thought and life with it and in it to find his unity with his fellows. This alters necessarily our whole normal view of things; even in preserving all the aims of human life, it will give them a different sense and direction.Sri Aurobindo
Be pure and simple, and love all because all are one. Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself. Honesty will guard you against false modesty and will give you the strength of true humility. Spare no pains to help others. Seek no other reward than the gift of Divine Love.Meher Baba
When I say I am the Avatar, there are a few who feel happy, some who feel shocked, and many who hearing me claim this, would take me for a hypocrite, a fraud, a supreme egoist, or just mad. If I were to say every one of you is an Avatar, a few would be tickled, and many would consider it a blasphemy or a joke. The fact that God being One, Indivisible and equally in us all, we can be nought else but one, is too much for the duality-conscious mind to accept. Yet each of us is what the other is. I know I am the Avatar in every sense of the word, and that each one of you is an Avatar in one sense or the other. It is an unalterable and universally recognized fact since time immemorial that God knows everything. God does everything, and that nothing happens but by the Will of God. Therefore it is God who makes me say I am the Avatar, and that each one of you is an Avatar. Again, it is He Who is tickled through some, and through others is shocked. It is God Who acts, and God Who reacts. It is He Who scoffs, and He Who responds. He is the Creator, the Producer, the Actor and the Audience in His own Divine Play.Meher Baba
If thou art sailing upon the sea of Gods Names, which are reflected in all things, know thou that He is exalted and sanctified from being known through His creatures, or being described by His servants. Everything thou beholdest hath been called into being through the operation of His Will. How can such a created thing, therefore, be indicative of His essential oneness? Gods existence in itself testifieth to His Own oneness, while every created thing, by its very nature, beareth evidence that it hath been fashioned by God. Such is the proof of consummate wisdom in the estimation of those who sail the ocean of divine Truth.The Bab
When the Apostle of God appeared, He did not announce unto the unbelievers that the Resurrection had come, for they could not bear the news. That Day is indeed an infinitely mighty Day, for in it the Divine Tree proclaimeth from eternity unto eternity, Verily, I am God. No God is there but Me. Yet those who are veiled believe that He is one like unto them, and they refuse even to call Him a believer, although such a title in the realm of His heavenly Kingdom is conferred everlastingly upon the most insignificant follower of His previous Dispensation.The Bab
The light of the people of the world is their knowledge and utterance; while the splendours shed from the glorious acts of Him Whom God shall make manifest are His Words, through whose potency He rolleth up the whole world of existence, sets it under His Own authority by relating it unto Himself, then as the Mouthpiece of God, the Source of His divine light exalted and glorified be He proclaimeth: Verily, verily, I am God, no God is there but Me; in truth all others except Me are My creatures. Say, O My creatures! Me alone, therefore, should ye fear.The Bab
The acts of Him Whom God shall make manifest are like unto the sun, while the works of men, provided they conform to the good-pleasure of God, resemble the stars or the moon... Thus, should the followers of the Bayn observe the precepts of Him Whom God shall make manifest at the time of His appearance, and regard themselves and their own works as stars exposed to the light of the sun, then they will have gathered the fruits of their existence; otherwise the title of starship will not apply to them. Rather it will apply to such as truly believe in Him, to those who pale into insignificance in the day-time and gleam forth with light in the night season. Such indeed is the fruit of this precept, should anyone observe it on the Day of Resurrection. This is the essence of all learning and of all righteous deeds, should anyone but attain unto it. Had the peoples of the world fixed their gaze upon this principle, no Exponent of divine Revelation would ever have, at the inception of any Dispensation, regarded them as things of naught. However, the fact is that during the night season everyone perceiveth the light which he himself, according to his own capacity, giveth out, oblivious that at the break of day this light shall fade away and be reduced to utter nothingness before the dazzling splendour of the sun.The Bab
Another argument of hope may be drawn from this that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.Francis Bacon
There is no paradise more wondrous for any soul than to be exposed to Gods Manifestation in His Day, to hear His verses and believe in them, to attain His presence, which is naught but the presence of God, to sail upon the sea of the heavenly kingdom of His good-pleasure, and to partake of the choice fruits of the paradise of His divine Oneness.The Bab
It is better to guide one soul than to possess all that is on earth, for as long as that guided soul is under the shadow of the Tree of Divine Unity, he and the one who hath guided him will both be recipients of Gods tender mercy, whereas possession of earthly things will cease at the time of death. The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. This hath been Gods method in the past, and shall continue to be in the future!The Bab
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
The use of the divine gift of common sense would teach the opponents of the philosophy that what was shown to be fraud was not spiritualism and that a doctrine that thrives in the midst of the bitterest oppression and grows in the fire of persecution has some measure of truth in its keeping to give it vitality.Benjamin Fish Austin
A difficulty in seeking Truth is the notion that certain men are ordained of heaven to seek Truth for all mankind and that we are to accept their acquisitions in the place of seeking for ourselves. We can never attain Truth by proxy. By divine ordination every man is an original investigator of Truth. He denies his own reason who hands over his religious views and opinions to any priest or religious teacher We are to accept nothing on the opinions of others. What another man has thought and believed, what a Church Council or synod has formulated is nothing to me, only that it may be a reason for personal investigation ending in acceptance or rejection as I may find it in harmony with reason and well established truth.Benjamin Fish Austin
The way of yoga followed here has a different purpose from others, for its aim is not only to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter.Sri Aurobindo
If the Bible is only human lore, and not divine truth, then we have no real answer to those who say, "Let's pick the best out of all religions and blend it all into Pan-Deism - one world religion with one god made out of many".J. Sidlow Baxter
If a pick-pocket or a cut-throat of our country can see everything that is in your country, surely that is no reason why the pick-pocket or cut-throat should be accepted by you as a God. This omnividence, as you call it it is not a common word in Spaceland does it make you more just, more merciful, less selfish, more loving? Not in the least. Then how does it make you more divine? I. "More merciful, more loving!" But these are the qualities of women! And we know that a Circle is a higher Being than a Straight Line, in so far as knowledge and wisdom are more to be esteemed than mere affection. SPHERE. It is not for me to classify human faculties according to merit. Yet many of the best and wisest in Spaceland think more of the affections than of the understanding, more of your despised Straight Lines than of your belauded Circles. But enough of this. Look yonder...Edwin Abbott
The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.Aga Khan III
Even a little knowledge of Islam will show that its religion is not only tolerant of other Faiths, but most respectful, and indeed, fully accepts the divine inspiration of all theistic Faiths that came before Islam.Aga Khan III
No wealth is more useful than intelligence and wisdom; no solitude is more horrible than when people avoid you on account of your vanity and conceit or when you wrongly consider yourself above everybody to confide and consult; no eminence is more exalting than piety; no companion can prove more useful than politeness; no heritage is better than culture; no leader is superior to Divine Guidance; no deal is more profitable than good deeds; no profit is greater than Divine Reward; no abstinence is better than to restrain one's mind from doubts (about religion); no virtue is better than refraining from prohibited deeds; no knowledge is superior to deep thinking and prudence; no worship or prayers are more sacred than fulfillment of obligations and duties, no religious faith is loftier than feeling ashamed of doing wrong and bearing calamities patiently; no eminence is greater than to adopt humbleness; no exaltation is superior to knowledge; nothing is more respectable than forgiveness and forbear- ance; no support and defense are stronger than consultation.Ali bin Abu-Talib
The Gospel is not a religious message to inform mankind of their divinity or to tell them how they may become divine. The Gospel proclaims a God utterly distinct from men.Karl Barth
Fundamentally, however, there is neither good nor evil; this is all based on human concepts. In the universe there exists neither good nor evil, because everything has been created in accordance with immutable laws. the divine principles are reflected in these laws, and only through knowing these laws will we be able to get close to the divine.Franz Bardon


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This project was signed into existence on 17 February 2006 in El Salvador by the Director-General of UNESCO, the Minister of External Affairs and the Secretary of Youth of El Salvador. It was structured in line with the "Mano Amiga" policy implemented by the National Plan for Youth 2005-2015. It officially ended on 5 December 2008.
The project basically operated in 8 Youth Integral Development Centers (Centros Integrales de Desarrollo Juvenil - CID) and was supported by the National Secretary of Youth. These Centers are strategically located close to public schools in 8 different municipalities (Ahuachapan, Berlín, Llopango, Mejicanos, San Franciso Gotera, San Miguel, Sonsonate and Usulutan) in 6 of the 14 districts into which the country is organized.
Evaluations estimate that 10.000 young people from these centers benefitted from the project. In addition, 1200 adults (school principals, teachers and youth animators) were trained to increase their capacities to help socially integrate young people.
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- Component 1: Development of capacities of teachers and school directors to manage risk of involvement in gangs.
- Component 2: Promotion of a culture of tolerance in Youth Integral Development Centers via sports and cultural activities.
- Component 3: Creation of a "Youth for Youth" communication campaign and strengthening of alternative communication local networks (radio, TV, Internet).
- Component 4: Development of entrepreneurial capacities of young people at risk.
The main activities within these components included:
- Six workshops on strategic leadership and six workshops on promoting a culture of peace were given to staff members from the CIDs and from local NGOs;
- Eight training workshops were given to 200 youths from the CIDs on leadership and youth.
- Seven workshops were given to staff members from the CIDs on gender issues;
- The campaign "Youth for Youths" held several workshops that enabled 80 young people to develop TV, radio and press campaigns, in order to build a more positive image of youth;
- Four training workshops on business management and entrepreneurship were given to 150 youths, and the contest "Make your Business Reality" awarded 15 young entrepreneurs with "seed money" to start their own business.
The project's final evaluation confirmed its effectiveness, relevance, and impact. The most successful activities in terms of the number of participants and the mobilization of a large number of institutions were:
- Workshops on youth leadership;
- Communication workshops (radio, TV and press) that involved UNESCO's communication sector, the Central American University (UCA) and the German Cooperation (GTZ);
- Capacity building in micro-entrepreneurship.
The beneficiaries requested the continuation and expansion of these activities in the future.
Project Title:
Youth Development and Prevention of Violence in El Salvador
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UNESCO Office in San José, Costa Rica, in cooperation with the National Secretary of Youth Affairs, the Ministry of Education and other Governmental Institutions and NGOs.
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Inter-sectoral Working Group (Education, Culture, Communication and Information, Social and Human Sciences)
USD$200.439 - Japanese Fund In Trust (JFIT)
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May 2006 - December 2008
Project Officer:
Teresita Escotto-Quesada (UNESCO San José)
National Coordinator:
Ana Margarita Montoya
For further information, please contact:
- Teresita Escotto-Quesada, t.escotto-quesada(at)unesco.org.
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Using a combination of assault, Shotgun, & grenades works best... Warning: Only use the (sticky) grenades at a far distance, for the small ones. Shotgun - use on gigantic floods, & small floods.
When those small guys, that jump up at you, are all grouped together use the shotgun, it shoots out lots of bullets at a time (you can see this in case you shoot at a smooth wall, or the ground, you can see all the marks it makes). Use Assault rifle if the man is standing still, if he or you are moving much it moves your aim very badly & you waste bullets & must re-load more often & then they have a clear shot.
For the grenades use them when you know something is behind a wall. For sticky grenades you MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER to make use of them at a safe distance because in case you shoot it on of those small guys that follow you you will get hurt bad because of the blast that they brought with them, same with the giant guys. Don't use your grenades all without delay. They are to important, & sometimes rarest when you require them.
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Lately I've been thinking more and more about what I really want to paint. I have at least settled on oils as my main medium but the what is the hard part. I love to paint portraits but these are very limiting. Not everyone would want to buy a portrait and I'm not confident enough to offer commissions as yet. Landscape I find easy but nothing more than aesthetic. I don't feel very challenged by a landscape although I am still yet to have another go at plein air painting (outdoors).
Its not so much the category that I'm trying to get to, its the statement. I would love to be able to paint in such a way that my work challenges the viewer. I want to give people something to consider but working out HOW to do that is difficult. The best way forward is naturally of course, not forced but at this point, nothing natural is emerging.
For a very long time I have focused on the outcome of the work and not the process. I think this may be something I need to address. I would love to be able to paint in a recognisable style, something that people would see and say 'oh, that's Amanda Hunt's work'. I'm not there yet.
Last week I listened to an excellent podcast by Sheridan Voysey which addressed the subject of culture and our place within ours as a Christian. This led to a few back and forth emails with Sheridan in which he pointed me towards another excellent resource, 'Art Needs No Justification' by Hans Rookmaaker. He says:
'We want artists to be serious and create deep things that have almost eternal value, things that people of culture can talk about centuries later. But if artists want to be successful, they have to bow down to present tastes, be commercial and play the clown rather than the sage. Of course this is not a new problem. It has been like this since the eighteenth century when the old concept of the artist as craftsman began to be exchanged for a concept that saw him as both a gifted genius and a social and economic outcast. Artists who are Christians also struggle with these tensions. But the problems of Christian artists are often greater because it is difficult for any Christian to live in a post-Christian world. Artists are expected to work from their convictions, but these may be seen by their atheistic contemporaries as ultraconservative if not totally passe'. On top of this they often lack the support of their own community their church and family.'
I can totally relate. Not only is art seen as a hobby and not a gift by many but any statements we may want to make would be misunderstood. I'm still mulling this all over.
So, the question is, what should I paint? Should I paint pretty pictures? No one is really buying art that much and my studio is filling up with paintings so what's the point. If I'm going to paint something it might as well be something with weight. Thoughts to ponder and pray over.


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Obama is the change that America has tried to hide
Only one candidate offers the radical departure for the 21st century the US needs, for its own sake and the rest of the world's
By Alice Walker
I have come home from a long stay in Mexico to find because of the presidential campaign, and especially because of the Obama/Clinton race for the Democratic nomination - a new country existing alongside the old. On any given day we, collectively, become the Goddess of the Three Directions and can look back into the past, look at ourselves just where we are, and take a glance, as well, into the future. It is a space with which I am familiar.
When I was born in 1944 my parents lived on a middle Georgia plantation that was owned by a white distant relative, Miss May Montgomery. (During my childhood it was necessary to address all white girls as "Miss" when they reached the age of twelve.) She would never admit to this relationship, of course, except to mock it. Told by my parents that several of their children would not eat chicken skin she responded that of course they would not. No Montgomerys would.
My parents and older siblings did everything imaginable for Miss May. They planted and raised her cotton and corn, fed and killed and processed her cattle and hogs, painted her house, patched her roof, ran her dairy, and, among countless other duties and responsibilities my father was her chauffeur, taking her anywhere she wanted to go at any hour of the day or night. She lived in a large white house with green shutters and a green, luxuriant lawn: not quite as large as Tara of Gone With the Wind fame, but in the same style.
We lived in a shack without electricity or running water, under a rusty tin roof that let in wind and rain. Miss May went to school as a girl. The school my parents and their neighbors built for us was burned to the ground by local racists who wanted to keep ignorant their competitors in tenant farming. During the Depression, desperate to feed his hardworking family, my father asked for a raise from ten dollars a month to twelve. Miss May responded that she would not pay that amount to a white man and she certainly wouldn't pay it to a nigger. That before she'd pay a nigger that much money she'd milk the dairy cows herself.
When I look back, this is part of what I see. I see the school bus carrying white children, boys and girls, right past me, and my brothers, as we trudge on foot five miles to school. Later, I see my parents struggling to build a school out of discarded army barracks while white students, girls and boys, enjoy a building made of brick. We had no books; we inherited the cast off books that "Jane" and "Dick" had previously used in the all-white school that we were not, as black children, permitted to enter.
The year I turned fifty, one of my relatives told me she had started reading my books for children in the library in my home town. I had had no idea so kept from black people it had been that such a place existed. To this day knowing my presence was not wanted in the public library when I was a child I am highly uncomfortable in libraries and will rarely, unless I am there to help build, repair, refurbish or raise money to keep them open, enter their doors.
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early twenties it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known, the plantations, because they attempted to exercise their "democratic" right to vote. I wish I could say white women treated me and other black people a lot better than the men did, but I cannot. It seemed to me then and it seems to me now that white women have copied, all too often, the behavior of their fathers and their brothers, and in the South, especially in Mississippi, and before that, when I worked to register voters in Georgia, the broken bottles thrown at my head were gender free.
I made my first white women friends in college; they were women who loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. That, for instance, at Sarah Lawrence, where I was speedily inducted into the Board of Trustees practically as soon as I graduated, I made my way to the campus for meetings by train, subway and foot, while the other trustees, women and men, all white, made their way by limo. Because, in our country, with its painful history of unspeakable inequality, this is part of what whiteness means. I loved my school for trying to make me feel I mattered to it, but because of my relative poverty I knew I could not.
I am a supporter of Obama because I believe he is the right person to lead the country at this time. He offers a rare opportunity for the country and the world to start over, and to do better. It is a deep sadness to me that many of my feminist white women friends cannot see him. Cannot see what he carries in his being. Cannot hear the fresh choices toward Movement he offers. That they can believe that millions of Americans black, white, yellow, red and brown - choose Obama over Clinton only because he is a man, and black, feels tragic to me.
When I have supported white people, men and women, it was because I thought them the best possible people to do whatever the job required. Nothing else would have occurred to me. If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is. We look at him, as we looked at them, and are glad to be of our species. He is the change America has been trying desperately and for centuries to hide, ignore, kill. The change America must have if we are to convince the rest of the world that we care about people other than our (white) selves.
True to my inner Goddess of the Three Directions however, this does not mean I agree with everything Obama stands for. We differ on important points probably because I am older than he is, I am a woman and person of three colors, (African, Native American, European), I was born and raised in the American South, and when I look at the earth's people, after sixty-four years of life, there is not one person I wish to see suffer, no matter what they have done to me or to anyone else; though I understand quite well the place of suffering, often, in human growth.
I want a grown-up attitude toward Cuba, for instance, a country and a people I love; I want an end to the embargo that has harmed my friends and their children, children who, when I visit Cuba, trustingly turn their faces up for me to kiss. I agree with a teacher of mine, Howard Zinn, that war is as objectionable as cannibalism and slavery; it is beyond obsolete as a means of improving life. I want an end to the on-going war immediately and I want the soldiers to be encouraged to destroy their weapons and to drive themselves out of Iraq.
I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behavior towards the Palestinians, and I want the people of the United States to cease acting like they don't understand what is going on. All colonization, all occupation, all repression basically looks the same, whoever is doing it. Here our heads cannot remain stuck in the sand; our future depends of our ability to study, to learn, to understand what is in the records and what is before our eyes. But most of all I want someone with the self-confidence to talk to anyone, "enemy" or "friend," and this Obama has shown he can do. It is difficult to understand how one could vote for a person who is afraid to sit and talk to another human being. When you vote you are making someone a proxy for yourself; they are to speak when, and in places, you cannot. But if they find talking to someone else, who looks just like them, human, impossible, then what good is your vote?
It is hard to relate what it feels like to see Mrs. Clinton (I wish she felt self-assured enough to use her own name) referred to as "a woman" while Barack Obama is always referred to as "a black man." One would think she is just any woman, colorless, race-less, past-less, but she is not. She carries all the history of white womanhood in America in her person; it would be a miracle if we, and the world, did not react to this fact. How dishonest it is, to attempt to make her innocent of her racial inheritance.
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking, person to person, with any leader, woman, man, child or common person, in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. I cannot see the same scenario with Mrs. Clinton who would drag into Twenty-First Century American leadership the same image of white privilege and distance from the reality of others' lives that has so marred our country's contacts with the rest of the world.
And yes, I would adore having a woman president of the United States. My choice would be Representative Barbara Lee, who alone voted in Congress five years ago not to make war on Iraq. That to me is leadership, morality, and courage; if she had been white I would have cheered just as hard. But she is not running for the highest office in the land, Mrs. Clinton is. And because Mrs. Clinton is a woman and because she may be very good at what she does, many people, including some younger women in my own family, originally favored her over Obama. I understand this, almost. It is because, in my own nieces' case, there is little memory, apparently, of the foundational inequities that still plague people of color and poor whites in this country. Why, even though our family has been here longer than most North American families and only partly due to the fact that we have Native American genes we very recently, in my lifetime, secured the right to vote, and only after numbers of people suffered and died for it.
When I offered the word "Womanism" many years ago, it was to give us a tool to use, as feminist women of color, in times like these. These are the moments we can see clearly, and must honor devotedly, our singular path as women of color in the United States. We are not white women and this truth has been ground into us for centuries, often in brutal ways. But neither are we inclined to follow a black person, man or woman, unless they demonstrate considerable courage, intelligence, compassion and substance. I am delighted that so many women of color support Barack Obama -and genuinely proud of the many young and old white women and men who do.
Imagine, if he wins the presidency we will have not one but three black women in the White House; one tall, two somewhat shorter; none of them carrying the washing in and out of the back door. The bottom line for most of us is: With whom do we have a better chance of surviving the madness and fear we are presently enduring, and with whom do we wish to set off on a journey of new possibility? In other words, as the Hopi elders would say: Who do we want in the boat with us as we head for the rapids? Who is likely to know how best to share the meager garden produce and water? We are advised by the Hopi elders to celebrate this time, whatever its adversities.
We have come a long way, Sisters, and we are up to the challenges of our time. One of which is to build alliances based not on race, ethnicity, color, nationality, sexual preference or gender, but on Truth. Celebrate our journey. Enjoy the miracle we are witnessing. Do not stress over its outcome. Even if Obama becomes president, our country is in such ruin it may well be beyond his power to lead us toward rehabilitation. If he is elected however, we must, individually and collectively, as citizens of the planet, insist on helping him do the best job that can be done; more, we must insist that he demand this of us. It is a blessing that our mothers taught us not to fear hard work. Know, as the Hopi elders declare: The river has its destination. And remember, as poet June Jordan and Sweet Honey in the Rock never tired of telling us: We are the ones we have been waiting for.
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Obama Screams At The Podium: I AM A RETARD! I WILL RUIN THIS COUNTRY! I WILL KILL YOU ALL! Now, about health care.
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Obama aka change fo US? Well, bad joke.
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I can therefore not how the people in the U.S. is up and running over nothing it's just a president and as long as america existing there will be continued to pop up multiple presidents. And all the other president I've ever heard of is better than the other perhaps in the future, yet one that is more worse than the other. I am been dropped pleased that I am not American
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I love Obama he will get my votin 2012. He is awsome
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This is a really good picture, but Obama is the worst president ever. No offense, my opinion.
But I like the colors you did with this. You've captured him quite nicely. P:
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The Kano State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Dangote and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations for the revitalisation of routine immunisation and other primary healthcare services, an official said. Dr Shehu Abdullahi, the Executive Secretary, Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board, said this in Kano on Monday at ... Read More »
Press Release: President Jonathan Condemns Kano Motor Park Bomb Blast
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has condemned in strong terms today's (yesterday) bomb blasts in Kano. The President said the barbaric incident will not deter the Federal Government from its strong-willed determination to overcome those who do not mean well for this nation. He said the Federal Government will not be stampeded, ... Read More »
Dangote, Kwankwaso Donate N6m Each To Families Of Slain Health Workers
Kano state government and President of Dangote Group of Companies, Aliko Dangote, Wednesday donated the sum of N6million each to the families of health workers administering polio vaccines who were felled when unknown gunmen opened fire on them in two separate attacks on health centres last Friday in Kano. A ... Read More »


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