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Google Content Experiments – A good or bad feature?
Google Analytics specific, Metrics understandingQuote: [Google Analytics] "Content Experiments sucks and I will never use it for any of my clients….run away"
The above snippet came from a post by Michael Whitaker (smart thinker, worth following) who asked for feedback on comments made by Chris Goward at the Imagine 2013 conference. My initial response was "hmmm – poor comments indeed. Whether you like a G product or not, to say that Google's stats methods are unreliable, or reporting doesn't work really is silly and lacks credibility."
I am actually no big fan of the Google Analytics Content Experiments either, but I wish to put my views into context…
Firstly, lets put to bed any comments about reliability, or reports not working. As any Google Analytics user knows, reliability is very, very good.
So what is the issue with Content Experiments…?
A number of people have commented on Google's use of the multi-armed bandit model that content experiments use. In a nutshell this statistical algorithm allocates more traffic to a winning test combination over time, at the expense of a losing combination. That makes sense, right – particularly if you are an e-commerce site where money is being lost if a poorly performing test page is delivered. After all, why would you want your test traffic levels to remain static when there is a clear winner?
The multi-armed bandit model is clever and unique in the industry…
However, in the early days of Content Experiments the algorithm was too aggressive. That is, an unexpected peak in conversions would cause traffic to be reallocated at such a rate that it could not be rebalanced if that condition subsequently changed. For example, a successful campaign for a specific product that also contained other products on its landing page, would skewer the conversion rates for the other products. Another example is a weather change. If you sell both umbrellas and t-shirts on a page under test and the weather turns wet for a few days, your umbrellas would be declared the winner (i.e. more sales for that period) without the algorithm waiting for the weather to change back. And there a national holidays – one off events that mess with your data, and so on…
So, aggressive bandits have historically been a problem…!
However, this was fixed (pacified) early in 2013. Also, there is now the option to turn off this feature all together if you wish – allowing you to keep the traffic allocation of test alternatives fixed. So as a methodology, Google Analytics Content Experiments are perfectly good for A/B testing (note, multi-variate experiments no longer supported).
As I have said, I am not a fan of Content Experiments. Here's my explanation why…
In terms of setting up and administering an experiment, Google Content Experiments really are clunky and unwieldy. This is because test pages are delivered form your server. That means its a headache for a page built from multiple template components as most commercial sites are – see Figure 1. For example, a page is usually built of multiple "include" statements such as:
- for the top of page branding
- for the top navigation bar
- the side navigation, main body content
- footer etc.
Hence, in order to conduct a Content Experiment test, you would have to go to your web development team and ask them to build a page delivery system that can process variations of the above list i.e. swap out 1 for 1b, keep 2-3 in place; swap out 1 for 1c, keep 2-3 in place etc.
Figure 1 – An example A/B test page using Content Experiments requiring a separate 'nav2.php' page to be displayed and a delivery system to ensure that it is called correctly.
Figure 1 illustrates a test for a change to a side navigation menu. Using Content Experiments this requires the side navigation include file to be switched (nav.php or nav2.php) before the page loads. The other components are added as normal. So, if your landing page URL is currently www.mysite.com/productabc/, your web platform needs to use separate URLs for test variations e.g. www.mysite.com/productabc/?sidemenu=1 and www.mysite.com/productabc/?sidemenu=2. And your platform needs to know what to do with the extra parameter (sidemenu).
Basically, unless you are the web dev agency/team, a request to change the entire system that delivers your web content by this method is not going to happen in any reasonable time frame (if ever)…
Here's my rule for choosing a testing tool:
Once you have built your hypothesis and decided what you wish to change on your page(s), the creation of an A/B experiment should take under 1 hour. Choose your tool based on that estimate….
An alternative approach
Tools such as Optimizely and Visual Website Optimizer work in a different way. The result is that experiments such as Figure 1 are possible and doable in a matter of minutes – without the need to change your website delivery system! Their technique is to modify the content of your page 'on-the-fly' by manipulating your page content with javascript and css. That means that variations can be built within their admin interface. The downside of this method, is that there is a slight delay added to your page loading. This happens while the test script figures out the combination requested and then alters the content on-the-fly as your page loads.
In my experience, the benefit of a much easier experiment setup far outweighs any page loading delay. So Optimizely and Visual Website Optimizer have the edge. However, as you can see it also has its downside and some clients will not tolerate any delay in page loading – a fair point.
I would love to hear your thoughts on the merits or otherwise of Content Experiments.
10 Responses to "Google Content Experiments – A good or bad feature?"
Mike Says:
June 16th, 2014 at 11:46 pmDoes anybody have experience in wordpress using this plugin? http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-content-experiments/developers/ it has good reviews but I was just wondering if it was extremely basic or if it actually does a good job of testing different pages as well as sidebars, header navs, etc.
Chris Goward Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 8:20 pm@Hugh I'm not sure if that was meant as a sardonic comment, but I'll take it at face value.
I'd say, "Congratulations!"
I've never said it's impossible to get good results with CE. Of course it is. It's possible to achieve results with plenty of inferior tools. There are people who've even had great results using AdWords to alternate landing pages. That certainly doesn't mean I'd recommend it.
And I'd say, if CE works for you, that's great. Keep going with it! As long as you're using something to test and you know how to interpret the results.
Hugh Gage Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 8:06 amHi Chris,
out of interest what would you say to people who have achieved lasting results using CE?
Hugh -
Chris Goward Says:
February 10th, 2014 at 11:48 pmHi guys. First, thanks for watching! I just stumbled across this blog post now.
To answer your question, when I said "unreliable", I was referring to the multi armed bandit algo.
Yes, there's a way to turn it off now, but for the GA target audience looking for a free tool, most won't understand how or why to do that, making their results for them unreliable. I'm talking from a business perspective, not from a statistical perspective. Most people looking for results look to the tool's report to make a business decision and, too often, the results will show a "loser" variation that really didn't have a chance.
For anyone more sophisticated in testing than the "free" audience, the other limitations of the tool that you mention, Brian, will be too great to use it. That's why I can't recommend it.
As far as I know, Google stopped investing in developing it long ago, and it shows. The rest of GA is awesome, but CE lacks the basics to be useful.
As one of the original GWO WOACs, we held out the longest promoting it until G killed it. Unfortunately, the replacement was inferior and there are so many better tools on the market now, it's unsupportable.
Brian Clifton Says:
September 27th, 2013 at 8:59 am@Jacques – agreed. I explain it to clients as:
Testing is not something you sprinkle on top of your website. Its a continuous learning process. Much the same way that ensuring you have good quality data (or traffic) is.@Jacob – Being in charge of all things digital makes Content Experiments viable for you. That said, I run testing on this site (also WordPress) and CE was just too clunky and time consuming to be able to setup i.e. test menu bars and layout. I would be interested in your experiences.
@Hugh – Free is certainly an advantage. However bear in mind that Optimizely starts at $20 per month! I am not affiliated with them (other than I know one of the founders), but in my view anything less than $100/month is effectively free i.e. my time is worth more than that…
Here's my general rule for guidance:
Once you have built your hypothesis and decided what you wish to change on your page(s), the creation of an A/B experiment should take under 1 hour. Choose your tool based on that estimate…. -
Hugh Gage Says:
September 26th, 2013 at 9:03 amHi Brian,
I think both Jacques and Jacob make excellent points, one thing that GCE has going for it over the others is that it's free. I don't think that can be underestimated.As Jacques says, testing uptake has been surprisingly slow but I think that one of the most compelling arguments for testing using GCE is that it costs less so even if the test doesn't go your way you as the stakeholder will know that your financial liability will be less; in other words the potentially awkward post test conversation about what was learnt won't include such a big bit on how it was all a bit of a wast of money (notwithstanding cost of time to implement).
I also think that from a pragmatic point of view the fact that GCE lives right next door to the kind of data that plays a significant part in stimulating an experiment is a benefit. So in this other respect [direct] access to the testing tool is also a help.
Those aren't really the best reasons for choosing GCE over is competitors but we're all human and I think they have some bearing especially for first time or beginner testers.
Jacob Says:
September 25th, 2013 at 3:13 pmI work for a small business that's going to start using CE.
We're undergoing a complete WordPress site rebuild and redesign, and we've let the web developer know in advance that we're going to use CE. This means the whole site has been designed to make it as easy as possible to create duplicate versions of a page with a given variation.
Because I'll be responsible for the whole process of testing – from coming up with the original ideas, to creating the tests (commissioning developers/designers as needed) and monitoring the results – CE should work for me.
Also, as a small business, the fact that CE is free gives it a significant advantage over its competitors. And given the relatively low traffic of our site, a tool that does A/B splits well is all I need.
We'll have to see if CE proves to work well for me in practice. I do know that I'm looking forward to doing some testing that is part of the GA interface I'm already familiar with. I'm of the view that if I decide I want something more advanced (or if having multiple URLs becomes too tricky) I will at least be in a better position to judge what exactly it is I want out of a testing tool.
Jacques Warren Says:
September 25th, 2013 at 2:58 pmWhat also amazes me is the overall, let's use the word, *failure* of testing in digital analytics. In 2005, I was the Offermatica's exclusive Canadian partner; I explained then to my bosses that within the next year, MVT would be all the rage, because it made so much sense as a natural evolution of web analytics, since the latter was all about the optimization paradigm. It never took off.
Years later, Google abandoned their Web Site Optimizer to keep only the A/B component, and still, very few companies use it.
I think lots of them realized, as the people I pitched back in 2005, that MVT is a darn hard thing to do, and involves tons of resources to produce all those versions/recipes/scenarios you're supposed to test. I think testing is just too hard for lazy marketers who would rather get lucky and make a quick buck, instead of deeply understanding what really works. But in their defense, once you took the testing road, you can't stop, mainly because of gains half-lives, and unless you really gear up for the task, it is just too complicated to do…
Brian Clifton Says:
September 25th, 2013 at 1:24 pm@Doug – I think the Content Experiments feature of GA is lacking love at the moment (i.e. resources) as development has been glacial. It will be surprising to hear if anything is happening with CE in the near future.
To answer your question on server-side api, until (or even if), CMS platforms have this baked into their feature set, I don't see this as a viable solution. Its kind of the same situation server-side analytics found itself in 5 years ago. That is, its a nice idea and has some advantages, but in reality client-side is likely to dominate…
BTW, I will at the summit this year (my 9th…). See you there
Doug Hall Says:
September 25th, 2013 at 11:59 amHi Brian,
Nice post, well balanced as always but I think there is more to cover in terms of the client side API and the server side API.The client side API is a big (but not the final) step towards Optimizely/VWO style visual testing functionality. Technical knowledge is still required BUT you can see where the product is going and testing without redirects is, as you describe, far more preferable to clunky and hard to implement redirect based tests.
So, to keep the dialogue flowing, do you have any thoughts on the SERVER-side API?
Are you going to the GACP Summit? Do you think we'll see any announcements regarding GACE?


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July (full text at bottom). This is what we posted last week. Should we
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Jun 16-22: Mozambican Prime Minister Aires Bonifacio Baptista Ali will
continue his working visit to China.
Jun 19: Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will make an official visit
to Delta State.
Jun 19-26: Ethiopian Speaker of the House of Federation Degefi Bula will
visit China.
Jun 20-22: Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos will visit Ghana and
meet with President John Evan Mills.
Jun 21: Nigeria will hold a meeting of the Highest Nine Populated
Countries in its capital city of Abuja.
Jun 21: The South African National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Eskom
will resume stalled talks over wage disputes. The NUM stated that if the
issue was not resolved by Monday a strike would be imminent.
Jun 21: The official results of the May 23, 2010 Ethiopian national
elections will be released.
Jun 22: The Nigerian Senate will screen the Chairman of the Independent
National Electoral Commission Attahiru Jega as well as 10 national
commissioners nominated by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Jun 22: Re-training for ex-militants in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta
will begin as part of an amnesty agreement.
*Jun 23: US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie
Carson and US Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration will visit the South Sudan
capital of Juba to inspect the US Consulate.
*Jun 25: The Kenyan transportation company Kenya Railways will open bids
for a railway connecting Mombasa with the Ugandan capita Kampala.
Jun 25-27: Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement will hold its
national delegates conference to decide its presidential candidate.
*Jun 25-27: The African countries of Algeria, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Egypt,
Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa have been invited to a special
session of the G-8 summit in Ontario, Canada.
*Jun 26: The opposing "Red" and "Green" groups of the Kenyan
Constitution have until today to form campaign committees at the
national and constituency levels.
Jun 26: Three South Africans will go to trail on charges of planning to
commit terrorism and disrupt the World Cup.
Jun 26: The Somali breakaway region of Somaliland will hold its
presidential election.
Jun 27: Guinea will hold its first democratic elections since its
independence in 1958.
Mozambican prime minister to visit China 16-22 Jun*
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[Xinhua: "Mozambican Prime Minister To Visit China"]
BEIJING, June 11 (Xinhua) - Mozambican Prime Minister Aires Bonifacio
Baptista Ali will pay a working visit to China on June 16-22, Chinese
Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced on Friday.
Ali is invited by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Qin said.
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*Jonathan visits Delta June 19*
WARRI—PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan is expected to pay an official visit
to Delta State, next weekend. Information available to Vanguard
indicated that during the visit, he will commission the Delta State
University Teaching Hospital, DSUTH and Nigerian Navy Logistic
Headquarters, both at Oghara, the country home of the former Governor of
the state, Chief James Ibori.
DSUTH is believed to be one of the best equipped teaching hospitals in
Africa. It was initiated by the Ibori administration but completed by
the incumbent Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan. The foundation of the
Nigerian Navy Logistics Headquarters was also laid by Ibori, but,
completed by Uduaghan. Preparations are already on by the state
government to receive President Jonathan, while the people of Oghara
community have pledged to maintain the peace during the visit.
Those who see the President's proposed visit as an endorsement of
Governor Uduaghan are said to be planning a protest during the visit,
but the state government appeared unperturbed and focused on not giving
room to distraction.
The Delta Waterways Security Committee, DWSC, and other security
agencies have drafted their men to the community since last week, it was
learnt on a reconnaissance mission, while Governor Uduaghan had also
visited the community, to secure the cooperation of the people for the
President's visit.
*Ethiopian parliament speaker to visit China 19-26 Jun*
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BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhua) -* Speaker of the Ethiopian House of
Federation Degefi Bula will visit China from June 19 to 26 as guest of
Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's
Congress (NPC), said a NPC statement that was issued on Monda*y.
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*Angolan president to visit Ghana 20 June*
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June 2010].*
President Dos Santos will be accompanied by his wife Ana on the
three-day state visit. *He will pay a courtesy call on President John
Evans Atta Mills and hold bilateral talks. He will also lay a wreath at
the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum.*
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Population: Nigeria, 8 other countries hold meeting*
Abuja—Nigeria and eight other countries are to hold a meting of the
Highest Nine Populated Countries on June 21 in Abuja, Alhaji Jibrin
Paiko, Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Mass Education
has said.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen weekend in Abuja, Paiko named the
countries coming for the E-Nine meeting as India, Pakistan, Indonesia,
Mexico, Egypt, Bangladesh, Brazil and China.
He said the meeting was aimed at sharing best practices between
member-countries, whose populations were mostly illiterate on ways of
providing adult and non-formal education for such citizens.
The Executive Secretary said the countries met in 1993 in Bali,
Indonesia, with the aim of providing assistance to those who were out of
school, especially women and exploring ways of developing member nations.
Paiko said it was the first time the meeting was coming to Africa and
that the Federal Ministry of Education in collaboration with UNESCO was
planning to make it successful.
He said many committees had been set up by the ministry and that a
documentary on adult literacy activities was being produced by the
He said that six states from the country's geo-political zones would
participate in an exhibition during the event.
He said the meeting, to be declared open by President Goodluck Jonathan,
would have 12 states participating.
Paiko also said the commission had between 2006 and 2009 received
support, especially from the MDGs Debt Relief Fund for its literacy
advocacy programmes.
INEC: Senate Screens Jega, Others on June 22
From Chuks Okocha, Sufuyan Ojeifo in Abuja and Linda Eroke in Lagos,
The Senate said yesterday that the screening of Prof. Attahiru Jega as
Chairman of the Inde-pendent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and 10
national commissioners nominated by President Goodluck Jonathan would be
rigorous and transparent.
Chair of the Committee on Information and Media, Ayogu Eze, said the
screening would begin when the Senate resumes from its two-week
end-of-session break on June 22 and would be broadcast live on television.
He said there was not, as of now, any emergency situation to warrant the
Upper House to cut short its break, stressing that President Jonathan's
letter nominating Jega and 10 others would be formally read on the floor
Meanwhile, there is anxiety at the Zambesi Crescent Maitama, Abuja
headquarters of INEC, as members of staff are waiting with bated breadth
for their new boss.
Some of them are asking questions about the person of Jega and seeking
an insight into the working of the mind of the man nominated to preside
over the affairs of the commission in the next five years.
However, the applause and commendation that has greeted the nomination
of Jega is yet to subside.
The Organised Labour, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), All Nigeria
Peoples Party (ANPP) and Action Congress (AC) among others all lauded
his nomination.
The National Council of States at its meeting last Tuesday had
endorsed Jega's nomination and those of the 10 national commissioners.
The list of the 10 nominated national commissioners exclusively
published by THISDAY yesterday are Mrs. Amina Bala Zakari (Jigawa) -
North-west; Amb. Mohammed Z. Anka (Kebbi) - Nort-west; Engr. Nuru Yakubu
(Yobe) - North-east; Col. M.K. Hammanga (Adamawa) - North-east; Dr.
Abdulkadir S. Oniyangi (Kwara) North-central; and Gen. A.B.Mamman (FCT)
Others are Dame Gladis Nne Nwafor (Abia) - South-east; Dr. Ismail Igbani
(Re-appointed) (Rivers) South-south; Mrs. Thelma Iremiren (Delta) -
South-south; Prof. Lai Olurode (Osun) - South-west.
The two commissioners whose tenures are yet to expire are Chief Solomon
Soyebi (Ogun) - South-west and Barr. Phillip Umeadi Jnr. (Anambra) -
Eze, in response to inquiries on the receipt of the President's letter
by the Senate, said it might have been "administratively received," but
stated that he could not confirm since the Senate was not sitting.
Eze said that the Senate would have resumed and be ready to screen the
nominees by June 22, explaining that all the necessary documentations on
them would have been concluded.
According to him, "I believe that before they gather all the
documentations, because you know the process of screening will require
the bringing to us of their CVs, clearing all the security issues with
the people concerned, by the time they bring all the documents relating
to them, we would have been back.
"I believe that we will not delay the confirmation beyond the week of
our return and you know we are getting the chairman, and new
commissioners; and I want to assure that we will do a thorough job at
the screening exercise."
He said, at this point when everybody is talking about transparent and
credible elections, the Upper House would ensure that the screening was
transparent and credible.
"As usual, we are also going to screen the INEC Chairman and the
commissioners in the open; there will be live cameras because we don't
want to hide anything and we want to urge Nigerians that if they have
any information that they think they need to bring about these
candidates, that they believe in their opinions will militate against
their doing their job very well, they should make them available to us,"
he added.
He reminded those who may want to send in petitions to ensure that they
(petitions) met at the basic requirements, stressing that they
(petitions) must be signed with an affidavit deposed to before the
Commissioner of Oath or in the Court.
He said the Senate would treat any petition that did not meet the basic
requirements as ordinary papers.
A director of INEC, who spoke with THISDAY, said, "Honestly, the new
chairman has a great task ahead of him. He needs to justify his
appointment by ensuring that Nigerians are registered and we have a
competent voters' register where every one can queue during election and
Newspaper vendors in and around the Zambesi Crescent headquarters of
INEC made brisk sales as INEC staff rushed to buy newspapers to get an
insight into their new chairman.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC)
commended the nomination of Jega but called on the Federal Government to
give the electoral commission financial autonomy, saying it is highly
imperative given the enormous responsibilities before it.
While commending the appointment of Jega, NLC spoke of the need for
government to do more in ensuring a credible election in which the vote
of the people will count.
The congress in a statement by its President, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar,
argued that the only way credible election can be guaranteed is for
government to implement the recommendations of the Justice Uwais
Electoral Reform Committee.
TUC, in a statement signed by its President-General, Comrade Peter
Esele, said Jega's appointment is an indication that the present
administration under President Jonathan believes that credible elections
is the panacea for national peace and development.
According to the congress, Jega's appointment is coming on the heels of
the extant distrust in the nation's poor electoral processes as
exemplified under the past administration of Prof. Maurice Iwu, and
rekindles the hope of every Nigerian worker and the masses that the path
to credible elections is becoming wider.
PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Prof. Ahmed
Alkali, expressed delight at the choice of Jega.
The party further commended the President and the National Council of
State for what it described as, "nomination of an erudite scholar, an
accomplished administrator and a deeply committee patriot with a track
record of integrity and national service."
"By this choice of a neutral umpire, who was a member of the Justice
Uwais Committee, the President has clearly demonstrated his commitment
to enhancing the integrity of the electoral process." PDP stated.
ANPP said, "We are supporting him because of his antecedents and our
prayers is that he lives up to his name, because good name is better
than silver, gold and money."
According to ANPP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Emma Eneukwu, "We
believe that as a member of the Uwais Committee on Electoral Reforms
that he knows where the roof is leaking. He knows the problems of the
electoral system and the framework of sides of Nigerians on the need to
ensure a free and fair election where votes will count.
AC said while Jega has an impressive pedigree, he will need more than
that to succeed in a job that has ruined the reputation of many who
occupied it.
"We wish Prof. Jega well, but he owes it a duty to himself and the
nation to demand a new voter's register as the minimum requirement for
him to succeed on the job," the party said in a statement signed by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
It also reminded Jega that he would be only one among 50 Commissioners
(13 National Commissioners and 37 RECs), hence his success will also
depend largely on the integrity of the remaining Commissioners.
AC said it is particularly worried by the report that President Jonathan
wrote to the 36 state governors to send in their nominations for
appointment into the commission.
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (ANPP), according to its
General-Secretary, Chief Willy Ezeugwu, "this is the time to prove that
he cannot be another Prof. Maurice Iwu. There has not been a single
appointment in Nigeria so supported like his, so the onus is on him to
see that votes counts this time around."
Also, the Mega Summit Movement applauded Jega's appointment even as it
advised the Federal Government to fully observe process of electoral
reform recommended by the Uwais committee.
*Re-training for Nigeria's ex-rebels kickstart in two weeks *
08/06/2010 13:40 LAGOS, June 8 (AFP)
Re-training for thousands of Nigeria's ex-militants who laid down arms
under an amnesty deal in the restive oil-rich southern Niger Delta is
set to get underway later this month, a minister said.
The training of the some 20,000 former armed rebels who were fighting
for a fairer share of oil revenues to go to local communities, had
initially been slated for the start of June.
But a junior minister for Niger Delta, Sam Ode, told an oil and gas
technology conference in Lagos that the training to reorientate and
equip the former combatants with skills would start in two weeks.
"A fortnight from now, the first batch of ex-militants will proceed for
camping and training in Cross Rivers State (one of Nigeria's nine
oil-producing states)," the minister said.
He said the federal government was committed to help the ex-fighters
change their orientation and ease their eventual re-integration into
It is also expected under the post-amnesty exercise that the former oil
rebels will be handed cash support to assist them in setting up businesses.
Ode said peace in the Niger Delta since the amnesty has seen an increase
in crude output to around two million barrels per day in this OPEC member.
Violence in the region from 2006 to last year played havoc with oil
production which dropped to around a million barrels per day as against
2.6 million barrels at peak production level.
The Niger Delta is rich in oil and gas, but most of its inhabitants live
in poverty. Many get by on less than one dollar per day, fuelling an
armed struggle and unrest in the region until the amnesty.
*US assistant secretary of state for African affairs to visit Sudan 23
June *
/Text of report in English by state-owned Sudanese news agency Suna
Khartoum, June 13 (SUNA) - The US Assistant Secretary of State for
African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, accompanied by the US envoy to Sudan,
Scott Gration, the US Undersecretary of the State Department for
Administrative Affairs and a number of officials would arrive in Sudan
on June 23
The visit comes in the context of the inauguration of the new premises
of the US embassy in Khartoum
SUNA learned that the delegation, which will meet a number of senior
government officials will visit Juba to inspect the establishment of the
US Consulate in the South.
Meanwhile, the US envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, will hold meetings with
senior government officials to review issues of mutual concern.
/Source: Suna news agency website, Khartoum, in English 13 Jun 10/
*BBC Mon ME1 MEEau 130610/as *
Uganda's Ruling Party May Endorse Museveni's Re-Election Bid
/Last Updated: May 28, 2010 01:56 EDT/
May 28 (Bloomberg) -- Uganda
<http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/uganda.pdf>'s ruling
National Resistance Movement will probably endorse President Yoweri
re- election bid when the party holds its national delegates conference,
Mary Karooro Okurut
the party spokeswoman, said.
The conference will be held from June 25 to 27, Okurut said today in a
telephone interview from the capital, Kampala. Elections are scheduled
for February next year.
To contact the reporter on this story: Fred Ojambo
in Kampala via Johannesburg at firstname.lastname@example.com
/Last Updated: May 28, 2010 01:56 EDT/
G-8 Summit: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Egypt and 5 other African nations invited
Monday 14 June 2010 / by Konye Obaji Ori
The role of African nations in world affairs has been highlighted in the
forthcoming G-8 summit in Canada. Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi,
Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa have been invited to attend a special
session at the summit in Huntsville, Ontario from June 25-27, 2010.
According to reports, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a
statement that he invited African governments as well as the governments
of Haiti, Jamaica and Columbia in order to make the summit more
inclusive. The theme for this summit is "Recovery and New Beginning.
While International anti-poverty campaigners expect many of the
commitments for African aid and development to be fulfilled, special
attention will be focused on Canada. However, the tentative agenda for
the 36th G8 summit will include some issues which remain unresolved from
previous summits.
According to reports, Canada wants to focus on its economy, reforming
its financial sector, and getting European countries to put plans in
place to return to fiscal stability.
"As hosts, our government will have considerable say over the agenda. It
will be a tremendous opportunity to promote Canada's values and
interests; to advocate for open markets and trade opportunities; to
assist on global action against global warming; and to champion values
like freedom, democracy and human rights and the rule of law," Prime
Minister Harper explained.
Recently, both France and the United Kingdom have expressed a desire to
expand the group to include five developing countries, referred to as
the Outreach Five (O5) or the Plus Five: Brazil, China, India, Mexico,
and South Africa. These countries have participated as guests in
previous meetings, which are sometimes called G8+5.
The G8 Summit has evolved beyond being a gathering of world political
leaders. The event has become an occasion for a wide variety of
non-governmental organizations, activists and civic groups to congregate
and discuss a multitude of issues.
Angola, South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Ethiopia, Egypt, Algeria and
Libya were invited to the G-8 Summit in l'Aquilla, Italy, last year, and
the inclusive gesture has been handed to the African governments again.
Traditionally, the host country of the G8 summit sets the agenda for
negotiations, which take place primarily amongst multi-national civil
servants in the weeks before the summit itself, leading to a joint
declaration which all countries can agree to sign.
The 36th G8 summit will take place at the Deerhurst Resort. It will be
the fifth G8 Summit hosted by Canada since 1976. The G8 summit will be
immediately followed by the G20 summit in Toronto.
The summit created by France in 1975, initially for governments of six
countries in the world: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United
Kingdom, and the United States, later included Canada in 1976 and Russia
in 1997.
Canada invites African leaders to G8 meeting
14 Jun 2010 01:43:16 GMT
(Refiles to fix typo in the lead paragraph) TORONTO, June 13 (Reuters) -
Canada said on Sunday it invited leaders from seven African countries as
well as Haiti, Jamaica and Colombia to attend the Group of Eight summit
it is hosting this month, citing a desire to make the event more
inclusive. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement
that the government invited Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria,
Senegal and South Africa to attend a special session at the summit. "We
will be engaging African leaders as well as key hemispheric partners in
order to broaden representation and maximize results on international
development and peace and security issues," Harper said in the
statement. The G8 meeting of major industrialized countries will be held
June 25 and 26 in the resort community of Huntsville, Ontario. It will
be immediately followed by a meeting in Toronto of the Group of 20,
which includes the G8 as well as major emerging nations such as China
and India.(Reporting by Jeffrey Hodgson, Editing by Sandra Maler)
Kenya floats fresh tender for faster cross-country railway
Mon May 17, 2010 10:41am GMT
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya Railways on Monday invited fresh bids for a
new railway to run between its port city Mombasa and the Ugandan capital
Kampala, that will treble train speeds and boost regional trade, after
previous bids were too high for its budget.
The railway, which should be operational within three years, is expected
to carry 10 times as much freight.
In a statement in regional weekly the East African, Kenya Railways said
it was inviting proposals for preliminary design and environmental and
social assessment services for the section of the railway between
Mombasa and Malaba at the Kenyan border.
The Ugandan government will handle tendering for its stretch of the railway.
The railway, which will run on a standard gauge, is meant to supplement
an existing metre gauge railway which was built by the British at the
turn of the previous century.
The government says Mombasa's port handles more than 16 million tonnes
of cargo annually and this was forecast to rise to 30 million tonnes by
Currently, most cargo travels from Mombasa by road to Uganda, south
Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi.
The main highway from Mombasa to Kenya's capital Nairobi and onto
Kampala is clogged with heavily-laden lorries, many carrying a single
"It is envisaged that the railway line will be extended to Uganda and
the Great Lakes Region," Kenya Railways said in its statement.
The bid documents will be available between May 24 and June 18, with
submitted bids expected to be opened onJune 25, the company said.
Constitution camps to form campaign teams
Posted Wednesday, May 19 2010 at 13:47
The two opposing groups in the proposed Constitution debate have until
June 26 to form their campaign committees at the constituency and
national levels.
They will also produce agents who will represent the two sides of the
campaign.The committees are expected to coordinate campaigns for both
the 'Yes' and 'No' camps and they are required to write to the
commission applying for registration.
The chief agent will be responsible for the affairs of the registered
referendum committee.
The Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) is clear that the
committees shall not be political parties. The committees will not be
registered if their logo and names resemble those of any of the 47
registered political parties or are similar to those used in the 2005
*Electoral areas*
The rules also indicate that the application should indicate the
electoral areas in which the committee intends to support or oppose the
referendum question.
At the same time, the IIEC has also announced the official campaign
period for the referendum to start on July 13 and end on August 2.
All campaigns shall cease twenty four hours before the start of polling
according to the commission.
According to newly released regulations governing the referendum
exercise, this is the period during which any person or referendum
committee supporting or opposing the referendum question may carry out
campaigns to drum up support for their positions.
However, both sides of the divide are already out in the field
campaigning for their positions.
The Constitution of Kenya Review (Referendum) regulations to govern the
referendum were published last Monday and commission staff will be
trained on their contents.
The regulations state that any person or referendum committee supporting
or opposing the referendum question may carry out campaigns to support
or oppose the referendum question within the referendum period.
This is the period starting when the referendum question was published.
IIEC chief executive officer James Oswago explained that the regulations
were modifications of various existing pieces of laws governing
elections and the affairs of political parties.
They were picked from the National Assembly and Presidential Elections
Act, the Political Parties Act and the Public Officers Ethics Act and
modified to fit the forthcoming referendum.
The commission has already published the referendum question and picked
the red colour for the 'No' side and the green colour for the 'Yes' side.
''Do you approve the proposed new constitution?'' is the question that
voters will answer in the August 4 vote.
The regulations indicate that the proposed laws can only be passed after
acquiring 50 per cent plus one of the votes cast and 25 per cent in five
of the eight provinces. A fresh poll would be taken where the referendum
results is a tie.
If the draft law passes the referendum, President Kibaki has two weeks
to promulgate the new constitution, during which, anyone can challenge
the result in the Interim Independent Constitutional Dispute Resolution
The referendum on the proposed constitution will be held on August 4
with the IIEC required by law to announce the results by August 6.
Constitution camps to form campaign teams
Posted Wednesday, May 19 2010 at 13:47
The two opposing groups in the proposed Constitution debate have until
June 26 to form their campaign committees at the constituency and
national levels.
They will also produce agents who will represent the two sides of the
campaign.The committees are expected to coordinate campaigns for both
the 'Yes' and 'No' camps and they are required to write to the
commission applying for registration.
The chief agent will be responsible for the affairs of the registered
referendum committee.
The Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) is clear that the
committees shall not be political parties. The committees will not be
registered if their logo and names resemble those of any of the 47
registered political parties or are similar to those used in the 2005
*Electoral areas*
The rules also indicate that the application should indicate the
electoral areas in which the committee intends to support or oppose the
referendum question.
At the same time, the IIEC has also announced the official campaign
period for the referendum to start on July 13 and end on August 2.
All campaigns shall cease twenty four hours before the start of polling
according to the commission.
According to newly released regulations governing the referendum
exercise, this is the period during which any person or referendum
committee supporting or opposing the referendum question may carry out
campaigns to drum up support for their positions.
However, both sides of the divide are already out in the field
campaigning for their positions.
The Constitution of Kenya Review (Referendum) regulations to govern the
referendum were published last Monday and commission staff will be
trained on their contents.
The regulations state that any person or referendum committee supporting
or opposing the referendum question may carry out campaigns to support
or oppose the referendum question within the referendum period.
This is the period starting when the referendum question was published.
IIEC chief executive officer James Oswago explained that the regulations
were modifications of various existing pieces of laws governing
elections and the affairs of political parties.
They were picked from the National Assembly and Presidential Elections
Act, the Political Parties Act and the Public Officers Ethics Act and
modified to fit the forthcoming referendum.
The commission has already published the referendum question and picked
the red colour for the 'No' side and the green colour for the 'Yes' side.
''Do you approve the proposed new constitution?'' is the question that
voters will answer in the August 4 vote.
The regulations indicate that the proposed laws can only be passed after
acquiring 50 per cent plus one of the votes cast and 25 per cent in five
of the eight provinces. A fresh poll would be taken where the referendum
results is a tie.
If the draft law passes the referendum, President Kibaki has two weeks
to promulgate the new constitution, during which, anyone can challenge
the result in the Interim Independent Constitutional Dispute Resolution
The referendum on the proposed constitution will be held on August 4
with the IIEC required by law to announce the results by August 6.
Somaliland to vote in presidential poll on June 26
HARGEISA (Reuters) - The breakaway enclave of Somaliland will vote in a
long-awaited presidential election on June 26 after a string of delays
angered the opposition and worried rights groups, its electoral
commission said on Thursday.
Mohamed Ahmed Hirsi Ghelle, spokesman for the National Electoral
Commission (NEC), said the date just needed the president's approval,
which the semi-autonomous region's leader indicated he would give.
"I will approve the date fixed by the National Electoral Commission,"
President Dahir Rayale Kahin told reporters on his return from a
three-week foreign visit.
The vote in the Horn of Africa region has been delayed three times since
April 2008, which clan elders blamed on problems with voter registration.
The setting of a date will likely offer some relief to those who feared
the extended political strife in Somaliland could be exploited by al
Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels who control much of central and southern
The region has enjoyed relative peace and stability compared with the
rest of Somalia but is frustrated by its total lack of international
recognition as a sovereign state.
The former British colony will also mark 50 years of independence on
June 26.
*Ex-UN envoy to seek Guinea presidency*
/Text of report in English by Italian-based Missionary Service News
Agency (Misna) website/
[Unattributed report: "Towards Presidential Elections, Two Candidatures
Just one week before the start of the campaign for the June 27
presidential election, two candidates have formally announced their
intention to run for the highest office in the state, after the
temperamental transition period following the death, in December 2008,
of general Lansana Conte, who was in power for 26 years.
*The Union for Progress and Renewal Party (UPR) shall be represented by
Ousmane Bah, while the 'United Front for Democracy and Change' (Fudec)
shall run Francois Lonseny Fall, former representative of the UN General
Secretary for Somalia and current spokesman for the so-called 'Live
Forces', opposed to the junta.*
Nominated prime minister in February 2004, Fall presented his
resignation two months later denouncing the impossibility of working
with president Conte. The June 27elections should mark the shift of
power from the military to a civilian government. Soon, the electoral
code is expected to be signed by general Sekouba Konate, current
president of the transition.
/Source: Misna news agency website, Rome, in English 10 May 10
/*S.Africa union delays power strike threat
Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:24am GMT
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African electricity workers gave
mediators three more days on Friday to resolve a pay dispute with
employers and avert power cuts during the World Cup.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said talks between the unions
and Eskom, which stalled on Thursday, would resume on Monday after the
conciliator asked for separate discussions with Eskom to resolve the
most controversial issues.
"If nothing is resolved by Monday, a strike is imminent," NUM spokesman
Shane Coshane told Reuters. Any stoppage would begin at the end of next
week after several days of procedure.
The unions threatened to strike last year but backed down at the last
minute. Eskom said it has contingency measures that include diesel
generators on standby at Cup venues to prevent the lights from going out
at matches.
A possible strike could, however, cripple manufacturing in Africa's
largest economy and may lead to a loss of production in the country's
gold and platinum and coal mines.
Coshane said Eskom had refused a 5,000 rand monthly housing allowance
demanded by the unions, but raised its salary offer from 5.5 to 8
percent, plus a 1 percent one-off payment.
The unions were demanding a 15 percent pay rise, more than three times
the country's 4.8 percent inflation rate.
Two other unions could join in the possible work stoppage, and swell the
number of strikers to two-thirds of Eskom's staff of about 32,000.
Coshane said the NUM, commanding up to 16,000 members at the utility,
would report back to its members on Eskom's latest offer to seek their
views and would then apply for a certificate to begin a strike if its
members reject the Eskom's offer.
"The whole process could take three to four days if there is no deal
with Eskom," Coshane said.
Other labour groups have threatened to freeze transport, abandon
security posts and tie up immigration at airports during the World Cup
if their demands for better wages and working conditions were not met.
Economists have criticised unions for using the World Cup to squeeze pay
hikes far above inflation and threatening the country's economic growth
Labour federation COSATU, a powerful ally of the ruling African National
Congress with nearly 2 million members, has also said it may strike
during the World Cup over sharp power price hikes by Eskom.
*Ethiopia supreme court rejects election appeal*
59 mins ago
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopia's supreme court on Friday rejected an
appeal by the country's main opposition coalition over alleged fraud in
the May 23 polls that saw the ruling regime coast to re-election.
"The supreme court has rejected all the appeals of Medrek which were 85
pages-long based on the fact that they lacked evidence and did not
follow proper procedures," Supreme Court Judge Asegid Gashaw said.
The Medrek umbrella group of opposition parties had already filed an
appeal with the electoral body and demanded a re-run, arguing the ballot
was riddled with fraud and that its observers had been subjected to
The electoral commission had also rejected their request, drawing
accusations from Medrek that it was involved in the rigging.
Provisional results show that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's ruling EPRDF
coalition secured 535 out of 547 seats in parliament while Medrek could
only clinch one.
Definitive official results are due to be published on June 21.
*Smooth Start For South Kordofan Census
15 June 2010 - (Kadugli) – The population census exercise in Southern
Kordofan started on Tuesday 15th June 2010.
The exercise is expected to be completed in a month.
The chairman of SPLM youth league in Southern Kordofan state, Mubarak
Abdurrahman Ahmed, told SRS by phone from Kadugli that the census
process has started smoothly.
[Mubarak Abdurrahman]: "Today, the census exercise started on time and
the enumerators are working in the field, I was in the eastern part of
the Nuba mountains. We had to make sure that all the enumerators,
monitors and census officials were in the field. They have identified
the areas which the enumerators are to work in, and now the enumerators
will work until June 30th."
Although the exercise is being conducted during the rainy season,
Mubarak says he is optimistic that the exercise will be a success.
[Mubarak Abdurrahman]: "The census exercise is being held during the
rainy season but people are still available because the rainy season has
just started. However, the beginning of June is good, people can catch
up so that the census can go on successfully. It was supposed to be held
during the dry season, but because of the political situation of the
country now the census is being done during the rainy season. And it
will go on well. The citizens are welcoming the enumerators in their
areas according to the information we received yesterday."
SRS also spoke to Ashari al-Tayeb, in Kadugli. He says people are in
their homes waiting for the enumerators.
[Ashari al-Tayeb]: "Yesterday was the census night. Everybody was in
their houses and today is a public holiday so that people can start the
census exercise. Everybody is at home. Maybe tomorrow people will go
ahead with their businesses."
Southern Kordofan state is conducting the population census again after
the SPLM rejected the April 2008 census results in the state.

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review by Michael Ipsen
Inside 2007
Michael Ipsen's review:
Brutal brutal!
I got this recommended by me by a person which, like me, liked Martyrs, so figured it would be kind of violent. But didn't expect this. It's just evil at times. But a really good horror movie. Which have a villain, which is probably on a personal top 5 over people I would love to kill!
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Great film! For me if I think to my self man that was fucked up it usually means I loved it as is the case with Inside.
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Though best remembered for playing second fiddle to serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, Ottis Toole had enough depravity to go around. Toole practiced cannibalism and is believed to have killed Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh who began hosting America's Most Wanted after his son's murder.
Born: March 5, 1947 in Jacksonville, Florida.
Sentenced: Given two death sentences in 1984, later commuted to life imprisonment.
Died: September 15, 1996 of liver failure in his prison cell.
Victims: At least 6, could be up to 65.
- Toole briefly resided in the cell next to Ted Bundy's at Raiford prison in Florida.
- Toole once married a woman 25 years older than him. After three days, she left him after having figured out that he was gay.
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More reviews by erinfashionista
There was a chocolate version of this last year that didn't have a brown tint to it, and I used that one all the time without restraint. I loved it. This one, though, has a dark brown color, which leaves my lips looking dark. I love the scent, but I can't use this as a little touch up gloss because I always have to look in a mirror to apply it. That makes me wonder why they couldn't just make this one like they made the chocolate one.
I wouldn't buy this again for that reason, because the color is just too dark. I haven't used it that much and I keep debating on whether or not to just throw it away. I don't want brown lips, but it does smell delicious...With so many other lip glosses out there that are great, I wouldn't recommend this one unless you look good with a brown lip color.
UPDATE: I tossed it.
I got this on sale for 2 bucks (normally its $7.50) at bath and body works.
I absolutely LOVEEE the way this smells..mmm sooo chocolately but not in a disgusting sort of way (like the hersheys lip gloss)
Too bad its not flavored lol
There is a very slight tingle to this but its not unpleasant...at least not for me but I am a very big fan of lip plumpers =/
The only bad thing about this is that its brown so you have to put on a very small amount and be careful not to get it any where outside your lips...otherwise it'll look like you have chocolate smeared on your face
I like it but its not the first lip gloss I reach for. Its shimmery, not sticky..just a little dark for my taste. I won't be repurchasing when I run out
I got this product at BBW's semi annual sale. I was intimidated at first at how dark the color was. However, the color was pretty sheer on my lips. It neutralizes my lips and gives my lips a healthy shine. It is a bit sticky but I don't really mind it. I love the smell! It's minty yet smells like a fudge! It's a nice and natural scent, not synthetic at all. Best of all, the scent is not overpowering but very mellow. It also gives my lips a tingling feeling not stinging feeling. I recommend everyone to try it.


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The Big Fish Story
Late fall and not a soul around for miles.
Just me and my man. And those scallopers
trolling a few hundred feet off shore I'm pointing to,
saying No, Non, Nein, Nyet, Nej,
in every language, including Body English,
in response to his idea that we take off
all our clothes smack in the middle of the lawn
in broad daylight and go swimming!
This is the line he throws me: "But, sweetheart,
the young have given up scalloping.
Those are all old men out there.
Their eyesight is terrible." Which explains why
I'm naked in the water off the coast
of Massachusetts on the 14th of October
and loving it, the water still summer warm
feeling like silk, like the feel of his flesh
drawing over my skin when we're landed
on a bed, so I swim off out of his reach
lolling and rolling, diving and surfacing,
floating on my back for his still good eyes.
I know what he has in mind and what
I have in mind is to play him for awhile
for that line I swallowed, delay the moment
I'll do a slow crawl over to him,
wrap my legs around his waist, and
reel him in—just the fish he was after.
© Mary Stewart Hammond, originally published in The New Yorker, 2006.
All rights reserved.
Lest we think he's gone, our brother
hangs like Jesus from the dining room wall,
watching over the scrambled eggs and biscuits.
In our father's house it is not necessary
to set a place for him. We all
break bread together. Only the joining
of hands, one with the other, singing grace
around the table, breaks the circle.
Behold. My brother is with me always.
In wedding pictures he's taken for the groom.
We are the couple looking at each other
longer than marriage. We are the ones
holding hands. Look at us, here, starting
down the aisle in the amber light
of time exposures. He's going to give me
away. Rose petals mark the path.
In the gingerbread house clergy await us.
We advance, white-framed, through vaulted ribs
into the forest. Step, hesitate. Squeeze
each other's hand to death. He and I know,
the next time we're here, step, hesitate,
he will be rolled down the aisle.
Mother will want the congregation to sing
"Faith of Our Fathers! Living Still."
Our knuckles show white in every picture.
There are no chicken bones for witches.
So it is, in her nightgown, our mother
offers me a hymnal, her dream folded inside.
It's visited her a dozen times. Before dawn,
she captured it on airmail stationery, meaning
to lift her tidings into my heart, her vision
of a private entrance to a stairway
spiraling up from a dark, stone rotunda
into an airy upper room where everything is white
and very clean, where veils billow from long
windows and fluted pilasters soar into sunbeams.
That I may prepare myself, she wants me
to believe, tucked deep in the black notes
between "Holy Spirit, Truth divine" and "This is
my Father's world," there's an enchanted cottage
complete without a kitchen, no sofas, no chairs,
just two Christmas trees and a high bronze bed.
This is where my brother lives. Up there.
Ahead of us. Waiting. And he's so happy.
He holds out his arms and gathers her in.
Now, she's so happy, she's not afraid of dying.
I haven't the heart to tell her it's a dream,
that he's still in my bed, holding me, promising
me Sparkle Plenty dolls for Christmas,
a Bissell sweeper, a long white dress
with a fingertip veil of Illusion,
a toy groom, encompassed by rose petals, left
waiting on the wedding cake.
"Communion" from Out of Canaan by Mary Stewart Hammond. Copyright © 1991 by Mary Stewart Hammond. Originally appeared in The New Yorker. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
Saving Memory
Summer nights we put pennies on the track.
Even the station was quiet enough for crickets.
Mountains surrounded us, middling high and purple.
No matter were we stood they protected us
with perspective. People call them gentle mountains
but you can die in there; they're thick
with creeper and laurel. Like voodoo,
I drew pictures with a sparkler. A curved line
arced across the night. Rooted in its slope,
one laurel tree big as the mountain holding it.
You can hear the train in the rails.
They're round, not flat, as you'd expect,
and slick. We'd walk the sound, one step, two, slip,
on purpose, in the ballast, hopscotch
and waltz on the ties, watching the big, round eye
enter the curve and grow like God out of the purple,
the tracks turning mean, molten silver blazing
dead at us. We'd hula. Tango. And the first
white plume would shoot up screaming long, lonely,
vain as Mamma shooing starlings from her latticed pies.
Sing Mickey Mouse, the second scream rising long, again,
up and up. Stick our right hip out, the third
wailing. Give it a hot-cha hot-cha wiggle, the fourth
surrounding us. Wrists to foreheads, bid each other fond
adieus, count three,turn our backs and flash it a moon,
materializing, fantastic, run over with light,
the train shrieking to pieces, scared, meaning it,
short, short, short, short, pushing a noise
bigger than the valley. It sent us flying,
flattened, light as ideas, back on the platform,
the Y6B Mallet compound rolling through
southbound, steamborne, out of Roanoke.
It wasn't to make the train jump the track
but to hold the breath-edged piece of copper
grown hot with dying, thin with birth,
wiped smooth of origin and homilies.
To hold such power. As big as the eye
of the train, as big as the moon burning
like the sun. All the perspective curved,
curved and gone.
"Saving Memory", from Out of Canaan by Mary Stewart Hammond. Copyright © 1991 by Mary Stewart Hammond. Originally appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
Portrait of My Husband Reading Henry James
Rather, it is in the shorter history of America,
not England, not Italy, that we find ourselves
in the perfect middle of a rainy summer afternoon
inside a 1930's shingled boathouse long since
beached on a low hill out of water's reach,
and plumbed and electrified for habitation.
No effort has been made to hide its origins.
Old masts and spars wait in the overhead rafters.
Blocks and tackle, coiled in figure eight knots,
loop from hooks on the wooden walls' open studs.
The faded blue transom of Will o' the Wisp,
my mother-in-law's 1920's childhood Sneakbox,
hangs on its traveler over the west window as if
the bow and midship had sailed into the dark wood.
The person concerned sprawls in a Bean shirt
and Top-Siders in an easy chair by a slow fire
crackling like balled up paper uncrumpling,
the length of him spilling on and on out over the ottoman.
He is meeting Isabel Archer, Madame Merle
and Gilbert Osmond while Duke Ellington's smooth
rationalizations slide out of speakers in a tease
of intrigues and blue notes played behind the beat,
major chords changing to minor, piano and sax
entwining. The face of our reader, caught in the fiction,
softens. The corners of his mouth turn up
just so. His hand rests on the top of his head.
His hair is silver. Ellington segues to Scott Joplin
to Bernstein. Firelight collects on his glasses.
He is in the pleasure of fine distinctions and
complicating clauses that match his own parsing of matters.
I want to stroke his cheek, but hesitate to break the spell.
He is both far away, and close enough to heave to
with, "Listen to this!" and "Ohhh. But this!"
and reads paragraphs, whole sections aloud
before he's off again. Or, he fetches up somewhere
in the middle distance wondering at "all these
oversexed characters!" (He reads little new fiction.)
As if in answer, "Rhapsody in Blue" rises up out of the clarinet
crying. But he's back in Rome beside the crinkling fire,
jazz working the room, shingles muffling the rain,
the sounds of a summer afternoon composing themselves
like time and happenstance entering and rippling in a human.
© Mary Stewart Hammond, originally published in Ploughshares, 2009.
All rights reserved.
Tonight they were bringing my brother up from the deep,
nothing so grand as the sea, merely
a quarry in Georgia, barely
a mile or two wide and flooded
to a depth of 200 feet, no bigger
in the scheme of things
than a soup spoon's bowl,
but it held him, it cradled him,
this place vast as death,
small as life. It reduced him
to a speck in the universe.
The size of him, after all,
was vast and small.
It filled the spoon; it disappeared.
© Mary Stewart Hammond, originally published in The New Yorker 2006.
All rights reserved.
Entering History
The door to the poem opens in, and a couple enter,
set down their luggage, and stand, backs to the door,
silhouetted against the light, taking in the room.
They step through French doors in the far wall
onto a balcony cantilevered over ramparts, and the vast
impastoed Umbrian kingdom swoops away
and down. They have climbed this world in first
and second gear, half the afternoon, past 12th century belfries
and 500-year-old cypresses, up the very blacktop
switchbacking through the view. Dirt roads lead off it,
wandering Etruscan boundaries to invisible purpose.
An ancient farm truck, no bigger than a pencil eraser,
and the only sign of life and the 21st century, crawls,
without a sound, along one of them. On distant hills,
the honey and terra cotta of Assisi, Spello, Spoleto,
hover in the haze like cities of God fallen to earth,
for the habitation of humans the size of seeds
on white-haired dandelions. She leans her head on his shoulder.
He kisses her. They've already shrunk half an inch
since they began their lives together. They turn,
reenter the room, cross back and forth in profile, unpacking.
He's acquired a stomach, and his hair has gone white.
She pulls off her clothes. There is a scar on her breast,
one in her armpit; three more run like roads
across and down her belly. A bloom of spider veins
tattoos her calf. They're getting old, but not so old
we shouldn't close the door on their nap.
Tonight they'll have dinner downstairs.
Tomorrow they'll drive off into the view. For now,
they'll awaken in this minor city of God
entwined in each other's arms. We'll hear them talking,
sotto voce on the other side of the poem,
dusk erasing their bodies.
© Mary Stewart Hammond, originally published in the Southern Review 2008.
Making Breakfast
There's this ritual, like a charm,
Southern women do after their men
make love to them in the morning.
We rush to the kitchen. As if possessed.
Make one of those big breakfasts
from the old days. To say thank you.
When we know we shouldn't. Understanding
the act smacks of Massah, looks shuffly as
all getout, adds to his belly, which is bad
for his back, and will probably give him
cancer, cardiac arrest, and a stroke. So,
you do have to wonder these days as you
get out the fat-back, knead the dough,
adjust the flame for a slow boil,
flick water on the cast-iron skillet
to check if it's ready and the kitchen
gets steamy and close and smelling
to high heaven, if this isn't an act
of aggressive hostility and/or a symptom
of regressed tractability. Although
on the days we don't I am careful
about broiling his meats instead of
deep-fat frying them for a couple of hours,
dipped in flour, serving them smothered
in cream gravy made from the drippings,
and, in fact, I won't even do
that anymore period, no matter what
he does to deserve it, and besides, we are
going on eighteen years so it's not as if we
eat breakfast as often as we used to,
and when we do I now should serve him--
forget the politics of who serves whom--
oatmeal after? But if this drive answers
to days when death, like woolly mammoths
and Visigoth hordes and rebellious kinsmen,
waited outside us, then it's healthy, if
primitive, to cook Southern. Consider it
an extra precaution. I look at his face,
that weak-kneed, that buffalo-eyed,
Samson-after-his-haircut face, all of him
burnished with grits and sausage
and fried apples and biscuits and my
power, and adrift outside himself,
and the sight makes me feel all over
again like what I thank him for
except bigger, slower, lasting, as if,
hog-tied, the hunk of him were risen
with the splotchy butterfly on my chest,
which, contrary to medical opinion, does not
fade but lifts off into the atmosphere,
coupling, going on ahead.
"Making Breakfast" from Out of Canaan by Mary Stewart Hammond.
Copyright © 1991 by Mary Stewart Hammond. Originally appeared in The New Yorker. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.


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Plain View's other author, local writer Jacqueline Tobin -- who actually conceived of the idea for the book and conducted most of the research -- wasn't invited by either Wa Shonaji or by Dobard, a slight that has now become an old story for Tobin. "I certainly have no problems not being invited by quilt guilds," she says, but she is hurt that Dobard didn't extend her an invitation. "I don't think he gets it. This is just not professional courtesy."
Guild member Juanita Roper says the oversight wasn't intentional. "We're a small group with very limited funds. We were kind of looking for someone to be our guest for Black History Month." But Maude Southwell Wahlman, a University of Missouri-Kansas City professor who wrote a foreword for the book, says it was especially disappointing for Tobin because the event was in Denver. "It's not right that she's not sharing the platform with him in her hometown," Wahlman says.
Published in 1999, the book has been successful, but Tobin believes Dobard has received more publicity -- and more credit -- because he is black and she is white.
Jen Marshall, the publicity director for Anchor Books, which published a paperback edition of Plain View last year, denies this. "There was never a preference expressed for either author," she says. "I certainly never saw anything in the media's perception."
Dobard suggests that maybe he received more attention -- an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show and a near-appearance on NBC's Today Show, as well as newspaper interviews -- because he was already an established quilter, and because, as he puts it, "I am a man, a quilter, in a field that's dominated by women."
The idea for the book took root in 1993 as Tobin was researching women who made grass baskets at the historic market in Charleston, South Carolina -- a major port of entry for enslaved Africans. While she was exploring the market, Tobin was drawn to a stall filled with hundreds of rolled-up quilts. An imposing black woman held court amidst the stunning patchworks. She looked Tobin over. "Well, come here," she ordered, and Tobin followed her to the back of the stall, where the woman unrolled a quilt -- never taking her eyes off Tobin. The antique quilts, the woman explained, had been used to relay information between escaping slaves on the Underground Railroad. The geometry of the designs held coded meanings that were understandable to black Africans but undetectable by their masters.
As the woman continued to talk, Tobin realized that something deeper was embedded in their exchange -- "The beginning of a revelation," she calls it.
Tobin returned to Denver and wrote her article on the basket weavers, but she couldn't forget the mysterious quilt woman. She still had a flier with the woman's name, Ozella McDaniel Williams, and her telephone number, so Tobin decided to call Williams and reintroduce herself.
"I know who you are," Williams said.
When Tobin asked for more information about the quilts, Williams laughed gently and said, "Oh, honey, I can't tell you that story now, but you'll get it when you're ready." For a writer, being ready means only one thing: knowing your subject. So, for the next four years, Tobin researched everything she could about quilting and its role in African-American history. She interviewed scholars. She traveled the Mississippi River, looking for quilters at community centers. She toured Civil War sites and Mississippi plantations to soak up the atmosphere of the antebellum South. The story stayed alive in her mind, but she couldn't get the specifics. Many people knew that quilts had been used to communicate, but it seemed that no one knew quite how. Except Ozella.
Then Tobin returned unannounced to Charleston and sought out the quilt stall, tape player and notebook at the ready. Williams was there, and she ordered Tobin to pick up some quilts and take them to the back. Williams joined her, and there they remained for the next three hours. Saturday mornings at the market are "chaotic at best," says Tobin, but "not one person interrupted us. No noise. No nothing. Just she and I." It was a spiritual connection between two women, one with a tradition to pass on, the other ready to receive it.
Williams taught Tobin the "language" of the quilts -- exactly how their imagery communicated messages and what they said. It was the first of three interviews. (Tobin later learned that Williams, underneath the folksy, mystic persona she used at the marketplace, was actually a former principal in California. The last time the two met was at Williams's home in April 1998; Ozella was sick with cancer but had told no one. Six weeks later she was dead.)


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It hasn't been the best couple of weeks for Toronto FC (or months, or years). With a win-less streak now stretching to eight games, and with just one win in its last 24 MLS games, the Reds are in danger of slipping even further into irrelevancy in the Toronto sports market.
For those that were around in the early years, it's staggering to see the fall from grace. This was a club that wasn't just the darling of the Toronto sports scene but for much of MLS for a while at the end of last decade. There wasn't an empty seat in the stadium for almost three straight years, despite struggles on the pitch.
In fact, what seemed like "struggles" then were only a taste of what was to come. Little did TFC fans realize that those first three years would represent a high water mark for the club. They improved each of the first three seasons, finishing 2009 just one point from a playoff spot.
On the morning of October 24, 2009 Toronto FC was a middling team that was one win away from making its first playoff appearance. Fans had reason to hope.
Then, in a driving rainstorm, Macoumba Kandji scored for the New York Red Bulls just three minutes into the Reds' final game of the year. New York, a club that was 21 points behind Toronto at kick-off, would go on to score four more goals that night to deny TFC a spot in the playoffs.
The enduring image of the night was interim head coach Chris Cummins standing on the sideline, shoulders slumped with rain pouring off his black trench coats. He didn't even have the energy to shout instructions to his players any longer; his mind may have been on catching the first flight back to Heathrow.
Cummins remains the most successful of Toronto's eight managers. The club has lost 52 times since that night, with only 21 wins. Along the way they have been forced to cut season ticket prices to year one levels and watched as a once vibrant and sold-out stadium turn into a cynical, often half-empty shell. What was once fan passion is now mostly anger. That is if the club is lucky. At least if the fans are angry they still care. Increasingly there is less anger.
So, what happened? How did Toronto FC become so very bad? It's indeed puzzling, as the Reds have the financial resources to compete and ownership has invested in both players and infrastructure. Yet, the team just seems to get worse and worse.
The simple answer – and the answer most want to point to – is that the investor/owners in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment don't know what they're doing. It's increasingly difficult argument to challenge, even if it appears a tad simplistic. The truth is, there has been one consistent element to the club and that's ownership.
What's even more baffling about that is that, in isolation, most of the moves MLSE has made to support their franchise in that time made a lot of sense. In 2006, MLSE recognized that they didn't know how to run a soccer team and so looked to hire a guy that had the experience they didn't. In retrospect, hiring Mo Johnston as coach and eventually director of football was a terrible idea, but at the time it was pretty uncontroversial.
When it became clear that Johnston wasn't the right guy for the job, MLSE reached out (and opened their pocket book) to one of the biggest names in the game in Jürgen Klinsmann to assist them in the search.
Few criticized MLSE's hiring of Klinsmann. So, when he came back with the name of Aron Winter as the right man to bring TFC back from the dead, most fans were excited. After all, this was a guy that had played at the highest levels and was part of one of Europe's most storied clubs.
Instead, things got worse. A lot worse. So MLSE listened to the prevailing advice of the day and sought out a "MLS guy" to run the show.
Enter Kevin Payne, an experienced manager from the club that was only associated with success in the league's earliest days. Again, next to no one questioned the hire.
It's too early to evaluate Payne, but not to point out his similarities with other MLSE hires. Payne was an attractive candidate; he combined brash talk with a long and impressive resume. When MLSE hires someone it almost always tends to be an industry name. You rarely see the company put its trust in an internal employee, or in allowing a young executive to grow in its role.
With MLSE style seems to matter more than substance. It plays better with fans and media, but, as history tells us, it rarely seems to work.
There is a certain arrogance in the philosophy. It suggests that Toronto is too big a market to be appropriate for an entry-level managerial candidate.
That might point to the biggest problem of all – arrogance. Despite two decades of losing, MLSE continues to believe that it is a major player in North American sports. It continues to make the same errors and it continues to get the same results.
And, all fans can do is hope against hope that they eventually will learn from their mistakes and bring the city a winner, and that hope is running thin. Worse, it's turning into indifference.


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My condolences to you and your family. Losing a family member is always hard. It may be the circle of life and all, but it's a pretty grown-up part of the cycle.
DH's gram passed away Friday evening. She had a massive heart attack during the day and when his mom went over to her house at dinner time she could tell something was wrong so they took her to the hospital. I think within an hour or so her heart stopped and she went to heaven to join her husband. We all knew that when gramma decided it was her time nothing was going to stop her. The nurse was hooking her up to something and she told the nurse to stop what she was doing. And that sounds just like her.
Erin seems to be okay but this is the first death that Cassidy has to experience. She was really upset Friday night but seems okay now, but I think that's because she doesn't want to talk about it. I think at the viewing tonight it'll hit her hard. I'm glad that we take her to Sunday School and church because she understands that when one dies they go to heaven and I think that is going to help her.
Pixie dust please for my little princess.
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My condolences to you and your family. Losing a family member is always hard. It may be the circle of life and all, but it's a pretty grown-up part of the cycle.
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I'm sorry for you and your families loss Lori. One reassuring thing is that she was acting like herself til the end. I'll be thinking of your family tonight.
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I'm sorry to hear about your loss. My thoughts and prayers will be with your family.
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Lori, I'm so sorry for your loss. I know that it is a very difficult time for all of you and my heart goes out to ya'll. Tell your little princess that everything will be ok.
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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Sorry to hear of your family's loss. Thoughts and prayers are will you all. Cassidy will be okay - kids may grieve differently than adults, but I think on some levels they have a better understanding deep down than adults do. I can strongly recommend the book "What's Heaven?" by Maria Shriver. It helps children answer the questions they may have, and I think it is also very comforting for the adults, too.
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Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family Lori. With some extra pixie dust thrown in as well. Take care.
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oh my gosh i am so sorry for your family's loss. a lot of prayers and pixie dust coming your family's way! Remember to keep you head up and be strong for your kids
Kingdom Keepers forever!!
I am so sorry for your loss, Lori. Will be sending prayers and pixie dust your way.
He won't win the MVP or be voted into the Hall of Fame........then again, some heroes don't play games.
Lori, please accept my sincere condolences, as well as those from every member of your "family" here.
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Thanks everyone. Cassidy was okay at the afternoon viewing but when we went back in the evening she had a major meltdown. I got her calmed down and after awhile so was okay. She would still cry a little here and there but I figure it's good for her to cry. Her cousin went over and said goodbye to her and told her he was going to miss her and that was it. No tears or anything, which really surprised me because he was closer to her that Cassidy. Cassidy has a soft heart like me. We cry at everything. I hope she'll be okay at the funeral tomorrow. I figure she's going to be so mentally exhausted by Wednesday that I think I'll let her sleep in and take her to school whenever. Heck, maybe I'll let her have a day off.
Thanks again!
Yes, take a day and recharge, it will help you stay strong.
Peace, love, and lots of Disney to the rescue!
Good thoughts coming from across the pond for you and your family. And I agree, giving her the day off is a wise choice.
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