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SAN ANGELO Luis Garza Navarro, 83, of San Angelo, Texas, went to be with the Lord on May 2, 2014, at Baptist Memorial Nursing Facility, surrounded by family and friends. Luis was born Oct. 11, 1930, in Tankersley, Texas, the son of late Camila and Ventura Navarro. Luis married Martha Torres in April of 1948, in San Angelo, Texas. Luis worked in the ranching industry shearing sheep all of his life. Sheep shearing was his passion. He loved this job and he had a gift for doing it. Luis also worked at The Hatatorium as a hat maker for 27 years. He took this job very seriously and he created each hat specific to the needs of each customer. Even though he worked at The Hatatorium he always worked shearing sheep during the season. Luis is survived by his children, Alice Torres (Mike), Ricardo Navarro, Steve Navarro (Irene), Noelia Contreras, Haida Ramirez, Manuel Navarro, Samuel Navarro and Bernice Fernandez; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Martha; an infant daughter, Adelmira, and Ovelia Cardenas; and several siblings. Pallbearers will be Rudy Ramirez Jr., Jesse Fernandez Jr., Jacob Fernandez, David Losoya, Jason Torres and Manuel Navarro Jr. Honorary pallbearers are Ryan Ruiz, Misael Torres, Gary Busker, Isaiah Torres and Robert Machuca. Luis was a member of New Mount of Olives Assembly of God church. Viewing of the body will be from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, May 4, 2014, at Gutierrez Funeral Chapels, 1002 North Oakes, San Angelo. A service in celebration of Luis' life will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, May 5, 2014, at Gutierrez Funeral Chapels. A service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 6, 2014, at New Mount of Olives, 1108 Shiloh, San Angelo. Officiating at the service will be Interim Pastor Elisabet Geair. Burial will follow in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. 2 Corinthians 5:8: We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. The family would like to extend a special thank you to all of the staff at Baptist Memorial Nursing Facility and Interim Healthcare Hospice.
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An anonymous complaint said the book "describes the whole of Maori society as violent and dangerous. This is a clearly racist view claiming a whole ethnic group has these traits".
The commission has taken no action on the complaint yet but a spokesperson told the paper any mediation would occur in confidence and the complainant's name would not be released.
The book suggests that consuming vanquished enemies' mana had little to do with the underlying reason for Maori cannibalism.
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The book had received mixed reviews with Canterbury University's Rawiri Taonui calling the book an example of "poor scholarship" which "demonises" pre-European Maori society as obsessively violent.
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His belief that he can talk down to the Turkish people doesn't sit well with an empowered electorate who have their own views and want to listen critically
The protests and demonstrations currently engulfing Turkey have several causes, and the protesters come from various sectors of society. They are united less by a clear set of aims than by some basic principles. The most obvious is freedom of expression, but another is the importance of dialogue in public life, of proper debate before important decisions are made.
Yesterday, away from the cameras, a protester and a policeman decided to stop throwing things at each other and talk, a dialogue that eventually reduced the policeman to tears: 'why are we doing this to each other?' they seemed to be saying.
When the politics of other places hits the headlines we scramble for ways of making sense of it, either relying on what we know about political logic or political theory, or by making prosaic comparisons with what we already know. Machiavelli or Burke could tell us a thing or two about the plight of the current Turkish prime minister - how he needs to read Burke on the nature of representation! – but so can the last days of Margaret Thatcher; she had won three elections and been prime minister for ten years when she resigned, and the downfall of this undeniably popular leader was brought about partly by what political scientists somewhere probably call 'policy overstretch', embodied in the poll tax, and partly by her manner, embodied in the cry of 'no no no' in the House of Commons over Europe. These displays of intransigence were fatal to her authority, and once she was gone, they were no longer seen as aberrations: everything could be reinterpreted in the light of them, even by her own supporters. As Auberon Waugh said at the time, 'you have done things that are necessary, now please go away'.
The one thing about which judgments did not shift was her style, hectoring and monologic to the end. These two words – there are many more – also describe the manner of Recep Tayip Erdoğan. Erdoğan's background is that of preacher and semi-professional footballer, so he grew to maturity learning both to talk to an audience that won't answer back and to shout at those on his own team. All politicians probably need both of these qualities to a degree, but in Erdoğan's case it is the lynchpin of his authority. He gave up football in 1982, so shouting across a field became shouting down to it, and it has gone on for two decades. Listen outside a mosque on a Friday in Istanbul and the rhythm if not the volume of the delivery could be Erdoğan's at a political rally.
Mrs. Thatcher's background was non-conformist and you might wonder what, in a secular republic, that makes Erdoğan's. Here it is worth remembering that the Turkish republic is laiciste, not secularist; there is no separation of church and state – Islam has no 'church' – but rather the organisation of religion and religious instruction under state tutelage. The salaries of Turkey's 70,000 imams are paid by the public purse. Erdoğan attended one of the Imam Hatip Schools in Istanbul, one of whose overt purposes is the training of preachers ('Hatip' means 'one who is capable of delivering the Friday sermon'). These schools have an intriguing history. After the establishment of the Turkish republic in 1923, they were closed, but reopened in 1948, since when their status and prestige has fluctuated. When Erdoğan graduated in 1973 about 30,000 pupils attended them. By 1997 the figure was 500,000. In 1971, new legislation had allowed graduates to attend university without needing to take supplementary courses at secular institutions.
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His belief that he can say what he likes about anything has led him to claim that the true Turkish national drink is not Raki but Ayran, a watered-down yoghurt, and at meeting of construction firm workers in 2011 to call important archaeological finds delaying the building of new metro stations 'a few pots and pans'. Only the other day, after the protests began, he was on television saying that 'I was sitting in my office in Dolmabahce, I have seen the boats coming from Kädıkoy [the district of Istanbul on the Eastern side of the Bosphorous]. I must say that I don't approve of the way the women are dressed'.
He has come unstuck when confronting audiences with a tendency to have their own views about things, to want to discuss or listen critically: farmers, whose centuries-old seed banks he is sacrificing to American agribusinesses, students, at least those who read European books, and members of the European Council in Strasbourg, before whose bemused members he made one his more aggressive speeches. Behaviour like this rarely gains one new friends, though when at Davos in 2009 he walked off the stage rather than discuss with Shimon Peres of Israel, the Islamic Republic of Iran rewarded him with honorary citizenship of the city of Tehran.
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I've reviewed some garbage in my time. I've been writing gig reviews for a few years now - I started off filing some reviews for Victoria University's Salient magazine and the local weekly rag, Capital Times. From there it was to the Evening Post - which amalgamated with The Dominion, making The Dominion Post. I've been reviewing gigs for The Dominion Post for just over a decade.
And I've told you this before, but here's the deal - you go where you are told. There are some nice bonuses, it's been an incredible treat to see shows by bands I love that have also knocked it out of the park (Wilco) and as someone interested in music - you could use the term obsessed if you like, many have - I've also seen shows by artists I was not at all interested in, but they also knocked it out of the park. I always use Nana Mouskouri as the example. She was great. And I did not expect that. It ends up being more rewarding than being let down by a hero (Bob Dylan), baffled by hype (Them Crooked Vultures), bored by interminable, shapeless jamming (there was a triple bill of that on Wednesday night with the guitarists from America, Bachman-Turner and Pat Benatar) or ruined due to the sound/sound-mix/venue (almost any live hip-hop show).
You run the risk also - in this process of demystifying, analysing, critiquing - of ruining your own favourites; thinking too hard, or not hard enough, struggling to find new adjectives and to meet old deadlines.
But you cannot get away with playing the poor-me card. You got free tickets! (There is, let me try to tell you, no such thing as free.)
On Tuesday night I reviewed Garbage. It was actually incredible seeing the fan-support, right from the get-go. And the band nailed it, they played well, Shirley Manson was in decent shape vocally and she had more presence than when I last saw the band (back in 1995, she was all nervous steps, learning to be a performer). The playing was correct - in that the musicians played their tunes as they were supposed to sound; they gave shape to them, were faithful to them, the songs were faithful renditions for the audience.
I followed Garbage's career - I liked the first two albums at the time (I was a paying customer when I attended their first NZ show). I gave up on them after a while. I forgot about the band - and I thought most people did. Then, at this reunion/rebirth show it was noticeable, instantly, that many fans (a decent enough audience; I thought in the lead-up the gig might be cancelled) still love this band.
But we've all seen what happens when a gushing fan reviews a show - words like "genius" are thrown about with reckless abandon.
So I copped it for my review - because I don't like Garbage's songs; they sounded excruciating to me,even through the faithful precision playing (maybe because of that, even?). And I am not apologising to fans for not liking the songs - nor do I expect a fan to come round to my way of thinking.
The dumbest comment that gets made about reviews is the person so sure they have the answer; the one who blurts out that music is subjective. Yes, you "genius", so then is reviewing music. Calls for an objective review are futile - an objective review of Garbage from Tuesday night would read thus:
The band members walked on to the stage and opened the show by playing a song. After audience applause they played another song in a similar tempo with a similar feel. Then another. Then the lead singer, a woman named Shirley Manson, spoke to the audience. She conveyed a joy at being back in New Zealand. She spoke on behalf of the band saying they were thrilled to be in Wellington. And then they played another song. And another. And another...
Actually, looking at it - maybe I should have filed that. It's (also) a fair reflection.
But I didn't. I filed my subjective take on the band's performance - taking into account the level of audience enthusiasm, accounting for the fact that the band (still) sounded consistent with the trademark Garbage sound; that is to say the band sounded like Garbage. (It is the songs that I thought sounded like garbage. So I said that also.)
The next night I saw Pat Benatar as part of a meandering triple bill. The review is in today's Dominion Post and online and there will be more comments telling me that I missed the point. Maybe some people will agree with my take on events.
There were more shows this week reviewed by me - and there'll be more next. Then a break. Then more. Then more. Then another break. Then some more.
It's a job. It's something I do for money, a part of earning a living. And I realise that it seems like the ultimate privilege - but I should point out that the pay is not great; it's not my main job. I do it because I do enjoy the work; I'm open to having an interesting - or challenging - experience every time I go out. With social media now, and my photo on this blog, I'm also open - more than ever before - to having challenges from audience members.
I want to take this moment to apologise to one person at the Garbage concert. Caitlin wrote a comment at the end of the online version of my review.
Caitlin's comment calls me a "buzzkill". Caitlin could see me using my phone to check Facebook and this was off-putting. Caitlin could tell that I was not enjoying the concert. Caitlin enjoyed the concert a lot more after I left.
I replied telling Caitlin that I was very much aware I was being a buzzkill - and clarified that when I "left" I actually moved to the back of the venue. It wasn't fair me being up the front at something I was not really enjoying. People were standing - and were choosing their own spaces, not really worrying about seats. So I moved to the back to take a seat where I could still see and hear (and occasionally check Facebook).
Caitlin's concert experience was ruined by me - in part. And I'm sorry for that. I don't try to ruin people's gig-going experience - certainly not at the time. I can't stop people from caring about reviews afterwards; if a review bugs their happiness that's as much their fault as mine, I reckon.
But I just wanted to say that I was sorry. Sincerely. It's an odd thing writing back to people - particularly via blog/review-comments. As the writer I'm often told I'm being defensive and/or passive-aggressive (as will be the case today with this post, I'm sure). And, usually, I don't reply to comments on reviews. The way I've always seen it is that the review is me having my say, the comments function that now applies (a speedier, updated version of the old Letter to the Editor) is the reader's chance to have their say. Round and round in circles we could go...
But last week I blogged about how talking can ruin gigs.
And it seems my not being into Garbage was a way of ruining the gig; it was palpable. Apparently.
So, for what it's worth Caitlin, I am sorry. I'm glad you got to see a band you care about and that you (eventually) were able to enjoy it.
I am so very lucky that I often get to have that experience - and I'm forever grateful that I have seen some of my favourite acts in the world, in some cases more than once. And I've been turned on to so much music through reviewing and regular gig-going as a fan of music.
I've also sat through plenty of garbage. Because it's my job. Or part of my job. A professional hobby if you like. One I take very seriously, even when I'm scanning Facebook.
My review of Garbage tried to point out the connection between band and fans - and I gave my opinion about the songs.
When I was at the concert, reviewing it/viewing it, I was aware that I needed to move. That I wasn't going to be won over because the songs don't do it for me. So I moved to the back, sat out another match in this mug's game.
I'm sorry Caitlin.
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