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This type of confrontation has already played out over Syria – in public. On Tuesday, for example, President Obama said the United States was an "exceptional" nation that must stand for global values, such as the international chemical weapons ban. On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced such an American presumption of superiority as "extremely dangerous."
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Course number may be repeated for credit when topics vary. Upper-division standing required. This course will survey the recent efforts of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to adapt to the global economy. We will compare their respective strategies of economic and political development and discuss the possible interrelationships between economic and political change. Each student will select a particular country in the region and work with other students studying the country to develop a bibliography and statistical indicators for comparing its economic performance and governance capabilities with those of other countries. With the help of these materials, along with your required class readings, you will make two short presentations in class and write a 1500-word term paper.
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I was in class III, in a city in Gujarat, when I first entered a Bharatanatyam class. The classes were held in a room on the terrace of a building that was on a narrow lane. The thud of feet could be heard as you climbed. I stood awkwardly in a corner initially, but it was a place I thought I wanted to belong to.
Inside, the guru would speak to me in Tamil, and in gratitude, I would try to sit in aramandi (the half-sitting position) and not keep staring down intently at my feet while dancing. For the next three years, I went diligently, every weekend. In the land of didis, I would hear my guru, who must have been in her early 30s, and the akkas bond over conversations about shopping in T. Nagar and the temples of Triplicane.
I chose my garba garb enthusiastically each year, but the lure of the dance saree was greater. At home, I would practise the handful of adavus I had learnt every free minute. In class, I stood in the front so that I would be promoted to the next batch, and be considered for one of the sarees that my guru bought for her older students from her frequent visits to Madras.
By the time I would graduate to learn alarippu, I had moved to Madras. To my disappointment, even here, students were not required to wear a dance saree. I joined a class nearby but soon, I realised, it was not much of a novelty. When a teacher asked how many students learnt Bharatanatyam, several hands went up.
In the next four years, I gave my first stage performance, wore a salangai for the first time, fainted twice the day before the show, and almost never missed a class. On Sunday morning, girls wearing yellow and red uniforms would emerge out of every third street, a world away from the classes of my childhood for which people would travel miles. My 45-minute classes became two-hour sessions, my group became smaller, and the pieces longer. After every summer vacation, a familiar face would be gone — because they'd shifted houses, because they had to go to tuition and so on. After class IX, it was my turn to leave.
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In your most recent issue, James Goodwin opined on the future demographic trends that will affect the art market ("Who will follow baby boomers into the art market?", The Art Newspaper, October 2011, p41).
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Mr Goodwin's piece provided a much needed longer-term perspective on the market, but the discussion gives the impression that the data was selected to fit a conclusion. While there can be no doubt that demographics affect the art market, particularly mid-value works, the consistent focus of arts economists and journalists on India and China is slightly wearying. The Middle East has demographics similar to India's and, according to Transparency International (TI), less corruption on average. The most fertile region of the world at the moment is sub-Saharan Africa; the fertility rate is nearly twice that of India. Over the next half a century, this region will experience the largest "demographic dividend" anywhere on earth. While some may question whether the countries south of the Sahel can institute the necessary political and economic governance to capitalise on their demographic windfall, TI ranks Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho and Ghana as more transparent than India. The term "BRIC" [Brazil, Russia, India and China] is now a decade old—it might be time to rethink where growth will come from instead of justifying the status quo.—Adam Levine, New YorkSend your letters to the editor to: 70 South Lambeth Road London SW8 1RL UK or email: j.morris [at] theartnewspaper.com
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Swimming and other water-related activities are excellent ways to get the physical activity and health benefits needed for a healthy life. Americans swim hundreds of millions of times in pools, oceans, lakes, rivers, and hot tubs/spas each year 1 and most people have a safe and healthy time enjoying the water. However, outbreaks of recreational water illnesses (RWIs) have increased significantly over the last several decades 2 and drowning 3, 4 and pool-related chemical injuries 5-7 continue to occur. In addition, recent studies show that during routine inspections up to 12% (one out of eight) of public pools 8 and 11% (one out of nine) of public spas 9 were closed immediately because of health issues. This makes it important that public pools and spas are designed, constructed, operated, and inspected to keep swimmers healthy and safe.
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In the United States, there is no federal regulatory agency responsible for aquatic facilities. As a result, most pools and spas are regulated at the state or local level; 68% of local health departments have public pool inspection programs 10. Those same state and/or local public health agencies individually devote significant time and resources to regularly develop, review, and update their pool codes, which govern the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of swimming pools and other aquatic facilities. This translates into considerable variation in requirements for preventing and responding to recreational water illnesses, injuries, and drowning among local and state agencies across the United States.
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We get a fair few threads where you are invited to hypothetically spend someone else's money on a gun, the 'what would you get from this list?' type threads, we also get threads regularly asking 'how much ammo do you have?'.
Well I thought of a twist, nothing new there I have a twisted mind.
What ammo would you buy if you had $1000 to spend, free and clear - just for ammo?
Let's leave reloading out of this one, just store/internet bought ammo.
What calibers?
Would you buy something that you perceive a future supply problem with, or just lots of your favorite FMJ?
Here you go, I'm giving you an imaginary check for a grand - go get some ammo and tell us what you bought.
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For range, or carry? I use whatever I can find for the range. Mainly Remington Golden Sabers for PD. Why? I've been doing this a long time. G23 and G27. I used to have the G22, but it got traded on the G23.
Becouse ive been using independence ammunition (18$ BOX 50 ROUNDS)for a while know on my glock and the other day i tried some american eagle at the range and my shot groupings were so much better my gun seemed to be more accurate
My .40 is a Sig226, but one of the better deals out there right now on range ammo is Federal Champion. I believe it's a Walmart exclusive. I bought about 10 boxes (50ct) in August for $12.47 each. The prices have increased a little in some regions, but it's still under $14. Federal is also making a bargain load under the "Champion" name for 9mm ($9/box) as well...not sure about other calibers though.
I own 2 glock 22 and I used 2 different ones. Golden saber either 165 or 180 hollow point and or speer gold dot 165 or 180 hollow point. I take advantage of the caliber's high pressure round and use a heavy projectile for self defense. My 2 cents.
I use Speer Gold Dots 180 JHP..Both my G23 and G27 eat it with no problems. I sometimes buy Winchester WinClean..shoots good..UMC, CCI Blazers or Blazer Brass..both guns shoot well with any of the ammo..I have found they both are more accurate with the 180gr...Goto Ammoman.com....every once in a while he will have loose package 40 cal ammo cheap..I got 1000rds of Speer Gold Dot 180gr JHP for 299.00 and free shipping...can't beat that price...
For the range, I shoot whatever I can find. Right now, I am shooting 180 gr White Box. American Eagle is my favorite, but hard for me to find right now. I load all 3 of my 40's (22,23,27) with 135 gr CorBon hollow points. I like fast flying rounds and the 135's will fly at 1325 fps out of the 22 and 23 and around 1275 out of the 27. One of the good things about Glock pistols, they are not ammo sensitive. They re like a hungry lion, they eat anything you throw at them.
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Thomas, 31, was originally charged with a felony count of running prohibited competitions following a tip to police about a "fight club" at a training studio in St. Lucie West. The crime was described by one prosecutor as promoting an activity not sanctioned by the Florida Boxing Commission, which has jurisdiction over professional boxing and mixed martial arts events.
Assistant State Attorney Jeff Hendriks said there was an exception to the law Thomas was arrested on: If all of the fighters are students of the school and the purpose of the event is training, then it is allowed. In addition, Thomas and the school did not profit from the event, as money was collected as part of a raffle and was later distributed.
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Thomas could have faced up to five years in prison if convicted on the charge. He moved to Port St. Lucie with his family when he was 12 and is a top competitor in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the main organization of competitive mixed martial arts, as well as the operator of American Top Team Port St. Lucie, affiliated with American Top Team, a national organization with franchises across the country.
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Thomas, who was injured following a Sept. 19 match against Kenny Florian, is still under contract with Ultimate Fighting Championship for several fights and is continuing rehabilitation with the intent to compete again soon, Sucher said.
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Driver's parents didn't know much about his acting in high school, either—not that it was all that important then. Appearing in a production of Oklahoma! just seemed like a good way to meet girls. But it's indicative of his tendency toward extremes that once he began considering it as a career, he saw only two paths available. "It was like the South Bend Civic Theatre," he says with distaste, "or Juilliard." He applied to the latter and didn't get in. And that, for a while, was that.
On September 11, 2001, Driver was almost 18 years old, living in an apartment in the back of his parents' home and "not doing fucking anything," he says. In the swell of patriotism that followed the terrorist attacks, he decided to enlist in the armed forces. "It just seemed like a badass thing to do," he says, "to go and shoot machine guns and serve your country. Coupled with: 'There's nothing for me here, there's nothing that's keeping me here, there's nothing that's stopping me from going.' " He was shipped off to Camp Pendleton in California.
Rarely do you hear praise for the brutal initiation of basic training, but Driver loved it: "You see what your body can do and how discipline is effective." He fell comfortably into the structure of the military and into friendships with the people he met there. "It's hard to describe," he says. "You're put in these very heightened circumstances, and you learn a lot about who people are at the core, I think. You end up having this very intimate relationship where you would, like, die for these people."
Driver never made it to war. Two years in, he broke his sternum on a cheapo mountain bike and soon after was medically discharged, an outcome that still "fuckin' kills me," he says. "To not get to go with that group of people I had been training with was...painful."
He moved back to Indiana, but he was restless and depressed. "I wanted a challenge," he says. Driver's thoughts wandered again to Juilliard. "The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class," he says. And in a similar way, Juilliard was the toughest in its class. "Obviously the stakes are different," he says. "You have the risk of getting shot or killed in one and just embarrassed in the other. I thought, 'This will be easy.' " He was working as a security guard at a warehouse in Mishawaka when he heard he'd been accepted.
To make going to school in New York City even more of a challenge, Driver devised a militaristic routine for personal and intellectual growth. "I wanted to make it extreme," he says. To stay fit, he'd run from his apartment in Queens to the school's Manhattan campus. He'd often start his day with six eggs and later prepare and consume an entire chicken. Nights he spent binge-watching classic movies or at the library reading plays. Since he'd been a lousy student and grew up sheltered from a lot of secular art and music, "I felt like I was behind," he says.
To most of Driver's classmates, he was an oddity. He didn't have much patience for them, either. "I think he thought other people weren't as committed," says Richard Feldman, a professor at Juilliard. "I made a lot of people cry," says Driver regretfully. At the same time, he was drifting apart from his friends in the Marines. "We all got together in Texas; a friend of ours had passed away," Driver says. "And I was trying to explain to them what I was doing at Juilliard. And I'm like, 'Yeah, we wear pajamas, and we talk about our inner colors, and there was this exercise where we all gave birth to ourselves...' And they're like, 'What the fuck are you doing?' "
"There's Governors Island," Driver says, pointing from the helicopter, launching into an anecdote about a friend from Juilliard who spent a sweaty afternoon in period dress churning butter for a historical-reenactment gig.
Though Driver's first big reenactment gig, on the other hand, would come opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, success wasn't exactly immediate for Driver in the years after college. He did a few Off-Broadway plays, the obligatory Law & Order episode, a couple of easily missed movies. After Lincoln came a small but charming part in the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, and of course Girls, and before he knew it, he was getting calls from Martin Scorsese and posing shirtless with a live sheep draped over his shoulders for Vogue.
"It's very nice," he says, cringing like he did before, like he's embarrassed both by his success and for complaining about it."But in a way, I don't feel like I've really put in my dues. Like it doesn't feel earned." Driver puts a premium on things that take a lot of work. It's one reason he hates the Internet. "Not to get on, like, a stomping pedestal about the culture or anything," he tells me at one point. "But everyone is so used to having everything immediately, and that doesn't seem to lend itself to things being good. You know? The things on there, they're just mediocre. There's not really a lot of work or weight involved."
Driver applies the discipline acquired in the military to everything he does, from the quotidian details of existence to his work. "I think it's good to live an artful life," he says, sipping a pink smoothie in the Brooklyn café we've safely landed in after our helicopter ride. "I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning." To attain something worthwhile, one must experience a certain amount of suffering: "The more masochistic the part, the more appealing." When it comes to his work, he can get a little obsessive—which is why he never actually watches himself on-screen. He decided to stop after Lena Dunham invited him over to her parents' apartment in Tribeca to watch the pilot of Girls. "I just saw all the things I wanted to change or make better," he says. "And I worried from then on I would just be thinking about how it looks as opposed to what's happening, and that's, like, not a good way to work, because after a while it's a little bit masturbatory."


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With all the winning glory happening for RCB. I was thinking if I can do something to show my support for the team.
I came out with this google chrome theme for the team.
To turn your browser into RED and GOLD. Do install it and spread a word if you like it. :)
Thank you.
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Finally a chrome theme of rcb .. Its good. I have been looking for it since long time and here it is..
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15 May 2012, 03:45 AM
I was a mozilla user, now using chrome after I got this theme installed! Good work Rakesh! Cheers B-)Only 58 users so far though
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The multi-colored Swarovski crystal beads in this jewelry project from Katie Hacker make this choker perfect for a party or special occasion.
- 68 in. length - Beadalon 19 Strand satin silver .018 in. stringing wire
- 30 - 6mm Metallic blue Swarovski crystal bicone beads
- 20 - 8mm Olivine Swarovski crystal bicone beads
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- 18 - 3mm Silver round beads
- 40 - 1.3mm Size #1 Crimp beads
- Designer design sterling silver crimp hook & eye clasp
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Cut three 16 in. lengths of Beadalon 19 Strand satin silver wire. Cut ten 1 1/2 to 2 in. lengths.
Hold the 16 in. wires together as one. Place one end inside half of the crimp clasp. Use chain nose pliers to squeeze the center to fix the wires in place.
Holding the wires together, string an olivine bead.
String a Pacific opal bead onto one wire, an indicolite bead onto one wire, and a crimp bead, metallic blue bead and another crimp bead onto the third wire.
Holding the wires together, string an olivine bead, a silver bead, a padpardscha briolette, a silver bead and another olivine bead.
Repeat steps 4 and 5 eight more times.
Repeat step 4 once more, then holding the wires together, string an olivine bead and attach half of the crimp clasp to the wire ends.
Place a 1 1/2 to 2 in. length of wire through a crimp beads/metallic blue bead unit on the necklace. Crimp the crimp beads to hold the wire in place.
String a metallic blue bead and a crimp bead onto one end of the wire. Crimp it. Repeat for the other end of the wire.
- Repeat Steps 8 and 9 to attach a short beaded wire to each crimp bead/metallic blue bead unit on the necklace. Optional: If you want the metallic blue beads to stay fixed at the end of each dangle, add a drop of Beadfix glue inside each bead.
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Video: Graham Hill's TED talk on the benefits of being a vegetarian some of the time, via TED.com
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Here is a neat infographic on the Satiety Index versus the Glycemic Index to see how full people feel after eating creation foods, via Food Tech Connect.
I know what it was that set me off today. A random article, out of the blue, I shouldn't even have read it. It referred to great food cooked with rendered fat as "early-grave food heaven." Why do people say stupid things like this? Because the media bombards us with the simplistic message that Fat Is Bad For You, and it pisses me off. Why? Because it's not true. Fat is good for you. Fat is good for your body. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Fat doesn't make you fat, EATING TOO MUCH MAKES YOU FAT! Eating every morsel of your mile high Cheesecake Factory plate is what makes you fat. Eating a whole bag of Doritos is what makes you fat. Eating when you're not hungry makes you fat! To Read On »


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Jayson Werth Player Projection No. 39
Key Stats: When Jayson Werth hit 24 home runs and stole 20 bases in only 418 at-bats in 2008, the fantasy world wanted to cry out fluke. Why would LA just let a guy with a terrific power speed combo get away right as he was heading toward his prime? Well in 2009 the world learned that the Dodgers are having their problems. Ownership is in worse shape than a pinyata and Werth proved himself for a second straight year. His speed/power combo was rated fourth best in the NL last season behind only Mark Reynolds, Matt Kemp and teammate Chase Utley.
Skeptics Say: Werth's home run to fly ball rate was 19.3%. That's really high, but it's not as high as it was in 2008. It's possible that he's just hit a really good run of good luck and that his HR:FB rate will come back down. Going along with his 36 home runs, Werth had only 26 doubles which is a rather low ratio. He also didn't have a steady role despite steady production. Werth hit in 4 different spots in the batting order for 11 or more games. The Phillies don't treat him like a team typically treats a top 40 fantasy player.
Peer Comparison: This price might seem expensive to acquire Werth, but it's worth it (hooray pun!). He's a 31 year old with a superb recent health history and two consecutive years of reliable production inside of a lineup that fills in the RBI and runs for a team. If your idea is that this price is still too much and you want the statistical potential of Werth for a lesser price, look no further than Nelson Cruz. In the stats that counted only on the hitters and not on the lineups around them, here's how Cruz and Werth stacked up.
Cruz – 33 HR 20 SB .260 AVG .856 OPS
Werth – 36 HR 20 SB .268 AVG .879 OPS
Both players could be fairlly classified as late bloomers. Similar to Werth, perhaps Cruz can build on his success last year and boost the numbers shown above after the experience of playing a full season and not wearing down at the end. Also, Cruz came up well short in the runs and RBI categories. If Josh Hamilton and/or Vladimir Guerrero can stay healthy, there's no doubt that Cruz can put a dent in the run categories too. FB 365 is the only ranking system that really ranks Cruz and Werth in the same tier, but the gap is pretty close.
Lineup Outlook: Werth should hit fifth. That's what he was hitting in the order toward the end of last year and he is also the most consistent option after Ryan Howard and Chase Utley for run production in this lineup. The great part about hitting fifth in the Phillies lineup is that he actually has decent protection in the order behind him. His fellow outfielders, Raul Ibanez and Shane Victorino have either driven in or scored 100 runs in two of the last three seasons and will hit 6th and 7th respectively. It's a good thing the Phillies didn't bring back Pat Burrell last winter.
What They're Saying: CBS Sportsline: #20 Outfielder; ESPN.com: #36 Overall; Yahoo: #12 Outfielder and #49 Overall; Mock Draft Central ADP: #36 Overall; Couch Managers: #44 Overall; FB 365: #8 Outfielder
Projection: The RBI will outweigh the runs hitting in the 5th hole.
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Anonymous says:
You have Cruz ranked well down in the rankings, yet with nearly the same statistical output projection. Why?
Anonymous says:
He was fantasy gold last year! I play in a of specific league and he was qualified for all three positions. Plus he was hot last 5 weeks of yr (h2h playoffs)he and Kemp lead me two the promised land for $1000 bucks. And the kicker is we get to keep one player we drafted previous year after the 10th rd for one yr –guess who im keeping? (drafted in 14thrd)
KOBEshigawa says:
in our defense, the guy was on the DL for most of his last 2 seasons in LA due to an AJ burnett fastball to the wrist…..but still. dammit.
john says:
I think Werth is the better player between him and Cruz (and most likely to replicate last year) but it is interesting Mark gave them such close output and had Cruz ranked 86th.
Though it's worth pointing out that it looks like everyone else has Cruz a good 20-30 spots behind Werth as well.
Schruender says:
The first reason that Cruz is behind Werth is mainly because of where the market has him going. Even if you felt like Cruz was a better player, it wouldn't make sense to draft him before Werth when you can get him a few rounds later.
The second reason is that Cruz is not as reliable in the RBI and runs categories as Werth. The Rangers have much more questions up and down the lineup with Vlad and Hamilton's health being the biggest of the questions. You could also include what Chris Davis and Ian Kinsler will show up too. By contrast the Phillies lineup with the possible exception of Rollins has been extremely reliable. That explains why Werth had 23 more RBI and 23 more runs last season.
That said, I think Cruz will ultimately catch up, and be a better value than Werth for the stats he gets at the pick he's taken at.
David Martin says:
Jayson Werth shocked me in the playoffs. The guy is an absolute stud. The Dodgers were dumb to let him get away.
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One of the most haunting images in David Riker's film La Ciudad is of the New York City skyline seen from a work site miles away from midtown. There, a group of Hispanic dayworkers scrape off bricks, carry them to a designated area and pile them neatly on top of one another. No one, including the film viewer, seems to know where he or she is. The images evoke a vivid sense of place/
no-place that reflects the condition of multitudes of Hispanic immigrants to this country--not as much the ones like my parents, whose sense of place had as much to do with their schooling as with their new geography, but immigrants who enter the global Norte in search of a way out of strife and into life itself--improvement, fulfillment of dreams, a future that will be better than now. Like many Latin American renderings of reality, the reality of La Ciudad is informed by the imaginary.
While Juan Gonzalez's Harvest of Empire deals with reality in a conventional sense--it is filled with charts, numbers and facts--his book cannot help conjuring up a series of past and present constructions of what it is to be Latino (or Hispanic, or Latin American, or Spanish-American, or Spanish-speaking, all identities modified by residence, however brief, in the Coloso del Norte). Indeed, a more diverse group is difficult to fathom, as Gonzalez makes clear not only through his facts but by the very structure of the book. He covers more than 500 years of history; the internal politics (historical and actual) of scores of countries; racial, gender and class conflicts within the multifarious national groups; varying US government immigration policies and practices; and all this in an attempt--a welcome one in my opinion--to create a sense of unity among all the ethnicities calling themselves Hispanic and living in America (capital: Washington). Imagine the difficulty: What could a Kanjobal indigenous-language-speaking peasant fleeing Guatemalan repression in 1980, who might later work in the tomato fields of South Florida, possibly have in common with a black Panamanian ex-cop (son of a West Indian) who left his country for New York out of guilt for having participated in quelling an anti-US demonstration and now is in the Air Force living in Alaska? These are two real people whose cases are discussed in Gonzalez's Harvest, or better yet, harvests. Yet in light of all the peaches and pairs, Gonzalez has made a compelling case for unity.
A veteran of sixties left politics--co-founder of the Young Lords--and now co-host with Amy Goodman of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!, Juan Gonzalez lays out those figures and charts in the service of what some in cultural studies might call his "subject-position," a position he never disguises in a voice of academic objectivity. His subject reads as follows: "I was born in 1947 to working-class parents in Ponce, Puerto Rico. My family brought me to New York City's El Barrio the following year and I have lived in this country ever since. As a journalist, and before that as a Puerto Rican community activist...
I have spent decades living in, traveling to and reporting on scores of Latino communities...devouring in the process every study or account of the Latino experience I could find." And his position: "Mine is the perspective of a Latino who has grown tired of having our story told, often one-sidedly, without the passion or the pain, by 'experts' who have not lived it." Indeed, we hear the voice of a hard-hitting social critic from the inside.
Gonzalez shows not only his advocacy/journalistic flair for making a convincing case but also a sense of narrative. His accounts of Puerto Rican immigration along with his own family history--a story that could have been an added segment of Riker's film--give him an air of authority, but always an authority that leaves itself open to other authorities, which includes anyone with a border-crossing tale to tell. And there are many in this book.
Gonzalez's subject-position notwithstanding, the force of the facts is a crucial dimension of his narrative. There are several important depictions of Hispanic immigrant reality in Harvest of Empire that have not been given the attention they deserve. Perhaps the most important is that The United States Empire--this designation is not taken lightly--has at once created and fed on Hispanic immigration. The expansionist policies of the nineteenth century, including the military annexation of a great chunk of Mexico, the cold war obsession with a perceived Soviet threat and the enrichment of US-based corporations through exploitation of Latin American labor and raw materials are the foundation for the desire of our neighbors to the (global) South to move to the (global) North. And once over the frontier of El Norte, Hispanic immigrants further the enrichment of US elites by providing cheap labor. For Gonzalez, this foundation places US government officials in a hypocritical position of decrying the effects of demographic movement northward--welfare payments made out of the pockets of US citizens, rising crime, drug trafficking, general social disintegration--when US financial elites have caused and benefited from them. Surely we have heard the indictment about US world domination before, especially in the pages of The Nation (not as often in the mainstream, though), but what makes Gonzalez's take unique, I think, is that he frames the critique within the specific realities of Hispanics living in the United States. Note one of many examples: The consequences of the repeated annexation of Mexican territory between 1836 and 1853 were as lucrative for the isolated yeoman culture that characterized the United States at that time as they were devastating not only for the Mexican residents living in those vast territories but for Latin America as a whole. Mexico lost half its land and major mineral resources, and the new US territory would later pave the way for cheap labor for US corporations.
Another argument in Gonzalez's "harvest" is that the Hispanic influx is different from other immigrations to this country. It is not that the Hispanic situation is unique; in fact, Gonzalez uses other immigrant experiences as models for comparison. It is rather that certain dimensions of late-twentieth-century capitalism (on the global scale) have made for differences. Hispanic immigration is occurring at a moment when multinational corporations enjoy a prosperity and control over markets that were not the case during previous periods of high immigration to the United States. In addition, the fluidity of Hispanic immigration--the fact that many Spanish speakers come here with the intention of returning, an intention realized in many cases because of the greater accessibility of travel--is different from previous patterns. Moreover, what makes Hispanic immigration different, perhaps more in quantitative than qualitative terms, is the relative importance and unity created as the result of language. The polemic over language instruction, the use of Spanish on the job and in the media, its marker as a definitive ethnic trait that transcends national boundaries, the debate about the United States as a bilingual nation by definition--all serve to strengthen Gonzalez's insistence that we as US citizens would do well to pay more attention to Hispanics regardless of the European ethnicities that, as Todd Gitlin puts it in The Twilight of Common Dreams, are chosen like flavors of ice cream. Mexican society recently witnessed a political transformation that is sure to have far-reaching consequences for all US residents. Yet if our media continue to focus their attention on the pathetic Hispanic imaginary, i.e., the Elián Show, we will remain unprepared for these repercussions.
There is no end to this in sight, says Gonzalez, which is another argument in his crop. The much-mentioned statistic that, by the mid-twenty-first century, one in four US citizens will be Hispanic is simply one projection out of many that point to the writer's hope (along with that of José Martí) that North America will come to know the other America, so that it will cure itself of its scorn. More and more Hispanics are becoming citizens; the median age of Hispanics is far younger than that of most other Americans; there is a rising political consciousness among Latinos, as well as a rising middle class; and all this is occurring as free-trade ideology is wreaking economic havoc on the people most in need of improvement of material conditions in their native lands.
No, there is no end in sight. If I may add a Midwestern story to Gonzalez's all-encompassing one, I'll point out that we've got troubles too, right here in mid-Missouri. Sedalia, Marshall and Mílan--communities that I'm sure the sophisticated Latinos of San Francisco would consider pueblachos de mala muerte (cowtowns)--have seen dramatic increases in their Hispanic populations because of work opportunities in the meatpacking industry. Outside of a few gruesome accidents and violations of child-labor laws, we don't have major problems (yet). But what if the boom economy runs out of steam? What if there are layoffs of these hard-working young women and men?
The images of La Ciudad that caught my imagination return. Perhaps the shot of the New York skyline from that working no man's land lurks in our memories because it fuses a cityscape with the lives of people, people whom we first see as others. Yet with the wide angle, we come to know them as mirrors of ourselves. Carlos Fuentes puts it poignantly when, in The Buried Mirror, he evokes without mentioning it the North/South division that is the mainstay of Gonzalez's discussion:
California, and in particular the city of Los Angeles facing the Pacific basin, the North American bridge to Asia and Latin America, poses the universal question for the coming century: How do we deal with the other? North Africans in France; Turks in Germany; Vietnamese in Czechoslovakia [before the division]; Pakistanis in England; black Africans in Italy; Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Latin Americans in the United States. Instant communication and economic dependence have transformed the once isolated problem of immigration into a universal, definitive and omnipresent reality.
We don't have a TV at home, so we've missed the much-drubbed NBC Olympics coverage. So when a little friend of my son's said she'd been watching, I asked her if any of the events had inspired her to want to be an Olympic athlete when she grew older.
"Yeah!" she raved. "Just wait! I'm gonna be a rock star and I'll ride onto the field with my helmet on my head and my crossbow on my back and I'm gonna have a band and six backup singers, and then when they light the torch, all the soldiers I've been saving in my disk drive are gonna burst onto the screen and do a dance and then there'll be fireworks, fireworks, fireworks, boom, boom, kaBOOM! Like you've never seen before!"
Flushed from such imaginative exertions, this dangerous little person ran off with my precious son, she humming a tune by Britney Spears, he shouting a song by the Backstreet Boys. (It was a perfect fugue, by the way. Has anyone else noticed that Britney is just Lance hung upside down and played backwards?)
Each culture develops its own sense of sport, I suppose. When I travel, I confess I make up for the deprivation at home by watching a lot of hotel-room television. I am always fascinated to see the kinds of competitive sports that people will sit up late for in other parts of the world. I've been to Edinburgh during sheepherding finals (sort of a par course for sheepdogs grafted onto a running of the bulls, except with large shaggy rams. Like Babe, but vicious). I've spent time with friends in Minnesota where ice fishing--which is, I assure you, one of the slower sports known to mankind--took up Real Time in dinner party conversation.
Once I spent five days in a small German town in a university dormitory built on the site of what had been a Nazi bank vault. This being truly the belly of the beast, I was not at all surprised when the heat went out the moment I got there. Within hours, I fell sick with a raging fever, my body temperature rising with each degree the room temperature fell. As I lay shivering beneath the thin cotton blanket, I used my last ounce of strength to flick through the channels on the steel television set (which was bolted to a fixed rod hanging from the ceiling, like the ones in hospitals or prisons). Aside from the ubiquitous CNN, all the available stations were displaying the same sporting event--in German, Swiss German, Farsi, Turkish and Basque. The event in question appeared to be a particularly formal version of Austrian dressage: horses with knotted manes and beribboned tails prancing rigidly through backbreakingly unnatural placements and postures, two-stepping, then waltzing to martial music. The riders, who wore high hats and polished boots, put the animals through their paces with the reins tightened so as to hold the horses' necks upright, the bits so tight the horses looked as though they were leering. The riders were tense and ferocious. The horses were precise, wild-eyed, slobbering with foam.
In happier times, I've been to the far north, up around the Arctic Circle, where Icelandic log-tossing is what in other climes might be called "hot." These are not little logs we're talking about, if the broadcast I saw is any measure--contestants trained by hoisting Yugo minivans on their backs. Indeed, in a side event to the log-toss, they ran a course where every thirty feet or so they stopped to pick up a 350-pound block of stone and chuck it in a rain barrel. "These Icelandic strong men" the voiceover explained, "consume from eight thousand to ten thousand calories a day"--a conceivable goal if, like me, you're thinking of the energizing properties of Ring Dings and marshmallow fluff, but an impressively ambitious one when you learn that a professional log-tosser's diet is fat- and sugar-free.
In South Africa, I once watched a spoofy (I think) combat in which a white gladiator and a black gladiator battled each other up the sheer face of a wall, the goal being not just to reach the top first but to dislodge your opponent so that he has no chance of ever making it up.
Then there's Wisconsin, where, back in the eighties, I lived through three deer-hunting seasons. The season was only nine days long but with more than 600,000 licensed hunters on the prowl, around 260,000 deer could expect to meet their maker within that time. "I guess they have bad aim," said my sister dryly when she heard this bit of data, but the truth is they did indeed have exceedingly bad aim. If memory serves me, Wisconsin was the only state that actually gave blind people a license to shoot. I was told they had to wear a neon-red sign that said: blind hunter (thus giving other blind hunters the chance to duck, I suppose).
Not only did more deer die at that time of year than at any other, more Wisconsiners did too. So the real suspense of the daily television tally was always the human toll, not the animal. Lost bullets seeking their mark took shortcuts through people's breakfast nooks and open bathroom windows and attic hideaways. Stray bullets always caught people by surprise in the middle of some intensely private act. Not that every such death was a complete surprise: One year the sheriffs and game wardens got worried about hunters who shot across busy highways at deer on the other side. So they set up lots of deer decoys by the sides of lots of busy highways to catch the sort of people who would do such a thing. Many of us just hid in the basement until they thought the logic of that one over.
I'm optimistic that we humans will always express our sporting instincts in locally interesting and richly varied ways. Indeed, a recurring criticism of the NBC coverage has been precisely its homogenization of the Olympics--the sappy human interest, the weepy mood music, the breathlessly overdramatized replays. But when I think about what the youngest consumers of American sports culture are exposed to as routine athletic fare, I guess it's no wonder some of them would opt for the halftime song-and-dance act. They already know that too often the real action is played out in culturally revealing games like the Bobby Knight Memorial chair-tossing competition, Hide and Seek the Steroids, the Million Dollar Endorsement Dash, Soccer Mom Slugfest and Hockey Dad Death Match.
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The New York of 1945 was the victorious city of the New Deal and World War II, one that can barely be glimpsed today beneath postmodern towers and billboards for dot-com enterprises.


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Ancient cosmic visitors. Atlantis. Human evolution. Bigfoot sightings.
Many researchers have raised the questions and offered answers. Now, Lisa A. Shiel explores her own theories to solve the age-old mystery Katy Gallagher and her mentor, historian Charlie Bergren, scour the Earth for proof current evolutionary theories are flawed. Their quest turns dangerous when Katy is threatened and Charlie vanishes. To find him, Katy must join forces with his son, Rick, who's… (more)
Publisher: Slipdown Mountain Publications (June 28, 2011)
Format: EPUB
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Language: English


text: The Golden Knights are regulars at the annual Dayton Vectran Air Show in Ohio, so when Gold Team arrived in town this last weekend was like seeing some old friends. The show hosted nearly 30,000 spectators, from first-timers to seasoned vets. The weather was great all weekend and made the show enjoyable for everyone…not least of all the jumpers! (more…)