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|By John Bantleman
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|February 19, 2013 06:00 AM EST
The good news about the Big Data market is that we generally all agree on the definition of Big Data, which has come to be known as data that has volume, velocity and variety where businesses need to collect, store, manage and analyze in order to derive business value or otherwise known as the "4 V's." However, the problem with such a broad definition is that it can mean different things to different people once you start to put some real values next to those V's.
Let's be honest, Volume can be a different thing to different organizations. To some it is anything above 10 terabytes of managed data in their BI environment and to others it is petabyte scale and nothing less. Likewise velocity can be multi-billions of daily records coming into the enterprise from various external and internal networks. When it really comes down to it, each business situation will be quite different not only from a size and speed perspective but also more important from the business use-case or requirement. A large bank's Big Data problem could be very different to that of an online retailer or an airline. If you compare what say a hospital is trying to do collecting and analyzing all the sensor patient data compared to a utilities provider running a smart-grid or a telecommunications operator. True, all could be categorized as machine generated or raw data but the exact type of data might be different not to mention the volume or growth rate. Probably the one unique common denominator across all aforementioned industries is that everyone is keeping the data for longer time-periods. No one is throwing it away - not even the detailed data.
The Many Cost Factors to Consider
Costs will of course vary depending on the individual allocated IT budget but regardless, how the company allocates IT budget dollars to new Big Data initiatives needs consideration. Let's face it, enterprise buyers didn't suddenly come into a bunch of newfound IT assets or line items on their budget and the current world economic situation would certainly not suggest so. More likely existing budgets are being re-allocated and instead of spending more on say existing traditional data warehouses or appliances, monies are being allocated to new projects running on open source projects including Apache Hadoop which promises both low cost, ease of scale not to mention the obvious best approach to managing and analyzing multi-structured data sets. The difficultly then arises how do you integrate or have your Hadoop environment co-exist with the established BI or DW environment that the business has grown to love and rely upon?
Leverage What You Already Have
Let's assume you have a data warehouse or data mart in place today and you already use various ETL or data movement tools and BI dashboard, analytics or reporting tools and you don't want to disrupt business users which could not only impacting performance levels but also training up on a new set of tools. In fact you already likely beholden to strict SLA's around response times for the various business reports and KPI's. However, at the same time the business is demanding access to new data sets in order to glean better insights either directly analyzing this data or co-mingling it with existing customer data. This could take the form of web-logs, click stream data or social media data from various interactive sites the business is now leveraging and tracking. The promise of impacting profit margins and gaining a competitive edge just cannot be avoided.
As we all know, traditional relational or columnar databases can't handle the unstructured data types so IT needs to rollout a different solution to satisfy the business demands. Evaluations can take many forms but typically will start with which Hadoop distribution, which NoSQL or NewSQL database and what query access tools in addition to MapReduce. It is certainly no easy task as there are a large number of technology solutions on the market today that claim to run on or with Hadoop providing MapReduce or SQL-like capabilities which all satisfy the requirement of managing volumes of unstructured data. Some are more mature than others; some proven and not all are low-cost. Open source on the surface looks very low cost but as soon as you require any level of support, which lets face it once it's live and relied upon as a business critical environment, you will need to allocate a line item on your budget. The Big Data line item won't just be one line as it will need to include all components required to properly rollout a Big Data solution to truly satisfy the business demands. Just like any other IT environment the obvious pieces will include: Software licensing and support, hardware, skilled dedicated resources, professional services and training and the dedicated time of business users to provide input on key requirements including specifying types of reports, queries and analysis which will naturally change and evolve over time.
Big Data Costs Can Quickly Creep Up
In terms of the hardware expenditure required to manage the new Big Data set, you may start out with a Hadoop cluster of say 10 nodes and yes that is certainly manageable but if your data velocity is significant, you can quickly reach 100+ nodes and now you will face a number of other expenses including additional headcount and skilled resources to manage the environment proactively in addition to tools for managing the cluster including system management and alerting and potentially add-on software which can vary by business use-case but might cover real-time analytics against streaming data for say fraud detection or detection of unusual patterns. You may also need a business tool to provide a front-end GUI dashboard to track specific KPIs or data visualization tools so business users can quickly understand what is going on. Very quickly the costs become less about the storage and hardware and more around the software that focuses on getting the most value from this newly collected data set.
There is no denying the fact that Big Data presents great new opportunities but reaching the point of a quantifiable ROI in a fast time frame is still a very real challenge. Everyone is talking about Big Data and all the innovative technology approaches to tackling it but it is still difficult to find lots of business success stories within any one-industry sector. It's still fairly immature but the good news is that its moving at a much faster pace than any other IT project today and certainly our data warehouse and BI forefathers have provided lessons learned over the past two decades.
Big Data Is Big Business but It Comes with Strict Requirements
If we want to examine more closely the main areas of expenditure for a Big Data project, it is probably best to look at it through the lens of a specific type of business and use-case. Let's take a large financial institution that has a number of existing traditional data warehouse / BI environments but because the business doesn't want to throw any data away (well let's face it regulations don't allow that for a number of years) and realistically the business wants to retain specific data sets for ongoing trending and analysis. This includes examining questions such as "what constitutes a low-risk client based on spending behavior patterns over a specific time period cross-referenced with customer demographics" which will help the institution better target a particular segment of the market.
Given the IT budget doesn't allow for increased spend that correlates with data growth rates, they need to seriously reduce costs and so decide to go the route of a Hadoop-based environment given its promise for low-cost scale and the fact that it can provide insights into customer patterns by capturing semi- and unstructured data. Front-ending the warehouse with a dedicated Hadoop cluster is the preferred architectural approach but the business users still want access to both the Hadoop environment and the existing traditional data warehouse environment.
Given we are talking about a financial institution, the question of security and availability quickly come to the top of the requirements list. At the same time, if business users want to access that data, SQL query access and using the current BI tool against that new set of data is also a requirement. If you can avoid having to the move large chunks of data on a frequent basis from one to the other, it will not only reduce costs but also latency. In an ideal world, being able to leverage the skill sets you already have and avoiding duplication of work is key.
Below is a quick table outlining the main cost factors to be considered and a set of comments against each of these areas that could reduce costs.
Big Data on Hadoop Cost Factors
Key Consideration to drive down cost
Look at databases that provide data compression to yield storage savings (better than GZip or LZO).
Hardware (Nodes)
Granular data compression at database level will reduce nodes over time.
Data Analytics - Skilled Resources
Examine technology solutions that provide standard SQL or BI tool access in addition to MapReduce (Pig etc.)
Cluster management - Skilled Resources
Leverage existing Dev-operations staff if you deploy a SQL-compliant data environment
Look for database solutions that provide built-in security permissions and access.
Availability / DR
Consider a data management environment that doesn't require additional tools for replication.
Consider solutions where you don't need to retrain or hire all new resources. Leverage what you have (standard SQL-skilled DBAs)
Summary: Consider All Factors and Get Business Buy-in Quickly
Big Data is fundamentally a business problem. If you begin with the question of "what is the business trying to achieve by collecting, storing and analyzing this new set of data...", you will start down the right path to realizing business gains. Whether you outsource the initiative or bring in external consultants and vendors to manage the project, the same questions will arise and in order to leverage what you already have which includes both existing IT environments and skills, you will be better able to contain costs.
Furthermore, we all love the promise of new innovative technologies including Hadoop and MapReduce but without leveraging tried and tested standards we have come to love and respect, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense from both a technical or economic sense. As you start on your Big Data journey or project, be sure to ask what exactly the business requires and how can you leverage what you already have today. We all know, getting business user buy-in and success is half the battle to a successful rollout.
|Vikas.Deolaliker 09/21/12 06:49:00 PM EDT
Great article. Another data point, the IT budget is up only 4% in 2013 over 2012, so don't expect everyone to rush into Bigdata.
The fourth "V" is visualization. If you cannot render the analysis in a intuitive way, there is no value in that analysis. In fact, visualization should be the first step in design of a bigdata system - it helps trim down the architectural bloat into something that is within budget and useful.
|Elad Israeli 09/19/12 06:07:00 PM EDT
Fascinating post. Still waiting for someone to crack the nut that is Big Data Analytics.
|douglaney 08/29/12 03:36:00 PM EDT
Great piece John. Excellent detail. Thought you and your readers might be interested in where the "3Vs" of big data originated--in a Gartner piece I authored over 11 years ago. I recently unearthed a copy so folks to refer to and cite it.
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The lush, natural abundance of the countryside is captured perfectly by this uncomplicated, freshly picked arrangement. If you can't find lilacs, or the other flowers featured, any other garden flower will work equally well.
The flowers are arranged as a spiral hand-tied bouquet without being tied, which would make the blooms look too tight. Instead, they are placed straight in the pitcher to fall naturally in a loose arrangement.
Flowers and Foliage
7 lilac stocks
6 lady's mantle
5 spurge euphorbia
12 French lavender
7 ageratum
5 lilac
Possible Substitutions
Antirrhinums (for stocks); spray roses (for ageratum); phlox (for lilac); marguerites (for French lavender); cultivated guelder (for euphorbia); eucalyptus (for lady's mantle). Foliage with an attractive color and shape, like lady's mantle or eucalyptus, can be treated like a flower in a display.
Other Materials
enamel pitcher (8 inches high)
florist's scissors
How to Arrange
Arrange the different flowers into separate piles. Hold the stem of a flower in your hand and add another variety of flower to it at the binding point, twisting the bunch around slightly in one direction in your hand as you do so.
Add one of each of all the flowers alternately at the same angle to create a spiral stem effect, turning the bunch in the same direction as you work.
Check that you are happy with the arrangement, then add the remaining blooms and arrange the last layer of flowers at a sharper angle so the flower heads sit a little lower around the edges of the bunch and create a domed effect.
Holding the bunch in one hand, cut the stems at an angle so they are all the same length. Place the flowers in the pitcher and adjust them slightly if need be to make an all-around display. Fill almost to the brim with water.
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Picture Perfect: an Indoor Cherry Blossom Arrangement
Japanese painting is the inspiration for this stunning yet simple celebration of spring - an informal, front-facing vase arrangement that looks like a tree in blossom. This design suits a large, airy hall, living room, porch or lobby.
Sweet Peas Keep it Simple
This small vase arrangement of a few loose sweet peas shows that less really is more sometimes. Its intimate scale, delicate look, subtle hues and light fragrance provide an irresistable sensory delight.
Celebrate Spring Bouquet with a Vibrant Bouquet
The contrasting blues and oranges of this vibrant hand-tied bouquet make the blooms sing with intensity. This arrangement makes a gorgeous Mother's Day gift or, in an orange or black glass vase, a sensational centerpiece.
Organic Appeal: Flag Irises and Horse Chestnuts
Young flag irises bloom beneath a canopy of horse chestnut leaves in a unique arrangement that highlights nature's different scales and unusual shapes. Position this display on a shelf or mantelpiece in a light, airy room.
A Visually Striking Springtime: Daffodils and Dogwood Stems
This arrangement brings a fresh, vibrant optical illusion to any kitchen table, windowsill or even bathroom. It may look complicated and fully floral but the barely-seen glass vase makes its creation a snap.
Tea-Time Tulips
Small arrangements can make a big impression. These loosely arranged tulips accent a dressing table, china hutch or shelf perfectly, or dress up individual place settings or a children's tea party.
Spring Bursts Forth in an Ebullient Arrangement
Distinct components give this colorful, energetic arrangement a unique three-dimentional pop of tone-spanning pinks, with fresh green and natural wood complements.
Make Your Own Mini Marquee Letter
Vintage marquee letters are definitely on trend right now, but they can also be hard to find and very expensive. With battery-powered lights, foam core, and some spray paint, you can make your own mini version in an afternoon.
Fill Blank Walls With Modern Crayon Art
Fake the look of stained glass using crayons and wax paper. This modern take on a traditional technique creates free-form shapes that can easily be customized to match your space perfectly.
Group Instant Photos Into Eye-Catching Wall Art
Like Polariods of the past, Fuji Instax photos are the next wave of instant photos. Group photos from the same day or event to make keepsakes that are visually different from one another.
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Tile experts:Can I find tiles w/shade variation & straight edge?
I generally post in Kitchens, but someone suggested I tap the tile wisdom that resides in this forum. I am trying to find tile for my backsplash in a vintage-look kitchen. I have come to the conclusion that what I would like is tiles that have substantial color variation (probably V2 or V3), but have well-formed, straight edges. I plan to use colored, 4.25x4.25 tiles.
I have a thread going in the kitchen forum where I am contemplating various characteristics of ceramic tile as it relates to perceived richness. (http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg061311547774.html ) I have come to the conclusion that shade variation is an important factor.
I wish to evoke a vintage look similar to this:
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However, all the tile I have been able to find so far that has straight edges has NO color variation; alternately, I can find nicely shaded, varied tiles but these all seem to be handmolded with wavy edges. I am hoping one of you can point me towards some likely sources of nicely formed tiles that vary in shade.
Sonoma tile. The Star line has straighter edges, and is less expensive, than the Stellar line, but has fewer color options.
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"I really love this place out here, and I love the way it looks. I like the way it smells. I like to go outside at night and just look at the sky and feel the wind, and I think it's a really precious place, and I think it's a precious place because of what has come before and because of what's here now."
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John Tutino: "We need Mexico as an other. We can't deal with it as an us."
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#13 "Looking at Mexico in New Ways: An Interview with John Tutino."
John Tutino: "We need Mexico as an other. We can't deal with it as an us." But his whole point is that, in fact, US and Mexico are inseparable. It's a knock-your-huaraches-off interview.
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C.M. Mayo: Welcome to Marfa Mondays. I'm your host, C.M. Mayo and this is Podcast 13 of a projected 24 podcasts exploring Marfa and the wider Big Bend region, apropos of my book-in-progress about Far West Texas. So far in the series I've interviewed people in and around Marfa and also reported on my visits to some very remote and intriguing places in the Big Bend, most recently, interviews with Dallas Baxter, founder of Cenizo Journal; and with luthier and cowboy poet singing some cowboy songs, Michael Stevens; and a visit to Swan House, Simone Swan's adobe teaching house, inspired by the legacy of Egypt's greatest architect, Hassan Fathy. I invite you to listen to these podcasts and all the others anytime at my website, cmmayo.com, and through the website, send in your comments. I'm always delighted to hear from listeners.
Now in this podcast I take a big step back to get some perspective— big perspective. Bigger than Texas perspective. Those of you who know Far West Texas know how close Mexico is in every sense. Look at a map and you'll see, from Marfa it's only a little more than an hour's drive to Presidio, which sits on the Rio Grande; cross over and there you are: Mexico. That's what we're going to hear about in this interview with John Tutino.
John Tutino teaches the history of Mexico and the Americas in the History Department and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He's the author of Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America, which was published by Duke University Press in 2011. Tutino is also the editor of a collection of essays by various historians with the title Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States, and that is available from University of Texas Press. This interview was recorded in his office at Georgetown University.
C.M. Mayo: We have Making a New World and the related anthology Mexico and the Mexicans in the Making of the United States. These are closely related, and they are both nuclear bombs!
John Tutino: Thank you!
C.M. Mayo: They're huge paradigm-busting... across from the beginning when we had the expansion of New Spain in the 1500s to modern day immigration. My head is reeling with all this stuff that's in these two books!
John Tutino: And I will say, you're right, they evolved together. They were a long time coming, decades in the rumination and a decade plus in the focused production. And yeah, I got to the point where I said, "The whole basic big picture of where we thought Mexico fit in the world is somewhere between wrong and mythical. And you can't change that by chipping away at the edges and saying, look at this little piece."
And so I ended up writing Making a New World to just try to say, "New Spain, which is the root of Mexico, was absolutely an pivotal place to the origins of the modern world, modern capitalism, and equally absolutely pivotal to the origins of the United States." And I was working on one when I figured out the other.
C.M. Mayo: My sense is that in Anglo-American culture, we've always had this idea that, here is American history over here, and here is Mexican history over here, and yes, there was war and there was this and there was that, but you could like put a little bell jar on top of each subject, and what you're saying, and I know is true, is that, no, you have to look at them together.
John Tutino: Yeah. I will tell you a story. I, years ago, put together a NEH [National Endowment for the Humanties] Summer Seminar for school teachers on the interrelated histories of Mexico and the United States. NEH, the grant proposal group, approved it. They wanted to fund it, but the staff at NEH refused my title, which was "Inseparable Histories: Mexico and the United States." They said I could teach the seminar— this was in the early '90s— not having the primary title "Inseparable Histories," and I tactically said, "Well, I want to do the seminar. I'll negotiate the title." But that's the extent that this goes there.
But I will also add that particularly the argument that New Spain was fundamental to the origins of modern capitalism and that it was, particularly in its north, one of the earliest, most dynamic capitalist places on Earth, is equally challenging a lot of Mexican scholars.
C.M. Mayo: Oh, yes.
John Tutino: They have sort of bought into a notion, they have been trained in a notion, that Mexico had its base in great Pre-hispanic societies that were destroyed by Spanish colonialism for three centuries, and then there has been a struggle to reconstitute something positive. And boy, there were destructions in early 16th century, though I argue they're more disease driven than anything any human could impose. And yes, there have been struggles, but people have... I don't fully understand, why not glory in the... You know, it's a typical history, it's a history of enormous economic dynamism and thus enormous conflict, change, human greatness, human exploitation, human difficulty, but it sort of puts New Spain and Mexico, I believe, at the absolute mainstream of modern history.
C.M. Mayo: So, in other words is as you call "this enduring presumption" was that capitalism started with England.
John Tutino: With England.
C.M. Mayo: And North America, and this is what we've been told in school and Adam Smith, and...
John Tutino: It has been the Anglo American gift to the world.
C.M. Mayo: Would you say gift or plague?
John Tutino: Well, either way. If you ask Anglo Americans, it's their gift to the world. If you ask people who've experienced it without prosperity... And this is part of what I try to do. I think too often we argue that capitalism is easily the most positive thing the world has ever seen or it's the most dastardly thing the world has ever seen, and I just see capitalism as a dominant historical reality with enormous creativities, positives, productive gains and, linked to it, changing rounds of difficulties, conflicts, human difficulties, exploitations, and we've got to quit arguing one against the other. We've got to figure out how to maximize one, minimize the other, but as a historian I just want to understand it.
In terms of that I should emphasize, in terms of taking Anglocentrism away from the study of global capitalism, I have jumped on a bandwagon there. It really came out of Asianists. One part, Andre Gunder Frank who started writing on Latin America years ago, then went to China and wrote a book called ReOrient, and Kenneth Pomeranz, who wrote a book called The Great Divergence, and I will say Gunder Frank was more the cage-rattling ideologue and Pomeranz was more the careful historian. He's currently, it took 10 years after the book, but he's now president of the American Historical Association. But the two of them together right around the year 2000 said, in 1600 China was the dominant economy in the world, Western Europe was a minor player and they contended for three centuries, and before 1800 nothing made it certain that Europe was going to rise to dominance and Asia was going to fade. It was a historical give and take, and then some particular things happened around 1800 that shift this. They were debating this and they were all recognizing that silver was pivotal to this world economy.
C.M. Mayo: Right. So China was demanding it—
John Tutino: Was the place demanding...the silver that went to Europe ended up in China.
C.M. Mayo: So this is the silver from Peru and from Mexico.
John Tutino: Mexico. Scholars show for most of three centuries two-thirds of it passed east to Europe, but ended up passing through the Middle East, South Asia, and ends up in China. A third of it goes directly to Manila and ends up in China.
C.M. Mayo: Through Acapulco on the Nao de China... [Manila Galleon]
John Tutino: Acapulco to Manila. And people always ask, "Why is Manila part of the Spanish empire?" It was a city of Chinese merchants under Spanish sovereignty who traded goods not just from China but from India, Indonesia, and sent them back. Have you ever been to what is now the Museo del Virreinato in Tepotzotlan on the road?
C.M. Mayo: Yes, just north of Mexico City.
John Tutino: North of Mexico City. There are two rooms there of Chinese-Christian-Asian art that were all brought back by the Jesuits because that was their colonial... It is the best way to see the wealth of China that was brought to New Spain by that silver, is to just go through those rooms in Tepotzotlan.
C.M. Mayo: And this doesn't fit with the image of Mexico in Anglo-American cultural history or our modern media at all.
John Tutino: As a backward, exploited, crushed environment that Spanish colonialism just ground to nothing! And one of the ironies is... and we have a hard time thinking about it. So New Spain, I argue, was probably one of the three core regions of early modern capitalism, while Spain, its mother country, was in decline. And we've just got to learn to get over the presumption that Spain could be in decline as a European power but New Spain could be just flourishing.
C.M. Mayo: What I loved about the opening of your book, Making a New World, was you start talking about...to illustrate your points, the individual biographies of several people in the very important city of Querétaro. And as a bit of digression I want to say, I'm an American and I've been living in Mexico all these years, and I come back and forth frequently, and it is very rare that anybody in the U.S. has even heard of Querétaro, and yet Querétaro plays a central role in the development of the Mexican economy from almost the very beginning.
John Tutino: I will note it's also coming back. It may be the single most dynamic place under the current NAFTA-driven economic revival. And Querétaro really became probably my favorite place in Mexico in the process of writing this book.
I had been introduced to Mexico as a 17-year-old kid going to San Miguel de Allende and I'd lived for a full year in Mexico City, lots of time in other central Mexico places, most of all in Mexico City, but when I started doing this and started spending between two weeks to a month every year in Querétaro, and the mix of its colonial heritage and its modern dynamism just made it. It isn't a museum like San Miguel. My apologies to the San Miguel tourist bureau. [Laughs] It's a real dynamic city but with a wonderful historic arc.
The argument is that this dynamism is there and that it is charging north.
C.M. Mayo: Well, can we come back just for a minute to those individual biographies in and around Querétaro, part of the Bajío, which includes San Miguel de Allende.
John Tutino: Guanajuato.
C.M. Mayo: León, Celaya.
John Tutino: Yes.
C.M. Mayo: It's a group of cities north of Mexico City, kind of in the very heart of Mexico.
John Tutino: It is absolutely the richest agricultural land in Mexico. Historically the richest mines in Mexico were in Guanajuato, and with the mix of those two, Querétaro was the richest trade and industrial city in Querétaro.
C.M. Mayo: Oh, and Zacatecas.
John Tutino: Zacatecas isn't quite Bajío in Mexican parlance because it's north, it's dry, but the Bajío fed it because, precisely, Zacatecas is mining wealth in dry uplands. Where did Zacatecas get its food? So the Bajío is also in a sense sustaining places like Zacatecas.
C.M. Mayo: So when we look at the beginnings of Querétaro and this economic engine that's going to feed the northward expansion of New Spain, one of the biographies that you talked about was José Sánchez Espinosa. There was another little one in there about an Italian count...
John Tutino: Yes, Colombini. And later in the book there's huge excerpts from a poem he wrote in honor of Our Lady of Pueblito, the local Otomí virgin who historically and still in many ways centers popular devotions in Querétaro, the way Guadalupe has historically around Mexico City.
Let me quickly go through my favorite vignette. The first one is Connín. Connín is an Otomí trader, frontiersman. He had traded across the frontier into the land of the Chichimecas. When Spaniards came he claimed to have been a lord; we don't know if he really was but he was able to mobilize followers with a little bit of army, a little bit of settlement, and he, an Otomí trader or lord with somewhere between dozens and a few hundred Otomí friends, relatives, villagers recruited only a couple of Spanish Franciscan friars, and while literally Spaniards are still trying to conquer Mexico City, they go north and found Querétaro. And so Querétaro is actually an Otomí foundation with Catholic Franciscan sanction under Spanish rule. And for the first 30 years Querétaro is an Otomí city. Other than a priest or two there's nobody else there. They build the irrigation. They build grist mills. They built the town. They distribute the land. And Connín and his pals take large landed estates for themselves, but they make sure their followers all have these incredibly rich irrigated gardens at the core of the city, and of course, he very quickly... he can't remain Connín, he's baptized and he becomes Don Fernando de Tapia.
C.M. Mayo: And what amazed me about Don Fernando de Tapia is, you give the little biography and one reads along, da-da, da-da, da-da, he did this, he did that, his daughter...
John Tutino: And you think he's got to be a Spanish conquerer.
C.M. Mayo: He's got to be a Spanish conquerer and it turns out, no! He's an Otomí trader who used to be called Connín!
John Tutino: And it is the perfect example of how indigenous people weren't always broken. They saw opportunity.
C.M. Mayo: It's a more complex story than what we're told at a public level. [CONTINUE READING THIS TRANSCRIPT]
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#13 "Looking at Mexico in New Ways: An Interview with John Tutino."
John Tutino: "We need Mexico as an other. We can't deal with it as an us." But his whole point is that, in fact, US and Mexico are inseparable. It's a knock-your-huaraches-off interview.
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C.M. Mayo: Oh, yes.
C.M. Mayo: It's a more complex story than what we're told at a public level. [CONTINUE READING THIS TRANSCRIPT]
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
New Transcript Just Posted: Marfa Mondays Podcast #15 Gifts of the Ancient Ones: Greg Williams on the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands
Slowly but surely, my many podcasts, including the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project interviews, are getting transcribed. The latest transcription posted is one of my very favorite Marfa Mondays interviews, with Rock Art Foundation Executive Director Greg Williams, recorded last August 2014 at Meyers Spring ranch near Dryden, Texas-- just a scoonch west of the Pecos.
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C.M. Mayo: Welcome to Marfa Mondays Podcast number 15 of a projected 24 podcasts exploring Marfa, Texas and the greater Big Bend region of Far West Texas, apropos of my book-in-progress. I'm your host, C.M. Mayo, and on my webpage, cmmayo.com, you can listen in to all the podcasts anytime for free, and also there you can find out about my several other books.
The most recent book is the reason these podcasts have been coming along a little more slowly this year. That book, which is done and now available in paperback and e-book formats, is Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. For those rusty on their Mexican history, Francisco Maderowas the leader of Mexico's 1910 Revolution and he was president of Mexico from 1911 to 1913, so his so-called secret book, which I translated into English, is in many ways quite illuminating.
This podcast is of my interview with Greg Williams, executive director of the Rock Art Foundation. It was recorded on August 30, 2014 at Meyers Spring Ranch on the conclusion of a four hour tour of the rock art there and of the restored house of the military commander at Camp Meyers.
Meyers Spring is one of a multitude of rock art sites in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, a region around the confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande and extending south into Mexican state of Coahuila— by the way, the native state of none other than Francisco Madero. In this region, to quote Harry J. Shafer in the introduction to his anthology, Painters in Prehistory: Archaeology and Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, "Magnificent polychrome, pictographic images, panels, and murals exist that rival any in the world."
Meyers Spring, which I toured with the Rock Art Foundation, is on private property a few miles drive from the tiny border town of Dryden, Texas. To quote from the Rock Art Foundation's website, rockart.org, "Meyers Spring is an isolated water hole in the arid lands west of the Pecos. Brilliant red paintings overlook a permanent pool of water sheltered only by a shallow overhang. Although faded remnants of much older pictographs can still be detected, the majority are attributable to Plains Indians who were latecomers to the region."
You can view pictures of Meyer Spring and other rock art sites on the website rockart.org, and for more about the rock art I can also recommend the books Painters in Prehistory, edited by Harry J. Shafer, and Rock Art of the Lower Pecos by Carolyn E. Boyd.
Before we go to the interview with Greg Williams, executive director of the Rock Art Foundation, an apology for the sound. There's a bit of a roar which would be the very necessary air conditioner. This was recorded in the kitchen of the ranch house so people were coming in and out and there was some target shooting going on from the porch. I managed to edit out most of the shooting, but you'll still hear a few pops.
I would like to dedicate this podcast to my friend and neighbor in Tepoztlán, Mexico, Patty Hogan, because Patty, I am so grateful to you for putting me in touch with the Rock Art Foundation.
C.M. Mayo: Most people that I've talked to have never heard of rock art in this area, and yet there's a lot of it, and it's really important. Why is that?
Greg Williams: Probably the best way I could explain it is explain to you what happened to me. In 1991 in my business I was trying to have some photography done, and so I looked in the phonebook and I saw a man named Jim Zintgraff who is a well-known San Antonio photographer. I hired Jim, and we went out to a photo shoot, and the conversation kind of waned, and my son and I had been camping in West Texas for years, and so the only thing I really knew about that I thought Jim might be interested in is I brought up West Texas, and it went from there. Jim was the director of the Rock Art Foundation then. Jim passed away eight years ago and I became director following him. But what happened is this gentleman brought me and my wife to West Texas to see things that I had never even known about, and they were the remnants of a past culture, a culture that had existed in the Lower Pecos region of West Texas, which is the confluence of the Pecos and the Rio Grande, for twelve thousand years.
I had no idea that people lived out here for that long, And so we wandered around and we looked at the remnants of that culture. We looked at their lifeways, through the floors of these dry rock shelters, and we looked at their language, the stories that they wrote for us on the walls of these shelters, and we didn't know what they meant. You'd have to be in the mind of the artist to find that out, but you could sit and wonder about these folks who lived so long ago here and how hard the life must have been for them, in our context. For them it probably was not quite so difficult at all. They had plenty of food, plenty of water.
But what they left behind was remarkable and it's called rock art. It's a book, it's a story. Some of the images out here in West Texas, you can call them the oldest known books in North America. They are thousands of years old and as we look at cultures of people that exist today, the Huichol in northern central Mexico, the Native American populations around the country, and we look at their art, and we look at this four thousand-year-old ancient art that we have here, we begin to see similarities. We see Lower Pecos images in Mayan art, we see it in Aztec art, and by making all those comparisons you can kind of start to believe that you understand what these people have written, and what's in their book that they've left us.... CONTINUE READING THIS TRANSCRIPT
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Monday, March 16, 2015
Ignacio Solares' Short Story "Victoriano's Deliriums" Translated by Yours Truly in the Lampeter Review
|This issue #11 of The Lampeter Review includes
a masterful short story by one of Mexico's
greatest writers, Ignacio Solares.
|Ignacio Solares
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Ignacio Solares' masterful short story "Victoriano's Deliriums," enters into the points of view (and what may or may not be some hallucinations) of the dying general and ex-President of Mexico, Victoriano Huerta.
A little background: In 1913 General Victoriano Huerta led the coup d'etat that overthrew Mexican President Francisco I. Madero. A wealthy Coahuilan businessman and ardent Spiritist, Madero had led the 1910 Revolution, then campaigned for and won the presidential election in 1911. As President, Madero had trusted General Huerta, a fatal mistake. Huerta's own rule was troubled and brief. In 1914 he fled for Europe and then on arriving in El Paso, Texas he was arrested. Huerta died there in early 1916 from cirrhosis of the liver, while under house arrest.
IGNACIO SOLARES is one of Mexico's best-known literary writers. Among his many works are the novels Un sueño de Bernardo Reyes; Madero, el otro; El Jefe Máximo; and El sitio, which won the prestigious Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. Born in Ciudad Juárez, he now lives in Mexico City where he is editor-in-chief of La Revista de la Universidad, the magazine of the Mexico's National University.
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Sunday, March 15, 2015
Transcript of the Marfa Mondays Podcast #16: "Tremendous Forms: Paul V. Chaplo on Finding Composition in the Landscape"
Marfa Mondays 16: "Tremendous Forms: Paul V. Chaplo on Finding Composition in the Landscape" was posted as podcast (listen in anytime on podomatic or iTunes) back in January, but the transcript has just been posted here.
I'm aiming to post transcripts of all my podcast interviews, both the Marfa Mondays and Conversations with Other Writers (for the latter, so far, transcripts are available for Rose Mary Salum and Sergio Troncoso). Stay tuned for Marfa Mondays 17, an interview recorded in Fort Davis with Texas historian Lonn Taylor.
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Saturday, March 14, 2015
A Shoutout for the Authors Guild
I'm always encouraging fellow writers to join the Authors Guild for the legal services and the invaluable Model Trade Book Contract and Commentary (we're talking super crunchy boilerplate, much more than is available on the webpage, and whether you work with an agent or not, yes, you can keep your wits about you when they start talking about subrights clauses that sound like Masonic incantation). But it does cost more than the price of a hamburger dinner for seven to join, and I was just thinking, gosh, they really should offer a member directory with a little more oomph, when lo, that very invitation to fill out my new page arrived in the inbox!
It was easy to do and it is elegantly designed. If you join, your page would like this this:
My one criticism of the Author's Guild is that it's oriented toward those with traditional publishers, yet these days, increasing numbers of even the most impressively published writers are becoming "hybrid," that is, going to ye olde publishers for some works, and self-publishing others as Kindles, PODs, and more. No doubt, I am one of many authors, whether current or prospective members of the Authors Guild, who would warmly welcome more information and support for the latter.
That said-- so I hear from other members-- the Authors Guild author webpage services (check out Neal Gillen's and Sara Mansfield Taber's) and Backinprint.com program (see Sophy Burnham's The Art Crowd, for example) are very good.
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It was easy to do and it is elegantly designed. If you join, your page would like this this:
|Author's Guild Member Page for Yours Truly
My one criticism of the Author's Guild is that it's oriented toward those with traditional publishers, yet these days, increasing numbers of even the most impressively published writers are becoming "hybrid," that is, going to ye olde publishers for some works, and self-publishing others as Kindles, PODs, and more. No doubt, I am one of many authors, whether current or prospective members of the Authors Guild, who would warmly welcome more information and support for the latter.
That said-- so I hear from other members-- the Authors Guild author webpage services (check out Neal Gillen's and Sara Mansfield Taber's) and Backinprint.com program (see Sophy Burnham's The Art Crowd, for example) are very good.
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Friday, March 13, 2015
Cyberflanerie: Solitario Dome Edition
|Inside The Solitario
Photo: C.M. Mayo
March 2015
Meanwhile, a few links about the latter:
Chase Snodgrass's flight over the Solitario:
Flora and Vegetation of the Solitario Dome
by Jean Evans Hardy, Iron Mountain Press, 2009
(Whoa, call the chiropracter, I brought this one home in my carry-on.)
Geology of the Solitario
by Charles E. Corry, et al. Geological Society of America Special Paper 250, 1990.
"Igneous Evolution of a Complex Laccolith-Caldera, the Solitario, Trans-Pecos, Texas:
Implications for Calderas and Subjacent Plutons"
by Christopher D. Henry, et al. Geological Society of America Bulletin, August 1997
(Super-crunchy PDF)
|Google Maps screenshot
Megan Hicks, The Big Bend Paisano, Winter 2004/2005
"Geology at the Crossroads"
By Blaine R. Hall, Big Bend Ranch State Park
|Entering the labyrinth of the Solitario via Los Portales
(That's my guide, Charlie Angell, he's the best,
check him out on Tripadvisor.com)
Photo: C.M. Mayo, March 2015
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Labels: Big Bend Ranch State Park, Charles E. Corry, Charlie Angell, cyberflanerie, Far West Texas, geology, Jean Evans Hardy, Lonn Taylor, Marfa Mondays, Megan Hicks, Paul V. Chaplo, Solitario, Solitario Dome
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Sergio Troncoso on El Paso, Flannery O'Connor, Borges at Harvard, Zyklon-B, and Our Lost Border
Conversations with Other Writers occasional podcast series, I posted a fascinating interview with novelist and essayist Sergio Troncoso. You can still listen to that interview anytime on podomatic or iTunes, and the news is, I've just posted the complete transcript.
There is also a transcript of my podcast interview with Rose Mary Salum.
More podcasts and transcripts of same are in-progress-- coming soon, more Marfa Mondays.
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There is also a transcript of my podcast interview with Rose Mary Salum.
More podcasts and transcripts of same are in-progress-- coming soon, more Marfa Mondays.
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Monday, March 09, 2015
Cyberflanerie: Amusingly Strange Edition
OK Go Pilobolus dance video (hat tip to Swiss Miss)
More dancing, with pixels.
So what is Texas? One more mediation thereupon.
Field Lab blogger in Terlingua recites his poem, with pet longhorns.
Frank Chimero on what screens want.
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Wednesday, March 04, 2015
February Newsletter
My February newsletter went out via the fabubananalous MailChimp.com a little while ago with podcasts, events, workshops, and much more.
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So as you know it's impossible to find breakfast burritos on long island or the east coast. Well, here is a great spot.I would like to try allot more food there but those burritos are so good.....
The taco's are off the ching chang at this place. It's reasonably priced and the staff are nice. There are a couple of tables inside, but this place seems to do a lot of takeout.
Always good food. They have an extensive menu. Orders are ready quickly and food is fresh and tasty. I've only gotten take-out, but you can eat there.
Generous portions, salsa bar is great. Food can be very greasy, so if you order.something with a hard shell like tacos or nachos, make sure to finish them there...can't take that home.
This is a fast food mexican place. Food is exactly what you expect. Nice size servings for the price. Definitely worth eating here if you're looking for a quick mexican bite.
This restaurant consistently serves great food. They also have a variety of things on the menu. Lamb gyro burrito was awesome. Always fresh and tasty. Great service. One of Northport's best.
This is a fast food Tex Mex joint. We eat here about once a week. They are fast and there are many tasty options. We often order variations of the menu, which they are cheerfully willing to prepare: my son requests a chili quesadilla (not on the menu, but they have chili and they have quesadillas, so why not?) which...
Terrific Mexican food all the time. If you like Mexican food you need to try this place. The BBQ burrito is something everyone should try!
Great lunch spot, in strip mall, very clean and good prices. It's not Moes or Chipotle but the North Shore doesn't support the big chains in small towns. Condiment bar, eat in or take away. You'll see a lot of the landscapers in for lunch so you know it's the real deal.
the best mexican food the quacamole is out of this world all the food there is awesome we love it, we love the chicken quesadillas and the burittos my favorite is the nachos with cheese loaded out of this world
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