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Vaca, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca 1490-c. 1557
Spanish explorer and chronicler.
Cabeza de Vaca is remembered by students of American history as the first European to set foot in the interior of what would become the states of Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The Relación, his account of the eight years he spent traveling on foot across North America as one of only four survivors of a Spanish expedition of nearly 500 men, has long been a primary source for historians and anthropologists interested in Native American life and customs before contact with white civilization. While the Relación is not regarded as among the greatest literary chronicles of Spanish exploration and conquest in the New World, its sympathetic portrayal of native peoples and subtle yet penetrating condemnation of Spanish savagery and greed make it one of the most unique.
Biographical Information
Cabeza de Vaca was born in 1490 in the Spanish town of Jerez de la Frontera, near the port at San Lúcar de Barrameda, from where Magellan sailed in 1519 to become the first man to circumnavigate the globe. It was from San Lúcar de Barrameda that Cabeza de Vaca was to begin his first adventure in 1527. Cabeza de Vaca's family had a long history of illustrious service to Spanish royalty. His paternal grandfather, Pedro de Vera, had been one of the major figures in the Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands, and his mother's family had earned royal favor along with the unusual title "Cabeza de Vaca" (literally "head of the cow") when a peasant ancestor aided a Spanish victory against the Moors in 1212 by marking an unguarded path with the skull of a cow.
There is no record that Cabeza de Vaca had any university education, and while in his teens he began a career in the military. In 1512 he saw action in the Battle of Ravenna, in which 20,000 soldiers died forcing the French to leave Italy. His service to the Duke of Medina Sidonia and to Charles V in several civil wars over the next ten years brought him greater military distinction and a promotion to lieutenant. Little else is known of Cabeza de Vaca until 1527, when he was appointed treasurer and second in command to Pámfilo de Narváez, in an expedition to conquer the recently discovered land of Florida. On June 17, 1527, Cabeza de Vaca and nearly 500 men set sail. He did not return to Spain until 1537, one of only four men from the entire expedition to survive storms, shipwreck, disease, starvation, attacks from Native Americans, and the blundering decisions of Narváez, and the only member to return to Spain. Upon his return he gave an official report to the Spanish king of what he had witnessed as the first European to have traversed nearly 5,000 miles of the interior of the North American continent. Five years later Cabeza de Vaca published his account of these adventures as the Relación.
Perhaps because of his experience with Narváez, Cabeza refused the following year to return to Florida as second in command in De Soto's expedition to conquer the lands and peoples of Florida. In 1540 the King made Cabeza de Vaca the governor of Río de la Plata, a province roughly comparable to present-day Paraguay. The explorer left Spain in November 1540 and landed in Brazil the following March. His records of his governorship and two marches—each traversing over a thousand miles through unexplored South American jungle—before his men mutinied and returned him to Spain in 1543 as a prisoner, were published together with his North American chronicle in 1555 as the Comentarios.
After being forced to return to Spain in 1543, Cabeza de Vaca spent many of his final years defending his South American actions in court. After years of trials and appeals, he was stripped of his honorary titles, sentenced to banishment from the New World, and condemned to eight years of exile in North Africa. In addition he was sued by many investors in the South American expedition who were unable to recoup their financial losses. Although his exile to Africa was eventually withdrawn, Cabeza de Vaca was effectively bankrupt from the costs of his trial. Some scholars have suggested that the explorer died forgotten and penniless; others believe that the Spanish King took pity on him and granted him a pension and new honorary titles. The exact date of his death is also a matter of debate; it is generally accepted that he died somewhere between 1556 and 1564.
Major Works
Cabeza de Vaca wrote and published two works. The first, the Relación (also known as Naufragios or Shipwrecks), was published in 1542 and retells in harrowing detail the many ill-fated adventures that doomed the Narváez expedition to failure and the eventual death of all but four of the original crew of 500 men. The narrative is the first work by a European to offer details of North American species such as the buffalo, opossum, armadillo, and Gila monster; to recount the terrible fury of a Caribbean hurricane; and to bear witness to the lives of Native Americans.
Beginning with their departure from Spain in June 1527, Cabeza de Vaca describes how the men eventually arrived on the western coast of Florida near present-day Tampa Bay, but not before nearly a hundred men either deserted the ship or died in tropical hurricanes while wintering in Cuba. Despite Cabeza de Vaca's warnings, expedition leader Pámfilo de Narváez decided to march with the majority of his men up the Florida peninsula while their supply ships followed them by hugging the coast. Within months, however, the men lost contact with the ships, and, short of provisions, began to die of starvation and tropical diseases. To make matters worse they were continually attacked by coastal Indian tribes. Deciding that their only chance of survival was to sail west toward what they believed was New Spain, the surviving 250 men fashioned five crude rafts and set sail from the Florida coast. Several of the boats sank when they were pushed far out to sea as they passed the area where the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Cabeza de Vaca's raft with several dozen men managed to land on the eastern coast of present-day Texas. Gradually their numbers were reduced to just four men—Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso Castillo, Andrés Dorantes, and Dorantes' African slave, Estevanico, all of whom figure prominently in the written account. The bulk of the book describes how the four were capturerd and enslaved by Indians in Texas, their attempts to escape, and the turn of events that led from their enslavement to positions of high honor among their captors as the foreigners gained reputations as divine healers. The book then traces the long march across Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, down through Sonora, Mexico, concluding as Cabeza de Vaca and his comrades are greeted as heroes by the Spanish viceroy in Mexico City in 1536. The influence of Cabeza de Vaca's tale of suffering, privation, and spiritual awakening has been enduring. Inspired by de Vaca's allusions to fabulous riches, expeditions led by De Soto and Coronado soon returned to Florida and the desert Southwest to conquer the land and its people as they searched for the mythical golden cities of Cibola.
Arriving back in Spain in 1537, Cabeza de Vaca delivered a report of the years in North America co-written by himself, Dorantes and Castillo known as the Joint Report to the Spanish King and government. Although the original report has been lost, a version of it was published by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdéz in 1539.
Cabeza de Vaca's second major work, the Comentarios, was published in 1555 and included a newly edited version of his North American account as well as a much more lengthy description of the three years he spent as leader of an expedition to restore peace and Spanish rule in the South American province that would become Paraguay. Concerned that his predecessor as governor of the region had been murdered by Native Americans, Cabeza de Vaca tells how he decided it would be faster to march overland from Brazil rather than sailing all the way around the southern tip of the continent to reach his destination. The five-month journey through what was believed to be impenetrable forest is described in great detail, as is another march the following year in search of one of the golden cities of Cibola. The marches take a great toll on his men, and he is forced to halt his second expedition after his men refuse to walk any further. A few months later, a full mutiny against his leadership erupts in large part because many of the Spanish resent his protection of Native Americans against their own financial interests. Cabeza de Vaca's tale comes to a close as he is returned to his homeland in chains.
Critical Reception
Cabeza de Vaca's reports of his travels and suffering in strange, new lands had enough popular appeal to be regularly reprinted in Spanish and translated in 1556 into Italian. However, they did not garner much attention in the rest of Europe or North America until the middle of the nineteenth century, when they were translated into French, German, and English. Several English translations in the twentieth century made the Relación available for historians and anthropologists in the United States who found in the accounts of his long overland trek across the desert Southwest valuable descriptions of flora, fauna, and Native American customs. Much of recent scholarship on the Relación has been concerned with attempting to determine the explorer's exact route based on geographical clues in the work. Other scholars have examined differences between the accounts given in the Joint Report, the 1542 version of the Relación, and the 1555 version in the Commentarios, and they have debated whether Cabeza de Vaca may have fabricated elements of his narrative either to please his king or to increase his own prestige. Cabeza de Vaca's account of his years in South America has been largely ignored by English critics and historians; the complete Commentarios have never be translated into English.
Over the last forty years, Cabeza de Vaca's Relación has been gaining increasing critical attention for its literary merits. While it is clear from the frequent misspellings and grammatical mistakes that Cabeza de Vaca was no polished writer, the subtle way the author appeals to the king (to whom the book is addressed) for mercy and for compassion for Native Americans has been regarded as skillful. Critics have also praised the story's pacing and its mood of tension and excitement. Themes of spiritual transformation in the Relación have also been examined; Cyclone Covey and Peter Wild, for example, have stressed the work's underlying Christian ethic. While much of this attention has tended to focus on Cabeza de Vaca's unusual sympathy for Native Americans and the implicit argument that Spanish dominion will be better achieved by practicing a loving Christianity than by conquest, there is also a growing segment who see in the Relación the seeds of modern fiction in general and American literature in particular. William T. Pinkerton has argued that Cabeza de Vaca's narrative may be seen as the "prototype" of much of modern American literature with its preoccupation with "the voyage of exploration, of physical and spiritual discovery, the journey into the interior, in which the dominant figure is man isolated—alone in the wilderness, alone with himself."
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*La relacíon que dio Aluar nuñez cabeça de vaca de lo acaescido en las Indias en la armada donde yua por gouernador Pãphilo de narbaez desde el año de veynte y siete hasta el año d'treynta y seys que boluio a Seuilla con tres de su compañi (narrative) 1542
†La relacion y comentarios del gouernador Aluar nuñez cabeça de vaca, de lo acaescido en las dos jornadas que hizo a las Indias (narrative) 1555
*This work is commonly called the Relación, and is also known as Naufragios (Shipwrecks).
†This work is commonly called the Commentarios and contains an edited version of the Relación together with an...
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Henry R. Wagner (essay date 1937)
SOURCE: "Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca: Alvar," in The Spanish Southwest, 1542-1794: An Annotated Bibliography, Part I, Arno Press, 1967, pp. 42-50.
[In the following excerpt from a work originally published in 1937, Wagner cautions against looking at the Relación as an accurate historical document because it appears that many sections were added later by editors hoping to increase book sales and also because the explorer's apparent reticence in describing the land and resources was designed to prevent further exploration that would interfere with his own dreams of personal glory and fortune.]
The first person to attack the general credibility of [Cabeza de Vaca]...
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Thomas McGann (essay date 1960)
SOURCE: "The Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca," in American Heritage, Vol. 12, No. 1, December 1960, pp. 32-7; 78-82.
[In the following essay, McGann recounts the major adventures of Cabeza de Vaca as described in the Relación]
A crude boat carrying forty exhausted Spaniards drifted close to the long Texas beach. "Near dawn it seemed to me that the tumbling roar of the sea could be heard. Surprised, I called the boatswain and he replied that we were near the coast. We sounded and found ourselves in seven fathoms. It seemed to the boatswain that we ought to keep to sea until sunrise and I took an oar and pulled on the land side until we were a league off-shore. Then we...
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Cyclone Covey (essay date 1961)
SOURCE: Preface to Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, translated by Cyclone Covey, University of New Mexico Press, 1997, pp. 7-17.
[In the following preface to his 1961 translation of the Relación, Covey argues that the explorer's adventures are fascinating for more than their tales of survival and Native American customs, as they also show his transformation from a Spanish conquistador into a visionary whose compassion for native peoples would tragically be ignored by subsequent Spanish expeditions.]
This sixteenth-century odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca's is one of the great true epics of history. It is the semi-official report to the...
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José Fernández (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: "Some Observations on the Style and Language of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca," in Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The Forgotten Chronicler, Ediciones Universal, 1975, pp. 125-27.
[In the following excerpt, Fernández praises the narrative quality and rich detail of the Relación,which he maintains amply compensate for the author's poor organization and lack of literary sophistication.]
As one of the earliest records of Spanish penetration into the North American continent, the Relación of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca has a certain literary value regardless of its style and form. This will...
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William T. Pilkington (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: Epilogue to Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, translated by Cyclone Covey, University of New Mexico Press, 1997, pp. 145-51.
[The following essay was first published in 1983 as an afterword appended to a reissue of Cyclone Covey's 1961 translation of the Relación. Pilkington argues that the literary importance of the Relación outweighs its historical significance, stressing that its racial themes, allegorical style, and parable of the human spirit have come to characterize American literature.]
"How shall a man endure the will of God and the days of the silence?" asks the narrator of Archibald MacLeish's poem...
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Lee W. Dowling (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "Story vs. Discourse in the Chronicle of the Indies: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion," in Hispanic Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 1984, pp. 89-99.
[In the following essay, Dowling claims that one of the most interesting elements of the Relación is its tension between historical and fictional narrative.]
One of the most abundant types of Latin American Colonial writings, the chronicle of the Indies, has proven to be at the same time one of the most difficult for literary critics to approach.1 The purely historical approach preferred by historians, geographers, and ethnographers tends to pursue the referent while neglecting...
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Peter Wild (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Boise State University, 1991, pp. 1–51.
[In the following study, Wild argues that Cabeza de Vaca's account of the years he spent lost and near death in North America has many elements of the modern novel and that the explorer masterfully blends factual events with literary devices to win favor for himself and gain support for his conviction that Native Americans were more likely to be conquered with a loving Christianity than the conquistador's sword.]
Recounting his adventures on an unknown continent, Cabeza de Vaca passes on a story he heard in an Indian village:
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Rolena Adorno (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "The Negotiation of Fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios," in Representations, Vol. 33, Winter 1991, pp. 163-99.
[In the following essay, Adorno traces the evolution of Cabeza de Vaca from slave to shaman and argues that the most important theme of his narrative—namely the peace and resettlement the explorer initiated in lands devastated by earlier sadistic conquistadors—has been largely ignored by critics.]
When the Gentleman of Elvas begins his account of the expedition of Hernando de Soto to Florida, he tells how a certain hidalgo (nobleman) arrived at court after the concession to de Soto had been...
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Martin A. Favata and José Fernández (essay date 1993)
Martin A. Favata and José Fernández (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Introduction to The Account: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación, translated by Martin A. Favata and José Fernández, Arte Público Press, 1993, pp. 11-19.
[In the following essay, Favata and Fernández recount details fromCabeza de Vaca's life, his route through North America, and the literary qualities of his chronicle.]
During Spain's process of exploration and conquest in the Western Hemisphere, the chronicle, a traditional genre in Spanish literature, continued to be written by the participants in this enterprise. Many of these men were neither learned scholars nor creators...
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Enrique Pupo-Walker (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Introduction to Castaways: The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, edited by Enrique Pupo-Walker and translated by Frances M. López-Morillas, University of California Press, 1993, pp. xv-xxx; 139-40.
[In the following introduction to a 1993 translation of the Relación, Pupo-Walker links the literary qualities of Cabeza de Vaca's narrative with medieval romances and adventure stories, and suggests that the chronicle has had a profound impact on modern Latin American fiction.]
Governor Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition that set out on "the seventeenth of June in the year fifteen hundred and twenty-seven" consisted of five ships, and crews...
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Further Reading
Bishop, Morris. The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca. New York: The Century Co., 1933, 306 p.
Biographical study of the life of Cabeza de Vaca, giving equal attention to his expeditions in North and South America.
Bandelier, Ad. F. Introduction to The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. Fanny Badelier, ed. Ad. F. Bandelier, pp. v-xxii. New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1905.
Examines details of Cabeza de Vaca's travels in North America as depicted in his two major works and includes notes on translations of his North American narrative.
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In October, Ubuntu has a birthday, and soon after comes another — for the Ubuntu Forums.
Many current forum members have been around since the inception, and as a result have become fixtures in the community. Some are Ubuntu members, some aren't. Some are Linux system administrators, some are homemakers. Some are rabid technophiles, some are free software purists — and some just want to check their e-mail in a safe and stable way.
In other words, everyone has a life beyond a nickname and an avatar, and it's sometimes interesting to find out who's behind the screen.
To that end, I'm borrowing an idea originally suggested by aysiu, and starting some interviews with staff members and forum veterans, asking a series of nine open-ended questions.
- Tell as much as you're willing about your "real" life — name, age, gender, location, family, religion, profession, education, hobbies, etc.
- When and how did you become interested in computers? in Linux? in Ubuntu?
- When did you become involved in the forums? What's your role there?
- Are you an Ubuntu member? If so, how do you contribute? If not, do you plan on becoming one?
- What distros do you regularly use? What software? What's your favorite application? Your least favorite?
- What's your fondest memory from the forums, or from Ubuntu overall? What's your worst?
- What luck have you had introducing new computer users to Ubuntu?
- What would you like to see happen with Linux in the future? with Ubuntu?
- If there was one thing you could tell all new Ubuntu users, what would it be?
The questions are intentionally generic; that gives everyone a common ground to start with, and allows them to direct their replies in whatever way they see fit. Interviewees can answer as fully or as briefly as they like, and might even skip questions. Their replies are only edited for punctuation, grammar or clarity, and so what you read is what they responded.
Update, 3 July 2008:
Unfortunately, real life events have convinced me that I need to pass this project on to someone with more time available. Matthew Helmke has agreed to manage it from now on, and as I discussed here, I think it's a great opportunity for the project to become even more of a fixture in the Ubuntu community.
Below is a list of the 35 interviews I conducted between the project's inception in September 2007, to the last in June 2008. Thanks, everybody! 😀
- dmizer
- ugm6hr
- slavik
- jacobmp92
- CptPicard
- p_quarles
- Wybiral
- hyper_ch
- wieman01
- boredandblogging.com
- handy
- frodon
- KiwiNZ
- PmDematagoda
- FuturePilot
- az
- Vorian
- tseliot
- maniacmusician
- PartisanEntity
- popch
- K.Mandla
- LaRoza
- Mike
- bodhi.zazen
- 23meg
- jdong
- compiledkernel
- Tomosaur
- matthew
- Artificial Intelligence
- MetalMusicAddict
- bapoumba
- aysiu
- ubuntu-geek


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Ticket for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing are currently available. The USOC has an exclusive sponsorship agreement with JetSet/CoSport as the official provider of Games tickets and Olympic hospitality packages in the United States. Under this agreement, JetSet/CoSport is the only authorized seller of Olympic tickets in this country. It is also the only company authorized to use Olympic trademarks and imagery in the United States to promote and sell hospitality and travel packages for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
We strongly encourage consumers to purchase your Olympic Games tickets through JetSet/CoSport in order to ensure those tickets are valid. We are aware of scam websites offering to sell Olympic tickets when they do not actually have access to any tickets. They will either provide counterfeit tickets that will not permit entry into Olympic venues or will just take your money and not send anything in return. Consumers should be wary of unauthorized websites selling Olympic tickets because they may turn out to be fraudulent.
Additionally, under the ticket license agreement, Olympic tickets are not supposed to be resold through commercial ticket brokers. The Olympic Games organizing committee reserves the right to cancel Olympic event tickets that have been obtained through improper channels. Therefore, the only way to ensure that your Olympic tickets are valid is to purchase them through the USOC's official only Olympic ticket distributor, JetSet/CoSport. Tickets bought through alternative sources might not be accepted for entry to Olympic Game events.


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This library is distributed under the terms of the Ruby license. You can freely distribute/modify this library.
This is a simple example.
require 'monitor.rb' buf = [] buf.extend(MonitorMixin) empty_cond = buf.new_cond # consumer Thread.start do loop do buf.synchronize do empty_cond.wait_while { buf.empty? } print buf.shift end end end # producer while line = ARGF.gets buf.synchronize do buf.push(line) empty_cond.signal end end
The consumer thread waits for the producer thread to push a line to buf while buf.empty?, and the producer thread (main thread) reads a line from ARGF and push it to buf, then call empty_cond.signal.
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"Dad had feelings of helplessness. He hated not making life's more simple decisions — like what to eat and when. As he talked about relying on Mom for medication, he began to cry. He felt it was unfair to wake her — but the pain was so intense. To ease the pain, they had already decided to sleep in separate beds, which he felt made things worse. He believed it was even more inconvenient for Mom to care for him. It's easy to see how frustration can build.
Learning from the hospice team that he needed that sense of control was huge. While there were still some unpleasant episodes, he was beginning to show more positive emotions.
With every decision Dad made, whether it was about bathing, dressing or who visited and when, the anger and frustration eased. Mom said some of the most intimate conversations of their 32-year marriage occurred in the middle of the night when he asked for medication. She said they would lay there, her hugging him, and relive memories, share a few tears and from time to time laugh.
Near the end, she slept by his side each night."
– Dawn Grateful daughter of Bill, who was eased in his last days with hospice care.
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Chapters Health offers a full continuum of hospice care to support patients in whatever stage of illness they face. Our integrated team coordinates ongoing care that encompasses physical, spiritual, social and emotional needs, continually responding as the illness progresses and a higher level of care is needed.
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Topic: .bashrc [SOLVED]
When i started ruby on rails some one helped me to get set up and they did allot of things to my system that i dont know about like when ever i type vim .bashrc it opens the .bashrc file no matter where i am on the console.
but this stooped working. and i was wondering how i can get it do that again.
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US Foreign Policy And The Decline Of Sweden
As most of us know, Jamestown and environs has a high concentration of people with an ethnic Swedish background – comparable even to famously Swedish Minnesota. Therefore, the following important but tragic information about the land of our ancestors will be of interest to many Post-Journal readers.
There are many reasons why I as an American citizen am fundamentally opposed to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, a primary one being because our actions over there in recent decades have contributed appreciably to driving mass refugee exodus from that region to beautiful Western European nations like Sweden. Naturally, I do not fault our brave men and women in uniform who have served and are serving for these policies, but rather the architects of war in Washington, D.C. in places like the executive branch, the Pentagon, and the CIA.
Last June I gave a presentation at the Thule Lodge in Bemus Point regarding noteworthy Swedish immigration and emigration trends: more people emigrated from Sweden in 2011 than in any other year, including the renowned peak emigration years of the late 1800s. According to Statistiska Centralbyran 50,786 people left Sweden in 1887, and in 2011 51,179 Swedes emigrated. Of course, the 1887 figure represents a larger percentage of Sweden's population at that time, but the record-breaking 2011 emigration is still significant.
While record numbers of Swedes are leaving, record numbers of people from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Somalia, and other predominantly Muslim, war-torn countries are immigrating. In 2011, more than 80,000 expatriates arrived in Sweden, and in 2012 Sweden set a new record by absorbing 110,000 immigrants – into a country of only nine million! They have been arriving by the tens of thousands in recent years largely as refugees intentionally brought in by the Swedish government at Swedish taxpayer expense. Most aren't skilled workers, cannot speak or read Swedish, and are indifferent at best to Swedish cultural mores. Unemployment is exceedingly high in immigrant communities, thus most refugees are long-term dependents of Swedish taxpayers.
One political party has recently emerged to stand alone in thoughtful opposition to debasing, self-destructive mass immigration policies. The Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) won representation in the riksdag (parliament) for the first time in 2010, and current public opinion polls suggest they are now the third most popular political party in the country. They will likely increase their representation in the riksdag in the next national election in September of 2014, thereby augmenting their ability to affect substantive change to mass immigration policies.
The delusion that mass immigration is working and refugees are integrating is crashing down around the ears of Sweden's current ruling government coalition. Random violent assaults – including sexual assaults – by Muslim immigrants against native Swedes have become commonplace. From May 19th through the 27th thousands of immigrants engaged in senseless wanton rioting in Stockholm's suburbs. It started in Husby and quickly spread to Skarholmen, Jakobsberg, Fittja, Rinkeby, Skarpnack, Kista, Tensta, Norsborg, and others. Hundreds of cars were burned; banks, stores, dumpsters, police stations, and even schools were set on fire. When first responders arrived at the scene, immigrants hurled rocks at them while hollering "Allahu Akbar!". Rioting also occurred in immigrant districts of Goteborg, Linkoping, Malmo, Uppsala, and other cities across the country.
The independent Swedish newspaper Dispatch International ran an editorial titled "The Swedish Intifada" which lamented the intentional lie-by-omission by the militantly politically-correct mainstream Swedish media about the obvious role that Muslim immigrants and Islamic ideology played in the rioting. Authors Ingrid Carlqvist and Lars Hedegaard wrote:
"One word has been absolutely absent in all reports and commentaries: IslamThe most precise characterization of the violent thugs that the media and politicians have been providing is that they are 'youths.' The line of thought seems to be that this kind of behavior is normal and understandable among the youngthe fact is that young Swedes would never behave like this. However, this approach has numerous parallels everywhere in the Western world with significant Muslim immigration."
Some make the specious claim that eliminating Sweden's mass immigration policies would be "xenophobic," "bigoted," or even "racist." In fact, every nation has the inalienable right to maintain their cultural and ethnic identity in perpetuity, not to mention their socioeconomic integrity. The real racists are the genocidal multiculturalists who revel in the thought that native Swedes will soon enough be a minority in their own country, and are wont to facilitate achieving that goal through ever more lax immigration policies combined with intensive state-sponsored media propaganda.
Is avoiding too much immigration even possible in the modern age? Like the U.S. and Sweden, Japan is an affluent, thoroughly modern country, and even in today's globalized climate their population is still greater than 98 percent Japanese. The Japanese have long maintained conservative immigration policies, and aggressively endeavor to identify and deport illegal aliens. Are the Japanese bigots because of their circumspect approach to immigration? Of course not, they simply wish to hold onto their dignity, ethnic homogeneity, and cultural identity. The Swedish government could learn a thing or two from the Japanese.
Others argue that it is the Swedish government's "responsibility" to absorb as many refugees as possible because, after all, Sweden has been such a prosperous nation. In fact, the first and highest responsibility any nation's government is to the socioeconomic well-being of its own people – this is the whole purpose of government! Importing tens of thousands of refugees every year, year in and year out, perpetually funding their food, housing, transportation, language lessons, medical, dental, and other sundry benefits represents a massive involuntary redistribution of wealth from Swedish taxpayers to foreign nationals who have done nothing to create that wealth. This is an abject abdication of the principle responsibility of government, the moral equivalent of stealing, and indeed a form of evil.
Last November I had an opportunity to visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park for the first time. As I drove through Cherokee, North Carolina to get to the park, I passed a number of roadside tourist attractions run by the local Native American tribe. One in particular had several Native American dancers in traditional garb performing traditional dances for tourists. This was certainly an intriguing sight, but it also struck me as a bit sad for a once proud people. Is this the type of fate that awaits Sweden? The few remaining native Swedes in the future may well be left to perform traditional Swedish dances in their folkdr-kt at places like Skansen to entertain, and earn a handful of kronor from, the "new Swedes."
If it was wrong to subject Native Americans to mass immigration and genocide, then it is wrong to do the same to native Swedes. And make no mistake that is exactly what Sweden is already in the early stages of – a slow-motion, multi-generational train wreck that will ultimately result in diluting the Swedes and everything it ever meant to be Swedish clean out of existence. U.S. foreign policy bears some responsibility for this sad state of affairs. For example, the relatively small nation of Sweden has taken in more Iraqi refugees since our two contrived wars in Iraq began in 1991 than any other nation in the world! It is unfortunately too late to undo the genocide that was foisted upon Native Americans in their own land, but it is not too late to save native Swedes from a similar fate, though the window of opportunity to do so is closing.
To avoid this, two major changes must be made. First, the U.S. must stop conducting itself as the policeman of the world and adopt a true non-interventionist foreign policy as our Founders envisioned. End the wars cold turkey, bring all troops home to protect our borders here, and close all foreign bases. Leave those poor people in the Middle East and their oil alone. Let them have their perpetual sectarian violence in their own countries so it isn't imported to ours, winding up on the streets of Stockholm, London, or Boston. Second, Swedes must elect representatives to national office who will abolish mass immigration policies. The Sweden Democrats have a good chance in next year's election as their polling numbers are increasing. Jamestown-area Swedish-Americans cannot of course vote in Sweden's elections, but we can donate financially to the Sweden Democrats to help them to a strong victory. To find out how, go online to Facebook.com/SwedishAmericansForSverigedemokraterna.
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Newkirk L. Johnson is a Swedish-American residing in Warren, Pa. His ancestors came from the county of Ostergotland, Sweden.


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Shankar Sharma
WHO: Shankar Sharma, Ambassador of Nepal to the United States has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Hawaii. He was vice-chairman of the National Planning Commission in Nepal from 2002 to 2006 and worked as a consultant to the Constitution Committee on "Distribution of Natural Resources, Economic Rights and Public Revenue" in helping to draft the new Constitution of Nepal. Sharma is the author or editor of eight books and more than 50 articles on the economy, energy and the environment of the Asia-Pacific region including Nepal.
WHAT: A talk on the topic "Nepal-U.S.A. Relations and Business Opportunities"
WHEN: Monday, April 9 at 11 a.m.
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About the Author: Silvio Gonzalez serves as Public Affairs Officer at U.S. Consulate Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.
For five consecutive days, June 25-29, the sounds of contemporary American composers captivated and entertained Chihuahua's youth through the sounds of Sonitus, an El Paso (Texas) based string quartet. Quartet members, all of whom come from Texas, and in some cases trace their heritage back to Chihuahua, performed in Nueva Casas Grandes, site of Paquime – an ancient town with connections to the Hopi Nation of the American southwest; Cuauhtemoc, the state's third largest city and proud of its three cultures; Creel – the gateway into Chihuahua's highlands (sierra) and the Raramuri people; and finally, the state capital of Chihuahua City, celebrating the 300th anniversary of its establishment.
The U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez organized the recitals and master classes as part of its on-going outreach activities to underscore the history that connects the United States and Mexico and, in this area, the ancient routes that linked Mexico's northwest with the American southwest – through Mimbres and Santa Fe Trail and the old Camino Real.
Paquime, a city built by the ancestors of Native American Hopi in the middle of the desert, marked the first stop. At the Museum of Northern Cultures, archeologists (some of whom are American scholars who have been digging in the area for more than twenty years), local community leaders and youth listened to the rhythms and enjoyed the first performance of an American string quartet in the region. During the master classes, students and parents moved along to the sounds of Sonitus, as they explored and learned all about the fundamentals of music: time, beat and harmony.
The following day, Sonitus performed at the Mennonite Community Center to a group proud of its peaceful coexistence. The string quartet joined forces with a local youth cameratta and a choral group, embodying the essence of the region. Sonitus' musical director and Juarez native Osvaldo Mendoza, who is currently a Masters' degree candidate at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory and graduate of University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), encouraged the young participants to follow and expand their dreams – to dream big! There's no greater image than seeing a fledgling violinist share a moment with, being inspired by, one of the string quartet's members.
On the third day, we traveled to the heart of the Tarahumara Mountains, where the native Raramuris invited Sonitus to perform inside the centuries old Mission of San Ignacio Arareko. The beautiful chapel, its interior illuminated by sunrays and candles, sits in the middle of an extraordinarily green valley – coming from Juarez, one cannot believe it exists in Chihuahua. Although we could not communicate with most of the attendees, music gave us a chance to exchange ideas, enjoy each other's company and even observe a community meeting.
Chihuahua City was the final stop. We started at the city's main library with a master class for children, who attended with their parents. A final recital took place at the Chihuahua Chamber of Commerce. Chamber members and the public enjoyed the performance. This cultural event underscored the importance of public-private partnership to support the arts and education.
Students and opinion makers who are fans of the consulate's new Facebook page followed Sonitus during the group's tour. You may also take a look at the page to watch video and learn more about the string quartet's visit to Chihuahua.


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Diocesan officials at 10:30 this morning will announce the appointment of Msgr. Stephen J. Berg as the fifth bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Pueblo, which encompasses 48,000 square miles in Southern Colorado that is home to about 64,000 Catholics.
The news conference will be in the Tafoya Conference Room at the diocesan chancery, Elizabeth and Greenwood.
Pope Francis earlier today approved Berg'sappointment, according to a news release from Rev. Michael Papesh, diocesan administrator. Berg, a Montana native, most recently was diocesan administrator in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (34 votes).
In short: So much potential, so much disappointmentIn full: Sent the wrong way, water stops not actually placed on the track, pre-race build up non-existant, expensive, etc.Seems just like a money making scheme to me, plenty of people there and we paid, what, £20 each? But so much potential, I really hope they learn and improve from this.I must agree with the person previous to me, the lad on the long straight was very good, encouring me and everyone else everytime we passed him; he must've been bored out of his skull but didn't show it.Date of review: October 31, 2011
In short: Not sure what the money is spent on but it is pretty...In full: Arrived early which was good as it meant I got a parking space but was disappointed to learn there was only 3 toilets for everyone (one of which had no toilet paper) until the cafe area opened closer to 09:20 (even though there was workers in there) all races started together which wasn't a problem but no one seemed to know what they were doing as the megaphone wasn't working so we couldn't hear the man at the start over the barking of all of the dogs (there were people with dogs running as well which was nice) Once we got going the route was lovely however could have done with a few more marshals in places and perhaps friendlier ones as most I saw didn't even acknowledge you - I had to pull out at 7.5 miles as I was not well and they didn't even ask if I was ok) however there was a lovely lad at the long straight and the lad at the road crossing section were both lovely and full of encouragement so they should be thanked. Race was expensive for what it was I think as there was only a medal at the finish and cups of water rather than bottles. Also the winners only got a pumpkin so not sure where the money all went? Saying this however I have entered for the Santa run (exactly the same route) as I like the location and want to finish it this time. Still smarted a little at the cost though. Date of review: October 31, 2011
In short: Very well organised and clearly marked km points, great atmosphere and friendly organisers, beautiful off road route, very flat, lovely venue with good parking and facilities Date of review: November 1, 2010
In full: This is only the second race that I have run in so have little to compare with. However I enjoyed the venue.Date of review: October 31, 2010
In short: Lovely flat 10k runIn full: enjoyed this 10k did a good second best ever run here, missed pb by 50 secs. Lovely scenic place to run, back next year. Need to get the numbers up for next time bit more publicity as it is a great place to runDate of review: October 31, 2010
In short: A new race and the organisers did very well, we must remember that without these people we would not have events to run. I loved it.Date of review: November 8, 2009
In short: Over-priced made up for by beautiful sceneryIn full: Disappointing results service - not even broken down into male and female, let alone age category! Therefore no opportunity of gauging one's own performance against similar age runners.Date of review: November 2, 2009
In short: Please keep the marshalls throughout next time.In full: This was my first race; it was going well until I suddenly realised I was alone! Due to lack of marshalls on the second lap I took a wrong turn; luckily the path converged again with the race but it was not a good experience. A shame, as the location is great and everyone very friendly. Date of review: November 2, 2009
In short: Great scenery, but poor value for moneyIn full: Being a local race, this appealed to me. Stanwick Lakes is a beautiful location that I had not run before. Its an easy to find location, with some good facilities that could keep all the family entertained as you go off for a run. However, the race wasn't worth the hefty £15 entry fee (PLUS £2 parking charge on exit - by far the most expensive run I have entered this year), when it is quite possible to turn up and do the very same run, with the same facilities for the cost of the parking fee.The marshalling was poor and I was very surprised to see that the marshalls on the first two posts had packed up and left by the time I was on the second of the two laps (I'm not fast by any means, but completed in less than an hour, so don't think it is unreasonable to expect to see the marshalls still in place). The signage on the route was barely adequate and the risk of going off the route was high - especially on the last lap as the field spread out a bit, a lack of marshalls and not always someone in sight to follow!The finish was poorly marked with a small flag. With a lot of people milling around at that point, which was also right next to the cups of water, it was hard to know exactly where the finish 'line' was. Timing was DIY, not even a clock at the finish line (although I see there are times published on the website). I'm not one to enter races for the goody bag, however I do think the entry fee deserved a little more than the mediocre medal, collected from the water table. The route itself was pleasant, with some great autumnal scenery. Using the pathways around Stanwick Lakes it wasn't too muddy, despite the recent weather. As the paths were still open to walkers and visitors there were a few occasions of 'dodge the children'. I also noticed a couple of runners without numbers, whom I assume were out for a Saturday afternoon run.Overall, I felt this represented poor value for money. As another reviewer also observed, you can turn up, park and do this same run for the cost of parking. With the absence of any 'extras' for running the route in a paid race (goody bag, refreshments, timer, good atmosphere) there seems little incentive to pay a £15 entry fee. At that price, I would rather pay the same entry fee to a charitable fun run.Date of review: November 1, 2009
In short: Excellent off road 10kDate of review: November 1, 2009
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Secretary Clinton released a statement today on reports of mass rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She said:
"The United States is deeply concerned by reports of the mass rape of women and children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) -- an armed, illegal rebel group that has terrorized eastern Congo for over a decade -- and elements of the Mai Mai, community-based militia groups in eastern Congo. This horrific attack is yet another example of how sexual violence undermines efforts to achieve and maintain stability in areas torn by conflict but striving for peace.
"The United States has repeatedly condemned the epidemic of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world, and we will continue to speak out on this issue for those who cannot speak for themselves. Less than a year ago, I presided over the UN Security Council session where Resolution 1888 (2009) was unanimously adopted, underscoring the importance of preventing and responding to sexual violence as a tactic of war against civilians. Now the international community must build on this action with specific steps to protect local populations against sexual and gender-based violence and bring to justice those who commit such atrocities.
"Sexual violence harms more than its immediate victims. It denies and destroys our common dignity, it shreds the fabric that weaves us together as humans, it endangers families and communities, it erodes social and political stability, and it undermines economic progress. These travesties, committed with impunity against innocent civilians who play no role in armed conflict, hold us all back.
"When I visited the DRC last year, I learned an old proverb -- 'No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come.' In the depths of this dark night of suffering and pain, my thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. The United States will do everything we can to work with the UN and the DRC government to hold the perpetrators of these acts accountable, and to create a safe environment for women, girls, and all civilians living in the eastern Congo."
You can also read Secretary's remarks on state.gov.
Ande U. in Utah writes:
Dear Secretary Clinton,
Thank you for your attention and words towards the recent atrocity in the DRC. As extreme as this attack, the brutality and sexual violence is an every day occurrence that goes unnoticed. I ask, i plead, that you continue your commitment made to this region. Please ensure the funds promised rothe Congo will be efficiently distributed and that immediate attention will be paid to secure a national system of protection for the Congolese.
Katheine Y. in Kentucky writes:
Secretary Clinton,
Thank you so very much for your statement concerning the recent attacks in the DRC. The attacks are common place in the DRC. Please make this a priority effort to help the woman and children of the DRC. We have allocated 17 million dollars to the DRC. Time is of the essance and the DRC needs the United State's support monitarily, as well as,a nation who will commit and recognise the atrosities that have and are taking place on a daily basis. Please continue your commitment and use your voice to stop the violence against woman and children in the Congo.
Doug S. in New York writes:
Disturbing story, and Truly appreciate Mrs Clinton's efforts universally.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Terrorism takes many forms.
Richard A.S. in Michigan writes:
Madam Secretary of State Clinton:
Yes, the United States has repeatedly condemned epidemic levels of sexual violence around the world; however, until we clean-up our own backyard and regulate the adult entertainment industry that empowers worldwide human traffickers, sexual violence and drug cartels the "clean hands doctrine†seems or I would suspect appears to negate our condemnation about the actions of others.
That said and to be crystal-clear on this issue, I would like to recommend in addition to our continued efforts on a global scale, we work together and focus on the epidemic levels of sexual violence, human and drug trafficking right here in these United States.
Please encourage President Obama and our U.S. Congress to support legislative reform regarding this issue including but not limited to the following (i.e., H.R. 5575: Domestic Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act of 2010, S. 2882: Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability and Consistency Act of 2009, H.R. 5107 & S. 3254: Employee Misclassification Prevention Act... etc., etc., et al.) Thank you Secretary Clinton for you anticipated response and due diligent consideration.
Ron in New York writes:
Send the perps to the Hague (ICC) for Crimes Against Humanity. Name and Shame them...take their power, assets, freedoms....How can we allow these practices to flourish without effective intervention?....Do we still delude ourselves that these are Sovereign states and good actors?
Laurent O. in Texas writes:
The ongoing mass rape in the Eastern Congo is an iceberg of a deep problem that should be addressed adequately. With the election of President Obama, African people in general, and congolese people in particular raised the hope to see their long and unfair night of tragedies get more attention from US Administration in order to see the light finally come to put an end on it. Since the Obama appointed two women of cabinet in both strategic positions as US Secretary of State and as U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, this hope became more vivid and visible given the sensibility the women and mothers have for human sufferings.
Given the influence of US in the Great Lakes region (Central Africa), with a bit of will and a show of diplomatic and other muscles in its disposal, the Obama administration is able to obtain significant progress to end the crisis in Congo (DRC) that continues to cause unnecessary mass rapes, killings, and huge human rights violations.
Because the roofs of conflict are both internal and external, the solution to eradicate it should also be found internally and externally. The internal causes of conflict are still the same: the lack of legitimacy of regime in power since Mobutu regime to the current President Kabila, and the lack of freedom that leaves some segments of population with no other means than the use of the violence to defend their rights. In order to address these causes, here are some suggestions for the Obama administration:
The Obama administration should use the tools in its disposal, specially the Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2006, the first project initiated by the President Obama when he was elected in US Senate. This Act of Congress that outlines the US policy in DRC gives the US Secretary of State the power to evaluate the progress of democracy, and to ask for accountability. Therefore, the Obama administration has to denounce in the plain language the dictatorial trend of the Kabila regime in the same terms the President Obama has expressed against the President Robert Mugabe at his recent meeting with African Youth at the White House.
The Obama administration should be more proactive by using its diplomatic, economic, and other means, even the threat of coercive actions to bring the Kabila regime to accept to hold under international monitoring free and democratic elections next year, and to respect the Congolese constitution in holding first of all the local elections. In any case, the Obama cannot vests its support directly or by the means of MONUSCO (UN Mission in Congo) to the current biased electoral process in DRC that is conceived to insure the electoral hold up of the Kabila regime and allies. That will not solve the congolese crisis.
The Obama administration should then bring more support to the Congolese institutions and organizations such as Congo New Leadership that fight daily for a democratic Congo that will practice the rule of law and the good governance. These Congolese organizations should be empowered to help them shaping the future of Congo in order to make a reality the Accra declaration of President Obama that says that "the future of Africa will be shaped by the Africans themselves". The invitation of Africa youth to the White House that is an encouraging sign in the right direction should set an example for other services of this administration. This is not all time the case.
At the international level, the causes of Congolese conflict can be resumed in two intertwined problems: the security problem of region, and specially the unresistant attraction to illegal exploitation of rich mineral and natural resources of a weak DRC. The Obama administration could end the instability in the eastern Congo by exercising pressure on Kagame regime (Rwanda) and Museveni regime (Uganda) that have close ties with some US Politics to stop their interference to sustain the Congolese crisis. Here are some suggestions:
The Obama administration should stress on Uganda and Rwanda to democratize their autocratic regimes to encourage the rebels to lay down their arms, and to participate in the political process. This is a must for the stability of the Great Lakes region.
The Obama administration could work on the proposal made by Senator Dick Durbin. When visiting Goma in February 2010, he declared that the rwandan government should issue the list of elements of Hutu rebels (FDLR) involved in the 1994 Tutsi genocide, and allow those who are not associated with the 1994 Tutsi genocide to return in Rwanda.
I hope that my contribution will be taken in consideration by the Obama administration in order to put an end to this shameful tragedy of the 21st century.
Ron in New York writes:
International Community still in a state of self-delusion regarding the scope and depth of these crimes against humanity....we condemn, and express outrage, but fail to act; either to prevent or to punish...UN refuses to define genocide because once it is defined, consequences must follow...until then, "we condemn in the strongest possible terms....."
Ron in New York writes:
Ultimate Violation........
Mass-Rape on the Blood-Diamond trails. Who's running these countries? How can we allow them to escape justice? Are they financing the UN MDG initiatives? So they get a pass on crimes against humanity? This is the most outrageous story of the new millennium.
Ekenyerengozi C. in Nigeria writes:
There is another holocaust in Africa and it is happening before our very eyes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Bill Clinton failed to help to stop the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 and an estimated 800000 people perished. Will President Barack Obama fail to stop another genocide in Africa?
Read the following SOS from the Congo.


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9 Ways to Be Happier at Work
Since you spend so much time at work, it's a real drag if you're miserable the whole time you're on the clock. Do you need to love your job? It would be great if everyone could get paid to do what they love, but until you can achieve that elusive goal, what can you do to make the 9-to-5 more pleasant? What can you do to be happier at work?
Finish the drudgery first. Whatever you dread every day, get it done as soon as you can so that you don't need to worry about it the rest of the day. In general, try to organize and plan your time to suit your own needs. It's not always possible, but sometimes, handling the little things that you hate can make the day a little easier to get through.
Stop complaining about what you can't change. It's easy to get caught in a rut and to complain ad nauseam about a colleague who's not pulling her weight or a boss who should have been let go in the last downsizing. However, complaining about things you can't change only contributes to your misery. Don't give in to the temptation to drone on and on about the negatives; instead, focus on what you can change, and spend your energies there.
Make friends at work. There's no question that everything is better when you have a friend in your corner. You don't need to be "besties" with everyone at the office, but having one or two colleagues who are always happy to go to lunch or catch a quick coffee can make all the difference.
Give compliments. Look for opportunities to tell other people what they're doing well; it will make their day, and will give you a boost, too. Plus, you never know: If you begin to pass around kudos in the office, it can affect everyone's mood and perhaps improve the overall office culture. Don't fall victim to the myth that you can only help improve things if you're a supervisor or have authority; take initiative and you could really make a difference for your colleagues.
Keep track of good things. Every time something happens at work that makes you happy, make a note. Maybe it sounds a little corny, but if you can remember the good times, it could help make the challenges easier to overcome.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 15, 2010) – U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team player Andy Hein will be honored Friday (April 16) at his high school, West Chicago (Ill.) Community High School on Friday.
As part of the presentation, Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.) will have his national team jersey hanging in a frame outside the school's gymnasium.
"It's something my high school coach (Kris Hasty) has been talking about for a couple of years now and it is finally coming to fruition," said Hein, who helped the team reach the state tournament twice before graduating in 2002.
"I remember that from the time I was a freshman to the time I was a senior I was a completely different player," Hein said. "I didn't start playing volleyball until high school, so there was a steep learning curve. It was a lot of fun and a great thing to be a part of."
Hein, a 6-11 middle blocker, reports that he is 95 percent recovered from offseason knee surgery and is looking forward to returning to the U.S. National Team Center within the American Sports Centers in Anaheim, Calif., when the summer training block begins on May 3.
Hein and David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) started at middle blocker during most of the 2009 FIVB World League in the absence of Ryan Millar (Alpine, Utah), who was taking the summer off from indoor competition. However, the middle blocker position on the U.S. 22-man roster for 2010 is stacked with Hein, Millar, Lee, Tom Hoff (Park Ridge, Ill.), Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Three players will be cut from the roster at the end of April. Then U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe will choose 12-14 players from the remaining 19 to compete with the team each World League weekend from June 4-July 11.
"I love competing, so it's all fun for me," Hein said. "I'm really looking forward to playing with and against Ryan, David, Russell and the rest of that group. Middle blocker is probably the position where we are deepest."
Fenerbahce, the Turkish team of Gabe Gardner (San Clemente, Calif.), is one match away from winning the league playoffs, but it has not been easy. The team's last three matches have all gone five sets.
Fenerbahce secured a spot in the playoff finals with a 3-2 (25-22, 18-25, 28-30, 26-24, 15-7) semifinal victory over Arkas Spor on April 9. Gardner led all scorers in the match with 24 points on 21 kill and three blocks. He converted 47 percent of his kill attempts into points.
The team won its first match in the final round with a comeback victory over Ziraat Bankasi, 3-2 (19-25, 23-25, 25-20, 25-17, 18-16) on April 12. Gardner finished with 14 points on 13 kills and one block. His kill percentage was 0.43.
On April 15, the team won its second match, 3-2 (25-21, 20-25, 25-21, 25-27, 15-13).
Two Russian Super League teams with U.S. players are competing in the playoff semifinals in Russia.
Zenit Kazan, featuring Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii), will face Dynamo Moscow in a best-of-five playoff starting on April 22. After that, matches are scheduled for April 23, April 27, April 28 and May 2.
Lokomotiv Novosibirsk, the Russian team of David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) and Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.), will play Lokomotiv-Belogorie starting April 23. After that, matches are scheduled for April 24, April 28, April 29 and May 3.
- Which players on the United States' preliminary 2010 World League roster have won the NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship?
Southern California Scrimmages
The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team is holding two intersquad scrimmages in Southern California in May.
On May 15, the team will scrimmage at 7:30 p.m. at JSerra Catholic High School, 26351 Junipero Serra Road in San Juan Capistrano.
On May 21, the team will scrimmage at 7:30 p.m. at the Walter Pyramid at 1250 North Bellflower Blvd., in Long Beach.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for kids and seniors and LBSU students will get in free. Tickets are available at the Walter Pyramid box office or online at www.longbeachstate.com.
Vivo/Minas, the Brazilian league team featuring Riley Salmon (League City, Texas), has been eliminated from the playoffs after losing in the quarterfinals to Sada Cruzeiro Volei.
On April 8, Sada Cruzeiro Volei defeated Vivo/Minas, 25-20, 25-20, 25-17. Salmon scored five points and had 10 excellent receptions on 19 attempts.
On April 11, Sada Cruzeiro Volei beat Vivo/Minas, 25-23, 25-23, 25-20. Salmon had four points and 11 excellent receptions on 16 attempts.
Poitiers, the French League team of Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), finished fourth in the regular season of France's Ligue A and is now in the playoff quarterfinals.
In its first playoff match on April 14, Poitiers swept Beauvais, 25-23, 25-23, 25-19. Lotman scored 15 points on 12 kills and three blocks. The teams will play again on April 17.
Ball's E-Book Now Available
Lloy Ball's biography, The Biggest Mistake I Never Made, is now available for download.
The book details the life and career of Ball, a four-time Olympian, including his experience in Beijing when the U.S. Men won the gold medal at the Olympic Games.
The E-book costs $9.95. For more information, click here.
The NET Live
The NET Live is an Internet radio show hosted by former U.S. Men's Team player and two-time Olympian Kevin Barnett along with current team member, two-time Olympian and 2008 gold medalist Reid Priddy.
The show is usually broadcast at 10 a.m. PT on Mondays and features interviews with a variety of volleyball personalities along with banter by the two hosts and sidekick/engineer Dan "Kinda Good" Madden.
Click here to listen to the show.
You can also download the podcast from iTunes by clicking here.
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Matt Anderson (Penn States), Sean Rooney (Pepperdine), Rich Lambourne (BYU), Andy Hein (Pepperdine), Ryan Millar (BYU), Jayson Jablonsky (UC Irvine), Max Holt (Penn State) and Russell Holmes (was a red-shirt freshman with the 2004 BYU team that won the championship).


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About the Author: Aaron Snipe is a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State. He recently participated in the Hometown Diplomat Program.
Explaining our foreign policy to audiences abroad is one of the many tasks faced by U.S. diplomats serving overseas. During my previous assignment on a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Iraq, my colleagues and I often explained to the good people of Muthanna Province how the State Department partners with Iraqis to build greater stability and prosperity.
Now that I am home from Iraq, I recently had an opportunity to participate in one of the State Department's lesser known but important public outreach initiatives: the Hometown Diplomat Program. Each year, the program asks recently returned Foreign Service Officers to volunteer their time to explain the work of diplomacy abroad with hometown audiences. While an understanding of the Department's work abroad is ubiquitous in places like Washington, this is not necessarily the case across America. Members of the State Department's diplomatic corps hail from every corner of the U.S. (all fifty states, in fact), and through the years, diplomats from across America have returned home to talk to universities, high schools, and civic organizations about the work of the State Department. For me, combining a little of mom's home cooking (nothing in the base chow-hall in Iraq compares to my mother's famous spaghetti sauce) with a dash of diplomacy was the perfect recipe for some old fashioned outreach in Red Sox country.
Last week, I had the honor of returning to Arlington High School - my alma mater - in Arlington, Massachusetts, to spend the day with some of the school's best and brightest students. The kids were engaging, knowledgeable, and eager to learn more about the work of diplomats abroad. Strolling down the very same halls I walked almost 20 years ago, I was cornered by a student who heard a diplomat was coming to speak.
A bit hesitant at first, he said, "I'm Frank. You're from the State Department, right?""Yes," I responded.
He then told me that he was really interested in a career with the Foreign Service. A high school kid? Interested in becoming a diplomat someday? Wow. At his age, I think my greatest interests were being on time for Mr. Obelsky's history class and never missing lunch. Frank's curiosity really inspired me. It made me proud that the kids from my alma mater were already thinking globally. While it might be too early to call it, I think I met a few future diplomats at Arlington High last week. World peace, here they come!
But, I suppose we should let them finish their book reports due next week first.
Ronnie in Oregon writes:
just good evening to all and Semper Fi
Pauline in Massachusetts writes:
I am so proud of Aaron for what he has done in Iraq. I knew before he was Mr. A.H.S. and a true diplomat at the high school, that he would be a part of the global community. He is someone who will bring peace in this world.
Pedro in Canada writes:
I think it is always really great when American officials can spend a lot of time with young boys and girls. Especially when you get a chance to show what "real" Americans are like... You can work to show everything about yourself and your country, and make a deep impression on people who might just know about America from hippety-hop music. Good work, Mr. Snipe.
Lisa B. in Montana writes:
Really good to see that we will nad might be able to make some changes, hopa and god bless USA.
Will in Iraq writes:
Well done, Aaron. We are happy to see you are still carrying the banner.


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Mike wrote:Genuine_Indian_Guru wrote:I won't watch much. Boxing is my sport, and Canada is only sending one boxer! A one man boxing team! How insane is that!
We had a carpenter in the house doing some work and his assistant is a boxer going to China. He said the Canadian system is crap and a big joke so he trained and is going representing his home country of Brunei. His name is Rolande Moses, nice guy.
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Investigators with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) prevented more than half a million violative and hazardous imported products from reaching the hands of consumers in the first quarter of fiscal year 2012.
Working with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, CPSC port investigators successfully identified consumer products that were in violation of U.S. safety rules or found to be unsafe. CPSC and CBP teamed up to screen more than 2,900 imported shipments at ports of entry into the United States. As applicable, these screenings involved use and abuse testing or the use of an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer. Their efforts prevented more than 647,000 units of about 240 different noncomplying products from reaching consumers, between October 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011.
Topping the list of products stopped were children's products containing levels of lead exceeding the federal limits, toys and other articles with small parts that present a choking hazard for children younger than 3 years old, and toys and child care articles with banned phthalates.
In addition to violative toys and other children's products, items stopped at import included defective and dangerous hair dryers, lamps and holiday lights.
"We mean business when it comes to enforcing some of the toughest requirements for children's products in the world. If an imported product fails to comply with our safety rules, then we work to stop it from coming into the United States," said Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. "Safer products at the ports means safer products in your home."
During fiscal year 2011, CPSC inspected more than 9,900 product shipments at the ports nationwide and stopped almost 4.5 million units of violative or hazardous consumer products from entering the stores and homes of U.S. consumers.
CPSC has been screening products at ports since it began operating in 1973. In 2008, the agency intensified its efforts with the creation of an import surveillance division.
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Yes it's happening, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are continuing the Wrecking Ball tour with dates in Australia and New Zealand in February and March, 2014. This morning, �local Australian press broke the news and Bruce Springsteen's website followed soon after. �The tour starts in Perth on February 7th, with tickets going on sale August 26th.
So, what does this mean for the rest of 2014? Let the speculation and rumors begin! Will The Boss return to the USA for dates in the spring? How about another whirlwind tour of Europe in the summer of 2014? Only time will tell and you know we'll be here celebrating as it happens.
Feb. 7 � Perth, AU � Perth Arena � on sale Aug. 26 at 9 am -ticketek.com.au
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absolutely brilliant and heart wrenching. I was crying
absolutely brilliant and heart wrenching. I was crying tears of deep empathy into my morning coffee.
She put into words what my soul has been trying to hear. Her words were like her hands, ancient and timeless, threading back to creation.

Oh. As I lay in bed this morning, "Being" awakened me.
Oh. As I lay in bed this morning, "Being" awakened me. I was mesmerized as I listened to the voice of Joanna Macy reading Rilke. It was like being able to breathe again, to hope again. Thank you so much. I am inspired to share this and continue to hunger for more. M. Lathrop, Grand Rapids, MI.

Loved this story, Krista! Here's a less literary, but
Loved this story, Krista! Here's a less literary, but still potent, take on Being from New Thought writer and speaker, Neville Lancelot Goddard, who wrote The Power of Awareness in 1952: "The future becomes the present when you imagine that you are already what you will be when your assumption is fulfilled. Be still (least action) and know that you are that which you desire to be. The end of longing should be Being." (p. 47)

All the others said it better than I could. A very
All the others said it better than I could. A very important program for a person like me, whose spiritual life is a journey of questions and whose time in "church" each Sunday is spent instead in a meadow, by a pond, in a woods, by a marsh. Deep thanks

I listened to this broadcast as I was driving home from a
I listened to this broadcast as I was driving home from a weekend away. I am happy to say I have known of Joanna Macy and experienced her in person several times in my life. This particular broadcast was so beautifully put together I enjoyed every second of it and it left me very inspired and alive feeling. Krista and Joanna are lovely together. I shall request many people to listen to this and I will purchase as many copies of those incredible translations to give to one and all- thank you for a very inspiring drive!

Thank goodness you found Rilke's poem! Supposing you had
Thank goodness you found Rilke's poem! Supposing you had given up. We would not now have your interviews on which to rely. Also love the transformation into Being.

The Rilke piece resonated this for me:

"Victorious
The Rilke piece resonated this for me:
"Victorious Spirit!
Flame through the impotence of irresolute souls!
Burn up egotism, ignite compassion
so that selflessness, the lifestream of humanity
may flow as the wellspring of spiritual rebirth."
-Rudolf Steiner

Somehow this show touched my soul. Thank you

Somehow this show touched my soul. Thank you

Moving as a reader of poetry. I loved this program, and
Moving as a reader of poetry. I loved this program, and sat at the kitchen counter, my eyes filling with tears, at the ferociousness of how this woman loves all things living.

Having just returned from my birth place, Dublin, Ireland
Having just returned from my birth place, Dublin, Ireland, I was thrilled to awaken way before dawn and listen to this wonderful interview. Ireland is a land of mysticism and longing and a place I cannot help but feel drawn towards, though my life here in America is very real too. Joanna's reflections and Rilkes poetry were just the medicine my soul needed this morning.
thank you.
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This was a wonderful interview and thought provoking.
This was a wonderful interview and thought provoking. People are so overwhelmed by things daily and this really framed up ideas I had had and things I'd gone through. It was so satisfying to "identify" that. It inspired this post http://pearlthediabeticcat.blo...
Some may not understand but believe me, there are people everyday who experience this and come looking for help, desperate for advice. I now have something to give them to listen to.


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Picking my five favorite Springsteen covers didn�t sound like it would be that hard a task — until I started thinking about it. (That�s typically when I get into trouble, with the thinking.) It�s not that they�re all so terrific, but it�s amazing how hard it is to find a true clunker. I�d say that�s a testament to how these songs are built — it�s hard to ruin them. Although some people have come darn close, and that�s a subject for another post.
That said, there are a few that, for whatever reason, continue to stand out in my mind — covers that took a chance or helped illuminate the heart of the song. Like all the best covers, they reflect the personality of the singer as much as they pay tribute to the original. And I�m sure tomorrow I�ll think of five others I forgot.
1) Dion, �Book of Dreams.� I love how Springsteen�s music can feel at home in so many different styles and genres. From Dion�s 2000 album Deja Nu, this doo-wop take feels current and right out of 1959 at the same time.
2) Melissa Etheridge, �Born to Run.� From The Concert for New York City, this is maybe the only version of the song that comes close to capturing the full-throated energy of the original — not bad for a solo performance. (Runner up goes to Frank Turner for his version of �Thunder Road,� another heartfelt acoustic take.)
3) The Format, �For You.� I�ve been taking credit lately for discovering fun., a claim I share with every blogger who was writing about indie music in 2008. That�s when The Format, Nate Ruess� first group, was chugging away in relative anonymity, and they contributed this track for the Light of Day tribute album. When I first posted about this song back then, I recall that some visitors were turned off by the way Ruess goes all hoedown on us halfway through, but I think that�s part of the charm.
4) Camera Obscura, �Tougher Than The Rest.� There�s something about Tracyanne Campbell�s voice that fits this song, from 2009�s The Sweetest Thing, just perfectly — the sweet Scottish lilt that sounds just damaged enough to make you want to hug her. You don�t quite believe that she�s tougher than the rest, but you don�t really care. (In a similar vein is Hem�s stunningly beautiful version of �Valentine�s Day� — I can�t find audio, but you can buy it on Amazon for 89 cents.)
5) Steve Earle, �State Trooper.� �Haunting� is a word that gets overused when talking about Nebraska covers — let�s face it, the music is spooky — but Earle earns the adjective here. On the closing track from his seminal 1986 album Guitar Town, you get the sense that he knows a thing or two about being stopped by flashing lights on the side of a dark highway. Nice live version here, but seek out the original too.
Bonus track: Josh Ritter, �Tomorrow Never Knows.� Because to cover Bruce Springsteen in Asbury Park when Bruce Springsteen is sitting at the bar takes some guts, man. And hearing just how great this song sounds makes me want to paraphrase what� Bruce said at Bob Dylan�s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction: If some young guy released �Working on a Dream� today, they�d be calling him the new Bruce Springsteen. (Do yourself a favor and check out Ritter�s live �The River� also.)
Up next: Favorite covers as chosen by Blogness readers — make sure to check back!


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David R. wrote:May I ask what parameters you used ?
This is quite a different sencha compared to what you may be accustomed to. It was grown using no pesticids and no fertilizers, which means no umami. So if you were expecting some, you ought to be disappointed for sure...
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redbaron354 Sep 15, 13
Fair enough lol
aaron6581230 Sep 15, 13
While I agree that the missing numpad does have its purpose to keep the dimensions compact, it's important to keep in mind that many gamers do more than just play games on their machines. Otherwise, we'd see many more people purchasing dedicated "gamepad" boards. It's like seeing a performance car without automatic windows or nice seats; it's meant for speed but needs to cover the basics first. The size definitely made carrying around the keyboard much easier though, especially with the detachable cable.
With regards to the repeat rate key settings, I see what you're saying there. It works for certain functions but what happens for RTS games where you use WASD to pan the camera? Otherwise as mentioned, I could barely navigate menus with the function enabled.
With that said, thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely keep it in mind for future reviews.
With regards to the repeat rate key settings, I see what you're saying there. It works for certain functions but what happens for RTS games where you use WASD to pan the camera? Otherwise as mentioned, I could barely navigate menus with the function enabled.
With that said, thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely keep it in mind for future reviews.
redbaron354 Sep 15, 13
Edit* I made a mistake I meant to say that the keyboard is made for RTS and FPS not MMO because it does not have macro keys.
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Jonathan Otis Sep 15, 13
Edit* I forgot to mention that not having the top of the keys labeled is a sought after feature in gaming because it helps you to learn all your keys and combos without looking. This very much helps your overall game speed/actions per minute as you become proficient at never having to glance at your keyboard.
Jonathan Otis Sep 15, 13
I think it should be mentioned that this is 100 percent in every way, a gaming keyboard. It is intended for use in MMO and RTS games. It is a ten keyless keyboard meant for a compact design to allow for less space between your mouse and keyboard hand which in extended use can help with wrist injuries etc. Its not supposed to have a num pad because those are useless for competitive gamers. The repeat rate key settings are in fact incredibly useful for games, especially Starcraft 2, where you often have to build many units at once. Increasing the ramp rate allows you to produce significantly more units in much less time than normal. While I think your review was well written and I appreciate it, I feel you made the mistake a reviewing a product intended for one use completely different than it was ever made for. This would be like reviewing a performance car and complaining that the ride was really rough and bumpy and was to hard to drive smoothly because the throttle was to sensitive and the engine had to much power. And that your Mercedes just seemed more comfortable. I just want to make sure that you take the time to look up the product your reviewing and its features the next time you leave a review that way readers can get a better idea of how good the product actually is in terms of its intended use.
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