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New York — Jim Capizzi, former LG Electronics sales director, and Paul Norton, former Sharp Electronics national sales manager, regional sales, have joined
Philadelphia — National CE and appliance distributor Almo is co-sponsoring a hometown food festival here with Gerhard's Appliance, a local dealer
Naperville, Ill. — OfficeMax is extending its reach into the small-business market with a new slate of service departments in stores nationwide.
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Women in Cumberland County earn less, are less likely to have higher education, and are more likely to die from heart disease and diabetes than women in the state as a whole, according to a new report.
Cumberland County women are also younger, more likely to work full time, and more racially and ethnically diverse, the report said.
The report on the economic, education and health status of women in the county was released Friday by the Women's Giving Circle of Cumberland County. The nonprofit group, which focuses on improving the lot of women and children in the county, commissioned the report by the Institute for Women's Policy Research as part of a larger statewide study by the N.C. Council for Women.
Jean Harrison and Patty Collie, co-chairwomen of the Giving Circle, said the report identifies areas where the community needs to focus attention.
"We hope community leaders and concerned citizens will take this information and discuss" ways to address it, Harrison said.
The report said women have made significant progress in the past few decades, both in the county and statewide.
But women still lag men in many areas, including pay, and not all women are prospering equally, the report said.
The report looked at economic, education and health statistics for women and men at the county, state and national levels.
In Cumberland County, the report said, most women age 16 or above work (61 percent), most of those who work do so full time (77 percent), and they typically earn less than working women on the state and national levels and far less than working men at any level.
The median annual earnings of a woman working full time in Cumberland County was $30,384 in 2010, compared with $33,000 for women statewide and $36,000 for women nationally. The median income for men working full time was $38,725 in Cumberland County, $40,000 statewide, and $45,500 nationally.
In Cumberland County, the report said, 23 percent of women age 25 and older had a bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 27 percent of women statewide and 28 percent of women nationally. Just 21 percent of men 25 and older had that level of education in the county, compared with 26 percent statewide and 29 percent nationally.
Seventeen percent of women 18 and older were living at or below the poverty level, compared with 10 percent of men, the report said.
The report showed sharp disparities in median income levels for households with minor children. Married couples fared best, with a median income of $63,415 in the county and $70,124 in the state, the report said. That was well above the income needed to afford essential living expenses - $38,811 in the county and $41,920 in the state.
The median income of single men with minor children in the county was $44,291, far higher than such men on a statewide basis - $29,874. Single women with minor children fared worst of all, with a median income of $21,487 in the county and $20,393 statewide.
Women headed 39 percent of families with minor children. But they headed 77 percent of families with minor children who live in poverty.
The report said the teen pregnancy rate in the county - 67.7 per 1,000 teens ages 15-19 - was much higher than that of the state - 49.7 per 1,000.
Women in the county had much higher mortality rates from heart disease and diabetes than women in the state and the nation, the report said.
The report is available at the Giving Circle's website - cumberlandcf.org/WomensGivingCircle.php.
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Vanessa Alonso is a meteorologist and news reporter with KTVO.
Being a meteorologist, it is part of the job to inform the public, you the viewers, on how the weather is. Both the good and bad events. But we are always more focused on getting the information out and making sure everyone is safe. That you never get to see a personal side of how a tragedy, like the one that is occurring right now in Joplin, MO , hits close to home. And in this case, I can honestly say it has for me.
As all of you already know I got my start in my broadcast meteorology career down in Joplin in 2009. I spent nearly a year and a half of my life there. I can go on about how much I got to know that city up and down. I can remember the beautiful scenery of the historic downtown district, shopping at The Northpark Mall, watching movies at Hollowood Theaters, going to church every Sunday morning at St. Mary's Catholic Church, and going grocery shopping on the 15th Street and Rangline Road Wal-Mart. But it was no place like home in my apartment complex The Docks by 20th Street and my job at the CBS/FOX TV station. No matter where I would go to in Joplin, it was the people and the community that made my stay there so wonderful. Everywhere I went, people would stop and say Hi and smile, help me out if I needed it, or just have a nice little chat. That's what made me feel like Joplin was my second home. It was bittersweet for me when I left.
When I was in the KTVO Accuweather Storm Center Sunday afternoon and the weather reports were coming in for the tornado warning for Joplin, I was looking at the radar and weather models as it was passing over the city and immediately thought about my co-workers, friends, neighbors, and the community as a whole as I can imagine the sirens going off and everyone taking cover for their lives. When I walked into the newsroom as the first pictures were coming in of the damage, I felt a shockwave in my body as I was trying to make out which part of the city the news outlets were. It wasn't until I saw the first picture of the now devastated St. John's hospital was when I knew this wasn't going to be good.
As the night went on and the many damage reports that were coming in by the hour, I was praying that everyone I knew would be ok. It wasn't until I got a hold of some friends on social media sites of when I finally had a clear picture of what became of my former community. My apartment complex is completely gone as 20th Street became the center zone of the heart of the tornado as it rolled through Joplin. Everything I ever knew and saw on anything of that street has been ripped off its foundation. Joplin High School, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, my beauty salon, my bank…just to name a few is now all gone.
It's been hard to know that the Joplin I lived, worked, and knew is forever gone. Despite all the damage, I have been very thankful to hear from most of my former co-workers and neighbors that they have lived through this tragic event. But at the same time my heart goes out to those who are injured or died as a result of the tornado.
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Olympic Primer - August 5th
NBC puts out a daily press release noting the highlights of their television coverage for the next day. Given the difficulty sometimes in knowing what event is being televised when and where, we'll share that schedule from NBC with you the previous night so you can set your DVRs and plan accordingly. The schedule is sorted by network. Below NBC's press release we'll add the live times at the bottom for gold medal events you can catch online as well. All times are eastern.
One of the marquee events of the entire games, the men's 100 meter dash takes place tomorrow as well as Roger Federer playing Andy Murray for a gold medal at Wimbledon. In addition to the packed schedule tomorrow, NBC is airing a special at 7:00 PM ET in primetime as Bob Costas sits down with Michael Phelps after his Olympic career concluded Saturday.
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Very cool work!!! I like your creatures...
Very cool work!!! I like your creatures...
Wow! That lat creature is real scary looking, like love your designs..
Really really cool! I love the concept
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Nice! Looks like something that crawled out of the Gulf looking for revenge against Tony Hayward and BP after they dumped all that oil and chemicals into the ocean. Go get 'em, tiger!
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You make good monsters, very origional !!
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Thanks again all for the kind words! I worked a bit on this guy tonight. Adjusting his anatomy and making him a fresher base, along with a rough in of his pose! Looking at it I already see some things I will change, but I'm excited to see what ya'll think ^^
So gooooooood! I love the way it's holding its spot in the current, poised...waitng.... awesome!
You models are amazing, I love how you said "a quick sculpt for a friend at work" makes me want to cry that that's the case. Brilliant stuff!
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First thing i though of was Godzilla! Awesome concept though! I really love these creatures, keep it coming.
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Posted: Sep 27, 2012 6:04 PM by Lupita Murillo
Updated: Sep 27, 2012 7:37 PM
TUCSON- A man wanted in a string of serial armed robberies is still on the loose and Tucson Police need your help to find him.
Robbery detectives say he is wanted in at least seven armed robberies since July.
The first occurred July 19th at the "Lasting Touch Salon" on East Broadway. News 4 spoke to one of the victims at that location. She says she is terrified and asked we not identify her. The woman says she and a client feared for their lives.
They said the suspect pointed a gun at them and told them he was going to kill them. He held them hostage and when the women began praying out loud and asked for Jesus to help them, the victim says his demeanor changed completely, and said he believed in Jesus. He apologized and told the women he needed the money and didn't have a family. The victim says he left, and took her client's car.
Police say on August 8, the suspect hit the "Game Stop" on Broadway.
On August 26, he hit "Sticky's Smoke Shop" on 22nd Street.
On September 4, he hit "Game Stop" again.
On September 24th he entered the Car Cash Pawn Stars on Oracle, and then Wednesday night hit the "Game Stop" once again.
TPD thinks he may be connected to a seventh robbery.
Ralph Hastie works at the pawn shop, not only did the armed robber hold a gun to his head, he also tied him up.
Hastie says before he was tied up he managed to hit the silent alarm. The suspect began stuffing items into bags as well as cash.
He also took Hastie's car keys. He apologized to Hastie and told him he needed money to feed his family. As the suspect was leaving through the front door with the stolen merchandise, Tucson Police showed up and he escaped by running out the back. The surveillance camera captured a good image of the suspect and police are hoping someone will recognize him.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic man, 18 to 22 years old, 5'6" to 5'9" tall, weighing between 140 to 160 lbs.
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Osho,When you talked about the ultimate death of this world, I got suddenly in touch with deep aloneness, and this voice inside me said, "Remember: each single moment, remember that you are alone." Osho, after our death will you still be, in some mysterious way, with our wandering consciousness?
Aloneness is the ultimate reality. One comes alone, one goes alone; and between these two alonenesses we create all kinds of relationships and fighting, just to deceive ourselves – because in life also, we remain alone. But aloneness is not something to be sad about; it is something to rejoice in. There are two words – the dictionary will say they have the same meaning, but existence gives them totally opposite meanings. One word is loneliness and the other word is aloneness. They are not synonymous.
Loneliness is a negative state, like darkness. Loneliness means you are missing someone; you are empty, and you are afraid in this vast universe. Aloneness has a totally different meaning: it does not mean that you are missing someone, it means that you have found yourself. It is absolutely positive.
Finding oneself, one finds the meaning of life, the significance of life, the joy of life, the splendor of life. Finding oneself is the greatest finding in man's life, and this finding is possible only when you are alone. When your consciousness is not crowded by anything, by anybody, when your consciousness is utterly empty – in that emptiness, in that nothingness, a miracle happens. And that miracle is the foundation of all religions.
The miracle is: when there is nothing else for your consciousness to be conscious of, the consciousness turns upon itself. It becomes a circle. Finding no obstacle, finding no object, it comes back to the source. And the moment the circle is complete, you are no longer just an ordinary human being; you have become part of the godliness that surrounds existence. You are no longer yourself; you have become part of the whole universe – your heartbeat is now the heartbeat of the universe itself.
This is the experience which mystics have been searching for all their lives, down the ages. There is no other experience which is more ecstatic, more blissful. This experience transforms your whole outlook: where there used to be darkness, now there is light; where there used to be misery, there is bliss; where there used to be anger, hate, possessiveness, jealousy, there is only a beautiful flower of love.
The whole energy that was being wasted in negative emotions is no longer wasted; it takes a positive and creative turn. On the one hand you are no longer your old self; on the other hand you are, for the first time, your authentic self. The old is gone, the new has arrived. The old was dead; the new belongs to the eternal, the new belongs to the immortal.
It is because of this experience that the seers of the Upanishads have declared man as amritasya putrah – "sons and daughters of immortality."
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Clueless, Heartless and Gutless: Today's GOP
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Solving the Greek Debt Crisis With Honey and Skincare Products
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Obama Is Cooking With Gas
By Amy HarderMajor pieces of the president's environmental program and foreign policy have been enabled by the oil-and-gas boom.
The Self-Perpetuating Problem of Long-Term Unemployment
By Elahe Izadi and Catherine HollanderAs the Hill debates its emergency benefits policy, millions struggle to find work.
It's Crunch Time for Congress
By Billy HouseAs time is running out fast, lawmakers face unresolved work on a budget, a defense policy bill, and legislation to renew food stamps and farm programs.
What is the Country Doing for Millennials? Not Enough
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Battle Widens Over 'Gas Rush' Climate Footprint
By Ben GemanA new study is raising questions about the impact of the U.S. natural-gas production boom.
About 10 Percent of Obamacare Enrollment Files Have Errors
By Sam BakerHHS has struggled to figure out the extent of HealthCare.gov 's back-end problems
Poll: Majority of Republican Men Support Universal Background Checks on Gun Sales
By Peter BellUnited Technologies/ National Journal Congressional Connection Poll finds a quarter would be "very pleased" to extend checks to gun shows and Internet sales.
Yes, We're Dropping Thousands of Dead Mice Laced With Tylenol on Guam
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Emails: Administration Decided on Obamacare Delay in August
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That Personal Touch Helps Americans Save Money
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The January transfer window may have slammed shut but FanZone has completed a free-transfer switch to TEAMtalk, which will provide a home for all the bloggers assigned to each club.
We've got writers for nearly every team in all four divisions of English football - and you'll be able to access all of their previous blogs on the new FanZone home page.
TEAMtalk has a rich blogging history, with their eight in-house bloggers creating bespoke content such as Monday Moan and Numbers Game on a daily basis.
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Last week while all the celebrating was happening, I was knee deep in working on the baby's new room. It still has a way to go, but every day I would check something off the list. (Let's play "Spot the Baby!" in this photo!)
Aside from actually setting up the crib, the biggest project in that room has been repainting the drawers on the little dresser. It was a creamy white, and lived in the closet in the girls' room. Before, it lived in my bedroom as seen in this embarrassing photo of me; it was sponge painted in forest green and had ivy stenciled to the drawer faces at that point in its life. My mother was very creative, especially since she had painted it avocado green for her own bedroom when she was a younger girl. This dresser is like a cat- it has lots of lives.
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Then I debated on just pale pink drawer faces or go with the trend and do ombre. I don't usually do the trendy stuff because trends go in and out so fast, but I figured that since it was just drawer fronts on a cheap dresser, I might as well go for it this time. I called my sisters and friends to get their input too, and we all decided it wouldn't hurt to try it! I grabbed a Behr paint chip and just got sample sizes in each of the 3 colors on the chip.
I think it is really cute, but eventually it will enter another life and be some other color. The top pink is really pretty; if I get tired of the ombre I'll just do all three in that shade. The knobs were from it's last life, so I didn't have to buy those- yay!
And then, ironically, I picked up this little baby swimsuit at Target.
I'll post more on the room as it comes along! Just FYI, everything atop the dresser is from Hobby Lobby's clearance aisle- although the little pink mirror was black- paint is my friend! The lampshade is a white and green hounds tooth… I'll get more pictures when the room is finished.


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Arguedas, José María
José María Arguedas 1911-1969
Peruvian novelist, short story writer, poet, ethnologist, and translator.
The following entry provides criticism of Arguedas's works from 1982 through 2002.
Arguedas is less well-known than contemporaries like Gabriel García Márquez or his friend Mario Vargas Llosa, but his deep understanding of Peru's indigenous people has established his place among Latin America's most respected writers. Arguedas chronicled the social, economic, cultural and linguistic transformations wrought by urbanization and the massive migrations of highland Indians to Peru's coastal cities. Arguedas's fiction drew heavily from his accomplishments in ethnography and his intimate knowledge of Peru's history and geography. His childhood as a sort of mestizo—a white child more fluent in Quechua than Spanish—also informed his work; he wrote his fiction first in Quechua and then translated it himself to Spanish. Arguedas was a major figure in Peruvian life, receiving important appointments to governmental and cultural organizations and holding several university positions. His writings were also influential with the Liberation Theologians of the 1960s and 1970s.
Biographical Information
Arguedas was born on January 18, 1911, in Andahuaylas, Peru. His father was an itinerate lawyer who traveled the countryside, and Arguedas's mother died when he was three. His father remarried, and Arguedas spent most of his childhood on his stepmother's hacienda in the Peruvian highlands. Because his stepmother "despised and hated me as much as [her] Indians," Arguedas wrote in Páginas escogidas (1972), "she decided that I was to live with them in the kitchen, eat and sleep there." His stepmother intended it as punishment, but Arguedas considered his experiences among the Indians one of the most spiritually nourishing developments of his life. The Indians treated him as one of their own, and as he wrote in the introduction to Yawar fiesta (1941), "my protectors showered me with a deep and brave tenderness, … the purest love, which makes the individual who has acquired it absolutely immune to skepticism." Soon he was more fluent in the Indians' Quechua language than he was in Spanish. As a teenager, he alternated study at boarding schools with travels accompanying his father across the Peruvian highlands and to the cities on the coast. In 1931 he enrolled at the University of San Marcos, but his literature studies were interrupted a year later; authorities closed the University during political unrest, and his father's death and the subsequent need to support himself led him to take a job working for the postal ministry. He started publishing articles in 1934, and when the University re-opened in 1935 he began his anthropological studies. That year he also published Agua. Los escoleros. Warma kukay, a collection of stories that won him second prize in an Argentine-sponsored competition. In 1937 Arguedas's political activity resulted in his spending eleven months in prison for protesting an event honoring an official of Mussolini's government and his firing from the postal ministry. In 1939 he married Celia Bustamante Vernal, wrote his dissertation on language differences between the Peruvian highlands and coast, and took a teaching position at a boys' school. He published his first novel, Yawar fiesta, in 1941, and he continued the steady output of works of ethnography, folklore, musicology, and studies of the Quechua language that would continue until his death. Despite being falsely denounced as a communist in 1947, Arguedas traveled often on behalf of Peruvian governmental agencies and cultural organizations, and he developed friendships with novelists Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortazar. In the fifties Arguedas did extensive ethnographic work, earning him a professorship at the University of San Marcos in 1958, the same year he published his novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers). Arguedas became prominent in Peruvian culture and politics, and he was appointed to many governmental and cultural positions, including director of the National History Museum. Despite his success, Arguedas was increasingly unhappy; he separated from his wife in 1965, and a year later he attempted suicide. He started a diary, which provided some material for his posthumously-published novel El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo (1971; The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below). He remarried in 1966, traveled frequently, and published prolifically, but in 1969 he shot himself and died on December 2, 1969.
Major Works
Arguedas believed much of his work was the product of a "bedeviled struggle with language." His work reflects an attempt to bring forms of consciousness and reality he experienced and most easily expressed in Quechua to readers of Spanish, the language of the Quechua people's oppressors. Arguedas wrote Agua, his first collection of stories, in anger at the treatment of the Indians and out of disdain for the depictions of Indians in Peruvian literature. These stories lay out many of the themes and narrative patterns for all of Arguedas's stories and novels—the narrators are children struggling with their identity, the Indians are shown living in organic solidarity and in harmony with nature, but the lives and culture of the highland Indians are being threatened by the individual and rationalistic culture of the Spanish-speaking peoples on the Peruvian coast. Agua earned Arguedas second prize in an international contest sponsored by Revista Americana in Buenos Aires. Arguedas's first novel, Yawar fiesta, depicts an Indian community attempting to perform a ritual feast that is prohibited by the civil authorities of holding a bullfight. It is a sympathetic portrait of the Indians and their culture besieged by the cold brutality of the authorities acting in the name of civilization.
Yawar fiesta was followed by several years of writer's block, but in 1958 Arguedas published Deep Rivers, considered by many his masterpiece. It follows the young child Ernesto, like Arguedas, the white son of an itinerate lawyer who is raised by Indian servants. It begins by describing a wondrous world of magic and nature, viewed through the mythical perspective of the Indians. Eventually, however, Ernesto is sent away to school, where he encounters loneliness and sees how the rational and individualistic society of the Spanish-speaking dominant classes impinges on the freedom and dignity of the Indians, forcing them into futile rebellion against their military-backed oppressors. Arguedas's later works, including El sexto (1961) and Todas las sangres (1964) were more overtly socially and politically pointed. While critics generally do not hold these works in as high a regard as Deep Rivers, Liberation Theologians such as Gustavo Gutierrez were inspired by these works to call for the Catholic Church to seek harmony with the indigenous peoples through respect for their forms of communal solidarity and pre-rational consciousness. Arguedas's last novel, The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below), takes place in a coastal town where the culture of the Indian migrants from the highlands clashes with rootless culture and urban poverty of Peru's teeming cities and contains diary entries from a despairing narrator. It was published posthumously.
Critical Reception
Arguedas's engagement with the language, consciousness, and power are fundamental to almost all appraisals of his life and work. From his earliest stories, according to Christian Fernández's profile of Arguedas for the critical edition of The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below, "We see the beginning of the apprenticeship and representation of a reality that apparently was carefully planned from the beginning by Arguedas … Arguedas is already previewing the problems he will represent in subsequent works. In all of them, the narrator is a child with a problem of cultural identity …" Arguedas had an obvious affinity with the culture of the Quechua Indians. Alita Kelley sees Arguedas as a "translator" of Quechua culture, and Lucía Lockert has written in the Michigan Academician that "Arguedas captures the acculturated language that one hears in every Andean corner of Peru from the mouths of mestizos who speak Spanish." In Modern Language Quarterly Walter D. Mignolo found in Arguedas's work the "legacies of the linguistic conflict created by migrations from the metropolitan centers to the colonial domains, and the fractures of local languages introduced by colonial ones" that date back to the sixteenth century. In GeoJournal, geographer César N. Caviedes praised The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below as "a synthesis of contemporary Peru" crafted by Arguedas "with perhaps more propriety and sensitivity than a historian, sociologist or geographer." In his introduction to The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below, Ciro A. Sandoval went even further, declaring that "as an author, Arguedas's concern was the totality of human culture." One of Arguedas's most engaged and perceptive critics is his friend, fellow Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. In Review of Contemporary Fiction Vargas Llosa wrote that Arguedas's first novel, Yawar fiesta, succeeds as fiction because the narrator presents the world of the novel "as an indivisible though heartbreaking totality" from an anti-rational perspective that Vargas Llosa nevertheless concludes is deeply conservative. But as his career progressed, Vargas Llosa believed Arguedas succumbed to the pressure to produce literature that supported his social and political commitments. In Harper's Vargas Llosa concluded that Todas las sangres was a "very ambition book, in which [Arguedas] tried, escaping from himself, to describe the social and political problems of his country. The novel is a total failure: the vision is simplistic and even a caricature … The book is the classic failure of an artistic talent as a result of the self-imposition of social commitment."
Principal Works
Agua. Los escoleros. Warma kukay (short stories) 1935
Yawar fiesta (novel) 1941
Canciones y cuentos del pueblo quechua [The Singing Mountaineers: Songs and Tales of the Quechua People] [translator] (songs and short stories) 1949
Diamantes y pedernales. Agua (short stories) 1954
Los ríos profundos [Deep Rivers] (novel) 1958
El sexto (novel) 1961
La agonía de "Rasu-Niti" (novel) 1962
Túpac Amaru Kamaq taytanchisman; Haylli-taki. A nuestro padre creador Túpac Amaru; Himnocanción (poetry) 1962
Todas las sangres (novel) 1964
El sueño del pongo [translator] (short story) 1965
Dioses y hombres de huarochirí [translator] (novel) 1966
La amante de la culebra (short stories) 1966
Amor mundo y otros relatos; enlarged Amor mundo y todos los cuentos de José María Arguedas (short stories) 1967
Las comunidades de España y del Peru (prose) 1968
El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo [The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below] (novel) 1971
Páginas escogidas (collected works of fiction, poetry, and ethnographical and biographical prose) 1972
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SOURCE: Muñoz, Braulio. "Indian of the Heart." Americas 34, no. 3 (May-June 1982): 25-9.
[In the following essay, Muñoz examines Arguedas's struggle to describe a future for the Andean Indians that relies on neither liberalism nor western socialism and retains their sense of the magical.]
But if I die of life, and not of time, …
—César Vallejo
I first met José María Arguedas when he came to Chimbote, my native port in northern Peru. He came to write a novel about despair and hope—a novel about Peru. He was the first "Indian" I really knew. He was born in the Andean highlands, had learned the Indian worldview through the Inca language, and had grown up in the ayllus (Indian communities that to this day infuse their members with the old ways). But this indio sonqo, this Indian of the heart, did not remain in the highlands for long. His mestizo ancestry proved too strong for the claims the ayllu had on him, and eventually succeeded in drawing him to the coast.
The childhood experiences were not to be erased, however; until his death, J. M. Arguedas remained an Indian of the heart. Through Ernesto, the central character of his best novel, Los Ríos Profundos (1958) (Deep Rivers, 1978), Arguedas evokes memories of his own childhood:
To escape cruel relatives, I had...
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SOURCE: Lockert, Lucía. "Peruvian Social Realities in José María Arguedas." Michigan Academician 19, no. 2 (spring 1987): 243-51.
[In the following essay, Lockert presents Arguedas's work as examples of the tensions in his thought between solidarity and individualism and acculturation and assimilation.]
The noted twentieth-century Peruvian author, José María Arguedas, once wrote of his homeland:
There isn't a country more diverse, more varied in its terrain and its people; every degree of heat and color, of love and hate, of manipulations and inspiring symbols. Not without reason, as the common people would say, were important people and events made here. People like Pachacamac and Pachacutec, Huaman Poma de Ayala, Cieza and the Inca Garcilaso, Tupac Amaruc and Vallejo, Mariátegui and Eguren. The Coastal Yungas and those of the Sierras. Events such as the celebration of the Coyllur and the Procession of Our Lord of the Miracles.1
In his writings José María Arguedas tried to capture aspects of the multiple reality of Perú. It is not an easy task to extract out of context the cultural dichotomies that appear in his work, given that "the world of the novel is more complex than any of the dichotomies."2 This paper examines the dichotomies Arguedas emphasizes in their relation to his own life and to...
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SOURCE: Wall-Smith, Stephen B. "José María Arguedas: Godfather of Liberationism." Christian Century 104, no. 34 (18 November 1987): 1034-39.
[In the following essay, Wall-Smith examines Arguedas's conceptualization of highland culture as a spiritual force under pressure from the materialist pressures of Peru's coastal areas, and he shows how this influenced the development of liberation theology.]
An underlying liberation philosophy to validate Latin American theologies of liberation has yet to be extracted from the popular culture. In time, some scholar will no doubt reconstruct it academically. Until then, the fiction of José María Arguedas provides some of the most vivid portraits of that culture available, as well as penetrating reflections upon its meaning. Little-known in North America, the Peruvian novelist apparently played an important, though indirect, role in the first flowering of liberation theology. Some observers claim that Arguedas considerably influenced fellow Peruvian Gustavo Gutiérrez, as both an author and a friend.
The closeness of the relationship between the two men is difficult to establish from the works of either, but the friendship they apparently share does not seem improbable. The Spanish-language edition of A Theology of Liberation is prefaced with an extensive quote from one of Arguedas's novels and (in every language) the book is...
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SOURCE: Columbus, Claudette Kemper. "Arguedas's De-Auto-Rized Biography: A Failed? Trickster's Tale." Latin American Literary Review 21, no. 42 (July-December 1993): 21-33.
[In the following essay, Columbus likens Arguedas and his narrator in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo to a trickster who inhabits "compound characters who, like him, straddle several language worlds."]
Individuality can no longer be contained within the terms of manifest personality traits. In a world of transition and revolution individuality has become a problem of historical and social relations, such as cannot be revealed by the mere characterizations of an already established social stereotype. Every mode of individuality now relates to the whole world.
(John Berger, The Look of Things, 41)
Autobiography, in focusing on the life of an individual, even a culture hero or heroine, has generally been, as a genre, the province of the exceptional: the rich, the famous, the crippled, the exemplary case. Its highlighting of a particular life emphasizes the individual and marginalizes the lives of others. In a context in which masses suffer gross inequities of opportunity, such as those suffered by the native populations of Peru, autobiography seems a particularly egoistic genre. Even Rigoberta Menchú draws on the lives of others in...
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SOURCE: Vargas Llosa, Mario. "The Real Life of the Latin American Novelist." Harper's 287, no. 1720 (September 1993): 22-4.
[In the following essay, Vargas Llosa categorizes Arguedas's works as "literature meant for him" and the later works, such as Todas las Sangres, in which he succumbed to the pressures to produce works of social and political conscience, which Vargas Llosa found "a total failure."]
The Peruvian novelist José María Arguedas killed himself the second day of December 1969 in a classroom at La Molina Agricultural University in Lima. He was a very discreet man, and so as not to disturb his colleagues and the students with his suicide he waited until everybody had left the place. Near his body was found a letter with very detailed instructions about his burial: where he should be mourned, who should pronounce the eulogies in the cemetery, and he asked, too, that an Indian musician friend of his play the huaynos and mulizas he was fond of. His will was respected, and Arguedas, who had been when he was alive a very modest and shy man, had a very spectacular political burial.
But some days later other letters written by him appeared, little by little. They, too, were different aspects of his last will, and they were addressed to very different people: his publisher, friends, journalists, academics, politicians. The main subject of these...
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SOURCE: Hawley, John C., S. J. "We Wretched of the Earth: The Search for a Language of Justice." In Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice, edited by Susan VanZanten Gallagher, pp. 125-35. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.
[In the following essay, Hawley draws on Bakhtin's claim that language shapes our self-definition to frame Arguedas's personal and literary development as a three-stage development of mythological consciousness: his childhood immersion in the language and culture of the Quechua Indians; his "agonistic and abstract phase" when he learned Spanish and received his formal education; and his years writing fiction when he tried to break out of colonial and oppressive forms of consciousness and extend the power and meaning of ancient stories, songs and myths.]
"In the beginning was the Word," writes John—God's revealing utterance that "was made flesh and lived among us." This incarnational character of the Word, this "living among us," has demanded of Christians in each age a reinterpretation of its original and ongoing meaning. If the protean nature of God's self-expression has seen a continuing "translation" in each age, though, it is becoming increasingly evident among church members that a similar task is also required in each ethnic milieu. The "us" among whom the Word lives is made up of many communities of discourse, and a...
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SOURCE: Mignolo, Walter D. "Linguistic Maps, Literary Geographies, and Cultural Landscapes: Languages, Languaging, and (Trans)nationalism." Modern Language Quarterly 57, no. 2 (June 1996): 181-96.
[In the following essay, Mignolo compares Arguedas's efforts to write in a transcultural language with the efforts of two other writers—a Mexican-American and Caribbean; where the other writers are seen facing the challenge of communicating the linguistic and cultural conflicts of a "Third World" immigrant living in the "First World," Arguedas is seen as exploring the conflicts of hundreds of years ago, when the native peoples of America were confronted with the colonizing migrations from Spain and other regions of the Americas.]
The aim of my argument is to challenge the authority of the past by looking at languages and languaging in the context of Western expansion since 1500. I argue that theoretical models dealing with languages have been built in complicity (not necessarily planned, but perhaps resulting from a lack of awareness) with colonial expansion. The linguistic and philosophical models of the twentieth century, and most remarkably those popularized in the sixties and seventies, are of little use for dealing with the transnational dimension of language and languaging, since they appear in academic discourse as a universal speaking subject. This speaking subject, curiously enough, was...
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SOURCE: Caviedes, César N. "Tangible and Mythical Places in José M. Arguedas, Gabriel García Márquez, and Pablo Neruda." GeoJournal 38, no. 1 (1996): 99-107.
[In the following essay, Caviedes explores Arguedas's allegorical depictions of the physical geography of Peru in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo, a work he declares "a synthesis of contemporary Peru" crafted by Arguedas "with perhaps more propriety and sensitivity than a historian, sociologist or geographer."]
The flight that Latin American literature has taken during the last three decades is to be considered as an intellectual revolution. From a parochial, confused, baroque genre unbearably obsessed with social relevance and political messages, Latin American literature has now acquired a simulating universality that entertains and often stuns contemporary readers. Its striking success—not to be measured in volumes sold but in intrinsic quality and penetrating depth—has been achieved without renouncing the genuine attributes of Latin American writing and without sacrificing the peculiar Weltanschauung of Latin Americans. In fact, the opposite has occurred: prominent Latin American writers have offered to a global readership an image of their world which, although outlandish, has many common points with the rest of humanity.
The vitality and...
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SOURCE: Columbus, Claudette Kemper. "Oracular Foxes, Archaic Times, Twentieth-Century Peru: J. M. Arguedas's The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below." Dispositio/n: American Journal of Cultural Histories and Theories 21, no. 48 (1996): 137-54.
[In the following essay, Columbus notes that the foxes symbolize art in The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below and are presented as symbols struggling against the bureaucratization of folk art and culture.]
In The Foxes (El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo, 1969)1 the Peruvian novelist José María Arguedas conflates the myth of a failed Andean mountain-weather deity and culture hero, Tutaykire, and the myth of his brother, the shaman-healer and fellow mountain-weather deity, Huatyacuri. Arguedas translates the myths of Huarochirí (Dioses y hombres de huarochirí, 1966) and later, his fascination with them deepening, he brings Huatyacuri, Tutaykire, and the ancient Andean foxes out of the deep past of Andean myth and folklore and out of a nature-worshipping context and into the twentieth century.2 The plight of Tutaykire, "Wound of Night," as failed deity, resonates with Arguedas's own psycho-social predicament as well as with political-economic crises in Peru and elsewhere. Arguedas concentrates these crises in the blasphemous and profane port city of Chimbote, hazardous in...
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SOURCE: Moreiras, Alberto. "The End of Magical Realism: José María Arguedas's Passionate Signifier (El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo)." Journal of Narrative Technique 27, no. 1 (winter 1997): 84-112.
[In the following essay, Moreiras declares that the death of the author in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo symbolizes the death of Magical Realism, and with it "Latin American foundational utopianism comes to its end."]
What would happiness be that is not measured by an immeasurable grief at what is?
(Adorno 200)
There is an old Latin Americanist ideology which insistently affirms that the continent is a yet-to-be-realized historical project. Irlemar Chiampi has noted that this ideology is solidary with (she calls it "a residue of") a certain "foundational Utopianism" which the early Spanish and Portuguese conquerors and other European settlers brought with them (133). Magical realism is very significantly a part of that ideology. It developed in the first half of the twentieth century through the cultural fights within the Latin American intellectual public sphere—more specifically, within Angel Rama's "ciudad letrada"—between the centripetal forces of regionalism/nationalism and the centrifugal forces of the...
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SOURCE: Vargas Llosa, Mario. "A Bullfight in the Andes." Review of Contemporary Fiction 17, no. 1 (spring 1997): 35-51.
[In the following essay, Vargas Llosa argues that Arguedas's first novel, Yawar Fiesta, succeeds as fiction because the narrator presents the world of the novel "as an indivisible though heartbreaking totality" from an anti-rational perspective Vargas Llosa concludes is deeply conservative.]
Critics who praise José María Arguedas's first novel share the assumption that there is an essential correspondence between a work of fiction and the reality it "describes," that a novel is successful to the extent that it faithfully represents its model; and so they underscore the similarities between this story's bloody fiesta and life in the Andes. I assume the opposite: that there is an incompatibility between reality and fiction that separates truth from lies (and a hidden complicity that ties them together, since one cannot exist without the other). A novel results from a rejection of a real "model," and its ambition is to attain sovereignty, an autonomous life, distinct from whatever appears to inspire it and whatever it pretends to describe. Thus the genuineness of fiction is not that which brings it closer to but rather that which distances it from lived experience: the substitute life it invents—not the reflection of some detached and prior experience but...
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SOURCE: Sandoval, Ciro A. Introduction to José María Arguedas: Reconsiderations for Latin American Cultural Studies, edited by Ciro A. Sandoval and Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval, pp. xxi-xlii. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1998.
[In the following essay, Sandoval first describes the social and political setting of Arguedas's life, then depicts Arguedas's work as representing "a drama of the unspeakable, of the undecidable, of the culturally and linguistically untranslatable."]
A writer, a man writing, is the scribe of all nature; he is the corn and the grass, and the atmosphere writing.
—H. D. Thoreau, A Writer's Journal
José María Arguedas Altamirano (1911-1969) was born into a world shaped by particular historical circumstances, at the crossroads of modernization's thrust into Peru. These circumstances would in turn shape his character and his destiny as one of the most creative and influential writers of both the Andean world and of Latin America as a whole. He was born in the southern Andean town of Andahuaylas to an itinerant lawyer from Cuzco, the capital of Tahuantinsuyu (the Indian name for the Inca empire). As a young boy, Arguedas accompanied his father on many of his travels through various towns in the southern Peruvian Andes. Arguedas would later portray its...
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SOURCE: Kelley, Alita. "The Persistence of Center: José María Arguedas and the Challenge to the Postmodern Outlook." In José María Arguedas: Reconsiderations for Latin American Cultural Studies, edited by Ciro A. Sandoval and Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval, pp. 70-84. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1998.
[In the following essay, Kelley asserts that Arguedas, despite using post-modernist techniques to depict the world of modern man, could not be a post-modernist; post-modernism, she contends, accepts no redemptive or transcendent force, whereas for Arguedas writing was itself a transcendent act of communion with the still-vibrant culture of the Quechua.]
José María Arguedas (1911-1969), the Peruvian writer and anthropologist, based his novels and stories on the life and outlook of the Quechua-speaking Indians living in a world forced upon them, and saw as his literary mission the expression of what another writer, speaking of current literature in the language of another oppressed people, the Irish, recently called a "unique and unrepeatable way of looking at the world" (Ní Dhomhnaill 1995, 28).
In recent years the terms posmodernismo and posmodernidad have begun figuring with increasing frequency in critical texts in Spanish, with little or no clarification as to usage. Subsequent to such clarification, Arguedas's work will be...
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SOURCE: Rowe, William. "Reading Arguedas's Foxes." In The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below, edited by Julio Ortega and Christian Fernandez, translated by Fred Fornoff, pp. 283-89. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Rowe describes "diaries" in The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below as "an erratic form of writing … that function as a threshold or multiple bridge between the fictional world, the sociocultural circumstance, the weave or Peruvian culture through many centuries, and the life of the author."]
The initial reception of El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo was marked by the concern of the critics over the apparently inconclusive character of the text; they also stressed its supposedly testimonial nature (Arguedas himself uses the word testimonio in his "Diaries"), with regard to both the life of the author and the social world of the characters. With the years, however, it came to be recognized that this was a work of exceptional importance, not only within the Arguedian corpus but also for Peruvian and Latin American literature. The axis of this change of attitude on the part of the critics consists of what Martín Lienhard has called "a kind of Copernican revolution in the literary production of Arguedas and Peru" (Lienhard 1990: 322). This is because the text engages the Peruvian...
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SOURCE: Fernández, Christian. "The Death of the Author in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo." In The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below, edited by Julio Ortega and Christian Fernández, translated by Fred Fornoff, pp. 290-306. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Fernández provides great detail about Arguedas's life, but ends by arguing that the diary entries included in The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below should be read as fiction and not as Arguedas's actual diaries.]
José María Arguedas was a man who lived between two worlds and two cultures: the indigenous world and the white world.1 He was born on January 18, 1911, in Andahuaylas, Apurímac, the son of Víctor Manuel Arguedas Arellano, a lawyer from Cuzco, and Victoria Altamirano Navarro de Arguedas, who died in 1914, when José María was barely three years old. After her death, he lives with his aunt and later with his grandmother for several years until his father marries again in 1917 and the family of the future writer goes to live in Puquio in the house of his stepmother, who owned an hacienda. There he will begin his primary education. The following year he transfers to San Juan de Lucanas to study. His father's duties as a lawyer and judge of primary court of claims keep him away from his wife and children, constantly on the move, leaving...
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SOURCE: Castro-Klarén, Sara. '"Like a Pig, When He's Thinkin': Arguedas on Affect and on Becoming an Animal." In The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below, edited by Julio Ortega and Christian Fernandez, pp. 307-323. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Castro-Klarén argues that Arguedas's engagement with Quechua myths and his conclusion that there cannot be harmony between the consciousness of the Indian myths and the consciousness of the modern world.]
With the air he fights, Brother, with the darkness he boxes; he don't light the lamp. … Then in a little while he squeezes me like snake or punches me, givin' me bloody nose. … He looks at my blood from over there, from the wall, like a pig, when he's thinkin(1)
When El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo first appeared in 1971, most readers of the book already knew that its author, José María Arguedas (1911-1969), had committed suicide in November of 1969 while trying to write the book. It was also well known that the published text of the "novel" would include Arguedas's own chronicle of his march to suicide in the form of "Diaries." Thus the reading of this posthumous novel was then, as it is now, prefaced by expectations traditionally attached to the confessional autobiography. This autobiographical angle was, however, not...
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SOURCE: Archibald, Priscilla. "Gender and Mestizaje in the Andes." In Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues, edited by Monika Kemp and Debra J. Rosenthal, pp. 103-21. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
[In the following excerpt, Archibald explores Arguedas's tendency to use mestizo characters as symbols of merging influences, and sexual lust and impropriety as symbolic of the Andean migration to the coast with a "redemptive anarchy" that was transforming Peru.]
JOSé MARíA ARGUEDAS: MESTIZAJE AND SEXUALITY
Increasingly, scholars look toward novelist and anthropologist José María Arguedas for help in addressing the new dimensions of Andean society. The most prominent Andean actor in Arguedas' anthropological work is the mestizo. After attending "El primer congreso internacional de peruanistas" ["The First International Congress of Peruvianists"] in 1952, Arguedas expressed disappointment with its limited focus on lo indigenista and lo hispanista. Once again the mestizo was left to the margins of Andean history, figuring ambiguously in the shadows of what were designated as the two primary Andean actors. This omission comments on the mestizo's illegitimacy and on the persistence of the strictly binary terms of colonial ideology. As the suspicion that has historically surrounded the mestizo suggests, illegitimacy...
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Further Reading
Aponte, Barbara. "The Initiation Archetype in Arguedas, Roa Bastos and Ocampo." Latin American Literary Review 11, no. 21 (fall-winter 1982): 45-55.
Arguedas's works and Peru itself are seen in tension between utopia and despair.
Beyersdorff, Margot. "Voice of the Runa: Quechua Substratum in the Narrative of José María Arguedas." Latin American Indian Literatures Journal 2, no. 1 (spring 1986): 28-48.
Special attention is given to the role of the Quechua language in shaping Arguedas's narratives.
Castro-Klaren, Sara. "Dancing and the Sacred in the Andes: From the Taqui-Oncoy to 'Rasu-Niti'." Dipositio/n:American Journal of Cultural Histories and Theories 14, no. 36-8 (1989): 169-85.
Arguedas's work is compared with Andean myths of death and rebirth.
Caviedes, Cesar. "The Latin American Boom-Town in the Literary View of José María Arguedas." In Geography and Literature: A Meeting of the Disciplines, edited by William E. Mallory and Paul Simpson-Housley, pp. 57-77. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1987.
Examines how Arguedas depicts rapid urbanization.
Columbus, Claudette Kemper. Mythological Consciousness and the Future: José María Arguedas. New York: Peter Lang, 1986, 191 p....
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Corporate governance of information technology
Information technology governance is a subset discipline of corporate governance focused on information technology (IT) systems and their performance and risk management. The rising interest in IT governance is partly due to compliance initiatives, for instance Sarbanes-Oxley in the USA and Basel II in Europe, but more so because of the need for greater accountability for decision-making around the use of IT in the best interest of all stakeholders.
IT capability is directly related to the long term consequences of decisions made by top management. Traditionally, board-level executives deferred key IT decisions to the company's IT professionals. This cannot ensure the best interests of all stakeholders unless deliberate action involves all stakeholders. IT governance systematically involves everyone: board members, executive management, staff and customers. It establishes the framework (see below) used by the organization to establish transparent accountability of individual decisions, and ensures the traceability of decisions to assigned responsibilities.
Both narrow and broad definitions of IT governance exist. Weill and Ross focus on "Specifying the decision rights and accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the use of IT."[1]
In contrast, the IT Governance Institute expands the definition to include foundational mechanisms: "… the leadership and organisational structures and processes that ensure that the organisation's IT sustains and extends the organisation's strategies and objectives."[2]
Wim Van Grembergen and Steven De Haes (2009) focus on enterprise governance of IT and define this as "an integral part of corporate governance", something which "addresses the definition and implementation of processes, structures and relational mechanisms in the organization that enable both business and IT people to execute their responsibilities in support of business/IT alignment and the creation of business value from IT enabled investments".
AS8015, the Australian Standard for Corporate Governance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), defines Corporate Governance of ICT as "The system by which the current and future use of ICT is directed and controlled. It involves evaluating and directing the plans for the use of ICT to support the organisation and monitoring this use to achieve plans. It includes the strategy and policies for using ICT within an organisation."
The discipline of information technology governance first emerged in 1993 as a derivative of corporate governance and deals primarily with the connection between strategic objectives and IT management of an organization. It highlights the importance of IT-related matters in contemporary organizations and states that strategic IT decisions should be owned by the corporate board, rather than by the chief information officer or other IT managers.
The primary goals for information technology governance are to (1) assure that the investments in IT generate business value, and (2) mitigate the risks that are associated with IT. This can be done by implementing an organizational structure with well-defined roles for the responsibility of information, business processes, applications, ICT infrastructure, etc.
Accountability is the key concern of IT governance.
After the widely reported collapse of Enron in 2000 and the alleged problems within Arthur Andersen and WorldCom, the duties and responsibilities of auditors and the boards of directors for public and privately held corporations were questioned. As a response to this, and to attempt to prevent similar problems from happening again, the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act was written to stress the importance of business control and auditing. Although not directly related to IT governance, Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel-II in Europe have influenced the development of information technology governance since the early 2000s.
Following corporate collapses in Australia around the same time, working groups were established to develop standards for corporate governance. A series of Australian Standards for Corporate Governance were published in 2003, these were:
- Good Governance Principles (AS8000)
- Fraud and Corruption Control (AS8001)
- Organisational Codes of Conduct (AS8002)
- Corporate Social Responsibility (AS8003)
- Whistle Blower protection programs (AS8004)
AS8015 Corporate Governance of ICT was published in January 2005. It was fast-track adopted as ISO/IEC 38500 in May 2008.[3]
Problems with IT governance[edit]
Is IT governance different from IT management and IT controls? The problem with IT governance is that often it is confused with good management practices and IT control frameworks. A short way to explain the difference is by researching the following statement: "management is not leadership". While IT management is about good shepherding of assets and resources, IT governance adds a vision and leadership dimension. ISO 38500 has helped clarify IT governance by describing it as the management system used by directors. In other words, IT governance is about the stewardship of IT resources on behalf of the stakeholders who expect a return from their investment. The directors responsible for this stewardship will look to the management to implement the necessary systems and IT controls. Whilst managing risk and ensuring compliance are essential components of good governance, it is more important to be focused on delivering value and measuring performance.
Less than a quarter of all enterprises have adopted any major IT governance standard despite the potential benefits to performance and profitability.[4] While different companies have different reasons, the failure is often a reflection of the belief that IT governance standards are too expensive to implement, that they don't reflect reality, or that it is unnecessary if they have already reached compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and other standards. However, the benefits that can be achieved by following the best practices should outweigh these perceived issues.
There are quite a few supporting references that may be useful guides to the implementation of information technology governance. Some of them are:
- AS8015-2005 Australian Standard for Corporate Governance of Information and Communication Technology. AS8015 was adopted as ISO/IEC 38500 in May 2008
- ISO/IEC 38500:2008 Corporate governance of information technology,[5] (very closely based on AS8015-2005) provides a framework for effective governance of IT to assist those at the highest level of organizations to understand and fulfill their legal, regulatory, and ethical obligations in respect of their organizations' use of IT. ISO/IEC 38500 is applicable to organizations from all sizes, including public and private companies, government entities, and not-for-profit organizations. This standard provides guiding principles for directors of organizations on the effective, efficient, and acceptable use of Information Technology (IT) within their organizations.
- COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) is regarded as the world's leading IT governance and control framework. COBIT provides a reference model of 34 IT processes typically found in an organization. Each process is defined together with process inputs and outputs, key process activities, process objectives, performance measures and an elementary maturity model. Originally created by ISACA, COBIT is now the responsibility of the ITGI[6] (IT Governance Institute).
- ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library)[7] is a high-level framework with information on how to achieve a successful operational Service management of IT, developed and maintained by the United Kingdom's Office of Government Commerce, in partnership with the IT Service Management Forum. While not specifically focused on IT governance, the process-related information is a useful reference source for tackling the improvement of the service management function.
Others include:
- ISO/IEC 27000-series - focus on Information Security
- CMM - The Capability Maturity Model: focus on software engineering
- TickIT - a quality-management certification program for software development
Non-IT specific frameworks of use include:
- The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) - method to assess an organization's performance in many different areas.
- Six Sigma - focus on quality assurance
- TOGAF - The Open Group Architectural Framework - methodology to align business and IT, resulting in useful projects and effective governance.
Professional certification[edit]
Certified in the Governance of Enterprise Information Technology (CGEIT) is an advanced certification created in 2007 by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). It is designed for experienced professionals, who can demonstrate 5 or more years experience, serving in a managing or advisory role focused on the governance and control of IT at an enterprise level. It also requires passing a 4-hour test, designed to evaluate an applicant's understanding of enterprise IT management. The first examination was held in December 2008.
See also[edit]
- Corporate Governance of ICT
- Data governance
- Enterprise architecture
- Information governance
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library
- Information technology management
- IT portfolio management
- IT service management
- Project governance
- Val IT
- Website governance
Further reading[edit]
- Blitstein, Ron, 2012. "IT Governance: Bureaucratic Logjam or Business Enabler", Cutter Consortium.
- S. De Haes, and W. Van Grembergen, "An Exploratory Study into the Design of an IT Governance Minimum Baseline through Delphi Research", Communications of AIS, No. 22, 2008, pp. 443–458.
- S. De Haes, and W. Van Grembergen, "An Exploratory Study into IT Governance Implementations and its Impact on Business/IT Alignment", Information Systems Management, Vol. 26, 2009, pp. 123–137.
- S. De Haes, and W. Van Grembergen, "Exploring the relationship between IT governance practices and business/IT alignment through extreme case analysis in Belgian mid-to-large size financial enterprises", Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. 22, No. 5, 2009, pp. 615–637.
- Georgel F., IT Gouvernance : Maitrise d'un systeme d'information, Dunod, 2004(Ed1) 2006(Ed2), 2009(Ed3), ISBN 2-10-052574-3. "Gouvernance, audit et securite des TI", CCH, 2008(Ed1) ISBN 978-2-89366-577-1
- Lutchen, M. (2004). Managing IT as a business : a survival guide for CEOs. Hoboken, N.J., J. Wiley., ISBN 0-471-47104-6
- Renz, Patrick S. (2007). "Project Governance." Heidelberg, Physica-Verl. (Contributions to Economics) ISBN 978-3-7908-1926-7
- Van Grembergen, W., Strategies for Information technology Governance, IDEA Group Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-59140-284-0
- Van Grembergen, W., and S. De Haes, Enterprise Governance of IT: Achieving Strategic Alignment and Value, Springer, 2009.
- Wim Van Grembergen, and S. De Haes, "A Research Journey into Enterprise Governance of IT, Business/IT Alignment and Value Creation", International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, Vol. No. 1, 2010, pp. 1–13.
- Weill, P. and Ross, J.W. (2004). IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results, Boston, MA, Harvard Business School Publishing, ISBN 1-59139-253-5
- Wilkin, C.L. and Chenhall, R.H. (2010). A Review of IT Governance: A Taxonomy to Inform AIS, Journal of Information Systems, 24 (2), 107–146.
- Wood, David J., 2011. "Assessing IT Governance Maturity: The Case of San Marcos, Texas". Applied Research Projects, Texas State University-San Marcos. (This paper applies a modified COBIT framework to a medium sized city.)
- ^ Weill, P. & Ross, J. W., 2004, IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results", Harvard Business School Press, Boston.
- ^ "Board Briefing on IT Governance, 2nd Edition" (PDF). IT Governance Institute. 2003. Retrieved January 18, 2006.
- ^ Introduction to ISO 38500[dead link]
- ^ "IT Governance Standards: Myths & Reality". Dell.com. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
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