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From the opening of Jorge Icaza's novel Huasipungo, set in early twentieth-century Ecuador, the landowner, Alfonso Pereira, is presented as treading on precarious ground. He has stormed out of his house in bad humour, faced with problems that are both familial and financial: his daughter is pregnant with her indigenous boyfriend; and meanwhile he is also faced with debts and unpaid taxes. His head filled with these concerns, he is about to cross the street only to be nearly run over by a car that leaves him "trying to regain his balance on the edge of the pavement" (9). And indeed, the story that follows is the tale of Pereira's attempts to "regain his balance" even if they involve ever-more extreme measures and grotesque abuses of the people who live on his land. Balance remains in short supply even at the end.
Pereira is presented as an almost comic character: flustered and maladroit; in over his head in the management of his family and his estate. But it is soon clear that there is a not-so-funny side to this cartoon buffoonery. On the advice of his uncle (and major creditor), Pereiras travels to his hacienda in the highlands, reluctant wife and daughter in tow, where he will, with yet more borrowed money, buy up land–and the indigenous that come with it–to build a road to the capital. The plan is to smooth the way for a firm of US prospectors, led by one "Mr Chapy," who are apparently interested in extracting lumber from the interior–though in fact they are rather more keen on the possibility of drilling for oil. With the payout that ensues, Pereira hopes that his troubles will be at an end. And the novel shows that he will stop at nothing to ensure this happy resolution.
On the journey to the highlands, the road still as-yet unbuilt, Pereira and his family find themselves stymied by a muddy path that not even their mules can traverse. The landowner therefore calls on the indigenous servants, for them to become literally beasts of burden by carrying the Pereiras on their backs. Still persecuted by anxiety about his own troubles, and so utterly thoughtless of the weight he is placing on others' shoulders, Pereira gives a start and causes the man carrying him to lose his footing and tumble to the ground. "Stupid Indian!" ["¡Indio pendejo!"], the master cries out "hopelessly" ["desesperado"], digging his spurs into the man's ribs (14). His self-absorption and helplessness are hardly a joking matter now.
The name of the man who has to bear this humiliating punishment is Andrés Chiliquinga, and as the story unfolds he becomes exemplary of the suffering that the indigenous are forced to endure in the name of the landowner's zeal to recover his economic balance, and of the gringos' promise to bring modernization and development. Andrés first endures a horrific injury while helping to clear the land. Then his wife dies an agonizing death after eating the rotten meat that, with Pereira's refusal to dole out the customary recompense for their otherwise unpaid labour, is all that the indigenous have to subsist on. And once the road is finally built, both he and his son die trying to protect their "huasipungo," their small parcel of land, and its hut from being torn down to make room for the houses and offices that Mr Chapy proposes to build in their place.
In the face of all this oppression, the indigenous do not go down without a fight, rallying around the slogan "¡Ñucanchic huasipungo!": "Our huasipungo." And the final lines of the book suggests that this cry will resonate around the Andes. But here, at least, their cause is hopeless. But even in his victory, or perhaps especially in his victory, Pereira remains as precariously perched as ever: standing on a wall alongside Mr Chapy to look out over "the vast plain of the highlands" (113), he is once again carried away with emotion and ends up falling down once more amid "clouds of dust" to the laughter of his gringo companion (114). "We know not where we are treading" ["no sabemos donde pisamos"] is the moral he draws from this, which could be a reference to the subterranean deposits that have been driving this entire enterprise. But it may also be a delayed glimpse of the fact that, in clearing the indigenous from the land and speeding up the transition from feudalism to a capitalism dominated by foreign corporations, the hapless Pereira has simply been undermining the ground from under his own feet.
In trying to secure his position, he has achieved the opposite: he has destroyed his future by neglecting to recognize the immense indigenous contribution to the good fortune he has taken for granted. Now who will carry him through the mud?
Aves sin nido
Towards the end of Clorinda Matto de Turner's Aves sin nido (1889), the mestizo couple Fernando and Lucía Marín, who are in effect the book's heroes, because they are sufficiently enlightened to take pity on Peru's indigenous peoples, are shown leaving the highland town of Kíllac where most of the novel's plot is set. With them are two young indigenous girls, Margarita and Rosalía, their daughters who they are adopting because their parents have died, victims of violence stirred up by the town's local authorities. There is no place for them in Kíllac, which is (as another character has declared, pages earlier) "barbaric" (49) and perhaps beyond salvation. If there is a future for the girls, it can only be in Lima, the nation's capital and "antechamber of Heaven" from which can be glimpsed "the throne of Glory and Fortune" (80). Just as much to the point, moreover, is the fact that the Maríns themselves are hardly safe in the Andes. It was their efforts on behalf of the indigenous that provoked the disturbance in which the girls' parents were killed. It's time to get out of Dodge.
Along the way, headed for the train that is to be both the vehicle of their escape and potent symbol of the modernity that Kíllac so notably lacks, Fernando and Lucía mull over the dramatic events that have led them to this point. "What do you think of the things that happen?" the wife asks her husband. "I'm stunned just thinking back over the coincidences," he replies. "Ah! Life is a novel" (140).
But life is not, of course, a novel. And when characters within a novel are made to protest otherwise, rather than heightening the realism of the events depicted, such claims instead undercut it by reminding us that it is, after all, a literary construction that we hold in our hands. The fact that the book needs to tell us that life can assume the shape of a novel is a sure sign that somehow it is failing to show us convincingly that the tale it tells is lifelike. Here, indeed, it is as though Matto de Turner were trying to prepare us for the hardly plausible plot twist with which her book ends. For it turns out that Margarita, too, is mestiza; her true father, as divulged in her mother's dying breath, is Kíllac's former parish priest. Worse still, her suitor, a young man named Manuel who is following along behind the family and hopes to ask the Maríns for their adopted daughter's hand in marriage, turns out to be hiding the very same secret: he too is the lascivious priest's bastard offspring. The would-be newly-weds are brother and sister! And with the revelation of that shocking coincidence, worthy as much of a telenovela as of a novel, the book's plot eventually comes grinding to a halt. After all, novels end even if life has to go on.
Yet perhaps there is something lifelike (and indeed, not very novelistic) about this story's strange and rather abrupt conclusion. For novels customarily end with some kind of resolution: a birth, a death, or a wedding, for instance. By refusing such a tidy ending, by ensuring through the scarcely believable device of making her young lovers siblings that there will be no marriage here, Matto de Turner is perhaps highlighting the artificiality of the novel form. Aves sin nido is true to life, and to Peru's "Indian problem," in its final recognition that it has no pat answers. Heaven can wait, as the glimpse of the throne of Glory is snatched away.
Discovery Passages
As part of an epigraph to one of the poems in his collection Discovery Passages, Garry Thomas Morse quotes Armand Garnet Ruffo as saying that "poetry [. . .] will make us who are doomed live forever" (79). And indeed there is often a sense of doom in this book, not least in the long, central poem that consists of fragments (apparently) taken from the archive of colonial regulation in early twentieth-century British Columbia. Here we are presented with disjointed words and phrases from the reports of those charged with enforcing the British ban on the native potlatch, and with carting away (and selling) to museums indigenous artifacts and possessions. From "Wm. M Halliday, Indian Agent," for instance, on November 20, 1918: "give / away / against / the act / persist / no choice / compelled / prosecuted / govern / accordingly" (36). Later, in 1922, from what appears to be a letter to "Duncan C. Scott, Deputy Superintendent, Indian Aff[ai]rs": "with / regard / material / surrendered / piled / in my / wood / shed / present / time // 300 / cubic / feet / masks / bead / dresses / other / pot / latch / gear" (45). In a systematic policy of appropriation, everything that might be given away is instead taken, to ensure that there is no surplus or excess that could be redistributed. No wonder that in Latin America, the settlements to which the Spanish assigned the indigenous were called "reducciones" or reductions. Styled now as poetry, the colonial record accounts for "articles [that] / are now / beyond / recall J. D. McLean, Asst. Deputy & Sec., Sept. 20, 1922" (56).
Yet despite this dispiriting logic of colonial reduction and rationalization, which aims to leave the indigenous with no more than what they can subsist on, this is also a book that is full of life. Elsewhere, indeed, it portrays poetry as precisely that excessiveness that can never quite be reduced to rational need, as a recovered surplus that spreads across the stolen land: "In other words it is my ancestral right, atavistically speaking, to sing & flood the space with poems & stuff," Morse declares (107). "You forget," he tells us in a poem entitled "Potlatch," "I am other / Multitudes" (15). The British tried even to take away indigenous languages: the final poem, titled "500 lines" in the manner of a schoolhouse punishment, consists almost entirely of the repeated injunction to be interiorized, "I will not speak Kwak'wala. / I will not speak Kwak'wala. / I will not speak Kwak'wala. / …" (114-125). But they proved unable to take away indigenous language, as Morse's book–and indeed what is practically an outpouring of recent First Nations poetry–goes to show. Discovery Passages does effectively contain Whitmanesque multitudes, multiple styles, multiple voices, from would-be passengers frustratedly waiting for a ferry to documentary film-makers endlessly interrupted, to an almost comic turn at a New York anthropological museum that riffs on Leonard Cohen while demanding the return of indigenous cultural patrimony: "First we take Manhattan / then we take B.C." (101). This is poetry that sprawls over the page, resistant and rebellious, and can never quite be constricted or brought into line.
Morse comes from the Kwakwaka'wakw, whose traditional territories are in the Campbell River region of Vancouver Island, Quadra Island, and the neighbouring "Discovery Islands." "Discovery Passage" itself lies between Quadra and Vancouver Island. His point, of course, is that these claims to discovery, preserved on the cartography of British Columbia, were doubly presumptuous: not only did the native peoples and their territory need no discovering; but the European explorers and subsequent colonial bureaucrats and settlers and even the anthropologists who were the handmaidens of their despoliation (it is here, after all, where Frank Boas effectively founded American anthropology) left so much undiscovered, which continues defiantly if fugitively to this day. It is perhaps then only fitting that the latest indigenous figure to spring a surprise by publicly unsettling the settlers, by refusing to stay within the lines, is also associated with the Kwakwaka'wakw: former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould, recently expelled by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the Liberal Party, who is a member of the We Wai Kai Nation, on the east side of Quadra.
Friends, Enemies, and Others
Presented at "Theologies of the Political: From Augustine to Agamben, and Beyond"
UBC Medieval Workshop
Green College, UBC, 29-30 March, 2019
"Friends, Enemies, and Others: Political Theology and the Art of the Encounter"
To adopt a phrase from the liturgy of monarchical succession: Political theology is dead, long live political theology. In what follows, the argument I hope to sketch out concerns the link between sovereignty and politics. For Carl Schmitt, who first coined the phrase "political theology," this link is fundamental. Schmitt defines sovereignty as the ascription of a singular point that has the power to decide over the exception, and politics in terms of the dyadic distinction between friend and enemy that such an ascription frames and enables. I argue, by contrast, that this link is broken (if it ever functioned), that there is no such singular point (if there ever was), and that the friend/enemy distinction is, and always has been, a misleading distortion.
Along the way, I will not even pretend to be a medievalist, for which I hope you will forgive me. The case study that I will be analyzing, through which I will be reading Schmitt's concepts, is about as contemporary as one could imagine: it is the ongoing legislative uncertainty around Britain's projected withdrawal from the European Union, an event that should have happened yesterday but which may now take place on April 12 or May 22, or sometime, or never. Brexit is an unusually odd and complex affair; it is, in every sense, exceptional. But it is an exception that does not ground traditional conceptions of sovereignty (as Schmitt would have it); it radically undermines them. And I argue that Brexit is symptomatic, that it tells us something about the limits of political theology today (and perhaps always), and not only in the UK.
One response to this dilemma might be to jettison political theology. In the end, however, I suggest (all too briefly and cryptically) that political theology can still be redeemed, perhaps via a return if not to the Middle Ages (though Geoff Koziol's discussion of ninth- to eleventh-century insurrections suggests that the Carolingian era might provide fertile ground) then at least to the Early Modern, and to a counter-tradition that has run parallel to the contractualist orthodoxy that is now utterly exhausted.
The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies: Opening the Dialogue
Presented at an Open Forum for the Interim Director of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. March 11, 2019. Also available as a PDF and as slides. See the recording and Q&A (starts around 14:50).
I start by acknowledging that we are on land taken from its original indigenous Musqueam inhabitants. Also that this is a public university supported by the peoples of British Columbia. We therefore have responsibilities as an institution of higher education and research, and we should better justify what we do on this land with that money.
Though today's dialogue is part of the search for an interim director for the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, what I hope we can embark on, and continue tomorrow and Friday, is an open reflection on the role of the Institute, on its relationship to the university, and also on the responsibilities of the university to the world beyond.
These relationships are homologous. The dynamic between Institute and University can provide a model for the dynamic between the university and society as a whole. Neither relationship is easy. Indeed, they should be marked by a productive tension, with the Institute reminding the university of its better nature, just as the university offers society ways of thinking that are not reducible to calculation or profit.
I therefore thank Santa Ono and the Institute Board for today's event. As an outsider candidate, I may not become Interim Director, though I have much to offer. But I will be happy if I help to generate debate about the Institute and the university.
The Institute means a lot to me. My own research and understanding of scholarship have been shaped by interdisciplinary projects and centers across three continents. This impact has been direct, with for instance Milwaukee's Center for Twentieth-Century Studies or Duke's John Hope Franklin Center where I did my graduate work, or Manchester's Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies that I helped to found. It has also been indirect, as my work engages with for example Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. This background explains why at UBC I have been drawn to projects such as Arts One and above all the Peter Wall Institute, an intellectual oasis that has felt like my home on campus.
So I was shocked to hear, in November, of Philippe Tortell's resignation as Director, and alarmed to read his warning of "an existential threat to the Institute's core mission, academic independence and capacity to catalyze truly innovative and creative research." But we should not have been surprised. The Institute's most recent external review tells us that this is a crisis long foretold. Even back in 2011, the review concluded that there was an opportunity to be grasped but also dangers to be avoided:
PWIAS may well be unique in the world among institutes for advanced study in having appreciably more resources than it needs for its present programs. Such a situation naturally attracts predators eager to deploy the resources for their own schemes, producing mission creep of the sort that is perhaps already discernible. [. . .] If the moment is not seized, the resources may be dissipated rather than focused, and a glorious opportunity will have been lost.
If we have indeed seen predators eyeing up the Institute's resources, the blame must be placed not only on central administration, but also on an Institute that has not made good on its "glorious opportunity." In a competitive environment where money, space, and time are scarce, the onus is on the Institute to show leadership, principle, and vision.
Yet the moment has not yet passed. The Institute can still become all it can be, pressing the university to live up to its better self.
Right now, the Wall Institute is seen as a problem. The directorship particularly is a poisoned chalice. No wonder, in that so many have come and gone in so little time: the tenure of an Institute Director is about as long and untroubled as that of an Attorney General under Justin Trudeau. And now we will have an Interim Director, with a new external review amid an atmosphere of uncertainty and foreboding.
But the controversy around the Institute is a symptom of larger issues affecting the university as a whole, and the Institute offers a vantage point from which to address them. The Institute is less problem than solution. Or rather, part of its mission must be to keep causing problems, to trouble a university sometimes tempted to short-cuts or complacency, just as the university itself should be an unsettling force in society at large.
If there is a problem with the Institute, it is that it is not causing enough problems, not raising enough fuss. It is that, again in the words of its external reviewers, it has too often been "exceptionally inward looking and its programs [. . .] lack sufficient coherence, synergy and external impact."
The Interim Director will have to prepare for and manage the Institute's upcoming external review. We cannot second-guess that review's conclusions. But we can build on the previous review's conclusions, to articulate basic principles, which apply as much to the university as to the Institute, and we can start a discussion to feed into the process.
The last review stressed impact, synergy, coherence, and internationalism; I will add openness.
1. Impact. The Institute should make an impact by proposing directions for academic research. It should take a lead and give substance to its programming. At present, in providing grants on any topic, across the university, it tends to follow rather than to lead, hoping for serendipity rather than planning with a purpose. Much good work is funded by the Institute, but no wonder administrators think its funds could be aligned with clusters and the university's strategic plan. With the help of a reconstituted Advisory Board, the Institute should take the initiative, stepping up to make a difference by advancing concepts and suggesting priorities for interdisciplinary study, freed of the constraints faced by clusters and other units.
2. Synergy. The Institute should achieve synergy by ensuring that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Its programs should be more clearly articulated with each other. At present, the connections between (say) the Wall Scholars and the Research Roundtables or the Associates' dinner talks tend to be accidental rather than considered. But in a given year, or as part of a multi-year track, they could contribute to a common program. There would still be room for contingency, but in the context of a focussed agenda designed for impact and coherence. The Institute should also have postdoctoral positions and a role for graduate students, to enhance its networks and to offer training in advanced study.
3. Coherence. The Institute should ensure coherence by promoting projects that directly address disciplinary boundaries. It should acknowledge the difficulty of interdisciplinary collaboration. At present, with the laudable intention of inclusivity, it tends to assume that interdisciplinarity is merely a matter of getting the right people in a room together. But this leads to superficial exchanges at worst, and discussions of administrative or institutional issues at best, rather than real conceptual production. Reflection on and critique of academic and institutional life is important, but it is only one part of the Institute's remit. The Institute should be a place where advanced study actually happens.
4. Internationalism. The Institute is rooted in its local context, and should make the most of its location, but it also needs to be international in scope. Like the university, at present it is often global in aspiration but parochial in practice. Its international visiting research scholars and roundtables, as well as colloquia abroad, enable the mobilization of scholarship, but for brief periods and without much integration with other programs. Wall scholarships need to be opened up to international competition. A program of postdoctoral fellowships, plus the incorporation of graduate students, will ensure the Institute's impact by helping to form generations of scholars who will draw on their experience at the Institute as they take up positions around the world.
5. Openness. The Institute needs to be open and outward-looking in every way. It has been described as a "taste of first class" within the university, just as the university itself is often seen as a privileged "ivory tower," but it must shed that aura of exclusivity. Its relationship with the communities in which it is embedded should be marked by collaboration, rather than either defensiveness or one-way, top-down knowledge transmission, even as it defends its autonomy and insists that the logic of enquiry is distinct from the logics of policy or capital accumulation. It should draw on and contribute to the many external resources for conceptualizing common problems, rather than purporting to offer finished solutions. It should have critique as well as self-critique at its heart.
One might add other principles. I could say more about critique, or add that the Institute and the university should also, for instance, be democratic, autonomous, diverse, and conservative. But these five are surely a good start.
In conclusion, the challenges facing the Peter Wall Institute, like those facing UBC, are steep. The two cannot be at loggerheads. The Institute is the product of a pioneering if sometimes delicate partnership between the university and the private sector, in the name of principles of advanced study that go beyond either. Stressing impact, synergy, and coherence, internationalism and openness, we need to rethink the interconnections of Institute, University, and society as a whole. We need to work on concepts with which to raise problems that unsettle our understandings of the world in which we live.
Now I look forward to hearing from you, and from the other two nominees.
El mundo es ancho y ajeno II
The second half of Ciro Alegría's El mundo es ancho y ajeno is much more fragmented and dislocated than the first. This is evident even on a formal level: each chapter is shorter; we jump between storylines, often never to return; there are also temporal leaps and breathless attempts to catch up with the plot. At times, especially towards the end, it even feels as though the novel is simply running out of steam. After so much effort spent lyrically evoking the rhythms of communal life in the Andes, once the community breaks up and many of its inhabitants disperse to the four corners of Peru, Alegría only has time and energy for quick vignettes, snapshots of the indigenous people's precarious destinies once they have been forced off their ancestral lands. Some of the former comuneros find themselves elsewhere in the Andes, either on other haciendas or in the mines; others become involved in the hard and exploitative work of harvesting coca in the foothills or rubber in the rainforest. And when the book turns to update us on the whereabouts of prodigal son Benito Castro, we get a sense of life in the coastal capital and its port, Callao, and then of Castro's subsequent military career. But this last narrative is especially truncated: we gallop through half a dozen years of military service in two pages (489-90). It is as though a clock were ticking, faster and faster, counting down breathlessly to an apocalyptic final dénouement. The old order is ending, and we barely have time to witness its final destruction, as on the novel's final page the state brutally represses a short-lived insurrection from Rumi's former inhabitants.
In other words, it is as though the form of the novel itself were no longer able to contain or adequately portray its ostensible subject. In fact, perhaps it never was able to do so. If El mundo es ancho y ajeno is really, as a young Mario Vargas Llosa argued eloquently shortly after Alegría's death in 1967, Peru's belated foundational novel, this is a foundation that is also in some sense the end of the line. It is impossible, this book's hurried and fragmentary second half suggests, to write the national allegory of a nation whose abiding principles are the refusal to admit that half its citizens are subjects, and the brutal curtailment of any narratives they might try to construct. Or rather, the only possible story to be told, then, is the tale of indigenous destruction from the point of view of those responsible for it. The indigenista project, exemplified by Alegría himself, of telling that tale (or any other) from the other side, is doomed from the outset.
So for all the apparent realism of Alegría's style (Vargas Llosa describes the novel as "an epic history, told with impressionistic language and strictly realist setting: an American synthesis of Victor Hugo and Zola"), it is worth attending also to the book's metafictional moments, which are relatively few and far between but striking when they come up. Very early on, for instance, a self-reflexive narrative voice intervenes into a description of Rumi's mayor Rosendo Maqui and his relationship with his adoptive son, curtailing and forestalling further explanation: "We, who have broader responsibilities than Maqui does, although they are undoubtedly less important, will explain what has to be explained in due time. For the moment we do not think it opportune to clarify anything…" (34). It is many hundreds of pages later before the narrative returns to the issue, and it does so through a rather strange denial of narratorial agency, with the argument that the reader should now be able to put two and two together: "We, for our part, should recall that we postponed any explanation of the mayor's attitude towards Benito regarding his exile from the community. Now, having seen their lives over many years, we believe the matter to be clarified by the facts themselves in all their ramifications and origins" (450). So the narrator interjects, but only so as to claim that his role is somehow superfluous. It is as though the novel were marking his voice, pointing to the narrator's existence as a standpoint outside and beyond the indigenous community, but at the same time trying to cancel it out, to suggest that here the narrative speaks for itself.
There is a similar anxiety and ambivalence at another point that is also surely self-reflexive, a passage that features three benevolent outsiders, collectively described as "odd dandies." In fact, despite the strangeness of their manners and dress, they are serranos (highlanders) who have spent a long time on the coast and have now returned in search of local colour (to "cazar paisajes" [480]). For all three are in the business of representation, if in different ways: they are a folklorist, a writer, and a painter. We meet them amid festivities celebrated in the provincial capital. Two former Rumi inhabitants are also at the festival, and they, too, are identified in terms of their roles as cultural producers: Amadeo Illas is a storyteller, and Demetrio Sumallacta, a flautist. All this almost sounds like the set-up for a joke–"A folklorist, a writer, and a painter meet a storyteller and a flautist in a bar"–but what it leads to instead is some awkward philosophizing about the role of art and its relationship to social justice. It is hard to tell the extent to which this awkwardness is part of Alegría's satire of these dandy do-gooders, and how much it is inherent in the novelist's own uncertainties and faltering self-expression. It is as though he were trying to suggest a framework within which to read his novel, but at the same time distancing himself from it.
The discussion is prompted by a long tale, told by Illas, about a fox who is (literally) outfoxed by a rabbit. The fox wants to eat the rabbit, but time and again he is forced to endure one humiliation after another thanks to his prey's quick-witted trickery. At the end, the fox is convinced that the rabbit is dead, and therefore that somehow he has triumphed, but in fact the rabbit has simply managed to escape the predator's notice. The fox cannot even recognize him when he sees him. The three dandies listen intently to this telling and offer their interpretations: "I'd dare claim that it's symbolic," says one, "and that in it the fox represents the overseer, and the rabbit, the Indian. And so the Indian gains his revenge, in literary form at least." Listening to all this, the flautist, Demetrio, is bemused. "He didn't know if that's what the story represented, but, really, he liked the fact that for once the poor rabbit defeated the cunning and arrogant fox." (480). And yet, in El mundo es ancho y ajeno it is the Indian who is at every turn outwitted where he is not outgunned. So perhaps this is a book that accords more with the view of the painter, who quotes the nineteenth-century Ecuadorian essayist Juan Montalvo: "If I were to write a book about the Indian, it would make America weep" (481). If an indigenist novel cannot affirm the triumph of indigenous culture (in literary form at least), it should perhaps dedicate itself to denunciation via a claim on the reader's affects and emotions. In any case, the writer chips in, "I say that culture cannot be detached from an operative conception of justice" (483). Listening to all this, half-drunk, the flautist Demetrio is still not sure what to say. But asked to play a tune, he gives them a song about a piece of chaff waiting for the rain, much to the delight of his listeners: "That straw is hard and long-suffering like the campesino, with whom the comparison is apt," says the writer (484).
The dandies are well-intentioned. Whatever else he thinks, Demetrio is impressed that they speak well of the indigenous, and listening to them talk of "justice" and "mankind" alongside "Indian" makes his "heart warm" (485). But they are also condescending and high-faluting, and ultimately a little useless and pathetic. Daring us to identify him with these figures, Alegría seems to recognize that their discussion does not exactly provide the basis for a literature that would denounce and take revenge on the ongoing sufferings of Peru's indigenous communities, just as the novel was already perhaps a form unfit for the purpose of representing Peru to itself. But for the time being, it was the best he had.


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If picture quality is what matters you the most in addition to the wireless charging support, the monitor uses a Plane-to-Line-Switching (PLS) panel that gives a 178-degree viewing angle along with a brightness of up to 300 cd/m2.
Moreover, the SE370 supports Full HD 1920×1080 resolution, AMD's FreeSync technology for lesser screen tearing while gaming with an AMD graphics card and comes with other features like Eco Saving Plus, Magic Upscale, Magic Bright, Eye Saver Mode and lots more.
Samsung has introduced a new SSD today. It's called 950 Pro, and it's insanely fast. The drive is the first one to bring vertical NAND technology to the consumer space. It's a Non-Volatile Memory Express M.2 SSD, in the M.2 2280 size.
It will be offered in two capacities 256GB for $199.99 and 512GB for $349.99. Thanks to its support for the PCIe Gen.3 x4 interface, it delivers speeds that SATA-using drives can only dream of.
The 512GB Samsung 950 Pro reaches sequential read speeds of 2.5GB/s and sequential writes speed of 1.5GB/s. In terms of random access, it delivers 300,000 read IOPS and 110,000 write IOPS.
The 950 Pro can withstand shocks of up to 1500G/0.5ms and 20G vibrations. Warranty-wise you're looking at five years of coverage for both capacities, with the 256GB model getting that up to 200 terabytes written, and the 512GB unit up to 400 terabytes written. The drive will be in stores in October.
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YouMobile, Inc
Last Monday, As a surprise Acer has announced a new product accessories that brings the selfie tech to a ridiculous new level. The company introduced a never-seen-before "Selfie Hat".
This latest weird development in selfie tech is basically a giant sombrero and holds an Iconia A-1 840 tablet held by the hat's fold-down flap. The tablet is located on the hat in such a way that allows the wearer to slide it around the brim for the ideal selfie.
Even more alarming, there was actual thought put into the "couture" aesthetic of it. It was designed in collaboration with fashion designer Christian Cowan-Sanluis and Acer UK.
For those interested in purchasing a hat well, you may be out of luck unless you're in the London area. It'll be on display today at the Christian Cowan-Sanluis fashion presentation at London Fashion Week.
Wireless charging is pretty awesome but Unfortunately, it is slow and already starting to lag behind the latest wired charging speeds. Freescale wants to help bring things back closer to parity with new hardware that could allow you to wirelessly charge devices up to 3x faster.
The basic idea behind the speed increase is the same as with newer USB chargers, which can feed a higher voltage to your device, pushing about 14 watts of power instead of the traditional 5 watts. Freescale has developed new hardware that can push 15 watts of power wirelessly. The downside is that right now, it requires new hardware in both your smartphone and charging pad. So, you can't just get this going.
It should be noted that the Qi standard does actually support up to 120 watt charging, if the hardware can handle it. Freescale says that it will have chips and reference designs ready for Q1 2015. so, it seems likely that we'll be seeing fast wireless charging hardware sooner rather than later.
SD cards Technology is improving year after year. Toshiba has just unveiled that it will be releasing a New SD card with built-in Wireless connectivity during this year (2015). These new SD cards is named FlashAir III, and will be available in WiFi and NFC variants both with multiple sizes each.
The first SD card model is an NFC-enable SD Card, apparently it's been added so you can see up to 16 picture thumbnails from the card on your Android smartphone with just a tap. Also, you'll also find out how much storage space is left on the card.
The Toshiba FlashAir III model creates its own Wi-Fi network, which you can connect to in order to copy and share what's on it. It apparently comes with "enhanced photo sharing and management features". The card has a neat pass-through feature that lets you access its contents and the Internet (through a Wi-Fi router) at the same time. This SD card will be out in March. If you want 16GB of storage, you'll need to pay $79.99, while double that amount could be yours for $99.99.
The Toshiba FlashAir III Wireless SD Card will be available for purchase in March,2015 at various retailers and on Toshiba US website for $79.99 for 16GB and $99.99 for 32GB.
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Have you ever noticed that while leisurely shopping for nothing in particular is a joy, as soon as you're on the hunt for something specific, your enjoyment decreases tenfold? A Canadian company has set out to fix this problem for you, particularly when it comes to finding sophisticated work wear.
39th Avenue is a Montreal-based personal styling and shopping service that invites users to fill out a questionnaire about style preferences, size and lifestyle. Users then receive a box of apparel in the mail to try on. Whatever they love, they keep, and what they don't like, they send back. It's the same simple formula used by American services like Stitch Fix, except that 39th Avenue is more focused on office-appropriate ensembles. And if that weren't enough, the collection is designed in-house, so you're getting clothes that aren't available anywhere else, and it's a Canadian company to boot!
Co-founders Catherine Henry and Elizabeth Kilen are childhood friends from Montreal who have combined their expertise in fashion design and technology, respectively, to create 39th Avenue. Garment prices range from $75 to $450 for tops, dresses, blazers and pants, and you can preview some of these pieces on the site before signing up. Their goal is to make classic yet modern pieces that will take working women from the office to an evening out in style. And of course, to make finding these pieces simple. You don't even need to leave the house!


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Archive for the 'Inspiration' Category
A Twitterer…er…rer…you get the idea…we can get into following
Check out this awesome story we found on Gizmodo.
Tony Niclinkson a massive stroke in 2005 that left him completely unable to move or speak. Check Tony out on the handle @TonyNicklinson. Using special software that follows the movement of his eyes on a keyboard and using blinks allows Tony to convert each selection into text and speech.
Despite this development, Tony's story is pretty bleak. Living with a condition known as "Locked-in syndrome," Tony is currently petitioning the High Court in the U.K. to let him end his life lawfully. Maybe having this kind of access to the world through this new software will change Tony's mind.
Here's a video of Tony's story:
Jeff Owen Hanson: Investing Painter
By 14 years old this young man not only defied the odds against an optic tumor he named "Clod Cloddhopper", he also owned multiple money making stocks and through his art and entrepreneurship had raised and donated $15,000 for multiple charities. To date, Jeff has donated over $200,000 to charity and continues to lead the way in disability advocacy with the sale of his brilliant abstract paintings.
For more on Jeff, to view his gallery, or to find out how you can contribute to his cause, visit www.jeffreyowenhanson.com.
ORACLE meets yet another obstacle, DC comics
So for those who know all about the world of Batman strictly through the movies, you'll remember meeting Batgirl, played by Alicia Silverstone, in Joel Schumacher's "Batman & Robin." What you may not know about Batgirl that comic book followers know is that Batgirl Barbara Gordon becomes Oracle in 1989 after the Joker shoots Barbara in the spine in her civilian identity, librarian daughter of Commissioner James Gordon, leaving her a paraplegic in Alan Moores graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke.
As the Oracle, Barbara Gordon has become and icon of strength, determination, perserverance, and intelligence.But at the beginning of the month DC Comics announced that its new release of Batgirl #1, written by Gail Simone, Oracle will rise again as Batgirl…as in Oracle will be a new walking, leaping, jumping, flying over tall buildings, Un-paralyzed Barbara Gordon. Yep. good ole Babs will no longer be the paralyzed superhero iconically reknowned.
Oracle fan Jill Pantozzi passionately wrote about her feelings on this matter in post over at NEWSarama. What's more, she has taken an active role in advocating against the Oracle-turns- Batgirl-once-again event by introducing fans to Elena Barbarich's, a.k.a. Yamino, Oracle Draw-a-thon. Yamino is inviting all artists to illustrate Barbara "Babs" Gordon in her chair. Yamino writes on her Tumblr, "I think we should do a big Oracle Draw-a-thon, to support visibility for disabled characters in mainstream comics, and comics in general. Heck, it doesn't have to be just visual art. How about an Oracle Create-a-Thon? Whatever it is you do, fanart, fanfic, music, sculpture, cakes…. let's do it!"
Information on where you can submit your own fan-art for the draw-a-thon can be found here. The official Oracle Create-a-Thon Tumblr has been made.
Aimee Mullins speaks on the art of disability
"Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody called her disabled." ~Aimee Mullins
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American Idol Update: James Durbin
In case you haven't been able to keep up with American Idol hopeful James Durbin, over the past few weeks you have missed him rock out Paul McCartney and Bon Jovi. Here are those performances:
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James Durbin has remained one of America's Favorites, continuing on to this week's competition.
Amputee Wrestler Tries to Ease His Rival's Pain
The New York Times recently published a story that was just heartwarming and should another side of coping with becoming disabled that isn't normally discussed with any great length in media.
Read the New York Times story, After Amputation, Wrestler Tries to Ease Rival's Pain, by Dirk Johnson, here.High school wrestler Heriberto Avila lost his leg after opponent Sean McIntyre's legal take-down broke Avila's leg. The broken bone caused a reupture in a blood vessel that then led to the necessity to amputate Avila's leg.
Avila woke up in a hospital bed with a shocking struggle to deal with the loss of his leg. It was Avila who reminded his family and his pastor that though he was struggling, he was not the only person who needed solace.
Avila, known as Eddie to family and friends, said, "We need to pray for Sean too, because he needs to have peace in his heart." [Source]
How beautiful a sentiment. When anger and grief are the first emotions that most are quick to latch onto, creating a whirlwind force of lawyers and legal destruction in the wake of its winds, the Avila family, on the encouragement of Eddie, sought to comfort the young rival who also was dealing with the accident that changed both the young men's lives.
The article is incredibly heartwarming. The courage and compassion that Avila, the son of Mexican immigrants, shows his once rival and now friend is something that we should all take away a piece of goodness from and spread into the world. He harbors no ill will or hard feelings for the situation or for the young man who many would be quick to simply lay blame on, wooden cross and all.
You can read the full story here.
Johnson, Dirk. "After Amputation, Wrestler Tries to Ease Rival's Pain." New York Times. Chicago News Cooperative, 5 Mar. 2011. Web. 8 Mar. 2011.
VSA Playwright Discovery Program Call for Scripts
The VSA Playwright Discovery Program invites middle and high school students to take a closer look at the world around them and examine how disability affects their lives and the lives of others, and express their views through the art of playwriting. The young playwrights may write from their own experience or about an experience in the life of another person or fictional character. The script can be a comedy, drama, or even a musical — creativity is encouraged! Young playwrights with and without disabilities are encouraged to submit a script, and entries may be the work of an individual student or may be a collaboration by a group or class of students.
The winning play will be professionally produced or staged at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The winning playwright receives $2,000 and a trip to Washington, D.C., to view his/her work on stage.
All submissions must be received by April 15, 2011, for consideration.
Visit www.vsarts.org, or simply click here.
Download the official rules and regulations as well as the official application on the VSA website.
The VSA also has an innovative and FREE Resource Guide for Teachers to help guide teachers and students through the playwright process (also available on the VSA website).
American Idol Season 10 Update: Idol 12, +1
Just a quick update on American Idol. Last Thursday held the eliminations of the competing 24 contestants to what has become Idol's Top 12 contestants.
In last weeks three-night competition performances, The first night held the performances of the 12 Boys contestants and the second night held the performances of the 12 Girls contestants. In Thursday's eliminations, five Boys and five Girls were chosen as America's favorites, and the judges reserved two wildcard slots, events of which saw a surprising third wildcard given.
Idol hopeful James Durbin, who we learned earlier on in the competition has Aspergers, a form of high functioning autism, and Tourette's Syndrome, was chosen as one of America's Favorites.
Idol hopeful, Robbie Rosen, however, was not chosen as an American Favorite. He was, though, chosen by the judges to sing for one of the wildcard slots. Competing against five other hopefuls, Rosen was not one of the chosen two, with a surprising third, contestant to win a wildcard slot.
Check your local listings for show times.
And as always, keep up with the DSS of GCCC blog for updates on our two American Idol hopefuls.
Aaron Fotheringham: World's First Double Backflip on a Wheelchair
Please don't try this at home, and if you do, please don't tell anyone we told you too, but even we have to admit, it might be insanely crazy, but the feat is worthy of mention.
Below is a video of Aaron "Wheelz" Fotheringham landing the world's first double backflip on a wheelchair, August 26, 2010.
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You may also recognize Aaron from the most recent Nike commercial that began airing in February. Here's the video:
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See more of Aaron in action at www.aaronfotheringham.com.
Chris Medina, "What are Words"
Even though he was cut in the final competition round for Boys Top 12, Chris Medina is far from that being the last we've heard of him.
Last week, Medina posted the premier video for his song "What are Words." Here's that video:
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Medina performed his song on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on February 25. The song was written specifically for Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins.


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Awards and Academic Recognition
|Sample of Awards and Academic Recognition
|Sept. 2015
|Colour primitivism and non-reductive minds. New Directions in the Study of Mind grant from University of Cambridge and John Templeton Foundation.
|Jan. 2015
|Brandon University Research Committee (BURC) grant for collaborative artistic project You Can't See Through White with Ben Davis (visual artist) and Eric Platz (percussionist).
|Nov. 2014
|Special Research Grant from the Vice-President Academic at BU to support initial stages of You Can't See Through White.
|Mar. 2012
|RSE (Royal Society of Edinburgh) International Exchange Programme Grant to be Visiting Scholar at the University of Glasgow Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience and The Department of Philosophy from Sept. – Dec. 2012.
|Apr. 2010
|2-year BURC research grant from Brandon University.
|Apr. 2009
|Special research grant from VP Academic at Brandon University.
|Sept. 2008
|Named to the Order of felis rufus, "an honour society that recognizes those individuals whose distinguished work helps promote the quality and excellence of Brandon University".
|Oct. 2007
|Brandon University BURC travel grant.
|Oct. 2005
|University of Minnesota research grant.
|Oct. 2005
|University of Minnesota grant to enhance teaching at the university.
|Apr. 2003
|Ontario Graduate Scholarship (12 month term).
|2000 – 2003
|Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Ph.D. grant (3 years of funding).
|1999 – 2002
|UWO Graduate Fellowship, for a Ph.D. in philosophy (four consecutive awards).
|1998 – 2002
|UWO Special University Scholarship (four consecutive awards).
|1999 – 2000
|UWO President's Scholarship for Graduate Study.
|April 1998
|UWO Graduate Fellowship, for a MA in philosophy.
|April 1998
|Paul David Russell Gold Medal for highest standing in Philosophy at U of M.


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US Navy picks Leonardo-Finmeccanica to provide radars for MQ-8C Fire Scout
Leonardo-Finmeccanica announced Monday that its Osprey active electronically scanned array AESA radar has been picked to serve as look-out on-board the US Navy's newly-upgraded unmanned helicopter, the MQ-8C Fire Scout.
The unmanned helicopter is designed to take off from the decks of US Navy ships to keep watch for distant threats.
The contract will see Leonardo delivering an initial batch of 5 radars to the US Navy's procurement organisation, the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), for testing and evaluation work.
According to the company, NAVAIR will then have an option to buy a larger quantity of the radars for use in real operations.
Leonardo said it has already built a number of Osprey radars so the primary task under this contract is integration with the MQ-8C Fire Scout in time for first production deliveries.
Employing high-frequency radio waves to 'see', an Osprey-equipped MQ-8C Fire Scout can detect targets at long ranges, at night and even in stormy weather conditions when visibility is extremely poor, the company says.
The MQ-8C Fire Scout is expected in future to be fully integrated with both variants of the US Navy's littoral combat ship and be used extensively on operations. The US Navy has chosen the 2-panel version of the Osprey which will provide a 240 degree instantaneous field of view and a range of digital modes including weather detection, air-to-air targeting and a ground moving target indicator (GMTI).


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The Oglethorpe baseball team fell in both games of a doubleheader Saturday afternoon in Alabama, falling to the homestanding Birmingham-Southern Panthers 11-2 in Game 1 and 8-0 in Game 2. The results dropped the Stormy Petrels to 9-23 overall and 5-10 in SAA play.
The Petrels got on the board first in Game 1, scoring a run in the third on a solo home run by junior second baseman Austin Jackson. However, the Panthers soon had an answer, scoring three runs over the course of the fourth and fifth innings to take a 3-1 lead.
Oglethorpe pulled to within a single run in the sixth off another solo homer, this one by senior right fielder Patrick Burnette. With the score 3-2, though, Birmingham-Southern responded with a run in the seventh, followed by a huge seven-run outburst in the eighth which put the game away.
Jackson led the Petrels for the game, going 3-for-5 with the home run. Senior left fielder Jacob Gassert added a 2-for-4 afternoon.
Junior right-hander Noah Cole suffered the loss, but kept the Petrels in the game. He allowed just three runs on five hits, four walks and two hit batsmen over five innings. Cole struck out four.
The Petrels never could find their footing in the second game of the day. They managed just three hits over the course of the seven-inning game. The Panthers took control of the proceedings with a seven-run third inning. From there, they added another tally in the eighth for the final margin.
The Petrels return to the field Tuesday at 3 p.m. when they travel across town to take on Emory. After that, they'll host Hendrix in April 13 and 14 in their final SAA home series of the season.


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Past News
New York, NEW YORK – October 25, 2010 - EastNets, a leading global provider of compliance and payments solutions, announced today that Pinnacle Solutions had selected the Company's SWIFT Service Bureau to host their Synergy banking and trade services solution. EastNets SWIFT Service Bureau will provide the strategic platform to offer cost-effective "Software as a Service" (SaaS) banking and SWIFT connectivity to financial institutions worldwide.
Pinnacle's web-based suite of integrated banking applications currently operates in more than twenty countries worldwide, and is now available, powered by EastNets SWIFT Service Bureau, as an outsourced SaaS alternative, providing customers with a more cost-effective, hassle-free and flexible solution. Synergy, powered by EastNets, offers businesses the following key capabilities:
"We are delighted to have selected EastNets' market leading SWIFT Service Bureau to host our core banking and trade service offering," said Ralph Carbone, President of Pinnacle Solutions Incorporated. "The company's proven track record, broad geographic reach, and strong SWIFT expertise made EastNets the right choice."
"Outsourcing solutions and business processes provides an opportunity for financial institutions to increase their profitability by reducing costs, improving operational workflow, and controlling risk," said Hazem Mulhim, CEO of EastNets. "With Synergy, powered by EastNets, financial institutions and corporate treasuries will have fast, effective and affordable access to SWIFT connectivity and a premiere banking and trade services environment."
EastNets provides both a fully-managed hosting facility as well as a shared environment – both complete with disaster recovery and FileAct support. en.Service Bureau is SWIFT recognized and offers around the clock availability of its services and contingency environment. Institutions can immediately benefit from Synergy with fast time-to-live, low-cost monthly fees for the software solution and the IT infrastructure. With no capital investment, Synergy is the affordable "big-bank" solution.
About Pinnacle Solutions
Pinnacle Solutions Incorporated (PSI) is serving international financial institutions since 1992. PSI delivers consultancy and software solutions in the areas of payments, trade services, cash management (DDA and Nostro), foreign exchange, money markets, lending and credit facilities, customer risk management and systems integration. Synergy is PSI's suite of banking applications providing back-office support for payments, SWIFT messaging, DDA/Nostro accounts, loans and deposits, trade services, bank customer LC front-end and multi-bank corporate LC. Synergy is operational in over twenty countries. For more information please visit http://www.psi-nj.com/.
About EastNets
EastNets is a leading provider of global compliance and payment solutions and services with over 1,000 customers in 120 countries. Founded in 1984, EastNets has over 25 years of experience serving financial institutions and corporates around the globe. EastNets provides Compliance Solutions including anti-money laundering and anti-fraud; Resilient SWIFT Solutions for SWIFT FIN/XML reporting, duplicate detection management, disaster recovery, and outsourced SWIFT connectivity with its SWIFT Service Bureau; and Mobile Remittances Solutions enabling secure, compliant mobile remittances. In addition, EastNets delivers a full range of SAA payment architecture consulting, implementation services, training and maintenance to help clients protect, manage and improve their SWIFT environment. For more information, please visit http://www.eastnets.com/.


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If you wish to start your personal liquidation business, you'll have a benefit should you comprehend the jobs of everyone concerned within the purchase of the product. This is particularly important since you will frequently be coping with wholesalers and retailers when you wish to buy their outdated products or merchandise on purchase. Wholesalers and retailers are a couple of essential middlemen with regards to selling products.
Both wholesalers and retailers:
Act as a middleman link between the producers and also the shoppers of merchandise.
Concentrate on supplying a variety of services and products for that buyers.
Minimize just how much efforts are necessary through the producer in disbursing their product to consumers.
Considerably raise the potency of trade which leads to the reduction in total cost of distribution of products.
Give you the delivery of merchandise towards the customers at locations handy and at hand.
Offer after-purchase solutions and take care of customer complaints.
Provide assistance with the products towards the buyers and relays the customer feedback towards the manufacturers too.
Wholesaling is a small sector from the total logistics, including numerous providers for example vendors (the word vendors initially symbolized property vendors. However, today this means a supplier associated with a good or service), producers, and retailers. Retailers order products from wholesalers, then they offer the products in a greater cost to pay for expenses and generate earnings towards the finish-user.
Exactly what is a Wholesaler / retailer?
A wholesaler / retailer may be the middleman that actually works between your manufacturers and retailers. Wholesaler / retailer is the word for any company or person marketing goods in considerable amounts to customers aside from the regular consumers finish-users.
And so the producers who sell their goods right to retailers may also be regarded as wholesalers. The particular expertise and skill of wholesalers increases the performance from the products being offered. The wholesalers offer essential services and solve the problems of both producers and also the retailers.
Some of the jobs of the wholesaler / retailer can include:
Execute sales and marketing campaign activities in addition to hire professional sales associates with this exact purpose.
Setup orders for that item in advance in line with the consumer's interest in the product. This enables the maker to discover the precise quantity to create to ensure that no materials are wasted within the production process.
Keep your producers up-to-date around the modifications in consumers' practices, preferences, and trends.
Package various amounts of products in line with the quality and organize the products into small groups for that retailers.
Act as the retailer's purchasing agent helping in order to save them from the irritation of finding and building goods from various producers.
Exactly what is a Store?
Retailing is the word for all the dealings which entail purchase of services or products towards the regular consumer. A store is really a middleman that buys products in the wholesalers after which sells it towards the shoppers finish-users.
They're an essential link in how goods are offered since without one most effective and quickest would have a harder time locating goods and merchandise would be unable to be offered in a long way away locations.
There's a more powerful personal reference to the buyers once they cope with a store given that they can concentrate on the different preferences and tastes of the target audience.
Retailers would be the final link within the "chain of distribution" and supply the ultimate cost tag from the product towards the consumer. The retailers offer essential services and resolve the complications from the producers and wholesalers yet still time handling the problems from the consumers.
A couple of from the jobs of the store can include:
Execute storage function by preserve goods.
Provide outlets to wholesalers and producers.
Organize products supplied by the wholesalers and store them in hassle-free packages for that satisfaction of shoppers.
Keep customers educated concerning the shifting trends available on the market such as the various models inside a specific products.
Predict the wants of shoppers and appropriately come up with products of various kinds.


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11th November 2015
Gerry Cottle – Circus Impresario
Arrival were very pleased to have been asked to perform at the famous circus impresario Gerry Cottles 70th Birthday Party at Wookey Hole this year.
November 11, 2015
8th September 2015
'ARRIVAL' with Rick Astley at T-Live
'ARRIVAL'® were thrilled to support Rick Astley, GoWest, ABC and Jackie Graham at T-Live Telford Town Park.
September 08, 2015
8th September 2015
'Royal Princess' Launch
ARRIVAL are very proud to have been part of the new 'Royal Princess' (As seen on ITV's The Cruise Ship) Naming Ceremony celebrations, and performing on her Inaugural Cruise & Maiden Voyage. A big thank you to ... Read More »
September 08, 2015
28th February 2015
What A Year!
Arrival UK would like to say a big thank you to all those who helped to make last year a fantastic one! The year began with a fabulous 6 week tour of India – Based ... Read More »
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Executives and Administrators should centre on business skills along with specialized expertise if they collapse into an specialized industry. Employing managers have to comprehend that the history of sooner companies, even though it might perhaps not be the fundamental time of your resume. When you achieve your hiring manager the first issue she or he is certainly likely to see is. You want to show the hiring manager you could give them what they want. Selecting managers want to observe a cover letter together with important computer data scientist restart. They will end up questioning your transparency, but which is an essential trait for absolutely any successful small business analyst. A helper program manager should possess good communication abilities.
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The career is likely to view greater-than-average increase within the next few decades. Moreover, you can find out more about the subject of administrative careers on Monster. Functional Analyst Resume A functional analyst career is amongst one of the types that are most crucial.
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Precisely the way in which by that the writer introduces your character. You have to extend a minimum of a single personality for the function to have the business done. As you're studying Chinese personality don't neglect to incorporate Eggbun among your research partner!
In the event the references read the exact same, then they're planning to to put on less far weight. If you believe that you do not have sufficient folks to request references, then you may possibly wish to really have your buyer's representative verify the specific reference correspondence needs with the construction managing broker. Character Reference Character Reference A personality mention will be petition was designed to a person who is in a place.
Think carefully about that which you prefer to inquire to write a benchmark to you personally. Choosing references are given up on petition. Professional references are offered by your current of prior companies and may simply comprise verification that you just worked in the company and the dates that you worked there. In addition, that you do not need to utilize in both feature films. Why is 2215 dwelling improvement is similar to a.
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There are three types of references. The character reference has to be more strong, which means it has to contain of selected details. It can be really hard to compose a character significance for the very first time.
References really are a sort of letter. Occasionally, persons also utilize personality references should they worry their managers are not going to write references that are optimistic. If you should be an employer, then your personality significance is important. If you're writing a character reference to get a certain career opportunity it is sensible to build the suggestion applicable to the project demands.
The mention ought to be clicked. The reference needs to indicate you see that the individual was charged with all the specific offence they will have been charged with. Primarily, in the event that you should be asked to do just a character benchmark, make sure you're all set to discuss positively concerning the person in question. A personal character reference may be put to work with to underline the person's constructive features.
Give the reason you are composing the correspondence at the paragraph. Nevertheless, it must likewise be practical, although A character letter needs to have a tone that is positive. Producing character letters is different from creating many of the organization letters. Plausible and most importantly, A character reference letter needs to be clear. Generally speaking, character significance letters are designed for supporting the constructive issues with someone, and are used by job functions. A character reference letter is one of many absolute most vital letters you simply need when you are asking for work, that loan, faculty entry, etc.. You will then be in a posture to compose a proper character reference correspondence for requirements.
A reference letter refers to the general essence of the individual is more prevalent in nature, and isn't dealt with to anybody especially. It is principally utilised in wide array of circumstances, there isn't any definitive set that insures all scenarios. For a housesitter, a reference letter that is amazing is critical to supporting create brand new company and make an atmosphere of confidence with new clients and is your greatest possible advertising. You wish to comprehend that the candidates in order a place to express their best character, for you to write mention letters. A reference correspondence might be utilized underneath a great deal of different job hunt conditions. It's a bit different when compared with typical average benchmark letter. Particular reference letters of recommendation would be just a reflect of your character and skills As you may see.
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End using a very simple endorsement and the mention correspondence has to be factual. Some men and women use work-related reference letters and endeavor to give them. You're ready to get each of kind of our pro benchmark letters that are available in two different forms such as Microsoft and PDF Word.
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Grow their abilities and employees want to come up with. In spite of the fact that there has to be appropriate grounds for firing an employee, occupation security can be a crucial issue that's always at the rear of us residents' heads. The employee is so overpowering and distraught she or he has difficulty remembering the specifics of what has been mentioned for the remainder of the assembly. Moral HR staff take care of an outstanding deal of personal, sensitive particulars.
Perhaps maybe not all of tasks are all created equivalent, As it's to do with fostering your resume. You're working, it's frequently simpler to locate a job. You're definitely going to get at get paid a superb belief In the event that you would like the position.
People cease their occupation to get several elements. Obviously sayeach endeavor will soon involve unique capabilities and experiences, therefore be certain you see the job description with care and concentrate on the relevant abilities recorded by your employer. Utilize action verbs, assess the project posting and then ask various folks which will help you to know what keywords are excellent for the resume. It can be difficult to know what the work really entails. Summarize the job posting and establish the phrases. There certainly are a number of do the job in the world of human resources (HR).
In a few cases, it is the thing the interviewer is going to visit! Some recruiters feel it is a shady clinic, while others believe it truly is alright. Think of that, you're committing the interviewer exactly the things they want! Recruiting has gotten highly untrue.
The critical part of any company is its people. There will come a while if you prefer to initiate a small company and that you don't have money you might have to improve funding. Assessment any guidance that the business has provided.
Social media is a fresh area, and therefore, there are perhaps not a lot of predetermined standards or certificates or certification that has to be honored. Because social is now a primary part of our digital lives, lots of companies today apply interpersonal networking professionals to manage their brand's internet presence. Worker Relations can be a thorough program of HR resources and services that allow you to lower exposure to accountability in addition to improving selecting and HR management functions. Therefore sure, it will be likely to make and maintaining resilient relationships even when you perform remotely!
You can find lots of potential software for information in the choosing procedure at your own organization, and the very first dilemma for recruiters on your workplace is likely to be locating the most appropriate man for a function. As an alternative, concentrate on the measures which you took during this process. HR organization processes generate substantial sums of absolute language info.
. Ensure it is engaging, inviting and filled up with enough details around 3 skills that a recruiter will want to master a lot much more about you. You ought to stay a position to explain verbally and in writing all of info linked to policy coverage. Individual resources cover a wide field of wisdom and discipline.
The exact first thing is always to review the task description thoroughly so you have the ability to make sure the position is a wonderful match for you, and understand that which attributes and skill to emphasize in your resume. When the job descriptions have been fabricated it afterward depends upon upon the resumes of applicants who are examined for more choice treatment. Delve heavy as you can into the job description.
Maybe not merely are you really can develop kinds of skills from organizations, but you're displaying potential employers you are an individual keen. It's likely you have the chance to become a place to concentrate on customer purchase rather than customer retention When you have mastered the relevant skills necessary to purge and help clients. If you have the ability to be efficient in YouTube it generally takes specific talents, such as movie editing, movie production , social networking, etc.. There are lots of tactics to study about new abilities. Regardless of the particular roles you could well be requested to fill, you will definitely will need to be open-minded and diplomatic and have excellent communication abilities.


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This is just a quick post as we're prepping to head down south. Destination: the Dry Tortugas. We'll be doing anchorage hops all the way down before our first overnight sail all by ourselves.
In the coming weeks, we'll be finishing up some posts that we've had drafted but never finished - as well as a good long post about our experiences living aboard our boat, SV Petrichor, in Boca Ciega Bay for the last 6 months.
In the meantime, enjoy the new background photo tht BCYC member, Lloyd Mason, took of us during the recent BCYC Fun Day. It was packed; there wasn't an empty seat to be found. Free sailboat rides proved very popular with people queuing up until the very last minute for a nice brisk ride on club boats.
Thank you everyone for your tremendous support - without which we never would have been able to get this far.
We've been working on this project for almost 6 years and we've finally gotten to the starting line... Onward forward!


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We've just been discussing an interesting find in respect of which of the major social media platforms is most trusted by its users.
Socialmouths have put the topic up for discussion because of an Infographic produced by JumpThru and it raises some interesting points.
Keeping it simple and restricted to a female audience, it identifies the trust users have in platforms as follows:
It's immediately apparent, if these findings are accurate, that the level of integrity users put in platforms is incredibly variable. To find a 14% difference between trust in Pinterest and Facebook isn't necessarily a surprise given the power of Pinterest from a brand perspective, but we were surprised to find blogs level-pegging with it.
However, what we were very interested in was the suggestion (which we would wholly endorse) that blogs are a proven method of driving purchases through recommendation.
The findings state that the percentage of women that purchased an item following a recommendation on a platform was as follows:
The amount of organisations that understimate the impact a positive recommendation of their products/services on a blog can have never ceases to surprise us. The JumpThru infographic would certainly tend to support the view that there is no more powerful medium than a user putting trust in the pen (okay, keys!) of a writer they trust.
Their research also suggests that blogs lead the way in influencing women on:
So there seems little doubt that organisations that continue to ignore the PR value of blogs are missing out on vital conversion content.
What time does it take to send a product to a well known blogger for review? Or open yourself up to assessment on a service? Companies with total faith in the products and services they offer can open up a wealth of internet marketing opportunities by engaging with the blogging community.
It also highlights the worth of blogging from within an organisation. Whilst internally written blogs may always be viewed with a degree of cynicism, they still represent a window to be seen through.


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A man who Sunday shocked many by climbing a 60metre communication mast and started chewing miraa for hours in Embu town, was slapped with attempted suicide charges before an Embu court, to which he pleaded guilty.
Antony Murimi Njagi 25, was charged before Embu Resident magistrate Juliana Ndengeri that on June 10, in Embu town, he attempted to kill himself by climbing to the top of a mobile telephone service provider Safaricom's booster mast and threatened to jump down.
He also faced another charge of trespassing into a private property.
He will however remain in prison custody until June 18, as the magistrate goes through the probation officer's report before delivering judgment.
The court heard how he ignored persuasion by a team of police officers, and continued to chew miraa for over 12 hours.
He is said to have stripped his underpant and even started urinating at onlookers, despite pleas by police officers and residents for him to descend.
He is also said to have threatened to jump off the mast, but late in the day, fire rescue teams from Embu and Meru County managed to bring him down using ropes.
He was then taken to Embu Level Five hospital, examined and later charged.
Source: Kenya News Agency


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Guests from Japan and overseas 2012
- 2012.12.17
- H. E. Mr.Woravat Auapinyakul, Minister of Science and Technology, Thailand
Dr.Pichai Sonchaeng, President, National Science Museum, Thailand
- 2012.11.30
- 38 embassy staff members including 11 ambassadors
- 2012.11.29
- Amb. Philippe Ntahonkuriye (General Director of the Africa, Asia and Oceania Division, Ministry of External Relations and International Cooperation, Republic of Burundi)
- 2012.10.15
- Mr. Masayoshi Nataniya (Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
- 2012.10.12
- Mr. Ian Blatchford (Director, Science Museum Group) and Ms. Susan Fisher (Director of Development, Science Museum Group)
- 2012.10.10
- The Honourable Gary Goodyear (Minister of State for Science and Technology, Canada), and his wife
- 2012.10.01
- H.S.H. Hereditary Prince Alois von und zu Liechtenstein (Hereditary Prince of the Principality of Liechtenstein)
H.E. Dr. Klaus Tschutscher (Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Minister of Family Affairs and Gender Equality of the Principality of Liechtenstein)
- 2012.09.21
- Dr. Pichai Sonchaeng (President of National Science Musuem, Thailand)
Mr. Sakorn Chanapaithoon (Vice President of National Science Musuem, Thailand)
- 2012.09.05
- Mr. Kosti Manibe Ngai (Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Republic of South Sudan)
Mr. Akuouch Daniel Ding (Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of South Sudan)
Mr. Abraham Diing Akoi (Advisor for Economic Policy and Media Relations, Republic of South Sudan)
- 2012.08.28
- Francois Lonseny Fall (Minister of State, Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic of Guinea)
His Excellency, Mr. Mohamed Lamine Toure (Ambassador of the Republic of Guinea to Japan)
- 2012.08.24
- Professor Graham Durant (Director, Australia's National Science and Technology Centre, Questacon) and Australian delegates
- 2012.08.24
- The Miraikan welcomed Dr. Choi Eunchul, Director General of Gwacheon National Science Museum, located in the suburbs of Seoul, South Korea. Since its establishment in November 2008, Gwacheon National Science Museum has continued to provide citizens with opportunities to learn about science, in areas ranging from advanced technology to fundamental and traditional sciences.
- 2012.07.06
- Dr. Nghiem Vu Khai (Vice Minister, Ministry of Science & Technology, Viet Nam)
- 2012.07.06
- Mr. Zeng Peiyan (Vice-Chairman, *Boao Forum for Asia) and Mrs. Peiyan Mr. Zhou Wenzhon (Secretary-General, *Boao Forum for Asia) and Mrs. Wenzhon Mr. Yasuo Fukuda (Chairman, *Boao Forum for Asia) and Mrs. Fukuda Mr. Mikio Sasaki (Former Chairman of the Board, *Boao Forum for Asia; Senior Advisor to the Board, Mitsubishi Corporation)
- 2012.06.20
- Prof. Graham Durant (Director of Questacon, Australia)
Dr. Goery Delacote (President of At-Bristol, United Kingdom)
- 2012.05.20
- Mr. Aleksander Mikhailovich Goroshko (Head of Kronshtadt's administration, St. Petersburg Government, Russian Federation)
- 2012.05.19
- Mr. Gerald Keddy (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade, for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and for the Atlantic Gateway)
- 2012.05.11
- Mr. Han Qi de (Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, President of the China Association for Science and Technology)
- 2012.05.09
- Mr. Nihat Ergun (Minister of Science, Technology and Industry, Turkey)
- 2012.04.04
- Mr. Francois Oubida (Ambassador of Burkina Faso in Japan)
- 2012.04.02
- Mr. Marcelino Medina Gonzalez (First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Republic of Cuba)
- 2012.03.29
- H.E. Dr. Sebastián Piñera Echenique (President of the Republic of Chile), and Mrs. Cecilia Morel, the First Lady
- 2012.03.23
- Mr. Damien Caze(Delegate chief executive, Universcience)
- 2012.02.19
- Mr. Hirofumi HIRANO (Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
- 2012.02.18
- Ms. Mieko KAMIMOTO (Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
- 2012.01.19
- Hon. Deepak Obhrai, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada