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Posted on July 28, 2015	by shmoover
The kings of the world are growing old,
and they shall have no inheritors.
Their sons died while they were boys,
and their exhausted daughters abandoned
the sick crown to the mob.
Ranier Maria Rilke wrote these words 110 years ago, at the beginning of a century in which the myths of modernity, so recently constellated, would gradually collapse into the utterly demythologized world that we have inherited.
In this world, all of our institutions – especially the political and diplomatic roles once held by the kings of the world (sometimes with honor and dignity) have become indistinguishable from entertainment. This is not to say that we no longer have myths, only that we are not aware of them, and that they no longer nourish us – and that it has become so much easier for imposters and con men to usurp the role of leader. Some Americans, of course, still haven't understood this. These people remain innocently within the myth of innocence. They tend to be white-skinned.
What is that experience like? Consider an analogy from physics. The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all possible frequencies of radiation. Visible light – what we can see with our eyes – makes up a band at the center of the spectrum. What we can't see spreads out nearly infinitely: toward ultraviolet in one direction, and toward infrared in the other. That band of visible light – the unexamined assumptions of our mythology – makes up a tiny sliver of reality. But from within the myth, it is all we are aware of.
Another corollary of American exceptionalism is the unquestioned assumption that only the existing nuclear powers can be trusted not to use their weapons (tell the Japanese about that). No one else should be allowed to join this exclusive club. In effect, this means no Third World nation populated by dark-skinned people, except for India and Pakistan, who didn't bother to ask anyone's permission but usually align themselves with the U.S. This stance is arrogant and colonialist at best and proudly racist at worst. Yakov Rabkin adds:
It helped that Iran is an Islamic republic often portrayed as irrational and irresponsible. It is somehow deemed inferior to Western powers, considered to be rational and responsible in spite of their record of two world wars and innumerable colonial wars, including recent unwarranted attacks on Iraq, Libya and other Arab countries. Racism is likely to have played a part. Iranians are Orientals, many of them of brownish complexion, and thus they cannot be trusted to play with matches…The "Iranian nuclear threat" embodies the Orwellian principle that some countries are apparently more equal than others.
And all along, has any American politician or pundit ever wondered out loud near a microphone whether Iran, which is surrounded by hostile powers (including an American fleet in the Persian Gulf) – an Iran that has not attacked another nation for 300 years – should have the right to defend itself? Not in our mythology, where any force that questions American hegemony is automatically labeled as an aggressor.
We are completely acclimated to hearing the questions posed in terms (mythological terms) of American good intentions and dubious trust of the Other. The mythic framework never allows such questions as, Should the Other trust us? For more details on this issue, go here. Or you could simply ask any Native American about "broken treaties."
As soon as the Iran deal was announced, the Republican clown caravan vomited out the predictable litany of impending Armageddon – predictable because for generations they have taught their base of aging, angry white males with mythological conditioning to expect nothing less.
Some of the Senators had to admit that they hadn't even read the deal. (Queue the 2017 tax deal). But that hardly mattered, since they were merely preaching to their own choirs.
And the media, another broken institution, legitimated their squawks, as it always does, by reporting them as news instead of theater.
Please don't kid yourself that the New York Times is a liberal exception in this broken system. As Professor William Beeman writes:
The New York Times is one of the worst offenders in telling outright lies about Iran. (It) has an inordinate influence on public opinion in the United States. The reporters David E. Sanger, William J. Broad, Rick Gladstone and Michael Gordon have been writing inaccurate, negative articles about Iran regularly for at least 12 years. The editorial staff, who writes the headlines for their articles also makes their articles look even more negative than they are.
And please don't kid yourself that the Daily Show or Steven Colbert offer any real alternative. Every time John Stewart has Bill O'Reilly or Mike Huckabee as a guest (quite often, actually) and engages with them in "rational discussion" he is legitimizing them, their racism and their belligerent foreign policies in your eyes. This is what we mean by "normalization."
But what was more astounding by far was Obama's response: "Either the issue of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is resolved diplomatically through a negotiation or it's resolved through force, through war."
Taking that statement at face value, we have to to ask: just how different are the "moderates" in our ruling class from the looniest of Republican foreign policy hawks? Was Obama really that close (as his spokespersons still say he is) to actually attacking another nation, one that has made no actual aggressive moves against the U.S., simply because it might someday acquire the capacity to do so?
If we don't take it at face value, are we then compelled to add it to the long list of absolutely insane statements that we've been hearing for decades? Can we, at this point in history, ever expect a politician not to either lie or play the joker for the home crowd? Gareth Porter writes that
The administration's determination to be just as alarmist about Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions as its opponents creates a U.S. political discourse…built around two dueling narratives that disagree about the effect of the agreement but have one politically crucial common denominator: they both hold it as beyond debate that Iran cannot be trusted because it wants nuclear weapons; and the only question is whether and for how long that Iranian quest for nuclear weapons can be held off without war…The common assumption about Iran's nuclear policy is never debated or even discussed because it is so firmly entrenched in the political discourse by now that there is no need to discuss it.
That last sentence is a concise description of a mythic discourse. A fish never thinks about water, because water is all it knows.
This ridiculous but familiar litany is based upon another fallacy, the threat of a "rogue nuclear power." And, like many mythological pronouncements do, it ignores the elephant in the living room, the "secret" known to all that there already exists such a rogue power, Israel, which has possessed such weapons for decades (expects generally estimate that Israel has 100-200 nukes) but refuses, along with our allies India and Pakistan, to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (Iran has). For more on the very long history of American refusal to acknowledge this, read here.
Rogue power? Porter points out another relevant fact:
Iran was the one state in the entire world that had a history of abjuring weapons of mass destruction on religious grounds. During the Iran-Iraq war the military leadership had asked Ayatollah Khomeini to approve the manufacture of chemical weapons to retaliate against repeated chemical attacks by Iraqi forces. But Khomeini forbade their possession or use forbidden by the Shia interpretation of the Quran…
The nuclear deal itself requires that the Iranians show what everyone except the American public already knows – that they aren't making a bomb. In exchange, the "West" (white European and American neo-colonial nations that already have the Bomb) will gradually relax their economic sanctions, as the U.S. has not yet done for Cuba after 55 years. Sanctions are an easy way to make war. The only cost is to friendly business interests that would like to trade with the target nations. The only other constituencies for lifting trade embargoes are human rights activists and expatriates of those nations.
And the victims are always defenseless, faceless civilians. The U.S. embargo on Iraq began in 1990. Six years later, a TV interviewer asked Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children caused by sanctions. She responded, "…we think the price is worth it." Those sanctions remained in place for another seven years, until after the 2003 invasion, but no one has published estimates of the children who died after Albright's admission. Do the math.
Is your head spinning yet? How about the notion that Israel can wreck the deal because of all its influence in Washington? AIPAC, the leading Israel lobby group, is expected to spend as much as $50 million to try and defeat the treaty (and side, ironically again, with the Iranian hard-liners). Altogether, the eight major Jewish-American groups opposing the Iran deal (remember: all of them know full well that Iran is no nuclear threat) have budgets of $145 million.
We all know that every single member of Congress is subject to enormous financial pressures to support Israel in every way. But there are equally huge pressures – or there could be, if the U.S. were serious about wanting peace – in the other direction. I have to state another opinion on the mythologies involved, and I'll put it in quotes for emphasis:
At any single moment in the last forty years every single American president has had the option to end the Israel-Palestine conflict instantly, in a single phone call, to every single Israeli prime minister, with a single threat: Make peace, real peace, a just peace with the Palestinians – tomorrow – or we will shut off the financial and military tit.
Who's the puppet here, the U.S. or Israel? Cui bono. Follow the money.
Or follow the stars, by which I mean movie stars. A disarmament organization released a video supporting the deal with compelling arguments such as this, from Morgan Freeman: "…the agreement on the table is the best way to insure that Iran doesn't build a fucking bomb." Well thank you, Mister Foreign Policy expert, or at least you play one on TV. A grateful public breathes more easily. Here we encounter yet another aspect of the demythologized world, when we consider a celebrity's opinion as valuable. So the man can act…and?
So for now and the next year, the Republicans will have their prime war-mongering and fear-raising theme for the election season. And Obama may establish his legacy as a peacemaker. To his supporters he will have justified the Nobel Peace Prize that he received at the beginning of his presidency, apparently in hopes that he might become a peacemaker. Wasn't that award another charade?
Shouldn't we wonder why he has really spent so much time and energy on this project? Paul Craig Roberts comments on the broader geopolitical issues:
All that the agreement with Iran means is that Washington has belatedly realized that the concocted Iranian and Muslim threats are using up time, energy, and resources that Washington needs to apply to Russia and China. Moreover, there were too many threats for the American people to know which was paramount.
Noam Chomsky adds: "There's nothing Iran could do with a nuclear weapon, except as a deterrent. And there are two countries in the region that freely use force and violence in the region: the U.S. and Israel."
I'll offer another opinion: big financial players have long lusted to attain entry into this lucrative market region saturated with oil. Professor Beeman has just returned from an extensive trip to Iran, which was "…prepared for foreign investment, which, based on the enormous number of foreign businessmen and women I met seems to be inevitable…"
Despite decades of demonizing the Iranians, Washington always knows that Wall Street has the final say. Meanwhile, liberals have another reason to ignore Obama's real legacy, the Trans Pacific Partnership deal.
Forget the fear-mongers. As with Cuba and North Korea, watch to see who actually profits. Follow the money. Cui bono?
This is what a collapsing mythology looks like. The Kings of the world are dead and the jesters have turned the throne rooms into casinos. Queue Trump.
6 Responses to Barry's Blog # 142: The Iran Nuclear Deal, Part Two of Two
Beautiful! Incisive! It (both parts) should be published far and wide.
Jack Russell Stone says:
I agree with Hari. Especially the brilliant use of the electromagnetic spectrum to illustrate "the unexamined assumptions of our mythology". Outstanding! And it was perfect timing for I had just tried to explain, while driving today, the spectrum to my wife Nancy without any props. Now she wants to read Part One!
LaVonne Peck says:
You were brave to comment on Israel's role in the US stance on Iran, but not brave enough to talk about the Jewish vote in Florida. You got an idea how to fix that excessive influence on US foreign policy?
shmoover says:
The Jewish vote in Florida — or any other state — is of far less interest to politicians than the right-wing Cuban vote, which will soon be of less consequence as those people age out. Individual Jews (and that's all we can speak of, just as we would speak of individual African-Americans) tend to vote much more progressively than the general public. Look at the polls on the Iran deal: a large majority of the public supports the deal, but an even larger majority of Jews do. The biggest issue in politics is the influence of billionaires and their money. A few of them are Jews, but most of them are not. We should all be careful about racial stereotypes.
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Berry College offers 138-degree programs. Student-to-faculty ratio is 12:1. 1 high safety campus. Acceptance Rate is 61%. The most popular test is SAT - 44% of students submitted it in comparison to 56% of students who submitted ACT. 38.7% are women, and 61.3% are men. 1% percents of international students. Berry College is a member of 6 athletic associations. The average annual total cost of attendance at Berry College is 23126$, that is above national average. Total price of living is between $35126 and $44388 per year. 61% of full-time Berry College students completed their education program in 150 percent of time: graduation rate is above national average. Average salary after attending is $38,100, so if you studied 2 years, you'll get your funds back in less than 2 years.
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In 2014-2015 academic year estimated full-time equivalent undergraduate enrollment was 2102 students with 63052 сredit hours for 12-month instructional activity period. The enrollment for graduates was 91 with 2172 credit hours.
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Ryan O'Donoghue is our Player of the League
April 13, 2022 April 13, 2022 Willie Joe
Right, the National League campaign is over and done with and the first shots in this year's Championship are set to be fired this coming weekend. Time, then, to pull the shutters down on the poll that's been running here for our Player of the League and to declare the winner.
In truth, no voting was needed to decide this one. Ryan O'Donoghue was, by any measure, our outstanding performer in this year's National League. Voted Man of the Match on polls conducted here on the blog relating to the Monaghan, Kerry, Tyrone and Kildare games, the Belmullet player was also not just our top scorer in the spring campaign but was also joint top scorer in Division One.
It was always a racing certainty that Ryan would top the poll for our Player of the League and so he has, winning 60% of the vote. Next came Jordan Flynn, our most improved player this spring but now sadly sidelined arising from a foot injury picked up in the Division One final. Jordan polled 17% of the vote and he was followed by Matthew Ruane (9%), Rob Hennelly (7%) and Diarmuid O'Connor (6%).
Well done to all of them but particularly to Ryan after what was an exceptional League campaign for the highly talented and hugely committed All-Star forward. Here's hoping for more of the same from him over the coming months in the Championship.
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7 thoughts on "Ryan O'Donoghue is our Player of the League"
Corick bridge says:
Congratulations,and well deserved
Jrb says:
Championship is a very different ball game
Mayoman89 says:
Well done Ryan! Given he is a current All Star I don't think he'll have much problems with Championship.
Whats even more impressive is that he could have easily stepped back after last seasons disappointment but instead has pushed on and on top of Tommy Conroy's injury has taken the added scoring pressure also. Looking forward to what he will produce in the Championship and excited for his link up with Cillian.
He will really excel in the championship
Leantimes says:
Excellent throughout the league, well deserved winner of the award. I'm not comparing Ryan to David Clifford just yet, but because he is our undoubted leader in the Full Forward line and a very deserved current All Star, Ryan is very likely to be double marked and/or a sweeper played in front of him for championship 2022.. I've no he's up to the challenge!
Good man Ryan.
Ya, very well deserved by Ryan. Interesting to see who will be out chief free taker when Cillian (fingers crossed) gets back to approaching his form of the last decade.
Mouth watering prospects ahead when we get a few more first teamers back.


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Sky Bet Championship 2019/20
Only three more teams left to confirm for next season
West Bromwich Albion became the latest team to have their place in the Sky Bet Championship for the 2019/20 season confirmed, in the most heart-breaking of circumstances. The Sky Bet Play-Offs are well underway and West Brom played Aston Villa in the first semi-final, which concluded last night. After Villa won the first leg 2-1, West Brom battled to a 1-0 win, despite playing nearly 45 minutes with ten men. A 2-2 aggregate draw sent the tie to penalties. Villa prevailed and will go for promotion in the Sky Bet Championship Play-Off Final at the end of the month.
That means 21 of the 24 teams that will be competing in the second tier next season are now confirmed. Brentford ended the Championship season 11th in the table, securing a top half finish for the fifth year in a row. The Bees will, for the sixth season in succession, be in the second tier next season and the last season of football at Griffin Park will be with Brentford as a Championship side.
With West Brom staying down, 16 of the 18 teams that will remain in the second tier are now confirmed. Premier League relegation places have also been decided – and the teams coming down include West London rivals Fulham, who will get a last visit to Griffin Park. Two of the three teams coming up from League One are also known.
The full list of Sky Bet Championship teams confirmed for 2019/20 is as follows:
The three remaining places in the Championship will be filled over the three weeks. Leeds United and Derby contest a Play-Off Semi-Final Second Leg this evening to decide who will take on Villa at Wembley. Leeds won he first leg 1-0 away from home and are the favourites to progress. There are four more teams that could win promotion from Sky Bet League One. Charlton Athletic, Portsmouth, Sunderland and Doncaster Rovers will contest the Play-Offs and one will win promotion at the end of the month. Sunderland beat Portsmouth 1-0 in their first leg while Charlton won 2-1 at Doncaster. Those ties will be settled by the end of the week.


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This archive holds all posts form October 12, 2009.
Indigenous People's Day: Reflecting on Racism against Native Americans
October 12, 2009 • Jessie Daniels • Native American, racism, video
A few blocks from where I live, the annual "Columbus Day Parade" is about to disrupt traffic along 5th Avenue from 44th Street up to 79th Street, but I won't be joining in this celebration. Like most school children in the U.S., I was fed the lie that Christopher Columbus was "an explorer" who "discovered America." The local news stations here relentlessly refer to the parade as a "celebration of Italian heritage." In fact, this is a holiday that disguises more than 500 years of church-sanctioned atrocities against indigenous peoples as well as the on-going, present-day racism against Native Americans.
While many of those who celebrate this holiday will participate in a Columbus Day Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral along the parade route (50th Street/Fifth Avenue), many others will protest the church's participation in genocide. In fact, for the past dozen years, there has been an ongoing counter-protest, an Annual Papal Bulls Burning. At the Parliament of World Religions in 1993, over sixty indigenous delegates drafted a Declaration of Vision, which was originally "endorsed by resolution in a near unanimous vote" of the Parliament (Taliman 1994). It reads, in part:
We call upon the people of conscience in the Roman Catholic hierarchy to persuade Pope John II to formally revoke the Inter Cetera Bull of May 4, 1493, which will restore our fundamental human rights. That Papal document called for our Nations and Peoples to be subjugated so the Christian Empire nd its doctrines would be propagated. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Johnson v. McIntosh 8 Wheat 543 (in 1823) adopted the same principle of subjugation expressed in the Inter Caetera bull. This Papal Bull has been, and continues to be, devastating to our religions, our cultures, and the survival of our populations.
Many indigenous peoples around the world have, since the Columbus Quincentennial in 1992, have reclaimed October 12th as International Indigenous Peoples' Day (h/t @DinkyShop via Twitter) with celebrations and protests, with a particular focus on pressuring the Catholic Church to rescind the papal edicts (known as "bulls"), that sanctioned the genocidal practices of "explorers" like Christopher Columbus. Here is one account from Hawai'i:
Twelve years ago, Tony Castanha, a Boricua (Puerto Rican) in Hawai'i who was reconnecting with his Taino ancestry, began commemorating the day with a ceremonial burning of the 1493 Papal Bull Inter Caetera. The Papal Bull was the holy decree which gave Columbus the Church's blessing and authorization to "establish Christian dominion over the globe and called for the subjugation of non-Christian peoples and seizure of their lands." This racist law became one of the foundations of the Christian Doctrine of Discovery and many laws authorizing the taking of native peoples' land.
In a small sign of progress, the Episcopal Church recently passed a landmark resolution entitled "Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery." As of yet, there's been no response from the Catholic Church on this global movement of indigenous peoples.
The myth of "discovery" that's woven into the celebration of Christopher Columbus as a mythic hero also serves to cover up the on-going, present-day racism against Native Americans. In a terrific piece on "Native Americans Long Battle Against Racism," at Global Voices Online (well worth reading in its entirety), Bernardo Parrella writes about the fact that even though there are almost 2.5 million Native Americans live in USA (0.87% of total US population), this group is largely "forgotten or invisible to the vast majority of Americans." There are lots of resources in Parrella's post if you decide to educate yourself about racism against Native Americans. He also includes ways that Native Americans are using online citizen media to fight racism and stereotypes. Just one example of these is a video called, "Racism The Way We See It" (7:50) statement about how young Native Americans experience racism within their own community:


The very talented Gothamist team of Jake and Jen have taken their show on the road. The first stop? The windy city, which also landed a Daily Candy version recently, is getting a lot of digerati attention these days (did I just say digerati? did i just anoint Jake and Jen? What year is it again?!).
I could see them doing five or six of these.
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package pprofextension

import (
	"context"
	"testing"

	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component/componenttest"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/confignet"

	"github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/internal/common/testutil"
)

func TestFactory_CreateDefaultConfig(t *testing.T) {
	cfg := createDefaultConfig()
	assert.Equal(t, &Config{
		ExtensionSettings: config.NewExtensionSettings(component.NewID(typeStr)),
		TCPAddr:           confignet.TCPAddr{Endpoint: defaultEndpoint},
	},
		cfg)

	assert.NoError(t, componenttest.CheckConfigStruct(cfg))
	ext, err := createExtension(context.Background(), componenttest.NewNopExtensionCreateSettings(), cfg)
	require.NoError(t, err)
	require.NotNil(t, ext)
}

func TestFactory_CreateExtension(t *testing.T) {
	cfg := createDefaultConfig().(*Config)
	cfg.TCPAddr.Endpoint = testutil.GetAvailableLocalAddress(t)

	ext, err := createExtension(context.Background(), componenttest.NewNopExtensionCreateSettings(), cfg)
	require.NoError(t, err)
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}

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William W Eicher was 15 years old when Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
William W Eicher was 26 years old when The Great Blizzard of 1888 struck the northeastern United States, producing snowdrifts in excess of 50 ft (15 m) and confining some people to their houses for up to a week. The Great Blizzard of 1888 or Great Blizzard of '88 was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in the history of the United States of America. The storm, referred to as the Great White Hurricane, paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine, as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada. Snowfalls of 10 to 58 inches fell in parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and sustained winds of more than 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) produced snowdrifts in excess of 50 feet (15 m). Railroads were shut down, and people were confined to their houses for up to a week. Railway and telegraph lines were disabled, and this provided the impetus to move these pieces of infrastructure underground. Emergency services were also affected.
William W Eicher was 36 years old when Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to US intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. American acquisition of Spain's Pacific possessions led to its involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately in the Philippine–American War.
William W Eicher was 41 years old when The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were two American aviators, engineers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17, 1903, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In 1904–05 the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.
William W Eicher was 52 years old when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated by a Yugoslav nationalist named Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, sparking the outbreak of World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Este was a member of the imperial Habsburg dynasty, and from 1896 until his death the heir presumptive (Thronfolger) to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia, which in turn triggered a series of events that resulted in Austria-Hungary's allies and Serbia's declaring war on each other, starting World War I.
William W Eicher died in 1927 at the age of 65
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SA Sunday Times books editor Ben Williams asks prize-winning authors Diane Awerbuck (Cabin Fever, Home Remedies), Helon Habila (Oil on Water, Granta Book of the African Short Story 2013 – editor) and Henrietta Rose-Innes (Green Lion) what literary prizes mean for African writers both on this continent and internationally.
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Umbra Search African American History: Aggregating African American Digital Archives
If you want to study the American South, you go to Chapel Hill. If you want to study gravestones, you go to Amherst. African American history, however, is easily perceived as under-collected. While there are some online guides to African American archival collections, there is no centralized or authoritative source, especially when it comes to smaller, less researched collections.
by Dorothy Berry December 14, 2016
There are topics on which American archives have based their foundations for generations. Literature, political figures, labor struggles, regional history. Major collecting institutions across the United States have been describing and arranging these records for years, building research destinations with clear focuses. If you want to study the American South, you go to Chapel Hill. If you want to study gravestones, you go to Amherst. African American history, however, is easily perceived as under-collected. While there are some online guides to African American archival collections, there is no centralized or authoritative source, especially when it comes to smaller, less researched collections. Stories are spread out across the nation following the trails of academics in Mississippi who collected photos of the Southside of Chicago, music librarians in Durham who collected African American sheet music, and other even more surprising routes. In many cases, the best way to find a collection has been to serendipitously know someone who has already found it.
Big names do, of course, exist in the world of African American archival materials, but the full story of Blackness in the archival record is difficult to tell through the often small holdings dispersed across a large nation. Digitization efforts have dramatically changed archival accessibility, but the scattershot nature of African American collections, and their digitization, has made discoverability and entirely different matter.
Umbra Search African American History (umbrasearch.org), a search tool/widget developed by the University of Minnesota Libraries' Givens Collection of African American Literature, was designed to counter the web of links and depositories by aggregating African American records from across the digital landscape, pulling from major sources like the Schomburg Center and the Library of Congress, as well as the minor but potent collections held by historical societies and county libraries.The full story of Blackness in the archival record is difficult to tell through the often small holdings dispersed across a large nation. Aggregating more than 400,000 digital holdings from over 1,000 institutions creates a new collection whose repositories are not physical spaces but rather the ur-archive of the human mind. Records in digital space carry the metadata of provenance encoded within them, but when seen all together, photos of rural life from seven different repositories are no longer presented primarily as institutional research capital but rather as the associated records, photos, and ephemera that make up African American history.
The first steps toward such lofty goals can be found at umbrasearch.org, where over 400,000 records from more than 1,000 institutions constitute an aggregation linking records in a manner that 20 years earlier would have taken a researcher multiple research trips, and 5 years earlier would have taken a research multiple hours scouring libraries' websites and furiously organizing bookmarks folders. These numbers are good and represent huge amounts of work on the part of the Umbra Search team as well as archivists, catalogers, and registrars from across our contributing institutions. In the past year, however, University of Minnesota Libraries was awarded a Council on Library and Information Research (CLIR) grant to digitize African American holdings from across the U of M collections, and on this campus alone over half a million records were identified. In two years' time, Umbra Search will have almost doubled its current size based on this project alone, raising real questions on how data is aggregated across institutions with widely idiosyncratic descriptive metadata.
Efforts to create computing systems that can identify records relevant to Umbra Search hit roadblocks not because of a lack of materials, but rather because of the information accompanying those materials. A recent experiment at a campus coding event shined direct light on this issue. A set of 1,500 records pulled from the Digital Public Library of America, one of the largest sources for records on Umbra Search, was used as a test example and marked for relevancy/irrelevancy by members of the Umbra Search team. Research system engineer David Olsen was able to design an algorithm that, using frequency of keywords, was able to match that human defined set to around 90 percent. Examining the discrepancy revealed an overarching issue with gathering together archival records in a cross-institutional, digital setting: descriptive practices that privilege the intellectual gatekeeping of physical accessibility to discrete human knowledges.
An example I often use to illustrate this issue is a record titled "Justice Department Report on the Shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson." The humanly defined set marked this record as relevant, but the computing system did not. When I share this example people react in shock—of course this record is relevant to African American history! The metadata for the file, however, included only the keywords "Civil Unrest," "Justice Department," "Michael Brown," "Darren Wilson," "Ferguson, Missouri." Those keywords meld together in the zeitgeist creating a shared set extended keywords like "Police Violence," and "Black Lives Matter," but the computer systems work only with the technical metadata tied to a record, not the intellectual metadata tied to contemporary understandings.
The humanly defined set marked the Justice Department report on the shooting of Michael Brown as relevant, but the computing system did not.
Challenges around metadata are the some of the largest facing the growth of Umbra Search as a collection of aggregated digital holdings. At this point, those obstacles appear in three broad categories: conventions around archival description, limited resources for archival processing, and a lack of transferable documentation. Before diving into these issues, a clear point should be made that these are not call-outs of particular institutions or the archival profession, but simply problematics that will become ever more apparent as digital user-bases widen and begin to expect an ease of access and discoverability that mirrors what they are used to on far less academically vetted sources with far more resources, like Wikipedia or Google.
The first obstacle is the limited resources for archival processing. Most archives have or have had huge backlogs of unprocessed collections, compounded by the continuous acquisition of new materials. Collection backlogs have been addressed in recent years by doing what is known as "minimal processing." Inspired by Mark A. Greene and Dennis Meissner's incredibly influential article "More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archival Processing." To simplify, Greene and Meissner argue that archives have awarded "a higher priority to serving the perceived needs of our collections than to serving the demonstrated needs of our constituents" (212) by allowing large amounts of materials to sit unprocessed until such a time that resources allowed for complete, high-level inventorying and finding aid creation. Their article championed methods to expedite physical access including, most relevantly to digital archives aggregation, description of materials "sufficient to promote use" (213).
Description sufficient to promote use in a physical setting can be drastically different from description sufficient to promote use by both computer systems looking for records to aggregate and use by researchers searching for individual records in mass digital settings. While the methodology promoted in "More Product, Less Process" known colloquially as MPLP, has led to huge strides in getting collections available to researchers either in person or through finding aids available online, processing collections at a box level or folder level can lead to digital records with an inefficiently minimal level of description. To provide an illustrative hypothetical: an archive has an unprocessed collection of twenty boxes from a local African American social worker, titled the Jane Doe Collection. In a pre-minimal processing world, an individual archivist might spend hours and hours researching Jane Doe, arranging and describing the materials, writing up a finding aid that describes the foldered content of each box, with time spent on detailing the condition of each individual records, all before any researchers had access. With minimal processing principles in mind, that collection might be processed into a finding aid quickly, either at box level ("Photographs"), or folder level ("Photographs; November 1942-January 1943"). This has the effect of greatly speeding up the accessibility to researchers on site who can look at the finding aid and request the box "Photographs" from the Jane Doe collection, or for a researcher requesting scans of the records in "Photographs; November 1942-January 1943."
When that same archive decides to put some of their records into a digital archive setting, however, that means there are now 250 item-level records all with the title "Photographs; November 1942–January 1943." Since the keywords for that folder were designed to applied to totality of folder-level record, researchers searching for Christmas 1942 photographs have to sift through all the photos, each of which shares the keywords "Jane Doe," "Social Workers," "Photographic Negatives." This research obstacle is not, necessarily, an issue with MPLP on a basic level, but rather an emerging division between archival accessibility and digital discoverability.
Conventions around archival description are myriad and standardized in the United States in the form of Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS). DACS is an output independent form designed to work with a variety of information formats, including "manual and electronic catalogs, databases, and other finding aid formats," while acknowledging that "DACS will be used principally with the two most commonly employed forms of access tools, catalogs and inventories." While DACS is definitively the guidebook to archival description, a digital archive comprised of image files requires a descriptive level completely outside the traditions of archival access. When you visit an archive and tell the archivist you are looking for photos of a 1942 toy drive led by a local social worker, they will most likely bring out a box from the Cab Calloway Collection, from which you will pull a folder titled something like "Photographs; Cotton Club, 1931." In the digital archives setting, you simply type "Cab Calloway" and limit your results to images. The structures that make up archival description are built on iterative levels of organization that, while still in place, become invisible in a digital aggregate. The structures that make up archival description are built on iterative levels of organization that, while still in place, become invisible in a digital aggregate. Aggregation by its nature contradicts what has been referred to as the guiding principle of archival theory: respects des fonds. Michel Duchien defines respects des fonds as "to group, without mixing them with others, the archives (documents of every kind) created by or coming from an administration, establishment, person, or corporate body." The entire appeal of a platform like Umbra Search or the Digital Public Library of America is the mixing of archives with others! In traditional archives, a single photo is not handed out, removed from the context of its folder and box, while in a digital setting having to go through a box's worth of photos to get the one you want is seen as a systems failure.
This reordering of priorities is made even more clear in the use of keywords and/or subject headings. Grouping information by hyperlinked keywords is a given in a digital setting, but the use of keywords in the archival setting is one of the most idiosyncratic elements of descriptions. Library of Congress Subject Headings are a common standard but lack many signifying headings that would assist in pulling together relevant data, as illustrated by a search for the subject "African American culture" or "United States–History–African American." This is compounded by the complexities around identification of African Americans over time and across communities (Colored vs. Negro vs. Afro-American vs. Black vs. African American). These descriptive issues come together to create digital records that are difficult for computers to parse for relevancy, as seen in the Ferguson, Missouri, example above.
A lack of transferable documentation exists is the crux of the first two obstacles. Though minimal processing may lead to digital records with overly broad titles, and the difficulties around description for digitized records may lead to those same records being decontextualized and lacking in efficient keywords, this is not because the information does not exist. Archivists are astounding for their ability to amass subject knowledge in their collection's holdings, but the funding and time to retrofit descriptive practice for the digital age just simply isn't there. Metadata enhancement is written into the grant for Umbra Search's CLIR funded mass digitization project, but most digitization efforts are constantly juggling time management and financial issues that don't leave a lot of space for creating extensive subject authorities or spending hours writing folder level descriptions. Researchers with physical and financial capabilities can visit archives and benefit from the archivists' subject knowledge, but those using digital archives as their sole option miss out. This is an even more extreme issue when dealing with collections of marginalized people. A single archivist may be a champion for African American records in their collection and hold a wealth of knowledge about their holdings but if there is no transferable documentation, when that standard bearer retires or passes away a huge hole appears in our understanding of some of the most at-risk communities' histories.
As Umbra Search African American History continues to be shaped, we hope that solutions to these challenges can be discovered through collaborations with researchers, scholars, information professionals, and systems developers. As archives strive to provide access beyond the ivory tower, and users seek information in digital spaces before physical ones, Umbra Search will increasingly offer the possibility of putting African American history into the hands of its true inheritants by creating a large scale digital collection uniting archives across the country, but also to explore the upcoming problematics of archives in the age of digital reproduction.
Dorothy Berry
Dorothy Berry is the digitization and metadata lead for Umbra Search African American History at the University of Minnesota. Her work has focused on the intersections of information science and African American history and has included research on nineteenth-century Black performing arts in the digital archives, exhibit creation for the Black Film Center/Archive and the Archives of African American Music and Culture, object conservation for the National Museum of African American History and Culture Smithsonian, and digital resource creation for the Ozarks Afro-American History Museum.
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British Romanticism: Characteristics of Romantic Poets
Literature Study Guides and Chapter Summaries / By Trent Lorcher / Homework Help & Study Guides
Characteristics of Romantic Poets
Beauty of the Supernatural: British Romantics believed something existed beyond the physical world. The Spirit world, according to Romantics, had unleashed its power and inspiration to overthrow tyranny in government and in literature. Unlike the American Romantics who wrote of ghosts, demonic cats, and rope-gnawing rats, British Romanticism's treatment of the supernatural excluded horror and the macabre and focused on supernatural energy and beauty.
Championing of the Individual: Revolution in Europe brought to light the importance of the individual. Ordinary people now became the subject of lofty language. British Romanticism attempted to free itself from traditional forms and subjects.
The Importance of Nature: The poet, according to the Romantics, is only at peace when in nature; moreover, while in nature, the poet intervened with the great Universal Mind. Romantic poets made frequent use of personification with nature, ascribing human traits to daffodils, fields, streams, and lakes. Nature, in essence, became emotionally expressive.
The Dangers of Technology: A natural consequence of celebrating nature was a disdain for technology and industrialism.
Major Early Romantic Poets
The following share characteristics of Romantic poets:
William Blake (1757-1827): Blake's poetry dwelt upon his divine vision and rebelled against traditional poetic forms and techniques. He created his own mythological world with man as the central figure. His more famous poems include The Lamb, The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, and The Clod and the Pebble. What makes Blake's poem especially attractive for teaching in high school is he often wrote two poems with the same title–one poem negative and one poem positive, excellent for compare and contrast writing.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The most famous of the British Romantics, Wordsworth is considered the nature poet. He revolutionized poetic subjects, focusing on ordinary people in rustic settings. He, in addition, wrote about and considered the poet as superior to all other writers. His most famous poems include I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, We are Seven, and I Travelled Among Unknown Men. Most high school literature textbooks have at least one poem by Wordsworth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Coleridge and Wordsworth are often grouped together as The Lake Poets, and for good reason. Together they are credited as the founders of the Romantic movement. Coleridge's most famous poems, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Kahn, and Christabel have a distinct supernatural element and strongly influenced American Romantics such as Poe and Hawthorne.
Later Romantic Poets
The following share characteristics of later Romantic poets:
Lord Byron (1788-1824): Lord Byron enjoyed unmatched popularity. Byron's most famous creations are his dark heroes, called Byronic heroes, who, in fact, were not heroes at all, but stood out from ordinary humans as larger than life. The Byronic hero brooded, possessed insatiable appetites and incredible strength, rebelled against societal norms, and forced upon himself exile. Byron's most famous works include Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Lord Byron is generally reserved for university level literature courses and is rarely found in high school anthologies.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Like all Romantics, Shelley was a radical non-conformist. He campaigned for social justice, even marrying the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, an English leader in the women's rights movement. His wife would later write Frankenstein. His most famous poems include Mutability, Ozymandias, and Ode to the West Wind.
John Keats (1795-1821): Perhaps the most popular Later Romantic poet, Keats accomplished great things during his short life. His Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and Ode on Melancholy find their way into anthologies throughout the English speaking world. Keats considered contact with poets as a threat to his independence and therefore shunned his contemporaries.
Want more? Try annotating a poem for practice.
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Old photo from the Health Food Store on Hilton Head in 1986.
Finding my way to better health wasn't an easy or direct path.
Considering my early years consisted of a diet of Frozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts, raw hotdogs, fried food, sugary orange slices, cotton candy (ok fine, any kind of candy), BBQ, Hardee's apple turnovers, McDonalds, Diet Tab, and all kinds of diet stimulants and diet pills.
But, I got there, and that's the message I want to share.
Get on your own health journey and stay the course, don't give up and make it fun. Remind yourself along the way that it will look different than everyone else.
I crave variety in life and my food. Eat the rainbow my friend reminds me! My clean plant-based diet is not boring and I now have a love affair with veggies instead of junk food.
My diet now consists of: No meat, no dairy, no eggs, no fried foods, no white sugar, and no processed or fast foods. Instead I prefer green smoothies, macrobiotics meals, raw homemade cashew ice cream, veggies I had never even heard of, avocado and banana cacao pudding. I eat a mostly vegan, raw, plant based diet - with exceptions made for fresh fish from reputable sources.
Don't let peer pressure cause you to give into to someone else's choices for you.
Here are three of my favorite cookbooks to inspire you!
I love how I eat and feel now, so if you are in need of a second helping of healthy inspiration, let me know!


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Why Jeeps Rule
7 Reasons To Love America's Original 4x4
BY Andy StonehouseOctober 23, 2018
It's hard to find a vehicle more American than the Jeep. What other ride has cred with everyone from Dwight Eisenhower to Missy Elliott to Alicia Silverstone to Mork & Mindy?
Fact is, there are a lot of reasons that the Jeep – and specifically its trademark model, the Wrangler – is regarded as one of the most distinctive and timeless automobiles ever. Here are just a few of them.
It's The Original SUV
The big difference between the Jeep Wrangler and most other SUVs is that you can actually use your Jeep to do the things you see it do in the commercials. There are no delicate underpinnings that will come flying off the first time you leave pavement and no feature too bougie to withstand a good off-road romp. You can actually climb mountains, tackle snow, ford through rivers, cruise sandy beaches—and still fit into that tight parking spot downtown. Jeeps were built for running trails, with high- and low-range 4x4 systems to help you clear legit obstacles. Their high ground clearance and wheel articulation means they really do handle the adventure stuff that other SUVs just talk about.
Go Topless. Or Doorless. It's a Jeep Thing
At its heart, the Jeep Wrangler is a pretty basic vehicle—essentially a sweet metal box on a jacked-up frame. But being made like a real-life Lego set means one thing for sure: versatility. The Wrangler's design allows owners not only to drop the top, but also to remove the roof entirely. Do, however, get a friend to help if it's a hard top as it's hella heavy and definitely a two-person job. You can also pull off the doors—or go totally old-school and lower the front windshield all the way onto the hood. As a personal note, the no-doors summertime look is particularly striking on the four-door Wrangler Unlimited models. And because it's a Jeep, you can easily remove the rear seats for more storage room and better rear visibility, especially with a hard top in place.
It Makes You Part of an American Automotive Legacy
What other car on the road today can trace its history directly to World War II? Prototype Jeeps first appeared in 1940 and went into mass production during the war, built by Willys-Overland (pronounced "Willis" by super-cool Jeep people everywhere). Hundreds of thousands of the initial MB model were produced during the war. Meanwhile, civilian jeeps (hence the CJ name you might still hear associated with two-door Jeeps) came after the war, capitalizing on the vehicle's instant legend. And while the brand has changed hands many times over the years—it's now owned by Fiat of Italy—every new Jeep Wrangler for the U.S. market is still built in Toledo, Ohio, just as they have been for the better part of 75 years. Hoo-rah!
You Can Go Crazy On The Accessories… Or Not
Make no mistake, a Jeep's rudimentary character is partially on purpose as the Jeep Wrangler is easily the most modified and accessorized automobile in America and around the world. Nearly every part – from the seats to the roof – can be customized, swapped out, updated or fitted with better bits. And don't forget the easiest and most important accessory: those Jeep window stickers letting the world know what a true enthusiast you are.
Fair Is Making Them Very Easy To Get
Of course, if you're not the type who wants to spend your free weekends accessorizing your ride, you could just get your Jeep on Fair, ensuring that you're free to drive as long as you choose and get an entirely different one afterward with a totally new set of features. With Fair, you make a down payment, refundable security deposit and your first month's payment to reserve your vehicle, then pick it up and drive. There's no negotiation, loan or even physical paperwork. Your Fair Jeep even comes with a limited warranty, roadside assistance and routine maintenance.
You Get To Live 'The Jeep Experience'
One word of warning: If you're buying a Jeep Wrangler for the creature comforts, well, you've got the wrong idea. In fact, your Jeep's simplicity and off-road versatility also mean it tends to forgo the bells and whistles (and speed) of a traditional car or contemporary SUV. If you've opted for an upscale, trail-ready Rubicon model with larger, rock-crawling tires, the vehicle's highway dynamics can be bouncy, noisy and even a little challenging at speeds over 65 mph. Engine improvements over the past decade mean today's Jeeps have a higher-output, 285-horsepower 3.6-liter engine to give you more cruising confidence. But you'll always feel the occasionally precarious nature of the two-door Wrangler's short wheelbase. Believe it or not, fully carpeted interiors and padded roll bars are a relatively new thing on Wranglers, although it's not uncommon to find fully tricked-out, high-end models as well. You know, if you're into that.
You're Instantly a Member of a Secret Club
There aren't many vehicle brands that instantly conjure an entire lifestyle complete with a wide, informal circle of devotees, but the Jeep Wrangler is definitely one. It's a symbol for someone who lives an adventurous, outdoor lifestyle—the kind of driver who can pack up and head out to Joshua Tree, scale a rocky trail in the Appalachians, or cruise down miles of empty beach on South Padre Island. Of course, you'll also likely spend plenty of time in your Jeep in traffic, too. But at least you'll get waves of acknowledgment from other Wrangler drivers, who are part a secret driving community every bit as strong as that of passing motorcyclists.
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Moving around Time for action — Implementing the camera control What just happened? No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Gregory Pierce has worked in software development and executive management, across a variety of high-technology industries, for over 18 years. First published: February 2012 Production Reference: 2170212 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Getting a real application running on a device Time for action — Loading a project What just happened? Organizations and charities raise your profile, promote your events, services, and fundraisers, and get help from the community in organizing them. You will also add occlusion culling and beastmap lighting. Importing an animation Time for action — Importing from Mixamo What just happened? Object pooling — Into the pool Time for action — Optimizing with the object pool What just happened? Multimedia Important preliminary points Audio capabilities Playing sounds Time for action — Adding ambient sounds What just happened? So, I do not forget to thank all current Unity Asset Store customers who are using my published assets and scripts. Measuring success with iTunes Connect Time for action — How is our game doing? It is intended for novices through to intermediate developers of all types regardless of their skill level with Unity.
If you are a Drupal user you will find this book a great way to rapidly tailor an existing installation into a socially orientated website. Common Language Infrastructure Boo- more than a ghost in mario What does a Boo script look like? You will also integrate with Game Center. Screen manipulation Time for action — Rotating the screen Identifying that the screen orientation has changed Updating player orientation What just happened? It will guide you through the entire creative process of designing a game through to making money from it. This book as absolutely ridiculous. Video capabilities Time for action — Playing embedded video What just happened? Pop quiz — The fundamentals Summary 2. In this book, many of the chapters and artwork contained herein are commissioned by Sojourner Mobile, provider of the monetization platform that has made it all possible.
Youwill also learn how to avoid some common pitfalls. Playing with rag dolls Time for action — Attaching a rag doll What just happened? Time for action — Creating objects in a scene What just happened? Youwill also learn how to avoid some common pitfalls. It will guide you through the entire creative process of designing a game through to making money from it. What is Unity and why should I care? A published technical author, Gregory has used his experience to give back to communities by lecturing on a variety of technology subjects, contributing to open source projects, and participating in organizations such as Junior Achievement. Unleash the beast Time for action — Generating Beast lightmaps What just happened? Next you will integrate the game with some 3rd party services for advertisements, micro transactions, and in app purchasing.
Also the code for Chapter 1 is missing from the book's website. Time for action — Adding sounds to actions What just happened? In-App purchases Subscription types Delivery models Time for action — Adding In-App purchases What just happened? However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Copy, paste, print, and bookmark content. Unlike most other game developing books, this book has the reader perform easy to follow exercises that when combined form a working game. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. It is Packt's fully searchable online digital book library, accessible from any device with a web browser. Once you have mastered this we will begin the creation of our game — a 3rd person perspective dungeon crawler game inspired by the arcade game called Gauntlet.
A published technical author, Gregory has used his experience to give back to communities by lecturing on a variety of technology subjects, contributing to open source projects, and participating in organizations such as Junior Achievement. What this book covers Chapter 1, What is Unity and why do I care? Time for action — Let there be light What just happened? Playing music Time for action — The sound of music What just happened? You'll also see how to avoid some common pitfalls. You are already dead World Particle Colliders Time for action — Detecting collisions What just happened? This book gave me the jump start I needed. Next you will integrate the game with some 3rd party services for advertisements, micro transactions, and in app purchasing. While we work hard to eradicate errors from our books, some do creep in. Youwill also learn how to avoid some common pitfalls. It will get you through all the major learning points in a smooth, logical order.
You will also add occlusion culling and beastmap lighting. Families — for large families based across the country or across the globe, keep up to date with everyone, and let everyone know what you are up to. This book is packed with clear instructions and careful explanations for creating a powerful social networking site using Drupal 7. Gregory started his professional computer software career as a software test engineer for the Microsoft Corporation in 2002. Time for action — Getting a driver's license with Root Motion Controller What just happened? Scripting: Whose line is it anyway? This book is for brands, advertisers and developers who want to create compelling, emotive, iAd advertisements that generate revenue and increase brand awareness. Youwill also learn how to avoid some common pitfalls.
Who this book is written for This book is for developers and designers who want to learn the process of building commercial game applications using Unity. Important preliminary points Unity Scripting Primer Oh no! It is intended for novices through to intermediate developers of all types regardless of their skill level with Unity. Transform Time for action — Positioning, Rotating, and Scaling a Game Object What just happened? Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. I'd like to thank my wife Deirdre, son Gabriel, and daughter Sydney who sacrificed many nights and weekends to give me the time necessary to work on the book. Finally you will publish your game for the entire world to see. Finally, I want to thank the fine people at Unity Technologies and all the mobile hardware manufacturers out there for kick starting the mobile revolution. This book is aimed at anyone looking to create their own social networking website, including: Businesses — building a social network around a product or service can improve your company profile and increase customer loyalty, while an internal social network gives you employees a place to keep resources, discuss ideas, raise concerns, and keep up to date on company policies.
It is intended for novices through to intermediate developers of all types regardless of their skill level with Unity. Even the code for the book is just what comes with the Assets he tells you to download. While the book does cover some basics of Unity and scripting, you probably will want to pick up some other Unity book such as Unity 3. Scripts Editors Prefabs Time for action — Creating prefabs What just happened? The book is linear and progressive so every chapter builds upon the knowledge of the last. After his graduation he continued to learn more and more about software like Architecture and Project management, always acquiring new skills. Once you have mastered this we will begin the creation of our game - a 3rd person perspective dungeon crawler game inspired by the arcade game called Gauntlet.


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Sister María de Santo Domingo, "La Beata de Piedrahita" ("the "holy woman of Piedrahíta") was a Spanish mystic (c. 1485 – c. 1524) of the early 16th century.

Life
María was born in the village of Aldeanueva de Santa Cruz. According to her contemporaries, this peasant visionary, who was the daughter of devout farmers, spent her childhood doing charitable works and spending long hours in prayer.

Piedrahíta, near Ávila, where the Inquisitor General Torquemada had gone to live in the Dominican monastery, was María's spiritual home. As a young woman, she became a tertiary sister in the same Dominican order in Piedrahita that had fostered the young Torquemada. Taking the name María de Santo Domingo, Maria was what in Spain at that time was termed a beata, that is to say, an unmarried woman who was not a nun, but who quested after holiness by taking vows of chastity and often of poverty. Soon she transferred to Ávila.

María's charismatic personality expressed itself in numerous revelations, in which she held celestial converse with the Virgin Mary and the Savior. She informed her contemporaries that Christ was with her, that she was Christ , and that she was Christ's bride, a concept that offers parallels with her neighbor in Ávila, Saint Teresa of Ávila. Maria often spent hours in ecstatic trances—unmoving, her arms and legs rigidly extended, dissolving herself in the arms of the Deity. Though unlearned she was reputed to be the equal of the most sophisticated theologians, revelations compensating for her lack of schooling. Ávila's Dominican Provincial, Diego Magdaleno, sent Maria to Toledo to inspect the Order's houses there and initiate ascetic reforms. That administrative order was still shockingly improper to Dominican historian Beltrán in 1939.

The widowed Ferdinand II of Aragon summoned Maria to his court at Burgos. During the season of 1507–08, she impressed the king and his courtiers, including Cardinal Cisneros. However, other contemporaries were confounded and scandalised, denouncing Maria as a self-seeking fraud and labeled her ecstatic behavior "lascivious". The Dominicans' new Master General, Thomas Cajetan, suspected the devil rather than God inspired Maria. He restricted her access to the friars of Santo Domingo, who were agitating for ascetic reforms. The Duke of Alba, one of whose palaces faced the monastery at Ávila, took a patron's interest in the four trials concerning Maria's orthodoxy between 1508 and 1510.

The Duke of Alba, his cousin King Ferdinand and Cardinal Cisneros (who became regent of Castile), convinced the episcopal hierarchy that La Beata enjoyed a special inspiration available to very few. Their support proved crucial with respect to the heresy charges. Not only was Maria absolved of the charges, the inquisitors pronounced her life and doctrine exemplary. La Beata became prioress in a convent founded especially for her by the Duke of Alba in her native village in central Castile.

Antonio de la Peña and Diego Victoria transcribed Maria's stream-of-consciousness Book of Prayer, and printed it circa 1518. A copy was discovered in Zaragoza and a facsimile edition republished in Madrid (1948). An English translation appeared in 1992.

The name of alumbrados ("illuminati"), says the orthodox Catholic Encyclopedia (1907–1914), was assumed by some 16th-century Spanish "false mystics" who claimed  — like La Beata de Piedrahíta — to have a direct connection with God. "They held that the human soul can reach such a degree of perfection that it contemplates even in the present life the essence of God and comprehends the mystery of the Trinity. All external worship, they declared, is superfluous, the reception of the sacraments useless, and sin impossible in this state of complete union with Him Who is Perfection Itself. Carnal desires may be indulged and other sinful actions committed freely without staining the soul." The Catholic Encyclopedia specifically states that although La Beata de Piedrahíta "is cited among the early adherents of these errors...it is not certain that she was guilty of heresy". Furthermore, many recent scholars, like Álvaro Huerga, question, on chronological and other grounds, the tendency to consider La Beata de Piedrahíta one of the alumbrados, placing her rather among the "pre-alumbrados"

La Beata was not alone. At Toledo, Isabel de la Cruz actively proselytized, and Magdalena de la Cruz, a Poor Clare of Aguilar, near Córdoba, was even more famous. The Inquisition, however, convinced the latter to abjure her heretical errors in 1546. Their ideas found wide responses among Spanish Catholics, though the Inquisition proceeded with relentless energy against all suspects, citing before its tribunal even St. John of Avila and St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Notes

External links
 John Edward Longhurst, The Age of Torquemada
 María de Santo Domingo, Libro de la oración, Zaragoza, c. 1518, facsimile (BIESES website)

Further reading
 Surtz, Ronald E. Writing Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: The Mothers of Saint Teresa of Avila (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press) 1995.  María de Santo Domingo examined in the context of five Castilian beatas of the fifteenth and sixteenth century, advocates of spiritual reform.
 BIESES, Bibliography of Spanish Women Writers, http://www.bieses.net/

1480s births
1520s deaths
16th-century Christian mystics
Dominican nuns
Roman Catholic mystics
16th-century Spanish nuns
People from the Province of Ávila

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