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Fu uno dei pionieri del cinema muto del Brasile.

Biografia
Nel 1911 Arturo emigra in San Paolo  e molto presto fa parte dei pionieri della produzione cinematografica con altri neo immigranti italiani come Guelfo Andalo, Gilberto Rossi, Achille Tartari, Francesco Madrigano, Nino Ponti, Nicola Tartaglione e il produttore e attore Vittorio Capellaro. Nel 1919 si associa con Gilberto Rossi . Insieme, realizzano O crime de Cravinhos un film tradizionale basato su fatti reali. Il crimine in questione coinvolge persone importanti e del mondo politico. Il giorno dell'uscita del film la polizia invade la sala e sequestra il film. Carrari e Rossi fanno un processo e possono ricuperare il film. Grazie a questo scandalo il film è stato un gran successo, anche finanziariamente.

Nel 1923 realizza Os Milagres de Nossa Senhora da Penha ossia A Virgem da Penha e seus Milagres con Nina Carrari e Olga Navarro.

Arturo Carrari ha inoltre fondato una scuola cinematografica, la "Escola de Artes Cinematográficas Azzurri", in San Paolo.

Suo figlio, José, è anche un produttore e regista per il cinema.

Filmografia

Regista e Produttore
 Os Milagres de Nossa Senhora da Aparecida (1916)
 24 Horas na Vida de Uma Mulher Elegante (1920)
 O Crime de Cravinhos (1920)
 Um Crime no Parque Paulista  (1921)
 Amor de Filha (1922)
 O Furto dos 500 Milhões de Réis  (1922)
 Os Milagres de Nossa Senhora da Penha (1923)
 Manhãs de Sol (1925)
 Amor de Mãe (1927)
 Anchieta Entre o Amor e a Religião (1932)

Attore
 O trem da morte, di José de Picchia (1924)

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Collegamenti esterni


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Q: Python Import a List from Another File (CHECK UPDATE BELOW)
I'm having trouble with importing a list from another file.
I'm still learning how to call/pass variables in functions.
I have something very similar to this example,
#file1
list_one = [] #global
list_two = [] #global

def function_list_one():
# code
    return list_one

def function_list_two(list_one, list_two):
# code
    return list_two

def both_lists(list_one, list_two):
# code
    return new_list
    # return new_list outputs a JSON list

both_lists(list_one, list_two) # this is used to call it from main

So far, if I print this new list it works from within this file. It prints what I want. However, if I try to do the next few things then it just prints an empty list. The last time from file1 is for the main file where I call that function using those parameters.
#file2
from file1 import both_lists, list_one, list_two

new_list = both_lists(list_one, list_two)
new_list2 = list_two
print(new_list)
# outputs = []
prin(new_list2)
#outputs = []

# Expected output should be the results from new_list from file1, which
# would be a JSON type list.

This is where nothing happens. If I try both methods, they return an empty list. I understand I have a global variable for both list_one and list_two. What I don't understand is why it returns an empty list when I have used this same method in another program I made. Basically, I want to use the "return new_list" in fil2 in order to proceed with the rest of the program.
Update:
I found the solution. Somehow file2 when I import the new_lists it didn't like it. So, instead I just import both_lists(function_list_one(), function_list_two())
Thank you all for your time!

A: It looks as though you're importing the lists as defined, not as they are built by your function_list_* functions.
When you import list_one and list_two, you are importing them as empty lists, as file 1 has them:
list_one = [] #global
list_two = [] #global

If both_lists() is just appending them, then what you're getting for new_list in file 2 is just both of those empty lists appended together, or just another empty list.
I think what you're after is the result of appending function_list_one(list_one) and function_list_two(list_two). There's a number of ways you could accomplish that, but perhaps the simplest is to redefine both_lists() to do something like this:
def both_lists(list_one, list_two):
    # Code
    return function_list_one(list_one) + function_list_two(list_two)

Then, when you import both_lists, you also import the functionality defined for your list-building functions.
To sum up:
As written, your imports are importing these items:

*

*list_one = []

*list_two = []

*both_lists, which I'm assuming just appends list_one and list_two
The code in function_list_one() and function_list_two() won't execute unless you import and call those functions or include their functionality in something that you do import - and then call that.
My suggestion above is just one way around this, and that's assuming I read your code correctly! Hope this helps, though. :^)

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Thyroid problems can cause serious changes in the disposition of sufferers. As a result, homeopathy is especially well suited to treating these problems. However, homeopaths rarely have definite sets of remedies for treating any disorder. Read on to find out how homeopathy works, why it is especially effective for treating thyroid problems and which remedies are commonly recommended by homeopaths to address thyroid disorders.
2 What Are Thyroid Problems?
This approach leads to the prescription of a unique set of remedies for each patient. Therefore, two patients suffering from the same disease may receive two different sets of remedies from the same homeopath.
The second principle of homeopathy is the use of poisons to treat diseases.Homeopathy employs watered down poisons to treat disorders. A similar principle is used in the production of vaccines in conventional medicine.
If a natural compound may cause certain symptoms and signs in high doses, homeopaths believe very low doses of the dilute solution of the compound can also relieve the same symptoms and signs.
Despite the apparent confusion and the seeming lack of coherence, homeopathy has been largely successful and in some cases, its practices and remedies can be backed up with scientific evidences.
Even though homeopathy does not provide specific remedies for any disease, it is still possible to draw up a list of commonly prescribed homeopathic remedies for any disease.
Thyroid problems are especially well suited to homeopathy. This is because the hormones released from the thyroid are central to metabolism and can cause far-reaching constitutional changes in the body.
Thyroid problems result when these thyroid hormones are produced in amounts higher or lower than the normal values. The two major hormones released from the thyroid are thyroxine, T4 and triiodothyronine, T3. Both hormones increase basal metabolic rates although T3 is more effective for this purpose.
The thyroid gland produces both T4 and T3 but the body can also convert some T4 into T3.
When the levels of T4 and T3 in the body goes well above the normal range, hyperthyroidism results. When the levels of these hormones fall below the normal range, hypothyroidism is diagnosed.
However, even the thyroid hormones are under the control of another hormone called thyroid-stimulating hormone or TSH. TSH is secreted in the pituitary gland. When it is released, it prompts the thyroid to produce more T4 and T3.
In this same way, TSH is under the control of another hormone named thyrotropin-releasing hormone or TRH which is secreted in the hypothalamus.
Because hyperthyroidism increases the body's metabolic rate excessively, it can cause symptoms such as nervousness, increased sweating, irritability, tremors, irregular but fast heartbeats, difficulty sleeping, hair loss and weight loss.
On the other hand, hypothyroidism has the opposite effect. By reducing the rate of metabolism, it can cause lethargy, hair loss, parched skin, depression, reduced mental focus, memory loss, muscle aches, slow heartbeats and intolerance to cold.
Both an underactive (hypothyroidism) and an overactive (hyperthyroidism) thyroid can cause serious health problems, and both thyroid problems require urgent care.
However, the most dangerous thyroid problem is arguably the silent ones especially sub-clinical hypothyroidism. It can remain undiagnosed for years and even be undetectable by the routine thyroid tests. Yet silent thyroid problems can cause any of the symptoms listed above.
Understanding the causes of thyroid problems is central to the principles of homeopathy because it is only when the root causes are determined that the right cures can be prescribed.
There are different causes of thyroid problems and all of them affect the production of thyroid hormones.
Hyperthyroidism is chiefly caused by an inflammation of the thyroid gland. This can be caused by a disease such as thyroiditis or by an autoimmune disorder such as Graves' disease.
In an autoimmune attack, the immune system mistakes the cells of the thyroid gland for foreign bodies and then attacks them. The autoimmune attack on the thyroid leads to the inflammation of the gland. This inflammation is commonly known as goiter.Goiter is simply the presentation of an overactive thyroid gland as it overexerts itself to produce both T4 and T3 in higher amounts.
While goiter presents as an unsightly, large bump, the inflammation of the thyroid gland can also present as small nodules. Such nodules can also continuously pump out thyroid hormones into the body.
Autoimmune attack can also cause hypothyroidism. In this case, the cells of the immune system attacks the cells of the thyroid and destroys the tissues of the gland. This leads to a sharp fall in the production of the thyroid hormones.
One example of an autoimmune disorder that causes hypothyroidism is Hashimoto's disease.
Age is also an important cause of hypothyroidism. As we grow older, the thyroid gland starts becoming less efficient, and therefore, produces less of T3 and T4. This trend is especially more common in women.
Hypothyroidism can also be caused by man-made damage to the thyroid gland. This can be in form of surgical removal of some of the tissue mass of the thyroid gland. It can also be caused by the aggressive treatment of thyroid problems with radioactive iodine which may destroy more hormone-producing cells of the thyroid gland than intended.
Lastly, hypothyroidism may also be caused by any disorder than reduces the production of TSH or TRH.
When the pituitary gland or hypothalamus is affected, the feedback loop signaling increased production of T3 and T4 may fail to maintain the natural balance of thyroid hormones in the body.
Because homeopathy focuses on the root problems of any disease to effect a lasting cure, its treatment can be prolonged. In addition, homeopathic remedies work by stimulating the body's natural healing abilities.
In the case of thyroid disease, some of the most commonly used homeopathic remedies include: Iodum, Bromium, Fucus vesiculosus, Calcarea phos, Calcarea carb, Lycopus, Lapis alb, and Spongia.
Iodum is the homeopathy remedy known as iodine. It is prepared from iodate salts obtained from the seaweeds of the ocean and saltpeter deposits in Chile.
Iodine is an essential mineral in the body. This non-metal is absolutely important for the production of thyroid hormones. T4 contains four atoms of iodine while T3 contains 3 atoms of the non-metal.When the iodine level in the body is outside of the optimal and normal range, it can quickly cause thyroid problems. For example, too much iodine may cause hyperthyroidism while too little of the mineral will cause hypothyroidism.
In the preparation of iodum, an iodate salt is first dissolved in alcohol. The resulting solution is then diluted repeatedly until the right concentrations are achieved.
Iodum is a classic example of a homeopathy remedy. It is generally used to treat hyperthyroidism or an overactive thyroid. But it supplies iodine which ideally should increase the production of T4 and T3, and thus worsen hyperthyroidism. However, in the principle of treating "like with like" the very dilute solution of iodine, which is what iodum is, actually reduces thyroid activity and therefore normalizes the thyroid gland.
Iodum is recommended for treating an overactive metabolism, heat intolerance and unhealthy weight loss despite good diet. All of these are signs of hyperthyroidism.
Homeopaths recommend iodum for treating thyroid disorders in hyperactive patients especially those who are also forgetful and unorganized.
Bromium is also a related homeopathy remedy. Like iodum, it is used to also treat hyperthyroidism in hyperactive patients.
Bromium is bromine, a non-metal mineral that is chemically related to iodine.
The homeopathy remedy, thyroidinum, is obtained from the deep thyroid glands of sheep.
The extract of sheep thyroid gland contains thyroid hormones just like the human thyroid gland. However, rather than serving as a source of thyroid hormone replacement, thyroidinum supplies the body with the iodine present in sheep thyroid glands.
Therefore, it is used to treat goiter and hyperthyroidism. However, thyroidinum is recommended for patients who demonstrate restless melancholy.
Fucus vesiculosus is also known as sea kelp or bladderwrack, a rich source of iodine.
This olive green seaweed commonly grows on rocky beaches and on coasts with low tide. The whole plant is used in preparing this homeopathy remedy and it is available in different dosage forms including as tincture, tablet, capsule, powder, infusion and bath.Bladderwrack helps stimulate increased production of thyroid hormones in the body, and it also an anti-goiter herb. Therefore, it can be used to treat hypothyroidism and any related complication of this thyroid disorder.
This homeopathy remedy has been found effective as a weight loss supplement. This is due to its ability to increase the production of T4 and T3 and so raise the body's metabolic rate.
Other constituent of this remedy include antioxidant phenols and immune-boosting polysaccharides, all of which can protect the body from toxins.
Calcarea carb is the homeopathy remedy prepared from calcium carbonate.
Although it is primarily used for improving bone health and also for treating teeth problems, it can also be used to treat thyroid problems which may cause poor body and brain development.
Calcarea carb is obtained from crushed oyster shells. The fine powder of the pulverized shell is used at full potency without further dilution.Homeopaths recommend this remedy for treating depression, nervousness and fatigue especially in patients with sluggish dispositions. All of these symptoms point to hypothyroidism, therefore, this calcium salt can be used to correct the symptoms of low production of thyroid hormones.
Lycopus is prepared from the entire flowering plant of bugleweed or Lycopus virginicus.
The fresh plant is often used to prepare a tincture while the dried plant is used to make an infusion.
Lycopus is recommended for treating hyperthyroidism and long-standing goiter. It is especially recommended for people with weakened pulses which may briefly quicken. Other group of patients suffering from thyroid problems who may find lycopus effective are those who show symptoms like mental fatigue, irritability and respiratory problems.
Spongia tosta is more commonly known as sponge, a sea creature with very limited range of movement.
This creature is so named because of the spongy appearance of the intricate network of small canals running all over its body. While resting in the sea, this creature soaks up nutrients and retains them with its spongy body. Therefore, it is a rich store of iodine and bromine.Sponge is collected, cleaned of sand and roasted in a metal drum before it is crushed into the fine powder used as a homeopathy remedy. It is commonly sold in natural foods stores in tablet and liquid forms of varying potencies.
Sponge is useful for treating thyroid problems especially goiter.


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Guest Post by the Poet Jake Marmer: Six Poems from the "Old Country Cycle"
Same Ass but View Sideways
mirrors of fat,
circle fatefully
evading the spoon
"let me tell"
"exactly the type of a girl"
"that's alright, that's not what gentile women
love us for"
"though one day they remind you
who – "
yes yes, this world, etc.:
Pushkin, Mandelshtam, the radio
in these pants?
what you know
is every buttock
in this town, tapped each one lovingly
on public transportation
with your bags of groceries
the provider!
already, a real man! "they" spend their dough
drinking but we: invite relatives and talk, talk
we talk how we eat, in
circles, blowing
Public Bathhouse
Age 5, first time in the public bathhouse
I thought everyone's penis
looked like a miniature accordion
"usage" "music"
explained my grandfather
Like Water off the Goose
with a pocket full of sunflower seeds
spitting shells by the goal
why am I always a goalie
because you don't run as fast
because falling is your calling
"wise-men sit at the gate"
from behind the stadium's trees, the beaten
gold of the church, still the center of the city –
so much for the "opium"
path to the bridge over a thinning, rotting river
Tzarina Elizaveta fortified the shores against nomadic elements
a few rusted ships
on Hanukkah you get a rubel
another year of missed shots and offsides –
hope for things
happening is the closest you come to intuiting
before you read somewhere people do that
you get dreamy
you get smacked
with a ball on your face
Assimilation: After the First Decade
I admit I enjoy being held
orally
bold complaints
replacement ivory/sand colored shoelaces
priority mail
have been a loyal customer
some ancient being
holding a hose, opens
its mouth, gold-toothed
my aunt's friend worked at the meat factory
that cooked up secret kalbasas, salamis, cured meats
inaccessible to general public
and because there were eyes
and ears everywhere, on the phone, with my aunt,
the friend used code:
"I have what's hurting
your husband"
(meaning, liver –)
and a meeting would be arranged
my uncle's
liver must have swelled every time with signified's burden –
professor of Marxist philosophy
in our provincial university –
when he heard a joke he liked
instead of laughing, he'd make a pained smile and say:
"so is that how it is?"
roses in the mouth
of a three headed trout
motherland's
happy absence
& double-stamped passport
squashed final apricots
loneliness, squashed
in the stomach
under air-
plane food
& sodas and victory
I'm not my age
not my nationality my ancestors
made biiig mistakes
rode the wrong
in the wrong direction
ensure sur-
vival vaval viva
lots of words on the t-shirt I wasn't planning
on changing so often as I
changing, scrambling signals, I
"called a suburban, k?"
"do you know what the word 'humongous' means?"
and shame & glory & terror & poverty
happy new ritual happy one-time
Jake Marmer is the author of Jazz Talmud (Sheep Meadow Press) and has recently released a Jazz and Spoken-Word Poetry CD entitled Hermeneutic Stomp. Marmer maintains a blog entitled Jake Marmer's Bob Apocalypse: Poetry, Philosophy, Existential Rants. For more on his work, take a look at the blog entries Schlemiel Theory has posted blog on his recent poetry-CD.
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A Note on Jake Marmer's Poem "Bathhouse of Dreams"
Jake Marmer's poem, "Bathhouse of Dreams," is an improvised poem which is based – in part – on a Mishnah from the tractate Avoda Zarah 3:4:
Proklos, son of Plosphos asked Rabban Gamliel a question in Akko, where he was washing in Aphrodite's bathhouse. He said to [Rabban Gamliel], "Isn't it written in your Torah (Deut. 13:18), 'do not allow any banned items [from idol worshippers] to stick to your hand'? How then do you bathe in Aphrodite's bathhouse?" He replied, "One does not respond [to religious questions] in the bath." Once he exited, [Rabban Gamliel] said to him, "I did not enter her domain, but she entered mine. [Further], people don't say, 'let's make a bath as a decoration for Aphrodite.' Rather, they say, 'let's make a statue of Aphrodite as a decoration for our bath.'" Another reason: Even if someone paid you lots of money, you wouldn't commence your idol worship if you were naked or sticky*, nor would you urinate before [your sacred object]. But this [statue of Aphrodite] stands over the sewer and everyone urinates before it. The verse "these are your gods" (Exod. 32:4) is not said about this case. If a [statue] is treated as a god, then it is forbidden, but if it is not treated as a god, then it is permitted [to be in its presence].
How does this Mishnah relate to the title of Marmer's poem and the poem itself which addresses a dream-like revision of the Mishnah? Before we address Marmer's poem, I'd like to preface my reading with a brief summary of the "Rabbinical" approach to dreams and follow it up with a sketch of Freud's reading of the dream. This will help us to understand what is at stake in Marmer's re-imagining of this Mishnaic scene.
Poets have, for centuries, been interested in dreams. And dreams, to be sure, have their root in prophesy and religion. "Pagan" religion and monotheism pay much heed to dreams. As far as Judaism goes, there is an ambivalent attitude toward dreams. Many of the first prophets in the Jewish tradition communicated with God by way of the dream. But, according to Moses Maimonides, these prophets are lesser than Moses who communicated with God (so to speak) "face to face." Maimonides, in the vein of Ancient Greek and rationalist Islamic philosophy, makes it quite clear in his Guide to the Perplexed that imagination is a deficient mode vis-à-vis the intellect. And in his view, Moses is the "greatest of all prophets" because, unlike the other prophets who communicated with God via the imagination, his intellect was perfected and his imagination was purified. And, as Leo Strauss points out in his reading of Maimonides, the imagination, for Moses, had only one purpose at that point and that purpose is political; namely, to communicate to the masses. Since the majority of people relate better to the imagination than to the intellect, it is the best medium to use for political purposes; however, it is not the highest man can achieve. Although Baruch Spinoza disagreed with Maimonides on many different points, he agreed with him on the clear distinction between intellect and the imagination. And Spinoza even found Moses at fault for, in his view, a minimal appeal to the imagination.
Nonetheless, as Sarah Stroumsa points out in her book on Maimonides, Maimoindes didn't always have a rationalist position on the imagination and dreams. As she argues, when he was younger he wanted to write a book interpreting images and the imagination which had more resonances with Kabbalah than with the Rationalists. However, his position changed over time. Maimonides understood the importance of imagery, the imagination, and dreams in Judaism. But, as we can see from The Guide to the Perplexed, he ultimately settled with the rationalist reading of dreams and imagery.
On the other hand, poets and Kabbalists give greater weight to dreams. To be sure, exile itself is likened to a dream. We see this in Psalm 126:
A Song of Ascents. When God brings about the return to Zion, we were like dreamers. Then our mouths will be filled with laughter and our tongues with joyous song. (126:1-2)
This psalm gives weight to the dreams of exile. And no amount of rationalism can (or even should) be appealed to so as to eliminate these dreams. To be sure, the poet understands that dreams are or can be related to perception and desire. The question, for the Jewish poet and the Rabbi who are concerned with dreams, is how do we interpret the dreams of exile.
Rav Kook reads this Psalm in terms of the "dreams of redemption" which, one day, will disappear. In his view, this did happen in some way with the founding of the State of Israel. However, the exile lives on since the "full redemption" has not arrived. For an American Jew who lives after the founding of the Jewish State, however, the dream seems to live on.
And, as Jake Marmer's poem on the Mishnah implies, imagining Rabbi Gamliel's "Bathhouse Dreams" is of great interest to the poet. The imagination, for the Jewish poet, must be active; it doesn't simply foster desire for redemption; it also sharpens our vision of the present and relation to the past. And, in Marmer's poem, it does so in a comic manner. This makes it even more appealing to us, today, since one of the most important ways American-Jews have to relate to their Jewishness is by way of humor (as a recent Pew Poll shows).
I'd like to briefly turn to Freud's theory of the dream to show how this appeal to the dream works on many levels.
If anyone takes the time to understand Freud's theory of dreams, one will notice that something happens between The Interpretation of Dreams and Beyond the Pleasure Principle. In the Interpretation of Dreams, Freud looks at dreams through the lens of the "pleasure principle." According to this theory, the psyche will go to great lengths to discharge all energy by any means necessary because the buildup of energy within the psyche is "painful." And the pleasure principle is, more or less, the principle to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. For this reason, Freud, working on his system of the id, ego, and superego, argues that consciousness censors things that are, according to the superego, detrimental to the health of consciousness. One such thing would be sexual taboos. These, Freud argued, must be discharged. And since the conscious mind won't let it come to the surface, taboos are buried in the unconscious only to be resurrected and discharged in dreams.
But since there is also a "censor" in dreams, these feelings must be hidden in some way. For instance, instead of seeing your sister in your dream (who you may have an incestual desire for) you see a "substitute" who doesn't look like your sister but feels like her.
This theory of dreams is based on an economy of discharging energy so as to maintain the pleasure principle: in the most Greek sense, happiness/pleasure is the goal. This theory of dreams changes later on in Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Before he wrote this book, he witnessed the dreams of men who were terrorized by experiences they had on the battlefield during WWI. Their traumatic dreams would repeat over and over again (he calls this a "repetition compulsion"). And the unconscious seemed to be deriving pleasure from this pain. And this, for Freud, was troubling; it violated the "pleasure principle." His theory didn't make room for trauma and, as he understood, it had to now; in the wake of his discoveries on the battle field medical tent.
I'd like to posit that Freud's theory of the pleasure principle has Greek resonances while his later approach to dreams has more of a Jewish resonance. In the latter theory, the pain of history, the trauma of history, is incorporated into the dream. It is noted and happiness is not the goal so much as memory.
What I love about Jake Marmer's poem "Bathhouse of Dreams" is the fact that it draws on Freud's latter theory, reread the above mentioned Mishnah from Avodah Zarah, and adds a comic dimension to memory that Freud didn't bring out in his post-pleasure principle theory.
In Marmer's poem (and its performance), there is an angry (yet comic) tone that the poet takes on as he identifies with Rabbi Gamliel when he responds to the Hellenists' query as to why he is in the Bathhouse of Aprhodite. (The "Bathhouse of Dreams" poem starts at 3:55 in the video below.)
The poem starts off with a slightly modified citation from the Mishnah. But it goes on to put in what is not there; namely, a retort which brings out the insider/outsider status of the Jew in Hellenistic culture: his double consciousness. And this status is communicated by way of the dream/beard. The music in the piece brings out a dragnet style of sound to the presentation of the Rabbi's words interspersed by a sequence that seems to be fighting with itself for speech. (Here's the soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/lawrencebush):
Rabbi, why are you here to wash?
The Beard of my double consciousness answered Rabbi Gamliel….Yeah, my beard of double consciousness answered Galmliel…Every morning I wake up to find another split in my beard, and find another hole in my beard, and find another nest in my beard…
After this interlude, the music becomes more erratic to match the dream/ravings of Gamliel. The increase in speed has the effect of becoming more and more comic as the jazz piece moves on. At the end, Galmliel makes a pledge to remain a "perpetual dreamboy." But this is punctuated by the music dropping out. In this gap, Marmer inserts the words: "in a locked suitcase."
The music then returns to the dragnet style melody .
I find this modulation and the last words to be telling. What we find in these movements and words is an awareness of the "double consciousness" of the Jew which is communicated by way of the imaginary personification of the words Gamliel never said. These words end with a pledge to become a "perpetual dreamboy" (in other words, a poet-schleimel; a "lord of dreams") in response to the question (read as an insult) made by the Hellenist. The response punctuates a series of angry retorts that struggle to the poets mouth (this is conveyed by the music). But in the end, the position is one of withdrawal, a pledge that is, ultimately, to be found in a "locked suitcase." This sounds like a pandora box of sorts. But if it were opened up, what we would have is not war or violence so much as rage, comedy, and dreams.
This closing irony, which is the end of a build up of rage, is Jake Marmer's way of relating to the past vis-à-vis the Mishnah and the present vis-à-vis his retelling and revising it.
The accent on the present brings out the power of the dream to mark the traumatic affect of double consciousness while, at the same time, showing how humor can be used to modulate this consciousness and rage. Marmer is teaching us how, for American-Jews today, comedy and rage can go hand in hand with memory and poetic speech(that is, if one is willing to own up to one's past struggles with society rather than forget about it). Indeed, comedy and rage can be employed in our relating to the Jewish past and the Jewish present (that is, if the relation of Jewish to non-Jewish identity is to remain an issue; if "double consciousness" is to remain an issue as it is for this poet who personifies Rabbi Gamliel).
At the end of the poem, I can feel the power of the dream is not to affect a kind of happiness, as Freud would say in his early work: that the day-dream or dream accomplish happiness in spite of things that cause the psyche pain. Rather, the power of the dream-poem is to effect a sense of how something has not been worked through; comedy doesn't eliminate rage or double consciousness. Rather, comedy shows our weakness and our strength.
This is not a dream realized, as Kook would call for. And this dream is not something that can be rationalized away. Rather, this poet's dream imaginatively taps into the past from the angle of the present so as to disclose the difficult place of "double consciousness" that Jews speak from in our post-modern age.
Like Marmer, I understand his position very well. It is the position of the schlemiel. And, for the poet and audience, it is double. It is the angle of the Jewish Sancho Panza (the poet and audience) who pays close attention to the dreaming Don Quixote (Rabbi Gamliel and the poet), but with a twist: namely, the twist of historical fate which has and continues to make the Jew aware of his/her double consciousness.
The schlemiel, after all, is the lord of dreams. And we, the readers of the schlemiel, are not. Yet, when we see or hear the schlemiel, we can't help but realize that his consciousness is ours. We are in and out of reality and history. We are double. This is a bitter-sweet comedy of Jewishness. But it remains and will remain as long as the dream of exile remains a reality.
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Animating the Text: Jake Marmer's Talmudic Jazz-Poetics
When it comes to art and poetry, I am very demanding. And the reason for this has to do with who I am, where I come from, and what I dream about. But, ultimately, I'm not so unique. I feel as if there are many Jewish people out there who, like me, are yearning for a poetry that merges music, performance, and comedy with something that speaks to being Jewish, being American, and being close to something indescribable that seems to be coming at us from different directions. On my search for this kind of poetry, I have come across the work of few poets who, at one time in my life, spoke to my being Jewish, being American, and so forth. These poets – my poetic Rabbis, so to speak – are Allen Ginsburg, Charles Bernstein, and Jerome Rothenberg. What I like about all of them is the fact that they all, in some way, bring their Jewishness to bear on a poetry that is performative, musical, and, at times, comical. But, as I said, their work appealed to me at one time. Today, I need something different and this is only because I have changed and so have the times we live in. Unlike the past, I feel now, more than ever, that I – and others of my generation who wish to make Jewishness more relevant and exciting – need to find a new way to animate the Jewish text. I believe that it can be animated by a new Jewish poetics and culture which can live in the present, draw on the past, and, using the best means it has at its disposal, open itself to a new future. By opening the text (as the Zohar says in a different context), the new Jewish poet can lead the way into an exciting new form of Jewish life that is comic, poetic, musical, and performative. And we can, so to speak, dance to this new Jewish tune.
On this (musical) note, I think I have found a new Jewish poet who I can listen to and join with in the project of creating a new Jewish culture. His performance-poetry speaks to my comic Jewish –American sensibility in the most innovative and inspiring ways. His name is Jake Marmer. His first work of poetry is entitled Jazz Talmud. It was published in 2011 by Sheepmeadow Press. And, most recently, he has put together a CD entitled Hermeneutic Stomp which takes the poems from his book and brings them to life by way of Jazz. His CD will be released in New York City on October 14th .
For now, I'd like to go through one of these poems so as to point out how he, drawing on the tradition of the poets I have mentioned above (and a Jewish tradition called the Talmud), animates the text in a comic manner. Fortunately, we have a video from Youtube that shows Marmer at work with his Jazz group. Seeing this, after I have discussed the poem, can help to give you (my dear reader) an idea of how the performance of his poetry adds another dimension to his work.
At the end of an essay Marmer wrote for Shema: A Journal of Jewish Ideas, entitled Improvised Poetry: Palimpest of Drafts, Marmer cites a poem from Jazz Talmud (a poem which also appears in his Hermeneutic Stomp CD) and notes to the reader that his poetry plays on the relationship of the Mishnah to the Gemara. Here is the poem. It's entitled the "Mishnah of Loneliness":
Mishnah of Loneliness
There're three types of loneliness in the world:
green, red, and purple. So says the house of
Hillel. In the house of Shammai, they say: loneliness
is either black or white; all other types
don't exist and require a sacrifice of a young
goat: your internal goat.
Says Rava: in all of my years, I have not
known loneliness. All day I'm at the yeshiva
with you nudniks, then I come home to groveling
domestic tractates. One day, I stepped
outside and screamed: Master, I want you
in silence, in absence, in wordless music of
our solitude! Right then I saw a great ladder,
reaching to the Throne up high. The Throne
— was empty — but up and down the steps,
there went lost sounds, scales of unused and
discarded words, slip-ups, swallowed hallucinations,
choked on ecstasies — a whole decontextualized
orchestra racing like goats through
the fog.
The voice said: this, Rava, is the room of my
absence, music of our solitude. You like it? Go
home! Stuff your ears with pages of sophistry; eat,
make a bad pun, for that is the meaning of peace.
Writing on this poem, Marmer points out that there is room in what he writes for improvisation and animation:
While the opening and middle sections of the poem are fairly set, the storytelling segment has room to let loose. As I recite it, I'm looking for openings, ideas, associated images, and commentary that I did not think of when I was working on the original draft.
This structure gives him the opportunity to change his poetry (or his way of saying it) while he is in the moment of performance. And this gives the poetry more life since it is, so to speak, full of gaps and opportunities for play and interaction (with the text, the musicians, and the audience). Adding to this reflection on the improvisational nature of his poetry, Marmer notes the Jewish dimension by pointing out how he is playing with "Talmudic form":
In this particular piece, I'm also playing with the historical talmudic form, which combined memorization/repetition ("mishnah")with discourse/discussion/riffing/tangents ("gemarah").
Building on his reference to the Talmud to his work, I would suggest that we read the interplay of voices and opinions – in this particular poem – as comical. To be sure, what I find so interesting about this poem in particular is the fact that it has a very pronounced comic dimension to it which works by way of indirection. It gives loneliness three colors (none of which are blue). And in the jazz performance, each color also has a different sound. Playing on the endless Talmudic disputes between two Talmudic schools (Shammai and Hillel), he attributes this reading to the "house of Hillel" (which is usually associated with more lenient and compassionate readings of the law and is associated with the saying that the whole Torah is to "love your brother as yourself"). In contrast to Hillel's colorful interpretation of loneliness, he presents Shammai's reading which is that loneliness can either be one color or another; it can't be three colors. And if you appeal to these, a sacrifice will have to be made: "your internal goat."
This dichotomy between the two Rabbis – and the whole focus on loneliness – is challenged by Rava who says he has never known loneliness. And the punch line is that he has not known it because he has always been "surrounded by nudnicks" (a nudnick is an irritating person – a person who nags) at Yeshiva. At this point, the humor really kicks in since Rava prays to God to be left alone. He can't take the nudnicks.
He then has a "vision." But what he sees is something that the exiled poet, musician, and Rabbi share: words, sounds, and visions that are incomplete. Marmer animates the words by describing them in a diverse and comic manner: "lost sounds, scales of unused and discarded words, slip-ups, swallowed hallucinations."
After hearing this, God, sounding much like Woody Allen's God in he speech to Abraham in "The Scrolls," asks Rava if he likes the "whole decontextualized orchestra" (which he calls the "room of my absence, music of our solitude"): "You like it? Go home! Stuff your ears with pages of sophistry, eat, make a bad pun for that is the meaning of peace."
The last words of the poem suggest that God is spurring Rava to leave this serious room "of my absence" and to turn to comedy: to "stuff his ears with sophistry, eat, make a bad pun."
This is telling and, ultimately, sounds a comic note.
Here is a video of this poem when it is performed.
What I love about the CD is the fact that what you hear on it is different from what you see and hear in this video. What makes this so appealing to me is the fact that the structure of the piece gives him another opportunity to say it and find new ways of accenting this comic-Talmudic narrative.
More importantly, this poem (and its performance) speaks to me because it outlines what's Jewish about his poetry: it looks to challenge the loneliness that goes hand-in-hand with so much poetry. It reminds me of the contrast between the style James Joyce uses to describe Leopold Bloom (the Jew) and Stephen Dedalus (the Gentile). The former style is more animated and comic. And, as any reader of Ulysses knows, Bloom never seems to be lonely since he's always relating to something. He seems to be in a constant conversation with memories, people, things around him, and even animals.
When Marmer recites poetry and his band responds to each of his words with this or that note or sequence of notes, the "Mishnah of Loneliness" becomes the Mishnah of peace. It tells the tale of how we, as Jews, can speak to each other. And the fellowship that comes out of this comic-musical-poetic conversation is not what Susan Sontag calls the "fellowship of suffering" so much as a "fellowship of comedy, music, and words." This poem is a part of a renewed oral tradition which, as I have pointed out, is comic in nature. And this tradition, I aver, is the other side of the "fellowship of suffering." Rather than surrender to sadness, Jews know how to balance it out (and not laugh it away) with a sense of humor. This shines through in Marmer's poetry.
This poem and all of Marmer's poems speak to me – especially when they are accompanied by the music of musicians who respond. They speak to me in a Talmudic sense and in a Jewish sense. I love that the music responds to each of Marmer's notes. That, for me, is what animation is all about. Moreover, such response is also the basis for peace since peace, as any poet knows, is based on some form of conversation.
As an American and as a Jew, as a person who lives in the present but is related to an ancient past and an uncertain future, I think these parts of myself, which I share with my fellow American Jews, need to engage in more dialogue. And I think Marmer has found a great way of starting this conversation. Although Marmer is aware that we have had a Talmud for centuries which has shown us how to live our lives, he knows that today what we need more than ever is a Jazz Talmud. That is a step in the right direction. A Jazz Talmud can start a new conversation, one that speaks to me and to many of my generation who want to reconcile the differing opinions about what's Jewish, what's American, and how the two can converse with each other.
Onward ho!
Check out Marmer's work on his blog: Jake Marmer's Bop Apocalypse: Poetry, Philosophy, Existential Rants. Also check out his new CD and, if you'd like, join him at the CD release party on October 14th at the Cornelia Street Café at 8:30pm.
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Creating a healthy and safe avian environment.
The very qualities that we find admirable and fascinating about birds of all breeds - their brilliant colors, delightful speech capabilities, and intelligence - have made them the third-most-popular type of animal companion in the United States. People are fascinated by birds. Most people also think that birds are one of the easiest pets to have; however, caring properly for a bird goes way beyond simply placing them in a cage with food and seed and cleaning it regularly. This is especially true if you wish to have your feathered friend's companionship for a long time. If we imagine ourselves caged for the remainder of our life with little or no interaction beyond someone occasionally staring at us or making noises from the other side of the bars, only to leave after a few minutes, and filling up our food and water, it's easy to appreciate why these gentle creatures need special attention.
Take your new bird to an avian veterinarian as soon as you get it. Make sure you check with the veterinarian on which size and type of cage will appropriately house your bird with sufficient space for its full-grown size and wingspan if it is a breed which increases in size as it ages. Also inquire as to any special items needed within the cage that will allow your bird to get ample exercise as it grows, and don't forget to mention to the vet if the bird will be sharing the cage with another bird. Your veterinarian will explain any special conditions that need to be provided, as well as inform you not to assume that these two birds will automatically or ultimately become friends; so be prepared to house the birds separately if they do not bond.
When you set up your new bird's cage, remember to put water and food containers where they are easily accessible to your bird, but will also be high enough so they won't get soiled with droppings. Should the containers become soiled, clean them immediately. Just as people have different habits, so do birds. Watch your bird eat and see if he dunks his food in his water to moisten it before he tries to swallow it. If he does, make sure you check his water often and clean his water container at least twice a day to prevent bacterial growth. If your pet requires vitamins, do not administer them in the water container, as this will promote bacterial growth as well.
Placement of your bird's cage is very important. The location should be free of drafts or dampness, to keep your pet comfortable and calm, and away from high traffic areas to avoid stress and anxiety. It's not necessary to put the cage in a noise-free place, nor is it practical, but keep in mind that loud or sudden noises which occur regularly in some areas which seem ordinary to you, might startle your bird.
The fumes emitted by overheated nonstick cookware and self-cleaning ovens are deadly to birds and should never be used in a home where they dwell. Please Use ecologically safe products - no strong cleaners, aerosols, artificial air fresheners, or insecticides near your bird's cage. These can cause serious illness or even fatality. If you are uncertain what is safe, consult an avian certified veterinarian.
Because birds are naturally free-spirited creatures of flight who are now caged, it is still very important for them to be able to exercise by stretching their wings and enjoying their surrounding environment. To make this a safe and healthy experience, it is a good idea to eliminate hazards such as ceiling fans, open toilet bowls, mirrors and places where they can become stuck. Let the birds fly free for long periods of time every day - spending as much time out of the cage as possible. If possible, convert a porch into an aviary or build a good-weather aviary in your back yard, otherwise, provide a "bird-proof" room or rooms, with no hazards and include a "bird gym" or nonpoisonous tree branches (such as dogwood, apple, or elm) for exercise.
Cats and dogs will lay down in a comfortable spot which suits them whenever they want or need to rest, without anyone's help. Birds, however, need 10-12 hours a day of quiet, restful sleep from dusk on, in a quiet place with their cages covered.
Most importantly, interact with your bird throughout the day by singing and talking to them, giving them lots of love and attention. Interacting regularly and often with your avian friend will help you recognize signs of depression or stress early enough to make any needed treatment more effective. Signs of stress from boredom and loneliness are constant pecking at cage bars, shaking or trembling, especially when there are no obvious drafts or changes in temperature, and pulling out feathers or incessant head-bobbing.


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Bought two of these and had a cook off with my father for Thanksgiving. One came at 7.1lbs and the other was at 7.8lbs so both were over weight. He started with high heat and I ended with high heat... he picked a sweeter seasoning and I opted for more savory traditional flavors... both turned out really well and no one could pick a winner. We expected to have a lot of extra for lunches the next week, but there was not a scrap left and everyone left very full.
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We just cooked our second Black Grade Prime rib this weekend. Excellent marbling, Extremely tender with a rich beefy flavor both times. The first one was slathered in room temp butter with garlic, salt, pepper and some fresh herb sprigs then baked at 500 degrees for 35 minutes after which the oven was turned off and let set for 2 hours without opening oven door. A beautiful medium rare inside with a nice outer crust. Virtually perfect! The second I cut into 1.5" ribeyes this past weekend. Each was then sous vide @ 123 for 2.5 hours then seared on hot charcoal pit seasoned with salt, cracked pepper and garlic powder. These ribeyes could not have been better from a high end restaurant. Absolutely delicious! On both occasions 9 adults were fed along with some normal sides. Besides a memorable piece of beef, each roast provided great value as well. Great stuff SNF! Packaging and delivery perfect as always!
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We smoked our Prime Rib with local mesquite wood for Christmas Eve and it turned out amazing. This cut is worth the price.
I love prime rib. Usually, I'm good for eating more than one hefty slice. So when I unpacked this roast, my first thought was "i didn't buy enough".
It cooked beautifully, but even as I was slicing it, I worried that I would run out before everyone had eaten their fill. But I couldn't have been more wrong.
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Warehouses and office parks, specifically those near the Mexican border, have come more and more to the attention of Federal law enforcement officials. Due to their suspected use by Mexican drug cartels to smuggle narcotics and other illicit goods into the United States.
This particular story focuses on searches and investigations into warehouses in Southern California along the crossings into Mexico, in which tunnels were dug underneath these buildings in order to provide a place to unload drugs.
Societal Warfare South of the Border?
This short essay is about impression—gut feelings combined with a certain amount of analytical skill—about recent trends taking place in Mexico concerning the ongoing criminal insurgencies being waged by the various warring cartels, gangs, and mercenary organizations that have metastasized though out that nation (and in many other regions as well). The authors spent over eight hours sequestered together about a month ago on a five-hundred mile 'there and back again road trip' to attend a training conference as instructors for the Kern County Chiefs of Police. Our talks centered on Mexican Drug Cartels, 3rd Generation Gangs, 3rd Phase Cartels, Criminal Insurgency Theory, and a host of related topics most folks just don't normally discuss in polite company. In the car, and at the conference, we were bombarded by Sullivan's never ending twitter and social networking news feeds—in Spanish and English—linked to the criminal violence in Mexico. If Dante had been our contemporary, we fear, he could just have easily taken a stroll through some of the cities and towns of Mexico using those news feeds and substituting the imagery for the circles of hell he described in his early 14th century work the Divine Comedy.
The hours of conversation about the conflicts in Mexico, bolstered by the news feeds and even the Q&A from the training time provided to the Kern Chiefs, provided us both with much to reflect upon. Additionally, both authors are currently co-writing three essays for a follow-on project to the earlier Narcos Over the Border (Routledge) book, the work that zenpundit.com found as "…one of the more disturbing academic works recently published in the national security field, not excluding even those monographs dealing with Islamist terrorism and Pakistan," concerning Mexico's immense problems. If this were not enough, as part of our ongoing collaboration, the authors have been trying to determine what to make of Hazen's June 2010 International Review of the Red Cross paper "Understanding gangs as armed groups." Her conclusions just don't correlate with the empirical evidence stemming from the cartel and gang related incidents regularly occurring in Mexico. That work suggests to us that American street gang researchers, whose work Hazen utilized as the basis of her analysis, are totally insulated from the reality of the conflicts in Mexico—just as are many members of the American public and their elected officials. For good or for bad, we are not so well insulated, having tracked what has been taking place in that country for some years now. The ongoing review (for the purposes of identifying cartel tattoos, cult icons, and instances of ritual killing) of the images of the tortured and broken bodies—some no longer recognizable as once ever being human beings— continually haunts us both.
Our impression is that what is now taking place in Mexico has for some time gone way beyond secular and criminal (economic) activities as defined by traditional organized crime studies. In fact, the intensity of change may indeed be increasing. Not only have de facto political elements come to the fore—i.e., when a cartel takes over an entire city or town, they have no choice but to take over political functions formerly administered by the local government— but social (narcocultura) and religious/spiritual (narcocultos) characteristics are now making themselves more pronounced. What we are likely witnessing is Mexican society starting to not only unravel but to go to war with itself. The bonds and relationships that hold that society together are fraying, unraveling, and, in some instances, the polarity is reversing itself with trust being replaced by mistrust and suspicion. Traditional Mexican values and competing criminal value systems are engaged in a brutal contest over the 'hearts, minds, and souls' of its citizens in a street-by-street, block-by-block, and city-by-city war over the future social and political organization of Mexico. Environmental modification is taking place in some urban centers and rural outposts as deviant norms replace traditional ones and the younger generation fully accepts a criminal value system as their baseline of behavior because they have known no other. The continuing incidents of ever increasing barbarism—some would call this a manifestation of evil even if secularly motivated—and the growing popularity of a death cult are but two examples of this clash of values. Additionally, the early rise of what appears to be cartel holy warriors may now also be taking place. While extreme barbarism, death cults, and possibly now holy warriors found in the Mexican cartel wars are still somewhat the exception rather than the rule, each of these trends is extremely alarming, and will be touched upon in turn.
Dr. Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan are frequent contributors to Small Wars Journal.
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2011/05/societal-warfare-south-of-the/) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/the-criminals-south-of-the-border) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/communications-failures-contributed-to-border-incident) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
The U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday unveiled its first national strategy in eight years, a period in which the number of agents more than doubled and apprehensions of people entering illegally from Mexico dropped to a 40-year low.
The new approach — outlined in a 32-page document that took more than two years to develop — uses buzzwords like "risk-based" and "intelligence-driven" to describe a more nuanced, targeted response to constantly evolving threats.
The Border Patrol previously relied on a strategy that blanketed heavily trafficked corridors for illegal immigrants with agents, pushing migrants to more remote areas where they would presumably be easier to capture and discouraged from trying again.
The strategy makes only brief mention of technology in the wake of a failed $1 billion program that was supposed to put a network of cameras, ground sensors and radars along the entire border. Fisher said the agency is moving more toward mobile surveillance like unmanned aerial vehicles and helicopters.
The strategy makes it a top priority to ferret out corrupt agents, which has emerged as a growing threat as the agency has expanded.
It is the Border Patrol's third national strategy since 1994, when the agency poured resources into the San Diego and El Paso, Texas, areas. That effort pushed migrants to remote mountains and deserts and made Arizona the nation's busiest crossing for illegal crossings.
Still looking for an online copy of the strategy.
The strategy makes only brief mention of technology in the wake of a failed $1 billion program that was supposed to put a network of cameras, ground sensors and radars along the entire border.
There is a "hue & cry" in the UK currently over various failings of UK border policy and implementation, notably long queues at London Heathrow before the anticipated Olympic rush. In the background is the failure of a large IT project 'E-Borders', which aimed to collect all passenger data for flights in and out of he UK, to pre-alert staff at the border. Plus a reduction in staff who do the checks.
The US program had a different approach, IMO the common link is a reliance on an IT-based network to provide targeting information.
I spent part of last week in Québec and chose to do the border crossing at a very low-key CBSA checkpoint (http://flic.kr/p/bDXpJ1) in order to have a look at the unusual situation shown in the photo below. It put the task of border control into better perspective for me.
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/border-school-training-conference-held-in-california) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/border-security-threats-to-the-homeland) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/enhancing-north-american-security-along-the-southwest-border) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/border-violence-spillover-a-growing-but-undefined-problem) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
Out on the Border: Numbers and politicians tell us we are winning the war along our Southwest border - A closer look and inside view tells a very different story (http://dangerousmagazine.com/project/out-on-the-border/), by Will Grant. Dangerous Magazine, 5 May 2013.
There is a sense of urgency and frustration as humans and contraband flow into the US from Mexico and law enforcement tries to stop the influx. Last year, the US spent nearly $18 billion on immigration security, more than all other law enforcement agencies combined. In 2013, Customs and Border Protection alone has been allotted nearly $12 billion to enforce border security, up from $5.9 billion in 2003. Like any issue that has additional money and resources thrown at it, the problem should be lessening. Border security should be increasing. It is not.
Though US law enforcement presence along the Southwest border is at an all-time high, the number of arrests is as low as it's been since the 1970s. Arrests increased from 2011 to 2012 from about 328,000 to about 357,000, but the overwhelming trend during the last decade has been a decrease in apprehensions. The peak year for arrests of illegal aliens was 2000 when 1.7 million people were apprehended. Some credit the depressed US economy with attracting fewer illegal aliens. Others say stricter enforcement of immigration laws is actually working. Either way, more officials and fewer arrests would indicate a downward trend.
But if we steer away from official statistics and instead sample non-political indicators, the story seems very different.
Solid piece of journalism, proving a boots on the ground perspective. The author embeds with Maricopa County (Arizona) HIDTA Task Force operators - who are outfitted in multicam, milspec ATVs, M4s, and velcro.
The Center for Investigative Reporting was skeptical of the political optimism. Thanks to the statistics provided by the all-seeing Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar, or VADER, mounted on the same Predator drone used by the CIA to launch drone strikes, we can use cold-blooded statistics. From October to December last year, law enforcement arrested 410 of the 7,333 individuals detected by VADER during operations in Arizona. That's half of one percent of the illegal border crossers caught on camera, and works out to a rough average of five illegal entry attempts an hour…just in a small area along the Arizona–Mexico border.
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/institutionalizing-a-risk-based-approach-in-the-us-border-patrol) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/sheriff-and-state-advisor-border-summits) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/mexican-cartel-tactical-note-26-border-patrol-agent-gulf-cartel-cell-leader-charged-in-us-t) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-challenge-of-the-us-mexico-border) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/mexican-cartel-strategic-note-no-18-narcodrones-on-the-border-and-beyond) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).
Read the full post (http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/geographic-constraints-of-narco-tunnels-along-the-southwest-border) and make any comments at the SWJ Blog (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog).


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Media Mom asked a few years ago, "What is the perfect age difference between siblings?" I agree with her conclusion that there is no magic number. There are many factors that could tip the scales in either direction – children's personalities, family dynamics, lifestyle, parenting styles, economic factors, etc. And then there is the whole "getting pregnant" logistics, such as infertility and unexpected pregnancies, that make the decision for many of us. After blogger Kris-Ann recently announced she was pregnant and casually asked me for advice on raising kids 5 years apart, I started to think about the benefits of a larger age difference between siblings.
Now, don't read me wrong, there are good things about all sorts of age differences (small, really large, singles, etc.). And naturally, there are cons as well. But here are the benefits for our family (Owen – 2 and Olivia – 7).
During my second pregnancy, I often thought that I was crazy for starting all over again. Long gone were the bottles, diapers, crib, high chair, diaper bags, endless night wakings, and shower-less days. Was I really ready to do this again? As it turns out, the "resting" period between the two kids was exactly what the doctor ordered. I hadn't realized how overwhelming parenting would be for me. It was a lot harder than it looked on TV. Having Owen when my firstborn was more independent gave me some breathing space to enjoy his infancy, to more patiently deal with breastfeeding issues and sleepless nights, and to better juggle a household as a working mom.
Above all, we got to enjoy Owen's first year as a family. Being a bit older, Olivia played an active role in helping him reach developmental milestones and celebrating each achievement alongside us. She cheered his first roll-over, took his hands as he toddled his first steps, translated his first words, and laughed with him as he tasted (and wore) his first foods.
As Owen grew into an independent toddler, I wondered if I would survive the 5 year age difference between my darling children. I found myself constantly playing referee to Owen's biting and hitting and to Olivia's "those are my toys" cries and screams. What was I thinking having kids 5 years apart? Like any stage, this too passed and I found myself enjoying the age gap.
Now in 1st grade, Olivia is reading and loves practicing with her little brother. I often find them huddled together with her old and his new favorite books. It's darling to spy. Further, his imagination is blossoming which perfectly complements her enthusiasm to play pretend. They'll build Lego towns, zoos, and construction sites and role play with the people. And, most of the time, they'll play nicely for extended periods with little conflict. This gives mom and dad time to get chores done or relax on a Sunday morning – a luxury long forgotten. And we recently experienced a new benefit: playing outside. With Olivia, we always had to create the outdoor fun. Now, she takes him outside and they'll play on the slide or with yard toys for hours.
Is there a perfect age difference between siblings? Not at all. But if you're considering a larger gap between your kids age, I can personally attest that there are some wonderful benefits. As for the cons…I'll let you discover those for yourself!
I echo Nourish Mom's sentiments wholeheartedly. My kids are exactly four years apart and we've experienced all the same upsides. As we move into the Spring and Summer, I am especially excited about their ability to play outdoors together. Whether it's in the yard while we make dinner, or on the beach, or the playground, it's the perfect recipe for them to enjoy each other and have room to breath.
Thanks for the note. Just found out I'm pregnant with #2 who will be 5 years younger than their sister. Nervous about the spacing but your blog makes me a little bit less queasy!
Congratulations Tiffany! Glad my post is helpful. What I've found is that there are sibling challenges no matter the age difference. It's been helpful to lean on family and friends who have been there for advice. You'll do great!


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Shankersinh Vaghela said the voters of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh have smashed the BJP's arrogance by voting in favour of opposition Congress.
Former Gujarat Congress leader Shankersinh Vaghela on Tuesday termed the trends suggesting Congress' victory in three states as a "big slap" on the BJP's face, and said it was a "trailer" of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Mr Vaghela said the voters of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh have smashed the BJP's arrogance by voting in favour of opposition Congress.
The former Gujarat Chief Minister was talking to reporters in Gandhinagar.
Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who campaigned extensively during these Assembly polls, Mr Vaghela said the PM spent his entire term of over four years in just campaigning for his party instead of running the country properly.
"This poll result is a trailer of the 2019 general elections. This anti-BJP trend will continue in the Lok Sabha polls. BJP had an arrogance that it can win polls using money power. This defeat is a big slap on the BJP's face by the voters, who have kept alive the spirit of democracy," he said.
"He (PM) only gave speeches during his four and half years of tenure. A PM is supposed to run the country, not campaign for his party on tax payers money. He thinks that people will vote the BJP because of him, not because of the chief ministers. But, voters rejected him this time," he added.
Expressing happiness over the Congress' performance, Mr Vaghela, who had resigned from that party last year, exuded confidence that the grand alliance will come to power after the next year's general elections.
"Voters rejected BJP's false promises. I am sure that anti-BJP parties would form the government by winning around 320 Lok Sabha seats. UPA-3 will become a reality, and I am sure that a government with 20-25 parties would perform far better than the present BJP government at the Centre," Mr Vaghela, who was with the BJP till late 90s, said.
He listed demonetisation, GST, farm distress, unemployment and deteriorating law and order situation in those states as the reasons for the BJP's defeat.
When asked about his views on Rahul Gandhi and his ability to lead during the 2019 polls, Mr Vaghela said the Congress chief was an "innocent" person without any political ambitions.
"He is an innocent guy, a thorough gentlemen. He believes in taking everyone together. He is not into politics of vengeance. Rahul Gandhi even declared that he is not in the race to become the next PM," Mr Vaghela, who had quit the Congress ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls last year, said.


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