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Despite a comfortable seven-wicket win in the opening match of the Round 1 clash against Namibia, Sri Lanka batter Bhanuka Rajapaksa believes there is still scope for improvement for the team going ahead.
Led by the pace trio – Chamika Karunaratne, Dushmantha Chameera and Lahiru Kumara – Sri Lanka managed to bowl out Namibia for 96, with the three pacers combining to return figures of 4 for 45 from 11.3 overs. The two spinners – Wanindu Hasaranga and Maheesh Theekshana combined to snare five wickers.
The decision to bowl first paid dividends as Sri Lanka could take advantage of the dew in the second innings. Rajapaksa believes, going forward in the tournament, dew will play a big part and give an advantage to the chasing teams.
One of the reasons we wanted to bowl first is that we knew there would be some dew as the evening went on," Rajapaksa said on Monday. "The warm-up games we played in Oman, the dew factor was large and the bowlers couldn't grip the ball when they were bowling second. We knew the conditions would be similar here in Abu Dhabi.
"Going forward, the toss will be important but we can't always rely on it. We need to practice with a wet ball in the nets. It could be a challenge for us but the boys are ready for it."
The former T20 champions did have an early stutter in the chase, when the top three were dismissed within the powerplay, with only 26 runs on the board. However, a steady unbeaten 50-ball 74-run partnership between Rajapaksa and Avishka Fernando helped Sri Lanka chase down the modest target in 13.3 overs at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi to help the team go on top of the Group A points table.
However, Rajapaksa believes there are still areas to level up on when they face Ireland in their next encounter – who will be coming into the match after an impressive display against Netherlands. The concerns at the top of the batting order being the most critical of those.
"It's always a learning curve for any team and any individual," Rajapaksa said on Monday. "We can't be happy with all of the performance because there are many parts we need to improve. But we can be happy about the performance of the front-line bowlers because they set the tone for us and it made it much easier for us batters.
"We've been struggling in the powerplay to get runs and not lose wickets, so there's a bit of a concern when it comes to the top-order batters they are struggling to get runs and it is not in our favour at the minute.
"Going forward we are looking to correct the mistakes from past games. It was a bad day for the top order but we'll take it in a positive way and going forward, we'll do the right things."
Despite the heavy defeat, which leaves Namibia with an uphill task going ahead in the competition, there were a few positives for them. Apart from useful contributions from the middle order in an otherwise ordinary batting display, the bowlers also caused trouble to Sri Lanka's top order before dew made it more challenging for them.
Craig Williams, who top-scored with 29, feels Namibia have to improve on their performance in order to beat a deflated Netherlands team, who too would be hungry for a win in their next game.
"It's quite disappointing because we've trained for the last two years and we knew what was coming," Williams said of the defeat. "On the night, our execution was quite poor.
"The Sri Lankan bowling attack is well-oiled. They didn't give us much to hit – they got the right height on their bouncers and executed it really well. The batting unit needs to pull up its socks and get something better on the board for the bowlers to defend.
"We still have high spirits though and we walked off the field with smiles on our faces. We knew Sri Lanka would be tough and we have to put this behind us as quickly as possible. We back ourselves against Ireland and the Netherlands and let's see where those games take us."
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DANCE INVERSION
International Contemporary Dance Festival
International Contemporary Dance Festival DANCEINVERSION celebrates its 20th anniversary!
During these years Moscow has welcomed almost 90 choreographers as well as numerous professionals from:
5 continents and the Islands of New Zealand, Ireland and Cuba,
30 countries,
78 companies.
The Festival is proud to have premiered works by Angelin Preljoçaj, José Montalvo, Jan Fabre, Wim Vandekeybus, Édouard Lock, Nacho Duato, Trisha Brown, Doug Varone, Josef Nadj, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, Emio Greco, Lemi Ponifasio, Shen Wei, Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and Dada Masilo. Today they are masters of contemporary dance, widely known and loved by the audience. The Festival introduced such national legends as the Alvin Ailey Company, NDT and Jiří Kylián, as well as Jean-Christophe Maillo and Carolyn Carlson, Sasha Waltz, Mauro Bigonzetti, and Ohad Naharin. 20 years ago the Festival legitimized and popularized Russian contemporary dance. It has provided Russian choreographers such as Eugene Panfilov, Tatiana Baganova, Sergei Smirnov, Olga Pona with the platform to become world renown.
We strive to do our best for our domestic audience. Our main mission has always been the discovery of new names and new styles of dance art. This Festival remains true to this ethos and includes the names of both professional artists and exciting newcomers.
In recent years we have focused upon the importance of showing how dance development is influenced by national cultures and enlightened by new features. The Kukai Dantza company shows an amazing synthesis of the Spanish Basque spirit and traditional dance theatre as expressed in the performance Oskara. Marcos Morau as director has done an incredible job and elevated his standing in the field of dance. Michelle Dorrance boldly synthesizes the symbol of American dance culture, step, with a variety of contemporary gestures.
For the first time, we have invited a troupe from the Lebanon with the incredibly interesting choreographer Omar Rajeh. #Minaret is a demonstration of pain and a cry for the sake of saving the world from destruction.
We have discovered Scandinavia through the troupe of Jo Strømgren. Now, the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Norway comes to us with a ballet based on the play by Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler. This is a modern interpretation of the famous classic.
We are thrilled to host a new and fascinatingly beautiful version of The Rite of Spring performed by the Chinese Peacock Contemporary Dance Company. Its leader Yang Liping has proven herself to be a wonderful dancer and talented choreographer.
Moscow will also welcome the world-famous Ballet of the Opéra de Lyon. The Belgian choreographic tandem of Peeping Tom show an unusual but very relevant modern society performance. We are proud to welcome back our friend Paul Lightfoot and the great team at NDT with incomparable performances from Crystal Pite and Marco Goecke. The legendary director and winner of a prestigious British Laurence Olivier award, Akram Khan, will visit Moscow for the first time. With his team, he will introduce new work, the world premiere of which we will present this summer.
This year is also a jubilee year for our colleagues at the Golden Mask Festival, which celebrates its 25th anniversary. Therefore, at the end of the program, we will jointly present the Moscow premiere of the Autobiography written by the famous Wayne McGregor and performed by his company.
This anniversary of the DANCEINVERSION Festival is not our final destination. We continue our search and gaze into the future of contemporary dance.
Irina Chernomurova
Creative Director and Festival producer

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Building a tech-services ecosystem to deliver products—not applications
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IT organizations focused on building value as well as reducing costs need to rethink how they engage with their vendors.
This article was a collaborative effort by Indraneel Banerjee, Abhi Bhatnagar, Thomas Elsner, Christoph Fuchs, and Vikrant Shirdade, representing views from McKinsey Digital.
IT organizations have long worked with tech providers, but technology's increasingly important role in delivering value to the businesses—accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic—has prompted some chief information officers (CIOs) to rethink which providers they engage with and how to engage with them. In October 2020, just 10 percent of respondents to a survey on technology identified cost savings as a top three digital priority. Three years earlier, 48 percent of the participants had said their top three priorities included "scaling down costs" (Exhibit 1). Our latest survey on technology transformations indicates a further shift toward technology delivering revenue. More than two-thirds of respondents say these change efforts have increased revenue from existing streams, and more than half say the same about the creation of new revenue streams, such as a new product line or new business.
In the past, decisions about working with technology-service partners typically have been shaped by cost, planning, and efficiency needs. As priorities have shifted from cost management to revenue generation, we find that CIOs are increasingly looking for ways to better engage with technology providers.
According to our experience with dozens of companies, businesses can increase strategic flexibility and lower costs by combining elements of the tech ecosystem—an integrated network of providers—and enriching them with existing proprietary features and functionality. One auto manufacturer, for example, developed two provider ecosystems, one focused on digitizing its manufacturing and the other on promoting innovation for its self-driving cars. This approach has yielded recurring savings of about a billion euros.
In another example, one public-sector organization awarded a development master-services contract to four development vendors. For each phase of the program, the vendors either competed or were directly awarded small packets of work, such as front-end design services or development and testing services for each component. Over time, the strongest-performing vendors—those bringing their A team at reasonable cost—won more of the work, leading to superior outcomes. (For more details on how this approach could help achieve technology-transformation goals, see "Managing large technology programs in the digital era.")
To capture this kind of value, however, CIOs and organizational leaders need to move beyond traditional service-provider models. While still evolving, a new model for IT sourcing through ecosystems has shown some promising and significant benefits.
From traditional sourcing management to technology ecosystem orchestration
Almost all large technology organizations work with many tech providers, integrators, and vendors—sometimes hundreds of them. While a few establish one-on-one connections with a plethora of providers, integrators, and vendors, most have one or two "anchor" service providers with long contracts that involve large volumes and costs. These anchor providers often deliver comprehensive services at the application or infrastructure layer, so all other niche providers must tailor their services to that provider. The limitation of this model is that it creates strict process and technology constraints because of dependencies on the anchor provider's capabilities, internal road map, and openness to collaboration.
An alternative that avoids this limitation is the technology ecosystem model, which is generally built around a larger set of key providers (often about a dozen), each focusing on a specific domain or product and all of them functioning in concert. This model is based on bringing together the complete set of providers to deliver a product. It puts a premium on interoperability between providers and rests on collective accountability. When effectively implemented, it gives the business access to a greater range of capabilities and plug-and-play flexibility.
In an ecosystem, given the need to integrate providers with each other and with in-house capabilities, IT needs to shift its role from a manager of discrete services to an orchestrater. In this way, IT operates similarly to a car manufacturer, which must bring together many components. Typically, the manufacturer decides on a common standard and employs a modular design approach to link different supply chains. As an orchestrator, the manufacturer sets framework conditions and checks the output quality.
Besides involving many more providers, the shift to an ecosystem approach requires managing more granular services, especially for components that play a crucial role within the underlying business model (Exhibit 2). For most IT organizations, developing a detailed understanding of how the various components of the system need to work together tends to be a challenge, but it's one they need to overcome.
What's in it for the organization
Thinking and acting in technology ecosystems delivers several benefits:
Innovation. Partnering with IT services providers not only frees up internal capacities but also gives IT access to expertise, experience, and ideas. For example, to stimulate innovation, Volkswagen worked closely with AWS, Siemens, and almost a dozen other partners to develop an industrial cloud platform that is open to third parties. In a traditional anchor-provider model, innovation often is much more incremental because any significant change cannibalizes the provider's position or margin.
Access to new technologies and scarce capabilities at scale. With the proliferation of specialized technology-service providers, IT can access new technology, applications, infrastructure, and professional services. A large chemicals company achieved run-cost reductions of more than 20 percent while improving service levels on its ERP workloads by partnering with a specialized cloud company that focuses on highly automated cloud operating models. Many companies also leverage a partner's experience to leapfrog painful phases of their own experimentation. In contrast, companies using conventional sourcing models tend to focus on negotiating cost reductions based on declining costs for compute and storage.
Reduction in time to market of new products, services, and solutions. When companies manage ecosystems well, they can work with partners in an agile way to deliver minimal viable products and integrate functionality quickly. The speed and agility of this method stand in marked contrast to the traditional approach of developing new products, services, or solutions in a dedicated environment alongside the existing provider and system landscape. Such efforts typically run into issues when the time comes to integrate them with the legacy environment to scale.
Increased flexibility. By signing contracts with multiple technology providers for smaller volumes and shorter durations, companies can give themselves greater flexibility, enabling them to switch providers as needed (which requires more agile procurement approaches). In contrast, companies using the typical sourcing model seek to secure discounts by signing large, long-term contracts. If done well, this approach can improve IT costs in the short term. However, companies have difficulty adjusting terms and contracts to account for any changes needed. In addition, quality and innovation issues may be more likely in the late stages of such contracts.
Increased stability and security. Adopting an ecosystem approach is a powerful forcing mechanism for CIOs to upgrade their security practices. When all components are modularized properly (for example, having clear business incentives per component and well-defined accountabilities) and a zero-trust environment has been established, the overall security and stability can be increased from an architectural perspective. Traditionally, companies have sought to minimize concerns by focusing on and holding accountable an anchor provider. The company then becomes increasingly dependent on that provider to manage all issues, and its own security and risk capabilities atrophy.
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Vendor management suffers if it is based on sporadic demands and ad hoc decisions. Instead, top performers deliberately develop the necessary capabilities to manage an ecosystem. Companies trying to build and strengthen this kind of orchestration muscle can benefit from the following guidelines for building and working within an ecosystem.
Think broadly about strategic issues and constraints in assessing tech providers
In reviewing the technology landscape, top CIOs start with a clear understanding of the competitive advantage they want to build, the capabilities they have and need, and the vendor costs. They are disciplined in evaluating each provider based on how well the provider delivers a capability and how well it works with other capabilities to deliver a product.
In creating a source of competitive advantage, thoughtful CIOs determine whether they can create proprietary relationships or bring the capability in-house. More importantly, they understand how a combination of providers working together can create advantage. This kind of systems thinking allows the CIO to create multiplier effects and develop a preferred solution by pulling in the best providers, rather than being tied to the capabilities of an anchor provider. When the functionality isn't a core differentiator to the business, sourcing through a single provider or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution makes sense.
At the same time, top CIOs develop a more forward-looking perspective on workforce capacity so they can clearly assess need. For example, they have a clear view on which internal skills will become bottlenecks in the future, which in-house skills are difficult to obtain in the market, and how skill demand will change. These boundary conditions help guide which tech services to select.
Which limitations in internal capabilities and capacities constrain the organization? Which of those do you plan to build up from your technology-service providers' ecosystem, and which internally?
What technologies and capabilities accelerate your digital-transformation endeavors?
What are the three most important sources of value that technology-service providers in your external ecosystem can provide?
Which technology functionalities are the core strategic differentiator for the business, and where is standardized functionality sufficient?
Build an orchestration layer that ensures smooth integration of new services
Managing all of a company's own and externally sourced application and infrastructure services requires an orchestration capability, which encompasses people, processes, and systems. While team makeup can vary, teams need to include architects, provider managers, business leads, and financial-operations (FinOps) experts, as well as product systems managers to meter usage, provision servers, and shut them down.
This function goes far beyond IT departments' usual sourcing capabilities. For example, it integrates new services and functionalities quickly (such as by establishing standards for compatible data connections between applications), enables cost charging and payment allocation between internal business functions consuming services and technology-service providers, and manages overall ecosystem performance, including incident management and issue resolution.
Importantly, the orchestration layer serves as a single point of truth. That includes providing basic information on all the services in place: usage and performance patterns, such as incidents and adherence to service-level agreements; interactions, such as data flows and number of requests, between the different services; the service's ROI to the organization, based on licenses, inquiries, user subscriptions, and so on; and cost attribution (decisions about who needs to bear the costs).
How quickly can you integrate services of your technology-service providers into your own services?
Do you have a clear perspective of your services' business benefits?
Can the majority of your services be charged by consumption?
How well does your incident-resolution mechanism work?
Establish governance principles and standards supporting provider interactions
Working with an ecosystem of providers requires two tiers of governance. The first one should address how vendors work with the client company. To minimize the management burden on the company, it's important to move away from command and control to "embedded governance"—a model where clear and simple principles are embedded in the process and require less effort to monitor and enforce.
The other tier of governance needs to support effective collaboration by multiple parties. The support would include common incentives, such as binding an infrastructure-service partner and an application-service partner to overall key performance indicators on application availability; shared—and enforced—interfaces and integration mechanisms for IT-service management solutions (for example, APIs and automated testing); and clear processes for testing and releasing new functionality that has dependencies among multiple providers.
A financial-services company, for example, put in place a set of principles laying out how providers would work together, including common objectives shared by all the providers (such as installation timeline and uptime requirements). These common objectives aimed to create shared accountability and provide strong incentives for providers to collaborate on solving problems, rather than the all-too-common problem of vendors blaming each other for issues. The business also created a tracker with a single enterprise view across all initiatives for easily following progress and setting priorities, which was managed through quarterly business reviews. To support this more flexible approach, the business also started to modernize its tech stack; changes included making applications modular, installing an API manager, and instituting dynamic provisioning.
Key question
Which mechanisms do you have in place that enable providers to collaborate directly with one another?
CIOs are redefining what a successful relationship with their IT providers looks like
Establish the enablers for a plug-and-play architecture
Effective integration of ecosystem providers requires a product and platform IT architecture that can help organize where various service providers can plug into the system. This requires a thorough vetting process to analyze the current state—that is, where external parties need access and where not, protocols for access, and so on. It also requires a managed program to transform the architecture so it has the necessary flexibility.
IT needs to put in place enablers so that this plug-and-play architecture can work. One of the most important enablers is zero-trust-based security, in which each solution is independently secure and does not need to "trust" another solution in order to function. Others are containerized code to shift workloads flexibly and a managed API environment to reduce the complexity of proliferating APIs. Just as important, companies need clear owners of APIs and data. In many legacy companies, that ownership is unclear, which hampers effective access. One telecom company standardized all its infrastructure offerings—in both its public- and private-cloud environments—to simplify how providers could access data and services.
How are you ensuring that your services are exposed to and can interact with the broader ecosystem?
How do your cybersecurity policies and practices cover the technology-service providers and their partners?
Does your cybersecurity approach build on perimeter security or on the zero-trust principle?
Develop a provider integration guide
The value of the ecosystem is in being able to swap out providers, such as switching from an end-to-end owned solution stack to a SaaS solution. To avoid the need to relearn how to do it each time—and make the same mistakes—it's important to put in place a clear and pragmatic guide on the steps to follow when substituting an existing service or integrating a new one. Many legacy organizations, in contrast, tend to have applications that are highly tailored to a specific vendor and therefore can't be used elsewhere. Instead of focusing on how to get something up and running, they focus on contractual obligations that need to be negotiated and are rarely updated. One airline company had developed a detailed way of working with its core vendor, but when it tried to use that method with a new vendor, many elements weren't applicable, resulting in confusion, delays, and frustration.
Companies that excel at managing provider ecosystems develop integration approaches and plans that incorporate contractual, licensing, architecture, and service aspects in a way that is easy to repeat with many providers. This includes deciding which stakeholders to involve—say, procurement, business, security, architecture, and service integration—and which principles to follow in working with each of the stakeholder groups.
Do you have a clearly outlined routine for the integration and exchange of services?
Transform procurement mindsets and processes to prioritize ecosystem dependencies
Procurement in many organizations is cumbersome and time consuming. That's because the contracts with large vendors are big and last for as long as a decade, so procurement teams spend significant time trying to anticipate and minimize risk. However, contracts with ecosystem providers are smaller and of shorter duration. Therefore, procurement teams need to shift from a heavy-risk, ironclad contract mindset to one that is more fluid and enables quick changes.
Procurement also needs to shift its decision criteria. While cost and risk are still important, of course, a successful procurement function in a provider ecosystem has a much deeper understanding of technological and business-case dependencies, such as how one application provider might depend on consuming a set of services from an infrastructure provider. Organizations must consider those dependencies and ensure they are reflected in agreements.
How quickly can you establish the contractual basis with new technology-service providers to access their service portfolio?
Companies will survive and thrive based on the quality of their technology and tech-management practices. Only by thoughtfully engaging with a tech-provider ecosystem can IT expect to find the innovation, speed, flexibility, and value their businesses need.
Indraneel Banerjee is a partner in McKinsey's Bengaluru office; Abhi Bhatnagar is a partner in the Atlanta office; Thomas Elsner is a partner in the Munich office, where Christoph Fuchs is an associate partner; and Vikrant Shirdade is a senior knowledge expert in the Gurgaon office.
The authors wish to thank Sven Blumberg, Bernhard Loitsch, and Michael Miller for their contributions to this article.
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If you guys have some vintage clothes from the 70s hidden deep in the closet (flared pants from the end of the 90s will work too), this is the right time to bring them to the front line. For those who don't have vintage "savings" there is a large selection of clothes à la 70s in different price ranges in the shops.
I was "scouting" the stores last weekend and discovered that one can dress trendy by spending about 50 € on an outfit. Of course, it is quite challenging to buy a head-to-toe new outfit (including accessories and shoes) from 50 € , but one trending item like a jumpsuit or a pair of flared jeans or a suede jacket (like mine) is quite possible to afford. The rest of the look you can just mix and match with what you already have. I guess everyone can find in a closet a T-shirt matching the flared pants or a nice dress to team with the suede jacket.
I put together this spring look by mixing one trending item (suede jacket) with pieces I already had in my closet. For example my white skirt and the shoes are from Zara's last summer collection (you have probably seen them in my previous posts). The black Mexx purse I bought 2 years ago on sale. H&M denim shirt is relatively new. I have it since 2 months. The only new item here is this suede jacket by Mango (50 €). That's it. My spring casual look is ready. Simple and affordable. I am sure you can come up with something similar if you dig deep into your closets. Let me know how it went.
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Love the spring outfit Naira, am in love with that platform sandal, the color is so vibrant and rich.
Thank you! I also love these shoes. Indeed the color is very rich. It immediately caught my attention in the store.


At Iron.io, my main responsibility is the Dev Center. I do a lot of work around trying to make developing on Iron's products easier and more pleasant.
It stands to reason, then, that I spend a lot of time building things using Iron's products. I spend a lot of time writing examples, building client libraries, and interacting with our APIs in essentially the same way we expect our customers to.
As part of my ongoing work with 2cloud (yes, it is ongoing, just seriously slowed, thanks to my responsibilities at Iron), I've been working on a Go wrapper for Stripe. As I grew frustrated with something I was working on today, I took a break to hack on the Stripe library for a little while. And as I was writing unit tests, I realised what would really help me was a dump of every conceivable permutation of their response objects. And as I sat there, thinking about how hard it would be to convince the Stripe engineers to put in the hours to develop this, it struck me: I'm an engineer at a company with an API. We don't have this.
Why don't we have this?
So I'm going to work on this. I'm going to work on this great resource for testing, but not because I spent the last four months so deeply immersed in our products that I saw the need. I'm going to work on it because I took a break from our products and found the need elsewhere, then applied it to Iron.
Eating your own dog food is great, and it's definitely something you should do, but it runs the risk of being myopic and constraining. Sometimes you need to use other people's products, get exposed to differing viewpoints, and approach things from a new perspective before you can achieve the cognitive dissonance necessary for learning.


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Q: ¿Cómo puedo añadir una palabra al principio de cada línea en un texto? Me gustaría saber si alguien podría resolverme esta duda:
Teniendo un texto (texto1.txt) con varias líneas escritas:
buenos días
qué tal
cómo estás

¿Cómo podría añadir con python la palabra hola al principio de cada una de estas líneas? De manera que el output fuese:
hola buenos días
hola qué tal estás
hola cómo estás

¡Muchas gracias de antemano!

A: Pues el código en python sería algo así:
#python 2.7
file=open("texto1.txt","r")
lineas=file.readlines()
for linea in lineas:
    print "Hola" + linea
file.close()

PS: Como no especificas la version de Python, es posible que tengas que hacer algunos cambios mínimos.
Espero ayudarte

A: ¡Perfecto! Es justo lo que estaba intentando hacer, pero no lo conseguía.
Estoy utilizando la última versión de python y, añadiendo () en el print, sale.
Me estaba volviendo loco y ya me estaba yendo a otras cosas que no tenían nada que ver, y era mucho más sencillo de lo que pensaba.
Lo último que había probado era esto:
texto = input('Introduce el texto que quieras: ')
file_salida = open(texto, encoding='utf-8')
t = list()
for palabra in file_salida:
    t.append(('Hola ' + palabra))

print (t)

A: Vi lo que has hecho y veo que no has puesto el 'r'cuando lees el documento de texto, te recomiendo que lo coloques para saber cuando lees un documento. Además, lo puse un poco más compacto en la parte del for.
texto = input('Introduce el texto que quieras: ')
file_salida = open(texto, 'r', encoding='utf-8')
t = ['Hola ' + palabra for palabra in file_salida]
print (t)

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>> Introduce el texto que quieras: texto1.txt
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Good morning my friends! We're having a great time with Mandy and Piper. Brad works all of the time and we rarely see him as he works all night and sleeps during the day for the two weeks we're here. We're missing him but still enjoying time with the girls.
This morning Papa and I took Piper to her story time at the library while Mommy got Christmas errands done without a curious 3 year old along. The librarian is a great storyteller. This is the fourth time I've gone with them on my visits and always enjoy it. Miss Michelle is a wonderful storyteller. That's Piper in the pink polka dot shirt behind the girl in green.
Yesterday we spent the morning in downtown Annapolis. Here we are on the waterfront by the Naval Academy.
There was a Menorrah at the waterfront.
This is where free concerts are held every weekend in the summer.
We had so much fun! Look at those smiles.
Love to look at them. There are blocks and blocks of these buildings.
Christmas tree in the square.
The Maryland State capital in the photo below. It's the oldest state capital still in use and the only statehouse used as the nations capital. The Treaty of Paris was ratified here marking the end of the revolutionary war.
Most of the roads are VERY narrow like this in downtown Annapolis.
I hope you're having as great a December as we are. Back soon with more pictures!
What a beautiful place to visit, stunning buildings and of course amazing company. She really does have a beautiful smile.
I do love to see all these photos ! It is great to do a little bit of virtual sightseeing!!
Glad you are having a good time with Mandy and Piper. I used to live in the Annapolis area and spent a lot of time in this historic city. Such a fun place!
Thanks for the catch all of photos of your visit. The old buildings are amazingly beautiful. A place with much history and I'm glad you're enjoying your time there! Have a good visit and hopefully you'll get to visit with your son-in-law a bit before you leave. Hugs and prayers! It's raining here in OR quite alot! Sigh! oh well, it could be much worse. God bless!
What a GREAT smile Miss Piper has--love it:) I would enjoy Annapolis because of the bay and all that lovely, lovely history!
I love little/big towns like that and the old buildings. Glad to see you are having a fabulous time.
I am so glad you are having such a wonderful trip. I love those old buildings, something we don't have here. There is so much history there.
Hugs to you and that darling little 3 year old.
What a lovely time you are having with little Miss Piper! I am so thankful you can enjoy the gifts of these precious moments!! God bless your time together!! If you can please email me your mailing address, I will get your book off in the mail to you, sweet friend! Can't wait to bless you. :) Merry Christmas!!
So glad you are having such a special time with Piper. That little lady gets cuter and cuter. Those old buildings are wonderful. I love history. I would love to visit there.
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It might seem absurd to compare Rob Ford to Bill de Blasio, the progressive who recently won a landslide victory to become mayor of New York.
De Blasio's immensely successful mayoral campaign made economic inequality a key issue and called for increased taxes on high-income earners, the creation of universal childcare, and better funding for affordable housing. His administration now appears set to pursue a program significantly to the left of the wishy-washy liberalism that dominates the Democratic Party establishment. Ford, by contrast, has made his reputation as an anti-tax and spend crusader waging a war against "elites" and the gratuity of civic institutions from within.
In both policy terms and outlook, the mayors of New York and Toronto are separated by a wide gulf. As populists, however, De Blasio and Ford have much in common.
A political style rather than an ideology, populism can be associated with either side of the political spectrum. Broadly speaking, it is anti-elitist, insurgent, divisive, disruptive of the status quo, and contends to address those who feel culturally, politically, or economically excluded from their society or community. For these reasons, it tends to worry and alienate the traditional centres of power, the media establishment, and the upper middle classes, which relish the comfort of stability, consensus, and technocratic management over the rhetoric of "us vs. them".
Social and economic trends in both New York and Toronto have created fertile ground for such politics.
De Blasio's victory occurs in the wake of a rising debate about income inequality and the power of America's corporate plutocracy. He once addressed Occupy Wall Street, which made the schism between the "99%" and the rest its core political message, and frequently spoke about "two cities", one rich and one poor, during his stump speeches. He succeeds a billionaire, pro-business mayor as emblematic of the 1% as anyone in American politics. His victory speech was delivered not in Manhattan, but in Brooklyn, and included a surprisingly lengthy passage in Spanish.
His mayoral campaign made economic inequality a key issue and called for increased taxes on people making over $500,000 a year, the creation of universal childcare, and the construction of some 200,000 new affordable housing units. In short, De Blasio successfully argued that a proactive and interventionist role for City Hall was needed to counteract the vertical, market-driven New York that had prospered under the pro-business Bloomberg. In doing so, he has achieved something increasingly rare in American politics: a genuine victory from the populist left.
Increasingly, Toronto is riven with the same class divisions as New York—we're just responding to them differently. The title of a recent University of Toronto study—"The Three Cities"—suggests just how split Canada's largest metropolis has become. The study showed that the trifurcation of Toronto's neighbourhoods is intensifying. The "first city" is now mainly comprised of high-income neighbourhoods located close to the downtown core and proximate to the subway system. City two, which is predominantly middle income, wraps around it. City three is low-income and exists primarily in the northeastern and northwestern corners of post-amalgamation Toronto, far from the reach of the subway system.
The gap between rich and poor is also growing. Between 1970 and 2005 the number of middle income regions shrank considerably, from 66 per cent of neighborhoods in 1970 to just 29 per cent by 2005. Both the numbers of low-income and high-income neighborhoods have steadily risen and poverty has increasingly been exported to the peripheral regions of the city.
Rob Ford's electoral success, as has been pointed out ad nauseum in recent months, owed much to the resentment and cultural polarization these inequalities produce. As in New York, voters rallied around a populist who made them feel that their voices were being heard. But unlike the disaffected voters of New York, Toronto's voters chose a right-winger as their standard-bearer.
Populism always draws on anger towards the people perceived to be in power. In New York, during the mayoral campaign, those people were bankers and real estate developers, as well as the cops, whose aggressive stop-and-frisk tactics under police chief Ray Kelly disproportionately targeted black and Latino men—in other words, typical foes of the left.
Rob Ford chose different targets for his ire, presenting himself as a heroic rebel bravely standing up to the ossified culture of a decadent City Hall bureaucracy. This palatable, if largely baseless, narrative quickly brought thousands of voters into the fold. Its central idiom of the "gravy train", and all of its component elements—waste, privilege, elitism, entitlement— functioned as a receptacle into which every kind of popular resentment towards mainstream Toronto could be poured.
Ford's unpolished style and his persistent truculence before the media and other institutions of officialdom have proven the perfect engines for its delivery. His latest video appearance, looking and behaving thoroughly un-mayoral while drunkenly mimicking Patois and swearing about Toronto's police chief, would surely sink any other Chief Magistrate. But it is precisely because of incidents like these and the way they disrupt the city's perceived elitist equilibrium that Ford still commands such unwavering support in some quarters of the electorate.
In 2010, right wing populism captured the imagination—and the votes—of hundreds of thousands of Torontonians. With an election ten months down the road and the incumbent already promising a "bloodbath", progressives in Toronto would do well to ask themselves why. And just maybe, by looking south to New York and De Blasio, they'll figure out how to turn their city's roiling populist energy into something other than Rob Ford.


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Employees of Nomi Health check in a long line of people for COVID-19 tests in North Miami, Fla., on Dec. 21, 2021. (Marta Lavandier/AP Photo)
3rd Florida-Based Cruise Ship Has COVID-19 Outbreak
MIAMI—A COVID-19 outbreak took place on a South Florida-based cruise ship for the third time this week.
An undisclosed number of passengers and crew aboard the Carnival Freedom cruise caught the virus so the ship was denied entry to Bonaire and Aruba, Carnival said in a statement.
The ship has 2,497 passengers and 1,112 crew members and was scheduled to return to Miami on Sunday following an 8-day cruise. Passengers were required to be vaccinated and they were tested before leaving last Saturday, according to Carnival.
"Carnival Freedom is following all protocols and has a small number on board who are in isolation due to a positive COVID test," the statement said. "Our protocols anticipate this possibility and we implement them as necessary to protect the health and safety of our guests and crew."
Ashley Peterson, a passenger on the ship, shared a photo on Twitter of a Dec. 22 letter from the ship's captain apologizing for being unable to make stops in Aruba and Bonaire. The letter said passengers would get $100 per room in onboard credit, as well refunds for planned excursions.
It was the third outbreak this week affecting cruise ships operated by Carnival and Royal Caribbean departing Miami and Fort Lauderdale.


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Economy -
Self-confidence and myths may lull China into turning inward economically
By Zheng Weibin
Analyst and writer
Translated by Grace Chong, Candice Chan
China has managed Trump era hostilities by implementing a "dual circulation strategy" with a focus on its domestic market, but it risks turning inward to the detriment of its economy, says analyst Zheng Weibin. In particular, it should guard against being shut off from the technological progress of other major economies.
A pedestrian walks on a bridge past buildings in the Lujiazui Financial District across the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, on 28 December 2021. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg)
Translated by Grace Chong on 31 December 2021
It has been almost a year since US President Joe Biden took office. While he has tweaked many of the Trump administration's policies, the US's China policy is not one of them. Even China-US economic and trade relations, which have been "recoupled" according to the US, have been rocky, with the Biden administration and the US Congress constantly introducing measures or bills to sanction Chinese companies and related industries. This is a bad sign for China-US economic and trade relations and global trade.
For the moment, still on the path of opening up
In response to Trump era policies, China has adjusted its development trajectory, as seen in its dual circulation strategy. But the outside world wonders if these policies will lead to China looking inward economically or even a decoupling from the global economy.
For now, Beijing and relevant senior officials still seem to be maintaining a stance of greater opening up. For example, the Special Administrative Measures (Negative List) for Foreign Investment Access (2021 Edition) and the Special Administrative Measures for Foreign Investment Access in Pilot Free Trade Zones (Negative List) (2021 Edition) released on 27 December 2021 have been shortened to contain 31 and 27 special measures respectively.
Among the restrictions done away with, the one on foreign ownership limits in passenger car manufacturing attracted widespread attention. The related restriction that one foreign investor may establish only two or fewer joint ventures in China to manufacture the same type of vehicles was also removed, in effect opening up the entire industry.
This file photo taken on 18 October 2021 shows workers producing heavy truck engines at a factory in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. (AFP)
In the face of the US's aggressive economic and trade policies, many Chinese seem to believe that they can ride it out because of China's huge population and market size.
Guarding against turning inward
Even so, there are pitfalls that China should be aware of. The growing tensions and competition between China and the US should not lead to a complete economic inward shift.
Firstly, the self-confidence and myths that China derives from its economic size and population. In the face of the US's aggressive economic and trade policies, many Chinese seem to believe that they can ride it out because of China's huge population and market size. Chinese academics have also written that economists are now paying attention to the importance of population size in economic development.
The logic is that long-term economic growth will be sustained by ongoing technological advancement, and all things being equal, populous countries possess more innovation capabilities and scope than smaller countries. This is because a large population means more talent, and a huge market can bring higher returns to the development of new technologies.
However, it is worth noting that focusing on the domestic market as the mainstay may lead to some degree of turning too much inward.
Commuters ride on an escalator at a subway station in Shanghai, China, on 17 December 2021. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg)
In some sense, this is also the basis of the dual circulation system, in which domestic and foreign markets complement each other but external connections remain very much a part of the paradigm. However, it is worth noting that focusing on the domestic market as the mainstay may lead to some degree of turning too much inward. In particular, local officials may muddy central government directives and end up distorting the policies.
Instability in the Taiwan Strait a factor
Next, developments in the Taiwan Strait. If we consider the prospect of future instability in the Taiwan Strait and the possibility that Washington and its allies may impose economic sanctions on China, then it becomes even more important for China to strengthen its domestic market to safeguard its economic growth.
Now, some voices in the Western media say that the transatlantic economy is the most successful in the world, with the US and Europe making up almost one-third of the world's GDP by purchasing power and US FDI in Europe amounting to US$3.6 trillion in 2019, which gives it strong bargaining power. At the same time, coupled with post-pandemic adjustments to make the global supply chain more multipolar, as well as the EU's Global Gateway plan facing off with China's BRI, Beijing's policymakers will have to come up with a good solution. Under these circumstances, the thought of turning inward may be unconsciously strengthened.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a press conference on the Global Gateway at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on 1 December 2021. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP)
It is correct for Beijing to focus on being independent and autonomous in terms of technology, to prevent being figuratively seized by the throat. However, technological autonomy does not mean being cut off from global technological developments...
Important not to be cut off from other technological systems
Finally, technology. Will China-US competition lead both countries to set different technology standards? Extreme scenarios can happen; it is possible that each will champion its own technology supply system, and grow apart in terms of technology standards and regulations.
But looking at how the Cold War ended, one thing we need to realise is that the Soviet Union might have been destined to fail right from the start. The post-war global economic system was led by Washington. The Soviet Union lacked economic links to other Western countries and went its own way from the US in terms of technological innovation, such as taking a different path in semiconductor technology. All this resulted in its economic strength not being able to sustain long-term competition with the US.
A screen shows an augmented reality (AR) application at the SenseTime Group Inc. headquarters in Shanghai, China, on 3 December 2021. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg)
It is correct for Beijing to focus on being independent and autonomous in terms of technology, to prevent being figuratively seized by the throat. However, technological autonomy does not mean being cut off from global technological developments, and it cannot be a means towards economic decoupling. Even as China pursues technological autonomy, it has to keep in touch with global trends.
Historically, China was a highly self-sufficient agricultural country, but there was still the Silk Road.
China is currently the biggest trade partner to more than 120 countries and regions. China should continue to make trade relations an important part of its links to the world, and continue to be the main driver of the global trade system. So, China has to avoid turning inward too much, and avoid blind faith in its own market scale and the belief that the world economy has no bearing on it. The US may be militarily strong, but the economy remains the real foundation of its national strength.
Related: China turning inward? China has always been a civilisation unto its own | Why China needs to set its own house in order with a regulatory spurt | Dual circulation strategy revisited: China deepens integration with the global economy | How China's dual circulation strategy will affect the world economy | Is it possible to decouple from the world's biggest market and factory? | Will China and the US fight another wrong war, with the wrong enemy, at the wrong place and time? | China's AI giant SenseTime blacklisted: Is China-US financial decoupling taking place?
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Priyank started his Bigg Boss journey as part of the celebrity clan, but found himself evicted in Week 1 itself. Upon re-entry in the house, Priyank caused a massive stir by speaking about the various on-goings of the outside world. After multiple warnings from Salman Khan himself, Priyank decided to focus on his own game and formed an alliance with Hina Khan and Luv Tyagi. Staying true to his friendship with now-evicted contestant Hiten Tejwani, Priyank sacrificed his hair and went bald in order to save Hiten from eviction nomination. As a sanchalak, Priyank played a fair game and ensured that all gharwale follow the rules laid down by Bigg Boss. He also showed off his dance skills as he choreographed a number on Akash's rap song – Yeh Hai Bigg Boss! Given the rollercoaster ride of emotions within the house, the friendship between Vikas and Priyank saw many ups and downs, until the two, finally buried the hatchet and renewed their friendship.
Priyank Sharma hails from New Delhi and has previously been part of numerous reality TV shows. He hopes to continue in the field of entertainment and wants to try out acting in fiction shows and focus on dancing as well.


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Wallpaper Calendar 2.0 app, for iPhone and iPod touch
Given the hundreds of requests, we are pleased to present to all our readers the newest version of the application Wallpaper Calendar, after 3 years of the first version. With it, you can put the calendar of the month in the image you want and always have it at your fingertips, without even having to unlock the device's screen.
Know now a little of its history and how it works.
Calendar always at hand
The idea was born from a custom that we had here on the Blog of making available background images with a calendar at the beginning of the month, to facilitate the visualization of those who use the calendar a lot. But there was always that problem: not everyone wanted to use the images we chose in the background and many asked us to apply the calendar to other images. As it is impossible to please everyone, we thought of a solution that would facilitate the application of calendars in different images, made by the user himself. It was there that the idea of make an application available to readers.
That was how the first Wallpaper Calendar, on January 1st, 2010. The launch was a success and in 15 days it had more than 10,000 downloads worldwide, something not very easy at that time.
Throughout the year, the reviews were fantastic and the thousands of downloads proved its success in several countries, by people who didn't even understand Portuguese (the app's unique language). But he had a big problem: it only worked for the year 2010.
Then came the iPhone 4 with its Retina screen and the difficulties in updating the app were increasing, mainly because the creating applications it was never the objective of this blog, and to commit to it would mean to leave aside the search for news and news. We had the idea ready in the head for a new and completely redesigned version, but we would need to stop everything we did to put it into practice. With that, he was in limbo for a long time.
And even abandoned, the downloads continued. In May this year, to give you an idea, 513 downloads, which shows that many people are looking for this type of service. Occasionally, there was always a reader who asked us heartily to return with the application.
It was then that we decided to get our hands dirty and redo it, from scratch, facing the new difficulties.
New appliances, new challenges
Making such an app in 2010 was very easy, as there were only a format of screen. Today, in 2013, 5 different formats: iPhone 3GS, iPhone Retina 3.5 inch, 4 inch, iPad 2 screen and iPad Retina screen. How to make available an application that meets all these different devices?
And more: there were several suggestions from our readers that we wanted to put into practice:
– possibility to adjust the transparency of the calendar (depending on the clarity of the image); – preview of the image before saving it on the camera roll; – possibility to create calendars of several years and not just one; – modernize the interface .
Fortunately we have a silver house who decided to face the challenge. The developer and member of our team Chrystiano de Castro (@_Chrystiano) embraced the project and went after all possible solutions to turn the dream into reality. He knew how to turn an idea on paper into a final app, surprisingly. ?
And since it is a brand new app, it has been published again on the App Store. That is, who still had the old one, will have to download version 2.0 again. The other, thus, remains as a collector's object. ?
New Calendar Wallpaper 2.0
The application brings several improvements over the first. We reduced the interface as much as we could, following the line of simplicity. Right away, the user has the button available to import the desired image directly from the device's photo album, without distractions.
With the proper image imported, the button to apply the desired calendar appears at the top of the screen. Touching it, the calendar with the current month appears, allowing you to change it to another month. The first time you run the application, a quick tutorial explains what to do.
We managed to implement the idea of regulating the transparency of the calendar, for the user to adjust. Notice that the button has that effect skeumorphic which changes as you move the viewing angle in relation to the device (see more here).
At this point, you can also preview the image in real time as it will appear on the device's locked screen, as the original bars are there. ?
Once ready, you can touch the third and last button, which the image will be saved to your camera roll. As you already know, Apple does not allow applications to interfere with System Settings and that is why our app has no way to automatically apply the screen background. You will have to do this manually, in Adjustments> Brightness and Background Image.
So, you will have the calendar of the month always at hand, without even having to unlock the screen of the device! ?
If you need cool images, you can search here.
Secure your gift right now
We made a decision that is likely to be controversial for some, but we have our reasons for that. Due to the success he has made, he will be a paid app for the rest of the world. But take it easy, because we want to give it to you as a gift and we have thought of a way to directly benefit our readers, without other foreigners taking advantage of it.
THE Calendar Wallpaper 2 is available, for now, only in Portuguese-speaking countries, such as Brazil and Portugal, for free for a few days. Soon, we plan to launch in other countries as well, for the price of $ 0.99.
We know that the controversy will come from those who only have an account on the American App Store, but there is no reason for them not to open an account for free in Brazil. Our decision is final and we think that it will directly benefit our most loyal readers, who will be able to enjoy and download it for free. ?
So enjoy and download now! And don't forget to rate our app there on the App Store!
We have already seen that we can further improve the application and next week we have a new update with adjustments. Many of you helped with suggestions to create this new version and that is why we are listening to your opinions about it, to improve the Wallpaper Calendar. All your suggestions can be made here in the comments.
PS: we really want to make an iPad version, but this is more complicated. But we will keep trying and soon we will have news. ?
PS 2: next week we have an even bigger gift. ?
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The Caltech Karate Club, founded by Mr. Tsutomu Ohshima in 1957, is the oldest university Karate club in the United States. Mr. Ohshima is widely regarded as one of the top Karate masters in the world. He was on the Caltech faculty for 37 years and directly taught those who now serve as the Club's teachers. He is also the chief instructor for all SKA and affiliate dojos.
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Half the land in Oklahoma could be returned to Native Americans. It should be.
A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.
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A Supreme Court case could have huge implications for American Indian reservations and state rights.
By Rebecca Nagle
Rebecca Nagle is a writer, advocate and citizen of Cherokee Nation living in Tahlequah, Okla.
November 28, 2018 at 12:20 p.m. EST
On the morning of June 22, 1839, the Cherokee leader John Ridge was pulled from his bed, dragged into his front yard and stabbed 84 times while his family watched. He was assassinated for signing the Cherokee Nation's removal treaty, a document that — in exchange for the tribe's homelands — promised uninterrupted sovereignty over a third of the land in present-day Oklahoma. That promise was not kept.
Sixty-seven years later, federal agents questioned John's grandson, William D. Polson. They needed to add him to a list of every Cherokee living in Indian Territory to start the process of land allotments. Through allotment, all land belonging to the Cherokee Nation — the land John had signed his life for — would be split up between individual citizens and then opened up for white settlement. And by this grand act of bureaucratic theft, Oklahoma became a state.
Today, on the same plot of earth where my great-great-great grandfather John Ridge still lies, is a small cemetery holding five other generations of my family. When I am buried, I will be the seventh. While the cemetery is surrounded by our allotment land and a cousin lives next door, none of it is Cherokee land.
Land loss for Native Americans is framed as a historic phenomenon, but for tribes in Oklahoma, it never stopped. Through allotment, the Cherokee Nation lost 74 percent of our treaty territory. Today, we still lose land every time an acre is sold to a non-Indian, inherited by someone less than half blood quantum, or even when an owner lifts restrictions to qualify for a mortgage. After a century of the legal status quo, the Cherokee Nation has jurisdiction of only 2 percent of our land left after allotment. While the initial hemorrhage of land loss occurred in previous centuries, we are still bleeding.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could make the bleeding stop.
On Aug. 28, 1999, on a rural road outside Henryetta, Okla., Patrick Murphy murdered fellow Creek citizen George Jacobs. He was tried and sentenced to death. In 2004, Murphy's public defender argued that the crime occurred within Muscogee (Creek) Nation's reservation and — because only tribes and the federal government can prosecute crimes on Indian land — the state of Oklahoma did not have jurisdiction to try the case. In 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit agreed. Oklahoma appealed, and now the outcome of Murphy v. Carpenter affects not only the fate of one man but the treaty territory of five tribes and nearly half the land in Oklahoma.
The history of tribal land, with small exceptions, has moved unforgivingly in one direction. Today, American Indian reservations comprise only 55 million acres, or 2 percent of all land in the United States. Meanwhile, the National Forest Service occupies 200 million acres. In the emergence of this great nation, our government set aside more land for trees than for Indians.
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If the Supreme Court upholds the 10th Circuit's decision, the ruling would result in the largest restoration of tribal jurisdiction over Native land in U.S. history.
The undisputed fact of the case is that Oklahoma does not have jurisdiction if the murder occurred on reservation land. The disputed fact, and the question brought before the court yesterday, is "whether the 1866 territorial boundaries of the Creek Nation . . . constitutes an 'Indian reservation' today."
Creek citizens arrived in present-day Oklahoma at gunpoint. Their treaty territory — along with the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws and Seminoles — was promised to them "as long as the grass grows or the water runs." Yet, at the turn of the century, the government came, divided up that interminable land, and gave one parcel to each tribal citizen. Most of the allotted land quickly transferred to white ownership — by sale, by swindle or by outright theft.
Between 1893 and 1907, the federal government took many different actions to force allotment on tribes. They threatened and coerced tribal leaders. They jailed traditionalists who refused to participate. They took over schools, courts, mineral resources and even the dispersal of tribal funds.
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Amid the furious land grab, one important action Congress did not take was to legally terminate Creek Nation's reservation. According to the Supreme Court decision Solem v. Bartlett, reservations cannot be terminated without a "clear statement" from Congress. That statement, in the historical record, simply does not exist.
Oklahoma's position is that no such statement is needed because the sheer and devastating totality of "everything [that] was taken away from tribes," as the state's lawyer argued, is indication enough that Congress intended to leave them with nothing, much less a reservation, and "not one single absolute smidgen" of sovereignty over their land.
The attorney for Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Riyaz Kanji, rebuked this analysis, giving examples from tribes who, despite federal infringement, still clearly have reservations. "Congress has told the tribes over time . . . you will allow this mining and these easements along your land, even if you don't want it. You will allow your children to be taken away and placed in boarding schools, even if no parent would want that." Maltreatment alone, Kanji argued, does not dissolve a reservation.
More than 100 Indian reservations went through allotment, and arguably every tribe has had something — whether land, children, money, books or papers — seized by the United States or their surrounding state. If such hostile actions alone can be evidence to the Supreme Court that a reservation no longer exists, tribes could lose land without their or even Congress's consent. In short, it would set unique and dangerous precedent that merely treating Native Nations as though their land does not belong to them is enough to take it away.
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Oklahoma argued yesterday that the sky is falling down, and if the 10th Circuit decision is upheld, it will cease to function as a state — a compelling argument for people who know nothing about how reservations legally function. An entire body of law already governs states' relationships to tribes and those tribes' relationship to non-Indian residents. Half the states in the union have reservations, and the majority of those have reservations that — thanks to allotment — have non-Native owned "fee land" where tribal jurisdiction is already limited. Reservations comprise 27 percent of the land in Arizona, and it functions just fine.
The exact legal question presented by this case — whether the allotment of tribal land dissolved a reservation — was asked and answered by the Supreme Court less than two years ago. In 2016, eight of the nine justices ruled in favor of the Omaha Tribe, and five of those justices are still on the bench. But the disputed area the Supreme Court upheld for the Omaha Tribe is much smaller, has fewer non-Native residents, and lacks the vast oil and gas reserves compared to 40 percent of the state of Oklahoma. If Oklahoma wins, the obvious reason will be the only difference between the two cases: circumstance, not precedent.
In 1835, the Supreme Court upheld the sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation against the state of Georgia in a landmark decision that effectively ended Andrew Jackson's campaign to remove all Indians west of the Mississippi. That was, until Jackson simply ignored the decision. He famously remarked, "Marshall has made his decision, let us see him enforce it." As a result, Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws and Seminoles were rounded up by U.S. soldiers and forced on death marches in which a quarter to a third of their citizens died.
When Jackson vowed to defy the Supreme Court, there was one other man standing in the room. It was my ancestor, John Ridge.
I am not telling the story of my family and my tribe to ask the Supreme Court to change the law. I tell this story to ask that the law be followed.
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the land that John Ridge not only died on, but for, could be acknowledged as Cherokee land for the first time in more than 100 years. John signed the treaty of New Echota knowing he would be killed for it but believing that the rights of the Cherokee Nation enshrined in that blood-soaked document were worth it.
One hundred and seventy-nine years later, the grass is still growing, the water is still running and, in eastern Oklahoma, our tribes are still here. And despite the grave injustice of history, the legal right to our land has never ended.
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Twitter Journalism
by Don Irvine on May 7, 2011
Last Sunday night in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a self described IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race and hiding in the mountains with his laptops became an instant celebrity when it was discovered that he live-tweeted the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Since then Sohaib Athar has been held up as a prime example of what citizen journalism really is and can accomplish during what is now a 24/7 news cycle.
But do his tweets actually make him a journalist?
SF Weekly blogger Dan Mitchell doesn't think so:
Steve Myers of The Poynter Institute declares that Sohaib Athar, a guy who lives near bin Laden's compound, is a "citizen journalist." Athar, an IT consultant, wondered what the hell was going on when the helicopters arrived in Abbottabad. Because he wondered on Twitter, in real time, now he's a "citizen journalist."
Even Athar, who had 750 followers as of Sunday night and now has tens of thousands, knows this is ridiculous. Nonetheless, Myers attempts to explain how Athar became "so influential so quickly," while offering no examples of Athar being influential.
"In 24 hours," Myers writes, "Athar went from someone who jokes with friends on Twitter and invites people to his coffee shop, to someone who broadcasts his thoughts to more than 86,000 followers."
So all of a sudden an obscure IT guy in Pakistan who just happened to tweet about the raid is now supposed to be an influential journalist who deserves to be followed by tens of thousand of people?
Never mind the fact that he was really just complaining about the noise our helicopters were making at the compound and that he had no idea what was going on. Or, for that matter, no one even knew he had tweeted the raid until it was over.
His new followers are likely to be very disappointed when Athar has nothing more interesting to say than the mundane details of the day of what is happening in Abbottabad.
Could Athar be a citizen journalist? The answer is yes if he actually intended to write or tweet about an event, but in his case it was just pure coincidence that the raid took place near his home and that it disturbed what he hoped would be a peaceful, quiet evening. And unless he plans to pursue breaking stories, which I doubt, this will have been his one claim to fame. He is no more a journalist than my college-age son, who just created a Twitter account and isn't sure what to do with it.
Mitchell admitted that Twitter is where he first heard the news of the raid and, along with Facebook, is where he continued to track the events as they unfolded. But he considers Twitter more of a headline news service delivering news he wouldn't normally see.
Twitter is great tool for journalists who want to get breaking news out faster than they could by using traditional methods. But one series of tweets, no matter how newsworthy they might be, doesn't make one a journalist.
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