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Toms: Amazing business story and a great business blog.
For five years I worked in the footwear industry.
My job was managing a couple different footwear catalogs.
You got it. Even though catalogs are "dead" there are still millions of people that prefer to shop that way. In fact, for many rural, older consumers, catalogs are the only way to shop. They don't have the Internet because they physically can't get in the country or they simply don't want it. They trust the call center or even mail order more.
Anyway, shortly after I started working in the footwear industry in 2007, a new shoe company came on the scene.
That company was Toms or TOMS.
If you know anything about shoes you probably know that there are some big players in the industry. It's not easy for newcomers to break into any footwear niche. It takes huge investment and lots of risk.
You have to figure out something that's different and something that the consumer will like. And that all takes investment.
In the footwear industry there are these things called lasts. They're the forms or molds used to manufacture each shoe. Most styles have their own last and that's not all.
Every size needs its own last. And a last can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
So if you're thinking of starting a shoe company come prepared with some cash.
Yet despite all the odds against them in 2006, Toms was founded and soon found its footing (sorry, had to) in the shoe industry.
Immediately, Toms was different. And it wasn't just one aspect that was unique.
First, Toms had a unique design. They're casual slip-ons that are versatile. They go with shorts, jeans and khakis. You can wear socks or not wear socks. They make you look laid back and maybe a bit lazy, but people that see them think they're pretty cool looking for the most part.
The design was a winner with the target audience – laid back and mostly young people.
Second, Toms has a strong commitment to charity. Many companies provide for charity and it's great. Toms does it in a different, but relevant way for their company. For every pair sold another pair is given to an impoverished child.
Not only is that awesome, but it's easy to understand. One for one. Everybody gets it. There are no hoops to jump through. No games to play. No forms to fill out. Buy a pair and a pair is given to a child.
As far as simplicity goes, Toms has it in design too. The classic Toms only needed a single last per size to create in my estimation. All the classics were the same except for color and material. The company could make one pair of shoes yet have tons of different styles.
Third, Toms are at a great price point. We talked about this all the time in meetings especially after the recession. Manufacturing prices were going up and up. Materials got more expensive and so did labor. It was hard to manufacture a shoe and get it priced under $100.
I can't remember what a pair of Toms cost in 2007, but today they're $54. That's a steal in the footwear industry today.
And my guess is the product margin is 65-75%.
That's before they give away a pair to a child. So it probably falls closer to 50-55%.
That's what CFOs like to see – simplicity, profit.
Today, Toms has branched out to include more than just the classic pair of shoes. They have more styles and more products including sunglasses, boots and more.
Now let's get into the fun part about what we do at GBW – blogging.
Tom has a great blog that they call Toms Stories.
Toms updates the blog multiple times each week.
They have a variety of posts including stories about their charity work around the world. They talk about new music. They do interviews. They even share advice for better eating.
Each post isn't much more than a few hundred words. They stick with informative stories that are interesting and enlightening to read. They give action steps for the stories like the healthy eating post.
The blog posts usually have great pictures and images – about 2-3 per post.
Great categories. Giving and Culture are the biggest in terms of posts.
The "stories" concept of the Toms blog is great. They tell the story of how they brought snow to LA. The tie-in is their new boot line.
How does this all help Toms sell more shoes?
There are multiple levels of marketing going on.
First, blogging builds on the brand that Toms has been working to develop since it started. They put language behind the brand. When people read the stories and the posts they get a feel for what this company is about and people want to connect with things like this. We want to be associated with certain things. Some people want to be associated to a fun, laid back company that gives one pair of shoes to children for every pair purchased.
Second, there are direct product tie-ins to the stories as with the snow in LA post. People read that and purchase boots.
Third, all these posts bring in more traffic to the Toms website. It comes through search and social. It leads to more people discovering Toms, which is the first step in bringing in new customers. In the ecommerce world it's difficult to sell to someone if they're not on your website. A blog can make that happen.
Toms is not only a great business story, they're a great blogging story.
This is the type of blog that can really inspire other businesses to create something unique and special.
I hope it's given you a few ideas for your business blog.
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So I decided I wanted to make a cake for Inauguration Day. From scratch. Decorated with frosting, also made from scratch.
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Within the Fusion-CDT, research in this area is based mainly at the Universities of Liverpool and York, focusing on the interaction of the edge plasma with the chamber surfaces, and the measurement methods used to study the low-temperature plasma conditions found in this region.
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Film: Naked Lunch
Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: David Cronenberg
Starring: Peter Weller, Judy Davis and Ian Holm
This was another film that I checked out as part of the best horror films of the 1990's. Now I wouldn't necessarily say this is horror, but it is definitely horrific. I was really intrigued about this one as a co-worker told me how good it was and I'm a big fan of the writer/director David Cronenberg. The synopsis is after developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidently kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
We follow Bill Lee (Peter Weller). He is doing his job at someone's house, trying to exterminate their bug problem. He runs out of the powder he uses to do his job though. We then see him get scolded by the man he works for as well as the Asian man that rations it out.
He goes to a local coffee shop where he meets his two friends, Hank (Nicholas Campbell) and Martin (Michael Zelniker). They are having a debate about writing versus rewriting. It is also revealed that Bill used to be a writer, but gave it up. His friends want him to get back into it, as there's money in it, but he finds it dangerous and this definitely comes back into play later.
When Bill goes home, it turns out that the reason he's run out of bug powder, because his wife is using it to shoot up to get high. She is Joan Lee (Judy Davis). Bill doesn't have room to talk as he is using what I assume to be heroin. She wants him to try the bug powder with her, but he tells her that he needs it for work.
Bill is picked up the following day by two police officers. They think that he has a large amount of drugs and don't believe him he uses it for work. They want him to prove it by bringing out a giant insect and prove the powder kills it. When they leave him alone, the giant bug talks to him revealing that he is a secret agent and that his wife is one as well for a rival corporation. He ends up killing it and heading home.
It is there that things take an even crazier turn. He walks in on his wife having sex with Martin. Bill goes in his room and shoots up. Joan then comes in and he gives her a dose. Bill asks her to do their trick, but it ends up with him shooting her in the head. He flees and hides out in a seedy diner. It is there that he meets another giant bug that tells him he has to go to North Africa. That's what he does, but he sinks into madness, drug use and a world of hallucinations.
Now this film was really one that I wasn't entirely sure what was going on. I definitely started to take notes, something I don't necessarily do. There were some much weird things going on though that I wanted to make sure I covered everything that really struck me about this film. The first thing is that as an aspiring writer, I really liked the ideas that are presented about that. One of the first conversations we get is about writing and rewriting. The nerdier friend says that he does this because he's a perfectionist and really wants to get the ideas right. On the other side, the more jock friend says that you need to get the raw ideas down on paper and to not change them. I definitely found this to be an interesting idea.
Going from there though, especially in North Africa, we really learn about the writers and their quirkiness. This film is also about addiction, something very prevalent among writers. There are some pretty wild hallucinations that the typewriters they are using are alive and they need to have the right one in order to produce the correct works. Going even farther, it is like a drug to them as an addiction. I thought there was good symbolism that Hank and Martin look in the bag that Bill says is the remains of his typewriter, but its alcohol bottles and drug paraphernalia, tools to get him into the mindset to write.
From this drug aspect of the film, we don't really know what is real and what isn't. Clearly all of the monsters and typewriters changing are them using drugs. Bill actually blacks out a lot and that is from the drug use as well. The interesting thing is that he is producing amazing things and can't do that unless he is using.
There is also the aspect of sexuality in this film. Bill is accused of being a homosexual. He does end up running around with gay man for a bit and there is a scene where it does look like they made love. Bill also accuses Fadela (Monique Mercure) of being a lesbian and that Joan is falling in with her. I think there is the fear of being different and keeping it a secret, especially since this film takes place in 1954. It was against the law actually and these writers all have a bit of pretention to them.
To move away from the story and elements of it to the pacing of the film, this is actually really good in my opinion for a movie running almost 2 hours. I never found myself bored and really just wanted to see where things lead to next. A lot of this for me comes down to the fact that you are constantly trying to piece together what is going on, because it is so surreal. I would even go as far to say that it feels like a fever dream. From things I've seen, this is very similar to how the novel reads that this is based on and this actually really intrigues me. It isn't the most coherent narrative, but it is more about the acting and the visuals.
This actually brings me to the acting, which is absolutely brilliant. Weller I know from the Robocop films. He portrays this role in such a way that I drawn into his performance as he keeps going mad. It makes it interesting that he isn't entirely sure of what is going on and neither are we, which works. Davis was solid in her performance as both Joans. Holm I really liked as the somewhat villainous Tom Frost. There were solid cameos of Julian Sands and Roy Scheider. The rest of the cast rounded out the film for what was needed as well in my opinion.
You have to know that if there are effects in a film that Cronenberg is making, they are probably going to be practical and look good. That is definitely the case here. The insects and all of the creatures look so real that it is unnerving actually. You could tell some things weren't real, but that doesn't matter. Knowing that we are following a character that is drugged up, this makes sense because we are getting their sense of reality. I was blown away by the effects here and the film is shot brilliantly as well.
Now with that said, this film is completely amazing. There is so much here that can be taken up for interpretation that I think another viewing or two is going to be required to fully put together what I've seen. After this initial viewing, the pretentious part of me that loves arthouse films like this is onboard. The narrative isn't linear or even coherent, but there is an arch it is following. I think the performances bring to life the world that this is creating. The effects help there and despite the just shy of two hour running time, I wasn't bored in trying to figure out what was going on. The soundtrack of the film didn't really stand out; it does fit the scenes for what was needed. This isn't for everyone, but I definitely found this to be a really good film.


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Trial delayed for woman linked to Vanessa Guillen's slaying
A federal judge has delayed the trial for Cecily Aguilar, a woman accused by authorities of helping to dismember and dispose of Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen in April
By Heather Osbourne, Austin American-Statesman | Published Sep 29, 2020 1:25 PM
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge has delayed the trial for Cecily Aguilar, a woman accused by authorities of helping to dismember and dispose of Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen in April.
Aguilar's hearing set for Monday was instead pushed back to Nov. 30, according to officials from the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, Waco Division.
Judge Alan Albright ordered the trial to be reset after a request by Aguilar's defense team for extra time to prepare their case.
The order continued: "The failure to grant such a continuance would unreasonably deny the defendant's counsel the reasonable time necessary for effective preparation, taking into account the exercise of due diligence."
Aguilar, a 22-year-old Killeen civilian employed at a local gas station before her arrest, is charged with three felony counts of conspiracy to tamper with evidence. She pleaded not guilty on July 14.
Army officials accuse Aguilar of helping her boyfriend, Fort Hood Spc. Aaron David Robinson, cover up the April 22 slaying of Guillen.
Authorities believe Robinson, who died July 1 after shooting himself as Killeen police tried to detain him for questioning, struck 20-year-old Guillen with a hammer as they worked together in a weapons room on post.
Army officials have not publicly given a possible motive for the killing.
Authorities say Robinson toted Guillen's body off post in a large protective case used to carry weapons.
Burned pieces of the same style of box were found near the Leon River in Bell County, where construction workers found Guillen, authorities have said.
U.S. Attorney Mark Frazier alleged during Aguilar's July hearing that she not only helped Robinson dispose of Guillen's remains, she also deleted Google accounts belonging to her and Robinson as a way to get rid of evidence.
Aguilar also called one person from jail, who was not identified in court, and asked them to delete her Facebook page, Frazier said.
If convicted, Aguilar could face up to 20 years in prison with a maximum fine of $250,000.
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Midwives call for training to deal with women's mental health
Midwives call for training to deal with mental health
Around 15-20% of women develop postnatal depression and anxiety.
Midwives want more specialist training so they can better support the mental health of pregnant women and new mothers, a survey has found.
Ninety-seven per cent of respondents to a poll for the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Scotland said they want additional education on responding to women's perinatal mental health (PMH) needs.
PMH problems are those which occur during pregnancy or in the first year following the birth of a child.
The survey is published ahead of a November 8 RCM conference on the issue.
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The survey found 79 per cent of midwives want more education on how to assess women's PMH needs, while 88% identified at least one barrier to accessing PMH education - such as clinical pressure or a lack of time and managerial support.
Nearly a third of midwives said they are not at all confident with their knowledge and understanding of PMH.
In response to the survey results, the RCM called for increased availability of PMH education for midwives, both before and after qualification.
Suicide is the leading cause of death in the first year after pregnancy, according to RCM.
It is also the fifth most common cause of women's deaths during pregnancy and immediately afterwards.
Mary Ross-Davie, director for Scotland at the RCM, said: "All maternity care providers need to put mental health on an equal footing with physical wellbeing.
"Not getting this right can have a direct impact on a woman's experience of pregnancy, birth and early parenting.
"Scotland's midwives are dedicated to offering women with perinatal mental health problems the best possible care and support.
"Yet we are sometimes hampered by a lack of access to training and development to be able to do that as well as we want.
"This worries me greatly."
Commenting further, Ms Ross-Davie added: "Our services are among the best in the UK, if not the world, and the Scottish Government are making great efforts to improve the support and care for all women and for women with mental health problems.
"This includes additional money to improve services, including more specialist mental health midwives.
"At the same time, we need to ensure that all of our midwives have the training they need so that women get the best possible care all the way through their pregnancy and beyond."
The survey consulted 414 midwives from across Scotland.
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The majority had more than 10 years of experience and were aged over 44.
Midwifery and nursing north of the Border have benefitted from an increase in the number of training places created as part of efforts to tackle staffing pressures across the NHS.
At the end of last year, it was announced that course places would rise to 4,006 in 2019/20, up more than 280 (7.6 per cent) on the previous year and increasing for the seventh year running.
The largest increases for places on offer were due to be learning disability nursing (18%) followed by mental health nursing (16.7%) then midwifery (13.7%).
The boost in course spots is one of several steps being taken to bolster NHS recruitment and retention in the face of warnings over workforce planning and staffing levels.
Further action aimed at alleviating the pressure created by shortages includes about 460 former nurses and midwives retraining through the Return to Practice scheme since 2015 and some 116 nursing students having their Open University pre-registration programme funded by the Scottish Government.


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One of the largest employers in Indiana with over 38,000 team members, and named one of the Best Employers by State by Forbes in 2022
Indiana University Health is Indiana's most comprehensive healthcare system. IU Health's unique partnership with the nation's second largest medical school, Indiana University School of Medicine, offers innovative treatments and therapies and remains a global leader in medical education and research.
Comprised of hospitals, physicians and allied services dedicated to providing preeminent care throughout Indiana and beyond, IU Health is honored to be recognized in such high distinctions.
Indiana's only healthcare system to be nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report 25 years in a row, including one specialty in the top 50, and five specialties rated as high performing
Indiana University Health's Academic Health Center in Indianapolis is U.S. News & World Report's top-ranked hospital in Indiana
Riley Hospital for Children is nationally ranked in ten pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report.
Indiana University Health is one of the largest employers in Indiana
A private, nonprofit organization, Indiana University Health owns, or is affiliated with, more than 200 hospitals and health centers throughout Indiana. More than half of the physicians affiliated with the IU School of Medicine practice, supervise, and teach residents and fellows at one of Indiana University Health's hospitals.
No organization in Indiana is ranked higher or offers more highly ranked physicians than Indiana University Health. With exceptional care, unmatched expertise and continued excellence, our patients and families know that they're making an excellent choice in selecting Indiana University Health as their premier healthcare system of choice.
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Leading educational system and top-ranked universities, paired with a diverse population
Vibrant downtown offering arts, theaters, world-class museums, zoo, concerts and memorials
Named to U.S. News & World Report's 2022-2023 list of the best places to live in the United States
Top ranked international airport: "Best Airport in North America" ten consecutive years
Ranked by Niche in 2022 as one of the most diverse counties in America, as well as one of the best counties to live in Indiana & the best county for young professionals
Lively nightlife, local wineries, retail, and cuisine with local flavors
Historic neighborhoods with surrounding cultural districts and low cost of living
Eagle Creek and the suburbs of Westfield and Fishers have been named to Money Magazine's list of the Best Places to Live in America
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Home of the Colts (NFL), Fever (WNBA), Pacers (NBA), Indians (MiLB), Indianapolis 500 (IndyCar), Indy Eleven (NASL), NCAA and USTA Midwest
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Shasta Hanchett Park housing prices have seen a decrease of -6.3% over the last one hundred eighty days compared to the previous twelve months. The average house price over the last six months is $1,349,782. Below you'll find numerous charts and graphs breaking down real estate market trends in Shasta Hanchett Park.
Below you'll see a comparison between the square footage and price per square foot for each Shasta Hanchett Park house price over the last 180 days. Hover over a point to see more information about each home that sold.
Properties in Shasta Hanchett Park can be divided into three categories: small interior square footage, average interior square footage, and the higher end of interior square footage. This data can give you a rough overview on which bucket your home may fall into with Shasta Hanchett Park home prices.
Shasta Hanchett Park house prices have seen a median sales price of $1,420,000 over the last 180 days - a -1.2% decrease in comparison to the previous twelve months. In the same 180 days, 24 properties have closed escrow in the area, 23 of which were single family residences, and the remaining 1 of which were condos or townhomes. The single family residences in Shasta Hanchett Park had an average list price of $1,332,184 and were on the market for 19 days on average, with a sold to list price ratio of 101% in the past 180 days. In terms of size, the median square footage for single family residences was 1719, with the average price per square foot sitting at $732. The median sold price for a three bedroom home in the area was $1,265,000, compared with $1,512,500 for a four bedroom. Over the last 180 days, housing prices in Shasta Hanchett Park had a median sold to list price ratio for single family residences of 101%, which is -4% less compared to the past 12 months. This shows a slightly downward trend in the Shasta Hanchett Park real estate market.
According to the MLS, there are currently 5 single family residences for sale in Shasta Hanchett Park in addition to 2 condos and townhomes, all of which are averaging 45 days on the market. Of the single family residences, the average list price is sitting at $1,803,600 – 0% less than the sold prices of the past 90 days. Regarding the condos and townhomes, an average list price of $1,012,444 means that prices are sitting at 0.1% less compared to the past 90 days.
Shasta Hanchett Park has approximately 1,666 households, with the average home built around around 1942. Of all of the households found in Shasta Hanchett Park today, roughly 50% are married and 29% have children, with an average income of $132,504 and about 36% of residents possessing a bachelor's degree.


This is a question we get SO many times, each and every week. And it's a good one.
Let's start with quickly describing each service.
Waxing and Sugaring removes the ENTIRE hair out of the pore by using a sticky paste to pull the hair out. You'll stay smooth for 3-4 weeks, and guys usually wax/sugar every 6-8 weeks.
Shaving uses a razor to cut the hair that you can see down to the skin. Do you shave your face? We shave body parts. You'll stay smooth for 1 week, maybe 2.
Clipping uses an electric clipper to cut the hair that you can see. Think of a buzz cut; that's clipping!
Guy #1: I want the experience to be 100% pain free.
Answer: Clipping and Shaving are the options for you.
Guy #2: I want to be 100% smooth for as long as possible.
Answer: Waxing and Sugaring are the options for you because these methods remove the ENTIRE hair, not just the part that is showing above the skin.
Guy #3: I want to shorten my body hair. I don't want it completely off.
Answer: Clipping is what you're looking for and we can clip the hair to the length that you want.
I hope this helps answer your question. If you have any other questions, send us an email and let us know.


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Home / Companies / People / K.K. Sharma takes over as director (operations) of NTPC
K.K. Sharma takes over as director (operations) of NTPC
1 min read . Updated: 01 Nov 2014, 10:35 PM IST PTI
Sharma has also served NTPC as regional executive director in hydro region, coal mining or coal washeries, eastern region, project planning and monitoring and as CEO of NTPC-SAIL Power Co.
Sharma will be responsible for the activities relating to sustained operations including fuel management of all NTPC stations
New Delhi: State-owned power producer NTPC Ltd said on Saturday that K.K. Sharma has taken charge as director (operations) of the company.
A mechanical engineer and MBA in finance, Sharma's career spans over 39 years with contribution in the areas of mega-budget thermal, hydro power and coal mining projects as a professional manager, strategic planner and a business leader.
As a director (operations), he will be responsible for the activities relating to sustained operations including fuel management of all NTPC stations, the company said in a statement.
He has also served NTPC as regional executive director in hydro region, coal mining or coal washeries, eastern region, project planning and monitoring and as CEO of NTPC-SAIL Power Co. PTI
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You've made the effort and expense to have beautiful wedding photos created for you, either by us or another photography, now the best way to capitalize on that wedding investment is to have a wedding album custom-made with your favorite photos. A gorgeous book of photos, like this Caribbean wedding album that we designed for Corinne and Brett makes for the essential compliment to their wedding photography. See the video of their wedding album and flip through the pages below.
The wedding album book is a comprehensive, personalized collection of a couple's wedding photos that's always at hand ready to see, touch and share. And proper wedding album design and printing, like this couple's book, will tell the story of the couple's wedding day in an artistic, beautiful and everlasting way.
Featured in this wedding photography article is the Caribbean wedding album we designed and will be printing for Corinne and Brett of the beautiful wedding. Their book will be printed 12″ high by 8″ wide in Italy by GraphiStudio in their Original Wedding Book format. The book will featured a distressed leather cover, back and spine. With thick pages and the finest in photographing printing, binding and materials, Corinne and Brett's book is going to last a lifetime, and bring so much happiness along the way as the couple recall their wedding day through the seeing and touching their wedding photos.
It's never too late to have a custom wedding album made. Although we didn't photograph Corinne and Brett's wedding, we certainly bring their photos to life by retelling their wedding day story in timeless fashion. We understand that not all wedding photography packages include an album, and that sometimes a budget doesn't allow for an album at the time of photography booking, but as long as you have your photos we can make a stunning wedding album design then print the book for you when the time is right.


Low and volatile agricultural incomes, poor connectivity, low population density and limited information are just a few reasons that have kept commercial banks away of rural areas in developing countries, where nonbank financial institutions (such as MFIs, cooperatives, or credit unions) have played an important role.
However, these rural institutions tend to be small and often suffer from bad risk management, poor governance, and weak technical and managerial capacity. These constraints are in turn passed on to the borrowers in the form of higher interest rates and credit rationing. The lack of human and organizational capital among lenders is a type of market failure where public interventions may be both effective and market friendly (Besley, 1994).
In a new working paper, we study the effects of a support program launched in 2004 that provided technical assistance to rural financial institutions. The program was led by FND, a development finance institution in Mexico that provides financing to rural firms and second-tier financing to financial intermediaries in rural areas.1 The support program consisted of providing grants for capacity building to financial intermediaries with the objective of helping them to responsibly reach more rural borrowers, by increasing their productivity and strengthening their management.
Although grants can be used to purchase equipment or boost the capital of financial institutions, most grants were used for technical assistance, provided through a network of accredited specialists. Examples of technical assistance include credit risk management, capacity building for management and staff and IT systems selection. The average size of these grants was USD$4,000.
One first challenge that we faced when studying the impact of the support program was the lack of data: only some rural financial institutions keep financial statements, and those that do rarely publish them. We thus decided to focus on credit unions, which make up 20 percent of the grant recipients. Since credit unions are supervised, the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) houses a repository of their financial data.
From CNBV, we then obtained financial statements for all credit unions operating in Mexico from September 2002 to December 2012. We merged this information with an FND-provided list of credit unions that obtained a grant through the support program. The final data consists of 124 credit unions, of which 65 received a grant in different years from 2005 to 2008. With this data, we follow all credit unions three years before -and eight years after- the program started.
To estimate the effects of FND grants, we use a staggered difference-in-difference strategy that compares the outcomes of never treated credit unions with credit unions that were treated at different years. To check the robustness of our results and guarantee that treatment and control groups have identical pre-program trends, we also use four propensity score matching techniques.
The hypothesis we test in the data is as follows. Through technical assistance, financial intermediaries can learn how to reduce inefficiencies and become more productive, which would allow them to lower their operating costs. Financial intermediaries can also learn better risk management practices (i.e., improved screening and monitoring of loans) that would reduce their credit risk. Intermediaries can also benefit from the grants by learning how to keep their books and financial statements in order, which would help them raise funding at a lower interest rate. Thus, technical assistance may help rural financial intermediaries to lower their lending interest rates and increase outreach.
However, these spillovers to the final borrowers would depend on the market conditions: in a tight competitive market, credit unions would pass these cost savings on to their clients in the form of better credit terms, whereas in a market in which credit unions have high monopoly power, the gains from technical assistance would then increase their profitability without any spillovers to the final consumers.
To trace out these channels, we first study the effects of the support program on lending interest rates and on four key drivers of lending rates, which are: (i) operating costs, (ii) credit risk, measured by the non-performing loan (NPL) ratio, (iii) the funding interest rate, and (iv) profits, measured by returns-on-assets (ROA). We then examine whether the program allowed financial institutions to expand by looking at the effect on their loan portfolio.
Overall, we find that while the program increased profitability of credit unions, final borrowers also benefited: the grants helped credit unions expand the value of their loan portfolio by about 50 percent (figure 1) and drop their lending interest rates by up to 2.6 percentage points, from a pre-program average of 17.8 percent (figure 2).
Financial markets in rural areas face many challenges that impede their expansion. One of such challenges is the lack of capacity building of financial intermediaries, which limits their size and operations. This constraint has important consequences for the market, as it increases the cost of credit and reduces the volume lent. We find that through technical assistance, financial intermediaries can learn how to raise their productivity and reduce their NPL ratios, with important spillovers to the final consumers, in the form of lower cost of credit and increased supply of loans.
1FND stands for Financiera Nacional de Desarrollo Agropecuario, Rural, Forestal y Pesquero.


My husband and I took Achilles for a walk last night, as we always do. We wait until late, about 10pm, to make sure it's cooled off enough for Achilles. The high yesterday was 114 degrees. Even when the temperature cools down, the pavement is still hot and takes extra time to cool off. During our walk, we saw a pack of coyotes, there were three of them. They were about 200 feet away. I'm not scared of one coyote, but when they're in a pack, they are much more powerful and very scary, at least to me. Luckily, Achilles didn't notice the coyotes. If he did, he probably would have wanted to investigate. Instead, they pack went on their way, probably hunting rabbits. One of our neighbors let us know that there are coyotes around, but I never thought I would run into a pack, especially at night when we were walking on the main road. I was really nervous for the rest of the walk, but I made it through until we got home. I won't let this stop me from taking walks. I will just make sure I'm prepared for any issue.
just remember your pack is the same size as their pack with the three of you. additionally, your pack has two king-sized "wolves" in your pack, so they're likely not going to mess with you.
I didn't think of it like that. Thanks.
Every time I go o a walk since then, I'm always looking all around and over my shoulder to make sure there are no coyotes. I guess it affected me more than I thought.


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Send people to your website where they will get informed and educated.
When they enroll into a service, you get paid.
You do the referring, The Company do the explaining. It is literally that easy.
them to your website and they will educate themselves.
If they join the "Invest in Your Debt" revolution, then you get paid!
three people who need to get out of debt and reclaim their lives?
That would be something like $3,000 – $4,500 extra per month.
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a customer or client of the Halo service in order to be paid for referring customers to it.
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Today almost 4 million Americans work full time in a home business. In 2012, there were 15.9 million people involved in direct selling in the U.S., an increase from 15.6 million the prior year. The U.S. Department of Labor believes that half of all Americans will be working from home by 2025. The US Census Bureau says more than 12 BILLION working hours per year are WASTED by people stuck in traffic on their way to and from work. And, 45% of workers in North America are deeply concerned they or their spouses will lose their jobs before they retire.
With Financial Halo you will be able to have your own home-based business on a part-time or full-time basis. The huge advantage that you have with us is developing multiple streams of income from each of the Financial Halo companies that you refer people to. Diversified profit centers are a key strategic advantage to any business. As additional Financial Halo strategic partners are added you will be able to receive yet another source of income from your existing referrals and future referrals. We will talk about this in detail in the next video. But for now, let's consider; why have a network marketing business at all? What's the advantage?
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The President of the Direct Selling Association, Joseph Mariano had this to say, "The strong performance of direct selling in the United States and around the world continues to underscore the economic and social relevance of this business model. Despite progress toward economic recovery, there are still many Americans looking for a source of supplemental and full time income. Coupled with increasing consumer confidence, both sales and interest in the opportunity are at near-record levels."
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Kids can be street-smart and Facebook-stupid, to paraphrase how Vice News put it.
Police love that naive, completely misplaced trust in the supposed anonymity of social media postings.
In fact, it was a long trail of quite helpful Facebook postings about crimes that lead New York City police to what authorities are calling "the largest gang takedown in New York City's history".
After a 4-year-long investigation by the New York Police Department (NYPD), 103 gang members were indicted on Wednesday, thanks mostly to the evidence teenagers left on their Facebook profiles.
Five hundred NYPD officers descended on two housing projects in the NYC neighborhood of West Harlem Wednesday morning to arrest 40 of those who were indicted.
Police told reporters that 23 more alleged gang members are still being sought, while the rest were apprehended prior to the Wednesday bust.
Most of those arrested are between 15 and 20 years old, while some were as old as 30.
Prosecutors say the boys and men belong to three gangs: the two allied gangs of Make It Happen Boys and Money Avenue, and their rivals, 3 Staccs.
The gangs have waged war over the past four years, with the carnage now resulting in accusations of two homicides, 19 non-fatal shootings and about 50 other shooting incidents, according to a press release put out by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.
According to the indictments (which can be read here and here), the gang members fought tooth and nail to control their territory – the two housing projects are only a block away from each other – and to climb the gangster hierarchy via shootings, stabbings, slashings, assaults, gang assaults, robberies, revenge shootings, and murders.
They were also busy chronicling it all via social media, posting hundreds of Facebook updates, direct messages, mobile phone videos, and calls made from Rikers Correctional Facility to plot the deaths of rival gang members.
They used postings to publicise and claim credit for – and to rub their enemies' noses in – their crimes, prosecutors say.
One of the gangs's victims – 18 year-old Tayshana "Chicken" Murphy – was a promising basketball star. Her father has said that she was being recruited by several colleges.
Ms. Murphy was gunned down in her building in September 2011. One of the gang members allegedly bragged about it on Facebook.
A second victim, Walter "Recc" Sumter, who owned the gun used to kill Ms. Murphy, was murdered that December in apparent retaliation.
In fact, investigators pored over more than 40,000 phone calls between gang members already in jail and those on the outside, hundreds of hours of surveillance video, and "more than a million social media pages," Vance said in his statement.
According to Vice News, the word "Facebook" shows up 162 times in one of the indictments and 171 in the second.
Because the stuff that they were saying, that was gonna come back to bite them, especially admitting participating in crimes, admitting getting the weapons that were gonna be used in crimes, and then calling someone in a state prison and giving them a report of what they did.
The indictment is almost 200 pages long and I would say 75-80 percent of [one of the indictments] is Facebook posts and similar activity.
The DAs office was helped by the accused. All [the police] did was watch and document it. I don't know what took them so long, but once they had enough, they scooped them up.
That is a very good question. Why did police need four years to round these guys up when they had alleged criminals posting about it on social media?
Stupidity about social media is a gift to investigators. One would hope that the gift gets turned into protection for the community as fast as practicable.
Image of Facebook gun courtesy of Shutterstock.
Time to make more 'idiot friendly' devices, the ones which say "are you sure?" when the owner posts something stupid before self destructing itself when the smart owner posts it no matter what. I guess it pays to go to school to learn a few things as opposed to being in a gang and be stupid. Hope they get the liberty to tweet from their cells.
You think devices should be more "idiot friendly" so people like this can escape prosecution for their crimes? Or, more accurately, you really think that a confirmation will get them to realize the stupidity of their actions?
Just wondering if you get sarcasm?
I don't think the way this idiots were caught should have been publicized. It could start the criminals to wise up and stop being so stupid.
The media goes way too far in some of their reporting. In a way; they are helping to educate criminals on ways to avoid getting caught.
Neither kids nor criminals of this sort tend to read newspapers or infosec blogs. If they were inclined to actually get educated, we wouldn't find ourselves writing stories like this as often as we do.
Maybe law enforcement was waiting to see if they'd just kill each other and the problem would just go away…..
I assume, and hope, that that's not true. Innocent people aren't exempt from these violent crimes, including Ms. Murphy.
More likely they wanted to be sure of a conviction. While FB posts help the authorities, they're usually not sufficient for a conviction, by themselves.
Stupid is as stupid does. In this instance I am glad these idiots were so stupid. Now they can spend some quality time in the state pen.
More likely they were waiting to get the higher level members. Taking out a bunch of the low level guys, although helpful, wouldn't truly shut down the gangs. Now they've likely made a huge dent into these gangs that could cripple the activities of those gangs. And possibly clean up the area for a much longer period overall making it safer in the long run.
Interesting story, but for the benefit of us non-USA residents just how far is a 'block'. It's not a known internationally recognised measurement of distance. So is it a few yards, a couple of hundred yards, a mile, ten miles, or what?
I believe there are 12 to 16 blocks in a mile.
On the main rectangular street-grid of Manhattan, which is more or less the main central part, say from about Houston St, (which you can think of as "First" St.) up to maybe the 160's, the standard used to be 20 blocks/mile north-south (i.e., along the Avenues) and 8 per mile east-west along the numbered streets. While there are "in-between" and non-grid major streets in midtown (Broadway is the best-known example of the latter), the grid is pretty well defined until you get down past Houston or way up to the northern end.
ah thanks. what's a mile?
A block is about 1/7th of a mile in NYC. The size of a block can vary from city to city. In Las Vegas some blocks could be over mile long.
This is great; however, I feel that there is too much reporting on how criminals are being caught. In my opinion, what the publicity does, is make the criminals aware of their stupidity and they become more aware of how to hide their crimes. That's my opinion and you are welcome to yours.


Switzerland, officially known as the Swiss Federation, is a northwestern European country, geographically divided between the world-famous Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, with a total geographic area of just over 15,900 square miles. A landlocked federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, Switzerland shares borders with Germany in the north, France in the west, Italy in the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein in the east. Although the Alps comprise the greater part of the country, most of the Swiss population is settled on the Plateau, which is also where the largest cities are to be found, including the two global cities of Geneva and Zurich, the largest city in the country. The capital city and government seat of Switzerland is Bern.
As of the 2011 census, Switzerland had an estimated population of nearly 8 million—a population that is very linguistically and culturally diverse. Although over 70 percent of its population is comprised of people native to Switzerland, the country, because of its location at the intersection of several European cultures and languages, is very multinational. Switzerland has four official languages that are spoken in the various regions of the country: German, the most widespread language spoken in the north, east and central portions of the country by 72% of the population; French, spoken in the western region by just over 20 percent of Swiss inhabitants; Italian, spoken in the south by approximately 7 percent of the people; and Romansh, a romance language spoken locally in the southeastern canton of Graubünden by about 0.5 percent of the population. Resident foreigners and temporary workers comprise roughly 22 percent of the Swiss population, mostly hailing from other European Union countries, particularly from Italy, Germany, Serbia and Montenegro and Portugal. Sri Lankans, most of whom are former Tamil refugees, are the largest group of Asian origin.
Switzerland is a secular country with no official state religion, but most of the cantons, save for Geneva and Neuchatel, do recognize official churches, particularly the Roman Catholic Church or the Swiss Reformed Church, a Protestant denomination. Christianity is the predominant religion of Switzerland, with some 42 percent of the population adhering to the Roman Catholic faith and 35 percent being members of the various Protestant churches. Immigration to the country has brought other religious faiths to Switzerland, including Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Islam, practiced by 1.8% and 4.2% of the population respectively. Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, while present in the country, are all practiced by less than half of one percent of the population.
Education in Switzerland is overseen by the Ministry of Education, but because the constitution delegates responsibility for the education system to the individual cantons, the system itself is actually quite diverse, especially in terms of the language of instruction. Education is provided by both public and private schools, including many that use an international curriculum. The education system is divided between three distinct levels or phases: primary education, secondary education and higher or university education.
Most Swiss children begin their primary education at age 6, and depending on the canton and the school they attend, this level will span five or six years or grade levels. The curriculum in primary school is very diverse, featuring subjects such as mathematics, science, language and literature, history, geography, physical education and the arts. Foreign language instruction is also begun at this level, and while traditionally the primary language taught is one of the other national languages, English is now taught as a second language in a few of the cantons.
Following primary school, students are separated according to their academic ability, often into one of three types of secondary schools. Those that learn more quickly are instructed in advanced classes—classes that help them prepare for the matura (academic diploma) and entrance into a university—while others receive a combination of academic and professional instruction or strictly vocational instruction and training, the latter of which helps students gain a trade of some kind that will allow them to join the workforce following graduation.
Switzerland is renowned for its higher education programs, including one campus in Zurich that is consistently ranked the top university in continental Europe. In all there are 12 universities in the country, ten of which are maintained at the cantonal level and two at the national level. The universities regulated by the cantons typically offer a range of professional and academic degrees in non-technical subjects, while those maintained at the federal level are more researched based, with a tremendous international reputation for their work in the chemical and medical fields. There are also several universities of applied sciences and a handful of institutions that specialize in business and management.
Because of its excellent and reputable system of higher education, Switzerland has the world's second highest rate of foreign students in tertiary education, after Australia, and the country has been home to over 110 Nobel Prize winners in its history, including the famed Albert Einstein.


Another important point: Experts said the pledge was not legally binding.
Spokespersons for Trump's campaign and the RNC told PolitiFact Florida that all of the GOP candidates signed a pledge, but they wouldn't answer additional questions.
The pledge came up after Trump's comments at the first GOP debate on Aug. 6, when Trump said he wouldn't rule out a third-party run.
The one-page document included spots for signatures from RNC chairman Reince Priebus and the candidate. Trump held a press conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Sept. 3 to announce he had signed the pledge (which was mistakenly dated Aug. 3, although Trump later tweeted a corrected copy).
"I will be totally pledging my allegiance to the Republican Party and the conservative principles for which it stands," Trump said.
Back then, the Associated Press reported that Bush planned to sign the pledge. However, we can't find an actual copy or photo of Bush signing it. We asked an RNC spokeswoman for a copy of Bush's pledge and did not get a response.
On Sept. 3, Bush appeared on ABC's Good Morning America and said "of course" he would support Trump if he became the nominee. "We need to be unified, we need to win," he said.
We were unable to track down a copy of Bush's South Carolina pledge. However, state party officials announced on Sept. 30 that 15 candidates had qualified for the state's ballot, including Bush.
After losing the South Carolina primary on Feb. 20, Bush suspended his campaign. By May, Trump had sewn up the nomination.
"Donald Trump has not demonstrated that temperament or strength of character. He has not displayed a respect for the Constitution. And, he is not a consistent conservative. These are all reasons why I cannot support his candidacy," he wrote.
Bush isn't the only Republican to make conflicting statements about supporting the nominee, though.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said at the March 3 debate that he would support the nominee. But after Trump's cancelled Chicago rally erupted in violence, Rubio wavered when asked if he would still support Trump if he won the nomination.
At a town hall in Milwaukee March 29, CNN's Anderson Cooper asked Trump if he stood by his pledge to support the nominee.
Trump told Cooper that he wouldn't commit his support because he had been "treated very unfairly" by the RNC.
Experts told PolitiFact Florida that the pledge was essentially a promise by a candidate. But it's not the same thing as a legal contract.
"The pledge is no more binding than any other politician's promise: It is enforceable through the public's future support or lack thereof for the person making the pledge," said Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California.
Emory University law professor Michael Kang said the oaths create political pressure but not much more. "I don't think there are meaningful legal sanctions under these oaths for failing to do so at this point," he said.
Norman Ornstein, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, noted that Trump said several times he would only adhere to the pledge if he were treated fairly, and that he would decide what that meant.
Trump said that Jeb Bush "signed a pledge — a binding pledge" to endorse the Republican nominee.
It's likely that Bush signed at least one pledge agreeing to support the nominee. But we couldn't independently verify that. And calling the pledges "binding" is going a bit too far. There are no official consequences that we could find for walking away from it. Trump himself several times wavered from his pledge. And election experts said it's unlikely any politician could be forced into following a pledge that is so political in nature. It's up to the court of public opinion to enforce a pledge — or not.


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The Dangerous Myth of Nations
Aaron Sarin
In 2019, we are living in the age of the nation, or so it seems. We can see a very particular breed of populist nationalism almost everywhere we look—think of Erdoğan in Turkey, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Duterte in the Philippines, Maduro in Venezuela, Modi in India, Orbán in Hungary, Trump in the US, Xi in China, Putin in Russia, and so on. Always the same bluster and bravado, the same talk of restoring people to their former glory. But certain observers have suggested that first impressions may be misleading. These observers have seen, in all the noise and drama, the death throes of the nation. The essayist Rana Dasgupta argues that "the current appeal of machismo as political style, the wall-building and xenophobia, the mythology and race theory, the fantastical promises of national restoration—these are not cures, but symptoms." The same thing is happening in every country because "all countries are today embedded in the same system, which subjects them all to the same pressures: and it is these that are squeezing and warping political life everywhere." What we are now seeing is the nation's "inability to withstand countervailing 21st-century forces, and its calamitous loss of influence over human circumstance."
Whether this is true or not, the demise of the nation is something that we should actively encourage. The national identities that dominate our political discourse are collective fantasies: wind and smoke—or, in a memorable phrase coined by historian Benedict Anderson, "the shrunken imaginings of recent history." The political arrangement that we call the nation-state system was launched at the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, and the philosophical underpinnings of the political system are not much older. It is founded on the belief that our world is divided into fundamental units of people—nations—which is a dangerous mistake. Anderson famously explores the roots of this mistake in his book Imagined Communities, and finds them in early capitalism. Sixteenth-century Europe contained so many different Frenches and Englishes and Germans that mass communication in any particular region was impossible. Books were printed in archaic languages like Latin, which only made sense to the elite. But entrepreneurs reasoned that, if widespread comprehension were possible, they stood to make an enormous profit, so they began publishing books and newspapers in print languages that collected together related vernaculars. These new print languages helped to create what Anderson describes as "monoglot mass reading publics." Readers slowly became aware of the existence of imagined communities—unseen millions who spoke the same language as them—and the nation was born.
However, this can't be the whole story. Anderson's own examples make it clear that not all nations are connected by language. Take Indonesia: "the peoples on the eastern coast of Sumatra are not only physically close, across the narrow straits of Malacca, to the populations of the western littoral of the Malay peninsula, but they are ethnically related, understand each other's speech, have a common religion, and so forth. These same Sumatrans share neither mother tongue, ethnicity, nor religion with the Ambonese, located on islands thousands of miles away to the east. Yet … they have come to understand the Ambonese as fellow Indonesians, the Malays as foreigners." Anderson was right to locate the emergence of the nation in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but wrong about the crucial connecting factor. So if it's not language that makes a nation a nation, what is it? It can't be politics, because the political reality of the nation-state system is really just the codification of an idea that already existed—it is only a construct built on a foundation. What is that foundation?
The Nation as History
Some say it's history. These people think of nations as continuous entities stretching all the way back through the ages. They imagine the unfurling of an epic shared history, which connects people across time, linking the citizens of a twenty-first century nation-state to individuals living in the ancient world. China is often described in these terms—we are always hearing about the many Chinese dynasties, the thousands of years of Chinese history. Today's Communist Party never seems to shut up about it. Closer examination, however, reveals a different picture. These supposedly Chinese empires were formed by whoever took power, regardless of where they came from. The Yuan was founded by Kublai Khan's feared Mongol hordes in the thirteenth century, while the Qing was founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro in the seventeenth century. Each empire was distinct, and the borders changed whenever the empire changed. In 1000 CE, China was actually Song. In 1500 CE, China was actually Ming—a different entity to Song by any measure—a different nation. Historians maintained a tradition of careful record-keeping throughout the millennia, and this can create the illusion of a continuous China (an illusion bolstered by a degree of linguistic continuity). But, as far as these ancient historians were concerned, they were recording the history of the world, not of a single country. There was no name for China, and there was no idea in anyone's mind that such a thing existed.
In the twentieth century, the last of the dynasties came to an end, and it was decided that a national identity was needed to catch up with the rest of the world. The name Zhongguo (or China) was clumsily attached to the long history of many different empires with different identities and borderlines. And today, one hundred years on, that old border problem is still unresolved. The Communist Party claims that Taiwan and Tibet are actually Chinese provinces, and Chinese citizens are taught as much in school, as if it were a universally acknowledged fact. But most people living in Taiwan and Tibet have a very different view of things. So it seems that, after all this time, we still cannot agree on who is Chinese and who is not, and we still cannot agree on where China begins and where it ends. Clearly, to believe that China exists in any meaningful sense is to be sorely mistaken.
The Nation as Geography
Others will argue that geography is the deciding factor. This does not bear scrutiny either. Historian Fernand Braudel has described India, for instance, as "an amalgam of areas that have never formed a single whole." Indian history consists of a long list of separate and often unrelated dynasties, kingdoms, principalities and sultanates, rising and falling in a variety of locations on the subcontinent. The name India has described many different things—sometimes it was just a small collection of cities and villages clustered around the upper Indus basin, but sometimes it spread as far east and south as modern-day Burma, and contained within its borders great Bactrian empires sprawling up into modern-day Afghanistan. After 1858, the British Raj ruled over the closest thing there has ever been to a unified Indian subcontinent, but this lasted less than a hundred years, until Partition. Of course Indian nationalists now claim a 5000-year history, but in reality this is the history of a large number of geographically distinct entities.
The history of borders is usually just the history of military invasion and land acquisition. Any claim that a group has the right to eternally govern a territory must be based on the assumption that there was a moment of primary acquisition—a particular invasion or migration or political absorption that permanently decided the rightful owners of the land. Any subsequent invasions or migrations have to be disregarded. This is absurd: no impartial judgement can really be made about primary acquisition, so land just ends up being ruled by the greatest power.
The Nation as Biology
Some people think that nations began as ethnic groups and can therefore be thought of as biological realities, but if we try to pursue this logic we quickly run into problems. A significant proportion of the people now living in England and thinking of themselves as English are in fact genetically descended from Germanic tribes, who invaded the British Isles in the fifth century CE. As the philosopher Bertrand Russell puts it so scathingly, the English invaded Britain and caused it to become England. Of course, most nationalists in the UK today would hardly welcome the idea that to be English is to be Germanic, considering the recent historical rivalry between England and Germany. But if we delve deep enough into the murky depths of our collective history, we will keep finding these inconvenient truths.
This is because humans don't stay still: they move around. They invade and displace each other, and they spread their seed wherever they go. As a result, genetic ancestry is hopelessly confused. Today, you can send off your saliva and have your DNA processed in a lab, and, when you get your results, you can excitedly announce on Facebook that you are 25% English, 10% French, and so on. But the tests only show where some of your ancestors lived at one particular point in the distant past. They capture a snapshot of a single brief moment in the immense and complicated history of human migration and miscegenation—a moment that is only significant because we happen to have reference databases for that moment and not for all the countless other moments. And so all we can really do with current technology is tell an individual that they have a genetic connection to some of the people living in Western Europe or some of the people living in the Americas at a random point in the past, etc. We can't get any more specific than that.
The Molecular and Cultural Evolution page of the University College London website explains that "testing companies will often assign national labels to genetic clusters, whereas gene variance frequencies tend to change smoothly across borders. Thus, French people may be assigned a large percentage of 'British' ancestry. Normandy and Kent are genetically similar, as you would expect from history and geography, so it is not easy to distinguish English from French based on DNA alone." It seems to me that it is even less easy to distinguish not easy from impossible. Ultimately, to describe someone as West European or Native American is a drastic over-simplification—a wild stab in the dark based on minimal data. But to describe a person as British or French is to move out of the arena of science altogether, and into the realm of fantasy.
As we saw with the Indonesian example, these national fantasies will often cut right across existing ethnic boundary lines. Nigeria was dreamed up by the British Empire, who merged the various ethnic groups living in the vicinity of the Niger river and classified them as two imperial protectorates. These protectorates were then combined, at which point the Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Edo and many other diverse people groups learned, to their surprise, that they were all now Nigerian. These cynical origins were quickly forgotten, of course, and now Nigerian nationalists feel a deep connection to an imperial lie from recent history.
The Problem with Illusions
So nations are not connected by language, history, geography or biology, but they do have one consistent element: shared belief. You might think that this is enough. If members of these artificial groups have invested emotionally in their identities, then perhaps the emotional investment gives substance to the identities. Anderson is at pains to point out that his use of the word imagined in the term imagined community refers only to the phenomenon by which "the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion." To be imaginary in this sense, he argues, is not to be false. He is wrong—it's absolutely crucial for us to understand that these imagined communities are false: they are imagined in the negative sense of the word, in the sense that they are a misrepresentation of the real world. These groups have been thrown together, they are constantly subject to change, and because of this their impact is entirely destructive.
As willing members of these imagined communities, we subject ourselves to the idle whims of emperors and aristocrats and their modern-day equivalents. We make competitors and enemies out of people who are really no different from us, and we fight and die in pointless wars, for empty causes. There is something slavish—almost masochistic—in our meek acceptance of the identities handed down to us by authority figures. "We have made Italy," said the politician Massimo d'Azeglio at the first meeting of the parliament of the newly-formed Italian kingdom, "now we have to make Italians." That cynicism lies just beneath the surface of all national identities, and it completely undermines any legitimacy we might have given the identity via our emotional investment.
In his 2016 documentary Before the Flood, actor Leonardo DiCaprio sits down to talk about fossil fuel consumption with Sunita Narain from the Centre for Science and Environment in Delhi. Their conversation provides a remarkable snapshot of the difficulties national identity presents for the solution of a global crisis like man-made climate change. "If you created the problem in the past, we will create it in the future," Narain tells DiCaprio. "I would have really liked the US to move towards solar, but you haven't." DiCaprio agrees: "We have to practise what we preach." She keeps haranguing him: "I'm sorry to say this, I know you're an American … but your consumption is going to really put a hole in the planet … We are doing more investment in solar today, China is doing much more investment in solar today, than the US is … You are a fossil-addicted country." Such conversations are close to useless, because of this chronic ability to get beyond you and we. Dialogue is completely obstructed by the weeds and thorns of national identity. Even when people are genuinely looking for a solution to a shared problem, they can't swallow their pride or stop pointlessly apportioning blame. This attitude will be fatal in a world threatened by global problems requiring global solutions.
I recently had a heated conversation with a (British) guy who was loudly insisting that Western governments have always been the most tyrannical in the world. When he began praising the Chinese Communist Party, I felt the need to protest. I began listing the various outrages against Chinese citizens committed by leaders from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, but he wasn't interested. Instead he wanted to know what gave us the right to criticise them. This man had stated earlier that he believed very strongly in the concept of individual sovereignty, and I agreed with him, but when the subject turned to China he suddenly seemed far more interested in national sovereignty. His beloved individual sovereignty didn't apply to individuals living on the other side of the world. This is just one of the traps into which we are led by our belief in the existence of nations. Our moral sense is drastically—perhaps unnaturally—restricted: we stop caring about the plight of human beings who belong to a different imagined community, despite the fact that these human beings are fundamentally the same as us.
The Legacy of the Nation
Our belief in national identity is dangerous. Nation-forming has necessitated either the assimilation or exclusion, often by force, of those outside arbitrary boundaries. It has spelled disaster for many of the minorities living within the new boundaries, as we saw with the rise of anti-Semitism among the nations formed from the dissolved Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I. The same prejudice had existed before the arrival of the imperialists, but it had been effectively suppressed during the days of empire. Once these nations gained their independence, the old ugliness rose to the surface again. We saw the same thing after World War II with the anti-Chinese sentiment among nations in South-East Asia, the anti-Indian sentiment among nations in East Africa, and the anti-Lebanese sentiment among nations in West Africa, and we saw it later in the twentieth century with the ethnic violence in territories that had formerly been part of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
Nationalism was one of the root causes of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans during the twentieth century, and one of the root causes of the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany. In Eastern Europe over recent decades, it has been responsible for obstructing the rule of law, free market economics and the rise of liberalism and democracy. Today, in this crowded interconnected twenty-first century in which we have all become immediate neighbours, it presents a bigger threat than ever before. For as long as we have the illusion of nations, we will have the nightmare of nationalism. If we want peace and progress, we have to banish the illusion.
This essay was partly adapted from a book in progress.
The Nation State
Aaron Sarin is a freelance writer living in Sheffield and currently working on a book about global governance. He also contributes to seceder.co.uk
Eve Griffin
Seemingly left out is religion's contribution to wiping out nations and causing indigenous people to become extinct.
Religious beliefs are the ultimate illusion housed in each nation.
Pinkot
There is a fundamental problem in the modernist argument, and that is that even while it is true that nations are imagined communities, and that at the beginning of the heyday of nationalism there were many Englishes and Frenches, none the less people employed nationalistic language throughout especially in times of war and peril. The ancient Romans and Greeks thought of themselves in nationalistic terms, and indeed if you wanted to become a Roman, you had to do as the Romans did. It also speaks to the naturalness of such in-group thinking that the process of creating a clearer national imagination was such a roaring success in terms of getting people to think in terms of nations. Nations are malleable and changeable, but that does not mean that nations are then non-existant. As @Steve K points out in this thread, (almost) no concept can be defined with clear borders, and… Read more »
Litafae
Conservatives assure us – assure us! – that they love diversity (as long as there's a fence in the way), and that transnational solidarity amounts to bleak "homogenization".
Don't bring up perennial intranational diversity in their presence, they get kind of worked up about that lack of homogeneity.
John P Baxter
Many nation states were forged through imperialism. Most of the examples of bad nation states that gave rise to ethnic and sectarian violence were the result of haphazard boundaries being drawn around different ethnic groups by imperialist European countries. However not all nation states came about through this manner many formed under more natural conditions. It's wrong to compare the nation state of Canada or France to the more recent nation states of Iraq or Nigeria. Not all nation states came into existence in the same manner yet the article seems to imply that much. Additionally because history was a messy affair with empires rising and falling does not invalidate the usefulness of a nation state with a shared identity even if that history is somewhat illusory. The goal of culture and society is to find the best way for groups to live and coexist. The nation state has proven… Read more »
Ernst Renan covered all of this ground (language, geography, identity, etc) in the 1880s in his speech/essay "What is a Nation?": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_a_Nation%3F
Why You Should Be a Nationalist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfJ25LXtLTg
So the writer is not familiar with ingroup/outgroup relations? This makes him disqualified to discuss the issue. The nation is nothing but the tribe writ large.
I see the "global governance" keyword here. No surprise. Anyone interested in where the idea came from should read Quigley's Tragedy and Hope, downloadable for free from his website. Bill Clinton cited Quigley in his inaugural address in 1992. There's a lot in there about global governance and the reasons nations act as they do. A great read, but long.
Steve K
The main argument in this piece seems to be that because each of the dimensions of language, history, geography and biology can not fully by themselves explain nations and admit some clear outliers, that therefore these dimensions have nothing whatsoever to do with nations – which must therefore be illusory and bear no resemblance to reality.
This seems a pretty weak argument, as many concepts have fuzzy boundaries that lack reduction to one dimension, and yet do cleave reality at the joints in some important way.
I'm reminded of Justice Stewart in the US, when attempting to define pornography, as saying that he can't define it but knows it when he sees it. I suppose that the response of the author would be to show exceptions along any particular dimension and thus explain how it's all actually an illusion.
Raymond Scupin
'Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism' by Azar Gat with Alexander Yakosbon, Cambridge, 2013. The book has been criticized by some as reductionist and biological determinist, the same critique promoted against evolutionary psychology. But I thought it was an amazing tour de force. He argues that 'nations and nationalism are not primordial; nonetheless, they are rooted in primordial human sentiments of kin-culture affinity, solidarity, and mutual cooperation, evolutionarily engraved in human nature.'
And yet, nations exist, because people feel they belong to one, for a complex combinations of reasons, linguistic, historical, geographic, ethnic, different for every nation.
This waving of the scarecrows of ethnic cleansing, etc. is just another slippery-slope argument. The same kind made on the other side of the spectrum, "Any government interference in the business of individuals is just the first step to the gulag"…
Any belief can be taken to a nefarious extreme, that does not make the more mainstream version dangerous, it just means don't take any belief to its nefarious extreme.