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Finalist – Mosaic Arts International Exhibition
The Society of American Mosaic Art (SAMA) has selected work by Bonnie Cohen, to be included in this year's Mosaic Arts International, an annual juried exhibition of the best in contemporary mosaic art. The exhibition takes place at the Lexington Center Museum and Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky, March 1 through April 30, 2012.
"This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to view outstanding examples of mosaic art from around the world in one venue, to allow the audience to experience the exciting ways that artists are utilizing this ancient art form with a modern and contemporary approach," said Shug Jones, President of the SAMA Board of Trustees. "These artists are using both traditional and non-traditional materials to really propel the art form to a degree unseen in recent history."
Ms. Jones adds, "We invite the public to attend. This show is impressive in every respect. We are very excited to introduce Lexington's enthusiastic arts community to such well-known mosaicists from around the world. It's a wonderful opportunity to offer an intimate look at a very textural art form that really must be seen in person to experience the full resonance of its' beauty and depth of meaning."
Bonnie Cohen's artwork, entitled "Acts of Loving Kindness" is a dimensional wall sculpture that is 6ft high by 12ft long and made of recycled glass tiles, stone and handmade tiles. Bonnie re-interpreted Judaic symbols into a contemporary design for Temple Beth Sholom in Cherry Hill, NJ, which commissioned the artwork to pay tribute to congregants who have performed "acts of loving kindness" for their congregation. The artwork will be represented photographically in the exhibition.
MAI features the work of 56 mosaic artists from 24 different states in the US, as well as from Turkey, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and Israel. A vast array of material such as smalti, glass, ceramic, and metal are featured within the works of these artists. The exhibit includes 2 dimensional, 3 dimensional, and architectural works. Prizes totaling $5,000 will be awarded for the best in each of these categories as well as for 'Best in Show'.
MAI is a highly competitive annual exhibition that unites innovative design and masterful technique as explored by some of the best international artists working in the medium.
Temple Beth Shalom Donor Recognition Project Artist Statement
Acts of Loving-kindness are the three pillars upon which the world is built"
These meaningful words from rabbinic sages were the inspiration for the donor recognition artwork for Temple Beth Shalom. Judaism encourages people to reach out and help those in need. By performing these actions, we can help make the world a better place to live.
Temple Beth Shalom brings people together to pray, to learn, to celebrate holidays, and to perform acts of loving-kindness. When life presents us with challenges, we gain strength, courage and comfort from our caring community. Even the smallest act of loving-kindness can make a difference in someone's life and those acts of loving-kindness create the underlying theme and energy for this artwork.
The quote that will be featured on the donor wall, "Let them build me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them" comes from the Torah portion that describes the building of the Mishkan, the portable sanctuary that G-d commanded the Jews to build. Among the many specific instructions given to Moshe, there was a detailed description of the Menorah. Today the Menorah is still the most recognizable Jewish symbol and that is why it was chosen as the starting point for this design.
This artwork emerged from a stylized image of a Menorah combined with the Hebrew letter "shin" at its center. The "shin" begins the word "Shaddai", one of the names of God. This is to acknowledge that God's presence and his gift of Torah is at the center, the heart, of all we do on earth. Our acts of loving-kindness make it possible for Him to dwell among us.
The Menorah and the shin contain the colors described in the Torah portion: blues, purples reds, and gold. The mosaic artwork contains predominately recycled mosaic glass tiles as well as unique handmade tiles. The artwork comes alive with action by reconfiguring the symbols and putting them in motion to create a unique and individual design full of creative expression, excitement, luminosity, and inspiration.
There is inspiration in seeing new ways to interpret our sacred symbols. The names of the generous donors, whose names will be part of this exciting wall, have taken action to make sure that their children will continue to fulfill God's commandments by studying Torah, praying together and performing acts of loving-kindness in the caring community that is Temple Beth Shalom.


text: Night photography is not something I have done much of. When we had the Red assignment, I tried taking pictures of car tail lights, which turned out fine, but not very interesting. I'm not sure this is all that interesting either, but here it is. There is a little lake down the road from us, I had noticed the house lights shine on the water in a nice way, so we went down last night to take pictures (we got to talk to the cops, too, who were out doing their rounds and wondered why someone pulled into the park at 11:00 at night). I wish I had taken more time and tried different settings — the only changes I made were to the ISO settings — and different angles. This is a 30 second exposure at f/25 (3200 ISO). I like the shape of the lights.

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US STOCKS-Wall St pares losses on encouraging U.S. factory data
By Tanya Agrawal
June 1 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks pared losses on Wednesday after encouraging factory data, but remained lower, with falling oil prices weighing on energy companies and financials retreating as chances of a rate hike this month ebbed on weak China data.
China's official factory activity gauge expanded only marginally in May, data showed, while a private survey showed conditions deteriorated for a fifteenth straight month, kindling fears of a global slowdown.
"We had some overnight data points out of China that gave investors some pause this morning," said Bill Northey, chief investment officer at U.S. Bank Private Client Group in Great Falls, Montana.
"I think there are some concerns regarding global growth and enough headwinds remain for some profit taking."
Data showed that while U.S. manufacturing activity expanded for a third straight month in May, growth in new orders continued to slow.
But, construction spending recorded its biggest decline in more than five years in April as spending fell broadly, which could prompt economists to lower their second-quarter growth estimates.
That could possibly stay the hand of the Federal Reserve, which caught investors off guard in May when it signaled its next rate hike could be as soon as its June 14-15 meeting.
Traders are now pricing only a 20 percent chance of a hike in June, down from a probability of around 32 percent on Monday, according to the CME Group FedWatch tool.
Crude prices fell on expectations of OPEC inaction on output due to its focus staying on market share, while China concerns weighed on the demand outlook. Exxon and Chevron were down about 1 percent.
At 10:55 a.m. ET (1455 GMT) the Dow Jones industrial average was down 54.41 points, or 0.31 percent, at 17,732.79, while the S&P 500 was down 4.01 points, or 0.19 percent, at 2,092.95.
The Nasdaq Composite was down 2.95 points, or 0.06 percent, at 4,945.11. The index got a boost from Costco , which rose 2.6 percent after Goldman Sachs upgraded the stock to "buy".
Seven of the 10 major S&P sectors were lower, with the energy index's 0.84 percent fall leading the decliners.
The biggest drag on the S&P 500 was the financial index , which dropped 0.3 percent.
Handbag maker Michael Kors rose 5.8 percent to $45.02 after posting its strongest sales growth in a year and announcing a new share buyback.
Demandware soared 55.7 percent to $74.73 after Salesforce.com agreed to buy the company in a $2.8 billion deal. Salesforce was down 0.2 percent at $82.57.
Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by 1,589 to 1,271. On the Nasdaq, 1,445 issues fell and 1,127 advanced.
The S&P 500 index showed five new 52-week high and one new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 28 new highs and 14 new lows. (Reporting by Tanya Agrawal; Editing by Savio D'Souza)
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Windows Mobile 7 Delayed Yet Again
Posted: Saturday, September 27th, 2008 by Gene
Multiple sources are reporting that Windows Mobile 7, which was due for release to developers/manufacturers early 2009, has been delayed yet again. it's now looking like late 2009 before the developers/manufacturers will be able to get their hands on it and take it for a spin. While devices running WM7 aren't due for release until 2010, this will still mean major problems for developers/manufacturers and is going to give Apple's iPhone even more time to increase their footprint in the market and people's pockets/ears as it will probably mean they won't be able to design applications/devices around the new OS.
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We don't get any kids here where we live....i miss that.
I made 10 of these treat bags to take to Bingo tonight..as there is some of the gals with young-uns that i have watched grow up..so will give them out to them or the parents tonight.
I made the little pumpkin charms from shrink plastic..and put o rings on ..the boys can use them as zipper pulls and the girls as charms..or i know a couple of my Grand-Daughters friends that i gave to put them hooked to their laces on their runners..
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Treat Bags
Labels: October 2011
5 comments:
- Patti J said...
These are adorable, Gail, and I'm sure that your friends appreciated your thinking about their young'uns! We don't get trick or treaters either. I sort of miss them, but not enough to move back into town! lol...
- October 31, 2011 at 8:36 AM
- Donna said...
Great treat bags Gail!
Love them!!
- October 31, 2011 at 12:15 PM
- Mina said...
we only got two trick or treater this year Gail, I guess we will have to eat the rest lol...wow to your amazing treat bags...stunningly made and what a brill idea too
Mina xxx
- October 31, 2011 at 7:46 PM
- Tracy said...
These are so cute, love the charms you made as well.
I would be sad not to get the young ones at my door as well.
- November 1, 2011 at 10:22 PM
- Hi...I'm Cindy said...
these are great, I bet they were happy to get these cool goody bags
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For the nation's biggest independent broker-dealers, the path to growth has hit a speed bump.
The rate of revenue growth slowed last year by more than half when compared with the prior year, according to numbers provided by the firms themselves - a falloff due in part to a volatile equity market and a slowdown in recruiting.
And while the industry's fundamentals and long-term prospects look solid, a shifting competitive and regulatory landscape has the potential to radically reshape its future.
"IBDs are a bit of a wild card to predict because their business model is evolving quickly," says Chip Roame, managing partner of Tiburon Strategic Advisors. Citing just one of the industry's X factors, he adds, they "may be the big recipients of the breakaway brokers [from wirehouses] or they may face their own attrition issues as advisors move to fee-only models."
The 28th annual FP50 ranking of the nation's largest independent broker-dealers captures an industry that has healed and grown stronger after the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009. Yet the industry also faces a transformative 15- to 20-year process of consolidation, numerous observers say; depending on who you talk to, the broker-dealers are either well along that road or still at the beginning. And a number of external factors last year may have combined to slow industrywide revenue growth: Median revenue grew by 4.7% in 2012, down from 11.9% in 2011.The question these firms now face is: Was 2012 an inflection point or simply an aberration?
The leveling off may have roots in the recent downturn. In the 2009 FP50, median revenue plunged 14%, then gained 13.2% the following year. Despite last year's slowdown, though, many observers say they expect revenue growth this year.
At first glance, the rankings of the top five seem to have changed little from last year's figures. The industry's leader, behemoth LPL, is still the No. 1 firm by an ever-widening margin after 17 years at the top of the list. With 13,336 advisors, LPL is now the fourth-largest financial services firm in the country after the three largest wirehouses - and dwarfs the No. 2 firm, Ameriprise, with 7,449 independent advisors.
Even typically turbocharged LPL saw its growth cut in half, however, falling to 7.3% last year from 14% in 2011. The drop was even more precipitous for Ameriprise, where growth dropped to 2.4% from 14.8% the prior year. Raymond James, at No. 3, scored a slightly better 4%, off from 15.2% in 2011.
Industry standard bearers Commonwealth, at No. 4, and Cambridge Investment Research, at No. 9, outperformed other members of the top 10 with growth rates of 10.1% and 13.5%, respectively (versus 11.5% and 17% in 2011).
Further down on the top 20, however, the rankings show a couple of other changes. After a period of aggressive recruiting, Wells Fargo Advisors rose to No. 6 from an adjusted seventh-place slot; it also scored the highest growth rate in the top 10, at 14.7%, after a 17% drop in revenue in 2011. MetLife dropped to No.8 from No. 6, reflecting a contraction that may have lead the firm to sell its two independent broker-dealers, Tower Square Securities and Walnut Street Securities, to Cetera Financial Group earlier this year.
And take note of one codicil to the rankings. Several large networks of independent broker-dealers report finances separately for each of their component firms. However, if those network numbers were consolidated, Advisor Group (owned by AIG) would take the No. 4 spot, Cetera would be No. 5, National Planning Holdings No. 6 and Ladenburg Thalmann would fall behind Commonwealth and AXA at No. 9.
In theory, the growth horizon should look practically limitless for this financial advisory channel. Independent broker-dealers stand to benefit, along with the rest of the financial services industry, from the generational transfer of assets now under way. For the next two decades, somewhere between $15 trillion and $30 trillion is anticipated to move from retiring baby boomers to their Gen X and Gen Y offspring. This megatrend, along with expectations that global wealth will balloon to $330 trillion by 2017, from $223 trillion last year , may very well float all financial advisory boats.
"In my view it's the most exciting time to be an advisor in this business," says Larry Roth, CEO of the Advisor Group network and a 30-year industry veteran. "We will have more potential retail clients than we can probably handle for the next 20 years. This year will be the best year or the second best year in [Advisor Group's] history."
Yet the channel faces an array of potential spoilers, including regulatory challenges as well as competition from rival RIAs and wirehouses.
For their part, wirehouses have wised up to the stream of advisor departures. Looking to stem the flow, the Wall Street giants have put rich retention packages in place for key troops. "They've been much more aggressive in trying to lock down their advisors," says Bill Williams, executive vice president of Ameriprise Franchise Group, which oversees the company's independent advisory business.
The wirehouses are also dangling fat transition packages - typically three to three-and-a-half times trailing 12-month revenue - to lure in top fee-based teams, according to Mindy Diamond of advisor recruiting firm Diamond Consultants. She says an advisor who is willing to work in an environment that is less than fully independent might logically think: "Why not go to the wirehouse world, where there's much more support, more technology and a big fat transition package?"
At the other end of the spectrum, the broker-dealers must counter the appeal of the RIA space - particularly if regulators fail to monitor that space as fully as they currently oversee wirehouses and independent broker-dealers. That regulatory differential is actually exacerbating the competition for talent, executives say.
"RIAs are regulated infinitesimally compared to B-Ds," says Cambridge Investment Research CEO Eric Schwartz. "If [regulators] make it harder and harder to do commission-based business, those changes could be a huge blow to the independent B-D space."
Raymond James Financial Services President Scott Curtis agrees. "We need to close that gap," Curtis says. "Those differences are pretty stark and pretty wide. ... [Advisors] all ought to be operating under the same standard of care."
In just one indicator of the current uneven playing field, Curtis points out that blogs and marketing materials, while heavily regulated at independent broker-dealers, escape compliance oversight at RIAs. "That is a big difference," he says.
Traditionally, one of the most important ways to grow revenues has been to add advisors to a firm. Many independent broker-dealers, especially the largest ones, have done so by either acquiring other firms or recruiting advisors. But recruiting in particular has become more difficult, experts say.
"Overall, we are seeing a trend of slowing recruiting," says Phil Palaveev, founder of Seattle-based practice consulting firm Ensemble Practice. "The IBD industry has consolidated dramatically and the remaining firms are very strong. Those are not B-Ds that lose advisors very easily." As competition for talent increases, independent broker-dealers are focusing on internal growth more intensely than ever. In fact, organic growth may be the new, unsung success story.
"My sense is last year was a good year for organic growth," says Palaveev, who is at work on a report on the subject and puts revenue growth for the channel at 11% to 12% this year.
Schwartz, Cambridge's CEO, estimates industrywide growth rates for 2013 will range from 8% to 12%, and forecasts his own firm will post even better numbers: "We are up over 20% in the first quarter," he says.
One indication of the focus on organic growth is the fact that many top independent broker-dealers recently have introduced internship, mentoring or training programs.
Perhaps the most developed is that of Ameriprise, which Williams says is bringing in 400 to 500 new advisors every year through multiple training offerings, including its Ameriprise University program. "If we can recruit in a lot of novices who are really well trained, it's a great succession strategy," he says, pointing to another benefit of a strong internal pipeline of young advisors. "This is critical to my five-year to 10-year growth strategy," he says.
The financial crisis lit a fire under the program, he says. As Ameriprise advisors watched their revenues decline in 2008 and 2009, they began to rethink their business models. Suddenly, hiring graduates straight out of college looked more appealing. After a few independent regional efforts, Ameriprise formalized the program at the national level about 18 months ago.
Other firms have also been working to develop internal talent. Cambridge plans to launch a national internship program next year; last year, it initiated a summer internship program. The firm anticipates having 21 college students participate this summer, drawn from a field of more than 400 applicants, says Cambridge's president, Amy Webber.
Advisor Group is running a mentor group specifically to groom new women advisors. Cetera says it is in the early stages of building an internal training program of its own. And Raymond James has introduced a mentorship program in which younger advisors can work with senior ones. The program has proved so popular, Curtis says, that "one of the constraints is that there are only so many new mentors."
Other firms are taking different paths to growth. LPL has chosen to grow mainly through acquisition. And Commonwealth, with a focus on high-producing advisors, only recruits planners with significant revenue streams, says Joseph Deitch, Commonwealth's founder and chairman. "We are not looking for resources to train neophytes," Deitch says.
Although LPL doesn't track the number of young, unlicensed advisors entering its firms, it does devote significant resources to helping younger advisors buy practices from older ones - a variation on internal development.
"We are the eHarmony of advisors and sellers at LPL," says Derek Bruton, LPL's managing director and national sales manager. "LPL provides the capital for the buyer to acquire those businesses and structures a phaseout for the seller. I don't know of any other firm that provides all those resources, plus the capital to sell those firms."
That points to a more basic form of internal growth: helping advisors grow their existing businesses. Especially given the challenges in recruiting, many firms are making this a heavy focus. Three years ago, the average advisor at Ameriprise was bringing in $280,000 in gross dealer concessions - a commonly used measure that reflects the commission-based revenue each advisor delivers to the firm. That number has risen to $460,000, Williams says.
Commonwealth says for its advisors, that figure increased to more than $400,000 in 2012 from an average of $357,000 in 2010. Raymond James says its average advisor is on track to bring in $382,000 this year, versus $357,000 in 2011.
The story is a bit different at top-ranked LPL. To achieve rapid expansion over the past several years, LPL has brought in more advisors in the $150,000 range on gross dealer concessions, according to several experts. For LPL's advisors, concessions were flat at $220,000 between 2011 and 2012, the firm says.
It remains to be seen which growth strategy will offer the best payoff. Might Commonwealth suffer if it can't find sufficient high-performing advisors to feed its growth goals - especially in the absence of an internal grooming program? Will LPL be able to develop new advisors' practices enough to keep margins robust? The answers to these questions (and others) will determine which firms become market leaders in the future and which ones lag.
In what could be a sign of trouble at LPL, former advisors at the firm as well as recruiters report growing dissatisfaction. While LPL continues to add to its ranks - advisor headcount grew 3.8% in 2012, and also rose in the first quarter over the year-ago period - recruiters and executives at rival firms say they have seen a marked increase in inquiries from LPL advisors looking to leave. Several advisors who have left LPL say they've done so because of a reduction in the quality of service from the home office.
"The level of service was not what we were used to or had expected," says David O'Block, a founding partner at Equity Advisor Group in Murrysville, Pa., who left LPL for Cambridge in November.
He says he found LPL's technology "user-hostile," its compliance staff "adversarial" and its overall operations muddled. "The left hand [at LPL] didn't know what the right hand was doing," he complains.
In response, an LPL spokesman pointed to the firm's success in attracting an industry-leading number of new advisors: 505 net new advisors for 2012. "We typically attract a higher-level producer than those who leave LPL Financial, as evidenced in part by our advisor production retention, which was 95% in 2012," the spokesman says.
He also dismissed comments from rival firms: "In an era of increased industry consolidation and uncertainty, it's natural to hear competitors engage in negative speculation about the leader in the space. We don't pay attention to such speculation."
Another sign of change in the independent broker-dealer space is the increasing similarity between the top players and their RIA counterparts. For the first time last year, fee revenue exceeded commission revenue for Ameriprise and Wells Fargo. Cambridge and Commonwealth also routinely bring in more fees than commissions.
In fact, the median percentage of revenue accounted for by fees has increased to 26% from 21% across the FP50 between 2010 and 2012. Given the growing popularity of the fee-based or fee-only models, this trend is likely to continue.
And certainly, given the intense competition for advisors, firms in each channel are constantly stretching the lengths they will go to serve them. Commonwealth, for example, bills itself as "a de facto technology company" as much as a B-D, Deitch says. At Cetera, where advisors used to control all aspects of the client relationship themselves, "now we are getting more and more in the business of helping them serve their clients from a technology standpoint," says Brett Harrison, president of Cetera Advisors - one of four Cetera Financial Group independent broker-dealers on this year's list.
On the RIA side, in contrast, dual registration is proving to be the most popular business model, as more newly minted RIAs decide it makes sense to retain commission income, even as a small percentage of their revenue streams.
"The line between [independent] B-Ds and the largest RIAs is blurring, in the sense that the business of a B-D supporting advisors and the business of a large RIA supporting advisors are becoming surprisingly similar," says Palaveev, the practice consulting firm executive.
Pay a visit to the largest and best firms in both channels, he says, and "I guarantee you, we would not be able to tell which has a B-D. There are differences in the way they are regulated and in the way they operate, but those differences don't define the practice."
He has hosted development retreats for advisors who only discover, days into the gathering, that a percentage of them have B-D relationships while the others do not. In many cases, the perceived differences boil down to emotion. "It really comes from a tribal prejudice," Palaveev says. "Half of it comes from a self-serving desire to proclaim, 'We are better.'"
Some experts, like Diamond, think of the independent broker-dealer space as a transitional spot for advisors. The advisors who become disenchanted with independence might be better off back at wirehouses, she thinks. Others who set out to build their own practices may be happy only with the full customization afforded by the RIA framework. Yet another group will choose to affiliate with emerging aggregators like Focus Financial and HighTower Advisors, which offer up yet more diverse flavors of independence.
But as long as there are advisors who want a modified form of independence along with the support a larger firm, the independent broker-dealer will continue to thrive, she says.
The beauty of today," Diamond adds, "is that there are so many solutions that all an advisor has to do is raise a hand and say, 'I'm frustrated.'Chances are very good that there will be a solution that meets his needs."
Ann Marsh is a senior editor and the West Coast bureau chief of Financial Planning.
The percentage of Raymond James Financial Services accounts with more than $100,000 is 33%. The charts accompanying the print version of the FP50 annual survey said the percentage was 82%.
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I like having a good looking business card. Apparently, this is essential in some circles as judgment is passed immediately upon viewing of one's business card. If it is not dramatic, bold, clean, and powerful, then you are dismissed in lieu of the next business card who is indeed dramatic, bold, clean, and powerful. Recently, a renowned computer hacker and security specialist released an image of his newest business card... its a lock-picking set, emblazoned with his contact info. Talk about bold and ............. just plain cool. Not to be outdone, I've decided to choose a new particularly cool design for my own business card, hoping to express all of those features about me in one 2" x 3.5" piece of paper. If it was left to that, I'd be the most dramatic, bold, clean, and powerful preacher-guy in the world! Unfortunately, we all know that just isn't true.
As we move into more pertinent thoughts, this blog will tie both last week's ramblings (found here) and this past week's sermon (9/21/14) together. Check em out if you havent already.
The Pharisees had truly awesome business cards. These guys had history, power, tradition, sweet threads, and the expectations of a nation to throw around. In fact, they didnt even need to hand you a physical card, they wore it! You could see/feel/experience their power before they actually entered the room. They were the ultimate display in political and religious influence of the day. And when Jesus entered the scene, his business card made theirs look........pathetic. Can you imagine, if we can take a moment, the business card Jesus could hand you?! Talk about a statement! He could go with simple, and hand you a card that bore only the image of a blood-stained cross, or an empty tomb. He had the credentials to present the most cool, dramatic, powerful, and bold business card imaginable.
What he offered though was a hand to the sick. A kind word to the beaten and weary. Hope for the hopeless. Honor to the humble. A stumbling block to the arrogant. His business card had dirt all over it.
What Jesus gave WAS the Kingdom of God, in the flesh. Instead of showing the world how awesome he was on the surface, or by handing someone a business card that spoke of how awesome he was, he simply WAS awesome. Much like the issue in Mark 12 in which Jesus tells us that belief (or looking awesome on the outside) gets us CLOSE to the Kingdom of God, it does not deliver us all the way. We must BE, or DO in order to fulfill what Jesus meant, means, and will accomplish. THAT is the Kingdom of God. And it is much more powerful and bold than a fancy business card.
So what are we showing the world? Are we handing them a sparkling outward appearance (our own version of a business card), and a group of people who dress well and gather regularly on Sunday mornings all the while the life we live is FAR from the message our business card speaks? This is the very core message that Jesus had for the Pharisees in Matthew 23. Great business card, lousy on the inside. The cleanliness of the Pharisees did not extend inward, to the heart and soul.
Better than any cool looking business card, lets offer the world something tangible that points to the Kingdom of God, and proves that we've got it (and arent far from it, ala Mark 12). Things like generosity and forgiveness go a lot further than any power displayed on a piece of paper.


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By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – A report by Brazil's Ministry of Transparency and the General Comptroller of the Union (CGU) found that 56.4 percent of the Minha Casa, Minha Vida (My Home, My Life) apartments units evaluated showed considerable structural damages in their construction, with leaning, cracked walls and leaky ceilings.
"Regarding the constructions, defects were observed in 56.4 percent of the units of the sample visited, structural failures occurred within the warranty period. The main ones were: infiltrations, lack of plumb in walls (tilting of walls), cracks and leaks," said the report released on Wednesday (August 16th) by the Ministry.
Despite the problems encountered, officials said the satisfaction of the beneficiaries interviewed in relation to program was positive. "The level (of satisfaction) was considered 'high' in 33.1 percent of cases and 'medium' in 47.2 percent," noted Ministry officials.
According to the Ministry of Transparency, the result may be related to the fact that federal bank Caixa Economica, which is lending the money for the program, and the construction companies involved in the works have offered assistance and conducted repairs in the damaged units.
According to officials 1,472 units were evaluated in 77 Minha Casa Minha Vida complexes in twelve states. The assessment also noted that less than 20 percent of residents reported flooding, poor lighting and lack of pavement in the external areas.
After the document was presented, officials at the Cities Ministry, in charge of the national program, were quick to state that the evaluations were made in 2015, "before the changes of rules were presented by the current administration".
According to the Ministry of Cities new projects for Minha Casa Minha Vida units will now follow more rigorous construction standards. "It is important to remember that the changes made this year will only affect the new scope of the program and, therefore, will only be felt in future units," the note from the Cities Ministry stated.
The Minha Casa Minha Vida is a massive public low-income housing program launched by the Brazilian PT Workers' Party in 2009. Since then the program has had investments totaling R$300 billion, more than 4.2 million housing units authorized for construction and 2.62 million units delivered to low-income families.


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The Manila International Auto Show (MIAS) is always a good venue for car manufacturers to showcase their highly anticipated models. But this year, Volkswagen Philippines did something different as they kicked-start the campaign for their global Child Safety Initiative (CSI) in the country.
In a study done by the World Health Organization (WHO), about 1.24 million people around the globe die each year because of road-related accidents, second only to HIV/AIDS. That's why this CSI aptly named "Miles for Smiles" aims to reduce the alarming rate of casualties among motor vehicle accidents based on its 2 main pillars:
(1) teaching and educating parents and their children about possible dangers on the road and;
(2) understanding the passive safety features that comes in every Volkswagen vehicle such as airbags, active collision systems, and the use of ISOFIX child seat fixations.
"Every parent wants to ensure his or her child is safe and protected at all times. At Volkswagen, we believe children should be protected to the utmost while traveling in the family car. To us, this is not just an aim – it is an obligation and responsibility." – Volkswagen Philippines
During the launch of this campaign, Volkswagen Philippines set up a booth which highlights a "child safety corner" that encourages the public on topics about road safety.
This setup consists of 2 major components: a Junior Driving Course and a Child Seat Corner.
The 50-sq. meter junior driving course had 5 Volkswagen pushcarts as part of its educational program. This allowed children to have basic knowledge of some road safety rules through a professional instructor explaining the use of traffic lights and road signs.
Meanwhile, the Child Seat Corner displayed Volkswagen Child Seats with ISOFIX that had been crash-tested by the German Technical Inspection Association (TUV) and various international safety organizations. It comes in 3 classes for babies to children with varying ages. These child seats are available as a genuine accessory at all Volkswagen dealerships nationwide and can be fitted in all its vehicles.
After MIAS, this campaign for road safety will be conducted nationwide through various workshops, tie-ups, crash simulations, mini-driving courses in malls and schools from kindergarten to primary education. In order to effectively promote such initiative, Volkswagen Philippines has partnered with institutions like Safe Kids Worldwide Philippines, Philippine Global Road Safety Partnership, and the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC). It's also supported by media affiliates Top Gear Philippines, Philippine Star, and Motoring Today.
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Volkswagen felt a little sick about having just five colors for the Golf R and decided to add 40 more.
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I love making these Top Note Quilt cards. It's not a new idea, but they are so much fun, I just had to share. And they are such a great way to use up designer paper scraps.
I made this card today using Razzleberry Lemonade designer paper from the new 2009/2010 Idea Book & Catalog. Scroll down to the end of the post for more samples.
This is how you make them:
Here are a couple more examples. The first is made with Bella Bleu designer paper and Kraft cardstock that I ran through a Texturz plate. The second is a club card we made in May with the now retired Bella Rose paper.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Have a wonderful weekend!
If you would like to order the supplies to make these cards, please visit my Stampin' Up! website.
Razzleberry Card
- Paper: Rich Razzleberry textured c/stock (115719), Razzleberry Lemonade designer paper (115675), Whisper White c/stock (100730)
- Accessories: 5/8" Whisper White Satin Ribbon (114616)
- Tools: Big Shot (113439), Top Note Die (113463)
Bella Blue Card
- Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes (115370)
- Paper: Night of Navy c/stock (101722), Kraft c/stock (102125), Vanilla c/stock (101650), Bella Bleu designer paper (113974)
- Ink: Night of Navy classic ink (103008)
- Accessories: Twill Tape (105245)
- Tools: Big Shot (113439), Top Note Die (113463), Texturz Plate SU b/ground 1 (114512), Large Oval Punch (107305), Scallop Oval Punch (114889)


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text: Is it entirely necessary to get an S-rank in every mission of normal mode in order to get an overall S-ranking for the campaign? If so, does anyone have any idea how to get an S-rank for mission 22 (Crystal Calamity)? I have tried every combination of CO's and strategy I could find in the FAQs and the best I can seem to do is B-rank! I get a score of 100 in all areas except 'power'. What is your 'power' score a reflection of? Thanks to anyone who replies... This game is so addictive and challenging!


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This month's topic is Classroom Management:
Here are a few Pinterest finds that I thought I would share with you this morning!
Have you seen these photos and articles that illustrate the types of behaviors expected of teachers way back when? These always make me laugh! I won't say we have it easy these days, but we've sure come a long way!
I love this little round-up of attention-getters from jivey. She wrote a post about how these types of interactions between teacher and students provide a Whole Brain Teaching way of getting students' attention. I did have to chuckle at part of her post in which she said she will need to re-do the graphic, because the incorrect spelling of COLLABORATE is driving her nuts!
I truly believe in my heart that most if not all students want to behave appropriately. Quite often, all they need is a reminder to get back on track - and that's why I love this fun idea from Mrs. Karen's Preschool Ideas. It's an empty old spray bottle that's been cleaned out, and she uses it as needed to "spritz" on students who need a little reminder to quiet down!
I love this quote that I found on Pinterest. It reminds me that it's not what we've been doled out, but what we do with it that counts. I find this reminder to be very empowering. Through purposeful implementation of effective classroom management practices, we can make this a phenomenally productive year for all students.
And remember: You've got this!
Thanks so much for stopping by, and before you leave - please consider linking up with us! This is a brand new linky, and the more educators that participate, the more awesome the quantity of ideas and tips that will be shared amongst as all! It's very easy - and as you can see from my post here - super quick. Just write a little post with Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something True, and then link up below!
Have an awesome year! xo


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Fernando Santos Granero
From Prisoner of the Group to Darling of the Gods : An
Approach to the Issue of Power in Lowland South America
In: L'Homme, 1993, tome 33 n°126-128. pp. 213-230.
Citer ce document / Cite this document :
Granero Fernando Santos. From Prisoner of the Group to Darling of the Gods : An Approach to the Issue of Power in Lowland
South America. In: L'Homme, 1993, tome 33 n°126-128. pp. 213-230.
doi : 10.3406/hom.1993.369637
Fernando Santos Granero
From Prisoner of the Group
to Darling of the Gods
An Approach to the Issue of Power in Lowland South America
Fernando Santos Granero, From Prisoner of the Group to Darling of the Gods:
An Approach to the Issue of Power in Lowland South America. — There is a certain
consensus among Amazonists as to the general lack of political authority wielded
by Amerindian leaders. This would be associated to their lack of means of physical
coercion. On the basis of an analysis of the political power and of the
Amuesha priestly leaders of Central Peru, the author suggests that these are neither
prisoners of the group, deprived of political authority — as purported by Clastres — ,
nor darlings of the gods, acting as petty tyrants — as asserted by Lowie. Though
the religious factor is crucial to the potential increase of the political power of
Amerindian leaders — providing elements of coercion other than physical — it is not
enough to account either for the political authority of the Amuesha priests or for
the eventual emergence of state formations.
La poly gynie peut s'interpréter de la même manière: au-delà
de son aspect formel de don pur et simple destiné à poser
le pouvoir comme rupture de l'échange, se dessine une fonction
positive analogue à celle des biens et du langage. Le chef,
propriétaire de valeurs essentielles du groupe, est par là même
responsable devant lui, et, par l'intermédiaire des femmes il
est en quelque sorte le prisonnier du groupe.
P. Clastres 1974: 42.
Nevertheless, equalitarianism recedes when confronted with
putative supernatural favour. The very same men who flout
the pretensions of a fellow-brave grovel before a darling of
the gods, render him "implicit obedience and respect".
R. H. Lowie 1967 (1948): 87.
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power wielded by Indian leaders.1 According to Lowie, the typical American
chief — which he places in the category of titular chiefs — "may enjoy social
standing, but [. . .] lacks sovereignty" (1967: 73). In contrast, strong chiefs
"possessing unquestioned authority" {ibid.: 71) are rarer and tend to enjoy such
power only temporarily as required for the completion of specific activities: large-
scale productive tasks, collective ceremonies and war raids {ibid.: 79). Lowie
concentrated his analysis on the predominant titular chiefs and concluded that
their most important leadership attributes were their capacity to be skillful peace
makers, generous dispensers of goods, and eloquent orators (ibid.: 73-75).
In a similarly well-known essay on the philosophy of Amerindian chieftain
ship published in 1962 Clastres, following Lowie's lead, asserted that "the most
remarkable property of the Indian chief consists of his almost complete lack
of authority" (1974: 26). 2 Clastres agreed with Lowie's characterization of
the constitutive traits of Indian leadership, but added another element: the
privilege of polygny (ibid.: 29). Furthermore, he distinguished the function
of "professional appeaser" from the other three attributes of Indian leader
ship which he understood were not functions, but were rather constitutive
elements of the flow of prestations and counterprestations established between
the leader and his followers: the former exchanging goods and words for women
provided by the latter. Clastres pointed out that the "values" exchanged
— words, goods and women — are precisely those which, according to Lévi-
Strauss, gave origin to society and therefore mark the passage from nature to
culture.3 Thus, the political as the social relation appears, at first view, as
based on reciprocal exchange.
Clastres contended, however, that the meagre goods and daily harangues
provided by the chief do not represent an equivalent compensation for the women
the group bestows on him. The flagrant asymmetry of this exchange "places
the political sphere not only as external to the structure of the group, but as its
negation: power is against the group, and the rejection of reciprocity, as the
itself" (ibid.: ontological dimension of society, is the rejection of society
38). According to Clastres, it is the negative character of the relation between
leaders and followers, as well as its "externality", which accounts for the
"impotence of the political function" (ibid.). In essence, Clastres argues that
the very externality of the political with respect to culture and society, allows
power to be identified with nature. This in turn renders power as a potential
threatening to that which culture represents. Paradoxically, according to
Clastres, to neutralize this threat Amerindians establish power relations whose
negative essence is self-evident. By bestowing their most essential values
— women — on their chiefs, Amerindians place the latter in the position of deb
tors and stress their "dependence with respect to the group". By demanding
in exchange only goods and words — elements clearly linked with the establis
hment of peaceful relations — followers oblige their leaders to constantly manifest
function" (ibid.: 41). It is in this sense that the "the innocence of [their]
Amazonian chief appears as a sort of prisoner of the group. The Issue of Power 215
There are several common elements between Lowie's and Clastres'
papers. To start with, both authors owe much of their reading of indigenous
power relations to Lévi-Strauss' essay on the social and psychological aspects
of chieftainship among the Nambikuara of Brazil (1944). Lévi-Strauss was
one of the first to stress "the small amount of authority enjoyed by the chief",
in addition to the fact that "the chief has no coercitive power at his disposal"
(1967: 51-53). Lowie's and Clastres' contention about the lack of sovereignty
or authority of the Amerindian chiefs is also based upon this latter
consideration.4 This, in turn, derives from the fact that the three authors
adopted Radcliffe-Brown's 1940 narrow definition of political organization as
"the maintenance or establishment of social order, within a territorial frame
work, by the organized exercise of coercive authority through the use, or the
possibility of use, of physical force" (1978: xiv).
A third common denominator between these authors is that they all left
aside the question of the relation politics and religion when discussing
the characteristics of Indian leadership. Lowie and Clastres did not consider
at all magico-religious knowledge or ceremonial expertise among the generalized
attributes of the Amerindian leaders, while Lévi-Strauss, referring to the specific
case of the Nambikuara chiefs, argued that "whenever they exist, magical
functions are only secondary attributes of the leader" (1967: 55).
This omission is hard to explain insofar as in the same work in which
Radcliffe-Brown suggested that the exercise of physical coercion was the
diacritical element in the definition of political power, Fortes and Evans-
Pritchard — the editors — contended that: "sacred symbols, which reflect the social
system, endow it with mystical values which evoke acceptance of the
order that goes far beyond the obedience exacted by the secular sanction of
force" (1978: 17-18). Expanding on this subject the authors asserted that: "If
we study the mystical values bound up with kingship in any of the societies
of Group A (i.e. state societies), we find that they refer to fertility, health,
prosperity, peace, justice — to everything, in short, which gives life and happiness
to a people" {ibid.: 18). As I have attempted to demonstrate elsewhere (Santos
Granero 1986a), these symbols and values, under the form of life-giving mystical
knowledge and powers, are crucial components in the construction of power
and authority in the Amazon basin. This would hold true whether we are
talking of settlement headmen, war chiefs, shaman-leaders or priestly leaders.
Lowie and Clastres did not totally dismiss this association between politics
and religion, but in what appears to have been a non-explicit agreement with
Fortes and Evans-Pritchard they only considered it in the context of state
formations. In fact, both Lowie and Clastres imputed the emergence of coercive
power and, thus, of state societies to the manipulation of self-attributed
supernatural or mystical capacities. The former suggested that the awe which
surrounded the prophets or darlings of the gods "formed the psychological
basis for more complex political developments" such as the appearance of the
state formations (Lowie 1967: 84-87). Clastres asserted, in turn, that: "In the 216 FERNANDO SANTOS GRANERO
discourse of the prophets one may find in embryonic form the discourse of
power and under the exalted traits of the conductor of men [. . .] one may
find in disguise the silent figure of the Despot", and asked whether it is in
the prophetic discourse that we are bound to find "the beginning of the state
within the word" (1974: 186).
This stance, which views the possession of mystical capacities as a way to
the development of state formations and the Indian prophet or priest as a
potential despot, contradicts the authors' own definitions of political power,
insofar as there is no evidence whatsoever that this type of Amerindian leaders
had at their disposal physical means of coercion which their supposedly secular
counterparts did not possess. If the authors admit, as they do, that these
religious leaders had real or unquestioned political power, while not having
the means of physically coercing their followers, we must conclude that their
definition of political authority is too narrow and that there are other means
of exacting obeisance than the mere use of physical force.
In the present article I shall explore these other means as illustrated by the
example of the cornesha', the former politico-religious leader of the Amuesha,
an Amerindian society of the Central Peruvian lowlands. I shall contend that
the cornanesha's5 power, authority and influence derived from their possession
both of key mystical means of reproduction, and of divine messages essential
for the attainment of immortality. The use of these means and messages on
behalf of the collectivity, together with the strict monogamy of the cornesha'
priestly leaders, redresses the traditional asymmetry which, according to Clastres,
characterizes the relationship between Amerindian leaders and their followers,
and eliminates the ideological argument upon which the political function is
rendered impotent. I shall also analyze the causal factors that explain the
emergence of the kind of unquestioned authority held by priests and
prophets. Moreover, I will critically assess Lowie's and Clastres' assertion that
it is this type of power which gave birth to state formations. Finally, I shall
present a few reflections on the issue of the emergence of the state which I
hope may open new ways of looking at old topics.
Outline of the Amuesha political system
Classical definitions of political system, political unit or political organization,
as those expounded in African Political Systems (1940), are generally built upon
notions of leadership and power.6 This is quite clear in Radcliffe-Brown's
definition which privileges the use of physical force; but is also true of Wagner's
definition, who suggests that: "In so far as the concept of the political unit
involves the notion of power and authority, it would have to be defined as
constituting that group of people which submits persistently and in an organized
manner to leardership for the purpose of maintaining itself as a unit" (1978:
199). If it is true that relations of leadership, power and authority are important The Issue of Power 217
components of a political system, it is also true that they do not account for
what a political system is about, but rather for what it looks like. Paraphrasing
Lucy Mair's reflections on "primitive government" (1962: 16), I would suggest
that rather than asking: what ought a political system to look like?, we must
ask what does a political system do? or what is a political system?
It is for this reason that I prefer Schapera's wider definition of political
organization, which he sees as a "total organization which is concerned with
the establishment and maintenance of internal cooperation and external ind
ependence" (in Mair 1962: 20). Thus, the essence of a political system depends
on ensuring the proper conditions of reproduction for the individual members
of the political unit as much as for the political unit itself. This entails not
only the maintenance of social harmony and the defence of the political unit,
but also the ensurance of the success of the productive and reproductive activities
undertaken by the collectivity. In stateless societies this latter aim is achieved,
as I have suggested, through mystical means (Santos Granero 1986a:
658). Accepting this definition, we may assert that in Amuesha society priests
were responsible, directly or indirectly, for all of the functions characteristic
of the political system, though they shared some of them with other characters
of the Amuesha formal political scene — mainly shamans, war leaders and local
The Amuesha are an Arawak-speaking people who live in the eastern forest-
covered slopes of the Central Andes of Peru. Their settlement pattern before
the 1960's was dispersed. The extended family under the direction of an elder
member was the basic social unit. Small clusters of extended families, frequently
interrelated by links of kinship and affinity and occupying well-delimited areas,
were sometimes — but not always — organized around a local headman — whom
in the 17th and 18th century chronicles appear under the title of curacas and
in the late 19th and early 20th century accounts were known as captains.
These local groupings frequently contained one or more shamans (pa 'Herr) who
used their healing capacities on behalf of their collectivity and their bewitching
powers against similar but rival units. In times of violent conflict war leaders
(amcha'taréi) emerged or were appointed. Their power was temporary. The
political system was not institutionalized and there was no central political
instance with authority over the entirety of the Amuesha people.
The only indigenous supra-local authorities were the cornanesha', the
Amuesha politico-religious leaders.7 These were priests who officiated in
temples located in the interstices of the Amuesha socio-geographical space and
who, for that reason, were above the conflicts and petty disputes characteristic
of the local groupings. Subjected to a similar training as that of shamans,
priests differed from the latter both in the range of their moral influence and
in the kind of the aural revelation they sought. While shamans sought a
revelation from the masters of the different plants and animals, priests expected
a from the higher divinities or from the mellañoleñ lesser spirits (see
Santos Granero 1986b, 1991). These deities and spirits revealed to the would-be 218 FERNANDO SANTOS GRANERO
or already established priest divine messages or sacred coshamñats songs, which
he in turn transmitted to his followers. Temple sites had the character of
ceremonial or pilgrimage centres. Only the priest, his extended family, and
some disciples lived in these centres. Devout followers visited them when
summoned by the residential priest for the observance of religious ceremonies.
Followers of a particular came from different local groupings, some
having to walk several days to reach the ceremonial centre. Regular attendance
at a ceremonial centre was indicative of one's political allegiance to the centre's
officiating priest. Followers of a particular priest could not attend the religious
festivities conducted in another ceremonial centre unless they were led there
by their own priest in a formal visit. Attendance at another centre marked
an individual's desire to change political allegiances.
Amuesha priests carried out all of the functions characteristic of a political
system, that is, the ensurance of: 1) internal order, harmony and cooperation;
2) external independence; and 3) the success of the productive and reproductive
activities of the political unit. In the following paragraphs I support this asser
tion through the use of ethnographic information. Usually the responsibility
of synthesizing and presenting such information falls upon the ethnographer. In
this occasion and in order to have a more direct view of the Amuesha politico-
religious system I shall resort to the informants' own recorded words. I
recognize, however, that the action of translating already constitutes a kind
of filter, and that the selection and ordering of portions of the interviews also
allows for a certain bias. The multiple meanings of most of the central concepts
of Amuesha religious discourse have been discussed elsewhere (Santos Granero
1991). The interested reader may turn to that work for a discussion of the
complex concepts embodied in these quotes.
As to the first point — the ensurance of social harmony — Chom, a man who
was 55 to 60-years-old in 1984, declared that priests "had to teach us how to
behave correctly"; and added that his father — a cornesha' named Espereto —
used to admonish his people with the following words: "Listen to Yompor
Ror, Our Father the Sun, and have good thoughts. Do not entertain bad
thoughts. Otherwise you shall not have a long life. You must lead a correct
life, so that you shall be all right." In Amuesha thought to lead a
life is, firstly, to abide by the principles of unrestricted generosity and generalised
reciprocity and, secondly, to establish harmonious or friendly relations with
as wide a range of people as possible. Chom said that priests had to be and
generally were good-tempered men and that it was because of this quality that
"they could tell their followers not to hate each other". And he added:
When Pashco, my quarrelsome [classificatory] father, got angry, my father [Espereto]
admonished him in the following terms: "Do not get angry. It is not due to your
own strength that you stand on your feet [and] that you live. If it were not for
Yompor Ror you would have no life with which to live." That is how he used to
admonish him. Then he would stop quarrelling for a while. The Issue of Power 219
Priests also admonished and, with the consent of their parents, sanctioned
disobedient or rebellious adolescent boys and girls. Sanctions included seclusion,
dietary restrictions, vigils, the consumption of tobacco brew — meant to make
the children vomit and thus purify their bodies — and reprimands qua sermons
delivered by the officiating priest.
As to the issue of internal cooperation, according to Chom, when his father's
followers congregated at his ceremonial centre the former told them:
"If you want to solicit Yompor Ror's blessing we then have to work together, so
that we can help each other". Those who agreed to work together formed teams
of four or six persons who helped each other. When they finished sowing one garden,
they left in order to help another member of the team. After helping each other
they returned home.
According to other reports, priests also organized collective hunting and fishing
expeditions to provide meat for the centre's festivities, as well as the building
of the temple, while their wives organized and led collective gathering parties,
as well as the collective sowing, weeding and harvesting of the centre's gardens,
and the preparation of food and manioc beer for the temple's
celebrations. From these remarks it becomes evident that priests were not only
talented peacemakers and arbitrators, thus ideally guaranteeing social harmony,
but also fostering internal cooperation.8
As to the function of ensuring external independence, informants are agreed
that though priests did not participate directly in military actions, they did have
an important indirect participation in them. In the first place, war leaders
(amcha'tarel = "those who are strong and instill fear") were generally appointed
by the cornanesha' , and acted as their "generals". In the second place, priests
prayed for a successful outcome of the confrontations. Referring to his grandf
ather, cornesha' Tsachopeñ9, Totsoper, a man who in 1984 was 70 to 80-years-
old, declared:
When my late grandfather waged war against the Whites only the warriors fought
[. . .] the cornesha' did not fight. They did not participate in wars except for
praying. [. . .] When people organized a raid to kill the Whites, only the warriors
participated; all of those who were the warriors of my grandfather, the late Tsachopeñ.
Priests were also in charge of what we could call the sphere of diplomatic
relations: they acted as hosts to foreign visitors from neighbouring societies
as well as to other priests who came with their followers in a formal visit to
their ceremonial centres.
With respect to the third function, that of guaranteeing the success of the
productive and reproductive activities of the collectivity, Chom' s words are
We adored Yompor Ror, Our Father the Sun, by offering and sharing with him
manioc beer and the mashed manioc used to prepare it. The cornesha' placed the FERNANDO SANTOS GRANERO 220
manioc beer in a small ritual armchair [or altar-like structure] and solicited Our Father's
blessing so that the manioc yield would increase; so that manioc would not become
scarce; so that it would not abandon us. After adoring him, the cornesha' withdrew
the manioc beer from the ritual armchair and started singing and dancing in praise
of the divinities to the sound of the sacred coshafhñats music. [. . .] Afterwards
he prayed. He prayed to Yompor Ror so that he would continue to dispense his
life-giving breath and ensure the abundance and fertility of the earth, plants, animals
and people.
In the eloquent words of Huepo, a woman who in 1984 was about 70 to
In those times they used to pray to the sacred fires. When they were afraid because
of the threat of heavy rains or floods, priests asked their followers to prepare manioc
beer. They then adored Our Father the Sun and dry weather came back. They
did so whenever they were afraid or sad. Thus it was that priests listened to Our
Father; thus it was that they said they talked with Our Father. That is what all
of them did.
The sacred fires mentioned by Huepo spontaneously appeared in the forest with
out human intervention, and as such were considered portents of Our Father
the Sun (Yompor po'yorochen) . These fires were taken to the ceremonial
centres, where they were constantly kindled. Through the mystical ensurance
of the fertility of the land, the fecundity of animals and human beings, and
of propitious climatic conditions priests participated directly in the productive
and reproductive processes carried out by their followers. In sum, these reports
confirm the political character of the Amuesha priest's activities.
Amuesha priests and the character of Amazonian leadership
If we accept Clastres' view of the political relation as a relation of exchange
between leaders and followers one could agree with him that in the Amazon
basin the main values exchanged are goods and words provided by leaders in
exchange for the right of polygyny, i.e. women furnished by the
group.10 However, as I have argued elsewhere (1986a: 666-667) the possession
of mystical means of reproduction by most of the Amazonian leaders adds
a fourth element to this relation of exchange which: 1) breaks the balance that,
according to Lévi-Strauss (1967: 59), results from the symmetrical reciprocity
that characterizes the relationship between Nambikuara chiefs and their followers;
and 2) shifts the weight — in favour of the Amerindian leader — of the
asymmetrical reciprocity which, according to Clastres (1974: 35), characterizes
the relation between leaders and followers in the region. In the following
paragraphs I shall demonstrate, that this is even more true in the Amuesha
case, insofar as the cornanesha' were generous dispensers of goods, words and
ritual actions without at the same time benefitting from the privilege of polygyny
enjoyed by most Amazonian leaders. The Issue of Power 221
According to oral accounts, the cornanesha' priestly leaders had the obligation
of being amueraña. This term refers to the quality of kind and loving generosity
which, according to the Amuesha, is characteristic of the dominant partner in
any hierarchical relation. When asked whether followers had to bring presents
to his father, cornesha' Tsachopeñ, Totsoper answered:
There were some who brought nothing. Those who came from Anetso brought well
dried coca leaves. Others brought dried meat or fish. [. . .] After the cornesha'
received these things he prayed and thanked Our Father until dawn. Next day he
distributed the meat, fish and coca leaves amongst those of his followers who were
present. Afterwards they all ate. He could not say: "I shall eat all this alone". He
counted how many followers were present so that all of them could eat of the offerings
presented to Our Father.
Presents brought by followers appeared as offerings to the deities. Priests were
responsible for the redistribution of these amongst all the participants
of the celebration. Though they kept a portion for themselves, generosity was
the sign of their office.
Oratorical skill was another fundamental trait of Amuesha leadership. To
the question as to what was the most important attribute of the cornanesha',
Huepo said that it was the fact that "they mastered many good words with which
they taught their followers". Chom confirmed this remark:
Priests were not quarrelsome, they were good. They had to know coshamñats sacred
songs. They had to know how to talk in order to teach us how to behave correctl
y. They had to admonish their people. [. . .] Even if he was a short man like every
body else (sic), if he had words to express and he expressed his words nicely, then people
used to say: "You are going to be cornesha'. You express your words nicely."
Words, nonets, whether under the form of speeches, sermons, admonitions,
prayers or songs, were omnipresent features in the exercise of the politico-religious
authority of the Amuesha priests. Persuasive words, pedagogic words, hard
words, beseeching words; words spoken and words sung. It was in this world
of words that the political and moral power of the priests was firmly anchored.
Dominating among these words were, as we shall see, the sacred messages revealed
to the cornesha' by the divinities.
As already stated, the generous dispensation of goods and words by the
cornesha' was not, however, compensated by the right to polygyny typical of
Amerindian political leaders. This does not mean that was unknown
among the Amuesha. As a matter of fact, shamans as well as other prestigious
men could (and to some extent still do) marry several women. Priests, howe
ver, did not on the basis of religious considerations. In effect, sexual abstinence
or moderation, together with other ascetic practices, were considered as facilitating
the devoted man's contact with the divine sphere. Totsoper' s remarks with
respect to this point are very clear:
My father, who was a cornesha', had only one wife. All the priests I met had only
one wife. I heard that in Metraro there was a priest who had five wives; others had


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