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Spinning Languages is a monthly feature by Beyond Words that highlights albums from around the world. This month we're showcasing three great albums from Nicaragua, Turkey, and Brazil. This month, Nicaragua's Perrozompopo is offering his Grammy-nominated album as a free download! And, as usual, you can order the rest of the albums from the excellent music store Other Music. Enjoy these tunes!
Perrozompopo: CPC (Canciones Populares Contestatarias) (2010)
Perrozompopo's latest, self-released album was recently nominated for a Latin Grammy — which unfortunately went to another group — but it's still a wonder that CPC (Canciones Populares Contestatarias) ended up on the Grammy's shortlist at all. This is not your typical record industry-sanctioned, studio-scrubbed, award fodder. Not only did Nicaragua's Perrozompopo eschew a major label release and offer his album for free online, but its songs contain a strange mixture of raw and still radio-friendly sounds, fiery politics, and genuinely heartfelt lyrics.
Speaking about his music during an interview with Marco Werman from PRI's The World, Perrozompopo's Ramón Mejía said, "There are many people who are activists, but non-musical activists. In Nicaragua, there isn't much of a music industry. And not having a music industry means you can explore music in a different way, with more of an open mind. It means you can use different language and address different topics. And for me, it's important to address those topics in Nicaragua. It's not enough to be an artist. We have to be critical artists." Please take a moment and listen to these great critical artists.
Preview track 4, 'Cicatrices,' below:[audio:https://wp-uploads.altalang.com/images/stock/Perrozompopo-04-Cicatrices.mp3]
Download the full album for FREE at: Perrozompopo.com
Various Artists: To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings from Istanbul (2010)
Drawn from recordings made in Istanbul by the Gramophone Company and HMV, amidst the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, To Scratch Your Heart crosses and mixes the folk and classical heritage of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Gypsies, Muslims, Christians and Jews, urbanites and country-people, and the demands of tradition and modernity, musical improvisation, composition and system.
Most of the singers here are 'hafiz', versed in a musical reading of the Koran, and renowned for mastery of the exalted, improvisatory form of the 'gazel': there are several magnificent examples here, by legendary artists. Three gazelhans beautifully interpret folk songs, and another contributor, the folklorist Agyazar Efendi, sings a long Armenian air with utter authenticity, but in the style of a gazel. Exemplifying the new political freedoms of the Republic, there are two heart-melting female vocal performances of a kind of art-song called 'sarki'. Also featured is the 'taksim', a kind of improvisation in which one-off musical fireworks, designed to ravish the listener's soul, illuminate deep fluency in the 'makam': a who's who of the pre-eminent instrumentalists of this first half-century of Turkish recording, in performances which are simply stunning — breath-taking, exquisite and other-worldly.
Brilliantly restored at Abbey Road, fully annotated with rare photographs, and luxuriously presented in both formats. — © Honest Jon's Records
Preview the album's tracks below. We recommend track 29, 'Belkis Hanim':
Check out the full album at: Other Music Digital
Tom Zé: Estudando A Bossa (2010)
A new album from Tom Zé! Tom Zé has remarked that Brazil began the year of 1958 as a lowly exporter of raw materials to industrialized countries and finished it triumphantly as a country that exported art. He made Estudando a Bossa to illustrate and explain his point. Bossa Nova was not only an extraordinary musical innovation; it was also the soundtrack to a hopeful period of national modernization and development. The new sound also located Brazil on the map for an international audience previously ignorant of the fact that the largest nation in Latin America spoke Portuguese, not Spanish. It's worth recalling that Brazil's greatest pop icon, Carmen Miranda, had been cast years earlier in a Hollywood production called Down Argentine Way. With this in mind, we can better understand the wry humor of the recurring motif that frames the album: "On the day bossa nova invented Brazil/ It had to be done right, my dear gentlemen/ Because Buenos Aires was our capital back then."
Recent albums have revealed a lyrical, melodic dimension of Tom Zé's music, which was previously obscured by his quest to unsettle and subvert the tradition of Brazilian song. Yet here he embraces the soft beauty of bossa nova on his own terms. With a host of Brazilian guests and a cameo from David Byrne. — © Luaka Bop
Preview the album's tracks below. Take a listen to track 7, 'Outra Insensatz, Poe!', which features David Byrne:
Check out the full album at: Other Music Digital
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The History of Baker Lake (Sanavik) Co-operative
The History of Baker Lake (Sanavik) Co-operative
May 1st, 2010
Jennifer Alsop, SERNNoCA Researcher
In coordination with Dr. Ian McPherson, University of Victoria
- Introduction
- Caribou Inuit, the "Barren Lands" of the Keewatin and Early Visitors to the Area
- Development of the Community of Baker Lake
- Development of Arts and Crafts
- Development of Sanavik Co-operative
- Printmaking Revival and Later years of Sanavik
- Conclusion
The community of Baker Lake is located near where the Thelon River connects to the north-east portion of Baker Lake, in the "barren plains" of the Kivalliq region of Nunavut. It's Inukitut name is "Qamani'tuaq", aptly meaning, "huge lake adjoined by a river at both ends"[1]. The waters of Baker Lake flow to the south, via the Kazan River. The strong winds of the barren plateaus of the Kivalliq, in combination with extremely cold winters, make it one of the most climatically harsh places in North America, in which to live.
The history of this community and the Sanavik co-operative is unique to the north for a number of reasons. Baker Lake is the only inland community within Nunavut, and it is the geographical centre of Canada. Its Inuit inhabitants are originally from a culturally distinct segment of the Canadian Inuit population, most commonly referred to as "Caribou Inuit", and they are themselves a culturally diverse group of people, with geographically dispersed origins throughout the Kivalliq. In addition, the community-based co-operative in Baker Lake, focused almost entirely upon the production of arts and crafts in the first 15 years of its existence, only diversifying products and services offered after several challenging years during the economic recession in the mid-1980s. This is unlike many other community-based co-operatives in the north, which began their operations through a combination of retail and the provision of other services. The story of Baker Lake is a fascinating example of the determination and fortitude of the people living in this region of Canada, people who for millennia lived a life of great endurance and whose culture continues to inspire millions of people around the world, through their production of unique prints, carvings and others arts and crafts.^ back to top
Caribou Inuit, the "Barren Lands" of the Keewatin and Early Visitors to the Area
In 1921, Knud Rasmussen, who grew up with a Danish father and a Greenlander mother, began the Fifth Danish Thule Expedition across the Canadian Arctic. With an ability to speak and understand Inuktitut, he and his crew were able to collect and preserve a huge amount of ethnographic information about the Canadian Inuit. Rasmussen spent a good deal of time with the Inuit of the inland regions of the Kivalliq. Called "Caribou Inuit", they relied solely upon migrating Caribou and fish for sustenance, and didn't migrate to the coasts during the winter in order to take advantage of seals and other sea mammals. They lived in simple domed iglus in the winter and conical skin tents in the summer. In his journals, Rasmussen documented four separate groupings of Caribou Inuit, who occupied the interior regions around the Kazan and Thelon Rivers[2].
Qaernermiut (today, referred to as Qainigmiut) traditionally occupied the area along Chesterfield Inlet, and Baker Lake. Qainigmiut had the most frequent contact with Europeans and were hired along with the Aivilimiut, by whalers in the late 19th and early 20th century to work aboard their ships. Harvaqtormiut (today, Havautomiut), lived in scattered camps along the Kazan River. The Padlermiut (Padleimiut) lived further south on the Kazan. The Utukhikjalingmiut, known as "people of the stone for cooking pots", lived in the Back River area. The Utukhikjalingmiut had a fairly impoverished material culture in the early 20th century, for example, without seal oil for lamps or fuel for the fire in the winter. However, Rasmussen describes them in a warm light, noting that they were the "most handsome, elegant and hospitable people I met on that long journey; indeed the healthiest and happiest I have ever lived with"[3].
There were numerous European visitors to the coastal area around Chesterfield Inlet from the early 17th century onwards, with which several groups of Inuit had contact. In 1612, Sir Thomas Button reached Chesterfield Inlet, and in the 1630s, Captain Luke Foxe mapped the west coast of the Hudson's Bay. In 1670, the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) was formed, and an active fur trade was established between Aboriginal groups around the Bay and British fur traders[4]. In 1688, a permanent HBC trading post was established at Churchill. In 1761, Captain William Christopher of the HBC became the first European to sail up Chesterfield Inlet as far as the point where the Thelon-Debawnt-Kazan River systems merge. He named the area "Baker Lake", in reference to Richard Baker of the HBC[5]. In 1771 Samuel Hearne, also of the HBC, along with Chipewyan guides, reached the Arctic coast at Coppermine. He coined the phrase "barren lands"[6]. His journals contain among other details, description of the massacre of a group of Inuit by his Chipewyan guides, near the mouth of the Coppermine River. In 1883, Captain George Back, reached the Arctic Coast at Coppermine[7]. The failure and loss of the Franklin Expedition in 1848, and resultant search expeditions ultimately led to a more detailed mapping and subsequent knowledge of the inland areas of the Central Arctic, although Franklin's ship and crew were not located.
From about 1860 to the early 1900, there was a heavy presence of American and Scottish whalers along the west coast of Hudson's Bay, particularly in the Roes Welcome Sound area. Many Inuit along the northern coast of Hudson's Bay and on the south-eastern tip of Baffin Island had significant and sustained contact with these whalers. The whalers had a great impact on the Inuit, who grew increasingly dependent upon imported goods, such as rifles and ammunition; they even adopted a style of Scottish square dancing, which some elders practice to this day in communities along the northwest coast of Hudson's Bay. Inuit worked for the whalers as pilots, guides and harpooners during the summers. In 1870, the newly formed Canadian government sent an expedition of the Geological Survey into the region, the first formal indication of southern Canadian interest. Led by JB and JW Tyrell, its goals were to advance scientific knowledge of the area and to assert Canadian sovereignty along the artic coast. In 1903, the first permanent RCMP post was established at Cape Fullerton, just north of Churchill[8].^ back to top
Development of the Community of Baker Lake
The decline of whale hunting closely coincided with increasing efforts by the Hudson Bay Company to establish a fur trade in the Arctic. In the early 20th century, as a precursor to northern outposts, HBC sailboats would travel along the northern Hudson's Bay Coast annually to trade with smaller groups of Inuit. From 1916 to 1926, the HBC operated a trading post on Okpikooyk, or "Big Hips" island, on the south side of Baker Lake, until the HBC post moved to the current site of the community[9]. The Hudson Bay Company's longest competitor, the Revellon Frères, operated a trading post at Baker Lake from 1924 to until 1936, when the company was bought out by the HBC.
Prior to the establishment of Arctic settlements in the 1950s, contact between cultural subgroups was limited to chance meetings at 'trade fairs', at Akilineq in the central Kivalliq area near Aberdeen. These fairs generally occurred peacefully, at which inland Inuit would trade for supplies picked up at HBC outposts.[10] The 1940s and 1950s were challenging ones for the various groups of Caribou Inuit. By that time, they had become relatively dependent upon the fur trade, and when declining/ out-migrating caribou coincided with a drastic drop in fur prices, Inuit in the Kivalliq region of what is now Nunavut, in particular, experienced starvation and sickness. The Canadian government resultantly stepped in to assist, and established centres for medical, educational and social services in several Arctic trading posts. From 1950 - 1965, Baker Lake grew from an isolated trading post to a permanent community of several hundred people.
It was a period of profound and fundamental change for the people of the interior regions of the Kivalliq. The Department of National Health and Welfare built a nursing station in Baker Lake in 1950, and government subsidized housing, along with a federal day school, were constructed at about the same time[11]. The various subgroups of the Caribou Inuit suddenly found themselves living in a permanent location, together, when normally they would be spread out upon the land, following the resources of the land in step with the seasons. Right from the beginning, numerous distinct, extended family-units/groups settled in Baker Lake. There were four groups with ancestral identify from Netsilik Inuit, including the Uqusiksilingmiut, Ualingmiut, and the Saningayukmiut (from Garry Lake area), and the Iluiliaqmiut from coastal area to the north around Gjoa Haven. In addition there were five groups with heritage stemming from inland Caribou Inuit, including, the Qainigmiut, Akilingiaqmiut, Havautomiut, Tariaqmiut, and a few Padleimiut[12]. There were also a number of Aivilimiut individuals, from around Repulse Bay. Change was in the air, as newly settled Baker Lake residents began to acclimatize to their new reality, of life in town, with not only whites, but also with a diversity of Inuit cultural backgrounds.
Development of Arts and Crafts
Like other Arctic communities, most notably Holman Island, Cape Dorset, Pangnirtung and Povungnituk, a government-sponsored arts and crafts program was developed in Baker Lake, during the 1950s and 60s as a means of encouraging community economic development. The development of carving and printmaking activities in Baker Lake occurred over an uneven trajectory. In comparison to Cape Dorset - a community that was able to reap the benefits of a full-time, long-term co-op manager and print-maker, in Terry Ryan - Baker Lake's program developed in fits and starts, through the varied influence of a number of different managers. The formal arts program was instituted in Baker Lake in 1963, yet it wasn't until 1971 that the Sanavik co-op was incorporated. From 1961 to 1971, eleven different government sponsored crafts officers worked in Baker Lake, each for a short period of time[13].
One rather influential arts and crafts officer was Gabe Gely, who traveled from France in 1952 and soon found work as a cook with the Department of Transport. His work with the Department throughout the Arctic took him to numerous settlements across the North, and he quickly became relatively fluent in Inuktitut. Trained as an artist in Europe, he was immediately drawn to painting the tundra landscape, and he became famous for his sketches and paintings of Inuit portrayed in a traditional way. In 1963 he was stationed in Baker Lake as the incoming Arts and Crafts Officer, and he managed to have a great impact on Inuit artists in the area, who gave him the Inuit name "Umiliq" or, "the one with the beard"[14]. He made an effort to introduce soapstone sculpture, sewing projects, caribou hoof jewelry, and tapestry - arts and crafts projects which were quickly picked up by Havautormiut and Padliemiut members of the community. He resultantly started a small craft facility in the community, a place where carvers could come together to share their ideas and work on their art. Gely remembers the conditions of the first craft facility in Baker Lake:The first craft shop was a cooler, a walk-in freezer which had stenciled in large letters 'CAPE DORSET'. Those were the only available premises for the craft shop; it was not wired, we had two oil stoves. I remember my first helper could not stand the heat and fell asleep from the moment he was inside ... in the fall of 1963, we moved out from the freezer into the former RCMP's subdivision buildings. These quarters were spacious enough to accommodate the display area, as well as the purchasing of carvings[15].
The fledgling arts and crafts industry in Baker Lake during the 1960s was highly dependent upon the knowledge and competency of the Arts and Crafts Officer, in place at any one time. Resultantly, Baker Lake Inuit artists received conflicting instructions with regards to what would sell "best" down south. This pattern of artistic development was certainly uneven. It has been argued that, as a result of the implementation of the arts and crafts program in Baker Lake, "Inuit lost their creative freedom. Their choice of subject matter, materials and personal expression [became] subjected to outside forces, manifested both within and outside the community"[16]. On the other hand, it has been said that Baker Lake art has a vitality and "independence of artistic spirit" and "an almost startling resistance to the imposition of traditional Western aesthetic standards. From that perspective, in that it is considered "tougher", "rougher" and "less accessible" to the Western viewer than is the more immediately appealing work of other Inuit communities"[17]. Jackson argues that this aesthetic sensibility in Baker Lake is due in part to the numerous distinct groups of Caribou Inuit that settled in the area during the 1950s. At any rate, a distinct aesthetic style is noted in Baker Lake art. This distinct style was represented at an important 1964 exhibit at the Winnipeg airport, organized by the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Entitled Eskimo Carvers of the Keewatin, it prominently featured Baker Lake[18].
Boris Kotelewetz, a graduate of the Central Technical School of Art in Toronto, arrived in Baker Lake in 1966[19]. Much like Gely, Kotelewetz established a great rapport with the elders of the community, and he played an active role in securing local sources of soapstone for the carvers. He was very generous with his tools, supplies and art books, sharing them with local carvers. He re-established the printmaking program, which had been introduced by Roderick McCarthy, Gely's successor (who had stayed in the community for only a few months). In addition, noting Jessie Oonark's skill, he provided a small room in the back of the craft shop, where she could concentrate on her drawings. Kotelewetz left the community in 1969. The next Arts and Crafts Officer was an unmitigated disaster. Ken Krassweiler worked in the community during the summer of 1969, when he convinced artists to convert linocut prints to stone. All prints were printed backwards and were unfit to be sold[20].
Jack and Sheila Butler arrived on the scene in 1969, soon after Krassweiler's tenure. Recommended by George Swinton, an Inuit art specialist, they brought with them a great deal of energy and ideas as they began to revitalize the print-making program in Baker Lake[21]. Within the first 6 months, they managed to reorganize the print-shop enough to begin purchasing drawings from local artists and hiring printmakers. By November of the same year, the local artists had developed a portfolio of prints for review by the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council.
In addition to drawing and print-making, the Butlers encouraged women sewers in town to attempt more 'wall-hangings'. Most importantly, perhaps, was the Butler's approach to the management of the arts and crafts program. They focused on collaboration and local management. To foster this sense of collective decision-making, weekly meetings were held, at which artists and management could get together to discuss work being produced in terms of what was working, and what was not. As the art program began to take off once again, the Butlers slowly withdrew their outright management support and assumed a more consultative role. With their guidance, and a loan of $50,000 from the Eskimo Loan Fund, the Baker Lake Inuit established the Sanavik Co-operative, in order to "Foster and coordinate the art activities in the settlement, and to be able to contract for other community services."[22] It gradually took over all administrative tasks of the art program. Sanavik Co-op became a sustained project, encouraged by many people.^ back to top
Development of the Sanavik Co-operative
An economic survey completed by John Stager in 1977 illuminates the state of the Baker Lake economy in the mid-1970s - at about the time when the Sanavik Co-operative was beginning to find its legs. Stager calculated that 118 people were employed in "some gainful activity", full-time in 1975, out of a population of approximately 700 people[23]. This meant that forty-six percent of the population between the ages of 20 and 40 was being engaged in full-time work of some sort at the time. 57% percent of the work was government-related, while 27% percent was non-government/casual and 14.6% was through transfer payments[24]. Despite the emerging wage economy, a wage differential was certainly in effect; Inuit occupied 57% of the salaried positions, but earned only 39% of the total salary of the community[25]. In other words, Inuit salaried employees, on average, earned $9,700 per employee, while white salaried employees earned $19,900[26]. Newly settled Inuit simply did not have the administrative skill-set required for government jobs, as the adult population in Baker Lake at that time, had grown up and survived on the land. Despite this skill shortage, through consultation and guidance from the Butlers, Baker Lake Inuit came to control the affairs of the Sanavik Co-op.
Casual, or part-time employment, through arts and crafts development, had a tremendous impact upon the Baker Lake Economy. Crafts reportedly added $195,000 in wages to the local economy, for 175 people[27]. This was by far, the greatest sector of the economy in which local Inuit found wage work. The focus of the Sanavik Co-op, in its first decade or so, was entirely upon the arts and crafts sector. This focus is in contrast to other, longer-standing northern co-operatives, which tended to diversify the services offered right from the beginning. At its conception, with the help of the Butlers, the focus of Sanavik was upon stabilizing and supporting the development of arts and crafts in Baker Lake.
The arts and crafts program in Baker Lake in the 1970s flourished with a combination of initial organizational help from the Jack and Sheila Butler, and more importantly, with great support from the community at large. The leadership of the co-op developed relatively quickly. Ruby Angrna'naaq served as the Co-op's first manager. In 1976, he considered the influence of the Sanavik Co-op upon the Inuit of his community:Eskimos are confused and have lost a lot of their unique way of life, but that is not to say nothing is being done about it. There are board meetings, general meetings and council meetings trying to cope with the problems of today. In some areas there will be workshops to try to explain and converse, and maybe some will understand this specific area of concern ....[28]
The development of Co-op was certainly helped along by the tremendous artistic talent present in the community. Jessie Oonark is perhaps one of Baker Lake's most famous exports. She was originally from the Back River region of the Kivalliq, an area which was considered one of the most "materialistically deprived" of all the Caribou Inuit. She was born in 1916 and she was married when she was 14 in the Inuit tradition. She had eight children with her husband, who died in 1953. The 1950s were a period of great upheaval for many of the Inuit in this region. Declining caribou stocks, and a less influential fur trade found many Caribou Inuit in dire straits. Jessie Oonark, like most of her extended family and friends, moved into the rapidly developing settlement of Baker Lake in order to secure housing and obtain medical services. Oonark took the initiative, after seeing pictures drawn by her children at school, to begin drawing herself. Edith Dodds, the wife of a Northern Service Officer in Baker Lake, sent some of Oonark's drawings to the West Baffin Co-operative where they were subsequently made into prints. With the influence of the Butlers, and the development of the Sanavik Co-operative, Jessie Oonark was able to begin her life as an artist, in earnest, at the age of 54. The Co-operative provided her with a studio, where she could spend her days concentrating on her craft. She spent the money she earned through sale of her art to support her family[29].
It has been said that Oonark's art is informed by a strong, bold, graphic sense. Traditional dress, women's facial tattoos and shamanistic themes are common, but they usually "appear as isolated, fragmentary forms, shaped into graphically bold images rather than comprehensible narratives"[30].
Much like other co-ops in the system, the Sanavik Co-operative, encountered great financial turmoil during the late 1970s and 1980s because of internal management issues and the challenging external financial environment of that time. This turmoil felt by Sanavik is documented in a number of sources. In 1972, the Butlers left Baker Lake,[31] although they continued on as consultants to it until 1976. For a number of years, the Baker Lake Inuit continued the print-making program, and they received great praise for the art being developed in the community at that time. In 1977, tragedy stuck. Fire destroyed the Co-op building, including the 1978 print collection, along with all the drawings, print stones and other necessarily materials owned by the Co-op. Fortunately, the federal government was able to come to the aid of Sanavik, and numerous grants, representing "extraordinary assistance", were provided to rebuild the facilities[32]. Despite the help, the next several years were challenging ones for the Co-op.
Operational and financial records passed on to the NWT Co-operative Association during that time indicate the financial challenges faced by Sanavik. As can be seen in Graph 1, employment figures dropped drastically in 1979-1980, from 16 full time staff members to 2. Membership numbers also peaked at 90. Employees were let go in order to help drive down operating costs, and a membership recruitment drive was undertaken as a way in which to help augment the government grants to rebuild after the fire. Annual reports from the NWT Co-operative movement, and from Arctic Co-operatives, during the period between 1981 and 1986 note that Sanavik's financial status was "not in good standing", four out of the previous six years[33]. Those in 'good standing' had submitted all reporting requirements, inclusive of annual returns, while those 'not in good standing' had annual returns outstanding.
Graph 1
This was a period of great change for the co-operative system, as a whole, in the Arctic. In the late seventies, the Federal government began to pull out of the "Eskimo-loan business", as private operators in the north began to complain about the special status reserved for co-operatives, which received federal tax dollars necessary to operate. In 1981, Canadian Arctic Co-operative Ltd. and the Canadian Arctic Co-operative Federation Ltd joined together to form Arctic Co-operatives Ltd. In an open letter from the Presidents of CACFL and CAP, member co-ops whose "major business is the production of arts and crafts" were asked to "put small doubts aside in the interest of native unity...."[34] The objectives of the amalgamation were to create a central coordinating agency to provide managerial services to member co-operatives, as well as to coordinate measures for the distribution and marketing of northern arts and crafts, within the same organization[35].
Previous to the amalgamation of these two co-operatives, operations were in both Ottawa, and Yellowknife. In 1985 the decision was made to consolidate operations in Winnipeg. This decision was primarily made on the basis of cost-effectiveness, in terms of staffing requirements and access to supply, both networks and distribution. [the preceding sentence is still awkward. Can you improve?]
Up until the mid-1980's, co-operatives in the Arctic relied almost solely upon government for their financing. Northern co-operatives in the 1970s were unable to access financing arrangements through the banks because they had few assets they could use to leverage for loans and lines of credit. Due to these structural limitations, the system relied heavily upon government support, up until the mid-eighties and the creation of the Arctic Co-operative Development Fund (ACDF). It is a fund of pooled financial resources, owned and controlled by the co-operative businesses receiving funding[36]. The Fund received a one-time shot of source capital equaling $10 million in 1986 dollars. $4.9 million was through INAC and the Eskimo Loan Fund, who provided a loan guarantee and through the transfer of existing loans to the system. In addition, the Government of Canada provided $5 million in new cash, and the Government of the NWT provided $300,000.
Arts and crafts in Baker Lake built the Sanavik Co-op. Despite the large number of Baker Lake residents active in the creation of arts and crafts, this portion of the Co-ops business did not earn the community much of a profit, especially during the recession of the early 1980s. 1983 was the first year since its incorporation that Sanavik did not issue an annual print collection. A financial analysis was undertaken of the Sanavik Co-op in 1985, in which the organization's dire financial state was made clear: "For carving purchases of $53,500 and overhead costs of $101,790, a mark-up of 190% is required to break-even"[37]. The same economic development plan points out issues the co-op had with paying staff wages which kept pace with inflation. It was during this period that Sanavik began to refocus its efforts in other sectors of the Baker Lake economy, away from arts and crafts. In 1987, the Canadian Eskimo Art Council - the organization in charge of deciding upon standards in Inuit art - rejected 9 editions of Baker Lake prints[38], Sanavik was unable to sustain the financial losses which resulted. In 1988, the rebuilt co-op continued on its operations without an arts advisor, and they converted their operations to a grocery business. In the late 1980s, Sanavik purchased a building, which would become the Iglu hotel, and in 1990, they began offering cablevision.^ back to top
Print-Making Revival and Later Years of Sanavik
Despite a several year respite, the production of arts and crafts continued in Baker Lake, without the support of the Co-op. In 1992, the Jessie Oonark Arts and Crafts Centre opened, offering workspace for local carvers, seamstresses, jewellery makers and printmakers. The Jessie Oonark centre is now run as a subsidiary of the Nunavut Development Corporation; however, in the 1990s the Nunasi Corporation - an Inuit Beneficiary Corporation, ran the centre[39]. [this sentence also needs some work]
In 1995, Nunavut Arctic College sent Kyra Vladykov-Fisher to Baker Lake to set up its drawing and printmaking program at the Jessie Oonark centre. Upon her arrival, she found that all the equipment used by Baker Lake printmakers in previous decades had been boxed up. Some of it had been sent south to the Arctic Co-operatives headquarters in Winnipeg[40]. She found that her "students', were former well-known and celebrated Baker Lake printmakers. They included: Victoria Mamnguqsualuk, Janet Kigusiuq, and Irene Avaalaaaiaq (all daughters of Jessie Oonark); Thomas and Phillipa Iksiraq; Hatti Amitnaaq; Magdalene Ukpatiku; Janet Ikuutaq and Nancy Sevoga All but three of them were over the age of 45[41]. Unfortunately However, charged with teaching print-making for a limited duration, Fisher, and the print-makers were inevitably faced with closure of the program. The Keewatin Chamber of Commerce, supported the Baker Lake Printmaking Society in its need to obtain its own building in 1997, and in 1998, the first Baker Lake Print Collection was released in a number of years. In 2007 - 08, print collections were released under Sheila Butler's guidance, and in 2008, a new Baker Lake Printmaker's Co-operative, was incorporated. This new print-making co-operative is independent of Arctic Co-operatives Ltd.
Table 1 - Sanavik Co-operative Sector Activities
Arts and crafts
Arts and crafts, retail, agencies, rentals
Retail, hotel, cable, big ticket (Yamaha), restaurant, property rentals, HTA Nunavut, calling cards.
Today, arts and crafts is still a vital portion of the Baker Lake community; however, the Sanavik Co-operative has deferred this portion of the economy to others in the community. In fact, it can be argued that, because it focused so heavily upon art in the first 20 years of its existence, Sanavik C-op had a slower start in developing portions of its activities, in comparison to other co-ops across the north. As noted by Terry Thompson,
Sanavik began by being heavily involved in the arts, and it had been very much support by government programs. Revenue from arts and crafts built the coop. In the old days - artists made the biggest contribution back in the day and when didn't know what to spend money on, they put money back into coop. The territorial government had provided support to arts and crafts. Prints from Baker Lake were well recognized as high quality. But, unfortunately this was not enough to sustain a business [in Baker Lake][42].
In the late 1990s, Sanavik took over ownership of the Iglu hotel, and they gradually expanded operations. Sanavik has always used the same store for retail, which was originally built expressly for the production of arts and crafts, although they have made an addition. Today, the Sanavik Co-op's business serves a number of different vital functions within Baker Lake. The retail store's profits form the lion's share of its operations and profits. In addition, Sanavik offers cable TV service to Baker Lake residents. Today, the Iglu Inns North Hotel is owned and operated by the Sanavik Co-op. They offer 13 rooms with double occupancy, 7 single rooms and 4 suites, each with a private bath and cable TV[43]. The Sanavik Co-operative also rents property at several locations around Baker Lake, and it sells ATVs and snowmobiles (Big Ticket). The Hunters and Trappers Association in Baker Lake, is run through the Sanavik Co-op.^ back to top
The Inuit of Baker Lake have demonstrated throughout their history a type of resiliency in the face of extenuating circumstances, uncommonly harsh even for the Canadian Arctic. Previous to the introduction of Western culture with all its trappings, many Caribou Inuit lived the most basic of lifestyles. With dwindling caribou and a non-existent fur trade that they had become reliant, in the 1940s, upon government benefits once they became available. However, many Inuit of Baker Lake sought out wage earnings through arts and crafts production once a federal program had been established. Eventually, the idea of a Co-op gained currency and the Sanavik Co-op was incorporated in 1971. The years that would follow were never simply "easy", and yet, with determination and significant hardship, the Sanavik Co-op continues to thrive, and to support the Inuit of Baker Lake.
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Appendix 1:
Individual influences on the Baker Lake arts program:
- Josiah Nuilaalik (1945) Early Baker Lake artist, who, in 1945, sold miniature harpoons, snow knives and chisels made from caribou antler with he traded for fuel with DND officers from "Operation Muskox"[44], who were stationed near Baker Lake for a number of months.
- Major J.D. Cleghorn (1947): During his involvement with "Operation Muskox", informed the Canadian Handicrafts Guild that Keewatin Inuit should be encouraged in their efforts regarding arts and crafts production.
- Colonel D.P. Baird: worked with the Canadian Handicrafts Guild in the late 1940s and encouraged all white women residing in the Keewatin to gather neighbouring Inuit men and women and then encourage them in basket weaving, parka sewing carving etc.
- Douglas Wilkinson: a Northern Service Officer with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Department of Northern Affairs and Northern Development, who, in 1958 introduced to Inuit in the Baker Lake area the concept of '"commodification" through the sale of traditional items once produced as toys. Having a background in art, himself, he advised Inuit to translate what they saw in life around themselves into the carvings they created.
- Edith Dodds was the wife of a Northern Service Officer stationed in Baker Lake, who in 1960 initiated an informal handicraft program among Inuit women in the settlement. She was the first to observe the artistic talent of Jessie Oonark, who would grow to be one of Baker Lake's most famous artists.
- William Larmour was Baker Lake's first federally appointed Arts and Crafts officer (1961 - 62), was sent to the community to explore the potential for developing an arts program similar to the one existing in Cape Dorset at the time.
- Gabe Gely: Arts and Crafts Officer from 1963 to 1965.
- Roderick McCarthy was Gely's immediate successor, spent several months in 1965 guiding local stonecarvers in the production of stonecut prints.
- Robert Paterson was a Toronto printmaker, with previous experience at Cape Dorset, who spent 10 weeks in Baker Lake, assisting the printers in completing the editions. When he arrived in Baker, he found much of the stone, print-making equipment in disrepair, he decided to abandon the stone-cut method. Instead, he introduced linocut methods to the community.
- Boris Kotelewetz (1966 - 1969) Boris Kotelewetz: arrived in Baker Lake in 1966, as a graduate of the Central Technical school of art in Toronto. He had helped Gabriel Gely to develop the Eskimo Gallery at the National Museum of Man In Ottawa. Established an immediate rapport with the elders in the community, and played active role in securing new local sources of good soapstone. He provided good quality stone tools, and his art books, art magazines, and technical knowledge with the Inuit of Baker Lake. He re-established the printmaking program, and resumed the practice of purchasing drawings. Provided Jessie Oonark with a separate small room in the craft shop where she could concentrate on her drawings. He resigned in the spring of 1969.
- Jack and Sheila Butler (1969 - 1972) Arrived in the spring of 1969. Within the first 6 year they reorganized the printshop and began purchasing drawing from local artists, and hiring printmakers. Their management style focused on collaboration and local community economic development. They are responsible for introducing the co-op concept to Baker Lake.
- Michael Amarook (one of the first directors of Sanavik). Described his responsibilities in the early 1970s as follows: "And now I am printmaking director. I have to talk to my printers sometimes; I have to tell them what paper to use, or what color of ink; help them pick drawings for prints and say if the print should be a stone-cut or a stencil. And we have a meeting every Monday to discuss what is good, or what is not so good about our printmaking project".
- Jessie Oonark (1906 - 1985) is one of Baker Lake's best known, and prolific artists. She produced numerous prints and wall-hangings from the mid-1950s through 1979 when she lost dexterity in her hand due to a neurological operation. She was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1975, and she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1984. The Jessie Oonark Arts and Crafts centre opened in 1992, bearing her name in honour of her years spent making art in Baker Lake.
- Ruby Arngna'naaq is an Inuk from Baker Lake, Nunavut, now residing in Ottawa. She was a founding member of the art-producing Sanavik Inuit Cooperative in Baker Lake, in 1970, and one of Sanavik's first printmaking shop managers and art directors. She co-produced Inuit Myths and Legends for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), and co-directed Ikajurti: Midwifery in the Canadian Arctic, for IBC in 1990. She has worked in the Inuit cultural sector as a political activist, a representative on arts boards and marketing agencies, and as Northern Liaison for "The First Minister's Conference on Aboriginal Rights and Aboriginal Consultation on Justice Issues."
- John Evans (1977) appointed as art advisor to the co-op in 1977.
- Bogus Zydb - served as arts advisor to the Sanavik Coop from mid 1979 - 1982. Brought energy to his role; eager to introduce new materials, and techniques such as lithography. An exciting collection of original drawings was released by the co-op during Zydb's tenure, but "local repercussions of the pervasive economic recession of the 1970s weakened morale among co-op personnel, limiting the resources and energy for pursuing new directions.
- William Eakin artist/ photographer - appointed as new arts advisor to Sanavik. Baker lake printmaking program was revived under his guidance (1983)
- Grace Eiko (1985 - 1988)
- Tanya Marsh (2004 - 2009)
- William Noah: was born in a traditional Inuit camp on the Back River, at a place known as Kitikut, in the central Canadian Arctic. The youngest of thirteen children in a family facing starvation on the land, he moved with his mother (the artist Jessie Oonark), into the settlement of Baker Lake in 1958. As a way to earn money in the settlement, Oonark encouraged him to draw. Now exhibiting internationally as a graphic artist, Noah's drawings, stone cut/stencil prints, and watercolour paintings reflect his cross-cultural life experience. In his daily life he combines traditional Inuit hunting with art making and settlement life. Noah has twice been elected Mayor of Baker Lake. In his use of materials, form, and content, Noah's visual production reflects the progressive urbanization and Westernization of Baker Lake.
[1] Keith, Darren. "Baker Lake", Nunavut Hand Book, 2004, pg 194.
[2] Jackson, Marion Elizabeth "Baker Lake Inuit Drawings: A Study in the Evolution of Artistic Self-Consciousness", 1985, University of Michigan. Chapter 2: Context for the Development of Baker Lake Graphic Art, pg 65
[3] Jackson, Marion Elizabeth, ibid, 1985, pg 69.
[4] Jackson, ibid, 1985, pg 57.
[5] Keith, Darren. "Baker Lake", Nunavut Handbook, 2004, pg 195.
[6] Jackson, ibid, 1985, pg 58.
[7] Keith, Darren. Ibid, 2004, pg 195.
[8] Jackson, Marion Elizabeth, ibid, 1985 pg 75.
[9] Jackson, Marion Elizabeth, ibid, 1985 pg 75.
[10] Jackson, ibid, 1985, pg 59.
[11] Stager, JK. Baker Lake NWT: A Background Report of its Social and Economic Development. Funded by Polar Gas Project, January 1977.
[12] Jackson, Marion Elizabeth, ibid, 1985 pg 69.
[13] See list of people who played role in arts/ crafts program and the Sanavik Co-operative in Appendix A.
[14] Jackson, ibid, 1985, pg 82.
[15] Jackson, ibid, 1985, pg 83.
[16] Bouchard, Marie. An Inuit Perspective: Baker Lake Sculpture, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2000.
[17] Jackson, Marion Elizabeth ibid, 1985, pg 76.
[18] Bouchard, Marie. Ibid, 1985, pg 82.
[19] Jackson, ibid, 1985, pg 84.
[20] See appendix A: List of individuals who influenced development of arts and crafts industry in Baker Lake.
[21] Jackson, ibid, 1985, pg 86.
[22] Jackson, ibid, 1985, pg 86.
[23] Stager, JK. ibid, 1977, pg 12.
[24] Stager, JK., ibid, 1977, pg 22.
[25] Stager, JK., Ibid, 1977, pg 22.
[26] Stager, JK., Ibid, 1977, pg 22.
[27] Stager, JK., ibid, 1977, pg 24.
[28] Art Gallery of Ontario, June 24 - August 4, 1976. "What it is like being an Inuit Artist".
[29] http://www.bcics.org/node/3249
[30] Berlo, Jane Catherine. "North American Women Artists of the 20th Century:L A Biographical Dictionary, 1995."
[31] Jackson, ibid, 1985, pg 65.
[32] The 1979 Annual Report of the NWT Co-operative Association, notes that "It is also to be noted that $156,531 of the miscellaneous income or government grant figure represents extraordinary assistance provided to the Sanavik coop in Baker Lake from numerous government sources to assist the coop in recovering from the total loss of its facilities due to fire."
[33] All co-ops in the NWT system were listed alternately as "in good standing", "not in good standing", "inactive, not in dissolution process" and "dissolved and in final liquidation".
[34] "An open letter from the presidents of the CACFL and CAP", Co-op North, February 1980, vol 2, no 4, (insert).
[35] "Charter Bylaws: Arctic Co-operatives Ltd" in Co-op North, April 1981, vol 3, no 1, pg 3.
[36] "Arctic Co-operative Development Fund, notes to financial statements", 2007 ACDF Financial Statement, pg 7.
[37] Baker Lake Economic Development Plan, 1985, pg 71.
[38] Fisher, Kyra Vladykov "The Baker Lake Printmaking Revival", in Arctic, Vol 50, No. 2, June 1997.
[39] Jessie Oonark Centre website:
[40] Fisher, Kyra Vladykov, Arctic, ibid, 1997.
[41] Fisher, Kyra Vladykov, Arctic, ibid, 1997, pg 195.
[42] Interview with Terry Thompson, January 27th, 2010.
[43] Private bathrooms, a gift shop, a full service dining room, conference facilities, business support services, in-room phones, cable TV and radio, a guest lounge with a big screen cable TV and fire-place, catering, laundry and wireless internet are several of the services offered by the Iglu Hotel. Please see http://www.bakerlakehotel.com/baker-lake-hotel-services.htm for more information.
[44] Operation Muskox was one of the Canadian military's largest military operations in the Canadian Arctic. It consisted of 48 officers which drove 11 4 ½ tonne snowmobiles through the arctic tundra. Military exercises in the Arctic in general date back to the Second World War, through due course, Canadian military planners became convinced that combat operations may need to occur in such challenging conditions. These concerns were helped along by escalating geopolitical strife between the USSR and Western countries after the war. http://www.ucalgary.ca/arcticexpedition/muskox, accessed April 20 2010
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Board members expressed some frustration at the lack of dollar figures involved in the overtime increases and asked McCarthy and Massiah, to provide numbers when reporting on overtime in the future.
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Messiah said officials would produce a report on who is receiving overtime.
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Chris Martin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 44 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
I am looking for a professional looking logo for this new business.
YourClubz or Your Clubz
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The business is named Your Clubz (or YourClubz). Please pay no attention to the current site design; as a new site is in development. The new site will be based off of the RocketTheme.com HiveMind Joomla template.
Anti-street racing is a big theme of ours. Once off the ground, we will provide a community site for each club along with their own store. We also put together events ranging from the basic meet and greet to a full-blown race day for clubs.
Although I'm open to all suggestions, I'm thinking the logo should be fresh and portray community with an anti-street racing or just automobile theme. The logo should not giving praise to any one manufacturer. I would like to see a logo that could be seen on thousands of cars. ;)
A slogan is up to the participant.
Thank you and good luck!
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By Andy Nativi
ISTANBUL — Turkey is interested in a "domestic" light-utility platform in the 5-metric-ton class, while it also eyes new military satellites.
For the helo effort, as is the case with Turkey's fighter ambitions (Aerospace DAILY, May 13), local industry still lacks key skills and would require a major partner.
As part of the competition for a medium-lift utility (TUHP) helicopter, bidders Sikorsky and AgustaWestland had to present plans for how they would work with local industry to build domestic skills. That initiative will be led by Sikorsky, now that it has won the TUHP contest with the T-70, although officials with Turkish defense procurement agency SSM say AgustaWestland remains a fallback.
Turkey also is showing interest in a locally based military satellite capability. Under the Gokturk contract, awarded in December 2008, Telespazio will develop, build and launch a 1-metric-ton-class optical Earth-observation satellite, slated to be orbited in 2013. The launcher has not yet been chosen, and several options (including Vega, Soyuz and Minotaur) are being considered.
The contract includes building a satellite assembly facility that will be capable of handling 1-5-metric-ton satellites.
Turkey already is working on a second Gokturk observation satellite, this one based on a domestically built bus linked with an imported sensor. A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite, Gokturk 3, is also on the drawing board, with Alselan leading the SAR sensor industrial team.
Another space effort in the cards is a national GPS network comprising six satellites covering Turkey and potential operational areas. Longer term, there are plans for a national small-satellite space launcher capability.
Finally, Turkey is proceeding with the T-Loramids program, with the aim of developing an area air defense missile system that would comprise four battalions each with two batteries. The competition for the $4 billion-plus program has garnered proposals from China, Russia, the U.S. (Patriot PAC-2 GEM+ and PAC-3) and Europe (involving SAMP-T).


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A Culture of Health
Our mission is to create a world free of heart disease and stroke — a world where everyone can achieve the best possible health—and it starts right here in our community. That's why we must come together to solve complex issues that affect this generation and generations to come. Together we can improve quality of life, ensure healthy environments, strengthen the economy, elevate care and change policy for all.
Show You Have Austin at Heart
As a member of the community, you have an important role to play in helping to improve the long-term health of our city.
Get Involved With Your Community
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- 2019-2020 Virtual Heart Walk, Date: Sunday, June 30, 2019 - 12:00 AM
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Teaching local students to save lives
When CPR is preformed properly and promptly during cardiac arrest, survival rates can double or triple. We fought to make this lifesaving training a graduation requirement for all Texas students. By filling our city with bystanders equipped to take action, we are helping to improve survival odds for everyone in Abilene.
Improving Quality of Life
We are working within our community to: Raise awareness about the vital effect lifestyle has on health. Make healthy options accessible and available for all. Help children form healthy habits that will last a lifetime, by removing obstacles to making healthy choices. Living healthy and free of disease makes a critical difference in quality of life.
Changing Policy
You're the Cure is working within our community to empower citizens to take informed action on local and state policies, and champion policies and laws that help people avoid unhealthy practices and create safer communities. Our advocates are addressing critical healthcare concerns by advocating for policies that can improve access and boost the quality and value of care.
Elevating Care
On average, men and women spend more than half of their waking hours at work – which can have a significant impact on our health. That is why we collaborate with Texas businesses to help create a more physically active, health-conscious culture in the office. From blood pressure screenings to fitness days, our local worksites are starting to work for our wellbeing.


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Data warehouses are based on multidimensional models which contain the following elements: facts (the goal of the analysis), measures (quantitative data), dimensions (qualifying data), dimension attributes, classification hierarchies, levels of hierarchies (dimension attributes which form hierarchies), and attributes which describe levels of hierarchies of dimensions.
When it comes to the conceptual models of data warehouses, it is argued by many authors that the existing methods for conceptual modelling used for relational or object-oriented systems do not ensure sufficient support for the representation of multidimensional models in an intuitive way. Use of the aforementioned methods also ensures a waste of some of the semantics of multidimensional models. The necessary semantics must be added to the model informally, but that makes the model unsuitable for automatic transformation purposes. The conceptual models proposed by authors such as Sapia et al. (1998), Tryfona et al. (1999) and Lujan-Mora et al. (2002) are with various opportunities for expression, as can be seen in a comparison of the models in works such as (Blaschka et al., 1998), (Pedersen, 2000) and (Abello et al, 2001). This means that when a particular conceptual model is used for the modelling of data warehouses, some essential features may be missing. Lujan-Mora et al. (2002) argue that problems also occur because of the inaccurate interpretation of elements and features in the multidimensional model. They say that this applies to nearly all conceptual models that have been developed for data warehousing. The variety of elements and features in the conceptual models reflect differences in opinion about the best model for data warehouses, and that means that there is no universal agreement about the relevant standard (Rizzi et al., 2006).
There are two possible approaches towards the development of a conceptual model. One can be developed from scratch, which means additional work in terms of the formal description of the model's elements. A model can also be developed by modifying an existing model so as to express the concepts of the multidimensional paradigm.
The conceptual models of data warehouses can be classified into several groups in accordance with how they are developed (Rizzi et al., 2006):
Models based on the E/R model, e.g., ME/R (Sapia et al., 1998) or StarE/R (Tryfona et al., 1999);
Models based on the UML., e.g., those using UML stereotypes (Lujan-Mora et al., 2002);
Independent conceptual models proposed by different authors, e.g., Dimensional Fact Model (Golfarelli et al., 1998).
In the data warehousing field there exists the metamodel standard for data warehouses - the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). It is actually a set of several metamodels, which describe various aspects of data warehousing. CWM is a platform independent specification of metamodels (Poole et al., 2003) developed so as to ensure the exchange of metadata between different tools and platforms. The features of a multidimensional model are basically described via an analysis-level OLAP package, however, CWM cannot fully reflect the semantics of all conceptual multidimensional models (Rizzi et al., 2006).
There are several approaches to learn the requirements for a conceptual data warehouse model and to determine how the relevant model can be built. Classification of these approaches is presented in this section, along with an overview of methods, which exist in each approach. Weaknesses of the approaches are analysed to show the necessity to develop new methods. The positive aspects of existing approaches and the existence of many methods in each approach, however, suggests that several method components can be used in an appropriate situation.


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Meet the first female African-American to live in the International Space Station
Astronaut Jeanette Epps is about to make history. She'll be the first female African-American astronaut and crew member to board the International Space Station in 2018.
Photo by NASA
While 14 African-American astronauts have been sent into space, Jeanette will be the first to stay on the International Space Station for an extended period of time as a crew member. And, she'll be the 13th woman to join the space station since it was built in 1998. Jeanette will launch in May 2018 for Expedition 56 and stay onboard for Expedition 57.
Culmination of a great week of training in Star City. pic.twitter.com/gUU1y319fM
— Jeanette J. Epps (@Astro_Jeanette) December 10, 2016
We can't wait to see what happens on Jeanette's missions and find her story so inspiring. Jeanette has been an astronaut since 2009 and has a PhD in aerospace engineering. Not to mention, she also spent seven years as a technical intelligence officer at the Central Intelligence Agency!
We think Jeanette's ground-breaking story is inspirational for budding engineers everywhere. It's an example of passion, commitment, and hard work. Not surprisingly, her advice to young inventors on pursuing their dreams is so on-point:
"Anything you don't know is going to be hard at first. But, if you stay the course, put the time and effort in, it will become seamless eventually."
With that philosophy and ambition, now we know how Jeanette became an engineer and an astronaut.
H/t Huffington Post
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Rashana Perks Smith holds an M.F.A. in Dance at The Ohio State University with a focus on Choreography and Technology. Smith is the contributing author for the Vera J. Blaine Choreographic Resources website, an archival documentation of the teaching methods of Vera J. Blaine and an online teaching tool for dance educators. As the Artistic Director of Motor Dance, Smith presents choreographic research involving immersive and generative performance works as a means to examine community and identity. She teaches dance composition, technique, and history courses at OWU. Smith also serves as Artistic Director for the annual OWU dance concert, Orchesis.
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Dance in Higher Education: It's More Than a Set of Steps
Dance Theory, Practice and Literacy


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Did everyone have a fantastic Father's day? What wonderful thing did you do for our Father? I drove eight hours to see Fleetwood Mac in Chicago with my Father on Friday (although…he paid for the ridiculously over-priced tickets so we are probably even). My father ALWAYS had a Fleetwood Mac album on in the car when I was little and it's one of the rare moments I remember singing and dancing with him. It was awesome growing up on Fleetwood Mac, I've always wanted to see Stevie Nicks in person and she did not disappoint.
Here's a simple hummus recipe for you. I decided to put the 'flavoring' in the top and keep the hummus itself super basic (mmmm garlic garlic hummus). You don't HAVE to peel the chickpeas but I read about doing it over at Smitten Kitchen a few months back and am totally hooked. I've ruined 2 blenders by overheating them when making hummus and this takes the majority of the work off the blender. Plus, it leaves your hummus so smooth that you'll never need the store bought stuff again.
Coriander Hummus
- 1 15 oz. can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/3 cup tahini
- 3 Tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/8 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup coriander seeds, toasted and crushed (instructions below)*
- 3 Tablespoons cilantro, chopped
Peel the chickpeas by lightly pinching the bean and the outer shell should come right off in one big peel. Repeat with the rest of the chickpeas. Transfer the beans, tahini, garlic, lemon juice, water, and olive oil in a blender (or food processor) and blend until smooth. Taste and season with salt, pepper, or more lemon juice. Transfer hummus to a big bowl.
Place the coriander seeds in a saucepan over medium low heat. Stir constituently for about two minutes or until they are fragrant and lightly browned. Remove from heat and immediately transfer to a mortar and pestle to crush. Sprinkle crushed coriander seeds over the hummus followed by sprinkling the cilantro.
Serve with pita and fresh veggies.


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Our Life Academy Story
Life Academy is a Touch A Life program aimed at providing vocational training opportunities and life skills development for young adults in the organization's care. Touch A Life provides long-term rehabilitative care for children rescued out of slavery in Ghana, West Africa. While many children will proceed through traditional channels of the Ghanaian education system, ending up in local colleges or universities, some young people find a better fit for their futures by pursuing vocational opportunities in lieu of typical schooling options. Life Academy fills the gap for these young adults by providing them with the resources and training they need to become successful adults, employees, and entrepreneurs.
The Life Academy program is located in Accra, the capital city of Ghana, and it operates on a 12-month cycle. The goal of Life Academy is to prepare the young adults who have graduated from the Touch A Life Care Center to be self-sufficient and responsible for their livelihood. Specifically, this program also prepares participants to gain and maintain meaningful employment and equip them with professional skills.
Launched in February 2016, the Life Academy program currently serves eight students in their early twenties.


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A River of Life
Art insists that the waters of life flowing from the Throne are available here and now for those who are yielded to that Throne and to that Lordship. A 2002 message.
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Leading keynote speaker bureau in India
Aric Dromi is the Chief Futurologist for one of the world's most well-known and respected vehicle manufacturers and a leading developer of premium, autonomous and electric vehicles. He looks into new ways of thinking about how things work.
"Turning Science Fiction into Reality"
Outside of this he splits his time between his consultancy TEMPUS.MOTU a social and technology strategic think-tank and a series of advisory roles. He sits on the advisory board of NTT Innovation Institute, Inc. (NTT i3) the Silicon Valley-based innovation centre for NTT Group, one of the world's largest ICT companies. He also supports the UNLEASH innovation team; they are a global innovation lab with a focus on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. He also holds a position with the AIIA, Artificial intelligence & Intelligent Automation Network which advises business executives on the world of AI. Aric is also an author and an artist.
What he offers you
Aric helps change the way we experience the world and transforms the way we understand change. He explains the future, makes it tangible and, most importantly, makes it relevant. He delivers captivating speeches that frame questions and help people identify and abandon old paradigms and rethink thinking.
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A passionate and engaging speaker, Aric's presentations are a veritable wealth of new ideas delivered in a unique and highly creative way.
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|Keep It Simple, Stupid
Closing parent CGI after fork()by hambo (Novice)
|on May 04, 2004 at 11:53 UTC ( #350294=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
hambo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hello Monks,
Want to know about CGI. I have a script burn.pl, which creates a web page using CGI.pm. Simple enough. Now, inside this, it should fork another perl script, called sleep.pl, which should sleep until I send it a SIGALRM. This all works, but the web page continues to have the hour glass (like the page is waiting for input from the CGI) until I send my sleeping process the SIGALRM. How would I get the web page to do the complete job (i.e. not wait with the hourglass) while still running the sleep.pl in the background?
My sleep.pl is simple:
I know little about CGI, so this is all a bit new to me.
20040504 Edit by broquaint: Changed title from 'CGI question - getting rid of the hour glass'
Back to Seekers of Perl Wisdom


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All citizens will work to cultivate a deep value and appreciation for nature and the environment, and preserve natural spaces for the sake of human beings in both urban and rural areas.
- Community-based organizations that offer opportunities for young people and their families to experience and learn more about our natural world.
- Provide scholarship grants to allow underserved youth (boys and girls) and their families to participate in outdoor activities.
- Seek connections to other funding areas (without diluting the core goals) particularly Youth Development and Leadership.
- Be a modest participant in larger community initiatives (particularly in Minneapolis, MN) that will provide additional or new opportunities for people to understand the value of our natural resources and to enjoy our natural world.
Types of organizations we fund:
- Select environmental and conservation organizations that strive to protect and heal the communities in which the George Family Foundation board members live (Minnesota, the Vail Valley and the San Francisco Bay area).
- Environmental learning centers/organizations – urban and rural – that help young people and their families engage with the natural world.
Learn more about our current grantees.
To be considered for an Enviroment grant, you must follow our Letter of Inquiry (LOI) process.


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Many of our customers at Rossmoor Car Wash & Detail Center are amazed at the dramatic change in their car's appearance after availing themselves of our detail services. A common reaction: " I never Knew my car could look this good." The dramatic difference they see vividly recalls the first day they ever drove their car: the deep reflection in the newly coated finish, and that's only the beginning. We set out to improve more than just the " looks" of your car. The fact is, that a car detailed by our detail department is better protected, easier to clean, of greater value and a lot more fun to drive.
We'll Make it Easy on You. It seems that it's never convenient to part with your car for even a few hours, so we'll do what we can to schedule your car at the most convenient time possible, whether it's during the week or on a weekend. Our detail specialist are on site seven day a week to serve you.
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