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One of the reasons I went to Dakar was to follow the "Symposium on building art institutions in Africa", organized by Koyo Kouoh, the founder of Raw Material Company. Established in Dakar since 2008, Raw Material Company is "a center for art, knowledge and society." With the self-confident claim that "The art scene in Africa is growing mainly on impetus of independent initiatives," the symposium brought together some of Africa's most important independent art spaces and initiatives as well as a series of exemplary projects from other continents. I learned a great deal about how the colonial past continues to provoke questions and polemics (while countries like China are buying up Africa's agricultural land). It also became clear that a young generation of African curators, intellectuals, and artists are willing to change things and to build up meaningful projects while the ruling class and the politicians in power are envious, passive, or are attached to old concepts and privileges. Within the range of initiatives, I felt particularly drawn to artist-run projects like:
- Amadou Kane Sy's community project Portes et Passages, set up in Mbodiène, and the affiliated project The Mart Community in Mart, Texas.
- Jimmy Ogonga's Center of Contemporary Art East Africa in Nairobi.
- Meskerem Assegued's Zoma Contemporary Art Center. In collaboration with artists and by using traditional and modern building methods, they build studios in the Ethiopian countryside.
- Fatou Kandé Senghor's Waru Studio, a site for collaboration among video and film artists.

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This is the sixteenth of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I wrote Agenda to spur a national conversation on economic policy issues and options that are otherwise largely ignored. This blog series is intended to contribute to that conversation. —DK
In 1992, I participated in the civil society portion of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It involved some fifteen thousand people representing the vast variety of humanity's races, religions, nationalities, and languages. It was, at the time, the largest and most diverse global gathering in human history. Our discussions centered on defining, and committing ourselves to, the vision of the world we would create together.
These discussions were chaotic and often contentious. But at one point it hit me like a bolt of lightning. Despite our differences, we all wanted the same things: healthy, happy children, families, and communities living in peace and cooperation in healthy natural environments. Out of our conversations emerged an articulation of our shared dream of a world in which people and nature live in dynamic, creative, cooperative, and balanced relationships. The Earth Charter, which is the product of a continuation of this discussion, calls it Earth Community, a community of life.
I've lived in a lot of places with starkly different cultures: Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Indonesia, the Philippines, California, Massachusetts, Florida, Virginia, New York City, and Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. Surprise! Look beneath the colorful differences in cultural expression and you find at the core everyone wants to breathe clean air and drink clean water. They want tasty, nutritious food uncontaminated with toxins. They want meaningful work, a living wage, success and happiness for their children, and security in their old age. They want a say in the decisions their governments make and they want to live in peace.
Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun magazine, observes that:
The great spiritual-religious wisdom traditions of the world have all taugh some variant of this message: The deepest human pleasures come from living in a world based on justice, peace, love, generosity, kindness, and celebration of the universe and service to the ultimate moral law of the universe (whether learned through revelation or through reason).
For 5,000 years we have continuously recreated a world that appeals only to the psychologically deranged.
Beyond our varied races, religions, nationalities, and languages, we humans share a collective dream of a world of healthy, happy children, families, communities, and natural environments joined in peace and cooperation. These are all forms of real wealth that are not available for purchase or sale and have no monetary equivalent. These are our primary sources of true happiness.
We have been trapped in Empire's pernicious rule-or-be-ruled, kill-or-be-killed, play-or-die dynamic by geographic and cultural barriers that have kept us divided and unable to embrace our true nature and common interest. The possibility to liberate ourselves from this self-inflicted tragedy is within our grasp.
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The communication technologies of the Internet in place for little more than 20 years create a potential for collective dialogue, organizing, and action never before available. We now have the means, as well as the need and the right, to bridge the geographic and cultural barriers that have for so long divided us, recognize our common yearning, and bring forth cultures and institutions that cultivate and reward our higher nature.
Do we have the will? I believe we do. It is being expressed by growing millions of people working largely outside the institutions of Empire.
Yet economists prefer to assess economic performance by growth in gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of the market value of economic output. The GDP can be rising in the face of simultaneous epidemics of child obesity and starvation. It can be rising in the face of disintegrating families and a vanishing middle class, increasing prison populations, rising unemployment, the disruption of community, collapsing environmental systems, the hollowing out of domestic manufacturing capabilities, failing schools, growing trade deficits, and costly but senseless foreign wars.
And all the while, economists tell us we are getting richer. Such nonsense.
Consider how differently we might organize our human economies if we measured economic performance by indicators of the outcomes we truly seek—the sources of true happiness.
It is a stunning and hopeful truth. The world we must now create if there is to be a human future is also the world of our common dream. The barriers are self-inflicted. They include the fabricated belief that we are by nature incapable of cooperating in the common good and the use of flawed measures of economic and social performance.
So let us recognize and cultivate the potentials of our true nature and henceforth assess the performance of our economies against the outcomes we truly seek.
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Eric McCormack is bracing himself.
He's starring in "Perception," a new TNT drama he's very proud of. On the series, which premieres Monday at 10 p.m. EDT, he plays a character he loves.
Still, he's waiting for the storm.
"I've known from the beginning that we're going to have to go through a trial by fire," he says. "We just are."
On "Perception" he portrays Dr. Daniel Pierce, a brilliant neuroscience professor with paranoid schizophrenia who is recruited by the FBI for a side job: to help solve cases that call for expertise in human behavior and the workings of the mind.
Rachael Leigh Cook co-stars as FBI agent Kate Moretti, who, a failed marriage ago, had a crush on Pierce as a student in his classes. Were he not so challenged by intimacy issues, Pierce might now be game to reciprocate her feelings.
Never mind. Their priority is joining forces to solve crimes. And they do, even as Pierce wrestles with his complicated condition, which afflicts him with hallucinations, paranoid delusions and a need to keep strict order.
"Pierce is a genius," says McCormack, "and he's got all the bravado and arrogance that comes with it: 'If there's anyone who can fix a brain, it's me.'
"The mysteries are the most delicious thing for him, and yet they stir him up, to his detriment. Every new case will be harder and harder on his psyche, causing his condition to get worse. That makes a great push-me, pull-me for the show."
When he first read the script, the 49-year-old McCormack recalls, "I knew right away what I could do with this character. I knew the fun we could have. I also knew what people are gonna say: 'McCormack does "Monk." McCormack does "House." McCormack does "Castle.'''"
A little sigh.
"None of those guys are schizophrenic. None are lecturers at a university. He's not a (practicing) physician and he's not a detective." McCormack laughs. "Am I nitpicking. Or are THEY nitpicking?"
The truth is, at the time of this interview a few weeks ago, no one is nitpicking. Yet. But McCormack is prepared for it to start.
In part, that's because of his experience with "Trust Me," his follow-up series to the 1998-2006 sitcom hit "Will & Grace."
A one-hour comedy-drama that aired for a season on TNT in 2009, "Trust Me" paired McCormack and Tom Cavanagh as ad men at a current-day agency.
"I was absolutely baffled by the critics when they said, 'We already have an advertising show. You're riding on the coattails of "Mad Men.'''"
McCormack laughed again, marveling at humans' perception of one thing in terms of things that came before.
Of course, some shows decisively break from the pack. Like "Will & Grace," for instance, built around its saucy pair of BFFs: a handsome gay man and a beautiful straight woman cohabiting in Manhattan.
Though it ended its 8-season network run six years ago, the show was thrust back in the news just a few weeks ago.
Vice President Joseph Biden's "Meet the Press" declaration that he is "absolutely comfortable" with gay marriage nudged President Barack Obama to endorse gay marriage days later. Obama credited "Will & Grace" with doing "more to educate the public than almost anything anybody's done so far."
McCormack says the "Will & Grace" team never meant to make a big deal of the message it put out.
"We never wanted to be a show that said, 'Oh, and we're making a difference,'" he insists. "Taking credit for that seemed the best way to kill the comedy in the show.
"But it's nice, years after the fact, to hold up our heads and say, 'It was funny and timely and even daring.' And if we made the road easier for a series like 'Modern Family,' I'm glad, 'cause it's a brilliant show."
In the meantime, McCormack is looking forward to "Perception," which, he believes, will rise or fall on its characters ("Do you want to be with them every week?"), not its premise.
As for the premise, whatever it is or might have been — cops or doctors or six friends sitting around an apartment being funny — "there's always going to be comparisons," McCormack says.
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The Trouble With Women and Wine
Author Gabrielle Glaser talks to WSJ's Gary Rosen about the growing problem of alcohol abuse among upper middle-class women and why A.A. is not the solution for most of them. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Labor Takes Aim at Walmart -- Again
Spencer Woodman
The Nation
January 4, 2012
Source URL: http://www.thenation.com/article/165437/labor-takes-aim-walmart-again
In October two shabby buses filled with Walmart
employees stopped unannounced outside the company's
headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. As the employees
filed into the building's expansive parking lot,
plainclothes private security personnel sporting sleek
sunglasses and Walmart emergency response badges rushed
in and swiftly corralled the employees onto a public
sidewalk. Members of a new union-backed campaign to
organize Walmart, the workers had come from around the
country to ask Walmart's CEO, Mike Duke, for better
wages and better treatment.
The hoped-for meeting was not granted. Within minutes, a
dozen Bentonville police officers rushed in to reinforce
the security guards in forming a barricade between the
employees and their headquarters' front door. A labor
relations representative emerged from the mostly
windowless building. She announced that she would meet
only with workers who carried Walmart employee discount
cards in addition to their company badges and state IDs.
Without discount cards, the protesting employees would
be arrested.
"I didn't come here today to go shopping, so why do I
need my discount card?" said Girshriela Green, a young
mother who until recently worked at Walmart in Southern
California. "I feel totally disrespected. Shame on them
for not having the common decency to sit down and talk
to their own associates."
This recent unrest in Arkansas-the second Bentonville
action by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)-
supported OUR Walmart group in a span of four months-is
part of the widest effort yet to organize Walmart, the
world's largest private sector employer and the labor
movement's most intractable foe in the era of declining
unionism. Over the past year, a loose coalition of labor
groups has redoubled engagement with the retail giant in
a series of campaigns using nontraditional organizing
strategies-namely, the formation of informal groups of
workers that are not union certified but attempt to
assert themselves to management all the same. OUR
Walmart, the largest initiative, focuses on the
company's retail stores. Another new campaign, Warehouse
Workers United (WWU), focuses on logistics workers in
Walmart-contracted warehouses in Southern California and
is launching a lean effort to coordinate workers
internationally along Walmart's supply chain.
"A year ago, I would not have predicted this strategy of
nonunion worker organization," says Dorian Warren, a
professor of public affairs at Columbia University. "I
see it in the context of failed past strategies. It's
clear that you cannot run a formal NLRB election at
Walmart. This PR strategy of beating Walmart over the
head with bad publicity is reaching its limits. And
frankly, when the Supreme Court struck down the Dukes
case it became clear that the legal strategy was also
reaching a dead end."
Indeed, until recently it appeared that the labor
movement was lying prostrate in its engagement with the
Arkansas colossus-a company whose anti-unionism, both
visionary and vicious, has triumphed at every turn. In
2000 the UFCW won an election at a small meatpacking
unit at a Texas Walmart, only to learn that the company
would dissolve all in-store meatpacking companywide.
Five years later, an entire Quebec Walmart was shuttered
just weeks after its employees voted to unionize. The
fines the $400 billion company incurs from such boldly
illegal retaliations are minimal compared with the
potential cost of raising wages.
Such defeats notwithstanding, union leaders have decided
that organizing retail in America is not feasible
without first dealing with Walmart, a company that, more
than any other on earth, sets labor standards across
industries that feed its vast global supply chain. The
core of Walmart's low-price wizardry lies in its
innovative mechanisms for minimizing labor costs, most
often the number-one expense of production in low-end
In recent years, as it has suffered dismal sales reports
and turmoil in management, Walmart has doubled down on
its strategy of suppressing wages and benefits for its
2.1 million employees. This is evidenced all the way
from Bangladeshi garment factories, which maintain
working conditions that verge on slavery to meet
Walmart's rock-bottom procurement prices, to sales
floors across the Americas, where managers are given
increasingly narrow budgets to pay staff, who make an
average of around $8 an hour and often have to rely on
government-funded food and healthcare programs.
"All along this company's global supply chain we are
seeing millions of workers in disparate work roles but
who are facing the same issues: increasing
precariousness, exploitation and the inability to
democratically organize," says an international
organizer at WWU.
In this intense workforce squeeze, labor groups see an
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In just over a year, OUR Walmart has signed up thousands
of employees in hundreds of Walmarts in more than thirty
states. Though not yet being seriously discussed,
unionization remains an open, if distant, option. In
launching the campaign, the UFCW sent hundreds of its
members door-to-door to encourage Walmart employees to
join the group, which requires a $5 monthly dues
Organizers credit the group's brisk expansion to the
ditching of formal union drives, in which organizers
must win a prescheduled election at a store. "Walmart is
very effective in dealing with a classic union strategy,
where there's an election coming that it can plan
around," says Wade Rathke, the founder of ACORN. He
helped organize Walmarts from Florida to California in
an experiment with nonunion organizing beginning in
2004. "But when there's no election coming, they don't
know how to deal with these noncertified workers'
This nonelection route bypasses official forms of
collective bargaining, which mandate that workers and
management sit down to agree on compensation and hours.
Instead, these worker associations bargain outside pre-
established frameworks of negotiation, using any means
legal to pressure management into recognizing their
interests-an arrangement that closely resembles pre-New
Deal unionism. With little institutional arbitration,
this model can be seen as a rawer, more organic form of
workplace struggle.
National labor law broadly protects nonunion worker
activities, including collective actions and even
nonunion strikes. "In a nonunion situation, the
employers do not have to agree to what these groups
demand, but if the employer retaliates, there is a right
to file an unfair practice charge and the NLRB would
enforce it," says Lance Compa, a professor of labor
relations at Cornell University.
OUR Walmart member Jackie Goebel took advantage of such
unofficial channels of bargaining this past summer at
her store in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
When she began as a cashier in 1988, Goebel saw Walmart
as the small town's most attractive workplace, one that
she associated with the market-inspired humanitarianism
of its founder, Sam Walton. More recently, Goebel's
satisfaction with her job has soured. In 2005 her
daughter, a young mother who was a cashier at the same
store, went to the doctor with troubling symptoms. The
doctor diagnosed ovarian cysts and insisted she get a
hysterectomy. In the fall of 2006, she approached Goebel
and said she had ovarian cancer. "I asked her, `Why did
you not have the hysterectomy when they first suggested
it to you?'" Goebel recalls. "And she looked directly at
me and said, `I was afraid if I took the time off they'd
fire me.'" Goebel's daughter died in 2007 at 37.
"I don't hold Walmart culpable for my daughter having
cancer," says Goebel. "But she was living in this
horrible fear of losing her job, and had she gone and
gotten the surgery when the doctor suggested, it would
have bought her years more with her kids."
While coping with the consequences of Walmart's well-
documented practice of firing employees with medical
issues, Goebel also began to notice that her manager was
slashing wages while increasingly demanding that the
workers perform task volumes she calls "not humanly
possible." Since its launch, the Kenosha OUR Walmart
group has not grown impressively. It has eight members.
Nonetheless, this past summer the small group confronted
management to demand fair treatment and access to their
employee files. Goebel had been the subject of
unexplained disciplinary action, which she hoped her
record would clarify. After she filed a complaint with
her state labor department, the store's management
showed Goebel her file. "We still have a lot of work to
do, but these little gains have helped considerably,"
she says.
Numbers-wise, OUR Walmart has had more success in
Southern California, where one member reports that more
than half of her store's 500 workers have joined the
group. "Six months ago, under our old store manager, we
were not treated with respect," says Venanzi Luna, a
department manager (department managers at Walmart still
earn hourly wages and thus legally belong to
nonmanagerial ranks). "So many people were unwillingly
part time, our hours kept getting cut, and individual
associates were expected to do the work of three. It was
Over the summer, Luna took her human resources
coordinator by surprise when she and twenty other OUR
Walmart member employees walked into his office and
demanded that the store's top manager be fired. In short
order, Bentonville flew in one of its labor relations
specialists to discuss with employees how the workplace
could be improved. Within a month, the unpopular store
manager was quietly replaced with one more favorable to
employees, and scheduling improved markedly. The store
bumped several workers from part time to full time. The
group, however, has had no success in seeking wage
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Thirty miles east of Luna's store lies the largest
concentration of warehouses on earth and the site of
another innovative Walmart-focused organizing effort.
This is the Inland Empire, the logistical heart of
America's leading big box retail companies, Walmart
foremost among them. Nearly half of America's
containerized imports-mostly from factories in China and
Southeast Asia-are pumped through the ports of Long
Beach and Los Angeles, into the Inland Empire's
sprawling distribution centers clustered throughout the
exurban galaxy of San Bernardino County, and then are
trucked out to the retail shelves of every town in
The more than 100,000 warehouse workers who move these
goods offer an extreme case of America's decades-long
trend toward a flexible workforce. Supplied with a vast
army of "permanent temps"-who are sourced on daily
notice through the region's more than 400 temp agencies
but work continuously at the same job sites for years-
warehouse operators in the Inland Empire have enjoyed
near impunity in matters of wage theft, illegal firings
and denying Workers Compensation claims. According to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, warehousing is one of
the country's most dangerous work environments. "There
are dangers in the warehouse because we are pressured to
work so quickly. We all work with open scrapes
bleeding," one temp worker, currently at a Schneider
Logistics warehouse, one of the country's largest
shipping firms, told me through an interpreter. "I have
an injured co-worker who works all day limping. These
are just everyday injuries."
The Inland Empire's workforce transience makes
traditional approaches to organizing impossible.
In 2008 Change to Win Federation launched an ambitious
and unorthodox drive to organize these warehouse
workers. "I wouldn't even call this a model," said Nick
Allen, lead organizer of the campaign. "We are trying to
do what we know works, and it's rooted in mobilizing
workers in the communities where they live and work."
WWU knocked on doors in the region's poorest
neighborhoods and established a worker center to provide
basic educational and legal services.
As this effort grew to include thousands of warehouse
workers, organizers realized how fundamentally Walmart's
influence shapes the region. "These warehouses are as
bad as it gets in terms of working conditions in
America," said Allen. "Walmart largely pioneered this
system and still sets the standards. We feel it's
important for the biggest player to be held accountable
for the conditions in this industry. Our goal is to
raise standards throughout the industry and bring
workers from shitty, minimum-wage temp jobs to decent
jobs." In 2010 WWU shifted its resources to focus
primarily on Walmart-contracted warehouses.
WWU workers have engaged in collective activities
similar to those of OUR Walmart. In October the group
filed a class-action wage theft suit against Schneider
Logistics, a major warehouse subcontractor for Walmart.
Weeks later, a federal judge placed a temporary
restraining order on the company, demanding that
Schneider improve its payment system while the
litigation proceeds.
Across the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles, WWU is
quietly pursuing an international project in which
organizers are looking at all points of Walmart's supply
chain on multiple continents. A key goal of the effort
is to raise awareness about Walmart among workers-many
of whom work in factories not technically owned by
Walmart but that the company in effect controls. "We are
building on the fact that these workers are either
manufacturing, transporting or selling goods for the
same giant retailer," says Allen. "Most workers
understand this pretty well, but what they haven't had
the opportunity to do is to connect with other workers
along the supply chain." Organizers will not disclose
what actions the network will take if it grows large
enough to gain some leverage against the company.
* * *
in 2005 the UFCW and the Service Employees International
Union spearheaded a large-scale PR campaign that linked
a coalition of progressive groups to generate outrage
over Walmart's retrograde business practices. The UFCW
poured millions of dollars into the web-based Wake Up
Walmart (now Making Change at Walmart), while the SEIU
funded Walmart Watch. The wave of negative press put the
company on the defensive and scored the coalition some
concrete wins. Walmart invested billions in repackaging
itself as green and socially responsible-going so far as
to enlist the full-time help of prominent Democratic
strategist Leslie Dach. To the dismay of the US Chamber
of Commerce, Walmart supported Obama's healthcare bill
and more than doubled its tiny fraction of campaign
contributions going to Democratic candidates. Especially
in environmentalism and health food, Walmart made a
genuine, if tactical, stab at improvement, which
succeeded in mollifying many activists.
Organized labor, however, reached no such détente with
the big-box goliath. "We listen to all of our critics,
because a lot of times they have legitimate concerns,"
said Mona Williams, a Walmart spokeswoman. "But unions
are not in that category."
Thus, labor saw its coalition divided, and is now
largely on its own in engaging the company. But the UFCW
dug in, substantially increasing its Walmart-devoted
budget to fuel the current push.
Even so, some question whether the UFCW is serious about
committing to a long-term organizing campaign, or
whether OUR Walmart boils down to a new and
sophisticated tool of the union's ongoing publicity
campaign against Walmart. "The big question here is,
What does this campaign define as success?" says Nelson
Lichtenstein, who teaches at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, and is one of the foremost
experts on Walmart. "I think success to them would be to
enroll a few thousand workers to speak out, make a bunch
of noise and generate bad publicity. This seems to me an
extension of what they've been doing for quite some
time. Although when workers begin to feel unafraid to
publicly speak out-that is a crucial moment of any
organizing campaign, and its significance can hardly be
In October in Bentonville, the Making Change at Walmart
group, which helps support OUR Walmart, hosted a panel
discussion of Walmart workers and managers to provide
critical perspectives to stock analysts in town from New
York and Europe for meetings with Walmart executives the
following day. The first of its kind, the meeting seemed
to achieve its aims, but a telling moment came when the
panel was pressed on OUR Walmart's long-term prospects.
"Unless you're getting to a point where you're striking
at the store level," asked Dan Binder, an analyst at
Jefferies, "how do you plan to implement real change?"
Binder repeated the question, getting only vague
invocations of worker solidarity. Eventually, Dan
Schlademan, director of Making Change at Walmart, piped
in: "At the end of the day, it's not about what this
group is going to do-it's really about how Walmart
decides to respond to this group."
This language, striking in its passivity from a union
official, points to a central departure of this
organizing approach.
OUR Walmart must balance dual roles: it needs the
aggressive offense of trade unionism to effectively
pressure the company; yet in order to appeal to many
conservative-leaning, union-skeptical Walmart workers,
and to evade the company's advanced union avoidance
tactics, it also must embody features of an amorphous,
business advocacy group out to help Walmart make the
right decisions for itself. Perhaps the most impressive
feat yet of OUR Walmart is its ability to play both
"This sort of experimentation is what labor needs most
right now," says Ruth Milkman, associate director of the
Murphy Institute at CUNY. "I couldn't think of a better
way to go about doing this, but the proof will be in the
Many in the labor movement are closely watching the
renewed fight for workers' rights at Walmart. Big box
retail is a potential springboard for unions seeking to
bolster dwindling ranks. Globalization devastated
America's manufacturing workforce. Retail jobs, in
contrast, largely cannot be outsourced. Any success with
these experiments could enable a broader wave of
organizing in what is becoming America's largest sector
of employment. On one thing, labor experts and officials
agree: to succeed, the Walmart efforts will require
tremendous outlay.
"If they really want to get this to scale-where you have
100,000-plus members and finally see a big impact on the
company-it will take an incredible commitment of time
and money," says Wade Rathke. "Organizing is hard." But,
he adds, "Walmart workers are ready-that's the easy
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To make matters worse, Exposito reportedly walked by saying, "ladies."
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I have only one Tattersall in my family tree – that is my 2x great grandmother Sarah. I haven't so far been able to find any concrete proof of her parents.
From the information in the census returns I think she was born about 1836, possibly in Keighley, West Yorkshire. When Sarah married James Buckley in 1857 her father's name was omitted from the marriage certificate. This suggests to me that she may not have known who her father was. That is my brick wall as far as Sarah is concerned.
So, what about the surname itself. Well, according to surnamedb Tattersall is said to be an ancient English name of great complexity. There are a huge number of spellings including – Tattersall, Tattershall, Tattershaw, Tattersill, Tattersdill, Tettersell, Tetsall, Tittersell, Totterell and Tatarsahll.
The name is believed to originate from a place in Lincolnshire called Tattershall. This village is recorded as Tateshale in the Domesday Book of 1086 and as Tatesala in a survey of Lincolnshire in 1115.
The surname is also concentrated in Lancashire around the towns of Bury, Bolton and Burnley.
According to the British Surnames website in the 1881 census there were 3174 people with the surname Tattersall in Lancashire and 644 in Yorkshire. There are no significant numbers in any other county and Lincolnshire doesn't feature in the top ten.


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Stephen Saturn wrote:I'm no critic, so please don't ask me for any opinions - what do I know? I'd like someone to criticise my own work - come on, I can take it - do your worst!
Wow. You've got some good potential then. Me - I was lost to science too long ago..Matt wrote:I'm glad you liked my poem. I'm only 18 and still in the midst of studying all my 'set texts' from college.
I see you're already adopting archaic poeticisms! Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but Arcady does refer to Arcadia, does it not? I've only ever seen poets (albeit lots of them!) use the "Arcady" form.I have started work on the next section of the poem where Pan, is plucked from his life in the realms of Arcady and placed into the 21st century.
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For TED's 30th anniversary, artists Janet Echelman and Aaron Koblin collaborated to create Unnumbered Sparks, a monumental interactive sculpture in the sky. Choreographed by visitors in real time through their mobile devices, at night the sculpture became a crowd-controlled visual artwork on a giant, floating canvas.
The sculpture spanned 745 feet between buildings in downtown Vancouver, Canada from March 15-22, 2014 (map). At night, it came alive with illumination. Visitors with smartphones and tablets were able to paint vibrant beams of light across the sculpture at a remarkable scale: small movements on their phones became hundred foot long trails evolving and combining with fellow participants.
When you look at the sculpture, you're looking at a web browser. The lighting on the sculpture is actually a single fullscreen Google Chrome window over 10 million pixels in size.
The backbone of the entire project, Go is the programming language used to manage the client connections to the sculpture and run the web server that outputs the visuals to five projectors.
The visuals on the sculpture are entirely rendered in WebGL, a web technology that gives developers access to the GPU for ultra-fast graphics processing.
As you move a finger across your mobile device, the location data is sent dynamically to our web server via a Websocket connection, allowing you to interact with the sculpture in realtime.
The ethereal sounds you hear on your mobile device as you interact with the sculpture are created with the Web Audio API, a JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio.
The entire project was built with Polymer, a library that lets you create custom HTML elements.
Sculpture by Janet Echelman
Interactive Art by Aaron Koblin
Studio Echelman: Melissa Henry, Daniel Zeese, Cameron Chateauneuf, Lucca Townsend, David Feldman
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Google Data Arts Team: Doug Fritz, Aleksandar Rodic, Jono Brandel, Max Hawkins, Chris Delbuck, Hyun Ji Bae, Sabah Kosoy, Valdean Klump, Jenny Ramaswamy, Clem Wright
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ASHEBORO — During May, the Randolph Arts Guild will feature an exhibition of photographs by Asheboro native Todd Brantley.
ASHEBORO — During May, the Randolph Arts Guild will feature an exhibition of photographs by Asheboro native Todd Brantley.
The exhibition will be on display at the Randolph Arts Guild's Sara Smith Self Gallery at 123 Sunset Ave. in downtown Asheboro from May 6-27. The show is set to open Tuesday, May 6, with a reception from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The reception will be free and open to the public. A Lunch and Learn with the artist is set for noon on Tuesday, May 27.
An Asheboro native, Brantley lives and works in the Raleigh/Durham area. His medium is film photography. His images capture ethereal moments and convey mood and atmosphere in a subtle and delicate manner. The stories they tell are often more about what is not being depicted than the actual objects being shown. From abandoned automobiles to clothing that appears to float on hangers, the photographs are of a diverse variety of everyday items, but the context and composition create a dialogue that unifies the work.
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As you know, the social networking site Facebook had, until recently, the right to store the personal information of its users. In practice, even if users want to remove your account on Facebook , were not allowed to do so. While users can turn off the Facebook account, through a link on the site, your personal information still available to Facebook to do this with what they wanted.
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Before, you delete the Facebook account, you need to know all your data (Status updates, Photos, check-ins) will be deleted. And even though, you might like to get back to Facebook, you need to start from scratch.
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Before you move ahead, I suggest you to take a backup of Facebook account and move ahead. In order to delete Facebook account, login to FB and use this link
After clicking the link will display the following messages:
Deactivate Facebook Account vs Delete Facebook account
If you only want to disable the Facebook account temporarily, you may do so in the "Disable Account" found on page Facebook account. In this case, your profile and all your information will remain inaccessible to other Facebook users.
This solution allows you to later if desired, return to reactivate your account. Your profile information, your friend's list, your photos, all that will be available again, exactly the same as the left.
It happens quite often that some users choose to turn off their Facebook accounts, only temporarily and then return to re-activate them.
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It turns out that often when you do not use Facebook for a long time, many users will lose the password. However, to disable or delete a Facebook account, need the password in order to enter the account.
To access the site will need to click the "Forgot your password?" Which is next to the box where you enter the password? After receiving the instructions in your email you can reset your password and login, to deactivate or delete your account, as described above.
You can also recover the Facebook password by using this link directly.
I would really love to know, if you ever going to permanently say Good bye to your Facebook account?
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WARNING: this post might be a bit lengthy and involves his birth story. i mean, poor baby Engine has yet to have his big blog debut, and he turned 1 yesterday. What?! crazy. and i am a slacker mom. so here it goes & don't say i didn't warn yah :)
HIS STORY-- Finding out we were pregnant was a total shock. We were planning on spacing Henry and the next baby out a little bit. but the Lord had different plans. i was shocked, scared, excited, nervous, sad, surprised & happy all at one time. 3 kids, 3 and under. how would we do it?!
Well finding out he was a boy was awesome. i was so excited to have all boys. i already had two and they were crazy, fun and messy balls of energy. why not throw another into the mix. plus, our house was already covered in trains, cars, trucks and airplanes.
Both Henry and Jakson had family names so we decided that our last baby would just be a name that we love and we would start our own family name :) We loved the name Benjamin and i loved the name Mack, so we decided Benjamin Mack it was. Well, Jakson couldn't say Benjamin, it came out "Baby Engine." Well we thought that was the cutest thing EVER. So we all started saying it. Then one day, my sister asked Jakson if baby engine was going to have tiny hands when he came out. Jakson said, "No, he doesn't have hands, he has wheels!" Hahaha, this made us laugh so much. He even pointed to a picture in a restaurant that was a picture of a train station and he told me that was where baby engine lived! hahah. oh that kid :) So Baby Engine stuck and will continue to stick :) i love it!
So now flash forward to a few weeks before his big arrival. this momma already had sky high blood pressure like always. {from the moment the stick shows i am pregnant, my blood pressure soars} i went in to the doc to get checked to see how i was progressing, and to our surprise the crazy boy had flipped and was now breech. so we went from excited that maybe i could get induced to thinking about a c-section. this was not my plan. i was scared, sad, nervous & fearful. the thought of surgery scared me. i know that many of you have had c-sections and everything turns out fine. i knew that and know that. but like i said, it wasn't my plan and i wanted to be in control. i knew the Lord was in control and to trust him and it would all work out as he had it planned but that was so hard. So i did everything i could-- laid in funny positions, put an ice bag on his head, put music on my belly, went to the chiropractor-- all to get that little man to flip. it was a couple weeks before he was due now and he still hadn't budged. So we went in to a specialist to see if we were candidates to do a version. A version is where they push and push on your belly to see if they can get the baby to flip into the head down positions. Praise the Lord we were!! His positioning, his size, the amount of amniotic fluid and the fact that i had already delivered two babies naturally, he thought we could do it easily but we couldn't wait too long since we didn't want engine to get any bigger or get more comfy and stuck in that awkward position. So we had a version scheduled. We knew that we would do a c-section if it didn't work and i would get induced if it did work.
the night before the version josh and i stayed at a hotel not too far from the hospital. good idea babe! we went on one more date, we got some sleep and had a night without the kiddos.
Here i am right before the version. Nervous but hopeful!
The doctor came in and took a look at Engine and said all still looked great and he thought that this should work! They gave me something in the IV to make me feel good. He said it would feel make me feel like i had a couple glasses of wine so i said "bring it on, please!!" hah :) hey, it had been a while! They laid me back and started pushing. i knew it was working when i felt like my stomach was flipping. Probably one of the strangest feelings ever but also the most amazing feeling when i knew it was working! The nurses and my husband were amazed and so excited!!! The doctor said, "alright he is flipped, sit her up to make sure he stays that way!" They did another ultrasound to check his positioning and his heart rate and all was PERFECT!!!! oh my gosh. i cried, josh cried. i couldn't believe it. and i really couldn't believe that i ever doubted the Lord and his perfect plan. i think He was teaching me to stop trying to always be in control and to TRUST in him always.
I will spare you with all of these details. but labor progressed quickly and after two pushes, at 4:57pm, our Benjamin Mack Burfitt made his arrival. He weighed 7lb 1oz and was 19.5" long and PERFECT!! He had the chunkiest cheeks and the sweetest little chin i have ever seen. we were so in love with our son that the Lord blessed us with!!
This little man blessed us beyond what we could have imagined.
I could make a huge list of all of the wonderful things that we love about him but we would be here all day :)
So I will give you a few....
He made Mr. Henry Tate a big brother, which he has LOVED :)
He started crawling at 6 months, the little guy was ready to chase those crazy big brothers! He got his first tooth(the bottom one) at 6 months. He moved to Texas when he was 8 months old. He started walking at 10 months and he did this all on his own. I am telling you, this boy was ready to be in on the action in this house!! He says, momma, dada, hey! He is a squish from his head all the way down to his chubby toes ;) And he just got his wave down :) I am SO blessed to be little Engines mommy. i love you baby boy!! i can't wait to see all of the fun and adventures that this next year brings. Just slow it down a little please!!!
Happy Birthday Baby Engine,
I will leave you with a few cute pics of our little man


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Like an Eggshell minus its eggs: Frieze Art Fair 2013
The Belgian conceptual artist Marcel Broodthaers once pondered about the question of how art contains meaning for its viewers. When looking at his beautifully fragile eggs exhibited at Hauser & Wirth at this year's Frieze, one might wonder whether such meaningful art might be discovered beyond the spectacle of London's renowned art fair.
A good starting point in the quest for meaningful art might be the variety of performance-based and participatory practice that one can find at Frieze this year. These art forms invite the viewer to take part in the construction of meaning so that one might suspect that they contain a high degree of meaning for the viewer when doing so. Given that these practices originated in the desire to create un-sellable art outside of any institutional contexts, it is surprising that Frieze incorporates these practices, which manifests somehow a reductio ad absurdum of their origins. Yet, does it work?
If one has a look at the re-staging of James Lee Byars' performance 'Four in a dress' (a group of four performers is united through the same piece of cloth that connects all of them with each other) at Michael Werner, one quickly realises that it does not. Whilst Byars originally invited the audience to participate in the performance, a pedestal now separates the performers from their audience. The pedestal almost functions like an artificial value enhancer: the performance is declared to be an artwork of high value through the pedestal it is put on. This ignores the fact that the meaning of this piece might only be realised through the interaction with the audience. The irony is that the pedestal that was employed to emphasise the meaning of this artwork at the same time destroys it by drawing a gap between the artwork and its viewers.
Another piece that promises meaningfulness is Pilvi Takala's 'The Committee', the recipient of the Emdash prize. The artist delegated her authorship to a committee of children from Bow who could decide what to do with her prize money. The committee concluded: "We want to build a five star bouncy castle" (http://the-committee.org). Takala's work is certainly a nice and politically correct attempt to democratise discourse structures, but somehow the 'Bouncy Castle' evokes allusions to Angelo Plessas' 'Temple of Play'- a spectacular-sized word for 'playground' commissioned for the kids of those who can afford the exorbitant entry prices to Frieze (so probably not the children of Bow). Both promise easy entertainment and distraction. Is this why Plato was so worried about the shallowness of this kind of art that prevents us from understanding a significant meaning beyond mere appearances?
The work that best captures the spirit of Frieze is Dan Graham's 'Groovy Spiral' at Lisson: spectacular and expensive. It directly captivates and engages the viewer and fulfills the promise of being entertaining. Probably exactly these pieces that prompt brief excitement work best within a context in which the spectacle rather than meaning counts.
Maybe, Broodthaers was right to wonder: Has art been drained of meaning, like an eggshell minus its egg?
Sarah Hegenbart is a PhD student at the Courtauld
The annual Frieze London exhibition was in Regent's Park from the 17-20 October 2013.


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For the last few years I have been battling a problem that I only recently discovered is due to kitesurfing. Whenever I have a rigorous session kiting, I develop perianal hematomas which can be very painful and is sometimes required to be surgically removed.
I think this began a few years ago when i started getting into more progressive riding: strapless, boots and c-kites. I usually try to ride efficiently and underpowered for unhooked and I think the problem is that I am usually 'straining' to get upwind and hence where the problem arises.
i 'm wondering if it is possible to fix my technique. this is probably a very strange topic to some of you but i wonder if anyone out there can offer some insight? if not, it's going to be a very sad day for me to go back to freeriding and kiting occasionally
Cotton underwear, fibre powder in drinks (as someone else suggested), keep off the booze for a few days, a few showers every day with a medical soap (especially after you were on the toilet, not sitting on anything cold...
That should solve your problem in a short time.
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Places to say hello, Norma Jean
What do Andy Warhol, Elton John and Lindsay Lohan have in common? All three have paid tribute to Marilyn Monroe in their own distinctive way. The allure of the sultry Marilyn that inspired these tributes has persevered, blossomed even, and this year, the 50th anniversary of her death, the blond bombshell is more popular than ever. The West is full of haunts for fans to pay homage to her legend in their own way, from the old-fashioned to the downright wacky.
1. Forever Marilyn statue, Palm Springs {utriangle}
If you love kitsch, take this whimsical opportunity to look up Marilyn's skirt in the city where she was first discovered. This huge statue, depicting her famous subway-grate pose, debuted to critical scorn in Chicago last year. The 26-foot-tall work by J. Seward Johnson has been the victim of both vandalism and antagonism, even landing on the Top 10 Pieces of Bad Public Art list. See for yourself, at the corner of Palm Canyon Drive and Tahquitz Canyon Way until June 2013. www.visitpalmsprings.com (search for "Marilyn").
2. Westwood Village Memorial Park, Los Angeles --
The traditionalist can carry baseball great Joe DiMaggio's torch by leaving six red roses at Marilyn's crypt. DiMaggio, though married to her only a few months in 1954, had flowers delivered to her grave three times a week for 20 years. Though DiMaggio moved out, selling his crypt near Marilyn, Playboy's Hugh Hefner moved in. He dropped a hefty $75,000 in 1992 to secure the empty crypt beside his magazine's first cover girl. 1218 Glendon Ave., (310) 474-1579, pbwvmemorialpark.com.
5. Cal Neva Resort, Lake Tahoe {utriangle}
Marilyn Monroe slept here, and you can too. Her cozy (yes, tiny) cabin overlooks the lake and, as might be expected, is rumored to host her very busy ghost. Even if you don't stay in her cabin, follow in her footsteps through the "secret tunnel" that she and her host, Frank Sinatra, above, used to dodge their admirers in life and where they now purportedly frolic in the afterlife. Tunnel Tour: $10. 2 Stateline Road in Crystal Bay, (800) 225-6382, calnevaresort.com.
3. Hotel del Coronado
If you're a movie fan, you can vamp for photos in the same sand where Marilyn played during the filming of the madcap comedy "Some Like It Hot." More than a century old, "the Del" appears much the same as it did during the filming in 1958, when Monroe portrayed a ukulele-toting vocalist and cavorted on Coronado Beach, both on and off camera. 1500 Orange Ave.,
(800) 468-3533, hoteldel.com.
4. Napa Wine Company,
Oakville --
Wine lovers can toast the posthumous health of the eternal flame herself with Marilyn Merlot. Since the first bottling in 1985, Marilyn Wines have been embraced by reviewers and stalked by collectors. Each vintage has a trademark photo on the label, and the Velvet Collection features Marilyn's Red Velvet nude series with a peel-and-peek label that, when removed, reveals the naked truth underneath. 7830 Saint Helena Hwy. (Hwy. 29 at Oakville Crossroad), (800) 848-9630, trnapawineco.com.


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When did she use Gentle Fist?
Sorry..just can't remember :| —This unsigned comment was made by Kadaj92 (talk • contribs) .
- I don't think we ever seen her doing it, but her father, Hiashi, said sometime that she had more talent for it then Hinata. Jacce 07:35, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
- Yes BUT that is not a proof that she can actually use Gentle Fist. As a hyuga she might be able to use Byakugan but it does not mean she can use Gentle Fist :| --—This unsigned comment was made by Kadaj92 (talk • contribs) .
Even though it isn't proof, Hiashi did mention that every Hyuga should be able to do at least Gentle Fist (unless the curse mark jutsu prevents from doing that), also, for gameplay reasons; she is seen using Gentle Fist in Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3. --Rasengan888 16:46, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
- In addition, her father could be wrong as well. When was the last time (or indeed the first time) Hanabi did something which Hinata could not? ;-) I guess Kishimoto forgot about character development in the Hyuga family some time after the Chunnin exams :-D True, Neji became a Jonin and Hinata also improved her Byakugan's range and all that, but there is no mention of what happened to Hanabi. Many of my friends don't even remember who is Hanabi. Geijustu wa bakuhatsu da (talk) 07:31, September 30, 2009 (UTC)
- Still looking at the fact that we had never seen her use it it should not be on her jutsu list.+game jutsu don't count Kadaj22(Archemon) 15:32, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
remember only branch family members gets the curse seal she is a main branch though so she doesnt have it and there is no proof that she has gentle fist
- And also remember that a branch member dosen't get the seal untill the next main member turns three, which mean = when Hinata's child turns three. Jacce 21:04, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
- That doesnt matter just because she never used it doesnt mean she cant use it, also if u read the article, she might not get the cursed seal, and why would the makers give her jentle fist in naruto ultimate ninja 3 if she doesnt have it at all?(huntergun9)
- This conversation is irrelevant anyways. The Jutsu box is for listing somewhat-unique Jutsu that a character is known to use. Whether or not it's possible that someone knows a clan jutsu is completely irrelevant because the box is only for listing jutsu that we've seen them use in the day to day episodes. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Apr 21, 2009 @ 22:24 (UTC)
- We cannot say that someone can use a technique because "Just because we have not seen them use it does not mean they cannot use it". If that were so, I would be very well justified in saying that Hanabi can use Sage Mode and the Six Paths of Pain. :-D Geijustu wa bakuhatsu da (talk) 07:36, September 30, 2009 (UTC)
on the hyuga clan page it says that she's mane branch. But isn't she side branch?
- Technicly she is a side branch, but since Hyuga has been undergoing some modifications about the branches it is a littel unclear. Jacce 17:54, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
- Actually, if the Hyūga clan follows the same structure as traditional Japanese clans, then she would still be a member of the main house. As a daughter of a main house member, she'll remain a main house member as well, until she gets married. Afterwards, she'll belong to the family she married into, be it a branch house or outsider family.
- Well, since it seems the Hyūga are pretty gender equal, it is also possible she would be allowed to start her own branch house. Still, until she gets married, she's a main house member. --ShounenSuki 00:46, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
i dont think hinabi will ever receive a curse mark, because she is not branch family. im pretty sure that hiashi-hizashi were exceptions to the simply because they were identical twins [ which is why this fact is emphasized in the manga/anime]. if they were not identical twins it seems more like that they would have both been main family[ because there is no rule on how many siblings per family can be admitted into the main or branch family that we have seen], but their awkward timing of birth made them suitable leaders for both the main and branch families. of course this is only speculated, because the actual organization of the families has always been ill defined Iowndisciti (talk) 18:55, May 13, 2011 (UTC)
- You didn't read the above conversation, did you? —ShounenSuki (talk | contribs | translations) 00:09, May 14, 2011 (UTC)
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could we add in the trivia that despite having one line and very little screen time she still makes alot of game appearences
wut? (reguarding abilities section)
i thought neji's byakugan would always be weaker than hinata or hanabi's because he cant fully train it like they can. And also i thought that their father hiashi favoured hanabi because she was progressing more than hinata at her age, not because of a stronger byakugan. So thats why i changed hinata and neji around, but someone changed it back.Shelldone (talk) 16:01, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
He can train it, being a branch member only means that his Byakugan will be sealed when he dies, that a main branch member can fry his brain with a special seal, and that he isn't permitted to learn some of the clan's techniques. One of them even said that the Hyūga blood in Neji was thicker than usual. That and being a genius is why he was able to reverse-engineer main branch exclusive techniques. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 16:09, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
ohh, well i knew all of that except he can fully train it... But on the hyuga article it says neji can see up to at least 800 meters whereas hinata can see up to at least 10 km (10 000 m) so hinata's byakugan would still be stronger than nejis right? like thats basically the only strength the byakugan can have because other than that, they all see chakra, all see nearly 360. And what about the other thing i said about hanabi? "And also i thought that their father hiashi favoured hanabi because she was progressing more than hinata at her age, not because of a stronger byakugan."--Shelldone (talk) 16:23, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
"At least" doesn't mean they can't see beyond that, Neji looked for the fuda papers and found them in a distance up to 800 meters, that doesn't mean he can't see even further. If it was further away, Neji would simply have looked further. About Hanabi, I remember him telling something about her progress during a flashback during Hinata's match against Neji, though I don't remember the exact words. It was during Neji's fight with Naruto in the third part of the exam that Hiashi said that Hanabi was stronger than Hinata, but weaker than Neji. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 16:30, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
Uhhh of course "at least" doesnt mean they cant see beyond that... thats why its used lol. And he can see at least up to 1300 m. But even so, yeah neji can train his byakugan, he cant fully train it like hinata can, hence the main branch only jutsu's ( yes he was able to learn it by himself but that doesnt mean he can bypass the seal and train his byakugan fullly). And yeah i remember that part too but not the exact words, but i dont think it was about the byakugan, i think it was about progress at that age. thats why he has more faith in hanabi. I just thought it would be more suitable to switch hinata and neji, or even editing the whole thing would be better, since it might not even be about byakugan strength--Shelldone (talk) 16:39, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
My turn to say "uhhh". They never said that the seal makes the Byakugan of the wearer weaker, all it does is seal the eyes upon death, or destroy brain cells if a main branch member activates it with a special seal. It does nothing at all to the user's regular use of the eye as far as available information is concerned. Plus, the techniques they use are taijutsu, the Byakugan only shows them where to strike. Hiashi was impressed that Neji could see the tenketsu, something that few people can do it. Hinata may have a greater known range, but she can't see tenketsu, all the techniques that involve attacking the tenketsu she has ever used were anime only. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 16:58, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
yes. and i thought tenketsu were pressure points, and i thought hinata has a halved version of Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, which would require to see tenketsu in order to close them. And she can expell chakra from other chakra points in her body, demonstrated by breaking free when she was unable to move (i cant remember if it was either rope or that bee stuff). Youre making this into something its not, Its stated everywhere, on hinatas article, the hyuga article... Hinata has a stronger byakugan than neji. Now either we should edit the section or switch hinata and neji around. --Shelldone (talk) 23:56, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
Tenketsu are points along the chakra network through which chakra is released. Hinata's Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms was in the Three Tails filler arc, it's not canon. Just because she's able to expel chakra through all her tenketsu, it doesn't mean she can see them, she doesn't have to see them to use them. Bee wax was in a pre timeskip filler, also not canon. You're the one who's trying to change what Hinata's father said, not me. Hinata was never said to be stronger than Neji, she was just shown to be able to see further than Neji, which doesn't equal to Neji being unable to see just as far. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:16, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
What do you mean its not canon? Its the anime, of course it is. So kishi just makes it up and its not genuine? An example of something thats not canon is the movies, or video games. Alot of things have happened in anime thats not in manga, or vice versa. [1]. Notable quotes: "This technique is used to close off the flow of chakra through thirty-two chakra points of an opponent's Chakra Pathway System. This eliminates their ability to use chakra for quite some time and makes it difficult for them to move." AAANNDD " It is essentially a halved version of the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, but seems to be no less effective." Kakashi even said byakugan can see tenketsu (which means all byakugan), and that sharingan cant. When neji pulled her sleeve up to expose her arm, hinata knew right away what neji was doing from the beginning. And im not trying to change his words lol. Hiashi said that in the chunin exams. alot of time has passed and hinata used her more powerful byakugan when? oh right, after the timeskip. I re-watched it and read the manga and all he said was neji being more powerful than hinata, and even more powerful than hanabi. Nothing about whos byakugan was better. Just because you think neji is superior in everything compared to hinata, doesnt mean she doesnt have strengths too. Youre assuming neji can see farther when really, we dont know. Hinata can see 10 000 meters ahead because she trained it to focus in a straight line. And we also dont know if she too can see further than that. I wasnt saying hinata was stronger than neji, I said hinata's byakugan is better, Just like it says in the hinata article, and byakugan article. Now like i said before, it would be better to edit it excluding whos byakugan was more powerful (Because that wasnt what was said) and that hanabi was progressing more than hinata at her age, but not more than neji. --Shelldone (talk) 09:12, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
There are anime-only plots and plot elements, Kishimoto only makes the manga, so everything that is not in it or in data/fan/artbooks is not to be taken as canon. Anime only arcs are not be considered as high up as manga. The overwhelming majority of things that happen in the manga happen in the anime, the ones that don't are most of the time due to censhorship. The Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms happened in an anime only arc, so unless a reliable source says that Kishimoto himself was responsible for that arc, that technique is not canon. Kakashi said the Byakugan can be used to see the tenketsu, not that all Byakugan can. As far as Byakugan goes, I consider an important member of the clan to know more about its kekkei genkai than an outsider. Neji attacked the pathway in Hinata's arm, they never explicitly said it was the tenketsu. Regardless of what happens, at the time Hiashi commented on Hanabi's strength, he said she was weaker than Neji and stronger than Hinata. Trying to update the way you want would be the same as saying that pre timeskip Naruto was stronger than Minato because he managed to use nature manipulation on the Rasengan after the timeskip. I'm not saying that Hinata doesn't have strength, I'm just saying that just because we don't know how far he can see, that doesn't mean he's weaker. What needs to be there is that Hiashi mentioned: that at the time of the Chunin exams, Hanabi was more skilled than Hinata at her age, but less skilled than Neji at her age. What happened to them later is irrelevant as far as Hiashi's comparison at the moment is concerned. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 16:00, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
haha yeah i understand the point of comparing the new to the old, but at that point i was on a different topic, about hinata using tenketsu. not about hanabi. And yeah i re-read/watched it, he said byakugan can see tenketsu. I think hinata(and other hyuga im assuming) couldnt attack the chakra point because it has to do with accuracy since theyre so tiny as a needle(but could still see them), and thats where neji succeeded, even he missed a couple times, like when fighting with naruto. But anyways it did say it was tenketsu that neji did to hinatas arm, thats where they explained what it is. And she knew what it was when he revealed what he did to her arm because she said "you did that from the beginning?" or something like that. And even filler arcs have impact on manga doesnt it? like the manga would have to adapt to changes anime made, like that would be weird if manga denied any change the anime made, it just doesnt make sense. Like so far the only manga only jutsu hinata has is the gentle step twin lion fists, it doesnt make sense that she had no other jutsu before that. Like the anime just explains more and goes deeper i guess. Does it have to be considered canon if only kishi made it up? like hes only the manga author. And even though we dont know how far his byakugan can see, we have to take into consideration that she focused hers to see an outstanding 10k by focusing it. And that also she could have potential to see even further than that. So far we havnt seen neji do anything special with his byakugan like that. I know what hiashi said during chunin exams, and it didnt have anything to do with whos byakugan was better, i know he said that neji was alot stronger than her sister and even her. But didnt say that hanabi was more skilled than hinata. He said "Your older sister does not compare to him" and "and most likely more than you". idk if thats the right thing, it was right before neji and naruto started to fight. but i couldnt find anything that says hanabi was more skilled than hinata for her age but not more than neji.unless youre talking about the flashback when hiashi gave her to kurenai to become a genin. But yeah jeez all this talking for that little mistake that probably wouldnt ever be noticed. I just thought it was unfair for hinata to look alot weaker than her younger sister, when it really meant hanabi just progressed more for her age. --Shelldone (talk) 17:03, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
Well to fair for Hinata in the last Databook it mentions a latent hidden potential and that her potential had been diminished, because she finds being the heir to the clan as a burdern...so her weaknesses could be due to how she feels overburdened with responsibility.
do u think time-skip shuld aply to hanabi
Well, yeah. Of course, even though she hasn't appear yet.--NinjaSheik 01:21, October 9, 2010 (UTC)
where was it stated that her byakugan is stronger than hinatas and weaker than nejis? thats kinda impossible since hinata's is stonger than neji's. Shes main branch so she has no limitations, and can see farther. 188.8.131.52 (talk) 22:48, January 13, 2011 (UTC)
- This was mentioned somewhere in Part I. Either by Hiashi, or in first databook. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 22:54, January 13, 2011 (UTC)
- I actually think this is a bit of a problem, I believe that there are alot of pages that are severely lacking in references. If something is on a page it should have a reference to correspond especially in the abilities and history sections. How would anyone besides the person who placed the info there know it was correct if it didn't have any reference to go along with it. --Iam...JakuhoRaikoben 23:28, January 13, 2011 (UTC)
- Ideally it is something that would be done when information is added. However, we editors tend to assume readers are as familiar with the material as we are and thus already know when/where something is done/said. I try to add a reference when someone asks about it on the talk page (if I remember), but in cases like this where even the editors are not sure that is difficult. ~SnapperTo 00:29, January 14, 2011 (UTC)
Hmm... I see the problem. Well, I'll go look for the reference for this particular statement and a couple of others on other pages and try to add them. --Iam...JakuhoRaikoben 01:21, January 14, 2011 (UTC)
Just because hinata wasnt hitting his chakra points like he was hitting hers, doesnt mean her byakugan is weaker. She could still see them, but its the precision of hitting them she couldnt do at the time, like he could. when she lifted her sleeve up she knew right away what happened and what was going on. 22.214.171.124 (talk) 03:00, January 15, 2011 (UTC)
Where is her article?
I don't see her article. What happened? --KiumaruHamachi (talk) 18:57, October 9, 2011 (UTC)KiumaruHamachi
- Still there for me. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 18:58, October 9, 2011 (UTC)
- It's firefox. -.- --KiumaruHamachi (talk) 19:18, October 9, 2011 (UTC) KiumaruHamachi
- Also using Firefox, there for me still. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 19:26, October 9, 2011 (UTC)
- It's firefox. -.- --KiumaruHamachi (talk) 19:18, October 9, 2011 (UTC) KiumaruHamachi
hyuuga family in japaneese tradition when both kids are girls the one that inherits the position of head of the family is the first man that marries one of the girls meaning the head of the hyuuga clan will not be a hyuuga at all it will be naruto and if naruto declines to acknowledge hinata then whoever hinabi marries :D thats what ithink anyway


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Aldi has said it has withdrawn its Today's Special Frozeon Beef Lasagne and Today's Special Frozen Spaghetti Bolognese following an alert from its French supplier.
The company said it felt angry and let down by its supplier and that the products from Comigel would not be sold in Aldi stores, nor would the company take any product from Comigel.
Aldi also said tests of random samples showed that the withdrawn products contained between 30% and 100% horse meat.
Earlier, the chief executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland has said the horse meat controversy is now a Europe-wide problem.
Professor Alan Reilly said the problem was no longer confined to Ireland.
It has emerged that Findus beef lasagne products, which tests in the UK found to be up to 100% horse meat, were on sale in Ireland.
The lasagne was manufactured in Luxembourg for a French company, Comigel, which supplied Findus.
Speaking on RTÉ's News at One, Prof Reilly said: "It's not just confined - as we thought initially - to Ireland.
"This has spread to France, to Luxembourg, to the UK, Poland are involved and the Netherlands. So it really is a European-wide problem that we have."
Prof Reilly said the FSAI was going out to the retail trade today to ensure that the product was withdrawn from sale.
He said that the FSAI is also advising consumers that if they had purchased Findus beef lasagne they should not eat it.
They should bring it back to the store they bought it in and get their money back.
He said that finding 100% horse meat in a product that was labelled as beef was "a very serious finding" and a very serious issue for Findus.
"If Findus and Tesco cannot have a secure supply line for their products... we do have a major problem within this sector of the trade," he said.
He said there was a small food safety risk associated with horse meat because of some of the drugs used to treat horses.
Prof Reilly said the original investigation into traces of horse DNA in beef burgers here was continuing and lots of other products were being tested.
He said the FSAI had to work with the food industry to make sure there were testing systems in place to ensure the integrity of the meat going into these type of products.
Tesco withdraws Findus beef products
Tesco has also withdrawn lasagne made by Findus from its stores.
The FSAI said Tesco had not told the authority it was withdrawing the Findus lasagne.
Tesco today said there was no intentional delay in informing the FSAI about the withdrawal. It said it was not required under agreed protocols.
The supermarket said following notification from the Findus group on Monday, it immediately withdrew the lasagne product.
It said it withdrew the Tesco Value Spaghetti Bolognese, which is produced in the same factory, as a precautionary measure on Tuesday.
The FSAI is in contact with Findus to find out what retailers sold its product in Ireland.
McAdam denies handling equine meat products
Elsewhere, the owner of a Co Monaghan food company caught up in the horse meat controversy has said he has never seen or handled equine meat products.
It follows the discovery of horse meat in products that McAdam Foods had stored at Freeza Meats in Newry.
Martin McAdam said his firm, McAdam Foods, traded only in beef and pork and that he was co-operating fully with Irish authorities.
Speaking on RTÉ's Prime Time last night, Mr McAdam said he was unable to explain why meat he had sourced from two separate Polish factories had tested positive for horse meat.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Director of the General Veterinary Inspectorate in Poland has said there are no indications that the mixing of horse meat with beef, which was used for burger production, took place in Poland.
Speaking on RTÉ's News at One, Jaroslaw Naze said the investigation was ongoing and the completion of such investigation depends on the conclusion of the Irish one.
He said he has considered all documents and trading procedures so far and in his opinion, the beef contamination could not have happened in Poland.
Mr Naze said Polish authorities are examining slaughter houses which were identified as potential source of the contaminated beef.