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Agile Center of Excellence
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Agile software development has quickly proven its value in delivering high-quality applications that meet customer needs. PNB, Liberia agile developers produce superior code that is easier to maintain, adapt and extend. Our agile development practices, such as frequent deliveries, continuous integration, and build, deployment, and test automation, reduce risk and rework.
While adopting agile design principles is essential, the transition is not always easy. Successful agile adoption means changing entrenched cultural patterns and processes—there is no "one size fits all" approach. We can guide you through the transformation.
Our Agile consulting superstars show you how to:
· Evangelize agile values to build organizational buy-in
· Train engineers and product manager in agile principles, methods and practices
· Coach employees to embrace continuous change
· Establish real cross-functional communication, coordination and collaboration
· Mitigate errors, missteps and risk to meet tight release timelines
We support you by recommending agile methods for adoption and for outsourcing. We work with you to choose platforms, tools and metrics that increase visibility and predictability along the way. We also create playbooks, share best practices and tailor processes to" be" agile, not just "do" agile.
Agile Center of Excellence
PNB, Liberia, Agile Center of Excellence, located in Gainesville, FL, is within three hours of all North American clients enabling exceptional collaboration through always-on real-time video feeds. Built from the ground up to support Agile, the Center has a large number of PNB, Liberia Agile experts along with Automated Test Engineers, Dynamic Architecture Engineers, CD Engineers, Agile Analytics Experts, and UX designers. The Center also houses Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certified experts—meaning that we can help customers execute Lean-Agile practices across their enterprise. This concentration of talent and skills is unique, even on a global scale. The heart of the Center and Agile projects across PNB, Liberia is the Agile Nerve Center. This high-tech ideation lab and communications hub enables innovation and ensures high project transparency for our clients.
PNB, Liberia's Agile Framework
At PNB, Liberia, we're not Agile purists; we're Agile realists. We fit our framework to our customer's needs, not our customer's needs to our framework. This customer-first mentality was the driving force behind the creation of our own Agile framework which blends SAFe, LeSS, Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Teamwork. This blend allows us to be flexible without sacrificing the guiding principles of Agile. We've leveraged the PNB, Liberia Agile Framework successfully internally in high-performing pods to deliver exceptional business value and externally to help our clients grow in their Agile journey.
PNB, Liberia's Agile Service Offerings
Agile Consulting — Agile Transformation isn't easy. Whether an organization needs a Certified Scrum Coach for a single Pod or a SAFe Program Consultant to scale Agile across the entire organization, our Agile coaches can help. Using tools such as our proprietary Agile Assessment App, our coaches can offer a multidimensional analysis of an organization's Agile maturity, along with a clear roadmap to enhance and expedite the Agile journey. From one-off projects to total enterprise transformations, PNB, Liberia expertly meets our clients' needs.
Continuous Delivery Transformation — This offering optimizes systems design, development, automated testing, and operations by removing traditional silos and embedding a new strategic vision in their place. This new vision prioritizes collaboration and agility in order to release high-value software into the market as quickly as possible, helping clients keep pace with changing customer needs, rapidly evolving technologies, and dynamic markets.
Agile Digital — Digital projects typically require greater collaboration and are subject to tighter delivery timelines. We develop user personas and rapid prototypes, adhering to Lean UI/ UX principles that allow for working software to be demoed at the end of every two-week sprint. Then we take it to the streets to conduct "Guerilla Testing" with actual end users. By the time we hand over the completed project, we can say with absolute certainty that our clients and their customers are going to love it!
Agile Analytics — We know clients don't want to wait several months to get the information they need today. That's why we shorten that time significantly by focusing on developing the architectural ramp necessary to support the required report or dashboard. This accelerated data structure development allows for shifts to meet changing business requirements with minimal rework. The Agile Analytics Framework delivers high-value reports and dashboards at the completion of every two-week sprint. The result is earlier adoption, greater client acceptance, and greatly reduced time-to-market.
Agile Development Pods — The Agile Center of Excellence has teams, or "Pods", of experienced Agile practitioners available to develop high-value software quickly and efficiently. At PNB, Liberia, we're not Agile purists; we're Agile realists. Our expertise covers all of the industry-leading frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Teamwork, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). This allows PNB, Liberia to tailor our approach to meet the specific needs of our clients.


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|Awesome Grow box, and this one was just for display
|Josephine and Quinn pick their own lettuce and spinach
So we had an opportunity the other day to visit Tony's farm and try the organic goods. Rachel, the gal from Tony's who spoken very broken English told us just to take the subway to the other end of town and then catch a cab. What wasn't clear was that it was a good 50km cab ride past the end of the subway. Live and learn and sometimes pay a lot of money along the way.
|The dinner we had at Tony's...Hot Pot style

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Not A Good Pupil
In the past two days I've had to bluff my way through a telephone tutorial with my OU lecture and complete my homework for curtain-making class at lunchtime. I had planned to do both study and handwork on Saturday when I had a completely clear day but had an all-day headache and didn't achieve a thing.
Now I have cleared the decks a little I should be able to get back on track with these things. In fact I believe I owe it to myself to stick to target and deadlines because how can I criticise a child for not doing their work when I'm guilty of it as well?
All Kitted Out
Yesterday I treated myself to a new pencil case and ring binder to get prepared for my new job.
|Posy Floral Pencil Case from Paperchase
It matches a notebook, pen and filing box that Little B and Little E's parents bought for me as a congratulations/good luck present.
I will try to be organised - start as I mean to go on and all that!
Holiday Plans - Eight Working Days To Go!
Now that my leave date is in sight I'm starting to think about plans for my 10 day holiday. Mr P has booked the week off work and so we are (finally) going to decorate our room together. I felt bad leaving Mr P to do it himself as I would be at work, but now that we can do it together I'm really looking forward to making it a joint project.
So by Easter I should have a nicely decorated bedroom.
But we have to finish decluttering the rest of the house first - long story!
But first, this weekend, we're going to Columbia Road Market for a little Sunday shopping expedition. The weather forecast looks good and I just can't wait.
International Friendships
For some unknown reason my stats in the past week have really shot up, with lots of new people reading my blog especially from the USA.
Out of sheer curiosity it would be great to know where you are all commenting from and how you found my blog. I'm just so intrigued as to how we find each other.
Have a happy Tuesday and a great week!


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PNP standing behind proposed candidate for South East Clarendon
The People's National Party is standing behind its proposed candidate for South East Clarendon, Patricia Duncan Sutherland despite strong opposition from some party supporters.
Duncan Sutherland who is the daughter of long time politician and Member of Parliament for Eastern Hanover, DK Duncan, announced her intention to go up against the Jamaica Labour Party's incumbent, Ruddy Spencer earlier this year.
She says she's aware of the mounting opposition to her proposed candidacy.
However according to Duncan Sutherland, she is not going anywhere.
She has been assured of the support of several members of the party including PNP General Secretary Paul Burke, her father DK Duncan and Senator Floyd Morris.
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Let's put Rohn's theory to a test. Get a sheet of paper and turn it horizontal (landscape for the geeks out there). Now, draw 5 columns. At the top of each column, write one name for each column of the 5 people you spend the most time with.
Next, under each name write Greatest Strengths. Number vertically 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Make a dotted line across the page under each '5.' Under the dotted line, write Weakest and again number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Draw a dotted line. Under the dotted line, write LifeStyle and again, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
For each person, list what you feel are their Greatest Strengths. Next, under Weakest, list what you feel are areas they may not be as strong in. These do not need to be weaknesses or qualities they need to acquire, but rather are areas where they are not as strong as their greatest strengths. Finally, under LifeStyle, write 5 attributes of the life they live. Are they married? Kids? Home Owner? Happy in their job? Good income? Educated? Successful?
Take a few moments and compare each category across the page. Are there any common characteristics of the 5 you associate with? Are those your strengths or weaknesses? Do they reflect the lifestyle you embrace?
Now, flip the paper over and put your name at the top. List what you think those 5 may say about you? And, if you are so inclined, ask them to do this exercise on you. Does your 5x5x5x5LS (5 friends x 5 strengths x 5 weaknesses x 5 LifeStyle) match up?


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Happy Friday everyone! I hope the week has treated you well and you have exciting plans for the weekend.
Today's recipe collection post is all about Indian restaurant classics. You know, those dishes that you would never see in India but are pretty much on every single Indian restaurant/takeaway menu in the country. Well, authentic or not, they taste totally amazing so it's no wonder they've become so popular.
Speaking of which, if you are a vegetarian or vegan, don't you find that Indian restaurants are a real winner when it comes to veggie food? Even the tiny takeaway in the village where I live has an extensive list of vegetarian dishes which is so great to see.
Anyway, in today's collection we have starters (somebody please make me those paneer tikka kebabs!), main courses, the all-important sundries and dips too.
Fancy turning your kitchen into a curry house this weekend? Here are some of my favourite Indian restaurant dishes you can prepare at home:
Vegetable samosas from Food Fanatic [vegan] (pictured above)
Vegetable pakoras [vegan] from Our Eyes Eat First
Paneer tikka from 7 Saffron Street
Onion bhajis from A Series Of Kitchen Experiments
Gobi (cauliflower) pakoras from Veg Recipes Of India [vegan]
Main courses
Aloo gobi (potato & cauliflower curry) from Peaches and Donuts [vegan] (pictured above)
Spiced vegetable biryani from BBC Good Food [vegan]
Vegetable balti from Cuisine [vegan]
Saag aloo (spinach & potato curry) from Hari Ghotra [vegan]
Palak paneer (spinach & paneer cheese curry) from Tartine And Apron Strings (pictured above)
Muttar paneer (pea & paneer cheese curry) from Hari Ghotra
Chana masala (chickpea curry) from Cookie And Kate [vegan]
Tarka dhal (Yellow split pea curry) from The Kitchen Alchemist
Bombay potatoes from The Daily Mail [vegan]
Paneer tikka masala from Kurry Leaves
Plain naan from Half Baked Harvest (pictured above)
Garlic and coriander naan from KO Rasoi
Pilau rice from Delicious Magazine [vegan]
Chapatis from Avocado Pesto [vegan]
Tomato chutney from Plateful [vegan] (pictured above)
Cucumber raita from Budget Bytes
Mango chutney from Frugal Feeding [vegan]
Red chilli chutney from Honest Cooking [vegan]
When it comes to Indian dishes, I am totally partial to paneer – love the delicate taste, love the texture – but I could also overdose on garlicky tarka dahl.
What are your Indian restaurant favourites? Have you tried to replicate them any of them at home?


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New York, NY (PRWEB) December 14, 2015
Cynopsis Media announced its call for entries for the fifth annual Sports Media Awards, which benchmark the top sports-related programming, advertising, PR and marketing campaigns, as well as the individuals who drive the industry's success. Cynopsis Sports is now accepting entries through January 21, and the winners will be announced at a special awards event on Thursday, April 21, 2016 at the New York Athletic Club.
"As we hit the five-year milestone for the Cynopsis Sports Awards, it's been an honor to recognize the most innovative and best work from the sports media sector," said Chris Pursell, Cynopsis Director of Sports Content. "I look forward to continuing that tradition given the outstanding programs, campaigns and creativity we saw in 2015."
Presented by one of the sports world's most-read and trusted brands, Cynopsis Sports, the awards are open to all networks, MSOs, leagues, teams, universities, production companies, studios, producers, developers, marketing and PR firms, and ad agencies. The eligibility period runs from January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2016. (Enter Online Now)
Spanning the spectrum of television, radio, and online platforms, honors will encompass every aspect of the industry, including linear TV, digital content, marketing, and more. A few fresh categories are joining this year's list: eSports Event of the Year, eSports Sponsor Activation, Seasonal Coverage and more.
To see the complete list, go to http://www.cynopsis.com/event/2015-sma/. All entries must be submitted online by January 21, 2016 at 11:59 pm ET.
Winners and honorable mentions of the program will be recognized during an awards event on April 21, 2016 in New York City and profiled in a special edition of Cynopsis Sports. For entry questions, contact Sarah Martinez at sarah(at)cynopsis(dot)com. For advertising or sponsorship information, contact VP of Sales & Marketing Mike Farina at mike(at)cynopsis(dot)com.
About Cynopsis Media:
Cynopsis is what the TV industry reads first every day. The Cynopsis family of products includes the media industry's most-read daily, Cynopsis, plus sister dailies Cynopsis Digital and Cynopsis Sports, the Cynopsis Jobs board and special reports. Serving TV, agency and brand professionals, Cynopsis produces conferences, webinars, and awards programs that are second to none. Find out more at cynopsis.com.


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First Responders Get Friends & Family Pricing
We Treat Police, Firefighters, and EMT workers like Family!
When our own friends and family members come in for a new Grand Cherokee, we give them the best pricing possible on their vehicle. We can do this with factory incentives and dealer discounts and are happy to pass those savings onto our parents, children, sisters, brothers, cousins and friends. Our sales team will let the managers know that they have a special VIP coming in to purchase a Grand Cherokee and who they are… we then quietly roll out the red carpet for them! It's one of the enjoyable perks to being a Jeep dealer.
When you are the Largest Jeep Grand Cherokee Dealer in Connecticut, you have the ability to treat our local heroes like friends and give them the best deal possible, so we are now very excited to announce that…
We are extending this Friends and Family Pricing to FIRST RESPONDERS Jeep Grand Cherokee shopper only at Jeep Chrysler Dodge City in Greenwich, CT!!
This is not a gimmick or just a way to get you into the dealership. We will show you the invoice on the vehicle you're looking for and you can see the savings for yourself.
Friends and Family Pricing for FIRST RESPONDERS…
Only at Jeep Chrysler Dodge City!
Fill out this form and claim your Friends and Family Pricing NOW. We will get back to you quickly to provide you with the special pricing that will get you into your new vehicle today!


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|Welcome to the website of Blanco Naval Models
Below are a series of videos reflect the meticulous work being done by Pedro Blanco on each of the naval models.
The sample consists of a video representative for each type of model shipbuilding. All videos are available on the website www.youtube.es. This section is a complementary of section MODELS. Enjoy with them.
Video about Expo 'Inmersión al Machichaco'
Support and Rescue Vessels.
Freighters and Container Ships.
Gas Carrier and Chemical Ships
Hospital Ships
Tug Ships
Fishing Ships
Patrol Ships
Stearmer Ships
Full Scale Model on Water Slide (Dioramas).
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Peanut Lime SauceMarch 13, 2018 12:38 pm Leave your thoughts
I love cooking food with Asian flavors and this versatile sauce is so good on so many dishes. I used this sauce over a chilled Asian Peanut Pasta salad and it's wonderful, tangy, and creamy with a nice tone of different spices and a bit of heat. Use it over hot or cold pasta dishes, dip fresh vegetables in it, use it as a dip for many different Asian appetizers like shrimp summer rolls or wontons. This sauce has endless possibilities, if you like peanut butter then this is a recipe you need to keep close by. Oh, also try it with chicken or beef satay skewers.
Below pictured is Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce…
3/4 cup smooth peanut butter
¼ cup unseasoned rice vinegar
2 tablespoons sesame oil
3 tablespoons brown sugar
¼ cup reduced sodium soy sauce
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon cumin
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
Juice and zest of 1 large lime
½ cup of water
1 Tablespoon Sriracha
2 teaspoon minced Ginger
Pinch or two of Sea Salt to taste
- Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth and creamy
- Place in an airtight container or jar if not using right away, if using this as a chilled sauce for salads or other chilled dishes, refrigerate for two hours or make the day before.
- Makes 2 cups
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SOURCE: Marani Brands, Inc.
September 12, 2014 09:15 ET
TUSTIN, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 12, 2014) - Marani Brands (OTC Pink: MRIB) (PINKSHEETS: MRIB), VP Dan Senters is covering the 30 second TV commercial that is displayed on MoneyTV, the expansion of tastings for more Costco stores and other retail outlets along with Marani in more Costco stores. All of this with Donald Baillargeon of MoneyTV.
Please watch at: https://vimeo.com/105938343
About Marani Brands Inc.
Marani Brands, Inc. develops, positions, markets and distributes fine wine and spirit products in the United States. Its signature product "Marani Vodka Spirit," is an ultra-premium vodka spirit manufactured exclusively for Marani in Armenia. It is made from late-harvest Armenian winter wheat, distilled three times, filtered twenty-five times and then, through a proprietary process, is infused with honey and skimmed dried milk to give it its unique taste. Marani Vodka Spirit was awarded the Gold Medal in the prestigious International Spirit Competition, held in San Francisco, California, in both 2004 and 2007 and the coveted Star Diamond Award by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences in 2008 and 2009. Please enjoy Marani brands responsibly and in moderation.
For more information on Marani Brands: http://www.maranibrands.com
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More poems and contributor notes in Chinese feature
Robert Yeo
A Poem as a Fan
for Elaine
No sooner seated , she folds my handout and fans
Herself. Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen
As she soon finds out, upon unfolding, have been
Cooling her. Brooke's Soldier could but Owen's Anthem?
She's fanned them, nonetheless, but can they fan
Her in return? Not just for the moment or for
The duration of my course, can English fans
Be the cool conquerors of the March heat in Singapore?
Can? Or should? Can or should poetry do this?
What passing poems for those who feel the heat?
Poetry that makes nothing happen has sort of
Sprinkled you and made this poem. Sufficent for now. . .
Marina Bay
This was not
new, we made it new,
stole from the sea what
the sea does not need.
We are doing it, again and again.
Sixties, seventies,
Eighties, nineties.
Not dinosaurs
we are raptors of time,
ruthless users users, dis-
respectful movers.
The best renewers after
the Dutch.
Scorning the
sea, loving the sea.


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We're Mike and Elizabeth. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us. We admire your courage in choosing adoption for your child and hope that this note helps you make this very important decision. We hope you will consider us as adoptive parents.
Welcoming home a second child would be the greatest gift life could bring us. We love being parents and enjoy every minute of being a family. We can't wait to continue growing our family through adoption again!
About Us –
We met twelve years ago at our neighborhood dry cleaners. It was love at first sight!
After sparking up a conversation, we realized there was a magical connection. Soon we had our first date and the rest is history. Sure enough, our lives have been filled with love, fun and adventure ever since!
We've been happily married now for 10 years and we adopted our beautiful son Lucas two and a half years ago.
After learning that we could not conceive, the decision to adopt came to us naturally. Our adoption process was an incredible journey – Being present for our son's birth was the most amazing day of our lives. And we are so grateful to his birthparents for sharing this most special moment with us. Now having had this experience, we truly feel that we were always meant to be adoptive parents.
It has always been our dream to have lots of kids.
We can't wait for Lucas to have a sibling and open our hearts and home to another little one! It would be an honor to protect, love and cherish your beautiful child and provide all the amazing opportunities life has to offer.
We live in Pacific Palisades, California and have the great fortune of also working together. We own and operate an Advertising Agency that specializes in entertainment marketing. Our journey as life partners and business partners has been wonderful – we truly enjoy being with one another. We love music, art, movies, travel and culture. And this inspires us in our business to create great stuff!
Running our own business also gives us the ability to make family time our top priority. Our home is always filled with fun activities and lots of love and laughter.
Our Adventures –
We love traveling, exploring the great outdoors, and, we're always up for the next big adventure! We've been all over the world together– including Europe, Latin America and Asia. And, we often enjoy a good old road trip here in the U.S.!
At just two and a half years old, our son Lucas is already a world traveler – He's been to London, Hawaii and Baja Mexico several times.
We also love visiting extended family in Colorado for the holidays.
Some of our favorite outdoor activities are snorkeling, hiking, skiing and sledding.
Family travel is a great way for all of us to continue exploring, learning and growing. We look forward to sharing our passion for travel and adventure with your child.
About Elizabeth –
I'm a Southern California native but I've lived all over the world.
At age 8, my parents and I moved to Madrid, Spain for two years. As a teenager, our family lived in Mexico. And, during my college years at U.C. Berkeley, I spent a year living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Early in my career, I also worked in Paris, France. As a result, I speak Spanish and Portuguese fluently and can even get by in French. I love languages and I am very fortunate to use my language skills every day at work.
I want to give our children the same opportunity by raising them to be bilingual. We will also continue to travel and instill a great appreciation for cultural diversity.
As an only child I had a wonderful, loving relationship my parents. I look forward to teaching our little ones some of the same things my parents shared with me like: how to sing in harmony, play the guitar, paint on a canvas and make the world's best paella! Our dream is to have many kids so we can nurture their talents.
As a parent now, I strive to instill the same sense of curiosity for learning, freedom and adventure that my parents gave me.
About Mike:
I love the mountains and outdoor sports such as biking, hiking, paddle boarding and scuba diving.
Growing up in Colorado with three brothers, I was a very active kid. Always involved in sports, I played little league baseball, football and raced BMX. Practically born on skis, I've been hitting the slopes since I was two years old.
As a teenager I worked for my father's construction company, building houses every summer. I learned the value of hard work, focus and commitment. This work ethic enabled me to put myself through college and earn a degree in broadcast communications.
After graduating from Colorado State University, I started my career as a TV reporter, eventually migrating to Producing and Directing with Discovery Channel and The History Channel. My career has taken me to incredible locations around the world such as Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, China and the Philippines.
We love sharing our good fortune and passion for life with our son Lucas, and our future children who deserve the very best.
Everyday we strive to be the world's greatest parents, just as our parents were for us.
About our Family:
Living in Los Angeles, we are surrounded by friends and family. We have a very loving and supportive social circle who are so excited for us to expand our family.
Elizabeth's aunts, uncles and cousins keep us very close to immediate family. We love to cook and entertain, so our home is always the central gathering place. Holidays and weekends are full of fun and festivities; it's never a dull moment.
Elizabeth is an only child and is very close to her mother, who lives nearby in Corona del Mar, CA. At least once a month, we pack up the car and visit her mom, Kathy, for an extended weekend at her beach house. Kathy adores Lucas and loves being a grandmother!
Mike comes from a large Irish family of 4 brothers, who all have kids. We have 6 nieces and nephews who Lucas loves to play with! Mike's mom, Donna is excited to retire this year so she can spend more time with her grandchildren! The entire clan lives in Colorado so we visit them often for holidays and special occasions. With so many nieces and nephews there are a lot of "special occasions". And whenever we visit them in Colorado, we try to add a dedicated "Ski-Day" to the fun list.
Life with Lucas
In 2012, we were blessed with our amazing adopted son, Lucas Xavier. He is a super happy, smart, curious and engaging child who brightens everyone's day. His boundless energy keeps us constantly laughing and playing. Lucas inspires us to wake up every day with a devotion to being the best parents and people we can be.
We were fortunate to have an exceptional and loving experience with Lucas's birthparents. We participated in his birth, which was the greatest joy and blessing of our lives. We plan to tell Lucas and our next adopted child their birth story from a very young age so that they can have the same respect, admiration and gratitude as we do for their birthparent's selfless gift to our family.
Lucas Loves . . .
Group Hugs
Playing at the park
Weekend yogurt shop visits
Running our chu-chu train set
Building sandcastles at the beach
Mike through Elizabeth's Eyes
From the moment I met Mike I was struck by the way he makes people feel. Mike puts everyone at ease with his genuine warmth. He is the most kind-hearted and patient person I've ever known. And with our son Lucas, he is tender, caring, nurturing and fun. Every day that passes, I see him engage with Lucas, and I fall more in love with him. He is such a generous person and is a natural Daddy. To see him be a father to another beautiful baby would bring me so much joy.
Mike knows Elizabeth will be an incredible Mommy!
Elizabeth is the sweetest, loveliest, most compassionate person you will ever meet. Everyone who knows her, adores her. She loves kids, and kids love her. She's a great cook and she loves to sing! Best of all, Elizabeth is an amazing mommy. Her boundless energy, love and laughter fills our home everyday. Lucas and I are blessed to have such an incredible wife and mother in our lives.
Our Promise
We've been hoping and dreaming for many children from day one. We've been blessed in so many ways. Now we're ready to continue growing our family. We're ready to love, protect and cherish your baby. As parents we promise to:
We are so grateful for your unselfish act. We want you to take comfort in knowing about your baby's upbringing, and are happy to send letters and pictures should you choose. We wish you strength, wisdom and peace as you make this difficult decision.
Thank you for your time and consideration. We hope you select us to raise your baby with love, laughter and tenderness.
If you would like to speak to us about adopting your child or have any questions, please contact an AdoptHelp Adoption Advisor toll-free at 1-800-637-7990.
With sincere gratitude, respect and love,
Elizabeth & Michael


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Luis Cárcamo-Huechante
Associate Professor — PhD, Cornell University
Associate Professor; Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) at UT
- E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Office: BEN 3.146; CLA 2.106
- Office Hours: T/Th 10:00-11:30 (BEN 3.146)
Sound studies, radio, and media ecologies; colonialism; decolonizing methodologies; Indigenous aesthetics and politics of languages and knowledge; native territories and diasporas; the Mapuche movement. Race, gender & sexuality. Neoliberalism, literature, and market culture. Human rights,, social justice, and the arts. Poetry, urban chronicle and fiction, with emphasis in the Andes and Southern Cone of Latin America
Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante is a scholar of Mapuche origin who grew up in Tralcao, a rural village in the River Region of Valdivia in southern Chile. He studied Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Universidad Austral de Chile (1980-1985), obtained his MA at the University of Oregon (1995-1997), and earned his PhD in Hispanic Studies at Cornell (1997-2001). He taught at Harvard University between 2001 and 2009. Since 2009, he teaches Latin American and indigenous literatures and cultures at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a founding member of the Comunidad de Historia Mapuche (CHM), which is a collective of indigenous, Mapuche researchers based in Temuco, southern Chile. Through the CHM, he has recently co-edited the collections of essays on colonial violence, entitled Awükan ka kütrankan zugu Wajmapu meu: Violencias coloniales en Wajmapu (Ediciones Comunidad de Historia Mapuche, 2015); and also Ta iñ fijke xipa rakizuameluwün. Historia, colonialismo y resistencia desde el país Mapuche (Ediciones de Historia Mapuche, 2012), the first book of this Mapuche collective, and which brings together fourteen Mapuche authors who examine many dimensions of Mapuche history, relying upon the concept of colonialism as the axis of debate and reflection on historical, political, cultural and territorial issues. Previously, in 2007, Professor Cárcamo-Huechante published his own book, Tramas del mercado: imaginación económica, cultura pública y literatura en el Chile de fines del siglo veinte (Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio), and co-edited a volume of essays entitled El valor de la cultura: arte, literatura y mercado en América Latina (with Alvaro Fernández-Bravo and Alejandra Laera, Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2007). He has published articles in prestigious academic journals. He is also a member of the editorial boards of refereed journals in the United States and in Latin America, such as: Latin American Literary Review, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Revista Atenea, and Taller de Letras. In August 2012, Professor Cárcamo-Huechante won the Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, the University of Texas System Board of Regents's highest teaching honor. During the 2013-2014 academic year, he was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. For more informaton on Comunidad de Historia Mapuche, see: https://www.comunidadhistoriamapuche.cl; for the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies at UT, go to, http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/nais/.
LAS 370S • Indigenous Resurgence
39845 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM BEN 1.108
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ILA 389 • Territories:colonial/Anti
45770 • Fall 2017
Meets TH 5:00PM-8:00PM CAL 21
(also listed as LAS 381)
Description: Since 1990s, the question of territory and territorial rights has been a foundational concept and imaginary in the indigenous resurgence movement throughout the Americas, or Abya Yala—the native Kuna term to name the whole continent. Against narratives of "de-territorialization" (Deleuze and Guattari) that prevailed in the terrain of "high theory" in late twentieth century, indigenous movement—already in the 1990s—placed the concept and imaginary of the territory as a fundamental notion in local and global political and cultural imagination. Usually, and mistakenly, indigenous notions of territory tend to be reduced to the land; however, for many native communities, it also includes the waters of rivers, lakes and oceans; the air and ether; material and spiritual domains. The present seminar will engage this indigenous politico-cultural articulation in order to explore the ways poetics and politics of the territory have shaped not only indigenous views but also literary, cultural, and historical discourses from other ethnic, racial, cultural and social agents in Latin America, in conjunction with colonial and anti-colonial histories. Furthermore, we will also discuss neighboring categories such as space, place, and border (frontera) as well as the ways in which territorial claims have become juxtaposed with new processes of diasporization; in this regard, the seminar will problematize to what extent the politics and poetics of diasporas may diverge, or perhaps mirror, previously held notions of deterritorialization and nomadism. Finally, we will closely examine the acoustic, visual, geographical, racial, animal, human, bodily and spiritual senses of the territory as dimensions that play a critical role in the deployment of colonial and anti-colonial politics, engaging fields such as geography, sound studies, visual culture, environmental studies, and oceanic studies. Materials will include non-fiction prose, novels, poetry, chronicles, documentary video, video art, film, music, and historiographical and cartographical sources, especially from countries such as Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.
Bibliography and Media Sources
1. Literature:
Mariluán; Un drama en el campo (Chile, 1862) by Alberto Blest Gana
Una excursión a los indios ranqueles (Argentina, 1870) by Lucio Mansilla
Selections fromMaremoto (Chile, 1969) by Pablo Neruda
Selections from En Cuba (1972) by Ernesto Cardenal
Selections from Summa de Maqroll El Gaviero (Colombia, 1990;1973) by Alvaro Mutis
Imágenes paceñas (Bolivia, 1979) by Jaime Sáenz
Purgatorio (Chile, 1979) Raúl Zurita
Montacerdos (Peru, 1981) by Cronwell Jara
La esquina es mi corazón: crónica urbana (Chile, 1995) by Pedro Lemebel
La villa (Argentina, 2001) and Embalse (Argentina, 2003) by César Aira
El Ghetto (Argentina, 2003) by Tamara Kamenszain
Omnibus (Argentina, 2006) by Elvio Gandolfo
Selections fromPewma dungu / Palabras soñadas (2003) by Leonel Lienlaf
Selections fromÜl (2005) by Adriana Paredes Pinda
Selections fromMapurbe: Venganza a raíz (Chile, 2005) by David Añiñir
Phaqar Kirki o Cantos a las flores (Bolivia, 2006) by Elvira Espejo
Formas de volver a casa (Chile, 2011) by Alejandro Zambra
Volverse Palestina (USA/Chile, 2013) by Lina Meruane
2. Films and Audio-Visual Sources
Punalka: el Alto Bío-Bío (Chile, 1995) by Jeannette Paillan
El velo de Berta (Chile, 2005) by director Esteban Larraín
Nostalgia de la luz (Chile, 2010) by Patricio Guzmán
El vuelco del cangrejo (Colombia, film, 2011)
Yvy Maraey, Tierra sin Mal (Bolivia, 2013) by Juan Carlos Valdivia
La Tentación del Nixhix (Bolivia, 2015) by Gumercindo Yumani, Nicolas Ipamo, Ruben Dario Cayaduro, Martha Zelady, Marcelina Cárdenas y Franklin Gutiérrez (Bolivia)
3. Literary, Cultural, Theoretical, and Historical Essays
Selections from Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana (1928) by Jose Carlos Mariátegui
Selections from Anti-Oedipus (1972) by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Indios, ejército y fronteras (1982) by David Viñas
"Diasporas" (1994) by James Clifford
Selections fromSpaces of Hope (USA, 2000) by David Harvey
Selections from"Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native" (Australia, 2006) by Patrick Wolfe
Selections from ¡… Escucha winka…! Cuatro ensayos sobre de historia nacional mapuche y un epílogo sobre el futuro (Chile, 2006) by Pablo Marimán et. al.
Selections fromTerritories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (2008) by Arturo Escobar
Selections fromAcoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (2010) by Brandon Labelle
"The Prospect of Oceanic Studies" (2010) by Hester Blum
"Democracia liberal y democracia del Ayllu" from Violencia (re)encubiertas en Bolivia (2012) and Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: Una reflexión sobre prácticas y discursos descolonizadores (2010) by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Selections from Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts (2013) by Douglas Kahn
Selections from Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia's Indigenous Intellectuals (2014) by Waskar Ari
"Capítulo IV: La provincia: el mapa de la zona, un más allá de la fractura y la derrota" from Buenos Aires y las provincias. Relatos para desarmar (2014) by Laura Demaria.
SPN 356 • Indigenous Resurgence
46505 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM BEN 1.104
(also listed as LAS 370S)
Examines how indigenous writers, artists, and cultural producers have established their own voices and languages through writing and other forms of media. Analysis of the indigenous artistic and intellectual production in concrete political and cultural contexts.
LAS 370S • From El Che To Evita
39755 • Spring 2016
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM GEA 114
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ILA 387 • Lit And Cult Life Of Radio
44935 • Fall 2015
Meets T 5:00PM-8:00PM BEN 1.106
(also listed as LAS 392S)
Radio has played a major role in popular culture as well as in the subjective and collective imagination of individuals and communities in Latin America since the early twentieth century to the present. In this process, literary and cultural works have become shaped and immersed in radio culture, and radio has acquired a powerful literary, aesthetic, and cultural life. This seminar will focus on the ways in which this process has forged a radio-phonic imaginary in poetry, short stories, novels, chronicles, and essays within the field of literature as well as in the realm of the arts. In order to address these key questions, this course will examine how radio culture is literally and figuratively registered and performed in literary writing and in the arts. Strong focus will be put on the role of voices, narratives, sound aesthetics, auditory culture, language and the senses, the culture of radionovela or radioteatro, and the history of radio and sound technology in Latin America. The seminar will review and include a critical and theoretical corpus that is central to contemporary debates in the emerging cross-disciplinary field of sound studies, in conjunction with recent critical developments in literary and cultural studies, performance studies, media studies, speech act theory, and anthropology of the senses, anthropology of radio, phenomenology, and acoustic ecology. Our discussion will also link the literary and cultural life of radio to issues of local and national politics, ethnic, racial and gender representation, colonial histories, anti-colonial struggles, and questions of cultural imperialism and globalization.
Grading Policy
This course will use the plus/minus grading scale for each of the assignments as well as for the final grade.
The final grade will be determined by the following requirements:
1. Attendance 15%
2. Participation in class discussions 25%
3. Research Paper (RP) 60%: an aprox.15-page research paper on a specific topic addressed in the seminar, reflecting the research interest of the student in sound culture. We will not schedule this research paper for the end of the semester but rather we will start working on it by the middle of the semester in order to set up a process of outlining, drafting, editing, and critical and self-critical revision around the task of writing a research paper. The instructor will closely follow this process with planned meetings with each member of the seminar. Our RP agenda is: proposal: 10%. preliminary draft: 20 %.; final draft: 20%.; abstract: 10%.
Graduate students with knowledge of Spanish are automatically admitted into the seminar. Students from the PhD in Spanish are required to write in Spanish; students from other graduate programs can write in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Readings and Bibliography
1. Critical and Theoretical Works
Barbero, Jesus Martin. De los medios a las mediaciones (1987)
Bessire, Lucas and Daniel Fisher. Eds. Radio Fields: Anthropology and Wireless Sound (2012)
Bronfman, Alejandra and Andrew Grant Wood. Media, Sound & Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012)
Chow, Rey and James Steintrager, Eds. The Sense of Sound (2011).
Franz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism (1965).
Ihde, Don. Listening and Voice: Phenomenology of Sound (2008).
Kittler, Friedrich. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (trans. 1999; 1986)
Kun, Josh. Audiotopia: Music, Race and America (2005).
Lacan, Jacques. Radiophonie (1970)
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)
Nancy, Jean-Luc. Á l'écoute (2002).
Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1982).
Perloff, Marjorie and Craig Dworkin. The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound (2009).
Schafer, R. Murray. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and The Tuning of the World (1994) [1977].
SPN 355 • Poetry For The 21st Century
46160 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 2.102
(also listed as LAS 370S)
This course will analyze and discuss the place of poetry in the public and historical setting of the Southern Cone of Latin America—that is, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay—since the 1970s to the present.
ILA 380 • Intro To Lit And Cult Theory
46570 • Fall 2014
Meets W 5:00PM-8:00PM BEN 2.104
This course is an introductory survey of certain theories and discourses relevant to the study of Latin American and Iberian literatures and cultures. The course aims to introduce, discuss and analyze past and contemporary theoretical movements and their influence on and relevance for the analysis of Latin American and Iberian Literatures and Cultures. The readings will consist of selected passages from works of literary theory and criticism—Formalism, Post-Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstructionism, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Feminism-Gender and Queer Theory, Decolonization Theory, Media and Performance Studies and Globalization-U.S. Latin@ Studies. The course focuses on theories in the context of literature and culture as well as their relevance for interdisciplinary approaches in other fields. The course seeks to help students read and understand cultural texts as well as train them for specialized academic writing, critical analysis and critical thinking.
Our weekly meetings will be dedicated to each theoretical movement to analyze theories and authors in their socio-historical context. Students will have weekly oral presentations in English, Spanish or Portuguese, and will dedicate the first weeks of the course to preparing their weekly writings based on the readings. In their weekly writings students will summarize the main content of the article-as well as prepare two or three questions about the readings with the aim of addressing and discussing the main thesis or theories developed in it. By the second-week of the semester students will choose a mentor in their area of specialization with whom they will develop a professional relationship and who will work directly with the student in the development of the research paper. A draft of the research paper with a bibliography will be completed by the end of the first semester. Students will complete their final research paper in their second semester. Students will be graded by their concise analysis of theoretical readings, their writing, their oral presentations and their participation in class. Participation and attendance are required for all entering students.
1 term paper, 15-20 pages 30%
1 15-20-minute research topic presentation 20%
1 15-20-minute oral presentation 20%
Weekly writings 30%
A reader of theoretical works and authors
SPN 393T • Research Meths/Professionalztn
46985 • Spring 2013
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM BEN 1.118
SPN 380K • Sound Cultures In Latin Amer
46685 • Fall 2012
Meets W 9:30AM-12:30PM CAL 21
How does the relationship between sound, language and representation work in literary and cultural production in modern and contemporary Latin America? How does sound interweave with the language of the image? To what extent are our reading practices shaped by auditory memories and cultures? Do reading, viewing, and listening constitute interconnected fields of reception and interpretation in our sensorial and aesthetic experiences? How do sonic imaginaires relate to the construction of political, social and cultural identities and differences? In order to address these key questions, this course will examine how soundscapes are figuratively constructed and performed in literary texts as well as in oral and audiovisual media (film, radio, and music). This seminar will engage critical perspectives from literary criticism, cultural anthropology, philosophy, musicology, media theory, and performance studies; more specifically, we will review and discuss a set of theories that are central to the debates in the emerging field of sound studies.
Literary and cultural texts:
Selection of poems by César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, and Alfonsina Storni
Andamios interiores, Poemas radiográficos (1922) de Manuel Maples Arce
Radio (poema inalámbrico en trece mensajes) (1924) de Luis Quintanilla
Canto kechwa (1938) by José María Arguedas
De donde son los cantantes (1967) de Severo Sarduy
El vampiro de la Colonia Roma (1979) by Luis Zapata
Sonata cafiola (2008) by Pedro Lemebel
"Wünül: concierto de pájaros" (video) and poems by Lorenzo Aillapán (Mapuche)
Je' bix k'in/Como el sol (1998) by Briceida Cuevas Con
"Tijeretazos" (short story) by Lina Meruane
Selection of films, music, and samples of radio shows
Theoretical readings:
The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound (2009) by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin eds.
Listening (2007) by Jean-Luc Nancy
Audiotopia: Music, Race and America (2005) by Josh Kun
Mexican Modernity: the Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (2005) by Rúben Gallo
Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (2004) by Veit Erlmann
The Auditory Culture Reader (2003) by Michael Bull and Les Back, eds.
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (2002) by Susan Stewart
Audio-vision: sound on screen (1994) by Michel Chion
Escribir en el aire: ensayos sobre la heterogeneidad socio-cultural en las literaturas andinas (1994) by Antonio Cornejo Polar
La voz y su huella: escritura y conflicto étnico-social en América Latina 1492-1988 (1991) by Martin Lienhard
Performance Theory by Richard Schechner (1988)
Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (1982) by Steven Feld
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1982) by Walter Ong
The Pursuits of Signs by (1981) by Jonathan Culler
Listening and Voice: Phenomenology of Sound (1976) by Don Ihde
Grading Policy and Course Requirements
Grading Policy
The final grade will be determined by the following requirements:
-Attendance 10%
-Participation in class and Blackboard discussions 25%.
Students are expected to actively contribute to discussions in classroom as well as to participate in the Discussion Forum on the Blackboard, posting at least one question or commentary per week (before Sunday midnight, prior to next class) in regard to the texts, materials and/or issues under scrutiny in the course.
-Oral presentation in class 10%
-Mid-term critical essay 15% (a 5-7 page essay on any of the readings of the first part of the course). Deadline: November 16.
-Final Paper 40% (a 12-15 page research paper on a specific topic addressed in the seminar). Deadline: December 12.
Graduate students with knowledge of Spanish are automatically admitted in the seminar; advanced undergraduate students can only enroll with special permission of the instructor.
SPN 322K • Civilization Of Spanish Amer
46375-46400 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM UTC 3.132
(also listed as LAS 370S)
This course aims to provide a panoramic view on key issues in the cultural history of Latin America. Our emphasis will be on the cultures of power relations and social change in the region, with particular attention to the role of intellectual production, media and cultural expression in these processes. Within this framework, we will scrutinize the following topics: cultures of [power (i.e., colonialisms, patriarchalism, homophobia, racisms, paternalism, authoritarianisms, populisms); anti-colonial struggles; nation-state formation; slavery; indigenous cultures and peoples; cultures of authoritarianism and democracies; women, sexual minorities, and social change; and the new cultures of immigration, diasporas, and globalization.
Through the critical scrutiny of the aforementioned topics, this course will pursue the following specific goals,
- To understand the heterogeneity of histories and cultures that form part of Latin America across historical periods and geographical boundaries;
- To train students in the use of conceptual and technical tools for the creative analysis and interpretation of cultural subjects and their representation in language;
- To provides students methodological tools for academic writing and critical reading;
- To practice speaking skills through a brief oral presentation in group discussion
- To use the Benson Collection in order to support the writing of the essay for the class; and,
- To be able to respectfully share, discuss, reflect on and self-critique ideas.
SPN 352 • Lit Figuratns In Multimed Age
46580 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ 1.212
(also listed as LAS 370S)
This course focuses on the figurations of sounds and images in literary language in the context of modern and contemporary Latin America. We will study and discuss the rhetorical ways in which the impressions of the senses, particularly in terms of the relationship between writing, visual and sound culture, take shape in literature. Therefore, the course will be organized around basic literary figures (such as ekphrasis, calligram, onomatopoeia, interjection, and synesthesia), aesthetic constructions (such as rhythm and image) and discursive performance (voice, monologue, dialogue, polyphony), across genres and historical periods. The organization of the course around these multiple procedures will offer the students a specific training in the critical use of concepts that are relevant for the analysis of language and literary representation. In addition, this discussion will allow us to look at literature as a discourse immersed in a multimedia ecology, in which there are a variety of dimensions of language that coexist and intertwine: the language of nature, animal sounds, human senses, oral community traditions, radio, music, painting, cinema, and digital media. Special attention will be paid to the crossings of Western, Criollo, Indigenous, and African traditions in the literary and extra-literary realm of sounds and images.
SPN 350 • The Imagined Andes
46490 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 2.122
(also listed as LAS 370S)
SPN 380K • Indig Worlds Andes/Sthrn Cone
46575 • Fall 2011
Meets T 1:00PM-4:00PM BEN 1.118
(also listed as LAS 392S)
The Criollo and Indigenous Subjects in the Andes and the Southern Cone
This course examines the constructions of criollo subjects as well as the representation and self-representation of indigenous peoples in the literary and cultural production of the Andes and the Southern Cone of Latin America. Historically, we will cover the period beginning with the founding of nation-states in early nineteenth-century to the current era of globalization. We will analyze the ways in which the sujeto popular criollo is constructed and imagined in canonical literary and cultural texts, the indigenista representations of native peoples, and the practices of self-representation in texts linked to Quechua, Aymara, Mapuche and Native Amazonian traditions and authors. Readings will include works that are associated with trends such as gauchesca, Peruvian popular traditions, criollismo, indianismo, indigenismo, and autonomous indigenous poetics. We will study songs, legends, testimony, letters, poetry, short stories, and novels. Paintings, comics, films, lyrics, and radio shows will be also included.
In order to investigate the issues of coloniality, territory, recognition and self-recognition, representation and self-representation, some of the key questions we will address include the following: How do oral and written traditions interrelate in both criollo and indigenous texts? What is the relationship of these non-indigenous and indigenous forms of representation to dominant "national" constructions of the literary canon? What are the politics of recognition, self-recognition and agency that emerge from the texts under scrutiny? How do they relate to the framework of the hegemonic nation-states and issues of "internal colonialism" in the region? Within the context of modern and contemporary times, to what extent do these literatures subject their representation and agency to the universality of a Westernizing, neocolonial criollo nation-state? And finally, to what extent do these texts engage with the potential of "autonomous" indigenous politics of territory—in particular, that of ayllu (communal land in the Andes), tawantinsuyu (the ancient Inca territory), and wallmapu (the notion of Mapuche nationhood)?
Grading Policy:
The final grade will be determined by the following requirements:
Attendance 10%
Participation in class discussions 15%
Mid-term paper 15% (a 5-7 page essay on any of the readings of the first part of the course)
Presentation in class (on the research topic for the final paper) 10%
Final Paper 50% (a 12-15 page research paper on a specific topic addressed in the seminar)
Primary Readings:
Martin Fierro by José Hernández
Selections from Tradiciones peruanas by Ricardo Palma
Manifestos by Tupaj Katari (selection)
Cartas mapuches (selection)
Una excursión a los indios ranqueles by Lucio Mansilla
Selections from Cumandá o un drama entre salvajes by Juan León Mera
Raza de bronce by Alcides Arguedas
Selections from Canto kechwa by José María Arguedas
Selections of poems by Andrés Alencastre
Los ríos profundos by José María Arguedas
Mi despertar by Ana María Condori (Aymara)
Selections of Contemporary Quechua poets (Dida Aguirre, Eduardo Ninamango, Odi Gonzales)
Selections of Contemporary Mapuche poets (Leonel Lienlaf, Elicura Chihuailaf, Jaime Huenún, Liliana Ancalao, Roxana Miranda Rupailaf)
Native Amazonian literature from Ecuador and Peru (Course Reader)
Literary and Cultural Criticism:
Poesía quechua by Jesús Lara
Escribir en el aire by Antonio Cornejo Polar
El género gauchesco by Josefina Ludmer
Indios, ejército y frontera and Literatura argentina y realidad política by David Viñas
Oprimidos pero no vencidos: Luchas del campesinado aymara y qhechwa de Bolivia, 1900-1980 by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Supplementary theoretical and critical materials (Course Reader)
Graduate students with knowledge of Spanish are automatically admitted in the seminar; advanced undergraduate students can only enroll with special permission of the instructor.
SPN 380K • Aesthetics And Polit Of Voices
47255 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEN 1.118
(also listed as LAS 392S)
SPN 380K Graduate Seminar Spring 2011
Aesthetics And Politics Of Voices
Conducted in Spanish
Listed as: SPN 380k; LAS 392S Course Unique Number: 47255
Schedule of Class Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm-3:30pm
Room: BEN 1.118
Instructor: Prof. Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante
E-mail address: email@example.com
Office Hours: Friday 10:00 to 12:00; Office: BEN 3.146
Course Description
In the field of literature, we often talk about the subjects of literary texts as "speakers" and readers as "audience." The written domain of literature is imagined as a scene of speaking and listening. With this in mind, this graduate seminar will examine the ways in which voices and sounds work in literary language and representation. Key questions to be addressed are: How does the representation of voices and sounds enrich the aesthetic and sensorial effects of literary texts? What is the role of silence in literary language? To what extent is literature a sensorium of the sounds, noises and voices that constitute public imagination in specific historical contexts? How do writers' ideologies, cultural backgrounds, locations, ethnicities or gender/sex identities impact the types of voices and sounds that are present in their literary works? What is the role of literary genres in this process? How do literary representations of voice and sound relate to other sound media, such as the gramophone, radio, the telephone, film, or music?
Our discussion will be anchored in the study of literary texts from modern and contemporary Latin America. Theoretical materials will be drawn from literary criticism, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, and media studies.
LAS 370S • Poetics & Fictions From Chile
40910 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ 1.216
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Current Research
Current Research Project
The Sounds of an Indigenous Nation:
Poetry, Radio, and Music in Contemporary Mapuche Culture
in Argentina and Chile
The language of the Mapuche people is known as Mapudungun, a name which conjoins two distinctly polyvalent terms: mapu, meaning land, territory, country, or universe; and, dungun, meaning language, voice, sound, or sense. My work over the past few years on contemporary Mapuche culture, literature, and media has centered on the many linkages between sound, language, and representation. Within this framework, I am currently drafting a manuscript entitled The Sounds of an Indigenous Nation: Poetry, Radio, and Music in Contemporary Mapuche Culture in Argentina and Chile.
My study explores the sonorous imaginaire that emerges from the poetic texts, radio programs, and music produced by contemporary Mapuche writers, artists and communicators from Argentina and Chile (1980s-2000s). In this study, I argue that sound plays a pivotal role in the construction of the Mapuche linguistic and cultural imagination. Contemporary Mapuche culture is constructed and made manifest through soundscapes based on a diverse range of resources—from nature to technological devices. In this context, my work challenges the anthropocentric approaches which focus exclusively on the orality-writing dyad, approaches most commonly found in the interpretations of Latin American indigenous cultures (Antonio Cornejo Polar, 1994; Martin Lienhard, 1991).
The first part of my study examines how contemporary Mapuche poets use writing to perform the sounds they experience at the modern crossroads of rural and urban landscapes. From the late 1980s to the 2000s, a vibrant movement of Mapuche poets began to garner literary visibility and prominence through the publication of individual books of poetry and anthologies. I particularly analyze the works of poets Lorenzo Aillapán; Leonel Lienlaf; Juan Pablo Hurimilla; and Liliana Ancalao. For example, Aillapán uses various modes of onomatopoeia and iteration to perform the "sound language" emitted by native birds. Lienlaf's poetry incorporates the tradition of the Mapuche chant, ül, translating this oral genre into writing in order to evoke ancestral cosmologies. Lienlaf then shatters this universe of harmonic sounds by figuratively introducing the incongruous machinery noises of the forestry industry that has intruded upon Mapuche territories over the past thirty years. Adding to this process a much more hybrid texture of sounds, Huirimilla's poetry presents a distinct array of cultural sounds, registering the echoes of the music and radio shows that form part of the contemporary auditory culture of Mapuches in both rural and urban areas. Finally, Ancalao's poetry registers the difficulties of constructing a Mapuche voice within a highly Westernized Argentine literary and cultural environment. By analyzing the construction of soundscapes within literary texts by these Mapuche authors, my work breaks important new ground in the field of Latin American literary studies.
The second part of my study examines on Mapuche radio broadcasts. I examine Wixage anai!, a program aired on Radio Tierra in Santiago, Chile, as well as Radio Wallon and Werken Küruf, two community radio station in Chile's southern Temuco region. I then juxtapose my analysis of these radio shows with a study of the mini-programs of the Mapurbe Communication Team from Bariloche in Argentina's Río Negro province, and Radio Wajzugun, a Mapuche station broadcasting from San Martin de los Andes in the also Argentine province of Neuquen. My analysis of Mapuche radio in Argentina and Chile will open a new path in the field of Indigenous Studies by attending to the linkages between the performance of sound identities and the politics of Mapuche nationhood (wallmapu) that constitute the metanarrative of these radios shows in both sides of the Andes.
The third part of my study focuses on Wechekeche Ñi Trawun, a band of young Mapuche musicians from Santiago who achieved popularity in Mapuche communities in Chile and southern Argentina over the recent years. Their music incorporates the sounds of nature and of native traditions while also introducing the contemporary and urban aesthetics of rock, rap, and reggaeton. I investigate how these Mapuche musicians juxtapose Western electronic instrumentation with the sounds of traditional native instruments like the kull kull, trutruka and kultrún. Through this stylistic and technological mixture, they perform an ambivalent position toward globalization by fusing a discourse of Mapuche nationalism with an aesthetic cosmopolitanism.
The objective of my study is to understand the creative ways in which Mapuche cultural producers assemble indigenous and non-indigenous sonic resources to navigate through contemporary media ecologies. I focus on literature, radio and music because these three types of media have played a vital role in the Mapuche cultural, political and social movements of the recent decades. To examine this diverse process, I rely on the methodological approaches from the field of poetics, discourse analysis, aesthetic and cultural criticism, and performance studies. These methods allow me to carry out close readings to unveil the nuances of languages, styles and sound aesthetics in contemporary Mapuche poetry, radio, and music. Through this study, I aim to build conceptual and methodological bridges between two emerging fields, Sound Studies and Indigenous Studies.
Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante
Austin, Fall 2011.


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Minsk history by Siarhei Chareŭski
Minsk exists in the endless chain of our personal experiences. We can imagine Minsk the way we want, since there is nothing much of Minsk left in the reality. On the other hand, what could possibly survive in the city, the first mention of which describes its destruction? When Minsk became part of the Russian Empire, it had 39 stone residential houses. When USSR was pronounced in 1921, 117 thousand people lived in Minsk. Now, there are two million people more. Probably, no other city in Europe grew as fast as Minsk. Even if the whole old city stayed untouched, the old-fashioned Minsk would occupy only 3% of modern Minsk's territory. You are free to make assumptions and make up the history of Minsk – just the way I have done.
Just like Rome, Minsk was built on seven hills. The oldest was Zamkavy Hill (Castle Hill) – it overlooked the confluence of Niamiha and Svislač rivers. The second one was Zboravy Hill that now accommodates the Upper Town with Svabody square. The third one was Trajeckaja (Trinity) Hill that is nowadays home to the Minsk Opera building. The fourth one was Staražouskaja or Piarespinskaja Mountain, now home to hotel Belarus. The fifth one was Zmiejeva Mountain, now Jubilejnaja square, the sixth one was Zavalny Hill (now Valadarskaja street) and, finally, the seventh one was Sviatoje Miesca (The Holy Place), now Kalvaryjskija Cemetery.
We all know that Rome was founded by wolf-raised Romulus; Kiev was founded by forest-grown Kiy… Old Miensk was founded by Mianiesk, an epic hero who built a mill with seven wheels on the banks of Svislač River. The mill made flour out of stones instead of wheat. No one ever saw Mianiesk in the daylight, but everyone knew that at midnight Mianiesk rode his seven-wheel mill and hired warriors able to eat his bread made of stone-flour. Those warriors and their descendants settled around the magic mill.


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The Strongarms
Bruno and Wretch, otherwise known as the Strongarms, did what they did every single night. They stood at the entrance to Holiday's Gentleman's Club in Halfway City. The city was—not so creatively named—for being the halfway point in the Tri-Star System. It's bright lights, gambling and gratification houses made it a stopping point for anyone looking break up the monotony of cross-system travel.
Holiday's Gentleman's Club was just like any of the hundreds of other grat-houses in the sleazy city. Guys entered in with pockets full of cash and left with their pockets emptied and their needs relatively unsatisfied. But the men didn't seem to care. The thrill must have been worth the cost because the Strongarms, Bruno and Wretch, saw the same men night after night.
Every establishment in Halfway City was required to have the latest construction technology. Equipped with digi-walls, the design of a building could be changed with a simple recoding. Holiday's digi-walls displayed a brick facade. Bruno and Wretch stood outside, the soft glow of the display backlighting them ever-so-slightly Their primary job was to ensure that no weapons entered, men were properly dressed—all this meant was that they wore pants and a shirt, no strict dress code—and none of the ladies were harassed more than was allowed by the guidelines of the establishment. Mostly, they were big, hulking brutes who imposed their own laws and accepted bribes to pad their already too-huge paychecks.
"What you doing after work tonight?" asked Bruno.
"Same t'ing I do er'ry night," Wretched answered, "enjoy a beet of da scenery, heh, den home for some sleep."
"I've got a job that you might be interested in."
"Yeah? What's dat?"
Bruno went on to describe a heist. Bruno was always planning some huge, elaborate casino heist, but Wretch knew he was all talk and no follow through.
"Oh," said Wretch, "you mean da same t'ing you been talking about for da last t'ree years?"
Bruno threw a playful punch into his partner's arm.
"No, no," he said, "I'm serious this time. I'm gonna do it."
Just then a scream broke through the silence of an otherwise quiet night. The Strongarms followed the sound to the side of the building and saw a large black hover-van parked with the side door wide open. Seven men, easily as large as the Strongarms, worked together to load an equal amount of Buzilian girls. The girls wailed and screamed, scratching and clawing at their kidnappers. They grabbed at the sides of the van in an attempt to escape.
"Get da bikes," said Wretch. "Dat looked like Boneface's crew. Ain't going ta happen on my watch."


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Nearly one in five companies currently have ex-apprentices working in a senior management position. We take a look at how an apprenticeship can lead to boardroom opportunities for those with skill and ambition.
In the last City & Guilds top 100 list of Britain's wealthiest ex-apprentices, former engineering apprentices made up a quarter of the list, while the most represented industries were technology, property and construction, and leisure.
Topping the list of 'skillionaires' with £2.5 billion was JCB chairman Sir Anthony Bamford, who started his career with a two-year apprenticeship at Massey Ferguson. Also starring were former Michelin apprentice John Caudwell, founder of Phones4U, Steve Morgan, Chairman of Redrow builders who studied an OND in civil engineering, and Charlie Mullins, founder of Pimlico Plumbers – who left school at 15 with no qualifications, did an apprenticeship and now has a bank balance of £55 million.
And it's not just a case of a lucky few. In December 2013 a report published as part of the City and Guilds Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers list found that nearly one in five companies currently have ex-apprentices working in a senior management position. Almost half the businesses in the construction sector employ former apprentices in board-level positions, followed very closely by manufacturing and engineering, agriculture, and energy and power.
Patrick Clarke OBE, director of network operations for UK Power Networks
One such former apprentice is Patrick Clarke OBE, director of network operations for UK Power Networks. He is responsible for managing the distribution of electricity to a quarter of the UK population and holds the purse strings for about £600m of spend on engineering projects annually.
Lowly beginnings in a poor neighbourhood of Jamaica and a difficult transition into British life had a negative effect on Clarke's early academic performance but also fuelled his desire to succeed. Despite being an under-achiever at school Clarke nevertheless scored top marks in his apprenticeship entrance exams for his organisation, then known as the London Electricity Board.
"Adapting to British life was tough and I didn't do well at school but my chance to shine was coming," says Clarke. "I began as an apprentice in the electricity industry and can honestly say that the opportunities are limitless for those with skill and ambition, who are prepared to work hard."
Clarke spent the first 12 years of his career as a jobbing electrical engineer before realising that his greatest strengths lay in commercial and people management. He went on to complete an MBA in management and then worked in contracting. Climbing his way up the career ladder Clarke later became human resources director, connections director eventually arriving at his current role of network operations director. In 2008 he was also Prince Charles's London ambassador for leadership and diversity and in 2013 was awarded an OBE for services to black and minority ethnic youth mentoring.
"My advice to young people considering a future in our industry is to complete your academic studies to the best of your ability, work hard on your apprenticeship and find solid mentors who will show you the right way," Clarke states.
"Don't accept mediocrity or be afraid to do things that are different if they move a company on. Spend a few years learning your trade but don't remain there if you want to progress. Understand your ambitions and move in that direction – if you follow that advice it's possible to rise from apprentice to the executive team and even CEO – my next aspiration!"
Baljit Bhogal, building services engineer, WSP
Another former apprentice who has his feet firmly planted on the career rungs is Baljit Bhogal. Realising that the traditional route to uni wasn't for him, Bhogal opted for a formal apprenticeship. He completed City & Guilds, BTec and an ONC, went on to study a BEng and is now a building services engineer with leading UK engineering consultancy WSP.
"Like many trainees working on site I too was sent to the stores to ask for a long weight and to get a spirit level without a bubble," quips Bhogal. "But the most difficult part of site work was gaining trust of colleagues - showing them I was capable and genuinely interested in learning. I demonstrated this by asking questions, watching and putting myself forward every time there was an opportunity to help out. Once I had demonstrated I was capable of doing a task effectively that trust started to build."
Bhogal found that the combination of working and studying had all-round advantages.
"Being at college while on my apprenticeship provided me with both theory and practical knowledge which I could then apply to my work and even share new tricks passed from lecturers with my work colleagues," Bhogal says.
His apprenticeship was structured so that he rotated every few months to work with different people within the company. This allowed him to learn a wide range of different skills and observe how individual solutions can be applied.
"I was employed by WSP while studying for my BEng and working in a study group designing systems which previously I had either been installing or maintaining. I was at an advantage compared to the full-time students as, for example, when the lecturer talked about a central heating system, I could picture a building and all the associated components involved – and was able to bring both the practical and theory together."
Bhogal is currently studying for his MSc in energy and sustainable building design and has been a finalist for CIBSE and ASHRAE Graduate of the Year Award in 2012.
"My apprenticeship laid strong foundations for my career," he says. "There are many companies out there who can offer great apprentice packages and getting signed up will afford you an opportunity to gain practical experience while obtaining academic qualifications by attending college in block or day release formats. Joining professional engineering institutes and attending local seminars also allows you to discover new technologies and the chance to network with like-minded apprentices who are also starting on their career paths."
Laura Pringle, RAF apprentice aircraft carpenter
Although she setout only recently, 20-year-old Laura Pringle's ascent of the apprentice route shows no sign of abating. She began an intermediate apprenticeship in engineering and manufacturing technologies at Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford in 2010. She currently is the museum's only apprentice aircraft carpenter, working on the restoration of pre-World War One wooden aircraft.
"I opted to do an apprenticeship because I have always loved a 'hands on' approach to working and learning," says Pringle. "I chose RAF Cosford because I've always been interested in history – and the museum also offers a different yet brilliant version of an apprenticeship."
With a Diploma Level 1 Certificate and NVQ Level 2 in carpentry and joinery under her belt, Laura is working towards a Diploma Level 2 with support of the City of Wolverhampton College.
"My core trade is carpentry, but throughout my four-year apprenticeship I have also honed many other techniques, such as engineering hand skills that enable me to assist technicians on larger projects," explains Laura. "I have also expanded my studies to follow a training and development role, by doing courses such as City & Guilds' PTTLS (Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector) and management of coaching and mentoring. In ten years time I hope to be in a training and development post, working towards training management."
Laura has also become a STEM ambassador, working to inspire young people in aeronautics and technology. She regularly hosts apprenticeship demonstrations at the museum and promoted "Young People in Aviation" at the House of Lords. In the 2012 Apprenticeship Awards Laura bagged the title Intermediate Apprentice of the Year.
"I believe that there is never a wasted qualification and I would urge everyone, no matter at what level of education to give 110 per cent," stresses Laura. "If you want to work and learn, an apprenticeship course is an ideal way of putting your studying into practice."
These are but a few resounding apprenticeship success stories. Not surprising then that research for the City and Guilds Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers list also revealed that 89 per cent of company bosses said they would opt to do an apprenticeship if they were starting out in their career now.


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Chancellor Wrighton, thank you for that warm welcome. I often come to St Louis but it is a special pleasure to be here for this wonderful occasion.
I would like to direct my remarks specifically to the stars of today -
For all of you, today's ceremony is not only the result of years of study and hard work -
I envy you. I never attended university. I left school at the age of 15. Circumstances compelled it. My father was sick and blind and bed-
So the choice to leave was easy. But I can still see the tears in my father's eyes when he realised there was no alternative.
I began my working life with employment that had no future, while I studied morning and evening, in an Aladdin's Cave of literature and reference books that served also as my bedroom.
I gained some academic qualifications and joined a bank. Once there, I took a banking degree and applied to work overseas. My employers must have felt I was disposable, because they sent me to Nigeria during the Biafran Civil War. Whilst there, I witnessed scenes that I wish I had not. As a young man starting out in life, it made me realise how lucky I was to live in a civilised democracy.
I mention my own background, only to point out that learning continues well beyond academia. In the University of Life, it never stops.
My own experience has taught me that a good education benefits not only the recipient, but everyone influenced by them. It is a priceless asset.
Socrates taught Plato. Plato taught Aristotle. Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Three of the great minds of the ancient world shaped one of the great Commanders of history. In just such a fashion, knowledge accumulates and is passed on through the generations.
That is one reason I am confident about the future, despite the myriad problems confronting our world. It is likely that many of today's graduates will be tomorrow's leaders. By leaders, I don't just mean statesmen and women, or captains of industry, or military heroes. I mean leaders in the professions, our communities -
"Soundbite" leadership will not do. You know what I mean by soundbites: a glib phrase that is supposed to cure a serious problem. Such statements are a fraud. If it's a serious problem, it can't be solved by a soundbite. And if it can be solved by a soundbite, it's not a serious problem.
It is an odd concept, leadership.
There is no template for it. Abraham Lincoln was a leader who we revere. So was Stalin -
Genghis Khan was a leader. He laid waste to half the known world. So was Mother Theresa -
As you take leadership roles you will discover leadership has many facets. It cannot easily be defined.
Is it winning personally … or is it taking long-
Is it achieving something worthwhile … or heading off something damaging?
Is it defeating an aggressor, or preventing the aggression in the first place?
It may, of course, be any or all of the above.
Sometimes, successful leadership brings odium.
Take Mikhail Gorbachev:
Changed face of Russia. Hero in West. Not in Russia -
Stood for election as President. Polled only 1% in election.
[Indistinct, anecdote about Gorbachev].
Two of the daunting problems we face today may need leadership beyond one generation:
The fear of global war has gone; only to be followed by the fear of global terror. Terrorism has been with us since ancient times: but now it is globalising. Thus far, the worst atrocity has been in New York, but Bali, Jerusalem, London, Madrid, Moscow, Tokyo all bear the mark of terror. Moreover, terror has developed a particular flavour: it has become a tool of extreme religion, and a vehicle to oppose the free market.
But we should put terror into a proper context: so far, it has failed to gain any of its political objectives.
The threat before us is the attempt to radicalise Islam; to set Muslim against non-
This campaign can cause mayhem -
Terrorism and democracy are polar opposites. They cannot co-
We will win this battle -
Terrorism is not going to go away and, although it is tempting to ignore it -
The Radicals case may be crude propaganda, and wrong, but it is effective. To rebut it, we must fight for the hearts and minds of those into whose ears radical poison is poured. Words alone will not do: we must accept obligations that show the morality of democracy.
One of these takes me back to what I saw in microcosm as a boy in Nigeria. Our world has six billion souls. Of these six billion, one-
Let me put that to you as the radicals -
Greater help is not simply altruism. It is in our interest to remove grievances. It is in our interest to cut away the resentment of the "have-
And it is in our interest to build the alliances that will result -
Moreover, if we do not, we may let fester a problem that will -
In twenty years, 6 billion people will become 8 billion. Of that additional 2 billion, 97% is in that part of the world that live on less than $2 a day. I cannot think of a more potent recipe for an unstable, unsafe world.
Some years ago, I was in Peru and visited a small shanty town outside Lima: a dismal place, which seemed to be entirely without hope. The local Priest invited me to breakfast. "There is", he said, "something I'd like you to see".
I was intrigued. We ate early and, just as the church clock struck 8.00, went into the street.
Almost in concert, the doors of the hovels opened and out poured children on their way to school. All were spotlessly clean, their uniforms immaculate. Their faces smiling in greeting at one another as they carried their rather well worn and bulging satchels towards the schoolhouse.
The Priest stopped one little girl: "Tell me", he asked, "what do you want to be when you grow up?".
She looked up at him puzzled -
That little girl will now be around 30 years old. I don't know if she will ever realise her dream. I do hope so.
The message from that little girl is unmistakeable for the educated graduates of a great university like Washington.
Be ambitious. Aim high. Do today what your instincts tell you could wait until tomorrow. Never under-
In your world of tomorrow, change will accelerate. In the late 18th century the British Prime Minister, William Pitt, was reflecting on Britain's relationship with America and realised he had not heard from his Ambassador in Washington for a long time. He picked up his pen and wrote to his Secretary of State: "If we have not heard from the Ambassador in another year ..... we should send a note." Today, the leisurely world of William Pitt is long gone. We have a global economy: In China, India and Asia, an economic revolution is tilting world growth from West to East. Around the world, every emerging economy is out-
The political map is fluid: The Middle East is a powder-
In our world, each day, there are ground-
Science and technology is accelerating change which already takes place at break-
At the beginning of the 20th century, no-
Charles Lindbergh could never have imagined that -
In those days, the United Kingdom, France and Russia controlled 80% of the world's surface. How things have changed. The Ottoman Empire has gone. The Austro-
You will live longer, see more, do more, know more than any earlier generation. You will see deserts bloom. See a genetic rebuilding of failing bodies. Live with technical innovations beyond your wildest imagination. It will be a world unrecognisable to your forebears.
Today is a proud day for all graduates -
They will wish you many things: A happy life. A healthy life. A life of personal and professional fulfilment.
On the early canvas of your life, you have today painted in a great achievement. May there be many more.
I wish you ALL every success for the future.


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Bruno inspires tourists to visit Austria
British tourists are flocking to visit Austria since the release of Sasha Baron Cohen's Bruno.
Don't stop him now...
Sacha Baron Cohen is reportedly in talks to star in the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
Sacha Baron Cohen stunned the star-studded audience at the Britannia Awards after accidentally pushing an old woman in a wheelchair off the stage.
Daniel Radcliffe has rubbished rumours that he will be starring as Freddie Mercury in a new biopic.
Queen drummer Roger Taylor has revealed that the band thought Sacha Baron Cohen was 'too funny' to play late singer Freddy Mercury.
Daniel Radcliffe is reportedly being lined up to play Freddie Mercury in an upcoming biopic.