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How to Aggregate All Your Data into SEO Dashboards
Have you ever missed a client mention or let an SEO project fall through the cracks? We all have, but there are now solutions that make getting organized and staying on top of our complex work lives easier.
While we all know how to set up alerts, receiving them in emails doesn't make it easy to organize them and share them with clients. Did you know you can pull them all into an All-in-one Cyfe dashboard and track your keyword rankings and backlinks in the same place?
Between that how-to post and the comprehensive instructions Kristi Hines wrote up in this Search Engine Watch managing your SEO clients with Cyfe post, it is possible to monitor everything, pull it into a dashboard, and even export it into good-looking reports for clients.
Monitor Client Brand MentionsKristi wrote that Google no longer allows us to monitor brand mentions using RSS. But she provided a process to do it using Cyfe:
- Use Google blog search
- Search for brand mentions minus the brand site URL. For example, brand name -brand.com
- Scroll to the bottom of the search and copy the search result RSS link
- Use the Cyfe RSS widget to create a latest blog post mentions dashboard
View All Client Gmail Addresses in Cyfe
Do your clients have multiple email addresses (such as info, sales, support, etc.) that you need to monitor? Set up a Cyfe gmail dashboard to review and preview them all in one place.
Running a big promotion? Use Cyfe to count the number of emails coming into an email address set up just for that promotion.
Client SEO Dashboards
Create a dashboard for every client and pull up to 60 metrics from Google Analytics showing traffic sources, audience, conversions, content, ecommerce and events.
Add a Google Webmaster widget and never miss an important notification again. See crawl errors, unread messages, top internal/external keywords and sitemap URLs.
Moz widgets can import a snapshot of domain authority, page authority, MozRank, external links and backlinks, external links for each client website.
Important keyword phrases and URLs can be added as widgets to monitor client SERPs.
Find the Alexa widget and add it, too.
The number of prebuilt widgets available continually grows. If what you want doesn't already exist (and if it is a major solution it probably does), build a custom widget.
Import BacklinksExport backlinks from your favorite backlink monitor program and import them into Cyfe.
Export One-Off or Regular ReportsNever manually create reports for clients again. Use Cyfe to export any dashboard as a CSV, PDF, JPG or PNG. Set up a regular schedule to automatically email reports, or send them individually at any time manually. Keep your clients, boss or yourself continually up-to-date.
Expand to Social Media Management
Once you've automated all your SEO work, why not expand into managing your client's social media accounts, too. Cyfe makes it easy to stay on top of them.
They provide widgets for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn YouTube, Google+ Search, Pinterest, Instagram, Bit.ly, Klout, AddThis and much more.
Stay on Top of SEO NewsCreate RSS feeds right in Cyfe to aggregate all your favorite SEO blogs in one place. Here are some SEO blogs to add to your list:
- SEOChat
- Search Engine Watch (SEW)
- Search Engine Land (SEL)
- Search Engine Roundtable (SER)
- Threadwatch.org
Competitor DashboardsOnce you optimize your client dashboards and have them just the way you want them, start adding dashboards for competitors, too. Track their stats, SERPs, and create graphs to compare them to your clients.
Zapier Widgets
Cyfe added 400+ more widgets when they integrated with Zapier. First check to see if there is a pre-built widget. If there isn't, and you're not sure how to build your own, it can be easier to "make a zap" than to create one custom.
We all have too much data to keep on top of so why not aggregate it in one place? While it may take some time to get it all pulling correctly, you will be glad when you're done.


text: I uploaded some videos I made. They basically were a picture of the artist and then had the song play. It was a basic video that I was going to use with ringtones. But like a minute after I posted it they removed it because someone said all or some of the song was copyrighted. Is there any way to avoid this? Thanks

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Dear friends, fans, and family, due to events beyond our control, we are postponing the Amerika Operator Tour until 2018. The good news is that the 2018 Amerika Operator Tour will be even bigger and better.
In the meantime, the Polenar Tactical Team will be in the US for one week in April 2017. Polenar Tactical will attend the KCR Machine Gun Shoot with Zenith Firearms. Polenar will also be available to sign autographs at Albemarle County Firearms in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Stay tuned for more updates on the 2018 Amerika Operator Tour.


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New Politics, the Brooklyn via Copenhagen based 3 piece rock band announced that they will be headlining a US tour set to start in January 14th at Warehouse in Houston, TX with Neon Gold's Magic Man and opener Sleeper Agent. Tickets will go on sale beginning November 1st at newpoliticsrock.com. Watch the tour announcement video here.
New Politics are currently on tour with GRAMMY Award winning singer-songwriter and pop culture icon P!nk. They've also recently toured with 30 Seconds To Mars and with Fall Out Boy on their sold out comeback tour earlier this summer.
The band recently performed their hit single, "Harlem," from their sophomore album, "A Bad Girl In Harlem," on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. After putting on such an unforgettable performance, Questlove tweeted the band with "COTDAMN @NewPolitics……MERCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!". The band also performed "Harlem" on Conan this summer. The album was released this Spring via RCA Records and debuted at #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers' chart. "Harlem" is a Top 5 hit at Alternative radio and is now crossing to Pop radio with major call letters such as KIIS LA, Sirius Hits 1 and KISS Boston already on board. The single just had its biggest sales week almost 10 months after release and is up again this week. Following up "Harlem" at Alternative radio is, "Tonight You're Perfect," which was #1 most added at impact last week.
"Harlem" is currently featured in the trailer for Walt Disney Animation Studios' upcoming holiday blockbuster "Frozen". Additionally, "Harlem" has been featured in the Taco Bell Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos commercial, a Windows 8 commercial and promo spots for America's Got Talent. In the world of sports, ESPN named New Politics "Artist of the Month", the band performed on NBC Sports 2013 Dew Tour and "Harlem" is a featured track in EA's yearly smash NHL '14. In addition, New Politics performed "Harlem" on the "Logo NewNowNext Awards 2013", Alternative Press has included New Politics as one of the "100 Bands You Need To Know In 2013" and were on the 2013 MTV Artist to Watch Tour.
New Politics are looking forward to hitting the road once again where they will continue to perform their riveting high energy sets which had Spin.com declaring their performance was "…the night's most lasting take-away" during their performance at SxSW this year, just days after NPR's "All Songs Considered" hand picked the band in their 2013 SxSW review.
New Politics are David Boyd (vocals, breakdancing), Soren Hansen (vocals/guitar) and Louis Vecchio (drums).
"Harlem" – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiYfzcEwQ9o or https://soundcloud.com/newpolitics/harlem
**Please note some of the show dates have been postponed from the original announcement
10/10 – Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena
10/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center
10/15 – San Jose, CA @ SAP Center
10/20 – Seattle, WA @ KeyArena
10/21 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
11/5 – Chicago, IL @ United Center
11/6 – Detroit, MI @ The Palace of Auburn Hills
1/14 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse
1/15 – Austin, TX @ Antones
1/16 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues Parish Room
1/17 – Montgomery, AL @ Rock Bottom
1/18 – Orlando, FL @ The Social
1/19 – Ft Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
1/21 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
1/22 – Nashville, TN @ Exit In
1/23 – Charlotte, NC @ Amos'
1/24 – Wilmington, NC @ Ziggy's by the Sea
1/26 – Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel
1/28 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House
1/29 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Lounge
1/30 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
1/31 – Providence, RI @ The Met
2/1 – Boston, MA @ Sinclair
2/4 – Detroit, MI @ Shelter
2/5 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
2/6 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
2/7 – St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
2/8 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
2/9 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
2/11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Sound
2/12 – Las Vegas, NV @ Vinyl
2/15 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Soho
2/16 – San Francisco, CA @ Independent
2/17 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues


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Street Price: $279.00
Manufacturer: ColorVision
Supplier: http://www.colorvision.com/
Reviewer: Josh Korwin
At first glance, many people reading this will have no idea what on earth this contraption is. A USB Ouija puck? A high-tech compass? A Star Trek yo-yo? Its appearance does not betray its function. The ColorVision Spyder2PRO is a colorimeter, designed to calibrate computer monitors to any given standard.
Before you stop reading, allow me to explain the importance of this. Have you ever noticed how different a game or website or image can look on one system versus another? Or how utterly impossible it can be to make a photo look similar on paper to how it does on your screen? Most people simply do not care. But for the OCD cases amongst us, and any professional in the graphics field, this technology is a must.
Like tuning a guitar, color calibration of both CRT and LCD monitors can be up to the individual user. If, for example, one needs to play guitar in drop D, a non-standard tuning, it can be done. But playing the same guitar in a band will sound terrible. For that reason, every member of a band or orchestra or chamber music ensemble must make sure to tune to the proper key in order to ensure harmony and euphony. The same goes for color calibration. If one prefers to use a non-standard color setting on a monitor, or one merely does not realize that there is such a thing, there is no problem, technically.
However, let's say, for example, that you want to create a website that will look similar to anyone who views it. If their monitors are uncalibrated, that is their problem. However, if you create content on a non-standard monitor, you're playing with fire. At that point, the content itself has never been properly proofed or viewed on a standardized monitor. What might seem fine on an uncalibrated monitor might seem garish on one calibrated with the proper settings. Let's flip the same scenario around to create another hypothetical situation. If you realize that certain colors appear off in images online, or your monitor seems to be too dark regardless of the hardware's brightness settings, it's definitely time to calibrate your monitor.
The unit comes packaged in an attractive and sturdy package containing both the unit and bundled software. The unit itself is black and silver plastic, and has a snap-on adapter for use with LCD screens. Three suction cups keep the unit mounted on a CRT monitor, and a weighted USB cord provides plenty of slack for calibrating your monitor(s). There is a large black item in the middle of the unit which appears to be an additional suction cup but is actually a light baffle.
The Spyder2PRO—and other colorimeters of similar nature—are only one method of color calibration. They are, however, the most accurate method. Other types of calibration tools show you on-screen instructions to the effect of picking the correct RGB balance and making sure the brightness scale is as wide as can be. One system uses a "Colorforms"-type sticker that sticks onto your monitor, allowing you to use on-screen sliders to match the color of the decal itself to the on-screen colors.
As a USB solution, the Spyder2PRO uses its suction cups to attach to the middle of the monitor screen. After choosing a default and instructing the user to adjust the monitor's settings (which at first will probably make your screen seem totally 0ff), an on-screen automated process sends a range of colors to the suction-cupped colorimeter. The colorimeter is able to accurately read the output of the monitor, and uses this information in creating a custom profile that will compensate for any of the monitor's idiosyncrasies. The process takes about ten to fifteen minutes, and when it has completed, the user can view some sample images both with and without the calibration. This is useful for seeing just how much better the screen looks with calibration. You will tend to see a greater spectrum of color with increased contrast and more fidelity to real-life colors.
The process leaves you with an ICC profile, the standard file format for software color calibration. ICC profiles are used with Windows, Mac OS, all Adobe software, and can be used to calibrate monitors, scanners, and other color devices. They can also be embedded in images to help maintain color accuracy across different profiles.
The Spyder2PRO Studio bundle comes with additional software as well. ColorVision's DoctorPro allows you to "to enhance, edit, correct, and specify colors on your images, screens, and printers." Pantone Colorist is an on-screen swatch tool for specifying Pantones for screen use.
The software helps the user match on-screen colors to standard Pantone ink colors, used throughout the printing industry to maintain color standardization in printing. Lastly, nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 is a series of very interesting filters for Photoshop that performs color-adjusting operations on images, including simulating photographic gels and removing color shifts. Although the main attraction is certainly the color calibration colorimeter, the software is a meaningful incentive for the more professional user.
Overall, an accurate colorimeter is a must-have for any professional, or any amateur dabbling with graphic or photo-editing. However, for those looking to squeeze the most contrast and realistic vibrance from their display, a colorimeter is just as useful. And perhaps even more importantly: for those using multiple monitors, the Spyder2PRO will make sure that colors maintain accuracy from display to display, even if splitting your output between a CRT and an LCD. The Spyder2PRO is an excellent unit across the board, and displays an ease-of-use not usually found in professionally-oriented products. At XYZ Computing, we plan to use our Spyder2PRO in all upcoming monitor reviews to give our readers the most accurate comparison of monitors.
It should also be noted that Colorvision's Spyder2PRO Studio sits at the top of their product line. For those seeking a more affordable home solution, Colorvision also offers both the Colorplus and the Spyder2. Both are considerably less expensive, but do not contain the software bundle that is present with the Spyder2PRO. Having not tested the less expensive units, it is hard to give a full-on comparison, but one can easily assume that the most options and precision are available solely at the top of the line. The Spyder2 usually sells for about $169.
Flying Colors (+)
– Simple to use
– Professional results
– Enticing software bundle
Soilent Green (-)
– Pricey for the average user
– Can be reused, but not something you will use every day
Bonus Limerick!
When colors are dulling and grey,
Do not get caught up in the fray.
Is the way to go
The gamut will brighten your day.


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iSearch lets you search folders, entire disks, or CDs for text. The program has an accelerated search engine that can work in the background--with speed--while you work in other applications. Searches can also be constrained and directed. Script Software - Essential Software for Mac and Windows. Creating useful, fun and essential shareware for Macintosh and Windows since 1986 including CopyPaste, iKey, iClock, KnowledgeMiner, iSay, iWatermark, Project Timer, iBeenFramed, idTunes, iSay, iStar Karaoke, Easy Card, NetCheck Mount Watcher and ChatFX.Copypaste - Copy - Paste - Copy And Paste - Copy amp - Clip - Clipboard - Clipboards - Drag - Drop - Drag And Drop - Drag amp - Text Editor - Utility - Os X - Photo - Photos - Isay - Ibeenframed - Imac - Ibook - Knowledge - Miner - Knowledgeminer - Data-Mining
Published By:Script Software International
License Type:Shareware
Date Added:21 May, 2011
Size:192.0 KB
Platform: Macintosh
CopyPaste gives you one-hundred clipboards instead of just one. CopyPaste is the shareware utility that was awarded a 5 mouse rating by MacUser and shareware utility of the year 1996.
DateFeb 22, 2011
AuthorScript Software
CategoryDesktop Utilities
iKey allows creation of shortcuts that perform an action or sequence of actions each of which can be launched by key combinations or menu or event. This easy to use macro/automation utility can save time, typing and hundreds of clicks everyday.
DateFeb 13, 2011
AuthorScript Software
CategoryRegistry Tools
CopyPaste is the original multiple clipboard utility which now includes yType the typing accelerator which allows you to type faster and more accurately.
DateJun 4, 2011
AuthorScript Software
CategoryRegistry Tools
PhotoCircus Screen Saver is a slide show screen saver with a few extras:Able to show background or foreground alpha channel images (sample images included).Set background color for text and background if no background image.
DateMay 1, 2011
AuthorScript Software
CategoryScreen Savers
ELI is a single or multiuser software designed to enhance the security of your business, school, building and/or organization. ELI is a log-in and tracking system located in the entrance to your facility.
DateApr 2, 2011
AuthorScript Software
Size:2.7 MB
CategoryNetworking Tools
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- 2CopyPaste7380
- 3Qucs7025
- 4DiskExpress Pro6992
- 5Open Dicom Viewer6444
- 6Smart Scroll4410
- 7Mail Convert4222
- 8ListStar4107
- 9The Noo3958
- 10Playmaker Football3823
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- 13AeroCard Universal2903
- 14Address Office2859
- 15Atomic Mac2723
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- 2Recovery Explorer Professional - MacOS84
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- 6Android Sync Mac112
- 7NoteBurner iTunes DRM Audio Converter for Mac21
- 8Sidify Apple Music Converter for Mac120
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- 10WidsMob HDR Plus3
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- 12Check Writer III Plus macOS259
- 13SyncMate439
- 14Check PrintR Plus macOS314
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Category Archives: 4.2 Resource Management
Resource management involves planning, monitoring, and controlling resource support systems and services.
School Evaluation Summary
This was a truly valuable exercise. As a technology teacher and tech support person, I have been involved in the technology process from the inception of our school four years ago. It really opened my eyes to where we are in the growth process. We have recently developed a technology committee and I plan on going back this committee soon to pass on the information I have. We will hopefully be moving forward with a plan to make my school more of a 21st Century school! Thank you.
Evaluation Summary:
Digital Inequality Assignment
This assignment asked us to create a hypothetical task force to research the issue of Digital Inequality. We chose to research the issue as it pertained to the state of Tennessee.
Throughout the last decade, internet use has opened up a wide spectrum of opportunities. We are able to communicate, research, shop, look for employment, etc. more easily. Can I imagine living without it? Never! I am one of the fortunate ones. This assignment opened my eyes to the Digital Divide and the Digital Inequality that exists in our world today.
According to numbers released last year by the Department of Commerce, 40% with annual household incomes below $25,000 in 2010 reported having wired Internet access at home, compared with the vast majority — 93 percent — of households with incomes exceeding $100,000. That is incredible when you think about it. So, what do we do? As part of the task force, we were asked to look at seven possible options for reform. The options (as well as our rankings) are listed below:
- Install computers in all public libraries in the state and expand the hours when the computers are available. (Ranked #3)
- Expand staffing and other resources so that public schools can be open to the public after normal school hours, on weekends, and during the summer months. (Ranked #7)
- Provide individuals in disadvantaged communities with computers. (Ranked #6)
- Provide high-speed Internet and mobile access for all state residents.(Ranked #1)
- Subsidize Internet Service Providers to provide low-cost Internet to all state residents. (Ranked #2)
- Provide information literacy courses to enhance computer skills and enable knowledgeable use of digital technologies.(Ranked #4)
- Develop free online educational content, giving first priority to content most relevant to lower socio-economic groups before content that is relevant to the rest of the public. (Ranked #5)
Our task force evaluated each option and ranked accordingly. Our general feeling was that the majority of options were much more realistic if coupled with another option. The goal of our task force was to provide access (reducing the Digital Divide) as well as providing instruction for use (reducing the Digital Inequality). One without the other is pointless in my opinion. As you can see with our rankings, our priority was to provide access to the infrastructure first and foremost. We chose to offer internet at users homes first as opposed to extending the hours of public facilities for convenience purposes. Our second priority is to provide courses to help the public use the internet to its best capability.
So, how many of my own students are in this situation? I don't know, but I need to find out. I teach in a relatively rural area in a lower-middle socioeconomic area. We definitely have a "haves" and "have nots" differentiation between many of our students. My plan is to somehow incorporate a survey within a lesson in our English classes (they see all students) to determine my next step.
I really enjoyed collaborating with others (our alpha group) from all over North America on this project. That is incredible in itself. It is very easy to use and can definitely extend the learning of us and our students as well. We had planned on using narration (either Camtasia or VoiceThread) for our project, but ran out of time. I am having my students use Voice Thread as part of a Linear Programming group project and it has been a great tool to learn for myself and my students.
Standards Addressed:
2.4 Integrated Technologies: We integrated different technologies (email, chat, videoconferencing) to produce and present information.
3.2 Diffusion of Innovations: We identified strategies to implement change.
4.2 Resource Management: We discussed the cost effectiveness of different strategies and prioritized them accordingly.


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To Shellac or Not to Shellac, That is the Question
By Jenny Tiegs
No longer is a nice shade of pink or red acceptable for a manicure these days. Especially when it may chip off the next day while you do the dishes or buckle your strappy sandals. The newest craze is shellac. Nail shellac is taking salons by storm over the past year or so. This innovative type of manicure is the answer to any woman's needs. The beautiful polish stays on for more than two weeks, resists chips and wear and the shine can be restored with a quick swipe of rubbing alcohol. If you haven't had it done, it's time to get to your favorite nail tech and ask for shellac.
The process is a bit long, so do not assume you'll be in and out in less than an hour or for the same price, but it is worth it. You can chose from a number of colors, but be sure it is one that you can tolerate for longer than 2 weeks because this stuff is very similar to car paint in terms of wear. First your nails are prepped with the trimming of cuticles, filing and buffing. Then a layer of gel is applied the bare nail. Then your tech will place your hands under a special UV lamp to "seal" the nail. Then the shellac goes on, is cured with the UV light and repeated a few times. Finish with a topcoat, more UV light and a shining with rubbing alcohol and you're done. You can even dig through your purse to find your keys because these nails are dry, solid and look dang good.
When you're either tired of your color or the grow-out is driving you nuts (because that's usually what happens first. You will not go in because it's worn or chipped unless you are doing some kind of road construction, and even then, maybe not.), your nail tech will ask you to soak your nails in acetone polish remover and then remove the shellac a wooden stick or other tool. Rarely is a file needed, but it depends on the method your tech is comfortable with. At this point, the next question you need to ask yourself is: do you shellac again or not?
Either way, your nails are not damaged in the process of shellac and you can go back to regular old-school polish or shellac it up again! Have fun and use your nails as a fun accessory!
On a personal note, I loved the shellac, but found myself wanting to change the color a week later, and I could have totally done that if I didn't have to schedule a babysitter to do so. I couldn't get my hands on some good acetone, so I had to go in and have the shellac taken off by a nail technician. She asked me about 5 times if I wanted the shellac again, and each time I declined, and each time she was disappointed and confused. I could see her thinking, "Why is this girl crazy? Why doesn't she want shellac again?!" I love nail color and wanted to change up my color more often and the grow out drove me nuts after a week and a half. can see how shellac is perfect for a busy woman who wants a nail color that will withstand typing for hours a day and all the other everyday things that are hard on regular polish. I also recommend this to women who have the dirty habit of picking off their polish (I fit in this category) because there is no picking off this polish!
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Volume 7, Number 1
March 2009
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The Irish in Latin American Politics,
Government and Diplomacy
Jorge Cernadas Fonsalías and Carolina Barry (1)
by Claire Healy
"The Irish rabble
organized by their priests...
they are rabid drunkards"
Domingo F. Sarmiento, President of Argentina in
in Sarmiento, Obras completas (Paris: Belin,
1909, 32:392)
(Christiano Junior, 1873, Archivo General de la
The activities of the Irish and their descendents in Latin America has been studied on the basis of their
commercial, professional, religious and military pursuits.
Although these areas are important, they also made a significant contribution in political participation. This goes some way in explaining the level of cohesion that they had or sought to enjoy in receiving countries, particularly in Argentina, the country with the greatest number of Irish migrants in the region. Political participation implied participating and mixing, associating themselves with and taking an active part in the public life of the community. Therefore, in a strict sense, political participation refers to situations in which the individual contributes directly or indirectly to a political situation (Sani 1983: 1181). It is important to take into account that politics is not solely confined to participation along formal or strictly electoral channels but rather also by other methods.
it should be noted that foreigners in general were reluctant
to participate in politics, and it is probable that one
of the causes has been the limited political space that
the State grants to immigrants - and their own disinterest
in enjoying political rights through naturalisation. The
majority of sending countries take away nationality from
people who adopt a new one. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
maintained that immigrants not only decided to remain
isolated from political life, but a common feature was
"the systematic abstention of foreigners from taking part
in social life" (Cúneo et al 1967: 72) 2.
Sergio Kiernan argues in relation to the low level of
naturalisations that the "first generation was so reluctant
to become Argentine that it attracted the ire of President
Sarmiento, who wrote article after article damning the
Irish as ungrateful" (Kiernan 2004). It is noteworthy
that today for some descendents their Irish identity is
worth more than their Argentine one.
At any rate, as maintained above, the electoral route is not the only form of political participation, as, from the final third of the nineteenth century, foreigners claimed and defended their interests through alternative political channels to voting, such as the press, community associations and public demonstrations (Sabato 1998). In this sense, we can observe in the articles presented here how the Irish played an active role in the political life of Latin American receiving countries.
The majority of Irish people arrived between forty and fifty years before the onset of mass immigration between 1880 and 1914. As well as the circumstances that favoured their arrival before the great migratory flows, the Irish community was quantitatively smaller compared to the others. However, in the case of Argentina, their insertion into the most dynamic sector of the economy of the time was a vital activity, on the basis of which a limited number of people made great profits, and gained prestige in the life of the new country. Nevertheless, their political intervention pointed to how Irish migration was still an isolated case. Preliminary research allows us to affirm that both the Irish and their descendents were involved in numerous political events, within a broad ideological range. Among the most emblematic personalities were Guillermo Brown, the founder of the Argentine Navy; Edelmiro Farrell, president of Argentina; and the revolutionary Ernesto
(Che) Guevara Lynch de la Serna, to name but a few. It is interesting to highlight that the military were present in one manner or another in politics, albeit from different places and with different objectives.
Mural at the Bogside,
Derry, Northern Ireland
(Sean Mack, 2008)
Argentina the Irish had their own political party, the
Admiral Brown Club, founded by Dean Dillon and others in
1884, with the objective of occupying a place in the Senate.
The same Dillon had created a newspaper, The Southern
Cross, which, together with community objectives,
also reflected the political situation in Ireland and
Argentina, and played a significant role during the process
of independence on the island 3.
The editorial line of that newspaper maintained this characteristic
of a "political tribune". Although over the years it changed
its ideological content, the imprint left by Dillon from
the first edition remained. Apart from this particular
experience, the main Argentine political parties had
both Irish men and Irish women in their ranks, occupying elected positions
as well as participating in uprisings and insurrections
was the country with the greatest number of Irish migrants
in Latin America, though this is not to say that they
were not important in other countries where they were
also involved in local politics. One of these was Juan
O'Donnohue y O'Ryan, from Seville but of Irish origin,
selected as the last Viceroy of New Spain 5.
In the same location, the activity of William Lamport
was of significance (of whom more will be said below).
In independent Mexico, John O'Reilly commanded the San
Patricio Battalion 6;
and John Devereux commanded the Irish Legion in Colombia
7. Daniel O'Leary, an
Irishman, fought in the wars of independence in South
America together with Simón Bolívar and was the representative
of Gran Colombia in England. We can also mention Peter
Campbell in Uruguay, and James O'Kelly, Leopoldo O'Donnell
and Richard Madden in Cuba 8.
There was also Bernardo O'Higgins, national hero of Chilean
independence – and Chile also had a descendent of Irish
immigrants as president of the nation, Patricio Aylwin.
In more recent years the relationship between the FARC
and the IRA 9 represents
a relationship between Ireland and Latin America, or,
better said, between Irish people and Latin Americans.
Edmundo O'Gorman, as a historian, generated a political
debate that marked new and revelatory visions of the history
of Mexico. Various generations of the influential O'Connor
family in Bolivia continue to undertake important political
activity, at this moment in opposition to President Evo
Morales. In many of these examples, the relationship between
the military and political contexts is significant, not
only as a military strategy in itself, but also as a form
of creating power. It was not only a case of political
action by the military but also military action by civilians.
How important was Irish ascendency and insertion in local politics? It was a result of the necessity for integration in the new lands. Can causal relationships be established or are we simply dealing with a list of names with a common origin in extraordinary situations? To provide definitive responses would be too hasty; it is hoped that there will be new research projects that respond to old and new questions. This first special issue on the Irish in politics seeks answers to these questions and proposes new perspectives on a theme that is still being explored.
Daniel Florence
(c.1802-1854), officer in
Simón Bolívar's army of independence.
bust by anonymous artist, Government Arts
Collection, London)
As we mentioned above, political participation is understood to mean any activity in which the individual contributes directly or indirectly to a political situation. The articles selected for this special issue represent distinct forms of political participation by Irish people and their descendents in Latin America. These studies do not come exclusively from the fields of history and political science but rather they build upon the strong presence of politics in people's lives, prioritising an interdisciplinary analysis to approach this theme, without temporal or thematic limits.
Jorge Cernadas Fonsalías studies how attentive to Irish politics and immersed in the Argentine context the Irish-Argentines were during the period of the creation of the
Irish Free State and the role that they adopted. Along the same lines, María Eugenia Cruset analyses the role of the diaspora as agents of diplomacy. Another article related to the role of the Irish-Argentines during the revolution in Ireland is the contribution of the researcher Rebecca Geraghty who analyses the relationship between the Irish revolutionary Arthur Griffith and Patrick McManus who lived in Argentina and was a link to the local community. Brad Lange, for his part, presents an article in which he examines the social and political participation of the Irish Catholic community in Argentina, and their identification and involvement in their adopted country.
Yannick Wehrli's article focuses specifically on the relationship between the Free State, created in the 1920s, and Latin American countries. The work of Sean Lester in the League of Nations is his main object of study, taking as an example his intervention in the Chaco War and the conflict between Colombia and Peru.
Another historical article that we include is that of Natalia Silva Prada who conducted research in the archives of the Spanish Inquisition in order to investigate two cases against Irish people: William Lamport and Gilbert Nugent. As a backdrop to the lives of these two men born in Ireland, Inquisitorial disputes and European monarchical tensions are revealed.
José Antonio García Quintana presents a revelatory article, illustrating the Abolitionist actions of Richard Madden in Jamaica and Cuba, on the basis of reports, legal testimonies, a book and the stimulus for the creators of a nascent anti-slavery literature.
Moisés Enrique Rodríguez's article about the
diplomatic career of Daniel Florence O'Leary illustrates
the flexibility of one of the Irish officers in Simón
Bolívar's army of independence in adapting to changing
article that plays on the borders of the historical and
the literary is that of María José Punte, who presents
the figure of John William Cooke, leader of the Peronist
resistance of Irish descendents, through a novel by José
Pablo Feinmann – La astucia de la razón, which
has among its protagonists a delegate of Perón. In the
area of Argentine educational politics, Nancy Escobar
presents work undertaken by Santiago Fitz Simon, an Irish
educator who undertook activities in the country during
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and whose contribution
was fundamental for the development of technical education
in the country.
A sociological perspective is provided by Olivia Sheringham, who analyses recent Brazilian immigration to Gort, Ireland. A country accustomed to emigration, it is now, due to the ups and downs of neoliberal economic policies, attracting Brazilians escaping the crisis, who find in the "Celtic Tiger" a new place to
live though ravaged by the crisis itself.
Also in reference to
the Latin American crisis we cannot lose sight of the countryside vs. Government conflict initiated in Argentina one year ago. John Kennedy analyses the role played by the descendents of Irish people who are connected to the agrarian sector and who led a protest that is ongoing against the national Government due to the rise in deductions on the exportation of soya and the absence of an agricultural policy.
issue is completed with four book reviews: Jean Ziegler's
La Haine de
l'Occident, reviewed by Edmundo Murray;
Enrique García Hernán and Óscar Recio Morales's Extranjeros en el Ejército: militares irlandeses en
la sociedad española, 1580-1818, reviewed by David
Barnwell; Lourdes De Ita Rubio's Viajeros Isabelinos en
la Nueva España, reviewed by Cristina Borreguero
Beltrán; and James P. Byrne, Philip Colleman and Jason
King's (eds.) Ireland and the Americas: Culture,
Politics and History, reviewed by María Graciela
Adamoli and María Graciela Eliggi.
We hope that this first issue on the Irish and their descendents in Latin American politics will result in the appearance of new studies on the theme, the derivations and reaches of which we are just beginning to unravel.
Cernadas Fonsalías and Carolina Barry
Jorge Cernadas
Fonsalías (Universidad de Buenos Aires), and Carolina
Barry (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero).
We are grateful to Edmundo Murray
and Claire Healy for their support and guidance in the editing
of this issue. We are also thankful to the translators
Shane Byrne, Ita Dagger, David Barnwell, Tony Phillips,
and Conor Kerin.
"la abstención sistemática de
los extranjeros de tomar parte en la vida social".
Barry, Carolina. "Ciento Treinta
Años andando su senda" in The Southern Cross 130: 5896
(January 2005), pp. 1-2. A short story of The Southern
Cross on its 130th anniversary; "El nacimiento de una
terrible belleza: Repercusión de la Pascua de 1916 en
TSC y los hiberno argentinos" in The Southern Cross 313:
5915 (August 2006), pp. 1-2.
See, among others, MacLoughlin
Bréard, Guillermo. "La presencia irlandesa en las invasiones
inglesas" in The Southern Cross 132: 5927 (August 2007),
2; Coghlan, Eduardo A. El Aporte de los Irlandeses a la
Formación de la Nación Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1982).
Dandan, Alejandra and Silvina Heguy. Joe Baxter: del nazismo
a la extrema izquierda (Buenos Aires: Editorial Norma,
2006). Barry, Carolina: "Politically Incorrect: Irish
Argentines in the Early Peronist Period" in Irish Migration
Studies in Latin America (www.irlandeses.org), cited 18
October 2005. "Lorenza Reynafé, una cuestión de género"
in The Southern Cross 131: 5917 (October 2006), p. 2;
"Los borbones argentinos" in The Southern Cross 131: 5912
(February 2006), p2. Murray, Edmundo, 'Baxter, José Luis
[Joe] (1940-1973)' in Irish Migration Studies in Latin
America November-December 2005 (www.irlandeses.org). 'Guevara,
Ernesto [Che] (1928-1967)' in Irish Migration Studies
in Latin America November-December 2005 (www.irlandeses.org).
Cané, Gonzalo, 'O'Farrell, Juan Adrián (1866-1942)' in
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America November-December
2005 (www.irlandeses.org). Another example of the broad
participation in local political life of Irish immigrants
was the nomination of Michael Duffy as the intendant of
Carmen de Areco in 1866 (Coghlan, 1987: 287), (Hannon,
2007: 293) and Juan Bautista Dowling (an Irish-Argentine)
as a military commander (Coghlan, 1987: 273); (Hannon,
2007: 283).
Diego Téllez Alarcia, D. Juan
Odonojú, El Último Virrey de Nueva España (1821),
presented at the Second Symposium of Irish Studies in
South America: "Irlanda y América Latina: Hacia Nuevas
Perspectivas", 5-7 September 2007.
Jaime Fogarty, Voices of Mexico
magazine, April-June, 2000.
Brown, Matthew, 'Crusaders for
Liberty or Vile Mercenaries? The Irish Legion in Colombia'
in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America (2006). Available
online (www.irlandeses.org).
Burton, Gera, "Liberty's Call:
Richard Robert Madden's Voice in the Anti-Slavery Movement
(1833-1842)" in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America
5:3 (November 2007), pp. 199-206.
Murray, Edmundo, 'Explosive Journey: Perceptions of Latin America in the FARC-IRA Affair (2001-2005)' in
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America 2006.
Cúneo, Mafud, Sánchez Sívori and Schallman, Inmigración
y Nacionalidad (Buenos Aires, Ed Piados, 1967).
Sabato, Hilda, La Política en las calles (Buenos
Aires, Sudamericana, 1998). Vol. 1.
Cernadas Fonsalías,
Jorge and Carolina Barry 'The Irish in Latin American Politics,
Government and Diplomacy' in
"Irish Migration Studies in Latin America" 7:1 (March
2009), pp. 1-4.
Available online (www.irlandeses.org/imsla0903.htm), accessed
Society for Irish Latin American Studies


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Disney's Next Big Thing? He's aiming higher
Playing back newly recorded vocals and tweaking sound levels while planted in the center of a vast mixing console, Cody Fry is right at home.
It's his parents' home in Northfield, actually, and his dad's built-in professional recording studio, but on this day while on his freshman spring break from Belmont University in Nashville, Fry (above) is playing his recurrent role of engineer, producer, mixer, multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter.
The song playing is a rich slice of blue-eyed soul called "Weakness" on which the 18-year-old New Trier High School graduate has added a string arrangement (via keyboard samplers) to add drama to his Stevie-Wonder-with-cream tenor. Niko Xidas, 19, Fry's best friend whose drumming is the recording's only non-Fry contribution, is impressed to hear the full arrangement.
"Cody always surprises me," Xidas says with a smile.
Aside from resulting in a three-song EP, "All Is Life," now selling on iTunes, Fry's do-it-yourself ethos has put him at the center of a contest he'll have to rely upon others to win.
Fry is one of 11 artists vying to become Radio Disney's N.B.T. (Next Big Thing). Over the past 22 weeks, each act had a two-week period in which two songs were featured on the N.B.T. Web site (radio.disney.go.com/artists/nbt) and fans voted online. At the end of the preliminary voting period, Fry was in second place behind a slick (actually, they're all pretty slick) Long Island, N.Y., four-piece rock band called Push Play.
The final online voting opened Saturday and will last through April 23, with the winner to be announced April 27. The victor will be featured at a to-be-announced high-profile Radio Disney concert and will receive the full-on Radio Disney push that has propelled the careers of Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, Hilary Duff and others.
Fry would love to collect the most votes, but he has mixed feelings about winning. "Disney has a very associated stigma with them," he says. "Just look at the artists they have on their tours right now. Would I call many of their artists musicians? I'm not sure. They're definitely artists, for sure, but I'm a musician, and music has always been what it's about."
Says father Gary Fry, "Cody is very, very concerned that he be viewed as having musical substance."
So, Cody Fry says, he appreciates that the contest has built him an enthusiastic fan base, and "it would be nice to win it, but at the same time Disney is not going to make or break my music career. This [contest] is about how many votes you can drum up in a three-week period, whereas music is way more than that."
If Fry does win, he'll certainly represent the Disney brand stylishly. He's clean-cut, blond and slim, wearing Converse sneakers, blue jeans, a striped shirt, a black tie, a charcoal pin-striped vest and a gray sports jacket.
Is this his usual outfit?
"He dresses like this absolutely every day," laughs Xidas, who preceded Fry from New Trier to Belmont.
"Not every day," Fry says.
"Every day," Xidas laughs again. "It's usually just a sport coat, button-down [shirt], tie, maybe minus the vest sometimes."
"I try to look nice every day," Fry admits. "That's something that my dad and his father instilled in me. When you put on something that you feel good in, it just brightens your whole day pretty much. I want to be taken seriously, so I dress like a serious person needs to dress."
With his father composing and recording scores for movies, TV shows and commercials, Fry grew up surrounded by music. He and his three sisters did voice-overs on their dad's McDonald's ads, and he also sang on Nintendo and Hi-C commercials as well as a potty-training video.
Gary says he first envisioned his son's future when the 13-year-old Cody stood out among hundreds of school choir kids participating in Disney World's Singabration. "It was just his obvious immersion in the music, his total passion for what he was doing as a performer, and looking at him, you knew there was nowhere else on earth he would rather be," his father said.
Fry learned classical piano early on, and his mother, Carol, gave him his first guitar when he was a high school sophomore, at which point he began writing songs. He also taught himself bass, drums and whatever other instrument caught his fancy.
New Trier music teacher Derek Fawcett, who became Fry's voice coach, recalls that after Fry saw Fawcett's band perform with a mandolin player in Chicago, "he went home, got online, got himself a used mandolin and was recording with it a few weeks later."To Fawcett, Fry's musical background and natural talent were immediately apparent, but his greatest gift may be his enthusiasm, which the teacher termed "really infectious."
When Fry attended Grammy Camp in Los Angeles as a high-schooler, the camp director enlisted him to play keyboards in a benefit concert honoring producer Quincy Jones, thus enabling him to share a stage with Kanye West, John Legend and Gloria Estefan. A year later Fry was playing guitar and singing among his idols in a Grammy tribute to Beatles producer George Martin.
"Sitting there eating chips and guacamole with Michael McDonald, I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'" Fry recalls.
Grammy Foundation senior education director David Sears says he was impressed by the "good vibes" that Fry brought to these ensembles. "He feels very comfortable in a lead or support role and doesn't have any ego about that one way or the other," Sears says.
Fry cites John Mayer and Justin Timberlake as influences, though more for their versatility and collaborative tendencies than lyrical content. Fry, like his parents and Xidas, is a devout Christian, which in part led to the two friends' choice of Belmont, a Baptist school with a strong musical program.
"That's why we do everything that we do, because God is allowing us to do it," Xidas says.
"Not using the talents that God gave us would be a disservice to Him," Fry adds.
Fry isn't interested in being categorized as a Christian artist; he'd rather make music for everyone. But his spiritual interests inform his lyrics, such as in "Weakness" when he sings to the song's girl, "We've got God to hold up the world."
"The reason I write music, and the reason my lyrics come out the way that they do, is because the world needs some sort of moral force right now," Fry says. "It just seems that there's so much chaos, especially with music. It's about sex, drugs and abusing women."
Xidas, who drums with other musicians in Nashville, sees himself as Fry's lifelong collaborator. "I've had this dream since high school just to play with an artist who I love and who I respect and whose music just moves me, and Cody is that for me for sure," he says. "And it's awesome that we're good friends also."
Radio Disney became aware of Fry when a Chicago-based officer for the network forwarded his music to the Los Angeles headquarters. Radio Disney music director Kelly Edwards says she was knocked out when he came in for an interview and began singing.
"We were literally blown away by him just sitting on the couch with his guitar," Edwards says. "Everyone in the room was literally silent when he was done. We just weren't prepared for how talented he was."
Soon Fry will learn whether Radio Disney fans render the same verdict. He says he's not worried.
"My plan obviously is to finish this Disney thing out, see how it goes," Fry says. "The whole concept of a record deal is a bit different than it was 10 years ago, but I'd love to get some way to get my music out to people, have people like it, play massive shows and release CDs and keep collaborating with other artists until I die, pretty much."


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A: The VMFS file system gets a major version update in VMware vSphere 5, increasing its version counter from VMFS-3 to VMFS-5. Although it's entirely possible to upgrade existing VMFS-3 partitions non-disruptively, doing that upgrade might actually create a downstream problem to the operations of Storage DRS.
Recall that VMFS-3 partitions in vSphere 4.x could be created with any of four different block sizes. Those block sizes ranged from 1MB to 8MB. However, in vSphere 5, newly created volumes are always created with 1MB block sizes.
When a VMFS-3 partition is upgraded in place, its block size doesn't change. This situation can mean that different volumes with different block sizes can later be gathered into a Storage DRS cluster. When this occurs, Storage DRS is forced to use a less-efficient copying mechanism when migrating virtual machine (VM) disk files between volumes of different block sizes.
As a result, VMware recommends you create new VMFS-5 volumes for those that participate in a Storage DRS cluster rather than upgrading existing volumes from VMFS-3.


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Now I'm not really sure how many of you have heard about it or seen it. Since I visited the site last year I wanted to share pictures and my amazement. Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou is listed on UNESCO World Heritage List and I would never have known it if I didn't go there by accident really.
We were bound to Agadir and wanted to see the desert. No other plans, no pre-bookings, we decided to get there and make choices as we go.
Destination: Morocco
Time frame: Saturday evening to Wednesday evening (4 days) January 2010
Participants: Pawel, Maciek and Me (3 Travellers)
Aim: Experience the desert
Tip1: Remember to fill out the landing card on the plane. You should get it from the crew, if you don't because you are fast asleep; make sure you ask the flight attendant for one.
Our trip started at 7pm outside the terminal building in Agadir. It was dark but warm. In the yellow light of street lamps we saw dozens of empty taxis just waiting for customers. The drivers were not. They were chatting away, shouting to each other barely paying any attention to us. After traveling in Asia we were inclined to look for a bus or a "mini cab" to save some money. None of those were present. Eventually we tried to bargain but ended up paying full price according to the price list clearly visible on a public board. We took taxi to the bus station as we figured there is no point in staying for the night in Agadir. We didn't have any accommodation, we didn't want to stay on the beach, and we would have to take a bus or rent a car the next day to get to the desert.
And so we ended up on a very busy, asphalt square with small pavilion at one end and few waiting buses. As you can imagine no one spoke English but we were able to buy tickets to Ouarzazate. The bus was only due in a two hours or so. We reluctantly left our luggage in the ticket office, to have a look around the neighbourhood. Felt really unsafe even with the two guys on my sides. Finally we ended up back in the bus station having our first Moroccan dinner. The food was alright but the tea was phenomenal. The waiter didn't just serve us tea he showed us how it should be done. He brought a small pot with tea leaves and boiling water already inside, three small glasses, mint leaves and sugar. All I remember now is that we had to wait quite long for the tea to steep (almost thought the waiter forgot about us) and then watched in amazement how many times he would pour the tea to small glasses with sugar only to pour it back to the pot and start the process again. It reminded me of Barcelona Magic Fountain show. Before the final round he placed some fresh mint leaves in each cup and poured from a distance to produce foam on the tea. It seems that the higher the distance the more proud the master of ceremony is.
We took bus at 10pm to Ouarzazate and tried to fall asleep as it was so dark you couldn't see anything outside. The bus had only one stop in front of a carpet shop before arriving at 4am at the destination. We got off the bus and stared in amazement on empty city around us. You did not hear any noises and the lamp light was only limited to the bus station. No hotels, no shops, nothing just bare walls and windows of buildings which to us seemed abandoned. We went inside the bus station building and found opened cafe. Not sure what to do we order some coffee (suspiciously European) and boiling water (no tea available). Besides us there were three other gentlemen sitting by the next table, they were watching something on TV and speaking in a language we could not understand. Suddenly one of them decided to chat us up.
– "As-Salamu Alaykum"
-"Alaykum Salam" (trying to sound confident)
– "As-Salamu Alaykum"
– "Alaykum Salam" (thinking it's the right thing to do)
– "As-Salamu Alaykum"
– "Alaykum Salam" (getting a bit scared and not knowing what to do)
– "As-Salamu Alaykum"
– "Alaykum Salam" (panicking inside and trying to look confident outside)
Then he tried French, Pawel told him in French (the only one who can speak the language a bit) that we speak English. I (as a woman) was trying to melt with the background – never happened to me in any other situation before. But he didn't give up. At some point we agreed that traveling through desert is better with car because camels stink. We still wanted to ride camels, but didn't want to argue our point. First opportunity to leave the cafe was ours and when it presented itself it gave us a chance to jump on the bus to Zagora, which we gladly did.


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So, this is Taylor's second season playing hockey and his team made it to the championship. Taylor has done so well scoring 7 goals this season. He has seemed to excel in the sport but then again Taylor is very athletic, I'm not sure what sport he is bad in.
This is T scoring his goal.
Made him pose for a quick picture.
They ended up getting second place which isn't bad when its your on second season but of coarse T was a little bummed out. He really wanted to get first. T played very well scoring one of their goals.
T with his team.


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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Easy Hair Removal Techniques
Make your own chemical-free wax at home with three simple ingredients.
2 c Sugar
1/4 c Lemon Juice
1/4 c Water
How to:
1. Combine all ingredients in a pot over medium heat. Let the mixture thicken, stirring constantly for 30-40 minutes.
2. Let the mixture cool down significantly and test the mixture before applying it to the legs.
3. Slather the warm wax onto legs with a wooden stick (e.g. popsicle stick) and press a cotton or cloth strip into the wax. Pull the strip in the opposite direction of hair growth.
4. Re-use leftover wax by storing it in an airtight container. Stir in a teaspoon of water and pop the wax in the microwave to easily reheat it.


text: Philadelphia's The War on Drugs is the brainchild of Adam Granduciel- singer, guitarist, writer, Kurt Vile-collaborator. Their first full-length album, Wagonwheel Blues was released on Secretly Canadian in 2008, and they have toured extensively since then. Over the years the band's members have changed, but Granduciel remains front and center. Their latest LP is Slave Ambient, released on August 16th, 2011. After a short break in their US tour they are continuing for most of December, and will be making a stop at DC's Rock & Roll Hotel on Sunday, December 4th. During the break in their busy tour schedule Adam Granduciel took a few minutes to chat with WLDC's Alexia Kauffman. Continue reading


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How To Grow Out A Pixie Cut
You finally did it — you got a pixie cut. Hey, if Miley can totally rock one, why can't you. You liked it, but you're kinda ready to get some length back, a la Michelle Williams. No need to worry about getting stuck in mullet territory!
The key is to embrace every stage of your "grow-out" and switch up your style often. Follow the advice of Celebrity Hair Colorist Janelle Varada, and you're sure to steer clear of a hairy situation.
Be Patient
Your hair won't reach great lengths overnight. Growing out a pixie cut takes time and patience. If you get frustrated, know that you're in good company. The lovely Michelle Williams recently revealed in an interview that the process is "hard on your self-esteem," adding, "I'm really working on growing my hair out." (And girlfriend has a whole arsenal of A-lists stylists to help her!)
Here are a few things to keep in mind when you feel like you're ready to pull out your hair:
- Hair grows an average of ½ inch per month, although some lucky ladies experience up to 1½ inches of growth per month.
- Trim your hair only when necessary. Try to wait 3 to 4 months, then ask your stylist to create a short bob.
- It will take 3-6 months to get through the short bob phase.
- It will take 6-12 months to achieve a longer, neck-length style. Then, you're back in business!
Accessorize Your Strands
Don't worry your pretty little head about the dreaded "in-between" stage. This is your chance to create different looks and experiment with your mane, so add plenty of accessories to your beauty arsenal.
- Hats, fedoras, beanies, and berets can be best your friends on a bad hair day, plus a chic topper is stylish in it's own right.
- For a unique side-pony-like style, use a hair clip to pin your strands off to one side, or simply pin them towards the back. A messy bun can also be a miracle worker.
- Get those pesky bangs out of your face by sweeping them off to one side or braiding them. For staying power, spritz some dry shampoo on those locks to give them texture, then secure the style by creating an "X" with two bobby pins.
- Headbands can work wonders, and can be found in a slew of styles – from thin/barely there to patterned and embellished.
Give Your Hair Some TLC
- Varada says it's imporant to keep your hair color looking fresh throughout the grow- out process. Take focus off of the length by experimenting with a new shade or amp up your highlights.
- Before you go to bed, massage your scalp for 5-10 minutes. Not only does it stimulate blood flow to the scalp, it's a great way to unwind.
- For silky, strong hair, give essential oil a try. Varada hearts coconut oil, and it smells like a tropical paradise. Simply add a few drops to your scalp and massage. Rinse with warm water after 20-30 minutes.
- A balanced diet plays a major role in hair health. Try to focus on foods that also feed your strands, like walnuts, salmon, eggs, spinach, and blueberries.
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Between the lights
Oil on canvas 50x70cm €1,950
Available to view at The Gallery Kinsale
Between the lights
Around the turn of the century, my great grandmother, Annie Kiely was an enterprising and creative woman from Kinsale town. She was a dressmaker and employed a number of local women in her business.
Aine Kiely and her son Joe
The story behind the show
While on a recent trip to Kinsale my Mum told me this story.
Annie and her girls would work by daylight until dusk would fall, and then there would be a short time before the gas lights would become effective. Then Annie and the girls would 'take a turn' up the road to rest their eyes, have the chat and take the air before returning to finish the day's work. They called this time around dusk, 'between the lights'.
My work has been deeply influenced by light and much of my interiors paintings are informed by the fall of light from within or without. In this show I turn to the lights of daylight and dusk for inspiration.
The show opens on Saturday 17th, at The Hayfield Manor Hotel and I will be there from 6-8pm for a very informal drink and a chat. If you are free to join us we'd love to see you there.
Bringing it back home: Solo Show in Cork
Róisín O'Farrell returns to Cork in September for her first Solo Show for several years. The show, curated by The Gallery Kinsale, opens at The Hayfield Manor Hotel, Perrott Ave, College Rd, Cork on September 17th and runs until mid October.
For more information contact Ken Buckley at The Gallery Kinsale
Mobile: 086 844 8589 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
and finally…
The story my mum told me and some paintings from the show…
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News Movies | Written by Andrew Pollard 13/12/2013
Movie News: Latest THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Promo Teases Eddie Brock And The Enforcers
To nicely coincide with the news that Venom is to get his own spin-off movie, the latest viral piece at the Daily Bugle's Tumblr site gives reference to a certain Eddie Brock. It seems like each week the Tumblr page is used to make reference to certain Spider-Man characters existing in Sony's cinematic Spidey-verse. Whilst this week's story is 'written' by Brock, it also makes references to members of The Enforcers, a group of small-time crooks that Spidey has had to deal with over the years.
Spider-Man vs. The Mob!
By Eddie Brock
What began as a mob shoot-out escalated into a full-blown superhuman slugfest when the vigilante known as Spider-Man appeared on the scene. An argument inside the Zero One Lounge turned ugly when reputed mob enforcer, "Fancy" Dan Brito, pulled a gun on rivals from the Manfredi crime family. As club-goers fled onto the streets of the Meatpacking District, Spider-Man dropped down out of the sky.
Not content to merely take the law into his own hands, bystanders claimed that Spider-Man mocked the thugs as he delivered a one-to punch that sent them soaring.
"It was hard to see from where I was hiding," said witness Andrea Moore of Park Slope, "but I heard someone, I'm pretty sure it was Spider-Man, say, 'I hope you're not afraid of heights,' and then one of those guys screamed as he landed on top of a fire escape."
When pressed about any crimes she may have witnessed Spider-Man committing, Moore replied, "Crimes? It's not a crime to round up stray dogs. What the hell are you talking about?"
Spider-Man disappeared as police arrived to find a dozen mobsters restrained with unmistakable webbing. Brito and his accomplices, Jackson "Montana" Brice and Raymond "The Ox" Bloch, spent the night in the 10th Precint holding cell. The NYPD has yet to announce what charges, if any, they plan to bring against the smack-talking vigilante.
Brito, led away in handcuffs, was overheard describing the encounter with the web-slinger: "Just when I thought I was out, he pulled me back in."
Personally, I'm absolutely loving this viral promotional work that Sony are putting out. Even if the characters referenced in these various pieces never make it to the big screen, it's just a nice nod to the fans to show that these guys exist in this world that Sony has created.
The official synopsis for THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 reads:
We've always known that Spider-Man's most important battle has been within himself: the struggle between the ordinary obligations of Peter Parker and the extraordinary responsibilities of Spider-Man. But in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2, Peter Parker finds that a great conflict lies ahead.
It's great to be Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield). For Peter Parker, there's no feeling quite like swinging between skyscrapers, embracing being the hero, and spending time with Gwen (Emma Stone). But being Spider-Man comes at a price: only Spider-Man can protect his fellow New Yorkers from the formidable villains that threaten the city. With the emergence of Electro (Jamie Foxx), Peter must confront a foe far more powerful than he. And as his old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, Peter comes to realise that all of his enemies have one thing in common: OsCorp.
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Bidstrup… It seems that everybody has heard this family name which belongs to the famous Danish cartoonist. Somebody definately saw some of his drawings in magazines, books and other print issues. Somebody had the good fortune to admire his artistic albums devoted to the cartoonist's creative activity. Bidstrup used to draw caricatures, political cartoons, traveller's notes, but he became well-known all over the world, mainly, owing to his comic books - small and funny stories in picture form.
Bidstrup is Dane, but his sense of humor does not have any national borders. These funny, ridiculous, tragicomic stories in picture form can understand everybody regardless his or her age and nationality. The subject of these stories varies from everyday life's sketches, accidents at the streets, in transport, during holidays to various life situations, sometimes led to the nonsense.
If you want to raise your mood, digress from the current problems, calm down the stress and to rock with laughter present yourself with several minutes of pleasure - visit Bidstrups gallery of comics, remember what you have seen already once or discover these cartoons again. Be sure you wont regret!


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Are you looking for a life changing experience?
The Life Enrichment Boot Camp will change your life!
Founder and Director, Jim Carroll was inspired to create the Life Enrichment Boot Camp under the training of Dr. Phil. The self improvement seminar is an intense life changing seminar that is the perfect place to increase self-esteem, value and worth.
We believe that practical life-changing application is more valuable than having head knowledge.
What good is knowing how to be happy, if you don't actually make it happen?
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The Life Enrichment Boot Camp is not a wilderness camp, or a ropes course. The Boot Camp is designed to use mental games, drills, competitions, skits, and experiential events that raise your life and relationships to a new level. Instead of just knowing how to change, you will take action to improve your life. Instead of thinking about change, you will make it happen. This is not the type of seminar where you can just sit back and watch.
The results are amazing, and the positive transformation of your life is inevitable. Our success rate is phenomenal because this isn't typical counseling or a boring workshop. The Life Enrichment Boot Camp is an experience that you will cherish for the rest of your life.
This significate personal growth experience will help you get in touch with your highest self-esteem, and exude more love, intimacy, worth, confidence and value in your daily life.
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Everyone gets hurt in life. Whether it be from past relationships, childhood experiences, abuse and more, we can help. When you don't fully heal we carry hurt and resentment into the next relationship. We all deserve to be free from the pain and damage caused by the past.
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Through this awesome learning process you will find new hope and a new love for yourself and life. Your outlook on life will change. Best of all, you will have the tools to help resolve current and future issues as well as making your dreams happen.
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DALLAS (AP) Mavericks guard Delonte West was suspended Thursday for the second time in as many weeks for conduct detrimental to the team, putting his future in Dallas in doubt.
The first suspension lasted about a day, but a series of tweets by West soon after the team announced the latest suspension raised questions about whether he would return this time.
``Just dont kick me ... on the way out the door,'' West tweeted. ``I didn't do anything to deserve that.''
The last of several tweets in just a few minutes said, ``I'm just sittin here across from the arena wit tear in my eyes.''
West has bipolar disorder and addressed that topic in another tweet, saying ``no I'm not off my meds.''
After practice Thursday, coach Rick Carlisle refused to elaborate on West, referring to the release from the team announcing the suspension but disclosing no specifics about his conduct.
Donnie Nelson, the team's president of basketball operations, said only that the suspension was effective immediately and no other statements would be issued. The reason for the suspension was the same as the first one that came following an outburst in the locker room after a preseason game Oct. 15.
Carlisle informed players of the latest suspension before practice.
``We're losing a competitor. That's plain and simple. He's a competitor,'' veteran forward Vince Carter said.
When reached by ESPNDallas.com on Thursday, West said he was being blamed for an argument between teammates after the Mavs' 88-76 preseason loss to the Oklahoma City on Wednesday night in Wichita, Kan. He said he got a text Thursday morning telling him not to come to practice.
``There was an argument between two teammates in the locker room last night that didn't involve me,'' West told ESPNDallas. ``Somehow I'm being blamed for it. I had nothing to do with it. I don't know what's going on.''
Carter wasn't with the team for Wednesday night's game. He didn't know about the suspension until he got to practice and hadn't spoken to West.
``It's just a sensitive situation right now. It's not much I can say, I wasn't around to even know what's going on. It's unfortunate,'' Carter said. ``He's my friend, so I want the best for him, and you hope they work the situation out.''
Asked if the situation with West could be resolved quickly like the first one, Carlisle again said he wasn't commenting about the guard.
Players wouldn't go into detail about how the situation was explained to them by Carlisle.
``He said what he needed to say and it is what it is. ... Things happen we have no control over,'' said Shawn Marion, who like Carter remained in Dallas instead of playing in Wednesday's game. ``I like Delonte. He's got stuff he needs to work out with them (team management). ... We've still got to go on and focus on our task at hand.''
West's latest suspension came five days before the Mavericks open the regular season Tuesday night in Los Angeles against the Lakers.
The Mavs will start the season without Dirk Nowitzki, their 11-time All-Star who is recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery. Chris Kaman, their other 7-footer, is dealing with a strained right calf that makes him questionable for the opener.
``All these things happen, these are part of everyday life in the NBA,'' Carlisle said. ``We've got a lot of veterans that have been through situations where there have been injuries and all kinds of different things. You've got to just. The bus keeps going, got to keep soldiering on.''
Instead of lamenting the players not available, Carlisle said his team was going to push forward with the ones they have.
West was suspended for the first 10 games of the 2010-11 season after pleading guilty to weapons charges in Maryland. Authorities say he was carrying three loaded guns and a knife when he was stopped for speeding on a three-wheel motorcycle in 2009.
West was a valuable role player for Dallas last season, even starting 33 games as the backcourt struggled with injuries before he was sidelined himself by a broken finger.
The Mavericks' backcourt grew crowded in the offseason, though. Darren Collison was acquired from Indiana and is expected to start at point guard. O.J. Mayo, a shooting guard, signed as a free agent from Memphis and could be counted on heavily for scoring while waiting for Nowitzki's return.
West played in all seven preseason games, averaging 5 points and 2 assists while playing nearly 18 minutes a game. The eighth-year pro was close to his career averages with the Mavericks last year, at 9.6 points and 3.2 assists.


text: Today, in Wright v. Commissioner, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed and remanded a US Tax Court opinion that disallowed the taxpayers' losses on a transaction using a euro put option. The IRS argued successfully before the Tax Court that a euro put option was not a foreign currency contract, and therefore that the taxpayers' claimed losses should be disallowed. The Sixth Circuit stated that this interpretation was contrary to the plain language of the statute. The court also stated that even though the IRS's interpretation might constitute good tax policy, that alone was insufficient to reform the statutory language for two reasons: (1) it could "unintentionally permit other tax-avoidance schemes" and (2) the IRS could challenge the transaction under the economic substance doctrine. The Sixth Circuit referenced the codified economic substance doctrine in its opinion, but did not specify whether the Tax Court should consider the common law economic substance of the transaction (which occurred before the codification of the economic substance doctrine) on remand. The Sixth Circuit's opinion is available by clicking here.


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People detail their cars in all sorts of ways. Many use local detail shops, some have mobile detailers, and then there's the folks who do it themselves (my personal favorite). Regardless of the method, one thing's for sure: detailing an entire car ain't cheap. Now we have a problem. You always want your car looking clean, but it may not make Read More
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A little about me: I really, really don't like dirty cars. So much so that when I step outside and see a dusty Mercedes, a little piece of me wants to bust out a bucket and wash it for whoever is neglecting it. I cannot blame the car owner, but rather the fact that the importance of detailing is not understood by the masses. Hopefully this simple Read More
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In a market bloated with "quick shines" and "5 minute details" it's easy to pick up bad detailing habits that ultimately lead to improper car care. If you haven't by now, you should definitely read our detailing guide to proper car care. It will help set the table for this article where I'll walk you through four simple ways to break any bad Read More
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Whether you take your car to a car wash or bust out the hose and bucket in your driveway, you must be aware that it is possible to over-wash your car. We've covered how often you should be washing, but there are warning signs you can look for that will tell you to dial back on the washes. Take a look... Read More
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Now that there's an answer for matte paint care, expect to see some manufacturers expand their paint options to include the flat finish. Factory matte options are only available from a select few manufacturers, and outside of Mercedes, BMW, and Lamborghini Most OEM's don't really give you much choice of color. When manufacturers have released matte Read More
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It's no coincidence that all the hype in the car enthusiast community these days is centered around the hypercar. I mean, it's in the name. You'll hear bloggers rant about how idiotic the name of a new Porsche is, or see Top Gear taking a McLaren to an off-road course only to test how much water can fit inside, but what you don't find is anyone Read More
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When asked why matte paint looks flat, I usually just forward people to the article we wrote detailing the science behind matte's unique ability to seemingly absorb light. Rather than beating a dead horse, I thought I'd take a stab at defining what it is we see when looking at a matte painted vehicle rather than why. Read on and let us know what Read More
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Spring brings rain and with it waterspots. So as not to fear the forecast, there are two ways you can protect yourself against the inevitable evaporation of rain on your (ideally) spotless car. Continue reading and see how two simple tips can keep you looking great even if the rain comes down. Read More
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With Spring just around the corner, it's time to dust off the five gallon bucket and wash your microfiber towels; detailing season is almost here. Better weather increases the desire for a great looking car, and before you can achieve this you must first make sure you're ready for action and prepare for detailing season... Read More


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Evaluation of a LIDAR Land-Based Mobile Mapping System for Monitoring Sandy Coasts
AbstractThe Dutch coast is characterized by sandy beaches flanked by dunes. Understanding the morphology of the coast is essential for defense against flooding of the hinterland. Because most dramatic changes of the beach and the first dune row happen during storms, it is important to assess the state of the coast immediately after a storm. This is expensive and difficult to organize with Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS). Therefore, the performance of a Land-based Mobile Mapping System (LMMS) in mapping a stretch of sandy Dutch coast of 6 km near the municipality of Egmond is evaluated in this research. A test data set was obtained by provider Geomaat using the StreetMapper LMMS system. Both the relative quality of laser point heights and of a derived Digital Terrain model (DTM) are assessed. First, the height precision of laser points is assessed a priori by random error propagation, and a posteriori by calculating the height differences between close-by points. In the a priori case, the result is a theoretical laser point precision of around 5 cm. In the a posteriori approach it is shown that on a flat beach a relative precision of 3 mm is achieved, and that almost no internal biases exist. In the second analysis, a DTM with a grid size of 1 m is obtained using moving least squares. Each grid point height includes a quality description, which incorporates both measurement precision and terrain roughness. Although some problems remain with the scanning height of 2 m, which causes shadow-effect behind low dunes, it is concluded that a laser LMMS enables the acquisition of a high quality DTM product, which is available within two days. View Full-Text
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Bitenc, M.; Lindenbergh, R.; Khoshelham, K.; Van Waarden, A.P. Evaluation of a LIDAR Land-Based Mobile Mapping System for Monitoring Sandy Coasts. Remote Sens. 2011, 3, 1472-1491.
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Bitenc, Maja; Lindenbergh, Roderik; Khoshelham, Kourosh; Van Waarden, A. Pieter. 2011. "Evaluation of a LIDAR Land-Based Mobile Mapping System for Monitoring Sandy Coasts." Remote Sens. 3, no. 7: 1472-1491.


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I believe in kindness because you have no idea what other people are dealing with and what is going on in their lives.
In the summer of my sixth grade year, I was playing around in my backyard with my friends, Adam and Sam. After playing a couple of games of basketball with the younger neighborhood kids, we were bored. So we called up our friend, Jordan, and told him to come over to my house. Being sixth graders, we thought it would be funny to play a trick on him. We decided to hide in my tree fort in the backyard and wait for him to arrive. As we sat quietly huddled together in the small tree fort, Jordan stood in my backyard, confused as to where his so-called friends were.
We crept down from the tree fort slowly and decided to scare him. I, priding myself on how fast I was, noticed his brand new yellow hat sitting on top of his head like a shining trophy and decided I would snatch it from him. After a blaze of yelling and hitting, Jordan stood there like a deer in headlights, his bare head exposed, while my friends and I ran off to the neighbor's house. We expected Jordan to come running after us to retrieve his hat. Instead he turned and walked back to his house while we decided to played more basketball.
The next thing I heard was my mother yelling, "Joseph! Get over here!" When the dreaded middle name comes out, you know you're in trouble. My mother told me that she had been on the phone with Jordan's mother and I needed to go over to his house immediately and apologize to him. So Adam, Sam, and I walked the long four blocks to Jordan's house.
As we got closer, we saw Jordan's mother talking to a police officer. We all looked at each other, tempted to high-tail it the other way, yet we slowly proceeded forward. Jordan's mother's only words were: "Jordan's in his room." We all gathered in Jordan's small closet of a room. We could tell that he had been crying. I stood there clutching his hat. What once was a trophy to me now felt more like a scalding, hot pan in my sweating hands. I laid it upon his dresser as Jordan explained that the hat we had stolen was the last thing that his grandmother had given him before she had died a month ago. My heart dropped to the floor as we once again said our apologies. He forgave us and we started the long walk back to our houses past Jordan's angry mother and the mean-looking police officer.
I realized on that walk back that you may never know what other people are going through, even the people closest to you. So the least you can do is to be nice to everyone, everyday. Just a simple smile can make someone's day and that day all Jordan needed was a simple smile and a good time with his friends. Instead I stole his hat which was a symbol of his loving grandmother who had just passed away. I always wished instead of stealing his hat, we could have spent that day hanging out and playing basketball with him because that was all Jordan really needed.
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MOULTRIE, GA (WALB) - The man who was wanted for the murder of Danny Hill on January 10 Surrendered today.
Lt. Steven Colgan of the Moultrie Police Department said that Bonny Lee Lewis turned himself in to authorities.
Hill was shot to death in his Moultrie home. Agents ruled he acted in self defense last year during a botched drug deal. Now they're trying to figure out if the Hill's past played a role in his murder.
GBI agents said Danny Hill shot Kirby Yon to death during a drug deal in February 2013.But the charges against him were dropped, after the investigation showed the shooting was in self defense.
"He wasn't charged with murder, because it looked like Yon had actually taken a knife and stabbed him a few times before he actually returned fire," said GBI Special Agent in Charge Steve Turner.
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Ebony Escapes!to Oakland, the other city by the bay
Lysa Allman-Badwin | 3/20/2014, 2:23 p.m.
It doesn't matter how many times you've been here, if ever—the views from the airplane window are always captivating.
The newest one for me this time around was the revitalized East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, one of the busiest bridges in the country. It is a vital connection between these two iconic cities, each offering their own unique flavor and flair to what it means to live, work and visit the Bay Area.
It has well been over a decade since I left the Bay Area after living there--in both Oakland and San Francisco—for a good chunk of my formative adult years. And although I yearned for a little taste of the familiar, I was intrigued and, quite frankly, drawn to what the Oakland I knew has become.
The accolades are telling. Oakland was ranked the No. 5 place to visit in the world by The New York Times in "The 45 Places to Go in 2012." Sandwiched between No. 4 London and No. 6 Tokyo, it was the highest ranked North American city.
Its downtown area, including Chinatown, Old Oakland and Jack London Square, was named among "America's Top 12 Art Places for 2013" by the organization ArtPlace. Last year, the Huffington Post named Oakland as the "Most Exciting City in the U.S."
The organization Walk Score, whose mission is to promote walkable neighborhoods across the country, recently said, "Oakland isn't the Bay Area's second city anymore. With its stunning location on the shores of Lake Merritt and proximity to Silicon Valley employers, it's come into its own. The ethnically diverse population makes it a cultural playground for food, art, music and more."
What? Isn't this the birthplace of the Black Panther Party that both galvanized and polarized the Black community and the nation around social justice issues in the 1960s? And where the tempestuous Occupy Oakland movement captivated the nation in 2011? How about where the attitudes of many communities here seem to follow the long-standing Oakland Raiders fan motto, "Take No Prisoners"?
Well, the answers are yes and no.
Like many cities across the country—and around the world, for that matter—Oakland has undergone its fair share of issues, whether social, political, economic or otherwise. But like a teenager who sometimes follows a path seemingly headed toward self-destruction and pure misery, that same path is often what leads to greater growth, maturity and a newfound freedom to blossom into all he—in this case, Oakland—can be.
Dynamic, diverse, soulful and culturally rich
Situated just 42 feet above sea level and encompassing over 56 square miles, including 19 miles of coastline to the west and magnificent rolling hills to the east, Oakland is a jewel in the Bay Area. Two-thirds of the city's landscape comes from the flat plain of the San Francisco Bay, while the hills of the East Bay range make up the remaining foothill terrain. Its adjacent neighbors are Alameda, just across the estuary, Berkeley to the north, San Leandro to the south, Emeryville lying between Oakland and Berkeley, and Piedmont, which is completely surrounded by Oakland.