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Bishop, Elizabeth (1911–1979)
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911–1979)
American poet, generally regarded as one of the finest and most influential in the 20th century. Born on February 8, 1911, in Worcester, Massachusetts; died in Boston on October 6, 1979; daughter of William Thomas (an executive with J.W. Bishop Company) and Gertrude Bulmer Bishop; attended public schools in Nova Scotia and Massachusetts; entered Walnut Hill boarding school in Natick (near Boston) at 16; granted A.B. in English Literature from Vassar College, 1934; lived with Lota de Macedo Soares for 15 years; never married; no children.
Spent a short time in early childhood with her maternal grandparents in Nova Scotia, after her father's untimely death and her mother's subsequent breakdown; lived with her paternal grandparents (Worcester) and then an aunt (Boston) from the age of six until she went away to school; began writing, mostly short fiction, while at Vassar; met Marianne Moore (1934); first trip abroad, to Paris (1935); moved to Florida (late 1930s); lived in Key West until after the end of WW II; lived in Mexico for nine months (1943); began a friendship with Pablo Neruda; met Randall Jarrell (1946) who introduced her to Robert Lowell, one of her lifelong friends (1947); set off on a trip around South America and the Straits of Magellan (1951); while visiting Rio de Janeiro, suffered a violent allergic reaction to cashew fruit and was forced to curtail her journey; remained in Brazil for the next 15 years, sharing a house near Petropolis with a Brazilian friend, Lota de Macedo Soares; returned to the U.S. (1966); taught for two terms at the University of Washington in Seattle; lived intermittently in Brazil and the U.S. for a number of years; taught at Harvard University as poet in residence until mandatory retirement (1977); taught one term at New York University (Fall 1977); continued to write poetry until her death.
Books and awards:
Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award (1945); North & South (1946); Guggenheim Fellowship (1947); Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress (1949–50); American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1951); First Lucy Martin Donnelly Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College (1951); Shelley Memorial Award (1952); Life Membership, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1954); Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring (1955); Partisan Review Fellowship (1956); Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1956); The Diary of "Helena Morley" (1957); Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship (1957); Chapelbrook Fellowship (1962); Brazil (1962); Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets Award (1964); Questions of Travel (1965); Rockefeller Foundation Grant (1966–67); Selected Poems (London, 1967); The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon (1968); LL.D., Smith College (1968); The Complete Poems (1969); Merrill Foundation Award (1969); The Complete Poems (London, 1970); National Book Award (1970); Order of Rio Branco, Brazil (1970); An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry (1972); LL.D., Rutgers University (1972); LL.D., Brown University (1972); Poem (1973); Harriet Monroe Award (1974); St. Botolph Club Arts Award (1975); Books Abroad/ Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1976); Membership, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1976); Geography III (1976); National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award (1976); LL.D., Adelphi University (1977); LL.D., Brandeis University (1978); Guggenheim Fellowship (1978); LL.D., Dalhousie University (1979); LL.D., Princeton University (1979); The Complete Poems: 1927–1979 (1979, 1983); The Collected Prose (1984).
In his memorial tribute to Elizabeth Bishop, offered at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in December 1979, the poet Richard Wilbur reflected upon the search for ultimate answers recorded in her poetry: "In and out of her poetry, she lamented her want of a comprehensive philosophy, yet I cannot be sorry that so honest a nature as hers refused to force itself into a system, and I question whether system is the only way to go deep into things." Over the course of her professional career, which spanned more than 40 years and included poetry, fiction, memoir and translation, Bishop worked to go deep into things; her poetry is an especially compelling record of her efforts. Many of the poems reflect upon loss and exile or describe the experience of traveling from one location to another in search of a place to feel at home: each motif had its basis in Bishop's lived experience.
The first years of Bishop's life were "marked by losses," as Robert Giroux explains in his introduction to The Collected Prose. Bishop's father died when she was eight months old; her mother Gertrude Bulmer Bishop was permanently traumatized by his death. Gertrude became incurably insane when Bishop was five, in a process of degeneration and collapse that Bishop detailed in her story, "In the Village," written many years later. Bishop and her mother never saw each other again after the events chronicled in this story, although Gertrude lived for another 20 years.
Elizabeth Bishop lived with her mother's parents in Great Village, Nova Scotia, until she was six, when she was suddenly and (as she saw it) inexplicably taken away to live with her father's parents in Worcester, Massachusetts. Even in a life filled with journeys, this brief sojourn in Bishop's childhood stands out. Losing Great Village, the final catastrophe in a series of related events, convinced her that favorite places, like beloved people, could simply vanish from one's life. She recounted some of the events of this period in a memoir called "The Country Mouse," which recalls "a dismal time" made hideous by grief, loneliness, asthma, eczema, boredom, and a claustrophobic sense of self-consciousness: "I had been brought back unconsulted and against my wishes to the house my father had been born in, to be saved from a life of poverty and provincialism, bare feet, suet puddings, unsanitary
school slates, perhaps even from the inverted r's of my mother's family."
Bishop's response to unsettling circumstances in childhood was to follow her imagination into places that did not change. An interview Bishop gave in middle age (Shenandoah, Winter 1966) recalled those years. "I was crazy about fairy tales—Andersen, Grimm, and so on. Like Jean-Paul Sartre (as he explains it in Les Mots) I also read all kinds of things I didn't really understand. I tried almost anything." Bishop stayed only nine months in Worcester before she was moved again, to live with her Aunt Maude in Boston, putting an end to her wandering for awhile. She grew up in Boston and visited her maternal relatives every summer until she was 13. In 1927, Bishop was enrolled at Walnut Hill boarding school, and in 1930 she entered Vassar College.
Her years in college, which she shared with Mary McCarthy, Muriel Rukeyser , and other writers who went on to find their own fame, served as Bishop's professional apprenticeship. While at Vassar, she wrote for The Vassar Review, helped to start The Conspirito, a rival magazine, and contributed to the review formed when the two magazines were combined. And it was while still a student at Vassar that Bishop met Marianne Moore , whose poems she admired. They met in March 1934, in front of the third-floor reading room of the New York Public Library. (They hit it off at once, discovering that they shared a number of interests besides literature. Two weeks after their first meeting, they went to the circus, and an early letter from Bishop offers Moore a chance to examine a new book on tattooing.) Bishop's relative anonymity within the American poetic tradition can be traced in part to her friendship with Moore, an important bond for both women but one sometimes misrepresented as the relationship between a mentor and her young follower. This connection and some superficial similarities in their work—particularly in the precision with which each renders the details of the physical world—led some readers to think of Bishop's work as simply "more of the same." Bishop and Moore were amused but sometimes irritated by this identification; their correspondence reveals that each saw the other as friend and colleague, rather than as teacher or disciple.
Bishop made the first of many important journeys in her adult life when she went abroad in 1935. She spent time in Belgium, France, Brittany, and Paris; then in 1936, she traveled to England, North Africa, and Spain. After a brief sojourn in Florida, she returned to Great Britain and the Continent. She settled in Key West, Florida, in 1939. This period of travel was a productive one for Bishop's writing. By 1941, she had enough poems, some of which had already been published in Poetry, Partisan Review, and other magazines, to fill a small volume. But her first book, North & South, (which received Houghton Mifflin's poetry prize) did not come out until 1946, after another period of travel abroad, to Europe, Africa, and Mexico. North & South introduces favorite points of reference for Bishop—images, settings, and shifts in perspective—that explore the difficulty of various kinds of travel, real and imaginary. The speaker in such a poem hopes to find a message that is "comprehensive, consoling" like the small red sun in the seascape described in "Large Bad Picture."
Praise and recognition followed the publication of her first book. In 1947, Bishop was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, and, in 1949, she moved to Washington, D.C., to begin work as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress. While there, she occasionally visited Ezra Pound, a patient at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. "Visits to St. Elizabeth's," written and published that year, is one response to those visits. Constructed on the lines of "The House That Jack Built," the poem is both sad and comical in its description of Pound, the man who "lies in the house of Bedlam." Bishop did not enjoy her year in Washington; when her duties came to an end, she decided to use her recent literary prizes to fund a sailing trip around South America. She embarked in November 1951, stopping to visit friends in Rio de Janeiro on her way to the Straits of Magellan. An allergic reaction to cashew fruit was so severe that she had to be hospitalized in Rio. Once she recovered, she decided to remain; for the first time in a number of years, Bishop felt herself to be at home. She and her friend Lota de Macedo Soares spent the next 15 years together, living and working and entertaining in an apartment in Rio and a house in the mountains. Macedo Soares was able to help Bishop curtail her drinking habits, which had affected her physical and mental health for some years, but Bishop's recurrent asthma continued to demoralize her. Finding medication with better than temporary palliative effects was an ongoing concern.
Bishop brought out her next collection, Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring, in 1955. It received the Pulitzer Prize the following year. For approximately the next decade, most of Bishop's attention went toward learning Portuguese, reading the literature of Brazil, and translating works by Brazilian writers for publication in the United States. She translated Minha Vida de Menina (My Life as a Little Girl); a classic in Brazil, the book was the diary of "Helena Morley," a girl who grew up in a mining town in the 1890s. During the same period, Bishop wrote a book on Brazil, edited and published by Life World Library. Her work was considerably altered by the editors, who identified themselves as co-authors, and she found the finished product less than satisfactory. She tended to downplay her involvement with the project in later years. Bishop's primary interest during this decade was translating Brazilian poetry. Some of her best and best-known work in translation was of poetry by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, then one of Brazil's most important living poets. She included her translations in The Complete Poems (1969), and in An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry (1972), which she co-edited with Emanuel Brasil.
Bishop's work on Portuguese language and literature did not preempt her own poetry altogether, but her pace in writing was, as ever, careful and slow. She wrote about 20 finished poems about her life in Brazil. Most appeared first in Questions of Travel and were also included in later collections. The title poem in this book speculates on the value and significance of travel, wondering whether it signals "lack of imagination." The restless traveler cannot decide where home lies or what value her travels actually have: "Think of the long trip home. / Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?" The book also includes poems from "Elsewhere," most of which look back to her childhood in Great Village. Bishop's time in Brazil fostered an important development in her poetry; many of the poems written during and after these years show her (or someone like her) revisiting the past, in hopes of transforming old losses.
Such transformations are difficult to achieve and nearly impossible to sustain, according to the perspective in "One Art," a late poem on the speaker's efforts to think of loss as a voluntary exercise within a larger discipline. She explains that if one starts small, with keys, hours, "places and names, and where it was you meant to travel," it is possible to progress to larger, more important losses, like favorite houses, whole continents, even a beloved person—"the joking voice, a gesture / I love…." This poem had its source in her companion Macedo Soares' death by suicide in 1967, probably the most devastating loss of Bishop's adult life.
For the next several years, Bishop traveled between the house she was renovating in Brazil and the United States, where she taught a number of college and university courses in poetry. She received the 1969 National Book Award for The Complete Poems, but Bishop's professional career was clearly far from over. Geography III was published in 1976 and contains some of her finest work, including "In the Waiting Room," "Crusoe in England," and "The Moose." "In the Waiting Room" is an account of yet another collision with old suffering. No other poem brings the poet and the speaker together so explicitly; the "I" in the dentist's waiting room who endured a brief but terrifying moment of panic was "an Elizabeth."
Whatever the landscape had of meaning appears to have been abandoned.
—Elizabeth Bishop, from "Cape Breton"
Bishop settled in Boston in 1974, where she lived, off and on, until her death in 1979. She shared the last years of her life with Alice Methfessel , her friend since 1971, who became her literary executor. These years, which she spent teaching at Harvard or traveling to Maine and other favorite spots, were the most settled since those she had spent in Brazil. The Complete Poems: 1927–1979 includes poems that Bishop wrote between 1976 and her death, as well as her translations from Portuguese, some juvenilia, and a few brief occasional poems. The Collected Prose, published in 1984, includes short fiction and memoirs and spans her whole career.
The whole of Bishop's oeuvre takes up less than a foot of bookshelf space, but every well-crafted piece of her work is original and alive, animated by Bishop's lifelong interest in the external world of landscapes and artifacts and the multiple inner worlds of human experience. In many ways, Bishop represents the individual talent as T.S. Eliot describes it in "Tradition and the Individual Talent." She separates "the [woman] who suffers" from "the mind which creates." Bishop's poetry typically offers a translation of emotion rather than direct access to emotion. She allows the reader only guarded access to her most intimate experiences and feelings. Yet the overall impression she creates is of a person who values and believes in connection, her modesty and reserve notwithstanding, and despite many disappointments.
Bishop, Elizabeth. The Collected Prose. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984.
Brown, Ashley. "An Interview with Elizabeth Bishop," in Shenandoah. Vol. 17. Winter 1966, pp. 3–19.
Kalstone, David. Becoming a Poet. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
MacMahon, Candace W. Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography, 1927–1979. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980.
Stevenson, Anne. Elizabeth Bishop. NY: Twayne Publishers, 1966.
Wilbur, Richard. "Elizabeth Bishop," in Ploughshares. Vol. 6, no. 2, 1980, pp. 10–14.
suggested reading:
Giroux, Robert, ed. One Art: Letters of Elizabeth Bishop. NY: Farrar, Straus, 1994.
Goldensohn, Lorrie. Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry. NY: Columbia University Press, 1992.
Millier, Brett C. Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
Parker, Robert Dale. The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Schwartz, Lloyd and Sybil P. Estess. Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1983.
Correspondence and other papers located at Houghton Library, Harvard University; The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia; Vassar College Library, Poughkeepsie; Olin Libraries Special Collections of the Washington University Libraries, St. Louis.
Mary M. Lacey , Assistant Visiting Professor of English and Humanities, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana


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Beautiful Walkway Ideas for the Front of Your House
What if you could take your curb appeal to the next level?
One of the most powerful areas of the front of your home is the walkway. Many walkways are bland and boring, setting a negative tone for all of your visiting guests.
With the right walkway ideas for the front of your San Diego area house, you can undergo a magical transformation that is sure to stand out. Here are the inspirational ideas you need to get started today.
Space Those Pavers
When you use pavers for a walkway, it's tempting to line everything up perfectly as if you were tiling the inside of your home. However, adding space between the pavers can actually make the walkway look very stylish and unconventional.
Adding the right lighting to your pavers can really make it stand out from the rest of your landscape. You can highlight each individual block with small lamp lighting or illuminate the entire area with moonlighting ideas.
The Moat to Your Castle
Want the kind of walkway that really turns heads? Here's a crazy idea: transform your home into a castle!
No, you don't need to add towers and parapets to the top of your home, but with a solid pond foundation, and the perfect lighting around it, you can create a moat-like effect of water right there in your front yard.
By placing down large steps (any material will do), you create an unforgettable walkway right to the door of your castle.
Needless to say, a project this ambitious is going to take a lot of time and may require professional assistance, but the final effect is definitely worth it.
Play with Color
Most people think of the walkway as a very colorless space. That's because we have spent our lives traveling up walkways made of the same boring shades of white and grey.
If you want to change things up, you should check out the possibilities of colorful lighting. Different colors illicit different emotions within us. You can create an atmosphere of calm and wonder by choosing the perfect color that matches well with the exterior paint of your home.
Flagstone Paths
As we said, you don't have to literally turn your home into a castle, but here's another walkway idea that will make you feel like royalty…flagstone paths!
The trick here is to create the right borders and boundaries for the walkway before you start setting stones down. Once the path is ready, you can start laying down a mixture of rectangular stones and natural stones.
Why the mixture? It gives the whole walkway a more organic flow while still retaining the kind of classy flagstone ambiance you are going for. This kind of pathway looks particularly classy at night when you have landscape lighting in the yard.
Stone/Paver Combo
Speaking of organic flow, many homeowners want a walkway that reflects their unique personality. If you want to really give yourself some creative license, you can mix stones and pavers in a number of exciting ways.
This is the option for those of you who liked to color outside the boundaries when you were little. That's because the mixture of materials lets you put down pretty much any shapes and colors that you can dream up. You can also play a little with lighting options to highlight certain areas over others, or completely change the mood of the entire area. Mixing and matching the colors of the stone with different LED lighting options is a great way to unleash the inner artist inside you.
If you have an artist inside the house, this provides a great way to unleash their vision on the world.
Lattice Patterns
Did you know the human brain will naturally find a pattern in shapes that are clustered together? This little bit of psychological trivia helps you unleash the kinds of walkways that your parents could never imagine.
For instance, instead of connecting them to each other, you can space your pavers out over a grassy lawn. When placed right, the pavers create an eye-catching geometric pattern,while letting visitors see the clear path to your front door.
You can give each stone its own light, whether placed next to the path or even if you build the light into the stone. This is a great way to keep the pattern going at night and is something that your neighbors will definitely be talking about.
With the right patterns and colors, this kind of lattice design can integrate well with any landscape and architecture.
Bricks are a classic choice for a walkway. Unfortunately, the traditional brick placement (which is straightforward and symmetrical) is pretty boring.
If you want to add a new twist to an old idea, try a zigzag pattern on the bricks. This creates a more exciting pattern, making the walkway look like a collection of sharpened chevrons.
Another option is to zigzag lighting ideas. You can do this by alternating colors in a crisscross pattern, or by playing with different illumination strengths and lighting patterns. When it comes to lighting, your only limits are your own imagination, so don't be afraid to think outside the box when it comes to how to decorate the front of your home.
Time to Get Started
Now you have some solid walkway ideas for the front of your house. By playing with different stone patterns, and how you choose to light those patterns, you can create a beautiful landscape that is the talk of the neighborhood. With the right lighting you can even give off a different mood at night than what you would see during the day!
We specialize in lighting solutions, both inside and outside of the home. To see how landscape lighting can shine a light on your efforts, contact us for a free consultation today.


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Kenyon is among 19 institutions in the country to be a top producer of both Fulbright U.S. students and Fulbright U.S. scholars in the 2019–20 academic year. The College also is one of the top baccalaureate institutions that produce the most student winners of the fellowship, marking the 15th time Kenyon has appeared on the top-producing student list, published in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Last year, five Kenyon students were selected as Fulbright winners, going on to teach English or conduct research in Belarus, China and Malaysia. Two students were selected as alternates to teach English or conduct research in Slovenia and Spain.
"To be named a top producer of not only Fulbright students, but also scholars, is an extraordinary achievement," said Thomas Hawks, dean of academic advising and support. "This recognition demonstrates Kenyon's commitment to global learning, and it is a testament to our faculty's dedication to engaging themselves and their students in the international community."
The primary source of funding for the Fulbright Program is an annual appropriation made by Congress to the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. More than 2,200 U.S. students and more than 900 U.S. college and university faculty and administrators are awarded Fulbright grants annually. In addition, around 4,000 Fulbright Foreign Students and Visiting Scholars come to the U.S. annually to study, lecture, conduct research or teach their native language.
Kenyon's latest cohort of Fulbright students and alternates includes six members of the Class of 2019 and a graduate from the class of 2018. They are:
- Sriya Chadalavada '19, an economics major from Cincinnati, who was selected to serve as an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in Malaysia.
- Charlotte Dreyer '19, a psychology major from Denver, who was selected as an alternate ETA in Spain.
- Mary Grace Detmer '19, a political science major from River Forest, Illinois, who was selected to serve as an ETA in Malaysia.
- Leila Dusthimer '19, an international studies major from Danville, Ohio, who was selected to serve as an ETA in Malaysia.
- Daniel Hojnacki '18, an English major from Toledo, Ohio, who was selected to serve as an ETA in Belarus.
- Nick Kaufman '19, a political science major from Boston, who was selected for a study-research grant in China.
- Sarah "Maggie" Murphree '19, a physics major from Meadville, Pennsylvania, who was selected as an alternate for a study-research grant in Slovenia.
Additionally, three Kenyon faculty members were awarded Fulbright scholar grants in the 2019-20 academic year:
- Associate Professor of Psychology Irene López, with Hungary's Eötvös Loránd University, for a project titled "Towards a Pedagogy of Global Understanding: Comparing the Processes of Social Integration in the U.S. and Hungary."
- Assistant Professor of Sociology Shaun Golding, with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, for a project titled "Labor Migration, Natural Resources, and Environmentalism in Rural Norway."
- Associate Professor of Chemistry Yutan Getzler, with Israel's Tel Aviv University, for a project titled "New Materials for Controlled Degradation."


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German death metal act Dawn Of Disease has crafted the newest release "Ascension Gate" keeping in mind the band's primordial extreme metal influences and offering a more modern melodic approach inevitably fueled by introspective melancholy.
At the very first listening "Perimortal" gives you a taste of the melo-death attitude that dominates this album. The remarkable guitar work should never be ignored as the crunchy fast paced rhythm always leaves space for loads of dreadful refined melodies carefully embedded in the entertaining solos.
The title track feels like a melancholic melodic death metal anthem as it begins with solemn atmospheric quality that simply embraces the intense growls cutting through a soulful crescendo of dramatic guitar melodies.
On the darkened track "Akephalos" you can definitely perceive the weight of Swedish death metal influence as the accelerated rhythmic patterns acquire harsh tonalities yet guitars also provide absolutely vibrant melodies.
Staying true to fashionable Nordic melancholy "Fleshless Journey" might be the most emotional song of the album as, despite being filled with extreme grooves, melodic guitars maintain a primary role crafting several contemplative moments with pleasantly impressive musicianship and sonic clarity.
"Mundus Inversus" certainly features a fair dosage of unrestrained rage with massive guitar driven grooves and tight rhythmic patterns yet, as it often happens throughout the album, guitars reach a terrific gloomy acme constantly and confidently creating deliciously sorrowful melodies.
Overall, "Ascension Gate" manages to include some of the brutal fundamental elements of traditional death metal yet Dawn Of Disease skillfully raises the bar introducing epic vibes and exquisite melodic textures.


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So the last few weeks have been crazily busy but in a good way.
Morocco was incredible-the best part for me was having a camel ride in the desert (as shown below :]). We then camped overnight and had a campfire, looking up at the stars.
After Morocco, I spent a few days in London, catching up with a few friends, spending time with the boyf and I had two interviews. I am now pleased to say that I will not be jobless next year but will be working as a teaching assistant in a primary school in South London. Really excited 🙂
Came back up to Leicester today to have one final week here. The Summer Ball is on Saturday which will be really fun and after that there will be a mixture of staying in, going out and seeing people. Also, on Tuesday we receive our results :/ Fingers are tightly crossed for a 2-1.
Tonight I have been persuaded to go out and so I better hop now and get ready.
Hope everyone is beginning to be able to relax now exams are over :]


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Do LLCs Issue Stock: Everything You Need to Know
LLC organizations are allowed by the IRS to be considered corporations for tax filing purposes, but this status only applies to taxes, not the ability to issue stock. 3 min read
Do LLCs issue stock? The short answer is no. An LLC has multiple or single owners, also referred to as members; they can join or leave at anytime during the LLC's lifetime and each member receives varying amounts of the profits. The LLC is a pass-through entity, and no stock is issued.
LLC organizations are allowed by the IRS to be considered corporations for tax filing purposes, but this status only applies to taxes, not the ability to issue stock. Only a true corporation is allowed to issue stock.
Understanding Stocks
A stock is a unit representing ownership of a corporation. Shareholders completely own the organization, with each share of stock representing a fraction of this ownership. To keep other entities from taking over the corporation, a corporation may choose to keep at least half of the shares.
Each share represents a financial investment in the organization, providing capital for the corporation to use in running the business. Each shareholder owns a percentage of the corporation that corresponds to the amount of his shares and the amount they are worth. In most states, shareholders are free to sell their stock at any time, which includes any voting rights they might have.
Corporations can issue different classes of stock. Common stock gives owners voting rights as to how the company is run. Preferred stock may or may not include voting rights, but if the corporation goes out of business and is liquidated, these shareholders will be paid off first.
Understanding Bonds
Stock is ownership in a corporation, which only a corporation can issue. However, LLCs are free to issue bonds to raise capital for running the business. The bond is purchased from the company that issues it; it is a form of loan, and the company must later buy it back from the investor with added interest.
Formation of LLCs vs. Corporations
The process of forming an LLC is similar to forming a corporation, but there are a few differences.
- LLCs require articles of organization to be filed with the state.
- LLCs require an operating agreement to lay out the interests of the members with regard to their ownership.
- Corporations require articles of incorporation to be filed with the state.
- Corporations require a board of directors and written bylaws, and are then able to issue stock.
Ownership of LLCs
In an LLC, each member has a percentage of ownership in the company; this is not the same as stock. An LLC may be owned by a small group of people or by a single person. Though it cannot issue stock, members are allowed to sell their interests in the company to other people as a means to raise money for the needs of the business.
LLC members report their share of the profits on their own personal tax returns as income; the business itself is not taxed. However, LLC members are not liable for debt or lawsuits that involve the company, as long as it comes about through normal business operations. Therefore members' personal assets are protected.
Unlike LLCs, owners of C corporations or S corporations, which can issue shares of stock, are taxed twice on the same profit. The corporation pays taxes on these profits, and when they are issued to shareholders as dividends, they too are taxed on this income on their personal returns.
LLCs Electing as a Corporation
For the purpose of taxation, LLCs are usually considered disregarded entities by the IRS. This means that the profits and losses pass through the company and are reported on members' personal taxes. However, LLCs can elect to file as a corporation for tax purposes. When doing this, the LLC must file its own taxes. This has advantages and disadvantages, but does not give the LLC other abilities that a corporation has, such as selling shares of stock.
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Profits are handled differently by LLCs and corporations. With a corporation, shareholders of common stock may receive dividends, which are distributions of profit, as allowed by the board of directors.
These rules govern LLCs:
- LLC members receive periodic distributions of profit from the company.
- LLCs are not required to be distributed to members, unless specified in the operating agreement.
- LLCs may not issue payments to members if the money is needed to pay bills or meet other obligations.
- LLCs' distribution of profits must not result in higher liabilities than assets.
- If distributions are made improperly, the responsible member is liable for the amount of the distribution.
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Osman Iqbal: The navigation industry is seeing a bit of a slow down of late. How will the market shape up in the next couple of years?
Maarten Oldenhof: There'll be a shift from personal navigation devices to mobile devices, which can be used for more than just navigation in cars.
GPS-enabled smartphones open up enormous possibilities. However, these devices will require a different kind of service because of the geo component.
For instance, local weather information can be effectively retrieved using a mobile phone, since all these services are linked to XY co-ordinates.
The increasing integration of GPS chips into mobile devices will mean that more and more phones will be connected to maps. In the not to distant future, all mobile devices will possess GPS capabilities
OI: There's a bit of a buzz around the navigation market in Europe at the moment. Do you have any interest there?
MO: Right now, AND is not focusing on Eastern Europe. We believe that Western Europe and the US will continue to be the strongest markets in the coming years.
OI: What is needed to take map data to the next level? What features and services are consumers looking for?
MO: Personally, I believe you can get everything you need from the Internet. In theory, every address on the Internet could be connected to a map through a simple form of connectivity from your phone.
For example, you could go to a website to pick up information about a specific building in a particular city. It's an extra service on your mobile device, but it won't be a killer application for navigation because, to be honest, it's not useful for navigation at all.
However, connectivity is the key technology here, not the aspect of Internet browsing. Connectivity will ensure multiple services ranging from access to 3D maps, social networking and real-time dynamic map content.
I don't believe that maps will have all these items built into them. Thus, connectivity to off-board content is vital to enrich the navigation experience. Online browsing will never match the experience of a connected navigation map.
OI: How does AND differentiate itself from the bigger map providers?
MO: After Navteq and Tele Atlas, AND is the third biggest company in the digital map sector.
AND's way of producing maps is cheaper and faster, and price is becoming more and more relevant. We're also the only independent mapping company left in the market.
The fact that some navigation device manufacturers now have to buy maps from their biggest competitors presents an opportunity for us to become a big mapping company in the navigation sector.
OI: What will be the major trends for map data in the coming year? How have the expectations for map data changed since last year?
MO: The future of maps will be an online editable map, which gives mappers the opportunity to use feedback from customers.
OI: What does the future hold for Automotive Navigation Data?
MO: We're looking at mobile wireless devices with GPS. The device itself – whether PND or smartphone – is rapidly losing meaning in the market.
More devices will have GPS, which means that more devices will need maps. We don't care if they're PNDs or mobile devices – we want to provide those maps.
We see a lot of new opportunities due to the vertical consolidation in the market. In terms of regional focus, this year we'll concentrate on developing digital maps for Western Europe, and next year we'll focus on developing navigation maps for North America.
Maarten Oldenhof is CEO of AND Automotive Navigation Data. AND provides digital mapping data used for navigation and location-based services around the world. AND's clients in the personal navigation and Internet mapping sector include Garmin, Google, HP, IBM, Mapinfo, Microsoft and Thales Navigation.


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Big Brother alum Kathryn Dunn is sporting a new look. The former BB21 cast member took to Twitter to give an update and quite a few people commented on her updated hair.
Already, Kat has received more than 1,400 likes on her post and quite a few notes of praise from Big Brother fans, friends, and social media followers.
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As Showcased in the images shared below, Kat is sporting a new look.
Shared from her iPhone while out and about in Texas, Kat hinted that she got a haircut in the caption that went with her new photos.
"I feel like a whole brand new b****," Kat wrote to accompany her new style.
A fan quickly responded to the post by writing, "Well i must say you're looking better than ever Absolutely Beautiful your new hair look is very nice and you NEED TO BE ON ALLSTAR BB cuz you were the ONLY STAR on your season everyone else was lame you made the show actually watchable[sic]."
It was one of many glowing comments and reactions that Kat has already received. Take a look below at the images that she shared and see what you think about her new look.
Kathryn Dunn on Big Brother 21
Kat was part of the BB21 cast that played the reality competition during the summer 2019 season. She was involved in several showmances, one of which was with eventual winner Jackson Michie before the season premiere even aired.
She would later become involved in a showmance with Nicholas "Nick" Maccarone while they were locked in the BB21 jury house. That relationship carried outside of the house but didn't end up lasting very long.
Kat ended up finishing in 10th place during Big Brother 21.
Recently, we reported how Kat was spending a lot of her time during the quarantine with Reality Steve Carbone from The Bachelor fame.
As we all wait to hear about who might be playing on the Big Brother 22 season, there are a lot of fans who want to see what she can do if given another shot. Could Kathryn Dunn get invited back to be part of the BB22 cast?
Unfortunately, the current health situation in California has caused delays in getting the Big Brother 2020 season rolling. There is even the potential that Big Brother could get canceled if things don't change.
For now, fans of Kat can enjoy her new look and hope that she gets a shot to play the game again soon.
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REXBURG, Idaho — On Wednesday, the grandparents of JJ Vallow visited the site where they believe their grandson's remains were found.
Investigators found two sets of human remains on Tuesday at the home of Chad Daybell, but those remains have not yet been positively identified by law enforcement.
"This has torn up so many people, it's destroyed people, it's torn up homes and there's no need for this," Larry Woodcock was heard saying in a video.
Janeese Summers, a local resident who has been following this case closely, captured video of Kay and Larry Woodcock walking along the road near the Daybell property. It's the same area where they believe the remains of their grandson JJ and his sister Tylee, were buried.
"I just want you to know I came here for one reason and that's to see where JJ was," Larry Woodcock said.
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In the 10-minute video, Kay was mostly quiet, but Larry is seen and heard talking with various media outlets and neighbors.
"I'm not worried about the people that are responsible for this, the judicial system will take care of this and anybody else that was involved that needs, that was part of it," Larry Woodcock said. "But at this point, my job is not hatred, my job is to come here and do what I can do and mend fences. If JJ was here right now, he'd be running up and down this road."
He added that he would like to potentially get to know the Daybell children.
The Fremont County sheriff told KTVB Thursday morning that the county's coroner is in Boise and working with the Ada County Coroner's Office on the autopsies in connection with this case. Ada County Coroner Dotti Owens could not comment on this case, but her office confirmed that they offer pathology services to other jurisdictions on contract.
Daybell is facing two felony counts of destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. He is currently being held in a Fremont County Jail.
Lori Vallow, Daybell's wife and the mother of JJ and Tylee, is charged with two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children, as well as misdemeanors for resisting or obstructing officers, criminal solicitation to commit a crime, and contempt of court. She remains held in the Madison County Jail.
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Ripening Rugs represent a positive take on the process of wear. Adrianus Kundert has designed these rugs so that they come to life through intensive use: as the yarn or weave becomes worn, the rugs begin to reveal a different colour, texture, or pattern. It is the gradual erosion that makes these floor coverings gain attractiveness—each in its own way—instead of rendering them valueless and ending their lifetime. Working closely with different companies and professionals, Kundert has developed his own techniques and yarns with specific characteristics.
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Singapore — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Japan have furthered their push for destination flexibility in long-term LNG contracts with standardized clauses and new contractual documents, although their implementation is likely to take time.
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LNG buyers have been pushing to gain control of LNG cargoes in contracts extending up to 20 years, which were restricted to single destinations by large suppliers like Qatar. This ensured that cargoes could not be resold, limited the growth of trade routes and slowed the commoditization of LNG.
Last year, Japan's Fair Trade Commission declared restrictions on reselling contracted LNG were uncompetitive and in June this year the European Commission opened an antitrust investigation into restrictions on the free flow of gas sold by Qatar Petroleum in Europe.
However, industry participants have raised questions about how new contracts would be introduced and implemented, and the extent to which they will be compatible with commercial realities. It is also unclear whether existing contracts with LNG suppliers would be altered or only long-term LNG contracts that are being renewed would be renegotiated.
Institute of Energy Economics Chairman Masakazu Toyoda said the problem still lies in existing contracts, adding that if the market really wants an LNG price index in the Asia Pacific region instead of oil indexation it needs to have a flexible LNG market.
The ASEAN Council on Petroleum, ASCOPE, has published a standardized LNG contract without destination restrictions after conducting commercial and legal studies, Paramate Hoisungwan, chairman of the council's Policy Research and Capability Building Taskforce, said Monday.
He said ASCOPE has circulated the document to its member states including all key national oil companies in Southeast Asia, after a long process of consultations.
ASEAN's push to eliminate destination restrictions is unique in several ways.
It treats the 10 ASEAN nations as a single market, where the seller can deliver an LNG cargo to any terminal in Southeast Asia. This has several advantages for the buyer as it boosts energy security.
"LNG destination flexibility helps ASEAN members in normalizing supply if one of the countries needs LNG in an emergency situation. The countries can help each other," Hoisungwan said, speaking on the sidelines of the ASEAN Energy Business Forum in Singapore.
Secondly, it allows ASEAN to overcome regional imbalances as underdeveloped countries do not have high credit ratings or finances to import LNG on their own. Most importantly, the ASEAN contract balances the interests of both LNG buyers and sellers in the region, and even exporters like Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei are willing to drop destination restrictions in exchange for access to more markets.
"We are also talking to Japan, Korea and China to expand our destination flexibility to other regions. With North Asia we have counter seasonality, as their region has peak demand in winter and we don't," Hoisungwan said.
But he added that other issues like LNG terminal compatibility and standardizing LNG specifications still need to be resolved.
On October 22, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry unveiled a model clause that can be used by LNG buyers to remove destination restrictions from long-term contracts.
Such restrictions have become more relaxed in renegotiations of LNG contracts or in new contracts among market players, Hiroshige Seko, minister of economy, trade and industry, said at a conference in Nagoya last week.
"We in the government also intend to promote this movement and asked Japan-EU legal specialists to develop model clauses regarding destination restriction," Seko said.
The model clause was drafted under an agreement between the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy and Japan's METI, to promote a transparent LNG marketplace. It helps standardize the effort across several buyers.
The ability to divert cargoes, reload cargoes, access available terminal capacity and manage the risk attached to selling cargoes are essential ingredients in creating a more flexible LNG market, according to a summary of the final report from the EU-Japan workshops.
The 2017 study by the Japanese FTC had stated that Japanese buyers must not accept restrictive clauses in new and renewed long-term contracts, and review them in existing contracts as well. After the study was published several Japanese buyers succeeded in removing destination restriction clauses from new term contracts.
"Further similar studies by anti-monopoly authorities of other countries such as the US Federal Trade Commission or Korea Fair Trade Commission, if conducted, would deepen the discussion about the appropriateness of destination restrictions in the context of fair market competition," the IEEJ said in October.
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The Cersaie ended some weeks ago. We received a lot of insights from the people visiting our stand during the fair.
Visitors were surprised and fascinated by our new 100% Made in Italy products, starting from the new "I Gessi" line, which was very successful and was included by Cose di Casa among the latest trends promoted during the fair.
We also went back to natural finishes, from which we created the "Effetto Grezzo" line with oak wood. This finish is characterized by two cycles: the first one creates a barrier against oak tannin; the second one is water-based, with a matt effect, and makes the blocks look raw.
It is an honour for us to receive feedback from people who came and saw what we had created with passion at our plants in the province of Treviso. We want to continue offering high-quality wooden floors, which are controlled and certified, which combine beauty and innovation. An example is the new "I progetti" line characterized by mineralizing colours. The new models are Oficina33, Oficina42, Oficina46, Oficina58, Oficina65, and Oficina99.
We are happy that people gave a warm welcome to large format blocks during the fair. Last year we displayed them to talk about a project, but today they are part of our range of products in the "G L I I N F I N I T I" line.
Moreover, the "CREATOR®" line was enhanced with the brand new "Spina Modulare" model. The new format is able to adapt to several laying solutions and offer multiple customization options.
We will have the pleasure of revealing the details of the new products displayed during the Cersaie in the weeks to come. Stay tuned, just to be sure to not missing anything!


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Parcom, a leading Dutch mid-market private equity firm, has agreed to acquire Itho Daalderop - Climate for Life from GIMV. Climate for Life is the merger company of Itho Daalderop and Klimaatgarant services. It is a market leader in providing renewable climate systems with related services for the residential market. With this transaction Climate for Life has a new partner for future growth and continues to play a vital role in the Dutch energy transition. The existing management team, led by Bas Korte, will continue to run the company following the acquisition.
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Get excited, tiara fans: we've reached the third round of our Diamonds Are Forever Tiara Tournament! Here's a preview of the match-ups we'll see over the next two weeks…
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Our first contest of the round pairs up the "wall of diamonds," Queen Alexandra's Kokoshnik (1), with the elegant Belgian Scroll Tiara (4), the last Luxembourgish sparkler in the contest. Next up, Queen Mary's Diamond Bandeau (14), our contest Cinderella, keeps dancing against the Danish Floral Aigrette Tiara (2), the flexible ornament from Copenhagen.
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The top-ranked Meiji Tiara (1) has tackled all of its competition so far, and now it meets up with the Vladimir Tiara (5) in its all-diamond form. Next, the Queen Mother's beloved Greville Tiara (3) faces off against one of the grandest tiaras from the Dutch royal collection, the Stuart Tiara (2).
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This region of the bracket has been full of surprises in every round! The Brabant Laurel Wreath Tiara (8), which knocked off the top-ranked Braganza last round, meets up with the Japanese Crown Princely Tiara (4) this time around. Next, another Japanese sparkler, the Imperial Chrysanthemum Tiara (6), challenges the Connaught Diamond Tiara (7), the final Bernadotte tiara in the tournament.
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And finally, we've got one of the heavyweights, the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara (1) facing off against Queen Josefina's Diamond Tiara (4), Norway's last hope for tournament glory. In our final contest of the round, the Dutch underdog, Queen Emma's Diamond Tiara (6), will challenge a massive sparkler with a similar design, Queen Sophie's Diamond Tiara (2).
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We're onto Episode 25 of the Saints Wire Podcast, hosted as always by Ryan O'Leary (@RyanOLearySMG) with Saints Wire managing editor John Sigler (@john_siglerr). You can subscribe for new episodes on Apple Podcasts or your podcast app of choice, and catch up on past episodes in the playlist embedded below.Buy Saints Tickets
The first big wave of free agency has crashed over the NFL, taking several big names from the Saints with it: Trey Hendrickson, Sheldon Rankins, and a number of tough salary cap cuts, too. We dug into those losses and what the expectations might be for the Saints this year and how their offseason strategy is beginning to take shape, so listen in:


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Poet and priest who mixed religion and politics in his commitment to social justice in Nicaragua
From the northernmost islands of Solentiname down to San Carlos it could take seven hours in the rowboat. Another day to travel back up from San Carlos to the markets in Granada on the northwest coast where perhaps the distance will make the prices worth the exhaustion. The surplus one would take was mostly hypothetical. Blight grabbed up the crops. There was enough to survive sometimes. The radio was never finally purchased from the nonexistent savings.
One would have to row to the doctor, too. All night. "Instead of getting better the child would get worse," explained Natalia Sequeira, remembering the day when a priest arrived, as had been rumored he would, on Sunday.
She remembered the day because on Saturday her daughter had died, hepatitis, one-year-old. There wasn't a priest who would normally show up for comforting rites of passage in that awful moment. The priest who did sometimes visit was from San Carlos. 300 pesos perhaps covered his costs. Extra on St. Joseph's day. A Somocista and a chaplain for the National Guard, Father Chacon. A "damned creep," according to Alejandro Guevara, whose grandfather came to Solentiname when there was nobody in Solentiname.
Ometepe, nearby, means in Nahuatl, "two mountains". The volcanoes of this dumbbell island are further north than the archipelago of Solentiname where an altogether different kind of priest would arrive on that Sunday, February 13, in 1966. Stone idols and petroglyphs are records of its ancient past. Several centuries after those chiseled artifacts, the Chorotega who came from Chiapas would carve statues out of the basalt rock, from the lava of those twin mountains. They, in turn, would encounter the Spanish conquistadors and British pirates (like Captain Morgan who snuck up on his Iberian enemies there). Europeans came up the drainpipe of the San Juan from the Caribbean-Atlantic to operate in the coves of that great lake called a sweet sea, pearled by Granada, preeminent city of Central America since León was destroyed by volcano and earthquake.
By the time Alejandro's grandfather arrived in those isolated islands in the 1860s even the Guatuso had left, moving far beyond the desaguadero into Costa Rica where by 1966 most of them had disappeared. Ometepe was where Sunday's new guest had thought he would end up. More populous but still isolated, poor, rural Ometepe had been where the priest and his mentor, Thomas Merton, decided upon for their new kind of religious community when they had finally decided on somewhere in Nicaragua.
When Merton was trapped in his Trappist Monastery, barred from leaving his orders, and quarantined for the dangerous idea, the letters he wrote to Ernesto Cardenal, passing under the abbot's inspection, would still have "Ometepe" as code for the venture he'd live vicariously through his protégé. Solentiname, not Ometepe, was where Cardenal could buy land. And where Cardenal appeared one day on a Sunday, the day after Natalia Sequeira's one-year-old died of hepatitis.
The community was to be, either way, more an artists' commune than a monk's existence. Merton had made sure Cardenal knew to be ordained elsewhere than the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. For that, the abbot had made sure Merton would not get permission from Rome to venture into the unknown and lead any other novices away from where he'd been such a drawcard (Merton and Cardenal were both famous for their writing). And even though Cardenal and Merton would exchange letters up until Merton's untimely death — " tu muerte marca General Electric " — in 1968, the community at Solentiname would move beyond the initial vision they discussed. Certainly what became of Solentiname was something Merton could never have foreseen.
Its members comprised the locals on Lake Nicaragua and visitors who came from all over. Like any small church anywhere in the world, its core was the dedication and love of especially the women, mothers and grandmothers whose hopes and struggles for their children gave them every reason to find solace in the power of prayer. What they hadn't expected to find was such a voice through it. The project of rebuilding that little church was something entirely new. Even without the priest's novel ideas it was they who were building the vision from the ground floor. And practices that became impractical were tried and then gave way to better ideas.
The prayers that accompanied every part of the day, still in monastery fashion, were done away with. Too regular, static. Psalm reading became just one short session. The Gospels were read sometimes, not every time, and next to political tracts and group discussions about the situation in Nicaragua and Latin America and the world. Mao, Castro, Christ, Lenin, Sandino, St. Paul. Painting stayed. Cardenal supplied the paints and it became a source of joy as well as income for those who dared to try it. Not everyone liked it.
People visit Solentiname today for the painting style initiated there. Solentiname's art can be found throughout Nicaragua. There is a Solentiname style; naive, detailed, colorful, simple, wise. Before the triumph of the revolution, for many locals to paint was to be a communist. To be one of those painters from Solentiname was certainly to be communist. People gossip. But the government was not yet so suspicious of the strange project going on through the poet-priest and the small community of peasants on the neglected islands of Solentiname.
In 1966, the day after Natalia Sequeira lost her one-year-old daughter to hepatitis, the inauspicious half-built abandoned church building on Mancarrón welcomed a new kind of priest and two compañeros. It was to be an artistic, contemplative, Christian commune. And it did become so. In 1977 the National Guard destroyed the whole thing: community library with all the books, the art, sculptures, anything literary at all, all of it considered subversive. The community at Solentiname had become terribly dangerous. By 1977, the peasant artists of Solentiname were enemies of the state, the priest Cardenal was a fugitive, and the young had been killed in reprisal for the attack on the San Carlos barracks.
Let's take an example. What does one read when one reads The Magnificat, the Song of Mary? Words on a mother's lips of a son who became not only Jesus of Nazareth (where nothing good comes from) but Jesus the Christ, called Son of Man, the figure of upheaval so great it was said by his followers to be the Good News of God for humankind. "Derribó a los poderosos de sus tronos y encumbró a los humildes. Llenó de bienes a los hambrientos y despidió a los ricos con las manos vacías. / He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty." (Luke 1: 52-53, translations from BLPH and NRSV).
Rosita: Que era comunista
Laureano: No es que sólo dirían que la Virgen era comunista: era comunista.
¿Y qué dirían en Nicaragua si oyeran lo que aquí se habla en Solentiname?, pregunto.
Varios: Que somos comunistas.
Alguien pregunta: ¿Eso de que a los hambrientos llenó de bienes?
Contesta un joven: Que los hambrientos van a comer.
Y otro: La revolución.
In a country where there are the powerful on their thrones, where the masses of the people are hungry, where Natalia Sequeira's child dies like so many are dying, where tuberculosis is the case for every mine worker, where the capital is destroyed by an earthquake, where now the National Guard loot the shops and the international aid, where a family called Somoza are four decades in control, where in the next town over its empty, liquidated, a mass grave: in a country such as that the words of a gospel text could be tinder for a revolutionary fire. Of course, those same scriptures could be used to extinguish any thought of change. But in the 1970s, small groups across Latin America were becoming the groundswell of a democratic revolution that would shake the continent from Central America to the Southern Cone, from the Andes to the Atlantic Coast. They are known to us now as comunidades eclesiales de base, basic church communities.
80,000 such groups operated in Brazil alone. On farms, in the forests, in favelas and industrial zones, the people were hungry. And hunger was not the will of God. And dictators and security states were not the will of God, either. Merton's idea and Cardenal's experiment had accidentally joined something already happening across the land. And what was happening all across the land was now being noticed by the landlords, those lords of the earth. All talk of equality and dignity was called "communist" back then. All dissent against the economic order of North Atlantic capital was treated decisively. And as the armed rebellion in Nicaragua grew through the 1970s, peasant communities, its base support, were targeted increasingly by the Guardia whether or not they harbored militants or information or anything more than their poverty. Next to gospel readings were now more and more news of the massacres taking place across the country. And the poet-priest had been meeting with revolutionaries, realising their vision was the same and intrigued by the number of clergies (including his brother, Fernando Cardenal) already calling themselves Sandinistas.
Oscar: The Gospel was quite clear. It told of the suffering that Christ underwent for a group that was in a similar situation to ours in Nicaragua under Somoza. Earlier we had thought we could always live like that, with the Book in our hands, without any change. Because many people, even the oldest men, believe that you can be saved by the Bible alone. After hearing the Gospel we saw more clearly what Jesus Christ wanted, what kind of love he had for his people. We saw that you had to overthrow imperialism to live a little better.
It was only a matter of time until the peasant-painters and poet-priest of Solentiname had their own run-in with the authorities. We are fortunate to have their own words about that seemingly inevitable journey from the early memories of the 1960s leading to destruction in 1977. The first volumes of El Vangelio en Solentiname were already begun in '75, meaning that what is fortunate to the researcher now was evidence for the Guard at the time they took an interest in that isolated group of islands. More was going on besides bible studies and painting, sure enough. That "more" has made Solentiname and the name of Ernesto Cardenal commensurate with the Nicaraguan Revolution's triumph in 1979.
A revolutionary since 13-years-old, it was Tomás Borge, born in 1930, whose father had been a deputy commander of Augusto Sandino against the United States occupation, who wrote a letter to Fr. Ernesto in 1968 asking to talk. Seven years earlier, Borge founded the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN, the Sandinistas) along with Carlos Fonseca and Silvio Mayorga. "I told [Fonseca] I agreed with everything," recalled in Cardenal, "and supported their armed struggle. But as a priest, I felt that I could not kill." Cardenal sent the Sandinista leaders a copy of Gandhi's biography. Fonseca pointed out that China had changed through armed struggle while India was still racked by poverty.
In 1971, Cardenal traveled to Peru and Chile and met with Marxist priests. Some were even armed, openly part of the new governments, or underground and expecting retaliation from the international oil concerns and other industrial interests for the nationalisation of resources and infrastructure. In stark contrast, most of Latin America was still in the hands of the landed elite, foreign multinationals, and militaries that functioned as U.S. organs for business as usual. Cuban Revolution in 1958 modeled an alternative for the Latin American and Caribbean U.S./European-dependencies but henceforth the battle over the western hemisphere's southern half would be more easily won by the old order than by the surging potential of the revolutionaries. That potential was not to be scoffed at, however. Castro in Cuba, and now Allende in Chile. A series of security states were instituted by the leaders of the military coups that toppled Brazil in 1964, Chile two years after Cardenal's visit, Uruguay also in 1973, Argentina 1976, and so on. The bodies of the slain are still being exhumed from that era of famous violence.
Reprisal and repression lead to even greater revolt. It was only a matter of time until the poet-priest and peasant artisans of Solentiname had their own run-in with the authorities. Fr. Ernesto visited Cuba and when back in Nicaragua publicly defended the revolution, declaring himself to be socialist, though not, he was careful to omit a "Marxist". After sporadic meetings with Borge and Fonseca, Cardenal was contacted in January 1975, right after the attack on the house of Chema Castillo the Somocista, hostages were taken at a Christmas party, released in return for the release of Sandinista prisoners, $1000,000, and the broadcasting of the rebels' political manifesto. A real blow. Cardenal was dispatched to Rome to denounce the atrocities committed by the Guard. The priest was now a Sandinista.
The next mission was much harder. Choose from among the young in your community who will be sent to fight. And so that's what he did. Or rather the young had already chosen themselves. The community chicken-farm had become a makeshift training camp. Nubia the schoolteacher (who came to Solentiname after the former schoolteacher was discovered a spy) and her boyfriend, Alejandro. Alejandro's two sisters. Also Felipe. Elvis. Donald. Of Olivia's children, six in total and one nephews. There was also Juan Bosco Centeno, Alejandro's brother-in-law, and Laureano, Gloria, Esperanza. The young William Agudelo who came from Colombia with Cardenal in 1966 was sent with Mario Avila to operate the radio transmitting the revolution across the border in San Jose. The others went to Costa Rica too but for weapons training.
It is not clear what went wrong in the attack on the San Carlos barracks, and why the youth were left ill-equipped and abandoned in the breach. We have the testimonies of the survivors in Margaret Randall's Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution (1983), told by interview and narrative. Those records are surprising for their candor. So Nubia can recall the argument about the guns:
"I went like any other comrade, an equal fighter. I had a 2-22 rifle with a telescopic sight, and Bosco, who's a good shot, was green with envy. Before that, when we arrived at La Loma, the Sandinista headquarters, "Marvin" had given me a little .22 rifle that we had brought from home. I had a fight with him about that. I didn't want that little rifle, I wanted something better. Alejandro yelled at me about being undisciplined; I was to take whatever they gave me."
It is true that they were not well-armed. Well-armed rebels have bigger sponsors than the Sandinistas ever did. And perhaps the little band from Solentiname were not the main priority in the coordinated attacks planned that day.
Nubia: "In the end, Bosco did take my rifle away. That was only at the end when the air force was on top of us. Then I exchanged the Garand with Donald who gave me a shotgun. A 12-gauge shotgun, which had a cracked barrel. I gave him mine because of machismo, thinking he could do better than I. I gave him the Garand to shoot at the planes and I was left with the shotgun. In the end, I had to throw it away along the road because it was completely useless."
They didn't know it but the attacks being carried out across the country had been called off last minute. The provisional Sandinista government was not going to be crossing the San Juan into rebel-won Nicaragua. The air-waves were not about to fill with the crackling audio of William announcing the revolution had taken cities and towns across the country. And "Commander Cero" or "Plutarco" or whoever he really was, who met the young fighters in San Carlos, left for a minute during the battle and never returned. It was not that he was caught. He just left. They were left on their own and when they ran out of ammunition they retreated along the paths that Nubia knew from her childhood town, shortcuts back to the river where they would paddle until safety, bruised and bewildered from the skirmish.
Ernesto: "They had no way out. There had been no plan for the retreat because insurrections were to happen everywhere. The order was: fir and no retreat. And then they realized that the chief had gone away with a group and only the ones from Solentiname were left. Nobody would have died if they had planned a proper retreat."
Nubia: "Since I was from San Carlos, I knew a path to the river. So we decided to try it. We stayed there for a bit discussing how we'd leave; it was more difficult because of the wounded man [El Chatto, a fighter from elsewhere]. It is terrible to see a comrade like that, and you have to think about how to get out and whether to take him or leave him. You don't know what to do.
[cont.]: I went to say goodbye to my mother. My house is very close to the barracks where we were. My mother was pale and didn't say anything. I told her we were lost and if the Guard found us they would kill us. I said if anything happens, don't mourn me. All she said was, "My child, why did you get involved?" Only that."
The split decision was made to get El Chatto to the hospital and to find a boat. Stash the weapons in an outhouse with the ammunition and anything red and black, rebel colors. A pale neighbor with a cup of black coffee. Another with some better shoes. Take them. Try to not get caught. The whole airforce, not otherwise engaged, was overhead. Families on Solentiname who hadn't left already were watching the planes and helicopters fly diagonally eastward to San Carlos where the children were. A woman living by the river had two little rowboats, no paddles, and the river, she said, was hard to cross. They paddled with their hands across the river into the cover of the trees and trudged by foot all day in a terrible swamp going vaguely south toward Costa Rica. "There were all kinds of animals; you feel them going by, here and there. The water was up to my waist" Ronald and Elvis were not with them.
By nightfall, they reached hard ground covered in thorns. Nubia had lost the awkwardly floating shoes given by that neighbor. For two days she had to drag herself to save her feet. Then another river. The islanders found it easier to swim across. Gloria and Miriam crossed easily. Ivan and Alejandro had to come back to rescue Nubia who was just floating without strength to swim. And then more walking, almost about to drop, through mosquito clouds and up above came the airforce again in daybreak as they ate green guavas by a Somoza farm. So they split, some one way, some another, and somehow recovered each other by 5 pm, another day gone. But the comrade nicknamed "El Chacal" was not there. He shot himself in desperation, just out of sight of Alejandro and Pedro Pablo as they fanned out. The Jackal had been a prisoner before and could not stand the thought of being in the Guard's hands again. Alejandro protested when Nubia pried William's stiff fingers from his shotgun, but they needed it. One can imagine what she saw that close.
Another night, an exposed road, two more swamps, and another river by rowboat from a one-eyed rancher and finally they arrived bedraggled, bitten all over and with shreds for clothing into Los Chiles, across the border. The Costa Rican Guard found out they were there. The farm they found was not Maria Kautz's, wife of Jose Coronel Urtecho, the famed poet and friend of the revolution, but a Somocista who comforted them and sent word to the authorities. The youth couldn't even run after five nightmare days had done its work. They were arrested and moved for safety to San Jose by plane with a small armed plane escort to deter the Nicaraguan ones still hovering over Los Chiles.
Solentiname was near deserted. A call to Managua had told Cardenal not to return, not even for his beloved typewriter or his books. He was to get his visa and get out of the country, that was an order. The few families still dotted about heard news of the early morning attack on the San Carlos barracks, about its failure, and that Bosco Centeno, Alejandro's brother-in-law, was dead or in prison. They had heard the planes overhead but they hadn't known all the details until word came by rowboat from the city. Bosco Centeno was alive they learned. Ronald and Elvis, though, were missing. At least one from the attack was in custody. And everyone knew that Solentiname was the rebel base. The National Guard would soon be arriving with questions and more.
There wasn't much left to discover. One old Spanish lady accidentally turned over a copy of The Gospel in Solentiname, with its pages full of the names of locals and their discussions about the gospel and the Guard and all manner of things. Manuel's name was in there, his words about Somoza too. They came to his house to question him but he managed to act sufficiently blank as to the attack. Yes, they came from here. No, they're not here. If I was involved I would not be here. Look around my house if you like. Nothing to see here. Another day the Guard was frustrated. They came and took Gloria's brother and another lad and they buried them alive in front of witnesses on a Somoza farm plot in San Carlos. Natalia's son Rafael was taken along with Jose Arana and Oscar, tortured but eventually released. Elvis, another of Natalia's boys, was dead. And Olivia's son, Donald, too. The two had been split from the group fleeing San Carlos. All the books were burned. When the Guard came back to take Manuel into questioning he was gone.
We know how the story goes. We get to look back from our future vantage point. But the huddled Solentiname exiles arriving in San Jose via Delicias, and Los Chiles, and Upala did not know that two years later their victory would come. Meanwhile, they worked underground for the revolution from Costa Rica while a key few of them went back to the frontlines. Alejandro became a fighter and was fated to another retreat from the battlefield of Rivas in December of 1978, the one where the Spanish priest Gaspar Garcia Laviana was killed. They had a 50-caliber machine gun, two other guns, and two bazookas. "Gaspar died right there beside me." By 1978, the church in Latin America had many martyrs and many more to come. Some were killed in skirmishes like Colombia's Fr. Camilo Torres (killed in 1966). Others were high-ranking assassinations such as Argentina's Bishop Enrique Angelelli (killed in 1976).
Fr. Ernesto Cardenal gathered with his flock in San Jose too, via Venezuela, and stayed in exile until 1979 when the FSLN seized power, becoming Minister for Culture. His brother, Fr. Fernando Cardenal became Minister of Education. Fr. Miguel d'Escoto became Foreign Minister. All three were denounced and censured by Rome's attack-dog, Joseph Ratzinger. When Pope John Paul II visited Managua in 1983 he appeared in a now-famous photo, wagging his finger in the face of the kneeling Padre Ernesto. It was during the ongoing Contra war against the new Nicaraguan government, where the deposed National Guard core, Somoza-loyalists, and Miskito Indians became the new rebels to contend with. The Iran-Contra scandal is now emblematic of the crusading anti-Communist 1980s. In Nicaragua, it meant concretely that the massacres so beloved by the Somocistas not only continued but increased. A steady flow of arms, intelligence, and personnel flowed into Nicaragua from the training schools of Fort Benning and the camps in Honduras. The horrors of that decade were well documented and not advisable for the compassionate reader.
Eventually, both the Cardenal brothers would leave the party and become figureheads for the reform movements in the country. Besides a gap in the 1990s, Daniel Ortega has been in power since 1979, about as long a period as the Somoza family were. This week, Retired Lieutenant Colonel, Juan Bosco Centeno, who years ago had fought with the other youth of Solentiname at the failed attack on the San Carlos barracks, brought with him Fr. Ernesto's ashes from Managua to Solentiname to be buried at the monument inscribed with names like Elvis Chavarria, Laureano Mairena, Alejandro Guevara. The funeral mass held on Tuesday in the capital was set upon by government thugs, said Bosco, so the Saturday scheduled burial was done in secret earlier. Reporting from Nicaragua, Wilfredo Miranda Aburto, sets the scene:
"The evening fell, drenched in heat, the crickets began their chirping, and the projector was lit and directed at the white wall of the church where Cardenal spoke of the Gospels with the farmers, promoting their utopia, created in the contemplative dimension and later, as revolutionary. Many farmers, friends and family members of the poet took their turn to speak. But the funeral rites truly began when the vigoron was served (yuca root, fried pigskin, and cabbage salad). Everyone from Solentiname was called to the same table.
'"This is how we lived with him," explained Esperanza Guevara Silva, from the side door of the church, painted in primitivist art, while observing the communion of dozens of servings of vigorous. "After mass, we would have lunch or dinner, a meal with the father…and that was to continue the Eucharist. We are here in a Eucharist with Christ," she insisted. It would be Solentiname's last supper with their Father Cardenal, under a night sky of bright stars, reflected by the calm waves of Lake Cocibolca." (Confidencial, 09.03.2020)
Now there are nine schools in Solentiname. There was no school before the unusual poet-priest arrived one day in February 1966. That was the Cardenal. That was Solentiname. Lo que fue Solentiname.
Alexander Holmes-Brown studied for his Bachelor's Degree at Perth Bible College. He has worked for governmental, church-based, and charitable organisations. His writing projects are interested in Liberation Theologies, Alexander writes for The Southern African Times on religion from Majority World perspectives.


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Joseph Olchefske, the superintendent of the Seattle public schools, is on trial in the court of public opinion, following revelations of accounting errors that are forcing the district to make deep budget cuts.
Last week, the city's teachers' union asked him to resign, and a citizens' group is circulating a petition calling for his ouster. Meanwhile, several local education leaders—including a majority of the school board—are pledging their continued support for the superintendent.
Sparring over Mr. Olchefske's job began early last month, when he announced the discovery of multiple financial missteps that led the district to overspend last year's budget by about $22 million, and this year's by about $12 million. The errors—which represent a sizable chunk of the 47,800-student district's current $443 million spending plan—are especially striking, given the superintendent's background as an investment banker and as the district's former chief financial officer.
Fueling the controversy are broader disagreements over the school improvement efforts pursued by the superintendent. The budget fiasco has become a lighting rod for groups and individuals with varied complaints about the way the district has been run during Mr. Olchefske's tenure.
At the same time, his backers argue that his policies have begun to raise student performance, and that his departure would halt that progress.
Ruffled Feathers
"This financial thing is a real body blow," said Don Nielsen, a former president of the Seattle school board. "But it should not serve to change the course of the district. The last thing that the Seattle schools need is a change in leadership."
Some of the budget errors that sparked the debate date back more than a year, although Mr. Olchefske says he only learned of the shortfall this past August. Meetings held throughout September to unravel the problems found several major mistakes.
Among them: double counting of students in vocational education programs, spending more on substitute teachers than had been allotted, and failing to budget for increased expenditures as a result of new labor contracts.
Asked if anyone had been terminated as a result of the mistakes, he said: "I certainly tried very hard not to play the blame game here, but clearly some people involved in this are not here now."
The district's chief financial officer—whom Mr. Olchefske hired after he left the CFO's post to become the superintendent in 1999—resigned in August.
Filling last year's budget deficit meant raiding the system's rainy-day fund of $21.9 million. Among other measures, district officials drafted a plan to lay off 38 employees and eliminate 35 vacant positions, all central-office and systemwide jobs.
"This is something that is very troubling to me, just like it is to everyone in our schools," Mr. Olchefske said in an interview last week. "What's important is that we try to fix it."
But some parents and district staff members want the superintendent gone. Last month, teachers at two Seattle high schools approved votes of no confidence against Mr. Olchefske. After initially adopting a wait-and-see attitude, the Seattle Education Association last week called for the superintendent's resignation.
A petition calling for his removal also is being promoted by a new organization called CEASE, which stands for Citizens for Effective Administration of Seattle Education.
"Our demands will be met when the superintendent resigns or is terminated," said Theresa Cardamone, a parent active in the Alternative Schools Alliance, a local group that has fought Mr. Olchefske's attempts to impose districtwide accountability rules on alternative schools.
The alliance created CEASE with another group, Save Our Schools, which represents parents and community activists in Seattle's predominantly low-income south end. Also supporting the petition drive are some parents of gifted students who have complained about recent changes to programs for high-achieving students.
"The common thread is that everyone feels that these programs that are time-tested, and loved, and wanted, are being threatened and undermined," said Katherine Triandafilou, whose children are in a program for the gifted. "That's the source of the fire."
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Amid the rising discontent, six of Seattle's seven school board members signed off on a statement professing their confidence in Superintendent Olchefske at a special meeting held on Nov. 1.
A similar message of support went out the same day at a separate press conference that included Patricia Wasley, the dean the University of Washington's college of education, and Pat Stanford, the widow of John Stanford, the popular Seattle superintendent and retired major general who died in 1998.
Several of Mr. Olchefske's supporters characterized the calls for his resignation as griping by a vocal minority.
"When you change as much stuff as we have in the last few years, you're going to have people in the system who don't like it," said Mr. Nielsen.
But Mr. Olchefske's critics pledge to keep the pressure on. Organizers say CEASE aims to gather 47,800 signatures for its petition—one for each student in the district. If the board doesn't get rid of the superintendent, Ms. Cardamone predicts he'll be the central issue in next year's school board race.
"We will not stop until he's gone," she said.
A version of this article appeared in the November 13, 2002 edition of Education Week as Budget Shortfall Fuels Dissension in Seattle Over Superintendent