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As the year end arrives, I am breaking my brief hiatus from blogging. A lots have happened in the period in between.
Most important of all, i got hitched...finally...So it's official now(well Sats broke this already in his blog), I am married to Manisha this December and life has been treating us well so far. No..no i am not going to elaborately post about the road to our wedding (that deserves a big multi part posts ;-)) but rather i would keep it simple and request for lots of good wishes.
Now coming to the moment, "Wishing everyone a wonderful, happy, prosperous and peaceful New Year and years to come".
And, yes this wish comes from both of us :-)
Friday, December 31, 2010
And finally...
Posted by Chan at Friday, December 31, 2010
Categories: Celebrations, Family, Happy, Wishes
6 comments:
- Satish N said...
Have a stunning married life buddy... If at all I have one regret in the past year, that has to be missing ur wedding. Anyways, my prayers will always be there for ur well being and happiness.
Manisha - you never told me that ........ ;)))
- January 1, 2011 at 4:46 PM
- Unknown said...
Wish you a Happy New Year and a wonderful married life!
Convey my wishes to Manisha too :-)
- January 3, 2011 at 4:29 PM
- Chan said...
Thx a ton folks!
- January 3, 2011 at 5:00 PM
- Shylaja Muralidharan said...
Best wishes Chan and Manisha!!!
- January 4, 2011 at 12:00 PM
- chennaigirl said...
Hearty wishes for a wonderful married life to both of u. U both never let the cat out of the bag ;)
Wishes once again for a beginning.
- January 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM
@CG, thanks...if we let tat out, then wats the thrill :-P
- January 7, 2011 at 3:07 PM
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Like most millennials, I tend to do 50,000 things at once.
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The Bank of Thailand has played down concerns over the country's record foreign direct investment fuelling a property bubble.
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With further liquidity expected in the market, partly due to US Federal Reserve measures, some Asian economies are expected to grow 7.7 per cent on average this year. Anticipating this drive for investment and in an attempt to slow the Baht's meteoric rise the Thai Government has recently introduced capital inflow taxes that have deflected some investment.
However, with market forces exceeding the government's own, inflationary pressure is still strong in the region, heightened further by the US dollar's expected weakening against the Baht with the injection of USD 600 billion by the Federal Reserve.


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For more information about how home visiting works, its proven benefits, and recommendations for expanding programs and improving coordination among programs, please read our new report, Home is Where the Start Is: Expanding Home Visiting to Strengthen All of New York's Families.
1 Burwick, A., H. Zaveri, L. Shang, K. Boller, D. Daro, D. Strong. (2014). Costs of Early Childhood Home Visiting: An Analysis of Programs Implemented in the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment Initiative. Final Report. Mathematica Policy Research. http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/~/media/publications/PDFs/earlychildhood/EBHV_costs.pdf
2 Howard, K., and J. Brooks-Gunn. (2009). The Role of Home-Visiting Programs in Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect. Future of Children; vol. 19; 2; p. 119-146. http://futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/docs/19_02_06.pdf
Because the cost-benefit analyses differ across programs depending on the scope, duration and intensity of services offered, the geographic location of the program, and the time horizon of the cost-benefit analysis, it is difficult to make direct comparisons across programs. See also, Kilburn, R. (2014). Testimony before the House Ways & Means Committee: Evidence on Home Visiting and Suggestions for Implementing Evidence-Based Home Visiting Through MIECHV. RAND Corporation. http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/testimonies/CT400/CT407/RAND_CT407.pdf


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Pikes Peak area organizations commence a community conversation about early childhood
The newly formed group The Raising of America: Pikes Peak Community Alliance will launch a community-wide conversation on the topic of early childhood on Saturday, January 9, 2016 from 10am-12pm at Library 21c. Led by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the alliance has the support of 18 other organizations in the Pikes Peak region. The group is using the PBS documentary (airing in January) as the basis for facilitated dialogues to explore ways our own community might address the issues raised in the series.
"We believe that this is an important conversation for our community to have," said Cara Koch, local AAUW Public Policy Director, "There is significant new research in the areas of child development and the economics of investing in early childhood, and the life-long effect of inequity on the futures of our children."
The alliance seeks to engage all facets of the community in the conversation including parents and families, service providers, community leaders, public policy makers, and philanthropists.
The first public event will be Saturday, January 9 from 10am-12pm at Library 21c. The conversation will explore how the growing squeeze on families for time, money, and resources can alter the development of a child's brain- and lead to life-long effects. Community members may view The Raising of America on January 7 from 9-10pm on Rocky Mountain PBS. A second event will take place in April.
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|Challenges to science and society in the sustainable management and use of water: investigating the role of social learning
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Challenges to science and society in the sustainable management and use of water: investigating the role of social learning
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Ison R., Roling N., Watson D.. 2007. Challenges to science and society in the sustainable management and use of water: investigating the role of social learning. Environmental Science & Policy. 10
To assess the role and function of social learning in the context of the sustainable use and management of water
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Water catchments are viewed as 'unknowable' due to their complex, uncertain, dynamic nature. However, this does not reflect current paradigm's and approaches to management. In these circumstances, the authors argue that knowledge used in decision-making should be more diverse than currently applies. Social learning, with its different paradigmatic and epistemological assumptions, is seen as a means to facilitate these alternative possibilities. This article presents the findings from a multi-disciplinary group of researchers evaluating social learning within the context of the SLIM project (social learning for the integrated management and sustainable use of water at catchment scale). The history of collaboration generated from this project has now contributed significant information in relation to addressing human impact in water catchments. A key principle of social learning is non-coercion, and while there is still the need for greater understanding of the assumptions and successful conduct of this learning model in practice, it has been shown to provide a more open-ended process that helps to generate novelty and alternative possibilities in natural resource decision-making. An important focus of a social learning approach is to find and support legitimate social structures and processes to achieve learning outcomes, rather than attempting to replace them with alternative expensive solutions. Social learning is also not portrayed as an isolated framework, but is to be considered in parallel with other coordination mechanisms.
As with its related model of social learning, adaptive learning is not considered in isolation but rather as a coordinating framework bringing together diverse models and mechanisms for managing change in complex, 'unknowable' systems. Adaptive learning is not prescriptive in terms of outcomes or the means by which outcomes are achieved. Instead, it presents an open framework of learning encouraging diversity and novelty. In fact, one of the strengths of adaptive learning as a conceptual model is the drawing together of not only a broad range of learning theories and practices, but also the incorporation of other theoretical models and concepts critical to sustainable resource management. This includes models and concepts such as adaptive management, resilience, adaptive cycles and others. Adaptive learning also critically emphasises the importance of moving from theory to praxis. Adaptive learning is a natural phenomenon and occurs continuously at different scales within societal structures. In this case, there are without doubt already existing legitimate social structures and mechanisms at individual and institutional levels that are fully capable of embracing change. A challenge for adaptive learning, is to identify these structures and mechanisms and, through the use of contextually specific tools and processes, to enhance these processes rather than finding expensive new solutions, as this article points out. One of the keys for adaptive learning is novelty, however novelty does not always mean something new in and of itself. It may simply refer to seeing something in a new way, with new eyes and a new and open approach.


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Happy Valentine's Day! I know many of you are more focused on showing your sweetheart just how much you care this weekend, and less focused on your business. But, as a business owner, you know that success is only possible if you truly love what you do. Here's a few articles to help you spread the love today, tomorrow, and all the days following.
Redefining Love at Work: How to Foster a Sense of Connection
Most business owners don't exactly encourage office romances (and I'm one of them), but, as this article argues, love is the secret to creating a positive and productive workplace. That being said, "forget the kind of love you see in greeting cards and on Valentines," and instead, think of love as any shared positive emotion–like pride or compassion. Sharing those experiences results in a more connected workplace. Read on for the top 4 tips that can help you lead a more connected company.
Why do Customers Fall in Love? A Valentine for an Audience of One
You probably spent at least a few minutes searching for the perfect card to tell your Valentine exactly how you feel. That card is tailored to your loved one's likes and dislikes, and is a representation of your genuine appreciation for them. Now, imagine presenting your Valentine with a generic card, rather than that hand selected one, and, whoops, you didn't even sign it. Can't you just see the disappointment on their face? Well, that's how your clients feel every time they receive a mass produced marketing effort from your company. According to this article, you have to romance your customers if you want them to develop any loyalty to you and your business. Here's how.
5 Reasons I Love Sales, and Why You Just Might, Too
Some people love sales, others… not so much. For those on the fence, Jeff Shore, self-appointed sales expert, has listed out the top five reasons he loves sales–and why you should too! First and foremost, sales are all about improving people's lives by providing them with a product or service they need. When you look at it that way, salespeople are a little bit like romantic superheroes–making the world a better place one sale at a time. Open your heart to sales this Valentine's Day!
Last but not least, remember that leadership is all about leading with your head AND your heart. As this article states, "to have a truly successful life and leadership, we must love others and ourselves, and we must…lead with love."


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by Leon Flick (1954-2013)
He was made in the West
where a man's put to test
by the horses and tracks that he's made.
And his love for the land,
is a thing that is grand.
Life's dues have been hard, but they're paid.
The lessons he's learned
and the pride that he's earned,
and the knowledge that speaks in his eye
comes from hours in the saddle,
where he's trotted astraddle,
'tween the land and the good Lord's blue sky.
Through the drought and the flood,
he's bathed in life's blood.
Life and death seem the stones of his path.
He's seen nature's death,
put the unfit to rest,
and the love of a cow's newborn calf.
He's been imitated
till he's near constipated
by the folks who are faking his part.
They can play till they strand,
but they won't understand
that they're missin' what lives in his heart.
He's got enough sense,
to take down the fence
that corners most mortal men's minds.
He knows Mother Nature,
and sure won't forsake Her.
She's twice as hard as she is kind.
And his God, as he knows Him
and the things that He shows him,
has taught one thing for sure.
Mother Nature is hard,
and you die what you are.
So friend, hope your tracks have been pure.
© 1992, Leon Flick
This poem should not be reposted or reprinted without permission
Much-loved and missed cowboy Leon Flick entertained audiences across the West with his poetry, including appearances at the Western Folklife Center's National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. This poem is included on his 1992 Home for a Buckaroo recording and is in his book, A Cow's Tail for a Compass. His friend Kathy Moss recently shared a video on Facebook that includes the poem.
The annual Sunny Hancock/Leon Flick Memorial Cowboy Poetry Show in Paisley, Oregon, raises funds for a local cowboy crisis fund and scholarship and honors the memory of Leon Flick and his fellow Lake County poet and cowboy Sunny Hancock.
This years's show, emceed by poet Jessica Hedges (one of the show's founders) takes place August 11, 2017, and features popular poets and reciters Jim and Karen Ross and musicians Rico Nova and The Desires. Find more about it on Facebook.
These photos are courtesy of Billie Price Flick. Thanks to her for her kind permissions.


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The Social Control methods of the Dominican Trujillos and the Cuban Castros
- Roland Armando Alum
- Visto: 1845
"For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends"―Aeschylus ("Prometheus Bound")
Dictatorships —and their foreign intellectual defenders— have traditionally been studied mostly by historians, politologists, sociologists, philosophers, and even novelists (e.g., Gann, 1985; Hamill, 1965; Hollander, 1997; P. Lewis, 2006; Turits, 2003; Vargas-LLosa, 2000; Wiarda, 1968). Yet, as a specialist in Legal-Political Anthropology, I have been "fantasizing" about creating the sub-field of the "Anthropology of Dictatorships." The discipline's eclectic comparative and field-based research techniques are distinctively equipped to examine dictatorships in a rather objective fashion. Unfortunately, too many colleagues miss the point as they seem to romanticize some of these dreadful regimes, Socialist Cuba being the major example.(3) Nonetheless, this essay is intended as a modest contribution toward the design of the Anthropology of Dictatorships.
My primary purpose here is twofold: (a) First, to outline —if barely— some of the most salient similarities vis-à-vis the methods of socio-political-economic control of two notorious insular Hispanic Caribbean dictatorships, one that fortunately disappeared in 1961, and the other that still lingers in existence. (b) And second, to seek feedback from readers for the sake of improving my future analyses on this topic.
In simple operational terms, and although there are sub-categories according to variations, we can classify dictatorships into two major types for our purpose here:
(A)Authoritarian: often intended (or pretending) to be of a relatively temporary duration, usually with a rather vague ideology, little mass mobilization, and limited interference in the economy.
(B)Totalitarian: that aims to exercise absolute, centralized control over the country's inhabitants; i.e., to virtually convert the whole country into what sociologists call a total institution <www.thefreedictionary. com/Totalitarian+dictators>.
Yet, some dictatorships, such as that of the Trujillos in the Dominican Republic (D.R.), have been routinely classified as authoritarian. But, as I have been arguing in previous writings, upon close analysis the Trujillos' dictatorship resembled more the totalitarian genre. At the same time, certain so-called revolutionary regimes, such as that of the Castro family in Cuba, are too often portrayed in the media, academia and Hollywood as "liberating," when au contraire, they belong in reality to the totalitarian genre.
This August 16, 2019 marked the 89th anniversary of Rafael Trujillo's ascension to power in the D.R., though it was hardly noted even in the Dominican media. This is all the more reason to take this occasion to highlight some key analogies of these two Latin-American dictatorships.
1.TheDominican Trujillos: Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, widely considered the continent's goriest dictator, was executed on May 30, 1961 by a band of his own associates ostensibly in cahoots with U.S. intelligence agents during President Kennedy's Administration (Turits, 2003:260; Wiarda, 1968:170-73; Alum, 2019). Thus ended the 31 years of the Trujillo family's tormenting the Dominican people. As cultural historian Derby (2009) indicates, the Trujillos' despotism (1930-1961) had no precedence in the hemisphere prior to the Castros' regime in neighboring Cuba [see section "H" below and Note 11 as to why I refer to the Trujillos and the Castros in plural].
2. TheCuban Castros: Masquerading as "humanist revolutionaries," Fidel and Raúl Castro enjoyed great popular support upon reaching power in Cuba in 1959. That popularity, however, soon vanished as the bearded brothers hijacked the originally liberal-inspired political revolt against the authoritarian dictatorship of retired general Fulgencio Batista.(4) Instead of the promised restoration of the innovative 1940 Constitution, the Castro brothers turned the island-nation into a Soviet-style Orwellian dystopia (de la Cuesta & Alum, 1974). The siblings purged their own pro-democratic rank-and-file, abolished freedom of the press and private property, destroyed the agricultural and industrial base, and essentially redistributed misery. Moreover, as it has been documented, they created a "culture of poverty."(5) In fact, their detrimental policies prompted a mass exodus unprecedented in the Americas, only matched nowadays by that triggered by the so-called Bolivarian Revolution of the Chávez-Maduro regime that the Latinamericanists Portes & Armony (2018:162) properly call "disastrous" <https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/venezuela-emergency. html>.
Although foreign sympathizers of Socialist Cuba in the media, academia and Hollywood refuse to admit it —comfortably from abroad "with eyes wide shut"— there are revealing similarities between the Castros' and the Trujillos' methods of socio-political control; for example:
(A)Rafael Trujillo (Oct. 24/1891-May 30/1961) was of a humble rural background who joined the military largely as a means to escape poverty. In 1930 he reached his country's presidency through scare tactics and vote manipulation. Fidel Castro (Aug. 13/1926-Nov. 25/2016) also had rural roots, but his father was a Spaniard who had come to Cuba originally as a volunteer soldier in the cruel corps that fought against the patriotic independentist Cubans in the late 1890s. With time, Ángel Castro became an extremely wealthy latifundia landlord who sent son Fidel to exclusive schools. Eventually becoming a lawyer in Havana (though he hardly practiced the profession), young Castro was a civilian who joined those Cuban reformers who advocated in the 1950s that the soldiers should return "back to the barracks" (Hansen, 2019). But both tyrants —equally bizarrely fascinated with Napoléonic uniforms— militarized their respective countries and made the military a privileged caste with immense control over economic activities. Trujillo was ridiculously fond of military medals (he was mockingly called "Chapitas," i.e., bottlecaps). Castro loved military parades showcasing Soviet materiel and literally brought the world to the edge of a global apocalypse in the 1962 Missile Crisis <https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/ cuban-missile-crisis>.
B) The dictators' adulation discourse, images and slogans had to be omnipresent as part of the cults of "personality" and "invincibility" (Derby, 2009; Fiallo, 2018; Wiarda, 1968). Like Hitler and Mussolini, they self-endowed grandiose titles; for example: "the Nation's Benefactor" for Trujillo, "Maximum Leader" [literally Führer] for Castro. At any dance that Trujillo attended, nobody dared to dance until "el jefe" took to the floor for his first merengue song (Mateo, 2017). When in May, 1960 the elder Castro went fishing with left-wing U.S.-American author Ernest Hemingway (incidentally, shortly before the renowned writer left Cuba for good), Castro's photograph receiving the best trophy for catching the biggest fish was ubiquitous in the media.(6) One gathers that part of the official quasi-theological "cult of infallibility" was to promote the subliminal message that even the fish knew what to do for the then prime minister (later un-elected "president"). New York librarian Ray Suárez has reminded me of the anecdote about Roman Emperor Nero (37 AD–68 AD) who —among other insanities of his greedy ego— had himself declared winner repeatedly in Olympic competitions despite his obviously losing to much younger athletes <https://www. thevintagenews.com/ 2018/08/27/nero-competed-in-the-olympics/>.
C) The home doors lacking a display of placards stating "Trujillo is the jefe [boss] here," or "This is your house Fidel" —respectively— were deemed suspect. Indeed, similar to Stalinist Russia, a gruesome repressive apparatus established pervasive terror. The Trujillos' informers were called "caliés;" the Castros created the vicinities' vigilante Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) that spy on everybody.(7) Tutored by Communist Germany's frightening Stasi secret police, CDR members still to date imitate the infamous Wächter blockieren [block custodians] of the National Socialists [Nazis] under Hitler (Gann, 1985), oftentimes involving mob violent "actos de repudio" [repudiation acts] virtually all over Cuba.(8)
D) Both regimes instituted hegemonic single-party states: the Partido Dominicano in the D.R.; the Partido Comunista in Cuba. Privileged membership in each was —and still is in Cuba— a sine qua non for meaningful jobs, promotions, slots in educational institutions, and even hospital beds and medications.
E) Like so many other dictatorships, symbolic elections were held for Trujillo, but only the approved candidates would appear on the ballot; naturally, they were elected "overwhelmingly." There was also a symbolic congress which merely served as a rubber stamp that doubled down in chorus the despot's orders. The very same can be said of the Castros Socialist regime. Recent Cuban exiles in particular tell me that they are shocked to learn how certain naïve foreign academicians and journalists refer to Cuba's National Assembly as if it were a genuine legislature; but this is a body that meets solely semiannually and largely to hear hate-mongering tirades versus presumed "enemies abroad" <http://www.diariodecuba.com/ cuba/1551128708_44847.html>.
F) Virtually everybody labored for the "highest leaders" (thus becoming de facto clients) even if relatively limited private sector activities were permitted, though still mostly as a presumed generosity of the "benevolent" rulers. Since tyrants routinely consider themselves the "charismatic center" of the "new nation," they even act as if people were their personal property: from peasants and workers, to beauty queens, intellectuals, performers, athletes, etc. (Derby, 2009). Illustratively, when a celebrated Cuban neurosurgeon —and former Communist Party leader— wished to emigrate to Argentina, F. Castro opposed publicly to her receiving an exit visa since, in his view, "her brain belonged to the Revolution" <https://es.wikipedia. org/wiki/ Hilda_Molina>. By his version of the transitive law, that meant that she was virtually his property in his role as the "supreme comandante in charge."(9)
G) Both dictatorships assembled sinister international propaganda scaffoldings whose tentacles reached foreign media and universities. Sometime ago I discovered by accident that one of the universities with which I have been connected had granted Trujillo an honoris causa doctorate in 1942, five years after he sponsored the horrible genocidal massacre of thousands of Haitian nationals on Dominican territory.(10) Likewise, Socialist Cuba is still often praised in international intellectual and media circles for basically imagined attainments —ultimately fake news— such as in healthcare, notwithstanding incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.(11)
H) The titular power was passed whimsically from elder to younger brother —to Héctor Trujillo and Raúl Castro, respectively— as each was also gifted the rank of "general" without merit. Similarly, both dictators handpicked faithful non-kin figurehead titular "presidentes" without elections: Joaquín Balaguer for the D.R.; Miguel Díaz-Canel for Cuba. In all fairness, Balaguer played a pivotal role in the evolution to today's Dominican liberal democracy and served subsequently as a legitimately elected (if controversial) president. But it is doubtful that Díaz-Canel would foster a comparable transition to an open society in Cuba.(12)
There are many more parallels between these two presumed opposite poles dictatorships that deserve future lengthier analyses. But oddly, in my own long-term research in the D.R., I have met admirers of Trujillismo who argue that "el caudillo" brought stability à la dictator Franco in Spain, which is partially true, but at what human and other cost?
Likewise, as recently as earlier this year (2019) I met intellectuals in the D.R. who, while professing disdain for dictatorships, advocate for a Castro-type dictatorship for their nation. Paradoxically, the D.R. is now infinitely more prosperous and a more open society than Socialist Cuba.(13) These interlocutors' aversion to totalitarianism seems to be naïvely or ignorantly selective and incongruous.(14)
In sum, the end result of any tyranny, be it of the so-called Left or Right, is consistently destructive, sadly leaving a trail of death, desaparecidos, prisoners, exiles, refugees, mega-corruption, and socio-economic backwardness.(15)
While the "patriarch's autumn" was over in the D.R. in May/1961, a ruinous, oppressive dictatorship is still haunting Cuba, encompassing also the quotidian time-consuming colas [food-lines].(16) As it is well-known, foodstuff and most other goods are still rationed in Cuba, typical of command/centralized "economies of scarcity" (vid. Verdery, 1996). The suffering Cuban people too deserve a regime change to a Popperian Open Society.(17)
VII. RESUMEN EN ESPAÑOL: En este ensayo presento una comparación, aunque muy preliminar, de las características semejantes más obvias de dos de las dictaduras más férreas de la historia de las Américas, ambas en el Caribe hispano insular: (a) la de la familia Trujillo en la República Dominicana (1930-1961); y (b) la de los hermanos Castro en Cuba (a partir del año 1959). LLevo ya cuatro décadas y media analizando muy de cerca la cultura y sociedad dominicana (incluyendo estudios de campo extensivo en el país), y las correspondientes a las cubana por más tiempo, aunque más bien a distancia. Estas dos tiranías antillanas son descritas a menudo en la prensa y la literatura académica foráneas como si fuesen regímenes de polos opuestos. Sin embargo, como trato de demostrar en los detalles que expongo en el presente trabajo, ambas tienen muchas características en común, sobre todo en sus métodos de control socio-político-económico. Esta es, precisamente, una cuestión que los apologistas extranjeros del régimen socialista cubano en la prensa, el mundo académico y hasta en Hollywood pretenden negar desde sus cómodas posiciones en ultramar. Mi "fantasía" académica es la de crear una sub-disciplina dentro de la Antropología Socio-Cultural: la Antropología de las Dictaduras. Este es un tema sobre el cual he estado escribiendo por años y que pretendo continuar desarrollando. Por todo esto —y como es mi costumbre— le doy bienvenida a toda crítica constructiva a través de mi dirección electrónica Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo. (ver sección bibliográfica). R.A.A.
1)I dedicate this article to the victims of both, the Dominican and the Cuban dictatorships.
2) For this article, I borrow freely from previous writings on analogous topics (vid. Alum, various in the bibliography; González & Alum, 2009). I adapt this version for PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY from my latest article in PANORAMAS (Alum, 2019). I have been studying the Dominican Republic since early 1975, barely 13.5 years after the Trujillato's demise; and Cuba for a longer time, if from afar. My initial Dominican field research was supported by a combination of sources, such as the Fulbright-Hays, the OAS, and the Dominican Fondo Para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales fellowship programs, among others. I enjoyed affiliation in Santo Domingo mainly with the Museo del Hombre Dominicano, the Instituto de Estudios Aplicados, and the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña. I use here the professional style of Anthropology in the text's citations as well as in the bibliography (with minor modifications for the sake of space economy). As usual —and particularly for this piece— I welcome all constructive critiques, moreover, since I plan to continue writing about the cross-cultural comparison of dictatorships.
3) There are, nonetheless, a few worthy descriptive ethnographies of the now former Old World socialist/communist systems; my favorites are: (a) by Verdery (1996) about Ceaușescu's dreadful Socialist dictatorship in Romania; (b) and by Sabloff (2013) on Socialist Mongolia.
4) As Fontova (2013) has deconstructed, it was not a "revolution" per se, but a chiefly bourgeois political rebellion against Batista —Cuba's sole Afro-Cuban head of state— who in 1952 had staged an unjustified coup d'état vs. the duly elected constitutional government of social-democrat Presidente Carlos Prío. Indeed, the Castros have given the gloss "revolution" a bad name in Latin-America. In the words of Azel (2019): "As Cubans and Venezuelans have discovered, 'revolution' [for them]…means going around in a circle getting nowhere." Incidentally, regarding ethnic/racial diversity that the Castros' apologists claim to be concerned about, Afro-Cubans continue to be under-represented in the governing "Nomenklatura," as first exposed internationally long ago by Afro-Cuban Pan-Africanist ethnologist Carlos Moore (1989), now exiled in Brazil [see also Note 16]. For a recent outline of the Castros' biography, see <https://cubanstudiesinstitute.us/este-dia-en-la-historia-de-cuba/nace-fidel-castro-13-de-agosto-de-1926/>.
5) I have been writing about Cuba's "culture of poverty" for decades, articles that were inspired by the researches in Cuba of U.S. anthropologists Oscar Lewis and Douglas Butterworth in 1969-70 (vid. Alum, 2015). Additionally, see the recent pessimistic analysis of Socialist Cuba —as he calls it— by my former Pittsburgh professor Mesa-Lago, who is deemed "the Dean of Cubanology" <https://www.panoramas. pitt.edu/ economy-and-development/ column-carmelo-mesa-lago-"-legacy-fidel-social-economic-balance-2016> [see also Notes 7 and 15].
6) For reminding me of the Hemingway anecdote, I thank my kinsman, UCLA distinguished historian Teófilo Ruiz-Alum, who was Hemingway's neighbor in the outskirts of Havana <https:// 20thcenturylibrary.com/ 2018/05/04/when-castro-won-a-hemingway-sponsored-fishing-tournament-in-may-1960/>. A further ludicrous illustration of the cult of personality was provided long ago, if unwittingly, by Jamaican playwright Barry Reckord (1971) —a Castro advocator— who was reported having been told by interviewees while visiting Cuba around 1970 that it was expected that "Fidel had to eat more" than ordinary Cubans since he was "the leader," as well as taller than the average Cuban.
7) For a mere example of the ubiquitous presence of the Cuban state espionage, see historian Guerra's (2015) analytic narrative of famous U.S. anthropologist Oscar Lewis' sad record in Cuba, where he and his research team were spied upon 24/7 and finally expelled from the country. Hardly mentioned in the à propos literature, however, is the fact that Lewis left behind in jail his Cuban statistician; indeed, I am unaware of any academician outside of Cuba —other than myself— protesting his harsh imprisonment. After his release from jail, the former aide was able to take exile in the U.S., where I assisted him. And yet, writing 10 years after their catastrophic experience, Lewis' widow, Ruth Maslow Lewis, inexplicably dismissed and trivialized their misadventure and did not recount the whole story accurately (cf. Alum, 2015) [see also Notes 5 and 15].
8) See <http://cubademocraciayvida.org/ web/ article.asp?artID=28217> for a description of the dangerous "repudiation acts" in Cuba. Incidentally, unsurprisingly, the equally dynastic dictatorship of the Duvaliers in Haiti (1957-1986) created its own version of vigilantes and agent provocateurs: the Tontons Macoutes. Curiously, in his book about 15 Latin-American dictatorships in the XX century, Galván (2012), while correctly including Trujillo, omits the Castros totally. Likewise, he as well as Wikipedia and other reference tools call the Duvaliers a "dynasty" —and again, rightly so— but not so vis-á-vis the longer-in-power Castros <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvalier_ dynasty>.
9) Although the exit visa was eventually granted to the physician thanks to international pressure, F. Castro uttered similar comments again later on upon learning of the defection abroad of yet other doctors as well as several athletes <https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v= aGl2hwdLKQk>.
10) As of this writing (August/2019), I have yet to succeed in my petitioning efforts with such U.S. institution of higher learning to rescind that reprehensible honorary degree to Trujillo.
11) In reality, Cuba's statist healthcare is substandard and —ironically— fundamentally dependent on generous care-packages from the government's exiled victims, i.e., the same expatriates relentlessly maligned by Havana's hate-mongering propaganda (see ethnologist Hirschfeld's magnificent book on Socialist Cuba's healthcare [2007], which I reviewed in both, English and Spanish <https://www.clublibertaddigital. com/ ilustracion-liberal/40/la-antropologia-politica-de-la-antropologia -medica-cubana-alexander-l-alum-y-rolando-alum-liner.html>; see also the more recent Comas & González (2014) volume by two Cuban physicians.
12) These are only two glaring examples of high-level nepotism/cronyism, a practice that —paradoxically— the Castros had promised to eliminate as belonging to the ancient regime. Irrespective, it is appropriate to refer to the Trujillos' and the Castros' dictatorships in plural each, regardless of who holds the presidential title. After all, Rafael Trujillo and near nonagenarian Raúl Castro (1931-- ) each remained the real power as head of their respective political parties and in command of the armed forces, reminiscent of the situation of rough military dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1990s Chile (see also Note 17).
13) In my most recent visit to the D.R. (April-May/2019), I delivered a presentation —regarding my 45 years researching Dominican culture/society— at the Annual Feria del Libro/Book Fair, where I met Presidente Danilo Medina (I have already by now conversed with all post-Trujillo elected Dominican presidents).
14) I often hear ill-informed foreign academicians and journalists doubting the unpopularity of Socialist Cuba's less-than-1% self-perpetuating governing elite (by the way, composed mainly of European-descent, aging males). The "doubters" point out to the frequent Fascist-style pro-regime mass rallies in Havana as if it were a sign of popular support. In the same vein, my mostly elderly Dominican interviewees have recounted that up to the week-end before Trujillo's death at 10:00 pm on Wednesday, May 30,1961, there were recurrent orchestrated parades cheering for the dictator along the capital city of Santo Domingo's picturesque ocean-drive Malecón (and I have seen relevant historical photos too).
15) Pre-Socialist Cuba was considered the world's largest producer of cane-sugar, but my Cuban informants in the U.S. and the D.R. have been telling me for years that even sugar had to be purchased by ordinary Cubans through the degrading ration card as relatively early in the regime as at least the late 1960s, if not earlier. I am now corroborating such tales with the narrative of an extraordinarily revealing article by Lillian Guerra (2015). She was able to examine Oscar Lewis' research field notes gathered in Cuba that are now archived with the University of Southern Illinois. These documents confirm, among other things, that in 1969 —i.e., long before the so-called Special Period that began after the collapse of the Soviet bloc— even sugar was rationed. Interestingly, Lewis' informants complained that food rationing did not fully apply to the privileged Nomenklatura members (see also Notes 5 and 7; Alum, 2014).
16) Cubans also face the continual menace of paredones [firing squads] and other kinds of systematic state terror. It is well documented that by orders of Argentinian-born "Che" Guevara, the government operated in the 1960s Soviet-modeled gulags (called UMAP camps) to extract forced-labor especially from gays, as well as dissidents of all kinds, including intellectuals, would-be emigrants, the unemployed, Beatles' fans, long-haired hippies, disgruntled farmers, social-democrats, Trotskyites, Freemasons, and religious individuals, notably Jehovah's Witnesses and Afro-Cuban folk-cult practitioners (Moore, 1989; Núñez, et al., 1985; Ros, 2004). I have interviewed several former inmates from the various camps who suffered real life horror stories. Among them was famed writer Reinaldo Arenas (1992), who spoke to my students in fall/1980 when I was teaching at Empire State College in Manhattan (<https://biography.jrank. org/pages/3783/Arenas-Reinaldo-1943-1990-Cuban-Writer.html>; vid. also the film "Mauvaise Conduite" <www.imdb.com/ title/ tt0087696/>, inter alia).
17) As I was completing this writing, I received separate communications from the prolific Dominican intellectual Adriano Tejada and the Florida-based politologist Alfred Cuzán, both of whom have been independently engaged in the comparative study of dictatorships, though from different perspectives. Inspired by the XVI century French philosopher Étienne de La Boétie's concept of "voluntary submission," Tejada ingeniously draws parallels between the rule of the Trujillos with that of Franco in Spain (Personal Communication; Pereyra, 2019). But his interest inquires more into why people resign themselves to tolerate dictatorships. Cuzán (2018), on the other hand, contrasts the "results" —i.e., statistical indexes vis-à-vis especially a progressive quality of life— principally of the dictatorships of the Castros with those of Franco and Pinochet (incidentally, on balance, the Castros' six-decade rule results in negative conclusions). Both authors present food for thought disparities that are highly useful for more comprehensive cross-national and diachronic analyses beyond my scope here.
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XI. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Professor Roland Armando Alum is a New Jersey-based external, senior Research Associate with the Univ. of Pittsburgh's Center for Latin American Studies, from which he graduated; he also received a Post-Doctoral Certificate from the Univ. of Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, a trustee of DeVry Univ.-N.J., and vice-chairman of both: the N.J. Certified Psychoanalysts Committee and the N.J. Center for Hispanic Policy, Research & Development. He has taught and served as an administrator at several colleges/universities in the D.R., Puerto Rico and the continental U.S., culminating in a Distinguished Professorship at William Paterson Univ. (N.J.). Additionally, he has held sub-cabinet level posts in the Federal and the N.J. State Governments, aside from other numerous pro bono positions on boards and commissions. His over 150 writings on diverse topics —in English & Spanish— have been published in encyclopedias, books, international scholarly journals, and U.S. and foreign newspapers [Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.].


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text: STYLE Lady Gaga Gets Naked in Ad for 'Fame', Her First Fragrance (Poll) 12:31 PM PDT 7/17/2012 by Elizabeth Snead FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME The performer's perfume is black to symbolize the dark side of fame and features random notes of belladonna, jasmine, orchid, honey, saffron and apricot nectar. Lady Gaga has tweeted the provocative new ad for her first fragrance, called "Fame." And surprise! She's not wearing slices of meat. However, she is shockingly naked -- except for a black mask and several creepy little men climbing on her bare body, strategically arranged to cover up her naughty bits. "i won't lie I'm a bit nervous," she wrote in a Twitter post. "its been a while since i've shared some work with you." The ad was shot by photographer Steven Klein. During an appearance on the Australian radio program The Kyle and Jackie O Show last year, she teased that signature scent will smell "like an expensive hooker." "[Blood and semen] is in the perfume, but it doesn't smell like it. You just get sort of the 'after' feeling of sex from the semen, and the blood is sort of primal," she explained to the hosts. "And the blood was taken from my own blood sample, so it's like a sense of having me on your skin." Thankfully, neither ingredient is listed on the packaging for her scent, the first-ever black eau de parfum which alludes to the dark side of fame. Apparently, black scent is tricky. And according to WWD, Gaga's Fame has a trampoline struture, not a pyramid structure. Notes rise at different and random rates. Some accords will come out if you rub it, others will rise later. Coty says Fame will smell differently on different people, but that's true of most fragrances. Fame has three main accords: dark, sensual and light. The dark accord was inspired by the deadly plant belladonna, and features incense. The sensual accord includes honey, saffron and apricot nectar. The light accord features crushed tiger orchid and jasmine sambac. So imagine a fruity floral focused around belladonna. Thankfully, this sounds better than blood and semen. Fame's eau de parfum will come in three sizes. The 100-ml. which retails for $79, the 50-ml., priced at $55, and the 30-ml., costing $42. A 10-ml. rollerball version will sell for just $19, which makes it accessible to all her fans. The egg-shaped bottle has a weighty Gieger-esque gold claw cap. Remember the recent Grammy awards when Gaga burst out of an egg? Apparently, that red carpet stunt was a clue to her bottle design concept The Fame collection will also include three related products: black soap, $15, due out in August, black shower gel, and black body lotion, hitting stores in November. TV commercials are also coming. Photographer Steven Klein collaborated with Gaga to create a three-minute feature film promoting the scent, which will run online in the U.S. Gaga will make personal appearances globally to publicize the scent, and she's hosting a party on Sept 13 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York to introduce the scent to the media. Gaga's Fame will be sold in 3,000 department and specialty stores in the U.S. — including Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue and Sephora, Ulta, Sephora in J.C. Penney locations. How much will Gaga make from her Fame? Industry sources says around $15 million in royalties in a three- to five-year contract. Now that smells like a sweet deal. Will You Wear Lady Gaga's Black Fragrance Called 'Fame'? FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Elizabeth Snead email@example.com @thr


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So, I haven't posted for ages. This is mainly because I've been so busy at Fleishman-Hillard, I really have had very little time for posting. This is obviously a good thing – certainly better than not having enough business coming in – but something always has to 'give', and in my case, it's been the blog.
This was a recurrent theme in my 'Friendly Chat' series of blogger interviews a while back. After the initial enthusiasm for blogging, a lot of the bloggers I spoke to said they were finding less and less time to keep the momentum going.
I'm wondering whether there's an interesting dynamic here. I've often thought that there's a weird feedback loop going on in social media, in that prominent users of social media are only prominent because, well, they use social media.
I'm not sure what the analogy would be here, but I think the opposite thing is happening to bloggers. My experience has been that, having started my own blog and learned as much as I can about social media and its practical uses within PR, I've carved out my own niche enough actually to be employed in this capacity. As a result, I don't have time to continue my blog or play around with social media!
Hence, we see both anecdotal evidence that blogging is declining – I won't quote any here but you'll be able to find plenty – together with figures such as my recent analysis of Technorati Authority within PR blogs in the PR Friendly Index. The bloggers are all too busy to blog!
I do believe that the best digital solutions come from a combination of practical, hands-on experience, with some forward-looking analysis. I certainly learn a lot from my Twitter community, my Fleishman-Hillard colleagues and serendipity, but I need to find a way to build in my own time to look forward at what could be on the horizon, and play around with what's available now.
I also need to make time to blog. The less I post, the more it becomes apparent to me that it's my number one asset. I was quoted in PR Week recently and it's only because I spent time and effort on this blog that I've been able to establish my profile.
If I don't maintain it, people will start to point and laugh and all those dreams I've had about my teeth falling out or suddenly realising I'm naked on the Tube saying to a lady "Don't worry madam, this is just a recurrent nightmare in which I wake up when we get to Cockfosters" will come true.