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The Sealwoman
Jean Rafferty (Author)
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Genres: Contemporary fiction, Fiction, Novella, Short fiction
Book tags: Scotland, folktale, selkie, the four marys
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"Strong feeling, uncompromising frankness" – Marina Warner. On wishing night, a seal slips from her watery domain and assumes human form on a Scottish island, but being human proves to be stranger and more complex than she'd imagined. This is an edgy modern retelling of the classic selkie tale, originally published in The Four Marys, a quartet of contemporary novellas drawing on Celtic history and folklore.
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Jean Rafferty
Jean Rafferty is an acclaimed award-winning journalist who has written on topics ranging from gritty human interest stories about prostitution, to celebrity interviews and humour pieces. Jean has written two non-fiction books about sport, and her first novel was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. The Four Marys was shortlisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015. Jean is Chair of the Scottish PEN's Writers in Prison Committee.


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On April 6, 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions notified all U.S. attorneys along the U.S.-Mexico border of a new "zero tolerance" policy toward undocumented migrants. Henceforth, the Department would seek to prosecute, in the federal criminal justice system, everyone caught crossing the U.S. border improperly. On April 23, an internal Homeland Security Department memo obtained by the Washington Post called for the referral for prosecution of "100 percent" of adults apprehended at the border, "including those initially arriving or apprehended with minors," and including those expressing fear of returning to their home countries. As parents would be sent to federal prison facilities, the policy would require that their children be separated from them.
In fact, all past U.S. administrations, even the Obama administration, have reserved the right to impose "penalties" for unlawful entry and prosecuted a small number of asylum seekers. But only the Trump administration has ever tried to do so massively.
Since 2005, though, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have prosecuted a sizeable portion of border-crossers for unlawful entry under "Operation Streamline," an initiative that sends tens of thousands through federal criminal courts, dozens at a time, each year. Until now, Streamline—which is very active in Texas and Arizona and now getting underway in California—very rarely prosecuted parents traveling with their children or asylum-seekers for improper entry. With zero tolerance, the Trump administration's goal is now to "streamline" everyone.
The experience of zero tolerance's first two months has revealed it to be cruel, a drain on resources, and unlikely to deter future migrants. Federal courts and prisons have already run up against serious and foreseeable capacity issues. The zero-tolerance push has brought border-area federal courts to capacity, or beyond capacity. There aren't enough judges, prosecutors, defenders, or holding space. Dockets are overflowing, even though most cases just end up in "time served" sentences.
Swamping courts with misdemeanor improper entry cases reduces their bandwidth for dealing with more serious federal crimes, like drug trafficking. "It means we don't have the time that we need to handle our felony cases," Marjorie Meyers, federal public defender for the Southern District of Texas, told the Houston Chronicle. In San Diego, the number-one sector for heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine smuggling, USA Today found early evidence that border authorities are sending more felony drug-smuggling cases to California state courts, and fewer to federal courts, because of the additional burden immigration cases are adding to federal jurisdictions.
As has been reported by Human Rights First, in the case of asylum seekers, rather than sending them to a credible fear interview or immigration courts, CBP is referring them for criminal prosecution. Once in court, even if an asylum seeker or their lawyer tries to raise their asylum concerns, judges frequently respond that they lack authority for immigration matters and that the person needs to first serve their prison sentence. When agreeing to plea guilty for illegal entry, some migrants even sign waivers that force them to give up their claim for asylum.
Those who end up getting sentenced under zero tolerance, which includes repeat offenders often jailed for 30 to 75 days, are rapidly swelling the federal prison population. The El Paso Times reported that the new policy could be contributing to a 30 percent increase in the number of federal inmates in that city's county jail, which has a contract with U.S. Marshals to provide space for federal inmates.
Beyond parent-child separation, discussed at length in a subsequent report, time in federal prison creates other hardships for migrants and asylum-seekers. WOLA spoke to two tearful Mexican women who had just been deported to San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora after serving 30-day terms. Both had originally crossed the border through Mexicali, 50 miles away, and had been arrested with their husbands. Neither had any idea where her husband now was, or had a way to contact him. Both had their identification documents, money, and mobile phones taken from them while in custody, and not returned. CBP will hold a migrant's belongings up to 30 days after apprehension, and the local repatriation arrangements between the U.S. and Mexico require agencies to take all feasible steps to return belongings before detained migrants are repatriated. However, as migrants are often transferred to different agencies, and particularly if they are prosecuted and are in the custody of the U.S. Marshals, there is a greater possibility that a person's belongings will never be returned.
The numbers, however, don't show a deterrent effect. Migrants, including thousands of asylum-seekers, keep arriving at and between the ports of entry, even at a time when zero tolerance and resulting family separations were dominating world headlines. In Arizona, authorities and advocates noticed an apparent drop in new migrants during the first half of June, compared to May, though there was some recovery later in the month.
By the end of the month, CBP data showed an 11 percent May-to-June increase in arrivals of family members in Arizona's two sectors. This was offset, though, by a 40 percent drop in arrivals of unaccompanied children, for an overall decline of 18 percent fewer family and child migrant arrivals in Arizona. This tracks a border-wide trend of virtually unchanged family-member arrivals from May (9,491) to June (9,447), along with a 20 percent drop in unaccompanied children, for an overall 8 percent drop in children and families.
A statement from the Homeland Security Department credited "the implementation of the Administration's zero-tolerance policy" for this decline. But in fact, a May-to-June drop is normal. Border Patrol almost always measures fewer migrant apprehensions in June compared to May. It is scorchingly, dangerously hot in the arid deserts along the southwest border in June, and fewer migrants attempt the journey.
Counting all migrants—not just children and families—between 2000 and 2017, the average monthly drop from Mays to Junes at the U.S.-Mexico border was 21.3 percent fewer migrant apprehensions. That's 5.9 percentage points steeper than June 2018's 15.4 percent decrease in all migrants. That indicates no deterrent effect at all from zero tolerance.
Focusing just on children and families, in the five prior years for which we have border-wide data (2013 to 2017), the number of apprehended children and family-unit members actually increased by an average of 8.3 percent from Mays to Junes. In June 2018, though, children and families decreased by 8.2 percent. That decrease is virtually identical to the drop measured between May and June 2016, the last year of the Obama administration.
Studies of past "low-tolerance" efforts, like Streamline, also point to little deterrence. A June 2018 study by the Vera Institute of Justice found "no evidence to suggest that Operation Streamline had any impact on migrants' decisions to enter the United States." The Homeland Security Department Inspector-General's office also cast doubt on claims that Streamline reduced recidivism among border-crossers, as recidivism rates appeared to remain similar in the long term.
The "push factors" driving migration from Central America and Mexico remain largely unchanged. Over the last decade, these factors have sparked a dramatic increase in Central Americans seeking out asylum world-wide. According to data from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, between 2011 and 2017 the amount of asylum seekers from Northern Triangle countries seeking out asylum in the United States increased by 1,089 percent. Other neighboring countries like Costa Rica, Panama and Mexico also saw a similar spike in requests. Mexico saw the highest spike, with 1,971 percent more Northern Triangle migrants seeking out asylum in 2017 versus 2011.
The increases in petitions for asylum align with the exodus of tens of thousands of families and children who began fleeing the Northern Triangle in 2013 due to insecurity and violence. Overall indices of violence have improved since then, but still vary drastically by geographic location within each country. In the Northern Triangle, homicide rates dropped after 2015 from "record high" to "extremely high," while Mexico has never recorded levels of violent crime as high as today's. Central American asylum-seekers say they are still fleeing extortion, gang violence or forced recruitment, domestic abuse, gender violence, or targeting for collaboration with police. Mexican asylum-seekers are fleeing for similar reasons, including the wide reach of organized criminal groups in Mexico and the collusion between many public officials and these groups. Across the board, we heard from asylum seekers the perception that their own government is unable or unwilling to protect them, or that it is part of the problem.
About half of children and families arriving from Central America's Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) come from Guatemala, which has a larger population than the other two countries combined. In Arizona, the vast majority of Central American asylum-seekers, about 88 percent so far this year in Yuma and a similar amount in Tucson, are Guatemalan. Shelters WOLA visited in Yuma and Tucson said that most families they received came from Guatemala. This probably owes to smuggling patterns: there appears to be a well-established smuggling network originating in Guatemala and ending in Arizona.
This network appears to be favoring the border's Yuma and El Paso sectors. Apprehension numbers of children and family migrants are lower in Tucson, a traditionally much busier sector flanked on the east and west by Yuma and El Paso. This is a mysterious pattern that none could explain, although one Nogales service-provider shared a rumor that, in some parts of Mexico across from the Tucson sector, narcotraffickers are trying to discourage Central American migrants from crossing, and kidnapping a number of them.
While many Guatemalan asylum-seekers come from violent urban neighborhoods, a surprising number are coming from the country's rural, indigenous-majority highlands. This is the poorest part of the country, hit hard by the 1960-1996 civil war, and it has been widely assumed that migration from the highlands was driven by economics, not insecurity. Today, though, shelter personnel and asylum lawyers say that violence is a greater factor in rural areas as well.
The perpetrators in Guatemala may not be big gangs like MS-13 as much as local criminals, often tied to narcotraffickers, who operate with the acquiescence of local government and security forces. Indigenous Guatemalans fleeing the highlands, many of whom speak Spanish as a second language, tell of "ladinos" (non-indigenous Guatemalans) who extort any small business beyond their ability to pay, and of an increasing number of forced displacements either to steal landholdings or to consolidate control over cocaine and poppy trafficking routes. 85 to 90 percent of all cocaine consumed in the United States passes through Mexico and Central America on its way from the Andes; while a minority of that amount is transshipped directly to Mexico, the rest passes at some point through Guatemala, and often its highlands.
Less than 10 percent of children and families coming to Arizona are Mexican. Most come from states along the Pacific coast, especially Guerrero and Michoacán, that have been hit very hard by organized crime-related violence. At the Nogales port of entry, WOLA spoke to two mothers from Guerrero, who had fled with their children two weeks earlier. Armed groups had killed one woman's sister-in-law. One group had cut off electricity to their town and was blocking repair crews. The community is confined, schools are closed, basic goods are running scarce, and the local armed groups appear to have been specifically targeting women and children. One of the women expressed concerns about the possible forced recruitment of her 14 year-old son by a criminal organization. On the morning they fled, a shootout was happening in the middle of town.
Zero tolerance has caused an increase in asylum-seekers reporting to the 45 land ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, where it is still legal to petition CBP officers for asylum. (We discuss the situation at ports of entry in a subsequent report.) Even after two months of zero tolerance, however, most asylum-seekers continue to cross between the ports of entry.
In Arizona, despite the new high probability of arrest, asylum-seeking families crossing between ports of entry still tend to seek out Border Patrol agents. In the heavily fenced-off Yuma and Tucson sectors, this often means climbing the border fence. In Yuma, this tends to happen in areas where the fence is still relatively short, made of metal sheets that once served as landing mats for helicopters during the Vietnam War. Often, the ground is much lower on the U.S. side than on the Mexican side, resulting in fractures and other injuries from drops of as high as 18 feet. Still, entire families climb, with smugglers wrapping small children in blankets, throwing them up, and dropping them to parents on the U.S. side. Border Patrol agents complain about having to process and attend to so many children and families, which pulls them away from security duties and a social-work task for which they are not trained.
Law enforcement and non-governmental advocates agreed that smugglers continue to cross with migrants between ports of entry, despite zero tolerance. While many migrants are unaware that improper entry is now being prosecuted, most also have little choice about whether to cross in between the ports of entry or at the port: they go to where their smuggler directs them.
While it would make the most sense for smugglers to bring migrants to the ports of entry, they may lack the freedom to do that. For at least the last 10 years, organized crime (often referred to locally as "the cartel") has consolidated tight control over who and what crosses the border illegally on the Mexican side. This control was enabled by the post-2006 construction of high fencing in the Yuma and Tucson sectors, which channeled cross-border activity to narrower bottlenecks and chokepoints that criminal groups could monitor more easily. It is now very dangerous to attempt to cross the border without the approval of organized crime, and smugglers must pay a cut to "the cartel" in order to bring migrants across.
The reason why smugglers haven't adjusted their routes, then, is that they cannot: they can only cross migrants where organized crime allows them to do so. At times, they are instructed to cross in a certain area in order to divert U.S. authorities away from a drug shipment in another area. If a smuggler's designated territory does not include a port of entry, then migrants must cross as they did before zero tolerance: by climbing a fence or crossing the Rio Grande and seeking out Border Patrol.
In these cases, asylum-seeking families have no real choice but to violate the improper entry statute in order to request protection. In other cases, migrants traveling on their own do not know where to request asylum, only that they want to apply for protection in the United States. For others, after repeated attempts to request asylum at a port of entry, migrants become frustrated and cross in between ports to present themselves to Border Patrol agents to request protection.
Abandon the "zero tolerance" standard. Reserve criminal prosecution for only the most egregious, multiple-recidivist border crossers.
Migrants credibly seeking protection should never be prosecuted for improper entry.
Never implement a policy that deliberately increases migrants' misery—and especially not one that harms children—as a "deterrent" to potential future migrants. Recognize that people fleeing for their lives are unlikely to be deterred by detention in the United States.
If they are criminally charged, migrants who fear returning to their countries must have a clear opportunity to express that fear and seek asylum. U.S. agents should not be permitted to pressure asylum-seekers to accept voluntary return to their country as a way to be released from detention.
Increase inter-agency cooperation to avoid loss of migrants' belongings during transfers and in the deportation process. Continue to involve consular authorities in ensuring that migrants who have already been deported have their belongings returned to them.
If married migrants are prosecuted, ensure that the separated spouses know each other's whereabouts while in detention and when they are being repatriated to Mexico or Central America.
Border Patrol should consider employing child welfare specialists and others who are trained in assisting families for the processing of children and families. This would free up more agents for work in the field.
Continue to expand search-and-rescue efforts for migrants in distress in U.S. borderlands, especially during summer months. Increase vigilance, the use of rescue beacons, and the availability of water stations, along routes where large concentrations of remains are found, especially around checkpoints. Border Patrol should not destroy or tamper with water left by humanitarian organizations.
Office of Public Affairs, Department of Justice, "Attorney General Announces Zero-Tolerance Policy for Criminal Illegal Entry," April 6, 2018, https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-zero-tolerance-policy-criminal-illegal-entry.
Maria Sacchetti, "Top Homeland Security officials urge criminal prosecution of parents crossing border with children," Washington Post, April 26, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/top-homeland-security-officials-urge-criminal-prosecution-of-parents-who-cross-border-with-children/2018/04/26/a0bdcee0-4964-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.106af79b8032.
Human Rights First, "Report Documents Administration's Shameful Criminal Prosecution of Asylum Seekers at Border," Human Rights First, January 18, 2018, https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/press-release/report-documents-administration-s-shameful-criminal-prosecution-asylum-seekers-border.
United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, "Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees," October 4, 1967, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/ProtocolStatusOfRefugees.aspx.
United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, "Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees," October 4, 1967, http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/3b66c2aa10.
Dara Lind, "The Trump administration's separation of families at the border, explained," Vox, June 15, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17443198/children-immigrant-families-separated-parents.
Mark Motivans, "Federal Justice Statistics, 2014 – Statistical Tables," Bureau of Justice Statistics, March 2017, https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fjs14st.pdf.
Federal Bureau of Prisons, "Statistics," Federal Bureau of Prisons, Last updated: July 5, 2018, https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/population_statistics.jsp.
Rick Jervis, "New 'zero tolerance' policy on border creates overflow court hearings in South Texas," USA Today, June 6, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/06/zero-tolerance-parents-separate-trump-immigration-border-courts/677981002/.
Brad Heath, "Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' border prosecutions led to time served, $10 fees," USA Today, June 21, 2018, https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/722237002.
Jervis. "New 'zero tolerance' policy.
WOLA interview with migrant advocate, Nogales, June 21, 2018.
Rafael Carranza, "Faith groups to feds: Migrant family separation not 'consistent with biblical values,'" AZ Central, June 4, 2018, https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2018/06/04/religious-groups-push-back-against-border-separations/670182002/.
WOLA interview with public defender, Tucson, June 22, 2018.
Miriam Jordan, "Swift Frontier Justice for Migrants Brought to Federal Courts," New York Times, June 19, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/us/border-immigration-courts.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur.
Lomi Kriel, "New 'zero tolerance' policy overwhelms South Texas courts," Houston Chronicle, June 9, 2018, https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/New-zero-tolerance-policy-overwhelms-South-12981190.php.
Brad Heath, "Trump's immigration crackdown 'diverting' resources from drug cases," USA Today, June 22, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/22/zero-tolerance-immigration-crackdown-diverting-resources-drug-cases/727532002/.
Michael E. Miller, "'They just took them?' Frantic parents separated from their kids fill courts on the border," The Washington Post," June 9, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/they-just-took-them-frantic-parents-separated-from-their-kids-fill-courts-on-the-border/2018/06/09/e3f5170c-6aa9-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?utm_term=.8aeccc85aadd.
Michael D. Shear, Ron Nixon, and Katie Benner, "In Tense Meeting, Trump Officials Debate How to Process Migrant Families," New York Times, June 22, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/politics/donald-trump-immigration-midterms.html.
Alfredo Corchado, "Tents are going up near El Paso for children being separated from immigrant parents," Dallas News, June 15, https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2018/06/15/tents-going-near-el-paso-children-separated-immigrant-parents.
Carolyn Scorpio and Maureen Meyer, "New U.S.-Mexico Local Repatriation Arrangements are a Step Forward," Washington Office on Latin America, February 26, 2016, https://www.wola.org/analysis/new-us-mexico-local-repatriation-arrangements-are-a-step-forward/.
Walter Ewing and Guillermo Cantor, "Deported with No Possessions: The Mishandling of Migrants' Personal Belongings by CBP and ICE," American Immigration Council, December 21, 2016, https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/deported-no-possessions.
John Burnett, "Transcript: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's Interview with NPR," NPR, May 11, 2018, https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610116389/transcript-white-house-chief-of-staff-john-kellys-interview-with-npr.
Molly Hennessy-Fiske, "Was a breastfeeding infant really taken from an immigrant mother? The answer to this and other questions about families separated at the border," Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2018, http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-immigration-families-border-wall-20180616-htmlstory.html.
Nomaan Merchant, "Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas," AP News, June 18, 2018, https://www.apnews.com/9794de32d39d4c6f89fbefaea3780769.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, "U.S. Border Patrol Southwest Border Apprehensions by Sector FY2018," U.S. Department of Homeland Security, July 5, 2018, https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/usbp-sw-border-apprehensions.
WOLA Defense Oversight Research Database, "Library of Reports," Washington Office on Latin America, https://defenseoversight.wola.org/reports/127.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, "Statement from DHS Press Secretary on June Border Numbers," U.S. Department of Homeland Security, July 5, 208, https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/07/05/statement-dhs-press-secretary-june-border-numbers.
Michael Corradini, Jonathan Allen Kringen, Laura Simich, Karen Berberich, and Meredith Emigh, "Operation Streamline: No Evidence that Criminal Prosecution Deters Migration," Vera Institute of Justice, June 2018, https://www.vera.org/publications/operation-streamline.
Office of Inspector General, "Streamline: Measuring Its Effect on Illegal Border Crossing," U.S. Department of Homeland Security, May 15, 2015, https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2015/OIG_15-95_May15.pdf.
United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, "Population Statistics," UNHCR Asylum-Seekers (Refugee Status Determination), http://popstats.unhcr.org/en/asylum_seekers.
WOLA interview with law enforcement, Yuma, Arizona, June 20, 2018.
WOLA interview with migrant shelter, Yuma and Tucson, Arizona, June, 2018.
WOLA interview with legal aid organization,Tucson, Arizona, June 21, 2018.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, "Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) by Location of Origin for CY 2014: Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala," Homeland Intelligence Today, May 27, 2014, http://adamsdocs.org/files/dhsuacmap.pdf.
WOLA Defense Oversight Research Database, Clips from "International Narcotics Control Strategy Report," March 2, 2017, https://defenseoversight.wola.org/clip/3406; "Central American Regional Security Initiative: Background and Policy Issues for Congress, December 17, 2015 https://defenseoversight.wola.org/clip/1375.
WOLA interview with two migrant mothers from Guerrero, Arizona, June 20, 2018.
Infobae, "La violencia expulse de sus pueblos a los habitantes de 10 comunidades en Guerrero," Infobae, June 15, 2018, https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2018/06/15/violencia-expulsa-de-sus-pueblos-a-los-habitantes-de-10-comunidades-en-guerrero/.
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear, "How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families," New York Times, June 16, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/us/politics/family-separation-trump.html.
WOLA interview with migrant shelter, Arizona, June 21, 2018.
Eli Rosenberg, "Her 7-year-old was taken as she sought asylum. Now she's suing to get him back," Washington Post, June 20, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/06/19/her-7-year-old-was-taken-at-the-border-as-she-sought-asylum-now-shes-suing-to-get-him-back/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b350b85c73b7.
WOLA interview with Human Rights Center, Tucson, Arizona, June 20, 2018.


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(place) by Pseudo_Intellectual Sun Mar 19 2000 at 6:17:02
Today in the wee hours of the morning one of my newer roommates (Darklock) creeps downstairs and says he has what may seem to be a strange proposition for me. Keeping in mind this is the fellow who asked me how I'd respond if I was invited to participate in a threesome with him and his girlfriend, I cautiously proceed.
Well, it seems that a "spare" big, modern computer sent up here by one of this friends in the US for him to Ultima Online on has finally arrived. The only thing is that since it was sent, he's found employment and has purchased for his own use a computer superior to the one that's arrived. He has no use for it, but would be willing to sell it to me for a nominal fee. Say... $70 dollars?
Wow. I've been meaning to buy a new computer. This has more than six times the total storage (4 gigs) of my previous computer and it has a 20 speed CD-ROM! (I've never had a cd-rom before.) Now I can finally listen to my CDs!
I agree to the exchange, he comes down with the hardware and I disconnect a few things (really only the monitor) to hook up the new box and poke around in it. Well well well. Windows '98 and some flavour of NT. Inter-esting. He also provides me with a diskette of network drivers, which '98 intermittently does and does not feel like reading properly. Because they don't work, I can't hook it up to the house LAN to download other software to install. When I poke around it keeps trying to sneakily set me up for MSN-use and I freak out a bit. I resign myself to the notion that it'll probably be best if I wipe what's on it and start with a fresh installation, but this is not without a certain quantity of trepidation - the last time I manned a full install by myself was MS-DOS 6.22, back when it was new. I am aware that the requisite software for modern computering is circulating within my household and circle of friends, but I'm not too clear on where or who has them, so I decide to put the new toy aside for the time being and hook my jury-rigged (not by me) Linux box back up. Disaster strikes! in the bumping and jostling of wresting two computers on to the desktop, something has been bumped or jiggled or knocked the wrong way and I can't get my old box to boot up now! I get a series of very frightening (if beautiful) video card errors, make a couple of futile attempts to discern what it is inside the computer that is loose or has fallen out (only successful ultimately in freeing a large family of dustballs) and now I have two computers, neither of which I'm capable of hooking up to the LAN and working on.
So I'm writing this node from the firewall. This explains why I haven't been seen online for a couple of days (shortly after exclaiming, no doubt, "Holy crap, man, my roommate is selling me a new computer for $70!" (that's canadian dollars, lest I remind you, worth only slightly more than Monopoly money.) This is just one of a series of Faustian effects which I'm sure modern computing will render unto me to completely disrupt my life. I'll keep you posted.
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100 cold calls a day? Not in digital age, but rookies need the same discipline
By Sarah Martinson
August 02, 2017, 12:12 p.m. EDT
You've landed the job, now what? That is the question for rookie advisors.
At one point, banks were swooping up would-be advisors right out of college and placing them in associate programs. In these programs, senior advisors would bring junior advisers onto their teams and mentor them. Many of the challenges they faced, such as lack of experience, knowledge and contacts, were mitigated by these programs. Today there are fewer of these programs and the challenges for rookie advisors remain.
Rob Comfort, the newly appointed president of CUNA Brokerage Services, advises rookies to seek out a mentor, like they would have in an associate advisor program. In particular, they should find a mentor who is a successful bank or credit union advisor.
"If they are not getting mentored during this time period, it really compromises the ability of advisors to succeed," he says.
One of the biggest challenges for rookies is gaining clients. Rookies can leverage the experience of the advisor they are working under to gain new clients, says Doug Leonzi, vice president of BB&T Investment Services. For instance, if a 50-year-old client questions the qualifications a rookie half his age, the young advisor could call on his mentor, Leonzi says.
When his junior broker meet clients, Leonzi told him that if clients question his age to remind clients that he is a part of a team with many more years of experience than him.
Leonzi says he tells his clients the same thing about his own situation. Clients sometimes ask him how he has time to manage their money carefully when he is married, has three kids and still has time to play golf. He tells them he is a part of team that works to manage their clients' money.
Hiring and mentoring junior advisors can be as beneficial to firms as it is to the rookies, says Kehrer Bielan Research & Consulting managing principal, Peter Bielan. It is easier for firms to mold a young advisor to their client approach than an older adviser.
Mentoring junior advisors could be as beneficial to firms as it is to the rookies, says Peter Bielan. It is easier for firms to mold a young advisor to their process. An older advisor who has been successful using one approach won't be as quick to change tactics at a new firm.
An older advisor who has been successful using one approach isn't going to want to change tactics at a new firm, Bielan says. It doesn't make sense for high-earning advisor to do that either.
Bielan says banks need to be hiring more rookies because there are not enough advisors in circulation. Year-after-year the number of reps in the field remains relatively the same and banks need new recruits to fill positions that old advisors once held, he says.
"This is the time when we should be increasing advisors," Bielan says. "There isn't an ambitious enough hiring goal."
Comfort says it is naive for banks to think they can go out and recruit new talent without taking the time and resources to develop them within their own companies.
When rookies are on their own, Comfort recommends they create an activity plan for themselves that they follow every day. The plan should consist of concrete goals that they can accomplish such as how many cold calls they are going to make or how many appointments they are going to schedule.
"A lot of advisors say, 'I want to grow my business to X, get this many clients and get to this AUM,' but these are things they can't control," Comfort says. "Advisors need to ask themselves every day, 'What can I do today that I can control?'"
Once advisors make an activity plan, Comfort says, they need to stick with it. They should have a mentor or supervisor hold them accountable to that plan so they will be successful.
"If they follow that activity plan, they will eventually have a breakthrough," Comfort says.
When Comfort was a rookie right out of college in the 80s, he would make 100 cold calls a day. He found prospective customers by looking up small town business owners in the yellow pages.
"My manager said, 'If you make 100 cold call a day, even if you don't feel like doing it, on a good day you will talk to 30 of those people,'" Comfort says. "'On a good day, eight to 10 of them will say they are interested and, on a good day, three of them will become clients.'"
Even though rookie advisors don't need to be making as many cold calls, Comfort says, they need to have the same self-discipline as advisors who did.
"In credit unions and banks today, rookie advisors should have that same discipline to cultivating their referral network," Comfort says.
Leonzi suggests that rookie advisors reach out to other bank employees to build their network and gain more referrals. "They will provide leads for you and you will provide leads for them," he says.
Bank advisors have two clients to serve---their bank's network branches and consumers, Bielan says. Without referrals from bank branches, advisors won't have enough consumer clients.
The challenges for rookie bank advisors are really the same as for any adviser, Leonzi says. Rookie advisors need to network and become involved in their community the same as senior advisers would to grow their business. They can join a junior leader association or chamber of commerce group for young professionals. Leonzi's ultimate advice for rookies: "Be aggressive. Stay focused. Don't get discouraged."
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Huawei launches a Smart Business Suitcase, and HarmonyOS 2.0
Bipasha Mandal
As is known to everyone the Chinese smartphone company, Huawei got into a legal battle with the US, and ever since the Huawei smartphones had been banned in the US, the Chinese company has trouble keeping their business afloat.
With this, Huawei has come up with a new Huawei Smart Business Suitcase.
For this, Huawei teamed up with Samsonite. The new bag comes in different sizes, 20, 25, and 28 inches which are priced at $ 291, $337, and $ 380 respectively.
One of the key features of this suitcase is that the users of this suitcase can easily unlock the case. If the smart suitcase was previously synchronized with a Huawei smartphone, the lock will automatically open if the smartphone is brought into the reading area. This will work even if the phone screen is turned off.
Huawei's latest smart suitcase also comes with a battery storage compartment and an external USB port. As for the interior of the suitcase, the company claims that it is made from eco-friendly fabrics, and the body is made of aluminum alloy.
Apart from introducing the new smart business suitcase, Huawei has also announced its own HarmonyOS 2.0 system. The company has mentioned that so far only a series of Beta versions will be launched, and more devices will soon join the new OS in the near future.
HarmonyOS 2.0 supports automatic screen recognition which comes with the ability to perform more accurate voice recognition operations for different types of devices. It also focuses on block device connection coordination to ensure fast and smooth cross-device links which offer a delay as low as 10ms, and a traffic throughput of up to 2.4Gbps.
Hongmeng OS 2.0 supports CC EAL 5+ security certification. This may be an indication that all major IoT devices will support this system. So far the new OS will be available for small smart screens, and later on, Huawei will come up with the Beta version for large screens, watches, and other smart devices from September 10. Starting next year, Huawei mobile phones will fully support the new Harmony OS 2.0.
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Do It Again gave Malan (extra) grey hairs
THE "stories behind the story" are what make horseracing so rich in the literature it provides every day, most of which go unreported because there are simply too many horses, too many breeders, owners, trainers and jockeys and not enough journalists employed in racing to put the countless tales of triumph and defeat down on paper.
Equine Behaviour Therapist Malan Du Toit had a pivotal role to play in the success of three-year-old Vodacom Durban July hero Do It Again, one of only a handful of horses in his 18-year career in the complex field of horse behaviour that made him scratch his head and "feel like a fool".
Du Toit first encountered Do It Again as a yearling in 2016 at Drakenstein Stud in Franschoek where, alongside the other yearlings on the farm, he was put through their yearling schooling program which includes breaking in and pens practice.
"Do It Again was a lovely yearling and he was reasonably calm and quiet broken in by myself and Jason May and work rider Thabo of the Drakenstein team. He was well-behaved in the peaceful surroundings of the farm."
Things changed when he went into training and Du Toit tells: "It is not uncommon at all for horses to become livelier and energised when they enter a training yard and start working purposefully alongside others. Do It Again was still fairly relaxed, a nice horse in his stable but he started to wake up on the training tracks and became a handful, he's a horse who does things his own way."
Do It Again grew progressively stronger, he was fiery and troublesome, especially at the races. He managed to win his first two, despite issues at the pens, and after his second race jockey Bernard Fayd'Herbe suggested that they may get worse and that Du Toit be called in to help.
Du Toit recalls: "This was to be quite a challenge. Horses are natural flight animals, when they get into the racing environment, especially, they anticipate flight and they tighten up, prepare themselves to run with the rest of the herd.
"I applied my tried and tested methods to Do It Again, worked with him for several days but he got progressively worse and it soon became evident that he didn't give a damn for being taught how to behave at the pens. He was the boss and he knew it. He just wouldn't give in.
"Things got so bad that Justin, a superior horseman, eventually told me to stop whatever I was doing! He and the rest of the stable were worried that despite my good record I was going to mess things up, that Do It Again would never relinquish his bad manners, that I'd be making his attitude even worse instead of teaching him to behave."
"We backed off Do It Again, left him alone and I felt puzzled, because I hadn't before encountered such a problem horse. I had a few sleepless nights, thought about it and recalled the old saying, 'Only a fool can expect different results if he continues doing things the same'. I decided to try something new at the pens."
Do It Again appeared to calm down a bit when he got to Durban in April to be prepared for the KZN Champions Season. Snaith decided to give Du Toit another chance and said: "Just don't mess with his character. We've seen that he does what he wants. Don't take his natural spirit and energy away from him."
Du Toit explains: "My new approach was to lead Do It Again around at the back of the pens, without his jockey, to walk him on the rein for a while and then to slip the hood over his head casually. The jockey was to get on at the pens only.
"Before his first race in Durban, the Daisy Guineas, I wanted to try my new plan but Bernard felt it was okay if he stayed on top of the horse. But we battled again. Do It Again was back to his troublesome self and a few heavy guys had to push him into the stalls which is not ideal especially for Graded races because it saps the horse's energy which is needed in the race. Thankfully, he made the jump and won despite his antics.
"His next start was the Daily News and this time Bernard got off at the start. I walked around with Do It Again, slipped the hood on and took him right up to the pens, where the jockey got on and he walked in immediately, without giving us any trouble. He jumped well and while he finished fourth, it was a good July prep.
"Last Saturday we went with the same procedure. The start was delayed, but I walked Do It Again around and he was relaxed. When the time came, we slipped the hood on, walked him up and Anton Marcus got on at the front of his stall gate. He went in like a baby, jumped well and won!"
He concluded: "This was another learning curve, it never stops with horses, it was a humbling experience that taught me again to always think out of the box when it comes to horse behaviour. With Do It Again, it looks as if we've come out winning on the other end!"
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It started innocently enough. A Facebook friend (and an actual friend) given to occasionally posting memes of a political nature, chose to post one I have seen countless times before. I am sure you have as well. It is the one that makes light of the "fact" that the federal government took over operation of the Mustang Ranch for back taxes and failed in the process. This time, however, Facebook was offended, blocking the view because "independent fact checkers" had declared it false.
Well, maybe. This particular meme has circulated for some time. It is amusing and innocuous whatever the accuracy. One more posting will not push civilization off a cliff. Nor is it the fact that Facebook chose to block it this time around. One can hardly criticize them for wanting to keep false claims off their website. No, it is the matter in which this meme, and one has to assume many other such items, was handled.
We're On The Verge Of A New Internet
Hosted by Emily Jashinsky
With guest Marshall Kosloff
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Marshall Kosloff, cohost of "The Realignment" podcast and executive producer at On Deck, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss Web3 and whether decentralization in technology could be the solution to the nation's digital woes.
Parler, Web Hosts, and Masterpiece Cakes
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Parler lost its rented server space with Amazon Web Services. Parler also found its phone apps booted off the Apple and Google app stores. This is not the "destruction" of Parler – not unless Parler was on such shaky ground that it cannot be rebuilt. This is certainly hamstringing it, but if this is a "death sentence", then it is one that is easily overcome with cold hard cash (would that the Reaper were so easily fended off on more fleshly concerns). We need perspective here, and an honest reckoning of what happened, how, and why. We also need to yet again yank the plank from our own eye, for it was just a short while ago that we were adamantly defending another business for refusing paying clientele: I speak of none other than Masterpiece Cakes.
First, let's get the technical stuff out of the way – understanding how Parler was built, and how it planned to make money for its creators (let's not fool ourselves into thinking it was all charity work) is key to understanding its demise. Web sites have to be located on computers. You can make a website on your laptop and share it with the rest of the internet if you want. Users just would need to know the numerical address in either IPV4 or IPV6 to find it. If you want to make it easier to find then you would have to register a domain name, and then map that domain name to your server address. Now suppose your little website got really popular because its topic was fun and lovable – let's say, for the sake of argument, that your website was all about your pet bird. If you had just a residential internet connection, after a point your neighbors would start to complain that traffic to your laptop was killing their own connections. Plus, your laptop has limited processing power to keep serving page views out – and your addition of a little bird forum doubled traffic to the point where your laptop's cooling fan failed from overuse. How do you fix these issues?
Henry Racette
I'd be interested to hear anyone's thoughts about this. By virtue of their market dominance and the competitive advantages of large networks, the tech giants are able to manage the flow of news and information, censoring, throttling, and editorializing as they wish. They can do this transparently or invisibly, using increasingly sophisticated algorithms coupled with […]
Kurtz vs. TV Doctors, Siding with China on Speech? Pelosi's Bizarre Lie
Join Jim and Greg as they examine media critic Howard Kurtz's call for TV hosts to rely on infectious disease experts to assess the coronavirus instead of more familiar faces. They also hammer "The Atlantic" and two law professors for concluding that China's crackdown on internet speech is a better way to go than America's default towards free speech. And they unload on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for lying about opposing Trump's China travel ban and for suggesting Trump was wrong even to allow American citizens and green card holders to return from China.
The Multi-Front Attack on Free Speech
Free speech…free expression generally…is under attack in America and throughout the Western world to a degree not seen in a long time. I think there are specific phenomena and (partially-overlapping) categories of people which are largely driving this attack, to wit:
The Thugs. As I pointed out in my post The United States of Weimar?, illegal actions against political opponents, ranging from theft of newspapers to direct assault and battery, have in recent decades become increasingly common on university campuses, and now are well on track to being normalized as aspects of American politics. Incidents of political thuggery are reported almost daily: just the other day, pro-Trump women at an upscale DC hotel were verbally attacked and apparently physically assaulted by members of a wedding party that was heavy on Democrat attendees; including, reportedly, some top officials from the DNC. A pro-free-speech film was reportedly interrupted by two men wearing masks. Interruption of movies they didn't like was a tactic used by the Nazis prior to their obtaining official censorship powers. The film "All Quiet on the Western Front" was plagued by Nazi disruptions when released in Germany in 1930. And attempts to shut down dissident speakers on college campuses, such as this, have become so common as to now be almost the default expectation.
India Meets the Internet; Wedded Bliss or Marital Strife to Follow?
When I was growing up in India we lived in a semi-socialist, planned economy. "Semi-socialist" because India always had a private sector, and essentially unshaken patterns of inherited privilege and oppression. "Planned" because we had five-year plans and the Government controlled "the commanding heights of the economy." One such height being telecommunications.
So, Indian telecommunications were awful when I grew up. We only had landlines. Landlines were scarce (there could be a ten-year waiting period), expensive, and frequently functioned badly (wrong numbers = incorrect connections) when they functioned at all (often not). This reflected a broader media space where the only television station was run by the government, and where print media was an oligopoly.
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Drudge at the National Press Club Let's go back in time. Here is a priceless speech and Q&A from Matt Drudge. The date is 1998 and he has entered the belly of the beast – the National Press Club. The Clinton/Lewinsky story is still recent history. He provides a background on the history of the […]
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The Internet! Remember when it was The Information Superhighway? Back when Al Gore first invented it? It was going to be a boon to Mankind which would connect every common citizen to the Great Minds of the World and to Great Literature and The Arts! What happened? How did we go from an isolated boy […]
Gab, the Internet, and Free Speech
I am not a lawyer, Constitutional or otherwise, but it has come to my attention that the Gab social media site has been very effectively suppressed out of existence in the wake of the Tree of Life shootings. They have this to say at their home page:
Gab has spent the past 48 hours proudly working with the DOJ and FBI to bring justice to an alleged terrorist. Because of the data we provided, they now have plenty of evidence for their case. In the midst of this Gab has been no-platformed by essential internet infrastructure providers at every level. We are the most censored, smeared, and no-platformed startup in history, which means we are a threat to the media and to the Silicon Valley Oligarchy.
Broward County Accountability, Libs Target Internet, Maduro Assassination Attempt
Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are pleased to see a key figure from the Florida high school shooting replaced in the Broward County Sheriff's Office but are irritated the media has stopped covering Sheriff Scott Israel, who still has his job despite failing to perform his duties before and during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. They also reject Democrats' call to regulate the internet as a public utility in the wake of Facebook, Apple, and YouTube's ban of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. And they mourn for Venezuelans as dictator Nicolas Maduro survived a botched drone assassination attempt, and they discuss regulations on drones and the potential to use them for terrorism.
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C|Net published an opinion piece, by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, on an FCC order, "Restoring Internet Freedom," going into effect June 11, 2018. What are the informed technical, policy, or legal opinions of Ricochet members? The FCC Chairman wrote, in C|net: Preview Open
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Even New York Magazine finds an acorn now and then. And this interview with Silicon Valley lifer Jaron Lanier on the social failings of the Internet generally and Social Media in particular is one such. It's a true Read The Whole Thing. I've had a nodding acquaintance with Lanier for three decades, encountering him at […]
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I wrote this column about Paul Ryan's retirement for USA Today, and C-SPAN was nice enough to have me on this morning to talk about it. An excerpt: Preview Open
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When It Hurts Inside, I Just Think of My Favorite Memes
David Deeble
When the dog bites and the bee stings and it hurts inside, I just think of my favorite memes and you know what? I don't feel so bad.
So, what makes a great political meme? For me there are four kinds: the flat-out hilarious, those which exhibit uncanny prescience, those which knock down a peg those people and institutions which richly deserve it, and those which relentlessly mock hypocrisy or false narratives.
Does that mean an inordinate number Brian Williams memes? Yes, it does.
Aaron Miller
Why have upload speeds not greatly improved in line with download speeds? Is there a technical reason or are ISPs like Comcast and AT&T trying to restrain the market for cost management? Millions of internet users take advantage of services like Twitch and Mixer to stream live content for viewers. Millions more regularly upload large […]
Boy, we are living in an age of stupidity. This story is an argument in favor of that assertion. Online social media giant Facebook has initiated a pilot program in Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom in which users are asked to submit their intimate photos to Facebook and, in return, Facebook […]
In the mid- to late-90s, during the Clinton years, I had a number of international gigs as an affiliate with two consultancies with technology and futures practices. The Internet was hot, I had somewhat of a track record of calling its trajectory, and governments everywhere were interested in getting their piece of the action – […]
Dear Internet: Stop Being Offended
Jon Gabriel, Ed.
As long as there's been an internet, there's been outrage. Whether you hung out on an America Online channel, a CompuServe message forum, or alt.politics.usa.screaming.eagle, there was a market for yelling at anonymous strangers about the news of the day.
With the internet saturation provided by iPhones and social media, outrage is ubiquitous. People want attention and it's easier to get it through anger than reason. But all this taking of offense is poisoning the public square, civil society, and all of our health (mental and physical).
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Sunday, 16th of September we had another edition of the BTTO Radio Show, blessings to everyone who tuned in and participated in chat. I have been writing this blog for a year now, wow how time flies when you're having fun with mates.
Pete DevNull took the first hour with a lot of fresh tunes, but kicked things off proper with Dillinja mixed with another tune. Definitely give this mix a listen on proper speakers and then play it at your office for other people to listen to. My picks from the mix are "The Quiet Storm – Mid Summer Night's Dream" and "Mi15 – Experience".
Tim Reaper had the second hour, and he decided to go in hard and dark. There are amens on top of amens and then more amens show up, absolute madness. Give this mix a listen if you are not scared of screwface tunes. My picks from the mix are "Sully – Vanta" and "Aladdin – We Enter" plus that Kid Lib tune that was left unmentioned.
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The poster for the movie TWISTED depicts a guy stripped down to his skivvies wearing the rims from his car as a makeshift form of battle armor. Gripped tightly in his hand is a wrench and he doesn't look afraid to use it. Welcome to the latest horror comedy from writer/director Chai Yee Wei. No stranger to the world of Asian filmmaking, Wei assembled talent from Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan and the cast includes many notable names and the project boasts "some of the best comedic and acting talent from around this region." The film stars Mark Lee, Zhu Mi Mi, and Linda Liao.
TWISTED opens on July 8th, 2011 in Singapore. Released dates for Malaysia and Taiwan will be announced at a later date.
"The story revolves around a drug dealer who banged up a young girl, a pair of con men who wants to turn over a new leaf, and 4 cabin crews whose lives were turned upside down over a fateful night of drugs and booze. This is a story of individuals with fates intertwined and how their paths clash. A series of twisted events that is both a study on cause and effect, and how our actions affect the people around us."Learn more about this film at the Official Hot Cider Films website located here: hotciderfilms.com
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Herodes Atticus
Herodes Atticus bust, from his villa at Kephissia. mid-2nd century
Herodes Atticus (Greek: Ἡρῴδης ὁ Ἀττικός, Hērōidēs ho Attikos; AD 101–177),[1] or Atticus Herodes,[2][3] was a distinguished and rich Greek aristocrat and sophist who served as a Roman senator. Appointed consul at Rome in 143, he was the first Greek to hold the rank of consul ordinarius, as opposed to consul suffectus. In Latin, his full name was given as Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes (Greek: Λεύκιος Βιβούλλιος Ἵππαρχος Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Ἀττικὸς Ἡρῴδης).[1] According to Philostratus, Herodes Atticus was a notable proponent of the Second Sophistic. M.I. Finley described Herodes Atticus as "patron of the arts and letters (and himself a writer and scholar of importance), public benefactor on an imperial scale, not only in Athens but elsewhere in Greece and Asia Minor, holder of many important posts, friend and kinsman of emperors."[4]
Ancestry and familyEdit
Herodes Atticus was a Greek of Athenian descent. His ancestry could be traced to the Athenian noblewoman Elpinice, a half-sister of the statesman Cimon and daughter of Miltiades.[1] He claimed lineage from a series of mythic Greek kings: Theseus, Cecrops, and Aeacus, as well as the god Zeus. He had an ancestor four generations removed from him called Polycharmus, who may have been the Archon of Athens of that name from 9/8 BC–22/23.[5] His family bore the Roman family name Claudius. There is a possibility that a paternal ancestor of his received Roman citizenship from an unknown member of the Claudian gens.
Herodes Atticus was born to a distinguished and very rich family of consular rank.[6] His parents were a Roman Senator of Greek descent, Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, and the wealthy heiress Vibullia Alcia Agrippina.[1][7][8] He had a brother named Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodianus and a sister named Claudia Tisamenis.[1] His maternal grandparents were Claudia Alcia and Lucius Vibullius Rufus, while his paternal grandfather was Hipparchus.[8]
His parents were related as uncle and niece.[7][8][9] His maternal grandmother and his father were sister and brother.[8][9] His maternal uncle Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus was an Archon of Athens in the years 99–100[8][10] and his maternal cousin, Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus, was an Archon of Athens between 143–144.[8][10]
LifeEdit
Marble head of Herodes Atticus, the Athenian millionaire and philosopher. Roman, circa 177–180 AD. Said to be Alexandria, Egypt. Lent by Winchester City Museum. The British Museum, London
Bust of Polydeukes – Altes Museum, Berlin
Memnon, foster child of Herodes Atticus; marble bust (showing sub-Saharan facial features), c. 170 AD, from the villa of Herodes Atticus at Eva, Peloponnesus.
Herodes Atticus was born in Marathon, Greece,[11] and spent his childhood years between Greece and Italy. According to Juvenal, Satire III, he received an education in rhetoric and philosophy from many of the best teachers from both Greek and Roman culture.[12] He was a student of Favorinus, and inherited Favorinus' library.[13] Throughout his life, however, Herodes Atticus remained entirely Greek in his cultural outlook.[12]
He was a harsh critic of Stoicism.
these disciplines of the cult of the unemotional, who want to be considered calm, brave, and steadfast because they show neither desire nor grief, neither anger nor pleasure, cut out the more active emotions of the spirit and grow old in a torpor, a sluggish, enervated life.[14]
The Emperor Hadrian in 125 appointed him Prefect of the free cities in the Roman province of Asia. He later returned to Athens, where he became famous as a teacher. In the year 140, Herodes Atticus was elected and served as an Archon of Athens. Later in 140, the Emperor Antoninus Pius invited him to Rome from Athens to educate his two adopted sons, the future Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. Sometime after, he was betrothed to Aspasia Annia Regilla, a wealthy aristocrat, who was related to the wife of Antoninus Pius, Faustina the Elder.[15] When Regilla and Herodes Atticus married, she was 14 years old and he was 40. As Herodes Atticus was in favor with the Emperor, as a mark of his friendship Antoninus Pius appointed him Consul in 143.
Herodes Atticus and Regilla controlled a large tract around the Third Mile of the Appian Way outside Rome, which was known as the "Triopio" (from Triopas, King of Thessaly). For his remaining years he travelled between Greece and Italy.
Some time after his consulship, he returned to Greece permanently with his wife and their children.
Herodes Atticus was the teacher of three notable students: Achilles, Memnon and Polydeuces (Polydeukes). "The aged Herodes Atticus in a public paroxysm of despair at the death of his perhaps eromenos,[16] Polydeukes, commissioned games, inscriptions and sculptures on a lavish scale and then died, inconsolable, shortly afterwards."[17]
Herodes Atticus had a distinguished reputation for his literary work, most of which is now lost,[12] and was a philanthropist and patron of public works. He funded a number of building projects, including:
A Stadium – Athens
Odeon – Athens
A theater at Corinth
A stadium at Delphi
The baths at Thermopylae
An aqueduct at Canusium in Italy
An aqueduct at Alexandria Troas
A nymphaeum (monumental fountain) with his wife at Olympia
various benefactions to the peoples of Thessaly, Epirus Euboea, Boeotia and Peloponnesus
Throughout his life, Herodes Atticus had a stormy relationship with the citizens of Athens, but before he died he was reconciled with them.[12] When he died, the citizens of Athens gave him an honored burial, his funeral taking place in the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, which he had commissioned.[12]
ChildrenEdit
Regilla bore Herodes Atticus six children, of whom three survived to adulthood. Their children were:
Son, Claudius – born and died in 141[1]
Daughter, Elpinice – born as Appia Annia Claudia Atilia Regilla Elpinice Agrippina Atria Polla, 142–165[1]
Daughter, Athenais – born as Marcia Annia Claudia Alcia Athenais Gavidia Latiaria, 143–161[1]
Son, Atticus Bradua – born in 145 as Tiberius Claudius Marcus Appius Atilius Bradua Regillus Atticus[1]
Son, Regillus – born as Tiberius Claudius Herodes Lucius Vibullius Regillus, 150–155[1]
Unnamed child who died with Regilla or died even perhaps three months later in 160[1]
After Regilla died in 160, Herodes Atticus never married again. When he died in 177, his son Atticus Bradua and his grandchildren survived him. Sometime after his wife's death, he adopted his cousin's first grandson Lucius Vibullius Claudius Herodes as his son.[18]
Herodes Atticus and Regilla, from the 2nd century until the present, have been considered great benefactors in Greece, in particular in Athens. The couple are commemorated in Herodou Attikou Street and Rigillis Street and Square, in downtown Athens. In Rome, their names are also recorded on modern streets, in the Quarto Miglio suburb close to the area of the Triopio. During his life, he built a theater called the Odeon of Herodes Atticus to honor Regilla after her death in 160 AD.[19]
^ a b c d e f g h i j k Pomeroy, The murder of Regilla: a case of domestic violence in antiquity
Baynes, T.S., ed. (1875–1889). "Atticus Herodes" . Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Atticus Herodes, Tiberius Claudius" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 885.
^ Finley, The Ancient Economy (Berkeley: University of California, 1973), p. 100
^ Day, J., An economic history of Athens under Roman domination p. 238
^ Wilson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece p.p. 349-350
^ a b Wilson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece p. 349
^ a b c d e f Graindor, P., Un milliardaire antique p. 29
^ a b Day, J., An economic history of Athens under Roman domination p. 243
^ a b Sleepinbuff.com Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
^ Article, Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, Microsoft Encyclopedia 2002
^ a b c d e Wilson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece p. 350
^ Wytse Hette Keulen "Gellius the Satirist: Roman Cultural Authority in Attic Nights" p119
^ Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, 19.12
^ Pomeroy, The murder of Regilla: a case of domestic violence in antiquity p. 14
^ "Polydeukion". Aedicula Antinoi: A Small Shrine of Antinous.
^ Lambert, Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous, p. 143.
^ Graindor, Un milliardaire antique p. 29
^ "Herodes Atticus theatre in Athens - Greeka.com". Greeka. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists, 2.1 (paragraphs 545–566)
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
Philostratus, Leben der Sophisten. Greek and German by Kai Brodersen. Wiesbaden: Marix 2014, ISBN 978-3-86539-368-5
Secondary material
Gibbon, E., The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Day, J., An economic history of Athens under Roman domination, Ayers Company Publishers, 1973
Graindor, P., Un milliardaire antique, Ayers Company Publishers, 1979
Kennell, Nigel M. "Herodes and the Rhetoric of Tyranny", Classical Philology, 4 (1997), pp. 316–362.
Lambert, R., Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous, Viking, 1984.
Papalas, A. J, "Herodes Atticus: An essay on education in the Antonine age", History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Summer, 1981), pp. 171–188.
Tobin, Jennifer, Herodes Attikos and the City of Athens: Patronage and Conflict Under the Antonines, J. C. Gieben, 1997.
Potter, David Stone, The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 18–395, Routledge, 2004. ISBN 978-0-415-10058-8
Wilson, N. G., Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece, Routledge 2006
Pomeroy, S. B., The murder of Regilla: a case of domestic violence in antiquity, Harvard University Press, 2007
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Herodes Atticus.
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Washington Post Blog Spotlights 'Relax, It's Just God'
October 15, 2012 / Wendy Russell
This isn't so much a blog as brag, so if you are my close friends, family, or just really kind readers who don't mind if I bend your ears for a few minutes, please stick around. The rest of you: I totally understand. Enjoy our day. So this morning, I was featured in the Washington Post's On Parenting blog. The blog is written by Janice D'Arcy, an amazing parenting blogger whose work I've followed for a long time. She contacted me because of the Pew Research Center's new study finding that 20 percent of Americans belong to the ever-widening circle of "nones" — that is, people who do not adhere to any specific religion. D'Arcy asked me to share some general thoughts about why parents should introduce religion/faith to children even when they don't believe or aren't particularly religious themselves.
Here's the piece:
Explaining God without belief
By Janice D'Arcy
Americans are increasingly less religious and less inclined to identify themselves with a particular faith, according to a fascinating new poll and survey. Among those without ties to a religious institution are many parents of young children, a group that can struggle with how to present the concepts of religious faith to children.
The Pew Research Center found that the number of people who said they are "unaffiliated" with a religion has grown to 20 percent of the population. The percentage includes more than 33 million who say they are atheist or agnostic.
A companion survey, produced by Pew and the PBS show Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, found that the unaffiliated, or "nones," frequently report belief in God or an embrace of spirituality. However, their faith in particular religious institutions has waned. "Overwhelmingly, they think that religious organizations are too concerned with money and power, too focused on rules and too involved in politics," the survey found.
For these Americans, the question of how to explain religion and religious institutions gets complicated. How to translate to a child an adult's intellectual or ideological differences with concepts most others hold to be sacred? How to not talk about it when religious references are all around?
For insight into this struggle, I turned to Wendy Thomas Russell, the author of a blog on secular living and the forthcoming book, "Relax It's Just God," on the subject of secular parenting.
I asked her for some guiding principles for secular parents. She said that it's essential these parents talk about religion in depth and with frequency. Here's why:
"Parents can't shield their kids from religion. It's impossible. Despite the somewhat rapid proliferation of 'nones' in this country, we are still the minority. Four of every five kids in our children's classrooms have parents who self-identify as religious. So the chances are really high that our kids are going to be 'introduced' to religion, if not on the playground, then through TV shows, music, architecture, politics, history books, literature, bumper stickers, you name it. And our language! Our language is steeped in religious references. 'I'd move heaven and earth,' 'God-forsaken town,' 'devil-may-care'…
But let's say you're a parent who has some baggage. Religion freaks you out a little; it makes you tense. So why should you go out of your way to expose your kid to other peoples' religious beliefs? And who cares if you share your own anxiety over the subject?
First, and most importantly, religious tolerance doesn't just happen. Parents have to teach it.
It's human nature to be scared or skeptical of people we don't understand; it's why we parents have no qualms talking to our kids about people with disabilities. We don't want our kids to treat disabled people badly; we want them to know that disabled people may be different from us, but they are people, and they deserve respect. Likewise, if we don't tell our kids about religious people in a respectful way, we can't possibly expect them to learn how to treat religious people with respect. It's that simple.
Second, just because religion isn't important to us personally doesn't mean it isn't important.
The chances are very good that my kid will meet people who are devoutly religious. Some of those people will be in her circle of friends. Some of them will be in her own family. Understanding religion and why it's important means that she will be able to former closer bonds to the people she loves. She'll also be more likely to judge people on the content of their character, rather than the "accuracy" of their beliefs.
Third, be the change you want to see.
I'm a nonreligious parent who wishes that more of my kid's friends were being exposed to the idea of agnosticism and humanism and even atheism in a non-biased way. I can't make that happen, but I can damn well live by the Golden Rule and treat others the way I want to be treated. Eventually, it's bound to catch on, right?
Fourth, it may save your kid a lot of embarrassment.
In researching my book, I've learned that a lot of kids with little to no religious literacy begin to feel embarrassed about their lack of knowledge right around the time middle school begins. Which, with so many other things going on, is pretty much the worst time in a kid's life to have to deal with embarrassment…
I don't think any parent sets out to pass their anxieties on to their kids. If anything, parents think they're being rightfully protective, not irrationally anxious. But when it comes to religion, anything short of encouraging kids to make up their own minds is probably going to translate as anxiety. And there's just no need for it. Our kids shouldn't have to fight our battles."
What do you think? Might her advice apply to all parents? Is exposure to all religions the best way to give perspective and teach tolerance?
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