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Women in the Gift Economy: A Radically Different World View is Possible
Edited by Genevieve Vaughan
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Abundance is necessary for the successful practice of gift giving. Exchange competes with gift giving by capturing the abundance, channeling it into the hands of the few or wasting it, thus creating scarcity for the many.
—Genevieve Vaughan
Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures, and the planet. Featuring articles by well-known feminist activists and academics, this book points to ways to re-create the connections, which have been severed, between the gift economy, women, and the economies of Indigenous peoples, and to bring forward the gift paradigm as an approach to liberate us from the worldview of the market that is destroying life on the planet. Shifting to a gift paradigm can give us the radically different worldview which will make another, better, world possible.
A gift economy embodies an oriented logic of care while exchange, upon which the market is based, contains a logic of self interest because it requires an equivalent return for what is given, satisfying the need of the 'giver' as opposed to those of the 'receiver.' Indigenous societies often continue to practice gift giving although they have now been forced into the context of the market. Many other examples of gift giving from mothering to communication and social activism abound in our society although they are unrecognized. Even free housework can be considered an unrecognized gift women are giving to their families and to the capitalist system. Through the commodification of free gift areas—such as water, traditionally grown seeds, medicinal plants—globalization captures the gifts of the many in the Global South, channeling them to the few in the North. Contributors to this volume argue that shifting to a gift paradigm can give us the radically different worldview which will make another world possible.
"Finally! This is the book we urgently need in these neoliberal, destructive, disoriented times. We all know that a profound change in our economy and culture is necessary, that we need to think in another way. But how? The authors of this collection of articles—all feminists, all peace workers, from the North and the South—demonstrate convincingly that "a radically different world view is possible" when we look at the world with Genevieve Vaughan's radically different paradigm: gift giving instead of the coercive and compulsive exchange paradigm of the market economy."
—Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, co-author of The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy and Women: The Last Colony
"Wow, what a great book. If more people could embrace this kind of thinking the world would be a much better place. In the tradition of my people one's status in society in not based upon how much wealth one possesses and displays but rather it is based upon what one gives away. Thus according to our traditions the creators of this volume deserve special recognition as their work is a gift for the rest of us who have the privilege of reading it."
—D. Memee Lavell-Harvard, President, Ontario Native Women's Association and Vice President, Native Women's Association of Canada
"Those of us honoured to know Genevieve Vaughan know that, for at least twenty years, she has been working tirelessly towards defining and describing the "gift economy, presenting it as a workable alternative to patriarchal capitalism. This anthology, Women and the Gift Economy, offers the fruit of myriad scholars on the subject, examining the gift economy from nearly every imaginable vantage point—from history, spirituality, sexuality, and matriarchal social structure to language, finance, childcare, and warfare. Moreover, Indigenous scholars working from their own cultures' ways of knowing receive a representation and a respect equal to what is afforded their European and Euroamerican colleagues. Women and the Gift Economy is guaranteed to guide the reader into new and invigorating paradigms, clarifying the economic choices facing humanity."
—Barbara Alice Mann, author of Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas and editor of and contributor to Daughters of Mother Earth
"Genevieve Vaughan has for decades been active in progressive causes—generous with her time, energy, and material resources. Now she gives the best gift of all: her elegant, intelligent, and transformative thinking. This is, simply, a visionary book. Read it, let it into your heart and brain—and you will change the world."
"The gift economy is prevalent in most ancient Indigenous societies the world over, many still existing today. Gifting operates especially well among people with fewer resources, in rural areas and urban townships. It is through sharing gifts that many of us survive. Genevieve Vaughan's feminist gift economy is a reminder to all of us about this ancient practice still prevalent in many of our societies, especially in Africa and the global South more broadly, and her life's work in this area perfectly epitomizes the philosophies underpinning the book: it is the gift economy in practice. Genevieve Vaughan is a gift to the world."
—Bernedette Muthien, poet and activist, director of ENGENDER, South Africa
"This collection, in its critique of patriarchal capitalism and in its call for a logic of gift-giving over exchange, makes possible a new understanding of—and appreciation for—the true economic and social value of mothering. In this, the book is an invaluable contribution to motherhood studies."
—Andrea O'Reilly, Associate Professor, York University, and author of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart
"Based on Genevieve Vaughan's theory of the gift economy, this book offers a radically different world view for 21st century feminism with powerful implications for challenging patriarchy and the market economy in building a sustainable, safe, equitable world society. In the introduction Vaughan outlines the logic and impact of the gift economy. Vaughan's approach provides an alternative paradigm in which "mothering" in all the senses of the term is at the foundation of the social model for being human. Together with the articles that follow her introduction, the book provides a unified feminist philosophy in which the logic of social interaction is based on "gifting" that is, giving to nurture growth by satisfying needs in response to which the receiver models the giver by giving to others. This is a must read for feminists in all countries for it provides a coherent philosophical system based on the power of nurturing for rethinking political and economic thought just as the Enlightenment once based its philosophical innovations on the power of human reason."
—Peggy Reeves Sanday, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania and author of Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy
"Anyone who wonders why a tree giving us oxygen is only profitable when it's cut down, or why a train wreck increases the Gross Domestic Product but nurturing children does not, is on the way to rejecting patriarchal capitalism. Genevieve Vaughan and her collection of essays by activists and visionaries show us an alternate economic worldview that existed for most of human history, and could exist again. This brave and path-breaking book will give you hope—and hope is a form of planning."
—Goria Steinem
Rabia Abdelkarim-Chikh is an Algerian, living and working in Senegal as a researcher in social sciences for the international NGO, Environment Development Actions Third World. She is a feminist activist involved with the African Women Forum for Economy in Solidarity (FAMES) and has facilitated a number of different workshops and panels at World Social Forums.
Yvette Abrahams was born in 1963, in Crawford, Cape Town, South Africa. She grew up mostly in exile, in Scandinavia. She is a historian and spends most of her working hours researching gender in different forms. She dreams of laying a pathway that will lead young Black women securely towards freedom in the new millennium. From January to December 2002, she was a visiting scholar at the African Gender Institute. Her articles have published in a number of edited anthologies, including Black Women in White Institutional Cultures (Indiana University Press, 2003) and Discourses on Difference, Discourse on Oppression (Centre for Advanced South African Studies, 2001).
Andrea Alvarado Vargas is a Costarican journalist, radio producer and audio technician. She has worked as a trainer in radio production, digital edition, and new technologies courses for some years for different social communication organizations. She is an advocate for non-profit communication and communication rights and a feminist activist. She has a strong relationship with community radios in Central America, and is part of strengthening projects for these radios. She works as a producer for Radio Internacional Feminista/FIRE.
Born in the Caribbean, Peggy Antrobus has worked for the advancement of women's rights and development, starting with her post as Advisor on Women's Affairs to the government of Jamaica on the eve of the UN Decade for Women (1974). She is a founding member of many feminist organizations including the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA), DAWN, and the International Gender and Trade Network. She was General Coordinator of DAWN from 1991-1996, and currently serves on the Steering Committee of DAWN Caribbean. Her book, The Global Women's Movement: Issues, Strategies and Challenges, was published by Zed Books in 2004.
Jeannette Armstrong is Syilx (Okanagan) from Penticton, British Columbia, Canada and is the Director of En'owkin Centre dedicated to the revitaliztion of the Syilx Language and Culture.
Assetou Madeleine Auditore (or simply Madou) was born in Yaou, Ivory Coast on 14 December 1993 from parents who had migrated there from Burkina Faso. She now lives and studies in Bari, Italy, where she is currently doing her first year middle school. She takes piano, sax and singing lessons at the Conservatorium Niccolò Piccinni in Bari. She enjoys playing sports, dancing, and good food!
Louise Benally is a 46-year-old Dineh mother and grandmother. She is a human rights activist, an environmental activitist, a traditional educator/counsellor, and an herbalist. Currently, she is working for the Northern Arizona University on health promotion, diabetes prevention, and healing gardens. This is one way she teaches about a "healthy living world" for all the living beings.
Marta Benavides is an educator, a theologian, and permaculturist who works on social transformation through culture, culture of peace, life-long learning. She is the International President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and part of the United Nations and UNESCO Women, Sustainability, and Peace Caucuses. She worked for a political, peaceful, negotiated solution to the war in El Salvador in the 1980s. During the war, she also worked with Monsignor Oscar Romero, who was slain in 1980 in El Salvador, and together they established the first refugee centers in the country, and directed the Ecumenical Committee for Humanitarian Aid (CEAH ). Marta's father rested on Earth Day, April 22, 2005, and her mother on April 19th, 2006. In their memory, on September 23, 2006, she and her sisters opened the Culture is Peace and the AHA Folk Arts and Cultures Museum in Santa Ana, the second city of El Salvador, for the purpose of promoting a culture of peace through social transformation and global and planetary citizenship.
Carol Brouillet is a longtime activist. She has organized three gatherings on "Strategies to Transform the Global Economy," with an emphasis on money. She also organized (the first) marches on her Senators and Congresswoman in January 2002 to "demand a congressional investigation of 9/11." She has published Deception Dollars (over 6,000,000 in print), and co-founded the 9/11 Truth Alliance, and the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. She also produced the musical comedy/benefit and film, Behind Every Terrorist There is a Bush and organized the San Franciso International Inquiry into 9/11. She is the mother of three boys, and ran for Congress in 2006 on the Green Party ticket on a 9/11 Truth, Peace and Impeachment platform. www.communitycurrency.org.
Linda Christiansen-Ruffman (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Professor of Sociology at Saint Mary's University. She served as a President of both the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association and the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women as well as their Atlantic counterparts. She has chaired the Research Committee on Women in Society of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and been a member of the ISA executive committee and its representative to the United Nations in New York. In the 1970s she began to conduct local research and to teach, write, and organize some of the "early" research by, for, about, and with women. She chaired the Taskforce on the Elimination of Sexist Bias in Research of the Social Science Federation of Canada. She became part of the feminist challenge to unlearn biased theoretical and methodological assumptions of disciplines and to invent new ways. Her scholarship on feminist theory, methodology, sociology of knowledge and women's movements (local and global) has benefited greatly from feminist praxis. She has helped to found many organizations, committees and caucuses including graduate women's studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia Women's FishNet, FAFIA (Canada's Feminist Alliance for International Action) and the International Feminist University.
Brackin "Firecracker" Camp grew up in a small town in Mississippi and came of age in New Orelans, Louisiana. She has an extensive background in protesting, networking, traveling, interviewing, researching, radical cheerleading, circus performing, parading, bike riding, and organizing events/conferences throughout the U.S. and in various other countries. To support herself in the market economy, Brackin presently works as a personal care attendant/body worker as well as a puppeteer in the Austin public schools. In addition, Brackin is a board member of the Rhizome Collective and a member of the committee to free the Angola 3.
Tracy Gary transforms communities as a donor activist, philanthropic and legacy advisor, and nonprofit entrepreneur. She has been on over 30 boards of directors and has help to start 19 nonprofits and foundations including Resourceful Women and Changemakers. Her latest adventure is Inspired Legacies, which helps to catalyze billions of dollars of the public good through linking of powerful dreamers, dreammakers, and advisors. Tracy is the co-author of Inspired Philanthropy: Your Step by Step Guide to Creating a Giving and Legacy Plan (Jossey Bass, 2007) with new worksheets for those planning their lifetime legacies. She credits the leadership of the women's movement and mentors like Gen Vaughan for their inspiration of her feminist philanthropy and commitment to the women's funding movement.
Heide Goettner-Abendroth was born in 1941 and is the mother of three children. She has published various books on matriarchal society and culture and has become the founding mother of Modern Matriarchal Studies. In 1980 she was visiting professor at the University of Montreal (Canada) and, in 1992, at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). In 1986, she founded the International Academy HAGIA: Academy for Modern Matriarchal Studies and Matriarchal Spirituality in Germany. The results of her research have been the basis for further studies and projects in many different countries. She is one of the 1,000 "Peace Women" all over the world who have been nominated by the Swiss Peace Initiative. Visit her website: www.goettner-abendroth.de.
Mechthild U. Hart is Professor at DePaul University's School for New Learning. She moved from Germany to the United States in 1972, worked in a number of women's and community organizations, and has been teaching and mentoring at the School for New Learning since 1987. She has published several articles, book chapters, and two books on international and social divisions of labour, with special emphasis on poverty and motherwork.
Ana Isla's current research specialty and interests are feminism, eco-feminism, women in development, Third World women, women's micro-enterprises, political economy, political ecology, the Commons, enclosure in the twenty-first century, debt crisis, globalization and global issues, social justice, racism, economic development, sustainable development, debt-for-nature swaps, poverty issues, community organizing, the gift economy, bio-piracy, Indigenous knowledge, eco-tourism, mining and environmental NGOs. She is assistant professor at Brock University and a member of Toronto Women for a Just and Healthy Planet.
Maria Jimenez lives in Houston, Texas and has worked with the Latino community in the non-profit sector over the past 20 years. She has developed human rights monitoring and documentation methodology and trained community groups in human rights monitoring and documentation. She has also written numerous articles on international migration issues. She has received many awards for her work including the Humanitarian Award from the Mickey Leland Centre, Texas Southern University in 2004, and the Community Leadership Award from the Houston Peace and Justice Centre in 2005.
Kaarina Kailo, senior researcher at the Finnish Academy, has held various women's studies positions in Canada and Finland (1991- ), ranging from interim director of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Montreal, Canada to professor at Oulu University. She has published numerous co-edited books on topics from postcolonialism (Sami people) to feminist views on folklore, storytelling, literature, gift economy/gift imaginary, neoliberal economic philosophy, honour-related gender violence, mythology, ecofeminism, bear myths, sauna and sweatlodge as gynocentric ritual spaces. Her current research compares Northern/Indigenous women's writings on trauma and healing. She is active in local, national and international Green-Left politics. Her edited anthology, The Gift Gaze: Wo(men) and Bears was published by Inanna Publications in 2007.
Corinne Kumar is a poet, a dreamer leader, a visionary … a pilgrim of life as she calls herself. With an abiding faith in women's knowledge and all vulnerable wisdoms, she is a woman deeply committed to issues related to women and human rights, peace and justice. She has initiated and sustained groups at the local, regional, and international level, whose core is transformational politics that is rooted in a more caring and compassionate society in immediate, lived realities. These include the Centre for Development Studies (CIEDS), Vimochana, a forum for women's rights, both based in Bangalore, India and the Asian Women Human Rights Council, a regional network of women's and human rights organizations. For the past decade, she has been the Director of El Taller, an international ngo based in Tunis that through its perspectives and programs, including training programs for ngo activists, attempts to create spaces for constructive reflection and action on the important issues of our times and enables a South-South and North-South dialogue. Information on the World Courts of Women is available at: www.eltaller.org.
Rauna Kuokkanen is Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Indigenous Studies at the Sami University College, Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino (Norway). She holds a Ph.D. on Education from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) and an MA on Comparative Literature (University of British Columbia) and on Sami Language and Literature (University of Oulu, Finland). She has published articles on Indigenous research paradigms, education and critical theory, Indigenous literature, the gift paradigm, and globalization and Indigenous women. Her current research examines the intersections of autonomy, violence, and political economy in the context of Indigenous women. She was the founding chair of the Sami Youth Organization in Finland, established in 1991, and has served as the Vice-President of the Sami Council. Currently she is a member of the Board of Directors of Terralingua, International Organization for Protection of Biocultural Diversity, and a member of the Call of the Earth Circle, Indigenous Peoples' Initiative on Intellectual Property Policy.
For more than 25 years, Paola Melchiori has created, nationally and internationally, free spaces of critical thinking, teaching and learning, based on the model of the Free University in Berlin. She is the founder and president of The International Feminist University Network, an international think-tank for women's critical thinking and education. The university is committed to developing and making visible new paradigms of knowledge based on women's ways of knowing and learning and to make them available and meaningful for new generations of women leaders. She has written extensively on feminist theory, knowledge creation, and on interdisciplinary and relational learning and education. She is currently focusing on how to "pass on" experiences, memory, history, to young women and men, through written and visual texts.
Angela Miles is Professor of Adult Education and Community Development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. She is committed to building and studying autonomous women's local and global activism and its genesis and significance in the current period of neo-liberal globalization. She is a founding member of Toronto Women for a Just and Healthy Planet, the Feminist Party of Canada, the Antigonish Women's Association and is a member of the editorial board of Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme. Her publications include, Integrative Feminisms: Building Global Visions (Routledge 1996) and the co-edited collection Feminist Politics, Activism and Vision: Local and Global Challenges (Inanna/Zed 2004).
Sizani Ngubane is the founder and director of the Rural Women's Movement in KwaZulu Natal-South Africa. She worked for ten years as a gender specialist for the Association for Rural Advancement in KwaZulu Natal. Prior to that, she worked for the South African Women's National Coalition as a provincial coordinator. Her skills and abilities were recognized when she was appointed the first organizer in the Northern Natal Region by the Africa National Congress (ANC), which has recently been legalized. She has been an activist for women's rights for 40 years, and is particularly passionate about women's independent rights to land, property and inheritance. She has two grandchildren and currently lives in Winterskloof. As a Zulu-speaking child, she grew up in the rural areas just outside Pietermaritzburg. She was unable to complete high school because of her family's financial situation, but has made it a priority to educate herself.
Vicki Noble is a healer, artist, scholar, and writer, co-creator of Motherpeace, author of Shakti Women and the Double Goddess. She teaches in the Women's Spirituality Program at New College of California in San Francisco.
Patricia Pearlman was the Priestess of the Temple of the Goddess Spirituality Dedicated to Sekhmet in Cactus Springs, Nevada, for more than ten years. She established the Temple as an institution, giving it a foothold in an unlikely environment, between a nuclear test site and the airforce base, not far from the adult Disneyland that is Las Vegas. She created and sustained a community of people who visited the temple for rituals, healing and counselling. She passed away on March 24, 2006.
Susan Petrilli is Associate Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bari, Department of Linguistic Practices and Text Analysis. Her principal areas of study include sign theory, subject theory, theory of meaning and language, communication theory, problems of ideology, translation theory. She has edited three collective volumes of the series Athanor (1999, 2000, 2001) on theory and semiotics of translation, another dedicated to the theme Nero (2003), and the most recent dedicated to Ferruccio Rossi-Landi entitled Lavoro immateriale (2004). Her major publications include: Su Victoria Welby. Significs e filosofia del linguaggio (1998); Teoria dei segni e del linguaggio (1999); and with Augusto Ponzio, I segni e la vita. La semiotica globale di Thomas A. Sebeok (2002); Semioetica (2003); and Views in Literary Semiotics (2003).
Margaret Randall lived for much of her life in Latin America: Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua. She returned to the U.S. in 1984, only to face a deportation order due to the opinions expressed in some of her books. She won her immigration case in 1989 and has resided in her native Albuquerque, New Mexico since. Author of more than 100 books, among her most recent titles are When I Look Into the Mirror and See You; Terror and Resistance; Into Another Time: Grand Canyon Reflections, and forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press, Stones Witness, a multi-genre volume which includes poems, personal narrative, and photographs. She lives with her lifetime companion, artist Barbara Byers.
Renea Roberts believes in an intimate approach when creating Feature length documentaries and shorts. She's also passionate about alternative energies, permaculture, and learning to garden organically in the high deserts of New Mexico. See www.giftingit.com for more information.
Elisabet Sahtouris is an internationally acclaimed evolution biologist, futurist, and author who teaches sustainable business and globalization as a natural, evolutionary process. She is a fellow of the World Business Academy and a member of the World Wisdom Council. Her venues include the World Bank, Boeing, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Tokyo Dome Stadium, Australian National Government, Sao Paulo's leading business schools, State of the World Forums (New York and San Francisco), and the World Parliament of Religions. Her books include EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution; A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us and Biology Revisioned with Willis Harman. Visit her websites:www.sahtouris.com and www.ratical.org/lifeweb.
For over 30 years, Erella Shadmi has been a radical feminist, lesbian, peace and anti-racist activist in Israel. She is the co-founder of Kol HaIsha, the Jerusalem women's center, and of the Fifth Mother, a women's peace movement. She is one of the first Ashkenazi Israelis (Jews of western origin) to speak out against the oppression of Mizrahi Israelis (Jews from Arab countries). Dr. Shadmi is the Head of the Women's and Gender Program at Beit Berl College. She is also a criminologist who has published numerous critical analyses of Israeli police. Her book, Contemplating Women: Women and Feminism in Israel, is forthcoming.
María Suarez Toro is a Puertorican and Costarican feminist, women´s human rights activist, and communicator. She has been co founder, co director and now producer of Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE) since its birth in 1991. She has also worked as a human rights activist in the Central American Human Rights Commission in the past and also in adult literacy in the region.
Mililani Trask is a Native Hawaiian attorney with an extensive background on Native Hawaiian land trusts, resources, and legal entitlements. Her work has been cited by the Hawaii Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and published by Cultural Survival and IWGIA Magazines on issues relating to Native people and human and civil rights. In October 1993, Ms. Trask was invited to become a member of the prestigious Indigenous Initiative for Peace (IIP), a global body of Indigenous leaders convened by Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu-Tum, the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador to the UN Decade on Indigenous Peoples. Since that time, Ms. Trask has worked in the global arena for passage of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In this respect, Ms. Trask attended and participated in the United National Global Consultations in Cairo, Beijing, Copenhagen and Vienna as a Pacific Delegate to the Indigenous caucus. She is a founding member and current Chair of the Indigenous Women's Network, a coalition of Native American Women whose work includes community based economic development, social justice, human rights, housing and health.
Genevieve Vaughan is an independent researcher, activist, social change philanthropist, and founder of the feminist Austin, Texas-based Foundation for a Compassionate Society in operation from 1987–1998 and in a reduced form until 2005. She is the author of For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange (1997) and Homo Donans (2006), and the editor of an issue of the Italian journal Athanor titled Il Dono/The Gift: a Feminist Perspective (2004). She is also the author of two children's books, Mother Nature's Children (1999) and Free/Not Free (2007), and has produced a cd of her Songs for the Tree of Life. A documentary about her life, Giving for Giving: Not All Texans Are Like Bush, coproduced by Cara Griswold and Becky Hays of Full Circle Productions, has just been completed. Showings can be scheduled and copies ordered from www.givingforgiving.com. Vaughan's books and many articles are available free on her website www.gift-economy.com. She is now based in Italy and devotes her time to writing and speaking about the gift economy. She has three daughters.
Frieda Werden is the co-founder and producer of WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service; the Spoken Word Coordinator of CJSF-FM, Vancouver; ice President for North America of AMARC and President of the International Association of Women in Radio and TV.
Claudia von Werlhof is a women's studies professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She has published numerous articles and books on a feminist theory of society, critiques of and alternatives to capitalism, and on globalization and patriarchy. Her most recent publications are There is An Alternative: Subsistence and Worldwide Resistance to Corporate Globalization (2001), "Using, Producing and Replacing Life? Alchemy as Theory and Practice in Capitalism" (2004), and "The 'Zapatistas', the Indigenous Civilization, the Question of Matriarchy and the West" (2005), and "No Critique of Capitalism Without a Critique of Patriarchy! Why the Left is No Alternative" (2007).
Introduction: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible
I. The Gift Economy, Past and Present
Indigenous Knowledge and Gift Giving: Living in Community
Jeannette Armstrong
Pan Dora Revisited: From Patriarchal Woman-Blaming to a
Feminist Gift Imaginary
Kaarina Kailo
The Gift Logic of Indigenous Philosophies in the Academy
Rauna Kuokkanen
She Gives the Gift of Her Body
Vicki Noble
The Goddess Temple of Sekhmet: A Gift Economy Project
Patricia Pearlman
Matriarchal Society and the Gift Paradigm: Motherliness as an Ethical Principle
Heide Goettner-Abendroth
Significs and Semioethics: Places of the Gift in Communication Today
Susan Petrilli
The Biology of Business: Crisis as a Gifting Opportunity
Elisabet Sahtouris
II. Gifts Exploited by the Market
Capitalist Patriarchy and the Negation of Matriarchy: The Struggle for a "Deep" Alternative
Claudia von Werlhof
Big Mountain Black Mesa: The Beauty Way
The Tragedy of the Enclosures: An Eco-Feminist Perspective on Selling Oxygen and Prostitution in Costa Rica
Ana Isla
Real Bodies, Place-Bound Work and Transnational Homemaking: A Feminist Project
Mechthild Hart
The Rural Women's Movement in South Africa: Land Reform and HIV/AIDs
Sizani Ngubane
Endangered Species: The Language of Our Lives
Margaret Randall
Facing the Shadow of 9-11
Carol Brouillet
Heterosexism and the Norm of Normativity
III: Gifts in the Shadow of Exchange
The Khoekhoe Free Economy: A Model for the Gift
Yvette Abrahams
Gift Giving Across Borders
Maria Jimenez
The Gift Economy in the Caribbean: The Gift and the Wind
Peggy Antrobus
The Children of the World: A Gift
Assetou Madeleine Auditore
Solidarity Economics: Women's Banking Networks in Senegal
Rabia Adelkarim-Chikh
Women's Funding Partnerships
Tracy Gary
Gift Giving and New Communication Technologies
Andrea Alvarado Vargas and María Suárez Toro
Trapped by Patriarchy: Can I Forgive Men?
Erella Shadmi
Women's Community Gifting: A Feminist Key to an Alternative Paradigm
Linda Christiansen-Ruffman
IV. Gift Giving for Social Transformation
Indigenous Women and Traditional Knowledge: Reciprocity is the Way of Balance
Mililani Trask
Supryia and the Reviving of a Dream: Toward a New Political Imaginary
Corinne Kumar
Reflecting on Gifting and the Gift Economy in El Salvador
Marta Benavides
From Forced Gifts to Free Gifts
Paola Melchiori
The Gift of Community Radio
Frieda Werden
Gifting at the Burning Man Festival
Renea Roberts
Activism: A Creative Gift for a Better World
Brackin "Firecracker"
Women's Giving: Feminist Transformation and Human Welfare
Angela Miles
Position Statement for a Peaceful World
1 review for Women in the Gift Economy: A Radically Different World View is Possible
InannaWebmaster – May 28, 2019
Reviewed by Joanna Swanger
"The World Social Forum (wsf) has performed a vital function for people dedicated to economic restructuring toward social justice and sustainable peace: it has empowered them collectively by introducing them to one another. Still, much of the discourse at the wsf also demonstrates that when people convene on the basis of a shared frustration with the global economy, they might use the opportunity primarily to create a space of comfort, which is accomplished in the wsf through the ritual refrain of such grievances as corporate irresponsibility, environmental devastation, and the long-known complicity of economic structures in exacerbating racism, classism, and sexism. To go no further than this, however, means an opportunity is lost, for the question of what is to be done must be answered through dialogue and collaboration grounded in critical analysis. The 33 contributors to this creative and analytically rich volume have answered the call to continue wsf-inspired discussions and collaborate in the necessary work of peace-building through cultural change toward ec-onomic transformation.
This collection resulted from a post-wsf conference in 2004 on the theme of transforming Patriarchal Capitalism via the gift economy. The authors argue the need for a paradigm shift to make solutions visible by recasting the nature of the problem. It is not a lack of individual morals or integrity on the part of certain actors—e.g., the agents of transnational lending institutions, corporations, and the investor class—that causes the aforementioned grievances. It is the cultural logic of exchange, the systemic imperative of near-sole reliance upon the profit motive to mobilize resources. The logic of exchange attempts to harness self-interest in the service of the greater good, but it has failed to meet needs, in large measure because this is not what it is designed to do. The cultural logic of gift giving, however, takes as its fundamental objective meeting the needs of others. Genevieve Vaughan writes: "The gift interaction is transitive and … [creates] a relation of inclusion between the giver and the receiver.… Gift giving implies the value of the other while the exchange transaction … is reflexive and implies the value only of oneself. Gift giving is qualitative rather than quantitative, other-oriented rather than ego-oriented, inclusive rather than exclusive."
The emancipatory potential to be unleashed by and through the gift economy begins with quelling cynicism by making manifest the extant gift economy in operation, and this collection presents wonderful examples in this vein, such as Jeannette Armstrong's description of gifting among the Sylix people of Okanagan (British Columbia); Rabia Adelkarim-Chikh's discussion of solidarity economics within women's banking networks in Senegal; and Yvette Abrahams' discussion of gifting among the Khoekhoe prior to European colonialism in South Africa and vestiges of gifting that remain. This volume also contributes to liberation by excelling at highlighting the efforts of two vast groups of people who have historically been underrepresented—or ignored altogether—by prominent leftist critiques: Indigenous peoples and women. Both Jeannette Armstrong and Mililani Trask argue that what most unites Indigenous cultures in contradistinction to the culture of patriarchal capitalism is precisely reciprocity, both sociocultural and ecological. Thus, Indigenous cultures are the vanguard of workable economic structures, which, the authors argue, will achieve their greatest viability at local and regional levels. So too do women have something unique to contribute to the process of emancipation more generally. First, many of the authors discuss the matriarchal principle as the organizing principle for the gift economy. Heidi Goettner-Abendroth writes, "The principle of motherliness is the opposite [from those that underlie the logic of exchange], where altruism reigns and the well-being of all is at the centre." Second, Linda Christiansen-Ruffman proffers a treatment of the different economic calculus (distinct from that attributed to Homo economicus) women routinely practice and the redefinition of wealth that guides women's choices, a redefinition distinguished by its collective and relational orientation. The authors do not have much patience for the criticism of essentialism, for it is a fundamental pragmatism that drives their search for ways of organizing economies that work; the charge of essentialism, while sound at times, can also be an obstacle to transformation. Actually, the authors are careful to illustrate that giving is a human attribute (of Homo donans), not one unique to women. Semiotician Susan Petrilli contributes a marvelous discussion of gifting in the arts of language and rhetoric. Vaughan adds, "Looking at language as transposed gift giving … confirms the pan-human character of gift giving…"
A critical tension runs throughout the book, as the authors portray the complexity of the relationship between the (parasitic) patriarchal capitalist economy, and the (host) gift economy, which sustains the former, filling in to meet needs unmet by the former. Vaughan writes, "[T]he gift economy, consistent with its principle, gives to the exchange economy … giving it value [by means of exploitation, which is viewed as the capture of free gifts—e.g., surplus labor, remittances sent by migrants] and thereby colluding with its own oppression." Continuing with the theme of potential parasitic destruction of the host, Peggy Antrobus writes, "If we do not recognize and affirm the gift economy, it will die." On the other hand, many authors illustrate precisely the resilience of the gift economy. Antrobus herself describes how Hurricane Ivan devastated Grenada but left in its wake a functioning gift economy, which was indeed the only way people could mobilize resources under the circumstances. Furthermore, Vaughan writes that in spite of their seeming ubiquity and omnipotence, the normative structures of the logic of exchange are "actually rather fragile and therefore [need] to be protected from the possible alternatives." Claudia Von Werlhof adds another layer of complexity by arguing that it is the damage sustained by the gift economy and its most consistent practitioners that is "one of the main reasons for the depth of the crisis of… contemporary civilization."
So, which is the more fragile system, and which the more resilient? This critical tension is resolved in part by Paola Melchiori's article, which recognizes the paradox and draws a distinction between the free gift economy and the forced gift economy. Melchiori writes of the collapse of the Argentine economy in 2001:
The crisis was terrible, people were starving, but another economy was being discovered and used, awakening an enormous energy among people, developing what I would call a "healthy crisis" of the social imaginary. Other ways to survive, other social fabrics, became visible and imaginable.
When the dominant logic is in place, the (forced) gift economy is indeed strained, often to the breaking point; but when the dominant logic of exchange suddenly fails on a massive scale, the (free) gift economy is renewed and flourishes.
The astute reader of this collection will see that it is the logic of the gift that is the more resilient because while the logic of exchange utilizes one narrow aspect of the complex human character—self-interest—and does so quite often to bad effect, the gift economy harnesses a much wider range of human capabilities that arise naturally from the parental response to children's vulnerability and from ecological dictates. The insistence upon strict adherence to the logic of exchange—based on self-interest and a narrow concept of freedom enshrined in the market—has brought us the myriad vexations of the current global economy. The praxis of the gift economy responds with the beauty of cultural diversity. Corinne Kumar writes,
What we need in the world today are new universalisms … universalisms that recognize the universal in the specific civilizational idioms in the world.… Universalisms that will respect the plurality of the different societies, of their philosophy, of their ideology, their traditions and cultures; one that will be rooted in the particular, in the vernacular, one which will find a resonance in the different civilizations, birthing new cosmologies.
Indeed, the authors of this volume are midwives in this critical process."
Joanna Swanger is Director of the Peace and Global Studies Program at Earlham College. She is recently the co-author, with Howard Richards, of The Dilemmas of Social Democracies: Overcoming Obstacles to a More Just World (Lanham, md: Lexington Books, 2006).
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Corrina: ...that we got to do math, reading, and writing.
Nola: ...that I have the best teacher.
Andrew: ...that we got to work hard and get a lot of things done. We learned that readers don't just read they read in the wild and build a reading life!
Luca: ...we got to work hard at PE; we got our PE license!
Lachlan: ...that we have computers because not too many people have computers. That we got the best teacher ever.
Sadie: ...that it was the first day of school and we got a new great teacher.
Octavio: ...that we got to get lots of writing done and do a math talk. WE got to make our boxes and we did name tags.
Cameron: ...it was the first day of school and we got to set up everything.
Gordon: ...that we got to exercise with our teacher.
Lily: ...we got the best teacher ever.
Jude: ...that we moved in to the white building!
Clara: ...that we got a really great teacher.
Ella: ...that we got to hang out with our friends.
Iris: ...that we get to decorate our name plates on our boxes.
Anna: ...that we got to learn about reading and find out that we get to have book bags!
Xander: ...that we learned about the listening rubric.
Finn:...that we finally got use to our classroom.
Ms. Klope: That I have a really awesome group of learners. I can't wait to learn alongside them and learn from them. We worked hard and had a great day!


Not a natural optimist? Use these simple exercises to train your brain to more easily pick out the positive.
You know how when you play Tetris for awhile, even after you stop, you can still see those little falling blocks in your mind's eye?
The persistence of Tetris isn't simply an annoying effect of a cleverly designed game, according to scientists. Instead it's a reflection of something deeply positive about our brains–their plasticity.
That's a according to a recent post by iDoneThis founder Walter Chen on productivity blog buffer. He cites studies on Tetris (yes, there is such a thing, and yes, this is going somewhere helpful to non-video game addicted entrepreneurs), which found that playing the game for a few hours a week over a period of months, actually changed the brains of players.
That's probably not a shock to anyone who has learned to play the piano, speak a foreign language or even hit a tennis ball roughly where you want it to go. So what's the big deal? This same brain plasticity allows you to master simple skills or sports, also allows you to train yourself to be more positive.
•Scan for the 3 daily positives. At the end of each day, make a list of three specific good things that happened that day and reflect on what caused them to happen. The good things could be anything — bumping into an old friend, a positive remark from someone at work, a pretty sunset. Celebrating small wins also has a proven effect of powering motivation and igniting joy. As you record your good things daily, the better you will get and feel.
•Give one shout-out to someone (daily). I love this technique. Take the positive things you're getting better at recognising and let people know you've noticed. Take a minute to say thanks or recognise someone for their efforts, from friends and family to people at work. A great way to go about this is by sending 1 daily email to someone. It can be your old school teacher, whose advice you are now appreciating every day. A co-worker or someone you've only met. Show courage and say thanks.
•Do something nice. Acts of kindness boost happiness levels. Something as small and simple as making someone smile works. Pausing to do something thoughtful has the power to get you out of that negativity loop. Do something nice that is small and concrete like buying someone a coffee.
•Mind your mind. Mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment without judgment. Opening our awareness beyond the narrowness of negativity can help bring back more balance and positivity into the picture.
Looking for more details? Chen's post has much more on the science and what actually happens physically in your brain. You can also check out Achor's interview about how happiness affects brain function (hint: it doesn't make it worse), or get tips on how to reframe situations more positively in the moment from my colleague Geoffrey James. Finally, if you're looking to add more mindfulness to your day, check out this post on how many entrepreneurs incorporate meditation into their lives.
Do you agree that it's possible to alter you basic orientation towards the world and become more positive?
I found this great article written a few days ago now by Jessica Stillman.
Anything that relates to plasticity, brain training or neuroplasticity could be of benefit to those having experienced a stroke. Enjoy!


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Whenever I insert the memory card 1 and choose the 'memory card' for video recording (via camera), I am getting this error 'unexpected error occurred please restart the camera'. This does not occur when I insert the memory card 2 or choose the mass memory fo recording video.
But I have formatted the memory card 1 and tried. Same error is displaying.
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Anonymous, 23 Jun 2015Low end android better then nokia n8Fools said this same thing back in 2010 when Nokia N8 was released... And it's still not true. Sorry. Try again in 2020.
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My n8 has been with me for nearly 5 years now. All I have wrong is a crack screen which I wish to fix. I have redo my software only once.
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Grounded sailboat at Jetty Park, Port Canaveral.
In the month of August twelve single family homes closed in Cocoa Beach as reported by our MLS. Median price was $315,000, and all but three were waterfront, two of those oceanfront. There was one reported single family home sale in Cape Canaveral but it was actually a half-duplex. Prices ranged from $681,000 for a short sale 5 year old Snug Harbor home on Edwards Bay to $239,000 for a non-waterfront 3/2 with a 3 car garage on Esther. Another of the twelve Enclave homes in Cocoa Beach closed in the month making five this year. This one sold for $490,000, a far cry from the original million dollar plus asking. Two of the 12 August sales were short sales and none were foreclosures making a total of 17% of home sales distressed. Seven of the buyers paid cash.
August was a record month for condo sales with a total of 57 MLS-listed units closing in the two cities. None sold for more than $500,000. Median price was $133,500. A whopping 79% (45 units) of the 57 total sold for less than $200,000. The former bread and butter of our market, direct ocean units, made up only 14% of the activity (eight units) a reflection of one of the most heavily impacted parts of our depleted inventory. Eight of the total were foreclosures and ten were short sales making 32% of the total condo sales distressed. Highest price paid of the 18 distressed sales was $203,000. Forty three or 75% of the total of the buyers paid cash. The average sale was for 91% of the last asking price.
Inventory this morning, September 12, 2011 is at it lowest point in my memory. There are 353 total condo and townhome units for sale in Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral and 74 single family homes. Of these 427 residential units for sale, eleven are foreclosures and 56 are short sales making 16% of the total distressed, well off the recent crazy high percentage.
We are now in the sweet season with the summer crowds gone and snowbirds yet to arrive. What little traffic there is is just blissful locals with surfboards and fishing rods hanging out of our vehicles. There is surf most days, the water is warm, the air not so much and the mullet run is in full swing. If you've never visited Cocoa Beach in September or October you have missed the best time of year.


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In the early sixties Herb Chatterton, one of the greatest guys on the waterfront, got me involved in the Seattle branch of the Apostleship of the Sea, otherwise known as the Catholic Seamen's Club. Subsequently, I became a member of the Club's board of directors. All that meant was that I nodded along with the other members when Father Murphy, also from Brooklyn, told us what he wanted. He was a real character and could have held his own on any stage as a stand-up comedian. Thus, each of his fund-raising monthly labor-management luncheons was attended by a full house of enthusiastic fans.
When Father Murphy retired he was replaced by a thirtyish Father Jantzen who was apprehensive when the time approached for him to host his first labor-management luncheon. While the event was billed as "labor-management," the crowd consisted mostly of labor-union officials and their minions.
Concerned Father Jantzen asked me what he should say. I told him that no one could replace Father Murphy's act so he shouldn't even try. I also advised that the crowd was a bit boisterous. I added, "They are the salt of the earth and would be interested in Jantzen the man. Tell them where you come from and what you were like before you became a priest."
Although I didn't expect anything to come of it, as an afterthought I said, "It's appropriate to tell a joke."
Our King County Prosecuting Attorney, Charles O'Carroll who could hold his own with any wit, served as the master of ceremonies. It took someone with his experience to keep the crowd in line. He introduced Father Jantzen. The young-priest's voice was actually quavering when he said, "I'm from Canada, when I was in my teens I played hockey and…."
Just then someone interrupted by yelling, "Where can I get Father Murphy's address?"
O'Carroll scowled as he pointed to a bulletin board in the back of the hall, "You will find it posted there."
Father Jantzen gave up telling about himself and with some hesitation said, "I heard that it's appropriate to tell a joke. I think this one's OK because my sister-in-law told it to me."
He then told the following tale and his composure returned as he spoke: "On one of those rare weekends when it was sunny and the heather was in bloom, Robert Burns and his friend Tim hiked into the highlands of Scotland. The countryside was so magnificent that it caused them to lose track of time. Darkness was falling fast and they could not possibly get back to the inn where they had accommodations. There was no cause for alarm because they spotted a farmhouse where they were sure they could get bed and breakfast.
"The farmer recognized the famous bard and was delighted; he would not charge for bed and breakfast. There was a standoff for a time because grateful Burns and Tim wanted to pay. Suddenly the farmer's eyes lit up. He said, 'I've heard about you Robbie Burns and your canny wit. I'll give you a rhyme. If within a minute, you match the rhyme and use the same last word, you stay for free; otherwise you pay.'
"Robert Burns and Tim were delighted with the challenge; it would break the deadlock and it was fun. Tim took out his watch so as to time how long it would take Burns to respond. The farmer said, 'As I walked along the river Strand, I saw a sailor lad kit in hand. His hair was red, his eyes were blue, he just came back from Timbuktu.'
"Burns was beside himself as he slapped his forehead, 'Timbuktu? Timbuktu?'
"Tim was excited and hopped up and down as the second hand of his watch raced away. The farmer was rubbing his hands gleefully. At the fifty-ninth second Burns shouted, 'I got it! As Tim and I walked along the river Trent, we spied three maidens in a tent. Since they were three and we but two, I bucked one and Tim bucked two.'"
The crowd in the Catholic Seamen's Club roared and cheered and roared some more in a way that they never did in response to any of Father Murphy's stories. Charles O'Carroll waited a full ten-minutes until they were exhausted…he thought. He held a glass to the mike and banged on it with a spoon to get attention. When silence reigned he solemnly pointed to the bulletin board and said, "You will find his sister-in-law's address there also."
The crowd went wild again.
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Paid Staff and Volunteers: Do Their Attitudes Differ? Riikka Teikari and Christeen George Abstract The aim of the present study was to explore whether.
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1 Paid Staff and Volunteers: Do Their Attitudes Differ? Riikka Teikari and Christeen George Abstract The aim of the present study was to explore whether there were attitudinal differences between staff and volunteers working for Mind in Mid Herts (MiMH). The ultimate objective of this study was to inform MiMH of ways of enhancing member retention in an economic climate where staff turnover would increase unnecessary costs of recruitment and training. This was achieved through an online questionnaire directed at both paid staff and volunteers completed by 12 staff and 23 volunteers. The variables collected in the questionnaire measured attitudes such as the psychological contract, organisational commitment, job satisfaction and intention to leave. Further data was obtained by interviews which were analysed using thematic analysis. It was found that although the paid staff stated that their psychological contract expectations had not been met by the organisation, in general both staff and volunteers felt the same organisational commitment towards MiMH. Regression analysis showed that normative commitment or the obligation to remain predicted volunteer turnover, accounting for 38.5% of the variance. It could be concluded that retention of both staff and volunteers was beyond the control of the organisation as respondents intending to leave often indicated personal commitments such as family life and retirement for reasons and none of the comments were found to be due to negative experience at the organisation. Recommendations for increasing public image as well as more organised induction, general training and process reviews were made to aid the cohesive image of MiMH as a mental health charity. Introduction Organisations today could not survive without their most important asset, the staff. Whether a paid employee or a volunteer, the people in an organisation bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to be used by the organisation to offer services and products to the consumers. Many organisations have taken advantage of the pool of skilled volunteers and organisations offering support services such as mental health support groups as well as fire and ambulance services have a larger pool of volunteers offering the service compared to paid staff. A recent survey of England reported that 25% of the population volunteered at least once a month between April 2009 and March 2010, offering a large pool of inexpensive workforce for organisations (Citizenship Survey, 2010). Cnaan and Goldberg-Glen (1991) noted that use of volunteers can greatly enhance the services offered by an organisation, whilst reducing the workload of paid staff without additional sources such as funds. Cnaan, Handy and Wadsworth (1996) defined a volunteer as someone who donated their time, skills and expertise to an organisation without receiving financial reward for their efforts. Due to the current economic climate of decreased budgets and heavy downsizing, organisations rely heavily on the volunteer pool, often using volunteers instead of paid staff (Miller, Powell and Seltzer, 1990). Managing both the paid staff and volunteers and encouraging positive work attitudes such as job satisfaction whilst reducing negative attitudes such as job dissatisfaction, are problems which managers have to face with paid staff and volunteers to avoid the costly exercise of having to replace volunteers and paid staff who have left the organisation due to these negative attitudes (Laczo and Hanisch, 1999). The respondents for this study were chosen using an online cross sectional questionnaire distributed amongst the staff and volunteers of Mind in Mid Herts via internal email. Of the 18 staff currently working for the charity, 12 replied by filling in the online questionnaire making a response rate of 66.7%. The mean age of the staff was 53.58 (SD 6.86) with the range of 41 – 63. Of the 12 staff who responded to the questionnaire, 33.3% (4) were male and 66.6% (8) were female. Although there were possible 60 volunteer respondents, the actual response rate could not be precisely calculated due to the recruitment procedure. Emails were sent by a representative of the charity using a mailing list and leaders of the various functions were asked to forward these emails on to their group of volunteers. The emails to both staff and volunteers were followed up four times by the charity representative, one email a week. Assuming that none of these emails were lost due to old information such as expired email addresses, it could be estimated that 23 of the 60 available replied, making a response rate of 38.3%. The mean age of volunteers was 53.61 (SD 11.74) with the range of 34 – 84. Of the 23 volunteers who responded to the questionnaire, 39.1% (9) were male and 60.9% (14) were female. Five staff and five volunteers were randomly selected and approached to ask if they would be willing to participate in an interview. Of the 10 people contacted, four staff interviews and five volunteer interviews were secured, making an overall response rate of 90%. Themes identified in the interviews Emotional involvement Personal motivation Expectations Role freedom/support Purpose of MiMH 'I like to feel that in this role I am part of a team even though I am not actually delivering services myself, I am still included in and made aware of what is happening' Conclusions The present study aimed to explore whether there were attitudinal differences between staff and volunteers working for Mind in Mid Herts. The ultimate objective of this study was to inform MiMH of member retention in an economic climate where staff turnover would increase unnecessary costs of recruitment and training. It was found that although the paid staff expressed that their psychological contract expectations had not been met by the organisation, in general both staff and volunteers felt the same organisational commitment. Notwithstanding the limitations of the study, it could be concluded that retention of both staff and volunteers was beyond the control of the organisation as no strong links between attitudinal variables and intention to leave were found. Respondents intending to leave often indicated personal commitments such as family and retirement for reasons and none of the comments were found to be due to negative experience at the organisation. Recommendations for increasing public image as well as more organised induction, general training and process reviews were made to aid the cohesive image of MiMH as a mental health charity.
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There is a growing interest among the scientific community in the relationship between carbohydrate and cancer. Recent studies have suggested that controlling intake of refined carbohydrates (high glycemic index and glycemic load) might help to reduce the risk of cancer.
Why carbohydrate diet is restricted for cancer patients?
Carbohydrates can have a direct and indirect effect on tumour cell proliferation.
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Cancer cells can uptake sugars to 10 to 12 times more than the healthy cells.
What is ketogenic diet? How does it benefit cancer?
Ketogenic diet is low carbohydrate, high fat and moderate protein.
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Q: disable mouse drag to select several slots on RadScheduleView I have a RadScheduleView that allows the end-user to select slots. I am capturing the selections via RadScheduleView.SelectedSlot, saving those to a collection and the collection is the bind source to RadScheduleView.SpecialSlotsSource so I can reflect back the state of selections. (as shown in the example below)

Desired Behavior: I only want the end-user to Left-Click on the RadScheduleView to make slot selections (even if the slots are consecutive).
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I have been noticeably absent. I apologize. If you will, let me share my heart with you for just a moment. I promise, more goodies are coming this week. But this is a post I must write.
When I first began reellifebygrace I had huge ambitions for this site. I knew what I would write about, how I would grow it, etc. I had mental plans for building up step-by-step, celebrity interviews, so on and so forth.
It was gonna be big. And one day it would become a source of income. I would get to do what I loved AND make money at it. I would grow a huge audience, influence and create discussion with thousands of readers and fans. It was even going to help carve out a place for me in the film-making world as a career in film-making is my eventual goal.
I worked hard at it for months. I've never doubted my ability to produce excellent content, in fact, that is probably my strongest suit. I can spit out thousands of words in less than an hour; sometimes my brain is moving so fast my fingers can't keep up. I also analyze movies very deeply, so I knew I was never going to run out of material.
But, it takes time to build an empire. And I am young and still learning a lot of new things. I'm still learning things like how to make an income, how to manage finances, how to give myself time to learn and grace to stumble. Plus, I got hit with some life-changing personal circumstances that have dramatically changed my everyday reality as well as what I saw for my immediate future.
Work required a lot of energy. My family required a ton of energy. I had chosen a non-college route for many practical reasons, and I do not regret that choice. But choosing a non-college route means that you do a lot of the foundation building yourself. You have to do the research. You have to put in the hours to structure things. You have to make the connections. You have to make all of the choices, nothing is done for you.
I'm not belittling the college-going crowd and all the effort they have to put forth. I know college requires work, commitment, choices, and discipline. But so does a non-college route where you have to build everything from scratch. This road is exhausting and terrifying.
As I was led in different directions, trying to start my own businesses, moving, dealing with my parents' separation-now-divorce, losing a job I adored and coworkers that were like family, reellifebygrace got lost in the shuffle.
My life hasn't been all falling buildings and rubble. My faith is stronger than ever. My loved ones related both by blood and by heart have held me up and walked through life with me. I have learned a ton of new skills. I am learning patience, dedication, and contentment; three things that I know will serve me well in any circumstance.
There are so many things that we assume will make us not "okay" if they happen. I've had a lot of my "okay" standards and limits either pushed outward or pulled out from under me entirely.
I have fought the fear of missing out my entire life. I was always afraid that I was going to miss the adventure, the action, getting to take the incredible journeys and do the big, cool things. I feared the mundane, the bland and the colorless. I was terrified that my dreams would be taken from me. I was terrified of committing to anything that would trap me.
Truth is, much of life is mundane, that's just a fact. Without the mundane to maintain our lives and create a foundation, the rest of life falls apart. Mundane doesn't have to be something to be feared, it can be embraced as something normal and comforting.
Bland and colorless. Who says even the ordinary things have to be bland and colorless? I can make the most boring afternoon more interesting by putting on The Greatest Showman soundtrack and letting a million dreams carry my soul to brighter realms than whatever "boring" task I am currently doing.
Dreams are a part of us, I believe they are put inside of us by God as a part of our DNA and our roadmap in this life. Dreams are not meant to be our masters, we were not made to be slaves to this all-important DREAM that rules our lives, wrecks our perspective and drives us crazy. No, dreams are meant to be followed with moderation, and never at the expense of something more important like destroying precious people.
But God gives us dreams. So why was I so afraid that mine would be "taken" away? God isn't this big TAKER that He gets made out to be, He's a GIVER. He's the biggest Giver known to Mankind (heck, He GAVE His only Son to come and save me and my brothers and sisters in the human race).
Follow your dreams at ANY cost, it doesn't matter how you get there, so long as the DREAM is fulfilled. It must look THIS way or it is a failure.
Live your life, because every moment matters, no matter how mundane. Pursue the dreams with diligence, but never let your dream become your master. Enjoy life and embrace it, embrace people, and you will find the dream when the time is right. Or, the dream will find you in a way you never expected, and it won't look the way you imagined. But it will be so much better than you could have ever guessed.
How does this fit into reellifebygrace?
This little old website represents a piece of a much bigger dream for me. I've been in love with movies my entire life. I have wanted to be a filmmaker for years. I have been a writer for years. Stories are my happy place, and sharing beloved stories with others brings me such immense joy.
This site was going to be a roadway to that dream. It was going to open doors, influence and connect with an audience, make me money. But then life happened, and I had to set this site aside for a while. In some ways, I gave up on it, in other ways I just didn't have the bandwidth for it.
But as I have been embracing my new normal, I remembered this part of myself. I love this website because I love what it represents. I love that I use it to talk about stories, characters, feelings, messages, and hope. I love that I am myself on here, unafraid and open. It's everything I love about movies, and it's my own little space to open up.
I've learned that we can have a lot of our "okay" stripped away, and it often feels terrifying and incredibly raw. I'm never gonna tell you that it doesn't hurt and that it doesn't leave you spinning, because it does. It hurts like heck and I'm still dizzy much of the time.
At the same time, when a bunch of my "okay" standards were gone, I realized just how superficial they actually were. What I thought was carved in stone was actually just gouged out of clay. My identity and security couldn't be based on clay, or stone, it had to be in something that would last. Something eternal.
As I have been placing my security, my hope, my identity in the hands of the Great Dream Giver, I have been discovering something else. I'm rediscovering me.
Because when you take your identity out of things that cannot hold something that important, when you redefine what success looks like, and when you learn that okay is not what you thought it was, it's actually better. You get to find yourself. The real you, the one that is freed from superficial things, judgments, phantom fears, and lies. I thought I was losing something, and I have lost some precious things that no one should ever have to lose. But more than my losses, I am being given things.
So I came home. I came back here because I love this place. Because this site is important to me. Because I love what I do here. I do believe I will get to be a filmmaker one day, a storyteller at the very least. I don't know how that will happen, but I'm not gonna be afraid of losing that dream. If it was truly given to me by the Giver, then He'll make a way.
For now, I'm gonna be me. This little site may never make a dime, never get thousands of followers, I may never interview a single celebrity.
But that's okay with me because I'm not writing for those reasons anymore. I am writing this site for myself because it makes me happy. This site is a part of me, and so when I have time, I will write on here simply because I want to.
And that, my friends, is "real life" by Grace.


In my perhaps not-so-humble opinion.
There's a major networking event, called the Signature Event, held a couple of times a year in Phoenix. It's sponsored by Networking Phoenix, and I enjoy attending whenever it fits into my schedule. In fact, I was attending even in the early years. I attended the event held this past Monday–it was the 20th such event–going into it with the objectives I always have: get out of the house, meet new people, and talk to the people I like.
I generally dress casual, mainly to separate myself from the dark suits who go there looking for who knows what. And I did find some remarkable people to talk with, including Sonja and Marc Raciti. Sonja is a psychologist and Marc a physicians assistant. Together, they run Healing Wounds, Inc., where they work with those suffering from PTSD. Marc also wrote a book called I Just Want to See the Trees, a Journey Through PTSD. I was drawn to this couple because Sonja had her hair died in multiple colors, and what's more fun that that?
I talked quite a while with another guy named John. That's all I know as I never got a card from him. It was his first time, and he looked lost. We talked for quite a while on a couple of different occasions throughout the evening. Turns out he's something of a freelance process engineer who takes small companies and ramps them into large companies. He walked away with a few catch phrases he can use to market himself. What did I get? I got to see him smile and tell himself he's glad he attended. That's enough for me.
Then, there was the guy in the suit. It started off okay. We exchanged names and he asked what I do. I told him I write, and then I asked what he does. He told me it doesn't matter, and brushed off the question when I pressed again. Red flags for me. This is a textbook answer to give when you are in a position to possibly intimidate people by your title or the size of your wallet. Thing is, that doesn't impress me and I should have walked away right then. But, I don't always quickly think on my feet–one good reason I'm not an attorney. So we talked more and when I told him I had, indeed, written several books, he asked if I've been on the New York Times bestseller list. When I told him no, he asked me why not.
Real answer: it isn't currently an objective of mine. But the question tells me a lot. This is a guy interested in interrogating people to find somebody he can use. He's a guy who uses dollars as a way to keep score. Entertaining or educating readers is not a viable goal for writing a book; just the propaganda value of landing on a bestseller list. Never mind that making goals you can't control is really making a wish list. This guy might have been able to make me rich, but honestly, I don't care. That's not somebody I want to talk with, much less form any sort of business relationship with.
That's not why I went to this event. That's not the kind of person I want to know.
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The sulphide deposits of the Rødhammeren Mine, Sær-Trøndelag are reinterpreted as regionally metamorphosed, volcanogenic ores of the Kuroko type. The sequence in the mine is thought to have been inverted during the Caledonian orogeny. Proposals for the use of this concept during subsequent stratigraphic-structural studies and base-metal exploration programmes are forwarded.


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The power of the 'Secret' word is in fact no secret at all! An ad copy in the form of "Secret Beauty Tips You Never Knew…" is sure to get viewers "secretly" clicking away! The powerful three dot paradigm also being weaved in, makes it that much more powerful.
Tip 4: Capitalize – it works!
AdWord copies in that start with caps are a surefire way of getting viewers clicking in. They tend to perceive the ad as calling out to them aloud. And the only way they feel they could respond to the call would be by clicking in!
Together, the 4 AdWords tips listed above will definitely ensure maximum bang for your online marketing buck.


We introduced our Pergolas a few years ago as we were continually being asked by customers for a Sitting Spiritually Pergola because they felt there wasn't anything available on the market that matched the quality of our swing seats.
We therefore set about designing a Sitting Spiritually Pergola which takes its inspiration from The Arts & Crafts Movement, and it has since become a best seller for us, and can be used to hang a 2,3 or 4 seater swing seat.
Each Sitting Spiritually Pergola is hand crafted, to order, from scratch, by expert joiners in our workshops using only FSC certified Oak or Larch. They are designed to look sturdy & robust, and we use extra large timbers which add strength and durability.
The Pergola is delivered as a kit (see image below) and every one is pre-built in our workshop to ensure the bespoke timbers slot neatly into the joints when delivered for onsite assembly.
When they are at the pre-build stage in the Workshop, the customer is provided with the dimensions of their Pergola so that the chosen spot in their garden can be prepared in advance of delivery. Our pergolas can be secured into the ground with concrete or fixed to a suitable solid surface.
On completion of the pergola, we provide easy to follow (so we are told!) assembly instructions and a video. The complete build can be achieved by a competent person in 3-4 hours and all customers have reported back how simple the assembly was.
A big plus with Pergolas is that with a little help from nature they can provide the most beautiful, natural shade canopies, as can be seen below with the pergola in the Sitting Spiritually Garden, which has a highly scented Rosa Kiftsgate scrambling all over it, the perfect place to sit on a Summer afternoon.


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Dr. Evers and his wife Karen are now excited to join the Salt Lake City community where they both practice medicine.
Dr. Evers' practice includes newborn care and well-child visits which involve assessing childhood development, providing anticipatory guidance and administering childhood vaccines. He also provides physical exams for sports participation, camp participation, mission participation, etc. While he treats a wide variety of common childhood problems, Dr. Evers is especially interested in the treatment and management of asthma.
Dr. Evers is an enthusiastic pediatrician who enjoys taking care of children of all ages. Throughout his training and professional career as a general pediatrician, Dr. Evers has aimed to make an impactful connection with his patients and their families. He appreciates that every patient and family experience is a unique one and enjoys providing guidance to both his patients and their family members. His goal is to create a collaborative partnership with his patients and their caregivers in which he hopes to equip them to take an active role in the child's health and wellbeing.
Dr. Evers and his wife enjoy traveling with family and friends, exploring new places and experiencing new customs, cultures, and cuisines. On weekends, they can often be found camping, hiking, snowshoeing, and bird watching as they explore all the amazing wildlife that Utah has to offer. Dr. Evers also enjoys participating in music in a number of different ways, whether it be listening to old vinyl records at home on his stereo, attending live concerts and music festivals, or simply playing his guitar, ukulele, or piano at home as a relaxing pastime.


Under the supervision of the Director of Programs, the Community Engagement Program Manager will support the overarching goal of developing low-income, monolingual to limited-English proficient (LEP), Chinese immigrant community members to be more civically involved within their communities. The Program Manager will be responsible for guiding and supporting directly impacted community leaders on a range of relevant activities and campaigns as part of a pathway towards greater civic participation at CAA and beyond. This will specifically entail providing ongoing political education and skills trainings, creating hands-on opportunities to practice and deepen their leadership abilities, and providing coaching and support individuals and cohorts of leaders.
The position requires the ability to plan programming with long term goals in mind, and design and lead culturally and linguistically competent skills-building and political education workshops as part of ongoing programs and grassroots advocacy campaigns, while supporting individuals and cohorts of leaders. The Program Manager is a key member of the CAA staff, working both internally on developing and implementing organization strategies and priorities across program areas, as well as interfacing externally with community groups, coalitions, and government entities in order to bridge gaps and facilitate opportunities for leadership development between these stakeholders and CAA community leaders.
The Community Engagement Program Manager will work across program areas to engage on a range of key issues including immigrant rights, racial justice, language access, education equity, and economic and community development.
Contribute to long-term planning for the organization as it relates to community engagement and leadership development and to advance the mission and vision of CAA.
Experience leading and supporting directly impacted, working class, monolingual to limited English proficient Chinese immigrant community members in community based outreach and grassroots advocacy campaigns.
Experience in developing and delivering culturally competant popular education curriculum and trainings that facilitate community leadership development.
Oral fluency in Cantonese required, written fluency in Chinese a plus.
Excellent inter-group, communication, conflict resolution, and analytical skills.
Bachelor's degree in political science, ethnic studies, sociology or relevant field experience.
Commitment to social justice and to CAA's core values.
Ability to work both independently and commitment to working as part of a team.
Willingness to work flexible hours- including weeknights and weekends.
Proficiency with the google platform, word processing, email, social media, and other technology.
A valid driver's license and access to a car a plus.


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Tales of travel and of human achievement
By Arthur Unger
The National Geographic specials now have a contender for most popular show on Public Broadcasting. Last month's premiere of the ''Smithsonian World'' series of specials proved to be a major PBS debut with the show garnering high enough audience numbers to place it in the select category of most-watched PBS programs. Now, the second in the series is being offered and it is even better than the first: Crossing the Distance (Tuesday, Feb. 15, 8-9 p.m., check local listings for premiere and repeats).
Once again, PBS viewers are being taken on an exciting voyage of discovery, using the Smithsonian Institution's wide-ranging activities as the jumping off point for a series of segments expertly linked together to emphasize the relationship of various forms of knowledge to each other. The program seems to revel in jolting viewers with stimulating little shocks of recognition and intellectual revelation.
This second show begins with a visit to the Panama Canal, then investigates the work being done at a research outpost on a tropical-rain forest island in the lake formed when the canal was first built. You'd never believe that the relationship between bats and katydids, and the possibility of using iguana tails as a food source, could be so fascinating.
But the piece de resistance, the segment that adds human proportion and depth to this stimulating hour of offbeat travel tales, concerns Anne Morrow Lindbergh. One of the original pathfinders in aviation, her past is investigated in newsreel footage and snapshots. Then, she is interviewed by host-narrator David McCullough and confirms the impression her books have made that here is a complex, meditative woman.
''Publishing a book or having a child'' can be as important as crossing the Atlantic alone, she says. ''Different things give you a sense of finding your place in the world. One wants to find where one is useful or where one can contribute. You must make a contribution to your world.''
Mr. McCullough, executive producer Martin Carr, writer Michael Winship, together with the Smithsonian Institution and the James S. McDonnell Foundation, which funded the program, can certainly feel proud of the contribution they are making with ''Smithsonian World.''
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Britain's biggest foodbank charity has called for urgent changes to Universal Credit, as they warned that foodbank use in Scotland has risen by 15% in the five months to September, due to the in-built minimum wait of five weeks for a first payment – with many more people waiting even longer.
The Trussell Trust have also said that when Universal Credit goes live in an area, there is a demonstrable increase in demand for local foodbanks. On average, 12 months after the rollout of Universal Credit, foodbanks see a 52% increase in demand.
The Trussell Trust figures come as the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights is visiting the UK to investigate the impact of austerity.
The Scottish Parliament will today debate UK Government welfare cuts and the SNP will call for the immediate halt of the rollout of Universal Credit, which has brought debt and hardship to Scottish communities.
"These are heartbreaking figures, which bring into sharp focus the disastrous impact of Tory austerity on our communities.
"The fact that foodbank use continues to grow is a damning indictment of UK government cuts to welfare, and the botched rollout of Universal Credit. As these figures show, the long delay in getting a first payment pushed people into crisis aid, and is one example of why the roll out of UC must be halted so the fundamental flaws can be addressed.
"It is abundantly clear that the welfare cuts inflicted by the Tories on people across Scotland have directly led to a dramatic rise in the number of people forced to rely on foodbanks. In fact, the Chancellor's latest Budget overwhelmingly benefits the rich, while low-income families are forced to choose between paying their rent and feeding their children.
"Esther McVey's claim today that UC is the "right direction for the country" is, frankly insulting and shows just how out-of-touch the UK government is.
S5M-14621 Shirley-Anne Somerville: Impact of UK Government Welfare Cuts and Universal Credit on Poverty—That the Parliament welcomes the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights to the UK and in particular to Scotland this week as part of his visit to investigate the link between poverty and the realisation of human rights in the UK; condemns the unacceptable damage that the UK Government's welfare reform policies are causing across Scotland, and the subsequent negative impact on poverty levels; agrees that Universal Credit is causing debt and hardship across Scotland's communities and calls on the UK Government to immediately halt the roll-out of this; notes the conclusions of the Scottish Government's 2018 welfare reform report, which highlights that the UK Government's welfare cuts will lead to a £3.7 billion fall in social security spending in Scotland in 2020-21, including a £370 million reduction due to the benefit freeze; further notes that the appalling two-child limit has already reduced the income of 3,800 families in Scotland and this number is set to grow year on year and will result in a £92 million cut for families by 2020-21; raises concerns that UK Government tax and welfare changes since 2010 are estimated to increase the number of children living in relative poverty in Scotland by 8%; believes that the UK Government failed in its autumn Budget to support the poorest in society by lifting the current benefit freeze and addressing the fundamental flaws in Universal Credit, and welcomes the Scottish Government's commitment to ensuring that dignity, fairness and respect are at the heart of Scotland's new social security system.


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Craftsman 9-1583 6 Point 3/8-Inch Drive Metric Socket Set, 33-Piece - Lifetime warranty. Made in usa.
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Performance Tool W32202 1/2-Inch Drive Metric Socket Set, 9-Piece - Chrome vanadium alloy steel socket sets with recessed edges. Chrome vanadium alloy steel construction for strength and durability. Socket openings are designed to reduce fastener rounding. Polished nickel chrome plated finish resists corrosion. Lifetime warranty. Sizes included 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22 mm.
GearWrench 80327 22 Piece 1/4-Inch Drive Metric Socket Set (Standard/Deep) - Sockets are large hard stamped for easy identifications. Features 60 tooth gear system and a 1/4inch spinner handle for versatility and added value. Designed with a long full polish ratchet with low profile head for great comfort and access. Sockets have serration depth as deep as the fastener. Includes a turn down base for grip and a shallow broach that allows fasteners to be held in place.
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Blackhawk By Proto 315-M Point Drive Metric Socket Set, 1/2-Inch, 15-Piece - It is a 12 point socket. It belongs to the hand tools category. It has 15 pieces. It is a blackhawk by proto 1/2″ drive socket set.
Gear Wrench 23-piece 1/4″ Drive Metric Socket Set 8923 - Product features hollow-head ratchet and sockets allow long bolts and threaded rod to pass-thru®, eliminating the need for deep sockets. 5 and 7 mm slotted #1, #2 and #3 phillips, 3, 4 and 5 mm hex t-10, t-15 and t-20 torx®) and a bit adapter. Unique handle configuration can also be used as a compact 1/4″ drive ratcheting bit driver over height is reduced by as much as 50%, width by 20%. Contents pass-thru® handle pass-thru® sockets (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 mm) bits (4, 5.
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Stanley Proto J54216 1/2-Inch Drive Metric Socket, Set with Tool Box, 12 Point, 54-Piece - Proto 12 point sockets are ideal for use on stubborn or damaged fasteners and also on fasteners made from soft materials. The torqueplus configuration employs a radius-corner design, shifting contact area and stress away from the fastener corners. The torqueplus design is a high performance drive configuration which allows for quick and easy socket engagement. The torqueplus internal design minimizes fastener rounding, helps to extend fastener life.
Jensen Tools 601 14-pc. 1/4″ Drive Metric Socket Set - 1/4″ drive, 5-1/2″ long std-release ratchet, 6″ long spinner handle, and 3″ and 6″ long extensions,. 3/8-inch drive metric socket wrench set. Klein offers a lifetime warranty on material defects and workmanship for the normal life of the product. Handy, flip-lock tray.


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No longer is IPv6 "just around the corner". It's here. In the half-year following when I last wrote about our measurements of IPv6 adoption, many of the metrics we were tracking have doubled. This is in large part due to increased adoption of IPv6 by residential broadband networks in the U.S.A. and Germany. As of December 2013, we were serving over 20 billion IPv6 requests per day, double the 10 billion per day delivered just six months prior.


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