In the 19th century in the Adirondacks, women had a strong traditional presence in the home. Child-rearing as well as food preparation, small scale farming, and textile production were the typical activities for women in the Adirondacks in the 19th century as in many other areas in America. While men tackled the challenges that accompanied hunting, logging, mining and trapping, women faced the equal challenge of sustaining the lives of their family members. Cooking is perhaps the most commonly depicted scene of domesticity and several of the prints and oil paintings in the Adirondack Museum's collection depict women engaged in the act of cooking either within or next to homesteads.
In an oil painting by George Bacon Wood Jr. entitled Interior of an Adirondack Shanty, painted in 1880, we see the interior of a typical Adirondack home furnished with the necessary implements for cooking. The furnishings and objects present in this particular home indicate that this family lived a relatively comfortable existence. For instance, they could afford a large woodstove, a chimney, and substantial cooking utensils. In addition, there is a staircase leading to a second floor, a more luxurious component to the house. The garments of the mother and child in the foreground also represent a certain level of comfort and security. In addition, the small child, a young girl, dons a red dress and writes on a slate perhaps practicing her alphabet.
The mother is perhaps the most important figure in the painting. Her hair is pulled back in a simple chignon implying that she has little time for more elaborate, upper-class hairstyles. Her practicality is reflected in her plain, olive-green frock. She peels what appear to be apples into a bowl. We can imagine that she might bake these in the woodstove located in the left hand corner of the picture plane. The woodstove would have likely been used consistently and frequently to bake bread as well.
According to the Adirondack Museum, the strong tradition and customs surrounding bread as sustenance have been a significant component of women's domestic activities in the Adirondacks for centuries and is an important symbol regarding the role of women. Women in the Adirondacks developed and perfected recipes to most efficiently make use of whatever ingredients were available to them in order to ensure a good source of carbohydrates for the men in their families who spent their days mining and logging. Producing bread usually required women to schedule their entire day's work around the baking process and was a time sensitive activity due to the yeast in the dough. In her account of life in a homestead in the mid 1800s, Mrs. Adolphus Sheldon remembers, "once going to a mill and dusting up flour from behind the bolt that had worms in it, picking them out and so making bread," (Schneider, 100).
Or the liquid kind if preferred in the least.
That, makes the bread that makes the man.
From this recipe, we can see that baking and cooking were largely generational traditions that mothers would pass down onto their daughters. Stylistically, the mother and daughter wear similar outfits and feature the same hairstyle. Also, their red and green frocks are in complementary colors further visually emphasizing the relationship between the mother and daughter.
In a second painting, Adirondack Primitive Scene by Dubson, the artist presents a similar scene involving cooking. Although this painting was done in 1902, its themes are still relevant to 19th century understandings of women in the Adirondacks. In this humorous scene, we see a scene of disruption as a herd of deer has run through a campsite and knocked over the boiling pot of sausages on the brick stove. The three men are in various drunken stances, one being tread over by a deer, one sitting, and one staggering with a whiskey bottle in hand. The artist presents these men in a humorous, and perhaps even critical light, as they are elite sportmen, likely tourists, who rather than communing with widlerness, have instead decided to be boisterous drunks. In sharp contrast to the inebriated men, the woman stands with hands lifted. In her right hand she holds a wooden spoon that she has presumably been cooking with. While the main action in this scene is the herd of deer running through the campsite, the woman remains a significant figure. While she has been cooking, the men she camps with have been drinking and lounging after a hunt. While she is the only sober figure in the scene, she is not the central focus, but rather she is shifted to the left side of the picture plane in neutral clothing. This woman, as evident in her apron and her wooden spoon, can be characterized as a homemaker, just as the mother in the previous painting can be. Karl Jacoby reports that the 1880 census of Hamilton County reveals that 94.7% of women in the county, approximately 731 women, were characterized as "Homemakers" whose main task was "keeping house" or "keeping shanty." According to Hamilton County's census, which reflects the wider Adirondack population, this role was the dominant one in the 19th century. The same census reveals that 1.8% of women in the county worked as teachers or nurses, 2.5% worked as servants or hotel maids, and only 1% were glovemakers and dressmakers.


The Supreme Court's Janus decision four months ago, which overturned the authority of public-sector unions to force nonmember employees under contract to pay dues or risk losing their jobs, has taken some unexpected turns. Indeed, barely after the ruling, a Columbus, Ohio-based nonprofit group, the Buckeye Institute, filed separate suits on behalf of a high school teacher in Ohio and a college professor in Minnesota challenging the authority of their respective unions to bargain exclusively. In effect, the plaintiffs seek to be freed from representation they never requested in the first place. "These capable public servants have the right to speak for themselves and should be released from forced association with unions and advocacy with which they disagree," said Institute President Robert Alt. The unions have a different view.
Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 was the most important U.S. Supreme Court decision on public-sector unionism in more than 40 years. On June 27, the Court ruled 5 to 4 that a labor council affiliated with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees lacked the authority to deduct partial dues (also known as "agency" or "fair share" fees) from a nonmember's paycheck without the worker's affirmative consent. Nor did a state government agency have the authority to collect dues on behalf of his union. The plaintiff, Mark Janus, an employee with the State of Illinois, had argued, and with substantial public support (see photo), that forcing workers to pay dues is a violation of their First Amendment rights. The Supreme Court a couple years earlier had considered a similar case, an appeal filed by a California public school teacher, Rebecca Friedrichs, against the state affiliate of the National Education Association, but was deadlocked at 4-4 in the wake of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Buoyed by Janus, certain members of the teaching profession are going one step beyond in challenging government employee union monopoly power. On grounds of freedom of speech and association, these employees, in separate federal lawsuits in Ohio and Minnesota, are challenging a union's authority to impose exclusive representation on all employees in a bargaining unit. In other words, in addition to wanting to opt out of paying agency fees, the dissenting workers are seeking to exit from union coverage outright. "The Janus decision was an important victory for hard-working public servants across the country, but many of these same employees are still forced to accept their union's representation that they didn't ask for and do not want," said the Buckeye Institute's Alt.
The Buckeye Institute filed suits, respectively, on June 27, only hours after Janus was handed down, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and on July 6 in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. In each case, the institute filed a request for a preliminary injunction about a month later.
The plaintiff in the Ohio case is Jade Thompson, a high school Spanish teacher in Marietta, located in the southeast part of the state. Her 20-page complaint explains in detail her objections to being forcibly represented by the Marietta Education Association (MEA), an affiliate of the National Education Association. She accuses the union, and an allegedly complicit local board of education, of the following: advocating budget cuts in selected academic programs as an alternative to benefit reductions; negotiating the exclusion of nonmember teachers from key school committees; and requiring seniority to be the sole consideration in layoffs. The latter focus, she said, has led to a bizarre situation in which a decision to lay off two or more employees with equal seniority is decided by a coin toss rather than by an evaluation of merit.
As a public-school teacher who has been teaching Spanish to high school students in Marietta for 15 years now, I cannot imagine a more rewarding job.
However, in order to practice my beloved profession, I was forced to pay approximately $14,000 to the union over the course of my career. The exact amount is as indecipherable as Cretan hieroglyphics and just as shrouded in mystery. These fees were extracted from me even though I profoundly disagreed with how those funds were spent and with the "representation" my union purportedly conducted on my behalf.
That money was used on a political agenda, which even included – as I discovered in 2010 – a political campaign waged against my own husband who was then running for office. Imagine my dismay when I received political propaganda against my husband's candidacy that was paid for and mailed by an organization related to my own union.
Here I am, even after the Janus decision, still forced to accept the MEA as my "exclusive representative" even though I am no longer a member and despite its controversial partisan agenda, continued political attacks on my husband, retaliatory tactics designed to intimidate me into silence and woefully dismal negotiating positions.
The plaintiff in the Minnesota case is a professor of political science at St. Cloud State University, Kathleen Uradnik. Her suit, filed in St. Paul federal court against the Inter Faculty Organization (IFO), St. Cloud State University and the trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, argues that despite her non-membership, she must pay dues to the IFO and submit to its exclusive representation. She is seeking a judgment barring discrimination against nonunion faculty, plus attorneys' fees and costs.
We may see more such legal actions in the near future. There are many public employees across the nation, especially in non-Right to Work states, who do not wish to be represented by a particular union, if any union. The Supreme Court's Janus ruling in June expanded the basis for such persons to express such objections. Exclusive representation, a principle established under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, effectively grants unions a license to coerce reluctant workers into furnishing financial support. Unions understandably are pulling out the stops to protect that license. The lawsuits in Ohio and Minnesota stand as declarations that this principle, never on sound constitutional ground in the first place, appears well past its sell date.


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There are an abundance of us who still like the spicy curries and eats that we savoured when we were children growing up in other parts of the world. Where do you find the best tasting take away spicy food in Sydney?
For Indian Sri Lankan food I would go to Pendle Hill or Toongabbie. There are couple of good take away joints there.
For Sichuan try Spicy Sichuan on Glebe Point Rd Glebe. They do spicy lamb ribs that are just to die for.
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IWL 2019: Gokulam Kerala inch closer to semifinals with convincing win over Panjim Footballers
May 11, 2019 May 12, 2019 by India Footy
LUDHIANA: Gokulam Kerala FC registered their fourth win in as many matches at the 2018-19 Hero Indian Women's League, as they beat Panjim Footballers 2-0 at the Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana, on Saturday.
India internationals Sanju and Anju Tamang were on target for the Kerala side, but it was their teenage sensation Manisha, who bossed the midfield and stole the show to take the Player of the Match award.
It was defence-vs-attack all through as Gokulam took the initiative from early on. The Kerala side were without their charismatic captain Dalima Chhibber, who had picked up a knock in the previous game.
However, Sanju, who had the captain's armband for the day, responded brilliantly. The India international received a pass from the right, set herself up, and unleashed a drive into the bottom corner.
Manisha was on form, and bossed the opposition in the middle of the park. With a little over 10 minutes of regulation time left in the first half, she turned a couple of defenders, switched to her right foot, and pulled the trigger. However, it was saved by the keeper.
Gokulam picked up where they left off in the second half as Manisha dictated terms from midfield again. She linked with Bawitlung, who played a delicious one-two with Babysena Devi to break free of her marker, but Panjim keeper Ashika Gadekar came off her line and swept the ball off the Mizo forward's feet.
However, Manisha stamped her authority in the game once and for all, when she sold a dummy at the edge of the penalty box, and played a delicate through ball to Anju Tamang, who merely had to beat the keeper, which she did with great aplomb.
This win took Gokulam one step closer to the semifinal spot, as they now have 12 points from four matches – a perfect record in the tournament so far.
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I blogged about this in a two-part post in Jim Lyons Observations this spring that looked first at a bit of history and company strategy, and then took a (relatively) deep dive into some of the IFTTT recipes now being offered via the HP Print Channel. But as I prepared this article, with the objective of trying to explain again to readers of The Imaging Channel (not to be confused with an IFTTT "channel") some of the key elements of HP's story, I realized the communication barriers of getting the basic ideas across can be quite daunting. Just the headline on HP's blog for example – if I throw out "the" and "on," I count four actual words that are outnumbered by four acronyms and a buzz-phrase ("Print Channel"). Now granted, the HP is obvious, and 40M is just shorthand for 40 million, but unless the reader already understands what those other terms mean, there may be a clarity issue with the headline that could prevent reading further. HP blogger McCoog, a chief technologist and HP Fellow, and one of my favorite long-time sources on the worlds of mobile printing and the future of hardcopy, does a fine job in explaining how users will benefit from this HP initiative in plain English, but again, how many readers will get that far? So here I have my opportunity to help in the encoding/decoding process.
I will start by offering some definitions, including my simplified (and hopefully not overly crude) understanding, reinforced by Wikipedia articles. (I should note that in contrast to its bad name in academic circles, when it comes to many technology-related subjects, Wikipedia is a great, trusted source for definitions, explanations and history, as well as for links to more detailed information. I discovered Wikipedia's good name from the many IT-related MOOCs I have taken in the last few years – but there I go with new acronyms! That's a Massive Open Online Course, for the record).
IoT – The "Internet of Things" is a long-term concept, seeing a future of billions of "things" communicating with each other. The most commonly cited example may be today's "smart thermostat" connected to WiFi. The vision of the future of IoT is, of course, this connectivity blowing up to include myriad devices in homes, workplaces, and really, everywhere. Read more starting at Wikipedia.
While HP's reputation for innovation and futuristic thinking is certainly enhanced by their investment in these areas, the idea of automated printing has been around a long time, with both HP and others. Nearly 20 years ago, Canon (Web Record) and HP (Web PrintSmart) offered PC-based utilities that, along with improved print formatting for web-based content, also included automated capture-and-print functions. Shortly after those pioneering solutions, HP went "all in" on automated printing with Instant Delivery, which, based on user preferences, printed daily news and other timely information.
HP has continued to develop these solutions, with a "Scheduled Delivery" solution in recent years that shared this focus on automated printing. I have also blogged about others, like the Berg Little Printer, a popular success but market failure over the last two years. In the best case, automated printing is a win-win, with users saved the steps of finding and printing material on an ongoing basis. In this best-case scenario the hard copy just "shows up" in their printer's out-tray, which, to the vendors' delight, leads to a steady usage rate of printer supplies.
During my 25-year career with Hewlett-Packard, I was involved in the commercial development of many different technologies. Some of the efforts were successful, and others were not. Over the years, I came to realize that there is no substitute for a good name and simple explanation based around the user benefits of a given technology. This is a requirement that can lead to a basic understanding, if not by the masses, at least by potential users and customers.
This was key for something to catch on and become a success. If the new technology (or better yet a solution) had a catchy, easy-to-understand label, like "Desktop Publishing," it was much more likely to develop critical mass than something like "Jetsend," an HP-led connectivity scheme aimed at tying together hardware peripherals and elevating them to something like full network "citizens." (Even that word, "peripherals," was one of those less-than-catchy labels that brings back the old "cold dead fish" analogy.) Jetsend ultimately suffered from a difficulty in explaining it – insiders had no trouble, but those on these outside, like potential partners and customers, had trouble grasping the concept.
One difference between Desktop Publishing and Jetsend, one might argue, is the former was an industry-wide phenomenon, really pioneered by Apple back in their glory days (phase two) as well as by many other participants, big and small. On the other hand Jetsend was, and stayed, HP-only. But to make a one-company comparison, one can look at the success of font cartridges in the early days of LaserJet, compared to the "soft fonts" that replaced them. HP's original blades-and-razors business model grew from the popular hard-font business, but their software equivalents were somewhat ethereal and were replaced for the most part by built-in (read: no extra revenue) fonts that we still see today. People could literally touch font cartridges, and they seemed natural as a hardware plug-in.
Will this iteration of what I am calling "automated printing" find a user sweet spot that offers enough benefits to outweigh the learning curve involved in implementing IFTTT recipes? HP points to some positive evidence. As far as acceptance from the printing public, Rachel Chin, Current Business Manager — Web Services, told me that since the launch, "We have had an overwhelming response in social media," which would seem to be a match with the company's target market. And as far as the future, Chin sees that "The future holds more development of recipes using more triggers," and McCoog points out the synergy of "end-user creation of homegrown solutions" as contributing greatly to future growth.
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An economist, a songwriter, and a puppet-maker walked into a recording studio. What do you think came out?…An economics puppet rap battle, of course.
One of the most dangerous stories at the heart of 20th century economics is the depiction of humanity as rational economic man. In my book Doughnut Economics I decided he needed a portrait so I drew him, standing alone, with money in his hand, ego in his heart, a calculator in his head and nature at his feet. He hates work, he loves luxury and he knows the price of everything.
Now here's the most fascinating (and unnerving) thing I discovered while researching the history and influence of this character. The more that economics students learn about him – from Year 1 to Year 2 to Year 3 of their studies – the more they say they value traits such as self-interest and competition over traits such as altruism and collaboration.
The implication? Who we tell ourselves we are shapes who we become.
Over the past year I have been contacted by many economics teachers around the world – especially those in secondary schools – who want to encourage their students to critique this text-book model and offer them a far more nuanced understanding of human behaviour.
I teamed up with the brilliant puppet designer Emma Powell and the ingenious musician Simon Panrucker and, with funding from the Network for Social Change (big thanks, folks!), we created this video – Economic Man vs Humanity: a puppet rap battle.
We'd love to see it in use in classrooms, conferences, reading groups, community groups, and shared widely on social media, on web platforms, on teaching resource sites.
If you are a teacher, please do use it to start a debate in your classroom (the video ends with a question for that very reason). You can also download the lyrics of the rap, complete with historical and theoretical sources for all the key quotes and concepts that they contain. Why not get your students to write their own economic rap battle – here's the fantastic backing track for anyone who wants to rap along.
And if your students want to dive further into the back story and future possibilities of Rational Economic Man, then I recommend Chapter 3 of Doughnut Economics, which was the basis for the whole project.
If you are a student, please do share the video with your fellow future economists, get your teacher involved, and help kick off a much-needed discussion.
And if you host a web discussion, a new economics resource site, a community network, or a teachers' forum, you are very welcome to feature the film on your site – we'd love to hear what you do with it.
And if you are simply curious, you'll love this peek behind the scenes to see how the rap battle got made.
Sit back and enjoy the Puppet Rap Battle – sing along, pass it on, and let's say farewell to Rational Economic Man. Today's students know that it's time to create a better portrait of who we are for 21st century economics.
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Even though I am not a teacher.
Beautifull text – but the video is not my peace off cake.
This is terrific, especially the story telling format which is in itself a rebuke of homo economicus. Will be sharing!
Great Book. Video is a great take on economic man and the misleading role it plays as taught in economics.
Brilliant – thanks so much! Am sharing widely..
Kate – absolutely brilliant! Thank you – what a wonderful way to start a conversation about who we are as humans and why our institutions are letting us down big time. A wake up call and antidote to sleep walking into the future. Love it. Love your work. Will share at every opportunity!
In principle very nice, since it is so important and high time to question this outdated model of the economic man. The innovative format surely helps to spread the message and spark interest. Yet, I'm quite disappointed that in a video which advocates a different and more modern thinking than: "Ego in heart, nature's at his will for bending" uses the same old humans vs. animal picture and again stresses that humans are so much more than animals ("We're more socially invested than the naked mole rat" and "We are so much more than just a dollar hunting animal"). At the end this is exactly the same attitude which fuels the whole "nature's at his will for bending" world view and stands for me oddly in contrast to the idea of seeing humanity as a part of nature's cycle. Further, this view is in itself so outdated. There are endless studies out there which show cooperative, social and altruistic behavior in all kinds of animals. You want something new, than think new….
Sorry you feel that way, Ulrike. Let me give you some context.
Science shows that humans are the most social mammal beyond their immediate kin – even more so than the naked mole rat, which is the most social among its own kin.
The phrase "dollar-hunting animal" is a direct quote from Charles Stanton Devas, a 1880s critic of John Stuart Mill's homo oeconomicus.
And we were delighted to get the puppets rapping "we're not above the web of life, we're deeply embedded".
Take a look at the fully sourced lyrics to see how the lyrics are grounded in the history of economic theory.
I'm with Ulrike. Kate betrays homo, not eco centric views. I keep trying to reach her, but my posts get lost in the crowd.
'Be agnostic about growth' is a brilliant insight. Pity Kate missed the relevance of the Basic income in this context.
Please read my blog post 'Kate Raworth's Doughnut – what's missing'.
I look forward to using this video as part of my Foundations of Sustainable Business Class at Fordham University.
I also can promote it on the Living Fieldbook resource that accompanies the 2nd Edition of The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook.
This is exciting. I'm so grateful to the reader who recommended this book, as while I'm writing fiction, it features a world that opposes this point of view to the 'economic man' one. Looking forward to reading the book asap. cheers.
Mainstream undergrad economics study in the U.S. has included reexamining H. Economics for several years now.
Only as one of the "must know" fringe concepts before the 2007 meltdown. Then with increasing seriousness and depth since.
Ariely, Kahneman, and Thaler are familiar to most students, at least by the time they reach second level.
Since hearing Thaler answer questions on the potential for wide scale chamges in economic behaviour I have worried that the donut gear and the behavioural economics gear are not lining up in a way that will manifest the synergy potential of that combination.
Thaler was answering questions about whether the inherent biases at the core of his theory will lead to a spontaneous social shift to more sustainable lifestyles, or whether such a shift will require evangelizing and nudging.
His response, if you'll indulge the crude broad brush paraphrase, was, Could go either way. Not much frame of reference for responses to existential forces. Further complicated globally by effort required to adjust an unprecedented number of fundamental demographic and technological changes. __A key question is whether humans are up to the challenges of the next century. The latter scenario sounds quite wishful__.
Since this dialogue is in the Zeitgeist I think that content similar to this in character, but laser focused on examining the gap between the donut and the predictably-irrational-but-persuadable, and the substantial potential synergy of their combination, would yield tremendous value.
It's reasonable to hope that the dialogue would shift to more public discussion in favor of actions that can bring about the necessary shift. Actions including official public policies, and model behaviours among social influencers.
This is the best description I have come across of the men of MBA and Bottom Line mentality. As a one time entrepreneur taken down by so called experts I think this should be compulsory education for all young people, anhd a caution for anyone with an idea for improving the world.
What we need for teaching economics (particularly the macro- part) is a model that works mechanically. Many students are inclined towards mechanical things and when their minds are switched over to a less formal trend as in the doughnut they will initially rebel. If you are really concerned for improving the minds of those who are learning to think in terms of how our social system works, then please pay attention to my short working paper (on the internet) SSRN 2800103 "A Mechanical Model for Teaching Macroeconomics". So It is my claim that we can teach macroeconomics more easily without having to redirect and introduce this unnecessary revolution!
sorry, the number should have been 2600103 not 2800103.
Thank you! I will be using this in my lectures, for sure.
I already use your videos for teaching a geography module called Growth, degrowth and sustainability at Reading University. The module is well attended by around 150 students from Geography and Economics every year. I am not sure thought how many of them go away at the end of the year having changed considerably their minds. But, it's only reasonable to hope, so keep trying!
I'm delighted to hear this, Eirini. I hope you saw the link to the fully sourced lyrics, showing how the rap lyrics are carefully grounded in the history of economic theory. It should be a great resource for teaching – and perhaps you could invite your students to write their own rap critique.
This is really beautiful work, Kate! It really is quite captivating as the puppets are so beautifully crafted and expressive.
The only drawback I noticed with my own viewing was that I was so captivated by watching the visual spectacle that I had to keep reminding myself to try to concentrate on the message. This might just be a particular problem for me though, as I've always found it difficult to follow both sound and visual storyline at the same time.
I'm sure it'll be a popular way of getting young people to think of different ways we might be doing things. Great idea.
"No device can output sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it", owing to Entropy internal to matter (wear and tear).
In the future, this can be understood by scientists a statement of 'despite the Sun shines every morning, winds blow, rivers flow and man can 'split' and 'fuse' atoms, humans can not manufacture energy". It always and only comes from the past into the future.
For non-scientists, it might be understood as The Tragedy of the Commons being now quantified and given its own law of Thermodynamics.
Being this long-overlooked relationship now identified, it will be etched deep into humans' DNA as the mother of all Economics – for good!


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The Order of the Silver Compass
by John Paul Romero at 25 March 2019, 4:41 AM
Exactly eleven days ago, metal trio ATHANASIA released their debut album "The Order of the Silver Compass". The press material says they are a thrash/black metal band and promises a combination of anthemic stadium metal hooks with elements of bay area thrash and Scandinavian black metal styles. But don't be deceived though, the sound of the album is nowhere near thrash nor black. By their own description of the album, you might think you'll get a killer SLAYER meets GORGOROTH kind of sound. But the truth is, I don't know why but for some reasons, the album is labeled thrash and black metal while it actually sounds like BREAKING BENJAMIN covers SLIPKNOT featuring MARIYLN MANSON. To me that is a fucking mortal sin.
The opening of the album would make you imagine that it will be a classic heavy metal attack. But when the riffs drop, you'll all be like "okay tell me what the fuck this is". The lyrics are mid-tier, the riffs are generic, and the overall mood is simply boring. "Spoils of War" has an intro that is almost AOR with more distortion. But compared to the first song, it was a bit more decent. The song would sound like a slower edition of SISTER and/or WEDNESDAY 13. The vocals and the drums did all the job for this sleaze glam appeal. The lyrics are also a lot better and poetic (still compared to the first song). The title track is the most energetic song in the album, and even though it is still not that good enough, it is the most memorable track. Caleb used different vocal styles all throughout the song, bragging his versatility. And for a moment, they have showed a little shade of that black metal but that's all by Caleb's Shagrath-like shrieks. "Cyclops Lord" has lots of crazy shifts when it comes to tempo and mood. Remember when I said the album sounds like BREAKING BENJAMIN? Listen to "The Bohemian" and there'll be no further explanation needed.
It's like BREAKING BENJAMIN but edgier and a bit angrier. "Mechanized Assault" is another awkward attempt to sound dark. Yes, the vocals did well. And yes, those lyrics are decent. But what about the riffs? The drums? It's simply so generic and boring. And lastly, talking about the closing track "White Horse" – it's a completely out of place power ballad. I don't know, maybe they thought it would showcase their versatility? Now time for the consolation. Caleb is not good at writing riffs, but he's got some amazing solos particularly in the first couple of songs. I'm not really big into his first band FFDP but I heard some of his stuff there and I think he fits more to this band than FFDP.
There is one thing surely unforgivable about this album, and that is the tagged genre. Random thrash metal and black metal fans might stumble upon this album and quickly pick it up for the sinister cover art and end up listening to something they'd surely call shit. Geezz, I can only hope Satan forgives them for calling the album Black/Thrash.
Songwriting: 5
Memorability: 2
Production: 3
Overall: 3
1. Read Between the Lines
2. Spoils of War
3. The Order of the Silver Compass
4. Cyclops Lord
5. The Bohemian
6. Mechanized Assault
7. Nightmare Sound
8. White Horse
Caleb Bingham – Guitars, Vocals
Brandon Miller – Bass
Jason West – Drums
Record Label: ROAR! Rock of Angels Records


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Joni Mitchell is fond of describing songwriting and performing in theatrical terms. "Ella Fitzgerald was mostly just a singer; Billie Holiday was more than a singer; Frank Sinatra was more than a singer," she told Michelle Mercer, author of Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period. "There were a lot that were Method actor singers. Etta James, you can't beat her read on 'At Last.'" Will You Take Me As I Am, which was released in paperback last year, looks at the series of magnificent albums Joni Mitchell made between 1971 and 1976 – Blue, For the Roses, Court and Spark, Miles of Aisles, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, and Hejira, all of them masterpieces in the American popular music canon. The "Blue Period," as Mercer calls it, brought a new subjectivity to pop music, all in the spirit of avant-garde experimentation that blended the musical, the literary and the visual. (The name "Blue Period" conjures up the synesthesia of the nineteenth century French poets, composers and artists like Mallarmé, Debussy and Bonnard.)
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The title Short Term 12 identifies the setting of Destin Daniel Cretton's movie, his first full-length picture. It's a short-term facility for troubled teenagers (most stay for less than a year, some longer, until the county can figure out what to do with them). The handful of young women and men who work there as counselors are responsible for creating a safe environment for the kids, not for policing them or acting as their therapists, though, caring and committed as they are, they inevitably go beyond their job description. And sometimes they don't agree with the judgment of the professionals, who aren't in the trenches with the kids the way they are. When his therapist determines that one of the boys, Sammy (Alex Calloway), should learn to let go of the collection of dolls he keeps in his room for comfort and takes them away from him, the counselors are upset because they're sure he isn't ready. And they're right; Sammy becomes listless and can't get off his bed. Nate (Rami Malek), the newest member of the staff, violates the therapist's order and sneaks a small doll to Sammy. Nate is very green when he arrives, and he makes some basic (and rather stunning) errors of judgment, but in the movie's terms this small act of rebellion marks his coming of age as a counselor at Short Term 12. Grace (Brie Larson) goes much farther. When a complicated fifteen-year-old named Jaden (Kaitlyn Dever) with a history of cutting and suicide attempts is sent home with her father, Grace, who has intuited from Jaden's hints that he's been abusing her, blows up at her supervisor and goes out to Jaden's house in the middle of the night. Grace and Jaden end up smashing up her father's car before Grace brings Jaden back to the facility, prepared at last to make the allegations against her father that will remove him permanently from her care.
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Considering all that he's accomplished in his long career, Paul McCartney's only competitor is himself. On New [Hear Music], his 16th solo album, Macca proves that he can still write the perfect pop song with lyrics and hooks that are irresistible. His volume of work can now be classified as a style, "McCartney" if you like, with compositions that are just sophisticated enough to keep our ears engaged while accessible enough to appeal to listeners of all ages. His style has proven strongly influential, too, as heard on the recent Mojo magazine CD release, Songs in the Key of Paul, that comes with the November 2013 issue. It is a really good mix of old and new songs featuring a variety of old and new artists. The CD features a collection of songs that best represents the "McCartney Sound", rich in vocal harmonies, interesting chord changes and song structures not far removed from Tin Pan Alley or Motown.
Vers Mathilde (2005), directed by Claire Denis
Vers Mathilde, the 2005 dance documentary by French filmmaker Claire Denis, is a stunning achievement. It takes as its subject Mathilde Monnier, the director of France's Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon in Montpellier. She is the Mathilde in a title whose only other word translates as towards. There is no verb connecting the two words. The action is all in the film, an intimate look at how Monnier creates a dance quite literally out of thin air, propelled forward by her own winnowing body and the ideas that come swirling out and around it.
Denis, the subject of an ongoing retrospective of her films at TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto, is clearly a fan. She allows Monnier to move unfettered by her roving camera which follows her unobtrusively even as it sometimes closes tightly in on her striking and chiseled fiftysomething face to capture the intelligence of the mind lying within. It is obvious that Denis has asked some questions about process, because Monnier speaks out loud to an invisible listener, describing, for instance, what warming up for one of her dances means to her (a heightened sense of being in the moment) and what it is she is trying to achieve (a theatrical creation where the unexpected is the only rule).
Director Claire Denis
The film screens tonight (Tuesday, November 5) at 6:30, and is a must-see both for lovers of Denis's work and French avant-garde dance. Monnier's choreography is abstract, that is, not tied to narrative or an inspiring piece of music. One of the works seen in the film is a case in point. Originally created in 2002 and called Déroutes, a military term meaning total collapse, it is more influenced by concepts in visual art (the presence of absence) and by the collective assembled to perform it. The dancers are male and female, white and black, athletically built as well as plump and round. As part of the creation process, Monnier has asked each to interpret, in their own way, the idea of not walking. The results are sometimes explosive such as when one of her Asian dancers thumps the floor of the stage with an angry fist, and collapses in frustration after again and again pulling herself back up to her feet to march. Monnier's whispered observations, heard as a voice-over, provide a running commentary. It is the whole of the Korean army. It is magnifique.
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Alec Beard and Kathryn Erbe in Natural Affection
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT), in residence at Theater Row on 42nd Street, is one of several off-Broadway companies that make it a practice to resurrect forgotten American plays. Last season it produced a post-war Anita Loos play called Happy Birthday set in a New Jersey bar that contained a strange interlude in which the audience was put literally in the point of view of the protagonist, who is drunk for the first time in her life. When she burrowed under one of the tables, hiding from her fearful father, a piece of canvas flew out over the audience and there we were, camped out under the tablecloth alongside her. Happy Birthday isn't much of a play, but this scene is a fascinating piece of homegrown Yankee expressionism, and I was grateful to TACT for offering a rare glimpse of it. And I was grateful again last month when it mounted a strikingly well-acted production of William Inge's Natural Affection, which had the bad luck to open in 1973 during a newspaper strike, closed in a month, and hadn't been unearthed since. (It was the last Inge play produced in his lifetime; he killed himself late that year, days before his final work, The Last Pad, opened in Los Angeles.)
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One of the problems of the myriad choices in entertainment available to the public is that, increasingly, demographic divisions and attitudes divide us in our ability to share communally in the enjoyment of specific types of music, films or TV shows. (Novels have, for the most part, or at least for a few decades, always functioned that way, with the odd exceptions like the Stieg Larsson mysteries which people of all ages seemed to be reading. ) That was the unfortunate experience I recently had when I went to see a double bill of Israeli music at Toronto's Koerner Hall.


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Jon Schweppe American Principles Project
House Democrats are set to vote this week to advance H.R. 5, the so-called "Equality Act," which transgender advocates are hailing as a landmark piece of civil rights legislation. It is almost certain to pass the full House, though it is unlikely to gain much traction in the Republican-led Senate.
The legislation — including its tedious "findings and purpose" section — reads like it was written by a college sophomore in gender studies. It isn't clear why Democrats are so desperate to pass it. While progressives might claim that the Equality Act is an LGBT rights bill, it reads much more like a men's rights bill, which understandably has some feminists asking, "Et tu, Nancy?"
Think I'm exaggerating? Consider this: the Equality Act would fundamentally redefine "sex" within all aspects of civil rights law to mean "sexual orientation" and "gender identity," scrapping the traditional legal standard of male and female as a product of biology and replacing it with an incomprehensible mess. The many legal protections women now enjoy would be effectively eliminated, resulting in a version of "equality" that many of the Equality Act's supporters might not be anticipating.
Take, for example, Title IX, which was passed to prohibit sex discrimination in education programs. One of the biggest impacts of the 1972 law was to increase scholarship and athletic opportunities for women, opportunities which are now often taken for granted thanks to the wide availability of women's sports at the high school and collegiate levels.
These opportunities are now under attack — in 2016, the Obama administration sent a wake-up call to female athletes across the nation when it announced it was interpreting "sex" under Title IX to include "gender identity," allowing any student who claimed to identify as female the right to participate in women's sports.
While President Trump revoked that policy, the Equality Act would permanently write it into the law, effectively erasing the gains made under Title IX and all but destroying women's athletics.
In case you think I'm being ridiculous — after all, these newfound rights under the "Equality Act" would only apply to "trans women" and not "cisgendered" (biological) men — understand that the term "gender identity" is scarcely defined in the legislation, deliberately left so vague as to be almost meaningless. Indeed, while the law provides strict definitions for "sexual orientation," limiting protections to people with heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual orientations, it does no such thing for "gender identity."
One could theoretically choose to identify as whatever gender one desires, for however long or short a period, no matter how ridiculous or without medical grounding, and still expect the law to protect that identity.
It's not difficult to see how this could lead us down a path to absurdity. For example, couldn't a student athlete claim to have a temporary gender identity that only manifested itself when, perhaps, that athlete stepped on a track before a race? What would prevent a "cisgendered" (biological) boy from exploiting the law, changing nothing about the way he presents himself, but claiming to identify as a girl for the purposes of athletic competition?
The answer is, of course, absolutely nothing. Even if a school had the guts to deny him a place on the girl's team — foolishly exposing themselves to the liability of an expensive civil rights lawsuit — a judge would be forced to recognize that "gender identity" is a subjective term, and that a boy seemingly exploiting the system would be no different legally than a boy with gender dysphoria who truly psychologically identifies as a girl. The Equality Act doesn't even require an individual to make a legitimate claim of "gender identity" in good faith. It really is all up to how the individual claims to feel in the moment — and for that reason, it is incredibly easy to exploit.
The effect of this is obvious: Title IX would become a relic of a different era, as would many other protections currently enjoyed by women. The triumph of "gender identity" would wipe out women's private spaces, giving biological males free rein to use women's restrooms, locker rooms, and showers. It would force battered women's shelters to open their doors to any man identifying as a woman, potentially putting the abused women who truly need that safe space in jeopardy. In short, it would be a complete and utter disaster for women.
At the same time, seen from a different perspective, it would be a near-total triumph for men's rights. Meninists rejoice! After decades of ruthless oppression at the hands of women, men will finally enjoy the equality they so richly deserve, as nearly every special legal protection for women is systematically demolished.
In an ironic way, if passed into law, the "Equality Act" may end up living up to its name after all.
Jon Schweppe (@JonSchweppe) is the director of government affairs at the American Principles Project, a nonprofit think tank and political advocacy organization committed to defending the fundamental American principle of human dignity.
The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of The Daily Caller.
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Zoë, no stranger to the stage, has performed with an impressive list of international artists including Riverdance, Damien Rice, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Rodrigo y Gabriella to mention but a few. John grew up in the Cooley Mountains of north County Louth where he took up guitar at 8 years of age. John studied classical guitar and piano for many years, and from early childhood was immersed in the language, songs and traditional dance music of south west Donegal - his father's homeplace. Together, Zoë Conway and John Mc Intyre have been described as "simply one of the best folk duos on the planet" (BBC), and audiences in Ireland and beyond keep coming back for more.
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The base games of the two Coyote Queen slots are essentially the same, the only difference being the range of symbols on the reels. Each game features a higher than usual six reels and each of these is four high when the reels come to a stop. Both games pay from left to right and each features a series of symbols such as wolves, cubs and fangs on the reels. Joining these theme-related symbols are the usual series of playing cards.
In each game, you'll find many of the symbols are stacked – usually a different symbol for each spin. If you manage to line up a series of stacked symbols, you could be in for a huge payday, as a great many win lines will pay out at the same time. These stacked symbols are aided by the wild, which conveniently has the word 'wild' written across it. This wild will substitute for any other symbol on the reels apart from the bonus one, leading to additional wins. These wilds can be very helpful in conjunction with the stacked symbols – a single wild possibly giving you many extra pay outs.
Coyote Queen – Hunt and Prowl Bonus Features
In both games you'll find a free games feature which is activated by landing the 'free games' symbol so it completely covers three reels. However, the way the bonus feature is played out is different depending on which game you play.
The Hunt Slot Machine – In this version of the game you'll be awarded 18 free spins. This is more than you'll find on many slots, giving you a lot of chances to accumulate some wins.
The Prowl Slot Machine – This bonus feature plays out slightly differently. At the start of the feature you'll be given five options as to how you want to play the bonus. Each features one symbol and a number of spins. This symbol will be the super stacked one throughout the feature, so the higher paying symbol you choose, the fewer spins you'll have. The Coyote Queen herself is the highest value symbol, so choosing this will give you just seven spins, while you could opt for the other end of the spectrum and enjoy 14 free games with the cats eyes symbol. The number of spins awarded in this version of the game is smaller than in 'The Hunt' but the Super Stacked symbols are all the higher paying ones, whereas in the other version, you will find all the symbols randomly super stacked, including the lower paid playing cards.
Coyote Queen – Design
In both Coyote Queen slot games, the Coyote Queen is the central character. Her image is displayed proudly above the reels, while in some casinos you'll even find an additional screen above the main display, once again displaying an image of the queen.
'The Hunt' is striking due to its winter imagery, the reels mainly filled by wintery colors such as blue and silver. The background to the reels shows a forest scene, with snow heavy on the branches of the trees, while stars sparkle in the darkening blue sky.
'The Prowl' has more of a golden sheen to the look of the game. Here the trees are still prominent but are met with a mountainous terrain in the background, with an orange sunset glow illuminating the scene.
One of the best aspects of both the game is the accompanying soundtrack which features Native American chanting. This has a slightly haunting feel which is perfectly fitting for the wolf-like theme of both games.
Are the Coyote Queen Slots Worth Playing?
Aristocrat have come up with the great idea here of offering two games with the same theme which play slightly differently. 'The Hunt' is the more basic of the two and will appeal to those who are more than happy to take a set number of spins and enjoy a lower variance game. 'The Prowl' has more to it, with a bonus feature where strategy comes into play. Do you take fewer spins where the wins are potentially higher, or go for more spins and those slightly smaller wins? Whichever game you play, you'll find Coyote Queen enjoyable and very playable.


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Vratnica: History of a Unique Macedonian Village
The village of Vratnica in northwestern Macedonia has evolved and developed with each generation since it was founded over 500 years ago. For over half a millennium, it existed as a farming community within the Ottoman Turkish Empire. The nationalist movements of the 19th and 20th centuries brought many changes and had a great impact on the village and its people. Many migrated to the United States and Canada, where they established cohesive immigrant communities, a process known as "chain migration," whereby the newcomers continued to identify themselves with the village more than they did with the larger national or ethnic community. This was a unique phenomenon in the immigration experience of Vratnica, and it can still be felt in the ethnic and religious orientations of Vratnica people, whether they inhabit the village or faraway adopted homelands.
Location and Orientation
Vratnica is located in the northwest of the Republic of Macedonia, 22 km northeast of the city of Tetovo and 5 km southeast of Jazince, the border crossing point with Serbia on the Kosovo border. Vratnica is on the Polog Plain, at the foothills of the northern part of the Sar Planina mountain range, under the Ljuboten peak, about 750 meters above sea level. The Rakita River flows through the village from the mountain range under a bridge outside of the village. There is a ski and resort lodge located on this mountain range called Ljubotan. In the nearby village of Jegunovce, there is the "Yugo-Chrome" factory where many from Vratnica worked.
Today, Vratnica village is the center of a community which consists of seven interconnected and interrelated villages: Belovište, Vratnica, Staro Selo, Rogachevo, Jazince, and Gorno and Dolno Orašje. This community consists of a population of 3,500. Vratnica itself has a population of 1,000 to 1,500.
History and Prehistory: Early Origins Up to the Present Day
Slavic groups began settling the Balkan Peninsula in the sixth century AD, populating the areas of Macedonia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro. In the fifth and sixth centuries, a large Slavic tribal population occupied parts of central Europe north of the Danube river. The two major Slavic groups in the Balkans, the Serbians and the Croatians, had been based in the Czech region (later Czechoslovakia) and in Saxony.
These Slavic groups had earlier migrated from the north and north-east region of the Black Sea. After the 586 siege of Byzantine Thessaloniki, Slavic groups settled the Praevalitana and the region south of the Shkumbi River, where Slavic place-names predominate.
The two major Slavic groups that emerged in the southern Balkan Peninsula were the Serbians and the Bulgarians, which established powerful and expansionist rival dynastic empires. Serbs developed small tribal territories called a zupa, which were ruled by tribal chiefs known as zupani. By the middle of the 7th century, Serbs were moving from the coastal land in Montenegro and were settling northern Macedonia, Albania, and Kosovo. The Serbs were agricultural tribes, and settled in river valleys and plains where they could grow crops and harvest the fields near an abundant water source.
Vratnica rests in the folds of Sar Planina, in Macedonia's northwestern corner. (Photo: collection of the author)
By the 11th century, "almost all arable soil in the northernmost part of what is now Albania and in the region of present-day Kosovo was in Slavic hands," according to Miranda Vickers in Between Serb and Albanian. The original homeland or base area for the Serbian population in the Balkans was the Raska region, or Rascia, a region just north of Kosovo. Since Vratnica lies in a region referred to as Old or Ancient Serbia (Stara Srbija), which included the regions of Kosovo, Metohija, and present-day northern Macedonia, the background and historical roots of the Vratnica families cannot be understood without an understanding of the medieval history of the region.
By the end of the 12th century, the Serbian population moved south and settled the area of what is present-day Kosovo and northern Macedonia. In fact, many Vratnica families trace their ancestral origins to this region, present-day northern Macedonia, on the border with Kosovo. For almost a millennium, Serbians, Bulgarians, Albanians, and, later, Turks, settled and fought over this volatile region.
Vratnica: Population and Immigration
Vratnica was first recorded in Ottoman Turkish registries in the 15th century. In the earliest Turkish population census registry or defter, 59 families were recorded as living in Vratnica. In the defter labeled 4 for the years 1467/68 the number of houses had increased to 66, while in 1545 there is a record of 76 houses, and in 1568 there were 84 houses registered.
The village underwent migrations and settlement until the 18th century, and in the 20th century, there was extensive chain migration to the United States. In 1914/1916, the total population of Vratnica was 1,131 with 131 houses; in 1948, there were 1,299 inhabitants and 197 houses; in 1953, there were 1,387 inhabitants and 214 houses; in 1961, the respective numbers were 1,384 and 227; in 1968, 1,240 and 225; and, in 1971, 1,082 inhabitants and 266 houses.
Thus, the number of houses doubled over the 50-year period, but the total population remained about the same. It has declined since the 1960s due to emigration to the US and elsewhere. For example, by the early 1980's there were over 200 households with Vratnica origins in the Detroit area alone.
Many from the village migrated to the US during the boom decades following the end of World War I in 1918. This migration was heaviest during the 1920s, before the Great Depression. Most of the immigrants were economic refugees, fleeing the poverty of the Balkans. However, the US Immigration Act of 1924 placed restrictions and quotas of the level of immigration from Eastern Europe. Orthodox Slavs in particular were seen as subhuman and alien to the Anglo-Saxon Protestant tradition of mainstream American immigrants. Many migrated to Canada instead.
The Yugoslav Communist regime under Josip Broz Tito allowed emigration to Western Europe to relieve political opposition and to benefit the Yugoslav economy. Up to a third of the Yugoslav economy depended on guest workers who lived abroad. In the 1950s and 1960s, a new wave of emigration from Yugoslavia resulted. Many from Vratnica immigrated to the US and Canada during this period. In agrarian, rural societies like Vratnica, the family was the only socializing institution. The extended family was known as the chelat. When they migrated to the US, the family continued to play a dominant role. Thus the typical immigrant family from Vratnica tended to be cohesive, functional, and nurturing of the individual.
The most prominent family groups in Vratnica include: Stepanovci, Siskovci, Dlabocani, Koecevci, Stanisovci, Vasilevci, Golomevci, Danecevci, Dobrocevci, Peovci, Todorovci, Kostanecevci, Madzicevci, Maskocevci, Mojsicevci, Dabocevci, Papudzini and Kraguljevci.
The Kostanecevci family resettled in Vratnica from the Kosovo village of Kamena Glava, literally, "Stone Head," approximately 500 years ago The earliest recorded member for whom records exist of this family is Kosto Kostanechev, from the end of the nineteenth century, who had a brother named Uros. Kosto had four sons, Stojko, Stolje, Simon, and Stojan. The procedure for last names was for a son to carry as his last name a form of his father's first name. During the medieval period, persons were known by a first given name and the by the village or clan from which they came. Many were named by the occupation they were in: "Carpenter," "Miller," "Fisher," "Goldsmith," and "Baker." In the eastern Slavic countries of Europe, it was more common to have a last name that carried the name of a grand-father or great-grand-father.
Also significant in the history of Vratnica is the village of Moravce, located 800 meters to the northwest. Moravce is regarded as the original settlement. Because of pressure from the Ottoman Turks, the inhabitants of Moravce were forced to search for a more secure area of settlement. They migrated to the north, towards Kosovo and middle Serbia, but they were eventually forced to abandon those areas as well. They finally migrated back and formed modern Vratnica on its present location, together with the descendants of the original settlers.
Cultural Affiliations and Language
Although Vratnica is in Macedonia, a Macedonian ethnic and cultural identity, as distinct from the Serbian or Bulgarian ones, did not emerge in a dominant way until the late 19th century, when nationalist ideologies were at their peak in Europe. So a Macedonian national consciousness and identity is of relatively recent origin, and in Vratnica people even today differentiate themselves according to their perceived Macedonian or Serbian backgrounds.
The medieval ancestors of the present-day inhabitants of Vratnica spoke a language that has elements of Bulgarian and Serbian and which is distinct from both, but is similar to Bulgarian and modern Macedonian. Vratnica family ancestors observed a "slava," that is, an Orthodox patron saint was celebrated by the family. This was unique to Serbian Orthodox families, not to Bulgarian families. Histories of Vratnica, the village where the Savich ancestors had lived for over 800 years, claim that the original settlers migrated from the north-east, from the region of southern Serbia, Kosovo and Metohija. The name of the village is derived from the word for "return" or "returnees" (vrati, return) and the suffix –ica, meaning "village of." Vratnica thus means "village of those who returned" in reference to their expulsion and migration from Kosovo.
Under Turkish rule, the Albanian minority and Turkish settlers gained dominance in the region of northern Macedonia where the Savich family ancestors lived. During Ottoman rule, the Orthodox population became second-class citizens and faced religious discrimination and persecution. The Ottoman Empire was organized on the basis of religion and not on nationality. Thus by converting to Islam, one could obtain privileges and status not available to non-Muslims. By converting to Islam in mass numbers, Albanians were able to gain, social, political, and economic dominance in the region. So under Turkish Muslim rule, the ethnic makeup and demography of the region changed.
Vratnica was located in a region that was part of the Turkish Empire for half a millennium until 1912, which was known as "Turkey in Europe." As a result, there is a schizophrenic or split nature to ethnic, national, and religious identities in Vratnica and Macedonia as a whole. Some segments of the Vratnica community identified culturally and politically and religiously with Serbia. Some parts of present-day Macedonia identified with Bulgaria and Bulgarian culture. But Serbian culture and influence was dominant in the region. And some member of the community identified with the unique Macedonian identity. For their part, the Albanian minority in the region identified with Albania and Albanian culture.
Nevertheless, the vast majority of the population adopted and identified with Macedonian culture and national/ethnic identity. Vratnica is unique in that it is part of a region of Macedonia where segments of the population have retained a Serbian cultural, religious, and ethnic/national identity.
Vratnica locals, pictured circa 1930. (Photo: collection of the author)
National, religious, and ethnic identification in Vratnica has remained controversial and subject to much debate and conflict. Residents of Vratnica have been dismissed as Serbophones or Serbophiles, due to the "brainwashing" and "indoctrination" of the Serbian government during the 1918-1941 period when Macedonia was part of Serbia (the alleged "Southern Serbia"). In this period, last names were recorded under the Serbo-Croat-Bosnian –ic ending, instead of the –ski or –ov ending. The –ic ending connoted Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian ethnic or national identity, in this case, Serbian. The –ov ending connoted Bulgarian identity. The –ski ending was generally accepted as denoting Macedonian identity.
With the coming of a Communist regime in Macedonia after World War II, which sought to remedy and reverse the policies of the Serbian royalist regime, the –ski ending was restored for the official last name. Yet can ethnic and national identities be created and destroyed so easily? Vratnica remains an interesting case study for such questions.
The Split Church: Local Repercussions of a Larger Issue
A unique characteristic of society and identity in Vratnica involves the role of the Orthodox Church. Agitation over the nature and identity of the church in Macedonia had antecedents and stemmed from a long and mixed history. A Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid was established in 1019 during the reign of Samuel. In 1767, the Archbishopric was abolished by the Ottoman Turkish authorities, under pressure from Greek lobbying in Constantinople, and placed under the authority of the Patriarchate there. However, in 1870, the Archbishopric became part of the Bulgarian Exarchate, which lasted until 1913.
After World War I, in 1918, what is known as "Vardar" Macedonia became a part of Royalist Yugoslavia, the alleged "Southern Serbia." During this period, several of the dioceses of the former Bulgarian Exarchate were claimed by the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Macedonian Orthodox Church claimed to be the successor to the restored Ohrid Archbishopric, a claim not recognized by any other Orthodox church.
In 1944, in the village of Gorno Vranovci, an Initiative Board for the Organization of the Macedonian Orthodox Church was formed. In March 1945, a resolution to restore the Archdiocese of Ohrid as Macedonian Orthodox Church was made at the First Clergy and Laity Assembly held in Skopje.
The resolution was submitted to the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which had jurisdiction over dioceses in Macedonia. The Macedonian diocese was then under the jurisdiction of the United Orthodox Church of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, which was later called the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church refused the resolution. The Initiative Board then proposed that the Macedonian Orthodox Church be granted autonomous status instead of autocephalous status being recognized as autonomous. The Synod rejected this proposal.
In 1958, the Second Clergy and Laity Assembly, held in Ohrid, made a proposal for the restoration of the Ohrid Archdiocese of Saint Clement as a Macedonian Orthodox Church. The Assembly accepted the proposal. Dositheus was appointed the first archbishop. This resulted in autonomy for the Macedonian Orthodox Church within the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church accepted the proposal of the Macedonian Clergy and Laity Assembly in the resolution AS. No 47/1959 and 6/1959, minutes 57 of June 17/4, 1959.
On July 19, 1959, a joint liturgy was conducted in Skopje with Serbian Orthodox Patriarch German in the church of Saint Menas. Clement was ordained the bishop of the diocese of Prespa and Bitola, and Nahum was ordained the bishop of Zletovo and Strumica. The Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church was subsequently established.
In 1966, the demands for autocephalous status increased. In the fall of that year, on the initiative of the Central Committee of the Macedonian Communist Party, the Macedonian Church announced its separation from the Serbian Church, and Bishop Dositej became Metropolitan of Macedonia and Ohrid. This occurred three months after the purge of Alexander Rankovic from the Yugoslav leadership.
Then, a year later, the Orthodox community in Macedonia splintered from the Serbian Orthodox Church, so that a distinct and new religious entity emerged in the former Yugoslavia, the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
On July 17, 1967, the Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church summoned the Third Clergy and Laity Assembly in Ohrid, and proclaimed the Macedonian Orthodox Church as autocephalous. At a liturgy celebration on July 17, 1967, the Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church announced the proclamation, on the second centennial after it had been banned by the Ottoman Turkish authorities. The act of proclamation was made at the 11th-century Church of St. Sophia in Ohrid. A witness described the ceremony:
"It was one of the most extraordinary occasions. There were priests with long beards, Communist officials, and plain people and they were all crying and kissing one another. It was a scene of delirious happiness, like witnessing the rebirth of a nation."
The new Macedonian Orthodox Church consisted of 10 dioceses, seven in the Macedonia and three outside of Macedonia, with 10 bishops. The feasts of the Macedonian Orthodox Church are celebrated based on the "old style" Julian calendar. Services are conducted in Macedonian, or in the Old Church Slavonic language.
Some historians maintain that the Communist regime of Josip Broz Tito manipulated the Orthodox Churches in the former Yugoslavia as a way to balance and manage the nationalist and ethnic conflicts. There had been conflict between the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Macedonian Orthodox Church during the post-war period as the Communist regime of Yugoslavia sought to weaken the Serbian Orthodox Church. In order to boost Macedonian nationalism and to sever any connections between Serbia and Macedonia, the Communist regime engineered the split between the two churches based on national lines. The Macedonian Orthodox Church, however, is not recognized by the Patriarchate of Constantinople or by any other autocephalous church.
For its part, the Serbian Church sought to fight back by promoting internecine strife amongst the Macedonian Church leaders in the aftermath of the declaration. This interference has been noted ever since and was perceived most recently during the past few years, with the saga of the renegade "Bishop Jovan," who was jailed for promoting the Serbian ecclesiastical agenda in Macedonia.
Today, there are around 40,000 citizens in Macedonia who identify themselves as ethnic Serbs. In Vratnica, the Sveta Petka Orthodox Church is part of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, whereas the Sveta Petka Orthodox Church in Troy, Michigan, built last year, is part of the Serbian Orthodox Church. This reflects the schizophrenic nature of religious, national, and ethnic identity of the (extended) Vratnica community.
Vratnica and Greater Albania
Vratnica has been a target of the Greater Albania ideology since it was enunciated in the 1878 League of Prizren. During World War II, Vratnica was a part of a Greater Albania created by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini for a brief period. Albanian nationalists seized Vratnica and incorporated the village and surrounding area into the Nazi-fascist Greater Albanian state.
During the 2001 terrorist "insurgency" in Macedonia by Albanian ultra-nationalists whose exploits were tolerated by the US, NATO, and the EU, Vratnica was again under attack. This was an example of sanctioned "terrorism." Armed Albanian bandits besieged four villages at the far north in the Tetovo region populated by Macedonians. Vratnica and the three surrounding villages of Staro Selo, Belovishte, and Rogachevo, consisting of 2,500 residents, were under a practical siege by the so-called NLA (National Liberation Army). Vratnica went for weeks without food, water, medicine, or any medical assistance.
This siege created a ghetto of Vratnica and the neighboring villages and was especially difficult on the children and elderly. The Albanian terrorists, based in the nearby village of Odri, presented an ultimatum to the residents of the surrounded Christian villages to leave the area, the Albanian version of "ethnic cleansing." Toni Kocevski, the mayor of Vratnica, told reporters: "We do not have food, neither medicine and for ten days we do not have a doctor. A couple of days ago some representatives from the International Red Cross came and promised some humanitarian help made up of medicine and food for tomorrow. From time to time we are visited by OSCE, but that does not do any good to us because the Albanian terrorists are keeping us under siege."
The movements of members of the Albanian terrorist groups were observed under the Ljuboten mountain peak, which is near Vratnica. Earlier, the armed Albanian terrorist groups had kidnapped about forty youths from Vratnica, which is a war crime. No one was able to go to work or to harvest the wheat crop.
Although peace and normality were restored after the war, sporadic incidents have recurred. On July 12, 2005, the police station in Vratnica was attacked "by unidentified persons" who opened fire with automatic weapons and mortar grenades, causing damage to the station. Macedonian Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski stated that the attack was a "provocation" by a regional extremist group said to be involved with Agim Krasniqi's armed group. In any future attempt to re-create a Greater Albania, Vratnica will remain on the front lines, one of the last areas of Macedonian and Serbian population remaining in northwestern Macedonia, now comprised almost entirely of Albanian settlers.
The history of Vratnica reveals, in microcosm, the complexities and ambiguities of nationalism and ethnic and religious identity in the Balkans. That history shows how identity is developmental and evolutionary. The simplistic, black-and-white model of nationalism, ethnic, religious, and national identity breaks down in the case of Vratnica. The complex nature of who we are, what we are and what we believe in is here fully shown. The Vratnica case shows that there are no easy answers to the complex issues of nationalism, ethnic, religious, and national identity.
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