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New guidance on labour standards and workers rights published
by Neil Franklin • News
The International Bar Association Global Employment Institute and the International Organisation of Employers have published new guidance for firms on International Labour Standards (ILS). The ILS are legal instruments, set by the International Labour Organization (ILO) which protect basic workers rights and address the need for sustainable enterprises to create jobs. They are either conventions, which are legally binding international treaties or recommendations which serve as non-binding guidelines.
Sociopathic corporations, the office as home, self-promotion anxiety and some other stuff
by Mark Eltringham • Features
There is a theory that when companies talk about issues such as corporate social responsibility they are doing so because it helps them to achieve their business goals. This is the coldly rational thing to do according to people like free market guru Milton Friedman who argues that companies should not actively pursue altruistic ends unless that pursuit is ultimately in the interest of their shareholders. As Friedman puts it: 'Hypocrisy is virtuous when it serves the bottom line. Moral virtue is immoral when it does not'.
HR offers the key to enhanced employee financial wellbeing, claims report
by Neil Franklin • HR, News, Wellbeing
With poor financial wellbeing impacting on productivity, a new paper claims that, despite growing interest, there remains a lag in employers taking action in this area – and that Human Resources departments are key to building a business case for support. Published by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES), the paper, Building the business case for employee financial wellbeing, draws on findings from a Money Advice Service-funded study trialling financial wellbeing guidance from IES and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Occupational health services can benefit organisations and booster economy says report
by Sara Bean • Facilities management, News, Wellbeing
It can be proven that a well implemented Occupational Health service can offer a good return on investment, finds a new report. A white paper, produced by the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM), the International SOS Foundation and KU Leuven University, "Occupational Health: the Global Value and Evidence", discusses the value of OH from a global perspective and provides a synthesis of global evidence on the effectiveness of OH interventions and cost effectiveness. With fatal and non-fatal work-related injuries and illnesses worldwide equating to a cost of approximately €2680 billion, equivalent to 4 percent of the global GDP or the entire GDP of Great Britain organisations, their workforce, and society have to bear a substantial cost. The paper demonstrates that Occupational Health services bring value by improving the health of the working population; contributing to the prevention of work-related illnesses; preventing avoidable sickness absence through the provision of early interventions for those who develop a health condition; and increasing the efficiency and productivity of organisations. They can also play a major part in protecting and revitalising the global economy.
Limited budgets greatest challenge to wellness programmes at work 0
by Sara Bean • HR, News, Wellbeing
Sixty-five per cent of respondents in a new survey across Europe, the Middle East and Africa claim that stress and mental health are the health and wellness issues they are most concerned about. Fifty-three per cent say that employees' physical health is the biggest issue, while unhealthy lifestyles are judged to be the biggest issue by 49 percent. However, according to the study from Aon, only 32 percent of employers have emotional or psychological health programmes in place and 69 percent say limited budgets are their biggest challenge. While 93 percent of employers see a correlation between health and employee performance, just 13 percent of respondents measure outcomes of health strategies. The findings pinpoint areas for improvement and make recommendations to increase health benefits take-up, improve measurement on the impact of health initiatives and to maximise the return on investment that firms make in employee health.
New guidance helps businesses engage staff in a sustainability strategy
by Sara Bean • Environment, Facilities management, HR, News
While any far-seeing organisation might develop environmental and corporate social responsibility initiatives, it is important to ensure employees are fully informed and committed to their employers' aims. The Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) argues that while the leadership may set expectations, it is employees and managers who make it happen. To aid this process, a new toolkit, the GEMI Quick Guide for Engaging Employees in Sustainability: has been designed to advise corporations on how to successfully engage and motivate employees to participate in their sustainability strategies. The guide explores potential ways of fostering employee connections to sustainability, implementing an engagement strategy, and understanding the role of corporate culture within it.
The solution to complex issues like green building is to become more sophisticated
by Paul Goodchild • Comment, Environment, Facilities management, Workplace design
One of the current preoccupations of the World Green Building Council is to demonstrate how green business is good business. The way it is presenting this argument is intriguing because as well as extolling the most anticipated benefits of green building design, such as lower energy bills, it is linking green building design with human factors such as productivity, wellness and work-life balance. It has produced a number of reports on this subject, most recently in September with a publication titled Health, Wellbeing and Productivity in Offices which found 'overwhelming evidence' of the link between office design and productivity. What such compelling reports also highlight are the complex challenges we face and the sophisticated approach we must take to environmental issues and corporate social responsibility. Fortunately this is already exhibited by many organisations.
Yet another report into the Future of Work that is really about the present
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Flexible working, Technology, Workplace design
Just a few days ago, a survey from Morgan Lovell and the British Council for Offices highlighted the value British workers placed on having somewhere to work, regardless of its drawbacks, privations and distractions. Now a new report from consultants PwC seems to draw the opposite conclusion. Heralded by predictably tedious headlines declaring the office to be dead or dying, The Future of Work: A Journey to 2022 claims that a quarter of the 10,000 people surveyed believe the traditional job will disappear and around a fifth claim to have already had enough of the 9 to 5 in a fixed physical space and would prefer to work in a 'virtual place' – which seems to mean anywhere with WiFi. As ever, any report addressing 'The Future of Work' is primarily and perhaps unwittingly about the present.
Bosses most likely to lie at work, while still promoting an ethical culture
by Sara Bean • HR, News
Business has been fighting a PR battle in recent years to convince us that ethics and corporate social responsibility is of equal importance to the bottom line. However, when it comes to individual behaviour it seems that managers are far from practising what their employers' preach. Bosses are much more likely than other staff to ditch ethics to get ahead in their career (29.4% compared to 13.3%), yet at the same time are more likely than other staff to think it is important to be seen as ethical at work (66.4% compared to 54.0%). According to the research from CMI (Chartered Management Institute) 35.4 per cent of managers bend the truth once a day or more, compared to 25.3 per cent of other workers. More →
Google is Generation Y's choice as world's most attractive employer
Cool offices, generous employee perks and of course being a successful global tech firm may seem the obvious reasons why Google is perceived as the world's most attractive employer by Generation Y, according to a global poll. However, employer branding company Universum Global's annual list of the 50 companies business and engineering students would choose as the best to work for, finds the most common characteristics young workers consider most important in a potential employer are pretty much the same applicants of all ages would cite. These are; market success, professional training and development opportunities, supportive leaders and job security. So maybe Millennials aren't so easily swayed by nap pods after all. More →
Report: How will the future affect us or can we effect the future?
by Sara Bean • Furniture, Knowledge, News
Workplace furniture specialist Kinnarps has published its Trend Report 2013, which is the culmination of detailed research across European markets and thought leaders, conducted in partnership with Stockholm based futurologists Kairos Future. The study distilled a broad overview of emerging and established trends, across Kinnarps' European markets, to focus on eight key themes that will influence the workplace of the future. According to the report, big changes are already apparent in our society, but these will come to have an altogether greater impact on the way we evaluate our working environment. More →
FMs must overcome engagement barriers to sustainability implementation
by Sara Bean • Environment, Facilities management, News
There is overwhelming support for sustainability to be embedded into business operations, but still some challenges in its successful delivery, according to the 7th annual Sustainability in Facilities Management survey from the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM). Of the top five barriers to implementation success, three related to engagement; engagement overall, amongst senior management and middle management. The report also found that many FMs are not targeting the areas of highest priority relating to behaviours or processes which have the highest impact, but tend to focus on technologies. More →


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Q: SSIS Job run in loop I have an SSIS job which pulls data from one database and pushes into another. Currently the actions are triggered when a record is inserted into a table.
My understanding is using a SQL Server trigger to launch an SSIS Job is not advised. Suggesting to me the preferred route for this use case is to use a recurring schedule.
If I schedule every 10 seconds, will the ETL job launch again if the previous run has not finished? (Is there a better word to describe this behavior in the computing spacing?) If the job relaunches, is there a preferred way to accomplish this behavior?

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If I schedule every 10 seconds, will the ETL job launch again if the previous run has  not finished?

No.  The next run time is computed once the job finishes, based on the "Starting at" and the next interval that meets the cycle interval.
While it is running the "Start Job at Step" option on the SQL Server Management Studio interface will be grayed out.
If you try to kick off the job again forcefully using sp_start_job, you'll get a error message saying it's already running.

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Q: How can Excel VBA range variables be tested for references to entire columns..? What ways are there to test an Excel VBA range variable for references to entire columns?
I'm using Excel 2007 VBA, iterating through Range variables with For-Each loops. The ranges are passed into the function as parameters. References to individual cells, ranges of cells, and entire rows are fine.
For instance, these are okiedokie:
Range("A1")     'One cell
Range("A1:D4")  'Range of cells.
Range("10:20")  'Entire rows 10 through 20.

But if any of the ranges have references to entire columns, it will drag the function down to a screeching halt. For instance, these are not okiedokie, and they need to be tested for and avoided:
Range("A:A")
Range("A:Z")
Range("AA:ZZ")

There are a few ways I've throught of to do this, each of them plausible but with weaknesses. The code contains loops which are used for searching through cells in worksheets with many thousands of rows, so speed is critical.
Here are three ways I can think of, but I'd like to know if there are others..?

*

*The simplest & fastest method is to count the rows. If Range(x).Rows.Count=1048576, that's the maximum number of rows in a worksheet. However, this wouldn't work if the actual number of rows turned out to be exactly that number, or if by some wild chance there were multiple overlapping areas/ranges
that all added up to that number. Both unlikely, but possible. Also, if the version of Excel changes, so might that number, thus rendering the code broken.

*Use a RegEx match against the text of Range.Address(False,False) with a pattern such as ([A-Z]{1,3}):([A-Z]{1,3}). I think this would be a medium on the speed scale.

*Use VBA loops, If-Then, and string functions such as InStr() and Mid() to pick at the text of Range.Address(False,False). I think this would be the slowest possible way to do it.

A: You could test if the range is a reference to a column by checking the Range.Address against the Range.EntireColumn.Address  like this:
If Range("AA:ZZ").Address = Range("AA:ZZ").EntireColumn.Address Then
    'This returns True
End If

If Range("AA1:ZZ4").Address = Range("AA1:ZZ4").EntireColumn.Address Then
    'This returns False
End If

A: Not sure I understand the question completely but this might work for you:
Public Sub Test()
    Debug.Print RowCheck(ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:A10"))
End Sub

Public Function RowCheck(InputRange As Range)
    Dim u As Long 'used number of rows
    Dim x As Long 'max number of rows for any column
    Dim r As Long 'number of rows based on input range

    With InputRange
        u = Cells(Rows.Count, .Columns(1).Column).End(xlUp).Row
        r = .Rows.Count
        x = Rows.Count
    End With

    If r = x And u < r Then
        RowCheck = "A bad column reference provided"
    Else
        RowCheck = "This is a valid reference"
    End If
End Function

A: Ok, after reading everyone's suggestions, I realized that no matter what I do, any Range objects passed to my function might include either an entire column reference or any combination of overlapping Range references that result in an entire column being selected.
But in translation, that means...all rows in the data, aka the UsedRange. It's possible with a large amount of data the UsedRange may actually hit the last row at 1048576. And any combination of Range references passed to my Function might result in a huge area that does cover an entire column, all the way to the maximum row.
Of course the likelihood of that happening is very low, but I do like to cover all bases in my code. But the key to this puzzle is UsedRange. This creates a "synthetic maximum last row". If the GrandRange, for lack of a better name, covers all rows in the UsedRange, then my function has nothing to do and no data to return. And so a simple IF-Then-Exit should give me the solution I was looking for:
If Intersect(UsedRange,LeGrandeRange).Rows.Count = UsedRange.Rows.Count Then
    'All rows in `UsedRange` are affected.
    'Nothing to do.
    Exit Function
Else
    'Do everything here.
    'Then exit normally.
    ...
    ...
    ...
Endif


Ian, Hockey Jerk, Kevin, and special guest Erik Landi talk about the Sharks who were somewhat busy the last two days locking up Vlasic and Jones to long-term extensions but lost Mr. Shark Patrick Marleau to The Maple Leafs. We talk about how this affects the Sharks and what they should do next knowing that Thornton is back in the fold for an $8 M deal. We also talk about some other signing in this marathon show.


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While an annual pollinator survey of beekeepers, released yesterday, shows fewer U.S. colony losses over the winter of 2013-2014 than in recent years, beekeepers say losses remain higher than a sustainable level. According to the survey, conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Maryland Bee Informed Partnership, the total loss (death) of managed honey bee colonies from all causes was 23.2 percent nationwide, well above the 18.9 percent level of loss that beekeepers accept as economically sustainable. Nevertheless, the losses were an improvement over the national 30.5 percent loss, and the California 28.6 percent loss, both for the winter of 2012-2013, and over the eight-year average loss of 29.6 percent.
More than three-fourths of the world's flowering plants rely on pollinators, such as bees, to reproduce, meaning pollinators help produce one out of every three bites of food Americans eat.
"Honeybees pollinate more than 130 California crops, including almonds, California's largest agricultural export. More than 780,000 acres of almonds grow in California, and for pollination, they need an estimated 1.6 million hives, more than 60 percent of the nation's total," according to Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee.
There is no way to tell why the bees did better this year, according to both Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a University of Maryland assistant professor and director of the Bee Informed Partnership, and Jeff Pettis, research leader of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Bee Research Laboratory.
Although the pollinator survey shows improvement, losses remain above the level that beekeepers consider to be economically sustainable. This year, almost two-thirds of the beekeepers responding reported losses greater than the 18.9 percent threshold.
"Yearly fluctuations in the rate of losses like these only demonstrate how complicated the whole issue of honey bee heath has become, with factors such as viruses and other pathogens, parasites like varroa mites, problems of nutrition from lack of diversity in pollen sources, and even sublethal effects of pesticides combining to weaken and kill bee colonies," said Jeff Pettis.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) also announced a summit in Washington D.C. on October 20-21, 2014 aimed at addressing the nutrition and forage needs of pollinators. Attendees will discuss the most recent research related to pollinator loss and work to identify solutions.
Additionally, in March of 2014, Secretary Vilsack created a Pollinator Working Group, under the leadership of Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden, to better coordinate efforts, leverage resources, and increase focus on pollinator issues across USDA agencies.
USDA personnel from ten Department agencies (Agricultural Research Service, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Farm Services Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Economic Research Service, Forest Service, Agricultural Marketing Service, Risk Management Agency and Rural Development) meet regularly to coordinate and evaluate efforts as USDA strives toward improving pollinator health and ensuring our pollinators continuing contributions to our nation's environment and food security.


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The Real Animals Behind Finding Dory
Kami Wong and Rachel Lassalle|April 29, 2016
Photo Courtesy of www.slashfilm.com
New characters are being introduced in the sequel to the original film Finding Nemo which premieres on June 17, 2016. Finding Dory, the sequel, is based on one of the characters from the first movie, a Pacific-blue tang fish named Dory, trying to find her family.
Of course, characters from the original movie, such as the two clownfish Marlin and Nemo, will once again be mentioned in this sequel. Some other creatures featured in the movie are sea otter pups, Hank, a cantankerous, seven-legged octopus, Bailey, a beluga whale, Crush, a green sea turtle from the original film, Becky, a common loon, Destiny, a whale shark, Fluke and Rudder, sea lions, and Mr. Ray, a spotted eagle mantaray.
In the real world, these characters may not talk, but they all have many intriguing characteristics. Sea otters are popular in Monterey, California and are native on the coasts of the northern and eastern Pacific Ocean. The population of sea otters are slowly decreasing. They are the second smallest marine animal, stated defenders.org and seaotter-sealion.org.
Photo By: mnn.com.
The Seven-Arm Octopus is the second largest species of octopus on Earth, following the Giant Pacific Octopus. The scientific name for the Seven-Armed Octopus is the Haliphron, stated factslegend.org. This octopus can grow up to 13 feet and can weigh 165 pounds, added factslegend.org. This octopus eats a lot of food at one time, and they love to hunt at night.
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Beluga whales are small in size compared to most other whales, and these whales don't have a dorsal fin. Belugas have a five-inch thick layer of blubber, according to defenders.org. Calves are born grey or brown, and when they are mature enough around age five, they become white, reported nationalgeographic.com. Beluga whales live and travel together in small groups or pods, added nationalgeographic.com.
The green sea turtle is the second largest turtle after the leatherback. Green sea turtles can weigh up to 500 pounds, according to seeturtles.org. Unlike other turtle, the green sea turtle is a herbivore and they eat grasses and algae, stated nationalgeographic.com. These turtles are generally found in fairly shallow waters, according to nestonline.org.
Common loons are usually found living around North America and some parts of Greenland, Iceland, and Europe stated nationalgeographic.com. These birds have very unusual cries. These cries vary from tremolos to yodels added nationalgeographic.com. Common loons change colors depending on the season; Summer adults are usually patterned in black and white, and in winter they are grey above and white below, according to allaboutbirds.org. "These loons have bright, striking red eyes," reported americanexpedition.us. Photo By: mnn.com
Whale sharks are the largest living fish on the planet. Whale sharks belong to a group called Chondrichthyes, which includes sharks, rays, and sea skates, according to seethewild.org. Whale sharks live in areas with tropical climates in warm water. Whale sharks swim in deeper waters, so you will most likely not see one by the shore, stated sharks-world.com.
Sea lions are marine animals and they are classified as pinnipeds which means they have winged feet. Sea lions are found in many bodies of water all over the world, except in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. Scientists have not discovered why sea lions don't live there, sealion-world.com reported. There are exactly seven species of sea lions in the world, added sealion-world.com.
The scientific name for the spotted eagle ray is the Aetobatus narinari. The spotted eagle ray, like all rays, has a skeleton of cartilage. The back of this ray has a symmetrical dot pattern ranging in colors from white to yellowish-green, according to sailhawaii.com. spotted eagle rays live in areas in warm seas around the world, reported hawaiisfishes.com.
"Expectations are already high for Finding Dory. After all, Finding Nemo won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Finding Nemo earned a whopping $921 million at the box office, making it the second highest-grossing film of that year and the biggest opening weekend for any animated film's U.S. release (May 30, 2003)," according to news.digitalmediaacademy.org.
Actors in this film that will be voicing the characters include Ellen Degeneres as Dory, Ty Burrell as Bailey, Albert Brooks as Marlin, Diane Keaton as Jenny, Ed O'Neil as Hank, Eugene Levy as Charlie, Kaitlin Olson as Destiny, Vicki Lewis as Flo, and Willem Dafoe as Gill, reported imdb.com.
One Response to "The Real Animals Behind Finding Dory"
Kylie Malone on May 2nd, 2016 3:10 pm
This is a great article. All of the animals are so adorable. Thank you Kami and Rachel for giving this sneak peek on the characters in the movie. Great Job!
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berlin. trump's choice to head the cia, his stand on russia clearly not the same as that of his future president. mike pompeo telling the senate that russia acts aggressively around the world and that it is clear russia interfered in the recent u.s. elections. coming up -- >> vladmir putin is a murderer in the fog. -- and a thug.
>> exclusive interview with john mccain calling for a deeper investigation in russian meddling into u.s. politics. and hopes for uniting cyprus. talks between sides are at a crucial stage. it is good to have you with us. in washington donald trump's pick to run the cia is getting a grilling. despite trumps calls for closer ties to russia, mike pompeo has parted ways with his boss with some hard talk. russia's efforts to interfere with the u.s. election were very real. an aggressive act ordered by top leadership. voicing strong support for the
cia saying he had seen staff walk through fire. it is clearly in contrast to what donald trump has been saying. he lashed out at u.s. intelligence agencies accusing them of leaking the story about russia having compromising information. >> two days after dimming revelations of questionable origin were published tensions between trump and u.s. intelligence agencies reached a new level. u.s. director of national intelligence said he told trump the lake had not come within the intelligence community. trump blame them for the inflammatory dossier. the people suggest trump and russia had closer ties than previously thought. >> the title is allowed.
the content of the report is poor. not to mention it is weird. we have seen loads of strange documents but in this case it is very poor. i think most already realize the document, the main purpose of which was clearly to hinder improvements in russian u.s. relations has no serious basis. it has no evidence to back it up. it is written in the usual tone and makes claims without any basis. claims based on demands. >> a former british intelligence officer has been named as the author of the dossier link to the consultancy agency orbis business intelligence which has refused to confirm whether it was involved. >> not going to make it, about the dossier that is being spoken about.
>> christopher steel has gone into hiding. >> in other news, donald trump and his team are not the only figures in u.s. politics. in an exclusive interview senior republicans senator john mccain told dw he has grave concerns about how trump will deal with putin. >> the president-elect had this conference after the elections and he for the first time it made it that the russians had been behind the recent election hacks. what do you think his response might be? >> i was very pleased to hear him acknowledge that the
russians were primarily behind the serious attacks on the election. he did point out correctly there are other nations who had engaged in it. i'm glad that he admitted or stated that the russians had been responsible for thettks erning ect ere doubt about it. hys that the fact that he is not a liability under trumps leadership, putin will treat this country much better. >> i believe that vladimir putin he is a product of the kgb.
and they believed they could have a new relationship with vladmir putin that praised him for george w. bush. i looked into his eyes and saw his soul and with the obama campaign the reset button, the obama presidency. what we have to understand is what vladimir putin is. we have to go back to the days of ronald reagan. peace through strength. the onlyunderstands is strength. the price is higher than what he might gain from it. we have watched him dismantle the ukraine, take crimea, use his airplanes to drop precision
weapons on hospitals and aleppo, the list goes on. he is doing that with a country that is very weak economically and so we need to have a return to peace through strength. we will be glad to talk to vladimir putin but only from a position of strength. >> does mr. trump understand this? >> i don't know. >> what is your overall impression? there was a conflict between esther trump and cnn? he accuse them of fake news and things like that. what is your overall impression besides these particular remarks about russia and election hacks? >> i will be as brief as possible.
president-elect trump has changed the way politics are conducted in the united states. with the use of twitter, with -- this was the first press conference in five months he has held. that is unheard of. he is able to energize his base of support. at the same time his approval ratings are lower than any president in modern times as he assumes the office of the presidency. so we are seeing an unusual time in american politics and a very polarized america. i would like to see him reach out. for me to criticize what he has done obviously, he has succeeded and in politics the ultimate result is what counts.
>> dallas u.s. senator john mccain speaking with us earlier. -- that was u.s. senator john mccain speaking with us earlier. i want to bring in my guest, he was a member of the external advisory board at the cia. mr. o'hanlon thank you for taking the time to talk with us. i want to ask about what you think is happening right now between the future president and the cia. come inauguration day after what happened yesterday will be future president see the cia as his ally or as his enemy? >> i don't know. i am getting worried it is going to be tougher road to recovery that i would have previously expected. this recent set of events is
especially foreboding. if you have the kind of attitude he does, you would feel that these initial reports of russian hacking were an attempt to take away the legitimacy of your electoral victory. trump should not have reacted that way but it was entirely predictable that he would partly because the message that came out of the intelligence was what was not clearly stated. it seemed like the people on capitol hill releasing the reports about the hacking of the disinformation campaign seem to be conflating that action with a question about the legitimacy of trump's when -- win. trump was told the russians
tried to blackmail you and this is the reason they might. it is horrible behavior on your part, it is basically buying prostitutes in moscow, and we are letting you know in advance. intelligence community did not leak that. >> isn't that unprecedented? >> the whole thing is unprecedented and it is crazy. if you are donald trump you're going to be suspicious this people are out to get you. my guess is someone on capitol hill leaked the information. you have to ask why the cia briefs so many people? even though i am an admirer of the cia and critic of donald trump i can feel his pain and i think that we have to stop making this problem worse. we have to allow for a trust to emerge. that is off to an extremely bad
start. >> even if you see both sides in this, bringing it into the public realm the way mr. trump has done it is only going to exacerbate the problem and now you have leaders worried about not only the stability of the next administration but the integrity of u.s. intelligence moving forward. how are you going to maintain credibility when the next president is tweeting that he thinks your agents are thugs? >> i'm a big critic of donald trump but in fairness what you said is not correct. he has not the person who went public with either of these bombshells. the bombshell about the hacking and disinformation was the obama administration given reports to capitol hill which came out through capitol hill offices to the media. this week it was not trump was saying allegations he had hired
prostitutes. it was some kind of a leak somewhere else. trump suspects it was the intelligence communities. >> that is what i am saying. he lashed out at the intelligence community and why go public and so public and so vehement about that when you're not sure? >> you are missing the point. i'm not defending trump. trump was responding to something that was already in the public domain when he gave the press conference. the initial release of information was the intelligence community briefing president obama and enough people on capitol hill that my suspicion is something from capitol hill leaked to the media. all of us need before the press conference. at that point he was responding to these allegations that his
character might be impugned and he might be blackmailed. everybody had already heard the basis by that point. i think trump is a nasty guy, don't get me wrong. on this issue he has not fired the first shot either time. >> michael o'hanlon with the brookings institute. please come back again. i have a feeling we will have reason to talk many times in the future. >> thank you. goodbye. >> tonight rumors about mr. trump and what you might be up to. marie le pen has responded. she was not there to see the president-elect. one witness posted this photo of her sitting at a cafe. she refused to comment as she entered an elevator in the building. she is seen as a contender to win the french presidency later
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along with the ministers of britain, greece and turkey, negotiators are discussing security issues pivotal to a unity deal. the two sides still have a way to go but he says progress is being made. the island has been split since 1974. let's go to our correspondent on the story for us in geneva. good evening to you. the talks are going on. they are behind closed doors. what do we know? >> not that much other than the greek foreign minister through his diplomatic hissy fit. through a -- threw a diplomatic hissy fit. he didn't see things moving ahead in that they had a later
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Maki Tsukada (jap.  Tsukada Maki; * 5. Januar 1982 in Shimotsuma) ist eine ehemalige japanische Judoka. Sie gewann je eine Olympische Gold- und Silbermedaille, 2007 war sie Weltmeisterin.

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Die 1,70 m große Maki Tsukada war von 2002 bis 2010 neunmal japanische Meisterin in der offenen Klasse und sechsmal Meisterin im Schwergewicht.

Tsukada gewann 2000 den Schwergewichtstitel bei den Junioren-Weltmeisterschaften. 2001 erreichte sie das Finale der Universiade in Peking im Schwergewicht, dort unterlag sie der Chinesin Yuan Hua. 2002 gehörte Tsukada zum siegreichen japanischen Team bei den Mannschaftsweltmeisterschaften. Bei den Asienspielen in Busan erreichte sie das Finale in der offenen Klasse und unterlag dort der Chinesin Tong Wen. 2003 fanden die Weltmeisterschaften in Osaka statt. Tsukada bezwang im Halbfinale des Schwergewichts die Kubanerin Daima Beltrán, im Finale unterlag sie der Chinesin Sun Fuming.

Ein Jahr später gewann Tsukada bei den Olympischen Spielen 2004 in Athen alle Kämpfe vorzeitig durch Ippon. Nach der Australierin Jessica Malone und der Ukrainerin Marina Prokofieva besiegte sie im Halbfinale die Russin Tea Dongusaschwili, dieser Kampf dauerte mit 4:35 Minuten am längsten. Das Finale gegen die Kubanerin Daima Beltrán dauerte 1:50 Minuten.

Bei den Weltmeisterschaften 2005 in Kairo unterlag Tsukada im Halbfinale der Chinesin Tong Wen, den Kampf um die Bronzemedaille gewann die Japanerin gegen Tea Dongusaschwili. 2006 gewann das japanische Team die Bronzemedaille bei den Mannschaftsweltmeisterschaften. 2007 erreichte Maki Tsukada bei den Weltmeisterschaften in Rio de Janeiro das Schwergewichtsfinale durch einen Sieg über die Britin Karina Bryant, verlor dann aber im Finale gegen Tong Wen. In der offenen Klasse besiegte sie im Halbfinale die Russin Jelena Iwaschtschenko, im Finale gewann sie gegen die Slowenin Lucija Polavder den Weltmeistertitel.

Bei den Olympischen Spielen 2008 in Peking besiegte Tsukada im Achtelfinale die Französin Anne-Sophie Mondière, im Viertelfinale die Mexikanerin Vanessa Zambotti und im Halbfinale Lucija Polavder. Von ihren sieben Kämpfen bei zwei Olympischen Spielen hatte Maki Tsukada bis dahin alle vorzeitig gewonnen. Im Finale unterlag sie Tong Wen nach 4:52 Minuten und erhielt die Silbermedaille.

2009 gewann Tong Wen schon im Viertelfinale der Weltmeisterschaften in Rotterdam gegen Tsukada, die mit Siegen in der Hoffnungsrunde über die Ukrainerin Marina Prokofieva und die Deutsche Franziska Konitz eine Bronzemedaille erkämpfte. Bei den Weltmeisterschaften 2010 in Tokio war Tong Wen gesperrt. Maki Tsukada unterlag im Halbfinale gegen die Chinesin Qin Qian, im Kampf um die Bronzemedaille siegte sie gegen die Chinesin Liu Huanyuan. Mit der Bronzemedaille bei den Heimweltmeisterschaften, ihrer sechsten Weltmeisterschaftsmedaille insgesamt, endete Tsukadas internationale Karriere.

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Oneidas
by Angela Washburn Heisey and Richard C. Hanes
The name Oneida (oh-NI-duh), or Onyotaa:ka, as they call themselves, means "people of the stone set up." The Oneida language belongs to the Iroquoian language family, which also includes the Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca tongues. The tribes formed a confederacy centuries ago known as the Five Nations, or Ho'da'sho'ne, "People of the Long House." Each group lived in a distinct territory, with the Mohawk residing east of the Oneidas and the other three residing to the west. The confederacy became The Six Nations when the Oneidas granted shelter and later admission into the League of the linguistically and culturally related Tuscaroras. The Tuscaroras were fleeing north from war in the Carolinas in 1722. The Oneidas were once a strong and flourishing traditional native society living in what is now in modern-day central New York State, and their territory stretched from the St. Lawrence River in the north southward to the border of what is now Pennsylvania. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Oneidas suffered significant population losses from smallpox epidemics and warfare over fur trade territories. In 1677, the Oneida population was estimated at only about 1,000. The population has rebounded to more than 11,300 Oneidas in the 1990s. Many reside in the United States, living on Oneida reservations in Wisconsin and New York, and while another 600 live in Ontario, Canada.
European contact with the Oneida people, who traditionally lived in a single principal village, occurred early in the seventeenth century, possibly as early as 1616. The Oneidas became fur traders to obtain European goods, which led to the abandonment and loss of many of their old skills. Jack Campisi in the Handbook of North American Indians reported that by 1640 two trade networks competed, one made up of the Algonquin, Huron, and French, and the other consisting of the Oneidas, Dutch, and English. These two trade networks warred up until the beginning of the eighteenth century.
During the American Revolutionary War, the Oneidas fought with the Continental army against the British and supplied George Washington's starving army with hundreds of bushels of corn during the winter of 1777–1778 at Valley Forge. Their alliance with the Americans did not bode well for their relationships with other Iroquois tribes who were sympathetic to the British. For that reason, many Iroquois moved to Canada following the war. However, in payment for their assistance, the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784 offered the Oneidas a guarantee of their claim to their traditional lands. The treaty between the U.S. Continental Congress and the Oneida Nation provided that the Oneidas "shall be secure in the possession of the lands on which they are settled." This guarantee was again stated in the 1789 Treaty of Fort Harmar. However, between these two treaties, the state of New York forced tribal land cessions via the 1785 Treaty at Fort Herkimer and 1788 Treaty of Fort Schuyler. Through these two treaties, the Oneidas lost most of their ancestral lands, reducing the Oneida territory from the more than six million original acres to about 300,000 acres. In 1790, the U.S. Congress passed the Indian Trade and Non-Intercourse Act, forbidding purchases of Indian land without prior federal consent. In 1794, the Treaty of Canandaigua and the Veterans' Treaty were signed to protect the then-present boundaries of the occupied Oneida lands. Nevertheless, the state of New York continued to ignore federal efforts to protect the Indian lands. State and local governments imposed a total of 26 treaties (all later ruled illegal) and the Oneida territory was further reduced to only a few hundred acres.
In 1822, Chief Shenandoah of the Oneidas purchased rights from the Menominee in the Wisconsin Territory to settle on their lands. Between 1823 and 1838, close to 700 Oneidas relocated to a four-million-acre tract in Wisconsin, which President James Monroe soon reduced to half a million acres. Then, in 1838, according to Jack Campisi, the Treaty of Buffalo Creek directed the removal of all Iroquois from New York State while the Wisconsin land base was further decreasing to only 65,000 acres near Green Bay. In reaction, more than two hundred Oneidas sold their New York land in 1839 and jointly purchased 5,200 acres near London, Ontario. During the early 1840s, more than 400 Oneidas moved north into Ontario, reuniting with members of the Iroquois League who earlier had fled their traditional New York lands. Only about 200 Oneidas were left in New York. Some settled around the town of Oneida, while many moved onto the Onondaga reservation near Syracuse.
Throughout much of the twentieth century, the Oneidas of New York and Wisconsin lobbied the federal government and fought legal battles to regain land lost in previous centuries and to prevent further loss of land through land allotment and assimilationist policies. A significant blow to long-term tribal prosperity in Wisconsin was the allotment of reservation lands under authority of the General Allotment Act of 1887. By 1908, the entire reservation had been divided up among individual tribal members. Those over 18 years of age received 40 acres of land each; those under 18, 26 acres. Often the parcels of individual tribal families were not adjoining, further hampering farming efforts. Because the new tax burdens were too heavy, by the mid-1920s, most lands had passed out of tribal ownership through foreclosures, and only a few hundred acres remained. The tribal government ceased operation, and many Oneidas moved to urban areas for wage employment in factories. The federal government repurchased some of the lost lands after the tribe formed a new government in the 1930s. By the 1970s, the Wisconsin Oneidas owned 2,200 acres in scattered panels, interspersed with non-Indian ownership.
Following World War II, the United States adopted an Indian "termination," or assimilationist, policy. Proponents of the policy rationalized this scheme of taking tribal lands and eliminating government services as a way to forcibly assimilate Oneidas into mainstream American society. Despite prior internal political divisions, the Oneidas of Wisconsin united in the effort to resist the federal government's attempts to sell off what tribal lands they still held. Wisconsin Oneida leaders such as Dennison Hill, Irene Moore, Charles A. Hill, Mamie Smith, Oscar Archiquette, and Morris Wheelock united to battle against termination legislation of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The Oneidas also struggled to preserve the terms of the 1794 Canandaigua Treaty, which called for a government annuity to the Oneidas. The U.S. government attempted to pay it off in a lump sum. By 1956, government pressures began to lessen, and the threat passed. Two buildings in Oneida, Wisconsin, are named for two of the key figures of this period in Oneida land claims history: Irene Moore and Oscar Archiquette.
In 1974, and again in 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 1790 Non-Intercourse Act negated the earlier treaties between the Oneidas and New York state. The 1985 decision known as County of Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation ruled that the 270,000 acres of Oneida lands that were transferred more than 175 years earlier had violated the Indian Non-Intercourse Act. In a landmark decision in American Indian law, the court's opinion found no applicable statute of limitations and no legal basis to deny the Oneidas' land claim. The Court had found that the Oneidas held a right to a large amount of land in central New York State in Oneida and Madison Counties. The case established an important legal precedent that potentially applies to all pending and future eastern Indian land claims.
Taking their case before the federal courts brought together the three separate groups of Oneidas. Beginning in 1987, the Oneidas and the state of New York attempted to negotiate a settlement following the Court decision, but with no success. Finally, in 1998, the Oneida Indian Nation, the Oneida tribe of Wisconsin, and the Oneida band of the Thames of Ontario filed a lawsuit against the state in an effort to end the case. To assert their right to repossess the lands illegally taken two centuries before, the suit named the thousands of landowners in the contested region as defendants. The U.S. government joined the suit on behalf of the tribes in late 1998. With the case still pending at the end of the twentieth century, the Oneidas in New York continued a policy of reacquiring lands as they became available on the open market. Their initial purchase was 42 acres of land near the city of Oneida.
SETTLEMENT PATTERNS
The Oneidas today comprise three separately recognized groups, the Oneida Indian Nation of New York, the Oneida tribe of Wisconsin, and the Oneida Band of the Thames of Ontario, Canada. Each of the three groups has its own government independent of the others. By 1990 approximately 700 Oneidas lived on the 32-acre reservation in central New York, with a total tribal enrollment in the Oneida Nation of New York of 1,543. In Wisconsin more than 4,800 Oneidas lived on a 2,200-acre reservation, and overall tribal enrollment in the Oneida tribe of Wisconsin was more than 10,000. The Ontario branch had approximately 4,000 members. The settlement pattern of the Oneidas in Wisconsin was largely based on religion. In eight small communities, the Anglicans settled on the northern portion of the reserve and Methodists to the south.
Acculturation and Assimilation
TRADITIONS, CUSTOMS, AND BELIEFS
Through all of their moves and changes in economy, the Oneida were able to preserve certain traditions while others faded from use. The Iroquois traditionally lived in longhouses, impressively striking in appearance. According to William M. Fenton, a longhouse typically held from six to ten nuclear families, each of about five or six persons, and two families shared every fire. The size of the longhouses depended on the number of families they sheltered, but each was about 25 feet wide, and the average length was about 80 feet. For each fire, a two-apartment section added about 25 feet to the length of the longhouse. These apartment sections had low flat platforms walled off at both ends by a partition and open in the center, where a fire was shared with the opposite apartment. Food and personal items were stored on long shelves above the platforms, dried food and corn were stored in large bark bins between apartments, and firewood was stacked near the end doors.
Today the Oneida Nation of New York manages a housing program designed to eventually provide single-family homes on aboriginal lands for all the members who want them. Since September of 1994, single-family houses have been built ranging from two to four bedrooms, in addition to duplexes for tribal elders at the Village of the White Pines.
The Oneidas are a matrilineal society, and clan membership follows the mother's family line; however, the Wisconsin Oneida also trace patrilineal descent. Three clans compose Oneida society: the Turtle Clan, the Wolf Clan, and the Bear Clan. The Turtle teaches patience and endurance and represents strength and solidarity; he is old, wise, and well-respected. The Wolf demonstrates keen observation skills in listening and watching and illustrates strong sense of family. The Bear exemplifies gentleness and strength, displaying discipline and control. The Oneida culture also views the eagle as a protector, possessing great vision to watch over all the nations and warn them of danger. The Tree of Peace, a great white pine, is believed by the Iroquois to have been planted by the Peacemaker, who originally inspired the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy centuries before. The roots of this great tree spread out in all four directions, and all the weapons of the Iroquois nations were buried there to create an everlasting peace.
The gift of a wampum belt traditionally accompanied a message of truth, importance, and great significance. A wampum of dark color signaled a serious purpose, sadness, or perhaps great political importance. The Two Row Wampum symbolizes the agreement and conditions under which the Iroquois welcomed the Europeans to this land. Its message: "You say that you are our Father and I am your son. We say, We will not be like father and son, but like Brothers. This wampum belt confirms our words. These two rows will symbolize two paths or two vessels, traveling down the same river side by side. One, a birch bark canoe, for the Indian People, their laws, their customs and their ways. We shall each travel the river together, side by side, but each foot in our own boat. Neither of us will make compulsory laws or interfere in the internal affairs of the other. Neither of us will try to steer the other's vessel."
In 1975, Northeast Wisconsin In-school Telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay produced Forest Spirits, a series of seven half-hour programs concerning various aspects of Oneida and Menominee cultural heritage.
TRADITIONAL FOODS
The interplanting of corn, pole beans, and squash, referred to as the "Three Sisters," was a key characteristic of Oneida and other Iroquois horticultural practices. The pole beans grew up the corn stalks, providing cover for the squash. Bacteria colonies on the bean roots capture nitrogen for the special needs of the corn. The Three Sisters were central to the spiritual well-being of the Oneidas, protected by Three Sister spirits. Considered special gifts, the three were grown and eaten together, and celebrated together in thanksgiving traditions. The Oneidas also grew some of their own tobacco for ceremonial smoking.
Percussion instruments were predominant in traditional music, which involved narrow melodic lines. Traditional musical instruments included rattles, which were prominent in ceremonies. Some were made from snapping turtles or hickory bark used for the Feather Dance. More commonly, cowhorn rattles with wooden handles and water drums were used. Rasps were another commonly used traditional instrument in dances.
TRADITIONAL DRESS
Buckskin clothing, simple in design, was the traditional dress. Women wore a skirt and jacket, men a loincloth with leggings and shirts for cooler weather. Both wore moccasins, sometimes made from corn-husks. Clothing was at times decorated with paint or porcupine-quill embroidery. By the eighteenth century, many Iroquois had adapted European fabrics to their dress. The most common traditional dress of the Iroquois was the women's ribbon dress. Shorter ribbon shirts were worn by men, which were stitched out of printed fabrics and decorated with ribbons, across the upper chest and back, hanging loosely down the front. The Oneida ribbon shirt has become a Pan-Indian garment, worn particularly at pow-wows and other gatherings.
The kostoweh is the traditional Iroquois headdress. Made from an ash splint frame, it is decorated with turkey feathers. Deer horns are mounted on top of a kostoweh worn by a leader.
The Oneidas also did a lot of beadwork. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Oneida women earned a good income by selling beadwork to non-natives at tourist centers. They began to make floral designs with their glass beads and applied these new shapes to many useful things, including pincushions, handbags, sewing cases, and clothing. Oneidas traditionally consider bead working a special gift to share and use often. Bead working, it is believed, came from the Creator to teach patience and humility.
DANCES AND SONGS
It was believed that ceremonial singing or dancing increased an individual's power. Medicine societies related to healing are prominent in the culture. Traditional dances include the Fish Dance, Women's Dance, and various stomp dances. A Personal Chant form of song, used more recently for thanksgiving, is reminiscent of warrior death songs of the past. The Condolence ceremony, for installing new leaders or for mourning, is also maintained. The Wisconsin Oneida hold the Oneida Powwow annually in July.
Jack Campisi reported two Oneida medicine societies, the False Face and Little Water. To become part of one of these societies an individual either had to be cured one of the societies or had to have dreamed of becoming a part of it. Dreaming was a large part of healing for the Oneidas; an ability to dream and know the future commanded respect. Dreamers were often asked and consulted on different cures for specific ailments. Some belief also existed in different types of witchcraft and magic potions for healing. The Wisconsin Oneida are now served by the Oneida Community Health Center. With revenues from Turning Stone Casino Resort, the New York Oneidas have established a Health Services Department, which treats all Native Americans from a six-county region in central New York State. A wide range of services and preventive care programs are offered.
According to the Summer Institute of Linguistics, a linguistics forum of Wycliff Translators, in 1977, only 250 speakers of Oneidas remained out of a total population of 7,000. The native speakers included members of all three branches, the Oneidas of central New York, eastern Wisconsin, and Ontario. An Iroquoian language, Oneida is most closely related to Mohawk.
The Oneida people consider their language as one of their most precious traditions. Language programs among Oneida communities foster the passing of the language to young people by older members. The Oneidas have produced audio tapes, CD-ROMs, and booklets to teach the traditional language. The dream of many Oneidas is that one day most members will be able to speak the language fluently.
GREETINGS AND COMMON TERMS
Common Oneida and Iroquoian expressions include: i-kê — I am walking; ikkehe— I see it; onyohsa — squash; oga-oh —it tastes good; kalo-ya — sky or heaven; ganoonyok —thanksgiving speech; onéo— corn; o'gyo-dyo-h— It is snowing; agatho-de— I hear it; and, o-ge-k— I ate it.
Family and Community Dynamics
Like many Native American groups in the late twentieth century, the Oneidas use educational programs as a primary means of maintaining or restoring traditional tribal customs. Gaming revenues in Wisconsin and New York provide substantial funding to support educational initiatives. In the late 1990s, the New York Oneidas established the goal for lifelong learning as a key to continued economic prosperity. Beginning with the Early Learning Center for young children, programs are available for tribal members throughout their lives, including educational programs as part of elders' services. Oneida culture and language are key aspects of the education offered, particularly for the youth programs. The Oneida Education Department sponsors programs for students and adults, including college and career counseling. In a unique partnership with the State University of New York at Morrisville, a degree program in casino management is offered to train future leaders of the Oneida resort. The old tribal bingo hall, replaced by Turning Stone Casino Resort, has been converted into an Educational Resource Center, housing a tribal library, language facility, career resource center, and an adult learning center. In Wisconsin, the Oneida Tribal School (for kindergarten through eighth grade), located in the town of Oneida, is operated under direction of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
"T here is a matriarchal tradition at Oneida. Women are prominent. One of our first tribal chairpersons in the 1940s was a woman..." Roberta Hill Whiteman, (from an interview on July 29, 1991).
THE ROLE OF WOMEN
Oneida women primarily planted and gathered various plant species, while men cleared forests, constructed houses, hunted, or fought. The women gathered strawberries, huckleberries, blackberries, raspberries, greens, hickory nuts, walnuts, beechnuts, chestnuts, acorns, roots, skunk cabbage, poke, milkweed, and other edibles. Many berries were dried and packed for winter, and several of the nuts were used for their oils as well as for food. Women also gathered firewood and prepared skins and made clothing. A thin cornmeal soup was frequently made, to which pieces of meat, fish, or other foods could be added.
The Condolence ceremony for mourning is an important event in Iroquois society and is influenced by the Hurons' Feast of the Dead. At its height, the Feast of the Dead was held once a decade and involved a ten-day feast. Traditionally, the dead were removed from individual graves and reburied at a common location. Much of the time was spent preparing the corpses for their final placement. Presents brought by friends of the dead were redistributed among those in attendance. Taboos forbade the use of the deceased's name too soon for naming new family members. The modern Feast of the Dead is much less complex.
The Condolence ceremony focuses on deceased leaders and raising up their successors. The ceremony is still practiced where hereditary leaders still persist, such as the Oneidas of the Thames. In the late twentieth century, the ceremony lasts from early afternoon into the evening. A set of rites is performed, including the Condoling Song, which consisted of a hymn of farewell composed of six or more verses. The song is often followed by the Requickening Address, symbolic for restoring life. Most of the ceremony is conducted in a longhouse.
INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER TRIBES
The Oneidas are members of the Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the League of the Haudenosaunee, or Six Nations. The other nations include the Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. The confederacy acts through a combined legislative body, the Grand Council. The confederacy was formed centuries ago at the urging of an influential Native American, Peacemaker, who encouraged the union after a vision showing it to be the way to be secure from future threats. The nations also shared a common traditional religion known as the Longhouse Religion, introduced by Seneca prophet Handsome Lake, who died in 1815.
The Oneidas have been influenced by many different religious traditions. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, Handsome Lake, an Iroquoian prophet, experienced visions that formed the basis of what became the Longhouse religion. This monotheistic Native American religion was strongly based on a Christian model, with some ancestral ceremonies included. The Christian influence in the Longhouse religion came from years of contact with neighboring Quakers, Catholics, and Protestants. According to Anthony F. C. Wallace in the Handbook of North American Indians, Handsome Lake's visions were put into a moral code, which outlawed drunkenness, gambling, quarreling, sexual promiscuity, wife-beating, and witchcraft. Although Handsome Lake did not directly come to the Oneidas, some Wisconsin and Canadian Oneidas became believers. The prophet had more visions and kept advising the Iroquois, including on the continuation of celebrating the traditional Oneida religious ceremonies.
The Oneidas were also influenced strongly by Presbyterian minister Samuel Kirkland. The minister established a church among the Oneidas and lived with the tribe for more than 40 years, until his death in 1808. French entrepreneur Pierre Penet established a Catholic mission among the Oneidas. However, the governor of New York removed Penet and the Catholic mission shortly after.
Although many Wisconsin Oneidas have been members of Episcopal and Methodist churches throughout the twentieth century, others continue to adhere to the Longhouse Religion of Handsome Lake.
Employment and Economic Traditions
The traditional economy of the Oneidas included the cultivation of corn, beans, and squash; an extensive hunting territory; fishing stations on Oneida Lake; and the collection of various wild plants such as berries. The Oneidas seasonally hunted deer, bear, and nearly all small mammals, usually using a bow and arrow. They also utilized two kinds of traps, the deadfall and the twitch-up snare. The Iroquoian diet varied enormously, including every kind of mammal, fish, bird, or reptile. After the harvest, hunting parties with all the men and some women left the villages, set up camp, and hunted for days, drying and packing the meat for the upcoming winter.
The American Revolutionary War disrupted the Oneidas' existing economy significantly. Afterwards, communities and fields needed restoration. A massive influx of non-Indians onto Oneida lands also followed the war. Through a series of treaties and agreements, the tribal lands of the Oneidas of New York were reduced to a 32-acre parcel by the end of the nineteenth century. The Oneidas suffered from lack of improvements such as water and septic systems, unpaved narrow roads, and rundown housing.
After passage of the Indian Gaming Act of 1988, the Oneidas of Wisconsin opened a 2,000-slot-machine gambling complex outside Green Bay. They established the Oneida Nation Electronics (ONE) Corporation to manage the facility's electronics systems. The gaming income provided capital for other long-term business ventures. In 1997, the tribe through ONE signed an agreement with Plexus, an electronics manufacturing company, to build a $22 million plant on reservation lands. The plant was to be owned and financed by the Oneidas but operated by Plexus, with the profits shared. The Wisconsin Oneidas have already invested and managed an industrial park, printing company, a bank, hotel, and convenience stores on the reservation. The tribal government uses casino revenues to provide services to Oneida members, such as subsidized housing, health care, and student counseling. Valuing the education of its children, the tribe invested monies in building a day care facility and an elementary school in the shape of a turtle, namesake of an Oneida clan and a familiar character of Oneida oral literature. The tribe has also invested heavily in reviving its culture and language among its youth, through activities such as the creation of a new written form of the Oneida language and the production of a CD-ROM featuring oral literature told by Oneida elders.
In July 1993, the Oneida Indian Nation of New York opened the Turning Stone Casino, which employs nearly 2,000 people. The casino and resort is billed as a world-class tourist destination. It is the only legal casino in New York State. The resort includes a 285-room luxury hotel, five restaurants, several retail establishments known as the Shoppes At Turning Stone, and a recreational park. The addition of a golf course and convention center was planned. In 1998, the resort accommodated well over three million visitors. The resort has been credited with the stimulation of substantial economic growth in central New York.
Through the years the Oneidas have maintained a tenuous relationship with the U.S. government. One issue of continued conflict has been the obligation of the federal government to provide social services to the Oneidas, despite their very small land base. The resort enabled the Oneidas to begin providing long-overdue social programs for their people. Today, the Oneida Nation currently offers numerous programs to its members, including a housing project, Nation Elders' Program, health care, education scholarships and incentive programs, heating assistance, youth programs, and a job network to help members gain employment. The Elders' Program provides rides for elders to the Oneida Nation cookhouse for a luncheon three days a week as well as for museum visits, shopping excursions, and places to visit overnight. The Oneida Nation acquired several businesses in the 1990s, including a textile factory, a recreational vehicle park with a convenience and gift store, a newly built gas station, and a smoke shop. Oneida leaders sought diversity in their business interests as a means to maintain a healthy economy on the reservation, even if casino benefits were to wane or cease altogether. The nation created almost 3,000 jobs directly and claims to have stimulated the creation of another 2,000 jobs in the region. The nation's local payroll in 1998 was more than $82 million. In lieu of paying local taxes due to their sovereign status, the Oneidas provide hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to local school districts and municipalities.
The pace of economic recovery for the New York Oneidas was staggering. Through the 1990s, the Oneida Indian Nation of New York progressed from employing only a handful of people in two businesses to becoming the largest employer in the Oneida and Madison counties of central New York. The Oneidas became a major tourism promoter for the region. In fact, the economic picture for the Oneidas in New York improved so significantly that the tribe requested the Bureau of Indian Affairs to allocate certain funds earmarked for services for their tribe to other more needy tribes in 1998 and 1999. By the late 1990s, the tribe was providing more than 60 programs and services for tribal members, including a new housing program, a child learning center, elder-care programs, community and development centers, and educational scholarship programs.
When the Oneidas of the Thames moved to Canada in the 1840s to the newly purchased reserve, they were allowed to claim as many acres as they could feasibly clear and farm. Several small communities grew up on the reserve. Through the nineteenth century, subsistence farming was the primary economic pursuit of the tribe, augmented by seasonal lumbering employment. By the twentieth century, however, farming had waned, and members sought wage-labor jobs in white communities. Less fortunate economically than the Oneidas in New York and Wisconsin, the Ontario group still relies on governmental support for basic services.
Forms of government vary considerably among the three Oneida branches. The Oneidas in Ontario, Canada, instituted a traditional form of government upon their arrival in the 1840s. A tribal council was established on the basis of the three traditional Oneida clans, Wolf, Bear, and Turtle. Each appointed a sachem and deputy to the tribal council. The council was coordinated with the Iroquois council at Six Nations Reserve in Canada. The Ontario Oneidas maintained this traditional system of hereditary leadership until 1934, when considerable internal tribal factionalism consumed the tribe, and the Canadian government imposed an elective form of government to resolve ongoing internal tribal conflict. The Ontario band became governed by a tribal leader and 12 council members elected at-large for two-year terms. The government manages tribal business and activities concerning housing, road maintenance, education, and welfare. The Handsome Lake Long-house Religion continued to be a strong influence for the Ontario group among the minority not accepting the elected form of government.
The Wisconsin Oneidas essentially dissolved their government following the loss of lands in the early twentieth century. With prospects of some lands being restored, the tribe organized an elected form of government in 1937 under the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934. They adopted an IRA constitution and established the Business Council to govern themselves. The tribe became available for certain federal grants and loans, setting the basis for future economic growth. The Business Council is composed of nine members elected every three years.
The New York Oneidas, based on the remaining small land base has experienced significant political strife in the later twentieth century between one faction favoring an elective form of government and the other favoring a more traditional form based on hereditary clans.
Individual and Group Contributions
Educator Norbert S. Hill Jr. (b. 1946) was born in Warren, Michigan near Detroit. His father was an Oneida/Mohawk and his mother a Canadian Cree. His father, involved in Indian activism, founded the North American Indian Club, which provided support for urban Indians. While a youth, Hill with his family moved to the Wisconsin Oneida Reservation near Green Bay. Hill earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1969 and later an M.A. in guidance and counseling from the same institution. After serving as assistant to the dean of students at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Hill became director of the American Indian Education Opportunity Program at the University of Colorado, where he continued his graduate studies. Hill became chair of the Oneida education committee in the early 1970s, which led to a career of community service stressing the role of education in the improvement of tribal well-being. Hill started the noted magazine Winds of Change in 1986 and edited a book of historical and contemporary Indian quotes titled Words of Power. In the 1990s, Hill became board chairman for the proposed Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, overseeing its development. He also served as executive director of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) from 1983 into the 1990s. Among the honors Hill has received are the Chancellor's Award at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1988 and in 1994 a Rockefeller fellowship and an honorary doctor of laws degree from Cumberland College in Kentucky. Hill's brother Robert, also a member of the Oneidas, served as chairman of the Oneida tribe, then as chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission. His first cousin is noted poet Roberta Hill Whiteman.
FILM, TELEVISION, AND THEATER
Film actor Graham Greene (b. 1950) has found success in both Canada and the United States. Greene, a full-blooded Oneida, was born on the Iroquois Six Nations Reserve in southwestern Ontario. Before becoming an actor, Greene worked at a number of different jobs, including stints as a steelworker in high-rise construction, a civil technologist, and a draftsman. He also worked as an audio technician for rock 'n' roll bands and owned his own recording studio in Hamilton, Ontario. He began his career in television, film, and radio in 1976. Greene lived for a short time in Britain in the early 1980s, where he performed on stage. Upon his return to Canada, Greene was cast in the British film Revolution, starring Al Pacino and directed by Hugh Hudson. Greene is perhaps best known for his performance in Dances with Wolves, a 1991 film that won several Academy Awards, including the award for best picture. Greene portrayed Kicking Bird, an elder who strove to protect his people from attacks by American authorities. In addition, Greene has been cast in a number of television series and is known for his work in The Campbells, Spirit Bay, Captain Power, Running Brave, Adderley, Night Heat, and Pow-Wow Highway. His performances not restricted to film, Greene became active on the Toronto theater scene, receiving a Dora Mavor Moore Award for best actor for his performance in the acclaimed Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, a highly successful play written by Tomson Highway, a renowned Canadian Cree playwright.
Charlie Hill, a member of the Oneida tribe of Wisconsin, is a comedian who has performed across the United States and released an album, Born Again Savage. He has also appeared in the movie Harold of Orange in 1983.
Many early leaders of the Oneidas were active in maintaining the Oneida land base or recovering lost lands in all three areas of Ontario, Wisconsin, and New York. Their stories reflect Oneida history. Sally Ainse (c. 1728–1823) led a colorful life in early Oneida history following contact with Euro-Americans. Born in the Susquehanna River region of southern Oneida traditional territory, Ainse became a fur trader, landowner, and diplomat. Sally was a trader and landowner in the Fort Stanwix area near present-day Rome, New York, until the American Revolution. Then she moved westward to British-controlled lands in the Detroit region, where she continued trading goods to American Indians for furs. Ainse became an interpreter between warring tribes and the U.S. military in the 1790s. She soon moved again, acquiring extensive lands on the Thames River near present-day Chatham, Ontario. Ainse became involved in a lengthy land dispute with the Canadian government over native land claims.
Laura Cornelius Kellogg (1880–1947), known as Minnie, was a descendent of two earlier influential Oneida leaders. She also became noted for her own oratory skills. Kellogg attended finishing school, traveled in Europe, and attended several well-known institutions such as Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, and the University of Wisconsin. Minnie was a founder of the Society of American Indians in 1911 and became a national advocate for tribal self-sufficiency. Late in her life, Minnie focused on preservation of the Oneida language and the reacquisition of lost tribal lands.
Mary Cornelius Winder (1898–1954) was an activist for Oneida rights to lands lost in the nineteenth century. While living on the Onondaga Reservation with many other displaced Oneida families, Winder operated a small grocery store. She relentlessly lobbied the U.S. government to honor its 1794 treaty with the Oneidas and for the government to grant full federal recognition to the Oneida Nation. Beginning in the 1940s, she initiated what became a 30-year successful effort before the U.S. Land Claims Commission. She and other tribal members sought recognition that the lands were inappropriately taken. However, upon victory they discovered that monetary awards alone were being offered, not return of the land itself. The Oneidas won a $3.3 million settlement, to be split between the three groups.
The second Native American appointed commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was Robert LaFollette Bennett (b. 1912), Oneida lawyer and administrator. Bennett was born on the Oneida Reservation near Green Bay, Wisconsin, and attended the BIA's boarding school at the Haskell Institute in Kansas. Afterwards he studied law at Southeastern University School of Law in Washington, D.C., earning his law degree in 1941. Bennett served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. For his legal work supporting native land claims, he received the Indian Achievement Award in 1962 and Outstanding American Indian Citizen Award in 1966. In 1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Bennett head of BIA. He left the BIA in 1969 and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he founded the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame. Bennett was director of the American Indian Law Center at the University of New Mexico Law School from 1970 to 1975. He was recognized as Outstanding Member of the Oneida tribe of Wisconsin in 1988.
Late in the 1990s, the New York Oneida Indian Nation purchased the prominent national weekly Indian newspaper Indian Country Today, produced in Rapid City, South Dakota. A new enterprise, Standing Stone Media, Inc., was founded by the tribe to operate the publication. A goal of the Oneidas was to further expand circulation and represent the diverse aspects of contemporary Indian life. The Oneidas essentially took over control from the Lakota/Dakota Sioux.
Poet Roberta Hill Whiteman (b. 1947) earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, an M.F.A. from University of Montana, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. A member of the Oneida tribe of Wisconsin, Whiteman is a noted poet whose work has been included in Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry (1975) and The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States (1980). She published her own collections, Star Quilt in 1984 and Philadelphia Flowers in 1996. Her work also appeared in Harper's Anthology of Twentieth-Century Native American Poetry (1988). Whiteman is noted for a very humanistic style in her poetry, addressing personal and family relationships and the relation of humans to recurrent patterns of nature.
Joanne Shenandoah is an internationally respected recording artist and songwriter whose material often reflects her Oneida heritage. Her releases include Loving Ways on Canyon Records in 1991 and contributions to an album titled In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, dedicated to imprisoned Indian activist Leonard Peltier. Shenandoah, whose father was an Onondaga tribal leader and jazz guitarist, has performed in Europe as well as North America, including the 1991 American Music Festival in San Francisco. Shenandoah founded Round Dance Productions, a nonprofit organization dedicated to native cultural preservation. Shenandoah has also pursued an acting career and is a writer of musical scores and soundtracks.
Several Oneida tribal members have been inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame, established in 1972. Martin Wheelock played on the Carlisle football team from 1894 to 1902, earning All-American honors in 1901 and named on the "All University" team by the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1902. Elijah Smith participated on the Haskell football, baseball, and track teams between 1923 and 1926, setting a national collegiate record for extra points kicked. He also played baseball and football at Davis & Elkins College between 1927 and 1929. Both Smith and Wheelock were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1980. Wilson Charles participated in track, football, and basketball at Haskell and University of New Mexico from 1927 to 1931 before becoming a member of the U.S. Olympic decathlon team in 1932. Charles was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1972, the first year of its existence. Gordon House, of both Oneida and Navajo ancestry, was the All Armed Forces lightweight boxing champion in 1945 and became the state lightweight boxing champion in Arizona, Nevada, and Texas in 1948. House fought professionally from 1946 to 1949. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1985.
Indian Country Today.
A prominent, nationally published weekly newspaper reporting on national news of relevance to Indian nations throughout the United States. Recently purchased and operated by Standing Stone Media, Inc. of the Oneida tribe of Wisconsin.
Address: 7831 N. Grindstone, Hayward, Wisconsin 54843.
Telephone: (715) 634-9672.
Kali-?-Wisaks.
Newsletter for the Oneida tribe of Wisconsin.
Address: P.O. Box 98, Oneida, Wisconsin 54155.
The Oneida.
Oneida Nation newsletter that provides tribal reservation news for the Oneida Indian Nation of New York.
Address: 101 Canal St., Canastota, New York 13032.
Ontario Indian.
A monthly newsletter published by the Union of Ontario Indians.
Address: 27 Queen St., East, Toronto, M5C 1R5 Canada.
Assembly of First Nations Resource Centre.
Extensive collection of materials on Ontario Indian tribes including tribal histories and legal histories.
Contact: Kelly Whiteduck.
Address: 47 Clarence St., 3rd Floor, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 9K1 Canada.
Oneida Indian Nation.
Address: Genesee Street, Ames Plaza, Oneida, New York 13421.
Online: http://www.oneida-nation.net .
Oneida of the Thames.
Address: RR#2, Southwold, Ontario N0L 2G0 Canada.
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin.
Address: P.O. Box 365, Oneida, Wisconsin 54155.
Wisconsin Indian Lawyers League.
Contact: Gerald L. Hill.
Museums and Research Centers
Iroquois Indian Museum and Library.
Houses and exhibits the material culture of the Oneidas and other Iroquois Confederacy tribes, exhibits modern craftwork, and offers an educational trail highlighting the ethnobotany of the region.
Contact: Christina B Johannsen or Stephanie E. Shultes.
Address: Box 7, Caverns Road, Howes Cave, New York 12092.
Oneida Nation Museum.
Address: 886 Double E Road, DePere, Wisconsin 54115.
Shako:wi Cultural Center.
Located on tribal lands east of Syracuse, the white pine log building houses Oneida arts and crafts and stories of the tribe's past. The Oneidas use the facility for community gatherings and public presentations.
Address: Rte. 46, New York.
Six Nations Indian Museum and Library.
Houses collections of the material culture of the Oneidas and other tribes composing the Six Nations and research materials on their history.
Contact: Ray Fadden.
Address: Onchiota, New York 12968.
State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library.
Excellent holdings on Indians of Wisconsin and of North America in general.
Contact: R. David Myers.
Address: 816 State St., Madison, Wisconsin 53706.
Sources for Additional Study
Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800, edited by Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1987.
Campisi, Jack. "Oneida." Handbook of the North American Indians. Vol. 15: Northeast. Edited by Bruce G. Trigger. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.
Fenton, William M. "Northern Iroquoian Culture Patterns." Handbook of the North American Indians. Vol. 15: Northeast. Edited by Bruce G. Trigger. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.
Halbritter, Ray. "The Truth About Land Claims." The Oneida. Vol. 7, No. 6. New York: Oneida Indian Nation, 1996.
The Oneida Indian Experience: Two Perspectives, edited by Jack Campisi and Laurence M. Hauptman. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1988.
Shattuck, George C. The Oneida Land Claims: A Legal History. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1991.
very useful for my social studies research project
Sue Meeks
Aug 8, 2012 @ 10:10 am
I recently purchased an Oneida Power Wand, crafted by J. Wilber, which has a large, pointed crystal on one end. I have been trying to find information about what it is and how it is/was used. Because I know very little about Eastern Tribes my "searches" have been somewhat of an exercise in frustration. Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your assistance, Sue Meeks
Jeffrey Jamieson
I am Oneida . I really enjoyed this entire article .
I'm Oneida, from the Oneida Nation of the Thames Settlement, in Canada I doing a book about myself my life and times as a North American Native. I'm looking to add more information from my family tree the information I have is from my mother side of the family which on the George/Day side of it go's back to Anthony Day who would be my great, great Grandfather I would like to know who his father name was and his grandfather. Still on my mother side of the family which is on the Cornelius go's back to Abram Cornelius who would have been my great, great, great Grandfather I would like to know who his father's name was and his grandfather. Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
Yaw^ko, Chris J. George
This is a great resource for my social studies project, I really think it's great that you made this
can i trust you >_>
i need good informations for das class
Kevin Hill
I really enjoyed this article about the Oneida's of Wisconsin. Just personal study of the Oneida Nation as a tribute to my Oneida friends/classmates from West De Pere High School (Class of 1982), particularly in memory of the late Jeff Metoxen (1964-2016). Very interesting culture and history. Nicely done.
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One group visited on Nov. 2 and another visited on Nov. 3.
Students got to meet with several industrial technicians and engineers to discuss the pathways to a career in manufacturing. They also got an extensive tour of the manufacturing floor.
"My students were completely engaged the entire time; we will reference this experience many many times in our classroom", said Mr. Shell about the visit.
On Thursday, January 15th, over 70 West Ashley HS educators' Professional Development day included an assignment to visit local businesses. These morning "externship" opportunities were assigned by department, for example teachers from the science department visited High Purity Standards, a local science laboratory that manufactures basic elements for various applications.
For our faculty to find rigorous, real-world application opportunities of content area skills that can be brought back into our classrooms.
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Thank you to all the organizations that hosted educators from West Ashley High School for this experience!
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