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A little bit of always/detail (part 3)
Publicado en 30 noviembre, 2016
I am always seduced by the energy of the island of Manhattan. Every single block of the city has a distinctive personality. Every single language of the world seems to be spoken in the city. The buildings are gray, but shockingly colorful. Several visits to Ellis Island gave me some clues to this complex wonderland.
In 2005 I saw a plaque in Riverside Park that sparked my inspiration and curiosity. It was about Jan Rodrigues, born in Santo Domingo, son of a Portuguese sailor and an African woman, the first man of African descent to live in what would become New York City. He spent the winter, without the support of an anchored ship or other non-natives, at a spot in Lower Manhattan that was later set-up as a Dutch fur trading post by Christiaan Hendricksen in 1613. So while officially Captain Hendricksen is considered the founder of New Amsterdam in late 1613, actually the real founder of the city was Jan Rodrigues, who established himself in Manhattan around late 1612, the year the area was first settled by non-natives (Nick Paumgarten, Our Local Correspondents, "Useless Beauty," The New Yorker, August 31, 2009, p. 56). This information supports my vision of the state of hybridism that is essential to Manhattan and the New World.
I also agreed with Dr. Silvio Torres-Saillant, who expounded on his admiration for the plethora of languages and cultures prevalent within Caribbean countries (Torres-Saillant, Silvio, "Knowing the Caribbean," March 1, 2006 www.watsoninstitute.org.May 13, 2010). He dove into the historical recounting of the major colonial occupations in the area, instigated by the Spanish, Dutch, British, and the French. He concluded that the Caribbean has a lesson to share with the world, its celebration of hybridization encourages a fight against the forces of homogenization that grip our globe. According to statistical studies, persons from The Dominican Republic make up the fourth largest Latino group in the United States today, the major concentration being in New York City's Washington Heights. By 1997, there were an estimated 632,000 Dominican-born persons in the United States and the population has been growing since then.
In his book, "The True History of the Conquest of New Spain," Bernal Diaz del Castillo described the Spaniards' first impression of the Aztec City, like this; " We saw cues, and shrines in these cities that looked like gleaming white towers and castles; a marvelous site", 1568.
All these pieces of information played in my mind for a while. I create scenarios where I wonder about the reaction of the native Indians when facing the Europeans for the first time…like people from Mars coming to their world, with those smelly ships, strange clothing, blond hair, different language, and carrying those crying idols (Jesus Christ bleeding in a cross, and a virgin mother who is never smiling). Just imagine!!
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You will never get hot in the summer with the central air system and overhead fans in all rooms.
house. Pool will be opened and ready for it's new owners. This home awaits new memories with you!


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Maemo Weekly News: a proposal
I've been discussing this idea with a few key contributors over the past few days to make sure it's realistic and feasible. We've polished it and would like to ask for volunteers for a new Maemo Weekly News digest.
Workload: little to some.
Benefits: glory.
Read on for more info...
There are a lot of facets to the Maemo community, whether it's Bugzilla, maemo-developers, #maemo, Planet, Talk or Brainstorm. With the N900 and Maemo 5, there's been a noticeable increase in traffic in all these areas.
There have been suggestions of Maemo magazines before, but they've fallen over because:
The people involved haven't been integrated into the community.
They've been a lot of work to create.
They tried to move away from maemo.org/news/
Similarly, there are blogs (like Reggie's Maemo Talk) which highlight key important things; but some of them also suffer from the same problems above and none yet go into the level of detail I'd like to see.
With the increase in volume, and limits on my own time, I'm finding it harder to be aware of all the things going on. In particular, little asides and so on on talk which are key to the community, but buried in a thread. The old complaint of "too much happening outside of talk.maemo.org" is now reversed, IMHO, but the SNR is too low to follow "New Posts" religiously and develop software at the same time.
A weekly news digest of key useful/informative/interesting/insightful news from all Maemo news sources. Similar in style and approach to Linux Weekly News.
This is, in many ways, a continuation of Ryan's "Community Highlights" but doing less work, being more encompassing and more repeatable.
This is NOT an attempt to aggregate ALL Maemo-related news, but provide a selection of highlights during the week; of interest to those who are involved in the platform and the community, but without the time to follow enough of the conversations in all the places to find the ones interesting to them. By acting as a filter, more people will be able to be involved in the things which interest them, resulting in an increase of higher quality submissions for members of the community who might not be heard from as much.
The key to its success is to produce something which is useful, integrated and deterministic; but without being a massive resource hog.
Produced weekly, every week, with a series of sections - probably similar to those on tmo. Something like:
Maemo in the Wild
To gather the news, a series of sub-editors/contributors would have access to a Twitter account (@maemoweeklynews, say). The posts to this feed would consist of the section, a few keywords and a link to the content (thread, post, email message, blog) which triggered it. For example, recently this may include:
Applications - wazd helping qwerty12 on Transmission: http://s56.radikal.ru/i152/0911/34/a388e13890a0.png
Devices - Release firmware available to download: http://flors.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/maemo-5-final-release-updated-sdk-and-firmware/
Suggestions on content could be directed at it from people's own Twitter accounts. The sub-editors would then be able to pick and choose from these if it's something they'd missed.
As each issue is being pulled together, one or more sub-editors would then review the posts to that Twitter feed for their sections and flesh it out with a longer paragraph/quote. Full-blown stories would also be possible, but I imagine that being a rarity (if ever). There would then be an overall editor(s) making sure there's no duplication and also including things from maemo.org/downloads/ (top 10 apps, and new apps this week) and the bug jars (top 10 activity, probably).
The completed digest would then be posted to a site and syndicated to Planet.
Hopefully this shouldn't be too much work; and sub-editors/contributors would be able to post to the feed during their daily review of their slice of the community.
To collect the sub-editors, I'd suggest a recruitment & screening process of the form "what 3 would you have done for last week?" See more details below.
I'm now looking for:
CONTRIBUTORS: long-standing members of the community to volunteer to highlight content they see during their Maemo day. This could be whilst sat on IRC, reading the mailing lists, watching maemo.org/news/, contributing on Brainstorm or reading Talk. The only extra work you'd have to do was use your favourite Twitter client to post links you thought should be in the digest.
Approx. number of positions: 20-30
SUB-EDITORS: contributors who are also willing to flesh out the links each week by selecting a representative quote. I will be ensuring we have the tools in place to make this as easy as possible.
Approx. number of positions: 5-10
EDITORS: the people with ultimately responsibility. The sub-editors who make sure the whole thing is consistent.
Approx. number of positions: 2-4
As I want to start it small (it can always grow once we work out the details a bit better and see how it goes), anyone who'd like to be involved can reply to this (it'll be on maemo-community, my blog and talk.maemo.org) with:
maemo.org username
Position wanted (contributor/sub-editor/editor)
Channels you follow
Preferred section(s) if sub-editor (feel free to make up a new one)
One/two sentence bio.
Two or three links you'd've posted in the last 2 weeks.
This is an opportunity to help collaborate and facilitate spreading Maemo news; if you're a long-time contributor to the platform, your insights will be invaluable. If you're a relative newcomer, looking for a way to contribute, this is your chance!
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Downloading Ovi Maps without a network connection
Unlike Navicore/Wayfinder on previous Maemo devices, Ovi Maps on the N900 downloads maps on demand. This is obviously a problem if you're going somewhere abroad and don't want to pay extortionate data roaming charges.
Fortunately, S60 Ovi Maps users also have the same problem, and the solution is straightforward:
Scroll down this post to Direct Links for Ovi Map Version 00.01.25.114 and download the maps for the countries you are interested in. (EDIT: updated to different blog post)
Unzip the maps into cities/diskcache on the big VFAT partition (mounted under MyDocs) on your N900.
Some of the files you may already have, I've chosen to overwrite them; YMMV.
However, as far as I can tell, searching for locations still requires a network connection :-(
Why I'm not standing for the council... but you should still vote!
As those of you who read maemo-community might know, I've decided not to run for the council this time.
I'm really proud of being a part of the first two councils, and the level of trust Nokia placed in us with the recruitment of the debmaster; chairing the sprint meetings for the gang-of-four; the decisions over the summit and inviting us to the launch of the N900 at Nokia World.
My enthusiasm for Maemo is not diminished; indeed, with the launch of the N900, I'm as excited now as I was waiting for the launch of the 770 back in November 2005. However, after a year on the council, I'm now looking forward to six months as "just" a normal community member. I've not come to this decision easily, and I'm very happy to have had such warm words of encouragement. My reasons are two-fold:
There are many other members of the community who should have a chance to represent us. In particular, I'm very happy that Stephen (sjgadsby), Valério (VDVsx) and Graham (gcobb) have chosen to accept my nomination of them. The fact they're joined by the likes of Alan Bruce (qole), Gary Birkett (lcuk) and Jay Carter (zerojay) - and others - is even better.
The vitriol and nastiness spewed by a very vocal, but tiny, minority of people on talk.maemo.org - especially regarding the transition of internettablettalk.com to talk.maemo.org - took a lot of the fun away. Given the massive investment of time my role as chair required, taking the fun away removed one of the main motivations for me.
I still plan on being an active (and vocal) community member both as a developer, a community evangelist and as a user. I hope that if you would have voted for me, you consider voting for one of the excellent candidates we have standing (and we have many). In particular, Stephen, Valério and Graham have all been long term contributors in many different ways and are tolerant, helpful people. I will struggle to cast my single transferable vote for them, Gary, Alan and Jay.
However whomever you vote for, please do vote (once you receive your voting tokens)! I think that the Community Council has been far more effective than I ever imagined it could be when I suggested it back in 2008 and I look forward to seeing where this community will go in the next six months
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Vala 0.5.7 now in maemo.org Extras
After a bit of a prod; and a delay; mud-builder's vala recipe has been updated to the latest release 0.5.7 and uploaded to Extras-Devel as "vala" - this can now be used in Build-Depends lines in auto-builder packages.
What is Vala?
Vala is a modern, object-oriented programming language with a syntax inspired by C# and Java. However, it compiles to native code (via C), giving the benefits of modern programming languages and the speed of native development.
From its website:
Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.
I've also uploaded another little package - vala-sample (basically, HildonSample) - which demonstrates that a Build-Depends: vala line in a package's debian/control can be built using the auto-builder:
This is only in Extras-devel as it's use to end-users is pretty small, however it demonstrates three things:
How easy it is to package stuff with mud-builder.
That the auto-builder can build Vala apps.
That unlike other modern programming languages on Maemo (such as Python, Ruby, Java or C#) there is no additional start-up lag in a Vala application.
A screenshot all the same:
Announcing my standing for council membership
I've set the ball rolling, and put myself forward as a candidate (the first) in the second Maemo Community Council election.
I'm proud to have been a member of the inaugural Community Council. In the last six months, we've seen a sea-change in the way Maemo is progressing:
the first Maemo Summit, paid for by Nokia;
community ownership of maemo.org;
better use of Bugzilla by both Nokia and the community;
the realistic vision of a community-led "hacker edition" in Mer;
a webmaster, docmaster, bugmaster and now debmaster all being paid for for us;
open communication and - importantly - progress indicators like the Maemo 5/Fremantle pre-release SDKs, which would've been unheard of back in 2006/2007.
The Council has been involved in many of these, but would claim credit for few. I believe we've truly fulfilled our role as facilitators and would like to continue my role there. We've not got everything right, but I think we've proved the idea; and that it can be a cohesive force within the community.
I think there's still work to be done, though. Nokia are being more open, and projects like Tracker and Rygel are being developed openly. Yet, Modest has slipped back into internal development; some patches to Application Manager have been merged, but the community's vision for application management in Diablo - and Fremantle - looks unlikely to have been realised. The system as a whole, and the application environment which so clearly defines the Maemo brand, are architected internally. Design decisions are taken internally.
Slowly, hopefully, we can change Nokia management into utilising the enthusiastic talent at their disposal in a way which is truly ground-breaking in the industry; with a root-to-tip collaboration between us all.
Thanks for reading this, and I'll happily answer any questions anyone has.
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The Motion sensor is a new saving-energy switch. It is a good sensitivity detector, integrated circuit and SMT. It gathers automatism, continent safe, saving energy, and practical functions. There are three detectors inside that creates a wide range detection field, it uses the infrared energy from human and it controls the signal source, when someone enters the detection field it starts the load. It can identify the day and night automatically. It is easy to install and use widely, possessing the functions of power show and detecting show.
Recent surveys say that even a charger which is not connected to device consumes electricity – imagine if our family (Parents, kids) member forgets to switch off lights of washroom after use, so much of power will wasted. If we have a simple motion sensor which cuts the power of the device after specific use, it is a contribution to our society, less of carbon footage.
You can manually adjust the time settings, sensitivity and light control. Install sensor at 2.2 to 3.5 meter position on the wall and connect the wire accordingly. After switching on the power, after about 1 minute the unit enters the stable working state. Need to turn TIME knob to the position close to minimum, and for sun turn LUX for testing. It works normally, when the TIME knob is turned to the minimum and it turns senses again to IMPULSE position, and the controlled lamp will be turned ON and OFF regularly. If the above the above tests go through, then select the time, light-control and sensitivity to your need. So its installation is ok.


During the last ninja camp Shawn and I worked on getting hardware cursors into Unity, and now in Unity 4.0 they are ready. Built in support for cursors in Unity has been a heavily requested feature, and we are happy to see it in a state ready for you to use.
The cursor API is very simple and allows you to configure a default cursor for your project as well as change the cursor on demand. When setting a cursor you can specify if you want the cursor to be a hardware cursor or a software cursor. If you use a hardware cursor then rendering will be handled by the OS, otherwise Unity will render the cursor for you after everything else in the scene has been rendered.
So why would I want to use hardware cursors?
Hardware cursors are cursors managed by the operating system. They are framerate independent and work in the same way that operating system cursors work. This means that if your game is running slowly mouse input will still feel nice and not be laggy. This helps with the user experience.
Why would I ever use a software cursor over a hardware cursor?
On some platforms hardware cursors have limitations, for example on Windows the cursor is limited to a version specific resolution (32×32). In situations where you want a larger cursor you may be required to use a software cursor.
How do I configure cursors?
By setting the 'Default Cursor' and the 'Cursor Hotspot' (click position in pixels from the top left of image) you can configure the default cursor for your application. The default cursor will replace the standard operating system arrow that is normally used.
Where CursorMode is either Auto or ForceSoftware. When using Auto hardware cursors will be used if supported on the platform (with the texture being resized if required). ForceSoftware does as the name indicates. It is safe to mix hardware and software cursors.
Great work, but yeah, really agree with hudson. We have "snap cursor to center" or "free cursor", but nothing in between. It can be frustrating for a cursor game if you have multiple screens and you move outside the first monitor… or… if you want to do a gesture heavy mouse game in web player, you're kinda screwed: if you "fake" your own cursor, it completely changes how the mouse feels compared to your settings in the OS, which is really offputting.
How about the cursor movement limitation? Like ClipCursor.
Nice feature Tim. Thanks for this wonderful article.
Weren't hardware cursors dropped in Direct3D 11? Are you using the standard Windows cursor with ClipCursor() or so in Unity 4.0?
Even Flash had no hardware cursors until recently… so this is a great great move. Nice to see that it's not all mobile-oriented.
Any chance that we will have the ability to set the position of the cursor, or cursor clipping area through Unity? I was surprised to find out that I needed to use a DLL and C# to do this (limiting cursor within a bounding box); I also had to create an editor script to reset the clipping area when paused, as modifying this system info for the cursor was still active. It works, thanks to a script on the forum, but it feels a little hack-ish and that this should be a simple function in Unity. I hope we see this soon!
So to make animated cursors we have to make multiple calls to SetCursor? Is that advisable?
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Thanks for the feature guys, it is greatly appreciated!
Does this API also alllow us to position the cursor ?
@Foriero: We are working hard crushing all the bugs that have come in from our beta cycle. If you have preordered you should have access to the preorder beta which has the features that the release version of Unity 4.0 will have. You should consider looking at your project in the beta.
Foreiro: Or the awesome drawcall by drawcall thingy?
@Puk yes it works with Flash.
Nice and what is the release date of Unity 4? :-) We are waiting and you (Unity) are silent about it. Would be nice to update preordered customers about progress of Unity 4 so that we can take strategic decision when releasing our games. But anyway we are looking for Unity 4 and you guys do really nice job. Thank you.
Will it work when exporting to flash?


The pouring snow, gusty winds, and chilling cold all take a heavy toll on the constructional integrity of your garage door.
During the colder months, the metal parts of your garage door, such as screws and springs, tend to shrink, not only causing unexpected problems with closing and/or opening, but also making your garage door an unnecessary danger.
Inspect the garage door thoroughly, making sure that all the moving parts are in fine working condition, ideally well before the onset of winter. In general, consider hiring a garage door professional that will inspect all the parts of your door at least once a year.
While you can inspect the mechanical function of your door every three months by disconnecting the door opener and opening and closing your door manually a few times, you should never attempt to fix issues with spring assembly, its hardware or garage door cables on your own.
During the winter, basic maintenance includes inspecting the area under the garage door and clearing accumulated snow or ice as soon as possible so that the door does not freeze shut.
Proper lubrication is the key to easy movement of garage doors, especially during rough weather as it protects the moving parts from the elements. If the lubrication is inadequate or too excessive, it can cause misalignment, leading to potential garage door danger.
Silicone-based lubricant is an ideal choice since temperature changes do not harden it immediately.
Metal parts are subject to shrinking and contracting; in addition to being well lubricated, they also need to be free from rust accumulation.
If any part replacements are needed because of poor maintenance during previous seasons, however, you are better off getting it done before the climate turns biting cold.
Misalignment of the rollers is a common problem that can become dangerous, particularly during the winter, so they should be replaced or repaired by dedicated garage door professionals at first signs of trouble.
The panels used in green garage doors follow a signature method of construction, making them feel and look like wood while being superior to real wood in terms of resistance to splitting, moisture, cracking and warping.
No added protective coating or paint primer is necessary. And while most of these doors with traditional panels are built for harsh weather conditions, they still come with a warranty of up to 10 years, making servicing as easy as possible, which, in turn, reduces a range of potential risks associated with garage door malfunctions.
The reason your door is not handling winter weather well could very well be because it is old and unsafe, and it may be time for a new door. Take a look at some of our modern, robust options available. Get a free quote for a new door, and protect your garage properly for the next decade of winters.


This high-protein, fat-rich plan claims you will lose up to 15 pounds in two weeks, but the unhealthy fat content drops the diet's ranking. Similar to the ketogenic diet, the idea is that by severely restricting your carb intake, your body will have to burn fat for energy. Atkins has a decent amount of short-term research to support the premise, but the results are mixed. The American Heart Association links saturated fats—prevalent in this plan—to heart disease. Other negatives for Atkins are that it's tough to sustain, and you'll miss out on fiber and other nutrients in complex carbohydrates like whole grains. Check out the 15 best Atkins diet foods you can get at the grocery store.
"A lot of people think the foundation of a paleo diet is high-fat meat, but I suggest that it's vegetables," says Hultin. The concept is to eat only foods — including meat, fish, poultry, eggs, fruits, and vegetables — that would have been available to our Paleolithic ancestors. This means grains, dairy, legumes, added sugar, and salt are all no-no's.


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OPAPP hopes to start work on new Bangsamoro law in January
President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to name in January 2017 the members of the expanded Bangsamoro Transition Commission that is tasked to draft the Bangsamoro bill
Carmela Fonbuena
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Published 3:05 PM, December 30, 2016
Updated 3:05 PM, December 30, 2016
WAITING FOR THE NAMES. Photo shows President Rodrigo Duterte and MILF chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim during the signing of the executive order creating the expanded Bangsamoro Transition Council on November 7, 2016. OPAPP file photo
MANILA, Philippines – Presidential peace adviser Jesus Dureza is hoping to begin in January 2017 formal work on a new law that will create the Bangsamoro region to implement the peace agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Dureza said President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to finally name in January the 21 individuals who will make up the new and expanded Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), the panel that will draft the proposal that will be submitted to Congress.
"By January, baka lalabas na ang appointment ng pangulo (the president is expected to appoint the members)," Dureza said.
Dureza said the Bangsamoro Basic Law that failed to pass in the previous 16th Congress will "probably be the basic document, among other pertinent legislations, of the new enabling law."
Address constitutionality issues
Lawmakers who opposed the bill argued that the draft violates the constitution by allocating too much power to the new region, a claim that the members of the BTC then denied. Duterte is now proposing a shift to federalism to allow the new region to have those powers.
"Napag-aralan na rin ang old BBL, hindi lang napasa dahil may dumating na Mamasapano [incident], which put doubts on the level of trust in the talks. There are also issues about constitutionality pero may sectors na nagsasabi na constitutionally-compliant naman ang mgaprovisions na 'yan. So, all of these will be taken noted," Dureza said.
(The old BBL already underwent scrutiny but failed to be passed because of the Mamasapano incident, which put doubts on the level of trust in the talks. There were also issues on its constitutionality, but there are sectors affirming that the old BBL is constitutionally-compliant)
Deadline: July 2017
The BTC is expected to submit a draft to Congress before Duterte's State of the Nation Address in July 2017.
Duterte signed Executive Order no. 8 on November 7 to overhaul the BTC under the previous Aquino administration.
The BTC was expanded from 15 to 21 members to accommodate more stakeholders, an attempt to "bring together all key peace actors and stakeholders in the implementation of all Bangsamoro accords."
The new 21-member panel will have 11 members appointed by the MILF and 10 members appointed by the government.
The panel will include representatives from one faction of the MILF rival group Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) under Muslimin Sema.
The indigenous peoples, sultanates, local government units, and the regional government of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will also be represented at the BTC.
Duterte has also persuaded the MNLF faction led by its founder Nur Misuari to support the peace process but it will not join the BTC. The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) will have a separate peace table to address Misuari's concerns. (READ: 2 separate panels for MILF, MNLF-Nur)
Misuari's faction was responsible for the 2013 Zamboanga Siege that protested the peace process with the MILF. Misuari, who is facing rebellion charges, was granted temporary liberty to join the peace talks. – Rappler.com
Filed under:Al Haj Murad Ebrahim•BTC•Bangsamoro Basic Law•Mindanao•Moro Islamic Liberation Front•Philippines•Rodrigo Duterte•peace•peace process•Bangsamoro Transition Commission


Grayling UK has announced the appointment of former Special Adviser, Ben Gascoigne, as a Director, further strengthening the company's senior political counsel and reinforcing its reputation as an industry leader in the Public Affairs sector.
Ben joins following a year of significant growth for Grayling's UK business. He will report to Grayling UK's Chairman, Richard Jukes, and arrives from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where he worked as a Special Adviser to the former Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson. He brings with him a wealth of expertise in political campaigning, having provided strategy and insight to one of the country's leading politicians. Ben also joins the agency's Senior Advisory Board where he will share his industry knowledge with clients across Grayling's Public Affairs, Corporate and Consumer divisions.
Prior to his role at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ben worked with Boris Johnson, during his time as Mayor of London. He has also worked for the Conservative Party and on a number of successful campaigns including for the London Mayoralty and the 2015 General Election.


More than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations are now registered in the U.S. alone. In this crowded and competitive landscape, it's more challenging — and more important — than ever before to build and maintain a strong, compelling nonprofit brand in order to stand out in the marketplace and connect with broader audiences.
For a long time, "branding" was considered a dirty word in the nonprofit sector, where the concept had always been associated with the for-profit corporate business model. Nonprofit leaders focused on building solid program platforms rather than building a brand. Though the idea no longer carries the same stigma, it can still be easy for mission-oriented nonprofit leaders to overlook or dismiss something as seemingly cosmetic as branding strategies. However, doing so is a missed opportunity to drive your organization's performance and build more meaningful relationships with donors.
Take a moment to think about your nonprofit's branding strategy. Has the mission of your organization evolved? Are you in the midst of a transition period, new leadership, a shift in focus, or dramatic growth? Does your brand simply feel old and outdated? If you answered "yes," to any one of those questions, it might be time to consider rebranding your nonprofit.
Successful rebranding begins with the often-difficult process of conducting a thorough self-assessment. This means doing your research and taking a cold, hard look at how others perceive your brand and where you stand right now. Conversations with both internal and external stakeholders — everyone from employees to board members to donors to corporate partners — is a good place to start. Ask questions to solicit honest feedback about the impressions and beliefs stakeholders hold about your nonprofit: How and why did they become interested in your organization? How would they describe your purpose and values? If they could only communicate one message about your nonprofit, what would it be?
Gathering this important research can help illuminate gaps between existing perceptions of your brand and the ones you desire, or it can reveal that you're not accurately communicating the nature of your work. Consider the discoveries made in our early rebranding process: American Humane was founded in 1877 with the mission of protecting both children and animals — dual values both reflected in our messaging prior to the rebranding. However, after clinching major legislative victories on behalf of children (such as the ban on child labor) in the twentieth century, American Humane started gradually shifting our focus to a growing portfolio of animal welfare issues. Also, the use of the word "humane" had evolved over the century to mean animal-centric, instead of the broader nineteenth-century definition of the welfare for the voiceless.
It was clear the values of our organization had evolved over the last 140 years (go figure), but our branding had failed to keep up with our modern identity. These insights led us to refresh our programming with a renewed singular commitment to protecting animal welfare.
Feedback from stakeholders isn't sufficient for a comprehensive brand audit: You must also take a frank look at how your nonprofit stacks up against the competition. Are you effectively distinguishing yourself in the crowded nonprofit landscape? How does your performance compare to that of your competitors according to important metrics, such as earned media coverage, independent charity rankings, web traffic and name recognition? A clear understanding of your position in the marketplace is essential in developing a competitive branding strategy that helps your nonprofit cut through the noise.
Through a brand wheel exercise, we discovered our brand essence. American Humane's rebranding included the introduction of a new slogan, "First to Serve," emphasizing our legacy of leadership as the country's first national humane organization. Recalibrating our branding with a focus on this distinctive feature of our unique identity more clearly differentiates American Humane in the saturated welfare space.
After conducting extensive research to gain a clear understanding of your existing brand image, you're ready for the last and most important step in establishing a strong framework for a successful rebranding: Introspection. The efficacy of your rebranding depends on your willingness to reflect on both where your nonprofit has been and where you want it to go. In other words, you must have a clear understanding of who you are and the unique value your nonprofit offers. That's why to develop a truly compelling, authentic brand that resonates with your audience, you must take the time to examine and rediscover the core values -- the heart and soul -- of your nonprofit. A branding wheel exercise can be most helpful for this introspective phase.Branding is critical for nonprofit leaders today. Take time to start the branding effort today, and you will be delighted with the results.


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China boosts space program with new heavy rocket launch
China has launched its new Long March-5 heavy rocket, state media said, sending its payload into orbit in the country's latest step in advancing its space exploration program. The launch comes after China began its longest manned space mission last month, sending two astronauts to spend a month aboard a space laboratory that is part of a broader plan to have a permanent manned space station in service around 2022. The rocket, larger than previous versions of China's Long-March carrier rockets, blasted off on Thursday night from a pad in the southern province of Hainan, state news agency Xinhua said, a launch intended to verify its design and performance.
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3D-Printed 'Lego' Bricks Could Bend Sound into Acoustic Holograms
3D-printed bricks that look like Lego pieces could provide a simple, low-cost way of creating acoustic holograms — 3D shapes and structures made of sound — for applications as varied as entertainment, medicine or wireless charging, according to a recent study. Anyone who's watched "Star Wars" will be familiar with the concept of an optical hologram — a 3D image that floats in midair — though real-life technology is significantly less advanced than what was portrayed on-screen. Holograms are effectively a recording of a 3D light field that can project a reproduction of the original object when lit properly.
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Ancient Scratched Stones: World's Earliest Maps or Magic Artifacts?
A set of broken stones covered with etchings of lines and squares, discovered at a 5,000-year-old sacred site in Denmark, may be some of humankind's earliest maps, according to archaeologists. The researchers think the inscribed stones are symbolic maps of local landscapes, and were perhaps used in rituals by Stone Age farmers who hoped to magically influence the sun and the fertility of their farmlands. Fragments of 10 of the "map stones" or "landscape stones" were found in June, during excavations of a round, earth-walled enclosure at the Vasagard archaeological site on Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic Sea.
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'Shotgun' Marriages Up Among Some Groups
The "shotgun marriage" may be on the decline: It's only very rarely now, statistics from one state suggest, that couples hastily marry to avoid the social stigma of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Nevertheless, new research finds that even as overall marriage rates have declined, the "midpregnancy marriage," as it's more scientifically known, has become an important subset of marriages in some demographic groups. "These were fairly resilient marriages, much to our surprise," said study author Christina Gibson-Davis, a researcher in public policy at Duke University.
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Mixing Energy Drinks with Alcohol Causes Brain Changes in Mice
Energy drinks are often combined with alcohol in mixed drinks, and a new study in mice hints at how that combination may change the brain.
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Why Some Pot Smokers Face a Higher Risk of Drinking Problems
People who use alcohol and marijuana together may be at greater risk for alcohol-related problems, such as drunken driving and poorer health, than those who use only alcohol, a new study finds. In the study, researchers analyzed information from people in Washington state who were asked about their use of alcohol and marijuana over the past year, and whether they had ever experienced problems from their drinking. Of the more than 2,400 people who said they drank alcohol in the past year, 70 percent said they used alcohol only, 18 percent said they tended to use alcohol and marijuana simultaneously, and 13 percent said they used both drugs, but separately.
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Calling All Wizards! Cast Spells Like Harry Potter on Your Smartphone
If you spend your time daydreaming about attending Hogwarts or wishing you could join Harry Potter's squad, Google may have something that will brighten your day … literally. You can now cast a "spell" — the same way wizards and witches in Potter's world wield their wands — to turn your smartphone's flashlight on and off. You have to have an Android phone.
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Iron Age Brew Recreated from Ancient Cauldron's Remnants
A team of researchers worked with a brewery in Milwaukee to recreate an ancient beer from remnants of the alcoholic beverage that were found at an Iron Age burial site in Germany, reported Milwaukee Public Radio (WUWM). The cauldron, which dates back to between 400 B.C. to 450 B.C., was full of an ancient mead when it was buried, according to study leader Bettina Arnold, an archaeologist and anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "The dead man in Tumulus 17 Grave 6 had been sent into the afterlife not only with his weapons but with about 14 liters of an alcoholic beverage that he could have used to establish himself as an important person in the next world as he had been in this one," Arnold, who uncovered the cauldron back in 2000, explained in a blog post.
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The World Economic Forum, the Detroit Auto Show and CES all occurred recently, and each has driven a great deal of discussion around self-driving cars. The expectation is that within a decade we will begin to see autonomous vehicles on the streets and a correlated reduction in accidents, traffic congestion and demand for parking.
While the ongoing conversation is good for those who wish to see self-driving cars enter use, a careful analysis of the facts, coupled with an understanding of how similar transitions have played out through history, indicates that the majority of the discussion occurring right now vastly underestimates the speed with which self-driving cars will become the norm and ignores the tectonic shifts the transition will bring to all corners of American life.
Self-driving cars will not only impact transportation, they will change how people feel about their homes, how cities are built, how families stay in touch, where we work and other facets of American life far removed from transportation.
The scope of a transportation revolution
The self-driving car revolution will be big and it will be here soon. Exactly how big and how soon are very complicated questions, but by analyzing disparate data sets, we can arrive at a fairly clear idea of what the next decade will bring.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, consumer expenditures roughly break out as shown in Figure 1.
It shouldn't comes as a shock to anyone that transportation represents the second largest expense category for Americans, behind only housing. What may surprise some people is the transition to self-driving vehicles will impact not just the transportation sector but each and every major consumer expenditure. According to an auto industry analyst at Morgan Stanley, autonomous vehicles can contribute $1.3 trillion annually to the U.S. economy in a base case scenario.
Figure 2 shows the breakdown of how autonomous vehicles add value to the economy.
Figure 2
Indeed, $1.3 trillion is a lot of money. To put that number into perspective, here are a few of the things we could do with that much money (see Figure 3). We could balance the federal budget ($500 billion), make social security solvent ($180 billion), double all major federal research programs, including NASA, NSF, DARPA and NIH ($60 billion), double federal education investment ($120 billion) and, finally, double federal infrastructure investment ($100 billion). Amazingly, even if we committed to all of these investments we would still have more than $300 billion left over every year for debt reduction.
The speed of a transportation revolution
Many top auto industry analysts have predicted the transition to autonomous vehicles will take at least a decade to achieve scale. Xavier Mosquet at Boston Consulting Group has predicted ridesharing driverless vehicles won't begin to appear in major cities for another six to nine years, and that further dissemination will take longer.
While there is much optimism around the future potential of self-driving cars, pessimism abounds around the timing of the transition. Pundits believe we are nearing the infamous "Peak of Inflated Expectations" in the Gartner Hype Cycle (see Figure 4), and a long letdown is ahead.
 Figure 4
While there are certainly technology, infrastructure, political and social challenges to face, the sheer weight of investment in the space is overwhelming. Traditional automakers GM and Ford have partnered with technology companies like Lyft and Google with an eye toward an autonomous future. Technology companies like Google and, reportedly, Apple have invested substantial resources in developing their own self-driving cars. New automaker Tesla has already released a semi-autonomous highway mode, and the government has gotten involved with President Obama earmarking $4 billion to prepare the way for autonomous cars.
If we want to predict the future, the best method is to examine our past.
The brightest minds in American industry, backed by unprecedented quantities of capital, are pushing autonomous vehicles forward with a shockingly unified vision. In the face of this commitment, accelerated adoption seems likely. However, the future is inherently unknowable, and if we want to predict the future, the best method is to examine our past. Specifically, we should look to see how quickly the transition from the horse and buggy to automobiles occurred.
From Mr. Ed to the Edsel
Horses served as a primary means of powered transportation for millennia leading up to the twentieth century. What we need to know is how long it took for them to give way to the automobile once the automobile ceased being a niche oddity.
In 1900, only 4,000 cars were sold in the U.S., representing approximately one car for every 20,000 residents. At this time, it's fairly safe to say the car was still a niche product. Henry Ford released the iconic Model T in 1908, but there was still less than one car for every 400 residents.
It wasn't until 1914, one year after Henry Ford's moving assembly line had been in full swing, that the car became part of the average American experience. In 1914, the U.S. boasted 1.7 million cars, or about one car for every 60 residents. Fast-forward to 1925, and there were more than 20 million automobiles registered — enough for the vast majority of urban households to own a car of their own. Looking at these numbers we can confidently say the transition from horse and buggy to automobile was completed between 1908 and 1925, a span of 17 years.
The parallels between the transition from horse-to-car and the transition from car-to-autonomous car are many.
Complicating what superficially looks to be a 17-year transition period is the urban traffic survey data we have. New York City, for example, recorded that automobiles outnumbered horses on the streets by 1912; a year before the assembly line had even kicked automobile production into high gear and a blazingly fast four years from the introduction of the Model T.
Clearly there is a discrepancy between the urban transition and the rural transition. To narrow the transition window further, it is instructive to look at horse populations in the U.S. Figure 5 shows horse population versus registered vehicles in the U.S. from 1900 through 1930.
Figure 6 illustrates two key dates in the transition. The first occurs in 1915, which is roughly when the U.S. achieved "Peak Horse." This date is significant because, given the 30+ year life span of horses, it is, if anything, a trailing indicator of the transition away from horses to automobiles. The peak horse data coincides with the data showing the urban transition to automobiles actually occurred in the period between 1908 and 1915.
The second key date is 1926, where we see for the first time the absolute number of automobiles eclipse the number of horses. The data corroborates our earlier assertion that some time between 1920 and 1925 is when automobiles eclipsed horses in both rural and urban areas.
Triangulating these data points indicates two distinct transition periods: The urban transition, which occurred roughly between 1908 and 1912, and the full national transition, which began with the implementation of the assembly line in 1913 and was well underway by the early 1920s. For those playing along at home, this translates into a four-year urban transition and a 7-10 year national transition.
The parallels between the transition from horse-to-car and the transition from car-to-autonomous car are many; however, the hurdles faced by the current transition are actually much lower. To transition away from horses, the U.S. developed a nationwide network of paved roads, gas stations, gas distribution infrastructure and auto mechanics.
Each of these networks was a major infrastructure project in its own right, and yet each was developed in time to support a rapid transition to the automobile. In comparison, 95 percent of the infrastructure needed to support self-driving cars is already in place, making a very rapid transition plausible, if not likely.
The disruptive changes autonomous vehicles will bring to this country are numerous and nuanced.
Some may argue that whether or not the infrastructure for self-driving cars already exists, the time it would take to replace the install base alone lengthens the transition. The U.S. Department of Transportation says there are 204 million vehicles available for daily use. In 2015, there were approximately 17.5 million cars sold in the U.S. If we assume all the numbers held steady, it would require a grueling 11.5 years to replace the entire install base.
Our analysis can't stop here, however, because self-driving cars fundamentally change our relationship with the automobile. Currently, cars have an astoundingly low utilization rate of 5 percent. This means in a perfect world we would only need 1/20th the number of vehicles (10 million cars) to satisfy our needs (see Figure 7).
Given our manufacturing capability, the U.S. could build an autonomous fleet in as few as 7 months. Is this analysis simplistic? Yes. There are scores of positive and negative feedback cycles that would impact the amount of time it would take for a complete transition, and we will never get to 100 percent utilization. The important takeaway, though, is that we have the infrastructure and the manufacturing capability to "flip the switch" on autonomous cars much more quickly than most people realize.
The impact of transitioning to self-driving cars is potentially huge in terms of real dollars to the economy, and the transition could happen very quickly. But what would the transition mean in more concrete terms?
Changes to daily life
The disruptive changes autonomous vehicles will bring to this country are too numerous and nuanced to be discussed in a book, let alone this article. Instead, we will examine a few of the major non-obvious changes we can expect as a direct result of autonomous vehicles.
Garage space: Americans have been in love with the car for generations. One very obvious consequence is that the average American single-family home sports a two-car garage. While some homes have no garage, others have three-car garages, bringing the average to just over 1.9 garage spaces per home.
These two-car garages are space hogs, claiming somewhere around 500 square feet of prime living space. As the self-driving car transition matures, individual car ownership will wane, as will the necessity to park one's automobile in a garage.
According to U.S. Census data, as of 2011, there were approximately 81 million detached single-family homes in the U.S. If these homes average two garage spaces, we would expect there to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 billion square feet of garage space available. To put that number in perspective, the U.S. only added approximately 1.5 billion square feet of single-family home space in all of 2014. If self-driving cars allow us to gradually reclaim garage space as living space, we can reclaim more than 25 years worth of new home construction (see Figure 8).
The tendrils of this garage space recapture will reach far and wide. Self storage as a business will face a quickly eroding market, new housing starts should see pressure, home decor/repair retailers should be buoyed by DIYers looking to improve newfound space, so-called "boomerang kids" returning from college should be able to move back in with their parents and Airbnb should see inventory increase as homeowners look to monetize newly refurbished living space.
Apartment rentals: Speaking of garage space, the impact on multi-family housing will be at least as significant as it is on detached single-family homes. According to a recent study, the cost of building parking garages into multi-family housing is borne by the tenants, and can drive rents up by 15 percent or more.
A four-story multi-family apartment complex will often dedicate the entire lower story to parking instead of additional housing units. This means 25 percent of the capital expense and maintenance of the building is dead weight borne by the other three floors of construction. Reducing the need for parking should translate directly to an increase in affordable housing.
The media business is fundamentally about grabbing your attention. Until the introduction of the modern smartphone in 2007, the amount of people's time available to media had been static for decades, and competition was a zero-sum game. Mobile opened up new territories for settlement — territories that have now been claimed by Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a handful of other major players.
The estimated 75 billion hours Americans spend commuting will be up for grabs.
We are once again approaching an era of zero-sum competition, but that era will be short-lived as the estimated 75 billion hours Americans spend commuting will be up for grabs. Today's media giants will all make a play for this new supply of attention, but the jostling will make space for new upstarts or for an older player to reboot themselves.
Seventy-five billion hours is an extremely difficult number to conceptualize, but, in practical terms, it represents about twice the amount of time Americans spend on Facebook, an attention-based company worth almost $350 billion.
Here's a list of top media companies, with a total value approaching $700 billion (given consolidation in the media industry, these 15 conglomerates own almost all the name brands in traditional media):
Name Market Cap in Billions
Comcast 133
Time Warner 56
21st Century Fox 52
Time Warner Cable 51
DirecTV 47
NetFlix 39
WPP 27
Vivendi 25
CBS 22
British Sky Broadcasting 18
Viacom 17
Bertelsmann ~15
Televisa 13
Total $694 Billion
Urban greening
A U.C. Berkeley study recently noted there are between 700 million and 2 billion parking spaces in the U.S., covering substantially more than 5,000 square miles. This means three times as much land in the U.S. is devoted to parking than is devoted to growing wine grapes (see Figure 9). What civilized people would so horribly misallocate their resources?
As self-driving cars begin to obviate the need for high-value urban real estate to be devoted to parking, these spaces can be reclaimed. This newly liberated land can gradually be transitioned from the urban blight it currently represents to new housing, urban green space, unique local businesses and the things that make living in an urban environment interesting.
Dying industries
The transition to self-driving cars will be fast, and it will create tremendous value for the country, but that isn't to say it will be positive for everyone. Many sectors of society will be clear losers in this transition.
There are some obvious businesses that will gradually face extinction. These include gas stations, auto parts retailers and service stations. It is hard to imagine a self-driving future that doesn't ultimately break us away from individual car ownership; once you approach cars from the fleet perspective, gasoline and retail-level auto maintenance don't make sense.
There are some less-obvious victims, too. Public storage facilities will feel the bite as their largest competitor will become the 40 BILLION square feet of free garage space opening up over the next couple decades.
In the transportation space, airlines will face pressure as the shorter regional flights that are so critical to the hub and spoke system will need to compete against self-driving cars. Once a self-driving car can make the door-to-door trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in four hours or less, it will be cheaper, safer and more convenient than anything the airlines will be able to offer. Similarly, the insurance industry will need to adjust as the highly profitable auto insurance business line disappears.
As the number of accidents plummet, the auto insurance industry will see their margins compressed to near zero. Moreover, given the problems around attributing agency/fault in a world dominated by self-driving vehicles. it may make more sense for auto insurance to eventually be taken over by a state-run fund similar to the workers' compensation system.
There aren't many things we can say about the future with certainty. However, we can say that the potential for massive social and economic change contained in autonomous vehicle technology rivals the potential, now released, first contained in computers, the Internet and the mobile device.
For those who are looking for a new American Century or a new "New Deal," look no further than Uber, GM, Ford, Google, Lyft and Apple. The autonomous vehicle dividend is almost mature, and if policy makers don't epically screw this up, we may all get to cash in.


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Pride Month, Part I: Angels in America
Posted on June 12, 2019 by elizabethdean
I've watched Angels in America at least twice before (although never on stage). I will say, on a third viewing, it still absolutely lives up to the hype. Go right out and watch it now if you haven't yet. It'll be better use of six hours than dragging yourself through Netflix.
For my money, the most precise, fully realized character is Louis Ironson, the gay Jewish word processor (back when 'word processors' were human beings) at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Louis is one of the best fictional representations of US liberalism I've ever seen. Precisely because both Kushner and the play itself are quite aware of the dilemmas of US liberalism but unable to break out of it, Louis emerges as the embodiment of the key themes of the play.
It is Louis's abandonment of his lover, Prior, due to Prior's AIDS diagnosis that undergirds the structure of the entire play. Act One introduces the probability that Louis will chose to leave rather than deal with the reality of caring for his lover through to his death, and Act One ends with Louis finally resolving to leave Prior. Act Two finally resolves with Prior and Louis reaching a rapprochement (through not really a reconciliation). Louis's abandonment of Prior is the emotional trauma at the heart of the play, forming the basis for both how we view the closeted lawyer Joe Pitt's abandonment of his wife Harper and how we view God's abandonment of humanity as the play shifts into its supernatural aspects.
Louis running away from Prior is shown as a character flaw, if quite a human one. However, it also flows from his politics in ways that are not fully appreciated. Louis's fundamental characteristic, as his not-really-friend Belize tells him, is that he is "ambivalent about everything." Louis has deep anxiety about the law and fear of judgment. It is an eternal ambiguity, not radical or deconstructive, but destructive.
When justifying to himself his decision to leave Prior, he tells Prior he hates the law because "all that matters is the verdict," gabbling on that the law "should be the question and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation which disperses all complexity in some unsatisfying little decision." Prior, knowing what Louis is really saying, responds, "I like this; very zen; it's … reassuringly incomprehensible and useless. We who are about to die thank you." Louis's sin (and he and the play both view it on some level as a sin in the real sense) is, interestingly, justified in thoroughly liberal terms. His is the classic liberal critique of harsh right-wing jurisprudence: that life is too nuanced to be decided in a court room, that it is unjust to squash all the possible complexities into a singular narrative. In fact, this is the reigning view of much of current academia, which takes the reality that oppression denies the reality of the oppressed and concludes from this that the real problem is that there was a narrative at all. Louis isn't wrong, exactly. But he is, as Prior says, "useless" in the face of real need.
One of the characteristics of contemporary US liberalism is a wallowing in ambivalence, mistaking this for wisdom and maturity. This has often been remarked on, to the extent that "nuance" has become a punchline. It is the inability to decide which side you are on, an overpowering fear of conclusions which would then require actions, actions one is not willing to take.
This form of thought allows all critiques, viewpoints, and ideologies to coexist, without one gaining supremacy over another discursively. It is precisely by this mechanism that the true workings of American power are obscured. At the end of the play, Prior, Louis, Belize, and Joe's mother Hannah are all joined together in a heated but basically friendly argument. Louis's last words are a confused mess in which he, characteristically, both rejects religious forms of 'Zionism', declares himself an 'advocate of the Palestinian cause,' and insists that Israel giving up the Golan Heights and the West Bank would be 'a bridge too far.'[1] Prior then addresses the audience directly, asking us to tune out the argument and focus on the sacred, universal gift of life which he bestows upon us.
As David Savran argues in his analysis of the play,
a kind of dissensus (of which liberal pluralism is the contemporary avatar) has been the hallmark of the very idea of America – and American literature – from the very beginning. In this most American of ideologies an almost incomparably wide range of opinions, beliefs, and cultural positions are finally absorbed into a fantasy of a utopian nation in which anything and everything is possible, in which the millennium is simultaneously at hand and indefinitely deferred. Moreover, the nation is imagined as the geographical representation of that utopia, which is both everywhere and nowhere. For, as Berlant explains, "the contradiction between the 'nowhere' of utopia and the 'everywhere' of the nation [is] dissolved by the American recasting of the 'political' into the terms of providential ideality, '"one nation under God."' Under the sign of 'one' all contradictions are subsumed, all races and religions united, all politics theologized."
Louis's conversation with Belize, referenced earlier, is also quite relevant here. Louis responds to Belize's accusation of racism by insisting 'most black people are anti-Semitic', referring to the then-current incident of Jesse Jackson calling New York 'Hymietown.' This reflects a decades-long history of using the specter of black anti-Semitism to separate black and Jewish people politically—a tactic which has made a roaring comeback in the past few years. Belize then points out Louis donated to Jesse Jackson; Louis says his check bounced, which is what prompts Belize's statement that "All your checks bounce; you've ambivalent about everything."
Louis is not ignorant. He insists he doesn't "want to speak from a position of privilege" when Belize contradicts him, although he doesn't really understand what Belize is saying. His liberalism has red tints sometimes, like when he calls Gorbachev "the greatest political thinker since Lenin" or claims to think "the world, …. will change for the better with struggle," as "a person who has this neo-Hegelian positivist sense of constant historical progress toward happiness or perfection or something." He only manages to finish saying the Kaddish for a dead Roy Cohn in one scene through the assistance of a ghostly Ethel Rosenberg; but is totally unaware of her presence and sees this recitation as his own personal achievement. This suggests how certain forms and parts of Marxism can congeal with liberalism while diluting any kind of real radicalism—and here it's hard not to see Tony Kushner himself, who can passionately read and translate and genuinely understand Bertolt Brecht, and yet be an equally passionate fan of Obama and write a movie like Munich.
Louis's ambivalence is not simply a character trait; it is representative not just of liberalism, but of a certain kind of liberalism in a certain kind of place and time, the liberalism of the American intelligentsia, in late '80s New York. I don't mean to imply that liberalism was good at some point and then lost its way, but rather that real shifts in what liberalism was occurred. Liberalism provided no assistance or solidarity to gay people in the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. Instead, both frightened and attracted by the sweep of neoliberalism, liberalism fell into the arms of conservatism, as Louis is attracted, despite himself, to Joe Pitt.
In fact, it is Joe, the conservative Mormon in the grip of the Reagan Revolution, who speaks for embracing the imperfections and complexities of the world and of personal freedom outside of the law: "You believe the world is perfectible and so you find it always unsatisfying. You have to reconcile yourself to the world's unperfectibility by being thoroughly in the world but not of it. … The rhythm of history is conservative. You have to accept that. And accept as rightfully yours the happiness that comes your way." (In the stage directions, though not in the miniseries, this conversation occurs as Joe is jerking Louis off, further emphasizing the seductive nature of conservative ideology to Louis.) In the language of Adam Smith[2] and the invisible hand, he tells Louis he shouldn't feel guilty for abandoning his lover, because you have to be cruel to be kind and the good derives from self-interest, not charity. Liberation from the law, which had seemed (and usually really was) a left-wing cause, becomes instead liberation from ties to others, to the oppressed, and for pursuit of one's own personal profit.
This is, however, also the scene where Louis first begins to seriously pull away from Joe. Louis is genuinely disgusted when he learns Joe is the protégé of Roy Cohn and finally rejects him, to which Joe reacts violently ("Like a sex scene in an Ayn Rand novel, huh," Louis says bitterly). This is important because liberalism in the US, contrary to some basically correct but one-sided left-wing critiques, is not simply conservatism in disguise. It truly does hate the right-wing (and is hated back), it recoils in disgust from the truth of America, but this disgust leads to nothing. (But, you say, Louis does go back to Prior in the end. Patience, I'll get there.)
Angels in America is obsessed with movement and change. The reactionary Angel demands humanity stop moving. Prior finally rejects this in the climax of the play, exhorting us to move. Louis is someone who can't move anywhere, or rather, can't stop moving but not to anywhere, a movement that is meaningless.
Louis's later reunion with Prior is not quite a reconciliation or a forgiving, but there is a rapprochement, representing gay America's rapprochement with America itself, a suppression of the realities of the AIDS crisis.
Who, then, is Prior? Belize and Ethel represent the radical 'outsides' of America, Joe and Roy represent American conservatism (in its flamboyant, corrupt and its repressed, religious forms). (Harper and Joe's mother, despite their importance to the play, somewhat fall out here and relate to politics only obliquely—Harper can't be bothered to care, has only an emotional/mystical intuition of environmental catastrophe and Joe's mother, while a devout Mormon, does not see her religious and gender politics as interacting with state politics in the way that Joe does. Which probably shows some kind of gender problems deep in the structure of the play, but I'm too fatigued to think about that right now.)
Prior is much harder to slot in. He has very little character apart from suffering from AIDS, his bitterness over AIDS and his abandonment by Louis, a bemused fear of the Angel, and a gay affect/camp. He is 'featureless' (that is, he is rich, white, and male), thus can stand in for all gay men who died of AIDS. He must literally come down from above to heal, he represents the possible messianic potential of 'America'. He, unlike Louis, has an unproblematic and loving relationship with Belize. He is the real 'angel,' the messenger who ushers in a new age. He is the imaginary mediator who must exist for US liberalism to make sense.
Maybe predictably, it is the conservative political fixer and real-life villain Roy Cohn who has the sharpest view of what power in America really is. judging from YouTube comments, most people read Roy Cohn's "Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry, who fucks around with guys" as 'denial' or 'mental gymnastics', incorrectly seeing this as a denial of Roy's true identity. They miss the point that Kushner is making through Cohn here: that we, like Cohn's doctor, think words "mean what they seem to mean," that they identify something's essence rather than its power, what Cohn throughout the play calls "clout." Labels are "where an individual fit[s] in the food chain," they are relational statements. Cohn is quite right to say it is not "hypocrisy" or "sophistry" to say that he is not a gay man.
Similarly, in his conversation with Belize, Cohn spews a bunch of racist rhetoric but then insists "These racist guys, simpletons, I never had any use for them—too rigid. You want to keep your eye on where the most powerful enemy really is." The point is not the simplistic one it might be, that Cohn uses racism for political power but is not personally racist, that, as Louis argues earlier to Belize, that "racists just try to use race." Rather, it's that Cohn is racist, including in the "merely" personal ways, but understands that racism is a power relationship, which he can use to antagonize and bully to get his way (as he does with Belize later). Race is not some real thing that should motivate you, as it motivates those "racist simpletons." Cohn's concern for racism is explicitly how racial categories allow the operation of American power, as when he tells Belize that unlike Jews "you people had Jesus so the reds never got to you. I admire that."
It is Louis's fear of the body, as he explicitly discusses, which causes him to leave Prior. Describing himself in the third person, he says "maybe that person can't, um, incorporate sickness into his sense of how things are supposed to go. Maybe vomit … and sores and disease … really frighten him, maybe … he isn't so good with death." Similarly, Roy Cohn complains "Americans have no use for the sick…. It's just no country for the infirm." Liberalism starts to stumble when it realizes its autonomous, free, unencumbered individuals don't actually exist.
The best defense of Louis is, of course, that the hardship of caring for a lover dying of AIDS should not fall on just one person. Sarah Schulman rejects the play on this point, because it doesn't show a politically engaged community of gay men, in a criticism that, I think, really misses both the real achievements of and real problems with the play. For one, I think Schulman's account of unity in the face of the AIDS crisis is a little idealized; two, the point of the play is to show the consequences of the absence of care, in a way that thus makes the case for its importance; and, three, more to the point of this essay, the characters in the play are representations of currents within American society as much as they are individual gay men living in New York. (Which I am all for by the way: more allegories, fewer "three-dimensional characters." Otherwise we are cutting ourselves off from the full possibilities and capacities of art as a form.)
So in the end, I don't think we can judge Louis Ironson, the character in Angels in America, too harshly. No one person can take on the role of guiding another person through a nasty death.[3] But what about gay liberalism, as a political project? And, for all the sturm und drang around homonationalism and assimilation, how do we create a real, concrete alternative? Is the problem that liberalism can accommodate queerness, or that it can't? Can we get beyond simply bemoaning the existence of gay/queer liberalism to building a genuine queer socialist movement? I hope the next books I discuss here will help me think through these questions.
Works cited:
Angels in America. Directed by Mike Nichols. Written by Tony Kushner. HBO, December 2003.
Kushner, Tony. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. New York: Theatre Communications Group, Inc., 2013.
Savran, David. "Ambivalence, Utopia, and a Queer Sort of Materialism: How Angels in America Reconstructs the Nation." Theatre Journal 47.2 (1995): 207-227.
[1] Kushner, for his part, reveals his own limited imagination when Belize, positioned as part of black radical thought, chooses to advocate only for a Palestinian Bantustan in the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights.
[2] I am perfectly aware of the revisionist readings of Adam Smith claiming he was actually a prescient critic of capitalism and can be reclaimed for the left and I do not agree with them, so don't @ me about it.
[3] Nor do I want to turn to some exhortation to care for each other, rather than fighting for a world where health care doesn't depend on personal aid. Nor do I want to suggest the sick cannot fight and care for themselves.
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