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Just how racialist are we?
July 1, 2020 by Judith 9 Comments
The whole world was shocked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month. Videos and pictures showing a white police officer kneeling on the neck of an unarmed black man who was calling out that he could not breathe flooded the media.
This was not the first time that such a thing had happened, but the consequences have been worldwide. A great wave of protest headed by the Black Lives Matter campaign has hit the conscience of everyone. Demonstrations have been seen in major cities breaking lockdown regulations everywhere.
Surely the vast majority of us want to show our support for those who have faced blatant discrimination throughout their lives because of their colour. Many have expressed their views on Facebook and Twitter.
There has been a huge demand for action with calls for governments to bring in legislation and for authorities to take down statues of historical figures associated with the slave trade. More recently, the views and actions of once revered figures are being questioned in the light of today's values and their memorials have being vandalized. Such extreme reactions might well backfire – losing the sympathies of the majority.
Perhaps it is time to think about the only thing that will bring about real change. Our attitude. We all like to think that we are not prejudiced against others because of their colour or for any other reason, but are we?
As writers, do we unwittingly reinforce prejudice? Are our heroes always white and our villains black? Are heroes handsome, villains ugly, etc? Surely, it's not as simplistic as that. Does our cast of characters include a cross section of society?
The perceived wisdom may be that you should write a novel with your audience in mind but for most of us we write the kind of books we like to write. I am white, middleclass English and British. I write Agatha Christie type whodunits with a modern twist.
I gave the matter some thought –
After a quick pat on the back – yes, every Fiona Mason novel includes the dependable, always smiling Wilson, her West Indian driver and the narrator for my Aunt Jessica series is a gay man in his early thirties (how on earth did that happen?) plus a good sprinkling of people from minority groups among the passengers, but…
Though none were intentional token figures – they just seemed appropriate at the time, how had I represented them?
Winston, who I love dearly as does Fiona, was criticized by one of my readers for being portrayed as too uneducated. I don't know any gay men – young or otherwise. Though no one has ever commented on it, how can I have any idea of how such a man might think, feel or react in any given situation?
What about Sol, the elderly Jew in Blood Hits the Wall, who I describe as looking like the archetypal Jew only to be justly taken to task by an American writer friend who said there was no such thing.
I am a writer. I make things up, that's what we writers do. I love the experience of trying to see the world through someone else's eyes. I'd like to feel that helps to make me a more understanding, caring person. But…
My experience of others of different colour, race, creed, sexual orientation, disability is limited. Should I do more to research these characters? Will I? Probably not. But I will think more carefully. Though all my characters are one hundred percent fictional – never taken from people I know or have met (with the exception of a few physical characteristics) and the views they express theirs not mine – perhaps I will think more carefully just how I represent them.
Having decided on the topic for my blog a few days ago, I found it fascinating to read in this morning's paper that the Charles Dickens Museum had been defaced with graffiti claiming that the great Victorian author was a racist. In his novels, Dickens strived to gain the sympathies of his readers for the poor and the disadvantaged but what about Shylock? Was it his racist attitude or was he guilty of using a stock figure – the mean Jew? Afterall, he came good in the end, didn't he? I don't know enough to debate the issue, but the article highlighted the need for me to think twice before using conventional two-dimensional characters in my books.
Filed Under: General interest, Writing characters Tagged With: black Lives Matter, Charles Dickens, racism
Judith Cranswick says
Wow – what a faux pas! Mixing Shylock and Scrooge. That's what you get when you do something at the last minute in a hurry.
Heaven knows what I was thinking.
Hiding my head in shame,
Josie Briggs says
Thank you for your thought provoking posting, Judith.
If I may add my tuppence worth, in my view the reader is just as responsible as the writer for making characters in a novel diverse. I don't know how many other white readers do likewise when reading a novel, but for years I have easily been visualising some characters as being of other ethnicities. This may be a result of growing up in a large city with lots of immigrants from many different countries and ethnicities, and attending and working at several universities, where again a wide diversity of students and researchers worked and socialised together.
Along these lines, I wonder if, say, an Asian reader usually visualises most characters in a book as belonging to her or his ethnicity.
It would be really interesting to know how other readers, of whatever ethnicity, sexuality or other diversity, tend to visualise characters in a novel.
That's well worth following up, Josie.
I must confess, I never thought about that.
(I tend to use Jay for responses). Jeannette Ayton says
You raise both an interesting and a common problem. And I think you are brave identifying your, possibly problematic characters e.g. the black driver – always a secondary/servile role.
It's very difficult when, by and large, you grow up, go to school, live and work in traditionally all-white settings. I've been luckier than many in that I've lived in many places – Luton as a child and teenager when Irish incomers were the subject of much prejudice; Sheffield almost completely white in those days; Preston – similar; West Lothian, Scotland when there was some anti-English prejudice; then Leeds, outside Wakefield – with little or no contact with non-white communities and now Barnsley in South Yorkshire which until very recently had virtually no 'incomers' and is very racist (though the majority of newcomers now are Eastern European so white!).
I've been lucky in many but limited ways – I was able to accompany one daughter to her friend's Sikh wedding, together with a black college friend, the only non-Indians present and my husband has worked with colleagues from other continents so we have fed and hosted a few non-white friends over the years (from Nigeria; Lagos; Sri Lanka and India).
We have a very dear friend (of about 30 years) with an Afro-Caribbean heritage who is also gay and, after many years, has spoken a little of his problems.
But I still don't fell I know enough or genuinely understand how e.g. other people are brought up or details of cultural or religious customs.
That's a long-winded way of saying I'm not competent realistically to write about a non-white character although I'm conscious I ought to be able to be more representative. The closest I've dared is in my Josh & Olly trilogy (written as J. J Ayton – time slip adventures for primary age readers) when Olly has an Indian heritage but, at least, 2nd generation British-English born. In each book some stranger makes a reference to him/his strangeness which Josh defends/explains.
As is so common, I tend to write the sort of children's stories I lapped up as a child – friendships; adventures; dangers …
It's difficult ….
Perhaps we need to think about whether we are genuinely trying not to cause offense, or worried about being accused of being prejudiced.
It's a fine line.
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Autonomous Trucking: Leadership Change at Daimler Truck's independent subsidiary Torc
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Dr. Peter Vaughan Schmidt new CEO of Torc Robotics, effective October 1st 2022
Stuttgart / Portland / Blacksburg – Daimler Truck and Torc Robotics announce a change in leadership at Torc that will usher in the next era of growth, product commercialization, and customer focus. Effective October 1, Dr. Peter Vaughan Schmidt, currently head of Daimler Truck's Autonomous Technology Group, will succeed Michael Fleming (43) as chief executive officer of Torc Robotics, an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck. Fleming will retain a seat on the Torc Board of Directors and remain engaged as a key advisor. This change in leadership is a natural transition in Torc's evolution as a company since 2019, when Daimler invested into the company.
Martin Daum, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck: "I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Michael Fleming. His achievements for our company and for our industry as a whole cannot be overstated. He is a true pioneer and visionary who paved the way for autonomous driving, founding Torc Robotics 17 years ago. Torc has been part of the Daimler Truck family since 2019 and, with Michael at the helm, has successfully further developed its software solution for autonomous driving and adapted it to our Freightliner trucks. As a consultant and Member of Torc's Board of Directors, Michael Fleming will continue to contribute his expertise and I am very much looking forward to continuing our cooperation. Following the pioneering work in recent years, Torc is now entering the next phase. The aim now is to establish Torc as a global company with four locations, bring autonomous trucking technology to perfection in the next few years, and ultimately to series production. I am very pleased that we have the right personality in Peter Vaughan Schmidt to shape this next phase as CEO of Torc. Peter has been responsible for autonomous driving at Daimler Truck for many years and has been closely supporting Torc since we invested in 2019. He therefore has everything it takes to lead Torc, as an independent company in which Daimler Truck holds a majority stake, into a successful future and to bring the entire potential of autonomous trucks to the road."
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After competing as a student for Virginia Tech in the 2004 and 2005 DARPA Grand Challenges, Michael Fleming founded Torc to commercialize self-driving technology. Since then, Fleming has led Torc Robotics as CEO, deploying its technology across the trucking, automotive, transit, mining and defense industries. Following a majority investment by Daimler Truck, Fleming and his team have completely focused Torc on autonomous hub-to-hub trucking. Under his leadership, Torc developed into an autonomous powerhouse and quadrupled in size into a global organization with teams in four locations in the United States and Europe. He pushed development of SAE Level 4 autonomous technology significantly forward by successfully implementing Torc's software stack on a fleet of heavy-duty vehicles now running daily testing programs out of Torc's testing facilities. After 17 years, he is now stepping down as CEO of his own volition, following a long held natural transition plan.
Torc continues to be an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck forming a strong and stable partnership fully committed to commercializing autonomous trucks within this decade.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – While many local businesses are finally allowing customers return, some have already suffered a fatal blow. Small, independent businesses have been especially hard hit, like Paws Pet Boutique off Thomasville Road.
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Leaders at the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce have been following similar stories this spring. President Sue Dick knows how hard it is to maintain a small business.
"We know to be a business owner, you have to be a warrior at heart, so we hate to hear that information," she said.
Dick said most businesses in the area are hanging on, and the owners deciding to permanently close may have already been nearing retirement or a life change before the pandemic arrived."
"We're seeing a lot of different scenarios out there, but for the most part we're seeing our local business community really market that we're open for business in a safe structure," she said.
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New Year's Resolutions – 2020 Edition
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WELP, there goes another year!
2019 flew by and I didn't get anything done.
In December 2018, I wrote about how blogging had burned me out and I actually decided to take a break for a while to recharge and get things in order. Except, I blinked at some point along the way and the year was over.
So how did my sabbatical year go?
Although I did some recharging, unfortunately, I got nothing in order in 2019. It all went down when I decided to stop writing altogether. Sure I did a couple of posts in the year, but it wasn't enough to get me motivated or excited about jumping back into blogging or getting any blogging thoughts in order. I started planning for a rebranding of the entire blog at the beginning of 2019. However, it slowly started to fade away as the days passed and having no idea in which direction I wanted to go, I completely forgot all about it. The newsletter kept going, though I think the last one I sent out was in August. Even my Instagram stood kind of still throughout the year. 🙁
Fast forward to last month, when I realized that the year was almost over and I had absolutely nothing done. No rebranding material, no post planning, no paid work lined up, no social media content, NOTHING. Not even the will to think about if I wanted to blog in 2020.
January came. New year, new me, right? Meh. Not really.
I then had a realization Friday morning.
I think the reason why I was so unmotivated and unwilling to do any blog related things was because I had gone so long without blogging. Is that weird, or what!?
Sure, I was burned out by the end of 2018, but I think taking a month or two off would have sufficed. UH, if only I could turn back time, ha-ha.
Once this realization washed over me, ideas for posts started popping up in my head. In 15 minutes, I had written down 65 blog post titles! 65! An hour after that I had mapped them into my calendar. WOOH!
And, of course, the first post HAS to be about resolutions. Hehe.
So, New Year's Resolutions, here we GO!
New year, new me, right?
You're damn right! Haha. I plan to make 2020 my b****!
I have four resolutions, and they are every bit ambitious as they are doable!
Every year thousands, if not millions, of people, have one resolution in common; to lose weight. It's me, I'm people.
And even if I don't achieve it, I don't mind. Mostly because I forget. Hahahaha. But, there was a specific day in 2019 when I realized my wedding ring was too tight. I took it off and after huffing and puffing, and slathering soap on my finger for a couple of minutes, I got it back on. (insert hysterical cry) And then, I had to take it off indefinitely because it was retaining too much moisture and my finger was breaking out, and it just was no bueno. So what did I do about it? Nothing. I mean I wanted to, but I'm one of those people who love to eat whatever with little will power to restrain. Over time, I have lost the ability to do it without gaining weight, hence the hysterical cry because my ring had never been so tight before. But this year, I am determined to do something about it and getting the results I want!
My second resolution is to wake up earlier. This one has yet to be achieved since the year started, but I am hopeful that slowly, but surely, I will get to the point where I won't need an alarm!
My third resolution is one that Husband and I will share as a family, which is to travel more. We're closing in on being completely paid off on our credit cards, that we decided that 2020 is going to be the year we travel more. We sacrificed a big chunk of last year for us to be able to get to where we are now and where we'll be in a few months. I think I might even make a post about it when it's all said and done. Who knows, maybe it'll help you if you're in a similar situation too!
Last, but not least, I want to want to keep up with Little Conquest, and everything that comes with it. I believe, by achieving my second resolution, it will give me more time to work on posting more content consistently both on the blog and on social media. I guess it'll be more of a routine at that point.
Anyway, that's it. 🙂
Let's go, roaring 20s! Hahahahha. I don't know what that means. I've just been wanting to say it. lol
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KarlaWife, and mother to 2 boys! Enjoys life and adventures. Loves writing, Pinteresting, and pumpkin spice everything!
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{{Картка:Таксономія
| name = Троодонтиди
| fossil_range = пізня юра - крейдовий період
| image = Zanabazar.jpg
| image_width = 300px
| image_caption = Zanabazar — реконструкція
| domain = Ядерні (Eukaryota)
| regnum = Тварини (Animalia)
| phylum = Хордові (Chordata)
| classis = Завропсиди (Sauropsida)
| superordo = Динозаври (Dinosauria)
| ordo = Ящеротазові (Saurischia)
| subordo = Тероподи (Theropoda)
Eumaniraptora
| familia = Троодонтиди (Troodontidae)
| familia_authority = Gilmore, 1924
| type_species = Troodon formosus
| type_species_authority = Leidy, 1856
| subdivision_ranks = Підгрупи
| subdivision =
 Albertavenator
 Almas
 Archaeornithoides?
 Geminiraptor
 Hesperornithoides
 Jianianhualong
 Koparion?
 Liaoningvenator
 Paronychodon?
 Papiliovenator
 Polyodontosaurus Sinornithoides Talos Tochisaurus Xixiasaurus Jinfengopteryginae
 Sinovenatorinae
 Troodontinae
| synonyms =
Elopterygidae? Lambrecht, 1933
Saurornithoididae Barsbold, 1974
Archaeornithoididae? Elzanowski & Wellnhofer, 1992
}}
Троодонтиди (Troodontidae) — родина динозаврів інфраряду дейнонихозаври (Deynonichosauria), яка є частиною групи тероподних динозаврів маніраптори (Maniraptora). Мешкали в юрському і крейдяному періодах на території Північної Америки, Європи і Азії. Найбільш відомі представники: троодон, анхіорніс, сіновенатор.

 Опис
Троодонтиди є переважно невеликими пернатими динозаврами. Найбільший троодонтид — троодон мав 2,5 метри в довжину, з іншого боку, найменший троодонтид анхіорніс важив лише 100 г.

Типові родинні ознаки: великі очні ямки, довгі задні кінцівки, довга шия, дуже розвинені передні кінцівки, що слугують на захоплення, довгі тонкі кігті на усіх кінцівках, гострі конічні зуби із зазубленими краями, можлива наявність оперення.
Помічені анатомічні подібності з археоптериксом.
Також можуть бути далекими родичами орнитоміма (Ornithomimidae).

 Таксономія
Група: Тиранораптори (Tyrannoraptora)
 Інфраряд: Deinonychosauria
 Родина: Troodontidae
 Рід: Anchiornis Рід: ?Archaeornithoides Рід: Borogovia Рід: Byronosaurus Рід: Geminiraptor Рід: Jinfengopteryx Рід: ?Koparion Рід: Linhevenator Рід: Mei Рід: Saurornithoides Рід: Sinornithoides Рід: Sinusonasus Рід: Sinovenator Рід: Talos Рід: Tochisaurus Рід: Troodon Рід: Urbacodon Рід: Xixiasaurus Рід: Zanabazar''

Кладограмма Родини Троодонтиди

Зовнішня систематика

Примітки

Посилання

Целурозаври
Родини динозаврів

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The Pan-American Post
News and analysis on politics, human rights and civil society in Latin America by Geoffrey Ramsey
After Protesters Enter La Paz, What Next for Evo Morales?
Bolivia protesters entered the national capital yesterday, raising questions over what their next move might be. Just six hours after marchers rallied in the city's center, President Evo Morales invited protest leaders to sit down and negotiate. La Razon says he was promptly struck down for failing to meet their demands about how the meeting should be conducted. BBC estimates there are 1,000 marchers; local media have reported double that number.
The demonstrators are rallying against the proposed construction of a road through the TIPNIS national park and indigenous land. NACLA provides excellent context to the unrest, laying out the protesters' demands: that the government should annul its contract with a Brazilian construction company and permanently cancel the project.
As the Associated Press highlights, the marches point to the internal divisions within Bolivia's heterogeneous indigenous population. The article implies that the protests are now fueled, in part, by the perception that Morales is more keen on protecting the interests of Bolivia's "highland" Indian groups rather than the "lowland" indigenous in the Amazon. According to the AP, the Aymara and the Quecha dominate in Morales' government. This may be partly a reflection of population dynamics: an estimated 70 percent of Bolivia's population lives in the "highlands," even though the Amazonian basin makes up more than half of Bolivia's total territory. The divisions between Bolivia's "highland" and "lowland" cultures have long made up part of its national psyche, so it would make sense if these tendencies emerged again during this latest round of unrest.
The question is whether there is enough political pressure on Morales for him to cede to the protesters. As Bloggings by Boz pointed out at the time, this is at least the fourth time this year that the government has backed down and given in to protesters' demands, following a hostile initial response. What was unusual about the TIPNIS protests was the level of hostility police used against marchers, and the political fallout which resulted, including the resignation of two government ministers.
It is possible that the government's abuse towards the demonstrators may have influenced the outcome of Bolivia's referendum last Sunday, concerning the election of judges: 45% of voters allegedly abstained. The AP described it as Morales' first defeat at the polls during his six years as president. It is hard to say how much of the abstention had to do with unhappiness with details of the judicial vote, or how much of it was an overall expression of discontent with the government. What is clear is that if Morales was facing a "test" among voters, he did not come out strong. Foreign Affairs has more analysis on Morales' uncertain future, arguing that the TIPNIS controversy is emblematic of how the president has "lost his way."
Marchers say they are not leaving La Paz until the government calls off the TIPNIS project completely. In wake of the ongoing tensions within his support base, as well as the apparent reprimand delivered by voters on Sunday, Morales may have to give in.
The LA Times highlights some new theories regarding the "paramilitary" group, the "Mata Zetas," active in Veracruz state and apparently dedicated to harassing criminal gang the Zetas, with brutal results. Since the gang emerged after the government deployed new military forces to Veracruz in June, there is conjecture that the group is operating with indirect military support, possibly prompted by the June kidnapping and killing of three marine cadets.
Student protests in Santiago, Chile, saw an estimated turnout of 25,000, thanks to support from teacher and trade unions, reports AFP. The BBC details that the demonstration started peacefully, then broke down after police moved in and students began throwing rocks, burning buses and erecting barricades. The AP quotes a student leader who says a fringe group is using the violent tactics, which is weakening the students' position and strengthening the government's argument that the protesters are a radical minority, impossible to negotiate with.
IPS takes note of Argentina's upcoming elections on Sunday, examining why the weakened opposition is expected to perform so pitifully against incumbent President Cristina Fernandez. As Reuters lays out, there are plenty of reasons why Fernandez's economic policies, which emphasize social justice, are expected to result in an easy win. Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady, meanwhile, argues that these "dysfunctional" politics are actually a loss for Argentina's economy.
A health expert told the Associated Press that Haiti now has the highest rate of cholera in the world, a year after the disease was introduced to the island. The country is preparing to test a new cholera vaccine, amid declarations by medical officials that the epidemic is still going strong.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies published a report on the resurgence of Mexico's PRI party and the implications for the 2012 presidential elections. The reports argues that evern since winning a Congressional majority in 2009, the PRI has managed to "prepare a path towards electoral victory" by pushing federal funds towards the areas and programs most needed to attract voters.
In WOLA's most recent podcast, Senior Associate Adam Isacson speaks with Josiah Heyman, a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, about U.S. border policy and the impact on El Paso communities. For another look at border issues, a brief documentary by SnagFilms examines a Mexican town where residents have created a theme-park event: a simulated border crossing where participants must enlist "coyotes" to their aid, and try avoid the actors playing the Border Patrol.
InSight Crime details the saga of a 50-year family feud in northeast Brazil, thought to behind 95 homicides so far this year in one of Brazil's most violent states. The conflict draws attention to the insecurity and contraband trade so prevalent in rural Brazil, even as the government has tried to promote its efforts to reduce crime in urban centers.
The Dominican Republic will deport thousands of illegal migrants, many of them Haitian, under the terms of a new law, reports the AP. In counterpoint, the Miami Herald has a feature on how Dominican baseball players, attempting to migrate to play in the U.S., successfully forge their paperwork in order to win contracts with U.S. teams.
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Punta Cannone is the highest peak on the island of Tavolara, reaching 564/565 meters high it allows you to enjoy a unique panorama of all the coastal gallura and beyond ... up to the southern coasts. To reach it you will need to face a Via Ferrata, a protected climbing route from the Cannon Mouth (a valley also known as 'pratone') allows you to reach the summit. The Ferrata is considered 'easy' and is also suitable for beginners who are in good physical shape and do not suffer from dizziness.
The trail that leads to the peak of Tavolara has the starting point in the Spalmatore di Terra Beach, located on the western end of the island. From here starts our trip that moves along the cliff, climbing quickly and intersecting a wide path leading to the Punta della Mandria. Before reaching La Mandria we will intercept a trail close to the lime kilns. In about one hour it leads to overcome the low cengia using ropes and a small 'ladder' called 'scala 'e fuste'.
From here, the trail develops between the low ledge and the high ledge facing a soft slope. It reaches the northwest direction leading us to the 'Mouth of the Cannon'. From there two different itineraries start: a Via Ferrata consisting of 2 small segments (picture above) and a longer Via Ferrata that develops for a hundred meters.
Both Via Ferratas reach the crests of the island. From here the panorama stretches across the entire coastal Gallura, reaching Corsica and beyond. From the saddle where both Via Ferrata reach Punta Cannone (564 meters) will be ten minutes far.
The descending route can follow almost totally that trail of the ascent, the guide will decides if change slightly itinerary (variation of Punta della Mandria) by evaluating the conditions of the group.


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Rafael Nadal: I hope I can play in the "Davis Cup" in November
Spaniard Rafael Nadal plans to play in the "Davis Cup", which will be held in a new format in November.
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Roads of Arabia: new perspectives on human society
Luxury goods or tourism typically aren't considered a solid basis for the development of human society. That's only through the bias of thinking within empires and through the industrial machinery of modern nation-states. The Sackler Gallery's spectacular exhibit, Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, shows that trade in incense and travel to Islamic holy sites supported small, distinctive, culturally advanced societies in Arabia alongside of ancient empires, long before the discovery of oil.
In the form of beautifully lit sandstone steles, distinctive and expressive persons living in Saudi Arabia about 6000 years ago welcome visitors to the first room of Roads of Arabia. Little is known about the purpose of these steles and the societies that created them. Roughly similar steles, known as hermae, were made in Greece about 3000 years later to serve as boundary markers and funerary monuments. The Arabian steles don't seem to represents kings or heroes. The Arabian steles seems to represent a sense of self that cultural historians within the European intellectual tradition typically trace to a recent, few centuries of economic growth and political liberalization within a Judeo-Christian culture. Roads of Arabia expands that self-consciousness enormously.
Roads of Arabia potentially revolutionizes understanding of human social organization. The exhibit includes a stone sculpture apparently of a horse. It was discovered within the last five years in al-Magar in north-central Saudi Arabia. The al-Magar sculpture and related evidence suggests that domesticated horses existed in Arabia 9000 years ago. The best recent research on horse domestication suggests that horses were first domesticated about 5500 years ago in the steppes of Ukraine and northwest Kazakhstan.[1] The al-Magar horse sculpture, if scientifically validated, potentially implies a complete rethinking of the relationship between humans and horses, and a new history of human societies all across Asia for thousands of years.
Many's the water-skin of all sorts of folk I have slung
by its strap over my shoulder, humble as can be, and humped it;
many's the valley, bare as an ass's belly, I've crossed,
a valley loud with the wolf howling like a many-bairned wastrel [2]
Roads of Arabia presents artifacts that should encourage a literary re-assessment of what's known as Bedouin poetry. At least since the cultural heights of the Abbasid caliphate, Bedouin poetry has been associated with an Arabian world of bucolic Bedouin, camels, campfires, and sand. However, a roughly 2400-years-old stone pedestal or altar discovered in northern Hijaz (northeastern Saudi Arabia) includes iconography showing influence of high culture from Egypt to Persia.[3]
The people of pre-Islamic Arabia had broad cultural horizons. About 2300 years ago, they carved exquisite, life-sized stone statues of men. Those statues aren't the sort of objects that a Bedouin would carry around the desert. A girl buried just outside Thaj (east-central Saudi Arabia) about 1900 years ago was buried on a beautifully cast Hellenstic funerary bed. She was dressed in a lavish custom and had a gold funerary mask. She probably didn't regularly lead a donkey to a well to fill animal skins with water for her camp. Pre-Islamic oasis cities in the northern Hijaz had constructed wells, artificial lakes, dams, canals, and complex hydrological mechanisms.[4] Bedouin poetry was probably primarily a literary conceit in the cosmopolitan, cultured world of Arabia that existed even prior to Islam.
The extensive economic and cultural development in Arabia occurred without strong, territorially extensive political control. Tribes and cities in Arabia formed loose, shifting alliances. Societies in Arabia developed not by exploiting a large expanse of secured territory, but via trade routes connecting incense sources and holy sites in Arabia to north Africa and Eurasia. Incense and holy sites are much more closely related to symbolic systems and communication than are iron and oil. Many leaders around the world today are pondering how to prosper in a new economy of communication networks. Roads of Arabia shows a greatly under-appreciated ancient example of a vibrant society built upon communication and services.
Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is at the Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC, through Feb. 24, 2013. The exhibit is beautifully lit and features a stunning, walk-through arrangement of tombstones of pilgrims to Mecca. Associated with the physical exhibit is a extensive, well-constructed online exhibit. While no substitute for seeing the artifacts in person, the online exhibit makes many images and much information from Roads of Arabia accessible world-wide.
communication models for portraiture
nomads of Eurasian steppe not only in idyllic natural world
effects of aging: early Arabic love poetry responds to Roman love elegy
[1] Warmuth et al. (2012).
[2] Mu'allaqa of Imru' al-Qays, trans. Arberry (1957) p. 64.
[3] al-Hamra cube, from the al-Hamra Temple at Tayma, Saudia Arabia. A Christian bishop ordered a "Najrani {Christian} monk," "one of the people of Najran," to travel to India and China about 980. Al-Nadim, Fihrist, trans. Dodge (1970) v. 2, p. 836. Najran is a city in southern Arabia. Christians from that city were deported to Kufa, just south of Baghdad, about 640. Whether the Christian monk lived in Najran or merely maintained a historic affiliation with Najran, his assignment to travel to China suggests Arabia's cosmopolitan position.
[4] Ghabbān (2010) pp. 215, 224-6 (Tayma); pp. 275, 290 (Hegra); p. 266 (huge constructed water basin at Dedan).
[image] Anthropomorphic stele; El-Maakir, Qaryat al-Kaafa, near Ha'il, Saudi Arabia, 4th millennium BCE; Sandstone; H x W: 57 x 27 cm; National Museum, Riyadh. I've covered the non-original support for the stele with the black background to avoid its distraction. The arrangement and lighting of the steles in the exhibit has a similar effect.
Arberry, Arthur John. 1957. The seven odes: the first chapter in Arabic literatures. New York: Macmillan.
Dodge, Bayard Dodge. 1970. The Fihrist of al-Nadīm: a tenth century survey of Muslim culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
Ghabbān, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm. 2010. Roads of Arabia: archaeology and history of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Paris: Somogy Art Publishers.(exhibit catalog)
Warmuth ,Vera, Anders Eriksson, Mim Ann Bower, Graeme Barker, Elizabeth Barrett, Bryan Kent Hanks, Shuicheng Li, David Lomitashvili, Maria Ochir-Goryaeva, Grigory V. Sizonov, Vasiliy Soyonov, and Andrea Manica. 2012. "Reconstructing the origin and spread of horse domestication in the Eurasian steppe." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109 (21): 8202-8206.
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Jupiter sextile Jupiter transit is a time of balance and equilibrium when everything seems to run smoothly with a minimum of effort. This means you can relax and enjoy growth and success in your personal and professional life. But don't relax too much. There will be opportunities you really should take advantage of. You will have a broad perspective of how everything in your life comes together and this means you can understand which steps to take in the future to succeed.
This is a good time for starting studies and travels because these things will promote spiritual growth. Savings, investments, legal and business matters will likely be profitable. In your career you can make a good impression on superiors. Promotion or a wage increase is possible. You should enjoy growth and good luck in all areas of life.


When the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) holds its annual summit in Abu Dhabi this December, it will likely confront the question of whether to admit Yemen as a full member. Yemen has been gradually incorporated into the club over the years: It already has full rights in certain GCC institutions, such as the Council of Health Ministers, but it is still shut out from full participation in other bodies. It is Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's goal to be admitted as a full member sometime before decade's end.
There is reason to believe that pressure is being applied on the GCC to hasten that outcome. The Kuwaiti Times reported on June 23that the United States conveyed a request from Yemen to the GCC for full council membership. After years of having its request for GCC membership denied, Yemen might receive a different answer this year because of the intercession of the United States, which serves as a powerful ally for many of the GCC states.. This opportunity provides the GCC a unique opportunity to revitalize its mission – but to do so, it will need to overcome some of its historical prejudices.
Yemen is in many respects the "other" for the GCC. Essentially a rich-country club, the GCC is repelled by Yemen's poverty — an ironic development, given that sixty to seventy years ago, before oil was discovered on the Arabian Peninsula, these countries were arguably poorer. The GCC countries, in their rush to embrace modernity, financed by the greatest transfer of wealth history has ever seen, think of Yemen as their "primitive" and "backward" cousin, over whom they can feel superior. Again, this fact is somewhat ironic, given that Yemen has a greater civilizational history than they do.
Add to this mix the fact that the GCC states are all monarchies — and that Yemen threw out its royalty in 1962 and established what has been over time an enduring republic – and you have an even more potent fear. While Yemen's democracy has faltered from time to time, at least it has periodic presidential and parliamentary elections (which international monitors have declared fair, by and large); this is more than can be said for the GCC states.
But perhaps the biggest sticking point to Yemen's GCC membership was its support of Iraq during the 1990 Gulf War, a diplomatic blunder on the part of the Sana'a regime that was economically disastrous for the country. Yemen, which is dependent on remittances from its expatriate laborers in the oil-rich Gulf states, was suddenly faced with an influx of about a million of its own people, who had been expelled from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Yemen still has not been forgiven for its fateful U.N. vote opposing the U.S.-led effort to expel Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. If one remembers how generously Kuwait, for one, had supported Yemen's development throughout the 1970s and 1980s, one can understand why. Nonetheless, Yemen's actions were largely symbolic, and occurred over two decades ago. But symbolism has often played a larger role in GCC affairs than reality – a fact attested to by the long-running controversy over Yemen's admission.
The truth is that the GCC has substantially aided Yemen over the years, despite the fact that it is not a full member of the organization. The GCC knows that Yemen, a country with a population roughly the size of Saudi Arabia, must be helped or greater instability will ultimately knock on its countries' backdoors. But most of the steps it takes are stop-gap measures: for example, bank-rolling Yemen's treasury so that it can pay its government employees. The GCC pledged a multi-billion dollar assistance package to Yemen in the past, but then slowed down or halted its implementation on the grounds that it could not guarantee transparency. To be sure, corruption is a worry in Yemen – but it is no less a worry in the Gulf, where corruption takes place on such an epic scale as to make Yemen's look petty by comparison.
One suggestion that would have substantial benefits for Yemen is to allow Yemeni nationals back into the workforce of the Gulf states. With remittances flowing back into Yemen, there might be enough cash for investment in local development projects, as there was in the past. Yemen's economy has always been largely reliant on small-scale business in any case. Currently, the Gulf states are largely dependent upon Asian immigrant laborers for their building boom, and if there is one "other" they fear more than Yemenis, it is Indians and Filipinos. Many Gulf residents are aghast to find their children learning Urdu and Tagalog instead of Arabic from their maids and nannies.
The counter-argument to this suggestion is that Yemenis are not skilled enough to occupy even the lowest rungs in the construction industry. But Yemenis could undergo professional and technical training in the Gulf, alongside Gulf nationals from other states, followed by job experience in its building industry, and then these retrained and experienced laborers could re-enter the Yemeni workforce. In the meantime, however, an economic plan for job growth in Yemen would have to be implemented to accommodate the returnees, which would no doubt require further assistance from the GCC.
Presumably, even such ambitious plans could be carried out without Yemen becoming a full-fledged member in the GCC — so why push for this step now? Because symbolic gestures can send powerful messages. It would be a message of unity with a country that is not only struggling, but undergoing real suffering; a message that this country is a full member of the family rather than a poor relation who is given a handout and then told to go away; a message of hope in a time of despair; and most of all, it would be a message of forgiveness and of healing, both of which are badly needed today.
Dr. Steve C. Caton is Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.