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Álvaro Enrigue, Author of Sudden Death, on Caravaggio's Tennis Game, Castration & The Birth of The…
The following is an excerpt provided by our friends at BOMB.
Read Esposito & Enrigue's full conversation in BOMB's spring issue.
I first met Álvaro Enrigue at that notoriously inhumane collection of book-people known as BookExpo America. It was 2013. Four years before, I had written a review of the anthology Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction, which included Enrigue's story "On the Death of the Author," his debut in English. I daresay I was the first American critic to write about him; if not the first, one of a handful. As this smiling man strode up to me in that clusterfuck of commerce, I barely remembered that review. But no sooner did Álvaro grab my hand and pump it up and down than he sang my praises for the words I had given to his story. As we went on to make awkward small talk, it became clear that this opening gratitude was no calculated act — he was genuinely thankful, and he could think of no other way of beginning our very first interaction than by letting me know.
In the years since that meeting, Enrigue's profile in English has risen. Hypothermia — an excellent book from which "On the Death of the Author" is drawn — was released that spring and became an underground hit. Later that year, he received the immensely prestigious Herralde Prize for his unpublished novel Muerte súbita, which, before it even had a Spanish-language publisher, was already drawing the attentions of major US presses. That book is now published as Sudden Death in an outstanding translation by Natasha Wimmer. It is a suitably strange, light-footed but historically weighty construction that centers around a fake tennis match between the painter Caravaggio and the poet Francisco de Quevedo. From this central conceit, Enrigue expands the frame to take in the immense canvas of Counter-Reformation Europe and Cortés's New World. It is a brilliant synthesis of art, history, religion, power politics, and — yes — tennis, a complex study of our world via the world that gave birth to modernity. It is much like an American postmodern book, except it is very different from, say, a Pynchon or a DeLillo since it is carried along by Álvaro's very Mexican wit and sensibility, as well as his own intuitive logic. His books are at once morbid and celebratory, somber and slapstick, historic and very much about the present. Precisely how Álvaro reconciles these opposites indicates his unique contribution to our world of letters.
Scott Esposito: I want to begin with your novel Sudden Death, your latest book in both Spanish and English, and the one that most people who read this interview will associate you with. It's very much about the painter Caravaggio and the poet Francisco de Quevedo, but it's also about their era, an era that transformed Europe and the New World and instigated what we would call the modern world. I see two main threads in this book: the capital H History that is ruled by the elites and shapes the world we live in, and then the lives of artists, who are legislators in their own right. Let's start with the artists. What about Caravaggio and Quevedo made you want to explore a relationship between them through a tennis match?
Álvaro Enrigue: For years I wanted to write a book not about but with Caravaggio. I thought that the fluidity of his sexuality, his faith in process as an artist, and his incredible ability to get in trouble had something to say about the world we live in, of which he was kind of a pioneer. There are many fascinating things about his life: He was Galileo's friend, he was a murderer, and he dressed like a charro avant la lettre (that is, a Mexican cowboy). Legend states that his sword said "Without hope" on one side and "Without fear" on the other. When he finally got a commission for a painting for Saint Peter's Basilica, he used a really vulgar old woman as a model for St. Anne (the painting never did make it to Saint Peter, of course). But I have no interest in historical novels; I didn't want to represent a period and a character, but rather reflect, in a narrative key, on the first moderns, our true ancestors. So I needed to find a way to talk about Caravaggio — maybe with him — that was not a period portrait in a famous set. While circling these ideas I revisited a biography of his and noted a detail that I had previously missed: before stardom and celebrity, he used to play professional tennis at the Piazza Navona. He actually played pallacorda, an Italian antecedent to the modern game, to earn some extra cash. Showing him as a tennis player, I thought, would let me focus the novel as a study of his figure outside the box of Caravaggio-esque topics.
A novel researches something that was previously not visible. Now we know things about Caravaggio that maybe not even he himself knew — in the period in which he used to hang out with Galileo, the astronomer was just a math professor, no one knew that he would become a radical revolutionary, for example. There were things to say about that, about how liberal the people of the Baroque period were, and so on.
SE: So Caravaggio and Francisco de Quevedo made up this rich binary to investigate the period?
The sensual beast could only show himself honestly if confronting that incendiary brain with legs that was Quevedo.
ÁE: Such a monster as Caravaggio could only play tennis — in a novel, I mean — against another monster, and Francisco de Quevedo had a comparable CV, at least in my heart. He was the most toxic poet to ever exist — the master of the erotic sonnet — the most credible and mean-spirited critic of the Spanish society of his time, a man who defended Catholicism as an ideological tool to keep the empire together when he was obviously an atheist, the translator of Moore's Utopia, a fearsome swordsman, and, for a time, a pirate of the Adriatic. A moralist with no morals, who could be a better match for Caravaggio? The sensual beast could only show himself honestly if confronting that incendiary brain with legs that was Quevedo. As it must be clear by now, the tennis match is only what holds the book together, a silly anecdote that can be extended in time; it's there to keep the tempo.
SE: The way you chose to create Caravaggio's relationship with Quevado is very successful: the men express their differences through a tennis match, with each one's particular style of play reflecting his unique character traits. The ways they swing their racquets, the ways they try to cheat, their serves, their interactions with the linemen and their paisanos, the shots they attempt, their failures … all slowly coalesce into identities. And as the game is seesawing back and forth, you begin to fill in the story of how the two met the night before, and the resulting combustive encounter that gave rise to this tennis match, which is in fact a duel. This athletic negotiation is very much about power, just as the other relationships in the book — between the kings and conquistadors and popes — are also about battling over power. Do these conflicts have something to say about how these men are modern?
ÁE: It comes down to where you want to draw the line of modernity: the debate is so wide and has existed for so long that it is almost a personal decision. I have a preference for a term used by academics to define those seventeenth-century braves who threw themselves onto the train of obsessive innovation: "early moderns." It's lovely, as the idea of modernity involves the faint smell of decadence; the notion of something newly born yet already rotting is elegant — and maybe it's precise in political terms, since it is in this period that things went wrong forever. But I tend to prefer definitions that are a bit more extreme: Lyotard says that modernity began the moment that Saint Paul projected history as a line and not a circle, as something with a beginning and an end.
There is something "Pauline" and apocalyptic in the way Caravaggio kept moving forward, destroying the tradition of Catholic art and himself in the process. His was a desperate effort to give testimony of a world that, according to the creed of Counter-Reformation, had been misrepresented. My novel, then, begins closed up in the pallacorda match. Quevedo is nineteen years old — or something like that — and he is there, in the service area of the tennis court at the Piazza Navona, trying to understand this creature on the other side of the net, at the same time unbelievably sophisticated and unacceptably vulgar — as are we, keeping our records of Miles Davis and The Clash in the same box. I don't have to say that Quevedo's fascination with the monster is mine. The game is told not from his point of view but perhaps from the perspective of someone who is just behind his shoulders, someone who has accepted his poems' poisonous advice. Then the picture opens, first to Rome, and then to Europe. When the players change courts, the point of view changes. Now the reader looks at Quevedo and his friends, and imperial Spain and the Americas behind them.
We are the children of that generation, chasing again and again the volleys of religious fanatics and the abusive politicians who prosper thanks to them, the bankers and capitalists cashing in on the misery they produce in the rest of the world.
During the hour and a half in which they are playing, the court is the center of the world. A world that had become so big and confusing that it began to demand bigger tools to be understood — Galileo's theories renewing the way in which reality was organized, and Baroque art too, as a desperate way of representing a universe in perpetual change, or sonnets as the ultimate tools to understand the human soul's contradictory nature. The modern novel was about to be invented by Cervantes, as a machine to think about what is and what is not moral in a universe that didn't fit in the Bible anymore. Sudden Death is a novel — we are still there. We are the children of that generation, chasing again and again the volleys of religious fanatics and the abusive politicians who prosper thanks to them, the bankers and capitalists cashing in on the misery they produce in the rest of the world. Sudden Death is not about Caravaggio, Quevedo, and their world, but ours.
SE: Indeed, and it's fitting that a Mexican and an American are having this conversation, as Sudden Death is very much about what parts of Europe were transported to the New World. Your country and mine are both the products of foundational compromises. In the case of Mexico, the people living there when Cortés arrived were massacred and then forced to assimilate into a facsimile of the European political order circa 1600. But of course this did not happen exactly, and Mexico is now known as a challenging union of the indigenous and the European. Similarly, the US's founding was an attempt to combine two incompatible systems: a feudal, aristocratic order based on slave labor, and an incipient capitalism that tended toward the opposite of feudalism in nearly all possible ways. In both nations the original questions persist to this day, causing great struggles, but I would say that these contradictions are also the source of a certain dynamism. Do art and literature require these historical conflicts? Is the image of Caravaggio and Quevedo — a lowly painter and a poet on the run from his king — volleying back and forth a tennis ball that is in fact a product of the power struggles between the rulers of two European empires … is this image perhaps a metaphor for the artist's task?
ÁE: Clever! The structure of the novel is binary, as defense and attack movements. It is a novel about how the classic value of Roman virility ended up fucking up the world when misunderstood by the kings and emperors of the seventeenth century. The Baroque can be seen as a failed attempt to re-Latinize Europe. Quevedo's writing is absolutely sexy because he achieved that impossible task: to make Castilian sound like Latin again. It's a novel that should be read moving your head from one side to the other. A book that shows not el gran teatro del mundo, as the passengers of the Baroque used to call it (the world as a great theater), but the world as a great court. So the heart of the novel is not in the stories told but in the way in which pairs of opposites add up over and over, resignifying what was told before. It's all about the dynamics of confrontation, to reuse your words. England vs. the Vatican, Spain vs. France, the Aztecs vs. the Holy Roman Empire, and of course heterodox vs. conservative sexualities, poets vs. painters, Mannerism vs. Baroque, revolutionary artists vs. the system, etcetera. At the end, because I have the heart where I have the heart, the only unblemished character is the Aztec artist — as he is left without anything, he has to reinvent the world, he is the only one who integrates instead of destroying, the only one who thinks with his "upper head."
If I remember well, when I was writing about all those balls and beheadings, I was thinking more of the notion of castration than of the artist's task. Quevedo, Caravaggio, and Cortés will eventually be raped by politicians with power over them, but, at a certain temporal or geographical distance. The rebels are the ones with the power of fertility in their hands. I'm not saying that Cortés was an artist — he was guilty of genocide — but what a world he produced in his short yet brilliant moment, the brief period portrayed in the novel when he was thinking of annexing the Mexican Empire to the Holy Roman one and not erasing it.
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CryptoBeast #18: Truth in an Age of Alt-Media Agents and Psyop Shills – with Special Guests Vahid Razavi and Joe Atwill
Joe, Vahid and I have more in common than decades in the tech industry: we have all recently been accused of being CIA agents by Jan Irvin. We talk about this and the wider problem in the alt-media of "everyone's a shill" serving the divide-and-conquer agenda, which takes the focus away from real research.
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CryptoBeast #12 – The Time We Stole the Internet from South America
Stafford Beer is one of my heroes, someone whose thinking I followed in my own companies. I look at the role he played in creating the Cybernet, which connected the entire Chilean economy and society to a Star Trek-like bridge in the Presidential Palace. The Cybernet disappeared after Allende died in a CIA-backed coup in 1973.
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Burners.Me Radio On The Air
Well, here's something to listen to anyway. Probably doesn't "rhyme with Burning Man" in quite the same way as the (now silent) official Burning Man radio station BMIR, but perhaps you could say it "rhymes about Burning Man".
Jan Irvin and I just did a "50 Years of Flower Power" interview with UK-based DJ Mark Devlin, who has been exposing the darker side of the music industry.
Slick editing Mark, thanks for the opportunity. Love your work!
From Gnostic Media:
GVP #111 – Jan Irvin & Steve Outtrim – MK-Ultra & The Counter-Culture – interview by Mark Devlin
August 15, 2017 •
Returning guest Jan Irvin of Gnostic Media is joined by New Zealand IT specialist-turned independent researcher Steve Outtrim, as we reflect on the legacy of 1967's 'Summer of Love' – in many ways the zenith of the 1960s counter-culture scene.
As Jan and Steve's work has shown, the entire movement appears to have been the creation of the intelligence community, specifically the CIA working under the direction of Britain's MI6, and it stands as a 101 masterclass in how culture-changing social-engineering gets done.
We retrace many of the events and personnel that played a key role in the culture shift, including the Macy Conferences, cybernetics, Aldous Huxley, Gordon Wasson, The Esalen Institute, SRI, Berkeley, Owlsley Stanley, Stewart Brand, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco's Human Be-In and the Monterey Pop Festival. The influential roles of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones are discussed, along with that of the 'acid guru' Dr. Timothy Leary, who later confessed to having been an asset of the CIA.
We consider the templates that are so often employed by the social-engineers, including the Hegelian Dialectic and the creation of false heroes and role models, in the hope that the public can fully understand the ways in which we're continually being played, as the first step towards not getting fooled again.
The interview is interspersed with original music and speech audio to help bring the story alive.
Download our entire Shadow History of Burners series, something to watch or listen to when you're waiting in line for 9 hours for a False Amber Alert or because the city is at MaxPop or Closed (like in 2014)
We did this one on the 50th anniverary of the Human Be-In, January 14 2017:
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"Davos Is Burning Man With Clothes" – Sergey Brin
Google Co-Founder and Billionaire Burner Sergey Brin, rumored to be one of the Anonymous donors backing Burning Man's year round philosophy center/nude bathing retreat Flysalen, has chosen the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to show off his "cool kid" Burning Man credentials.
re-blogged from The Hollywood Reporter (because Switzerland is so close to Los Angeles)
Google Co-Founder: Davos World Economic Forum Is Like Burning Man "Except We're All Wearing Clothes"
6:31 AM PST 1/19/2017 by Georg Szalai
Sergey Brin, the president of Google parent company Alphabet, on Thursday lauded the technology company and Silicon Valley's culture of pursuing new ideas and businesses, even if they don't succeed, arguing that it allows for innovation and creativity.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in a session that was live-streamed, he said his first visit to the event in eight years reminded him a bit of Burning Man in Nevada.
"Not having been to Davos in eight years, I'm even confused in a good way, because there are all these business executives and CEOs and everybody wondering how are people going to find purpose and what about all these refugees, what about income inequality," he said before drawing laughs by adding. "I kind of feel like I'm at Burning Man — almost, except we're all wearing clothes."
On a more serious note, Brin told the Davos crowd on Thursday that outside of the Forum, "oftentimes, there is a very antagonistic [relationship] between government and business," which he said is "very unhealthy." He called on all to focus on tackling issues "in a real collaborative way."
He was also questioned about the culture at Alphabet/Google and Silicon Valley in general. "We are just lucky to have the environment that tolerates making lots of risky bets and tolerating the failures that inevitably result," he said about the company.
In that context, he also shared that he thought about the idea for Google as part of his graduate student project at Stanford University and asked his advisor whether he should become an entrepreneur or finish his PhD, the advisor said: "Why not!? Go for it, and then if it doesn't work out, you come back, you finish your PhD, which I am still planning on doing."
Brin said "that mentality permeates Silicon Valley, and I think that's one of the strengths that it's not viewed so negatively to try something even if it doesn't work out."
Asked about Alphabet/Google's key values, he said: "For whatever weird reason, maybe it's because we are San Francisco hippies, Google has always had a little bit of that social responsibility view." And he added: "It can't be the case that companies such as ours are just purely profit motivated. … You can't just think narrowly, this is your business, you are just going to maximize earnings, it doesn't matter what else is going on around you."
Image: Noah Zerkin, Twitter
Asked if he had any idea where Google would go when he started it, Brin said: "I could not possibly have imagined."
What's his advice for young people? Brin said "you should have fun" instead of thinking about an IPO from the start or trying to be number one in their field on a global basis, explaining: "I certainly had no dreams of economic success." He concluded: "I would encourage young folks to take chances and pursue their dreams and try to silence out the voices that say well, actually there are a thousand startups trying to solve self-riding bicycles or whatever they happen to be doing."
[Source: Hollywood Reporter]
We know most Burners would rather talk about refugees and income equality than LSD and Molly. Right? We're not just partying, we're actually making the world a better place…by partying.
I guarantee you there are after parties at Davos where you can find naked people. Perhaps Brin isn't "in"?
When Sergey described the "very antagonistic relationship between Government and Business", was that based on his company having 427 meetings at the Obama White House, a "hand in glove" arrangement with the State Department, and its Billionaire Burner CEO being chairman of the Pentagon's technology board and the top outside advisor for Hillary Clinton's Presidential run? If that is antagonistic, I'd hate to see what "in the pocket" looks like. The close collaboration between corporations and government Sergey dreams of is also known as "fascism".
Source: Quartz
Burning Man for Billionaire Bilderbergers
What other rave lets you see billionaire dicks swinging in the wind? If you want to see your Davos colleagues rock out with their shirt-cock out, invite them to Burning Man. Maybe they can connect with venture capitalists and hot new startups – even BMorg themselves have an incubator now, Black Rock Labs. Sergey will be there, sans vêtements, he's the 13th richest guy in the world. Allegedly. If they're lucky (or even unlucky, as long as they're rich) then knowing the right insiders might swing them a VIP invite to the offsite. There's a geyser (Ser-gey-ser?), where you can get naked in the hot springs. It's called Radical Self Expression, and it's life-changing. Transformative. You may be the CEO of a Fortune 100 company, but if you've never done Special K with supermodels at sunrise at Robot Heart then you're living a false reality, a lie that you need to cast off so you can make the world a better place. Tune In to Larry Harvey and the Ten Principles, Turn On to liquid acid, and Drop Out of all those clothes that stop you from expressing who you really want to be. Come to the Burn, Man, and leave Transformed.
How long until Google hosts an executive retreat at Flysalen? It's probably already happened. Wonder if any goats were sacrificed.
Why we need to bring back the art of communal bathing – https://t.co/2jOVaOPIVs via @aeonmag
— Chip Conley (@ChipConley) September 4, 2016
Sergey's speech this week is not the first time Burning Man has been linked to Davos, which has been called Burning Man for Billionaire Bilderbergers.
In 2014 BMorg told us about all the Burners at the World Economic Forum in Davos is Burning. Strangely, they didn't think it was relevant to mention that Burning Man's first Chief Technology Guru went from Black Rock City, Nevada to Davos, Switzerland, to set up all the tech for the World Economic Forum. A promotion for a job well done, perhaps?
Brian Behlendorf, lead developer of Apache and creator of the SFRaves Mailing List, went from being Burning Man's Chief Technology Guru to the same role for the World Economic Forum. Now he's Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (founded by CIA consultant John Perry Barlow) and on the board of crypto-messenger Wickr, along with Gilman Louie (founding CEO of CIA venture capital incubator In-Q-Tel, and former employer of Burning Man founders Carrie Galbraith and Kevin Evans), Jim Breyer (BBN Technologies, early Facebook investor), and former CIA man Joseph Detrani (President of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance). The CIA.gov web site runs on Brian's Apache software.
Sergey Brin himself is no stranger to the CIA either. His claim above…
he thought about the idea for Google as part of his graduate student project at Stanford University and asked his advisor whether he should become an entrepreneur or finish his PhD, the advisor said: "Why not!? Go for it, and then if it doesn't work out, you come back, you finish your PhD, which I am still planning on doing."
…sounds sweet, and suits the mythology of Silicon Valley. A student was encouraged by his professor to drop out of college to become an entrepreneur, he took a risk and achieved great success through hard work, talent and luck. The American Dream! But he's leaving out a pretty significant component, as Nafeez Ahmed from Insurge Intelligence revealed in his stunning 2015 report How The CIA Made Google: Inside The Secret Network Behind Mass Surveillance, Endless War, and SkyNet
The inside story of Google's rise, revealed here for the first time, opens a can of worms that goes far beyond Google, unexpectedly shining a light on the existence of a parasitical network driving the evolution of the US national security apparatus, and profiting obscenely from its operation
Nafeez quoted Dr Bhavani Thuraisingham, who stated in 2013 "the Google founder Mr. Sergey Brin was partly funded by this program while he was a PhD student at Stanford". After Nafeez's article was published, Dr Thuraisingham dialed that back a little – heat from the bosses, perhaps? This is from his revised update:
Prof. Jeffrey Ullman (at Stanford) and my colleague at MITRE Dr. Chris Clifton together with some others developed the Query Flocks System, as part of MDDS, which produced solutions for mining large amounts of data stored in databases. Also, Mr. Sergey Brin, the cofounder of Google, was part of Prof. Ullman's research group at that time. I remember visiting Stanford with Dr. Rick Steinheiser from the Intelligence Community periodically and Mr. Brin would rush in on roller blades, give his presentation and rush out. During our last visit to Stanford in September 1998, Mr. Brin demonstrated to us his search engine which I believe became Google soon after.
Despite Dr Thuraisingham's milquetoast clarification, the story of Google's intelligence community origins has been independently corroborated by a second source, 20+ year CIA veteran Robert David Steele. Julian Assange wrote an entire book about it, excerpted here: Google Is Not What It Seems.
Just like CIA contractor Timothy Leary was presented before crowds at the 1967 Human Be-In as a leading voice of the counter-culture, so CIA contractor Sergey Brin is presented at Burning Man for Billionaires as the leading voice of the tech world (and hippies). Flower power reigns supreme! If you think endless war and mass surveillance by A.I.'s is cool, then Google is a pretty cool company. Neat-o! Come to Flysalen and learn how to be just like Sergey. Naked.
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Last year 62 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the world. Thanks to monetarism, that's now only 8. Of these, 3 are connected to Burning Man: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Oracle founder Larry Ellison (his kids go). Of course, all of those have CIA ties as well. Zuckerberg went to an elite program for gifted children at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth in Baltimore, Maryland – as did Sergey Brin and spirit cooking enthusiast Lady Gaga. Zuckerberg then "accidentally met on the street" Sean Parker, who was recruited by the CIA at 16. Parker introduced Zuckerberg to Don Graham, whose family owned the Washington Post – exposed by Carl Bernstein in 1977 as one of the key CIA propaganda assets in Operation MOCKINGBIRD. Graham took a board seat at Facebook, and later sold the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos for $250 million at almost exactly the same time that the CIA gave Amazon an unspecified $600 million deal (just before Amazon released their Echo always-on listening device). Amazon CEO Bezos is also on the Pentagon technology board with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Larry Ellison was working for Ampex and the CIA on a database project they named Oracle, after the popular counter-culture magazine that organized the Human Be-In. He left to start his own company funded by a juicy contract with Oracle's first customer: the CIA.
Silicon Valley's mantra of "it's OK to fail" is definitely enhanced when you are working for the military/intelligence community with 55% of the country's discretionary budget.
Alphabet and Pentagon Innovation Board Chairman Eric Schmidt at the 2016 Further Future Festival in Nevada, organized by the owners of Robot Heart. He claimed in his speech that he was wearing a new generation of bullet/laser-proof vest, recommended by the Defense Department because of the threat of laser weapons. Perhaps he was joking, but the laser threat is no joke. A Burning Man ranger was permanently blinded by a handheld laser in 2014
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Defense Department/Navy Specialist in Organized Crime and Drugs to Run Burning Man
He will be responsible for the largest event on public land in the US as the new Winnemucca District manager for the Bureau of Land Management, the agency within the Department of the Interior that manages the annual Burning Man event. He replaces Gene Seidlitz, who was abruptly shunted out of his position during the Chocotacogate debacle.
From the Reno-Gazette Journal (emphasis ours):
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has hired a former U.S. Department of Defense official as the new Winnemucca District manager.
The position will certainly provide a change of scenery for Justin Drew, who will begin his new role in February. Drew formerly dealt with illicit drug and weapon trafficking networks in the Caribbean, Central America and South America as the managing director of the U.S. Navy's Counter Transnational Organized Crime Division for the Southern Command.
As the director of the Winnemucca office, he will manage 8.4 million acres of BLM-administered high desert throughout Northern Nevada, including the Black Rock-High Rock National Conservation Area, two field offices and eighty-three full-time employees.
He also will be responsible for issuing Burning Man's $3 million to $4 million special recreation permit, the largest in the country…
One of the BLM's greatest tasks in overseeing Burning Man is providing law enforcement resources to ensure that security protocol are followed during the weeks before, during and after the event. Burning Man executives have taken issue with some law enforcement procedures, such as the use of K9 units, the increase in traffic violations and overall , in recent years, cited in the arts nonprofit's $2.8 million lawsuit against the BLM filed in July. The BLM also is responsible for environmental, health and safety standards at the annual, weeklong event.
Drew's predecessor, Gene Seidlitz, was reassigned to the BLM state office in 2015 after the BLM came under fire for its unprecedented request that year for a VIP compound at Burning Man, information revealed in a Reno Gazette-Journal investigation in June 2015. Since Seidlitz's reassignment, the BLM has enlisted several acting officials to oversee the Winnemucca office, including Kenneth Collum, William Mack and Robert Towne.
Drew has little to no experience in land management or geology, but has held various management positions in the U.S. Navy throughout his career. He served as the executive officer for the U.S. Navy's Southern Command Joint Intelligence Operation Center as well as an Intel officer and an enlisted aviation electronics technician.
Drew received a bachelor's degree in aeronautics from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. In April, he also received a master's degree in criminal justice from Boston University. In addition, Drew volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity and the Humane Society. He also trains dogs for general obedience and to work as service animals for veterans.
Read the full story at the Reno Gazette-Journal.
The position required a Q Security Clearance from the Department of Energy, the highest level – equivalent to TOP SECRET/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information in the military. That would have been no problem for this career Naval Intelligence officer who managed hundreds of personnel in inter-agency teams with the CIA, DIA, DEA, NSA, FBI, BATF, Treasury and others.
Does he seem a little overqualified to manage a desert rave?
Has he been to Burning Man? Did he partake of the sacrament? Do you think he knows there are people on drugs there? Hopefully his interest in animal welfare will encourage him to stop the torture of Police K9s in these abominably dusty and dry conditions, just to entrap a few $1000+ citations to fill the Pershing County coffers while ruining the lives of innocent psychedelic enthusiast Burners.
He is a Freemason, which will not be surprising to anyone following my Shadow History series. He is also Alpha Phi Sigma.
Interestingly, his rank is not revealed.
"I will be reporting to my next "duty station" in February 2017″…sounds more like he was assigned this post, rather than spontaneously deciding on a career change. It is curious that his resumé says he's been in the role since February 2016.
His former boss, head of SOUTHCOM General John F Kelly, has just been named by President Donald Trump as the new head of the Department of Homeland Security, taking over from Jeh Johnson.
From his public LinkedIn profile:
• Increasing degree of responsibility and technical expertise over tenure with United States Navy
• Responsible for the comprehensive supervision and administrative oversight of multiple programs & projects within the global intelligence community / operational & managerial oversight, and assessment of processes and policies
• Facilitated the development and implementation of improvement plans and development of policies and procedures designed to increase efficiency, streamline processes and ensure quality
• Skilled in all aspects of Human Resource Management / supervision & training / scheduling / interviewing / assessment / documentation & compliance / supervised 300+ direct reports
• Innate ability to collaborate and communicate with stakeholders across all departmental, and organizational levels on global scale / advanced interpersonal abilities
• Fostered open communication in cross-functional teams to drive progress while balancing a high volume of competing demands and deadlines / goal driven project management
• Acted as liaison between projects & directives and leadership in the dissemination of highly sensitive intelligence information
• Prepared and presented extensive reporting & documentation to leadership regarding analytical assessments of policies, procedures, and outcomes / prepared & presented briefings to military and other government agency officials / dignitaries both foreign and US
• Aligned training and procedural efforts to goals and increased multi-departmental efficiency and productivity through the implementation of best practice policies & protocol
• Expertise in budget development & strategic planning / asset allocation & prioritization
February 2016 – Present (11 months)Winnemucca, Nevada
I will be reporting to my next "duty station" in February 2017. I couldn't be more excited about starting a new career in such a fantastic organization surrounded by natures beauty.
February 2013 – July 2015 (2 years 6 months)Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
Managed new team created to accomplish USSOUTHCOM Commander's (4-Star) highest priority of combating transnational organized crime. Applied my knowledge, subject matter expertise, tradecraft, and technical competency to formulate a new product line utilizing link analysis charts and current information that directly supports interagency partners such as, but not limited too: Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, Customs and Border Patrol, Drug Enforcement Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, National Security Agency, and Treasury Department), and other 3 letter strategic-level consumers. This ultimately led to the seizure of millions of dollars in assets.
Making tough decisions, created an environment for effective prioritization of work that increased productivity by 300%. Openness to team members led to increased collaboration with peers, interagency partners and seniors alike. Encouraged a skilled set of team members within a high OPTEMPO environment to participate in problem solving to enhance productivity. Delegating priorities and providing clear written and oral communication led to his team leading the organization in productivity and setting a organizational standard of 100% completion rate of all required tasks.
Meticulous Organizational skills; with exceptional attention to detail, created and prioritized the counter transnational organized crime branch's fiscal year 2014 Budget of $1.2 million. Expertly managed all administrative aspects of his team to include being the certifying official and releaser of $153,625.49 of travel funds. As a mentor and leader, facilitated teams 400% increase in production and 600% increase in evaluations of daily information reports. During this production surge, quality daily information briefs and information assessments continued to receive praise throughout highest levels of leadership. Leadership skills are beyond reproach.
Joint Intelligence Operation Center Executive Officer
February 2012 – February 2013 (1 year 1 month)Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
Ran operation center with 5 divisions consisting of a total of 322 personnel from all branches of department of defense armed forces, contractors, army civilians, and defense civilian personnel system employees. Ensured unity of effort through effective oral and written communication, which resulted in all requirements being completed on time and at or under budget. I am a senior executive product review guru; as the Microsoft Office and staff product subject mater expert, I provided solutions and mentoring as needed in order to ensure all staff and informational products were of the highest standards and complied with all applicable guidelines; this kept USSOUTHCOM senior executive leadership with clear situational awareness to make informed decisions for future planning. Maintaining superior situational awareness, I led senior executive working group in prioritizing $750,000 in travel authorization funds. Prioritized and developed 84 travel plans, authorized as certifying official $240,000 worth of travel funds, and provided oversight to the remaining travel funds with zero accounting discrepancies resulting in resources being maximized and all critical travel properly allocated and resourced.
March 2011 – January 2012 (11 months)Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
Managed 4-star General's number one priority team. Led multiservice team of Department of Defense, Government Service, and Contractors in successfully collaboration with interagency partners to include Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defense Agency, Central Agency, Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, Drug Enforcement Agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, National Security Agency, and US Treasury in combating global priority per POTUS directive. Shows particular aptitude for supervising civilians, Department of Defense contractors, and collaborating with senior officers in a joint, interagency senior executive staff environment. Effectively used creative thinking to leverage limited resources and established a new tracking database which provides an exponentially greater monitoring and tracking capability; result was teams' productivity level was increased 400%. Created a new bibliography product line used to nominate individuals to the Extraterritorial Criminal travel Strike Force to get global prioritization for limited and critically needed assets into USSOUTHCOM's area of responsibility.
Held title and executed duties of division training officer ensuring all programs and requirements were met with resounding success. Top mentor in peer group; provided motivation and insight in continued educational programs resulting in three sailors and two soldiers meeting their academic goals. Liaised with National "I" University to get the first ever-video teleconferencing education program at USSOUTHCOM. These efforts have led to multiple degrees being obtained at both the Bachelors and Masters level for many fellow associates.
March 2010 – February 2011 (1 year)Bahrain
Provide all source Indication and Warning and informational products in support of fleet operations. Served as Naval Information Officer for El Basrah Oil Terminal in support of Command Task Group-Iraqi Maritime Forces. Developed numerous threat briefings and informational reports, supporting Operation New Dawn. Led five-person regional analysis division providing indications and warning on over 20 countries and provided all-source analysis for over 30 theater security engagement events. Voluntarily reorganized Naval Central Command's "I" Directorate's data entry operating procedures for the Defense Readiness reporting System; resulting in a more accurate reflection of the operational readiness of the N2 directorate's operational readiness; briefed at the highest senior executive service level.
February 2008 – February 2010 (2 years 1 month)Jacksonville, Florida Area
Developed and executed over 15 operational briefs to increase executive awareness and readiness for upcoming events. Established the command's classified material program including accepting, cataloging, and tracking over 160 pieces of classified material. Managed intricate details in formulating a 3-day training exercise focusing on specific target acquisition and weapon execution procedures. Planned and developed a multi-country problem integrating multiple assets and real time informational injects with 15 sorties and 30 mishap free flight hours. As the command security manager, supervised the flawless transition of over 200 pieces of classified material during a transition to a new hangar. Supervised the initial installation of all SIPR access for the squadron ensuring security protocols were met, security standards met or exceeded, and over $10M in assets accounted for with zero discrepancies.
Student Researcher
April 2007 – February 2008 (11 months)Florida
Attended Officer Training Command Pensacola's Officer Candidate program which develops civilians, enlisted and newly commissioned personnel morally, mentally, physically and imbues them with the highest ideals of honor, courage and commitment for service as Naval Officers.
Also attended 21-week Naval "I" Officer Basic Course that I satisfactorily completed. I was an active and enthusiastic participant during this course, and consistently demonstrated a strong desire to learn the vast amount of information presented.
Human Resources Training Manager
November 2006 – April 2007 (6 months)Jacksonville, Florida Area
Maximized resources and expeditiously reduced AIMD's Training program discrepancies by 50 percent per last conducted Quality Assurance audit. Assisted in the verifying of command Enlisted Distribution and Verification Report on Naval Enlisted Classification qualifications, consequently updating 38 personnel with correct Naval Enlisted Classfication's for assigned command billets. Efforts resulted in the alignment of billets at command for greater productivity. Utilized knowledge and experience in assisting personnel in preparing Officer Candidate School and Seaman to Admiral packages and preparations for the boards giving outstanding insight to peers and subordinates alike. Revamped the Safety, NAVOSH, General Maintenance Training, and in-rate training requirements for over 800 personnel through proactive Monthly Training Plans, spot-audits, and flexibility in meeting immediate needs of the command. Developed and implemented a new electronic training jacket program reducing man-hours needed to log training by 500 hours quarterly.
April 2005 – November 2006 (1 year 8 months)Jacksonville, Florida Area
Managed three teams of personnel consisting of a total of 47 people in the diagnosis and repair of circuit cards at the micro/min level and fabrication of electronic cable bundles consisting of upwards of 1,000 wires on a regular basis with zero discrepancies. Proactively implemented a cross training curriculum that led to the qualification of six new collateral duty inspectors, a 40% increase in total personal qualified and increased productivity within all three teams. Mentored and contributed to the professional success of peers and subordinates by providing training and instruction that improved in-rate advancement by 60 percent.
April 2004 – April 2005 (1 year 1 month)Kauai Hawaii
Supervised 7 personnel in the completion of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance of five UH-3H aircraft. Secondary duties included Avionics Collateral Duty Inspector, Electrostatic Discharge Petty Officer, and Supply Petty Officer. A recognized expert of the UH-3H aircraft avionics systems; one of only six Non-Pilot Turn Qualified maintainers performed the task of starting the aircraft so maintenance could be performed over 150 times. Trained three coworkers to perform Non-Pilot Turn Qualification, a task paramount to the support of aircraft maintenance and troubleshooting. Ensured the continued success of the Avionics Department by motivating work center personnel to accomplish a goal of zero avionic discrepancies on every aircraft. This leadership directly impacted mission readiness enabling PMRF to execute all critical Pacific Fleet training missions.
Duties: Repaired over 276 aircraft discrepancies, completed 77 non-pilot engine turns, and was a key player in the removal and replacement of 3 UH-3H main gearboxes. His exceptional knowledge of the Naval Aviation Maintenance Program maintenance procedures as well as his meticulous attention to detail were crucial in the completion of six work center audits as well as twelve program audits, ensuring all programs were compliant with all applicable regulations and up to date with documentation. Obtained Electronic Mechanic Journeyman certification through US Department of Labor via US Military Apprenticeship Program.
Perform audits on seven work centers consisting of 200+ personnel performing scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on six UH-3H aircraft. A proven technical expert and team player in the Quality Assurance Team. Demonstrated outstanding trouble-shooting skills from day one. Onboard less than a month, I repaired three major avionic discrepancies and three wire connector repairs consisting of over 50 wires each; restoring two aircraft to fully mission capable status and enhancing overall mission readiness. Achieved exceptional results in Quality assurance, which culminated in Pacific Missile Range Facility's safe execution of 568 missions, over 800 mishap free flight hours in support of a myriad of exercises and two ballistic missile test launches. As a true team player, assisted Airframe shop in the fabrication of a full set of "rig pins," allowing rapid test and evaluation of aircraft flight control systems and savings of $2500 to the command.
Other duties included Compass calibrator, explosive egress program monitor, and electro-static discharge program manager.
Avionics Technician
September 1998 – March 2003 (4 years 7 months)Jacksonville, Florida Area
Managed and lead team of 8 associates who performed scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on commination, navigation, and computer systems on 8 aircraft. Recognized expert on all avionics systems whose knowledge of complex avionics and ability to troubleshoot and repair difficult discrepancies resulted in intensive repairs on 3 computers, 8 radar systems, and 4 communication improvement program modifications. These repairs were instrumental in restoring aircraft to full mission capable status. Personally selected to repair 3 elusive avionics discrepancies with over 100 man-hours of repair time already invested. All 3 repairs were personally diagnosed and repaired within 24 hours. Poised professional whose dedication to the command and ability to motivate subordinates had an immediate and positive impact on the command's morale and readiness. Conducted numerous training sessions for junior personnel, resulting in an increase in work center personnel qualifications. Contributes to work center production, maintenance safety, and program compliance.
Other duties included: Support equipment petty officer, electro-static discharge petty officer, training petty officer, and moral welfare and recreation petty officer. Completed tasks in a timely manner with minimal supervision. Repaired numerous avionic system repairs reduced workload by 30% for Avionics work shop. During critical manpower shortages in the work center, recognized by leadership for going above and beyond to ensure all requirements were met.
Master's Degree, Criminal Justice, 3.64
MET CJ650 TERRORISM B
MET CJ725 FOREN BEHAV ANL A-
MET CJ702 ANALYTIC METHDS A
MET CJ602 CRIMINOLOGY B
MET CJ625 VICTIMOLOGY A-
MET CJ631 YTH CRIME PRBLM A
MET CJ632 WHITE CLR CRIME A-
MET CJ703 RESEARCH METHDS A-
MET CJ710 DIGTL INVSTIGTN A
Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Sigma – Criminal Justice Honor Society
(Open)1 organization
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
BS 3.9/4, Professional Aeronautics
Bachelors degree, Professional Aeronautics, Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Activities and Societies: I was an active duty service member in the US Navy working full time while attending classes.
Volunteer Experience & Causes
Shelter Manager
April 2003 – November 2005 (2 years 8 months)
I was certified by the Red Cross.
JROTC Foundation
August 2011 – Present (5 years 5 months)Children
Judge competitions and provide mentorship to high-school level cadets.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Florida
March 2008 – Present (8 years 10 months)Poverty Alleviation
Prepare and serve meals on a quarterly basis along side my fellow Masonic Lodge members.
Habitat for Humanity International
July 2004 Poverty Alleviation
Organized and led a group of volunteers to renovate a community building used to host non-profit group meetings to include AA, NA, and other civic minded groups. Renovation took 4 days and over 200 man hours. Renovation included new roof and screens installation. Re-painting and pressure cleaning was also done of this 1250 square foot building.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
March 2011 – February 2013 (2 years)Children
Provide mentoring and of an at risk
Causes Justin cares about:
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
Organizations Justin supports:
VFW Foundation
DAV (Disabled American Veterans)
Electronic Mechanic
Starting July 2004
OSHA 30
OSHA-Training.com
2M Microminiature Technician
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), License TRMA 6570
Starting March 2006
2M Miniture Technician
A Crash Course in Data Science(Link)
Coursera Course Certificates, License CHD72DPC3TSY
Starting November 2015
Building a Data Science Team(Link)
Coursera Course Certificates, License T7R5Q79NJWHM
Managing Data Analysis(Link)
Coursera Course Certificates, License QMAKHJUWD32F
Starting December 2015
Starting September 2007
Disabled American Veterans – DAV
Alpha Phi Sigma – Criminal Justice Honor Society
This RAND Corporation document describes the relationship between the Department of Defense, the Southern Command, and the other agencies tasked with the "War on Drugs" – aka CTOC (Counter-Transnational Organized Crime):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fj2lbsuoct7gcsx/Screenshot%202016-12-15%2017.04.47.png?dl=0
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.. blogpost::
   :title: Hello World!
   :author: tibadov
   :date: 05-14-2013

   The project "Stereo-based road area detection" has been started!

.. blogpost::
   :title: Progress on stereo-based road area detection
   :author: tibadov
   :date: 06-05-2013

   A few words about the project: the goal is to detect a drivable area (continuously flat area, segmented by a height gap such as curb). As an input we have two rectified images from the cameras on the car's roof and a disparity map. An example of such images is below.

   .. image:: img/view_example.png
      :align: center

   The point cloud, that was computed from them:

   .. raw:: html

   The point cloud is converted into the Digital Elevation Map (DEM) format to simplify the task. DEM is a grid in column-disparity space with heights associated to each node. A projection of DEM onto the left image is illustrated below.

   .. image:: img/DEM_vizualization.png
      :align: center

   On the following image you can see that despite of a low resolution of the DEM it is still possible to distinguish the road from the sidewalk.

   A front view of the DEM in 3D space (nodes without corresponding points, i.e. the disparity map had no points, that should be projected onto this node, are marked with red):

   .. image:: img/DEM_front_labeled.png
      :align: center

   DEM as a point cloud:

   .. raw:: html

   As a starting point we are going to implement an algorithm: J. Siegemund, U. Franke, and W. Forstner, "A temporal filter approach for detection and reconstruction of curbs and road surfaces based on conditional random fields," in Proc. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symp., 2011, pp. 637-642.

   All source code related to the project can be found `here <https://github.com/TIbadov/pcl>`_.

.. blogpost::
   :title: Start labeling
   :author: tibadov
   :date: 07-08-2013

   For evaluation of the developed algorithm we need ground truth so we decided to outsource manual labelling. For this purpose a highly efficient tool was developed. A person could easily solve this task however there are some difficulties.

   First of all, what to do, if there are several separated roads in the scene? The solution is to mark as "road" only the pixels of the road, on which the vehicle is. Below is an example of such frame (left) and the labeling for it (right).

   .. image:: img/labeled_example_1.png
      :align: center

   How to label an image if two different roads on the previous frames are merging in the current frame? We decided to mark pixels of the first road and the second road pixels lying above the horizontal line, drawn through the end of the curb that separates the roads. Here an example for explanation:

   .. image:: img/labeled_example_2.png
      :align: center

   We optimize manual labelling time in 10 times in contrast to our initial version and now we could obtain enough labelled data in reasonable time. All results will be publicly available later.

.. blogpost::
   :title: Labeling of the Castro dataset is finished
   :author: tibadov
   :date: 08-27-2013

   We are pleased to report, that labeling of the Castro dataset (6440 frames) is finished. Here are some examples of labeled images:

   .. image:: img/castro_labeled.png
      :align: center

   We also tested an algorithm, developed by `Alex Trevor <http://www.pointclouds.org/blog/hrcs/atrevor/index.php>`_ in the previous HRI code sprint. This algorithm segments points using their normal distribution, this makes it very sensitive to noise.

   Basically, this algorithm computes a disparity for a stereo pair using its own dense matching method, implemented by Federico Tombari. But I additionally tested it using disparity maps precomputed by HRI. Here are the typical results (left - disparity is computed with Federico Tombari's method, right - precomputed by HRI):

   .. image:: img/castro_results_hrcs1.png
      :align: center

   You can see that Federico Tombari's method is friendlier to the normal-based algorithm. But it is not good enough for describing a scene, there are a lot of false positives.

   Some noise is presented at the HRI's disparity maps, even a lot of pixels have no valid disparity, sometimes there are no segments that are similar to road and there are a lot frames in which road was not found.

   This algorithm has thresholds for disparity and doesn't mark as "road" any point which doesn't satisfy these thresholds. I didn't take it to account because it would make these results not completely correct. Therefore, 50% recall would be a very good result.

   The goal is find all pixels, that belong to the road. Total results are on the image below (precision is a ratio of right detected road's points to all detected pixels, recall is a percent of detected road's points):

   .. image:: img/castro_results_hrcs1_total.png
      :align: center

.. blogpost::
   :title: First results
   :author: tibadov
   :date: 10-28-2013

   We have implemented an algorithm which processes frames independently (i.e. without the connection to the previous frame). Also, now we make an assumption that both of the curbs (left and right) are presented in the scene.

   Below you can see a projection of the labeled DEM to the left image. Green points correspond to the left sidewalk, blue - to the right one. Red points mark the road surface. The algorithm couldn't find the right curb on this image, so right side of the road was labeled uncorrectly. The good news is that the left curb was detected correctly.

   .. image:: img/DEM_labeled.png
      :align: center

   However our goal is to label a road on the image, not on the DEM. So, if we mark each pixel with label corresponding to the DEM's cell we get the following labeling of the road surface:

   .. image:: img/image_labeled.png
      :align: center

   You can see a lot of holes in the road area. They caused by holes in the disparity map. We decided not to fill them, because someone/something can be situated there (we have no information).

   A disparity map of this frame is shown below. Points without disparity are marked with red.

   .. image:: img/disparity_map.png
      :align: center

.. blogpost::
   :title: Results on the Castro dataset
   :author: tibadov
   :date: 03-31-2014

   We've implemented almost everything, what was planned, and now we want to present our results.

   First of all please watch this video with results on the whole Castro dataset. Road is marked with red, left and right road borders are indicated by green and blue lines respectively.

   .. raw:: html

   The main problem is the presence of holes in the road surface. This is caused by the holes in the input disparity maps. We decided not to inpaint them, because we have no information about scene in those points. But we will compute the quality of the labeling only in points with known disparity. It allows to estimate the results of our method independently of the quality of the method for generating disparity maps.

   Our method has a significant advantage in situations with one or both curbs are clearly visible (with corresponding sidewalks). You can compare  the result of the previous sprint's method (left) with the result of our method (right) on the same frame (which has two clearly visible sidewalks).

   .. image:: img/castro_diff.png
      :align: center

   Next, I'm going to show you the numerical results. Precision is a ratio of right detected road's points to all detected pixels, recall is a percent of detected road's points. Only points with known disparity are taken into account.

   .. image:: img/castro_results_disp.png
      :align: center

.. blogpost::
   :title: HRCS Stereo-based Road Area Detection final report
   :author: tibadov
   :date: 11-19-2014

   The Honda Research Institute code sprint was finished. All code was commited, the `final report <https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/blog/raw/master/blogweb/hrcs/tibadov/files/final_report.pdf>`_ is attached below.

   .. raw:: html

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Neuman, Keith, "Canadians on Citizenship: The first national survey of what it means to be a citizen in Canada." Final Report, Environics Institute, in partnership with the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, Maytree Foundation, CBC News and RBC. February 2012.
See full report here: http://www.icc-icc.ca/en/news/citizens.php
Please share links to related research below in the discussion section to help inform and guide the project.
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devonostrom on April 28, 2012 at 9:28 am said:
Maytree's Policy Insights Page:
http://maytree.com/policy/research-reference/immigration
Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative (TIEDI) http://www.yorku.ca/tiedi/factsheets.html
devonostrom on May 11, 2012 at 9:44 am said:
Life Stories Project Montreal: http://storytelling.concordia.ca/refugeeyouth/
http://www.lifestoriesmontreal.ca/
devonostrom on May 14, 2012 at 1:25 pm said:
Making Their Mark, Canada's Young Refugees: http://maytree.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/MakingTheirMark.pdf
devonostrom on May 24, 2012 at 11:00 am said:
Institute For Canadian Citizenship – Toronto, Canada
Citizenship ceremonies bring communities together in celebration.
http://www.caribbeantales.ca/
devonostrom on May 27, 2012 at 12:26 pm said:
Disabilities cause special problems for immigrants
CBC News Posted: Feb 7, 2012 9:53 PM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/02/07/toronto-immigrant-families.html
http://canadianimmigrant.ca/category/settling-in-canada/citizenship-settling-in-canada
Citzenship Test, Toronto Public Library
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/new-to-canada/citizenship.jsp
Online test (some questions incorrect) http://www.v-soul.com/onlinetest/
Online citizenship test: http://www.apnatoronto.com/canadian-citizenship-test-practice/
Discover Canada, Official Test Prep: http://www.facebook.com/CitCanada/app_7146470109
Immigration, Diversity and Urban Citizenship in Toronto,
Myer Siemiatycki, 1997 Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS)
Click to access Siemiatycki-Isin.pdf
Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS)
http://www.ceris.metropolis.net
http://www.ceris.metropolis.net/?p=151#citizenship
The Needs of Newcomer Youth and Emerging Best Practices to Meet Those Needs (CERIS)
Click to access Newcomer_Youth_Best_Practices.pdf
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History of Legislation
History Milestones
The Maltese Language
The official languages of Malta are Maltese and English. The laws of Malta are written in both languages, with the Maltese version prevailing in case of inconsistency between the two versions.
While most Maltese speak English fluently, the native language is Maltese. This language is grammatically based on a Punic dialect and on Arabic and over the ages adopted elements of several other languages, including words from French, Italian, Spanish and English.
The history of the Maltese language mirrors the history of the island. The language is likely to have started as a Punic dialect, but later came under a strong Arabic influence. While retaining its Semitic structure, as new words to describe new social and business activities were required, words were imported from European languages.
For centuries Maltese was a spoken language. It was only in the early part of the 20th century that it became a written language, adopting the western alphabet in preference to the Arabic script. Today Maltese is a fully-fledged language with its own body of literature.
The Maltese alphabet consists of the following 30 letters:
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using System;
using Autofac.Builder;
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namespace Autofac.Extras.Attributed
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Panthers visit Kelso Community Centre!
Our trip to Bathurst last week was a big success, despite the result of the first grade game!
During the course of the week, we visited a few schools, the local hospital, junior league teams and the Kelso Community Centre, where local Indigenous kids can go after school to hang out.


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Q: Fetch images URL from XML I am using the below code to fetch the  $movie->id from the response XML
<?php
$movie_name='Dabangg 2';
        $url ='http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/Movie.search/en/xml/accd3ddbbae37c0315fb5c8e19b815a5/%22Dabangg%202%22';

    $xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
    $movies = $xml->movies->movie;
   foreach ($movies as $movie){
        $arrMovie_id = $movie->id;
    }

?>
the response xml structure is

How to fetch image URL with thumb size?

A: Use the attributes() method of SimpleXmlElement.
Example:
$imageAttributes = $movie->images[0]->attributes();
$size = $imageAttributes['size'];

See the documentation at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.attributes.php

A: See the below an easy way to get only specific images.
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
$images = $xml->xpath("//image");
//echo "
";print_r($images);die;
foreach ($images as $image){
    if($image['size'] == "thumb"){
        echo "URL:".$image['url']."
";
        echo "SIZE:".$image['size']."
";
        echo "
";
    }
}

A: EDIT: select only URL attributes with size = "thumb" and type = "poster":
$urls = $xml->xpath("//image[@size='thumb' and @type='poster']/@url");

if you expect only 1 url, do:
$url = (string)$xml->xpath("//image[@size='thumb' and @type='poster']/@url")[0];
echo $url;

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