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1 "A Wanderer". Introduction by Admiral E.M. Eller. JOURNALS OF TWO CRUISES ABOARD THE AMERICAN PRIVATEER YANKEE.
Macmillan, New York, 1967, first edition.
156 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w reproductions, map. "Written by a young, ardently romantic ship's clerk who signs himself 'A Wanderer' (almost certainly Noah Johnson, these journals) record the heady adventures of the Americ an privateer 'Yankee' on her first two voyages during the War of 1812. Only recently discovered among the possessions of a New England family, they are printed here for the first time....These historic journals bring vividly to life sea voya g e s t h a t epitomized Yankee daring and skill, dedication to freedom, and Christian charity in dealing with conquered enemies. What life was like aboard a privateer and how these warships were manned, sailed, and deployed against the enemy is n ow he re be tt er illustrated than in these superb firsthand accounts." Very light browning on fore-edge of text block. Dust jacket has very light edge wear - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, scattered small/tiny scuffs, very light soi lin g, l igh t b row ning - mainly on spine and flap-folds. Very Good+/Very Good-
2 (Weatherell, John.) Edited & with an introduction by C.S. Forester. THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN WETHERELL.
Michael Joseph, London, 1954, second printing.
275 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers, b&w plates. "John Wetherell was a native of Whitby, one of the thirteen children of Nathan Wetherell, a whaling captain. He was born in 1780, and his father died in 1789 - ki lled, according to Wetherell, in a skirmish with Eskimos in Davis Strait. Wetherell himself died, probably in New York, sometime after 1834. He left behind him an autobiography, in three volumes of manuscript amounting altogether to a thous a n d p a g es. It had been the object of a fruitless search by students of the period until, a few years ago, Mrs Anne Klein of New York, an enthusiastic collector of rare nautical books, discovered it at the New York auction of the library of th e la te Ga br ie l Wells." A fascinating look at life at sea in during the Napoleonic era, including conditions in the prisons for sailors in France. Previous owner's small stamp on front end papers, light wrinkling at bottom of spine, light edge w ear . D ust ja cke t has been price-clipped, has very light stamp ink offset on front flap, very light wear/wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds. Very Good/Very Good
3 Ainsworth, C.J.; Ratcliffe-Densham, H.B.A.; Breeze, David J.; Bowman, Alan K.; Drinkwater, J.F.; Frere, S.S.; St. Joseph, J.K.; Hind, J.G.F.; Hodder, Ian; Hogg, A.H.A.; Rae, Alan; Simpson, Grace; Tomlin, Roger; Wacher, J.S.; Wilson, D.R.; et al. BRITANNIA: A JOURNAL OF ROMANO-BRITISH AND KINDRED STUDIES. VOLUME 5 1974. (VOLUME V - 1974.)
The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London, 1974.
519 pp + 44 b&w plates at rear, large 8vo (9 5/8" H), soft cover. B&w maps, plans, drawings, tables, (some fold-out) + photographic plates. Contents: Notes for Contibutors; Spectroscopy and a Roman Cremation from Sompting, Sussex; The Roman Fortl et at Barburgh Mill, Dumfriesshire; Roman military records from Vindolanda; Coin-hoards and the chronology of the Gallic Emperors; The Roman fortress at Longthorpe; Agricola's Fleet and Portus Trucculensis; Some Marketing Models for Romano- B r i t i s h c oarse pottery; The Llantwit Major Villa; a reconsideration of the evidence; The Roman Fort at Cramond, Edinburgh: excavations 1954-66; Haltwhistle Burn, Corstopitum and the Antonine Wall: a reconsideration; The date of the 'Barbaria n Co ns pi ra cy '; Vi llae in Urbibus?; Romano-British Villas from the Air; Types of late Belgic and early Romano-British Pottery-kilns in the Nene valley; Carpow and Caracalla; Notes: A Coin of Tasciovanus - The end of Ermine Street at the Humber - Le ad Sea lin g f rom Old Winteringham - A Note on the Broadbridge Head - A Marble Cockerel from the Bradwell Roman villa - A Coin of Valentinian III from Wroxter - Some recent finds of late Roman Buckles - A Christian Monogram from Richboroug h; Roma n B rita in i n 19 73: S ites Explored - Inscriptions - Appendix. The Vindolanda writing tablets; Reviews; Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies; Indexes. Interior - tiny dint on first few pages, small red ink line at bottom of first pag e, sm all bump to fo re-ed ge o f appro x, first 30 pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - slight twist to spine, minor edge wear, smalll bump at top of front hinge, bump at fore-edge of front cover, soft cre asin g on t op h alf o f fron t cove r, sm al l corn er creases on front cover. Very Good-
4 Albion, Robert Greenhalgh. NAVAL & MARITIME HISTORY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. THIRD EDITION, SECOND SUPPLEMENT, 1966-68.
Frank C. Munson Memorial Institute of American Maritime History / Marine Historical Asociation, Mystic, Connecticut, 1968.
60 pp, 10" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Chapter headings: Reference Works; Merchantmen and Warships; Captains and Crews; Maritime Science, Exploration and Expansion; Commerce and Shipping (including: Fishing and Whaling; Yachting and Small Boa t Cruising); Navies; Naval History by Chronological Periods; Special Topics (including: Ports and Port Functions; Passengers and Immigration; Maritime and International Law; Privateering, Piracy and Buccaneering; Marine Distasters; Safety M e a s u r e s a nd Salvage); Author Index; Subject Index. Interior - tiny very light stain at top inside of front cover and at top of first page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light browning at edges of the c ov er s, v er y li g ht soiling, corner crease on rear cover. Very Good
5 Appleton, Thomas E. USQUE AD MARE: A HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN COAST GUARD AND MARINE SERVICES.
Ottawa Department of Transport 1969 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
318 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H), dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold crest on front cover - no dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions. Chapter headings: The Long Perspective; The Old Provinces; Confederation; The Years of Growth; The Years of Consolidation; Aids to Navigation; Search and Rescue; Ships and Shipbuilding; Marine Regulations; People and Policies; The Way Ahead; Appendices (Family Tree of the Department / Ministers of the Department / Ships of the Canadian Coast Guard, from 1850 / Lighthouses at Confederation / Canal Development / Lifesaving Stations in 1914). Very light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine.
6 Ardizzone, Edward. TIM TO THE RESCUE.
New York Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 2000 0688176798 / 9780688176792 Reissue Hard Cover Fine Near Fine Edward Ardizzone.
Unpaginated, small 4to (10 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with wonderful colour and b&w drawings by Edward Ardizzone. "Bored with his schoolwork, Tim was longing to be at sea again, when who should appear but his great friend, Captain McFee, the old sea captain. Soon Tim was on his way to new adventures on the salty main, including a mighty storm and a daring rescue." One of the classic Little Tim stories, loved by generations of children. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at top of spine. A bright, clean copy.
Unpaginated, small 4to (10 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with wonderful colour and b&w drawings by Edward Ardizzone. "Bored with his schoolwork, Tim was longing to be at sea again, when who should appear but his great friend, Captain McFee, the old sea captain. Soon Tim was on his way to new adventures on the salty main, including a mighty storm and a daring rescue." One of the classic Little Tim stories, loved by generations of children. Book is Fine. Dust jacket has very minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds.
8 Bailey, T. Melville. With Stan McNeill. HAMILTON: CHRONICLE OF A CITY.
Windsor Publications, n.p., (1983), Ist edition.
184 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "...more than 200 vintage and contemporary illustrations..." "In this comprehensive yet entertaining history of Hamilton, popular local historian T. Melville Bailey takes a fresh look at the fascinating history of the Ambitious City, as it grew from a small Loyalist settlement at the Head of the Lake to a bustling centre of transportation, industry, and culture." Contents: Footpaths in the Wilderness; Pioneers at the Head of the Lake; Of Soldiers and Builders; A Frontier Town Goes Up; Fashioning a Transportation Centre; A Manufacturing Metropolis Comes Alive; Years of Expansion and Industry; Hamilton in the Age of World Crisis; Modern Challenges and Future Challenges; Colour Plates; Partners in Progress (by Stan McNeill); Bibliography. Wrinkle at top of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wear, very light wrinkling at top of spine and flap-folds, minor rubbing, tiny dent on rear panel. VG+/VG
9 Baker, Kenneth, ed. (Wilfred Owen, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Hardy, Dorothy Parker, A.E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Joy Corfield, Herman Melville, et al.) THE FABER BOOK OF WAR POETRY.
London Faber and Faber 1996 0571174531 / 9780571174539 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near Fine
598 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "Where previous war anthologies have confined themselves to particular periods or ideological outlooks, Kenneth Baker's takes a catholic view and benefits from a wider exploration of material, classical and modern, English and foreign-language. He has given preference to poems with a strong documentary or psychological realism, and the entire book is divided into sections dealing with such matters as 'The Patriotic Imperative', 'Recruitment', 'Weapons', 'Leadership', 'Civilian Victims', 'Conscientious Objection', 'Views of Death', and 'Gallantry and Heroism'. It makes for exciting, moving and instructive reading." Dust jacket has very minor edge wear.
10 Baker, Kenneth, ed. (Wilfred Owen, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Hardy, Dorothy Parker, A.E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Joy Corfield, Herman Melville, et al.) THE FABER BOOK OF WAR POETRY.
London Faber and Faber 1996 0571174531 / 9780571174539 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good+
598 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "Where previous war anthologies have confined themselves to particular periods or ideological outlooks, Kenneth Baker's takes a catholic view and benefits from a wider exploration of material, classical and modern, English and foreign-language. He has given preference to poems with a strong documentary or psychological realism, and the entire book is divided into sections dealing with such matters as 'The Patriotic Imperative', 'Recruitment', 'Weapons', 'Leadership', 'Civilian Victims', 'Conscientious Objection', 'Views of Death', and 'Gallantry and Heroism'. It makes for exciting, moving and instructive reading." Minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very minor edge wear, very minor rubbing.
11 Bamford, Don and Carroll, Paul. Foreword by Barry Gough. (Lieutenant David Wingfield). FOUR YEARS ON THE GREAT LAKES, 1813-1816. THE JOURNAL OF LIEUTENANT DAVID WINGFIELD, ROYAL NAVY.
Natural Heritage, Toronto, 2009, first edition.
277 pp, 9" H, soft cover. ISBN 9781554883936 B&w photographs, drawings, reproductions, maps, colour plates. "David Wingfield joined the Royal Navy in 1806 at the age of fourteen. His service took him to the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. C aptured, he was a POW in the United States for nine months. Following his release, Wingfield had some intriguing adventures on the Upper Great Lakes before returning to England. Once home, he used his handwritten notes, kept during his time i n N o r th America, as the basis for an account of his experiences there. This, the only account of the War of 1812 as seen through the eyes of a young seaman, provides a fascinating snapshot of people and places, and of a time that represents a t ur n in g po int in the history of the Great Lakes region. Also included is a Wingfield genealogical description that spans the modern world." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - one very soft small corner c rea se. Nea r Fin e
12 Barker, Ralph. CHILDREN OF THE BENARES: A WAR CRIME AND ITS VICTIMS.
Methuen, London, 1987, first edition.
172 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0413423107 B&w photographs. "When the passenger liner 'City of Benares' sailed from Liverpool on Friday, 13 September 1940 she was carrying 90 evacuee children from the bombed cities of Brit ain, bound under a government-sponsored scheme for a safe haven in Canada. Her sinking by U-boat four days later, without warning, in total disregard of the plight of survivors and in defiance of international law, shocked and horrified the c i v i l i s ed world. Of 406 people on board 256 were lost - including, at first count, 83 of the evacuee children. In Britain and the Commonwealth the reaction was one of righteous indignation, accompanied by an intense desire for retribution. N or w as t he propaganda value neglected, a broadcast by King George VI the day after the news broke being clearly directed at neutral America. 'The world,' he said, 'could have no clearer proof of the wickedness against which we fight than th is fou l d eed '. Su s picions subsequently arose, however, that the British authorities had quite as much to answer for as the Nazis. Parents who, despite many misgivings, had entrusted their children to the scheme when invasion threatened, began to ask que stio ns when t hey learned that the promised naval escort had abandoned the convoy twenty-one hours before the 'Benares' was sunk. Allegations that crew members rushed the boats, that emergency equipment had failed, and that the whol e vo yage had b een u nde rtake n u nder the blight of racial prejudice, demanded a formal investigation. But somehow this was avoided, and the scandal was successfully hushed up. Ralph Barker, after a vivid and poignant reconstruction of the disa ster, turn s his attent ion to wha t re ally happened behind the scenes at the Admiralty and the Ministry of Shipping. The result is a harrowing story of human fallibility and human survival." Light to moderate browning to pages and edges of text block , mino r wrin kling a t to p/botto m of spine. Dust jacket has two areas of light edge wrinkling, Very Good-/Very Good
13 Barris, Ted. Introduction by Joe Schlesinger. Inscribed by author. DEADLOCK IN KOREA: CANADIANS AT WAR, 1950-1953.
Toronto Macmillan Canada 1999 0771575912 / 9780771575914 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Inscribed By Author
326 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs and maps. Inscribed by the author on title page: "My best wishes Ted Barris. June '99". "In 1950, nearly 25,000 Canadians signed on for a UN-sponsored 'police action' to stop the Communist incursion into South Korea. They joined a multi-national expeditionary force that quickly found itself embroiled in a full-scale war. Members of the Canadian navy, airforce and infantry fought with distinction and endured months of bloody stalemate that ultimately stopped the Communists but failed to reunite the people of the Korean peninsula - with consequences that continue to haunt the world today. Ted Barris interviewed hundreds of Korean War veterans to gather their stories of heroism and survival, tragedy and absurdity, successes and SNAFUS. He has woven their tales into a fascinating look at a war that many have forgotten." Minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, Bump with wrinkling at bottom corner of front board. Dust jacket has very minor wear at top/bottom of flap-folds, bump with wrinkling at bottom of front flap-fold.
Toronto Macmillan Canada 1999 0771575912 / 9780771575914 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good Inscribed By Author
326 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs and maps. Inscribed by the author on title page: "All the best - Ted Barris. March '99". "In 1950, nearly 25,000 Canadians signed on for a UN-sponsored 'police action' to stop the Communist incursion into South Korea. They joined a multi-national expeditionary force that quickly found itself embroiled in a full-scale war. Members of the Canadian navy, airforce and infantry fought with distinction and endured months of bloody stalemate that ultimately stopped the Communists but failed to reunite the people of the Korean peninsula - with consequences that continue to haunt the world today. Ted Barris interviewed hundreds of Korean War veterans to gather their stories of heroism and survival, tragedy and absurdity, successes and SNAFUS. He has woven their tales into a fascinating look at a war that many have forgotten." Book is Fine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, tiny dent on rear hinge, minor rubbing.
15 Base, Graeme. THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN SNAIL.
New York Abrams Books for Young Readers 2010 0810989654 / 9780810989658 First American Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good Graeme Base.
Unpaginated, 12 1/4" H. Includes the small book attached to the title page which tells the original tale of the Golden Snail that inspired Wilbur's voyage. Map endpapers, enchanting full-colour illustrations throughout - with a snail hidden in every picture. "In Wilbur's favorite book, legend tells of a magnificent Golden Snail that has been banished to the Ends of the Earth by a Grand Enchanter. Inspired by this amazing story, Wilbur sets out on a daring voyage to claim the Golden Snail as his own. Along the way he encounters strange creatures and a series of challenges - rough seas, pirates, the Maze of Madness and the Dreadful Doldrums. Finally, Wilbur reaches the Ends of the Earth, but what he finds there is not quite as he imagined - ." Light partial " Withdrawn from ..." stamp on front free endpaper - no other markings in book, very minor wear at corners and at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very light edge wear, light wrinkling/creasing at top edge - less at bottom edge, a very small dent on front hinge.
16 Bassett, Ronald. THE TINFISH RUN.
Macmillan, London, 1977, first edition.
264 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0333216148 Includes "a glossary of Naval lower-deck terminology and technical terms" and "a brief account of the fortunes of convoy PQ17". "The year is 1942. A small group of merchant ships escorted by two old destroyers, a corvette and two trawlers are ploughing through Arctic seas to northern Russia in the wake of the ill-fated convoy PQ17. For Ordinary Signalman Ludd - inevitably dubbed 'Lobby' - it is his first trip and li k e l y t o be a tough one. The convoy must run the gauntlet of U-boats, aircraft - there is even the threat that enemy battleships will put to sea; finally there is the other enemy - the bitterest weather, the cruelest seas in the world...Seen f ro m th e p er sp ectives of both wardroom and lower deck, (although a work of fiction, this book) gives an entirely authentic account of the experience of sailors on Arctic convoys during World War II. From the final shore leave in Liverpool to th e a rr iva l at an in hospitable Russian port, through tragedy and much suffering, the men in the cramped messdecks maintain their unflagging humour to the end. Old sailors will relive every minute of these days, and in the characters recognise t hems elv es 3 5 yea rs a go; others will be gripped by a compelling story." Cigarette smaoke odor, minor qwrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has been price-clipped, has minor edge wear, very light browning on spine and at top edge. Ver y Goo d-/V ery G oo d-
17 Beck, Horace. FOLKLORE AND THE SEA.
Mystic, Connecticut Mystic Seaport Museum 1996 0913372366 / 9780913372364 Reprint Soft Cover Very Good+ Jane Beck, photographs.
545 pp, 8 7/8" H. B&w photographs, music notation. The American Maritime Library: Volume VI. "Everything you always wanted to know about sea lore but didn't know where to ask: shipbuilding; names and language; weather and navigation; songs and arts; seals, muckle men and mermaids; monsters, sea serpents and enchanted isles; reavers, privateers and smugglers; legends and tales; "spectre" ships - cooked up and served well salted by a first-rate writer who combines the knowledge of a sailor and a college professor." Oceans. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright.
18 Beeler, John. BIRTH OF THE BATTLESHIP: BRITISH CAPITAL SHIP DESIGN 1870-1881.
Caxton, London, 2003, reprint.
224 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1840675349 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, drawings, diagrams, plans. "The 1870s and 1880s have traditionally been seen as the 'Dark Ages' of British warship design, where techn ological conservatism and a lack of any definite design policy produced a confusing mix of ship types, with armament and machinery which were outmoded before the ships were even completed. This new book, however, is a powerful refutation of t h a t v i ew, expanding the scope of its study of the ships of this period beyond the narrowly technological to reveal the full range of strategic, logistical and administrative factors which influenced warship development, arguing that it is her e th at t h e or igins of the modern battleship can be found. The author gives an insight into the difficulties faced by warship designers in an age of rapid technological change, and sets out the valid strategic and technical reasons that lay beh in d s uch se em in gly 'reactionary' policies as the fitting of sails in cruising ironclads, and the Navy's retention of muzzle-loading guns well into the 1880s. Far from having no plan, it is shown that the warship designers of this period had a v ery clea r id ea of the types of ship required to meet the range of roles the Royal Navy was called upon to fulfill in defence of a global empire, and that the problems that the ships of this period had owed more to political, financial and admi nist rati ve pr essur es tha n an y lack of competance on the part of their designers." Dust jacket has some areas of minor edge wrinkling, one tiny tear archivally taped. Fine/Near Fine
19 Bennett, Geoffrey. Preface by Rodney M. Bennett. NAVAL BATTLES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
London Penguin 2001 0141390875 / 9780141390871 Reprint Soft Cover Very Good -
310 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H). B&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "With the call to action stations of August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson. Geoffrey Bennett's classic history of the Great War at sea combines graphic and stirring accounts of all the principal naval engagements - battles overseas, in home waters and, for the first time, under the sea - with analysis of the strategy and tactics of both sides. He brings these sea battles dramatically to life, and confirms the Allied navies' vital contribution to victory. In his words, 'Though the titantic struggle on the Western Front dominated the strategy of the Allies, it was their Navies, of which the British was immeasurably the strongest, that in the end brought Germany to her knees.' Illustrated with maps, plans and contemporary photographs, this detailed, immaculately researched account is the authoritative history of an often overlooked but hugely important aspect of the First World War." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, one crease down spine, very tiny crease at top corner of covers, small soft crease and multiple small line indentations at bottom corner of rear cover, minor rubbing/indentation on covers.
London Penguin 2001 0141390875 / 9780141390871 Reprint Soft Cover Very Good+
310 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H). B&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "With the call to action stations of August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson. Geoffrey Bennett's classic history of the Great War at sea combines graphic and stirring accounts of all the principal naval engagements - battles overseas, in home waters and, for the first time, under the sea - with analysis of the strategy and tactics of both sides. He brings these sea battles dramatically to life, and confirms the Allied navies' vital contribution to victory. In his words, 'Though the titantic struggle on the Western Front dominated the strategy of the Allies, it was their Navies, of which the British was immeasurably the strongest, that in the end brought Germany to her knees.' Illustrated with maps, plans and contemporary photographs, this detailed, immaculately researched account is the authoritative history of an often overlooked but hugely important aspect of the First World War." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear.
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Last week, the magazine posted a mini-manifesto titled "Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For." After confirming it wasn't a parody, conservative critics launched a brutal assault on its author, Jesse A. Myerson.
Myerson's essay captures nearly everything the unconverted despise about left-wing youth culture, starting with the assumption that being authentically young requires being theatrically left wing.
Writing with unearned familiarity and embarrassingly glib confidence in the rightness of his positions, Myerson prattles on about how "unemployment blows" and therefore we need "guaranteed work for everybody." He proceeds to report that jobs "blow" too, so we need guaranteed universal income. He has the same disdain for landlords, who "don't really do anything to earn their money." Which is why, Myerson writes, we need communal ownership of land, or something.
One wonders why he bothered to single out landlords, since he calls for the state appropriation of, well, everything. Why? Because "hoarders blow," and he doesn't mean folks who refuse to throw away their Kentucky Fried Chicken buckets and old Sharper Image catalogs. He means successful people who "hoard" the wealth that rightly belongs to all of us.
Apparently "blowing" is an open warrant to undo the entire constitutional order. If only someone had told the founders.
In the ensuing kerfuffle, Myerson, whose Twitter hashtag is "#FULLCOMMUNISM," seemed shocked that any of his ideas sounded Soviet to his critics. Andrew McCoy, a conservative blogger, offered the specific citations for Myerson's proposals in the Soviet constitution. I suspect this was news to Myerson, but even if not, I bet he doesn't care. It is a permanent trope of the left that its ideas failed because we didn't try hard enough. This time is always different.
Obviously, this is the sort of fleeting controversy that pops up daily on the Internet like fireflies on a summer night. But that's what I find so interesting about it.
Sometimes it is hard for people to accept that there really aren't many new ideas. Sure, there are new policy innovations and new possibilities created by technology. But the really big ideas about how we should organize society vary between being merely antique and downright ancient. Plato argued for collective ownership of property on the grounds that it would erase social divisions. Aristotle disagreed, insisting that, "when everyone has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because everyone will be attending to his own business."
Interestingly, there were times when private property rights were distinctly leftish (populist is probably the better label) because they were seen as a bulwark against tyranny. Even the French revolutionaries included it in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). What really changes is our concept of freedom.
One of the wonderful things about America is that both the left and right are champions of freedom. The difference lies in what we mean by freedom. The left emphasizes freedom as a material good, and the right sees freedom as primarily a right rooted in individual sovereignty. For the left, freedom means "freedom from want." If you don't have money, healthcare, homes, cars, etc., you're not free. Or as FDR put it when pitching his failed "Economic Bill of Rights": "Necessitous men are not free men."
The relevance of the Soviets' effort to provide every goody imaginable isn't to suggest they came up with the idea, it's to demonstrate that when such ideas are put into practice they fail — and often crush both kinds of freedom in the process.
Regardless, the failure of communism didn't put the debate to rest because the debate is eternal. Like those summer fireflies, it is a permanent fixture of the human condition, particularly among the affluent and fashionably rebellious young who are always eager to explain why this time is different.


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Academic journal article The Innovation Journal
Factors and Factor Clusters Most Influential in Introduction and Global Fate of Innovations and Their Organizations – IV
By Glor, Eleanor D.
Introduction3
Limited work has been published on the factors key to the successful introduction (creation/adoption), implementation, achieving of objectives and survival/termination of I&O. In the public sector, Berry and Berry (2013) suggested that the factors involved in the dissemination of innovation are political, economic and social. In terms of the adoption of innovations, de Vries, Bekker and Tummers (2015: 147) and Berry and Berry (2013) suggested, slightly differently, that the major antecedents of innovation are external and internal. Their definitions of internal and external are different from those used in this paper, however. De Vries, Bekker and Tummers (2015) defined four types of innovation: process (administrative, technological), product or service, governance and conceptual. Berry and Berry (2013) defined external in diffusion terms as national interaction or regional diffusion and internal as related to the jurisdiction. Glor (2014a) suggested that employees, functions, survival and possibly other not yet specified factors are important. This paper examines empirically three types of factors influencing the introduction and survival/termination of I&O-two types of external factors and one type of internal factor. The innovations examined are policy/program innovations, while organizations are the administrative units delivering them.4 The paper uses an instrument developed for the purpose that quantifies the factors. It assesses 550 paired statements, organized into six factors influencing the introduction and survival/termination of the sub-population (all) income security innovations introduced by the GoS, 1971-82. It explores whether the factors predicted the introduction and fate of the I&O.
Innovation refers to the conception and implementation for the first, second or third time in a government's community of significant new services, ideas or ways of doing things as policy in order to improve or reform them and involves taking risks (Glor, 1997: 4). This paper studies the first time. This definition is different from that of Walker (1969) and Rogers and Kim (1985), who defined innovation as anything perceived by the innovators and their organizations as new; for example, "a program or policy which is new to the states adopting it, no matter how old the program may be or how many other states may have adopted it" (Walker, 1969: 881). Osborne (1998) defined "total innovation," as innovations new to the innovating organization and offering a new service to a new group. Glor added the qualifications about taking risks and the focus on invention and early adoption. Rogers (1995) and Walker (1969) were interested in dissemination, here it is invention and early adoption, the factors that lead to its introduction and influence its fate. Berry and Berry (2013) suggested that definitions focused on the first few adopters were used more before 1990 and that the focus has been primarily on dissemination since then. In my opinion, this change has been due to the promotion of New Public Management and financial constraint as innovation. Including laggards shifts the focus to dissemination of innovation, as opposed to its introduction. Although study of dissemination is important, there is still much to learn about invention and early adoption and-a new focus-on the fate of I&O. Organization refers to a group of persons united for a purpose; in this case, an organizational unit and people structured to deliver an innovation. This paper studies the five organizations delivering five innovations introduced for the first time in Canada and USA. The approach has potential to inform understanding of risks of innovating and fate of early adopters. A government community is the group to which a government compares itself and/or with which it works. The GoS's community was Canadian provinces, Government of Canada (G°C) and American state and federal governments.
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SINGAPORE, Singapore will deal with disputes with Malaysia calmly and constructively, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, as he expressed confidence that a new generation of Singaporeans will learn to "collectively protect our vital interests while living in peace and friendship with our neighbours".
With Malaysia, which formed a new government following elections this May, Lee noted that several issues have recently arisen between the two countries, "as they will from time to time between two close neighbours tightly bound by history, economics, culture and kinship".
Malaysia also wants to revise the price of Johor water, an old issue recently revived, on which Singapore's stand is quite clear."


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The Campaign to Have a Plebiscite for Freedom in Cuba Begins
Maurice Ferré: The solution for Cuba and Puerto Rico: plebiscites.
From El Nuevo Herald, August 15, 2015
Although both were the booty of war, the results for Cuba and Puerto Rico were different in the Treaty of Paris (1898) at the end of the Spanish-American War.
The Republic of Cuba was established in 1903. As a republic, Cuba prospered for 37 years. With the Constitution of 1940, eliminating the despicable Platt Amendment, Cuba advanced. But by 1959 Cuba was already a corrupt country. After 55 years of Castro-communism, Cuba went from being one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America to place itself, currently, among the poorest.
Puerto Rico did better. Washington cultivated Puerto Rico as a military base, guarding the Panama Canal. In 1917, the U.S. Congress unilaterally gave U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans. In 1922 the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, William Howard Taft (before being President of the U.S.), presented the majority opinion in the last Insular Case (about the relationship between the U.S. and Puerto Rico), Balzac v. Porto Rico, concluding that although Puerto Ricans were U.S. citizens, they didn't have all the guarantees of the U.S. Constitution. Puerto Rico would continue "belonging to the United States but not being part of the United States."* This infamy of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922 is still alive in 2015.
In 1952, the North American Congress conceded autonomy to Puerto Rico in local matters, creating the Associated Free State (AFS). In 62 years of self-governing with bad judgments by its governors and responsible financial counselors and with lucrative contracts for friends of the government in attendance, Puerto Rico had an external debt of $73 billion, more than the annual GDP of the island. On August 1, the island, for the first time, failed to comply with a Wall Street bank debt. As a result of the precarious financial situation, Wall Street Hedge Funds and vulture investors bought up Puerto Rico's junk bonds. Puerto Rico fell into the hands of the "savage capitalists" that Pope Francis has criticized so much.
The President of the United States, Barack Obama, who insists on the opening with Cuba, ignores Puerto Rico's fatal condition. The North American Congress, presently in the hands of the Republicans, insists that the Cuban political system be modified to one that establishes the consent of the governed, but ignores that in an internal plebiscite in 2012, Puerto Rico, with 78 per cent participation, voted 54 percent to not consent to the system of government presently alive on the island, the AFS.
Among Cuba's dissidents, Rosa María Payá, daughter of the fallen martyr, Oswaldo Payá-Sardiñas, has created a new opposition entity called "Cuba Decides," which has numerous followers on the island. Payá, with her group, attended an important meeting of Cuban dissidence in San Juan: First National Cuban Meeting, which met on August 11, 12 and 13.
Cuba Decides presented, in Puerto Rico, a continuation of Oswaldo Payá's patriotic vision: a plebiscite for Cuba. The questions, although not finalized, ironically are similar to the active questions in Puerto Rico: consent of the governed and the preferred form of government on the island.
Cuba is a sovereign nation where its citizens, internally, don't have individual liberties.
For its part, Puerto Rico doesn't enjoy sovereignty, since it's an unincorporated territory of the United States, whose citizens are governed under the plenary powers of the U.S. Congress under its territorial clause. But Puerto Ricans who reside on the island do enjoy individual liberty.
In order to resolve these incongruencies with the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution, in the case of Puerto Rico separate plebiscites should be performed. Both plebiscites should entail compliance with conditions, previously agreed upon by the respective governments.
In the case of Puerto Rico, President Obama has recommended and the U.S. Congress has accepted an appropriation of $2.5 million to "educate" voters on the alternative conditions of the plebiscite. Because of the results of the 2012 island plebiscite, in which 61 percent chose federated statehood as a political status, the question of the new plebiscite would simply be: Statehood, yes or no?
The questions for the Cuban process are very complex because they require acceptance by the Government of a future plebiscite in Cuba, without the presence of the Castros.
Cuban exiles and dissidents on the island, some of whom reunited this week in San Juan, should carefully study Rosa María Payá's presentation and persistently demand of the Cuban Government a plebiscite that determines the consent of the Cuban people. Then Cuban citizens will decide if they want a socialist government or a democratic, pluralist republic and a free market.
Declaration of San Juan
The text of the declaration can be found in English here, along with the list of signatories.
*Puerto Rico was not incorporated into the Union.
Translated by Regina Anavy
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Date : August 23, 2015
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How True Storytelling Can Save Marketing (And More…)
By Shenzhen Blog Network December 27, 2018 10 Mins Read
I recently had the privilege to work on a very special project with my friends at GapingVoid and LinkedIn. We set out on a creative endeavor to explore the intersection of story, art, humor and candor as a means of fostering self-reflection and inspiring personal and professional change.
The result is a something I'm very proud of…a new short and sweet but compelling ebook, Once Upon a Digital Time: How to be an amazing storyteller when everyone is a "storyteller."
To help promote the release and further contemplate the power of story, I spent time with Megan Golden, Content Marketing Leader at LinkedIn. In our very candid and personal conversation, I shared the story behind the story and why we need to first take back "storytelling" from marketers to learn and unlearn our way to true storytelling and engagement. I wanted to share our conversationwith you here. I hope it helps you…
How Storytelling Can Save Marketing: Bestselling author Brian Solis explains why storytelling isn't just a tactic – it's a whole new marketing philosophy
by Megan Golden
"Marketers really need to consider that this is a very sacred word." That's how Brian Solis, the author of Engage! and X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, launched into our discussion of storytelling.
Straight away, it told me that this wasn't going to be your average discussion about marketers telling stories. It was going to be a lot more challenging for marketers, and it was going to have a lot more to say about how our discipline needs to evolve.
I had the chance to interview Brian as part of our work together on Once Upon a Digital Time, a new eBook that explores why marketers have become so obsessed with telling stories – and what that really means for the future of our discipline.
We created the book with Brian and Gapingvoid, the culture design group co-founded by Brian's long-term artistic collaborator Hugh MacLeod. The result is a challenging take on what storytelling really means for marketers that, thanks to Hugh's fantastic illustrations, is also very funny.
Interviewing Brian was my chance to explore some of the big ideas in Once Upon a Digital Time in some more depth. He didn't disappoint. As he explains in this interview, Brian believes that marketers who simply adopt the title of storytellers aren't doing the hard yards they need to do, to get this right.
Storytelling isn't just a sacred concept, it's also a concept that demands real commitment – and real organizational change. The reward for going through that journey towards becoming a genuine storyteller is a future-proofed approach to marketing itself.
Here's how our discussion played out:
Megan Golden:
There are over half a million LinkedIn members with storytelling listed in their profile. Why are modern marketers self-categorizing themselves as storytellers?
Brian Solis:
I always remember a quote from a very interesting, well-known advertiser, who was fond of saying to agencies and other marketers, "You're not an effing storyteller!" This advertiser had read an interview with one of the most famous rollercoaster designers in the world, and this rollercoaster designer categorized his work as storytelling.
For the advertiser, this showed how easy it is for us to believe we're storytellers, just because we produce content or we produce experiences. He was making the point that being a storyteller takes much more than just saying you're a storyteller. We keep saying it, not because it's true, but because it feels good to say you're storytelling instead of admitting you're in marketing.
Personally, I think of storytelling as an aspirational title of sorts. I'm an optimist and so I want to believe that marketers do genuinely believe that they're storytellers.
What they need to consider though, is that this is a very sacred word. We've bought into the aspiration and the ideal of storytelling-based marketing, but we haven't yet gone through the exercise of what it actually takes to become a storyteller.
I realized this several years ago when I was writing my book, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design. I was guilty of thinking that, because I was in control of the narrative, I was a storyteller. I wasn't.
My response was to find a storyboard artist to teach me the art and science of storytelling. That made a big difference, but I can tell you that even after going through that, I would never put storyteller in my title. It's too sacred a term and we have to respect that.
You say in our book that marketers have ended up distracted by social media follower numbers, and lost their sense of purpose. How do you know when the purpose is missing? And how can you reclaim it through storytelling?
The challenge for marketing is that it's adapting storytelling, it's adapting social media, it's adapting mobile, it's adapting all of these new channels on the basis of a classical foundation of what marketing means. It has a traditional matrix that has to adapt to new times, technologies and trends. That matrix ends up focused on the wrong things.
It's not that marketers don't get it. It's more that they're packaging technology into a construct that they know. It's self-reinforcing. Executives therefore see marketing in these terms, and fund it and support it in these terms. They're supporting what marketing is, not what it could be.
This is a time for reinvention and innovation. In the book, we talk about using storytelling not just as a guiding light for the future of engagement and experience, but also as a catalyst to drive innovation. What does it take to tell a great story? What does it take to really understand your audience? What does it take to be really compelling? What does it take to move, guide and inspire them?
The answers to those questions are going to take some marketers out of that old construct and start them building something new: a new generation of marketing that's less about 'Marketing' and more about experience and engagement.
This raises the question: once I have your attention and you have my attention, what are we going to do about it? When you start thinking in these terms, you're stepping in a new direction, and you continue to step in new directions as you pursue these ideas. I call it 'progressive transparency,' moving beyond what marketing used to focus on and taking an interest in 'The Embrace', or what happens when you engage.
The challenge that marketers have today is that their budgets, resources and expertise are all emblematic of how we viewed marketing yesterday, not of how marketing needs to be tomorrow.
We get caught up in these cycles of allowing marketing to be driven and guided by executives, who want to see certain things communicated in certain ways. I mean the fact that legal has such a strong voice in what we can say and what we can't say, or what the narrative has to be according to the "optics of the organization". These are all designed based on yesterday's view of what marketing is, and this holds marketing back from what it could be.
How were you originally connected with Hugh MacLeod and what is it about Hugh's illustrations that you feel really bring your words to light?
I was part of the startup community that eventually became Web 2.0 and then developed into social media. Hugh was also part of that group. He was coming from Savile Row and leaving the advertising world behind.
He was using cartoons to express some of the really amazing things that technology was starting to empower us with, and all of the paradoxes that it had introduced into our lives. He was also taking shots at the way marketing kept focusing just on the next advertisement.
We orbited the same circles in the Web 2.0 world and in its earliest stage, that community wasn't just about working. It was also about validation and self-help and support. We would meet for drinks and bring all of the entrepreneurs together to talk about what we were working on, and help us get everything to the next level. I just instantly bonded with Hugh. He's a wonderful human being and so witty and clever.
You wrote a book a couple years ago, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design. In there you talked about the need for businesses to invest in experience architects. Can you explain how storytelling plays into the design of those experiences?
Once I got to the core of what an experience was, I realized that you can't design experiences unless you're intent on them. When someone comes into contact with your brand, your product, your service, your packaging or your representative, you don't want them just feeling the value of those parts;
you want them to feel more than the sum of those parts. You have to design the experience as a story where everything comes together into an arc that people will feel, walk away with, and talk about. So, it was very intentional way of looking at experiences. I think it was a little early as an idea, and now it's starting to be appreciated a bit more.
So, the idea of becoming an experience architect is essentially not unlike becoming a storyteller. It's about being able to build experiences by transforming every aspect of a company around the experiences you want to deliver.
The real challenge is that we approach all this acting like marketers. We talk like marketers. We measure like marketers. We talk at people based on what other people have approved us to say and none of it feels human. That has to change. The first step is realizing that we're in denial. Then we can accept the need for change and start moving in a new direction.
"I love receiving generic emails and text messages," said no-one ever. We have to understand that marketing is what it is. The reason it doesn't have a seat at the table in most C-suite discussions is because it's not aligned with business growth and it's not aligned with customer experiences.
But it could be! Marketing doesn't have to be a discipline or a function. It could become the work that customer experience teams are doing by using communication, touchpoints, technology and channels to deliver experiences holistically.
I think marketing's futures are bigger than we give them credit for because we're still stuck looking at what marketing was rather than what it could be. The reason storytelling in marketing matters is because it starts to force us to move beyond that. When we accept it as the sacred term that it really is, it absolutely demands transformation. It's not just another marketing tactic.
Note : This article was originally published on www.briansolis.com
Brian Solis is principal analyst and futurist at Altimeter, the digital analyst group at Prophet, Brian is world renowned keynote speaker and 7x best-selling author. His latest book, X: Where Business Meets Design, explores the future of brand and customer engagement through experience design.
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What Is SCIM?
System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) is an IETF specification (RFC7642) of a RESTful service for identity provisioning. SCIM specification describes services to create, read, update and delete (a.k.a. "CRUD") data about users and groups. SCIM services are provided by systems that store identity data, such as applications with their own database, cloud service providers and so on. SCIM services are invoked by software systems that need to manage the identities.
SCIM As Universal Interface
SCIM is built on a noble idea to define an universal interface for identity provisioning that every application can use. This sound like a great idea - and in fact it is. The problem is that implementing such an interface is much harder than it seems. This approach was tried many times in the past, including attempts of protocol specification that were very similar to SCIM. Such efforts are almost never successful. In fact such attempts usually introduce additional complexity to the system and result in maintenance nightmares in the long run. We see people trying the same approach over and over for almost two decades. The result is always the same.
This seems to be very counter-intuitive. Creating such abstraction is a well-know and usually very useful architectural pattern. How it is possible that such a best practice does not work for identity provisioning? The answer is far from being straightforward, therefore it is perhaps best to illustrate that using a couple of examples.
SCIM specifies a nice schema for the user (account). Every user should look like this in SCIM notation (simplified):
"userName":"jdoe",
"name":{
"formatted": "John Doe, PhD.",
"familyName": "Doe",
"givenName": "John",
"honorificSuffix": "PhD."
"emails":[
"value":"john.doe@example.com",
"type":"work",
"primary": true
This looks very nice and sane. But all the systems are not the same. Let's have a look at seemingly simple concept of user's name. Some systems have the name neatly separated to its components such as first name and last name. Other systems are much simpler and just put everything in one messy string. SCIM allows variations in the representation of name. Therefore system A returns this:
And system B returns this:
"formatted": "John Doe, PhD."
So far so good. However, the trouble comes when we want to create an account on both system A and system B. SCIM has to way to indicate that system A needs familyName and givenName while system B needs formatted name.
It is perhaps no big deal for system B. SCIM service endpoint may be smart enough to accept both forms of the name as it is easy to format full name from its components. But what should poor system A do if it gets formatted name such as Hrabě Felix Teleke z Tölökö. Which part is first name, which is last name, where is the middle name and which parts are honorific titles? The client that sends just the formatted name is fully SCIM-compliant, as SCIM schema allows this. The service A is also fully SCIM-compliant. Yet they cannot interoperate. The correct behavior needs to be configured or hardcoded in the client. Which makes interoperability quite difficult to achieve.
You may think that this is not really a problem. And in fact you may be right, given the common IDM practices of today's world. People are used to the fact that integration with every new system is a slow and painful process. But SCIM is not supposed to work just for the needs of today. SCIM was supposed to be an improvement. But it is not yet there.
This particular problem is perhaps not so bad when it comes to user's name. Getting the name right is going to require interaction with the user anyway. But the same problem permeates entire SCIM schema.
Is password required to create new user? How should we encode/hash the password? What about user activation status (is user enabled or disabled)? Does the service support activation at all? Which values are valid? Just true/false? Is there any way to indicate an archived account? What about activation dates (valid from, valid to)? Those are the necessary minimum for even a simple identity management solution. But SCIM does not have the answers.
All of that boils down to interoperability - or rather lack of it. SCIM client needs to know a lot of out-of-band details about the service for that specific deployment to work. The consequence is that vast majority of practical SCIM clients are developed to work with a particular service and they work only with that service. They are not portable to other services. They are not interoperable. This is not really what one would expect from a standard protocol, is it?
Standard Schema For Identity Management
One of the problems of SCIM is that it tries to enforce a standardized identity schema. But standardized identity schema is a good thing, isn't it? How can this be a problem?
Common identity schema is a good thing, in principle. The problem is that different communities and deployments have different ideas what is common. For example LDAP community cannot agree how to disable an account - and LDAP exists for almost three decades. There are 3-4 official grouping mechanisms in LDAP, plus pretty much every LDAP server has its own because the standard ones have their problems. Agreeing on common schema is really hard. It is even harder to standardize it. Which was obviously very clear to SCIM authors as the SCIM standard schema is very vague.
Then there is a pile of pre-existing software systems. Some of them are LDAP based with inetOrgPerson and eduPerson schemas. Those are not strictly compatible with SCIM schema as there is no reasonable way how to express mutivalue LDAP cn in SCIM name. Oh yes, using cn with multiple values is a very rare sight. But this means you cannot make a bridge between LDAP and SCIM that will be fully compliant to both standards. You have to cut corners. And then there are systems that have their own schemas that are not really SCIM-compatible either. They will have to cut even more corners to expose SCIM-compliant interface. Each such compromise means that there is a loss in fidelity. It means that there will be things that cannot be done with SCIM - or that you have to bend SCIM standard or resort to dirty hacks. One schema does not rule them all.
Similar problems were present in Identity Connector Framework (ICF) that was created by Sun Microsystems back in 2000s. ICF was not even trying to go as far as to define how a name or an address of a person should be presented. What ICF mandated is that each account must have two identifiers:
__UID__, which is unique and it should be immutable if possible. You can imagine that as LDAP entryUUID or a value of database autoincrement column. It may be generated by the system where the account is created.
__NAME__, which is provided by the user when account is created. This is usually a username or login name.
That may sound like a minimal and very reasonable requirement. Except that it is not. It is neither minimal nor reasonable. There are systems that do not have __UID__ at all. There are systems that do not have __NAME__ at all. There are systems where __NAME__ does not need to be unique. There are systems where a combination of several identifiers is needed to uniquely identify an account. There are systems that use both __UID__ and __NAME__, but __UID__ is required as identifier to modify account. There are systems that use both __UID__ and __NAME__, but __NAME__ is required as identifier to modify account. There are so many options. And we are talking just about simple identifiers. The is the most basic stuff of identity management. Everything else is going to be harder.
Identity Connector Framework is dead for almost a decade. But there is ConnId project that follow up on that effort. We have made many improvements over the years in ConnId. But even that small piece of hardcoded identifier schema haunted us all the time. Hardcoded schema for identity management interface does not work.
But wait a minute! There is a hardcoded identity schema in midPoint! And pretty much any identity management platform has such schema. How is it possible that identity management systems work?
Simply speaking, identity management systems work because they are systems. They are not mere specifications written down on a piece of paper. There is code. A huge pile of code. There is man-decades worth of pure development work in midPoint, plus additional effort for testing, documentation, communication and management overhead and all the other things around it. MidPoint knows how to map data between incompatible schemas. It was designed to do that precisely that. MidPoint can dynamically discover how the schemas look like. MidPoint can wire them together. MidPoint has tools to quickly change the mappings when the schemas evolve. MidPoint can simulate missing or non-standard functionality. MidPoint is flexible enough to adapt to standard violations and do all the dirty hacks. But there is a price to pay here. You probably do not want to spend man-decades to develop your SCIM-based integration solution.
To cut the long story short: what works for identity management systems is not the same thing that works for identity management interfaces.
If fact, we should probably be happy about the current state of SCIM and the hype and all. Lots of incompatible SCIM endpoints mean that there will be strong need for identity management systems. We can sell midPoint subscriptions by truckloads. But we just cannot be happy about something that is so wrong from engineering perspective.
Of course, SCIM can be improved. It seems that SCIM can be transformed to a good identity management interface eventually. Future SCIM versions may provide a means for a service to expose all the information that the client needs. But that is where all the ideas of universal identity provisioning interface get really complex. There is plethora of combinations of service capabilities, password formats, activation options and entitlement schemes. Fully-compliant SCIM clients will need to support them all, they will need to dynamically discover which are the right options and adapt the functionality. Which will effectively turn SCIM clients into small identity provisioning systems.
Issues, Issues And More Issues
SCIM is in its second version now and there are talks about a third revision. There were two SPML versions before SCIM and a handful of provisioning protocols before that. Those attempts go back for almost two decades. SCIM has a lot of previous failures to learn from. Therefore it is quite a big surprising how many issues still remain deeply embedded in SCIM.
SCIM has a prefabricated concepts of user and group. It is almost unbelievable that group membership is controlled by members attribute of a group. This is a well-known approach that goes back (at least) to 1990s. This approach is so well known especially because it is almost always very problematic. Majority of deployments have groups that contain pretty much every user in the organization. Which means that now we have a Group SCIM object that has many values in its members attribute. Groups with thousands to millions users are not that rare any more. Imagine how the SCIM client lists groups with that many members, how long the SCIM response is going to be. There is a workaround to request all group attributes except members, which is something that a reasonable client always wants to do. However, members attribute still needs to be used for group modification. Which means that both the client and service has to be implemented very carefully to avoid performance issues. It would be all so much easier if groups attribute of the user was used instead. Or even better: if group mechanics was just a special case of some well defined entitlement or role management mechanism. Which leads us to entitlements and roles attributes of the user, which are mentioned, but not really defined. SCIM leaves a lot to be desired here.
There are lot of smaller issues that make it hard to use SCIM for serious business. There is no good way how to indicate that user has a password without revealing information about the password (e.g. its hashed value). However, this functionality is often needed, e.g. if we want to set a password for a user but only if the user does not have a password yet. Username is mandatory and it has to be globally unique within a service. However, the username may be generated by the service to ensure the uniqueness. But in that case the username may not be present in the create operation, which is somehow in conflict with the fact that username is required. Global uniqueness of username may also be a problem for multi-tenant systems. Such systems have to use workarounds, such as introducing internal structure to the username. And some systems may not need username at all. SCIM forces such systems to duplicate the id into username. Which is also seems to be an anti-pattern.
There are more issues, but it perhaps makes no sense to enumerate them all. The big picture should be quite clear now. Those issues may be caused by the way how many protocols are developed nowadays. Many protocols are developed during standardization process, not before the process. Therefore there is not enough time and opportunity to validate the protocol by using it in diverse real-world scenarios. SCIM obviously suffers from this premature standardization problem.
Future Of SCIM
There was SPML once. It is dead now. Then there was SPML2. That one is dead too. (And no, XML was not the primary reason for SPML failure.) SCIM has a really tough act to follow here.
SCIM is undoubtedly an improvement over SPML. SCIM is better. But that is not the question. The question is whether SCIM is good enough. And in the state that SCIM is now, it is not good enough.
SCIM may be a good start. But it is just a start. It needs major improvements. It has to be cleaner, richer and more dynamic. But there is a significant price to pay to get such things. There will be new complexity. A lot of complexity. Therefore forget about simple universal SCIM clients. The clients will be either simple or universal. But not both.
Pragmatic Look At SCIM
Despite all that was said so far, SCIM can still be useful. It just needs to be used reasonably, one needs to be aware of the limitations and set the expectations right. Our recommendations:
If you are just starting, it may be a good idea to start with SCIM. It is better to start with SCIM than to reinvent everything - especially if you are new to identity management. Identity management is much more complex that it seems. Chances are that you end up with something much worse than SCIM if you try to do it your way.
Do not expect that SCIM will solve all your problems. Do not expect that your service will be accessible by any SCIM client. It won't. You will need spacial client that can be based on SCIM. But you need to develop that yourself. Do not expect that your client can access any arbitrary SCIM service. It won't. You have to adapt your client for every new service. In fact, expect that practical interoperability is going to be really low. However, it may still be better to use SCIM instead of building a service or client on a green field.
Do not use SCIM groups if you can avoid it. The way how SCIM deals group membership is a well-known anti-pattern and it is bound to cause a lot of problems sooner or later. Create your own entitlement mechanism instead.
It may be a good idea to avoid using the pre-fabricated User type as well. The fixed schema of User may not suit your purposes. There is no point for you to translate your LDAP eduPerson schema to SCIM User when your clients are going to translate it back to LDAP anyway. It may be much better to create your own EduUser resource from scratch.
It is probably not worth the effort to migrate your existing identity provisioning interface to SCIM. Unless your identity provisioning interface is really primitive, you are going to struggle to make SCIM do what you need it to do. You will need to create a lot of custom SCIM extensions. You will need to change the behavior. You will most likely end up violating SCIM specifications anyway. The benefit of migration is that people that it will be easier to understand your API for people that have seen a SCIM interface before. But they will need to understand your custom extensions anyway and they will almost certainly need to write custom client code. You have to decide for yourself if such benefit is worth for your specific case.
As long as you are aware of all the limitations of SCIM and it still satisfies your needs it is perhaps OK to use SCIM. SCIM limitations are not the primary problem with SCIM. Every technology has limitations and SCIM can be a good fit for many simple solutions. The real problem is that there are massively inflated expectations about SCIM. Lot of engineers with a limited experience in identity management see SCIM as a silver bullet. But it is not. It is just an ordinary technology in its early stages of development.
SCIM In MidPoint
We do not use SCIM in midPoint, not directly anyway. There are many reasons for this.
MidPoint is older than SCIM. MidPoint already had rich API when SCIM was just being developed. Our API is much richer that SCIM, it is build for dynamic environment and it has more features. Adopting SCIM as our API would be a significant downgrade.
Clever reader will notice that midPoint has a user schema that is very similar to SCIM schema. The reason is that midPoint schema and SCIM schema are based on the same specifications such as VCARD and FOAF. However, even though the schemas are similar, they are not the same. SCIM and midPoint schemas are not directly compatible.
Of course, we can create a SCIM interface in addition to our regular interface. But in that case we will need to maintain and support two interfaces instead of one. Which is not a negligible effort. In addition to that, it is very likely that SCIM will go through the usual hype cycle. Which means that people will start using the limited SCIM interface instead of our full-featured API. Then we will get a lot of request to extend SCIM functionality to support all midPoint features. We will have to make hacks and workarounds to expose such functionality using SCIM. Which means that we will spend a lot of effort to get to the same place where we already are.
MidPoint supports SCIM indirectly. There is a couple of SCIM-based connectors for some services. And we expect that we will develop more such connectors in the future. However, we have no universal SCIM connector and it is very unlikely that such a connector will ever be possible or practical. Just look at LDAP. LDAP exists since 1993. It is one of the most established and stable protocols that we have in the entire IAM field. Yet, our "universal" LDAP connector has to account for many peculiarities of every individual LDAP server. And we have a separate connector for Active Directory, even though the connector is still using LDAP for communication. It is almost certain that we will need to adopt similar approach for SCIM.
There are efforts to create a SCIM proxy for midPoint API and SCIM connector as a contribution to midPoint project. We have been told that the code will be available soon. We hope that this code may be used by the people who like to experiment with SCIM for integration. This may become native part of midPoint one day - if it is successful. But after the failures of DSML, SPML1, SPML2, lukewarm start of SCIM1 and its problems that were not really addressed in SCIM2, it is perhaps not difficult to understand that we are quite sceptical about identity management standards designed by committees.
This Is All Wrong!
This Is All Wrong! SCIM is a standard! And you should behave and support the standards. Come on! Implement SCIM service in midPoint. Now!
Well, technically, SCIM is an informational RFC, not a standard. But even if it was a standard, what is a values of a standard if it does not really work? We believe that the primary reason for having standards is interoperability. And SCIM is not doing incredibly well on that front.
However, we admit that we may be wrong with our assessment of SCIM. In that case please contact us and let us know what exactly we have got wrong. We will fix it. We may even reconsider our approach to support SCIM in the future. But there are two conditions:
SCIM has to mature. There are many improvements that needs to be done in SCIM for it to become useful.
There needs to be an incentive. Funding needs to be secured for both development and maintenance of SCIM interface. Or there needs to be significant demand from midPoint subscribers. Hype is not a significant motivation just by itself.
Let the community decide. If you like the ideas of SCIM and the solutions that SCIM provides than go ahead and use it. We will be more than happy to admit that we were wrong about SCIM if that is really the case. If you find it useful to use SCIM with midPoint then let us know. Just please, do all of us a favor: try using SCIM before you talk about it. Make sure that your evaluation of SCIM is based on real-world experience and that it is not just driven by hype and inflated expectations. What we need is a robust engineering solution, not a television show. Everything works perfectly in slide shows and talks. But we are not going to deploy and run those, are we?


Dish Network reported second-quarter 2016 earnings that topped expectations, but Dish Network also had a net loss of 281,000 pay-TV subscribers, including satellite and the Sling web TV service, said to be the biggest quarterly subscriber loss ever, for Dish.
DirecTV, owned by AT&T, seems to have added customer accounts in the second quarter.
Here's the importance: every legacy service provider is in a race to create new revenue streams at least as fast as each service provider loses legacy accounts. Pressure on top-line revenue and customer account attrition might mean Dish Network is losing that battle, despite the launch of Sling TV streaming services.
That leaves speculation about Dish Network entering the mobile business.
Opinions about what Dish Network might be able to do with its amassed mobile spectrum have varied. Some seem never to have believed Dish Network really would become a mobile service provider, and eventually would simply sell its spectrum.
Others believed Dish Network might well try and enter the mobile business.
The "problem" for observers is that much hinges on whether Dish Network concludes it is time to sell, time to build to create value before selling, or time to transition to a new business model and grow over the long term.
It is not clear anybody outside Dish Network, and aside from Charlie Ergen, Dish CEO, have any idea what the company will do.


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Watch AFL Live Collingwood Magpies vs GWS Giants Live Streaming Free 2018 AFL Playoff Seasons Finals Week 02 Online, match will be kick off at Melbourne Cricket Ground Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Saturday 15 September 2018 online, 19:25 pm (AEDT) and its broadcast on Channel Seven, Foxtell.
The second chances are done; now we're playing for keeps. And the Pies have a fight on their hands to progress to the penultimate weekend of the season.
History says the losing qualifying finalist tends to win their semi final. Since the start of the decade, the losing qualifying finalists has won 12 of their 17 semi finals – Hawthorn becoming the fifth loser last night.
Teams that finish inside the top four generally end up in the final four. It tends to take something unusual for a qualifying finalist to lose two straight games and exit the finals in the second week. In the Hawks' case, it was running into a team which ultimately was better than them through the home and away season on an underlying basis, and losinf key players both recently and earlier on in the piece.
Collingwood lost last weekend, while the GWS Giants won. The Pies' loss was a close run thing, and it took an uncharacteristically physical effort from the Eagles (+16 in ground ball gets) in the fourth quarter for them to get over the line. The Giants' win was not a close run thing, and one may argue it was one of the most comprehensive victories by one finalist over another in 2018.
If the two teams' respective form carries over, it shapes as a high quality, aggressive, attacking game of football. For the right to a six day break, and a battering by a well-rested Richmond.
The Pies are unchanged for just the second time this year (the other times being Round 5 and Round 22), after its trio of returning players (Tyson Goldsack, Jeremy Howe and Adam Treloar) got through the qualifying final unscathed – each playing a critical role in Collingwood's performance.
The Giants have made two changes, losing Josh Kelly to a meniscus tear and leaving Harry Perryman out of the team. In come Ryan Griffen and former Pie Lachie Keeffe. The latter would appear to have been selected primarily as a backup ruckman to Rory Lobb, who has the task of taming the man-god Brodie Grundy.
GWS beat the Pies at the MCG by 16 points in Round 2, but given it was so long ago how much can we really read into the game? It was the afternoon the Giants lost Tom Scully to a season-ending ankle injury, and the Pies lost Tim Broomhead to an ugly broken leg (don't Google it).
GWS still had Jonathon Patton and Heath Shaw, and were playing Lachie Whitfield on a wing and Brett Deledio off half back. Collingwood have seen some changes too: Darcy Moore, Matt Scharenberg and Lynden Dunn were in the back six, and the forward line was 100 per cent small ball (as opposed to 90 per cent small ball).
The game itself was pretty even, the margin swinging back and forth all day, and the underlying performance of each team suggested the game was more or less a coin flip. In a lot of ways, it was a game between equals, though we didn't realise it at the time.
As for tonight's contest, markets are certainly subscribing to the long-term trend of top four finishers beating their lesser counterparts. Collingwood is a strong favourite, despite general and professional sentiment running counter.
For me, I see tonight's game unfolding in a similar fashion to the Round 2 encounter in the aggregate: close all evening, with neither side able to streak its way to an advantage for a long period.
That's because both teams map against each other well: both have strong and deep midfields, while Collingwood's defence and GWS' forward line are probably their weaker spots. Collingwood's forward line lacks the names, but has been effective for most of the year; ditto GWS' defence.
Collingwood looked all at sea in the first quarter against West Coast, unable to get their ground game going as the Eagles played in the air. GWS has the capacity to not just match Collingwood on the ground but exceed it, and with Zac Williams (probably my favourite player) back dishing from the half back line they've got part of the aerial game sorted too.
And for all of the talk about the Giants being the show ponies of the AFL, the team is sixth in the league for tackle rate (which adjusts for opponent time in possession), and is third for adjusted contested possessions (a proxy for ground ball gets). The Pies are seventh and fifth. Yep, it'll be a battle of the midfields.
Australian Football League Melbourne Demons vs GWS Giants Live Stream Free, AFL 2018 Regular Seasons Week 23 AFL Live Stream. Melbourne Demons vs GWS Giants match will be kickoff at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Sunday 26 August 2018 online, 15:20 pm (AEDT) and its broadcast on Channel Seven, Foxtell.
This is the second last game of the home and away season and the result will place together the final pieces of the puzzle that is the make up of the top eight.
The winner of this contest will most likely end up in 5th position on the ladder and gain a home final, while the loser will slip to 7th and a road trip in week one of the finals series.
If Melbourne lose and Geelong win by at least six goals against the Gold Coast, the Demons will slip to 8th, meaning that the two sides could play each other again in a fortnight.
Both sides had varying fortunes in Round 22. Melbourne finally defeated a top eight side, registering a confidence and character building victory against the West Coast Eagles in Perth.
The 17 point victory effectively booked Melbourne what will be their first finals appearance since 2006, a massive relief to their long suffering fans, who watched on in agonising fashion last year when the Demons just missed out.
On the same weekend, GWS suffered a 20 point loss to their cross-town rivals, Sydney, in a game where the Giants simply ran out of steam after a couple of their key players were cut down by injury.
The Round 23 fixture between Melbourne and GWS sees a couple of the competition's A-grade midfield lineups square off against one another. Despite their injuries, GWS rank similarly to the Demons in a number of statistical measures and are 3rd in the competition for contested possessions, while they are 1st for clearances. Melbourne are 1st and 3rd in these areas respectively. However, the Demons top the competition for hitouts and scoring.
Max Gawn is one player that should have a massive influence for Melbourne. The ruckman is just about a lock for All-Australian selection, while Clayton Oliver, Angus Brayshaw and Nathan Jones are other players that should provide the Demons with plenty of supply up forward.
For the Giants, Dylan Shiel, Callan Ward and Stephen Coniglio should be able to match motors with the Demons in the midfield but the absence of a number of key big men does not help their cause.
Melbourne have no injuries out of the West Coast game and are likely to remain unchanged. Jack Viney is still a couple of weeks away. Josh Wagner and Tom Bugg have some solid form at VFL level.
GWS may be without both Phil Davis and Ryan Griffen after that pair went down in the loss to Sydney last weekend. Toby Greene will also miss but Josh Kelly is expected to return.
The two sides have met on 10 occasions and the ledger is split at five wins apiece. Last year, GWS claimed the Round 20 Spotless Stadium clash by 15 points but in Round 2 it was Melbourne by two points at the MCG.
Melbourne have won three of the four games between the two sides at the MCG but have lost six of their 10 hitouts at the venue this season. GWS have ventured to the home of footy just once in 2018 for a win over Collingwood in Round 2.
Australian Football League Carlton Blues vs GWS Giants Live Stream Free, AFL 2018 Regular Seasons Week 20 AFL Live Stream. Carlton Blues vs GWS Giants match will be kickoff at Etihad Stadium, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Sunday 05 August 2018 online, 13:10 pm (AEDT) and its broadcast on Channel Seven, Foxtell.
The two teams enter this game with their respective form in stark contrast. GWS has won seven of its last eight games, while Carlton ended a nine-game losing streak with a win on the road in Round 19.
The Giants enter the game as one of the best sides in the competition, although the Blues will be positive after their return to winning ways last week.
Carlton supporters won't be forgetting last year's clash between these two sides anytime soon.
With the Giants sitting at the top of the AFL mountain, the Blues produced a stunning one-point victory after a late Zac Fisher behind.
Matthew Kreuzer was instrumental that afternoon with 21 disposals, 33 hitouts, a goal and three Brownlow votes in his 150th game. It was Carlton's first win over GWS in its previous five attempts, after winning the first two games between the sides.
There'll be no shortage of high draft picks in action on Sunday, albeit at opposite ends of the spectrum.
While players such as Brett Deledio, Ryan Griffen, Marc Murphy and Dale Thomas were all early selections in their own right, it's the developing talent coming through to keep an eye on.
Carlton fans can keep watch of the progression of GWS' list, with the Blues finding themselves in a position which the Giants were in not too long ago.
Last week, GWS fielded 10 players who were taken between the 2011 and 2016 national drafts: half of them have now played 100 games.
That's compared to Carlton's team last weekend, which had nine players from the 2014 national draft to now and will form its core going forward. Jacob Weitering has played the most games with 54.
Matthew Kennedy will come up against his old side for the first time, after making his way across from the Giants to the Blues at the end of last season.
Joined by Giants-turned-Blues in Jed Lamb, Caleb Marchbank and Jarrod Pickett, Kennedy's recent form should hold him in good stead against former teammates Josh Kelly and Callan Ward.
Kennedy has averaged over 21 disposals since returning from the bye, following an injury-interrupted beginning to his season. He has also had 12 clearances in the last fortnight, providing strong support for Patrick Cripps and captain Marc Murphy.
With GWS the second-best side in the AFL for clearances and third in contested possessions, Kennedy will need to put in a big shift for his new side with his fellow midfielders.
Carlton will take confidence from the victory against the Gold Coast Suns, in a game which displayed the abundance of young talent the Blues have coming through the ranks.
While the stage is set for a difficult task against a white-hot GWS outfit, Brendon Bolton's side will be hopeful of similar output from both the emerging and upcoming talent. It'll be a significant test for the Blues, but one which individuals such as Paddy Dow, Sam Petrevski-Seton and Lochie O'Brien can use to test and elevate themselves against the best.
AFL Live GWS Giants vs St Kilda Saints Live Streaming Free 2018 Regular Seasons week 19 match will be kick off at Spotless Stadium, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Saturday 28 July 2018 online, 16:35 pm (AEDT) and its broadcast on Channel Seven, Foxtell.
Dylan Roberton is out indefinitely after suffering an irregular heartbeat during the Saints clash against Geelong last Sunday. Roberton spoke to the Media when he left hospital, he was hopeful to play in a fortnight, however, that seems highly unlikely. Tim Membrey trained well on Tuesday and he is likely to play against the Giants on Saturday.
Both Josh Kelly (Groin) and Rory Lobb (Knee) are listed as tests for the Giants. Kelly didn't train with the team in Wednesday's main training while Lobb did train with the team initially, but failed to complete the session.
Both players missed last week's win over Fremantle, and while Kelly (groin soreness) sat out Wednesday's main training run, Lobb (knee) initially hit the track with the rest of the squad, but failed to complete the session.
The GWS Giants have had mixed fortunes against the Saints at Etihad Stadium. They are 2-2 since 2014, with their two victories coming in 2015 & 2016. The Saints were too good in their most recent clash, Round 7, 2017 the Saints defeated the Giants 108-85.
The Giants are aiming to start 2018 with a 4-1 record after Round 5. If they were to win on Saturday, this would be the second consecutive year they had started 4-1. Consequently, if the Saints lose and slump to a 1-4 record, it would be the second time in three years they had started 1-4.
This is a desperation game for St Kilda. If they don't win, they must at least show they are capable of mixing it with a class opposition and can hit the scoreboard effectively. I'm siding with the Saints at the line.


After beginning piano lessons with his daughter, Megan McKeithan's client decided to create a concert hall environment for practice and performance in their home. Megan McKeithan selected the Paris Opera House as the inspiration for her mural entitled Attente (meaning anticipation).
Her client's favorite artist, Marc Chagall, painted the ceiling of the Paris Opera House in 1964. A modern addition to the Neo-Baroque style of the hall, the ceiling reflects both her client's love of modern and contemporary art and his passion for Baroque music. The ceiling features images paying tribute to Chagall's favorite composers, actors, and dancers.
Megan created this trompe l'oeil illusion on canvas so her client can take his opera house on the road once he and his daughter are famous. The piano room is adjacent to the foyer featuring The Persistence of Dali, a mural on the tray ceiling inspired by the work of Salvador Dali.


Congratulations to LJH Digital Storm Radio Students. Winners were announced this past weekend in New York City at the 76th annual IBS National Broadcasting Awards for both the high school and college divisions. Lincoln Junior High competes in the high school division, as we are the only junior high station in the country within the IBS network.
The 76th Annual IBS New York City Conference is focused on New Trends in School/College Radio/TV/Webcasting. The conference featured over 150 speakers, over 100 sessions and tours, and 1,400 attendees from all over the world!
Storm Radio had finalists in six separate categories this year.
Best Underwriting Campaign: Benefiel's Carpet Cleaning- Harlie Mast, Hannah Stillson, Nancy Garcia-Pena, and Miranda Beatty.
Storm Radio, is one part of the Mass Media program at Lincoln Junior High known as LJH Digital Storm. The radio station is 24/7 Internet Radio with the call tag – STORM RADIO- "Ride the Waves." The radio station is Internet based, so it's available through the TuneIn App on IOS devices, the LJH DigitalStorm website- https://www.ljhdigitalstorm.com/ , and the Internethttp://tunein.com/radio/Storm-Radio-s231710/ – Students research, write, create, and broadcast daily and provide 100 percent of the programming. Lincoln is currently the only junior high radio station broadcasting 24/7 in the United States within the IBS network.
Great job to everyone! It's awesome how we have students at our junior high that are national champions! you guy deserve more than just trophies after all you did win against high school students! Great job hope I can be there someday.


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Frida Kahlo self-portrait set to smash auction records
A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, titled Diego y yo (Diego and I) is set to appear in auction in November at Sotheby's and, if its estimate of over $30 million is met, will become the most valuable Latin American artwork ever publicly sold. Not only that, it could possibly become the highest price ever for a female artist, if it sells in excess of the current record of $44.4 million – the amount paid for Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1(1932) in 2014.
Brooke Lampley, Sotheby's chairman and worldwide head of sales for global fine art, recognised the importance of this work appearing at auction in a statement, saying that "Frida Kahlo's emotionally bare and complex portrait Diego y yo is a defining work…To offer this portrait in our Modern Evening Sale in November heralds the recent expansion of the Modern category to include greater representation of underrepresented artists, notably women artists, and rethink how they have historically been valued at auction".
Diego y yo depicts a bust of Kahlo with her hair uncharacteristically loose and flowing, appearing to almost strangle her. Her eyes are tearful, and on her forehead is a portrait of husband, Diego Rivera. The connection to her tumultuous relationship with Diego is clear, and it is notable that it was painted in the same year that Diego had an affair with film star María Félix. Whilst Kahlo professed to be unfazed by the affair, newspapers reported that Rivera was planning to divorce Kahlo and their relationship became a public scandal. Kahlo's own writings support the idea that her love life affected her deeply; in a notebook she wrote, "I suffered two great accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down … the other accident is Diego." It is ironic that this painting, which seems to so obviously make reference to her relationship, could become the most valuable work of Latin American art, as it is a work by Diego Rivera himself which is currently in that position – in 2019, Rivera's The Rivals sold at Christie's for $9.76 million.
Aside from a commentary on her relationship, there are other complex elements to Kahlo's art. She explored themes such as identity, postcolonialism, gender, class and race in Mexican society. She belonged to the Mexicayotl movement, a group which focused on reviving the indigenous religion, philosophy and traditions of ancient Mexico. This interest is prevalent in Diego y yo, where Kahlo wears a huipil, a traditional blouse worn by the women of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico. Kahlo's dress and self-representation has also been the subject of much study, and is thought to be her way of expressing feminist and anti-colonialist ideals.
Julian Dawes, Sotheby's co-head of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York, said in a statement that, "a painting by Kahlo of this quality and excellence is a rarity at auction" and the auction house have stated that this sale, "will be a watershed moment for Kahlo and Latin American artists". The painting will be on display in London prior to its sale, from 22 to 25 October.
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