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Univision Announces Partnership with Samsung to Carry UVideos Digital Network on Smart TVs and Connected Devices

Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America, announced a partnership deal with Samsung that will make UVideos, the first bilingual digital video network, available on all 2013 Samsung Smart TVs, connected Blu-ray players and home theater systems. Beginning this spring, users of select Samsung devices will be able to access the best in Hispanic programming via the UVideos application – the first Hispanic focused entertainment app available on the Samsung platform.

“By partnering with Samsung, the leading Smart TV manufacturer in the U.S., we are ensuring our viewers can enjoy the UVideos experience on their favorite connected devices,” said Kevin Conroy, president, Univision Interactive and Enterprise Development. “This is another example of Univision delivering on our commitment to offer the best in Hispanic programming on the devices most important to them, whenever and wherever they want it.”

UVideos allows viewers access to the best Univision content, with thousands of hours of daytime, primetime, entertainment, sports and news programming available. UVideos on Samsung Smart TVs and connected devices also allows viewers to enjoy the unique experience in both Spanish and English. The experience on Samsung will also bring the unique UVideos time synched social stream feature to life. This unique element allows viewers to interact and engage with social conversations taking place between their friends, Univision talent and others around the world. The UVideos application will be pre-installed in Samsung’s personalized app section and also available in the S-Suggest store for Samsung WiFi tablets.

UVideos can also be accessed on, Xbox LIVE Gold, Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD, and via iOS and Android mobile apps. Additionally, UVideos is a key part of Univision’s authenticated TV everywhere strategy, and has launched with several partners including AT&T, Cablevision and DISH Network.

About Univision Communications Inc.

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) is the leading media company serving Hispanic America. Its assets include Univision Network, one of the top five networks in the U.S. regardless of language and the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the country reaching 96% of U.S. Hispanic households; UniMás, a leading Spanish-language broadcast television network reaching 88% of U.S. Hispanic households; Univision Cable Networks, including Galavisión, the country’s leading Spanish-language cable network, as well as Univision tlnovelas, a 24-hour cable network dedicated to novelas, Univision Deportes Network, a 24-hour cable network dedicated to sports, ForoTV, a 24-hour Spanish-language cable network dedicated to news, and an additional suite of six cable offerings - De Película, De Película Clásico, Bandamax, Ritmoson, Telehit and Clásico TV; UVideos, the first bilingual digital network serving Hispanic America; Univision Studios, which produces and co-produces reality shows, dramatic series and other programming formats for the Company’s platforms; Univision Television Group, which owns and/or operates 62 television stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico; Univision Radio, the leading Hispanic radio group which owns and/or operates 69 radio stations in 16 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico; Univision Interactive, a network of products and offerings including, which continues to be the #1 most-visited Spanish-language website among U.S. online Hispanics, Univision Móvil, a longstanding industry-leader with unique, relevant mobile products and services, and Univision Partner Group, a specialized advertising and publisher network. Headquartered in New York City, UCI has television network operations in Miami and television and radio stations and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States. For more information, please visit

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AFDEL Establishes New U.S. Presence in Boston

AFDEL, the French Association of Software Publishers and Internet Solutions, today announced it is continuing its strategic international expansion with the opening of a new liaison office in Boston. Through its new presence on the east coast, AFDEL will be able to better provide support to entrepreneurs establishing new ventures as well as help existing companies to expand their networks for business advantage and form deeper connections with customers, partners and prospects.

“Given the continued fast pace of technology innovation and globalization, this was an ideal time to expand our footprint to ensure we are best aligned to support the needs of our growing membership base,” said Jamal Labed, President of AFDEL. “As the technology market continues to trend towards mobility, cloud, social, and big data, the opportunity for new and established software companies is huge and we want to make sure that our existing and future members have the appropriate resources they need to take advantage of that potential.”

To mark the geographic expansion and launch of its presence in Boston, AFDEL, with the help and support of Jérôme Malavoy, founder and CEO of TraceOne, will be hosting a networking cocktail reception on February 21, 2013 from 6 – 8 pm EST. The event will be held at TraceOne’s Boston headquarters and will feature remarks and insights from Fabien Fieschi, Consul General of France in Boston, as well as Malavoy and Labed.

“As a current member and a French software company ourselves, we are delighted to be working in close association with AFDEL to launch a Boston office to help other French entrepreneurs and executives,” said Malavoy. “Having recently opened TraceOne’s headquarters in Boston, I know how valuable it is to have access to the right people and resources as you get acclimated and look to grow quickly.”

According to an AFDEL survey of 60 Boston-area French Software companies invited to the launch event, executives expect to add approximately 1,000 new employees in the next 12 to 18 months. For more information or to RSVP for the networking event, please visit here.

About AFDEL:

The French Association of Software Publishers and Internet Solutions, AFDEL, aims to bring together software and Internet companies around a sense of community and to be the spokesperson for the digital industry in France. AFDEL currently has more than 330 members (representing approximately € 3.5 billion in revenue) throughout France: including major international groups, SMEs, and start-ups.

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CNH Capital Announces Completion of Notes Exchange Offer

RACINE, WI -- (Marketwire) -- 02/06/13 -- CNH Capital LLC today announced that it completed its offer to exchange up to $750,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its 3.875% Notes due 2015 that have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for its outstanding unregistered 3.875% Notes due 2015.

The exchange offer expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on February 5, 2013. Based on the final count by the exchange agent for the exchange offer, as of 5 p.m., New York City time, on February 5, 2013, $750,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding 3.875% Notes due 2015 have been tendered, which represents 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding 3.875% Notes due 2015.

The exchange agent for the exchange offer is Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Corporate Trust Services, Northstar East Building -- 12th Floor, 608 Second Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55402. For information, call (800) 344-5128.

CNH Capital LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNH Global N.V., providing financing products to CNH end-use customers and dealers in North America and other related financial products and services to support the sale of agricultural and construction equipment manufactured by CNH. CNH is a world leader in the agricultural and construction equipment businesses and is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fiat Industrial S.p.A. (FI.MI). More information about CNH Capital and CNH can be found at and

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Beer and barley health research study produces new findings. Good news from Finland

I subscribe to good news finland, and like the articles.  Here is a great article from the following link:

Beer and barley for health research new results

© MIKKO STIG / LEHTIKUVAResearchers are investigating a beer and barley health effects.Researchers are investigating a beer and barley health effects.
The Finnish study using barley and beer has been successful in identifying new forms of phenolic compounds. The results open up opportunities for barley and the beer produced in health research.

According to the study of barley defense chemicals, ie hordatiinien precursors and chemical diversity is much broader than previously known. MTT Agrifood Research (MTT) researcher Juha-Matti Pihlava says that hordatiini compounds found in abundance not only of barley grain, including beers, which have been used barley malt.

In the past, a Japanese research team has discovered that beer BY hordatiineilla have physiological effects. They increase intestinal motility by binding to specific receptors on smooth, non-underground will, in the muscles.

- Hordatiinien and their precursors, the potential health effects still need more information.However, now this information could be used to develop new functional barley products, the Pihlava points out.

Pihlavan article on the subject was published in the scientific Journal of Cereal Science Guide . For more coming autumn a new, broader study to report the total number of hordatiinien nearly 200 different beers. There's also domestic beers beers from around the world.


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Looking for a dramatic creativity boost when you’re in the midst of editing a document for the umpteenth time? Try working from memory.

Instead of tweaking yet another iteration of what has become a too-familiar blur of words, force yourself to update parts of the document without consulting the most recent version you’ve been staring at for too long anyway.

Surprised a guy who loves the efficiency of working from pre-existing content would recommend working from memory? Don’t be!

I had to work from memory recently while traveling, and the document I needed to update wasn’t easily accessible. Much to my creative delight, because of all the time I’d spent with the original content, working from memory to recreate several strategic concepts spurred a fresh creative approach. The better results were much better (in hardly more time) than if I had tweaked the latest version in a fairly incremental fashion.

It’s the holidays. It’s the time for great holiday memories. So try putting your memory to work this holiday season and see what type of new creativity boost you’ll receive as a gift!  – Mike Brown

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Online Pick of the Week (10/23): Chain Reaction (NBC)

This is another pick of a show that I think could do nicely on a weekend timeslot on GSN.

For those not familiar or if they haven’t seen the GSN version of Chain Reaction, it is a word game in which contestants must form chains based on two word phrases. It was created by Bob Stewart, best known for his other hit successful game show Pyramid.

The episode chosen is from the original NBC era, which I find to be the best of them all. There’s Bill Cullen, the host, the game play from the contestants is much better and sharper and I actually really love the celebrity team factor that this version had.

I was never crazy about the USA version. Geoff Edwards did a great job as host but I never really felt it much. Normally I am not one to point out or complain about the cheapness of a particular show with a few exceptions, mainly this show and CBS daytime Wheel of Fortune, but that was a big problem that I had with that. The bonus round on it I found to be very monotonous and dull.

The GSN version I never liked. Dylan Lane, while looking good behind the podium, I thought really lacked in interacting well with the contestants and overall hosting of the show. Too many of the contestants weren’t always that great in playing the game either. I know being under the lights and the pressure is not as good to handle with everyone; and every good contestant makes at least one goofy blunder or a mistake, but here it seemed to happen all too often. The Millionaire wannabe set and the awful theme music really didn’t help matters either.

The NBC version could again I think could work really well in reruns, again in some kind of early morning weekend slot, seeing as though there were only 50 or so episodes produced. The original NBC Chain Reaction, my online pick of the week!

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 Custom Fine Art Framed Wall Art & Other Specialty Wall Art Display Options

image of corner of floating framed gallery wrap

Floating Framed Gallery Wraps are also available in most all larger sizes, giving an extra look of elegance to your image gallery wrap.

When you invest your precious time, energy, and money into having custom artistic imagery made, the next step in finalizing the process is to use a custom display that best fits you, your home, and your custom images.  This is something that you want to decide on prior to the session during the design appointment so that you can factor your final display into the process of customizing your creation session.  Your display is basically the icing on your cake.  The most common artistic displays are wall art, either as a single image, a series, or as a wall grouping.  The options I provide are custom framed fine art prints, metal prints, wooden prints, and canvas gallery wraps.  Each option is guaranteed to amaze you while lasting long enough to pass on later in life.

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Framed wall art print displayed in clients’ home

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Fine Art Framed Prints are the most beautiful and timeless art for your walls.

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Not all framed art is has to hang on the walls. We have options for your surface displays also.

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All metal prints are made ready to hang and are treated for longevity.

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Small metal prints can come in one of three self-standing constructions so that you can display them on any flat surface.

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Some of our specialty metal prints are made with two layers of metal with a gap between the two to give it extra depth in your final display.

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front and back view of photo gallery wraps

Canvas Gallery Wraps include the option to either have a graphic border along the sides or have your photo wrap around the edges.

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The upper right album is an example of a flip album. The upper left is an example of a custom metal cover album option. The bottom right is an example of a split tone cover using two different material option

Portrait Books & Albums

The other popular display for your custom images is with books and albums.  The biggest difference between the two has to do with the pages, covers, and binding, all of which are much thicker and heavier in albums than books.  Albums also have the added option of metallic paper and fancier cover options that aren’t available with books currently.

Books have evolved quiet a bit over the last few years.  Though the basic hard or soft cover and magazine page style still exists, the books I offer are much more like albums, except much thinner and less expensive.  They afford durable lay-flat pages and many cover options allowing greater customization for each individual.  But whether you opt for an album or a book, you’re gonna love holding it and showing it off to everyone.

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The cover options for portrait albums are more elaborate than books, and have thinker pages and binding giving them greater value and appeal.

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This is an example of a flip album sized 4×10 (the inside spread is 8×10 when opened). Flip books are also available.

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Standard portrait book sizes include 4×6, 5×7, 8×8, and 6×9 (most popular), and can be produced vertically or horizontally. Other sizes are available.

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All books and albums include lay-flat pages. Standard paper is treated for protection from spills, scratches, and smudges, while metallic pages are not so as to preserve the look of the metallic paper.

Accordion Books

In addition to books, you also have the option of accordion books and padded folios, but of which make great tabletop or desk displays, or can be carried around.  Accordion books can be designed so that each panel has it’s own image, or one image can span two or more panels.  The number of total panel depends on the size you choose.  A 4×6 accordion (the most popular so far) has ten panels (four on the back and six on the front), while the smaller 3×3 accordion can hold closer to 30 panels.  The covers can either be a photo wrap or a solid material, but in either case they are held together magnetically.

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Accordion books make great table displays as well as convenient portable means of showing off your photos, and are available in sizes 2.5×3.5, 3×3, and 4×6.

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Magnetic material built into the covers keep your accordion book close till you pull it open.

Padded Picture Folios

Folios are different than they used to be.  Ours are padded folios and include two inside photos.  The cover can either be in image wrap or a solid material.  These padded folios last much longer and give a greater presentation than the former cardboard options, and will definitely draw in more attention.

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Padded Picture Folios are available in sizes from 4×5 to 8×10.

Specialty Portrait Options

The next items to consider for showing off your custom images are specialty pieces.  These include ornaments, metal dog tags, metal license plates, dry erase boards, phone covers, jewelry, bags, and cards and magnets.  Any one of these can be a gift or a personal treasure.  Both the bags and jewelry include many high quality options that you’ll love.  Cards and magnets can be used for any number of occasions (holiday greetings, birth announcements, graduation announcements, save-the-dates, and more) making them fun and convenient.

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All metal print options are printed directly into the metal surface.

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Metal photo dog tags are two-sided and include an outer rubber protective covering (not shown in picture).

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Save-the-date card

This is a popular card that can be used for any number of occasions.

Having a good idea of both how and where to best display your images prior to the session is critical in preparing for the session.  Knowing these details ahead of time lets everyone know how and what to shoot, as well as when and where to shoot.  Otherwise you run the risk of gaining wonderful images, none of which fit any display or location you’ve decided on after the fact.

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So when you’re thinking about these details, consider where in your home you intended to create a display.  What is the wall space, the surrounding décor, and the room colors?  Does it require vertical or horizontal images, or maybe a series?  What do you currently hang on your walls?  This can determine whether it’s best to chose a canvas gallery wrap, a custom framed art piece, or one of the other specialty pieces.  If you know that you want a bag, then decide on one early on so we know we need to capture an image specifically to fit the bag.

There really is a lot to consider, which is why a design appointment (or pre-session consultation) is so important.  That is when we’ll discuss everything in detail together; customize your session specifically to fit your needs.  Then, when it’s time to view your images for the first time and place your order, there should be no surprises, only amazement and excitement.

If you found this post helpfully in anyway, please let me.  Plus I appreciate Likes and Shares when I can get them.  Thanks for reading.

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Sometimes it’s interesting to go back and look at the photo work that you’ve done in the past.  I was just recently going through some old things to clear out stuff that is unnecessarily using up space and I found some pictures of Mandy, a friend of mine.  It was a personal session for me in which Mandy was my model, and my friend, Kim Taylor, provided the makeup artistry.  I also had another friend, Jessica Sager, come and provide some hair styling support for a few images as well.

I didn’t necessarily have a distinct direction for this shoot other than I wanted everyone to experiment and have fun, plus I wanted some images for the sole purpose of playing with in Photoshop.  I obviously didn’t play with every image, but I did play with a few.

I’m one of those that loves to see the before and after images of someone’s work so I can see what was actually captured and what kind of work was done in post production.  Like everyone else, I see tons of amazing images, but then wonder what it really looked like straight out of the camera before it was touched in Photoshop.  I think it’s encouraging and educational for people to see before and after imagery so as to better understand that images don’t always look so perfect straight out of capture, and also to appreciate the level of skill and work put into producing the final image that is so amazing.

I’ve included screen shots of my Layers Palette in my Before shots, but if you have any specific questions about what any of them are, feel free to let me know.  Most of what I do is minor skin retouching, hair clean up, color and contrast, and maybe a special effect of some kind.  I do also make use of effects filters at times as well for the sake of efficiency.  Again, let me know if you have any questions about anything you see or anything else in general that I can help with possibly.Blond Model Studio Portrait with purple butterfly makeup

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Blond Model Studio Portrait

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VHMC AGM Minutes October 2013

Village Hall Management Committee (VHMC)

Minutes of an Annual General Meeting

Held at 8.00pm on Tuesday 15th October 2013

At Brassington Village Hall

Present:  Angie Woolley (Chair), Rachel Jenkinson (Secretary), June Baldwin (Joint Treasurer), Lucy Wilson (Lettings Secretary), Jan Meads (Vice Chair), Liz Fargent, Val Allcock, Wendy Slater, Jenny Jack

Apologies:  Melissa Barron, Keith Meads, Phil & Beverley Buckley, Judy Wherry

Minutes of the last AGM were read.

Approved by  Jan Meads and seconded by June Baldwin.

Treasurer’s Report

Income from Wakes £1328

Expenses were negligible, currently not known but were from advertising in press.

Current A/c balance - £100 (max allowed)

1st Reserve Bank A/c balance - £1536

Bus A/c balance - £6060.74

No big bills outstanding, everything paid up to date.

Note was made that there would shortly be a fuel bill.

Resignations / Election of Members / Representatives

All present officers resigned and a new committee was formed as follows:

Chair    Angie Woolley

Vice Chair    Jan Meads

Joint Treasurer    Melissa Barron/June Baldwin

Vice Treasurer    Judy Wherry

Lettings Secretary    Lucy Wilson

Minute Secretary    Rachel  Jenkinson

General    Val Allcock/Jenny Jack

Parish Council    TBC

PCC    Rod Prince

British Legion    TBC

Over 60’s    Liz Fargent

Thursday Nighters    Doreen Arnold

Pre-School    Melissa Barron

Brownies    Wendy Slater

Football Club    TBC

FOBS    Lucy Wilson

Co-opted    Don Charity

Objectives for 2014

To continue to maintain a busy and successful Village Hall

It was noted that the Objectives for 2013 had been met.

Any Other Business

Don Charity asked whether there should be a representative on the committee from the village allotments.

It was agreed to ballot the village organisations to see whether they can submit  representatives.

Date of next meeting

The next Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 14th October 2014 at 8.00pm.

The meeting closed at 8.25pm.

Notes taken by Rachel Jenkinson (Secretary).

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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

What Big Eyes, Better To See You For Who You Realy Are!

Title: Be-U-Tee-Full! (Cali and the BF Crew)
Author: Journi Roe
Illustrator: Pedro Perez
Pub. Date: 10-25-2013
Format: Kindle
Pages: 34

One of Cali's bestie friends, Lyvia, is feeling pretty icky. Lyvia had to get glasses, and she is sure the glasses make her look yucky. Lyvia does not even want to wear them, but Cali has a better idea, and a great lesson to teach her bestie: you are be-u-tee-full for simply being you.

My Review:
My first reaction to this book was: OH MY GOODNESS!!! I absolutely love this little red head, Cali is the kind of friend that every one needs in their life. Her Big Green Eyes do not see imperfections, they only see just how absolutely Be-U-Tee-Full her bestie friends really are.

I fell deeply in love with Cali and her Bestie Lyvia. This book needs to be in the hands of every girl, big, little, or in-betweenies...

Author Journie Roe has an absolutely wonderful talent in telling stories of how real life issues, problems or feelings should be handled. I am looking forward to reading more from author Journie Roe. And the illustration by Pedro Perez are so amazing. As I said above, my very first reaction was a great big wow, and I loved every page from there on till the end.

So when you get the chance: Please pick this book up and give to a young lady in your life. You may never know what an impact your action may have on your bestie's in your life.

As for this book I am (and if I could, would give it an even higher) Breath of Life Rating:

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Disclosure: I did received the above book in exchange for my honest opinion and review. Opinions are my own and yours may differ.

About the Author:

I'm a mom of five awesome kids, two girls and three boys. I even have a grandson now who will be one next month. I guess looking back, others would say four of my kids had disabilities or disorders of some sort and my 2nd daughter was overweight no matter what we tried, but we never saw what the outside world did. My life as a mommy was a very involved one, a very active, and at times, overwhelming one. Since my own life had been full of demons and haunts growing up, my kids were my world. I never saw them as anything but perfect even through all the glasses appointments, surgeries, shoes fittings, and ER visits. It was our normal and if anything, as a family, we reached out to parents and kids at children's hospitals, Ronald McDonald houses, and track Special Olympics to try to make them feel like we did…blessed and loved as a unit.

One of my deepest wounds was acceptance throughout my life, and I could see this in the adults around me and my children and their friends as well. I could see I was not the only one very clearly. I was, and have always been, genuine and sincere, to all I meet. My kids followed suit. We have always reached out to all around us in kindness. Not simply because we wish it returned, but it is our mantra in life.

To some, I'm a bit eccentric in my kindness. My friends have accepted I'm really not a weirdo like everyone else thinks but a special kind of weirdo just for them who can be a bit snarky.

Five years ago, I found myself moving from Ohio to the state of Washington with my youngest son. My older kids wished to finish high school there and would visit for summers. It was the first time I had EVER been away from my kids. It was not a smooth transition at all. I found myself spiraling and feeling lost away from my loved ones for two years, lying in a void of nightmares. I found myself regretting the move, new adventures and opportunities gone.
I walked into a library one day, I don't even remember why I left the house, and the first book I saw was, "Why Your Like Sucks!" by Alan H. Cohen. I cracked a grin and shook my head. My word. How did such a book get to be in a library and who in their right mind would read it?! I did. I'm so thrilled I did. It started to change my outlook, my life. I created an inspirational page, Inspirational Me, on Facebook to help me share what motivated me daily. Before I knew it, within a month I had 10,000 fans. There were so many people who needed to know they were okay, that they were going to be okay! Today, it is just shy of 33,000 amazing people I call my family.
I have always been one who uplifted other people, a people person. All my life I was a yes person and a no to me person. Through the dark days, I lost everything but I found myself. I now live right outside Mesquite, Nevada, where the sun shines nearly every day. Three of my children have graduated high school, one will this year, and my baby boy just started high school and is already over 6' tall and quite the ladies’ man. My goodness!! I shoot photography part time when I'm not engrossed in writing or creating somehow. My biggest goal is to reach as many people I can who need something they didn't know they necessarily needed but knew they were searching for something. Not sure if that makes sense, but I know if you are one of them, you will *wink.
I long for a day when there's no boundaries to the giving I can do on all levels, and if the only thanks received is the one I give for that moment, I am perfect with that. Sounds corny, huh? But, not to me. Ask any of my friends. I am like this all the time, my head in the clouds, my heart has wings, and my unicorn is parked in the back ;)
So where does Cali and the BF Crew come in? She's more than a children's series. She's a movement of the heart. It may not be clearly seen in the first book, but it will become more prevalent in books to come. Cali is how I feel and react to friends. She's sincere and caring, she's funny.

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January 29, 2016

Being a planter, Ctd

'White People' is a documentary by MTV looking at the position and place of white people in modern America
Hubert Butler wrote in his 1954 essay, 'Portrait of a Minority':
"We protestants of the Irish Republic... a generation ago we were regarded dramatically as imperialistic blood-suckers, or, by our admirers, as the last champion of civilisation in an abandoned island... Our brothers in the north are still discussed in such colourful terms."
James McGeever wrote to the Irish Times in 2013:
"The Protestant communities… must be given the opportunity to realise that they are being cherished, unequivocally, despite any “sins” of their colonist, planter or settled ancestors."
Irish-American Niall O'Dowd who has been party to the dispossession of natives and plantation of America excoriated the Ulster plantation in the Irish Voice.

Robert Fisk wrote in the Independent:
"Israel's settlements on Palestinian Arab land in the occupied territories were as illegal as the Protestant settlements and the dispossession of the Catholics in 16th-century Ireland. A closer historical symbol was Fallujah."
Phil Flanagan tweeted:
"Unionists didn't have a problem with immigration when their ancestors descended on Ireland to grab land from the native population..."
Alex Kane wrote in the Irish Times:
"A few years ago – when I worked in the Northern Ireland Assembly – I got to know some Sinn Féin staffers reasonably well. We pushed each other on core beliefs and one of them told me: “When I look at unionists, even though I don’t hate them as such, I always see them as illegal occupiers of my country. I see them as people who were put here, and who are still sustained here, by a colonial power. For me it’s about unifying my country. It’s not about accommodating unionism in part of my country; it’s about accommodating them in all of my country. They have no right to prevent that unity. They never had that right.” That’s his blind spot – as it is with the vast majority of nationalists."
Maurice Farley had verse that went like this:
"There were times when we were at one with them
In the hunting field over smuggled wine.
We worked in their houses, but did not ever yield
Our secret claim to them, saying to the long-memoried neighbours
“By right these lands are mine”."
Newton Emerson wrote in the Irish Times of Saturday November 16 2013:
"The supposed republican principles of the anti-agreement 1916 Societies are somewhat undermined by the language of their latest recruitment drive, which is replete with sectarian references to "planters", "colonialism" and "occupation"."
Newton Emerson continued, and asked a critical question:
"One of the mysteries of Irish politics is why, unlike in the rest of Europe, people who speak like this are not immediately recognised as ethnic fascists."
Conor McGregor said:
"I am an Irishman. My people have been oppressed our entire existence. And still very much are. I understand the feeling of prejudice. It is a feeling that is deep in my blood."
Kevin Myers wrote in the Sunday Times:
"In Irish history, John Bull trampled across the syllabus like a horde of Visigoths, Tartars and Huns. Not merely did many people internalise the perceptions of their country’s many wrongs, they did much the same in reverse. When I arrived in University College Dublin, I found myself variously held responsible for the Black and Tans, the Famine, and the Boundary Commission, plus the partitions of India and Palestine. Having Irish parents and Irish-born siblings conferred absolutely no mitigation for my many antenatal delinquencies..."
John Stuart Mill wrote in ‘Chapters and speeches on the Irish land question’ that while Britain ruled cruelly in Ireland, today's generation cannot be held responsible or atone for past misconduct. He wrote in his publication from 1870:
"The Irish were taught that feeling [disaffection] by Englishmen. England has only even professed to treat the Irish people as part of the same nation with ourselves, since 1800. How did we treat them before that time? I will not go into the subject of the penal laws, because it may be said that those laws affected the Irish not as Irish but as Catholics. I will only mention the manner in which they were treated merely as Irish. I grant that, for these things, no man now living has any share of the blame; we are all ashamed of them; but “the evil that men do lives after them”."
George Bernard Shaw said:
"It is surely expedient to point out that most distressful country [Ireland] that she has borne no more than her share of the growing pains of human society, and that the mass of the English people are not only guiltless of her wrongs, but have themselves borne a heavier yoke."
Commenting on the MTV documentary, 'White People', Ed Moloney wrote:
"American Whites are like the Prods in the North [Northern Ireland]. The Blacks and Hispanics are the Catholics. Well, almost."
Richard Jones wrote:
"[In a review of Brian Inglis’s WEST BRITON, a book he did not much admire, Butler stressed the role of small Protestant minorities in creating the idea of both American and Irish independence. He cites the unorthodox Anglicans from Virginia and the unorthodox non-conformists from Massachusetts who were at the head of the American campaign for independence, and then recalls that when the War of Independence broke out, “Belfast Protestants lit bonfires and sent congratulations to George Washington while Dublin Catholics sent loyal messages to George III. Ireland might not be the dull, divided little island which it is today if those groups, north and south, to whom the idea of independence is chiefly due, had played a greater part in its realization."
Niall Ferguson wrote in the FT:
"I have written with irony about the way Americans misremember the second British civil war, which they prefer to call their war of independence."
John Nichols wrote in the Nation Magazine:
"The American experiment began with its promise constricted by the narrow vision of Virginia plantation owners who saw an African-American as three-fifths of a human being–and that scant measure only for the purpose of granting the South a greater share of the seats in a Congressthat would for the better part of a century be all white, all male andall of the propertied class.
America was founded on the original sins of human bondage and violent discrimination."
Andrew Sullivan wrote:
"Was I tone-deaf with respect to this very dark and very American history as a young, English, Tory immigrant? I’m afraid I was. I’ve learned a lot since then, some of it because of Ta-Nehisi’s own work, which I championed from the moment I came upon it."
Ed Moloney also reminded us that at one stage 'Catholics were America's Muslims'. These are America’s present heresies— its past misdeeds: torture, theft, enslavement. Minorities were burdened and battered and beat by the ruling establishment. Ta Nehisi Coates wrote:
"Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land."
Black civil rights lawyer Bryan Steven said:
"Older black Americans get angry when they hear people on TV talking about how we’re dealing with terrorists for the first time in the United States after 9/11. They grew up in terror."
He also said:
"You don’t have to be a white supremacist to be responsible for sustaining this narrative of racial difference, sustaining this narrative of white supremacy."
He also said:
"I really do believe that this country never committed itself to a conversation about the legacy of slavery."
Then said:
"There are very few people who have an awareness of how widespread this terrorism and violence was, and the way it now shapes the geography of the United States."
Denis Donoghue described living in the early years of the protestant state, Northern Ireland:
"I could spot a protestant at a hundred yards… In the north a protestant walks with an air of possession and authority, regardless of his social class. He walks as if he owned the place, which he does. A catholic walks as if he were there on sufferance."
The black in America, the Catholic in Ulster, both heavily discriminated against. Yet when the Catholic Irish arrived in America they inverted the empathy hypothesis - there was no solidarity in suffering or kindship, making the point that there is no necessary relationship between communal suffering and broadened human sympathies, as Liam Kennedy explained.

Gerry Adams said:
"Last week Edwin Poots told viewers watching the BBC that he had to hold his nose when doing business with Sinn Féin.
All of this has its roots in our colonial history and the partition of the island."
He also said on another occasion:
"Because of our experience of colonialism and oppression nationalists have largely rejected Britishness in its entirety, whilst unionists have embraced every British symbol and gesture.
At the same time the story of colonisation and conflict has run parallel with many positive and shared experiences over the centuries.
Irish people have settled in Britain for generations.
Irish artists have contributed enormously to English literature, music and the arts."
Ian Paisley said in his interview with Mark Carruthers for Alternative Ulsters:
"I’m an Ulsterman. People ask me, ‘Who are you?’ I say, ‘I’m an Ulsterman’. To the ignorant, then, you have to explain what that means, but when I came into the world, the term Ulster was what you were. You were part of the original Queen Elizabeth settlement."
Niall Ferguson wrote:
"The Irish were on the receiving end of a policy of expropriation and `ethnic cleansing’ every bit as ruthless as that which would be attempted in North America. The difference between Northern Ireland and Massachusetts was this: because the Irish were resistant to British diseases, they survived. The native Americans were less lucky."
And added:
"Even today, four centuries after the first plantations, the `Brits’ are a long way from being forgiven for their sins."
Niall Ferguson also wrote:
"I think it’s hard to make the case, which implicitly the left makes, that somehow the world would have been better off if the Europeans had stayed home. It certainly doesn’t work for north America, that’s for sure. I mean, I’m sure the Apache and the Navajo had all sorts of admirable traits. In the absence of literacy we don’t know what they were because they didn’t write them down. We do know they killed a hell of a lot of bison. But had they been left to their own devices, I don’t think we’d have anything remotely resembling the civilisation we’ve had in north America."
Peter Hitchens wrote:
"If the Irish Unionists aren’t entitled to live in Ireland, because they are relatively new arrivals installed by force, then most Americans, likewise, aren’t proper Americans."
Conor Cruise O'Brien echoed this. He said in a speech delivered at New York University, November 30 1978, 'Ireland, Britain and America':
"The dark and atavistic forces that caused the death of Christopher Ewart-Biggs are still at work and it is right for Irish people who seek to combat that baneful influence to continue to reflect in the significance of that event [the Dublin Rising of 1916]. Contemporary Britain is not to blame for the troubles of contemporary Ireland, North or South, nor can she solve those troubles, nor can pressure on her to solve them do anything but make them worse. American aid, which in the past transformed the social and political landscape of Ireland, should not be invoked to solve a problem it cannot solve: a problem of relations between two historic communities in Ireland itself, deriving from a movement of population contemporaneous with European settlement in North America.
There are those who seek the solution of the problem in the enforced emigration o the contemporary descendants of the seventeenth-century settlers. Americans of European descent may well discern certain flaws in such a solution. Americans of Irish descent might reflect that they are not as long established in this country as is, in Ireland, that community which has sometimes been called alien: the community of Ulster Protestants."
In the ‘The Framework of Home Rule’ (1911), by Erskine Childers, the Irish nationalist compared the plantations of Ireland and America. He wrote:
"Ireland, for four hundred years the only British Colony, is now drawn into the mighty stream of British colonial expansion. Adventurous and ambitious Englishmen began to regard her fertile acres as Raleigh regarded America, and, in point of time, the systematic and State-aided colonization of Ireland is approximately contemporaneous with that of America.
It is true that until the first years of the sixteenth century no permanent British settlement had been made in America, while in Ireland the plantation of King’s and Queen’s Counties was begun as early as 1556, and under Elizabeth further vast confiscations were carried out in Munster within the same century. But from the reign of James I onward, the two processes advance pari passu.
Virginia, first founded by Raleigh in 1585, is firmly settled in 1607, just before the confiscation of Ulster and its plantation by 30,000 Scots; and in 1620, just after that huge measure of expropriation, the Pilgrim Fathers landed in New Plymouth. Puritan Massachusetts - with its offshoots, Connecticut, New Haven and Rhode Island–as well as Catholic Maryland, were formally established between 1629 and 1638, and Maine in 1639, at a period when the politically inspired proscription of the Catholic religion, succeeding the robbery of the soil, was goading the unhappy Irish to the rebellion of 1641. While that rebellion, with its fierce excesses and pitiless reprisals, was convulsing Ireland, the united Colonies of New England banded themselves together for mutual defence.
A few years later Cromwell, aiming, through massacre and rapine, at the extermination of the Irish race, with the savage watchword "To Hell or Connaught,” planted Ulster, Munster, and Leinster with men of the same stock, stamp, and ideas as the colonists of New England, and in the first years of the Restoration Charles II confirmed these confiscations, at the same time that he granted Carolina to Lord Clarendon, New Netherlands to the Duke of York, and New Jersey to Lord Berkeley, and issued fresh Charters for Connecticut and Maryland.
Finally, Quaker Penn founded Pennsylvania in 1682, and in 1691 William III, after the hopeless Jacobite insurrections in favour of the last of the Stuarts, wrung the last million acres of good Irish land from the old Catholic proprietors, planted them with Protestant Englishmen, and completed the colonization of Ireland.
Forty years passed (1733) before Georgia, the last of the “Old Thirteen Colonies,” was planted, as Ulster had been planted, mainly by Scotch Presbyterians."
He then contrasted the Irish and American settlements:
"Let us note, first, that both in America and Ireland the Colonies were bi-racial, with this all-important distinction, that in America the native race was coloured, savage, heathen, nomadic, incapable of fusion with the whites, and, in relation to the almost illimitable territory colonized, not numerous; while in Ireland the native race was white, civilized, Christian, numerous, and confined within the limits of a small island to which it was passionately attached by treasured national traditions, and whose soil it cultivated under an ancient and revered system of tribal tenure. The parallel, then, in this respect, is slight, and becomes insignificant, except in regard to the similarity of the mental attitude of the colonists towards Indians and Irish respectively."
He continued:
"In natural humanity the colonists of Ireland and the colonists of America differed in no appreciable degree. They were the same men, with the same inherent virtues and defects, acting according to the pressure of environment. Danger, in proportionate degree, made both classes brutal and perfidious; but in America, though there were moments of sharp crisis, as in 1675 on the borders of Massachusetts, the degree was comparatively small, and through the defeat and extrusion of the Indians diminished steadily. In Ireland, because complete expulsion and extermination were impossible, the degree was originally great, and, long after it had actually disappeared, haunted the imagination and distorted the policy of the invading nation.
He also wrote:
"The English policy towards Ireland was similar to Spain's policy towards her South American colonies, minus the grosser forms of physical cruelty and oppression."
Mr. James Bryce wrote in his Introduction to 'Two Centuries of Irish History':
"England acted as conquering nations do act, and better than some nations of that age."
Carson wrote in an 1918 open letter to Woodrow Wilson:
"There is, however, one matter to which reference must be made, in order to make clear the position of the Irish minority whom we represent. The Nationalist Party have based their claim to American sympathy on the historic appeal addressed to Irishmen by the British colonists who fought for independence in America a hundred and fifty years ago. By no Irishmen was that appeal received with a more lively sympathy than by the Protestants of Ulster, the ancestors of those for whom we speak to-day—a fact that was not surprising in view of the circumstance that more than one-sixth part of the entire colonial population in America at the time of the Declaration of Independence consisted of emigrants from Ulster.
The Ulstermen of to-day, forming as they do the chief industrial community in Ireland, are as devoted adherents to the cause of democratic freedom as were their forefathers in the eighteenth century. But the experience of a century of social and economic progress under the legislative Union with Great Britain has convinced them that under no other system of government could more complete liberty be enjoyed by the Irish people."
Carson had said in 1913:
"It was the Ulster-men who, when driven by bad trade to leave Ulster, and go to the United States, and being unfairly treated there, drew up the Declaration of Independence."
Roy Foster wrote in ‘Modern Ireland: 1600-1972’:
"Nationalism as such has not been part of the original United irish package. They were internationalist liberals, anti-government rather than anti-English. Even when anti-Englishness took over, they had little time for “ethnic” considerations; recent fashions for traditional music and poetry, and archeological divinations of the ‘Celtic’ past, seemed to middle-class radicals at best silly and at worst savage. The United Irishmen were modernisers: they appealed, as they themselves put it, to posterity, not ancestors. (Given the way that the ancestors of Belfast radicals had treated the Gaelic Irish, this was just as well.) They looked to Hutcheson, to Locke, to America, and most of all to France."
He also wrote:
"The halting and contentious nature of government-planned colonisation adds weight to the argument that the "real" Ulster plantation was that carried out "invisibly" by the Scots, both before the initiatives of 1609-10 and later in the century. This would later provide an argument used by the unionists: that Ulster's different nature is immemorial and uncontrollable and stems from something more basic than English government policy. None the less, what must be grasped from the early seventeenth century is the importance of the plantation idea, with its emphasis on segregation and on native unreliability. These attitudes helped Ulster solidify into a different mould...
Intellectually, this insecurity was expressed in the mentality of settler radicalism...
Ulster people believed they lived permanently on the edge of persecution."
V.S. Pritchett wrote:
"The snobberies of the Ascendancy were very colonial—as I now see—though not as loud as the Anglo-Indian, nor as prim as the Bostonian: they came closer to those of the American southern states. (There is a bond between Anglo-Irish writing and the literature of the American south.)"
Paul Muldoon said in his interview with the Paris Review (talking about his economic poem 'Meeting the British' which gets to the core of America and that continental project:)
"I was indeed to some extent taking the Native American situation for an instance or two, fleetingly, to find connections between the Native American experience and, without overstating it, the Native Irish experience
The fact is that there is a connection. Take Charlemont Fort, which I mentioned earlier on as the subject of one of my first poems. I was in Jamestown the other day, and was intrigued to find that the fort there was built on the model of Charlemont. The fact of the matter is there’d been a certain amount of experience in “dealing with the natives” that had been gained in the Irish situation, that stood the English in rather good stead when it came to dealing with the natives over here. I wouldn’t want to get involved in a political rant here, but I could."
Ironically, the Pope authorised the English invasion of Ireland (1177). James Joyce wrote in his 1907 essay, 'The Last Fenian':
"Pope Adrian IV… made a gift of the island [of Ireland] to the English King Henry II about 800 years ago, in moment of generosity."
In an essay, 'Labour, Nationalist and Religion', James Connolly wrote:
"Every Irish man and woman, most enlightened Englishmen, and practically every foreign nation to-day wish that the Irish had succeeded in preserving their independence against the English king, Henry II, but at a Synod of the Catholic Church, held in Dublin in 1177, according to Rev. P.J. Carew, Professor of Divinity in Maynooth, in his Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, the Legate of Pope Alexander III “set forth Henry’s right to the sovereignty of Ireland in virtue of the Pope’s authority, and inculcated the necessity of obeying him under pain of excommunication”. The English were not yet eight years in Ireland, the greater part of the country was still closed to them, but already the Irish were being excommunicated for refusing to become slaves.
In Ireland, as in all Catholic countries, a church was a sanctuary in which even the greatest criminal could take refuge and be free from arrest, as the civil authority could not follow upon the consecrated ground. At the Synod of 1177, the Pope, in order to help the English monarch against the Irish, abolished the right of sanctuary in Ireland, and empowered the English to strip the Irish churches, and to hunt the Irish refugees who sought shelter there. The greatest criminals of Europe were safe once they reached the walls of the church, but not an Irish patriot."
The Catholic Church backed and underwrote with a Papal Bull the conquest and plantation of South America, including the extermination of the great majority of the indigenous peoples.

In the age of exploration the Vatican issued papal bulls which inspired the “doctrine of discovery”. In a speech at the Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopate, mid-May 2007 in Brazil, Pope Benedict XVI said that native populations had been “silently longing” for the faith colonizers had brought to South America. He said that the Roman Catholic Church purified indigenous people of the Americas and that an effort to revive local religions would be a step backward. He said in the speech:
"The proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbus cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture."
These comments triggered outrage, he responded with a moderated message, conceding that “unjustifiable crimes” were committed in the conquest of the continent 500 years ago. He said:
"It is not possible to forget the suffering and the injustices inflicted by colonizers against the indigenous population, whose fundamental human rights were often trampled."
But Benedict’s response repeated his contention that Catholicism in South America had favorably “shaped their culture for 500 years.” He said:
"While we do not overlook the various injustices and sufferings that accompanied colonization, the Gospel has expressed and continues to express the identity of the peoples in this region and provides inspiration to address the challenges of our globalized era."
In Ireland people like to cite the practice of “taking the soup.” A egregious tactic used by the Anglican Church in Ireland to force Catholics to convert to the reformed church. But of course, this tactic was also deployed by Catholics where they held power and majority (as exampled in south America above). And of course this horrible practice was mandated by the Vatican. That is what you call hypocrisy.

Richard Jones wrote an essay on Hubert Butler, the latter had written about the forced conversion of Eastern Orthodox Christians by Catholics during the second world war. The overseer of this policy, a war criminal, was then given safe harbour in Ireland. Jones explained how Butler brought this sordid episode to light:
"Butler’s most spectacular falling-out with the powers of Irish bigotry was in 1952. It arose from his horrified interest in what had taken place in Croatia during the Nazi occupation, when the puppet Croatian government – staunchly Roman Catholic and anti-Semitic – started its campaign against the Serb Orthodox minority and the Jews.
The Croatian Minister of the Interior, Artukovitch, was the master-mind behind the campaign in which 750,000 Orthodox and 30,000 Jews were massacred, and 240,000 Orthodox forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism. Because of the cruelty of this operation, Artukovitch was later known as the Himmler of Yugoslavia.
After the war Artukovitch escaped to Austria and Switzerland, and then, in 1947, took up residence in Ireland, with the connivance of the Roman Catholic Church and the Irish Government. A year later, armed with an Irish identity card, he left for the United States. Shortly before that date, while visiting old friends in Zagreb, Butler had been to a city library to read local newspaper accounts of life in wartime Croatia. He came back to Ireland determined to expose those people in his own country who had aided the war criminal to escape justice. A long essay, “The Artukovitch File,” gives Butler’s account of his detective work in tracing Artukovitch’s life in Ireland.
In 1952, at a lecture in Dublin about the persecution of the Roman Catholic Church by the Yugoslav communist regime, Butler rose to remind the audience about the Roman Catholic treatment of the Orthodox in Croatia, and the Papal Nuncio, who was in the hall, walked out. There was a press campaign against Butler. So powerful was local feeling against him that he felt obliged to resign from the Kilkenny Archaeological Society, and only a handful of people were prepared to come to his defence. Butler’s stand was courageous and right."
Robert Greacen in ‘Brief Encounters’ (Belfast: Lagan Press 1991) commented on this episode:
"Hubert Butler, An outspoken speech in Dublin in 1952 was considered by some to be an affront to Catholicism and, worse still, an insult to the Papal Nuncio who was present on the occasion… This was when Hubert shocked the predominantly Catholic audience by speaking frankly of the forced conversion to Catholicism and the eventual massacre of thousands of Orthodox Serbs by the Croatian regime that collaborated with the Nazis. (Sean O’Casey refers to this incident in his autobiography.) The furore split the Kilkenny Arch. Society and forced Hubert to withdraw from it the life of a scholarly squire. He set about writing a book - as Patricia had prescribed years earlier - and this turned out to be Ten Thousand Saints. It meant further controversy, this time with the scholars rather than the saints of Holy Ireland."
Fintan O'Toole wrote about the reverse imperialism and oppression of Arthur Griffith and John Mitchell:
"Griffith strongest antecedent in Irish nationalism is not O'Connell's democratic populism, but John Mitchell's peculiar brand of reverse imperialism which could encompass both a passionate denunciation of English savagery in Ireland and a passionate support for slavery in America. The mind-set is not one which challenges the assumptions of Victorian and racial imperialism but merely one which wants the Irish to be given their rightful places among the master races."
Hitchens wrote in a 1992 essay in the Nation Magazine in defence of Christopher Columbus and the conquest of native America:
"The absurdity of founding a claim of right or justice on the idea of the indigenous. The Arawaks who were done in by Columbus's sailors, the Inca, the Comanche and the rest were not the original but only the most recent inhabitants."
Scientists from Belfast and Dublin found that the earliest hunter gatherer population of Ireland was successively overwhelmed by new arrivals, a migrant community that did not compete with the original Irish but became the Irish. During the last Ice Age 18,000 years ago Britain and Ireland were once one island (see here). He also wrote:
"But it is sometimes unambiguously the case that a certain coincidence of ideas, technologies, population movements and politico-military victories leaves humanity on a slightly higher plane than it knew before. The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into “America” inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born."
Christopher Hitchens wrote in 1992 in the Nation Magazine:
"The Roman conquest and subjugation of Britain was, I think, a huge advance because it brought the savage English tribes within reach of Mediterranean (including Ptolemaic and Phoenician as well as Greek and Latin) civilization, whereas the Norman Conquest looks like just another random triumph of might."
Kevin Myers wrote in the Sunday Times, March 30 2014:
"What really brought the two islands [a still-nameless archipelago] so tragically together was Norman rule. In Ireland this was relatively light, but in England it was perfectly savage: a proto-apartheid state in which the native population was effectively excluded from land ownership for 300 years and all professions, not just in the royal court, but also in the law, the church and even trade. Thus all those French job-words in English such as grocer, butcher, mason and plumber. The Irish penal laws, much cherished in the annals of Irish victimhood, didn’t last a century. The English out-suffering the Irish — now there’s a thought."
ATQ Stewart wrote:
"Violence would appear to be endemic in Irish society… as far back as history is recorded."
Ta-Nehisi Coates echoed Liam Kennedy, he wrote:
"For instance, people say: Irish immigrants came to this country and they turned out to be just as racist as everybody else or Italian immigrants came to this country and it seems somehow natural that they would’ve made common cause with black people, because they faced some of the same discrimination. But that’s not how power works, regrettably. It’s very unfortunate. Those folks are doing exactly what groups have done throughout history: They identified a place in which they can empower themselves and they’ve done exactly that."
Fanny Kemble, who journaled her time on her husband’s Georgia plantation wrote:
"Now you must not suppose that these same Irish free labourers and negro slaves will be permitted to work together at this Brunswick Canal. They say that this would be utterly impossible; for why?–there would be tumults, and risings, and broken heads, and bloody bones, and all the natural results of Irish intercommunion with their fellow creatures, no doubt–perhaps even a little more riot and violence than merely comports with their usual habits of Milesian good fellowship; for, say the masters, the Irish hate the negroes more even than the Americans do, and there would be no bound to their murderous animosity if they were brought in contact with them on the same portion of the works of the Brunswick Canal."
Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote:
"The first place I heard the word “Irish” and “oppressed” was in my U.S. History survey class. It blew my mind. Here I am this quasi-nationalist, thinking I’ve got the monopoly on all suffering, for all time, and then one of my professors (Joseph Reidy, if I remember correctly) started showing us images like those above. Blew my mind."
In another essay Coates looked at how Ireland embraced Fredrick Douglas, yet many Irish-Americans and their leaders opposed Douglass’s fight to gain rights for African-Americans. In the article in Atlantic Magazine, ‘Talk to Me Like I’m Stupid, Revolutionary Ireland’, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote:
"I know very little about the roots of the Irish struggle against the British, save some vague outlines around "colonialism” and some oft-repeated references about them being “the niggers of Europe.” (I believe my friend Jelani Cobb would say the Russians have the crown.) I have some knowledge of the Irish-American experience, but not much more. And frequently people of Irish descent are quick to note the parallels of history. I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve often nodded along as though I understood, even though I clearly did not."
He then quoted Tom Chaffin in the New York Times:
"For Frederick Douglass, his warm reception in Ireland also served as an ironic contrast to difficulties he would soon face in his native land. Even as he toured Ireland, a blight was destroying the potato crop on which the island depended. In the coming years, the disaster transmogrified into a full-fledged famine, sending millions of Irish to North America.
During that period and through the Civil War years, many – but not all – Irish-Americans and their leaders opposed Douglass’s fight to gain rights for African-Americans. They opposed his efforts to win rights for enslaved blacks in the South and for blacks in the North, free but denied U.S. citizenship and subject to widespread discrimination – including, in many cases, both de facto and de jure segregation.
Even so, Douglass, during his four months in Ireland, found in many Irish nationalists he met a kindred spirit of resistance against an oppressor – in his case, the slave-owning South; in theirs, the United Kingdom."
My previous post on my planter provenance here. Read here my blog post, ‘If we have Columbus Day and Australia Day, why not Henry II Day?’ And my blog post on the Anti-Columbus Movement herehere and here. My post on there being no link between American and irish independence here. And my post on Irish America featuring comments from Bernadette Devlin, here:
"‘My people’—the people who knew about oppression, discrimination, prejudice, poverty and the frustration and despair that they produce– were not Irish Americans. They were black, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos. And those who were supposed to be ‘my people’, the Irish Americans who knew about English misrule and the Famine and supported the civil rights movement at home, and knew that Partition and England were the cause of the problem, looked and sounded to me like Orangemen. They said exactly the same things about blacks that the loyalists said about us at home. In New York I was given the key to the city by the mayor, an honor not to be sneezed at. I gave it to the Black Panthers."
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