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2016 is the year when things really started to fall apart – a warning to PAP not to ignore good governance.

5 decades of minimal transparency and accountability has brought Singapore closer to self destruction.

Control came with negligible costs to PAP in the past but as time takes a toll, building facades are falling off, trees are falling down in record numbers and MRT train disruptions have also affected record numbers of commuters.

Lifts have gone haywire, causing a number of injuries and one fatality. Everything is coming apart at the seams because PAP has been applying past solutions to solve current issues. It has even ignored social disintegration.

There’s no such a thing as a “cheaper, better and faster” economy. Cheaper foreign workers from third world countries are of course easier to exploit but Singaporeans ultimately pay the price for having cock talking ministers like Lim Swee Say. video link

2016 saw government-linked company NOL sold at lelong price to a French company despite having the best scholarly brains at the helm for 48 years. Even former PM Goh, NOL’s MD in the 1970s, had nothing to contribute to prevent the sinking of our national shipping line.

Tiger Airways, another GLC, had a shorter history as a listed company. With years of losses, similar to NOL, Tiger’s mewing was heard by the government and it was delisted. SIA was forced to take over an unprofitable budget airline.

With ex military personnel in top management, poorly-managed SMRT was also privatised after the government had injected more than 2 billion in tax dollars. At the rate GLCs are privatised, there may soon be nothing left to privatise.

The incompetence of our book smart elites is clearer in 2016 to an increasing number of citizens.

Instead of resolving pressing issues as economic prospects worsened, PAP dedicated limited public resources to entrench its power: it reserved the presidency for a Malay citizen. Since the president has the second key to our reserves, PAP is clearly trying to prevent the disclosure of embarrassing information such as underwater investments.

While the MSM has painted PAP as whiter than white, the reality is basic human instincts and desires are similar in all unenlightened beings. While PAP gives the impression they are selfless servants of the people, PAP MP David Ong was having sex with another active PAP member behind his constituents’ backs.

In June, the government introduced insurance coverage for NSFs and heaped endless praises on itself through MSM. In reality, this was 49 years late because NSFs who had been seriously injured or killed during service never received fair compensation.

MCCY Minister Grace Fu had initially objected to live streaming of Rio Olympics despite this costing about $2 per citizen. After claiming that doing so was “unwise”, the government did a ‘belakang pusing’ and Singapore won our first Olympic gold medal. Subsequently, every PAP hypocrite wanted to take wefies with Joseph Schooling.

MCCY was earlier flagged by the AGO for spending 410,000 tax dollars on consultation fee for a bin centre. Singapore’s pariahment allowed Lawrence Wong to chut all sorts of pattern on behalf of the MCCY minister and till today, nobody knows how complex was its design to cost taxpayers $410,000.

Although Temasek’s performance is supposed to be on par with Warren Buffet, its net profit for FY2016 is almost half of FY 2015 and the third lowest in the past decade. Its stratospheric 18% 40-year return has remained a mystery.

Singapore PR status continues to be treated like a piece of used tissue by foreigners in 2016. Although PRs increased by an annual average of about 29,000 since 2010, there was a net reduction of 16,400 PRs in 2016.

That even foreigners are leaving in droves is confirmation that the economy is much worse than portrayed by MSM. PAP may soon increase the intake of PRs – creating more social issues – to make up for the lost numbers.

Politics reared its ugly head with STTA president former PAP MP Ellen lee making self-insulting statements and its Dy President Yeow Kwee making personal comments on world-ranking table tennis player Feng Tian Wei.

Parachuting PAP MPs into sports organisations has always been a bad idea and we need to look no further than the FAS. link link

Government people are ever so willing to make a mockery of themselves.

Not contented with cracking pork soup and free smoke jokes in the US at China’s expense, PM Lee decided to test China with his undiplomatic comments. As a result, our military equipment was seized in Hong Kong and the likelihood of their return is diminishing with each passing hour.

2016 is only the beginning of Singapore falling apart and a harbinger of things to come. If PAP continues to bully citizens in order to stifle dissent and run our country without transparency and accountability, worse will be in store for Singaporeans.

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2 Responses to 2016 Year in review: PAP took Singapore further downhill, worse lies ahead

  1. Confused says:

    What an accurate and timely summary for the year.

    A very Happy New Year (2017) to you but I hope your wish ” pap-took-singapore-further-downhill-worse-lies-ahead” will not come true.😅😅😅

    The people of Singapore has given the pap so much tax dollars (800 billions or more or less? who knows exactly?) to spend, so come rain or shine, just bypass the 2nd key and take out $4b or so, Singapore will still make it, but at our expense (less the elitists for sure) later.

    With the luxury of reserves we have, even if you put in any other team in place of the pap, they will still make it as well if not better. The immediate saving in the ministerial and etc pays and those GLCs top guns would have been good enough to do a lot of wonder for the ordinary, to begin with.

    Whatever the “help” that comes along from the state, people will still blindly “kow tow” like as though they have done wonder to our lives even more so than our parents despite the fact that most have been “skinned” all these while.

  2. Confused says:

    “Not contented with cracking pork soup and free smoke jokes in the US at China’s expense, PM Lee decided to test China with his undiplomatic comments. As a result, our military equipment was seized in Hong Kong and the likelihood of their return is diminishing with each passing hour.”

    So all these while, the Chinese has been waiting, waiting and waiting for SG to make some silly move?

    I don’t know how true it is, I heard from a Taiwanese talk show some times ago that the Chinese government was particularly angry with SG because the current shipping arrangement was different from the past when they were from point to point directly without detouring. The current arrangement was seen as SG trying to test the threshold of the Chinese and now appeared to be backfired. I hope it is really not the case, otherwise, there is this Chinese saying 玩火自焚($100 million, this is no small change). If really so, who should be responsible for this?

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Persephone 2013 Diary

I received my little package in the mail from the UK, the Persephone Biannually.  It's just so fun to receive with updates on new publications and short stories.

This year I've ordered the 2013 Persephone Diary.  Every year I look around for a diary that I will enjoy for the year.  Two years ago I made my own on Blurb.  This year as it commemorates 100 books for Persephone and has all the beautiful fabric end papers in one collection, I thought that I would enjoy this.

Every Persephone book has a grey cover, but to brighten the book all the inside sheets have a different fabric pattern, representing the era of the story.

P.S.  No work today as there is no power at my office.  I'm getting to the point where this is good and bad, because there will be a mountain of work to go back to.  Still I will enjoy it and make the most of it.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

After The Storm

We just got our electric back at 6:15 PM this evening, just in time as the light was almost gone.

When we lost our electric at 9:15 PM last night we decided to call it a day and go to bed, with the wind howling, but to be honest not as much rain as we thought we would get right in our area.

Yesterday I spent the day making jewelery, that was fun, two bracelets in different styles to match my chalcedony ring and a pair of earings to match also.

It's been a quiet day, the gas stove has been on all day in the Simla room and we have been reading and I've been on my iPad as it holds at least an eight hour charge.

We raked out one of our camping stove's and Mr. B. made me a cup of tea which I had in bed.  We all slept in quite late, what a luxury.

Heating up the turkey soap.

This little cheap crank torch/flashlight, radio, alarm; which you crank really came in handy.

Brought out the coffee percolator.

This little camping stove is the best thing for camping since sliced bread.  I bought it at a Korean store, I know you can get them in other countries around the world.  They run on a little butane cylinder no bigger than a large hair spray bottle.

They are so easy to light and easy to tote on picnics.

Turkey Florentine soup with onion bread.

Tea and ginger snaps.

Peaceful time chatting with my boy about his plans and communing with the cats.

A little tea towel that I found a the NSH yard sale, made in the USA, so probably from the fifties, I love it.

My Beamish mug; which mum bought me on our last camping trip together with my parents.  So happy memories.

Those leaves on that old oak tree never come off.  In fact I was amazed to see how many leaves were left on the trees after all that wind yesterday and yet there were.

We were very fortunate in this area right where I am, no damage I can see so far, but I know other areas were hit very badly, so a lot of aftermath for some folk.  Wish them all well.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Hurricane Sandy - The Perfect Storm

No work today!

Our New York office is closed too as all the NY Transit System closed down last night at 7:00 PM.

We had an announcement at our congregation meeting yesterday, from the Branch Office, to be prepared.  One of our elders phoned in the morning to make sure that we had everything we needed; which I thought was so good, plus make sure the elders have our phone numbers, and email address to contact us in case of extended emergency.

We have our wood stove so will not be cold, although it is not that cold temperature wise.  We have camping stoves and an outside calor gas grill.  We have food stores in the basement and will run water in the bath and fill up containers.  We live at almost at the top of the hill, so are on somewhat higher ground.  Will remember not to park the car under our old ash tree which is on it's last legs.

I don't get over anxious over these types of things, but on the other hand one would be foolish not to heed warnings and take the necessary precautions.  So many weather patterns are not normal anymore and you can't say it will not happen because so many freak storms have never happened before, there is always a first time.

Everything is shut down from Virginia to New York State, waiting for the impact of Hurricane Sandy.  I keep thinking of the movie the Perfect Storm with George Clooney playing a New England fisherman and how three storms converge together to make the perfect storm, well this is a similar situation in that it's a combination of hurricane and nor'easter amplified.

Hurricane Sandy came up from the south and they do this time of year,  but usually they gradually peter out and stay out to sea and then hit somewhere up in New England.  But this storm  which has been named Frankenstorm, because of a two cold fronts, one west of Hurricane Sandy and one north coming down from Canada, has drawn the hurricane inland.  It carries a lot of water and is moving very slowly, plus it is full moon, so tides will be at their highest, so will effect several high tides, the worst is meant to hit this evening.

Mr B made goodies and pork chops in the slow cooker.  I started a pot of turkey soup; which I will finish today.  Need to fill some water jugs and we will see what happens.

Just looking out of my Simla Room window yesterday evening.

At the moment some winds and rain, will keep you posted.

Friday, October 26, 2012

The Colour Of My Childhood Fawn

As a child of the mid fifties, a baby boomer although that term wasn't around then, born the year rationing ended after WWII, the colour of my childhood was fawn.

Even just using that word I can still hear mum saying I'll take five balls of fawn.  Mum knitted a lot of our jumpers and the pattern of choice was Fair Isle.  So when I ran across this painting it so evoked memories of childhood.

Stanley Cursitor, The Fair Isle Jumper, (1923) The Edinburgh City Arts Centre

I love the little slouch beret mainly fawn with the Fair Isle band and little pom poms, how pretty is that?

We wore brown lace up shoes, fawn socks, quite often a tartan kilt, or a gym slip and very often a Fair Isle jumper with a fawn background, or a cardigan.

I have a photo of when I was very young at a party.  My mum went out and splurged on a beautiful little party dress for me.  Now remember this is when you went to the one shop in town that specialized in children's outfits, not the racks and racks of clothes you look through today.  In this photo, in black and white I'm in my little party dress, which I think mum said was white and pink, it looks like everyone else must be wearing fawn.  I will look it up and insert it, because it so speaks of that era.

Dad thought mum had spent an awful lot on this dress for me for a company party, but I must have stood out in it as every one said" Who's little girl is that?" "Oh! That's Tubby's daughter."  That was my dad's nick name.

Will insert photo.

I was a vivacious child, very blond, wanting to do my own thing, you can see that in the photo, I am being held back, by the boys either side of me.

The coats of my child hood were a duffel coat and a Harris Tweed.  This was our winter attire.

What memories do you have of colours and clothes of your childhood?

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Jomar Is Closing and Pazyryk Tomb Felted Items

I can't believe it.  My friend M. told me that Jomar is closing, not all their stores but the one near us.  We are devastated, it was the place we went to especially for fabric.  Having a party and want material for tablecloths yards and yards of it, this was the place to go to.

Looking for a little outfit, not expensive, this is where we would go.  And just for the fun of looking at all the crazy things that turned up there.  It was like the shop of last selling resort, there were deals to be had too.  So we are just sick about it.

Saturday we went around the shop, saying this is terrible.  The fabrics and trims that they sold there were amazing, and now even more amazing at 50% off already ridiculously low prices.

I bought a yard of this and that.  The little check material is wool for a suit, that I bought 6 yards of.   Plus I bought some trims.  The other is curtain fabrics, or what ever you want to use it for.  I did buy a serious amount of curtain brocade, black with a rose bud on, I have plans for that.

They had shelves and shelves of trims, such wonderful color combinations, oh! I'm telling you this is terrible.  I expect I'll get over it but.

I bought a nice Indian cotton blouse for the summer to go over jeans for one dollar and a Pancho/jacket/vest combo in black wool combination $10.00 and truthfully that was a splurge seeing what most the other prices were in the store.

Did get some work done this weekend on the basement.  Putting some things out back for people to take if they want and will thrift other items.  It will eventually come together.  It will never be the Ritz it is an unfinished basement, but I do have visions of crafting with friends there, so we will see.  Lots of work to do.

I picked up two books at the thrift, you'll never stop me from adding more books, it's an addiction.  One was on rug making and the other on felting.

I seriously want to go to the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, to see the collection of felted items that they found in a tomb in Siberia.  I found this wonderful PDF about the Textiles of Pazyryk. from the University of Pennsylvania Museum; which is on our doorstep.

Saddle Cover Eastern Altai, Pazyryk Burial Mound 1
Felt, leather, horsehair
5th century BC
L 119 cm, w 60 cm
This cover of thin red felt trimmed along the edges with strips of leather is decorated with applique designs in coloured felt. On the sides of the cover are two identical compositions: a winged griffin, standing on the ibex he has overwhelmed, holds in his beak one of the victim's horns; the ibex's forefeet are bent under him, while his hind legs, together with the hindquarters, also twisted around, turn upwards; the head faces backward.
According to the traditions of ancient Altai art, the animals' bodies are emphasized by applique designs in the form of a dot, triangle and drop.
On either side the saddle cover has three pendants of yellow felt trimmed with red horsehair and lined with leather. The outer side of each pendant shows an applique design in coloured felt of a moufflon between two horned tiger's heads. The cover is highly decorative.

The history of felting is so interesting.  Will be reading more on that subject.

Clare, Suffolk

Would you like to take a little walk around my mum's very favourite village to visit, Clare, Suffolk.  It's just a short drive from BB's about three miles.  We park our car in the Castle car park, near the canal, it used to be free but those days are gone.

We take a slow amble as it is uphill to the village of Clare, passing by the old mill warehouse which is now Clare Antiques a collections of different vendors under one roof.  This time we don't go in as it is a whole visit on it's own and if you don't want to tire out then you must go another day.  On a previous visit I bought a very lovely antique 1920's gold ring, with little inset crystals, like an eternity ring one edge is different to the other and goes so lovely with a diamond ring that I have, I wear the two together.

We're now at the top cross roads, where we will cross and walk into the village.

Our first stop is the bakery on the corner where we buy fresh rolls for our picnic lunch along with a lovely pastry or cake to go with our coffee.  You must do this first thing as they are very popular and when all is sold they close and that can be quite early.

We always love to look around the Iron Mongers store, with all the wonderful pots and pans, old brown mixing bowls and pudding basins.  This time I saw a little cast iron camp fire cooker, I was very tempted to buy it, but it could only have come on as hand luggage and I can just see me touting that around the airport on my own.  No it wasn't going to be.  So I sigh and walk by that.

 We walk on down the road and look in a couple of the shops, but the one that most reminds me of my child hood is the Post Office and Newsagents.  Here you can buy your daily newspaper or one of those lovely UK magazines, along with stationery, pens and numerous other items, of course sweets too, we just wander around.

Clare is an old wool town and this prosperity of old is reflected in the very large church in the centre of the village.  The lady walking down the street could so be my aunt Joan, that I look at it and think it is my aunt Joan, and when I get old and confused I'll probably look at this photo and say that was my aunt Joan walking down the street.

Even the little alley way between the two main streets is brightened by pots of flowers.

We've taken our short walk around the village we don't always visit everything as we've been there before and if mum was with us it had to be limited.  We slowly walk back to the Castle grounds near the canal where we will have our picnic lunch.

I'll take your there next time.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

An English Country Garden

Actually this is a garden in my sisters town on the same road as her friend lives.  Isn't it just how you imagine an English garden.

These houses were probably built in the sixties so I thought this sepia 60's finish was very appropriate.

I have more photos of my two trips to the UK this year and want to share them before year's end.

Teapot Serviette/Napkin Rings

A few weeks ago, a little package awaited me with these pewter Teapot Serviette Rings.  It was so sweet of L. to think of me and get them for me, when her husband has been so ill.

As a young teenager I had a friend whose house I would visit and they would always have their own serviette sitting on the dining room table in their own serviette ring.  It seems now that those times are of an almost long lost era in today's world.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Carl Larsson At His Home In Sundborn

This is a film of Carl Larsson at his home in Sundborn.  It must cover a period of time, because it goes from seeing them in a summer garden to the area being flooded.  It is a precious snapshot in time.

Take a look at the ladies hats at the very beginning and their costumes of the period. Also the table set outside in the garden for a meal, notice the serviettes/napkins rolled up in little towers on each of the plates.  It is these little things that I think are so interesting to see.  I love his paintings.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

A Quirky Railway Museum Wedding in East Anglia

This is our families neck of the woods so when I saw this wedding featured I thought you might enjoy looking at it too.  It's venue was at the East Anglia Railway Museum.

It's just delightful and shows what you can come up with for a wedding.  Also love the Colchester Town Hall where the ceremony was held.

John Cleese On How To Be Creative

I found this on annekata's blog, most interesting.

John Cleese, of Monty Python fame, has a great lecture on How To Be Creative and the steps one needs to take to set the time and space.

He describes creativity not as talent, but a modus operandi. He distinguishes between two modes of operation.

First, is the closed mode, which is our normal daily attitude, which repesents work, errands, family, friends and social media all of which are simultaneously competing for our attention.
The second is the open mode in which exploration is the main objective and goal. Kids call it playtime, the  mode where creativity blossoms. To implement a new idea or concept, both modes are necessary. Once a creative thought or insight occurs the open state has to give way to the closed one to implement the new idea or concept without hesitation or doubt.
To enter the open mode can be difficult. Life usually get in the way.

According to Cleese there are 5 elements to help set the stage for the open mode:

1. Creating space: Make room (physical and mental) to explore. Cleese calls it setting up a space/time oasis.
2. Time (quantitative) : Set aside an hour and half or so with unobstructed time. No phone, no email, no interruptions. There needs to be a clear separation between your daily tasks and “open mode time”. Nobody gets creative in front of a computer.
3. Time (qualitative): Wait for the mind to calm down (which can take up to 30 minutes or longer you may know this from meditation or trying to get to sleep at night) and stop your mind’s chattering, if that’s possible. It can be hard in the beginning, but the mind does get quiet faster over time. Think about something interesting like two juxtaposed concepts and explore how they connect. Ponder until your time is running out. If something occurs, great, if not, don’t worry. Wait or sleep over it.
Good ideas often need time to “incubate” below the threshold of awareness. Cleese also warns off getting get rid of the discomfort of not having an answer/solution right away. He says that the most creative people are prepared to tolerate the discomfort of “not knowing” longer than other people. In other words, don’t grab the first creative idea or insight that comes to mind. Wait on it and even more creative ideas could follow. I thought that this is crucial.
4. Confidence: Don’t let the fear of failure get into the way. Don’t expect anything to happen. Play and experiment without aiming for a result. I find that the hard one. We are all taught to view “play time” as losing, or worse wasting time and are always concerned with setting and reaching goals.
5. Humor: Humor is a fast way to change from the closed mode into the open one.

Yes less time on the computer and all electronic gadgets giving one the space and time to create.  And the funny thing is I was just thinking about setting aside a creative space in my basement.  No the whole basement is not going to get redone, but almost cordoning off an area in a bigger void surrounded by and easy access to the tools that I would like to be creative with, instead of doing a house wide search.

It's easy for me to sit down and write that is my environment in the Simla room, but to sit and sew especially if a sewing machine is involved and a cutting area is involved this becomes more complicated, hence a large area in the basement.

Now the basement will take some creativity because it is a basement.  But I've got some ideas and I'll see if they gel together.

I totally agree with what I call sitting on something until it forms as a complete project in ones mind and this does not take place instantly.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Tracey Porter and China Cutlery Holders, Thrifted Finds

Sometimes when I come home from work and I'm not so tired, I say let me just pop in the Thrift Shop, it's just around the corner from me and just about the only one I go to, not that I wouldn't like to visit more, but time constraints and it has to be on my beaten path.

So this is what I found these lovely cockerel plates, from the Tracy Porter Collection, for seventy-five cents each along with the tray.  I think they're really fun.

I had never seen a cutlery holder until I was at a friends one day and she had a little glass one with teaspoons in and I thought how neat is that.  So when I came across the Noritake one in front; which I bought a while ago I couldn't resist and the scene is so sweet to.  They had three in the Thrift, which must have come from someones collection because there were lots of pieces of Noritake, but I resisted and just bought that one piece.

The other day though I found the two white ones and much less expensive the one is quite large definitely for knives and forms.  You just don't come across them too often.  Lovely for a little buffet luncheon, or High Tea, Um!

Have you run across these cutlery holders and if so have you ever used them, I just wondered?

The last hurrah! In the garden, the begonias are looking lovely before the frost gets them, and Virginia creeper always looks at it's best right now.  It would take over but we cut it back it can be destructive on walls.

Monday, October 15, 2012

What I've Been Reading, Midnight In Peking by Paul French and Full Body Burden by Kristen Iversen

Midnight in Peking, the year is 1937 Pamela Werner's body is found near The Fox Tower on a piece of no mans land.  This is a time when Peking is being closed in upon by the Japanese, many Westerners are leaving if they can, many can't as they are the flotsam and jetsam who have left Europe over the last decades, many being white Russians, add this to fortune hunters, diplomats and a very free life style, an underworld of opium and you have a true mystery.

Two detectives investigate the crime, a British detective Dennis and a Chinese detective Han.  It has shocked the elite enclaved mostly European community.  Who could do such a shocking thing a madman?  Must be a Chinese person or could it be one of their own?

These are the questions that haunt the detectives, but as time goes on one can see there is a lot of politics and payoffs involved.  This true story is revisited by Paul French and he does a great job, unearthing and reading through all the correspondence that Pamela's father sent to the foreign office in London after he did his own investigation.  You can come to some very compelling conclusions as to who did it, and why.

It's a great insight into Peking on the cuspid of WWII, but so sad that a teenage girls life should end like that.

Full Body Burden.  Growing up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats.  This is also a true story of Kristen Iversen, who lived in a wonderful new housing development built yes withing a hairs breath of Rocky Flats.

Just the name itself Rocky Flat is something you think now where have I heard that?  I can't say I read the whole book because it became very detailed in statistics, but I found the beginning very compelling and read quite a bit.

Did you know that the third worst nuclear disaster happened back in the fifties at Rocky Flats and was not equaled until more recently by Chernobyl and the Fukushima nuclear disaster that just happened in Japan.  That was kept under wraps and only providence of the wind blowing in the other direction stopped the whole of Denver, Colorado from being contaminated.  Of course one could ask who was contaminated then?

A compelling book to read and probably if I had more time I would read the entire book.  The perfect suburbia of the 1950s gone awry.  People becoming ill and not knowing why, it's all so new and what do they actually do at that plant, the government would never let us live here or build here if it wasn't safe!

Yes the people of 2012 are less trusting or are we?

I may come back and finish this book at some point, it makes you think.

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  • Usage Data may include information about how you use our website, products, and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data may include your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We may also process Aggregated Data from your personal data, but this data does not reveal your identity and as such in itself is not personal data. It’s just data. It’s the anonymised data we mentioned earlier. A good example of this is where we review your Usage Data of our site along with everyone else’s to work out what percentage of website users are using a specific feature of our site; when we do this we’re working with numbers, not names, and there’s no way to identify your specific uses of our site within that. You are not a number. If we ever did link the Aggregated Data with your personal data so that you can be identified from it, then it will be treated as personal data, but TBH we’ll probably never do that anyway.

How We Collect and Torture Your Personal Data

We collect data about you through a variety of different methods including:

Direct interactions: You may provide data by filling in forms on our site or by communicating with us by post, phone, email, carrier pigeon, or otherwise, including when you:

  • order our products or services
  • create an account on our site
  • subscribe to our service or publications
  • request resources or marketing be sent to you
  • enter a competition, prize draw, promotion or survey; or
  • give us feedback.
  • Complete a customer questionnaire

Automated technologies or interactions: As you use our site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and usage patterns. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs, and similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites that use our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.

  • Technical Data comes from the following parties:
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Whatever the latest social network is that we all signed up to
    • All the social networks we all signed up to ages ago and forgot about.
    • analytics providers such as Google (based outside the EU! but… it’s ok, they’ve got their own GDPR compliances, we made sure!).
    • Advertising Networks and Ad Exchanges such as Adroll and DoubleClick that we may use from time to time
  • Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services through Paypal, Stripe, Braintree and other good companies when we can find them.
  • Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when legally permitted. Obviously! The most common uses of your personal data are:

  • Where we need to perform the contract between us.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal ground for processing your personal data, other than in relation to sending marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email, or you can do it the hard way by emailing us at our support address and asking to be removed; be warned that involves you writing another whole email – just sayin, we don’t mind either way.

Purposes For Processing Your Personal Data

These are the ways we intend to use your personal data and the legal grounds on which we will process such data. We have also explained what our legitimate interests are where relevant.

We may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground, depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.

Type of data

Lawful basis for processing

To register you as a new customer

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

Performance of a contract with you

To process and deliver your order including:(a) Manage payments, fees and charges

(b) Collect and recover money owed to us

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(c) Financial

(d) Transaction

(e) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests to recover debts owed to us

To manage our relationship with you which will include:(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy

(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(c) Profile

(d) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services

To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(c) Profile

(d) Usage

(e) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business

To administer and protect our business and our site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(c) Technical

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise

(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To deliver relevant content and advertisements to you and measure and understand the effectiveness of our advertising

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(c) Profile

(d) Usage

(e) Marketing and Communications

(f) Technical

Necessary for our legitimate interests to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy

To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences

(a) Technical

(b) Usage

Necessary for our legitimate interests to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our site updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy

To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(c) Technical

(d) Usage

(e) Profile

Necessary for our legitimate interests to develop our products/services and grow our business

Marketing Communications

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have:

  • requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us; or
  • if you provided us with your details and agreed for us to send you marketing communications; and
  • in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
  • Through connecting with us on LinkedIn

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by emailing us at any time.

Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a business we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.

Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes we will get your express consent.

Where you opt out of receiving our marketing communications, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to find out more about how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please email us.

If we need to use your personal data for a purpose unrelated to the purpose for which we collected the data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal ground of processing.

We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:

  • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
  • Tax advisors, authorities. regulators, and other authorities based in the United Kingdom and other relevant jurisdictions who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
  • Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

International Transfers

Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) do not always offer the same levels of protection to your personal data, so European law has prohibited transfers of personal data outside of the EEA unless the transfer meets certain criteria.

Many of our third parties service providers are based outside the European Economic Area so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

  • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission; or
  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe; or
  • Where we use providers based in the United States, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the EU-US Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US.

If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

By law, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.

In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request transfer of your personal data.
  • Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please look in your cookie jar. No, in all seriousness, have a gander at our cookie policy below:

What’s a cookie?

A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.

Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. By not blocking cookies and continuing to browse you are authorising the use of cookies. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.

Cookies are either:

– Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or

– Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.

Cookies can also be categorised as follows:

– Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.

– Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.

– Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.


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Get Out of the Den and into the Pride

Communication is such a big part of our days! And making the switch from face-to-face chatting to opening up the vast opportunities online and ‘speaking’ to search engines is challenging.

But it’s a challenge that we love and do daily. So whether you’ve never dipped your toe into those online waters, dabbled but not measured, or need to add some proactive strategy to your communications — we’re here to help you Find Your ROAR.

Find Your Roar

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Content Marketing Strategy

A content marketing strategy is a plan that brings ideas, business goals and brand knowledge together. It strives to create, engage with and build an audience by publishing, maintaining and spreading high-quality, exciting, accessible and consistent content.

This content informs, educates, entertains and inspires — to turn strangers into fans and fans into customers. And the art is very much in the planning.

Now, we are biased, but we know first-hand the difference writing down and honing a clear, proactive, well-thought-out and comprehensive content marketing strategy has. Especially over a vague, reactive and last-minute shoehorn-it-into-Friday one. It simply gets done and delivers results. Ready to love calendars?

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Content Marketing Creation

Content marketing creation is all about producing valuable and relevant content to attract, acquire and engage your audience.

There’s a lot of stuff online, can we agree? And we, as businesses, can be guilty of this. But what if we stopped flooding our customers with hard salesy ‘buy this’ material, which let’s face it, turn-offs us off completely.

And, instead, replace it with shareable content that builds awareness, trust and genuine interest in you and your brand? So that you truly attract new people, nurture them and create loyal advocates. Ready to get writing?

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Copywriting is the art of crafting your brand stories. We work with words every day and we love it. We use these words to shout about what’s so great about you and why people should come to you.

Brochures, leaflets, catalogues and emails all require high-quality, unique and well-thought-out copy. But in our digital jungle, it’s your website that is (or will become once you have great copy) the heart, the core and the hub of your business.

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Media Relations

Media relations is the process of reaching out and liaising with people in the media. What better way to get your story and newsworthy messages out there to the masses than to connect with journalists and editors in your industry?

Tying your content marketing strategy, creation and copywriting in with media relations not only produces an enhanced and consistent story but makes your ROAR even more powerful!

Getting your name in front of journalists, bloggers and editors, and building a strong relationship with them, can put you in front of untapped people. Are you ready to create invaluable and unlimited opportunities?

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As we move into, grow and expand our digital jungle footprint, we need to look at what we’re doing online.

An SEO-friendly site will develop brand awareness, get people to visit our site, keep people on it, and most importantly, take action that leads to sales. Do you want more traffic?

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Contract for Lisbeth Ganer Photography (LisGanerArt)

The client assumes all responsibility for their animal(s) or any other subjects during the session, including any and all destruction of personal, business or public property, personal injury or illegalities. Know your animal(s) and their behavior and limitations before bringing them to any public area. Please disclose any behavioral or aggression issues before your session.
MODEL AND PROPERTY RELEASE: By signing this contract, I, the client, have the legal right and authority to execute this release on behalf of the subject(s) and myself. I hereby irrevocably authorize Lisbeth Ganer Photography and its assignees, licensees, legal representatives and transferees to use and publish (with or without my name, the pet's name, or with a fictitious name) images of the subject(s) in any and all forms of media, for the purpose of self-promotion, publicity, publishing (including electronic forms as internet websites), resale as prints or other media for commercial use, or in photographic contests or gallery shows. I waive any and all rights to review or approve any use of the images for the above mentioned purposes. LGP agrees to never use the images in a manner which is slanderous, demeaning, or hurtful in any way to me or any of the subjects. I, the client, warrant that I have authority to agree to the use of the likeness of all persons included in the session in this manner and shall indemnify and defend LGP in the event of litigation arising out of such use.
CREATIVE AND COPYRIGHTS: All images, original and processed, remain the sole property of Lisbeth Ganer Photography . It is illegal to copy or reproduce any photographs, either physically or digitally, without LGP permission. Violators of this Federal Law will be subject to its civil and criminal penalties. The client may NOT submit any photos taken by LGP for use in contests. All images, both physical and digital, when purchased or provided to the client are for personal use only. No commercial use by the client is permitted under this contract, including but not limited to resale, promotion of personal business, or use in contests or exhibitions. Clients are allowed to share photos posted by LGP through social media by using the "Share" feature. Clients are not allowed to screen shot, copy, paste, or save the images to post on their walls. The client is not allowed to crop, alter, or change the photographs in any way.
PRICING DISCLOSURE: The client contends that they are aware of and have viewed the current price list for the session fees and any and all products - product pricing - This price list is adjusted periodically and may change without notice.
STUDIO POLICIES: Lisbeth Ganer photography will strive to complete sessions, editing and orders in a timely manner. LGP will edit and present the produced photos to the client at a chosen location within 3 weeks. LGP will only present images that are the best from the session (usually 30-40 photos). The client can opt in for an online gallery to purchase from for 21 days. If the client lets the gallery expire past it's 21 day time period, a 20 euro upload fee will be charged and the gallery will be re-uploaded and live for another 14 days.
Before the photoshoot
50 euros
The rest should be payed no later than 14 days after the shooting.
If a client is unhappy with their session, they can choose to forfeit ALL images and one re-shoot will be issued.  If a deposit is taken for securement of a session date, there is no refund for cancellation unless approved by LGP No charges will be incurred due to rescheduling a session for weather changes, family emergencies, etc.

LIABILITY: If Lisbeth Ganer Photography cannot perform this contract due to fire, casualty, act of God, illness, emergency, or other causes beyond the control of the photographer, and cannot reschedule, LGP will return to the client any money paid, including deposit, but shall have no further liability in respect to the contract. This limitation of liability shall also apply in the event that the photographic materials are damaged in processing, lost through camera or computer malfunction, lost or damaged in the mail, or otherwise lost or damaged without fault or intent on the part of the photographer. In the event that LGP fails to perform for any reason, LGP shall not be liable for any amount in excess of the retail value of the client's order and session fees paid. It is the client’s responsibility to back up any digital files that are purchased or received. LGP shall not be held liable for loss or destruction of files, prints or products once they have been received by the client. REPRINTS: The client is aware that color dyes in photography may fade or discolor over time due to the inherent qualities of dyes, and the client releases LGP from any liability for any claims whatsoever based upon fading or discoloration due to such inherent qualities. LGP will make every effort to provide the most accurate color reproduction on products purchased through LGP. LGP has no liability whatsoever toward the quality of any prints or products reproduced by the client from digital files purchased from or provided by LGP. It is recommended when displaying or storing prints, to use archival materials whenever possible. TRAVEL: A travel fee will be accessed if the client is located outside of the 35 km radius. This Contract incorporates the entire understanding of the parties. Any modifications of this Contract must be in writing and signed by both parties. A paper copy of this contract will be given to the client upon request.


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IP-Hosting Policy Specifics

Sweeting, John John.Sweeting at teleglobe.com
Thu May 3 08:54:15 EDT 2001

My understanding is that there is no "list" that everyone agrees on and that
is why this policy is being put in place to collect the different "technical
justifications" that people believe exist.  It should then be easier to
determine alternatives to these reasons while at the same time allowing
businesses to remain competitive while dealing with their "technical"
challenges. One possible outcome of this policy is a "list" will be put
together that everyone can agree on; this is the way that was decided on to
come up with the "list".

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Macknik [mailto:jmacknik at inflow.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 8:11 AM
To: 'vwp at arin.net'
Subject: IP-Hosting Policy Specifics

I really think we need ARIN to really lay down what "technical
justifications" there are for requesting IP space for IP-based hosting. This
request has appeared many times on this discussion list, but the only answer
I have seen to date indicates that ARIN requires "technical justification;"
this is a little too vague for businesses that depend on IP space, and the
customers which they support.

Is there a definitive list of justifiable reasoning behind IP-based hosting.
If there is not, then there is no way that anyone offering any IP space to
their customers could be sure they are requesting the right information from
their customers. This could conceivably cause them to lose their ability to
do business if ARIN indicates they don't believe that organization is
providing proper justification.

Is there any way we can come up with a list of justifiable reasons to use
IP-based hosting? If so, can we then also come up with an escalation
procedure for requesting additions to the list as technology and standard
practices change? If we had these in place, then companies offering ISP
services could follow, to the letter, exactly what ARIN needs for them to be
compliant. They would also have an opportunity to argue a case for alternate
technical reasons for IP space.

-= Mack =-

James M. Macknik
Manager, Systems Engineering
2401 15th St. Suite 200
Denver, CO  80202
303/824.2506 (Office)
720/840.5329 (Mobile)
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Re: behaviour change in cl-subseq

From: Phillip Lord
Subject: Re: behaviour change in cl-subseq
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 22:23:31 +0100
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Nicolas Petton <address@hidden> writes:

> Phillip Lord <address@hidden> writes:
>> Yes, will do. My expectation is this:
>> ;; error
>> (seq-subseq '() 10 10)
>> ;; (same) error
>> (seq-subseq '() -10 -10)
>> You agree?
> Yes, I do.

Added as fix/subsequence-error-with-negative-sequences branching from
current trunk.

Would you like to check that I have got everything in place? Please feel
free to merge/rebase to trunk iff you are happy. If not, let me know and
I will improve.

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Re: [Orgmode] [ANN] Exporter for taskjuggler

From: Christian Egli
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] [ANN] Exporter for taskjuggler
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:09:05 +0200
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John Hendy <address@hidden> writes:

> I'd stick with looking into TJ3 org-mode integration over 2.4. Or
> perhaps take a look at the first of the references on how to use both:
> - http://www.taskjuggler.org/tj3/manual/TaskJuggler_2x_Migration.html

The exporter is pretty agnostic towards either tj3 or tj2.4. It pretty
much just exports the properties you define in your nodes. It also does
some magic with regards to dependecy and resource export, but these have
not changed in tj3. While I haven't tested it with tj3 the export from
an org file should also work for tj3. You might have to tweak the
reports some, but this can be done with the customize interface.

Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland

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GPG port to TANDEM

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder avbidder at
Tue Jan 14 10:42:01 CET 2003

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 18:16, Manfred Morgner wrote:
> From: Manfred Morgner <manfred.morgner at>
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Seeing this, and following recent postgres website deveolpment: I'd
thing that a 'GnuPG business cases' section on would
perhaps increase visibility of the project and the OpenPGP standard.

I'm not offering to help with that right now, I might get more time
starting from April/May.

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Mapping the World of Jewish Latin American Literature

From Lispector to Jodorowsky, a Literature of Resistance and Dreams

February 28, 2018  By Ilan Stavans

As a young man, I thought of Latin America as a place left unfinished at the moment of creation. To me this was a handicap: time was slow; space always gave the feeling of being elastic; and things worked in peculiar, idiosyncratic ways. Now I appreciate these qualities. People in the region are convinced that reality and dreams are impossible to separate. That spirits dance around the living. And that inanimate objects have a soul of their own. I agree.

Literature has been a superb medium to explore this supernatural life. Consider Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967). In the novel, there are rainstorms of butterflies; entire towns mysteriously lose their memory; and beautiful women ascend to heaven. In Latin America, these occurrences are neither strange nor uncommon.

Being Jewish and Latino means having a double entry to the world of the unreal. Jewish folkloric tradition also contains an extraordinary gallery of chimeras: dybbuks, golems, and a vast assortment of angels and demons. We even have the brilliant Chelemites. In Mexico City, where I grew up, these chimeras often interacted with local ones—like La Llorona, the wailing woman, and El Coco, a faceless ogre.

The literature of Jewish Latin America is an endless well of possibilities. The map below gives a taste of the books that have been written or translated into English, and there are many others in the canon still.

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Jews arrived in the Americas in 1492, as La Convivencia—the coexistence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—was concluding. In other words, we came to life in an explosion of xenophobia. That xenophobia has followed us like a shadow. First, the Inquisition targeted us; we had to hide our identity and fortify it through secrecy. My favorite colonial testimony on crypto-Jewish life is Luis de Carvajal the Younger’s memoir. It chronicles his perilous awakening to the Hebraic faith in the Mexico City region in the second half of the 16th century and how the Inquisition ultimately burned him at the stake in the largest auto-da-fe ever performed on this side of the Atlantic.

Intolerance greeted us again later as we emigrated from two distant regions: Eastern Europe and the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Among the most lucid literary works about immigration is Alberto Gerchunoff’s The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (1910). In enchanting vignettes, Gerchunoff details the process of acculturation in agricultural colonies in Entre Ríos, which were seen as harsh and unwelcoming.

The quintessential motifs of Jewish Latin American literature are repression and exile. But there is another constant: resistance. This was particularly clear in the works that emerged during the Dirty War of the 1970s. Children of immigrants and Holocaust survivors were active against the military juntas of South America. As a result, they represented a high number of desaparecidos—the disappeared. The most distinguished account of that period is Jacobo Timerman’s Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (1981), which describes Timerman’s imprisonment by the Argentine junta and points to the way in which his torturers were similar to the Nazis.

Timerman is blunt, passionate, and relentless in his quest for justice. Another response is escapism. A slew of magical tales by writers like Alejandro Jodorowsky survey the limits of the surreal. My dear friend the Brazilian fabulist Moacyr Scliar wrote what strikes me as the best novel in the Jewish magical realist genre: The Centaur in the Garden (1981). Joyful and thought-provoking, it is about a Jew who is half horse, half man, and finds no peace in either the animal or the human realm. While Scliar’s depiction of his native Rio Grande do Sul has much in common with Franz Kafka’s Prague and Isaac Babel’s Odessa, it is a universe all to its own, with bizarre laws and phantasmagorical characters.

I recommend two other inimitable “Jewish” writers. I put the adjective in quotes because one of them never fully acknowledged her Jewishness and the other spent his life hoping he could prove he was a Jew. The first is Clarice Lispector, who was also Brazilian. A subtle realist, her striking voice is evident in masterpieces like The Hour of the Star (1977), where biblical allusions give way to a haunting meditation on alienation. The other is the Argentine hombre de letras Jorge Luis Borges. He nurtured a lifelong passion for Kafka, Spinoza, Hasidism, and Kabbalah, evident in stories like “Emma Zunz,” “The Secret Miracle,” and “Death and the Compass,” as well as in memorable poems and essays.

The best way to read Jewish Latin American literature is by suspending rationality. For my next book, I spent the last four years traveling to the far corners of the region. I’m more convinced than ever that this vast expanse of land is indeed a place left unfinished—and that’s its biggest asset. Jews are among its most fertile and stylized dreamers.

From vol. 2 of Paper Brigade, 2018 issue.

Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile’s Presidential Medal, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans’s work, translated into a dozen languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen. He hosted the syndicated PBS television show Conversations with Ilan Stavans. He is a cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, and Oxford. His book Quixote: The Novel and the World is out now from Norton.

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