the rasx() context

Contents:

• ::: Gbola Adiamoh: The Lords
• ::: kinte cast #2: enter the roach messiah
• ::: Tayari Jones: Sunday Salon (YouTube.com)

::: Gbola Adiamoh: The Lords

::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_adiamoh0.html

Now, we indulge in our second selection from Dr. Jerry Agada’s labor of love, 500 Nigerian Poets. This Aboki Publishers volume, shipping from 43 New Bridge (Otukpo) Road in Makurdi, Benue State, sings with diversity. It is a rich tapestry of creative vision.

We present another one of the 500 poets, Gbola Adiamoh. At the time of publication, he’s a student of communication and language arts at the University of Ibadan and is a member of Ibadan Arts Renaissance.

::: kinte cast #2: enter the roach messiah

::: ::: http://kintespace.com/zcore/redirect/kintecast002

This jam-packed episode is a meditation on one regular guy from the good state of Texas. Featured voices in order of appearance are:

• Njoki Njehu of Kenya with The V-Man of FreakRadio.org (now 101.1 FM) in Santa Cruz in a show called “What’s Missing in US/Africa Policy?”
• Dr. John Marciano, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York, lecturing in a presentation called “Empire As A Way Of Life.”
• Harold Pinter, speaking for his acceptance of the 2005 Nobel Prize of Literature in a show called “Art, Truth and Politics” produced by Maria Gilardin of tucradio.org.
• Amiri Baraka with Franklin and Commodore, KBFR, Boulder Free Radio (Colorado), featuring the banned poem “Somebody Blew Up America.”
• Dr. Amos Wilson, a psychologist speaking in a presentation called “White Imperialism and Black Self-Annihilation”—this recording comes from LIBRadio.com sampler we called “Doctoral Warriors for the African Mind.”

Music in order of appearance:

• Cassendre Xavier, performing “Love Is a Battlefield” composed by Mike Chapman and Holly Knight in a streaming audio presentation we call “Nothing Is All I Need.”
• Afrofraktal, performing “Enter the Roach Messiah”, afrofraktal.megafunk.com.
• Timeka Drew, performing “killing alley.”
• Fumilayo Bankole, performing “Digital Chip” from her CD Baby album, L.A. River, which is featured in the streaming audio presentation “L.A. River.”

Audio components used in this mix include:

• Bill Laswell, Ambient Grooves, Sony Creative Software
• rasx() music, rasx.megafunk.com
• Modular Electronica featuring Test Shot Starfish, Sony Creative Software
• Cinemascape with composer James Johnson, Sony Creative Software

Most of the voices in this kinté cast are a remix of complete streaming audio presentations at kintespace.com.

Direct Download: rasx_-_enter_the_roach_messiah.mp3

::: Tayari Jones: Sunday Salon (YouTube.com)

::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_tayari_jones0.html

Novelist Tayari Jones is the author of Leaving Atlanta and The Untelling, winner of the Hurston/Wright and Lillian C Smith Awards. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, McSweeey’s, The Believer, and The New York Times. She is on the MFA faculty at Rutgers University.

We take three streaming videos from YouTube.com to showcase her engaging work.

The Observer: “China is not a nation state, he writes, but a civilisation state. As such, it cannot make accommodations with others as it rises. …Historically, China has regarded itself as being at the centre of the world and has sought tribute from others as acknowledgement of its inherent superiority, a racism that is embedded in the Chinese psyche, Jacques argues provocatively. Its instincts remain essentially Confucian: a strong central state seeking benevolently and collectively to improve the condition of the people. Communism is a contemporary expression of Confucianism.” This link comes from Dr. Gerald Horne with the comment, “Despite the negative FT review, the author at least is posing the query that few choose to pose—even by our Black Intellectuals who I had thought had an interest in ‘race.’  Fewer still ask-why and-how did this radical turn of events occur?”

“Carer grandparents ‘face poverty’”

BBC: “A third of grandparents in the UK aged under-55 are struggling financially, according to Grandparents Plus. …While the overall trend is for women to become mothers later in life—pushing back the age at which people become grandparents – this report highlights another group of families at the other end of the age range. …There are 1.5 million grandparents under the age of 50 – with younger grandparents more likely to come from less affluent families.”

“A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy”

Shirky: “So these are human patterns that have shown up on the Internet, not because of the software, but because it’s being used by humans. Bion has identified this possibility of groups sandbagging their sophisticated goals with these basic urges. And what he finally came to, in analyzing this tension, is that group structure is necessary. Robert’s Rules of Order are necessary. Constitutions are necessary. Norms, rituals, laws, the whole list of ways that we say, out of the universe of possible behaviors, we’re going to draw a relatively small circle around the acceptable ones. …He said the group structure is necessary to defend the group from itself. Group structure exists to keep a group on target, on track, on message, on charter, whatever. To keep a group focused on its own sophisticated goals and to keep a group from sliding into these basic patterns. Group structure defends the group from the action of its own members.”

paidcontent.org: “Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) understandably does not want to collect state sales taxes—and in order to avoid them it’s cutting loose thousands of marketing affiliates who link to Amazon products on their sites in exchange for a cut of sales (See examples of links to the left). The company said Monday that it had terminated its affiliate program in Rhode Island, because a new law there would force companies to collect sales taxes if they have marketing affiliates based in the state, according to the WSJ. That follows a similar move by the company in North Carolina on Friday. Amazon is also fighting a third law in New York.”

IE8: “One Size Doesn’t Fit All”

Dion Almaer: “IE8 is certainly leaps and bounds better than IE6, but neither claiming to support nor actually supporting the functionality of Firefox’s top add-ons is the best way to compete with Firefox’s add-ons ecosystem. Web slices sound delicious, but my personal opinion is that most new features of web browsers today should be implemented as add-ons and not as core features.”

“Implementation Focus: Squarespace”

Yahoo! User Interface Blog: “At the time the decision was made, YUI was the best choice. YUI is a well-designed library that considered the requirements of multiple scenarios, not limiting itself to one or two use cases. It was also one of the few libraries that had an integrated and supported set of widgets. …Also, the fact that YUI is actively maintained and tested so extensively with the Yahoo! homepage is a massive win. No other library we looked at was receiving that sort of extensive testing and coverage. When we have run into speed issues, it’s turned out to be cross-browser issues unrelated to our use of YUI.”

“YUI 3.0.0 beta 1 Available for Download”

Yahoo! User Interface Blog: “This release takes YUI 3 out of its preview phase and brings its APIs to a near-final state. For those intending to implement YUI 3, the 3.0.0 beta 1 release is a good place to begin the transition. If you’ve been working with the latest preview release, George Puckett has provided a comprehensive 3.0.0 beta 1 changelog to guide you. We look forward to hearing your feedback as you begin working with 3.0.0 beta 1, and we’ll work hard to address that feedback as we prepare for a GA release in the coming months.”

“JSON Hijacking”

A Ninja on Fire: “There’s a post at the Mozilla Developer Center which states that object and array initializers should not invoke setters when evaluated, which at this point, I tend to agree with, though a comment to that post argues that perhaps browsers really shouldn’t execute scripts regardless of their content type, which is also a valid complaint. …It seems to me that to be secure by default, the default behavior for accessing JSON should probably be POST and you should opt-in to GET, rather than the other way around as is done with the current client libraries. What do you think? And how do other platforms you’ve worked with handle this? I’d love to hear your thoughts.”

“Firefox’s Command Line Web Interface Gets More Natural”

Webmonkey: “The Ubiquity add-on for Firefox is a ‘command line interface for the web’. It enables you to interact with web services like Google search, Twitter, Yelp, Delicious and Gmail, as well as perform searches on content sites like Amazon, Wikipedia and Flickr. Ubiquity enables you to perform specific tasks, like e-mail a link to a Gmail contact, post a tweet or check the weather, all with just a few keystrokes.”

Rethabile Masilo: “I was fifteen, but I remember the events of 16 June 1976 like it was last week. Black kids rose against the Apartheid state in South Africa, and refused Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in schools. They stamped their collective foot and said ‘No!’ And their cry shook the world. Police opened fire and the first kid to go down was Hector Pieterson. I know you’ve seen the now famous picture of his limp body in the hands of Mbuyisa Makhubo, his sister running alongside them.” Listen to Angela Davis report on the South Africa of almost 20 years ago in the streaming audio presentation “Angela Davis: A Report from Apartheid South Africa” here in the kinté space.

“English gets millionth word on Wednesday, site says”

CNN.com: “English contains more words than any other language on the planet and added its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.” Get the word count for, say, French and you will see the ethnicity of the English way…

Wikipedia.org Moment: “Cooper”

“Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staved vessels of a conical form, of greater length than breadth, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper’s work include but are not limited to casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins, and breakers. …Cooperage as a namesake …Much like the profession of smithing has produced the popular English surname Smith and the German name Schmidt, the trade of cooperage has also given the English name Cooper, Danish name Bødker, German names like Faßbinder (literally barrel binder), Dutch names like Kuiper or Cuypers, the Hungarian name Kádár, Bodnár, Polish names such as Bednarz, Bednarski or Bednarczyk, the Czech name Bednář, the Romanian names Dogaru and Butnaru, Ukrainian familiy name Bondarenko, Ukrainian/Russian name Bondar, the Jewish name Bodner and the Portuguese names Tanoeiro and Toneleiro.”

international.ucla.edu: “The confluence between Moore’s academic and political life occurred in 1975 when the distinguished African scholar, Cheikh Anta Diop, invited him to take up residence in Senegal and assist with several political projects.  One of these involved the setting up of a World Black Researchers Association (WBRA), in 1976.  He remained in Senegal until 1980.”

“Dr. Carlos Moore—Roots”

drcarlosmoore.com: “An ethnologist and political scientist with two doctorates from the prestigious University of Paris-7, France, Carlos Moore was banished for three decades from his native Cuba as a result of his opposition to the racial policies of the Castro regime. Fluent in five languages, he lived and worked in many lands throughout his 34-year exile, and traveled extensively on ethnological research projects in South-east Asia, Africa and the South Pacific. His political and professional career began in 1962 when, aged nineteen, he was recruited into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a translator in the Asian Division.”

“‘Apartheid In Cuba’ by Eduardo Montes-Bradley”

youtube.com: “A Film In Progress by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. Carlos Moore speaks openly on racial tensions and discrimination in Fidel Castro’s Cuba since the beginning of the Revolution.”