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96-year-old Harlem woman gives Mayor de Blasio an earful at town hall meeting
By CeFaan Kim
HARLEM (WABC) -- It was the Mayor's town hall meeting at the Police Athletic League in East Harlem, but it was a 96-year-old woman who stole the show.
"I want some service for the people of this city! I want service for everybody! We need service now! Thank you. Sidewalks, I like that. Sidewalks for everybody," said Catherine Nixon, Harlem resident.
96-year-old Nixon gave Mayor de Blasio an earful Wednesday night.
See the confrontation at 2:47:00 in the video
"The sidewalk to go across the street is so bumpy I have to go out in the middle of the street to get across to the other side. So what is going on? We're going to work on, are there no, I got you, are there no, listen, are there no inspectors?" Nixon said.
"You see this walker? I have worn out three or four walkers," Nixon told Eyewitness News exclusively on Thursday night in Harlem.
Nixon wasn't done. Not even close.
"Sidewalks all over the city need fixing!" Nixon said.
She's putting the mayor on notice.
"He came to my church when he was running. And he hasn't been back to say thank you," Nixon said.
This Harlem woman, born and raised, says there are serious issues facing her community.
"If he fixed these sidewalks for you would he have your vote for re-election?" Eyewitness News asked.
"If he takes care of these shelters. These shelters, not the bus shelters. I'm talking about the shelters where the people live. They're paying a whole lot of money for the people to live in a shelter. They could take that money and put them in an apartment! It's terrible how they treat these people. It's terrible," Nixon said.
Nixon says she wasn't angry last night.
This World War I baby, she says she's concerned.
"I was a thorn in the Board of Ed though, I'll tell you that," Nixon said.
At 96 years young, she is still active.
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Apple Holding Separate iPhone Media Event In Beijing On Sept. 11
by Joe White
Apple is indeed planning on holding an iPhone-themed media event at its Cupertino, Calif. headquarters on Sept. 10, 2013, as anticipated. However, according to a number of Chinese language news publications, Apple is also said to be hosting one further event in Beijing, China on Sept. 11, in a move potentially indicative of a low-cost "iPhone 5C" handset. Sina Tech, for example, has published the above invitation, which is almost identical to the content of Apple's English language invite (below). The date of Apple's China event is Sept. 11, however, and the location is Beijing's World Trade Center. This will be the first time Apple has ever held a standalone event in China, and the move comes following the Cupertino, Calif. company's increasing interest in the country - which is the world's largest smartphone market. Indeed, Apple has yet to truly succeed in the country, though it is believed that the availability of a less expensive Apple-made smartphone in China, referred to as the iPhone 5C, could alter this. The long-rumored handset, then, could be the subject of Apple's Beijing event. As a reminder, the iPhone 5C is expected to launch with a 4-inch screen, a polycarbonate outer shell, less revolutionary internals, and in different colors. Over the course of the last few weeks, a number of images and videos of the purported handset have surfaced online. Though of course, we'll know nothing for certain concerning the anticipated handset until Apple makes an official announcement - either in the United States on Sept. 10, or in China the day after. We'll keep you updated with further information as we receive it. In the meantime, see: Today's Best Apps: Wordly And Da Vinci’s Demons: The Apprentice, AVG PrivacyFix Is Like A Security Suite For Your Online Identity, and Subscribe To A Popular Hearst Magazine And Receive $10 Of iTunes Credit.
Cases For The iPhone 5C And iPhone 5S Make An Early Appearance
Is This The Fingerprint Sensor For The iPhone 5S?
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Aoife Reilly, poetry from the edge of an island
Let the world begin here, belong wherever you are
Lilac and Gooseberries
Recent Residencies, Projects and Readings
I grew up in Laois and currently live on the edge of The Burren in County Galway, Ireland. I studied Irish language and history at University College Dublin before training in primary teaching and then counselling and psychotherapy. I was lucky to be able to travel throughout Africa and other places around the world studying ethnic music and dance. When I moved to the west of Ireland, I started workshops with Kevin Higgins at Galway Arts Centre in 2014 and have been writing ever since. From time to time, I facilitate the Artist’s Way programme and other creative arts projects in Ireland. I’m blessed to have had my poetry published in some of the following lovely inspiring magazines and journals including Crannóg, Boyne Berries, The Curlew, A New Ulster, The Galway Review, Skylight 47, North West Words, ROPES(NUIG) and The Ogham Stone (U.L.) I’m delighted my poems have been short-listed in a number of competitions including The Doolin Poetry Competition(2016), Over The Edge Writer of the Year(2015 ad 2018) and North West Words Poetry Competition(2017). I was selected to read as part of Over The Edge New Irish Writing at Cúirt Festival of Literature in 2016 and then published a pamphlet, Lilac and Gooseberries, thanks to Lapwing Press in March 2017 and hope to publish a first collection in 2020. I completed an artist in residency programme focusing on writing and music at Oficina Stamperia del Notaio in Sicily in July 2018. It was an amazing experience. My work is currently drawn towards the themes of nature and belonging which I’ve explored through outdoor instillation, poetry and collaborative art exhibitions.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gonzaga’s first stay atop the AP Top 25 this season ended following a pair of losses to highly ranked nonconference opponents. Now back at No. 1, the Zags look like they could stay there through the rest of the season.
Gonzaga moved up a spot Monday to begin a second stint at No. 1, both times replacing Duke at the top.
It spent two weeks at No. 1 after beating the Blue Devils to win the Maui Invitational in November, but Mark Few’s team fell out after a December loss to Tennessee. Then came a loss at North Carolina, marking the first time the Bulldogs had lost back-to-back games since February 2014.
But Gonzaga (27-2, 14-0 West Coast Conference) hasn’t lost since. And the Zags are a national powerhouse rolling through a league ranked as the eighth best in the country by KenPom.
The Zags have won 18 straight games with no opponent coming closer than a dozen points, the last game being Saturday’s 102-68 victory over BYU. They play their final two regular-season games on the road at Pacific on Thursday and Saint Mary’s on Saturday in rematches of games Gonzaga won by a combined 79 points.
For the record, the final AP poll of the season runs March 18, the day after Selection Sunday.
ACC’S TOP TIER
The Atlantic Coast Conference is hoarding spots in the top five.
Virginia (24-2) moved up one slot to No. 2 and had 15 first-place votes, while the Blue Devils (24-3) slid from No. 1 to third. That came after Duke lost at home to rival North Carolina in a game that saw freshman star Zion Williamson go down with an injury to his right knee in the opening minute — complete with the image of his left foot tearing through his shoe as he fell to the floor.
Duke, which earned a bounceback win at Syracuse without Williamson, still earned three first-place votes.
Virginia and Duke are in a three-way tie atop the ACC with UNC (22-5), which jumped three spots to a season-high fifth behind Kentucky after the victory over Duke followed by a home win against No. 18 Florida State.
The Tar Heels have won 10 of 11, with the loss coming to the Cavaliers — whose only two losses have come to Duke.
Michigan State jumped four spots to No. 6 after winning at rival Michigan. Next came Tennessee, which spent four weeks at No. 1, followed by Houston — which at No. 8 has the program’s highest ranking since Hakeem Olajuwon was starring for the Cougars in 1984.
Michigan and Marquette rounded out the top 10.
KANSAS’ SLIDE
Kansas started the year at No. 1. Now the Jayhawks have their lowest ranking in more than five years.
Kansas fell to No. 15 for the program’s lowest ranking since January 2014. That followed a blowout loss to No. 11 Texas Tech, which was the program’s most lopsided loss in any game since November 2014.
The Jayhawks’ run of 14 straight years with at least a share of the Big 12 regular-season championship is in serious jeopardy.
No. 16 Kansas State and No. 17 Maryland had the biggest jumps of the week, each vaulting seven spots. No. 21 Buffalo joined Michigan State in rising four spots, while UNC, Texas Tech and No. 19 Wisconsin each climbed three.
In all, 12 teams moved up in the new poll.
Nevada (25-2) had the biggest tumble, sliding six spots to No. 12 after losing at San Diego State. Kansas slid three spots, while five other teams fell one or two spots.
PROGRAM DEBUT
Wofford checked in at No. 24 for the first AP poll appearance in program history. The Terriers (24-4) are 16-0 in the Southern Conference and their only losses have come against power-conference teams UNC, Oklahoma, Kansas and Mississippi State.
While Wofford was a first-timer, the other two new additions to this week’s poll are familiar faces.
Cincinnati returned at No. 23 after spending a week at No. 25 earlier this month. And Washington claimed the final spot at No. 25, the same ranking the Huskies had in the preseason poll before falling out.
Still, that was significantly more change than last week, when no new teams joined the Top 25 for the first time all season.
FALLING OUT
Reigning national champion Villanova (No. 17), Louisville (No. 18) and Iowa State (No. 19) fell out of the poll.
This marks the third time this season the Wildcats have fallen out of the poll. They were No. 9 in the preseason before falling out for a week in November. They returned for three weeks, fell out for four, then returned for a six-week run.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Missy Peterson hit a deep 3-pointer with 2.3 seconds left to lift Washington to a stunning 68-67 upset of No. 11 Oregon State in the Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinals on Friday night.
The victory continued the Huskies’ shocking run as they became the first 11-seed to reach the semifinals since 2012 when Washington State did it. Next up is seventh-ranked Stanford.
With the game tied at 65, Peterson inbounded the ball and got it right back five feet behind the 3-point line draining the 3-pointer. She fell down raising both fists in the air in excitement as her teammates jumped on her. The officials reviewed the play and gave a technical foul to Hannah Johnson for coming off the bench with time still on the clock.
Aleah Goodman hit the free throws from the technical foul, but then her final shot from well behind the 3-point line was short at the buzzer setting off a wild celebration from the Huskies.
Amber Melgoza scored 21 points and Peterson had 19 for the Huskies (11-20).
Trailing 55-53 midway through the fourth quarter, Peterson hit consecutive 3-pointers during an 8-0 run that gave Washington its biggest lead of the game. Joanna Grymek got Oregon State within four with 4:10 left. Melgoza hit a floater in the lane to make it 63-57 with just under 2 minutes left.
Oregon State scored six of the next seven points to get within 64-63 after Mikayla Pivac hit two free throws with 19.5 seconds left. Melgoza converted the second of two free throws a second later to make it a two-point game. Pivec answered with a spinning layup with 4.9 seconds left setting up the crazy finish.
This was the second year in a row that Oregon State (24-7) lost as a three-seed in its opening game of the tournament.
The Beavers were up 14 points in the second quarter before Washington scored the final 10 points of the half to close to 37-33 at the break. Darcy Reese, who hit just seven 3-pointers on the season, made four in the first half. She finished the game with 16 points and 10 rebounds.
The Huskies continued that run and took a 51-46 lead late in the third quarter before the Beavers scored the final five points, including a 3-pointer from the top of the key just before the buzzer by Pivic that tied the game, setting up the exciting final quarter.
Pivec finished with 23 points and 11 rebounds for Oregon State (24-7).
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Cleveland, Ohio, was chosen for the site of the museum in part because Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed was said to have coined the term “rock and roll.”
1995: Rock Solid
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens
With exhibits looking at, say, the life and music of Elvis Presley or the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aims to celebrate rock music in all its forms. Founded by Jann Wenner, longtime editor of Rolling Stone magazine, the site also collects and preserves rock music through its educational programs and archives.
For years before the actual museum existed, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation nominated musicians to be part of the Hall of Fame. One qualification: artists are only eligible for induction 26 years after their first recording. Those fortunate enough to be inducted have their names added to a spire inside the spectacular glass pyramid designed by architect I.M. Pei.
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Global Research on US and EU Sponsored Fascist Regime in Ukraine
Okay, I’m afraid I haven’t done much blogging this week. That’s partly due to my having picked up some kind of germ that was going round. It left you feeling completely drained of energy, and feeling that you were almost going to come down with a bout of diarrhoea and sickness. Mercifully, I didn’t. A lot of people in our area have had it, and all except one or two have managed to have avoid getting diarrhoea. It’s nasty, but it also seems to be over in a couple of days.
This is about something else that’s nasty, but unfortunately hasn’t been over in a couple of days. I’ve been blogging a lot about the resurgence of Fascism in eastern Europe, including Ukraine. One of the pieces I put up was about the Pravy Sektor – the infamous ‘Right Sector’ group of Ukrainian extreme Right-wing groups, including ‘Svoboda’, whose name means ‘Freedom’, but are probably more accurately described by their old monicker, the Social Nationalist Movement. Yep, they’re a bunch of Nazis. And the current Ukrainian regime includes them as one of its coalition partners, and seems very happy indeed with the extreme violence, intimidation and brutality it metes out, especially to ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking Ukrainians.
This is another video presenting the case that the regime change, the ‘Orange Revolution’ in Maidan Square in 2013, which overthrew President Yanukovych, wasn’t entirely a popular revolution, but a carefully orchestrated piece of geopolitics by the US and EU to install a client regime as the Ukrainian government. Yanukovych had committed the cardinal sin of signing a treaty providing for closer relations, both political and commercial, with Putin’s Russia. This could not be tolerated by the governments in Washington and Brussels, and so Yanukovych was toppled, fleeing to Russia with Putin.
This is at times a very hard video to watch. It’s not short, at about 1 hour 25 minutes long, and shows scenes of very graphic violence. Many of these will be familiar from some of the other videos I’ve posted up, such as the masked, uniformed figures of Svoboda and their Nazi regalia – the Wolfsangel SS Rune on their sleeves for example – marching amongst the crowd. It shows them holding torchlight marches – almost exactly like those staged in the Third Reich by the Nazis – chanting the names of Stepan Bandera and another Nationalist hero, along with cries of ‘Death to the Communists’ and ‘Death to the Russians’. At one point the marchers are shown chanting a slogan about sticking Russian heads on spikes.
There’s also footage of the snipers from Svoboda shooting and killing unarmed demonstrators in Maidan Square, in an atrocity that was falsely ascribed by Obama and the Western media to Yanukovych. It also shows the attack on the trade union headquarters by Svoboda thugs, in which something like 45 people were burned alive, while others were beaten, and thrown out of the building’s windows. As they fell, their attackers joked about how ‘Negroes are falling!’ The documentary also includes an interview from Russian television, RT, with a young woman, who was one of the survivors of the attack. She was part of a peace camp, and she and the others were chased into the building by the storm troopers. Other victims included people in unarmed demonstrations, shot and killed by retreating state security forces.
Some of the victims were dissenting journalists and politicians. There’s a clip of one of the senior journos in one of the Ukrainian papers being roughed up by the minister for looking after the country’s ethnic minorities, at the head of another mob of thugs. He was angry as the newsman had published photos of the stormtroopers beating up civilians. One opposition politician was pelted with eggs, and savagely beaten. His attackers even attacked the ambulance crew that came to help him. There are also scenes from inside the Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. An opposition politico takes the chair to voice extremely trenchant criticism of the government and its policies. Immediately, other politicos and officials start running to the lectern to force him.
In many of these attacks, the police either do nothing, or are actively involved. There are scenes showing senior police officers in very chummy conversation with the masked and uniformed Nazis surrounding them about beating and murdering protestors.
This is also a regime, which doesn’t even bother to hide its Nazi sympathies. Another piece of footage shows members of the government at one of the national monuments making speeches praising Bandera, the Nazis and Hitler himself. They’re greeted in their turn by angry shouts and chants from a pro-Soviet crowd just behind the barrier. There’s also a leaked phone conversation from the Ukrainian politicians and Oligarch’s wife, Yulia Timoshenko, to another government official describing what she’d like to do ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking Ukrainians: nuke them, and then kill them all.
So what’s the US and EU’s response to the beatings, mass murder and repression? Active collusion with the regime, and smooth denials to the international press and Congress that there is any kind of ethnic cleansing being done by the regime. Or that if there is, is all the fault of the Russkies under Putin. There’s that notorious phone call between Victoria Nuland and another state department official, effectively fixing who she wants in the Ukrainian cabinet. One of the members she explicitly mentions, Oleh Tiahnybok, is the head of Svoboda. There’s also the phone call between the Estonian minister, Urmas Paet to Baroness Ashcroft about the shooting of unarmed civilians by Svoboda snipers, in which Ashcroft sounds distinctly uncomfortable. This is not stuff she really wanted to hear. And the lies go all the way to the top. It’s not just Nuland in the state department, nor Psaki, a Whitehouse spokeswoman, but also John Kerry and Obama. All of whom tell the press, and some critical US congressmen, that Ukraine is a free, democratic country that’s not oppressing anyone.
This is demonstrably untrue. The video also shows footage of Ukrainian troops entering Russian-speaking towns in the east of the country, firing on and killing unarmed civilians. There are also shown occupying a polling station to prevent the local people voting for independence. Again, when the local people march to claim their right to vote, they open fire. One young lad is horribly shot in the leg. This scene is cut with Kerry telling the ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth Estate that no-one was being prevented from voting, the elections were completely fair, and that the reason why turn-out was so low is that nobody turned out to vote. Again, that’s another lie, as the video shows a massive turn out of Russian-Ukrainians of all ages, taking the opportunity to vote for a federal Ukrainian. This is something else that’s anathema to the Ukrainian puppet regime and its masters in Washington. Obama and Kerry stand in front of the microphones and cameras claiming that the polls by the people in the eastern part of the country demanding their own separatist, autonomous enclave, lack democratic support. Of course, the video argues that the opposite is the case. It is the American-installed regime that lacks the democratic mandate.
The Fascist regime and Obama also try to claim that the demands for a separate Russian-speaking enclave in the Donbas region is due to the machinations of Putin. It isn’t. They claim that these were only made after the Ukrainian government sent the troops into the Russian-speaking areas to intimidate them. Obama, Kerry and Nuland also claim that the reason Crimea voted to join with Russia was due to the intimidation of the Russian forces there. In fact, the voting in the Crimea was much fairer and far less rigged, due to the presence of the Russians as observers.
One of the other tactics the Ukrainian regime has also tried to use to smear its enemies is accusations of anti-Semitism. The Donbas separatists were supposed to be going to pass a law demanding Jews register with the authorities. There is, horrifically, much anti-Semitism in Russia, just as there is in the rest of the former eastern bloc. But this was a lie, and soon had to be dropped as too many people knew it was.
As for the Russians, Putin is, it seems, this time the maligned one. Rather than seeking to overthrow a democratic regime or dismember a rival, and disobedient nation, the opposite is true. He’s been forced to act because a democratically elected regime was overthrown at the behest of an outside power – Washington, and the oppression of his own ethnic group by the resulting Fascist regime. And Putin has every right to do so under international law. Putin’s a nasty piece of work himself, but this time, he’s the victim, not the aggressor.
And it’s not just Russians, who are the victims. some of the groups beaten and shot at by the goose-steppers are, it is claimed, just severely normal Ukrainians. And one fact both Washington and Kiev want to cover up is that many of the original Maidan protestors don’t want the ruling president. They wanted to throw out Yanukovych, but they are very definitely not supporters of his successors.
The video lastly claims the reason Washington has set up this puppet regime, and is attempting to demonise Putin, is because Putin has defied America’s attempts to become the only world super-power, and is successfully competing with the Land of the Free in what it sees as a ‘multi-polar’ world – one in which there are various competing powers, not all subject to American domination. And so here there are shots of Putin with other world leaders, including those of Iran.
The video is by a group calling itself Global Research, based in Quebec, Canada. It’s an interesting video which presents a compelling case. I think some scepticism is necessary in the way it presents Putin. He’s not ‘whiter-than-white’ innocent. His regime itself is extremely authoritarian, and it has also responded to critics and dissenting journalists with violence and murder. The same for many of the regimes with whom he is shown doing business. But this time, it really does seem that he is not responsible for the current outbreak of ethnic violence and repression. It’s the fault of the governing elites in Washington and Brussels, safe and comfortable thousands of miles away from the horror they’ve unleashed further east.
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12-Billion-Year-Old White Dwarf Only 100 Light-Years Away
April 16, 2012 astronewsus Leave a comment
A University of Oklahoma assistant professor and colleagues have identified two white dwarf stars considered the oldest and closest known to man. Astronomers identified these 11- to 12-billion-year-old white dwarf stars only 100 light years away from Earth. These stars are the closest known examples of the oldest stars in the Universe forming soon after the Big Bang, according to the OU researcher.
Mukremin Kilic, assistant professor of physics and astronomy in the OU College of Arts and Sciences and lead author on a recently published paper, announced the discovery. Kilic says, “A white dwarf is like a hot stove; once the stove is off, it cools slowly over time. By measuring how cool the stove is, we can tell how long it has been off. The two stars we identified have been cooling for billions of years.”
Full Story: http://www.ou.edu/content/publicaffairs/archives/WhiteDwarfStars.html
Categories: Astronomy, Cosmology, General Astronomy, Stars, White Dwarves Tags: Nature, news, science, space
Exoplanet Orbits Suggest Solar System Structure Is the Norm
The EXOEarths team (Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto – CAUP), in collaboration with Geneva University, did a joint analysis of data from the HARPS spectrograph and the Kepler satellite. This analysis revealed that the orbits of other planetary systems are aligned, like in a disk, just like in our own Solar System.
Recently, the HARPS spectrograph and the Kepler satellite made a census of the planetary population around stars like our own, revealing a bounty of planetary systems. A follow-up study lead by members of the EXOEarths team (Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto – CAUP), in collaboration with Geneva University, did a joint analysis of the data which showed that the planetary orbits in a system are strongly aligned, like in a disk, just as we have in our own solar system.
Full Story: http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=119192&CultureCode=en
Categories: Astronomy, Exoplanets, General Astronomy, Star & Solar System Formation Tags: Nature, news, science, space
Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star
Image Credits: ESA/Herschel/PACS/Bram Acke, KU Leuven, Belgium
ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets every day.
Fomalhaut is a young star, just a few hundred million years old, and twice as massive as the Sun. Its dust belt was discovered in the 1980s by the IRAS satellite, but Herschel’s new images of the belt show it in much more detail at far-infrared wavelengths than ever before.
Bram Acke, at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and colleagues analysed the Herschel observations and found the dust temperatures in the belt to be between –230 and –170ºC. However, because Fomalhaut is slightly off-centre and closer to the southern side of the belt, the southern side is warmer and brighter than the northern side.
Full Story: http://www.esa.int/export/esaSC/SEM1XBHWP0H_index_0.html
Categories: Agencies & Organisations, Astronomy, ESA (European Space Agency), General Astronomy, Observatories & Facilities, Star & Solar System Formation, Stars Tags: ESA, Fomalhaut, Nature, news, science, space
‘Cosmic Mirages’ Confirm Accelerated Cosmic Expansion
An international team of researchers led by Masamune Oguri at Kavli IPMU and Naohisa Inada at Nara National College of Technology conduced an unprecedented survey of gravitationally lensed quasars, and used it to measure the expansion history of the universe. The result provides strong evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. There were several observations that suggested the accelerated cosmic expansion, including distant supernovae for which the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded. The team’s result confirms the accelerated cosmic expansion using a completely different approach, which strengthens the case for dark energy. This result will be published in The Astronomical Journal.
Full Story: http://www.ipmu.jp/node/1281
Categories: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, General Astronomy, Quasars Tags: Nature, news, science, space, universe
Astrophysicist & Human-Rights Activist Fang Lizhi Dies at 76
Fang Lizhi, a major voice for human rights and democracy and a pioneering scientist in his native China, continued to advance the field of astrophysics at the UA for more than 20 years before he died last week.
Human rights activist Fang Lizhi, who died last week at age 76, had been a professor in the University of Arizona department of physics and an adjunct professor with the UA’s Steward Observatory for more than 20 years, where he made highly regarded contributions to astrophysics.
Fang was world renowned for his outspoken and active role in promoting human rights in his native China.
Considered an “undesirable element” by the Chinese government, Fang was dismissed from the Chinese nuclear program and reassigned in 1958 to the University of Science and Technology of China, or USTC, which is regarded as China’s equivalent of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Full Story: http://uanews.org/node/46176
Categories: Astronomy, Astrophysics, General Astronomy, Obituaries Tags: China, Fang Lizhi, massachusetts institute of technology, news, science, space
Space Shuttle Discovery to Fly Over Washington Metro Area April 17
NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Discovery mounted atop will fly approximately 1,500 feet above various parts of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, April 17.
The flight, in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration, is scheduled to occur between 10 and 11 a.m. EDT. NASA Television and the agency’s web site will provide live coverage.
The exact route and timing of the flight depend on weather and operational constraints. However, the aircraft is expected to fly near a variety of landmarks in the metropolitan area, including the National Mall, Reagan National Airport, National Harbor and the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center. When the flyover is complete, the SCA will land at Dulles International Airport.
Full Story: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/apr/HQ_M12-062_SCA_Discovery_Flight_DC.html
Categories: Agencies & Organisations, Manned Spaceflight, NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration), Space Shuttle, Spaceflight Tags: D.C., Discovery, Dulles International Airport., NASA, NASA Television, NASA TV, news, science, space, space shuttle, Washington
SDO and STEREO Spot Something New On the Sun
One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does – look through the daily images of the sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
But on this day he saw something he’d never noticed before: a pattern of cells with bright centers and dark boundaries occurring in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona. These cells looked somewhat like a cell pattern that occurs on the sun’s surface — similar to the bubbles that rise to the top of boiling water — but it was a surprise to find this pattern higher up in the corona, which is normally dominated by bright loops and dark coronal holes.
Sheeley discussed the images with his Naval Research Laboratory colleague Harry Warren, and together they set out to learn more about the cells. Their search included observations from a fleet of NASA spacecraft called the Heliophysics System Observatory that provided separate viewpoints from different places around the sun. They describe the properties of these previously unreported solar features, dubbed “coronal cells,” in a paper published online in The Astrophysical Journal on March 20, 2012 that will appear in print on April 10.
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Extra Dose of Insulin After Eating May Improve Heart Health
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June 28, 2017 by Alex O’Meara
A second smaller dose of insulin after eating is a simple way people with type 1 diabetes can cut cardiovascular risk, according to a small study in the UK. The catch, however, is that people with type 1 diabetes have to rethink how they use insulin and how it interacts with food.
“Looking at the science makes you realize this makes complete sense,” says Dr. Matthew Campbell, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Nutrition at Leeds Beckett University, who co-authored the results of the study. “Living with type 1 diabetes is difficult. But, this study shows a simple, pragmatic step that can be taken that we think will improve health.”
The study published in Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research on June 5, shows that taking a dose of insulin three hours after eating a meal high in fat helped reduce fat and inflammatory markers in the blood that lead to cardiovascular problems later in life. The study is significant because, according to the International Diabetes Foundation, the leading cause of death among both type 1 and type 2 diabetics is cardiovascular disease as a complication of diabetes.
The study signals a new way of considering how insulin interacts with food. Typically, fast-acting insulin is taken before or with a meal and the amount taken is synched to the carbohydrate content of the meal. But, according to Campbell, that’s not the only impact that insulin has on the food a person eats. And, he learned of this in the most straightforward way possible.
“Originally, I came across this when I was out to dinner with a friend who has type 1 diabetes,” Campbell said. “In addition to their usual insulin dose, they took a second dose of insulin after the meal and it was timed and taken to account for the fat content in the meal, in addition to the carbohydrate content.”
Campbell, who specializes in researching nutrition and diabetes, was intrigued by his dinner companion’s dosing regime. But, when taking a closer inspection of what had previously been researched—the implications of postprandial insulin (that is, insulin taken after eating) and how it impacted metabolizing fat in the bloodstream—he was surprised to find that there very little information to support such a dosing strategy.
The topic of postprandial insulin was not something unknown to Campbell, and not only because he was an expert in nutrition and diabetes. A small study in 2016 again by Campbell found that a bolus injection of rapid-acting insulin three hours after a meal high in carbs and fat prevented hyperglycemia—or high blood sugar—as well as preventing hypoglycemia compared simply by taking insulin before a meal and counting only carbs.
That study was not typical, Campbell says. That’s because fat content in food is not often talked about when researchers and caregivers educate people with diabetes on how to administer insulin to control their blood sugar before, during, and after meals.
“Many people with type 1 diabetes struggle to regulate their blood sugar levels around mealtimes, because the fat content in their food is metabolized after their standard insulin injection has lost its potency or has left their blood,” Campbell says. This led him to move on from the study in 2016 to investigating the role of fat content and insulin and how it impacts cardiovascular health. “Most meals in a typical UK diet have a high fat content, and slower metabolism of this fat can lead to raised blood sugar levels—with risk of hyperglycemia—and also higher levels of fat and inflammatory markers in the blood, which increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.”
For the clinical trial on the effect of insulin on reducing fat and inflammatory markers Campbell tested 10 individuals living with type 1 diabetes. Each of the men were given a low fat meal. The next two meals had the same carb count but were higher in fat. In the first of those two high fat meals, the subjects took a standard pre-meal dose of insulin based on the carb count in the meal. For the second high fat meal the subjects added a dose of one-third of the pre-meal dose of insulin three hours after eating. The blood test six hours after eating that meal revealed glucose, fat, and inflammatory markers that were similar to the levels tested after the low fat meal.
“The insulin three hours after eating was really beneficial,” Campbell says. “What’s more interesting is that even though the sample size was very small, it’s fairly representative of the results we would expect in a larger sample.”
Additionally, the subjects in the test were in good cardiovascular health. That’s also a good indicator because, according to Campbell, people with poorer cardiovascular health may show greater improvements than the ten men in the study demonstrated.
He says the next step will be to do conduct a larger clinical trial of perhaps 1,000 subjects or more to confirm the findings in the small study.
“This is important because it’s something that can be done easily, and directly, by people with type 1 diabetes to improve their own health,” Campbell says. “It only involves making a subtle adjustment, and not a huge, crude change, to how people are already treating their diabetes. And that little change can save lives, and improve quality of life.”
Alex O’Meara
Alex was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 36 years ago. Since then he has run six marathons – the first when we was 15 – and the latest a few years ago. In 2006 Alex underwent islet cell transplant and was, for some time, insulin independent. He now lives in Southeastern Arizona where he is working on a novel, teaching college English, pursuing a Master’s degree, and training to run his first 50 mile race.
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Ski.com press room
Ski.com Hires Rebecca Sharpe as Vice President, Operations
Kris McKinnon Appointed to Vice President, Sales and Business Development
Aspen, Colo. – February 14, 2014 –Ski.com today announced that Rebecca Sharpe is joining Ski.com as vice president, operations. In this role, Sharpe will lead Ski.com’s operations team and its vendor relationships with the ski travel industry’s largest inventory of mountain accommodations, ski resorts, car rental and ground transportation companies, equipment rental providers and off-mountain activities outfitters.
Kris McKinnon will now serve as vice president, sales and business development. In this new role, McKinnon will support and train Ski.com’s Mountain Vacation Specialists, and she will be responsible for cultivating new relationships with vendors and companies that would benefit from using Ski.com’s proprietary event and reservations software, booking and packaging technologies and inventory.
“Rebecca brings with her more than two decades of invaluable travel industry experience, a distinguished reputation and a congenial personality,” said Harry Peisach, Ski.com president and CEO. “We are excited and proud to announce that Rebecca is joining the Ski.com family and we look forward to benefiting from her expertise.”
Sharpe comes to Ski.com from Travelocity where she worked for the past 10 years, most recently as senior regional manager. While at Travelocity, she led teams of market managers and support staff who managed the company’s relationships with hotel, destination and activity suppliers. She also oversaw ski and mountain travel throughout North America for Travelocity, and she collaborated with the company’s media representatives on paid advertising campaign sales efforts and strategic partnership development. Prior to that, Sharpe served as manager, supplier development from 1996 to 2003 at Cendant Corporation, where she negotiated contracts and managed marketing and merchandising for cruise line, hotel and tour operator partners.
Sharpe serves on the board of the Ski Tour Operators Association of America and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Denison University. She will start at Ski.com at the end of March after she and her husband George relocate to the Roaring Fork Valley from Winter Park, Colo.
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Headquartered in Aspen, Colo., Ski.com is the largest provider of mountain travel in North America and a leading developer of travel-related booking and reservations software. Ski.com is the only travel company specializing in mountain destinations to offer the unsurpassed first-hand knowledge and experience needed to present travelers the most options at the best value. The company has the largest mountain lodging inventory, offers the most ski-related package components in the travel industry and customizes complete vacations to 100 of the most popular resorts in the United States, Canada, Europe and South America.
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Home » Labor Leader » Yadav, Laloo Prasad
Yadav, Laloo Prasad
Currently alive, at 71 years of age.
1948 – Born in Goplagani, Bihar on the 11th of June.
1970 – He led the student movement inspired by Jai Prakash Narayan.
1973 – On the 1st of June, he was married to Rabri Devi, who also went on to become the Chief Minister of Bihar.
1977 – The former Chief Minister of Bihar leader Late Satyendra Narayan Sinha, placed him as a candidate for the Lok Sabha and campaigned for him.
1989 – He became a formidable force in Bihar State Politics, and he successfully led the National Front coalition in Bihar.
1990 – He was elected the Chief Minister leaving behind Ram Sundar Das, a former chief minister from Janata Party when the Party came to power.
1997 – He formed the Rashtriya Janata Dal RJD.
2001 – On the 26th of November, he was again remanded, in a case related to the Fodder scam.
2004 – He announced that he would travel by the Railways to get a firsthand experience of the problems faced by the Indian public and went on to make an inspection of the Patna railway station at midnight.
2005 – His party, the RJD could win just 54 seats, which put his party in third place, after the Janata Dal
United and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Bishopsgate Institute Podcast: Gothic London - City of the Deranged and Disorderly Dead
In this talk Roger Luckhurst discusses how the Gothic genre in the 19th century moved steadily from the wild and exotic margins into the streets of the metropolis. Starting with Dickens, this new urban Gothic culminates with Stevenson's Mr Hyde in his Soho lair and Count Dracula in Piccadilly, at the very heart of the empire. The talk also considers the recent London Gothic revival, looking at work by Kim Newman, Christopher Fowler, Conrad Williams and Iain Sinclair. Roger Luckhurst is Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck. As well as writing books on subjects such as J. G. Ballard, telepathy, and science fiction, he has edited Late Victorian Gothic Tales and Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for Oxford World's Classics, and is currently researching late Victorian and Edwardian mummy curses in London.
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Usher Reveals His Son Is A Diabetic: “This Year Has Been Really One Of My Hardest”
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Usher may be all smiles on TV but the superstar and father of two revealed that he’s been going through a lot behind closed doors. During an interview on the “TODAY” show this week, the “Confessions” singer said the past 12 months has been the most difficult time of his life.
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“This year has been really one of my hardest years,” he shared. “I lost my grandmother, my son was diagnosed as being a type one diabetic. It has definitely been a difficult one for me.”
“The Voice” judge went on to say that he does everything possible to make sure his son, who suffers from Type 1 Diabetes, is healthy and sticking to his dietary requirements. “Sometimes you’re looking at me and we’re off camera, and I’m online looking at numbers, trying to make sure he’s eating properly. It’s crazy,” he said.
According the American Diabetes Association, in type 1 diabetes “the body does not produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life. With the help of insulin therapy and other treatments, even young children can learn to manage their condition and live long, healthy lives.”
The R&b/pop star didn’t reveal which son was diagnosed with the blood sugar disease, but we do know he has two kids with ex-wife Tameka Foster, 6-year-old Usher V and 5-year-old Naviyd.
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France vs Norway Betting Predictions 12/06/2019
Added on June 11, 2019 Category Football Tips
France vs Norway Football Betting Prediction
In one of the several games of this day of Wednesday and that closes this afternoon of matches of the Women’s World Cup Referring to the second round of the group stage (group A) to be played in the city of Nice at the Allianz Riviera Stadium, they play the formation of Women’s France and the formation of Women’s Norway, in what will be the first game between the two teams since 2017.
France W: Form of the moment, the latest results, statistics
The women’s team of France enters this matchday 2 of the group stage of the Women’s World Championship after a very categorical triumph on the opening day of the competition, as they beat South Korea’s women’s squad 4-0 at a meeting in which the Gauls dominated the game by going through the interval with a 3-0 win and giving the Asian team no chance.
In case of triumph in this match, the team automatically guarantees the passage to the next stage in the 1st place.
Norway W: Form of the moment, the latest results, statistics
As for the women’s team from Norway, enter this match of the second round in the World Championship after a triumph also categorical in the opening day of the competition, beating the women’s team of Nigeria by 3 balls to 0, in a meeting where the Nordics were essentially effective in terms of the most blatant opportunities created (they finished 75% of the shots with the Nigerian goal), still benefiting from an own goal from Ohale.
Our Football Prediction France vs Norway
Although both teams have made very good victories in the opening match of this group stage, I would still say that the French side will be favorites to win in this match, not only taking into account the theoretical quality of its players but also due to the house factor itself, which will benefit the local team and may deconcentrate visitors due to extra psychological pressure.
Betting Prediction: France AH-1
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Economics, Governance
Geopolitics and President Moon’s Economic Policy Development
July 18, 2017, by Evan Ramstad
South Korea’s New President, in Trying to Develop Economic Policy, is Caught up in Geopolitics.
South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in, in his first two months in office is trying to ease the country’s relations with North Korea just as his liberal predecessors, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, sought to do. Moon opened the door to negotiations and even a summit with the North’s Kim Jong-un, but he has also spoken critically of the North’s missile tests and, with a missile firing and flyovers conducted with the United States, flexed the South’s military muscles.
Moon’s economic strategy is unfolding in a similar manner, with ideas that are like those of the progressive leaders past and some tactics that show he recognizes when difficult choices are needed.
In the brief presidential campaign in March and April, Moon said he would try to bolster the South Korean economy through a massive jobs program with government at the center. He pledged to add 800,000 to the country’s base of 2.3 million public-sector jobs. He also promised a laundry list of government aid, including new payments to parents of children under five, to jobless adults between 18 and 34, and to nearly everyone over 65. Higher taxes on corporations and wealthy individuals would help pay for it all. All those moves befit Moon’s role as the first left-leaning president in nearly a decade.
But since taking office in May, Moon has chiefly focused on North Korea policy and on his first meetings with President Donald Trump in Washington two weeks ago and other world leaders at the Group of 20 (G20) last week. The government did front-load its spending for 2017, with 59 percent disbursed through June 30, in an effort to help the economy. And Moon proposed adding 11 billion won to the 2017 planned total of 281.7 trillion, a supplement lawmakers are still considering and that a surprise jump in first-half tax collections will ease.
Broadly, South Korea at the moment is like other global economic powers, grappling with slow growth and new uncertainties about trade that have been created by the United States under Trump. The South Korean government’s fiscal condition is good. And exports have shown bigger increases than imports this year, chiefly due to memory chips and oil. South Korea is an underappreciated player on the global energy scene, with refinery capacity that serves China as well as its own needs. And its world-leading makers of memory chips, Samsung and SK Hynix, are benefiting from the first simultaneous upturn in the pricing cycle of both kinds of such chips (DRAM and NAND) since 2004. That has created huge surges in revenue and profits for the companies and spikes in their share value that drove an 18 percent first-half gain in the country’s broad-market Kospi index.
Elected on wave of voter discontent about the economy, corruption, and perceptions about unfairness of opportunity, Moon still faces numerous challenges in the South Korean economy that call for more difficult choices than the progressive formula allows. To start, he should not be content with South Korea’s level of growth (below 3 percent this year) or its growth potential. As well, South Koreans’ household debt, shaped in part by education spending, continues to choke discretionary spending and growth of consumption. The country also continues to lag other developed nations in workforce productivity and diversity.
There are signs Moon gets these structural challenges. At the G20 and at various events during his time in Washington, Moon spoke forcefully in favor of free trade, even in the face of Trump’s anger at the post–free trade agreement widening of South Korea’s goods surplus with the United States. He is pushing state-run organizations to change to a “blind” hiring process, meaning managers will no longer be able to ask about academic and family backgrounds and candidates won’t have to submit photos on their resumes. That step may erode some the country’s notorious workplace discrimination, but it won’t really be effective unless Moon extends it by law to the private sector. Moon wants companies to reduce working hours and has even declared that he will take the full 21 days of vacation he is allowed. That’s something no president has ever done and, as a result, in the Korean hierarchical tradition meant that few government officials below president ever took their proper time off. Lee Myung-bak’s government attempted a solution, but Lee didn’t participate and the effects were comical. South Koreans work the longest hours of any developed country, in part because of the pressure to keep up appearances with bosses and colleagues. That’s a big reason they are so inefficient.
With North Korea’s provocations commanding so much attention, it’s doubtful Moon will be able to use the honeymoon days of his term to tackle bigger structural issues, such as labor flexibility, farm subsidies, or the chokehold of South Korea’s large conglomerates, or chaebol, on capital and competitiveness. Moon’s appointee to lead the Korea Fair Trade Commission, Kim Sang-jo, a shareholder rights activist with the nickname “chaebol sniper,” used his first appearance to instead announce the agency wants to regulate two U.S. technology firms, Google and Facebook.
The North Korea matter is at the heart of another complication in the development of economic policy at the start of the Moon presidency. China, South Korea’s largest trading partner, since late last year has systematically penalized the country for its deployment of a U.S. weapons system, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery, or THAAD, meant to defend it from North Korean missiles. In an appearance at CSIS at the end of his trip to Washington, Moon estimated the pressure has cost South Korea $8 billion so far. That’s a relatively small amount for a country with a $1 trillion economy, but it is no doubt an undercount.
China has sharply curtailed issuance of tourist visas to South Korea, a step that could lead to about 4 million fewer visitors this year. (The worst impact has been on Jeju Island, where 3 million Chinese have visited annually in recent years.) Chinese consumers, spurred on by government and nationalist bloggers and media, are boycotting Korean brands. Lotte Group has taken the brunt of the effect, in part because a former Lotte golf course is the site of the first THAAD installation. But earlier this week, Hyundai Motor Group disclosed that it formed an emergency task force to deal with plunging sales in China, which had become its biggest market and where it now produces almost as many cars a year as it does in Korea. Sales by units have been down more than 50 percent for both its Hyundai and Kia brands in China this year, and they were off more than 60 percent for both brands in June. Hyundai’s losses alone in China exceed $4 billion.
Moon confronted Premier Xi Jinping of China about the economic pressure at the G20 and asked him to end it. Xi replied that South Korea should “remove obstacles to the improvement and development of bilateral relations,” a rebuff wrapped in an indirect reference to THAAD.
In the aftermath of North Korea’s July 4 missile launch, many analysts pointed out the limitations of U.S. military options, noting that South Korea would pay the biggest price if the conflict on the peninsula turns into actual fighting. It has always paid some economic price because of the potential for conflict, chiefly in opportunity cost or the so-called Korea discount in stock and bond values. But now South Korea is paying a far bigger cost.
Just as Moon tries to put together strategies for dealing with North Korea and lifting up the South Korean economy, it turns out they are intertwined by the competing priorities of the United States and China. And that’s a much tighter spot than his political role models Kim Dae-jung or Roh Moo-hyun were ever in.
Evan Ramstad is a nonresident senior associate with the CSIS Office of the Korea Chair. He has served as one of the leading analysts of the economic and business scene in Korea. A journalist since 1987, he is currently deputy business editor on the business news desk of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Before that, he was chief Korea correspondent for the Wall Street Journal from 2006 to 2013. He holds a B.A. in political science and journalism from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
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Kaesong Industrial Complex Not Operational Despite Minor Activity November 6, 2017, by Joseph Bermudez and Lisa Collins
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Military, Nuclear Weapons
Undeclared North Korea: The Sangnam-ni Missile Operating Base
February 15, 2019, by Joseph Bermudez, Victor Cha and Lisa Collins
Located 250 kilometers north of the DMZ, Sangnam-ni (상남리) missile operating base is an operational missile base that houses a battalion- or regiment-sized unit equipped with Hwasong-10 (Musudan) intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM).1
The deployment of the Hwasong-10, with 3000+ kilometer ranges, at Sangnam-ni is a component of North Korea’s presumed offensive ballistic missile strategy that provides a strategic-level first strike capability against targets located throughout East Asia as far as U.S. forces in Okinawa and Guam.
The base is defended against by a single anti-aircraft artillery position and nearby surface-to-air missile bases.
Repeated flight failures of the Hwasong-10 may lead to the Strategic Force’s replacing it with the successful Hwasong-12 IRBM (KN-17) or Pukkuksong-2 (KN-15) medium-range-ballistic missiles (MRBM). The Hwasong-12 has a flight range up to 4,500km and the Pukkuksong-2 has an operational flight range estimated at between 1,200km-2,000+ km.
Sangnam-ni is one of approximately 20 North Korean ballistic missile operating bases that has never been declared by North Korea. The base does not appear to be the subject of denuclearization negotiations between the United States and North Korea.
Some have argued that North Korea is under no obligation to declare these operational missiles bases. But ten standing United Nations Security Council Resolutions, including the most recent UNSCR 2397, explicitly ban North Korea from developing and testing ballistic missiles.2
Any potential agreement that decommissions the Tongchang-ri (Sohae) rocket test stand alone would obscure the extant military threat to U.S. forces and South Korea from this and other undeclared ballistic missile bases in this CSIS study.
An overview of the Sangnam-ni missile operating base showing the locations of its major components, December 9, 2018 (Copyright © 2019 by Airbus). Click on each image to view larger size.
A close-up view of the drive-through facility and potential UGF entrances at Sangnam-ni missile operating base, December 9, 2018 (Copyright © 2019 by Airbus).
Sangnam-ni Missile Operating Base
The Sangnam-ni (상남리) missile operating base (40.838977 128.541650) is located within North Korea’s strategic missile belt in Hochon-gun (Hochon County), Hamgyong-namdo (South Hamgyong Province). It sits 310 kilometers northeast of Pyongyang, 250 kilometers north of the demilitarized zone, 390 kilometers northeast of Seoul and 1,130 northwest of Tokyo.3
Disambiguation of references to a reported missile base in Hochon-gun are actually referring to the Sangnam-ni missile operating base. Likewise, references to a missile base at Pochi-ri (포치리) in either Hochon-gun (40.742778, 128.501944) 11 km to the southwest or Pungso-gun, Ryanggang Province, (41.010556, 128.220833) 33 km to the northwest are likely also referring to Sangnam-ni.
Subordinate to the KPA’s Strategic Force (the organization responsible for all ballistic missile units), the Sangnam-ni missile operating base houses a battalion- or regiment-sized unit equipped with Hwasong-10 (Musudan) intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM).4 This unit, with its 3,000+ kilometers range Hwasong-10’s, represents an important component of North Korea’s presumed offensive ballistic missile strategy by providing a strategic-level first strike capability against targets throughout East Asia including the major U.S. bases on Okinawa and potentially Guam.
Until more is known, however, this capability should be characterized as “theoretical” as the Hwasong-10 was deployed to operational units without testing in an “emergency launch capability” mode during the early 2000s.5 Later, in 2016, when KPA units conducted a number of training launches with the system it suffered repeated catastrophic failures.6 These repeated launch/flight failures appear to have resulted in no new launches of the Hwasong-10 since that time. This, in turn, may lead to the Strategic Force’s abandoning the system and replacing it with the more successful Hwasong-12 IRBM or Pukkuksong-2 (KN-15) MRBM. 7 The production status of these newer systems is, however, unknown.
Unlike the Sakkanmol or Sino-ri missile operating bases, reliable open source information concerning the development and operations of the Sangnam-ni base is scarce. What is known is that during the late 1980s and early 1990s, in addition to its construction of forward Hwasong-5/-6 missile operating bases north of the DMZ, North Korea developed plans for the construction of a series of strategic ballistic missile operating bases in the northern sections of the country for longer range systems under development.
One of the first known public reports concerning these new ballistic missile operating bases became available in March 1999 when a senior South Korean official told reporters of bases being built at Sangnam-ni, Yongjo-ri (영저리) and Yongnim-up (영림읍).8 At that time there were no indications of the types of missiles that were to be deployed at these new bases, however, reports later that year stated that these were “suspected to be Nodong-1 or Taepodong-1 and -2 bases.”9
An overview of the Sangnam-ni area showing the location of the base, December 9, 2018 (Copyright © 2019 by Airbus).
Construction of the Sangnam-ni missile operating base began sometime during 1994 using specialized engineering troops from the KPA’s Military Construction Bureau.10 The location selected for the base was one kilometer south of the town of Sangnam-ni on the south side of the Namdae-chon (남대천, Namdae stream). Specifically, in an isolated bifurcated mountain valley containing minor streams on the northern slopes of Huisa-bong (희사봉, Huisa Mountain). At this time only minor agricultural activity, around the tiny hamlet of Togyongdong-ni (덕용리), and minor scattered logging operations were present in the area.
Although no open source high-resolution satellite imagery from the mid-1990s is presently available, construction is reliably reported to have proceeded slowly and was initially focused upon road construction, construction of a hardened drive-through facility and the excavation of what is believed to be an underground facility (UGF) approximately 2.6 km up from the base of the valley.11 Satellite imagery from August 2000 indicates that at this time two new roads had been built into both sides of the southern valley—with the longest being 2.8-kilometers-long.
Additionally, major excavation of the potential UGF was likely complete—but may have been continuing internally—as imagery analysis revealed there were no external indications of excavation activity or equipment at the time. Construction of the hardened drive-through facility was also complete and a small number of barracks (likely for worker housing) and support structures was ongoing. Although no large buildings were under construction at this time, initial grading had begun at the intersection of the main and branch valleys where the headquarters would be located. No activity of significance was noted at the village of Togyongdong-ni (40.839840 128.551308), up the branch valley to the east.
An overview of the Sangnam-ni missile operating base as it appeared in November 2000 showing the status and locations of its major components, November 8, 2000 (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
The locations of the future headquarters and barracks and support area, November 8, 2000. The partially graded headquarters are clearly visible (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
The southern barracks, warehouse and support area, November 8, 2000 (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
A close-up of the recently completed hardened drive-through facility, external concrete pad and the two potential UGF entrances. The main road through the base ends here at this time, November 8, 2000 (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
The agricultural village of Togyongdong-ni, November 8, 2000 (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
Reports from mid-2001 state that the base was “…60-80 percent complete in the construction phase.”12 Analysis of a December 2002 satellite image supports these reports showing a number of significant changes since 2000. At the base of the valley, in the support and headquarters area, an entrance/security checkpoint had been established and minor agricultural support activity was present. In addition, approximately seven new structures were built just east of the entrance, and the grading in the headquarters area was completed and a headquarters/administration building was erected. The road south had now been extended far past the hardened drive-through facility and over the northern slopes of Huisa-bong (Huisa Mountain) by means of a series of large switchbacks.
The support area along the east side of the road had been expanded significantly with at least thirteen structures (e.g., barracks, warehouses, vehicle maintenance, etc.) now present. A new building was also constructed on the side of the road at the southern entrance to the base that appears to be a security checkpoint and barracks. No significant changes were noted in the area of the hardened drive-through facility. At the village of Togyongdong-ni some initial grading and several new structures were noted. Agricultural support appears to have been slightly expanded and a small bridge on the road leading to the village was under construction in the headquarters area.
During May 2004 new reports stated that the base was now “…70 to 80 percent completed…”13 Satellite imagery from November of that year tends to support these reports. In the barracks and support area just east of the entrance, a number of new barracks or support buildings had been built. In the headquarters area three additional structures were built and the small bridge on the road leading to Togyongdong-ni was now complete. In the support area along the road south there were continuing changes among the structures, however, the overall number remained relatively constant. Again, no significant changes were noted in the area of the hardened drive-through facility. Along the branch valley east of the headquarters several new structures were built and minor grading continued in the village of Togyongdong-ni.
By 2004, reports had also begun to surface that Sangnam-ni, Yongjo-ri and Yongnim-up were being equipped with a “new IRBM” and were “not Scud and Nodong-1 bases.”14 Shortly afterwards it was confirmed that Sangnam-ni was a missile operating base that housed a battalion- or regiment-sized unit equipped of the KPA’s recently established Hwasong-10 (Musudan) IRBM brigade.15
It is unclear whether the Sangnam-ni unit participated in the large 2004 Command Post Exercise (CPX) for ballistic missile units, however, from 2006 onwards it is reported to have regularly participated in the annual training cycle.16
During 2005, minor construction was observed throughout the facility and a new road was built from the barracks, warehouse, and support area 500 meters up the ridge to the west where a new anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) battery position was established. The bridge leading to Togyongdong-ni in the headquarters had been finished and work on improving the road to the village was underway.
The base headquarters and barracks and support area as they appeared in November 2005. The new bridge to the village of Togyongdong-ni is complete and work to improve the village is ongoing, November 2, 2005 (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
The southern barracks, warehouse and support area showing the newly constructed facilities, November 2, 2005 (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
The recently constructed anti-aircraft artillery battery position and the road leading up to it from the support area, November 2, 2005 (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
The hardened drive-through facility and two potential UGF entrances. The main road through the base now extends up and over the slopes of Huisa-bong, November 2, 2005 (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
While a report from August 2006 states that the “…construction of a base in Sangnam-ri is 70 to 80 percent completed” satellite imagery from 2005-2008 suggests that it is likely that the initial phase of construction at the base was essentially complete by the end of 2006.17
During 2009-2010, a small second phase of construction was undertaken that witnessed an expansion of the headquarters area with the construction of two administration buildings. Aside from these buildings only minor construction activity (e.g., erection of a memorial, removal and construction of small structures) and minimal increases of agricultural support activities were observed in satellite imagery from 2006-2012.
Subsequently, during 2013-2015, the existing cultural/education hall within the headquarters area was razed and a new larger hall was built, two new monuments were erected on the east side of the headquarters area, a small orchard was planted, and a greenhouse was built.
Analysis of satellite imagery from 2015 until present shows only minor infrastructure changes to the base that are consistent with what is often observed at remote KPA bases of all types.
The base entrance and barracks and support area as they appeared on December 9, 2018 (Copyright © 2019 by Airbus).
As of December 2018, the base is active and being well-maintained by North Korean standards.
The base barracks and support area and headquarters. The new headquarters buildings and cultural/education hall are clearly visible. The bridge and road to Togyongdong-ni are complete and in use, December 9, 2018 (Copyright © 2019 by Airbus).
The agricultural village of Togyongdong-ni, December 9, 2018 (Copyright © 2019 by Airbus).
The southern barracks, warehouse and support area showing minor changes, December 9, 2018 (Copyright © 2019 by Airbus).
Encompassing approximately 3.85 square kilometers, the primary section of Sangnam-ni missile operating base extends 2.9 kilometers up the primary branch valley running southeast and then south on the northern slopes of Huisa-bong (Huisa Mountain). A small secondary branch extends off this valley to the east and the village of Togyongdong-ni that provides agricultural and other support. Most of the area encompassed by the base consists of unoccupied mountains and small agricultural activities that support the base. The small hamlet at the base of the valley, and outside the entrance, does not appear to be directly associated with the base.
The base can be functionally divided into four activities—agricultural support (including a greenhouse, small orchards and small terraced fields), main base (including headquarters, barracks, vehicle maintenance, storage, and a variety of small support elements), missile support, and potential underground facilities.18
As with a number of other KPA missile operating bases located in remote mountainous areas the Sangnam-ni headquarters area is located at the intersection of the eastern and southern branches of the valley. This area consists of the headquarters, cultural/education hall, approximately a dozen small barracks and support buildings, greenhouse, small orchard and a parade ground. There is also a lesser valley that branches off to the east from the headquarters area to the small village of Togyongdong-ni. This village appears to provide agricultural and other minor support to the base. Extending approximately 750 meters south and up the valley from the headquarters area are a number of barracks, warehouses and support structures.
Above this area, on a ridge 500 meters to the west, is a light AAA battery position equipped with eight guns. This battery is likely organic to the base as the only access road to it originates at the support area.
A close-up of the AAA battery position above the support area. Note that all the weapons are covered by environmental shelters, December 20, 2008 (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
Located approximately 1.4 km up the valley from the headquarters area is the base’s missile support facility—used for arming, fueling, systems checkout, and maintenance operations. It consists of a hardened drive-through facility measuring approximately 130-meters-by-40-meters overall with two approximately 20-meter-long earth-covered shelters separated by an open bay. Each shelter has an approximately 40-meter-by-15-meter concrete pad running through it. A third approximately 30-meter-by-15-meter concrete pad is on the road side and between the two shelters. The intended purpose of this third concrete pad is unknown, however, it is large enough to support a missile launch under emergency conditions—KPA tactics and doctrine is believed to call for ballistic missile TELs/MELs to disperse from their bases during wartime launch operations.
One of the best images available of the hardened drive-through facility. Clearly visible in this image are the two openings on the north side of each hardened shelter that lead to either an underground storeroom or UGF, December 20, 2008 (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
Cut into the mountain slope on the north side of each shelter is an approximately 9-meter-by-6-meter opening that is likely an entrance to an underground storeroom or small UGF. If a UGF, it is likely that the two entrances are internally connected. While sufficient for some trucks and support vehicles to enter, these entrances appear to be too small to be useable by known Hwasong-10 transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) or mobile-erector-launchers (MEL).
One of the best images available of the potential UGF entrances, December 20, 2008 (Copyright © 2019 by DigitalGlobe).
A further 150 meters up the valley is what appears to be the first of two potential UGF entrances. The second potential entrance is a further 100 meters up the valley. Positive confirmation of these entrances is elusive due to the resolution of available imagery and the entrances being cut into a steep western mountain face that is often in shadow. Exploratory measurements suggest that the entrances are at between 10- and 13-meters-wide and large enough to handle any of the missile unit’s TEL/MELs and support vehicles. It is uncertain whether the UGF entrances are internally connected so that vehicles can drive through them. At a minimum, per typical KPA practice, they are linked by small internally connected tunnels. Unlike at other missile operating bases there are no large rock and dirt berms in front of the entrances. This is likely due to the narrowness of the valley at this point, which provides some measure of protection from artillery fire and aerial attack.
A recent close-up view of the drive-through facility and potential UGF entrances, December 9, 2018 (Copyright © 2019 by Airbus).
Due to the fact that the hardened drive-through facility and potential UGF entrances are embedded into the western slope of a narrow tree-lined valley they are frequently hidden from sight in satellite imagery during spring and summer. These structures are just visible during fall and visible in winter after a snow fall—typically when viewed looking west.
Approximately 175 meters higher up the valley is a single building that is likely a guard barracks and secures the facility from the south. The dirt road that runs south past this barracks continues over the eastern and southern slopes of Huisa Mountain and terminates in the Pochi-ri area 10 kilometers south of the base. This road is of sufficient quality and design (e.g., wide turns, switchbacks, etc.) to allow missile TELs/MELs to use it during wartime.
Potentially, there are additional facilities and UGFs within Hochon-gun (Hochon County) that are either directly associated with the missile unit at Sangnam-ni or tasked to support its operations during wartime.19 No such facilities, however, have been identified in open source reporting.
Detailed organizational information for the KPA ballistic missile unit at the Sangnam-ni missile operating base, other than being part of the Strategic Force’s Hwasong-10 brigade, is essentially nonexistent. From the nature and size of the infrastructure observed in satellite imagery it is likely that it is a battalion- or regiment-sized unit consisting of a headquarters, small service elements and several firing batteries. The number of Hwasong-10 TELs/MELs in the unit is unknown but postulated to be between 2-6.
Despite the strategic importance of all the KPA’s ballistic missile operating bases and concerns of either pre-emptive or wartime airstrikes against these facilities, and aside from the base’s organic AAA battery, there is only a single additional fixed anti-aircraft artillery position within 10 km of the Sangnam-ni base. It is likely that in addition to the organic AAA battery, the missile unit itself possesses organic air defense elements equipped with both light AAA and shoulder fired SAMs (e.g., SA-7, SA-14, SA-16, etc.). The base is within the air defense umbrella of only a single SA-2 and potentially one SA-5 surface-to-air missile (SAM) bases. The Hwangsuwon-ni Airbase is, however, only 36 kilometers to the southwest.
This report, as are the others in this series, is based upon an ongoing study of the Korean People’s Army ballistic missile infrastructure begun by one of the authors, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., in 1985. This study is in turn based upon numerous interviews with North Korean defectors, declassified documents, open source reporting, and government, defense, and intelligence officials around the world. Accuracy in any discussion of North Korea’s nuclear, biological, chemical, or ballistic missile programs is always a challenge and while some of the information used in the preparation of this study may eventually prove to be incomplete, or incorrect, it is hoped that it provides a new and unique look into the subject. The information presented here supersedes or updates previous works by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. on these subjects.
Although sixteen high-resolution satellite images were analyzed during the preparation of this report, the winter and spring satellite images ultimately presented in this report were purposely selected for their absence of foliage, which allows for a more unobstructed and detailed view of the structures and activities within and around the Sangnam-ni missile operating base.
Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. is an internationally recognized analyst, award-winning author, and lecturer on North Korean defense and intelligence affairs and ballistic missile development in developing countries. He is concurrently senior fellow for Imagery Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); senior adviser and imagery analyst for the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK); author for IHS Markit (formerly the Jane’s Information Group); and publisher and editor of KPA Journal. Formerly, he has served as founder and CEO of KPA Associates, LLC, senior imagery analyst for 38 North at Johns Hopkins SAIS, chief analytics officer and co-founder of AllSource Analysis, Inc., and senior all-source analyst for DigitalGlobe’s Analysis Center.
Victor Cha is a senior adviser and the inaugural holder of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Lisa Collins is a fellow with the office of the Korea Chair at CSIS.
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Show 19 Footnotes
The authors wish to thank Sang Jun Lee, research associate in the CSIS Korea Chair, Dana Kim, intern in the Korea Chair and the Dracopoulous iDeas Lab, and Young-Kyung Kim, intern in the Korea Chair, for their invaluable research in support of this project. ↩
This includes the following ten United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs): 2397, 2375, 2371, 2356, 2321, 2270, 2094, 2087, 1874, and 1718. One additional UNSCR, 1695, requires North Korea to “suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile programme” and re-establish a moratorium on missile testing. United Nations Security Council, UN Documents for DPRK (North Korea), https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/un-documents/dprk-north-korea/. ↩
Author interview data; Son Hyo-joo, “Government: Remained Silent so North Korea would not notice surveillance,” Dong-a Ilbo, November 15, 2018, http://news.donga.com/3/all/20181115/92877807/1; “Where are the North Korean “undeclared bases” confirmed by CSIS?,” The Korea Herald, November 13, 2018, http://news.heraldcorp.com/view.php?ud=20181113000879; Jung Chung-sin, “ROK-US Joint Military Exercises, Defense Changes to Preemptive Strikes,” Munhwa Ilbo, March 7, 2016, http://www.munhwa.com/news/view.html?no=2016030701070630114001; Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., “North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Arsenal is Diversified and Robust,” World Politics Review, March 11, 2014, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/13622/global-insider-north-korea-s-ballistic-missile-arsenal-is-diversified-and-robust; An Du-won, Kim Min-suh, and Park Byung-jin, “North Korea, another show of missile power? … is it for talks or for use in combat,” Segye Ilbo, April 5, 2013, http://www.segye.com/newsView/20130404004770; Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Threat, paper presented at the ASAN Institute For Policy Studies, Nuclear Crisis in Asia, Seoul, October 31-November 1, 2011; Kim Kui-gun, “Kim Guk-bang, Inspects Missile Unit Capable of Striking Entirety of North Korea,” Yonhap News, March 8, 2012, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=001&aid=0005545734; Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., “Behind the Lines—North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Units,” Jane’s Intelligence Review, July 2011, pp. 48-53; An Yong-hyun and Lee Yong-su, “Kim Jong-Un Inspects KPA Celebration with new missile reveal … Formalization of Kim Jong-un’s military acquisition,” Chosun Ilbo, October 11, 2010, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/10/11/2010101100037.html; Lee Ki-ju, “Domestic Cruise Missile with 1500 km Range Deployed,” Seoul Economic Daily, July 18, 2010, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=011&aid=0002081759; Daniel A. Pinkston, The North Korean Ballistic Missile Program, (Carlisle Barracks: Strategic Studies Institute), February 2008, pp. 50 and 80; Yu Kang-mun, “Activity of North Korea’s Missile Launch Preparations,” Hankyoreh, September 24, 2004, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=028&aid=0000079504; Kim Kui-gun, “No Sign of North Korean Missile Buildup,” Yonhap News, March 2, 2001, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0000057623; Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., Shield of the Great Leader: The Armed Forces of North Korea, (London: I.B. Taurus), 2001, pp. 283-291; Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., “North Korea’s Long-Range Missiles,” in Sheppard, Ben (Ed.), Ballistic Missile Proliferation, (London: Jane’s Information Group), 2000; and Lee Yong-jong, “ROK-US Intelligence: North Korea Has Not Halted Missile Exports,” Joongang Ilbo, March 29, 1999, https://news.joins.com/article/3765186.
The national designator for the missile operating base at Sangnam-ni is unknown and North Korea is not known to have ever made specific reference to its existence.
The transliteration of Korean place names into English is frequently challenging and often results in confusion and the Sangnam-ni missile operating base is no exception to this phenomenon. Among the alternative transliterations for Sangnam-ni are: Sangnam, Sangnam-ri and Sangam-ri. For consistency and ease of reading Sangnam-ni and other places names used in this report are those accepted by the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA).
For a description of the North Korean missile belts see: Joseph Bermudez, Victor Cha and Lisa Collins, “Undeclared North Korea: Missile Operating Bases Revealed,” Beyond Parallel, November 12, 2018, https://beyondparallel.csis.org/north-koreas-undeclared-missile-operating-bases/. ↩
There is considerable confusion concerning the domestic and foreign designations of North Korea’s ballistic missile systems in the open source literature. One of the more comprehensive reviews of these designations, and the one adhered to here is: Scott LaFoy, “The Hwasong that Never Ends,” Arms Control Wonk, August 28, 2017, http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1203797/the-hwasong-that-never-ends/. ↩
Author interview data; National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: National Air and Space Intelligence Center), NASIC-1031-0985-17, June 2017, p. 17; National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: National Air and Space Intelligence Center), NASIC-1031-0985-13, July 2013, p. 19; An Du-won, Kim Min-suh and Park Byung-jin, “North Korea, another show of missile power? … is it for talks or for use in combat,” Segye Ilbo, April 5, 2013, http://www.segye.com/newsView/20130404004770; Kim Min-suk, “North Korea Creates a Missile Division for New Missile Capable of Reaching Guam U.S. Military Base,” Joongang Ilbo, March 10, 2010, https://news.joins.com/article/4052989; National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: National Air and Space Intelligence Center), NASIC-1031-0985-09, April 2009, p. 17; Yu Yong-won, “North Korea Deploys Missile That Can Reach Guam,” Chosun Ilbo, February 24, 2009, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/02/24/2009022400059.html; and National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: National Air and Space Intelligence Center), NASIC-1031-0985-06, March 2006, p. 10. ↩
Anna Fifield, “Did North Korea Just Test Missiles Capable of Hitting the U.S.? Maybe,” Washington Post, October 26, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/did-north-korea-just-test-missiles-capable-of-hitting-the-us-maybe/2016/10/26/984e8a21-e6a7-4689-81e0-21d7d25c302f_story.html?utm_term=.3e46c01be622; “North Korean Missile Reportedly Explodes Soon After Liftoff,” Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2016, https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-detects-failed-north-korean-missile-launch-1476572239; Anna Fifield, “North Korea’s missile launch has failed, South’s military says,” Washington Post, April 15, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/north-koreas-missile-has-failed-officials-from-south-say/2016/04/14/8eb2ce53-bc38-40d0-9013-5655bed26764_story.html?utm_term=.e216605153b6; and Michael S. Schmidt and Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korea Ballistic Missile Launch a Failure, Pentagon Says,” New York Times, April 15, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/world/asia/north-korea-ballistic-missile-launch-a-failure-pentagon-says.html. ↩
Ibid.; Son Hyo-joo, “Government: Remained Silent so North Korea would not notice surveillance…Preparations for emergency attack completed,” Dong-a Ilbo, November 15, 2018, http://news.donga.com/3/all/20181115/92877807/1; Kim Tae-hoon, “North Korean Sakkanmol Base Controversy … What are their Intentions?” SBS News, November 14, 2018, https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?news_id=N1005015568&plink=ORI&cooper=NAVER; Nam Min-woo, “CNN: North Korea continues to expand its unidentified long-range missile base,” Chosun Ilbo, December 6, 2018, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2018/12/06/2018120600526.html; Kang Hye-ran and Lee Chul-jae, “CNN: North Korea is Constructing a New Long-range Missile Base after Summit Talks,” Joongang Ilbo, December 7, 2018, https://news.joins.com/article/23188194; Bill Gertz, “Commence Countdown to Launch,” Washington Free Beacon, February 21, 2013; “Press Gets 1st Look at N. Korean Mid-range Missile,” Chosun Ilbo, October 11, 2010, http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/10/11/2010101101060.html; An Yong-hyun and Lee Yong-su, “Kim Jong-Un Inspects KPA Celebration with new missile reveal … Formalization of Kim Jong-un’s military acquisition,” Chosun Ilbo, October 11, 2010, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/10/11/2010101100037.html; Kim Min-suk, “North Korea Creates a Missile Division for New Missile Capable of Reaching Guam U.S. Military Base,” Joongang Ilbo, March 10, 2010, https://news.joins.com/article/4052989; Yu Yong-won, “North Korea Deploys Missile That Can Reach Guam,” Chosun Ilbo, February 24, 2009, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/02/24/2009022400059.html; and Steven A. Hildreth, North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service), RS21473, January 28, 2009, p. 4. ↩
Lee Yong-jong, “ROK-US Intelligence: North Korea Has Not Halted Missile Exports,” Joongang Ilbo, March 29, 1999, https://news.joins.com/article/3765186. ↩
Yu Yong-won, “North Korea Continues Secret Missile Buildup Efforts Including Construction of 3 Underground Facilities in Rear,” Chosun Ilbo, March 2, 2001, http://news.chosun.com/svc/content_view/content_view.html?contid=2001030270034; Yu Yong-won, “DPRK Deploys 100 Nodong-1 Missiles,” Chosun Ilbo, March 2, 2001, http://news.chosun.com/svc/content_view/content_view.html?contid=2001030270035; “Army Denies Report on N.K.’s Alleged Missile Deployment,” Yonhap News, March 2, 2001; Kim Kui-gun, “No Sign of North Korean Missile Buildup, Yonhap News Agency, March 2, 2001, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0000057623; “DPRK Deploys 100 Nodong-1 Missiles Since 1998,” Chosun Ilbo, March 2, 2001; “North Korea Delays Launch Preparations,” Hankyoreh, July 8, 1999; “North Korea Building Tunnels in Three Locations Including Yongrim,” Yonhap News, June 30, 1999, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=001&aid=0004544324; and “Where Has North Korea Hidden Its Missiles – 10 Launch Sides Including China Border Region,” Segye Ilbo, June 8, 1999, http://www.segye.com/newsView/19990708000053.
The Taepodong-1 may have simply been superseded by other systems or was a technology demonstration project and never operationally deployed. From the late 1990s through 2006 the U.S. did not view the system as being operational and in 2009, NASIC dropped it from the intermittently published Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat report. National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: National Air and Space Intelligence Center), NASIC-1031-0985-09, April 2009, p. 17; National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: National Air and Space Intelligence Center), NASIC-1031-0985-06, March 2006, p. 10; Park Yang-su, “North Korea Deploying 2 New 4,000 km Missiles in 2 Locations,” Munhwa Ilbo, May 4, 2004, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=021&aid=0000068194; Kim Yong-suk, “The entire Northeast Asia in the range of ‘Taepodong’,” Kookmin Ilbo, February 13, 2002; Defense Intelligence Agency, A Primer on the Future Threat, The Decades Ahead: 1999-2020, (Defense Intelligence Agency: Washington, D.C.), 1999, (partially declassified), p. 79, (CREST); and Robert D. Walpole, North Korea’s Taepo Dong Launch and Some Implications on the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, Presentation at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 8, 1998. ↩
Author interview data; and Kim Min-suk, ”North Korea Continues to Expand Missile Base,” Joongang Ilbo, March 6, 2001, https://news.joins.com/article/4045753; and Kim Min-seok, “North Builds Missile Power as World Debates U.S. Plan,” Korea Joongang Daily, March 12, 2001, http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=1885657. ↩
Author interview data. ↩
Yu Yong-won, “North Korea Continues Secret Build-up Including Construction of Three Underground Bases in Rear Area,” Chosun Ilbo, March 2, 2001, http://news.chosun.com/svc/content_view/content_view.html?contid=2001030270034; Yu Yong-won, “DPRK Deploys 100 Nodong-1 Missiles,” Chosun Ilbo, March 2, 2001, http://news.chosun.com/svc/content_view/content_view.html?contid=2001030270035; “Army Denies Report on N.K.’s Alleged Missile Deployment,” Yonhap News, March 2, 2001; Kim Kui-gun, “No Sign of North Korean Missile Buildup,” Yonhap News Agency, March 2, 2001, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0000057623; and “DPRK Deploys 100 Nodong-1 Missiles Since 1998,” Chosun Ilbo, March 2, 2001. ↩
“Pyongyang is Constructing New Sites for Ballistic Missiles,” Korea Herald, May 5, 2004; and Park Yang-su, “North Korea Deploying 2 New 4000 km Missiles in 2 Locations,” Munhwa Ilbo, May 4, 2004, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=021&aid=0000068194. ↩
“ROK, US Said Suspecting DPRK Tested ‘New Type of IRBM’ During 4 Jul Missile Launches,” Chosun Ilbo, July 18, 2006, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2006/07/18/2006071870013.html; Yu Kang-mun, “Activity of North Korea’s Missile Launch Preparations,” Hankyoreh, September 24, 2004, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=028&aid=0000079504; Park Yang-su, “North Korea Deploying 2 New 4000 km Missiles in 2 Locations,” Munhwa Ilbo, May 4, 2004, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=021&aid=0000068194; and Yu Yong-won, “North Korea Deploys New Missile Capable of Reaching Hawaii,” Chosun Ilbo, July 7, 2004, http://news.chosun.com/svc/content_view/content_view.html?contid=2004070770392. ↩
Author interview data; Kang Hye-ran and Lee Chul-jae, “CNN: North Korea is Constructing a New Long-range Missile Base after Summit Talks,” Joongang Ilbo, December 7, 2018, https://news.joins.com/article/23188194; Nam Min-woo, “CNN: North Korea continues to expand its unidentified long-range missile base,” Chosun Ilbo, December 6, 2018, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2018/12/06/2018120600526.html; Son Hyo-joo, “Government: Remained Silent so North Korea would not notice surveillance…Preparations for emergency attack completed,” Dong-a Ilbo, November, 15, 2018, http://news.donga.com/3/all/20181115/92877807/1; Jung Chung-sin, “ROK-US Joint Military Exercises, Defense Changes to Preemptive Strikes,” Munhwa Ilbo, March 7, 2016, http://www.munhwa.com/news/view.html?no=2016030701070630114001; An Du-won, Kim Min-suh, and Park Byung-jin, “North Korea, another show of missile power? … is it for talks or for use in combat,” Segye Ilbo, April 5, 2013, http://www.segye.com/newsView/20130404004770; “Press Gets 1st Look at N. Korean Mid-range Missile,” Chosun Ilbo, October 11, 2010, http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/10/11/2010101101060.html; Kim Min-suk, “North Korea Creates a Missile Division for New Missile Capable of Reaching Guam U.S. Military Base,” Joongang Ilbo, March 10, 2010, https://news.joins.com/article/4052989; An Yong-hyun and Lee Yong-su, “Kim Jong-Un Inspects KPA Celebration with new missile reveal … Formalization of Kim Jong-un’s military acquisition,” Chosun Ilbo, October 11, 2010, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/10/11/2010101100037.html; Yu Yong-won, “North Korea Deploys Missile That Can Reach Guam,” Chosun Ilbo, February 24, 2009, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/02/24/2009022400059.html; Yun To’k-min, Assessment of North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Program, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, July 18, 2006; Yi Myong-kun, “DPRK Building New Missile Bases To Target Japan, US Military in Japan,” Dong-a Ilbo, August 3, 2006, http://news.donga.com/3/all/20060803/8336357/1; “DPRK Reportedly Builds New Missile Bases Along East Coast,” Yonhap News, August 3 2006; “N.K. Building New Missile Bases,” Korea Herald, August 3, 2006; and Yang Song-uk, “North Now Building Underground Missile Bases,” Munhwa Ilbo, August 3, 2006, http://m.munhwa.com/mnews/view.html?no=20060803010302233070020; “ROK, US Said Suspecting DPRK Tested ‘New Type of IRBM’ During 4 Jul Missile Launches,” Chosun Ilbo, July 18, 2006, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2006/07/18/2006071870013.html; and “East Asian Strategic Review 2005,” National Institute for Defense Studies (Tokyo: 2005), 64-65, http://www.nids.mod.go.jp/english/publication/east-asian/pdf/2005/east-asian_e2005_03.pdf.
While occasional reports from 2004 through 2009 would mistakenly state that the missile unit housed at the Sangnam-ni base was variously equipped with the Nodong medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM), Taepodong-1 MRBM or Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), reports from that time forward have clearly stated that it is equipped with the Hwasong-10 (Musudan) IRBM. ↩
Some ballistic missile units may train on a bi-annual rather than annual schedule. Author interview data and Yu Kang-mun, “Activity of North Korea’s Missile Launch Preparations,” Hankyoreh, September 24, 2004, https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=028&aid=0000079504. ↩
Yun To’k-min, Assessment of North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Program, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, July 18, 2006; Yi Myong-kun, “DPRK Building New Missile Bases To Target Japan, US Military in Japan,” Dong-a Ilbo, August 3, 2006, http://news.donga.com/3/all/20060803/8336357/1; “DPRK Reportedly Builds New Missile Bases Along East Coast,” Yonhap, August 3 2006; “N.K. Building New Missile Bases,” Korea Herald, August 3, 2006; and Yang Song-uk, “North Now Building Underground Missile Bases,” Munhwa Ilbo, August 3, 2006, http://m.munhwa.com/mnews/view.html?no=20060803010302233070020. ↩
The greenhouse and agricultural support activities are not unusual within the KPA as all units have a varying level of responsibility for growing their own food. ↩
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Achieving Global Convergence of Financial Reporting Standards: Implications from the South Pacific Region Vol: 22
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This research monograph examines whether International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are interpreted and applied in a consistent manner within and across countries, and questions the implicit assumption that accounting convergence will automatically lead to comparability in financial reporting. Its review of the accounting judgment and decision making research published in the five top-tier accounting journals over the last forty years shows that there is a limited number of studies that have examined the importance of consistency in interpreting and applying a single set of accounting standards. Furthermore, the monographs and reviews on audit judgment and decision making research published over the years have strengthened this strand of research in auditing by providing insights and suggesting avenues for future research. However, limited comprehensive reviews have been published so far for the research undertaken in the domain of accounting judgment. This research monograph provides empirical evidence on the factors that act as constraints on achieving the objectives of convergence of financial reporting.
Synopsis. About the Authors. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1 Introduction. Chapter 2 International Convergence of Financial Reporting Standards: Evidence from the South Pacific Region. Chapter 3 A Critique of the Influence of Globalization and Convergence of Accounting Standards in Fiji. Chapter 4 Accounting Judgment and Decision-Making Research: Evaluation of Publications in Top-Tier Accounting Journals (1970–2010). Chapter 5 Judgments Based on Interpretation of “New” and “Complex” International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) within a Country: Evidence from Fiji. Chapter 6 Cultural and Noncultural Factors Affecting Judgments of Professional Accountants: A Comparative Study of Australia and Fiji. Chapter 7 Implications and Directions for Future Research. References. Achieving Global Convergence of Financial Reporting Standards: Implications from the South Pacific Region. Studies in managerial and financial accounting. Studies in managerial and financial accounting. Copyright page.
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Translator's Invisibility
Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities
Windchief, Sweeney
Author: Lawrence Venuti
Binding: 7
Quick overview Locates alternative translation theories and practices in British, American and European cultures which aim to communicate linguistic and cultural differences instead of removing them.
Since publication over ten years ago, The Translator's Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English and investigates the cultural consequences of the receptor values which were simultaneously inscribed and masked in foreign texts during this period. The author locates alternative translation theories and practices in British, American and European cultures which aim to communicate linguistic and cultural differences instead of removing them.
In this second edition of his work, Venuti: * clarifies and further develops key terms and arguments * responds to critical commentary on his argument * incorporates new case studies that include: an eighteenth century translation of a French novel by a working class woman; Richard Burton's controversial translation of the Arabian Nights; modernist poetry translation; translations of Dostoevsky by the bestselling translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; and translated crime fiction * updates data on the current state of translation, including publishing statistics and translators' rates. The Translator's Invisibility will be essential reading for students of translation studies at all levels. Lawrence Venuti is Professor of English at Temple University, Philadelphia. He is a translation theorist and historian as well as a translator and his recent publications include: The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference and The Translation Studies Reader, both published by Routledge.
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You are here: Home | News | December 2018 | Pakistan added to worst religious liberty violators
Pakistan added to worst religious liberty violators
December 17 2018 by Tom Strode, Baptist Press
The United States added a single country to its list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom but designated for the first time nine non-state organizations for their violence against people of faith.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Dec. 11 he had added Pakistan to the list of “countries of particular concern” (CPCs), a category reserved under federal law for governments that have committed or tolerated “systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.”
The CPC designations – actually made Nov. 28 by Pompeo – also included nine of the countries named in December 2017 by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: Burma (Myanmar), China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
Pompeo removed Uzbekistan from the CPC list, placing it on a “special watch list” with Russia and Comoros, a group of islands off the east coast of Africa, for countries that have engaged in or permitted “severe violations” of religious liberty.
The “entities of particular concern” (EPCs) named by Pompeo were all Islamic terrorist groups: al-Nusra Front in Syria; al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula; al-Qaeda; al-Shabab in East Africa; Boko Haram in West Africa; the Houthis in Yemen; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); ISIS-Khorasan in Afghanistan and Pakistan; and the Taliban. It was the inaugural use of the EPC classification established by Congress in 2016.
In other global religious freedom developments:
– President Trump signed into law Dec. 11 the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act, which will provide humanitarian aid to Christians, Yazidis, Shia Muslims and other religious and ethnic minorities terrorized by ISIS in the two Middle East countries. It also will support criminal investigations and prosecutions of the terrorists responsible for genocidal acts and crimes against humanity.
– A delegation from the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) attended meetings in Geneva, Switzerland, to advocate for religious freedom regarding North Korea – a perennial member of the CPC list – with members of the United Nations.
ERLC President Russell Moore commended the work that went into one country being removed from the CPC list.
“When a country is placed on a list of ‘countries of particular concern,’ the hope is that these countries would reform and progress beyond that negative designation,” Moore said in written comments for Baptist Press. “Unfortunately, such rarely happens. Therefore, we have cause for great celebration in Uzbekistan doing just that this year.
“There is no doubt that a significant reason for this is Ambassador Sam Brownback’s tireless and careful work toward broad reforms in that country,” he said. “My prayer is that his good work will continue to see such visible fruitfulness and that religious freedom would advance across the world.”
In announcing the designations, Pompeo said in a written statement, “In far too many places across the globe, individuals continue to face harassment, arrests, or even death for simply living their lives in accordance with their beliefs. The United States will not stand by as spectators in the face of such oppression.”
While Pompeo did not comment on the addition of Pakistan, Brownback, ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, pointed to the country’s laws criminalizing blasphemy as one of the reasons for its inclusion on the CPC list. In a briefing with reporters, Brownback also cited Pakistan’s failure “to hold accountable perpetrators of killings and violence against members of religious minorities targeted on account of their religious beliefs or affiliations.”
Asia Bibi – a Christian mother in Pakistan who had been charged with blasphemy – was acquitted and released from death row in October. But she has been blocked from leaving the country after mobs protested and called for her execution.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) – a bipartisan, nine-member panel that researches and makes recommendations on religious liberty conditions overseas – commended Pompeo’s action on Pakistan, a Central Asian country that is 95 percent Muslim.
“We are gratified that, after years of reporting systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom in Pakistan, the State Department has finally added that country to the list of the world’s worst violators,” USCIRF Chairman Tenzin Dorjee said in a written statement.
USCIRF had urged in its April report the addition of not only Pakistan but Russia, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Syria and Vietnam to the CPC list. It also recommended Uzbekistan remain on the list.
Pompeo surpassed USCIRF’s EPC recommendations, however. USCIRF called for EPC designation for ISIS, al-Shabab and the Taliban.
Under federal law, the president has various means for penalizing countries on the CPC list. In the latest designations, sanctions were placed on Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea and Sudan, Brownback told reporters. Sanctions were waived, however, for Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, he said.
Religious liberty advocates applauded Trump’s action to enact the Iraq-Syria genocide law.
“Through this bill we send the message that those responsible for these crimes, including genocide, will not escape justice,” USCIRF Vice Chair Kristina Arriaga said in written remarks.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., lead sponsor of the bill, said in a written release the United States “must move quickly to implement this. Archbishop Warda, the head of [the] Chaldean Catholic Church there, told me that ‘Christians in Iraq are still at the brink of extinction. [This law] is vital to our survival ... implementation must be full and fast. Otherwise, the help it provides will be too late for us.’”
The ERLC’s Travis Wussow, vice president for public policy, and Andrew Walker, director of research, met with ambassadors and diplomats in Geneva regarding religious freedom in North Korea. The SBC entity, which has special consultative status with the U.N., is urging member states to consider religious freedom in making human rights recommendations to officials of the regime, which is undergoing its Universal Periodic Review by the U.N., according to the ERLC.
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10 Surprising Albums
Posted in Entertainment/Music/Sports, Lists, tagged 1984, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, AC/DC, Achtung Baby, Back in Black, Black Sabbath, Bon Scott, Boston, Brian Johnson, David Gilmour, Fleetwood Mac, Gregg Rolie, Heaven and Hell, Infinity, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John Entwistle, Journey, Led Zeppelin, Lindsey Buckingham, Michael Jackson, Neal Schon, Off the Wall, Ozzy Osbourne, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Ronnie James Dio, Sharon Osbourne, Stevie Nicks, The New Yardbirds, The Yardbirds, Third Stage, Thriller, Tom Scholz, U2, Van Halen on January 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
1. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin: Originally hired as a bassist for the popular English band, “The Yardbirds”, Jimmy Page eventually came to share guitar duties with the legendary Jeff Beck. But as the group began to unravel, Page attempted to put together a new lineup, and tour as, “The New Yardbirds”. Allegedly, John Entwistle of “The Who” joked that this new band was going to go down like a lead balloon, so when the original band members forbade Page to use the Yardbirds name, “Led Zeppelin” was born. Despite the bumpy transition, Led Zeppelin’s debut album was an immediate success, and went on to become a rock classic.
2. Achtung Baby – U2: From the band’s debut album, “Boy” (released in 1980) until their classic 1987 release, “The Joshua Tree”, U2 had experienced a steady rise in both artistic and commercial success. It wasn’t until the release of their 1988 documentary, “Rattle and Hum”, that the band received its first notable criticism, with some describing it as, “bombastic” and “overly pretentious”. Disillusioned by the music industry in general, and bored with what had become their signature sound, the group’s 1991 album, “Achtung Baby” was a radical departure in almost every way.
3. Off the Wall – Michael Jackson: The Jackson Five’s departure from Motown records in 1975 seemed to mark the end of an era. Though the group continued to tour and release records, their popularity steadily dwindled. Because Michael was the main songwriter, and focal point of the band, there was no reason to believe that a new solo record would do much to change that trend. But the 1979 release of the album, “Off the Wall” set off a new era of stardom for the singer that eventually eclipsed everything that had come before it. An artistic leap forward, it laid the foundation for the phenomenal “Thriller” album, which was released just a few years later, and went on to become the biggest selling album of all time.
4. 1984 – Van Halen: The years that followed the band’s spectacular 1978 debut release, “Van Halen”, found the group steadily touring and recording. And though it would be difficult to argue their ongoing success, it was hard not to notice the progressively declining quality of their albums. Despite its commercial success, longtime fans couldn’t help but be dismayed by the remake filled album, “Diver Down” from 1982. Given those factors, there was no reason to expect the stunning return to form that “1984” represented. On many levels it was the band’s most successful album.
5. A Momentary Lapse of Reason – Pink Floyd: For long time fans, it didn’t seem possible to make a legitimate Pink Floyd record without founding member Roger Waters. But guitarist David Gilmour and company did just that with this 1987 release. Though not necessarily ranked with their best work, this album was highly successful, and proved to be a credible addition to the bands enduring legacy.
6. Fleetwood Mac (1975) – Fleetwood Mac: By the time that Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks arrived, “Fleetwood Mac” had already been a band for almost a decade, and had released nine albums. But the addition of these two distinctive artists radically changed the chemistry within the group, and propelled them to a whole new level of popularity. This album not only topped the chart, it sold over 5 million copies, and produced three big radio hits (i.e. Rhiannon, Over My Head, and Say You Love Me). More importantly, it set the stage for the group’s next album, “Rumours”, which went on to be one of the biggest selling albums of all time.
7. Infinity – Journey: Originally formed in 1973, the band was made up of veteran players from the San Francisco bay area; including Santana alum Gregg Rolie and Neal Schon. But after the groups first three albums failed to consistently connect with a sizeable audience, their record company recommended a change in direction, including the incorporation of another vocalist. This shift from a jazz/rock to pop/rock style, and the addition of Steve Perry’s striking vocals, proved to be a winning combination, as their 1978 release, “Infinity” went on to achieve platinum status, and set off a string of highly successful albums.
8. Back in Black – AC/DC: The death of lead singer, Bon Scott, seemed to signal the end for Australian rock outfit AC/DC. His charisma, and distinctive growl, were at the heart of the band’s sound, and looked to be irreplaceable. At that time, few could have anticipated the emergence of new singer Brian Johnson, and the release of what is arguably the bands most complete album.
9. Third Stage – Boston: Though not considered to be on a par with the band’s first two albums (i.e. 1976’s “Boston” and 1978’s “Don’t Look Back”), this album is notable for the eight year span that preceded it’s 1986 release. Multiple law suits, and techno-wiz/guitarist/producer Tom Scholz’s constant tinkering, led to the delay. Despite the gap, this album did manage to continue the bands string of multi-platinum success.
10. Heaven and Hell – Black Sabbath: Considering that Ozzy Osbourne was the face, the voice, and ultimately the stage persona of the band, it seemed unlikely that the group could be successful without him. But when his rampant drug & alcohol abuse caused the band to “fire” him in 1979, they decided to regroup with former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Surprisingly, this new lineup reinvigorated the band’s music, and was well-received by die hard Sabbath fans. It’s interesting to note that it was the daughter of the band’s manager, Don Arden who recommended Dio as Ozzy’s replacement, and that years later she (Sharon Arden) became Mrs. Ozzy Osbourne.
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How binge drinking alters brain activity
Earlier studies showed that alcoholic people have measurable changes in their resting brain activity. And now, for the first time, researchers find similar changes in the brains of non-alcoholic students who binge drink.
Researchers uncover changes in brain activity associated with binge drinking.
Alcoholic beverages are consumed worldwide, but drinking to excess and with regularity carries a number of health warnings.
Binge drinking is defined by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism as five or more drinks for men and four or more drinks for women over a 2-hour period.
There is a range of long-term health risks associated with binge drinking, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, and liver disease.
Aside from negative health outcomes, binge drinking also increases the risk of unintentional injuries, risky sexual behavior, and being involved in violence.
An estimated 1 in 6 adults in the United States binge drinks four times every month, consuming an average of eight drinks per session. It is most common in young adulthood but can continue across the lifespan.
Previous studies have also shown that, during cognitive tasks, individuals who binge drink perform significantly worse. For example, spatial working memory and executive function have both been found to suffer.
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To date, however, researchers have not investigated whether or not there are measurable changes in a binge drinker’s brain at rest.
The binge drinker’s brain
Researchers from the University of Minho in Portugal – led by Eduardo López-Caneda – set out to investigate measurable differences in the brains of binge drinkers when not carrying out tests. Their findings are published this week in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
As López-Caneda explains, “A number of studies have assessed the effects of binge drinking in young adults during different tasks involving cognitive processes such as attention or working memory. However, there are hardly any studies assessing if the brains of binge drinkers show differences when they are at rest, and not focused on a task.”
Binge drinking may be encouraged by cycle of stress and reward
Binge drinking could be curbed by switching off a circuit between two brain regions.
Students are well known for spending time socializing and partying – activities that are sometimes accompanied by alcohol in excess. So, the researchers recruited 80 first-year undergraduate students from a university in Spain.
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Participants were split into two groups: the first never indulged in binge drinking, while those in the second had indulged in a binge drinking session at least once in the previous month. Importantly, none met the criteria to be considered an alcoholic.
Electrodes were attached to the participants’ heads to assess electrical activity across a number of brain regions.
Non-bingers’ and bingers’ brains compared
When the neural activity of the two groups was compared, there were significant differences. More specifically, there was a measurable increase in beta and theta oscillations in the right temporal lobe – particularly the parahippocampal and fusiform gyri – and the occipital cortex.
The parahippocampal gyrus is believed to play a part in coding and retrieving memories. The fusiform gyrus does not have a well-defined role to date but seems to be involved in recognition. The occipital cortex deals with processing visual information.
Interestingly, the increased activity in these areas mirrors those found in the brains of chronic alcoholics.
The researchers believe that the alterations in brain activity might be early signs of alcohol-induced brain damage. Changes in these regions may indicate a reduction in their ability to respond to external stimuli, which may hamper information processing.
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Younger brains are still developing, and the researchers believe that this might make them more vulnerable to alcohol damage.
“These features might be down to the particularly harmful effects of alcohol on young brains that are still in development, perhaps by delaying neuromaturational processes.”
Eduardo López-Caneda
Of course, this study opens up many new questions to be answered. So next, the team would like to confirm that the changes are down to the binge drinking and whether or not brain development is impaired over the long-term.
Because the changes seen in the brain mirror those found in chronic alcoholics, López-Caneda hopes that their findings will be used “to try to reduce alcohol consumption in risky drinkers” at a young age.
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Diversity and inclusion have become increasingly important to companies and universities looking to stay competitive and recruit more quality talent. Research has shown that more diverse teams do higher-quality, more widely cited scientific research. Supporting diverse teams once they have been built may require changes to workplace culture in order to create a truly inclusive environment. The Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace panel focused on the successes, opportunities, and challenges of building and maintaining diverse teams. Panelists will discuss individual and institutional approaches to creating inclusive spaces and celebrating diversity in research.
Babak Momeni
Assistant professor of biology at Boston College
Babak Momeni is originally from Iran. He received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran). He went on to Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) and received a M.S. in Physics and his PhD in Electrical Engineering, working on integrated optical devices. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Georgia Tech from 2007 to 2009, before joining Shou Lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, WA) as a postdoctoral fellow in Quantitative and Synthetic Biology. He started his current position as an assistant professor of biology at Boston College in 2015. His lab studies microbial interactions and the collective behaviors in microbial communities with applications in human microbiota and environmental bioremediation. He is a recipient of a Life Sciences Research Foundation fellowship (2012-2015; sponsored by Moore Foundation) and a recipient of an Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research (2018-2020; sponsored by Smith Family Foundation). He has also been a member of eLife early-career advisory group (ECAG) since its inception in 2014. In this capacity he has been exploring best practices for evaluating scientific contributions, as well as current challenges and opportunities for incorporating diversity in science
Claudia Astorino
Evolutionary biologist and biological anthropologist at Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY
Claudia Astorino is an evolutionary biologist and biological anthropologist pursuing her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research interests include sexual dimorphism and dental evolutionary development within humans, fossil hominins, mammals, and fossil vertebrates. Claudia is a proud member of the LGBTQIA community and identifies as intersex, genderqueer, and a lesbian. She has advocated for intersex human rights as the former director of Organization Intersex International's (OII) US chapter and the founder and co-organizer of NYC's Annual Intersex Awareness Day events. She has raised awareness about intersex issues via writing (The Guardian, Everyone Is Gay, Autostraddle), public lectures (NYU, Columbia, Bluestockings Books), and filmed interviews (First Person PBS Digital, Circa News). Claudia advocates for diversity in STEM as a Steering Committee member of gAyAPA, a group serving LGBTQQIAA members of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Sanae Elshourbagy
Educator and community liaison at Boston University
Dr. Sanae ElShourbagy Ferreira is a creative scientist and passionate advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in representation in the STEM workforce. She has 10+ years of experience studying disease prevention from the perspectives of nutritional epidemiology, genetics, metabolism, community health, and drug development. Dr. Ferreira holds a Ph.D. in Nutrition & Metabolism from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) where her work identified predictors of racial disparities in childhood obesity to help inform targeted clinical practice of chronic disease prevention. While at BUSM, Dr. Ferreira founded the BU Women’s Professional Development Committee to foster a culture of connection and community and a safe space supporting women in STEM, starting with trainees in biomedical sciences and broadening to include all advocates supporting advancement of women in STEM across the university. In her current roles at BU as an educator and community liaison broadening experiences in scientific training, she enjoys building inspiring connections and cultivating networks that facilitate interdisciplinary learning. Dr. Ferreira is an incoming AAAS Science Technology and Policy Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in the Office of the Director where she will continue to contribute to important work shaping our understanding of and clinical practice addressing environmental influences on child health outcomes. As a visual artist and contributor on numerous platforms, Dr. Ferreira is a firm believer that science is for everyone and invites you to bring your diverse experiences to the table to share your story. Connect with Dr. Ferreira on Twitter (@dietribebys).
Tyrone Porter
Associate Professor at Boston University
Tyrone Porter, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University (BU). Additionally, he is the Associate Director for the Nanotechnology Innovation Center and Co-Director for the NIH-funded Translational Research in Biomaterials training program. Dr. Porter earned his doctorate degree in Bioengineering from the University of Washington in 2003. He was awarded the Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship and the R. Bruce Lindsay award from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in 2003 and 2008, respectively, and in 2017 he was inducted as a Fellow of the ASA. His research interests lie at the intersection between biomedical ultrasound, materials science, biophysics, and nanomedicine. Under his leadership, the Nanomedicine and Medical Acoustics Laboratory (NanoMedAL) at BU has made significant contributions to the use of ultrasound for noninvasive ablation of solid tumors, permeabilizing biological interfaces for drug delivery, and triggering drug release from stimuli-responsive nanocarriers. Recently, Dr. Porter and his team began exploring the blood-brain barrier (BBB), including the causes and effects of BBB breakdown as well as strategies for delivering therapeutics across the BBB for treating brain disorders. Throughout his academic and professional career, Dr. Porter has been a major advocate for diversity and inclusion in academia. As a Faculty Fellow for Diversity & Inclusion at BU, Dr. Porter works with the Associate Provost for Graduate Affairs on increasing diversity and promoting an inclusive environment in the graduate programs.
Shana Rochester
Postdoctoral researcher at Boston Universty Wheelock College of Education and Human Development
Dr. Shana E. Rochester is an inaugural AACTE/Holmes Postdoctoral Associate in the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University. She earned her B.A. in psychology from Spelman College, and her M.A. in educational studies and Ph.D. in education and psychology from the University of Michigan. Shana’s scholarship, supported by the Ford Foundation, focuses on how family-based educational programs and schools can support the academic and social development of pre-K—Grade 3 learners from racially/ethnically minoritized backgrounds and under-resourced communities. Dr. Rochester’s work investigates the multiple contexts in which development takes place (e.g., home, informal settings, schools) and explores how children’s cultural knowledge and out-of-school experiences can be leveraged in ways that improve their learning. In her postdoctoral role, Shana collaborates with museums (e.g., Museum of African American History) to identify research-informed strategies for family engagement. She is currently pursuing a certificate in museum studies alongside her postdoctoral responsibilities and has co-taught a community-based research methods course in partnership with the Boston Children’s Museum.
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Growth Igniters Radio: Episode 142 Transcript
CEO Lessons From a 2017 Malcolm Baldrige Award Winner
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Episode 142 Transcript:
Chris Curran: Growth Igniters Radio with Pam Harper and Scott Harper®, Episode 142 − CEO Lessons From a 2017 Malcolm Baldrige Award Winner.
This episode is brought to you by Business Advancement Incorporated − enabling successful leaders and companies to accelerate to their next level of success. On the web at businessadvance.com.
And now, here’s Pam and Scott.
Pam Harper: Thanks, Chris! I’m Pam Harper, Founding Partner and CEO of Business Advancement Incorporated. Sitting right across from me, as always, is my business partner and husband, Scott Harper. Hi, Scott!
Scott Harper: Hi, Pam. It’s always a pleasure to join you for another episode of Growth Igniters® Radio. And, as always, our purpose is to spark new insights, inspiration, and immediately useful ideas for visionary leaders to accelerate themselves − and their companies − to their next level of game-changing innovation, growth, and success.
Now, Pam, as companies move to that next level and transform and grow, there’s a lot of moving parts that come in to play. The bigger that they are, the more things have to be coordinated. A process can be a real help sometimes.
Pam Harper: Yes. It really is a paradox; in fact, we call it the growth paradox.
Pam Harper: That is, the organization that supports us also constrains us. Leadership teams that are mindfully navigating this paradox, we believe, are the ones are the best at igniting and sustaining the game-changing growth and success that is so important, especially, in uncharted territory.
Scott Harper: Absolutely.
Pam Harper: And our guest today has been navigating in uncharted territory her whole career. She is Celeste Ford, Founder and CEO of Stellar Solutions. Her company is a global provider of systems engineering expertise, and a recognized leader in government and commercial aerospace programs that are focused on high impact projects and satisfying customer critical needs, in alignment with employees’ dreams jobs.
Celeste is a proven leader of the Stellar Constellation of Companies, which includes Stellar Solutions Incorporated, which is engineering services; Stellar Solutions Aerospace Limited, their UK based affiliate; Stellar Solutions Aerospace France; Quake Finder, their humanitarian R & D division; and the Stellar Solutions Foundation.
Celeste a valued member of the board of multiple organizations in the private and public sectors. She is also a recognized and respected personality in her field, having served on Congressional commissions as well as on panels focusing on entrepreneurship and women in business, and is an active advocate of community and charity outreach.
She received her BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and MS in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford University. You can see much more of Celeste’s bio by going to growthignitersradio.com and selecting episode 142.
Celeste, welcome to Growth Igniters Radio!
Celeste Ford: Thanks! Happy to be here!
Pam Harper: Tell us a bit about what led you to become founder and CEO of Stellar Solutions. It’s really an interesting story.
Celeste Ford: Well, I had been in the aerospace industry from the beginning, when I graduated from college. I had worked for three different companies prior to starting Stellar. The first was commercial and international aerospace. The second was defense and intelligence and civil and all the government types of space engineering. The third was a small business that was more in the software area, and I brought the space focus to one of their projects.
After working for a while in the industry, and looking not just at my own experience, but the world out there − I felt that it was very much geared toward climbing a ladder that somebody else had invented or running after a carrot that somebody else was dangling by their criteria of what was important. I guess I just thought I was ready to start with a clean slate. So I thought, if I did, what would it look like? It would look like focusing on critical needs only − just working on the most important things – and managing the size and the projects around that concept. And, of course, aligning assignments with your dream job.
Pam Harper: So, from the start, you had a very clear vision of what you saw for Stellar Solutions.
Celeste Ford: Yeah. I think when you wake up in the morning, you need to really like what you’re doing. If you do, then it isn’t work; it’s what you want to be doing. It’s what you have a passion about. If what you’re working on has high impact, and is satisfying a critical need, and makes the world a better place − well, the alignment of that with your dream job, it just doesn’t get better than that. The financial challenges, if you will, resolve themselves.
Scott Harper: Now, it’s not that unusual for companies, especially technical companies, to focus on their particular clients’ needs. That’s best practice across all the industries. It is much less usual, however, for top leadership to be talking about dream jobs, especially in the vision itself. How did that come about for you?
Celeste Ford: I think all of us have things we like to do, and don’t like to do. As I was reflecting on my own experience, I didn’t want to be the kind of boss where people woke up and were unhappy to come look you in the eye every day because they can’t stand what they’re doing. It was my own situation also − at the time, I had a very young family − if you’re going to be at work, it had better be for something important. I felt at that point in time that creating something where that was the content was really important for me, and for people like me.
Pam Harper: So, what does it really mean to have a dream job?
Celeste Ford: We hold ourselves accountable for what we say our vision is, so we ask our customers if we are satisfying a critical need, we ask our employees if we are satisfying a critical need, and we ask our employees if they’re in their dream job or working towards it. So, the feedback is as diverse and varied as there are people in the world, right?
For some people, a dream job is defined by particular job content, a particular program they’re working on. For some people, it needs to be a better commute. People articulate what’s most important to them, and they actually work towards solving and planning our future, so you can always be working towards that goal.
Pam Harper: That is so important. I find that, over the years, as we’ve been working with companies, that ones where people really can say, “this is a dream job,” in whatever that means − those are the ones that are most successful.
Pam Harper: Now, I was looking at all the awards that you and Stellar Solutions have won. Your approach has definitely meant a lot to people. One of the awards I noticed, in addition to the Baldrige − which we will talk about in a moment − is “Ten Coolest Companies To Work For In The Bay Area.” You also have the Fortune Best Medium Workplace, the Top 500 Women-Owned Businesses in the US, and so many others.
The Malcolm Baldrige Award is now the most recent. Maybe you can tell us a little more for people who are not as familiar with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, what it represents?
Celeste Ford: Sure. It was, first of all, quite an honor to receive that at the national level. It is awarded by the Department of Commerce. It started in the Reagan era, and only 100 companies have been awarded it since then. I’m definitely in great company, and inspiring company. I have to say, for our own journey, it wasn’t about the award itself.
As a business founder that is trying to build a company that is built to last, I was thinking, “Okay, we’re engineers. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, here.” In looking at all of the various approaches that were out there at the time, we went with the Baldrige framework. Why? Because, it’s not prescriptive. You’re not just going down a checklist. “Okay, we got this. Check. We got that. Check.” No. You have to say what is important and hold yourself accountable for it, and prove it. So, it’s very results-oriented and it’s very clear on the communications, and it deals with all various categories from leadership, to workforce, to customers. Half the award is your results, and half are the processes that support that.
Working with the Baldrige framework was good for us, because we felt we were different, and we didn’t want a checklist and a prescriptive thing to get some sort of award, or whatever. I think once we started using it– and by the way, it was really hard; you wouldn’t think it would be that hard, but to get your leadership together and to figure out what is important, and to figure out how you know you’re doing what you said you’re doing − that took a while. Many years later, we started to look at our results and improve things internally, and evaluate ourselves. We were just using this internally, to get ourselves organized. It does help to have goals, but it never started out as let’s get an award.
Somewhere down the line, we decided, “You know what? Let’s have somebody from the outside come evaluate us.” We did it at the state level, and then when you win the state level, they do the national one. That’s how we got that award.
Pam Harper: The thing that I also find fascinating about Baldrige is, that although it’s called the quality award, it’s also very much future focused.
Celeste Ford: Oh, absolutely. Innovation is a big part of it. How do you foster that? How do you not get surprised? It asks all the questions you want to ask yourselves. We found it a good framework. When I say, “built to last” − for Stellar, we wanted a sustainable business. I live in Silicon Valley, and that’s unusual now. Now, most companies are built to flip. It’s how quickly you can start, and flip it.
Scott Harper: So, Celeste, what were you surprised by in this process?
Celeste Ford: What surprised me was the camaraderie and positive feedback from every single employee who participated. It’s pretty much most of your company. In our company, we’re deployed offsite at our customers, so people had to come in to our office and meet with people as a group, or jump on telecons. The extent to which our Baldrige framework was deployed to each and every person in the company, and how each and every one of them could articulate our vision, and what they personally did that, made that vision a reality. It was absolutely amazing.
That’s one of the things that they ask you at Baldrige. Not just what’s your approach, but is it deployed? I think for a company like ours, where people are scattered to the winds, you know, we don’t have the coffee cooler where people are gathered around. We need to be onsite at clients fighting the fires. The fact that each and every employee and each and every geography and project could talk about Stellar in an integrated coherent fashion with enthusiasm, that was really heart warming. I think it really was a great team building experience for all of us, as well.
Pam Harper: So, there were a lot of lessons learned. Not just for you, and not just for the leadership team, but for the entire organization. That’s where we’re going to take a quick break. When we come back, we’ll talk more with Celeste Ford, founder and CEO of Stellar Solutions, about the lessons she’s learned about putting the Baldrige framework into action. Stay with us.
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Pam Harper: Welcome back to Growth Igniters Radio, with Pam Harper − that’s me − and Scott Harper. Scott and I are talking today with Celeste Ford, founder and CEO of Stellar Solutions, about lessons that she, her leadership team, and her organization learned from participating in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award process.
Celeste, how can people find out more about you and Stellar Solutions?
Celeste Ford: Well, the easiest way is the visit our website, stellarsolutions.com.
Pam Harper: Okay; and there’s a lot of information there about all of the things that we’ve been talking about with regard to awards and all the different areas of your company. And, you can find out more about this episode by going to growthignitersradio.com and selecting episode 142.
So, Celeste, you are a visionary leader, yet one of the things that we were talking about is how important it is to engage others, employees and other stakeholders so that they too are ready to break free from the pull of familiar habits and routines. How do you encourage people, so that they’re comfortable moving into this uncharted territory?
Celeste Ford: Well, I think our secret, if you want to call it that, is that we have an inclusive strategic planning process. It’s really the glue that holds everything together. Every year, each and every person in the company participates through the sector they’re in. I didn’t mention, but Stellar Solutions has five points of the star; we have customers in intelligence, defense, civil, commercial, and international space sectors. Each of those points of the star or sectors has a set of strategic planning meetings. It gets kicked off with an email that asks everybody questions to think about, both relative to current customers and future cool things that we should be working on, and aren’t. Also, challenges and obstacles and what we need to remove to achieve our goals.
There is a series of face-to-face meetings and telecons that are arranged by the leads for each sector. By the way, you’re more than invited to participate in other sectors’ plans, especially if you are doing a job that aligns with, “gee, I might want to do something else in this town.” Or, “gee, I might want to move and work in a different sector.” The end product is a very specific, tactical plan for the next year that talks about each and every, what we call our goal one. Our current customers − right size, right scope. We have a very detailed structure in the end. For instance, if we’re going to add people, in what month, doing what task?
Then, we have goal two, which are our innovation goals, which is future customers, future projects. Again, what are they by name? Who is the customer closer? What month? This is all laid out in a goals sheet that we review as a leadership team every month.
And of course, we need to make adjustments, because life does not stand still. There is many a re-plan. Then, this is communicated through our workforce, with one on one meetings every month, as well as two big meetings a year. One is a regional meeting, where we get everyone together in their geography, and go through how we’re doing and what’s changed, and solicit input. That’s kind of a mid-year course correction. Then, the kick off is, of course, our annual meeting, where we bring everyone together and talk about what we’re doing in each sector in the future, as well as celebrating our successes from the prior year. That’s at our annual meeting.
And, oh, the most important thing − there is not a goal in our company strategic plan that does not reside in an individual’s bonus plan. So, it is fully integrated from top to bottom, and that’s how we do it.
Pam Harper: So, there’s reinforcement that keeps it all relevant. Great.
Now, literally, you are in uncharted territory. Outer space, right? How do you encourage somebody to do something that they have never done before, even though they have the goal in their plan? I know in a lot of other situations we’ve seen, people will worry about making mistakes.
Scott Harper: Or not know what to do.
Pam Harper: How do you deal with that?
Celeste Ford: Yeah, well, we very much embrace the idea of “try stuff.” In new employee orientation, one of my favorite quotes that we show right off the get-go is, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” So, we encourage people to do the right thing for their customers and for themselves. And, we provide the training that goes along with that. When people fill out their dream job worksheets, a big part of that is identifying the training they need. Is this something you can just do now because you know how to do it? Or, is this something that you really need to get more training on before it’s a viable solution? We’re lifelong learners at Stellar. Nobody is ever done with that.
Scott Harper: Celeste, you referred a little bit ago to encouraging people to get involved in other sectors. We’ve read on your website that you talk about “crossing the boundaries” to really ramp up your innovation, solutions for clients. What is the key to reinforcing that type of collaboration across boundaries, when everybody knows that everyone has goals that they have to accomplish? “These are the things that I have to get done; these are on my plan for the year; this is what I’m being evaluated on.” How does collaboration across the boundaries come into play?
Celeste Ford: Well, from day one, people hear “crossing the boundaries, crossing the boundaries.” We are system engineers. The value that differentiates us from system engineers who work solely in intelligence or solely in commercial sectors, is that we can bring that diverse information and experience from point A to point B, and the customer doesn’t have to change their contract and pay extra to get it. We call that our “buy two, get two hundred” approach.
The way we share that information and deploy it is, because we are so spread out, is to use a lot of intra-company communication. For example, someone may do a “Stellar All” email and say, “Hey, I’ve got to store my satellite for two years. My launch vehicle is not ready. Does anyone have experience with that? What should we be on the lookout for?” You’ll get answers from people who have had that specific experience elsewhere, and then after the person gets all the information, because people typically need to go point to point and do deeper dives, they’ll come back to Stellar All, and say, “okay, here is what I learned.”
We all learn from each other − from the people who have been there and done that, even if it’s something we knew nothing about. That’s the primary way we support Crossing the Boundaries. The secondary way is to do what we call “shout outs.” So, we have a system at Stellar where we like to celebrate the individual, and we can learn from that as well, when we’re crossing the boundaries. A lot of it is, you may not know what people are doing. Some customers take the time to write letters, and you get exalted in front of others in your respective work project areas. But, sometimes they don’t.
So when you just see somebody doing something really special that made a big difference, you can call attention to it. Any employee can give a shout out to any other employee at any time, and they automatically get a bonus, and all of us get to hear about the great thing that person did. And we’re also learning more about each other and the kind of things that are available to our other customers from that. That’s a crossing the boundaries activity as well. We also call attention to crossing the boundaries accomplishments in our newsletters and the meetings we have as a group.
Scott Harper: How is that reinforced? Is crossing the boundaries in peoples’ individual performance plans? Is it reinforced in some other way?
Celeste Ford: We give bonuses for the “shout outs,” but we don’t give bonuses for crossing the boundaries, because we want people to think that is your job every day, for your customer and for each other, to really leverage the power of 200 people into the power of one. The main way we reinforce crossing the boundaries is to over-communicate it. We do have particular initiatives this year that we have identified that actually are specifically to cross the boundaries.
For example, our intelligence sector has made a great name for themselves to do with continuity of operations and resiliency. We said, you know, this is really important to more than just the intelligence community. How do we take what we’re doing there, and apply it to other government agencies and other commercial entities? So, there is a group of people who are off doing exactly that.
Scott Harper: That’s great.
Pam Harper: It sounds like learning is such a fundamental part of your culture. One of the things, of course, when you’re learning, is you’re coming up with all kinds of unexpected decisions that you might not have anticipated, you know? You discover something new, or life happens, and a challenge pops up. What is the key that you found to staying focused, yet nimble enough to respond to all of the unexpected things?
Celeste Ford: Well, I think it starts with a good strategic planning process, and also accountability tracking at a monthly level. As a leadership team, we have a convergence meeting, and we look at our results in each and every area − all our goals and how they’re going, time base, what makes sense, what doesn’t? What are the deltas this month? We talk about each and every employee − what’s going on in their life? Do they need extra support? We cover it all on a monthly basis, and we adjust to what we’re hearing. Honestly, we re-plan around what we’re learning.
We also have what we call “goal three,” our situational awareness. Those aren’t our goals for this year, but they’re in the next three to five years. What’s coming down the pipe? What conferences do we go to? What people do we talk to? How do we stay ahead of what is coming down the pipe? We have very specific things identified in our goal three, situational awareness, around that.
Of course, this is all possible because we think it is very important to have monthly face to face contact with each and every employee, and each and every customer. From there, we really learn what are the critical needs? What do we need to do differently?
Pam Harper: Okay, so, the whole idea of being very clear on your strategy, where you’re going, and also having that situational awareness makes a big difference, and incorporating it all together has clearly made a difference for Stellar Solutions.
Scott Harper: Yeah; that’s what leadership is about.
Pam Harper: We’re going to take another quick break, and when we come back, we’ll talk more with Celeste Ford, founder and CEO of Stellar Solutions, about immediately useful ideas for determining what it would take to apply this framework for your company. Stay with us.
Scott Harper: This is Growth Igniters Radio, with Pam Harper and Scott Harper. Brought you by Business Advancement Incorporated. We’re on the web at businessadvance.com.
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Pam Harper: Welcome back to Growth Igniters Radio with Pam Harper and Scott Harper. Over the last two segments, Scott and I have been talking with Celeste Ford, founder and CEO of Stellar Solutions, about lessons that she and her leadership team learned from participating in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality process.
Celeste, can you tell us again how people can find out more about you and Stellar Solutions?
Celeste Ford: Yes, the best way to find out about Stellar Solutions is to go to our website, stellarsolutions.com.
Pam Harper: Okay; and remember that you can find out more about this episode’s show notes and all the rest, by going to growthignitersradio.com and selecting episode 142.
This is the part of our podcast where we like to talk about immediately useful ideas, so that as soon as everyone is done listening, they can go and take action. One of the things you mentioned, in one of the previous segments, was the importance of the conversations that take place with your leadership team about whether this really is right for us? What kinds of conversations are important around that?
Celeste Ford: I think that, as you answer the questions that the Baldrige process poses, you think, “I like that.” Again, it’s not a checklist. In adapting it to your company, you find that you’re not the same as everybody else. Everybody has something unique to bring to the table. Together, when you collaborate with your people to get to that information, you can create something good.
For us, it was that vision of laser sharp focus on customer critical needs, and the alignment with dream jobs. From there, we cascaded into a really good strategic planning process that was inclusive. Tying that to individual bonus plans and crossing the boundaries, and things that we wanted to make sure we are measuring as we grow all became very clear. We haven’t compromised on any of that, so that we can still have that small company feel even as we spread out geographically and grow.
I think what people don’t know about Baldrige − and it’s important − is that when you get evaluated, 50% is on your results. It’s not just a theory of life exercise and planning. No. You have to have processes, but you better be getting results from those processes, and it better be sustainable, and there had better be good trends, as well as levels.
Scott Harper: Okay. You have mentioned something very important. It’s one thing to have things written down, and have processes planned out and constructed, but it’s a whole different thing to put them into actual use. Creating the reality of, “yeah, we’re actually doing it and it’s creating good stuff for us” is so critical. What are some practical ideas that a leadership team can take to move from creating a framework to actually bringing it into life?
Celeste Ford: One thing that I learned is, you know, I think everybody has metrics in their business, and you look at them. The first question is, “are they the right ones? Are you looking at too many?” Sometimes, the question is, “what should we stop doing?” As much as, “what should we add?”
When it comes to results, the level of good, bad, and indifferent of whatever you’re looking at in your metric, is only one thing. Baldridge, I think, does this very well; they have this framework that you look at, not just your levels, but at your trends, comparisons, and integration. It’s one thing if we all sit around a table at our monthly leadership meetings and say, “wow, this level is really good,” but if it was higher the year before, and the year before, maybe it’s not so good. It just feels good because we’re working really hard to get those results.
Even more telling is the comparisons. If you don’t do that, even at the most basic level, you can say “look, oh, I’ve got good trends. I’ve got good levels.” Well, let’s say I am in aerospace and defense, and I grew two percent, or five percent, or seven percent. That was my trend. I’m like, “wow, I’m really doing great.” But if you’re about innovation in the future, you know, if things are growing at 10 percent and you’re not, that benchmarking and comparison is important for saying you could be doing better. I think that’s the other way to look at it.
Also, the integration of metrics is important. It can’t just be financial results, which is what everyone hones in on. That’s your rear view mirror. There’s also “what got you there? How is it integrated with employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction, safety, and security?” It needs to be integrated to give you the results that you want.
Pam Harper: So, it’s not just about the metrics, it’s about what those metrics mean; taking that into the context is what is so important.
Scott Harper: Yeah. As the old saying goes, “you get what you measure,” but you better measure the right stuff that is actually relevant to what you want to get out.
Celeste Ford: Absolutely.
Pam Harper: So, Celeste, time has really gone by here. Do you have any final thoughts to leave us with on what it takes to lead your company into the future, while staying excellent today?
Celeste Ford: Well, I think you’ve heard it over and over from me, and I’ll say it again because it is the most important thing. It’s not rocket science. In any business, if you focus on satisfying your customer critical need, and aligning that with your workforce’s dream jobs, it is a good thing, and you will be successful.
My second take away is, “reach for the stars.”
Pam Harper: We’ll remember that. Celeste, thanks. It’s been a real pleasure.
Celeste Ford: Thank you very much.
Scott Harper: Thanks, Celeste. And, thanks to you out there to listening to Growth Igniters Radio with Pam Harper and Scott Harper. To check out resources related to today’s conversation, share on social media, read Celeste’s bio, or open a conversation with us, go to growthignitersradio.com and select episode 142.
Pam Harper: Wishing you continued success and leaving you with this question to discuss with your team.
Scott Harper: What can we learn from the Baldrige Award framework that could help us take our company to our next level of innovation, game changing growth and success?
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The Best of Jose Feliciano
Romper el Hielo
Latin Street '92
Happy Birthday, Les Paul! (Live @ The Iridium)
My Latin Street
Souled
At His Best
En Mi Viejo San Juan
Arabesque Feliciano
The Ultimate Christmas Playlist
Step It Up And Go Fundamental Folk Music
Mi Cantar a Mexico
Lala Ka Chinga
Boxidro
About Jose Feliciano
One of the few artists to have hits in both English and Spanish, Jose Feliciano is an easily identifiable pop icon. As a blind singer and guitarist, he first received attention playing in the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village while still in high school. His passionate, soulful voice and Flamenco guitar embellishments catapulted him into the pop mainstream, and his version of the Doors' "Light My Fire" topped the hit parade in 1968; he even performed the national anthem at the World Series that year. He could be seen regularly on network television in the 1970s performing songs such as "Feelings." A prolific recording artist, he recorded light versions of popular rock songs that were embellished with strings and marketed to mature audiences. Although first cast under the American spotlight, he ended up more popular with Latino audiences. Bebop Digital
Bill Withers, Jim Croce, Jose Jose, Silvio Rodriguez, The Doors, Trini Lopez
Lite Rock
One of the few artists to have hits in both English and Spanish, Jose Feliciano is an easily identifiable pop icon. As a blind singer and guitarist, he first received attention playing in the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village while still in high school. His passionate, soulful voice and Flamenco guitar embellishments catapulted him into the pop mainstream, and his version of the Doors' "Light My Fire" topped the hit parade in 1968; he even performed the national anthem at the World Series that year. He could be seen regularly on network television in the 1970s performing songs such as "Feelings." A prolific recording artist, he recorded light versions of popular rock songs that were embellished with strings and marketed to mature audiences. Although first cast under the American spotlight, he ended up more popular with Latino audiences.
Folk Pop
Latin Soul
As You See Me Now
Jools Holland and Jose Feliciano
Countdown to Christmas (Made for TV Soundtrack)
Kerstliedjes voor kinderen
Alles Kids
Silent Night - A Classical Christmas
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Blood, bodies and Flags on the Ole Miss Campus
Filed under: Uncategorized — annebabson @ 11:43 am
Tags: American culture, American Experience, American History, Anne Babson, Barak Obama, Black Lives Matter, Bodies, Confederacy, Confederate Cemetery, Confederate Dead, confederate flag, Confederate memorial, Confederate monument, Counter-protest, Daily Mississippian, Education, Flags, fraternities, heritage, History, Hotty Toddy, Institutional Racism, James Meredith, Klan, Ku Klux Klan, lost cause mythology, Mississippi, Mississippi State flag, Ole Miss, Ole Miss Campus, Oxford Mississippi, plantation life, protest, racism, Reconstruction, rich man's war poor man's fight, Shaun Winkler, slavery, southern living, Southern Politics, Tallahatchie River, terrorism, The Daily Mississippian, The DM, The DM Online, University of Mississippi, white privilege, whiteness, Yankees, Youtube
At a recent rally to take down the Confederate-emblematic-Mississippi-State-Flag from the University of Mississippi’s campus, the student newspaper The Daily Mississippian quoted a counter-protester Shaun Winkler, who came with swastika tattoos and a Stars-And-Bars banner to say, “Black lives don’t matter. We are the blood of conquerors.”
The students on campus generally want to take the state flag down, but the outside community staged counter-protests. Thank you DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN for the image.
Conquerors? Really? That’s funny. I recall my Yankee ancestors conquering yours in the battles where that flag in your hands was waved unanachronistically.
And Black lives do matter. So do the protests of black students, who have every right, while trodding on ground where men like Mr. Winkler threatened to shed James Meredith’s blood fifty years ago for having the audacity to enroll there, to feel that the last contemporary bastion of institutional racism’s symbolism is embodied in the Mississippi State Flag, the last flag in the Union still emblazoned with the Confederate symbol.
Mr. Winkler gave the impression in his interview and in his choice of tattoo of not having a college education. He and the counter-protesters came from other places, no doubt from under Tallahatchie river rocks next to newts and insects, to protest the removal of a flag from a place that wouldn’t have let his conquering blood matriculate because of low test scores. Certainly Mr. Winkler flunked history, at least.
But Mr. Winkler needn’t have protested if his objective in doing so was to keep a Confederate heritage alive at The University of Mississippi. Indeed, the history of the college is such that it can hardly be doubted that it will retain its past symbols of conquered Confederates. And while I abhor the politics of racism, I think the Left enters dangerous and anti-intellectual territory where it wishes to deface monuments longstanding to racist regimes, for if we do not remember the past, we are doomed to repeat it. It is the contemporary symbols, like the contemporary flag, which must go — but it would be nearly impossible to imagine that the University of Mississippi could divide itself from the Confederacy in history, even if it wanted to.
This is a monument to the Confederate Dead on the Ole Miss Campus.
When one enters the campus of Ole Miss from University Avenue, headed toward the administration building, one passes a monument to the Confederate dead. Indeed, if seen in a vacuum, the story of the deaths of students at Ole Miss at the Battle of Shiloh and elsewhere are tragic — entire graduating classes perished in grey uniforms under fire from the Union army. Next to the Confederate monument is a building that was used as a hospital for the dying Confederacy. In it, one sees a stained-glass monument of the high-melodramatic style of the late Victorian era. If one enters the campus from Highway 6, and one looks for parking away from the football stadium, which is often restricted, one may park behind the basketball stadium, where a cemetery for those soldiers who died in the hospital building on campus got buried. On Confederacy memorial days, women of this era show up in hoop skirts, and men in grey reenactment uniforms arrive, and they place wreaths here for unknown soldiers of their conquered cause.
Mississippi ought to stop insulting the African-American descendants of slaves with the symbol that was used to oppress them during the war, then terrify them in the hands of Klan terrorists after the Civil War was over and the Yankees had packed up and moved back North. Nobody deserves to go to school in an environment where some ignorant idiot would actually tell them that their lives didn’t matter.
The truth of those monuments — that the boys who enrolled in 1861, white and privileged, arrogant and swaggering, the sons of slave-owners, who all got Gatling-gunned down and got buried here and there where swamp animals didn’t devour their corpses — the truth of the sad melodrama of a society that knew it had been conquered, those things ought not be removed. I wouldn’t mind, though, seeing a monument somewhere on campus to the people who died in Mississippi from the rigors of plantation life in dirty shacks, with insufficient food, backs scarred from whippings. My instinct would be to put it right next to that Confederate soldier statue, though it would ruin the symmetry of the rotunda. My instinct would be to make it at least as large as the nineteenth-century monument, and why? Because black lives do matter. Confederates did not conquer. And those privileged white boys, their lives were extinguished to defend an indefensible institution, one that brutalized the many for the pleasures of a few.
This is literally where the Confederate bodies are buried on the Ole Miss Campus.
But I would tear nothing down. The ghosts of Confederate soldiers will continue to haunt Ole Miss, especially on nights like the night of November 6, 2012, where a young man got filmed for Youtube, naked all but for an American flag diapering his frat-boy bottom, drunk in the flatbed of a friend’s trunk, angry because Obama won again, shouting “F#ck the N%ggers!” over and over again, just yards away from that Confederate Soldier statue, the true son in the political spirit and overbloated privilege of a small class of white men in Mississippi over the hardworking aspirations of people of color who did him no wrong and over even Mr. Winkler, who needs a real history lesson, as he assumes the cause of that spoiled rich boy somehow reflects his own interests, when in fact it does not. If he were not so defined by his hatred, literally scarred with swastikas of his own selection, I would call him a victim here. I think he has been horribly conned. I would tell him he should clamor for something that acknowledges the total and wasteful loss of white lives in the service of an elitist Confederacy which held the lives of his ancestors at an even lower price than the lives of the slaves they owned and might exploit in peace time.
There is blood on the campus of Ole Miss, but it is not the blood of conquerors. There is dried blood of wasted lives. And there is new blood of hopeful members of the New South, and they want to take down a flag that insults the humanity of many students there and the intelligence of absolutely anyone. We don’t believe in myths any more. We want to explore the truth in greater clarity. We want our lives, all our lives, to matter, to be spent in pursuit of worthy causes, ones that serve our interests collectively and individually. Take that accursed flag down!
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CLEVELAND ROLLING MILL STRIKES
The CLEVELAND ROLLING MILL STRIKES occurred during the summer of 1882 and 1885 and involved skilled workers who were largely of British origin, as well as Polish and Czech unskilled laborers who were working in the company's facilities near present-day Jones Rd. and Broadway. In May 1882, the Amalgamated Assn. of Iron & Steel Workers, representing skilled workers, demanded a closed shop for the association which would also set the wage scale. When the demands were rejected by the company's president, William Chisholm, the workers walked out, and the company hired unskilled Polish and Czech workers as lower-cost strikebreakers. On 5 June the rolling mill reopened, but violence erupted on 13 June as Czech workers and police were stoned by strikers, turning public sympathy away from the union. By the end of July, the strike had virtually collapsed as a result of the city's support of the company, the public attitude, and the union's inability to gain support of the new unskilled workers.
In the summer of 1885 a more massive and violent strike occurred, this time led by the POLES and CZECHS protesting wage cuts made by Chisholm in response to a business recession. The striking wire mill workers invaded the other mills, forcing the entire company to shut down, though their violent tactics met with disapproval from the English-speaking skilled workers who supported the strike. On 6 July, 1,500 marched to Chisholm's downtown office and demanded a restoration of the wage cuts, and when Chisholm refused 1,000 Poles and Czechs forced the H. P. Nail Co. and the Union Steel Screw Co. to close (Chisholm owned stock in both). When the Rolling Mill Co. tried to reopen on 13 July, another riot ensued. Unable to unite skilled and unskilled workers, many of Amalgamated's skilled workers returned to work in September. With another attack on the mills by the Poles and Czechs in the offing, Mayor GEORGE GARDNER ordered Chisholm to restore the June wage cut, and the strike ended. Chisholm, however, refused to rehire many of his former Polish and Czech workers.
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Labour, OH&S
CIRP fighting ‘fentanyl explosion,’ helping construction workers
Don Procter January 18, 2018
CIRP/ Pictured is the Construction Industry Rehabilitation Plan (CIRP) team. They offer construction workers with addiction and mental health issues such services as trauma and mental health management counselling.
The demand for mental health and addiction services for construction workers at a B.C. treatment centre has “almost tripled” in the past year — largely driven by the fentanyl overdose epidemic.
“The explosion of fentanyl has brought the Construction Industry Rehabilitation Plan (CIRP) to the forefront of many people’s minds,” says Vicky Waldron, executive director, CIRP, a joint initiative of the Construction Labour Relations Association of B.C. and the BC Building Trades Council.
A study done by the Fraser Health Authority concluded the construction industry is “disproportionately represented” in all of the opioid deaths in B.C. in 2016, says Waldron.
“The construction industry is losing more workers — specifically men — than any other industry,” she says.
Waldron suggests the addictions problem is highest in construction partly because it is a male-dominated industry and many are “macho” and not apt to talk about their feelings or problems.
“We started with a population that isn’t doing terribly well to begin with and now we’ve thrown fentanyl into the mix,” she states.
The CIRP is helping to stem that tide. It offers construction workers with addiction and mental health issues such services as trauma and mental health management counselling.
In-residence stays at health care facilities offered through CIRP — once mandatory for all patients — is now one of a number of options available to patients, says Waldron, noting the treatment model was revamped last year to better suit individual needs.
New to the construction industry, Waldron came to the CIRP in 2015 with a wealth of job experience in mental health and addiction. She recognizes addictions are complex, often symptomatic of biological, psychological and social factors.
She says while the CIRP keeps tabs on which trades its clients are from, the organization is careful not to draw conclusions that some trades are worse than others.
“Some building sectors are more open and willing to engage in mental health and addictions conversations which make it easier for those clients to come to us,” she says.
Waldron explains data collected over the past couple of years indicates more than 80 per cent of the CIRP’s clients have “co-occurring mental health” disorders. That means along with having substance abuse issues, they have mental health illnesses, which they are often not aware of.
“They just know they aren’t doing well and they are using drugs to cope,” she says.
Most surprising to Waldron is that 90 per cent of the CIRP’s clients have screened positive for “significant early childhood traumas.” By comparison, only 40 to 45 per cent of the general population seeking help has similar traumatic histories.
What’s more, of that 90 per cent, about 70 per cent screen positive for “moderate to severe” post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, says the CIRP’s executive director, adding most of these clients have never been diagnosed before with PTSD.
Waldron says it is not uncommon for CIRP to see clients only after they have experienced multiple overdoses.
“We can start taking some guesses as to why but we really have to examine this more,” says Waldron. “We’re just starting to peel back the top layers of what is going on.”
She says the building industry’s problems are only now starting to get province-wide recognition. Spotlighting them helps to increase awareness and hopefully services will continue to grow.
“We have seen rapid expansion of the program and services we offer… but expansion is always butted up against funding, unfortunately,” she states, adding in an ideal world funding would be available for more outreach programs and early treatment (prime intervention) programs.
Waldron would also like to see the Lower Mainland-based CIRP increase services to remote areas of B.C. Last year it started providing counselling through Skype — a step in the right direction, she says.
While CIRP sees many people in crisis, Waldron says there is a good news side to the field. One example is case of a construction worker who came “as a last resort” when his marriage and family was crumbling because of his addiction.
Extensive treatment that included counselling for him and his wife “saved the marriage and her husband’s life,” according to his wife, says Waldron.
The CIRP can be contacted toll free at 1-800-521-8611.
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PM Must Preach his MPs Before Guiding Opposition: Congress
If the Prime Minister’s message is delivered to his ministers or juniors then it will be beneficial for all, says Congress.
NEW DELHI (IANS) — The Congress on Tuesday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advice to the Opposition, saying his words were most of the time not implemented by his own party leaders.
Stressing on the importance of active opposition in a democracy, Modi on Monday told them not to bother about their numbers and instead actively take part in the Lok Sabha’s proceedings.
Before taking oath as a member on the first day of the 17th Lok Sabha, Modi said the role of an “opposition and an active opposition is important in parliamentary democracy”.
On Tuesday when former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi along with a host of senior party leaders met at UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s residence to discuss the party’s strategy in Parliament during the Budget Session, Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary said: “If the Prime Minister’s message is delivered to his ministers or juniors then it will be beneficial for all.
“What Prime Minister is preaching is most of the time not being implemented by their party leaders.”
The Congress meeting was the first one ahead of the crucial session and was attended also by Anand Sharma, Ghulam Nabi Azad, P. Chidambaram, Jairam Ramesh, K. Suresh and Chaudhary.
As the leaders were expected to discuss the party’s stand on issues like ‘one nation, one election’, and triple talaq besides its Leader in the Lower House, Chaudhary told the media: “Azadji briefed the party leaders in context to what Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) has said and that has been conveyed to our CPP leader.”
He said Sonia Gandhi was apprised about the issues. Asked if the leader of Congress in Lok Sabha was discussed at the meeting, Chaudhary said, “No, Leader of Congress was not discussed.”
To a question, if the issues like one nation, one election, triple talaq was discussed, he said it will be dealt when it comes up in Parliament.
On meeting with opposition leaders, he said, “Certainly… we have good relations with them so we will talk with them.”
Speaking about Modi’s remarks over numbers in the lower House, Chaudhary said, “It is the core essence of democracy. Democracy is not determined by numbers, it is determined by opinions, discussions.”
He also said that the issue of the Leader of Congress in the House is important and Sonia Gandhi, who was made the Congress Parliamentary Party leader for the second time, has also been given the task to select the leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha.
General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra though reached her mother’s residence just minutes after the key meeting ended.
Congress is the largest party in opposition, although it fell short of a majority by two seats to get Leader of the Opposition post in the Lok Sabha.
The source said that as the Congress is biggest opposition in Lok Sabha big responsibility lies on the party to play a key role to provide a strong opposition on the floor of the House.
On Monday, senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Anand Sharma had given a sense of party’s line — the government should end the ordinance culture and respect parliamentary process, important bills should be sent to Parliamentary Committees and then discussed in the House too, before being passed as laws.
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Post Malone Plans to Drop New Music Before 2018 Ends
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Post Malone has had a fantastic year. His second album, Beerbongs & Bentleys, is one of the best hip-hop projects of 2018 and the LP track "Better Now" was a major hit on pop radio.
With all of his success, you would think Posty is kicking back and relaxing until the end of the year. Well, not quite.
On Friday (Dec. 14), the “Sunflower” rhymer jumped on his Twitter account to announce that new music is on the way. In a short tweet, he wrote, “Song before the year ends.”
Post didn’t offer any additional information about the song. But he only has a few weeks to drop it - hopefully before New Year's Eve. We are quite sure fans would love to rock out to a new Posty jam at an NYE party.
The announcement follows Post’s recent success in the footwear industry. Earlier this week, the 23-year-old rapper's second Crocs collaboration sold out in less than 10 seconds.
His Dimitri Clog boasts six custom-designed Jibbitz charms, including one for his "Stay Away" tattoo, his own logo and an all-white silhouette with a baby devil. The sold-out Crocs sold for $59.99 and are now worth $800 in the resale market.
Post said that he enjoys wearing Crocs and wanted to deliver a product that he knew the fans would love to wear. "I wear Crocs everywhere from the bar to the stage and I felt it was the perfect collaboration to get together with Crocs and give the fans what they've been asking for," he said.
On one final note, Post was recently nominated for four Grammy Awards including Best Pop Solo Performance, Record of the Year, Best Rap Performance and Album of the Year for the 2019 Grammy Awards.
Overall, Post Malone is living his best life. Peep his tweet below.
Post Malone Via Twitter
See Every Hip-Hop Song That Topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2018
Source: Post Malone Plans to Drop New Music Before 2018 Ends
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Archive for month: March, 2015
World Music Instrument: The Tabla
March 17, 2015 /in CWM News, World Music in the Schools /by Lance [Admin]
We continue our series of reports on the fascinating variety of musical instruments that students in World Music in the Schools enjoy working with . . .
The tabla is a paired drum set from the northern regions of South Asia (North India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan). Consisting of a high drum (dayan) and a low drum (dagga or bayan), the tabla is played with the fingers, using a variety of different strokes and hand positions, to produce up to twenty different sounds. Each of these sounds in turn has a name, or a syllable. Together, these syllables (for example: ta, tin, dha, dhin) are used pedagogically as a rhythmic solfège—the syllables are sung to the student in order to teach rhythmic phrases, which are then reproduced on the drums.
Although the tabla was invented and popularized in the Mughal courts of Delhi approximately 300 years ago, the systems of music it stems from are over two thousand years old. The tabla, in a sense, is a modern instrument that reflects South Asia’s embodiment of the ancient and the new—it has both Hindu roots and an Islamic Mughal past while continuing to thrive as a vibrant tradition, both within the contexts of North Indian Classical music as well as in the global musical landscape.
—Miles Shrewsbery, World Music in the Schools Teaching Artist
See the tabla in action on YouTube: Tabla Legend Ustad Alla Rakha | Interview with Zakir Hussain (Alla Rakha’s son) | Miles Shrewsbery Tabla Solo
Learn more about Teaching Artist Miles Shrewsbery and his music at tablamiles.com.
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Ten Fun Facts About the Irish Fiddle
March 17, 2015 /in World Music News /by Lance [Admin]
Even Google is featuring the Irish fiddle on its home page today! As a modest contribution to your St. Patrick’s Day revels, an interesting article about the instrument . . .
The fiddle has survived generational changes from its start as a low-class instrument popular among the poor. Now, the Irish fiddle is playing an instrumental role in preserving traditional Irish music and culture.
Read on at the OUPblog.
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Spotlight: Persian Classical Musician, Kourosh Taghavi
San Diego Participant Observer, March 12, 2015
Kourosh Taghavi, master of Persian classical music and pillar of the CWM’s World Music in the Schools program, is featured in an article by Amanda Kelly.
Kourosh Taghavi, instrumentalist, vocalist and Persian classical musician boasts a passionate approach to music that has impacted audiences around the world. His collaborative projects with master musicians and local cultural organizations work to fulfill his lifelong dream to promote Persian classical music. . . . “It is a very holistic approach to music instead of just notation and sounds,” he says. “Your daily life is so attached to your music and your music is so attached to your daily life they are almost inseparable.”
The San Diego Participant Observer is published online by the Worldview Project. It is a great source for keep up-to-date on cultural goings on in San Diego and environs. Thanks to Tom Johnston-O’Neill and the dedicated crew at the Worldview Project for their support of World Music in the Schools and other Center for World Music projects!
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Students Learn “Aloha” is a Concept and Movement
November 8, 2017 by University Communications & Marketing
Pono Shim and Monique P. Gomes
My name is Monique P. Gomes and it was an honor to hear from Mr. Pono Shim, President and CEO of Oahu Economic Development Board.
Mr. Shim began his presentation by elaborating on sustainability. He believes that people often mistake our Hawaiian Ahupua’a as a concept of sustainability when it is truly a concept of prosperity. Hawaiian Ahupua’a was a way of life for our Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian people) where they prosper spiritually, physically, and emotionally.
He also spoke about his career. Mr. Shim was hired, not as an economist, but as a healer. He stressed that the #1 issue across industries is the ineffective engagement with employees. He pointed out that these type of issues are people-centered and cannot be solved with artificial intelligence. Therefore, learning to engage with people and heal relationships is Anonui (of great importance).
Mr. Shim learned how to engage people as a child, by observing his father at work. His father, who practiced law, provided meaningful opportunities for the community to Malama (take care) of each other. In particular, his father played a vital role in implementing the Hawaii Law of the Aloha Spirit, drafted in 1985 and passed in 1986, making the state of Hawaii the only state in the United States with a law that is culturally sensitive. According to his father, “one day every law will fail, but we (in Hawaii) have a law that would give us the opportunity to choose relationships over the law.”
Other topics Mr. Shim spoke about include finding the hidden objects, a story about his father’s aunt Pilahi Paki who was the Keeper of Secrets, and the secret meanings of ALOHA.
In conclusion, Mr. Shim’s presentation was extraordinary and it spoke to my Puuwai (heart). We will now be mindful that ALOHA is not just a word but a concept with depth and movement which creates a foundation for relationships. Being aware of how we can find the Aloha Response allows us to build within our community. We must be Maika’i (good people) listening with Aloha in order to give an Aloha Response, with gentle touches and clean gloves. Therefore, no matter where we go, we will always leave this place better than how we found it.
Written by: Hogan Entrepreneurs Program student, Monique P. Gomes
Speaker Session with Pono Shim 11/1/17
Photos taken by Nathanael Cassion
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Australia and Sam Kerr quiet the haters at the World Cup
Australia's Sam Kerr, 2nd left, celebrates with teammates after scoring her sides first goal during the Women's World Cup Group C soccer match between Australia and Italy at the Stade du Hainaut in Valenciennes, Sunday, June 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Australia’s path to the Women’s World Cup was turbulent even before its upset loss in the opening round.
That loss to Italy in stoppage time was a terrible start for a team that some consider one of the tournament favorites. The Matildas feature Sam Kerr, their back-flipping global superstar captain, and the forward has urged her teammates to tune out criticism that followed the loss to Italy.
“Ah mate, It’s just outside noise, we don’t listen to the haters. Look at that performance coming back from the deep,” Kerr said. “I love these girls, they’re something else.”
Italy scored in stoppage time, an upset considered the surprise of the World Cup. But Australia beat Brazil 1-0 to earn a spot in the round of 16 and closes Group C play at Stade du Hainaut in Valenciennes, France against Jamaica on Tuesday.
Kerr has been feisty since arriving at the World Cup and the openly gay player used Twitter this week to reveal a homophobic message she had received. Kerr has been with the national team since 2009 and has 32 goals in 79 games.
But she hadn’t scored in a World Cup until the opener when she put the Matildas in front of Italy with a goal in the 22nd minute. She celebrated by punching the corner flag in a tribute to Australian great Tim Cahill.
But Barbara Bonasea scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner in stoppage time, to give Italy the win and stun Australia.
The Italy loss was one Australia didn’t need after months of controversy surrounding the team. The Australian federation dismissed coach Alen Stajcic in January after an internal review revealed a “toxic” team culture. Stajcic denied any issues.
He was replaced by Ante Milicic, an assistant on Australia’s men’s team, who had just a half-dozen exhibition games to prepare with his new team.
After the loss to Italy, Milicic suggested that his team would just have to advance “the hard way.” Indeed, the match against Brazil wasn’t easy.
Australia fell behind two goals before rallying for a 3-2 victory on a controversial own goal. The Matildas became just the second team to win a World Cup match after going down two goals.
Afterward, Milicic addressed the critics of the team, too.
“The important thing is that we, as a staff, give these girls every opportunity to do well in this tournament,” he said. “The outside noise stays out.”
Chloe Logarzo suggested it’s characteristic of her nation to never quit, and to ignore their detractors.
“The Australian mentality is to come out swinging,” Logarzo said. “We like a good fight.”
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Alexander-Walker leads No. 15 Virginia Tech past Miami
By JIMMY ROBERTSON - Mar. 08, 2019 11:13 PM EST
Virginia Tech coach Buzz Williams poses for a photograph with seniors Justin Robinson, Ty Outlaw (42) and Ahmed Hill (13) before the team's NCAA college basketball game against Miami in Blacksburg, Va., Friday, March 8, 2019. (Matt Gentry/The Roanoke Times via AP)
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — In a pregame ceremony, the Virginia Tech recognized three seniors who arguably changed the fortunes of the program. Then, a sophomore stole the show.
Nickeil Alexander-Walker had 21 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists, and No. 15 Virginia Tech beat Miami 84-70 on Friday night to tie the school record for regular-season victories with 23.
Playing mostly at the point guard position, Alexander-Walker was 6 of 14 from the floor, including three 3-pointers, and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Hokies (23-7, 12-6 Atlantic Coast Conference). The sophomore also tied his career high with eight assists.
"It was all about our seniors," Alexander-Walker said. "The fact that I could be there for them was huge."
Ahmed Hill and Ty Outlaw had strong performances in their last home game for the Hokies. Outlaw scored 19 points, hitting five 3-pointers, and Hill added 17 points and connected on five 3s as well.
Ebuka Izundu and Chris Lykes had 16 points each for Miami (13-16, 5-13).
In addition to celebrating its seniors, Virginia Tech celebrated doing something that only one other team in school history had done — win 23 games in a regular season. The 2009-10 team won 23 games, but a soft nonconference schedule relegated that team to the NIT.
"In year No. 1 (2014-15), we won 11 percent of our ACC games, and after tonight, we've won at a 67-percent clip when 10 of those games — five were played with seven guys in uniform and the other five were played with eight guys in uniform," Virginia Tech coach Buzz Williams said. "I think it's off the chart."
Virginia Tech trailed 16-8 before the Hokies found their shooting stroke and buried Miami, outscoring the 'Canes 32-6 over a span of nearly nine minutes. The Hokies hit six of their nine first-half 3-pointers during that stretch and scored on 13 of 15 possessions.
In the second half, Miami sliced a 45-31 halftime deficit to 11 on a 3-pointer by Zach Johnson, but the Hokies answered with a 14-4 run. Wabissa Bede's left-handed layup with 12:38 remaining pushed the lead to 61-40.
"The group I started in the second half has never played a second together," Miami coach Jim Larranaga said. "We were just looking for something that might create some mismatches for them. It kept us inching closer ... but then again we made some critical errors and missing some shots. We needed up not shooting the ball well from 3, and if we don't shoot the ball well from 3, we're going to have a hard time of winning."
Virginia Tech shot 49.2 percent from the floor (29 of 59) and hit 14 3-pointers.
Virginia Tech: The Hokies basically played their 10th straight game without point guard Justin Robinson, who has been out with an injured foot. Williams ceremoniously started Robinson in his final home. Kerry Blackshear Jr. took the opening tip and tipped it out of bounds, allowing Williams to substitute for Robinson, whom the Hokies hope to get back at some point this season. Robinson was averaging 14.4 points and 5.5 assists before the injury.
Miami: Lykes came into the game averaging 16.2 points per game and ranking in the top 10 in the ACC in scoring — and he finished right on that average. But the sophomore struggled from the floor against the Hokies, hitting just 5 of 15. He missed his first seven 3-point attempts, which was emblematic of Miami's struggles from the perimeter. The 'Canes made just six of their 29 3-point attempts.
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Virginia Tech lost to Florida State in overtime on Tuesday in Tallahassee, Florida, which certainly is no shame considering the Seminoles' No. 14 ranking. So the Hokies figure to stay at or near No. 15 in next Monday's poll.
ACC Tournament in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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An Amendment Linking Fine
Americans & Notorious Hacks
It all may have started with the number of fingers. To write a full post about a particularly random number between, say 1 to 10, is, of course, a fool’s run. But, as your uncle Bob once said, after having a few at the local water hole, ‘life is not worthy living if you’re not willing to take your chances,’ and proceeded to throw you up in the air, we’re taking the fifth and running with it.
Constitutionally, as you may remember, the expression is often associated with tax dodgers, counselor-instructed crime bosses and your garden-variety white-collar crook. Historically, though, it may have had its defining moment during the 1950s, with Senator Joseph McCarthy-led infamous witch hunt of many fine American artists and intellectuals and their supposedly illegal activities.
For those who need a refresher, the Fifth is the amendment of the U.S. Constitution designed to protect the accused of self-incrimination, and of being ‘deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.’ It’s often associated with the Miranda Warning, given by the police to criminal suspects, before they can be interrogated in the presence of an attorney.
Such association is not casual and stems from the 1966 case of Ernesto Miranda, who was arrested for stealing $8, and told the cops he’d also kidnapped and raped a woman a few days earlier. He was neither told that he could have a lawyer present during questioning, nor that he had the right to remain silent.
Miranda was promptly convicted based on his confession and sentenced to twenty years in prison. But, as his lawyers appealed, the Supreme Court eventually ruled that his self-incriminating statement was not admissible in court and that law enforcement officials must establish safeguards to protect this right of the individual being questioned. Thus the Miranda ruling.
As for McCarthy, surprise surprise, he succumbed to its own paranoia, was censured by the Senate in 1954, and died of alcohol-related hepatitis three years later. The damage he caused was already irreversible to many movie professionals, though, as Hollywood slammed its doors to them, helped by secret files that the likes of Ronald Reagan and others compiled on them.
THE RULE & THE ASSUMPTION
The episode, however sad, became emblematic in the way it showed the Constitution as a defense mechanism to protect citizens against a dangerous nut in power such as McCarthy, even when it’s not as swift as needed. The same about the Miranda case, which may serve a symbol of what, at least in the letter of the law, is the assumption that everyone has the a right to a fair trial.
What Judge Earl Warren stated in his now famous ruling is often the only line separating a civilized society, that recognizes the individual’s right to self determination, and a police state, which would otherwise run rampant in its zeal of enforce the law. Despite legal conditions allowing it to be ignored, for the most part, the rule stands.
‘Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him, and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.’
Some will still argue that once someone invokes ‘the Fifth,’ they must be guilty of something. They’re usually talking about somebody else, though, and it’s a whole different perspective if, heaven forbids, it’d happen to any of them. Unfortunately, such misperception at times compounds and aggravates the cases when an individual’s rights are violated and no one else knows it.
Also, for conspiracy buffs everywhere, it’s almost devilish to mention that Judge Earl Warren led the commission who determined that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a single murderer, Lee Harvey Oswald, in what was, believe it or not, the sole official investigation of the case, back in 1964. Ironically, Oswald may not have heard the Miranda Rights recited to him.
THOSE WHO DID IT & WHY
A sample of cases of people who ‘took the Fifth,’ to protect themselves from being forced to participate in Double Jeopardy, no, sorry, to have what the show is named after, to legally self-incriminate themselves twice, is long and odd. Some of those easily recognizable seemed to have done it so to delay the inevitable. Others did it for fear or principle, or both.
So, notorious lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who made millions of dollars making sure the special interest forces who’d hired him would benefit from Congressional measures, took the Fifth and still went to jail. In all fairness, he did his time and now is an advocate for fairer and more transparent laws about money and politics. We wish him good luck with all of that, of course.
Also, exercising their right to remain silent, but still going to jail, were G. Gordon Liddy, for his wretched role in the Watergate scandal; Bernard Kerik, former NYC Police Commissioner, and Rudolf Giuliani’s protegee, on charges of corruption; and Ken Lay, CEO of the once spectacularly profitable Enron, who died in jail before being sentenced for defrauding thousands. They all share the ignominy of never having to reimburse in any way those they hurt.
Another infamous group convicted of crimes against the American people, had powerful friends and never went to jail: Colonel Oliver North, who helped President Reagan illegally arm the opposition to the Nicaraguan government; Linda Tripp, who betrayed her best friend Monica Lewinsky and became a footnote of the Clinton years; and Ari Fleischer, President George W.’s press secretary, for helping to expose a CIA agent. And O.J. Simpson, of course.
THE DISGRACED & THE COLORFUL
The list gets much better, in a bitter-sweet way, when you include those done wrong by McCarthy. Writers Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett and Dorothy Parker, singer and actor Paul Robeson, arguably the greatest American to have ever been denied reentry in the U.S., lyricist Yip Harburg and songwriter Pete Seeger, among many, were all backlisted and spent years of their lives trying to clear their names.
Robeson, Arthur Miller and others rightly framed the issue as a political witch hunt of communists and perceived sympathizers of the U.S.’s Cold War foe, the Soviet Union, to great damage to their own freedom and reputation. The fearless baritone even managed to call his accusers for what they really were: ‘unamericans,’ which of course, is an impossibly fictitious label of their own creation.
Since the Fifth was never meant to be a tool for political or penalty-dodging statement, its use involved some very colorful characters of American life, circa late 20th century, such as boxing promoter Don King, a wealthy family heir, Patty Hearst, who briefly joined a fringe terrorist group that had kidnapped her, and then was pardoned, and beloved songwriter Willie Nelson.
WEB SNOOPING & A DATE WITH A LEGEND
The issue of individual freedom is very much in evidence, as ever, through the contemporary debate about Internet privacy. No wonder then that Google, itself not a bastion of personal freedom when it comes to online identity, marked the Fourth of July with a doodle about Woody Guthrie, the Dust Bowl Troubadour, whose 100 years will be celebrated next week, on the 14th. Want another irony? the giant search engine dedicated the doodle to ‘Internet freedom.’
He wrote a passionate defense of Seeger, his friend and fellow legend in the fight for civil rights, when the McCarthy commission called on him in 1955. Seeger’s own unapologetic testimony is another statement to the courage of individuals in the face of unfair accusations by the powerful and the undemocratic.
Because the most important thing connecting some of these Americans is the fact that, even though they had to invoke the right to remain silent at that point, their lives as a whole were never about to silence to oppression. On the contrary, their work is suffused with the fundamental need for all humans to express outrage and rebel against what’s morally unjust.
Guthrie, who died of Huntington’s disease at 55, in 1967, had a healthy attitude towards the game of political labeling: left wing, chicken wing, was one of his mottos. Seeger, no spring chicken himself at 93, is still around and kicking, and we hope, will be with us for a long time. You may even expect to see him during the celebrations of his friend’s birthday.
That’ll be also a reminder of why we still care to celebrate the U.S. Constitution, and why this century holds similar challenges to personal liberty, freedom of expression and respect to diversity that those who lived through the 1950s’ dark side had to face. Except that we’re luckier, for despite paying dearly, they’ve still managed to show generations ahead (that means, us) how and why one should do it.
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Daily Vitamin D Could Be a Lifesaver for Some COPD Patients
FRIDAY, Jan. 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Deadly lung attacks may be averted in some COPD patients with a daily dose of vitamin D, new research suggests.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, includes a number of lung conditions, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Nearly all COPD deaths are due to a sudden worsening of symptoms (lung attacks), often triggered by viral upper respiratory infections, the researchers explained.
"New treatments are urgently needed to prevent COPD attacks. Our study shows that giving supplements to vitamin D-deficient COPD patients nearly halves their rate of potentially fatal attacks," said lead researcher Adrian Martineau, a professor at Queen Mary University of London.
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In the study, Martineau and his colleagues analyzed data from 469 COPD patients from three clinical trials, which took place in the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Taking vitamin D supplements was associated with a 45 percent reduction in lung attacks among patients who were deficient in vitamin D, but there was no reduction among patients with higher vitamin D levels, the investigators found.
The study was published Jan. 10 in the journal Thorax.
Vitamin D supplementation is safe and inexpensive, Martineau noted. "So this is a potentially highly cost-effective treatment that could be targeted at those who have low vitamin D levels following routine testing," he said in a university news release.
"Around a fifth of COPD patients in the U.K. -- about 240,000 people -- have low levels of vitamin D," Martineau added.
Worldwide, more than 170 million people have COPD, and the disease caused an estimated 3.2 million deaths in 2015.
The researchers pointed out that since the data in their study came from just three trials, the findings should be interpreted with a degree of caution.
Previous research from Queen Mary University found that vitamin D helps protect against colds, flu and asthma attacks.
The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has more on COPD.
SOURCE: Queen Mary University of London, news release, Jan. 10, 2019
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New TB drug gets approval amid side effect concerns
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One out of three knee replacements labeled as inappropriate
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Meditation in small amounts has powerful impact on stress
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How the internet is transforming the art world
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The rise of the virtual assistant
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Cryptocurrencies are making computers more expensive
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The brilliant business strategy behind Elon Musk's flamethrowers
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and inventor, is known for a many number of things: his attempts to revolutionize space travel with SpaceX; his groundbreaking electric car company Tesla; his foray into solar panel proliferation via his acquisition of SolarCity. But one thing you probably don't associate with Musk? Zombies. Or, more specifically, how you'd survive in the event of a zombie apocalypse. Which is what makes the fact that he's selling millions of dollars worth of flamethrowers so seemingly bizarre. How does this fit in with his bigger business plans?
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Autonomous motorcycles want to share the road with self-driving cars
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How to Get Your Car Ready for the Summer Heat
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New Avengers Movie Features First All-Electric Audi Concept Car
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James Bond Land Rover Up for Auction
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Car Insurance Tips to Simplify Your Life
Your car insurance bill is a big part of your household’s budget, but it can be confusing to track all of the requirements and changes. If you want to simplify your life while making sure you continue to comply with your state’s car insurance laws, then you want to consider the following tips. They will help you keep track of your coverage and use it easier.
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Prices for used cars have been rising as consumers turn away from more expensive new vehicles. The laws of supply and demand are influencing the cost of used vehicles on the market. Consumers searching for a way to cut expenses during the recession have been driving the sales of used vehicles to the point that the supply has been decreasing. In response, prices for used cars are rising and could remain high for several years, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Compact SUVs Become Most Popular Cars in the United States
Compact SUVs have taken over as the most popular cars in the United States, according to a new report from J.D. Power. This automotive trend can be seen in the total number of consumers who are selecting compact SUVs over other vehicles. J.D. Power's report reveals that 17.6 percent of the sales this year have been in the compact SUV market.
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Dexter – “Hungry Man”
“Hungry Man”
There is no question that I have been highly critical of Dexter this season, which isn’t to suggest that I wasn’t also critical of season two (where the conclusion fizzled) or season three (where things felt as if they wrapped up too neatly): this is a show that I have always felt struggled in the balance between the parts and the whole, and this has been especially clear this season. While I’ve enjoyed the majority of the story surrounding the Trinity Killer, and Michael C. Hall is delivering as compelling a performance as ever, I’ve found myself watching episodes out of obligation more than interest, and fastforwarding through anything not involving Trinity, Dexter, or Deb.
If we follow that strategy, “Hungry Man” contains perhaps the best connection yet between Dexter and Trinity, offering glimpses of two theoretically similar Thanksgiving dinners that in reality tell two very different story or, more problematically for Dexter, two very different stages of the same tale. The problem is that this isn’t actually a new theme, having effectively been the purpose of the Trinity story since we meant “Arthur,” and despite some really fantastic execution throughout it (like seasons before it) feels a bit too on the nose, thematically.
However, when you have a show that likes to meander about as it does and (in my opinion) waste our time with storylines that are irrelevant until the show decides to deliver a bombshell like at the end of this episode, I’ll take compelling contrivance over mundane mind games any day.
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Tagged as Arthur Miller, Christine, Deb, Dexter Morgan, Elliot, Episode 9, Father, Hungry Man, John Lithgow, Jonah, Masuka, Michael C. Hall, Rebecca, Review, Rita, Sally, Season 4, Thanksgiving, Twist, Vera
Dexter – “Road Kill”
I spent part of last week finishing up the fifth season of Six Feet Under, which has long been half finished after a lengthy marathon session of the entire series just proved dire last summer, resulting in “Depressive Melodrama Burnout” (DMB, for short). Returning to that show was a reminder of just how amazing Michael C. Hall can be, and how in some ways I wish that Dexter could feel as…progressive as Six Feet Under often did. Say what you will about Alan Ball’s incessant refusal to allow his characters to be happy, but the sense of growth in David as a character (and, not to spoil anything, a late series regression) helped to provide a sense that the collective weight of the show was actually having an impact on his psyche.
Dexter, as a series, is like a masochistic, homicidal version of “Will it float?” where the writers throw various circumstances at Dexter to see whether it will mix with his existing psychotic personality. The argument the fourth season has been making thus far is that Dexter is not aware of how much his personality has actually changed, and the Trinity Killer is a sign that perhaps there is some secret switch that will help reconcile his new life in the suburbs with his murderous impulses (and actions). And, now into the show’s fourth season, the psychological experiment at the centre of the show is downright uninteresting to the point where last week’s violation of Harry’s code is about a season and a half behind the times: we’ve been waiting for Dexter to realize that the code is flawed, and develop his own, since the start of the third season, but the show is formulaic to the point where that would disrupt the flow of the story.
“Road Kill” works as an episode because it completely sidelines Dexter’s predictable responses in favour of the unpredictability of the Trinity Killer. To do so, of course, the show has to admit that the actual impact of killing a mostly innocent man is entirely counterproductive to the show’s intentions, instead heading to Tampa in order to delve into the psyche of a character that, in being new and interesting, the writers actually seem interested by. The rest of the episode isn’t nearly as interesting, but letting Hall and Lithgow go on a road trip together is a recipe for success, if limited by the show’s current focus.
Tagged as Deb, Entertainment, Episode 8, John Lithgow, Lundy, Michael C. Hall, Review, Rita, Road Kill, Season 4, Showtime, Tampa, Television, Trinity, Trinity Killer, TV
Dexter – “Dex Takes a Holiday”
“Dex Takes a Holiday”
After missing one episode while I was in New York, and having another one delayed by a DVR failure, I’ve finally caught up with Dexter’s fourth season. Ultimately, both episodes were an improvement over the premiere, although they suffered from similar problems. The show’s decision to place Dexter into the suburbs and into a family life has made for an odd shift in tone. In some ways, it’s a return to first season storylines, with Harry Morgan recurring to remind Dexter that he’s deranged and that he can’t truly have a family. However, the show spent two seasons largely ignoring that story, and something about the way the show played them in a comic light early on has robbed the show of some of its teeth. Just as we see a legitimately intriguing new serial killer who creeps us out, Dexter’s storylines have felt like bad thrillers (the vandal scenario) by comparison.
What “Dex Takes a Holiday” does better is to marry Dexter’s predicament with less of an awkward identity crisis and more of a profound identity crisis – whereas consequences before have been a teenage girl thinking Dexter is being lame, and for Dexter’s suburban dream to suddenly turn into something less than Cleaver-esque, this week posed a far more extreme question in a direct fashion which lacked in subtlety but connected thematically. The episode had its problems, but by literally shipping off Rita and letting Dexter act burdened by inner emotions and not halogen flood lights it really brings into stark contrast the potential of this character.
The problem is that it required sending the family away, a luxury that not every episode will have, and a factor which even an intriguing twist at episode’s end can’t exactly overcome.
Tagged as Batista, Christina Cox, Deb, Dex Takes a Holiday, Dexter Morgan, Entertainment, Episode 4, Frank Lundy, John Lithgow, Keith Carradine, LaGuerta, Michael C. Hall, Murder, Rita, Season 4, Shooting, Showtime, Television, Trinity Killer, TV, Vacation Killings, Zoey Kruger
Season Premiere: Dexter – “Living the Dream”
“It’s already over.”
I have always made the argument that Dexter, slowly but surely, has turned into the pay cable equivalent of 24. However, until watching “Living the Dream,” I had always considered it a sort of referential shorthand for me to say that I’m not amongst those who consider the show in the same league as more complex cable series. After watching the show’s fourth season premiere, however, I’m now convinced that the show is intent on proving me right.
It is a show driven by a single lead character whose personal struggles form the basis of emotional investment. It is a show where each season features a different “threat” that the lead character needs to respond to. It is a show where the supporting characters are interesting when interacting with the lead, but mind-numbingly boring and pointless when left to their own devices. And, perhaps more importantly, it is a show where the similarities between seasons begin to feel repetitive, resulting in its negative qualities becoming that much more apparent in subsequent seasons.
I would be fine with formula if I felt that the formula was actually resulting in a show that made good on the first season’s premise of a vigilante serial killer coming to terms with his morality and engaging with “The Dark Defender.” However, the fourth season is shaping up to continue the trend of the third season, drawing most of its interest from an implausible scenario whereby a national serial killer happens to have originated in Miami, just as every terrorist attack seemed to happen within driving distance of Los Angeles on 24, than from what that means for Dexter.
And while Michael C. Hall will continue to be fantastic in a storyline played more for laughs and convenience than anything else, the show feels as if it is rebooting every time they start a new season. And for a character once defined by the haunting of the past, and by a complex set of characteristics I do not feel have been significantly examined to be undermined, to have only as much past as the show decides he should, is to find a show moving further away from a complex character study and closer and closer to a serialized action thriller with a strong central character and nothing else to show for it.
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Going Through the Motions (with Style): John Lithgow cast for Dexter Season 4
Going Through the Motions (With Style):
John Lithgow and Dexter Season Four
I am, without question, a Dexter contrarian. I like the show, don’t get me wrong, but when everyone was jumping up and down at the end of its second season I was frustrated with a lack of finish. When the third season was ramping up and getting everyone excited, I was observing a few too many similarities in the way that Jimmy Smits’ character, Miguel Prado, mirrored Season 2’s primary focus of Dexter’s attention, FBI Agent Frank Lundy. By the time they got to the Season 3 finale, I had more or less given up on ever liking the show as much as ever, and penned what I consider to be the definitive statement of my frustration in my review of the episode.
In that review, I conclude the following:
“But what “Do You Take Dexter Morgan?” reminds me, against my will, is that this is a show with limitations, one which in the introduction of Jimmy Smits shed more light on its weakly developed supporting cast, and in its slow start made us stop and think “what other directions could this show be taking that would be more dramaturgically interesting” for a few episodes too long. In those moments, I know exactly why I jumped on that drunk, hungry, and entirely innocent TV viewer: Dexter could be a better show than it is, and the third season was filled with warnings that the show seems unaware of its recurring problems.”
So with news that John Lithgow (3rd Rock from the Sun, Harry and the Hendersons) has been cast in a key role in the upcoming season which begins on September 27th, and that a particular familiar face will be returning (I’ll leave that beneath the jump as it’s a bit more of a spoiler), I can’t help but feel that Dexter is just going through the motions, repeating patterns that give us a single strong character dynamic while robbing the show as a whole of a chance to actually develop into a show on the level that the series aspires to.
[Note: the below post spoils who his character is, and the basic plot of Dexter’s fourth season – if you want to be surprised, stop reading.]
Tagged as Entertainment, Guest Star, John Lithgow, Keith Carradine, Michael C. Hall, Season 4, Season 4 Premiere Date, Showtime, Television, Trinity Killer, Walter Simmons, When does Dexter return
30 Rock – “Goodbye, My Friend”
“Goodbye, My Friend”
Holy flashback, Harry Henderson.
There’s a whole lot of familiarity in “Goodbye, My Friend,” an episode that cribs quite liberally from last season’s “Succession” and this season’s premiere, and it’s not all bad. I liked both of those episodes, and after spending a lot of time on relationships we get a far more individual-driven hour that pairs off some characters that we’ve never seen together while even reintroducing some characters back into the fold however briefly (Hi, Josh! Bye, Josh!).
The episode didn’t really break any ground in Liz Lemon’s fight for a child, but I can’t resist sad and pathetic Liz; similarly, I don’t think that Frank’s brief foray into respectable life is going to change his character, but I just can’t resist Jack Donaghy on a mission to rescue someone from their sad middle class existence. Combine with a Jenna/Tracy subplot that might as well have been ripped out of the show’s second season, and you have either a sure sign that the show is fundamentally bankrupt, or a sick sense that Tina Fey knows the show can rip off itself and still entertain us, just like Harry and the Hendersons ripped off Shane.
Well, Tina, you got me – I had a lot of fun with this one, self-plaigarism be damned.
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Nation’s Hope and Trust
Published: 09:28 AM, 14 July 2019
Islamic extremist attack on Somali hotel leaves 26 dead
Islamic extremists blew up the gate of a Somali hotel with a car bomb and took over the building for more than 14 hours, leaving 26 people dead before Somali forces who besieged the hotel overnight killed the attackers. The victims included a prominent Canadian-Somali journalist .
Three Kenyans, three Tanzanians, two Americans and a Briton also were among the dead, said Ahmed Madobe, the president of Jubbaland regional state which controls Kismayo. Fifty-six people, including two Chinese, were injured in the hotel attack, he told reporters.
At least four al-Shabab assailants attacked the Asasey Hotel Friday evening, beginning with a suicide car bomb at the entrance gate and followed by an assault by gunmen who stormed the hotel, which is frequented by politicians, patrons and lawmakers.
The attack lasted more than 14 hours before troops shot dead all attackers inside the hotel compound, Col. Abdiqadir Nur, a local police officer, told The Associated Press.
Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for the attack. Al-Shabab, which is allied to al-Qaida, often uses car bombs to infiltrate heavily fortified targets like the hotel in Kismayo, which has been relatively quiet in recent years.
The attack is a blow to the Somalia government's efforts to hold nation-wide, one-person one-vote elections next year.
Security officials cordoned off the site of the attack and prevented journalists from taking photos or video of the damaged hotel and in some cases destroyed journalists' cameras. Government officials have not been available for further interviews.
Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh and her husband, Farid Jama Suleiman, died in the attack, Mogadishu-based independent radio station Radio Dalsan confirmed to AP.
"I'm absolutely devastated by the news of the death of our dear sister Hodan Nalayeh and her husband in a terrorist attack in Somalia today. What a loss to us. Her beautiful spirit shined through her work and the way she treated people," Omar Suleiman, a Texas-based imam who knew the victim, wrote on social media.
Nalayeh was born in Somalia in 1976, but spent most of her life in Canada, first in Alberta and then in Toronto. She founded Integration TV, an international web-based video production company aimed at Somali viewers around the world. She was the first Somali woman media owner in the world.
Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Ahmed Hussen mourned Hodan Nalayeh's death on Twitter, saying she "highlighted the community's positive stories and contributions in Canada" through her work as a journalist. "We mourn her loss deeply, and all others killed in the #KismayoAttack," he wrote.
Nalayeh's endless "positivity" and "love for people" was inspiring, said Canada's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath on Twitter.
"In Ontario, Hodan launched @IntegrationTV to tell the beautiful stories of the Somali Diaspora, and took that same humanity and love to her reporting and storytelling in Somalia. My thoughts are with her family, and the victims of the #Kismayo attack during this horrific time."
A top official of the African Union condemned the attack.
"This is an attack meant to derail progress in Somalia as the country rebuilds and consolidates the gains made on peace and security," said Francisco Madeira, special representative of the chairman of the African Union Commission. "Somalia has made tremendous progress in seizing territory and pushing out the terrorists from many places across the country."
He said the African Union's multinational force in Somalia will continue to work to stabilize the country.
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Here’s What Would Happen If Trump Declared A National Emergency To Build The Wall
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Amber Athey White House Correspondent
What would happen if President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in order to build a southern border wall?
The president is currently exploring the idea of declaring a national emergency so that he can build the wall without the approval of Congress. As the partial government shutdown heads into its third week, Congress is stuck at an impasse as Democrats say they will not give Trump any of the $5.7 billion he has requested for the wall.
Trump told reporters Friday that he is open to using emergency powers to circumvent Congress, stating, “We can call a national emergency and build it very quickly. It’s another way of doing it.” (RELATED: Trump Open To Using Emergency Powers To Build Wall)
He reiterated the idea Sunday, adding that he would wait and see what negotiations yielded over the next “few days.”
Trump’s words have sparked debate as to whether or not he has the authority to declare a national emergency on the border.
Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff called the idea a “nonstarter” Sunday, asserting, “If Harry Truman couldn’t nationalize the steel industry during wartime, this president doesn’t have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion-dollar wall on the border.”
The president has an unlikely supporter in Democratic Washington Rep. Adam Smith, who says that the president “can declare an emergency.” Smith did concede Monday on CNN that he thinks any such declaration would be met with significant legal challenges.
Congressman Adam Smith, the new Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, just stated, “Yes, there is a provision in law that says a president can declare an emergency. It’s been done a number of times.” No doubt, but let’s get our deal done in Congress!
Legal experts similarly told NBC that Trump could declare a state of emergency under The National Emergencies Act — which grants the president a set of special executive powers, including but not limited to the ability to “seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, institute martial law, seize and control all transportation and communication.”
Congress also has the ability to pass a joint resolution rebuking the president’s declaration. The president would therefore have to convince Congress that the surge of illegal immigration on the border constitutes an “emergency.”
Another challenge facing the president is that he can only use previously earmarked funds in order to build the wall. But federal law allows the military to complete “construction projects” using un-obligated funds from the Department of Defense (DOD) budget during a national emergency.
“My instinct is to say that if he declares a national emergency and uses this pot of unappropriated money for the wall, he’s on very solid legal ground,” Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet told NBC News.
Legal analyst Joe DiGenova pointed Monday to the same unmarked pot of DOD money on WMAL’s “Mornings on the Mall.”
“The real issue is once the president declares an emergency, which he has the power to do, where does he get the money to implement it?” DiGenova said. “There is unspent money in the Department of Defense budget of about $100 billion.”
“It’s sitting there waiting for contracts,” he continued. “He does have the authority to use that money.”
The president would be able to declare a national emergency, but he would certainly have to fight a number of congressional and legal challenges to keep the order in place and build the wall.
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Doc charged with involuntary manslaughter in Flint crisis wins top health award
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Enlarge / Flint Mayor Karen Weaver, pictured, called the award "just disrespectful."Getty | Bill Pugliano
Health officials in Michigan this week honored Dr. Eden Wells with the states top award for an eminent career in public health—despite that Wells is currently facing several charges in connection with the Flint water crisis, including involuntary manslaughter.
On Wednesday, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) announced that Wells was awarded the Roy R. Manty Distinguished Service Award from the Michigan Association for Local Public Health (MALPH) and the Michigan Public Health Association (MPHA).
The award is described by the two associations as the “highest individual award given by the local public health community.”
In a statement, Dr. Annette Mercatante, president of MALPH, explained the selection, saying:
Dr. Wells consistently provides local public health departments and practioners[sic] timely (usually immediate), intelligent, expert, reliable, and compassionate support for the entire array of expected and unexpected community health issues that arise daily in our State. Her contribution to the health and well-being of the people of Michigan is huge and greatly appreciated by all those privileged to work with her, and should be acknowledged on behalf of every person who lives or works in Michigan.
Wells took up the job of the chief medical executive for MDHHS in May 2015. That was just a year after state-appointed emergency managers made the catastrophic decision to switch the city of Flints water supply to cut costs. The swap from treated water sourced from Lake Huron and the Detroit River to improperly treated water from Flint River caused lead and other heavy metals from aging plumbing to pour into the citys water, exposing residents to dangerous levels.
Researchers also linked the water crisis to a flood of Legionnaires disease cases. The potentially life-threatening disease is caused by Legionella bacteria, which may have festered in the citys pipes after the improper treatment interfered with disinfectants and released bacterial nutrients into the tap water. Officials tallied around 100 Legionnaires cases, leading to 12 deaths in the wake of the water switch.
Flood of charges
Wells charge of involuntary manslaughter is linked to one of those 12 deaths—that of John Snyder in 2015. Prosecutors allege that Wells knew about the Legionnaires outbreak as early as March of 2015 but failed to warn the public. They also allege that she later lied about when she learned of the outbreak, saying it wasnt until late September or early October. The MDHHS did not issue a public advisory about the outbreak until January of 2016.
Wells was unexpectedly slapped with the involuntary manslaughter charge in October of last year. The charge was added to others, including willful neglect of duty, misconduct in office, and lying to a peace officer. Wells allegedly threatened to withhold funding from the Flint Area Community Health and Environment Partnership if it continued to investigate the outbreak, prosecutors say.
In light of the allegations, officials in Flint were stunned by her award. Flint Mayor Karen Weaver released a news statement Thursday, October 11, saying:
How is one honored for public health when they did not protect the health of the public? While I understand that we are innocent until proven guilty in this country, this is just disrespectful.
Wells legal team and supporters say Wells has been wrongly charged in the case and has championed the health of Flint residents in the wake of the water problems.
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Dare County Clerk of Court
Duties of The Clerk of Court
Dear Dare County Residents: For those of you whom I have not had the pleasure of meeting, my name is Dean Martin Tolson and I am your Clerk of Superior Court. I am running as the incumbent candidate for the Dare County Clerk of Superior Court on November 4th. I would like to use this opportunity to provide you with information about the role of the Clerk of Superior Court and my candidacy for the position. I’m a true native of the Outer Banks and have spent my entire life in Manteo with the exception of spending my college years at East Carolina University where I graduated with honors. My wife Heather and I are raising our three children here in Manteo and are deeply rooted in the community. The role of the Clerk’s office is largely administrative in nature, as we are the official record-keepers of all court files and records. It is our duty to assist members of the public as well as other agencies and professionals who are seeking information about court records or procedural guidelines. My role as the office head requires leadership skills, experience with employment and human resource issues, and ability to manage a staff of about 16 employees. Unlike Clerk’s offices in other states, the Clerk of Superior Court in North Carolina does have judicial powers in limited areas of the law. The limited judicial powers of the Clerk’s office are predominately in civil law matters and some require informal hearings held in our office. There is no requirement pursuant to state law that requires the Clerk of Court to have a law degree. In fact, the statutes prohibit the Clerk’s office...
Dean Tolson Says “Thank You”
Words cannot express how honored I am to have been elected to continue to serve as your Clerk of Superior Court. I am extremely thankful and appreciative for the support I received from each Township within Dare County during the election. I am humbled by the overwhelming confidence you have placed in me as your Clerk and look forward to continuing to serve you over the next four (4) years. I would like to thank God for his many blessings. I would like to also extend a special “thank you” to my family, friends, and committee for their dedication and support during my campaign. It has been a pleasure traveling across the county throughout the last few months to attend events and interact with so many outstanding people. Our office pledges to continue to strive for improvement and persistently adhere to the highest level of professionalism and ethical standards. Every day we promise to: • Maintain and safeguard all court records entrusted to us • Collect and disburse all monies directed by legal mandates • Respect tax payer dollars through efficient support to the Courts • Preserve and ensure the integrity of the Court and the public’s respect for it • Provide prompt and accurate information • Provide impartial and open access to court records • Provide expeditious and competent customer service to the public Please visit us on our new website at www.darenc.com/clerk. We also hope to establish a Facebook page to enhance communication and accessibility to the community. I look forward to serving you! Many thanks, Dean M. Tolson Dare County Clerk of Superior...
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“A lifetime of loyalty and service to his hometown”- Dean Tolson takes pride in his role as Clerk and is committed to the citizens of Dare County and the betterment of his community.
Words cannot express how honored I am to have been elected to continue to serve as your Clerk of Superior Court. I am extremely thankful and appreciative for the support I received from each Township within Dare County during the election. I am humbled by the overwhelming confidence you have placed in me as your Clerk and look forward to continuing to serve you over the next four (4) years.
Dear Dare County Residents:
For those of you whom I have not had the pleasure of meeting, my name is Dean Martin Tolson and I am your Clerk of Superior Court. I am running as the incumbent candidate for the Dare County Clerk of Superior Court on November 4th. I would like to use this opportunity to provide you with information about the role of the Clerk of Superior Court and my candidacy for the position.
The son of the late Arnold G. Tolson Sr. and Inez Gray Tolson of Manteo, Dean is a true native of the Outer Banks. Dean’s father was a veteran of WWII and a local businessman who instilled in him the principles of being a public servant. Dean is a graduate of Manteo High School and earned a Bachelor of Science Professional Degree in Criminal Justice from East Carolina University where he graduated with honors and was recognized as an All American Scholar.
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John Thrasher
Dambuster of the Day No. 89: John Thrasher
January 20, 2015 February 12, 2015 charlesfoster6 Comments
The 16 members of the RCAF who survived the Dams Raid, photographed the following day. John Thrasher is in the back row, sixth from the left. His crewmate Bruce Gowrie is in the front row crouching, fourth from the left. [Pic: Bomber Command Museum of Canada]
Wrt Off J W Thrasher
Bomb aimer
Call sign: AJ-H
Second wave. Aircraft badly damaged and mine lost, flying low over sea on outward flight. Returned to base.
John William Thrasher was born on 30 July 1920 in Amherstburg, a small Canadian town in the far south west of Ontario, very close to the border with the USA. His parents, Charles and Irene Thrasher had fifteen children altogether, although two died in infancy. His father worked as a clerk in a liquor store. He was educated at St Anthony’s Primary School and St Rose’s High School, and matriculated in 1938. He worked as a printer’s apprentice for two years, then moved to be a laboratory worker in a soda ash plant.
He enlisted in the RCAF in May 1941, and was selected for Air Observer training, which he completed on 25 September 1941. His CO described him as: ‘Straightforward and assertive. Cautious but fairly aggressive. Quick. Cheerful. Good appearance, and personality. Very good material.’ But by December he had only passed out 20th out of 22, with an average overall mark. In further training it was noted that he was weak on navigation, but had achieved 98% in bombing. After arriving in England he underwent further training, and was sent to 19 OTU in Kinloss. It would appear that he met up with navigator Richard Macfarlane and wireless operator Bruce Gowrie there, as the three were posted together to a conversion unit for final training on the same day in October 1942. There they were joined by flight engineer Edward Smith and mid-upper gunner William Maynard, and these five were posted to 57 Squadron at Scampton on 9 December 1942. Rear gunner Stephen Burns had joined the squadron a short while earlier, but the crew were without a pilot until Geoff Rice arrived in February.
The crew then flew on nine operations before being posted together from 57 Squadron over to the new squadron being formed at the same base to undertake training for a special mission.
John Thrasher’s bomb aiming skills were severely tested during the Operation Chastise training period, but he acquitted himself well, coming second overall in the bombing practice sessions conducted in the first half of April 1943. On the raid itself, of course, he never had a chance to drop his mine, since it was torn out of AJ-H’s bomb bay over the sea.
Thrasher flew with Rice and the rest of his crew on the handful of successful operations between the Dams Raid and December 1943, and he received a commission. However, their luck ran out on 20 December when they were hit by flak 14,000 feet above Merbes-Le Chateau in Belgium. Although Rice gave the order to bale out, there wasn’t time and the aircraft exploded. Rice seems to have been thrown clear by the explosion, and somehow landed in a wood but the bodies of the remaining six crew members were found in the wreckage.
John Thrasher and his five colleagues were buried in Gosselies Communal Cemetery, near Hainaut, Belgium.
His brother, Plt Off Charles Thrasher, also joined the RCAF and served as a navigator in the Canadian 424 Squadron, based in Yorkshire and flying Halifaxes. He was awarded the DFC in 1944, with the citation noting his ‘fortitude, courage and devotion to duty.’ He survived the war. Details of Charles Thrasher’s service (scroll down).
More about Thrasher online:
Entry on Commonwealth War Graves Commission website
Page about Rice crew burial site, Gosselies cemetery
KIA 20.12.1943.
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150th Annual Conference, Torquay 2012
The Devonshire Association’s 150th anniversary conference and AGM was held from Thursday to Sunday, 24–27 May 2012 at the Torquay Museum. The social programme included a Reception with supper and musical entertainment at the Living Coast, and the Conference Dinner and a subterranean tour at Kents Cavern. The Reception took place in the presence of our patrons, the Earl and Countess of Devon, and the Mayor of Torbay and his partner.
Some highlights
Portrait of William Pengelly, Torquay Museum
Torquay was different from other Devonshire Association conferences. It was held there because the DA was conceived in Torquay (though born in Exeter in 1862) and it was (allowing perhaps for a little scientific, literary and artistic licence) bigger, better and filled with more highlights than any other. We were honoured by the presence of the Earl and Countess of Devon who had accepted an unprecedented invitation to become our patrons for the 150th anniversary year. By happy coincidence, some 150 members registered to attend the proceedings, mainly based in the Torquay Museum’s Pengelly Hall, built as a memorial to the Association’s founding father whose portrait presides over all who meet there. The numbers were augmented by friends and guests who attended for some of the events.
The Chairman’s Reception on Thursday 24 May featured a distinctive display of Devon folk-lore, including traditional songs and step-dancing, performed with skill and enthusiasm by members of the new Music Section who themselves were given a wholehearted reception by an appreciative audience. On Friday, Robin Wootton assessed William Pengelly’s contribution to scholarship and the DA, while Paul Rainbird pointed up the significance of Kents Cavern for our understanding of evolution. Pengelly’s work was the first example of modern scientific excavation, setting the standards for many years in the recording of evidence. These talks provided the context for a memorable visit to Kents Cavern in the evening. Strolling between the stalagmites with a glass of cold white wine was an experience to be treasured. We were reminded that the place was still at the forefront of research: its world-famous jawbone, discovered in 1927, has recently been re-dated and is 7,000 years older than previously thought. This makes the Cavern, it is claimed, the site of the earliest human settlement in north-west Europe, occupied for a little over 40,000 years.
Earlier on Friday, Malcolm Hart, Emeritus Professor at Plymouth University, brought alive the geodiversity of Torbay, putting together a jigsaw puzzle, including among its pieces continental drift, climatic change, the folding of rocks and Vostok ice-cores from Antarctica. This produced a geological portrait of the area, showing why Torbay had achieved World Heritage status and supplying a comprehensive briefing for Sunday’s visit. Pictures were at the heart of Tom Greeves presentation on the photographic record of Torquay in the 1860s, using the collection of an eminent photographer, Francis Bedford.
Members were entertained at the President’s Reception with a lively after-dinner speech by Simon Timms celebrating some of the Association’s achievements over 150 years. They even extended, he said, to a survey of Devon cream teas, documented in the centenary issue of the Transactions by the Recorder of Devonshire Verbal Provincialisms.(¹) This whimsical remark, evidence of his thorough homework, brought a surprise for speaker and audience – for among them was the author of the report which, she explained, charted the various terms used in Devon to describe the bun on which cream is spread.
(1) Moore (Gillian, F.) 1962 ‘Sixty-sixth report on Devonshire verbal provincialisms’, Rep. Trans. Loc. Advmt. sci., vol. XCIV, pp. 172-76.
On Saturday, Stephen Essex, from Plymouth University, and Elizabeth Raikes, Chief Executive of Torbay Council, focussed on the development of Torbay in the last century, particularly the demands of tourism. Their talks were illustrated with examples of the famous series of railway posters and pictures of the extent of the re-building needed to continue attracting tourists.
After a presentation to thank Nicholas Orme for his substantial contribution as president, his successor, Peter Beacham, was installed in office. The formal part of the Conference culminated in a distinguished Presidential Address on The inspiration of Devon: landscape, seascape and townscape – a big picture woven from strands such as the innovative influence of W. G. Hoskins on the appreciation of landscape; the role of planning; and the imprint of the built environment, including materials like thatch and cob. It was a landmark address on a historic occasion.
Hazel and Paul Luscombe
Out and about – Torbay
On a fine Sunday afternoon, members and guests boarded their boat at Haldon Quay for a journey round the English Riviera’s Geopark with geologist, Malcolm Hart, and local historian, John Risdon.
We first headed east to Hope’s Nose, passing the 400 million year-old Devonian limestone cliffs of Dyers Quarry and Triangle Point, followed by Meadfoot Beach and Thatcher Rock, all formed when the area lay south of the Equator. Our boatman took us close to the shore at Hope’s Nose where we saw the raised beach, now 9 metres above sea-level, created 125,000 years ago during the Ipswichian inter-glacial and sitting on contorted limestone and volcanic rocks.
Next, we headed out to sea, travelling south towards Berry Head (see below), and then we passed close to the Brixham breakwater before reaching Elberry Cove where Lord Churston’s bathing house, surveyed by the Buildings Section in 1997 (see here), still stands. Cruising northwards along the coast, and passing the Upper Devonian formation at Saltern Cove, we came to Goodrington where the geology changes to Lower Permian red breccia, and the 19th century Naval Hospital (now a pub) can be seen, followed by Roundham Head with its cliffs formed of breccia layers interspersed with thin layers of blown sand.
The marine environments over which we passed, once a favourite anchorage of the 19th-century Channel fleet, are now home to important areas of sea grass meadows, with cuttle-fish and sea-horses – soon to be designated, it is hoped, as a Marine Conservation Zone.
As usual with Malcolm Hart’s excursions, we were given an excellent hand-out packed with information about what we were seeing – a fine memento of a grand day out.
Out and about – Sandridge Park
One of the last events of the conference was the visit to the home of Mrs Rosemary Yallop at Sandridge Park, a grade II* listed building near Stoke Gabriel. Members were divided into two parties, one taken on a guided tour of the ground floor, while the other examined the newly-landscaped grounds, including the extensive walled garden. The full story of the house was told by Mrs Yallop at the Dulverton Conference in 2009.(²)
(2) Yallop (Rosemary), 2009 ‘A history of Sandridge Park: An House More Worthy of the Situation’, Rep. Trans. Devon Assoc. Advmt. Sci., vol. 141, pp. 181-217.
John Dunning, a local boy from Ashburton, studied law and eventually became Solicitor-General, a Privy Councillor, an M.P. and, in 1782, Lord Ashburton. His marriage to wealthy heiress, Elizabeth Baring, in 1781 (and his astute property investments) enabled him to propose building a fine house at Sandridge, overlooking the Dart. However, he died in 1783, and his widow engaged the architect, John Nash, to design and build the present house around 1805, although she herself died in 1809, and it was let to a succession of tenants.
Requisitioned by the War Department in world war II, the house was left empty and derelict after the war, until it was purchased by Lord Cathcart who cleared away the war-time encampment and saved the house from demolition. It was bought by the present owners in 2006 and restored following the original design as closely as possible.
Brian Rolph
Out and about – Berry Head
Earlier showers had left fresher air and brilliant sunshine for the group that visited the Torbay Coast and Countryside Nature Reserve at Berry Head on the Sunday afternoon, enabling clear views northwards across Tor Bay and with Hay Tor prominent on the distant Dartmoor skyline.
Led by official guide Valda, members explored the limestone promontory’s heathland, whose many flowers in bloom at this time included yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor), white rockrose (Helianthemum apenninum) and black medick (Medicago lupulina). On a north-facing cliff-face, the tiers of nesting guillemots were viewed, with kittiwakes on the lower ledges. Not seen, however, on this day, were any razorbills or gannets – non-resident here but often seen offshore – but one group member saw a cirl bunting. There were glimpses of the grazing Soay sheep and Red Devon cattle.
A strategic point from Iron Age times, with signs of an early fortress and high ramparts, the headland also bears many remains of substantial coastal forts built as defences during the Napoleonic War, as well as remnants of gun positions and lookout posts from the first and second world wars.
Still vital for the safety of seafarers is the small lighthouse, just 15 ft tall and sited 191 ft above sea level. Instrumental in its placement here in 1906 was Devon-born Captain Robert Hoare, an Elder Brother of Trinity House, who hailed from Dean Prior.
Helen Harris
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CBS Subscription Service, Mission Control, and The Voice
October 16, 2014 October 16, 2014 dextvtalk Uncategorized American Horror Story, Bewitched, Bones, Brooklyn Nine Nine, CBS, Gotham, Manhattan, Mission Control, New Girl, october, The Astronaut Wives Club, The Good Wife, The Voice, TV, TV Blog, TV news, TV shows, Unforgettable
There is so much news! I probably should have done another post earlier in the week but I was so swamped with midterms (since I’m still in college) that I just didn’t have time. This honestly may have to be 3 posts. Let’s get started!
-CBS is launching its own subscription service for on-demand consumption for its new TV shows as well as their old ones. Since they are not part of Hulu (jointly owned by ABC, NBC, and Fox) they have been out of the subscription service for awhile and have only focused on their website (which I might add, is not very good compared to Hulu). “CBS All Access” will offer thousands of episodes from many of CBS’ current programs, classic series in its library as well as content from its local-TV station, for $5.99 a month. With the service, anyone who wants to watch CBS shows will be able to do so whether or not they subscribe to a programming package from a video distributor (aka a standalone service). http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/cbs-to-launch-svod-all-access-service-with-current-and-classic-programs-1201331028/
-Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street, Parks and Recreation) is coming to New Girl for the holidays! He will guest-star as a Grinch-like character in the Christmas episode. His character, Barry, a beleaguered airline representative the gang encounter at the airport is tired of dealing with holiday travelers and Christmas itself. Catch the episode on Tuesday, December 9 at 9/8c on Fox. http://tvline.com/2014/10/16/billy-eichner-new-girl-season-4-christmas-episode/
-NBC has canceled Mission Control before it has even aired. The show was set for a midseason debut and it starred Kristen Ritter. The main issue apparently was casting issues, which underwent recasting days after it was picked up to series. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nbc-cancels-comedy-mission-control-741026
-Archie Panjabi (who plays Kalinda Sharma) will be leaving The Good Wife at the end of this season, after her contract has ended. She did not renew her contract because she is planning on starring in a drama pilot for CBS in the spring. No word on how she will depart, but this does not mean the end for The Good Wife, which airs Sundays at 9/8c on CBS. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/good-wifes-archie-panjabi-exit-740993
-A Bewitched remake is eyeing a comeback. There is already interest from multiple networks about a remake. The show is being written by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, who both worked on The Vow. I’ll keep you up to date on any new information that comes out about this. http://deadline.com/2014/10/bewitched-remake-series-sony-851716/
–Bones has enlisted Mindy Cohn (The Facts of Life) to play Valentina, a New Age-focused doula that will “inject some lightness and levity into single-mom Daisy’s delivery.” She will appear in an early-December episode entitled “The Puzzler In the Pit.” Bones airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Fox. http://tvline.com/2014/10/15/bones-daisy-birth-baby-sweets-season-10-the-puzzler-in-the-pit/
–Unforgettable has been canceled by CBS after three seasons. http://deadline.com/2014/10/unforgettable-cancelled-cbs-849580/
-Wilson Bethel (Hart of Dixie) has joined ABC’s The Astronaut Wives Club as a series regular. He will play Scott Carpenter, Rene’s (Yvonne Strahovski) laid-back husband. http://tvline.com/2014/10/13/wilson-bethel-astronaut-wives-club-cast-season-1/
-Fox’s Gotham gets a full-season order, which means they have ordered an additional six episodes bring the total number for the first season to 22. New episodes of Gotham air Mondays at 8/7c on Fox. http://tvline.com/2014/10/13/gotham-full-season-order-fox/
–American Horror Story has been renewed for season 5 after the fourth season’s premiere broke FX records, with 10 million total views for the season four opener, the most-watched telecast in the network’s history. Season 5 will be 13 episodes and premiere in October 2015 with season 4 running through January 2015. http://www.eonline.com/news/587871/american-horror-story-renewed-for-season-5-after-freak-show-shatters-ratings-record
-Pharrell Williams is set to return for season 8 of The Voice as a coach. He will coach alongside Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, and Christina Aguilera, who is coming back from a maternity leave after sitting out the last two season. The eighth season will air in early 2015 on NBC. http://deadline.com/2014/10/pharrell-williams-the-voice-coach-season-8-850965/
-WGN America has renewed Manhattan for a second season ahead of its first season finale. The season finale airs Sunday, October 19 at 10 pm ET on WGN America. http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/14/wgn-america-renews-manhattan-for-season-2/
–Brooklyn Nine-Nine has booked Nick Cannon (America’s Got Talent host) for a multi-episode arc. He will play Marcus, Holt’s charming and educated nephew who just moved to the city and will stay with his uncle until he finds his own place. His debut will be sometime in December. Brooklyn Nine-Nine airs Sundays at 8:30pm on Fox. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/brooklyn-nine-nine-books-nick-cannon-740674
Look out for a second (and probably third) post coming soon! Thanks for checking out my blog!
Fox changes dates, USA summer premiere dates, and more!
April 23, 2014 April 23, 2014 dextvtalk Uncategorized Amazon, BBC, Bones, Covert Affairs, FOX, Graceland, HBO, J.K. Rowling, Masterchef, NBC, Royal Pains, Rush, Satisfaction, Saturday Night Live, Suits, The Casual Vacancy, The Following, TV, TV Blog, TV news, USA
-Starting in May, you’ll be able to stream some of HBO’s older shows via an Amazon Prime subscription. You’ll be able to watch The Sopranos, The Wire, and a few others including older episodes of Girls. Sex and the City, Entourage, and Curb Your Enthusiasm will NOT be airing because they are tied up in various syndication deals with other channels. http://recode.net/2014/04/23/amazon-makes-a-big-move-snags-older-hbo-shows/
-Fox has moved the Masterchef premiere a week later on May 26. They have switched around their schedule now so here is the new one: http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/fox-pushes-masterchef-premiere-by-week/
Bones will air a repeat on April 28
The Following season finale airs April 28 right after Bones
Last two episodes of Bones airs May 12 and May 19 and will be paired with the first two regular-slot episodes of 24: Live Another Day
-USA has set their summer premiere dates! http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/usa-network-summer-rush-satisfaction-royal-pains/
Royal Pains (Tuesday June 10, 9-10 pm)
Suits (Wednesday June 11, 9-10 pm)
Graceland (Wednesday June 11, 10-11 pm)
Covert Affairs (Tuesday June 24, 10-11 pm)
Rush (Thursday July 17, 9-10 pm)
Satisfaction (Thursday July 17, 10-11 pm)
-HBO and BBC are teaming up to J.K. Rowling’s novel The Casual Vacancy as a three-hour miniseries. http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/hbo-bbc-to-produce-j-k-rowlings-the-casual-vacancy-as-miniseries-1201161635/
-Andy Samberg is set to host the season finale of Saturday Night Live on May 17. The musical guest will be St. Vincent. http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/04/23/charlize-theron-andy-samberg-snl/
Sharknado 2, Orphan Black, Supernatural Bloodlines, I F-Ing Love Science, and new seasons for your favorite shows!
March 9, 2014 March 9, 2014 dextvtalk Uncategorized Amazon Instant Prime, Bones, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Craig Ferguson, FOX, FX, Glee, I F-ing Love Science, Louie, Louie C.K., New Girl, Orphan Black, Saturday Night Live, Science Channel, Sharknado 2, Sleepy Hollow, SNL, Supernatural: Bloodlines, SyFy, The Following, The Mindy Project, TV, TV news
Sorry for the lack of a new post over the past few days, I’ve been hanging out with family and been a little busy with other things.
–Sharknado 2: The Second One will premiere July 31 at 9 pm ET on SyFy. Tara Reid, Kelly Osbourne, and Judah Friedlander will all be a part of it. Will you be watching? Have you watched the first one? Tell me in the comments below! http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/03/07/sharknado-sequel-july-premiere/
-Exclusive episodes of Orphan Black will be on Amazon Instant Prime from now. The first season and all future seasons will also be on Amazon Instant Prime. The first season is available now so you can binge watch them ahead of the season season premiere on April 19 on BBC America. http://www.thewrap.com/orphan-black-streaming-deal-amazon
-FOX has started renewing its shows! Brooklyn Nine Nine, The Mindy Project, New Girl, and The Following have all been renewed for the 2014-2015 season. They are newest additions in a longer line of shows; the first ones being Sleepy Hollow, Glee, and Bones. http://www.thetvaddict.com/2014/03/07/hot-from-fox-brooklyn-nine-nine-the-mindy-project-new-girl-and-the-following-renewed-for-2014-15-season-on-fox/
-The Supernatural spin-off has a new name: Supernatural Bloodlines. The episode leading up to the new series will be on April 29. Melissa Roxburgh joins Danielle Savre, Sean Faris, Lucien Laviscourt, and stephen Martines as series regulars on the show. The first 8 seasons (out of 9) are on Netflix for your viewing pleasure. http://tvline.com/2014/03/08/supernatural-spin-off-pilot-cast-melissa-roxburgh/
-Louis C.K. is set to host Saturday Night Live again on March 29. You can also catch him on Louie which airs on FX, with the fourth season airing in May, and before then you can watch the first three seasons on Netflix to catch up! http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/03/08/louis-ck-saturday-night-live/
-The popular Facebook page ‘I F-ing Love Science‘ is coming to a TV near you. Craig Ferguson is producing the show on the Science Channel. The series will premiere in late 2014. http://www.thewrap.com/science-channel-craig-ferguson-i-f-ing-love-science-sxsw
Thanks for checking out my blog! I also am thinking of making a Twitter account to go along with this blog. So that I can keep you even more up to date and let you know about things immediately. Let me know if you think that would be a good idea!
Reign, Trailer Park Boys, 2 Broke Girls, Kroll Show, Grey’s Anatomy, and Bones! Plus much more!
March 6, 2014 March 6, 2014 dextvtalk Uncategorized 2 Broke Girls, Bones, Comedy Central, CW, David Simon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Emeril Lagasse, FOX, Grey's Anatomy, HBO, Isaiah Washington, Kroll Show, Leah Remini, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Burnett, Netflix, Nick Kroll, On The Menu, Oprah, Reign, Sandra Oh, squintern, The Hundred, TLC, TNT, Trailer Park Boys, Ty Pennington
–Reign has decided to put an uncensored “sexy” episode online. There will be a normal version of this week’s episode airing at it’s normal time (Thursdays (Tonight) at 9/8c on CW). The online version will be uploaded to the CW’s website Friday morning. Here is a teaser pic from the upcoming episode. http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/03/05/cw-reign-uncensored/
-Two new seasons of Trailer Parks Boys will be available to Netflix users. The show has been on hiatus since the end of the 7th season in 2007. The eighth season will consist of 10 episodes and will premiere this fall. The ninth season will premiere sometime after that. If you want to start from the beginning, all seasons are on Netflix for your enjoyment! http://www.indiewire.com/article/television/canadas-favorite-trailer-park-boys-are-back-for-seasons-8-9-this-fall?
-Leah Remini has gotten her own show on TLC. It will be docuseries following her life and her family. The series will be 12 half-hour episodes long. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/leah-remini-star-tlc-docuseries-686265
-HBO picked up Oprah-produced mini series about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King based on the America: In the King Years book trilogy. The series will consist of six hour long episodes. David Simon (The Wire, Treme) will be spearheading the project along with Oprah. http://www.deadline.com/2014/03/the-wires-david-simon-takes-on-oprah-produced-hbo-mini-on-martin-luther-king/
-Ty Pennington (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) and chef Emeril Lagasse have signed on for TNT’s new show On the Menu. Pennington will be the host, while Lagasse will act as the Menu Master. Apparently the show will allow the viewers the chance to taste the winning dish after every episode. Each episode will consist of home cooks challenged to create dishes for restaurant chains, stadium concession stands, or other American food businesses. The executive producer is Mark Burnett (The Voice, Survivor, Shark Tank.) It is slated to air in the fall of 2014. http://www.thewrap.com/ty-pennington-emeril-lagasse-tnt-on-the-menu-mark-burnett
-Lindsay Lohan is making a guest appearance on 2 Broke Girls. The episode will air April 14. She will play Claire Guinness, a bride-to-be who enlists Max and Caroline to make her a wedding cake. And then hilarity and chaos ensues (I’m assuming.) You can catch new episodes of 2 Broke Girls on Mondays at 8:30/7:30c on CBS. http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/03/05/lindsay-lohan-2-broke-girls/
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-Isaiah Washington is returning to Grey’s Anatomy. His episode will air in May and apparently it’s much needed closure for Chistrina Yang (Sandra Oh). –I won’t tell you why cause spoilers are a prominent issue on the internet.– Her character is supposed to leave at the end of this season so it’s helping wrap everything up. If you would like to see why he leaves then the first 9 seasons (out of 10) are on Netflix. You can also catch Washington on CW’s The Hundred premiering later this month. You catch new episodes of Grey’s Anatomy on Thursdays at 9/8c on ABC. http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/03/06/isaiah-washington-returning-greys-anatomy/
-Finally, meet the newest intern on Bones! He will premiere on the Monday, March 17th episode. Ignacio Serricchio will play Rodolfo Fuentes in the upcoming episode when the rest of the team is busy with possible murder suspect remains are found in a septic tank. The first 8 seasons (out of 9) are on Netflix if you’d like to watch the whole show! Again no spoilers on why there is a new “squintern.” You can catch Bones starting this upcoming Monday at 8/7c on FOX. http://www.thetvaddict.com/2014/03/05/bones-preview-the-repo-man-in-the-septic-tank/#more-47354
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Entourage Movie, Being Human, Looking, Ripper Street, and more!
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-The Entourage movie finally gets a release date. June 12, 2015. Mark your calendars! Plot details however are being kept under wraps 😦 http://variety.com/2014/film/news/entourage-movie-gets-a-summer-2015-release-date-1201120686/
-SyFy announced the series finale of Being Human. The second half of the fourth season (6 episodes) is about to start, which will now be the last season. The series finale is Monday April 7th.
–Looking, on HBO, is being renewed for a second season. Lauren Weedman (Doris), Raúl Castillo (Richie), and Russell Tovey (Kevin) have all been promoted to series regulars for season 2. http://tvline.com/2014/02/26/looking-season-2-renewed-hbo-renews/
-Freddie Prinze Jr. will reprise his role as Danny Beck for the Monday March 10th episode of Bones. “The Source in the Sludge.” Remember it’s on Mondays, not Fridays, now!
-Amazon has decided to revive the once-cancelled BBC show Ripper Street for a third season. The new season will premiere early for the U.K. Amazon Instant Prime subscribers a few months before it premieres on BBC One for everyone else. If you want to catch up the first season is on Netflix! http://www.tvguide.com/News/Amazon-Ripper-Street-Season3-1078249.aspx
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Britney Butler makes history, but CSUSB softball falters against CSU Dominguez Hills
April 29, 2012 by Archived posts
By Chelsea Underwood |Staff Writer|
The Coyote softball team struggled at home in their last series of the season on April 20–21, dropping three out of four games against the ninth ranked CSU Dominguez Hills Toros.
The ladies struggled with the bats as they struck out 13 times in the 3–0 loss. The Toros took the lead again in the second game, scoring two runs in the second and fourth innings.
In the sixth inning, freshman Alyssa Ramos and senior Alex Mitchell both ripped singles to bring the Coyotes’ bats to life.
The next hitter, junior infielder Britney Butler, stepped up to the plate and smacked a three–run home run to center field, giving the Coyotes their first lead of the game at 3–2. That home run moved Butler into a tie for the school record for most homers in a single season with 14.
“It’s always awesome to see one of your teammates clutch up and just hit a ball, making us come out ahead,” said senior Felicia Cervantes.
Butler’s home run proved to be just enough, as the ‘Yotes won by a final score of 3–2. With their season coming to an end, the Coyotes had two more games to make a splash.
Unfortunately, the came up short in both games, losing by scores of 3–0 and 5–4 respectively. In the first game, pitcher Courtney Wilhelms came into the game and served as a major hindrance for the Toros’ offensive attack and kept them at bay for most of the game.
However, the Coyotes’ bats were silenced, as they were unable to provide any run support for their pitcher. The same game provided a heartbreaking defeat, as well as record breaking performance.
Britney Butler was able to hit a school record 15th home run in the second game of the doubleheader. This home run gave the Coyotes a comfortable four-run lead at the moment, but it also made Butler the Coyotes’ single-season home run leader.
While down, the Toros showed that they were definitely not out, as they were able to tie the contest at four in the fourth, and went on to score what would be the deciding fifth run in the seventh.
Head Coach Tacy Duncan admired her girl’s efforts, but realized that the Toros were formidable opponents who deserved a lot of credit.
“[CSU Dominguez Hills] did a good job,” said Duncan. “They are number 19 in the nation and we played with them every single game.”
Although they failed to exceed their expectations, the Lady Yotes’ graced us with plenty of highlights throughout the season.
With only four seniors, the Coyotes will have many hungry, determined players returning for what is expected to be a remarkable season next year.
Photos Courtesy of Matthew D. Gilford
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Interpretation of the results of NIST (p)NRG suite
I have problems interpreting the NIST (sts-2.1.2) suite results. After running the statistics with 100 samples (each sample of 1000000 byte length) a new prng i got this result:
RESULTS FOR THE UNIFORMITY OF P-VALUES AND THE PROPORTION OF PASSING SEQUENCES
generator is <data/data.bin>
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 P-VALUE PROPORTION STATISTICAL TEST
13 9 8 11 8 11 5 14 12 9 0.678686 98/100 Frequency
12 11 11 7 9 11 8 8 10 13 0.946308 99/100 BlockFrequency
15 1 10 11 9 13 11 11 9 10 0.213309 99/100 CumulativeSums
13 10 7 10 11 9 15 6 8 11 0.678686 99/100 CumulativeSums
8 13 6 15 10 8 7 11 10 12 0.616305 100/100 Runs
11 10 11 14 13 10 10 6 8 7 0.779188 99/100 LongestRun
6 7 11 11 8 9 7 16 12 13 0.437274 100/100 Rank
13 11 13 8 12 6 7 11 10 9 0.798139 96/100 FFT
10 18 8 8 9 5 12 13 11 6 0.171867 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 9 14 12 12 7 9 9 10 9 0.924076 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 9 5 7 11 8 6 12 16 15 0.202268 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
5 7 12 10 9 14 9 11 15 8 0.474986 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 5 11 7 9 13 14 9 9 15 0.419021 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 8 8 11 8 9 10 14 12 8 0.897763 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 14 17 10 5 9 6 6 13 8 0.122325 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 10 14 14 11 15 8 11 4 5 0.171867 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 9 15 12 8 9 11 8 5 13 0.595549 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
7 7 15 8 6 11 13 7 13 13 0.350485 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 15 8 9 15 5 11 7 10 10 0.437274 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 12 9 9 6 11 13 11 7 10 0.867692 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 12 12 9 12 9 10 6 10 9 0.955835 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 16 8 15 2 12 8 11 14 5 0.035174 97/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 9 10 6 13 8 10 6 17 10 0.383827 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 13 8 9 10 9 15 10 7 10 0.834308 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 13 12 9 9 12 11 6 10 8 0.911413 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 11 10 9 11 7 6 15 9 11 0.779188 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
15 9 12 5 6 13 12 7 15 6 0.145326 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 9 8 9 13 6 7 15 13 8 0.514124 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 13 11 10 8 11 11 7 8 11 0.964295 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 9 7 9 12 13 8 12 8 11 0.924076 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 10 8 12 7 11 12 12 7 11 0.935716 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 9 9 8 18 9 11 11 10 7 0.474986 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
6 12 7 4 9 14 7 7 18 16 0.017912 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
14 9 7 7 14 11 9 9 8 12 0.719747 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
7 6 12 14 6 16 8 9 14 8 0.202268 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 9 14 11 3 11 8 13 10 11 0.514124 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 4 10 11 13 9 9 13 9 10 0.719747 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 13 5 7 14 8 14 11 8 8 0.419021 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 8 6 9 13 9 12 12 9 10 0.883171 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 11 7 14 16 6 8 10 9 8 0.455937 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 12 15 12 12 7 10 5 9 7 0.514124 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 11 5 7 9 12 14 6 14 14 0.289667 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 8 13 8 13 7 8 11 10 14 0.739918 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
14 12 8 9 7 10 8 11 13 8 0.816537 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
15 6 4 10 6 9 6 15 13 16 0.035174 97/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
4 10 13 11 13 6 12 9 10 12 0.534146 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 19 5 11 14 12 4 6 9 12 0.026948 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 7 15 8 8 9 21 7 9 7 0.030806 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
5 12 12 12 10 7 9 5 13 15 0.304126 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 13 16 6 9 6 7 11 10 12 0.419021 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
15 7 10 8 13 14 8 9 10 6 0.494392 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
5 13 6 9 13 8 8 13 12 13 0.437274 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
7 18 15 7 7 10 7 8 9 12 0.145326 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 12 8 7 13 13 15 7 13 4 0.224821 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
7 13 13 10 9 10 10 5 14 9 0.637119 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 5 7 7 14 12 9 12 14 9 0.474986 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 13 8 9 10 9 13 7 14 6 0.678686 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 13 10 8 10 9 9 13 10 9 0.978072 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 10 12 7 9 12 10 8 12 9 0.971699 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 11 11 3 16 12 8 11 9 9 0.366918 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 7 10 17 7 2 9 16 12 10 0.045675 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
6 7 14 14 8 10 15 9 5 12 0.236810 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 5 8 11 7 9 21 11 12 8 0.042808 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 11 9 14 9 12 5 12 7 12 0.678686 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
5 4 12 13 7 9 10 12 16 12 0.171867 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 10 9 10 16 9 7 10 7 10 0.739918 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 10 13 8 10 11 8 11 10 7 0.955835 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 8 12 7 15 15 4 8 10 11 0.289667 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 12 19 9 8 13 8 7 8 5 0.115387 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
5 12 9 7 13 15 16 8 6 9 0.162606 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
13 9 13 10 10 7 12 11 9 6 0.834308 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 14 11 8 11 9 6 4 11 17 0.181557 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
4 10 6 13 10 7 8 13 12 17 0.137282 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 8 6 8 15 13 11 11 6 11 0.554420 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 8 7 6 11 9 21 12 6 12 0.035174 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
14 11 11 12 6 17 5 8 10 6 0.153763 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
13 8 13 7 11 9 13 11 7 8 0.779188 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
6 13 7 10 14 8 8 7 13 14 0.419021 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
13 5 6 9 4 14 16 9 10 14 0.075719 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
15 8 8 9 9 10 11 11 10 9 0.924076 97/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
16 9 9 10 12 5 15 11 6 7 0.224821 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 8 13 10 7 7 8 16 11 10 0.616305 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 6 9 10 10 9 5 15 13 12 0.514124 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
6 5 9 12 15 14 13 8 9 9 0.334538 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
5 16 5 11 11 7 12 12 10 11 0.304126 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 7 12 5 12 13 8 15 7 12 0.401199 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 12 10 7 11 9 8 6 16 11 0.616305 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
7 12 5 9 12 14 8 13 11 9 0.595549 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 8 13 10 11 9 8 19 8 4 0.122325 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
13 10 12 8 8 11 8 10 5 15 0.574903 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 8 10 10 12 8 10 12 12 8 0.983453 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 11 12 11 11 10 7 11 7 12 0.946308 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 14 11 10 7 11 9 10 10 9 0.964295 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 15 6 13 12 9 6 8 8 12 0.494392 97/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
5 7 8 12 16 8 13 11 9 11 0.401199 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 13 10 8 12 9 12 7 9 11 0.946308 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
7 11 15 8 10 17 9 7 7 9 0.289667 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 8 17 9 10 12 13 10 2 7 0.108791 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
7 9 12 7 10 9 15 9 14 8 0.637119 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
14 10 10 3 8 13 11 10 7 14 0.319084 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
6 11 9 11 10 17 10 7 14 5 0.224821 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 16 3 7 13 9 9 4 16 13 0.028817 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
15 7 10 16 4 9 7 15 9 8 0.102526 97/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
15 7 13 8 7 10 4 13 10 13 0.275709 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 12 9 16 10 6 12 13 7 7 0.419021 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 13 13 10 10 8 9 8 9 11 0.964295 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 6 8 14 8 9 8 7 12 19 0.122325 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 10 14 12 11 14 11 11 2 7 0.236810 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 9 9 11 10 13 12 9 10 8 0.987896 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 12 13 11 8 9 9 9 7 14 0.834308 96/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 10 5 8 8 10 13 8 12 16 0.474986 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
13 11 7 13 7 12 12 8 9 8 0.798139 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 13 17 5 10 5 8 6 15 12 0.071177 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
4 10 13 14 13 13 11 8 5 9 0.275709 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 9 10 11 10 10 12 9 14 5 0.851383 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 19 8 10 13 5 12 8 8 9 0.137282 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 10 6 12 15 7 7 12 8 12 0.574903 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 10 13 9 13 6 7 11 13 10 0.759756 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 12 10 9 11 9 10 10 9 9 0.999438 97/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
7 6 9 7 11 11 13 13 8 15 0.494392 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 12 10 8 12 10 8 10 9 10 0.994250 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
13 11 7 10 8 16 11 10 5 9 0.474986 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
13 6 5 11 5 14 10 13 6 17 0.055361 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 9 6 8 13 12 8 10 10 13 0.851383 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
3 6 13 14 14 9 11 12 9 9 0.249284 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 6 7 16 7 11 7 8 18 8 0.075719 97/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 7 12 12 8 9 8 16 13 5 0.383827 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
14 11 6 13 5 9 9 10 7 16 0.249284 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 11 4 13 9 9 9 17 9 8 0.319084 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
13 9 8 11 13 8 7 13 10 8 0.834308 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
6 8 5 7 15 15 9 10 11 14 0.202268 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 8 10 13 11 5 8 15 11 7 0.514124 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 7 13 10 9 16 9 9 9 9 0.739918 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
14 6 11 11 8 10 11 8 8 13 0.779188 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
14 8 7 4 12 8 13 15 12 7 0.213309 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 12 10 13 7 12 13 5 9 11 0.678686 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
7 9 11 7 6 12 12 17 10 9 0.401199 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
7 15 10 9 10 13 7 11 3 15 0.171867 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
12 13 5 12 11 6 10 11 12 8 0.657933 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 11 11 12 13 8 9 12 7 8 0.924076 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
6 14 17 7 6 13 15 7 7 8 0.062821 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
5 7 7 15 11 12 10 9 10 14 0.437274 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 6 10 9 12 8 11 8 15 12 0.739918 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
10 10 11 12 15 6 7 10 10 9 0.779188 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 8 7 9 13 14 10 12 10 8 0.851383 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
11 5 12 11 12 11 10 8 8 12 0.851383 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
8 11 5 11 9 16 10 7 10 13 0.474986 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
14 10 8 8 11 13 10 12 7 7 0.779188 98/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
14 10 3 16 11 7 8 10 10 11 0.236810 99/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
16 9 11 8 9 7 15 8 12 5 0.275709 100/100 NonOverlappingTemplate
9 6 9 17 10 17 9 6 7 10 0.115387 99/100 OverlappingTemplate
12 9 13 7 18 10 8 9 8 6 0.262249 99/100 Universal
9 10 15 12 11 5 10 5 14 9 0.366918 98/100 ApproximateEntropy
4 12 3 15 10 4 7 6 3 7 0.011440 70/71 RandomExcursions
6 8 6 7 8 6 7 11 7 5 0.937294 70/71 RandomExcursions
6 6 4 4 5 12 9 9 8 8 0.491599 71/71 RandomExcursions
2 6 2 10 9 11 9 5 7 10 0.127498 71/71 RandomExcursions
5 7 5 8 9 8 9 4 7 9 0.881013 71/71 RandomExcursions
6 8 4 8 12 8 3 8 8 6 0.519816 69/71 RandomExcursions
5 5 7 5 3 7 10 7 9 13 0.275709 70/71 RandomExcursions
3 6 11 6 14 6 6 3 8 8 0.099089 71/71 RandomExcursions
7 13 8 4 6 4 5 8 10 6 0.339044 71/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
11 9 6 6 8 7 7 1 6 10 0.362174 71/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
10 8 9 8 8 6 8 3 6 5 0.781926 70/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
9 8 7 8 5 10 9 6 6 3 0.754127 71/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
9 10 7 9 5 5 7 9 5 5 0.808725 70/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
5 14 8 5 2 3 11 11 6 6 0.025193 70/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
9 3 6 5 10 8 7 7 8 8 0.808725 70/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
3 9 5 12 6 6 6 10 8 6 0.437274 71/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
3 6 7 2 10 11 6 10 7 9 0.238562 71/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
4 10 6 12 3 13 4 4 5 10 0.033552 71/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
7 2 15 7 7 9 7 4 8 5 0.083381 71/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
6 15 6 8 6 5 8 4 3 10 0.083381 71/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
11 4 7 10 6 10 3 8 6 6 0.437274 71/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
11 5 4 11 5 9 10 4 7 5 0.295803 69/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
10 5 8 6 4 13 4 7 8 6 0.339044 70/71 RandomExcursionsVariant
12 6 8 11 11 15 8 8 11 10 0.739918 100/100 Serial
9 8 6 9 10 6 13 14 15 10 0.455937 100/100 Serial
8 6 7 6 15 10 13 13 14 8 0.289667 97/100 LinearComplexity
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The minimum pass rate for each statistical test with the exception of the
random excursion (variant) test is approximately = 96 for a
sample size = 100 binary sequences.
The minimum pass rate for the random excursion (variant) test
is approximately = 67 for a sample size = 71 binary sequences.
For further guidelines construct a probability table using the MAPLE program
provided in the addendum section of the documentation.
I did the same test for the well known cprng salsa20 with same sample size and got very similar results but different p-Values in detail - sometimes higher sometimes lower.
Can anybody give me some advice, how to interpret the result?
Would it be appropriate to interpret the NIST suite result as "PASSED" even if the results differ from well known pseudo random number generators?
Is there another test suite (beside DIEHARD, that does not compile on OSX) to test PRNG random behavior?
random-number-generator nist
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$\begingroup$ As explained in the answer, the test passed. However, be aware that this is not a good indication (much less proof) that the (p)RNG tested is cryptographically strong; nor that it is correctly implemented. These tests can (only) catch some grossly inadequate RNGs, some implementations errors (hardware or software), and (normal) imperfections in TRNGs. For an illustration of why your three p-values of 0.025, 0.027, and 0.029 are not alarming, there's an obligatory XKCD. $\endgroup$ – fgrieu Oct 28 '14 at 10:26
Your output already includes the relevant interpretation guidelines:
This means that every single test can be considered as "passed" if it reports "xx/100" where "xx" is at least 96. The exception is the "RandomExcursions" tests, which report "yy/71" and the threshold is 67.
In your case, all tests pass.
The "P-value" is a synthetic probability; this is what most statistical tests output. In rough terms, when the P-value is (for instance) 0.23, it means that "a perfectly random RNG could have produced a result as skewed as, or more skewed than, what we obtained with probability 0.23". It can be thought of as a measure of implausibility: if the P-value is 0.000001, then this means "we could have obtain such a result from a perfectly fine RNG but it was a one-in-a-million chance, so we don't believe it". See this page for more on this subject.
It is perfectly normal that P-values vary; in fact, if you run the test twice with the same PRNG you will get different values. Moreover, you expect to have a few low P-values, because when you do a hundred tests it is rather normal that you get things which happen only once every 50 times. When running multiple tests, P-values must be "corrected" to account for such an effect (see Bonferroni correction for pointers).
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$\begingroup$ Thaks a lot. Anyway i wonder about the p-value column. Generally smaller p-values in the table should be better (as usually in statistics)? And shouldn't been have any test rejected that exposes p>0.01? $\endgroup$ – ABri Oct 23 '14 at 16:16
$\begingroup$ Here it is the other way round. Usually, in statistics, you want to detect a non-random effect (e.g. a correlation between a specific gene mutation and a given illness), so you want a small p-value, that would mean "no way this is pure luck, there must be some correlation". Here we really don't want correlations or biases, so we want big p-values. $\endgroup$ – Thomas Pornin Oct 23 '14 at 18:23
$\begingroup$ The PRNG the NIST-Question referred to is public now: github.com/AndreasBriese/breeze You are a well known cryptographer - maybe you have a look, please. $\endgroup$ – ABri Nov 8 '14 at 17:40
Here are my answers to your three questions, as well as a final advice in the end.
Here is an explanation on how to interpret that output data.
In your case, a total of 187 tests (some of the 15 tests actually consist of multiple sub-tests) were conducted to evaluate the randomness of the input data. This number depends on factors such as the template length for the NonOverlappingTemplateMatching test (by default, unless you change some parameters, you will have 187 tests).
The numerous empirical results of these tests were then interpreted with an examination of the proportion of sequences that pass a statistical test (proportion analysis) and the distribution of p-values to check for uniformity (uniformity analysis).
The results of these two analyses are in the output that you posted. Here is how to interpret it.
Uniformity analysis
The first 10 columns represent the distribution of P-values, and are thus related to the uniformity analysis.
As explained in section 4.2.2 of NIST's paper, the interval between 0 and 1 is divided into 10 sub-intervals, and, after conducting all the iterations of a test, all the P-values that lie within each sub interval are counted and displayed.
In other words, the C1 column contains the number of P-values p for that test such that $0 ≤ p < 0.1$, the C2 column contains the number of P-values p for that test such that $0.1 ≤ p < 0.2$ and so on.
The P-VALUE column contains the P-value of the distribution of the P-values. As explained in the same section of the paper, after counting the number of P-values for each sub-interval, a uniformity analysis is conducted to check if their distribution itself is random.
If it is the case that $P-VALUE ≥ 0.0001$, then the P-values for that test can be considered to be uniformly distributed. If $P-VALUE < 0.0001$, the P-values can’t be considered uniformly distributed, the uniformity analysis is not passed and a * will be shown right next to the P-value.
Proportion analysis
The PROPORTION column is the count of the sequences that passed the test out of the total number of sequences tested. This ratio is used for the proportion analysis.
As explained in section 4.2.1 of NIST's paper, a confidence interval of acceptable proportions is determined by the test suite. If the proportion falls outside of this interval, then there is evidence that the data is non-random, the proportion analysis is not passed and a * will be shown right next to the proportion.
If you interpret the results as explained above, you will safely conclude that your data passed all of the NIST STS tests.
You can find some links to other test suites in this answer at Crypto.SE.
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Teach Me How to Feel! Enhancing the Emotional Intelligence for At-Risk Youth and Children
Allen Lipscomb, University of Southern CaliforniaFollow
Strand #1
Social & Emotional Skills
This presentation is designed to address the social emotional strand as well as the fifth strand of family and community support. This presentation will provide an overview to families, educators, community providers and other helping professionals of effective ways to enhance the emotional intelligence of a child. The presentation will also focus on practice elements and techniques of building the emotional intelligence of youth and children at school settings, community settings and home.
Brief Program Description
The presentation is geared to teach, inform and encourage others to invest in building a child/youth’s emotional intelligence. This presentation will explore the various facets and intersectionalities (i.e. SES, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.) that impact the child’s emotional intelligence. The presentation will examine both the micro and the mezzo systems as it relates to shaping a child’s emotional intelligence. It will look at the role of non-family and other primary caregivers in modeling adaptive ways to express emotions and skills. It will examine the role of attachment theory and resiliency theory as it relates to school and community settings.
The “take home” learning objectives are as follows: 1) Participants will learn what is Emotional Intelligence 2) Participants will gain and understanding for how the emotional intelligence is built and strengthen across multiple settings 3) Participants will learn how emotional intelligence relates to self-esteem, self-regulation and adaptive ways of coping. 4) Participants will also examine stigmas, stereotypes and cultural beliefs about male children not expressing their emotions 5) Participants will be able to identify ways to increase and enhance the emotional intelligence of the black male child throughout development. Objective 1 Topic area: Define Emotional Intelligence. What are emotions? (Identify feelings, etc.) Objective 2 Topic area: How to build a youth/child’s emotional intelligence. Examining the feedback from different systems that the child interacts with on a daily basis. Objective 3 Topic area: How does Emotional Intelligence relate to Self-Regulation, Self-Esteem and Coping with challenge in life. Taking a deeper look at the interplay between the triad and also what the community/environments tells the male child about emotions. Objective 4 Topic area: Reflection on your own emotional development/intelligence. Looking at what key factors/figures played a role in shaping and forming your emotional intelligence throughout your childhood, adolescents and adulthood. Objective 5 Topic area: How to cultivate emotional intelligence in children. Taking a closer look at the individual child improving not just their cognitive, physical but also emotional intelligence.
The research is beginning to demonstrate what many educators, counselors, parents, and other observers had long recognized – that the most successful people were not necessarily those with high IQs but rather those with highly developed interpersonal and social skills. Today many prominent psychologists and researchers agree EQ is an intelligence that is separate from cognitive intelligence (IQ) and has components that are different from traditional measures of personality. There were several pioneers who have helped raise this awareness. Peter Salovey is a dean and professor of psychology at Yale University. Jack Mayer is a professor at the University of New Hampshire. The two psychologists published the first academic definition of emotional intelligence in 1990, and have continued as the leading researchers in the field. Reuven BarOn, a psychologist and researcher at University of Texas Medical Branch, is another pioneer in the field. He created the first validated measure of "emotionally intelligent behavior," the EQ-i.7 Other leading researchers in this area include Joseph LeDoux, Antonio Damasio, and educators such as Karen McCown, Anabel Jensen, and Maurice Elias. One of the newest tools is called the “Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment-Youth Version,” or “SEI-YV.”8 The SEI-YV is unique because it provides a link between EQ skills and life outcomes (such as academic achievement and health). Moreover it offers an actionable model to improve. Emotional intelligence is not, in itself, sufficient to create optimal outcomes for youth. However, the way emotional intelligence is used, both by youth and those who support them has a powerful effect on the children’s lives, yet it is frequently ignored. Emotional intelligence appears to be a core ingredient that, when developed and well employed, has wide-ranging benefits for learning, relationships, and wellness. References: Bar-On, R. (1997). The Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i). Toronto: Multi-Health Systems. Greenbert, M.T., Weissberg, R.P., O’Brien, M.U., Zins J.E., Fredericks, L., Resnick,H., & Elias, M.J. (2003). “Enhancing school-based prevention and youth development through coordinated social, emotional, and academic learning,” AmericanPsychologist 58 (6/7), 466-474. Jensen, A. & Fieldeldey-van Dijk, C. (2007). Six Seconds Emotional IntelligenceAssessment – Youth Version (SEI-YV). San Francisco: Six Seconds. Mayer, J. D., & Salovey, P. (1997). “What is emotional intelligence?” In Salovey, P. &Sluyter, D. (Eds.), Emotional development and emotional intelligence: Implications for educators (pp. 3-31). New York: Basic Books.
Individual Presentation
Allen Lipscomb is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of California. Allen Lipscomb has two bachelor’s degrees one in psychology and one in black studies from the University of California Santa Barbara. In addition, he also has his master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California and he is currently working on his doctorate in clinical psychology. Allen is a faculty member at the University of Southern California School of Social Work. He is also an adjunct faculty at California State University Northridge in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He teaches courses in social work and sociology. In addition he has a private practice in Montclair California where he works with children, adolescents, families and couples.
Allen Lipscomb has extensive experience providing mental health and clinical services to children, youth and families in South Los Angeles and the greater Los Angeles area. He has worked in school settings K-12 for the past ten years.
Keyword Descriptors
Emotional Skills, Resiliency
Presentation Year
Lipscomb, Allen, "Teach Me How to Feel! Enhancing the Emotional Intelligence for At-Risk Youth and Children" (2015). National Youth-At-Risk Conference Savannah. 10.
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Homefor PractitionersParental Alienation — Reference list 2010 -2015
Parental alienation has been one of the most disputed topics in the study of divorce and custody. Often clinicians have argued that is this a real phenomena, while researchers have questioned the validity of the concept. Below is a list of many of the studies in the last few years that have addressed these issues.
Agllias, K. (2015). Difference, choice, and punishment: Parental beliefs and understandings about adult child estrangement. Australian Social Work, 68(1), 115-129. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2014.927897
Austin, W. G., Fieldstone, L., & Pruett, M. K. (2013). Bench Book for assessing parental gatekeeping in parenting disputes: Understanding the dynamics of gate closing and opening for the best interests of children. Journal of Child Custody: Research, Issues, and Practices, 10(1), 1-16. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15379418.2013.778693
Austin, W. G., Pruett, M. K., Kirkpatrick, H. D., Flens, J. R., & Gould, J. W. (2013). Parental gatekeeping and child custody/child access evaluation: Part I: Conceptual framework, research, and application. Family Court Review, 51(3), 485-501. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fcre.12045
Baker, A. J. L. (2010). Adult recall of parental alienation in a community sample: Prevalence and associations with psychological maltreatment. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 51(1), 16-35. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10502550903423206
Baker, A. J. L. (2010). Even when you win you lose: Targeted parents’ perceptions of their attorneys. American Journal of Family Therapy, 38(4), 292-309. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01926187.2010.493429
Baker, A. J. L., & Ben-Ami, N. (2011). To turn a child against a parent is to turn a child against himself: The direct and indirect effects of exposure to parental alienation strategies on self-esteem and well-being. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 52(7), 472-489. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2011.609424
Baker, A. J. L., Burkhard, B., & Albertson-Kelly, J. (2012). Differentiating alienated from not alienated children: A pilot study. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 53(3), 178-193.
Baker, A. J. L., & Chambers, J. (2011). Adult recall of childhood exposure to parental conflict: Unpacking the black box of parental alienation. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 52(1), 55-76. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2011.534396
Baker, A. J. L., & Verrocchio, M. C. (2013). Italian college student-reported childhood exposure to parental alienation: Correlates with well-being. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 54(8), 609-628. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2013.837714
Baker, A. J. L., & Verrocchio, M. C. (2014). Parental bonding and parental alienation as correlates of psychological maltreatment in adults in intact and non-intact families. Journal of Child and Family Studies, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-014-0108-0
Baker, A. J. L. (2006). The power of stories/stories about power: Why therapists and clients should read stories about the parental alienation syndrome. American Journal of Family Therapy, 34(3), 191-203. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01926180600550486
Baker, A. J. L. (2010). Adult recall of parental alienation in a community sample: Prevalence and associations with psychological maltreatment. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 51(1), 16-35. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10502550903423206
Baker, A. J. L. (2010). Even when you win you lose: Targeted parents’ perceptions of their attorneys. American Journal of Family Therapy, 38(4), 292-309. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01926187.2010.493429
Baker, A. J. L., & Ben-Ami, N. (2011). To turn a child against a parent is to turn a child against himself: The direct and indirect effects of exposure to parental alienation strategies on self-esteem and well-being. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 52(7), 472-489. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2011.609424
Baker, A. J. L., Burkhard, B., & Albertson-Kelly, J. (2012). Differentiating alienated from not alienated children: A pilot study. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 53(3), 178-193. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2012.663266
Baker, A. J. L., & Chambers, J. (2011). Adult recall of childhood exposure to parental conflict: Unpacking the black box of parental alienation. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 52(1), 55-76. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2011.534396
Bala, N., Hunt, S., & McCarney, C. (2010). Parental alienation: Canadian court cases 1989 2008. Family Court Review, 48(1), 164-179. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2009.01296.x
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Clemente, M., & Padilla-Racero, D. (2015). Are children susceptible to manipulation? The best interest of children and their testimony. Children and Youth Services Review, 51, 101-107. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.02.003
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Friedlander, S., & Walters, M. G. (2010). When a child rejects a parent: Tailoring the intervention to fit the problem. Family Court Review, 48(1), 98-111. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2009.01291.x
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Lavadera, A. L., Ferracuti, S., & Togliatti, M. M. (2012). Parental Alienation Syndrome in Italian legal judgments: An exploratory study. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 35(4), 334-342. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2012.04.005
López, T. J., Iglesias, V. E. N., & García, P. F. (2014). Parental alienation gradient: Strategies for a syndrome. American Journal of Family Therapy, 42(3), 217-231. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01926187.2013.820116
Lowenstein, L. F. (2012). Child contact disputes between parents and allegations of sex abuse: What does the research say? Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 53(3), 194-203. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2012.663267
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Artistic views of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904: looking across the Grand Basin to Terrace of States, Cascades and Festival hall in center, Supplement to St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 21, 1904, Looking across the Grand Basin to Terrace of States, Cascades and Festival hall in center
This reproduction print was issued as part of a Sunday supplement series by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in 1904 to highlight the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Artistic views of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904: looking north from top of Cascades to Louisiana Purchase Monument and Plaza of St. Louis. Palaces of Electricity and Varied Indu, Supplement to St. Louis Globe-Democrat, September 25, 1904, Looking north from top of Cascades to Louisiana Purchase Monument and Plaza of St. Louis. Palaces of Electricity and Varied Industries on the left and Education and Manufactures on the right
Artistic views of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904: looking towards the Pike between Palaces of Transportation and Varied Industries, Supplement to St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 28, 1904, Looking towards the Pike between Palaces of Transportation and Varied Industries
Artistic views of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904: looking towards the Government Building across Sunken Gardens and between Palaces of Liberal Arts and Mines and Metallurgy, Supplement to St. Louis Globe-Democrat, September 4, 1904, Looking towards the Government Building across Sunken Gardens and between Palaces of Liberal Arts and Mines and Metallurgy
Artistic views of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904: looking west down Plaza of Orleans in front of Palace of Liberal Arts, Supplement to St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 14, 1904, Looking west down Plaza of Orleans in front of Palace of Liberal Arts
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Tag Archives: Gavin
Kings, Queens, and Bible Figures…or Not
It’s very easy for people with a dabbling interest in modern baby names to look at recent trends in Anglo-American naming practices (e.g., in the last century or so), compare them with what they know of modern-but-not-so-recent trends (e.g., in the 19th C or so), often taken from their own genealogical history, and then make sweeping pronouncements about “how people chose names for their children” or “what names people could name their children” before modern times. Sometimes these claims are influenced by data going even further back; everyone who knows a bit about names knows about Puritanisms like “Fly-Fornication” and “Bestiality” (oops, wait, that one’s a Pratchettism, not a Puritanism).
But it’s a mistake to think that because things changed between the 19th and the later 20th C, that everything before the 19th C was the same. Or even that because things changed in the 16th C, everything from the 16th to the 19th C was the same, and that everything before the 16th C was the same.
Today I came across someone claiming that in historical England, the only options were to name kids after kings, queens, and Bible figures. While it’s certainly true that some popular names were also the names of kings and queens (but there, the other of influence probably goes the other way: Kings and queens were given the names they were because they were common/popular, not that those names became common/popular because they were born by a king or queen) and that some popular names were also the names of important Biblical figures, this claim is problematic in a number of ways.
The first is that it overlooks a substantially-sized group of names that were quite common throughout English history: Names of non-Biblical saints, like Agnes, Margaret, Ursula, Katherine, and Cecilia, which were a particularly generative source of names for women. But even if we include that under “Bible names” (interpreting that to broadly cover “religious” names in general, rather than strictly to narrowly cover only names found in the bible), there are still numerous names — some enormously popular — that do not fit any of these categories.
Some years ago, now, we did two posts on the “most popular” women’s names and men’s names; now, these posts covered not only England, but all the names found on these lists were quite common in England. Let’s take a look at them.
Amongst the feminine names, Alice is a standout counterexample. While there were a few minor continental saints with this name, as well as an empress and a queen consort of Cyprus, these saints were not venerated in England and there’s no reason to think that the two royal women would have had any influence on the popularity of the name outside of their own lands. Yet, Alice was, and continues to be, enormously popular in England, with examples from as early as the second half of the 12th century. Another name on the list, Ellen, shows a similar trajectory: A handful of minor saints with local influence, none of whom were English, and one minor queen consort of a country other than England. And yet, we see this name in England from the early 12th C as well, it’s popularity influenced by the appearance of the name in medieval Arthurian romances (yes, medieval people named their children after literary characters, just as modern people do!).
Turning to the masculine names, Charles was never as popular in England as it was on the continent prior to the post-medieval English kings named Charles, but the name was used, despite there being no biblical, royal, or saintly connection. Another name that cannot be called biblical, royal, or saintly in England is Robert, a name whose popularity in England was driven by the Norman conquest. Sometimes, people just adopted names because they were a part of the changing cultures/fashions/fads of the times. Now, there was a minor (non-Biblical) 13th C English saint named Roger, and that might have contributed to an increase in the popularity of that name, at least in the region where the saint lived. But the name was already in use a century earlier, so the saint cannot have been the driving force (and, again, it’s more likely that a saint has a name because it was popular, rather than that the name was popular because it was given to a saint). A curious name is Walter: It is perhaps the most popular name in medieval Europe (not just medieval England) which was never the name of a saint or a ruler. This didn’t prevent it from often being in the top 5 most popular men’s names in 16th C English parish registers.
Now, these are just some of the most popular names, across all of Europe and a thousand-year-plus timespam. If we look more specifically just at England, and to some of the “not amazingly popular, but not totally unique” names, what we find there is that the number of non-religious, non-royal names proliferates. Such names include:
Avice
Gunhild
Hawise
Idony
Loveday
Meliora
Reinhilde
Rose (entry to be published in the next edition)
Anschetil
Eude (entry still being written)
Griffin (entry still being written)
Haimo
Miles or Milo
Nigel (entry still being written)
Thorkill
Tristan (entry still being written)
Winmar
If we moved on to names that are found rarely, we’d have an even larger swathe of names to pick from.
So, yes, certainly names of kings and queens and saints (saints more so than Bible figures more generally) were popular names in England; but they were by no means the only choice of names available to medieval English people.
Tagged as Adeline, Agnes, Alan, Alice, Amabel, Amy, Anschetil, Archibald, Avice, Basile, Beatrice, Bertram, Blanche, Brian, Cecilia, Celeste, Charles, Clara, Clarice, Claude, Clemence, Constance, Cornelius, Diana, Dulce, Durand, Ellen, Emery, English, Eude, Felicia, Florence, Gavin, Geoffrey, Gervais, Giles, Godfrey, Godwin, Griffin, Guinevere, Gunhild, Guy, Haimo, Hawise, Honora, Hugh, Idony, Ingram, Ivo, Katherine, Lambert, Lance, Leonard, Lettice, Loveday, Margaret, meliora, Miles, Milicent, Milo, Morgan, Nigel, Norman, Olive, Oliver, Percival, Protestant names, Ralph, Reinhilde, Robert, Roger, Roland, Rose, Sibyl, Siger, Theobald, Theodoric, Thorsten, Tristan, Ursa, Warin, Winmar
How medieval is “Your Medieval Name”?
There’s a meme (due to www.abbeytournament.com) that’s been circulating around Facebook sporadically recently, allowing people to generate their “medieval name” according to their day. You’ve probably seen it:
The first time it came up in a group that a couple DMNES staff are members of — a group not devoted to either the Middle Ages or to names — one editorial assistant put out a cry for “HALP”, and another swooped in with documentation. Now every time that meme comes around, we’re reminded of that thread, and finally decided to make a blog post out of it!
So, how medieval is “Your Medieval Name”? Actually, pretty medieval!
The feminine names are almost all good solid choices for late medieval England or France:
Milicent – Yes, medieval!
Alianor – Yes, medieval!
Ellyn – Yes, medieval!
Sybbyl – Yes, medieval!
Jacquelyn – Yes, medieval!
Catherine – Yes, medieval!
Elizabeth – Yes, medieval!
Thea – Possibly medieval but we’ve not found any evidence for it yet.
Lucilla – Sort of medieval: R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain I: Inscriptions on Stone — Epigraphic Indexes (Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1983), RIB 1288 and 1271, note one Iulia Lucilla in a first- to fourth-century British inscription (in this name, Lucilla appears as a cognomen), and another Romano-British inscription mentioning a woman known only as [L]ucilla.
Mary – Yes, medieval!
Arabella – Yes, medieval: E.G. Withycombe, The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988). s.n. Arabel(la) has a 13th C Latin example of the name.
Muriel – Yes, medieval: A variety of forms can be found in P.H. Reaney & R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames (London: Routledge, 1991).
Isabel – Yes, medieval!
Angmar – Um, no.
Isolde – Yes, medieval!
Eleanor – Yes, medieval!
Josselyn – Yes, medieval, but not as a feminine name.
Margaret – Yes, medieval!
Luanda – Um, no.
Ariana – Not medieval: It’s a modern Italian form of the Greek name Ariadne, found in mythology, and in the Greek and Byzantine empires.
Clarice – Yes, medieval!
Idla – Possibly medieval. It appears that this googlebook has a Polish example of the name, but we have not been able to get more than a snippet view, to be able to confirm the date and context.
Claire – Yes, medieval!
Rya – Um, no.
Joan – Yes, medieval!
Clemence – Yes, medieval!
Morgaine – Yes, medieval, but only used in literature, and not by real people.
Edith – Yes, medieval!
Nerida – Definitely not.
Ysmay – Yes, medieval: Withycombe (op. cit.) has an example of this spelling.
The masculine names don’t fare quite so well.
Ulric – Yes, medieval!
Baird – Yes, medieval, but only as a surname, not as a given name. It is derived from Old French baiard or baiard ‘bay-colored’.
Henry – Yes, medieval!
Oliver – Yes, medieval
Fraden – Possibly medieval, but only as a surname, not as a given name.
John – Yes, medieval!
Geoffrey – Yes, medieval!
Francis – Yes, medieval!
Simon – Yes, medieval!
Fendel – Not medieval to my knowledge, either as a given name or a surname.
Frederick – Yes, medieval!
Thomas – Yes, medieval!
Arthur – Yes, medieval!
Cassius – More Roman than medieval.
Richard – Yes, medieval!
Matthew – Yes, medieval!
Charles – Yes, medieval!
Reynard – Yes, medieval!
Favian – Sort of medieval, if you take it as a variant of Fabian.
Philip – Yes, medieval!
Zoricus – Not medieval to our knowledge, but it could possibly turn up at some point in future research.
Carac – Not medieval
Sadon – Not medieval
Alistair – Medieval, but not as the nominative form of the name, only as the genitive.
Caine – Yes, medieval, but only as a surname, not as a given name.
Gawain – Yes, medieval!
Godfrey – Yes, medieval!
Mericus – More Roman than medieval.
Rowley – Yes, medieval, but only as a surname, not as a given name.
Brom – Yes, medieval, but only as a surname, not as a given name.
Cornell – Yes, medieval, but only as a surname, not as a given name.
All the surnames are fine for 14th-16th C English, except these:
Cabrera – This is Spanish, and would only have been used by women; the masculine form is Cabrero.
Coastillon – Not quite sure what this is but it looks like a misspelling of some French place name.
Tagged as Alexander, Arabella, Arthur, Charles, Clara, Clarice, Clemence, Edith, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Ellen, English, Fabian, Francis, Frederick, French, Gauzo, Gavin, Geoffrey, Godfrey, Henry, Isabel, Ismay, Isolde, Jacoba, Joan, John, Katherine, Latin, Lucille, Margaret, Mary, Matthew, Milicent, Muriel, Oliver, Philip, Reynard, Richard, Sibyl, Simon, Thea, Thomas, Ulrich
Medieval roots of modern names: The US 2015 top 51-100 for boys
At this rate, we’re probably going to only make it through the top 100 before the month is out. One thing that has been interesting about each group of names that we’ve looked at is how consistent the relative popularities of different name types have been, with Biblical names being the most common amongst the boys’, and relatively unrepresented amongst the girls. We’ll see that trend continue as we move down to the top 51-100 of the boy’s names, and thus even if we don’t investigate any further, we would not be surprised to see this trend trickle even further down the list. But let’s see what else we can find!
As we noted, the Biblical again dominate this group, but this time we start to see the influence of non-English spellings on American names. Firs we have two variants of John: Evan (67), a medieval Welsh form, and Ian (76), modernly generally treated as a Scottish form but medievally actually found in the Low Countries, Germany, and Eastern Eruope. Then we have two Spanish forms: Jose (80) and Mateo (85) (this is, of course, also an Italian form!). Amongst the standard English forms of the names we have but two New Testament names — Thomas (no. 51) Nathaniel (97) — compared to a wide range of Old Testament names: Aaron (52); Eli (53); Jeremiah (55); Josiah (57); Jordan (60); Adam (73); Asher (83); Zachary (88); Ezra (92); and Elias (100).
Of these names, a few deserve extra note. First, neither Jeremiah nor Josiah are typical medieval spellings: before 1600, both were more commonly spelled with the Greek influenced form -ias. This is exactly where Elias (as opposed to Elijah) comes from, and if you check out the variants of Zachary, you’ll find -ias forms there as well. Second, we lack entries for Eli, Ezra, and Asher: This is a reflection of the fact that these names were rarely used by Christians until the 17th C, being more commonly used by Jews — and so far, our coverage has a distinct dearth of Jewish records. Third, it is debatable whether Jordan should be considered in this list. Certainly, most people associate the name with the Biblical river Jordan. And this association is ancient and honorable: The name was popular in the Middle Ages particularly amongst those who had been on pilgrimage to the Holy Land and brought back water from the Jordan River to baptise their children. However, it is unlikely that this was the original root of the name; instead, the root appears to be an Old German name Jordanes. (The complications surrounding the name are why we don’t yet have an entry for it, despite the fact that we have examples from England, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, from the 11th C to the 16th!)
We then have a slew of given names that were not originally given names, but surnames — and if we collect all four groups, locative, occupational, patronymic, and descriptive, together, they outnumber the Biblical names. The place names are almost all English in origin: Colton (59), Brayden (61), Lincoln (66), Easton (78), Brandon (82), and Bentley (93). The one exception is Xavier (90), an Old Spanish form of a Basque place name deriving from etxe berri ‘new house’ or ‘new home’. The occupationals are all medieval English: a Parker (72) maintained a park or game preserve; Chase (74) was a name for a hunter, someone who chases; a Cooper (77) made barrels while a Tyler (81) lay tiles and a Sawyer (94) sawed wood. A Ryder (98) is one who rides out, and this specific spelling is not modern, but can be found in the 16th C. In our patronymics group we have already seen a variant of Jaxson (84) in an earlier post. Hudson (65) is ‘son of Hudd‘ — a pet form of either Hugh or Richard. Nolan (71) could also be put under the “Irish” heading below: It derives from the Irish clan byname Ó Nualláin, which in turn derives from Irish nuall ‘noble, famous’. There are two descriptive: Cameron (56), from Irish camshron ‘bent nose’ and Blake (96), which has two equally plausible, and contradictory origins: It can be from both Old English blǣċ ‘pale, bright, shining’ and blæc ‘black, dark’. Finally we have Carson (89), a Scottish surname of uncertain origin. Early forms include Carsan, Acarson, and Corsan, and it may have been originally a place name.
The next biggest groups are the names of Greek and Latin origin. For the former, there is Nicholas (62), popular throughout Europe; Angel (64), concentrated in Italy and Iberia; Jason (86) and its nickname Jace (75), which we could also place in the Biblical names category above, and if we had any medieval examples of the name we probably would have — modernly, the Greek hero rather than the obscure New Testament character is the more likely root of the name; and Theodore (99), a rare name medievally and one easily confused with forms of Theodoric. In the second group, we have the imperial Adrian (58), especially popular in the Low Countries; lordly Dominic (68), also spread throughout Europe; saintly Austin (69), this form an English contraction of the larger Augustine; and Leo (91), which is equally derivable from the Latin and the Greek.
This leaves us with six names, half of which are Irish: Connor (54) is an English form of the Irish name Conchobhar, which was popular in Ireland from the 8th to the 16th C; Kevin (79) is an English form of the early Irish saint’s name Cáemgen used in the 6th and 7th C. The name was not otherwise used, until it was revived in the modern period, but the place name Caisleáin Caoimhghin was recorded in English in a variety of spellings throughout the Middle ages, including Castelkevyn in 1308 and 1547, Castle Kevin in 1590, Castlekevin in 1542, and Castrum Kevini in 1343; and Ayden (87) is a variant of Aiden, which we’ve discussed earlier in this series.
What is most surprising about this group of names is that we have but one name of German: Robert (63), which had held sway for centuries as one of the most popular names. We also have a name of Welsh that we discussed in detail a few months ago as part of our Arthurian names series: Gavin (70). Last in the group we have one name which is purely modern: Kayden (95). The most tenuous connection that we can make from this name to the Middle Ages is via the Scottish surname Cadenhead, originally the name of a place at the head of the Caldon or Cadon Water in Selkirkshire. But this is at best a retrospective connection.
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Tagged as Aaron, Adam, Adrian, Aidan, Angel, Asher, Austin, Connor, Dominic, Dutch, Eli, Elias, Ezra, Gavin, German, Greek, Hugh, Irish, Jason, Jeremy, John, Jordan, Joseph, Josiah, Kevin, Latin, Leo, Matthew, Nathaniel, Nicholas, Richard, Robert, Scottish, spanish, Theodore, Theodoric, Thomas, Welsh, Zachary
Arthurian Names: Kay/Kai/Cai/Cei
By Howard Pyle – http://www.oldbookart.com/2008/08/25/howard-pyle-king-arthur-and-his-knights/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18494735
Sir Kay is the son of Sir Hector, and the foster-brother of Arthur. He, along with Bedivere, is one of the earliest characters to appear associated with Arthur in the literary cycles, appearing in early Welsh poems such as the Welsh Triads and Culhwch ac Olwen. His name appears in a variety of forms in the various sources. In English he is Kay or Kai, in French romances the name is spelled Keu, and in Welsh, his name is Cei or Cai. These last forms, the earliest ones, give clue to the origin: Cai is a Welsh form of the Roman praenomen Gaius (see entry in next edition), also spelled Caius. The origin of this praenomen is uncertain, but it may be related to Latin gaudere ‘to rejoice’. So with this name we have seen names of Celtic origin (Arthur, Gawain, Guinevere), Germanic origin (), and Greek origin (Elaine, Hector), and now we’ve a name of Roman origin. (It won’t be the last!)
The name was never common, but it was used in England, particularly in areas with strong Welsh and Breton connections; Reaney & Wilson s.n. Kay mention one Britius filius Kay from 1199.
It is not clear to what extent the relationship between Kay/Cai/Keu etc. and Gaius/Caius was recognized medievally — i.e., the extent to which occurrences of Gaius can be taken as examples of the influence of Arthurian legends. In fact, the extent is probably very minimal, especially given other more likely routes to the name, such as the various minor New Testament characters, saints, or popes. In Italy — which is where our current single example comes from — the influence of Julius Caesar, Pliny the Elder, and Tacitus, all of whose praenomina were Gaius on the Renaissance likely contributed to the use of the name more than the Arthurian character.
Tagged as Arthur, Arthurian names, Brice, Celtic, Gaius, Gavin, German, Greek, Guinevere, Latin, Welsh
Arthurian names: Gawain
By Unknown – http://gawain.ucalgary.ca, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=621711
Taking a request from the audience, in this post post we consider Gawain, the name of a son of King Lot of Orkney and a nephew of Arthur. Under the name Gwalchmei he occurs in some of the earliest Welsh mythologies, and after Chrestien de Troyes picked up the story, calling the character Gawain, he became incredibly popular in French Arthurian cycles.
The origin of the name is disputed. The first element is Old Welsh gwalch ‘hawk’, but the element -mei is uncertain, and the later forms of the name ending in -wain and the like perhaps show influence of Old Welsh gwyn ‘white’. In any case, Gwalchmei itself is rare outside of literature: It is the Old French influenced forms that spread around Europe. The name, perhaps influenced by Gaelic gabhann ‘of the smith’, survives today in the form Gavin; because this is the most common spelling under which the name is used today in English-speaking contexts, it is the spelling we have picked for our header name.
This name was never as popular as some of the others, but it is relatively wide spread. In England and Scotland, we have a variety of English and Latin examples from the 16th C; the most common forms are Gawen and Gawyn. In unprocessed data, we have an unusual form, Gouen, in 14th C Yorkshire. On the continent, our examples are earlier: In France, we have a Latin genitive form Galweni from 1164, and a variety of Middle French forms in the 14th C, including the dialectically interesting Gauvaing. The name also moved quite far east, with Gawin, Gawinus, and Waliwan all occurring in 14th C Silesia. In Italy and Spain, the internal l was retained, as can be seen in the forms 13th-14th C Latin genitive forms Galvanei and Galvagni from Italy; Gualvanus and the diminutive Gualvaninus, two names from early 14th C Imola in our unprocessed data; and the 16th C Catalan nominative form Galvany from Valencia.
Tagged as Arthurian names, Catalan, English, French, Gavin, German, Italian, Scottish, Welsh
Color names: Silver/White/Grey
This post wraps up our series on color names for October’s monthly topic, and looks at names deriving from words for white/fair, silver, grey, and the like.
Because whiteness was strongly associated in many cultures with purity and innocence, it’s no surprise that these words gave rise to names, particularly in cultures (like Italian) that liked to give augurative names — names that express a desire for the child or child’s future.
Looking at names with elements meaning ‘white’, starting at the beginning of the alphabet, we have a masc./fem. pair Albo and Alba. These names have two possible origins: Either Old High German alb ‘elf’ or Latin albus (m.) or alba (f.) ‘white’. The masculine name Albin can either be a derivative of albus or a nickname for Albert. Looking at Latin roots, we also have a single example of Argenta, derived from an identical Latin word meaning ‘silver’.
Next is another masc./fem. pair, Blanch and Blanche. These could also be said to be of Latin origin, but Latin blancus (m.) or blanca (f.) is ultimately a borrowing of Old High Grman blanc(h) ‘white, pale’. This word also occurs in compound names, such as the amazingly beautiful Blanchefleur ‘white flower’.
The next set of names are Celtic in origin, deriving from Old Welsh gwyn (m.) or gwen (f.) ‘white, fair, blessed’. The Welsh roots of the name Gavin are disputed, but the second element may be gwyn. The feminine form gwen is quite common in Welsh names, both as a standalone name and as a part of compounds such as Gwenllian, Madwen, and Winifred. And the origins of the Arthurian heroine name Guinevere go all the way back to the Proto-Celtic root *windo. The same Proto-Celtic root gave rise to a Germanic tribal name, for the Wends. Tribal names are an interesting subset of elements that show up in dithematic Germanic names, and while words for the Wends were not as common as those for the Goths, they still show their traces in the names Wintbert and Wintbald.
Finally, we have the Old English word for ‘white’, hwīt, which was used in compounds such as Whitehelm as well as a standalone name or as a nickname of any of the compounds using hwīt.
The ‘grey’ names are of interest for two reasons; first, because we covered some of them already in the post on Color Names: Brown, as the root of the element brun has aspects of both brown and grey in its meaning; second, because looking beyond those we have only uncertain hypotheses. Despite its familiarity, the origins of the name Caesar are not entirely known. One folk etymology offered in the late Antique Historia Augusta is that it derives from Latin oculis caesiis ‘grey eyes’. And the origin of the fem. name Griselda is often connected with Proto-Germanic *grēwaz ‘grey’, but there is no clear evidence that this name was used in Germanic contexts, or for any other name which uses *grēwaz as a prototheme or deuterotheme.
We hope you enjoyed our first monthly theme! Next month, in conjunction with National Novel Writing Month we will look at ways in which you can improve your character naming practices when writing historical fiction.
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Tag Archives: Tamar
Nature names: Sun, stars, and sky
Let’s turn our attention from the trees and the forests up to the heavens! In this post we consider names with linguistic roots in the celestial.
We’ve talked about Stella on the blog before, as an example of a name which many people think is modern, but which has actually been in use since at least the 15th C. It’s identical with the Latin word for ‘star’.
The origin of the Biblical name Esther is disputed, but one possible origin is the Persian word for ‘star’. This is a canonical example of a Protestant name, coming into use in the 16th C in French, Dutch, and English contexts.
Old Breton sul ‘sun’ (related to Latin sol) was a common prototheme in compound Breton names. We have examples of Sulhoiarn, Sulwal, and Sulwored (coming out in the next edition), as well as the monothematic name Sulon.
Next we have another Biblical name, Sampson, deriving from a Hebrew word for the sun. This name was surprisingly popular in France and England in the 12th century, though it was used sporadically in other times and places.
In this context let’s include names relating to dawn and sunrise: Orienta and Aurisma are both found in early 9th C France, and have etymological connections with dawn.
The heavens generally are the root of two masc/fem pairs of names of Latin origin: Celeste and Celestus, and their derivatives Celestina and Celestine
Gods and goddesses
Lastly, we have two names which are connected to celestial phenomenon via the name of a god or goddess. The popular Welsh name Llywellyn derives from two god names, the second being the name of a sun god perhaps related to Apollo. The feminine name Tamar has two distinct origin; the examples we have so far represent the Biblical name of Hebrew origin, but the name also occurs in Georgia as the name of a sky goddess.
Tagged as Aurisma, Breton, Celeste, Celestina, Celestinus, Celestus, English, Esther, French, Georgian, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Llywellyn, nature names, Orienta, Persian, Sampson, Stella, Sulhoiarn, Sulon, Sulwal, Sulwored, Tamar, Welsh
An onomastic calendar: January
January 1: Albert II was crowned king of Hungary and Croatia in 1438.
January 2: Italian painter Piero di Cosimo was born in 1462.
January 3: Martin Luther was excommunicated in 1521.
January 4: Amadeus VI of Savoy was born in 1334.
January 5: Croatian poet Marko Marulić died in 1524.
January 6: Philip of Swabia was crowned king of the Romans in 1205.
January 7: Saint Lucian of Antioch was martyred in 312.
January 8: Saint Severinus of Noricum died in 482.
January 9: Marco Polo, Italian explorer, died in 1324.
January 10: Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, was born in 1480.
January 11: Michelle of Valois, duchess of Burgundy, was born in 1395.
January 12: Marie of Brabant, queen of France, died in 1322.
January 13: St. Remy died in 533.
January 14: Andrew III of Hungary died in 1301.
January 15: Elizabeth I of England was crowned in 1559.
January 16: Isaac Komnenos, son of a Byzantine Emperor, was born in 1093.
January 17: Alfonso III of Aragon invaded Majorca in 1287.
January 18: Tamar of Georgia died in 1213.
January 19: Sten Sure the Younger, regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded in 1520.
January 20: Byzantine emperor Theophilos died in 842.
January 21: Pope Paschal II died in 1118.
January 22h: Walter Raleigh was born in 1552 or 1554.
January 23: St. Vincent Ferrar was born in 1350.
January 24: Emperor Hadrian was born in 76.
January 25: Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter, died in 1586.
January 26: Eadgyth of England, queen consort of Otto I, died in 946.
January 27: Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence in 1302.
January 28: Henry VIII died in 1547.
January 29: German composer Elias Ammerbach died in 1597.
January 30: Roman empress Livia was born in 56BC.
January 31: St Máedóc of Ferns died in 632.
Tagged as Adrian, Albert, Alfonso, Amadeus, Andrew, Durand, Edith, Elias, Elizabeth, Henry, Isaac, Livia, Lucian, Luke, Madog, Margaret, Mark, Martin, Mary, Michaela, pascal, Peter, Philip, Remy, Severin, Sten, Tamar, Theophilus, Vincent, Walter
Protestant names: Old Testament influences on women’s names
In our previous post we highlighted three types of names which are distinctly Protestant, by which we mean that the majority of them came into use (or came into common use) in the second half of the 16th C as a result of their uptake by Protestants. The first class of these was Biblical names, and we’ll devote this post and the next three to these — separating out Old Testament from new Testament names, and separating out women’s names from men’s names. In this post, we kick things off looking at women’s names from the Old Testament, surveying the ones in the Dictionary that we have found used in French, Dutch, and English Protestant contexts.
Abigail: One of the wives of King David. Bardsley [1] notes that of all the OT feminine names, “none had such a run as Abigail” in England (p. 66). We find this name in all three of our contexts, from the 1560s on.
Deborah (entry available in next edition): The name of one of the Israelite judges. Our evidence so far is purely on the Dutch side, from the 1570s on, but this is an artefact of our incomplete data, nothing more. Withycombe [2] notes that Deborah was popular among Puritans in the 17th C, with Bardsley describing it as “an especial pet of the fanatics” (p. 66) — though he also says that the use of this name was the product of the Reformation more generally and not the Puritans more narrowly (as our data evidences).
Eve: The name of the second person created (and first woman), the wife of Adam. While the Biblical character went through a period of disrepute in the early Middle Ages, her name, unlike the others we were looking at, was in use prior to the 16th C, and was also used much more broadly than some of the other Old Testament names, being found in the Czech Republic, and in England and France from the 12th C. Bardsley attributes the popularity of Eve in England to the mystery plays (p. 35).
Judith: The eponymous character of one of the books of the Apocrypha. This name was also in use before the 16th C (in England as early as the 9th C!), but it wasn’t until the 16th C that it became common — common enough that the diminutive form Juda is found in England in 1577 and Judie is found in France in 1563. Outside of this 16th C Protestant usage, the name can be found in Germany, Latvia, and the Czech Republic in the 13th and 14th C.
Naomi: The name of Ruth’s mother-in-law in the Book of Ruth. Withycombe says the name did not come into use in England until the 17th C. Our single example comes from France in 1564.
Orpah: Another character in the Book of Ruth, Orpah was Naomi’s other daughter-in-law. This name was not used outside of England, and it was rare in England.
Rachel: A wife of Jacob and hence one of the matriarchs of Israel. Withycombe says the name was popular amongst Jews but not used in England until the 16th C. This name is perhaps the clearest indication of Protestant influences: Our only examples come from French, Dutch, and English contexts in the second half of the 16th C.
Rebecca: The wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. We find examples of this name amongst Dutch and English Protestants.
Ruth: The eponymous character of an Old Testament book, the daughter-in-law of Naomi and the sister-in-law of Orpah. It was more popular than either of these, but still never common.
Sara (entry still being written): The name of the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. To be honest, the only reason this entry isn’t yet available is because it’s the entry for my own name, and I feel a higher level pressure on it than any other. But we already have amassed a large number of examples of the name, which was found in England and France from as early as the 12th C. A handful of other scattered examples can be found between then and the 16th, but the appropriateness of including this name in our discussion of Protestant influences is evidenced by the huge jump in examples that are found in the second half of the 16th C, again across English, French, and Dutch contexts.
Susan (entry still being written): The name of a character in the Apocrypha, the name is found in England from the 12th C (again another result of the mystery plays), but wasn’t common there until the 16th C. It’s popularity, in England, is somewhat earlier than some of the other newly adopted Old Testament names: Our earliest 16th C example is from 1530. A similar pattern of us can be seen in France; it is found, rarely, in the 12th-13th C, and then suddenly relatively popular in the Protestant registers in the late 16th C.
Tamar: The name of three Old Testament characters, the most prominent of which being the daughter of King David, who was raped by her half-brother Amnon. As a result, Tamar’s reputation was not highly regarded in the medieval and post-medieval periods; Bardsley notes that “surely Tamar and Dinah were just as objectionable as Venus or Lais…Bishop Corbett brought it as a distinct charge against the Puritans, that they loved to select the most unsavoury stories of Old Testament history for their converse” (p. 71). Half of the fun of reading Bardsley is seeing his 19th C social commentary, which is again in evidnece when he says “Arising out of the Puritan error of permitting names like Tamar and Dinah to stand, modern eccentricity has gone very far, and it would be satisfactory to see many names in use at present forbidden” (p. 76). But Bardsley shouldn’t be laying the blame on this name with the Puritans, for the name was used by Protestants more broadly; our single example (so far) comes from France.
[1] Bardsley, C.W., Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (London: Chatto & Windus, 1880).
[2] Withycombe, E.G., Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, 3rd ed., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977).
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PACE and USC Rossier Polls
PACE/USC Rossier poll: Californians support teachers, schools but accountability concerns remain
The fifth annual PACE/USC Rossier Poll finds that voters’ perceptions of local public schools have reached the highest level of confidence since the poll began. Voters also expressed strong support and empathy for teachers.
*For more information, contact Ross Brenneman at (213) 740-2327 or rossbren@rossier.usc.edu.
Californians are showing an increased faith and optimism in local public schools and teachers but believe there is room for improvement, according to the latest results of the fifth annual PACE/USC Rossier School of Education poll.
Twenty-three percent of Californians believe that their local public schools have “gotten better” over the past few years while 35 percent believe they have “stayed the same,” the poll showed. Thirty percent say their local schools have “gotten worse.” When the same question was asked four years ago, only 11% said schools had gotten better and 45% said schools had gotten worse.
"Californians are clearly noting some progress in our schools, particularly when asked about local schools. This is a positive trend," said Morgan Polikoff, associate professor of education at the USC Rossier School of Education and a researcher for the poll. "The question is whether that progress is real and whether it will be sustained. Are kids better off? These will be important issues to watch as new school accountability systems required under the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act are implemented."
California voters’ views of their local schools stand in contrast to national trends. While recent national polling has shown that the public’s views toward their local schools have not appreciably changed since 2000, Californians are defying that trend by becoming more positive about their local schools.
"It's a good sign to see more Californians feeling positive about their local public schools,” said Karen Symms Gallagher, dean of the USC Rossier School of Education. “There's still a lot of work to do. But one of the first steps in providing a good education for students is having communities that believe in their schools."
The results also contain encouraging signs for the teaching profession: 71 percent of voters said they would encourage a young person to go into teaching. Over 90 percent cited the ability of teachers to make a difference in children’s lives.
“Counter to the dominant narrative we’ve been hearing for some time, these results indicate widespread respect for and recognition of the value of the teaching profession,” said Julie Marsh, a co-director of PACE, researcher for the poll, and an associate professor of education at the USC Rossier School of Education.
The sticking point for those who would not encourage young people to become teachers? Salary and compensation. Voters expressed major reservations about low teacher salaries. More than 70% of voters who wouldn’t recommend becoming a teacher indicated that salary or compensation contributed to their position.
Across the board, a majority of voters showed enthusiasm for paying teachers more. They said they supported higher pay for all teachers, higher pay for those who work in schools serving large numbers of disadvantaged students, and higher pay for teachers if they are instructors for subjects that often face shortages, such as science, technology, engineering and math, and special education.
But paying for that would be difficult, and the poll doesn’t show how much tolerance voters will have for additional spending or what additional policy options they’d support to increase teacher pay.
“It is always hard to ask about tradeoffs in polls, and the issue of teacher pay is a major area where tradeoffs matter,” Polikoff said. “Increasing teacher pay is a fine policy option, but it's also very expensive. Teacher pay is by far the biggest contributor to educational spending.”
Another kink: While voters expressed support for pay increases, especially as a way to address teacher shortages, more respondents expressed support for reforming school operations (26 percent) than for increased funding (15 percent), and a majority (58 percent) favored a combination. On top of that, many respondents said they believed there is room for teachers to improve, with voters indicating that at least a third of California teachers need support to improve.
Methodology: The PACE/USC Rossier Poll was conducted August 23-30, 2016 by Tulchin Research and Moore Information and surveyed 1,202 registered California voters. The poll was conducted online and allowed respondents to complete the survey on a desktop or laptop computer, tablet or smartphone. The poll was conducted in English and Spanish. The margin of error for the survey is +/- 2.83 percentage points.
For additional information about the poll and its methodology, visit www.edpolicyinca.org.
ABOUT THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: The mission of the USC Rossier School of Education is to improve learning in urban education locally, nationally and globally. USC Rossier leads the way in innovative, collaborative solutions to improve education outcomes. Their work is field-based, in the classroom, and online, and reflects a diversity of perspectives and experiences. USC Rossier prides itself on innovation in all its programs, preparing teachers, administrators, and educational leaders who are change agents. The school supports the most forward-thinking scholars and researchers, whose work is having direct impact on student success in K-12 schools and higher education. USC Rossier is a leader in using cutting-edge technology to scale up its quality programs for maximum impact.
ABOUT PACE: Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) is an independent, non-partisan research center based at Stanford University, the University of California-Davis and the University of Southern California. PACE seeks to define and sustain a long-term strategy for comprehensive policy reform and continuous improvement in performance at all levels of California’s education system, from early childhood to post-secondary education and training. PACE bridges the gap between research and policy, working with scholars from California’s leading universities and with state and local policymakers to increase the impact of academic research on educational policy in California.
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February 8, 2016 February 7, 2016 Dan O.
The Look of Silence (2015)
People who do bad things, tend to not think that they did anything bad.
A few years ago, Joshua Oppenheimer made a documentary about the Indonesian killings that took place in and around time years of 1965 and 1966, in which people who were accused of being “communists” were all killed and sometimes, never heard from again. What was so strange about all of this, though, was how the people who actually went out and savagely murdered these so-called “communists”, were never put on trial or convicted for what were, seemingly, crimes. Instead, they continue to walk the Earth and live free among any all citizens, most of whom’s relatives, they either killed, or had a hand in killing. That’s why, in 2013, Oppenheimer decided to focus on these murderers, their viewpoints, and recollections of events in the Act of Killing. Now, Oppenheimer wants to turn his camera onto the other side of the discussion where we sit and watch as Adi, middle-aged man, who’s brother, Ramli, apparently was killed during this time, goes around and confronts the known killers for doing what they did and trying his hardest to understand why they did any of it. Obviously, the answers are a lot harder to come by.
60 Minutes with Adi is definitely something I can get behind.
The Act of Killing was a very rough watch, for many reasons. One was that it was really hard to sit there and listen to a bunch of known and celebrated killers, basically bragging about all of the people they killed, and do so in some very descriptive, especially gory ways. It’s hard to listen to a guy boast about how many girls he’s slept with, but it’s even harder to listen to someone, who is still walking free mind you, go on and on about people they murdered, the reasons why they did it, and why they feel absolutely no shame or guilt whatsoever.
Another reason why that movie was such a hard watch, too, was the fact that Oppenheimer doesn’t just leave the movie at that point. Instead, he takes it one step further in allowing us to see their inner psyche, as well as their realization with everything that they had done, the pain they caused, and just the actual number of supposed “communists” they had in fact, killed. In a way, that movie wasn’t really asking us to sympathize with these retched and terrible human beings, but more or less to see them as actual human beings.
Was it hard to do? Oh, of course it was!
Did it ultimately work out, though? Somehow, yes.
That’s why with the Look of Silence, Oppenheimer’s viewpoint not only changes, but so does the impact his movie has on the audience. Now, we have someone to sympathize with. Now, we have better questions being asked. And now, most of all, we get to see these countless killers actually get everything thrown in their face, just as they deserve to. While Oppenheimer went to some risky and daring places with the material and footage he was able to get with the Act of Killing, here, he takes a step back and allows for the would-be protagonist, Adi, take over the reigns as interviewer and provocateur, and it really works.
Not only is Adi a sympathetic figure, regardless of what we know about his family and their history, he actually seems like a pretty level-headed guy, even despite the situation he’s been thrown into. All things considered, he could have easily grown-up angry, pissed-off and ready to blow people’s heads away, knowing what he knows about what happened to his brother, but instead, he decided to push all that to the side, focus on the future, and remember that he’s got his own life to live and legacy to maintain, which means that he had to get used to seeing a lot of his brother’s killers, sometimes for work, and other times, just for social situations. It’s actually ridiculous just how much of a tolerance that Adi and, I assume, others need to have when it comes to living in Indonesia, but it also drives home the point that, sometimes, it’s best to just leave things in the past.
In this situation, however, that is not the case.
He even makes glasses for these guys! Why is he so nice!
Adi really does level in to these cast of characters, all of whom are either the killers themselves, or close relatives of said killers, going deeper and further than you’d expect him to go. Sure, his interview style can tend to get very predictable – he starts off with a few softball questions, asks the big, “Why”, shows evidence proving that the killers did in fact, “kill”, they get pissed-off, threaten his life, and the rest starts to teeter-off from there in awkward, but revealing silences. Still though, each and every interview is more and more insightful than the one to come before it, especially when we start to see just how obtuse a lot of these killers are to admitting, face to face, with another person that they had a hand or two in killing a family member. One whom Adi never had the chance to meet, unfortunately enough, but it makes even more sense why he would sink to the certain depths that he does here, trying to scourge up any information he can from these killers, as well as the information left over from the previous movie.
That said, there’s a feeling that the Look of Silence ends at a very abrupt moment. However, this could be intentional.
Seeing as how the movie is, essentially, about the many, countless lives lost in this mass holocaust of sorts, it only makes sense that there’s hardly any “moving forward”, or “looking past” moment; people have died, everybody left on Earth is still around, suffering and sad, and the tension is still felt. While Adi himself realizes that it’s best to look towards the future, he also knows that in order to grow stronger as a community, it’s also best to remember the sort of tragedies and wrong-doings that have been done, in a way to make sure that they never occur again.
Of course, I could also be talking about Germany, the U.S., or any other country out there who has dealt with one moment in their nation’s history that they frown upon and remind its citizens of its significance, but in this particular discussion, Adi reminds Indonesia that not only did his own brother die for, what seem to be, idiotic accusations based nowhere in reality, but remind others as well. That’s why these questions need answers, even if they never actually come. Maybe that’s the point: Life will continue to go on for most of these people, with questions still hanging in the air and over their heads. Nobody will answer them. They’ll just continue to live life, hope it all gets better, and people eventually forget about what happened.
Problem is, nobody will.
Now, who’s fault is that?
Consensus: More emotional and tragic than the its predecessor, the Look of Silence is also, unfortunately, more frustrating with questions intentionally never being answered, but plenty of ideas about society and the human condition still being brought up and left to dangle.
There’s the future, everybody! Don’t screw it up!
Photos Courtesy of: Indiewire
8-8.5/10
Joshua Oppenheimer
Published by Dan O.
I just love everything about films. Watching, reviewing, discussing, anything about films is what I love. View all posts by Dan O.
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Next He Named Me Malala (2015)
This one sounds very interesting, it definitely goes on my to-watch list.
Sterling stuff Dan. Very high on my to watch list this one.
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Dublin.ie – https://dublin.ie/working/business-supports/
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Setting up a business can be a difficult process at times – even more so if you are new to a city. Whether you are a MNC, SME or simply someone with a good idea, you will at some stage need help, be it to unearth the right talent, find the right premises or get information on the financial supports available to you.
These supports can play a major role in making a business thrive and thankfully in Dublin, the established ecosystem for enterprise means that these supports are easily available, via a number of business support agencies and government departments.
Who to talk to:
Irish Development Board
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Local Enterprise Office
The Local Enterprise Office (LEO) network is the first-stop for anyone seeking information and support for starting or growing a business in Ireland. In Dublin there are four dedicated LEO teams, one based in each of the region’s four local authorities. It is the job of each of these LEOs to promote entrepreneurship, to foster business start-ups and to develop existing micro and small businesses in Dublin via a range of supports and services in their locality. These are highly accessible, quality supports, ranging from financial aid to training, to mentoring for your business ideas. In addition, the LEO network
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The mission of the DJEI is to lead on the creation and maintenance of high quality and sustainable full employment across all regions of the country by championing enterprise across government, by supporting a competitive enterprise base to incentivise work, enterprise, trade and investment and by promoting fair and competitive markets.
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Big Ideas 2017: Where are they now?
Enterprise Ireland's Carol Gibbons talks to three companies who pitched to investors on the Enterprise Ireland Big Ideas stage in previous years.
Further Resources...
Dublin Chamber of Commerce
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Bord Bia – Irish Food Board
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Microfinance Ireland
We provide small loans through the Government’s Microenterprise Loan Fund.The purpose of the fund is to help start ups and established businesses to start up a small business or expand your existing business. We help these businesses by providing unsecured business loans of €2,000 to €25,000 for commercially viable proposals. Sole Traders, Partnerships & Limited Companies are all eligible to apply.
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Intertrade Ireland
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Meet a Dubliner – Joseph Kinvi, APNI co-founder
I moved to Ireland from Togo back in 2005, when I was 15 years old. I studied accounting and finance in DIT and then went on to train as a chartered accountant with EY. Last year was busy for me: I was one of the founder members of the African Professional Network of Ireland and I took a big leap out of the corporate world to move into a start-up. The Economic and Social Research Institute has shown that black African people have a more difficult time finding jobs, and are more likely to experience workplace discrimination. APNI is an important way of addressing this: if you know someone working in an
How Dublin Works: The Guinness Enterprise Centre
The Guinness Enterprise Centre, on Taylor’s Lane in the heart of Dublin’s Liberties, is managed by Dublin Business Innovation Centre and has been named the no.1 university associated business incubation centre in the world. In the first of two articles about the GEC, Dublin.ie talks to Eamonn Sayers, the centre’s manager since 2011. Dublin.ie: I’m an entrepreneur. I’ve got an idea. What can the GEC do for me here? Eamonn Sayers: The first step here is that we’ll try and put you in front of an entrepreneur who’s in the same industry. We’ll say have a chat with this person, see what they’re thinking. If you’ve identified your target market, again we’ll say we know someone here who’s in the same market and they’ll have a coffee with you too. Dublin.ie: Then what happens? Eamonn Sayers: Our role here is to help your company grow and scale. We help to make it become better and we help to make you a better entrepreneur. We create an environment and a community and a sense of belonging that makes entrepreneurs very comfortable, makes them enjoy the fact that this is their office, this is their workplace, so that both the entrepreneur and their teams are in the best place to grow their businesses.
Cutting A Fine Figure
From one chair to three shops – the success of Cut & Sew Barbershop culture is on the rise in Dublin. Barbershops are becoming cultural hotspots. Places you can go not only for a haircut, but for music, design or even a whiskey. By taking the best of New York’s barbershops and adding a touch of creativity and an Irish welcome, Sean Bryan of Cut & Sew has built his business from one chair in the basement of a record shop to three stores in Dublin’s city centre. And he isn’t finished yet. Dublin.ie caught up with Sean to see what’s behind his success. Sean left school after
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DUII driver plows into Centennial daycare
See why this alleged drunk driver shouldn’t have been behind the wheel of any vehicle, anywhere in outer East Portland – yet, was soon set free …
While apparently traveling at a high rate of speed, this Chevrolet SUV smashed through a fence and into the play yard of a Centennial neighborhood daycare.
Workers at the “Happy Angels Daycare”, on SE 155th Avenue near Alder Street, were first terrified, and then relieved, after an SUV tore into the play yard on June 28, just after 3:00 p.m.
Everyone at the scene jumped when the rear tire on a white Chevy Tahoe exploded – after a reportedly drunk driver smashed through the fence and knocked down part of the play structure in the front yard.
It isn’t the fence or the play structure that stopped this Chevy Tahoe; it was the front porch.
Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers were dispatched to the scene of the smashup – as were Portland Fire & Rescue paramedics – and, initially, six ambulances.
“We’re so thankful that all of the kids were just getting up from their nap; otherwise, they’d all been out in the yard, playing – and, likely, hurt or killed,” said a shaken worker who asked not to be identified: “But no one was hurt.”
It took several neighbors to restrain the driver of this SUV, after he slammed into this daycare’s yard.
“The guy in the SUV – he looked like a Hispanic male in his 20s — was screaming at and struggling with neighbors who were trying to keep him from running away,” a nearby resident told East Portland News.
“Arriving officers took 28-year-old Jose Antonio Calixto Caras into custody,” confirmed PPB Public Information Officer Sergeant Kevin Allen.
Perhaps 28-year-old Jose Antonio Calixto Caras’ smile reflects relief – despite having caused substantial damage, and endangering more than a dozen kids – that the court then set him free, back into the neighborhood. MCDC booking photo
Calixto Caras was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center at 3:53 p.m. that afternoon, on charges of DUII (Alcohol), Driving while License Suspended or Revoked, Reckless Driving, and 18 counts of Reckless Endangerment.
Within minutes of this crash, lots of little kids would have been playing in this yard.
Apparently the “Reckless Endangerment” charges were assigned, one for each of the 18 kids and adults who might have been playing in the yard at the time of the crash.
At his arraignment, Calixto Caras learned he’d be held to stand charges, and would stay in jail in lieu of $62,200 in combined bail.
However, an apparently sympathetic Multnomah County District Court judge then released all charges – including a Second Degree Contempt of Court charge – against Calixto Caras on July 1, and set him free.
The judge’s published Release Reason: “Pretrial Services Program” that, according Multnomah County information, “releases defendants prior to trial and supervising them in the community to ensure that they appear at scheduled court hearings.”
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JOHN OLIVER, FOUNDER AND CONDUCTOR OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, HAS DIED
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John Oliver, who founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Festival Chorus in 1970, and remained its sole conductor until his retirement in August 2015, died late last night in Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, following a long illness, at age 78. Mr. Oliver was born to Marie and Frank Oliver on June 4, 1939, in Teaneck, N.J. He is survived by his cousins Helene Carskaddin, Janet Domerski, Lyn Neandross, Jerilyn Simpson, and Nancy Sorge, as well as his dear friends Joel Evans, James Soules, and Anthony St. George.
A private service will take place this week in the Berkshires. A concert in honor of Mr. Oliver’s memory will be scheduled during the 2018 Tanglewood season. Further details will be forthcoming. Donations in John Oliver’s memory can be made to the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Festival Chorus Fund.
Quote from Andris Nelsons, Ray and Maria Stata BSO Music Director
“John Oliver’s dedication to forming and then leading the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for 45 years represents an extraordinary commitment to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and to the art of choral singing. Our hearts go out to all who loved and respected John, including his many fans throughout the BSO family and beyond in the music world at large. John’s work with the TFC and the BSO over many decades will always be an important part of the orchestra’s great legacy and its mission to realize the very best in the classical music art form.”
Quote from Mark Volpe, Eunice and Julian Cohen Managing Director
“Few people in the 137-year history of the Boston Symphony Orchestra dedicated so many years of their creative lives to the orchestra as John Oliver during his 45-year tenure as conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, 1970-2015. All of us at the BSO are very grateful to John for his steadfast commitment to his vision in founding the TFC and nurturing it through decades of acclaimed performances here in Boston, throughout the country, and around the world. His enormous contribution to the BSO will be remembered far into the future, as the orchestra’s impressive accomplishments and vibrant tradition continue to be documented for music lovers today and for generations to come. John’s loss is deeply felt by countless music fans and thousands of singers who have been personally moved by his profound musicianship, gregarious personality, and legendary sense of humor. There are no adequate words to describe how much he will be missed.”
Quote from James Burton, BSO Choral Director and Conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
“Everyone involved with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is deeply saddened to hear of John Oliver’s passing. Regrettably, I never had the chance to meet John in person, however I am acutely aware of the high regard in which he was held by his singers. Many of them shared their most beloved musical experiences under his direction, guidance, and, inevitably, his friendship too. I am sure that everyone who worked with him, including the many hundreds of former chorus members, will find his passing a difficult and painful loss.
Everyone at the BSO today mourns a great friend of the orchestra and an outstanding champion for choral music. It is thanks to John’s incredible passion and dedication that the BSO has a prestigious chorus to call its own: John had the vision to establish the TFC, and the vigor and drive to lead it for nearly half a century. His creative and innovative spirit will serve us as an ongoing inspiration as the chorus and I continue and develop his important and unique musical legacy.”
Quote from David Norris, Chair of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus Committee
“For over four decades John Oliver was the center of the musical lives of thousands of singers who volunteered their time, energy, and talents for the privilege of working with him. What we all know about the major works in the choral repertoire we learned from John. Our devotion to him, and his to us, is evidenced by many who have sung for him and because of him for close to half a century. His legacy will live on through the musical lives of those lucky enough to have sung with John. We will honor his gift to us each time we raise our voices in song.”
In his forty-five years as conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, which he founded in 1970, John Oliver prepared the TFC for more than 1000 performances, including appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, and on tour in Europe and the Far East, as well as with visiting orchestras and as a solo ensemble. When Mr. Oliver stepped down from his leadership position with the TFC in August 2015, at the end of the 2015 Tanglewood season, he was awarded the BSO’s Tanglewood Medal and received the newly created lifetime title of Founder and Conductor Laureate of the TFC. In 2016 and 2017 he held the Tanglewood Music Center’s Donald and Laurie Peck Master Teacher Chair.
John Oliver had a major impact on musical life in Boston and beyond through his work with countless TFC members, former students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he taught for thirty-two years), and Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center who now perform with distinguished musical institutions throughout the world. His affiliation with the Boston Symphony began in 1964 when, at twenty-four, he prepared the Sacred Heart Boychoir of Roslindale for the BSO’s performances and recording of excerpts from Berg’s Wozzeck led by Erich Leinsdorf. In 1966 he prepared the choir for the BSO’s performances and recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, also with Leinsdorf, soon after which Leinsdorf asked him to assist with the choral and vocal music program at the Tanglewood Music Center.
In 1970, John Oliver was named Director of Vocal and Choral Activities at the Tanglewood Music Center and founded the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, going on to prepare the chorus in more than 200 works for chorus and orchestra, as well as dozens more a cappella pieces, and for more than forty commercial releases with conductors Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Keith Lockhart, and John Williams. Mr. Oliver’s album with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus of a cappella 20th-century American choral music, recorded at the invitation of Deutsche Grammophon, received a Grammy nomination in 1979. In 2010, to mark the TFC’s 40th anniversary, BSO Classics released a disc of music by Bach, Bruckner, Copland, Lotti, and Martin drawn from live performances given at Tanglewood by Mr. Oliver and the TFC between 1998 and 2005. Their live recording on BSO Classics of Ravel’s complete Daphnis et Chloé with James Levine and the BSO won the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance of 2009. John Oliver made his Boston Symphony conducting debut in August 1985 at Tanglewood with Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and his BSO subscription series debut in December 1985 with Bach’s B minor Mass, later returning to the Tanglewood podium with music of Mozart in 1995 (to mark the TFC’s 25th anniversary), Beethoven’s Mass in C in 1998, and Bach’s motet Jesu, meine Freude in 2010 (to mark the TFC’s 40th anniversary). In February 2012, replacing Kurt Masur, he led the BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus in subscription performances of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, subsequently repeating that work with the BSO and TFC for his Carnegie Hall debut that March.
In addition to his work with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Tanglewood Music Center, Mr. Oliver held posts as conductor of the Framingham Choral Society, as a member of the faculty and director of the chorus at Boston University, and for many years on the faculty of MIT, where he was a lecturer and then senior lecturer in music. While at MIT, he conducted the MIT Glee Club, Choral Society, Chamber Chorus, and Concert Choir. In 1977 he founded the John Oliver Chorale, which performed a wide-ranging repertoire encompassing masterpieces by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Stravinsky, as well as seldom heard works by Carissimi, Bruckner, Ives, Martin, and Dallapiccola. With the Chorale he recorded two albums for Koch International: the first of works by Martin Amlin, Elliott Carter, William Thomas McKinley, and Bright Sheng, the second of works by Amlin, Carter, and Vincent Persichetti. He and the Chorale also recorded Charles Ives’s The Celestial Country and Charles Loeffler’s Psalm 137 for Northeastern Records, and Donald Martino’s Seven Pious Pieces for New World Records.
Mr. Oliver’s appearances as a guest conductor included Mozart’s Requiem with the New Japan Philharmonic and Shinsei Chorus, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with the Berkshire Choral Institute. In May 1999 he prepared the chorus and children’s choir for André Previn’s performances of Benjamin Britten’s Spring Symphony with the NHK Symphony in Japan; in 2001-02 he conducted the Carnegie Hall Choral Workshop in preparation for Previn’s Carnegie performance of Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem. Mr. Oliver made his Montreal Symphony Orchestra debut in December 2011 conducting performances of Handel’s Messiah. In October 2011 he received the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Choral Arts New England in recognition of his outstanding contributions to choral music. Mr. Oliver received music degrees from the University of Notre Dame and New England Conservatory.
Articles about John Oliver from his retirement in August 2015:
Boston Globe: A final chorus for John Oliver at Tanglewood, BSO
Oliver will step down from the TFC on Sunday, when it gives its final performance under his guidance. In a neat bit of symmetry, his BSO career will end as it began: with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, under the baton of guest conductor Asher Fisch. Before the performance, Oliver will be presented with the second Tanglewood Medal in recognition of service and achievement. (The first was awarded to Seiji Ozawa in 2012.) “John’s always delivered, even under the toughest circumstances,” said Tony Fogg, the BSO’s artistic administrator. “And I think that’s been a very important quality to his work and his profession. John has kept a level of musical and artistic draw that has maintained that big corpus of singers for many, many years now.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/08/15/oliver-bids-farewell-bso-tanglewood/VPseALgUbX3tcZG24bKoWP/story.html
John Oliver at Tanglewood (Interview with WCRB’s Brian McCreath)
On the weekend of his final concert at the conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver talks with WCRB’s Brian McCreath about his five-decade-plus association with the Boston Symphony and Tanglewood, as well as what his next chapter will bring.
http://www.wgbh.org/programs/episode.cfm?featureid=64355
BSO chorus master John Oliver prepares for a change in tempo
While the Beethoven Ninth hangs in the air, another farewell will be occurring, one intricately involved with the performance of the Ninth — and, previously, 200 works in 1,000 BSO performances in Boston and the Berkshires. John Oliver will retire after 46 years as founder and director of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/rambling-about-tanglewood-bso-chorus-master-john-oliver-prepares-for-a-change-in-tempo,312559
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Never Look Away film review
(This film review of “Never Look Away” appeared in the Australian Jewish News on 20 June 2019.)
Directed and written by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; starring Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer and Saskia Rosendahl
This opening of the German language film “Never Look Away” is a major event, bringing a sweeping historical view of German life scanning a three decade period from the late 1930s to the 1960s.
“Never Look Away” is a loose dramatisation of the life of contemporary German visual artist Gerhard Richter (1932-) – named Kurt Barnert in the film, acted by Tom Schilling (“Oh Boy”, “Before the Fall”). But German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (“The Lives of Others”) has much higher goals than a simple biopic for his massive and epic (188 minute) film: he wants to illustrate many of the profound events of this tumultuous period of German history: the Nazi racial exclusion laws and eugenics, the Second World War and subsequent life in a Germany divided between east and west.
Using the refracted experience of an artist provides a personal – and highly visual – scope to what could otherwise be a mundane retelling of events. The film opens in Dresden with a brilliant scene that recreates the traveling art exhibition “Entartete Kunst” (“Degenerate Art”), in which the Nazi regime attempted to ridicule German modernist art on the grounds of it being “un-German”, Jewish or Communist. A wide-eyed five year old Kurt attends the exhibition with his eccentric and creative aunt Elisabeth (Saskia Rosendahl, star of Cate Shortland’s film “Lore”), and is impressed.
As the Nazi grip on power tightens, Elisabeth is diagnosed with schizophrenia, institutionalised and eventually euthanised under the orders of gynaecology professor Carl Seeband (Sebastian Koch), a loyal member of the Nazi SS medical corps. The scenes in Professor Seeband’s hospital are harrowing, and his confrontation with Elisabeth a devastating illustration of Nazi cruelty to its own citizens. The cunning Seeband survives both the war and incarceration by the occupying Russian army, while remaining secretly loyal to his Nazi principles. Chillingly, Seeband later returns to the film’s story through a set of coincidences also based on real life.
The war devastates much of Kurt’s family, but he slowly makes his way in the post-war East German art world, producing made-to-order socialist realist murals of industrial workers. He also meets and weds the beautiful fashion student Ellie (Paula Beer), despite the serious misgivings of her parents. Kurt and Ellie flee to West Germany just as the Berlin Wall goes up, and Kurt lands a position at the Düsseldorf art academy, where he is taught by an enigmatic professor clearly based on the famous German sculptor, installation artist and art theoretician Joseph Beuys. Director von Donnersmarck neatly captures the artistic, cultural and political differences between the two German states, giving the film an extraordinary depth of insight into that period.
“Never Look Away” has received many plaudits, including two nominations at the most recent Academy Awards – for best foreign language film and best cinematography – along with strong audience support at this month’s Sydney Film Festival, a rapturous reception at the Venice Film Festival and an audience award at the Miami Jewish Film Festival.
The film is not perfect: a gas chamber scene in which aunt Elisabeth is murdered jars with its brightly lit explicit presentation – how many films have included similar scenes, and how little the scene actually tells us (have a look at The Son of Saul for a better use of these images). But few recent films have included such an historic – and spectacularly well-presented – epic sweep of modern history. Almost no current dramatic films have the courage to tackle so much, and to give the audience such rich questions to ponder: what is the place of art in society, how do we find the hidden meaning of art, what is the true meaning of ideology, how do we survive during ages of political upheaval and – neatly and fully believably – how can love and affection triumph over adversity.
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Film review of Where Hands Touch
(This film review of “Where Hands Touch” appeared in the Australian Jewish News on 28 March 2019.)
Directed and written by Amma Asante; starring Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston and Tom Sweet
Few film directors specialise in portraying inter-racial couples in historic contexts. British filmmaker Amma Asante – who is black and born in Ghana – has, first with the award-winning “Belle” (2013), which told the true story of an 18th century enslaved West Indian woman who married a British navy officer and entered high society. Asante followed with “United Kingdom” (2016), another true story of an inter-racial couple in the immediate post Second World War period: an heir to the throne of African country Bechuanaland meets and marries a white British woman.
In “Where Hands Touch” – Asante’s third inter-racial romantic outing – the director turns her attention away from her home territory of British race relations to one far more fraught: Germany in the last years of the Second World War. She has chosen a small but fascinating part of history: children of colour who were born and raised in Nazi Germany, counter-posing the story to the Holocaust and persecution of Jews.
The film is ambitious, well-produced, earnest, well-meaning and attempts a high degree of sensitivity to its subject. Location shooting in Belgium and the Ile of Man capture mid-20th century Germany. However, screening the Holocaust – even as a tangential theme – is fraught even when film-makers are steeped in knowledge, which Asante is not.
The film starts in 1944 Nazi Germany: 15 year old Leyna Shlegel (Amandla Stenberg, from “The Hate You Give”) has a German mother, Kerstin, played by Australian actress Abbie Cornish (“Candy”, “Somersault”). Her absent black African father was a French soldier, and Leyna has grown up – uncomfortably – in Germany with dark skin. Kerstin decides to move the family (including her fully German younger son) from their Rhineland provincial city to Berlin, thinking it will be easier for her bi-racial daughter.
Bad move. Berlin – as the headquarters of the German state – is, if anything worse, and Leyna is systematically excluded from school and almost all aspects of public life. Using family connections, Kerstin tries to ensure that Leyna is not jailed or sterilised (or both): the Nazi state has some awareness of not wanting to offend the German parents of “non Aryans”, but it’s not much.
Leyna is forced to start factory work with her mother. Through a series of coincidences, Leyna meets – and yes – falls in love with Lutz (British actor George MacKay), an active and rising member of the Hitler youth corps, whose father is a rising Nazi administrator. What future for these two young lovers?
To its credit, “Where Hands Touch” shows the ultimate destination of minorities in Nazi Germany: Leyna does end up in a concentration camp, dehumanised and abused. Director Asante has countered criticism of her film and been at pains to state that she has not tried to diminish the Jewish experience of the Holocaust, but to illustrate the experience of Romani people, disabled people and other outcasts under Nazi rule. In that purpose she achieves some success. The film tries to raise the questions: what exactly is identity, national and racial, and where do they cross over?
Historically, parts of “Where Hands Touch” don’t add up: it’s unlikely – as this film depicts – that Jews were still wandering around openly in Berlin in 1944 wearing yellow stars. The plot contains too many coincidences, and there’s an element of emotional “clunkiness” to how the story unfolds.
Dramatic acting – particularly by Stenberg and Cornish – is strong, but not enough to overcome an over-ambitious and underwritten film.
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Film review of Transit
(This film review of “Transit” appeared in the Australian Jewish News on 11 April 2019.)
Directed and written by Christian Petzold, based on the novel by Anna Seghers; starring Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Maryam Zaree and Ronald Kukulies
Part of our ongoing fascination with the Holocaust on screen is the rich diversity of stories. Relatively few English-speakers may recognise the name Anna Seghers (the pen name of Netty Reiling), a German-Jewish Communist whose autobiographical 1944 novel “In Transit” is the basis for the new German language film “Transit”, directed by Christian Petzold.
Petzold is part of a new generation of German experimental film-makers, and is best known in the Jewish community for directing “Phoenix” (2014), a noir-ish drama set in immediate post-war Berlin, where a disfigured German-Jewish Holocaust survivor tries to recover her life, raising important questions of personal identity, collaboration and betrayal.
In “Transit”, Petzold again turns to a Jewish story, based on Seghers’ escape from Nazi-occupied France via Marseille in 1940. In the film, the lead character “Georg” (Franz Rogowski) is a German refugee in France seeking to flee the country as the “fascists” close in on him. Here is where Petzold’s film takes a creative and extraordinary turn: although his film is firmly a World War Two story of refugees and attempted escape, he has transplanted it to the present day, taking place in a fully recognisable modern France where everything appears contemporary, with exception of an absence of the internet and mobile phones.
In his journey of escape, Georg takes on the identity of Weidel, a German writer who has committed suicide in Paris and whose transit papers Georg has picked up. Weidel was a Communist and the Americans pointedly do not want him, although the Mexicans do; in his political naiveté, Georg travels through these scenes as a damaged innocent abroad. Georg is in fact damaged: actor Franz Rogowski speaks with a pronounced lisp, the result of an operation on a cleft palate in his youth – giving him great similarity to Joaquin Phoenix.
Georg spends his time with other increasingly desperate refugees (some of them Jewish) in a dreary and washed-out Marseille. They visit consulates looking for letters of transit, sullenly wait in endless queues and avoid confrontations with the authorities. Georg befriends an immigrant family, acting as a surrogate father to a young boy, and falls in love with Marie (Paula Beer), the wife of the dead writer whose identity he has appropriated; she in turn is living with a noble doctor who assists the poor and is also planning to leave. Marie thinks her husband Weidel is still alive and wandering Marseille, because people keep telling her that he has been there: the truth is that it’s really Georg.
The film comes across as a twisted form of “Casablanca”, the 1942 Humphrey Bogart film set in wartime French Morocco, with Georg as Rick, and Marie as Ilsa, the doctor as Victor Laszlo. But this is no homage to that film: blurring the time periods results in a mind-bending, time-crunching movie of displacement and deeply uncomfortable resonances to the present day of refugees and an apparent turn to nationalist, “keep them out” governments in Europe and elsewhere.
The Anna Seghers (Netty Reiling) “back story” provides important context for both her book and Petzold’s film adaptation: Born in Mainz on the Rhine in 1900, despite her Communist activities, she maintained a strong Jewish identity, writing her doctorate thesis in art history (University of Heidelberg, 1924) on “Jews and Judaism in the Work of Rembrandt”. Following the rise of the Nazis, she was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo, and fled Germany in 1932, moving to Zurich and then Paris. There she wrote the acclaimed novel “The Seventh Cross” – later a movie starring Spencer Tracy – about seven men attempting to escape a Nazi concentration camp, one of very few movies during the war to depict Nazi camps. When the Germans invaded France, she left via Marseille in 1940 for Mexico with her husband, Hungarian László Radványi. After the war, she returned to Germany, living in East Berlin until her death in 1983 and became one of the most famous East German writers.
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Film review of The Zookeepers Wife
This film review of “The Zookeeper’s Wife” appeared in the Australian Jewish News on 4 May 2017
Directed by Niki Caro; written by Angela Workman, based on the book by Diane Ackerman; starring Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Bruhl and Michael McElhatton
“The Zookeeper’s Wife” is a notable film about Jewish survival, but is not a film about Jews. Based on a true story of a non-Jewish Polish married couple who ran the Warsaw Zoo at the outbreak of the Second World War, “The Zookeeper’s Wife” – adapted from the book by Diane Ackerman – is one of a growing number of dramatic films that tell the stories of Righteous Gentiles (think “Schindler’s List” and “Irena Sendler”).
The film opens in summer of 1939; an idyllic “Belle Epoque” Warsaw Zoo appears like a Garden of Eden, with strange animals running after their almost-rapturous keepers, Antonina Zabinski (Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty” & “Interstellar”) and Jan Zabinski (Belgian actor Johan Heldenbergh), accompanied by their contemplative young son Ryszard. The Zabinskis love their animals, and New Zealand director Niki Caro does an extraordinary job of showing human-zoo animal intimate interactions, such as healing a sick young elephant (if it was special effects, I couldn’t tell).
The peaceful retreat doesn’t last. When the Germans attack Poland and bomb Warsaw, the zoo is decimated and lives are changed forever. The narrative is familiar: the Nazi occupation, attacks on the local Jewish population and development of the Warsaw Ghetto.
But what happens next is a first for Holocaust screen stories: Antonina and Jan grow a plan to slip Jews out of the ghetto and hide them in a labyrinth of tunnels and cellars at the zoo, creating an “underground railroad”. The pretext is raising pigs (the “treif” juxtaposition is not explored) for food by using ghetto garbage. A sub-plot involves the Nazi Director of the Berlin Zoo, Dr Lutz Heck (German actor Daniel Bruhl) attracted to Antonina. Other notable historical figures appear, including Dr Janusz Korczak, who ran a famous orphanage in the ghetto.
The film has a convincing production design (shot in Prague), fabulous animals and strong acting from the principals, especially Chastain, who rivals Meryl Streep (“Sophie’s Choice”) with her Polish accent. Despite its strong Holocaust and war themes, “The Zookeeper’s Wife” does feel tame at times; it’s rated “M” (“not recommended for children under 15”). Most violence and killing, including the animals, happens off-screen. This “soft pitch” film-making shouldn’t give nightmares, but does undermine the dramatic impact of what is still a great story.
(above: Johan Heldenbergh outside the set of the Warsaw Zoo)
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Film review of Denial
This film review of “Denial” originally appeared in the Australian Jewish News in a shorter form on 13 April 2017.
Directed by Mick Jackson; written by David Hare, based on the book by Deborah Lipstadt; starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall and Andrew Scott
Not long after American history professor Deborah Lipstadt published her 1993 book “Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory”, she and her publisher Penguin Books was sued by British author – and noted Holocaust denier – David Irving for libel. The story of this court case becomes the film “Denial”, opening in Australian cinemas this week.
British libel laws operate differently than other countries: the defendant is presumed guilty unless they can be proven innocent and the burden of proof is much higher. Not only was Lipstadt’s credibility on trial, but also that of Holocaust scholarship, with Irving using the opportunity to promote his denial ideology by focussing on small “unproven” items that could cast doubts on the Nazi genocide.
This docu-drama illustrates real events over the period 1994 to 2000, based on Lipstadt’s memoir, “Denial: Holocaust History on Trial” (previously “History on Trial”). The film opens with a confrontation where Irving disrupted a lecture of Lipstadt, and then recounts the court case itself, almost solely through Lipstadt’s eyes. We see her meetings with her legal team, with British Jewish community leaders and with an un-named survivor. Lipstadt is forced to watch the trial unfold without speaking out because her legal advisers focussed on making the case about Irving (who conducted his own defence) rather than about her.
“Denial” gathers a great cast of British actors, with Rachel Weisz – originally tipped for an Oscar nomination for the role – neatly capturing Lipstadt’s nasal New York (Queens) accent. Tom Wilkinson – one of the best character actors working in film today – plays Lipstadt’s barrister Richard Rampton, and Timothy Spall (the artist Turner in “Mr Turner”) inhabits the persona of David Irving in a form likely to burn itself in public consciousness as the definitive Irving. Andrew Scott (Moriarty in “Sherlock”) plays lead solicitor Anthony Julius, who in real life is one of Britain’s leading campaigners against antisemitism. Many important historians appear, including Cambridge academic Richard J. Evans (played by John Sessions) and Dutch scholar Robert Jan van Pelt (Mark Gatiss).
The characters are delightfully drawn, the settings create a strong sense of place, particularly London and Auschwitz, which the defence team visits on an eerie, snow-covered and foggy day.
Courtroom dramas are a staple of modern feature films. From “Witness for the Prosecution” to “Judgment at Nuremberg” to “To Kill a Mockingbird” to “Evil Angels” to “A Few Good Men”, the courtroom is ready-made for what the screen does well: illustrate conflict between adversaries, albeit without physical violence. Along with its wider themes of historical truth and the Holocaust, “Denial” sits within this genre, but the film never hits the “aha” moments that the best legal dramas require. This may be because of the known ending or the film’s requirement to stick closely to a trial that revolved around arcane historical research. Because Irving and Lipstadt have only one actual verbal encounter early in the film, the dramatic challenges of the film revolve around keeping Deborah Lipstadt from speaking out, not the most compelling drama.
“Denial” is a film about history and the nature of historical research. History matters, this film tells us, because it tells us who we are and how we lived then. But the law also matters, because it can confirm – or deny – one historian’s views in the official view of society.
(image below: Rachel Weisz in “Denial”)
(Note: “Denial” originally opened in North American cinemas on September 30, 2016.)
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Film review of Remember
(This film review of “Remember” appeared in the Australian Jewish News on May 12, 2016.)
Directed by Atom Egoyan; written by Benjamin August; starring Christopher Plummer, Bruno Ganz, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Lieven, Henry Czerny, Dean Norris and Martin Landau
Films about the aftermath of the Holocaust inevitably play on an intersecting mix of identity, revenge, guilt and wonder. Why did one person survive, and not another? When non-Jewish film-makers tackle the topic, many Jews pause with concern: will this film illustrate truths that need to be told and still honour the memory of the dead? It’s a difficult task, even for the best film-maker.
Armenian-Canadian film-maker Atom Egoyan (“The Sweet Hereafter”, “Ararat”) brings a special sensitivity, haunted by his family’s memory of the Turkish massacre of Armenians, and combining his career-long fascination with matters of identity, redemption and memory. In his new film, “Remember”, he assembles an astonishing cast to create an R-rated thriller of revenge, plots and double-backs.
Christopher Plummer – the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award – here gives an extraordinary performance as Zev Guttman, an Auschwitz survivor with dementia whose wife has recently died. Fellow New York nursing home resident and camp survivor, Max Rosenbaum (Martin Landau, veteran of numerous Jewish roles including “Crimes and Misdemeanors”) convinces Zev to abscond from the home and track down the Nazi officer, Otto Wallisch, who had murdered his family – and kill him. Having immigrated illegally to the USA, Wallisch is living under the assumed name Rudy Kurlander, except that Rosenbaum has found four Rudy Kurlanders, and is not certain which one is the real Otto.
With step by step precise instructions from Rosenbaum, Guttman slows works his way to each Kurlander, purchasing a Glock (German) pistol for the murderous deed. The gunshop purchase scene is possibly one of the best ever directed by Egoyan, an understated semi-comic, semi-tragic illustration of American gun ownership. The problem with Guttman’s mission is that he can barely remember what to do each day, much less act as the assassin he has become.
Each Rudy Kurlander is a special case. Bruno Ganz, the powerful Swiss-German actor who played Hitler in “Downfall” (2004), plays the first Rudy Kurlander, with a terrifying resonance of that earlier film. Jürgen Prochnow (“Das Boot”) plays the fourth one.
The plot twists and turns and rockets along, fantastically at times, and is not for the faint-hearted; the film is R-rated for “violence and language”, for good reason. “Remember” combines a number of genres, and consciously references the Guy Pearce memory loss film “Memento”. Egoyan mostly keeps the film under control, ably helped by the stellar central performance by the 86 year old Plummer. The ending – be warned – is a shock, providing much to talk about in long coffee-shop discussions afterwards.
(below: Christopher Plummer in “Remember”)
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Prejudice and discrimination are usually classified as behavioural attitudes towards a certain group or individual based on a multitude of reasons [according to different psychological theories]. The main reasons for prejudice are believed to be rooted in individual psychological processes related to groups, social influence and/or upbringing.
Authoritarian Personality
One plausible explanation for prejudice is the authoritarian personality, which suggests that those belonging in the category are concerned with status and upholding conventions, are very conformist and tend to be obsequious to those they see as holding a higher status – while treating those ‘below’ with contemp. Authoritarian personality is believed to be the result of strict and punitive upbringing which later leads to hostility being directed towards disliked [justified or unjustified] groups through the process of « displacement ». Adorno et al (1950) found strong and positive correlations between respondents’ scores on the F-Scale and scores on other measures intended to assess anti-semitism (AS scale) and ethnocentrism (E scale). However, the PEC-scale (Political and economic conservatism) was not strongly related, which only led to the conclusion of how people who are anti-Semitic are also « likely » to be hostile towards most « out-groups ».
The Adorno et al (1950) test only consisted of agreement that could only be geared towards anti-Semitism, ethnocentrism and fascism, which might have led to the problem of acquiescent response. The fact that the interviewer knew the interviewee’s F-score might have also led to experimenter bias; and the theory also falls short in the explanation of mass changes in behaviour: “Antisemitism in Nazi Germany grew during a decade or so, which is much too short a time for a whole generation of German families to have adopted new forms of childrearing practices giving rise to authoritarian and prejudiced children (Brown, 1988)” [not plausible]. The reality is that anti-Semitism may have been the result of a more sinister social and economic problem caused, inflicted by or related to the jews powerful Zionist business associations on the German economy at a time where the country was suffering [people, heritage, identity, economy…].
Individual identity differs according to heritage, education, language(s), individual choices, profession and social roles
Another form of prejudice is stereotyping, which plays a major part in the process of inter-cultural [note: culture may refer to groups defined by language, geography, religion, and other common similarities] prejudice where the root of its cause has proven to be fairly ambiguous in explanation.
Groups founded and united based on the behavioural patterns of a particular geography [usually] tend to stereotype others negatively [i.e. out-group(s): the other group(s) with petty differences in the way they go by their daily activities as all human primates on this planet – as the chart below suggests].
Where Do We Buy What? (Source: Statista)
It is believed that the process of stereotyping is the result of minimising mental effort, reminiscent of Carl Jung‘s quote:
« Thinking is difficult, that is why most people judge. »
Stereotyping is linked to psychological processes within the individual and is assumed to be connected to environmental influences that lead to a prejudiced mind; where out-groups and there members are defined unrealistically by single characteristics (negative usually). Stereotyping can sometimes [at least when dealing with members of the public who may not be deemed as « intelligent or smart », even bordering on plain « stupid »] play a role in the legitimisation of prejudiced and discriminatory treatment of other individuals who simply [consciously or unconsciously] made the choice to live by different modes of group-oriented behavioural patterns (culture).
Rational reasoning and the humane ability to understand each group’s choices while also respecting each group’s boundaries [geographical, social, economic, psychosocial, linguistic, etc] are surprisingly never considered by individuals and authorities in the quest to correct the mistakes of a world designed on outdated ideologies [e.g. the scientifically poor logic of global communism] to design a new one based on creative scientific reasoning, evolutionary logic, design & progressive innovation.
Another reason why some individuals resort to stereotyping others may be insecurity. That is, some individuals may be frustrated at their inability to conquer other(s) who are above their league in terms of abilities and achievements, and may stereotype these individuals in their quest to compensate for their own lack of abilities and feeling of inferiority when faced with these individuals who are more talented than them. Arguably, it may also be that these petty common brains who stereotype, simply fear that their competitors may be able to excel and deliver a similar or even superior performance/output than them if not distracted and slowed by insignificant and childish acts of stereotyped behaviour.
Traduction(EN): « Thinking is difficult, that is why most people judge. » -Carl G. Jung
Prejudice as an Illusionary Cure to Low Self-Esteem/Insecurity
The Social Learning Theory, on the other hand, assumes prejudice as the result of maintaining self-esteem of both the individual and the in-group (individuals with the same behavioural patterns as the individual/tribe) members – where one tends to be biased towards glorifying the group whilst also paying particular attention to criteria that make the group look better. This is related to our sense of identity being determined by the groups we belong to and thus tend to be biased towards favouring them. Tajfel et al (1982) showed how schoolboys chose the strategy to allocate more points to their own group at the expense of getting least overall – showing bias in the absence of competition. The two main problems however are the fact that [1] the tendency for favouritism might be group-oriented and not universal (Wetherall, 1982), and also how [2] most studies show bias towards in-group (which could not only be prejudice but stereotyping or other influences).
Unrealistic Conflict? Competition for the same Resource(s) while presuming in-group members to be « unconditional benefactors »
Finally, the realistic conflict theory suggests that prejudice arises when two or more groups compete for the same resource which in turn leads to a tendency to favour in-group members, while being hostile and denying resources to out-groups. This was proven in Sherif et al (1961) where the artificially stimulated competitive conflict lead to negative stereotyping towards out-group which persisted even after the competition. However, the validity was questioned over the artificiality of the situation and the samples (US American boys only?); as Tyerman & Spencer also showed how competition does not always cause prejudice – where UK scouts co-operated instead. Furthermore, individuals with different upbringing and philosophical orientations had not been considered, which in turn affects the ecological validity of the finding where inferences from generalisation would likely lack precision – with a world in constant social evolution with more psychological research being constantly published to guide society towards a more harmonious design.
Conclusion and Reflections: Relocation, Adaptation, Design & Assimilation
Together, the theories seem to offer a plausible explanation for prejudice but cannot be ranked; as they compensate each other’s weak points. A sensible application of each theory – depending on the situation – seems like the rational method forward, since factors such as group-based behavioural patterns (culture), present situation/environment and norms/values remain vital considerations when researching about prejudice, its causes & a more direct approach to solutions.
Furthermore, the world has made such leap socially with the technological era, and people have been inclined towards knowledge, discoveries and innovation with social media contributing towards a more educated humanity [i.e. a civilisation with its different societies that come with their own values, philosophy, feelings and behavioural and communicative patterns, that are the main seperators and organising factors in each group’s identity].
A new and strong global inclination towards a realistic synchronised unity [where the world’s population can live harmoniously in their own geographical location with their chosen units, laws and lifestyle], may shape intellectual thought in the decades to come now that the experience learnt from psychosocial disasters due to badly managed population shifts [that turned out to be destructive to the safety of Western European nations] could be considered in future policies. [Visit the website of the Banque Mondiale for more precise population statistics].
Countries where the average number of children per woman is above a 3.5 average
Source: UN via The Guardian
The current population of Africa is 1,300,976,080 as of Wednesday, December 5, 2018, based on the latest United Nations estimates. / Source: Worldometers (Click to see a live count of the majorly negro population of Africa)
The Size of the African Continent: With the speed of progress and the development brought by the digital era, an increasing number of Negro people nowadays, with their global population rising at a rate faster than any other group, are considering a relocation to their homelands in Africa
Organisms who do not want to/cannot assimilate, should consider a relocation to an environment that is adjusted and more suited to their evolutionary needs, as this seems like the most rational solution, such as the growing number of sensible Negro people nowadays who are gradually shifting back to their homelands in Africa to help it grow economically and culturally with the world developing at a speed never seen before in this era partly accelerated with modern technology.
A great example of environmental and socio-psychological synchronisation is India, with 94% of Hindus being the native Hindi-speaking population of India who also live there, although Hinduism and its various branches of philosophy [explored by one of the most influential Western philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, and also many others such as Aldous Huxley, Alfred North Whitehead, Arnold Toynbee, François Voltaire, Rudolf Steiner, Wilhelm von Humbolt & Will Durant] – as other major religious cultures such as Christianity – also spread in influence globally.
Like Christianity & the other major religions, Hinduism and its philosophy also gradually spread in influence across the globe. However, 94% of people who practice Hinduism are the native Hindi-speaking population of India
The Climate Collapse disaster has also made Civilization aware of the importance of « synchronised unity » in matters of global human advancement – future research surrounding prejudice and discrimination would likely benefit the human world more if applied in intra-group scenarios – should the world’s population be managed and geographically engineered according to each group’s evolutionary logic [to fit their respective psycholinguistic, cultural and organic environments to further refine group evolution and guide society towards a harmonious pattern of living] for each group by their respective identities, collective beliefs, values & vision.
A Visual History of Global Poverty from 1820 – 2015 / Source: Our World In Data
Infant Mortality, 1950 to 2015 / Source: Our World in Data
Global Income Inequality is falling, 1820 – 2000
As World poverty is down, solving matters of the 3rd world on location along with a systematic and diplomatic relocation of culturally alien migrant crowds seems rational. Progress & development globally means relocation should be considered in the future if human beings are realistic about world peace, and the understanding of evolutionary science and its application to humanity.
Charitable giving by country / Source: Guardian DataBlog
Library users and Learning / Source: Pew Research Centre (Internet & Technology)
We, as Western Europeans should consider a diplomatic process for relocating incompatible populations [who struggle to or cannot adapt] according to their respective societies and cultural identity for peace; with links and cooperation in business and education if necessary to support the sophistication and the continuous linguistic and cultural development of human societies on Planet Earth.
Geographical management towards synchronisation and stability by exploring the logic of the « Organic theory » involves prioritizing one’s « own organisms » [i.e. organisms that are part of or have become part of one’s own society through complete assimilation] for psycholinguistic, cultural, social & genetic chemistry, evolution and enhancement.
For example, if I myself were a retrograde and atavistic burden to Western Europe or France because of my religious beliefs, maladaptive needs, genes, intelligence [lack of], organic composition, fitness/health, education, philosophical perspectives, traditions, psycholinguistic heritage and national outlook, then I would change geographical location to one that is more suited to myself to be able to live much more comfortably. But since, I am of 100% Franco-British heritage and would not feel at « home » in a different environment other than Western Europe, I have fully assimilated and live here, thus, the concept of « Geographical Management », which is simply the process of keeping together organisms sharing similar beliefs, philosophy, culture, vision, perception, goals, intellect, language(s) and identity for chemistry, stability and mutual understanding: a synchronised and functional society founded on modern evolutionary science & humanistic philosophy.
We need to understand the identity of a society in terms of linguistic, cultural [mostly behavioural and perceptive patterns], and genetic authenticity but also consider and follow the progressive course of evolution as modern and sophisticated beings to include evolved organisms that assimilate, enhance, stabilise, and strengthen the group with superior or gifted genes that also care about, have a sense of belonging, take pride, interact, speak for and identify with the culture and nation. All humans are similar yes, but not equal … similar physiologically [blood, bone, organs, etc] but not equal in any case [culture, philosophy, language(s), IQ, genetics, fitness/health, intelligence, vocabulary, sensibility, skills, etc].
For cases of exceptional organisms who have moved to a new locations [geography] to create themselves and build their lives, it would certainly be helpful for them to see themselves as singular and individual units with the power to reshape their whole being if they intend to be able to live a life that is not restrictive and is in complete synchronisation with the new society and people they choose to be a part of; thus assimilation seems to be the only reasonable and humane option.
It is fundamental for all to understand that geographical groups have evolved and have gained and maintained a structured organisation because each region on planet Earth and its respective organisms [of a particular type of organic composition – what some refer to as “race”] have created societies and behavioural patterns that led to a group with some form of synchronisation and organisation.
But, it is also very important to consider that from the perspective of the universality of life on Planet Earth, any human organism of whatsoever type of organic composition can procreate with one another. This simple but fundamental scientific observation means that if the laws of evolution and nature that contain and govern all life on this planet had different intentions, then organisms of different organic compositions would not be able to create new life. This does not mean that countries should be encouraging uncontrolled and savage communist/zionist mass invasion policies in terms of migration to disrupt their own stability, since preserving a sense of synchronisation and organisation for all groups involves promoting agendas with organisms that have evolved in their environment and have the characteristics to support the continuity and productivity of their group & society. However it is of vital and fundamental importance for all groups [around the world] to consider the never-ending and ongoing process of evolution and natural selection, a process that affects all organisms on planet Earth similarly and also the singular adaptive evolution of some superior and genetically gifted organisms [See: [I] Psychology: The Concept of Self, [II] How our Neurons work, [III] The Temporal Lobes: Vision, Sound & Awareness and [IV] The 3 Major Theories of Childhood Development]
Traduction(EN): Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882), best known for his theory on evolution by natural selection, demonstrated that all species have developed over time from common ancestors and that individuals with characteristics most suited to the environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.
All societies should be asking the question of whether some select superior organisms [whatever the field in which they may excel / See: Scientists discover 1,000 new “intelligence genes” & 2 types of extroverts have more brain matter than most common brains] would enhance them as a group [i.e. upscale their organic composition], since we are now in 2019 and are part of a generation that has the scientific knowledge that previous generations before us did not have.
After all, the choice of partnership should always remain that of the individual, and since the criteria in partnership selection differs from one individual to another [e.g. some may look for physical attributes, others for emotional intelligence, or philosophical sensibilities, or typical personality traits, and on extremely rare occasions some may be incrediby lucky to find all the qualities in a single organism, etc], this may lead some individuals to choose from a range of organic compositions.
In 2019, with the knowledge of genetics and health, couples who want children worldwide should also consider whether the future wellbeing of their children involves more than simply good food, education and upbringing, but also good genes that also lead to better attributes. Hence, couples who choose to embrace the reality of science in 2019, may choose sperm or eggs from healthy donors if they do not consider themselves as genetically healthy or gifted; and this may also open the door to creating a healthier generation of humans on planet Earth and also encourage healthy males and females, to donate sperm and eggs as a contribution to the better design of a new generation of mankind. Since, science has always been seen by many as the study of God’s work, to create a better world, and this gave us better medicines and treatments after our understanding of Nature evolved, so it seems logical to also look at genetics and design similarly.
We also know that environmental and psycho-social influences have more salience and effect in shaping the mind of the individual, so avant-garde couples who choose to have a child through donated eggs or sperm should understand that the child will be theirs as the infant will carry their names, manners, attitudes and values, and not the donor’s. A good way of looking at it may be to simply think of the donor as a piece of healthy flesh that the couple borrowed to give their child a better design, health and future.
«Spermini», l’oeuvre par l’artiste Maurizio Cattelan / Source: Fondation Louis Vuitton
As for human organisms that have chosen to shift their geography to be part of a new society along with its heritage, they do not seem to have any other concrete option but to fully « assimilate » and prove their genetic fitness/health and abilities, and hence become an asset to the new group by becoming a part of it to help maintain its stability and sense of synchronisation.
Men and women who make the choice and who have the necessary education and intelligence to guide them, build themselves and change cultural / national identification registers when they have the capacity for development, the linguistic heritage and the genetics of intellect with a mastery of expression and speech. It is only then that they manage to represent a nation or an empire [or two?]. In 2019, as far as ‘The Organic Theory’ [which focuses on the singularity of the individual organism] is concerned, there is no debate between intellectuals in psychology, but simply the discovery of the new mechanical / scientific perspectives that it introduces to explain the psychological and philosophical conception of the individual – as Carl Sagan phrased it, ‘Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge’. Construction [training], which ‘can be’ mechanical and structured in its application [e.g. distance learning by text / video / audio], develops indirectly to create and give a socio-cultural dimension to the individual once the desired skills have been fully adopted, mastered, and deployed in life. The term ‘social’ is also far too vague to be important as such… the term ‘social’ can simply be defined as the interaction and exposure [of all types] between organisms. So the term ‘social’ is not really valid scientifically and it lacks precision itself since it may refer to a wide range of variables. What we are left with then is only the individual’s choices, language(s) & abilities of personal development [e.g. psycholinguistic & cultural synthesis]: the major factors in the psychological & philosophical explanation of his/her singular conception [to note that each conception is unique to the individual human organism such as his/her fingerprints, skull shape, or body structure: singularity]. Thus: training, meritocracy, order and love! [See: The Concept of Self]
If the new organisms lack genetic fitness/health, then they should consider conceiving [through healthy donors] or adopting children of the similar organic composition of the majority from the respective societies they moved to and live in, as this will not cause any instability for the future continuity of the group.
So for organisms who do change their mode of existence, i.e. organisms that have the potential and have taken the decision to and do assimilate in Western European societies, the best option seems to “see, think, breathe & live” [as a way of speaking] like the new society and nation they chose to be a part of, and also “feel” the new group’s pain, joy, values and heritage [even religion if possible / See: The Relationship between Religion and Discrimination].
Assimilation generally means to see the members of one’s new community as one’s own « blood », just like those from avant-garde French schools of thought do, as it will be in any individual’s best interest in living « fully » [although it is vital for all organisms to also consider the problems of «bad blood», since social incompatibility and/or a lack of chemistry – which is not necessarily hateful – within organisms of the same geographical environment are common due to a range of factors (e.g. intelligence, philosophy, values, sensibility, personality, character, etc)].
Any society that cannot add highly talented organisms with exceptional genes that have the potential to enhance and sharpen them as a group through the process of assimilation, would be missing out and will forever have a weakness over avant-garde societies that can. However, it is important not to take the process of assimilation lightly as it is not a costume party. Assimilation is not an easy process as we have found.
The large majority of organisms who change geographic locations do not seem to have the abilities or the desire to assimilate, since it involves focusing their loyalty and dedication to the new society and people while also adopting [e.g names that are sycnhronised with the society’s heritage as it is commonly done in France] and mastering new behavioural and communicative patterns [as Nicolas Sarkozy also pointed out], which requires learning & adaptation. Hence, the diplomatic deportation and relocation of incompatible organisms along with campaigns to help them settle still remain the best solution to alleviate the burden of mass migration and psycho-social disruption to Western European societies, because assimilation requires skills and dedication and the majority of foreign organisms fail to master them.
We should also take note that there are some [not many] “incredible” individuals who manage to assimilate and become fully part of their new societies, and guide, manage and promote it passionately.
These individuals who have made the tremendous effort to become fully part of their new society where they have moved to and have the potential to enhance, guide and promote it should be applauded and encouraged because these individuals who have proven their genetic fitness/health, psycholinguistic/cultural belonging, national loyalty & identity are not in a new society simply for economic gains [as a foreign leech] but see themselves as part of the national community/family, and have taken the sensitive personal decision to completely blend in [assimilate] and be similar to the natives of their new societies where it reflects in their values, sentiments, perception, behaviour & nationalistic feelings.
Traduction(EN): « I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term of natural selection. » -Charles Darwin / Note: Darwin devised the Theory of Evolution and was against bad breeding, and even supported a campaign to make marriage between cousins illegal due to the range of diseases and disabilities caused by consanguineous inbreeding [See: (1) Inbreeding, Consanguinity and Inherited Diseases, (2) The Role of Inbreeding in the Extinction of a European Royal Dynasty, (3) Royal dynasties as human inbreeding laboratories: the Habsburgs & (4) 75% of Jews Are Lactose Intolerant and 11 Other Facts
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The temporal lobe consists of all the tissues located underneath the lateral (Sylvian) fissure and anterior to the occipital cortex (FIGURE A). The subcortical temporal lobe structures include the limbic cortex, the amygdala, and the hippocampal formation (FIGURE B). The connections to and from the temporal lobe extend to all areas of the brain. Typical symptoms of temporal-lobe disorder or damage generally include drastic deficits in affect and personality, memory problems, and some form of deficits of language.
FIGURE A. Anatomy of the Temporal Lobe | (A) The 3 Major gyri visible on the lateral surface of the temporal lobe. (B) Brodmann’s cytoarchitectonic zones on the lateral surface. Auditory areas are shown in yellow and visual areas in purple. Areas 20, 21, 37 and 38 are often referred to by von Economo’s designation, TE. (C) The gyri visible on a medial view of the temporal lobe. The uncus refers to the anterior extension of the hippocampal formation. The parahippocampal gyrus includes areas TF and TH.
FIGURE B. Internal Structure of the Temporal Lobe | (TOP) Lateral View of the left hemisphere showing the positions of the amygdala and the hippocampus buried deeply in the temporal lobe. The vertical lines show the approximate location of the coronal sections in the bottom illustration. (BOTTOM) Frontal views through the left hemisphere illustrating the cortical and subcortical regions of the temporal lobe.
Subdivisions of the Temporal Cortex
10 temporal areas were identified by Brodman, however many more have recently been discovered in monkeys, and this finding suggests that humans too may have many more areas to explore. The temporal areas on the lateral surface can be divided into those that are auditory (FIG. A. (B), Brodman areas 41, 42 and 22) and those that make up the Ventral Visual Stream on the lateral temporal lobe (FIG. A. (B), areas 20, 21, 37 & 38). These regions specific to vision are often referred to as the Inferotemporal Cortex or by von Economo’s designation, TE.
FIGURE C. Cytoarchitectonic Regions of the Temporal Cortex of the Rhesus Monkey | (A) Brodmann’s Areas. (B) Von Bonin and Bailey’s Areas. (C and D) Lateral and ventral views of Seltzer and Pandya’s parcellation showing the multimodal areas in the superior temporal sulcus. Subareas revealed in part C are generally NOT visible from the surface.
A huge amount of cortex can be found within the sulci of the temporal lobe as shown in the frontal views at the bottom of FIGURE B, particularly the lateral (Sylvian) fissure which contains the tissue forming the insula: an area that includes the gustatory cortex and the auditory association cortex. The Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS) divides the superior and middle temporal gyri, and also contains a fair amount of neocortex. FIGURE C. shows the many subregions of the Superior Temporal Sulcus, the multi-modal, or polymodal cortex that receives input from auditory, visual, and somatic regions, and from another two polymodal regions (frontal & parietal) along with the paralimbic cortex.
FIGURE D. Mutlisensory Areas in the Monkey Cortex | Coloured areas represent regions where anatomical or electrophysiological data or both types demonstrate multisensory interactions. Dashed lines represent open sulci. (After Ghazanfar and Schroeder, 2006.)
The medial temporal region (limbic cortex) includes the amygdala and the adjacent cortex (uncus), the hippocampus and surrounding cortex (subiculum, entorhinal cortex, perirhinal cortex), and the fusiform gyrus (see FIGURE B). The entorhinal cortex is Brodmann’s area 28, and the perirhinal cortex comprises Brodmann’s areas 35 and 36.
Cortical areas TH and TF at the posterior end of the temporal lobe (see FIGURE C) are often referred to as the parahippocampal cortex. The fusiform gyrus and the inferior temporal gyrus are functional parts of the lateral temporal cortex (see FIGURE A and FIGURE B).
Connections of the Temporal Cortex
One major fact about the temporal lobes is that they are rich in internal connections, afferent projections from the sensory systems, and efferent projections to the parietal and frontal association regions, limbic system, and basal ganglia. The corpus callosum connects the neocortex of the left and right temporal lobes, whereas the anterior commissure connects connects the temporal cortex and the amygdala.
FIGURE E. Major Intracortical Connections of the Temporal Lobe | (A) Auditory and visual information progresses ventrally from the primary regions toward the temporal pole en route to the medial temporal regions. Auditory information also forms a dorsal pathway to the posterior parietal lobe. (B) Auditory, visual, and somatic outputs go to the multimodal regions of the superior temporal sulcus (STS). (C) Auditory and visual information goes to the medial temporal region, including the amygdala and the hippocampal formation. (D) Auditory and visual information goes to two prefrontal regions, one on the dorsolateral surface and the other in the orbital region (area 13).
Five distinct types of cortical-cortical connections have been revealed through studies on the temporocortical connections of the monkey (see FIGURE E), and each projection pathway subserves a particular function:
A Hierarchical Sensory Pathway. This pathway is essential for stimulus recognition. The hierarchical progress of connections derives from the primary and secondary auditory and visual areas, ending in the temporal pole (see FIGURE E (A)). The visual projections form the ventral stream of visual processing , whereas the auditory projections form a parallel ventral stream of auditory processing.
A Dorsal Auditory Pathway. Projecting from the auditory areas to the posterior parietal cortex (FIGURE E(A)), the pathway is analogous to the dorsal visual pathway and thus concerned with directing movements with respect to auditory information. The dorsal auditory pathway likely has a role to play in the detection of the spatial location of auditory inputs.
A Polymodal Pathway. This pathway is a series of parallel projections from the visual and auditory association areas into the polymodal regions of the superior temporal sulcus (see FIGURE E(B)). The polymodal pathway seems to underlie the categorisation of stimuli.
A Medial Temporal Projection. Vital for long-term memory, the projection from the auditory and visual association areas into the medial temporal, or limbic, regions goes first to the perirhinal cortex, then to the entorhinal cortex, and finally into the hippocampal formation or the amygdala or both (see FIGURE E(C)). The hippocampal projection forms the perforant pathway – disturbance of this projection leads to major dysfunction in hippocampal activity.
A frontal-lobe projection. This series of parallel projections, necessary for various aspects of movement control, short-term memory, and affect, reaches from the temporal association areas to the frontal lobe (see FIGURE E(D)).
These five projection pathways play a unique and major role in temporal-lobe functions.
A Theory of Temporal Lobe Functions
The temporal lobe is multi-functional and comprises the primary auditory cortex, the secondary auditory and visual cortex, the limbic cortex, and the amygdala and hippocampus. The hippocampus works in combination with the object-recognition and memory functions of the neocortex and has a fundamental role in organising memories of objects in space. The amygdala is also responsible for adding affective tone (emotions) to sensory input and memories.
Based on the cortical anatomy, 3 basic sensory functions of the temporal cortex can be identified:
Processing auditory input
Long-term storage of sensory input
Temporal-lobe functions are best explained by considering how the brain analyses and processes sensory stimuli as they enter the nervous system. A good example would be a hike in the woods where on a journey, one would notice a wide variety of birds. Furthering this example, let us assume that the individual on the hike decides to keep a mental list of all the birds encountered to report to his/her sister who happens to be an avid nature lover and birder. Now let us assume that the individual upon exploring has encountered a rattlesnake in the middle of his/her path; it is highly likely that he/she would change direction and look for birds in a safer location. Let us now consider the temporal-lobe functions engaged in such activity.
Sensory Processes
We shall use the hiking example above to explain the processes as we progress. In the case of birds of different types, the awareness of specific colours, shapes and sizes would be vital, and such a process involving object recognition is the function of the ventral visual pathway in the temporal lobe.
Speed is also of the essence in such natural situations since birds may not remain static for extended amounts of time, thus, we would tend to spot them fast from sighting to sighting (e.g. lateral view vs rear view). The development of categories for object types is vital to both perception and memory, and this depends on the inferortemporal cortex. The process of categorisation may also require some form of directed attention, since some aspects of a stimuli tend to play a more important role in the process of classification than do others [e.g. language, culture & speech in human beings].
For example, classifying two different types of yellow birds would require attention to be directed away from colour, to instead focus on shape, size and other individual characteristics. It has been revealed that damage to the temporal cortex leads to deficits in identifying and categorising stimuli. However, such a patient would have no difficulty in the location of stimulus or in recognising that the object is physically present, since these activities are functions of another part of the brain: the posterior parietal and primary sensory areas respectively.
As the individual would continue the journey to spot birds, he/she may also hear a bird song, and this stimulus would also have to be matched with the visual input. This process of matching visual and auditory information is known as cross-modal matching, and likely depends on the cortex of the superior temporal sulcus.
As the journey progresses, the individual may come across more and more birds which would require the formation of memory for later retrieval of their specificity. Furthermore, as the birds vary, their respective names would have to be accessed from memory; these long-term memory processes depend on the entire ventral visual stream as well as the paralimbic cortex of the medial temporal region.
Affective Responses
Using the encounter with the snake as an example, the individual would first hear the rattle, which is an alert of the reptilian danger, and stop. Next, the ground would have to be scanned visually to spot the venomous creature, to identity it while dealing with a rising heart rate and blood pressure. The affective response in such a situation would be the function of the amygdala. The association of sensory input (stimulus) and emotion is crucial for learning, because specific stimuli become associated with their positive, negative or neutral consequences, and behaviour is shaped/modified accordingly.
If such an affective system was to be cancelled out from a person’s brain, all stimuli would be treated equally – consider the consequences of failing to associate a rattlesnake, which is venomous, with the consequences of being bitten. Furthering the example, consider an individual who is unable to associate good & positive feelings (such as honesty, warmth, trust & human love) to a specific person.
Laboratory animals with amygdala lesions/damage generally become extremely placid and lack any form of emotional reaction to threatening stimuli. For example, monkeys that were formerly terrified of snakes become indifferent to them [and of the fatal consequences] and may reach and pick them up.
Spatial Navigation
When the decision to change directions is made by the individual, the hippocampus becomes active and it contains cells that code places in space that allow us to navigate in space and remember our position [location].
As the general functions of the temporal lobes [sensory, affective & navigational] are considered it is fairly obvious how devastating the consequences on behaviour would be for a person who loses them: the inability to perceive or remember events, including language and loss of affect. However, such a person lacking temporal-lobe function would still be able to use the dorsal visual system to make visually guided movements and under many circumstances, would shockingly appear completely normal to many.
The Superior Temporal Sulcus & Biological Motion
The hiking example above has lacked an additional temporal-lobe function, a process that most animals engage in known as biological motion: movements that have particular relevance to a particular species. For example, among humans in Western Europe, many movements involving the eyes, face, mouth, hands and body have social meanings – the superior temporal sulcus analyses biological motion.
FIGURE F. Biological Motion | Summary of the activation (indicated by dots) of the Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS) region in the left (A) and right (B) hemispheres during the perception of biological motion. (After Allison, Puce, and McCarthy, 2000.)
The STS plays a role in categorising stimuli from received multimodal inputs. One major category is social perception, which involves the analysis and response of actual or implied bodily movements that provide socially relevant information about a person’s actual state. Such information has an important role to play in social cognition, or « Theory of Mind », that allows us to develop hypotheses about another individual’s intentions. For example, the direction of an individual’s gaze provides some information about what that person is attending (or not attending) to.
In a review, Truett Allison and colleagues proposed that cells in the superior temporal sulcus have a key role to play in social cognition. For example, cells in the monkey STS respond to various forms of biological motion including the direction of eye gaze, facial expression, mouth movement, head movement and hand movement.
In the case of advanced social animals such as primates, the ability to understand and respond to biological motion is critical information needed to infer the intention of others. As shown in FIGURE F , imaging studies revealed the activation along the STS during the perception of a variety of biological motion.
One major correlate of mouth movements is vocalisation, and so it is possible to predict that regions of the STS are also implicated in perceiving the specific sounds of a particular species. In monkeys for example, cells in the Superior Temporal Gyrus, which is adjacent to the STS and sends connections to it, show a preference for « monkey calls ». In humans too, imaging studies have revealed that the superior temporal gyrus is activated by both human vocalisations and by melodic sequences.
The activation in some part of the superior temporal sulcus in response to a combination of visual stimulus (mouth movements) and talking or singing could be predicted, and presumably sophisticated speech and vocal performances (singing) are perceived as complex forms of biological motion. Hence, it is fairly obvious that people with temporal-lobe injuries that lead to impairments in the analysis of biological motion will likely be correlated with deficit in social awareness/judgement. Indeed, the studies of David Perrett and his colleagues illustrate the nature of processing in the STS, who revealed that neurons in the superior temporal sulcus may be responsive to particular faces viewed head-on, faces viewed in profile, the posture of the head, or even the specific facial expressions. Perrett also found that some STS cells are extremely sensitive to primate bodies that move in a particular direction, another characteristic biological motion (see FIGURE G below). Such finding is quite remarkable since the basic configuration of the primate stimulus remains identical as it moves in different directions; solely the direction changes.
FIGURE G. Neuronal Sensitivity to Direction of Body Movements | (Top) Schematic representation of the front view of a body. (Bottom) The histogram illustrates a greater neuronal response of STS neurons to the front view of a body that approaches the observing monkey compared with the responses to the same view of the body when the body is moving away, to the right and to the left, or is stationary. (After Perrett et al., 1990.)
Visual Processing in the Temporal Lobe
All visual information goes through the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) which is part of the thalamus. The LGN directs visual information into the brain where most of it is sent straight to the occipital cortex/lobe. The dorsal and ventral streams are primary pathways to visual cortex V1 located around the calcarine fissure in the occipital lobe [V1 is critical for sight, loss leads to blindness]. It is believed that human beings possess two distinct visual systems.
When visual information leaves the occipital lobe (visual cortex), it follows two streams:
1) The Ventral Stream begins with V1 and passes through vision region V2, then V4 and to the inferior temporal cortex. It is known as the “What Pathway” and is responsible for processes related to form recognition and object representation; and is also linked to the formation of long-term memory. The ventral stream is associated to a concept of “vision in the brain”, which allows humans to make sense of the visual information they receive. Vartanian & Skov (2014) have recently found activity in the anterior insula [emotion experiencing part] and in the ventral stream when viewing art paintings. Sustained damage to the ventral stream would allow a subject to see, perceive colours, movements, understand the underlying expectation of meaning to an object or face; but yet fail to perceive “what” the object/face is. This condition is known as agnosia which means the “failure to know”; where patients lose the ability to identify by sight but have no difficulties with memory for word or descriptive language.
Visual agnosia appears to be the result of not a primary vision problem but an associative function in the brain to give definition.
Lissauer (1890) defined 2 types of visual agnosias; apperceptive visual agnosia and associative visual agnosia.
In the apperceptive type subjects cannot identify, draw, copy but identify the object upon touch (Benson and Greenberg, 1969). In associative visual agnosia, subjects can “perceive” the object but cannot associate it with correct vocabulary; showing that the knowledge is present along with touch recognition and verbal description but not object identification; although they can copy even if extensive time is taken on simple figures.
2) The Dorsal Stream also known as the “where” stream begins with V1, goes through vision region V2, then through the dorsomedial area and V5, then to the posterior parietal cortex. Known as the “Where” or “How” Pathway it is believed to play a major part in the processing of motion, location of particular objects in the viewer’s range, fine motor controls of the arms and eyes. Damage to the dorsal stream disrupts visual spatial perception and visually guided behaviour; but not conscious visual perception.
The famous case of A.T the woman who could not grasp unfamiliar objects seen had her dorsal route interrupted due to a lesion of the occipitoparietal region. She was able to recognise objects & demonstrate size with fingers but was incorrect in object directed movements along with ability to properly grip with her fingers; instead tried grabbing awkwardly with bad finger synchronisation.
FFA [Fusiform Face Area] & PPA [Parahippocampal Place Area]
The selective activation of the FFA [Fusiform Face Area] an the PPA [Parahippocampal Place Area] related to categories of visual stimulation that include a wide range of different exemplars of the specific categories raises the interesting question of how such dissimilar objects could be treated equivalently by specialised cortical regions. Different views of the same object are not only linked together as being the same, but different objects appear to be linked together as being part of the same category as well. Such an automatic categorisation of sensory information has to be partially learned since most humans categorise unnatural objects such as cars or furniture; the brain is unlikely to be innately designed for such categorisations.
To understand how the brain learns such processes, researchers have looked for changes in neuronal activity as subjects learn categories. Kenji Tanaka started by attempting to determine the critical features for activating neurons in the monkey inferotemporal cortex. Tanaka and his colleagues presented a range of three-dimensional animal and plant representations to find the effective stimuli for specific cells, then they tried to determine the necessary and sufficient properties of theses cells. They found that most cells in the TE (see FIGURE C) require complex features for activation such as orientation, size, colour and texture.
FIGURE H. Columnar Organisation in Area TE | Cells with similar but slightly different selectivity cluster in elongated vertical columns, perpendicular to the cortical surface.
As shown in FIGURE H, Tanaka has found that cells with similar, although slightly different selectivity, tend to cluster vertically in columns. These cells were not similar in their stimulus selectivity; so an object is likely represented not by the the activity of a single cell but rather by the activity of many cells within a columnar module.
Two remarkable features of the inferotemporal neurons in monkeys have also been described by Tanaka and others. First, the stimulus specificity of these neurons is altered by experience. In a period of one year, monkeys were trained to discriminate 28 complex shapes. The stimulus preferences of inferotemporal neurons were then determined from a larger set of animal and plant models. Among the trained monkeys, 39% of the inferotemporal neurons gave a maximum response to some of the stimuli used in the training process, compared with only 9% of the neurons in the naïve monkeys.
These results confirm that the temporal lobe’s role in visual processing is not fully determined genetically but is subject to experience even in adults. It can be speculated that such experience-dependent characteristics allows the visual system to adapt to different demands in a changing visual environment. This is a feature important for human visual recognition abilities that have demands in forests that greatly differ from those on open plains or in urban environments. Furthermore, experience-dependent visual neurons ensure that we can identify visual stimuli that were never encountered in the evolution of the human brain.
The second interesting feature of inferotemporal neurons is that they may not only process visual input but also provide a mechanism for the internal representation of the images of objects. Joaquin Fuster and John Jervey demonstrated that, if monkeys are shown specific objects that are to be remembered, neurons in the monkey cortex continue to discharge during the « memory » period. Such selective discharges of neurons may provide the basis for visual imagery, i.e. the discharge of groups of neurons that are selective for characteristics of particular objects may create a mental image of the object in its absence.
Could human faces be special?
« La Joconde » par Léonard de Vinci (1503 – 1519)
Most humans on earth spend more time in the analysis of faces that any other single stimulus. Infants tend to look at faces from birth while adults are particularly skilled at identifying faces despite large variations in the expressions and viewing angles, even when the faces are modified visually [with beards, spectacles, or hats]. Faces also have an incredible number of muscles to convey a wealth of social information, and humans are unique among all primate species in spending a great deal of time in looking directly at a wide range of faces from other members of our species on earth. The importance of faces as visual stimuli has led to the assumption that special pathways exist specifically for human faces, and several lines of evidence support the view.
FIGURE I. A Model of Distributed Human Neural System for Face Perception | The model is divided into a core system (TOP), consisting of occipital and temporal regions, and an extended system (BOTTOM), including regions that are part of neural systems for other cognitive functions. (After Haxby, Hoffman, and Gobbini, 2000.)
The face-perception system is extensive and includes regions in the occipital lobe as well as several different regions of the temporal lobe. Figure I above summarises a model by Haxby and his colleagues in which different aspects of facial perception (such as facial perception VS identity) are analysed in core visual areas in the temporal part of the visual stream. This model has also included other cortical regions as an « extended system » that includes the analysis of other facial characteristics such as emotion and lip reading. The key point to note is that the analysis of human faces is unlike any other stimuli: faces may indeed be special objects to the brain. A clear asymmetry exists in the role of the temporal lobes in facial analysis: right temporal lesions/damage have a greater effect on facial processing that do similar left temporal lesions/damage. Even in normal subjects, researchers have noted the asymmetry in face perception.
FIGURE J. The Split-Faces Test | Subjects were asked which of the two pictures, B or C, most closely resembles picture A. Control subjects chose picture C significantly more often than picture B. Picture C corresponds to that part of picture A falling in a subject’s left visual fied. The woman pictured chose B, closer to the view that she is accustomed to seeing in the mirror. (After Kolb, Milner, and Taylor, 1983).
Photographs of faces as illustrated in FIGURE J, were presented to subjects. Photographs B and C are composites of the right or left sides, respectively, of the original face shown in Photograph A. When asked to identify the composite most similar to the original face, normal subjects consistently matched the left side of photograph A to its composite in photograph C. Participants did so whether the photographs were presented inverted or upright. Furthermore, patients with either right temporal or right parietal removals failed to consistently match either side of the face in either the inverted or upright scenario.
These results of the split-faces do not simply provide evidence for asymmetry in facial processing but also raises the issue of the nature of our perceptions of our own faces. Self-perception seems to provide a unique example of visual perception, since the image of our face tends to come from the mirror whereas the image that the world has of our face comes from each individuals direct view, and the inspection of FIGURE J illustrates the implications of this difference.
Photograph A is the image that most people perceive of the female subject shown above. Since humans have a left-visual-field bias in their perception, most right-handers choose photograph C as the picture most resembling the original A. However, upon asking the female subject in the photograph to choose the photograph most resembling her, she chose photograph B, as her common view of herself in the mirror seemed to match her choice although it is the reverse of most other people.
This intriguing consequence is the simple result of most people’s biased self-facial image of their opinion of personal photographs. Members of the general public tend to complain about their photographs not being photogenic, that their photographs are never taken at the correct angle, and other complaints about the image. The truth is that the problem may be rather different: people are accustomed to seeing themselves in the mirror and hence when a photograph is presented, most are biased to look at the side of the face that is not normally perceived selectively in the mirror, hence the person has a glimpse of himself/herself from the eyes of the rest of the world. Indeed people tend to not see themselves as others see them – the greater the asymmetry of a human face, the less flattering the person will see his or her image to be.
One major critical question about facial processing and the FFA remains however. Some researchers have argued that although face recognition appears to tap into a specialised face area, the exact same region could be used for other forms of expertise and is not specific for faces. For example, imaging studies have revealed that real-world experts show an overlapping pattern of activation in the FFA for faces in control participants, for car stimuli in car experts, and for bird stimuli in bird experts. The main scientific view is that the FFA is fairly plastic as a consequence of perceptual experience and training, and is innately biased to categorise complex objects such as faces but can also be recruited for other forms of visual categorisation expertise.
Study: Does your face tell people how healthy you are? / Henderson, A., Holzleitner, I., Talamas, S. and Perrett, D. (2016). Perception of health from facial cues. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1693), p.20150380.
Auditory Processing in the Temporal Lobe
A cascade of mechanical and neural events in the cochlea, the brainstem, and, eventually, the auditory cortex that results in the percept of sound is stimulated whenever a sound reaches the ear. Similarly to the visual cortex, the auditory cortex has multiple regions, each of which has a tonotopic map.
Although the precise functions of these maps are still to be fully understood, the ultimate goal lies in the perception of sound objects, the localisation of sound, and the decision about movements in relation to sounds. A great amount of cells in the auditory cortex respond only to specific frequencies, and these are often referred to as sound pitches or to multiples of those frequencies. Two of the main and most important types of sound for humans are music & language.
Unlike any other auditory input, human speech differs in three fundamental ways.
Speech sounds come mainly from three restricted ranges of frequencies, which are known as formants. FIGURE K(A) shows sound spectrograms of different two-formant syllables. The dark bars indicate the frequency bands seen in more detail in FIGURE K(B), which shows that the syllables differ both in the onset frequency of the second (higher) formant and in the onset time of the consonant. Notice that vowel sounds are in a constant frequency band, but consonants show rapid changes in frenquency.
The similar speech sounds vary from one context in which they are heard to another, yet all are perceived as being the same. Thus, the sound spectrogram of the letter « d » in English is different in the words « deep », « deck » and « duke », yet a listener perceives all of them as « d ». The auditory system must have a mechanism for categorising varying sounds as being equivalent, and this mechanism must be affected by experience because a major obstacle to learning a new language in adulthood remains the difficulty of learning equivalent sound categories. Thus, a word’s spectrogram depends on the context – the words that precede and follow it (there may be a parallel mechanism for musical categorisation).
Speech sounds also change very rapidly in relation to one another, and the sequential order of the sounds is critical to understanding. According to Alvin Liberman, humans can perceive speech at rates of as many as 30 segments per second. Speech perception at the higher rates is truly astonishing, because it far exceeds the auditory system’s ability to transmit all the speech as separate pieces of auditory information. For example, non-speech noise is perceived as a buzz at a rate of only about 5 segments per second.It seems fairly obvious that the brain must recognise and analyse language sounds in a very special way, similar to the echolocation system of the bat which is specialised in the bat brain. It is highly probable that the special mechanism for speech perception is located on the left temporal lobe. This function may not be unique to humans, since the results of studies in both monkeys and rats show specific deficits in the perception of species-typical vocalisations after left temporal lesions.
FIGURE K. Speech Sounds | (A) Schematic spectrograms of three different syllables, each made up of two formants. (B) Spectrograms of syllables differing in voice onset time. (After Springer, 1979.)
Music Perception
Music is different from language since it relies on the relations between auditory elements rather than on individual elements. And a tune is not defined by the pitches of the tones that constitute it but by the arrangement of the pitches’ duration and the intervals between them. Musical sounds may differ from one another in three major aspects: pitch (frequency), loudness (amplitude) and timbre (complexity).
FIGURE L. Breaking Down Sound | Sound waves have 3 physical dimensions – frequency (pitch) amplitude (loudness) & timbre (complexity) – that correspond to the perceptual dimensions
Pitch (Frequency) refers to the position of a sound on the musical scale as perceived by the listener. Pitch is very clearly related to frequency: the vibration rate of a sound wave. Let us take for example, middle C, described as a pattern of sound frequencies depicted in FIGURE M. The amplitude of the acoustical energy is conveyed by the darkness of the tracing in the spectrogram. The lowest component of this note is the fundamental frequency of the sound pattern, which is 264 Hz, or middle C. Frequencies above the fundamental frequency are known as overtones or partials. The overtones are generally simple multiples of the fundamental (for example, 2 x 264, or 528 Hz; 4 x 264, or 1056 Hz), as shown in FIGURE M. Overtones that are multiples of the fundamental freqency are known as harmonics.
Loudness (Amplitude) refers to the magnitude of a sensation as judged by a given person. Loudness, although related to the intensity of a sound as measured in decibels, is in fact a subjective evaluation described by simple terms such as « very loud », « soft », « very soft » and so forth.
Timbre (Complexity) refers to the individual and distinctive character of a sound, the quality that distinguishes it from all other sounds of similar pitch and loudness. For example, we can distinguish the sound of a guitar from that of a violin even thought they may play the same note at a similar loudness.
FIGURE M. Spectrographic Display of the Steady-State Part of Middle C (264 Hz) Played on Piano | Bands of acoustical energy are present at the fundamental frequency, as well as at integer multiples of the fundamental (harmonics). (After Ritsma, 1967)
If the fundamental frequency is cancelled out from a note by the means of electronic filters, the overtones are sufficient to determine the pitch of the fundamental frequency – a phenomenon known as periodicity pitch.
The ability to determine pitch from the overtones alone is likely due to the fact that the difference between frequencies of various harmonics is equal to the fundamental frequency (for example, 792 Hz – 528 Hz = 264 Hz = the fundamental frequency). The auditory system can determine this difference, and hence one perceives the fundamental frequency.
One major aspect of pitch perception is that, although we can generate (and perceive) the fundamental frequency, we still perceive the complex tones of the harmonics, and this is known as the spectral pitch. When individual subjects are made to listen to complex sounds to then be asked to make judgements about the direction of shifts in pitch, some individuals base their judgement on the fundamental frequency and others on the spectral pitch. This difference from one to the other is not based or related to musical training but rather to a basic difference in temporal-lobe organisation. The primary auditory cortex of the right temporal lobe appears to make this periodicity-pitch discrimination.
1885 – 1886 – The Beginner (Margaret Perry) by Elisabeth (Lilla) Cabot Perry
Robert Zatorre (2001) found that patients with right temporal lobectomies that include the removal of primary auditory cortex (area 41 or Heschl’s gyrus) are impaired at making pitch discriminations when the fundamental frequency is absent but are normal at making such discriminations when the fundamental frequency is present, however their ability to identify the direction of the pitch change was impaired.
Timing is a critical component of good music, and two types of time relations are fundamental to the rhythm of musical sequences:
(i) The segmentation of sequences of pitches into groups based on the duration of the sounds
(ii) The identification of temporal regularity, or beat, which is also professionally known as meter.
Both of these two components could be dissociated by having the subjects tap a rhythm versus keeping time with the beat (such as the spontaneous tapping of the foot to a strong beat)
Robert Zatorre and Isabelle Peretz came to the conclusion after analysing studies of patients with temporal-lobe injuries as well as neuroimaging studies, that the left temporal lobe plays a major role in temporal grouping for rhythm, while the right temporal lobe plays a complementary role in meter (beat). However, the researchers also observed that a motor component of rhythm is also present, and it is broadly distributed to include the supplementary motor cortex, premotor cortex, cerebellum, and basal ganglia.
In seems clear that music is much more than the perception of pitch, rhythm, timbre and loudness. Zatorre and Peretz reviewed the many other features of music and the brain, including faculties such as music memory, emotion, performance (both singing and playing), music reading, and the effect of musical training. The importance of memory to music is inescapable since music unfolds over time for one to perceive a tune.
The retention of melodies is much more affected by injuries to the right temporal lobe, although injury to either temporal lobe impairs the learning of melodies. While both hemispheres contribute to the production of music, the role of the right temporal lobe appears to be greater in the production of melody, and the left temporal lobe appears to be mostly responsible for rhythm. Zatorre (2001) proposed that the right temporal lobe should have a special function in extracting pitch from sound, regardless of whether the sound is speech or music. However, when processing speech, the pitch (frequency) will contribute to the « tone » of the voice, and this is known as prosody.
Earlier, we learned from Kenji Tanaka’s studies of visual learning about how cells in the temporal lobe alter their perceptual function with experience [training]. Unsurprisingly, the same appears to be valid for musical experience. Zatorre and Peretz reviewed noninvasive imaging studies and concluded not only that the brains of professional musicians have more-pronounced responses to musical information than to those of non-musicians [or non musically oriented], but also that the brains of musicians have a completely different morphology in the area of Heschl’s gyrus. Peter Schneider and his colleagues estimated the volume of gray and white matter in Heschl’s gyrus and found much larger volumes in both temporal lobes in the musicians (see FIGURE N).
FIGURE N. Music and Brain Morphology | (A) At left, a three dimensional cross section through the head showing the primary auditory cortex (AC) in each hemisphere, with the location of auditory evoked potentials shown at red and blue markers. At right, reconstructed dorsal views of the right auditory cortical surface showing the difference in morphology among three people. Heschl’s gyrus is shown in red. (B) Examples from individual brains of musicians (top row) and non-musicians (bottom row) showing the difference in morphology between people who hear fundamental frequency and those who hear spectral pitch. Heschl’s gyrus is bigger on the left in the former group and bigger on the right in the latter group. Note: Heschl’s gyrus is bigger overall in the musicians. (From: Schneider, Sluming, Roberts, Scherg, Goebel, Specht, Dosch, Bleeck, Stippich and Rupp, 2005).
These gray matter differences are positively correlated with musical proficiency, i.e. the greater the gray-matter volume, the greater the musical ability. It has also been revealed that fundamental-pitch listeners exhibit a pronounced leftward asymmetry of gray-matter volume in Hechl’s gyrus, whereas spectral-pitch listeners have a rightward asymmetry, independent of musical training (see FIGURE N (B)). The results of these studies from Schneider imply that innate differences in brain morphology are related to the way in which pitch is processed and that some of the innate differences are related to musical ability. Practice and experience with music seem likely to be related to anatomical differences in the temporal cortex as well, however the relation may be difficult to demonstrate without brain measurements before and after intense training in music.
Image: Une Saison à l’Opéra
Although the role of the temporal lobes in music is vital [similar to language which is also distributed in the frontal lobe], music perception and performance also include the inferior frontal cortex in both hemispheres. Sluming et al. (2002) have demonstrated that professional orchestral musicians have significantly more gray matter in Broca’s area on the left. Such frontal-lobe effect may be related to similarities in aspects of expressive output in both language and music. The main point however, is that music likely has widespread effects on the brain’s morphology and function that science has only started to unravel.
This bone flute found in Hohle Fels cave is believed to be around 43, 000 years old and comes as evidence that, like modern humans, Neanderthals likely had complementary hemispheric specialisation for music and language, which means that these abilities seem to have biological & evolutionary roots. While this assumption seems obvious for language, it comes as less obvious for music, which has often been perceived as an artifact of culture. However considerable evidence suggests that humans are born with a predisposition for music processing. Young infants display learning preferences for musical scales and are biased towards perceiving the regularity (such as harmonics) on which music is built. One of the strongest evidence for favouring the biological basis of music is that a surprising number of humans are tone deaf, a condition known as congenital amusia. It is believed that these amusic types of humans have an abnormality in their neural networks for music, and no amount of musical training leads to a cure. [Credit: Jensen / University of Tubingen]
Asymmetry of Temporal-Lobe Function
Epileptiform abnormalities have often been linked to sensitive temporal lobes, and the surgical removal of the abnormal temporal lobe tends to benefit patients suffering from epilepsy. These surgical cases have also allowed neuropsychologists to study the complementary specialisation of the right and left temporal lobes.
From a comparison of the effects of right and left temporal lobectomy by Brenda Milner and her colleagues, it has been revealed that specific memory defects vary depending on the side of the lesion. Deficits in non-verbal memory (e.g. faces) is associated to damage to the right temporal lobe, and deficits in verbal memory to the left temporal lobe.
In a similar sense, right temporal lesions would be associated with deficits in processing certain aspects of music, while left temporal lesions would be associated with deficits in processing speech sounds. However, much remains to be learnt and discovered regarding the relative roles of the left and right temporal lobes in social and affective behaviour. Right, but not left, temporal-lobe damage/lesions lead to impairments in the recognition of faces and facial expressions; so it seems fairly obvious that these two sides play different roles in social cognition. From experience, clinical cases suggest that left and right temporal lobe lesions have different effects on personality. Liegeois-Chauvel and colleagues studied musical processing in large groups of patients with temporal lobectomies, and confirmed that injury to right superior temporal gyrus impairs various aspects of processing necessary for the discrimination of melodies. Furthermore, a dissociation between the roles of the posterior and anterior regions of the superior temporal gyrus on different aspects of music processing suggest their relative localisation within the superior temporal gyrus.
Hence, it would be incorrect to assume that the removal of both temporal lobes merely doubles the symptoms of damage seen in unilateral temporal lobectomy. Bilateral temporal-lobe removal produces dramatic effects on both memory and affect that are orders of magnitude greater than those observed subsequent to unilateral lesions.
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The problem of tackling psychology as a reliable form of science has lead to the empiristic school, which holds for guiding thought, the assumption that all knowledge is acquired through sensation – with the mechanism of this acquisition being gained through the process of association. This empirical movement persisted throughout British tradition, one which would focus on the accumulation of experiences; where many empiricists studied the relationship between the sensory input of experience and the mental processes. As Cartesian dualism later took the shape of sensationalism and influenced French philosophy; the early issues proposed by Descartes also lead to the formulation of British psychological opinion.
Francis Bacon // Photo // Credit akg-images/Sothebys
Francis Bacon (1561-1636) in his scholar days had set a target to restructure the techniques of scientific research. Francis Bacon concluded that deductive logical reasoning would not hold reliable validity due to its reliance on priori assumptions on the nature of humanity, which – according to him – limited the study of individuals in the environment due to reliance on the unfounded legitimacy of the assumptions.
In his work Novum Organum (A New Instrument; 1620), Bacon’s urge for better situations to study the world was reflected; he believed only detailed and controlled observation without assumptions about the world could lead to quality observations expressed quantitatively, and where sensitive generalisations could be made from inductive reasoning and practical observations.
Firstly, Bacon stated that sense validation of quantitative observational data would be a source of agreement among psychological scientists where observations could be repeated and supported by another, leading to more a compelling validity for the findings.
Secondly, Bacon stated that scientists would have to get rid of all personal bias and be sceptical and refuse assumptions that cannot be validated through observation. This led to Bacon’s empiricism being seen as a reliable approach which became a guiding thought in the British empiricistic tradition.
Thomas Hobbes // Photo Credit: Georgios Kollidas | Shutterstock
One of the earliest scholars and philosophers, Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) had shared radical views on psychology and may well have started the British empiricist tradition. Hobbes was fortunate through his time to be acquainted to Galileo and Descartes while also briefly serving as secretary to Francis Bacon. Hobbes established a principle where it is assumed that all knowledge is derived from sensations; while discarding the existence of external or internal factors but only considering matter and motion. Thus, firmly basing his psychology on materialism.
The sensations were believed to be reduced to motion in the form of change. For example, one would differentiate light from dark, but may not deduce either alone. Furthermore, Hobbes opposed Bacon’s reliance on inductive research, but instead supported the argument that deduction from experience would be a most appropriate method of knowing. Hobbes school of thought supported the Social Contract Theory where the framework assumes that sensations are derived from physical objects in the environment; to use the rule of mechanical association to derive ideas and memories.
For Hobbes & successors following the British tradition, it is assumed that knowledge is mentally acquired through associations that are organised into general principles that are usually mechanical in nature. These provide explanation for the formation of relationships between sensations. To Hobbes, the association of sensations forming an idea was provided by the contiguity of time or place; which is then stored in the memory by the mind where an association mechanism determines the sequence of ideas defined as “thought”. Desire was also believed to be the motivational principle in Hobbes’s psychology, where the quest for pleasure while avoiding pain was believed to be attained by physiological processes.
Based on external sensation, desire is thought to direct thought sequences where it was also argued that dreams are thought sequences unregulated by sensations. For Hobbes, free will was inexistent, as he viewed it as a label for alternating desire and aversion confronting the person in regards to a physical object in the environment. Hobbe’s psychology viewed the universe as a machine in motion where the individual is compared to a machine operating in a mechanised environment.
The mind is considered to be a physical process centered in the brain where the conversion of sensory motion is performed by the nervous system. One of the major criticisms remains the discarding of consciousness where the sequence of thought also assumes a conscious awareness of cognitive content. Despite the criticism however, Hobbes established the importance of association in comprehending the collection of experiences and his theory paved the way for other successors in the British tradition to amplify the empiricist position.
More inclined towards the Rational Empiricism line of thinking, another major leader in empiricism was John Locke (1632 – 1704), who believed that individual abilities are determined by experience or environment where the only government is by the acceptance of the governed. His views influenced some of the founding fathers of the American Republic, namely Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison.
Locke’s belief were that we are born with a mind like a tabula rasa, or blank slate where all experiences are engraved throughout life to compose the complete contents of the mind. Furthermore, in his essay, “Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)”, Hobbes’ first principle was extended where Locke stated “Nihil est in intellectu nisi quod prius fuerit in sensu – There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses.” Locke also believed that all knowledge, including concepts of morality or god is derived through experience. The difference between sensations, which are physical and perceptions, which are the reflected products of sensations was established; “ideas” were attributed to sensations through self-reflection.
Physical objects were also believed to have 2 qualities. Firstly, primary, which entailed the properties of the object such as volume, length, number, etc; while the secondary is believed to be produced by us in the process of perceiving (e.g. sounds, colours, etc). One major dilemma remains the fact that Locke’s empiricism has definite need for the concept of mind, yet the concept can be characterised as passive as discarding innate ideas along with the reliability on sensory ideas leads to the mind’s ability to react to the environment being limited. However, one argument that embraces the human spirit is Locke’s which allocates two tasks to the mind. Firstly, although not embracing associations as strongly as Hobbes, Locke believed the mind links together sensations to form perceptions through chance. These spontaneous linkages that are also association by chance are nowadays known as “superstitious reinforcement.” Secondly, in terms of reflection, Locke’s views are opposite to Hobbes’ positioning as the former believed the sensory level would only be slightly related to mental processes (reflection). Furthermore, Locke’s views were highly regarded and influential, with his psychology being described as rational empiricism as he successfully imposed the requirement for the mind while removing the implications of God. Locke’s environmental determinacy provided the foundation for the rest of the British empiricist movement.
Another respected early empiricist was David Hume (1711 – 1776), who agreed with the conclusion of George Berkeley, a psychologist who was so fascinated by John Locke’s notion of mental perception that he had ended up denying reality besides acknowledging [controversially to many researchers] god in his works in his essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (1709). An associationist, Hume agreed on the conclusion of Berkeley over the assumption that, independent of perception, matter cannot be demonstrated; and further went on to deny the existence of the mind in A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) later updated to An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding (1748).
After embracing the premise that all ideas are ultimately derived sensation and accepting the difference between primary and secondary qualities proposed by John Locke; Hume also concluded by defining the mind in terms of sensations and ideas, which in turned lead to denying matter similarly to Berkeley. However in his assumption it is logical as the mental world is only one the individual is knowledgeable of. By defining mind to only ongoing sensory & perceptual processes, the need for spiritual characteristics disappear. For mind, unlike Locke who defined it as the mental operations of reflection, it was defined as a transitory collection of impressions.
To Hume, even associations are the links of sensations formed by the randomness and similarity of events. Cause and effect were also inexistent for Hume as he insisted that all we have observed is a succession of events & we have simply imposed the cause-effect relationship from habit. After extending on Berkeley’s denial of matter, he discarded freewill and the Cartesian ideology of the mind, to instead propose the explanation of ideas as mental processes. Freewill to Hume is simply an idealistic concept taught to us by custom or religion, since it had been assumed that we are all determined by a momentary influx of sensory events.
All motivational behaviour was assumed to be directly linked to emotion or passion governed by the quest for pleasure without pain. The emotional states resulting from emotions are believed to be managed and acted upon by physiological mechanisms. This turned Hume approach reductionism, as he viewed human behaviour reactive and having little control of the environmental factors acting upon the organism; which seems to weaken the individual instead of empowering him or her. By identifying the mind as solely functional, Hume raised the question over the need for a mind construct.
Thomas Reid // photo credit: Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
In the 18th century, the “Scottish Common Sense” marked a period of intellectual activity around the universities in Edinburgh & Glasgow where David Hume (1711 – 1776) played a major part in developing empiricism. Thomas Reid took the issue that led Berkeley and Hume to doubt and reductionism. Instead of acknowledging Locke’s distinction, he believed that objects are perceived directly but do not perceive sensations from the object.
He argued that primary quality justified belief in physical objects, and secondary qualities are not projections of the mind but mental judgement created by objects that cause a true interaction with mental operations. Common sense was also believed to be an instinctive part of a person’s constitution which has been taken for granted although the value has been continually showcased. Thomas Reid also viewed metaphysical discourses of Berkeley and Hume as “intellectual games.” Reid embraced the human essence by accepting that objects are present in reality but ideas require a mind contained in the self. Thus, empiricism had seemed to have been saved by Reid’s common sense, which also came with more realistic logic for the physical world.
David Hume however was rather atypical of the Scottish enlightenment being seemingly more fitting to the British tradition. As generally, most philosophers and literary contributors to the Scottish enlightenment were more independent of British thought perhaps as a reflection of the traditional link between Scotland and France or British politics of the time.
In the early days of the development of empiricism, British empiricists presented psychology as one based on experience where sensory input was the main state of mind. The critical mechanism relating sensations to higher mental processes was associations. What may be defined as “learning” was a major focal point for early British psychology & the tendency to decrease such mental processes to simpler ideas was seen by Harley and Hume.
Reductionist has since proved to be a foundation in empirical research in many fields involving quantitative studies. However, such reductionism was met with scepticism by the French who thought the implications of draconian reduction eliminates the very need for psychology – simplicity? How simple could the human world be?
Although reductionism provides options to calculate statistical orientations and predictions, it seems less appropriate in application when dealing with the real human world where most problems are generally about the consequences of mismanaged emotions on perception, decision-making, expectancy and behaviour.
Furthermore, how much of a simple explanation could reductionist empiricism provide for the reason behind why one’s hairs stand up to certain symphonies judged exquisite only by a particular person? [Or] How does one even explain the source, initial spark and creative process behind an intricate work of art? Reductionism would likely falter on those more artistic and human paths where emotions [restrained & channelled appropriately] are key to the well-being, positive mental health and enjoyment of life [‘humane’ experience] for the individual & civilization [the human environment]. Reductionism, however, remains vital to the world of science; where precision and empirical measurements are required.
This may lead way for inquiries involving more humane & individualistic assessments; where psychotherapy and/or neuroscience could reveal and resolve more for individuals and researchers requiring more detail and precision with « mind » and neural processes – rather than « matter » [which is mostly obvious & may not always be related to the mind – which strict empiricists also discard].
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Essay // The Psychology Behind Conformity, Compliance & Obedience
Adaptive Social Behaviours
Conformity, compliance and obedience are a set of adaptive social behaviours that one makes use of to get by in daily social activities. They are all some form of social influence, which causes a change in a particular person or group’s behaviour, attitude and/or feelings (Cialdini, 2000, 2006). Various forms of social influence have been used for a variety of reasons; sometimes to help individuals stray from harmful behaviour such as smoking; other times [not as altruistic as the latter] to sway customer decisions towards consumerism. Such changes in behaviour require systematic approaches that can be in the shape of direct personal requests; or more subtle and elaborate commercials and political campaigns. Direct efforts geared at changing another’s overt behaviour require persuasion; and are often described as compliance [seeking compliance]; which involves specific requests that are answerable by simple answers such as “Yes”, “No” or “Maybe”. Other behavioural etiquettes sometimes require the impact of a set of rules, such as [formally] speed signs, or [informally] public space rules [staring at strangers is seen as inappropriate]; this type of influence is known as conformity, which is generally believed to be an integral part of social life. Obedience as a form of social influence tends to take a more straightforward [abrupt] approach as it involves direct orders or commands from a superior.
Conformity: Pressure to behave in ways deemed acceptable (by who & why?)
Conformity which is an integral part of social life and could be defined as the pressure to behave in ways that are viewed as acceptable [appropriate] by a particular group [peer or cultural]. The rules that cause people to conform are known as social norms, and have a major influence on our behaviour. When the norms are clear and distinct we can expect to conform more and when not clear, it generally leads the way for less conformity and uncertainty. An effective example of norms explicitly stated was seen in Setter, Brownlee, & Sanders (2011) where percentages were left on the bill for tipping guidance; what was observed is the positive effect it had on customers, making them tip. However, whether social norms are implicit, formal or informal, most individuals who chose to embrace social reality tend to follow the rules most of the time.
While some might argue that conformity takes away a lot of social freedom from the individual; the other perspective sees conformity as an important agent in the proper functioning of society [supposed no one obeyed road laws, chaos would spread across cities worldwide]. Furthermore, many people choose to comply to look good to others and make a positive impression even if their true self do not agree with conforming, similarly to Hewlin (2009) where many employees adopted the “facades of conformity” and although found it unpleasant – thought of it as necessary for career progress – conformity for many is seen as tactic of self-presentation. Yet, many individuals are unaware of the amount of conformity they show, and would rather see themselves as an independent who is less susceptible to conformity (Pronin, Berger, and Molouki, 2007). Individuals generally choose to conform primarily because most individual have the desire to be liked and one way of achieving this is to agree and behave like others [contradictions might not lead to acceptance]. Secondly, the desire to be right – to have a reliable understanding of the social world (Deutsch & Gerard, 1955; Insko 1985) leads most to go with the values of others in who might be described as a group of individuals chosen to be a guide in partial identity. However, while conformity serves as a guide, it can also hamper evolution and innovation as critical analysis is not likely to thrive where most individuals seem to follow a pre-programmed behavioural patterns that have been established centuries ago. Therefore a fair balance in thought and application seems to remain the best line of thought when dealing with conformity [think, analyse & evaluate].
Thinkers: Not Everyone Conforms Blindly As an Increasing Number of Individuals Now Think Independently
Somehow, not everybody conforms, many individuals and groups are able to withstand conforming pressures as shown in Reicher and Haslam (2006) BBC prison study. Power was found to be a factor that acts as a shield against conformity (Keltner, Gruenfeld, and Anderson, 2003); it was found that restrictions that influence the thought, expression and behaviour of most people do not seem to apply to people in power [leaders, CEOs, politicians, etc] with the reasons being the fact that these people are generally less dependent on others for social resources; pay less attention to threats; and are less likely to consider the perspective of other people. Griskevicius, Goldstein, Mortensen, Cialdini, and Kenrick (2006)’s study supported the reasoning that when humans desire to attract desirable mates, both sexes tend to conform to gender stereotypes – here the male would usually not conform to everyday social rules [but indirectly conform to gender stereotype]. Finally, many human beings refuse to conform due to their desire to be unique – when their uniqueness feels threatened, they tend to actively resist conformity (Imhoff and Erb, 2009).
Compliance: A Request requiring Conformity
Compliance is a form of conformity, however, unlike the latter it involves a request for others to answer with a “yes”. While conformity attempts to alter people’s behaviour in order to match their desire to be liked and to be right; compliance is usually aimed at a gain, and to achieve it one would need compliance from others. One technique used to gain compliance is an impression management, ingratiation; which involves getting others to like us in order to increase the chance of making them comply to our requests (Jones, 1964; Liden & Mitchell). Gordon (1996) suggested 2 techniques that work, flattery and promotion.
Another powerful means is “incidental similarity” where attention is called onto small and slightly surprising similarities between them and ourselves (Burger, Messian, Patel, del Pardo, and Anderson, 2004). While Conformity consisted mainly in gaining acceptance and trust, compliance is more focussed on getting to an end. A technique used to get compliance, is the “Foot-in-the-door” technique which involves inducing target people with a small request [once they agree], only to make a larger one, the one we wanted all along (Freedman & Fraser, 1966) – it relies on the principles of consistency [once said yes, more likely to say yes again]. Another technique known as the “Lowball Procedure” rests on the principle of commitment where a deal is proposed, only to be modified once the target person accepts – the initial commitment makes it harder to turn down.
The “Door-in-the-face” technique involves a large request, only to fall on a smaller one after refusal; this was proven to be efficient by Gueguen (2003). The “That’s-not-all-technique” was also confirmed to work by Burger (1986), a technique based on reciprocity involving enhancing the deal before the target person has the time to respond to an initial request. Another great technique, based on scarcity, is the “Playing-hard-to-get” technique which – as the name goes – is a behaviour used towards the target who would be assumed to pick up hints over the user’s high demand [romantically]. Lastly, many professionals use the “Fast approaching deadline technique” to boost their sales and rush people in on the pretext of limited time sales prices.
Obedience: The Most Direct Route
Obedience is less frequent that conformity or compliance as most people tend to avoid it, being one of the most direct ways of influencing the behaviour of others in specific ways. Many prefer to exert influence in less obvious ways, through requests instead of direct orders (e.g. Yuki & Falbe, 1991). While obedience can help organise workforce, it is also known for its dark nature of blinding people into performing atrocious acts by eliminating the sense of guilt through assuming that they were only “following orders”; atrocities related were seen in Milgram’s experiment; which is also one of the main similarities with conformity and compliance, in that the process in all three can blind an individual towards unethical behaviour. Destructive obedience has been observed throughout history for situational pressures pushed people into atrocious acts; for example having one’s responsibility relieved by another plays a major role in encouraging destructive obedience. Those is commanding positions often have uniforms and badges which can sometimes push individuals to obey without questioning. Similarly to compliance, the Foot-in-door used by authority figures and the fast pace of events happening can sometimes leave the individual with little time for reflection, thus leading to destructive obedience.
Conformity, compliance and obedience are all vital practices in controlling the behaviour of individuals or groups. Conformity encompasses compliance and obedience, where the latters are more specific derivatives. While conformity revolves around the individual choices in relation to social groups, compliance and obedience are generally connected to an outcome; comply to have a request met by a “yes”, and obey if you are not in the position to disobey and if your superior asks you to, but keeping an ethical awareness could help against destructive obedience.
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Gordon, R. A. (1996). Impact of ingratiation in judgements and evaluations: A meta-analytic investigation. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 71, 54 – 70
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Gueguen, N (2003). Fund-raising on the Web: The effect of an electronic door-in-the-face technique in compliance to a request. CyberPsychology & Behaviour, 2, 189 – 193
Hewlin, P.F. (2009). Wearing the cloak: Antecedents and consequences of creating facades of conformity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 727 – 741
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Essay // Design, Selection & Stress in Occupational & Organisational Psychology
Occupational psychology
Occupational psychology is the study of human behaviour and experience in the workplace, it may be described as the application of psychological principles and theory in order to help organisations and their team. As occupational psychology also includes a focus on organisations in general, it may be wise to take great care when referring to the world of “employment” or “work”. This is simply because many people may work very hard for charitable organisations as volunteers, and their contribution may not always be focused on the increase of profits (although it may involve increasing productivity), and money may not be the main driving and motivating factor – depending on the organisation’s field, values, philosophy and goals.
Image: Apollo, the Greek god of arts, music, masculine beauty, poetry & the conductor of the 9 muses. He is also the god of purification and healing.
Hence, occupational psychology tends to focus on the improvement of organisations’ effectiveness in terms of the work performed within, while respecting and managing the conditions leading to the satisfaction of the employees and employers.
Occupational psychology today generally requires sound knowledge and understanding in these three main categories:
(A) Human factors
(B) Personnel work
(C) Organisational psychology
(i) Human-machine interaction
This field of study is also known as « ergonomics » and is primarily concerned on the study of human interaction with machines. For example, it has also been reported (Kelso, 2005) that the city of London was selected to host the 2012 Olympics due to the syndrome known as “fat finger” – the use of buttons too closely spaced, caused panel members with the syndrome to vote wrongly. This common error is considered to be the main factor leading to London being the host, since one panel member voted for Paris instead of Madrid, leading to the former winning by two votes and thus being London’s opponent instead of Madrid. City experts believed London would not have been able to win against Madrid. This very particular syndrome, namely “the fat finger syndrome » has also been blamed for several multi-million pound errors, for instance the mistaken purchase of 50,000 shares rather than £ 50 000 worth of shares.
(ii) Design of Environment and Work: Health and Safety
The next area has to do with health and safety, and focuses on factors regarding light, noise, general work space, ventilation, risk factors and occupational stress. It is to be noted that this is an incredibly important area, and a good example of a modern disaster reflecting the incredible importance of intelligent design in the field of health and safety, is the Fukushima disaster. The whole world was left unprepared to deal with the nuclear leak caused by the over flooding of the reactors due to the badly design of the walls not being high enough to withhold the excessive water brought in by the tsunami.
Explosion of the Challenger shuttle in 1986
Another disastrous example is the loss of the US space shuttle Challenger in 1986, which for the very first time transported a teacher who was to have spoken from the spaceship the American president Reagan and her pupils. The horrific explosion happened live on television and millions of people who had been watching remember the iconic shot as a ‘flashbulb memory’. The likely cause of the explosion was a set of defective ‘O’ ring seals about which many engineers had complained about repeatedly; grave doubts were raised about the launching since the rings had never been used in temperatures as cold as that on the launch day. Irrational group decisions were made, and the launch proceeded despite the doubts – as the warning signs were explained and brushed away. A one third ‘burn out’ (erosion) of the Challenger ‘O’ ring on past launches was considered as a ‘safety factor’ of three (there would be two-thirds left, after all!) (Reason, 1990). This kind of irrational ‘rationalising’ is a feature of groupthink – no one wished to be responsible for delaying the launch and therefore disrupting the arrangement with Reagan. The people in ultimate control were highly cohesive and to some extent separated from those with the doubts. ‘Mind guards’ ensured that the engineers’ complaints were not heard by the decision-makers. The presidential commission investigating the decision-making process revealed that a major problem lay with a system of communication within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration organisation. The decision system was ambiguous; it was not clear which decision should go to the very top and it was consequently very hard to attribute clear responsibility.
Bystander CPR not only saves lives, it lessens disability, study finds / Source: Medical Xpress
(i) Personnel Selection and Assessment (including Test and Exercise Design)
An organisation hiring the wrong staff can be costly in terms of productivity, quality of service delivery and company / organisation reputation. Occupational psychologists throughout the years have contributed in the effective monitoring and filtering of quality in staff recruitment.
(ii) Performance Appraisal and Career Development
Psychologists can assist and advise organisations on how to run staff appraisals in order to create two-way relationships that employees respect and value, since career development is essential. However, this may also lead to the staff being extremely attractive to competing organisations. This would be beneficial to the individual but not so much for the organisation.
(iii) Counselling and Personal Development
This area comprises most of the skills found in general counselling psychology. Occupational psychologists may also practice as career advisors or stress management counsellors among a variety of other roles [being a versatile field that applies to various aspects of the human organism’s behaviour across a wide range of environments]. In these cases [when dealing with organisations and their staff], emphasis is primarily in being an attentive listener, demonstrating empathy and being accepted as genuine.
(iv) Training
A productive workforce is a well-trained workforce, and one that avoids costly or dangerous errors. Good occupational psychologists tend to spend the majority of their time focussing on identifying training needs [to refine individuals’ skills, performance and delivery], and the design and delivery of training programmes.
(i) Employee Relations and Motivation
A wide range of aspects in mainstream social psychology was developed through the study of the ways that small groups interact and perform in a work context. This area includes research into conformity, obedience, teamwork, team building, attitudes, communication and especially leadership. It also investigates theories of work motivation.
Who Works The Most Hours Every Year? / Source: Statista
Where The Most Workers Put in A 60-Hour Week / Source: Statista
(ii) Organisational Development & Change
Organisations tend to be dynamic and continually evolving structures. External influences [such as research, cultural demands and trends] force change on organisations in the competitive economic world of today’s industries. For example, most organisations in Western Europe have had to comply with the equal opportunities legislation and also with health and safety directions [e.g. concerning smoking at work]. In other cases organisation sometimes also have to overhaul or downsize the general managerial policies and culture. This is where occupational psychologists’ advice help & guide organisations during change; while altering attitudes, through reasoning, findings and theory from social psychology and group dynamics with the practical experience and judgement of organisational development.
As most of the research we tend to focus on revolves around the individual organism’s development and well-being, we will look at the human factors in occupational psychology; these generally revolve around:
Designing or redesigning jobs
The Design of Equipment to match Human Features and Capabilities
The Introduction of New Technologies
The services offered by psychologists in the personnel area tend to include:
(i) Selection and Assessment of Personnel
E.g. of a complete selection process in hiring a Lecturer:
Imagine we were part of a team that has to select a new lecturer for a University. Where exactly should we start? A good starting point would be to consider the essential demands of the task required of a lecturer. It is clear that lecturers have a whole lot more to do than simply lecturing. We should consider the importance of each aspect of the job. Next, we should be asking ourselves what a successful employee in the profession of lecturing would need to be able to cover in order to perform each of the academic tasks successfully; then devise a way of assessing each candidate for these abilities. It also goes without saying that an advert would have to be placed with the job description so the applicants may know exactly what they are applying for and whether or not they are suitable for the position and demands of the task. Finally, the selection process will have to be organised, where the candidates can be assessed with the successful one being selected [with a backup] for an appointment. The process does not stop here, however – as we may want to know whether the selection process was well designed and effective. We will also have to evaluate the procedure, not on the one appointment, but over several selections, by keeping track of the performance of each appointee over their first two years, for example, with their performance at the selection process. This is a method to find out whether our appointment procedures are effective and whether they produce the appropriate & desired results.
(ii) Appraisal of Work Performance
(iii) Training Programmes
(iv) Career Guidance and Counselling
(v) Issues of Equal Opportunity at Work
In the area organisational development, psychologist may also run projects concerning:
(i) Attitude and Opinion Surveys
(ii) Team building, Leadership and Management
(iii) Industrial Relations
(iv) The Modification, Update and Change of the Organisational Culture
(v) Enhancing the Quality of Working Life
(vi) Improvement of the Quality and Effectiveness of Communications
All these procedures contribute in a harmonious organisational environment and culture where productivity, employee and employer satisfaction are the main concerns, while minimising stress levels across the organisation. As we are now going to find out, stress can be devastating to both the mind and the body. Hence, design and selection are key steps in achieving stability, harmony and productivity through an efficient organisational culture.
Total percentage of those aged 18-24 not in employment, education or training (NEET) – 2011
Sustained Stress may have a fatal impact on Physiological Health
Stress is known for causing the increased secretion of cortisol, a hormone that could halt the production of cytokines, which are vital for maintaining a functional immune system (Kiecolt-Glaser et al., 2002). Over the years, a large number of research has also found positive correlations between daily cortisol levels and general health. The different levels of cortisol secretory activity have been linked to health problems such as hypertension, burnout, emotional distress, upper respiratory illness and eating behaviour. However, cortisol is paramount to increasing access to energy during stressful experiences and is released on a daily pattern by 2 well defined components; the “Cortisol Awakening Rise”; and the Diurnal levels that gradually decrease over the day. It has also been found that high levels of stress could lead to less cortisol being produced in the morning (O’Connor et al., 2009b). An individual going through a serious series of stressful events would have an increased risk of developing an infectious disease with no regards to their age, sex, education, allergic status and/or body mass index (Cohen, 2005).
As physicians age, a required cognitive evaluation combined with a confidential, anonymous feedback evaluation by peers and coworkers regarding wellness and competence would be beneficial both to physicians and their patients / Source: Dellinger, E., Pellegrini, C. and Gallagher, T. (2017). The Aging Physician and the Medical Profession. JAMA Surgery, 152(10), p.967.
Two types of stress associated with increased health deficiency
Cohen et al. (1998) identified two types of stress associated with increased health deficiency; these were interpersonal problems with family and friends; and/or enduring problems associated with work. As further research unveiled the dangers of stress, Janice Kiecolt et al. (1995) found that wound healing was also prolonged on people exposed to continuous stress, along with the lower levels of cytokine. Similarly, Marucha, Kiecolt-Glaser and Favagehi (1998) also concluded to findings over healing being prolonged on test subjects (dental students) where quicker healing was observed on vacation and not before their exams. Eventually, the conclusion of stress being a response to stressors lead to the latter being investigated in our daily lives by researchers for improvement.
Stress may be perceptual deficiency depending on whether subjective appraisal is Positive or Negative
Stress is generally perceived as negative perceptions and reactions when pressure is excessive. The transactional approach devised by Lazarus defines stress as “a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being” (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984, p.19) The theory has so far been one of the most solid finds in the field of occupational and organisational psychology and continues to be applied to various sections in the quest to enhance quality of both work and output.
Occupational Psychology in the Workplace: Stressors
In the field of Occupational psychology, the main focus has been on the study of human behaviour and experience in the workplace. As the world of work in the present generation is constantly changing, with companies adopting more flexible styles – along with developing technology – Lazarus and Folkman’s theory has been used in most stages of the employment life cycle in order to minimise the effects of stress on employees while maintaining a sensible amount of “good stress” (pressure) to maintain motivation. The concept is based on such solid logic that it could be applied to most areas of human interactive environment.
Applying Lazarus and Folkman’s theory of stress to occupational psychology will consider all elements that cause stress in the workplace connected to the physical requirements of the job. Stress can be physical, with factors such as noise, unsafe heights or slippery floor. These factors when present will not only cause the employee to be on guard but also likely distract them from being fully concentrated on their job for fear of harm. The solution would be to make a safer and more comfortable environment, however too safe is known to affect performance. The perfect fit would be right balance between motivational factors (incentives) and physical environment (not overly comfortable), that would lead to a design for the best fit for the job to the person (Morgeson & Campion, 2002). The human element should also not be forgotten in the case of a sociotechnical system (Trist & Bamforth, 1951) present where a Swiss cheese defence system might be in place to correct possible human errors. As mentioned, the stress element requires modelling according to Lazarus’ Theory which proves to be versatile for its huge range of application when considering different types of stressors and how to balance their effect on the employee.
Organisational « Culture »: Synchronised Workforce through situational patterns of performance-oriented behaviour
A strong culture is also essential for the organisation as this ensures the employee fits in with the organisation’s values. The organisation also has to ensure that most stressors are regulated and checked in order to ensure a stable functioning of the work force.
According to Richard Lazarus’ transactional theory of stress, minor day to day problems known as “hassles” can accumulate and cause stress. However one coping mechanism from the theory comes from coping which follows the appraisal stage. When a task is being appraised, the outcome defines whether the employee will see it as stress. However, the stressor can be approached positively and be re-appraised to instead fit the employee’s belief and capacity. Different appraisals usually define how the employee copes, such as understanding employee needs using Maslow’s hierarchy of Needs (1974). It is assumed that some needs are basic and innate and have to be met to sustain motivation. Managers can provide environments that harmonise with the needs of employees after learning what they are.
Maslow’s model puts forth the belief that safety and security have to be met before one can realise their full potential. One this basic need is satisfied, Maslow assumes the attention is shifted to the next need, which in this case would be a motivated move towards achieving the job. However, if this need is not satisfied, this gives rise to discomfort. Indirectly, Maslow’s model is applying the logic of Lazarus & Folkman (1984), as the stressors – which in this case is the inability to feel safe and secure – are being targeted while the manager would try to motivate the employee. Some criticism however questions the flexibility of the model for its assumption. Assuming several needs become important & crucial simultaneously how would the motivation of the employee be affected? Furthermore, self-actualisation is hard – if not impossible – to define, therefore it is hard to confidently know whether someone has reached the stage.
Mismatch between employee & job may cause Occupational Stress
Mismatch between an employee and a job can also cause occupational stress (French, 1973). If the job demand is appraised as too high, the employee could feel discouraged if the task creates demands than exceeds his/her capabilities, unless he has a stake in the outcome of his/her performance motivation will not be successful. Lazarus and Folkman’s theory of stress is once again applied with great efficiency as it opens the door for reasoning in how to deal with stressful situations and find the right coping mechanism that would allow the employee to carry on without negative attributions. One example of this application is to organisational development which is premised on the assumption of planned transformational change.
Organisational development has been defined as “a systematic effort applying behavioural science knowledge to planned creation and reinforcement of organisational strategies, structures and processes for improving an organisation’s effectiveness” (Huse & Cummings, 1985). The aim is to achieve commitment from the whole organisation dedicated to change. Organisational development intervention looks to a range of planned programmatic activities pursued by both clients & consultants. French, Bell and Zawacki (1994) differentiate between interventions directed at individuals (coaching, counselling), dyads (arbitration), teams (feebacks), inter group configurations (Survey, Feedback, etc) and organisations as whole (business process re-engineering). As the focus is swapped from one level to the next, the number of dimensions to consider increases, this adds to the complexity of the intervention process. However, all interventions tend to rely on organisational diagnosis [the assumption that something is not performing well enough and needs to be changed).
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Tuning the Environment to balance Stress Levels
Appreciative inquiry is an organisational development model that focus on how things might have been or might be better (Cooperrider & Srivasta, 1987). The whole concept of organisational development follows the logic of Lazarus & Folkman (!984), as the transitions are all supported by teams of professionals [counselling / accustoming] which are geared at balancing the stress levels of accustoming the workforce to the new changes through a combination of modifications to the environment, motivational factor and security and support.
As organisational psychology deals with the administrative side and operational psychology deals with the task itself, they are still very closely associated. Changes in operational hassles will reduce the stress on the employee, as this would assumingly make the task at hand much more simple and straightforward. Changes in organisational hassles will increase the job satisfaction of the employee, as his time at work would be less cumbersome.
Interventions: Better Outcome when the Source of Stress is the Primary Focal Point
The main concepts of interventions usually concentrates primarily on reducing the source of stress, and secondly by reducing the impact on individuals which has been found to be more effective on people than reducing the risk (LeFevre, et al. 2006). Such an example can be seen when dealing with occupational problems, such as the termination of employment. Such an event can have a devastating effect on an employee’s life, especially if it was unpredicted [redundancy, released]. One way to deal with such a situation would be to provide counselling support to the released employee; these include trained professionals with listening, questioning & goal setting skills who help people to carry on in life (Egan, 1996). Clarifying with employees, the employable, marketable skills and helping them to plan short term goals by which skills might be applied in other situations.
Allowing the person concerned to release their feelings by speaking out over vocational and personal concerns, and helping them assess their resources. Finally help them find a placement or employment while also reinforcing with the employee, reminding them that they are skilled and mature and that their redundancy was a purely professional decision. What the whole process seems to have once again applied, is the logic of Lazarus & Folkman (1984) that proves itself as a solid formula applicable in most situations where stress is involved. In this context, the employees have been professionally re-appraised and should be better mentally to deal with upcoming challenges for fresh employment.
Reflexion: Appraisal & Subjective Perception is Key
The particular relationship between a person and his/her environment will vary on the positive or negative depending on the appraisal. Appraisal can sometimes be instinctive, and/or influenced by an individual’s perception which can in turn be influence by other biological factors (hunger, pain). This shows that no matter how deep the stress causes may be, Lazarus’ formula – although simple – has an application that can logically construct or deconstruct most situations dealing with occupational and organisational stress.
One of the main points worth considering however, is the fact that men tend to experience more stress than women from the “need for recognition” pressure, while women experience more stress from health issues; social support benefits stress levels for males and females but affects them differently [organisational commitment in males & state of mind in females].
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Fear the Walking Dead – Season 4, Episode 8: “No One’s Gone”
Animal Kingdom – Season 3, Episode 2: “In the Red”
Westworld – Season 2, Episode 8: “Kiksuya”
HBO’s Westworld
Season 2, Episode 8: “Kiksuya”
Directed by Uta Briesewitz
Written by Carly Wray & Dan Dietz
* For a recap & review of the previous episode, “Les Écorchés” – click here
* For a recap & review of the next episode, “Vanishing Point” – click here
The Man in Black (Ed Harris) is crawling to the riverside, compelling himself not to die— “not yet,” anyway. He passes out. Just as the Indigenous warrior Akecheta (Zahn McClarnon) of the Ghost Nation arrives. He says he remembers old Bill. They’ve got history. So, Akecheta takes him back to where his tribe has other hostages. Also being kept there is Maeve’s (Thandie Newton) daughter.
Speaking of Maeve, she’s in the clutches of Strand (Gustaf Skarsgård) and his people. Lee (Simon Quarterman) is trying to help her, though. He takes her to be checked out by one of the technicians. She’s definitely not in good shape. The tech tries to do what he can for her at Lee’s frantic request.
“Death is a passage from this brutal world. You don’t deserve the exit.”
We start to get a look at the history of Akecheta’s life within the tribe. Things went on as normal, living and surviving. Until one day Akecheta and his people heard a massacre occurring in the nearby town. He walked into the streets, finding people shot to death all over. Including Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood)— all the familiar faces. In the saloon he found the image of the Maze on the bar.
The others in his tribe began seeing the brand of the Maze turn up everywhere. Akecheta became obsessed by the image. And then, over and over, he kept losing the love of his life, Kohana (Julia Jones). He was reprogrammed by Delos Incorporated, “reborn” into a more aggressive and dehumanised version of himself. This is the birth of the Ghost Nation, whose only purpose appeared to have been focused on conquering enemies. Sort of symbolic of the colonised West and how it treats Indigenous peoples, forcing them to fight for survival so long they, sometimes, can do nothing other than fight.
One day, Akecheta stumbled onto Logan Delos (Ben Barnes), who’d been sent into the desert naking, tied, alone by William (Jimmi Simpson). Logan is near insane from exposure and sunstroke. “This is the wrong world,” he says. The Indigenous warrior throws a blanket around the man, though leaves him for one of his own to find eventually. Nevertheless, their meeting left an indelible mark on Akecheta. He began to remember his past lives, more specifically Kohana, his love lost across time.
“The past was calling me”
Akecheta went back to look for Logan, finding him gone. So he rode further than he’d ever been on the range. He came to a vast canyon, where he found a strange structure. He located Delos’s facilities. There, he saw the Door, a passage to “another world.” He resolved to go find Kohana and take her with him there. After a while, Kohana comes to remember Akecheta. Then he shows her the way to the other world, one better suited to them. Only, the Door wasn’t in the same place anymore. They had to find it again.
Problem is, Kohana was taken away by technicians from outside, believing she’d wandered from her narrative. Once more leaving Akecheta by himself. He tried going back to their tribe, only to find a “ghost in her place.” He sought her ought over many miles, many brutal lives. It was on his worst day when he met Maeve’s daughter, she gave him water, and treated him without fear.
Akecheta figured out he had to go back to viciousness, so long as it meant finding his Kohana someday. He had to explore “the other side of death.” This caused a stir when techs found out he’d been out there a decade without dying. While being set down for an update, Akecheta got up to look around. A beautiful rendition of “Heart-Shaped Box” by Nirvana plays, as he explores the Delos Westworld facility. He soon came to the warehouse downstairs, filled with host bodies. There, he discovered Kohana amongst them. Except she was a lifeless piece of machinery covered in flesh, not moving, not breathing, not speaking. He then saw how many others were experiencing the same thing as himself, seeing the other bodies warehoused alongside her. And so he went back upstairs, back to that other world. He was determined to cut their tribe off from that place, so that they wouldn’t be bothered anymore.
“We were all bound together. The living and the damned.”
Lee finds the tech has pretty much just torn Maeve up, taking out the code inside her rather than saving her wholly. Awful. She’s left as a shredded pile of meat, essentially, half in and out of consciousness. What will become of her now?
We also find that Akecheta was only ever trying to warn Maeve’s daughter. However, intentions are easily misread and misinterpreted in this world, particularly across cultural lines and language barriers. He never wanted to hurt Maeve, or the girl. He wanted to help with their liberation. Unfortunately, old Bill had his eye on them, too.
Akecheta tells us about one night when he came upon someone working away in the dark on some Indigenous warriors and a bear and a whole set: Dr. Ford (Anthony Hopkins). Quite the surreal moment for the warrior. Ford asks Akecheta about what he’s doing. They talk of the Door, multiple worlds, and so on. The doc is fascinated, and he’s also willing to share a bit more information. He tells Akecheta to keep watching for the “Deathbringer” to come again, this time for himself. Down the road, he found the massacre in town, seeing Ford dead, and this set him on the next leg of his journey.
At the camp with the hostages, the Ghost Nation are visited by old Bill’s daughter, Emily (Katja Herbers). She’s there to collect him. Although it isn’t entirely the rescue the Man in Black would hope for— she’s not what you’d call dad’s girl, really. Akecheta lets her take her father, as she promises a worse fate at her hands than at the tribe’s, which is mighty intriguing.
Oh, and Maeve’s powers are being discovered from inside the Westworld facility. She’s able to reach back into the system, from outside, not just inside. She’s helping to control the fate of her daughter right from that table. Wow.
One of my favourites this season, hands down! Zahn McClarnon gives one of the year’s best performances on television. Just, spectacular. I’m so glad we got to see Akecheta in more detail, as well as the Ghost Nation themselves. So many links and pieces coming together. We’re seeing the true power of Maeve, which I absolutely dig, the most!
“Vanishing Point” is next time.
DEATH TO VIDEODROME - LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!
Deathbringer
Delos Incorporated
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Carrie Gress is a faculty member at Pontifex University and Editor-in-Chief at HelenaDaily.com. She is the author of numerous books, including The Marian Option: God’s Solution to a Civilization in Crisis (TAN Books, 2017), and co-author with George Weigel of City of Saints: A Pilgrim’s Guide to John Paul II’s Krakow (Image Books, 2015). She has lived and worked in Washington, DC, and Rome, and her work has been translated into seven languages. She received her Ph.D. from Catholic University of America.
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About Eurovision
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
National Selections 2017
Eurovizijos: review
Lithuania will choose its representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 tonight. The winner of Eurovizijos will be chosen by a combination of jury votes and televotes. Six songs will compete in the final tonight. Here are my thoughts about the songs:
Monika Marija with The Truth
She has a very powerful voice. The song is a bit slow, there’s not a lot going on. A nice staging could make it better, but there is a risk that it becomes boring. It’s a basic ballad, without special elements in it. It’s not very memorable either. Not the best choice. 4/10
Kotryna Juodzevičiūtė with That Girl
It’s a nice song, with a lot of soul. I just don’t think that this could work at Eurovision. It becomes a bit repetitive after a while as well. The song is more a radiofriendly song, than a song that needs to be performed live. Listening to it is okay, but I don’t want to see it. 4/10
The Roop with Yes, I Do
This is a very unusual song for the Eurovision Song Contest. I don’t like it very much either. It has a nice message, but that’s about it. The song is very repetitive and I don’t really like the vocals. 3/10
Paula with 1 2 3
This is a nice song and it’s quite suitable for Eurovision too. Especially the chorus is a nice part of the song. It has this memorable thing in it, which is always a good thing. The vocals aren’t the best. But maybe a nice performance could make up for that. 5/10
Jurgis Brūzga with 4love
Not a bad song, but not for the Eurovision Song Contest. I get where this song tries to go, but it’s not executed well enough to be an actual good song. It’s a bit in the style of Donny Monetll, but less good. 3/10
Ieva Zasimauskaitė with When We’re Old
This is a sweet and charming song. I don’t know if this could qualify, but it has the biggest chance of all the songs in this national final in my opinion. It’s very small, but that’s not a bad thing. The song just needs a memorable staging. And maybe the Lithuanian language would have made it more special. 5/10
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Artists John Dack
John Dack
London (England, UK), 1950
Residence: England (UK)
Musicologist
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Jonty Harrison; ; John Young; Denis Smalley; William Brunson; Jøran Rudi; Simon Emmerson; John Dack; ; Sean Ferguson at the symposium Form in Electroacoustic Music, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University (Leicester, England, UK) [Leicester (England, UK), February 20, 2011]
Complete list of albumsMore from the blogMore articles writtenComplete photo album
Treatise on Musical Objects
University of California Press / UCP 9780520294301 / 2017
Musique et technologie: Regards sur les musiques mixtes
Marc Battier, ed.
Ina-GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales) / INA PP23 / 2016
Évelyne Gayou, ed.
Ina-GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales) / INA PP13_11 / 2011
Articles written
John Dack, Computer Music Journal, no. 26:3, September 1, 2002
The variety of tracks on each CD reflect the diversity of the composers’ languages and the consistent quality of their output.
There can be little doubt that the electroacoustic medium makes a major contribution to the range of styles and genres of British contemporary music. British-based electroacoustic composers enjoy considerable success in international competitions and regularly receive both commissions as well as invitations to work in foreign studios. Unlike our European neighbors, there are no major centers comparable to the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), the Institute of Sonology, or the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM). However, this is not necessarily a disadvantage, as several excellent universities provide both the musical and intellectual environments in which electroacoustic music can be studied at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is particularly encouraging to note the many young composers who choose to travel to Britain specifically for this purpose. Britain, therefore, has a rich tradition (insofar as a new medium can have a “tradition”) of electroacoustic music. Pioneers such as Tristram Cary, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, or Maddalena Fagandini have often been overshadowed by their more illustrious counterparts in France and Germany; their activities are only now being given the serious attention they truly deserve. Despite this level of activity there is little evidence of a “school” of British electroacoustic music, and most composers can be situated without undue difficulty within the various strands of European music. Consequently, while it would be simplistic to claim that Denis Smalley, Jonty Harrison, and Adrian Moore constitute a British “school,” they do, nevertheless, accurately represent many of the preoccupations of electroacoustic composers in this country. For example, all three are committed to the public presentation of electroacoustic music — the composition of acousmatic music is central to each composer’s output. Mr. Smalley has championed the practice of diffusion as a vital aspect of electroacoustic music performance since 1976, thereby re-introducing aspects of performance practice to acousmatic concerts. Similarly, as director of BEAST (the Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre), Mr. Harrison has been involved in the development of a fiexible system for sound diffusion unrivalled in Britain. Mr. Moore is also actively involved in many areas of performance with technology. Lastly, each is an academic which, although not a prerequisite for electroacoustic composers, does emphasize the role played by higher education in disseminating acousmatic music in Britain.
The compositions on Denis Smalley’s Sources/scènes span 26 years (a remarkable feat in itself). His work and aesthetic falls within a broadly Schaefferian tradition and his own extensive writings deal with the materials, techniques, and aesthetics of electroacoustic music. The Schaefferian framework has been extensively elaborated and Mr. Smalley’s own concepts such as “surrogacy” and “indicative fields and networks” now provide composers, analysts, and musicologists with terminology inherently derived from the medium. This has facilitated both an understanding not only of electroacoustic music but also of its relationship to music in general. In other words: a true electroacoustic musicology. Pierre Schaeffer wrote: “It is the object which has something to say to us, if we know how to make it speak and to assemble it according to the kinship of its families and the similarity of its characteristics” (Chion/Reibel 1976, 57). I believe there are connections between French symbolism and many of Schaeffer’s theories; in Mr. Smalley’s works the sounds (whether recognizable or not) suggest correspondences as “things begin to talk amongst themselves” (Ibid., 47). The first track, Base Metals (2000), exhibits the hallmarks of Mr. Smalley’s language. His affection for attack-resonance sounds is evident (all the source sounds derive from recordings of metal sculptures by Derek Shiel) as is his ability to intervene in their resonances, to extend and develop them into objects of dynamic and spectral interest. Individual nodal components are isolated and given momentum and the energetic processes of sounds are delicately uncovered to reveal hidden textures and transformations. Initially, I found Empty Vessels (1997) the greatest challenge to my expectations. I first heard it during a concert at City University and the real-world sounds recorded from within large earthenware pots in the composer’s North London garden seemed a relatively unmediated documentation of an urban soundscape. However, thanks to this recording, I have heard the work many times and now can begin to appreciate the different acoustic environments through which the listener is taken. The subtle characteristics of the natural sounds are placed in carefully created acoustic spaces thus encouraging an interaction between the confined space of the vessels, the spaciousness of the outside environment, and large but enclosed reverberant spaces. This “play” of acoustic environments inhabited by intimate sounds produced by insects and rain, or smooth and distant ones like airplanes, is possible, of course, only in the electroacoustic medium. I hope to hear Empty Vessels again in the context of a diffused performance where the space of the venue can also participate in these relationships. It is difficult to remain oblivious to the manner in which space is articulated by sound in the real world after having heard it used in this way. This is a composition which transforms how we hear. For many enthusiasts of electroacoustic music, neither Pentes (1974) nor Tides (1984), the remaining tracks on the CD, need any introduction. Mr. Smalley’s control of fine detail and his unerring ear for directing both spectral and dynamic movement ensure that each work engages the listener. The behavior of water — both visual and aural — has long fascinated composers. There is consistency and yet constant variation. According to the composer’s liner notes, Tides was his first work in which source material was transformed by computer. There are two sections, each with distinct characteristics. The “pools” of Pools and Currents, for example, suggest connected sonic areas with individual characteristics of textural play. The water sounds acquire harmonic and gritty characteristicswhich are contrasted with “currents” propelling the music forward in fiuctuating waves of movement and rest. The final track, Pentes, is without doubt a classic of acousmatic music. The source material is mainly transformed instrumental sounds. After some minutes, the significance of the underlying drone becomes clear as a traditional melody, played on beautiful, reedy Northumbrian Pipes, makes a brief and unforgettable appearance.
The period of Jonty Harrison’s work is only slightly shorter than Mr. Smalley’s, stretching over 17 years. Mr. Harrison’s musical languages range from one based on abstracting features from sound objects to the use of sounds whose origins are often obvious and which inevitably imply cultural (and personal) meanings. As he remarks in the liner notes, his work includes the approaches of (Pierre) Schaeffer and (R Murray) Schafer. Klang (1982), like Pentes, has justifiably acquired the status of a classic acousmatic work. The discovery of the resonant properties of two earthenware casserole dishes owned by Mr. Smalley is the point of departure for the work (a detailed knowledge of a fellow composer’s kitchen-ware is one advantage of living in a relatively small country!). As the composer writes, “Klang… is the German for ‘sound’.” In addition to the onomatopoeic characteristics of the word in English it is worth adding that “Klang” in the original German usually implies some harmonic content and musical intention. It was also one of the basic elements of the Cologne studio and can be translated as “note” to differentiate it from the word “Ton.” (Along with “Schall” and “Geraüsch,” German seems to have a richer vocabulary in its number of words relating to “sound” than English does.) However, harmonic qualities are not the only ones exploited by Mr. Harrison. There are also brittle, fricative sound objects which possess their own energetic momentum. As a result, the resonant characteristics of an apparently mundane utensil are promoted to elements of a musical composition. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote that poetry “strips the veil of familiarity from the world.” In a similar way, Klang alerts us to the fragile beauty of everyday sounds and their transformations. A common, and natural, progression for electroacoustic composers is to provide sound for installations. Track 3, Sorties (1995), originates in such a work. It contains abstract sounds as well as those heard in urban environments. Footsteps or the sounds of modes of transport such as trains and traffic suggest movement from one place to another but with little sense of arrival or repose. The action of travel is chronicled but we are left as temporary visitors to these sonic landscapes. The occasional presence of more abstract sounds, which are not developed for their own intrinsic properties, does little to stabilize the sense of unease. We hear rain and storms, footsteps on loose gravel (hardly a material for surreptitious arrival or departure), and despite a calming “pastoral” interlude with buzzing insects, birds, and what sounds like children playing, a feeling of gloomy restlessness prevails. Surface Tension (1996) exploits a dry, fricative sound vocabulary. The sources are sounds from packing materials, and in such unprepossessing physical objects Mr. Harrison once again encourages us to listen so that his sound objects “reveal ‘beauty’ in what is normally thrown away.” Often monophonic and sparsely textured, the fractured energies burst into individual trajectories. The sounds seem to express the frantic behavior of capitalist frenzy: buy a product, tear away the packing, and don’t consider where it came from or where it goes. Like the constant deferral of arrival in Sorties, it is in the process of unpacking and manipulating material that music is discovered. (This is, of course, a personal and highly speculative, if not fanciful, interpretation!) The fourth track, Splintering (1997), also reveals an equally carefully constructed series of transparent textures. However, the source materials in this track are the more resonant sounds of wood. As Mr. Harrison asserts, wood is “organic, ” and the sounds often retain that quality. The composer also plays on the concept of the “wood” as the place deep in our imagination where mysterious things can happen. Thus, he uses the sound metonymically to represent and evoke a whole range of connections — mythical, social, and environmental — with this one sonic symbol. The final work on this CD, Streams (1999), is a stereo version of a composition originally in 8-channel format. Once again, the vocabulary extends beyond the immediate musical contexts and natural processes of “evaporation, clouds and rainfall.” Individual lines merge and divide and water becomes inseparable from its spatial setting—enclosed and resonant, or open with spacious acoustic properties.
Adrian Moore’s works stem from 1994 to 1997. He is the youngest of the three and generously acknowledges his debt to the preceding composers. His first encounter with electroacoustic music was at a concert given by Mr. Smalley and as a postgraduate student he studied with Mr. Harrison and also worked with BEAST. Junky (1996), is described by the composer in the liner notes as “electroacoustic ambient,” although I feel the description of the work as “ambient” is somewhat disingenuous. The opening and closing sections contain slowly evolving harmonies but the variety of interjecting sound objects ensure the piece never descends into New Age navel-gazing. The second track, Dreamarena (1996), makes use of similar sound material, but the rhythmic patterns of Junky are replaced by a more amorphous structure punctuated by gestures which are either dry or reverberant. The third composition is, for me, the most successful. Study in Ink (1997) is a virtuosic demonstration of a sound whose potential is discovered by accident but is then exploited by a carefully controlled series of gestures and juxtapositions. This aesthetic is, of course, a recognizably French attitude toward acousmatic music (in the early 1990s Mr. Moore spent time in Lyon, France). The squeaking of a marker pen on a white board (the sole source for the composition) is extended and magnified with arching melodic profiles to build a repository of sound objects. Short sections of erratic movements trace complex trajectories through pitch-space. With track 4 we move from the single sound source to multiple sources (though precise identification is neither needed nor intended). Foil-Counterfoil (1997) employs closely recorded tin foil, bottles, and balloons. As in the previous work these source sounds are transformed into restless chains of objects, harmonic in content, grainy, fractured—they ensure we are rarely left in repose as our ears constantly seek for connections. The final work is Sieve (1994– 1995), the earliest on the CD. Sieve (a “radiogenic” work, according to the composer) uses electronically manipulated natural sounds. Mr. Moore asserts that by removing certain sections of the sound precise identification can be compromised. The listener begins actively to seek for recognition and occasionally realizes that only when sufficient time is allowed can any accurate recognition be attempted. Even then security is not assured and the sound object slips from our mental grasp and veers off to assume a new identity.
These three discs are excellent examples of the current state of electroacoustic composition in Great Britain and are welcome additions to the catalog of the empreintes DIGITALes label. The variety of tracks on each CD reflect the diversity of the composers’ languages and the consistent quality of their output. I recommend them highly.
December 1, 2009 – January 31, 2010: An Online Portrait of Pete Stollery
John Dack presents a portrait of composer Pete Stollery on DEGEM’s webradio from December 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010. On the programme “B”: Shortstuff, Altered Images, ABZ/A (available on Un son peut en cacher un autre), and scènes, rendez-vou…
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The FMRC is situated in the large clinical complex of the Rabin Medical Center. Facilities include modern and efficient laboratories, experimental surgery units, an animal facility and state-of-the-art scientific equipment. In addition, there is a library, seminar rooms and a 380-seat auditorium equipped with audio-visual systems for the live broadcasting of operations. Research areas include: immunology, endocrinology & merabolism, hematology, oncology, neurobiology & psychiatry, genetics, cardiology, infectious disease, molecular dermatology, and organ transplantation.
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A disclaimer is generally any statement intended to specify or delimit the scope of rights and obligations that may be exercised and enforced by parties in a legally recognized relationship. In contrast to other terms for legally operative language, the term disclaimer usually implies situations that involve some level of uncertainty, waiver, or risk.
A disclaimer may specify mutually agreed and privately arranged terms and conditions as part of a contract; or may specify warnings or expectations to the general public (or some other class of persons) in order to fulfill a duty of care owed to prevent unreasonable risk of harm or injury. Some disclaimers are intended to limit exposure to damages after a harm or injury has already been suffered. Additionally, some kinds of disclaimers may represent a voluntary waiver of a right or obligation that may be owed to the disclaimant.
Disclaimers vary in terms of their uniformity. Some may vary depending on the specific context and parties involved, while other types of disclaimers may strictly adhere to a uniform and established set of formalities that are rarely or never modified, except under official authority. Some of these formal disclaimers are required pursuant to industry regulation, qualification for protection under a safe harbor, and other situations where the exact wording of a particular clause or document may be dispositive in the event of a legal dispute. (See e.g., Product liability, Toxicity Class, Rule against perpetuities, Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act.)
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Tort lawEdit
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In law, a disclaimer is a statement denying responsibility intended to prevent civil liability arising for particular acts or omissions. Disclaimers are frequently made to escape the effects of the torts of negligence and of occupiers' liability towards visitors. The courts may or may not give effect to the disclaimer depending on whether the law permits exclusion of liability in the particular situation and whether the acts or omissions complained of fall within the wording of the disclaimer.
A disclaimer may take effect as a term of the contract between the person making the disclaimer and the person who is thereby prevented from suing. This kind of disclaimer is, for example, invariably found in the 'terms and conditions' that a software user is confronted with when first installing the software. There will often be term(s) excluding any liability for any damage that the software might cause to the rest of the user's software and hardware. By clicking "I Agree" in the dialogue box, users are agreeing to this disclaimer as matter of contract between themselves and the software company.
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At common law, disclaimers can also have effect as conditions of a license (i.e. permission) to enter land. An occupier of land will have certain duties to take care for the personal safety of people he or she allows onto the premises. By placing a sign at the entrance to the premises, such as "visitors enter at their own risk", the occupier may be able to stop entrants successfully suing in tort for damage or injury caused by the unsafe nature of the premises. Warnings or disclaimers contained in signs may, by a slightly different legal analysis leading to the same result, allow the person who would otherwise be responsible to rely on the defense of consent.
Under UK law, the validity of disclaimers is significantly limited by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. By virtue of the Act, a business cannot use a contract term or a notice to exclude or restrict its liability for negligence causing death or personal injury. In the case of other loss or damage, a disclaimer will only be effective so long as it is reasonable in all the circumstances. The common law in other nations may also place legal limits on the validity of disclaimers; for instance, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has previously successfully sued Target Australia for the usage of inaccessible disclaimers in advertisements (the televised advertisements in question contained disclaimers that were only shown on screen for 1.50 seconds).
In the United States, disclaimers on the sale of goods are covered by Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code, but details vary by state. Unless considered unconscionable, disclaimers are generally enforceable as part of a contract between knowledgeable parties of comparable bargaining power, but most states do not allow a party to limit their liability for gross negligence.[1]
Patent lawEdit
Main article: Disclaimer (patent)
In patent law, a disclaimer identifies, in a claim, subject-matter that is not claimed.[2] By extension, a disclaimer may also mean the action of introduction a negative limitation in a claim, i.e. "an amendment to a claim resulting in the incorporation therein of a "negative" technical feature, typically excluding from a general feature specific embodiments or areas".[3] The allowability of disclaimers is subject to particular conditions, which may vary widely from one jurisdiction to another.
A prosecution disclaimer is another type of disclaimer in patent law. Under United States patent law a prosecution disclaimer is a statement made by a patent applicant during examination of a patent application which can limit the scope of protection provided by the resulting patent. It is one type of file-wrapper estoppel, the other being prosecution history estoppel.
Estate lawEdit
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In estate or inheritance law, a disclaimer (also called disclaimer of interest) is a written document voluntarily signed by an heir to an estate in which the said heir does not accept (disclaims) the part of the estate of a deceased person which the heir is entitled to receive. The disclaimed part of the estate is then inherited not necessarily by a person of the disclaiming heir's choice, but by the next heir in line to receive that part of the estate as if the disclaiming heir were also deceased, either according to the will, beneficiary designation, or the laws of intestacy. Government tax agencies have further rules on such disclaimers. Reasons for such disclaimers may include imminent death of the disclaimant or the fact that the disclaimant already has enough wealth.
LiteratureEdit
The all persons fictitious disclaimer is a standard disclaimer used in works of fiction in an attempt to avoid liability for defamation.
In the case of fan fiction, the author will usually give a disclaimer saying that the author of the fan fiction does not, in any way, profit from the story and that all creative rights to the characters belong to their original creator(s).
E&OE, an initialism standing for "errors and omissions excepted"
Mandatory disclaimer
^ http://www.pillsburylaw.com/siteFiles/Publications/0C62DFD605F0471619ADF0E2E5576E98.pdf Contractual Limitations of Liability, Warranties and Remedies, Shultis, et al, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, 2006
^ Decision G 2/10 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office, August 30, 2011, Reasons for the decision, point 2.1.
^ Decision G 2/10, August 30, 2011, Reasons for the decision, point 2.2.
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Hans Fredrik Dahl
Hans Fredrik Dahl (born 16 October 1939) is a Norwegian historian, journalist and media scholar, best known in the English-speaking world for his biography of Vidkun Quisling, a Nazi collaborationist and Minister President for Norway during the Second World War. His research is focused on media history, the totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, and the Second World War. He served as culture editor of Dagbladet 1978–1985 and has been a board member of the paper since 1996. He was a professor at the University of Oslo 1988–2009, and is now a professor emeritus.
(1939-10-16) 16 October 1939 (age 79)
Historian, journalist and media scholar
Tove Stang Dahl
Personal lifeEdit
Dahl was born in Oslo, the son of Jacob Dahl, an engineer, and his wife Sophie Harbitz. He was married to jurist and pioneer of feminist jurisprudence Tove Stang Dahl (née Tove Thiis Stang) from 1960 to 1993, and to art historian Elisabeth Elster from 1996. He is a maternal grandson of pathologist Francis Harbitz, and a cousin of historian Francis Sejersted.[1]
In his younger days he defined himself as a Marxist and Socialist, and was elected head of the Norwegian Students' Society as the left-wing candidate in 1963. He converted to Catholicism in the 2000s, after recovering from a serious illness.[2]
CareerEdit
He has written two books on the history of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK): Hallo-Hallo (1975) and Dette er London (1978). He was cultural editor of the newspaper Dagbladet from 1978 to 1985, and from 1988 to 2009 professor at the University of Oslo. Dahl has been co-editor of the encyclopaedias Pax Leksikon (1978–1981) and Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 (1995),[3] and the four-volume press history Norsk presses historie 1660–2010.[4] He is, however, most famous in the English-speaking world for the book Quisling: A Study in Treachery, a two-volume biography of the politician and Minister-President Vidkun Quisling; it was condensed into one volume upon translation into English.[5]
He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[6] In 2000 he received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.[7]
Selected worksEdit
Norge mellom krigene (1971)
Hallo-Hallo. Kringkastingen i Norge 1920–1940 (1975)
"Dette er London". NRK i krig 1940–1945 (1978)
Vidkun Quisling. En fører blir til (biography, 1991)
Vidkun Quisling. En fører for fall (biography, 1992)
^ Engelstad, Fredrik. "Hans Fredrik Dahl". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
^ Isaksen, Torbjørn Røe (2008). "På den andre siden av veggen". Minerva (in Norwegian). Retrieved 30 June 2010.
^ Tvedt, Knut Are. "Hans Fredrik Dahl". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
^ Nicolaysen, Bjørn Kvalsvik (21 May 2010). "Eit banebryta". Dag og Tid (in Norwegian). pp. 20–21.
^ "Vidkun Quisling (Norwegian Politician): Additional Reading". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
^ "Gruppe 1: Historie" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
^ "Priser – Fritt Ords Honnør" (in Norwegian). Fritt Ord. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
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LaMarr Hoyt
Dewey LaMarr Hoyt, Jr. (born January 1, 1955, in Columbia, South Carolina) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who won the 1983 American League Cy Young Award.
Born: (1955-01-01) January 1, 1955 (age 64)
September 14, 1979, for the Chicago White Sox
October 3, 1986, for the San Diego Padres
Win–loss record
Chicago White Sox (1979–1984)
San Diego Padres (1985–1986)
All-Star (1985)
AL Cy Young Award (1983)
2× AL wins leader (1982, 1983)
Chicago White SoxEdit
Originally signed by the New York Yankees in the fifth round of the 1973 Major League Baseball draft, Hoyt was traded with fellow pitching prospect Bob Polinsky, outfielder Oscar Gamble and $200,000 to the Chicago White Sox in a 1977 season-opening deal that sent the Yankees shortstop Bucky Dent.[1] A relief pitcher when he made the White Sox to stay in 1980, Hoyt was switched to the starting rotation in 1982 and tied a club record by winning his first nine decisions. The record was first set by Lefty Williams in 1917 and equaled by Orval Grove in 1943. Hoyt ended up leading the American League with nineteen wins and showed devastating control on the mound; he walked a mere 48 batters in 239.2 innings.
Hoyt was even better in 1983, winning the American League Cy Young Award.[2] His 24-10 won-lost record, 3.66 earned run average and even better control than the previous season, (walking 31 batters in 260.2 innings, and leading the league in fewest walks per nine innings for the first of three straight seasons), helped the White Sox capture the American League West title.
He pitched a complete game victory over the Baltimore Orioles in the first game of the 1983 American League Championship Series, giving up only one run on five hits with no walks.[3] This was the only game the ChiSox won in the series.
The White Sox faltered in 1984, as Hoyt's record fell to 13-18 with a 4.47 ERA. He went from winning the most games in the American League in 1983 to losing the most games the following year. Hoping for a rebound from the former Cy Young Award winner, the San Diego Padres traded Ozzie Guillén, Tim Lollar, Bill Long and Luis Salazar to the White Sox for Hoyt, Kevin Kristan and Todd Simmons during the 1984-1985 off-season. Guillen would win the American League Rookie of the Year award in 1985.
San Diego PadresEdit
Hoyt began his National League career promisingly enough, making the NL's All-Star team his first season in the league (though named by his own manager Dick Williams over fellow Padre Andy Hawkins who started the year 11-0) and winning the game's Most Valuable Player award, giving up one run in three innings of work to earn the win. For the season he went 16-8 with a 3.47 ERA. Baseball writer Bill James said Hoyt had the best control of any National League pitcher at this time.[4]
Following the 1985 season, he was arrested twice within a month (between January and February 1986) on drug-possession charges, checking into a rehabilitation program nine days after the second arrest.[5] This prevented him from playing most of Spring training, and he logged an 8-11 won-loss record with a 5.15 ERA.
More off the field problemsEdit
Barely a month after the season ended Hoyt was arrested again for drug possession, this time on the U.S.-Mexico border.[6] He was sentenced to 45 days in jail on December 16, 1986, and suspended by then-Commissioner Peter Ueberroth on February 25, 1987. An arbitrator reduced his suspension to sixty days in mid-June and ordered the Padres to reinstate him, but the team gave him his unconditional release the following day.
The White Sox gave him a second chance, signing him after his San Diego release and giving him time to get back into shape, but a fourth arrest on drug charges in December 1987 ended that.[7]
Career statsEdit
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W L Pct. ERA G GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB K WP HBP BAA Fld% Avg.
98 68 .590 3.99 244 172 48 8 10 1311.1 1313 637 582 140 279 681 13 18 .260 .968 .091
A poor hitter, even by pitchers' standards, Hoyt had just ten hits in 110 career at-bats. The only extra base hit of his career was an RBI double on July 13, 1986 against Tim Conroy of the St. Louis Cardinals.[8]
^ "Yankees Finally Land Bucky Dent". Wilmington Morning Star. April 6, 1977.
^ "Undoubtedly, Hoyt is Best". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. October 26, 1983.
^ "1983 American League Championship Series, Game One". Baseball-Reference.com. October 5, 1983.
^ James, Bill (1986). The Bill James Baseball Abstract 1986. Ballantine Books. p. 296.
^ "Sports People; Disclosure on Hoyt". The New York Times. March 1, 1986.
^ "Padres' Hoyt Arrested by U.S. Customs". St. Petersburg Evening Independent. October 29, 1986.
^ "Hoyt Arrested On Drug Charges". The New York Times. December 7, 1987.
^ "San Diego Padres 13, St. Louis Cardinals 6". Baseball-Reference.com. July 13, 1986.
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Luís I of Portugal
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Dom Luís I (31 October 1838 in Lisbon – 19 October 1889 in Cascais), known as The Popular (Portuguese: O Popular) was a member of the rulling House of Braganza,[1] and King of Portugal from 1861 to 1889. The second son of Maria II and Ferdinand II, he acceded to the throne upon the death of his brother Pedro V.
Luís I
Photograph by Augusto Bobone, 1885
King of Portugal
11 November 1861 –
Pedro V
Carlos I
Duke of Loulé
Marquis of Sá da Bandeira
Joaquim António de Aguiar
Duke of Ávila and Bolama
Duke of Saldanha
Fontes Pereira de Melo
Anselmo José Braamcamp
Rodrigues Sampaio
José Luciano de Castro
(1838-10-31)31 October 1838
Necessidades Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
19 October 1889(1889-10-19) (aged 50)
Citadel of Cascais, Cascais, Portugal
Pantheon of the Braganzas
Maria Pia of Savoy (m. 1862)
Infante Afonso, Duke of Porto
Luís Filipe Maria Fernando Pedro de Alcântara António Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Xavier Francisco de Assis João Augusto Júlio Valfando
Braganza[1]
Ferdinand II of Portugal
Maria II of Portugal
ReignEdit
Luís I and Maria Pia of Savoy at a masquerade ball, 1865.
Luís was a cultured man who wrote vernacular poetry, but had no distinguishing gifts in the political field into which he was thrust by the deaths of his brothers Pedro V and Fernando in 1861. Luís's domestic reign was a tedious and ineffective series of transitional governments called Rotativism formed at various times by the Progressistas (Liberals) and the Regeneradores (Conservatives – the party generally favoured by King Luís, who secured their long term in office after 1881). Despite a flirtation with the Spanish succession prior to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, Luís's reign was otherwise one of domestic stagnation as Portugal fell ever further behind the nations of western Europe in terms of public education, political stability, technological progress and economic prosperity. In colonial affairs, Delagoa Bay was confirmed as a Portuguese possession in 1875, whilst Belgian activities in the Congo (1880s) and a British Ultimatum in 1890 denied Portugal a land link between Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Mozambique at the peak of the Scramble for Africa.
Personal interestsEdit
Luís was mostly a man of the sciences, with a passion for oceanography. He invested a large portion of his fortune in funding research boats to collect specimens in the oceans of the world, and was responsible for the establishment of one of the world's first aquariums, the Aquário Vasco da Gama in Lisbon, which is still open to the public with its vast collection of maritime life forms, including a 10 meter long squid. His love for the sciences and advances in knowledge was passed on to his two sons. Luís was also very keen with literature, not only with books in Portuguese but also in English; he was the first to bring fully translated Shakespearean works to Portugal, such as The Merchant of Venice, Richard III and Othello, the Moor of Venice; his best-known work in Portugal was his translation of Hamlet.
Marriages and descendantsEdit
On 6 October 1862, Luís married Princess Maria Pia of Savoy (16 October 1847 – 5 July 1911), daughter of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and Maria Adelaide of Austria. They both had a deep love at first, but Luis's countless mistresses led Maria Pia to depression. Together they had two sons who survived childhood, and a stillborn son in 1866.
Dom Carlos, Prince Royal of Portugal (28 September 1863 – 1 February 1908), successor as King Carlos I; murdered by the Carbonária.
Dom Afonso, Prince Royal of Portugal (31 July 1865 – 21 February 1920), Infante of Portugal, Duke of Porto, Viceroy of India, and after 1908 Prince Royal.
The King also fathered one illegitimate son, also named Carlos, who was born in 1874 in Lisbon.
Titles, styles and honoursEdit
Royal styles of
King Luís I of Portugal
His Most Faithful Majesty
Your Most Faithful Majesty
Alternative style
Main article: List of titles and honours of the Portuguese Crown
Titles and stylesEdit
31 October 1838 - 11 November 1861: His Royal Highness The Duke of Porto and Viseu
11 November 1861 - 19 October 1889: His Most Faithful Majesty The King of Portugal and the Algarves
Luís I's official styling as King of Portugal:
By the Grace of God and by the Constitution of the Monarchy, Luís I, King of Portugal and the Algarves, of either side of the sea in Africa, Lord of Guinea and of Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, South Africa etc.
HonoursEdit
NationalEdit
Kingdom of Portugal:
Sovereign of the Military Order of Knights of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Sovereign of the Order of Saint Benedict of Aviz
Sovereign of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword
Sovereign of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa
Sovereign of the Order of the Tower and Sword
ForeignEdit
Austrian Empire: Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary - 1854[2]
Baden: Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
Kingdom of Bavaria: Knight of the Order of Saint Hubert
Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold - 1854[3]
Empire of Brazil:
Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross
Grand Cross of the Order of the Rose
Denmark: Knight of the Order of the Elephant - 18 April 1864[4]
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Military Medal
Kingdom of Greece: Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer
Kingdom of Hawaii: Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Kamehameha I - 19 August 1881[5]
Grand Duchy of Hesse: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order
Liberia: Grand Commander of the Humane Order of African Redemption
Mecklenburg: Grand Cross of the House Order of the Wendish Crown
Monaco: Grand Cross of the Order of Saint-Charles
Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
Ottoman Empire: Order of the Medjidie, First Class
Kingdom of Prussia: Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle
Knight of the Order of the Crown of Romania
Order of the Star of Romania
Knight of the Order of St. Andrew
Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky
Order of St. Anne, First Class
Knight of the Order of the White Eagle
Kingdom of Sardinia:
Knight of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation - 1855
Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus - 1855
Kingdom of Saxony: Knight of the Order of the Rue Crown
Principality of Serbia: Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Takovo
Siam: Knight of the Order of the Nine Gems
Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece - 1861[6]
Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand
Grand Cross of the Crosses of Military Merit
Grand Cross of the Crosses of Naval Merit
Sweden: Knight of the Order of the Seraphim - 27 November 1861[7]
Tunisia: Grand Cordon of the Order of Glory
United Kingdom: Knight of the Order of the Garter - 17 June 1865[8]
AncestryEdit
Ancestors of Luís I of Portugal
8. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
4. Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
9. Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf
2. Fernando II of Portugal
10. Ferenc József, Prince Koháry
5. Princess Maria Antonia Koháry
11. Countess Maria Antonia of Waldstein-Wartenberg
1. Luís I of Portugal
12. João VI of Portugal and Brazil
6. Pedro I of Brazil and IV of Portugal
13. Infanta Carlota Joaquina of Spain
3. Maria II of Portugal
14. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
7. Archduchess Leopoldina of Austria
15. Princess Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily
^ a b "While remaining patrilineal dynasts of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha according to pp. 88, 116 of the 1944 Almanach de Gotha, Title 1, Chapter 1, Article 5 of the 1838 Portuguese constitution declared, with respect to Ferdinand II of Portugal's issue by his first wife, that 'the Most Serene House of Braganza is the reigning house of Portugal and continues through the Person of the Lady Queen Maria II'. Thus their mutual descendants constitute the Coburg line of the House of Braganza"
^ "A Szent István Rend tagjai" Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
^ Le livre d'or de l'ordre de Léopold et de la croix de fer, Volume 1 /Ferdinand Veldekens
^ Jørgen Pedersen (2009). Riddere af Elefantordenen, 1559–2009 (in Danish). Syddansk Universitetsforlag. p. 272. ISBN 978-87-7674-434-2.
^ King Kalakaua's Tour Round the World (Honolulu, 1881) page 72
^ "Toison Espagnole (Spanish Fleece) - 19th century" (in French), Chevaliers de la Toison D'or. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
^ "377 (Sveriges statskalender / 1881)". runeberg.org (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-01-06.
^ Wm. A. Shaw, The Knights of England, Volume I (London, 1906) page 62
House of Braganza
Cadet branch of the House of Aviz
Born: 31 October 1838 Died: 19 October 1889
Regnal titles
Pedro V King of Portugal
1861–1889 Succeeded by
Portuguese royalty
Maria II Duke of Porto
Afonso Henriques
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Luxor Temple
Luxor Temple (Arabic: معبد الاقصر) is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes) and was constructed approximately 1400 BCE. In the Egyptian language it is known as ipet resyt, "the southern sanctuary". In Luxor there are several great temples on the east and west banks. Four of the major mortuary temples visited by early travelers and tourists include the Temple of Seti I at Gurnah, the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahri, the Temple of Ramesses II (a.k.a. Ramesseum), and the Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu; and the two primary cults temples on the east bank are known as the Karnak and Luxor.[1] Unlike the other temples in Thebes, Luxor temple is not dedicated to a cult god or a deified version of the king in death. Instead Luxor temple is dedicated to the rejuvenation of kingship; it may have been where many of the kings of Egypt were crowned in reality or conceptually (as in the case of Alexander the Great who claimed he was crowned at Luxor but may never have traveled south of Memphis, near modern Cairo.)
Ancient Luxor Temple
Entrance of Luxor Temple (first pylon)
Shown within Egypt
Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt
Upper Egypt
25°42′0″N 32°38′21″E / 25.70000°N 32.63917°E / 25.70000; 32.63917Coordinates: 25°42′0″N 32°38′21″E / 25.70000°N 32.63917°E / 25.70000; 32.63917
Thebes
1400 BCE
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
Cultural: (i), (iii), (vi)
1979 (3rd Session)
7,390.16 ha (28.5336 sq mi)
443.55 ha (1.7126 sq mi)
To the rear of the temple are chapels built by Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty, and Alexander. Other parts of the temple were built by Tutankhamun and Ramesses II. During the Roman era, the temple and its surroundings were a legionary fortress and the home of the Roman government in the area. During the Roman period a chapel inside the Luxor Temple originally dedicated to goddess Mut was transformed in to a Tetrarchy cult chapel and later in to a church.[2]
ConstructionEdit
The original two obelisks, as seen in 1832. The one on the right is now in Paris, known as the Luxor Obelisk.
Luxor temple was built with sandstone from the Gebel el-Silsila area, which is located in South-Western Egypt.[3] This sandstone from the Gebel el-Silsila region is referred to as Nubian Sandstone.[3] This sandstone was used for the construction for monuments in Upper Egypt as well as in the course of past and current restoration works.[3]
Like other Egyptian structures a common technique used was symbolism, or illusionism.[4] For example, to the Egyptian, a sanctuary shaped like an Anubis Jackal was really Anubis.[4] At the Luxor temple, the two obelisks (the smaller one closer to the west is now at the Place de la Concorde in Paris) flanking the entrance were not the same height, but they created the illusion that they were.[4] With the layout of the temple they appear to be of equal height, but using illusionism, it enhances the relative distances hence making them look the same size to the wall behind it. Symbolically, it is a visual and spatial effect to emphasize the heights and distance from the wall, enhancing the already existing pathway.[4]
ExcavationEdit
From medieval times, the Muslim population of Luxor had settled in and around the temple, at the southward end of the mount.[1] Due to the Luxor's past city population building on top of and around the Luxor temple, centuries of rubble had accumulated, to the point where there was an artificial hill some 14.5 to 15 metres (48– 50 ft) in height.[1] The Luxor Temple had begun to be excavated by Professor Gaston Maspero after 1884 after he had been given the order to commence operations.[1] The excavations were carried out sporadically until 1960. Over time, accumulated rubbish of the ages had buried three quarters of the temple which contained the courts and colonnades which formed the nucleus of the Arab half of the modern village. Maspero had taken an interest earlier, and he had taken over the post of Mariette Pasha to complete the job in 1881. Not only was there rubbish, but there were also barracks, stores, houses, huts, pigeon towers, which needed to be removed in order to excavate the site. (There still exists a working mosque within the temple which was never removed.) Maspero received from the Egyptian minister of public works the authorization needed to obtain funds in order to negotiate compensation for the pieces of land covered by the houses and dependencies.
FestivalsEdit
The Luxor Temple was dedicated to the Theban Triad of the cult of the Royal Ka, Amun, Mut, and Khonsu and was built during the New Kingdom, the focus of the annual Opet Festival, in which a cult statue of Amun was paraded down the Nile from nearby Karnak Temple (ipet-isut) to stay there for a while, with his consort Mut, in a celebration of fertility – hence its name. However, other studies at the temple by the Epigraphic Survey team present a completely new interpretation of Luxor and its great annual festival (the Feast of Opet).[5] They have concluded that Luxor is the temple dedicated to the divine Egyptian ruler or, more precisely, to the cult of the Royal Ka.[5] Examples of the cult, of the Royal Ka can be seen with the colossal seated figures of the deified Ramesses II before the Pylon and at the entrance to the Colonnade are clearly Ka-statues, cult statues of the king as embodiment of the royal Ka.
Shrine stationsEdit
Six barque shrines, serving as way stations for the barques of the gods during festival processions, were set up on the avenue between the Karnak and Luxor Temple.[6] The avenue which went in a straight line between the Luxor Temple and the Karnak area was recently[when?] lined with human-headed sphinxes of Nekhtanebo I,21, in ancient times it is probable that these replaced earlier sphinxes which may have had different heads.[6] Along the avenue the stations were set up for ceremonies such as the Feast of Opet which held significance to temple.[6] Each station had a purpose, for example the fourth station was the station of Kamare, which cooled the oar of Amun.[6] The Fifth station of Kamare was the station which received the beauty of Amun.[6] Lastly the Sixth Station of Kamare was a shrine for Amun, Holy of Steps.[6] A small mud-brick shrine was built, in the courtyard of Nectanebo I, in early second century (126 CE) and was dedicated to Serapis and Isis, it was presented to Roman Emperor Hadrian on his birthday.[7]
DefacementEdit
Main article: Ding Jinhao engraving scandal
In 2013, a Chinese student posted a picture of engraved graffiti that read "Ding Jinhao was here" (Chinese: 丁锦昊到此一游) in Chinese on a sculpture. This discovery spurred debate about increased tourism after the media confirmed a Chinese student caused this and other defacements. The engraving has since been partially cleared.[8]
Notable Points of InterestEdit
Sun court of Amenhotep III
The colossal statues of Ramese The great at the first pylon
The Avenue of Sphinxes at night
Standing statue of Rameses II, modern day
Standing statue of Rameses II, before excavations
Processional colonnade of Amenhotep III
The Mosque abu al-Hallaj as seen from the court of Ramese II
^ a b c d Science, "Excavation of the Temple of Luxor," Science, 6, no. 6 (1885): 370.
^ "Chapel of Imperial Cult". Madain Project. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
^ a b c Bernd Fitzner, Kurt Heinrichs, and Dennis La Bouchardiere, "Weathering damage on Pharaonic sandstone monuments in Luxor-Egypt," Building and Environment, 38 (2003): 1089.
^ a b c d Alexander Badawy, "Illusionism in Egyptian Architecture," Studies in the Ancient Oriental Civilization, 35 (1969): 23.
^ a b Lanny Bell, "Luxor Temple and the Cult of the Royal Ka," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 44, no. 4 (1985): 251.
^ a b c d e f Charles Nims, "Places about Thebes," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 14, no. 2 (1955): 114.
^ "Chapel of Serapis". Madain Project. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
^ Hiufu Wong, CNN (27 May 2013). "Netizen outrage after Chinese tourist defaces Egyptian temple". CNN.
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Nuclear-free zone
A nuclear-free zone is an area in which nuclear weapons (see nuclear-weapon-free zone) and nuclear power plants are banned. The specific ramifications of these depend on the locale in question.
Nuclear-free zones usually neither address nor prohibit radiopharmaceuticals used in nuclear medicine even though many of them are produced in nuclear reactors. They typically do not prohibit other nuclear technologies such as cyclotrons used in particle physics.
Several sub-national authorities worldwide have declared themselves "nuclear-free". However, the label is often symbolic, as nuclear policy is usually determined and regulated at higher levels of government: nuclear weapons and components may traverse nuclear-free zones via military transport without the knowledge or consent of local authorities which had declared nuclear-free zones.
Palau became the first nuclear-free nation in 1980.[1] New Zealand was the first Western-allied nation to legislate towards a national nuclear free zone by effectively renouncing the nuclear deterrent.[2]
Nuclear-free zone by geographical areasEdit
AustraliaEdit
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Many Australian local government areas of Australia have passed anti-nuclear weaponry legislation; notable among these are Brisbane, capital of Queensland, which has been nuclear weapon free since 1983, and the South and North Sydney councils. However the passage of such legislation is generally considered just a symbolic measure.[3] The majority of councils which have passed anti-nuclear weaponry legislation are members of the Australian Nuclear Free Zones and Toxic Industries Secretariat which has 44 member councils.[4]
AustriaEdit
Austria is a nuclear free zone, when a nuclear power station was built during the 1970s at Zwentendorf, Austria, start-up was prevented by a popular vote in 1978. The completed power plant is now marketed as a shooting location for film and television.[5] On July 9, 1997, the Austrian Parliament voted unanimously to maintain the country's anti-nuclear policy.[6]
Ironically, the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency is located in Vienna, and the IAEA maintains nuclear laboratories both in Vienna and Seibersdorf.[7] The IAEA has also established programs to assist nuclear energy projects in developing countries.
Austria's anti-nuclear stance also causes tension with its nuclear neighbors. Vienna is located close to the Czech reactor at Temelin, and four reactors are being built in neighboring Slovakia and two in neighboring Hungary.[8] Austria also draws from regional electricity grids, meaning it imports nuclear power, although chancellor Werner Faymann has pledged to eliminate Austria's reliance on foreign power by 2015.[9]
CanadaEdit
Vancouver is a nuclear weapons free city.[10] Victoria, British Columbia is also a nuclear weapons free city. This has caused problems as nearby Esquimalt houses CFB Esquimalt, Canada's Pacific naval base, which is used frequently by the United States Navy. The USN routinely sends ships or aircraft carriers loaded with nuclear weapons to Esquimalt. As a result, the ships are forced to dock out of the city limits as not to violate the city by-laws.[citation needed]The policy does not limit operations at TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for nuclear and particle physics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. The province of British Columbia also bans mining for uranium, and the construction of nuclear power plants within its territorial limits.[11]
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Kitimat, British Columbia; Red Deer, Alberta, and Regina, Saskatchewan are also nuclear weapons-free cities.
Former Soviet UnionEdit
Central AsiaEdit
All states of Central Asia have signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and signed the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone treaty. Thus, there are no technologies to create a weapon or enrich the particles, but in Tajikistan, during the Soviet Union, such initiatives were brought to life, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the facilities were dismantled and moved to the Russian Federation. The Treaty came into force on 21 March 2009.
EstoniaEdit
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After Estonia seceded from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Estonia became a nuclear-free country. The two land-based nuclear reactors at the Soviet Navy nuclear submarine training centre in Paldiski were removed when Russia finally relinquished control of the nuclear reactor facilities in September 1995. There are no nuclear power stations in Estonia.
JapanEdit
Nuclear-free Kobe Port, seen from Po-ai Shiosai Park in 2011
Main article: Japan's non-nuclear policy
As a resource-poor nation, Japan is heavily reliant on nuclear power, but its unique experience in World War II has led to the wholesale rejection of nuclear weapons, holding nuclear weapons shall not be manufactured in, possessed by, or allowed entry into Japan. These tenets, known as the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, were first stated by Prime Minister Eisaku Satō in 1967, and were adopted as a parliamentary resolution in 1971, though they have never formally been entered into law. They continue to reflect the attitudes of both government and the general public, who remain staunchly opposed to the manufacture or use of nuclear weapons.
The Japan Self-Defense Forces have never made any attempt to manufacture or otherwise obtain nuclear arms, and no nuclear weapons are known to have been introduced into the Japanese Home Islands since the end of World War II. While the United States does not maintain nuclear bases within its military installations on the Home Islands, it is believed to have once stored weapons at Okinawa, which remained under US administrative jurisdiction until 1972.
ItalyEdit
Main article: Italian nuclear power referendum, 1987
Italy is a nuclear free zone since the Italian nuclear power referendum of November 1987. Following center-right parties' victory in the 2008 election, Italy's industry minister announced that the government scheduled the construction to start the first new Italian nuclear-powered plant by 2013. The announced project was paused in March 2011, after the Japanese earthquake, and scrapped after a referendum on 12–13 June 2011.
New ZealandEdit
Main article: New Zealand's nuclear-free zone
In 1984, Prime Minister David Lange barred nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from using New Zealand ports or entering New Zealand waters. Under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987,[12][13] territorial sea and land of New Zealand became nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered ship free zones. It does not ban nuclear power stations. A research reactor was operated by the University of Canterbury until 1981. Official planning for a nuclear power station continued until the 1980s. A nuclear reactor provided electricity for McMurdo Station, in the New Zealand Antarctic Territory from 1962–1972.
The Act prohibits "entry into the internal waters of New Zealand 12 miles (22.2 km) radius by any ship whose propulsion is wholly or partly dependent on nuclear power" and bans the dumping of radioactive waste within the nuclear-free zone, as well as prohibiting any New Zealand citizen or resident "to manufacture, acquire, possess, or have any control over any nuclear explosive device."[13][14] Combined with the firm policy of the United States to "neither confirm nor deny" whether particular naval vessels carry nuclear weapons (a "policy of deliberate ambiguity"), the Act effectively bars these ships from entering New Zealand waters.[15]
New Zealand's security treaty with the United States, ANZUS, did not mention nuclear deterrence and did not require unconditional port access. However, after New Zealand refused entry to USS Buchanan, the United States government suspended its ANZUS obligations to New Zealand, seeing New Zealand's effective rejection of United States Navy vessels as voiding the treaty. The Lange Labour government did not see their stance as incompatible with the treaty and sought a compromise for over two years before passing the Act.[15] Support for the non-nuclear policy was bolstered by the perceived over-reaction of the United States and by the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by French spies while docked in Auckland. According to some commentators, the legislation was a milestone in New Zealand's development as a nation and seen as an important act of sovereignty, self-determination and cultural identity.[16][17] New Zealand’s three decade anti-nuclear campaign is the only successful movement of its type in the world which resulted in the nation's nuclear-free zone status being enshrined in legislation.[18]
The nuclear-free zone law does not make building land-based nuclear power plants illegal. However, the relatively small electricity system, abundance of other resources to generate electricity, and public opposition has meant a nuclear power plant has never gone beyond the investigation phase – a nuclear power plant was proposed north of Auckland in the early 1970s, but the discovery of large natural gas reserves in Taranaki saw the proposal shelved.[19]
Nordic countriesEdit
Nuclear weapons-free Nordic (Finn. Ydinaseeton Pohjola) was an initiative by the President of Finland Urho Kekkonen for a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Nordic countries. The aim was to prevent the Nordic countries from becoming a nuclear battleground and a route for cruise missiles in the event of a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and NATO.
Nuclear energy, however, is used in both Finland and Sweden.
PalauEdit
Palau adopted its first constitution in July 1979, stating that the Micronesian country would be "nuclear-free". The United States told the Palauan government that this constitution was likely incompatible with the Compact of Free Association. The Palauan government submitted a revised version of the constitution without the "nuclear-free" clause the following October. The Palauan people rejected the revised document and instated the original constitution in July 1980.[1] Seven years later, however, the Palauan people voted to overturn their nuclear-free status out of "economic survival".[20]
United KingdomEdit
The Nuclear Free Zone Movement in the United Kingdom was very strong in early 1980s; up to two hundred local authorities including county councils, district councils and city councils such as the Greater London Council (GLC) (before its abolition) declared themselves to be 'nuclear free'. The first 'nuclear-free zone' in the UK was Manchester City Council in 1980 – this still exists to this day. Wales became 'nuclear free' on 23 February 1982 after Clwyd County Council declared itself 'nuclear free' and the Nuclear Free Wales Declaration was made. This policy was legally underpinned by Section 137 of the Local Government Act, which allowed local authorities to spend a small amount on whatever members considered was in the interest of their area or a part of their area.
UK nuclear-free local authorities refused to take part in civil defence exercises relating to nuclear war, which they thought were futile. The non-cooperation of the nuclear-free zone authorities was the main reason for the cancellation of the national 'Hard Rock' civil defence exercise in July 1982. In England and Wales 24 of the 54 county councils refused to participate and seven more co-operated only in a half-hearted way.[21] This has been seen as a victory for the British Peace movement against the policies of Margaret Thatcher. Generally, nuclear-free zones were predominantly Labour Party controlled councils but Liberal Party and even a few Conservative Party councillors were often active in this respect too.
United StatesEdit
A pair of billboards in Davis, California advertising its nuclear-free policy.
A number of towns, cities and counties in the United States established themselves as Nuclear-Free Zones in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The first was Missoula, Montana. In the November 1978 general election, Missoula voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative in the form of a land-use ordinance establishing the entirety of Missoula County as a "'nuclear free' zoning district" banning all nuclear facilities except those for medical purposes. (In the same election, Montana voters approved a statewide initiative by a 2–1 margin barring nuclear facilities or reactors without strict state-enforced regulatory standards and ratification by popular referendum, and in a follow-up 1980 initiative, Montanans narrowly voted to ban the disposal of nuclear waste.) That Missoula's measure was originally drafted as a zoning ordinance legally enforceable by the county planning department apparently created the popular term "Nuclear Free Zone" adopted as the name of the local political action group sponsoring the initiative and later used by other jurisdictions worldwide.[22]
Subsequently, the tiny town of Garrett Park, Maryland, attracted worldwide attention with its referendum in May, 1982. The following year, Takoma Park, Maryland, was officially declared a nuclear-free zone in 1983 by then-mayor Sam Abbott. A citizen committee of the local city council continues to monitor city contracts. The city cannot hold contracts with any company associated with any aspect of nuclear weapons without a waiver from the citizen committee. In September 2005, Takoma Park took a stand against the transportation of high-level nuclear waste through the City. It voted to amend its Nuclear-Free Zone Ordinance to give its citizen committee responsibility to collect information and from this information and from consultations with individuals and organizations involved in the transportation of high-level nuclear waste, to advise the City on how to promote the safety and welfare of its citizens from harmful exposure to high-level nuclear waste.[23]
Another well-known nuclear-free community is Berkeley, California, whose citizens passed the Nuclear Free Berkeley Act in 1986 which allows the city to levy fines for nuclear weapons-related activity and to boycott companies involved in the United States nuclear infrastructure. The City of Berkeley has posted signs at city limits proclaiming its nuclear free status. The ordinance specifies possible fines for such activities within its borders. The University of California, Berkeley is deeply involved in the history of nuclear weapons, and the University of California system until recently managed operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a U.S. nuclear weapons design laboratory, and continues to manage the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. At the time of the passage of the act, the University operated a nuclear reactor for research purposes, the Etcheverry Reactor, which it continued to operate after the act went into effect. The University of California, as a state institution, is not subject to Berkeley's municipal regulations, including the ban. Berkeley also has major freeway and train lines which are used in transporting nuclear materials.
On November 14, 1984 the Davis, California City Council declared the city to be a nuclear-free zone.[24] Davis has major freeway and train arteries running through it which are used for transporting nuclear materials. The University of California, with a campus at Davis, runs a research reactor at the nearby former McClellan Air Force Base, as well as workers who are involved with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
On November 8, 1988 the city of Oakland, California passed "Measure T" with 57% of the vote, making that city a nuclear free zone. Under Ordinance No. 11062 CMS then passed on December 6, 1988, the city is restricted from doing business with "any entity knowingly engaged in nuclear weapons work and any of its agents, subsidiaries or affiliates which are engaged in nuclear weapons work."[25] The measure was invalidated in federal court, on the grounds that it interfered with the Federal Government's constitutional authority over national defense and atomic energy.[26][27] The issue being Oakland is a major port, and like Berkeley, and Davis, has major freeway and train arteries running through it. In 1992, the Oakland City Council unanimously reinstated modified elements of the older ordinance, reportedly bringing the total number of Nuclear Free Zones in the United States at that time to 188, with a total population of over 17 million in 27 states.[28]
Other cities, counties, and other governments within the United States passing nuclear free zone ordinances and the date of adoption, when known:
Arcata, CA (9/15/1989)[29]
Boulder, CO (1985)[30]
Chicago, IL (1986)[31]
Cleveland Heights, OH (1987)[32]
East Windsor, CT (12/16/1992)[33]
Eugene, OR (11/1986); revised measure defeated 5/15/1990[34]
Garrett Park, MD (1982)[35]
Hawaii County, HI (1981); amendment excluding military approved by referendum 11/1986[34]
Hayward, CA (9/15/87)[36]
Homer, AK (10/3/89)[34]
Iowa City, IA (1985)[37]
Marin County, CA (1986)[38]
Oberlin, Ohio (November 1985)
New York City, NY (11/8/1984)[39]
Reno, NV (1996)[40]
Sac and Fox Nation, OK (8/28/1993)[41]
Santa Cruz, CA (11/17/1998)[42]
Sykesville, MD (6/16/1982)[43]
African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
France and weapons of mass destruction
Helen Caldicott
Mongolian Nuclear-Weapons-Free Status
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Non-nuclear future
Nuclear-Free Future Award
Nuclear weapons and the United States
Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
Treaty of Tlatelolco
United States and weapons of mass destruction
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^ Lange, David (1990). Nuclear Free: The New Zealand Way. New Zealand: Penguin Books.
^ "Nuclear-free city? Afraid no". Brisbane Times. March 18, 2009. Retrieved 6 Feb 2014.
^ "[Untitled leaflet]" (PDF). Australian Nuclear Free Zones and Toxic Industries Secretariat. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014.
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^ "Coalition of Nuclear-Free Countries". WISE News Communique. September 26, 1997. Archived from the original on February 23, 2006. Retrieved 2006-05-19.
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^ "Zoning & Development Bylaw 3575, Section 10" (PDF). City of Vancouver. p. 10.23.
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^ New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987
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^ a b Pugh, Michael Charles (1989). The ANZUS Crisis, Nuclear Visiting and Deterrence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 0-521-34355-0.
^ "Lange's impact on NZ and world". BBC News. August 14, 2005. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
^ Nuclear threat continues to grow, New Zealand warns on anniversary of anti-nuclear law – International Herald Tribune
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^ "Palau Drops Nuclear-Free Status". The New York Times. AP. 7 August 1987. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
^ Bolsover, Philip, "A victory – and a new development", in Minnion, J., and Bolsover, P., The CND Story, London: Alison and Busby, 1983
^ For more on the Missoula zoning ordinance, see Missoula Independent, Nov. 30, 2000, at: http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/reading-the-sign/Content?oid=1133059. For the zoning ordinance text as updated in 2007, see Missoula County, MT Nuclear Free Zone, at: http://greenpolicy360.net/index.php?title=Missoula_County%2C_MT_Nuclear_Free_Zone[permanent dead link]
^ For more on Takoma Park's nuclear-free history see: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-06-28. Retrieved 2006-11-02. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
^ Nuclear Free Zone – Davis Wiki
^ Schedule P, City of Oakland, rev. 7/30/01 Archived May 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ A Nuclear-Free Zone Is Ruled to Be Invalid, New York Times/AP, 4/28/90
^ Guardian (US), 23 May 1990, p7, via WISE Nuclear Issues Information Service Archived June 11, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ Oakland City Council Reinstates Nuclear-Free Policy, US Newswire 7/3/92, via Highbeam[dead link]
^ " ARCATA NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE ZONE ACT Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ Boulder Revised Code Chapter 6–8: Nuclear Free Zone, via Colorado Code Publishing Company Archived June 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ The Company As Target, Ronnie Dugger, New York Times Magazine, 9/20/87
^ Signs announcing Cleveland Heights as Nuclear Free Zone: Whatever happened to ...? | cleveland.com
^ Town of East Windsor Nuclear Free Zone Ordinance
^ a b c Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute Archives: Human Rights and Peace Law Docket 1945–1993
^ Town of Garrett Park: History Archived 2009-05-23 at the Wayback Machine
^ Ordinance No. 87-024, An Ordinance Establishing Nuclear Free Hayward Archived December 29, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ [2] press-citizen- Iowa City to replace missing signs
^ Marin County Code, Chapter 23.12: Nuclear-Free Zone
^ Peace Magazine, Mar 1985 The article adds that 14 of 16 ballot measures passed in the 1984 general election, and that there were 80 US NFZs at that time.
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Tag: Classical
850 BC-476 AD: Architecture of Classical egypt
The Classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome has shaped the way we build today.
The Parthenon sets on top of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
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How Classical Architecture Began
From the rise of ancient Greece until the fall of the Roman empire, great buildings were constructed according to precise rules. The Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius, who lived during first century BC, believed that builders should use mathematical principles when constructing temples. “For without symmetry and proportion no temple can have a regular plan,” Vitruvius wrote in his famous treatise De Architectura, or Ten Books on Architecture(compare prices).The Classical Orders
In his writings, Marcus Vitruvius introduced the Classical orders, which defined column styles and entablature designs used in Classical architecture. The earliest Classical orders were Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
Classical Periods
700 BC-323 BC: Greek. The Doric column was first developed in Greece and it was used for great temples, including the famous Parthenon in Athens. Simple Ionic columns were used for smaller temples and building interiors.
323 BC-146 BC: Hellenistic. When Greece was at the height of its power in Europe and Asia, the empire built elaborate temples and secular buildings with Ionic and Corinthian columns. The Hellenistic period ended with conquests by the Roman Empire.
44 BC-476 AD: Roman. The Romans borrowed heavily from the earlier Greek and Hellenistic styles, but their buildings were more highly ornamented. They used Corinthian and composite style columns along with decorative brackets. The invention of concrete allowed the Romans to build arches, vaults, and domes. A famous example of Roman architecture is the Roman Colosseum. To learn more about architecture in Ancient Rome, see: Architecture of the Ancient Roman Empire. To view 3D images of Rome as it looked in 320 AD, download the free Google Earth.
From Classical to Neoclassical
More than 1,500 years after the Roman architect Vitruvius wrote his important book, the Renaissance architect Giacomo da Vignola outlined Vitruvius’s ideas in a treatise titled The Five Orders of Architecture (compare prices). Published in 1563, The Five Orders of Architecture became a guide for builders throughout western Europe.
In 1570, another Renaissance architect, Andrea Palladio, used the new technology of movable type to publish I Quattro Libri dell’ Architettura, or The Four Books of Architecture (compare prices). In this book, Palladio showed how Classical rules could be used not just for grand temples but also for private villas. Palladio’s ideas spread across Europe and into the New World, giving rise to a variety of Neoclassical styles.
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Bahrain and Chile ratify the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (1970)
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The 1970 UNESCO Secretariat is pleased to announce and welcome two UNESCO Member States, namely Bahrain and Chile, to the UNESCO 1970 Convention.
Bahrain officially ratified the Convention on 7 March 2014, and Chile did so on 18 April of the same year. These ratifications are an important step in strengthening and further developing the 1970 Convention, and reflect the growing international support in the fight against the illicit trafficking of cultural property across the world.
A constant concern of the Secretariat has been how to increase the number of States to ratify the 1970 Convention. Harmonization of the legal provisions aimed at combating trafficking in cultural property is made possible by such ratifications and by the transferal of the Convention’s provisions into domestic law. The aim is to prevent traffickers from using loopholes in national legislation to launder their trafficking by placing stolen or illegally exported property on the legal art market circuit. By ratifying the Convention, States send traffickers a sign that they are stepping up monitoring in terms of the legal protection of cultural property and the fight against its trafficking, as well as surveillance of itineraries and transit hubs for cultural property.
The Director-General, Irina Bokova, recently underlined the importance to fight against the illicit trafficking of cultural property, speaking on the occasion of the World Tourism Fair (ITB Berlin) in March 2014: “We say that the illicit traffic of cultural property is estimated at $ 7 billion per year, but this is not a question of money: the looting of cultural property is a theft of identities and history of a people, and we must fight all our forces.”
The UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (1970) has today been ratified by 127 States Parties.
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Software release life cycle
(Redirected from Beta version)
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}}A software release life cycle is the sum of the stages of development and maturity for a piece of computer software: ranging from its initial development to its eventual release, and including updated versions of the released version to help improve software or fix software bugs still present in the software.
2 Stages of development
2.1 Pre-alpha
2.2 Alpha
2.3 Beta
2.3.1 Perpetual beta
2.3.2 Open and closed beta
2.4 Release candidate
3.1 Release to manufacturing (RTM)
3.2 General availability (GA)
3.3 Release to web (RTW)
4 Support
4.1 End-of-life
Usage of the "alpha/beta" test terminology originated at IBM. Similar terminologies for IBM's software development were used by people involved with IBM from at least the 1950s (and probably earlier). "A" test was the verification of a new product before the public announcement. "B" test was the verification before releasing the product to be manufactured. "C" test was the final test before the general availability of the product. As software became a significant part of IBM's offerings, the alpha test terminology was used to denote the pre-announcement test and the beta test was used to show product readiness for general availability. Martin Belsky, a manager on some of IBM's earlier software projects claimed to have invented the terminology. IBM dropped the alpha/beta terminology during the 1960s, but by then it had received fairly wide notice. The usage of "beta test" to refer to testing done by customers was not done in IBM. Rather, IBM used the term "field test".
Stages of development[edit]
Pre-alpha[edit]
Pre-alpha refers to all activities performed during the software project before formal testing. These activities can include requirements analysis, software design, software development, and unit testing. In typical open source development, there are several types of pre-alpha versions. Milestone versions include specific sets of functions and are released as soon as the functionality is complete.
Alpha[edit]
The alpha phase of the release life cycle is the first phase to begin software testing (alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, used as the number 1). In this phase, developers generally test the software using white-box techniques. Additional validation is then performed using black-box or gray-box techniques, by another testing team. Moving to black-box testing inside the organization is known as alpha release.[1][better source needed]
Alpha software is software that is not thoroughly tested by the developer before it is released to customers. Alpha software usually contains serious errors;[2] therefore it can be unstable and could cause crashes or data loss. Alpha software may not contain all of the features that are planned for the final version.[3] In general, external availability of alpha software is uncommon in proprietary software, while open source software often has publicly available alpha versions. The alpha phase usually ends with a feature freeze, indicating that no more features will be added to the software. At this time, the software is said to be feature complete. A beta test is carried out following acceptance testing at the supplier's site (alpha test) and immediately prior to general release of the software as a product.[4]
Beta[edit]
"Beta test" redirects here. For the film, see Beta Test (film).
Beta, named after the second letter of the Greek alphabet, is the software development phase following alpha. Software in the beta stage is also known as betaware.[5] Beta phase generally begins when the software is feature complete but likely to contain a number of known or unknown bugs.[6] Software in the beta phase will generally have many more bugs in it than completed software, speed or performance issues, and may still cause crashes or data loss. The focus of beta testing is reducing impacts to users, often incorporating usability testing. The process of delivering a beta version to the users is called beta release and this is typically the first time that the software is available outside of the organization that developed it. Software beta releases can either be public or private, depending on whether they are openly available or only available to a limited audience. Beta version software is often useful for demonstrations and previews within an organization and to prospective customers. Some developers refer to this stage as a preview, preview release, prototype, technical preview / technology preview (TP),[7] or early access.
Beta testers are people who actively report issues of beta software. They are usually customers or representatives of prospective customers of the organization that develops the software. Beta testers tend to volunteer their services free of charge but often receive versions of the product they test, discounts on the release version, or other incentives.
Perpetual beta[edit]
Main article: Perpetual beta
Some software is kept in perpetual beta, where new features and functionality are continually added to the software without establishing a final "stable" release.
As the Internet has facilitated rapid and inexpensive distribution of software, companies have begun to take a looser approach to use of the word "beta".[8] In February 2005, ZDNet published an article[9] about the recent phenomenon of a beta version often staying for years and being used as if it were in production level, disparagingly called "perpetual beta". It noted that Gmail and Google News, for example, had been in beta for a long time although widely used; Google News did leave beta in January 2006, followed by Google Apps, including Gmail, in July 2009.[10] This technique may allow a developer to delay offering full support and responsibility for remaining issues. In the context of Web 2.0, people even talk of perpetual betas to signify that some software is meant to stay in beta state. Also, "beta" is sometimes used to indicate something more like a release candidate, or as a form of time-limited demo, or marketing technique.[11] Since the introduction of Windows 8, Microsoft has called pre-release software as a "preview", rather than beta. All pre-release builds released through the Windows Insider Program launched in 2014 are termed "Insider Preview builds".
Open and closed beta[edit]
Developers may release either a closed beta also called private beta, or an open beta also called public beta; closed beta versions are released to a restricted group of individuals for a user test by invitation, while open beta testers are from a larger group, or anyone interested. Private beta could be suitable for the software that is capable to deliver value, but is not ready to be used by everyone either due to scaling issues, lack of documentation or still missing vital features. The testers report any bugs that they find, and sometimes suggest additional features they think should be available in the final version. Examples of a major public beta test include the following:
Early customers purchased a "pioneer edition" of the WordVision word processor for the IBM PC for $49.95. In 1984, Stephen Manes wrote that "in a brilliant marketing coup, Bruce and James Program Publishers managed to get people to pay for the privilege of testing the product."[12]
In September 2000 a boxed version of Apple's Mac OS X Public Beta operating system was released.[13]
Microsoft's release of community technology previews (CTPs) for Windows Vista, between September 2005 and May 2006.[14]
From 2009 to 2011, Minecraft was in public beta.
From December 29, 2014, all owners of Halo: The Master Chief Collection for the Xbox One were able to download and play the Beta of Halo 5: Guardians free of charge until January 18, 2015. Users of the Beta were reminded via an in-game popup that the release was a Beta and could contain some glitches, and were encouraged to communicate them through the Halo series online community.
Open betas serve the dual purpose of demonstrating a product to potential consumers, and testing among an extremely wide user base likely to bring to light obscure errors that a much smaller testing team might not find.
Release candidate[edit]
A release candidate (RC), also known as "going silver", is a beta version with potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. In this stage of product stabilization, all product features have been designed, coded and tested through one or more beta cycles with no known showstopper-class bugs. A release is called code complete when the development team agrees that no entirely new source code will be added to this release. There could still be source code changes to fix defects, changes to documentation and data files, and peripheral code for test cases or utilities. Beta testers, if privately selected, will often be credited for using the release candidate as though it were a finished product. Beta testing is conducted in a client's or customer's location and to test the software from a user's perspective.
Release[edit]
Once released, the software is generally known as a "stable release". The formal term often depends on the method of release: physical media, online release or a web application.
Release to manufacturing (RTM)[edit]
The term release to manufacturing (RTM), also known as "going gold", is a term used when a software product is ready to be delivered. This build may be digitally signed, allowing the end user to verify the integrity and authenticity of the software purchase. A copy of the RTM build known as the "gold master" or GM is sent for mass duplication if applicable. RTM precedes general availability (GA) when the product is released to the public.
It is typically used in certain retail mass-production software contexts—as opposed to a specialized software production or project in a commercial or government production and distribution—where the software is sold as part of a bundle in a related computer hardware sale and typically where the software and related hardware is ultimately to be available and sold on mass/public basis at retail stores to indicate that the software has met a defined quality level and is ready for mass retail distribution. RTM could also mean in other contexts that the software has been delivered or released to a client or customer for installation or distribution to the related hardware end user computers or machines. The term does not define the delivery mechanism or volume; it only states that the quality is sufficient for mass distribution. The deliverable from the engineering organization is frequently in the form of a golden master media used for duplication or to produce the image for the web.
General availability (GA)[edit]
Milestones in a product life cycle: general availability (GA), end of life announcement (EOLA), last order date (LOD), and end-of-life (EOL)
General availability (GA) is the marketing stage at which all necessary commercialization activities have been completed and a software product is available for purchase, depending, however, on language, region, electronic vs. media availability.[15] Commercialization activities could include security and compliance tests, as well as localization and worldwide availability. The time between RTM and GA can be from a week to months in some cases before a generally available release can be declared because of the time needed to complete all commercialization activities required by GA. At this stage, the software has "gone live".
Release to web (RTW)[edit]
Release to the web (RTW) or web release is a means of software delivery that utilizes the Internet for distribution. No physical media are produced in this type of release mechanism by the manufacturer. Web releases are becoming more common as Internet usage grows.
Support[edit]
During its supported lifetime, software is sometimes subjected to service releases, patches or service packs, sometimes also called "interim releases". For example, Microsoft released three major service packs for the 32-bit editions of Windows XP and two service packs for the 64-bit editions. Such service releases contain a collection of updates, fixes, and enhancements, delivered in the form of a single installable package. They may also implement new features. Some software is released with the expectation of regular support. Classes of software that generally involve protracted support as the norm include anti-virus suites and massively multiplayer online games. A good example of a game that utilizes this process is Minecraft, an indie game developed by Mojang, which features regular "updates" featuring new content and bug fixes.
End-of-life [edit]
See also: End-of-life (product) and abandonware
When software is no longer sold or supported, the product is said to have reached end-of-life, to be discontinued, retired, deprecated, abandoned, or obsolete, but user loyalty may continue its existence for some time, even long after its platform is obsolete—e.g., the Atari ST and Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
After the end-of-life date, the developer will usually not implement any new features, fix existing defects, bugs or vulnerabilities (known before that date or not) or provide any support for the product.
Computer programming portal
Application retirement
Merge window
Rolling release
Software deployment
Software versioning
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Andrew Gold
Andrew Gold performing in 1980
Andrew Maurice Gold
(1951-08-02)August 2, 1951
Burbank, California, U.S.
June 3, 2011(2011-06-03) (aged 59)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Andrew Maurice Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger. His works include the US Top 10 single "Lonely Boy" (1977), as well as "Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978) and the UK Top Five hit "Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978). He had further international chart success in the 1980s as the lead singer of Wax, a collaboration with English musician and songwriter Graham Gouldman.
Gold was a multi-instrumentalist who played guitar, bass, keyboards, accordion, synthesizer, harmonica, saxophone, flute, drums and percussion, and more arcane musical instruments such as ukulele, musette, and harmonium.[1] He was also a producer, sound engineer, film composer, session musician, actor, and painter.
Gold played and recorded with artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Ringo Starr, Don Henley, Eagles, James Taylor, Brian Wilson, Roy Orbison, Art Garfunkel, Carly Simon, John Waite, Jennifer Warnes, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, 10cc, Stephen Bishop, America, Loudon Wainwright III, Bonnie Raitt, Nicolette Larson, Maria Muldaur, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Neil Diamond, Sarah Brightman, Barbi Benton, Eric Carmen, Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Rita Coolidge, Juice Newton, Leo Sayer, Freddie Mercury, Karla Bonoff, Bette Midler, Cher, Vince Gill, Jesse McCartney and J. D. Souther.[2][3][4]
1 Early life
3 Personal life and death
Gold was born in Burbank, California,[5] and eventually followed his parents into show business. His mother was singer Marni Nixon, who provided the singing voice for numerous actresses, notably Natalie Wood in West Side Story, Deborah Kerr in The King and I, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady; his father was Ernest Gold, an Austrian-born composer who won an Academy Award for his score for the movie Exodus.[6] He had two younger sisters.
Gold began writing songs at the age of 13. Abroad in England for school, the 16-year-old Gold scored his first recording contract on the strength of a selection of demos he submitted to Polydor Records' London office. That contract resulted in the single "Of All the Little Girls," which was recorded with his friend and collaborator Charlie Villiers, and released in 1967 under the name Villiers and Gold.[7]
1970–1979[edit]
By the early 1970s, Gold was working full-time as a musician, songwriter and record producer. He was a member of the Los Angeles band Bryndle, alongside Kenny Edwards, Wendy Waldman, and Karla Bonoff, releasing the single "Woke Up This Morning" in 1970. He played a major role as multi-instrumentalist and arranger for Linda Ronstadt's breakthrough album, 1974's Heart Like a Wheel, and her next four albums. Among other accomplishments, he played the majority of instruments on "You're No Good," Ronstadt's only #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, and the same on "When Will I Be Loved," "Heat Wave" and many other classic hits. He was in her band from 1973 until 1977, and then sporadically throughout the 1980s and 1990s, appearing at some of her concert appearances.
In 1975, Gold debuted as a solo artist, with the album Andrew Gold. He released four studio albums during the 1970s and over twelve since then. The second of his 1970s studio albums, released in 1976, was titled What's Wrong With This Picture? Its cover art consisted of a photograph with which many things were wrong; however, it had no title track. From it, he released his hit single "Lonely Boy," which reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June 1977[8] and was included in a number of film soundtracks, including Boogie Nights in 1997 and Adam Sandler's 1998 movie The Waterboy. In February 2000, the American rock band Foo Fighters recorded a cover of the song to be used as a B-side for an upcoming single off their 1999 album There Is Nothing Left to Lose; however, it was not used as planned. On Marc Maron's January 17, 2013 WTF podcast, Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl said that the band's cover of "Lonely Boy" would eventually be released as the A-side of a special "Solid Gold" 45 rpm single with a Foo Fighters version of Gold's "Never Let Her Slip Away" as the B-side.[9]
Although "Lonely Boy" was the bigger radio hit in the States, his single "Thank You for Being a Friend," which peaked at #25 in 1978,[10] later gained popularity as the theme song for The Golden Girls. (It was performed by Cindy Fee over the opening titles of the series.) "Thank You for Being a Friend" has also shown up in places as diverse as an episode of the long-running animated TV sitcom The Simpsons,[11] a 2013 Super Bowl ad for the National Football League,[12] and an audio file in various musical greeting cards. Gold's biggest UK hit was "Never Let Her Slip Away," which made it to #5 twice on the British singles charts, once by him and again 14 years later by dance-pop group Undercover. Freddie Mercury, who was a friend of Gold's, assisted him with harmony vocals as an uncredited background singer.[13] Among the artists recording Gold's material was British singer Petula Clark who covered "Lonely Boy" in French ("Poor Lonesome Play Boy") on her Paris, Orleans, Paris album. On his 1976 Endless Flight album, Leo Sayer covered Gold's song "Endless Flight," drawn from Gold's own debut album released the previous year.
The year 1975 also marked a successful collaboration with Art Garfunkel, wherein Gold played most of the instruments on Garfunkel's solo hit "I Only Have Eyes For You" (which went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart), as well as several other cuts on Garfunkel's album Breakaway. In 1977 Gold also played guitar on two cuts of Eric Carmen's album Boats Against the Current, including "She Did It," which was a #23 hit that same year.[14] Gold toured with the Eagles, worked in the recording studio and toured with Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne; played and sang on record and toured with James Taylor, and was second engineer on part of Joni Mitchell's Blue album.
In 1981, Gold produced, co-wrote, sang and played on three 10cc tracks that appeared on the hit-making pop-rock band's 1981 album Ten Out of 10. Subsequently, Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman of 10cc invited Gold to become a member of the group. Although he had worked with them in the studio, business conflicts prevented him from joining their ranks. In late 1983, 10cc broke up, and in the aftermath, Gold and Gouldman formed Wax. Wax recorded and toured for five years. They enjoyed international success, particularly in the UK, where the duo had several hits including "Right Between the Eyes" and their biggest hit, "Bridge to Your Heart". Wax broke up as a recording and touring entity in 1989, but Gold and Gouldman continued to write and record together whenever possible.
Gold played on Cher's hit 1989 album Heart of Stone and, during the early '90s, wrote and composed hits for Trisha Yearwood as well as Wynonna Judd, for whom he co-wrote the #1 single "I Saw The Light" with Lisa Angelle. (Later, Gold would produce Angelle on her own album, which featured a number of songs on whose authorship and composition they collaborated.) He also produced singles for Vince Gill, wrote and produced tracks for Celine Dion, and arranged a cover of the Everly Brothers' hit "All I Have to Do Is Dream" that was sung by stars Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen in the 1984 science-fiction film Starman.
In the 1990s, Gold once again joined forces with ex-bandmates Karla Bonoff, Wendy Waldman and Kenny Edwards to re-form Bryndle and release their first full-length album, Bryndle. In 1996, Gold left Bryndle and released the children's Halloween-oriented novelty album Halloween Howls with John Waite, featuring the track "Spooky Scary Skeletons." The same year, he released the solo album ....Since 1951, and produced Stephen Bishop's Blue Guitar album. Thereafter, he recorded the psychedelic '60s tribute album Greetings from Planet Love under the pseudonym "The Fraternal Order Of The All," releasing it on his own record label, "QBrain Records." This album was a multi-tracked solo affair with Gold essentially playing all of the instruments and singing all of the vocals on original songs in the style of Gold's favorite 1960s bands such as The Beatles, The Byrds and The Beach Boys. He produced, composed, and/or wrote tracks for numerous films, such as the comedy Rectuma from director Mark Pirro, and contributed songs to many television soundtracks and commercials. Among his more high-profile gigs, he sang "Final Frontier," the theme song for the television sitcom Mad About You. In a remarkable turn of events, his rendition of the song was used as the wake-up call for the Mars Pathfinder space probe in 1996.[15] Gold also produced seven albums for Japanese singer-songwriter Eikichi Yazawa.
In 2000, Gold compiled a Wax rarities album, House of Wax on Wax, as well as recording and releasing a new solo album The Spence Manor Suite; this last was followed in 2002 by another solo collection, Intermission. In the early 2000s, he formed a Byrds tribute band, Byrds of a Feather, which performed in the Los Angeles area. He appeared in a 2006 concert with the classic rock group America, and singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop, and the performance was later released as a DVD titled America And Friends - Live at the Ventura Theater.[16] The show featured Gold performing "Thank You for Being a Friend," "Final Frontier," "Bridge to Your Heart" and "Lonely Boy," as well as accompanying America and Bishop on guitar and vocals. Gold had earlier produced America's Holiday Harmony Christmas album back in 2002,[17] wherein he also played most of the instruments and co-wrote the track "Christmas in California."
Personal life and death[edit]
Gold was married to Leslie Kogan. His first marriage was to Vanessa Gold, with whom he had three daughters, Emily, Victoria and Olivia.[2]
In the early 1980s, Gold was engaged to singer Nicolette Larson; this ended shortly after the completion of Larson's 1982 album All Dressed Up and No Place to Go, which Gold had produced.
Although Gold put personal references in the lyrics to "Lonely Boy" (including his year of birth), he admitted in an interview that it was not autobiographical: "Maybe it was a mistake to do that, but I simply put in those details because it was convenient. I hadn't been a lonely boy at all – I'd had a very happy childhood."[3]
In 1990, Gold and four of his family members competed on the game show Family Feud.[18]
Gold had been diagnosed with renal cancer and was responding well to treatment; however, on June 3, 2011, he died in his sleep from heart failure at age 59 in Los Angeles.[2]
Albums[edit]
1975: Andrew Gold (#160 US)
1976: What's Wrong with This Picture? (#95 US)
1978: All This and Heaven Too (#81 US; #31 UK)
1980: Whirlwind (#120 US)
1996: "Halloween Howls" (as Andrew Gold & Friends)
1997: "Greetings from Planet Love" (as The Fraternal Order of All)
1998: ...Since 1951
1999: Warm Breezes
2000: The Spence Manor Suite
2002: Intermission
2008: Copy Cat
Compilations and live albums
1978: An Interview with Andrew Gold (promo-only interview & music LP)
1991: Where the Heart Is
1997: Thank You for Being a Friend: The Best of Andrew Gold
1998: Leftovers
2011: The Essential Collection (compilation album)
2013: Andrew Gold & What's Wrong with This Picture & All This and Heaven Too & Whirlwind (box set)
2015: The Late Show - Live 1978
2018: An Introduction to: Andrew Gold
With Graham Gouldman as WAX
1984: Common Knowledge
1986: Magnetic Heaven
1987: American English
1989: A Hundred Thousand in Fresh Notes
1997: The Wax Files ('Best of' compilation)
2000: Wax Bikini (compilation of outtakes, demos, etc.)
With Bryndle
1995: Bryndle
2002: House of Silence
1967: "Of All the Little Girls" (UK release - with the duo Villiers & Gold)
1970: "Woke Up This Morning" (with the band Bryndle)
1975: "Heartaches in Heartaches"
1975: "That's Why I Love You" (#68 US)
1976: "Stay"
1976: "Do Wah Diddy"
1976: "One of Them Is Me"
1977: "Lonely Boy" (#7 US Billboard; #3 US Cash Box; #7 Canada; #11 UK)[19]
1977: "Go Back Home Again"
1978: "How Can This Be Love" (#19 UK)[19]
1978: "I'm on My Way"
1978: "Thank You for Being a Friend" (#25 US Billboard; #11 US Cash Box; #7 Canada; #42 UK)[19]
1978: "Never Let Her Slip Away" (#67 US; #60 Canada, #5 UK)[19]
1979: "Kiss This One Goodbye"
1979: "Stranded on the Edge"
1979: "Nine to Five" (UK)
1996: "Spooky Scary Skeletons" (CD single)
2000: "Nowhere Now" (CD single)
2000: "Sorry to Let You Down" (CD single)
1984: "Don't Break My Heart" (UK - released under the band's initial name of World in Action)
1984: "Don't Break My Heart" (UK - re-released under the band's subsequent name of Common Knowledge)
1985: "Victoria" (UK - released under the band name of Common Knowledge)
1986: "Right Between the Eyes" (#43 US; #60 UK)[20]
1986: "Ball & Chain"
1986: "Shadows of Love"
1986: "Systematic" (UK)
1987: "Bridge to Your Heart" (#12 UK)[20]
1987: "In Some Other World" (UK & Germany)
1987: "American English" (Germany)
1989: "Anchors Aweigh" (#95 UK)
1989: "Wherever You Are" (UK)
Some singles released as promo copies only; some chart positions are from the magazines Cashbox and Record World.
^ AllMusic: Andrew Gold - Credits
^ a b c Vitello, Paul (June 7, 2011). "Andrew Gold, Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 59". The New York Times.
^ a b Leigh, Spencer. Obituary, Andrew Gold, The Independent, 8 June 2011.
^ Obituary, Telegraph, 8 June 2011.
^ Thursby, Keith. "Andrew Gold, musician, songwriter, arranger dies at 59," Los Angeles Times, Monday, June 6, 2011.
^ Andrew Gold Official Biography
^ Billboard Chart for 6-11-1977
^ Marc Maron's WTF podcast (Episode 353)
^ The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits
^ The Simpsons (Season 20, Episode 3) "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
^ NFL Super Bowl Commercial
^ Freddie Mercury provided uncredited backing vocals per these sources:
"Top 500". Smooth Radio. Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
Sweeting, Adam. Andrew Gold obituary. The Guardian. June 6, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
"Never Let Her Slip Away". Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the 70s. BBC Radio 2. 5 Feb 2012.
O'Neal, Sean. R.I.P. Andrew Gold, songwriter of "Lonely Boy" and The Golden Girls theme. The A.V. Club. June 6, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
Singer/Songwriter Andrew Gold Dies. Contactmusic. June 6, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
Drive with Russell Woolf; Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy Archived 2013-03-10 at the Wayback Machine. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. June 16, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
^ Songfacts.com
^ Mars Pathfinder - Rover Wake-Up Songs
^ AllMusic: America And Friends Live at the Ventura Theater
^ AllMusic: America - Holiday Harmony
^ "Memorable moments satiate at New Orleans jazz festival". The Denver Post. 12 May 1990. Retrieved 11 July 2013. I viewed it in my hotel room, and I hope someone in Denver saw Andrew Gold (whose "Lonely Boy" hit No. 7 in 1977) reduced to leading his family in competition on television's 'Family Feud' for $10000. (subscription required)
^ a b c d Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 230. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
July 2011 Dublin City FM Radio Special
Andrew Gold and Graham Gouldman songs at Harvey Lisberg
Andrew Gold (1975)
What's Wrong with This Picture? (1976)
All This and Heaven Too (1978)
An Interview with Andrew Gold [Promo-only interview & music LP] (1978)
Whirlwind (1980)
Home is Where the Heart Is (1991)
...Since 1951 (1996)
Halloween Howls (as Andrew Gold & Friends) (1996)
Greetings from Planet Love (as The Fraternal Order of the All) (1996)
Thank You for Being a Friend: The Best of Andrew Gold (1997)
Leftovers (1998)
Warm Breezes (1998)
The Spence Manor Suite (2000)
Intermission (2002)
Copy Cat (2008)
With Wax
Common Knowledge (1984)
Magnetic Heaven (1986)
American English (1987)
A Hundred Thousand in Fresh Notes (1989)
The Wax Files ('Best of' compilation) (1997)
Wax Bikini (Compilation of outtakes, demos, etc.) (2000)
"Of All the Little Girls" (UK release - recorded as duo of 'Villiers & Gold') (1968)
"Woke Up This Morning" (with the band 'Bryndle')(1970)
"Heartaches in Heartaches" (1975)
"That Is Why I Love You" (1975)
"Stay" (1976)
"Do Wah Diddy" (1976)
"One of Them Is Me" (1976)
"Lonely Boy" (1977)
"Go Back Home Again" (1977)
"How Can This Be Love" (1978)
"I'm on My Way" (1978)
"Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978)
"Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978)
"Kiss This One Goodbye" (1979)
"Stranded on the Edge" (1979)
"Nine to Five" (1979)
"Don't Break My Heart" (UK - Released under the band's initial name of World In Action) (1984)
"Don't Break My Heart" (UK - Re-released under the band's subsequent name of Common Knowledge) (1984)
"Victoria" (UK - Released under the band name of Common Knowledge) (1985)
"Right Between The Eyes" (1986)
"Ball & Chain" (1986)
"Shadows of Love" (1986)
"Systematic" (1986)
"Bridge to Your Heart" (1987)
"In Some Other World" (1987)
"American English"(1987)
"Anchors Aweigh" (1989)
"Wherever You Are" (1989)
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Posts tagged “911 Lies”
Why The Absence Of Sauce For The Gander?
Fifty Years ago, a terrorist attack was launched by the State of Israel, against an unarmed ship, the USS Liberty, in an attempt to provoke a war against Egypt, by laying the blame for the attack on the Egyptian regime. This attack was written out of history and no legal action, of any sort, not even a reprimand, was made against the Israeli terrorists.
Some years later, another attack against an American ship, the USS Cole, was carried out, and without supporting evidence, the blame was laid at the door of Muslim terrorists. This was our introduction to the name Osama bin Laden. The fact that Israel, which had most certainly been responsible for the attack on the USS Liberty, was also implicated in the attack of the USS Cole, was ignored.
A year later, there was another attack, this time, on the World Trade Centre in New York, the 911 episode. The finger of blame was immediately pointed in the direction of International Muslim Terrorism, under the control of Osama bin Laden and a list, naming a group of Muslim suicide bombers was instantly, produced, before the dust had settled.
The fact that a group of Israeli ‘artists’ had been lodged in the World Trade Centre, in the months preceding the attack, was ignored as being of no importance, as was the fact that a group of Jews had been intercepted by Police, on the Washington Bridge, in a van, with a large illustration of the World Trade Centre emblazoned on its side, with an aircraft crashing into it and with a large amount of high explosives inside. All of this, plus the evidence, on Israeli television, of five Mossad agents who admitted to having been on a mission to film the event live, which has become part of history, was all ignored and the unsupported claims against the Muslims sustained. One could be forgiven should one smell a rat in the sewer.
There were also other unsupported claims made against Muslims leading up to 911, in Kenya and other places, but there has never been a finger pointed in the direction of a group which initiated World Two, in 1933 and which by 1947 was murdering British Soldiers in Palestine, all without reproach.
Even in 2001, apart from a few hijackings carried out by Palestinian Groups, which were ‘freedom fighters’ as were the Jews during the Second World War, there was no sign of any such thing as International Muslim Terrorism. We were jokingly informed that Osama bin Laden, was rich and that he was using his own money to fund Al Qaeda, which was actually an invention of the USA to fight against those pesky Russians in Afghanistan, so Osama was funding the USA, was he? I see.
Thanks to the unstinting efforts of the “Free to Fake News” media, all traces of Israeli involvement in terrorism has been written out of modern history, while the totally unsupported claims of Muslim involvement in terrorism, which in the United States alone, was 95% fabricated by the FBI, in the absence of the ‘real’ thing, has lead to the massacre and displacement of millions of innocent Muslims by those whom are quite openly, working for Israel.
We were told, by our politicians, that certain brutal dictators had to be taken down and their countries liberated through the introduction of Democracy. Since 911 in 2001, an estimated ten million Muslim souls have lost their lives due to the actions of NATO and its coalition, which has devastated the Middle East, where there is as yet, a total absence of this wonderful gift of Democracy.Since
On the other hand there is now an enormous problem, of displaced people and what do know, suddenly a large bunch of Jews, are calling for the importation, of massive numbers of immigrants into Europe and all other European controlled countries. How extraordinary, that these urgings by Jews, should come hot on the heels of the deliberate destruction of all of those Muslims States, which stood in the way of the Jews dream of Greater Israel. The false claim of a connection to 911 had led to an attack against Iraq, which had no connection at all with the events, which were ultimately used as an excuse to attack the entire Middle East. The reality being that neither did Gadaffi, the Taliban or, indeed Bashar al Assad.
No connection has ever been found, amongst any of those States, in the Middle East, which have been cynically laid to waste, is there anybody out there who does not adhere to the lie that it was all because of Muslim Terrorism? Is that not thanks to a media which has covered up the truth for the past seventeen years?
April 30, 2017 | Categories: Political Opinion | Tags: 911 Lies, Osama Bin Laden, USS Cole, USS Liberty | Leave a comment
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Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Jack Hanna's Into The Wild is a half hour show hosted by the Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, Jack Hanna. It takes viewers to remote and wild locations around the world. America's most beloved animal adventurer provides insight into the protection and conservation of our planets most precious and endangered species. Into The Wild is unscripted and action packed - leaving you with a renewed appreciation for all creatures, great and small. Jack often shares these adventures with friends and family as he visits unique locations off the beaten track.
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Date Preempted 2017-10-21
Episode # #805
Reason for Preemption Sports
Episode # #1104
Program Title Walking Wild (DT3)
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Walking Wild is a weekly half hour reality series showcasing various wild animals at the world famous San Diego Zoo. The series focuses on dedicated people who look after these spectacular critters. The program also gives teen viewers a unique up-close examination of each wild animal. In one episode, viewers explore the life patterns of elephants and the key to their longevity. Another episode focuses on Galapagos turtles and how they manage to survive. Walking Wild is a series to educate and inform all about life in the animal kingdom.
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Program Title Dog Tales (DT2)
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Monday 8:00-8:30am DT2
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. "Dog Tales" serves the educational and informational needs of children 13-16 years of age with its program content, including dog safety and care tips, as well as lessons on the responsibility of owning a dog. The show also provides informative segments on various dog breeds, and showcases various veterinary experts explaining different issues affecting canines. The weekly series also includes recommended reading lists about dogs, and promotes children's writing and creative skills with essay and art contests.
Program Title Teen Kids News (Ch. 51.1)
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturday 7:00-7:30am Ch. 51.1
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. The mission of Teen Kids News is to produce a weekly news program that provides information and news to kids in a manner that is compelling as well as highly entertaining. It is designed to appeal to the audience at its own level. The focus of the program is young people, always letting them tell their stories in their own words. The large, diverse news anchor team is unique in television and has great appeal on kids who identify and emulate them. This program serves the audience in a way that makes a real difference in their lives. It inserts the clear voice of the kid into the adult-dominated media and provides a unique perspective to the news that is currently available on network television.
Program Title America's Heartland (Ch. 51.1)
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. America's Heartland serves the educational and informational needs of children 13-16 years of age with its program content, including the importance of of learning about farming and feeding the world. Teenage students are presented with fascinating stories and introduces to exceptional individuals who operate family farms through America's heartland.
Program Title Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures (DT4)
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures is a live action television program designed to meet the educational and informational needs of children 13-16. In each program, the cameras follow the host, Jack Hanna, as he spends time with nature's creatures across the continents. Jack talks with people that are knowledgeable about each animal and habitat, teaching as he goes. Each program is designed to reveal to children the world around them in a way that presents positive role models and pro-social values within an environmentally responsible universe.
Program Title Wild About Animals (Ch. 51.1)
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. "Wild About Animals" is produced for children 16 and under (specific target audience is 13-16). The objective of the program is to educate and inform children by bringing them the most entertaining and interesting stories about the worlds most fascinating animals. Each episode consists of at least four stories designed to teach children about exotic and unique animals from the wild, as well as educate them further about animals they see everyday.
Program Title Missing (DT3)
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. "Missing" is a weekly half-hour reality series featuring actual cases of missing individuals, both adult and juvenile, from across the United States. The program includes tips and information to keep children safe. Series is E/I rated and is suitable for family viewing.
Program Title Animal Rescue (Ch. 51.1)
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturday 8:30am-9:00am Ch. 51.1
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Pursuant to the Children's Television Act of 1990, "ANIMAL RESCUE" will satisfy the FCC Children's Programming requirement and can be classified as either core or non-core programming. "ANIMAL RESCUE" serves the educational and informational needs of children 13 to 16 years of age with its program content, including safety tips and informational about various animals and their habitats. The programs also show real life in-the-field experiences of professional and ordinary people taking care of, treating and helping various animals, as well as exhibiting good social responsibility and promoting strong personal and community values.
Program Title Wild Wonders (DT3)
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Wild Wonders is a weekly half-hour reality series allowing teen viewers to become familiar with various wild animals at the world famous San Diego Zoo. The series focuses on various critters and examines their differences. The program also provides important information about each animal's living habits and includes interviews with people who care for them. In one episode, viewers learn about the unique relationship between a cheetah and a dog. Another episode spotlights the various eating habits of different animals. Wild Wonders is a series intended to educate and inform viewers all about life in the animal kingdom.
Program Title Wild America (DT2)
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. WILD AMERICA is targeted to children ages 13-16. The key educational objective of the program is to familiarize children with the animals of the North American content, their interaction with other animals and their environment. Throughout the series emphasis will be placed upon protecting endangered species and the impact that humans have while interacting in their environment. Each episode of the series will be specific to a particular animal.
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturday 9:00-9:30am DT4
Program Title Origins (Ch. 51.1)
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Sunday 7:30-8:00am (Ch. 51.1)
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Origins is an educational and informative half-hour E/I program that explores the remarkable origin of hundreds of the world's most influential inventions, natural objects, customs, ideas from technology, arts and entertainment, government, nature and more. The goal is to provide young viewers with information to learn about history of some of the world's most significant ideas and creations.
Program Title Pets.TV (DT2)
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Wednesday 8:00-8:30am DT2
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Pets.TV features segments on pet news, pet care, pet health, and pet lifestyles, all brought to the viewers from the enthusiastic and caring eyes of children. The program targets teens 13-16 years old.
Program Title Outback Adventures with Tim Faulkner (DT4)
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. This is a live action, half-hour television program designed to meet the educational and informational needs of children. Produced for ages 13-16, this educational and informational program is hosted by wildlife expert Tim Faulkner. Viewers will be provided an eye-opening experience as Tim, animal expert and wildlife park operations manager, showcases the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Audiences will be brought closer to the natural world as Tim explores the habitats and adventures of creatures of all sizes, including a giant Galapagos tortoise, a baby wombat, the flying fox, and even a newly discovered species of birds.
Program Title Xploration Awesome Planet (Ch. 51.1)
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Sunday 7:00-7:30am Ch. 51.1
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Produced primarily for the 13-16 target audience, Xploration Awesome Planet will inspire and educate anyone interested in earth sciences. Our host, Philippe Cousteau, the grandson of legendary Jacques Cousteau, brings boundless energy to every location we visit. From magnificent mountains to violent volcanoes, this program takes an in-depth look at the unique and distinct features on planet Earth. We not only visit gigantic glaciers and behold their beauty but also discover why they formed, and how they shaped our landscape. geological experts share their wisdom with Philippe, as we strive to understand places on the earth, inside the earth, and above the earth.
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Does the Licensee publicize the existence and location of the station's Children's Television Programming Reports (FCC 398) as required by 47 C.F.R. Section 73.3526(e)(11)(iii)? Yes
Name of children's programming liaison Drew Balch
Address 320 E Methvin Ave
City Longview
Telephone Number (903) 232-7281
Email Address Drew@Fox51.com
Include any other comments or information you want the Commission to consider in evaluating your compliance with the Children's Television Act (or use this space for supplemental explanations). This may include information on any other noncore educational and informational programming that you aired this quarter or plan to air during the next quarter, or any existing or proposed non-broadcast efforts that will enhance the educational and informational value of such programming to children. See 47 C.F.R. Section 73.671, NOTES 2 and 3.
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Age of Target Child Audience from 13 years to 16 years
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Pursuant to the Children's Television Act of 1990, THINK BIG will satisfy the FCC Children's programming requirement and can be classified as either core or non-core programming. THINK BIG serves the educational and informational needs of children 13 to 16 years of age with its program content, including the importance of having a working knowledge of math, science and physics. The series shows children actively solving problems using scientific principles, combining skill and creativity. The series also demonstrates real-world applications for math, science and engineering, proving that that the physical sciences can be useful, challenging and fun. Each episode presents an invent-off challenge, where teenage teams must invent a machine designed to perform a specific task in limited amount of time, promoting creative thinking and practical skills. THINK BIG as delivered is formatted to allow for no more than 14 minutes of total commercial time per broadcast hour (7 minutes per half-hour). THINK BIG does not display any Internet web site address or host selling during or adjacent to the program, and is otherwise in compliance with Sections 73.670(a) through (d) of the Commission's Rules.
Program Title Biz Kids TV (DT2)
Other Matters (10 of 27)
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturday 11:30-12:00pm DT4
The undersigned certifies that he or she is (a) the party filing the Children's Television Programming, or an officer, director, member, partner, trustee, authorized employee, or other individual or duly elected or appointed official who is authorized to sign on behalf of the party filing the Children's Television Programming; or (b) an attorney qualified to practice before the Commission under 47 C.F.R. Section 1.23(a), who is authorized to represent the party filing the Children's Television Programming, and who further certifies that he or she has read the document; that to the best of his or her knowledge, information,and belief there is good ground to support it; and that it is not interposed for delay.
Drew Balch
Station Manager
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Home Advice Revealed: the top dishes children should be able to cook by the age of 11
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WATCH YOUR WASTE – ENCOURAGING YOUNG COOKS IS RECIPE TO STOP FOOD BEING BINNED
Average UK household dumps £51,000 of food in a lifetime – but study finds way to stop the rot
‘Micro kids’ – children’s kitchen skills have diminished by a third (33%) in the space of a generation due to rise of pre-packed meals
UK families throw away one fifth of their food purchases each year – or over £18,000 per person in a lifetime – despite more than three quarters of parents expressing concern about food wastage
Teaching kids to cook could help cut waste and promote a more balanced diet according to study, which identifies kids leaving food as one of the top five causes of food wastage
Some things remain a constant – the humble Brussels sprout remains top ‘food foe’ for children
Research commissioned by Samsung to launch the Family Hub™ Refrigerator as part of new initiative to encourage families to cook together more, in collaboration with MasterChef star Emma Spitzer
Samsung has teamed up with MasterChef finalist Emma Spitzer to get more kids in the kitchen, to mark the launch of the Samsung Family Hub Refrigerator – and has revealed the top 25 dishes that parents think kids should be able to cook by the age of 11, aimed at getting families cooking together more often.
Simple recipes for the top 25 dishes all feature in a free recipe book – free to download at Easy Kids Recipes.
The new Samsung Family Hub Refrigerator provides new ways to shop for, cook and manage food as well as helping to plan family life with its unique exterior screen, all designed to act as a family’s digital command centre.
Spaghetti bolognese, scrambled eggs on toast and pancakes are named among the dishes that children should be able to cook by the age of 11, in a new study released today. The research suggests that teaching kids to cook could help solve the food wastage issue and highlights that children’s culinary skills are in sharp decline due to the rise of ready meals.
The research found that children being fussy eaters and leaving food on their plate is among the top five causes of food wastage for UK households. Moreover, the findings reveal that families throw away an average of £676 of food every year, equating to over a fifth (22%) of their total average food bill[i]. Across a lifetime, this is over £18,000 per person lost on wasted food[ii], or over £51,000 for the average UK household[iii].
The Samsung Family Hub™ Study surveyed 2,000 British parents – asking them to name the dishes they believed children should be able to cook by the age of 11, which were compiled from a longlist assembled by a panel of leading food, consumer and family lifestyle experts.
The study was commissioned to mark the launch of the new Samsung Family Hub™ Refrigerator, which provides new ways to shop for, cook and manage food as well as helping to plan family life with its unique HD exterior screen, designed to act as a family’s digital command centre.
The Top 25 dishes that British parents believe children under 11 should be able to cook (with adult supervision) are as follows:
Simple recipes for the top 25 dishes listed all feature in a free recipe book, which has been specially created with MasterChef finalist Emma Spitzer to aid and promote cooking with children (free to download at Easy Kids Recipes).
The Family Hub™ study’s findings echo recent comments from kitchen doyenne Mary Berry that cookery skills for kids should be a bigger priority in both schools and at home. The study revealed that the omnipresence of ready meals could well be part of the issue – finding that children’s kitchen skills had reduced by a third (33%) over the past 25 years. Indeed, a generation ago, British children were capable of cooking an average of six dishes by the age of 11, whereas today’s under 11s now have an average repertoire of just four dishes.
The study also reveals that over three quarters (76%) of British adults are concerned about food wastage, with one of the top five causes for this wastage including children being fussy and leaving food (18%). Further factors were noted as food going out of date (51%), buying more food than the households eats (24%), being unsure how to use up ingredients bought for a specific recipe (19%) and eating out more often than planned (17%).
Six in 10 of the parents surveyed (63%) noted that fussy eating and leaving food on the plate is a major issue with their children, particularly in their younger years. Two thirds (66%) also said they wished their children had the opportunity to cook more often believing that children are far more likely to eat a wider variety of food if they prepare it themselves (56%) – alongside it being an important skill to have later in life (62%) and helping them to appreciate their food more (59%).
Emma Spitzer, finalist on last year’s MasterChef and herself a mother of four young children, has demonstrated how to cook a number of the 25 dishes in a series of Family Hub™ videos. She says, “The food wastage issue is something which affects us all and I firmly believe that getting kids involved in cooking and preparing food at a young age can help. I love cooking with my own children, it’s great fun and a brilliant way of encouraging them to try new foods. I have created a simple and free Samsung Family Hub™ recipe book which I hope will inspire families to cook together and for children to learn the joy of making their own meals from scratch.”
In the UK, over a third (37%) of parents currently cook less than once per week with their children – despite nine in ten (91%) believing that cooking with children is a good way to bring the family together, and over half (55%) stating that the kitchen is the most sociable room in the house, overtaking the living room.
The study found that some things remain a constant however, as the much-maligned Brussels sprout (46%) is named as the food item kids today are still most likely to refuse eating, followed by blue cheese (40%), anchovies (36%), olives (34%), spinach (33%), mackerel (32%), mushrooms (30%), sushi (29%), asparagus (27%) and kidney beans (26%).
Nick Bevan, Head of Product – Home Appliances at Samsung Electronics UK commented, “We’re passionate about developing new ways to make family life that little bit easier and encouraging today’s children to take an interest in food and cooking is a great way to ensure kids are engaged with what they eat, and hopefully lessening food wastage in the process as well. Along with our free recipe guide of dishes that are perfect to cook with the kids, the Family Hub™ Refrigerator not only offers recipe suggestions but also keeps track of the food you actually have in the fridge, all aimed at making mealtimes fun and reducing the amount of food that goes to waste.”
Regional breakdown:
Across the UK, those in London (83%) are most likely to be concerned about food wastage, while those in Scotland (70%) are least likely to be concerned – but London-based children (70%) are also the most likely to be fussy eaters, closely followed by those in East Anglia (69%), while those in the West Midlands (58%) likely to be the least fussy.
Download the Samsung Family Hub™’s ‘Easy Kids Recipes’ recipe book for free at Easy Kids Recipes
The Samsung Family Hub™ Refrigerator is available from selected retailers as well as the Samsung e-store – for more information and stockist details please visit Samsung.
*Survey conducted by One Poll in November 2016 on behalf of Samsung of 2,000 British parents.
About Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. inspires the world and shapes the future with transformative ideas and technologies that redefine the worlds of TVs, smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, cameras, digital appliances, printers, medical equipment, network systems, and semiconductor and LED solutions. We are also leading in the Internet of Things space with the open platform SmartThings, our broad range of smart devices, and through proactive cross-industry collaboration. We employ 319,000 people across 84 countries with annual sales of US $196 billion. To discover more, and for the latest news, feature articles and press material, please visit the Samsung Newsroom at Samsung Newsroom.
[1] In 2014, average UK household spent £58.80 each week on food and non-alcohol beverages, according to stats from ONS in 2014: source – How Much Does The Average Household Spend Each Week
According to survey results, each household wastes £13 a week on food wastage, which is £676 each year. Therefore, if we waste £13 of every £58.80 spent each week on food, that is 22% of overall food spend that goes on wasted food.
[1] Average family size surveyed – 2.96 per person. Therefore, each person wastes an average of £4.40 per week on food (£13/2.96). Average life expectancy in the UK is 81 years. Therefore, across a lifetime, each person wastes £228,80 per year (£4.40 x 52) or £18,533 in a lifetime (£229.80 x 81).
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Parliamentary involvement at the UN raised at peace forum in South Korea
The need of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, in short UNPA, was raised at an international peace forum organized by civil society in South Korea from 9-11 February. Bringing together participants from all over the world, the PyeongChang Global Peace Forum was held on the occasion of the anniversary of the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang one year ago to review and celebrate the peace process on the divided Korean peninsula and to consider international action for the promotion of world peace.
Florence Mutua
The purpose of one of the forum's 19 panels was to discuss an action agenda on United Nations reform in view of the UN's 75th anniversary in 2020. Attending the conference on behalf of the international Campaign for a UNPA, Kenyan parliamentarian Florence Mutua said that the creation of a UNPA should be promoted "as a key reform" in order to increase the UN's democratic legitimacy. "The UN cannot go on as an exclusive club of governments. Otherwise the world organization will not be able to advance much", she noted.
In another panel on "strengthening parliamentarian engagement on international peace and disarmament", among other things, Mutua said that "parliamentarians should not only play a role in galvanizing intergovernmental action and in implementing global commitments nationally. Elected representatives should have a formal role to play in international negotiations and decision-making," adding that "parliamentarians may be able to build bridges where others can’t."
According to Mutua, the UN should establish an "Office for Parliamentary Relations" so that individual parliamentarians, parliaments and other parliamentary institutions have a contact point at the UN. "It is remarkable that such a liaison office does not yet exist", she noted.
The involvement of elected representatives at the UN was also the subject of a study published earlier this month by Democracy Without Borders, an organization Mutua is involved with, too. Acknowledging the work of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the umbrella organization of national parliaments, the study concluded that a UNPA would be complementary to existing bodies and efforts in this realm.
One of the keynote speakers at the PyeongChang Global Peace Forum was Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa from Poland. In past interviews, Walesa is known to have spoken out in favor of a global parliament.
The conference is supposed to be the first step in the development of a "PyeongChang Agenda for Peace 2030."
Top image: Participants of the final plenary hold up signs calling for nuclear disarmament. Source: Asia Democracy Network
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September 11 release dates
September 11 release dates -- Kenny Chesney, 50 Cent, and Kanye West bet that the anniversary of a tragedy won't affect sales
By Shirley Halperin
August 10, 2007 at 04:00 AM EDT
Next month, for the first time since 2001, Sept. 11 falls on a Tuesday, the traditional release day for albums. Instead of observing the event by abstaining from new offerings, several multiplatinum artists, including country star Kenny Chesney and rappers 50 Cent and Kanye West, have claimed it as their own. Not surprisingly, the decision is all business. ”Obviously, everyone understands the tragedy and the implications of that,” explains Joe Galante, chairman of Sony/BMG Nashville, which owns Chesney’s label, BNA Records. ”But it doesn’t seem to resonate the same way it did in the early years as a reason not to do something.” (Whether buyers feel otherwise remains to be seen.) Adds a high-ranking major-label exec: ”You’re coming into the fourth quarter — which is usually the most profitable one — and also the Christmas season. There’s no question that Sept. 11 has a stigma to it, which is why the other dates in September got filled up so quickly.” (Other big releases that month include ones by James Blunt, Foo Fighters, and Melissa Etheridge.) Continues the exec, ”If you don’t have your record ready to roll into Thanksgiving, it’s finished.” Adding to the Sept. 11 crunch are the MTV Video Music Awards, which were pushed from late August to Sept. 9 this year. A performance on the show can boost an artist’s profile and goose sales.
Some indie artists, however, who aren’t as reliant on big first-week numbers, have a different take on the anniversary. ”Because [the attacks] were such a hateful thing, I can’t think of anything more life-affirming than releasing music on that day,” says singer-songwriter Johnathan Rice, whose sophomore effort, Further North, hits stores on Sept. 11. ”We have the freedom to sing about whatever we want. It’s a victory.”
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Understanding immune system paralysis in times of bacterial stress
By Isadore Budnick and Matthijs Kox
Backed by Mark Ludwig, William F. Cornell, Craig Stanton, Aaron Bukowitz, Mike Radice, Claire Costello, Betsy Keating, Sara Sackner, Jeremy Saks, Susie Waasdorp, and 26 other backersNick Jordan, Andrea Oddo, Ryan Breon, Dean Behrens, Kevin Heis, Karl, Joshua Richards, Seth Cornell, Andrew Behar, Noemie Noullet, Dan Cleveland, Audrey & Jonathan Sackner-bernstein, Seth Cassel, Cheryl Middleton, Evan McDowell, Jeremy Pomerantz, Jack Plowe, Joanie Winter, Jacqueline Seybold, Debra Iwinski, Lisa Pomerantz, Rachel Bukowitz, Mike Baldonieri, Maya Appley, Pureum Kim, and Eric Damon Walters
Tulane University School of Medicine
DOI: 10.18258/9198
Understanding immune system paralysis in times of bacterial stress Budnick, Isadore, and Matthijs Kox.. , 23 Mar 2017. Experiment. doi: 10.18258/9198
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition in which the body's immune response to infection injures its own tissues and organs. It is the number one cause of death in the critical care unit. To provide more effective treatment, it is crucial that we understand which cells and signals play a role in the immune response to infectious stimuli in sepsis. Our research is furthering this understanding and utilizing these findings to identify new treatments.
Sepsis is one of the most dangerous and complex diagnoses seen in critically ill patients. It is a clinical diagnosis broadly characterized by an abnormal physiologic response to an infection. The prevailing belief for many years was that a hyperactive immune system was responsible for the abnormal physiologic response as well as the morbidity and mortality associated with sepsis; however, there is growing evidence that a hypoactive or paralyzed immune response causes harm to patients. Our project aims to understand further the mechanisms behind the hypoactive immune response in patients with sepsis, with the goal of identifying potential therapeutic targets to help physicians diagnose and treat this diagnosis.
It is estimated that 3,000 new cases of sepsis are diagnosed and treated every day in US hospitals. Conservative estimates of the worldwide incidence of sepsis are 20 million per year with a mortality rate higher than breast, lung, and prostate cancer combined. Costs associated with treating a septic patient are approximately $32,000 per patient. Furthermore, research indicates that the incidence of sepsis is increasing. Thus, new directions in sepsis treatment are needed. Novel approaches to managing sepsis focus on stimulating the immune system. Our work will identify the cells and signals that orchestrate the hypoactive immune response, and will provide fresh insight on how best to treat sepsis.
Our experiments will look to understand how immune cells respond to bacterial stimuli. In particular, we will focus our research on the tissue resident macrophages, which have been shown in prior research to be implicated in the immune tolerance or immune paralysis seen in septic patients. Macrophages function as the linchpin of the host immune system, coordinating the efforts of the innate and adaptive immune systems. Our work interrogates why tissue resident macrophages rather than circulating macrophages seem to be primary drivers of sepsis-induced immune-paralysis. Our in vitro and ex vivo experiments have been previously described. In vivo work will involve patients with clinically diagnosed sepsis. The experiments will begin in late July 2017.
The funds being raised here will be used for travel and living expenses during the three-month research project. All other research-related expenses will be covered by Dr. Matthijs Kox’s laboratory, at the Radboud University Medical Center.
Immune paralysis is currently regarded as the overriding immune dysfunction in sepsis, which is the number 1 cause of death in the Intensive Care Unit. This project will provide important and urgently needed new insights to better understand this problem and possibly provide leads for novel therapies. I wholeheartedly endorse this project and the people involved. Isadore Budnick is a talented and highly motivated student. Matthijs Kox is a very skilled researcher passionate about sepsis research. Together they will make this project work.
Peter Pickkers
Professor of Experimental Intensive Care Medicine
Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Radboud university medical centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Travel to Nijmegen, Netherlands to begin work at Radboud University Medical Center
Begin in vitro work with tissue resident macrophages
Begin in vivo work with septic patients
Isadore Budnick
Matthijs Kox
Radboud University Medical Center
I am currently a third-year medical student at Tulane University School of Medicine. I initially became interested in immunology through my experience as a research technician at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where I worked in the lab of Dr. Bellur Prabhakar. In Dr. Prabhakar’s lab, I was personally responsible for projects that aimed to develop novel therapeutic agents for the treatment of Type 1 Diabetes. Several years later, I was introduced to critical care medicine in the Neonatal Critical Care and Neuro-Critical Care Units at Tulane Medical Center. The unique research being conducted in the lab of Dr. Kox represents basic immunology research applied to critical care patients, a fascinating intersection that I wish to explore in depth.
My research concerns mechanistic and translational studies into immune (dys)regulation in critical illness, with a focus on sepsis-induced immuno-paralysis. These studies encompass in vitro and animal experiments as well as studies in healthy volunteers and critically ill patients. I have developed the idea to use repeated endotoxin administration in healthy volunteers as a unique model to study immuno-stimulatory therapies for sepsis-induced immuno-paralysis in humans in vivo. This model is now used frequently by other in my department to test novel therapies for sepsis patients. Examples of other recent projects are animal and human studies into the effects of oxygenation and vasopressors on immune suppression in critical illness. Other research activities include innovative studies into voluntary modulation of the autonomic nervous system and the innate immune response using behavioural techniques. These studies have culminated in a publication in the leading journal PNAS and widespread media attention, including national and international news outlets (BBC UK, Channel 7 Australia) as well as international scientific media (Nature news website, New Scientist).
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Ferretnibbles 6 – Blood and Black Death
On October 30, 2018 By ArthurIn Christopher Smith, Ferretnibbles, Fiction, Giallo, Historical, Horror, Mario Bava, Movies & Television1 Comment
Sometimes you want to jabber about something on Ferretbrain to an extent which would be unwieldy for a Playpen post, but not necessarily make for a full-blooded article. To encourage contributors to offer up shorter pieces when the mood strikes them, here’s another set of Ferretnibbles – pocket-sized articles about all and sundry.
This time around, I’m taking the opportunity to talk a little about a couple of very different horror movies – a Mario Bava giallo from the 1960s and a German-British historical horror feature from 2010.
Blood and Black Lace
Countess Christina Como (Eva Bartok), recently widowed, has converted her expansive mansion into the hub of a high fashion empire, and is holding a grand salon there displaying her designers’ latest creations. Meanwhile, her designers, models, and other employees are embroiled in all sorts of tangled personal affairs, ranging from the deeply embarrassing to the actively illegal. Thus, when a mysterious masked figure begins a campaign of murder and terror against them, they fail spectacularly to co-operate with the police. The confusion allows the killer to keep things going to a terrifying extent, and as individual members of the salon try their own snooping, it’s hard to say who is truly determined to find the murderer, who is just trying to cover their back, and who has far more malevolent ends in mind.
Though Mario Bava’s preceding The Girl Who Knew Too Much is considered the first giallo film, I’d argue that it’s with Blood and Black Lace that Bava both hit on the archetypal giallo formula (right down to the killer’s garb) and, more importantly, the distinctive giallo atmosphere; The Girl Who Knew Too Much is just slightly too jolly and comedic for me to feel like it’s a true giallo – some of the comedy was, of course, added in the American cut of the movie (Evil Eye), but it was still present in the original. Conversely, Blood and Black Lace has the same mix of aesthetic luxury, eroticism, and horror that is distinctive to giallo and which The Girl Who Knew Too Much didn’t quite hit.
Bava shows a talent for directing truly chilling death sequences – low on gore, but the implications of what is happening are ably communicated to prompt the imagination to fill in the terrible blanks. The sheer violence exhibited by the killer is shocking to behold and renders the killings thoroughly untitillating, and like I said above the classic “raincoat, hat, gloves, mask” getup of the killer created a giallo archetype, and Bava has a great eye to throw in a shot here and there which underscores the terrible nature of what is happening. (See, for instance, a shot of a statue of Zeus chasing after some nymph as the killer drags away the corpse of the first victim, or the obscene tableau established by a suit of armour that has fallen on another victim.)
Bava also breaks from the standard whodunnit formula in a major way by revealing the killer’s identity well before the climax, and showing their planning process from the inside for the final go-around. To be honest, I find the movie comes a little unstuck after that, taking a bit took long to work its way through the final stages of the plot, but the movie is nonetheless still a classic of its subgenre. I particularly liked Thomas Ranier in his role as the disapproving police detective whose efforts to solve the case keep being tripped up by the self-serving lies and chicanery of the main characters.
It is the 1300s, and as the title implies the Black Death is sweeping Europe. In a monastery struggling to contain the infection, Brother Osmund (Eddie Redmayne), has been kept quarantined, but is let out to join the prayers for one of his fallen comrades when he shows no symptoms of the plague. The next day, though, we see him stealing food and slipping out into the town to rendezvous with Averill (Kimberly Nixon), a woman that he is carrying on a secret affair with. Witnessing the dead piled up in the streets, Osmund tells Averill to take the supplies he’s obtained and go and hide in the forest until the plague passes; she ponders whether God is punishing the two of them for their sin, and whilst Osmund denies this, he also refuses to come with her, being willing to break his vows but not willing to abandon them entirely.
Osmund’s faith and character will soon undergo sterner tests, however, for he soon takes up a challenge his brothers fear to take: to accompany the Bishop’s envoy Ulric (Sean Bean) and his mercenaries on a mission as a guide and as theological counsel. Rumour has it that a certain village in the marshes close to where Osmund was raised is not only completely untouched by the plague, but is home to a necromancer who can return the dead to life. Ulric and Osmund’s task is to establish the truth of these stories; if the village has turned to Godless and sacrilegious ways to protect them, then they must be discredited and punished less others in their desperation abandon the Church.
A German-British coproduction (the story development and ideas came from the British side of the equation, the funding and locations from the Germans), this was directed by Christopher Smith, who made substantial changes to the conclusion of the film, which as originally scripted by Dario Poloni took the movie down an unambiguously supernatural route. In contrast to this, Smith goes for a more subtle, psychological approach, in keeping with his bid to go for a grimly realistic depiction of the time. You could probably characterise this as a full-blown grimdark piece, in fact, though frankly the Black Death was such a nightmarish period of history in Europe that if you don’t go dark with it you aren’t facing up to just how awful it was. Smith even gets minor historical points right, like remembering that the medieval church as an institution was more concerned with heresy than it was with witchcraft, but that the Black Death saw sentiments against witches becoming substantially more prevalent.
The group’s journey through the plague-ravaged landscape early on not only helps to establish the distinct characters of the various mercenaries, but also helps to drive home just how apocalyptic the Black Death was. Remember, this was a disease where if you say it decimated the population, pedants will point out that if anything you are underplaying just how awful it was, with recent research suggesting that about half the population of medieval Europe died of it. Panicing mobs burning a witch or turning to murderous banditry because they can’t think of anything else to do, entire depopulated villages, the discovery of plague within the party itself – all these incidents play out on the journey and make it obvious that the Bishop’s worries about people turning away from the Church are not mere control freakery. We are watching these people work their way through a disaster of such a magnitude that every certainty in their life has been brushed aside and the entire social order is disintegrating not because of any great revolutionary impulse on the part of anyone but simply because people are dying at too great a pace to keep it together.
The attention to detail extends to the costuming and sets; of the latter, the finely reproduced marshland village that is the destination of Ulric and Osmund’s mission is magnificently realised. As far as the acting goes, everyone does a smashing job; Sean Bean is at his Sean Beaniest and gets an appropriately Sean Beany death, Carice van Houten is great as the villagers’ spooky overlord, and Tim “Lord Percy” McInnerny has a great turn as Hob, the creepily welcoming village spokesman. (In fact, I wouldn’t have believed he could have pulled off such a sinister role had I not previously seen his appearance in Edge of Darkness.)
The ending, in which Osmund finds himself becoming a killer as brutal and merciless as any in Ulric’s band (and he’s murdered at least one person for absolutely no good reason, though he is more than capable of denying this), and in which it becomes apparent that the entire mission has done no good at all beyond murdering a village full of people who just wanted to be left alone, is the final touch of bleakness on what is a decidedly bleak prospect. Although it is possible to see the film as a slam on organised religion in general, to me it comes across more as a condemnation of what happens when religion or irreligion alike take to violence to serve their ends.
Ferretnibbles 0.3 – Tiny Text Adventures
On August 1, 2017 October 30, 2018 By ArthurIn Adventure Games, Crime, Cthulhu Mythos, Fantasy, Ferretnibbles, Fiction, Horror, PC, Science Fiction, Text Adventures, VideogamesLeave a comment
Specifically, this consists of my contribution to Ferretnibbles 3 – hence the retitling to reflect that the remainder of the original article, not reproduced here, was written by other hands.
Lately I have been poking at a number of text adventures, largely because the interactive fiction database has been refined to the point where it’s really nice and easy to find good ones. Whilst some can be true epics, others can be wrapped up extremely quickly – here’s some I quite enjoyed recently.
9:05: This bite-sized nibble of text adventure goodness from Adam Cadre is a gentle, easy introduction to the format. There are no real puzzles beyond getting out of bed in the morning, leaving the house and driving where you need to go – except if you do all that as expected of you, you run into a twist which prompts you to immediately replay it and puts a whole new spin on all the descriptions so far. Brief yet fun, and an interesting exercise in how the limited descriptions offered in text adventures can blinker the player.
Lords of Time: Written by Sue Gazzard, this was an early time travel game, commercially published back in 1983 by Level 9 Computing (both as a standalone and as part of the Time and Magik trilogy, though the games in the latter series didn’t have much of a connection). It has an interesting central mechanism – a grandfather clock with nine cogs inside gave access to nine different time zones, allowing you to travel about until you reached the endgame as you tried to collect the essential items needed to repair the structure of time for… reasons. It was let down, as were many games of its era, by the extremely limited text descriptions, which resulted in the premise of the game being a bit heavy-handed and the experience not seeming especially rich compared to later efforts. In its era, it was probably pretty good, but the rich standards of post-1990s text adventures have rather spoiled it for me since it cannot help but seem a bit threadbare in comparison.
Three-Card Trick: Chandler Groover’s pocket-sized adventure gives the player much less freedom than it at first appears, but if you pay attention to the descriptions it yields not just useful hints for progress, but also hints as to a deeper horror to its world. In principle, you’re just an award-winning stage magician annoyed at your rival improving on your signature trick; in practice, something much darker is happening. Making the protagonist a fabulous woman stage magician in a dapper tuxedo is the final bit of polish that makes it perfect, and the clever tricks it pulls with the standard IF parser format are fun.
Anchorhead: You and your husband Michael have moved to the New England town of Anchorhead, where Michael has unexpectedly inherited a family mansion and been given tenure at the local university. Of course, this was as a result of his relative Edward Verlac abruptly killing his wife and children and then committing suicide – but it’s beyond credibility that a sinister ancestor would reach out from the past and try to possess Michael as he tried to take Edward and his family, with the aim of invoking dark gods to end humanity’s pitiful reign on this planet, right… right?
Anchorhead bills itself as a Lovecraftian text adventure, but it’d be more accurate to call it Derlethian – it uses August Derleth’s Standard Narrative as used in his Mythos pastiches to the hilt. That said, it is much more enjoyable than those stories in part because designer Michael S. Gentry is a much better prose engineer than Derleth, and in part because it casts you not as the possessed inheritor of a sinister house but as the inheritor’s wife, which opens up a new take on the old story. Various flavours of real-life abuse are thematically touched on, making this a story more comfortable with dealing with real-life horror than Derleth ever was, and in some respect more than Lovecraft ever did. It is rendered a little tough going by the ease with which you can get the game into an unwinnable state inadvertently, however.
Ferretnibbles 2 – Beren and Lúthien, Shin Megami Tensei on the 3DS, and Sithrak Tracts
On June 28, 2017 October 30, 2018 By ArthurIn Books, Comics, CRPGs, Doug Bayne, Fantasy, Ferretnibbles, Fiction, Horror, J.R.R. Tolkien, JRPGs, Megami Tensei, Nintendo 3DS, Science Fiction, Trudy Cooper, Videogames1 Comment
This time around, they’re all penned by me, but nibbles from others are always welcome at the usual editorial address. Today’s nibbles concern the latest and greatest in posthumous Tolkien releases, demon-summoning JRPGs, and fantasy porn comic spin-offs.
Christopher Tolkien is over 90 years old, and he states in his commentary in Beren and Lúthien that he suspects it will be the last book he releases of his father’s Middle-Earth material. If this is so, then he is leaving us on a strong note, because the approach taken here is extremely interesting and makes a virtue out of the fragmentary material he has to work with.
As explained by Christopher in The Children of Húrin, his previous book focusing on a particular legend of Middle-Earth’s First Age, J.R.R. Tolkien thought that there were three stories of that era that were substantial enough to conceivably stand as distinct tales in their own right as opposed to incidents in a wider story. One was the tale of how the hidden elven citadel of Gondolin fell to the forces of Morgoth, one was the doom of the children of Húrin, one was the story told here of how Beren (a human in most tellings, though a rival strand of the elven peoples in the story’s earliest version) ended up falling in love with the elven princess Lúthien, and how her father Thingol challenged Beren to go steal a Simaril from the crown of Morgoth if he wanted her hand in marriage. This was meant to be an insult, since the task was held to be impossible – and yet it was done, though at great price, with Beren losing his hand and even his life and Lúthien only winning him back from the clutches of death at the cost of giving up her elven immortality to share in the fate of mortal men (thus setting a model for Arwen’s similar sacrifice for Aragorn in later aeons).
As with The Children of Húrin, the presentation here is the result of a bit of literary archaeology by Christopher Tolkien – but whereas in the case of Húrin the extant writings were substantial enough that Christopher could massage them into what amounted to a new novel, the various writings on Beren and Lúthien were a much more diverse bunch, with several takes on the story being provided over the years, and written in a mixture of prose and poetry at that. Thus, rather than trying to reconcile them into a single continuous novel, Christopher instead gives us a book that tracks the development of the story, from its first incarnation to its more developed version.
Continue reading “Ferretnibbles 2 – Beren and Lúthien, Shin Megami Tensei on the 3DS, and Sithrak Tracts” →
Ferretnibbles 1 – Die, Monster Die!, Dragon Quest VII, and Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition
On January 1, 2017 October 29, 2018 By ArthurIn Android, CRPGs, Cthulhu Mythos, Daniel Haller, Dragon Quest, Fantasy, Ferretnibbles, Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft, Horror, JRPGs, Movies & Television, Nintendo 3DS, Videogames1 Comment
Sometimes you want to jabber about something on Ferretbrain to an extent which would be unwieldy for a Playpen post, but not necessarily make for a full-blooded article. To encourage contributors to offer up shorter pieces when the mood strikes them, I’m premiering here the first set of Ferretnibbles – pocket-sized articles about all and sundry.
This time around, they’re all penned by me, but nibbles from others are always welcome at the usual editorial address. Today’s nibbles concern a mostly-forgotten Lovecraftian cinematic error and two remakes of classic RPG videogames. The first one is about as long as I’d want a nibble to be before spinning it off as its own article (and indeed, I did hesitate over whether to put it out as a nibble or a standalone); the latter two offer shorter pieces to showcase just how little a nibble can be.
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Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Company
by Florida Insurance Quotes May 14, 2019
Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Company has a rating of A+ from the Better Business Bureau. It has insured more than ninety thousand homes in six states including Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas, and Mississippi. The company has settled more than seventy-two thousand claims since its inception and has paid around seven hundred million dollars to policyholders over the years. Those insured and provided coverage include devastating damages and aftermaths of more than thirty storms including hurricanes Wilma, Matthew, Irma, and Katrina.
History of Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Company
Gulfstream was founded in 2004. It offers homeowners insurance, landlord or rental property insurance, condominium insurance, flood insurance, fire insurance, equipment breakdown insurance, and renters insurance. The company is strongly reinsured and highly rated. It has an A rating for financial stability from Demotech. The rating implies its financial stability is exceptional.
Gulfstream has a vast network of agents across six states. The insurance company has corporate offices in all these states. There are experts providing extensive assistance to those seeking insurance and those who are already insured by the company. The insurer has always protected the policyholder surplus, thereby ensuring those insured always get the financial help needed in the aftermath of a major adverse incident. It has dealt with innumerable claims after catastrophic natural events over the last fifteen years. It has honored its pledge to provide the coverage as the policy of all insured.
Nan Brunson is presently the president and chief executive officer of the insurance company. David Block is the chief financial officer and treasurer, Kerry Ford is the chief underwriting officer, Mike Killingsworth is the vice president of sales, Mike Gilmer is the vice president of claims, Don Soss is the vice president of underwriting and product management, Perry Cone is the general counsel, secretary and vice president for administration and compliance, and Terri McCoy is the assistant vice president of underwriting.
Gulfstream has comprehensive reinsurance to protect its financial viability. Reinsurance plays a key role in ensuring an insurer is financially protected in times of great distress. It is owing to the reinsurance program that those insured can rest assured their coverage will be available when needed, regardless of how many others need the same, less or more coverage for a similar or different reason. The reinsurance program of Gulfstream covers worst-case scenarios, including catastrophic events on a large scale. The policy also provides coverage for multiple storms. The insurance company has low retention and a sturdy capital position.
Products of Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Company
Gulfstream has comprehensive homeowners insurance policies. Many policies are customizable depending on the type of coverage required and the available deductibles and exemptions. There are discounts available on the basis of some key factors. Homeowners can discuss these specifics with their agents or the experts at Gulfstream.
The insurance company can protect the entire structure of a property, unconnected or detached fixtures on the premises and personal belongings including valuables. Pricey valuables can be insured in the same policy for a higher premium. Standard coverage of homeowners insurance policies of Gulfstream is for dwellings including the walls, floors, roof, cabinets, and countertops, porch, installed appliances and other interior fixtures. Coverage for personal property factors in clothing, furnishing, electronics, jewelry, housewares such as dishes, pots, and pans, medicines and health products. Standard policies also cover temporary living expense and relocation cost. There is standard liability protection that also includes medical expenses. Standard liability insurance coverage includes the cost of legal defense. Most standard policies provide coverage for fences, detached garages, and sheds.
There is additional coverage for most policies. Gulfstream is capable of providing limited or extensive additional coverage depending on the needs of homeowners. This is mostly where customization becomes imperative. Additional coverage is optional. It can account for the cost of repair or replacement in case of perils that are not covered in the standard policy. Collectibles and antiques can be included in additional coverage. Equipment breakdown, damage to appliances, failure of major systems in the property, protecting the value of golf cart and special liability protection can be secured with additional coverage. Standard coverage can be insufficient in instances of grievous personal injury. Additional coverage can be sought for such circumstances. Gulfstream also offers coverage against identity theft and animal liability, loss assessment and scheduled personal property.
Gulfstream has policies for owners of detached homes, condominiums, townhouses and other types of residences. The property may be occupied by the owner throughout the year or it could be a seasonal home. There are other policies for landlords or property owners who have tenants. Renters can also get adequate insurance coverage. Renters usually do not need the kind of policy suited for homeowners. Renters can get home contents insurance, which basically provides coverage for personal valuables.
Standard Perils and Additional Coverage from Gulfstream
Standard insurance policies of Gulfstream cover losses or damages caused by fire, lightning, smoke, wind and hail, theft, frozen plumbing, explosion, and vandalism. Storms and hurricanes are perils that require a separate deductible. They are not always among the covered perils in every policy. Standard policies may have many exemptions, especially flood and other major natural disasters. These need to be included as covered perils while choosing a policy. Gulfstream does have standalone policies for flood, storm or hurricane.
Gulfstream factors in all relevant elements to determine the cost of insurance. The age, type, and quality of construction of a house are the basic components. Protective features, if any, can reduce the cost of insurance. Adherence to building code, the present condition of the house and the amount of coverage influence the premium. Installing anti-theft alarm and fire sprinkler system can make an insured eligible for a discount. There is a new home credit available in most states. Homes in gated communities qualify for another discount. The availability and value of discounts vary from state to state. There are many such aspects that influence the premiums charged by Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Company.
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Bangladesh journalist learn about short-term marriage in Investigative journalism
We gathered in a lush garden retreat away from the relentless noise and traffic of central Dhaka to concentrate on the thorny problem of journalists trying to hold government and business to account in Bangladesh. The country is both a journalist’s heaven and hell. There is a story everywhere you look but there are hurdles at every turn. I was asked to work with 16 Dhaka journalists from television and print to find ways around the hurdles. Over the course of five days we dived deep into verifying sources and their information, finding documents to support a story when there is little on line, and paper sources are withheld or disorganized. And how to store and organize the material to keep focused on the goal, to make writing and fact checking easier for the greatest impact at publication or broadcast.
It is common in Bangladesh to use anonymous sources in stories. It is the way to get around the difficulty in getting information from official sources. But these human sources want to be paid for their information. And they often bring their information to more than one media organization at the same time. We had a heated discussion about providing anonymity to a source – a source who is making himself known to several journalists – a source who appears to have a small business selling information to journalists.
We talked about the pros and cons of paying sources – of not identifying the source in any way and whether the audience should be told that the source is being paid for his information. Does it matter if the audience knows? Would it make a difference in how they evaluated the story? Is there a way to provide some description or information about an anonymous source to enhance the credibility of the information and the story? We also tackled a big question – is it possible to stop paying sources when your competition pays?
I suggested collaboration as a way around some of the reporting difficulties in Bangladesh. For journalists who have been told since the beginning of their career that the highest value is a story no one else has; ‘getting a scoop’; collaboration is an alien concept. My suggestion was met with chuckles, headshaking and a quick chorus of reasons why it would not work. But there were nods around the table when I pointed out that we all live in an interconnected world and not just through the internet. Companies do business all over the world. Drugs made in one country are sold in another. People move their money from country to country. The only way journalists can hope to report on all of this is to collaborate, within their country with their competitors, with journalists in neighbour countries or journalists on the other side of the world.
I walked them through the pros and cons of collaboration; having a bigger team means more brains to work on the problems and more resources to get what is needed to complete the investigation. Instead of just one media organization exposing wrong doing there are two or three or more shining a very bright spotlight on the issue. The ‘radical sharing’ of sources and documents in one place where everyone in the team can access everything can be hard. It is a scary moment the first time to share information you have gathered to a journalist at another organization. Collaborations can only be successful if partners are in sync about what they are doing and how they will do it. It is important to choose a partner with the relationship in mind. I called it a short-term marriage – you must agree to be faithful, honest and open to make the relationship work.
By Sandra Bartlett
Dhaka, September 2018
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100. “Devil’s Gun” – C.J. & Company: This track is notable for being the first ever record spun during the first night of Studio 54, notorious for the huge role it played at the height of the disco scene. The first few measures, with its gradual buildup to disco bliss, definitely give off the vibe that something spectacular is about to happen. As with most lengthy disco songs, however, this one plateaus after the first minute or so, with a steady breakdown brought in to keep things interesting. The lyrics are rather uninteresting, however, and as fun as this track can be, it’s easy to see why it doesn’t hold up. Still, there are worse ways to kick off this year’s Hot 100.
99. “Star Wars (Main Title)” – London Symphony Orchestra: Haha. Here’s another one of those things about which – much like Shakespeare, The Beatles, or… well, Star Wars – no amount of analyzing or pontificating will result in something new or interesting that hasn’t already been reiterated millions of times. Arguably, this is the most recognizable movie themes of all time, and for good reason. Every note sticks and steadily builds into something epic and grandiose. Hell, I never watched any of the movies until about three years ago and I could still perfectly hum along to every note and nuance, including the tempo changes. It’s a great theme, for sure.
98. “How Much Love” – Leo Sayer: We last saw Leo Sayer back in my ’75 post, where I noted that perhaps a better production team would suit his voice. Well, the more pop-oriented production is certainly sharper in this single and – huzzah! – his voice fits it remarkably well! I must say I’m a bigger fan of his shiny, new falsetto than I am of his growling vocals in “Long Tall Glasses”. As for the song itself? It’s just okay. The lyrics are full of empty phrases, with Sayer speaking to a subject who is playing hard to get… or something. Nonetheless, it’s an improvement.
97. “Knowing Me, Knowing You” – ABBA: I am such an ABBA nerd, it’s not even funny. It’s pretty impossible for me not to love any ABBA single, given that so many of them are so dang catchy and others are so dang heartfelt. Somehow, this one is both. It’s not very upbeat, but uses its mid-tempo range to effectively emit its message of overwhelming heartbreak. I’d even dare to say that some of its lyrics follow the Bergman streak remarkably close (“No more carefree laughter / Silence ever after / Walking through an empty house / Tears in my eyes”). Sure the accents make things a little awkward, but once that euphoric chorus kicks in – “uh-huuuuh” – it’s hard not to ride along its wave.
96. “Don’t Worry Baby” – B.J. Thomas: This is a tough listen for me. For one thing, “Don’t Worry Baby” is one of my all-time favorite Beach Boys songs and it’s tough for me to separate it from Brian Wilson’s aching falsetto vocals. Here, one has to settle for Thomas’ crooning tenor which, honestly, I kind of love. He shines his best in “Hooked on a Feeling”, so he’s no stranger to sentimental love songs. The problem with this one is the production, which sounds so hokey and generic it actually brings down Thomas’ singing as well. It’s just too harsh and upbeat for a song that was meant for a tender harmony translation. Thomas has certainly done better.
95. “Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word” – Elton John: I have nothing against Elton John, I really don’t; on the contrary, I rather admire him. Still, would one blame me for being really tired of listening to his music? Since 1972, he’s had eleven singles appear on these charts (Wings has had the same amount in two more years time). And I’m not going to lie – after the previous year’s double-punch of “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” (which was just okay) and “Island Girl” (which I hated), the future doesn’t look very promising. Furthermore, “Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word” demonstrates some of Taupin’s laziest writing I’ve seen thus far. It’s a simple ballad filled to the brim with cliché phrases, and while John can often squeeze out some impressive emotional delivery, he just comes across as pathetic here. It’s the most plainly forgettable songs of his repertoire thus far.
94. “Go Your Own Way” – Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is not only one of the best albums about breakup, but simultaneously one of the greatest albums of all time. Likewise, “Go Your Own Way” is most likely the one track that has had the most lasting impression on me. The lyrics carry its message so simply with hardly much poetic nuance, yet the emotional weight of their meaning is all heard in Buckingham’s strained vocals. Besides all this, is also just a great rock song, with its chugging drums and guitar-driven composition, especially with that final climatic solo. Heartbreak has rarely sounded so triumphant.
93. “Boogie Nights” – Heatwave: “Boogie Nights” professes perhaps the smoothest melding of straight-funk and straight-disco imaginable. The main theme follows little more than the simple joys of going out and dancing to tracks such as these. This is essentially just hooked layered upon hook, but they certainly are catchy and there’s no questioning just how well this song sticks. The very start of the song anticipates a slow, melodic build, only to suddenly crash into a full-on disco tempo. That deeply-sung “got to keep on dancing” hook is especially infectious, even if it does soon become repetitive. Unlike most disco songs that quickly plateau until fadeout, this one consistently brings in interesting elements to keep things fun. The final third is especially ripe with synths, a backing gospel choir, guitars, and incomprehensible party conversations. It is a bit much at this point, but the journey to get there is what makes this a delightful party jam.
92. “Year of the Cat” Al Stewart: What a weird song. The production, on one hand, is fabulous, driven primarily by various lovely instrumental solos, and follows along the line of those warm, cozy pop-rock songs you listen to on a rainy day. The lyrics, however, are just bizarre. From what I can grasp, the “Peter Lorre”-esque narrator is being taken on a surreal adventure by an elusive woman who’s like “a watercolor in the rain” and awakens the next morning to find that he cannot escape. As one can sense, this song is very largely metaphor-driven, which often works in its favor but its vague sensibilities often muddle the meaning and sometimes works against the song. What, for example, does “year of the cat” even signify? Stewart also doesn’t have a very good voice, but given that his background is in folk music, this isn’t all that necessary. Above all, however, this could very well be the only song to successfully rhythm “coolly” with “patchouli”.
91. “Cherchez La Femme” – Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band: Okay, now this is bizarre. If I’m understanding correctly, this is yet another gimmicky disco track that, this time, attempts to meld the genre with 30s swing music. This is obviously a predecessor to electro-swing, and possibly also the 90s swing revival as a whole (the former made possible by the latter). Unlike most disco songs I’ve heard, there’s no real chorus or even an indication of a payoff to the buildup that the track gives us. In fact, the whole song sounds like it’s slowly and gradually building up to something big and explosive, but it never delivers. Diversity is great, sure, but this is just peculiar to the musical ear and I can’t imagine this being very fun to dance to. Even the lyrics seem a bit off, almost a little too hateful to match with its party-loving atmosphere. It’s not hard to see how this was forgotten.
90. “Walk This Way” – Aerosmith: Yeah, yeah, we all know that this is a real catchy guitar riff. Besides that, though, this is just another of those hard rock songs that cater solely to the testosterone-driven whims of men and teenage boys. The lyrics come off as fodder for high school gossip, wherein girls are thrown under the bus in exchange for male bragging about their sexual exploits. If anything, I actually slightly prefer Run DMC’s cover, with its more polished production and fun sound overall. Since that version is in existence, I’ve no need for this recording.
89. “Muskrat Love” – Captain & Tennille: I’ve got to make a compilation of all these love songs from the 70s that just come off as tremendously unsexy and embarrassing these days. “Afternoon Delight” would be the first track; this would be the second. To be fair, the simple production is fine, if painfully innocuous, and the melody is rather pretty. But jesus, was there really this much demand for a song about muskrats dancing and making love? The Moog solo is alright – but is also apparently meant to signify the sounds of muskrats mating. To me, these noises just sound like alien transmissions. I’m really not sure if this was meant to be some kind of joke or if its genuinely bizarre. Given the tone of Captain & Tennille’s previous output, I’m more inclined to the latter.
88. “Somebody to Love” – Queen: Obviously riding off the coattails of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, this single is, nevertheless, an absolute delight. If “I Write the Songs” is a cheap off-Broadway musical number, “Somebody to Love” is a centerpiece of a theatrical masterpiece. Queen’s music often makes me sound like a huge hypocrite; often, I roll my eyes over such bloated, dramatic production, but “Somebody to Love” is just so confident in its gospel-influenced bombast, I’ve just gotta enjoy every second of it. Freddie Mercury is obviously a highlight, effectively putting his all in his performance of a tired man searching for love and life’s meaning. Brian May’s guitar solo is also great, even if it does, once again, follow the same general patterns as his solo in “Rhapsody”. Still, there’s a reason why this has become a staple for me at karaoke. I love this song so much.
87. “I Wanna Get Next to You” – Rose Royce: The Whitfield-produced sound of this song is very similar to what he would have produced for The Temptations around the start of the decade (in particular, it shares similar qualities with “Just My Imagination”). I grew up listening to the major hits of Rose Royce and I could never get around to really loving this song. It might be because I love Gwen Dickey’s vocals far more than this guy’s – “I’m Going Down” didn’t make the year-end Hot 100, but it’s a terrific example of her ability. There isn’t anything wrong with this guy, per se; he’s just a bit ordinary. Not to mention that he makes the speaker out to be a huge chump with how he allows his lover to mistreat him, due his supposed love for her. Regardless, it’s a mighty smooth sound, akin to some of the best stuff of Motown.
86. “Ain’t Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)” – Joe Tex: While Joe Tex has already had a long prolific career at this point, I’ve only been familiar with what I’ve seen in these year-end lists and boy is it a weird career. His first appearance was in ’65 with the sentimental “Hold What You’ve Got”, essentially a gospel song that delicately emitted its titular message. Next was in ’72 with “I Gotcha”, a more quicker, rambunctious tune that very quickly wears out its welcome. Now, this track, Tex’s attempt at disco. I’ve come to realize that his view of women – as mere playthings to be passed around from man to man, as pious creatures to stay at home and treat their man right, or, in this case, as grotesque objects to be recklessly mocked – is seriously annoying. This song contributes to the toxic assumption that heavier people (specifically women) are undeserving of love or self-enjoyment, to the point where the speaker’s interactions with the titular woman are played out in slapstick novelty. It follows the same general beat and rhythm as the popular disco tracks of its day, hence its popularity, but its merciless lyrics just throw the whole thing off. I’ll hopefully forget all about this single once I publish this post.
85. “Love’s Grown Deep” – Kenny Nolan: A few seconds after I pressed play and heard Nolan’s utterance of “I love you… so much”, I legitimately bursted out laughing. He’s definitely trying to tap into some kind of soft-rock Barry Manilow vibe, and he truly succeeded in that this song is brimming with the smoothest cheese. Here’s a sample of the chorus: “Love’s grown deep / Deep into the heart of me / You’ve become a part of me / Let us plant the seed and watch it grow”. The verses follow this same line of schmaltz, making this a song that only young, devout newlyweds could enjoy.
84. “High School Dance” – The Sylvers: Following up their silly hit “Boogie Fever”, The Sylvers seem all too eager to create G-rated disco singles for the whole family to enjoy. Their sound is obviously an imitation of The Osmonds, including their sugar-sweet melodies and innocent, nostalgic lyrics. Although, the only thing that makes this true nostalgia is starting the first verse with “Remember back in high school”; their sound and image otherwise makes them out to be genuine teenagers. Which is also baffling, since I don’t recall high school dances being at all as fun and lively as this song makes them out to be. Perhaps they were better in the 60s and 70s… but who knows?
83. “Nobody Does It Better” – Carly Simon: While I pretty much failed in my attempt to watch through all the James Bond films about a year ago, I did actually get around to listening to every Bond song of every year. As a Bond song, this is one of my favorites; yet as a Carly Simon song, this falters a bit. Makes sense, though, since she didn’t write it and her not-so-best work is often with others’ compositions. Nonetheless, this is a beautiful single and one of the better movie themes I’ve come across in these charts in a while. It’s even better when you listen to it separate from the Bond context; then, it becomes just a simple tune of admiration from the speaker to her lover. Throw in some lovely 70s classical strings in the mix and you’ve got one of the better adult contemporary ballads of the era.
82. “I Never Cry” – Alice Cooper: It’s interesting how Cooper’s most sensitive singles – this and “Only Women Bleed” – become some of his most popular. Given his shock-rock reputation, I’ve seen very little of this in these charts. Nonetheless, like “Only Women Bleed”, this is a bit of a bore to listen to, Cooper’s vocal performance being especially dismal. The lyrics are its best quality though, tackling rough subjects such as depression, alcoholism, and loneliness. Still, putting this in someone else’s hands would only be an improvement.
81. “The Rubberband Man” – The Spinners: As I mentioned before, The Spinners are their sharpest with big soul ballads. This single, however, proves that they could also take on fun and funky rather well. I’ve been aware of this song for a long time, but it’s not until this post did I actually listen to the words. Lyrically speaking, outside of straight novelty fluff, this is one of the silliest tracks on the Hot 100. Even that driving percussion riff at the beginning promises a real good time. Phillipé Wynne continues to be an excellent leading man, but the harmonies in the chorus and the “doot-doot-doot” bridge make some the best aspects of this track. Yet another well-deserved classic from the group.
80. “Love So Right” – Bee Gees: Is it just me or does this ballad simply pale in comparison to others from the Brothers Gibb? The story in the song isn’t all that interesting, certainly not one we haven’t heard hundreds of times before. Not even the group’s falsetto harmonies can help; usually they’re pretty strong on this front, but here they tend to crash and burn at every turn. This is little more than expendable AM radio fodder.
79. “That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll” – Shaun Cassidy: I don’t know about you, but judging from this sound alone, Shaun Cassidy wouldn’t necessarily be my go-to standard to which I hold 70s rock. Just his singing on this track alone indicates that he wants to be this Springsteen-esque idol of boogie-woogie rock ‘n’ roll, yet his vocal range is too weak and wispy to take on anything more extreme than crooning ballads. Thus, he’s not convincing for a second throughout his “C’mon everybody” chorus. The song itself is alright, though; yet another track that would only work better in a more experienced performer’s repertoire.
78. “Give a Little Bit” – Supertramp: This is a neat little song whose coolness extends beyond its utter simplicity. For one thing, the lyrics of love and tolerance seem more fitting for the hippie scene a full decade earlier. Still, Rodger Hodgson’s vocals fit the track so well, I couldn’t imagine any of the generally rougher vocalists of the late-60s to do this song as proper justice. Though it does build up in intensity to its climax, the arrangement still remains relatively simple, which is such a nice refresher. While I don’t agree with it being the band’s most radio-popular hit this day and age (though it is understandable how it is), it’s a nice song regardless.
77. “Livin’ Thing” – Electric Light Orchestra: I know I said that ’76 was one of the most well-reviewed years I’ve come across thus far, but ’77 may just give it a run for its money. While I haven’t delved enough into their music to call myself a true fan, “Livin’ Thing” is, far and away, my favorite ELO song. Once that introductory violin kicks in, my brain immediately kicks into full-scale happiness that doesn’t let up until the very end. Thematically, it’s a song about making the best of life and love while it’s still hanging around and being wonderful. I’m a big fan of hook-driven rock and this is some of the hookiest symphonic-based stuff ever. I only wish it were twice as long.
76. “You Made Me Believe in Magic” – Bay City Rollers: This seems to be the point, more of less, where Bay City Rollers stopped being committed to playing pop-rock music, giving way to the label’s demands for a more straight pop/disco sound. This is unfortunate since, although the Rollers weren’t a great band per se, at least their sound was youthful and vibrant, while this just sounds forced and sterile. It’s not a terrible song; it just kinda sits and doesn’t do anything interesting or distinctive. I suppose fates like these are what cause so many to turn on the disco trend by the end of the decade.
75. “Keep It Comin’ Love” – KC & the Sunshine Band: This time around, KC and his band decide to slightly divert from their samey sound (only slightly, though). Unfortunately, this is to their disadvantage, as it’s resulted in a song that is much more repetitive and clumsy than their previous hits. KC’s lyrics were already pretty simple and childish from the start, but even then these verses practically don’t exist amidst the consistent repetition of the title. I was going to count the number of times the title is repeated throughout the song’s entirety, but I got tired halfway through. It’s easily between 30-40 times though. What a dull disco song.
74. “Lido Shuffle” – Boz Scaggs: It’s interesting to me that this came off the same album as “Lowdown”, since they’re both so different stylistically. It is cool, though, that the same guy who put out a smooth, jazzy number could also write a catchy, synth-driven, boogie-woogie song as well. Seriously, though, the synth in this song is phenomenal and matches its soaring, anthemic vibe better than I could’ve ever imagined. I’m still not a fan of Scaggs’ voice, but at least the emphasis here is less on his vocal ability and more on the top-notch production. The lyrics are pretty vague and I’m still not so sure what it’s about, but I can’t help but sing along whenever that chorus comes along – “Lido! Woah-oh-oh-ohhhh”
73. “Jeans On” – Lord David Dundas: This song originated as jingle for a jeans commercial, then was released as a full-length single due to its immense popularity. The driving piano riff sounds a lot like “Long Tall Glasses”, while the bass and vocal delivery sound like something The Beatles would’ve released at the height of their popularity. So it’s almost no surprise that this got as popular as it did: listeners of popular music tend to cling to that which is familiar to them. Truthfully, it ain’t a bad song, though its innocence and tendency to follow these familiar paths prevent it from become anything truly great. Still, it’s light and breezy fare, probably waking up music.
72. “Float On” – The Floaters: This song is so corny and so myopic in its view of the “perfect woman” that I should hate it… yet here I am. That smooth soul groove is so damn infectious, I’ll listen to the whole track again and again just for this quality alone. I’m not sure if star signs and personals ads were at their peak popularity at this time, but I’ll be convinced from this track alone. This song instantly becomes better if you listen to it as a novelty, since there’s nothing about any of these four vocalists that really marks them as distinct or different. They were probably destined to become one-hit wonders for this reason alone – also the fact that they named their big single after themselves. “Float on” doesn’t even make sense in context! Once again, this is just a huge joke of a song, signifying everything embarrassing about throwaway smooth 70s soul.
71. “Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band” – Meco: Here’s yet another disco gimmick – a dance version of the most popular movie theme of its time! (And all-time, as it stands) Really, there’s no reason to listen to this outside of novelty value alone. Once the Cantina Band segment comes in, it becomes especially ridiculous. Still, the bigness of this theme matches surprisingly well with the equal bombastic flavor of disco music. With that being said, I applaud you, Meco. I would kill to own this on vinyl.
70. “Lost Without Your Love” – Bread: No one can carve up such tender heartbreak soft-rock the way that David Gates and Bread can. Still, unlike “Make It With You” and “If”, this doesn’t manage to really stir up any significant feelings for me. While the former song contains a distinct emotional weight and the latter offers some vibrant, lovely imagery, the feeling here seem artificial and the imagery (“I’m as helpless as a ship without a wheel”) simply falters. There’s also this weird piano-and-guitar bit before the final third that seems a bit too upbeat for a song of this caliber, which anticipates something slower and softer. A pretty forgettable song overall.
69. “Ariel” – Dean Friedman: Oh great, another one of these story songs. In this one, the speaker meets a free-spirited vegetarian girl, takes her out to eat, then takes her home. That’s really all there is to it. The production is a bland, piano-driven chug, and Friedman’s voice really isn’t all that great either. It was sometime around the second listen of that piercing “Aaaariel” chorus that I decided that this song really isn’t worth mine or anyone else’s time.
68. “Cold As Ice” – Foreigner: The piano in this song is hilariously repetitive – just the same two chords banging along over and over again. Once you notice it, you can’t unhear it and the song can no longer be taken seriously. Not that it really had much else going for it anyway. Foreigner is like the vanilla ice cream of 70s radio rock – it fills in all the right squares as to what listeners would be looking for with this type of music, but one could be listening to something so much better instead.
67. “Smoke From a Distant Fire” – Sanford-Townsend Band: The “smoke” in the title is soon revealed to be a metaphor for a relationship gone rotten. The lyrics are interesting enough for me to be convinced that this is coming from a place of genuine bitterness and heartache over their significant other’s infidelity (“I’d just like to know, do you love him or just making time / By filling his glass with your fast-flowing, bitter-sweet lime?”). This is neutralized, unfortunately, by the generic production and upbeat tone, replete with a blues-rock vibe that doesn’t really offer this group a personality of their own. This was their only hit single and that’s a real shame, since it’s apparent that they’re pretty talented and could’ve been destined for real greatness.
66. “It Was Almost Like a Song” – Ronnie Milsap: Through plainly insipid lyricism and tedious piano-driven production, Milsap declares in song how he fell in love, only to have his heart broken. This is so painfully boring, I would’ve taken it for a Manilow number.
65. “Weekend in New England” – Barry Manilow: And speak of the devil! Honestly, this is almost identical to the previous song in melody and production, I almost want to just skip it altogether. Truthfully, though, at least this one provides a nice backdrop of memories upon which we could form some semblance of a meaningful relationsh- wait, wait… this is a Manilow song we’re talking about. Outside of “Mandy”, I’m not convinced of anything he sings for one second. Let’s move on…
64. “Way Down” – Elvis Presley: Shortly after this single was released, Elvis Presley was found dead, marking a symbolic end of the first-gen rock scene that somehow still flickered in and out through two decades of musical trends and changes. Truthfully, this one is really clunky. The verses, bridge, and chorus just sound so tired and really struggle to emit a consistent mood to the recording. It’s pretty darn embarrassing to listen to, certainly not matching up to Presley’s early work nor even his singles from earlier in the decade. Not a very sharp note to leave on, unfortunately.
63. “Stand Tall” – Burton Cummings: Cummings had previously been known as the lead vocalist for The Guess Who, so it’s a bit surprising that he could churn out a single as explicitly cheesy as this one. It’s one of those dime-a-dozen “don’t let life get you down” anthems, this one in the form of a soft-rock ballad. Cummings himself, being a veteran in the industry, certainly has the pipes to pull off the range that the extravagant chorus needs to be effective. The problem lies in the lyrics, which really don’t offer anything particularly noteworthy, leaving this particular recording sadly lying in the dust.
62. “Jet Airliner” – Steve Miller Band: Honestly, I feel like if you’ve heard one Steve Miller Band, you’ve pretty much heard them all. The guitar here, however, is some of the best in any of the band’s singles thus far, providing a fun and poppy atmosphere upon which the rest of the song can build upon. Essentially, though, there isn’t very much else to build with a song about a guy riding a plane far away to an undisclosed location. Miller is back at it again with lazy vocals and even lazier rhymes. At least I admire his confidence.
61. “After the Lovin'” – Engelbert Humperdinck: We haven’t seen Humperdinck on these year-end chart’s since 1967’s “Release Me”, which I actually do like. Ten years later, this is a huge step down. I almost want to blame these sudden outbursts of schmaltz in talented performers on Barry Manilow’s popularity, but I know it’s probably not all his fault. Slow, symphonic, romantic post-sex love songs were just what was in demand at the time, I suppose. Anyway, there’s nothing decidedly wrong with Humperdinck himself, as it’s obvious he can carry a note. But verses like: “I sing you to sleep / After the lovin’ / I brush back the hair from your eyes / And the love on your face / Is so real / That it makes me want to cry”… That’s a whole different story.
60. “My Heart Belongs To Me” – Barbra Streisand: I really love Barbra and will eat up nearly anything she puts out. With that being said, this is one of her weakest efforts thus far. It doesn’t have nearly the same immediate emotional resonance as “People” or “The Way We Were”, and I think this is mostly due to the song’s flimsy melody and even more artificial lyrics. Still, it’s a nice perspective on breakups – thinking about the well-being of oneself over others’ possible desires is a mature outlook on ending a relationship, while also being the scariest. It’s refreshing to have a song like this in the midst of songs about love affairs that are incompatible at best and abusive at worst.
59. “New Kid in Town” – Eagles: Country music has never been a preferred genre of mine; country-rock, while often faring better, still tends to turn me off. Thus, once the general mood of this particular single sets in, I tend to tune it out as background music. I do admire the instrumentation, though, the guitars being particularly reminiscent of mariachi music. Nonetheless, it is an Eagles song, which I tend to find more annoying and same-sounding than anything else. It probably just my own personal bias, but I can’t see anything really special about this single over all their others, which follow the same basic beats and rhythms.
58. “Carry on Wayward Son” – Kansas: The fondest memories I have of this song involve playing it on Rock Band 2 (I know, I’m an awful millennial). Other than that, though, I can’t say it stirs anything notable in me. It seems more like a collection of parts from different pieces, strung together in a fashion that I guess was supposed to be quirky and unique, but just comes off a bit clumsy and unfinished. Still, that ending solo sure is a good one and I can’t help but sing along to that chorus every time it comes around.
57. “Heard it in a Love Song” – The Marshall Tucker Band: Hey, look! Another song about love songs – what a surprise! In all seriousness, though, the country-rock mood of this song is the kind of stuff I like to listen to. And yes, I’m being very contradictory after what I just said about the Eagles song a couple entries up, but I just don’t like the Eagles. This is just another of those country songs where the speaker claims that it’s in his nature to love someone and leave them before things get too serious. Yet with lines like “I’d stay another year if I saw teardrops in your eyes”, it’s evident that maybe his partner is someone he genuinely loves and is at a crossroads on where to take his life at this point. This song also has a pretty neat flute that comes in now and again, something I don’t hear often in rock music. I’m so happy to have finally come across a genuinely good, strong single on this chart, after such a bland string of nothingness.
56. “You’re My World” – Helen Reddy: As I mentioned before, I’ve always been generally lukewarm toward Helen Reddy’s singles. That she maintained her popularity throughout the course of the decade says more about the dated tastes of the era than it does about Reddy’s particular strengths as a performer. To be fair, she does have a good voice; it’s the quality of the work she records that becomes an issue. “You’re My World” is almost definitely her dullest work to date, with its boring rhyme scheme and trite sentimentalism. It’s a love song that just kind of blurts out its message with absolutely no nuance; the fact that it runs at less than three minutes long gives it even less of a chance to really prove itself worthy of anyone’s time. It’s sad to see such a promising talent go mercilessly wasted so gradually over time.
55. “Night Moves” – Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band: Bob Seger has stated that partial influence for this song came from Kris Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee” (Janis Joplin’s cover was on the list earlier in the decade). However, this song particularly reminds me of Rod Stewarts “Maggie May”, in that it details a young, reckless love affair from the perspective of an older, more mature speaker reminiscing on old times. Besides the fact that the speaker’s reference to his lover’s breasts in the first verse is a bit off-putting, I really enjoy this song. The partially acoustic, mid-tempo vibe of the piece really emits a truly detailed sense of nostalgia that is rarely so successfully accomplished in similar songs. This is heightened by the final third of the song, where the tempo is slowed, time returns to present day, and the phrase “night moves” takes on a wholly different meaning. This final part begins to stand for much more than a love affair – anyone with memories from childhood could apply their own personal, deeper meaning to “Ain’t it funny how the night moves”. It’s definitely not a perfect song, but it does tap into those certain specific feelings rather well.
54. “Strawberry Letter 23” – The Brothers Johnson: Now this is how you do smooth funk! This song is so well-composed and finely recorded, with harmonies to die for and a super-divine synth riff. I have no clue why the false beginning is there, but once that funky rhythm kicks in I forget this ever-so-slight clumsiness. Surprisingly, it’s also got a bit of a psychedelic edge to it, with its colorful, vibrant imagery that makes little sense yet still gets the mood across very finely – not to mention that sudden keyboard solo straight out of mid-60s garage rock. Quincy Jones is one hell of a producer, and the Brothers Johnson are so damn interesting as well.
53. “Barracuda” – Heart: Hard-rockin’ ladies will always win over my cold, dead heart. And speaking of heart… I don’t think I will ever truly get over this song. That driving guitar riff always gets me going from the start, properly setting the stage for the anger and spite enveloped in Ann Wilson’s emblematic lyrics. Other than that, the song is relatively straight-forward, admittedly not too experimental in its form or execution. But boy, the emotional drive in this one sells it completely. This has become a classic rock staple for good reason.
52. “Don’t Stop” – Fleetwood Mac: Rumours is still one of my favorite albums of the 70s, but even I must admit that this song was always a low point of the listening experience. It just doesn’t resonate quite as much as many of the other tracks. Yet that’s not to say that it isn’t a great song in its own right – quite the contrary, actually. If “Go Your Own Way” is the soaring, anthemic side of heartbreak, “Don’t Stop” is the more upbeat and positive promise for new beginnings. Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie really drive the point home in ways that others could only dream of achieving.
51. “I Wish” – Stevie Wonder: While Innervisions may just be Stevie Wonder’s strongest album objectively, Songs in the Key of Life always holds a place in my heart for being the album to turn me onto the talented musician initially. The whole album kicks, but the singles are some of his most phenomenally poppy and charming of his most popular output. “I Wish” is yet another of those nostalgic yearnings for earlier days of reckless childhood, yet unlike most songs that follow such a theme, this one is unexpectedly upbeat and delightful through and through. That beginning bass line alone is one for the ages, setting such an infectious atmosphere that refuses to let up. Moreover, Wonder’s vocal performance here is among his very best – which is certainly saying a lot, given his history of straight hits, few misses! A terrific song overall.
50. “Lonely Boy” – Andrew Gold: This is such a peculiar song. For one thing, despite the song’s title, we get no indication as to how or why the titular boy is a lonely one. Though initially lauded as the only child for his parents, the addition of a baby sister leaves him jealous and betrayed, so he… runs away? Hardly a convincing story, unless Gold expects us to sympathize with someone for feelings that children tend to get over after some time. It doesn’t help that the rhyme scheme ranges from clunky to nonexistent, while Gold himself seems to not know how to perform in any way but flat and emotionless. I’m not buying this for one second.
49. “Swayin’ to the Music (Slow Dancing)” – Johnny Rivers: Johnny Rivers is unusual to me, in the sense that he’s come up multiple times in the charts, yet fail to leave any real lasting impression with any of his singles. The only exception may be “Secret Agent Man”, but only because that’s been drilled in my brain through years of pop culture saturation. As it stands, “Swayin’ to the Music” – which would be Rivers’ final Top 40 hit – continues this trend. Sure, it’s good mood-making music for those lovers who may in fact be slow dancing. Besides this, though, the lyrics are dreadfully generic, never really moving beyond its simple, dull imagery of swayin’. I never thought Rivers himself to be very talented in the first place and this doesn’t really convince me otherwise.
48. “You and Me” – Alice Cooper: And here’s another Alice Cooper ballad to shake things up. Honestly, though, this one is actually a bit touching. The lyrics detail a relationship that may or may not be on the verge of falling off the rails. In any case, the speaker seems pretty content with staying in this painfully ordinary relationship, complete with “a bed, some popcorn, and TV”. I actually have a bit of a soft spot in my heart for these types of songs – love ballads that eliminate any facade of glitzy romance in favor of cynicism and plain day-to-day living. This isn’t a great song by any stretch of the imagination, but it sure is nice to see Alice Cooper putting out a more down-to-earth single that is actually somewhat enjoyable.
47. “Just a Song Before I Go” – Crosby, Stills, & Nash: Gosh, those harmonies are lovely. It’s kind of a shame, though, that this song is so short. Its subject matter – dealing with the poignancy of leaving family behind while on the road – is truly compelling, augmented by the textured acoustic melodies that provide a lonesome atmosphere to the piece. The guitar solos are really nice as well. While my main complaint about its fleeting running time may be a bit nitpicky, it’s only because I feel that the four lone verses, as beautiful as they are, leave much to be anticipated and the song’s sudden ending is disappointing. Yet this could parallel how the weeks, days, hours, and minutes before the departure of a loved one, despite how well paced and planned they are, never seem like nearly enough time.
46. “Handy Man” – James Taylor: While I always preferred “Good Timin'” over Jimmy Jones’ bigger hit single “Handy Man”, there’s no denying that it’s an irreplaceable slice from its very own distinct era in pop music. James Taylor’s cover, on the other hand, is such a harsh turnaround, it’s nearly unrecognizable. Nonetheless, I would dare say that this cover – which is definitely a “white cover” – may actually be an improvement. While the lyrics are a bit off-putting against Taylor’s arrangement (the “come-a, come-a” bits being unintentionally hilarious), the choice to give a more heartfelt edge to the song is a great one. That’s not even mentioning Taylor’s guitar-playing, which is a high point. This cover – as well as Jose Feliciano’s “Light My Fire” – had to have been a influence for José González and the ilk.
45. “Da Doo Ron Ron” – Shaun Cassidy: And now, once again, here’s how not to do a cover. I honestly had to double-check to make sure that I didn’t get some generic cover band or a karaoke version; that’s how terrible this production design is. As mentioned, Shaun Cassidy’s voice clashes awfully against upbeat arrangements and only works with more traditional teen idol fare. This is yet another example of how to squeeze the ever-living life out of something so fresh and awesome. Definitely one of the worst things to come from The Partridge Family.
44. “The Things We Do For Love” – 10cc: I may just prefer this song over “I’m Not In Love” – the production is far more sharper, that’s for sure. The lyrics are pretty fun as well, as the speaker details the numerous trials that come with falling in the treacherous trap of love. I just really love the line, “walking in the rain and the snow / When there’s nowhere to go / And you’re feelin’ like a part of you is dying”. I know how that feels!! It often comes off a bit too “motivational speaker”-y at times, but this is regulated by all those slick, smooth harmonies, as well as a sharp, catchy arrangement overall.
43. “Lucille” – Kenny Rogers: Hey Kenny; it’s been a while. Thankfully, this is not a cover of a Little Richard song, as I was painfully anticipating given the past history of successful cover songs on these charts. Instead, we’ve got a soft country song, telling the story of a woman who leaves her husband and kids for a night with the speaker at a dingy bar. While it pains me to admit, the grit and gravel of Rogers’ voice is extremely pleasing to the ears and I’d listen to this song numerous times over if only for that. The song itself is just mildly okay, though – we don’t hear enough of her side of the story enough to really justify that the speaker’s hesitation is justified. We actually don’t hear too much of the story at all, leaving far too much of it uncolored for me to even give a damn. Still, that voice-guitar combo is killer.
42. “I’m in You” – Peter Frampton: This year, Frampton inexplicably decided to follow up his successful live album with an oddly simple, piano-oriented power ballad. Yet with lyrics like “I’m in you, you’re with me / ‘Cause you gave me the love / Love that I never had”, its clear that there’s a bit of a step down in overall quality. Then again, “Show Me The Way” is pretty nonsensical in its vagueness – but at least that was charming! This one adamantly refuses any notion of personality, its simplicity being far too inane and innocuous to leave any sort of impression at all, good or bad. I could only imagine that the title alone gave many a high schooler a good chuckle.
41. “Dazz” – Brick: After wading through an ocean of mediocrity, I was afraid that I may never come across another great song on this list again. Thankfully, Brick comes alone like a breath of fresh air to introduce an entirely new genre of music – in their words, “Dazz, dazz / disco-jazz!”. Truthfully, I hear more disco and funk in this recording; save for the instrumental breaks, there’s very little semblance of jazz to be found here. Still, I never thought I’d find a such a neat flute solo in any dance track. Unlike other disco tracks that introduce the beat and gradual build from there, “Dazz” starts up like a gut punch, right at its peak, and only gets more joyful from there. One of the many notable tracks I can’t help but dance along to every time it plays.
40. “Enjoy Yourself” – The Jacksons: The most fascinating aspect of this single is the opportunity to listen to a grown-up Michael Jackson’s matured, seasoned voice, mere years before he would reach superstardom via solo career. Truthfully, though, this recording falters in that it simply just isn’t as catchy or creative as many of their past singles. The group has definitely proven that they could put out some real distinct pop-R&B tunes; they trade these strengths in, however, for a more downtempo vibe and a chorus that simply repeats its title again and again. This is also the first single from the group since departing from Motown – perhaps this was a move that works only to their disadvantage.
39. “Dreams” – Fleetwood Mac: I must confess that I often confuse this song and “Rhiannon”, if only for its simple, bass-driven arrangement and lead vocals from Stevie Nicks. Other than that, the two are hardly similar. “Dreams” follows along with the overlying theme on Rumours: relationships ending and the resulting emotional journey that occurs. Indeed, Nicks definitely wrote this song with her and Buckingham’s own breakup in mind, yet the bitterness that lies in the background of “Go Your Own Way” is instead replaced with sadness and shades of regret. It’s the knowledge that the speaker is entering a new stage of their life, replete with confusion and emotional turmoil. Nicks’ performance is fantastic, as is both the tight percussion and smooth, ethereal guitar backdrop. Definitely one of the highest points of Rumours.
38. “So In To You” – Atlanta Rhythm Section: I don’t know why the word “into” is separated like that, but I’ll digress. This is some pretty neat jazz-influenced Southern rock, with the keyboard/guitar combo being especially light and perky. The lead singer has a really good voice, even if the arrangement doesn’t leave him much room to show off his range. Overall, I just love how sleazy this song sounds. It’s consistently running over with sexual frustration, while still being utterly sharp and listenable. Songs such as these are usually a bit of a risky move, but everything just works so well here it’s hard not to appreciate it for what it is.
37. “Looks Like We Made It” – Barry Manilow: I feel like I’m listening to way too much Manilow than what’s good for my health. While Elton John, Wings, The Beatles, and Elvis have certainly had more songs on these charts over the years, at least they keep their warm welcome with how diverse their sound could get, something that Manilow can’t exactly claim. I feel like I’m going crazy because every one of these songs sound exactly the same. Okay, not exactly, since the song in question this times deals specifically with an ex-couple who each found love with a new significant other, which is new. This one’s actually a bit more interesting, since the title suggests a blissful optimism that, while still present in the song’s story, is nonetheless tinged with the sadness of loving memories forever gone. But what could have been a really enjoyable song is inevitably ruined by Manilow’s inexplicable need to make everything so pompous and melodramatic and over-the-top. This one even has an upward key change to seal the deal!
36. “Blinded By The Light” – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band: Three weird things about this song: (1) it’s a Springsteen cover; (2) I always forget that there are other words to this song besides the hook, in which I swear he’s singing “wrapped up like a douche”; and (3) this is from the same guy that brought us “Do Wah Diddy Diddy”, which couldn’t be any different from this proggy recording. It is a weird song as a whole, though. A read-through of the lyrics indicates that it may just be an exercise in creative rhymes, rather than an effort to make any cohesive narrative whatsoever. Still, those keyboards are absolutely killer – those alone may just be the song’s sole redeeming factor.
35. “I’ve Got Love on My Mind” – Natalie Cole: I was really sad when I heard of Natalie Cole’s passing late last year. Separate from the fact of who her father was, she was a wonderful talent of her own. With this single in particular, I’m reminded of Aretha Franklin whose fantastic vocals could make even the most dismal of productions into something magical. I could only imagine that folks were blown away by the special range demonstrated by Cole; she sings the title the first few times with a soft, seductive demeanor, gradually building up to a powerful demonstration of her professed feelings. And while the production is far from the centerpiece in this recording, the piano throughout and midway guitar solo both set the mood fantastically. A simple love song, sure, but also a rather well-composed one.
34. “Right Time of the Night” – Jennifer Warnes: While the previous song definitely gave off some notion of a lush night of passion, this one does not at all, despite being the one that actually states it’s about “makin’ love”. Jennifer Warnes has a pretty good voice, but the song just feels like it drags on and on without transforming into anything interesting or vibrant. I usually hope with songs like these that I’d feel like I’m somewhat feeling how the speaker feels, and I’m just not getting that at all here. It’s forgettable pop-country fluff, nothing more than that.
33. “Easy” – Commodores: With the rising popularity of these low-tempo soul love ballads, I sometimes wonder if Commodores were ever really a funk band at all. This would be a pretty good companion piece to Keith Carradine’s “I’m Easy”, even if they both are very different themetically and stylistically. Lionel Richie hear sings about a desire to have no chains in his love- and pleasure-seeking ventures. Unfortunately, this is a broad step back from the potential of his performance. The best parts of this single come from the simple, clean electric guitar solo right before the final choruses, as well as the cool harmonies from other members of the Commodores in the backdrop. “Easy like Sunday morning” is a cool phrase to attach to the song, but the track itself is less than memorable.
32. “Couldn’t Get It Right” – Climax Blues Band: This is a nice, catchy, blues-rock-esque hit with a nice cowbell that keeps up the beat throughout. It was actually released the previous year, but didn’t really go anywhere until it was given a second chance. It’s one of those classic tales of a man on the road, looking for meaning in life. It’s a nice detour from the saturation of disco, soft-rock, and soft-pop on this list; it’s pop-rock flavor feels a bit 60s-ish, but the four-on-the-floor beat and electric guitar flavor keep it grounded in its era. I like this one!
31. “Feels Like the First Time” – Foreigner: In terms of its sound, this is just as vanilla as “Cold As Ice”, yet it’s somehow better. Sure, the lyrics sound like they were strategically assembled from various Valentines Day cards (“It’s just the woman in you / That brings out in the man in me”). But the way those verses build up to the chorus is just so inexplicably pleasing, even if the end result leaves much to be desires. Plus those synths throughout and the delicious guitar solo are so very glam-rock, I can’t help but be drawn in by this song’s charms, if only for a little while.
30. “On and On” – Stephen Bishop: Besides its already hokey lyrics, I just can’t get over the way Bishop slurs over the words “on and on” like a drunken cat. While it is nice to listen to a sentimental, acoustic-led ballad every once in a while, more often then not they come off as disingenuous and cloying. Unfortunately, while this may have come from a special part of Bishop’s heart, this is still no exception to the rule. He just kind of comes off as this era’s John Mayer.
29. “Don’t Give Up On Us” – David Soul: This is one of the most 70s songs I’ve ever come across on the charts. Despite his name, David Soul’s only US hit single is the least soulful thing imaginable. This was released with intention to further capitalize on Starsky and Hutch and the rushed nature of it shows. Soul’s voice is depressingly flat and shaky throughout, especially evident when he tries to hit those climactic high notes. Even worse is that this is yet another song about two people who simply do not belong together; “I really lost my head last night / You’ve got a right to start believin’ / There’s still a little love left, even so” – No! Just break up! Adding in another sickly sweet key change results in just another incompetent bullshit love song.
28. “Fly Like an Eagle” – Steve Miller Band: What a messy song. One minute Steve’s singing about the passage of time; next he’s expressing a desire to rid all the bad in the world. This is all strung together by its “I want to fly like an eagle” chorus, which… yeah, what the hell? It’s just a bunch of nonsense words and phrases strung together so they sound cool and catchy to some degree. Sure, it’s synth-driven backdrop is pretty cool in a dreamy funk kinda way, but even that loses its heat after a little while. Pretty disappointing, considering that Steve Miller Band do know how to carve a catchy, blues-rock riff and make it stick. This just seems beyond their element.
27. “You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)” – Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr.: Finally!!! Back to disco. Interestingly enough, this comes from two former members of The 5th Dimension, who were huge in the latter parts of the 60s. The sleek, soulful energy of this track almost sound like something The 5th Dimension would have release in their prime, but there’s no denying that its strings, drums, and danceable rhythm are purely disco. McCoo and Davis have some great, fun chemistry and play off of each others’ strengths wonderfully. Other than that, the song isn’t anything particularly outstanding, which makes me wonder if its success is due to their simply being recognizable names. Regardless, I’m very happy to have listened to it.
26. “Car Wash” – Rose Royce: Once again, Rose Royce has always been more of a “smooth R&B” band to me – “Ooh Boy”, “I’m Going Down”, “Wishing on a Star”, and even “I Wanna Get Next to You” are swell examples of this. Nonetheless, while I’ve yet to watch the film from which this song originates, its charms are obvious and plenty. The introductory buildup (clapping hands, to funky bass, to sweet guitar licks, to drums and piano, etc.) is the stuff that most songs of its caliber could only dream of accomplishing – it is a Whitfield track, after all! Once the strings kick in, the track is suddenly brimming with essential disco bliss. This isn’t Gwen Dickey’ best vocal performance, but the personality that she – and later, other members – brings to the recording is unparalleled. Not too bad for a song that is quite literally about working at a car wash.
25. “Hot Line” – The Sylvers: More G-rated disco from The Sylvers, this one containing the line, “Baby, I’m burning like a house on fire”. Enough said!
24. “When I Need You” – Leo Sayer: Wow… this song is really making me miss the boogie-woogie blues days of Leo Sayer. This is yet another generic, tender love song that, if given a few minor chords, could easily come from the likes of Manilow. I will say, however, that this is a grower and I enjoy it a little more with each listen. Not that I could ever listen to this willingly on my own free time… especially not with cryptic lines such as “It’s not easy when the road is your driver / Honey that’s a heavy load that we bear”. That is a nifty sax solo, though.
23. “Rich Girl” – Hall & Oates: I’ve always thought this song was so fun and catchy (and still do), but now that I’m closely reading the lyrics, it’s actually very mean-spirited. Who are Hall and Oates to criticize the titular girl on how she decides to spend her (or her father’s) money? How does the speaker play in this story anyway? Are they family? Friends? An ex-lover? A random onlooker? In any case, it’s a little cruel to suggest that she’ll “never be strong” just because she may never know the plight of the middle-class. And then there’s the line “It’s so easy to hurt others when you can’t feel pain”, which assumes even more dastardly things about her character due to the simple fact that she has money. It seems that the prevailing attitude here is that one has to struggle with finances and life in general in order to be seen as a fully-formed, respectable human being. She seems to be in the same boat more or less as the speaker – trying to get by in the real world for the first time – but just uses access to her dad’s wealth to her advantage to make things simpler for herself. And more power to her! Assuming that her problems are nonexistent is just being bitter as hell. For all we know, she could have some real dilemmas of her own such as, I don’t know, being accused of being heartless and evil because she dares to “live for the thrill of it all”. I think Hall & Oates should stop being such nosey individuals and worry about their own problems before mindlessly judging others.
22. “Southern Nights” – Glen Campbell: Wherein Glen Campbell truly goes John Denver on everyone’s asses. In truth though, this is wonderful and I really wish more country music was this sharp and blissful. Campbell begins by painting a sumptuous portrait of the beautiful southern nights of his fantasy, told amidst a musical backdrop that harks back to New Orleans-style country and jazz. Around the final third of the song, however, the song takes a slightly darker turn, where the speaker desires a world as pure and lovely as the atmosphere of the untouchable nighttime. A bit ham-fisted, maybe, but regardless it’s a delightful listen in its entirety.
21. “Gonna Fly Now” – Bill Conti, DeEtta Little, and Nelson Pigford: It’s interesting that two of the most recognizable movie themes of all time both came from 1977 films. It’s even more strange that Rocky‘s theme ranked supremely higher than Star Wars‘, though it does make sense now given that the former film was a more overarching critical and audience darling in its day. For the record, I never really fell in love with the Rocky franchise, but I always look forward to Conti’s composition, which is practically the definitive soundtrack to all training montages to come. Just listening to it now makes me want to watch the first movie. Those horns and strings are killer (and so 70s), as is the nice electric jazz guitar solo that comes in about halfway through. Though I was never a fan of the choral bits (“gonna fly now”, etc.), whole track is already so darn epic it hardly dampers the mood.
20. “Got to Give It Up” – Marvin Gaye: Wherein Marvin Gaye tries his hand at this whole disco thing. Apparently this song was produced as Gaye’s attempt to parody the whole disco scene (“Baby, just party, high and low / Let me step into your erotic zone”), but it inadvertently became one of the most popular dance tracks of the era. That groove contains just enough of a R&B/funk bounce to keep things interesting, and although Gaye’s consistent falsetto often make the lyrics incomprehensible, his professional fingerprints are all over this track. It’s a bit weird that a live recording should rank so high, since I could only imagine that the collection of various background noises would be a distraction. But I guess there’s already enough of that going on in a party setting to where it wouldn’t even make a difference. Honestly, Gaye has done much better, but I think this does its job quite alright nonetheless.
19. “Hotel California” – Eagles: As a native Southern Californian, I’ve heard this song enough times to be perfectly okay with never listening to it ever again. In fact, after I finish this paragraph, I plan to never again extend any more willpower to listen to it ever again. Just that single opening chord alone is enough to get an audible groan from me – but I’ll digress and try to judge this objectively. Those guitars are cool, but Don Henley’s voice can just hide away in a dark place forever. I don’t mind the melody too much, as dull as it is, but Henley brings as much passion to it as a wet paper napkin. The lyrics aren’t terrible, but have a certain annoyingly vague quality that prevents me from investigating any further – unlike, say, “Ode to Billie Joe”, which at least got me invested in the mystery at its core. I can only surmise that this song got as popular as it did only because it happened to be what listeners desired at the time. The Spanish flavor given to the recording is certainly distinct, but over time it’s come to reveal itself as distractingly artificial. That outro guitar solo is definitely the best part of the single, but so far from the best of all time. Canon rock really bugs me sometimes.
18. “Sir Duke” – Stevie Wonder: “Sir Duke” – like, as I mentioned, all of Songs in the Key of Life – holds a special place in my heart, as it’s probably the one song that really made me fall for Stevie Wonder and urged me to delve further into his work. It may have also turned me onto Duke Ellington on accident. But I just love this song! It’s a love song for jazz music – or music in general – and the wonderful feelings that great tunes that bring by simply being played by talented musicians. Sure it’s cheesy as hell (“Music is a world within itself / With a language we all understand”), but its innocent, seemingly naive sensibilities are what make it so charming, I think. Wonder sounds as great as ever, and this is undoubtedly his explicitly catchiest song (yes, even more so than “Superstition”). On that note, I wonder if anyone has ever written a tribute to/parody of this song, essentially describing what Wonder’s describing but its subject matter being specifically about “Sir Duke” and Stevie Wonder. After all, he probably is to pop R&B what Ellington was to jazz music.
17. “Do You Wanna Make Love” – Peter McCann: Oh great, another dull soft-pop love song, sung by some ordinary, run-of-the-mill vocalist. It’s really weird how the verses are some deep pontifications of life and love (“Sometimes the love rhymes that fill that afternoon / Lose all their meaning with the rising moon”), while the chorus is blatantly blunt and simple (“Do you wanna make love / Or do you just wanna fool around?”). It makes McCann seem truly disingenuous with his emotions and the message he wants to get across. I understand the frustration with being given mixed signals in a relationship, but maybe he should just have a bit of patience – “foolin’ around” really isn’t all that bad in the first place. I do like the jazz guitar bits, but there’s never enough of it to really justify making this an enjoyable listening experience.
16. “Whatcha Gonna Do?” – Pablo Cruise: I’ve been listening to the Beyond Yacht Rock podcast for several weeks now and generally enjoy every episode. Most importantly, it’s given me a better understanding of the “yacht rock” subgenre, mainly with qualities that make certain musicians and songs distinctly yacht rock. I’m pretty sure that the synths, jazzy guitar, and bluesy vocals found in this song make Pablo Cruise a yacht rock band. However, I find myself more admiring the almost gospel-like quality of its form, specifically its call-and-response style chorus and its soulful vibes in general. It’s a simple song about a breakup, which does keep it from being anything remarkable. But I’d have to thank J.D. Ryznar and the guys for giving me a broader understanding of yacht rock; otherwise I probably wouldn’t find this as fun as I do now.
15. “Telephone Line” – Electric Light Orchestra: ELO are just a huge bunch of band nerds, aren’t they? In any case, I’m glad they’ve given us such a nice array of symphonic jams to revel in. This tends to follow along the same beats as “Can’t Get It Out of My Head”, and it’s hard for me to decide which of the two I find the most pleasingly melodramatic. I think this one gets a few extra points, if only for that Moog synthesizer at the beginning, which gives my heart such a flutter. It’s evident with the choral parts in the beginning that they want to be Queen so badly, but I think they do a pretty fine job nonetheless. This is a nice recording.
14. “Margaritaville” – Jimmy Buffett: Way to build an entire franchise off an entire song, Jimmy Buffett. This song just gives me this lingering image of drunken white guys in Hawaiian shirts dancing alongside a swimming pool, wearing sunglasses and clutching said margarita in hand. This isn’t a very pleasant image. To date, this great article from Rani Baker is definitely my favorite Jimmy Buffett-related thing out there, and probably the only one I legitimately enjoy.
13. “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” – Leo Sayer: ’77 seems to be the year of Leo Sayer. Out of the previous comeback singles that we’ve seen on this year’s list, this one is definitely the strongest. Sung almost entirely through falsetto, it’s almost certainly a Bee Gees ripoff single, but it’s still so strong one wonders why Sayer didn’t just stay with this schtick. It’s yet another love song, yet the emotions put to music are just so cute in its simplicity. I think we’ve all met that one person who inexplicably makes us feel like dancing, in some way or another. It’s nothing too special, but its too damn agreeable to hate.
12. “Dancing Queen” – ABBA: As big of an ABBA nerd as I claim to be, you’d be pressed to find me listening to “Dancing Queen” during my frequent ABBA listening marathons. Besides the fact that it’s easily their most overplayed track, it lacks a lot of what I love about the group. Their signature sound characterized by dark, Bergmanian imagery filtered through a catchy beat and great harmonies is replaced with relatively generic lyrics and more upbeat disco. While many from the “disco sucks” crowd complain about the Rolling Stones or KISS selling out to disco, had I been around in the day, ABBA’s foray into the genre may just be the breaking point for me – that is, if the song weren’t so damn awesome. Yes, this is so different from what I’m used to from them, but that chorus alone is enough to bring me back to when I was a teen, a simpler time when I believe that I was indeed a dancing queen. The whole melody is pleasant, but once the chorus kicks in – and especially the “You can dance, you can jive / Having the time of your life” part – it’s just plain euphoria. Filtered through lush instrumentals (Those strings! That piano!) and emitted through the power of Anni-Frid and Agnetha’s distinct vocals. And while this is not nearly as dark and existential as some of ABBA’s other output, I feel nothing but joy while listening through all four wonderful minutes of the track, proving that the group could do outright elation just as well. These are all reasons why this has become a staple at karaoke for me. Much love, ABBA.
11. “I’m Your Boogie Man” – KC & the Sunshine Band: This is definitely a step up from “Keep It Comin’ Love” – and the rest of their singles output thus far, in fact. It’s true that the lyrics are barely better and even give off a little more of a creep vibe than ever before (I still don’t know what “I want to be your rubber ball” means, though), but at least there’s a bit more of an edge – something slightly more going on than just “shake your booty” or “get down tonight”. KC himself is, once again, overshadowed by the horns and production overall, which is some of the best that the group has ever recorded. It’s definitely flawed, but if you’re looking for a good disco track, it does its job.
10. “Torn Between Two Lovers” – Mary MacGregor: One of the coolest qualities of this list, to me, is the fact that six of the top ten singles are credited toward women. This makes it the most women-centric top ten in every list since 1957 (second place goes to ’62, where it was exactly 50% representation both ways). Little statistics like these are always pleasing to me, since women are historically underrepresented and under-appreciated amongst the music industry. Moving onto the song in question… I quite like this one, but it’s also pretty frustrating. I think MacGregor does a great job at laying out all the emotions of the song on the table and her soft, wistful voice does the complicated material pretty good justice. However, it is a bit questionable how the speaker begs her partner to stay with her, despite her infidelity and the assumption that she has no intention of leaving the other man. If anything, I’m more concerned for her well-being – there’s no need to beat yourself up over your emotions. Embrace your situation or move on to something more fitting for your predicament. Love yourself, girl!
9. “Undercover Angel” – Alan O’Day: While he had previously found success composing songs for other artists, “Undercover Angel” is Alan O’Day’s most well-received single as a solo artist. It’s definitely a weird one, essentially some kind of weird fantasy where a literal angel comes down to save the speaker from debilitating heartache by having sex with him. The keyboard riff is catchy enough, but O’Day’s weak delivery make it pretty clear how he was to become a one-hit wonder. Nonetheless, as campy as it is, it knows not to take itself seriously and it’s somewhat catchy, as ashamed as I am to admit.
8. “(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher” – Rita Coolidge: Yet another one of these cover songs of which I’m really not a huge fan. At least Coolidge’s arrangement dares to do something daringly unique – I could barely recognize Jackie Wilson’s original amidst the 70s style production. Unfortunately, this change in mood and tone results in a song that is significantly less exciting and more boring. The gospel flavor that made the original so vibrant is barely found in the background vocals, while Coolidge’s more listless new melody is at the forefront. It’s far from the worst of these cover songs, but as with most cover songs, it’s definitely a step down.
7. “Don’t Leave Me This Way” – Thelma Houston: Philly Soul meets disco in the most blissful way imaginable. Professionally produced by Gamble & Huff and brought to life by the electric vocals of Houston, it’s hard to believe that this was indeed a cover of a Teddy Pendergrass song. Houston really makes it her own, her vocals starting off smooth and seductive, gradually building to an explosive, emotional plea for understanding, with the musical background following suit. Besides the vocals, the disco strings and fabulous bass line help to make this one of the definitive hits of the era. I do wish Motown would have done more to promote Houston after the success of this hit; she’s truly a talent that deserved more than her one brief blast at fame.
6. “I Like Dreamin'” – Kenny Nolan: Men singing about their sex fantasies were a big thing in the late 70s, weren’t they? This one is just far too corny to take seriously for a second. Here’s the entire first verse: “I see us on the shore beneath the bright sunshine / We’ve walked along St. Thomas beach a million times / Hand in hand, two barefoot lovers kissing in the sand / Side by side, the tide rolls in / I’m touching you, you’re touching me / If only it could be”… Trust me, it doesn’t get much better after that. Kenny Nolan sucks and this is one of the most dated songs I’ve come across this decade. Yes, it’s even more dated than “Disco Duck”.
5. “Angel in Your Arms” – Hot: See, this is the kind of infidelity anthem I like to hear. The speaker in this song responds to the discovery of her partner’s cheating ways by going behind their back herself and having some liaisons of her own. The tune is a bit flimsy and the vocalist barely forms any real personality of her own, but it’s a fine song. It is a shame that 70s pop music, while brimming with some really interesting talented performers from numerous sectors, often has the most ordinary singles being the most commercially successful. Unfortunately, this is yet another example of this trend.
4. “Evergreen (Love Theme From ‘A Star is Born’)” – Barbra Streisand: Though I’ve yet to watch A Star is Born (this includes the original and its two remakes), I’ve been aware of “Evergreen” for at least a few years. While Streisand has always been among the best at making emotional, melodramatic ballads, this is sadly one of the weakest I’ve heard from her. If the opening lines are any indication (“Love, soft as an easy chair / Love, fresh as the morning air”), this song is overflowing with so much schmaltz, the result is just another cheesy, drippy love song. Streisand sounds great, to no surprise, but there’s no reason to listen to this song when “People” and “The Way We Were” already exist – they both hit all the same marks that this one does, being far more effective in the meantime. I am happy that this one her a Grammy, though.
3. “Best of My Love” – The Emotions: One would be hard-pressed to find many girl groups having as much success in this era as the early-60s “Wall of Sound” era, but The Emotions surely did it and deservedly so. Honestly, the similarities to The Supremes end right at them being a female trio – the tremendous, soulful vocal power demonstrated by all three of these ladies is unparalleled, and the sharp, polished production only works to their advantage. It’s just so bouncy and upbeat, positively reflecting upon similar warming feelings of the love about which they sing so rapturously. It’s almost like a religious experience for the speaker, with how passionate this song is from beginning to end. A righteously fun staple of 70s R&B and miles ahead the Eagles song of the same name.
2. “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” – Andy Gibb: This is a pretty good song, but I’m suspicious that the reasons it ranked so highly on this list is all due to Gibb’s older brothers finding their own success as the Bee Gees. Truthfully, I could’ve been fooled into thinking that this was just another disco-era Bee Gees single – although the lyrics are decidedly more bubblegum teen pop than adult-oriented disco. Still, Gibb voice suits the mood of nocturnal romance emitted in this song. It’s just short enough to not wear out its welcome, resulting in a tight and sharp-ended single. One could find much better production in similar-sounding songs (even other Bee Gees tracks), but this is perfectly fine for what it is.
1. “Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)” – Rod Stewart: How is it that some of the worst songs of the year manage to do well enough to make it as the best-selling single of the year? This almost seems specifically a mid- to late-70s problem, which doesn’t leave me much hope for the 80s. The dreamy guitars and overall seductive production isn’t the issue. It’s Rod Stewart himself and the way he so nonchalantly brags about having sex with a young woman. And we know it’s a young woman through Stewart’s carefully selected phrases such as “my virgin child”, which make this an unbearably discomforting song to listen to. His previous hit “Maggie May” also dealt with a love affair between two people of significant age difference (he was the younger one here), but that song consisted mostly of complicated feelings the two had for each other once the night of passion was over. “Tonight’s The Night”, on the other hand, is purely about this night of passion and without much context, the story is boring as sin. And yes, it’s also so fucking creepy. Lines like “Don’t deny your man’s desire / You’d be a fool to stop this tide / Spread your wings and let me come inside” don’t make this any easier to digest. Moreover, the French dialect at the end is so clumsily added in, I’d be more convinced that it was pasted in by mistake. What a terrible song to become so popular.
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Aquaponics: Change Grows in the Hood
By Amber
One inner city Kansas City neighborhood is in the midst of change thanks to aquaponics, and the work of a resident recently returned from the world at large. Dre Taylor is busy building a self-sustaining urban farm capable of growing 175,000 pounds of fresh, organic food a year on the city’s east side. It’s the urban core. A food desert poster child kind of place blighted by crime, and the lack of economic opportunity.
Dre grew up here. He left to attend college, play some football, and he could have gone on to pursue several professional careers, but his dream was to change the hood from the inside out. To bring hope, a future, and healthy food to those who live in the blocks surrounding his Nile Valley Aquaponics farm at 29th and Wabash Avenue. His plan is multi-faceted, but centers around intense food production on just over half an acre of land that has stood vacant for 20 years.
From the moment construction began, folks around the hood were curious what was happening on this corner lot that had been nothing but trees and mowed weeds for so long. The greenhouse is 144 feet long. Volunteers from all over the country have been working on building the new home of 3 canal-like trenches that will soon be home to 75,000 gallons of water filled with organically grown local tilapia that will provide non-stop nutrition for vertical farming above the tanks. Fish food will also be grown on site: soldier flies and duckweed.
The project is the first commercial aquaponics system in the city, and the foundation of a youth mentoring program. At full production it will yield 100,000 pound of fish, and 75,000 pounds of vegetables annually. It will also instantly create 5-7 jobs upon construction completion – in a neighborhood where employment is all but non-existent. The harvest will provide free food for the community at the same time it generates sales to finance workers’ paychecks.
While he’s the man with the plan, Dre is project manager for the Kansas City Keys Nile Valley Aquaponics Project, and the integrated Males to Men program. What better place to provide an education in hope than on a farm? Be it in the urban core, or in an extremely rural location, growing food germinates hope for the future.
Taylor looks at his 30-some Males to Men youths as seeds planted in the hood… boys who will learn a lot more than most other kids today. It’s not just about raising fish and growing food, he’s introducing them to being pilots, and so much more. A vast world of agri-science exploration paired with larger world experiences that inner city kids outside his program may never have exposure too. He wants them all to get their pilot’s license, to absorb all that’s entailed in successfully growing sustainable food anywhere. His goal is to raise men who can replicate his aquaponics farm, wherever they land as adults.
If his youth program succeeds, he’ll be growing superweeds in a food desert that cast to the wind will spread the basis for a better life in cities far and wide. If you’re going to raise true change, it must be able to thrive in a variety of environments, to be self-nurturing and self-empowering. That’s what real sustainability is all about, and why weeds are a bane world wide. It’s hard to keep a determined, resource savvy weed population down.
Dre Taylor plans to build both solar and wind energy generation into aquaponics farm resources. He doesn’t state taking it totally off-grid is part of his grand scheme in his TEDx presentation, but he does say it will be totally self-sustainable. That’s pretty much the same as off-grid. (Patience with the malfunctioning microphone at the beginning of the video. They’ll bring him one that works pretty quick.)
Every inner city neighborhood could use a person with Taylor’s vision. So could many other communities – urban, suburban, and rural. It’s a lesson in building independence in a highly dependent world.
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Re-Published, Review March 18, 2011 47 COMMENTS Jesse
4.5 stars, Contemporary, Ethan Day, Self Published
Title: Anything For You
Author: Ethan Day
Genre: Contemporary M/M
Length: 33K Words, 110 PDF pages
** This review and some of the comments contain what could be considered as spoilers**
Review Summary: The writing more than anything won me over, even though I didn’t love the characters.
Jason Miller is still in the closet. He’s never found a reason to kick the door open, walk into the light of day, and tell the world he’s gay. At least that’s what he keeps telling himself — along with a multitude of other solid arguments. As an ad man, he’s used to hawking a bill of goods, he just never imagined he’d fall victim to his own hype.
When ex-activist/coming out guru, Chad Wellington came along, he was the one thing Jason never saw coming. Like a moth to a flame these two opposites ignite leaving Jason to decide if he can handle the heat.
This story changed my perception of Ethan Day as a writer. I always loved his books which are laugh out loud funny and they are all comfort reads for me, but Anything for You showed that he is capable of much more than a funny script, warm lovable characters, laugh out loud lines (although the lines were still there), and a great finish.
Jason blamed everyone but himself for his unhappy life, something that was his own fault since he stubbornly remained in the closet all his adult life. He felt that his family, his work associates, his friends, even random people on the street were all responsible for his unhappiness, and he refused to acknowledge that hiding his sexual orientation was the major reason for his screwed-up life. Could he be more delusional? His appearance of “complete and total butchness,” was a smokescreen since all his friends were gay, but he had to maintain the illusion to others that he was straight because he lived in fear of being exposed for who he was. He lied to everyone outside of his gay friends, either deliberately or by omission, about his sexual orientation and then wondered why they couldn’t accept him for who he was. Eventually the stress of always being ‘on,’ remembering his lines, maintaining his public persona and cues i.e. saying “she” rather than “he” when asked about his love life, etc., began to take its toll, as the lying became harder after 10 years of living in two worlds.
Jason was now so embittered that his unhappiness was affecting how he treated others. The people who felt most of the impact that his dysfunctional life was having on his personality were those closest to him – his lesbian sister Annie and his best friend Brent. Annie was in a relationship and Brent had found the man of his dreams, but instead of being happy for them Jason became even more bitter and it showed in his behaviour, even though he loved them. Living such a huge lie 24/7 had changed who he was and made him into a bitchy drama queen who wanted to get back at his friends and loved ones and make them just as miserable as he was. Then he met Chad.
Chad was the complete opposite to Jason. He lived his life out in the open and refused to stay in anyone’s closet. He was coordinator for a National coming out program in Washington D.C and had until recently been in love with a closeted politician, but his lover dumped him when rumours circulated about the affair and he was politely given the boot from his job as well. Talk about two body blows at the same time. Chad left Washington and returned to Missouri to lick his wounds and start over and when he saw a picture of Jason at Brent’s apartment he fell for him. Brent arranged for a blind date weekend at Chad’s request, at another couple’s country home, and when Jason met him it was all systems go. But of course there were many challenges to a relationship between them, especially Jason’s aversion to being ‘out’ in public as Chad’s lover. Meeting Chad’s parents who disapproved of his lifestyle and his gay lover was a huge milestone, and having dinner with the ‘rents was a not to be missed experience. That was when I felt perhaps Jason was redeemable, as he stood up for his man, and I really started liking him.
As I mentioned earlier in this review, I didn’t find Jason a likeable character by any stretch of the imagination, and it wasn’t until I was half way into the book that I began to warm up to him, as I started to understand his struggle to be true to who he was, a gay man. He hated the person he had become and this was what made him bitter towards life in general, and those close to him in particular. Being envious of Brent’s and Annie’s happiness led to him internalizing his feelings of jealousy and then lashing out, but he wasn’t a bad person, he was just stuck in a place where he couldn’t figure a way out without exposing himself, something he had spent a decade hiding from everyone but his gay friends and lovers. He realized what a bonehead he had become and that he was in danger of losing everyone if he didn’t change; that was something in his favour, and in his defense, he felt that everyone had deserted him when they moved on and he had no one. When Chad came into his life he knew what it would take to keep him, yet again he didn’t have the courage and insight to do what was painfully obvious to everyone else.
What about his new love Chad who seemed too good to be true? In a way he was. Chad, who at first was tolerant of Jason’s desire to remain in the closet, embarrassed him publicly, so he wasn’t as nice as he appeared to be – quite the opposite. I had wondered about Chad and how long he would stay with a man who refused to come out, and he proved that he could be just as manipulative and devious when it suited him. He also made it clear to Jason, without words, that if he didn’t change soon it was goodbye, so he knew when and how to apply the right kind of pressure to get what he wanted. He was another complex and well drawn character.
With two such protagonists it’s no wonder that I felt as if I was standing on a precipice waiting to see who would fall over the edge first. Luckily the characters evolved before they became unredeemable, despite all the personal baggage, but it was touch and go for a while. I thought that Jason’s growth was enormous considering where he started and how far he came. He learned what was really important, that loving someone trumped the pain of exposing your underbelly, your fears, and being vulnerable. This book is definitely not the usual romantic comedy that I’m accustomed to from Ethan Day because the characters were atypical. If it weren’t for his trademark humour which was delivered with a much sharper blade, I might have wondered if he had a ghost writer for some parts of the story and his protagonist Jason.
I think it took a lot of courage on Ethan Day’s part to write such complex flawed protagonists. I’m sure he realized that many of his fans might not appreciate Jason, because although the humour was there in spades it was not the usual self deprecating, warm and fuzzy kind. Instead the author directed his rapier like thrusts at his characters whom he normally treated with love, even if he gently poked fun of them. When I first read this story I felt as if he was having fun at the readers’ expense and that all of a sudden he would come out of his closet, 🙂 yell “boo,” and give us a different book with new characters. Then I realized how clever he was because he demonstrated considerable growth as a writer in terms of his skill to turn the story and the characters around on a dime. You may not like Anything For You when you first start reading it, but it’s well worth the angst to experience Jason’s journey from self loathing to self actualization, although you might want to kick the rat bastard many times and tell him to stop blaming everyone for the mess he had made of his life. As for Chad, I still don’t get the rationale of why he would want to be with someone like Jason since he knew going in that he was in the closet, the same reason why his previous affair had broken up. However, clearly I’m not a writer so what do I know? 🙂 I almost forgot – the sex was everything I expect from this author – hot, sensual, intense and kickass. Also, Annie was inspired although over the top like many of Ethan’s characters, but she, too, was not a fave!
This was one of the most difficult books for me to rate but I think I got it right …. maybe. I wavered back and forth before finally deciding (I might still change my mind) 🙂 but the writing won me over.
Whoever said that nothing good comes easy was right.
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Jessica March 21, 2011 at 8:57 PM
Wave, I think you really nailed it with the review. Though I wasn’t certain about that until I read through the comments and thought about it some more. I just finished reading it, so I’m still sorting out my impressions and that really helped.
I had one niggle with this book I haven’t seen anyone mention yet. While I think this book was as well-written as all of Ethan’s books, there was one phrase that popped up a few times and made me do the tilted-head-confused-Scoobie look every time I read it. I don’t remember noticing it in previous stories, but I suspect the detachment caused by disliking the characters made me notice the language more. Or maybe it is unique to this book. The phrase being “I seem[ed] to…”
For example, when Jason’s sister comes over to his apartment in chaos and he says “…I too seemed to realize exactly how disorganized my apartment was.” Or “I shook my head, seeming to realize for the first time how crazy that sounded.” So, what, you didn’t actually realize it but just gave the appearance of doing so? Since it was Jason’s first-person pov, that just didn’t make sense to me.
Ethan, I really appreciate you taking the time to explain to us what you were thinking when you wrote it. I still don’t like any of the characters except Brent. And I even wonder about him, given what jerks his best friend and boyfriend are. I felt like Chad didn’t grovel enough and Jason forgave him too easily, but there was something niggling at the edges of my mind, like a tip-of-the-tongue sort of thing. Your explanation about Jason being just too exhausted at that point and sorta resigned was like having someone say the word I’d been grasping for; it finally crystalized for me. Whew, thank you!
I’d be very curious to see Jason and Chad a year or three down the line and see if they’re still together or with whom they end up HEA.
Wave March 21, 2011 at 9:19 PM
Hi Jessica
I did notice it, but I thought of it as talking to himself, the way we do when we’re drunk. LOL sort of like “Wow, I seem to be a bit tipsy” OR “I seem to be more disorganized than I thought” OR “I might be a whole lot more of a collector than I thought I was” if that makes sense to you. I recognized this weird phrasing because I catch myself thinking out loud at times along the same vein. Crazy!! But it did make sense to me.
I’m glad you thought I did credit to the book in the review and I do agree that the characters were not ones I would want to take home with me. 🙂
Enny March 19, 2011 at 6:34 AM
Thank you for the review! As long as a book is book is well-written, I don’t care if the characters are likable. Those gay Mary Sue we get in so many books bore me to tears so this is definitely one of the next books I’m going to read.
Wave March 19, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Hi Enny
I’m so glad that you’re willing to take a risk on this book. I think you will at least find the characters intriguing even if you don’t find them likeable. They are certainly not boring.
Let me know your reaction to AFY after you read it please. It might take you 2 reads to really appreciate it. That’s what I had to do because the first time I was prepared to write it off, but when I realized how true to life it was I persevered and found that it was entirely a different book. 😯
Ethan Day March 19, 2011 at 4:57 PM
Same to you Enny. I hope you’ll let me know what you think of it. : )
Enny March 20, 2011 at 6:17 PM
With motivation like that, I had to read Anything for You of course 😉 I just finished the book and I loved it even though I couldn’t stand either of the characters.
I thought Chad was a conniving and manipulative little bastard who believed that he knew what was good for his partner which is something I absolutely hate in a relationship. Jason reminded me a lot of the boyfriend of one of my roomies in college who lived with his wife and kids during the week and then descended on us during the weekend. He’d tell each and everyone what was wrong with us and our lives when he wasn’t fucking Günther till he screamed. (The fact that he’d put his ginormous dog in the hallway at night so that it wouldn’t interfere with said fucking and that the dog would growl on anyone trying to go to the bathroom made us love him even less.)
It also took me a while to get over the fact that it was a humorous story about a closeted guy. I know a couple of guys who’re unable to come out for various reasons and the closet isn’t a fun place to be.
But the book was extremely funny and well-written and Ethan managed to make the motivations, hopes and fears of the characters (no matter how flawed they were) easily understandable so that I couldn’t help but feel sympathetic towards the poor misguided darlings. After all, that’s how people are in real life: torn, imperfect, inconsequent and stumbling through life trying to find happiness.
The most wonderful thing about this book was how it showed us that real love is amazing because it makes us dare to do things we’d never do for ourselves but which we will do for the one we love.
I’m so glad you came to the same conclusion I did about this story. Two such unlikeable protagonists,especially that two-faced prick Chad who I couldn’t stand because he was too good to be true and smarmy on top of it. But hell what writing!!
I don’t love the characterfs but Ethan nailed them and proved that his writing is a class act. The first time I read this book I wasn’t a fan, then I talked to a few people here, two of whom are gay, and also a friend who is in the closet and he more than anyone explained to me what his life was like so I got what Ethan was trying to tell his readers. Life is definitely not a bowl of cherries in said closet.
I love your story about the BF of one of your college roomies. How hilarious. And the dog? Incredible. The stories you could tell.
Well I’m so glad that you too saw Ethan’s truth, that rat bastard, and I don’t mean Jason. 🙂
Hey Enny
I’m forever going back and forth on the topic of these guys who get married and have kids, then screw around with guys on the side. I have sisters, so the thought of anyone doing that to one of them drives me mental. I’d wanna kill the SOB! At the same time I’m all to aware of the world we live in. There are STILL people who think being gay is a curable disease for crying out loud. Until we get to a point where everyone is allowed to be the people they were born to be, this type of thing will continue to happen.
I think its sad for everyone…I mean seriously…my soul mate could be married to a friggin’ woman right now!! That is SO not okay! : )
Josephine Myles March 19, 2011 at 2:58 AM
I’m intrigued! I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve read by Ethan so far, but it will be interesting to see him try something different. I’m adding it to the list… 🙂
I’m glad you’re not put off by the review and all the comments and actually want to read the book because of them. I think AFY is definitely worth reading, if only to see how Ethan’s writing is changing. I hope you enjoy the book, but you may need 2 reads to do so. 😀
I look forward to hearing what you think of it too, Jo. : )
ElaineG March 19, 2011 at 1:40 AM
I have loved everything of Ethan’s I have ever read (which would be ALL of his books *grins*). I agree with your review, because it took me the better part of the book to like Jason even a little. Though his dialogue was indeed laugh-out-loud funny to me, at the same time I thought he was a total sh^t. After reading the book not once but twice in one night, I began to see him a bit differently. I think he was trapped in his bitterness just as he was trapped in the closet. After I finished reading the second time, I thought about why two polar opposites would be together. And then, a light bulb went off! Jason and Chad truly fit into the “opposites attract” category, at least to me. Kind of like a couple who don’t share a love of the same kind of music, or political beliefs may come together. Chad is out and proud and Jason is in and bitter. Though Jason does realize that he CAN be openly gay, the realization is so sudden, I don’t think it changes him too much….I think he is still the person he always was, with a little less bitter, but a dash of sweet.
I gummed this up but good dammit! It made sense when I wrote it but lost something in the reading. Oh well! I think you may get the idea of what I was trying to say. Anything For You was indeed worth reading, and Ethan has shown us another side of himself.
I understood perfectly what you meant. 🙂 That’s exactly how I tried to explain my reaction to the book (with a lot of useless words) 🙂
This is a classic case of “opposites attract,” but with a bite. There are no rose coloured glasses here – it’s almost like watching a reality show and waiting to see who would screw up the most. I thought of that analogy when i was writing the review, except no one would dare write that script.
Though Jason does realize that he CAN be openly gay, the realization is so sudden, I don’t think it changes him too much….I think he is still the person he always was, with a little less bitter, but a dash of sweet.
I would have liked to see a sequel about Jason and Chad a year into their relationship but I don’t know if my heart could take it. Probably too much angst. 😮
Hi ElaineG! I’m happy to hear you enjoyed the book and also found Jason to be entertaining if not altogether lovable. That’s how I’d probably describe him as well. : )
Aunt Lynn March 19, 2011 at 12:55 AM
Okay, obviously I need to read this one again as this may have been my least favorite book book yet by one of my most favoriteist authors. Considering that we talked about it earlier in the week, Wave, and we were pretty much on the same page at the time, I was a bit surprised at your review, which was excellent btw. It really must have been that second reading that did it for you because I’m not there yet.
Though far from hating it, I didn’t love it. I had a whole explanation written out about what didn’t work for me and why, but before I say too much about that, I think what I need to re-read it tomorrow and re-comment. Perhaps, like you, I will see it in a different, more favorable light.
What did it for me was talking to a lot of people about coming out, or deciding to live on the down low – the mental and sometimes physical toll this takes on gay men or women who decide to stay in the closet, and how this affects who they are and the way they treat everyone. Re-reading the book in that light made me see Jason and his actions in a totally different, more realistic light. I spoke at length before writing the review to a friend who is actually in the closet and when he explained what his life was like I understood Ethan’s point.
Not being gay, I had no idea of some of what Ethan tried to portray in his book, which sounded at times as if he was writing about people he knew. I got it. So when I re-read Anything for You I saw Jason differently from the jerk I originally thought. I never did end up loving him but I appreciated the trauma that people like him might have had to live through and what this does to them, how it changes basically who they are.
This will never be my most favourite Ethan Day book but I gained a great deal of respect for his writing, which as I said in the review has evolved from lovely slices of life in a fun way to more hard hitting, realistic stories. This book, while still funny in a sarcastic sense, definitely didn’t “play nice” with his characters, but rather made them take a good hard look at themselves in the harsh light of day.
I hope this explains why I changed my mind after re-reading this book. This was probably one of the toughest if not the toughest book to review because it could have gone either way. I could have taken it at face value which is what I did the first time, or looked deeper.
I definitely recommend that you re-read Anything for You and maybe you’ll be able to see it in a different light. I know I did – after kicking the rat bastard Jason in the nuts. 🙂
Many readers would not like AFY because it hits at the core of what makes people act the way they do and a lot of us don’t like that. Let’s face it, we read mostly for entertainment and to get away from reality. This book makes some of us face that reality and it’s not a nice picture. After this book I want to read something nice and fluffy. 🙂
I look forward to hearing from you after you have read the book a second time, 🙂 taking into account why I changed my mind. You may still be of the same view about the book then, but I hope you will understand the reason why my review is so different from our original conversation.
I’m sorry to hear the book didn’t work for you Lynn, but I do understand why. I certainly don’t want you or anyone else spending your time trying to force it into working for you, despite sincerely appreciating the fact you’d have the desire to do so. I love all y’all for that! : ) Seriously…I’d give you a giant hug right now if I could!
Same for Wave – I’m so flattered you took the time to see this book and its characters from more than one angle. I don’t want anyone to get the impression that each and every book I write from this point forward will have characters and situations like this book. Hopefully each book is different in its own way.
I always begin with the character and the resulting story is the journey of that character, at least as I see it playing out in my head. Jason was just one of the many running around inside the giant maze inside my brain. Hopefully I’ll get them all out at one point or another, and I don’t expect each one to be loved by all. But I don’t believe each will be as difficult to love as these guys were either.
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June 3, 2019, By George Dunlap, A great article on a great lady who really enjoy’s making great tasting ice creams. C. Nelson and I have had the pleasure to serve Tamara for many years with some really cool looking cabinets for her shops. We wish Tamara all the best in her quest to offer .. Boozy Artisan Ice Creams and more….to her customers.
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Tamara Keefe’s childhood memories of house-made ice cream led to leaving corporate life for a wholly owned store. Photo: Chris Bauer
Tamara Keefe
Is there anything more American about the American Dream than opening your own ice cream shop? Especially when you’ve achieved what you thought was your dream in the corporate world?
That’s how it turned out for Tamara Keefe, 43, who left a job as senior brand manager for Abbott Nutrition’s $70 million Ensure Oncology business to open Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery in St. Louis, Missouri. Now with three units, Keefe has already won several top awards for Best Ice Cream for flavors like Gooey Butter Cake, Salted Crack Caramel and Vegan Chocolate Coconut Fudge.
I interviewed Keefe about her decision to take the leap from the corporate safety net into artisanal ice cream making.
TK: I have been making ice cream my whole life. When I was a child, ice cream entirely changed my sense of community and, therefore, sense of self. We grew up below the poverty line. After church on Sundays, the other families in our community would meet at the local ice cream parlor. I remember tugging on my mom’s dress, begging her for us to join them for ice cream, not knowing the financial burden a trip to the ice cream parlor would cause our family of seven. I can still feel the sting of loneliness from not being able to join the rest of our community.
Then one day, we stopped at a garage sale (that’s where we got our clothes), and my mom ran across an old hand-crank ice cream maker for $2, and decided it was going home with us. That was the day my life changed forever. We made ice cream together as a family and the sweetest tradition ensued.
Word of our amazing creations spread, and soon enough, rather than going out for ice cream, the church families began to gather at our house, with each family bringing a different ingredient. I went from social zero to hero! My whole sense of community changed, because of ice cream. All of a sudden, I had friends I’d never had before, was invited to parties and became popular. I discovered the power of ice cream and I didn’t even consciously know it.
By 2014 I was running a $70 million business, on the road all the time, commuting back and forth from St. Louis to Columbus, working 60-70-hour weeks, and successfully climbing the corporate ladder. Dream job, big company, big responsibilities, big salary—everything I thought I ever wanted, until I didn’t. Exhausted, unhappy, single, no kids, no family, and rarely seeing my friends, I was miserable. On a much-needed weekend away, one of my closest friends turned to me as I was ugly crying and said I should quit. Bewildered, I asked, what would I do? My other girlfriend commented, “You’re always complaining St. Louis doesn’t have great ice cream or ice cream shops, and you are so happy when making ice cream, no one makes it better than you, so go do it.”
So that weekend, the four of us wrote my business and marketing plan, put together my financials and I resigned two weeks later. I figured, what was the worst thing that could happen? Yes, I could fail, but I was highly employable, and could go back. I had nothing to lose, except my pride and money. The rest is history. In early 2014 I attended “Ice Cream College” at Penn State.
I didn’t really set out to create something new in the market. I set out to create something better. Having worked in the food industry, I knew how large CPGs [Consumer Packaged Goods manufacturers] made an inferior product, and how they reformulate to cost cut, confuse and undermine consumers. I knew I didn’t want that. I wanted to do it based on my values, a different way, but a profitable way. I wanted to create a culture and appreciation of makers, bakers and creatives.
I had 20-plus years marketing experience, created and launched new products for CPG big brands, worked closely with sensory science, product development, packaging groups, food chemists, food scientists, spent lots of time in and around food manufacturing facilities, a Six-Sigma Green-belt, and I was acutely aware of food safety … and what it meant and the importance of doing things the right and safe way. It was the perfect storm so to speak. Oh, and I am a trained master taster.
Strict federal standards and controls require small-batch artisanal ice creams to be all natural. Photo: Chris Bauer
The Naughty component came to fruition as I was just starting out. A customer asked if I could infuse some rum into a flavor I had. I said it wasn’t possible. He kept after me, and it was seeping into my subconscious all the time, and I started to think, “How can I make this happen?” After all, I had had access to the best food scientists, chemists and product development people in the world. And I was familiar with lots of new and emerging technologies in food and how people were using them in creative ways. I gathered my closest friends and over a few bottles of wine, I started connecting the dots, experimenting until we homed in on some pretty innovative stuff. Once I realized we had something, I knew it was an opportunity and a really good one in a space where there’s been little innovation since the invention of Dippin’ Dots. So, I course- corrected, reassessed and off I went. I named my ice cream after a beloved friend of my grandmother, who was the most sophisticated woman I’d ever known.
Q: Describe what makes your ice creams different from others compared with national brands?
TK: Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery is named around the two types of ice creams we make. Naughty (boozy) and Nice (non-boozy). We have a trade-secret process for infusing alcohol into ice cream up to 18%. Our ice creams really are boozy. A few companies have tried to hang their hat on creating boozy ice cream, but they use such little amounts it’s not noticeable, or they use liquor flavors, or they cook it all off so it’s a bit misrepresented.
Additionally, we’re one of only a handful of micro-creameries in the country. There are qualifications you have to meet in order to be one. First, it has to be Small Batch made in a real ice cream machine (batch freezer), not some large continuous mega-robotic machine that pumps thousands of gallons of product through in a few minutes that no one sees, or tastes, or quality checks. I like to say ours is made by real people with love, concern and care for the quality and the taste of the product.
Handcrafted also means that everything in the ice cream has to be hand crafted and made. If there’s a pie, cake or cookie in it, we make it, bake it and see it through. We salt our own caramel and candy our pecans. Or, for some flavors, we collaborate to support another local artisan maker and use their product in it.
All-Natural means the cream needs to be made using no artificial ingredients, and we are the onlyice cream maker in the state of Missouri that is all-natural.
A micro-creamery has to have less than 30% overrun, which is a technical term that describes the air whipped into the ice cream. Large commercial ice cream manufacturers and most local ice cream shops use 100% overrun, meaning that the pint you get at the store is actually only 50% ice cream; the rest is air. Ever had a cone that instantly melted? That’s a great example of 100% overrun. Big commercial brands and most ice cream shops do that to get more volume using less product.
Our ice cream is made with approximately 26-28% overrun, so when you taste our pint of any flavor and compare it to another, ours is heavier and denser.
Butterfat is the component in ice cream that gives it the richness in flavor, the creaminess or smooth texture, the body and the ability not to melt so fast. It coats your tongue and makes the flavor last and gives it that great creamy mouth feel. Additionally, it carries the other flavors in the ice cream so you can enjoy it longer, leaving you with a lingering aftertaste. But it is very expensive, in contrast to using 10% butterfat, which is what big commercial manufacturers use. All of our ice creams have between 16-18% butterfat, which is why they are so decadent.
Q: Has the corporate take-over of brands like Häagen-Dazs compromised the original product?
TK: Yes, corporate takeovers and now venture capital firms often do ruin the integrity of the product. They are so guided by making the most profit possible that they tinker with it little by little, and before you know it, a co-packer is making the product and it no longer is what it once was. It is completely different.
As for gelato, 99.995% of all U.S. gelato makers use a premade dry blended bag mix, chock full of artificial colors, flavors, fillers, emulsifiers, etc. It’s made start-to- finish in 25 minutes. Authentic gelato takes a long time and is much more expensive to make. Our ice cream takes three days to make one batch.
For the modern millennial consumer we are targeting, Häagen-Dazs exists as an iconic name with a tremendous marketing and sales legacy; however, in terms of a product that can excite the palate for flavor and mouth feel, it is no longer a benchmark.
Conventional wisdom in the CPG world, in general, and food industry specifically, would dictate that a corporate takeover of a brand like Häagen-Dazs is a good thing. Size used to be one of the most important factors of success; however, e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands have leveled the playing field, allowing smaller brands to reach consumers without needing to fight for limited shelf space or making large investments on their brand. Additionally, the millennial consumer has demanded a new level of transparency for the products that they put in and on their bodies. This transparency has been best met by on-line born or upstart brands that experience fast growth, which consumers view as having a more authentic story or healthier, fresher and more eco-friendly offerings.
For me a pint of ice cream will forever be a volume measure of 16 ounces. In January of 2009, Häagen-Dazs downsized the volume measure of its pint from 16 to 14 ounces, citing rising costs. That’s “customer betrayal” and I will never again buy a “pint” of Häagen-Dazs.
Q: Are there any Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau rules about booze in ice cream?
TK: Yes, as to content by volume, by weight and whether or not it is viewed as a beverage or food. Additionally, it depends if the manufacturer is looking for a drawback, meaning a tax refund on the alcohol purchased.
In the beginning, we sent all of our Naughty ice creams to the TTB for analysis at great expense and time. We worked with their team on our formulation and understanding of what and how the overrun and fat affect the alcohol by weight and volume. We had a liquor license in the beginning because we thought we had to, but ultimately the TTB decided our ice cream was a food and not a beverage, and we did not make shakes in our stores, which by nature changes the form into a beverage. From the start, based on my own values, I chose not to sample or serve anyone under the age of 21. This practice continues in all our stores, even though technically we don’t have to. The silver lining is that it has worked as a great marketing tool as well, because now young adults look forward to sharing their “21st” with us so they can try and indulge in Clementine’s boozy ice cream.
Q: Explain: All of the milk Clementine’s uses is from local, grass-fed, pasture-raised, hormone- and RBST-free cows.
TK: We work with small dairy farmers who choose to raise herds differently than their big commercial counterparts. By using dairy from local, grass-fed, pasture-raised, hormone and RBST-free cows you’re starting with the purest, most unadulterated, best tasting, non-altered, fresh dairy you can imagine. As a result, our base dairy is so much cleaner, richer, creamier. Its healthier, tastes better, it benefits the cows, and our environment.
Q: How did you round up investment? Are you wholly privately owned?
TK: I am completely self-funded and solely owned by me. I’ve invested almost 500k to date from my personal savings, cashed out my 401k, and continue to grow from profits. As we look more to capitalize on our momentum and take advantage of the market opportunity, we will be considering smart outside investment that can help take us to the next level in becoming a national brand.
Marketing skills and access to food scientists eased the way to open Clementine’s. Photo: Chris Bauer
Q: Is the market for new ice creams in America limitless? What are your current overall U.S. sales?
TK: In America, there is never a barrier for an excellent product that delivers on its promise. Ice cream is a $14 billion market. But overall consumption in the U.S. is declining. On the flip side, the craft segment keeps growing. I believe consumers are reveling in all the newcomers and their inventive market niches. Their entry into the market have stimulated growth, motivated excellence and differentiation, and better products are being produced, especially in niche markets like vegan, low-carb and micro-creamery, which are taking market share fast from the big brands.
As long as the artisan ice cream business continues to deliver to customers what they crave—the flavors, ingredients and experiences underrepresented in the hyper consolidated ice cream market—then there is no limit to its growth.
Keefe has plans to expand slowly but thinks she can maintain quality on a national scale. Photo: Chris Bauer
I opened my first shop in May 2015, second in July of 2017, and my third this month in May 2019, with our fourth coming along in July. Our sales are around $2 million to date. My initial goal is to do $10 million in revenue from 12 shops, and an entry into grocery channel within five years, with the ultimate goal of $50 million, 50 shops, grocery and online expansion in 10 years. That is, unless another opportunity comes our way that is better than I have charted for us now.
Q: But won’t expansion nationally compromise what is now a small artisanal company?
TK: For us, no; we will be better than we are now. At the moment, we have different expansion plans and have seen one other artisanal ice cream maker on the West Coast whom we respect a lot expand the way we are planning to. Their values mirror ours. They are choosing to expand mindfully and authentically. The end result will be a national presence without compromising the best parts of being small. I can’t wait to see how high is “high”!
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John Mariani is an author and journalist of 40 years standing, and an author of 15 books. He has been called by the Philadelphia Inquirer, “the most influential food-win…
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Ice Cream scoop shower
I saw one of these at one of the many winter ice cream shows this past season. I thought it was a great idea and a great way to save water and $$. Check out the Scoop Shower. I believe most Taylor ice cream machine distributors are carrying the scoop shower.
This entry was posted in New Ideas, News and tagged haagen dazs, ice cream scoop shower, scoop shower, taylor ice cream freezer on April 20, 2016 by George Dunlap.
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Employment, Income, and Retirement
» Figure 2: Low Income Population
Employment and labor force participation tends to mirror those rates of the non-Hispanic white elder and African American elder groups. In 1990, there were 29.7% Hispanic/Latino men aged 65-69 in the work force compared to 28.3% non-Hispanic white males. Hispanic/ Latino women in this same age category participated less in the work force at 15% compared non-Hispanic white women at 16.8%. Almost 10% of Hispanic/Latino men over the age of 80 were in the labor force in 1990 compared to 9.6% of non-Hispanic white males. There were more Hispanic/Latino women over the age of 80 in the labor force (5.2%) compared to 2.9% non-Hispanic white women. Most Mexican American and Puerto Rican elders have held occupations in the skilled blue collar and unskilled and laborer positions compared to Cuban elders who have held professional and technical positions (Villa et al., 1993).
Sources of Income
Income sources for elderly Hispanic/Latinos are primarily from Social Security. In 2000 the census data revealed that:
76% Hispanic/Latinos primary source of income came from social security followed by
26% in asset income,
24% earnings,
19% pensions
13% from supplemental security income.
In 2006, households with families headed by a Hispanic/Latino 65 years or over had a median income of 29,868 compared to 41, 220 for non-Hispanic whites (USDHHS, AoA, 2008). About 19% of this cohort of elderly Latinos had incomes of less than 15,000 and 17% have incomes of 50,000. Often because of the low retirement incomes, elderly Hispanic/Latinos continue to work after 65 to supplement their income. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2007), the overall poverty rate for Hispanics over 65 is 20%.
It is evident that many Hispanic elders live well below the poverty level as illustrated in Figure 2. Older Hispanic/Latino non-married women tend to experience poverty more than Hispanic men at 26.6% compared to 19.6%. Poverty poses a serious threat to the quality of life older Hispanic/Latina women face and suggests they struggle economically in their old age. For many Hispanic/Latino elders, retirement may not an option. The types of occupations they have experienced have not allowed these elders to obtain sufficient retirement pensions, if any. Many (23%) do not receive Social Security benefits and thus must continue to work to supplement their incomes (Villa, et al, 1993).
In the H-EPESE study of elderly Hispanics from the Southwest, Angel, Frisco, Angel and Chiroboga identified a relationship between financial strain and poorer self-rated health, increased probability of reported problems with physical functioning, and the ability for the elder to provide self-care (2003). The authors conclude that the subjective aspects of health are more strongly related to financial strain and the sample of older Mexican American elderly may have access to social support which has a protective factor from financial strain (Angel, et al, 2003).
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Greg Youmans is a writer whose essays on queer history and experimental cinema have appeared in Camera Obscura, e-flux, Found Footage, Jump Cut, and Millennium Film Journal along with various anthologies and exhibition catalogs.
His book on the paradigm-shifting gay and lesbian documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (dir. Mariposa Film Group, 1977) was published in 2011 as part of Arsenal Pulp Press’s Queer Film Classics series edited by Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays.
He is currently at work on a second book project, “Something New Under the Sun: Bay Area Queer Filmmaking Across the 1970s,” which is supported by a 2017 Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Youmans is also a videomaker whose work has been shown at the Tate Modern (London), Anthology Film Archives (New York City), the Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan), the Los Angeles Film Forum, and numerous museums, art galleries, and film festivals. From 2008 to 2013, he collaborated with Chris E. Vargas on the trans/cis sitcom series Falling in Love…with Chris and Greg, which playfully explores divisions of identity, lifestyle, and politics within LGBTQ communities.
Youmans earned his PhD from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is an assistant professor of English and film studies at Western Washington University.
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Interaction of Convective Organization and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea (INCOMPASS)
Lead Research Organisation: University of Reading
Department Name: Meteorology
The monsoon supplies the majority of water for agriculture and industry in South Asia, and is therefore critical to the well-being of a billion people. Active and break periods in the monsoon have a major influence on the success of farming, while year-to-year variations in the rainfall have economic consequences on an international scale. The growing population and developing economy mean that understanding and predicting the monsoon is therefore vital. Despite this, our capability to model the monsoon, and to make forecasts on scales from days to the season ahead is limited by large errors that develop quickly. The relatively poor performance of weather prediction models over India is due to a very strong and complex relationship between the land, ocean and atmosphere, which are linked by the process of convection, in the form of the rain-bringing cumulonimbus clouds. Forecast errors occur primarily because the convective clouds are not accurately linked to the large-scale circulation or to the surface conditions, and these errors persist to long time scales. Worldwide, weather and climate forecast models are gaining resolution, and yet the errors in monsoon rainfall are not diminishing. A lack of detailed observations of the land, ocean and atmospheric parts of the monsoon system, on a range of temporal and spatial scales, is preventing a more thorough understanding of processes in monsoon convective clouds and at the land surface, and their interaction with the large-scale circulation.
This project will use a programme of new measurements over India and the adjacent oceans to advance monsoon forecasting capability in the Indo-UK community. The first detachment of the FAAM research aircraft to India, in combination with an intensive ground-based observation campaign, will gather new observations of the land surface, the boundary layer structure over land and ocean, and atmospheric profiles. We will institute a new long-term series of measurements of energy and water exchanges at the land surface. Research measurements from one monsoon season will be combined with long-term observations on the Indian operational networks. Observations will be focused on two transects: in the northern plains of India, covering a range of surface types from irrigated to rain-fed agriculture, and wet to dry climatic zones; and across the Western Ghats, with transitions from land to ocean and across orography. The observational analysis will represent a unique and unprecedented characterization of monsoon processes linking the land, ocean and atmospheric patterns which control the rainfall. Long-term measurements will allow the computation of statistical relationships between the various factors.
The observational analysis will feed directly into improved forecasting at the Met Office and NCMRWF. The Met Office Unified Model, which is used for weather forecasting at both institutions, will be set up in a range of different ways for the observational period. In particular, we will pioneer the test development of a new 100m-resolution atmospheric model, which we expect to greatly improve the representation of land-ocean-atmosphere interactions. Another priority will be to improve land surface modelling in monsoon forecasts. By comparing the results of the very high resolution models on small domains with lower-resolution models representing the global weather patterns, it will be possible to describe the key processes controlling monsoon rainfall, and to indicate how these need to be represented in different applications, such as weather predictions or climate predictions. Through model evaluation at a range of scales, the development of simple theoretical understanding of the rainfall processes, and working with groups responsible for operational model improvement, the project will lead directly to improvements in monsoon forecasts. By improving rainfall prediction, we expect the work to have an economic impact in India and internationally.
The primary impacts of our research will be delivered through our partners, the Met Office, National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) and the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The effectiveness of these public weather forecasting and climate prediction services will be enhanced by better understanding of existing and new processes affecting monsoon predictability. The primary goal of the project is to improve the performance of the weather and climate forecast models used by these centres. Furthermore, improved understanding of the key processes in the monsoon will have knock-on scientific benefits, for instance in the improved conceptual understanding which can be taught to forecasters, improved ability to give strategic advice on issues such as land management, and better-informed strategies for model development. Improved monsoon modelling and forecasting capability in the medium-to-long term will raise the profile and performance of these organisations nationally and internationally, increasing their reputation (the current status of monsoon prediction is currently regarded as poor) and saleability of their products. These organisations would also benefit from our quantitative assessment of the value of new observations demonstrated by the proposed field campaign, and generally greater awareness of the uses of such data.
Our weather-service partners will convey impacts of our research to national and state government ministries in India. These organisations will be provided with quantitative evidence to inform new policies of investment in the monsoon observing system, given the improvements to forecasting and analysis that we expect our new and additional observations will initiate. New interpretations of the effect of contrasts between different surface types on weather over India should also influence policies on agriculture and extraction of groundwater (both related to irrigation).
As a result of improved weather and climate predictions, there is an opportunity for planners and governors at the state and district level to benefit from improved protection against extremes, and associated impact reductions (of flooding, drought, delayed monsoon onset), if the intended improvements to understanding of monsoon variability and forecasting can be effectively communicated to society. For instance, the IMD are already communicating forecast information to millions of farmers via new electronic media.
Technical staff undertaking in situ measurements in India will benefit from improved skills and knowledge in measurement of surface fluxes, the relative merits of the different techniques involved and improvement in their quality control procedures. This will make their data products more reliable and useful.
Finally, the public will benefit through greater awareness of monsoon forecasting and its inherent limitations, and its effect on society. The public will also become engaged more directly with the process of science.
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Andrew George Turner
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Climate & Climate Change (30%)
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Land - Atmosphere Interactions (30%)
Ocean - Atmosphere Interact. (20%)
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University of Reading, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
Andrew George Turner (Principal Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876
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Hunt K (2017) The effect of horizontal resolution on Indian monsoon depressions in the Met Office NWP model in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Hunt K (2017) The Effect of Soil Moisture Perturbations on Indian Monsoon Depressions in a Numerical Weather Prediction Model in Journal of Climate
Hunt K (2016) On the Structure and Dynamics of Indian Monsoon Depressions in Monthly Weather Review
George G (2018) Vertical Structure and Radiative Forcing of Monsoon Clouds Over Kanpur During the 2016 INCOMPASS Field Campaign in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Fletcher J (2019) The dynamic and thermodynamic structure of the monsoon over southern India: New observations from the INCOMPASS IOP in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Dunning C (2015) The impact of monsoon intraseasonal variability on renewable power generation in India in Environmental Research Letters
Chevuturi A (2018) Indian summer monsoon onset forecast skill in the UK Met Office initialized coupled seasonal forecasting system (GloSea5-GC2) in Climate Dynamics
Chakraborty T (2018) Biases in Model-Simulated Surface Energy Fluxes During the Indian Monsoon Onset Period in Boundary-Layer Meteorology
Description Research funded under this award (Parker et al., 2016, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society) has developed new theory for the onset progression of the Indian summer monsoon. This will aid in the understanding of how to model this process, and therefore how it can be better forecast for the good of society. (Knowing the timing of the advancement of the monsoon rains each year across India is vital for agricultural, industrial and other users of water resources.) Further work funded under the award had demonstrated the structure of clouds and how it changes as monsoon rain events occur. In particular, we have found how monsoon clouds affect the radiation received at the surface and which heats the troposphere. These results arose from a dedicated and intensive period of weather balloon (radiosonde) launches during the INCOMPASS field campaign, from Kanpur in northern India.
Exploitation Route We are expanding our analysis (performed initially in observations) to seasonal weather forecasting models.
Sectors Agriculture, Food and Drink,Energy,Environment
Description Participation by Indian project partners in the 2016 aircraft campaign of INCOMPASS (and an earlier September 2015 recce visit of the aircraft to India) has encouraged participation by early career scientists in India.
Sector Environment
Impact Types Cultural
Title FAAM aircraft observations from the INCOMPASS / SWAAMI field campaign in India, June/July 2016
Description Raw and processed instrument data from 22 research flights performed during the INCOMPASS and SWAAMI project field campaigns in India during June/July 2016.
Impact Numerous academic research papers in preparation.
URL http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1873b605e2a74cac8b4f5d12593e54fc
Description British Government press release 12 July 2016
Results and Impact British Government press release: UK-India joint observational campaign to study monsoon variability. Dr Harsh Vardhan (Hon'ble Union Minister for Ministry of Science & Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences) and Dr Alexander Evans (British Deputy High Commissioner to India) boarded the UK's Atmospheric Research Aircraft to study monsoon variability in Lucknow.
Describes a research flight on the INCOMPASS field campaign of July 2016 with governmental participation.
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/uk-india-joint-observational-campaign-to-study-mon...
Description Indian Press Information Bureay press release 8 June 2016
Results and Impact Indian Press Information Bureau press release: Observational Campaign to study Small-Scale Processes and Large-Scale Monsoon Variability under a Joint Indo-UK Effort.
Press release covering the INCOMPASS field campaign in India, summer 2016, involving the UK's FAAM Atmospheric Research Aircraft
URL http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146051
Description Indian and UK scientists team up to tackle monsoon
Results and Impact http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/releases/2014/19-monsoon/ and http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/international/offices/officeinindia/indianews/indian-and-uk-scientists-team-up-to-tackle-monsoon/ are NERC and RCUK press releases, and https://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/indian-and-uk-scientists-team-up-to-tackle-monsoon is a UK government article on the new India-UK projects funded under the NERC/MoES monsoons programme. My project INCOMPASS is one of the three projects funded under this programme.
URL http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/releases/2014/19-monsoon/
Description Keynote talk at University of Westminster School of Architecture, ERC-funded "Monsoon Assemblages" workshop
Results and Impact Attended advisory board meeting (on which I sit) and subsequent workshop of the ERC-funded Monsoons Assemblages project at University of Westminster. The project is concerned with how architecture and urban planning is affected by the monsoon in India and the surrounding region.
URL http://www.monass.org/monsoon-other-airs/
Description Ministry of Earth Sciences (India) press briefing, 13 July 2016
Results and Impact Observational Campaign to study small-scale processes and large-scale monsoon variability under a Joint Indo-UK effort
The Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences convened a press-briefing in our Lucknow operational base, at the end of our summer 2016 field campaign, on the likely outcomes of the project.
URL http://moes.gov.in/writereaddata/files/press_brief_v3.pdf
Description Monsoon breaks could cause wind power stress article in environmentalresearchweb
Results and Impact Contributed quotes and factual material to article authored by journalist Kate Ravilious in environmentalresearchweb on our recent paper published in Environmental Research Letters journal. The article resulted in significant increase in downloads of the journal paper.
URL http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/61875
Description NERC press release, 25 May 2016, for INCOMPASS and SWAAMI aircraft campaigns
Results and Impact Indian and UK researchers team up to reveal secrets of the monsoon. NERC Chief Executive Duncan Wingham said: This is the most ambitious atmospheric observation campaign that NERC has undertaken. The campaign will gather fresh data on the region in more detail than ever before, bringing together scientists from the UK and India to improve forecasts of the South Asian monsoon and to learn more about its potential impacts on the global climate.."
URL http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/releases/2016/23-faam/
Description NERC/RCUK press release, 26 August 2014
Results and Impact Joint NERC and RCUK press releases on funded INCOMPASS project as part of NERC/MoES monsoons programme.
Includes comments from Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey.
The UK's Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change Edward Davey has today announced new UK-India research projects that will see Indian and UK scientists come together to improve forecasts of the South Asian monsoon, including the potential impacts of climate change.
Edward Davey is visiting India with the UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
The Drivers of Variability in the South Asian Monsoon research programme will receive combined funding for approximately £8m from NERC, the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and the UK's Met Office. This builds on a flourishing research partnership between the UK and India, which has already invested over £150m in research between the two nations.
The summer monsoon provides 80 per cent of annual rainfall to around a billion people. Accurate predictions of intense downpours and breaks in the monsoon are essential to let society plan for floods and droughts. Last year, the monsoon advanced particularly rapidly over northern India, causing devastating damage. Meanwhile, prolonged breaks in 2009 led to a severe shortage of rainfall and poor harvests. Forecasting the precise timing and location of the rains is vital to the region's economy, which is dominated by farming, and for managing its increasingly pressured water resources.
The programme will examine the physical processes of the monsoon through a large-scale observational campaign. It will use the UK's BAe-146 atmospheric research aircraft and ocean gliders, and Indian research ships, to gather fresh data on the region in more detail than ever before. This programme will help us in better understanding of the physical processes of the South Asian monsoon and their improved representation in weather and climate models.
The research will begin in 2015 and is expected to last for between three and five years. Each project will be led by a UK and an Indian researcher. The UK team is headed by Professor Hugh Coe (University of Manchester), Dr Andy Turner (University of Reading) and Dr Adrian Matthews (University of East Anglia). They will be joined by Indian colleagues Dr S Suresh Babu (Indian Space Research Organisation), Professor GS Bhat (Indian Institute of Science) and PN Vinayachandran (Indian Institute of Science).
Speaking at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai as part of a three-day visit to India, Secretary of State Edward Davey said:
"Our countries share a strong and growing relationship at the forefront of science and technology, one that aims to improve lives of people. The monsoon is a hugely important part of peoples' livelihoods here in India. It is also a very important part of the global climate system. This major new UK - India research initiative on the monsoon is a great example of how UK and India can work together to tackle climate change and other global challenges."
Dr Shailesh Nayak, secretary of MoES, said:
"I am happy to note that the Indian and UK scientists are collaborating on observational campaigns including the NERC aircraft and modelling efforts to study the complex physical processes of the South Asian monsoon. I am sure this collaboration will facilitate improving the representation of monsoon physical processes in weather and climate models."
Ned Garnett, NERC's interim head of research, said:
"We are delighted to be teaming up again with our colleagues at the Ministry of Earth Sciences in India to tackle this important problem. Being able to deliver better predictions of the monsoon will be of huge benefit to the people of South Asia and the regional economy, which is of course an important part of the global economy. This programme will bring together complementary skills of UK and Indian scientists in joint projects to address these global issues."
Description Participation in NERC Into the Blue outreach week at Machester airport runway park
Results and Impact Worked on exhibition stand "Chasing the monsoon" at NERC's Into The Blue science outreach event at Machester Airport Runway park, October 2016. This covered the activities of the INCOMPASS and SWAAMI field campaigns using the FAAM Atmospheric Research Aircraft in India, May-July 2016.
URL http://intotheblue.nerc.ac.uk/manchester/
Description Participation of University of Reading INCOMPASS PDRA in 2017 STEM for Britain presentation at House of Commons
Results and Impact University of Reading's post-doctoral research assistant on the INCOMPASS project, Dr Arathy Menon, participated in the poster presentations at the House of Commons on 14 March 2017 for the annual "STEM for Britain" competition.
Poster entitled, "Using aircraft and ground measurements over India to improve forecasts of monsoon rainfall".
URL http://www.setforbritain.org.uk/2017event.asp
Description Public lecture at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Results and Impact Gave invited evening public lecture, "Modelling the Indian Monsoon and the INCOMPASS field campaign" at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, India, 27 November 2017.
URL http://103.251.184.118/145-news_details
Description RCUK press release, 11 July 2016
Results and Impact RCUK press release: Indian Science Minister participates in the UK-India joint observational campaign to study monsoon variability
Describes the participation of Indian joint-Minister of Ministry of Earth Sciences and Department of Science and Technology in one of the research flights for the INCOMPASS field campaign, during July 2016. The flight took place from Lucknow airport in the northern plains of India.
URL http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/international/offices/india/indianews/160711/
Description Royal Meteorological Society event on the NERC South Asian monsoon programme
Results and Impact An open "Wednesday meeting" of the Royal Meteorological Society open to students, academic and weather enthusiasts among the general public. Includes INCOMPASS talk by Dr Andy Turner. Meeting abstract: The Indian Monsoon occurring between the months of May to September is the major source of rainfall for more than 800 million people. While the Indian Monsoon occurs every year, there are substantial year-to-year variations in its geographic structure, local onset dates, and the amount of rainfall the monsoon brings. It is important to understand the factors that lead to these variations to improve predictive capability for the Indian Monsoon and to enable adaptation planning by governments and communities. A major field campaign was held in India in May-July 2016 and took novel measurements of many components of the monsoon system, with an overall aim of improving our ability to forecast and to understand interactions between aerosols and the monsoon. Speakers at this meeting will discuss recent advances in understanding the Indian Monsoon system and its prediction using numerical models and observations, including new insights provided by the recent field campaign.
URL https://www.rmets.org/events/indian-monsoon-atmospheric-dynamics-aerosol-and-ocean
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Causes of change in European mean and extreme climate over the past 500 years
Lead Research Organisation: University of Edinburgh
Department Name: Sch of Geosciences
The aim of our project is to understand the causes of variability and change in mean and extreme temperature, and changes in mean precipitation over the last 500 years, largely focusing on Europe. Spatial patterns of climate change and changes in extremes are important since climate affects society and the natural world on regional scales. By understanding why temperature and temperature extremes as well as precipitation have varied in the past, we will be better able to predict how it might vary in the future. This will be because we will have improved our knowledge of what mechanisms were important in changes in the past, and tested the ability of climate models to reproduce what has happened in the past. Researchers have reconstructed European temperature variability over the last 500 years, and long homogenized instrumental records are now available that go back into the 18th century, and in some cases have daily resolution. Also, some reconstructions of precipitation and circulation are becoming available that go back reliably about 250 years, and with more limitations, 500 years. Other investigators have reconstructed changes in solar activity, the timing and magnitude of major volcanic eruptions and the composition of the atmosphere using data recorded in the ice sheets. The most important natural 'forcing' of climate has been thought to be changes in radiation from the Sun. This is reconstructed from measures of solar activity such as sunspots. However, another possibly more important climate forcing is the effect of large explosive volcanic eruptions. These inject sulphate aerosol into the upper atmosphere, which reflect more sunlight, causing cooling. Since the 18th and 19th centuries human forcings have become important. Human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are well mixed, so cause roughly equal warming everywhere. From the 18th century on substantial deforestation took place. The removal of forest makes the land reflect more sunlight back to space, causing a cooling. The main fossil fuel burnt in the 19th century was coal, whose burning causes sulphur to be emitted to the atmosphere. The sulphur forms a short-lived aerosol which acts to cool regions close to where it is emitted. Thus, human forcings would be expected to have a rather complex regional affect with, in the Northern Hemisphere, warming from greenhouse gases being, partly to fully, offset by cooling due to deforestation and aerosols. To find causes of the observed patterns of climate change over Europe and the Northern hemisphere we will use climate models that can simulate what would have happened due to each individual 'forcing' described above. Then using mathematical techniques we will compare these 'fingerprints' with reconstructions of past climate change and climate variability and determine which changes have been caused by external influences, and which are just a representation of a naturally varying climate. We will mainly focus on patterns of temperature and precipitation change over Europe since 1500, but also explore the causes of changes over the entire millennium. The results of the comparison tell us the relative contribution of each forcing to past climate change, and how much change is left unexplained and may have occurred spontaneously due to chaotic variability in the climate. Since climate models, like the real world, have chaotic variability, we will use several simulations to isolate the predictable component. Using models and reconstructions, we will also explore the mechanisms responsible for the historical changes.
Jan 10 - Dec 13
NE/G019819/1
Gabriele C Hegerl
Climate & Climate Change (100%)
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
Pennsylvania State University, United States (Project Partner)
University of Bern (Project Partner)
Swansea University, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Centre for Materials & Coastal Research, Germany (Project Partner)
Gabriele C Hegerl (Principal Investigator)
Simon Frederick Tett (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7526-560X
Thomas John Crowley (Co-Investigator)
Fernández-Donado L (2013) Large-scale temperature response to external forcing in simulations and reconstructions of the last millennium in Climate of the Past
Gregory J (2013) Climate models without preindustrial volcanic forcing underestimate historical ocean thermal expansion in Geophysical Research Letters
Hegerl G (2011) Use of models in detection and attribution of climate change in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
Hegerl G (2011) Influence of human and natural forcing on European seasonal temperatures in Nature Geoscience
Hegerl GC (2011) Climate change. Using the past to predict the future? in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Iles C (2013) The effect of volcanic eruptions on global precipitation in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Jones C (2011) The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations in Geoscientific Model Development
Lehner F (2016) The importance of ENSO phase during volcanic eruptions for detection and attribution in Geophysical Research Letters
Luterbacher J (2016) European summer temperatures since Roman times in Environmental Research Letters
Mann M (2013) Discrepancies between the modeled and proxy-reconstructed response to volcanic forcing over the past millennium: Implications and possible mechanisms in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Description The effect of solar forcing on climate is currently a highly debated topic. This project has found that it plays only a minor role over the last millennium, a finding which implies that it is very unlikely that changes in the sun's energy has contributed a significant amount to the warming observed over the 20th century . At the same time we have calculated that a substantial fraction of climate change over the past few hundred years can be clearly associated with other external influences, with the majority of externally forced change in the pre-20th century era due to large volcanic eruptions and changes in the concentration of greenhouse gases.
The project has found that the resulting residual climate variability (i.e. the past changes in temperature not due to external forcings) shows trends that are smaller than those over the past 50 or 60 years. This is important as it shows that it is unlikely that internal forcing alone can be responsible for the recent observed warming trend, a research product highlighted in chapter 10 of the recent IPCC AR5 WGI report.
This project has also led to collaborations both national and international. This has resulted in several publications regarding such subjects as last millennium temperature variations, the effect of volcanoes on the climate, sea-level rise and whether tree-rings widths fully capture the effect on temperature by volcanic eruption.
We have produced new climate model simulation results covering the last 1000 years. These have been used to carry out the above research and have now been made publically available. One simulation has been made available as part of the Paleoclimate modelling Intercomparison Project.
Exploitation Route The next step is to investigate the influence of volcanic and solar forcing on smaller regions, a topic that is currently being carried out by us in collaboration with fellow researchers which should lead to a forthcoming publication.
Our findings regarding the impact of natural climate variations in the past can also be used for better prediction of the future impacts of changes in solar irradiance and volcanic forcing.
The simulations have all recently been made public. Since these are currently the most comprehensive set of singularly forced simulations covering the last 600 years they should prove useful to wide number of researchers who are interested in the effect of forcings on past climate variability.
Sectors Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment
Description Publications resulting from this grant have been cited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report (IPCC) 5th AR5; chapter 10; and have contributed to a figure (figure 10.19) produced by the PDRA on this grant.
Sector Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice
Impact Types Societal
Description Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Lead Author and member of Synthesis report writing team.
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international
Impact PI was involved in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s fifth Assessment report, as a Lead Author and in the Synthesis report, released 2015, as a writing team member. These reports arguably form the basis of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and authors are chosen for their scientific contributions to the area they are chosen for. Hence this relates directly to my publications under these grants.
URL http://www.ipcc.ch
Description Climate Change: Science and Society
Results and Impact Climate Change: Science and Society: This was a half day conference under the auspices of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. I was a coorganizer and speaker see website report. It was well attended and well received and communicated the state of climate science, impact and mitigation knowledge on climate change to the wider public
URL http://www.rse.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Climate-Change-Science-and-Society.pdf
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The loud, amplified sound and sonic power of the electric guitar played through a guitar amp has played a key role in the development of blues and rock music, both as an accompaniment instrument (playing riffs and chords) and performing guitar solos, and in many rock subgenres, notably heavy metal music and punk rock. The electric guitar has had a major influence on popular culture. The guitar is used in a wide variety of musical genres worldwide. It is recognized as a primary instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, folk, jazz, jota, mariachi, metal, punk, reggae, rock, soul, and many forms of pop.
The lower strap button is usually located at the bottom (bridge end) of the body. The upper strap button is usually located near or at the top (neck end) of the body: on the upper body curve, at the tip of the upper "horn" (on a double cutaway), or at the neck joint (heel). Some electrics, especially those with odd-shaped bodies, have one or both strap buttons on the back of the body. Some Steinberger electric guitars, owing to their minimalist and lightweight design, have both strap buttons at the bottom of the body. Rarely, on some acoustics, the upper strap button is located on the headstock. Some acoustic and classical guitars only have a single strap button at the bottom of the body—the other end must be tied onto the headstock, above the nut and below the machine heads.
Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having "a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides."[2] The term is used to refer to a number of chordophones that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas.[3] A 3,300-year-old stone carving of a Hittite bard playing a stringed instrument is the oldest iconographic representation of a chordophone and clay plaques from Babylonia show people playing an instrument that has a strong resemblance to the guitar, indicating a possible Babylonian origin for the guitar.[2]
For example, if the note E (the open sixth string) is played over the A minor chord, then the chord would be [0 0 2 2 1 0]. This has the note E as its lowest tone instead of A. It is often written as Am/E, where the letter following the slash indicates the new bass note. However, in popular music it is usual to play inverted chords on the guitar when they are not part of the harmony, since the bass guitar can play the root pitch.
First, being able to learn directly from amazing artists like Paul Gilbert is incredible. He's a great teacher and has a way of explaining things that are easy to understand and replicate. The video format is also extraordinarily helpful; I've used other sites that use only written materials (usually .pdf format), and they are difficult to navigate. The feedback, though, is what really makes this website head and shoulders above the others (even the other video websites). When I record myself and send it in, I get a response from Paul that critiques in an incredibly constructive way as well as additional exercises to work at really honing that skill. In addition, getting to see what tips he gave to other users is awesome! If you want to learn an instrument, there's no better way.
Anyone playing and/or teaching guitar needs staff paper, blank tab, guitar chord charts, guitar scale charts, and fretboard diagrams to chart their guitar lessons and musical ideas. You can find books with some combination of these blank charts and grids, but you can’t find one with all of them organized in a practical way. That’s why we chose to design our own.
There's no other instrument with as much presence and cultural identity as the guitar. Virtually everyone is familiar with tons of different guitar sounds, from intense metal shredding to soft and jaunty acoustic folk music. And behind all those iconic guitar tones are great sets of strings. Just like a saxophonist changes reeds from time to time or a drummer replaces sticks, putting new strings on your guitar every so often is an important part of owning and playing one.
Adjusting the truss rod affects the intonation of a guitar as well as the height of the strings from the fingerboard, called the action. Some truss rod systems, called double action truss systems, tighten both ways, pushing the neck both forward and backward (standard truss rods can only release to a point beyond which the neck is no longer compressed and pulled backward). The artist and luthier Irving Sloane pointed out, in his book Steel-String Guitar Construction, that truss rods are intended primarily to remedy concave bowing of the neck, but cannot correct a neck with "back bow" or one that has become twisted.[page needed] Classical guitars do not require truss rods, as their nylon strings exert a lower tensile force with lesser potential to cause structural problems. However, their necks are often reinforced with a strip of harder wood, such as an ebony strip that runs down the back of a cedar neck. There is no tension adjustment on this form of reinforcement.
The shape of the neck (from a cross-sectional perspective) can also vary, from a gentle "C" curve to a more pronounced "V" curve. There are many different types of neck profiles available, giving the guitarist many options. Some aspects to consider in a guitar neck may be the overall width of the fretboard, scale (distance between the frets), the neck wood, the type of neck construction (for example, the neck may be glued in or bolted on), and the shape (profile) of the back of the neck. Other types of material used to make guitar necks are graphite (Steinberger guitars), aluminum (Kramer Guitars, Travis Bean and Veleno guitars), or carbon fiber (Modulus Guitars and ThreeGuitars). Double neck electric guitars have two necks, allowing the musician to quickly switch between guitar sounds.
There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar: the classical guitar (nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar, which is sometimes called a "jazz guitar". The tone of an acoustic guitar is produced by the strings' vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar, which acts as a resonating chamber. The classical guitar is often played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive finger-picking technique where each string is plucked individually by the player's fingers, as opposed to being strummed. The term "finger-picking" can also refer to a specific tradition of folk, blues, bluegrass, and country guitar playing in the United States. The acoustic bass guitar is a low-pitched instrument that is one octave below a regular guitar.
The implementation of musical chords on guitars depends on the tuning. Since standard tuning is most commonly used, expositions of guitar chords emphasize the implementation of musical chords on guitars with standard tuning. The implementation of chords using particular tunings is a defining part of the literature on guitar chords, which is omitted in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments.
The top, back and ribs of an acoustic guitar body are very thin (1–2 mm), so a flexible piece of wood called lining is glued into the corners where the rib meets the top and back. This interior reinforcement provides 5 to 20 mm of solid gluing area for these corner joints. Solid linings are often used in classical guitars, while kerfed lining is most often found in steel string acoustics. Kerfed lining is also called kerfing because it is scored, or "kerfed"(incompletely sawn through), to allow it to bend with the shape of the rib). During final construction, a small section of the outside corners is carved or routed out and filled with binding material on the outside corners and decorative strips of material next to the binding, which are called purfling. This binding serves to seal off the end grain of the top and back. Purfling can also appear on the back of an acoustic guitar, marking the edge joints of the two or three sections of the back. Binding and purfling materials are generally made of either wood or plastic.
Our intermediate and advanced guitar lessons are tailored to build on the skills that students have developed through their previous beginner lessons and programs. These programs pair private guitar lessons with full-band group rehearsals and live performances, allowing student guitarists to showcase their skills by playing advanced songs from famous musicians. Our world-class guitar instructors and teaching system are proven to help students play and perform at a higher level.
A guitar strap is a strip of material with an attachment mechanism on each end, made to hold a guitar via the shoulders at an adjustable length. Guitars have varying accommodations for attaching a strap. The most common are strap buttons, also called strap pins, which are flanged steel posts anchored to the guitar with screws. Two strap buttons come pre-attached to virtually all electric guitars, and many steel-string acoustic guitars. Strap buttons are sometimes replaced with "strap locks", which connect the guitar to the strap more securely.
In Mexico, the popular mariachi band includes a range of guitars, from the small requinto to the guitarrón, a guitar larger than a cello, which is tuned in the bass register. In Colombia, the traditional quartet includes a range of instruments too, from the small bandola (sometimes known as the Deleuze-Guattari, for use when traveling or in confined rooms or spaces), to the slightly larger tiple, to the full-sized classical guitar. The requinto also appears in other Latin-American countries as a complementary member of the guitar family, with its smaller size and scale, permitting more projection for the playing of single-lined melodies. Modern dimensions of the classical instrument were established by the Spaniard Antonio de Torres Jurado (1817–1892).[12]
This month, HBO released a new documentary about Kurt Cobain's life called Montage of Heck. Unlike past documentaries on the legendary guitarist and singer, this one highlights his humanity and shares perhaps the most intimate look at his life that his fans have ever had. Director Brett Morgan worked with Cobain's family, including his daughter Frances Bean Cobain, who provided home movies, photographs, and journals. At times funny and at other times deeply sad, Montage of Heck manages to gi
Whether you just started guitar lessons or you've been playing for a while, you may be itching to learn some new songs and take on some new challenges. You might be wondering: where can I go from here? That's where alternate guitar tunings come in! With this guide from Michael L., you'll learn how alternate guitar tunings can take your playing to the next level... One of the amazing things about the guitar is its versatility. Not only can you play rhythm and/or melody in different genres,
Picks come in many shapes and sizes. Picks vary from the small jazz pick to the large bass pick. The thickness of the pick often determines its use. A thinner pick (between 0.2 and 0.5 mm) is usually used for strumming or rhythm playing, whereas thicker picks (between 0.7 and 1.5+ mm) are usually used for single-note lines or lead playing. The distinctive guitar sound of Billy Gibbons is attributed to using a quarter or peso as a pick. Similarly, Brian May is known to use a sixpence coin as a pick, while noted 1970s and early 1980s session musician David Persons is known for using old credit cards, cut to the correct size, as plectrums.
At MI, you learn from a proven curriculum taught by the best guitar instructors in the world, augmented by visiting artists’ seminars, concerts, and lessons from some of the greatest players in contemporary music. At our guitar music college, you get to network with other players, find your creative voice, and get the training you need to become the player you have always dreamed of being.
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iCAN Package: Facilitator's Manual and Workbook. A comprehensive life skills package focusing on HIV, sexuality and sexual and reproductive health for young people living with HIV (YPLHIV) and their circles of care
The iCAN package aims to help address the challenges facing adolescents and young people living in the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region. It has been designed to support young people living with HIV (YPLHIV) and those who work with them, to help them understand their HIV positive status and empower them to plan their lives in ways that protect both their own health and that of others. The package can be used to complement existing materials focusing on sexual and reproductive health and HIV, and other youth-focused packages produced by partners working with YPLHIV. …
Regional accountability framework: ministerial commitment on comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and young people in Eastern and Southern African (ESA)
The accountability frame work has been developed as a tool to monitor country and regional progress towards the agreed commitments as set out in the ESA Ministerial commitment document. The technical coordinating Group, under the leadership of UNAIDS and with support from SADC and EAC Secretariats will play a key role in the development and implementation of the accountability mechanism. The intended audience for the framework are primarily governments in the 20 countries, civil society partners (including young people and community based organisations) and development partners.
Early Childhood Education and Care in Southern Africa: A perspective report
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The Nth Power - LIVE To Be Free CD
Read the review of Live To Be Free on HomeGrownMusic.net.
Funk and soul quartet The Nth Power are proud to announce the release of their dynamic new record, Live To Be Free, on November 11, 2016. The band recorded the nine-track album in July during two nights of intimate live performances in Boston, MA and one night in the band's hometown of Brooklyn, NY. Seven songs on the album represent new material for the band.
The Nth Power's gospel-style vocals along with their soul, jazz, funk and world-beat riffs create a sound and experience that is made for a live show. At the request of their fans, the band decided to capture that energy on their latest record. The result is an album that exudes the intimacy and organic quality of a live performance paired with the profound talent of four powerhouse musicians: Nikki Glaspie (vocals, drums); Nate Edgar (bass); Nick Cassarino (vocals, guitar); and Courtney J. Mell Smith (vocals, keyboards).
"When we recorded [our debut full-length album], Abundance, we wanted to have a clean studio approach to our music; to hear it done right and done crisp," says Nick Cassarino. "Since that release, we have been touring heavily for a year straight, and we have seen that when performed live, our energy and message seem to translate more fluidly to our audience." To Be Free reflects that natural connection between performers and fans, representing the band's sound in its truest state. "Every song is a journey, a story, a feeling, and an experience that we are honored to share with you," shares Cassarino.
The band has also released a video featuring "Take My Soul", a standout blues track from the album which was filmed live in Boston at The Bridge Sound & Stage. ""Take My Soul" is an extremely powerful song that tells a story about a runaway slave that has surrendered his soul to God as he is being pursued by his adversary," says Nikki Glaspie. "The music is based in the blues tradition, of which, every member in the Nth Power respects and holds dear as an undeniable American Root." Watch a preview for "Take My Soul" HERE.
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A story for every victim
Died on
1527 S. Centinela Ave.
Cause: Strangled
Race/Ethnicity: White
Agency: Santa Monica PD
Times coverage: Santa Monica woman called police before she was strangled
Posted Dec. 8, 2010, 6:20 p.m.
Times coverage: Family of slain woman speaks to court about her alleged killer
Posted Nov. 3, 2010, 5:12 p.m.
Juliana Redding, 21
Posted March 16, 2008, 6 p.m.
Juliana Redding, 21, a white woman, was found dead inside her home at 1527 Centinela Ave. in Santa Monica about 6:10 p.m. Sunday, March 16.
According to Lt. Alex Padilla from the Santa Monica Police Department, Redding's mother had called police from Tucson, Ariz., Sunday evening and told police that she had been unable to reach her daughter at her home.
Officers were dispatched to the address and upon arrival discovered she had been killed during an assault. Anyone with information is asked to call Santa Monica police detectives at (310) 458-8451.
[Update Dec. 5, 2010: The Times has new details about allegations in the slaying of Redding:
As detectives pieced together the 2008 slaying of a young Santa Monica woman, they came to a chilling conclusion: She had been calling police for help when the killer snatched the phone from her hands and hung up.
Prosecutors unveiled the eerie account of the 911 call and other details from the March 2008 killing that has attracted national attention during secret grand jury proceedings against Kelly Soo Park, the woman arrested in June this year and accused of murder in the slaying of 21-year-old Juliana Redding. A transcript of the proceedings was obtained by The Times last week — its contents being made public for the first time.
Read more: Detectives say Santa Monica actress dialed 911 moments before she was killed
[June 3, 2013: After more than a week of deliberations a jury acquits Park of Redding's murder.
The verdict stunned Redding's friends who shouted "Murderer" "Go to hell!" and "This is a travesty of judgment" when the decision was read in court.
During closing arguments, her attorney George Buehler told jurors that Park's DNA could have been transferred from items she touched at the home of Marina del Rey physician, Dr. Munir Uwaydah, who employed Park and briefly dated Redding months before the killing. The killer, Buehler argued, could have used a rag or towel with Park's DNA to wipe down the crime scene. That, he said, would explain why Park's genetic material was at the scene.
Buehler said the verdict ended a three-year ordeal for his client, whom he described as "very relieved."
"She's had some hard years dealing with this, the fear of it and the anxiety of it," the attorney said. "She just wants to go and rest right now."
Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey released a statement saying that prosecutors disagree with the verdict but respect the justice system.
"We believed in our case and the strength of our evidence," the statement said. "We fought hard and fair in the court of law to obtain justice."
-- Jack Leonard
Top photo: Juliana Redding Credit: DMV
Bottom photo: Kelly Soo Park Credit: Santa Monica Police Department
Juliana Redding
Died: March 16, 2008
March 16, 2008 Jose Luis Villa, 30
March 16, 2008 Francisco Martinez, 47
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Great loss of life never met the young women but karma will catch the guilty and they will suffer believe in karma😀
— Nick Aug. 6, 2016 at 11:08 p.m.
Every now and then I click on to the Homicide report ( I usually do so at night whilst listening to live LA Police feed) and every time I find a story that haunts me, I know many of the stories now just by looking at the picture of the folks, and this is one of them, so young and such a beautiful young woman with so much to live for. I can only send my sincerest hope's and thoughts to her family, I hope you see justice soon..
I consider myself fortunate that I live in a fairly safe country (England) I honestly do not think I would want to raise a family anywhere near LA. For instance to think a person could be killed just for wearing a wrong colour is to me mind blowing.
— Jon April 23, 2016 at 12:22 p.m.
I was reading the news of the fraud case by non doctors.
Julianna's name was in the article
So I looked it up to see what had
I'm sorry for your loss. I hope that justice prevails in this case. I can't stand it when someone takes advantage of another human being. God bless you threw your struggles. George
— George Sept. 26, 2015 at 6:38 a.m.
This gets me so angry. What an ignorant jury!
— Maggie Jan. 29, 2015 at 8:14 a.m.
Found Not Guilty
— Watcher June 11, 2013 at 7:18 p.m.
Kelly soo park has been tried the jury is out, shes guilty as sin, but I think she will walk,,,next few days will tell...huge money involved in this case..
— fred May 23, 2013 at 9:31 p.m.
Sounds like a Dorner Copycat scenario.
— Rick April 3, 2013 at 10:25 a.m.
juliana is the best----justice for juliana ASAP!
SHE DIDNT HAVE A CLUE WHO KSOOPARK WAS NOR DID SHE EXPECT TO DIE at 21yrs old. JULI WAS NICE TO EVERYONE, LOVED LIFE. --KSOOPARK how dare u do this to her and her family. YOU TOOK THE LIFE OF AN INNOCENT YOUNG person
juliana = angel above <3
— justice Oct. 20, 2011 at 10:38 a.m.
A Google search for Munir Uwaydah turned up this article with a lot more info on the doctor who apparently masterminded Juliana's murder. He sounds like a disgusting human being who thinks he can do anything he wants because he's filthy rich. Saw somewhere else that the guy fled the country when Kelly Soo Park was released on bail.
http://www.adjuster.com/modules.php?mop=modload&name=News&func=article_view&adj_article_id=1372
— d Jan. 25, 2011 at 6:21 p.m.
Juliana's murder just took a very strange turn. The LA times has posted an article on the latest developments:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/new-twist-in-mysterious-slaying-of-aspiring-model-juliana-redding-in-santa-monica.html
I was very curious to find out the connection between Kelly Soo Park and Juliana Redding. If what the article states is true, it opens up about a dozen more questions.
If Juliana was the target of a contracted killing, why would someone use Kelly Soo Park as a hitman? If the doctor Park worked for (Dr. Munir Uwaydah), wanted to hurt his ex-business partner, (Juliana's father), why did he concoct this elaborate revenge fantasy? Was it worth $300K to see the Redding family suffer? What was their business deal that went sour about? Also, what is the Torrance police dept. connection in all of this? And finally, how did Juliana die? That has never been publicly confirmed. But with talk of contracted murder and charges of murder with special circumstances, I'm afraid Juliana died a very violent death.
— JB June 27, 2010 at 2:04 p.m.
A woman was just arrested in her killing.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/woman-charged-in-slaying-of-santa-monica-model.html
— dale June 22, 2010 at 10:26 a.m.
I thought of her pretty face when I heard the news last night!
Hope they talk and lead them to the others!
— YURI June 21, 2010 at 6:57 p.m.
Things are moving fast this morning. Two people have been arrested for her murder with possibly more arrests to come.
From CBS2: "Kelly Soo Park, 44, and Ronnie Wayne Case, 34, both of Camarillo, were arrested in the death of Juliana Maureen Redding.
Detectives worked "thousands of hours" on the case, in cooperation with law enforcement in Torrance and Oxnard and the FBI, Santa Monica police Sgt. Jay Trisler said."
I believe they were charged with conspiracy and murder with special circumstances.
— JB June 18, 2010 at 9:51 a.m.
So sad, Juliana was an awesome girl and would have never harmed a sole... some a hole will pay for this eventually... truly sad that no one has been able to make a break in this case and bring the person responsible to justice
— Dirk May 27, 2010 at 4:22 p.m.
JB any updates on this?
— YURI April 7, 2010 at 9:03 a.m.
The Santa Monica police appear to be covering something up. We need resolution on this case and they have sealed it? What's really going on?
— Healthy Guy March 9, 2010 at 9:51 a.m.
There's more details about Juliana Redding here:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/17/grace.coldcase.redding/index.html
Juliana was a very beautiful model/actress living in Santa Monica. She had a bit part in a movie and had done a couple of photos for Maxim's website as well.
As far as the murder itself, there is little to no information available. It's presumed she died during an assault but there hasn't been anything confirmed yet. It doesn't appear that her apartment was broken into. Could it be someone she knew? Who was she involved with at the time of her murder? Could someone have followed her home from work? There is still a lot of questions surrounding her murder. Hopefully someday they'll be answered.
RIP Juliana
— JB Feb. 13, 2010 at 7 p.m.
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